Albert Combrink will present a concert with two tenors, Dobs Madotyeni and Siphesihle Mdena, at the Adele Searll 100 Club Christmas Lunch.

Thursday 2 December 2010
12h00 pm
Mount Nelson Hotel Ball Room, Cape Town
Booking: Contact Chairperson Jackie Lange: 021 6742480

The programme will include well-known tenor arias from, amongst others, L’elisir d’amore, sacred numbers such as the Schubert Ave Maria, popular numbers from My Fair Lady and Evita, and is rounded out by some ever-popular Neapolitan favourites.

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POLICIES AND PROFILE OF THE ADELE SEARLL MOUNT NELSON 100 CLUB

The Adèle Searll 100 Club was founded in 1979 by a group of women from Cape Town’s business and professional circles who were also known for their active interest in welfare and community projects.

With the untimely death in March 1998 of Adèle Searll, its chairman and founder member, the committee and members, as a gesture of respect changed its name to the Adèle Searll 100 Club.  The committee appointed a new chairman, June Druker who assumed the position in June 1998, followed by Judith Dodds. Jackie Lange was appointed chair in July 2006 and remains its chairman.

From its inception, the 100 Club’s motivation has been to attract members from all sectors of the community successfully bringing together women who are representative of our diverse society.  It offers members the opportunity of networking – both professionally and socially and attracts speakers of the highest calibre in all fields, ranging from ex Presidents Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and FW de Klerk, to well-known authors businessmen, theatrical personalities and many others. Recent speakers have been Pieter Dirk-Uys, Christo Wiese, Prof Jonathan Jansen. Maria Ramos CEO of ABSA is our guest speakers on 5 November.

In 1983 the 100 Club Bursary Fund was established with the purpose of supporting underprivileged students at the University of Cape Town and other educational institutions in the Western Cape and this fund has in fact now become the raison d’être of the club.  Two of our bursars have gone on to study at Harvard. So far more than 100 students have received financial aid from the Club, which also supports social causes and charity organisations on an annual basis.

As the Club is totally self-supporting and non-profit making – its running costs provided solely from the income generated by subscriptions and our lunch meetings – our speakers and entertainers offer their services gratis, a gesture for which we are eternally grateful as the Club could not otherwise survive. Proceeds from our monthly raffle are distributed at the end of each year to about 20 different needy charities and a special charity is chosen each year which benefits from the proceeds of our Christmas lunch.

Our members are committed and concerned citizens and their loyal support over the years has allowed the Club to grow and establish the high credibility it now enjoys.

CURRENT CHAIRPERSON AND COMMITTEE

1. JACKIE LANGE  – CHAIRMAN
2. ANET PIENAAR-VOSLOO – VICE CHAIRMAN
3. NATALIE JAFFE – VICE CHAIRMAN
4. MAUREEN HARGRAVES
5. DI BERRILL
6. VIVIENNE MORKEL
7. CHANTELLE PAANS
8. YVONNE DU TOIT
9. MIRIAM PATEL
10. SHELLEY WITZ – SECRETARY

Some of our previous speakers include:

• Archbishop Desmond Tutu – retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town
• Graca Machel – wife of Nelson Mandela
• Terry Waite – Hostage
• Bryce Courtenay – Author of “Power of One”
• Michael Caine – Actor
• Thabo Mbeki – while Deputy President of South Africa
• Maeve Fort – British High Commissioner
• Nina Campbell – International Interior Designer
• Prof. Chris Barnard – Heart Surgeon
• Frederick Forsythe – Author
• Dick Francis – Author
• Mr Edward J Perkins – US Ambassador
• Cheryl Carolus – SA Politician and Activist
• Prof Andre Brink – International South African Author
• Frene Ginwala – House of Assembly
• Sir John Leahy – British Ambassador
• Jeffrey Archer – Author
• Dame Margaret Thatcher while Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• John Kani – South African Actor
• William Lacey Swing – American Ambassador
• Mr F W De Klerk – as State President
• Janet Suzman – SA and International Actress
• Mr Nelson Mandela – as State President
• Sir Ralph Fiennes – Explorer
• Lord Patrick Lichfield
• Helen Suzman – Politician
• Joan Collins – Actress
• Jacqueline de Chollet – Women in rural areas
• Felicity Bielovich – Author Judaist Window “Prescription Drug Addiction”
• Jill Chisolm – Chief Executive Director SABC
• Rhoda Khadali – Humanitarian
• Christopher Hope – Award winning novelist
• Clem Sunter
• Tony Leon – Politician
• Robert Schrire – Political Analyst – UCT
• Lucia Van Der Post – daughter of Sir Laurence van Der Post
• Sarah Ferguson- Duchess of York
• Mr David Rattray  – Expert on the Anglo Zulu War
• Ruda Landman – M Net Carte Blanche broadcaster
• Helen Zille – Mayor of Cape Town and as MEC for Education in the Western Cape
• Tabitha Hume – Author of the X-Diet / Woman & Food
• Theo Aronson – Royal Biographer
• Wolfgang Rieber – Magician/Entertainer
• Professor Meyer Feldberg – Dean of Columbia Business School in New York
• Monique Strydom – Jolo Island hostage survivor
• Maria Ramos – Director General of National Treasury
• Judge Jeanette Traverso – Deputy Judge President WC
• Judge Willem Heath
• Eward Saunders  – Art Historian
• Taweni Gondwe – Editor of O Magazine
• Sue Macgregor – Radio Broadcaster
• Professor Deon Knobel – Head of the Forensic Medicine
• Patricia De Lille –Politician
• Advocate George Bizos
• Pieter Dirk Uys – Entertainer
• Sheryl Ozinsky
• Pamela Jooste – Author
• Stephanie Hoppen – International Interior Advisor
• Nigel Murphy – Radio Broadcaster
• Bea Arthur – Actress
• Achim Von Arnim – Wine Maker
• Peter Younghusband – Journalist
• Professor James Jospeh – Former US Ambassador
• Patricia Glyn – Journalist/Mount Everest
• Zackie Achmat – Aids Activist
• Martin Welz – Noseweek
• Gordon Smith – Medium
• Michael Mol – Motivational Speaker – Presenter of Top Billing
• Wilbur Smith – Author
• Richard Cock – Conductor Symphony Orchestra
• Jeremy Gardiner – Financial Advisor
• William Gumede – Author
• Beezy Bailey – Artist
• Dawn Breslin – Motivational speaker
• Annelise Burgess – Special Assignment
• Antony Worrall Thompson – British chef and restraunteur
• Barry Ronge – Film & Book Critic
• Zaprio alias Jonathan Shapiro
• Debora Patta – etv
• David Bullard – Columnist
• Stefan Gates – BBC World programme – Cooking in the Danger Zone

SOME OF THE CHARITIES WE HAVE SUPPORTED AND CONTINUE TO SUPPORT

ANIMAL ANTI CRUELTY LEAGUE

ASSOCIATION FOR THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED

BEAUTIFUL GATE MINISTRIES

CAPE MENTAL HEALTH

COLLEEN’S PLACE OF HOPE

DARG (DOMESTIC ANIMAL RESCUE GROUP)

FRIENDS OF VALKENBERG

GROOTE SCHUUR STROKE UNIT

KOSHER MEALS ON WHEELS

LELIEBLOM HOUSE

MACASSAR HAVEN

MEALS ON WHEELS

ONS PLEK GIRLS SHELTER

PDSA

RED CROSS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL

ROBERTSON HOUSE

SISTERS INCORPORATED

SUNDAY INNER CIRCLE

TAPE AIDS FOR THE BLIND

CITY OF CAPE TOWN FIREMENS’ FUND APPEAL

TEARS

THE DARLING TRUST

THE HOPE HOUSE TRUST

THE UPLIFTMENT PROGRAM

WOLANANI

BAPHUMELELE CHILDREN’S HOME FOR AIDS ORPHANS IN KHAYELITSHA

LILY HAVEN – HOME FOR THE AGED IN BONTEHEUVEL

OPERATION SMILE

MARIA SOLOMONS’ HOME FOR ABUSED CHILDREN

SISTERS INCORPORATED

ST. LUKE’S HOSPICE

SALVATION ARMY SPECIAL PROJECTS