Dodgy grading puts public at risk

★★
Building
watchdog
on shaky
ground
FIRE IN THE HOLE
Dodgy grading puts public at risk
GRAEME HOSKEN
A PRESIDENTIAL proclamation
allowing the Special Investigating
Unit to probe a construction
industry watchdog could open a
can of worms.
The proclamation grants the SIU
power to investigate government
contracts awarded to ineligible
companies.
Industry insiders say such corruption would affect municipal service delivery and lead to potholed
roads and shoddily constructed
housing.
The SIU has been instructed to
look into a variety of practices at
the Construction Industry Development Board, including the
awarding of gradings.
The board’s grading system governs how private and government
construction contracts are awarded.
The grading a contractor
receives determines the maximum
value of the projects for which it
can tender. Grade 9 contractors
qualify for work worth more than
R130-million.
The SIU has also been asked to
investigate the appointment of “a
panel of service providers to conduct investigations for the board”.
The unit is to determine whether
that appointment process violated
Treasury regulations.
This
panel,
said
board
spokesman Kolti Molise, includes
specialist forensic investigators.
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It was established to investigate
complaints about violations of the
board’s code of conduct, such as
fraud and corruption in awarding
contracts, and to ensure that procurement systems are fair and
transparent.
Molise refused to comment on
other questions from The Times
about the SIU investigation.
SIU spokesman Sefura Mongalo
failed to respond to detailed questions on the investigation.
‘
Corrupt
contractors
are getting
gradings higher
than they should
According to the presidential
proclamation, the SIU should investigate the “validity of construction work contracts awarded by
state institutions to contractors,
where these institutions relied on
the unlawful or invalid registration
as contractors in the register of
contractors, and contractor grading designations awarded by the
board to those contractors”.
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NEWS
Order in the court:
Judges go to school
Schools
system
hacks the
hackers
LEONIE WAGNER
and BIANCA CAPAZORIO
KATHARINE CHILD
THE Office of the Chief Justice
wants to almost double its training
budget in the next two years —
pushing the amount spent from
R34-million to R60-million by 2018.
Yesterday
Justice
Minister
Michael Masutha announced that
the office would be working with a
budget of R1.785-billion in this
financial year — with R920-million
allocated to remuneration and
benefits for judges and the
remaining R864-million for operational costs.
A portion of the R864-million will
go towards training and recruiting
judicial officers. The Office of the
Chief Justice’s 2016-2017 annual
performance plan aims to conduct
225 training courses for judicial
officers over the next three years.
The training will include courses on the Domestic Violence Act,
the Maintenance Act and the Immigration Act.
Experts have welcomed the
department’s move, saying there
was a need for standardised training, especially in legal matters involving children.
Shaheda Omar of the Teddy
Bear Clinic for abused children in
Johannesburg said there were
“huge gaps” in the areas of domestic violence and maintenance.
“This is a sore point. Some judicial officials lack sensitivity in
communicating with victims of domestic violence, including children. There is a huge gap there
and this needs to be addressed in
the training,” Omar said.
Office of the Chief Justice
spokesman Nathi Mncube said the
courses were developed after a
broad consultative process with
the judges and magistrates. He
added that the acts mentioned in
the report were examples and did
not necessarily denote priority.
Researcher and gender activist
Lisa Vetten of the Wits Institute for
‘
There are too
many who
suggest rape is
not always serious
Social and Economic Development
welcomed the promotion of standardised training. Vetten said
training on sexual offences was
especially necessary as there were
still “too many cases where judges
suggest [rape] is not serious if the
victim has recovered”.
The report also highlights the
ripple effect of the increase in
crime, which has increased the
workload of judicial officers. The
Office of the Chief Justice identified the need for more judicial
officers and infrastructure — but
did not say how many magistrates
and judges needed to be hired.
Masutha yesterday told parliament that there would not be
enough funding to get the
Mpumalanga High Court fully
functional once its construction
has been completed.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Probe of
building
industry
watchdog
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The unit will also investigate
whether board officials irregularly
disseminated confidential information and the board’s alleged failure
to properly safeguard confidential
information. The investigation goes
back to 2006.
Yesterday
the
Construction
Industry
Development
Board
welcomed the investigation, saying
it had asked for it as a counter to
allegations of fraud and corruption.
“The board simply cannot afford
to ignore the potential risks
associated with any fraud allegations related to its register of contractors. Fraud and corruption not
only undermine the country’s economy and transformation efforts,
they also potentially put the lives
and safety of ordinary citizens in
danger as a result of poor quality
infrastructure,” the board’s CEO,
Hlengiwe Khumalo, said.
Charles
Wright,
Stefanutti
Stocks’ enterprise development
director, who has assisted the
board in gradings, welcomed the
investigation.
“The board is incredibly strict in
granting grading applications but
allegations of corruption must be
investigated.”
He said the most serious con-
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A community leader addresses thousands of residents of Zandspruit, northwest of Johannesburg, who marched
yesterday to demand electricity in their area
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sequence of such corruption was
the collapse of municipalities’ service delivery capabilities.
“Contractors are receiving gradings they should not be getting. The
collapse of service delivery can be
seen in every town, from roads
falling apart to other vital infrastructure either not working or projects lying incomplete for years.”
Wright said that in considering a
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grading the board took into consideration
the
contractor’s
turnover, available capital, projects
executed and details of the largest
project executed.
“The big problem is that the
board does not take into account
the quality of work of contractors
or their safety record.” Tinus
Maritz, a member of the board’s
advisory forum and head of Pre-
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toria University’s construction economics department, said the board
raised the topic of corruption at a
stakeholders meeting in Pretoria
three weeks ago. “They acknowledged that [grading of contractors]
is difficult to manage, especially
because of fronting and fraudulent
representations by contractors.
“The corruption, which is as bad
now as it was pre-1994, is with
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THIRTEEN professional hackers
tried to hack the Gauteng education department’s online school
application system.
But the system “hacked the hackers back”.
So said Gauteng education MEC
Panyaza Lesufi.
The applications site went live on
Monday after a six-hour delay because of technical problems.
Lesufi said more than 188 000 parents had applied for places for
Grade 1 or Grade 8 children.
It received 37 500 hits a second on
Monday afternoon.
Lesufi said: “These statistics give
us confidence that people have
heeded our call to register online.”
Half a million applications were
expected, he said.
The online system would stop
fraud, such as that documented by
NGO Corruption Watch in which
parents and officials at schools
allowed some people to jump the
application queue, he said.
The Federation of School Governing Bodies of SA said yesterday
that it had decided not to litigate
against the department because
two important changes to the online system had been made on Monday.
The CEO of the federation, Paul
Colditz, said: “The site was
changed so that parents could
indicate their school of choice and
the online applications will be sent
to the schools for the compilation of
the so-called A and B lists. This
means a school’s language and
admissions policies are taken into
account.
“In its previous format, the site
allocated a school based on the
parents’ address and it was not
possible for applicants to indicate
their language preference.”
Some problems persisted. Foreigners had difficulty accessing the
site because it did not allow people
to enter ID numbers that included
letters.
The department’s Oupa Bodipe
said this was a “technical problem”
that had been rectified.
contractors trying to secure the
higher gradings needed to secure
[the most valuable] tenders.”
He said tough economic times
made it hard for emerging contractors to maintain their grading
and a down-gradings had serious
adverse consequences for them.
“The board experiences huge difficulties in monitoring the country’s thousands of contractors.”
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Thursday April 21 | 2016
The curse of the copycats
Gavin Rajah has been accused of stealing US designer’s creations
SUTHENTIRA GOVENDER
FASHION designers to the stars
say it’s impossible to protect their
creations from being “knocked off”
by copycats who “lack creativity”.
They were speaking amid
another Gavin Rajah copycat
scandal, in which US fashion
designer Chelsea Liu has accused
him of stealing her designs and
threatening to have her deported
because of her allegedly
defamatory comments in social
media rants on Thursday last
week.
Liu posted images of her own
designs as well as screenshots
from an international magazine
feature on Rajah showing the same
designs. Rajah has denied the
copycat allegations, threatening
Liu with legal action.
Top designer David Tlale
refused to be “dragged into” the
Rajah issue but conceded that
protecting his work from copycats
was near impossible.
“When you get your inspiration
from somewhere you have to put
your personal touch or signature
to it. Having to protect yourself is
impossible. My take is that there
has to be originality and
something special about a design.”
He said designers could patent a
brand or a print.
JJ Schoeman, who has designed
for personalities such as Edith
Venter, Abigail Kubeka, Khanyi
Mbau, Yvonne Chaka Chaka and
Bonang Matheba, said: “An
‘
There has to be
originality and
something special
about the design
identical kind of copy, where
everything is one million percent
the same, at a big event on a
famous personality, because of a
lack of creativity on the part of the
designer — I think that would be a
huge problem.”
Fashion lawyer Sumaiya De’Mar
said South African copyright law
set out a range of creative works
that were protected.
“The courts are yet to establish
the application of such protection
for the design of a dress. But it
could be argued that the dress is a
‘work of craftsmanship’, which
falls under the act, in which case
the copyright would apply.”
IN HARMONY:
DJ Maphorisa,
Theo Kgosinkwe,
Nhlanhla Nciza and
Diamond Platnumz
at yesterday’s
launch at
Silverstar Casino
in Krugersdorp of
their collaborative
number,
‘Colors of Africa’
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Is this the
best festival
lineup ever?
IT IS a festival lineup that
could put all others to shame.
The organisers of Coachella
Valley Music and Arts Festival
are planning a second event in
October with a lineup that’s a
who’s who of rock music.
The three-night event, which
will take place between
October 7 and 9 at the Empire
Polo Field in Indio and is being
organised by an offshoot of
AEG Live, could boast the
following line-up:
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ý The Rolling Stones
ý Neil Young
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The Los Angeles Times
claims an announcement will
be made in the next two weeks.
However, a source close to
the project revealed: “It will be
their [the bands’] full stage
productions, with full sets.”
Elliot Roberts, Neil Young’s
manager, said: “It’s so special
in so many ways. You won’t get
a chance to see a bill like this,
perhaps ever again. It’s a show
I look forward to more than
any show in a long time.”
— © The Daily Telegraph
Sea change
in reality TV
Maf ikizolo in colourful African collaboration
AZIZZAR MOSUPI
A NEW single and a video by
South African duo Mafikizolo,
DJ Maphorisa and Tanzania’s
Diamond Platnumz is more than
a musical collaboration, it’s a
spectacle of African cultures.
Titled Colors of Africa, the song
celebrates the diversity of music
from different parts of the
continent.
The Swahili lyrics by Diamond
Platnumz are mixed with
Mafikizolo’s signature Zulu and
Sotho lingo over a catchy,
Afro-beat inspired tune by
DJ Maphorisa.
Maphorisa from Soshanguve is
a DJ and producer who recently
co-produced Canadian rapper
Drake’s latest single, One Dance,
featuring Nigeria’s Wizkid.
He has worked before with
Mafikizolo — Nhlanhla Nciza and
Theo Kgosinkwe — on their
smash-hit, Khona.
“We felt it was important to
celebrate Africa and black
excellence,” said Kgosinkwe.
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designers were used in the
styling of the video to further
celebrate home-grown talent.
“We made sure we used our
very own African designers [for
the video], which included Laduma
Ngxokolo of Maxhosa by Laduma,
Skorzch by Zano Sithetho and
Trevor Stuurman,” she said.
The Rolls-Royce musician, as
Platnumz is also known, said
working with Mafikizolo was
“very nice” and he was a staunch
fan of the pair.
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album was Reunited in 2013, said
their next album was “coming
soon” and would see them
continuing to experiment with an
Afro-centric sound.
“Over the years we’ve featured
other musicians, but with this
project we’re going to feature
more African producers,” said
Kgosinkwe.
Colors of Africa will be
launched tomorrow at the Taboo
club in Sandton and the artists
will perform live.
STRESSED out by a fast-paced
daily life and binge-watching
the latest hit TV shows?
Norway may have the answer
with its latest “slow TV”
instalment: watching the ebb
and flow of the sea, for 12
hours, without interruption.
Since 2009 Norwegian public
broadcaster NRK has been
experimenting with live, slowpaced programmes, variously
broadcasting a seven-hour
train journey across Norway, a
six-day trip by cruise ship from
south to north or how to knit,
starting with shearing a sheep.
The shows have been hits
with viewers in Norway, so its
latest idea is to live broadcast
the world’s strongest tidal
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Double rental costs R9m
Gauteng department has to cough up after lease bungle
OLEBOGENG MOLATLHWA
ALMOST R9-million will be
missing from the next budget of
the Gauteng department of
economic development following a
building lease bungle created by
the department’s entities.
The Standing Committee on
Public Accounts refused to grant
funding approval yesterday for
R8 993 000 arising from payments
on several leased buildings around
Johannesburg on behalf of the
department’s five enterprise
entities.
Scopa pointed out that the
department had a 20 818m2
building in the Johannesburg city
centre meant to accommodate
them under a single roof that is
unoccupied.
The bodies include the Gauteng
Growth and Development Agency,
Gauteng Enterprise Propeller,
Gauteng Gambling Board,
Gauteng Tourism Authority and
Gauteng Fashion Council.
Written responses from the
department to Scopa reveal that
the provincial department was
forced to make double payments
on the various buildings occupied
Business boost
for Ekurhuleni
UNEMPLOYED people in the City
of Ekurhuleni could have bright
futures as entrepreneurs, executive mayor Mondli Gungubele has
said.
Delivering his state of the city
address yesterday, Gungubele said
the township economy revitalisation programme would change the
face of local communities.
“Nothing would be more fulfilling
than seeing a small township
business growing to do business
globally as a result of our intervention,” said Gungubele.
In five years the revitalisation
programme had produced more
than 200 000 jobs, he said.
Gungubele said R10-million had
been set aside for the Khumalo
Street tourism node in Thokoza,
which is designed to stimulate
township tourism, economic development and job creation.
The node will have a food market,
heritage interpretation centre, flea
market, cycle-tour route, an arts
and crafts market, indigenous
games, and live traditional music
performances. — Neo Goba
by the entities after they refused to
move to the new premises.
“At the time of concluding the
lease (January 4 2010), agencies
were still located in different office
accommodation and continued
with such accommodation even
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move led to double
payments for their
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and Sello, son of
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after the lease had been concluded
and had effectively started.
“Their expressed reluctance to
move led to double payments for
their accommodation as rentals
continued in their old premises
while new lease payments
simultaneously kicked in,” the
department said in a written
response.
Scopa chairman Mbongeni
Radebe said: “The money will be
taken from [the department] to
pay for that wastage.”
The department’s website shows
that all but one of its entities — the
gambling board — occupies the
building.
In 2011, gambling board staff and
its board rejected instructions
from then MEC Qedani Mahlangu
to move to the building at 124 Main
Street.
According to the written
responses, the department was
forced to pay R6.1-million towards
rental on the new building as well
as R2.893-million for security,
municipal costs and furniture
removal.
The department said it could not
hold any official accountable and
no investigation was instituted.
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma and the
Mayor of Johannesburg, Parks Tau,
have honoured struggle icons and
other people who have contributed
to the country.
At an event held yesterday in
Randburg, Johannesburg ANC stalwart Andrew Mlangeni and Rivonia
trial lawyer Advocate George Bizos
were among those lionised.
Andrew Mlangeni was too ill to
attend an event at which he was
honoured with the Freedom of the
City of Johannesburg award, so Tau
and his delegation visited him in
hospital where they handed over the
award.
Mlangeni, who is also the chairman of the ANC integrity committee, was admitted to Netcare Sunninghill Hospital in Johannesburg
on Sunday last week. His son, Sello,
delivered his acceptance speech.
Said Sello: “[My father] thanked
the mayor for the award and for
taking the time to come and see him
in hospital.
“He really appreciated that. My
father is recovering very well. He is a
strong man.”
Sello could not say when his father
would be discharged.
In his acceptance speech, Bizos
said: “Thank you for the great honour you have bestowed upon me.”
Asked about the state of politics in
the country, Bizos said: “We are
going through a difficult period but I
am confident that solutions will be
found sooner or later.
“I have confidence in our constitution, our judiciary and that the
majority of South Africans want
peace and tranquillity.”
On April 28 Zuma will bestow the
2016 National Orders on both South
Africans and foreigners.
Former spin doctor Mac Maharaj
will receive the Order of Luthuli in
silver for his contribution to the
fight against apartheid.
Others who have been singled out
for their activism during the struggle, like Maqashu Leonard Mdingi,
and Peter Sello Motau, will receive
posthumous awards.
Helen Rees will receive an award
for her achievements in the field of
medical science and research. Marguerite Poland will be honoured for
her contribution in the studies of
indigenous languages, literature
and anthropology.
During the ceremony Zuma will
hand out the Order of Mendi for
Bravery, the Order of Ikhamanga,
the Order of the Baobab, the Order
of Luthuli, and the Order of the
Companions of OR Tambo.
Economy in safe hands, says Nene
FOR a man who has been at the
centre of the country’s fiscal
storms after he was
unceremoniously fired, former
finance minister Nhlanhla Nene
appeared upbeat about the
country’s financial future at the
Mangosuthu University of
Technology in Umlazi, KwaZuluNatal, yesterday.
Nene was honoured by the
university for his expertise and
contribution to the finance
industry in both the public and
private sector.
Asked if he was totally lost to
the public service, Nene chuckled
and said his going to the private
sector was now “private capture”,
in reference to his announcement
on Monday that he had joined
investment giant Allan Gray as a
non-executive director.
“Not lost at all,” he said. “I miss
working at Treasury and any
other place I have been a part of.”
Nene said he had full confidence
in the country’s ability to
maintain a strong financial path.
“We shouldn’t lose sight of the
resilience of our economy.
Resilience has been the key,” he
said, adding that there were
proper plans in place at the
Treasury.
“And we have the most capable
men and women to maintain
prudence and fiscal path,” he said.
When asked about his
relationship with President Jacob
Zuma, Nene said: “I have deep
respect for the president.
“He remains my president, the
president of the country and that
of the ANC.”
Nene’s sacking by Zuma on
December 9 last year triggered an
economic crisis in South Africa
that haemorrhaged an estimated
half a trillion rand in foreign and
local investment.
He emphasised the importance
of morality in business. — Nathi
Olifant
NEWS
Teenager
streamed
friend’s
rape live
A TEENAGER accused of
livestreaming the rape of her
17-year-old friend got caught
up in collecting “likes” on
social media, prosecutors said.
Marina Lonina, 18, was
charged with kidnapping, rape,
sexual battery and breaking
child pornography laws, the
same charges facing Raymond
Gates, 29, who allegedly
committed the assault.
Both have pleaded not guilty.
Sam Shamansky, Lonina’s
lawyer, said the pair met Gates
the day before the attack, when
he bought them vodka and
encouraged them to meet him.
They had been drinking at his
home when Gates allegedly
began to assault the victim.
Lonina used her phone to
broadcast a video live on the
Periscope app. Shamansky said
Lonina had tried “at various
times” to stop the attack.
Ron O’Brien, a county
prosecutor, said in court
Lonina started filming in the
hope of putting a stop to the
crime, but continued as more
users began to tune in.
“I have never seen a case
‘
Thursday April 21 | 2016
The Times
5
Sweet and sour of
dreaded sugar tax
KATHARINE CHILD
THERE will be 200 000 more obese
young South Africans by next year
— mostly young people — if a sugar
tax on soft drinks is not introduced,
according to dietary researchers at
Wits University.
The Priceless unit at the Wits
Centre of Public Health has
investigated the effects of raising
the price of soft drinks to deter
excessive consumption.
The unit’s research shows that
failure to institute a tax would
mean an increase in sales of soft
drinks by 2.4% a year.
Unit director Karen Hofman said
the beverage industry had admitted it was targeting the youngest
and poorest consumers. She said a
20% increase in the price of soft
drinks would reduce the number of
obese people by 220 000 in three
years.
In February Finance Minister
Pravin Gordhan announced drinks
with high sugar levels would be
taxed. These include fruit juice,
fizzy drinks, energy drinks, iced
teas and vitamin waters.
Beverage industry officials are
expected to meet Treasury officials
today to discuss their concerns
about the tax.
Spokesman for industry body
BevSA, Mapule Ncanywa, said:
“The industry is a valuable contributor to the growth of our economy and we are willing to pay our
fair share of taxes. What we are
against is a discriminatory tax and
that is why we welcome engagement with the Treasury.”
The industry has questioned why
producers of sweet snacks, chocolates and sugary breakfast cereals
‘
A can of Coke
a day increases
the risk of
diabetes by 26%
are not facing higher taxes.
Hofman said “liquid sugar” was
the biggest risk for diabetes as soda
was quickly absorbed and spiked
the body’s blood sugar fast, overworking the pancreas and liver.
Coke has eight teaspoons of sugar, Fanta Grape has 11 and energy
drinks have about nine.
“A can of Coke a day increases
the risk of diabetes by 26% and
being overweight by 27%,” said Hofman.
Children who drink a can of Coke
a day have a 55% higher chance of
being overweight.
A tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Mexico introduced in 2014
led to a 12% reduction in purchases
of the drinks a year later.
LOVE IN FULL BLOOM
It didn’t appear
as if she was
attempting to
help the victim
such as this where you would
actually livestream a sexual
assault,” he said.
“It didn’t appear she was
attempting to help the victim.
“She got caught up in the
likes,” he added. He said the
victim can be heard screaming
“no” and “stop”.
A friend of Lonina’s saw the
recording and contacted police.
Shamansky described his
client as a victim. He said at
one point she asked followers:
“What should I do now?”
“She’s a good kid,” said
Shamansky. “She’s the furthest
thing from a rapist … The
rapist was in court and it was
not my client. Technology has
moved us into an area that is
sometimes beyond belief,” he
said. — © The Daily Telegraph
Newlyweds pose in a flowerfield near De Keukenhof, also known as the Garden of Europe, in the Netherlands. This year's planting theme of the floral park
in Lisse is The Golden Age
Picture: REMKO DE WAAL/AFP PHOTO
Women back boss after ‘bitch switch’ remark
What’s your gender, sonny?
POPPY LOUW
PARENTS of children as young as
four enrolling at school in the
southern English town of Brighton
are being asked to choose the gender “they most identify with”, the
local council said yesterday.
“Parents and carers are asked to
state their child’s gender as male or
female,” said Brighton & Hove City
Council’s lead member for equalities, Emma Daniel.
“For the vast majority of families,
this is very straightforward. We
have inserted the additional text
THE women in top management at
Cell C have come out in full support of CEO Jose Dos Santos following a public outcry over comments he made about women having a “bitch switch”.
Dos Santos, during an interview
on Cliff Central on Tuesday, said
women had a high tolerance for
dealing with workplace issues.
He added that he hoped a woman
would become his successor when
he stepped down from Cell C.
“They have a different way of
managing; they have a different
way of engaging in meetings. It
creates a different dynamic.
“If I can use the term on your
radio station, you know women do
have a bitch switch, and boy if you
see two women fighting, it is worse
than two men,” said Dos Santos.
Though they agreed that their
CEO’s choice of words was “not
appropriate”, the women yesterday said what he had done for
every Cell C employee, particularly women, “far outweighed” his
comments.
“We believe in ourselves collectively as a team of highly
skilled and highly capable women
and we are rightly recognised as
such in this company.
“What we know is that we
have all had far more opportunities to shine and be our best
under his leadership. If this was
not the case, we would not be
here,” the women said.
about gender identity in response
to calls to show an inclusive
approach,” she added.
The pupil registration form,
which is required for all children
entering a new school, can be left
blank if a child has “another gender
identity”.
Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen called the form “ridiculous”,
telling
The
Sun
newspaper
“Schools should be teaching kids to
read and write, not prompting them
to consider gender swaps.” — AFP
8 The Times Thursday April 21 | 2016
NEWS
SA’s climate-change ‘hot air’
NIVASHNI NAIR
Committed to saving planet and building power stations
SOUTH Africa, which is among the
worst 20 greenhouse-gas emitters
globally, will be merely blowing hot
air when it joins 140 other countries
to sign a landmark agreement to
limit climate change on Earth Day
tomorrow.
That’s according to local environmentalists
who
yesterday
added their voices to widespread
criticism of the signing of the UN’s
landmark Paris Agreement, drafted in the French capital last year.
The agreement is meant to limit the
increase in global temperatures
attributable to climate-change to
below 2C.
Environmentalists believe the
signing would bring governments
one step closer to ratifying a
“meaningless” agreement.
“Environmental justice” organisation groundWork said the agreement — which requires its signatories to keep inventories of their
greenhouse-gas emissions, and
submit climate action plans and
update them every five years —
was a sham.
Critics warn that emission targets are too low, that the rate of
implementation of corrective measures is too slow, that there are no
specific penalties for non-compliance and there is no start date.
Bobby Peek, a groundWork
director, said the South African
government planned to sign the
agreement while pushing ahead
with the development of coal-based
energy generation, fracking, offshore gas exploitation and building
nuclear power stations.
“This is completely incompatible
with trying to stop climate
change.”
Centre for Environmental Rights
attorney Nicole Löser said government decisions on energy and mining, and its international commitments and national climate-change
policy, were largely incompatible.
She said that although the Paris
agreement failed to provide strict
or enforceable obligations for countering global warming, South
Africa’s accession to the Paris
Agreement could lead to the
stricter regulation of greenhouse-
‘
It could set us on
a downward spiral
of poverty,
unemployment
and inequality
gas emissions and other climate
change factors in this country.
In response to the criticism,
Environmental Affairs Department
spokesman Albi Modise said the
agreement was important for South
Africa.
“If not addressed, long-term climate change will not only undermine the development gains South
Africa has made but will, potentially
set us on a downward spiral of
increasing poverty, unemployment
and inequality,” he said.
“Over 75% of South Africa’s
[greenhouse gas] emissions come
from the energy sector, primarily
electricity generation and the combustion of fuels in the transport and
industrial sectors.”
Wealthy
seek out
SA dorps
SHAUN SMILLIE
VOICES UNHEARD: Daisy Goldstein, 90, who fled Europe before the Holocaust, outside the Cape Town High Court, where her daughter, Sarah, and other
parties are challenging the SA Jewish Board of Deputies for prohibiting women from singing at a memorial ceremony
Picture: ESA ALEXANDER
Women singers not kosher at memorial
KAREN GWEE
IT WILL be progressives versus
the orthodox in the Cape Town
Equality Court in a row over Jewish women singing at an annual
Holocaust memorial service.
Two Jews and a progressive
Jewish organisation are taking
the Cape Council of the SA Jewish
Board of Deputies to court in an
attempt to overturn the decadeold ban.
“In a secular ceremony commemorating the victims of the
Holocaust — the victims of discrimination — it’s repugnant to
pander to people who believe that
women are an unequal or lesser
NEWS publishers have such a
fraught relationship with the people who comment on their articles
that many websites have been
removing the comments section
altogether. Michael Robertson
thinks he has a better idea: Start
charging the people who hang out
there.
species,” plaintiff Gilad Stern told
The Times yesterday.
The Board of Deputies is said to
have begun excluding female
singers from the Holocaust ceremony and other communal
events in 2005 when an Orthodox
chief rabbi walked off a stage in
protest at a schoolgirl performing
a memorial song.
“They favour rabbis who find
women’s voices obscene,” said
Stern, referring to Orthodox Jews
who follow the Talmudic dictum
kol isha, which means “a woman’s
voice is lewdness”.
Stern, his sister-in-law Sarah
Goldstein, and the SA Centre for
Religious Equality and Diversity
applied to the Equality Court on
April 1 for an order that would
prohibit the Board of Deputies
from barring women singers.
“It’s about basic human rights
… the basic value of women —
they are equal,” said Stern’s sister-in-law and fellow plaintiff,
‘
It is repugnant to
pander to people
who see women
as inferior
Sarah Goldstein, whose mother
Daisy, 90, fled Europe before the
Holocaust. They hope the case
will be heard ahead of the Holocaust ceremony at Pinelands
Cemetery on May 5.
The Board of Deputies will defend the action, it said yesterday.
“We are faced with difficulty in
upholding gender equity and also
providing a forum where the
needs of the Orthodox are met,”
Cape board executive director
Daniel Levitt said.
The Board of Deputies said it
planned to hold a colloquium to
“air diverse points of view that
will guide the board in terms of
future ceremonies”.
Readers must put money where mouths are
Robertson, an entrepreneur in
San Diego best known for founding
MP3.com and fighting a long legal
battle with the record industry,
argues that the prospect of a new
revenue stream will convince a
struggling industry to reconsider
the value of comments. A self-proclaimed libertarian, he believes his
company, SolidOpinion.com, can
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One big news company is already
THEY have become the
hangouts of South Africa’s
rich — the small towns that
are collecting dollar
millionaires faster than
anywhere else in the
country.
Paarl, Stellenbosch,
Franschhoek and towns
along the Cape Garden
Route have seen
phenomenal growth in the
number of dollar
millionaires living there.
The number of
millionaires in Paarl,
Franschhoek and
Stellenbosch grew by 38%
from 2007 to 2015, according
to a survey by New Wealth
Management, which tracks
the movement of high-networth individuals.
While these small towns
have seen spikes in the
number of wealthy
residents, Johannesburg
and Cape Town have
experienced declines.
Interestingly, Pretoria has
seen an increase because of
its growing number of
residential estates.
“What you are seeing in
these small towns are
retirees, and people from
other countries,” explained
the research head of the
study, Andrew Amoils.
Most of them are from
Europe and Asia, he added.
The number of South
African millionaires has
declined since the 2008
financial crisis, the research
also found. However, the
study did discover that an
increasing number of
African millionaires had
bought property and moved
to South Africa.
Amoils estimated that
more than 1 500 millionaires
from countries such as
Nigeria, Angola and Ghana
had moved here since 2007.
Over the next decade,
10 000 more African
millionaires will make South
Africa their home, he said.
on board. Tribune Publishing,
which owns the Chicago Tribune
and the Los Angeles Times, turned
on SolidOpinion’s software over the
weekend.
Readers can earn points that
allow them to make comments, but
the newspaper also sells 800 points
for $10 (R142). — Bloomberg
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The smart money is on
junk, say economists
SOUTH Africa’s sovereign credit
rating will probably be cut to junk
status this year‚ at least by Standard & Poor’s‚ amid concerns the
government could fail to reach its
budget targets‚ a poll found yesterday.
All but one of the 16 economists
surveyed by Reuters expect SA to
lose its investment grade status
this year‚ further hitting markets
that have already reacted to
expectations of a downgrade.
“A downgrade has been somewhat priced in. Government bond
yields are in line with junk status
already‚” said Rajiev Rajkumar‚
analyst at 4CAST in London.
“Nevertheless‚ a downgrade
would trigger some forced selling
by institutional investors as many
have a mandate to only hold
investment-grade bonds.”
Ten economists said a cut to
junk‚ which would put South
Africa on a par with peer Brazil‚
would be negative for markets‚ and
six said it would be very negative.
Economists accurately predicted Brazil’s downgrades in two similar Reuters polls last year.
The majority of analysts agreed
S&P‚ which, like fellow agency
Fitch Ratings, rates SA just one
notch above junk‚ was most likely
to cut. Moody’s has it two notches
above junk but on review for a
downgrade.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has pledged to narrow the
budget deficit to 2.4% of gross domestic product by 2018-2019.
Political concerns and policy uncertainty are constraining growth‚
which is putting budget targets
under threat‚ Rand Merchant
Bank economist Carmen Nel said.
South African growth has
slowed due to lower prices for its
commodity exports and powergenerating constraints. The economy is expected to grow 0.7% this
year. Economists said a credit rating downgrade would hurt the
poor, who depended on social welfare the most‚ with about a quarter
of the labour force out of work.
“A downgrade to junk will
increase the country’s interest
burden on servicing debt‚ taking
money away from where it is needed — the social and welfare
dependency scheme‚” said Colen
Garrow‚ economist at Lefika
‘
A credit rating
downgrade
would hurt
the poor
Securities.
However‚ emerging market risk
sentiment has improved‚ taking
the rand with it.
A Reuters poll of global foreign
exchange strategists conducted
this month showed that currencies
were not likely to sink to new lows‚
mainly because expectations for
US interest rate hikes have been
scaled back.
Still‚ Rand Merchant Bank’s Nel
said there was likely to be renewed
downward pressure on the rand
and asset prices leading up to or
around the event‚ particularly given the recent appreciation in asset
prices that has partly priced out
some of the ratings-related risk.
The rand has recovered from
massive selling pressure caused
by President Jacob Zuma’s decision to sack finance minister
Nhlanhla Nene in December‚
replacing him with little-known
Desmond van Rooyen. — Reuters
Trump 2.0:
How Donald
got his
mojo back
NOT SO very long ago, things
were going so badly for Donald
Trump that a new theory started
doing the rounds: Could he be
sabotaging his own run for the
White House?
He spoke out in defence of his
campaign manager when he was
charged with assault. He stumbled over abortion, showing a
woeful ignorance of the debate on
reproductive rights and Republican values. And he managed to
muddle the date of the worst terrorist attacks on US soil with the
chain of 7-11 convenience stores.
Perhaps he was working on an
exit strategy, hastening a return
to his day job of being a
billionaire?
How different it looks now.
That he would win the Republican primary in his home state
was never in doubt. New York City
is well used to big egos and loud
mouths. It’s where Ted Cruz sabotaged his own chances by using
the term “New York values” as a
term of abuse.
But Trump’s dramatic margin
of victory in the state — by almost
35 percentage points — will go
some way to restoring momentum
to a faltering campaign and
shoring up his lead in the delegate
count.
But momentum is generally
overrated in politics. Few voters
mark their X based on a perception
of motion. This is not a turning
point or a decisive moment.
Barring a miracle, Trump will
not be able to settle things before
INFLATION slowed for the first
time in seven months in March and
the measure stripping out fuel and
food costs rose less than forecast,
giving the Reserve Bank room to
pause its interest-rate hiking cycle.
Inflation fell to 6.3% from 7% a
month earlier, Statistics SA said
yesterday. The median of 22
economists’ estimates compiled by
Bloomberg was 6.4%. Prices rose
0.8% in the month.
Core inflation, which excludes
food, non-alcoholic beverages,
gasoline and electricity costs,
slowed to 5.4% in March, the lowest
rate since December and less than
the 5.8% projected.
The worst drought in more than a
century has driven up food costs
and added to pressure on consumer
prices caused by the rand’s 25% fall
against the dollar last year.
While the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee hiked its
benchmark repurchase rate four
times since July to 7% and has said
inflation will only return to its
3%-6% target range in the last quarter of 2017, slower price growth
could allow it to pause its hiking
cycle.
“They have done a whole percentage point in three meetings
and that is quite significant given
the dismal state of the economy,”
Elize Kruger, an economist at
KADD Capital, said yesterday.
“I think there could be enough
reasons for them to just pause.”
— Bloomberg
Mitsubishi adds fuel
to Volkswagen fire
COMBING OUT FIGHTING: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump with his wife Melania at the New
York presidential primary night rally in Manhattan
Picture: SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS
the Republican National Convention in July. He will have the most
delegates but not enough for a
majority before the horse trading
begins.
Instead it signals that he has got
his mojo back. A shake-up behind
the scenes is starting to deliver.
Things are getting serious.
First there are the hirings. Last
month Trump brought in Paul
Manafort, a famously discreet
Republican operative, to lead the
effort to wrangle delegates at the
convention.
That remains the biggest weakness in Trump’s game against
rivals who have a longer history in
the party and who are better
acquainted with the arcane rules
of the nomination process.
Manafort knows the dark arts.
He is credited with helping
Vladimir Putin’s ally, Viktor
Yanukovych, win the Ukrainian
election in 2010, reportedly
advising his client to ditch the
bouffant hairstyle that brought to
mind Soviet apparatchiks and
helping soften the pro-Russian
speeches that had proved a handicap in the past.
At the same time, a grown-up
has taken over Trump’s phone.
His Twitter feed — once filled
with abuse for assorted targets —
has turned vanilla. It is now a list
of thank-yous, forthcoming media
appearances
and
campaign
videos. In Tuesday’s victory
speech, Trump referred not to
Lyin’ Ted but to Senator Cruz. A
big step up in civility.
Trump 2.0 might not be enough
to clinch the nomination without a
long, hot summer of bitter politicking. But it does suggest that
Trump might now know what he
is doing.
He has identified his weaknesses and brought people in to get the
job done — perhaps the first presidential thing he has done.
— © The Daily Telegraph
HILLARY TAKES IT AWAY FROM BERNIE
FORMER secretary of state
Hillary Clinton won a sweeping
victory in the New York primary
yesterday, bolstering her bid for
the Democratic nomination for
the White House.
It was the most decisive New
York primary in decades and
leaves self-styled democratic
socialist Bernie Sanders with a
tough decision on how to
proceed as Clinton extends her
Inf lation
falls faster
than
expected
overwhelming lead.
Both Clinton and Donald
Trump will now look to replicate
their wins in Connecticut,
Delaware, Maryland,
Pennsylvania and Rhode Island,
which hold primaries on April
26, as they edge closer towards a
general election in November.
Clinton relished the victory to
stall momentum generated by
Sanders, who won seven of the
eight previous nominating
contests.
“Thank you, New York,” she
said to chants of “Hillary,
Hillary, Hillary” from jubilant
supporters in a Manhattan
hotel, where she walked on
stage with husband Bill and
pregnant daughter Chelsea.
“Today you proved once again
there’s no place like home,” said
Clinton, 68, looking to make
history as the first woman
president of the US.
“The race for the Democratic
nomination is in the home
stretch and victory is in sight.”
The former first lady and New
York senator won 57.9% of the
vote to 42.1 for Sanders, CNN
said. Clinton now leads with
1 930 delegates compared to
1 223 for Sanders, according to
CNN. — AFP
MITSUBISHI has admitted to
manipulating test data in 625 000
vehicles to improve fuel-economy
claims.
The affected models include
those supplied to Nissan, which
discovered the manipulation.
Mitsubishi Motors’ shares fell
the most in more than a decade in
Tokyo trading, plunging 15% after
it said it improperly handled fuel
economy tests.
The admission will intensify
scrutiny of the car-making
industry after Volkswagen’s
admission last year that it rigged
diesel models with software to
meet US emissions standards.
Volkswagen investigators are
struggling to make headway
through data secured from more
than 1 500 laptops and other
devices and probably won’t have a
complete report on the emissions
cheating by the due date at the end
of the month. — Bloomberg
Gupta employees
plead with banks
AN OPEN letter by employees of
the Gupta family’s Oakbay
company yesterday appealed to
the country’s big four banks to
restore ties with the firm‚ for fear
of job losses.
The letter‚ titled “Please save
our jobs”‚ is marked for the
attention of CEOs Maria Ramos of
Absa‚ Jacques Celliers of FNB‚ Ben
Kruger of Standard Bank and
Michael Brown of Nedbank.
The letter states that the
employees do not care if the
allegations that the Guptas have
unduly influenced government
policy are true, stating: “We have
not captured the state.”
It added: “All we care about is
providing for our families. If you
do not open Oakbay’s bank
accounts we cannot be paid.”
— TMG Digital
YOUR WORLD IN 5 MINUTES
Thursday April 21 | 2016
URBAN INFERNO: Heat haze on a highway in
Chandigarh, India. The government says the heat
wave has caused 130 deaths
Picture: AJAY VERMA/REUTERS
11
Picture: EPA
DYE HARDS: Workers preparing fabrics they have dyed for sale in Old Cairo. Fabric dying in Egypt dates back millennia
HIGH JINKS: Salthill beach, in Galway, Ireland. The
diving tower at Blackrock is a magnet for brave
souls who want to test their mettle against the
Atlantic
Picture: CLODAGH KILCOYNE/REUTERS
The Times
FLOATING NOTES: A Kashmiri folk dancer
performing during the Shikara boats festival in
Srinagar, the summer capital of Indianadministered Kashmir Picture: GETTY IMAGES
PORCELAIN BABY: A man veils his daughter
from the sun on a hot day in a popular park in
Beijing, China
Picture: HOW HWEE YOUNG/EPA
LIBYA
ITALY
NORWAY
BRAZIL
EGYPT
UN fears 500 dead in
Med shipwreck
France’s ‘fish soup’
pizza is best in world
Mass killer Breivik’s
human rights violated
Rousseff heads to UN
over impeachment
‘Adulterous’ comments:
man’s sentence cut
THE UN refugee agency said
yesterday it feared about 500
migrants from Africa had drowned
in the Mediterranean, in what
could be one of the worst tragedies
since the migrant crisis started.
Survivors, who were spotted
drifting at sea before being picked
up by a passing merchant ship on
April 16, told the UNHCR many
migrants drowned when human
traffickers tried to transfer people
to an overcrowded vessel
somewhere between Libya and
Italy.
The latest reported deaths come
as Europe struggles to find a way
of stemming the flow of people
fleeing war, poverty and
persecution in what has become
the continent’s worst migrant
crisis since World War 2. — AFP
WOULD you eat a fish soup pizza?
A Frenchman has been crowned
the best pizza-maker in the world
after his bouillabaisse pizza won
the World Pizza Championships in
Parma.
The unusual dish beat the
Italians in an unprecedented turn
of events.
Ludovic Bicchierai, who works at
the Pizzeria La Gusto near
Marseilles, won the award late last
week after judges were impressed
by his unconventional seafood
pizza.
What toppings would you find on
a fish soup pizza? The winning
chef decided to put tomatoes,
bream carpaccio, mozzarella,
courgette flowers, prawns and
Tabasco sauce on top of his dish.
— © The Daily Telegraph
MASS killer Anders Behring
Breivik’s human rights were
violated when he was kept in
isolation in prison after being
sentenced for killing 77 people in
twin attacks in 2011, a Norwegian
court ruled yesterday.
Breivik took Norwegian
authorities to court in March,
accusing them of exposing him to
inhuman, degrading treatment or
punishment in breach of the
European Convention on Human
Rights.
“The prohibition of inhuman and
degrading treatment represents a
fundamental value in a democratic
society. This applies no matter
what — also in the treatment of
terrorists and killers,” Judge Helen
Andenaes Sekulic said in her
ruling. — Reuters
BELEAGUERED Brazilian
President Dilma Rousseff has
changed her plans and will attend
a UN event tomorrow in New York
to make her case against an
impeachment process that could
remove her from office within
weeks, her office said.
Rousseff lost a crucial vote in the
lower house of Congress on
Sunday and faces impeachment by
the Senate on charges of breaking
budget laws. She maintains the
charges are groundless and
trumped up to oust her and end 13
years of rule by her leftist
Workers’ Party.
Two presidential aides said she
would use her visit to defend
herself against an impeachment
that she has called a “coup d’état
without weapons”. — Reuters
A CAIRO court yesterday reduced
to three months a three-year
sentence for a man imprisoned for
saying many women in Egypt are
adulterous, a judicial official said.
The court decision came a month
after Taimour Subki was sent to
jail for making the claim in a
television interview, which
sparked an uproar on social media.
A misdemeanour court had
convicted him of spreading “false
news that disturbs the public
peace”.
“Many women cheat on their
husbands … I can say that 30% of
women are ready to be deviant,”
Subki said on television, pointing
to the southern cities of “Asyut,
Minya, Sohag, Qena, Luxor and
Aswan”. He said his remarks had
been taken out of context. — AFP
12 The Times Thursday April 21 | 2016
OPINIONANDLETTERS
Mining Charter
blunder drives us
closer to ‘junk’
T
HE rating agencies and economists
have made it plain that, in order to
avoid a potentially devastating
downgrade of its sovereign credit
rating within months, South Africa urgently
needs to do several things.
The government must demonstrate that it is
capable of meeting the Budget targets outlined
by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.
It must show real progress in overhauling
and turning around cash-guzzling state-owned
enterprises, including South African Airways.
Crucially, it must create policy certainty to
encourage investment and kick-start economic
growth, which has slowed to just over 0.5%.
This means redrafting the anti-business
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Development Amendment Bill, slashing red
tape stifling business,
creating incentives for
Draw in
new investment and
carrying out labour
investment
reforms.
In addition, the
before
government needs to
dividing up
demonstrate that the
current political turmoil
the pie
around President Jacob
Zuma is not distracting it
from carrying out these urgent reforms,
This is a tall order, particularly when one
considers that Standard & Poor’s, which takes
the dimmest view of South Africa’s prospects
and rates the country’s debt at one notch above
sub-investment grade, or “junk”, is expected to
deliver its assessment in June.
Given the pressure on Pretoria, it defies
belief that Mineral Resources Minister
Mosebenzi Zwane has unilaterally released a
revised draft of the Mining Charter containing
several unexpected changes. His department is
also sticking to a rigid interpretation of the
provision that 26% of ownership of mining
firms must remain in black hands, even when
the beneficiaries sell their stake, that has been
fiercely contested by the Chamber of Mines.
Zwane has defended his actions, saying the
release of the charter is merely aimed at
encouraging “robust debate”.
BEE is essential in mining, and the economy
generally, but surely in the current climate the
aim should be first to attract investment before
attempting to keep dividing the diminishing pie.
WHAT’S TRENDING AT
http://timeslive.co.za
NEWS: Protesting Rhodes
University students held
At least three protesters
have been arrested at
Rhodes University for
public violence. They were
protesting over a list of
alleged rapists that was
circulated on social media.
CELEBS: Actress flaunts
her booty in saucy video
Actress Phindile Gwala has
decided to return to dance
lessons. And the sexy video
she posted is filled with
enough bum to last you the
whole of today.
BUSINESS: SA’s credit
rating may be cut to junk
The credit rating may be
cut to junk status this year,
at least by Standard &
Poor’s, amid concerns that
government could fail to
reach its budget targets.
Shark DDT
claims beyond
plausibility
I REFER to the sensational
headline “DDT found in great
whites” by Tanya Farber in
The Times.
It is pure sensationalism at
its best to suggest that the
DDT applied in South Africa’s
anti-malaria programme is
responsible for the DDT found
in great white sharks.
If Tanya understood how the
DDT is applied in the
Department of Health’s
malaria control programme,
she would realise that it is
almost impossible for any of
that DDT to reach the sea.
In addition, there is no
indication of what “high levels
of DDT” are. It has not been
proved to be carcinogenic in
humans. It was banned
because of being persistent
and it accumulates. There is no
record of it being responsible
for a human death when used
as recommended.
The fact that DDT has been
found in this species illustrates
the stability of DDT. The
source in this shark is other
than the programme.
— Dr Jim Findlay, Parklands
All grown up, nowhere to go
THE picture that emerges
from the statistician-general’s
report (“Deadly youth
cocktail”, April 19) is deeply
disturbing for a number of
reasons.
One of the main problems is
that we will miss out on the
so-called youth dividend,
when young adults move into
the labour market and
gradually take over from the
older generation. It usually
leads to accelerated economic
growth. Unfortunately, in our
society many youths remain
undereducated, underskilled
and unemployed.
As a result, many youths are
frustrated and angry. Some
turn to crime.
That dire picture is one that
we at Girls and Boys Town can
attest to. Previously
residential care to a few
youths in need was the bulk of
our focus. Now it is to take
services and support into
families and communities
because not every youth in
need can be accommodated in
a residential facility. We are
also aware that strengthening
families and communities will
have a broader and more
sustained benefit.
Our ongoing research of
youth leaving care speaks of
their fear and reluctance to
try to make it on their own —
and fears of unemployment
and poor access to post-school
education top the list of
concerns.
It is necessary to reexamine strategies and use of
resources. We must find
means of reducing duplication
and stop agencies from
routinely passing the buck.
Let us work together with
unified intent. Our children
will be grateful. — Lee Loynes,
CEO, Girls & Boys Town
Our children must be safe at university
AS PARENTS we all want the
best for our children. We
would like them to get the
best possible education to
secure rewarding jobs. We
show this by sending them to
universities and colleges, but
have we ever asked ourselves
how safe these institutions
are?
I’m asking this in the light
of the rape accusations and
allegations at Rhodes
University.
Institutions of higher
learning should be a home
for students away from their
families and safety should be
the primary priority for
management.
This is not the first
university from which such
reports have emerged and
parents have reason to
worry.
The punishment must be
harsh for those guilty of sex
crimes at universities.
Universities should not
make parents regret they
sent their children to study
there.
We pay huge amounts for
tuition and accommodation,
and want our sisters and
brothers and children to be
safe.
To all the university
officials, please give our
students education and
safety, that’s all we request.
— Melato Mphahlele, Zebediela
SMS COMMENTS
On ‘The body politic’:
ý NO MERCY must be shown to
rapists on campuses. Female
students need to be protected.
— Baba Saloojee
On ‘East London dries
up’:
ý THE water shutdown in Buffalo
City is the fault of the ANC city
council, who prefer dancing,
luxury cars and overseas trips to
running a metro efficiently.
— Nathan Cheiman
On ‘‘SA is not all
doom, gloom’’:
ý WE HAVE a good story to tell?
The post office is bankrupt. SAA is
a never-ending money pit,
education is poor, we can’t
complain about service delivery
because there isn’t any, the country
is run by criminals, and then there
is Prasa, Eskom, the shocking state
of healthcare facilities, the murder
rate, rape out of control, the
government doing nothing to
protect our food source (farmers),
violent protests and strikes, fraud
and corruption, our president’s
dismal performance, and the list
goes on. — Sue Potgieter
On ‘Dumb and
dumber’:
ý GAUTENG education MEC
Panyaza Lesufi — another
arrogant taxpayers’ nightmare
being paid far more than he is
worth. Using the Gauteng
Education Department as a
guinea pig, how stupid can you
be? Then, of course, the inevitable
escape card — racism. — Tony
Is a downgrade to
‘junk’ inevitable?:
ý I DON'T know why we are
surprised that a downgrade is
imminent. Zupta, EFF, student
vandalism, riots, free education
marches, our president squandering taxpayers’ money, BEE, crime,
mines closing and our president
can't read simple numbers written
on paper. I wouldn't want to
invest either. — Kannie Glonie
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Thursday April 21 | 2016
The Times
13
Damned by the maths
The statistician-general’s report says our youth are doomed. There’s only one way to fix this . . .
P
ALI Lehohla is not a man
given to exaggeration. The
nation’s statisticiangeneral lives in a subterranean world where smart
people churn out large volumes of
data, emerging from time to time
with a report on every conceivable
subject, from housing to
unemployment to education,
before disappearing again into the
vast underworld of officially
collected numbers. Except when
Mr Lehohla emerged from the
depths this week and the humble,
soft-spoken statistician-general
released a “Social Profile of Youth”
report that must have sent chills
down the spines of the most
optimistic of citizens.
Parents, he said, commenting on
the development of youth between
2009 and 2014, are “better
equipped” than their children. In
that simple statement he
devastated the South African
narrative of consistent progress.
Since 1994 politicians have sold us
the lie that education and training
were continually improving. More
children go to school, more pupils
pass Grade 12, more young people
go to university, and more
graduates get jobs. This policy
narrative is seductive … after all,
Rome was not built in one day;
given more time, South Africa gets
better as we move away from
apartheid because of well-meaning
policies and well-intended
politicians. That is why we pounce
on pundits who claim things were
better under apartheid; things
were not better in the past, of
course, but the post-apartheid
redemption narrative was at stake.
No more. Black youth, in
particular, are less equipped with
education and skills to get jobs
than a previous generation and,
even when they have formal
qualifications, are less likely to
find productive employment than
lighter-skinned graduates. There
are all kinds of problems here.
More young people without
education or jobs. Sustained racial
inequality among black and white
youth when it comes to degrees
and work. Growing numbers of
CAREY OPPENHEIM
AS PARENTS we try not to row in
front of our children.
Instinctively, we know they find it
hard to cope when we’re at odds
with one another, and they’re
disturbed if our arguments
become persistent or hostile. This
is plain common sense.
But there’s some important
new information that all parents
need to be aware of. It was
published in a new report by the
Early Intervention Foundation,
where I am CE, along with the
University of Sussex.
Its findings? Simply: that
unresolved conflict between
parents has a potent influence on
children’s early development.
This is true whether the
parents are together or apart.
Having disagreements is
normal, of course. What does the
harm is the “unresolved” part.
Children need to know that
arguments can be settled,
BACK TO BASICS: To avoid disaster, the entire schooling system must be reformed and the primary school system must be rebuilt so that pupils gain real
competence in literacy and numeracy
Picture: ALON SKUY
black African and coloured youth
not finishing school and not
completing university.
It is time to roll out familiar
South African clichés such as
“ticking time-bombs”. But what
lies behind these scary numbers?
First, that going to school is not
enough. A quality education
matters and completing
a degree matters more. You are
much more likely to get a
job and earn good money if you
have a degree compared to a
matric certificate, and heaven
help you if you don’t even have
that. Certification matters,
but so does colour. Graduates from
the same university are more
likely to get jobs depending on
their race, the only possible
conclusion being institutionalised
discrimination.
Where does this leave the
country? The statistician-general
puts it best: “a cocktail of
disasters”, a very bleak future for
black youth. Remember those
disturbing pictures seen regularly
in the media of black men captured
by police and spread face-down
across the ground with hands
cuffed behind their backs? Now
you know how we got into this sad
position. Now you should know
also where all this enormous
frustration comes from among
youth in communities and on
campuses. It is the accumulation of
social deficits (education, training,
skills, and jobs) that pushes the
horizon way beyond black African
and coloured youth, in particular,
that devastates hope for this
demographic.
“We used to absorb these
hardships during the struggle,”
said a seasoned activist as he
wondered why today’s youth turns
violent so easily. It’s simple
actually — the previous generation
fought for an end to apartheid and,
in consequence, a new country
that was expected to end our
misery. On the other hand, this
current generation came into the
new South Africa on a promise
that is maddeningly elusive.
So what’s the solution? The
statistician-general’s
recommendation is surprisingly
flat, unoriginal and grammatically
clumsy: “Create an enabling
‘
Black youth are less
equipped with
education and skills
to get jobs than a
previous generation
Here’s how to mess your kids up
allowing life to move on.
Ongoing conflict between
parents can affect children’s
mental health, the development of
their social and emotional skills,
academic attainment — and can
affect their ability to form
relationships.
It can also damage their
physical health, lasting through
their adult lives and into the next
generation. And it starts early.
Babies as young as six months
show higher physiological
symptoms of distress, such as an
elevated heart rate, in response to
overt exchanges between parents.
But children of all ages can be
affected by destructive interparental conflict outwardly
through high levels of aggression,
hostility and violence, and
inwardly through low self-esteem,
anxiety, depression and, in
extreme cases, suicidal feelings.
Much of the focus of early
intervention has been on the
relationship between the parents
— usually the mother and child.
But this report suggests that it’s
actually the quality of the interparental relationship that has a
‘
Children need
to know that
arguments can
be settled
significant influence on children’s
long-term psychological outcomes
and the quality of parenting they
receive.
It’s a critical missing piece of
the jigsaw.
We may kid ourselves that our
children don’t notice rows, but the
reality is they’re highly
perceptive and attuned to how
their parents relate to each other.
How children perceive their
parents’ level of conflict
determines how they expect their
parents to behave towards them
and this, in turn, can lead to
psychological distress.
What’s fascinating is that
conflict between parents has
more of an impact on the
relationship between a father and
child than a mother.
As a dad, if you’re having
frequent difficulties in your
relationship, this is more likely to
filter into how you relate to and
parent your offspring.
Mums seem to be better at
insulating their children from this
spill-over effect.
This dynamic is important for
thinking about the best ways of
supporting families and children
environment that will propel
young people to consider
education as the best tool to
poverty alleviation.” Yawn. We
know that. But the answer is not
reopening teacher education
colleges, for example, for that will
simply warehouse young black
students while hoping for a jobgenerating economy.
No, the way out of this
precarious future is to
comprehensively fund quality
preschool education, rebuild the
primary school system so that
pupils gain real competence in
literacy and numeracy, retain
especially boys in a high-quality
high school education, and then
ensure that quality passes bring
students into universities and
technical colleges so that they get
degrees and diplomas that land
them real jobs in a growing
economy. If this chain is weak at
any point along the line, good night
South Africa.
to address these issues.
Policy and services need to
consider the couple relationship
— together or apart — as well as
the parent-child relationship.
It also needs to address fathers
as well as mothers.
Policy makers and
commissioners should consider
support for both the couple and
the parenting relationship. Just
targeting the parent-child
relationship in the context of
ongoing parental conflict does not
lead to sustained positive
outcomes for children.
We need more emphasis on
teaching children and young
people ways of managing conflict
to better prepare them for life
ahead.
Most parents desperately want
the best for their kids. We must
put families at the heart of how
we organise services and give
parents the confidence to seek
help if they need it. — © The
Daily Telegraph
14 The Times Thursday April 21 | 2016
STYLIN’ IT
TREVOR STUURMAN
Home is where the hat is
Making hats that really fit involves putting different heads together, writes Rea Khoabane
FROM being a blogger, to a photographer
and a stylist, one of South Africa’s most
prominent digital trendsetters Trevor
Stuurman is now a hat designer.
He said he started this venture because
every time his fans would see him in the
streets, they would ask him when he was
going to start designing hats.
“Design has always been in me and it was
just a matter of listening to my followers and
giving them something designed by me,” he
said.
As a creative, Stuurman said he wants his
work to live everywhere and that comes
with him exploring the industry.
His personal style, which is heavily
influenced by prints, is usually finished off
by one of his signature Simon and Mary
hats. The local hat producers also
manufacture his new hat range. “I chose to
work with them because of the quality of the
brand,” he says.
The designer’s personal hat style has
evolved over the years. He has been seen
rocking 1950s-style military hats
reminiscent of the Russian military, as well
as the Muslim topi-inspired style.
In collaboration with artist Nelson
Makamo, the collection is titled “Home Is
Where the Art Is” and consists of 10 hats
that come in fedora and bowler styles.
Makamo’s first collaboration with a
fashion designer was in 2014 with Ole
Ledimo of House of Ole on his
Autumn/Winter15 collection. There he
explored acrylic paint on suit fabrics.
Known for painting children’s faces,
Makamo’s art work is made of a number of
‘
Design has always
been in me and it was
just a matter of
listening to my
followers and giving
them something
techniques such as media-watercolour, pen
and ink, monotype, silkscreen, charcoal
drawing and painting (oil).
On the “Home Is Where the Art Is” hat
collection with Stuurman, Makamo has
painted his hand-print, his signature and his
iconic trademark face paintings.
“I have been following Nelson’s work for
three years and being fond of it, I was
inspired and knew I had to work with him,”
said Stuurman.
Inspired by his home province, the
Northern Cape, the young designer says he
was on his way home and took a picture of a
landscape and realised how dry the province
is — hence the colours are earth tones.
STYLEWISE
HUMAN KALEIDOSCOPE: Blogger, photographer, stylist and hat designer Trevor Stuurman
TOP NOTCH:
Stuurman’s
‘Home Is
Where the
Art Is’
collection of
hats
“As a storyteller I decided to do earth-tone
colours such as browns, green and blue
which resemble my home province.
“The collection comes in two-toned
colours designed for an understated and
bold look at the same time.”
In the past Stuurman has worked with
world renowned designers including
Laduma Ngxokolo of Maxhosa by Laduma
and international actor and producer Terry
Pheto.
Stuurman believes collaboration is the
future, stating: “Collaboration allows similar
minded creatives to find strength in one
another. Collaboration moves the industry
forward allowing each and everyone to
expand their network and, as we all know,
two minds work better than one.”
TV and radio host Bridget Masinga on not being left flat-footed
Describe your style in a sentence?
Best wrinkle cure?
Classic sophistication with a whimsical
twist. Clean, uncluttered lines that can
transition seasonally.
If someone introduced me to a method that
works, I would pay them handsomely.
Favourite jeans?
Favourite Instagrammer for style inspiration?
Fashion editor Asanda Sizani’s posts
reflect what’s beautiful and creative
(@asansasizani). My style inspiration isn’t
literal. Art, music, street culture, home
deco, food, textures and travel influence
how I experience the world, dictating how I
assemble an outfit that reflects who I am
and what I am feeling.
Best item in your closet?
A knee-length, round-neck black coat I
bought in New York is my current
favourite. It goes from casual to formal,
from winter to summer and day to night.
I like a tight, dark, stretch denim with a bit
of a fade to give it character. Like
everything in your closet, denim should be
versatile and transitional. If you can only
wear it with a T-shirt then it’s pointless.
#JustSaying
Every home should have…
Reflections of your character. My
home smells like vanilla. I love feminine
scents and vanilla reminds me of all
things soft, pink and fluffy. So every home
should have some form of perfume
whether by way of diffusers, room
spritzers or perfumes.
What makes a shoe chic?
The sleek elegance of the design. As long
as a shoe is sexy, daring and damn high…
I’m good. I am not a flat-shoe kind of girl.
right vintage pieces. With that said there’s
something special about pieces that have
lived a thousand lives: they bring a certain
character to your wardrobe and demand a
respect that newer fashion is yet to master.
Best underwear?
For insanely unaffordable, yet ridiculously
sexy lingerie it has to be Agent
Provocateur and La Perla.
Fave shop?
BCBG MAX AZRIA
Spotted any talent lately?
Many young emerging designers. I
particularly like Tuelo Nguyuza’s
aesthetic. There’s something soft and
dreamy about his work that leads me to
believe that once he’s perfected his craft
he’ll be a talent to be noted.
Vintage or brand new?
I don’t have the patience for finding the
Your style inspiration?
My friend David Tlale knows how to design
clothes that flatter and complement a
woman’s form and personality.
Most stylish person on earth?
Victoria Beckham is put together with
effortless ease. She wears easy, practical,
accessible fashion that’s always
appropriate for the occasion and the stage
in her life.
O&M CAPE TOWN 89895/E
COME ON PROTEAS
KEEP IT
FABULOUS
16 The Times Thursday April 21 | 2016 HOROSCOPES, FOOD & FASHION
BAG IT
Keep that purse pristine
WHEN IN USE
ý Keep make-up and creams
in a separate bag to avoid
spillage on the lining.
ý Always put pens in a
penholder. Marks generally
don’t come out.
ý In the car ensure that it is
in a secure place. You don’t
want it to roll around.
ý Avoid placing handbags on
the floor. They may be stood
on or kicked over.
ý Ensure that your hands
are clean when holding your
bag. Sweat, cream and
natural oils can cause the
handles to darken.
ý Dark jeans sometimes give
off dye. Be careful with lightcoloured bags because dye
stains permanently.
STORAGE
ý Keep your handbags in the
dust bags they originally
come in. This protects them
from light that may cause
discolouring over time. This
also protects the bags from
rubbing colour off on each
other, which is often the case,
especially with patent
leather.
ý Keep bags stuffed so they
keep their shape. Bags can
change shape when empty.
Use tissue paper.
ý Keep bags on a dedicated
bag shelf. This should be
common practice. It ensures
that bags are not squashed
on top of each other, getting
scuffed or losing shape.
When hanging bags on a
hook, gradual wear and tear
is caused on the handles, and
may even stretch them over
time.
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR
HANDBAG GETS WET
A downpour may catch you
off guard, forcing you to find
shelter under your ever
faithful leather handbag. If
you’re left with a dry hairdo
but a wet leather handbag,
follow these steps:
ý Don’t panic! Some bags
may go darker due to the
water — it should revert to
its original colour in most
cases.
ý Empty the contents of
your bag and stuff it with
paper in order to keep the
shape.
ý Put your bag in a dry place
away from sunlight and leave
it to dry. Depending on how
wet your bag is, this may take
a few days
ý DO NOT put your bag in
the sun or expose it to heat
such as hairdryers, sunlight,
ovens or microwaves. —
Marissa Ravenscroft
CARPETBAG
STEAK
INGREDIENTS
Oyster stuffing
1 x 85g can smoked oysters, drained
45ml (3 tbsp) softened butter
Zest and juice of 1 small lemon
5ml (1 tsp) dried chilli flakes
(optional)
10ml (2 tsp) Asian fish sauce (or
Worcestershire sauce)
Freshly ground black pepper, to
taste
2 sirloin steaks, cut 3-4cm thick
Olive oil
Salt and pepper, to taste
METHOD
For the stuffing, mash the oysters
with a fork and mix with the butter,
lemon zest and juice, chilli flakes and
fish sauce. Season with black pepper
and chill until firm.
Using a sharp knife, make a deep,
lengthways incision into the middle
of each steak from the fat side,
without cutting right through, to
form a pocket. Divide the stuffing
between the pockets in the steaks,
securing with toothpicks.
Rub steaks with olive oil and season.
Cook over high heat for 6-8 minutes
per side, depending on preference.
Serve with chips and salad.
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ARIES (March 21 - April 20)
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light and love. Rarely do we hear folk
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and hatred. Even when we encounter folk
who seemingly espouse such causes, shouldn’t we
be charitable and say: “They’re not really so bad;
they’re just lacking insight and compassion.” Or
should we denounce them? And if we do, won’t
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Thank you for coming to this page. I
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can meet those needs, I must assess them.
I can’t just make an outlook sound better than it
actually is in the hope that this will encourage
loyalty. Nor, today, can you tell someone what they
want to hear just because you suspect you know
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GEMINI (May 22 - June 22)
Who wins when we give up? Someone
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wise to remember that, sometimes, the
only way to win is to stop trying so hard to
be a winner. Some games aren’t worth playing,
some challenges aren’t worth rising to, some
victories are purely pyrrhic. We don’t really see the
right way to proceed until we stop trying to
convince ourselves that the wrong thing is the right
thing. Something may need to be “given up” now.
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CANCER (June 23 - July 23)
If guardian angels don’t get paid, what
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they let their attention wander like you
and I tend to. What if they’re dreaming of
their holidays just when we need rescuing from
disaster? Perhaps we could get more help if only
we could work out how to incentivise them? Some
mystics say that’s possible. They say angels only
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YOUR
It’s full moon time. Or, at least, it will be soon. To an astrologer, it is always the phase just
prior to the full moon that matters most. Once the angle of opposition between the two
luminaries has become exact, we expect less tension, drama or change. The moon will still
look full tomorrow and, indeed, all the weekend. Vampires and werewolves can still officially
cite this as a licence to get out and about. But if you’re worried about any aspect of your own
life resembling a scary story, by this time tomorrow, you should be seeing solutions.
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ideas to excite us or opportunities to
inspire us but we rarely require fresh reasons to
worry. In the unlikely event that we find ourselves
short of these, fears automatically sense the
vacancy and start jostling with one another for
pole position in our personal list of top 10 terrors.
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Far more often than things go wrong, we
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trouble. Far more often than we need to,
we get anxious about whether there is something
we need to do. Unless, perhaps, there’s some
purpose to the way in which we give ourselves such
a hard time or succumb to so much stress? Is it
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LIBRA (September 24 - October 23)
Would you like a reason to worry? Aha! I
thought not. Well, that’s good, isn’t it. I
won’t give you one. The fact that you can
supply such an unequivocal answer to our
opening question tells us something encouraging.
Why don’t you want a reason to worry? Partly, of
course, for the same reason nobody does. But it is
also because you feel you’ve already got too many
of those. But you need not worry about getting any
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SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22)
“What the eye don’t see, the heart won’t
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this ghastly maxim being quoted in all
seriousness by adults. Well, I say adults.
It’s a childish idea. An adult understands consequences. An adult has integrity. An adult doesn’t
think: “Can I get away with this if nobody sees it
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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21)
Against all odds, a rock spins in space.
Against all odds, it keeps at just the right
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Against all odds, it supports life. Many
There’s so much that we don’t know. With
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enough to scratch the surface of even a few. That
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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19)
We can be too quick at times to close
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saying “no”, there’s a reason why we are
reluctant to say it. Negativity brings more
negativity. It is contagious. If we add to the overall
amount of refusal floating around, we increase the
likelihood that more will make its way back to us.
Positivity may render us vulnerable but only if we
don’t apply enough of it. Venus now conjoins your
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PISCES (February 20 - March 20)
“T’ain't What You Do (It’s the Way That
You Do It).” If you’ve been following your
forecast lately, you’re hopefully humming
the tune to this by now. I’ve made it our
theme of the week because those words are so true
to all you’re going through. You’ve got the power to
transform a situation and to make it wonderful.
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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE | Find five differences in these pictures of Karlie Kloss
Thursday April 21 | 2016
The Times
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3 Top container for Spooner’s lowgrade fuel (5,4)
4 Looking embarrassed about tale
vagrant told (7)
5 Overturned set about to malfunction (3,2)
6 Record-holder has spell on board
(9)
7 Short performance raised a small
amount (3)
12 Permission to leave troops in key
setting (11)
14 Elaborate bromide rattled queen
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15 Region broadcast great communist features (9)
19 Republican in second surprise
withdrawal (7)
21 Old sinner? There’s one, they say,
in every church (5)
23 God’s name an irritant (5)
25 With leader absent, muddle remains (3)
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9 Put an end to bizarre rite described by monastic (10)
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11 Deposits by church rising (6)
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17 Reporter’s become stuck upright in doorway (4)
18 Big city backer fails to get
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Sun won’t set on
day-night debate
TELFORD VICE
THE lights will stay off for the third
Test between Australia and South
Africa in Adelaide in November —
for now.
Cricket Australia released their
fixtures for 2016-2017 yesterday and
the only day-night Test scheduled is
against Pakistan in Brisbane in
December.
But the Aussies remain hopeful
that the Saffers will wake up to what
they consider the future.
“We are working with Cricket SA
with a view to ensuring that the
Adelaide test is a day-night Test,”
Cricket Australia CE James Sutherland said.
“With more than 123 000 people
attending and 2 million watching on
television last season (when Australia and New Zealand played the
inaugural day-night Test), there is
enormous expectation that we
deliver another pink-ball Test match
this summer in Adelaide.”
South Africa’s senior players
pulled the plug on the idea based on
the feedback they received from the
Australians when they toured in
March — that the ball is difficult to
pick up visually in fading and
artificial light, and that a pitch left
unusually grassy to help preserve
the condition of the ball was key to
the Australia-New Zealand game
ending inside three days.
“ The players’ strong desire to play
this as a normal Test match is testament to how much they care about
the series,” SA Cricketers’ Association CE Tony Irish said.
“There is understanding for what
CA is trying to achieve and of the
commercial advantages, but this is
still very experimental and there is
also a strong cricket imperative.”
‘
The pink ball is
difficult to pick
up in fading and
artificial light
Which would seem to be the kernel of the debate. After all, Sutherland’s view is that “day-night Test
cricket is all about the fans”.
The players? They’re in there
somewhere ...
“[South Africa’s players] are well
aware of the views of the New
Zealand and Australian players
expressed after the first day-night
Test,” Irish said.
“It has been clear from all of this
that the Australian players are also
reluctant to play the match as a daynighter and that they want to play a
normal Test match.”
The discussion took an interesting
turn yesterday,when AB de Villiers
and Dale Steyn raised the same
concerns Irish expressed.
But Steyn, perhaps feeling his
bowler’s blood surge, also told CA’s
website: “I don’t want to go through
my whole career without playing a
day-night game. How cool are they?
“I’m leaving it to CSA for them to
make a decision, but to be honest
with you, I’d love to play one.”
SA in Australia:
1st Test: Perth, November 3-7.
2nd Test: Hobart, November 12-16.
3rd Test: Adelaide,
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cricket Test between Australia and New Zealand last year
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ESPNCricinfo’s Daniel Brettig
believes the Proteas should drop
their conservatism and take the long
view:
Ever since South Africa rejoined
international cricket in 1992, their
Australian counterparts have felt
themselves to be in possession of a
small but vital advantage.
Put simply, when Australian
teams are in a difficult position they
attack, while South Africa’s combinations are often expected to take
the conservative option.
This idea has applied not only to
Australian Test encounters with
South Africa, but also to ICC events,
in which the teams of AB de Villiers
& Co have fallen short.
With that in mind, it is not particularly surprising that South
Africa’s cricketers have raised their
hands in protest at the idea of playing a day-night Test as the potential
decider to next summer’s series in
Australia.
South Africa, we are told, lack
experience playing first-class cricket under lights. They have not tried
the pink ball in domestic competitions, nor have the Test players
given it a practice run at nocturnal
training sessions. In a series in
which the No 1 Test ranking may be
on the line, SA’s players think the
‘
It is not surprising
that SA cricketers
have raised their
hands in protest
stakes are too high for such an
experimental concept. A day-night
warm-up match is not enough practice.
As Rod Marsh argued in his Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s last year,
after Australia’s 2014 tour to South
Africa: “How can the Test match
crowds in South Africa be so poor?
They have a magnificent team, with
arguably the best fast bowler in the
world and possibly the best batsman
in the world. Yet no one goes to
watch them play at home.”
By consenting to play a day-night
Test, SA’s players would make a
statement of openness that would be
felt far beyond the context of a single
match in Adelaide.
They would open up the possibility
of such matches being played in
South Africa in front of far larger
Test crowds than the nation has ever
seen. They should consider that last
year’s Adelaide Test drew the biggest
attendance ever for a match between
Australia and New Zealand.
Equally, a willingness to try something new would run contrary to the
conservatism South African cricket
is known for, and which player
would not leap at the chance to
overturn that stereotype?
SPORT
Thursday April 21 | 2016
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Mzwakali wants out of
Ajax Cape Town
CONOR
TAPS
OUT
AJAX Cape Town midfielder
Bantu Mzwakali has told the club
he wants out.
Urban Warriors coach Roger de
Sa says Mzwakali wants to make a
move to one of Johannesburg’s
big clubs.
Ajax could part with as many as
12 players at the end of the season
if management accepts the offers
made by various clubs. — Tiyani
wa ka Mabasa
UFC
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champ Conor
McGregor
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Diaz during
their UFC 196
welterweight
bout last
month. The
rematch —
UFC 200’s
headline bout
— will not
happen as
McGregor has
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‘Women bad drivers
but good CEOs’
WOMEN drivers were not
physically able to drive quickly
enough in Formula 1, the sport’s
supremo Bernie Ecclestone
suggested at a conference in
London.
But he predicted a rise in
female chief executives, saying:
“Women are more competent and
they don’t have massive egos.” —
AFP
Maties’ R37m civil
case lurches into gear
As keen as Mostert
THE showdown in the civil case
between the University of
Stellenbosch and SA Rugby CEO
Jurie Roux took a small step
forward yesterday after months in
limbo. The university finally
supplied Roux’s lawyer with
documents requested in
December. It took a court
application for the university to
eventually comply. — Craig Ray
Lions lock is hungry for Springbok glory
SBU MJIKELISO
LAST year Lions lock Franco Mostert
caught a whiff of what it feels like to be a
Springbok when he was called up to the
Rugby Championship squad.
But this time he is hungry for the full
course. The industrious second-rower didn’t
earn his debut cap despite an injury to
Victor Matfield early in Brisbane that kept
the veteran out for a couple of games.
But Mostert dusted himself off after that
disappointment and has formed the backbone of a Lions team hell-bent on making
the Super rugby play-offs for the first time.
He has faced some fearsome competitors
at the lineout, such as Boks Pieter-Steph du
Toit and Lood de Jager, plus All Blacks Sam
Whitelock and Brodie Retallick. For the
most part he’s come out on top.
“I feel very good about my performances
this season and I think I’ve had a few good
seasons behind me,” said Mostert.
“The big thing is to just be grateful and to
enjoy every minute. If you do that
everything will fall into place.
“It’s every guy’s dream to play for the
Springboks and just to be in that group of
national team players. It’s recognition for
the hard work you’ve put in and an
affirmation that you’ve been playing well.”
The former Blue Bulls and University of
Pretoria (Tuks) lock was particularly satisfied with the Lions’ 29-22 win over the
Stormers at Ellis Park on Saturday — even
though the visitors were without the injured
Bok enforcer Eben Etzebeth.
Mostert will be going up against another
emerging lock, who could be on Bok coach
Allister Coetzee’s radar, John-Charles
Astle, when the Lions face the Southern
Kings in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
‘
The big thing is to
just be grateful and
to enjoy every minute
Astle, in concert with the experienced
Steven Sykes, has kept the Kings lineout
functioning smoothly. They have even had
the cheek to disrupt a lot of their opponents’
throw-ins.
Mostert said: “JC Astle is a good player.
He played for the Shimlas in the Varsity Cup
[in 2012 and 2013] and was a strong contender for the player-of-the-year award.
“I’m looking forward to going up against
him and I know I have to bring my best to
compete against him. ”
Single point in it for Baroka
TSHEPANG MAILWANE
WITH five games left in the National First
Division, Lucky Mhlathe looks at who will win
automatic promotion to the Absa Premiership.
He predicts Baroka FC will sneak in ahead
of Highlands Park, who are a point behind.
Baroka’s remaining fixtures:
April 30 v Royal Eagles (A)
“Baroka have been good on the road, but
slipped up at Vasco in Cape Town.”
Prediction: Draw.
May 4 v Thanda Royal Zulu (H)
“Thanda have not had a good season.”
Prediction: Baroka win.
May 7 v Witbank Spurs (H)
“Both teams play attacking football, so it
should be an interesting one.”
Prediction: Draw.
May 15 v African Warriors (A)
“Warriors are destined for relegation.”
Prediction: Baroka win.
May 22 v Milano United (H)
“Milano will run out of steam.”
Prediction: Baroka win.
Predicted season total: 61 points
Highlands Park’s remaining fixtures:
April 23 v Milano United (H)
“Milano will struggle.”
Prediction: Highlands win.
May 1 v FC Cape Town (A)
“Highlands will be too strong for them.”
Prediction: Highlands win.
May 7 v Black Leopards (H)
“Leopards’ new coach, Sello Chokoe, can
get players to play for him.”
Prediction: Draw.
May 15 v Mthatha Bucks (A)
“They are difficult to play against, but I
think Highlands will be stronger.”
Prediction: Highlands win.
May 22 v AmaZulu (H)
“AmaZulu’s players want to impress whoever is going to come in as new coach.”
Prediction: Draw.
Predicted season total: 60
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AS Vita shoot down
sloppy Brazilians
Downs left to rue
lost chances
MARK GLEESON
MAMELODI Sundowns ran out of
time in their bid to qualify for the
African Champions League as
they were eliminated from the
competition on the away goals
rule after beating AS Vita Club of
the Democratic Republic of Congo 2-1 last night in the second leg
of the third round.
Sundowns now wait for the
draw today of the African Confederation Cup into which they
drop, left to chase Africa’s secondary competition rather than
the glamorous top prize.
Sundowns fans tried to invade
the pitch after the referee played
a scandalous four minutes of
stoppage time when the Congolese were blatantly wasting
time. But Sundowns have only
themselves to blame.
Down 1-0 from the first leg, the
Brazilians had enough chances to
easily win the return match but
failed with their poor finishing
against a crafty opponent, who
used every trick to eat up time.
“Anxiety crept in and our
decision-making let us down,” a
bitterly disappointed Pitso Mosimane said afterwards.
Ordinarily Sundowns would
have buried the chances they got
in the 12th, 14th, 18th and 20th
minutes but seemed to freeze at
the vital moment in front of goal.
It meant the early goal they
craved did not come.
WASTED CHANCES: AS Vita Club’s Bafola Dido is challenged by Khama Billiat of Mamelodi Sundowns during a CAF
Champions League match at Lucas Moripe Stadium in Atteridgeville last night
Picture: BACKPAGEPIX
Vita Club got a chance in 28th
minute when Mayimona Ikanga’s
shot deflected for Kule Mbombo
to get a touch, which Wayne
Sandilands saved. But 11 minutes
later, Mbombo got a touch from
Bernard Morrison and the ball
squeezed into the net.
Suddenly Sundowns went from
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needing one goal to now suddenly
needing three to win the tie. But
they began their attempted comeback within 120 seconds as Castro
won a penalty after being challenged by Vita goalkeeper Nelson
Lukong and Thabo Nthethe converted the resultant penalty.
In the 75th minute Sundowns
went ahead as Nthethe put Tebogo Langerman through — but try
as they may for a decisive third
goal, it did not come.
ý Golden Arrows were held to a
1-1 draw by Maritzburg United in
an Absa Premiership match at
Princess Magogo Stadium last
night.
Francois
Pienaar
bats for
Proteas
TELFORD VICE
WHEN Francois Pienaar
talks, people listen. Even
when he says: “It’s not that
we are the fount of all
knowledge, definitely not.”
The Rugby World
Cup-winning Springbok
captain spoke yesterday on
his new role — as a member
of a Cricket SA review panel
that will try to get to the
bottom of why the Proteas
have yet to win a World Cup.
“Passion. I love this
country.”
That was Pienaar’s reply
when asked why someone
who, in 1995, held the William
Webb Ellis Cup aloft in
triumph beside a beaming
Nelson Mandela would
bother with a bunch who are
the best team in the game but
not the tournament.
“It’s not about the sport, it’s
about the processes in place,”
Pienaar said. “There are four
or five things you need to get
right, one is a bit of luck.
“People think if you have
that it’s a guarantee. It’s not.
If you do those four or five
things really well, you will
have a good chance of
winning. When you get to the
final, it’s a 50-50 call and it’s
the smart guys who work out
the margins.”
Pienaar said he was not
unfamiliar with cricket.
“They asked me to come
and do a session on margins
and big games and how you
close games down.”
Would the results of the
panel’s work be made public?
“They have to be. Otherwise
I wouldn’t be involved.”
Inspired Man United
close in on the Gunners
the top four spots yielding
MATTEO Darmian inspired
passage to the Champions
Manchester United to victory
League.
over Crystal Palace and
United trail Arsenal by a
Liverpool crushed derby rivals
point and third-place
Everton 4-0 as both teams
Manchester City by two,
enhanced their chances of
although the north London
securing European football
club have a game in hand.
last night.
Everton will
Italian rightgo into their
back Darmian
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’s
men
Wembley date
scored his first
with United on
Premier League
have
gone
the back of a
goal for United
Merseyside
and created an
seven games
derby hiding at
own-goal for
without victory Anfield that
Damien Delaney
means Roberto
as fifth-place
Martinez’s men have now gone
United beat Palace 2-0.
seven games without victory.
Divock Origi scored but was
After a one-sided first half,
then stretchered off as
Liverpool struck twice in four
Liverpool outclassed Everton
minutes shortly before halfto remain within two points of
time as James Milner crossed
sixth-place West Ham United.
for first Origi and then centreThe teams finishing fifth and
back Mamadou Sakho to head
sixth stand to qualify for next
home. — AFP
season’s Europa League, with
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