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ESTATE DIRECTORS
OUR

DIRECTORS

Meet the six people tasked with the running of our estate

IMAGES BY IVAN MULLER

ornwall Hill Home Owners’ Association is a registered
company in terms of the Companies Act, No. 71 of 2008.
We are a non-profit organisation and the company is
incorporated to serve as a home owners’ society looking
after the interests of the residents of Cornwall Hill
Country Estate. Therefore, there is a board of directors
Cand the activities and estate rules are documented. Of
these documents, the Estate Code of Conduct and Estate Rules are the most
important ones for residents, although they are factual and statutory and do
not take you to the heart and soul of the community.

Our estate is a located very centrally between major roads, ensuring fast
access to any direction. It is placed on a large piece of land, accommodates
some 400 properties and many residents. Our name says it all: we are an
estate promoting country living, a rural environment with horses in the
streets at times, wild guinea fowl, rabbits and other wildlife around us,
providing a real sense of country life within minutes of the country’s capital.

To maintain all of this and to ensure that we enhance the benefits that we
often overlook, the board of directors recently held a strategy session, and
we are defining goals to make our estate great. We will put more flesh on the
bones as we complete our plans, but it will be built on six pillars, namely:

• Financial controls;
• Compliance;

• Risk management;

• Property maintenance and development;
• Security; and

• Marketing, communication and public relations.

The directors will each have a niche area of oversight, and expertise will be
sought from the residents and elsewhere to achieve the goals set in our short
and long term plans. We are taking into account the fact that the pandemic
has changed the way in which we live, and this will be taken into account as
we plan for the future.
Petro Engelbrecht was recently co-opted to the board in the Human
Resources portfolio and will take up this position soon. There is a vacancy
on the Board for the Risk portfolio and anybody qualified and interested is
invited to contact the chairperson to discuss co-option.

A very exciting time is awaiting us all in the immediate future, and our
dedicated board members are giving personal and family time to serve
voluntarily, without compensation. Sub-committees for certain subject
matters, consisting of residents with particular interests and skills pertaining
to these subjects, could allow the various plans of action to soar and
constructively create a community everyone wants to live in.

10 Cornwall View • Issue 1 2021