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Premier lauds residents for peaceful poll ‘Residents demonstrated true patriotism towards their province and the country in general’ Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

G Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane

auteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has praised Gauteng residents for coming out in their numbers to vote in the national and provincial elections that were held on Wednesday 27 April all around the province.

“The high voter turnout in our province is a victory for democracy. Our people have shown us once again that they have trust in the democratic processes of the country,” said Mokonyane.

According to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) records, a record 25.39 million voters were registered to vote in this

year’s general elections.

The Premier commended residents for peaceful and eventless elections. She said the residents demonstrated true patriotism towards their province and the country in general.

Mokonyane further noted that the right to vote was hard won and she was pleased that people voted so

that they can hold the government accountable and defend the country’s democracy.

“It is also heart-warming to see that even in areas that were branded as voting hotspots by the media, such as Bekkersdal, we witnessed a high turnout of voters and voting was without any incidents,” said Gauteng Premier Mokonyane.

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JDA focuses on Hillbrow Tower precinct

‘It is also about the densification scope for residential developments, where there is an underdevelopment of property’

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he Hillbrow Tower precinct has been targeted as the next development by the JDA for its strategic location near arts and culture hubs.

Property developers are on the prowl for the next wave of Johannesburg inner-city developments for mixed-use spaces, following the success of the Maboneng Precinct, 44 Stanley and Juta Street in Braamfontein.

And now the focus shifts to derelict properties in the east of Johannes-

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burg and Hillbrow, which are showing potential for residential, commercial and retail refurbishments.

Inner-city developments have been a joint venture between private developers together with the Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), with a five-year plan to rejuvenate the city by 2018.

A “strong” transport system works in favour for Johannesburg inner-city, hence the growing interest in the area for development, says JDA’s executive manager of planning and strategy Sharon Lewis.

The Hillbrow Tower precinct has been targeted as the next development by the JDA for its strategic location near arts and culture hubs. Lewis says developments into Hillbrow will The Hillbrow Tower Precinct is set for development. improve the “liveability” of the area, which more than ever. OPH’s next develwill also have knock-on-effects in opment project is a string of derelict the roll out of affordable housing properties in Von Brandis Street that projects and retail offerings. are set to be transformed into office “It is also about the densification space with a retail mix. scope for residential developments, The idea is to link such develwhere there is an underdevelopment opments into one key inner-city of property. There is still a demand mixed-use space node, especially for affordable houses,” she says. with the R1.3-billion shopping cenThe focus though at the moment tre by Atterbury Property Holdings Lewis explains, is to bolster tran- (JSE: ATT) in Newtown. sit areas in the CBD including the The shopping centre, called NewWestgate Precinct and Park Station, town Junction will be completed in which the JDA has set aside R700- September, which Roger Koevort, million in its three-year budget.

CEO of the Johannesburg Land Executive chairman of OPH Ger- Company says will have a big imald Olitzki, who spearheaded com- pact for the city. mercial and retail developments at Despite plans to reform the city, Main Street says the decay of the it is still plagued by perceptions of city was exacerbated by property being a crime-ridden area, which owners who gave away properties Olitzki says such a stereotype is for “next-to-nothing” in search for slowly changing. But investors are prime properties in the northern unfazed by perceptions still haunting suburbs. the CBD, as they are now returning OPH has developed greater parts to get a share of the development. of Commissioner Street, Rissik Barclays Africa, Nedbank, Standard Street and Fox Street, which Olitzki Bank and First National Bank (FNB) says “we cannot keep up with the still have operations in the CBD, an demand of property in CBD” – sig- indication that the CBD remains a nalling greater interest in the CBD desirable area. Moneyweb.co.za

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Joburg CBD gunman held Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za Johannesburg Central police have arrested a 33year-old suspect for possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, according to police Corporate Communications officer Warrant Officer Xoli Mbele. The man was arrested at cor-

ner Plein and Wanderers streets in the CBD. “Police were busy with their routine crime prevention duties when they saw a suspicious male in the street. When he saw the police officers he tried to run away but he was apprehended.

Police recovered a .38 revolver with no serial number and ammunition inside his bag, and arrested him,” Warrant officer Mbele adds.

Gogo Janet Mashaba is being carried by Party Agents after casting her vote at Joubert Park voting station on 7 May 2014.

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ANC rolls to victory Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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y Thursday afternoon the ANC had won 63.7 percent of Wednesday’s vote with nearly two-thirds of districts counted, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said.

The ANC’s nearest rival, the Democratic Alliance, was on 22.1 percent, upholding poll predictions the party would improve on the 16.7 percent it won five years ago as it gradually sheds its image as the political home of privileged minority whites. The militant EFF,

launched by Malema after he was expelled from the ANC in 2012, was in third place with 4.9 percent.

Turnout was high across 22 000 polling stations nationwide, officials said, and voting passed off smoothly although the ANC said one of its members was shot dead outside a polling station in rural KwaZulu-Natal, Zuma’s home province.

Several polls ahead of the general election, the first to feature voters born after the end of apartheid, had put ANC support near 65 percent, a touch below the 65.9 percent it won in the 2009 vote.

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Secure in Comfort affects you - yes you Moses Moyo mosesmoyo@icloud.com Secure in Comfort -you are correct, that’s the title of Advocate Thuli Madonsela’s report on an investigation into allegations of impropriety and unethical conduct relating to the installation and implementation of security measures by the department of Public Works at, and in respect of the private residence of President Jacob Zuma at Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal province.

What has it to do with the Inner City? You might be asking – The advocate found that monies to the tune of R20 million budgeted for the Inner city regeneration were re-allocated to the Nkandla project (read page 200,204,205,206,207,303 and 436) of the report) The main objectives of the Inner City Regeneration programme was, according to the 2010/13 Strategic Plan: * to rejuvenate inner towns and cities through the provision of improved physical working environments to 40 national government departments/ agencies in the various inner cities; * to create a centre of excellence for project management through planning, execution, monitoring and training; &

* to provide built environment, procurement and contractual professional advice, support services, standards and risk mitigation services to the Department.”

So inner city resident and investor the “Nkandla Saga “affects you directly, as if reading the Public protectors report was not enough I recently attended a court case of building hijackers, where a City of Johannesburg official put it on record that bad buildings cost the City of Johannesburg to the tune of R8 billion in income from illegally occupied buildings and houses in the Inner City.

Hope for the Inner City The City of Johannesburg is facing potential backdated rates payment claims of millions of rand from property developers in the Joburg inner city who have won a landmark case in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein. The appeal court on Wednesday dealt the council a major blow, dashing its hopes of enforcing commercial rates tariffs to high-rise residential buildings with shops on the ground floor.

The ruling effectively means the city

Part of the Park Mews apartment building in Hillbrow

will have to recalculate the ratable values of buildings with commercial and residential portions. The city had brought its case against Connaught Properties, which owns a block of flats in Hillbrow called Park Mews.

In 2009, Connaught successfully appealed to the Valuations Appeal Board against incorrect zoning in terms of the municipality is rates policy by the municipal value, leading to the city applying the highest rate in the case of multiple-purpose use of a building.

But the City took the matter for a review in the Johannesburg High Court in 2012. That court upheld the ruling of the Valuations Appeal Board that the City of Johannesburg was illegally applying commercial rates to residential buildings that have only a few shops on the ground floor.

Renny Plit, chairman of Property Owners and Managers Association said following the SCA ruling that prop-

erty owners would consult with their lawyers for possible backdated rates claims against the council dating back to 2008 when the dispute began. “Most people continued to pay the higher rates levied by the council when the dispute was before the courts. There is definitely a possibility now that property owners will claim retrospectively following this ruling and the amount could be quite substantial if you look at a how long this has been going on for”, he said.

In its unanimous judgment this week, the SCA labeled the city’s interpretation of the Municipal Property Rates Act as absurd.

The above means that if George Palmer, the Chairperson of Connaught Property group had not taken the city of Johannesburg to court, you and me would be paying the exorbitant rates. I am sure this good amount could have been ploughed back into the Inner City.

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Judge rules on textbooks

Polokwane - High Court Judge Neil Tuchten has ruled in Pretoria that the basic education department violated pupils’ rights to education by not delivering textbooks.

Basic Education For All (Befa) took the department to court, supported by civil rights group Section27, because not all pupils in Limpopo had received textbooks for this year. Department spokesman Elijah Mhlanga said the department would ‘work hard’ to meet the deadline.

Befa had also wanted the SA Human Rights Commission to oversee textbook delivery, and for the court to declare the non-delivery of textbooks a violation of the constitutional right of basic education.

Chris Erasmus SC, for the department, argued that only about 2.2 percent of the seven million textbooks had not been delivered because the schools reported shortages late or failed to report at all. The top-up books were not ordered in time due to budgetary constraints, as the province had a R293 million shortfall in its budget, he said.

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News Briefs from around SA

Gugile Nkwinti Rustenburg

A book delivery at a Limpopo school.

Senzo Mchunu

Joseph Mathunjwa

Cape Town - The subCrime wave urbs of Rondebosch East, Crawford and Lansdowne are experiencing unprecedented crime, with burglaries, hijackings and violent attacks which have left one man dead.

The Rondebosch East resident was stabbed to death at his home. The victim’s neighbour, Mike Kabat, discovered the body. The murder remains under investigation. Edward Doe of the Athlone and Crawford CPF blamed shortage of police and community reluctance to get involved. But recent events have led to the creation of two neighbourhood watches.

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Businesses have also fallen prey to criminals, including the Aroma Drop Inn in Crawford, from which R8 000 was stolen. Last Monday Hassans Superette in Rondebosch East was also hit. Lansdowne CPF chairman Thetha Sithole said about 15 incidents of theft; hijackings and burglaries had been reported in the past month.

Police spokesman Col Thembinkosi Kinana however said the situation was inder control. “We believe we have made significant strides to ensure that all those involved are brought to court,” he said.

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Land probe controversy Nelspruit - The Agang SA party has charged that numerous long-term fraud schemes were crippling investment and growth in the province’s agriculture and tourism.

Forensic investigator and party member Paul O’Sullivan said an investigation into the inflation of prices during land claims was 95% complete. He called for an audit of land claims in the province, including the controversial R1.1bn land claim for Mala Mala, an internationally renowned game lodge. “Investigations are related to land claims where middlemen arranged a farm’s sale, then organised a bogus land claim during the sale.”

Responding to the issue Rural Development Minister Gugile Nkwinti’s spokesman Mtobeli Mxotwa said Agang must open a docket.

Meanwhile, City Press reported that Public Protector Thuli Madonsela was probing a R1.5m payment to O’Sullivan related to price inflation of land at KZN’s Dube Tradeport.

Violence victims reburied

Fifteen week strike still on Rustenburg - The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), led by Joseph Mathunjwa, has informed the companies of its decision to continue striking, which is entering its 15th week, Lonmin, Impala Platinum, and Anglo American Platinum said in a joint statement.

The mining companies were advised of the decision to continue the strike by Amcu’s leadership at a meeting on Monday.

“Amcu’s decision is disappointing as the companies’ efforts to develop a new offer that is affordable was designed to come as close as possible to meeting the union’s demand. Amcu has also made no effort to suggest a solution to a strike which, as is well documented, is causing deep and adverse impacts on employees, their communities, and the local Rustenburg economy as a whole,” the company said in a statement.

The strike has cost employees around R7.3 billion in lost income and the producers around R16.4bn in lost revenue. The companies said they would continue taking the offer directly to employees, as Lonmin requested employees to indicate intention to accept the settlement offer by SMS message.

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Durban - Eight victims of political violence, who were murdered in 1993 and 1994, were finally laid to rest at the weekend after being exhumed from Ladysmith, where they were initially buried secretly.

KZN Premier Senzo Mchunu was part of a delegation and family in Bergville, where the victims were laid to rest on Saturday following a mass memorial at the Woodford Stadium, which was attended by thousands. Mchunu said the government had decided to restore the dignity of the victims and provide closure for their loved ones. Six people were murdered in June 1993 after the launch of the first ANC branch in what was an IFP stronghold. “Due to threats of more violence, the families of the six struggle heroes could not conduct proper funerals for them,” Mchunu said.

Fifteen more ANC activists were killed there.

Eight got proper burials this weekend, while two await NPA forensic identification. Reburied were Phakamani Hlongwane, Zondumuntu Mntambo, Siyabonga Mfeka, Fana Gamede, Nhlanhla Makhaza, Johannes Ndlovu, Qanjana Gamede and Phumzile Mavundla.

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New premier confirmed

Tripoli - Premiership candidate Ahmed Matiq has been confirmed as head of the transitional government, after lawmakers argued over the validity of his appointment.

After uncertainty surrounding the outcome of a parliamentary vote the previous day, Matiq emerged victorious as the latest prime minister. Libya’s General National Congress (GNC) confirmed he had won enough votes the previous day.

It was not immediately clear how lawmakers reached this final decision, given an argument between the deputy parliamentary speakers that ensued after the initial vote count on Sunday gave Ahmed Matiq the lead over opponent Omar al-Hassi.

However, the first deputy speaker, Ezzeddin al-Awami, criticized the outcome, calling it ‘null and void’, and called on former Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni to remain in his post.

Three weeks ago, ex-Prime Minister al-Thinni quit the premiership, citing an attack by gunmen on his family.

Matiq is Libya’s fifth premier since the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi.

Unrest and the prevalence of militant groups continue to inhibit the north African country from restabilizing.

US troops new base deal

Ismail Guelle

Ahmed Matiq

Djibouti - The US has secured a 10 year lease for a key military base in Djibouti that it relies on to launch ‘counter-terrorism’ missions, including drone strikes in Yemen and the Horn of Africa.’

US President Barack Obama and his Djibouti counterpart Ismail Guelleh have announced the renewed lease on Camp Lemonnier, vowing to counter al-Qaeda and al-Shabab fighters in the region.

Washington would pay an annual $63 million, with an option to extend the arrangement for another decade, US officials said. “Camp Lemonnier is important to us throughout the region,” Obama said.

Camp Lemonnier houses conventional and special forces, and aerial drones flown over Yemen and Somalia. Guelleh said they were linked in a ‘strategic partnership’ in ‘the fight against terrorism, piracy and human trafficking’. Obama also promised more US assistance for Djibouti’s forces. More US aid was also pledged. The Pentagon reportedly has informed Congress of plans for a expansion of thr facilities, proposing $1bn in construction projects.

Terror bombing kills three

President pleads for help

Abuja - President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed for international help to rescue 276 schoolgirls abducted

by Boko Haram fighters on April 14.

Jonathan said he had sought help from the US, Britain, France and China for help. The girls were kidnapped from their hostel in Chibok town in Borno state.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has promised help.

“The kidnapping of children by Boko Haram is an unconscionable crime, and we will support the Nigerian government to return these girls to their homes and hold the perpetrators to justice,” Kerry said.

Jonathan met for the first time with all the stakeholders on Saturday, including the principal of the Chibok Government Girls Secondary School.

Nigerians’ anger at the failure to rescue the students, and protest marches last week in major Nigerian cities as well as New York City, have spurred Jonathan’s government to action.

The mass kidnapping is one of the most shocking attacks in Boko Haram’s five-year offensive, which has killed thousands across the the northern part of the country, including 1 500 people this year alone. Boko Haram wants to form an Islamic state in the country.

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Nairobi - Three people were killed and 60 wounded when two bombs exploded on buses, authorities said on Sunday. Deputy Head of the bomb disposal unit Eliud Lagat said the blasts were from improvised explosives.

The explosions come a day after two blasts at the Kenyan coast killed four people. Police said a grenade that was thrown at a bus stop in the coastal city of Mombasa killed the four.

President Uhuru Kenyatta said terrorists want to provoke a sectarian war. “They want a war of religion to end our history of tolerance. The terrorists will be treated as the criminals they are,” he said.

Kenya has been hit by a wave of attacks since it sent troops to fight al-Shabaab rebels in Somalia. The al-Qaeda-linked militants have vowed to avenge the presence of Kenyan troops in Somalia.

Terror warnings have been constant since the attack on Westgate Mall killed 67 people last September, and Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility.

Last month, a car bomb exploded outside a police Machar in Addis Ababa, with Ethiopian PM station, killing two officers and two Somali men in Hailemariam Desalegn acting as mediator. the vehicle. Since last month thousands of Somalis The conflict has claimed thousands of lives, have been arrested in a security sweep which has 1.2 million people forced to flee their homes. Uhuru Kenyatta been heavily criticised by rights groups.

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Govt troops seize rebel base Juba - South Sudan’s army has captured the key rebel base of Nasir and the oil hub of Bentiu following an offensive against Riek Machar and his forces.

Army spokesman Philip Aguer said SPLA troops recaptured Nasir and Bentiu from Machar, who has been fighting President Salva Kiir’s forces since mid-December.Govern-

ment troops also moved into the northern oil hub of Bentiu, a town that has changed hands several times during the conflict.

Bentiu fell into rebel hands last month, and both sides have been accused of war crimes and using child soldiers. Kiir agreed to talks with Machar, after US Secretary of State John Kerry urged him to meet

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Police probe poll complaints

IEC chairperson Pansy Tlakula

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he Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) says they have recorded various incidents in different voting areas, which police are investigating.

This includes the protest action in Alexandra, in Johannesburg, which may be threatening election staff and party agents in the areas.

Briefing the media on the first day of counting, IEC chairperson Pansy Tlakula said community personnel have been deployed along with political party leaders to speak to the community in an attempt to defuse the situation.

Also in Gauteng, a ballot box containing 16 special votes was found by police - along-side a road in Springs, in the East Rand. While in Brakpan, ballot boxes which contained counted and captures votes that was stored in a school was broken into overnight.

Another incident was reported in Tzaneen, in Limpopo, where a voting station was ambushed by unknown assailants who had posed as voters.

A voting station was ambushed by unknown assailants who had posed as voters According to the IEC, the assailants entered the station and attacked the police on duty, election officials and party agents, while damaging voting materials.

Tlakula says the counting at the station has not commenced. Police have arrested two people and investigations are counting. In KwaZulu-Natal, Kwadukuza, one person was killed and another shot in KwaMashu.

The IEC says police are investigating all the incidents. “These remain isolated incidents which we are taking extremely seriously,” said Tlakula.

The chairperson defused suggestions that these incidents discredited the electoral process and IEC. “I wouldn’t speculate that people are out to discredit us - but police investigations will reveal this,” she said, adding that the irregularities happened in few stations. “Our credibility has not been compromised.”

According to Chief Electoral Officer Mosotho Moepya, they have done well in the so called hotspots and that counting has been done. SAnews.gov.za

20th Annual Vukani Fashion Awards 2014

The annual Vukani Fashion awards (SAFDA) invite designers from across South Africa to submit their designs application for the 20th Annual Vukani! Fashion Awards 2014.

The theme is: We have a good story to tell (how can we curate local creativity better in 2014 and beyond?) Sure, 2014 will shine an international spotlight on local design and creativity, but it also offers the chance for us to recognize that local creative work is not just by us, it’s also for us.

“Dancing to our own design tune, really valuing and exercising our uniqueness, has become our prime directive.

It’s where our future lies. Through collaboration, cooperation, alliance, and refining our unique perspective, we can build and mature this arena in relevant and fascinating ways,” said Trevyn McGowan.

There is an overall sense that creative

work, markets and audiences have matured in recent years and that we have made great strides in recognising the extraordinary talent that exists locally. What remains, is the need for us to acknowledge the authenticity and proficiency of our work collectively. In short, we need to “own it.

Your task for the 20th Annual Vukani Fashion Awards 2014 is find that many international curators and critics hear the unique voice South Africa brings to the world. Craft is very old in Africa, but design is very young. Part of the global appeal of contemporary South African design is that it’s unfettered, imaginative and energetic. In the established world of collectible design, South Africa has something very new to say.

How can this local “voice” be better heard, particularly for local audiences?

Create a collection for South Africans who are stepping up to conquer the world yet are unshaken in their South African identity. THEME: WE HAVE A GOOD STORY TO TELL (how can we curate local creativity better in 2014 and beyond?)

Today: As we enter a new decade, the fashion business, like the rest of the world, is encountering significant economic and technological change. Like the economy, the fashion world needs to change in a forward looking manner and offering the latest and greatest in a way that is not out of reach, not out of this world and not out of trend.

The closing date for receipt of entries: 26 June 2014. For details visit www. vukanifashions.com SOUTH AFRICAN FASHION DESIGNERS AGENCY 149 Pritchard Str*6th Floor Louisa House* Johannesburg* P.O Box 4397* Johannesburg * 2000.R.S.A. Tel: 27+11 402-1661 fax: 27 + 114021663 Mobile: 27+82 579 4236 Email: sonwabile@vukanifashions.com Website: www.vukanifashions.com

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Cops shoot, arrest toy gunman Own Correspondent

Hillbrow - Hillbrow police have shot and arrested a man who pointed a toygun at them, police spokesperson Sergeant Mduduzi Zondo says.

“A motorist reported that an armed man had tried to rob him at the Joe Slovo and Abel Road intersection in Berea. As police followed the suspect he changed his t-shirt and ran into a nearby park. The police followed him,

when they cornered him in the park he pulled out a toy gun and pointed it at the officers. Police fired a warning shot, but the man continued to point the object at the police, and they shot the man in the leg,” Sgt Zondo says.

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Joburg Theatre to host Chekov festival Brenda Sakellarides

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The cast for the legendary performance includes young generation actor Zethu Dlomo.

The Russian playwright has been acknowledged as the most performed playwright in the world; second only to Shakespeare

he brilliance of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov will be celebrated in a vibrant Festival at the Fringe at Joburg Theatre from 4-16 June. In 2004, the inaugural Chekhov Festival was presented under the auspices of the Joburg Theatre.

In the space of two short weeks a company of nine directors and 23 actors performed a rich array of Chekhov stories and plays to an enthusiastic Festival audience.

Attesting to the spirit of ensemble playing and innovative theatre making, the Chekhov Festival received two Naledi Theatre Awards nominations that year.

Ten years later and the Joburg Theatre will play host to the second Chekhov Festival from 4–16 June 2014. A fine ensemble of 30 actors and directors will stage three different programs from the writings of arguably one of the most influential playwrights of the 20th century.

Anton Chekhov inspired many authors of the 20th century and continues to inspire new generations with his complex characters, universal themes and his ability to

make the ordinary extraordinary. He has been acknowledged as the most performed playwright in the world; second only to Shakespeare.

Up to 110 years after the playwright’s death he still continues to attract and charm many of the world’s finest actors, directors and theatre companies.

The Chekhov Festival is the brainchild of Johannesburg based actor, director and producer Andre Stolz. His enduring passion for the timeless brilliance of Anton Chekhov is reflected in his careful programming of the two-week festival.

With each program audiences will be treated to a variety of works including short story adaptations, favourite one act plays and dramatic readings. Highlights include Brothers, by the late Reza de Wet, which explores the relationship between Anton Chekhov, his brother Alexander and Natalia – Alexander’s fiancé.

An undoubted creative coup is the premiere of Oppad, the Afrikaans adaptation of On the Road –the short story, which inspired Sergei Rachmaninoff to write his Fantasy for Orchestra Op.7 popularly

known as The Rock. Alice Smith translated the work from the original Russian into Afrikaans. Conceived as a chamber piece, Oppad comprises six performers: four actors and two musicians.

The main themes of Rachmaninoff’s exquisite and emotionally charged music will be played by celebrated musicians Zanta Hofmeyr (violin) and Kutlwano Masote (cello). Andre Stolz directs.

Chantal Nativel will direct the perennial favourite, Rothschild’s Fiddle, with Greg Melvill-Smith, David Butler and Lynne Maree. The Festival also includes a mini Chekhov Film Festival.

The Full Program for the 2-week-long Festival will be available at www.joburgtheatre.com and on the Chekhov Festival Facebook page.

The cast includes stage veterans Kevin Smith, Lionel Newton, David Butler, Lynne Maree, Greg Melvill-Smith, Sello Sebotsane, Craig Morris, Karen Retief and Tessa Jubber. The younger generation of actors includes Zethu Dlomo, Gustav Gerdener, Danielle Retief, Ryan Dittman, Jaques de Silva and Stiaan Smith.

Detours 2014 show starts

The work demonstrates the choreographer’s trilogical intention behind illusion and perceived forms of existence and reality Arts Correspondent

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he Detours festival at Wits Theatre, which runs up to 17 May, has works that include Nighflower, a collaboration between Jeanette Ginslov and Juanita Finestone-Praeg, You are Delicious by Wits alumni, Leigh Nudelman Sussman, Strand’d by Tumelo Maloka, as well as a special viewing of the top 10 films selected for the international ‘60 seconds dance’ film competition.

Presented on Thursday was simple, obsessive choreography and images of insects projected onto the mosquito net, as well as a haunting mixture of insect sounds, Claire evoked her childhood experience as seen from within this cocoon. Through this combination of visual elements, sound and choreography she will attempt to critique her own privilege and the way it isolates one from the pressing issues of what it

means to be South African. The rest of the evening was spent in the Downstairs Theatre, watching Caught by Nomcebisi Moyikwa of First Physical Theatre, eXist by Kwanele Thusi and Tiishang Aphane’s The Three Monkeys.

Caught is a choreographic revelation and investigation of the film form.

With reference to ways of viewing, the dominant idea of the ‘male gaze’ and dominant classical narrative cinema, Caught explores how the notion of the ‘erotic’ and ‘exotic’ are encoded within a certain patriarchal order.

This work is a physical interplay between two women who are caught in a half room with a light bulb as their only source of light. Using the visual lance of the camera as a choreographic exploration, Caught questions the cinematic voyeurs gaze as violent, political, sexual and personal.

Kwanele Finch Thusi’s eXist demon-

strates the choreographer’s trilogical intention behind illusion and perceived forms of existence and reality. As the final work in a three- part trilogy, eXist attempts to raise the questions of normativity and morphed identity. Exploring the obsession with technology, which allows an individual to be more than one person at the same time, the work questions ability to shift identity, shed skin and become new. The camera is the ‘third eye’ but can we truly trust its authenticity?

The Three Monkeys is a new work choreographed by Tiishang Aphane. In the Western world, the phrase ‘the three monkeys’ is often used to refer to those who deal with impropriety by turning a blind eye ; ‘hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil’. Here various meanings are ascribed to the ‘monkeys’ and the proverb, including associations being of good mind, speech and action.

A scene in Kwanele Thusi’s eXist

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PSL CEO, Brand de Villiers said the decision to host the final in Durban was a difficult one for the League. “Firstly, I would like to congratulate both Bidvest Wits and Orlando Pirates for reaching the 2013/14 Nedbank Cup final. A number of venues were on the table to host the 2013/14 Nedbank Cup final and, following long delibera-

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