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Cape Camera April 2024

News from the Council

This past month just once again from Gordons Bay, Somerset
demonstrated how important West, Stellenbosch and
zoom has become for con- Strand. We have five mem-
ducting CTPS meetings. We bers from Gauteng, two
were privileged to have our each from Hermanus,
E&D meeting conducted Montagu and Langebaan,
by Valérie Jardin, who is one from the Free State,
based in the US (read more one from the Northern
on p12). In February the on- Cape and one from Queen-
line platform made it possible stown in the Eastern Cape.
to enjoy the image evaluation We can therefore consider our-
evening with Tony Bramley from selves a truly cosmopolitan society,
the UK. which is enriched by all the different cultures represented
As you can read in our welcome message to new mem- by our diverse members.
bers overleaf, two of the three members who joined dur- And it is wonderful when our international members visit
ing April can only attend meetings via zoom as they live in us, for example, Kishore who recently visited from Mauri-
Ireland and the Free State respectively … although Char- tius, Kumar from the Northern Cape who often joins out-
lene Naude and her husband could be travelling anywhere ings, and our swallows Keith and Alison Bull and Joan Ry-
in the country on their BMW motorbike, even though their der and Clive Rathband who attend meetings when they
home base is Bethlehem. are in Cape Town.
These members are by no means unique. Fifteen of our But, as the maths will tell you, our core strength lies in the
current members live outside South Africa - four of them bulk of our Cape Town members who loyally attend com-
are “swallows” who commute between South Africa/ petition meetings, E&D talks and accompany us on outings.
Cape Town and the UK. We have three members who live As beneficial as zoom may be (also for elderly members
in Mauritius and two in Namibia, one from Australia, one who do not wish to travel at night) nothing can compare
from Germany and two from Ireland. Our newest Irish to the camaraderie of chatting and sharing a cup of coffee
member, Denis Ryan, is chairperson of the Limerick Cam- (or tea) with fellow club members. That is what binds us
era Club where Ivan O’Riordan is a member. He was so together as a club family.
intrigued when Ivan showed him the member profile we
published about him in Cape Camera last month that he Nicol du Toit
decided to join himself. President
As a matter of fact, 18% of our members live outside the Please contact CTPS on info@ctps.co.za and visit the web-
greater Cape Town municipal area and a further 5% are site www.ctps.co.za .

Contact CTPS Council

President Nicol du Toit 082 377 8285 Outings Andre Mouton 071 892 1981
Vice-President Lesley Parolis 082 780 6925 Archives/Storage Rudi Pothas 082 516 9215
Secretary Sally-Ann Spooner 079 274 2073 Cape Camera Trudi du Toit 082 572 6127
Treasurer Andre Mouton 071 892 1981 Website/Snapshot Andre Mouton 071 892 1981
Competitions Lesley Parolis 082 780 6925 Venue Mike de Villiers 074 113 1415
E & D Steff Hughes 082 356 3979 Public Relations Trudi du Toit 082 572 6127
Members & events Anna Engelhardt 082 413 2112
Editorial team
Off-Council workers Cape Camera Editor Trudi du Toit
Weekend outings Richard Goldschmidt Proofreader Lesley Parolis
Member promotions Jacoba van Zyl Competitions Lesley Parolis
Members & Events Joyce Goldschmidt (assist) Judges comments Anna Engelhardt
Body of Work Kim Stevens Member profiles Dave Gordon
Facebook Kim Stevens & Steff Hughes Snapshot Andre Mouton
Investments Richard Goldschmidt PS Tips Kim Stevens
AV Group Ken Woods Travelogues Brian Jones
Salon Group Nicol du Toit Events Photographer Joyce Goldschmidt

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