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TAU RESHUFFLES TEAM Joburg Mayor Parks Tau reshuffled his Mayoral Committee this week. See page 2.

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Mayor reshuffles MMCs Mbhazima Lesego waka’Ngobeni

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oburg Mayor Parks Tau has restructured his Mayoral Committee, but has kept the same faces, albeit in different desks, in a move aimed at expediting the city’s service delivery.

Clr Ruby Mathang, who used to head the Department of Development Planning and Urban Management, has been moved to Economic Development. Development Planning and Urban Management has been separated into two departments, and Ros Greeff who previously headed Environment and Infrastructure Services, will now take over Development Planning.

Matshidiso Mfikoe, who was responsible for Public Safety, has been moved to Environment and Infrastructure Services, and Sello Lemao was transferred from Economic Development to the Department of Public Safety.

It has been exactly a year since Tau was appointed executive mayor following last year’s local government

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elections. At the time he announced a mayoral committee taking gender, geographic spread, youth and political experience into account. The team was composed of five women and five men.

At the time he merged portfolios, like Infrastructure and Services and Environment, headed by Greeff, who previously headed Development Planning and Urban Management. Greeff has now been moved back to Development Planning.

Other portfolio heads are Finance,

headed by Geoffrey Makhubo, Economic Development now held by seasoned councillor and planner by profession Clr Ruby Mathang, Community Development led by Chris Vondo, and Corporate and Shared Services headed by Mally Mokoena.

The Department of Housing will still be headed by Dan Bovu, while Nonceba Molwele will remain in the Health and Social Development department.

The former Mayoral Committee member for Environment, Mfikoe, who took over the portfolio of Public Safety over a year ago, overseeing the Emergency Management Services and the Metro Police, returns to Environment, which has been amalgamated with Infrastructure and Services.

The portfolios of Infrastructure and Services, Housing, and Community Development will put more emphasis on improving service delivery, targeting the poor and previously disadvantaged.

Rehana Moosajee retains her portfolio of Transport. Her department includes Rea Vaya, the Johannesburg Roads Agency and Metrobus.

The mayor will take over the city’s Department of Planning and Urban Management. joburg.org.za

The Gautrain arrives at the station.

Gautrain link opens Staff Reporter Twelve years after the project was announced and six years since construction began, the Gautrain has begun its full service between Hatfield Station in Pretoria and Park Station in central Joburg.

The opening of this last link was delayed from its initial start of July last year because the section of tunnel between Rosebank and Park stations had been dogged by technical problems and contractual disputes.

Arbitration to settle a dispute over the amount of water passing through the tunnel that connects the stations will begin in September. In the meantime, the route has been deemed safe to allow for full

operation of the Gautrain service.

Kelebogile Machaka, a spokesperson for the Bombela Concession Company which manages the Gautrain, said they are delighted that the last leg of the network would now be commissioned.

“We received the final go-ahead from the Railway Safety Regulator decided to go ahead as soon as possible.”

The first train left Park Station at 5.24am on Thursday morning, and the last departed from the newly opened station at 8.30pm.

Machaka said commuters between central Joburg and Rosebank who have been relying on a bus to ferry them between the two stations will cut their travel time from about 25 to four minutes.

Yeoville man held for rape Crime Reporter crime@gazettelive.co.za

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eoville police have arrested a man for allegedly raping a woman he met at a neighbourhood shebeen.

According to Yeoville police communications officer Cst Thabo Malatji, the woman

later accompanied the man to his house.

“The woman said that when they arrived at his house the man forced himself on her.

When she refused to have sex with him he assaulted and raped her,” Cst Malatji says.

Soon after that the woman then reported the alleged rape to the police, and the suspect was arrested, Cst Malatji adds.

Police arrest armed thugs Persistance Nkomo Makulubane persie.nkomo@inner-city-gazette.co.za This week Hillbrow police arrested four suspects in connection with armed robbery, attempted murder, possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, says police spokesperson Sgt Jenny Pillay.

She explains that police responded to a complaint of armed robbery and upon ar-

rival the complainant explained how he had been robbed of R500 and shot by one of the three suspects before they ran away.

“Police were tipped off that the suspects were hiding in the same building, and they were found there. R500 and an unlicensed Norinco pistol was found on the suspects.”

Sgt Pillay says the gun’s serial number was filed off and it has been sent for tests to determine if it was used in other crimes.

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Focus on Youth Month ‘Programmes target young people wherever they are, so as to eradicate poverty in the city’ Persistance Nkomo Makulubane persie.nkomo@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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he City of Joburg is gearing up for the youth month commemorations and is staging various projects targeting the youths, aiming to enable sustainability, skills transfer and improved health, Deputy Director of Communications Nthatisi Modingoane said.

“This is in line with the City’s Joburg 2012 strategy which focuses on reducing poverty, promoting economic development and ensuring sustainability through mobilisation of all who live in the city.”

The programmes will take place

in various locations in the city throughout June and will include a tourism internship programme, bursaries, and the ‘take a girl child to work’ project among others.

The programmes seek to integrate the poor into the mainstream economy and to build a strong administrative capacity to support growth and development, added Modingoane.

“These programmes target young people wherever they are, so as to eradicate poverty in the city.”

The City, rough City Parks, the city has established a Training Academy for Environmental Sciences to empower youths with horticulture skills, Modingoane said.

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Woman steals baby at Joubert Park church Persistance Nkomo Makulubane persie.nkomo@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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Joburg deputy director of communications Nthatisi Modingoane PIC : INNER-CITY PRESS AGENCY

“As a result of this, the city has received numerous awards and recognition. It won the National Excellence Award hosted by Agricultural Seta and also the Green-Collar Training Award at the BHP Billiton Achiever Awards for setting the standard in skills development.”

The city will also host substance abuse awareness campaigns in various communities. “These will include sporting activities like the Volley Ball League which will be held at Leeuwkop Juvenile Prison and also a seven kilometre Fun Walk event under the theme Walking for Healthy Living and Lifestyle Change,” said Modingoane.

There will also be activities like aerobics and medical screening, and different organisations to educate the public on benefits of living a healthy lifestyle and reducing the risk of chronic diseases. The programmes will be taken under the theme, Unlocking Future Potential: Nurturing Young Outstanding Undeterred Thoughtful Heroes.

“Despite the challenges, the city remains committed to working with the most marginalised communities, to promote social, economic and spatial inclusion.”

For more information about the activities visit www.joburg.org.za and municipal entities websites.

olice have arrested a 31 yearold woman for allegedly stealing a two-week old baby at a church in Wolmarans Street, according to Hillbrow police spokesperson Sgt Jenny Pillay.

She says that the child’s mother was at a church in Wolmarans Street in Joubert Park.

“She left her child with a woman she had just befriended, while she went to the bathroom with her three year old son.”

Sgt Pillay adds that the woman left the church and was seen by the child’s father who was standing outside the church.

“He noticed the blanket which was wrapped around his baby and followed the woman. Three blocks down the road she started to walk faster. When she reached the corner of Smit and Twist streets the father asked Bad Boyz security personnel who were in the area to help him stop her. She was then detained and police were called. After that she she was arrested on allegations of stealing the baby,” Sgt Pillay adds.

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The dirt in Joburg CBD COMMENT

This is a time when we reflect on the bad old times of apartheid rule, in which people were judged by the colour of their skin, the language they spoke and their cultural background.

The majority of South Africans were regarded as second class citizens in the land of their birth, and some of them were forced to flee the country and live as refugees in distant lands.

At school the learners were provided poor quality tuition, which was called Bantu education. That was in line with apartheid master Hendrik Verwoerd and his supporters’ assertion that black people were condemned by God to remain ‘hewers of wood and drawers of water’ for their whole lives, so they did not need to acquire quality education. The learners were also supposed to use Afrikaans as the language of instruction, the language of the masters of the day.

Unbeknown to the apartheid masters, the oppression and suffering they had exerted onto the parents of those children had reached unbearable proportions, and those youths were prepared to take the apartheid government head on. The rest is history.

June 16 1976 is one of the most memorable days in the history of struggles against oppression worldwide. As we commemorate Youth Month the names of young martyrs of the Soweto uprising like Hector Pieterson, Hastings Ndlovu and hundreds more ring loud in our ears. We also feel indebted to stalwarts like Tsietsi Mashinini, whose leadership galvanised formidable resistance to apartheid rule, which eventually led to its demise in April 1994.

May the youth of today acknowledge the sacrifices of their predecessors, and use the now available educational opportunities to improve the welfare of themselves and their communities.

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he infrastructure of Crown Gardens Clinic was insufficient to provide the required services at the clinic.

Curative services, TB services as well as counselling for HIV were provided in a single room due to lack of adequate consultation rooms at the clinic.

This compromised the confidentiality required as nurses provided services separated by only a screen, where the conversations held with clients were audible to the other people who were just behind that screen.

In terms of infection control this arrangement also posed a health risk as it was not possible to separate coughing clients from non-coughing clients.

The situation was exacerbated on Tuesdays when the doctor visited the clinic as one nurse had to vacate her consulting room to make space for the doctor to consult.

Two business men from the community provided the funds to renovate the manager’s office into three consulting rooms, a waiting area with a wash basin and an office for the manager.

This kind donation was arranged

by Dr Shabier Moosa on behalf of the clinic. The business men prefer to remain anonymous.

On behalf of the staff at the clinic and the City of Johannesburg we wish to express our gratitude

to these kind gentlemen. Letters to this effect has been sent to the two gentlemen.

Two of the consulting rooms are now used to provide TB services as well as counselling for HIV. The third consulting room needs furniture, and this will be used by the doctor on his visits to the clinic. Members of the clinic committee are currently seeking donations from the community to enable the clinic staff to utilize this room.

The staff members at the clinic are very impressed with the high quality of work done by the workmen who did the renovations. The work was carried out of two weeks with minimal disruption of services provided for the community at the clinic.

Ms Vicky Manzini Crown Gardens Clinic Manager

Dirt, dirt, and dirt would be the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about Johannesburg central.

It is not a pleasant place, neither a place where people should be living their everyday lives.

Johannesburg central is where 75% of the South African population work and do their businesses, but still one of the dirtiest places in the city of Johannesburg.

The place is so crowded, and yet so dirty that one would even ask themselves how all those people manage to survive in such situations. It is said that the government tries it’s best to make sure the streets are cleaned by the end of each working day but from the look of things, one would say the government is not doing a good job to protect the health conditions of thousands of people.

These conditions affect mostly street vendors, because they are the only people that have to spend the whole day sitting outside the dirty streets. A vendor in Bree Street said they are used to this kind of situation. “There’s nothing we can do about it because we once complained to the Public Works Department and they said there was nothing they could do except cleaning the streets by the end of the day.” People are concerned about the health of the people who have to live with the dirt every day.

Jacquelin Thenga Johannesburg

Why I write what I write When President Zuma was fired as deputy president in 2005, he was out in the cold, writes Ranjeni Munusamy.

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hen President Zuma was fired as deputy president in 2005, he was out in the cold with the ANC distancing itself from him and very few people wanting to be seen around him.

At the time, I was floating in purgatory after my infamous exit from the Sunday Times over the story that the former head of the National Prosecuting Authority, Bulelani Ngcuka, was investigated

by ANC intelligence for being an apartheid era spy. When I handed the documents to City Press, which published a distorted version of the story, it led to a series of events which banished me to the fringes of society.

So when Zuma was charged with corruption, his friends and allies in KwaZulu-Natal approached me about setting up a support website which would run parallel to the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust.

I set up and moderated the Friends of Jacob Zuma website, which served as a platform where ordinary people could pledge their support for Zuma and which carried legal documents and reports on his trials. It also carried details of the bank account where people could make donations towards his legal defence and upkeep.

A few months after the website was set up, Zuma was charged with

rape. News about the charge first emerged while he was appearing in a Durban court on the corruption charges. I asked Zuma what had happened. He explained that there had been no rape and that I should go and explain to some of his key supporters what had happened.

It was a humiliating assignment, which I carried out because there was no one else to do so. On the morning of Zuma’s first appearance in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court in December 2005, one of his bodyguards phoned me from the court. He said the short court appearance was over and asked me if I could come to Zuma’s house

in Forest Town. When I got there Zuma said he needed to inform the ANC that he was stepping down from all positions in the party.

When typed and printed the letter and brought it to him to sign. He signed the letter and gave it to me.

“Take it to the SG (KgalemaMotlanthe, ANC secretary-general at the time).”

As I walked out of the house, I made a silent pledge to help Zuma until he cleared his name and resumed his place in the ANC. That moment came two years later in December 2007. In a crowded tent of ANC delegates screaming ecstatically, I watched Zuma ascend the stage with Thabo Mbeki at his side as the ANC’s top six election results were announced.

As far as I was concerned, I had accomplished what I had set out to do. Apart from a few meetings he asked me to set up, I stayed away.

After Zuma became president, I did not meet with him. I saw him once at the SACP special congress in Polokwane in December 2009 and greeted him. I politely declined an invitation to a state banquet.

My involvement in Zuma’s political and legal battles had damaged me so severely that I hardly recognised myself. I wanted to rebuild my life, and restore whatever I could of myself. When Zuma became presi-

dent, I watched as he established the machinery to achieve the goals he had set for his administration. I was happy that he stayed true to the image of the “people’s president”, which is what his campaign was fashioned on.

Then, he systematically squandered all the goodwill around him.

Talented people in his government began to fall like toy soldiers. The administration has been fraught with problems, mostly through a failure of leadership. Today it is largely dysfunctional.

Similarly, the ANC in its 100th year is crippled with internal strife under Zuma’s presidency. Corruption and the manipulation of government tenders has made ANC membership a swear word. The abuse of state resources to fight political battles, the thing Zuma so loathed during Mbeki’s presidency, is now evident on his watch.

We are witnessing the undermining of fundamental constitutional values such as the right to know, freedom of expression and judicial independence.

I can dare to write about all these issues because I owe allegiance to no one and hold no grudges.

I was not paid for anything I did for Zuma. I did so by choice and I walked away by choice.

Source : www.dailymaverick.co.za

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Relatives in new cabinet Malabo - President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has named two sons and a brother in the new government.

Of the 55 government nominations announced, 12 are close to Obiang Nguema personally. These include his brother Antonio Mba Nguema who becomes defence minister and one of his sons, Gabriel Mbega Obiang, in the energy and industry seat.

Nguema, Africa’s longest-serving leader, announced that another son, Teodorin, is now second vice president with responsibility for security. Teodorin is a former agriculture minister but has attracted headlines over a corruption case being pursued by French authorities.

Opposition parties accused Nguema of seeking to line his vice president son up to be his successor.

French prosecutors have called for an arrest warrant for the president’s son in a probe into the sources of money spent in France by Obiang, Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso, and late Gabon leader Omar Bongo.

Obiang, 69, has ruled with an iron grip since seizing power in a 1979 coup.

The former Spanish colony is sub-Saharan Africa’s third biggest oil exporter but its people live in poverty.

Obiang Nguema

Cairo - Former president Hosni Mubarak has been jailed for life for ordering the killing of demonstrators in last year’s revolution.

Demonstrators opposed the judge’s clearing some of Mubarak’s top officials. Six of his former officials were cleared of the same charges, sparking fury in the streets.

The judge also cleared Mubarak and his two sons, Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, of corruption charges.

But the two younger Mubaraks now face charges of money laundering involving $331 million. through the Egyptian stock market.

Many Egyptians taking part in Sunday’s protests expressed anger that former strongman Mubarak, 84, had escaped the death penalty. Mubarak and former Interior Minister Habib El Adly were sentenced to life in prison for their crimes.

Mubarak, who attended court on a gurney, was immediately transferred to a prison in southern Cairo, and a prosecutor said he would be moved to the prison hospital.

Mubarak’s lawyer, Fareed El Deeb said there he was already preparing to appeal the verdict.

Former ruler faces trial

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Ex-president’s son arrested Lusaka - The son of expresident Rupiah Banda, Andrew, has been arrested on corruption charges.

Banda is accused of taking a bribe of over $30 000 from an Italian road construction firm. He denies corruption, saying the payment was made by Fratelli Locci as a commission to his logistics company.

President Michael Sata has launched an anti-cor-

ruption drive that has seen some former ministers arrested. Sata’s opponents feel that is a way of settling political scores.

Police said Banda was also arrested for failing to account for $70 000 in his personal bank account.

“He has been charged for corruption and possession of property which is suspected to be proceeds of crime,” said police CID

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Life jail for ex-president

Hosni Mubarak

Rebel support allegations Kigali - Human Rights Watch says new evidence indicates that the Rwandan military is aiding rebels in DR Congo.

Rwanda also offered shelter to renegade leader Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court, HRW says. Rwanda has denied involvement.

The report does not explicitly accuse the Rwandan government of approving support for the rebels, but calls on Kigali to ensure it is stopped.

The mutiny was led by fighters from Gen Ntaganda’s former CNDP rebels, who were integrated into the Congolese army in 2009. The report cited defecting soldiers saying they were trained in Rwanda, before being sent over the border to fight.

HRW’s senior Africa researcher, Anneke Van Woudenberg said former fighters said Rwandan officers had given them heavy weapons and ammunition to carry to the Congolese positions of the M23 rebels.

Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo has described the claims as ‘simplistic, irresponsible and dangerous’. Rwanda has twice invaded DR Congo, saying it was action against Hutu rebels based there.

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Antananarivo - Former president Marc Ravalomanana, who fled to South Africa in 2009, faces charges of crimes against humanity.

Recently SA’s North Gauteng High Court ruled that the National Prosecuting Authority of SA must investigate foreign nationals accused of such crimes. SA is a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. As such, any former head of state living in SA who is suspected of such crimes can be prosecuted by SA authorities.

A dossier with sworn affidavits of 14 witnesses, graphic pictures, media accounts and research reports by human rights organizations on the February 2009 massacre has been given to South Africa’s director of public prosecutions The violence claimed 43 lives and injured 170 people. David Erleigh, the Martyrs’ legal representative in South Africa, credits the ‘Zimbabwe spokesperson Namukolo Kasumpa.

Torture Case’ of May 2012. “The court ruled that Andrew Banda’s younger brother, Henry, SA must investigate Zimbabwean officials who are is also wanted by police on a different set accused of crimes against humanity. Based on this, of corruption allegations. He has failed to come forward for questioning.

Marc Ravalomanana they may or may not try Ravalomanana,” he said.

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City’s call centre number changes Mbhazima Lesego waka’Ngobeni

Sir Richard Branson (left) shares a moment of enjoyment with members of the choir.

DCS international tour From 11 to 21 May, 56 Dominican Convent High School choir and marimba band members shared the music and rythyms of Africa with

the people of the United Kingdom.

Audience members, including Sir Richard Branson, were literally

swept off their feet by the music, the fruit of years of development by choirmistress Rosalia Motha and the marimba band instructor Linky Kokolo.

The school’s first internationHILLBROW POLICE ARRESTS : 28 MAY - 4 JUNE 2012 al tour could not have been Assault Common 23, assault GBH 2, reckless and negligent driving 3, possible without the generous 14, possession of drugs 15, posses- resisting arrest 1, copyright act 5, support from Stowe School, sion of suspected stolen property 8, murder 1, theft 7, rape 3, possession Sherborne School for Girls, common robbery 8, malicious injury of unlicensed firearm 3, possession of and Francesca Welbore-Ker, to property 4, shoplifting 6, fraud 12, dagga 5, intimidation 4, child stealing driving motor vehicle without licence 1, theft of motor vehicle 1, crimen in- nor the tireless efforts of Colin Dudgeon and the DCS staff.

2, possession of dangerous weapon juria and 24 undocumented persons.

Residents need to dial a new number to get to Joburg’s call centre: 0860 Joburg or 0860 56 28 74. The municipality said the number would allow customers an opportunity of a line that is easy to remember.

City spokesperson Kgamanyane Maphologela said the new number was not bound to any location. It was hoped the number would provide instant and easy access to all of the City’s call centres. Maphologela said the City strived to improve customer services and the new call centre number was part of the plan.

“By introducing the new contact telephone number, 0860 Joburg, we are creating a stable, secure and shared platform to communicate with our residents. We know that our residents have had a tough time getting in contact with us, hence the introduction of a contact telephone number that they will never forget.”

“We want residents to know that we share a collective vision and responsibility. We know that there are challenges, but if we work together as a united force we can overcome these challenges and build a world-class African City,” Maphologela said.

Customers with queries can call the new number, 0860 Joburg or 0860 56 28 74; or email joburgconnect@ joburg.org.za . This is a 24/7 service that logs all customer queries and complaints regarding all services.

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TALENT COMPETITION The Sikhula Sonke Talent Competition will take place at the David Webster Park on June 9.

The event, taking place from 9am to 5pm, will be hosted by the Bambanani Community Development Centre.

Bambanani is an NPO which aims to alleviate poverty through business skills course. Unemployed people learn new skills so that they can conduct business from home.

Bambanani staff hosts events such as the talent competition to raisefund s that will enable them to continue with their objectives.

They also collect food and clothes to assist the needy.

To take part in this initiative contact Bambanani staff on 011 079 4625 or Programme Director Zanele Thembela on 072 398 7378

COLLECT COMPETENCY CERTIFICATES Residents in the Cleveland SAPS precinct who applied for firearm competency certificates can collect them at the station. Cst Mpho Mashakane, Cleveland SAPS communications officer said it is difficult to trace some of the applicants because of address changes.

The firearm registrations centre is open Mon to Friday 8am - 4pm For more info contact Warrant Officer Botes on 011 677 5757

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Iconic event for community theatre Theatre groups have an opportunity to present their work to professionals Arts Correspondent

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Oomphile Molusi and Arthur Molepo in Sizwe Banzi is alive

An abundance of shows Jennifer de Klerk The Le Grand Cirque Adrenaline at the Joburg Theatre displays daredevil circus acts with pulsating sound and lighting.

Viva!, the pop-opera group from Thailand, is performing in the Fringe until June 16.

Another classic musical opens at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre. This is Cabaret, with Samantha Peo as faded, jaded, good-time girl Sally Bowles, made famous

by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 movie.

The production is set in Berlin’s Kit Kat Klub in 1931. Kate Normington plays Fraulein Kost with Bryan Hiles the young American writer Cliff Bradshaw and German star

Sascha Halbhuber as the sinister Emcee.

This KickstArt production, directed by Steven Stead, runs through to August.

In the Little space.com Theatre young artists respond to past challenges in Sizwe Banzi is Alive, presented Wednesday to Sunday.

There’s another classic at the Old Mutual Theatre on the Square where Athol Fugard’s Boesman and Lena opened; directed by James Ngcobo and starring Quanita Adams and Elton Landrew with Charly Azade.

This weekend Hugh Masekela will perform at the Lyric Theatre.

The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra continues its second season on Wednesday and Thursday nights at the Linder.

he Market Laboratory’s annual Community Theatre Festival has become an iconic event for Community Theatre groups to showcase their theatre works.

Since 1991, the festival showcases the work of about 50 groups from all around South Africa, and over the years Market Laboratory has presented over 1 000 community theatre plays made up of aspiring theatre practitioners.

The Market Laboratory’s Annual Community Theatre Festival offers theatre practitioners from all around the country an opportunity to present their work to theatre professionals based at, or associated with, the Market Theatre. Audiences are able to see these plays for free, the plays always watched by full houses.

The plays are usually presented in any number of the official languages, which means that new plays in all languages are given a platform.

This contributes to the growth of a national narrative, not just in English or Afrikaans.

A scene in a presentation in the last edition of the festival.

Professional theatre practitioners work with the theatre groups across the country in the development of their work.

The 10 best plays from this festival are then presented at the Zwakala Festival, usually in October. The winner of this festival then has a fully resourced, professional run at either the Laager or Barney Simon theatres at The Market.

Several of the Zwakala winners from the past have travelled to other theatres and festivals nationally and interna-

tionally. Some of our leading theatre practitioners, writers, directors and actors, were first showcased at the Community Theatre and Zwakala Festivals.

The festivals provide opportunities for people from formerly disadvantaged areas who may have no tertiary education.

This year’s 21st festival will be in the Ramolao Makhene Theatre at the Bus Factory, Market Laboratory.

Forty groups from seven provinces will take part, between 9 and 16 June. For more info call 011 832 1641 ext 118/153.

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Festival’s world gettogether Joshua Bell

JPO to host classical music star Arts Correspondent The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) announces that superstar violinist Joshua Bell will perform at the Linder Auditorium in August and September. He will be the featured soloist performing with the JPO during its symphony concerts on 29 and 30 August.

JPO managing director Shadrack Bokaba says Bell is one of the premier violinists of his generation, and one of the top soloists to have been presented by the JPO in its 12 year history. “The orchestra is beyond excited to be hosting an artist of his calibre.”

Bell has enchanted audiences worldwide with his breathtaking virtuosity and exquisite tone. His restless curiosity and multifaceted musical interests have taken him in exciting new directions, earning him the rare title of “classical music superstar.”

Referred to as the poet of the violin, Bell has won the Avery Fisher Prize and is the newly named music director of The Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

He has won a several music awards – including a Grammy for his recording of Nicholas Maw’s Violin Concerto and accolades for his extensive charity work.

Varied and exciting programme of premieres at national festival Gilly Hemphill

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he National Arts Festival is serving up a massive ‘Banquet of the Arts’ for its 38th edition, which runs from 28 June to 8 July in Grahamstown.

Thirty two tons of additional equipment will be brought into Grahamstown to help transform every corner of the city into a performance space. There will be over 1 000 lights to be rigged in an unprecedented 59 venues.

With over 80 productions on the Main Programme, eight on the Arena and a record 390 shows on the Fringe, the programme will continue to delight the nearly national, continental and international visitors that make this annual arts pilgrimage.

Last year the festival reported attendance of over 200 000 at its various events, crammed into 34km2 of space in Grahamstown.

The 11 day festival contributes over R60 million to the GDP of Grahamstown each year, with a bigger impact felt on the surrounding Cacadu District and Eastern Cape Province. Practical

internship and mentorship programmes are being implemented in conjunction with Rhodes University, The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, The Tshwane University of Technology, and the University of the Witwatersrand; with an additional 400 jobs created during the Festival.

This year Grahamstown and the National Arts Festival will host the first World Fringe Alliance get-together. Formed last year and chaired by National Arts Festival CEO Tony Lankester, this Alliance is a bid to foster intercountry exchanges with productions on the Fringe programme; to jointly market Fringe Festivals and generate interest in the arts from global sponsors.

“We were blown away by the support from the 8-country members”, said Lankester. “All of the members have been invited to attend our 2012 Festival. Between us, the eight member Festivals (Brighton, Prague, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, New York, Perth, Adelaide and Grahamstown) have an audience of 1.5-million. By hosting this gathering we hope

to use the Alliance to promote Grahamstown and South Africa’s artists on a global platform.”

At the Main programme’s core is the cutting-edge work of the 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winners, who continue to challenge and explore new directions as they establish their artistic voices. The winners will present a varied and exciting programme of premieres. On the theatre stage is Zinzi Mhlongo (pic above left) with her show Trapped, which travels to Austria after its world premiere in Grahamstown. Bailey Snyman’s presents a dance play - Moffie - inspired by Andre Carl van der Merwe’s eponymous novel. Soprano Kelebogile Boikanyo (pic above right) performs as the soloist in the Gala Concert and in her own soiree in the Rhodes Chapel. Mikhael Subotzky takes audiences on a multi-media journey behind the lens in his work entitled Retinal Shift. Pianist Afrika Mkhize forms part of the immensely popular Jazz section of the festival programme, and promises not to disappoint.

Another exciting aspect of this year’s Festival programme is the launch of The French Season in South Africa, in Grahamstown, staged with the support of the French Institute in South Africa, the Embassy of France and the South African Department of Arts and Culture. The launch sees several productions premièring, across several genres.

“This year’s programme is packed with excellence and innovation. Several inter-disciplinary works and collaborations and a whole new category of live art that blurs boundaries between genres and invites out the box thinking, bears testimony to a programme that secures the tried and the tested, but that invites and probes works that take risk and break new ground. Several international works, including those from the much anticipated French Season in South Africa, ultimately make the Festival impossible to miss.” says Chairperson of the Festival’s Artistic Committee, Jay Pather.

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All set for sports awards Top stars to be announced on Sport Awards finalists shortlist Moses Moyo moses@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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Bafana and Chiefs star Siphiwe Tshabalala dominated the 2011 awards.

t’s all systems go for the announcement of this year’s finalists in 13 of the 14 categories for the Gauteng Sport Awards, including the prestigious Sport Personality of the Year category, which is voted for by the public.

The announcement is scheduled for a cocktail event at Emperors Palace, following a successful run of nominations that started on 17 April and closed on May 25.

Kaizer Chiefs’ talisman Siphiwe Tshabalala reigned supreme in the

2011 awards, garnering the most votes for his sterling performance for club and country in the previous year.

But this year plenty of star performers will look to carry the Sport Personality of the Year honor at the 2012 awards.

Gauteng Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation MEC Lebogang Maile has said the 2012 awards will be even bigger.

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an even bigger event with the 2012 awards, and to make certain that our sport heroes are afforded the towering honor they deserve,” said Maile.

Other categories fans have to look out for are Sportsman of the Year, Sportswoman of the Year, Sport Team of the Year, Disabled Sportswoman of the Year, Disabled Sportsman of the Year, Disabled Sports Team of the Year, Most promising athlete of the year, Most promising team of the year, Coach of the Year, Technical Official of Year, Administrator of the Year and the Sport Journalist of the year.

Battle done and dusted Gavin Rich

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his past Saturday confirmed the old adage that a short time can prove a very long time in rugby.

In this instance it taking just under four hours for what was becoming a tense battle to win the South African conference in the Super Rugby

Bryan Habana

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The Stormers are only five points ahead of the Bulls with three games to play, and as the Cape team’s coach Allister Coetzee pointed out at the post match press conference at Loftus on Saturday night, there is still a lot of rugby to be played.

But given that the number of wins will eventually dictate who advances to the knockouts in the event of a tie at the top, that five point lead is now a significant one.

It means that the Stormers can afford to lose to one of the Lions (home), Cheetahs (away) and Rebels home and they will still top the conference even if the Bulls, who are now the only other team in contention, win all their remaining games, which includes a tough away derby against

the Sharks in early July.

The Stormers have lost only twice in 13 games this year, so what chance is there really of them losing two of those three games, which is what would need to happen for the Bulls to stand a chance?

Given the resolve they continue to show and which was there in abundance in their blood and guts victory at the Bulls’ home ground, the chances of the applecart being upset are negligible.

And you have to remember too that the Stormers have been helped by Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer’s decision to give most of the Stormers players a rest over the next four weeks before the next Super Rugby game.

While several Bulls and Sharks players will play non-stop rugby over the next three Saturdays during the Springbok/England series, there will be only three Stormers in action in Jean de Villiers, Bryan Habana and Eben Etzebeth.

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