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L-R: Jan Snyman (Chairman), Eric Mulaudzi, Dirk Heyns, Nicolette Conradie (Christmas fund organizer) ,
Jacobo Mosia, Mmila Mphago, Freddy Kapa and Johan Visser.
10-YEAR SERVICE AWARDS

The 2020 Cornwall Cares Ceremony was also a time to celebrate

10 years of service to the estate for four staff members. We

caught up with them to find out a little more about them.

Jacobo Mosia monitor access points, alarms and field working at Cornwall Hill Estate for the last
If you go down to the post office park resident' telephone calls to mobilise the decade.
you are sure to find Jakob there. This tall, necessary personnel as needed. Having
humble man is responsible for the neat worked on the estate with a previous Freddie Kapa
flower borders, the clean jungle gym security provider, he re-joined the team Freddie was on well-deserved leave at
area and the lovely lawn that children ten years ago in February 2010. Gideon the time of compiling this article, having
and their minders can enjoy. Jakob brings a surprisingly diverse set of skills worked continually throughout the
came to work at Cornwall Hill Estate in to the team; formerly from a military festive season.
a temporary position, and ten years ago background, having served in the SANDF
become a permanent employee. A father and been part of Operation Boleas that Dr Dirk Heyns
of one child, originally from Kroonstad thwarted the coup d’etat in Lesotho in Having joined Cornwall Hill Estate in May
in the Free State, Jakob now lives in 1998, he is also a qualified pharmacist’s 2010, Dirk Heyns has been at the helm
nearby Tembisa. The activity he enjoys assistant who helps out on a part-time of the estate for ten years. He describes
most during his free time is playing and basis at a pharmacy in Sunnyside. his job as being one of solution-finding
watching soccer, particularly his favourite to achieve the common goals of making
team Kaizer Chiefs. When asked about With Cornwall Hill management approval, Cornwall Hill Estate a community with
his memories over the last ten years, he Gideon obtained his two year pharmacist a “village feel” that people want to live
spoke fondly of Oom Gideon, with whom assistant qualification by studying and in, and maintaining and enhancing the
he worked as a newcomer to the estate, working at the Tembisa Hospital by day estate as a whole so that it is attractive to
and how happy he is keeping the gardens and working as a controller by night. potential buyers, thus ensuring the value
tidy for the enjoyment of the residents. Gideon is a married father of three of residents’ properties. The manager’s
We frequently walk through the park and children, a son and two daughters, who role becomes one of balance between the
always appreciate the hard work Jakob live with his wife in his family home needs of residents, the needs of the estate
has put in to keep it beautiful. village of Ga-Mothiba in Polokwane, and various other role players such as the
where his 66-year old mother also still municipal by-laws and national rules.
Mmila Gideon Mphaga resides. Previously a soccer player himself,
As I sat down to interview Gideon in front nowadays he supports his favourite Dirk describes the highlights over the past
of the huge wall of screens that catch soccer team Mamelodi Sundowns and ten years as all the successes achieved
all the comings-and-goings across the likes reading novels in his free time. A on the estate as a result of the focus of
estate, I felt as though I had stepped into true peoples’ person, Gideon cites the the management team, with the help of
a scene of an action movie. From this residents, both past and present, that he a strong and dedicated team of directors
control point, Gideon tells me he can has come to know as the highlight of his and sub-committee members.

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