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SA’s BOOZE
NIGHTMARE
Shocked
health
minister
’depressed’
by extent
of drunken
behaviour
Peak Paddling Season
NASHIRA DAVIDS
and AARTI J NARSEE
ALCOHOL is bringing South Africa
to its knees, and Health Minister
Aaron Motsoaledi says he agrees
with experts who accuse the
government of spending decades
dragging its feet in passing laws in
response to the crisis.
Problems caused by heavy drinking spike over the festive period, the
prime time for substance-fuelled
violence, road crashes and child neglect.
Motsoaledi said yesterday that he
was shocked when he drove through
Limpopo late on Christmas Day to
see groups of drunken young people
in almost every village.
“I was deep in depression about
where our country is heading to. I
even stopped and said: ‘My God.’
That was during the night! They
were just there to drink alcohol —
young girls and young boys,” said
Motsoaledi.
South Africans are among the
world’s biggest boozers, with one in
four adults classified as heavy
drinkers, and the problem is getting
worse.
On average, more than 100 people
die every day due to alcohol abuse —
as a result of drink-driving, violence
or heart disease — but steps to
tackle the problem are mired in
bureaucracy, according to scientists
and activists.
Among the shock details of South
Africa’s love affair with booze are:
ý The volume of alcohol sold increased 12.4% between 2006-2007 and
2013-2014;
ý Some 65 000 retail alcohol licences were granted in 2011, compared with 35 000 in 2003; and
DRUNKS: Health Minister Dr Aaron
Motsoaledi was shocked by public
drunkenness in Limpopo
TASCHICA PILLAY
MATERNITY wards throughout
South Africa were kept busy on
Christmas Day welcoming more
than 480 bundles of joy.
Gauteng recorded most births at
provincial hospitals, with 213 new
arrivals — of 110 boys and 103 girls.
Chris Hani Baragwanath had the
highest number of deliveries — 51
— followed Rahima Moosa Mother
and Child Hospital in
Picture: ESA ALEXANDER
Holidaymakers enjoy the beach, sunshine and Atlantic surf at Camps Bay in Cape Town yesterday
ý The World Health Organisation’s alcohol consumption forecast
for 2015 was 21% higher than a
decade ago.
Research in 2014 put the economic
cost of alcohol abuse at between 10%
and 12% of GDP — or more than
R300-billion.
In spite of this, six out of nine
provinces still apply the apartheidera Liquor Act of 1989. Its successor,
passed in 2003 after a Constitutional
Court tussle, applies only in the
Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and
the Northern Cape because they
have promulgated their own legislation in line with the act.
But even the 2003 act is no longer
considered fit for purpose, and in
May, Trade and Industry Minister
Rob Davies published a draft national liquor policy, which is intended to lead to a new Liquor Act, a
process that could take years.
Proposals in the draft included
raising the minimum legal drinking
age from 18 to 21; holding manufacturers, suppliers and retailers
liable for harm caused by the intoxicated; and banning liquor outlets within 500m of schools.
A proposed law to curb alcoholrelated advertising and sponsorships, the Control of Marketing of
Alcoholic Beverages Bill, was discussed by the cabinet in 2013.
Motsoaledi denied this was a bid
to ban alcohol, as many seem to
suggest. “Remember, we are among
the top 10 in the world of drunken
nations. The aim of the bill is to
reduce the attraction of alcohol to
young people — to the new generation. And we believe it is in line
with the National Development
Plan,” he said.
He emphasised that he was “extremely passionate” about the bill.
But he noted that there was opposition from the alcohol industry
and even “cabinet colleagues”.
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The aim of the bill
is to reduce the
attraction of
alcohol to young
people — to the
new generation
“I agree with civil society on this
one 100% that we delayed . . . if it was
not for all this procrastination we
would have moved on . . . Civil society must also wake up but they
must not just complain to the papers. They must act . . . They must
stand up on the side of government
this time and say enough is enough
— we want this law to pass for our
benefit. I will be happy, I will join
them if they do so,” he said.
He said that as health minister, he
sees the impact of alcohol abuse and
the suffering it brings.
“We are not moving quickly
enough. We have been working on
this for 10 years,” said Sue Goldstein, programme director for
health and development at the Soul
City Institute and a senior public
health lecturer at the University of
the Witwatersrand.
“The sense of urgency seems to
have fallen off and I am not quite
sure why. With legislation, problems eventually translate into
change, but unfortunately it is going
to take a lot of lives in the meantime.”
At least 1 542 motorists were arrested countrywide for drunk driving between December 1 and 23.
Road Traffic Management Corporation spokesman Simon Zwane said
yesterday that 786 000 vehicles had
been stopped at roadblocks and
147 000 drivers tested for alcohol
consumption.
Disregard for road safety was
illustrated by a driver who hurled an
empty beer can out of his minibus
taxi while weaving recklessly
among pedestrians and red traffic
lights in Johannesburg on Christmas Eve.
EMPTY CHAIR AT CHRISTMAS — Page 2
Upon being pulled over, he offered
traffic police a R630 bribe. He spent
Christmas behind bars.
Drunk drivers, pedestrians and
people injured while under the influence of alcohol put additional
strain on emergency treatment centres over the festive season.
“Alcohol is a major contributor to
serious and sometimes fatal injuries
— from car crashes to domestic
violence,” said Western Cape health
spokesman Mark van der Heever.
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One of the big
stumbling blocks
is the sports
ministry. They get
a lot of money
from sponsorships
Statistician-general Pali Lehohla
said this week that alcohol abuse
was one of the main factors contributing to high suicide rates in the
Northern Cape and Western Cape.
Charles Parry, director of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit at the Medical Research
Council, said binge drinking was a
large part of the problem.
“While many people do not drink,
a lot of people that do drink, drink
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Bundles of Christmas joy, but teen moms worry MEC
Coronationville with 28, which
included the province’s only twins.
Rob Ferreira Hospital in Mbombela
in Mpumalanga welcomed 37 babies.
The Western Cape saw the arrival
of 160 babies — 81 boys and 79 girls.
The hospital with the highest
number of deliveries was Mowbray
Maternity Hospital, where 11 boys
and 15 girls were born.
In KwaZulu-Natal, provincial
hospital health workers had their
hands full delivering 76 babies — 11
of whom were born to teenage girls.
KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Dr
Sibongiseni Dhlomo visited one
hospital in Chatsworth, delivering
gifts of clothing and nappies to the
mothers — along with a sexeducation lecture. He said he was
excited to welcome the newborns,
but concerned about the number of
teenage mothers.
They included a 14-year-old who
gave birth at St Appolonaris; two 15year-olds who gave birth at Lower
Umfolozi War Memorial and
Murchison Hospitals respectively;
and a 16-year-old whose baby was
born at Mosvold Hospital.
Dhlomo said the government
encouraged people to abstain from
sex for as long as possible, until
they were physically and
psychologically ready to deal with
its consequences.
Hlaudi plays Santa
in SABC bonus row
SABELO SKITI
A GROUP of mid-level SABC managers
ruined Christmas for their bosses when
their protest against a “once-off” 13th
cheque for 22 senior executives led to
the exclusive payment being halted.
But if the mid-level managers were
the Grinch that stole Christmas from
the top executives, it was controversial
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi
Motsoeneng who became their Santa
Claus by announcing this week they
would still get their 13th cheques, albeit
only early next year. The bonuses were
meant to be paid this month.
The row once again brings into sharp
focus the allegation that executives are
using the board to rubber stamp decisions by powerful managers.
The trouble began when mid-level
managers — among them news editors,
output editors and producers —
learned that top executives, such as
Motsoeneng, the head of human resources and the company secretary,
were going to be paid a 13th cheque.
Angry managers demanded that the
bonuses be scrapped and threatened to
go to court if this was not done.
They took the matter up with Motsoeneng, who had been reinstated in
his post a few days earlier following a
contentious disciplinary process. Motsoeneng then stopped the payments,
scheduled for the end of this week.
Motsoeneng insisted the cheques for
top executives had not been stopped,
but were “delayed” to give him time to
resolve “the misunderstanding” with
middle managers.
He said the disgruntled managers
viewed the payments as bonuses, but
they were merely 13th cheques that
everyone except the senior managers
had already received this year.
But the middle managers are having
none of that — with one insisting that a
possible solution would be for the
broadcaster to pay all its staff similar
once-off payments.
SABC group executive for human
resources Jabulani Mabaso said senior
managers had “sacrificed” their 13th
cheques since 2009 as part of austerity
measures at the public broadcaster.
It was incorrect, he added, to say the
executives had paid themselves, saying
the board resolved the “once-off” payment while it weighed the permanent
reinstatement of a 13th cheque.
SABC company secretary Theresa
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There was no way
we’d allow them to
pay bonuses right
under our noses
Geldenhuys said the board decision
was taken on November 26.
It is likely hostilities will resume
when the two groups meet again as
middle managers had believed the decision to stop payment was final.
“There was no way we would allow
them to pay themselves once-off bonuses right under our noses,” said an
unhappy middle manager.
SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago
said the payment would be between R6million and R7-million, and would be
shared between 22 group executives as
well as 68 general managers.
The SABC’s latest figures show the
18 permanent senior managers earned
R1.3-million to R3.7-million each.
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Former minister
gives his word
on nuclear deal
| December 27 2015
Santa’s Special Delivery
Ben Martins explains his signature after notice in
gazette sparks storm of accusations on social media
SIBUSISO NGALWA
and JAN-JAN JOUBERT
THE government has not gone
behind the backs of South Africans to
sign any nuclear deal over the Christmas season.
So says the man whose signature is
attached to this week’s Government
Gazette notice that sent social media
into a frenzy of accusations that President Jacob Zuma and his cabinet
waited until the holidays to sneak in
the controversial R1-trillion nuclear
deal.
But former energy minister Ben
Martins — dropped from the Zuma
cabinet last year — said that all that
was published this week was a “ministerial determination”, which was
the first step of the process.
The tendering process was yet to
start, said Martins.
“The note with [the National
Energy Regulator of South Africa] is
. . . looking at the beginning of a
process [to say] is this viable or is it
not viable? Then Nersa has to look at
what the energy needs of the country
are and . . . sign off,” he said.
Martins said his understanding
was that although the document was
signed on November 11 2013, it was
only gazetted this week because it
first had to go through a cabinet subcommittee made up of about eight
departments.
It then had to go to the cabinet for
approval.
It still had to go through a parliamentary process, and then would
go out on public tender.
“There are a number of countries
with expertise on nuclear. For
instance, Russia is very good with
infrastructure . . . France is the best
in instrumentation, and other countries like [South] Korea, they all have
their specialities. There isn’t a single
country that can deliver on all
aspects . . . when you build a house
you have a major contractor, somebody else might be good on carpentry
Picture: GALLO IMAGES
NOTHING SNEAKY: Ben Martins
. . . so you call in all those issues. But
the country still has to decide.
“Even if you read the document
itself . . . it says there must be an open
tender process,” he said.
The Treasury would still have “to
come in to say, ‘Can the country
afford this?’,” said Martins.
His views were backed up yesterday in a statement released by
Thabane Zulu, director-general of
the Department of Energy.
Zulu said they had delayed
gazetting the agreement between
Nersa and Martins signed in 2013,
and the department “accepts this
should have been made clear when
the determination was gazetted on 21
December”. He said cabinet had
made a decision to develop nuclear
power plants in June. More recently,
at a cabinet meeting on December 9,
they heard report backs from the
Department of Energy and the Treasury about the financing of such a
programme. They were now going to
develop a final funding model.
“The Department of Energy is com-
mitted to cost effectiveness and full
transparency,” said Zulu. “We will
ensure that the integrity of the process is safeguarded at all times.”
The notice in the gazette said the
Department of Energy will be the
procurement agency for any nuclear
deal, and that the tendering process
will be “fair, equitable, transparent,
competitive and cost-effective”.
It states all the nuclear power generated would be sold to Eskom unless
the energy minister decided that it
could be sold to additional buyers.
In the October supplementary budget, the only amount set aside for
nuclear was R200-million, which
senior Treasury officials said would
be spent on global research into the
best funding models for nuclear new
build.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan
recently gave the assurance that the
nuclear procurement process would
go ahead only if the country could
afford it.
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A Palestinian wearing a Santa Claus costume hurls stones at Israeli soldiers during a protest against the construction of Jewish settlement housing and the
separation wall in Ramallah, West Bank, on Christmas Day
Picture: GETTY IMAGES
Stephan Welz, doyen of SA art auctioneers, dies in Joburg
ANDRÉ JURGENS
RENOWNED auctioneer and art connoisseur Stephan Aage Welz died on
Christmas Day at his home in
Johannesburg after a brief illness.
Welz, born in Worcester in the
Cape in 1943, was introduced to art at
an early age. His father Jean was a
renowned artist and the young
Stephan assisted in his mother Inger’s art and antique gallery.
Early in his career, Welz worked in
financial and administrative posts,
assisting Professor Walter Battiss in
the Department of Fine Arts at the
University of South Africa.
He was appointed a director of
Sotheby’s London in 1983. The com-
AFRICANA: Stephan Welz
pany’s South African interests were
bought out four years later, leading
to the formation of Stephan Welz &
Co, which conducted auctions as the
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“You don’t know me. I walk into
your house with a little piece of paper
and I walk out with R15-million of
your property.
“How often don’t I walk out of a
house with a painting under my arm
that’s worth more than the house,”
he said.
Welz was a sought-after public
speaker on the arts — both fine and
decorative — and presented a TV
series for more than six years on the
evaluation of works of art.
He also wrote what is considered
the definitive book about Cape
silver.
He is survived by his wife Carmen,
daughter Tanya, son Konrad and two
grandchildren.
Son’s chair empty at Xmas lunch
NASHIRA DAVIDS
JAKE Wootton saved lives, even after
he drew his last breath. But no one
could save the 18-year-old head boy
from Cape Town when he was hit by a
car three years ago.
The driver Schalk Lubbe, allegedly
drunk at the time, was found guilty of
culpable homicide this month in the
Strand Regional Court.
While the family is grateful for the
measure of justice, the pain of losing
Jake intensifies. He would have
turned 22 this month and started
working with his father.
On Friday the Woottons and their
friends set the table and left a chair
open for Jake when they had Christmas lunch. They have been doing so
every year since his death.
Jake was in matric at Milnerton
High, a member of Big Bay Lifesaving
Club, and someone who cared deeply
for others, his father said.
He was on holiday in Hermanus
when Lubbe’s car hit him on April 4
2012. He sustained serious head injuries and was declared brain dead
three days later. Jake’s organs were
donated to others. “One of his friends
LIFESAVER: Jake Wootton died after
he was hit by a car in 2012
told us that it was what Jake wanted to
do,” Jake’s father said.
He said Lubbe, who was initially
charged with drink-driving but whose
blood was not drawn after the accident, had shown no remorse.
Sentencing is set for next month.
Matter of fact
THIS month the Sunday Times received complaints for the first time in
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squad”. After conducting a review of
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published since 2011, covering 20 incidents resulting in 30 deaths, we
would like to correct two errors.
In a graphic, “The bloody trail of
the killer cops” (December 11 2011),
we published a picture depicting people shot by the dog unit and metro
police. Although neither the head-
lines nor caption said they were
killed by the Cato Manor unit, the
story conveyed this impression.
In “Cop says bribe charge is bid to
shut him up over KZN hit squads”
(December 11 2011), we also incorrectly stated that Colonel Navin Madhoe said in a sworn statement that
his discs of Cato Manor shootings
had not been handed in as evidence.
In fact, Madhoe said they ought to
have been handed in and if they were
not, this would signal a cover-up.
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heavily, especially at this time of
year,” he said.
Unpublished
MRC
research
reveals public support for more
stringent laws to deal with alcohol
abuse.
Statistics on alcohol abuse by
South Africans are alarming:
ý We have the highest number of
drink-driving accidents in the world,
according to the WHO. Around 58%
of road deaths are linked to alcohol;
ý We drink 53% more than the rest
of Africa, according to Southern
African Development Community
research;
ý The WHO ranks South Africa
fourth highest internationally when
it comes to the riskiest drinking
patterns; and
ý Research last year found that
alcohol is the third largest contributor to premature death and disability, after unsafe sex and violence, both of which are influenced
by drinking.
Savera Kalideen, advocacy manager at Phuza Wize, said the tangible and intangible annual costs of
alcohol harm totalled R37.5-billion.
“We only make R16-billion to R17billion per annum in terms of taxes
and excise duty . . . we are not gaining much out of the alcohol industry,” she said.
In June Zodwa Ntuli, then the
Department of Trade and Industry’s
deputy director-general for consumer and corporate regulation,
told parliament alcohol abuse was
“draining the state”.
DTI spokesman Sidwell Medupe
said the draft liquor policy was
awaiting cabinet approval and was
likely to be considered before the
end of the financial year.
The 90 responses received might
be included in the final policy. He
denied the government was dragging its feet.
“The criticism may be attributable
to the lack of appreciation of the
processes of consultation,” he said.
As for the bill on alcohol advertising, little progress has been made.
Parry said soon after the bill
received the cabinet’s stamp of approval, an independent regulatory
impact assessment was done to evaluate its effect on sectors such as
sport and tourism.
“One of the big stumbling blocks is
the Sports Ministry. They get a lot of
money from sports sponsorships in
order to function,” said Parry.
For close to a year, the bill has
been with the ministerial committee
on combating alcohol and substance
abuse, which includes the ministers
of health, social development and
trade and industry.
Lumka Oliphant, spokesman for
the Department of Social Development, said the implications of the bill
were complex.
“Government does not want to go
ahead with legislation until it has
been very carefully considered and
the impacts scrutinised.
“We know, for example, that sporting codes, the arts, the media, advertising agencies and so on will all
be impacted should this legislation
go ahead.”
The committee has yet to make a
recommendation to the cabinet, but
Oliphant said it believed the legislation would help alleviate the
scourge. — Additional reporting by
Andre Jurgens
sole local representative for Sotheby’s.
Although the company still bears
his name, Welz sold the business in
2006 and joined Strauss & Co.
His vast knowledge of South
African art and antiques earned him
many accolades.
In an interview last month with the
Sunday Times, Welz shared fond
memories of the decades he spent
immersed in the art and auctioneering world.
Softly spoken and a towering presence, he was described by associates
as a formidable storyteller and, in his
spare time, a passionate farmer.
Trust, Welz told the Sunday Times,
was everything in the art business.
Blue-light crash victim adds to holiday death toll
STAFF REPORTERS
STATE Security Minister David
Mahlobo will tomorrow visit the family of an elderly man killed in a car
crash involving his blue-light detail
near Amsterdam in Mpumalanga.
The crash occurred on Wednesday
afternoon on the R33 near the Swaziland border. Authorities said it was a
head-on collision between Mahlobo’s
back-up vehicle and a private vehicle.
Media reports identified the dead
man as Herman van Schalkwyk, but
authorities could not confirm this. It
was reported that the Amsterdam
resident was on his way home to see
his family for Christmas.
Mahlobo said he did not wish to
divulge details of the accident, saying
that he preferred to allow police investigators to conclude their investigation. “He [the deceased] has been
identified and we are planning to visit
the family on Monday morning to express our condolences on behalf of my
protector, myself and the government.
“An accident is an accident and
when this happens government has a
duty to see the family and apologise,
even if you were not in that particular
vehicle. The department and the family will then issue a statement.”
Mpumalanga police spokesman
Brigadier Selvy Mohlala said a case
of culpable homicide was being investigated.
About 600 people have been killed
in almost 700 traffic accidents this
month, the Road Traffic Management Corporation said yesterday.
Two employees of the City of Cape
Town’s safety and security department died in a head-on collision with
each other on Christmas Day.
Bulalekile Ganta and Zindiswa
Canca were driving home after work
when the crash happened just before
7pm on Old Faure Road in Mfuleni.
Three people were killed yesterday
morning on the R74 in KwaZulu-Natal
when the bakkie in which they were
travelling overturned at Middelrus,
provincial traffic officials said.
Two BMW drivers spent Christmas
Day in Free State jails after being
caught driving at speeds of 195km/h
and 162km/h in 120km/h zones.
ý Eight Capetonians died in four
fires in the early hours yesterday and
nearly 200 people were left homeless.
A woman and a five-year-old girl died
in a shack fire in Elsie’s River. Four
adults and a child died in fires in Delft
and Mfuleni.
In Overcome Heights, Lavender
Hill, a man died in a blaze that
destroyed 13 structures.
ý A lifeguard rescued a 13-year-old
girl who was found face down in the
sea at Wilderness in the southern
Cape on Christmas Day.
Lifeguards and paramedics resuscitated the teen, who was admitted to
hospital in stable condition.
ý Paramedics, the National Sea
Rescue Institute, the Mountain Club
of South Africa and Nelson Mandela
Bay fire and rescue services worked
together to save two dachshunds
trapped in a collapsed tunnel at a
quarry in Port Elizabeth.
The dogs, Brody and Levi, bolted
down a hole after a dassie while on a
Christmas evening walk.
ý A second humpback whale carcass washed up on a beach in Cape
Town in three days. The 9m young
male was removed from Kommetjie
beach by the city council’s solid waste
department yesterday after it
beached on Christmas Day.
Last Wednesday, a female humpback was removed from Strand
beach. Authorities do not know why
the animals died.
“Our speculation is that the female
found in Strand died from old age,”
said Gregg Oelofse of the council’s
environmental resource management department.
“It was a fully grown adult and
there were no signs of damage to the
whale,” he said.
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End the Trend | Social media helped reshape South Africa this year, playing a massive role in keeping those in power
accountable to those they are supposed to serve. But the digital generation also showed its forgettable, silly side
#2015
The year of the
brainless hashtag
BABALWA SHOTA
WE spent 2015 glued to our
cellphones with cramped
thumbs as we rushed to keep
up with the avalanche of
hashtags on social media, from
reality TV shows to political
gaffes and everything in
between.
In the new year we look
forward to even more inventive
hashtags to keep us informed,
opinionated and entertained.
Of course, some hashtags we
will never forget because they
brought South Africa to a
standstill and persuaded the
government to listen. Among
these were #FeesMustFall, the
student-led protest movement
that began in mid-October in
response to an increase in fees
at South African universities,
and #RhodesMustFall, which
put old-regime statues in the
spotlight.
But there are others that
have run us ragged and these
simply #MustFall.
#AllWhiteParty — The year
2015 saw virgin white tumble
out of the bridal closet and onto
the mainstream party scene.
The colour usually reserved for
weddings and Catholic first
holy communions became THE
event dress theme for any
gathering, from premium
champagne A-list parties to
kasi picnic festivals. Closets
across Mzansi were suddenly
bursting with white pants,
shirts, dresses and — heaven
forbid — shoes.
For months we’ve been
blinded by Facebook and
Instagram pictures that look
like a 1980s ad for washing
powder, and we deserve a
reprieve from this trend. Event
organisers, please, I beg of you,
do not subject us to any more of
this torture. Perusing pictures
of men in white skinny pants
that leave PG13 imprints all
over my timeline has been
punishment enough.
#MyCousinIsBetterThanYours
It’s wonderful that people seem
to have rediscovered family
bonds, even if it is just for
picture opportunities at the
open-air market on a Saturday
SO BEYOND THE PALE: The All White Pool Party hosted by hip-hop artist DJ L.E.S. in January
UNFUNNY: The sexist hashtag #Ziright’igirls blew up in a very bad way
the time and the presence of
mind to pose philosophical
questions as deep as
Socrates’s? Could she? Really?
MONROE DOCTRINE: Marilyn Monroe, seen here in 1953, was
surely too busy to philosophise
afternoon, but it’s a given that a
lot of relationships in the time
of Instagram are as sincere as
the Valencia photo filter, so we
really should check ourselves
before making such rash
declarations.
oversized designer shades
hiding eyes puffy from crying
the entire night while your man
was popping bottles at the club
with IG (Instagram) “models”.
You don’t have to be smug just
because he’s “put a ring on it”.
#Proverbs31Woman —
Congratulations on being wifed,
darling, but you’re showing
your ugly insecure colours by
sub-tweeting your husband’s
side chicks with this scripture.
Save your holier-than-thou
attitude for your charismatic
church selfies on Sunday, so we
can oohhh and aaahhh at your
#QuotesFromCelebrities —
Before you post that selfaffirming quote from Marilyn
Monroe, ask yourself this: could
this gorgeous bombshell really
have taken time out of her busy
life of presidential affairs,
reading scripts, numbing
herself with pills and potions
. . . could she really have had
#Ziright’igirls — A curious
thing happened around about
the time South Africa was
observing the annual 16 Days of
Activism for No Violence
❛
Against Women and Children.
This hashtag blew up in such a
big way that even Nando’s
made a parody of it. Until then,
this sexist wisecrack, which
means “Are the girls OK?”, had
been an inner-circle joke among
political fat cats and business
movers and shakers when they
gathered in the dark confines of
clubs like Cubana and Taboo
with a posse of “models” meant
to make them look good.
Like most patriarchal
sentiments that come cloaked
in the guise of a joke, it went
from funny to insulting in a
blink. The chicken franchise
should have stayed away from
this flaming mess.
#Balling (living the good
life) — Because you are
sitting in the VIP section
taking pics with sponsored
bottles of booze? Phuleeze!
#AKAvsCassper — Stop, just
stop. It’s enough now; you’ve
both milked it dry.
Between the twars (Twitter
wars) and the nightclub
bitchslap that rapper AKA
served to his musical nemesis
Cassper, this beef gave us
something to cackle about
during world event lulls.
But even the tabloids have
got bored with this infantile,
never-ending fight. AKA, you’re
making your mark around the
African continent and recently
cracked the UK radio market;
and Cassper, you made history
by being the first local artist to
fill a 20 000-capacity venue for
his own show.
Enjoy your success and leave
the beef — manufactured or not
— behind in 2015.
Remember, it didn’t end well
for 2Pac and Biggie.
PLAY NICELY: Rappers AKA and Cassper’s boring vendetta has run
out of steam and interest
Picture: LUCKY NXUMALO
Heady cocktails of fire, ice and colour
Asanda
trips the
starlight
fantastic
Shake it, stir it,
drink it — the
cocktail has been
given several new
twists, and the
main ingredient
is imagination
SUTHENTIRA GOVENDER
FEW teenagers can brag about
performing for Antonio Banderas, Lindsay Lohan, Eva Longoria, Nicole Scherzinger and
Victoria Beckham.
Nor can they boast of sharing
a stage with The Beach Boys,
David Foster and Alexander
Burke.
But 14-year-old Asanda Jezile
can do just that.
Asanda, who was born in the
UK to South African couple
Luyanda and Prudence Jezile,
has taken the international music scene by storm after featuring on Britain’s Got Talent
two years ago.
She shot to fame in the UK,
after she wowed the judges of
the talent show, including hardto-please Simon Cowell.
But Asanda’s rendition of Rihanna’s Diamonds also provoked an outcry, with some
Brits dismissing her dance
moves as too provocative.
Becoming a finalist and earning praise from Cowell, who told
her she had “amazing stage
presence”, opened doors for the
southeast London schoolgirl.
While she is recording her
own album, Asanda’s cover versions of Beyoncé and Rihanna
tracks have earned her a following,
particularly
on
YouTube, where videos of her
performances have clocked up
more than 55 million hits.
Her most recent feat was performing at the Friends of Israel
Defence Forces fundraiser in
LA, which was attended by Hollywood stars such as Banderas.
She said one of her most
memorable performances was
at the Global Gift gala at the
Four Seasons Hotel in London
last year, where the teen met
#20Sweet16 — every year, just
after Christmas, we are
subjected to these inane,
kitschy declarations tinged
with a dose of desperate
wishful thinking. In 2014 we had
#20ForMe. This year was
supposed to be #20FitMeIn and
now we have #20Sweet16.
They are all accompanied by
equally futile challenges, like
#100DaysOfBeingNice to
others. This coming year, can
we please stop embarrassing
ourselves by jumping on to
every New Year hashtag trend,
then posting passive-aggressive
quotes when people call us out
on it two months down the line?
OKthanksbye.
Event
organisers,
please, I beg of
you, do not
subject us to
any more of
this torture
JEROME CORNELIUS
and FARREN COLLINS
SOUL SISTERS: Asanda Jezile with Nicole Scherzinger
Scherzinger, Longoria and the
Beckhams.
“Nicole came up to me after
my performance and hugged
and squeezed me. So did Ricky
Martin and Eva Longoria. I performed Diamonds and Halo at
the gala event,” said the teen.
Asanda, who arrived in South
Africa this week with her family, said she was always excited
to return to her parents’ birthplace, East London.
“I started singing when I was
very young, around the age of
three. I could sing before I could
talk,” she said.
Her parents left the Eastern
Cape 17 years ago and settled in
London. Luyanda featured in
the acclaimed stage production
of The Lion King, and now man-
ages his daughter’s career.
He and his wife have also
prepared her for the hardship of
the entertainment industry.
“We’ve told her not everyone
will always love you,” he said.
Asanda’s ritual of saying a
“little prayer” before taking the
stage helps to soothe her
nerves.
She is very much in touch
with her Xhosa roots.
“Even though I’m in London,
all of our friends are South
African. I never feel that the
culture is gone. We still eat pap
in London, we still have traditional Xhosa dishes like umfino [spinach].”
Asanda’s plan for the new
year is to finish her album and
focus on her education.
NEW Year’s Eve would not be
complete without a drink to
savour. These are some of the
hottest cool cocktails coastal
revellers will be sipping as the
sun sets on the year.
The Icy Hot, prepared by bartender Luke Whearty at Outrage of Modesty, the Cape Town
CBD’s newest trendy hangout,
contains green apple, honey,
vinegar, coconut and lavender.
It gets its punch from tequila.
“The idea is to choose a drink
based on flavours you enjoy, not
a preconceived idea of what gin
or whisky taste like,” said
Whearty. “The Icy Hot is a twolayered cocktail: one icy cold;
the other warm and frothy.”
Dom de Lorenzo, named
South Africa’s best bartender in
this year’s “World Class” showdown, serves The Hex of La
Lorana at his mobile Molecular
Bars. It includes Ron Zacapa 23year-old rum, coffee, orgeat (almond) syrup, pineapple purée
and a dash of grapefruit juice.
“It is a bit out there due to its
flaming garnish, which is a
granadilla
half-filled
with
absinthe and set on fire and
dusted with cinnamon,” said De
Lorenzo.
The Deep Blue cocktail served
at Cafè Manhattan in De Waterkant, Cape Town, is an orange and pineapple drink
topped with a twisted Long Island mix: vodka, gin, tequila,
rum, blue curaçao and triple
sec.
Manager Taswell Heubner
COLOUR ME BOOZY: From left, The
Deep Blue served at Cafè Manhattan in
De Waterkant, Cape Town, includes six
different spirits; champion bartender
Dom de Lorenzo’s The Hex of La Lorana;
and bartender David Simon White
preparing an Old Fashioned at Tjing
Tjing rooftop bar in Cape Town
said: “Stick to one drink and
have a bottle of still or sparkling
water accompany you for in between. Go on your barman’s recommendations as he knows
what works.”
The Old Fashioned prepared
by bartender David Simon
White is the most popular cocktail at Tjing Tjing rooftop bar in
Longmarket Street, Cape Town,
according to manager Faye Winters. A double shot of bourbon
goes into a glass with ice, Angostura bitters and a dash of
sugar syrup.
“Four to five rinds are cut off
an orange and then squeezed
over the glass to release their
natural oils,” said Winters.
“While squeezing the rinds
David holds a lighter flame close
to the rind, and the oils ignite.
This adds a smoky, citrus
flavour to the drink.”
For the aspirational Durbanite looking for a bit of escapism,
The Chairman on the city’s waterfront offers a drink worthy of
its name. The Surrender Your
Booty is a martini with a twist. It
comes shaken with a mix of
Gordon’s gin, Cointreau, fresh
ginger and extra-dry vermouth.
❛
The idea is to
choose a drink
based on
flavours you
enjoy
“This drink describes the idea
we had for this area,” said Mayo
Ndlovu, The Chairman’s manager. “There is a lot of energy
here, but not the right kind of
energy so we wanted to convert
it, and Surrender Your Booty
symbolises that.”
For budding mixologists, The
March Hare in Wynberg, Johannesburg, offers cocktailmaking classes that promise to
turn the most amateur of mixers
into pros in just five hours.
“People with bars at home and
plenty of stock love this,” said
co-founder Alicia Bulter.
“We teach them how to mix
their own cocktails, balance
them and blend them with different flavours,” she said.
“Then we go into the different
methods like shaken or stirred,
and even down to the type of
glass you should use.”
News
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Sunday Times
4 | NEWS
Student funds
body rejected
R1bn loan aid
| December 27 2015
Home for Christmas
Middle-class students the losers as PIC solution
snubbed for covering too few students overall
PREGA GOVENDER
THE government has seemingly
snubbed a R1-billion financial
aid package from the Public Investment Corporation that
could have helped 3 300 students
from middle-class families secure a place at university.
This emerged amid a warning
by a task team — appointed by
President Jacob Zuma to investigate short-term funding challenges experienced by middleclass students — that protests
could be triggered on campuses
early next year.
The PIC’s proposal made to
the National Student Financial
Aid Scheme (NSFAS), was
meant to assist between 275 and
350 students a year over seven
years, as part of an attempt to
provide loans to as many as
350 000 financially needy students from upper-working-class
and lower-middle-class families.
About 186 000 poor students,
whose families earn up to
R122 000 per annum, are covered by loans and bursaries
from the student aid scheme.
Diane Parker, deputy director-general for university education in the Department of
Higher Education, said that the
PIC’s R1-billion proposal “covered too few students” and “it
wasn’t the sort of solution that
could be put in place for the
wider problem”.
“That’s why there was a decision that there needed to be
further work to look at what are
the full range of options, and can
we put in place something that
will really cover the ‘missing
middle’ [the upper working
class and lower middle class]
more effectively,” said Parker.
“We want to look at something that’s much broader than
[the R1-billion] that can really
make a big dent in this process
around providing funding for
students.”
She denied the department
had turned down the PIC proposal, saying Higher Education
Minister
Blade
Nzimande
“hasn’t made any kind of particular determination around it”.
“But he did request that we
look to see whether or not there
were other possibilities and
that’s part of what led towards
looking at broadening the net.
“It’s not to say that the PIC
couldn’t be part of the fund that
becomes available.”
However, a senior source
within the department said that
a report prepared by officials
from the NSFAS, which Nzimande is studying, had found
NO GO: Diane Parker of the
Higher Education Department
OPTIONS: Minister of Higher
Education Blade Nzimande
MODEL: Sizwe Nxasana,
chairman of the NSFAS board
that the PIC proposal “was not a
viable option because they are
not going to take us out of the
problem with what they put on
the table”.
The source said the preferred
route after engagements with
the PIC was to negotiate with
the banks “because they have a
lot of money”.
According to the source, the
“first route” of the officials from
❛
The issue is
we dish out
money as
loans but you
can’t recover it
so it’s a
bottomless pit
the NSFAS was to meet with the
PIC, because it was the largest
fund manager in Africa and was
responsible for the Government
Employees Pension Fund.
However, the source said, the
PIC had expressed reservations
about the NSFAS’s capacity to
collect monies owed by students
who had graduated and found
employment.
“The issue is, we dish out
money as loans but you can’t
recover it so it’s a bottomless
pit,” said the source.
Sizwe Nxasana, chairman of
the NSFAS board, said it was not
true that his board or Nzimande
had turned down the PIC’s offer.
“The offer has simply been overtaken by events given the student protests which started in
October 2015, and the appointment of the presidential task
team on student fees.”
He said the proposed product
was being considered in the context of a broader and more comprehensive funding model for
poor and “missing middle” students.
But the proposal was not very
attractive because it required the
NSFAS to underwrite the default
losses on the loans and parents
would have to start servicing the
interest and capital before students completed their studies.
Nxasana said the financing
model he was working on
sought to fund poor university
students and the “missing middle” students.
It was a public-private partnership involving members of
the Banking Association, the
Association of Savings and Investments and Business Leadership South Africa.
“The model envisages raising
adequate funding from various
sources including the public and
private sectors to fund poor and
missing middle students.”
PIC spokesman Deon Botha
said an amount of R1-billion had
been mentioned during the preliminary discussions “but there
was no indication from NSFAS
that they do not agree with this
amount”.
“As no official response was
received from NSFAS, no final
amount for the PIC’s participation could be confirmed.”
Botha said the PIC managed
pension fund monies and had an
obligation to manage its credit
risk exposure.
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Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille handed out gifts to children in the Sea Views development in Hangberg, Hout Bay, on Christmas Day. Recently the city transferred
four residential units to the community as part of Cape Town’s integrated development plan
If it’s a good Friday, it must be Easter
STEVE Harvey, the man who
famously gave the Miss
Universe crown to the wrong
contestant, has now offered the
world Easter greetings — on
Christmas Day.
“Merry Easter, y’all!” ran the
caption to a picture of a smiling
Harvey, smoking a cigar and
flashing a “V” sign.
The picture was posted on
Friday on Harvey’s social
media accounts.
Harvey poked fun at himself
— and his gaffes — in his first
public appearance since the
high-profile fiasco.
Harvey, a 58-year-old
comedian and talkshow host,
misread his cue card in front of
a global TV audience at the
Miss Universe pageant on
December 20 and announced
that Miss Colombia, Ariadna
Gutierrez, had triumphed.
He apologised moments later,
saying Miss Philippines, Pia
Alonzo Wurtzbach, was
actually the winner.
Harvey apologised on
Twitter for what he called “an
TONGUE IN CHEEK: Steve Harvey’s Christmas card on Facebook
honest mistake”, but identified
the women as “Miss
Philippians and Miss
Columbia”. He quickly
corrected the spelling mistakes
and deleted the tweet.
Viewers can expect to see a
lot more of him. “Steve Harvey
Signs Multi-Year Deal to Host
Miss Universe,” ran the
headline on Comedyhype.com
website. Harvey posted a link
to the site on his Facebook
page.
The brief text, quoting an ET
Online story, said the contract,
signed just before the pageant
aired, “is for at least three
years, possibly even as many as
six or seven”.
After the pageant mix-up
several people claimed on
Twitter it was a publicity stunt
to boost the sagging TV ratings
of Harvey and the event.
“I generally don’t buy into
conspiracy theories, but this is
the most attention the Miss
Universe pageant has gotten
since, well, ever,” said sports
writer Les East.
Another tweet said: “Steve
Harvey’s mistake was all a
conspiracy created for two
purposes: make Miss Universe
relevant again. Make Steve
Harvey relevant again.”
Online magazine Salon called
doubters “Miss Universe
truthers” — a US term for
conspiracy theory devotees —
that “show how paranoid we’ve
become”. — AFP
Journalist
faces China
expulsion
CHINA confirmed the imminent expulsion of a French
journalist in the first such case
since 2012, accusing her of
“championing” terrorist acts.
Ursula Gauthier, a Beijingbased
correspondent
for
French news magazine L’Obs,
must issue a public apology for
an article she wrote last
month or China’s Foreign Ministry will not renew her press
credentials, officials told Gauthier on Christmas Day.
Gauthier’s article spoke of
China’s anti-terrorism policies
in the western region of Xinjiang, where many members
of the Muslim Uighur ethnic
minority complain of discrimination.
Chinese media is strictly
controlled, but foreign media
are free to publish on any
topic. However, foreign journalists frequently complain of
harassment. — AFP
Zuma’s Christmas cheer lifts grateful gogos
NATHI OLIFANT
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma’s support in
the business sector and academia and
among the country’s politicos and middle class may have plummeted, but
there was no sign of that when he
played Father Christmas in Durban on
Wednesday.
Zuma used the first leg of his annual
senior citizens Christmas party, in Savannah Park, Durban, to address the
criticism he faced this year.
Zuma’s off-the cuff speech drew a lot
of applause, ululating and giggling
from the crowd as he recounted events
from his rural life.
Accompanied by his director-general
Cassius Lubisi and Arts and Culture
Minister Nathi Mthethwa, Zuma said
the elderly were there to guide society
and instil values and respect. He said
they were the backbone of families and
should be protected.
“I respect people. I have much respect for everyone. I respect children
and I even respect opposition parties
and I do not even point fingers at
them,” he said.
Zuma has had a rough ride from
opposition parties this year, with the
leader of the DA, Mmusi Maimane,
calling him a broken man presiding
over a broken society.
The EFF criticised his giggling as he
refused to answer questions about his
NATHI OLIFANT
SHE may have clashed with Nkosazana
Dlamini-Zuma in the past, but newly
elected ANC eThekwini chairwoman
Zandile Gumede has given the clearest
indication yet that the powerful region
will back the African Union head as
South Africa’s next president.
“Woman premier, woman president
— whatever the challenge, we are
ready,” she told the Sunday Times.
Gumede is aligned with the faction
led by ANC KwaZulu-Natal chairman
Sihle Zikalala, which is supporting
Dlamini-Zuma’s campaign.
Early in 2013, Dlamini-Zuma sub-
SHOULDER TO LEAN ON: President Jacob Zuma with one of the senior citizens
who received a food parcel at his annual senior citizens Christmas party in
Savannah Park, Durban, this week
Picture: ROGAN WARD
presidency, including those relating to
his Nkandla home and the economy.
“I respect them all, yes I respect
them,” he said this week — with a
chuckle. “I do not get angry; in fact, I
hardly get angry. If you are angry, your
judgment gets cloudy and you end up
taking irrational decisions.
“That’s why I have lived this long and
surpassed my age limit. I am now living
in a grace period,” said the 73-year-old.
Zuma lamented the destruction of
family structure and values, which he
said was bleeding morals from society.
“Family life and values had been
replaced by the pursuit of individual
interests,” he said. “These are often
selfish and to the detriment of the
greater good.”
Later, an isicathamiya group of prisoners who entertained guests at the
event had Zuma in stitches when they
sang songs with lyrics such as: “Mmusi
Maimane and Helen Zille, leave Zuma
alone and stop asking about the multimillion-rands house . . . you Julius,
you should stop, and Thuli Madonsela,
please protect the president of the
republic.”
From time to time the group leader
took the microphone to impersonate
Zuma’s now infamous cry of “Nkaaandlaaaa”.
Clementine Khena, 77, said she did
not care who Zuma appointed as the
minister of finance as long as that
person did not cut the social welfare
grant.
Khena was referring to Zuma’s controversial decision to axe finance minister Nhlanhla Nene and replace him
with the unknown David van Rooyen,
only to sack him four days later and
appoint Pravin Gordhan.
“Every employer has a right to employ whoever they like. uMsholozi
bahlale bemsukela nje [they are always
accusing Zuma],” she said.
Zuma will today preside over the
second leg of the senior citizens Christmas party, at Mnyakanya High School
sports ground in Nkandla.
Zuma donated two cows for the
parties.
Dlamini-Zuma wins Durban support
mitted a report into events leading up
to the 2011 local government elections
in which she recommended that
Gumede, among others, be removed as
a councillor.
This followed serious allegations including murder, meddling in the list
process and her election as a councillor
in an area in which she did not live.
Gumede said a subsequent ANC
team led by provincial deputy chair
Willies Mchunu and national executive
committee member Joe Phaahla later
found that the allegations against her
were unfounded.
“I must admit that a long time ago I
had fled Maoti, my ward, and rented a
flat in Phoenix,” said Gumede.
“I was extremely victimised and was
nearly killed but people elected me and
said they wanted me . . . Yes, there were
challenges but I was later exonerated
from all the allegations in the
Nkosazana report.”
Gumede is now in charge of the
ANC’s biggest and most influential re-
gion. She replaced her rival, mayor
James Nxumalo, who withdrew from
the leadership race two weeks ago. His
supporters alleged that the process had
been manipulated to favour her.
Gumede is a veteran councillor in
eThekwini, with a seat on the powerful
executive committee. She also chairs
the health, safety and social services
committee.
Her election makes her eligible to
become the Metro’s mayor after next
year’s local government election.
News
N-1 JDCP
Sunday Times
| December 27 2015
NEWS | 5
Holiday dreams dashed by Home Affairs red tape
Government’s on-off visa rules leave a trail of
misery as travellers are ensnared in confusion
SUTHENTIRA GOVENDER,
TASCHICA PILLAY and
SHELLEY SEID
GIFTS intended for eight-yearold Riley Fernandez and his twoyear-old sister Emmie lie unopened under a Christmas tree
in Boksburg.
Riley and Emmie, from Blackburn, England, didn’t get to
spend Christmas with their ailing South African grandparents
after their 17-day dream holiday
to South Africa was ruined last
Saturday.
Turkish Airlines refused to
allow Riley to board the Johannesburg flight because he
and his mother Rachelle
Stassen have different surnames. This is because Rachelle
remarried and took the name of
her new husband, former South
African Martin Stassen.
The family are casualties of
confusion over the government’s
visa regulations, which require
anyone flying in and out of South
Africa with a child to have a full
unabridged birth certificate.
Lone adults flying with their children must provide written consent from the other parent.
The ruling, introduced in June
last year to prevent child trafficking, has caused confusion at
international
immigration
desks and resulted in a number
of travellers being banned from
flying to South Africa for the
holidays.
Former South African accountant Grant Hughes almost
missed his Umhlanga wedding
on Wednesday because his children Keagan and Caitlin did not
❛
My dad has
cancer . . . I’m
not sure if I’ll
see him again.
We can’t afford
to travel again
have their unabridged birth certificates.
The family were due to travel
to South Africa last week but
were turned away by Ethiopian
Airlines at Heathrow Airport.
The family were refunded
their flight fares and arrived in
Durban on Tuesday night, just
in time for the beach wedding.
Tourism operators say con-
fusion over the visa requirements has cost South Africa
many millions of rands in revenue and plenty of bad publicity,
but home affairs spokesman
Mayihlome Tshwete said thousands of travellers from the UK
had arrived without complication because they had complied
with the regulations.
“On December 18 we recorded
the highest number of people,
29 000, who moved in and out of
our borders. Last year at the
same time, 24 000 people were
recorded,” Tshwete said.
“We have requirements for
people coming to South Africa
and if they did not meet them
they weren’t allowed to come to
the country.”
He said the department had
set a schedule for amending aspects of the visa regulations.
“That requires legislative
change. Until January all the
regulations remain the same.
“We have made concessions.
We have given timelines for
those concessions . . . [but] until
we have created the legal instrument that makes it possible,
the same requirements will still
apply,” said Tshwete.
He said airlines had informed
FLIGHT RISKS: Eight-year-old Riley Fernandez and his sister Emmie, left, at Manchester Airport before their holiday to South Africa was
cancelled. Right, Grant Hughes and his kids Caitlin and Keagan almost did not make it to his wedding to Nadine, left, in Umhlanga
travellers of the requirements.
In the case of the Stassens the
airline refused to budge even
after South African immigration authorities gave a written
assurance that the family would
be allowed into the country.
Turkish Airlines stood its
ground, claiming the Stassens
did not have written permission,
drawn up by a lawyer, from
Riley’s father to allow him to fly
to South Africa. This is despite
the fact that the boy’s father
went to Manchester Airport to
tell the airline he was aware the
child was travelling abroad.
Martin Stassen said his family
❛
Instead of
positive words
about SA,
tourists say it
is too difficult
to get there
were devastated their R80 000
holiday was ruined. “My dad has
cancer. This was a holiday
planned in detail so we could
spend quality time together. I’m
not sure if I’ll see him again. We
can’t afford to travel again and
we’ve used our leave.”
The airline has promised to
refund two-fifths of the price of
their tickets.
Southern African Tourism
Services Association chief executive David Frost said the onus
was on home affairs to keep the
international tourism sector
abreast of new requirements.
“They did nothing until 13 days
before it was due to be implemented, and even then there
were six changes during this
period. The requirements are
complex and onerous,” he said.
“There is no standard way of
notarising a document. While in
South Africa we can go to the
local police station, in the UK
you have to pay a lawyer and the
costs can be onerous.”
Although his association had
communicated the requirements to the inbound market,
there were limitations. “We
have briefed all the overseas
tour operators, but there is very
little we can do regarding direct
bookings through the internet.
People go online and trawl
through websites looking for
the cheapest deals and the regulations won’t pop up there.”
Mavuso Msimang, chairman of
the Tourism Business Council of
South Africa, said an intermin-
isterial committee agreed people
from countries that do not need
visas to visit South Africa would
be exempt from the birth certificate requirement.
“[But] communication has
been a problem. International
media write about the problems
that people experience. Not only
are we losing tourists but we are
also losing a public relations
battle,” Msimang said. “The
more problems are identified
which really could be resolved,
the more everybody loses.”
Flight Centre’s marketing
specialist Sharmila Ragunanan
said the regulation was “illadvised”. “We have appealed to
the government to work with
the tourism and travel sector to
find more workable, less damaging ways to manage child
smuggling and national security
concerns,” she said.
SAA said it conducted awareness campaigns, but the onus
was on travellers to ensure they
“meet and comply with all travel
and/or entry requirements of
countries they travel to”.
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Closing time for parly’s genial, discreet Barney
JAN-JAN JOUBERT
BARMAN Barney Barnard would
rock the house if he ever revealed the
political secrets of South Africa’s parliamentarians.
Barnard, who this week hung up
his apron after 40 years in the parliamentary bar in Cape Town, certainly has some stories to tell.
For years “I’ll meet you at Barney’s” or “We’ll sort it out over a
drink at Barney’s” was a byword for
political intrigue, friendship, betrayal
and manoeuvring.
Barnard — who has retired to his
home in Bellville with his wife Juliana and his children — was parliament’s barman extraordinaire. He
saw much but told little. He witnessed political ambitions being realised and hopes being dashed. He
served the celebratory drinks for the
successes, and provided liquid solace
for the failures. He saw the powerful
triumph, and many a great man cry.
He saw it all.
His career in parliament’s bar began on January 16 1975 when John
Vorster was prime minister and
apartheid was in full force. A few
defence force conscripts were asked
to help at the grand opening of the
parliamentary session, which in
those days took place in January.
CHECK THIS: Chess champ Naseem Essa
Picture: ROGAN WARD
SA kids king of castle
at chess tournament
TASCHICA PILLAY
SOUTH African chess whizz kids
have bagged 13 medals at the
African Youth Chess Championship
in Zambia.
Naseem Essa, 12, and Talia Govender, 7, both brought home gold for
their first spots in the under-12 boys
and under-8 girls divisions respectively two weeks ago.
Naseem, a Grade 6 pupil at Glenwood Preparatory School in Durban,
said: “I was familiar with many of the
others I played against, but it is
always nice playing people you have
never met before and interacting
with
people
from
different
cultures.”
The straight-A pupil starts his day
at 4am, playing chess, reading up on
chess programs and learning and
analysing the game online.
“Chess has helped me with my
maths, science and history, especially memorising dates and events
in history,” he said.
“Chess involves a lot of thinking of
the moves in your head and calculating before playing it on the
board.
“When at home I play against
computer programs or online
against a friend in Namibia, who I
met at the championship.”
Naseem is working to become a
grandmaster — the highest level a
chess player can attain.
He started playing chess at the age
of six when he received a chess
board for his birthday.
“Grade 3 was my best year in
chess, representing South Africa
and the year I beat a Grade 7 pupil
who was a top player in school. I then
started taking chess seriously,” he
said.
Apart from chess, he enjoys playing table tennis and cricket. He has
thus far spent his holidays learning
computer programming and has
been for cricket coaching.
Talia’s mother, Sandra Govender,
said her daughter was elated when
she won because she played and beat
girls older than her.
“Although she won in the under-8
category, she played girls from the
under-10 division,” said Govender.
The Grade 2 Crawford College Pretoria pupil, who started playing
chess in Grade 1, participated this
year for the first time at an international level when she went to
the Commonwealth Chess Games in
India in July.
“We are very proud of her achievement. This year she also won an
award for participating in the most
number of tournaments in her division,” said Govender.
Talia, who is ranked No 1 in South
Africa in the under-8 division, and
Naseem are due to head to Cape
Town next week for the junior national championships.
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We were not
allowed to have
anything to do with
Mugabe’s food, and
his people were
not allowed
anywhere near us.
Mutual fear of
poisoning
abounded
One of Barnard’s first big tasks was
to accompany a train to Victoria Falls
in August that year. The train was
parked on the bridge spanning the
falls, and the democratisation of
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe was negotiated.
“They were all there — [Rhodesian
leader] Ian Smith, [future Zimbabwean president] Robert Mugabe,
Vorster, [Zambian leader Kenneth]
Kaunda, [defence minister] PW
Botha. We were not allowed to have
anything to do with Mugabe’s food,
and his people were not allowed anywhere near us. Mutual fear of poisoning abounded,” Barnard recalled.
During the parliamentary recess,
Barnard worked on the railways and
in 1978 became the first waiter to
serve a black passenger on the Blue
Train. All the other waiters refused.
Barnard bore the brunt of cruel racist
comments by colleagues long afterwards.
He was to see much more of Botha,
who became prime minister and then
state president, and whose wife, Tannie Elize, took a liking to Barnard. He
worked at the Botha home in Wilderness, an undertaking marked by contradictions.
“If I were to use two doilies, she
would admonish me for wasting taxpayers’ money,” said Barnard.
In those days, waiters like Barnard
Picture: DAVID HARRISON
AS PW BOTHA ONCE SAID: Parliamentary barman Barney Barnard at his home in Bellville, Cape Town
WHAT’LL IT BE? Barnard with President Jacob Zuma, IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi (‘always a gentleman’) and as a young barman on the railways
were expected to wait, motionless, in
the corner of the room until required.
The Bothas’ teenage son Rossouw
took pleasure in taking pot shots at
Barnard with nuts, who was not allowed to move but was scolded by
Tannie Elize about the nutty mess
her little angel made.
After FW de Klerk took over in
1989, things became more relaxed.
Overseas and black visitors became
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If I were to use
two doilies, she
would admonish
me for wasting
taxpayers’ money
commonplace. Barnard helped with
the catering at Tuynhuys on the day
Nelson Mandela’s release was announced, and on the day of his presidential inauguration.
In the democratic dispensation, he
proved equally valuable, and no less a
personage than the then Speaker
Frene Ginwala put her foot down
when there were moves to place him
elsewhere.
US president Bill Clinton, Britain’s
Queen Elizabeth, cabinet minister
Blade Nzimande, EFF leader Julius
Malema . . . he has seen them come
and go, and has a tale about each.
Visit him at home in Bellville and
you will hear a host of stories about
South Africa.
For Barnard, a much-loved institution at parliament, last rounds have
not quite been served.
Oh Christmas tree, gay and bright, but better outside
NOT INSIDE: The Vatican’s tree in the square outside St Peter’s Basilica
SRI Lanka’s Catholic cardinal
has told priests not to put up
Christmas trees in their churches, saying they have no religious significance — and are
instead symbols of parties and
shopping centres.
Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo, issued a
statement telling clergymen to
“try to avoid putting up Christmas trees inside the churches”.
“These do not belong to the
sacred significance of Christmas but are more connected to
social and family celebrations
. . . They have also become symbols of Christmas in malls and
public squares,” he said.
Sri Lanka is a mainly Buddhist country, but around 1.2 million of its 21 million people are
Catholic.
December 25 is a national holiday in Sri Lanka and shops and
streets are often festooned with
Christmas decorations and
lights during the festive period.
Speaking to the BBC, the Rev
Ignatius Varnakulasingam, a
priest in Colombo, said the
church was not opposed to the
Christmas tree entirely — which
he acknowledged was “fun” —
but simply its installation in
places of worship.
“The Christmas tree is not a
liturgical symbol,” he said. “It
cannot be put in the sanctuary
of the church.”
Although the Vatican has a
Christmas tree, it is not installed
in St Peter’s Basilica but outside, in the square, the priest
said.
The origins of the Christmas
tree are somewhat disputed.
Historians say trees first began
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These do not
belong to the
sacred
significance of
Christmas
to appear in homes as part of
the pagan tradition, with evergreen boughs put above windows and doors to ward off evil
spirits and illness, or as a symbol of everlasting life.
The Christmas tree as it is
now known is generally traced
to Germany, where Christians
began bringing them into their
homes in the 16th century. Some
say the Protestant reformer
Martin Luther was the first to do
so; others say it first began to be
used in nativity plays as a symbol of the Garden of Eden.
For his part, Varnakulasingam said the Christmas
tree originated in Europe, par-
ticularly in Germany, where
people suffered from a lack of
greenery in the winter.
He also took aim at Father
Christmas, saying the church
would like to return to his more
religious predecessor, Saint
Nicolas.
However, he acknowledged
that it would be difficult because
“all the shops, they all have
Santa Claus”.
In general, the concept of
Christmas was being degraded,
the priest said.
“Sad to say now in the US they
don’t say ‘happy Christmas’ but
they say ‘[happy] holidays’.” —
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Pregnant women
warned as ‘rogue’
drug is recalled
| December 27 2015
Beach Boep
Bottles of folic acid tablets found to contain a
potentially dangerous anti-inflammatory
SHELLEY SEID and
SUTHENTIRA GOVENDER
THE discovery of potentially
dangerous “rogue” pills mixed
in with harmless over-thecounter vitamins has led to the
recall of more than 18 000 containers of folic acid tablets from
around South Africa.
A complaint to Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals (SA) (Pty) Ltd last
week that its Be-Tabs Folic Acid
product included a Schedule 3
prescription capsule called
Betacin led to the company issuing a recall notice on Wednesday.
Folic acid, or vitamin B9, is
routinely prescribed for women
who are planning to fall pregnant, or who are in their first
trimester. Folic acid has been
found to prevent birth defects
such as spina bifida and
hemolytic disease.
The supplement is also used
to prevent and treat anaemia,
colon or cervical cancer, heart
disease and strokes.
But Betacin is an anti-inflammatory drug with the active ingredient indomethacin. It has a
range of side effects in pregnant
women, including delayed labour.
And indomethacin may be passed
on to babies through breast milk.
A pharmacist at a leading
pharmacy chain, who did not
want to be identified, warned
that Betacin was potentially
dangerous for pregnant women.
“The Be-Tab Folic Acid that
has been recalled is a very popular brand. It is a big concern to
us that rogue Betacin is con-
RED ALERT: The little yellow pills that contain folic acid. Betacin
capsules have been mixed in by mistake Picture: ROGAN WARD
tained in the same bottle,” the
pharmacist said.
“Betacin is a yellow capsule,
while folic acid is a small yellow
tablet.
“An ordinary person taking it
can see the difference between a
capsule and a tablet, but if a
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Betacin . . .
has a range
of side effects
in pregnant
women,
including
delayed
labour
pregnant woman takes it, there
could be serious repercussions;
there could be birth defects and
it could cause an abortion.”
The pharmacist said a pregnant woman would have to take
a week’s supply of Betacin for it
to cause “substantial damage”.
“It causes gastrointestinal
bleeding, and if people taking it
don’t suffer with any inflammation problems, an ulcer will
result almost immediately.”
The pharmacist said that by
declaring Betacin a Schedule 3
drug, the authorities were warning that it had serious side effects, and could therefore only
be prescribed by a doctor and
not sold over the counter.
Keiso Mofokeng, a quality control manager at Ranbaxy, said the
As thousands of families flocked to the coast for their annual seaside holidays, children played in the sand on a Durban beach
company had issued the recall
because of Betacin’s side effects.
The affected Be-Tabs product
was made at the company’s Roodepoort, Johannesburg, plant in
2014 and was sent to two national
suppliers.
Mofokeng said: “At this stage
we don’t know how widespread
this is, and we are in the process
of doing an investigation.”
He was unable to comment on
possible legal implications.
“Only once we have done an
internal investigation can we
make a statement on possible
implications.
“When we hit a quality control issue we recall, and then
evaluate. Upfront, we can’t speculate on who may or may not
have taken the pills,” Mofokeng
said.
“We know over 18 000 units of
that particular batch have been
released,” he said. “We don’t
know how many contain the incorrect medication, and we
don’t know how many are in the
supply chain.”
He said the company was
appealing to those who had
inadvertently taken pills from
batch 2651410 to do three things:
“Firstly, cease taking the pills;
secondly, return the used
container to the pharmacy,
clinic or wherever it was
obtained; and, thirdly, contact
the company.”
Ranbaxy South Africa —
owned by Sun Pharma, the
world’s fifth-largest generic pharmaceutical company — makes
Picture: ROGAN WARD
generic and original medicines
and sells them in South Africa
and neighbouring countries.
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YEARNING: Mantombi Magagula and Busi Magagula, family of Kenny Motsamai, an Apla member who
has been in jail for 26 years, are waiting for his release
Picture: SIMPHIWE NKWALI
Jailed Apla commander says
no to ‘unreasonable’ parole
THANDUXOLO JIKA
FORMER Azanian People’s Liberation Army commander Kenny
Motsamai, who was initially
granted parole last week, will not
be released next month as initially scheduled.
He has already spent 26 years
behind bars after being convicted
of murder.
But in a surprise announcement, Justice Minister Michael
Masutha has put the parole on
hold pending an “investigation”.
The minister’s spokesman,
Mthunzi Mhaga, said that on December 1 Masutha had approved
parole for Motsamai, 52, after the
National Council of Correctional
Services had recommended his
release.
Motsamai had been due for release on January 18. “However,
subsequent to the minister’s approval, new development necessitated an investigation by the
Department of Correctional Services. We are not at liberty to give
details of those internal investigations until they have been
finalised,” Mhaga said.
But Motsamai’s lawyer Luleka
Flatela said one of the parole
conditions was that her client be
electronically tagged, and he refused to accept this.
“One condition is that he
should be given a day parole and
that a tracking device be attached
to him. His stance is that the
conditions are unfair and unreasonable,” said Flatela.
Motsamai’s family had hoped
that he would spend Christmas
with them. Instead, his daughter
Busi Magagula, 25, was not allowed into the Boksburg Prison
to spend Christmas with her fa-
MONITORING: Kenny
Motsamai refuses to be tagged
ther — an annual ritual since she
was 12.
He is reported to be on a
hunger strike and is in solitary
confinement.
Motsamai was jailed for the
murder of a white traffic officer in
what he claimed was a politically
motivated killing.
He was denied the blanket
amnesty he sought from the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
His parole came as a result of a
court battle at the High Court in
Johannesburg that ended with
Motsamai’s lawyers reaching an
agreement with Masutha’s legal
team that he be recommended for
parole.
Said Magagula: “Today I am
still as sad as I have been over the
past few years because my father
has been denied freedom. I had
hoped that he would be out so
that we can be a family again, at
least for him to see his grandson
who is already four now.
“I just want him home but I am
confused now about what is going
on. We are not getting any answers anymore.”
The murdered traffic officer
had witnessed Motsamai and
three members of his Apla unit
rob a supermarket in Rustenburg. They were later arrested
and Motsamai was sentenced to
death, which was converted to life
imprisonment. Prisoners serving
life terms become eligible for parole after 25 years.
Magagula said her father had
done his time and should freed.
“He has served his time and
there have been countless visits
by correctional services officers
to our house to verify if he will
live here. It is heartbreaking that
for so many years I have only
seen him in prison clothes every
Christmas,” she said.
Her mother, Mantombi, who
was also a member of Apla and
was pregnant with her at the time
of Motsamai’s arrest, said she
longed for a proper family.
“I have been waiting for so long,
I see people walking in malls at
this time of the year with their
spouses and children and I
always wonder when will that day
be for me,” said Mantombi.
According to Mantombi, Motsamai counsels new prisoners,
works as a handyman and has
converted to Islam in prison.
Motsamai’s case has again put
the spotlight on political prisoners denied amnesty by the
TRC. The Presidency has received requests for presidential
pardons from 926 such prisoners.
Former Apla commander Chris
Sankara said Motsamai had been
carrying out orders from the Pan
Africanist Congress.
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NEWS | 7
Fishermen left high and dry
by bungle over fishing rights
Claimants who say they were wrongly denied quotas are now
taking the government to the Human Rights Commission
BOBBY JORDAN
Harvest of success for
former farmworker
Labourer becomes board member as a black-owned farming
company uplifts beneficiaries of a state land reform project
SHANAAZ EGGINGTON
FIVE years ago, Stemmer Hendriks was a farmworker in the
mountains above Piketberg in
the Western Cape.
Today he is a senior manager
and board member at the farm,
and this month he banked
R30 000 in dividends.
Hendriks, 49, is a beneficiary
at Mont Piquet farm, bought by
the government in 2011 and
managed by a successful blackowned farming company, Bono.
Mont Piquet produces table
grapes and citrus varieties that
are exported to more than 50
countries. The farm, and its
neighbour Rietkloof — also run
by Bono — provide jobs for
more than 1 000 people.
Last week Bono, which manages eight other farms in five
provinces, became a member of
the prestigious Fresh Produce
Exporters Forum, which exports 90% of South Africa’s fruit.
It’s a dream come true for 45year-old Malokisa “Evans”
Nevondo, who founded Bono to
turn around the high failure
rate of black farmers.
“Bono is a Venda word that
means ‘vision’. To be a successful farmer, you need to have
a long-term vision,” he said.
“We are an agricultural-empowerment
company
that
brings together resources from
government and the private sector to improve the lives of South
Africans who make a living out
of farming.”
To meet its National Development Plan target, the government needs to transfer
8.9 million hectares of agricultural land to black people by
2030. “Other farms have already
been successfully transferred,
and, along with the beneficiaries, we run these farms, providing production capital, farming equipment and, most of all,
skills,” said Nevondo.
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I got R30 000.
You do not
mind the hard
work when
you can share
in the spoils
The 34 Mont Piquet beneficiaries lease the farm from the
government at a nominal fee.
In return, besides earning a
salary, the beneficiaries share
in the dividends.
Hendriks, now manager of
the table-grapes section, said:
“If someone had told me a few
years ago I would be sitting on
the board of a farm, as well as
being one of the most senior
managers, I would not have believed them.
“This month I received
R30 000 in dividends, with more
coming in the new year. You do
not mind the hard work when
you can share in the spoils.”
Rupert Persens, 39, was another worker who showed such
enthusiasm he was promoted to
assistant manager in 2011 —
then to production manager.
“I am responsible for one of
the two pack houses on the
farm. It’s been really exciting,
because usually your position
in the farm hierarchy depended
on being a ‘COF’, otherwise
known as a ‘child of the
farmer’,” he said.
“Now there is a future in
farming for young people such
as myself other than being a
worker. I will be able to pay for
an education for my kids.”
Nevondo said that when farmworkers were rioting about
wages in 2013, workers at Mont
Piquet told him that outsiders
were encouraging them to join
the protests.
“I asked them if they had a
problem with the salaries, or
the way the farm was run. They
said ‘no’. So I said, ‘It is up to
you. Think about your situation
and decide for yourself.’
“Nobody rioted here. And
those people who were bussed
in to disrupt the farm were
chased away by the workers
and the security that they asked
me to provide.”
Nevondo said training a new
generation of farm managers
and workers is a big part of
what they do.
“I believe in life-long education. Apart from a lack of patience, a lot of black farms fail
because the new owners do not
empower themselves with
knowledge. They don’t want to
read. They don’t understand
policies and systems.
“They see farming as a dirty
job and they think all they have to
do is employ someone. They will
fail with an attitude like that.”
Hendriks said beneficiaries at
Mont Piquet had decided not to
take dividends for the next couple of years.
“We’ve had four years of good
money. It is time to put back
into the farm. The dividends
coming thereafter will be much
sweeter,” he said.
NO REPLY: Naaim Jacobs, 37, a traditional line fisherman, was
barred from fishing
ment of Agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries in Cape Town to
fetch his scoresheet but was told
it could not be found.
When it eventually surfaced,
it showed he easily qualified for
a fishing right. “I believe that
they withheld the scoresheet on
purpose from me and I want the
right allocated and action taken
against them,” Jacob said in his
complaint.
His case is one of several
anomalies in piles of fisheries
scoresheets which have raised
the ire of people controversially
excluded from the industry in
the 2013 fishing rights application process.
The flawed process prompted
various investigations — including one by the Hawks — and
high-court action by the country’s line-fish association.
Despite findings that scoring
was manipulated due to political
interference, officials responsible still hold key management
positions in the department.
Scoresheets seen by the Sunday Times reveal several blatant contraventions by fisheries
officials of their own policies.
These included line-fish rights
being granted to applicants in
the off-shore commercial sectors (precluded by the policy),
that applicants had full-time employment elsewhere (also precluded), or had not submitted
key information, such as boat
certification.
Successful candidates included a husband and wife from the
Cape Agulhas area. The husband has a commercial right in
another fishery and his wife
works full-time for a munici-
South African Commercial
Line Fish Association chairman
Wally Croome said the “missing” scoresheets confirmed the
fishermen’s perception that the
department had “screwed up”
the 2013 rights process.
“The thing that is hard to
swallow is that the people responsible are sitting earning a
massive salary and just laughing at everybody,” Croome said.
The Sunday Times was unable to reach former deputy director-general
Desmond
Stevens, who was redeployed
within the department after
overseeing the 2013 rights allocation. The department did
not respond to queries about the
missing scoresheets.
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ANDRÉ JURGENS
THE birth of two white rhino
calves is being celebrated in
the Cape after a grim year for
the species due to rampant
poaching.
The youngest is 11 days old
today, suckling and being
guarded by a fiercely protective mother at Aquila private
game reserve, near Touws River in the Western Cape.
The second calf, a male, is 75
days old and playfully finding
his feet at the same reserve,
which suffered a devastating
setback four years ago when
poachers attacked three rhinos
and used a chainsaw to remove
one horn. Two died from their
injuries and the reserve was
left without a male rhino to
continue its breeding programme until the arrival of a
new bull early last year.
Both calves are expected to
remain with their mothers for
the next three to four years.
Rangers are still unsure of the
gender of the latest arrival.
Rhinos are born weighing
around 30kg.
The older calf has already
integrated with his crash, a
group of rhino, and will soon
start eating grass on his own.
Reserve owner Searl Derman launched an anti-poaching training scheme in response to the poaching incident in 2011.The programme
which is called Saving Private
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private game reserves.
“People need to understand
that this is a real war that
private game reserve owners
are fighting on the ground and
losing,” he said.
Rangers are schooled in the
latest tactics to combat poaching, in intelligence gathering,
crime scene management and
effective patrolling.
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said 749 rhino had been poached in South
Africa between January 1 and
August 27. Updated figures will
be released early next year and
could surpass the 1 215 rhinos
killed by poachers in 2014.
Two rhino horns worth an
estimated R3-million were
seized by customs officials at
OR Tambo International Airport on Wednesday.
A diplomat from North Korea was expelled from South
Africa this month for using a
diplomatic bag to smuggle rhino horn out of the country.
There is a booming market
for rhino horn in Asia, where
many people believe it has
medicinal value.
I believe that
they withheld
the scoresheet
on purpose
from me
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FREAK waves, ghost ships and
“submarine sharks” — Kalk Bay
fisherman
Naaim
Jacobs
thought he’d seen it all in the
lonely hours on the far side of
the horizon.
But the mystery that led to his
undoing was waiting for him on
land, in the form of the Department
of
Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries.
Not only has the department
stopped him fishing, it “lost” the
scoresheet of his fishing right
application, only to find it again
nearly two years later. When
Jacobs finally saw it, he realised
he had easily qualified for a linefish fishing right.
For two years he has been
sitting without a right, while
some successful rights holders
do not even live at the coast and
have full-time jobs in other industries.
Now Jacobs is fighting back.
He and a fellow skipper have
lodged a complaint against senior fisheries officials with the
Human Rights Commission.
They say it is their last resort
after numerous complaints fell
on deaf ears.
In the interim he has literally
been chased off the sea despite
being skipper of one of Kalk
Bay’s best-known boats. It services Kalky’s restaurant, a popular tourist destination at the
historic harbour.
“We are the guys who keep
this harbour going, and yet
there’s no place for us in the
system,” Jacobs told the Sunday
Times this week. “Two years
down the line and we’ve been
suffering.”
In documents submitted to
the HRC, Jacobs said he visited
the head office of the Depart-
pality. Theirs was one of several
questionable allocations that
are now back in the spotlight as
scoresheets become available.
The issue of undeserving quota holders was addressed last
week by Agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries Minister Senzeni
Zokwana at a press briefing in
parliament. Zokwana said the
department would if necessary
disqualify rights holders and
readmit others found to be deserving.
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2015: QUOTES
“Gogo, thank you very much. Without you, I would
not be anywhere near where God has taken me. I
owe all that I am to you.” — Desmond Tutu, speaking
to his wife, Leah, when they renewed their wedding
vows on their 60th wedding anniversary, July 2
Picture: AFP PHOTO
“Every year the problems are getting worse. We are
at the limits. If I may use a strong word, I would
say that we are at the limits of suicide.” — Pope
Francis, referring to the issue of climate change,
November 30
“Thanks to some crafty journalism my family and
I have spent the whole day trying to figure out if
one of us died. #awkward.”— Trevor Noah,
tweeting in reaction to a Sunday Times report
that one of his cousins had died, May 24
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“I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of
Muslims entering the US until our country’s
representatives can figure out what is going on.” —
Donald Trump, campaign statement, December 7
Of bloodshed, anger, protest and hope
From the sublime (think Pope Francis)
to the ridiculous (step forward,
Donald Trump), the ups and downs
of 2015 were captured in the quotes
of people from around the world
“When foreigners look at them, they
say ‘let us exploit the nation of idiots’
. . . We ask that the immigrants must
take their bags and go where they
came from.” — King Goodwill
Zwelithini, in his Pongola speech,
March 15.
“Our freedom cannot be given to us
— we must take it. We want to be
clear that our only regret is that we
did not take the statue down ourselves.” — Kealeboga Ramaru,
member of the #RhodesMustFall
movement, after the Cecil John
Rhodes statue was removed from
UCT campus, April 9.
“No, there is not a race war coming.
The reason is simple: the overwhelming majority of South
Africans, black and white, believe in
a middle path somewhere between
reconciliation and social justice.” —
Jonathan Jansen, on the Rhodes
controversy, April 10.
“In every white person there’s an
element of Adolf Hitler . . . I love
Adolf Hitler.” — Mcebo Dlamini, the
then president of the Wits SRC, in a
Facebook post, April 25.
Picture: TREVOR SAMSON
“Let us now all get on with our lives.
I’m sure she’ll [Reeva] be able to rest
now, as well.” — Barry Steenkamp,
reacting to the Supreme Court ruling
on Pistorius, December 3.
“It is a commission that has decided
nothing. It is inconclusive, no one is
held responsible.” —Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza, on the Farlam inquiry into Marikana, June 28.
“If [Riah] Phiyega’s hands are dripping with the workers’ blood, so are
those of the president who employed
her, very well aware that she had
neither experience nor skills to head
police operations.” — Zwelinzima
Vavi, on the Farlam report, June 28.
“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out
of her . . . wherever.” — Donald
Trump, referring to Fox News’s Megyn Kelly, who moderated a debate
between candidates for the Republican nomination, August 7.
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I don’t know how to stop
my laughter. Is it
hurting?” In the National
Assembly, November 19
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I argued one time with someone who said the country comes
first and I said as much as I understand that, I think my
organisation, the ANC, comes first.” — Jacob Zuma, in a speech
at the ANC KwaZulu-Natal elective conference, November 7
“It absolutely questions what makes
us human. And I don’t think we
know any more what does. This is
like opening up Tutankhamen’s
tomb.” — Lee Berger, discussing the
discovery of Homo naledi fossils,
September 10.
“ ‘Guys, why is there no agricultural
activity taking place?’ So their response was: ‘The white people have
left, there’s no jobs.’ I said: ‘OK . . .
“No one will dig old monkey bones to back up a
theory that I was once a baboon.” — Zwelinzima
Vavi, tweeting in response to the discovery of
Homo naledi, September 12
“Nelson Mandela was no sell-out.
These peacetime revolutionaries
who were never in the trenches have
the temerity to open their mouths
about him.” — Cyril Ramaphosa, on
Julius Malema’s comments about
Mandela, December 5.
“I certainly believe that if ANC members are worth their salt, they have
to start looking very carefully and
introspectively . . . about our roles in
this organisation and what we are
giving consent to by allowing this
president to operate as though he is
completely unaccountable. This is
the final straw.” — Barbara Hogan,
on the sacking of Nene in a speech
on December 11.
“No one goes into your face and says,
‘You’re not welcome here.’ No one
says that you don’t belong here. But
it’s just that the structure, and the
environment itself, says that I’m not
welcome here.” Lindokuhle Patiwe,
a UCT student, in remarks to the
New York Times, September 8.
“The culture of the place [UCT] feels
white. The architecture is a European, Oxbridge architecture. Obviously, the language of instruction is
English. The culture of what’s held
up to be excellent universities and
excellent science, and what we emulate and aspire to be, are the Ivy
League universities and European
universities.” — Max Price, UCT
vice-chancellor, on student protests
in the New York Times, September 8.
“You ain’t no Muslim, bruv.” Remark
shouted by an unidentified bystander at the man who stabbed a
commuter in a London underground
station, December 5.
“In the current challenging economic environment, the decision to
change a successful minister of finance is difficult to understand.”
Maria Ramos, Barclays Africa CEO,
reacting to the sacking of Nhlanhla
Nene, December 9.
“From every land may a single voice
be raised: no to war, no to violence
and yes to dialogue, yes to peace.
With war, you always lose. The only
way to win a war is to not make it.”
— Pope Francis, in his speech on the
70th anniversaries of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, August 9.
“What actually came out in court is not the truth. He got
angry, she went off to the toilet, locked herself inside,
and then him pulling out the gun and shooting.” — Barry
Steenkamp, in an interview with Australian TV, August 24
but we gave this land back to you,
the community.’ They said: ‘No, you
are misunderstanding the situation.
The white people have left!’ ” — Tito
Mboweni, describing a land reform
project in a lecture at the Wits
School of Economics and Business
Sciences, October 13.
“Women are questioning why it is
when they speak in their feminine
pitch that there isn’t as big an uproar
“This case involves a human tragedy of Shakespearean
proportions.” — Judge Eric Leach, handing down the
Supreme Court of Appeal decision that Oscar Pistorius is
guilty of murder, not culpable homicide, December 3
[of support] as when a man speaks in
his masculine voice.” — Nompendulo Mkatshwa, incoming president
of the Wits SRC, in an interview with
Destiny.com during the #FeesMustFall protests, October 21.
“The ground has shifted significantly in the last few days, and there is
great excitement about what it
means; what kind of a new order
we can build out of this.” — Max
du Preez, on the student protests,
Picture: ROBERT TSHABALALA
“I did not say we’re not going to
address this issue. I’m saying this is
not the forum . . . There is no problem by the way. No problem.” —
Danny Jordaan, at a news conference after his election as mayor of
“The conduct of the respondents to
the extent that they have failed to
take steps to arrest and detain the
president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir,
is inconsistent with the constitution
of the Republic of South Africa.” —
Judge President Dunstan Mlambo,
in the Pretoria High Court, June 24.
“We all need to work . . . because if we don’t, we
will continue to have the cockroaches like the
Malemas.” — Baleka Mbete, when she was
addressing an ANC rally in Mafikeng, February 14
“Her [Dudu Myeni’s] relationship
with the president is purely professional, and is based on the running of the foundation . . . Rumours
about a romance and a child are
baseless and are designed to cast
aspersions on the president.” — A
statement from The Presidency, December 12.
“I believe this moment can be a
turning point for the world. [This is]
the best chance we have to save the
one planet we’ve got.” — Barack
Obama, on the climate deal reached
in Paris, December 13.
“We see you. Out in your numbers.
The ‘rainbow nation’ rearing its ugly
head and chanting ‘Zoomer must
fall’.” — Shaeera Kalla, former Wits
SRC president, in a tweet accompanied by picture of mainly white
marchers taking part in a ZumaMustFall protest, December 16.
“The Turks decided to lick the
Americans in a certain place.” —
Vladimir Putin, on the downing of a
Russian military jet by Turkey at a
news conference, December 17.
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“We have seen that we are part of a police state.”
— Julius Malema, after white shirts forced him and
other EFF MPs out of parliament during the state of
the nation address, February 12
Picture: EPA
“I apologise unconditionally, to
South Africans, to parliament and
Honourable Julius Malema for any
hurt or harm I may have caused.” —
Baleka Mbete, in a statement on her
“cockroach” speech, February 18.
“I’m going to lose, that’s for sure.” —
Barry Roux, to Gerrie Nel at the end
of the Oscar Pistorius appeal,
November 3.
Picture: AFP PHOTO
“I pray that those whom he hurt,
those from whom he took loved ones,
will find the power within them to
forgive him. Forgiving is empowering for the forgiver and the forgiven
— and for all the people around
them. But we can’t be glib about it;
it’s not easy.” — Desmond Tutu, on
De Kock’s parole, January 30.
Port Elizabeth, during which he refused to discuss the Fifa bribery
scandal, May 28.
Picture: DAVID HARRISON
“I think it will actually close a chapter in our history because we’ve
come a long way and I think his
release will just once again help with
the reconciliation process because
there’s still a lot of things that we
need to do as a country.” — Sandra
Mama, on the release on parole of
Eugene de Kock, who in 1992 killed
her husband Glenack Mama, January 30.
“My reading is that there is no alliance; there is one organisation existing inside the integuments of erstwhile independent organisations,
but today to talk about Cosatu as an
independent organisation from the
ANC or the SACP I think is a delusion.” — Kgalema Motlanthe, in a
Business Day interview, November
2.
Picture: ALON SKUY
“The problem with South Africa is
that it’s too free. Thugs do as they
please. They walk into our shops
wielding guns and knives.” — Johiy
Khan, a Bangladeshi shopowner in
Emdeni, Soweto, after the death of
Siphiwe Mahori, 14, who was killed
in Snake Park on January 19 by a
foreign shopowner, January 22.
October 24.
“So we are looking after the corpse and you have
the statue. I don’t know what you think we should
do. Dig him up?” — Robert Mugabe, referring to
Cecil John Rhodes during a visit to SA, April 8
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| December 27 2015
NEWS | 9
Taking Stock | There was nought for our comfort amid drought, protests and sackings, writes Gareth van Onselen
From zero to
R1.7-trillion
in 365 days
0:
Convictions secured
against Julius Malema by the
National Prosecuting
Authority, after its
racketeering case against the
leader of the EFF was struck
from the roll in August. The
case had been ongoing for three
years.
1:
Doctorates that Passenger
Rail Agency of South Africa
chief engineer Daniel Mtimkulu
claimed to have from a German
university. A Prasa spokesman
said: “He could not present the
qualifications he claims to have
and . . . he has been suspended
pending an inquiry.”
1.5:
Percentage economic
growth forecast by the Reserve
Bank for South Africa in 2016.
The International Monetary
Fund forecasts 1.3%. Ratings
agency Moody’s predicts South
Africa will only achieve a 3%
growth rate by the year 2020.
DUST BOWL: Farmer Molemi Modise contemplates the impact of
the drought in the North West
Picture: PUXLEY MAKGATHO
FENCE MUST FALL: University students march on the Union Buildings on October 23 as part of a nationwide protest against a tuition fee increase and to demand that tertiary
education be free. Police fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowd
Picture: THULANI MBELE
2:
Warrants issued by the
International Criminal Court
for the arrest of Sudanese
President Omar al-Bashir.
Despite the warrants — and an
order by the High Court in
Pretoria that the Sudanese
leader be detained in South
Africa while attending an
African Union summit —
Bashir was allowed to leave the
country.
2.33:
Billions of rands of
the shortfall in university
funding as a result of the fees
freeze that was agreed after the
#FeesMustFall campaign. The
Department of Higher
Education stated it would cover
R1.9-billion of the total;
universities would have to find
the additional R400-million.
2.82:
Millions of rands
spent on 13 private flights for
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini
in the past two years. In one
instance he decided to spend
nearly R28 000 to fly, rather
than drive, 115km from Ulundi
to attend the unveiling of a
statue. In 2014 the king
requested a R10-million bailout
after he exhausted his R50million annual budget.
4: Medals awarded to
national police commissioner
Riah Phiyega. Among others,
she was presented with the
South African Police Service
Gold Medal for Outstanding
Service. Phiyega was later
suspended following several
reports on her conduct during
the Marikana tragedy.
4.2:
Amount in billions of
rands it is estimated a new jet
for President Jacob Zuma will
cost. The tender, advertised by
Armscor in November,
specified the plane must be able
to seat at least 30 people and
have a range of 13 800km.
5:
Number of Airbus A330300 aircraft that SAA will lease
after the controversy between
the Treasury and the
chairwoman of the SAA board,
Dudu Myeni, was resolved.
Myeni had tried to change the
lease agreement and buy 10
different Airbus models
instead. The standoff has been
blamed for Nhlanhla Nene’s
dismissal as the minister of
finance.
6:
Finance ministers South
Africa has had since 1994.
However, it had three in just
four days in early December, as
President Jacob Zuma fired
Nene, replaced him with
backbencher David “Des” van
Rooyen — and then brought
back former finance minister
Pravin Gordhan following a
massive public backlash and an
economic meltdown.
WHO’S THE BOSS: Former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene and SAA chairwoman
Dudu Myeni during the media briefing announcing the carrier’s results for the
2013-14 financial year
Picture: VELI NHLAPO
total, residents of Soweto alone
owe some R4-billion. In June
Eskom suggested it would
renegotiate the individual bills
of residents, should they allow
pre-paid meters to be installed.
10:
Amount in millions of
dollars that South African
football officials are alleged to
have paid in bribes to host the
2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup.
The figure appeared in
documents made public during
the indictment of 18 senior Fifa
officials in the US.
20:
Years since personal
income tax was last hiked. At
adoption of the Freedom
Charter in 1955. The ANC spent
much of this year celebrating
the anniversary and, at the
same time, arguing with the
EFF as to which party was the
proper contemporary custodian
of its values.
66:
Percentage of wins
achieved by former Springbok
coach Heyneke Meyer. He
resigned in November after the
Springboks were knocked out
of the Rugby World Cup in the
semifinal. Meyer lost seven of
eight matches against New
Zealand, not to mention that
one match against Japan,
the beginning of the year the
minister of finance increased
the marginal personal income
rate by 1%, across all brackets.
31:
Balls it took cricketer
AB de Villiers to score 100 runs
against the West Indies in a
one-day international in
January, a new world record.
De Villiers, who hit 16 sixes
during his innings, was
eventually out for 149. He holds
the world records for the fastest
50, 100 and 150 in ODI cricket,
with the last being scored off 64
balls, once more against the
hapless West Indians, in
Australia in February.
40:
Members of the SABC
choir — 25 freelancers and 15
permanent members. The choir
cost R3-million to run this year
and caused controversy when it
was filmed singing the praises
of the SABC’s controversial
chief operating officer, Hlaudi
Motsoeneng.
60: Years since the
8:
Amount in billions owed
by South Africans in unpaid
electricity bills to Eskom. Of the
during his tenure.
72:
Position of Bafana
Bafana in the Fifa world
rankings. In May the soccer
team had been ranked 59th.
76:
Deaths in 2015, as a
result of traditional initiation
74
.6: The penalty, in
billions of rands, imposed on
ceremonies gone wrong.
Thirty-three initiates died
during the winter initiation
season, and to date 43 have died
in the summer season. Most
deaths are the result of
dehydration and botched
circumcisions.
cellphone operator MTN by the
Nigerian Communications
Commission in October, for
89:
Percentage of the vote
Mmusi Maimane won at the
DA’s federal congress in May in
becoming the party’s new
leader. He beat Wilmot
James for the position
and succeeded
Western Cape
premier Helen
Zille. Of the 1 244
delegates who voted, 1 106
chose Maimane. A total of 1 425
delegates were registered.
169:
Amount in billions of
rands the JSE estimates the
decision by Zuma to fire Nene
as finance minister in
December cost the economy in
the days following the decision.
The rand lost almost 10%
against the dollar (down to
R15.89) and euro (down to
R17.45).
204:
Number of national
key points identified on a list
released by the minister of
police in January. The list had
been at the heart of a court case
launched by the Right2Know
campaign and the South
African History Archive. The
minister had dropped his
opposition to the case without
explanation.
Commission of Inquiry ran to.
The commission cost R153million. It sat for 300 days and
the transcript ran to 39 719
pages.
1
000: Megawatts cut
from the national grid by
RAY OF HOPE: AB de
Villiers busy scoring
100 runs off 31 balls
against the West Indies
AGE-OLD STORY: Initiates at a circumcision school in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape.
To reduce the annual death toll at these schools, the government has deployed more
than 100 health professionals to monitor them
failing to disconnect millions of
unregistered sim cards. In
December the fine was reduced
to R55.9-billion.
600:
Pages the final
report of the Marikana
7:
Percentage wage increase
agreed to in May for 1.3 million
public service employees over
three years. This increase
(backdated from April)
excluded an increase of
inflation plus 1% for 2016 and
2017. The deal puts massive
pressure on the Treasury. In
October it was forced to raid
South Africa’s reserves to find
the necessary funding, about
R64-billion in total — R12billion for the 2015-16
financial year alone.
HAPPIER DAYS: National police commissioner Riah Phiyega won
four medals — including one for outstanding service. She is now
on suspension
Picture: ALON SKUY
RELIVING THE HORROR: Relatives of one of the slain Marikana miners break down at the hearings of
the Farlam commission of inquiry. After sitting for 300 days, the commission eventually produced a
600-page report
Picture: VATHISWA RUSELO
a drought as severe as this one.
The drought, blamed on the el
Niño weather pattern, has seen
the government set aside R450million to help commercial and
subsistence farmers.
2
000: Complaints on
the customer watchdog website
Hello Peter at the height of the
Post Office strike in March.
Thousands of packages were
delayed after postal workers
went on strike, creating a
backlog that would take months
to overcome, because the
delivery hubs were
overwhelmed.
2029:
Year used as the
cornerstone of the DA’s vision
statement, after Maimane’s
election. By 2029, the DA
predicts, it will have been in
national power for 10 years and
would have transformed South
Africa.
9
300: The number of
jobs business consultancy
group Grant Thornton
estimated would be placed
in jeopardy by stringent
new visa regulations
introduced in September.
After much public pressure,
the government eventually
agreed in October to a series of
amendments.
Eskom during stage one of loadshedding, the phrase that
dominated South Africa in the
early part of the year. There
were four stages, running from
1 000MW to 4 000MW. Eskom
was accused of not sticking to
schedules but, in November,
managed to reach 100 days
without load shedding.
1
700 000:
Amount in millions of rands
1982:
The last year in
which South Africa experienced
Anheuser-Busch InBev bought
SABMiller for in October,
giving it a 28% share of the
global beer market.
BAWLING BLOSSOM:
Former Bok coach Heyneke
Meyer during his team’s
historic defeat by Japan
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| December 27 2015
Fat chance
of staying in
New Zealand
TASCHICA PILLAY
Pictures: DAVID HARRISON
POO IN PARADISE: White sand, blue sea, azure sky — and grey-green muck. Local residents have raised the alarm about the Bokramspruit which flows across Long Beach
Surf ’s up — and so is the sewage
High levels of potentially dangerous bacteria pollute river flowing across popular Kommetjie beach
SHANAAZ EGGINGTON
RAW sewage from Ocean
View, a suburb in Cape
Town’s south peninsula, is
flowing into the sea at an
iconic surf spot, Long Beach
in Kommetjie.
This was confirmed by
tests after residents were
alarmed at the physical appearance and foul odour of
the Bokramspruit river that
flows across the beach.
Bernard Jacobs, who runs
waternews.co.za, a website
dedicated to water issues,
was contacted by a resident
who complained about a
“terrible stench”.
“He stopped to investigate
the river where it flows underneath Kommetjie Road,”
said Jacobs.
“He could tell by looking at
it, and by the unmistakable
smell of untreated sewage,
that there was something
wrong. We followed the river
upstream, and in Ocean
View we found a shocking
situation: raw sewage flowing from manholes into nearby stormwater drains, and
then into the river.
“One of the local residents
explained that this occurs
every few days.”
Jacobs contacted an accredited water analysis laboratory which took samples
last week from the Ocean
View stormwater system and
from points along the river,
including at the beach.
Jacobs said the tests
showed high levels of Escherichia coli, a bacteria that
can cause serious illness.
“The results are shock-
THE SOURCE: Bernard Jacobs inspects the manhole that Ocean View residents say has been
disgorging sewage into the Bokramspruit
ing,” he said.
“On both days we collected
samples, these levels exceeded quality guidelines set by
the Department of Water Affairs for recreational water
quality.
“This is worrying as it poses a significant health risk to
swimmers, surfers and animals using the beach and
the river.
“Not all E.coli is harmful,
but certain strains of it can
make people very sick, causing severe stomach cramps,
diarrhoea and vomiting. In
extreme cases it can lead to
❛
Who cares?
I’ve been
surfing
here since I
was nine
and haven’t
gotten
sick yet
kidney failure,” Jacobs said.
They also tested for coliforms, a broad class of bacteria found in the environment and in human and animal faeces.
The presence of coliform
bacteria in drinking water
indicates harmful, diseasecausing organisms.
In addition, the laboratory
ran a heterotrophic plate
count, a procedure to test the
level of organisms like bacteria and yeasts, which is
used to assess the safety of
drinking water.
“In both cases the results
were off the charts. Bokramspruit and Long Beach are
very sick and need serious
intervention,” Jacobs said.
Residents of Gail Place,
Ocean View, said the sewage
system overflowed every
week. “We’ve had problems
before, but ever since people
moved into the new Mountain View development it
happens more often,” said
Carol Sanders.
“We phone the council and
they come and unblock the
system. But it only lasts a
few days and then it overflows again. It starts with
one manhole and then one by
one the others start overflowing. After a while it all
flows into the river.”
James Steward, a surfer
from Paarl, said: “Who cares?
I’ve been surfing here since I
was nine and haven’t gotten
sick yet. Besides, it’s filtered
by the reeds in the river.”
But Errol and Bets Kotze
of Fish Hoek, who are regular visitors to the beach,
were more concerned. “Our
dogs play in the stream
where it runs into the sea.
This is very upsetting. I am
going home to take a long
shower,” said Errol.
Steve Pike, director of the
conservation-oriented
Wavescape Film Festival,
said pollution spilling into
the ocean was a massive
problem in Cape Town.
“We are surrounded by
water on three sides, and
pollution is flowing into our
oceans. It’s an infrastructure
problem that the city has to
deal with as soon as possible,” he said.
A SOUTH African chef whom New Zealand
authorities found to be too obese to stay in the
country, has failed in his bid to become a Kiwi.
Albert Buitenhuis and his wife, Marthie, who
moved to Christchurch in 2007, will return to South
Africa this week.
In 2013 Buitenhuis made headlines around the
world when he claimed his application for
permanent residence status had been rejected
because he was “too fat”. He weighed 130kg when he
entered New Zealand. Even though he lost 31kg in
the first six years, Immigration New Zealand’s
medical assessors still considered him to be
clinically obese for his height of 1.78m.
Earlier this month Buitenhuis tweeted:
“#thefatcheff has to leave NZ. We’ll be flying back to
SA on 29/12. Sad to leave NZ, happy that we’ll see
family and friends again . . . soon.”
Buitenhuis and his wife have been fighting to stay
in New Zealand for two years after an application to
renew their work visas was first rejected because of
his weight.
They won a 23-month reprieve — only to be
denied again.
In an interview with the New Zealand Herald,
Buitenhuis said their visa was finally declined and
they had to stop working at the end of October.
“Their reasons for declining us this time were
[that] I’m not seen as a bona fide worker and the
employer did not do enough to get a Kiwi in the job,”
said Buitenhuis.
In 2013 Immigration New Zealand cited the
demands Buitenhuis’s obesity could place on the
country’s health services and said medical
assessors found he no longer “had an acceptable
standard of health”.
In August 2013 Marthie wrote on her blog: “No one
just packs up and leaves their home country
without good reason, and if you were basically
settled and made your intentions of staying
permanently clear, it leaves a bitter taste in the
mouth to be told after 5+ years of working and
paying tax, that you are not so important that New
Zealand needs to treat you like a human being or
show any form of humanity or compassion for you
or what their decisions or actions mean to the
applicant.
“In New Zealand we have jobs and lived fairly
comfortably on not major incomes . . . We feel
personally safe and don’t live in fear of crime or
violence. We are expected to return to the very
situation we wanted to escape. While South Africa
is not seen as a war zone or in a situation that calls
for asylum, I doubt the actual situation there is
unknown to the authorities here.
“No country loses so many citizens as South
Africa has done for no good reason. After being
totally settled we are now expected to sell off what
we have to return to a country that has swopped one
discriminatory policy for another while the world is
congratulating itself on dismantling the former . . .”
have to put serious work into
problem prevention, compliance and education,” Dowling said.
“That includes higher
standards of water literacy
for the whole population.”
Simon Maytham, media liaison officer for the City of
Cape Town, said the official
with information about capital projects for the next few
years was on leave.
“Finding out whether any
kind of sewerage upgrade is
planned . . . will be very difficult without him . . . [so] the
city will be unlikely to comment until after Christmas.”
Patrick Dowling, a local
resident and head of education at the Wildlife and
Environment Society of
South Africa, said the water
test results were “seriously
disturbing”.
“Occurrences may be more
frequent now, but certainly
predate the latest Ocean
View developments, which
have all been connected to
the formal sewerage system.
“Given the increasingly
stressed state of South
Africa’s waterways and the
necessity of making every
drop count, municipalities
and government, working
with NGOs like Wessa, will
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RESCUERS are searching for workers feared buried
in the second landslide in a month in a jade-mining
area in northern Myanmar.
The landslide happened on Christmas Day in
Kachin state, the war-torn region that is the
epicentre of Myanmar’s secretive billion-dollar jade
industry.
“We are searching for bodies, but we can’t tell the
numbers yet,” said Nilar Myint, an official of the
Hpakant district administrative office.
Mechanical diggers are being used to search
through the huge pile of mud and rock that slid
down a steep hill.
One source said that up to 50 workers could be
missing.
But a second Hpakant official, Myo Thet Aung,
said officials in villages in the area had reported
that only three or four people were known to be
missing.
Officials said yesterday that by mid-afternoon
they had still not found any bodies.
This area was hit by a massive landslide last
month, when more than 100 people were killed.
Locals said that dozens of others had been killed
during the year in smaller accidents.
The region is remote, with little phone coverage
and poor roads, making it hard to get accurate
information quickly after such incidents.
Landslide victims are usually the itinerant
workers who scratch out a living picking through
piles of waste left by large-scale mining in the hope
of finding overlooked pieces of jade that can deliver
them from poverty.
Myanmar is the source of nearly all of the world’s
finest jadeite, a near-translucent green stone that is
greatly prized in neighbouring China, where it is
known as the “stone of heaven”.
The Hpakant landscape has been turned into a
moonscape of environmental destruction as mining
groups use ever-larger diggers to claw the precious
stone from the ground.
While these groups — many linked to the juntaera military elite — are thought to be raking in huge
sums, local people complain that they are kept out
of sharing the bounty. — AFP
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| December 27 2015
NEWS | 11
Traumatised by sex crimes,
SA’s doctors shun victims
Report finds attitude of some medical professionals contributes to rape crisis
AARTI J NARSEE
TARGETS OF BRUTALITY: School children protest outside the Queenstown Magistrate’s Court during the
appearance of a suspect in the rape of a seven-year-old girl. A new report says doctors, especially if they
are fathers, can find treating child victims too disturbing
Picture TEMBILE SGQOLANA
NASHIRA DAVIDS
CRIME is no laughing matter.
But, although many criminals
outsmart the authorities,
some crooks put their
vocation to shame.
This year’s balaclava for the
dumbest criminal is shared by
two Free State felons,
Thabang Maqelepo and Sefiso
Chauke.
They used a panga to attack
a strolling couple in
Ladybrand on February 21,
but the male victim wrestled
the weapon from his attackers
and wounded Maqelepo.
Maqelepo and Chauke ran
off with clothing they had
stolen from the couple, then
made their schoolboy error:
calling the police to report
being attacked, and asking for
an ambulance.
Meanwhile their victims
MANY doctors are reluctant to
take on rape cases because they
fear the courtroom and are horrified by the brutality of the
crime, thus contributing to
South Africa’s dismal conviction rate for sexual offences.
Overstretched health workers and police also fail to prioritise sexual assault — with
some male doctors refusing to
treat rape patients.
These are among the findings of research conducted by
the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre, an NGO fighting
violence against women.
Rape convictions are heavily
dependent on medico-legal evidence, collected by doctors or
forensic nurses, which includes
DNA, blood on clothing, hair
samples and signs of violence.
South Africa seems to be
fighting a losing battle against
sexual offences. Of the 62 649
cases reported to the police in
2013-14, only 5 484 — less than
9% — resulted in convictions.
While most rapes occur at
night, the Tshwaranang research released this month
❛
Of the 62 649
cases reported
. . . only 5 484
resulted in
convictions
found that victims are met by
locked doors at medical facilities or have to wait hours to be
examined.
One nurse who asked a male
doctor to see a rape patient
reported being told: “No, I hate
it. I hate to examine where
another man has been.”
The reluctance extends to female medics as well. Dr Genine
Josias, medical co-ordinator at
a one-stop rape centre in
Khayelitsha, has seen many
colleagues quit rape care over
the years.
“You can walk away from a
broken arm case but here there
are little girls, boys or women
being raped,” she said.
“Some people expect you to
work as if it doesn’t touch you.
If you don’t have empathy they
say you have no feelings.
“Something I see with my
male doctors is the minute they
fathered a child, especially if it
was a girl, they stopped working in the field. They fear it all
the time. It starts to affect their
family, their relationship with
their partners. The minute it
touches them in the home they
move on to another field.”
Doctors
also
find
the
prospect of giving evidence in
court daunting. “I have another
doctor who comes from North
West and his life was threatened by a perpetrator. He had
to leave his job and relocate to
the Western Cape,” said Josias.
❛
You can walk
away from a
broken arm but
here little girls
are being raped
A GP told the Sunday Times
about being called to testify in a
rape case three years after examining the patient. “I found it
disturbing because I didn’t
even know that this was my
function,” she said.
Doctors avoided going to
court “like the plague”, she
said.
Part of the problem doctors
face is that hospitals lack specialist staff, so all practitioners
are asked to assist.
Professor Ames Dhai, director of the Steve Biko Centre for
Bioethics at the Faculty of
Health Sciences, University of
the Witwatersrand, believes every student doctor should be
trained in rape care.
“Doctors are bound by the
oath. Not wanting to go to court
because it is going to erode
their time is not in line with
their principles,” she said.
Dhai said the Health Professions Council of South Africa
should make rape care part of
professional training.
The Department of Health
did not respond to requests for
comment.
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Crime 101: how to make sure you’re caught
had also been taken to
hospital. While they were
being interviewed by two
police officers, who should
appear? Maqelepo — with an
injured arm.
In August, Maqelepo was
sentenced to 20 years behind
bars for armed robbery.
Chauke got 15 years.
Another case involved
Mputi Joseph Lothane, who
broke into a Ladybrand bar at
6am in April last year and was
later found asleep on the
premises.
“He allegedly drank liquor
until he could not even run
away as he was too drunk and
just wanted to sleep,” said
Sergeant Martin Xuma.
Liquor worth R1 700
disappeared, and Lothane was
sentenced to three years for
business burglary.
Another headline burglary
came courtesy of two robbers
in Kempton Park, Gauteng,
who mistook a panic button
for the gate remote. Captain
Jethro Mtshali said the case
against Mongezi Vincent
Mabhena was yet to be
finalised and the second
suspect was still at large.
This year police were on the
hunt for unusual characters
with serious street cred,
including a 25-year-old
Northern Cape man who
broke into the same business
in Upington three times to
steal Tupperware, which he
then sold — much like women
around the country do over a
cup of tea and milk tart. When
the thief was caught in July,
police recovered Tupperware
worth R19 000.
Meanwhile, three skelms
from Madadeni, KwaZuluNatal, were caught lugging
around an enormous plastic
bag bursting with hairpieces,
valued at thousands of rands.
Captain Shooz Magudulela
said hair — especially
dreadlocks — was a lucrative
business.
Then there are the die-hard
partygoers. In June, a
Khayelitsha man reported
robbers had taken his
company vehicle at gunpoint
during a house robbery.
An investigation by
Detective-Sergeant Nceba
Gojo unearthed the prosaic
truth. “The man went on a
drinking spree with a
company vehicle . . . when he
got robbed,” a police
statement said. The man was
charged with perjury.
Oupas and oumas also get
in on the act. In the Free State,
an 85-year-old was arrested by
Zastron police for his part in a
planned robbery.
The grandfather had
allegedly provided a group of
would-be robbers with a gun.
In King William’s Town,
Eastern Cape, a 63-year-old
granny was arrested for
possession of an unlicensed
firearm and 10 rounds of
ammunition.
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| December 27 2015
Festive dinner (and dishes) for 300
SHELLEY SEID
ON Christmas Eve, 82-year-old
Eleanor Bremner washed more
than 300 plates, an assortment
of cutlery and the considerable
pile of pots and pans used to
feed the homeless of Durban’s
inner city.
This was nothing out of the
ordinary for the long-serving
volunteer, who has been part of
the Nkosinathi Project, an initiative of Emmanuel Cathedral,
since its inception 12 years ago.
To prepare and serve food for
approximately 300 people four
times a week, the centre relies
on 10 to 12 committed volunteers; some come from the
ranks of the homeless and others from local religious communities.
Early this year the project
relocated next door to the new
Denis Hurley Centre.
“Once we moved the feeding
of the homeless into the centre,
we were able to upscale both in
terms of numbers and in regard
to the quality of the food,” said
the centre’s director Raymond
Perrier.
The Nkosinathi Project also
FULL PLATE: Eleanor Bremner dishes up meals for the homeless at
Durban’s Denis Hurley Centre
Picture: THULI DLAMINI
offers shower and laundry facilities, a counselling service
and drug rehabilitation.
Bremner has been a parishioner at Emmanuel Cathedral
since she moved to Durban from
Johannesburg more than 50
years ago.
“In the beginning I would
come every day to help. Now I
come two or three times a week,
usually a Tuesday and a Thursday. I don’t come on a Sunday,”
said Bremner.
For the past couple of years
Bremner has been the official
dishwasher. “I can’t move fast
but I can stand and wash, I can
do the job. Before I did the
dishes I did the tidying up and
the cleaning, never the cooking.
Come to think of it,” said the
mother of two sons, beaming, “I
have been a cleaner all my life.”
The former seamstress is
very proud of her commitment
to getting things spic-and-span.
She was, she said, given an
award by the late Durban mayor
Mike Lipschitz for cleaning up
the suburb of Wentworth.
“You see the dirt all around
here?” she said, pointing to the
littered streets in front of the
centre. “Me and a team, we went
around cleaning Wentworth
when it was as bad as this. We
also took part in ‘Adopt a Spot’.
My children always said I spent
more time on the street than in
my home.”
Bremner has no plans to stop
working for the needy. “I will
carry on for as long I want to. I
always tell my sons, ‘I am still
your mother and you can’t tell
me what to do.’ I don’t mince my
words with anyone. I say to the
ladies here, ‘We are here to
serve, these people sit for hours
in the rain or in the sun and they
deserve a big plate of food.’ ”
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TANYA FARBER
CAMPSITES throughout South
Africa are packed at this time of
year with families determined
to keep up with the Joneses
sharing their ablution block.
So what do the campers who
have everything, pack into their
trailers this year?
The camping biltong maker is
apparently a must-have, a snip
at R700, and the same goes for
the camping spice box (R50), a
cut above those small Tupperware bits that spend the rest of
the year stuffed in a cupboard.
Equally alarming is the
camper’s apple-coring device
(R50) . . . for when you’re out in
nature and incapable of munching around the core or cutting
the apple into pieces.
And don’t forget a waterproof
notepad (R100) — which, in a
nod to roughing it, isn’t an electronic device, but requires oldfashioned handwriting skills.
It’s all beyond the ken of
Sandy Biggs, from the South
African Camping Club. “You
sometimes walk past people
who are sitting and watching
soapies at their campsites,” said
Briggs, who goes camping with
her husband at least once a
month.
“If they want to spend half
their weekend setting up gadgets, then so be it. For us, as
long as you can sleep comfortably and have a comfy chair,
that’s enough. You want it to be
simple while still being able to
do what you need. You don’t
want to have to rub together
two sticks.”
Biggs’s version of back-to-nature camping does not involve
putting up a gazebo to protect
that other symbol of conspicuous consumption, the vehicle,
or a two-man tent for the family
dog. Such pampered pooches
are the envy of the less fortunate, a few of whom are tethered by a leash especially designed to slide along the length
of a rope between two trees.
Then there are those who believe that “good fences make
good neighbours”. Why enjoy
the views when you can hem
yourself in with collapsible
fences that required a trailer to
carry them?
The manager of Camp and
Climb in Cape Town, Charmaine Kritzinger, said camping
wasn’t like it used to be: now
people were prepared to break
the bank to be comfortable.
She said that canvas tents
and dining shelters were some
of the more popular items.
“They take the whole house
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with them. It’s not like it used to
be when people just went in to
the bush with hardly anything.
Some people spend up to
R20 000 on camping gear.”
Jackie Glover, who works in
the sales department at hardcore Johannesburg camping re-
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tailer PackRat.co.za, said multipurpose tools such as Leathermans had been among the season’s biggest sellers, even
though prices reached R3 000.
Torches were another item
on which people splurged, with
the “Jedi knight” models ex-
ceeding R3 000.
Various overseas manufacturers have thought of everything that could earn them a
quick buck — until the customers realise that it’s actually
just easier to stay home (and
save your reputation in the process). Perhaps some of the surplus stock is on its way to South
Africa?
Most likely to be ridiculed in
this category is the marshmallow roaster — a stainless-steel
electric heater that allows you
to toast these sweets without
having to light a fire. No selfrespecting camper in South
Africa would use anything but
the braai to ensure that a black
crust of sweetness forms on the
marshmallow.
The family that does fall for
the marshmallow roaster is also
most likely to be in the market
for the “mattress with the builtin speaker” or the “camping icecream maker”.
This sorry gadget was listed
by retailer Go Camping Australia as one of the “top 10 most
useless pieces of camping
equipment”, as were “high-heel
hiking shoes” . . . for obvious
reasons. — Additional reporting by Farren Collins
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Terror, exodus and Donald the chump
Turmoil gripped the world in 2015,
but the attacks and protests had to
share the headlines with a coiffure
W
ILL we remember 2015
most for its grisly succession of terrorist attacks, or for the ceaseless flow of refugees out of the Middle
East and North Africa? The two phenomena — linked at source in the mutating form of Islamic State — were
constant themes in the year. Here are
some of most significant:
JE SUIS CHARLIE
Terror struck Paris just one week
into 2015 when two French brothers,
Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, burst into
the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical weekly newspaper, killing 11 people inside, including some of France’s
best-known cartoonists, and a passing policeman.
Terrorism was to return to the
French capital with a vengeance. On
November 13, Paris was the scene of
slaughter as gunmen swearing allegiance to Islamic State shot dead 40
people in bars and restaurants and
another 90 at a concert in the Bataclan concert hall, in France’s worst
terrorist atrocity since 1945.
GREECE: SYRIZA RISES AND FALLS
In January, the radical-left Greek
party Syriza burst on to the European
political scene promising to roll back
Brussels-imposed austerity.
But by July, the grandiose promises of Greece’s fresh-faced prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, and his motorbike-riding finance minister, Yanis
Varoufakis, had been crushed by German fiscal rectitude and the cold
realities of Greece’s debt burden.
After imposing capital controls,
Tsipras was forced into a climbdown,
signing a harsh memorandum of understanding with Greece’s creditors.
TERROR BEYOND THE WEST
One of the bloodiest massacres in
recent history took place in the first
week of January 2015 when Boko
Haram raided two Nigerian towns
beside Lake Chad.
The Islamist gunmen massacred
the inhabitants of Baga and Doron
Baga, killing hundreds — perhaps
thousands — of defenceless people.
The final death toll remains unknown; what is certain is that large
all. Almost immediately, Putin’s allies broke the deal. Russian-backed
separatist rebels — spearheaded by
elite Russian troops, supported by
Russian artillery and commanded by
Russian generals — mounted a new
offensive, completing a textbook encirclement of the Ukrainian-held
town of Debaltseve.
NO MORE: A series of killings of young black men by police officers
prompted protests in cities across the US
areas of both towns were razed to the
ground. Satellite pictures released by
Oxfam showed the blackened ruins of
3 720 structures.
This was the worst in a series of
incidents that made 2015 a year of
terrorism in Africa. While Boko
Haram tormented northern Nigeria,
the gunmen of al-Shabaab did the
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al-Shabaab took over Garissa University in Kenya, calmly murdering
148 staff and students.
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On February 12, Vladimir Putin
joined Angela Merkel and their
French and Ukrainian counterparts
to announce a second Minsk ceasefire agreement, designed to end the
war in eastern Ukraine once and for
BLACK LIVES MATTER
The US saw a new wave of controversial police shootings of young
black men, leading to renewed
protests as the Black Lives Matter
activist group used social media to
galvanise people into action.
Perhaps the most high-profile
death was that of Freddie Gray, 25, a
young black man who was arrested
for carrying a knife in Baltimore.
While in a police van, he fell into a
coma and died a week later.
There were renewed protests in
Ferguson, Missouri, where black
teenager Michael Brown was shot
dead by a white police officer in 2014.
In November, police in Chicago released a video which showed black
teenager Laquan McDonald, 17, being
shot dead by a white police officer,
Jason Van Dyke. The officer was
charged with murder and there were
large-scale protests.
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THE DONALD
It was a candid-camera parody of a
presidential announcement. Donald
Trump, his bouffant blond hair perfectly coiffed, descending an escalator to the tune of Rockin’ in the Free
World by Neil Young.
He would Make America Great
Again, the real estate mogul told the
audience inside his shimmering
Trump Tower in New York. But immigrants had to stop coming to the
country; especially Mexicans, who
were largely “drug dealers” and
“rapists”, he said.
And so the most controversial candidate in recent US history burst into
the race to the White House. He has
since attacked women, mocking the
looks of Carly Fiorina, his Republican
rival, and insulted the US war hero
John McCain. He has proposed banning Muslims from entering the US.
Trump has broken every rule in the
electoral book, and still rises inexorably in the polls.
US, IRELAND OK GAY MARRIAGE
When the US Supreme Court ruled
that gay marriage was legal across
the nation in June, President Barack
Obama called it justice that “arrives
like a thunderbolt”.
In Ireland, gay marriage arrived
even more suddenly.
Within the course of a generation,
public opinion had turned from overwhelmingly against, to strongly in
favour. That shift was borne out by a
referendum in May, in which 62% of
voters cast their ballot in support of
gay marriage.
One month later, it was a bitterly
contested 5-4 court decision that
brought the same result in the US.
PLANES KEPT FALLING
It was a year in which we all scoured
the scene, via our screens, for wreckage. Last year was a disastrous year
for aviation — the worst in the history
of the industry, with the shooting
down of MH17 over Ukraine and the
disappearance of MH370. But 2015
scarcely felt any better.
In March, the world was shaken to
the core when Andreas Lubitz, a 27year-old pilot with GermanWings,
committed suicide by crashing a
plane with 150 people on board into
the French Alps.
And in November, tragedy struck
once more when a plane full of Russian tourists returning from an Egyptian holiday exploded over the Sinai
desert, killing all 224 people on board.
Investigators now widely believe it
was the result of a bomb smuggled on
to the plane. President Vladimir
Putin vowed revenge.
Then Russia was hit again — this
time on a military mission, when
Turkey shot down one of its jets
heading to Syria. Yet more wreckage
for our weary eyes.
. . . AND SOME CRISES AVERTED
In December, the US and Britain
formally accepted a report from the
International Atomic Energy Agency
that Iran was no longer researching
technology related to nuclear
weapons. The agency concluded that
all such research ended in 2009.
Other developments also reduced
the risk of conflict. At the start of
2015, it seemed possible China and
Japan would come to blows over a
disputed island chain in the North
China Sea. By the middle of the year,
however, China had switched its focus to other territorial disputes with
smaller neighbours.
The Paris climate change conference in December produced a global
agreement to limit the rise in average
temperatures to two degrees. In a
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Islamic State began 2015 on a positive
note, when US-led air strikes in
northern Syria helped the Kurds
push the terrorists out of the town of
Kobane. But Islamic State managed
to reverse that momentum with two
advances in the space of a week —
and to do so in their usual eyecatching way.
First they took the city of Ramadi,
in central Iraq, after a long siege. A
series of 37 suicide bombs delivered
in armoured trucks and diggers finally broke the defenders’ resistance.
Then in Syria they drove Assad
regime forces out of the city of
Palmyra, with its glorious classical
ruins. They put their new conquest to
— literally — dramatic use. They
lined up captive soldiers on the stage
of the Roman theatre and filmed
them being executed with a bullet in
the back of the head.
Later in the year, they followed up
their destruction of various ruins in
Iraq with their most wanton attack on
Middle Eastern history to date, blowing up Palmyra’s Triumphal Arch
and the Temple of Baal.
THE YEAR OF THE MIGRANT
It was the picture that awoke Europe
to the human horrors of the migration crisis that had been breaking
on its shores all year: the lifeless body
of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, lying
face-down on a Mediterranean
beach.
For a few weeks in September, at
least, that pitiful image opened Europe’s hearts to the million or more
migrants sweeping into the continent, many driven from Syria and
Iraq as the international community
failed to deal with Islamic State and
the escalating Syrian civil war.
Not everyone was so welcoming,
however. Hungary’s right-wing leader Viktor Orban put up a barbed-wire
fence instead of a welcome sign.
German chancellor Angela Merkel
threw open the gates of Germany and
was initially applauded for her generosity of spirit. But as the year wore
on, and other European nations flatly
refused to take EU-imposed quotas of
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young ones have no idea what they’re missing -- from spitting contests to boxing with beer-carton gloves
When a township holiday was the last resort
T
HE kids are having their first
taste of a proper township
Christmas holiday this year.
By “township Christmas holiday”, I don’t mean they’ll be physically based in a township, even
though I can see a hint of Mamelodi
and Atteridgeville in their not-so-distant future when I perform some crystal-ball gazing. What I’m referring to
is how most of us used to spend our
holidays every year; just idling
around the township for two months.
As I write this, these coconuts, who
are used to whizzing to and from
holiday destinations in December,
are in the TV lounge with their
tablets, Nintendo Wii, their Minions
and The Lego Movie DVDs.
You see, their mom served divorce
papers on her employer and is being
subjected to that sentence called a
“notice period” until early January.
This means none of us is going anywhere until her release. It’s a solidarity thing in the mould of the Free
Mandela Campaign.
The midgets are only a week or two
into their Gauteng “incarceration”
but they’re already borderline suicidal with boredom.
Growing up, I had no such challenges. This is because December
holidays were like any other time
of the year for me. Well, except for
the part where I didn’t have to put
on my school uniform and spend
my days using my buttocks as the
last line of defence against blows
delivered by my teachers with a piece
of hosepipe.
Due to a combination of all the
legislation restricting our movements back then, and our folks’
notoriously shallow pockets, we’d
spend those long summer days
swimming in the nondescript stream
called the Mnqadodo — on the periphery of my Hammarsdale neighbourhood — collecting bilharzia infestations and taking part in other
fun activities.
We’d participate in spitting contests, catch catfish using sharpened
tree branches as makeshift fishing
spears, play four-hour football matches, hold boxing tournaments in which
Ijuba sorghum beer cartons served as
gloves, and commit genocide on avian
life using rubber slings. It got so bad
that, contrary to regular migratory
patterns, birds would fly northward,
away from my hood, to avoid untimely meetings with IFOs (identified
flying objects, namely pebbles). Raiding the orchards of our less vigilant
neighbours was also a popular December holiday distraction.
So it boggles the mind how, every
January, we’d get to school and the
first thing our English teachers
would ask for was an essay entitled
“My Christmas vacation”. In the
words of the Twitter generation:
WTF? It took restraint not to retort,
“Hawu! Ma’am Mkhize, you live three
S
UGARY pink, ’70s and boho
are some of the major trends
we’ve seen on the catwalks
and in shop windows this
year, but look at the corner of a bag or
the back of a denim jacket and you’ll
spy 2015’s real hit.
Personalisation might not be as
immediately striking as fringing or
florals, but the subtle statement of
initials or a bespoke colour combination is the hottest way to show
your fashion nous. The concept of
making anything — from a bracelet
to a pair of heels or trophy knit —
unique to the wearer has been adapted to every price point and taste,
spawning countless pop-ups and limited editions.
The act of engraving, monogramming, stamping or embroidering a
sign, letters or motifs has long been a
strategy used by designers to
strengthen our bond with their
brand. British stationers Smythson
were among the first to get in on the
act, and have been creating personalised luxury leather diaries, notebooks and handbags since 1887. The
option to add an element of individuality has always been integral to
its brand, with choices of colours and
fonts allowing a dash of personality
to shine through every time a diary
was opened or a letter written.
So, what’s triggered the current
flurry of personalisation projects?
I would have a decent story to share,
because my mother had organised
for us to spend about a week with
my maternal granny in Verulam,
north of Durban.
Until that point my brothers and I
had never been on a long-distance
train ride, so we looked forward to
that bit almost as much as the holiday
itself. Yes, I said travelling by train
from Hammarsdale to Verulam was a
“long-distance train ride”.
Thirty-odd years ago it felt as if we
spent at least six hours on that train
ride, munching mangoes, apricots
and litchis we bought from vendors
throughout the journey.
The stay in Verulam itself was also
quite a refreshing change of scenery
from the ho-hum, languid shape of
previous holidays. Immersion in bilharzia-infested ponds was replaced
by afternoons spent watching movies
in an actual cinema, with seats.
And the highlight of my summer
was my very first kiss on the lips from
a girl called Desiree. All previous
attempts at kissing girls had culminated in my being punched in the
solar plexus or kicked in the shins.
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houses from me. You know I was at
home the entire time raiding your
orchard. What vacation?”
My guess is that some sadistic
education department official made
this a compulsory annual essay in the
Bantu Education curriculum for no
reason other than to have a cheap
giggle at all the essays detailing December holidays spent herding cattle,
milking petulant cows and swimming
in crocodile-infested rivers.
One year, a classmate called
Patrick disappeared all December
and returned in January three
shades darker than his usual Kiwi
black shoe-polish complexion. And
then he wrote a beautiful essay about
the wonderful time he’d spent in a
paradise called Sun City, gliding
down water slides, twirling around
on merry-go-rounds and taking part
in all manner of exotic activities. We
were greener than the Incredible
Hulk with envy.
Patrick would have got away with
his fantastic tale. But he messed it up
with an amateurish mistake. He used
the word “scintillating” in the essay.
No Bantu Education sixth grader
could possibly know that word.
His younger sister was called as a
witness in the ensuing tribunal and
she sang like a canary. Patrick had
actually spent December with his
maternal uncle in Mthwalume village, south of Durban, herding goats
and geese. The bulk of the essay had
been lifted from a Sun International
brochure that had come as an insert
in this very newspaper.
I don’t know what became of
Patrick, but I won’t be surprised if he
becomes chairman of the SABC
board one of these days.
I had a keen personal interest in the
outcome of the Patrick case. I had
spent about two weeks of my December holiday at my paternal
granny’s house in the Valley of a
Thousand Hills, a mere half an hour
from my township. A portion of that
time had been spent hunting red
duikers, cane rats and rock badgers
with the Duma brothers.
This presented me with a conun-
drum. Had I or had I not spent my
December holidays in a game reserve? This is the debate I was having
with my conscience.
In the end I utilised my Catholic
sensibilities and opted to go with the
game-reserve fib, making a mental
note to offload my technical “sin”
inside Father McKinney’s confession
booth the following Sunday. Three
Our Fathers and five Hail Marys
seemed a small price to pay for a 90%
score in the English essay.
But at least the following January
Immersion in
bilharzia-infested
ponds was
replaced by
afternoons spent
watching movies in
an actual cinema,
with seats
Fast forward 33 years and I can at
least claim to have found my own
peculiar rituals that make me a part
of the pageantry that comes with that
rotund, bearded fellow in red
pyjamas.
I read somewhere that the origin of
the word “holiday” is an ancient
Mayan word, olid, whose literal translation is “time of year when one can
open one’s first beer at 8am without
being judged by spouse”. Even if
that’s a hocus pocus definition, that’s
my story and I’m sticking to it.
And it doesn’t matter whether
we’re in St Lucia, Jeffreys Bay, the
Cape winelands, Maputo or home in
Gauteng, at some point I will always
find myself in a T-shirt two sizes too
small — à la Gwede Mantashe playing
football in recent pictures — proving
those ancient Mayans right with an
amber liquid in my right hand at
eight in the morning.
But this season I’m particularly
looking forward to reading my
offsprings’ “My December holiday”
essays in January.
That should be fun.
Fashionistas make year’s trend all their own
The personalisation of every stylish detail, from monogrammed jeans to design-your-own
argyle jerseys, was the way to stand out from the crowd in 2015, writes Bethan Holt
Thanks to the quick turnaround of
trends, anything that feels special or
comes with a thoughtful touch is
hugely appealing.
“We are bombarded with constant
newness and retail promotions,” said
Katie Smith, senior fashion and retail
specialist for fashion analysts Edited.
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Anything that feels
special or comes
with a thoughtful
touch is hugely
appealing
“Customisation puts control back in
our hands. It’s a fantastic differentiator and a way to delight loyal
customers.”
If you’ve ever had that sinking
feeling after seeing three people
wearing the top you’ve just bought,
the option to personalise a purchase
adds a reassuring sense of exclusivity.
Celebrities and fashion influencers
are undoubtedly fuelling the phenomenon, piquing interest with public appearances and Instagram posts
featuring
their
personalised
favourites.
At
Burberry’s
spring/summer 2016 show, every
model received a rucksack inscribed
with their initials. French designer
Vanessa Seward has created jeans
with names embroidered on the back
pockets that have been worn by model Caroline de Maigret and streetstyle star Alexandra Golovanoff,
while Olivia von Halle’s monogrammed silk pyjamas are beloved of
fashion editors and bloggers alike.
At the premiere of Pitch Perfect 2,
Rebel Wilson carried an Edie Parker
bag with “#Pitch” scribbled on the
front, and at the Billboard Music
Awards, Taylor Swift toted one inscribed with “Bad Blood” — the name
of her latest song.
Designers are also using customisation to reach younger shoppers
who don’t necessarily have the cash
to spend on a big purchase. Launched
a year ago and developed with uberstylist Charlotte Stockdale, Anya
Hindmarch’s enormous range of £50
(R1 135) stickers — comprising letters, road signs, emojis and more —
have made her humorous take on
luxury available to a new set of devotees, with sales already reaching
£12-million.
“I have always been obsessed by
personalisation, and stickers were
my schoolgirl version of it,” said
Hindmarch. “My idea is that you can
sticker up your handbag, phone or
notebook and make it into your own
personal art work.”
While having your name written
across the pocket of your T-shirt or
embossed on the side of your handbag will remain a fun novelty, our
shopping options are adapting so that
we can be designers ourselves. Think
of it as couture for the masses.
Pringle of Scotland has recently
launched pringledeconstructed.com,
which it calls the first bespoke online
cashmere service. Each piece is still
imbued with the classic Pringle aesthetic, with the option to create your
own take on the famous argyle jerseys and demure twinsets. Massimo
Nicosia, Pringle’s head of design, said
that “it was important to show that a
200-year-old heritage brand can also
embrace innovation and touchscreen
technology for our digitally savvy
consumers”. The nine-step process —
which can even be carried out on your
phone — allows shoppers to create a
jersey in a colour combination they
can’t find on the shelf.
Personalisation has even extended
to the hallowed echelons of the designer bag, probably still the biggest
single fashion investment a woman is
likely to make. Fendi has created
“Strap you”, which offers nine different straps that can be swapped
around to give an individual and
ever-changing character to a number
of Fendi bags.
With the technology that allows for
these personalisation projects to become more and more slick, expect
your future wardrobe to be filled with
pieces that represent your own de-
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I have always been
obsessed by
personalisation.
Stickers were my
schoolgirl version
sign and colour choices. But be
warned, with great freedom comes
great responsibility. Customisation
demands time and consideration. After all, it’s much trickier to sell on
eBay when it’s got your name emblazoned across the front. — © The
Daily Telegraph, London
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and
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| December 27 2015
E laughed, cried, took to the streets
to celebrate and to protest. Some of
our compatriots did things that made
us angry and others left us beaming
with pride.
Given the events of the past few weeks, it is easy
to remember only what was bad about 2015. We
close the year with the nation in a collective state
of shock and depression following President Jacob
Zuma’s irrational decision to fire a highly
regarded finance minister, replacing him with an
unknown parliamentary backbencher before
eventually settling on Pravin Gordhan, who had
held the post before, as the new finance minister.
The drama put into sharp focus the leadership
crisis we have at the very top, with a president
who often seems oblivious to the devastating
consequences of the decisions he makes.
But the firing of Nhlanhla Nene had very
welcome unintended consequences for our
country. South Africans spoke out in their
numbers — in the streets, on social media, on
radio and in newspapers — to express their
displeasure at the decision. The government had
no option but to listen.
This taught us that civil society is very much
alive in South Africa and its voice is growing
stronger in opposing wrongdoing. The movement
is largely led by the youth — a stratum of our
society that has often been assumed to be
politically apathetic and self-absorbed.
With campaigns such as #RhodesMustFall and
#FeesMustFall, young South Africans forced the
nation to come to terms with its unresolved past
and to critically engage with the present state of
affairs — especially in relation to poverty and
inequality.
Although politics, as always, is the source of
much conflict and division, it also provided us
with much needed comic relief.
For instance, soon after his election as new DA
leader, Mmusi Maimane took to Twitter to hold a
virtual town hall meeting at which people could
ask him any question they wanted. The experience
proved to be full of fun as people asked him
anything from who killed JR in the 1980s TV series
Dallas to whether it irks him that the DA’s largely
white constituency pronounces his surname “My
Money”.
Outside of politics, young people have also been
taking the lead, pioneering new paths.
Who can forget comedian Trevor Noah’s
amazing achievement, becoming the host of one of
the US’s most successful late-night TV shows?
On the sporting front, major progress was
achieved.
The Proteas may not have been able to bring
home the Cricket World Cup trophy, and the
Springboks may have succumbed to eventual
winners the All Blacks in the semifinals of the
Rugby World Cup, but on the whole it was a good
year on the sporting front.
Banyana Banyana, our women’s national soccer
team, and the men’s Under-23 team, qualified to
represent South Africa at the Olympics in Brazil
next year.
Even Bafana Bafana, for many years a source of
disappointment for our soccer-mad nation, look to
be on track to qualify for the next Soccer World
Cup tournament, scheduled for Russia in 2018.
As we reach the end of a hectic year, the Sunday
Times wishes all its readers happy holidays. May
you all enjoy peace and happiness as you share
this period with your families and loved ones. The
new year promises to be filled with as much
drama as the passing one.
Fifa’s rot runs deep
T
HE eight-year ban on Fifa boss Sepp
Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini
deals with the syndrome instead of
excising the cancer eating into the football body. The scale of corruption, the shady deals
and the arrogant culture of impunity are rooted so
deep at the core of the organisation that banning
Blatter and Platini cannot be the end of the matter.
The commendable investigation by the FBI only
dealt with the conduct of individuals and not the
institutional and systemic failures.
The root cause of the rot in Fifa is the collapse of
good governance, and the institutional impunity
that has elevated the football monster above
international and national laws. A virtual absence
of the rule of law has proved a breeding ground for
the likes of Blatter, Platini and former Fifa vicepresident Jack Warner (who was banned for life
for his complicity in corruption).
The first step to fixing Fifa is to change the
accountability system. Fifa must account to the 209
affiliated national associations — not the other
way round. Its workings must be transparent to
the billions of fans who love the game.
The primary cause of corruption is the selection
of countries to host the World Cup, the biggest and
most expensive sporting event in the world.
The intensity of the competition and the
publicity benefits tempt countries — including
South Africa — to ingratiate themselves with Fifa
leaders. The selection process needs a surgical
overhaul, to be made as open as possible in order
to curb bribery and arbitrary decisions.
Lastly, the sponsors — who have the power to
stop the rot — have stoked Fifa’s greed and power
in the battle for marketing rights. Sponsorship
needs to be regulated and infractions must be
exposed so the fans can reject unethical sponsors.
Looking Back
From the Sunday Times 50 years ago
WEARY cleaners cleaned away the last clouds of
confetti in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court
on Christmas Eve when the last couple had left
arm-in-arm shortly after the 4.30pm deadline.
This year’s Christmas marriage rush was
unprecedented in the court’s history. A call was
sent out for help for the overworked magistrates
on Monday when 51 couples jammed the corridors.
“We’re always busy during the Christmas holidays
. . . probably because the factories close down . . .
and most young couples have the benefit of a
Christmas bonus to start them off on their new life
together.” — December 26 1965
From the Sunday Times 25 years ago
A FORMER maid who now holds a top job at the
UN has written a harrowing account of the
hardship and indignity of life as a poorly paid
domestic servant in South Africa.
In To My Children’s Children, Sindiwe Magona,
a press officer . . . in New York, tells of working
long hours and being sexually harassed by
visitors at cosy suburban dinner parties.
Employers took advantage of the law to
“dehumanise” their servants. “We were not seen as
people,” she said. Married white “medems”
conducted affairs with men in front of their
servants, as if they did not exist. — December 30 1990
GLEEFUL GIGGLER: President Jacob Zuma
Zuma, defending champ of
mamparadom, does it again
I
Zapiro is on leave. This cartoon first appeared in The Times on December 2 2014
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
When hospitals add to the ordeal of rape
R
EDI Tlhabi’s “Not all men are
rapists, sure, but almost all
rapists are men” (December
20) refers. I would like her to
shine some light on private service
providers who also seem loath to
demonstrate concern, and assist rape
victims.
I was raped by two men, in my
house, early in October. They also
stabbed me and inflicted seconddegree burns with an iron on my
breast and torso. My face was a mass
of bruises. My eardrum burst from
their blows. They threatened to kill
me, and I believed that they would.
This attack lasted from about 4pm to
7.30pm. When they left and I managed
to escape, I thought my problems
were over. Fat chance!
I arrived at [Lenmed Health’s La
Verna Private Hospital] in Ladysmith
by ambulance. In casualty the two
sisters informed me that a rape kit
had to be taken within hours of the
rape. I insisted that I wanted one.
They said it could only be
administered at the provincial
hospital and the rape crisis centre
only worked office hours. I asked if
they could assist in treating my other
wounds. We waited for a doctor, who
refused, without examining me. He
said he would be tampering with
evidence. They didn’t even offer a
painkiller.
The provincial hospital opened the
rape crisis centre and a kind sister
was allocated to me. The district
surgeon on call didn’t respond to her
calls. Hours later, she got authority to
give me a painkiller, and later still, an
intern treated my wounds. The
district surgeon arrived at 6.30am.
I have since contacted La Verna and
Lenmed. They say this is their
protocol. If a rape victim’s life is in
immediate danger they would assist,
but otherwise they do not.
I understand that most of the staff
at the provincial hospital probably did
as much as they could do given the
lack of resources at their disposal.
But the staff at the private hospital
traumatised me even more.
Putting up with all this to get
rapists (hopefully) convicted makes
South Africa safer for all of us, but the
price is high. — Anonymous,
Harrismith
Zuma needs to join the dots
“BEHIND Zuma’s U-turn: ‘SA will go
bust’ ” (December 20) refers. As an
ordinary citizen I feel strongly that
Zuma must explain how it came to be
that a critical institution like the
National Treasury gets destabilised
at such a negative time in our
economy.
Along with the monies paid for
Nkandla, Zuma must pay back the
billions the country lost in the wake of
the axing of Nhlanhla Nene.
The issue here is not Nene or David
van Rooyen or Pravin Gordhan, but a
president who seems not to
understand how connected we are to
the rest of the world economically. —
Moetlo, by e-mail
Tokyo not owed Fifa job
“TOKYO: Africa’s time has come at
Fifa” (December 20) refers.
Tokyo Sexwale is basically
demanding to be Fifa president. True
to form, he is going to play the race
card. Just because you are African
does not mean you have the right to
be the Fifa president.
What credentials has Tokyo got in
football management? Has he even
managed a local football team?
Someone should let him know Fifa is
not the SABC; you actually have to be
qualified for the job.
We need someone who is the most
qualified for the job, whichever
continent they may come from. —
Keith Chipiwa, Randburg
The right team for rugby
“SA rugby ‘must discover its own
route’ into the future” (December 20)
refers. Rugby is now a professional
and evolving game, which requires
coaches to be intelligent, tactically
astute, innovative and assisted by
competent specialists. Arrogance,
antiquated and rigid ideas, let alone
hysterical behaviour, are simply not
good enough.
One hopes, therefore, that the
South African Rugby Union will not
rush to appoint simply the best local
coach — as the Stormers have done —
to steer the Boks, when an
international-calibre coach and
assistants are clearly needed if the
Boks are to evolve tactically, skilfully
and racially.
Given these criteria, I propose that
Saru sounds out a John Mitchell-Gert
Smal combination. Both have
international playing and coaching
experience, both were prepared to
work together at the Stormers, both
can be paid in rands, and having an
uitlander and a ware South African
A ticket in Dudu’s Xmas sock
Leave her looks out of it
WELL done on showcasing the
inspirational young talent that
South Africa has leading the way
across sports, arts and politics in
“The young guns who took 2015 by
storm” (December 20). I thoroughly
enjoyed reading about the work of
these young leaders.
How disappointing for
Nompendulo Mkatshwa, however,
that journalist Pearl Boshomane
described her as “synonymous with
a new wave of feminism” but then
chose to call her “photogenic” and
describe her “lithe frame and
signature head-wrap”. I would hope
that Ulo’s achievements would be
judged purely on their merits and
that her looks would not be
commented on in an article telling
us about her leadership and vision.
I note that the men in the article
ARTICULATE: Wits student leader
Nompendulo Mkatshwa
were not subject to the same
shallow assessments. — Gill Victor,
by e-mail
T
The worst for some was the
immediate and continued tumbling of
the markets and near annihilation of
our currency. For others, the
appointment of little-known David
van Rooyen to this crucial post and
his first speech about “demystifying
the Treasury’’ were the lowest points.
For me, the nadir came a few hours
before Zuma announced the shifting
of Pravin Gordhan back to finance
from co-operative governance. It
confirmed once and for all that our
president simply does not understand
what is going on. It would be slightly
comforting if he had grasped the
unfolding events, but he had chosen
to ignore them in pursuit of his
ambitions.
But the situation is worse because
it is a combination of ambition,
impetuousness and lack of ability.
On that Sunday, before announcing
Gordhan’s reappointment to the
LIKE Dudu Myeni . . . the maverick SAA
chairwoman who was so offended by a minister
telling her that she could not buy new planes
with money the airline did not have that she got
No 1 to show the said minister, Nhlanhla Nene,
the door.
As the year comes to an
end, we can only hope that
this candidate’s role in
getting Nene ousted was a
step too far and that the
new finance minister,
Pravin Gordhan, will give
her a free one-way air ticket
out of SAA. Preferably, this
would be a one-way ticket to
Nkandla where, as
ONE WAY:
chairwoman of No 1’s
foundation, she can oversee Dudu Myeni
the million-rand cattle kraal
and chicken run that keep the president’s
livestock sleeping and living in comfort.
Spreading little Goodwill
fits the bill. — Rob Haswell,
Pietermaritzburg
Rally to stop extinction
THANK you for your incredibly
important article “The ugly truth
behind the plunder of nature”
(December 13). We humans are part
of the web of life. As that is ripped
apart, our own wellbeing, and that of
all life, is threatened.
All people should rally to stop
extinction, and in particular all who
worship a creator God should see it as
a priority to stop the extinction of
God’s creation. — Bishop Geoff
Davies, Kalk Bay
We can take country back
“FRIENDS, advisers and a few
rogues” (December 20) refers.
How can a relatively unknown
family come from India and tell the
president how to run our country?
We the people are now going to
take responsibility. If we in our
numbers could change the pattern of
our country 21 years ago, we can
stand together in peace to reclaim
this land of ours. To be led by the best
person. To put people in place who
want this country to work for all its
people. No to corruption, nepotism
and freebies.
We all have to work for our slice of
bread. It is so simple. — Roshan
Mahomed, by e-mail
Reading signs every Sunday
IT’S another year gone by and, as a
pensioner, I cannot afford the Sunday
Times. But it’s my fix, call it a
compass to the South African
problem and solutions.
Peter Bruce, in “Let’s try a rational
executives committee” (December
20), has given the men and women
protecting Zuma a path to tread
towards a better 2016.
I wish these politicians would read
your and other serious newspapers to
get a feel for the trouble we are in. It
seems they read tabloids, as we are in
“soapie” mode.
Having had the privilege of visiting
Zimbabwe in its heyday and later
witnessing its free fall, I was smug in
thinking this will never happen here.
Hells bells, it is. Zuma has turned me,
an SA optimist, into a pessimist who
fears the next trick up his sleeve.
Thanks for the good and the bad
this year and telling your readers the
way it is. — June Baatjes, Athlone
Treasury, a smug president
addressed a gathering in
Mpumalanga where he told people to
ignore those who “talk too much on
television”. This complicates the
argument of Lindiwe Zulu, minister of
small business development, that
business does not communicate.
Business, civil society and
academia amplified their voice — but
Zuma was not listening. Instead, he
told his audience to also switch off.
And there are many business leaders
who have been roasted for daring to
criticise the government, but that is a
conversation for another day.
Instead of listening to the four days
of discontent, Zuma idiotically stuck
to his guns and said ministers were
never removed or appointed for no
reason. He missed the fact that his
reasons had been costly and Nene’s
yet-to-be-defined role at a Brics bank
counted for less than the market
stability and economic growth for
which South Africa is desperate. As
the tremors were still being felt, he
was the only one who still did not get
it. That is depressing.
A lot has happened since — the
governing party intervened, denied
intervening, admitted intervening,
blamed business for Zuma’s tardy
management of the country and
criticised the media — but failed to
put the spotlight on the main
protagonist.
ALSO associated with the Nkandla Crooner is
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini.
Even in a republic like ours, the status of a
monarch is supposed to be respected. After all, a
king is there to play a unifying role for the
nation.
But King Zwelithini has failed in this role and,
through his silly comments, at times acted as a
force of destruction.
His foolish remarks about the need to send
African foreigners back to their countries of
origin helped fuel xenophobic violence earlier
this year. When the Human Rights Commission
summonsed him to explain his utterances, he
chose not to fully co-operate.
To add insult to injury, this candidate — who
receives millions of rands from the taxpayer for
his and his family’s upkeep — used a ceremony
to brag to his subjects about how well the
apartheid government had looked after him.
So not a naughty girl, then?
ALTHOUGH not associated with No 1, the next
candidate sure has something in common with
the Zulu king when it comes to having fond
memories of our dark and evil past.
Dianne Kohler Barnard, who learnt this week
that she will keep her seat as a DA MP after
initially being kicked out of the party, makes it
to the list for sharing a Facebook post that
favourably compared apartheid president PW
Botha to the current democratic government.
The former SABC staffer insulted millions of
South Africans who suffered under apartheid,
embarrassing her party in the process.
As long as Baba loves you!
Impetuous president fails to put SA first
HE sun is about to set on
what has been a very
turbulent year. Our
business-as-usual
atmosphere has been shaken up by
the mayhem caused by President
Jacob Zuma when he changed finance
ministers twice in four days. We will
never forget that. It was dramatic,
outrageous and an epic failure of
leadership whose impact continues to
be felt. Although the capricious
markets have slowly settled, there is
no doubt that South Africa bled.
Those in denial have concocted
political conspiracy theories, pitting
capitalists and the West against our
poor nation. Regardless of the stark
evidence, they have refused to see the
simple truth that we suffered because
of our president’s ineptitude. In firing
former finance minister Nhlanhla
Nene, Zuma indeed used his
prerogative — as if that was ever the
debate — but he did not use it to put
South Africa first.
South Africans all have their own
views about the worst moments of
that disorderly week. For some the
worst was when Nene was fired by a
dull president whose communication
skills need serious intervention. At
that point, Zuma did not think that he
owed anyone an explanation for this
extraordinary decision. Two days
later, three press statements were
issued in one day.
N the weeks leading up to the vote for
Mampara of the Year, the Sunday Times
had hoped against hope the results of this
year’s poll would have a different outcome.
It is no easy matter naming one’s president as
a mampara of the week, not to mention
conferring the status on him for a year.
It becomes even worse when the award is
given to him several years in a row.
It is not like South Africa has run out of
prominent people who do and say silly things.
There are plenty of them:
just read the pages of any
local newspaper and you
will see a number of
possible candidates.
But clearly, none comes
anywhere near our
Mampara and, judging by
our online poll, those who
make it as runners-up often
happen to have a
NO 2: Hlaudi
relationship of some sort
Motsoeneng
with our Mampara . . .
We are entering a crucial year of
local government elections. This tier
of government is closest to the people
and is the coal face of service delivery.
And we know that service delivery is
the bedrock of any nation’s
development. It requires skills,
expertise, compassion and adroitness.
In South Africa, protests about
delivery have been explosive and
persistent. Everyone seemed to
breathe a sigh of relief that Van
Rooyen was removed from the
Treasury, but is anyone asking what
makes him suitable for the critical cooperative governance and traditional
affairs portfolio?
I do not know much about him,
except what those who have worked
with him in Merafong and parliament
have had to say. At best they merely
acknowledge him. Many can barely
remember him. No one has said he is a
trailblazer.
I am deeply concerned that the ANC
and the government seem to be
suggesting that if Van Rooyen is not
suitable for the Treasury, he will
automatically be suitable for local
government. Maybe, but dare we
experiment at such a critical time? I
think not.
tellus@sundaytimes.co.za or
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ONE of her former SABC colleagues, who is still
very much at the broadcaster, also makes it
onto the shortlist.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng, he of “I am an adacemic
(sic) intellectual” fame, had the second highest
number of votes for his many blunders during
the past year.
The public protector and the courts have all
found him unsuitable to run the SABC given his
lack of formal post-matric education. Yet this
deputy Mampara of the Year keeps finding new
tricks he can use to stay on at the public
broadcaster.
To understand his power, one has to be
mindful of what miscommunications minister
Faith Muthambi once told an SABC board
member of him: “But Baba loves him.”
Ho ho ho, what a fine mess
BY “Baba”, Muthambi meant the No 1 Mampara
himself. He has been called so many things this
year — the Wrecking Ball; the Teflon President;
Ultimate Survivor.
But none of his nicknames can fully describe
the damage he has done to society at large.
Just when you think we have reached the very
bottom and the Zuma presidency can sink no
further, No 1 takes us to a new low.
At the start of December, just as everybody
thought the political year was over, this
Mampara thought he would shake things up a
bit by firing the finance minister.
As the rand tumbled and the markets went
into turmoil, he probably sat in his office and
giggled, giggled, giggled.
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Sunday Times
| December 27 2015
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OPINION
Last laugh for Malema as Zuma and Maimane stumble in 2015
A
JOKE is often told in
government circles of how
the seat of government has
relocated from Pretoria to
Nkandla in December ever since
Jacob Zuma became president.
Except it’s not really a joke.
The president — while on leave —
does spend the festive season at his
rural homestead in KwaZulu-Natal
where he kisses babies, dishes out
blankets to the elderly and offers pep
talks to amateur sports teams who
participate in tournaments
organised by his foundation.
Sometimes these events resemble
a government imbizo, judging by the
number of ministers and hangers-on
who flock to Nkandla to be seen to be
closer to the president.
This year will be no different,
except that the queues that usually
snake across the fields of Nkandla
may be shorter; it is clear to all that
the president is at his weakest.
It has been a tumultuous year for
him — for the first time since his
election, he saw the presidency
slipping through his fingers,
especially with the clumsy firing of
Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister.
But I don’t expect Pravin Gordhan
— who returned as finance minister
last week — to be among the
ministers who will gather at
Nkandla. He does not need to
ingratiate himself with his boss.
The president would never dare
touch him. He is like a Survivor
contestant who has won the
immunity challenge for the rest of
this term.
The backlash that forced Zuma to
remove David van Rooyen from the
Finance Ministry, a mere four days
after his appointment, has rendered
the president weak.
This makes Gordhan the most
powerful minister in the country. He
can do as he pleases.
The signing of the swap deal
between SAA and Airbus is a case in
point. It was also a slap in the face
for the president’s friend Dudu
Myeni, the overly confident SAA
board chairwoman, who always
comes out tops in her fights with
ministers.
Well, until last week.
Unfortunately the downside of a
spooked Zuma is that he will be
scared to fire even an incompetent
member of cabinet such as
Communications Minister Faith
Muthambi.
Zuma ended the year with trouble
brewing on all fronts. He sent a
minister to eject his second wife,
MaNtuli, from Nkandla in January,
on allegations of her being part of a
plot to poison him.
It went downhill from there. He
faced a constitutional storm when
❛
He is a Survivor
contestant who has
won the immunity
challenge for the
rest of this term
Pretoria, despite a court order,
allowed Sudanese despot Omar alBashir to leave the country, he
suspended his police commissioner,
and he parted ways with his national
director of public prosecutions.
Students also took their
grievances to his doorstep,
demanding that #FeesMustFall.
But if you think Zuma had a tough
year, spare a thought for Mmusi
Maimane who took over the DA
leadership from Helen Zille.
His election in May — an
achievement considering the young
leader’s age — was overshadowed
when veteran journalist Allister
Sparks, in a speech at the DA
congress, described apartheid
architect Hendrik Verwoerd as a
“smart politician”.
The ghost of apartheid haunted
the DA again when the brash Dianne
Kohler Barnard shared an offensive
Facebook post that hankered after
the dark days of apartheid.
But Kohler Barnard has bounced
back and managed to keep her
parliamentary position after
successfully appealing her DA
expulsion.
Tackling gender stereotypes
— and then confirming them
Statements by two of the most celebrated gender transition spokeswomen of 2015 raise
prickly questions about beliefs regarded as central to feminism, writes Rebecca Davis
O
NE of the women who
attracted the most media
attention in 2015 was born
a man. And not just any
man. Bruce Jenner was a college
football player who would go on to
win the title of “world’s greatest
athlete” after claiming gold in the
1976 Olympic decathlon, the notoriously gruelling event that demands mastery of 10 track and field
categories.
Very little about Caitlyn Jenner’s
story has been typical of transgender experience. Jenner’s personal wealth has afforded her the
best possible medical treatment, including
“facial
feminisation”
surgery that cost a reported $70 000
(about R1-million). The response
from the media to Jenner’s transformation was one of fascination,
but by and large it was respectful.
It’s interesting to compare Jenner’s
reception with that of Chelsea Manning, the US whistleblower previously known as Bradley Manning.
A number of US news outlets have
simply refused to acknowledge
Manning’s gender transition, persisting in referring to her as
Bradley.
Jenner, by contrast, has been
showered with mostly supportive
media coverage, including the now
famous edition of Vanity Fair in
which she posed for the cover as a
Marilyn Monroe-esque vamp. It
was in a TV interview with Diane
Sawyer around the same time that
Jenner made comments that feminists found disquieting.
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Why are they still sitting in Pretoria?
Who said they are sitting in Pretoria?
When were they deployed?
For months already.
What are they doing?
Different things. Project managers,
technical support. Depending on
their capacity.
BRAIN GAMES: Caitlyn Jenner at a fashion show in New York. She has been welcomed as a woman in most
media, but by saying her brain is ’more female’, has worried feminists
Picture: KEVIN MAZUR/WIREIMAGE
kett — an academic and Oscarwinning documentarist — wrote a
piece in the New York Times in
which she said that she had fought
her entire life against these stereotypes about women.
“Suddenly, I find that many of the
people I think of as being on my side
— people who proudly call themselves progressive and fervently
support the human need for selfdetermination — are buying into
the notion that minor differences in
male and female brains lead to
major forks in the road and that
some sort of gendered destiny is
encoded in us,” wrote Burkett.
The reason feminists have fought
hard to say that most gender differences are the result of social
conditioning rather than innate bi-
ological difference, is not hard to
see. If women are “biologically”
more emotional than men, maybe
they can’t be relied upon to serve
effectively as judges, for example. If
a female brain is “biologically” less
technical than a male’s, perhaps
women should leave flying planes
to men.
One of the unfortunate and unintended consequences of statements such as those made by Jenner and Manning is that they reinforce potentially destructive notions of innate gender difference.
This is why some feminists — who
one might consider in other respects natural allies of the transgender movement — have voiced
concern this year. Regrettably, they
have sometimes done so in deeply
offensive and stigmatising ways.
Pioneering feminist Germaine
Greer attracted fury in October after suggesting that Caitlyn Jenner
had transitioned in order to steal
the limelight of the Kardashian
women. Author Julie Bindel was
banned from a debate in the same
month due to a past piece in which
she wrote: “Call me old-fashioned,
but I thought the one battle we
feminists won fair and square was
to convince at least those left of
centre that gender roles are made
up. They are not real.”
These feminists have been heavily criticised for placing their ideologies ahead of the often traumatic
lived experience of transgender individuals. In 2016, it’s to be hoped
that more discussion, more theorising and more civilised debate
will foster greater understanding.
Perhaps, too, a more articulate
spokeswoman for transgender experience than Caitlyn Jenner will
succeed in capturing the media’s
attention.
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According to recent reports, 35 Cuban
engineers, costing the Department of Water
Affairs R50-million a year, have been sitting in
Pretoria since February. Chris Barron asked
spokesman Sputnik Ratau . . .
How many have been deployed?
All of them.
MISSING OUT: Bradley Manning,
now Chelsea, is not regarded in
US media as a woman
Picture: GETTY IMAGES/AFP
have put Malema on a pedestal.
His recent tour to London — even
addressing the prestigious Oxford
Union debating society — was a
coup. He also led thousands through
the streets of Johannesburg calling
for economic transformation.
Not a bad year for a man who,
at the height of his political
tribulations, likened himself to a
leper.
If 2015 was a tough political year.
Brace yourself for 2016 — with
#FeesMustFall protests expected to
resume in January and the hotly
contested local government elections
later in the year.
ý Barney Mthombothi is on leave.
Ngalwa is political editor
So Many
Questions
Officials from your own department.
Let them tell you the correct thing.
These guys are all over the country.
What does
a female soul
look like?
How is a female
brain different
from a
male brain?
“I am a woman,” Jenner told
Sawyer. “I have the soul of a female
and my brain is much more female
than it is male.”
What does a female soul look
like? How is a female brain different
from a male brain? This latter question is deeply contested: in a wellreceived 2010 book called Delusions
of Gender, scientist Cordelia Fine
argued that claims about biological
difference between the brains of
men and women are drastically
overstated. But here Jenner was,
telling the world that she felt, on
some essential level, that her brain
had always been “female”. Chelsea
Manning followed up with a similar
statement on Twitter: now that she
was a woman, she wrote, she was
“so much more aware of my emotions; much more sensitive emotionally (and physically)”.
It didn’t take long for sceptical opeds to appear. In June, Elinor Bur-
Clearly Maimane had no choice —
many in the party thought her
“mistake” was minuscule.
Good luck to Maimane and his
attempts to convince black voters to
support the DA. The reality is that
the likes of Kohler Barnard and
Sparks are entrenched in the DA.
Strangely enough though, it is the
EFF’s Julius Malema whose political
fortunes seem to have turned out for
the better.
The political gods are smiling on
the tempestuous Malema who had
his fraud and corruption case struck
off the roll.
Even attempts by the South
African Revenue Service to have him
sequestrated failed.
He may have endured a bruised
cheek and a sore neck after his
altercation with parliament security
in February when he and his MPs
demanded that Zuma “pay back the
money”, but the campaign seems to
Are they exempt from the standards
set by the Engineering Council of
South Africa?
No. You must remember that
when they were recruited we
sent a team to Cuba because
they needed to be at a certain
level of employment. We
couldn’t just take anybody
from the street. There was a
stringent selection process
working together with the
Cuban government . . .
Who were the people who went to
Cuba to select them?
Hold on, can I finish? A lot of people
don’t want to accept that even with
the blockade Cuba has been in the
forefront of a lot of technical
development, including in
engineering. So this thing of trying to
downgrade Cubans simply because
they’ve not been part of the bigger
Western picture is incorrect.
There are certain international
standards that have to be met
though, surely?
We have got to have people who come
and work here who satisfy our own
standards as a country.
Was there a needs analysis before
deciding we needed these Cubans?
We didn’t just walk out of here and
say, “Give us 10 people.” It was [to
satisfy] the needs of the country that
we went there. And we cannot know
the needs of the country without a
proper needs analysis.
Who did the needs analysis?
You’re interrupting, you’re not
allowing me to answer. Obviously the
department has an interest in how
the sector performs. And obviously
the department has a responsibility
to ensure that we have what is
required. So it was our responsibility
to do a needs analysis. This is not the
first time we have said there are
shortages of skills, especially at
municipalities which cannot attract
the necessary skills.
Why not?
Because they don’t have the money to
pay these guys.
So you’re using the Cubans because
they’re cheaper?
Not because they’re cheaper, because
they’re willing to go where our own
engineers have not been willing to go.
Have you spoken to Consulting
Engineers South Africa? They say
they have engineers with
internationally recognised
qualifications ready and willing to
go anywhere.
They won’t go to a municipality that
doesn’t have the capacity to pay them
at the same level as the city of Cape
Town.
So is it a fact that the Cuban
engineers are cheaper?
They are not cheaper, because they
have come at a certain level. Those
are the skills that we have bought.
Are these skills recognised by the
engineering council?
I can’t answer for the
engineering council but from
where we are sitting as a
department we are confident
of their skills.
But the council is a
statutory body. Doesn’t that
mean its standards have to
be met?
Please don’t ask me to answer for the
engineering council. I don’t speak for
them. I will not speak for them.
I want you to speak for your
department. Do the Cubans have
the necessary qualifications? Are
their qualifications recognised?
They are recognised according to the
standards that we require.
Shouldn’t they be recognised
according to the standards required
by the engineering council?
That is why I am saying the statutory
body can make their own
pronouncements, but according to
the recruitment process we
underwent, which was very rigorous,
we are happy with the skills we got.
You may well be, but they are not
recognised internationally or by the
relevant local body, are they?
That’s your own position, it’s not fact.
Is Cuba part of the Washington
Accord that governs international
engineering qualifications?
You can’t bring the Washington
Accord in when Washington has
barred people from being recognised.
Isn’t South Africa a signatory of the
Washington Accord?
South Africa signed the Washington
Accord, but are you saying the
Washington Accord is different from
what we are able to garner from the
Cubans in the medical field?
I’m talking about the engineering
field. The Washington Accord
governs international engineering
qualifications. Shouldn’t South
Africa, as a signatory, adhere to
those standards?
I think you are looking for a debate
and I am not going to debate with
you. I can check that. I don’t have the
answer on my fingertips right now.
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Jeremy Rose:
Obsessive,
acclaimed
architect
1963-2015
JEREMY Rose, who has died in
Johannesburg at the age of 52, was
the architect behind some of South
Africa’s most famous museum, heritage and public-art projects commemorating the struggle against
apartheid.
These include Freedom Park, the
Mandela House Visitors Centre, the
Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, the Apartheid Museum, the
Liliesleaf Liberation Centre in Rivonia and the Mandela Capture Site
public sculpture.
He was also principal architect for
parts of the Newtown cultural
precinct in Johannesburg, the Oprah
Winfrey Leadership Academy for
Girls and the Origins Centre at the
University of the Witwatersrand.
Rose was born in Johannesburg on
May 24 1963. He matriculated at the
private Anglican school of St Martin’s
and studied architecture at Wits. He
was treasurer of the National Union
of South African Students, and an
active member of the End Conscription Campaign.
Rose went into exile in Botswana in
1989 to avoid conscription into the
South African Defence Force and jail
time for refusing the call-up. While
there he worked with Osmond Lange
Architects and then in association
with Colin Savage.
He returned to South Africa in 1995
and formed Mashabane Rose Associates with Phill Mashabane.
Rose was very driven, very ambitious and very true to a specific
architectural vision.
He had clear ideas about the type of
aesthetic he wished to create. He was
not as client-orientated as many architects.
He considered himself a visionary
and thought he knew better than
anybody else, including his colleagues and clients, with whom he
had many robust arguments.
He was very stubborn, determined
to execute his own aesthetic, down to
the smallest detail. He knew precisely how he wanted things to look,
and how he wanted space to operate.
He had a profound understanding
of inside-outside space relationships.
All of this, including his obsessive
focus on detail, can be seen to good
❛
At the Apartheid
Museum, the
demarcation from
one exhibit to the
next is clear, and
the resultant
experience all the
more stark and
harrowing for it
effect in the Apartheid Museum,
which, along with others of his designs, won international praise and
was written about in several books
and papers.
A striking feature of the Apartheid
Museum is the clean acoustics, which
allow an unusually neat and clear
experience.
Other museums are marred by a
profusion of sounds overflowing from
adjacent exhibits. At the Apartheid
Museum, the demarcation from one
PERSONAL VISION: The details on the major projects architect Jeremy Rose worked on were, for him, non-negotiable
exhibit to the next is clear, and the
resultant experience all the more
stark and harrowing for it.
Rose was a very good painter,
draughtsman and sculptor, talents he
used to great effect in his designs.
He had a natural flair for materials
and was exquisitely selective about
which ones he used.
While his detailing was admired by
other architects, it was not always
appreciated by his colleagues.
For him the details were non-negotiable. He wanted them correct and
this made him a bit of a control
freak.
He was so obsessed with his personal vision of how things should
look that some of the architects who
worked under him found him overbearing and not respectful of their
vision.
Rose lost some good staff over the
years for failing to incorporate, acknowledge or credit their ideas.
Because he worked with government stakeholders a lot of the time,
he had to tolerate committee-type
deliberations and consensus decisions. He found this way of doing
things frustrating and became increasingly impatient with it.
As he stamped his mark over time,
his impatience and dominance became more respected, which in turn
made him even less tolerant of challenges to his vision.
Rose died of genetically inherited
pulmonary fibrosis, which also killed
his father Eric, who died in 1987 at a
similar age.
He is survived by his estranged
wife Ellen Papciak-Rose, their
daughter Maya and his partner
Mary Wafer.
He met Papciak in Botswana where
she was a Peace Corps volunteer art
teacher. She returned to the US five
years ago with their daughter.
Having carved a name for himself
as the maker of cultural and historical museums in the South African
context, Rose felt he could not leave.
He went to the US every six months
to see Maya. — Chris Barron
Dave Hazelhurst: Master
journalist who helped lift
lid on the ‘Info scandal’
1938- 2015
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DAVE Hazelhurst, who has died in
Johannesburg at the age of 77, was
probably the greatest all-round journalist South Africa ever had, and
handled one of the biggest news
stories in the country’s history.
Although he could write brilliantly,
it was as a production specialist that
he made his mark on the industry and
commanded such huge respect in the
newsrooms of the country’s most
famous newspapers.
He was a master of design, layout
and headlines. He had a visceral understanding of news, what stories were
important, how they should be covered,
what weight they should be given and
how they should be presented.
As chief assistant editor of the Rand
Daily Mail, he played a typically behind-the-scenes but pivotal role in its
coverage of the information scandal
in 1977 and 1978.
Also known as “Hazy”, he wrote
one of the most momentous headlines
in the country’s history — “IT’S ALL
TRUE” — which finally destroyed all
the denials by the Vorster and PW
Botha governments.
That headline, on Friday November
3 1978, was the culmination of two
years of painstaking, dangerous
work, most of it contained in memos
by investigative reporters Mervyn
Rees and Chris Day and locked up in a
safe waiting for the right moment to
be unleashed.
Hazelhurst led the team that collated this mountain of material and
prepared it for publication — one
bombshell after another, until on
November 2 1978 Judge Anton Mostert
defied the instructions of then prime
minister PW Botha and exploded the
biggest bombshell of the lot.
He released an avalanche of evidence from a commission of inquiry
he had led in which the main players
came clean on the abuse of taxpayers’
money, never dreaming it would be
made public.
Hazelhurst had about six hours to
ready the evidence for publication.
When the Rand Daily Mail came out
the next morning, there was enough
copy to fill a book.
In their account of the scandal —
Muldergate — Rees and Day called
Hazelhurst’s achievement the greatest production exercise in the newspaper’s history.
Hazelhurst was born in Barberton
on January 31 1938. He matriculated
at age 16 from Jeppe Boys High School
and enrolled at the University of the
Witwatersrand.
He passed his first year but dropped
out in his second after being so absorbed as a stage designer for the Wits
operatic society that he failed his midyear exams.
He joined the Mail in 1956 as crime
reporter on the night shift.
After being suspended for being
drunk and insubordinate, he resigned
and spent what was in his pension
fund on second-hand books, including
those by his favourite authors, John
Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway and
John dos Passos, which he still had
when he moved home in 2013.
After a stint at Golden City Post, he
became, in 1963 at the age of 25, the
IT’S ALL TRUE: Dave Hazelhurst
Picture: THE STAR
youngest editor of Drum magazine.
He had an uneasy relationship with
the owner, Jim Bailey, who was irritated by his battle with deadlines.
He remarked that Drum under previous editors was pedestrian, but
made the deadline. Under Hazelhurst,
he said, it was brilliant but always a
cliffhanger. After two years, Hazelhurst said he could not take Bailey
any more and resigned.
His close friend Hugh Lewin, a
subeditor on Drum and the Post, and
member of the African Resistance
Movement, stayed with him briefly
after serving a seven-year sentence
for sabotage. As a result, Hazelhurst
found himself the object of close
surveillance by the security branch.
Sunday Times editor Joel Mervis
asked him to build the newspaper’s
township edition, called Sunday
Times Extra, which he did so successfully that its black readership
boomed to the extent that people
joked that it was the white edition of
the Sunday Times that would soon
have to be called the Extra.
From the Sunday Times, he rejoined
the Rand Daily Mail and was chief
subeditor under editor Raymond
Louw. It was during this period in the
early ’70s that he started becoming a
legend in the industry. When Allister
Sparks became editor of the Sunday
Express, he asked Hazelhurst to be his
deputy editor. When Sparks became
editor of the Rand Daily Mail, he asked
Hazelhurst to follow him there too.
He became managing editor. When
the Mail closed in 1985, he joined the
Sunday Star as deputy to “Buller”
Hildyard. The two became inseparable. When Hildyard resigned for
health reasons in 1991, Hazelhurst
became editor and converted it into a
short-lived tabloid.
He spent the rest of his career as
creative director for The Star.
He attached great importance to
photography and his expertise was
recognised when he was asked to
serve seven consecutive terms on the
then Ilford Press Photographer of the
Year judging panel.
He had Alzheimer’s but was killed
by cancer of the oesophagus. He is
survived by his wife, Ethel, a former
financial journalist who he met when
she was a librarian for SA Associated
Newspapers, and two children. —
Chris Barron
News
If you can’t feed a team with
two pizzas, it’s too large.
— Jeff Bezos, Amazon
founder and CEO
Sadder, wiser
markets emerge
from wild ride
Flying Into Turbulence
President’s jolt to investors settles
into wariness as year draws to close
ANDRIES MAHLANGU
A RELATIVE sense of calm and
stability has returned to South
African markets near the end of
what has been a roller-coaster
ride for investors this month and,
indeed, this year.
The JSE All Share index is relatively flat in rand terms so far
after a buoyant start to 2015. In
dollar terms, the picture looks
uglier after the benchmark
dropped 24% because of a weaker
rand.
Since peaking at 55 188.34
points in April, the R10.38-trillion
domestic market has struggled to
make headway. Other global
stock markets, such as the US,
have displayed a similar pattern.
There were many variables
along the way that thrust most
equity markets this year into correction territory — defined as a
drop of more than 10% from
recent highs.
These variables included the
Greek crisis, low commodity
prices and jitters over an interest
rate hike in the US, which was
announced after months of speculation.
The most important feature,
though — from the viewpoint of
South African markets — was the
unceremonious sacking of finance minister Nhlanhla Nene.
Banks and financial shares —
which were the hardest hit in the
immediate aftermath of President
Jacob Zuma’s surprise decision to
appoint little-known David van
Rooyen to the position before subsequently backtracking — have
yet to fully recover from the drama, which ended with the appointment of Pravin Gordhan as
the new head of the finance portfolio.
“We end the year close to where
we started, but in between were
some scary moves, not fun at all,”
said Gerhard Lampen, head of
online trading at Sanlam Private
Wealth.
The rand, which has hit record
lows to the dollar, euro and
British pound in the past two
weeks, has perked up a little, as
has the bond market, after Gordhan sought to reassure markets
that the country would stick to a
viable fiscal path. The All Share
index again hit the 50 000-point
mark this week, driven by some
bargain hunting in the financial
and resource sectors.
Still, some analysts believe it
will take a while before investor
confidence returns to South
African markets, given that the
country has recently been handed
the lowest investment grade rating by some credit-ratings agencies and therefore faces the threat
of a credit downgrade.
“In the short term, I believe that
South African investors will be
apprehensive to invest fresh capital into local equities as uncertainty and risk perceptions have
increased,” said Grant Gilburt,
stockbroking portfolio manager
at Nedbank Private Wealth.
“The recent events have highlighted the importance of diversifying your portfolio across industries and geographies and
have reminded investors of the
impact of unforeseen risks.”
With only a few days to go
before the end of what has been a
❛
We end the year
close to where
we started, but in
between were
some scary
moves, not
fun at all
generally trying year for JSElisted stocks, investors will be
hoping for a better season ahead.
The resources sector in particular has endured another torrid year, underperforming the
broader market. Impala Platinum,
Kumba Iron Ore and AngloGold
Ashanti lost their Top 40 status
this year, leaving just a handful of
mining companies in the bluechip index once dominated by the
resources sector.
The struggling resource 10 index has been reconstituted as of
this week, with Mondi Plc and
Sappi now forming part of the
index, replacing Sibanye and
Northam
Platinum.
Mining
shares are largely victims of per-
sistently weak commodity prices.
Stock winners have been few
and far between this year and are
mostly concentrated in the industrial sector, which, together
with financials, now dominates
the 64-member All Share index.
Brewing giant SABMiller, the target of a takeover bid by AnheuserBusch InBev, leads the charge in
the industrial index after gaining
50% in value this year.
Media and internet company
Naspers and British American
Tobacco also contributed significantly as they gained 39% and
31% respectively, partly as the
result of a weaker rand. The industrial 25 index itself has gained
about 14% since January.
Unsecured lender Capitec Holdings has bucked the muted market trend, making its way into the
Top 40 and rallying a sturdy 62%
in value this year.
It has been tough going for
some erstwhile market darlings,
such as Aspen Pharmacare and
Coronation Fund Managers,
whose shares are mostly likely to
end the year weaker after outperforming in recent years.
Lampen said share valuations
on the local market were a lot
cheaper than a year ago, so there
was potential for a healthy increase in share prices if a few
things worked out.
These include foreign investors’ confidence in South
Africa growing — something that,
according to Lampen, was now
down to Deputy President Cyril
Ramaphosa — and preventing a
downgrade by ratings agencies.
“If not, it will be hard to call the
bottom in a junk status market.”
The overall picture on the global
stock market has turned out to be
a lot better than initially feared,
especially in August, when major
indices took a dive after China
devalued its currency, leading to a
sharp drop in metals prices.
Despite the wobble in recent
months, global stock markets
have generally fared well since
the 2008-09 crisis, almost tripling.
Excluding dividends, the All
Share index has surged 183% in
rand terms since hitting its lows
in November 2008. This translates
into a 96% rally in dollar terms.
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received fair compensation. One of the protesters is wearing a mask depicting Virgin Group founder Richard Branson
Picture: REUTERS
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company in line with the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) GDS 2040 goals Ensuring contract implementation and performance reporting to Management Setting human capital
targets and manage staffing levels accordingly.
Key performance areas: Legal advice, litigation, drafting, vetting Compliance management A focus on environmental compliance A focus on health and safety
compliance Project management Contract management Human Resource management.
Requirements and experience: An LLB degree/Environmental or Commercial Law specialisation preferable 8-10 years experience in a legal management environment
in a public sector organisation, of which at least 5 years must have been at senior managerial/strategic level Experience in risk management, contract management, labour
law, environmental and waste management, legislative compliance and in-depth understanding of legislation governing local government Forensic environmental investigations
and technologies will be advantageous.
Additional competencies: Integrity Commercial focus Analysis and problem-solving Judgement and decision-making Strategic thinking Building a vision
Influencing others Networking Organising and prioritising Impact Proactive communication Developing relationships.
E-mail: Snrexecgrc1215@pikitup.co.za
Position:
PICKING OUT
PERFORMANCE
The Research Unit has to set a research agenda that builds PIKITUP into a strong data-based organisation that provides detailed and accurate analysis for strategic decision-making;
and to maintain the integrity of all PIKITUPs research; to conduct strategic planning (including capital planning) based on sound research and develop business plans for the
organisation, accordingly. The unit is also responsible for reporting, monitoring and evaluation of delivery. The role includes the conceptualising of large-scale programmes and testing
of new innovations through operations. The Executive will be a key driver to ensure the entire business shifts its paradigm from a company that currently delivers 93% of the waste
that it collects to landfill sites, to a company that will separate at source, reuse, recycle and radically reduce waste to landfill.
Key responsibilities: The key responsibilities of this position include: The research agenda of Pikitup informs a clear strategy for waste transformation and includes
setting of baseline data as well as determining new waste value chains Acting as research custodian to ensure a high quality of research across the organisation Ensuring
the CoJ and PIKITUP Corporate and Strategic Planning process (long-, medium and short-term) are accurately informed by PIKITUPs realties and are aligned Engaging in piloting
and testing as a robust part of the business, since it is the engine room driving the shift in paradigm at PIKITUP to a fully fledge integrated waste management company Seeking,
testing and implementing business improvements on a continuous basis Ensuring the environmental management strategy and actions place Pikitup as an African and global
leader in environmental management strategies.
Key performance areas: Research, development and innovation Strategic planning Capital planning and execution Programmes: Piloting and testing Business
improvements Environmental management Transformation Project management Contract management HR management.
Requirements and experience: A relevant degree in Science Engineering/Business Management/Waste Management/General Management or Commerce 10 years
relevant experience An in-depth understanding of research and planning environments with demonstration of managing larger research projects At least 5 years experience
in the senior management of large core service of a city or large municipality.
Additional competencies: Integrity Commercial focus Analysis and problem-solving Judgement and decision-making Strategic thinking Building vision
Networking Organising and prioritising Impact Proactive communication Developing relationships.
E-mail: Senexecrsp1215@pikitup.co.za
Closing date for applications: 8 January 2016
This is a re-advertisement following the advert published on 22 November 2015.
Please quote the relevant position title in all correspondence relating to this circular/advert
Pikitup reserves the right not to fill these vacancies
Correspondence will only be entered into with shortlisted applicants. Should you not hear from us within 30 days of the closing date of the advert,
please consider your application unsuccessful
These positions are 5-year fixed-term contracts
PIKITUP IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER COMMITTED TO EMPLOYMENT EQUITY PRINCIPLES AND REDRESSING THE IMBALANCES OF THE PAST.
PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO SUITABLE CANDIDATES FROM DESIGNATED GROUPS.
LIMPOPO
Band 6
Salary scale: R800 000
As the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals, we produce 40%
of the world’s newly mined platinum. Our mining, smelting and refining operations are
based in South Africa, while we’re developing Unki Platinum Mine in Zimbabwe and
actively exploring in Brazil. We have exploration partners in Canada, Russia and China,
and a number of joint ventures with several historically disadvantaged South African
consortia as part of our commitment to the transformation of the mining industry.
A part of Anglo American, we are helping to build the leading global mining company.
You will be responsible for managing and coordinating the overall Ventilation and
Occupational Hygiene systems, programmes and department, which will include
designing, implementing and managing hygiene strategies and systems, managing
risk assessment and auditing processes and supervising lamp room and gas detection
equipment. Further key activities involve managing fire prevention and control systems
and procedures, etc, ensuring safety programme compliance and managing specialist
training for relevant personnel, all with the goal to ensure a safe and healthy work
environment and minimise pure risk, litigation and adverse publicity.
To qualify, you will need an Elementary Certificate in Mine Environmental Control
and a Chamber of Mines (COM) Certificate in Mine Environmental Control, as well
as training, via courses, formal training or practical experience in, among others,
Occupational Health legislation, hazard identification and risk assessment, and
extensive computer literacy in MS Office and SAP. You must be qualified as a
ventilation professional and occupational hygienist with 5 years’ post-qualification
experience in ventilation and be declared competent as a 5.1(1), 9.2(2), 16.1(1)
(MHSA) and chapter 12.1 (MHSA) Occupational Hygiene Practitioner. A Certificate of
Fitness is essential.
Ref: 713948
Ensure a quality career with Anglo Platinum Ltd. Visit www.angloamerican.com
before 4 January 2016 and click on “Careers”, then on “Current Vacancies”,
and then search for the relevant reference number/job title (internal candidates can
apply via Eureka).
Appointments will be made in line with Employment Equity considerations.
a world class African city
JOHANNESBURG
SOC LIMITED
Kone Solutions K26150
www.humanjobs.co.za
Human Communications 123642
DIRECTORATE: Office of the Chief Financial Officer
REF. NO: SMS2015/03
REQUIREMENTS: Matric/Grade 12 plus a Bachelors’ Degree or equivalent
qualification in Assets and Logistics Management or Commerce. Further
qualifications in relevant fields will be regarded as added advantage to the
candidate. Consideration will be given to candidates with 7-10 years’ experience,
5 of which were in Assets and Logistics Management environment.
DUTIES: Asset Management. Take full responsibility and ensure that proper
control systems exist for assets, and that preventative mechanisms are in place
to eliminate theft, losses, wastage and misuse, tock levels are at an optimum
and economical levels. Ensure that processes and procedures are in place for the
effective, efficient, economical and transparent use of the department’s assets.
Logistics Management. Coding of items, setting of inventory levels, placing of
orders against term contracts, receiving and distribution of materials, stores or
warehouse management, expediting orders, transport management, supplier
performance management. Disposal management duties. Obsolescence planning
or calculating of depreciation rates, keeping database of redundant materials,
inspecting materials for potential re-use, determining strategy on how to dispose
of obsolete items, carrying out the physical disposal of obsolete items.
DIRECTOR: STRATEGIC PLANNING
DIRECTORATE: Strategic Management
REF. NO: SMS2015/01
REQUIREMENTS: Matric plus a Bachelor of Administration/Bachelor of Public
Administration/Bachelor of Commerce (NQF 7 qualification) with modules in public
administration, public services, public policy, strategic planning and performance
management or any other relevant qualification with the prescribed modules. 5
years relevant experience in strategic planning at a middle management level.
3 to 5 years management experience.A valid driver’s license. Computer literate
(Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint, Excel) applications.
KNOWLEDGE: Knowledge of the Public Finance Management Act, Treasury
Regulations, Public Service Regulations, Supply Chain Management Regulations,
Risk Management Framework and all other relevant prescripts in relation to
strategic planning and management. A good understanding of institutional
governance systems and performance management and reporting. A good
understanding of demand management planning and its relationship to strategic
planning and management.
DUTIES: Coordinate and facilitate the development of the strategic,annual
performance and operational plans in line with the relevant legislation for
the department of e-Government.Coordinate and facilitate the development
of branch and chief directorates’ annual performance and operational plans
in line with the relevant legislation. Align the strategic, annual performance
and operational plans to the planning, budgeting and reporting cycles for the
department of e-Government. Communicate the strategic planning process and
its importance to senior managers. Coordinate and facilitate the risk assessment
of the strategic, annual performance and operational plans to develop the risk
mitigation plans of the department of e-Government. Develop and implement a
strategic planning policy and governance framework.Formulate strategies, policies
and action plans. Facilitate and coordinate research, seminars and presentations
relevant to the mandate of the department of e-Government, service delivery
agreements and government plans nationally, provincially and locally.
CLOSING DATE: 15 January 2016
The Provincial Government of Gauteng is committed to the achievement
and maintenance of diversity and equity in employment, especially of race,
gender and disability.
Applications must submitted on a Z83 form obtainable from any Public Service
Department or on the internet at www.dpsa.gov.za/documents. The completed
and signed form should be accompanied by a recently Updated CV and original
certified copies of qualifications with a SA ID document, (certification should
not be more than 6 months old). Failure to submit all requested documents will
result in the application being disqualified.
APPLICATIONS: The successful candidate shall be subjected to a competency
assessment, security vetting to Top Secret and background checks. The Gauteng
Department of e-Goverment is guided by the principles of Employment equity.
People with disabilities and women are encouraged to apply. Applicants must
apply online at: www.gautengonline.gov.za or you can hand deliver your
applications at 75 Fox Street, Imbumba House, Johannesburg. Please do not
post, fax or e-mail your applications.
Due to the large number of applications we envisage to receive,
applications will not be acknowledged. If you do not receive
any response within 3 months, please accept that your
application was unsuccessful.
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Tender Description: Provision of Medical Practitioner for Occupational Health Services
Intention to award to: Hlombe Investments Solutions
Note: Persons aggrieved by decisions or actions taken by Umgeni Water, may lodge an
appeal within 7 days of the date of the intention to award advertisement.
The appeal (clearly stating reasons for appeal) and queries with regard to the decision
of award are to be directed, in writing only, to the Supply Chain Management Office,
attention: Supply Chain Management at e-mail: appeals@umgeni.co.za
Note that appeals not addressed to the abovementioned e-mail address will not be
considered.
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The UNDP Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) in South Africa is pleased to
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DEATHS
SALE IN
EXECUTION
NOTICE OF SALE IN
EXECUTION
IN THE HIGH COURT OF
SOUTH AFRICA (GAUTENG
DIVISION, PRETORIA)
18-07-1939 ± 17-12-2015 CASE NUMBER:58047/2014
We mourn the sudden and In the matter between:
unexpected loss of our
FIRST RAND BANK
much-loved husband,
LIMITED (formerly known
brother, father and
as FIRST NATIONAL BANK
grandfather, who passed
OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
away peacefully at his
LIMITED)
Plaintiff
home in Bryanston on 17
December. Taken from us and
too soon, with so much life JAN BENJAMIN
PRETORIUS
left to live, he was always
Defendant
there for his family and
A sale in Execution of the
friends, and we will sorely
miss his humour, wisdom, undermentioned property is
to be held without reserve at
strength and enthusiasm.
the offices of the Sheriff of
All our love, Barbara, Steve the High Court Ermelo, GF
& Di, Louella & Leigh, Carren Botha & Van Dyk Building,
& Ed, Kyle & Sam, Rourke & Cnr Church & Joubert
Nicola, James and Kate.
Streets, Ermelo on 12th
January, 2016 at 10H00.
In loving memory of my
Full conditions of sale can be
dearest husband, John.
inspected at the offices of the
I miss you already and will Sheriff of the High Court
until we meet again.
Ermelo, GF Botha & Van Dyk
Building, Cnr Church &
My thoughts are with you
Joubert Streets, Ermelo and
always. Your ever loving
will also be read out by the
wife, Barbara Ann.
Sheriff prior to the sale in
execution.
Dad, my heart is broken.
The Execution Creditor,
Love you forever, Lou.
6KHULII DQGRU 3ODLQWLIIV
0\GDUOLQJ3SD<RXDUHRXU Attorneys do not give any
warranties with regard to the
world, our strength and
description and/or improvemainstay. The missing is
ments.
unimaginable. I know you
Property: Portion 1 of Erf
are now with Blayne and
9918 Ermelo Township
together you will continue to Registration Division: IT
ZDWFKRYHUXV,WVMXVW
Province of Mpumalanga
another au revoir dearest
Measuring:
183
sqaure
father. I love you, Carren.
metres
Known as: 70 Oosthuizen
Sadly missed by your sister- Street, Ermelo
in-law and good friend, Dee. Improvements:
lounge, kitchen, 2 bedrooms,
bathroom, shower, toilet,
In loving memory of John,
garage
the leader of our pack.
Love from Choya, Nevada, HACK STUPEL & ROSS
Attorneys for Plaintiff
Cindy, River and Chloe,
PO Box 2000, Pretoria
your fur-babies.
Tel: 012 325 4185
REFERENCE:
FUNERAL NOTICE DU PLOOY/LVDM/GP12055
027UBZ
Funeral to be held at
JOHN PHILLIP
LLEWELLYN
MORGAN
Fourways Memorial Park,
1 Memorial Lane
(Off Campbell/ Inchanga)
on 6 January 2016 at 2pm.
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seen in Eastern Cape area.
Please can you contact Social
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on 082 339 8988 regarding a
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Leslie Venter last known
address 4 Stamford Street
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please contact social worker
Melanie van Emmenes on
mobile 082 786 5297
regarding a family matter.
SALE IN
EXECUTION
NOTICE OF SALE IN
EXECUTION
SOUTH AFRICA (GAUTENG
DIVISION, PRETORIA)
CASE NUMBER:47646/2013
In the matter between:
FIRST RAND BANK
LIMITED
(formerly known as FIRST
NATIONAL BANK OF
SOUTHERN AFRICA
LIMITED)
Plaintiff
JOAS REIKANTSE PHALA
1st Defendant
AND
MABLE MMETI PHALA
2nd Defendant
A sale in Execution of the
undermentioned property is
to be held without reserve at
ODI Magistrate's Court on
13th January, 2016 at
10H00.
Full conditions of sale can be
inspected at the Sheriff of the
High Court ODI at
Magistrates Court Road,
5881 Zone 5, Ga Rankuwa
and will also be read out by
the Sheriff prior to the sale in
execution.
The Execution Creditor,
Sheriff and/or Plaintiff's
Attorneys do not give any
warranties with regard to the
description and/or
improvements.
Property: Erf 1361
Mabopane Unit X Township
Registration Division JR
Province of the North West
Measuring: 280 square
metres
Known as: 1361 Unit X
Mabopane
Improvements:
lounge, kitchen, 3 bedrooms,
bathroom, toilet
HACK STUPEL & ROSS
Attorneys for Plaintiff
PO Box 2000, Pretoria
Tel: 012 325 4185
REFERENCE:
DU PLOOY/GP11812
027YOY
NOTICE OF SALE IN
EXECUTION
SOUTH AFRICA GAUTENG
DIVISON, PRETORIA
Case Number: 2013/40811
THE STANDARD BANK OF
SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED
Plaintiff
and
NAKEDI: KHASI DAVID
First Defendant
NAKEDI:
NOMASONTO
SHARON
Second Defendant
This is a sale in execution
pursuant to a judgement
obtained in the above
Honourable Court dated the
02 September 2013 in terms
of which the following
property will be sold in
execution on 14th January
2016 at 10H00 at the Sheriff
Johannesburg East at 69
Juta Street, Braamfontein to
the highest bidder without
reserve:
Certain:
Erf 2519 Pimville Zone 2
Township,
Registration division I.Q.,
Province of Gauteng,
Measuring 258 (two hundred
and fifty eight) square
metres, held under deed of
transfer no. T25222/2011
Subject to the conditions
therein contained
Situated at Stand 2519 Zone
2 Pimville
Zoning: general residential
(nothing is guaranteed)
The following information is
furnished but not guaranteed:
Main building: lounge,
1 x bathroom, 2 x bedrooms,
kitchen and a w/c
(The nature, extent, condition
and existence of the
improvements are not
guaranteed, and are sold
"voetstoots")
The Purchaser shall in
addition to the Auctioneer's
commission, pay a deposit of
10% of the purchase price in
cash or bank guarantee
cheque on the day of the
sale and the balance against
transfer which shall be
secured by a Bank or
Building Society guarantee in
a form acceptable to
Plaintiff's
conveyancers,
which guarantee shall be
delivered by the Purchaser to
the Sheriff within twenty one
(21) days from the date of
the sale and shall provide for
the payment
of the full balance and any
such interest payable as
provided for hereunder.
The Rules of this auction are
available 24 hours before the
auction at the office of the
Sheriff of the High Court,
Soweto East.
The office of the Sheriff for
Soweto East will conduct the
sale. Advertising costs at
current publication rates and
sale costs
according to court rules,
apply.
Registration as a buyer is a
prerequisite subject to
conditions, inter alia:
A) Directive of the Consumer
Protection Act 68 of 2008.
(URLhttp://www.info.gov.za/
view/DownloadFileAction?id
=99961)
B) FICA - legislation i.r.o.
proof of identity and address
particulars.
C) Payment of a Registration
Fee of R10 000.00 in cash
D) Registration conditions.
The aforesaid sale shall be
subject to the Conditions of
Sale which may be inspected
at the office of the Sheriff of
the High Court, 21 Hubert
Street, Westgate.
Dated at Sandton this 1st
day of December 2015.
STRAUSS DALY INC.
3ODLQWLIIV$WWRUQH\
10th Floor World Trade
Centre, Green Park
Cnr Lower Road & West
Road South, SANDTON
Tel: (010) 201-8600
REF: S1663/4943
C/O STRAUSS DALY
ATTORNEYS
38 Ingersol Street, Centaur
House,
Lynnwood Glen,
PRETORIA
0282QL
SALE IN
EXECUTION
NOTICE OF SALE IN
EXECUTION
SOUTH AFRICA GAUTENG
DIVISON, PRETORIA
Case Number: 2015/66688
STANDARD BANK OF
SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED
Plaintiff
and
MATSILE:
ASEGAI
PHILLIMON
First Defendant
MAJAFE
KELEBOGILE
DAISY
Second Defendant
This is a sale in execution
pursuant to a judgement
obtained in the above Honourable Court dated the 18
September 2015 terms of
which the following property
will be sold in execution on
14th January 2016 at 10H00
at the Sheriff Johannesburg
East at 69 Juta Street,
Braamfontein to the highest
bidder without reserve:
Certain:
Erf 24869 Diepkloof
Extension 10 Township,
Registration Division I.Q.,
Province of Gauteng, measuring 200 (two hundred)
square metres, Held Under
Deed of Transfer No.
T46262/2008
subject to the conditions
therein contained
Situated at 24869 Diepkloof
Extension 10
Zoning: General Residential
(Nothing Guaranteed)
The following information is
furnished but not guaranteed:
Main Building: Lounge, 1 X
Bathroom, 3 X Bedrooms
and a Kitchen
(The nature, extent, condition
and existence of the
improvements are not guaranteed, and are sold "voetstoots")
The Purchaser shall in addition to the Auctioneer's
commission, pay a deposit of
10% of the purchase price in
cash or bank guarantee
cheque on the day of the
sale and the balance against
transfer which shall be
secured by a Bank or Building Society guarantee in a
form acceptable to Plaintiff's
conveyancers, which guarantee shall be delivered by the
Purchaser to the Sheriff
within twenty one (21) days
from the date of the sale and
shall provide for the payment
of the full balance and any
such interest payable as
provided for hereunder.
The Rules of this auction are
available 24 hours before the
auction at the office of the
Sheriff of the High Court,
Soweto East. The office of
the Sheriff for Soweto East
will conduct the sale.
Advertising costs at current
publication rates and sale
costs according to court
rules, apply.
Registration as a buyer is a
pre-requisite subject to
conditions, inter alia:
A) Directive of the Consumer
Protection Act 68 of 2008.
(URLhttp://www.info.gov.za/v
iew/DownloadFileAction?id=
99961)
B) FICA - legislation i.r.o.
proof of identity and address
particulars.
C) Payment of a Registration
Fee of R10 000.00 in cash
D) Registration conditions.
The aforesaid sale shall be
subject to the Conditions of
Sale which may be inspected
at the office of the Sheriff of
the High Court, 21 Hubert
Street, Westgate.
Dated at Sandton this 30th
day of November 2015.
STRAUSS DALY INC.
3ODLQWLIIV$WWRUQH\
10th Floor World Trade
Centre, Green Park
Cnr Lower Road & West
Road South, SANDTON
Tel: (010) 201-8600
REF: S1663/6680
C/O STRAUSS DALY
ATTORNEYS
38 Ingersol Street, Centaur
House,
Lynnwood Glen, PRETORIA
0286IS
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KWAZULU-NATAL DIVISION,
DURBAN
(Exercising its Admiralty
Jurisdiction)
CASE NO: A 107 /2015
Name of vessels: mv
"ZEYNEP K"
UNICREDIT BANK AG
Applicant
and
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First Respondent
and
ACE NAVIGATION LTD
Second Respondent
and
ESER DENIZCILIK VE
TIVARET A.S
Third Respondent
Application for leave to sell the
Respondent vessels, their
equipment, furniture, stores
bunkers and lubricating oils in
terms of section 9 of the Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation
Act,1983.
JUDICIAL SALE OF MV
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MENT OF REFEREE TO
DETERMINE CLAIMS AND
REPORT TO COURT
TAKE NOTICE THAT on 18
December 2015 a rule nisi
was issued calling upon all
persons interested to show
cause before this Court, at
Masonic Grove, Durban on
12 January 2016 at 09h30 or
so soon thereafter as the
matter may be heard, why an
Order should not be made:
1.That in terms of section 9
of Act 105 of 1983, as
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with her equipment, furniture,
stores, bunkers and lubricating oils be sold on the prescribed conditions by public
auction with Clear Asset
(Pty) Ltd acting on behalf of
the Court in respect of the
sale.
2.That the proceeds of the
sale shall constitute a Fund
to be held by the Registrar to
be dealt with in accordance
with the provisions of the
order.
3.That
Advocate
Darryl
Cooke, 2nd Floor, Bank
Chambers, corner Keerom
and Bloem Streets, Cape
Town, is appointed as Referee to receive, examine and
report to the Court on the
validity and ranking of claims
in respect of the Fund, which
claims must be filed with the
Referee within 10 (ten) days
of the date of sale or date
that the sale is confirmed by
this Honourable Court, as
applicable.
4.A full text of the Order of
Court and Conditions of Sale
may be obtained by requesting same from
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BY ORDER OF THE COURT
REGISTRAR OF THE HIGH
COURT
SOUTH AFRICA
KWAZULU-NATAL DIVISION,
DURBAN
(Exercising its Admiralty
Jurisdiction)
CASE NO: A 108 /2015
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Ahead of the test series,
Kevin Pietersen analyses
SA and England’s relative
strengths on and off the field
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Key test for SA
as Barmy Army
comes to town
HERE is a lot at stake for South
Africa in the test series against
England. The public were very disappointed with performances in
India recently, where they lost 3-0 and
would have been whitewashed had it not
rained in Bangalore, but the issues go deeper than one series defeat.
There is a lot of discussion within South
African sport about the impact of transformation. Quota systems in rugby and
cricket have caused a lot of soul-searching,
with some questioning whether these have
taken precedence over talent.
In domestic cricket, teams have to pick at
least six non-white players, including three
black Africans. At international level, the
aim is for South Africa to have at least four
non-white players in the team.
Clearly something has to be done to
promote the sport. Only seven of the 87
players picked by South Africa since readmission have been black Africans. The
game has to be made attractive and open to
all.
But if South Africa lose this series to
England there will be lots of questions
about whether they are on the right path.
Crowds are down in South Africa. Cricket
needs the national team to win at home, so
there are a few issues that England can use
to their advantage and why I say this is a
huge series for cricket in South Africa.
The great news for England is that they
are starting in Durban. England have not
lost a test at Kingsmead since 1928 and we
won there by an innings in 2009.
South Africa have never enjoyed the
Boxing Day test experience in Durban and
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2.That the proceeds of the
sale shall constitute a Fund
to be held by the Registrar to
be dealt with in accordance
with the provisions of the
order.
3.That
Advocate
Darryl
Cooke, 2nd Floor, Bank
Chambers, corner Keerom
and Bloem Streets, Cape
Town, is appointed as Referee to receive, examine and
report to the Court on the
validity and ranking of claims
in respect of the Fund, which
claims must be filed with the
Referee within 10 (ten) days
of the date of sale or date
that the sale is confirmed by
this Honourable Court, as
applicable.
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JUDICIAL SALE OF MV
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MENT OF REFEREE TO
DETERMINE CLAIMS AND
REPORT TO COURT
1.That in terms of section 9
of Act 105 of 1983, as
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her equipment, furniture,
stores, bunkers and lubricating oils be sold on the prescribed conditions by public
auction with Clear Asset
(Pty) Ltd acting on behalf of
the Court in respect of the
sale.
Email: Ramoll8@gmail.com
HOLIDAY APARTMENTS
Tel: 035 590 1155
Application for leave to sell the
Respondent
vessels,
their
equipment, furniture, stores
bunkers and lubricating oils in
terms of section 9 of the Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation
Act,1983.
December 2015 a rule nisi
was issued calling upon all
persons interested to show
cause before this Court, at
Masonic Grove, Durban on
12 January 2016 at 09h30 or
so soon thereafter as the
matter may be heard, why an
Order should not be made:
Tel 031 465 -1711/2
Fax 031 465 8882
www.flamingoholidayflats.co.za
and
PY³6$'$1.
First Respondent
and
QUEEN MARITIME LTD
Second Respondent
and
ESER
DENIZCILIK
VE
TIVARET A.S
Third Respondent
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This South African
series will feel like
playing in Barbados,
where the majority of
the fans are English
it is back to cash in on the holiday crowds
and the many England fans who will be
travelling to watch the series.
They have a big role to play. This series
will feel like playing in Barbados, where the
majority of the fans are English. It is a home
game for Alastair Cook’s team.
The rand is very weak to the pound. A
friend of mine works for South African
Breweries and they are laying on extra
drink at the grounds and the Barmy Army
pubs in anticipation of the English being in
town. England fans will feel like they are
eating and drinking for free so the atmosphere should be very good for the
England players, which will help ease some
of the intensity they will feel on the field.
Not that long ago I feared we would lose
easily. But now it is too close to call. The two
teams mirror each other.
South Africa will rely on two big fish in
Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers. The rest
of the batters have much to prove. But it is
the same for England. Their big fish are
Cook and Joe Root.
Nick Compton is back in the side trying to
rebuild a career, Alex Hales is untried in
test cricket and James Taylor has never
played in such bouncy, quick conditions.
It could go either way because one good
spell of bowling to that South African top
order from Stuart Broad or James Anderson could win a test in a session. But so
could Dale Steyn against England’s fragile
line-up. It is going to be a tale of the
bowlers.
The lengths to bowl are shorter in South
Africa than in England. England bowlers
look to pitch it up and get it swinging but in
South Africa hitting the top of the stumps is
key. Reverse swing is massive. Looking
after the ball is key, as is building pressure
by not letting them score. Frustrate South
Africa.
STEADY DOES IT: Hashim Amla quietly
reaches 40 without you noticing, says
Kevin Pietersen Picture: MARK WESSELS
CRICKET WHITES: The Durban test ‘will
be a home game for England’s Alastair
Cook’
Losing stalwarts Graeme Smith and
Jacques Kallis has put pressure on De
Villiers and Amla. The way they have
handled it has been amazing. AB is in a
league of his own, the best batsman in the
series. He is a freak. He plays 360° of the
field and knows where he wants to score.
Most importantly, he plays situations well.
In Delhi he faced 297 balls and batted for
nearly six hours for 43 runs. So he can play
defensively when he wants but can also
turn it on and destroy a team very quickly.
Amla is a quiet guy and unassuming at
the wicket. He is the kind of batsman who
somehow reaches 40 without you noticing.
Then a bit later he is on 70. He never gets
tired. He bats at one pace and is just a cool
and calm presence. The heat of battle can
grind you down, but not Hash. If he bats for
a long time, South Africa will win.
Outright pace is not a big thing in international cricket anymore. It is the different types of fast bowling that make it
hard. Steyn bowls full away swing while
Morne Morkel just constantly bangs out the
right length. You know with the new ball
Steyn will try to bowl full but I think he is
quicker and better with the older ball. He
bowls faster and tries to get it reverse
swinging with a lot of fire and oomph. The
red mist can come down. Steyn is always
fired up and has a competitive edge.
A lot of South Africans wish Morkel had
half Steyn’s aggression. Not many of
Morkel’s balls hit the stumps so you can
afford to leave him a lot more than Steyn.
Touring South Africa is an easy job. The
time zone is pretty similar to the UK’s so
there are never any issues with jetlag or
keeping in touch with home. Your travel
days are simple, the airlines and hotels are
well run. The food and hospitality are
amazing, but the hard part is on the field. —
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Light Fight 14:00 Revenge 15:00 FILM: The
Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part One
17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Comedic talkshow
18:00 The Goldbergs: Comedy series
18:30 The Great Christmas Light Fight: Reality show
19:30 The Astronaut Wives Club: Drama series
20:30 Agent X: Action drama series
21:30 Cirque du Soleil: La Nouba: Artsy circus special
22:30 Carte Blanche: Investigative magazine show
23:15 Blindspot: Crime drama series
M-Net
08:30 Sarah Graham’s Food Safari
09:30 Revenge 10:15 FILM: Sophie Grace and
Rosie’s Royal Adventure 11:30 The Middle
12:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 13:00 The
Great Christmas Light Fight 14:00 Chicago
PD 15:00 CSI Cyber
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18:30 The Great Christmas Light Fight: Reality show
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20:30 Zoo: Sci-fi series
21:30 Chicago PD: Crime drama series
10:30 Emzini Wezinsizwa 11:00 Cutting Edge
11:30 Phola 12:00 Friends Like These
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17:00 Centre Stage: Magazine show
17:28 Reflections of Faith: Devotion
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18:00 Fan Base: Music show
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19:30 Jika Majika: Music show
20:30 Forced Love: Drama series
21:00 Live Amp: Music show
22:00 FILM: Hostage (2005) (16) Decent crime drama
about a failed hostage negotiator-cum-small-town
cop who finds himself having to deal with a
dangerous hostage taker. With Bruce Willis, Kevin
Pollak and Serena Scott Thomas
SABC2
08:30 Infomercials 09:00 Circus of the
World 11:00 Kgotso 12:00 FILM: Nothing for
Mahala 14:00 Il Divo: Live at the Greek
Theatre
17:00 Disney’s A.N.T. Farm: Kids’ show
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19:00 Nuus
19:30 News
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21:30 Loyiso Bala Special: Music show
22:30 Boxing magazine show
23:00 The 4400: Sci-fi mystery series
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20:30
21:00
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SABC3
06:00 FILM: A Tale of Two Cities
18:30 News @ 6:30
19:30 High Rollers: Drama series
20:00 Roer Jou Voete: Drama series
21:00 Arrow: Comic-based action series
22:00 The Mentalist: Crime drama series
22:30 Special Assignment: Current affairs
e.tv
09:30 Scandal! 10:00 Turn Up and Dance
10:30 The Young and the Restless
11:30 Great Expectations 12:30 Ashes to
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Catz 15:00 Monsters vs Aliens 15:30 Frenzy
16:00 Supa Strikas: Soccer cartoon
18:00 MVP Jam: Game show
20:30 Lip Sync Battle: Reality show
21:00 WWE Main Event: (PG) Wrestling
22:00 FILM: Stranger Than Fiction (2006) (13) Comedy
about a man who hears a mysterious narrator
commenting on his life. With Will Ferrell, Emma
Thompson and Dustin Hoffman
M-Net
08:30 The Astronaut Wives Club
09:30 FILM: Like Sunday, Like Rain
11:30 Kevin From Work 12:00 The Ellen
DeGeneres Show 13:00 I Can Do That 14:00
My Story 15:00 Sarah Graham’s Food Safari
16:00 Made in Hollywood: Magazine show
18:00 The Middle: Comedy series
18:30 I Can Do That: Reality dance show
19:30 The Muppets: Puppet documentary. Two episodes
20:30 Matt Franco’s Got Magic: Reality show
21:30 FILM: Shotgun Garfunkel (2013) (16) Local
comedy drama. With Bryan van Niekerk, Asher
Mikkel Stoltz and Eduan van Jaarsveldt
22:55 Chicago PD: Crime drama series
SABC1
Club Culture: Music show
Nikita: Action drama series
e.tv
09:30 Scandal! 10:00 The Close Up 10:30
The Young and the Restless 11:30 Step Up or
Step Out 12:30 Backstage 13:00 News Day
13:30 WWE NXT 14:30 FILM: Home Alone 3
18:00 Club 808: Make Some Noise: Music show
20:30 FILM: The Other Guys (2010) (13) Comedy
about two bungling cops trying to become
supercops. With Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg
22:55 FILM: Shottas (2002) (16) Crime drama about
Jamaican drug dealers. With Ky-Mani Marley
09:00 Inside the Baobab Tree
09:30 Tree Fu Tom 10:00 Takalani Sesame
10:30 Rivoningo 11:00 Southern Rhythms
12:00 Love That Girl! 12:30 Mampodi
13:00 Jessie J: Live at the O2 Arena
14:00 7de Laan 14:30 Mali
15:00 Skeem Saam 15:30 Muvhango
Hectic Nine-9: Interactive variety show for kids
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Leihlo La Sechaba: Investigative news
7de Laan: Soapie
Nuus
News
Keke Music Special
Vusaseki: Talkshow
Muvhango: Drama series
Benjamin Dube: Music special
Cold Blood: Crime documentary series
FILM: Daughter of a King (2014) (16) Crime
drama about a young woman trying to rebuild her
messed-up life. With Debra Van Gaalen, Tiffany
Blom and Florin Marksteiner
SABC3
06:00 FILM: The Black Tulip
07:00 FILM: The Corsican Brothers
18:30 News @ 6:30
19:30 Top Billing: Entertainment magazine show
21:30 Supernatural: Fantasy action drama series
22:30 Durban Beach Rescue: Documentary
23:30 Hot in Cleveland: Comedy series
e.tv
09:30 Scandal! 10:00 MVP Jam 10:30 The
Young and the Restless 11:30 Checkpoint
12:00 Against All Odds with Mpho Lakaje
WWE Raw 14:30 Quiz Time 14:35 Cool Catz
15:00 Yo Gabba Gabba 15:30 Storm Hawks
16:00 Craz-e World Live: Magazine show
18:00 The Close Up: Talkshow
20:30 Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life —
An All-Star Grammy Salute: Music special
22:20 The South African Hip Hop Awards 2015:
Music awards show
23:20 Lip Sync Battle: Game show
M-Net
07:30 Sarah Graham’s Food Safari 08:30
Made in Hollywood 09:30 FILM: Despicable
Me 2 11:30 The Goldbergs 12:00 The Ellen
DeGeneres Show 13:00 I Can Do That 14:00
Carte Blanche 15:00 Made in Hollywood
16:00 The Muppets: Puppet documentary. Two episodes
18:00 Kevin from Work: Comedy series
18:30 I Can Do That: Reality dance show
19:30 My Story: Reality show
20:30 Blue Bloods: Crime drama series
21:30 The Royal Variety Show
23:45 CSI Cyber: Crime drama series
M-Net
07:30 Made in Hollywood 08:30 Chicago PD
09:30 FILM: Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas
11:30 The Muppets 12:00 The Ellen
DeGeneres Show 13:00 I Can Do That
14:00 Blue Bloods 15:00 Entertainment Now
16:00 My Story: Reality show
18:30 I Can Do That: Reality dance contest
19:30 Rizzoli and Isles: Crime drama series
20:30 Public Morals: Crime drama series
21:30 NCIS New Orleans: Crime drama series
22:30 FILM: From the Rough (2013) (PG) Sports.
Catana Starks made history as the first woman to
coach a men’s college golf team
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00
19:30
SABC2
21:20
SABC3
MUCH TO WATCH: Emily VanCamp in ’Revenge’,
above, ’Dracula Untold’, left, and ’Frankenweenie’, right
e.tv
06:00 Imani 06:30 Siyakholwa 07:00
Transformers 07:30 YoTV Big Breakfast
08:30 Matt Hatter Chronicles 09:00 Mzansi
Insider 10:00 Generations: The Legacy (five
episodes) 12:30 Imizwilili 13:30 FILM: TBC
15:00 FILM: Nothing for Mahala (2013) (PG) Good
local comedy. With Thapelo Mokoena, Marius
Weyers and Mmabatho Montsho
17:30 Roots: Music show
18:00 Friends Like These: Game show
19:00 News
19:30 The Real Goboza: Magazine show
20:00 FILM: Frankenweenie (2012) (PG) Animation
22:00 Skyroom Live: Music show
07:00 Morning Live 08:30 Housecall
09:30 Sports magazine show 10:00 Athletics
Alive 10:30 Sportsview 11:00 One Piece (four
episodes) 13:00 Love That Girl!
14:00 Muvhango (five episodes)
16:00 FILM: Dog Lover’s Symphony (2006) (PG)
18:00 Wipeout USA: Game show
19:00 Nuus
19:30 News
20:00 Emeli Sandé: Music special
21:00 Live Lotto Draw
21:04 The Bantu Hour: Sketch comedy show
22:00 FILM: Dracula Untold (2014) (13) Dark fantasy
action drama based loosely on the Bram Stoker
novel. With his kingdom threatened by the Turks,
Vlad Tepes will stop at nothing to protect his
homeland — even becoming a monster. With Luke
Evans, Dominic Cooper and Sarah Gadon
00:00 Afro Café: Music show
SABC3
06:00 Expresso 08:30 Avatar 09:30 Days of
Our Lives 10:30 Those Who Can’t
11:00 Isidingo 11:30 7de Laan 12:00 Starsky
and Hutch 13:00 The Kaiser Chiefs: Live at
the Elland Road, Leeds 15:00 The Real
16:00 Afternoon Express: Talkshow
17:00 Days of Our Lives: Soapie
18:30 News @ 6:30
19:30 Total Blackout: Game show. Double bill
20:30 Minute to Win It: Game show
09:00 Inside the Baobab Tree 09:30 Tree Fu
Tom 10:00 Takalani Sesame 10:30 Rivoningo
11:00 Sports Lifestyle Show 11:30 Roughing
It Out 12:00 It’s For Life 12:30 48 Hours
13:00 The Dr Phil Show 14:00 7de Laan 14:30
Uzalo 15:00 Skeem Saam 15:30 Muvhango
17:00 Dragon Ball GT: Action cartoon from Japan
17:30 News
18:00 Motswako: Talkshow
19:00 Nuus
19:30 News
20:00 Love That Girl: Comedy series
20:30 Family Time: Comedy series
21:00 Live Lotto Draw
21:30 90 Plein Street: Drama series
22:00 Afro Café: Music show
SABC2
Saturday 2 JANUARY
Friday 1 JANUARY
SABC1
SABC2
06:00 Magic Cellar 06:30 Fun Factory
07:00 Disney’s Phineas and Ferb (double bill)
08:00 The Wizards of Waverly Place
08:30 Garbage Gallery 09:00 Challenge SOS
18:30 News @ 6:30
19:00 Magic With Mo: Reality show
19:30 FILM: Cerro Torre: A Snowball’s Chance in
Hell (2013) (PG) Action documentary about the
world’s youngest climbing champion taking on the
difficult Cerro Torre climb. Featuring David Lama,
Peter Ortner and Jim Bridwell
21:30 FILM: The Fast and the Furious (2001) (16)
Okay action with hot cars. With Vin Diesel, Paul
Walker and Michelle Rodriguez
23:30 Club Culture: Music show
07:30 Everything’s Rosie
07:45 Fireman Sam 08:00 Dora the Explorer
08:30 Transformers: Robots in Disguise
09:00 Sistahood 09:30 Scandal! (five
episodes) 11:30 Paternity Court
12:00 Against All Odds with Mpho Lakaje
12:30 The Close Up 13:00 Club 808: Make
Some Noise 13:30 The Planet’s Funniest
Animals 14:00 FILM: Home Alone 3
WWE Total Divas: (PG) Wrestling reality show
WWE Smackdown: (PG) Wrestling
Wipeout USA: Game show
eNews Prime Time
FILM: Jumper (2008) (PG) Sci-fi. With Hayden
Christensen, Samuel L Jackson and Jamie Bell
FILM: Get Shorty (1995) (16) Crime comedy.
With Gene Hackman, Rene Russo and Danny DeVito
M-Net
06:00 FILM: Saving Santa 07:30 Hollywood’s
10 Best 08:00 The Great Christmas Light
Fight (double bill) 11:00 I Can Do That
(triple bill) 13:00 Astronaut Wives Club
14:00 Blue Bloods 15:00 FILM: Tarzan
17:00 Zoo: Sci-fi series
18:00 The Goldbergs: Comedy series
19:00 The Middle: Comedy series
19:30 Kevin From Work: Comedy series
20:00 Revenge: Drama series with Emily VanCamp
21:00 Rizzoli and Isles: Crime drama series
22:55 FILM: Brick Mansions (2014) (13) Average crime
drama about an undercover cop and an ex-con
teaming up to take down a kingpin. With Paul
Walker, David Belle and RZA
News
December 27 2015
24 Sunday Times
WH crossword
ACROSS
1 Winger bringing angry charge (9)
9 Using wrong name, one makes a bloomer (7)
10 Leave to play for the town (7)
11 Explosive grandee in trouble (7)
12 Anxious and sickened by a needle (3, 2, 4)
14 Berkshire supporters (8)
15 Walk some way — go on! (8)
17 Batting, given time, will be strong (7)
20 Standard directions to endorse (6)
23 Apply tax without hesitation (8)
25 Cautioned on working out — training (9)
26 Duck coop put on display out-of-doors (4, 3)
27 Save about a hundred pounds by intent (7)
28 Figure having no mount on (7)
29 A cracking treat for youngsters in spring! (6-3)
8 Soldiers’ surrender — retreat (9)
13 Deletes error when so encouraged (7)
15 They’re of basic personal help in the
squeeze (9)
16 Underworld bid for exoneration (9)
18 The main trunk (3-5)
19 Daughter men see managing the estate (7)
21 Letters must be translated for an
immigrant (7)
22 Note contention is increasing (7)
24 View round about noon undisturbed (6)
Everyone’s crossword
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
DOWN
2 Part of the plant that’s to let — or otherwise (7)
3 The women scored highly (7)
4 Pushers using some craft? (8)
5 Rex has got in the beer, and made more of it! (6)
6 Almost adult, so interviewed about an
incident (9)
7 Old lady securing fare pledge (7)
2-Speed crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Snips away while old Bob
listens (6)
4 March past line of shops (6)
7 Medium has no age to
state (4)
8 Great big beating (8)
9 Winners at Crufts? (3, 4)
12 Plant making beer for
dance (3)
14 Chance to watch TV (4, 2)
15 Tom’s initial mistake with
troublesome child (6)
16 Semi-farewell to extra at
Lord’s (3)
18 Its card may become
powerful in action (7)
22 Soothing number (8)
23 Clubs for example involved in
legal action (4)
24 A fellow at the university is a
good-looking chap (6)
25 Post for landlord (6)
ACROSS: 1 Rampart 5 Solid 8 Virgo 9 Pounces 10 Lucifer 11 Actor
12 Preach 14 Versus 17 Exams 19 Arrived 22 Earlier 23 Germs
24 Steer 25 Totally
DOWN: 1 Ravel 2 Miracle 3 Aloof 4 Topers 5 Sausage 6 Licit
7 Deserts 12 Poetess 13 Cashier 15 Several 16 Parrot 18 Agree
20 Right 21 Dishy
DOWN
1 Group making regular
contributions toward raising the
roof? (5, 4)
Bridge
This deal occurred in a regional
pair championship in Los
Angeles many years ago. The
hand was played at many
tables, of course, but our story
concerns itself solely with the
table where Kelsey Petterson
held the South cards.
When she first looked at her
extraordinary hand, Petterson
wondered whether it would be
better to open the bidding with
two spades (strong) or two
clubs when it was her turn to
bid.
However, the problem became
altogether academic when
Codeword
COFFEE-TIME
ACROSS
East dealer
Both sides vulnerable
2 Chosen few went by bus with
conductor (9)
3 Like this we would
broadcast (5)
4 What’s the point of a garden
fork? (5)
5 Intent on being parcelled up
we hear (4)
6 Ring a bell round wild dog (5)
10 Looked inquisitively into
sound of arrogance (5)
11 Posted around 3rd-class trail
for hounds to follow (5)
12 Firm trying place as tennis
arena (4, 5)
13 Never-say-die character
according to senior nurse (9)
17 Give up interest in shares (5)
19 Horse controller restraining
toddler (5)
20 Fine one of the nobs (5)
21 Catspaw takes pledge (4)
Petterson thought she heard the
player on her right open bidding
with seven diamonds!
Undaunted by this totally
unexpected development,
Petterson bid seven spades. East
doubled, and, after three passes,
West led the jack of hearts.
There was nothing much to the
play. Declarer ruffed the heart
and drew four rounds of trumps,
the jack obligingly falling on the
second round.
When she then cashed the A-K
of clubs, the missing queen also
fell, so the upshot was that she
made seven spades doubled for a
score of 2 470 points.
East-West were
understandably nonplussed by
this dreadful result. They realised
they would get a very bad score
on the deal, especially since East
had elected to double the grand
slam, giving North-South an
optimal result that was unlikely
to be duplicated at the other
tables.
As the East-West pair were
disconsolately putting their cards
back into the duplicate board,
9 Victors (3, 4)
12 Jump on one foot (3)
14 Pay a visit (4, 2)
15 Great fright (6)
16 Cricket extra (3)
18 Severe (7)
22 Tranquiliser (8)
23 Set of clothes (4)
24 Handsome young man (6)
25 Communication (6)
DOWN
1 Mutual benefit society (5, 4)
2 Battery terminal (9)
3 Scattered seed (5)
4 Tine of fork (5)
5 Absorbed (4)
6 Australian dog (5)
10 Snooped (5)
11 Perfume (5)
12 Venue for tennis (4, 5 )
13 One who perseveres (9)
17 Give way (5)
19 Straps restraining horse (5)
20 Grow bigger (5)
21 Chess piece (4)
1 Clippers (6)
4 Military display (6)
7 Declare (4)
8 Very large (8)
Elimination
HOW TO PLAY
Each of the clues eliminates two words from
the list of 37. Find the words that match the
clues, cross them off the list and you’ll be
left with one word. You can confirm the
accuracy of your answer next week.
(a) Emotional communication!
(b) Two linked with master
(c) Obsolete sum
(d) Two associated with work
(e) But not a tree house!
(f) Two words with number
(g) Period in hand?
(h) Two become annoying
(i) For multinational shine?
(j) Two synonyms
(k) Political footballer?
(l) Two anagrams
(m) He looks wrong!
(n) Two joined with bottle
(o) Rough, for smoothing
(p) Two suggesting hot
(q) Make a desolation!
(r) Two with rule
1. Lay
2. Red
3. Tom
4. Log
5. Shy
6. Old
7. Some
8. Left
9. Time
10. Huge
11. Neck
12. Love
13. Plate
14. Paper
15. Slide
16. Cakes
17. Waste
18. Grand
19. Cabin
20. Three
21. Spare
22. Lucky
23. Poker
24. Emery
25. Polish
26. Simper
27. Letter
28. Golden
29. Washer
30. Winger
31. French
32. Primes
33. Fooled
34. Peeping
35. Trouble
36. Gigantic
37. Farthings
(a) 2-35 (b) 5-18 (c) 29-10 (d) 6-28 (e) 36-8
(f) 22-32 (g) 4-20 (h) 7-19 (i) 31-17 (j) 9-37
(k) 27-11 (l) 16-21 (m) 12-26 (n) 3-15 (o) 34-24
(p) 13-23 (q) 30-1 (r) 25-33
Sunday Sudoku
Petterson turned to her righthand opponent and asked: “May I
please see what an opening
seven-diamond bid looks like?”
“I opened the bidding with one
diamond,” East sadly replied.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
1W, 2U, 3O, 4E, 5D, 6I, 7S, 8T, 9A,
10F, 11H, 12R, 13N, 14C, 15P, 16L,
17M, 18G, 19B, 20Y, 21V
Pink: FRETSAW
Yellow: HUMUS
Blue: LOLLARD
1 Doctor moving fuel outside will not pick it up cleanly
(6)
2 Bird has part of a dainty meal (6)
3 Breeze to subside during landing by parachutist
(3-4)
4 Many people make a noise in the Civil Defence (5)
6 Monkey featured in double mural (5)
7 Ready with cheerful alacrity (7)
8 Peter to endeavour to find room (6)
9 Bothers about losing direction but beats
This week’s theme is: 2015 multiple
choice
1. Which vehicle manufacturer was
embroiled in rigging diesel emissions
tests in 2015? A) BMW, B) Renault,
C) VW, D) Chevrolet
2. Sepp Blatter was the former
leader of which troubled sporting
body? A) IRB, B) ICC, C) IAAF,
D) Fifa
3. In 2015 who became the new host
of “The Daily Show”? A) John
Vlismas, B) David Kau, C) David
Kabuuka, D) Trevor Noah
4. In September a stampede caused
the death of more than 2 000 in
which city? A) Kathmandu,
B) Medina, C) Mecca, D) Baghdad
5. The discovery of “Homo naledi”
was announced in 2015. What does
“naledi” mean? A) Star, B) Early,
C) Sacred; D) Entrance
6. Which team won the Cricket
World Cup? A) Australia, B) New
Zealand, C) India, D) South Africa
7. Who painted “Nafea Faa Ipoipo” —
the most expensive painting ever
sold? A) Gauguin, B) Cezanne,
C) Picasso, D) Van Gogh
8. In which film franchise did
Christopher Lee (d. 2015) not star?
Samurai Sudoku
BRAIN TEST ANSWERS
1 Conversely it means there is only a slim hope (3, 6)
5 River vessel used by a gardener (9)
11 Duller warning device on the mountain (10)
12 Hatter or collier unwell inside (8)
13 Having plenty of free time was certain I had
followed the French round (8)
14 A solitary crustacean (6-4)
15 Well-liked arsonist on stage? (7, 6)
23 Not a middleman! (9)
24 Plenty Lou distributed in a rich way (9)
25 Beware conflict therein (3)
26 Felspar, a rock from space? (9)
27 Coda found at the end of a chapter (9)
28 Miserly girl stealing (5-8)
36 Worker at eastern port transferred (6, 4)
38 Cross the road for an easy victory (4-4)
39 Girl, we hear, got learner included as a
multilinguist (8)
40 Stake found by hollow containing engineers earlier
(10)
41 Mean to be pullin’ back before second half of July
(9)
42 From town he set out to find a sharpener (9)
DOWN
The remaining word is “Lake”
Codeword has only one clue – the three
letters that are printed in it. Where the
same numbers appear on the grid, fill in
the known letters, then work out the
remainder. Dotted lines indicate hyphens
or linked words. Find the words that
appear in the blue, yellow and pink
blocks.
ACROSS
1. C) VW 2. D) Fifa 3. D) Trevor Noah 4. C) Mecca
5. A) Star 6. A) Australia 7. A) Gauguin
8. D) “Harry Potter” 9. C) “Birdman” 10. D) Jack
Black 11. B) Yemen 12. C) Terry Pratchett
13. D) Charlotte 14. A) Belarussian (Svetlana
Alexievich) 15 .C) Andre Brink
16. D) Bill Withers A) Taylor Swift 18. B) Rubella
19. C) Pluto 20. A) Tunisia
more strongly (6)
10 It’s dropped when needed and weighed
afterwards (6)
15 Father reportedly will cut the vegetable (7)
16 Is this whale a mythical beast? (7)
17 An idiot in Belgium (7)
18 Ron’s the eccentric to check (7)
19 Support during hours in trouble (7)
20 In a hurry hoping to be elected? (7)
21 Was endlessly told to praise enthusiastically (5)
22 Oh dear, there is a shortage (5)
29 With little rounded humps developing
around 50 (7)
30 Make a hostile incursion in a way (6)
31 Not allowed till ICI reorganise (7)
32 Work in feature by a composer (6)
33 A French stopper to remove from the socket (6)
34 Does not start the film again in Spain (6)
35 He, after court order, will squirm (6)
37 Essential statistics? (5)
38 Timekeeper’s constant attention (5)
ACROSS: 9 Beachcomber 10 Cousin
11 Route-march 12 Oversell 13 Fiend 14 Operate
15 Views 18 Fourth of January 21 Disregard
22 Chastened 24 Kitchen cupboard 27 Scene
28 Riptide 29 Voter 32 Linesman 33 Innkeepers
34 Beaver 35 Church-mouse
DOWN: 1 Begonia 2 Acetone 3 Scamp
4 Improper fraction 5 Recherche 6 Ached
7 Substituted 8 Fieldworker 12 Out of the
ordinary 16 Mongrel 17 Hansard 19 Disinclined
20 Preconceive 23 Spotlight 25 Soap-box
26 Depress 30 Smart 31 Meths
B) Victoria, C) Elizabeth,
D) Charlotte
Brain test
14. What nationality was this
Trivia Tom
year’s literature Nobel laureate?
triviatom@gmail.com. Twitter: @maydont
A) Belarussian, B) Nigerian,
C) Chilean, D) Vietnamese
15. Which anti-apartheid author
A) “Star Wars”, B) “Lord of the
died this year? A) Breytenbach,
Rings”, C) “James Bond”,
B) Gordimer, C) Brink, D) Serote
D) “Harry Potter”
16. Which of these musicians did
9. Which film won the Best
not pass away in 2015? A) Percy
Picture Academy Award?
Sledge, B) Ben E King, C) BB
A) “Boyhood”, B) “Selma”,
King, D) Bill Withers
C) “Birdman”, D) “12 Years a
17. Who had a No 1 hit with
Slave”
“Blank Space”? A) Taylor Swift,
10. Who plays the role of Mr
B) Justin Bieber, C) The Weeknd,
Shivers in the film “Goosebumps”? D) Will Pharrell
A) Bradley Cooper, B) Chris Pratt,
18. The WHO announced that
C) Jeremy Renner, D) Jack Black
which disease was eradicated
11. Military action was escalated
from the Americas? A) Measles,
against the Houthis, in which
B) Rubella, C) Mumps,
country? A) Burundi,
D) Polio
B) Yemen, C) Thailand,
19. Nasa’s New Horizons was
D) Indonesia
involved in a fly-by of what?
12. 2015 was the last year for
A) Mars, B) Ceres, C) Pluto,
which fantasy writer? A) Douglas D) Alpha Centauri
Adams, B) George R R Martin,
20. From which country were the
C) Terry Pratchett, D) Frank
winners of the Nobel Peace
Herbert
Prize? A) Tunisia, B) Germany,
C) Vatican, D) DRC
13. Name the British princess
born in May 2015. A) Diana,
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News
Sunday Times
| December 27 2015
SPORT | 25
Strangest, weirdest
ways clubs, coaches
part ways in the PSL
An Olympic
medal is
Shange’s
focus in 2016
SBU MJIKELISO
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma’s
dodgy record when it comes
to hiring and firing finance
ministers for no particular
reason is matched only by
the Premier Soccer League
(PSL) clubs and their
coaches. To do this, both club
and coach have had to make
some of the strangest
excuses to part ways.
From Orange Farm, where life is
cheap, to competing on world stage
DAVID ISAACSON
WALKER Lebogang Shange spent a
quiet Christmas on Friday, preferring
to train on his own in Pretoria than
return home to Orange Farm in the
south of Johannesburg.
“I will celebrate Christmas after the
[2016 Rio] Olympics,” smiled Shange,
who finished 11th in the 20km walk at
this year’s world championships in
Beijing, China.
His focus is the Rio Games, where he
is aiming for a top-three finish.
If all goes according to plan, Shange
will spend most of 2016 outside the
country preparing for the Brazil
showpiece, starting with a two-month
training camp in Canberra, Australia,
at the invitation of Jared Tallent, an
Olympic medallist in both the 20km
and 50km events.
Shange’s 50km teammate, Marc
Mundell, was on the same camp
recently and he capped it off with a
new national record this month.
Shange departs on January 4.
Competing on the world stage is a far
cry from Orange Farm township,
where life is cheap, says Shange, who
grew up in Soweto before moving
south as a teenager.
The 25-year-old was at a club with
friends soon after his Africa Games
victory in Brazzaville, Republic of
Congo, in September when a gang of
youths attacked for no apparent
reason.
One of them struck a woman on the
head with a panga, killing her.
“There are different gangs there.
There’s one called the Vampires, and
they kill people they find outside on
the streets after 10pm.
“You go there [to Orange Farm] and
you’ll see somebody get stabbed right
in front of you.
“Grade nine and 10 pupils are wearing pangas in their belts to school,” he
says, adding he would like to change
things in the township when he has the
fame and money to make a difference.
Already he has started the Team
Shange club in Soweto, and would like
to do something similar in Orange
Farm to motivate youngsters.
Shange is fortunate to have a friend,
based in Switzerland, who has been his
benefactor, paying for him to get to
competitions and camps in Europe.
He is also sponsored by the High
Performance Centre at the University
of Pretoria, and has a clothing contract
with sports apparel giant Nike.
But cold cash is hard to come by; in
Europe a good pay cheque for him is
à2 000 (about R32 500).
“I need to earn money from races. I
want to save up because I need to get
my own home by the time I’m 30,” said
Shange.
“I can’t stay here [in Orange Farm]
all the time,” he added with a smile.
Shange is also a breadwinner.
“When I go home, that’s the challenge. They expect me to bring food.
“That’s when you feel our
government is not supporting us,” says
Shange, who broke five national
records last year — twice in the 20km
and on the track in the 3 000m, 5 000m
❛
HERE ARE THE FIVE MOST
MEMORABLE EXCUSES:
Owen da Gama — Platinum
Stars, 2011-12 season
The PSL has seen all sorts of
baffling incidents over its 19year history but the “pay-toplay” scandal that rocked
Platinum Stars in 2012 is up
there with the weirdest.
Da Gama was cleared, of
course, but the stink of being
accused of soliciting payments
from players for them to play
didn’t quite leave the dressing
room.
He and the club parted ways
by “mutual consent” not long
after the internal investigation
cleared him.
Serame Letsoaka —
Lamontville Golden Arrows,
2015-16 season
Letsoaka almost had us with
a teary-eyed resignation letter
leaked to social media by
Arrows. In it he claimed that
he was leaving a club where he
did so well to be closer to his
family — who were based in
Johannesburg.
But then the former Bafana
Bafana assistant coach took up
the vacant Bloemfontein Celtic
job days after quitting Arrows.
Letsoaka is now a whopping
167.9km closer to
Johannesburg than before.
Given that there are seven toll
gates on the N3 to Durban, as
opposed to three on the N1 to
Bloemfontein, Letsoaka could
have done it to save a massive
R188.50 (each way) in toll fees.
People think that
because I’m on
television I’m
getting paid, that I’m
loaded. I’m earning
nothing
and 20 000m.
His performance in China wasn’t
good enough to get on to the Operation
Excellence funding programme of the
South African Sports Confederation
and Olympic Committee.
“People think because I’m on TV I’m
getting paid, that I’m loaded. I’m
earning nothing,” says the talkative
athlete, who refers to his 20-year-old
car as “my old wreck”.
Shange believes the biggest change
he needs to make to reach the podium
in Rio is mental.
“At [Beijing] world championships I
was scared to go out fast,” he said. “At
the 2012 World Cup in Russia I went
fast and hit the wall and the last 6km
were bad.”
Shange is famous for his fast
finishes, and has clocked 3min 40sec
per kilometre — or 22 seconds per
100m.
He is now working with a psychologist to overcome this: “I must be
fearless.”
Jean Yves Kerjean — Black
Leopards, 2005-06 season
The Frenchman has the
dubious honour of lasting one
PSL match before being fired
by Lidoda Duvha boss David
Thidiela. His offence was
declaring that six senior
players were not PSL material.
The sacking seemed a bit
harsh, considering that their
only game was against
FAST FINISHER: Walker Lebogang Shange is hard at work preparing for the 2016 Olympics
in Brazil. He finished 11th in the 20km race in Beijing in August
Orlando Pirates away, where
Leopards lost to a late Lucky
Lekgwathi strike.
Clive Barker — Maritzburg
United, 2015-16 season
“He’s too old,” the Team of
Choice claimed after sacking
Clive “The Dog” Barker
following a 1-1 draw at home
with Kaizer Chiefs.
Barker was 71 years and 64
days old when United
appointed him on September
25 and he had aged a
mammoth 67 days by the time
he was fired on December 1 —
five Absa Premiership matches
later.
In that period Barker led
them to their only win of this
campaign, against University
of Pretoria, and drew the game
against Chiefs in the 96th
minute. Talk about two months
being a lifetime in football.
❛
CLEARED: Owen da Gama
THRIFTY: Serame Letsoaka
Barker was 71
years and 64
days when he
was appointed
— he had aged
a mammoth 67
days when he
was fired
FRENCH: Jean-Yves Kerjean
Ernst Middendorp — Free
State Stars, 2015-16 season
Having coached Ea Lla Koto
to five wins, three draws and
two defeats (one of them to
red-hot Mamelodi Sundowns)
after replacing Belgian Tom
Saintfiet, the man formerly
known as Middendraws
dropped a bombshell by e-mail,
quitting the club just a couple
of days after leading them to a
win over Jomo Cosmos.
The excuse, err, reason,
given for the decision was that
Stars had a “severe limitation
of PSL-qualified players in the
team”. The said limited players
include Belgian striker Andrea
Fileccia, whose six league
goals put him second on the
top goal-scorer’s list.
The rumour doing the
rounds is that Middendorp is
keen on returning to coachless
Maritzburg United for a third
stint. But they, too, should be
wary, given that they fired him
in 2011 after dramatically
asking the team bosses to sack
him on live television.
HAS SEEN IT ALL: Clive Barker
TRAVELLER: Ernst Middendorp
A young generation of skilled canoeists is cropping up
DAVID ISAACSON
SHAUN Maphanga is the face of the
Florida Lake Canoe Club. Literally.
A beer advert featuring a photograph of him competing in the
iconic Dusi marathon — where in
2015 he ended third in the sub-veteran category and claimed a silver
medal overall — is plastered around
the club house.
That’s pretty impressive for a former yacht caretaker at the lake who
was invited to try his hand at kayaking.
But his impact behind the scenes
is equally critical, helping this
marginal club to punch well above
its weight, at least at school level.
Maphanga trains the coaches,
MacDonald Nkosi and Malusi Nxumalo, who, in turn, mentor the
children, where the next generation
of gold is to be found.
They include sisters Kamillah and
Ameerah Hank, who have both won
medals at South African championship level, in sprint and marathon
races.
The pair have amassed so many
points from races that on their own
they have pushed their school, Curro
Aurora, into the top three of canoeing rankings in Gauteng.
Kamillah,
11,
prefers
the
marathon,
while
nine-year-old
Ameerah favours the sprints, the
Olympic discipline.
“My toughest event is the
marathon,” said Ameerah, to which
dad Rowshaan retorted with a smile:
“When she’s been out there too long
she starts looking for someone to
chat to.”
Canoeing has captured their attention more than the many other
sports they do, such as netball, tennis, swimming and ballet and dancing, from hip-hop to tap.
❛
Coaches make it
sound easy, they
let us swim in the
lake after training
“The coaches make it sound easy,
even if it’s hard,” said Kamillah.
“And they let us swim in the lake
after training,” added Ameerah.
Both girls are capable swimmers
and are keen to do the Midmar Mile
next year.
Development at the Florida Lake
club started more than a decade ago
when club captain Jennie Dallas,
who has 12 straight Fish River
marathons under her belt, was
asked by the Gauteng Canoe Union
to train new canoeists in exchange
for some boats, paddles and life
jackets.
“The first kids couldn’t swim at all
and were panicking stupid when
they fell in the water.”
It takes time for learners to get the
balance right, Dallas explained. “We
have a lot of kids starting, but many
give up after a few attempts.”
Every Sunday is open to
newcomers at the club, as long as
they bring their parents to sign indemnity.
“We’ve got talent here,” said
Maphanga. “They started not so
long ago and look where they are
now. We just need help financially.”
Nxumalo, who was brought into
canoeing when he was staying at an
orphanage, said lack of money could
be an issue.
He said: “If you can’t afford to go
on the trips to compete, you lose
interest.”
Dallas said Bridgitte Hartley’s
Olympic bronze medal in the women’s K1 500m sprint at London 2012
had sparked an interest in the sport.
“There is definitely more interest.
And we’ve got more support from
the department of sport and Lotto,
who gave us R200 000 to buy boats,”
she said.
“We have some small sponsorships too, but there are always costs.
The travel is expensive.”
SHOULDER TO
SHOULDER:
Sisters Ameerah
and Kamillah
Hank training at
the Florida Lake
Canoe Club. Both
girls are capable
swimmers as well
Picture:
SIMPHIWE NKWALI
RESULTS
BASKETBALL
NBA GAMES
Miami 94 New Orleans 88; Chicago 105 Oklahoma City 96;
Golden State 89 Cleveland 83; Houston 88 San Antonio 84;
LA Clippers 94 LA Lakers 84.
CRICKET
BASIL D'OLIVEIRA TROPHY
SOUTH AFRICA v ENGLAND
Kingsmead, Durban
1st test
Stumps, day 1
ENGLAND 1st innings
A Cook c Elgar b Steyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
A Hales c de Villiers b Steyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
N Compton not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
J Root lbw b Piedt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
J Taylo c de Villiers b Steyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
B Stokes not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Extras (1b 2lb 1w 3nb) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
TOTAL: (for 4 wkts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
FALLS: 1/3 2/12 3/49 4/174
BOWLING: D Steyn 15.1-3-29-3, K Abbott 16-2-40-0 (1nb), M
Morkel 15-1-44-0 (2nb 1w), D Piedt 11-2-39-1, S van Zyl 2-1-20, D Elgar 6-1-22-0.
THE FRANK WORRELL TROPHY
AUSTRALIA v WEST INDIES
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia
2nd test
Stumps, day 1
AUSTRALIA 1st innings
J Burns st Ramdin b K Brathwaite . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
D Warner c Samuels b Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
U Khawaja c Ramdin b Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S Smith not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Voges not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Extras (3lb 3w 2nb) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.
.
.
.
128
23
144
32
10
. 8
TOTAL: (for 3 wkts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
FALLS: 1/29 2/287 3/328
BOWLING: J Taylor 18-2-83-2, K Roach 10-1-53-0, J Holder 176-33-0 (2nb), C Brathwaite 20-1-71-0 (3w), J Warrican 16-1-710, K Brathwaite 9-1-31-1.
ODI SERIES
NEW ZEALAND v SRI LANKA
Christchurch, New Zealand
SRI LANKA
D Gunathilaka c Ronchi b Milne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
T Dilshan c Nicholls b Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
L Thirimanne lbw b Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
D Chandimal c Taylor b Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
A Mathews c Latham b Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
M Siriwardana c B McCullum b Bracewell . . . . . . . . . . 66
C Kapugedera c Santner b Bracewell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
N Kulasekara c Ronchi b McClenaghan . . . . . . . . . . . 58
A Mendis c Ronchi b McClenaghan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
D Chameera not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
S Lakmal c Latham b Bracewell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Extras (8w) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
TOTAL: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
FALLS: 1/13 2/20 3/23 4/23 5/27 6/65 7/163 8/164 9/167
10/188
BOWLING: A Milne 10-0-30-1 (3w), M Henry 10-1-49-4 (2w),
M McClenaghan 10-2-40-2 (3w), D Bracewell 9-1-37-3, M
Santner 8-0-32-0.
NEW ZEALAND
M Guptill c N Kulasekara b Siriwardana . . . . . . . . . . . 79
B McCullum c Lakmal b Siriwardana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
T Latham b Dilshan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
R Taylor not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
H Nicholls not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Extras (1lb 10w) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
TOTAL: (for 3 wkts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
FALLS: 1/108 2/162 3/164
BOWLING: N Kulasekara 3-0-27-0, S Lakmal 3-0-24-0 (1w),
A Mathews 1-0-17-0 (1w), A Mendis 5-0-49-0 (2w), M
Siriwardana 5-0-45-2, D Chameera 2-0-18-0 (3w), T Dilshan
2-0-10-1 (1w).
■ New Zealand won by 7 wickets.
BIG BASH LEAGUE
PERTH SCORCHERS v BRISBANE HEAT
Western Australia Cricket Ass. Ground, Perth
Twenty20 match, 9th match
BRISBANE HEAT
J Peirson c Klinger b Willey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
L Simmons c Bancroft b Behrendorff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
C Lynn not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
P Forrest c Agar b Tye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
N Reardon c Behrendorff b Hogg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
J Floros c Tye b Behrendorff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
B Cutting b Tye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
J Lalor c Paris b Tye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Extras (7lb 1w) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
TOTAL: (for 7 wkts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
FALLS: 1/2 2/33 3/64 4/67 5/88 6/105 7/117
BOWLING: J Behrendorff 4-0-32-2 (1w), J Paris 4-0-25-0, D
Willey 4-1-15-1, G Hogg 4-0-15-1, A Tye 4-0-23-3.
PERTH SCORCHERS
M Harris c Lynn b Fekete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
M Klinger not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
A Agar not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Extras (2b 2lb 1w) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
TOTAL: (for 1 wkt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
FALLS: 1/48
BOWLING: J Lalor 3-0-19-0 (1w), M Steketee 2-0-21-0, S
Badree 4-0-26-0, A Fekete 2-0-16-1, B Cutting 2-0-12-0, J
Floros 2.1-0-20-0.
■ Perth Scorchers won by 9 wickets.
RUGBY
AVIVA PREMIERSHIP
Exeter Chiefs 33 Sale Sharks 17; Leicester Tigers 22 Newcastle Falcons 10; London Irish 25 Northampton 23.
P
Exeter Chiefs
7
Saracens
6
Leicester Tigers
7
Harlequins
6
Northampton Saints7
London Wasps
6
Gloucester Rugby 6
W
6
6
6
4
3
3
3
D
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
L
1
0
1
2
4
3
3
F
215
180
152
162
124
136
107
A
108
59
111
118
100
118
123
BP
5
3
1
4
5
2
1
Pts
29
27
25
20
17
14
13
Sale Sharks
Bath Rugby
Worcester Warriors
London Irish
Newcastle Falcons
7
6
6
7
7
2
2
2
1
0
1
0
0
0
1
4
4
4
6
6
115
123
114
102
94
154
119
160
229
225
3
3
2
0
0
13
11
10
4
2
FRANCE
French Top 14
P
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
Clermont Auvergne
Toulouse
Toulon
Racing Metro
Brive
Bordeaux Begles
Montpellier
Castres
La Rochelle
Grenoble
Stade Francais
Pau
Agen
Oyonnax
W
6
7
6
7
6
6
6
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
D
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
L
3
3
4
2
4
3
4
5
6
6
6
6
8
8
F
276
261
352
201
197
223
250
231
222
229
199
172
196
175
A
179
147
193
188
164
192
264
231
237
274
220
284
280
331
Pts
33
32
32
30
28
28
26
24
21
19
18
15
10
10
SOCCER
SOUTH AFRICA
ENGLAND
Premier League
Newcastle 0 Everton 1; Bournemouth 0 Crystal Palace 0; Aston
Villa 1 West Ham 1; Chelsea 2 Watford 2; Liverpool 1 Leicester 0;
Manchester City 4 Sunderland 1; Swansea 1 West Brom 0;
Tottenham Hotspur 3 Norwich 0; Stoke 2 Manchester Utd 0.
The result from the Southampton v Arsenal match was
not available by the time of going to press.
Leicester City
Arsenal
Manchester City
Tottenham Hotspur
Crystal Palace
Manchester United
Watford
Liverpool
Everton
West Ham United
Stoke City
Southampton
West Bromwich
Bournemouth
Chelsea
Swansea City
Norwich City
Newcastle United
Sunderland
Aston Villa
P
18
17
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
17
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
P
12
12
12
12
11
11
12
12
12
11
12
10
10
12
11
12
W
8
8
7
5
5
5
4
4
5
4
3
3
3
2
1
1
D
2
2
3
6
4
2
4
4
1
3
3
2
2
4
3
3
L
2
2
2
1
2
4
4
4
6
4
6
5
5
6
7
8
F
20
20
19
19
16
12
11
11
18
12
10
12
10
8
5
9
A
8
10
10
10
13
12
10
12
20
13
16
13
11
15
15
24
Pts
26
26
24
21
19
17
16
16
16
15
12
11
11
10
6
6
D
5
3
2
8
3
5
5
6
8
8
5
6
5
5
4
6
5
5
3
5
L
2
3
5
2
6
5
5
5
4
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
9
9
12
12
F
37
31
37
31
23
22
23
21
32
26
16
21
17
22
23
16
20
19
19
15
A
25
14
20
14
16
16
18
22
24
22
16
21
24
32
29
24
32
33
37
32
Pts
38
36
35
32
30
29
29
27
27
26
26
21
20
20
19
18
17
17
12
8
FRANCE
Ligue 1
Premiership
Sundowns
Wits
Black Aces
Kaizer Chiefs
Platinum Stars
Golden Arrows
Bloem Celtic
SuperSport United
Chippa United
Free State Stars
Polokwane City
Ajax Cape Town
Orlando Pirates
Jomo Cosmos
TUKS
Maritzburg Utd
W
11
11
11
8
9
8
8
7
6
6
7
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
3
1
P
Paris Saint Germain 19
Monaco
19
Angers
19
Caen
19
Nice
19
St Etienne
19
Rennes
19
Lorient
19
Lyon
19
Marseille
19
Lille
19
GFC Ajaccio
19
Nantes
19
Bordeaux
19
Montpellier
19
W
16
8
8
9
8
9
6
6
7
6
5
6
6
5
6
D
3
8
7
3
5
2
9
8
5
7
9
6
6
8
4
L
0
3
4
7
6
8
4
5
7
6
5
7
7
6
9
F
48
25
17
21
32
22
25
27
23
28
15
20
14
23
22
A
9
23
11
22
23
22
21
26
23
21
13
22
17
28
25
Pts
51
32
31
30
29
29
27
26
26
25
24
24
24
23
22
Bastia
Reims
Guingamp
Toulouse
Troyes
19
19
19
19
19
6
5
5
3
0
4
6
4
8
8
9
8
10
8
11
20
19
17
21
10
24
24
27
33
35
22
21
19
17
8
L
1
3
5
6
6
6
5
7
5
7
7
8
7
8
10
10
11
8
F
46
47
26
34
25
23
26
23
18
19
11
21
17
21
22
17
18
17
A
8
23
18
30
20
23
21
23
21
23
18
26
26
28
37
32
29
25
Pts
46
38
32
29
27
27
26
24
24
22
20
19
18
17
15
15
14
13
GERMANY
Bundesliga
P
Bayern Munich
17
Borussia Dortmund 17
Hertha Berlin
17
Borussia M’gladbach 17
Bayer Leverkusen
17
Schalke 04
17
Wolfsburg
17
Mainz 05
17
Cologne
17
Hamburger SV
17
Ingolstadt 04
17
Augsburg
17
Darmstadt
17
Eintracht Frankfurt 17
VfB Stuttgart
17
Werder Bremen
17
Hannover 96
17
Hoffenheim
17
W
15
12
10
9
8
8
7
7
6
6
5
5
4
4
4
4
4
2
D
1
2
2
2
3
3
5
3
6
4
5
4
6
5
3
3
2
7
ITALY
Serie A
Internazionale
Fiorentina
Napoli
Juventus
Roma
Milan
Sassuolo
Empoli
Atalanta
Lazio
Torino
Chievo
Udinese
Sampdoria
Bologna
Palermo
Genoa
Frosinone
P
17
17
17
17
17
17
16
17
17
17
16
17
17
17
17
17
17
17
W
11
11
10
10
9
8
7
8
7
7
6
6
6
5
6
5
4
4
D
3
2
5
3
5
4
6
3
3
2
4
4
3
5
1
3
4
2
L
3
4
2
4
3
5
3
6
7
8
6
7
8
7
10
9
9
11
F
23
33
31
28
32
24
20
23
19
20
21
21
15
24
19
17
15
17
A
11
15
13
14
18
21
15
22
19
26
20
18
24
26
24
26
23
34
Pts
36
35
35
33
32
28
27
27
24
23
22
22
21
20
19
18
16
14
Carpi
Verona
17
17
2
0
4
8
11
9
15
12
33
27
10
8
L
0
1
3
3
3
5
5
3
5
7
6
6
7
6
6
8
8
11
F
30
24
34
19
26
19
22
17
16
20
11
16
12
12
8
9
11
6
A
7
7
10
7
21
15
20
15
20
27
17
30
15
18
18
18
26
21
Pts
36
35
31
25
21
21
21
19
19
17
16
16
15
14
14
10
10
5
L
2
3
3
3
4
2
6
5
4
5
6
8
7
8
8
8
8
10
9
9
F
36
22
42
28
21
25
24
21
21
19
13
16
10
17
18
15
17
18
12
12
A
15
8
15
22
15
16
18
19
14
19
19
26
14
22
26
23
27
37
23
29
Pts
35
35
33
31
30
26
24
23
22
21
20
20
17
16
16
15
14
14
13
11
PORTUGAL
Primeira Liga
FC Porto
Sporting Lisbon
Benfica
Sporting Braga
Vitoria Setubal
Pacos de Ferreira
Rio Ave
Arouca
Vitoria Guimaraes
Maritimo
Estoril Praia
Belenenses
CD Nacional
Moreirense
Uniao da Madeira
Boavista
Academica Coimbra
Tondela
P
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
W
11
11
10
7
5
6
6
4
5
5
4
4
4
3
3
2
2
1
D
3
2
1
4
6
3
3
7
4
2
4
4
3
5
5
4
4
2
SPAIN
La Liga
P
Barcelona
15
Atletico Madrid
16
Real Madrid
16
Celta Vigo
16
Villarreal
16
Deportivo La Coruna 16
Athletic Bilbao
16
Sevilla
16
Valencia
16
Eibar
16
Real Betis
16
Espanyol
16
Malaga
16
Real Sociedad
16
Getafe
16
Sporting Gijon
15
Granada
16
Rayo Vallecano
16
Las Palmas
16
Levante
16
W
11
11
10
9
9
6
7
6
5
5
5
6
4
4
4
4
3
4
3
2
D
2
2
3
4
3
8
3
5
7
6
5
2
5
4
4
3
5
2
4
5
News
Sunday Times
26 | SPORT
SPORTS STAFF
ATHLETES dominated South
African sport this year, and that
fact is represented in our list of
top sports stars for 2015.
Our sports staff voted and
Wayde van Niekerk, Caroline
Wostmann and Anaso Jobodwana featured in the top five
alongside cricket hero AB de
Villiers and swimming sensation Chad le Clos.
The top 15 of 2015 come from
nine sporting codes, including
four athletes and three cyclists.
There’s one each from cricket
and soccer, but given the poor
display by the Boks, nobody
from the 15-man version of the
game made our list.
And now . . . here are
SA’s top sports stars
2. AB de Villiers
The trailblazing Proteas batsman went on a record-breaking
spree this year. In January he
scored the fastest ODI ton off 31
balls and went on to score 149 off
44 balls against the West Indies.
The following month the 31year-old scored 162 off 66 balls
against the same opponents at
the World Cup. In that innings
he was the fastest to 50, 100 and
150 in ODI history.
3. Caroline Wostmann
She won the Two Oceans and
Comrades this year, making her
the first South African woman
to win the ultra double since
Frith van der Merwe in 1989.
As it was she was the first
local woman to win the Two
Oceans since Sarah Mahlangu
in 2000 and the Comrades since
“I was worried that I would
see people dancing on the ball
and doing all these other
shibobos. In my team I don’t
want that,” Sundowns head
coach Pitso Mosimane said in
the afterglow of a 6-1 win.
TODAY
CRICKET
Australia v West Indies — 2nd test day 2,
1.15am SS2.
South Africa v England — 1st test day 2,
9.30am CSN/SS2/SABC3.
New Zealand v Sri Lanka — 2nd ODI,
11.30pm SS6.
SOCCER
League Championship — Nottingham
Forest v Leeds United, 6.25pm SS3.
TOMORROW
CRICKET
1.15am SS2.
SOCCER
Premier League — Watford v Tottenham
Hotspur, 4pm SS3; Everton v Stoke City,
4.50pm SS5; Crystal Palace v Swansea City,
4.50pm SS6; West Bromwich Albion v Newcastle United, 4.50pm SS4; Norwich City v
Aston Villa, 4.50pm SS7; Man Utd v Chelsea,
7pm SS3; Arsenal v AFC Bournemouth,
7.20pm SS5; and West Ham Utd v
Southampton, 7.20pm SS6.
booked a spot at the 2016 Rio
Olympics. A cool, calm finisher.
9. Cameron van der Burgh
He had to settle for silver in
the 50m and 100m breaststroke
events at the world championships, but he clocked his best
times since 2012. He went on to
win the World Cup series.
Couldn’t have asked for much
more from a true gladiator.
TRAILBLAZER: AB de Villiers
scored the fastest ODI in 2015
TOP: Caroline Wostmann won
Two Oceans and Comrades
STYLISH: Anaso Jobodwana
came of age this year
Rae Bisschoff in 1998. Not bad
for someone who took up running to shed baby weight.
gold. He’s world champion, but
2015 wasn’t his best year in the
pool. With Michael Phelps on
the comeback trail, Le Clos has
his work cut out next year.
rugby there is still no substitute
for sheer pace in wider channels. Senatla scored 47 tries in
the 2014-15 HSBC World Sevens
Series as the Blitzboks finished
second overall.
No finisher is as lethal in the
sport. Once his Sevens commitments are realised at the 2016
Olympic Games, he will turn his
attention to the 15-man game,
which is an exciting prospect.
4. Anaso Jobodwana
After being an also-ran in the
finals at the 2012 Olympics and
2013 world championships, he
came of age this year.
The 23-year-old won the 200m
bronze at the world champs in
Beijing, finishing behind Usain
Bolt and Justin Gatlin. That’s a
third place that somehow seems
more valuable than a bronze.
5. Chad le Clos
He retained his 100m butterfly
world title this year, which he
failed to do in the 200m event in
which he won the 2012 Olympic
6. Kevin Anderson
The US-based player became
the first South African since
Wayne Ferreira in 18 years to
break into the world top 10. He
beat Andy Murray to advance to
the US Open quarterfinals this
year, the furthest he has gone at
a grand slam. At Wimbledon he
gave Novak Djokovic a scare
before losing in five sets.
7. Seabelo Senatla
The former schoolboy sprinter showed that in all forms of
8. Jermaine Seoposenwe
After legendary Banyana
Banyana striker Portia Modise
retired earlier this year, a new
star was born in Seoposenwe.
The US-based forward bagged
five goals in the qualifiers as
coach Vera Pauw’s ladies
2015 MEMORABLE QUOTES
“IT nearly killed me,” sighed
newly crowned 400m world
champion Wayde van Niekerk
after returning from a Beijing
hospital.
Earlier, the South African
had literally run himself to a
standstill to claim gold at the
World Championships in a time
of 43.48sec.
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No surprise Boks don’t feature, 2O15 was bad for 15-man game
1. Wayde van Niekerk
He upstaged the reigning
Olympic, world and Africa
champions — Kirani James,
LaShawn Merritt and Isaac
Makwala — to win the 400m
world crown in Beijing in a time
that made him the fourth-fastest
of all time. Going into this
season, he had not beaten any of
them, but he picked them all off
this season.
“I want six goals, what’s the
point of doing shibobos and
you score two goals? Score
six, big teams score six.”
“I must say that my pre-match
prediction was horribly wrong,
I didn’t expect us to be as
impotent as we were, and I
certainly didn’t expect them to
have the cutting edge they
had,” said former coach Nick
Mallett about the Springboks’
performance against Japan at
the World Cup in England.
Bafana Bafana head coach
Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba
TUESDAY
CRICKET
1.15am SS2.
SOCCER
Premier League — Leicester City v Man
City, 9pm SS3.
WEDNESDAY
10. Chad Ho
The six-times Midmar Mile
king won the 5km open water
world title this year. But the 2008
Olympian must convert that
success into the 10km discipline
in time for the 2016 Rio Games.
CRICKET
1.15am SS2.
New Zealand v Sri Lanka — 3rd ODI,
11.30pm SS2.
SOCCER
LaLiga — Levante v Malaga, 4.55pm SS5;
Real Madrid v Real Sociedad, 5pm SS3; Rayo
Vallecano v Atletico Madrid, 7.05pm SS5;
Sevilla v Espanyol, 7.10pm SS6; Eibar v
Sporting Gijon, 7.25pm SS7; Barcelona v
Real Betis, 9.20pm SS5; Celta Vigo v Athletic
Bilbao, 9.20pm SS6; and Getafe v Deportivo
La Coruna, 9.25pm SS7.
Premier League — Sunderland v Liverpool,
9pm SS3.
11. Sunette Viljoen
She finished the year ranked
second in the world and won
bronze at the Beijing world
championships.
12. Greg Minnaar
This cyclist keeps going
downhill, but in his case that’s a
good thing. The three-times
world downhill champion took
silver in 2015. Pity this isn’t an
Olympic discipline.
| December 27 2015
THURSDAY
SOCCER
LaLiga — Villareal v Valencia, 5pm SS3.
FRIDAY
CRICKET
New Zealand v Sri Lanka — 4th ODI,
11.30pm SS2.
SPEED MERCHANT: Wayde van Niekerk won the 400m crown at
the world championships in Beijing
SATURDAY
CRICKET
South Africa v England — 2nd test day 1,
SOCCER
13. Kirsten McCann and
Ursula Grobler
Became the first South
African women to win a rowing
world championship medal
when they took bronze in the
lightweight double sculls.
14. Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio
The 2014 Commonwealth
Games bronze medallist scored
several top-10 finishes in
European races and also
finished the year ranked sixth in
the world.
15. Hekkie Budler
The
WBA
and
IBO
strawweight champion made
two successful defences in 2015,
taking his IBO tally to nine defences and WBA to four. Ranked
No 1 by The Ring magazine.
Premier League — West Ham United v
Liverpool, 2pm SS3; Arsenal v Newcastle
United, 4.45pm SS3; Man Utd v Swansea
City, 4.50pm SS5; Leicester City v AFC
Bournemouth, 4.50pm SS6; Norwich City v
Southampton, 4.50pm SS4; West Bromwich
Albion v Stoke City, 4.50pm SS9; Sunderland
v Aston Villa, 4.50pm SS8; Watford v Manchester City, 7pm SS3.
ý As supplied by the TV channels
2015 SOCCER WRAP
perhaps overreached a tad in
explaining his team’s “shock”
defeat to Mauritania.
“It happens all over — even
Jesus Christ himself went
through pains but He
managed to go on, saving and
preaching to people.”
afterwards whether we win or
not. My happiness should not
depend on whether we win a
World Cup. There are more
important things in life.”
The Proteas fell in the
semifinals, but we understand
Domingo is still a married man.
“Every time you put on a green
jersey you are under pressure,”
reminded Proteas head coach
Russell Domingo on the eve of
the team’s departure to the
Cricket World Cup.
“We expect so much. I’m
really trying to downplay it. I’m
hoping my wife still loves me
“Why are you hating from
outside Las Vegas when you
couldn’t get in,” high-rolling
sports minister Fikile
Mbalula hit back when
detractors demanded to know
what he was doing at the
Floyd Mayweather-Manny
Pacquiao fight.
The good, the bad and the ugly:
an eventful year for football
Villain: Lindile Kika
Maritzburg United chairman
Farook Kadodia just misses out
on this one for firing Mandla
Ncikazi five matches into the
new season and sacking his replacement, Clive Barker, for being too old. The winner is Kika,
the man who was first to bite the
dust in the Fifa match-fixing
scandal investigation. His ban is
said to have been just the start.
TSHEPANG MAILWANE
WHAT a year it has been for
South African football. Not
quite the best ever, but it should
go right up there with some of
the most memorable.
Think back to the national
under-17 team qualifying for
the Fifa World Cup in Chile, or
when Banyana Banyana striker
Jermaine Seoposenwe banged
home the winning goal against
continental giants Equatorial
Guinea to secure the 2016 Rio
Olympics qualification.
There was also Stuart Baxter
and his Kaizer Chiefs team that
finished the league season with
a record-breaking 69 points in
winning the Absa Premiership,
with defender Tefu Mashamaite
sweeping up all the big gongs at
the Premier Soccer League
(PSL) awards in Sandton,
Johannesburg. Mamelodi Sundowns may have missed out on
the league title, but they have
lots to smile about with the
Nedbank Cup and Telkom
Knockout titles in the cabinet at
Chloorkop.
We cannot forget Ajax Cape
Town’s youngsters, who upset
Chiefs in the MTN8 final to
claim their first trophy since
2008.
That said, there’s always the
good, the bad and the ugly.
The year hasn’t gone without
controversy, such as Lindile
“Ace” Kika being banned from
all football activities for six
years after his involvement in
the match-fixing scandal of
Bafana Bafana’s games before
the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
Here’s a wrap of an eventful
year.
Best coach: Pitso Mosimane
The Sundowns coach narrowly beats national under-17 coach
Molefi Ntseki to this award.
He saved what would have
been a disastrous season for the
star-studded Brazilians when
they won the Nedbank Cup in
May after finishing second in
the Absa Premiership.
On December 16 they won
their second competition, outclassing Chiefs in the Telkom
Knockout final. Sundowns will
start the new year at the top of
the standings, eager to stay up
there until the season ends.
Quote of the year: Jomo
Sono (Jomo Cosmos coach)
“After seeing a few teams in
the Premier League, we are not
the ones going down for sure.
“I have seen number 15 and 16
already and we are not there.”
KABO YELLOW: Mamelodi Sundowns players — Thabo Nthethe,
right, Bongani Zungu, top, Teko Modise, left, and Keagan Dolly
— celebrate the Telkom Knockout win
Best player: Jermaine Seoposenwe (Banyana striker)
The goal-scoring machine
made the country forget about
Portia Modise’s retirement very
quickly, scoring goals for fun as
she inspired the team to the
2016 Rio Olympic Games.
The US-based striker banged
in five goals in the Olympic
qualifiers, including the all-important winner against Equatorial Guinea.
Team of the year: Sundowns
Orlando Pirates, Ajax and the
under-17s come close, but
Sundowns have done extremely
well to win two knockout competitions this year — Nedbank
Cup and Telkom Knockout.
They finished second last
season and are currently top of
the standings. Their juniors —
under-15s, 17s and 19s — all won
major tournaments this year.
Hero: Jody February
Seven months after his father
died, February produced one of
the finest performances by a
goalkeeper to guide the South
SENSATIONAL: Banyana
Banyana striker Jermaine
Seoposenwe is in great form
Picture: BACKPAGEPIX
African Under-23 national team
to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Four penalty saves by the 19year-old in the third-place playoff against the Caf Under-23
Championship hosts Senegal,
including one in regulation
time, secured a spot at the
Games for the first time since
2000. Not bad for the Urban
Warriors’ third-choice keeper.
Comeback of the year
This one goes to two players,
Thamsanqa Gabuza and Collins
Mbesuma. A fringe player all of
last season, Orlando Pirates’
forward Gabuza was handed a
lifeline in the Caf Confederation
Cup and earned a spot in the
Bafana team thanks to his heroics in the continental club competition. He scored great goals.
A trimmer Mbesuma of
Mpumalanga Black Aces is
having his best season since the
2004/05 campaign at Chiefs. The
Zambian is leading the scoring
charts with seven goals.
Story of the year
Itumeleng Khune found out
that despite being Chiefs’ star
player for years, Amakhosi
were not going to beg him to
stay. He was shown the door
when he chanced his arm a little
too much at the contract renegotiations. But just before the
start of the season, when he was
without a club to join, Khune
went back to Amakhosi and was
said to have taken a salary cut.
And on a forgettable note . . .
The Africa Cup of Nations in
Equatorial Guinea was a disaster for Bafana Bafana. Not
only did they fail to win their
three group matches after scoring first, coach Shakes Mashaba
surprisingly used three goalkeepers in the competition.
That, and Bafana’s defeat to
Mauritania in the 2017 Africa
Cup of Nations qualifiers, is
something South Africans will
not want to remember.
RACING
TURFFONTEIN
Race 1: Win: 1 R1.30; places 1 R1.10, 13 R2, 2 R1.70.
Swingers: 1x13 R3; 1x2 R1.80; 2x13 R7.40. Exacta:
1x13 R6.80. Trifecta: 1x13x2 R24.30. Quartet:
1x13x2x3 R138.10.
Race 2: Win: 11 R3.90; places 11 R1.50, 14 R2, 5
R1.30. Swingers: 11x14 R5.60; 5x11 R2.70; 5x14
R4.70. Exacta: 11x14 R28.50. Trifecta: 11x14x5
R103.10. Quartet: 11x14x5x3 R227.90.
Race 3: Win: 12 R5.30; places 12 R1.80, 1 R1.50, 3
R1.50. Swingers: 1x12 R4.20; 3x12 R3.30; 1x3
R66.30. Quartet: 12x1x3x6 R217.60.
R3.10. Swingers: 2x11 R12.70; 7x11 R15.90; 2x7
R1 301.90. Quartet: 11x2x7x8 R3 873.80.
Race 5: Win: 7 R1.60; places 7 R1, 3 R1.80, 9 R2.
Swingers: 3x7 R1.90; 7x9 R2.80; 3x9 R5.30. Exacta: 7x3 R5.50. Trifecta: 7x3x9 R26.10. Quartet:
7x3x9x4 R68.30.
R4.70. Swingers: 4x5 R12.60; 5x6 R14.60; 4x6
R26.50. Exacta: 5x4 R52. Trifecta: 5x4x6 R613.
Quartet: 5x4x6x3 R3 626.40.
R2.10. Swingers: 1x8 R2.60; 1x2 R5.10; 2x8 R4.10.
Exacta: 1x8 R13.30. Trifecta: 1x8x2 R62.60. Quartet: 1x8x2x3 R180.10.
Race 8: Win: 1 R6; places 1 R2.60, 3 R1.90, 11 R4.40.
Swingers: 1x3 R6.40; 1x11 R23.20; 3x11 R20.60.
Exacta: 1x3 R29.20. Trifecta: 1x3x11 R416.50.
Quartet: 1x3x11x5 R2 852.80.
GREYVILLE
Race 1: Win: 4 R1.50; places 4 R1.20, 1 R2.90.
Swingers: 1x4 R2; 3x4 R1; 1x3 R2. Exacta: 4x1
R6.90. Trifecta: 4x1x3 R10.90. Quartet: 4x1x3x6
R22.50.
R1.50. Swingers: 3x8 R3; 1x3 R4.70; 1x8 R4.90.
Race 3: Win: 2 R3; places 2 R1.50, 7 R4.60, 1 R1.80.
Swingers: 2x7 R10.50; 1x2 R3.50; 1x7 R11.30.
R3.40. Swingers: 5x11 R20.70; 9x11 R32.70; 5x9
R3 625.10. Quartet: 11x5x9x1 R9 974.60.
R4.50, 1 R1.20. Swingers: 13x14 R8.40; 9x14 R15.90;
9x13 R30.40. Exacta: 14x13 R38.30. Trifecta:
14x13x9 R927.90. Quartet: 14x13x9x1 R3 641.50.
Race 6: Win: 7 R11; places 7 R2.70, 10 R1.90, 8
R1.80, 2 R4.10. Swingers: 7x10 R13.10; 7x8 R9.70;
8x10 R4.40. Exacta: 7x10 R80.40. Trifecta: 7x10x8
R445.20. Quartet: 7x10x8x2 R7 498.40.
R2.90. Swingers: 2x13 R31.40; 2x9 R13; 9x13
R1 536.70. Quartet: 2x13x9x5 R13 615.30.
R2.50. Swingers: 4x6 R8; 4x9 R7.50; 6x9 R13.
Exacta: 4x6 R64. Trifecta: 4x6x9 R540.80. Quartet: 4x6x9x3 R4 675.
Race 9: Win: 8 R1.50; places 8 R1, 9 R2.30, 3 R4.
Swingers: 8x9 R2.50; 3x8 R6.10; 3x9 R13.20.
Exacta: 1x7 R52.10. Trifecta: 1x7x5 R349.70. Quartet: 1x7x5x2 R1 507.40.
SAF TOTE
TURFFONTEIN
Bipot: Net Pool R246 794.85. Tkts 681.75. Div R362.
Nos 11,14; 1,12; 2,11; 3,5,7; 4,5,13; 1,8. JP: Net Pool
R642 339.43. Tkts 1 389.14. Div R462.40. Nos 5,7;
5,13; 1; 1. P6: Net Pool R1 114 726.54. Tkts 45.88. Div
R24 296.40. Nos 11; 5,7; 5,13; 1; 1; 4,12,13,14. P/A:
Net Pool R706 846.19. Tkts 5 709.58
. Div R123.80. Nos 1,3,12; 2,7,11; 3,5,7,9; 4,5,6,13;
1,2,8; 1,3,11; 1,4,5,12,13,14. Pick3 (Race 1-3): Nos 1;
11; 12. Div R25.20. P3 (2-4): Nos 11; 12; 11. Div
R432.50. P3 (3-5): Nos 12; 11; 5,7. Div R167.90. P3
(4-6): Nos 11; 5,7; 5,13. Div R302.60. P3 (5-7): Nos
5,7; 5,13; 1. Div R72.60. P3 (6-8): Nos 5,13; 1; 1. Div
R138.10. P3 (7-9): Nos 1; 1; 4,12,13,14. Div R145.90.
GREYVILLE
Bipot: Net Pool R250 404.72. Tkts 42.36. Div
R5 910.30. Nos 3,8; 2,7,9; 5,11; 13,14; 7,10; 2,13. JP:
Net Pool R628 231.69. Tkts 83.09. Div R7 560.50.
Nos 14; 7; 2; 4. P6: Net Pool R974 896.71. Tkts 6.15.
Div R158 313.30. Nos 11; 14; 7; 2; 4; 1,8. P/A: Net Pool
R583 935.28. Tkts 2 290.70. Div R2 290.70. Nos
1,2,7,9; 5,9,11; 9,13,14; 7,8,10,15,18; 2,9,13; 4,6,9;
1,3,8,9. Pick3 (Race 1-3): Nos 2,4,5,8; 3; 2,9. Div
R40.50. P3 (2-4): Nos 3; 2,9; 11. Div R881.20. P3 (35): Nos 2,9; 11; 14. Div R296.80. P3 (4-6): Nos 11; 14;
7. Div R1 365.10. P3 (5-7): Nos 14; 7; 2. Div R791.40.
P3 (6-8): Nos 7; 2; 4. Div R3 328.80. P3 (7-9): Nos 2;
4; 1,8. Div R226.90. P3 (8-10): Nos 4; 1,8; 1. Div
R181.80.
DOUBLES
TURFFONTEIN
1st: 1x11 R7.40. 2nd: 11x12 R18.40. 3rd: 12x11 R57.90.
4th: 11x7 R27.20. 5th: 7x5 R12.20. 6th: 5x1 R16.70.
7th: 1x1 R26.50. 8th: 1x4 R29.60.
GREYVILLE
1st: 4x3 R8.70. 2nd: 3x2 R19. 3rd: 2x11 R87.80. 4th:
11x14 R84.80. 5th: 14x7 R56. 6th: 7x2 R164. 7th: 2x4
R116.10. 8th: 4x1,8 R19.30.9th: 8x1 R20.90.
News
22
Sunday
Times
| December 27 2015
TELFORD VICE
in Durban
WE think we know our opening
batsmen.
They’re players like Bruce
Mitchell, Jimmy Cook, Kepler
Wessels and Andrew Hudson;
people whose hearts beat once a
week, who subtract from rather
than add to their equation of
strokes, who can see a stupid
thing coming from around the
corner and refuse to do it.
“Few quieter or more modest
men have played test cricket,”
Wisden wrote of Mitchell, whose
“perfect sportsmanship on and
off the field at all times was
living proof that success can be
achieved without any compromise of behaviour”.
The rebel in the ranks is
Graeme Smith, that gauche
galumpher with gazillions of
runs. The big left-hander is not
Mitchell in any sense, but he can
still be squeezed into our mental
mould for the making of an
opener: he was ready to take on
more than his share of responsibility, he didn’t flinch from a
fight, he did what it took.
But sprinkled like stardust in
the spectrum of opening batsmen that starts with Mitchell
and ends with Smith are rarities
like Eddie Barlow, Herschelle
Gibbs and Eric Rowan.
“He was small and wiry and
cocky and feisty and contemptuous of authority. He was a
SPORT | 27
Opening batsmen: a breed apart
It remains to be seen if the SA v England tests will give birth to a new generation of top-order stars
right-handed bat without much
elegance, but with all the
strokes. He did not bat either
with dignity or precision; he
regarded his cricket in most
light-hearted style, but his
confidence was amazing.”
Could be about Gibbs,
couldn’t it? Or Barlow. In fact,
it’s Wisden on Rowan.
Despite
the
limitations
convention imposed, Rowan,
Barlow and Gibbs were among
the most magnetic players of
their generations. They were
watched with electric interest.
Their species is neither
extinct nor limited to South
Africans. Australia’s David
Warner is a reasonable facsimile of any of them, sometimes to
an unreasonable degree. Until
2013, India’s Virender Sehwag
was, too. Before that, Desmond
Haynes and Gordon Greenidge
didn’t so much step out of the
opener’s box as rip it to shreds
in those long-gone days when
West Indies could play cricket.
But the preconception that
the openers must be as stodgy
as they are sturdy, all the better
ONE OF A KIND: Former Proteas skipper Graeme Smith was always
ready to take on more than his share of responsibility
to take the shine off the ball and
tire the bowlers and earn the
advantage in the timeworn way,
persists between the blinkers of
respecting tradition.
Cricket keeps telling itself
that it is important to maintain
this notion because it has
always been important to do so.
Except that it hasn’t, as the
records of Rowan, Barlow,
Haynes, Greenidge, Gibbs,
STEADFAST: Australia’s David Warner is a reasonable facsimile of
any of the dashing opening batsmen
Pictures: GETTY IMAGES
Sehwag and Warner attest.
The idea that the art and craft
of surviving and then prospering at the top of the order is
evolving along with the rest of
the game is dangerous to those
who prefer their cricketers flannelled and themselves fooled.
But it’s a fact that adds to the
pertinence of the question that
is being asked amid South
Africa’s and England’s strug-
gles to settle on reliable opening
pairs going into the series that
started at Kingsmead yesterday
— what, besides the obviousness of quality bowlers armed
with a new ball on a fresh pitch,
makes opening the batting the
most difficult job in test cricket?
“You’ve got to go straight in,”
Cook, an opener in four of his six
test innings and in most of his
other 469 trips to the first-class
crease, said.
“You may be tired from
having been in the field all day
and their bowlers have been
sitting with their feet up. And, if
you’re playing at a high level, if
you make a mistake you’re out.
“You’ve got to know what to
play and what to leave, and
nobody makes a success out of
opening the batting over a
significant period of time unless
they have a rock-solid defence.”
What did Cook think of the
glimmering hope that opening
could be dragged into the
modern age?
“Guys have become more
positive and I can see the merit
in that — if that’s your game, if
How to watch the
big test without
assaulting a Pom
Dr Roberts
picking up
The Cherries
SBU MJIKELISO
D
O not adjust the picture on your TV. That
steadily
pinkening
patch on the screen
beyond the extra cover or fine
leg boundary at Kingsmead today is as it should be.
The patch is at Castle Corner,
where the 450-odd members of
the Barmy Army who are in
attendance at the first test have
been corralled — nice and close
to a steady supply of the brown,
bubbly stuff produced by the
SA team’s sponsors. Perhaps
the place should be rebranded
the wet spot.
As we all know, if you put a
pile of pale Poms under the
African sun they start out looking like one half of a packet of
marshmallows and end up
looking like the other half.
But they will be good fun in
other ways as well, no doubt
singing a particular song that
starts with, “We’ve got one
rand to the pound . . .”, and that
counts all the way up to “We’ve
got 22 rand to the pound . . .”
before ending with “We’re so
rich it’s unbelievable!”
Whereupon you, as a comparatively impoverished Saffer
also assigned to the wet spot,
should try not to punch them,
however much you feel the
urge and however much of the
brown, bubbly stuff you have
consumed. Instead, think pink:
these people are fiscally significant.
If you need to feel better
about all this, consider that
things will be very different at
Newlands next week, where
about half the seats have been
sold to spectators travelling
from England — perhaps a consequence of all the available
tickets being made available
online without holding some
back for the exclusive purchase
of South Africans.
An extra 2 000 seats have
been erected in temporary
stands, which does take away
from Newlands’ prettiness. But
the Barmy Army have “22 rand
to the pound”, remember. By
next week, it could be 25.
And there is some solace in
the fact that they have bought
tickets in pockets around the
ground and so will not be able
to thicken their collective voice
too volubly for comfort.
No such sociopolitical challenges will have to be overcome
on the field. There, it’s all about
runs, wickets and sledging. No
one will sit in someone else’s
seat, or slop beer over a teammate or even an opponent, or
try to chat up thy neighbour’s
partner, or have to stand in a
long queue for boerewors rolls,
beer, or the toilet. And let’s not
get on to the small war of attrition in the parking lot.
Truly, playing international
cricket is, in several ways, a
damn sight less difficult than
paying good money to watch it
being played, bloody Barmy
Army and all.
Of course, none of this matters when the team you support
wins. Then, you can put up with
all the pink Poms you could
throw a warm beer at. Besides,
when England’s opponents
win, their supporters tend to
act like marshmallows as much
as they resemble them.
But does the converse apply?
Can a crowd influence a team
as readily as teams influence
crowds? As much as cricketers
say they don’t hear the noise or
feel the vibe coming from the
stands, they also say they are
far happier playing in front of
their home spectators.
Fans who remind players
that we all live in the same
world by, say, launching plastic
water bottles from their seats
towards the field in protest at a
shoddy performance by said
players — as happened during
the T20 between India and SA
in October — will be treated
like criminals, never mind that
the bottles landed nowhere
near the precious players nor
that the protesters had a point.
So, eat, drink, think or be
pink, and don’t adjust your TV.
you are an attacking batsman. If
you’re a different kind of
opening batsman you may see
things differently.”
Minds are being bent in that
direction, but as a counter to
prevailing conditions rather
than as a progressive step.
Temba Bavuma and Moeen
Ali are fresh examples of batsmen who would in the past never have batted at the sharp end
of a test innings but have recently done exactly that in India
and the United Arab Emirates.
However, they are now back
where everyone seems to think
they belong — including
themselves.
“I’ll be a bit more comfortable
and used to it,” Bavuma said of
his return to the middle order
after scoring 56 runs and lasting
more than four hours in his two
innings at the top in Delhi. “I
enjoyed the experience . . . but
the middle order is where I am
best suited for the team.”
Having scraped together 86
runs in six innings as an opener
against Pakistan, Ali both
echoed and challenged Cook’s
point about horses for courses.
“I probably got caught in two
minds at times whether to
attack or not,” he said. “I’m
really looking forward to going
back to No 8, playing a few shots
and freeing up.”
Wisden readers might understand their reluctance. Rowan
would not.
INJURED: James Anderson of England was ruled
out for the test
RARING TO GO: Dale Steyn of South Africa is back
in action
IRREPLACEABLE: Mitchell Johnson of Australia has
retired
Baddest stormtrooper of speed? Steyn
TELFORD VICE
in Durban
AND then there was only one. With
Mitchell Johnson having retired and
James Anderson ruled out of the
Kingsmead test, Dale Steyn is the sole
stormtrooper of speed still standing in
all of cricket.
Morne Morkel? Too nice. Kyle Abbott? Too clever. Kagiso Rabada? Too
new. Stuart Broad? Too girlish. Steven
Finn? Too random.
Steyn? Nasty, brutish and not as
short as he seems in the impolite company of his pace peers. Anderson? A
fast bowler’s fast bowler, sleek and
slippery and oh so silkily skilful.
Is anyone else up for the entirely
unofficial title of baddest bastard
bowler in the game? No.
Anderson will, it is to be hoped, sort
out his injured calf in time to rage hard
against the dying of the twilight of his
career in the second test at Newlands
on New Year’s Day.
Steyn, just back from a groin strain
that took him out of SA’s attack for all
but the first innings of their series in
India, will know how Anderson feels.
The Saffer from Phalaborwa is 32.
The Pom from Burnley is 13 months
older. Look at their faces and you see
men who have put more miles on their
body clocks than others of their age.
How many deliveries can they have
left before even one more becomes too
many? Once they have gone, when
might we see their like again?
But, for now, Hashim Amla is a happy
captain: “He (Steyn) has been the best
bowler in the world for the past five or
six years. Rankings say that, his performances say that and not having him
play in India was a big blow for us.
“It’s great to have him back as a
bowler but also as the leader of our
attack. He is fit and raring to go.”
Asked before the Kingsmead test
about Anderson’s withdrawal, Amla
played with a bat straighter than any he
wields in the middle.
“We don’t place too much emphasis
on who they have or who they don’t
have. For us it’s about doing what we do
best. Who leads England’s attack
doesn’t make a difference to us.”
If you believe that, you also believe
David van Rooyen is the guy to steer
SA’s economy into calmer waters.
Broad, too, chose to venture further
from rather than closer to the truth: “If
❛
It’s great to have him
back as a bowler but
also as the leader of
our attack
you talk to Jimmy he feels he could
have played (in Durban). It’s just a
slight niggle but the management decided it really wasn’t worth the risk in
the first test. There’s a feeling he’ll be
okay for Cape Town.
“We do know this is a four-test series
and we want him to play a part in it.
We’ve got such depth in the squad
there’s not the need to take a risk. He’s
disappointed but with the strength in
depth we’ve got in this group it’s not a
hammer blow to us.”
England coach Trevor Bayliss also
seemed to pull a fast one: “It’s always a
concern if your leading bowler or batsmen misses a game, but the last time
Jimmy missed one we did pretty well.”
That was at the Oval in August —
where Australia won by an innings.
Just as Johnson has left a hole far
bigger than the sum of his parts in the
Australian team, a void that will take
some filling, so SA were not half the
team they could have been in India had
Steyn been fit.
But England seem to be getting used
to doing without Anderson. He has
been forced to withdraw from two of
their last six tests and pulled up lame in
another, and they have won two of
those games.
Perhaps that’s what Bayliss was on
about. Or perhaps bowlers like Anderson, Steyn and Mitchell can’t be
restricted to the reality that pins down
the rest of us. For them, legend is life
and life is legend.
AT its close, the Rugby World Cup
chewed up and spat out members of
the Springbok team to all parts of the
globe. Team doctor Craig Roberts
landed on the picturesque bench of
English Premier League side AFC
Bournemouth.
And he’s loving every moment.
You would have thought he would
be sucked into next year’s expanded
Super 18 rugby competition but, no,
instead he has switched codes and
countries, at least for the time being.
“After the World Cup disappointment, the South African Rugby Union
was unable to commit to a contract
going forward and Bournemouth
were one of the teams that
approached me,” Roberts said.
“I really like their approach and
culture. They have a young progressive manager who really embraces
sports science.
“A number of Premier League
teams approached me over the years
but my focus up to now was on trying
to bring the Webb Ellis Cup home to
South Africa again.
“I have been very fortunate and
privileged to work with the Springboks for nine years, after studying
medicine to become a rugby doctor
and was very lucky to fulfil my dream
very early.”
Not so long ago, Roberts’s biggest
worry was whether Boks’ Duane
Vermeulen, Fourie du Preez, Willem
Alberts and Jean de Villiers would be
fit to play in the World Cup that ended
in October. But that’s all in the past.
His proper initiation into one of the
most thrilling leagues in world football came during Bournemouth’s 3-3
draw with Everton — his second game
in the dugout.
You probably didn’t notice him:
crouched behind manager Eddie
Howe, eyes wide open, partly focused
on the pandemonium at the Goldsands Stadium and partly wondering
what he’d got himself into.
Roberts is not the only “Saffer” on
the Bournemouth bench, but is joined
by Bafana Bafana front man Tokelo
Rantie
and
Johannesburg-born
Andrew Surman.
“It was great to see Rantie get some
game time on the pitch against West
Brom and show some of the touches
we are used to in SA,” Roberts said.
Watching The Cherries hold
Swansea City away, that draw with
Everton and beating Chelsea, Manchester United and West Bromwich
Albion on the bounce has proven the
perfect release for the good doctor
after a disappointing World Cup.
2015 RUGBY WRAP
The year the Boks lost to Japan, and fans said farewell to Lomu
CRAIG RAY
THE 2015 rugby season was one
that started with the promise of
World Cup glory but ended with
Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer resigning in ignominy after a
tortuous year.
The Springboks endured a
torrid season, which included
their first-ever loss to Argentina
and a shock loss to Japan, also a
first, at Rugby World Cup 2015.
In all, the Boks lost five of
their 11 matches in 2015, an
unacceptable return after three
years of building towards the
World Cup. In terms of transformation, too, the Boks fell
short with only eight black players making it into the 31-man
World Cup squad.
Meyer, a passionate and
decent man, had little option but
to bow out when the dust settled
on a terrible season that will go
down as one of the worst in Bok
history. The Boks lost two
matches at RWC 2015, their joint
worst return in terms of losses
at a single tournament, even
though the campaign ended
with a third-place finish at the
World Cup.
But at other levels too, South
African rugby struggled.
Super Rugby could only be
described as a sporting disaster.
The Stormers were South
Africa’s sole representatives in
the play-offs. And that was only
because of the conference system, which guaranteed at least
one team from each of the participating unions a place in the
post-season. Had the play-offs
been decided on points accumulated, the Stormers would
have finished seventh on the
overall standings.
The Blitzboks failed to capitalise on winning the first two
tournaments of the 2014/15
HSBC World Sevens Series and
ended second to Fiji on the overall standings by the end of the
season. But they did secure one
of the four automatic qualification places for the 2016 Rio
Olympic Games. So there was a
silver lining.
The
Junior
Springboks
laboured at the Junior World
Championships in Italy, eventually losing to England in the
semifinals.
The 2015 Currie Cup was a
watered-down version, as it was
December. Only when the South
African Rugby Union stepped in
to take over the running of the
franchise did it grind forward.
Saru appointed former SA under-20 assistant coach Deon
Davids as head coach of the
team and it contracted 20 players. Saru’s rugby department,
under Rassie Erasmus, will be
heavily involved in coaching,
but it is unlikely to stave off a
series of embarrassing results
for the team next season.
LUNGE: Damian de Allende against Brumbie
David Pocock
a World Cup year. A Super Rugby-strength
Golden
Lions
proved too powerful against
teams that were barely above
Vodacom Cup strength. The
Lions went through the campaign undefeated and deservedly took the title. But underlining
the weakness of the tournament
GENTLE GIANT: New Zealand’s Jonah Lomu lost
his last battle
was the fact that the Free State
Cheetahs made the semifinals
after winning only three of their
10 group matches.
Off the field matters were not
much better. Most worrying is
the state of rugby in the Eastern
Cape. Under the presidency of
Cheeky Watson, the Eastern
Province Rugby Union is now
bankrupt, with players’ salaries
regularly going unpaid in the
latter part of the year.
The Southern Kings franchise, which is due to take part
in an expanded Super Rugby
tournament in 2016, had no
coach and players until early
MOMENT OF THE YEAR: As
painful as it is for South Africa,
Japan’s 34-32 victory over the
Springboks in Brighton was sensational for RWC 2015 and for
rugby in general. Karne Hesketh’s injury time winning try
set the tournament alight and
ensured that unless the Boks
went on to win, Meyer’s days
were numbered. It also catapulted rugby to a wider audience in an instant. More than 25
million Japanese tuned in for
subsequent matches.
HEARTBREAK OF THE YEAR:
The Boks bludgeoned their way
to the RWC semifinals after the
Japan debacle but inevitably
came up short against old foes
New Zealand. They were distinctly second best for most of
the match, but their spirit could
not be questioned as they lost
20-18 to a side that was generally
20 points better than the next
best.
MATCH OF THE YEAR: Aside
from Japan’s heroics against
South Africa, the Highlanders’
brilliant 21-14 win over the Hurricanes in the final in Wellington was a triumph for a team of
blue-collar workers over their
more sophisticated opponents.
Having had to beat the Chiefs
and the Waratahs in the playoffs made it all the sweeter.
SA PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Centre Damian de Allende was terrific during Super Rugby for the
Stormers and he seamlessly
carried that form into the test
arena. He was a constant threat
with the ball in hand and regularly beat defenders with ease.
The Boks could build an entire
game plan around his ability.
WORLD PLAYER OF THE YEAR:
All Black flyhalf Daniel Carter
saved his best for when it mattered most. In the latter stages
of the World Cup, Carter delivered one knockout out blow
after another, including brilliant drop-goals in the semifinal
against the Boks and the final
against Australia. Both punctured the opponents’ self-belief
at critical times. Under huge
pressure, Carter’s sense of timing was immaculate.
RIP: Two All Black greats, Jerry
Collins and Jonah Lomu, died
this year, as did Bok legend
John Gainsford. Collins and his
partner died in a car crash in
France, Lomu died from complications from a kidney disorder and Gainsford succumbed
to cancer.
WORLD TEAM OF THE YEAR:
15 Ben Smith, 14 Adam AshleyCooper, 13 Conrad Smith, 12
Ma’a Nonu, 11 Julian Savea, 10
Dan Carter, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8
David Pocock, 7 Schalk Burger,
6 Sam Warburton, 5 Sam Whitelock, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Frans
Malherbe, 2 Augustin Creevy, 1
Marcos Ayerza.
News
England pair hold up Proteas
It seems that more than just
a decent pitch is needed
to get SA back on track
TELFORD VICE
at Kingsmead
AN angel of optimism posing as a
marketing maven snagged spectators
as
they
streamed
through
Kingsmead’s gates yesterday and
asked: “Would you like to purchase a
sachet of sunscreen?”
Clouds formed the canopy above.
Below, wetness was everywhere.
Sunscreen? Forget the sunscreen.
Mopping up delayed the start of
SA’s test series against England by 30
minutes. Thirty more minutes later,
lightning jagged through the clouds
and forced the players off the field.
Then thunder rumbled across the
scene. In Durban. In December.
Rain followed, staying long enough
to delay the resumption for 100 minutes and returning just more than an
hour later. This time, as the dampness descended like dandelion down,
the floodlights began cutting through
the gloom. It was 2pm.
Play resumed 20 minutes later, and
three-and-a-half hours afterwards
the fight with the elements was abandoned for the day. England, put in to
bat by Hashim Amla after he had won
the toss for only the third time in his
13 tests as captain, were 179/4.
After shambling to a 3-0 hiding in
India, SA were suddenly SA again—
the No 1 team come to remind
everyone, themselves included, it
seems, exactly who and what they
were.
“India was a wake-up call for a lot of
us,” Dale Steyn said. “We found that
we’re probably not as good as we
thought we were. It even started in
Bangladesh (in July and August,
when rain forced a drawn series).
There were cracks in the armoury
starting there.
“The boys have hurt. We’re going to
go back to being a basic cricket team.
With the amount of flair, talent and
skill we have in our side, if we do the
basics extremely well and throw in a
bit of our flavour we’ll be back to that
No 1 team. It’s just a ranking but we
can play like that — like we have in
the past.”
That Steyn would seem to think SA
are no longer the top-ranked team is
factually incorrect, but it is a healthy
mistake for him to make.
Not that SA made any until Nick
Compton, playing his first test since
November 2013, and James Taylor,
the son of a jockey who doesn’t stand
much taller than a set of stumps
himself, collaborated to disabuse the
home side of the notion that all they
needed to get back on track was a
decent pitch.
The surface was slow, but it didn’t
hurt SA’s cause that they had Steyn
back from the groin strain that kept
him out of most of the India series.
He bowled like a boy let loose on a
beach, a wonder of energy and
aggression straining at the limits of
even his outrageous physicality.
“It’s been bloody frustrating sitting
on the sidelines for six weeks,” Steyn
said. And it looked like it in a first
spell of six overs in which the bats-
Leicester
rudely
awoken
from dream
men took runs off him just five times
and in which he conceded 11 and
removed Alistair Cook and Alex
Hales.
Cook extended his world record for
opening the batting in test cricket to
207 innings, but failed to get off the
mark before playing away from his
body and steering a delivery snaking
away from him to second slip.
Debutant Hales became the 908th
man to take guard at the top of a test
order. He won’t want to become the
169th man to do so only once. On the
evidence of the 22 balls he faced for
his 10, that won’t happen — even
though he got out to a flaccid flash
that nestled in AB de Villiers’ gloves.
With England reduced to 12/2,
Compton and Joe Root nudged and
nurdled them back towards safety,
only for Dane Piedt to pin the
enterprising Root on the back thigh
with a delivery that turned and
bounced. Given out, Root called for a
review and discovered that the ball
would have hit the top of his middle
stump.
The stand between Compton and
Taylor reached 125 before Steyn
snuffed it out with a delivery that
hinted a touch away. A weary Taylor
swung lustily and edged to be caught
behind for 70.
Compton’s graft and Taylor’s grit
❛
India was a
wake-up call for us.
We found we’re not
as good as we
thought we were. It
even started in
Bangladesh
made their batting about as pretty to
watch as a look at the kitchen sink
after Christmas lunch. But, unlike a
second helping, that’s what was
required.
Today, Compton will doubtless
continue in similar fashion as he
looks to build his 63 not out — an
innings already 179 balls in the making — into something monumental,
given that England do not have much
batting left.
Like SA, England face questions
about their batting in the wake of a
series loss to Pakistan in the United
Arab Emirates. Unlike SA, they have
been tasked with answering them
immediately.
Amla’s decision to insert England
would have been prompted largely by
the conditions and Steyn’s availability. But it bears wondering whether
he was reluctant to expose his batsman even to an England attack without James Anderson — who is out of
the first test with a calf injury — so
soon after SA had been dismissed for
fewer than 200 in six of their seven
innings in India.
“If he doesn’t play (in the series) I’ll
be very happy,” Steyn said. “He’s a
pretty good bowler, so if he sits on the
sidelines I’m stoked. I really don’t
want to face him.”
LETTING OFF STEAM: South African bowler Dale Steyn, right, celebrates after dismissing England batsman James Taylor, middle, during the first day of
the cricket test at Kingsmead in Durban yesterday
Picture: AFP
Drunken debauchery marks Durban test
KHANYISO TSHWAKU
at Kingsmead
THE only time Durban hosts a
beerfest is during October, when
one of its leading casinos/resorts
mimics its far more famous Munich
counterpart for a weekend.
The opening day of a Boxing Day
test, especially if it falls on a
weekend, may rival the esteemed
festival for a day at least.
The two-litre beer jugs were a
prime opportunity for ambush
marketing, such was their
proliferation and their easy use.
If it gets warmer, the national
brewery may need to recall its
engineers from their holidays to
keep the kegs full.
At some point, the stadium bars
had to be closed for a “cooling
period” under instruction from the
police. They were eventually
closed due to crowd misconduct.
It may be problematic when the
sun makes a return. Science threw
up an oft-proven law at Durban
stadiums and the city in general:
humidity is directly proportional to
the rate of thirst.
The playing strip, lush as it was,
was equally thirsty in how it
swallowed up the squalls that
threatened to disrupt this
prestigious day, rewarded with a
good crowd by Durban standards.
The alluring smell of braaied
meat heavily outweighed that of
the traditional curry as the stadium
was enveloped in an intoxicating
aroma of delectable deliciousness.
That partly explained some of
the empty seats, while the 400strong Barmy Army took
ownership of Castle Corner
instead of their favoured East
Stand.
They roared in delight when
James Taylor and Nick Compton in
particular steered the England
batting ship out of tricky waters.
Compton is a born and bred
Durbanite, who seemed to
understand the vagaries of a hard
and true surface.
Despite his grinding innings,
getting to his 50 allowed his uncle,
The Mercury’s senior cricket writer
Patrick Compton, to crack a smile.
“Titch” Taylor’s verve may prove
heartening for equally vertically
challenged Temba Bavuma.
As the most inexperienced
members of the England batting
unit, they have yet to experience
the cauldron that is the Melbourne
Cricket Ground, but the
smatterings of St George's Cross
made it a home away from home.
The soggy disappointment that
was last year’s Port Elizabeth test
again highlighted how susceptible
cricket is to the elements.
The eagerness outside the
stadium before play and the
clumps of fans who walked from
Florida Road to Masabalala Yengwa
Avenue spoke volumes about the
importance of the game.
Durban, though, still needs to
show that it loves the game when
less illustrious opponents come to
town.
LEICESTER City were given a Premier League reality check when the
unlikely leaders lost 1-0 at Liverpool yesterday, after Manchester
United slumped to a third consecutive league defeat to pile the pressure on manager Louis van Gaal.
Christian Benteke’s second-half
goal sealed the points at Anfield as
Leicester suffered their first league
defeat since September when they
lost to Arsenal, who could replace
them at the top if they beat
Southampton in the late match.
Third-placed Manchester City
closed in on Leicester by crushing
lowly Sunderland 4-1 and Tottenham
Hotspur consolidated fourth place as
Harry Kane scored twice in a 3-0
home victory over Norwich City.
Leicester, who failed to score for
the first time this season and suffered only their second loss, have 38
points from 18 matches with
Arsenal on 36, Manchester City on
35 and Tottenham 32.
All eyes were on Van Gaal in the
first game of the hectic holiday
period and Stoke won comfortably
2-0 at the Britannia Stadium.
Goals from forwards Bojan Krkic
and Marko Arnautovic left United
in sixth place. They have now lost
four consecutive matches in a season for the first time since 1961.
Guus Hiddink’s second spell as
Chelsea’s interim manager began
with a 2-2 draw at home to Watford.
Oscar wasted the chance to secure
victory for the champions when he
missed a late penalty at Stamford
Bridge and Chelsea remained 15th.
Crystal Palace drew 0-0 with
Bournemouth,
moving
above
Manchester United into fifth spot.
At the bottom, Aston Villa drew
1-1 with West Ham United to leave
manager Remi Garde still awaiting
a first win since taking over from
Tim Sherwood.
Aston Villa fought back to salvage a draw at home, but the Premier League strugglers remain in
trouble at the foot of the table.
West Ham have drawn their last
five league matches and are without a win in eight, while Villa saw
their club-record winless run in the
league extended to 17 matches.
Only three of the previous 23
teams who were bottom on Christmas Day have avoided relegation
and Villa will go into tomorrow’s
trip to Norwich with just eight
points from 18 games.
Managerless Swansea won for
the first time since October, beating
West Bromwich Albion 1-0 to climb
out of the relegation zone above
Norwich and Newcastle United,
who lost 1-0 at home to Everton due
to a last-minute goal by Tom Cleverley. Everton striker Romelu
Lukaku failed to emulate the great
Dixie Dean by scoring for the ninth
game in a row. — Reuters
Courageous Sundowns boss Pitso sets sights on Champions League
TSHEPANG MAILWANE
AWAY from the football pitch in the
plush Park Hyatt Hotel in Rosebank
on Monday, man of the moment Pitso
Mosimane spoke passionately about
the things he still wants to achieve as
a coach.
One, Mosimane would love to coach
Bafana Bafana again, but he makes it
clear that he is not after Ephraim
“Shakes” Mashaba’s job because he
is really enjoying life at Mamelodi
Sundowns, where he’s won three
trophies in as many seasons.
“I don’t think I finished well with
my international career with Bafana.
[But] This is not the right time to go
to Bafana because they have a very
good coach and they’re playing well.
Look at how they played against Costa Rica and Angola away from home. I
really hope this thing of chopping and
changing coaches stops because we
achieve nothing,” he says.
“I don’t think coaches are the problem. [Stuart] Baxter was sacked [as
Bafana coach] and he went on to win
the league [Absa Premiership]. I was
sacked and I went on to win the
league. Gordon [Igesund] was sacked
and he won the Telkom [Knockout].
So is the problem the coaches? You
tell me.” Mosimane went on: “So we
need to keep Bra Shakes, but as you
asked me, do I want to coach Bafana?
Maybe yes in future because I did not
finish well. I was in a difficult time of
having seven draws, but seven draws
was against top countries. They were
not against Mozambique, Lesotho or
Madagascar or Mauritius.
“I may be talking about coaching
Bafana, but look at what is happening
at Sundowns. I am so happy here. The
players are responding, the board is
supporting me and we are winning
trophies.”
“Now I want to go back. If we put
the star on the badge, then Sundowns
should be ranked the top team in
South Africa because we have
[already] won the league six times.
No one has done that. There’s still a
lot of work to be done.”
After failing in their attempt to sign
Bidvest Wits attacking midfielder
Sibusiso Vilakazi, Sundowns cannot
be ruled out of going for the star
player again when the January
❛
❛
This is not the
right time to
go to Bafana
because they’re
playing well
After a win over Jomo Cosmos in
September, he was hailed as “our Sir
Alex Ferguson” by some of the
Sundowns fans and, like the retired
manager who was adored at Old Trafford through the good and the bad,
Mosimane is determined to sit in the
hot seat for many years to come.
It rarely happens in South Africa
that coaches are given many years to
build a team strong enough to
conquer all, but Mosimane seems to
have that kind of support from the
team management and he would love
to pay them back by winning the Caf
SKY IS THE
LIMIT: Coach
Pitso Mosimane
celebrates after
Mamelodi
Sundowns won
the Telkom
Knockout final
against Kaizer
Chiefs in
Durban
Picture:
GALLO IMAGES
Champions League.
Call him crazy, but he believes he
can achieve that goal in the coming
year, with Sundowns set to compete
in the continental club competition.
“I want to put the star on top of the
badge and we think it’s possible next
year. We have the mentality and we
need to have a go [at it] again. We
must always play in that space.
“I went to the Champions League
group stages with [former club] SuperSport [United]. I had Daine Klate,
Pa [Siboniso Gaxa] and Richard
Rantjie. Those boys were young.
I want to put the
[Caf Champions
League] star on top
of the badge, we
think it’s possible
transfer window opens. A player like
Vilakazi would add value to their
Champions League campaign.
“You know the players we want.
But their teams don’t want to release
them. We have made a request and
they [Wits] said no. Wits called me to
order for speaking publicly about
Vilakazi. But whether a player is free
or not, you have to speak to him. Who
buys a player he hasn’t spoken to?
“You can’t tell me that when Wits
signed Jabu Shongwe they did not
speak to him before. You can’t tell me
when they signed [Mozambican star
midfielder Elias] Pelembe they did
not speak to him before. And by the
way, Wits spoke to Nyasha [Mushekwi] when he was still under contract.
It’s a fact.”
While Sundowns fans were calling
for Mosimane to leave early in the
season, club president Patrice
Motsepe backed him to turn things
around. Mosimane revealed that
Motsepe had a “magic chat” with the
team after the 2-1 defeat to Golden
Arrows in September.
“After the Arrows game, he told us
that we played very well and ever
since his talk we have not lost a
game,” he said. “Maybe that was the
turnaround. I call it the magic talk.
You think he does not understand
football? He understands.”
Motsepe can certainly be happy
with what’s happening at the club,
not just with the first team but the
juniors as well. The under-15s, 17s
and 19s have all won trophies this
year and Mosimane has backed some
of the young stars in the development
structures, like national under-17
player Notha Ngcobo, to make a mark
at the club in the near future.
The Brazilians are Nedbank Cup
and Telkom Knockout champions
and they are currently top of the Absa
Premiership table. There’s certainly
a lot to look forward to for Mosimane
and his charges next year.

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