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City’s billing health strategy Mbhazima Lesego waka’Ngobeni

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Librarian William Stewart (centre) poses with some of the young exhibitors during the event.

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Youth art expo opens Sizwe Mathe sizwem@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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he Michaelis Art Library at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in Joubert Park, Joburg CBD opened its exhibition this week Monday.

The exhibition, titled Michaelis Art Library Education Project, will run until 4 December this year. It is a collection of works art students produced this year. The librarian, William Stewart, explains that the project provides free informal art

education to students and children living in the inner city and surrounding areas.

“The appreciation, knowledge and love of art by the students has grown through exposure to the varied exhibitions at JAG,” he adds.

Stewart says the gallery supported the project by providing books, information and photocopying facilities to students and facilitators of various art classes. “Without the generous sponsorship of MTN Foundation, the project would not be possible.”

Stewart encouraged learners and the community to utilise the facilities.

“Through the adult art workshop, which started in June this year, the participants were taken on a journey through the history of art. They were expected to use elements characteristic of that time and reinterpret it to create art works.”

He adds that through the children’s workshop, children aged between four and 14 explored drawing and painting.

“They used a variety of media such as tempera, pencil, coloured crayons, oil pastel and fabric painting” he says.

Neil Nortje, MTN Foundation project coordinator adds that the project is in line with the city’s regeneration efforts.

“The primary focus was to take the youths off the streets and give them access to developmental projects like this one,” he says.

Moira Mbaba, 11, participant in the workshop and whose work is exhibited in the gallery, says it has been a fulfilling experience to be part of the project.

“I learnt a lot here and will encourage my friends to join me.”

For more details email William_Stewart@joburg.org.za

oburg city has drafted a 19 month strategy to improve revenue collection and the accuracy of its billing system to eradicate concerns in the sector.

City manager Trevor Fowler said the objective is to enhance efficiency in dealing with billing issues and to improve response times.

“The plan forecasts that by June 2013, all billing backlogs and queries will have been resolved. We believe it represents a step change for Johannesburg and will result in an integrated system which serves the needs of our citizens and meets the expectations of our customers, ratepayers and stakeholders.”

Fowler noted that the plan was a prompt response to deficiencies in the revenue and billing systems. Internal processes had signalled that the quality of meter reading should be improved, as should turnaround times on resolving queries.

Fowler said a task team comprising Dumas as the overall project manager, the City’s group financial officer, the chief executives of Joburg Water, City Power and Pikitup; and the heads of departments of rates and valuations, and revenue management and customer relations management would monitor the implementation of the roadmap.

Joburg’s chief operating officer Gerald Dumas said the resolution of the City’s billings issues had been divided into phases.

“The first would focus on quick wins and customer experience; phase two will look at stabilising the billing system, and the third is devoted to maintenance and continuous improvement.

The intention is to ensure pleasant customer and citizen’s experience,” said Dumas.

He added that the roadmap had identified 28 February 2012 as the first deadline to achieve accuracy of billing, query resolution and meter reading. The next roadmap deadline was 30 June 2012, by which date customer data should be consistent with the reality on the ground.

“Customers will be provided with correct bills, queries will be resolved and arrangements will be made for the settlement of outstanding debts.”

He added that the City’s IT infrastructure and hardware would be upgraded to help frontline staff deal with customer queries effectively. joburg.org.za

Blackberry knifemen arrested Crime Reporter crime@gazettelive.co.za

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his week Hillbrow police arrested two men for allegedly stabbing and robbing another man of his Blackberry cellphone and wallet, says Hillbrow police spokesperson Sgt Jenny Pillay.

She explains that a police patrol noticed the victim screaming and running after the suspects. “They gave chase and apprehended two of the suspects, while one escaped.

The suspects had stabbed the complainant once in the neck and robbed him of his cellphone and wallet. The complaint was taken to Hillbrow Clinic in a stable condition.”

The two suspects, both aged 19,

face charges of robbery and assault GBH, Sgt Pillay adds.

In another incident seven suspects were arrested for possession of suspected stolen property and possession of car breaking implements, Sgt Pillay says.

She adds that the suspects were arrested in Wolmarans Street in Braamfontein. “Police stopped the vehicle they were travelling in, and all the occupants jumped out ran away. Warrant Officer Beetge and his colleagues gave chase and arrested the seven suspects, who were found with spark plugs and remote controls, a radio, R1 590 in cash and seven cellphones.”

Sgt Pillay adds that all the seven suspects face charges of possession of suspected stolen property

and car breaking implements.

Sgt Pillay warns motorists to be aware of the methods criminals use to break into cars. “Double check to ensure your vehicle is locked as criminals are in possession of remote control devices which they use to cause malfunction in the vehicle’s locking system. Also keep valuables out of sight.”

Sgt Pillay adds that in another incident police arrested one suspect for possession of drugs.

“Police Cst Sebetoa and Cst Phala patrolling the Hillbrow area searched the suspect and found 80 pieces of drugs suspected to be heroine in his pocket. The drugs have a street value of about R3 000, and the suspect faces charges of dealing in drugs,” She adds.

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COMMENT Since its inception in 1988 World Aids Day is held on 1 December each year, providing an opportunity for people to unite in fighting HIV/Aids worldwide.

This also becomes a period when the world shows its support for those who are affected by HIV, and commemorates the lives of those who have died.

HIV/Aids has become one of the most destructive pandemics in history Current estimates suggest that about 34 million people are living with HIV throughout the world; and that between 1981 and 2007 over 25 million people have died from the effects of the virus.

Governments have passed laws to protect people living with HIV; and there have been many scientific developments in the prevention and treatment of HIV. Nonetheless there are still many people who do not understand facts about HIV. Many also need to know how to protect themselves and others from HIV infection and the stigma that goes with it.

One major purpose World Aids Day serves is reminding people that HIV is still there, and that a cure for it has not been found. This helps governments and the private sector remember to channel efforts in providing funding and conduct awareness campaigns to bolster HIV prevention, and suppress associated prejudices towards the pandemic.

In this period people are urged to understand HIV transmission, prevention, and the reality of living with HIV. Such knowledge can be used to care about one’s health and that of others. It can also help in ensuring fair treatment and respect for everyone living with HIV. World Aids Day is an annual reminder about the devastating effects of HIV, but it is however important to sustain HIV awareness throughout the year.

A red ribbon is worn to signify awareness and support for people living with HIV. This is the universal symbol for the campaign, created in 1991 after a group of artists met in New York and decided to create a visual for the HIV campaign.

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Renovate the bad buildings The authorities could take over the buildings, renovate them and offer them back to the poor at government subsidised rentals Fire hazard...a building burns during a recent incident in the Joburg CBD. PIC : INNER-CITY PRESS AGENCY

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n the city of Johannesburg there are many buildings which are not suitable for people to live in.

Many of these buildings house the poor and unemployed who may not afford better accommodation.

Unfortunately, when the authorities decide to take action against such buildings the only thing they seem to think of doing is to evict those people. The evictions are carried out using legitimate reasons like that the buildings pose health and fire hazards.

Indeed many of those buildings are dirty because they do not have cleaning and rubbish removal sys-

tems, and diseases could as well break out in them. Often there is no water supply, and residents of such places have to fetch water from drainage systems.

In most of those buildings there is also no electricity. Those who live in them have to use unsafe sources of heating and lighting, like paraffin stoves and candles. In some cases fires break out in such buildings and people get injured, and sometimes die.

Some of those buildings are now being auctioned under court order.

The courts obviously used the same considerations the authorities use

when they want to evict the poor from bad buildings. What they did not realise is that when these buildings get bought, the buyers will want to renovate the buildings and rent them out to community members who are better off, those who can afford to pay the high rentals that are currently being charged by property companies.

Those people currently living in the buildings will almost certainly be thrown out into the streets. That will obviously increase the number of people living in the streets, and that also has a potential of increasing drug and alcohol abuse, pros-

titution and crime in general. The poor do not seem to be taken seriously in this city of the rich.

Instead of getting the buildings auctioned off, the city authorities could take over the running of the buildings themselves, renovate them and offer them back to the poor at government subsidised rentals. This would reduce the suffering of the poor, and also ensure that they live in safe accommodation where they may not risk getting evicted, infected by diseases or killed when fires break out.

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Rights of the landlord It would be impossible to improve the inner city if no one is allowed to be evicted, Stephen Grootes writes.

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e have a proud interest in the creation of capital. We like to examine how wealth can be created.

We believe that part of the foundation to this process is property rights. This is why we have such a strong interest in the balance between the rights of landlords, and the rights of tenants. I believe that this balance is heavily tilted towards tenants, in a way that is destructive to the rental market.

As a result, there is not enough low-cost housing.

It’s a case that seems to directly pit the right of a landlord to seek profit against the right of a tenant to adequate housing. The landlord is Aengus Lifestyle Properties. It owns, among other things, some buildings in the Joburg CBD. The applicants are a group of about 17 people who have been renting

their flats for between four and 17 years.

The landlord decided it needed to make more money from its properties. Thus it terminated the renters’ leases, using the termination clause in the contract it had with them. The renters went to court, lost, went to Bloemfontein, lost, and then had their day on Constitution Hill.

On the face of it, it would seem incredibly heartless to turf people out simply to make more money. Of course, it’s far more complicated than that.

For a start, there are agreements in place. Then there’s the fact that it would be impossible to ever improve the inner city if no one is ever allowed to be evicted. The judges were strongly engaged in his. The advocate for the renters, Daniel Berger, had a torrid morning.

Zac Yacoob wanted to know whether a clause to terminate the contract was specified in the contract or not. Then he demanded whether the ground on which the landlord relies (i.e.to cancel the contract simply to put up the rent) was specified. Berger replied that

“there can’t simply be a termination clause, and thus I’m using the right to terminate the contract because there’s a termination clause”, when the real motivation is to put up the rent by 100%.

The ground for termination must be because I want to increase the rent by 100%, he argued. Oh really, said Yacoob, “why is the motive relevant, where does the legislature say that the motive is relevant?”

And while Berger was still chewing on that, he followed up with the sucker punch, what if the “termination occurred purely without the landlord disclosing the ground”?

Berger responded with “we say the landlord can be called upon to disclose his reasons.”

It was Judge Edwin Cameron, along with Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke who kept returning to it. They are very worried about what they call the “social cost” of these problems, and who should pay for it.

But the judges weren’t finished yet. There’s some explanation required here, but stay with us, because it relates directly to South

Africa as a developing country. It seems to me, that at least one interpretation of what he is saying is that we want our people to be rich.

To do that, we need to allow them to accumulate capital, and to do that, we need to allow them to have rental properties that they safely let out. And for all of that to work, we need to allow them to evict people, or in this case, terminate a lease agreement.

This ruling is part of a series of cases relating to property rights, and the rights of landlords and tenants that are going through our courts. It’s no accident that so many of them seem to come from the Joburg CBD – the nexus of urban immigration, poverty and inner city decay. So it’s not just the ruling in this case that will matter.

But the court could deliver a boost for the rights of landlords here. In doing so, it will mean hardship for the tenants. But it should also mean development in inner Joburg.

Grootes was once a landlord, it ended catastrophically; he is currently a renter; for now at any rate.

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Call to boycott polling Rabat - Thousands of protesters across the country are calling for a boycott of elections next week they allege will not be democratic. Riot police cordoned off the demonstration sites in Rabat, Casablanca and Tangier.

The parliamentary elections are seen as an attempt by ruler King Mohammed to defuse pressure for change in King Mohammed the longest-serving dynasty after the uprisings across the Middle East.

Protesters maintain that the elections are pointless when the king and his court hold the real power. Past parliamentary elections in Morocco were marred by low turnouts.

Faced earlier this year with protests inspired by the Arab Spring uprising, King Mohammed backed constitutional reforms which handed over some powers to elected officials. He retained the final say on defence, national security and religion.

The vote has pitted a party of moderate Islamists loyal to the king, against a coalition of liberals also with close ties to the palace. The boycott call is unlikely to derail the election because it does not resonate with the majority, who are not politically engaged and revere the king.

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Cairo - Many people were injured this week when fresh violence broke out in Tahrir Square after the Cabinet submitted its resignation to the military government led by Field Marshall Mohamed Tantawi.

In the violence between security forces and protesters 24 civilians have died, 1 700 wounded and 102 police officers injured.

Justice Minister Mohamed al-Juindy said the cabinet resignation was opposition to security forces’ crackdown on demonstrators. But a spokesman for Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said the military had not accepted the resignation.

“People feel they have been cheated and have moved from an autocracy to a military dictatorship,” protester Mosa’ab Elshamy said. Another man said the Supreme Council must relinquish power. “We want the military council to hand over power to civilians,” he said.

After Mubarak was ousted, the military took control, promising that a civilian government would be elected and take over. This week it promised presidential elections by June 2012

Colonial roles reversed Luanda - Angola is boosting its investment in Portugal, its former colonial power which is caught up in the eurozone debt crisis.

Angola’s investments in Portugal have risen in recent years, with its companies owning 3.8% of companies listed on Portugal’s stock exchange. Angola is Portugal’s fourth biggest trading partner and largest outside the EU. Analysts say this is a reversal of former colonial roles, with cash-strapped Portugal considering selling shares in state-owned companies to Angola.

Angolan President Jose Dos Santos’ chief of staff, Carlos Feijo says Angola would discuss Portugal’s privatisation scheme. “Many Angolans run businesses in Portugal, and the Portuguese do business here.”

Portugal’s economy is expected to contract by 2.8% in 2012, while Angola’s may grow by 12%, analysts say. Companies expected to be privatised include airline TAP, utilities company Energias de Portugal and grid operator Redes Energeticas Nacionais.

Portugal’s PM Pedro Coelho, who grew up in Angola, has visited Angola for the first time since he was elected to office in June.

More troops for Somalia Gregoire Ndahimana

Genocide mayor jailed Dar es Salaam - The UNbacked International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has sentenced ex-mayor Gregoire Ndahimana to 15 years jail after finding him guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity concerning the massacre of over 2 000 Tutsi refugees in 1994.

Ndahimana, 59, failed to prevent police from bulldozing a Catholic church

in Nyange, where 2 000 people were sheltering, and he assisted in the massacre, the court found.

He had pleaded not guilty to all charges. Prosecutors alleged that the former mayor had ordered the massacre and opened fire himself to start the killing.

However, judges dismissed those allegations.

Ndahimana is the third person to be convicted by

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the ICTR for the killing at Nyange.

The ICTR, based in Arusha, Tanzania, was established to try key perpetrators of the 1994 genocide which claimed some 800 000 lives within about 100 days.

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Mogadishu - A large number of Ethiopian troops have crossed into Somalia, weeks after Kenyan forces entered to chase al-Shabab fighters.

Ethiopian government spokesman Shimeles Kemal, would neither confirm nor deny the reports.

Another official said a move to support the Kenyan military assault on al Qaeda-linked al Shabab group was likely.

“We may send troops to Somalia to support Kenya’s operation against the al Shabab extremists.

Our deployment could be implemented under the umbrella of AMISOM or another form, such as a separate operation alongside Kenya,” he said.

AMISOM, an AU force of Ugandan and Burundian troops has kept al Shabab from ousting the internationally backed Somali government.

Meanwhile al-Shabab commander Sheikh Yusuf Ali Ugas said : “We will break the necks of the invaders. Our troops are ready for anything.”

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MZALA’S THOUGHTS Jabu Nxumalo jabu.nxumalo@gmail.co.za

Myth of ‘Black Tuesday’ As I write this, I am supposed to be wearing black in support of the so called ‘human rights groups’ protesting against what has been termed the controversial protection of state information bill (POIB). They have called the day Black Tuesday marking what they purport to be ‘the start of a dark day media freedom,’ according to the chairperson of the National Press Club (NPC), Yusuf Abramjee.

This concept is borrowed from the events of 19 October 1977 when The World, Sunday World and Christian publication Pro Veritas were banned together with almost 20 organisations by the Nationalist Party racist government.

The day was named Black Wednesday.

For this campaign the name has been changed to Black Tuesday.

Our commercial liberal media is behind the campaign that seeks to compare our democratic government to the apartheid regime. The strategy to portray the government as the apartheid government is used by the opposition, and the media is clearly in love with it.

This debate is one of class. Our media practitioners have been under the illusion that they enjoy autonomy. Capitalist societies, like ours, are characterised by class domination. Simply put, the class that controls the means of material production also has control over the means of mental production. It is not surprising that our media is controlled by monopoly capital, mainly white.

The late Prof Michael Gurevitch argued that this structure and control inevitably leads to media professionals being socialised into and internalise the norms of the dominant culture. He went on to say: “The media taken as a whole, relays interpretive frameworks consonant with the interests of the dominant classes, and media audiences, while sometimes negotiating and contesting these frameworks, lack ready access to alternative meaning systems that would enable them to reject the definitions offered by the media in favour of consistently oppositional definitions.”

This is precisely the challenge we are faced with in this country. Our media has become the mouthpiece of white monopoly capital, and it is for this reason that its views are similar to that of the main opposition party.

Under the banner of the NPC and SA National Editors Forum (Sanef), our so called independent media has joined hands with opposition parties to oppose the government of the people, elected by two-thirds of South Africans.

These self anointed champions are in opposition to the majority of the people of this country. They have never sought to mobilise and participate in popular actions by the poor and the working class, but they are quick to attack and compare our government to the evil Nationalist Party government. How has the liberal media covered issues of underdevelopment, unemployment, poverty and inequality? No need to guess.

It is the people of this country who fought for freedom. They understand the real meaning of freedom and democracy, and they will never be duped by unelected people who are hell-bent to take this country backwards.

No matter how problematic the POIB might be, but to undermine the intelligence of our people and equate their government to the apartheid government will certainly not gain them any friends from the majority of the people.

Any struggle to defend democracy will not succeed if it is not rooted within the masses. Anything less is bound to fail.

Staff and community members watch as an entertainer performs during the opening ceremony.

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Cambridge opens new CBD branch Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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ast Thursday the Cambridge Food supermarket chain opened a new branch in Newtown, Joburg. This was the fifth outlet in the Joburg inner-city, with the sixth one opening at the Newgate shopping centre this week.

The supermarket’s manager, Ashika Khan said the shop would provide

quality goods at low prices. “This will help community members save money and live better lives. We also offer varieties of fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and nutritious fast foods,” he added.

Khan added that security in the supermarket area has been boosted by the new surveillance camera systems that have been installed.

“There is also a large free parking area for our customers,” he added.

Hillbrow Police suCCESSES 15 - 21 NOVEMBER Assault Common 27, Assault GBH 26, Possession of drugs 4, Possession of dagga 4, Dealing in dagga 2, Drunk and driving 12, Common Robbery 17, Business Burglary 1, Possession of suspected stolen property 7, Attempted theft 1, Driving without licence 14, Kidnapping 1, Possession of car breaking implement 1, trespassing 1, armed robbery 4, Theft under false pretense 2, Possession of dangerous weapon 3, Theft of motor vehicle 1, House robbery 3, Intimidation 2, Possession of

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fake cigarettes 2, Possession of copper 1, Dealing in counterfeit DVD, Fraud 4, possession of ammunition and pointing if firearm 1, Crimen injuria 2, Dealing in drugs 1, murder 1, Shoplifting 2, Car jacking 4, Impersonating a doctor 1, House breaking. 2, Rape 1, Dealing in fireworks, resisting arrest 1, Malicious injury to property 4, Copyright Act 2, Attempted robbery 1, Attempted murder 1.

B crimes including loitering, drinking in public, 123 and undocumented persons 86.

The supermarket’s manager Ashika Khan and retail director Jay Currie during the event.

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Satire of apartheid absurdities A celebrated and muchloved South African classic Arts Correspondent

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he Market Theatre, by arrangement with DALRO (Pty) Limited, presents Woza Albert ! between 10 January and 5 February next year.

Written by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema and Barney Simon, the production stars Mncedisi Shabangu and Hamilton Dlamini, and is directed by Prince Lamla.

Woza Albert! is one of the plays for which South African theatre is best known internationally. Its physical style of storytelling was to inspire and influence theatre companies around the world, and it is one of the best examples that define South African theatre in all its vibrancy, innovation and humanity.

This celebrated and much-loved South African classic asks what would happen if Jesus Christ (Morena) came back to South Africa during apartheid.

This lively satire of the absurdities of apartheid provides a showcase for the talents of two dextrous actors, who play a range of ordinary characters on the street.

The first part of the play sets the scene, attacking the pass laws that prevented black South Africans from moving and

working freely. Similarly, it sketches in a few short minutes the semi-slavery that was imposed on manual workers by bosses who could fire them if they got too independent.

However, there is always a rich vein of humour even in the worst adversity.

The use of clown’s noses to distinguish the elite Afrikaners, including the Prime Minister from the apparently subservient blacks was one of the features to make this play famous.

The short, impressionistic sketches begin to move from background scenes of generally downtrodden life to interviews with individuals about the impending visit of Morena, who inaugurates his Second Coming by flying to South Africa courtesy of SAA. The second half of the play becomes considerably darker and more resonant. Jesus is in the country and his life is replayed in the apartheid context.

He is first welcomed then imprisoned.

When he is taken to Robben Island, his escape is easy as he walks back across the bay to Cape Town.

This retelling of a familiar story in a new context becomes devastating by the end, shedding light on both the Bible and apartheid South Africa.

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tures the talented performers Mncedisi Shabangu and Hamilton Dlamini.

The 2012 production will be directed by emerging talent, Prince Lamla, whose production, Coal Yard, won the Zwakala Festival and had a highly successful run at the Market Theatre.

The Market has had great success recently with the restaging of classics from the past, and Woza Albert! comes as the latest instalment. As with the recently highly successful Sizwe Banzi is Dead, this play has been interpreted by a new generation of theatre practitioners for a new and growing audience.

A scene in Woza Albert!

Community theatre winners A platform to showcase talent and ensure that voices are heard and stories told Arts Correspondent Zase Laduma Arts Projects of Secunda (pictured) won the R8 000 first prize and the Best of the Best title for their play The Perfect Problem at the Best of the Best arts festival which ended on Sunday.

Festival manager Tonderai Chiyindiko said the group is making a name in community theatre.

“They won numerous 2011 SANCTA Festival prizes for The Perfect Problem. The judges were impressed by the standard they set with the play.”

Second prize of R5 000 went to Cape Town group Africa Jam with the play Uhlazo who are also 2011 Zabalaza Festival Winners. The Hillbrow Theatre Project earned R3000 for their performance of Ga Sepatala, which won the 2011 Inner City Schools’ Drama Festival. B & T Productions from Port Elizabeth won R1 000 for their play My Bra Se Tjirrie.

Chiyindiko said the festival gives artists a platform to showcase their talents, and also gives them a platform to ensure that their voices are heard and stories told.

The festival, hosted by Sibikwa Arts Centre in Benoni, attracted theatre groups from

around South Africa and the SADC region. There was one group from Botswana and two from Zimbabwe.

The judges included Dr Robert Mclaren cofounder of South African theatre organisation, Workshop ’71, and Zimbabwean arts education trust, CHIPAWO; award-winning and accomplished artist and acclaimed playwright, director, actor and cultural activist Gamakhulu Diniso; and award-winning actress Motshabi Tyelele.

Mclaren said the festival gave a challenging view of the Rainbow nation and its neighbours.

“Theatre is vibrant, if disturbing - the question is, is society?”

Mclaren’s sentiments were echoed by Tyelele, who commented that all but one of the play was themed on violence.

“But rather than feel upset about the content, people should be motivated to make a difference in their own lives. The festival made me realise how important theatre is in these communities, and there is a need for professionals to get involved in mentoring these young artists,” she added.

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SARU to hunt for coach ‘The skills and qualities required for a Springbok coach are confined to only a small number of candidates’ Gavin Rich

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he South African Rugby Union (SARU) has confirmed that the next Springbok coach will be head hunted by them.

The Saru executive council has decided not to advertise the position or to invite applications, as has been done before the selection process for the past few Springbok coaches. Instead a short-list will be drawn up by the Exco to fit criteria they have identified as important for the

demanding requirements of the role.

This does not however mean that current Bok coach Peter de Villiers, who announced recently that he would put in an application for the job were applications asked for, has been ruled out. On the contrary, SARU chief executive Jurie Roux has confirmed that as the incumbent national coach, De Villiers will be assured of a place on the shortlist.

“This is the most important decision we have to make and

White Buffalo knocked out Boxing Correspondent Francois Botha, aka the White Buffalo, was seconds away from winning the WBF heavyweight title when the American Michael Grant knocked him out on Saturday night.

Botha was ahead on points when a huge right by the American sent him crashing to the canvas in the final round of their fight at Montecasino, Johannesburg.

In a fight with much pushing and wrestling Botha (115.24 kg) built up a points lead against the slow and ponderous Grant (113.94kg).

It looked as if the American was going to go down but he made it to the bell by holding and mauling against the tiring Botha. In the final round Botha made the mistake of mixing it with Grant who had been trying to land with his big right hand throughout the fight.

When he at last landed an overhand right to the jaw it sent Botha crashing to the canvas where referee Ingo Garrabas counted him out.

Botha was down for some time and had to receive medical attention. supersport.com

appointing the best man for the job is critical. The skills and qualities required by a Springbok coach are confined to only a small number of potential candidates,” Roux said.

Most would agree with Roux’s view, and would welcome the announcement that SARU are this time not going to go through the charade of making the job available to all comers. Hopefully they should also desist from the practice of putting candidates that they identified through technical tests

as it should be considered a given that anyone deemed good enough to be on a hand-picked short-list for the Bok job should be technically adept.

Roux said the Exco hoped do confirm an appointment by early in the New Year, which might be a bit late for the Super Rugby franchise chief executives who approached SARU before the World Cup and pleaded with them to get the process done as quickly as possible, so as not to interfere with their Super Rugby preparations. supersport.com

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Coach lauds youth development Soccer Correspondent Bidvest Wits coach Roger de Sa has praised the club’s youth development programme, saying this is the best future side he has ever had.

This is while the team seeks a second trophy in the Telkom Knockout semifinal against Santos

Muhsin Ertugral

on Sunday. “The five-year plan we set out three years ago is now starting to show up. There are some kids arriving sooner and we’re pushing them quicker than we should have. But it’s paying off and they’re stepping up.”

Wits are seventh on the PSL table, and De Sa says he is getting results sooner than expected.

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All set for Telkom Knockout semis In form Bidvest Wits expected to cruise to the final Soccer Correspondent

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oburg inner-city side Bidvest Wits take on Cape Town’s Santos in the Telkom Knockout semifinal at Bidvest Stadium on Sunday.

Considering their form, which included a 3-1 thrashing of PSL champions Pirates last week, the Roger de Sa coached Wits are expected to win this tie and go on to the final.

Santos will play without their captain Tyren Arendse, who is suspended, having picked up a third yellow card in Saturday’s 0-0 Absa Premiership draw against Kaizer Chiefs. Santos coach Boebie Solomons said the experience of Arendse will be sorely missed. “He is a terrier in the midfield and we will miss him for those qualities and his experience of having played in important cup matches before, and the settling effect he has on the team.”

Other players who may not play are Peter Mponda and Siyabulela Songwiqi who are injured, while midfielders Jonathan Fransman and Salmaan King are also doubtful.

In the other Telkom Knockout semi-final Pirates defender Siyabonga Sangweni will face his former team Golden Arrows in Durban on Saturday. On the other side Katlego Mashego will also face his former Bucs team mates who may be without injured Happy Jele.

With the side coming off a disappointing 3-1 loss to BidVest Wits at the weekend, Pirates need to improve their performance to win against a determined Arrows side that is coached by the shrewd Muhsin Ertugral.

Ertugral has promised that his side will play attacking football.

“Players don’t need to be motivated for games against big teams like Pirates. We’ll be playing against the defending league champions, treble champions, we respect them but it’s also a big game for us,” Ertugral said.

The Buccaneers, who looked disjointed in their loss to Wits last week, will be boosted by the return of veteran striker Benni McCarthy and their captain Lucky Lekgwathi who missed the Bidvest Wits match last weekend.

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