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President's Report
Goals of the Swiss Club
History of the Swiss Club
Updates to website
3 Feb 2012:
News & Info: President's report February/March 2012, Newsletter Feb/March
Contacts: Martin Dannecker is the new contact for Catering
Facilities: Work is going on at our Jonkershoek site, anybody who can help please do so!
Sections:
Events: Updated events , check it out, there is a lot going on
Links: Our Austrian friends now have their own website www.austrianclubcapetown.org
Membership: The Membership forms 2012 are available under Membership
Happy 2012, Club house opens on 11 January
We wish you all a very happy 2012 !
The club house opens again on Wednesday 11 January and there will be a complimentary welcome drink for guests this Wednesday and Thursday.
Please click here for the Menu
Catering at Swiss & Austrian Social Club
We are very pleased to announce that Martin Dannecker has taken over the Catering again !
We welcome him and his girlfriend Mary-Lee, who will be your waitress.
We would like to thank Renate for running the Kitchen since Claus had left us.
She has brought some real Swiss flavour back to the Club and I know
that Martin will continue to provide us with excellent meals at Club Prices.
Please let Martin know if you come along with friends, to enable him to to prepare enough food. It is difficult to provide you with your needs
if we don't know how many of you will turn up!
Refer to Forthcoming Events in the Newsletter or on our website for information on other events.
Contact: Martin Dannecker, Cell 079-710 5179
Edelweiss launches direct flights Cape Town - Zürich!
Edelweiss has launched a new non-stop flight from Cape Town to Zurich every Tuesday and Friday
Contact German Overseas Travel Centre to book!
Mail info@germanoverseas.co.za Tel 021 - 418 7232
New members
We welcome the following new members:
- Vreni & Heinz Ammann - Somerset West
- Sonja & John Prehn - Vredehoek
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!
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.
Newsletter
The latest Newsletter is now available, please click on the link below.
Newsletter February/March 2012 (2.0 MB)
Please click on the links below for previous newslettersNewsletter December 2011/January 2012 (1.9 MB)
Newsletter October/November 2011 (1.6 MB)
Newsletter August/September 2011 (1.8 MB)
Newsletter June/July 2011 (1.2 MB)
Newsletter April/May 2011 (1.4 MB)
Newsletter February/March 2011 (1.5 MB)
Newsletter Dec 2010/Jan 2011 (1.8 MB)
Newsletter October/November 2010 (1.9 MB)
Newsletter August/September 2010 (2.9 MB)
Newsletter June/July 2010 (1.3 MB)
Newsletter April/May 2010 (1.3 MB)
Newsletter February/March 2010 (1.9 MB)
Newsletter Dec 2009/Jan 2010 (2.8 MB)
Newsletter October/November 2009 (1.7 MB)
Newsletter August/September 2009 (1.3 MB)
President's Report February/March 2012 
Dear Members
A 12th of the year 2012 is already behind us! I trust you all had a good holiday and hope you took the time to recharge your batteries for the New Year!
The Samichlaus / Father Christmas visit to Jonkershoek was very well attended. The weather was great and we had about 50 children receiving gifts from Samichlaus. Christoph Schmocker entertained the children with his small guitar and sang some songs with them. Thank you Stefan Rüsi for sponsoring the gift bags for the children and Lindt for their generous chocolate gift that went into the bags! The Frauentreffen were selling their goodies, tea, coffee and cake.
This year the Baenzejass took place at the clubhouse in Green Point. What great support we had with 24 players participating! Thank you to Beat Reichmuth for sponsoring the Baenze, which were delicious, made by Andy Küng of The Goatshead! The Christmas dinner was enjoyed by all. I was told the food was plentiful and excellent. Robert Mueller, our previous Consul General, addressed the guests.
The past few Thursday’s the club was very well visited. A few weeks in a row we had visitors from the Swiss Farmers’ Association (Schweizer Bauernverband) and the next two groups will be there on 2 and 16 February. They enjoyed mingling with fellow Swiss living in the Cape.
This year the Waldfest will be organized by Moira and Stefan Pflocksch. Be assured it will be a day to be remembered! See the newsletter for further information.
Please diarize the Community Chest Carnival at Maynardville, which will take place from 29 February to 3 March 2012. For those who have never been there, please visit this huge charity event. The Swiss, under the guidance of Ernest and Hedi Buerki, will have the traditional “Rosenkuchen”-Stand.
Our AGM will take place on Tuesday, 27 March. We are looking for new committee members. We appreciate any young or older, experience or not so experienced members to join us. If you know of someone that can help, please give me a call.
Warm regards ,
Michael Hauser
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.
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| Gate to Lord Neethlingshof | The beautiful Garden | The Restaurant |
SwissCommunity.org - Platform of the Swiss Abroad
On 21st August 2010, SwissCommunity.org, the platform of the Swiss Abroad was officially launched. Conceived, designed and delivered by the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA), SwissCommunity is a global, Internet-based network which puts Swiss people in touch all over the world. The launch of this Swiss all-time first took place at the 88th Congress of the Swiss Abroad, which was being held in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In the age of the Internet and of social networking, the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA) wondered how to facilitate the contact among the 700,000 Swiss people abroad and to strengthen their ties to Switzerland. The answer? An Internet-based platform called SwissCommunity.org! By creating SwissCommunity.org, the OSA wishes to offer a world club for the Swiss abroad. The idea is not to found an association, but to create a web-based community - something like Facebook, Xing or Linked-In, but not exactly. SwissCommunity is a quality platform open exclusively to Swiss people who have lived, are living, or are going to live, abroad. It is a "club" of international Switzerland, devised and tailored for the needs of the Swiss round the world. In just a few clicks, our fellow-citizens abroad can now enter into contact with each other and find out what is happening in Switzerland. They will also get ample information on each canton (political life, culture, tourism, education etc). SwissCommunity.org will enable them to forge special links with their canton of origin, the canton where they exercise voting rights, or simply their favourite canton. By joining SwissCommunity.org, the Swiss abroad can forge and maintain links with the Swiss diaspora round the world and with Switzerland. They will also benefit from a wide range of offers and services.
SwissCommunity.org – die Plattform der Auslandschweizer
Am 21. August 2010 war SwissCommunity.org, die Plattform der Auslandschweizer, in St. Gallen offiziell lanciert. SwissCommunity, von der Auslandschweizer-Organisation (OSE) konzipiert, entwickelt und umgesetzt, ist ein globales Netzwerk, das Schweizerinnen und Schweizer auf der ganzen Welt miteinander vernetzt. Als Schweizer Premiere fand die Lancierung im Rahmen des 88. Auslandschweizer-Kongresses statt. Im Zeitalter von Internet und sozialen Netzwerken stellte sich für die Auslandschweizer-Organisation die Frage, wie der Kontakt der 700'000 Auslandschweizer untereinander gefördert und ihre Verbindungen mit der Schweiz gestärkt werden können. Die Antwort lautete: über eine Internet-Plattform namens SwissCommunity.org. Mit SwissCommunity werden die Auslandschweizer-Organisation (ASO) einen weltweiten Klub der Auslandschweizer schaffen – nicht etwa im Sinne eines Vereins, sondern einer sogenannten Internet Community, ähnlich wie Facebook, Xing oder Linked-in. SwissCommunity ist eine erstklassige Plattform, die speziell auf ehemalige, heutige und zukünftige Auslandschweizer ausgerichtet ist. Ein «Klub» der internationalen Schweiz, der auf die Bedürfnisse von Schweizerinnen und Schweizern weltweit zugeschnitten ist. Von nun an können unsere im Ausland lebenden Landsleute mit wenigen Mausklicks miteinander Kontakt aufnehmen und Aktuelles aus der Schweiz erfahren. Auch stehen ihnen zahlreiche Informationen zu jedem Kanton (Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft, Tourismus, Bildung usw.) zur Verfügung. SwissCommunity.org gibt ihnen die Möglichkeit, bevorzugte Verbindungen zu ihrem Herkunfts- oder Heimatkanton, dem Kanton, in dem sie ihr Stimmrecht ausüben, oder ganz einfach zu ihrem Lieblingskanton zu unterhalten. Als Mitglieder von SwissCommunity.org knüpfen und pflegen Auslandschweizerinnen und Auslandschweizer Kontakte zur Schweizer Diaspora weltweit sowie zur Schweiz und profitieren zudem von einem umfassenden Leistungsangebot. SwissCommunity.org vernetzt Schweizerinnen und Schweizer auf der ganzen Welt!
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