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19 August 2010:
News & Info: Support our new club house
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Events: Updated
Membership: Membership Form 2010, available in Adobe PDF or Word DOC format

Support our new club house!

Please inform all the members, especially our seniors without e-mail about the forthcoming events. The Sunday Movie will be a perfect outing for those that do not want to go out at night and have not visited the Club!

On Thursday is a Rotary function at the Club, but Martin has reserved a few tables for the members.

Fondue Evening Saturday 21st August

Did you miss the Fondue evening?
No problem, come to the Club on Wednesday or Thursday!

Support the Wednesday and Thursday evening, Martin is preparing great food!

He will have the following on the Menu:

Wiener Schnitzel
Beef Fillet with grilled Vegetables and gratinated Potatoes
Zürcher Geschnetzeltes with Rösti
Crumbed Blutwurst with Mash and caramelized Apples
Quiche with Bacon and Leek Salad
Apple strudel and Glühweinpudding
Cheese Fondue with Cold meat platter as a starter (min 4 pax per booking)

Bring your friends for a nice evening out!
You can also play some cards there!
Please book with Martin (see Contact below), especially for the Fondue!

Movie afternoon Sunday 29 August

Note: The date has been changed from 28 to Sunday 29 August

We will show the movie: “Die Standesbeamtin”!
The Movie will be in Swiss German with English Subtitles
Der Film wird in Schwiizer Dütsch gezeigt mit englischen Untertiteln
For more information and the trailer visit:
Mehr informationen und für eine Filmvorschau:
http://www.die-standesbeamtin.ch

The Club will open from 14:00h
Tea / Coffee and Cake will be served
Start of the Movie 15:00h
From about 16:30h hot food will be served
Free for members, Non-members R 20 per person

Booking essential by latest Thursday 26 August!

Contact for all bookings

Martin: 079 710 5179 e-mail: martin.d79@hotmail.com

Ernst: 084 583 6994 e-mail: etdesign@iburst.co.za

At the clubhouse: 021 434 8405

How to get to the Swiss & Austrian Social Club Cape Town

From Cape Town city centre, take the Western Boulevard (M6) towards the new Stadium in Green Point, over the circle at the Stadium, then proceed to the 3-way traffic light in Three Anchor Bay, turn right into Beach Road, after 50m right again into Bill Peters Drive, take the second road on your left. The new club house is the second building on the right hand side.

Map new club house

The Newsletter June/July 2010 is now available.
Correction: Please be aware that the section 'Rifle club' contains an error, there is no rim-fire rifle and pistol shoot on 12 June, this will be on 17 July.
Please click on the link below

Newsletter June/July 2010 (1.3 MB)

President's report June/July 2010

Dear Members

Let’s start with some good News: We will open our new club with the opening game of the Soccer Word Cup on 11 June!
We might not have finished all the work, but we will certainly be in a position to show the games on a big screen! The house committee has employed Martin Dannecker as our chef! You might remember Martin’s culinary delights when he cooked for us at the old club house. For the past year he worked at a five star hotel in Hout Bay!
On 14 May Rade Boskovic, project manager for the City of Cape Town did a ceremonial handing over of the keys. From this date we now could go in with our own workers to install the acoustic ceilings, the bar, kitchen etc.
The Swiss-Austrian house committee is doing a sterling job in supervising the renovation, ordering curtains, sound system, the entire kitchen, the list goes on and on… without them we would certainly not be in a position to open the club in time for the soccer!
A big thank you to Jan Klingler our Architect, who is attending to most correspondence and meetings with the City to ensure the City delivers on the promises made and that the quality meets our expectation!

This brings me to the next point, all these renovations and improvements cost a lot of money! As you know, each club committed R 150,000 each, but we require a further R100,000 from each club. A big thank you to some of the members who already have given some substantial donations to the club:
Estate Peter Brunnschweiler:    R 75,000
Bruno Ruegg:    R10,000
Fritz Thalmann:    R 3,500
Heinz Mettler:    R 1,500
If you would like to make a contribution you can pay into our bank account (details in the newsletter). If you prefer to sponsor a specific item, you could pay for the upholstery of one some of the 90 chairs at R 250 each, or you could sponsor some of the outdoor furniture we have to buy.

The most important thing a member can do is to support the events we organize, please look out for our newsflashes or have a look at the website. We will keep you posted when and how the club will be open.

Our National Day celebration on 1 August will be held at the new club. This will be the official opening! We plan to do an open day. Details will follow.

We only had one function to give feedback, this was Easter at Jonkershoek. It was a great afternoon with about 80 children attending. We have seen many new faces and missed some of our “old and regular” members! You will find pictures and a report in the newsletter.

Looking forward to meet you soon at our new Club! Please bring your soccer T-Shirts to the games and the Swiss Gear for the Swiss games!

Warm regards,

Michael Hauser

Jassen Championship at Mimosa Lodge in Montagu

This year the Jassen Championship will take place from 3 – 5 September 2010.
Last year we introduced the Junior Jassen Championship. The kids ended up playing Juno and much fun was had by all, so let kids get lots of practice.

Herewith please find the details and cost for the 10th Jassen Championship

Friday 03 September:
16h00-18h00 arrival of guests at Mimosa Lodge.
18h30 – 19h00 meet in the garden for pre-dinner drinks from where we will enjoy dinner prepared by Bernhard Hess.
21h00 move to the conference room where the tournament will begin

Saturday 04 September:
Breakfast will be served between 08h00 – 10h00
10h00 we will go to De Wetshof for a wine tasting in their prestigious underground cellar. De Wetshof has some of South Africa’s finest Chardonnay’s From there we will go to Viljoensdrift for a boat cruise and a picnic lunch on the boat (back by popular demand)
16h00 the kids 2 rounds of Jassen will start!!
18h30 – 19h30 meet in the garden for pre-dinner drinks from where we will enjoy a 3 course meal so that we do not take up too much Jassen time.
After dinner the tournament will continue.

Sunday 05 September:
Breakfast will be served between 08h00-09h00
10h00 the finalist will play it out and we will see who will go home with the Jassen Trophy this year.
14h00 a light finger lunch will be served after which the prize giving will take place.

Cost per person including all meals:
R580.00 per person per night.
The cost per child will be R120.00 per night. Should the kids want to eat the full adult menu they will be charged an additional R140.00 per meal.
As the kids are getting older it seems that the boys & girls rooms are not so popular anymore. Please let me know if we need to keep it or rather make arrangements for extra beds with the adults?

We are looking forward to welcoming you back to Mimosa Lodge for this exciting yearly event.

Kind Regards
Bernhard, Fida, the Hess Family and the Mimosa Lodge Team

Please help to update our Membership database

In order to keep our database and mailing list up-to-date we ask that you please complete the Member's detail form in one of the following ways

Fill out the printed form which was included with the last newsletter and send it back to us via Post to the address given on the form
Download the form as a PDF document here, print it, fill it out and send it back to us via Post to the address given on the form
Download the form as a Word document here, complete it electronically on your computer, save it and send it back to the e-mail address given on the form

Do you know...

...what events are coming up over the next few weeks? For more information see the chapter Forthcoming events.

...the website www.ixpat.com? This is an interactive platform for expatriate related classifieds, we have also added a link to it on our page Useful Links, Cape Town

...there is a new Internet website called www.WirAuslandSchweizer.ch? It's goal is to be a meeting point and forum for the 645'000 Swiss living abroad. Please click on the link and have a look.

...the Swiss Table? On the first Sunday of every month there is a Swiss Table Lunch at the Lord Neethlingshof in Stellenbosch, for details see Events.


Gate to Lord Neethlingshof	The beautiful Garden	The Restaurant

Organisation for the Swiss Abroad (ASO)

For the latest information from ASO click here.

New members

We welcome the following new members:

Michael Robertson, Oranjezichtt

IMPORTANT for existing and new members: When you pay the membership fee, please do not forget to put YOUR NAME in the reference field when paying by bank transfer!

Goals of the Swiss Club

The objects of the Swiss Club are:

To foster sociability amongst its members
To preserve and foster Swiss traditions
To maintain contact with organisations which further the interests of Swiss abroad
To provide facilities of various types for its members

History of the Swiss Club

The club was founded 30 May 1923 with about 33 members. It was purely a social club which met at restaurants or hotels managed by Swiss, or for Sunday picnics. After the arrival of a large number of young Swiss in 1932, choir, football and tennis sections, followed 1949 by the Swiss Rifle Club, were formed.
During the South African boom years after World War II, membership soared. An application was submitted to the City Council in 1963 for a piece of land on which a clubhouse might be erected. This was granted in principle, provided the Swiss Club transformed itself to meet the description as a sports club. This was achieved in 1971 when the Swiss Social and Sports Club was formed, incorporating the Swiss Tennis Club and the Swiss Football Club, whose members henceforth also had to become paid-up members of the mother club. The Swiss Rifle Club remained independent, because it is subsidised by the Swiss Federal Government and for this reason had to remain accessible to those Swiss who did not wish to become members of the mother club. On 4 October 1975 the clubhouse, football field and tennis courts were officially opened. In 1977 the bar was added to the Clubhouse. At this time Club membership was over 600.
Today the Club has just under 300 members, and accommodates a male choir, bicycle club and tennis club. Activities include Jassen, Frauentreffen, Golf, and social evenings. The Swiss Rifle Club remains an associated club. At present a major football stadium is being built on Green Point Common. As a result the Swiss Club will have to move to a new site which has, as yet not been determined.
The Swiss Social and Sports Club owns 4,4 hectars of idyllic woodlands on the banks of the Jonkershoek River near Stellenbosch. It was donated to the Swiss Club for use as a camping and picnic site by Brigadier G.C.G. Werdmuller, a fifth generation descendant of a Swiss immigrant. The facilities include two chalets, an ablution block and a roofed braai area.

Adolphe Linder