Committee

Charlotta Steyn (Chair)

Charlotta was owner of a financial planning business for about 20 years, and then ventured with a Dutch partner into custom designed medical devices. When she retired she ran an up-market pet guest house and doggy-day-care. She was also founding member of the Kenmare Kloof Conservation Association.

Charlotta and her husband moved to Tulbagh in 2022 and was struck by the poverty and desolution in the local community, and decided to do something about it.

Ragel Louw

Ragel lived most of her live in Tulbagh and worked in many different local shops. She was deacon and elder in the VGK church and very active in women support.

Ragel is very fond of sports, baking and cooking. She was president of the Witzenberg Netball Union and Chairman of the Netball Wanderers. She later became Chairman of the United Netball Club where she also did coaching and was a referee.

She was Chair-person of the Governing Body of Steinthal Skills School She served on several governing bodies, including Waveren School and Badisa. She is presently involved with the Emanuel Society for the Aged.

Ragel joined Pantry Partners and Food4Good because she cares deeply for her community.

Naudine Verryne

Naudine Verryne holds the degrees B.Proc and LLB obtained from the University of Pretoria (1998).

She grew up in Brits (North-West Province) and opened her private practice in that town as Verryne Attorneys, specializing in Third Party and Medical negligence claims. She closed her practice in 2019, when the family relocated to George in the Western Cape. They have recently moved to Tulbagh.

Naudine is also a qualified mediator with a formal qualification in Family Mediation.

Nella Souris

Nella Souris is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher and a Health & Wellness coach. She is passionate about everything to do with health, movement and nutrition. She also started an initiative with our dearly departed Siyamthanda Dastile, to bring much needed extra mural activities to the primary school children of Tulbagh and offers a free weekly yoga class for the children. Her long term goal is to offer her health coaching skills for the upliftment of the community.