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Kom ons vier ons roots in Afrikaans!

September is Erfenismaand in Suid-Afrika – ’n geleentheid om ons eie kultuur-oorsprong en ontwikkeling te verken en te vier.

Afrikaans het stewige en wydverspreide wortels wat verteenwoordig word deur miljoene Suid-Afrikaners en mense van die Nederlandse wêrelde. Daar is ook soveel moontlikhede om dié diverse taal en kultuur verder te ontwikkel.

Daarom word daar vanjaar op die UWK-kampus behoorlik gepraat en feesgevier met Roots, ’n konferensie en kultuurfees.

Op 22 en 23 September word Afrikaans uit elke moontlike hoek bekyk en gevier  – die historiese en wêreldwye verbintenisse, die ontwikkeling en uitdagings van die afgelope jare en die opwindende pad vorentoe.

Vir almal wat hul Afrikaanse erfenis wil koester, wil herontdek of sommer net die diversiteit daarvan wil vier – dié een is vir jou.

Roots: UWC, culture, Afrikaans, Dutch and Heritage Day

From 21 to 23 September UWC campus will host Roots, a conference, cultural festival and museum exhibition. It forms part of the Heritage Month celebrations – a time when we think about our roots and the road ahead.
Roots will discuss and celebrate Afrikaans and its relationships with other Dutch-speaking regions, from all possible angles.
At the conference you’ll be able to experience renowned academics and experts from South Africa and countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, the Antilles and Suriname.
The festival offers a full and diverse programme. There will be drama and dancing – from storytellers and imbongis to gumboots and riel dancers. And there will be art, film and music – from rap to opera, from Bio.has.it and Rocco de Villiers to Solms Delta and Steve Hofmeyr.
Another highlight is the Iziko Museums exhibition “Afrikaans aan die praat!” (Afrikaans in conversation), where visitors will learn more about the history and development of the language in a visual and unique way. The exhibition is done in collaboration with the Afrikaans Language Museum and the Genadendal Missions Museum.
If you’re eager to think along new lines and want to talk about and celebrate the road ahead, this one is for you!
Admission to Roots is free, but it is essential to book your conference seat in advance. For more information about the conference, contact Suzy Flanders at sflanders@uwc.ac.za or 021 959 2213.

For information about the festival, contact Vicky Stemmet at  taalprojek@uwc.ac.za or 021 959 2113.

www.roots-fees.org

SA Wrestling Youth Championship in Velodrome, Bellville

The Hoell’s are back for the 2010 championship, young Heinrich now aged 12. Unfortunately NiederHeim is full with athletes of the Goldfields Athletics Club that will compete the same weekend at the Bellville Stadium.
In 2009 we learnt about the South African Youth Wrestling championships in the Velodrome, a mere 5 minutes drive from NiederHeim Bed and Breakfast when a family member of an old school friend Carl Hoell from Rustenburg, Hein Hoell, phoned for B&B accommodation earlier today. We wish him and his son good luck with the preparations and we are looking to hearing all the family news.
The programme is as follows:

Clivias @ NiederHeim B&B

The garden of NiederHeim Bed and Breakfast is once again awash in an orange sea of Clivia flowers.

The Clivias of NiederHeim B&B have an interesting story. Jan’s grandmother used to have a pot plant on her veranda in Mossel Bay. From there his parents planted some of the sprouts in the garden of their Nature’s Valley holiday home. From those they brought Jan and Esther two plants by train as Norman sr. and Alta Nieder-Heitmann came to attend the baptism of Norman jr. at Maandagshoek in Sekhukhuneland. There the Clivias flourished and abounded for ten year as did the young Nieder-Heitmann family. When they moved to Bellville in 1991 a good number of Clivias came with the rest of their belongings. Meanwhile these rewarding plants have multiplied under the shady trees of this B&B accommodation establishment. Offshoots also adorn the garden of many a friend in Bellville.

Jan has lately also bought seeds of the beautiful red Barberton variety. Hopefully his posterity will one day also be able to tell the story of how their gardens became awash in flames of red.

The annual Clivia Show of the Cape Town Clivia Club will be held again at the Bellville Civic Centre, Voortrekker road, Bellville from24 - 26 September 2010. The exhibit usually illustrate the great variety of Clivias. The Clivia Miniata provides a brilliant display of colour of yellow, orange, and red as well as unusual shades of pastel. The exhibits alsol include varieties of variegated leaf , broad leaf and miniature plants as well as the tubular species.

Experts will  be present to give advice on the different aspects of growing Clivia. In addition, flowering plants, seeds seedlings and accessories, such as growing medium will also  be on sale.

Various publications that give practical and technical information about these rewarding plants will be available for both the novice and expert.

This year (2010) the show will be preceded by the International Clivia conference on 21 and 22 September in the adjacent Sanlam auditorium. More info regarding the show and international conference can be found on the Cape Clivia Club’s website, www.miniata.co.za .

The Indigenous bulb society of South Africa’s display of a wide variety of flowering bulbs will be an added attraction and members of this society will be at hand to give advice on growing bulbs.

The show is usually open between 09:00 and 17:00.