The Department of Environmental Affairs invites you to an event to mark the departure of the SA Agulhas to the Antarctica on Wednesday, 9 December 2009 at 9:00 at the East Pier Shed, East Pier Road, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town. All media is invited.
Programme:
• 9h00 Music
• Coffee/Tea
• Sausage braai/soft drinks
Activities in the Pieter Stoker Centre
• Exhibitions/Displays
• SANAP
• MTN Science Centre
• City of Cape Town
• St Joseph’s Marist College
• Cape Town Tourism
• Nerina de Villiers (paintings)
Skype
10h00: Live Music – St Joseph’s Marist College
DEA Music – Zaid Watson
12h30: Marimba Band – Cape Town Tourism
13h00: Departmental Co-ordinating Officer for the Voyage –Adriaan Dreyer
10 Members of Overwintering Team
Disembark the SA Agulhas
13h03
13h05: Welcome: Director: Antarctica & Islands – Henry Valentine
Farewell: Chief Director: Research, Antarctica & Islands – Dr Johann Augustyn
13h08 Deputy Mayor Ald Ian Neilson (accompanied by Ald Felicity Purchase: Mayoral Committee Member: Economic & Tourism Affairs)
13h13: Presentations & Greeting of Overwintering Team
13h16: National Anthem – Marimba Band
Photo session
Media interviews
13h20: Team embarks on The SA Agulhas
Music
13h30: Marimba Band to play
14h00 :The SA Agulhas to sail
The SANAE 49 team
Andre Harms (072 707 5300), Team Leader/ Mechanical Engineer, Cape Town
Ryno Jordaan, Electrical Engineer, Cape Town
Tyrell Sassen, Deputy Leader/Electronic Engineer, Johannesburg
Johan Nortje, Diesel Mechanic, Rustenburg
Marlon Manko, Diesel mechanic, Cape Town
Lowellan Clark, Medical doctor, Johannesburg
Robert Schoeman, Senior Meteorologist, Johannesburg
Etienne Kruger, Engineer (Potchefstroom), Johannesburg
Roger van Shie, Engineer (Hermanus), Johannesburg
James Hayes, Engineer (Hermanus/Natal), Johannesburg
For further information contact:
Zolile Nqayi
Marine and Coastal Management
Cell: 082 898 6483
Tel: 021 402 3702
E-mail: znqayi@deat.gov.za
Issued by: Department of Environmental Affairs
8 December 2009
