Jun 10 2026
Laura Owens is our latest Springbok Scout! She received her award at a celebration at our hall in May, attended by family, friends and members of the group. She is now our 43rd Springbok Scout and the 5th girl to earn her Springbok at 1st Claremont. Laura was interviewed by SCOUTS South Africa about her …
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Oct 06 2025
At the end of October, the first member of Scouting to have gone through Meerkats and Cubs will go up to Scouts. Neema Galetta joined the 1st Claremont Meerkat Den when it opened in October 2020. Our first meeting was an adventure in Keurboom Park, but we were soon locked down, and meetings proceeded online. Neema …
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Oct 05 2025
Term 3 this year was, as usual, one of our busier terms (I’m sure you are all tired of reading/hearing this statement or an iteration of this statement by now, but it is simply just true.. The term started before the term even began with both Laura and Joel running their community services and Laura …
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Jul 25 2025
Daniel le Jeune, our Troop Scouter from 2022 to 2025, stepped during Term Two. Daniel was a Springbok Scout at 1st Claremont, then an Assistant Troop Scouter, and then took over the Troop when David Knight stepped down as Troop Scouter. It’s hard to put into words how much Daniel contributed to the Troop in …
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Jan 28 2025
Caleb Sebastian Serafin – scout since October 2013 and ATS since 2020 – is leaving us for the beautiful but distant land of the Czech Republic. I write this article with a heavy heart, since it is finally sinking in that Caleb is – for real – departing. I have been forced to reflect on …
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Feb 03 2024
Kestrels Company Termly ReportTerm 4 2023 “The Big One” Term 4 was an extremely productive quarter for the Kestrels Company. We welcomed Employee MK to the team, saw our more “closer to the retirement home” employees run a good few activities, including CEO James with community service and a movie night, ending off with a …
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Feb 03 2024
The Goshawk’s Bush Hello, it’s good to see you again visiting “The Goshawks Bush”. Here’s what we got up to in Term 4 2023. Term 4 was a bit quieter for our patrol due to exams rapidly approaching, but that didn’t stop us still having an awesome time. Logan ran his first patrol activity taking …
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Feb 03 2024
The Eagle’s Nest The Eagles have flown very high above the clouds of exams, burnt apple pies and the disappearance of some MSG from the bottle on our noticeboard. From what I have been told we all survived the tough exam time and only dropped a few members due to unmentioned AP exams but overall …
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