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Dear Members, Partners, Supporters and Friends of HOPE Cape Town,
…the countdown has begun!
Ticket sales for our 21st Ball of HOPE on Saturday, 6th May 2023 at The Westin Cape Town are now open.
Under the motto “Keep Rocking for HOPE”, this highlight on Cape Town’s annual event calendar promises to be an evening of excellent food, rocking entertainment and great company.
However, it is more than just a fantastic evening – it is a wonderful opportunity to support the important work of HOPE Cape Town!
Please reserve your seat/table as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
The WESTIN Cape Town has granted our guests reduced room rates at R2300 (per single or double room, incl. breakfast) for the occasion.
For room reservations please contact Leigh-Ann Lyons/The WESTIN directly by e-mail Leigh-ann.Lyons@westin.com
We look forward to welcoming you to the Ball of HOPE 2023!
Yours sincerely,
On behalf of the organisers:
Rev Fr Stefan Hippler Anja Tambusso Ferraz
HOPE Cape Town SA- German Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Driving through the Northern Cape last week made me aware of the trouble which the renewed and extended blackouts do have to the people in the towns of rural South Africa. And driving to the vast areas of virtually meeting nobody for hundreds of km, I also realize the extent of the political neglect of possibilities like solar power and wind.
It again shows how cadre deployment, corruption and incompetence paired by ideological blindness has hurt the all spheres of society in this country. Bringing a world-class entity to the brink of collapsing can be called a negative masterpiece. Trying to solve the problem to create another state-owned enterprise, as the responsible minister proposes it, is then the cherry on top of madness.
Since 2014 now President Ramaphosa was most times as Deputy President in charge of turning ESKOM around. Promises were made – as too often in the political sphere of South Africa, it remained hot air.
Having said all that, it does not serve a purpose to lament and to leave it at that. The crisis could be a trigger for a renewable energy drive also bringing the much-needed jobs for South Africa.
End 2021 13 million people worked in the field of renewable energy worldwide – and experts expect the number to triple till 2030.
So there lies a chance in South Africa’s woes – but it needs the willingness of the respective role players to act decisively and the political will to make it happen. The latter presents itself in the form of the respective Minister rather as a problem giver than a solution seeker.
But there is always hope in the ability of South Africa to also overcome this man-made disaster and to rise again as the beacon of hope for the African continent. There is so much expertise in the private sector to assist when politics is willing to change from being part of the problem to being part of the solutions presenting themselves naturally in this county.
Indeed, there is much joy in the hearts of those organizing the Ball of HOPE for the 20th time. After 2 years of cancellations due to Covid-19 it looks good for the 21st of May 2022 at the Westin Hotel by Marriott in Cape Town.
20 years Ball of HOPE, the end of the 20 years anniversary year of the organisation itself and the better late than never celebration of 20 years of the local office of the Southern African – German Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The Ball of HOPE developed out of a dinner-dance established in 1998 at the Mount Nelson and organised by the German-speaking Catholic Community in Cape Town. The first guest of honour was Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He also introduced the culture of letting culinary chefs be in pain keeping the main course hot and tasty, while speeches are indeed longer than anticipated.
The first guest of honour: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
With the opening of the local office of the AHK in Cape Town, the dinner-dance became the “Ball of HOPE” in cooperation between the newly founded organisation HOPE Cape Town and the Chamber of Commerce. In 2003 the Westin was inaugurated, and the event moved from the Mount Nelson Hotel to the then newly established Arabella Hotel at the Foreshore in Cape Town, which today is the Westin by Marriott.
Opening and blessing of the new Westin Hotel
During the following years, the Ball of HOPE became a fixture in the social calendar of Cape Town, and attracted also visitors from Europe to come and join this prestigious event.
So, yes, we are full of joy to invite all of you to the 20th Ball of HOPE – please come, register and join us in this celebration of service, of commitment and of a partnership between business and development, which changes the lives of people for the better in the last more than 20 years.
God, AIDS, Africa & HOPE 