Plett local Edna Helfet celebrates her 100 Year Birthday!

Women’s Day was celebrated on Monday the 9th of August 2021 and Edna is definitely a woman worth celebrating.

Renowned Plett local Edna Helfet celebrated her 100 year birthday at the Barrington’s Brewery on Wednesday the 11 August 2021.

For those who haven’t had the good fortune to meet Edna, here is a brief, beautifully penned biography from her family.

‘Edna Helfet came into the world as Edna Landsman on August 11, 1921, in George, Western Cape. She would live in Calvinia, Cape Town, and Boston before returning “home” to Plettenberg Bay in 2001, a mere fifty miles from where she was born.

With her beloved Arnold, she raised three children in Cape Town and traveled to the four corners of the earth. A long-time member of the Black Sash, an anti-Apartheid protest organization, and a volunteer for many years with the South African Council of Churches Dependants Conference, an organization that facilitated visits by family members to political prisoners on Robben Island.

The venerable matriarch of her far-flung family, she’s the loving grandmother of five and great-grandmother to five more.

Edna has led an extraordinarily well-lived life.’

Note extracted from Barrington’s Facebook Page