Golf course fund reaches R20,000 mark

WARD 66 councillor, Duncan Du Bois says there is no room for failure as he tries to rally the Bluff to save the Bluff National Park Golf Course.

Du Bois’ plan to raise R400,000 to help the beleaguered club has been received with much scepticism from residents, who want to know what they will get in return for their R400 donation.

“There is no place for scepticism and negativity concerning efforts to sustain the viability of the Bluff golf course. I invite all the sceptics and naysayers to visit what was the Umbilo Congella Sports Club in Umbilo Road. This once thriving facility fell upon hard financial times and has been abandoned – it has been gutted and trashed by vandals and has become a shameful eyesore in that suburb.

The golf club will face the same fate if efforts to assist it are not successful and in that it occupies a large, central part of the Bluff, its dereliction would be a tragedy of monumental proportions,” said Du Bois.

As of Monday, 25 August, R20,000 rand had been donated by willing residents into the golf club fund set up by Du Bois. Peter Worman had volunteered to be on the oversight committee administering the fund.

“The Bluff National Park Golf Course is far more than a series of 18 holes. It occupies an environmentally and ecologically sensitive part of our suburb and is both a wetland and a green lung. Just as properties which have a beach or an ocean frontage command higher values, properties overlooking the Bluff’s green lung derive a similar advantage. Its survival, therefore, is in the interests of all Bluff residents.”

Anyone willing to donate R400 annually to the trust fund can do so into the following account:

Bluff National Park Golf Club, Nedbank Bluff branch, account number 1079066233.