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AARTI J NARSEE
A JUDGE hoping for promotion
was grilled yesterday about WhatsApp messages accusing Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng of “fruitless
and wasteful expenditure” and having “no conviction or insight”.
The messages were sent by Western Cape High Court Judge
Rosheni Allie to Ziyad Motala, professor at Howard University School
and his undemocratically appointed group of judges all over the
world … with his eight bodyguards who have to remain outside
the hotel in case any of them
[judges] need help ... ER24 personnel to work on us if anyone has a
headache ... and his extravagant
conference [on norms and standards]”.
WhatsApp with the Mogoeng diss, judge?
of Law in Washington DC.
Allie was being interviewed by
the Judicial Service Commission
for the position of deputy judge
president for Western Cape.
The messages were sent in 2014
after Mogoeng suggested norms
and standards requiring greater
efficiencies in the judicial system
be introduced. Among other things,
he said trial courts should sit for a
“minimum of six hours a day and
judicial officers should strictly
comply with court hours”.
In a draft response to Mogoeng’s
proposals, the judges of the West-
ern Cape High Court said any directives that treated judges “like
minor civil servants or middleranking managers” would undermine the dignity of the courts.
To Motala, Allie hit out at the
“fruitless and wasteful expenditure
involved in flying the chief justice
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Civil society leaders at the Constitutional Court, in Johannesburg, yesterday to launch their campaign for President Jacob Zuma’s removal on the grounds that he violated his
oath of office. Among them were Ronald Lamola (former president of the ANC Youth League), Prince Mashele (Centre for Politics and Research), Cheryl Carolus (former ANC deputy secretary-general),
Zwelinzima Vavi (former general secretary of Cosatu), Ronnie Kasrils (former intelligence minister) and Zak Yacoob (former Constitutional Court judge)
Picture: SIZWE NDINGANE
SA’s date with Zuma
Leaders gather on Constitution Hill to call for mass action against president
KINGDOM MABUZA,
OLEBOGENG MOLATLHWA
and BABALO NDENZE
ANC veterans, civil society and
church leaders, and academics
yesterday gathered at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg to urge
South Africans to stand against
President Jacob Zuma, whom they
say has breached his oath of
office.
They declared that they will not
stand by while Zuma “tramples on
the constitution”.
“On Saturday April 16 2016 we
Winning numbers
dom that has been stolen by Zuma
and all who are like him.”
The group’s call was made as
the ANC scrambled again to
explain its decision not to vote
Zuma out of office on Tuesday
when parliament debated and voted on his suitability to hold office.
Yesterday the ANC caucus in
parliament said it wanted to
establish how it was given incorrect
legal advice on how to deal with the
Nkandla debacle. Chief whip Jackson Mthembu said that ANC colleagues had warned that its position on Nkandla was incorrect.
call on people to hold organised
discussions in villages, townships,
churches, mosques, informal settlements, sports clubs and cultural associations about how we
can secure the resignation of President Zuma,” the group said.
“We call on you to discuss what
is wrong with the country and,
more important, what is needed to
put it right.
“Freedom Day April 27 is
around the corner. We call on
everyone to make this a day of
action. This year we must use
Freedom Day to reclaim a free-
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This year we must
use Freedom Day
to reclaim a
freedom stolen by
Zuma and all those
who are like him
The fallout on Zuma has been
linked to the staggering economy.
Yesterday Standard & Poor’s
cut its 2016 growth forecast for
South Africa by half.
The rating agency, which has
South Africa one notch above junk
status, warned that pressure on
the nation’s credit rating was
attributable mainly to slow economic growth. It’s associate director, Gardner Rusike, said the
government’s focus on politics
and political tension could divert
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MTN gets the most gripes
Telecoms giant has had more consumer complaints than any South African company
COLLEEN GOKO
MTN SA is still feeling the effects of
a prolonged strike by its workers
last year — the telecoms giant
notched up the highest number of
complaints against any company in
South Africa.
This is according to the consumer ombudsman’s 2015-2016 annual report‚ which acknowledged‚
however‚ that some of the complaints could be due to a mistake.
Of the 3 495 complaints received
by the ombudsman’s office between
March last year and February this
year‚ 613 were lodged against MTN.
JD Group came a distant second‚
with 172 complaints.
“The high number of complaints
against MTN was a result of the
strike‚” said the report.
Some were a mistake as MTN
had displayed the ombudsman’s
number on its web page‚ the report
said.
“This resulted in many complainants calling the Consumer
Goods and Services Ombudsman
thinking they were calling the MTN
complaints line.”
The ombudsman was set up in
2013 to reduce the burden of consumer complaints on the National
Consumer Commission. The ombudsman seeks to ensure that suppliers uphold the code of conduct
for the consumer goods and services industry‚ which sets minimum standards of conduct when
dealing with consumers.
However‚ it does not empower
the ombudsman to make binding
rulings or impose sanctions.
According to the annual report‚
‘
Suppliers acted in
the spirit of good
customer relations,
providing refunds
of the 1 715 cases within the ombudsman’s jurisdiction and in
which there was an outcome‚ 69%
were resolved by the consumer receiving all or part of what was
claimed, or some other assistance.
“In many instances‚ the suppliers
in question acted in the spirit of
good customer relations by providing refunds or other relief even
though they were not obliged to do
so under the strict application of
the
law‚”
said
ombudsman
Advocate Neville Melville.
— © BDlive
JSC quizzes judge about
‘personal, private’ WhatsApps
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This, she said, was “a sick roadshow by an individual with no
conviction or insight”. She initially denied that this referred to
Mogoeng but later conceded.
Other messages to Motala, who
is originally from Durban and previously worked at the University
of the Western Cape, said: “The
minister is not making that type of
funding available to the [chief justice] whose current and past extravagance [shows] he will not
manage resources as indicated.”
She accused fellow Western
Cape High Court Judge Nathan
Erasmus of being an “apartheid
apparatchik” and said Supreme
Court of Appeal Judge Steven Majiedt was “compromised in his independence”.
Allie maintained yesterday that
the messages were “private communication between friends” and
said the fact that they had been
disclosed to the JSC was an “unconscionable breach of trust”.
She described the text messages
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its attention from implementing
policies that would boost growth.
In a surprise move yesterday, the
ANC’s Sefako Makgatho branch in
Johannesburg, broke with the party line. It called on the ANC to recall
Zuma. The branch said he should
appear before either the integrity
commission or the national disciplinary committee of the party.
“The president should be temporarily suspended so that he
doesn’t unduly influence the disciplinary proceedings.”
On the steps of the Constitutional
Court the civil society group said it
would not stop its campaign until
the “head of the rot is removed”. It
said it did not want “one thief to be
as part of a robust debate, saying:
“I trusted him [Motala] as a friend
and he breached the trust ... until
today they were private and personal communications.”
She apologised to the commission for the messages.
Chief Justice Mogoeng had earlier recused himself.
Northern Cape Judge President
Frans Kgomo asked: “You say you
apologise to these people and you
have named them in these WhatsApps ... have you written to them
or told them?”
Commissioner CP Fourie said
Motala alerted the JSC to the
messages because the “exchanges
demonstrate that [Allie] doesn’t
have the gravitas, maturity and
temperament of being the deputy
judge president”.
Allie refused to withdraw herself from the running to replace
Judge Jeanette Traverso, who has
retired. She was up against Patricia Goliath and Andre de
Lange.
ý Judge Goliath was recommended for the post.
WHAT’S UP? Judge Rosheni Allie being interviewed for deputy judge president position in the Western Cape division
of the High Court yesterday
Picture: TREVOR SAMSON
Leaders gather to act against Zuma
replaced by another thief”.
Among those at the gathering
were former ANC deputy secretary-general Cheryl Carolus, former minister of intelligence and
senior ANC and SACP leader Ronnie Kasrils, former Constitutional
Court judge Zak Yacoob, ANC stalwart Mavuso Msimang, former
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and former ANC Youth
League president Ronald Lamola.
Vavi said: “We are going through
a constitutional crisis, and we have
a responsibility to defend our country.” Kasrils said Zuma had been
taking the country backwards.
He said Zuma’s moral values had
been questioned when in 2005 he
was charged with rape of a child of
“a comrade”. Zuma was acquitted.
“It was a disgraceful trial. We
knew about this problem in exile
but we kept quiet and did not do
anything about it,” Kasrils said.
Carolus said she was pained by
what had happened in parliament
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this week when the ANC protected
Zuma, after a Constitutional Court
ruling that he had failed to uphold
the constitution by abiding by the
public protector’s directive that he
repay some of the public money
spent on his Nkandla home
“History has every right to judge
us. I never thought I would stand up
in public and say how deeply saddened I am by what happened in
our parliament,” she said.
Academic Prince Mashele called
on South Africans to support the
civil society movement’s call for
Zuma to go. He said that unless
South Africans acted against Zuma
they would become like Zimbabweans, with lives “messed up” by
President Robert Mugabe.
In parliament, ANC chief whip
Mthembu said the party’s MPs
were all blinded when dealing with
the Nkandla scandal.
“What blinded us when even colleagues were saying to us: ‘We
think you are in the wrong’? They
said so to us. They said it in our
face. What blinded us?
“If we have people who are
wrongly advising us, and if the
government has people who
wrongly advise them, we leave that
to the government, but as parliament we have to act on who advised
us wrongly,” said Mthembu.
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Additional
reporting
by
Katharine Child and Bloomberg
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NEWS
Thursday April 7 | 2016
Zuma makes SA cry
with laughter, heh heh
WITH the economy flatlining, the
rand on the ropes and politics in
turmoil, many South Africans are
turning to humour for relief,
mainly at the expense of
President Jacob Zuma and his
R246-million home improvements.
Within minutes of Zuma
surviving Tuesday’s heated
impeachment vote in parliament,
thanks to unanimous support
from ANC loyalists, the 73-yearold traditional Zulu man was
facing another roasting on the
nation’s irreverent stand-up
circuit.
“Jacob Zuma is the dude who
just threw up all over the dance
floor but still doesn’t want to go
home,” comedian Lazola Gola
quipped, to roars of laughter at an
event at Kitchener’s Bar.
For comedians, Zuma is the gift
that keeps on giving, a politician
whose career has run the full
gamut of scandal, from a lovechild and corruption charges to
foot-in-mouth insults to African
countries and his belief,
expressed during a 2006 rape trial,
that having a shower can prevent
transmission of HIV/Aids.
However, no episode has
surpassed the six-year imbroglio
over the “security upgrades” to
his sprawling Nkandla private
residence that included an
amphitheatre, swimming pool,
cattle enclosure and chicken run.
Even though South Africa’s top
court said last week that he had
broken the constitution by
disobeying a watchdog’s order to
pay back some money, Zuma has
ploughed on, blaming his lawyers
for giving bum advice and
apologising for creating
“confusion”.
That represented a rare
moment of contrition from a
leader who has mocked his nonZulu opponents’ pronunciation of
Nkandla and has criticised “clever
blacks” for getting upset about
the issue.
Comedian Mojak Lehoko said
Zuma’s ability to ride out the
Constitutional Court smack-down
was no surprise.
“This is a man who has survived
more than 700 corruption charges
and a rape case.
“There’s no way he’s going to
jail over some home
improvements and a swimming
pool,” he said backstage.
In one Lehoko skit mocking the
broken way in which Zuma reads
out large numbers in English, he
and Mandela are sitting round a
fire smoking dagga.
“Come on, Comrade Jacob, you
know the rules — two puffs and
pass it on,” Mandela says.
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The 700 charges
should have been
a red flag, but we
are colour-blind
“But I’ve only had one ... ” Zuma
protests; “thousand, seven
hundred and twenty eight.”
Zuma’s reputation for gaffes
— in January his office had to
correct his assertion that Africa
was bigger than all the other
continents put together — is even
starting to make waves
internationally.
Daily Show host Trevor Noah
explained to US audiences this
week that Zuma was elected in
2009 without ever being formally
cleared by a court of hundreds of
corruption charges.
“I know that should have been a
red flag to South Africans but ever
since apartheid we’ve striven to
be colour-blind, so all we saw was
a flag,” Noah said.
Others have taken the view that
the nation’s politics have become
so bizarre that satire is unable to
compete with the real thing.
“April Fools’ Day 2016 cancelled
till further notice,” the Daily
Maverick, wrote on April 1. “We
couldn’t come up with anything
half as mad as South African
reality today. Sorry.” — Reuters
THE SKINNY ON THIN
The Times
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Karabo
slips off
soapie
GENERATIONS: The Legacy
yesterday confirmed that veteran
actress Connie Ferguson will bid
farewell to the soapie.
The soapie’s producers released
a statement on its website.
It read: “It is with great
disappointment that we have to
announce the departure of the
much-loved Karabo Moroka‚
played by the talented Connie
Ferguson.
“She’s working on a couple of
projects that need her undivided
attention and has asked to be
released from her contract. The
Generations: The Legacy family
wishes her all the best with her
endeavours and trusts she will
continue playing a key role in the
industry.
“Karabo is one character that set
tongues wagging and her exit will
be no different.
“Fans need to stay glued to
Generations: The Legacy to see
how Karabo’s story unfolds.”
Generations: The Legacy
executive producer Mfundi Vundla
had nothing but praise for the
actress.
“I will eternally be grateful for
that and her contribution to the
growth of our industry‚” Vundla
said.
Speaking to TMG
Entertainment‚ Ferguson
confirmed that she would be
leaving the show. — TMG Digital
Janet quits
tour to start
a family
A Gucci advert has been banned by Britain’s advertising watchdog because it features models who are ‘unhealthily thin’ and ‘gaunt’. The agency said the torso
and arms of one model ‘were quite slender and appeared to be out of proportion with her head and lower body’. It went on: ‘The model . . . appeared to be
unhealthily thin in the image and we therefore concluded that the ad was irresponsible.’ The Italian fashion house has been told the advert must not appear again
in its current form. Gucci argued that the advert was aimed at an older, sophisticated audience and felt the model appeared ‘toned and slim’ Picture: GUCCI
Exhibit gives Stones fans satisfaction
MICK Jagger’s outlandish
costumes, Keith Richards’ guitars
and the filthy London flat they
shared are on show in an
exhaustive exhibition dedicated to
The Rolling Stones that opened on
Tuesday. Exhibitionism, which
offers an interactive and multisensory trip through the life of the
iconic British rock band, opened
its doors to the public at the
Saatchi Gallery in London.
The exhibit is spread over two
levels, nine themed rooms and
1 750m² of space.
Despite the retrospective, the
band is in no mood to rest on its
laurels. By way of proof, a new
album is on the way.
“We just started it before
Christmas,” said Jagger.
The flat the future millionnaires
occupied as youths at 102 Edith
Grove in Chelsea is filled with
dirty crockery, cigarette butts,
Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters
records, and old socks on an
unmade bed.
Concert posters, rare videos,
drafts of song lyrics are among the
hundreds of relics marking the
band’s evolution over almostsix
decades. Keith Richards also lent a
1957 Gibson Les Paul he painted
himself while he was “bored,
waiting to go to jail”. — AFP
POP superstar Janet Jackson
yesterday abruptly halted her
global tour because, she said, she
wanted to start a family.
Jackson, who turns 50 next
month, dropped the bombshell in a
video message to fans after
repeated delays in her tour led to
speculation about her health.
“There actually has been a
sudden change. I thought it was
important that you’d be the first to
know,” she said.
With a slight pause and a smile,
she said: “My husband and I are
planning our family, so I’m going
to have to delay the tour. Please, if
you can try to understand that it’s
important that I do this now. I have
to rest up — doctors’ orders.”
Jackson married the Qatari
businessman Wissam al-Mana in
2012. She did not reveal details of
her plans for a family. Natural
pregnancies are less common as
women enter their late 40s,
although in vitro fertilisations can
extend the age range.
Janet performed on March 26 at
the Dubai World Cup, then halted
her global Unbreakable tour. Last
year she released Unbreakable,
her first album since the death of
her brother, and had announced
an extensive tour. — AFP
Gawker grapples with Hulk
THE New York online news and
blogging outlet Gawker has filed
a challenge in a Florida court to a
jury’s recent decision to assess
damages at $140-million after
finding that the website had
violated wrestling star Hulk
Hogan’s privacy rights by posting
a sex tape in which he appears.
Gawker, which had planned to
appeal, filed motions on Monday
seeking a new trial, or to reverse
or reduce the jury’s decision.
The case has tested the
boundaries between a celebrity’s
privacy and press liberties.
“Key evidence was wrongly
withheld and the jury was not
properly instructed on the
constitutional standards for
newsworthiness,” Gawker said.
Hogan’s lawyer said: “We
emerged victorious and plan to
do so again.” — Reuters
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The day to have your say
SHENAAZ JAMAL
THE date for the local government
elections has been set by President
Jacob Zuma — but it remains uncertain whether the Independent
Electoral Commission will be able
to run the elections as it awaits a
decision by the Constitutional
Court.
The Constitutional Court judgment, to be handed down on May 9,
will determine and clarify whether
the lack of an address on the voters’
roll invalidates that voter.
Zuma announced August 3 as the
IEC is still waiting for ConCourt judgment on voters’ roll
voting day yesterday and has mandated the co-operative governance
and traditional affairs minister to
follow the necessary legal procedure to proclaim the date.
The IEC postponed all by-elections until the Constitutional Court
gives clarity on the validity of voters’ addresses.
While it awaits the judgment it
has embarked on a campaign to
update and record all addresses on
the roll.
IEC CEO Mosotho Moepya encouraged voters to register yesterday, saying the final registration
weekend will be on Saturday and
Sunday from 8am to 5pm.
More than 25 million voters have
been registered but Moepya said
8 million eligible voters have not
registered to vote, 80% of whom are
voters under the age of 30.
“Young people are understandably the greatest gap on the voters’
roll. We are communicating with
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We are
concentrating on
young people to
ensure they are
registered to vote
Jozi mayor
talks tough
on rubbish
strikers
Nuclear power
deal doomed
to meltdown?
JAN-JAN JOUBERT
THE DA has said it hopes the controversial nuclear power station
building programme is dead in the
water now that Energy Minister
Tina Joemat-Pettersson has announced a “delay” in the procurement process.
Joemat-Pettersson told the parliamentary portfolio committee on
energy that her department had to
wait for the Treasury’s approval
and was consulting the government’s independent power producers office before it could gazette
requests for proposals.
DA MP Gordon Mackay said this
could mean that the programme
would be stalled indefinitely
— especially as the Energy Department was embroiled in a court
case with NGO Earthlife Africa,
which was questioning the legality
of the nuclear plans.
Said Mackay: “The DA, which has
been calling for the nuclear programme to be abandoned from the
outset, welcomes this move as the
first step towards its outright cancellation. The minister confirmed
that the April 1 deadline was not
met and that no new date has been
set, signalling that the procurement process is now in limbo.”
Joemat-Pettersson
yesterday
told news agency Bloomberg that
her department was working with
the government’s independent
power producers office. “This
doesn’t mean that it is stalled. It
might be delayed,” she said.
“I want a thorough and transparent procurement process, subjected to proper scrutiny. The process must not be stalled due to legal
process or challenges.”
Russian company Rossatom is
said to be on the inside track for the
contract.
them more then anyone else to
ensure that they are registered to
vote when the time comes,” said
Moepya.
Deputy chief electoral officer Sy
Mamabolo said: “We are planning
to have these elections in the constitutionally mandated time frames
… Everything is being done to
achieve the deadline; barring a major national catastrophe, these elections will take place.”
Moepya was reluctant to comment further on the matter, saying
the IEC was waiting for the Constitutional Court judgment.
NEO GOBA
DAD’S ARMY: Former liberation soldiers march to the Department of Military Veterans offices in Pretoria to deliver
a memorandum of their grievances
Picture: MOELETSI MABE
MK vets threaten ‘war’ over broken promises
SIPHO MASOMBUKA
VETERANS of the country’s liberation armies and soldiers of the
apartheid-era SA Defence Force
have issued a chilling warning
that they will take up arms
against the government over benefits that have not materialised.
The veterans fired the warning
shot yesterday during a march to
the headquarters of the Department of Military Veterans in Pretoria to highlight their plight.
About 2 000 veterans marched
from the Pretoria train station to
SA National Defence Force headquarters in Hatfield yesterday.
Manase Sefatle, commander of
the Johannesburg region of the
MK Military Veterans Association, said there were inconsistencies in the allocation of housing and problems with the pay-
ment of bursaries and medical
benefits to veterans.
He gave Minister of Defence
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula 14
days to sort out their grievances
or “face war”.
“We are coming here for the
last time peacefully. Next time it
will be war. War of a trained
soldier is more dangerous than
your pens. We shall take up arms
‘
We shall take
up arms and
topple you.
This is the last
warning
and topple you. This is the last
warning,” he said.
Sefatle said military veterans
had been waiting for the roll-out
of military pensions and housing
and medical benefits since 2011
and all they got were promises.
In their memorandum, the veterans demanded a report on how
many houses had been allocated
to former soldiers so far.
They also demanded free access to public transport, immediate payment of military pensions and payment of medical
bills within 30 days of the memorandum.
Department spokesman Mbulelo Musi said the military veterans’ threat of violence was unfortunate.
“I do not think the veterans
would actually carry it out,” Musi
said.
JOHANNESBURG Mayor
Parks Tau intends to lay
criminal charges against
striking Pikitup workers,
who continue to trash the
city’s streets with rubbish.
Johannesburg has been
under siege for the past five
weeks as waste collection
workers refuse to go back to
work, leaving piles of litter
lying outside residential
homes.
Speaking yesterday, Tau
said the city had taken steps
to deal with the strike.
The mayor has vowed to
pursue two contempt-ofcourt charges laid against
striking Pikitup employees.
“We have decided that we
should lay both criminal and
civil litigation and action
against the union on matters
related to continued actions
that include trashing of
streets and vandalisation of
city property,” he said.
It also emerged that
private security contractors
and volunteers have come
on board to assist in
situations of intimidation of
workers in some of the
affected areas..
At the centre of the strike
are demands for salary
increases and the expulsion
of Pikitup managing director
Amanda Nair, who the SA
Municipal Workers Union
has accused of nepotism and
maladministration.
Nair was previously
cleared of similar
allegations.
Gupta money becomes hot potato
GRAEME HOSKEN
DOING business in South
Africa is getting tougher for
President Jacob Zuma’s
friends, the Guptas.
Yesterday FNB became
the latest South African
financial
institution
to
announce that it is severing
its ties with business
entities linked to the Guptas’
Oakbay Investments.
The announcement follows statements by auditing
firm KPMG and investment
bank Sasfin last week on
their cutting of ties with the
Guptas.
Absa closed the family’s
business
accounts
in
December.
“FNB can confirm that it
has no banking account
with Oakbay Investments,”
FNB
spokesman
Patty
Seetharam said yesterday.
“We confirm we have given notice to close banking
accounts of entities that
may be associated with
Oakbay Investments.”
She declined to provide
further information on
FNB’s motives for closing
the accounts.
Political economist Daniel
Silke said the disassociation
moves were part of a concerted effort by blue-chip
private sector companies
that have relationships with
the Guptas to distance
themselves from the family.
“The Guptas are now
clearly viewed as spoilt
goods,” he said.
He said it was clear that a
“domino effect” was under
way, with a number of companies suddenly ending
their links to the Guptas.
Silke said the financial
institutions were within their
rights to end their relationships with clients whom they
feared could damage their
interests.
Gupta spokesman Gary
Naidoo
said:
“Oakbay
Investments has demanded
an explanation for closing
the accounts. Oakbay has
received no reason justifying FNB’s actions.”
He said the Gupta family
was moving its business
accounts to a “more enlightened institution”.
NEWS
Thursday April 7 | 2016
The Times
5
Breyten gives
varsity a ‘fail’
ALLIGREATER
Artist says painting removed without a word
APHIWE DEKLERK
This massive alligator, weighing about 350kg and measuring close to 4.5m in length, was
recently killed at Outwest Farms in Florida in the US. Farmer Lee Lightsey and professional
hunters tracked down the reptile on the ranch, where it had been killing and eating cows
Picture: OUTWEST FARMS/FACEBOOK.
The mini-series goes micro-mini
ENTERTAINMENT
giant
Vivendi said it was launching the “world’s first premium series for mobiles”
with a slate of 25 dramas
made in 10 10-minute parts.
The fast-paced thrillers, romances, sci-fi and action stories are made to be viewed
while people “wait for their
bus or train or while you
queue for a coffee”, Vivendi
Content
chairman
Dominique Delport said in
Cannes, France.
“Around 60% of smart-
phone users watch videos
daily, but they are not likely
to jump into a Game of
Thrones while they are waiting for the bus,” Delport
said.
With more “cliff hangers
and hooks to hold the audience” than in films or conventional TV dramas, a
whole series will cost “no
more than the price of a
couple of coffees” to watch
via an app, he said.
Among the opening series
will be Urban Jungle, about
animals turning on humans,
Amnesia, where people in a
city begin losing their memory, martial arts story Brutal and the US-set Madame
Hollywood.
He said the shorts conformed to “the highest television standards”.
But their quality and the
fact that they can be made in
a few weeks was attracting
stars, Delport said, “who
don’t need to commit to
something that is going to
take a year”. — AFP
WhatsApp messages get security lock
ALL WhatsApp messages
are now protected by end-toend encryption — but what
does that mean?
It ensures a user’s messages can be read only by
the person to whom they are
sent — not by cyber-criminals‚ law enforcement agencies or even WhatsApp.
“The idea is simple: when
you send a message‚ the only
person who can read it is the
person or group chat you
send it to‚” WhatsApp said
in a blog announcing the
update.
The end-to-end encryption is available when you
and the people you send
messages to are using the
latest versions of the app.
Both sender and recipient
must have updated the app.
Videos‚ photos‚ and even
calls and group chats will
get the end-to-end encryption service.
Only you and the person
you’re messaging will have
the key needed to unlock
and read the message.
Go to https://www.whatsapp.com/security/ for a
technical explanation. —
Staff reporter and AFP
If you’re over 25, expect fewer friends
AT WHAT age do we hit
“peak friendship”? Scientists believe they might
have found the answer.
Our social networks
shrink from the age of 25,
the data reveals, with the
pool of friends a person has
getting smaller and smaller
as the years go by.
The phone records of
more than 3.2 million mobile users in Europe were
analysed for the study,
They found social circles
tend to decrease until the
age of 45 when the number
stabilises for about a
decade. After 55 there is
again a steady decrease
when “retirement, health
issues and the death of
friends can leave people socially isolated”.
Bad news if you are already past the age of 25, but
good news if you are over
that age and don’t like socialising
very
much.
— © The Daily Telegraph
THE world-renowned antiapartheid playwright and
artist Breyten Breytenbach
yesterday questioned the
“decency” of the University
of Cape Town after one of his
paintings was removed in
response to calls for the
institution to “decolonise the
public space”.
UCT said yesterday that
Breytenbach’s work Hovering Dog was in safekeeping
after student protests in
recent months.
Students have ripped down
and burned various paintings
hanging on university walls.
In an open letter to Daily
Maverick website, Breytenbach, imprisoned by the
apartheid government for
high treason in the 1970s,
criticised the move to take
down his painting.
He said he still owned the
artwork and would have
withdrawn it from the institution if he had been properly
informed of the situation.
“I really wish to make it
known that I do not want to
be associated with the University of Cape Town in any
shape or form,” he wrote.
The artist said he had resorted to writing the open
letter because he did not have
the means to contact UCT
vice-chancellor Max Price or
other officials to “convey my
sentiment of disgust, and can
only hope for this missive to
reach them through you”.
Sarcastically, he thanked
the university for “the
decency of having informed
me about the incident, and
the sterling bravery of their
intellectual steadfastness”.
‘
I do not wish
to be
associated
with UCT
in any way
#TO THE POINT
Was it removed just
because he is white ?
Or [email protected],
or SMS 33662 (SMS costs R1.50)
Asked to comment on
Breytenbach’s letter, UCT
spokesman Elijah Moholola
said the university was in the
process of an “accelerated
transformation process”.
He confirmed the university had removed 75 works of
art, but declined to provide
names of the artists.
“All aspects of UCT are up
for discussion, one of which is
about creating an environment where a diversity of
staff and students feel comfortable and see themselves
and our country reflected in
the institution,” he said.
“Works of art are one of the
elements that are being vigorously discussed — their
place at UCT, the artworks
and how they are displayed.
“It is our hope that from
this robust and wide engagement the university will
develop a new policy about
artworks that appropriately
reflect our country and
institution,” he said.
The university is auditing
its artworks through a new
“works of art committee”.
The committee is gathering input and opinions for a
new policy on procuring and
displaying artwork.
6 The Times Thursday April 7 | 2016
LEONIE WAGNER
TELEVISION presenter Lalla Hirayama works in an industry that
thrives on pressure — so having a
panic disorder can be debilitating.
Five years after being diagnosed
with the disorder, Hirayama brings
the phrase “play through the pain”
to life.
The 28-year-old Vuzu presenter
and host of M-Net Movies’ Lalla
Land said during her first panic
attacks it felt as if someone had a
gun to her head.
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TV presenter’s battle with panic attacks
She said she started shaking, had
difficulty breathing and felt as
though she was dying.
Speaking out about the condition
for the first time, Hirayama, currently in Los Angeles, said: “I’ve
had multiple panic attacks on air
but I’ve just carried on presenting
because the show must go on.”
Hirayama said she was choosing
to speak out about the condition
because she did not want people to
think she was on drugs and that
women needed to know that the
condition “is normal and can be
managed”.
Clinical
psychologist
Zamo
Mbele said panic attacks often had
similar symptoms to heart attacks
without the biological impact.
Panic attacks form part of the
broad range of anxiety disorders,
and anxiety is also often linked to
depression.
Cassey Chambers, a spokesman
for the South African Depression
and Anxiety Group, said that anxiety disorders affected 8.1% of the
population.
Mbele said these anxiety disorders were widespread and this
statistic was “conservative”, as
many might not expose themselves
SPACEMAN SPIES MZANSI
Stewardess
in a hurry
slides out
of plane
European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake, a former regular British Army Air Corps officer, is circumnavigating the Earth aboard the International Space
Station. He took this picture of South Africa and posted it on Instagram
Picture: TIM PEAKE/INSTAGRAM
Healthy yuppies likely
to outlive their pensions
KATHARINE CHILD
ACTUARIES are underestimating
the longevity of South Africans
when creating retirement plans.
This means that people are outliving their retirement savings.
This is the opinion of actuary
Viresh Maharaj, speaking at the
launch of the Sanlam benchmark
employee benefit survey in Johannesburg yesterday.
The company surveyed 1 000
brokers, pensioners and workers.
Despite people living longer than
ever before, South Africans continue to retire young, with 25% of
those surveyed retiring before 60.
Maharaj said the product developers who designed retirement
savings plans knew people were
living longer but didn’t realise just
NEW research suggests that
daily walnut consumption could
ward off common health issues
associated with old age, such as
high blood cholesterol levels.
At a health conference in San
Diego this week researchers
from the Hospital Clinic of
Barcelona and Loma Linda
University presented findings
from a two-year clinical trial, in
which they tested 707 healthy
how fast medical technology and
new treatments were increasing
lifespan.
“Longevity is the greatest threat
to people’s retirement savings,”
said Maharaj.
From 1950 to 2015 global life
expectancy increased by 20 years,
according to the UN, said Maharaj.
Because so many people are living longer and having fewer children to look after them, the World
Economic Forum set up the Global
Agenda Council on Ageing to find
solutions for society.
The council said: “Over the next
four decades rapid ageing of populations will be one of the most
powerful transformative forces
affecting society.
“The proportion of people over 65
around the globe is currently 10%
but it is expected to jump to 22% by
2050.”
South Africans’ saving habits for
retirement have not changed to
meet the demands of their longer
lives.
The Sanlam survey found that
independent financial advisers
believed the biggest mistakes their
45- to 55-year-old clients made
‘
Proportion of
people over 65
expected to jump
to 22% by 2050
WALNUT A DAY KEEPS DOCTOR AT BAY
older adults, split into two
groups. One group ate walnuts as
15% of their daily calorific intake,
while the other group ate none.
After 12 months both groups
had similar results for weight
gain, triglycerides and HDL (or
“good”) cholesterol, but those
eating walnuts had significant
LDL (or “bad”) cholesterol
to a diagnosis because of the stigma
attached to them.
But medication, psychotherapy,
exercise, a healthy diet and a balanced lifestyle can control anxiety
disorders.
When she was first diagnosed,
Hirayama said she was having up to
12 panic attacks a day.
But now the television presenter
— who doesn’t smoke, or drink
alcohol or caffeine — says she’s
taken to yoga and other exercise to
help get control.
“It’s no joke,” she said.
reductions.
Spanish researcher Emilio Ros
said: “Acquiring the good fats
and other nutrients from walnuts
while keeping adiposity at bay
and reducing blood cholesterol
levels are important to overall
nutritional wellbeing.
“It’s encouraging to see that
eating walnuts may benefit this
when saving for retirement was not
understanding how long they
would live and just how much money they would need.
Mayuri Reddy, Sanlam’s marketing strategist, said people were
exercising, losing weight and eating better but did not take into
account that this might increase
their longevity and require them to
save more.
One way to have enough money
in old age is to retire later, she said.
“If a person earning R300 000 a year
has R1-million saved in his retirement funds at 60, and works for
another six years and puts 13% of
their salary away, their retirement
payout will double.
“Working till 70 can triple the
value of retirement payout that
they would receive at 60,” she said.
particular population.”
Researchers hope to confirm
the positive effects of walnuts on
other age-related health
concerns, such as macular
degeneration and cognitive
decline.
More studies linked walnuts to
other health benefits, including
gut and metabolic health and
feelings of satiety. — © The Daily
Telegraph
A UNITED Airlines flight
attendant deployed an
emergency evacuation slide
on an aeroplane after it
arrived in Houston and used
it to exit a plane packed with
passengers, an airline
official said on Tuesday.
“It is our understanding
she deployed it
intentionally,” said United
Airlines spokesman Charlie
Hobart, adding airline
officials had been talking to
her to find out why she
deployed the slide.
In a video shown on
Houston TV station KPRC,
the flight attendant tosses
her bag out of a door behind
the cockpit and slides down
the slide. She grabs the bag
and walks away from the
plane, which was at full stop.
A photo of the airplane
shows it at the gate, with the
slide deployed on the side
opposite the gate.
The flight, with 159
passengers and six crew
members aboard, was from
Sacramento to Houston’s
George Bush
Intercontinental Airport.
The aeroplane, a Boeing
737-900, was taken out of
service for maintenance and
returned to scheduled use.
The flight attendant, who
was not identified, has been
removed from flying duties.
All the others aboard exited
the plane without incident
or injury. — Reuters
Sex bomb
squad stops
the buzz
GERMAN police brought in
a bomb squad and evacuated
a gambling hall when they
heard a strange noise
emanating from a garbage
can, but declared a false
alarm after the source of the
humming sound turned out
to be a sex toy.
Authorities on Tuesday
night cleared about 90
people from the business
and nearby premises and
closed off a street in the
eastern town of Halberstadt
after a staff member heard
suspicious vibrations
echoing from a metal
garbage bin in the men’s
toilet, police said.
Three explosives experts
of the Office of Criminal
Investigation cautiously
examined the contents of the
bin — only to find the
offending object to be not a
bomb, but a battery-powered
penis ring. — AFP
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Panama pandemonium
WESTERN leaders pledged to
crack down on tax dodges by the
rich and powerful yesterday amid a
mushrooming scandal provoked by
revelations of a web of Panamabased offshore financial dealings.
This came amid claims that the
law firm at the heart of the scandal
had clients including drug barons
and entities targeted by international sanctions, including alleged
supporters of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
A day after Iceland’s prime minister stepped down after being
named in a massive leak of 11.5
million confidential documents —
the so-called Panama Papers —
international attention turned to
tax cheats, with Panama’s role in
particular focus.
France led global pressure on the
Latin American nation, saying it
would put Panama back on its own
list of tax havens, four years after it
had been removed.
Finance Minister Michel Sapin
called on the 34-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development to do the same.
Panamanian law firm Mossack
Fonseca is at the centre of the
scandal after its papers were obtained from an anonymous source
by German daily Sueddeutsche
Zeitung.
The first wave of revelations detail the offshore financial activities
of 140 political figures.
‘
BLOWN
COVER: The
cover of
French satirical
weekly Charlie
Hebdo with a
cartoon by
French artist
Vuillemin
under the title
‘Fiscal
Terrorism’
Picture:
CHARLIE
HEBDO/EPA
The client list
allegedly includes
drug dealers and
backers of despots
Many of those identified insist
they have done no wrong. Offshore
financial dealings are not illegal in
themselves, though they may be
used to hide assets from tax
authorities, launder the proceeds
of criminal activities or conceal
misappropriated or politically inconvenient wealth.
In its latest batch of reports,
Sueddeutsche said that Mossack
Fonseca’s client list included “drug
traffickers
from
Mexico,
Guatemala and eastern Europe” as
well as people and companies hit by
US and European sanctions.
“A likely financier of Hezbollah,
people backing the Iranian and
North Korean nuclear programmes
and two alleged Mugabe supporters ” can also be found in the firm’s
files, the newspaper said without
naming the clients.
“At least 22 people and at least 24
companies” with whom Mossack
Fonseca did business feature on
lists of targets for US and European
sanctions, according to the report.
Sueddeutsche said that in certain
cases the business relationship
ended before the sanctions came
into effect but in others continued
for years, flouting punitive measures. — AFP
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Cruz puts brakes on Trump juggernaut in Wisconsin
TEXAS Senator Ted Cruz beat Donald Trump in Wisconsin’s Republican presidential primary yesterday, boosting the odds of a contested national convention in July.
In the Democratic race, Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders claimed a
win over Hillary Clinton, extending
a string of recent victories as he
tries to overcome her overwhelming lead in delegates.
Both of the underdogs went into
the Wisconsin balloting looking to
slow the frontrunners before the
race heads later this month to New
York, the home of both Trump and
Clinton.
“Cruz’s victory means that the
race will almost certainly go all the
way to Cleveland, with a frontrunner, perhaps, but no nomineeapparent,” said Doug Heye, a
Republican strategist.
“The Wisconsin results show
how much damage Trump has done
to himself in recent weeks. Now
he’ll need New York to be his firewall, a word we’ve never before
used with Trump.”
In his victory speech Cruz said
Wisconsin changed the race.
“Tonight is a turning point,” he
said in Milwaukee. “It is a rallying
cry. It is a call from the hardworking people of Wisconsin to the
people of America. We have a
choice, a real choice.”
With all precincts reporting,
Cruz had 48% of the vote to Trump’s
35%, according to AP.
The outcome marks perhaps the
most consequential loss for Trump
since Cruz beat him in the February 1 Iowa caucuses that started
the nomination race.
Copper has become new precious metal
WHILE top miners such as Anglo
American and Glencore are selling
anything from iron ore and coal to
agricultural assets to pay down
debt amid a rout in commodity
prices, they are loath to part with
the best copper resources.
That’s because it’s one of the few
metals expected to be in shortage
by the end of this decade because
cooling investment means not
enough mines are built.
Those with cash to burn are taking an interest, with copper a focus
for miners and financiers gathering
this week for an annual industry
conference in Santiago, Chile, the
world’s biggest producer.
“Copper is the most desirable
commodity,” said Michael Scherb,
founder of mining investor Appian
Capital Advisory in London.
“We are looking very hard at
global copper projects.”
It’s a sign of the times that Rio
Tinto, the second-largest miner,
surprised many by appointing the
head of copper as its next CEO .
BHP Billiton, the biggest, is also
focusing on the commodity as it
seeks investments after adding an
extra $10-billion into its coffers by
cutting dividends and capital
spending.
One obstacle for buyers is that
even indebted miners want to hold
onto what has become the crown
jewel of industrial metals.
Anglo American, the first major
London-based miner cut to a junk
rating, insists it will hold onto its
giant Los Bronces and Collahuasi
copper mines.
“We have no intention of selling
down,” Hennie Faul, Anglo’s CEO
of copper, said in Santiago.
“These are tier 1 world-class assets. Both of those are key for us in
our copper strategy. Both those
mines have got further potential in
years to come when prices are right
and the market is right to expand.”
The value of copper mergers and
acquisitions last year fell to about
$3.1-billion, a five-year low, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
— Bloomberg
Whether Cruz’s victory amounts
to a brief high for him and the
forces aligning to block Trump’s
nomination bid, or something more
lasting, won’t be determined until
the race moves to New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and other
northeast states. Either way, the
loss robbed Trump of momentum.
Republican strategist Steve
Grubbs, who advised Senator Rand
Paul’s failed presidential bid, said
the Wisconsin vote marked a point
at which “Trump’s stall energises a
Cruz surge”. — Bloomberg
Yellow fever
on the rise
in Angola
ANGOLA’S worst outbreak of
yellow fever in three decades
has left 225 people dead and
spread to more than half of the
country’s provinces as the
World Health Organisation
warned that emergency
stockpiles of the vaccine are
depleted.
The mosquito-borne disease
was first detected last year
near the capital, Luanda, at an
open-air market. At least 505
cases of the disease have been
confirmed since December,
Health Minister Luis Gomes
Sambo said this week.
The WHO and the Angolan
Health Ministry have
vaccinated about 90% of
Luanda’s 6 million residents
against the disease, using
vaccines from an emergency
stockpile, according to the
WHO. The vaccination
programme should now be
extended to the rest of the
country, Margaret Chan, WHO
director-general, told
reporters on Tuesday.
With global emergency
stockpiles of the yellow fever
vaccine completely depleted,
the WHO said on its website it
was trying to persuade
manufacturers to divert
shipments destined for routine
immunisation programmes to
emergency stocks. At least
1.5 million doses are needed to
vaccinate the population at
risk in Luanda province alone,
it said. — Bloomberg
Broken hearts
might break
THE death of a life partner
may trigger an irregular
heartbeat, itself potentially
life-threatening, said new
research yesterday into the
risk of dying from a broken
heart.
A trawl of data on nearly a
million Danes showed
an elevated risk, lasting
about a year, of developing
a heart flutter. Under-60s
whose partners died
unexpectedly were most in
peril.
The risk was highest “8-14
days after the loss, after which
it gradually declined”, said a
study published in the online
journal Open Heart.
“One year after the loss the
risk was almost the same as in
the non-bereaved population.”
Several studies have shown
that grieving spouses have a
higher risk of dying,
particularly of heart disease
and stroke, but the mechanism
is unclear. — AFP
Lend us a buck, says SA
SOUTH Africa may tap international capital markets for the first
time in almost two years to
finance a widening budget deficit
after a bond rally reduced borrowing costs.
The government picked Citigroup, Rand Merchant Bank and
Standard Bank as joint lead managers, and Investec Bank as a comanager for a call with investors
yesterday, according to a person
with knowledge of the plan, who is
not authorised to speak publicly
and asked not to be identified.
Africa’s most industrialised
country may choose to sell a
benchmark-sized dollar bond due
in 2026, the person said.
South Africa’s financing needs
have become pronounced as its
budget deficit swelled to an
average of about 4% of GDP in the
past four years.
The country, which last sold
dollar debt in July 2014, included
plans in the budget announced in
February to raise $1-billion
abroad.
“This would be good timing in
my view,” said Kevin Daly, a money manager at Aberdeen Asset
Management in London, who
helps oversee $10-billion in
emerging market debt.
“Yields are generally low and
you have decent market demand,”
he said. — Bloomberg
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Thursday April 7 | 2016
The Times
11
Surf’s up! These astonishing
underwater shots of surfers
were taken off the coast of
Tahiti in French Polynesia.
Pictures:
Ben Thouard, Caters News
LIBYA
VATICAN CITY
UK
Unity government
cements control
Girl going blind has
pope on her ‘bucket list’
Diabetes cases reach
the 422 million mark
LIBYA’S UN-backed unity
government yesterday moved to
cement control over the country’s
finances and institutions after the
rival administration in Tripoli ceded
power in a boost to efforts to end
years of chaos.
The concession by the militiabacked administration that had
controlled Tripoli since 2014 was a
major about-turn for a body that had
made every effort to block the arrival
of prime minister-designate Fayez alSarraj.
It came after UN envoy Martin
Kobler held talks with Sarraj on
Wednesday last week.
The international community has
pleaded with Libya’s warring sides to
stand behind the unity government.
— AFP
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD American girl
who does not know she is gradually
going blind met Pope Francis
yesterday as part of her parents’
“visual bucket list” to show her
people and things while she can still
see.
Elizabeth Myers and her parents,
who live in Lexington, Ohio, were
given special seats at Francis’s
general audience in St Peter’s
Square, where he spoke to them
briefly.
He bent down so his head could
reach the level of Lizzy’s, softly
touched the girl’s eyes with his right
hand and blessed her.
“She was awestruck. She just
teared up,” her mother Christine
Myers, who is Catholic, told
reporters afterwards. — Reuters
THE number of adults with diabetes
has quadrupled worldwide in under
four decades to 422 million, and the
condition is fast becoming a major
problem in poorer countries, a World
Health Organisation study showed
yesterday.
In one of the largest studies to date
of diabetes trends, researchers said
aging populations and rising levels
of obesity across the world meant
diabetes was becoming “a defining
issue for global public health”.
“Obesity is the most important
risk factor for type 2 diabetes and
our attempts to control rising rates
of obesity have so far not proved
successful,” said Majid Ezzati, a
professor at Imperial College London
who led the WHO research.
— Reuters
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Deer’s long, great trek
‘Madonna’ in safe place
Snap polls on the cards
STONE Age humans populated the
Scottish islands with red deer
transported “considerable
distances” by boat, researchers said.
DNA analysis revealed that deer
on Scotland’s northernmost islands
were unlikely to have come from the
closest and seemingly most obvious
places — mainland Scotland, Ireland
or Norway, said the study.
“Our results imply that Neolithic
humans were transporting deer
considerable distances, by sea, from
an unknown source,” said co-author
David Stanton. — AFP
BRITISH street artist Banksy’s only
known surviving work in Italy — a
Naples mural entitled “Madonna
with a pistol” — has been placed
under a protective cover in the hope
of preserving it.
The work is an image of the
Madonna with a pistol in a luminous
aureola above her head.
The move to ensure it cannot be
destroyed follows a campaign by
Banksy fan Alessandro Bello, who
had collected 16 500 signatures with
a petition calling on the local council
to protect the work. — AFP
ICELAND’S coalition parties held
talks yesterday on the government’s
future, a day after the prime
minister’s resignation over the
Panama Papers scandal, which shot
the Pirate Party to the top of polls
ahead of a possible snap election.
Prime Minister Sigmundur David
Gunnlaugsson stepped down on
Tuesday, the first major political
casualty to emerge from the massive
leak of 11.5 million documents
detailing hidden offshore accounts
held by world leaders and
celebrities. — AFP
Movie ‘Ten Years’
mistaken for rom-com
FILM fans in China hoping to watch
controversial Hong Kong movie Ten
Years have apparently given a littleknown US rom-com with the same
title an unintentional boost as they
mistakenly downloaded it instead.
The bleak portrayal of a future
Hong Kong, which has riled China
and won the city’s “best movie”
award, is the polar opposite of the
other Ten Years — a 2011 school
reunion movie starring Hollywood’s
Channing Tatum. — AFP
BANGLADESH
ISRAEL
INDIA
Millions ‘drinking
arsenic-laced water’
Netanyahu on an African
safari to find new allies
Mango lager? Thirst
for craft beer grows
SOME 20 million poor Bangladeshis
are still drinking water
contaminated with arsenic, two
decades after the potentially deadly
toxin was discovered in the supply,
Human Rights Watch said yesterday.
A new report by the rights group
said Bangladesh had failed to take
the basic steps needed to tackle the
problem, which kills 43 000 people a
year, mostly in poor rural areas.
It dates back to the 1970s when the
government drilled millions of
shallow tube wells to provide
villagers with clean water, not
realising the soil was heavily laced
with naturally occurring arsenic.
“Bangladesh isn’t taking basic,
obvious steps to get arsenic out of
the drinking water of millions of its
rural poor,” the report said. — AFP
FOUR decades after his brother was
killed during a rescue operation in
Uganda, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu is embarking
on an African mission of his own —
but with very different aims.
Galvanised by a growing demand
for Israeli security assistance and
his government’s search for new
allies, Netanyahu has put a fresh
focus on improving ties with African
nations.
Part of his push involves a planned
visit to the continent around the 40th
anniversary of the July 1976 hostage
rescue operation that resulted in his
brother Yonatan’s death. His
itinerary has not yet been released
but Netanyahu said he had accepted
an invitation to visit the continent
from African leaders. — AFP
INDIA’S version of craft brewing is
seeing scores of thirsty tipplers
sample everything — from coconut
stout to mango lager — as tastes
mature in a country that has
traditionally only downed strong
liquor “to get a kick”.
Bangalore has more than 25
thriving brew pubs — pubs with
small breweries on the premises —
while India’s other cosmopolitan
cities boasting vast young
populations and expanding middle
classes are also catching on.
“They are becoming more
sophisticated in their tastes.
“We have young customers,
middle-aged and some in their 80s
with their walking sticks,” said
Meenakshi Raju, co-owner of the
Biere Club. — AFP
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OPINIONANDLETTERS
Government must
keep its eye on the
credit-rating target
A
S FORCES intent on removing
President Jacob Zuma for his failure
to uphold the constitution gathered
strength yesterday, a chilling
warning came from another quarter
— Standard & Poor’s.
Cutting its growth forecast for South Africa
this year to 0.8% — in line with the Reserve
Bank — the credit rating agency said pressure
on South Africa’s sovereign rating came
mainly from slow economic expansion.
While some factors beyond our control — a
fall in commodity prices, the depreciating rand
and the drought — are drags on growth, the
agency also flagged low business confidence
triggered by Zuma’s decision to fire Nhlanhla
Nene as finance minister.
S&P associate director
Gardner Rusike told
Bloomberg that, while last Agency
week’s Constitutional
warns that
Court ruling against Zuma
was proof of the strength turmoil risks
of our institutions, the
diverting
resulting political
tensions risked
attention
distracting the
government from getting
down to kick-starting growth.
Herein lies the rub.
The government has to dramatically speed
up implementation of the pro-growth measures
outlined in Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s
Budget — while attempting to see off the
threatened mass action.
Standard & Poor’s decision on SA’s rating,
due in June, is the most important of those to
be made by three rating agencies because it is
already “negative” — one level above junk.
The last thing the country needs right now is
large-scale political turmoil — and yet the
action threatened by opposition forces after
ANC MPs beat off an attempt to impeach Zuma
on Tuesday risks developing into a full-blown
defiance campaign.
It is incumbent on demonstrators and
authorities alike to ensure that protests are
peaceful. At the same time, the government
must keep its eye on the ball and implement
Gordhan’s promised reforms — starting with
an overhaul of cash-guzzling state-owned
enterprises.
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‘Generations: The Legacy’
confirmed yesterday that
veteran actress Connie Ferguson will bid farewell to
the soapie.
POLITICS: ANC politicians called out by EFF’s
Malema DID vote to keep
Jacob Zuma in office
Cyril Ramaphosa‚ Pravin
Gordhan and Mcebisi
Jonas were among the
MPs who voted against a
motion to impeach Zuma.
WATCH: See the outer
space rainbow
The ionosphere plays host
to bright swathes of red
known as airglow, which
can be seen in this video by
the International Space
Station.
JZ is a mortal
wound to SA
THE ANC stoutly defending
Jacob Zuma’s presidency
harks back to the day when
many maintained the earth
was flat. Power corrupts and
Jacob Zuma as president
corrupts absolutely.
The rand gave up all its
gains shortly after the ANC
blocked his impeachment.
The ANC is now
synonymous with corruption.
And if our people don’t want
a growing economy, then
Zuma has corrupted an entire
nation. — Robert Nicolai,
Howick
Vital to register this weekend
THIS coming weekend has
been earmarked as final
registration weekend for the
2016 local government
elections.
The significance of voter
registration cannot be
overemphasised. It enables
citizens to practise their
democratic right so that they
can be eligible to vote.
The right to vote is indeed
precious. It is a right that
many of our struggle icons
and comrades paid the
ultimate price for.
We owe it to these and many
other heroes and heroines to
ensure that we strengthen our
democracy by encouraging
the people of the Western
Cape to register to vote this
weekend.
Within the context of
the Western Cape, your
vote in the upcoming local
government elections must
go beyond merely making
your mark on the ballot
paper.
Your vote must be geared
towards determining the
future of governance in your
ward, municipality and in the
province.
I urge all voters to be aware
Poor investigations let down road victims
Mcabango Hlongwa killed
two people so he could have
been sentenced to 18 years for
the drunken driving charge
alone. We are horrified that
the case was not properly
investigated and the fact that
he allegedly drove without a
licence was either unknown or
not added to the charge sheet.
Many people are found
not guilty, or receive
lesser sentences than they
should, because of poor
investigative work.
South Africans Against
Drunk Driving is in a working
committee with the WHO’s
global alliance of NGOs
advocating for road safety and
road crash victims to ask our
government to improve postcrash investigations, postcrash medical care, collect
correct crash data and to offer
counselling and compensation
to victims. — Caro Smit,
Montrose, Pietermaritzburg
ý COSATU, under its president,
Sdumo Dlamini, won’t dare challenge President Jacob Zuma simply because Dlamini may become
a cabinet minister in the future.
He is gambling with the workers.
— Shavhani Wa Netshifhefhe
ment to question high fees and
work on a solution, but
#FeesMustFall has been highjacked by hooligans, only good at
trashing, burning, breaking and
vandalising. We will pay the price
for the unrealistic demands of
poorly prepared, immature young
thugs at varsity where they cannot cope. — Ruth Liberty
On ‘Is #FeesMustFall
falling?’:
On ‘Defiance
campaign’:
by deceitful and malicious
political propaganda and disinformation. Our democracy is threatened by a clear intent towards a
dictatorship and state capture under a Zuma faction within the
ANC. Power to them is not negotiable, it is grabbed. If those in
cahoots with them sit in compromised silence to protect their
own interests, then it is up to the
people to defend ourselves. —
Eleanor Grace
ý IT STARTED as a noble move-
ý WE HAVE become a people
severely divided and ripped apart
SOUTH Africans Against
Drunk Driving feel that the 10year jail sentence given for the
death of two people by a drunk
driver who had no driving
licence and who did not
render help at the
scene of the crash is
extremely lenient.
The South African Road
Traffic Act allows a nine-year
sentence for drunken driving
that results in death or serious
injury and a R180 000 fine.
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of the sacrifice struggle icons
made when you place your
mark to ensure that we
strengthen our democracy,
that we ensure the Western
Cape becomes a more equal,
nonracial, nonsexist and
prosperous province.
A vote for the ANC in the
Western Cape will be a vote
for the important principles
Solomon Mahlangu, Chris
Hani and OR Tambo sacrificed
their lives for.
— Khaya Magaxa, acting
chairman of the ANC and leader
of the official opposition in the
Western Cape
Go, or we
will make
you go
BY REFUSING to impeach
Jacob Zuma, the ANC has
proved that it places its
personal power and
wealth ahead of the
welfare of South Africa
and its people.
Zuma has been accused
of fraud, of rape, allowing
the Gupta family to
appoint ministers and
more — but he and his
party still maintain he is
the man to lead this
country.
He has trashed the
economy and the legacy of
Nelson Mandela.
Zuma is a disgrace and
an abject failure.
If he had a shred of
concern for the future of
this country, he would
step down.
If a defiance campaign is
necessary to unseat him,
so be it.
Go now, Mr President.
— J M Chipikin, Cape Town
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Harmony in a hard place
Young people in Silvertown on the Cape Flats find salvation from the mean streets through music
I
F YOU entered the word
“Silvertown” into your Google
search engine you are more
likely to find links to horrific
crimes — like the kidnapping of a
three-year-old child while her
allegedly drug-afflicted parents
were arguing on a street corner —
than anything uplifting of the
human spirit. That’s because the
three “towns” (Kew Town,
Silvertown, Bridgetown) that run
along Klipfontein Road, Athlone,
are typical Cape Flats areas long
plagued by drugs, gangs and
unrelenting violence. It is this onesided view of the depressed Flats
that make it onto Special
Assignment or Focus and as staple
news feed for the print media.
Nobody, however, tells you about
the genius of NAC in the heart of
Silvertown.
I had never before set foot in a
New Apostolic Church (NAC),
since doctrinally they were at odds
with my evangelical upbringing; I
mean, praying for “the departed”
sounded downright creepy. But
they had a gift — singing. Like the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir on the
other side of the world, you did not
have to embrace their strange
teachings to know their music was
absolutely world class.
And so I made my way for the
first time to the NAC Easter Music
Festival in Silvertown. What an
experience. In stark contrast to the
drab council houses outside, the
otherwise modest church was
fitted with impressive sound pipes
for the organ, a grand piano and
any number of polished
instruments on the stage. But
it was the more than 120 young
people who caught your
attention. Each one meticulously
attired in elegant black, men and
women.
Most were there to sing from a
difficult repertoire of classical and
gospel music, Negro spirituals and
tough pieces from Handel’s
Messiah. The rest played the range
of instruments, including a
teenager on various keyboards.
MARTIN DAUBNEY
IS PORN’S ability to compromise
or even ruin our real-world sex
lives leading to a grassroots
kickback against XXX material?
Two bodies of work in the past
week seem to suggest that may
be happening.
The first is a study of 366
British women aged 17-69 by the
University of Kent showing that
participants’ desire for “sexual
perfectionism” — drip-fed
through exposure to online
pornography — is stressing out
both them and their male sexual
partners. When asked a series of
questions about their
expectations of sex, the more
women expected to give and
receive perfection, the less they
enjoyed real sex.
According to the study, porninduced performance anxiety is
affecting women’s chances of
climax, and even stopping some
men from rising to the occasion.
(Incidentally, those women who
most expect perfection were also
the most likely to be single — a
sort of Kama Sutra karma). In
POWER OF SONG: Pumeza Matshikiza, seen here with Mexican tenor Rolando Villazon, has come from a small Eastern Cape township to singing in the world’s
greatest opera houses
Picture: ANNE/VILLAZONISTA BLOG
The classy soloist was from
windswept Belhar and the
conductor had performed on the
great musical stages of Europe. All
from the community.
What I was witnessing was not
simply a township church offering
the best musical talent in South
Africa. On display was a grand
sociological experiment that took
young people from the misery of
the Flats and taught them highend musical skills alongside
discipline, focus, grooming and
commitment. Here was a
talent factory if ever you saw one
and without question some of
these youths will graduate to
become gifted national and world
artists.
There is no doubt in my mind
that without the NAC choir many
of these young people would be
lost on the streets, their talents
undiscovered and Silvertown left
even more hopeless. What you
have here is music, culture and
community in ways seldom seen
on the harsh streets outside. I
mention culture because I
believe that one of the disasters of
black life in South Africa is that so
much of the energy or ideals of
youth is being reduced to politics
and little else.
No, don’t give me that old singsong about “seeking first the
political kingdom”. There are
many other dwellings in which
more of our youth can aspire for
greatness, some of which are
music, art, drama and theatre.
Truth is, our youth have become
more adept at destroying works of
art than creating them. We must,
therefore, discourage the idea that
the only existence worth pursuing
is party political, which
increasingly is expressed among
South African youth as violent,
intolerant, aggressive and even
racist. We need balance so that the
many different kinds of talents can
be identified, nurtured and
promoted as the NAC community
does so well with the musical arts
on the Cape Flats.
Last Monday night small groups
of young men slunk past the
church with that all too
‘
Some of these
youths will become
gifted national and
world artists
Porn a yawn that is killing sex drives
addition, sexual perfectionism is
most prevalent in the young. As
we get older, both men and
women worry less about pleasing
others, and instead concentrate
on their own enjoyment.
The second anti-porn pointer is
Time magazine’s current cover
story, “Porn and the Threat to
Virility: Why young men who
grew up with internet porn are
becoming advocates for turning it
off.”
Interviewing porn users from
NoFap — an online resource to
help porn-dependent men quit —
the report features young men
who suffer from porn-induced
erectile dysfunction when faced
with a real-life sex partner.
The story mirrors a trend I
encountered three years ago,
while making Porn On The Brain
for Channel 4. I spoke to 23 of the
UK’s most extreme porn users.
One guy, a 19-year-old who
confessed to masturbating 28
times per day, told me “the porn
is always better” than real sex.
While these men are at the
extreme end of porn usage, their
cautionary tales are useful: being
a sexual flop is most teenagers’
worst nightmare.
This message — that porn isn’t
enhancing real sex, but
‘
Porn sex takes
ages and feels
scripted. I don’t
climax. So why?
scuppering it — is much more
likely to resonate with teenagers
than the fire and brimstone
approach of the anti-pornography
feminists, internet censors or the
Church, especially as kids
intrinsically want to do things
that they aren’t supposed to. Tell
teens they’ll go to hell, or jail, and
they’ll mostly laugh at you. Tell
them they might not be able to
please their sexual partners, and
they may just listen. Most young
adults enjoy sex and want to be
good at it.
Many teenage girls are angry
that they have to perform and
look like porn stars. Many young
men feel they don’t measure up,
too, and they are horrified by the
idea that if they watch porn they
might become sexual aggressors,
when the overriding majority
have never harboured a single
violent sentiment towards
women.
So many women tell me: “I
think he wants porn sex, which I
don’t particularly enjoy, but I go
along with it, only to find out he’s
not really enjoying it either.
“Porn sex is exhausting, takes
ages, it feels scripted and I don’t
climax anyway. What’s the
bloody point?”
It is time for a healthy dose of
“we don’t have to do it like porn,
unless we both want to, in which
recognisable physical movement of
a gangster, the exaggerated
swaying of the body from one side
to the other. Inside the NAC
church were 70 or more mainly
young people playing instruments
and being tested by the conductor
as they sang a difficult few lines
over and over again.
“None of this is an accident. It is
intentional, part of a culture long
established in the church; you
learn to sing before you can read,”
a couple of church leaders tell me.
And so from a young age these
children are inducted into music,
learning to play a simple
instrument like the recorder long
before they come to sing complex
arrangements by John Rutter.
After the most stirring
musical experience in the heart
of Silvertown, who the hell
cares if they pray for the departed?
They are doing a great job
with the living.
case, fine — but ask first, and no
always means no”.
This strikes me as supremely
uncomplicated. Importantly, we
need to get this message to kids
by the age of 13 or 14, as we know
children are routinely watching
porn aged 10. By the time they
reach the age of consent, they’ve
basically seen it all.
And here’s the crux: the Great
Porn Panic is ending not in
bedlam, but boredom. After three
or four years of watching porn, it
seems dull, predictable,
formulaic, heavily scripted.
In fact, it’s this — and not a
guilty conscience — that keeps
pornographers awake at night.
They tell me “there are only so
many ways we can show people
having sex, and we’ve basically
run out of ideas”. For the huge
majority of men who don’t want
their online porn lives to lead to
paid-for sex encounters —
webcams, hook-ups, escorts —
there’s nothing left, save the
unremitting sadness of 3D or
Virtual Reality headsets and,
worse, the futuristic dread of sex
robots. — © The Daily Telegraph
14 The Times Thursday April 7 | 2016
STYLIN’ IT
HANDLED WITH CARE
NICK OF TIME
As close as a
man can get
YOLISA MKELE
ENOUGH is enough. For years now
people with bald chins have been
made to feel like second-class
citizens by men with face carpets.
From “Movember” to
“Decembeard”, hairy man wattles
have become more en vogue than a
lumberjack making free-range
Guatemalan coffee.
Happily, “Shaveril” is here to
reclaim a place in the sun for those
who prefer to keep the bottom of
their heads naked.
Started in the UK by Brickwall, a
creative agency, the concept is
simple: cut your breakfast retainer
off during the month of April.
EYE CANDY: The Khula range of bags incorporates art by Johannesburg painters, photographers and illustrators
Khula’s bag of tricks
High-end shopping meets high art, writes Rea Khoabane
MONIEK van Erven discovered
the South African art scene when
she moved to Johannesburg three
years ago. Originally from The
Netherlands, she fell in love with
Johannesburg’s rhythm, diversity
and people and wanted to give
South African artists a platform
from which to access a wider
audience than just gallery
visitors, so she came up with the
idea of producing wearable art.
She started her brand Khula
(meaning “growth”) one-and-ahalf years ago.
The design of the first bags in
the Khula range was sparked by a
meeting between Van Erven and
well-known luxury bag
entrepreneur Chloe Townsend, of
Missibaba. The result was the
shopping and satchel bags.
The second collection is unisex,
with a high-fashion, edgy look.
The bags feature art by
BLOSS BAGS
Bright, affordable
and out of Africa
LAUNCHED by Sara-Jane
Needham and her partner
Rosheen Kriegler, Bloss & Co is a
luxury handbag and accessories
company in Johannesburg.
It offers brightly coloured,
luxurious leather bags at
affordable prices.
The story behind your bag
collection?
Our bags are named after
friends and
inspirational
women — look
out later in the
year for the ‘‘Thuli
scallop bag”,
inspired by Thuli
Madonsela.
It is a summer
must-have.
photographers and painters
Anastasia Pather, Kwanele
Mboso, Audrey Anderson,
Tanisha Bhana and David Theron.
Theron is inspired by the
meeting point of art and science,
capturing 3D on a 2D canvas.
Photographer Bhana is
fascinated by human and natural
decay, portraying the eternal
cycle of birth-death-rebirth.
Mboso photographs everyday
situations in the Johannesburg
inner city in an abstract way.
Illustrator Anderson records
the changes in the bustling
Joburg suburb of Newtown.
Finger-painter Pather
concentrates heavily on gender
identity, symbolising
Johannesburg as a city of gold
through the use of gold leaf.
Van Erven hopes that her bags
will lead to the artists’ work being
discovered by a global audience.
Who designs the bags?
Four women: myself (Needham),
Kriegler, Camilla Speight and
Marie Rosholt contribute to
the overall look and feel of
each bag and we have input
from our customers.
The inspiration?
Local talent and
potential coming out of
Africa; like Julian and
Trevyn Mcgowan’s
Southern Guild
that’s been exporting South African
design to the international
market for 10 years.
Celebrities who love your bags?
Stylist Jenny
Andrew, radio
personality Redi
Thlabi, businesswoman Wendy
Luhabe, gardening
expert Claire Reid,
Jenny Crwys-Williams
(all glamorous,
“I guess that being a foreigner
helps in seeing the beauty of the
inner city and its people because
I’m not prejudiced by past
experiences and dynamics,” she
said.
“Sometimes it takes a foreigner
to open the eyes of the locals to
what’s right in front of them”.
‘
Sometimes it
takes a foreigner
to open locals’
eyes to what’s in
front of them
talented, working women).
How do you decide on the colours
and styles for a season? We look
at what’s happening in Paris,
London and New York but
keep in mind that South
Africans have their own
specific taste.
Any collaborations?
The collaboration with
botanical artist Kelly
Higgs has been very
successful.
Besides handbags?
A men’s weekend bag (The
Chris); a Nappy Bag (The Lara)
and bag accessories: Purses,
tassels & make-up bags.
Where can I get them?
www.blossandco.com (on sale
now) and by appointment at our
showroom. New styles launching
in May. Bags start at R999 and
range up to R2 700. — Andrea
Nagel
The Dutch designer believes
South African art has more to
offer than tourist prints of lions or
Table Mountain.
“There are a whole lot of
talented artists, with strong
messages expressed through
their art.”
She produces the bags locally.
Van Erven spends a lot of time
visiting art galleries and studios,
selects the art and then invites
the artist to her home, ‘‘Khula
Headquarters”.
She’s proud of being able to
provide a canvas for their work, a
“voice” for their stories and
additional income — the artists
get a share from the sale of each
bag. The bags are available as
holdalls, carryalls, laptop bags
and backpacks.
They can be bought online at
www.khulawear.com and from
Superbalist.com
LONDRÉ TAN BAGS
Putting African
fashion on world map
LILIAN Muhammed is a young
designer who makes leather
handbags and other accessories
for her brand Londré Tan in her
studio in Johannesburg.
Where are you from?
I’m dual citizen — half South
African and half Nigerian,
but moved to South
Africa eight years ago.
Your bag-making
beginnings?
At 19 I started working in
the fashion world as a
style consultant and
decided I wanted to
challenge myself with
designing handbags. I
want to be one of the
people who puts African
LONG DIVISION: Facial hair as a
political statement has its limitations
There is also the option of
posting before and after pictures
accompanied by witty captions for
the social media universe to
marvel at.
Brickwall’s managing director,
Jon Brichto, said: “The idea of
Shaveril came about really as a bit
of fun. We’ve all heard about
trends that encourage you to grow
your facial hair. It seems that
everybody has a beard these days.
“Growing out your facial hair is
no longer a statement — it’s not
that big of a deal.
“What would be a big deal is if
people took up their razors and
decided to stay clean-shaven.
“These days, men are very
attached to their beards — both
literally and figuratively!”
Once you become an official
Shaveril inductee, remember to
pick out a suitably snazzy charity
to which you can dedicate your
newly nude chin.
With that done and dusted you
will not only have furthered the
cause of the marginalised men
who do not keep dust traps under
their noses but there will also be
some unfortunates that will benefit
as well. It’s a win-win.
fashion on the world map.
The Londré Tan style?
Our bags are versatile, but
they’re all modern statement
pieces. We make all our bags
from top-quality real leather with
great finishing.
Inspiration?
I get it from everywhere —
visiting different countries,
admiring the beauty of cities, the
art and the ambience.
Price range?
Our prices start from
R1 500 to R10 000,
depending on the type
of leather used.
Where can I get one?
We retail through our
online store
www.londretan.com
and through our
official retailers in
Sandton City, Kala
Kurves. — Andrea
Nagel
STYLIN’ IT
Thursday April 7 | 2016
The Times
15
TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL
Finding our bucket hat roots
A Durban co-operative
rethinks the way young
people look, writes
Siphiliselwe Makhanya
ONE of Durban’s most popular street brands
was founded by two students who partied
more than their parents approved of.
Khanda Manqele and Wandile Mshengu
created Sophisticated Monkey Brand (SMB)
in 2010 as a “born-free” lifestyle brand
focused on bringing together fashion,
photography, music and other creative
ventures.
“We founded the brand as a movement
which was out to challenge conventional
street culture as it is known, and to show the
youth of South Africa how two young guys
from Durban understand and interpret the
culture from a Durban perspective.”
Mshengu was a design student at the time.
‘‘We just started printing my designs from
design school onto good quality T-shirts and
promoted them at jam-packed raw house
parties in our neighbourhood,” he says.
“Another way we expressed ourselves was
through our Tumblr blog, Basement Word.
We started it to show the rest of the world
what the youth of Durban were up to and, at
the same time, market our clothes. Tumblr
inspired the way we dressed and as soon as
people saw us at events they wanted our
garments and style for themselves.”
The duo teamed up with additional cooperative members Vukile Madlala,
Phumulani Xhakaza, Lwazi Stofela and
Smiso Ngwenya.
The SMB team have diverse talents —
‘
It’s a means for them to
express themselves the
way they want to
without being imprisoned
by conformity
Madlala is the marketing guy; Xhakaza a
musician; Stofela a photographer and
Ngwenya a stylist and ‘‘cool hunter”.
“Our first project was a fashion range
which came to be named #BAP$. #BAP$ is a
representation of the new generation of
youth in Durban and South Africa. It’s a
means for them to express themselves the
way they want to without being imprisoned
by conformity or sticking to any norms,”
says Mshengu.
The #BAP$ clothing label is characterised
by bold, pop-style prints that re-imagine
South African urban and township classics
for post-1994 youths.
NEW RANGE: SMB member Vukile Madlala in
dungarees
Picture: ABHI INDRARAJAN
FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BOLD: Pop-inspired creations from the #BAP$ street label
Their best-seller is the #BAP$ bucket hat,
and their designs have been worn by
celebrities like Nomzamo Mbatha, WTF,
Scoop Makhathini, Maps Maponyane, Big
NUZ, DreamTeam and Riky Rick.
“We’ve sold hundreds of units of the
bucket hat alone. After the success of our
#BAP$ beanie we ventured into the bucket
hat industry because we felt the local
market had forgotten about our bucket-hat
roots as South Africans.”
They are currently trying to excite the
fashion conscious with dungarees. The
bucket hats debuted at R150 but due to
demand, sourcing of better materials and
styles they’re now R250.
“As a brand we don’t believe in making
clients pay for the shortcomings of the
retailer,” Mshengu adds. “We dedicate most
off our time to finding materials at their
source so that they’re cheaper.”
Most of their clientele are students, from
high schools to varsity.
ý The SMB team’s designs are available via
mail order on [email protected]. They
also have a flagship store at Durban’s 8
Morrison Street, and conduct pop stores
which are announced through their social
media channels — @SMB_DBN on Twitter
and SMB_DBN on Instagram.
CULTURE CLUB
Splitting hairs: Bieber’s new bob ignites race row
JUSTIN Bieber’s new dreadlocks are
causing outrage on social media as he is
accused of cultural appropriation.
When you’re Justin Bieber and know
that your every move is analysed by a
rapid online audience you should probably
think twice about doing something
controversial to your hair like getting
dreadlocks. But it seems not. The 22-yearold singer unveiled his new hair style on
Instagram with four pictures.
While the pictures totted up 1.7 million
likes on his account, when Bieber later
unveiled his new hairdo on stage at the
iHeartRadio Awards, social media critics
accused him of appropriating traditionally
black culture.
It’s not the first time that a white
celebrity has been accused of cultural
appropriation. Miley Cyrus and Kylie
Jenner have both been on the receiving
dreadlocked man on the New York metro
over his hair.
Another video captured the moment two
students at San Francisco State University
got into a physical fight over what Bonita
Tindle saw as ‘‘cultural appropriation”.
‘‘You’re saying I can’t have a hairstyle
because of your culture? Why?” asks the
man, Cory Goldstein, in the 46-second clip.
GOLDILOCKS:
‘dreadlocks’
Justin
Bieber
sporting
Picture: I-D.VICE.COM
end of criticism when they appeared in
shoots with dreadlocks.
And just last week, a video went viral of
a black woman confronting a white
‘
You’re saying I can’t
have hairstyle because
of your culture? Why?
‘‘Because it’s my culture,” Tindle replies.
The pair briefly disagree about the origin
of dreadlocks before Goldstein says: ‘‘You
know what, girl, you have no right to tell
me what I can and cannot wear.”
The clip was viewed over a million times
in just one day — but it seems one person
who missed the furore was Bieber. And his
team of advisers. Or perhaps Bieber, like
Goldstein in his equally controversial
response to what he called physical
‘‘harassment” over his hair, just doesn’t
understand why his hair is proving so
divisive in the black community. The
singer previously defended Kylie Jenner
when she was accused of cultural
appropriation for having corn rows.
‘‘Guys leave her alone, we’re all trying to
figure it out and she happens to be under a
microscope!” he wrote on Instagram.
‘‘I’m the first to know this. But saying
she’s being racist because she has her hair
in braids is ridiculous.”
He then got cornrows himself. — Staff
reporter, © The Telegraph
16 The Times Thursday April 7 | 2016
HOROSCOPES, FOOD & FASHION
ONES TO WATCH
COLCANNON
Lesley is first and best
INGREDIENTS
500g curly kale or cabbage,
cored and shredded
ON TUESDAY night, the
opening night of South Africa
Fashion Week ended with the
Lufthansa First Best
Collections.
At the end of the five shows
Lesley Whitter of Heart &
Heritage was announced as
the winner.
The competition was
initiated to give young
designers an opportunity to
show their collections at one
of South Africa’s premium
fashion events.
The theme for this year’s
collection was “dress for your
flight”.
The other finalists were
Somerset Jane, T’Niche,
Lumin, and Greerkyle.
“The Lufthansa First
Best Collections is an
important platform for
next-generation designers
who have been in the
industry for less than a
decade,” said Lucilla
Booyzen, director of SA
Fashion Week.
“Although all the finalists
possess a particularly strong
signature, good design alone
is not enough to help good
young designers become
brilliant designers.”
Lufthansa’s Andre Schulz
said:
“Certain criteria were
under the spotlight.
The importance of having
general business acumen
was equally weighted against
1kg potatoes, peeled and cut
into large cubes
2 leeks, washed and sliced
250ml (1 cup) milk
125g butter, cubed
Salt and black pepper
Pinch of ground mace
METHOD
Cook the cabbage in salted
boiling water until tender.
WINNING
STYLE:
Lesley
Whitter in her shop Convoy
a designer’s self-awareness.”
Besides being a
designer, Whitter is also the
brains behind Convoy
at the Bamboo Lifestyle
Centre in Melville,
Johannesburg, a shop that
showcases the work of five
fashion designers and a
jeweller.
Her winning collection was
made up of easy-to-wear
neutral pieces with flowing
lines, some with interesting
patterns.
One of her prizes was a
return air ticket to Berlin to
attend Berlin Fashion Week
in June/July. — Staff reporter
In another pot, cook the
potatoes in salted boiling water
until soft. Drain the cabbage.
Drain and mash the potatoes.
In a large pan, bring the leeks
and milk to a simmer and cook
for 10 minutes or until tender.
Add potatoes and butter and
stir over low heat until well
combined.
Add the cabbage, season with
salt, pepper and mace, and serve
immediately.
Serves 4-6.
ý Recipe from
STARS
full of urges to take control? Don’t we pay a heavy
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CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20)
ARIES (March 21 - April 20)
“Expect the worst and you invite the
worst.” Or so the optimists say. “No,” say
the pessimists, “Expect the best and you
invite disappointment.” Only realists know
the truth. Official membership of the Realists’
Society, though, is only ever granted to those who
can prove they are not pessimists in realist’s
clothing. Just as being overly hopeful clouds
judgment, excessive gloom creates sorry selffulfilling prophecies. Stick, under today’s new moon
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TAURUS (April 21 - May 21)
Superheroes don’t all dress in Lycra onesies. Superheroines don’t all have capes.
How then, can any of us accurately identify the special individuals who strive each
day to make the world a better place? We can’t
assess them on their apparent invincibility, either.
True miracle workers are often surprisingly sensitive, even vulnerable. Extraordinary powers don’t
prevent us from feeling emotions. They just enable
us to keep going, even when a part of us wants to
give up. You can be a legend today. Let the mystic
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GEMINI (May 22 - June 22)
Let us reprise the hypothetical question
with which we commenced your previous
prediction and ask: “If this arrangement or
that plan collapses, how much longer can it
be until some other situation falls apart?” People
who feel insecure often do unwise things to protect
themselves. They try too hard, make plans that
backfire, which then make them even more insecure.
Overconfidence is, of course, no more preferable.
But don’t you feel that steady faith is warranted
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CANCER (June 23 - July 23)
Many a wise soul has said that we should
never put off till tomorrow what we can
do today. It's good advice. I must incorporate it into one of my zodiac forecasts one of these days. Oh, wait. I’ve just said it
here to you. Perhaps today you will just naturally
find yourself doing what you’ve been intending to
do for some while yet have not actually managed to
do. Or maybe that will happen tomorrow. What
matters now is not what you mean to do or don’t
YOUR
Dear Jonathan, I just saw that a comet or asteroid hit Jupiter recently. What do you think is
the significance of this (if any) especially for Sag? I’m thinking it must be something great
(probably because I’m a Sag, ha ha)! Frances
Dear Frances, It is not uncommon for large passing planetesimals to be drawn in by Jupiter’s
gravity and meet a sticky end. Some, indeed, say that this enormous planet works with
Saturn, as a team of guardians, keeping the inner solar system (that is, Earth) free from
dangerous debris. Tomorrow, I’ll discuss the astrological meaning of this.
intend to do. It’s what you do and when you do it.
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LEO (July 24 - August 23)
People think: “I can’t change my life, it is
the way it is and, though I may dream of a
different future, I have no chance of ever
attaining this.” Yet even if they persist
with such pessimistic thought, their future will
inevitably differ from their present. The way in
which it differs will depend on the choices that they
make and the steps that they take. If we enter into
a positive relationship with our own power to alter
tomorrow, we gain so many more pleasing options.
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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23)
Yesterday, I told you that you were going
to have a good day. Did you have one? Do
you think that to some small extent, at
least, my emphatic statement of encouragement contributed to your positive experience?
Be careful how you answer. What if I were to tell
you that your outlook today was not so good?
Actually, all is fine. But it is so important that you
now refuse to let anyone or anything spoil your
confidence or erode your faith. Trust what you
know to be true and trust, too, your most inspiring
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LIBRA (September 24 - October 23)
Think of a number. Double it. Now add it to
your date of birth and divide by the
number of legs in a pair of trousers. Okay.
Let’s stop there. Sorry if you were already
dutifully performing the exercise and wanted to
know the result. But better we frustrate you here
and now than let you confuse yourself later. It is so
important to recognise that you are not engaged in
any exercise that will respond to a process of logical
deduction, no matter how well informed. Only what
you feel can guide you now. It’s the dark of the
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SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22)
Can you rise above whatever is bothering
you? It sounds easy enough until we stop
to think about what happens to us when
we become upset about situations. They
start to grow. In our minds they get blown up out
of all proportion. They end up taking on such
significance we start to feel as if they are towering
over us. Inwardly, we must find some way to give
ourselves the extra height. That’s all that you now
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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21)
What will people think? How will they
react? If this leads to that then that may
bring an undesirable result. Yet how much
joy and levity can there be in a life that is
King Canute famously went to the seashore to show that he could not turn back
the tide. He wasn’t, as some misleading
accounts imply, trying to attain the impossible. To the contrary, he was explaining that
when you are up against something impossible, you
have no option other than to accept it and adapt to
it. It is now important for you to be respectful of a
power that is greater than yours. Indeed, only by
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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19)
Though we know that we shouldn’t, we
are often tempted to subdivide society
into the kind of people we like — and the
type that we are not so fond of. Yet can we
be always sure that we have applied the correct
categorisations? What if we have lumped someone
into one group when they belong in another? What,
indeed, if the most reprehensible characters of all
are those who let themselves form judgments too
quickly on the basis of insufficient information? Be
wary and wise today. It’s the dark of the moon.
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PISCES (February 20 - March 20)
If hope springs eternal, what does fear
do? The answer, to a degree, depends on
whom we address the question to. Some
scientists these days are sceptical about
the idea that anything is actually eternal. “Eternity,” they insist, “is an unproven concept. Everything must have a beginning and an end.” Well, if
they are talking about fear, I agree. And if they are
talking about hope? Well, who on earth would ever
want to put an end to that? There is definitely no
reason to limit hope today. Let your spookily
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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE | Find five differences in these pictures of Jhené Aiko
Thursday April 7 | 2016
The Times
THE TIMES CROSSWORD
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© The Times, London
Pictures: FILMMAGIC
arriving at iHeartRadio Music Awards in Inglewood, California, at the weekend
SOLUTIONS
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1 The carpenter is leaving a book
1 Farmland planted by Lord is best
(7,2,5)
9 Fail to inhibit one fitter’s reckless charm (9)
10 Legal scholar’s right to books
in excellent binding (5)
11 Girl has to survive on nothing
(5)
12 Daughter hurried to collect
carpets in shop (9)
13 Sort of pan, new, with thin
handle? (3-5)
15 Nature so-called is alien to Man
at first (6)
17 How one hopes to go from gym:
in clothes (6)
19 Acts as member of royal corps,
making notes (8)
22 Spill entire can that’s full of
juice (9)
23 Under curfew, turn to remove
electronic device? (5)
24 Suss out missing millions in
money (5)
25 Failure to concentrate, dropping out at end (9)
26 Meal inexpertly prepared, not
following any recipe? (14)
may be standing (7)
3 Audible signal on end of satellite
dish (5)
4 Cut up after head of panel re-
placed by English singer’s wife (8)
5 Regretting eating too many bitter
herbs? (6)
6 Shock speaking opportunity for
stars (9)
7 Piped music starts to play in bar,
receiving exclamation from Scotsman (7)
8 Office has grip on power over
administrative district (4-10)
14 As we eat in, cooking Chinese
(9)
16 One missing a busy type that’s
made to go inside (8)
18 Where Friar keeps supplementary rations? (4,3)
20 Strong criticism from three people left to carry bomb (7)
21 Pedalling endlessly over one
strip of beach (6)
23 Creature caught in huge netting
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OLIVER BROWN
JASON Day knew he had reached
his nadir when he woke up one
morning from a drunken stupor, unable to recall the faintest detail
about the night before.
He was 12 years old.
His father, Alvin, who had eked
out a living in an abattoir in their
down-at-heel corner of Queensland,
Australia, had died a few months
earlier from stomach cancer.
Alvin, in many respects, was a
deplorable figure, given to beating
his son black and blue after a round
if he dared to shoot a poor score. But
the loss of such a savage disciplinarian in his life threatened to send the
young Jason veering off the rails.
The memory magnifies the degree
of Day’s reinvention since. Where
Rory McIlroy grew up a prodigy, and
Jordan Spieth reaped the benefits of
a comfortable upbringing in suburban Dallas, Day has blazed his
trail to the world No 1 spot from the
ragged edge. At an age when his two
chief rivals were already scratch
golfers, Day was, relatively speaking, an impoverished nobody, whose
first makeshift three-wood had to be
salvaged from a rubbish tip.
How tantalising, then, that he
approaches potentially his greatest
triumph at Augusta, golf’s ultimate
bastion of privilege. Day was raised
in a house that was, according to his
own description, “old and broken
down”, and now the Australian finds
himself the favourite to don the
Green Jacket at a golf club so impossibly exclusive that even the
press officer, Craig Heatley, happens to be New Zealand’s richest
man.
Day has won six tour events since
July — by way of contrast, no other
player in that time has won more
than two. His swing is so immac-
‘
If he finds it here,
there is nobody
who will beat him.
He is that good
ulately grooved that there is almost
no weakness in a game that combines brutally long hitting with a
deft touch perfectly suited to Augusta’s treacherous greens. If Day
brings his best this week, there is, in
the estimation of many, no one to
touch him.
David Duval, the former Open
champion, said: “If he finds it here,
there is nobody who is going to beat
him. He is that good.”
Day refuses to be swept along by
the hyperbole. He argued that he
would far rather the chasing pack
had their chances talked up, quipping: “My ideal Sunday? Probably a
Spieth-McIlroy-Fowler-Scott-Watson-Mickelson finish. That would be
a lot of fun.”
Day will be accompanied, as ever,
by Col Swatton, the caddie who has
become his surrogate father since
they met at Kooralbyn International
School near Brisbane, the same
place that produced Olympic champion Cathy Freeman. Swatton, then
Kooralbyn’s coach, would scream at
him to stop drinking and to sort his
life out, and he has carried the advice with him. On the course, he and
his bagman form an inseparable
brains trust, even if he plays at such
a painstaking pace that he is increasingly known on tour as “Jason
All-Day”. — © The Daily Telegraph
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Joshua: The biggest thing since Tyson?
OLYMPIC
champion
Anthony
Joshua is on the cusp of what he calls
“the ultimate double” this weekend
and fancies it could help him capture
the boxing world’s imagination like
no heavyweight since Mike Tyson in
his heyday.
Nothing ignites the hype as feverishly as the emergence of a big man
with a big punch and the unbeaten
26-year-old super-heavyweight 2012
gold medallist — chiselled, 1,98m
and with dynamite in his fists — fits
the bill perfectly.
On Saturday, he fights America’s
IBF champion Charles Martin at
London’s O2 Arena and can become
the first boxer to hold a version of
the professional world heavyweight
title, while being reigning champion
in the Olympics’ heaviest weight
division.
“Hmm, Olympic champion and
world pro champion at the same
time. It’s the ultimate double really.
That would be really cool if I could,”
Joshua said.
Only exceptional fighters win
global professional titles while still
reigning Olympic gold medallists,
including Muhammad Ali, who beat
Sonny Liston for the world title in
1964 while holding the 1960 Olympic
light-heavyweight crown. Boxing
greats such as Sugar Ray Leonard,
Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Patterson have also achieved the feat.
Joshua has won all 15 of his paid
fights inside the distance — just 32
rounds in all in his 30-month career
— leaving even Klitschko marvelling at “his amazing potential, like
no other boxer I’ve seen”.
Tickets for Saturday’s fight, which
will be screened pay-per-view on
Sky Sports TV in Britain, sold out in
90 seconds.
Yet Joshua so far seems immune
to the clamour.
“Right now I’ve still got that underdog mentality to keep on proving
myself time and again. I’m not going
to believe the hype,” he said.
Martin has dismissed Joshua as
“green”, a novice ripe for the taking.
To which Joshua just smiled and
said: “They’re all just waiting for me
to fail. Listen, they’ll be waiting a
long time.” — Reuters
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Thursday April 7 | 2016
Sprinkle with Proteas
How to pick
your IPL side
BIG SHOT:
Kings XI
Punjab
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David Miller
plays a shot
during an
IPL match
against
Mumbai
Indians
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TELFORD VICE
YOU’RE a South African who
couldn’t care less who wins the
2016 Indian Premier League,
which starts on Saturday.
But you’re casting about for a
team to support anyway.
Which one to choose? Delhi
Daredevils or Kings XI Punjab.
Which to shun? Sunrisers
Hyderabad.
Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy,
Imran Tahir and Chris Morris will
play for Delhi, who will be
coached by the SA team’s former
“performance director”, Paddy
Upton. Which makes the Daredevils the most Saffer-soaked side
in the tournament.
The addition of hero-hitter
Carlos Brathwaite to their equation means Delhi will also be
among the best supported sides.
Kings XI Punjab count David
Miller, Kyle Abbott and Farhaan
Behardien among their members.
That Miller will captain them
might swing your vote.
“He has displayed outstanding
batting abilities and a cool temperament in many high-pressure
situations,” Kings XI coach
Sanjay Bangar said when Miller
was appointed.
Since he became an under-13
provincial player, Miller has
stepped across a boundary 448
times in all formats. But he has
done so as the captain just four
‘
Two new teams
were created,
because it’s the
IPL and they can
times — three of them at the helm
of KwaZulu-Natal in the Africa
Cup in September.
His team won two of those
matches, but he suffered two firstball dismissals and scored five in
his other innings.
Of course, you might be more
interested in the fact that AB
de Villiers is back in the colours of
Royal Challengers Bangalore,
that Kolkata Knight Riders have
Morné Morkel in their attack, that
Faf du Plessis will take guard for
Rising Pune Supergiants, or that
Dale Steyn will turn out for
Gujarat Lions.
Who, you ask?
Those last two named teams
are included because Chennai
Super Kings and Rajasthan
Royals have been suspended in
the fallout of a corruption and
match-fixing scandal.
Hey, it’s the IPL, they can do
what they like.
The Kolkata Knight Riders
dressing room promises to be
quieter than most, what with the
famously taciturn Jacques Kallis
as their head coach.
How Kallis will fare in the wake
of his stellar playing career will
be keenly watched.
Jonty Rhodes is Mumbai
Indians’ fielding coach, while
Allan Donald will corral bowlers
at Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Pune are odds-on to be the
smartest team in town: MS Dhoni,
Stephen Fleming and Eric Simons
— their captain, head coach and
bowling coach — and Du Plessis
are among cricket’s sharpest
thinkers.
South Africa’s contingent of
players stands at 14, making the
country the second-biggest supplier of foreigners after Australia’s 24.
Street cred beckons
for Leicester players
Chiefs keen on Cape
Town home games
Arrows’ Larsen aims
to up his game
Force India play
a waiting game
LEICESTER’S mayor wants to
rename the city’s streets after
Leicester City’s players if they win
the Premier League title, he told
yesterday’s edition of The Times in
the UK.
Supporters have pushed for top
scorer Jamie Vardy to be
honoured, but mayor Peter Soulsby
wants to see every member of the
team included. — AFP
KAIZER Chiefs are open to
negotiating playing more league
matches in Cape Town in the next
campaign, although at this stage
no discussions are planned.
Chiefs’ brand manager Dara
Carroll confirmed yesterday the
club would be keen to host more of
their home matches at the Cape
Town Stadium in the 2016-2017
season. — Mark Gleeson
GOLDEN Arrows coach Clinton
Larsen wants to improve his
qualifications.
The 45-year-old said yesterday
that he was close to registering for
a Uefa A licence.
Larsen holds a Safa level one
and two other coaching certificates
and said it was high time he
improved his qualifications.
— Tiyani wa ka Mabasa
FORCE India are waiting for
Formula One’s 2017 rules to be
finalised before taking the next
step in their complaint to the EU
about how the sport is run and
revenues distributed.
Force India and Sauber filed a
joint complaint in September
asking the EU competition
authorities to investigate the
sport’s governance. — Reuters
BENNI McCarthy will be looking
for a new job next season after
Belgian side Sint Truiden confirmed he would leave his post as
assistant coach at the end of the
current campaign.
McCarthy follows head coach
Chris O’Loughlin out the door as
the Belgians put a new technical
team in place after narrowly avoid-
Benni gets shown door by Belgian bosses
ing relegation this season.
“Sint
Truiden
and
Benni
McCarthy have mutually agreed
not to continue their collaboration.
McCarthy will remain with us until
the end of the current season.
“We thank him for the good
co-operation and wish him much
success,” said the club.
McCarthy and South Africanraised O’Loughlin will remain in
charge until the club completes
their Europa League qualification,
which started with a 1-0 defeat at
home to Mechelen at the weekend.
If they do not finish top of their
qualification pool, the pair will have
five more games with the club.
Bafana Bafana midfielder May
Mahlangu is understood to be valued by Sint Truiden and his future
The Times
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Tough
game for
smaller
unions
CRAIG RAY
LEGENDARY flyhalf Naas
Botha once said: “The Currie
Cup isn’t won in May.”
This year he can update his
quote to say the tournament
won’t be won in April.
The Currie Cup kicks off on
Friday, although the first
phase is really the defunct
Vodacom Cup in a new frock
without a trophy at the end.
SA Rugby are not even
calling it the Currie Cup; their
website refers to this phase as
the “Provincial Cup”.
“The change means that
more Currie Cup rugby will be
played — 166 matches
compared with 76 last year —
with every team facing every
other team in the first stage of
the competition between April
9 and July 23,” SA Rugby said
in December.
The first phase will spend
nearly four months
determining the final nine
teams for the premier Currie
Cup division later this year.
Although there are 15
participating teams, six — the
Blue Bulls, EP Kings, Free
State Cheetahs, Golden Lions,
Sharks and Western Province
— have little to play for. They
are concurrently fielding
teams in Super rugby and
have been ring-fenced.
So the eight remaining
unions — the Leopards,
Pumas, Griffons, Valke,
Border, SWD, Boland and
Griquas — and Namibia, are
fighting for three places.
For the Super rugby unions,
this portion of the tournament
is little more than keeping
contracted players busy and
ready for potential Super
rugby call-ups.
‘
Problem for
unions if they
don’t make
premier division
But for ambitious smaller
unions such as Griquas and
the Pumas, it’s a serious
problem if they don’t make it
to the premier division.
“The Pumas finished sixth
in last year’s Currie Cup and
when the competition’s
committee started drafting
proposals for the new Currie
Cup structure, we believed we
would be in the premier
division without having to
qualify,” Pumas president
Hein Mentz said.
“We as the Pumas have had
to qualify four times for the
premier division. Each time it
has been because of changes
in regulations. So once again
we have to prove we are good
enough to play in the premier
division. But we’ll take it on
the chin.”
will be discussed in the coming
months. Mahlangu has a contract
until the end of the season, with no
option in place to renew, meaning
he will become a free agent in July.
McCarthy joined Sint Truiden in
September in his first full coaching
job. Earlier he was a striker consultant with Scottish side Hibernian. — Nick Said
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Sundowns’ big target
MARC STRYDOM
PITSO Mosimane earned a
“double” by winning the PSL’s
coach of the month award for January and February, but even that
feat was overshadowed by the
prospect of Sundowns’ CAF Champions League match against AS
Vita Club on Sunday.
Downs meet the highly regarded
Democratic Republic of Congo
campaigners on an artificial surface in the weekend’s away leg of a
second-round tie, the winners of
which will reach the group stages.
Mosimane said his own experience playing in tough venues as
Bafana coach and with Sundowns
Brazilians to face As Vita on artificial pitch in Kinshasa
last year would stand the Brazilians in good stead to play at Stade
Tata Raphael in Kinshasa.
He singled out his side’s 3-1 defeat in Lubumbashi against TP
Mazembe in last year’s Champions
League.
“There are venues that, when
you get there, you feel you are on
your own. Lubumbashi is still in my
system,” the coach said.
Mosimane said Sundowns would
aim to play clever, positive football
in Kinshasa.
“We believe we can win, we believe we can score.
we need to believe against Vita.
“Today we watched the replay of
the game this season that really
stretched us — the game against
Pirates at Orlando Stadium.
“The second half was tough for
“The main reason for me coming
to Sundowns was the vision of the
club in Africa, and I had the fever
from five years of not being in the
PSL. Sundowns are a very strong
team and what’s important is that
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us. We’re working on improving on
that game, on what we did right and
what made us hang onto the twogoal lead from the first half.
“We had the mentality that said
we can score and one that said we
can hang in there. And that’s how
we can get a decent result in Kinshasa,” he said.
Kaizer Chiefs’ Willard Katsande
prevented a clean sweep of the
monthly awards to Sundowns yesterday by winning player of the
month award for January.
Brazilians midfielder Kekana
won it for February.
Katsande credited his award to
the hard work of his Chiefs teammates.
SA Rugby
has a plan.
Serious
LIAM DEL CARME
KEEP IT ON THE LOWDOWN: Fifa’s new president Gianni Infantino has been implicated in a dodgy television rights deal that occurred while he was the legal
chief of Uefa. Swiss police have searched the Uefa headquarters and taken documents related to the deal
Picture: EPA
Fifa boss embroiled in TV rights scandal as cops search Uefa HQ
SWISS police yesterday searched
Uefa headquarters as part of a
“criminal mismanagement” investigation into a Champions
League television rights deal
signed by Fifa’s new president,
Gianni Infantino.
The existence of the deal,
signed when Infantino was Uefa’s
legal chief, was revealed this week
SOUTH Africans who routinely
give up a good night’s sleep when
the Proteas tour Australia have
good news regarding the team’s
test series there in November.
According to the Sydney Morning
Herald, the third test will be a daynight match in Adelaide. It will be
SA’s first Test under lights.
in the Panama Papers leaks. But
the Swiss Office of the AttorneyGeneral implied that it had suspicions before the leaks came out.
Police had requested “sight of
the contracts between Uefa and
Cross Trading and Teleamazonas”, the two companies involved in the sale of broadcast
rights in Ecuador for the 2006 to
2009 Champions League. Infantino
has strongly denied any wrongdoing.
Uefa said it was providing “all
relevant documents in our possession and will co-operate fully”.
Uefa’s sports marketing partner, Team Marketing, sold the
rights to Cross Trading, a firm
owned by Argentinian father and
son duo Hugo and Mariano Jinkis,
both of whom are facing corruption charges in the US. The duo
bought the rights for $111 000 and
then sold them for $311 000.
Infantino, who replaced the disgraced Sepp Blatter as Fifa’s president in February, said he “never
personally dealt with Cross Trading nor their owners”. — AFP
Fewer early mornings for cricket fans
“That looks likely,” a Cricket SA
source said yesterday.
Under day-night playing conditions the match should start at
5.30am SA time. For the previous
test SA played in Adelaide, in
November 2012, committed fans
tumbled out of bed for a 2am start.
Adelaide hosted the inaugural
day-night test — between Australia
and New Zealand — in November.
Played with a pink ball, it ended
inside three “days” in a three-wicket win for the home side.
SA are due to start the series in
Perth before playing a Test in
Hobart for the first time.
There will only be three Tests —
FORMER Springbok coach
Heyneke Meyer may have
treated it like a television
licence renewal notice, but SA
Rugby insists that its strategic
transformation plan (STP) will
be taken seriously
. . . this year.
SA Rugby was due to deliver
a progress report tomorrow to
the so-called Eminent Persons
Group (EPG), the authors of
transformation guidelines to
sports codes, but the meeting
has been postponed. The
ruling party apparently has
bigger fish to fry.
“Due to current political
developments we’ve had to
postpone the meeting,” said
Department of Sport and
Recreation spokesman Esethu
Hasane. “Hopefully we can
have it later this month, or
early next month. The meeting
needs to happen soonest.”
When the meeting
eventually takes place SA
Rugby will have to explain
why Meyer in all but one of the
Springboks’ 11 tests last year
failed to field the prescribed
minimum number of black
players.
To meet targets set for 2019
by when half the team and
management have to be black,
Meyer last year was supposed
to field seven black players in
his match day squad of 23.
The EPG dictates a target of
at least 50% generic black
representation for a team to be
regarded as having been
transformed. Within that 50%
the expectation is that half of
that will be black African.
one fewer than the respective
boards had agreed to bilaterally.
Apparently Cricket Australia is
reluctant to schedule more than six
tests in a summer in which they will
also host Pakistan for three matches. Pakistan are also likely to end
their rubber under lights, but in
Brisbane. — Telford Vice