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Breast cancer awareness drive Health MMC Nonceba Molwele introduces the breast cancer awareness campaign at the Mandela Bridge.

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Health MMC Nonceba Molwele introduces the awareness campaign at the Mandela Bridge.

Top left: the Mandela Bridge is illuminated pink to mark the launch of the breast cancer drive.

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Breast cancer awareness drive Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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he iconic Nelson Mandela Bridge was illuminated pink on Tuesday night to mark the launch of the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign spearheaded by international skincare company Estee’ Lauder and the City of Joburg.

This year the awareness campaign is celebrated under the theme ‘Courage-believe in a world without breast cancer’, which highlights Estee Lauder’s 20 year commitments to defeating breast cancer through education and medical research.

In 2000, the company started a campaign to illuminate notable landmarks all over the world to call attention to breast health and early detection in order to save lives. In 2010 the campaign earned a Guinness World Record for most landmarks illuminated for a cause in 24 hours.

The Member of the Mayoral Committee for Health and Social Development Nonceba Molwele said the City intended to take forward the cause that was Evelyn Lauder’s passion.

Molwele said the City would, as part of its GDS 2040 vision, work hard towards the eradication of poverty so that the health of the community could be improved.

“This is because of the realisation that there is a direct correlation between poor health and

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poverty. We are annually building and extending our clinics so there can be easy access to quality healthcare. We are also encouraging the clinics to have food gardens where space permits. If breast cancer is detected early, there are more treatment options and a better chance for survival. Even if you feel healthy now, just being a woman and getting older puts you at risk of breast cancer,” Molwele said.

She reminded women that they could reduce the risk of contracting breast cancer by maintaining a healthy weight, drinking less alcohol, being physically active and breastfeeding.

She also encouraged them to go for breast cancer screening through mammography, genetic screening and ultra sound.

The Look Good and Feel Better Foundation, which has for the past 20 years helped 17 350 women affected by breast cancer, was given a R400 000 donation to continue its work.

Estee’ Lauder Human Resources Director Heather Harrington said the foundation held workshops to make patients feel good by providing them with makeup and skincare products.

Sue Fox, Estee’ Lauder International Managing Director, said $380 million had been raised worldwide to support breast cancer awareness programmes in 70 countries. More than 150 million ribbons have also been distributed around the world.

Additional reporting by Moses Moyo

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Umalusi ready for matric exams Gabi Khumalo The Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training (Umalusi) senior manager for Quality Assessment Vijay Naidoo says Umalusi is satisfied with the preparations for the end of year exams. “We are confident that the general education system is prepared to run these assessments successfully.”

Umalusi has recommended to the Department of Basic Education that intensive monitoring of these provinces needs to be instituted to mitigate possible unintended consequences of this situation. For its part, Umalusi will also intensify its monitoring, where it deems necessary to do so, Naidoo said.

About 620 000 Grade 12 learners will sit for the NSC 2012 examinations, set to take place in more than 6 500 examination centres and to be overseen by 65 000 invigilators. Over 35 000 markers in 123 marking centres across the country will be marking the papers.

Meanwhile, Umalusi has announced that the provisional accreditation status of the Eksamensraad vir Christelike Onderwys (ERCO) has lapsed with effect from 1 October 2012. The body will not be able to administer examinations this year.

This will affect 60 exams centres,

including those who have been home schooled.

The NSC examinations are administered by two private assessment bodies - the Independent Examinations Board (IEB), ERCO and the Department of Basic Education.

Umalusi said among the reasons for the non-extension of ERCO’s accreditation were its ongoing poor and unstable management since 2008, which has seen four different CEOs from 2008 up to the beginning of this year.

“It has not been successful in establishing a viable body with sufficient numbers of learners or the professional management capacity to run credible examinations. ERCO had obtained a large number of national papers from the department and didn’t manage the security risk sufficiently through insecure practices; they posed the whole national NSC exams at risk,” Dr Ramoketsi explained.

All candidates who were supposed to write their examinations under ERCO have been accommodated by the Department of Basic Education.

While the focus at this time of the year is normally on the NSC, Umalusi is also responsible for quality assuring the General Education and Training Certificate to adults and the National Certificate: Vocational, Dr Ramoketsi added. SAnews.gov.za

Community Safety MEC Faith Mazibuko

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Cop shot dead in Joubert Park Moses Moyo moses@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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Hillbrow policeman was shot dead and another, a reservist, wounded on Wednesday evening in Joubert Park, Joburg.

The incident took place about 100 metres away from where two other police officers from the same station were gunned down last month.

Police said the officers were attacked while leaving a block of flats in King George and Bok streets. The deceased policeman was shot in the back of his head. His body lay on the street for hours covered with a silver

blanket, as police cleared the scene.

Residents from adjacent building gazed at the two bloody stains where the bodies of the men lay.

Police spokesperson Col Lungelo Dlamini would not say what lured the officers to the building, but said they were on duty at the time. It was revealed after the shooting incident that the Constable”s firearm was stolen.

“Police are hunting for two suspects who were seen leaving the murder scene,” Col Dlamini added.

On Thursday morning police said two men were being questioned about the shooting. The reservist

was reported to be in a stable but critical condition in hospital.

In a press statement Gauteng Community Safety MEC Faith Mazibuko said she has sent her condolences to the bereaved family of the 30 year old fallen police officer, and wishes for a speedy recovery to the 37 year old reservist who was also shot but survived.

“Incidents such as these happen in the full view of the community and the community must come out with information leading to the speedy arrest of the perpetrators. The message is clear, an attack to any law enforcer is an attack on the state.”

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Sewage spills into the street

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I live in a building (name supplied) in Johannesburg central that is in Jeppe Street near the corner of Nugget Street. From the building next door there is always stinking sewage water flowing out of it into the pavement.

This has been happening for a long time and I wonder why the owners of the building do not fix the problem. It must be easy to fix the problem because I believe that it is just broken sewage pipes that can be replaced, and that must not be too expensive for the owners. The only reason they may have for not fixing their pipes must be that they do not care about the health of people who live there and in neighbouring buildings. They must know that what is happening there threatens the health of everyone who lives there, the neighbours and even those who walk past there.

We were once told that the problem is being attended to, but the whole area still stinks terribly with the sewage that is spilled into the street.

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Many people die and get seriously injured in the roads because of drivers and pedestrians who disregard traffic safety precautions.

This is more so in the coming buildup to the festive season, where the death and injury toll ultimately rises to chilling levels. Many people tend to consume too much liquor and drive motor vehicles when they can hardly see beyond the windscreen, often leading to deadly accidents.

We may consider the growing number of orphans that are left without anyone to care for them, because their parents were killed in traffic accidents. In some cases whole families get wiped out in such accidents. At the same time many breadwinners can no longer fend for their families because of disabilities they sustained in traffic accidents.

The proposal to confiscate the driving licences, cellphones and vehicles of those caught transgressing driving regulations may help improve the behaviour of many drivers. Confiscating their vehicles is the most effective way, as it virtually removes the danger off the road.

Last year the Department of Transport sought to reduce the general traffic speed, especially on freeways which would help motorists manage their speed. That would also reduce drag-racing, which has also caused accidents that claimed many lives.

Speeding is otherwise not necessary in ordinary circumstances. As long as the vehicle is in good condition and is driven properly, one is almost guaranteed to get to the destination in reasonable time.

Otherwise those who need to get there early must just start the journey early enough, so that there will not be a need to rush and expose other motorists and pedestrians to danger.

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The labour movement has urged motorists to oppose the e-tolling system.

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he Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is shocked at the report that Transport Minister Ben Dikobe Martins has urged motorists to start buying e-tags for the Gauteng etolling system.

The minister must surely be aware that: • COSATU and the vast majority of the people of Gauteng are totally opposed to the imposition of these tolls, • A joint COSATU/ANC task team is still investigating alternative ways of funding road improvements, • A meeting is still to take place

between the federation and the Deputy President to discuss whether the tolls will be implemented or not, and • A court review of the e-tolling system is still to take place in November.

How can the minister therefore possible justify urging people to spend money on a system which is still the subject of consultation and review, and will in all probability be rejected by the people of the province?

The minister’s announcement appears to imply that the ongoing consultations and the court review are mere formalities

and a public relations exercise, and that e-tolling will be going ahead anyway. If that is the case COSATU will mobilise its members in their thousands to oppose this attempt to privatise a public asset and force motorists, including thousands of workers, to pay large amounts of money to get to and from work and attend family events, or to be forced to use slow, pot-holed alternative routes.

The recent rises in fuel prices has given added impetus to the campaign to make the motorists pay even more to drive on roads they have been using for years

and already pay for through the fuel levy.

The federation rejects the argument for ‘user-pays’ for basic public services like our roads and repeats its warning to the government not to even think about implementing e-tolls. Should they go ahead COSATU will oppose them with mass mobilisation on the streets.

In the meantime we urge motorists NOT to buy e-tags and to support the mass campaign against e-tolling.

Statement issued by Patrick Craven, COSATU national spokesperson, October 3 2012

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City entities still not reincorporated DA spokesperson says the city’s Department of Economic Development (DED) had failed to meet most of its annual objectives due to a combination of budget shortages, a lack of institutional capacity and apparent bureaucratic bungling Persistance Nkomo persie.nkomo@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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icon retires Moses Moyo moses@inner-city-gazette.co.za After almost eight years as CEO of Jozi Housing Sandy Barnes is retiring.

He has seen the company grow to be a significant player in the Inner City Property, with more than 2000 flats.

“I am particularly proud of the people in Jozi. Many of our staff started as cleaners and are now in management or head office positions. Inner-city upliftment is about developing people as well as buildings, and Jozi Housing has established a solid reputation for doing both.

Nic Barnes, who has been with Jozi Housing for seven years, is the New CEO. He is excited about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

“Sandy has built a strong foundation for the company.

Jozi Housing has over the past four years already converted around 20 buildings in Hillbrow and Berea, most of which were previously hijacked by slumlords, into 1 250 bachelor and one-bedroom flats.”

In addition to the renovation of derelict buildings, Jozi Housing is also involved in three residential improvement districts which have cleaned up the streets, provided street patrols and brought added security to the residents of Berea and the CBD. Jozi Housing is justifiably proud of its role in helping the renovation and rejuvenation of the Joburg inner-city.

The major challenge in Berea is to get rid of the ‘bad’ buildings, which are hijacked, or being run by slumlords.

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he institutional review that would have seen Municipal Owned Entities (MOEs) such as Johannesburg Tourism Company and the Metropolitan Trading Company reincorporated into the city’s core administration has still not taken place, more than a year after it was first announced, says DA spokesperson for Economic Development Cameron Mackenzie (pictured).

He says that the Department of Economic Development (DED)

had failed to meet most of its annual objectives due to a combination of budget shortages, a lack of institutional capacity and apparent bureaucratic bungling.

“The DED has not delivered on its overall mandate of meeting the targets for the fourth quarter, that is to create an environment for accelerated local economic growth that should result in job creation,” says Mackenzie.

He adds that there were approximately 57 projects and programmes listed in the DED’s report tabled in the 27 September Council meeting,

and 36 record no achievement or progress, 10 report a partial achievement, and 11 have achieved their goal. “This represents an abysmal failure to deliver any meaningful progress towards building a local economy that is attractive to investors, while simultaneously aiding job creation,” says Mackenzie.

He adds that while the progress of city initiated projects and programmes are used to measure the DED’s performance, a more quantifiable set of benchmarks are necessary to accurately gauge the performance of the city’s efforts to

grow its economy and calculate its success or failure.

“It is no surprise that the city has failed to create any sustainable jobs, beyond the poverty alleviation efforts of the Expanded Public Works Programme’s pay for a day, as most of the other DED projects DED have stalled,” says Mackenzie.

He adds that DED is aware of other issues hindering economic development from the private sector, but appears powerless to correct these.

Up to time of print, the City’s economic department had not provided comment on the matter.

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Call to try mass rapists Conakry - The UN has stressed the need to assist the victims of the mass rapes that occurred three years ago during a pro-democracy protest, and to bring the remaining perpetrators to justice.

The UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Bangura said it is crucial that victims, witnesses and their families are afforded full protection.

“Addressing these atrocities is crucial for fostering reconciliation, for trust in the justice system and peace,” she added.

On 28 September 2009, civilians organized an opposition rally in a soccer stadium in Conakry when security forces opened fire on demonstrators, killing at least 150 and resulting in the rape of 109 women.

Lt-Col Moussa Camara was charged for the atrocities, and earlier this month, former health minister Col Abdoulaye Diaby was also indicted. “It is important that these and other charges are processed swiftly, as justice has already been delayed for too long,” said Bangura.

The envoy added that her office supports efforts to address impunity for sexual violence and ensuring that such atrocities are never repeated.

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Huge weapons handover

Benghazi - Hundreds of people have responded to the call to hand over weapons, some driving in with APCs, tanks, vehicles with mounted antiaircraft guns and rocket launchers.

The government of Mohamed al Megaryef promoted the call in August, but it gained traction after the US consulate attack, in which the US ambasMohamed al-Megaryef sador and three staffers were killed, leading to an uproar against militias who defied the authorities.

In response, the government has called on all militias to disband or join a command centre coordinating between the army and the militias.

Army spokesperson Omran al-Warfali said: “Hundreds of citizens came to hand over their weapons, men and youth, women, and even children came to hand over bullets they found in the streets.”

The government had estimated that over 200 000 people are armed. It has attempted a number of disarmament schemes, including offering jobs in exchange for their weapons, or offering to buy guns.

Ahmed Salem, an organizer, said over 600 types of arms were collected, including AA guns, land mines, rocket launchers and artillery rockets.

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Leader’s freedom address

AU troops seize port city

Abuja -At an inter-denominational service to mark Nigeria’s 52nd independence anniversary President Goodluck Jonathan sought the support of all Nigerians to solve problems confronting the country.

Jonathan said there are ‘many Nehemiahs’ in the National Assembly, the Federal Executive Council, judiciary, educational and private sectors that would rebuild the nation just like God used Prophet Nehemiah to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem.

He emphasised that the problems confronting the country would be overcome, while thanking Christians and other religious leaders who are praying in the remote areas for his government to succeed. He expressed the determination of his administration to bring change in the country, noting that his administration has sanitised the electoral process, and that corruption will soon end. “We will not sleep until we stabilise power. Leadership is collective, we must work together to rebuild our nation.”

Jonathan flagged off the one year prayer project, noting that prayer helped America determine the direction of their country and can do same for Nigeria.

Mogadishu – African Union and Somali troops have moved into Kismayo city following the withdrawal of al-Shabab fighters, deputy prime minister and defence minister Hussein Isse said.

Joint forces launched assaults, forcing the rebels to withdraw from their last stronghold.

Around 100 troops were seen by a tribal elder taking over a police station and setting up an outpost on top of a tall building. Somali government spokesman Mohamed Faarah Daher said AU and Somali forces had gone into the city to establish security for the population, and had also taken up positions at the airport and sea port.

Al-Shabab found little support in Kismayo because of the brand of Islam it imposed, carrying out public executions, whippings and amputations, and enforced a conservative dress code.

About withdrawing from the city Al-Shabab commander Sheikh Mohamed Abu-Fatma said: “This is a military tactic we have set for the enemy.”

In the past four weeks, fearing an assault by AU troops, an estimated 12 000 people fled the city.

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Ethnic violence escalates Juba - Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has suspended services near the town of Pibor, amid increasing violence. Its local staff and other residents of Lekwongole and Gumuruk have fled into the bush.

Sources say the threat is from rebel leader David Yau Yau of the Murle tribe.

The Murle are said to be angered by government troops, who are mainly

drawn from the rival Nur ethnic group; who allegedly beat and raped locals.

The UN Special Representative, Hilde Johnson, said the suspension of services leaves 90 000 people without medical aid, and all international staff have been evacuated. In August 24 soldiers died in an ambush that was blamed on Yau Yau’s rebels.

Concerns have been

Part of the interior of the Joburg Library.

heightened by an air-drop; said to have been a Sudanese plane providing weapons to the rebels, which Khartoum denies.

Late last year thousands of Nuer tribesmen attacked Murle, killing over 150.

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long with other buildings in the city, the Johannesburg Library has received heritage status from the Provincial Heritage Resources Agency of Gauteng (Phrag).

This classical building of three-anda-half storeys and several basement levels, was designed by architect John Perry and opened in 1935, with a top floor added shortly afterwards to cater for the rapidly growing city.

With the words Libri Thesaurus Animi (books are the treasure house of the mind) carved above the three entrance arches, the building complements the City Hall on the opposite side of Beyers Naude Square.

Eight figures appear on the exterior of the building, lending drama and symbolising medicine, history, philosophy, architecture, sculpture, painting, music and literature. Intellectual giants in these disciplines appear in sculptures around the north and south exteriors.

The building was built at a time when quality materials were imported from around the world – Spanish cork tiles, Canadian maple floors,

German silver door handles, Venetian teak floors, bronze window frames, marble columns, redwood and teak panelling and Georgian wire glass give the building special ambience.

It contains up to two million books, CDs, musical scores, maps, rare collections, patent records, government publications, annual reports, SABS records and newspapers going back to the 1890s. The library also has special collections, perhaps the best being the Harold Strange Collection of African Studies, which is a collection of southern African history and culture, material on Johannesburg’s history, the Anglo-Boer War, ethnology, African languages and literature, and maps of Africa from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Extensive basement stacks house about 40 kilometres of shelving for books and newspaper volumes.

Between 2009 and 2011, the library underwent major restoration and expansion. An exciting aspect of the revamp was the re-instatement of the library theatre, situated in the middle of the central courtyard.

It had been closed 20 years ago.

Three new floors of glass and steel have been built within this courtyard, increasing the library’s capacity to offer wireless computer facilities, as well as discussion rooms and exhibition space for its special collections.

Steel mezzanine balconies have been added to the lending and reference libraries on the ground floor, taking advantage of the double volume ceiling to increase study space for researchers.

New escalators have been installed in the foyer, opening up the floors to one another and giving the library a more modern, people-friendly feel.

“This central part of the building is more about the people who use it.

This noisy, people part in the middle will have no books in it,” said conservation architect Jonathan Stone, who undertook the restoration.

New lifts, new plumbing and electrical installations have made the building safe again. It was the first major public library in the country to abolish subscriptions in 1923. In 1974, it became the first public library to open its doors to all races.

The building has been given provisional protection. joburg.org.za

Librarian Johanna Sethosi in the Yeoville library.

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he Yeoville library in Rockey Street has introduced programmes to encourage reading and free flow of information to the community, according to librarian Johannah Sethosi.

She says the programmes are focused on adults, teenagers and children to encourage them to familiarize themselves with the different genres of books and give them information they would normally have to pay for.

“For the children we have holiday programmes which are structured annually and are directed at keeping them occupied and entertained during school holidays,” she adds.

She explains that they invite different organisations to explain the

importance of their work. “This week we invited the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) to tell the children about the importance of animals.”

Sethosi adds that they also have an early childhood development programme, through which they supply crèches with books.

“The teenagers and adults have business workshops, career guidance days and a book club, where learners read a book and review it. We also have partnered with the Department of Education to offer adult basic education and training (ABET) classes Monday to Thursday in the morning for those who want to improve their matric or English, and all programmes and services rendered are for free,” Sethosi adds.

For more details on the information programme call 011 487 1390.

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Partnerships to create jobs Campaign is geared towards forging strategic partnerships with key stakeholders to create an environment for effective economic growth Deputy Minister Andries Nel

Thief steals minister’s bag Staff Writer Last Monday the Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional development Andries Nel had his bag stolen when he visited Yeoville.

The minister spent the day in the suburb meeting community members and councillors in connection with inner-city development and crime prevention. Nel said he was touring the area on foot when the thief stole his bag from his car.

Yeoville police spokesperson Cst Thabo Malatjie said the minister’s entourage had parked their vehicles near the Rockey and Raymond streets intersection when the incident happened. “An unknown man approached one of the bodyguards and told him that someone was trying to open the boot of the minister’s car. The bodyguard went to investigate but no one was there, and when he looked into the car the deputy minister’s bad was gone,” he said.

Cst Malatjie added that the bag contained credit cards, a notebook and other items. “No arrests have been made, and we appeal to the community to come forward with any information that may help in the arrest of the culprit.

Nel said crime in the inner-city posed a direct challenge to the development of the area.

“That is why it has been included in the cluster delivery agreement with the presidency,” he added.

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peaking at the launch of the Reashoma Gauteng @Work jobs campaign at Constitution Hill on Wednesday, MEC for Economic Development Nkosiphendule Kolisile said partnerships between government, the private sector and civil society were important in overcoming unemployment.

Gauteng contributes 34% to the country’s GDP though it has an unemployment rate of 25.4%.

MEC Kolisile said the campaign is geared towards forging strategic partnerships with key stakeholders in a bid to create an environment for effective economic growth in the Gauteng province. “A further aim is to find solutions to address the

overall unemployment challenge.”

Under the New Growth Path, South Africa aims to create 5 million jobs by 2020. “We have set a target of creating 1.5 million jobs by then. We need a growth rate of no less than 6% in order to achieve that. We can’t do it alone, we need the private sector and they have indicated that they are willing to invest in Gauteng and South Africa,” Kolisile said.

Companies such as Ford and MTN are investing in the province.

Kolisile added that Cabinet had approved the creation of the Gauteng Investment Centre which will be a one-stop shop that will help eliminate ‘unnecessary barriers’ for investment in the province.

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also be involved in the centre. “We want to crowd in more investment.

More focus also needs to be paid to small business and cooperatives as they are important job creators.”

The campaign is aimed at propelling the province’s economy, especially as unemployment is a priority.

The MEC engaged labour as well as business on the campaign. “There must be growth in the economy. We should hone on partnerships.”

Kolisile said there was a need to look at the phenomenon of ‘sleeping cities’ whereby cities closed for business at certain times. “We need to have a conversation on why we have sleeping cities when we have such high unemployment. We can’t afford to have sleeping cities.”

The launch was attended by a range of Gauteng-based companies and small businesses operating in the manufacturing, mining, automobile, banking, telecommunications, tourism and other sectors.

Ford South Africa CEO Jeff Nemeth said although there were challenges, these could be overcome.

Ford, which has operated in South Africa since 1925, operates a simulating training centre while it trains students for a two year period after which a maximum three students are then employed permanently.

“Opportunity to tap into the youth in South Africa is huge but what needs to happen is a greater and deeper partnership with government and the business sector,” said Nemath. SAnews.gov.za

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Inner-city heritage listings approved Own Correspondent

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ome of the Joburg inner-city heritage listings recommended by the City’s arts, culture and heritage department were approved by the Provincial Heritage Resources Agency of Gauteng (Phrag) in the recently ended Heritage Month.

The listings included the Cathedral of Saints Constantine and Helen, which was built in 1912 on the corner of Nugget and Wolmarans streets in Joubert Park.

Its distinctive, classic Greek church exterior consists of several levels of roofs at different angles, topped with a modest dome.

Inside is an ornate world of brass jars, candelabras and bowls, extravagant chandeliers hanging from the tall roof, green-marbled columns across the three-metre high Parthenon-shaped altar. It has a granite tiled floor and beautiful carved wooden pulpit.

The church originally drew its congregation from Greek immigrants living in Yeoville, Berea and Hill-

brow at the turn of the 19th century, but with the migration over the past decades to the northern suburbs, the congregation now comes from a wide area. It has received provisional protection.

Another building that has received heritage status is the David Webster House in Troyeville.

Academic and activist David Webster was shot dead outside his home in Troyeville on Workers’ Day, 1 May 1989, in the prime of his life at 44, by Ferdi Barnard, an apartheid regime hitman. Webster, born in Zambia in 1945, was an anthropologist who joined Wits University as a lecturer and researcher in 1970.

He became involved in anti-apartheid politics after he took part in a protest in 1965 at Rhodes University. The protest was against black students being barred from watching the university’s first rugby team playing.

He was involved in the Detainee Parents’ Support Committee, the End Conscription Campaign, the Five Freedoms Forum, and the De-

tainees’ Education and Welfare Organisation. At the time of his death he was doing research in Kosi Bay on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast.

“There was a lot of speculation that he was killed because he knew about Renamo, (a South Africanbacked anti-government movement in Mozambique) connections that were happening through there, but he wasn’t writing a report as far as I know,” his partner, Maggie Friedman, told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1996.

Webster’s assassination came just nine months before Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Friedman’s life didn’t change immediately: she lived on at their home for another 14 years before selling and moving to the nearby suburb of Kensington in 2003.

She renovated the house and put in attractive features such as bay windows, and built a cottage in the back yard.

In 1999, on the 10th anniversary of Webster’s death and with the help of artist Ilsa Pohl, Friedman decorated the front wall of the house with beautiful mosaic containing symbols significant to Webster.

In 1999 Barnard was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder.

The house has been given provisional protection. joburg.org.za

intervention centre She acknowledged that most learners were reluctant to take mathematics and physics to because they feared failing Gabi Khumalo Gauteng Education MEC Barbara Creecy has challenged Grade 10 learners to aim high and push themselves in order to qualify for university entrance.

On Wednesday, Creecy visited the Secondary Schools Intervention Programme (SSIP) centre, which is used as a holiday site, where Grade 10 and 11 learners attend extra classes at Eqinisweni Secondary School.

About 650 learners from Eqinisweni, Tsosoloso, Ponelong Oracle, Umqhela and Kaalfontein Secondary Schools are attending extra classes in Mathematics, Physical Science and Accounting.

These schools obtained matric pass rates of 79%, 94%, 67% and 78% respectively in 2011. Kaalfontein learners will be writing matric for the first time this year.

Creecy visited the site to encourage learners to stick to the particular subjects as they offer more work opportunities in various skills most needed by the country. She acknowledged that most learners were afraid to take these three subjects because they were afraid to fail, but she encouraged them to tell their peers to take them as the province provides such classes to make

sure that they pass the subjects.

“If you know people from younger grades, tell them they can do it because these centres are here to help them, also encourage other learners doing these subjects to attend these classes, because we’ve found that most learners don’t join the camps during the holidays.” Creecy told learners.

She further challenged learners to work hard and do well in their exams, as she would like to see them in Grade 12 in 2014.

“It’s important to aim high if you want to go to the university. We want As and Bs in these subjects not Cs and Ds, you must push.”

The department has expanded the SSIP to Grade 10 and 11, in addition to providing Grade 12 learners with supplementary tuition programme using highly qualified teachers.

This intervention includes a holiday programme and camps in 10 high risk subjects. Most learners shared with Creecy their future goals, with most of them saying they wanted to pursue studies in civil engineering and mechanical engineering, while some wanted to be scientists and pilots.

On Monday Creecy will visit the SSIP for Grade 12 learners, who will start their final exams on 22 October 2012. SAnews.gov.za

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Annual festival at the Market

Laugh lines and wry observations Left and above : scenes from the last edition of the festival.

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he 19th annual Zwakala arts Festival is currently on at Ramolao Makhene Theatre, presented by the Market Theatre Laboratory.

Started on 1 October the event closes on Saturday 6 October.

Festival coordinator Seipati Ncube said the event will stage the 10 best community theatre plays selected from the Laboratory’s 21st Community Theatre Festival.

“The annual Community Theatre Festival is a celebration of the range of theatre works created by community theatre groups from across the country, and a celebration of the diversity of South African theatre-makers and storytellers.”

Ncube added that the chosen works for this year’s Zwakala Festival are from community groups in Gauteng, KwaZulu Natal and the North West.

“One of the 10 groups will be awarded the opportunity to perform on one of the Market Theatre’s stages. Besides performing in one of

the Market’s theatres, the winning Group will be closely observed by the theatre’s artistic director, Malcolm Purkey, and the artistic team, including the dramaturge, Craig Higginson, who will offer professional expertise where necessary.

“The mentoring will be of great value to the group members who often do not have access to such professional assistance. In addition, the group’s transition into the theatre will be supported by Market Theatre staff from production, front of house and publicity.”

During the week of the Zwakala Festival, the community groups are encouraged to watch current shows at the Market Theatre for free, as a means of offering them additional exposure to professional theatre, Ncube added.

For more info call 011 838 7498.

A riveting, beyond hysterical and ultimately moving presentation Robyn Porteous

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ilarious comedy written by Christopher Durang will be presented at Pop Art in downtown Joburg from 11 to 14 October.

“The path of true love never doth run smoothly,” but in Beyond Therapy the path struggles to run at all.

Prudence, a homophobic and desperate young woman, and Bruce, a bisexual and emotional young man, meet via their personal ads in the newspaper, and after a dismal first date, resolve never to see one another again.

Fate, however, has other plans for them, and what ensues is a wild and wacky, whirlwind romance filled with therapists (who’re more in need of therapy themselves); Bruce’s male lover Bob, and

Snoopy. Will Bruce and Prudence learn to live beyond therapy and find happiness together?

With a somewhat scathing look at therapy’s faults, and the delightful but damaged people that try to fix themselves, this play is riveting, beyond hysterical and ultimately moving; directed by Robyn Porteous and Duane Behrens.

“Filled with offbeat laugh lines, wry observations on the contemporary urban psyche and situations that range from the farcical to the absurd” – wrote Women’s Wear Daily.

“Beyond Therapy is zany in a particularly intelligent way... wickedly funny, terribly slanted, and essentially true” – said Dan Sullivan.

Pop Art is situated at 286 Fox Street in the Joburg CBD.

Global feast of arts Focus on the impossibility of certainty, complexity of action, disease of inaction, the mystery of love, life and death Arts Correspondent

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ich and diverse, Kuandu Arts Festival holds itself to world-class standards comparable to the international art festivals of Vienna and Edinburgh.

Bringing together renowned art groups and artists from more than 15 countries, Kuandu Arts Festival features more than 100 programmes that will allow you to see the first line in world art without having to step foot out of Taiwan. The Kuandu Arts Festival is a large-scale event that Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) has held every October since 1993. For 2012, the event will be held on 9th to the 12th October and its theme, ‘Action, creation, transformation’, depicts the sources of art’s power.

Combining a variety of art disciplines, works from around the world will be introduced at the festival.

I Think It’s Hamlet is a South African dance interpretation of a classic that focuses on suicide and HIV/Aids.

The new work, inspired by William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is conceived and directed by PJ Sabbagha and created collaboratively by Sabbagha with the FATC Company and Interns.

“The work is a bit of ‘madness’, a philosophically physical tangle on the mystery of our experience. The impossibility of certainty, the complexity of action, the disease of inaction, the mystery of love, life and death and our re-

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Zany, wickedly funny, terribly slanted and essentially true show.

One group will be awarded a chance to be mentored by the Market Theatre’s professionals

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lentless search for some kind of “truth”.

The work is not a retelling of the original narrative or a linear exploration of its characters. Instead it is an essay on our personal responses and interaction with the original text, its themes, motifs and symbols through the lens of our contemporary experience as individuals and artists. As contemporary artists I believe it is essential and unavoidable to look deeply and constantly at pressing social and personal issues.

“Hamlets pre-occupation with death and suicide, his desperation with trying to forge his future, his need to change his world and his endless existential probing speaks directly to very contemporary personal, social and political issues.

As always I find it impossible to avoid thinking around HIV/Aids, and Hamlet provides an opportunity to interrogate the psychological impacts of the disease on our experience,” PJ Sabbbagha said.

A work is performed by Thabo Kobeli, Ivan Teme, Thulani Chauke, Fana Tshabalala, Charlston Van Rooyen, Tertia Coetzee and Thami Majela.

From France, Soapéra is an abstract dance work that utilizes mass amounts of soap bubbles and visual art. From Japan, Stringraphy features the playing of a giant musical instrument that covers the entire space. Monchichi is a French/ German/Korean production that explores the various identities we all hold through a hip hop performance by two lovers.

Principal Mr Khumalo (left) poses with some learners displaying their traditional gear during the event.

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School’s heritage dance Staff Writer news@inner-gazette.co.za

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n closing day this week the Metropolitan College in Pritchard Street, Joburg CBD held a ceremony to mark the end of Heritage Month and the school term. The staff and learners wore traditional gear

and danced the day away.

It was a colorful event that displayed traditional attire from diverse cultures.A spokesperson for the school said the event was meant to promote awareness about the different traditions and cultures of the learners and staff there.”This will help all of us to acknowl-

edge and appreciate other people’s traditions, cultures and languages, never mind where each one of us comes from.”

The spokesperson added that this cultural event will remain in the school’s calendar, and will feature again in the next Heritage Month commemorations next year and beyond.

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Piennar retires from Bafana ‘After having given more than 10 years service to the national team I’m now at a stage where physically I’m struggling to balance the demands’ Soccer Correspondent

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t the ceremony to announce the players to take part in Bafana Bafana friendlies against Poland and Kenya on Tuesday at Safa House Safa CEO Robin Petersen announced that former Bafana captain Steven Pienaar has retired from international football.

In the letter Piennar said he was struggling physically with his Bafana Bafana role after 10 years of serving in the national team.

“It is with regret that I wish to advise you that with immediate effect I’m no longer available for selection to represent South Africa,” he stated in the letter.

Playing for a top English side will

Retired ....Steven Piennar

have been a key factor in his decision.

“After having given more than 10 years service to the national team I’m now at a stage where physically I’m struggling to balance the demands of playing in England with the number of games required by the national team. I’m proud to have represented and captained my country, for this I sincerely thank you and wish the team all the best in the future.”

Bafana coach Gordon Igesund said he only heard of Pienaar’s decision to retire on Monday and thanked the midfielder for his contribution to the national team. “He has given us 10 years of service and his body is tired,” he said.

The coach confirmed that defender Bongani Khumalo will take over as Bafana captain. Igesund had said Pienaar would be welcomed back into the national setup, but later said he would never be guaranteed a place in the national team.

“It’s important to understand the door is never closed on any player.

It was a tough decision. He’s being genuine and honest that it’s been tough on his body. He’s given his reasons and we respect his decision,” Igesund said.

Bafana head off on Sunday to play two international friendly matches.

They play Poland at the national stadium in Warsaw on October 12 and Kenya, at the national stadium in Nairobi, on October 16.

Recalled....Delron Buckley

Local players will assemble on Sunday and arrive in Warsaw on Tuesday October 9, while the overseas-based players will travel directly to Warsaw.

There are nine new players that were not part of the squad that played Brazil and Mozambique in September.

Igesund has called up Slovakiabased Ricardo Nunes, who plays for MSK Zilina, the only newcomer to the squad.

Delron Buckley makes a comback to the national set-up after a long absence. Also making a comeback are Luvhengo Mungomeni, Teko Modise, Sifiso Myeni, Oupa Manyisa, George Lebese, Tokelo Rantie and Thabo Nthete.

The Squad Goalkeepers: Itumeleng Khune, Wayne Sandilands, Moeneeb Josephs.

Defenders: Bevan Fransman, Thabo Nthethe, Siyabonga Sangweni, Eric Mathoho, Punch Masenamela, Luvhengo Mungomeni, Bongani Khumalo, Ricardo Nunes.

Midfielders: Oupa Manyisa, Reneilwe Letsholonyane, Siphiwe Tshabalala, Sifiso Myeni, George Lebese, Teko Modise, Delron Buckley, Katlego Mashego, May Mahlangu, Kagisho Dikgacoi, Dean Furman.

Strikers: Lerato Chabangu, Bernard Parker, Dino Ndlovu and Tokelo Rantie.

Race winner focuses on Joburg fighter Two Oceans marathon grabs SA title Athletics Correspondent

Ron Jackson

City to City marathon winner Johannes Kekana (pictured) is setting up plans to achieve improved performance at the 2013 Two Oceans race.

Kekana, 40, won the annual City to City 50 kilometre marathon between Johannesburg and Centurion on Sunday, his first victory over an ultra distance, in two hours, 50 minutes, 39 seconds (2:50:39). In April, Kekana, a former All Africa Games marathon champion, was 53rd in the Two Oceans, over 56km, in 3:32:56.

“I trained hard for the City to City marathon, and now I’m just going to rest so that I recover well, in time for my Two Oceans training. My focus is on training well for that race and giving myself enough time so that I can do well in it. This year all my races showed disappointing results but now at least I can say my year has ended on a high because of this victory,” he said.

The 44th edition of the Two Oceans, to be held in March next year in Cape Town, is expected to attract just over 9 000 entrants.

Meanwhile, Odwa Tunyiswa, the

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2011 City to City winner, who was neck-and-neck with Kekana until 10km to go, was disappointed with his performance after he faded to ninth place. “It was a tough race for

me. My legs started to cramp in the last 10 kilometres. The race was faster than what I anticipated. I went too fast on hills and that was not what I had planned,” Tunyiswa added.

ohannesburg boxer Sydney Maluleke has taken over the SA featherweight title by beating Sabelo Jubatha in East London this week.

The fighter caused an upset when he stopped Jubatha in the seventh round at the Orient Theatre on Sunday.

Jubatha was making the second defence of the title he won last December when he stopped Simphiwe Tom in the fourth round. In his first defence, in March this year, he beat Wonga Ntoyakhe over 12 rounds.

He started well against Maluleke, boxing from behind the jab, but Maluleka picked up the pace in the sixth round.

The challenger backed up the champion in the seventh, landing left and rights until referee Andile Matika stepped in to stop the fight.

Jubatha’s record dropped to 14-2, with 10 knockouts and the underrated Maluleka im-

proved to a reported 11-3; 6.

It was Maluleke’s second title challenge. In February 2007, he lost over 12 rounds to Ludumo Galada in a clash for the vacant title. Galada also beat him on points over six rounds in a nontitle return bout.

After that defeat, Maluleke beat Sibusiso Khumalo and Grant Fourie before stopping Khumalo in the fourth round of a return bout.

Meanwhile former IBF junior lightweight champions Cassius Baloyi and Malcolm Klassen will meet in a return match at the Nasrec Arena in Johannesburg on October 14. Baloyi is 37 years old and Klassen 30.

In their previous fight, in Mahikeng on April 18, 2009, Klassen beat Baloyi in the seventh round to win the IBF junior lightweight title.

Tsiko Mulovhetsi’s first defence of his SA welterweight title against Kyle Smith will be on the Nasrec card. The tourney is promoted by Pat Molefe.