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Students, cops partner in charity ‘NGOs form part of our communities, they need our assistance through donations regardless of the scale.

With these organisations we can build better communities, therefore they need our outmost support to continue to exist’ Sizwe Mathe sizwem@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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illbrow Police Station in conjunction with University of Johannesburg, Doornfontein Campus donated clothes to various NGOs around the inner city this week Thursday.

The clothing was collected by Inner-city Gazette newspaper, in co-operation with University of Johannesburg Doornfontein Campus librarian Julia Paris and team leader Moipone Qhomane-Qhomane.

Six boxes of clothes were distributed at Nazareth House in Yeoville, which provides a home for abandoned, disabled and orphaned children, Twilight Children’s Home

and The House in Berea.

According to the station’s spokesperson Sgt Jenny Pillay the donations will assist in the day to day operations of these NGOs. “We were giving out second hand clothes sponsored by students of the University of Johannesburg.

We visited the shelters, giving out clothes and spending time with the children to give them a sense of pride and respect as they start a year. Hillbrow SAPS will continue with similar projects throughout the year to support our community needs,” said Sgt Pillay.

She added that policing may not succed without the support of the community. “NGOs form part of our communities, they need our

Members of the Hillbrow SAPS pose with youths at the Twilight Children’s home during the event.

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assistance through donations regardless of the scale. With these organisations we can build better communities, ” said Sgt Pillay.

Twilight Children’s Home HIV/ Aids facilitator Walter Phiri said

the donations demonstrated care that the police, UJ, and Inner-city Gazette have for the children.

“Many orphans come here without enough clothes; this will assist us in bringing dignity to those in

need. These boys receive accommodation, training and food but they cannot live without clothes.

We look forward to a formidable partnership with the University of Johannesburg and the police.”

Car theft suspect held Crime Reporter crime@gazettelive.co.za Hillbrow police have arrested a 31 year-old man on a suspicion of

possession of a stolen vehicle, police spokesperson Sgt Jenny Pillay says.

She explains that this week police patrolling the area stopped a

car with suspicious number plates in Biccard Street in Braamfontein.

“Upon checking its chassis number and testing it they suspected that it was stolen and arrested the driver.”

In the same period police arrested a man for allegedly stealing a cellphone from a motorist. “The complainant was looking for parking in Leyds Street, Braamfontein when two men approached him. One came to his window and the other opened the passenger door and took his Blackberry cellphone and walked away. The complainant parked the car, called the police and followed the suspects. Police arrived and apprehended the suspect who took the phone,” Sgt Pillay says.

She adds that two more suspects were arrested on charges of armed robbery and assault this week.

“Police responded to a complaint of armed robbery from radio control and rushed to the corner of Pretoria and Twist street in Hillbrow.

On arrival they found the complainant bleeding and he pointed out two men he alleged to have robbed him of cash and assaulted him, and police arrested them.”

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Housing contracts explained Tenants who default on rent or do not settle arrears are given about 120 days before they are served with an eviction notice Mbhazima Lesego waka’Ngobeni

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ohannesburg Social Housing Company (Joshco) only provides rental accommodation to lower income residents, and tenants may not own units they have rented for some years, says the company’s CEO Rory Gallocher (pictured right).

“A lot of our clients ask to get ownership of the unit after four years.

Government policy is that if government subsidises the construction cost of the unit, Joshco has the option to offer ownership to the occupant but may not do so until four years has expired.

“That does not mean that after four years we are compelled to give ownership,” he explains.

Joshco is the City of Joburg’s rental housing agency. It develops, refurbishes and manages mixed-density units for households earning a combined income of between R3 500 and R7 500 per month.

If it was to offer tenants full ownership of, an instalment sale contract would be signed and ownership passed on to the tenant once they

had paid the capital cost, Gallocher says.

He adds that however, the tenants only sign open-ended contracts, which do not provide for them to take full ownership of the property.

“Joshco doesn’t offer ownership; we offer leases. If our units were for sale it would be disservice to poorer families who need discounted accommodation.”

Before they sign a lease agreement, applicants are screened for approval.

Then, all the terms and clauses of the standard rental lease agreement are explained to successful applicants.

The lease agreement notes that the company will provide accommodation, ensure safety, maintain the property, provide cleaning services and insurance, do improvements on units, spell out the terms of breach of contract by tenants.

Tenants must pay two months’ deposit before they can occupy a flat.

“The first month is the damage deposit. The second deposit is the last month’s rent,” says Gallocher.

Tenants are refunded their deposit or any balance when the lease ends,

within 14 days after the company is satisfied that no further amounts are payable or owed, the lease contract stipulates.

Tenants may not without the consent of Joshco, cede any rights to any third party or sublet the unit.

“You cannot sublet the property because you will be probably prejudicing the next person who is entitled to get occupation; and it is often corruption related,” Gallocher says.

He adds that if a tenant breaches any of their obligations, they will be sent a notice demanding that they rectify the breach within a given period. They will also be told that the company can cancel the lease if the breach is not rectified.

Tenants who default on rent or do not settle arrears are given about 120 days before they are served with an eviction notice.

“If tenants fail to make arrangements for settling outstanding arrears or if they sign an acknowledgement of debt but fail to honour the agreement, such accounts are handed over for legal processes to commence until eviction stage,” Gallocher says.

He however notes that the legal process is not favoured because it is protracted.

If a defaulter signs an acknowledgement of debt, they have to pay their current rent every month as well as a contribution towards their arrears. We then exclude them from the legal process, as long as we can see the defaulter has good intentions,” he adds.

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More kids die off balconies Never mind whether it is a dilapidated or upmarket apartment building, parents must not allow their children to play in the balconies

COMMENT Bad buildings continue to feature in the Joburg landscape. Our last edition carried a letter from a reader who complained about a building in Pritchard Street, which he alleged to be a haven for criminals and suggested its closure.

Such allegations about that building, and many more in a similar state, have persisted since the 1990s.

In many cases the authorities have responded by evicting the occupants of the buildings without helping them acquire alternative accommodation. They did just that last year at a dilapidated building near the Carlton Centre.

The incidence of having people living in such squalid conditions is an obvious reflection of unemployment and poverty. Most of the people who live in such buildings do not do so by choice, they may also like to live in better conditions but simply do not afford to pay the exorbitant amounts of money demanded by landlords for rentals.

Unfortunately many people may not understand the circumstances faced by those who live in bad buildings. If such people become victims of crime in the vicinity of such places their suspicions immediately point at those buildings.

The presence of criminals in bad buildings may not be ruled out, just as it must not be ruled out in all other buildings for that matter, including the best buildings in the city. Criminals can also be found living in the posh northern suburbs of the city, and so they may not be perceived to be only confined to bad buildings in the inner-city.

Instead of embarking in short term responses like evicting the poor who live in bad buildings, the authorities would probably improve the situation by looking for permanent solutions to unemployment and poverty, which are the obvious causes of such circumstances.

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have in the past expressed my disappointment at seeing children playing in the balconies of apartment buildings.

I also once told the sad story of my nephew who passed away after falling off the balcony of one building in the inner-city.

To my utter shock, hardly two weeks later I read another story in which it was reported that yet another child had died after falling off the balcony of a building, this time from the Preston Place building in Berea.

The recent incidents in which two children died after falling off the buildings in Hillbrow last month

devastated me, to say the least.

I am a person who values human life at above average level, and I have spent nearly all my life trying to prevent loss of human lives and preserve life.

With this I cannot resist the urge to write in again and press on parents to be more caring to their children and ensure their safety, with the hope that this will help.

I believe they love their children, and there is no reason for me to doubt that in any way. All this said, I still believe there is something the parents are not doing right in terms of protecting the lives of their children in the buildings. Never mind

the state of the building, be it a dilapidated ‘mnyama ndawo’, or an upmarket apartment building, parents simply must not allow their children to play in the balconies, as it is an extremely dangerous place for them.

There are so many safe places for them to play all around the suburb, and some of them are the parks.

You may as well keep them indoors with books and the varieties of inexpensive toys made in China.

At the same time I have to point out that since the last two tragedies in Hillbrow, I have noticed a change in many parents’ attitudes.

A lot fewer children can be seen

Women sing and dance to communicate HIV/Aids education and prevention.

playing on the balconies and I commend all the parents for showing such care and love for their children. With this I hope we may never have another report about a child falling off a building and dying that way anymore.

I should also add that the onus is on the parents, and not necessarily only the building caretakers or the security to stop children risking their lives on the balconies. This of course does not take away the responsibility of property companies to ensure complete safety for all their tenants and visitors.

Sister Ronia Mpande Yeoville

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he Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (WRHI) is a locally based research organisation that has received international recognition for it’s work in the field of HIV and reproductive health research.

Director Helen Rees says a key focus area of WRHI is community based research, with the objective to develop clinical and non-clinical interventions for the prevention and treatment of HIV and sexually transmitted infections.

“In order to achieve this goal, WRHI runs a wide range of projects designed to focus on evaluating the effectiveness of new or innovative strategies, new treatments or new approaches using existing treatments, to prevent the acquisition, transmission or progression of HIV and other STIs.” Projects currently running at

WRHI are: MTN-VOICE (MTN Microbicide Trial Network VOICE stands for Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic). This project has women volunteers assigned to either insert Tenofovir 1% Gel into vagina, or swallow a Tenofovir/Truvada tablet, daily.

This project aims to determine whether taking these products is safe and will be able to protect the women from becoming infected with HIV. CHAVI (Centre for HIV AIDS Vaccine Immunology): CHAVI has men and women volunteers and aims to study HIV at the early stage of infection and how the human body responds to it. This knowledge will help in the design of a future HIV vaccine.

AfrEVacc (African-European HIV Vaccine Development Network): This project aims to learn how feasible and acceptable it is to recruit

HIV -ve men into a future HIV vaccine trial. This project aims to learn why men take part in research and what they think about vaccinations.

Biomarkers: This project aims to learn new information about the vaginal environment in women; information on how the vagina protects itself against infections and to find new and better ways for assessing the safety and effectiveness of vaginal microbicide products.

New projects at WRHI that require community volunteers: FACTS (Follow-on African Consortium for Tenofovir Studies): This project aims to learn if whether women who insert a microbicide gel into their vagina before and after sex is safe and helps reduce the risk of HIV and genital herpes.

This project is based at WRHI’s Yeoville Site, No 35 Dunbar (corner Dunbar and Bedford roads),

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in Yeoville, Johannesburg.

HARP (HPV in Africa Research Partnership): This project aims to evaluate the existing cervical cancer screening methods and to compare how the use or absence of ARVs may affect HPV infection and cervical cancer risk in HIV +ve women.

The project also wishes to evaluate a new test called CareHPV, to see how it compares to the existing screening methods in predicting cervical cancer.

Community based projects require the support of community members in volunteering their participation. Only with this support can these projects be successful, which ultimately leads to improved health care service for all.

For more information or if you wish to join HARP or FACTS project, please contact (011) 358 5424 or visit WRHI at No7 Esselen Street, Hillbrow, Johannesburg.

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Gaddafi loyalists tortured Tripoli - New evidence has emerged that supporters of former Libyan leader, Col Gaddafi, are being tortured in detention.

Inmates at a jail in Misrata told BBC that they were whipped and given electric shocks. The head of the city’s military council has however dismissed the allegations.

The UN’s human rights chief Navi Pillay has called on the transitional government to take full control of all prisons.

Earlier this week Medecins Sans Frontieres said it was suspending its work in one Misrata detention centre because of an alarming rise in torture cases. Human rights groups say such incidents are widespread in Libya.

Prison officials say they are powerless to stop inmates being taken away for torture. Many detention centres are controlled by militias unaccountable to the government.

Amnesty International said the torture is carried out by recognised security entities and a multitude of militias operating outside any legal framework.

Pillay expressed concern especially about sub-Saharan Africans who the militias assume to have been fighting for Col Gaddafi.

The UN estimates that about 8 500 people; most accused of being Gaddafi loyalists - are being held.

NEWS

Chinese captives freed

Navi Pillay Ahmed Haroun

Khartoum - Troops have freed 14 out of 29 Chinese workers held by rebels in the south.

South Kordofan governor Ahmed Mohamed Haroun said the search for the others who were involved in the construction of a road is continuing.

The workers were abducted in the volatile South Kordofan region on Saturday. Haroun said the Chinese were now in Eld Obeid in North Kordofan.

A spokesman for the SPLM-N rebels said the workers were caught in crossfire with the army, and were captured together with nine soldiers.

Wang Zhiping, an executive of the Power Construction Corporation that employed the workers, said the rebels had attacked the workers. Sudan’s army also said the rebels had attacked the company’s compound and captured 70 civilians.

South Kordofan is one of three conflict areas since South Sudan became independent from Sudan in July. Abyei and Blue Nile along with South Kordofan lie along the loosely demarcated border between Sudan and South Sudan.

Third journo shot dead

Regional food crisis alert Niamey - Charity group, Save the Children says six million people, half of them children, are at risk after a poor harvest led to food shortages and rising prices.

The group has launched an appeal to raise £30 million, warning that the crisis could be as serious as the disaster in East Africa. The country already has one of the world’s worst child survival rates.

One in six children die under the age of five, with half of those deaths linked to malnutrition, the charity says.

Save the Children’s director Gareth Owen said: “The forecasts are grim, and children are always the first to suffer the effects of hunger and malnutrition. If we act now we can prevent the deaths of thousands of children, but the opportunity to avert this crisis is closing.

If we wait till children are dying, it will be too late.”

Instability in neighbouring countries has affected cross-border trade, so Niger is unable to import many food staples which it relies on in times of shortage.

NEWS

Abubakar Shekau

Militants reject peace talks Abuja - A spokesman for Boko Haram, Abul Qaqa has rejected a call by President Goodluck Jonathan for talks, and threatened fresh attacks if members of his group were not freed.

President Jonathan has urged the group to state its demands and begin dialogue. “If they say this is why we are resisting, then there will have a basis for dialogue,” Jonathan said.

However, Qaqa cited a government assault on its members as reason for not engaging in talks. “The day he said we should start dialogue, security agents arrested a large number of our members,” he said.

Qaqa said his group “will launch attacks like that in Kano.” The January 20 attacks in Kano killed 185, the deadliest but not claimed by the group,

whose assaults have plunged Nigeria into a security crisis in several northern areas.

Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau said he had ordered those attacks because the government tortured his members.

Hassan Abdi

Mogadishu - Gunmen have killed Hassan Osman Abdi, who headed Radio Shabelle. He was shot as he was entering his home on Saturday.

Mu’awiye Ahmed Mudey, a producer at Shabelle radio confirmed the attack. “We don’t know who they are, but they shot him mercilessly in the head and shoulders,” he said.

Radio Shabelle interrupted its programmes to broadcast several verses from the Koran as an expression of mourning for Abdi, the 29-year-old father of three.

Somalia, devastated by 20 years of civil war, is considered one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. Reporters Without Borders reported in December that 25 journalists had been killed there since 2007. “Abdi is the first journalist to be killed there in 2012, Africa’s deadliest country for media personnel,” RSF said in a statement.

He was the third director of the network to be killed. Bashir Nur Gedi in 2007 and Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe were killed in 2009.

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has some 10 000 troops there to protect the fragile Western-backed Somali government.

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City lobby group folds Participants were feeling frustrated at the lack of co-operation by the council at a high level Anna Cox

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business organisation which has been trying since 1997 to reshape Joburg’s inner city, has decided to cease operations.

It claims it is not getting co-operation from the City of Joburg’s top officials, politicians, the city’s agencies and decision-makers.

The Johannesburg Inner City Business Coalition (JICBC), formed as a partnership between business and the council, has ceased its monthly meetings, claiming they were a waste of time as no officials with decision-making abilities were ever present to take resolutions forward.

In the past 15 years, the coalition has been a strong lobby group, working on behalf of inner-city property owners, investors and developers, regularly meeting council committees, utilities and agencies to share information and ideas.

Founding members included Anglo American Corporation, Absa, Billiton, FNB, Foschini Group,

Avusa, Liberty Life, Nedcor Bank, Old Mutual, Sanlam and Standard Bank.

The business coalition’s aim was to promote economic growth and the revitalisation of the urban environment to bring about an “improvement in the quality of life for all city stakeholders and role players… to ensure sustainable maintenance and service delivery at upgraded or regenerated areas to ensure degeneration does not reoccur”.

The monthly meetings were attended by chief executives and top management people in the private sector.

Anne Steffny, a coalition director, said participants were feeling frustrated at the lack of co-operation by the council at a high level.

“Junior or middle-ranking officials are attending regularly and are very enthusiastic about working with us in the inner city but they do not

HILLBROW POLICE ARRESTS 23 - 29 JANUARY 2012 Assault Common 20, Assault GBH 15, Intimidation 4, Murder attempted murder and robbery 1, Drunk Driving 13, Armed Robbery 5, Theft out of motor vehicle 1, Possession of suspected drugs 11, child stealing 1, Malicious injury to property 5, driving motor vehicle without license 3,possession of dangerous weapon 3, Reckless and Negligent Driving 4, Theft 16, Fraud 6, Sexual Assault 1, Dealing in dagga 3, House breaking and Theft 6, Attempted murder 2, Armed robbery and assault GBH 2, Robbery 8, Carjacking 1, Murder 2, Trespassing 3, Possession of dagga 7,

Attempted robbery 2 , crimen injuria 3, Possession of suspected stolen motor vehicle 3, Copyright Act 9, Attempted rape 3, Possession of unlicensed firearm 1, Possession of suspected stolen property 3, Shoplifting 2, Possession of car breaking implement 1, defeating the ends of justice 1, contravening of protection order 2, possession of explosive 1. 23 illegal immigrants . And the following were confiscated cocaine powders 20 pieces, 30 grams powder, 15 slopes of dagga, fake dvd’s (287), one tauraus. 38 special revolver and five live rounds.

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State of paralysis African unity remains but a fleeting illusion Jabu Nxumalo

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Coalition director Anne Steffny

have the power to make things happen. If the private sector directors and CEOs from big companies can personally dedicate a lot of hours to these meetings, why can the city not send people of an equal calibre to the meetings, which is what we would all expect?” she asked.

There is “extraordinary willingness among people involved in the inner city to improve it, and the JICBC has a long history of successes achieved when all parties worked together,” Steffny said.

City spokesperson Nthatisi Modingoane said the council had collaborated with the JICBC to develop a bold vision under the Inner City Economic Development Plan that will be rolled out during the next five years.

“It is therefore inaccurate to say the JICBC is disbanding because of the city’s non-collaboration,” he said. Article source : www.iol.co.za

he recent impasse in the race for the post of chairman of the African Union (AU) commission, which split the organisation into Anglophone and Francophone blocs reflects the endemic divisions within the continent.

On Monday, the contest between the incumbent, Gabon’s former Foreign Affairs minister Jean Ping and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa’s Home Affairs minister, produced no clear winner after DlaminiZuma had withdrawn earlier, having failed to garner enough votes; and Ping failed to win two-thirds of the 54 votes needed. Analysts have argued that this has left the AU in uncharted territory with some even arguing that the organisation is in a state of paralysis.

But history shows that divisions within the continent’s almost 50 year old body are nothing new. Established in 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and formally known as the Organization of African Unity with over 30 states, the organisation was transformed into the AU in 2002 with a commitment to establish stronger institutions aimed at fostering economic development, political unity and full equality for women.

As Tanzanian scholar, Prof Mwesiga Baregu, reminds us that in a farcical replay of history, reminiscent of the 1963 OAU Summit, the AU Summit in 2007, ended up with a split between what he calls the gradualists (then the Monrovia group) and the fasttrackers (then the Casablanca group).

“While in 1963 the camps were led

by Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, in the

AU replay the camps were led by Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya,” he points out.

Quoting Karl Marx when he agreed with Hegel on the lessons of how history repeats itself when Marx said: “the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce”, Prof Baregu argues that the outcomes of the 2007 AU Accra Summit are reminiscent of the 1963 OAU Summit.

He points out that the gradualists advocated the consolidation of existing regional economic arrangements which are perceived as the building blocks and pre-condition towards a United States of Africa. For the rapidest, however, the consolidation of economic arrangements is not achievable without political unity.

The centralisation of political authority is, in this case, perceived as the necessary condition for economic integration and transformation.

“As it happened in Addis Ababa in 1963, the gradualists won the day although there was palpable tension in the statement issued at the end of the summit,” he sadly adds.

He continues to highlight that the statement paid lip service to the ideas of Nkrumah and in one paragraph, Accra Declaration, issued at the end of the Summit, firmly embraces the gradualist position. It reads thus: “CONVINCED that the ultimate objective of the African Union is the United States of Africa with a Union Government as envisaged by the founding fathers of the Organisation of African Unity and, in particular, the visionary leader, Dr Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana; ALSO CONVINCED of the need for common responses to the major challenges of globalisation facing Africa and boosting regional integration processes through an effective continental mechanism...”

Prof Baregu goes on to state that: “It is quite clear from the above (Accra Declaration), that 44 years after the founding of the OAU, African leaders have not seen the necessity of African unity any more vividly.

Moreover, from the Accra decisions Africa may not have moved any closer 50 years from now unless the thinking of the majority of the political leadership changes fundamentally.”

This week’s developments in Addis Ababa are reflective of this analysis

by Prof Baregu, and until the African continent agrees coherently at the ideological level, the dream of our African fathers of the African unity will remain, to borrow from Haile Selassie’s address to the United Nations: “…but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.”

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The Market’s dance line up Performance reflects our fear as the society and the individuals around us change, it also shows how dancing and music can create curiosity, strengthen our identity and inspire Arts Correspondent

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he internationally acclaimed 24th edition of Dance Umbrella 2012 dance platform will be presented at the Market between 17 February and 4 March.

The event will feature a celebration of contemporary dance, performance art, Afro-fusion, dance film and video and internationally renowned South African choreographers.

Among the shows featured at the Market Theatre are Exit/Exist,

by Gregory Maqoma, directed by James Ngcobo, music composed

by Simphiwe Dana, at the Main Theatre on 17 and 18 February.

The core of this piece is memory; rephrasing the notion of existence and the notion of simply existing in order to exist.

Exit/Exist takes a moment to pause; to look back; to rewind the tape to the days when the tapestry of South Africa was about the collision of biographies.

Another is Dansmettieduiwels (no under 16) by Alfred Hinkel at the Main Theatre on 21, 22 and 23 February.

This is the story of Emmanuel

Bugen, born in Matjieskloof at a Roman Catholic mission station, a few kilometres from Springbok in the Northern Cape.

As a young adult he believed he had a calling to serve his creator and so joined the monastery in his home town, in the hopes of eventually being ordained as a priest.

A while into his training Emmanuel requested that he be given permission to work with children.

This request was refused as the abbot believed he displayed an inappropriate interest in the children. Using Emmanuel’s story as a spring board we interrogate the Church’s doctrines and belief systems regarding sex, sexuality and its relationship with women and children.

Robyn Orlin’s Daddy explores politics in the arts in terms of performance empowerment and ownership of space, at the Laager Theatre on 22, 23 and 24 February.

Six performers fight over the same space while they wait for their director to arrive for a performance. They are in a state of panic five minutes before the show, but the director does not arrive. Their waiting becomes the background

against which the collage of dances is set. Daddy, won the Lawrence Olivier Theatre Award in London for Outstanding Achievement in Dance in 2003.

Dirty Laundry, by Mark Hawkins features Moving Into Dance Mophatong Dance Company at the Main Theatre on 25 and 26 February. Everyone loves it when other people’s ‘dirty laundry’ is aired in public, except when it is our own. It is what sells newspapers, gossip magazines and great TV programmes.

Politicians, celebrities, the man in the street, are all subject to it, and the dirtier your past secrets are, the more famous you become.

Faith by Melody Putu will be at the Main Theatre on 28, 29 February and 1 March.

This is a dance performance about a girl. We get to follow Faith on the journey of her life, from obstacles to possibilities… a young girl who resembles any other girl in the world, with dreams of love, happi-

Dancers Mel and Maxim in Faith.

ness and a safe future.

But Faith has to fight for her rights in her community and in her family. The performance reflects our fear as the society and the individuals around us change. But it also shows how dancing and music can create curiosity, strengthen our identity and inspire.

The shows also include Opera for Fools by Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe at the Main Theatre on 3 and 4 March.

The backdrop for Opera for Fools depicts the Shebeen lifestyle that was lived in South African townships of Johannesburg, where it framed the centre stage for some of the dramatic events that took place between the 1970s and 1990s.

In the so-called ‘informal settle-

Bursary for theatre directors ‘A chance to let the theatre industry know that we are out there creating magical stories for the people’ Arts Correspondent

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he Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), Theatre Arts Admin Collective and the Baxter Theatre Centre are calling for applications.

The 2012 Emerging Theatre Director’s Bursary offers an emerging theatre director a mentor, a small budget, a month’s rehearsal space and a week of performance at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective.

It is recommended that directors work with already existing scripts as the month-long period has proved insufficient for devised work.

Previous winners of this bursary include Amy Jephta, Tara Louise Notcutt, Asanda Phewa, Leopold Senekal, Pusetso Thibedi, Kim Kerfoot and Tsepo wa-Mamatu.

One of the 2011 winners Kim Kerfoot said the Emerging Theatre Director’s Bursary is the only opportunity of its kind in South Africa, and for a young

and emerging director that makes it exceptionally valuable.

“It is a wonderful environment in which to find yourself, full of people who want you and your work to succeed, and are willing to do everything within their power to make that happen,” he added.

Pusetso Thibedi, another 2011 winner said: “For me this was a way in, a chance to let the South African theatre industry know that, even though you may not know who we are, we are out there working, creating magical stories for the people that are willing to lend their ears and eyes, even if it is just for a single moment of escape.”

The 2012 bursaries will run over two periods: Bursary 1 will be from 11 April to 19 May; and Bursary 2, 20 June to 27 July.

The bursary is specifically designed for emerging theatre directors who have had some experience in directing and whose passion is to have a career as a theatre director.

The Emerging Theatre Di-

rector’s Bursary is part of the GIPCA Directors and Directing programme and requires both awardees to participate in the three-day colloquium that takes place towards the end of July.

GIPCA is running a host of colloquiums throughout 2012 that cover a range of themes: race, identity, representation, culture, dance and climate-change. If your proposal fits into one of these themes, indicate; but it is

noted that this will not give preference.

If you are an emerging theatre director and would like to grab this great opportunity you may submit: a one page creative proposal; a CV that includes two references with contact details, and an indication of preferred date to artsadmin@mweb.co.za by 17 February.

The winners of the bursary will be announced on 2 March 2012.

Previous bursary winner Asanda Phewa

ments’ of Soweto, Sophiatown and Alexandra, migrants from far and nearby neighbouring countries made new friends, all sharing the one common goal ‘to find that mighty gold and diamonds’ in the belly of the earth.

In these townships, the vacuum was a recipe for crime to some, a political weapon to others. The nights would be silenced by gunfire or tsotsies raiding the dark streets.

Black cars with tinted windows would be either spying on individual houses or taking young ones who had been left in the streets without any care.

This work features music Deconstruction by Andrea Cera, with dancers from South Africa, France/La Reunion/Martinique.

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ew Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer (pictured) acknowledged that his biggest challenge is to set up a working relationship with the five Super Rugby coaches that will benefit the national team.

A Vodacom Super Rugby 2007 winner, Meyer has had ample experience in balancing the needs of the franchise against that of the national team.

While World Champions New Zealand achieve their fluency between Super Rugby and test level by working together, too often the Springbok cause has had to take a back seat thanks to the aspirations

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Meyer is keen to change all that and have a system which will benefit the Springbok cause. Knowing the pitfalls is one thing, but the new Bok coach knows he is on a tightrope trying to balance the expectations of success by the franchises with the national cause.

And the schedule doesn’t make it easier for him, as with just five days to prepare for England’s first onslaught in June, the preceding weekend sees a Bulls-Stormers and Cheetahs-Sharks derby, hardly the thing a Bok coach wants before taking on a tough side.

Still, Meyer knows it may not be practically possible in his first year

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“I’ve also been a Super 14 coach, so I know how difficult it is, especially this year where everybody needs to win and there is a lot of pressure. We’ve already started and want to have a national planning session, but it may already be too late,” Meyer said.

The test series against England does not make it easier.

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Meyer plans to spend a few days at the SARU headquarters before trekking across the country to sell his gospel of co-operation for the national cause. supersport.com

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oburg inner-city side BidVest Wits have signed young SuperSport United winger Daylon Appolis, 19, at a time when skipper Sifiso Myeni joins Orlando Pirates.

Appolis came through the youth system at SuperSport and was promoted to the first-team for the 2011/12 season.

However, the arrival of Franklin Cale from Mamelodi Sundowns and the re-register of Masibusane Zongo means that coach Gavin Hunt has cover in the left-wing position.

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der-20 striker Letsie Koapeng from loan at Bay United, and promoted 19-year-old midfielder Conley Miller and 18-year-old striker Muhammed Patel from their junior structures.

Meanwhile Bucs winger Sameehg Doutie has joined SuperSport United. An official for the club said United midfielder Thandani Ntshumayelo would move the other way in a swap deal.

Doutie joins the Sundowns duo of Franklin Cale and Mabhuti Khenyeza, who moved there last week.

While his talent is undeniable, the more orthodox system played at

United may better suit his style. At Pirates he had struggled to be effective when given game time.

Orlando Pirates have unveiled midfielders Sifiso Myeni from Bidvest Wits and Thandani Ntshumayelo from SuperSport United on Tuesday, with both players handed three-year deals.

The midfielder is so talented that Pirates did not think twice about signing him, despite that his broken leg will keep him out of action for two months. The player is expected to start a rehabilitation programme on Monday to kick-start his recovery process.

“It’s a privilege and honour to join

Orlando Pirates. I know it won’t be easy to walk into the team because of the quality in the team, but I am prepared to fight for a place in the lineup,” said Myeni.

This brings to five the number of players signed by Pirates during this window. Others are Luis Boa Morte, Thabo Matlaba and Njabulo Manqana.

Bafana Bafana midfielder Siphiwe Tshabalala ended speculation about his future on Tuesday as he signed a new three-year extension with Kaizer Chiefs, the club announced.

Shabba appeared to have fallen out of favour with the club after his

failure to meet a ‘three days’ deadline to make up his mind. But with less than two hours to the Premier Soccer League transfer deadline, the Naturena club announced a deal had been reached.

“We are delighted that Tshabalala has renewed his contract after he was given time by chairman Kaizer Motaung to ponder about his future. He has always been loyal to the club and his experience will be important at this stage of the season,” said team manager Bobby Motaung.

Meanwhile, Chiefs have signed another Zimbabwean player in Brain Amidu from Black Mambas.

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