Janet Malherbe Tourist Guide & Artist

06/02/2024

Interesting!

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14/01/2024

Happy family

15/06/2023

Recent views from my office while in Wilderness...

27/03/2023

Views from my office recently, still my favourite...!!!
Cape Town city centre and Kirstenbosch Botanical gardens...

13/03/2023

My beautiful country..!!

12/02/2023

The weekly Oranjezicht City Farm and Market Day market is a feast for the eyes..!! Always great to meet up with fellow colleague and friend, after a lovely tour with the . Thanks for a great catch up Ursula Neidhardt

11/02/2023

It was a magnificent day today at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and the nature reserve... What a pleasure to be Janet Malherbe Tourist Guide & Artist

31/01/2023

Speechless

30/01/2023

So sorry to hear about Guy ...! We did an educational together a year ago, he was a lovely gentle man. What an tragic loss for tourism. May his soul rest in peace...

The Cape Town committee is saddened to note the passing of member Guy Hawthorne.

His passion for the industry will be remembered. Our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and industry colleagues.

May his soul rest in peace ❤️

08/01/2023

What wonderful weather we have in Cape Town and the Winelands..!

24/11/2022

Jip

While President Cyril Ramaphosa enjoys the bright lights of London in a golden chariot, DA Leader, John Steenhuisen is fighting to keep your lights on.

09/11/2022

How interesting..!

WHY DO SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS NOT TEACH THEIR PUPILS ABOUT HENDRIK VAN DER BIJL?

Hendrik was the greatest Engineer South Africa has ever produced. After he invented the first intercontinental Telephone in America, had he stayed there, he could have become one of the Robber Barons, alongside Vanderbilt, Carnegie, and Rockefeller, but he decided to come back to South Africa and build our Industrial sector from nothing, after the devastation of the Boer war and great depression.

Hendrik was the son of a Farm worker (not a farmer), who saved up to buy his first oxwagon to start transporting goods between Pretoria, Kimberley, and Cape Town. It was on the back of this oxwagon that Hendrik taught himself Mathematics, and Physics. He then studied Engineering in Stellenbosch at the age of 16, and studied for his PhD in Germany, at Leipzig University, at the age of 21.

After completing his PhD, he went to work for Bell Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a company that employed 15 Nobel prize scientists up until today. It was here where Van der Bijl invented the first intercontinental telephone, by creating a telephone able to make a phone call from New York to Paris.

He was asked in 1920, by Gen JBM Hertzog to return to South Africa, to help with the struggling Industrial sector. Leaving riches and a prosperous career in America behind, Van der Bijl came to South Africa with nothing.

He was the founding chairman of Eskom, leading the company to become the first to power a major city with electric streetlights. The first in the world. Under his leadership, Eskom, which he started from nothing, became the largest and most profitable Electricity provider in the world, powering every African country as high up as Ethiopia. He stayed on as the Chairman of Eskom until his death in 1948.

Other companies Van der Bijl created and ran were Iscor, Amcor, the Industrial Development Corporation (later becoming the CSIR), Transnet, and Safmarine.

Had Van der Bijl built up these companies in his private name, he would have been richer than Rockefeller at that stage. Funnily enough, Hertzog suggested Van der Bijl start these companies as private companies.

But Van der Bijl did not believe in Capitalism. He was a nationalist. He believed in public utilities, for the people, by the people, as he outlined in his 1919 paper "Scientific research and industrial development."

When he died in 1948, he had little more than a house and a car to his name. Today, the legacy of Hendrik van der Bijl is plundered by the ANC regime, but despite stealing 100's of billions, and enormous mismanagement, ANC cadres have still not been able to destroy the vast wealth created for this country by Hendrik van der Bijl.

Hendrik van der Bijl, and many other greats like him, are the people we should be looking up to during this time when we feel like the entire country is being destroyed by ANC corruption and incompetence. We must remember, everything they are destroying today was once built, from nothing, by great men like Hendrik van der Bijl.
Willem Petzer

08/11/2022

So thankful for the lovely groups I have had the last 3 months... A few pics from my office recently...

19/10/2022

Absoluut

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