Month: November 2014

Setting the Pace for Women’s Golf Development

4 November 2014 – After her recent epic victories at the Cell C SA Women’s Open at the San Lameer Country Club, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Blue Bay LPGA in Hainan, China, South Africa’s top women’s golfer Lee-Anne Pace is back in South Africa and is geared up for the inaugural First-Pace Golf Day for Girls.

The development initiative is scheduled for 11 November 2014 at the Pearl Valley Golf & Country Estate near Franschhoek.

First Car Rental and Lee-Anne Pace, who is now ranked 29th in the world, are collaborating with big names and brands in golf to hold a talent-spotting event for young girls who attend schools near the award-winning course.

The First-Pace Golf Day for Girls was originally set to happen in May this year, but was postponed after the announcement that Pace had qualified for an LPGA Tour event after a ranking reshuffle. Pace thought she would only be gone for a week, but performed well enough to continue playing for six more months.

The aim of the First-Pace Golf Day for Girls is to spot natural talent at grass roots level, combined with the right passion and attitude. Two young girls will be offered a sponsored prize package valued at approximately R80, 000 each, not to mention being coached and mentored by the best in the golfing industry for 12 months to develop their skills.

“It’s fantastic that First Car Rental is supporting women’s golf and taking the initiative to grow and develop the sport through the First-Pace Golf Day for Girls, especially in my home area near Paarl,” said Pace. “This event will help us scout for young talent. We hope to assist two star players develop their skills so that they can compete at a professional level one day.”

First Car Rental Executive Head: Strategy, Development & Marketing, Melissa Storey, said: “Although the event had to be postponed, it has been for the best. Lee-Anne has returned to South Africa with two 2014 international titles to her name. Lee-Anne was a star to begin with, but she has proven that with passion and dedication, anything can be achieved. She will be an inspiration to the girls.”

Eleven government and private schools from the surrounding Franschhoek area were identified and 40 girls between the ages of 9 to 17 years old were nominated by their school heads, coaches and teachers to take part in the fun, but testing afternoon.

There will be tutoring on the day by well-known names such as:

Lee-Anne Pace
Rae Hast, pro golfer, author, full-time teaching professional at Erinvale Golf Estate and member of the WPGA board
They will be supported at various stations by:

James Wade, Coaching Director of South Africa at Swingfit, James and his team are very influential in golf development and has created many champions

Carl Krog, Golf Manager at Pearl Valley Golf & Country Estate, pro golfer and instrumental in sponsoring and supporting the First-Pace Golf Day for Girls

Abrie Swanepoel, pro golfer at Pearl Valley Golf & Country Estate

Bridget Keogh, golf attendant at Pearl Valley Golf & Country Estate

First-Pace Golf Day for Girls aims to nurture young talent and help develop the proper attitude, character and personality upfront so that they may continue to become the country’s superstars tutored by the best there is.

The fully-sponsored prize package for the two winners includes playing rights and full use of facilities at Pearl Valley Golf & Country Estate; coaching and mentoring by professionals such as SwingFit in association with Boland Ladies Golf; a set of golf clubs and bag, plus applicable golf clothing and shoes (kindly sponsored by Puma and Cobra).

Event details:

Date and time of event: Tuesday, 11 November 2014 from 15h00 – 17h00

Venue: Pearl Valley Golf & Country Estate, Franschhoek, Western Cape

Lali Stander •

LETS GET LEGAL – Legal steps in placing yourself under debt counselling

STOP – take a good long look at your budget – are YOU over indebted?

If you are in a situation where your expenses exceed your income on any given month, and you are battling to meet all your financial commitments, then you are entering a dangerous world.

Before things reach crisis point, it would be in your best interests to consult a debt counsellor. While you are consulting with the debt counsellor, you will be required to sign a form 16 – this is the start of the debt counselling process and this form, together with all the supporting documents such as your credit card statements, mortgage loan account, car payments etc and captured and your creditors are notified by the debt counsellor within 5 days of the fact that you are intending to follow the debt counselling route.
Once this notice has been sent to creditors, there can be no legal action taken by the creditors.
The debt counsellor now has 60 days to look at the application in depth and determine whether the person is actually over indebted.
If it is found that the person is in actual fact over indebted, then the debt counsellor will prepare a debt restructuring proposal which he will send to all the creditors. This will be based on the income of the applicant and restructuring of the debts that will be forming part of the debt counselling application.

This proposal must be sent to the creditors within 25 days of the date of the application – creditors have 10 days to responds to the suggestions contained in the restructuring. If a creditor does not respond, the suggestion is sent to the central PDA (Payment Distribution Agency) and the payments are started and made to creditors.

This is however not the end of the process and the arrangement must be formalised by court and a consent order obtained. Creditors still have the opportunity to oppose the arrangement and file their objections to the application at court.

A magistrate will hear evidence and make a determination based on the facts that are placed before court.

Fiona Williamson 082 820 6428
(fiona@holaw.co.za) •