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(left) Photographers were welcomed; ( centre) Local residents enjoyed posing for the photographers in a street photography session in the
township; (right) Craft brewery: One of four interesting restaurant where delegates dined in the evenings.

The delegates reciprocated by donating money to buy soccer gelic gowns and head dresses, eagerly photographed by del-
jerseys for the village team. egates. Martin Barber not only inspired all with the MPSSA
Studio portraiture was a recurring theme: Sponsor Godox am- presentation about his own photographic journey, but also
bassador Steve Castings demonstrated the use of their studio presented a workshop on Photoshop and mono photography.
lights in a lecture as well as four workshops with models; Hein Francois Roux and Johan Brits led some early morning and af-
Waschefort created some of his characteristic out-of-this-world ternoon landscape shoots, while Willem Daffue fascinated all
scenes with clever make-up and props; Laetitia Kenny and Hanli with his tales about magic mountains.
Smit added glamour with models decked out in regal and an-
PSSA plans new guidelines for club advancement

PSSA directors at the AGM and Members’ Forum: (left) Corinne Ross (salons), Francois Venter (Northern Gauteng Regional Director and
Regalia) CTPS member Nicol du Toit (Western Cape Regional Director; (centre) Francois Roux, outgoing President, Jill Sneesby, incom-
ing President and Simon Fletcher, first Vice-president; (right) Martin Barber was elected as second vice-president & Chris Nel (Regional
Director Central Societies).

Amidst the fun of socialising, learning from inspirational pre- cois Roux, who is also a CTPS member. “For example, if a senior
senters, delicious restaurant meals and enjoying the pictur- member at one club joins another club he should not be re-
esque qualities of Nieu Bethesda, some PSSA business was also quired to join as a beginner because it is not fair towards the
conducted. juniors in that club. A member with PSSA Honours may, for in-
At the members’ forum meeting held after the AGM a member stance, not compete as a junior.”
from Boksburg, a Central Gauteng club, got quite a few people This resulted in a further discussion of club advancement sys-
talking when he asked “why do people belong to 2,3,4, 5 clubs? tems – especially when clubs follow the PSSA Club Advance-
This means that the loyal home club members battle to receive ment Guidelines on the website. Although these specify that
Top 10 awards or club medals and trophies because there are the main principle is to base the advancement system on time
people chasing these accolades from 3-4 clubs. That is unfair rather than accumulated points, members of some clubs re-
to the home club members. “He also cited the example that if main juniors for years and years because their clubs follow the
you are a javelin thrower you cannot compete for more than very stringent guidelines about points, golds and salon accept-
one athletic club in the same competition. “Why is it that pho- ances currently on the website.
tographers can compete on behalf of several clubs in the same “It is true that PSSA cannot prescribe to clubs, but in the church
competitions?” community, for example, the Synod provides guidelines on
This also creates problems in salons when members enter un- contentious issues,” the Boksburg member added. “It cannot
der different club names in order to win club medals – although force congregations to adopt these, but it offers guidance on
Simon Fletcher reiterated that you may only enter salons under what is expected. Clubs need guidance from PSSA about what
one club name. they would like to see happen.”
Multiple club membership, which is an issue that also caused The result was that a task group, consisting of Nicol du Toit, Si-
some friction amongst Western Cape clubs earlier this year, is mon Fletcher and Jill Sneesby, was appointed to investigate and
clearly an issue of concern to clubs across the country. make recommendations about the PSSA guidelines for clubs.
“This is a club matter, not a PSSA issue – the PSSA can only ad-
vise and offer guidelines,” responded outgoing President Fran- All images by Trudi du Toit

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