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MAXINE TWADDLE Oscar Pistorius will appear in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court tomorrow for the bail hearing in his murder case.

Pistorius was formally charged with murder on Friday afternoon. The state will argue that the alleged murder of Pistorius’s girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was premeditated, according to state prosecutor Gerrie Nel. Pistorius will remain in custody at the Brooklyn Police Station until his bail application is made. At Pistorius’s initial court appearance on Friday, both prosecution and defence agreed to postpone the application until early this week.

This will give Pistorius’s legal team adequate time to prepare for proceedings, according to eNCA. Legally, the bail hearing can be

postponed for a maximum of seven days. eNCA also reported that the state is set to oppose bail.

The media will be prohibited from recording the court proceedings live. Pistorius’s lawyer Barry Roux argued against live media coverage in consideration of Pistorius’s “extremely traumatised state of mind”. Media organisations argued that it would be in overwhelming public interest to broadcast proceedings.

Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair, who is presiding over the case, accepted the defence’s arguments that live broadcasting would not be in the interest of justice. Journalists may be present in the courtroom but no camera or audio equipment may be used while the court is in session.

Police continue their investigation into Steenkamp’s death. It has been confirmed

that she died at Pistorius’s Pretoria home after receiving four gunshot wounds to the head and upper body. The shots were fired with a 9mm pistol which was recovered at the scene. A post-mortem was carried out on Friday, but the results will not be made public, according to the BBC. Initial media reports indicated that Pistorius allegedly shot Steenkamp by accident after mistaking her for an intruder. It was suggested that she had attempted to enter his house in Silver Woods security estate in the early hours of last Thursday morning to surprise him for Valentine’s Day. Police spokesperson Denise Beukes denied that the police ever said that Steenkamp was mistaken for a burglar.

Pistorius was arrested on Thursday morning

and taken to a state hospital in Mamelodi where a district surgeon conducted various medical and forensic tests. The examination included bloodalcohol level tests, scans for physical injury and checks for the victim’s DNA under Pistorius’s fingernails.

Pistorius was kept overnight at the Boschkop Police Station in Pretoria. No other suspects were arrested in connection to the incident.

The police confirmed that they have previously investigated allegations “of a domestic nature” regarding the couple. Neighbours who were interviewed by police said that they heard shouting from the house on Wednesday evening.

Pistorius’s agency In-Site Athletic Management released a statement late on Friday afternoon in which the murder charges were rejected “in the strongest possible terms”.

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Oscar Pistorius is a 26-year-old athlete Reeva Steenkamp was a 29-year-old model The couple confirmed they were dating in October last year Steenkamp was fatally shot at Pistorius’s home on 14 February

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Pistorius was the only suspect arrested Pistorius will be remanded in custody until his bail hearing Pistorius will be tried for premeditated murder

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The first week of university is finally over.

All students are back and like all first working weeks after a long holiday it was a tough one.

This is generally the week when many of us realise that those extra subjects we registered for might be too much to handle. It has become painfully apparent that adaptation, evolution

even, is necessary to survive the year. And the metamorphosis from holiday goer to working student is a painful one. These early mornings are not our friends, and neither is the limited parking. Not to mention the anxiety attacks that come on regularly when you think about the year ahead, or when you are handed a study guide and it might as well be a textbook. Or maybe that is just me.

The irony is that behind this busy academic week was a very quiet news week on campus.

Until Thursday that is, when the Oscar Pistorius story broke on Twitter. See our front page for details. The second most exciting thing that happened was the Varsity Cup match last week Monday which was surprisingly anti-climatic thanks to small crowds and the absence of alcohol. Anarchy, I tell you. The Perdeby editorial went to go support the team, but we had to make our way to Aandklas afterwards to prevent withdrawal symptoms. It was quite the game, but I think we would all have enjoyed it more if there were beer (especially our head copy editor, Jaco Kotze).

We’ve taken note of your queries surrounding Varsity Cup tickets. This week our sport team will be finding out why Varsity Cup has decided

From the Editor to charge students to watch the matches this year. If you have any questions or comments on the matter tweet @perdebynews or tweet our Sport editor Maxine Twaddle (@MissMax6).

They’ll be bringing you the scoop around the decision soon.

Despite the transitional phase, we’ve managed to put together another edition. We have the facts about the graduate tax on page four, and we take a look at gun control laws on page six. Go have a look at our review with Bittereinder on page nine and read about our first win in the Varsity Cup on page 12.

And don’t forget about Perdeby’s Daily Roundup, where we bring you international and local news daily.

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18 Februarie ‘13 4 Students fall for accommodation scam

DANIELLE PETTERSON Two Tuks students have been conned by an accommodation scam after they responded to an advert on Junk Mail for a bachelor flat in Cambridge Court, Hatfield.

After having viewed and agreed to rent the flat, the students were instructed to pay a deposit into the account of the alleged lawyer of the supposed owner of the flat in order to secure the unit.

Former SRC President Mthokozisi Nkosi phoned a man named Peter Venter to arrange to see the flat. Immediately after paying the deposit, Nkosi informed Venter, the apparent owner. According to Nkosi, Venter

was unhappy that Nkosi had made a direct payment via internet transfer. He requested that Nkosi reverse the payment before the banks closed and that he make a cash payment instead.

“I then started getting suspicious about the whole thing. Firstly, I was not depositing the money into his account or his letting agency’s but into another person’s account whom he said was his lawyer (N Ngobhozi) from a law firm called Attorneys Strauss Khan Ngobhozi and Partners. Secondly, we were supposed to meet the following day after I had made the payment but he then stopped answering my calls, SMSs and emails,” he said.

Nkosi went to Standard Bank and asked them to prevent the lawyer from accessing the money he had deposited. “The case is on-going and I am yet to receive my money back because it is now a fraud case,” he said.

Another student, who wishes to remain anonymous, spoke to a male on the phone and arranged to see the flat. On arrival at the address she contacted the supposed owner and was told to ask for a security guard named Isaac who would show her the flat.

Isaac phoned and spoke to the owner when the student had questions regarding the electricity billing. The student later received an SMS saying her application to rent had been approved and that she should contact Louis or Peter Venter to secure the unit.

The student was told to pay a deposit into the Attorneys Strauss Khan Ngobhozi and Partners bank account. She deposited R2 500 into the account before asking the teller whether the account belonged to a lawyers’ firm to which the teller replied that it was in fact a personal account belonging to a Nokhuthula Ngobhozi.

The student froze her banking account and phoned the alleged owner who claimed not to know what she was talking about. She returned to the flat to find Isaac helping a girl move into the same apartment that had been shown to her.

Isaac told her that he had no knowledge of a private owner and that the flat belonged to Huurkor. When asked who he had phoned with regard to the electricity billing, he told the student that he did not know.

The student opened a case and was told that it is currently being investigated.

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Graduate tax met with opposition DANIELLE PETTERSON The ANC has proposed a graduate tax for all graduates of institutions of higher education.

The proposal has been met with opposition from many youth and student organisations.

According to The Sowetan, the ANC made this resolution at its elective conference in Mangaung last year. Details were limited with no explanation given regarding timelines for the implementation of the tax or the likely percentage to be levied. The tax was reportedly intended to contribute to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme.

The scheme was expected to play a major role in government’s plans to introduce free education to all undergraduate students.

SASCO stands in opposition to the graduate tax. SASCO Chairperson Kwara Kekana believes that the proposed tax would impose an additional burden on the working class and the poor. “We believe that a graduate tax works against the logic of the implementation of free quality education, which appreciates the historic burden of the poor graduate and seeks to redress the gap between the rich and poor in our country.

Our country has more than half a million unemployed graduates who remain destitute and we wonder what implications this tax will have on them,” said Kekana.

SASCO has called for an education tax which would require businesses and the rich to contribute towards education.

DA Youth Leader Makashule Gana believes that graduate tax could discourage students from acquiring tertiary education.

“An additional tax on working graduates would simply be unfair. It would mean an extra payment on top of their income tax at a time when many are struggling to make ends meet. Many students are battling to pay off huge student loans. Student debt in 2009 was around R3 billion and has risen considerably since then,” he said.

DASO Tuks Branch Leader Thorne Godinho said, “A graduate tax will make it even harder for graduates to cope with living in a country where economic growth

is negligible, jobs are not being created and many students have to deal with student loan debts.” DASO believes that a Youth Wage Subsidy, which will incentivise businesses to hire more young people, should be created.

AfriForum Youth spokesperson Danie Ungerer believes the proposed tax would create a climate where young people will be discouraged from furthering their studies and more graduates will consider emigrating.

He added that having a degree does not guarantee that one can afford the additional tax.

AfriForum Youth will ask the subcommittee for education to open up the process for public discussion.

Temporary Student Committee (TSC) President Christopher Pappas said, “It is utterly absurd that students who are already overburdened by student loans which charge exorbitant interest rates will now have to fork out more after completion

of their tertiary education. Graduates are struggling to find employment and a steady income as it is. This graduate tax will only add to the hardships of the youth of South Africa. We as the TSC will do all in our power to resist the ANC’s ridiculous proposal.”

In a statement on 8 February, ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu said, “We want to clarify that this was not a firm recommendation. [It is] safe to say that the [education] commission agreed that this recommendation needs to be considered in future. To this extent, no consideration has been made by the sub-committee or the ANC on this recommendation.”

To read SASCO, DA Youth and AfriForum’s full statements, go to perdeby. co.za.

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Res bites TARYN RICHMOND Maroela Boksaand Maroela hosted their annual boxing night last Tuesday.

The event is made up of 11 fights throughout the course of the evening. The fighters are initially weighed and have their arm lengths measured. “This is done to ensure fair fights,” says Maroela Chairperson Wilhelm Truter.

Truter explains that because all the fighters are friends, they decide among themselves who should fight whom. The night ends with the final fight that consists of five rounds between the most experienced “boxers”.

Jens Klingenberg and Grant Emslie faced off in the final fight. It was the only fight that produced a knockout, which occurred 30 seconds into the first round. The overall winner for the evening was Klingenberg.

Truter said that the event went very smoothly and many seemed to enjoy the fights as well as the push-up competition where anyone was allowed to compete.

Mopanie hosts international masters students Last week Thursday Mopanie hosted 20 students from Switzerland and various other countries who came in to visit the Department of Informatics.

Lambrie Steyn, Mopanie’s IT, Admin and Clubhouse HK who is also an assistant lecturer in the Department of Informatics, was encouraged to give the students a taste of South African culture. After a long day on campus, they were escorted to the Mopanie residence where they were shown the Mopanie cropfield and then taken to the clubhouse to end off the day with a clubhouse party.

Drinks were served on the house and Steyn encouraged the international students to join in a down-down followed by melktertjie shots.

A video was also played demonstrating all of the various activities that Mopanie has been involved in such as RAG, their Oesdag (harvest day) and other socials. Many of the students hosted had never experienced the residence atmosphere before and were incredibly impressed by what they had been introduced to.

Asterhof and Kollege reach out Although the Asterhof/Kollege RAG float was met with much criticism, Asterhof’s RAG Floats HK Meon Uys believes that there is far more to RAG than just the float. Instead of using their funds for the float, they redirected them towards outreach projects to benefit the community.

In her explanation of the Asterhof/Kollege approach to RAG, Uys said that the float itself is a waste of money and time. After the procession there is no further use for the float and disposing of it can be environmentally destructive. Instead of disposing of the materials in a recyclable manner, many reses lie in their green report and simply throw everything away.

The Asterhof/Kollege float was made up entirely of items that could be donated such as cans of food, grass and clothing. Uys also stated that the remaining funds would be donated to charity.

During their RAG week, instead of spending hours on blommetjies vou, their RAG committees went out into the community and gave away teddies to children at hospitals and orphanages, fixed up children’s homes, helped out with preparations at various centres, handed out special packages to the homeless in Kerkplein and held a special Fun Day for an underprivileged school. The various outreach recipients include the Steve Biko Paediatric Ward, the Booysens Beertjies Pre-Primary School, the Shwaraganang Orphanage, Fleos Babahuis and Boetumelo Crèche.

According to Uys, the small items they contributed made a huge difference to the lives of the individuals at these centres and each one sent letters of appreciation to the RAG committees. “To imagine the everyday life that we live compared to theirs, the appreciation of simple things become tenfold stronger,” Uys said.

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Miss Tuks Varsity Cup 2013 underway Intervarsity news DANIELLE PETTERSON

ZUBENATHI JIZANA The top 25 Miss Tuks Varsity Cup 2013 contestants were chosen last Wednesday.

The event has grown from a small beauty contest held at Hatfield Square with about 20 entrants in 2009 to this year’s event that boasted approximately 100 entrants.

At the top-50 elimination round, the contestants had to impress male judges Donovan Marais, Emile Temperman, Kar-Hein Schuld, Frederik Eksteen, representatives from TuksRugby Varsity Cup, as well as Carel de Jager from the organising committee.

The judges were looking for personality, good looks, humour, intelligence and eloquence. The contestants were split into ten teams of five and had to work together throughout the evening while chatting to the judges in the hope of making a good impression.

The evening started with a fun quiz which continued at intervals throughout the night. The quiz tested the ladies’ general

knowledge and they also had to participate in mini games.

The highlight of the evening was when they had to place a sticker on any body part of a male judge and then compose a song of no more than five lines, with dance moves, referring to the sticker and the body part that they had stuck it to. The contestants showcased their musical talents at the event and the judges enjoyed being serenaded by them.

Current Miss Tuks Varsity Cup Cayla Esterhuysen, who went on to win the National Miss Varsity Cup 2012, attended the event.

The top 25 contestants will go through a series of rounds until the top ten are chosen. The top ten will have to face a panel of judges and raise funds for the Pink Shorts campaign against women abuse. The winner will be announced at the Varsity Cup semi-finals on 4 March and will then go on to compete in the National Miss Varsity Cup. Photos: Eleanor Harding

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University of Fort Hare (UFH) UFH’s Alice campus was closed last week after violent student protests.

Students were instructed to vacate the premises of the university by no later than 17:00 on 12 February.

Students embarked on protests over various academic and non-academic issues. Among their grievances were an increase in residence fees and the implementation of security measures, reports News24.

Tyres were set alight and university entrances blocked.

Business Day Live reported the university’s ViceChancellor Mvuyo Tom as saying that the continuing violent demonstrations, along with the intimidation of staff and the destruction of property, had resulted in the closure of the campus until tomorrow.

The protests went ahead despite a court order issued by the Eastern Cape High Court. Alice police arrested 21 students for public violence but they were released later the same day with warnings.

Vaal University of Technology (VUT) VUT council members have approached the court in an attempt to overturn Blade Nzimande’s decision to place the university under administration.

Nzimande placed VUT under administration in July last year. Five council members have now approached the North Gauteng High Court to overturn his decision, reports the Mail & Guardian.

The applicants are asking the court to “look into the conduct of [Nzimande], who has a propensity to interfere in the affairs of council,” their affidavit says.

According to the Mail & Guardian, Nzimande disbanded VUT’s highest governing body after the independent assessor he appointed, Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane, concluded that the council was “incapable of providing strategic leadership”.

KwaZulu-Natal universities KwaZulu-Natal’s universities are set to spend over R1 billion on building new student housing over the next three years. Millions more will be spent on revamping existing infrastructure.

The aim of the project is to provide beds for at least 25% of their undergraduate and postgraduate enrolments.

This follows strikes at the Durban University of Technology over student accommodation, which resulted in campuses being shut down for a day.

According to IOL News, 10 917 students will move into the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s on- and off-campus residences this year. The university received R80 million from the government towards infrastructure last year and budgeted R22 million for repairs and refurbishment at its on-campus residences.

By December 2014, Mangosuthu University of Technology’s (MUT) new R120 million on-campus residence will house 640 students. The government has granted MUT R96 million in funding for another 540 bed residence.

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Rape: scrutinising solutions MARGEAUX ERASMUS For the past couple of weeks the issue of rape has been prominent in the media. The case of Anene Booysen, who was brutally raped and killed earlier this month, has angered many South Africans.

People have started to talk about ways to prevent rape and one of the most popular suggestions has been education. Others look to restructuring the police force to solve the problem. But what spurs a person to act so violently towards another, and are these viable solutions?

The Daily Maverick reported last week Tuesday that Professor Machel Jewkes, a gender expert at the Media Research Council, said, “The way for South Africa to beat rape lies in the way boys are brought up to be men.” According to Prof. Jewkes, South African men “generally do not see rape as a criminal activity that can lead them to prison. The majority of them think that if you want to have sex with a woman, you can have it, even if a woman does not want to.” Jewkes said that this mentality is common among South Africans and people’s thinking needs to be changed from a very young age.

The problem with this approach is that it considers rape as a sexual act only. Marcia Cohen and Sherrie McKenna wrote a report on the matter called “Rape: Psychology, Prevention and Impact” for the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. In the report, they state that in the last 20 years, psychologists and sociologists have rejected the myth that rape is a sexual act. One of the problems

that arises from this view of rape is that the crime is often blamed on the victims. The victim’s motives, choice of clothing and actions then come under the scrutiny of the law, family and friends, and their credibility and private life may be questioned and made public. McKenna and Cohen believe that this could be one of the reasons why rape is one of the highest underreported crimes. However, the report states that psychologists and sociologists have now found that “rape is a crime of violence, often regarded by the woman as a life-threatening act in which fear and humiliation are her dominant emotions. Sexual desire is less a motivation for the man than violent aggression.”

Academic, human rights and gender activist Rhoda Kadalie has also commented on the violent nature of men and its link to women abuse. Times Live reported that Kadalie said the high rates of unemployment and poverty would lead men to use women as “shock absorbers for their frustrations and emasculation”.

Similarly, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation released a report in 2008 that stated that social and economic changes, along with other factors, could “contribute to a pervasive sense of insecurity among men, which is likely to manifest, and may feed into, sexual violence in different ways”.

Pierre de Vos wrote in the Daily Maverick last week that, “We must take steps that would reduce the prevalence of sexual violence in our society.”

He suggests that a comprehensive educational drive needs to be established to help citizens

analyse, critique and ultimately reject the rape culture we live in. De Vos believes that South Africans focus too closely on rape and need to take a look at sexual violence as a whole. However, it is difficult to determine whether education will be able to solve violent tendencies in people. If a person is violent in their nature, it is probably linked to other circumstances that they have either grown up with or lived with for a very long time.

Although education could be used to help these people unlearn violent habits, more is needed than time in a classroom.

Any sexual offence needs to be taken seriously by the general public and government. De Vos suggests that the solution to this problem lies in basic and tertiary education. “Every institute of higher learning must be rushing to introduce a compulsory first-year course for all students, teaching them about how sex, gender, race, sexual orientation, class and disability are deployed by dominant groups to assert their power over (and to continue their subjugation of) nondominant groups,” he said. According to De Vos, education can break down stereotypes and attitudes of superiority which could lead to forcing subordination on disempowered groups.

The other prominent solution brought to the public these past few weeks is the call for the help of government and the criminal justice system.

Last week Wednesday, the Daily Maverick reported that the police ministry has called back specialised police units to deal with violent and sexual crimes as an attempt to deal with the social

problem. The ministry also told Crimeline that, “Priority is now placed on fighting crime against women, children and the elderly.” In addition to this, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe said that a task team has proposed reinstating specialised sexual offences courts and that they are looking into what resources will be needed to do so.

Kadalie has similarly called for commissioners to sit in magistrate’s courts to report on how rape cases were processed in the criminal justice process. “They should monitor police stations to see if victims are treated with dignity ... they should ensure that the number of convictions is improved upon annually and they should insist on sexual offences courts.” She added that they should cooperate with NGOs working for teachers and principals to encourage the inclusion of sex education and reproductive health in the curriculum.

The issue of rape is a complicated one and this article does not allow for it to be discussed fully. At best, perhaps, it can question popular beliefs about the psychology of rape. What truly drives people to commit an act that violates another human being?

Once people try to understand this question, proper procedures can be implemented to prevent the crime.

Next week Perdeby will be looking into students’ opinions on the matter. Why do you think people rape? And what could be a possible solution to the problem? Send in your answers to perdeby@ up.ac.za.

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Gun control: infringement or the protection of rights?

BERND FISCHER It’s a scene that has become all too familiar in recent months – it might be a CNN blast on your phone or a radio show interrupting its broadcast to bring you the breaking news: another shooting massacre has occurred in the USA. This week, Perdeby explores the contentious issue of gun control currently raging in the USA and consider whether or not it has been effective in South Africa.

According to the Firearm and Injury Center at Penn, an average of 32 300 people in the USA die every year as a result of firearm-related incidents.

Therefore, it’s not difficult to understand why Americans (and the rest of the world) consider gun violence to be a serious social concern.

In the USA, gun ownership is considered a civil right. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”.

Gallup.com, a leading news site based on US and world polls, reports that as of 2011, approximately 47% of American adults are in possession of a gun in their home or elsewhere on their property.

Even after the tragic shooting and killing of 20 first-grade pupils and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December last year, the majority of Americans still oppose stricter laws governing gun ownership.

“The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” said Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA) shortly after the attack.

The NRA is spearheading the campaign that opposes any form of gun control in the country.

While the main reason cited by Americans (and South Africans) for owning a gun is self-defence, numerous studies have shown that owning a gun increases the chances of gun-related deaths.

The question remains whether or not regulation of ownership is a successful way to solve the problem.

According to an article by Geoffrey York

published in The Globe and Mail last week, approximately 12% of South Africans own guns (whether these have been legally obtained or not remains unknown). In South Africa, owning a gun is not a given right. Here, the Firearm Control Act of 2000 along with amendments made in 2004 ensure that the possession of a firearm is not a free-for-all.

The process involves actively applying for a gun licence and passing a competency test. Other factors also play a major role in the decision, such as having a background check done, an inspection of an applicant’s premises to ensure that they have adequate safe-keeping facilities and also, sufficient motivation for the need of a firearm.

A study from the University of Philadelphia found that individuals in possession of firearms are 4.5 times more likely to be shot and 4.2 times more likely to be killed as opposed to those who

do not own a gun. In addition to this, studies conducted in 2008 by Arthur Kellermann and Matthew Miller published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that owning a gun at home increased the risk of suicide for all of those living there. A 2011 review by David Hemenway published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine confirms these findings. The reason, of course, being attributed to the fact that firearms in homes are too easily accessible, especially in the USA where there are no laws governing this.

However, just because South Africa has stricter gun laws, it doesn’t necessarily mean that there is no gun violence. York suggests that in South Africa, criminals assume that their victims own guns, so once they’ve broken into a house, their first concern is to find the owner’s gun.

York maintains that guns are the cause of death in more than half of all reported murders in SA.

He reveals that guns are used in 77% of house robberies and 87% of business robberies.

Despite these findings, spokesperson for the Ministry of Police Zweli Mnisi maintains that amendments made to the Firearm Control Act in 2004 have yielded positive results. In fact, AfricaCheck.org reported last year that gun crime in South Africa has decreased by 21%. “Tougher controls on the ownership, possession and use of firearms have seen a marked reduction in the incidence of gun-related crime in recent years,” Mnisi says. “Gun control is accordingly at the heart of the ministry’s strategy to combat violent crime,” he continues.

However, critics have been quick to respond.

“There is no way a linkage can be formed between the implementation of the Firearms Control Act and its relationship to any specific crime,” says South African Gunowners’ Association’s spokesperson Martin Hood.

Hood argues that there is a no evidence to suggest that the amendments made in 2004 have had any effect on gun crimes since the findings do not show what weapons were used in what crimes.

But Gun Free South Africa, along with the Medical Research Council (MRC), provided evidence to suggest that South Africa’s gun laws save the lives of approximately 800 women a year. Dr Naeemah Abrahams, deputy director at the MRC’s Gender and Health Research Unit, presented findings gathered from national mortuaries that show the number of women shot and killed decreased from 32% in 1999 to 17% in 2009, while other causes of death such as stabbing and strangulation remained the same.

President Obama made it clear in his State of the Union Address last week that he will continue to fight for gun control. Perhaps by following in South Africa’s footsteps, the USA could produce similar results. For now, all that is certain is that despite the many other means of violence, guns increase the risk for danger in any given situation, whether it is intentional or not.

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Androgyny: a genderless world

Andrej Pejic

BERND FISCHER Imagine a world in which gender plays no part and men and women are indistinguishable from one another. Not only do mommy and daddy dress the same but they also have no specific gender roles to fulfil. In fact, in this world, they could even be the same person and you would simply consider yourself lucky enough to have two parents.

It doesn’t take a fashion worshipper to see that the line between masculine and feminine clothing is no longer blurred, but is actually becoming non-existent. Perdeby takes a look at this trend in the fashion industry, as well as how this movement itself impacts society at large.

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The term “androgyny” refers to a blending of male and female characteristics. An androgynous person, often called an androgyne, therefore looks neither strongly male nor strongly female.

Sandra Bem, an American psychologist and one of the earliest proponents of androgyny, developed what she called The Bem Sex Role Inventory in 1971. This inventory is used to measure gender and consequently organise individuals into four gender-role orientations: masculine, feminine, androgynous or undifferentiated. The last category refers to a person who has a low level of masculine and feminine qualities as opposed to an androgynous individual who has a high level of

both.

Since androgynes believe that labels are for clothes and not for people, sexual identification terms such as heterosexuality, homosexuality and bisexuality are irrelevant to them. As genderless beings, an attraction to a person of either sex is possible.

Popular culture has adopted the concept of androgyny throughout history. According to New World Coming: the 1920s and the making of modern America, a book by Nathan Miller, the 1920s flappers are believed to be the first group of women to embrace the androgynous look.

Singer Annie Lennox exemplified the androgynous look in the 1980s with her short hair and men’s suits, but according to the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore, it was met with great criticism by society and labelled as crossdressing at the time. However, novelist Anne Rice commended the look as it “coolly jumbled all our safe ideas about gender”, which is accurate when considering that androgyny is not about cross-dressing, but instead it focuses on finding a perfect balance between the two genders.

In spite of this, society has changed its views on the matter, as was evident in 2011 when celebrity twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen wore masculine suits to the Council of Fashion Designers of America Fashion Awards and were subsequently voted best dressed of the night by Teen Vogue.

Due to its visual nature, the fashion industry has played a crucial role in changing the social response to androgyny. For example, Impact Magazine reports that designer Raf Simons, creative director at the French fashion house Christian Dior, is one of the most contemporary proponents of androgyny, and the spearheading of this campaign is evident at most, if not all, of Dior’s fashion shows since Simons’s appointment as creative director in April 2012.

Andrej Pejic, an androgynous male model, has reached supermodel status for his unique appearance. Pejic has been labelled (no pun intended) by the media as the “king of androgyny” and belongs to what The Nation calls “a new generation of male models, one that is unbiased and open to a more refined, frail, even feminine concept of maleness.”

Pejic is in high demand by top international modelling agencies and fashion houses due to his ability to be versatile. He has walked the runways of Paris, Milan and New York for men’s and women’s clothing, which of

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course would be impossible did he not meet the physical criteria expected of both male and female models.

Since gender and gender roles are largely said to be imposed upon us from a very young age, many argue that the power of the media and the fashion industry should not be undermined with regard to androgyny and its influence on mass society, as constant exposure eventually leads to acceptance of this ideal.

According to an article by Allan Carlson titled The Androgyny Hoax, published by the Population Research Institute, androgynes are regarded as the “super people” due to their free and open nature. As a result of this, Bem argues that androgynes are also shown to be more mentally healthy compared to strictly feminine or masculine people, as the pressure of specific gender performance is lifted.

Similarly, a study done by the University of Cincinnati shows that androgynous university students are better equipped in dealing with social relationships compared to those students who possess masculine or feminine qualities only.

On the other hand, not everyone agrees that androgynes are “a perfect representation of cosmic unity”, as Cosmopolitan reports.

Psychologist Ellen Cook argues that proponents of androgyny only focus on the positive aspects.

Cook argues that clinical studies, though limited, prove that androgynous individuals are dysfunctional. Other opponents simply argue that androgyny goes against the natural order of biology.

Rory du Plessis, a Visual Culture Studies lecturer at UP, argues that despite the influx of androgynous fashion, it still does not offer a critique of gender. “In sum, the androgynous fashion items assert dominant ideals of the sexed and desirable body,” du Plessis says.

Therefore, not much is being done to change the sexualisation of individuals in the media. Vibha Keswani, a fashion designer and stylist, tells the Hindustan Times, “A good piece of clothing is a good piece of clothing. Does it matter who was supposed to wear it in the first place?”

It cannot be denied that apart from the intrigue and excitement that androgyny offers the world of fashion, it also challenges our preconceived ideas about gender. Whether you embrace this trend or not is up to you. When it comes to fashion’s unpredictable nature, it’s important to keep in mind that the one day you’re in and the next day you’re out.

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Bittereinder: die masjien wil dans

MELINA MELETAKOS “Ek rap vir die eer van eerlik wees, elke lyn soos die pyn van `n geweer teen jou neus / ek weet dis als te hectic, maar ek skryf wat ek sien, Bittereinder vat jou orals soos `n dinken-dans masjien,” says Bittereinder’s Jaco van der Merwe as he spits out the lyrics of “Die Dinkdansmasjien” to a sea of smitten gangster arms in Hatfield Square.

It was the launch of PartyAt, a new mobile application that shows you where all the events and specials are happening in your area. It was also the start of RAG weekend and the audience, which consisted mostly of cherubfaced first years, was being schooled in fat beats and thought-provoking lyrics.

It’s exactly what the Afrikaans hip-hop trio hope to do with their second offering, Die Dinkdansmasjien: make you ponder their expressive lyrics and have a good time while doing so.

“Instead of it being very intellectual, conscious rap, [some] people can come to the show to party and not get into the lyrics, and other people can get into it. It offers both without detracting from the other,” says Peach van Pletzen, one half of Bittereinder’s beatmaking part of the machine.

This idea of the multi-faceted machine has loves collaborating with people who are not taken on a presence of its own, almost as if it is particularly in the hip-hop genre,” says van the invisible fourth member of the band which Pletzen. has steered Bittereinder’s sound into a slightly Cue Shane Durrant, the charismatic front man darker, more menacing direction. of indie band Desmond & The Tutus, the man “There’s this machine presence, which kind whose loony stage antics have been described of has a deep voice and I as “what Mick Jagger would be think that was kind of a capable of had he grown up running theme for a lot of “There’s this machine listening to kwela,” and probably the stuff we did. A lot of the least obvious person to appear presence, which kind on an Afrikaans rap track. the stuff is kind of hard, of has a deep voice and But rap he does, under the gritty and industrial, and a lot of it is also quite I think that was kind of alias of Kwaad Naas, the man fast,” says Louis Minnaar, who skops the track dood as he a running theme for a explains, “I grew up in the Moot, the other cog that drives lot of the stuff we did.” but my Afrikaans is limited to the beat-making piece of the machine and the man net `n paar woorde.” The song responsible for all the “Kwaad Naas”, which is about band’s visual elements. how Afrikaans and English people “I just think it often makes for us, as both slaughter each other’s languages, has producers, more sense to make a texture for become Bittereinder’s cross-over song of sorts lyrics that are slightly darker as opposed to into the English market, explains Minnaar. quirky. We did the quirky, happy thing with `n Van Pletzen agrees: “It wasn’t the plan, but Ware Verhaal and I think now we’re looking for it’s important for English people to just take something more dramatic,” says Van Pletzen. note. What they do with it is up to them. A lot of Like `n Ware Verhaal, Die Dinkdansmasjien them are now listening to the album and some boasts a number of collaborations with of them are getting into it and some aren’t, but music-industry heavyweights. “Jaco always at least they’ll give it a try.” says that part of hip hop is collaboration. He Another striking collaboration is an almost

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eight-minute-long track which features eight well-known South African writers’ thoughts on a particular subject. The impressive list consists of The Buckfever Underground’s Toast Coetzee, Hunter Kennedy, Ilze Ontong, MJ du Preez, Andries Bezuidenhout, Mavis Vermaak and Tom Gouws.

Were the Bittereinder boys worried about the risk involved in making a track so different to anything they, and anyone else really, has ever done before? “If you make an entire album of three-and-a-half-minute singles and hits, three, four months later, there’s nothing to hold onto.

I felt ‘Regstreeks’ gave the album a certain depth and that’s very important,” explains van Pletzen.

One thing that certainly hasn’t changed is Bittereinder’s ability to put on an unmatched live performance (they have been nominated for Best Live Act at this year’s MK Awards). How can Bittereinder convince their fans to vote for them? “We’ll come to every little town and play a personal thank-you show, whether it’s to 30 people or 300 or 3 000,” says Van Pletzen with a smile.

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Smoke Swig Swear: rock ‘n’ roll Beast unleashed

MELINA MELETAKOS Taxi Violence drummer Louis Nel and guitarist Rian Zietsman wondered what a rock band would sound like if they ditched the electric guitar and had two basses instead. They plugged one of the basses into a guitar amp creating, rather ingeniously, a quick, formidable punch of grunge-laden rock ‘n’ roll.

They needed an indispensable backbone for their sound and so invited drummer Sasha Righini of The Plastics fame to join them.

Knowing they wanted a female vocalist, Nel and Zietsman then approached Lark’s mesmeric siren, Inge Beckmann, to polish off their creation.

The result of this deliciously dark sonic experiment? The musically brazen creature that is Beast was unleashed.

Now, after teasing audiences around the country with their ferocious sound, they have finally released their free debut album, Smoke Swig Swear.

“And all the idols will topple over / And the fair maidens will be reformed / And all the men will know their worth when earth implodes,” intones Beckmann menacingly on “Hand of God”, an ill-omened foreboding about the wicked ways of mankind.

On “Fill The Hole”, we are introduced to a boisterous Beckmann who masterfully manipulates her usual operatic voice to scream and howl, to yelp and shout. The song also uncovers the hypnotic front woman’s impeccable songwriting skills in a series of chilling commands that are set against an aggressive force of guitars.

Title track of the album “Smoke Swig Swear” takes you on a contemplative stroll through town while “Walls” is a vertigoinducing guitar frenzy that speaks of a self-consuming desire for freedom as Beckmann incites, “Kick down the door. Make space for more and rise.”

Make no mistake in thinking that you will find sweet songs that encourage a forest of swaying lighters on Smoke Swig Swear.

It’s all about frenetic slabs of raw, unadulterated music that grabs you by the shoulders and shakes you savagely before delivering a stinging slap across the face and heading for the door.

Beast is the sound of brooding in a bar that smells of stale cigarettes and beer-infused sweat, the sound of waking up in a bizarre place the next day, and the sound of no regret.

It’s hot and it’s dirty, and best of all, it’s a command to let loose and indulge in some guiltless abandon.

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Broken hearts and indie synthesisers MELISSA PARSONS Quirky Canadian twins, Tegan and Sara, take audiences back to the 80s with their seventh studio album Heartthrob. The lyrical content of the album comes together a bit like the diary entries of a naïve heartbroken teenager. The twins have nevertheless produced a unique indie-pop listening experience that will grow on you after the first listen.

Heartthrob lacks vocal intensity and it feels like neither girl wanted to outshine the other. The bite-sized 37-minute album is a compilation of stereotypical love songs backed by keyboard melodies that leave the listener craving a decent guitar riff or at least a solid bass line. The album is an easy listen if you aren’t focusing on the depressing lyrics.

The album’s opening track “Closer” is a disappointment as the vocals dart up and down irritatingly with no real impact. This should not discourage listeners from continuing though, as there are a few pleasant surprises hidden beneath the surface of the repetitive electro on Heartthrob. The duo ensured that listeners would empathise with their lyrics by singing about the only thing that everyone has felt and lost: love.

“I Was A Fool” showcases the vocal harmony that the sisters are capable of against the backdrop of a soulful piano melody.

“I’m Not Your Hero” is reminiscent of Gwen Stefani’s early solo work but without the catchy beats. The cheeky vocals and synth in “I Couldn’t Be Your Friend” are almost a mirror image of Katy Perry’s sound on Teenage Dream. Heartbreak is palpable on this track as the sisters explain why it’s impossible to be friends with an ex-lover.

The confusing thing about this album is that the sisters not only look the same but sound the same too. The constant layering of sugary vocals gets tedious around track five as the twins repeat “and it drove me wild” over and over again. You can get a peek behind the scenes of the making of Heartthrob in the eightvideo series entitled Carpool Confessional which documents the

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The upbeat pop melodies and pensive lyrics of Heartthrob are contradictory and leave the listener wondering what point the twins were trying to make. Despite this, there is something good to be found in each track whether it be a comforting lyric for the heartbroken or a catchy chorus to dance to.

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HEIN PAPENFUS The internet has been buzzing with talk about this gripping and, some would say, flawed movie. Even US senator John McCain has joined in on the banter by commenting on the depicted CIA torture techniques. It seems everyone has an opinion about this movie and, with no shortage of offended parties, expect to hear the words Zero Dark Thirty on many lips.

Katherine Bigelow directs this dramatisation of the tenyear man hunt conducted by the CIA, more specifically by resolute CIA agent Maya, in search of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre. Bigelow, who also directed The Hurt Locker, reels the audience in with a methodical build-up of intricate characters and a plot most people used to follow in small doses via world news. The look and style of the visuals also add very well to the general feeling of reality that one sees on screen, transporting the viewer into dusty and dangerous Pakistan.

Jessica Chastain, who plays Maya, is nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Actress – this follows her winning a Golden Globe in the same category for this film. Maya, who is Chastain’s composite depiction of two actual female CIA agents, doggedly pursues any and every lead relating to the location and possible apprehension of bin Laden, sometimes overcome by desperation. This desperation is clear when she turns on the steely resolve even when confronted with the barbaric torture of captured al-Qaeda operatives.

With four Golden Globe nominations and four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress, this film is a must-see. Even though it is tainted by the endless American drawl associated with the subject of “war on terror” over the past decade, this might be an appropriate ending to what is probably not the last chapter of the jihad story. With many historical inaccuracies pointed out, it is perhaps not wise to view the movie as a documentary but rather as it was intended: a dramatisation. In that category it does very well indeed, provoking much thought afterwards and the inevitable googling of actual events.

Zero Dark Thirty is currently screening in cinemas nationwide.

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First years impress at Ienk Athletics

NATALIE THOMPSON Tuks’s many residences came together last week Thursday to compete in the 2013 Ienk Athletics. Maroela’s Gerhard de Beer delivered a stand-out performance during the first event of the night, the men’s discus, throwing a distance

of 53.24m. De Beer won a bronze medal at last year’s IAAF World Junior Championships with a distance of 61.57m.

Vividus Ladies stood out on the track with their runners winning nearly every race they competed in and dominating the relays at the end of the night.

Kollege stole attention from the field with antics that often interfered with the events. They were eventually asked by angry officials to leave the field.

In another incident, a Jasmyn resident collapsed after a race and was taken to hospital by an ambulance. A Boekenhout student

suffered from a severe asthma attack after competing in a 200m sprint heat.

The final results for the evening saw Sonop, Vividus Men and Maroela placing first, second and third respectively. In the ladies’ results, Vividus Ladies, Klaradyn and Curlitzia were placed first, second and third respectively.

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ZENNA MULLER Die jaarlikse TuksStoei Challenge toernooi is op Saterdag 9 Februarie in die Rembrandtsaal op die UP Sportkampus gehou.

Die toernooi was geskeduleer om 09:00 te begin, maar as gevolg van onbeplande onderbrekings en die webblad se aanlyninskrywingstelsel wat Donderdagaand ineengestort het, kon die kompetisie eers teen 10:45 begin.

Ockie Pienaar, `n Tuks stoeier, het aan Perdeby gesê dat daar tegniese probleme met die drukkers was. Pienaar het bygevoeg dat hierdie probleme `n uitsondering was en dat TuksStoei se toernooie gewoonlik stiptelik is en glad verloop.

Die toernooi se organiseerders was self nie beïndruk met die verloop van sake nie. Volgens Pienaar was daar ook `n botsing met SA Stoei se reëlings vir verpligte opleidingskursusse vir beamptes van sekere provinsies, nadat die datum van die toernooi reeds vasgestel is.

Die Challenge toernooi is een van die grootstes landwyd (nou ook internasionaal) en is ook die eerste kompetisie op die stoeikalender.

Klubs regoor die land is uitgenooi om aan die toernooi deel te neem en ongeveer 430 stoeiers

het teen mekaar te staan gekom. `n Turkse stoeispan het ook aan die kompetisie deelgeneem.

Stoeiers neem deel in verskillende gewigskategorieë waarin hul met verskeie style soos Grieks-Romeins (slegs bo-lyf stoei waar geen beenaanvalle toegelaat word nie) en vrystyl kompeteer.

Elke wedstryd bestaan uit drie rondtes van twee minute elk, met `n 30-sekonde breuk tussen-in. Die deelnemer wat die meeste punte tydens die rondtes kry, wen die wedstryd en beweeg na die volgende rondte toe. Die uiteindelike wenners word dan in `n eliminasierondte beslis. Medaljes is aan die eerste drie plekke in elke gewigskategorie toegeken.

Tuks het twee eerste plekke en een tweede plek in die junior vrystylafdeling behaal. Vier eerste plekke, een tweede en een derde plek is in die senior vrystylafdeling behaal. In die senior Grieks-Romeinse-afdeling het Tuks `n eerste plek in die 55-60kg kategorie behaal.

Pienaar het aan Perdeby gesê dat hulle na elke kompetisie beter probeer doen as in die vorige een en hulself so toets.

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Europe showcased its best football talent last week as the continent’s top teams played the first leg in the last 16 of the UEFA (the Union of European Football Association) Champions League.

Celtic lost 3-0 at home to Juventus on Tuesday. Alessandro Matri scored for the Italian team in the first five minutes of the match after a mix-up between centre back Efe Ambrose and goalkeeper Fraser Forster. Celtic midfielder Kris Commons has criticised Ambrose in the media, publicly blaming him for the loss. Commons told British newspaper The Guardian, “There were certain individuals who let the team down.

The back four have made errors which probably cost us the tie.”

Matri dealt the Irish team another blow when he set up Claudio Marchisio’s 77th-minute goal.

Mirko Vucinic scored Juventus’s third goal in the last ten minutes of the match.

In Tuesday’s other fixture, hosts Valencia lost 1-2 to Paris Saint-Germain. The Parisian team controlled the match, with Ezequiel Lavezzi and Javier Pastore scoring in the first half to give them a 2-0 lead. Adil Rami managed to score for Valencia in the last minute of normal playing time. PSG’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic was shown a red card moments later. Ibrahimovic will not be able to play for PSG in the return fixture on 6 March, but manager Carlo Ancelotti will be hoping that new signing David Beckham

(who did not play due to a lack of match fitness) will be available for selection.

Shakhtar Donetsk played to a 2-2 draw to Borussia Dortmund. The home side was leading 2-1 with three minutes to go after goals from Darijo Srna and Douglas Costa. Mats Hummels scored a header to give Dortmund a well-deserved equaliser. Robert Lewandowski scored the Bundesliga champions’ first goal.

Real Madrid and Manchester United drew Wednesday’s second game. Sergio Ramos, Madrid’s captain for the match, has admitted that he made a mistake to allow Danny Welbeck to score United’s goal. While taking the blame for the goal, Ramos said that the English team was fortunate to have been awarded the corner that resulted in Welbeck’s header. “He got the better of me but it was not a corner in the first place, that is certain,” he said in a press conference after the match. Cristiano Ronaldo scored against his former club ten minutes later.

Although Madrid dominated for most of the match, United had more opportunities to score a winner. They go into the second leg of the fixture with a valuable away goal.

The remaining four matches of this round of the Champions League will be played this week, with Barcelona’s game against AC Milan and Bayern Munich’s game against Arsenal being the most eagerly anticipated. In the other fixtures, Schalke play Galatasaray and Malaga host FC Porto.

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DAN LOMBARD FNB UP-Tuks beat FNB UCT 24-16 at the Tuks Rugby Stadium last Monday. The team bounced back and scored three tries after a first-round loss to FNB NWU-Pukke the previous week.

Although on the losing side, UCT dominated most of the first 40 minutes of the game. Tuks had to rely on a resolute defence to keep the visitors at bay. Tuks’s Jean Cook scored the only try of the first half when he scored off the back of a rolling maul. Tian Schoeman added the conversion and Tuks went into half time

with an 8-0 lead.

The second half proved to be better for Tuks.

Shaun Adendorff scored a try early in the half, with Schoeman successfully converting it.

UCT continued to apply pressure and hooker Michael Willemse spun out of a tackle to crash over for a well-deserved try. Ross Jones-Davies converted it to reduce the gap to 16-8.

Rock-solid defence from Tuks saw UCT lose the ball five metres from Tuks’s try line after a promising attack from UCT. Courtnall Skosan pounced on the loose ball and ran 95m to score under the posts. Baby Bok flyhalf Handre

Pollard converted the try to give Tuks a 24-8 lead.

UCT scored late in the match after a team effort enabled Dillyn Leyds to beat Clayton Blommetjies to score. Leyds converted, pushing the score to 24-16 and allowing UCT to finish the match with a bonus point.

Although the Tuks team produced a much improved performance for the first home game of the tournament, mistakes and missed opportunities cost the defending champions points again. Derick Hougaard, Tuks kicking coach and former Springbok and Blue Bulls

flyhalf, said, “There is so much talent in this team. If they can click into gear they will be a very special unit. There are still a few things that need work on, but you don’t peak in February.”

Tuks’s stand-in captain Wian Liebenberg agreed with Hougaard. “The game was very frustrating as we had a lot of opportunities that we didn’t use. We need to work on these in order to be ready for the Shimlas game next Monday,” he told Perdeby.

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Arrows too sharp for AmaTuks ISHMAEL MOHLABE The University of Pretoria dropped important points when they lost 2-0 to Golden Arrows in a thrilling Premier Soccer League encounter at Absa Tuks Stadium last Wednesday. Bongi Ntuli from Golden Arrows produced a man-ofthe-match performance as he scored in each half to help steer his team away from the relegation zone.

The hosts started the match as the better of the two sides. An early cross from Dumisani Ngwenya found Mame Niang, whose header was on target, forcing Arrows goalkeeper Pavel Steinbors to produce the first save of the game. Steinbors was called into action again four minutes later when Siyabonga Ngubane connected with Ayanda Lubelo’s low cross.

Steinbors produced an excellent save to give AmaTuks a corner.

AmaTuks goalkeeper Washington Arubi did not have much to worry about for most of the first half as his teammates controlled possession. Just after the half-hour mark, AmaTuks started to sit at the back and Arrows started to look strong enough to threaten their defence. Ntlantla Zothwane’s 30-yard shot saw

Arubi produce a superb save in the 37th minute.

AmaTuks seemed to have lost momentum in the last five minutes before the interval.

Miscommunication between Arubi and his defenders allowed Arrows to score an easy goal. Ntuli was left unmarked and sent the ball

into the open goal to put the visitors ahead.

AmaTuks coach Steve Barker said that the goal “was unacceptable”. “We lacked a little bit of mental alertness and mental sharpness,” he said.

AmaTuks came close to levelling the score in the 10th minute of the second half when Petrus

Shithembu set up Thabo Mosadi with a goal opportunity. Mosadi played the ball one-on-one against Steinbors, but could not produce a goal.

AmaTuks continued to demonstrate a sense of urgency as they looked for an equaliser and Lubelo made another attempt on goal.

Senegalese-born Niang saw his powerful header go just off-target.

After 89 minutes, Ntuli put the game beyond doubt by scoring his second goal. The goal, which came from a Thamsanga Gabuza cross, sealed the three points for Arrows.

Barker admitted that his side did not perform well enough to win the game. After the match, he told the media, “We went a little bit flat before half time. We didn’t do enough to win it.”

AmaTuks will be looking to get back to their winning ways when they host Moroka Swallows on Wednesday. Barker goes into this clash knowing that his side will have to produce a better performance than what they displayed in their game against Arrows. “We need to play better. We have got a lot more to offer than we have shown,” he said.

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