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MESSAGE FOR JOBURG WOMEN PAGE 9

STORIES FROM THE AFRICAN CONTINENT PAGE 7

YOUR RESPONSE WILL DETERMINE YOUR DESTINY

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Foxy Chix PAGE 11

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Gunman kills police officer Moses Moyo and Persistance Nkomo news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

police officer was shot dead and another critically wounded when an unknown man opened fire in Joubert Park on Wednesday evening this week. Police spokesperson Lt-Col Katlego

Mogale said the shooting happened at the corner of King George and Wolmarans streets. “The members stopped a suspicious vehicle with three occupants and approached it to conduct a search. One of the occupants was aggressive, the constable tried to calm him down but another occupant pulled out a firearm and shot the officer in his right eye, then fired another shot, killing the other officer,” Lt-Col Mogale said. The wounded officer was rushed to hospital in a critical condition.

Ward-based community policing Moses Moyo moses@inner-city-gazette.co.za

he City of Johannesburg recently launched a ward-based community policing programme. During the launch, the Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg,

According to unverified sources the service pistols of the policemen were stolen. “We appeal to anyone who might have witnessed what happened to come forward with the information,” said Mogale. Hillbrow CPF chairman Denzil Goldstone says the community is helping police to track down the criminals. “We have mobilised to get as much information as we can.” People can contact the Hillbrow police station at 011 488 6511.

DA officials Jack Bloom, Mmusi Maimane, Bheka Gumede and businessman Vorster Rasodi at the department’s offices. PICS : INNER-CITY PRESS AGENCY

DA challenges dept over debt Persistance Nkomo persie.nkomo@inner-city-gazette.co.za

T Public Safety MMC Sello Lemao, Mayor Parks Tau and JMPD chief Chris ngcobo. PIC : ENOCH LEHUNG

Clr Mpho Parks Tau made an undertaking that there will be an extensive communication and engagement with all relevant stakeholders as the project is being rolled out. The City committed itself to working closely with the South African Police Service (SAPS), Community

Police Forums, Ward Committees, neighbourhood watches, accredited private security agencies and other formations on the ground to achieve a shared objective of a safer City. The team has commenced with a process of engaging and communicating with the ward councillors, stakeholders and all other political structures on the ground. The engagement process started last week with meetings that were convened by the Public Safety MMC, between the multi-disciplinary teams and various stakeholders.

he DA has called the Gauteng Health Department to pay all its service providers on time after some small businesses had to close due to the department’s refusal to pay its debt, Mmusi Maimane DA spokesperson says. He adds that the department has not been paying Vorster Rasodi, director of Dikolobedi Transport CC, since 2000 and Rasodi had to close his business. “Rasodi did everything within his power to have the matter solved but to no avail. We have given the department a memorandum and they have to settle the debt in 30 days.” Maimane adds that the department’s failure to pay its bills on time is destroying small businesses, damaging the economy and is detrimental to job creation. Rasodi says the department owes him about R5.5 million with interest, and he lost his business because of the non-payment of his services. “I lost everything that I have worked for, and I am blacklisted everywhere.

My children had to drop out of university because I could no longer afford to pay the fees,” said Rasodi. He said the loss of his business damaged a lot more things in his life and he still owes the people who were working for him. “If they pay me on time, I will be able to settle my debts and get my life on track again,” he says. DA Gauteng Health spokesperson MPL Jack Bloom said he is alerted to numerous cases of non-payment and underpayment of service providers every week. “The department has to fix up their financial cases with people on businesses and we are going to put more pressure on them until they make the payment,” he said. He said they will use the same method used in Western Cape and they are sure they will succeed in making them pay in 30 days. By the time of going to print attempts to obtain comment from the department’s spokesperson Simon Zwane had not succeeded, telephone calls were unanswered and his cellphone was on voicemail or off.

Woman found dead in Yeoville flat Akhona Zibonti akhona@inner-city-gazette.co.za

his week a woman was found dead in a building in Fortesque Street, says police spokesperson Cst Thabo Malatji. He says police re-

ceived a complaint of a foul smell coming from the room she shared with her boyfriend and boyfriend’s brother. “On arrival they found a nearly decomposing body which showed signs of strangulation and struggling.” Cst Malatji says police

suspect that her boyfriend has some information about the death, but he has not been found. No arrests have been made. Meanwhile Hillbrow police arrested two men for alleged possession of a hijacked motor vehicle and illegal weapons in Caroline Street, according to police spokesperson Cst Nkosinathi Mgimeti. “Capital Air vehicle tracking company tracked a silver Avanza that was hijacked in Ivory Park and alerted the police, who found two suspects inside the vehicle, and also found one of them in possession of an unlicensed gun and ammunition,” Cst Mgimeti adds.

CBD gunman nabbed Crime Reporter crime@gazettelive.co.za Joburg police have arrested a 26 year-old Malawian man who was found in possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition at, says police spokesperson W/O Xoli Mbele. He explains that police on patrol noticed a suspicious man at corner Bree and Quartz streets. “They searched him and recovered a firearm with no serial number and eight rounds of live ammunition.”

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FNB launches money transfer service Moses Moyo moses@inner-city-gazette.co.za

he First National Bank has launched MoneyGram International Money Transfer Services. The MoneyGram service is available across FNB’s branch network with several electronic channels following in coming months. “FNB will continue to assist its customers by offering them products and services that are convenient and innovative. Our customers may now perform money transfer services at FNB outlets. Whilst we are certainly not the first bank to offer remittances such as MoneyGram, we believe we have enhanced the customer experience to making it quick, easier and more affordable for FNB customers in both customer facing and electronic channels,” says CEO of Business Banking, Jacques Celliers. “MoneyGram International will afford MoneyGram customers in South

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Challenge of accessing finance for SA businesses Anton Ressel

FNB CEO for Business Banking Jacques Celliers

Africa an opportunity to either send or receive their remittances through all FNB locations, giving them increased convenience of a large agent network,” says Guillaume Dewael, MoneyGram VP for France-AfricaBenelux-Switzerland. South Africa is the 3rd largest recipient of African migrants in the world, estimated at 1.86 million individuals. Close to 900 000 South Africans have also left their country of birth and then send money back to their families. Almost 50% of all remittance users remit funds once a month. MoneyGram is a well-established, safe and fast way to send and receive money worldwide,” says Celliers. The 10-minute MoneyGram service is also offered at affordable rates. For example, sending an average of R2 000 to Zimbabwe would today cost the sender approximately R162 and a maximum of 2% on the rates; the receiver doesn’t pay anything.

recent survey by enterprise development specialists Fetola, showed that 93% of small businesses are uncertain about where and how to access finance. This finding was confirmed in the 2011 GEM report released by the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, which found that a key challenge to small business development is not lack of finance, but knowledge on where and especially how to access it. In spite of numerous financing options available in SA, from commercial banks to government funding agencies, equity investors and venture capitalists, businesses are struggling to secure finance. Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel (pictured above) recently noted that “in very short time, lending has dropped from near alltime highs to record lows”. The global credit crunch has had a huge impact on lending, but other reasons for banks, government and private investors to reject applications include a lack of financial records, a high risk profile, and unwillingness to finance start-ups or

the fact that applicants do not fit the BEE criteria laid down by government to access support. For a country that desperately needs to accelerate growth in the small business sector, this is not good news. What use are the dozens of funding agencies and options, if getting money out of them is so challenging for the average entrepreneur or non-profit leader? The starting point to financial success in business is understanding the fundamentals of money, where to find it and how to use it in an organisation. Those wishing to learn more can contact one of the ABSA Enterprise Development Centres (see www.absa.co.za), FABCOS (www.fabcos.co.za ), Small Enterprise Funding Agency (SEFA) tel: +27 12 394 1807 or one of the SEDA branches nationally (www. seda.org.za ). An upcoming Access to Finance workshop for SMMEs and non-profits will be held in Joburg in September. This is part of the Legends business development programme and features business leaders, financing agencies and experts in the field. For more information, visit http://fetola. co.za/legends_magic_workshop/.

Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel

Entrepreneurs like this one find accessing funds a daunting task.

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We keep the streets clean I often hear some people say vendors are responsible for making the city’s streets dirty, and I wish to help them realise the truth about this. Most of us work under organisation which has rules to be followed, and one is that we must keep our stalls and surrounding areas clean. When the municipality workers went on strike last year we kept the areas around our stalls clean. Some of us even risked their lives by cleaning much more area from their stalls, which would anger the striking workers. We spent most of our time cleaning the streets and missed attending to our business, and the rubbish chased many of our customers away. We were not paid for doing this work. The municipality demanded rent money from us after all that, and the police raided our stalls and took our stock. We make a living, and we benefit a lot if the streets are clean. Maryse Kakonde Yeoville

COMMENT Since the Women’s Month period started there have been many activities that are aimed at raising increased awareness about the importance of women and their contribution to political, economic and social development of our communities. The famous 1956 march to the headquarters of JG Strijdom’s apartheid regime at the Union Buildings in Pretoria was exceptionally brave action by the women. That was a treacherously brutal regime that could have easily ordered its security forces to mow the women down with gunfire. It is encouraging to note that compared to other months, this month there have been fewer reported cases of women abuse. This is no attempt to ignore or condone abuse some women experienced this month, reported or not. Some sections of the press actually published some of the worst instances of women abuse this month. This is to acknowledge a welcome development in that the campaigns to drive the message of peaceful coexistence and respect for women is finding a huge audience, and is welcomed by a vast majority of men. Many of them participate in sending out the message of treating women fairly and with respect. It becomes evident that an overwhelming majority of males would not want to be associated with abusing women or treating them badly, under whatever circumstances. Only a small number of males still harbour the myopic view that they are superior to women by merely being of the opposite sex. Since the last century the population of the macho men dwindled down to less than 10 percent, and it may not take too long to reach the desired goal of having women given all the respect they deserve.

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South Africa a disunited country A country described in its laws as diverse and democratic, surrounded by a past that seems to linger on and an interchange of characters brought on by fear of what had been.

Yolanda Zondo

f you have lived in this country as long as I have, 22 years, then you were born in a country where freedom was not a teaching but a privilege. I was born a month after Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Throughout my life I was reminded of this and that made me more grateful. However, it seems the more we as a country try to get away from the oppressive past the more we seem to get back into it, and once again I say interchange of character. Today it is not the black people that are in fear of being oppressed, but rather black people are doing whatever it takes not to get back into that brutal past. With false accusations and whenever there is a black and a white person caught in a disagreement it ends up being ‘racism’. I remember from my History class in Grade 4 our teacher always told us that the people who

fought for freedom did not fight colour, live in South Africa and heid has done to me. I do not vote for any race to have an upper are able to make your own deci- because I do not want to be put hand. The purpose of the fight sions, please refer to the questions in position where I am basically for freedom was to give every- and ask yourself this if your are being asked to choose between one regardless of race or gender Black Indian or Coloured: ‘Am I Black and White. You vote ANC an equal chance in life. Whether reacting with fear of white people you supporting Black people, you being a job or using a certain oppressing me because I am told vote DA you supporting white store or bus, or even express- to?’ and to the White youth: ‘Do people. There is no consideration ing yourself to whomever you I act disgustingly towards Black as to what either party can do. It is as if we are living in limbo. choose to date, that is what the people because I am told to?’ I do not only speak for myself I bet you the answer is yes in people who fought freedom both instances. What if the his- but also for youth that consider were going for. It is also important to know that tory that we are forced to learn logic above fear. Apartheid was or although black people were the so much has put us in a position is not our war. It is being dragged most oppressed they were not where we cannot get away from into our future and soon it will the only ones who fought for the this oppressive past? Instead of influence our children’s futures. right to freedom. Indians, Col- it teaching us how to appreciate We need to take a stand and build oureds and White people fought one another, it makes us sit and our own history, filled with unity alongside other Black people for wonder if that nerve won’t click and peace; driven by intellect and equal rights. Without this knowl- in a Black or White person’s logic or we will be remembered edge most people go around mind, and suddenly it’s back to as a generation of fear. thinking that only black people apartheid. Yolanda Zondo is the editor Honestly I do not want my chil- of Fashion Culture magazine. were brutalised and so today it’s their chance to avenge and make dren to know of this, especially She can be contacted on sure that their future children do with what knowing about apart- yolandazondo@hotmail.com not go through that oppression. But really, what are the chances? Are we reacting with fear of white people oppressing us because we are told to? Are white people pushed to think disgustingly of blacks because they are told to? These questioned are referred to the youth of today. If you were born between the years 1985 and 1994, can read, can write, have heard of apartheid are Black, White, Indian, Today’s youth may be remembered as a generation of fear, the writer says. Coloured or any other PIC : LOVELIFE

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Gunmen free trial inmates Tripoli - This week gunmen attacked the Al-Fornaj prison and freed eight prisoners in fighting that left another prisoner dead. Deputy Interior Minister Omar al-Khadrawi said the detainees had been awaiting trial for crimes committed last year. Three policemen and two prisoners were wounded. It was the third rebellion at this prison, where Omar al-Khadrawi detainees complain they have been held for months without trial. Since last year’s revolution that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, Libya has struggled to restore security and rebuild its judicial system. This follows an incident in which gunmen shot dead army General Mohammed Hadia in Benghazi; and the motive was not immediately clear. Hadia was one of the first officers to defect and join the opposition during last year’s revolution that ousted Gaddafi. After the revolution he was appointed head of armaments at the defence ministry. Hadia is the latest of dozens of security officials murdered in Benghazi, especially of officers who had served under Gaddafi. Last week Suleiman Bouzrida, a former military intelligence colonel who also joined the revolution was shot in the head.

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FOCUS ON AFRICA

Cairo - President Mohamed Morsy has retrenched top army generals and reasserted power the military claimed for itself before he took office. Field Marshal Mohammed Tantawi, the defense minister who seized power after Hosni Mubarak Mohammed Tantawi was ousted last year, and Chief of Staff Lt-Gen Sami Anan were given medals and retired, said Morsy’s spokesman Yasser Ali. Both were named as advisers to Morsy, the country’s first freely elected president, but no details of the new posts were announced. The commanders of the navy, air force and air defense were sent into retirement as well. Morsy appointed Staff Maj-Gen AbdelMonen Bayoumi al-Terras as head of the air defense, Staff Vice-Marshal Younes Elsayed Hamed as commander of the air force, and Staff Rear Adm Osama el-Gendy as head of the navy, Ali said. Analysts called the moves a major shift in the balance of power between civilian leaders and the military. “This is the first time in Egypt that an elected civilian politician overrules the decisions of the military,” said Omar Ashour, a scholar at the Brookings Institution’s Doha Center.

United front against rebels

Diamond giant moves in

Bamako - Interim President Dioncounda Traore has reappointed Prime Minister Cheick Diarra to name a new government of national unity and form a united front against rebels in the north. That was after consultations with civil society, political parties and the junta that overthrew Amadou Toure. Traore and Diarra were named as part of a deal to return to civilian government. Diarra, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, has been under fire from opponents who accused him of incompetence and called for his departure. They claimed he has no strategy no solve the problem in the north, where armed groups seized key cities. But leaders are now trying to put up a united front to combat the rebels. While the military coup was condemned abroad, within the country some people praised the removal of a political class they considered as corrupt. Last week the High Islamic Council, the country’s moral authority, held a rally to call for peace in the face of northern occupation by MUJWA, Ansar Dine, and al-Qaeda’s North African affiliate, AQIM rebels.

Gaberone - The De Beers diamond company has started the sorting of rough stones in Botswana, in its first step in transferring of some of its operations from London to Gaborone, the company said. This would turn Botswana into a major international centre, with about $6 billion diamonds flowing through the country, it said. Botswana has long campaigned for its diamonds to be processed, sorted, marketed and sold from the country. De Beers’ rough stone sorting operations have been based in London for nearly 80 years. De Beers first agreed to the transfer in 2006, but it was repeatedly delayed. Vice-President Ponatshego Kedikilwe said: “From humble beginnings to becoming the leading diamond producing country by value, we now embark on another segment in the journey chain.” The September 2011 deal opens the way to directly sell 10% of gemstones manufactured locally. De Beers will also increase the value of diamonds it makes available to local manufacturing companies to $800 million a year, from the current R550 m.

Dioncounda Traore

Maritime security concerns Luanda - The secretary of the Gulf of Guinea Commission, Miguel Trovoada, has said the maritime security in the region requires a more active role. That was during the second session of the Council of Ministers of Gulf of Guinea Commission, which discussed maritime security. “We need to take concrete measure to overcome the scarcities expe-

rienced by the organization since its establishment.” He defended the establishment of a joint taskforce between civil and military experts, so as to analyse security cooperation between Gulf of Guinea Commission and ECCAS. The meeting considered the report, as well as the modalities for contributions from member states in the light of recommen-

dations from the group’s last meeting. The Gulf of Guinea Commission includes Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Congo Republic, DR Congo and Sao Tome and Principe.

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WOMEN’S FOCUS

Message for Women of the City of Joburg I would like to pay homage to all the women of our city during this month of August, a month dedicated by our democratic government as a tribute to women, Speaker of Council Clr Conny Bapela writes.

ugust 9, Women’s Day, is a special day that recognises the significance of the struggles of women during the historic 1956 Anti-pass march by over 20 000 women from across the country at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. This day was also given recognition by the United Nations when in 1981 its “Special Committee Against Apartheid” observed it as a “Day of Solidarity with the Struggles of South African and Namibian Women”. That march mobilised ordinary women from all walks of life who emerged to affirm the role of women as representative of boulders of the nation that have the capacity to crush anything presenting an obstacle against progress. In their petition addressed to the then Prime Minister JG Strijdom, women clearly articulated their mass character when stating that; “We are women from every part of South Africa. We are women of every race; we come from the cities and the towns; from the reserves and the villages. We come as women united in our purpose to save the African women from the degradation of passes.” These women carried on their shoulders great women leaders to prominence who today are celebrated as veterans of the women’s struggle and liberation struggle heroines and leaders in their own right. We take note of icons like Mme Lillian Masediba Ngoyi, Mme Albertina Sisulu, Mme Sophie Williams-de Bruyn, Mme Helen Joseph, Mme Bertha Gxowa, Mme Rahima Moosa and many more. This march was a culmination of a wider anti-pass

laws campaign led by the Women’s League and the Federation of South African Women. Numerous meetings across the country were convened over many months before the march, attracting numbers beyond expectations, demonstrating the resolve of our women-folk to mount an unprecedented challenge to the extension of pass laws to women. The disgust and opposition to these pass laws was best expressed by Mme Dora Tamana who said; “We, women, will never carry these passes. This is something that touches my heart. I appeal to you young Africans to come forward and fight. These passes make the road even narrower for us. We have seen unemployment, lack of accommodation and families broken because of passes. We have seen it with our men. Who will look after our children when we go to jail for a small technical offence -- not having a pass? But beyond the dread of the implications of the pass laws on lives of black South Africans was the unity exemplified by the Congress Movement as witnessed during the Congress of the People at Kliptown to adopt the Freedom Charter a year before the march, bringing together African, Coloured, Indian and White South Africans who shared common desire for freedom, equality, justice and government of the people. The march was part of the broader struggle against apartheid and colonialism. This march was a demonstration of the place that women were taking in the struggle and in society in general. They expressed in action their commitment to the Wom-

en’s Charter adopted in 1954 that stated that, in pursuit of a “single society”; “We women do not form a society separate from the men. There is only one society, and it is made up of both women and men. As women we share the problems and anxieties of our men, and join hands with them to remove social evils and obstacles to progress”. The point I want to put across is that, we need not take the Women’s Day or the Women’s Month for granted. This was part of the turning point of women in our country occupying their rightful place as equal partners with their menfolk. It was part of the cultivation of the seeds of non-sexism that our democratic breakthrough since 1994 has embraced as a Constitutional imperative. Today we reap the fruits of the seeds planted during that march. It is that vision that we must continue to impress upon the broader society to appreciate, and ensure that we not only express on public platforms and policy statements but work hard to expose and defeat the silent oppressive circumstances and exploitation that many women still endure in their private homes, in personal relationships, in the workplace, in business, in many other situations that continue to place men as dominant parties that women have to manoeuvre through. We need to break this secrecy code that continues to perpetuate backward practices and undermine our policy to establish an egalitarian society. Part of the submission by the ANC during the negotiations revolved around not only calling for the outlawing of sexism and discrimi-

nation against women to be captured in our new Constitution, but also cited a warning within the ANC to men not find themselves in the trappings of power like apartheid proponents. It said; “Although the dominant always find it difficult in the short term to give up age-old privileges and habits, in the long run they only stand to gain in a world in which the health, happiness and welfare, of all is guaranteed”. This much seeks to articulate how serious the issue of the emancipation of women is, and it is not only the responsibility of women but the rest of society, women and men, young and old. Our city, Councillors and Staff, all parties, must utilise the Women’s month to place the significance of women’s emancipation foremost in our work, in our communities and to be the buzz in all conversations of households, in the taxis, busses, trains, at workplaces and all public facilities. We need to get communities alive with debates around this issue and ensure that we lay claim to a society that recognises women’s rights as human rights. We need to entrench this commitment in the socialisation of our children, in the education system, in the socio-cultural upbringing of the youth, in our value-system, and pursue a moral regeneration of our society that outgrow and outlive backward and retrogressive practices and perspectives that continue to demobilise and paralyse women from fully making valuable contribution in our society as equally capable and even more capable partners.

I urge all of us, women and men, those in positions of power, privilege, influence, to begin to measure their success in terms of the number of and extent to which they have lifted other women of less or no privilege, those who are vulnerable to gender-based violence and exploitation, those who daily struggle to make ends meet, those who have not yet benefited from the services of government and freedoms that democracy have Constitutionally provided, those who are single parents, those weak to make choices that can protect them from HIV and AIDS and other diseases, those who have their voices silenced, and many more out of their misery. Only then can we consider ourselves to have made real progress – progress of a better life for all in all communities. And as we make a contribution in pursuit of women emancipation, we must always remember the wise words of the late Samora Machel who back in the 1970s said that; “The emancipation of women is not an act of charity, the result of a humanitarian or compassionate attitude. The liberation of women is a fundamental necessity for the Revolution, the guarantee of its continuity and the precondition for its victory. The main objective of the Revolution is to destroy the system of exploitation and build a new society which releases the potentialities of human beings... This is the context within which women’s emancipation arises.

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School in Parktown and Gordonia Institute for the mentally disturbed in Bertrams.” At Barnato High school 20 learners from Grade 10 to 11 have been divided into groups and will be trained to lead the food gardens project with the help of Community Works Programme volunteers. “There will also be a career guidance expo event, which is designed to encourage the children to venture into careers which have to do with the environment, and also eradicate the stigma attached to certain professions,” Kodisang said.

Project coordinator Tommy Ntando said they aim to train communities to produce nutritious food for themselves and supplement food costs, and also sell the crops they have reaped. “We chose Arbour Week to implement our strategies to change community perception around food and nutrition issues,” said Ntando. Programme manager Phinah Kodisang said launching the project in schools is done so that it makes its way to the learners’ parents. “The programme will be launched at Barnato School in Berea, McAuley House High

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Remember chilling with your friends as a teenage girl and the conversations that made you giggle for hours on end? With our closest friends we shared our dreams and ambitions, our greatest hopes, deepest thoughts and emotions – we could be whoever we wanted to be with no fear of judgment, rejection, ridicule or shame. Noni

Thandiwe McCloy

his month loveLife launched the second series of Foxy Chix – an innovative radio series on Y-FM (99.2 FM) – that celebrates the power of female friendship, while offering a platform for young people around the country to express their views, be in control of their destinies and make the best choices for their lives. Foxy Chix is a story of friendship between three teenage girls - Noni, Jazz and S’bosh - who are navigating challenges similar to those faced by other young girls in communities across South Africa. The Foxy Chix are funny, ambitious, daring and fall

in and out of love on their tumultuous journey to womanhood. They embody an attitude that is foxy – and that isn’t just about being sexy – it’s about being smart, bold, outspoken and destinybound. Foxy Chix - a daily, one-minute radio drama series that culminates in a weekly omnibus every Thursday - was launched on Women’s Day 2011 after extensive research was conducted throughout South Africa to fully understand young South African women. It found that girl groups are highly influential among them and highlighted that they yearned to express themselves and have their voices heard. The research also cited various psycho-so-

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he Ozy Catering and Decor enterprise in the Joburg CBD provides everything associated with weddings and decor, says Ozy the shop owner. The business was started last year by Ozy and his wife Chaleen. "We do cooking and decor in functions and one can either hire us or buy material and equipment to do on their own. We also do kiddies party themes," he says. Ozy adds that they also help customers to plan on the colour coordination of a function for free. "The challenge we face is that we

are many doing the same thing, but I always come up with new ideas which keeps me ahead of my competitors. I also thank my customers for their support," he says. He adds that his competitors may try to copy his designs but that motivates him to come up with more designs. "We do not follow fashion but we create it. The more people try to copy what I do, the more designs I think of so as to keep ahead," he adds. Ozzy says as a business person one has to be prepared to go through trials and difficult times that come with the business and be prepared to go through many years to gain the required experience.

cial and socio-economic issues - such as transactional sex - driving high risk behavior among young women that fuels HIV. In fact, a number of biological, social and cultural factors put girls and young women at increased risk of HIV. It is these factors that Foxy Chix seeks to address and explore so as to better empower them against HIV. The show provides a safe space to openly discuss and reflect on a number of sensitive issues in their lives. Noni, Jazz and S’bosh make up the Foxy Chix who together form part of the popular crew at a township school in a fictional location called Kanjani City. S’bosh (17), who lives in an informal settlement with her mom and younger siblings, masquerades as someone who has had many sexual partners when she is actually still a virgin. Some believe she’s slept around as is evidenced in the attached clip (LLF-30-015) from series one, where a guy says: “Half of the boys in the school have already had a slice of her. Jazz (16) expresses deep anger and hurt from feeling rejected at home and wants more love and acceptance from her father. Her disruptive behavior sees her engaging in reckless behavior like turning to alcohol to numb her painful feelings and looking for love in the arms of her teacher Mr Goodman Mazibuko. On the other hand, Noni (17) is a technosavvy, high-achiever who comes from a stable, well-off family. Foxy Chix forms part of loveLife’s Nakanjani campaign encouraging young people to take charge of their destinies, no matter their circumstances. “The show encourages young people to be in charge of their sexuality and destinies rather than succumb to their circumstances,” explains loveLife’s Media Director, Dianne Regisford-Gueye. “It encourages young people to own their choices and addresses the individual, societal and structural factors putting young people at risk of HIV.” Each of the Foxy Chix live in the spirit of Nakanjani, carving their own journeys as they move towards a place of self-discovery, learning more about who they are and exploring solutions for a better life. S’bosh discovers that she doesn’t need to be someone else in order to be loved. Noni feels trapped by her circumstances, feeling like her mom gives her no freedom to express her feelings and make her own choices. Her mom’s attitude and behavior is

Jazz

S’bosh

expressed in the attached clip (LLF- challenges facing young people in 30-010) where she says: “There are communities. The show explores the times when as a parent, you have to do issues putting young people at risk of what you have to do. Living in tough HIV in an accessible, recognisable and circumstances, Jazz demonstrates the entertaining way. “Fictional radio draNakanjani attitude of resilience and mas are a powerful platform to engage determination by managing to get her with young people on sensitive issues as they allow for a safe space to exlife back on track! While the first series of Foxy Chix plore very real topics like transactional focussed on issues around sex and sex (sex for money, airtime and other sexuality such as early sexual debut, goods) and teen pregnancy - all factors transactional sex and teenage pregnan- contributing to the ongoing incidence cy – all drivers of HIV – the second se- of HIV among young women.” HIV infection spikes in the 18 to 21 ries addresses structural drivers of the disease such as poverty and unemploy- year age group for females and 93% of ment, highlighting topics like youth teenage pregnancies occur among 17 to leadership, youth development, career 19 year olds. Foxy Chix forms part of loveLife’s overall efforts to empower guidance and youth activism. In the first series of Foxy Chix, listen- young people between 12 to 19 years ers explored the lives of Noni, Jazz and old with the skills and self-belief they S’bosh, learning about their thoughts, need to stand up to challenges. School feelings, lives and experiences. They leaving is a time putting young women experienced S’bosh being attracted to at particular risk of HIV as learners the King of Izikhotane leave the relative se(guys who wear expen- Nakanjani campaign curity of the school sive clothes). We heard In fact, encouraging young environment. how Noni sadly lost the for young women, half love of her life - Neo - in people to take the lifetime risk of ina drug-crazed drag racing charge of their fection is crammed accident and how lucky into the first five years destinies, no matter she was to make it out after leaving school. alive. Full of drama and their circumstances Listeners also have true-to-life experiences, the opportunity to series one saw Jazz having a sexual re- continue the discussion on loveLife’s lationship with her teacher, Mr Mazi- facebook page at loveLifeNGO, Twitbuko and finding out that his wife has ter at: @lovelifengo #FoxyChix/#N HIV. This is highlighted in attached AKANJANI/#MakeYourMove and clip (LLF-30-013) where she says: “If www.bozza.mobi - a mobile applicashe’s positive, then you must be position featuring Africa’s hottest music, tive.” videos, poetry and more. Now after 100 minutes of fresh, The second series of Foxy Chix groundbreaking radio, listeners can launches on 30 July 2012. The series look forward to following Noni, Jazz will feature daily on Y-FM (99.2 FM) and S’bosh in the second series of and DStv (channel 159) from Monday Foxy Chix. On this new and exciting to Wednesday at 16h45 and an omniseries, check out how Jazz manages bus on Thursdays at 15h30. to get her life back on track and hear In line with its efforts to reduce facS’bosh sharing her Nakanjani moment tors driving the disproportionately by making moves to get her foot in the high rates of HIV among young womdoor of the fashion world. Noni is hit en, loveLife is rolling out a variety of hard by harsh realities when she finds combination prevention strategies. Inout Neo wasn’t all he was cut out to be, cluded in these are forming eight Foxy while also learning that she’s pregnant! Chix Clubs with six to eight members The Foxy Chix demonstrate youth ac- (boys and girls) between 16 to 19 years tivism in a multitude of ways, includ- old. These clubs will run in KwaZuluing holding civil servants accountable Natal, Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga and for service delivery and organising Gauteng from September to December extra Maths classes for learners whose 2012. teacher repeatedly bunks school. They will give members a userHead of loveLife’s Radio Department, friendly platform to engage with issues Fikile Ntanzi, says: “Foxy Chix was around accessibility, acceptability, developed after conducting research perceptions and general use of female which enabled us to reflect, right from condoms. loveLife plans to launch a grass roots level, some of the real Foxy Chix Clubs nationwide.

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At first the dancers, lacking the luminosity of white cotton, are invisible. Then they, and a metal staircase, can be picked out. Dancers run into the back wall, leaping and crashing, reminiscent of the scenes where criminals run from the police scaling walls and fences with adrenaline aided adroitness. Except that there is nothing to scale.

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Lindani Nkosi, Khulu Skenjana and Presley Chweneyagae in Zama Zama.

Zama Zama movie to be launched ‘He embarks on a journey of self-discovery and rediscovers brotherly love, human dignity and suffering, and most of all the meaning of love and family’ Arts Correspondent

new movie called Zama Zama, to be released on 24 August at cinemas , is about brothers who lose each other in life. Producer Bertus van der Walt said the film is about brotherly love, forgiveness and family values. “It is about two brothers who each end up on a different, yet similar path. One grows up to become a successful businessman and mine owner, while the other becomes an illegal miner. It is about them finding each other.” The story line has a character called Malcolm Phiri who has just obtained his own gold mine, together with some shareholders. The Ubuntu mining company discovers the existence of zamazamas (illegal miners), in their newly-acquired mine. A huge raid on the zamazamas is about to take place. The movie explores guilt, forgiveness and reconciliation in a subterranean milieu. When Malcolm finds out that his alienated brother is one of the intended victims of the planned raid he has instituted on the zamazamas he risks his high standing by acting to save Joseph and finally heal the hole in this life. He infiltrates the zamazamas to fetch his brother before the raid, and hopefully keep the secret of his past from his shareholders.

This is an action packed thriller. The plot revolves around moral choices: social standing and success, versus loyalty to and love of family, extending to solidarity with those at the bottom of society that struggle to make a living in one of the most dangerous environments on earth. He descends on a journey of selfdiscovery and rediscovers brotherly love, human dignity and suffering and, most of all the meaning of love and family. Van der Walt has also worked on big projects like the internationally acclaimed District 9. Most of the movie was shot on location underground at a mine in Magaliesberg, and the operational mining scenes at Gold Reef City. The scene shot at the Friendship Haven Old Age Home is a hospital scene, where the main character visits an injured illegal miner in order to question him about his brother. The Zama Zama movie has been made by Krugersdorp-based company Kokamoya Productions. The cast includes some well known actors like Lindani Nkosi, Presley Chweneyagae, Renate Stuurman, Fumani Shilubana, Lebogang Inno, Mfundo Mdlalose, Masoja Msiza, Israel Mokeo, Khulu Skejana and Justin Strydom. It was directed by Vickus Strijdom, and music provided by Zethu Mashika.

Thabo Kobedi in One Night Stand. PIC: CHRISTO DOHERTY

Songezo Mcilizeli, Ivan Teme, Nicholas Aphane and Tertia Coetzee in Be Still. PIC JOHN HOGG

Arts Correspondent

s part of the France-South Africa Seasons 2012 and 2013, the Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative (FATC) troupe will tour South Africa’s dance festivals. FATC, which has a dance company residence at University of Johannesburg’s Bunting Campus, has already been well-received by Joburg audiences who watched talented contemporary FATC 2012 dancer in residence Shanell Winlock who premiered her stunning spiritual piece Be Still. Now, with their full programme seeing them through to the end of the year, fans can enjoy a feast of dance. The line up kicks off with the fascinating collaborative piece between international choreographer Eric Languet’s company Danses en l’R, from Reunion Island, and FATC, who will bring to life Languet’s striking and socially conscious story Somewhere, out there, life was screaming, on the Wits Theatre stage at the Drama for Life: Sex Actually festival, from 22 to 25 August. On 4 and 5 September Winlock’s Be Still will be featured at the 2012 Arts Alive Festival at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. From 1 to 5 October, the dance company will feature at the highly reputable Danse l’Afrique Danse Bienal for the French Season when FATC choreographer PJ Sabbagha brings his stirring piece

One Night Stand, about HIV/Aids, to the stage. Between 24 and 27 October FATC will host their own mini dance festival titled Dansbytes, at the Con Cowan Theatre at the University of Johannesburg and will feature new works by Shanell Winlock, Craig Morris, Charlston van Rooyen and Thabo Kobeli. In December the FATC programme will end in the dance company’s final season which will be showcased at the Con Cowan Theatre and will feature a collection of new works by company members as well as new collaboration from Summer School 2012. Earlier this year journalist Moira de Swardt wrote that the use of life size rag dolls, naked, creates an eerie ghostlike illusion as the curtains open to blackness, and the stage lighting, very slowly, brightens to reveal them seemingly hovering in the air. They are on the ridge at the back of the stage except for the one on some kind of plinth. That is a puppet, manipulated almost like a marionette, but invisibly by Ryan Mayne. It was intriguing. At first the dancers, lacking the luminosity of white cotton, are invisible. Then they, and a metal staircase, can be picked out. As the dancers manipulate the rag dolls a multitude of imagery comes pouring forth. “Dancers run into the back wall, leaping and crashing, reminiscent of the scenes where criminals

run from the police scaling walls and fences with adrenaline aided adroitness. Except that there is nothing to scale. Even the soundtrack, crafted by Nicholas Aphane, is harsh and harrowing. Sirens and dogs are distinctive from the droning. Where the dancers nestle into a nightclub shuffle with the ragdolls the music changes to ‘Ebony and Ivory’. It provokes the only light moment in the hour. I almost feel myself snapping like an elastic band that has been wound too tight, too long. “Shanell Winlik looks at the role of women in society and the exquisite dancing of Tertia Coetzee draws one’s attention. Coetzee is exceptionally flexible and her overt sexual provocation leads to violence. The precision of the choreography and the trust between the dancers comes to a climax as she is literally twisted, turned and tossed by the male dancers. One mistake and a dislocation or other injury is sure to follow. I find it difficult to breathe during this section. There is no resolution as the work ends. The adrenaline providing the fight or flight sensations one feels during the work is gone because the stimulus has been removed. One leaves the theatre with the same feeling one has after waking from a nightmare and realising that it is not real. Safe, but still in a state of shock.” For more details and updates visit www.forgottenangle.co.za.

Hundreds view masters expo Gilly Hemphill The Standard Bank Gallery in the Joburg CBD has drawn over 800 viewers to the exhibition, 20th Century Masters: the human figure. The show comprises a selection of about 50 works from collections of France’s leading cultural institutions. Curated by Sylvie Ramond, director

of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, the exhibition includes works by some of France’s most acclaimed modernists, as well as more contemporary French artists and other giants of the international art world. Gallery curator Barbara Freemantle said it is not only art specialists who appreciate the masterpieces, but many ordinary people who want to take this

once in a lifetime opportunity. “It is encouraging to see so many people moved by the works,” she said. She added that learners are invited to engage with original artworks in the company of skilled facilitators. “This develops audiences and builds an informed constituency for the next generation of artists.” The expo is on till 15 September.

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The SA national soccer team.

Bafana improve ranking Soccer Correspondent

outh Africa have risen one place to number 67 in the latest Fifa World Rankings released on Wednesday. The SA national first soccer team will have some excellent opportunities to make up big ranking points in the coming months with away trips to Brazil and Poland, but for now they languish well outside of their target of a top 30 place. The team is also rated the 14th best side in Africa, behind the likes of Sierra Leone and just two places in front of World Cup qualifi-

cation opponents Central African Republic. There was no change in Africa’s top five, Ivory Coast are the top team, followed by Ghana, Algeria, Libya and Mali. African champions Zambia have slipped from sixth to ninth, while Nigeria has slipped back outside the Top 10. Spain remain the top team in the world, followed by Germany, while England have reached a historic third place, their best-ever ranking. Uruguay sit in fourth, while Portugal, Italy, Argentina, Netherlands, Croatia and Denmark round out the top 10.

A 4X200 relay race in the recent Olympics.

IAAF introduces new race World relay races to carry Rover $4 million prize money The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has introduced a new world relay competition that will be used to qualify teams for the world championships and Olym-

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as well as 4x200m, 4x800m and 4x1500m races, will take place in Nassau, Bahamas in May 2014 and 2015. The “IAAF World Relays” will carry approximately $1.4 million in prize money.