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Innovative investments to improve lives - Mayor ‘The objective is to use smart innovation to solve complex problems, through new innovations we are making sure that today is better than yesterday and tomorrows are better than today’ Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

Joburg Mayor Parks Tau delivers his State of the City speech. Pic: Nkosinathi Banda

elivering his State of the City Address on Wednesday Joburg Mayor Parks Tau said innovative enterprises that will address water shortages, generate energy from underground water pipes and turn rubble from dumpsites into paper will soon be established in the city. He said these are among a range of investments in the ‘Blue Economy’. “The objective is to use smart innovation to solve complex problems. Through the introduction of new innovations we are making sure that today is better than yesterday and all our tomorrows are better than today,” he said. The City’s new Blue Economy strategy includes the introduction of turbines within the underground water network to harness the energy generated by the water flow and feed it into the power system, the

Mayor explained. “Incentives will be given to households, office buildings and commercial sites to install low-flush toilets and water-saving urinals to encourage behaviour that will lead to savings on this scarce natural resource. The City’s investment in maintenance programmes to prevent unaccounted for water has achieved measurable results. We have maintained the same water reserve margin for several years, despite our increasing population,” said Mayor Tau. He added that a new initiative will be to collect 250 000 tons of rubble from illegal dumpsites and turn it into stone paper used for packaging, containers and shopping bags. “This will “unlock the value in such rubble and subsidise the cost of removing it. Organic waste will be diverted to bio-digesters to harvest gas for fuel and energy.” Mayor Tau added that the City is looking at ways to introduce fruit

trimmings from the Fresh Produce Market as a flour replacement for bread-making. “This will not only result in healthier bread but also create new entrepreneurial opportunities for communities. Micro mushroom farms will turn nutrition into viable businesses for thousands of community-based operators.” In October Joburg will host the international EcoMobility Festival, where the emphasis will be on sustainable transport alternatives. Mayor Tau said during this weeklong event in the Sandton CBD the City will highlight its investments in the Rea Vaya rapid bus network and the introduction of dedicated cycle lanes and pedestrian walkways. “The City’s innovations represent a new approach to energy, roads, water management and waste processing, but also open opportunities for large sectors of the community to make money and improve their living conditions,” the Mayor said.

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Massive vaccination campaign ‘Take precautions by improving their personal hygiene, eating healthy, exercising, managing stress and getting enough sleep’ Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

he City of Joburg is rolling out a massive H1N1and H3N2 flu vaccination campaign for the coming winter season, Health and Social Development MMC Nonceba Molwele has announced. She said the vaccination campaign, which kicked off last week and runs until June, is aimed mainly at children aged between six months to five years, pregnant women, patients with any chronic disease such as lung and heart diseases, people living with HIV/Aids, patients with compromised immune systems, and people who are older than 65 years. “One of the aims of the City’s Growth

and Development Strategy 2040 The vaccination of children is to prevent illnesses that are prevalent during the cold season. (GDS 2040) is to The City’s Public Health Deputy do not spread the bug by constantly improve the health of our residents and the flu vaccination Director Mary Daka said though the washing their hands. They must covcampaign is one of the steps towards vaccine will not completely stop resi- er their mouths when they sneeze or dents from coming down with flu, it cough and stay in well-ventilated arachieving that goal,” she said. All the clinics across the city’s seven will help minimise the severity of the eas,” Daka added. To prevent infections, the health deregions will administer the flu vaccine. infection. She urged residents to take precau- partment has urged residents to City health officials will also visit old age homes, chronic care facilities and tions by improving their personal hy- avoid touching the mouth and the rehabilitation centres around the city giene, eating healthy, exercising, man- nose; wash hands thoroughly with aging stress and getting enough sleep. soap and water regularly; avoid close to give residents the flu jab. “Residents must take responsibility contact with people who might be ill; “A total of 35 662 flu vaccines will be administered throughout the City’s for their own health by ensuring they reduce the time spent in crowded plac80 clinics to the most vulnerable and do not spread the flu bug. If they feel es, if possible; improve airflow in livhealth-compromised residents, to en- feverish or they sneeze or cough a lot, ing spaces by opening windows; and sure that when winter sets in they are they need to go to their nearest clinic practise good health habits, including protected against flu and other oppor- to have that checked as quickly as pos- adequate sleep, eating nutritious food sible. They also need to ensure they and engaging in physical activity. tunistic diseases,” Molwele added.

Metrobus to improve service Johannesburg - Metrobus has announced steps to improve its operational efficiency in order to provide a safer service to commuters, according to its Managing Director Mavela Dlamini. The City of Joburg’s bus service com-

pany has experienced a spate of accidents since July 2014, including the recent one where two buses collided headon along Jan Smuts Avenue, claiming three lives and injuring 66 passengers. Dlamini admitted that the bus service

was facing challenges with bad driver behaviour, incompetence of management and an ageing fleet. “We have about 412 buses, 126 of which are 10 years old. The customers are not happy because our bus schedule is not reliable due to the breakdowns of busses.” In what he labelled a ‘grossly under managed Metrobus service’, Dlamini said the problem cascaded to drivers, saying “there’s no consistence in face to face communication with drivers”. He announced that the company would be spending R500 million on the re-fleeting of 150 new buses, which would be delivered in June. “These new buses will be targeted primarily at

Two Metro buses that were involved in a fatal accident in Jan Smuts Ave recently.

high demand bus schedules. The company has developed a new strategic plan that will guide the business activities over the next five years. This includes driver skills development, improved

technology, frequent communication between the employer and employees as well as the installation of speed governors to monitor and prevent reckless driving,” the Metrobus MD added.

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Xenophobia is barbaric - Health MMC Molwele

‘We are pleased to indicate that our people have committed to isolating criminal elements that systematically spread the attacks on foreigners’ Johannesburg - Joburg Health and Social Development MMC Nonceba Molwele has added her voice to the mounting condemnation of xenophobic attacks a few weeks ago, describing them as an “ugly face of criminality”. Speaking at the City’s April council meeting, MMC Molwele said under no circumstances should wanton assault and murder of foreigners be justified. “Poverty has the tendency to dehumanise those affected by it, and the high rate of unemployment invariably leads to the rise in criminality. The criminals systematically identified their targets for looting and zoomed in on them. “We should unreservedly condemn in the strongest terms this barbaric opportunism by criminals. It is, however, encouraging to note that a lot of these zealots have been apprehended and will answer for their dastardly acts.” The City of Joburg executive, led by Mayor Parks Tau addressed crowds of people at affected hostels. “We had meetings with indunas at the affected hostels. Faith-based organisations played an important role in rendering prayer services for peace. They, most importantly, actively joined our delegation as government whenever we visited affected areas to endeavour to calm these distressed communities. They, together with relevant departments in the City, visited affected communities to, among other things, offer counselling and discourage this wayward behaviour.” Molwele added that the City, represented by the Mayor, took part in a

march organised jointly with the Office of Gauteng Premier David Makhura in protest against the xenophobic attacks. “The City also joined hands with the SAPS and the national government to coordinate rapid responses in hot spots. MMC Molwele said the City, in partnership with the South African Council of Churches and other stakeholders, ensured that Mozambican immigrant Emmanuel Sithole, who was stabbed to death in Alexandra, was given a decent send-off to his home country. “We are pleased to indicate that our people have committed to isolating criminal elements that systematically spread the attacks on foreigners. Let us make sure that in our constituencies we spread the gospel of tolerance and allow the relevant government agencies to intervene in cases of illegal activities, irrespective of whether they are carried out by locals or foreigners. “Let us unite against this scourge. The African countries’ role in our struggle for freedom cannot be overemphasised. Let us not allow the unity envisaged by Kwame Nkrumah, Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Nelson Mandela to be in vain.”

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News Briefs from around SA

Amcu threatens workers’ strike

Minister Nomvula Mokonyane

Province faces water challenges Polokwane - Residents of Giyani and surrounding villages are struggling to get water, despite millions of rands spent to alleviate the problem in the area. An existing water scheme has also been augmented to alleviate the situation, but the problem still recurs. The augmented water scheme was launched by President Jacob Zuma 2014 to assist the communities. The 36 million litre Giyani regional water scheme has been in existence for over 40 years, but it has now reached its life span. Over the past five years, the national government allocated hundreds of millions of rands to the Mopani district municipality to improve the water provision in the area but all in vain. The R170 million projects to draw water from Nandoni dam outside Thohoyandou to Nsami dam in Giyani has also stalled. This prompted Water Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane to withdraw the water services authority from Mopani district to Lepelle Northern Water. Lepelle Northern Water spokesperson Simon Mpamonyane said they are trying to fix and replace some ageing infrastructure. “The Giyani regional water scheme is designed to give 56 villages portable water on a daily basis. There are two schemes in the yard of the Giyani water scheme; there is an old scheme, which was under construction when we were requested by the minister to intervene,” Mpamonyane added. SABC

Rustenburg - Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) leader Joseph Mathunjwa has threatened to mobilise workers on a strike if working conditions in mines do not improve. He was addressing thousands of mineworkers from both the gold and platinum sectors at Orkney. Mathunjwa said miners could not celebrate Workers’ Day because they are still living in poverty after 21 years of democracy. “We say to the employer, if you are asking for a strike, we will give it to you.” This followed Anglo American Platinum announcing on Wednesday that it would cut 474 jobs as part of restructuring plans laid out two years ago. The world’s top producer of platinum started restructuring plans in 2013 as softer commodity prices and a wave of strikes eroded profits. Amplats, a unit of Anglo American, said 774 employees from a group of 1 248 were placed in permanent jobs. Job cuts are a thorny issue in South Africa where about 25% of the population is unemployed. The company met with fierce resistance from government and unions when it first unveiled plans to cut jobs in 2013. Reuters.

Chief Phathekile Holomisa

Chief urges unity Dr Bongi Baloi addresses the girls during the event at Tiphembeleni school.

Group promotes medical studies Kanyamazane - The provincial branch of the Medical Women Association of South Africa (Mwasa) is contemplating funding female students to pursue medical studies at tertiary level. This was suggested by well-known Dr Bongi Baloi during the association’s visit to Tiphembeleni Primary School. “As an association, we will conduct campaigns aimed at encouraging female learners to take their studies seriously and also look at a number of ways to secure bursaries for them to pursue medicine once they have completed their matric. We will also encourage our female doctors around the province to adopt at least one or two female learners

and mentor them in the field of medicine.” Dr Baloi formed part of a high delegation of female doctors affiliated to Mwasa, which visited the school, where it handed over sanitary towels donated by Sappi. “We want to target issues concerning women in all walks of life. We want to deal with issues of domestic violence and rape by offering counselling to affected women. We also intend to establish shelters for women, or victims of abuse and domestic violence.” Dr Baloi added: “We want to help them by providing counselling. We are also going to focus on campaigns aimed at advising women to live healthy lifestyles by doing regular check-ups,” she said. Mpumalanga News

Province hands over land to clan

Agriculture MEC Cyril Xaba

Durban - KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Agriculture Cyril Xaba has handed over more than 500 hectares of land to the clan of KwaMachi through the Insika Yamabombo Trust at Harding, south of the province. Xaba said he is happy to learn that the residents have already started working with a sugar mill company to acquire farming skills. The department is providing financial assistance in the training of the community. Xaba added that close to 200 households

are beneficiaries. “We are here in Harding at Ezinqoleni - our mission is to restore dignity to our people who were dispossessed of their land in the past. We are finally wiping our tears that today they can start calling themselves owners of this land. “We here in Harding and have seen that this land is under production, they have been working with one sugar mill here which has helped tremendously to boost sugar cane production in the area,” Xaba said. SABC

Mthatha - Deputy Labour Minister Chief Phathekile Holomisa has called on the youth to unite against xenophobia. Addressing dozens of students of Walter Sisulu University, he urged them to be united in the fight against hate speech and violent attacks of foreign nationals. The students displayed placards with words like ‘No to Xenophobia’ and ‘Africa Unite’. He said the youth can never be liberated as long as their fellow Africans are suffering. “Most of the struggle heroes of Africa, from Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Zimbabwe and other places, studied, worked and served their jail terms in South Africa before they proceeded to liberate their lands. In turn, our own liberators spent years of exile in other African lands, enjoying hospitality and support of the people and leaders of those other countries. Yours is a noble cause which you must continue to pursue. You must continue to welcome fellow Africans as this is the way African culture demands of you,” he said. UDM MP Mncedisi Filtane said South Africans should embrace fellow Africans. “No African should ever be regarded as a foreigner in an African country. From a cultural perspective, from a geographical perspective from a historical perspective, it’s just an irrelevant thing. Africans were the first creation of all nations and that is a fact. We should never be snubbing one another; we should be learning from one another.” Sasco chairperson Zozo Ngejane called upon citizens to fight against xenophobia.

Wits joins global gender movement ‘Wits has committed to implement a gender sensitisation curriculum for students‚ faculty and staff‚ including a mandatory orientation for all new students‚ along with programmes that will address gender-based violence’ Johannesburg - Wits University is joining the United Nations HeForShe solidarity movement‚ making it one of 10 universities around the world who are committing to take action to achieve gender equality within and beyond their institutions. This work will be done in partnership with UN Women‚ the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. The Executive Director of UN Women is South Africa’s Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Wits University has committed to develop and implement a gender sensitisation curriculum for students‚ faculty and staff‚ including a mandatory orientation for all new students‚ along with programmes that will address gender-based violence. Wits University Vice-Chancellor Professor Adam Habib said South Africa’s legacy of gender discrimination and violence is a reality. “This is not a fight for women only. It is a fight for every person who abhors the abuse of power and the trauma of violence. It is a fight to ensure that the role of men in ending gender-based harm is as active participants and not passive observers; it is to ensure that patriarchy and inequality

are uprooted; and to ensure that those who benefit from inequitable hierarchies are an equal part of their deconstruction. It is a fight that universities generally‚ and Wits University specifically‚ must be part of.” Professor Jackie Dugard‚ Director of the Wits Gender Wits Vice Chancellor Adam Habib Equity Office said the UN HeForShe campaign is an persisting inequalities faced by important international platform women and girls globally. The for highlighting and addressing campaign strengthens the supgender based harm, including port for women’s rights as human sexism‚ sexual violence and gen- rights by enlisting the support of der equity gaps, through regular men and exhorting them to put reporting and monitoring of the themselves forward as advocates stated commitments of key uni- for gender equality”. versities‚ companies and The HeForShe initiative has also statespersons. been joined by vice-chancellors Wits’ commitments to gender from Hong Kong‚ Leicester and equality include developing a Nagoya varsities. comprehensive system to report‚ Since January‚ leaders from predict‚ prevent‚ and address gen- around the world have made perder-based harm on Wits’ campus; sonal and institutional commituse non-traditional supporters to ments to the advancement and mainstream gender equality on achievement of gender equality. the Wits campus and increase the UN Women said these include: representation of women staff in Sébastien Bazin‚ Chair & CEO the context of South Africa’s com- of Accor; Rick Goings‚ Chair plex ‘dual diversity’ mandate. & CEO of Tupperware Brands; The global HeForShe initia- Dennis Nally‚ chairperson of tive is described as “a solidarity PricewaterhouseCoopers Internamovement that calls upon men tional and Paul Polman‚ CEO of and boys to stand up against the Unilever. RDM News Wire.

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The migrants rejoice as they reach the Italian coast.

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Thousands of migrants reach Italy Tripoli, Libya - Nearly 5 800 people rescued from Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast have reached Italy. The African migrants rescued from boats off the coast of Libya arrived on the Italian port of Pozzallo, according to coastguard officials. The development comes as part of European coastguard agencies’ biggest rescue operation this year. Press reports from Sicily said the boats had docked on Monday, and there was a rigorous medical check-up to ensure that people do not carry transmittable diseases. Seven bodies were found on two large rubber boats packed with migrants, and rescuers picked from the sea corpses of three others who had jumped into the water when they saw a merchant ship

approaching, the Italian coastguard said. Two weeks after nearly 900 migrants drowned in the worst Mediterranean shipwreck in living memory, the flow of people desperate to reach a better life in Europe has accelerated as people smugglers take advantage of calmer seas. Italy’s coastguard has coordinated the rescue efforts by its own navy and coastguard, a French ship acting on behalf of the European border control agency, merchant ships and one vessel run by the privately funded Migrant Offshore Aid Station. Earlier Egyptian authorities said that three people died when a migrant boat attempting to reach Greece sank off its coast. They said 31 people were rescued. Al Jazeera

Troops rescue hundreds from Boko Haram

Kano, Nigeria - Hundreds of traumatised women and children rescued from Boko Haram terrorists have been released into the care of the authorities at a refugee camp in the eastern town of Yola, an army spokesman said. The 275 women and children, some of whom had bandaged heads and arms, arrived at the camp, run by Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency, on Saturday night. About 700 kidnap victims have been freed from Boko Haram’s stronghold in the northeastern Sambisa Forest since Tuesday. The latest group of 234 women and children was freed on Friday.

Indications are that none of the more than 200 schoolgirls snatched from Chibok in April last year was among the three groups released. It is not known how many people Boko Haram has abducted but Amnesty International estimates that the terrorists, who are intent on bringing western Africa under Islamic rule, has taken more than 2 000 women and girls since the start of 2014. Nigerian, Chadian, Cameroonian and Nigerien troops have won back swathes of territory from Boko Haram in recent months. The Nigerian army is confident it has the terrorists cornered but clearing them from the area has been delayed by landmines.

Lome, Togo - The constitutional in office. Later that year he won court has declared Faure Gnasselections that were marred by ingbe president for a third fiveserious allegations of fraud. year term after tallying final At some polling stations that votes on Sunday. year, soldiers burst in and Aboudou Assouma, head of made off with ballot boxes. Gnassingbe then won re-electhe constitutional court, said tion in 2010. on state television that the final results show that GnassThe opposition did not imingbe received about 59% of the mediately react to the final results on Sunday. Fabre last week votes. His main opposition rejected provisional results and challenger Jean-Pierre Fabre received about called for people to mobil35% of the votes. ise by all legal means. A national grouping “Having obtained a President Faure Gnassingbe of civil society organimajority votes, Faure Gnassingbe is declared president,” he said. sations gave the voting process fairly high The win extends the Gnassingbe family’s marks. An observer mission of the West Afrule of Togo to nearly half a century. Gnass- rican regional bloc Ecowas said it turned up “no major incident that may taint the credingbe has been in power since 2005 when he ibility of the country’s voting process”. AP succeeded his father, who died after 38 years

Leader ends predecessor’s house arrest

Antananarivo, Madagascar - President Hery Rajaonarimampianina says he is ending the house arrest of his predecessor Marc Ravalomanana as part of the Indian Ocean island’s peace process. The president’s announcement came in a speech he made at a national reconciliation meeting organised by the nation’s churches after the president said Ravalomanana had recognised “the legitimacy of the current government”. Ravalomanana, who was ousted in a 2009 coup, has been under house arrest in the northern town of Antsiranana since returning from exile in South Africa in October 2014. National reconciliation is one of the main points of a road map brokered by the southern African regional bloc SADC and signed by the feuding parties in 2011 to end political crises that have long plagued the country. Former finance minister Rajaonarimampianina became president in elections held in 2013. That vote was designed to resolve chronic instability that had brought international isolation to the country for President Hery Rajaonarimampianina some years and wrecked the Malagasy economy.

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Ban on Muslim veil

Congo, Brazzaville - The government has banned Muslim women from wearing the full face-veil in public, citing security reasons, an Islamic association said. El Hadj Abdoulaye Djibril Bopaka, who heads the Islamic Supreme Council of Congo-Brazzaville, told AFP that Interior Minister Raymond Zephirin Mboulou notified them of the decision to prohibit Muslim women from wearing the full veil. “The decision was taken in order to prevent any act of terrorism and insecurity. Muslim women can now only wear the full veil at home and in places of worship, but not in public places,” he said. He added that only a tiny minority of women in Congo-Brazzaville actually cover their faces and entire bodies. The ban does not affect any other kind of veil. Bopaka said the authorities had made a “good” move, citing reports that “some non-Muslims have been using the full veil to hide and to carry out uncivic acts”. Congo-Brazzaville is home to some 800 000 Muslims in a population of nearly six million. Only 10 percent are local with the rest coming from Arab or neighbouring West African nations. Unlike its neighbour Cameroon, which has suffered fierce attacks by the Nigeria-based Boko Haram, Congo-Brazzaville has not been hit by any such terror attacks. AFP

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Marathon runner Stephen Mokoka Orlando Pirates fans hope to increase their club’s tally to four wins.

Chiefs fans expect their team to win the cup for the second time since 2011.

Black Label clash looms

‘It’s a huge responsibility to coach a team like this because it has a huge backing. The fans give us grief for our team selections, so now they have the opportunity to choose the team and the consumer coach can deal with it’ Soccer Correspondent

his year’s fifth edition of the Carling Black Label (CBL) cup clash between Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs will take place at FNB Stadium on 25 July. Bucs have won the cup three times since its inception in 2011, with Amakhosi winning it only once in 2013. Three of the previous four CBL Cup matches have been decided by a penalty shootout, after the teams were level in 90 minutes. Only three goals were scored in the tourney since 2011. Fans of the two clubs will be vote for the players they want to see in

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the starting line-ups. The event will also see the ‘consumer coach’ make one substitution in the second-half. Meanwhile Bucs coach Eric Tinkler has warned the lucky fan who will be the Pirates ‘consumer coach’ for the upcoming match that it comes with immense responsibility. “It’s a huge responsibility to coach a team like this because it has a huge backing. The fans give us grief for our team selections, so now they have the opportunity to choose the team and the consumer coach can deal with it,” he said. The CBL cup has become one of the most popular competitions on the South African football calendar,

as it affords supporters the chance to choose the starting line-ups by voting for their favourite players. One lucky fan gets invited to be the ‘consumer coach’ and lead their respective clubs on the day of the CBL cup match between the two Soweto giants.. Bucs captain Oupa Manyisa hopes to carry on their momentum with a win over their arch rivals in the Carling Black Label Cup. He added that a win against Amakhosi will be good for the Pirates fans. “It’s always good to win because the fans get excited about winning against our rivals, so we always try to do it for them. I always remem-

ber the first one because we started with a win, and followed up with the treble,” the Bucs captain said. He noted that players feel honoured to participate in the tournament, as players are chosen by the supporters, which makes it more special. “We don’t brag to each other that we are in or whoever is out. We just appreciate the support and votes of the fans,” he added. Amakhosi captain Tefu Mashamaite said he was happy to be voted in the starting line-up in his first season at the club. “It’s an opportunity for us to please the supporters who vote for us. It’s a day of great fun for them,” he said.

Marathon man to break more records Athletics Correspondent

arathon runner Stephen Mokoka is set to break the South African 10 000m track record this year, his coach Michael Seme has said. Mokoka, 30, recently smashed the 20-year-old 5 000m record at the national championships in Stellenbosch. Mokoka says he can master the 10 000m, in which he has yet to achieve a qualifying time for the world championships in Beijing in August. So far Mokoka’s accolades include winning the national cross-country trials and retaining his Two Oceans half- marathon crown. He competed in the 42km at the 2012 Olympics, where he finished 49th just behind countryman Lusapho April. The 10 000m on the track is regarded as the hardest version of a 10km race, more difficult than cross-country because the repetitive scenery over 25 laps requires supreme concentration. The marathon man says he may be in contention for the Beijing race, then at the Rio Olympics next year. But he is yet to beat 27min 45sec to earn the right to race in China. The Olympic qualifying standard is 28min.