#Letter: Ballito stalwart bids fond farewell

Pam Couperthwaite of Ballito writes:

After residing in Ballito for 37 years, I wish to bid farewell to the many friends, colleagues, former pupils and other acquaintances I have had the privilege of encountering on the North Coast.

My daughter Hayley and I are moving to the Eastern Cape to a place called Riet Rivier, 14km north of Port Alfred.

Many pupils, now successful businessmen and -women, have passed through my hands at Stanger High School, where I taught for 13 years.

After retiring from the formal classroom, I taught swimming for 20 years. I also had the privilege of teaching “Saturday School” at Protec in Tongaat under the able guidance of Marion Takis and Anna-Marie Mkhize.

Many of the Protec pupils succeeded in their tertiary studies and are now successful professionals.

I was privileged to have been an adjudicator for the Speech and Drama Association of SA, also serving at school festivals as far afield as Matatiel and Kokstad in the south, to Mtubatuba in the north. I subsequently ran my own speech and drama school.

I have been a member of All Souls’ Anglican Church in Umhlali, the Dolphin Coast Bird Club, the local library, and lately the Canelands Book Club.

I have watched Ballito grow from a small village in the 1980s to the vast sprawling complex of housing estates, medical centres, hospitals, shopping malls and office blocks of today.

I wish all who work and live here peace and safety in these hectic times.

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