Read more about it in the newsy and informative newsletter of the Animal Demography Unit of UCT…

http://www.scenicsouth.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/adunewsletteraprmay20130523.pdf

See also

http://www.scenicsouth.co.za/2013/04/mammalmap-an-africa-wide-mammal-conservation-project/

 The Kalk Bay Theatre is proud to welcome to its stage one of South Africa’s iconic figures, PIETER-DIRK UYS, for a once-off performance of “F. A. K. SONGS AND OTHER STRUGGLE ANTHEMS” on the 9^th June at 20:00.  Breaking the Friday only rule for dinner at KBT, Funkichef has prepared a special menu for this very special show so you can have dinner as well – see www.kbt.co.za/menus/ for details.

Winner of the Fleur de Cap Award 2010 for Best Cabaret, Bambi Kellermann will pop into the Kalk Bay Theatre on Sunday 9th June for a one-night stand with her public. Bambi’s extraordinary story of survival is told in song and sketch, her background echoed in familiar tunes and her inspirations gently mocked through canny impersonation.

Pieter-Dirk Uys as Bambi and music arranged by Godfrey Johnson, F.A.K. Songs and Other Struggle Anthems are performed in three languages. Bambi’s story is told in English, while the songs also performed in German and in Afrikaans. This cabaret is not for the faint-hearted. It unites the acrid stench of the old Weimar Republic of the 1930s and the sexy rot of Hamburg’s Reperbahn with the familiar aromas associated with ‘ons eie’ Voortrekker-camps and braaivleis-orgies.

Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout will not be on stage with Bambi. The two sisters are sworn enemies and have never been seen in the same place at the same time.  Whereas Evita is proper in all aspects, Bambi is not. The former stripper/sex worker now runs her internationally known wine cellar in Paarl – with ‘special offers’ on weekends, plus condoms. Bambi performs songs about love and confides about life with her Nazi’s husband’s ashes on the piano.

Not for the squeamish or the proper, this cabaret features songs by Kurt Weill and Stephen Sondheim, as well as a selection of familiar Afrikaans liedjies from the legendary F.A.K Sangbundel, a songbook of the federation of Afrikaans Cultural organisations, reinvented by Bambi to suit the mood of 2013.

EVITA SE PERRON in Darling (www.evita.co.za) now proudly adds three very diverse awards to its substantial international harvest of achievements:

* The 2010 FLEUR DE CAP AWARD for BAMBI KELLERMANN, sister of Evita
Bezuidenhout, for BEST PERFORMANCE IN A REVUE OR CABARET for “F.A.K. SONGS &
OTHER STRUGGLE ANTHEMS” performed at the Fugard Theatre Cape Town;

* The Special 2011 TEDDY AWARD presented in Berlin to PIETER-DIRK UYS 
(www.pdu.co.za) for personal excellence and his commitment to the fight
against HIV/Aids and for his stage alter ego Evita Bezuidenhout;

* The 2010 NALEDI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD to EVITA BEZUIDENHOUT (Twitter:
@TannieEvita) for her witty, refreshing and fearless observations of the
social fabric of our country over the past 30 years.

This is the first time they have ever posed together for a photograph.
(PIC by STEFAN HURTER)

Tickets – R125 show only / R300 show and two course meal

A service charge of 10% on the meal and drinks are charged

Dinner is served from 18:45 and dessert and coffee after the show

*Visit Kalk Bay Theatre, Cape Town on Facebook or follow @KalkBayTheatre on Twitter                    

I am including the link to the press release. Our main aim now is to find volunteers.

http://www.lifeinbalance.co.za//page/news-innovation/1611609-Putting-the-wilderness-back-into-Wilderness

If you are able to register and rally up a team that would be fantastic, continued advertising would be great! Any assistance is most welcome.

Thanking you
Matthew

http://www.scenicsouth.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Main-Road-Newsletter-29-Final.pdf

See also the comments from the community about the road works and the responses from the contractors …

http://www.scenicsouth.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Annexure-A-Key-issues.pdf

If you are interested as a citizen scientist, novice or experienced birder to find out more about MyBirdPatch and how it works.  The details here http://www.adu.org.za/news.php?id=3992

Thank you for your work in this community.  You are much appreciated.

HospiVision is an NGO based in Pretoria and I started the Western Cape chapter about three years ago.  I train volunteers and we visit the patients at False Bay Hospital to offer emotional and spiritual support.  It is a Christian based organisation but we support people in their personal beliefs.  I am sending you the link to the website and also the course which is offered in June.

Blessings

Sonya Hunt  MA (Psyche) MTh (Clin Past) Stellenbosch

HospiVision

Western Cape Co-ordinator

072 9720 726 

http://www.hospivision.org.za

We wanted to know if you could assist by advertising to public to help the schools by donating their old garden tools to the project. The public could drop off the donated garden tools at our AfriOceans Conservation Alliance office in Glencairn below the Glencairn hotel.

Please find attached files with previous success story in Lavender Hill.

Thank you for your support.

Ishmael Sabodien

Environmental Educator

AfriOceans Environmental Education Programme

(w) 021 7821348

I was privileged to attend the Biodiversity Breakfast and once again I experienced the passion and dedication of the custodians of this national treasure, who were all rejoicing at the news  that the Kirstenbosch exhibit at the Chelsea Flower Show has been awarded a gold medal for the 33^rd time (33/38!).

In his address at the Breakfast Professor John Donaldson, head of applied biodiversity research at the SA National Botanical Institute (SANBI) at Kirstenbosch paid tribute to various influential people in Kirstenbosch’s history and their contributions to the world-class scientific work that is being done at SANBI.

Dr Tanya Abrahamse , Chief Executive Officer of SANBI, spoke of the “rich legacy of scientific leadership” emerging from SANBI and its “firsts” in the science arena, amongst them for…

• documenting South Africa’s flora
• focusing on indigenous horticulture – collecting, growing, commercialising, re-introducing and popularising  our indigenous flora
• the discovery of “smoke” as a powerful and widespread germinator
• in the publication of vegetation maps
• in creating citizen projects such as the protea atlas project.

Since 2004, SANBI hsd produced 2 700 articles, 1 115 peer reviewed scientific  papers, 807 papers in ISI rated journals, 81 books and more that 1000 popular articles.

 Three books were launched at the Biodiversity breakfast:

 SANBI: A Decade of Science 2004- 2013 (Contact Ferozah Conrad  f.conrad@sanbi.org.za)

“This booklet reflects on the Science at SANBI over the last ten years….SANBI has produced amazing scientists who do excellent research and this is clear from the high number of papers and books published and the international collaborative projects undertaken.”

 Biodiversity early warning systems: South African citizen scientists monitoring change: Phoebe Barnard and Marianne de Villiers (Contact Phoebe P.barnard@sanbi.org)

“This booklet summarises some of South Africa’s most exciting citizen-science biodiversity projects, collectively forming a kind of ‘early warning system’ for biodiversity in times of rapid environmental change.”

LIFE: the State of South Africa’s Biodiversity 2012 (Contact Kristal Maze k.maze@sanbi.org.za)

”Based on South Africa’s world class biodiversity science, the report offers the information and inspiration we need in order to make better decisions about how we use, manage and invest in our biodiversity , across our land and waters, for the benefit of all South Africans.”

The 100 Years of Biodiversity Science display at Kirstenbosch yesterday:

Viv