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The fight for Miss Illusions Bikini 2008 has finally started. Ladies get your body in shape and hand in your entry forms to stand a chance of becoming Miss Illusions Bikini. Big prizes consisting off R4000 cash, pedicures, manicures, gym contract, ballroom dancing classes, hampers and even a weekend in the presidential suite of Twins Guesthouse are up for grabs. Entry forms available at Illusions entrance and in the Yourcity newspaper. Name: Miekie van Zyl Star Sign: Aquarius Birthday: 17 February 1971 Occupation: Sales Manager
When I
look into the mirror every morning I think:
My
favourite people in the world are: My favourite quote is: “Who’s your daddy.” Friends makes me laugh.
The
greatest lesson life has taught me so far is:
I'll do
almost anything for: When I get stressed I am most likely to throw my: cellphone out a window. I want my tombstone to read: …RIP
I
wouldn't mind being stuck in an elevator with:
In three
words I am:!
If I had
a million rand to spare I would:
I live
in Klerksdorp because:
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first thing I would save from a house fire is: My nickname is: Miekie
I love
my job because: … Passionately pink for breast cancer Go passionately pink for October and keep cancer survivors close to your heart. This is the message from the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) for its awareness campaigns in October, which is International Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The pink ribbon is an international symbol for breast cancer awareness. Many South Africans wear pink or pink items such as pins and ribbons in order to show their support for the cancer cause. CANSA is also asking all women to look after their health and check their breasts each month for changes to help detect breast cancer early. Looking after your health includes: • Eating a diet low in animal fat and low in animal protein • Eating a diet high in fibre including plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables • Exercising regularly • Avoid being overweight • Limiting your alcohol to one drink a day, if at all • Breastfeeding your baby • Avoiding Hormonal Replacement Therapy Breast cancer is a leading woman's cancer in South Africa with one in 26 women diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. More than 3 000 women die each year from breast cancer in South Africa. But the good news is that if you detect and treat breast cancer early, your have an excellent chance of full recovery. All women are at risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer. “That is why every woman needs to examine her breasts and underarms every month, a week after her monthly period, to check for lumps, unusual swellings, puckering of the skin, sores, pain, rashes or any other possible symptoms of breast cancer,” says Martha Molete, Head of Communication at CANSA. If you have these symptoms, go to a health professional without delay. If you are over 40, ask your doctor how often to go for a mammogram. Studies show that eight out of 10 lumps in your breasts are harmless but they all must be checked. Your doctor will organise a mammogram (special x-ray to detect lumps in the breast) and a biopsy, which is when a tiny sample of the lump is sent to the laboratory to see if it is cancer. If the result is positive, treatment may include a lumpectomy (when the lump is surgically removed), a mastectomy (the breast is removed), radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. CANSA offices and partners are selling a number of pink items to spread awareness about breast cancer and raise funds for our services. For more information and advice on cancer, contact CANSA toll-free Information Service during office hours at 0800 22 66 22 or see the website www.cansa.org.za or email info@cansa.org.za or your CANSA office at 018 294 8253 / 018 468 2038. The fall of an empire The one thing that both fascinates and perplexes me is how people can say that history is a dead subject; belonging to the past. And yet history repeats itself. Over and over again. A piece of history that forcefully captures and holds my imagination is the rise and ultimate fall of the Roman Empire. To consider the Roman Empire one needs to look at Rome. From what can be gathered, Rome came into being in 753 B.C. and was named after Romulus. According to legend, Romulus and his brother Remus were raised by a she-wolf Initially Rome, situated atop the fabled seven hills, was a little trading city on the banks of the Tiber River. It was sparsely populated with a Latin-speaking people who were ruled over by Etruscan kings. The Etruscans were expelled in 510 B.C. and Rome became a republic with patricians dominating over plebeians. For some centuries there was an internal struggle for freedom by the plebeians in that they wanted a say in the government of the day. The ancient Greeks would have referred to this class struggle as democracy against aristocracy. In the end the barriers were broken down and a working equality was established. Be careful the next time you use the word pleb carelessly, for this event was to be the genesis of Rome's road to power with more and more people finding favour with a say on how they were to be governed. The expansion of the early republic was not easy and wars were constantly waged with the Gauls in the north and the Carthaginians in the south. And herein lies one of the ingredients of Roman success in expansion. She was constantly up against it, for want of a better term. So she made sure that she had the best and fittest soldiers in the field, with the best equipment, coupled with the latest strategies. In more modern times one need only look back at the Cold War where for example both Russians and Americans produced the best scientists and mathematicians and where cutting edge technology was paramount. As the saying goes, 'necessity is the mother of invention'. Around 100 B.C. the republic was beginning to show cracks with the gap between the rich and the poor starting to widen ever further. It was Julius Caesar who in 49 B.C. crossed the Rubicon river and finally brought the republic to an end by declaring himself master of Rome. During his reign he introduced the Julian Calendar (we still use it today). Caesar was in effect a dictator and the first emperor. This did not sit well with fellow Romans who abhorred the dominion of one man over others. And so on the 15th March 44 B.C. (the Ides of March) he was brutally assassinated by those closest to him. What ensued was a system of what became known as a republican empire, ruled over by a succession of emperors. At its zenith the Roman Empire reached from Spain and Britain in the west to South Russia and Mesopotamia in the east. So vast was this empire that the people in the west spoke a Latin that could not be understood by those in the east, who spoke a different dialect of Latin. Yet here was an empire which never attained to any fixity. It was always plastic, ever shifting. But it held nonetheless, for over 400 years. A small city state (Rome) barely twenty miles square held sway over an empire some 3000 miles wide. This David and Goliath epic requires some thought and reflection. The Roman Empire introduced a system of administrative statecraft which in many ways is still in use to this day. They were pedantic in their administrative processes. It aint over until the paper work is finished. Rome understood the art of compromise and concession. She sought not the destruction of her enemies, but rather to assimilate a conquered foe into the empire. She encouraged trade with conquered foes and allowed self-governance in many instances. A very clever tactic: to make a friend of your enemy by creating a win-win situation. A vast network of roads linking strategic parts of the empire was built. The most famous being the Appain Way which ran out of Rome. Religious tolerance was practiced with Christianity becoming the official religion of the Empire in 312 A.D. The arts and sciences were allowed to flourish. There was an extensive legal system in place with rights to property. The great Roman orator and advocate Cicero, comes to mind. Taken together the Roman Empire was ruled by what is known as Pax Romana (peace under the rule of Rome). What went wrong, that something so great could come to an end? Here I am referring the Latin Roman Empire in the West. The empire in the East which became known as the Byzantine Empire, survived for some time to come.In 476 A.D. the Roman Empire somewhat ingloriously came to an end when the barbarians suppressed the last of the Roman emperors, Romulus Augustulus. In 493 A.D. Theodoric the Goth became King of Rome. One can argue, and quite rightly, that economics played a big role in Rome's demise. To maintain so big an army over so vast a frontier just cost too much in the end. It can also be argued with equal vigor that the Roman Empire had for sometime being decaying socially and disintegrating morally. The essence of the eclipse of the empire however lays somewhere else. The idea of citizenship which held the empire together for so long, started evaporating. And here one can draw parallels. In her ascendancy, great numbers of people felt that citizenship was both a privilege and an obligation. They were confident of their rights under the Roman law and willing to make sacrifices in the name of Rome. There was a certain prestige in Roman citizenship. When we let our sense of citizenship die, we may as well pull down our pants and kiss a certain part of our anatomy goodbye. We need to learn from the past. Chat again next week. Collin Hyman Bakers Mini Cricket - THE HEARBEAT OF SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET For the past 25 years, Bakers Biscuits have been giving back to South African society with their sponsorship of the Bakers Mini Cricket programme. Run in association with Cricket SA, Bakers Mini Cricket is the longest running developmental sports sponsorship in Southern Africa and is aimed at introducing primary school children to the game of cricket. Today, over 100 000 children from over 5 000 schools are involved in the programme. Bakers Mini Cricket recently hosted a mega festival to celebrate 25 years of giving children a real sporting chance, where they set a new South African Guinness World Record for the most children playing cricket at the same time. Over 6 000 children descended on eight venues across the country on the 15 May 2008 to mark this quarter century achievement of Bakers Mini Cricket. Bakers Mini Cricket was the first organised soft ball cricket game in the world. It consists of fast, scaled-down games with eight children per team, which can be played on any surface with a soft ball. All players get a chance to bat, bowl, field and keep wicket within a safe and entertaining environment. For many children Bakers Mini Cricket is their first exposure to the game, it teaches them valuable life skills on and off the field, including discipline, teamwork, sportsmanship, commitment and aspiring to their dreams and goals. Bakers Mini Cricket is open to all children from urban to rural, boys and girls of all races and cultures and from all walks of life. The free Bakers biscuits that are handed out after matches have been a motivating incentive to attract children to the game. Many of South Africa's best known cricket stars have come through the programme including; Mark Boucher, Mfuneko Ngam, Shaun Pollock and Makhaya Ntini who was discovered playing Bakers Mini Cricket in the rural area of Mdingi in the Eastern Cape. Additionally, many of the players of the national women's team are products of Bakers Mini Cricket. “The Bakers Mini Cricket programme has played a huge role in the rise and popularity of cricket development among the youth of South Africa. The on-going partnership with Cricket SA and the continued sponsorship by Bakers ensures that the game continues to grow and penetrate further into the South African landscape,” says Heather Partner: Category Director: Bakers. Bakers Mini Cricket was originally developed in the 1980s by Dr Ali Bacher, the then Chief Executive of the Transvaal Cricket Union who devised a modified form of the game. The game was based on the soft-ball cricket, which was played by young and old as a recreational pastime in the West Indies. Bacher also included a township programme, which took Bakers Mini Cricket into the most impoverished areas of South Africa. Bacher found a willing sponsor in Bakers, who saw the programme as an opportunity to invest in the adults of tomorrow. The sponsorship was launched as a regional experiment in Gauteng and within four years the sponsorship went national. “The support of consumers has made it possible for Bakers biscuits to continue sponsoring this worthy programme. It has always been our belief that contributing to the health and wellness of youth and giving them the opportunity to play together as children, will ensure strong, unified adults,” concludes Partner. To find out more about the Bakers Mini Cricket Programme, contact Cricket SA on 011 880 2810. Child Protection receives a major boost The Klerksdorp Child Protection Service Unit received additional space from ApexHi Properties, a listed property company that owns the West End Building in Klerksdorp. This contribution of additional ten office spaces has made it possible, amongst other things, to incorporate a separate waiting room and a private consultation room for the children who are victims of crime. In addition to the extra space, which the Child Protection Service Unit will not pay rent for, ApexHi also refurbished the spaces, transforming the gutted and unusable space into a child-friendly environment. The official handover of the offices took place on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 at the West End Building. A number of dignitaries from the SAPS and Child Protection Services attended the ceremony as well as people from the private sector, including the Provincial Commissioner Beetha, Superintendent Mocwane of the Child Protection Service and Gerard Naus, the contractor who is responsible for the improvements of the offices. Keneilwe Khutoane, the representative of Isivuno Apex Properties, handed the new offices over to Superintendent Mocwane. The hope is that more businesses will follow the example set by this company and help those who aim to safeguard children from harm. Hierdie ses leerlinge van 'n plaaslike dansskool, Barbara's Dancing Acadamy, het verlede week internationaal deelgeneem aan 'n kompetisie in Mauritius. Die dansers het baie goed presteer en ons land en stad baie goed verteenwoordig. Hulle spog almal met punte van 90% en meer. Grafiese ontwerpstudente van die Noordwes-Universiteit se Potchefstroom-kampus het die 2008 Pendoring-toekennings behoorlik oorheers. Benewens die ses finalisprojekte het die NWU met drie van die vier goue Pendorings wat vanjaar toegeken is, weggestap. Twee vierdejaar-groepprojekte van René Julyan, Gerda van der Walt, Terese Potgieter en Christi de Jager, Die Kloppers, en Christel Badenhorst, Marlize Bergh, Winette Pretorius en Johnny Thomas se Kultuur in jou are (beide veldtogte vir Aardklop Nasionale Kunstefees) het daarvoor gesorg dat die NWU-Puk in die gemengde mediaveltogkategorie geseëvier het deur albei met goud weg te stap. 'n Groep derdejaarstudente, Jaco Burger, Roscher Maritz en Zinelda McDonald, het 'n goue Pendoring in die alternatiewe media-afdeling ontvang. Benewens hierdie prestasies het NWU-Puk beide hierdie twee kategorieë oorheers met die meeste aantal finaliste. Braam Kempen, Lauren Moses en Freda Raubenheimer se webblad, Luiardia, en Emarie Gouws, Astrid Gevers en Ilze Vermaak se Planeet Pierewiet was twee van drie ander finaliste in die alternatiewe media-afdeling. Suzan van Wyk en Gert Schoeman se Sus en Daan-veldtog vir Oppikoppi was een van twee ander finaliste in die gemengde mediaveldtog-afdeling. Die NWU-Puk se sukses is verder onderstreep deur die sukses van sy alumni. Twee oudgrafiese ontwerpstudente, Antoinette Fourie en Renier Zandberg, het onderskeidelik met drie en een goue Pendoring weggestap. Fourie het ook die Pendoring-prestigetoekenning vir 2008 ontvang. Een van die beoordelaars, Coenie de Villiers, het gesê die kreatiewe skeppings van die jong ontwerpers is bemoedigend. “Studente het hulle staal gewys teen deurwinterde ontwerpers in die advertensie-wêreld.” Speed Bike Unveils the Road(ster) There was great excitement on Thursday evening 25th September when Speed Bike unveiled the new Can-Am Roadster. The honour of being the lucky ones to show this amazing bike fell on Piet and Miekie van Zyl, who had their hands full trying to keep the mesmerised onlookers from trying to steal the three-wheeled bike. This awesome three-wheeled bike is the first “on-road” bike made by BRP (Bombardier Recreational Products). It has two wheels in the front and one in the rear and a completely new look. It is powered by a 990cc V Twin engine with 106 bhp @ 8500rpm. It has been described as one part motorcycle and one part convertible sports car. The Can-AmSpyder is the next dimension in open-road riding, offering a balance between performance and safety features, which is a good thing as the Spyder has a top speed of nearly 180 km/h. There is limited stock available, so it is best to act quickly as these bikes will sell like hotcakes. Visit Speed Bike today to book yours or test-drive it yourself for a ride that will open the road. |
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