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ESTATE NEWS

make contact with a registered service
provider of your choice to remove the
garden refuse.

Please be reminded that, as per the Rules,
trees on a verge may not be cut unless
the need for this has been motivated to
the Environmental Committee, who will
consider the request and make a decision.
Fibre on the estate
You will recall from previous updates
that the HOA has been negotiating the
possibility to change the closed network
to an open access network on the estate.
This would mean that you can still make
use of any Internet service provider,
as you currently do, but without the
requirement of having a Telkom line to
your property. Telkom and Openserve large dam in Phase 3; staff who can operate from home will
have been discussing the possibility over • Treatment of sections in the dam at continue to do so.
a period of time and confirmed that the the Golf Academy, applying different • Non-perishable food and clothing
existing network will not be changed to an combinations to get the best possible can still be donated by dropping it
open access network. We have requested results; at the gates. The Management Team
Telkom to provide more information about • Formal action by our attorneys to will ensure that it is distributed to
their service and specials, and will these address the inflow of sewage from the organisations who will be able to deliver
share with our members. pump-stations at Six Fountains and it to the needy people.
Silver Stream; • Our tennis and squash courts, as well as
• Getting advice from other specialists to the playparks, will remain closed until
Hornwort in the dams
The Environmental Committee has been benchmark what we are doing; and the date for opening is announced as
busy over the past two years with a • Manual removal by the HOA team. indicated in the updated regulations.
process to address the growth of hornwort • Our Board, Management Team and
in various dams. The HOA will be continuing with the various committees are communicating
manual removal, introducing grass carp through Zoom meetings to ensure that
and addressing any inflow of sewage everything continues as normal on the
The following efforts have been made to
address the challenge with the hornwort: into the dams. Nutrients in the sewage estate.
stimulate the regrowth of the weed.
We wish you all of the best during the first
• A national survey was done by ARC
on an estimated 300 estates, with six The process of eradicating the hornwort is month of winter. Keep well and keep safe!
estates reverting; a long-term project and our members will
• Corlia Mathews and Mike Westman be updated on the progress.
visited two estates in the Hartbeespoort
Dam area which have invasive weeds in
their dams (but not hornwort) to assess Please note the following important
the methods that they have used; points, unless advised differently through
• Mechanical removal of the hornwort special bulletins:
has been carried out on two occasions • The Pro Shop is open for golfers.
during the past two years; • Orders can be placed with Café 41
• Chemical treatment was applied after and either collected or delivered to
various suppliers were contacted to get your home. The menu is available on
expert advice on how to treat this weed; the website. (The extended Level 3
th
• Drying out the dam on the 5 and Regulations will shortly make known
removing all the hornwort – only to have the date for the opening of the seating Kind regards
it return when the water was returned; area of the restaurant....with strict HENK BOOYSEN
• Introduction of mesh to catch part of precautions to be advised). Chief Executive Officer
the hornwort that may end up in the • The Management Centre is open, but Silver Lakes Golf and Wildlife Estate

IMPORTANT CONTACT NUMBERS

HOA OFFICE EMERGENCY NUMBERS SECURITY CLUBHOUSE
Office hours: Security Control Room (24 hours) Security Control Room (24 hours) Clubhouse 012 809 0281
Monday to Friday 012 809 0424/5 012 809 0424/5
08:00 until 16:30 Boschkop Police 012 802 1087/4 Café 41 012 809 1571
012 809 0142 Netcare 911 082 911 Bidvest Protea Coin Security
info@silverlakes.co.za From 18:00 to 06:00, weekdays Takeaways
Fire Brigade 10111 24 hours Sat, Sun and public holidays 012 809 0431 / 012 809 1484
WhatsApp Number Power Failure 012 339 9111 072 615 5862
081 848 2787
City of Tshwane Call Centre GOLF
012 358 9999
Security access office: Pro Shop 012 809 0430
Hours as above
Including first Saturday of every Water leaks: waterleaks@tshwane.gov.za
month from 08:00 until 11:00 Street lights: streetlights@tshwane.gov.za