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Dr Ralph Gilbert is the Medical Director of our Hilton KCSA clinic. He is a Medical Practitioner with many years’ experience managing psychiatric patients. When asked if he finds working at KCSA rewarding, Dr Gilbert says, "Yes, especially seeing a suicidal, depressed person suddenly be happy and fulfilled. The treatment is extremely effective and can be life saving."

 

KetaMIND is a group of clinics treating anxiety, depression, resistant mood disorders and chronic neuropathic pain with infusion therapy.

 

September is tourism month and a great time to focus on tourism marketing. Tourism marketers and industry role players will soon gather at the 4th annual Tourism Marketing Conference that will be held on 13 & 14 September 2023 at the CTICC in Cape Town. The conference will bring together industry marketers and tourism professionals to delve into the latest trends, strategies, and innovations in tourism marketing.

The theme for the conference is “Tourism: The Future is Bright”. The conference will facilitate a learning experience that will help marketers of tourism products, destinations, experiences, and attractions improve their marketing efforts to ultimately attract more business and grow the tourism sector.

The two-day programme includes more than 14 speakers and will address current trends, opportunities and challenges of tourism marketing. The agenda includes topics such as: local tourism marketing, branding, destination marketing, innovation and technology, reputation management, social media and interactive marketing, relationship marketing, sales and lead generation, digital marketing, influencer marketing, referral marketing and more.

Deputy Minister of Tourism, Mr Fish Mahlalela, will address the conference with an outlook and update on international source markets, opportunities, and trends. This will allow marketers to align their own marketing efforts with that of the department of tourism.

The conference is open to all role players of tourism products, destinations, attractions, experiences, DMO's, RTO’s, Tourism Boards and related tourism organisations.

Dates & Times: Wed 13 September & Thurs 14 September 2023 from 9am to 4pm daily.

Venue: Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town

Registration: Register and book online at www.tourismconference.co.za or contact the organiser CADEK Media at 021 854 4700.

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Our Cool Winds Pre-Primary pupils made sure that they contributed in giving our gardens extra colours this Spring. Some amazing spring hats were created to celebrate the 1st of September. For more information on 2023/2024 enrolments, e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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It was on this day, 20 years ago we decided to take the plunge with our very successful slipper business called “Kozitoes” at the time, and expand our brand by producing our own clothing range and sourcing products locally and internationally.

In 2009 I embarked on a journey to Bangkok with my daughter Natalie. The rule, to literally travel with two empty suitcases and nothing else but the clothes on our back. Looking back at this, it was a trip to remember.

No husband and a credit card full to the max allowing me to purchase whatever I could find in the city that certainly doesn’t sleep!!!

Over this 10 day trip paving the smelly hot streets of Bangkok, finding one of the largest markets I have ever seen, we successfully sourced beautiful gift items and clothing which we ended up shipping, along with 800 beautiful crafted hair accessories in our luggage. By day 8 Natalie and I maxed our money and were rationing food for two full days before our flight home. Money well spent, absoloutely YES… but it was here that I saw the most beautiful fabrics.

Returning from this trip it re-ignited my passion for sourcing quality fabrics. From a young age I always used to sew my outfits whether it be for a casual weekend out, special occasion, or for our kids Cameron and Natalie. Returning from this trip I began playing with fabrics and producing clothing.

Our first shop was in Howick, by the Howick Falls. Over a 15 year period we opened additional stores in the Central Drakensburg, Clarens and our main store at Piggly Wiggly - Midlands.

Fast forward to 2020, Covid taught us a lot, it hit us hard like most businesses. Being a retail store and only being allowed to sell winter essentials, the restrictions of movement, and rules forced us to close all stores except our Piggly Wiggly branch. For the survival of this business we had to adapt to e-commerce and limited trading times. This wasn’t the end as it has allowed us to focus solely on what we take pride in… sourcing quality fabrics and producing a range for all shapes and sizes.

Our store boasts a beautiful selection of accessories and gift items of which are locally produced.

We are proud to be 20 today, it has been quite a eventful journey, We started out travelling around the country attending markets and expos, producing handmade Genuine Sheepskin slippers, evolving our new brand, opening multiple stores, surviving Covid and of course the looting.

We are so grateful for all our family, friends and customers.

Gary and Robyn xx

Gather your friends and join us for a night of food, wine, and fun at the annual Food & Wine Fair hosted by Hilton Quarry Superspar. All proceeds will go to Hilton Pre-Primary, so come out and show your support! Buy your tickets online at Quicket and spread the word!

Friday, 1 September will be the opening day of Tanglewood's Spring Sale 2023. You can expect to find hydrangeas, azaleas, fuchsias, blueberries, grasses, ferns, creepers, groundcovers, hedging plants and so much more... Get there early and enjoy loading up new plants for your garden to welcome! 

 

Never been to Tanglewood Nursery?

 

You will find them 2,2km from Crossways. Head towards Cowan House Prep School, pass Amy Wilson Drive and Paige Place, watch for their entrance on your right as you enter the big bend, the nursery is at 1 Tanglewood Place, Hilton just off Dennis Shepstone Drive.

 

Should you get lost, connect with the ever-friendly nurseryman, Ben on 083 384 2815.

A delightful mix of contemporary dance for young (and young at heart) audiences is on offer at this year’s JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience as part of the 13-day festival that runs in Durban from 29 August – 10 September 2023.
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JOMBA! has partnered with ASSITEJ (the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People) an international alliance of professionals involved in theatre for children and young people,to offer a special “JOMBA! FOR YOUTH FOCUS” that opens up contemporary dance performance for younger audiences.

JOMBA! welcomes artists from both Switzerland and the Netherlands in this new JOMBA! programme that travels to schools and which also offers public performances.

From The Netherlands de Stilte is a dance company that focuses entirely on developing productions and performing for children. Since their foundation in 1994, they have expanded to become the most attended youth theatre producer in the Netherlands. They bring FLYING COW choreographed by Jack Timmermans and is the story of two girls and a boy who embark on a stand-off. When there are three of you, who plays with whom? Flying Cow explores how children play together, trying to outdo each other, taking each other’s things and company, teasing, sharing, consenting, finding a way for threesomes to play This work is suitable for audience 5+ (adults most welcome too!). FLYING COW will be performed at The Stable Theatre on Friday, 1 September at 2.30pm, and on Saturday, 2 September at 10am.

Switzerland’s Joshua Monten, brings a delightful engrossing work called GAME THEORY that will travel to two prebooked Durban schools in KwaMashu and Umlazi. In GAME THEORY Monten looks deeply at some of the building blocks of play: freedom and rules, ritual and surprise, adrenaline and flow. The result is a witty and humorous look at the human condition and the games people play.

A highlight for young dancers is the JOMBA! Youth Open Horizons at The Stable Theatre on Sunday 3 September at 2pm which features dancers under 16yrs performing works created within local studios from KwaMashu, Umlazi, Clermont, Musgrave, Pietermaritzburg, Lindelani, Chatsworth and Quarry Heights. This event is free and is a beautiful and joyful way to honour youth dance progammes happening in and around our city.

Tickets for Flying Cow are R50 (students, scholars, pensioners).

Booking through COMPUTICKET

For more information and for the full programme to see what is on offer at the festival go to https://jomba.ukzn.ac.za/

 

Photo credit: Hans Gerritsen

 

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MiTH 30 August 2023

INFO: 082 331 7271

ENTRANCE: R50.00 - Cash or Zapper at the Door

VENUE: The Knoll Historic Guest Farm


7pm: Demi Edwards
Demi Edwards is a young singer-songwriter who began writing music at the age of 12. Influenced by Taylor Swift, she is a singer of many genres and a self-taught musician on the guitar, piano, and banjo. Her love for music has driven her to perform and she now shares her written creations with the world.

8pm: Grace Botha
Grace Botha is a South African singer-songwriter with a love for jazz, folk, soul, and pop. Her music is an amalgamation of all her influences through the years. Growing up in a very musical family, Grace has been performing since childhood. She studied jazz at UKZN, and can be found performing at weddings, community events, and restaurants, and sings in shows with other amazing local musicians. You’ll hear a little bit of everything when she is on the stage.

9pm: Paul Arthur
Paul Arthur is a singer-songwriter from Durban KwaZulu Natal South Africa.
A guitarist who plays most styles of music with a unique sound started playing in high school bands in the 80s and continued with original compositions with shows and festivals around SA and Australia.

Accompanied by Ronnie Macnamara on bass, and Percy van Staaden on drums, Paul will be performing original compositions for his set. His music is influenced by blues and rock artists, including JJ Cale, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lindsey Buckingham, Vince Gill, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and more.


ABOUT MiTH: Arguably the KZN Midlands’ best-loved music venue, Music in The Hills (MiTH) is an opportunity for beginners, professionals, and passionate music fans to share the joy of music at The Knoll Historic Guest Farm. Visit www.mith.co.za for more details and directions. Musicians can contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for slots.

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO: MiTH takes place every second Wednesday at The Knoll Historic Guest Farm, Knoll Drive, Hilton. Doors open at 6pm and the music will kick off at 7pm. Entrance is R50 at the door. Food and soft drinks are available for sale. A cash bar is available.

DIRECTIONS TO MiTH: Take the N3 to Hilton, take the Hilton turnoff and go South into the Village (away from Hilton College). Travel 5,2km along Hilton Avenue (past two sets of traffic lights and Crossways Pub) and keep going straight as Hilton Avenue turns into Dennis Shepstone Drive. At the 5,2km mark, Knoll Drive will be on your right – the entrance to MiTH is the *second* entrance on your left into The Knoll Historic Guest Farm.

We are excited to announce another dinner theatre show: That's Life

Seasons of Life in Song

With Erin Fourie, Sandra Henning, & Helen Vermaak

Fresh from the Hilton Arts Festival.

That's Life looks at seasons of life through song. A wide range of music, from Sinatra to Sondheim, Etta to Ed Sheeran, The Beatles to Beyonce, it encompasses the journey of life, from the serious to the downright hilarious.

Midlands performers and old friends, Erin Fourie and Sandra Henning, are accompanied on piano by Helen Vermaak, who tries her best to get into the spotlight.

A delightful evening of musical allsorts.

Kath Magrobi, the founder of feminist media non-profit Quote This Woman+ (QW+), has been honoured by the Mail & Guardian’s (M&G) Power of Women, an annual showcase of South African women making a difference in key areas of society.

 

Magrobi was among 50 change-makers and industry influencers recognised by the M&G as making a positive, notable impact in their respective sectors of academia, agriculture, business, communities, healthcare, mining, media/telecommunications and sports.

 

Magrobi, 53, founded the nonprofit platform in the lead-up to the 2019 elections with the aim of correcting the imbalance of male overrepresentation in the media. Five years on, she and her small team have developed a database of about 750 women experts that journalists can contact on a variety of topics with the aim of helping to close the gender gap and giving women and marginalised people a voice in the media.

 

Says Magrobi: “I started Quote This Woman+ because women are significantly under-represented and stereotyped in the media, being heard only once in every five times an expert is quoted. Our platform counterbalances the effects of patriarchy, cultural norms and religious constructs that have contributed to women being disconnected from their own voices. By joining the Quote This Woman+ database, women experts, activists and thought leaders are amplifying their voices and speaking truth to power. The media becomes a conduit through which their insights, expertise and perspectives contribute to shaping policy and discourse, and this empowerment extends beyond individual boundaries fostering a media landscape that genuinely represents the richness of diverse perspectives.”

 

The platform has also received international recognition: more than 1,000 journalists from local and international publications such as AFP, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, The Economist, Reuters, The New York Times, and The Times of London consult the QW+ directory for nuanced perspectives and to foreground women’s voices. Earlier this year, the platform was a recipient of the Google News Initiative when it pitched for and was awarded $50,000 to improve the user experience and enhance search functionality and the protection of personal information on the QW+ database.

 

“I am humbled and honoured to have been named one of five winners in the 'The Networking Woman' awards category, along with Yvonne Princess Shabangu, Ntando Zikalala, Maphuti Hlako and Linathi Makanda. This honour belongs to all the phenomenal women who have put their hand up to be counted as experts in their field and to the journalists who make use of the Quote This Woman+ database to provide a more balanced, nuanced perspective, paving the way for a future where no voice is left behind.”

 

Magrobi is currently working with grassroots media non-profit, The Association of Independent Publishers (AIP), to raise R2 Million to close the gender gap in news reporting and strengthen community news. Later this month, both organisation's fund Look, Listen, Local: The Innovation Fund will launch in Johannesburg.

 

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Our Grade 6s welcomed Hilton Buddies to our campus this morning, to treat both the Buddies and the volunteers to a special Spring Tea. Each of our boys and girls made a love box, with a note inside as well as a special Spring Day Card. The Grade 6 Marimba Band welcomed our visitors, whilst others took part in the Spring Day performance or hosted our guests by serving tea and eats.

All in all, a wonderful morning full of smiles and laughs, as well as lessons learnt about the importance of caring for others.

"The simple act of caring is heroic." – Edward Albert

 

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BENVIE GARDENS - Spring seems to have arrived early this year with the Yellow billed Kites arriving on the 12 August 2023. The clivias will be in flower from the first weekend of September and the early azaleas are already coming out. The owners have decided to open the Benvie garden from 9 September 2023 through to the 8 October 2023, because of the early spring.

 

Benvie is one of the Midlands’ showpiece gardens and should not be missed. Located in the beautiful Karkloof, it was the brainchild of John Geekie, a Scot from Dundee who came to South Africa in 1856, and bought the property in 1883. He was a man who loved trees, and bought the land with the express purpose of creating an arboretum and spent the rest of his life realising his dream. The house lies at the head of the garden which stretches out in front of it. A walk through the trees accompanied by the birdsong of the myriad birds that have made Benvie their home, is an uplifting experience.

 

The south-east orientation of the garden in a high rainfall mistbelt was ideal for Geekie’s idea of an arboretum. Seedlings were brought by ship from all over the world, transported from Durban to Merrievale by train and then taken by ox-wagon to Benvie. Conifers were bought from Inverness; hydrangeas, magnolias and other flowering trees from a nursery in Atlanta, Georgia, cedars from Japan and a , Ginkgo biloba from China, and grass tress from Australia. He also had a reciprocal arrangement with fellow gardeners in Durban and Maritzburg and he collected camellias and rhododendrons from the Durban Botanical Gardens.

 

The garden took five years to lay out. Paths were cut, ponds were dug and each tree was allocated a specific space to allow it to grow to its full potential. But this is no garden frozen in time as its 70 acres are constantly worked on – trees that have come to the end of their lives are replaced either with the same or similar variety. Tribute must be paid to John Geekie’s family, who, through the generations have devotedly cared for this magnificent garden, and continue to do so.

 

The garden will open from 9.00am to 4.00pm daily and the entrance fee remains at R50.00 per person for adults and children under 12 are free. Picnics are welcome.

 

Directions: From Howick, take the Karkloof Road. Pass the Ambers and drive 33 km from Howick (21km on tar). At the 33 km mark turn right on the York/Hanover Road. Travel a further 3 km, down the hill, and you will find the Benvie sign on your left.

 

Author credit: Jackie Kalley

Copy & print, digital, courier, stationery and mailboxes are among the services rendered by PostNet Hilton. Open Monday to Friday 7.30am to 5.30pm, Saturday 9am to 1pm. Sunday closed.

 

The Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal has bestowed a Lifetime Achievement Award on Dr Lliane Loots, the Curator and Artistic Director of the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience. The Award was presented at the opening of the 25th edition of the JOMBA! festival at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on Tuesday 29 September 2023.

“For a quarter of a century under challenging funding environments, changing political landscapes, and varying socio-economic conditions, Dr Lliane Loots has championed the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience as South Africa’s longest-running dance festival and as one of the leading contemporary dance events on the African continent. The Award recognises her visionary leadership, service to the cultural sector, and committed activism for dance education”, said Dr Ismail Mahomed, the Director of the Centre for Creative Arts.

In 2021, under the leadership of Dr Lliane Loots, the JOMBA! festival received the National Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences Award for Best Creations for work produced in the digital space during the Covid-19 pandemic. During the same year, JOMBA! launched an annual colloquium to advance academic scholarship in African contemporary dance. In 2022, JOMBA! was awarded the Business Arts South Africa Chairman’s Award for Arts & Education & Activism.

During her distinguished career, Dr Lliane Loots has also won numerous national choreographic awards and commissions. She has travelled the world extensively as an academic and artist in her own right. In 2017, the French government awarded her the Chevalier l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of the Arts & Literature) Award for promoting extensive cultural collaborations between artists from France and South Africa.

For the past 25 years, since founding the JOMBA! festival, Dr Lliane Loots has combined her curatorial work for JOMBA! while simultaneously holding the position of dance lecturer in the Drama and Performance Studies Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Howard College Campus). She has a Master’s degree in Gender Studies and completed her PhD in 2018 looking at contemporary dance/performance histories on the African continent. She is the founder and Artistic Director of the now 20-year-old FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY which continues to contribute to the contemporary dance landscape of the country, as well as provide important dance training for youth in communities around Durban.

“The Centre for Creative Arts is indebted to Dr Lliane Loots for her selfless contribution that has grown the JOMBA! festival as an iconic international platform. The festival has catapulted the artistic careers of many leading South African choreographers and dancers. It has firmly entrenched the role that the JOMBA! festival can make to academic scholarship; and thus making her a worthy recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for her more than quarter century of visionary leadership”, added Mahomed.

The JOMBA! festival opened on Tuesday 29 August and runs until 10 September featuring performances, workshops, talks, digital offerings, an online festival news and review portal, a 25th anniversary book launch, and a dance for youth programme. The festival has a four-day satellite event at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg from 13 to 16 September.

 

Pictured here: Top Lliane Loots and below, HATCHED ENSEMBLE choreographed by Mamela Nyamza opened the 25th JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience at The Sneddon Theatre in Durban last night (29 August), will have another performance tonight (30 August) and will be performed at The Market Theatre, Johannesburg on 15 September as part of a JOMBA! satellite event.

For more info go to www.jomba.ukzn.ac.za

 

Photo credits: Val Adamson

 

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In the twilight of my years, when I reflect on all the daft things I’ve done in my life, I keep on coming back to The Great Jelly Bean Run. After several beers in the pub at Crossways Hotel in Hilton, I would often come up with crazy ideas about training for the Comrades Marathon. One of them was that to run the full Comrades Marathon distance three weeks before the big race would be a good way to warm up for the actual event. My theory was greeted with much disdain amongst my running (and drinking) peers except for one individual who, like me, displayed similar symptoms of madness, one Dave Cook. We decided that a good night to accomplish the deed would be Friday 10th May 1974 when there would be a full moon to guide us on our journey. We drove down to Durban in my car, following the Comrade’s route and leaving several cans of Coke hidden in the roadside verge for later consumption. I also had the foresight to buy a bag of jellybeans for a reward at the top of each hill on the run back to Pietermaritzburg.

Once in Durban, we left my car in a parking garage, and we walked to the City Hall to begin our journey. In Pinetown, the aroma of freshly made boerewors rolls halted us temporarily but fuelled us nicely for the slog up Field’s Hill. We stopped at the summit of every hill and gave each other a jellybean as a reward. There are a great deal of hills between Durban and Pietermaritzburg but I had wisely anticipated this by buying the largest bag of jellybeans I could find.

And so, after much laughter and merriment (not to mention getting sick of the sight of jellybeans) Dave and I reached the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg at daybreak where we came across Dave’s elderly father waiting on the side of the road to cheer us on. I’ve often wondered how he timed it! We finally reached the finish in a running time of 8 hours and 27 minutes and a total time of 9 hours and 25 minutes.

I had to then run to my pharmacy, have a wash in the basin, change into my work clothes and open the shop at 8am for business as usual.

P.S. I ran Comrades three weeks later in a time of 7 hours 20 minutes and 24 seconds. According to my diary, it was a painful run on very tired legs! Hmmm! I wonder why?

I have attached two photos taken around the time of the Great Jelly Bean Run. One is of me and the other is of Dave Cook and I skinny-dipping in a 'Berg stream suitably abridged. The unabridged photo of Dave and I received some fame at parties in Hilton during the 1970’s. At some stage during the party one of the girls would start a chorus of “We want the picture!” and it would duly be produced and passed around amongst the girls who would make derogatory comments about our male attributes. It was all good fun and Dave, and I encouraged the tradition.

Author: John Huber

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