MKI, the Sandton Hotels and the making of a documentary.

Yesterday the creation of a documentary about the activities of the Medical Knowledge Institute has began with a very special church service in the St. George Cathedral in downtown Cape Town. Archbishop Desmond Tutu was not able to do the service since he had to be in London to be back this weekend to spend with us and the camera crew this coming Thursday.

After the solemn service we all felt that the mission to South Africa was being blessed and that we could start our journey in creation a documentary on the activities of MKI. So after the service we were invited to join a small group of people to have breakfast. So we found ourselves sitting in a little circle around the table with the former major of Cape Town, the co-chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, Lavinia Brown the former PA to Desmond Tutu and the Consul General of the Netherlands David de Waal, to name a few.

After breakfast we... and maybe this is the time to introduce the MKI / Sandton Hotels / Longridge / team to you. Rogier and Elke Braakman, one of the co-founders of the Sandton Hotels, Janneke Rutten, director of Intense Wines and partner of Longridge, Brigitte Plugge, Director of BIMA Productions, Sjoerd Vogel, the cameraman of BIMA Productions, Laurien Hylkema, the sound lady of BIMA Production and Willibrord Kruijsen, the lighting and photo man of BIMA Production, Yasmin Fuyk the operational manager of MKI and me of course.
For your information the creation of the documentary is being financed by Sandton Hotels, Intense Wines and Longridge in honour of MKI’s activities in Southern Africa.

So, after breakfast we paid our respect to the Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Cape Town, Mr. David de Waal. David, a great supporter of MKI was so kind to receive the group in his office and to make a statement on camera.

We than toured Cape Town, visited the always very beautiful Table Mountain which gave the camera crew a sublime view of Cape Town.
We ended the day with an unforgettable being together with Kirsty, MKI’s Executive Director for Southern Africa and her husband Ian.

All good wishes from South Africa

PICTURES:
1. The group leaving Amsterdam for South Africa
2. Together with David de Waal and Rogier Braakman