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No more parking on Lynnwood Road

MARGEAUX ERASMUS Students will no longer be able to park on Lynnwood Road in future.

In a ward meeting held last week Tuesday, members of Tshwane municipality explained that a new bus system was going to be implemented in Hatfield that will include dedicated bus lanes.

The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system will run from the Central Business District (CBD) through to Lynnwood Road, Menlyn and Mamelodi. According to the City of Tshwane website “the BRT systems enhance bus efficiency through segregated bus lanes, designs that make boarding and exiting buses quick, bus priority at intersections and effective coordination at stations and terminals.”

Charl Oberholzer, National AfriForum Youth Chairperson, told Perdeby, “In order to do this the road needs to be widened, which means that student parking will be affected.”

The project is currently in the public consultation stage.

Oberholzer said that, “I requested, as a member of the Ward 82 committee, that they supply a plan that will make up for the loss in parking,” but added that, “It seems that there [are few] alternatives and that students will probably lose the parking on both sides of the roads in Lynnwood.”

Deputy Director of Planning and Administration at UP Hennie Coetzee said that, “Parking on Lynnwood Road [has been] used by students over many years. [However] it was [always] the intention of the city council to do some work in the road reserve and that this parking on both sides of Lynnwood road will eventually not be available for parking.”

Professor Antonie de Klerk, the Executive Director of UP, told Perdeby that, “[W]e (the university) have indeed been engaged in discussions on this (the BRT system) with the CoT (City of Tshwane) for some time.” He said that, “The planned route in Lynnwood Road will lead to the loss of on-street parking,” and added that, “This is certainly unfortunate and the university is aware of the implications this will have for students.”

According to Prof. De Klerk, “[I]n recognition of the growing need for parking and the future loss of on-street parking, the university has already proactively undertaken two major initiatives.”

These initiatives include the construction of the Engineering 3 Parkade which provides about 650 parking bays for students and the introduction of park-and-ride facilities on the Groenkloof and the sports campuses.

Prof. De Klerk said that, “The BRT will introduce additional

public transport and students will be encouraged to use this new option.”

“The university will also continue to pursue and develop parking solutions for students as funding and priorities permit,” he added.

“A new long-term campus master plan is currently under development and parking has been recognised as one of the important requirements. The university receives no funding from government for the development of parking facilities and is dependant on its own resources for this purpose,” Prof. De Klerk said.

The City of Tshwane wrote on their website that, “[T]he first phase [of the BRT system], stretching from Nana Sita Street (formerly Skinner Street) in the CBD to the suburb of Hatfield, will be operational in April 2014. Overall, the entire BRT system should be completed and operational by October 2015.”

Oberholzer said that another meeting is taking place this Wednesday to further discuss the issue.

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Editorial

17 September ‘12

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Does it bother anyone else that wisdom – the kind of wisdom traditionally stolen by a cocky young traveler (with blood, sweat and guile) from an old, bearded sage sitting astride an impossibly high mountain – has become a twenty-first century commodity? Easy insight for the fast food age without the hassle of experience, understanding or learning. People want wisdom and they want it now, without actually working for it. Which is how things like self help books and new age gurus and talk

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shows were born – where you can the benefit from someone else’s so-called wisdom. Except that in most cases the people pandering their pseudo Oprah-style philosophies are hardly ever the modern equivalent of an old guy on a hill.

They’re more interested in bite sized nuggets of repackaged common sense that they can sell to unsuspecting masses.

Like: if you want something, go and get it.

Or if you want to be happy, all you have to do is decide to be happy. Or if you’re unhappy, change the things in your life making you so unhappy. It is exactly these kinds of obvious sound bites that have made The Secret and Eat, Pray, Love so incomprehensibly successful and has forced me to ask the question: can people really be that naïve?

I suppose it’s the same kind of mentality that responds to those silly inspirational quotes on sugar packets.

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”

Wait, what?

Let’s try again: “Before you say anything, ask yourself, is it kind, is it wise, is it true?”

And again: “Shoot for the moon and if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”

And once more, with feeling: “Believe as

though you are, and you will be.”

Well thank you, Captain Obvious. That wasn’t useful or funny or particularly clever. In fact, what the hell does that even mean? And there it is: cheap, easy wisdom; advice on the back of a sugar packet.

Seriously?

Here’s the deal: to my mind, wisdom needs to be earned. Wisdom is the result of knowledge gained via experience. There is no form of wisdom that could be – or should be – instant.

This, when you think about it, is what the old guy on the mountain ultimately ends up teaching the cocky young traveler anyway. Has no one learnt anything from Yoda?

In other news, this is the last edition for a few weeks, what with public holidays and the October break coming up. Hopefully we have enough in this week’s edition to sate your everpresent thirst for campus news until we return for our last few editions of the year in October.

If not, keep an eye on the website and Twitter.

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17 September ‘12 News 3 Bus services to areas around campus might be viable KEVIN VAN DER LIST SRC transport survey results indicated that students are interested in using a bus service that would operate between Hatfield campus and the neighbouring areas.

The survey ran for a month and gauged the demand for a bus service to operate from main campus to Arcadia, Sunnyside, Hatfield and Muckleneuk.

After reports of students sleeping on campus due to a lack of affordable transport and nearby accommodation surfaced, the SRC launched the survey hoping to establish how big the need for a bus service is.

The survey was completed by 916 students with the majority of the respondents living in Hatfield (34%), Arcadia (29%), Sunnyside (28%) and Muckleneuk (9%).

Here are a few statistics from the survey: • 92% of the sample said that they would be interested in a bus service to the four areas.

• 82% of the respondents were willing to pay R3,00 per bus trip.

• Just under 60% of the students walked to campus.

• 82% sometimes walked back home late at night.

• 46% of the respondents said they would want the bus service to run hourly.

According to Jordan Griffiths, SRC member for Transport, Justice and Constitutions, the SRC are hoping to implement the bus service during October and November this year. They are looking to run two 130-seater buses for these two months. The buses will depart from UP’s main entrance to the chosen areas.

Griffiths added, “Clearly, from the survey, there are lots of students living around the university who walk to classes and would benefit greatly from a bus service. Essentially, our goal is that with the extended times in the library, students will be able to stay on campus to study longer hours and not have to worry about getting home.” He hoped that students who have to walk home in the evenings will no longer have to do this. “It is just not safe,” he said.

Deputy Director of Facilities Management Wessel Oosthuizen said UP is analysing the data from the survey. “The SRC and UP are in close and continuous consultation to establish the viability of a bus service to the residential areas around the Hatfield campus,” he said.

Oosthuizen added that it is difficult to say when the bus service will be implemented and that “UP will always strive to provide for the needs of students in cases where the merit of the requirement of certain services can be proven and [where funds are available].”

Griffith’s said that funding was one of the biggest concerns.

According to the SRC’s proposal to Facilities Management, transport services have said that the bus service will be “difficult to

implement because the issue of where the buses would run would have to be determined.”

The survey’s respondents indicated that they would want the bus service’s route to include Park, Beckett, Jorrissen, Arcadia, Lunnon, Esselen, Walker and Schoeman streets.

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Official launch of the Prinshof walkway

AMY-MAE CAMPBELL The Faculty of Health Sciences officially opened the Prinshof campus parking area, walkway and recreational facilities last week Wednesday at the HW Snyman parking lot.

According to Professor Gerhard Lindeque, chairperson at the UP School of Medicine, the Prinshof walkway was developed to guide students on Prinshof campus safely from the HW Snyman lecture building on campus to the parking area next to it. Lindeque explained that in the past these two areas were separate and closed off from one another and students had to walk outside of campus to get to their vehicles. The footpath now links the Prinshof campus directly to the parking facilities so that students can walk to and from campus safely at any given time.

The parking facility originally formed part of the Tshwane District Hospital’s property and according to Prof. Lindeque,

staff from the faculty realised how useful it would be as a student parking area as many students had to park on the side of the road.

The Department of Higher Education gave the faculty a grant to develop the property. Prof. Lindeque said that they decided to use the remainder of the budget for recreational facilities such as tennis courts and a soccer field and upgraded an old building on the property into a medical workshop to accommodate the Prinshof campus students.

Various SRC members were present at the launch. Head of UP External Campuses Claudette Veldhuizen said that the SRC started an “I love external campuses” initiative recently, aimed at making students on UP’s external campuses feel included. This initiative includes annual SRC Days on each campus. The Prinshof SRC Day formed part of the launch.

Veldhuizen said that the initiative wants “to enhance SRC presence on external campuses.” She added that the initiative

Tuks student accused of murder DANIELLE PETTERSON

A Tuks student has been charged with murder after allegedly killing his girlfriend, also a Tuks student.

The victim, a 22-year-old final-year law student, was found dead at her family home in Fourways on 6 September. The accused 23-year-old is also a final-year law student.

According to Gauteng police spokesperson, Captain Pinky Tsinyane, the accused was arrested in Hatfield the day after the victim’s body was discovered. He was driving the victim’s car at the time.

He appeared in court last Monday and is scheduled to reappear in court today. Tsinyane would not reveal further

information but said that the investigation was ongoing.

IOL News reported that a fight allegedly broke out between the two during which he strangled her, ransacked her home and made off in the victim’s car. The suspect allegedly parked the vehicle in an underground parking lot in Sunnyside for two days and was arrested shortly after retrieving it.

A statement released by the university says that the Hawks Police Unit informed UP about the “tragic incident” on 7 September. UP will continue to assist the police investigation if requested to. “We extend our sincere condolences to the family of the victim and will render all possible support to them during this difficult time.”

Eduxtras replaces TuksMobi AMY-MAE CAMPBELL

The UP mobile payment initiative, TuksMobi, has been replaced by a new smartcard management system called Eduxtras. This card will enable students to manage loans or purchase certain products on and off campus.

Eduloan, an education finance and bursary fund company, together with UP agreed to implement Eduxtras instead of TuksMobi because it offers more benefits. Tuks students do not have to carry cash on them or wait in ATM queues. All they have to do is swipe their Eduxtras card to purchase items, without any transaction costs. Students can use this card at several off-campus vendors as well. “It is not restricted to on-campus merchants, but the business must offer services to students and be approved by Tuks,” explained Michelle Branco, Chief Marketing Officer at Eduloan.

Branco explained that although Eduxtras does not have the mobile interface that TuksMobi had, it has better resources and technology available to manage an electronic platform.

Deon Herbst, Chief Executive Officer of Enterprises at the University of Pretoria Trust, confirmed this statement and described Eduxtras’s services as more advanced and inclusive.

He is confident that Eduxtras will satisfy the same needs as TuksMobi did.

“Eduxtras provides a wallet facility for books, food, accommodation, tuition, plus a savings account. Eduloan also provides student loans and financing for tuition fees and purchasing of laptops,” Herbst said.

Branco added that by registering with Eduxtras, Eduloan also offers repayment options at extremely affordable and fixed interest rates for the duration of the loan period. Loans can be paid back either through a salary deduction or via a debit order. Students can also use any bank account to manage their card.

Branco advised that since TuksMobi has already been replaced, existing TuksMobi users can request to have their funds transferred into their bank accounts or directly onto an Eduxtras card. However, in order to transfer funds onto a card, TuksMobi members need to upgrade to Eduxtras’s services.

Students can upgrade by going to the TuksMobi offices in the Student Centre and can collect their cards afterwards at the Eduloan helpdesk in the Piazza.

Branco explained that each student will receive a unique account number which can be used as a reference for future fund deposits, “This will ensure that funds will always be allocated to the right account,” she said.

Funds can be loaded onto the card at the Eduloan helpdesk or by transferring funds from your bank account. It takes approximately 24 hours before the funds can be used.

“TuksMobi has been replaced by a new smartcard management system called Eduxtras.”

aims to let students know that the SRC is available to help them when needed and that they want to make external campuses feel part of Tuks.

Madine Joubert, a second-year nursing student at Prinshof campus, told Perdeby that the SRC Day “makes us feel equal to the standards of the other campuses. We feel like we have a student life as well and don’t just study.”

Dean of Health Sciences, Prof. Eric Buch, said that the opening of these facilities is one of many more Prinshof campus developments, including additional lecture halls, parking bays and cafeterias, which are in place for next year.

“I hope this facility adds to that sense of togetherness that we (the faculty) are committed to displaying,” Prof. Buch said.

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Intervarsity news FRANCOIS VAN DER WESTHUIZEN Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University A team of students built a solar powered racing car, the Photon, to compete in the South African Solar Challenge from 18 to 29 September.

A number of South African and international teams will compete in this 5000km race across South Africa.

Clive Hands, the project leader, said, “Our team has local and international students from multiple faculties, all volunteers, and they’ve all been part of this project since it started in May last year.” He added, “We’ve designed the car to be as light as possible, using composites for both the monocoque (a type of construction where the body is integral with the chassis) and the body, and we’ve used computer flow dynamic techniques to make the shape as aerodynamic as possible, reducing drag to a minimum.” It took 18 months for the students to build the car.

Volkswagen South Africa provided financial assistance to the students. Tom du Plessis, Director of Production at Volkswagen South Africa, said, “Renewable energy will play a significant role in the future of the motor industry and, by taking part in a project like this, these students will gain valuable knowledge that they can bring into the engineering field.”

Durban University of Technology Shrivar Sewjee, a mechanical engineering student, slipped into a coma two weeks ago after a night out clubbing.

Cocaine was found in his body.

Sewjee was an anti-drug activist and gave regular talks to students warning them about the dangers of drugs. He died on 6 September when his life support machine was switched off at the Entabeni Hospital in Durban.

Ashleigh Bhanjan, a neurologist at Entabeni Hospital, said, “I can’t draw any conclusions from this. All the test shows is that the drug was ingested.”

His parents believe that his drink was spiked at Sasha Nightclub in Greyville two weeks ago. Club owner Alex Peltz told The Mercury, “We have excellent security and the entire club is monitored by cameras.” Peltz explained that they have never had an incident like this before.

Sewjee’s friends said that they did not see him take any drugs but that he was socialising with a group of people that they were unfamiliar with.

Sewjee’s parents reported their suspicions that their son’s drink was spiked to the police. The police declined to comment on the matter.

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17 September ‘12

Long distance love: is it worth it?

MEAGAN DILL You know the story – boy meets girl, they go on a few dates (planning to keep it casual) but before they know it, they’re falling in love. Oops. General risk of heartbreak aside, this starts to get complicated when (as is the case for many university students) a cross-country or even cross-continental move is imminent come graduation day. Is a long distance

relationship a viable option or does it only end in a break-up?

Perdeby investigates.

A July 2012 statistic shows that there are 14 million people in the US who regard themselves as being in a long distance relationship. Furthermore, 32,5% of all college relationships in the US are long distance. This can partially be attributed to the fact that there tends to be a tradition of “going away to college” in America, but long distance still applies to plenty of South African university students – such as those in a relationship with an older partner who works in another city, or a younger partner still in school back home. The same set of statistics claims that 40% of all long distance relationships end as a result of the distance.

Although there tends to be a stigma that long distance relationships often end in failure, experts say there are certain things that can be done to increase the chances of such a relationship’s survival. Often the most obvious problem with a long distance relationship is the lack of physical closeness and intimacy, and this can eventually lead to one or both partners being tempted to wander. However, there are ways to ease this frustration. Candidly, clinical psychologist Dr Rob Dobrenski explains, “Loneliness will happen but it is important that you acknowledge and attempt to alleviate those feelings. Phone sex works wonders!”

Fortunately, technology is constantly progressing and long distance lovers have not been forgotten. For the, um, adventurous long distance couple, applications like Vibease for Android (iPhone version currently in development) can help lessen the loneliness of distance. The device allows one partner to experience various vibrations via a massager which is controlled by a second partner using the application on their phone. There is no limit to the distance between the two partners for the app to work, making it the perfect way for a long-distance couple to feel close.

But distance, of course, is more than just a physical concern. Without regular face-to-face bonding time, a couple can easily drift apart. Text messages get misinterpreted, phone calls get interrupted, and after a while, this can start to take its toll. Tom Scheve, writing for Discovery Health, points out, “A relationship can morph into a voice-and-text situation that assumes its own shape, making it somewhat strange when a

Department for Education Innovation Survey of the Learning Experience of Undergraduate Students (SLEUS) 2012 The university is interested in what its final-year students think of their total experience at UP. A survey was thus designed to poll students by the unit for Higher Education Research and Innovation (HERI). The survey is open online during the second semester each year, usually in October.

In completing this survey the final-year students give the University of Pretoria feedback on the quality of their experience at UP during the course of their studies.

The final year students who respond to the questionnaire are entered into a lucky draw to win the latest smartphone.

Sarah Ramage was randomly selected as the winner of the Nokia C7_00 prize for participating in the Survey of the Learning Experience of Undergraduate Students (SLEUS) for 2011. Sarah was a final-year student in Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, registered for a BSc: Chemistry programme. She has taken a post at her former school as a Mathematics teacher and is planning to enrol for a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGCE) as a part-time student.

The university thanks all the students who participated in the survey last year. Their feedback will contribute to UP’s continual improvement in the services that it offers to its students.

Below is a photograph of Sarah Ramage claiming her prize at the Vodacom shop in Brooklyn Mall with two of HERI staff Dr Juan-Claude Lemmens and Ms Hlengiwe Sehlapelo, and Ms Sune Bester, Assistant manage.

couple actually spends time together in person after a long absence.” Video calling programs like Skype may help with this problem, although it still can’t truly substitute hanging out in person. For this reason, experts recommend visits as regularly as is possible. Psychotherapist Dr Barton Goldsmith explains, “Touching keeps the brain chemicals like oxytocin (also known as the cuddle hormone) and serotonin flowing through our brains and bodies. When you don’t get to connect, it’s harder to feel the love because you’re not able to produce enough [of] these happiness chemicals to make you feel good and most people start to look for ways to get their ‘brainchemical fix’ from those who are physically available.”

A number of Tuks students interviewed expressed a positive attitude about long distance relationships. Third-year BA student Anjelica Lamprecht says, “I tried with two guys and it was harder than a normal relationship, but if you want it to work, it will. Now I’m in a mid-distance one – it’s a case of seeing him on weekends. We live in different towns and most people share this situation.” Considering that Pretoria is only an hour or two away from other towns and cities like Johannesburg and Potchefstroom, it does seem likely that such “mid-distance” relationships are fairly common. The reduced distance between such partners can make mid-distance relationships slightly more manageable than long distance relationships where weekly visits are not possible.

While it is clear that long distance relationships can be emotionally taxing, putting in the effort to keep the relationship alive can pay off. There are even some who may find a long-distance relationship ideal. In his article, Shreve writes, “There is one type of person who does well with long distance communication: the man or woman who truly values his or her own space (and a lot of it), but also wants to nurture a connection with a loved one.”

Perhaps one of the most vital things to take into a long distance relationship is, quite simply, a positive attitude.

When asked if he would ever consider being in a long distance relationship, third-year LLB student Darius Zeederberg says, “I would. It’s hard work, but a great story to tell one day when it works out, not if it works out. I call it commitment.”

Illustration: Simon Kai-Garvie

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17 September ‘12 Features 7 Astrology demystified: how the fortune cookie crumbles LUSANDA FUTSHANE When was the last time you had your palms read and took the reading seriously, or played the lottery numbers that a fortune cookie suggested? Have you ever actually made an important life decision based on an answer a Magic 8-ball gave you? Most people are likely to say that they don’t believe in these things. So here’s one last question: when was the last time you read your horoscope and beamed at the prospect of finding new love or sighed woefully at a prediction of a turbulent future? Chances are that it wasn’t that long ago – maybe even this morning? Or five minutes ago? This week, Perdeby separates fact from fiction and investigates the ever-persistent popularity of astrology and horoscopes.

Astrology began around the third millennium BCE as a way of making sense of the cosmos.

But as our understanding of the universe developed, astrology (along with other former sciences like alchemy) was rejected and replaced with more factual studies like meteorology and mainstream astronomy. Today, western astrology is almost completely limited to the reading of celestial bodies (the sun, the moon, constellations and planets) and using that information to explain human behaviour and predict the future in the form of horoscopes.

Horoscopes have been printed in magazines and newspapers for over eight decades. They are a popular feature in most publications.

People even pay to have personalised horoscopes and one-on-one readings with professional astrologers. Why, in a century where even religion is being called into question, is a pseudo-science like astrology still thriving? Dr Chris French, a psychology professor at Goldsmiths, University of London and Editor-in-Chief of British magazine The Skeptic, offers the theory that astrologers

prey on people’s insecurities by using vague and generalised predictions that might seem specific to people simply because they needed to hear them. “Take someone in an unhappy relationship: they know they should leave – but hearing they’ve got a difficult few months but will come through gives them courage.” He adds that people are drawn to horoscopes not because they trust the science behind them, but because they might lack control in their own lives and thus desperately rely on any form of guidance.

Jonathan Cainer, a horoscope writer for the Daily Mail, is quick to defend astrology, calling it “a belief system with very rigid dogma”. He explains, “Saturn means restriction and Jupiter

expansion. It’s scientific in as much as we have to have accurate planetary positions. But it’s a form of divination, a glorious blending of occult and science.” Cainer has an annual turnover of around £2 million (approximately R26 million) from his horoscope writing.

What are the chances that everyone born between the 20th of April and the 20th of May is stubborn and temperamental? That no matter what sort of upbringing you have, you’re cursed with the personality that you were born with, a personality that you share identically with a twelfth of the world’s population?

Are all Tauruses going to “make a new start and reassess a friendship” today? Despite how chancy horoscopes appear, there are still

people who have absolute faith in them. Sarah Brightman, a first-year BSc Chemistry student, says that not all horoscopes are true, but some of them certainly are. “It’s the first thing I do every morning. Susan Miller is an excellent [astrologer] and her site always gets my predictions right.”

Astrology is a million-dollar industry.

While some do it just for entertainment, there are others who would bet their lives on their horoscope predictions. Doctors, investment bankers and gamblers are reportedly among the most stalwart followers of horoscopes. Tebogo Simelane, a second-year physics student, chides astrology as exploitive and dangerous. “People should be careful what they buy into. It’s very reckless to buy a new house or end a marriage because a zodiac hotline convinced you to do so. The people who come up with horoscopes have nothing to lose, but the rest of us do.”

Step on a crack, break your mother’s back.

Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you’ll have good luck. Everyone is a little superstitious. Whether you avoid walking under ladders or you stay in bed every Friday the thirteenth, we’re all guilty of embarrassing practices that have no science behind them but still make us feel a little bit better about our futures. You could argue that astrology is the same – centuries ago people looked up at the stars and, unable to make any sense of them at the time, they decided to invent their own explanation. Remarkably, the lore survived into modern times. Some people use this lore to shield themselves from the randomness of life, while realists insist on relying on facts and news bulletins to warn them about an asteroid hurtling towards earth or a tidal wave off the coast of Cape Town. Knock on wood.

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Let’s get physical: 7 health myths debunked

DITSHEGO MADOPI Common assumption suggests that students are in their physical prime. And despite having a close-to-campus McDonald’s that is never empty and some students who consider alcohol a food group, there is a tendency to pay attention to what the experts say is healthy.

With the internet, though, these “experts” are plentiful and the result is that what you’ve always believed to be beneficial for your body isn’t necessarily so. This week, Perdeby debunks some common health myths.

Myth: Eating organic food is better for you than conventionally grown produce Modern consumers are more willing to spend on organic products, but Stanford University doctors have concluded from research that there is little evidence to support the common

conception that consuming organic food is healthier. Research reports have confirmed that conventionally grown produce does carry slightly more pesticides than organic foods but it is still well within safety limits. Foods are “organic” if they are produced without synthetic pesticides, fertilisers and the routine use of antibiotics or growth hormones. But there is not much difference in vitamin content between organic and inorganic food substances.

Myth: Sugar makes kids hyperactive A medical report by paediatricians at the Riley Hospital for Children said that in a study of 12 randomised, controlled trials, scientists have examined how children react to diets containing different levels of sugar. None of the studies indicated any differences in behaviour between children who consumed sugar and those who did not. If only our parents had

known this while we were still children – not that it matters much now since students have discovered coffee.

Myth: Frozen yogurt is better for you than ice cream Frozen yogurt can still be a source of plenty of fat, sugar and calories. You’ll get some calcium from both ice cream and frozen yogurt, but there’s not a lot of valuable nutrition in either one, says the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. In general, a half a cup of frozen yogurt has about 120 calories and 5g of fat, versus 180 calories and 10g of fat for half a cup of full-cream ice cream. Ice-cream, froyo – potato, potato: the best solution is probably just to consider both a treat and leave it at that.

Myth: If you exercise, you can eat as much as you want The ratio of food you eat to exercise you must engage in is more complex than you might think, as health magazine Shape says that the burnout rate is different from person to person based on their metabolism. Even mental activity burnout rate differs (perhaps this explains the difference between those who can stay awake throughout a class and those who cannot).

Eating more or eating whatever you want using the excuse that you’re exercising can be counter-productive. It may increase appetite and lead you to believe you can reward yourself with some post-workout calories, but it is very difficult to lose weight through exercise alone.

Exercise burns calories, but not as many as people think. This, combined with the fact that we tend to underestimate the calories we take in and overestimate how many we burn when we exercise, makes it clear that eating healthily is a necessary add-on to regular exercise for it to make any difference.

Myth: We should regularly take doses of vitamins and supplements There are individuals who may require supplements, such as pregnant women and the elderly, but there is little evidence to support the idea that taking vitamins and supplements improve your health, sex life or IQ (that would have been the perfect trinity). A five-year study at Oxford University done on 20 000 people

concluded that the vitamins were absorbed but did nothing for the body. If you are eating a healthy and balanced diet then multivitamins and supplements are a waste of money.

As Sheldon says to Penny when she buys multivitamins in The Big Bang Theory: “What you’re essentially buying is expensive urine.”

Myth: Have 8 to 10 glasses of water daily There is no need to measure your water intake – rather go by your thirst, say doctors from Dartmouth Medical School. Heinz Valtin, a professor at the institute and a specialist in kidney research, says the myth may have originated in a 1945 report from the Food and Nutrition Board. The report recommended that people consume one millilitre of water for each calorie of food they eat in a day (with the average calories consumed a day being 1 900).

The same report mentioned that “most of this water is contained in foods”, but that section has been neglected over the years. Sometimes having too much water can even lead to water intoxication and hyponatremia (a condition where there isn’t a sufficient quantity of sodium or salt in your body).

Myth: Fast once a week to cleanse toxins from your body Periodic fasting habits may lead to a deficiency in vital nutrients. Fasting is also not healthy for the liver. “If you have a healthy liver, you need not take extra measures to cleanse toxins from your body. Our [bodies are] able to detoxify automatically if the liver is healthy,” says nutritionist Neelanjana Singh.

Perhaps this is a good reason to treat your liver with more care the next time you have a night out at Hatfield Square.

You may breathe a sigh of relief if you haven’t been doing what you thought was “healthy” before you read this article. But for those whose ideas about what it takes to be healthy have been shattered, don’t mind this article too much – at least the placebo effect hasn’t been proven to be myth ... yet.

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Pssst… and everyone else knows that the Square is not the place to be on a Monday. Everyone that is, except Curlitzia who decided that Monday was the perfect time to host their Around the World Party. The only people present were either from Curlitzia or Olympus. Next time, save yourselves the trouble and stay on medical campus. Pssst… hears that Zinnia went on yet another party bus.

Pssst... wonders if the girls got as wild as they did last year? Perhaps they kept it all on the downlow after being busted for their infamous “tops off” moment. Pssst… attended Kollege’s haunted house party and saw a lot of people who would have looked better if they’d bothered to come in costume. Speaking of Kollege, rumour has it that the Magrietjie open nights are the place to be for Kollege guys. Pssst... wonders why considering the fact that Magrietjie girls are always the last resort for guys who are not willing to go home alone. If you’re looking for some variety, Kollege, Pssst… has it on good authority that Asterhof is desperate for dates. Pssst… spotted a few Nerina girls getting cosy in a bathroom stall at their informal. Must have been all that Stroh Rum. It seems that a dependency on alcohol is developing among the ladies’ residences. Pssst… is looking at you, Katjiepiering. Pssst… has word that Boekenhout tried to relive their Serrie glory days

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17 September ‘12 in Potch. Let it go Ysters. On a political note, Pssst… has been informed that the voting process for Inca’s new HK was rife with corruption and nepotism. Pssst... is glad to see that the Houte have hung up their boxing gloves and turned their back on violence. Pssst... is all for the Magrietjie Semis going for sneaky dips in the pond in front of the Old Arts Building, but really girls, you should be aware of wandering eyes around campus. You never know who’s watching you. The testosterone level in Kiaat this past week was extremely high, Pssst... reckons that’s what happens when the only thing you’re good at is sport. Pssst... is relieved to see that Lilium has calmed down this week.

Pssst... assumes that projectile vomiting on a bus full of newly elected HKs from Zinnia, Kiaat, Inca, Mopanie and Kollege is enough to bring you back down to earth. Pssst… has noticed that Madelief has been extremely quiet lately. Are you plotting your revenge for the hundreds of jottirs stolen this year? Pssst... hears that the Kollege boys were nowhere to be seen after their End of the World party and Spring Day. This comes as no surprise since Pssst... saw you hugging toilet bowls in Ty’s. How attractive. Pssst… also saw Asterhof get bounced from Ty’s. Shame. Pssst… wonders why Kollege has painted their rocks black, white and red. Pssst… doesn’t think that this will stop the other reses violating them. Don’t forget to name and shame them, by sending your Pssst… tips to m.perdeby.co.za.

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“Single Ladies”. So this song won a Grammy. But I adamantly contest this decision. It’s one of the worst songs ever recorded, even. It’s not even good by pop standards. It’s not even good by Beyoncé standards.

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Anything by The Parlotones, who are awful at writing, singing and composing.

All the things necessary to be good, really.

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“Call Me Maybe”. This is the catchiest pile of steaming song writing we have ever encountered. It’s stuck in your head, isn’t it? Isn’t it? “Hey, I just met you …”

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“Friday”. I wonder if anyone has followed through on those death threats against Rebecca Black yet?

BEYERS DE VOS So, music is awesome. It’s the universal language.

It makes the world go round. But some people shouldn’t make music and some songs shouldn’t have been written. And here’s a list of those songs; the top ten most annoying songs ever written: 1.

Kylie Minogues’s “I Just Can’t Get You out of My Head”. Most annoying song ever. It has one lyric followed by a whiny voice going “nah nah nah nah nah nah” over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

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Everything by Enya ever. She’s like an obnoxious alien who’s permanently high.

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“Kaptein”. Listen, do we even need to explain ourselves?

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“Closing Time”. Not because it’s a bad song. It’s not. But it means it’s time to go home. And that is always annoying.

“Baby”. Justin Bieber: how many

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10. “Super Trooper”. What is this song about, even? We think Abba just took two random words that rhymed and then sung them against a backdrop of the worst 80s electro noises they could find.

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Hugs On Drugs: where a Phizicist and a King meet MELINA MELETAKOS It’s three o’clock on a Thursday afternoon and the rain, which started off as a gentle pitter patter, has progressed to a pounding downpour. Zain Ebrahim and Sean Nel, the DJ duo that make up Hugs On Drugs, have forsaken their classes for the day in favour of staying at home to write beats in their pyjamas.

Sean, wearing a long multi-coloured, chequered gown and Zain, in his navy blue boxers, are debating with friend and fellow musician, Barend van der Walt, about the track that they are working on. It includes vocals that sound like something out of an African tribal song. When asked about it, Zain laughs. “We like to call it ‘Ethiopian children expressing their hunger’,” he says of the slyly humorous title.

Zain and Sean met through a mutual friend at Tuks. “I had just gotten car sound and [was] sort of into DJing but just at home.

Then I met Zain at this girl’s house and he was like, ‘Hey man, let me put the auxiliary into your car and play some tunes on my laptop’,” explains Sean.

Zain had started making music in grade six when he began rapping with his cousin. “No one was making beats for us so we decided that we needed to start making [them],” he says.

When the two musos’ paths crossed, Zain was already making a name for himself as Phizicist, while Sean had just gotten into DJing thanks to a friend’s forgotten CDJs. He knew that he had to perfect his own set as King Rat before he and Zain could collaborate. “I had to play catch up with the DJing stuff, get to a level where I knew we could jam together,” says Sean. “DJing is not just playing songs that you think are cool. There’s so much more to it. Dubstep has at least 20 subgenres, drum and bass as well. Your knowledge of the music has to be really good.”

Fast forward through countless hours of practice, and Hugs On Drugs was born. The pair have had to find a way to stick out amongst the glut of copycat artists in an industry where every second producer is making music that sounds like international dubstep sensation, Skrillex.

“The originality has kind of died with the new guys,” says Zain contemplatively. The solution? “Now it’s become about a combination of genres. You combine Dutch house, moombahton or Dutch house and kuduro. It’s about taking elements from each genre and putting them together into one song,” says Sean.

Hugs On Drugs must be on the right track because the duo has gained support from industry bigwigs such as Griet and Dubstep SA, regularly playing at their events. Their favourite set so far has been Town Hall’s second birthday celebration.

“The set that we played was probably the best one we’ve ever done. Everything was just working,” says Sean. “We came up with the first three songs that we were going to play. After that, we just went for it,” adds Zain. They both agree that the crowd’s response that night was mind-blowing. “We always talk about the

fact that when you mix, you listen to the same songs all the time and when you produce, you listen to your music millions of times but it never takes away from the feeling when you are standing on the stage and you’re looking down and people are losing their sh*t,” explains Sean. “Even if you have heard that song five million times and you are so over it, when you see it going down in front of people, it’s like hearing it for the first time,” he says.

In 2011, Zain and Sean were part of the initiative that started Tomorrow Never Happened, a project that hosts parties in and around Pretoria. “My friend Stuart and I wanted to throw a birthday party together but we had no name for our party,” says Zain. Sean explains that the name Tomorrow Never Happened came up in a brainstorming session. “It’s a cool play on words, it’s interesting and it represents the party scene,” he says. After the raging success of the first Tomorrow Never Happened party, which was held at Pretoria’s premier live music venue, Arcade Empire, they decided that they wanted to expand the brand and take it further. In the beginning, the team consisted of eight people but “as time progressed, people just didn’t want to do stuff,” says Sean. “We ended up doing pretty much everything.”

While the two are chatting away, it is evident that they are brimming with enthusiasm for the music that they make and are just as passionate about the issues that come up in the industry

that they find themselves a part of. How do they handle criticism from people who claim that electronic music isn’t real music?

“The argument that we get from bands is that we don’t play instruments,” vents Zain, clearly irked. “In bands you’re just the guy that plays the instrument. As a producer, you are now the guy that makes the sound that an instrument makes, plays the instrument, and then mixes it down,” he says. “They are kind of naïve about it, or ignorant. It’s not like we walk around telling people that band music is bad. We listen to bands all the time. We don’t sit at home and listen to electronic music 24/7. We listen to bands just as much,” adds Sean. How about the increasing number of bands who are turning to electronic music to spice up their sound? “There are a lot of bands that are very open to electronic music. It depends on the way that they do it though, on their intentions. Did they do it because they honestly thought it was going to be a better sound or did they do it because it is commercially viable?” he says.

What’s in store for Hugs On Drugs in the future? “Keep on playing,” says Zain. “And finish our studies,” he adds jokingly.

“Hard work and producing as much as possible,” says Sean.

And with that, it’s straight back to the Ethiopian kids expressing their hunger.

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Two Door Cinema Club: Tourist History 2.0

MELINA MELETAKOS When Two Door Cinema Club exploded onto the indie circuit with the release of their debut album, Tourist History, geeks around the globe rejoiced triumphantly. Suddenly, it was cool to be a gawky, pasty-legged teenager donning a woolly jersey.

And, better yet, the band’s guitar-laced synth pop became even cooler. Now, after two years of whirlwind touring and securing somewhat of a cult following along the way, the cherub-faced Irish trio have released their highly anticipated second studio album, Beacon.

If it’s Two Door Cinema Club’s addictive sing-along choruses

and frenetic guitar riffs that you fell in love with the first time around, then you will be pleased that the band’s sound remains largely unchanged, except of course for U2 producer Jacknife Lee working his magic to deliver a more polished body of work.

Prominent electronics underpin a playful, repetitive guitar riff in “Wake Up”, a song narrating a dream. “Goodnight, daylight / I won’t remember you for long,” sings lead singer Alex Trimble sluggishly, as if to emphasise that we are very much a part of someone’s stray into slumber.

“The World is Watching” is a wispy love song in which English songstress Valentina contributes her pure, delicate voice, while “Sun” is a slower, piano-led number which refreshingly includes a brass section midway through the track. But it is on “Sleep Alone” that all these elements seem to come to a head in an epic battle for your attention. The ear-throbbing cacophony that ensues proves that less sometimes really is more.

Two Door Cinema Club are well aware of the ingredients needed to produce flop-proof, unwittingly catchy tunes, and they are making the most of this tried and tested recipe. By doing little to veer away from it, the songs that make up Beacon risk melting into one indistinguishable track. One area, however, that the band does experiment with, is their lyrical content. The inevitable isolation that arises from constantly being on tour is explored in many of the tracks on the album. “I don’t know where I am going to rest my head tonight,” sings Trimble on “Next Year”, while on “Settle”, he declares, “This isn’t home / This isn’t home / I couldn’t feel more alone.”

While Two Door Cinema Club avoid suffering the fatal second-album slump. The band choose to stick with what is familiar to them and their audiences, which, while not being incredibly exciting, is not necessarily a bad thing. You can’t help but suspect that it will only be when Two Door Cinema Club finally start taking a gamble that they will reach their full potential.

RATING: 7/10

Image: www.twodoorcinemaclub.com

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Billy Talent: raise your voice like a weapon JP NATHRASS

“We’re the target market of a corporate hoax, our generation is a f**king joke.” Antiestablishment punk rockers Billy Talent are back, and they’re bringing the noise with their fourth album Dead Silence.

No Billy Talent album would be complete without taking a shot at government and religion and the first single, “Viking Death March”, throws you right into the deep end with powerful social commentary delivered through Benjamin Kowalewicz’s signature vocals while guitarist Ian D’Sa lays down an impressive riff to creating a classic Billy Talent track.

Kowalewicz’s voice remains passionate throughout the album, and while often threatening to break into screamo, never loses his melodic perfection. “Man Alive!” ups the

tempo with a drum line that carries the upbeat guitar riff. You do, however, get the feeling that it has all been done before. The tracks are all similar to those on their previous albums.

From their previous releases listeners have come to expect the growling bass of Jonathan Gallant to be present in the background and “Love Was Still Around” opens with Gallant at his best. His distinct bass riff blends seamlessly with the rest of the band in an emotional song that tells of lost love.

The song climaxes in an incredible solo by D’Sa and a strong vocal performance by Kowalewicz.

Dead Silence is a hard-hitting album from start to finish but the band braves calmer waters with two ballads: “Stand Up and Run” and “Swallowed Up By the Ocean” which show Billy Talent’s softer side and offer a

little diversity. The band manages to deliver these ballads without sacrificing their style.

Kowalewicz’s lyrics, filled with emotion, combine perfectly with the calmer melodies to produce a unique sound.

The musical brilliance of the band culminates in “Hanging By a Thread” and “Runnin’ Across the Tracks”. Both songs capture the essence of the Canadian punk rockers. This is Billy Talent as fans have come to know and love them.

Dead Silence is rich in variety and musical talent, with Billy Talent managing to maintain their musical identity and yet still able to produce an album that is unique enough to keep fans interested. Let’s face it: sticking it to the man will never become old.

RATING 7/10

Image: www.billytalent.com

I want to break free: what the SA music scene has been hiding

JP NATHRASS It’s commonly accepted that the South African music industry is difficult to break into. Perdeby, however, went looking for a few fairly surreptious bands that are mixing or reinvigorating music genres earning them a mention as up-coming acts you should probably check out.

Muniquin Combine the best elements of aKING and Avenged Sevenfold and you might come close to replicating Muniquin’s sound. This Port Elizabeth-based band consists of Jaco Horak (vocals), Jeandre Fourie (guitar), JP Meiring (guitar), Fanie Niemand (bass) and Jared Bradley (drums). From mellow ballads to hard-hitting rock tracks, Muniquin

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HemelBesem Afrikaans hip-hop artist HemelBesem has been around since 2009 and has released five albums, but has never received the acclaim he justly deserves. HemelBesem has been described as one of the hardest working South African hip-hop artists, the Timbaland of our nation. He has collaborated with a long list of South African artists, including, most recently, Bittereinder and Glaskas. Look out for his new colab album with Isaac Mutant, Double Story. Adding the Freestyle Champion of the 2010 African Hip-Hop Indaba to your playlist is bound to win you some street credit.

OneDaySky A Johannesburg-based alternative band formed in 2008 as Clinton Watts’s (vocals) solo project. After the release of Dancing in Cursive, OneDaySky saw the addition of JP Sing (guitar), Eric Barnfather (guitar), Darren Yen (bass) and Allistair Nel (drums) to the line-up. OneDaySky’s members all come from a diverse musical background and previously played for other local bands including my/epic/vice and Fear of Falling.

Their self-titled EP was released as a free download in 2011 and showcases a unique style that is earmarked by Watts’s unique high-pitched voice that never misses a note while being backed by a style of rock that’s hard to place in a specific genre. The band recently released a video cover of Double Take’s “Hot Problems” featuring the band as sock puppets.

No Yellow Lane Driving What do you get when you combine a vocalist who has been performing on the international stage since he was 12, winning the World Champion award at the World Performing Arts Festival, with three cousins and a talented bassist? Enter No Yellow Lane Driving (a Johannesburg-based indie band who describe their sound as “indie strings linking drum and bass with light blue electro undertones”). Pieter Swart Bezuidenhout (vocals), Stehan Steyn (guitar), Pieter Janse van Rensburg (guitar), Jean Claude van Niekerk (bass) and Sterrit Steyn (drums) produce the type of laid back music you can expect to make it to the top of many a local music chart. Their name says it all: this is the type of music you want to listen to while taking a road trip without a care in the world – especially by not making way for impatient drivers who try force you into the yellow lane.

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Tuks ladies impress at Northerns Cup final NATALIE THOMPSON On Sunday 9 September Tuks 1 ladies faced TUT for the Northerns Cup title. After a long season, the Tuks ladies came out on top, winning the final 5-3.

Tuks started the match with a two-goal deficit, meaning TUT were two goals up right from the start of the match. Tuks had to score three goals in order to win the match.

Tuks scored their first goal within the first five minutes of the match. With TUT struggling to gain possession of the ball, Tuks kept attacking, drawing the entire TUT squad into the Tuks scoring half.

TUT’s game plan seemed to be flicking the ball over the midfield players to their forwards. However, with Tuks being strong in defence, this gave the TUT team more problems than opportunities. With 11 minutes remaining in the first half, Tuks

scored the equalising goal. TUT replied with a goal of their own.

Tuks managed to score another equaliser with two minutes of the first half left, making the score 3-3 going into half time.

At the start of the second half both teams adopted a more aggressive style of play. This proved to be a good tactic and Tuks ladies scored their fourth goal. Tuks scored their final goal off a short corner and ran out deserving winners with a score of 5-3. Despite starting with the two-goal deficit, Tuks were unmistakably in control for most of the match.

Tuks 1 coach Craig Fulton was pleased with his team’s performance: “In the cup situation it is always good not to concede, so it’s great that we scored before we conceded. We did it with a positive mindset and it’s a great reward after a long season.”

TuksAikido celebrate anniversary Photo: Brad Donald

KATLEGO PHEEHA Tuks has a vast range of martial-art sport clubs. Among them is the lesser knowns TuksAikido, a club which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.

Aikido is a traditional Japanese martial art form which uses a system of holds, throws and locks as its principal movements.

Aikido primarily teaches self-defence and trains an individual to be able to face multiple opponents simultaneously.

“Aikido is totally different from all other martial arts. Karate, judo and taekwondo all take it as a sport, but in aikido we don’t have competitions,” says Paul de Beer, sensei of the TuksAikido Hatfield dojo. “There is a marshal character to it. The bowing and all the stuff that we do is similar to the discipline you find in the army where people stand at attention. There are rules and everything in aikido is very formal. So on the one hand it is disciplined and very rigid. But on the other hand, the philosophy behind aikido is very free,” he told Perdeby.

Although aikido may be a non-competitive sport, it is still

on show in the form of demonstrations at events and in recent years, TuksAikido has participated in a number of these events.

On 17 April 2010 the club was part of Martial Arts Day and Demonstrations held at the Japanese embassy in Pretoria. Later that year, TuksAikido took part in the International SportAccod Combat Games in Beijing as part of the Aikido Federation of South Africa (AFSA), aikido’s national governing body. The club also has strong ties with aikido groups from all over the world including Japan, China and Italy.

TuksAikido is a relatively small club with approximately 30 registered students. The club welcomes beginners. TuksAikido is not gender specific despite aikido being a predominantly male sport. “Aikido is a very good stress reliever and adds to your fitness. It helps you in all other departments of life,” says Nandi van Wyk, beginner at TuksAikido and BSc Veterinary Science student at UP. Photo: Paul de Beer

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Res league finals: special report Kiaat and Zinnia win Mopanie beat OP in TuksFootball res league rugby res league final

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AB BASSON Kiaat and Zinnia won the TuksFootball res league at Absa Tuks Stadium on Monday 10 September.

The two Groenkloof residences beat Zimbabwe Society and Onderstepoort (OP) ladies respectively to be crowned the 2012 champions.

The first final of the night was between the ladies of Zinnia and OP. The two teams were deadlocked at half time, but the game sprang into life in the second half after a goal from last season’s top scorer, OP striker, Steph Friedman who pounced on a mistake from the Zinnia defence to open the scoring. Zinnia were rewarded with a penalty for a handball but the first attempt was easily saved by OP’s keeper. However, the referee ordered a retake because of an infringement from the defending team.

Zinnia’s Mamooka Makume made no mistake with the second attempt and leveled matters. That was the last goal of the match and penalties determined the 2012 winners.

After a tense penalty shoot-out, Zinnia reigned supreme with three successful penalties to OP’s two. Zinnia captain Phinky Makololo expressed her delight at winning the final after the match: “I’ve been in res for four years. I’m over the moon. I love my team: we are one big, strong, happy family.”

The men’s final that saw Kiaat take on the Zimbabwe Society. Kiaat were looking to retain the trophy they won last year and went into the match as favourites. Captain Charles Gulwako opened the scoring. The midfielder collected the ball in Zimbabwe Society’s half, ran down the left flank leaving several defenders in his wake, cutting inside on the edge of the six yard area beating another and finishing coolly into the right-hand corner to score a brilliant individual goal. The goal set the stadium alight and gave Kiaat a welldeserved lead going into the break.

Kiaat started the second half much the same, as they controlled the midfield battle and created chance after chance, presenting Zimbabwe Society with very few. Kiaat finished off the game near the end with a brilliant header from a corner from Siya Nkosi to seal the victory and the cup for Kiaat for the second year in a row.

Kiaat captain, Man of the Match and Player of the Tournament Charles Gulwako was very happy with his team’s performance. “We had a good season and I’m very proud of the team. We didn’t try anything new in the final.

We are good team, big up to our defence who only gave away two goals all season, [which were] penalties,” he said.

Photos: Kobus Barnard

Mopanie won the 2012 Steinhoff TuksRugby House League on Tuesday 11 September, beating Onderstepoort. Both Onderstepoort and Mopanie went into the game reasonably confident of their chances after their impressive showings against their respective semi-final opponents Sonop and Olienhout.

The game kicked off with a number of early big tackles as both sides tried to assert their dominance. However, it was Mopanie that showed more intensity early on at the breakdowns. Their forwards, particularly prop Richard Kotzé and man of the match flank Willie van Heerden, caused Onderstepoort trouble at every ruck. The prop’s effective ball carrying and the flank’s work rate at the breakdown helped maintain a solid base for the Mopanie backs to run from.

By the 20th minute the teams had traded penalties and Mopanie led 6-3. Onderstepoort were visibly determined to overturn the deficit. The Mopanie defence, however, regularly forced turn-overs and errors at breakdowns. The first 30 minutes of the game was littered with unforced errors; knock-ons in particular, and a missed Onderstsepoort kick at goal by star full back Joel Alves brought to an end what was a disappointing first half.

The game resumed with Mopanie on the offensive as they applied themselves more at rucks than they did in the first half. This tactic nearly cost them three points soon after the restart as Onderstepoort missed their first penalty kick of the half. Mopanie launched an eight-phase attack from a scrum as both forwards and backs chipped away at their opponents’ defence. Eventually, Onderstsepoort ran out of defenders and Mopanie moved the ball wide to find space for a try in the corner ten minutes into the half, courtesy of Wynand Bezuidenhout.

The Mopanie kicker, however, missed the conversion.

Mopanie maintained their intensity and this led to turn over of possession at a number of rucks. Onderstsepoort, who were pinned in their own half for the majority of the second half, finally got a chance to break out when a poor kick from Mopanie was collected on the 22-metre line and moved from the left side of the field to the right where the ball found wing Kobus Rabe. He managed to get around a number of chasing defenders and gained 15 metres before being taken down by the covering defence. Onderstepoort capitalised on the opportunity and did well to move the ball quickly to stay ahead of the defence. The ball was worked through two more phases before a try was awarded in the left-hand corner. The kick was again unsuccessful and Onderstepoort’s hopes were kept alive, but only just.

In the last few minutes of the game, Onderstepoort gave a last push in a ruck to turn the ball over following a messy scrum.

They then worked steadily up the field against a resilient Mopanie defence. A turnover in the dying seconds of the game, gave Mopanie the chance to kick the ball into touch, to seal a close 11-8 victory. After the game, winning captain, Christiaan du Toit praised his team’s sticking resolve in keeping to the game plan, “I think we had a game plan coming into the game, a game plan we’ve worked on all year.

In the first half we had some trouble with it.

In the second half we came out and worked on applying the game plan again and it paid off.” Disappointed Onderstepoort captain, Schabort Meyer, acknowledged the potential difference made by the kicks his team missed, “It was an amazing game, very fast. We let them get the upper hand at the first phases and we missed some crucial penalties.”

Photo: Marius Veldhuyzen van Zanten

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