Stanford Glendower Bird Fair 1st - 4th October 2009

Dear Amanzi1

BirdLife Walkerbay are pleased to be hosting the sixth annual Stanford Glendower Bird Fair from 1st to 4th October 2009 and are delighted this year to be welcoming BirdLife Overberg in co-hosting this auspicious occasion. Their involvement will certainly add great value to the fair and encourage a greater awareness of this unique avian event.

Edward Snell & Co, a.k.a. Glendower Scotch Whisky, remain our generous sponsor as we begin the festivities this year with free tasting of Glendower Scotch Whisky at The African Tea Party, taking place at Oak Grove Farm from 3pm, on Thursday, 1^st October 2009.

The Stanford Birding Photographic Competition this year will be judged in 3 separate categories; being Professional, Amateur and Youth, with plenty of prizes for all. You may enter as many photographs as you like. Send each captioned/labelled entry, separately, to info@stanfordbirding.co.za The closing date for entries is 5pm Friday, 26 September 2009.

Great Prizes to be won

• 1/2 hour flight for 2 with African Wings
• ultimate whale watching for 2 with Dyer Island Cruises
• 1 year subscription to Africa Birds and Birding
• pet friendly 3 star self catering for 5 Oak Grove Farm
• boat trip on Klein River with River Rat Boat Cruises
• guided walk through Platbos Africa's southern most forest
• lunch for 2 at Stanford Art Cafe
• breakfast for 2 at Madrés Country Kitchen & Grocer

Prizes will be awarded on Friday 2^nd October during the free tasting of Glendower Scotch Whisky, prior to the light supper and Angels on Horseback cabaret show. Tickets are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment.

ENTERTAINMENT Angels on Horseback

An unmissable night of cabaret, wit and wisdom – a fabulous SA Country & Western show packed with laughter, insight and hilarious musical numbers – comment by Pnina Fenster of Glamour Magazine.

http://www.angelsonhorseback.co.za/

Speakers at the 6^th Stanford Glendower Bird Fair 2009 include:.

• Dr Anton Odendal - Overberg Birding Route
• Naas Terblanche - Overberg amphibians
• Dave de Beer - Bird Photography
• Mike Graham - Birding in the Okavango Delta
• Doug Newman - Bird Calls
• Odette Curtis - Renosterveld conservation and its effect on bird life.
• Meidad Goren - Albatross by-catching
• Wilfred Chivell - African penguins on Dyer Island

As usual, we have an array of interesting and well-informed tour guides along with a bit of light relief that includes free tasting of Glendower Whisky thanks to our generous sponsors.

• Guided outing (25 people maximum) led by Brummer Olivier to Danger Point and Kleinbaai
• Mini Pelagic Boat trip on ”Apex Predator” from Kleinbaai to see ocean birds, possibly albatross, whales and sharks.
• Walk on Flower Valley Farm with Brummer Olivier
• Gourmet picnic lunch and guided tour of the Spookhuis at Mosaic Farm

Apart from birding, the Overberg offers many unique attractions including Fynbos, whales, sharks and many other areas of interest that collectively make the Overberg the place to be.

On Saturday evening there will be a bonfire and informal braai on Boeredans Farm just outside Stanford.

To see the full programme please click Here

Should you have details of the previous year’s Stanford Glendower Bird Fair online anywhere, we shall appreciate it greatly if you will kindly update the information to reflect the latest information available at http://www.stanfordbirding.co.za/

We thank you for your interest and look forward to seeing you at the Bird Fair.

Kind regards,

Philippa Castle

Stanford Glendower Bird Fair Committee

http://www.stanfordbirding.co.za/

info@stanfordbirding.co.za

082 943 4327

028 341 0255

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p.s. We wish to take this opportunity to thank our loyal sponsors and supporters:

Africa Birds and Birding

African Wings

Bezuidenhout House

Birdlife South Africa

Bodhi Khaya Retreat

B’s Cottage

Dyer Island Cruises

Edward Snell & Co

Lavenders Blue

Madrés Country Kitchen & Grocer

Michael Thompson Estates

Mosaic Farm

Oak Grove Farm

Platbos

River Rat Boat Cruises 083 310 0952

South Africa Travel

Stanford Art Cafe

Stanford Country Cottages

Stanford Tourism Bureau

Village Life

Vector Technologies

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Sporting Memorabilia Collection for sale - Hennies Pub & Grill, Stanford

Dear Amanzi1

 

Over the past 10 years or more, Hennie Kotze of Stanford has collected an appreciable quantity of International Sports Memorabilia autographed by various well known sportsmen. 

 

Should you be interested in viewing and/or bidding on the various items available for sale, please click on the following link (or cut & paste into your browser) to view the items online at the 'Bid or Buy' web site.

http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/seller/1324669/andrepvdm

Bids are open until 12 June (some till the 14th).

 

Kind regards

 

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SA facing a water crisis

25 November 2008

WHEN Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Lindiwe Hendricks said in Parliament this year that SA was not facing a water crisis, we believed her. We had to. The electricity crisis had brought the country to the brink of economic disaster, and no one was in the mood for any more doom and gloom.

But now a hard-hitting paper outlining just how critical SA's water situation is has been banned from being delivered, and its author, Anthony Turton, an internationally respected political scientist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has been suspended and charged with insubordination.

If there was anything that should rouse South Africans from their slumber about the impending water-supply crisis, this outrageous act of censorship and cowardice by the CSIR would be it.

By attempting to suppress Turton's findings, the CSIR has given its strongest endorsement of the conclusion that we are, indeed, facing a grave and immediate danger - perhaps far greater than the power crisis.

Turton was to deliver the keynote address, A Clean South Africa, at the CSIR's Science Real and Relevant conference in Pretoria last week. But the paper was removed at the last minute because it contained what the council described as unsubstantiated facts and images of the xenophobic attacks around the country earlier this year, which, the council said, "may disturb people".

Fortunately for SA, the paper has been in internal circulation for about two months. And it is indeed disturbing. It is based on an analysis of SA's climate, its spatial development and the country's unique sociological make-up and historical legacy. It means, simply, that SA's poor rainfall (497mm a year) and its topography reduce the capacity of its aquatic systems to dilute effluent and pollutants.

When that is combined with the water distribution patterns (98% has been allocated), it is clear that the country has no surplus capacity. Very few people have grasped this, but it would seriously constrain all future economic development.

The second crisis driver is the fact that southern Africa's major cities and centres of economic development are on watershed divides. It means it requires sophisticated engineering and technology to move water to these areas and that effluent is a major threat to future economic development.

Third, and perhaps most insidious, as Turton puts it, is our history of political violence and disrespect for human rights, as illustrated by colonial exploitation in the past, and the xenophobic attacks more recently. Turton uses this to illustrate what might happen if one day water becomes scarce enough to fight over.

The most alarming aspect of Turton's paper is that when he turns to the technical ingenuity required to find solutions to the water crisis, he finds that the demand for technical ingenuity (scientific, engineering and technological capacity) in water management far outstrips supply, a fact that he blames on poor promotion of scientific and technological endeavour.

What he really means (and probably the reason he has been suspended) is that white engineers have been run out of jobs in municipalities, and many poor towns no longer have any capacity to process water and, thus, protect their citizens from disease.

That is not what transformation was supposed to do. It was, surely, supposed to improve black lives, not make them worse.

Some of the technical aspects that form part of the paper may be arguable, since Turton is a social scientist, but it is difficult to doubt the main findings on which his conclusions are based. Even in the worst case of research oversight, which this report is not, it is inconceivable that a paper produced by a researcher of Turton's international standing should be suppressed.

The paper should have been delivered, debated by supporters and detractors and the consequences widely distributed. The fact that Turton is being vilified for doing his job and setting an example to scientists everywhere disgraces the CSIR.

Suppressing uncomfortable facts about SA's prospects is an appalling thing to do. If SA is to have any future at all, that has to change. Yesterday, the CSIR was disinclined to explain Turton's suspension.

We hope it is reversed, and that he is encouraged to give his paper. A cardinal sin, apparently, was for Turton to speak to the media. What? Are there any adults running the CSIR?

We lied to ourselves throughout the Mbeki years. Let's stop, and embrace the truth, especially when we disagree.

source: http://www.bday.co.za/


NOTE: Click THE TITLE ABOVE to sign the petition against Dr Turton's suspension