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TREASURER’S REPORT: AGM 16 JULY 2016

The accounting figures for the year from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 convey the fact that the printing, distribution and sale of the Your Place in the Kogelberg book overwhelm the regular nature of all previous year-end financial statements. The book was launched in May 2015. Book sales continued steadily through 2015 into 2016. By June 2016 the stock of unsold books has greatly reduced. In fact sales have slowed substantially. Printing on demand for the English edition and a reduced print run of an Afrikaans edition are under consideration. Decisions in this…
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BOOKS FOR QHAYIYA SECONDARY SCHOOL, HERMANUS

Merrilee Berrisford Qhayita Secondary School pupils admire the gift books Last year a BotSoc member living in our area, someone who chooses to be anonymous, offered to buy the six books in the Indigenous Knowledge Series by Cambridge University Press for the Kogelberg branch to give to a deserving school. Both Curator, Berenice Carolus, and Eunice Jurgens, Senior Environmental Education Officer at Harold Porter NBG, were unanimous that Qhayiya Secondary School in Zwelihle, Hermanus, was the obvious choice. Recently Eunice was at the school to present the books and this is what she wrote: ‘The…
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YOUR PLACE IN THE KOGELBERG BY TIM ATTWELL

By Merrilee Berrisford Three months after our launch we have sold just over 380 copies (1000 were printed) and donated 105 to worthy causes in our area. When Johan West of the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve Company read his complimentary copy, he ordered 100 more, of these 20 copies have found their way to the University of Stellenbosch via Dr John Hanks and Professor Michael Samways (both have given talks to our branch). The Cape Peninsula University of Technology has also bought 20 copies for the Conservation students. There have been favourable reviews in publications from…
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