This lovely family relocated from Johannesburg to Hilton to create more and better quality family time. We welcome the Moepeng family who has bought Abbot's Cove Bed and Breakfast on the corner of Cedara Road and Dennis Shepstone Drive.

Pictured here enjoying an outing to Blueberry Hill in Nottingham Road are Nolwazi and her husband Linda with their sons Imincili (5 years old) and Melusi (2 years old).

We wish them many happy and successful years in Hilton.

Photo supplied by Abbot's Cove Bed and Breakfast.

With Christmas 70 days away, the KSS team would like to remind you to get you alarm serviced before you go away. There is often a “mad scramble” as people realise they need an upgrade, alarm addition or a general alarm service before the festive season.

For service bookings or more information and advice call Gary on 0828947628 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Keshen at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 0833935265.

Administration
Please advise the KSS administration office if any of your details have changed (email address, phone numbers, and key holders). Please also make sure that you advise the office about house sitters during the festive season. These details need to be added to the system temporarily so we know who to contact in case of an emergency. You can contact Elaine on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Monique on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 033 330 5911 to update these details.

Positive feedback
KSS are out there every day making a difference, in small and big ways. It feels so great to be applauded for the action we take and the care we afford the community. This encouraging message was posted on social media which reached our offices:

“So I just wanted to say “KUDOS to KSS”. This morning my Mom accidentally triggered the alarm, I was in the shower and didn’t hear/answer their 2 check-up calls, and I think my Mom didn’t hear the check-up calls they made to her phone either, and so they actually came to my house to check. Yes, all of the above is part of the service, BUT the speed that all this was done was absolutely amazing!!. My Mom said it was literally minutes from the time she triggered the alarm to the time she had FOUR KSS guys in our front yard. Thank you KSS for your awesome service”

You have no idea what positive feedback does for our whole team. Thank you.

On the flipside – if there are any concerns you, as a client may have, please contact the KSS office or Management directly so that we can immediately attend to them. We are here to fix things and keep our clients happy.

You are safer with us!

News supplied by Knight Security Solutions.

Ilse Dippenaar has catapulted from teaching Afrikaans to being an entrepreneur as a result of a real life experience that directed all her focus into developing and delivering an amazing learning application known as UP.Ed. At an ActionCOACH Summit event last week at ANEW Hotel Hilton, Ilse wowed a room filled with business owners who found her story heart-warmingly, inspirational. Read more about Ilse’s journey to date. 

Local business coach Clyde Langley has been honoured to work alongside Ilse for a large part of UP.Ed’s journey. Other business owners had this to say about their experiences with Clyde Langley;

Tegesh – Capital Printers;

‘ActionCOACH has helped me realise the importance of the correct systems and procedures that my business needs for it to be productive and successful.

Testing and measuring what works best in our company and managing time efficiently.’

 Ellouise Blessie - Liberty Nut and Bolt;

‘In terms of staff; they now know how to trade above the line. The moral of the team has improved as their confidence has increased. Our systems work through well-developed standard operating procedures.By using the 5 ways strategy we understand how to increase profits. For us as owner we can confidently employ the right people which gives us peace of mind because we know the work is done. All thanks to ActionCOACH.’

News supplied by ActionCOACH Summit.

Welcome new Operations Manager
The UCSI is managed 24/7 by the UCSI VCAT* TrackBox SNIPR Control Room platform which is headed up by Keegan Naidoo. Keegan started working full-time for the UCSI on 1 September 2019 and also takes on the role of managing any priority crimes that are committed in the KZN Midlands. Currently Keegan is assisting Hawks and Crime Intelligence with a murder and farm attack that occurred in our area. Both incidents involve vehicles that came into our uMngeni area. The UCSI also assisted SAPS with another murder and an incident of poaching over the past month. Both of which are now cases closed. * Violent Crime and Technology.

Invest in the holistic safety of your community with the UCSI
If you would like to make a capital donation towards the erection of the next 10 strategic UCSI SNIPR camera mounted gantries, please contact the UCSI on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call Keegan on 0630689652. The UCSI would like to have all the access and egress points into our uMngeni Municipal spaces covered before the festive season. Not only will this deflect criminals, but it will also facilitate the successful apprehension of criminals – as has successfully happened during the course of this year so far. Since March 2019 the UCSI has been involved in over 30 successful cases and assisted law enforcement at local and provincial level.

The UCSI is a registered Not-for-Profit Company and is able to issue a Section 18A for all donations made. The UCSI is also BBBEE level 2 and registered with PSIRA. To benefit from the services of the UCSI and ensure sustainability in our community, please affiliate and contribute a monthly membership fee. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to get a membership form emailed to you.

The UCSI is making amazing progress in our communities, and as quoted by Captain Sikhakhane who is the Station Commander of Hilton SAPS “We are making magic”.

The UCSI is now also involved in advising a community from the North West Province of South Africa, who heard about what we are doing as a community. They are coming through to meet with the UCSI Board and role-players to see how we have rolled out our project in partnership with our Municipality and Department of Transport as a Best Practice Model.

Business update
The latest businesses to come on-board being: Howick Districts Landowners Association, Fairfield Dairy and Farm, Falcon Equipment, The Voigts Group, J Leslie Smith Attorneys, Rotunda, Fogden Properties, Cowan House, Hilton Rate Payers Association, Hilton Hawks through the HCSI, Wedgewood Nougat, Frosties, Broadacres Estate, Sakabula Estate and Midmar Building Supplies.

Do you want your business to be a part of those leading the way in terms of community Safety Responsibility?

Gantry update
To date twelve (12) UCSI gantries have been installed. There is another gantry in the Curry’s Post area coming on line soon, and then 3 more gantries in Hilton by the end of October 2019.

When these afore-mentioned gantries are erected, it will take the UCSI gantry number to 16 gantries that have been funded by our uMngeni Communities and fall under the Management of the UCSI.

Another 4 gantries are pending and should be feeding through by end of November 2019. On top of this there are an additional 4 privately owned gantries that feed through to the UCSI and then another 11 from surrounding areas also feeding through to the UCSI. In total, by the end of November 2019, the UCSI envisages over 35 gantries feeding through to the UCSI Control Room platform.

Some gantries are awaiting final funding and if we can get the capital (CAPEX) to complete those then that would be awesome. It must be noted that each gantry must have the required monthly operational costs (OPEX) committed to by the community before erection, and these costs are covered though community affiliation / membership contributions.

OPEX is collected on a monthly basis through fee paying community members (business entities and private individuals) and goes towards the payment of:
• SNIPR Fees
• Data Fees
• Tamper Monitoring Fee
• Insurance (Comprehensive) and liability
• Maintenance
• Administration
• Fuel / Cell phone
• Technology / Hardware / Internet
• Stationary / Marketing
• Office rental, lights, water
• Internet
• Staffing
These operational expenses are pivotal to the success of the UCSI in empower Law Enforcement and deterring criminals from our communities.

Urgent attention
Some serious attention needs to be placed on the following areas:
1. R617 / Mpophomeni
2. Midmar exit from N3 going into Howick
3. Merrivale exit from N3 going into Merrivale
4. Merrivale Rural on Cedara Road
5. Howick West
Attention also needs to be placed on the Howick CBD and Howick Falls Precinct. The UCSI is in a position to assist the uMngeni Municipality with the erection and monitoring of 24/7 CCTV cameras in the Howick Falls area.

Interesting Statistics
Some interesting statistical information for the months of August and September 2019. These figures show the number of vehicles that passed under some of the gantries in our areas (note these are bi-directional stats):
• Worldsview (Hilton): 167423 vehicles in August and 116140 vehicles in September.
• Life Hilton Private Hospital (Hilton): 250714 vehicles in August and 239147 vehicles in September.
• Knight Security Solutions (Merrivale): 366249 vehicles in August and 303477 vehicles in September.
• uMngeni Bridge (Howick): 294216 vehicles in August and 354482 vehicles in September.
• Lower Karkloof Road (Howick – Yard 41): 264558 vehicles in August and 219245 vehicles in September.
• Lower Curry’s Post (Eagle Ridge): 69591 vehicles in September.
• Natal Forest Nursery (Tweedie): 204634 vehicles in September.
• Karkloof Club intersection: 52330 vehicles in September.
These are significant figures and with the festive season approaching there are still gaps where gantries need to go up.

The CAPEX funding received goes towards the physical erection of the gantry and the cameras, and is a once off donation, while the OPEX (Operational) funding goes towards the on-going monthly expenses incurred by the UCSI in order the effectively and professionally manage the UCSI SNIPR gantry network.

The UCSI continues to meet with local, Cluster and Provincial Law Enforcement Officials (including Hawks and Crime Intelligence) to ensure that the protocols and procedures followed are professional. The UCSI has also met with the Senior Public Proctors of the Pietermaritzburg and Durban Regional High Courts. The UCSI is working successfully alongside SANRAL, N3TC and Transnet.

The UCSI Board of Directors wishes to thank the uMngeni Municipality for all the support to date. This public-private partnership is proving to be a success and leading the way in active crime fighting in communities. The UCSI is a flagship project that can be considered as paving the way in “best practice” for other Municipal areas.

News supplied by UCSI.

We wish Digit-It’s new(ish) owners Bheki and Althea Dlamini success as they expand this well-known Hilton outlet to Pietermaritzburg and to Cape Town. By mid-November a Digit-It store will be open at Athlone Circle and also at Woodburn Centre.

Digit IT values their employees contributions towards the success of delivering customer-centric and tailor made solutions with utmost competence, efficiency and effectiveness. In order to maintain this high standard, we believe in the continuous, holistic and professional development of our resources.

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Bheki (pictured below on the RHS) obtained a Diploma in Business Management from Natal Technikon now known as Durban University of Technology in 1999.

Over the years he has been in the line of clothing and shoes manufacturing, supplying corporate companies and government departments for over 15 years. He was a director of respective companies operating in KwaZulu Natal, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Eastern Cape, Free State and Limpopo province.

Bheki is passionate about IT. His love and passion for IT started when he began a project called ‘Business In A Box’ where he rolled out refurbished and converted containers to be computer centres. The project was piloted in Estcourt.

He has been extensively involved with the SMME development in KwaZulu Natal. He was a board member of Estcourt Provincial Hospital - KZN Health Department. Bheki is now a Dynamic SA Holding and Digit IT Managing Director. He did a CompTIA A+N+ Training at IT Certification Academy.

FINANCIAL DIRECTOR

Althea (pictured below on the LHS) is a qualified black female chartered accountant. She began working at SNG in 2002 after completing her B.Comm Accounting Degree and CTA at University of Stellenbosch South Africa.

She worked for Chevron (Caltex), Thompson, Cobb, Bazillio and Associates, in many countries including United States, Pakistan, Angola, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria and Zambia. Where she was performing internal, external and forensic audit services.

In 2010 Althea was appointed as board member to the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board. During 2014 she was appointed as chairperson of the WCGRB. Currently she is also a Managing Director of Kuhumelela Accountants and Auditors.

News supplied by Digit IT.

I am often asked questions about learning styles. Having had the joy of helping people of all ages to discover and use their dominant thinking and learning styles and seeing the positive effects it has on those who truly embrace and use them to study, work and learn, I am going to discuss some of these questions.
 
We teach you how to think and study in the way your brain learns best!
"What are learning styles?”

Research tells us there are two basic learning and thinking styles.
They are based on the two hemispheres of the brain: left and right..
Each hemisphere thinks and learns differently and has its own set of gifts and strengths.
The two sides learn in opposite ways.

"Why is it important to know my child’s learning style?”

Knowing is the first steps we can take towards understanding his learning strengths and gifts and all that he is capable of. Most education models are geared to the left brain way of learning so there are many learners who can’t learn in the way they should.
When we know their thinking style and its particular gifts and strengths we are then able to teach them who they are as learners and show them how to apply that knowledge in their study, work preparation and homework routines. This enables them to study in the way in which they were wired to learn.

"Is my child only left brained or only right brained?”

No. We all use both sides of our brain to function, but most often we have a preference ie. our use of one side will be more dominant than the use of the other, the reason why many researchers use the terms ‘right-brain dominant’ or ‘left-brain dominant’.
To put it very simply, think of it as on a continuum: Strong Left Moderate Left whole brain Moderate Right Strong Right

Your child, and each one of us, is somewhere on this continuum. This illustrates how our brain dominance results in our different learning strengths and gifts.
These gifts have a huge effect on how your child thinks, learns and retains concepts and
information.

"Wouldn’t identifying my children as right brain or left brain dominant be labelling them – putting them into boxes?”

On the contrary, it unlocks and releases their potential!. . It is all about their strengths. They discover their own hemispheric gifts and strengths and HOW TO USE THEM TO IMPROVE THEIR WORK AND STUDY and make it easier and more enjoyable.

We are then able to teach them new and innovative ways to work and study that suit their learning style gifts and strengths. This improves their learning and builds their confidence – critical self-knowledge which serves them for the rest of their lives..

St Anne’s Diocesan College hosted an Inter-schools Enduro 20km Relay Race at Camps Drift on Saturday.

The format was teams of four with a total of approximately 170 paddlers from 11 schools taking part.

Congratulations to Epworth who took first place in the Girls Open Category, followed by St Anne’s in second and St John’s DSG in third.

In the boys race, Michaelhouse took top spot followed by the Umzinyathi Development Team in second and Maritzburg College in third position.

News supplied by St Anne's Diocesan College.

The St Anne’s Diocesan College 1st Netball and Water Polo Teams both won their respective tournaments over the weekend. St Anne’s played in the Midlands Regionals of the SPAR KZN Schoolgirls' Fast 5's Netball Tournament in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday, 5 October.

The girls played with great spirit throughout the pool games, overcame Voortrekker 13-7 in the semis to face TWC in a tense final which they managed to just win 6-5.

They will go on to play in the finals of the tournament later this season. In Water Polo, the U14, U16 and U19 teams participated in the Top Schools Water Polo Tournament in Kloof and all teams all progressed through to the finals on Sunday.

The U14s and U16s both claimed silver medals and the U19s won their age group for the second year in a row. Emma Thornton was named U14 Player of Tournament, Anna Thornton-Dibb U19 Player of the Tournament and Josie Dobeyn U19 Goal Keeper of the Tournament.

News supplied by St Anne's Diocesan College.