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September 2025 Cape Camera

Outgoing Council Members

Simon Mouton performed much Sally-Ann Spooner is another Trudi du Toit is taking a break from
more than the treasurers' role he was council member who raises her most photographic and club activi-
co-opted for on council last year. He hand when help is needed. Co-opt- ties to recharge her batteries. During
suggested and led several outings to ed as secretary in January 2024, she the past two years she was editor of
interesting places, in between do- was elected E&D convenor last year. Cape Camera, CTPS PRO, and was
ing duty as treasurer. His law practice She ensured that we were educated also heavily involved with organising
has, however, become considerably and entertained by expert speakers. the PSSA Struisbaai Congress, in ad-
busier and he will not have time to Her husband, Andrew, retired this dition to carrying a heavy workload
serve on council in the forthcoming year and she is reducing her com- as PSSA director — which she is also
year. He is willing to stay on until a mitments so that they can go away hoping to reduce. She'll continue as
new treasurer is appointed. more often. director responsible for Archives.

Nicol du Toit: stepping down from council after 13 years
Nicol du Toit has been serving on the CTPS council of photography. That includes earning Honours, which
since 2012, when his complaint about the annual finan- several club members have been doing, under guid-
cial report elicited the response why don't you do it? As a ance of our members Kim Stevens and Evelyn Gibson,
chartered accountant he has been preparing the CTPS who serve on the Honours Judging Panel. He set an
annual financial statements for an external auditor ever example by earning APSSA, DPSSA(Cls), DPSSA(Vers)
since — first as treasurer, and also after and AFIAP Honours.
he handed over the treasurer role. Nicol's current two-year term as CTPS
He was also responsible for finding the president expires at the AGM and he
monthly club judges, which included decided to step down from council to
some of the most highly recommended alleviate a very heavy workload.
judges in the country to judge via zoom. He was elected 1st Vice President at the
During the past two years he and Trudi recent PSSA AGM and his PSSA role re-
have also been working hard to get eve- quires chairing committees like the mar-
rything in place for the CTPS team that keting committee and quarterly meet-
helped host the very successful PSSA ings with Regional Directors, as well as
Struisbaai Congress. attending monthly EXCOM meetings,
Promoting salon participation among Photo monthly sessions of the national JAP
club members has been one of his spe- Sydney Truter. Committee ... and many more!
cial goals, and during his first stint as As PSSA Western Cape Regional Direc-
CTPS president (2016 -2018) he started a salon group tor since 2017 he is responsible for two-way communi-
for CTPS members keen to improve their salon per- cation with PSSA members and the 16 affiliated clubs
formances. From one or two salon participants with a in the region and subsequently PSSA membership has
few acceptances, CTPS has grown into one of the Top5 grown 30% in the Western Cape.
clubs in the country with the salon performances of He still plays a leading role in the Western Cape Pho-
our 20-odd members who regularly earn acceptances, tographic Forum (CTPC), founded in 2018 after Nicol
COMs and medals. We are the undisputed print salon headed a committee to draft a constitution and be-
leaders (see p8). came the first chair, serving from 2018 -2022. Under his
Nicol believes that as one of the biggest clubs in the stewardship the forum hosted the Montagu Congress
country, CTPS should strive to be the best in all aspects in 2019 and the PSSA Greyton Congress in in 2022.

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