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FRIDAY <strong>20</strong> JANUARY <strong>20</strong>17<br />
Tel/Fax: 043 642 1197<br />
e-mail: <strong>suburban</strong>@bugle.co.za<br />
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FOUNDER<br />
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founder and principal Eureka Main has<br />
retired after 40 years. Eureka founded<br />
the school in Gonubie Methodist<br />
Church Hall in January 1977and has<br />
since retired after forty years of teaching<br />
three generations of children.<br />
For the past forty years Eureka Main<br />
opened the gate of Wonderland Preprimary<br />
and Prep in Gonubie at<br />
6.30am, but when the school reopened<br />
last week, this was no longer<br />
part of her much-loved daily routine.<br />
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2 SUBURBAN BUGLE FRIDAY <strong>20</strong> JANUARY <strong>20</strong>17<br />
END OF AN ERA FOR WONDERLAND FOUNDER<br />
CONT. FROM FRONT PAGE<br />
“When my daughter Chantelle<br />
was five, I realised there<br />
was no pre-primary school in<br />
Gonubie to send her to,” said<br />
Main, who trained at the<br />
Graaff-Reinet Teachers’ College.<br />
“I started with 22 children and<br />
one other teacher.” Starting<br />
off with R50 in the bank<br />
meant she had to be resourceful<br />
about teaching materials<br />
and toys.<br />
“We cut up colouring book<br />
covers for puzzles and made<br />
sand-pit toys with bottles.<br />
“At first we had only three<br />
paint colours that were donated<br />
to us – brown, green and<br />
yellow – and my husband<br />
Bruce made small pieces of<br />
furniture for us with his woodwork<br />
pupils at West Bank<br />
High.<br />
“We also had no cleaners and<br />
scrubbed the floors and had<br />
to pack the school away under<br />
the stage every day so<br />
the hall could be used for<br />
badminton.<br />
“We didn’t get paid for a year<br />
because we used money for<br />
equipment.” As intake grew,<br />
Wonderland shifted onto municipal<br />
land adjoining the<br />
church and the school expanded<br />
classroom by classroom.<br />
In <strong>20</strong>13 it launched its first<br />
Grade 1 class. This week<br />
Grade 4 was added to the<br />
growing school which now<br />
boasts 175 children, 10<br />
teachers and four support<br />
staff.<br />
“The past 40 years have been<br />
the ride of my life. I had wanted<br />
to teach since I was a little<br />
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“This week I woke up and<br />
realised the dream is over,”<br />
said Main, who has been<br />
known as Aunty Rika by thousands<br />
of children.<br />
“Children want to be in mommy<br />
or daddy’s school and it’s<br />
been amazing to see the children<br />
of past pupils come<br />
here. Some past pupils have<br />
emigrated but still pop in to<br />
visit. I never forget names or<br />
faces. I think it is the memories<br />
of happy childhoods that<br />
bring them back.”<br />
Main said the most significant<br />
change she had noted<br />
over the years was the decrease<br />
of stay-at-home mothers.<br />
“When I started mothers<br />
would fetch their children at<br />
12 noon, but now most children<br />
attend aftercare. There<br />
are only one or two mothers<br />
at the school who don’t work.”<br />
Having handed over the reins<br />
to new principal Pauline<br />
Drake, Main plans to volunteer<br />
in children’s hospital<br />
wards and be active in the<br />
Gonubie community.<br />
Past pupil Kelly du Plessis,<br />
now a Grade 1 teacher in<br />
Durban, said “Aunty Rika”<br />
had been a patient, warm<br />
and loving teacher.<br />
“I was there in 1985 when I<br />
was five and she never had<br />
any other expression except<br />
a smile.”<br />
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FRIDAY <strong>20</strong> JANUARY <strong>20</strong>17 SUBURBAN BUGLE 3<br />
LIFE GETS EASIER FOR BCM PRE-PAYERS<br />
Buffalo City Metro (BCM) residents<br />
will be pleased to<br />
know that they can now purchase<br />
BCM electricity in the<br />
comfort of their own homes<br />
and no longer have to wait in<br />
long queues.<br />
In October, executive mayor<br />
Xola Phakathi revealed his<br />
action plan for the first 100<br />
days in office to senior BCM<br />
managers, politicians and the<br />
media.<br />
One of many things he promised<br />
was that the metro’s ratepayers<br />
will have a<br />
pre-payment system to buy<br />
prepaid electricity through<br />
the internet, ATM and cellphones.<br />
R O N N I E S<br />
The city finally introduced the<br />
new technology to assist its<br />
challenged electricity vendor<br />
system earlier this month.<br />
In the past, BCM ratepayers<br />
have had to endure long<br />
queues and the weather<br />
when wanting to buy electricity<br />
at vendors.<br />
BCM spokesman Sibusiso<br />
Cindi said the system is functioning<br />
and no challenges<br />
have been experienced.<br />
To be able to do this, you<br />
have to register at<br />
www.wireit.co.za and there<br />
are three steps to follow:<br />
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Fill out all the mandatory<br />
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<strong>20</strong>16 Ford Figo 1.4 TDCI Ambiente............................R 159 000<br />
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(Marked as ‘*’).<br />
The meter number must have<br />
11 digits.<br />
The cellphone number should<br />
be valid and active.<br />
The password must be seven<br />
characters long and have<br />
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“We are not sure yet, it will<br />
depend on [our] customers,<br />
and a time will have to pass<br />
To round off<br />
<strong>20</strong>16 Gonubie<br />
Lions<br />
held their annual<br />
Senior<br />
Citizens<br />
Christmas<br />
tea party at<br />
Gonubie Primary<br />
School<br />
which was attended<br />
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To register using the SMS<br />
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In a post on Crime Spotter,<br />
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the singing<br />
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The final<br />
event of<br />
the year<br />
was when<br />
Lions paid<br />
a surprise<br />
visit to Sunnymead<br />
presenting each resident with<br />
a gift voucher from Super<br />
Spar to go towards their<br />
Christmas shopping.<br />
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4 SUBURBAN BUGLE FRIDAY <strong>20</strong> JANUARY <strong>20</strong>17<br />
PARKSIDE PRIMARY GETS<br />
BOOST FROM MUSIC SHOW<br />
PARKSIDE Primary was delighted<br />
with the substantial<br />
donation of funds raised by IT<br />
consulting company EOH<br />
through the performance of<br />
Cape Town band Joedhouse<br />
at the Guild Theatre recently.<br />
Not only were the paying public<br />
entertained at the theatre,<br />
but pupils were inspired when<br />
the artists visited the school,<br />
sharing some songs and<br />
words of advice<br />
and motivation.<br />
Ashur Petersen,<br />
24, son of the<br />
late South African<br />
icon Taliep<br />
Petersen, and<br />
Rick-Lynn<br />
Groenewald,<br />
son of the late<br />
SA legend<br />
Ricardo (singer<br />
of the hit I love<br />
you Daddy),<br />
got the crowd<br />
singing and<br />
dancing to the<br />
covers they performed.<br />
Joedhouse leader Devanish<br />
Hendricks also shared some<br />
words of advice with the children.<br />
“EOH [who sponsored the<br />
show] approached us and we<br />
were on board right away.<br />
This is great opportunity to<br />
deposit back into the community<br />
and have a positive impact<br />
on youngsters in our<br />
personal capacity.<br />
“It’s difficult to persuade youngsters<br />
into a career in music. I<br />
hope to chat with some of the<br />
children with a passion for<br />
music today and give them<br />
some advice and assistance.”<br />
Hendricks told learners that it<br />
was important to make good<br />
choices at a young age and<br />
find a career you loved and<br />
were passionate about. He<br />
also encouraged them to respect<br />
their teachers and stay<br />
in school in order to get their<br />
future on track.<br />
EOH executive director Dion<br />
Ramoo heard about the plight<br />
of the under-resourced<br />
school in Parkside<br />
and sought<br />
to assist<br />
through this initiative.<br />
No electricity,<br />
vandalised toilets<br />
and no water<br />
forced the<br />
school to shut<br />
its doors for 10<br />
days in August<br />
until water was<br />
restored. A lack<br />
of security<br />
around the<br />
school and corroding<br />
infrastructure leaves it<br />
vulnerable to theft.<br />
Petersen said: “When Devanish<br />
asked me to perform and<br />
told me about the plight of this<br />
school, I was down immediately.<br />
Education is a right and<br />
should never be stolen from<br />
you… I know what it’s like to<br />
have everything and nothing.<br />
I know that God never puts<br />
you through what you can’t<br />
handle.”<br />
Principal Brian Fritz said he<br />
hoped to use the funds to<br />
build a secure wall around the<br />
property, upgrade the toilet<br />
facilities and the admin block<br />
and increase security.<br />
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24 <strong>01</strong>58 14<strong>01</strong> 0748 <strong>20</strong>25<br />
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FRIDAY <strong>20</strong> JANUARY <strong>20</strong>17 SUBURBAN BUGLE 5<br />
MERRIFIELD COLLEGE CLASS OF <strong>20</strong>16<br />
Congratulations to the Merrifield<br />
College Class of <strong>20</strong>16<br />
on their outstanding IEB results<br />
achieved. We are proud<br />
of you!<br />
Merrifield College is delighted<br />
by the outstanding NSC<br />
results of its <strong>20</strong>16 Grade 12<br />
Class. The school has once<br />
again received a 100% pass<br />
rate with 35 of the 36 matriculants<br />
attaining University entrance<br />
passes. <strong>20</strong>% of the<br />
pupils achieved overall averages<br />
of over 80% with 28%<br />
of the individual subject results<br />
being over 80% (72 distinctions)<br />
and 25% of the<br />
subject results between 70-<br />
79%.<br />
Merrifield is especially proud<br />
of its top matric student, Zaheerah<br />
Limbada. She has<br />
been recognised on the IEB<br />
list of Outstanding Achievers<br />
as having achieved within the<br />
top 5% of all IEB students in<br />
South Africa for 6 or more<br />
subjects. This accomplishment<br />
places her in the top<br />
0,56% of IEB students nationally.<br />
Zaheerah achieved an<br />
overall average of 95%, with<br />
all the 7 matric subjects she<br />
wrote ranked in the top 1%<br />
nationally.<br />
Merrifield College is also<br />
very proud of Emma Theart,<br />
Oliver Hansen and Tristan<br />
Jackelman who each received<br />
7 distinctions, and<br />
Dayton Hartley and Sinesipo<br />
Lubelwana who each received<br />
6 distinctions.<br />
In addition, there were a<br />
number of outstanding individual<br />
subject results and the<br />
following pupils were placed<br />
in the top 1% nationally for<br />
individual subjects:<br />
Zaheerah Limbada: English,<br />
Afrikaans, Maths, Physical<br />
Sciences, Life Sciences, Geography,<br />
Life Orientation<br />
Emma Theart: English, Afrikaans,<br />
Life Orientation<br />
Tristan Jackelman: Maths<br />
Sinesipo Lubelwana: Life Orientation<br />
Executive Head, Dr Guy Hartley,<br />
thanked the staff for their<br />
dedication and professionalism<br />
in guiding the Matrics to<br />
exceptional results year after<br />
year. “I am particularly grateful<br />
to our staff for stretching<br />
our students beyond the curriculum<br />
and for being prepared<br />
to offer additional<br />
classes, extension and enrichment<br />
work. The rewards<br />
of this commitment are evident.”<br />
Deputy Head, Mrs Bridget<br />
Fielding, emphasised that<br />
the school is proud of all their<br />
matric pupils, many of whom<br />
had attained, or surpassed,<br />
the individual goals which<br />
they had set for themselves.<br />
STIRLING MATRICS<br />
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HIGH QUALITY MATRIC RESULTS<br />
MAINTAINED AT SELBORNE COLLEGE<br />
The class of <strong>20</strong>16 met expectations by producing a healthy<br />
set of results. They achieved a 100% pass rate and the<br />
quality of their results was such that 83% of the class passed<br />
at the level required for entry to Bachelor’s Degree studies.<br />
Renit John and Michael Koning both achieved a full house of<br />
7 distinctions, while Storme Snelling achieved distinctions for<br />
6 subjects. Bradley Johnson, Cameron Lewis, Brandon<br />
Reabow and David Wheeler each achieved 5 distinctions,<br />
while Stephen Day, Lungelo Dlamini, Dylan Kurten, Leon<br />
Lyons, Paige Ramsamy, Jacobus van Niekerk and Liam<br />
Venter each achieved 4.<br />
Special congratulations to Michael Koning for achieving<br />
100% for Physical Science and Storme Snelling for achieving<br />
100% for Accounting.<br />
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Thursday Eucharist 09h30 Sunday Eucharist 08h30<br />
Lodge Kaffrarian Celtic No 631SC<br />
Meets on the fourth Monday of the<br />
month at Gonubie Masonic Complex<br />
at 18:30<br />
Enquiries: 083 466 7724<br />
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PROPERTY<br />
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Principal<br />
Tel/Fax: 043 736 3852<br />
083 344 6269<br />
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Karin Lubbe<br />
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NEW RELEASE
FRIDAY <strong>20</strong> JANUARY <strong>20</strong>17 SUBURBAN BUGLE 7<br />
MATHS BOFFIN'S HELP NEEDY<br />
“It begins with a desire”.<br />
These are the words from the<br />
founders of Omega Junior, a<br />
community organisation that<br />
aims to create a sense of<br />
passion and desire among<br />
high school pupils in the Border<br />
region to learn mathematics.<br />
Omega serves as a network<br />
for high school pupils of all<br />
social backgrounds in the<br />
Border region of the Eastern<br />
Cape, through which they<br />
can develop their skills in<br />
mathematics and be empowered<br />
by the opportunities afforded<br />
to them through their<br />
involvement with the organisation.<br />
Omega Junior’s chairman,<br />
Thando Dyasi, and its secretary,<br />
Obakhe Nkohla, recently<br />
started a stationery drive at<br />
Vincent Park Mall to help<br />
bridge the gap between pupils<br />
who have the skill but not<br />
the correct mathematical resources.<br />
“As founders of Omega Junior<br />
we have tutored multiple pupils<br />
from different backgrounds<br />
and discovered that<br />
some pupils lack the essential<br />
stationery which hinders<br />
them from excelling in the<br />
subject.<br />
“Therefore this stationery<br />
drive is aimed at addressing<br />
this issue,” Dyasi said. Apart<br />
from having a passion for<br />
mathematics, these youngsters<br />
provide practical assistance<br />
in the form of tutoring to<br />
previously disadvantaged pupils,<br />
enabling them to significantly<br />
improve their<br />
mathematical skills and<br />
marks.<br />
“Currently we have more than<br />
100 pupils from different<br />
schools enrolled for tutoring<br />
and we would like the Department<br />
of Education to assist<br />
us in any way possible with<br />
our initiative,” Nkohla said.<br />
Nyameko and Philemon<br />
Ngcelwane high schools in<br />
Mdantsane are two of the<br />
schools Omega Junior has<br />
assisted to ensure better<br />
mathematics results among<br />
their pupils.<br />
The two maths boffins hope<br />
the community will assist by<br />
donating basic stationery,<br />
calculators and mathematical<br />
instruments which will be<br />
given to underprivileged pupils<br />
tutored by Omega Junior.<br />
Tutoring sessions are offered<br />
at Meals on Wheels in Nahoon<br />
and are free of charge.<br />
Donations can be dropped<br />
off at SPAR outlets in Amalinda,<br />
Cambridge and Beacon.<br />
A blonde rings up an airline. She asks, "How long are your<br />
flights from America to England?" The woman on the other<br />
end of the phone says, "Just a minute..." The blonde says,<br />
"Thanks!" and hangs up the phone.<br />
SELBORNE SPORT & CULTURE<br />
Week Ending 15 January <strong>20</strong>17<br />
SELBORNE COLLEGE CRICKET RESULTS AT THE<br />
GREY HIGH SCHOOL CRICKET FESTIVAL <strong>20</strong>17<br />
SUNDAY 8 JANUARY <strong>20</strong>17 - SELBORNE 1 st XI VS<br />
WESTVILLE1st XI:<br />
Westville 175/7. (JP De Bruin 2/30, Tristan Alexander 1/28).<br />
Selborne 100 all out. (Thomas Bursey 34, JP De Bruin 16<br />
no). Selborne lost by 75 runs.<br />
SATURDAY 7 JANUARY <strong>20</strong>17 - SELBORNE 1 ST XI VS<br />
KES 1 ST XI:<br />
Selborne 160 all out (Matt Dewar 57, Dylan Deetlefs 27,<br />
Matthew Ferrant 15, Adrian Wright 14). KES 158 all out.<br />
(Tristan Alexander 3/10, JP De Bruin 2/36, Matt Dewar 2/24).<br />
Selborne won by 2 runs.<br />
FRIDAY 6 JANUARY <strong>20</strong>17 – SELBORNE 1 ST XI VS JEPPE<br />
1 ST XI:<br />
Jeppe 94 all out (Taine Elshove 2/8, Josneil Long 4/14, JP<br />
De Bruin 4/14). Selborne 100/3 (JP De Bruin 18 no, Josneil<br />
Long 23, Matt Dewar 18, Matthew Ferrant 17, Sibabalwe<br />
Xamlashe 13 no). Selborne won by 7 wickets.<br />
THURSDAY 5 JANUARY <strong>20</strong>17 – SELBORNE 1 ST XI VS ST<br />
CHARLES 1 ST XI:<br />
St Charles 84 all out. (Christian Schluter 5/8, Tristan Alexander<br />
4/26). Selborne 86/2 (Matthew Ferrant 52 no, Adrian<br />
Wright 14) Selborne won by 8 wickets.<br />
CONGRATULATIONS TO STEVEN METCALF FOR<br />
ACHIEVING HIS SPRINGBOK SCOUT AWARD.<br />
1<br />
INDOOR HEATED POOLS
INDOOR HEATED POOLS<br />
Toyota Prius racks up the awards<br />
THE Toyota Prius has been<br />
named the Best Family Car in<br />
the UK Car of the Year Awards<br />
<strong>20</strong>17, proof positive that the<br />
world’s most successful hybrid<br />
has evolved into a car that<br />
ranks as Britain’s best all-rounder:<br />
smart, practical, spacious,<br />
reliable and genuinely fun to<br />
drive.<br />
The independent award judges,<br />
numbering some of Britain’s<br />
most experienced and best-respected<br />
motoring journalists,<br />
had wide-ranging praise for the<br />
multi-award-winning fourthgeneration<br />
Prius, which was<br />
launched last year. Their opinions<br />
confirm Toyota’s success<br />
in transforming Prius’ dynamic<br />
performance and its driver appeal,<br />
true to its mission to create<br />
“ever-better cars”.<br />
John Challen, Managing Director<br />
of the UK Car of the Year<br />
Awards, declared: “The Prius<br />
story continues – and it’s one<br />
that gets better with every release.<br />
The shift from ‘hybrid’ car<br />
to mainstream is complete.”<br />
His fellow judges hailed Prius<br />
as ‘a car you’d want to own<br />
rather than just benefit from its<br />
low emissions’ and acclaimed it<br />
for offering ‘everything you<br />
need in a family car – spacious,<br />
enormous boot, plenty of standard<br />
equipment and those all-important<br />
fuel economy figures’.<br />
Many of the qualities that make<br />
Prius<br />
standout<br />
ch<br />
a<br />
oi<br />
ce as a<br />
family car can be<br />
attributed to the Toyota New<br />
Global Architecture-based platform<br />
on which it is built. TNGA<br />
gives the car a lower centre of<br />
gravity, which directly contributes<br />
to better handling response<br />
and stability. The driver<br />
sits lower in the car, which<br />
makes for a more rewarding<br />
and engaging experience at the<br />
wheel.<br />
TNGA is not just about dynamic<br />
quality however. It allows designers<br />
the freedom to craft a<br />
car with richer visual appeal,<br />
with lower lines overall and a<br />
more athletic profile. Interior<br />
packaging is more rational<br />
too, with the<br />
best possible<br />
use<br />
ma<br />
de<br />
of the space available. Familyfriendly<br />
boot proportions have<br />
been secured thanks to a more<br />
compact (yet energy-rich) hybrid<br />
battery and a double wishbone<br />
suspension system –<br />
features which don’t intrude into<br />
the load-space.<br />
All these developments have<br />
not compromised Prius’ fundamental<br />
low emissions and high<br />
fuel efficiency. In fact, the<br />
gains made in performance<br />
with the new model are greater<br />
than any previous improvement<br />
between Prius generations.<br />
Official test figures show<br />
combined cycle fuel economy<br />
of 3 litres per 100 kilometres<br />
and CO2 output of 70 g/km.<br />
Safety is a prime concern for<br />
family motorists, and an area<br />
where Prius has excelled, winning<br />
the award for the best-performing<br />
large family car in<br />
EuroNCAP’s <strong>20</strong>16 test programme.<br />
Toyota is particularly proud of<br />
this recognition, as it strives to<br />
develop ‘always safer cars’<br />
with a particular focus on active<br />
safety, through the spread<br />
of the ‘Toyota Safety Sense’<br />
package. This package was an<br />
important contributor to Prius’<br />
strong performance in the EuroNCAP<br />
tests.<br />
Each year, EuroNCAP publishes<br />
a list of the cars that have<br />
performed best in their respective<br />
categories. This is the second<br />
time a Toyota received<br />
such a title, with the Verso being<br />
‘Best in Class’ in the small<br />
MPV segment back in <strong>20</strong>10.<br />
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