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Special General Meeting Minutes

Minutes of the Special General Meeting of the Botanical Society of South Africa 17 August 2018 UWC Campus GH1 Hall, Bellville at 17h00 for 17h30 Purpose of the meeting  The SGM was called at the request of 67 members in terms of Clause IX (3) of the Constitution. Five motions were proposed being: That the current constitution of the Society adopted on 13 June 2013 be annulled; That the document annexed to the notice as annexure "B" be adopted as the constitution of the Society; That the document annexed to the notice as annexure "C"…
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THE WEDNESDAY HACK

Sometime during 2004 Edward Silberbauer (Ed) noticed Pieter De Waal (now sadly deceased) hacking on the verges of Betty’s Bay roads in a random fashion. Ed suggested to Pieter that he would like to join Pieter and formalise the time. And so the Wednesday hack was born. The original members were soon joined by Tom Dreyer and then John Whitehead. Various other people from both Betty’s Bay and Pringle Bay came and went over the years - and the present group consists of about 13 members. Some members are swallows and are only present at…
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE KOGELBERG BRANCH OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA: JULY 2016

- Merrilee Berrisford: Branch Chairman Last year as we launched our book, Your Place in the Kogelberg by Tim Attwell, could we have imagined that it would be selling at the South African stand at the Chelsea Flower Show, its cover pictured on the back of the official brochure? Sales of Your Place in the Kogelberg have been steady with outlets in the Kogelberg villages, Kirstenbosch, Somerset West, Grabouw and Hermanus. The Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve Company bought 120 copies to sell through its network. At the Botsoc Branch Convention in Port Elizabeth, ten copies sold…
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