Ladies meet for final ABC breakfast

After 25 years, Anneliese Plettenbacher has decided to close the ABC Ladies Club.

She told the NEWS that while she was on holiday recently, she received confirmation that her house in Bedfordview had been sold.

Anneliese now plans to move to the Cape with her husband.

She thanked those who attended over the years, naming each of her guests and personally thanking them for their contribution to the success of the club over the years.

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Anneliese’s special guest for her last breakfast was her long-time friend, Edith Venter.

“I think Edith was the speaker at my very first breakfast club meeting and now she is the special guest at the last one. We have known each other for over 40 years,” she said.

Anneliese recalled how, at a time when she had to bury her sister, Edith took over hosting the monthly ABC Ladies Club breakfast without hesitation.

“It’s great to have someone there when you really need them,” she said.

Edith told those attending that it was an honour for her to be the final speaker at the breakfast.

She spoke about reinvention and detailed her journey through Covid and managing an events company over the last year.

“When we started 2020 I looked at our events board and it was full. I remember thinking that it was going to be a good year.

“Then in March, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the hard lockdown. We wiped our board clean. It was a wake-up call,” she said.

Edith added that she and her team had to quickly find new and inventive ways to do things.

“We all have a story on our journey where we have changed, where we have had to find other ways of doing things. Whatever my team did we decided that the next event or meeting we did, we would do better. And, that is exactly what we did and we managed to get through it,” she said.

She told visitors that every day was about celebrating.

Celebrating what had happened and what was still to happen.

Edith also shared a little about her history.

“I was born and grew up in Edenvale. My brother still stays in the house our father built. There are so many memories in this area that I love to revisit every time I come this way.

“Looking back is a great way to realise where we have come from and honour and celebrate that it made us who we are.”

She added that during the tough time she could always rely on her friends and her charity work to get her through before sharing a few of her rules in life.

“Never be ashamed of who you are, have no regrets, make no judgments, have no expectations and do everything with passion,” she said.

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