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Catering
Cycle Club
Frauentreffen (Women's circle)
Golf
Jassen
Rifle Club
Swiss Choir
Tennis Club
Ski
Catering
| Head of section | |
| Name | Martin Dannecker |
| Tel Home | |
| Cell phone | +27 (0)79 710 5179 |
| catering@swissclub.co.za | |
Cycle Club
| Head of section | |
| Name | Hans Herren |
| Tel Home | +27 (0)21 558 9041 |
| Cell phone | |
| hans@new.co.za | |
Frauentreffen (Women's circle)
| Head of section | |
| Name | Therese Dennler |
| Tel Home | +27 (0)21 976 5300 |
| Cell phone | +27 (0)82 775 5849 |
| dennler@telkomsa.net | |
Golf
| Head of section | |
| Name | Alois Koch |
| Tel Work | +27 (0)21 409 1250 |
| Cell phone | +27 (0)83 326 6658 |
| alois@virtualcolour.co.za | |
Jassen
| Head of section | |
| Name | Heinz Mettler |
| Tel Home | +27 (0)21 761 5766 |
| Cell phone | |
| Mettswiss@bucknet.co.za | |
Rifle Club
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Swiss Rifle Club wins competition
At the Federal Shooting Festival at Aarau on Saturday July 3 the Swiss Rifle Club Cape Town won the Club competition for Swiss rifle clubs abroad (i.e. registered outside Switzerland). Twenty-one clubs from 11 countries took part. We had three competitors in the top six individual results!
AGM 2010
Beim AGM vom 17.03.2010 trat Heinz Mettler nach 15 Jahren als Praesident zurueck, um zu reisen und sich seiner Familie zu widmen, die in aller Welt zerstreut ist. Wir danken Heinz fuer die fruchtbaren Jahre und wuenschen ihm alles Gute fuer die Zukunft. Als Dank fuer seine unermuedliche Taetigkeit wurde er zum Ehrenmitglied erkoren.
An Heinz’ Stelle wurde Dierk Lüthi zum Praesidenten gewaehlt, und Lisa Ryser trat als Sekretaerin an seine Stelle.
Shooting dates 2010
Das Schiessprogramm ist am Gange. Wir schiessen auf der Klawer-range der suedafrkanischen Marine oberhalb Simonstown ab der Red Hill Strasse Richtung Signal School und dem ‘Just Nuisance’ Grab. (We use the navy range at Klawer off the Red Hill road towards the signal school and Just Nuisance’s grave)
The shooting programme for the rest of 2010 (start @ 12:00 sharp unless otherwise indicated):
Date (Secondary date in case of rain or cancellation) & Time
15.05 (29) Navy shoot org. Navy i.e. we use their arms and they organize the food. 10:00
19.06 (26) Appenzellerstich, last SSM 12:00
17.07 (31) Open day for Rim-fire rifles and pistols, and for other handguns 11:00
21.08 (28) Willy Wymann, final date for Obligatorisch and EWS 12:00
18.09 (25) President’s Cup 11:00
02.10 Open shoot: Handguns (all calibers) and shotgun) 11:00
16.10 (23) Berner Oberland, the rest of the 2010 programmes not yet completed 12:00
06.11 Navy shoot org. Swiss 10:00
20:11 (27) Piggyshoot (.22 rimfire rifle shoot - fun for the whole family) 10:00
04.12 (11) Year-end shoot at Atlantis Army range 10:00
11.12 Year-end party with Swiss Choir 19:30
To enquire whether the shoot takes place because of rain, phone Fridolin Lenz at 021 761 0647 or Dierk Lüthi @ 021 715 6104 or 083 441 4626.
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Short history of the rifle club
The Swiss Rifle Club Cape Town was founded in 1949 when some 27 Swiss took part in a Fernschiessen they heard of on the Swiss Shortwave Radio, this was offered by the Swiss National Shooting Federation and they were supported by a South African Police Sergeant Major and to start were given some SA Army issued .303 Rifles. Soon thereafter application was made to the relevant Military Department in Switzerland which was approved and middle of 1950 the first rifles together with ammunition arrived in Cape Town and the first shoot with their new Karabiner Rifles was held on 23. Dec. 1950. Ever since then the club carried on with the sport of shooting and has until now a perfect safety record and is proud of its accident free performance.
Our club is an affiliated member to the Swiss National Sport Shooting Federation and is as such also sponsored by it. Our second and most important sponsor is the Swiss Military which supplies us with rifles, ammunition and all things needed for the sport.
The Club has at present some 45 members and shoots at the SA Navy range (Klawer) in Simonstown. Our program consists of some 23 shooting dates per year which includes all the major Swiss Programs, i.e. Feldschiessen, Obligatorisch, Sektions Meisterschaft, Einzelwettschiessen and our own locally sponsored programs.
The club aims to actively promote the sport of shooting in all its facets with the available material and in doing so keep an age old and much loved Swiss Tradition alive.
H. Mettler
Swiss Choir
| Head of section | |
| Name | Ernst Tobler |
| Tel Home | +27 (0)21 531 5779 |
| Cell phone | +27 (0)84 583 6994 |
| etdesign@iburst.co.za | |
Tennis Club
| Head of section | |
| Name | Jürgen Aiff |
| Tel Home | |
| Cell phone | +27 (0)82 566 1615 |
| jurgen.aiff@siemens.com | |
Ski
This is not (yet?) an actual section of the Swiss Club but it's quite interesting to know that there is actually skiing in the Western Cape. Many thanks to Capestorm for letting us use text and pictures from their events newsletter.
Snow Skiing in the Western Cape – Fact or Fiction?
Come and see for yourself! For many decades Capetonians had heard vague rumours about a winter sports ‘resort’ in the mountains of the Western Cape. Was this merely a myth? Fact or fiction? Here (in a nutshell) is the history behind the Ski Club of South Africa.
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In 1928 a couple of ‘Kaapenaars’ returned to South Africa, having learned to ski in Switzerland. The Ski Club of South Africa was subsequently formed, in Cape Town, in 1930 and skiing in South Africa first commenced on Fonteintjiesberg (Hex River mountains). Due to Fonteintjiesberg being declared a water catchment area for Worcester, the Club subsequently re-located it’s activities to Matroosberg in 1936. For many decades the only available accommodation on the mountain was in ‘The Cave’ (directly below the position of the current ‘Top Hut’). The original ‘Base Hut’, built in 1949, was destroyed by fire in 1992 (and a new “base Hut’ built in 1993). The current ‘Top Hut’ (the main Ski Club accommodation on Matroosberg) was completed in 1955 and the current ‘Peak Hut’ was built in the early 1990's. Besides a separate ‘Ski Equipment Hut’, the Ski Club also has 2 permanently positioned, petrol-powered Ski Lifts (“schlep-lift” type) plus 2 portable Ski Lifts (that can be moved to any part of the mountain, i.e. wherever the best snow might lie!).
All facilities on Matroosberg (i.e. huts, toilets, ski lift motors and pylons, etc) have been carried up the mountain on the Members' backs (long before the existing 4x4 road was built), and have been built and are still constantly maintained by the Members. The Club could not exist without their ongoing hard work and commitment. Membership enquiries are always welcomed.
Quo vadis? The 77-year old Ski Club of South Africa (a club and not a ‘resort’) is a dynamic and active entity that exists around one magical element – snow !!! And the current weather patterns indicate that 2007 has all the makings of a good snow year for the mountains of the Western Cape.
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