Zandvlei Trust Newsletter – Spring 20222022-09-03T13:56:41+00:00

When Dreams Come True

September 3rd, 2022|Categories: Newsletter 2022 Spring|

View from the Chair  I arrived in Cape Town, green and eager to read for an environmental sciences degree. I had grown up swimming and fishing in the river where we lived (still a green belt somewhere north of Joburg). I was shocked to see kilometre after kilometre (between 200

Westlake Garden

September 3rd, 2022|Categories: Newsletter 2022 Spring|Tags: |

After several years’ neglect we have focused efforts on cleaning up our Westlake garden. This indigenous garden was one of the first projects that brought the Trust together more than 30 years ago when the ground opposite the Lakeside shops was a rubbish dump and choked with alien invasive plants.

Vrygrond Sunbird Garden

September 3rd, 2022|Categories: Newsletter 2022 Spring|Tags: , |

After months of procrastinating (mainly about how to secure a garden space in an informal settlement where anything of material value that is not bolted down grows legs), Vrygrond resident Neville Williams’s dream of creating an indigenous garden in his hood materialised on what was previously a rubbish tip. Ground

Litterers Never Sleep 

September 3rd, 2022|Categories: Newsletter 2022 Spring|

The metal litter grille upstream of Marina da Gama: unfortunately theft of the surrounding traps results in overspill of trash that has to be caught downstream. The planned bio-filter will be situated between here and our current nets. Although we have not been so visible as in the

How the “litter monsters” were born

September 3rd, 2022|Categories: Newsletter 2022 Spring|

Previous chair of the Trust, David Muller, spearheaded the move to create art-installation litterbins at the litter hot spot of Thesen’s Bridge across The Narrows near the estuary mouth. They were supposed to be otters, but turned out the artist-welder Innocent Kasanhayi had no idea what an otter looked like.

Help Care for the Vlei – Join the Trust

September 3rd, 2022|Categories: Newsletter 2022 Spring|

The Zandvlei Trust’s strives to enhance the benefits of the nature reserve for all and aid in its conservation. These objectives can only be achieved by means of your participation and involvement. We need your support and assistance to make things happen. Become a member, and join like-minded people in

FynbosLIFE: Where There’s Fynbos, There’s Life

September 3rd, 2022|Categories: Newsletter 2022 Spring|Tags: , |

By Caitlin Von Witt Wintertime means planting season and so it’s been all systems go for us these past few months. In March FynbosLIFE was contracted by the internationally funded “SOS Rapid Response” active restoration project run by Friends of Tokai Park, for the project’s revegetation component. Since then we

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