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A hard-working conservationist who tackles environmental issues in underprivileged communities, Jabulani Dlamini is only just getting started as he continues to search for ways to make a positive impact on the lives of his fellow South Africans.

Dlamini, who lives in Benoni, cleans illegal dumping sites and converts them into communal food gardens.

“I’m involved in projects in Orange Farm (Gauteng) and Kuruman (Northern Cape). The idea behind the communal gardens is to help ensure people never go to bed hungry,” said Dlamini, after returning home from a recent Springbok experience in England, courtesy of Absa.

Since he returned from the trip, Dlamini has also been involved in a Cape Town-based programme called ‘New Economy Accelerator.’

“The project seeks to mainstream the blue economy and build a community of social entrepreneurs who are conscious

of addressing social imbalances, creating sustainable jobs, distributing wealth equally and contributing significantly to the reduction of our carbon footprint by addressing global warming and climate change,” he said.

Dlamini was one of 13 people who won a recent trip to the UK, along with a partner, as part of Absa’s ‘What’s Your Greatest Game’ Springbok campaign, which called on all South Africans to play their greatest games by highlighting how they are positive agents for social change.

“The London trip was the most amazing experience for me. I could never trade this experience for anything in my entire life,” he said.

People still have a chance to win a Springbok experience, with a Bok player visiting a charity of their choice. They can enter the competition by going to www.mygreatestgame.co.za and sharing their stories. This stage of the competition closes on 31 October, 2015.

SECOND ROW LEFT: Jabulani during his trip to the UK

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REMEMBERING A LEADER OF SUBSTANCE: the delegation in Wattville

On 27 October the late Oliver Tambo would have turned 98, and his life as the leader of the then anti-apartheid movement was remembered in a wreathlaying ceremony at Tamboville cemetery in Wattville, Benoni.

President Jacob Zuma, in his speech about the late Tambo, said that “he was the perfect leader.” He said that there was nothing too big or too small for Tambo to resolve. He described the former president of the ANC, who led the party for 22 years, making him the longest serving president of the party, as a man of vision, but also a very disciplined and articulate man.

He told of the days during the fight against apartheid when Tambo would lock the leadership into a room for days to debate an issue, and when they walked out of that

session everyone understood and agreed on the way forward.

Oliver Tambo was an exemplary leader, Zuma said, who never put himself above the cause. He said that Tambo served as acting president of the party for a few years after the death of Albert Luthuli, and the leadership, including those in prison at the time, decided that he should be appointed president, seeing that he had been acting for a long period already and had proven himself competent. But instead of accepting the role, Tambo debated on why he should not be given the role and why there could be better suited people for the position – he eventually went along with the decision, but in protest.

It would seem that this calibre of leader is hard to find these days.

EMBRACING: President Zuma and Dali Tambo

The wreath-laying ceremony at Tamboville cemetery at the grave-site of Oliver Tambo and his wife Adelaide Tambo, was attended

by President Jacob Zuma; Gauteng Premier David Makhura; Clr Mondli Gungubele, the Executive Mayor of Ekurhuleni; Dali Tambo

and his wife; Mrs Graca Machel, the late President Nelson Mandela’s widow; Veterans and Junior Councillors and other leaders and members of the surrounding Ekurhuleni communities.

True to Carnival City’s vibrant and colourful character, the complex’s 16th anniversary was marked with a carnival-like celebration complete with roaming jesters and stilt walkers, a mammoth cake, and entertainment on the main casino floor on Saturday, 24 October 2015. Visitors were invited to be part of the festivities and were treated to sparkling wine and cake. In this picture, the smiles say it all as Matthew Cook (Entertainment and Events Manager: Carnival City); Annemie Turk (General Manager: Carnival City) and Michelle Smith (Marketing Manager) toast to Carnival City’s bright future.

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Boksburg High girl wins Eastgate Look of Fashion 2015 title Eastgate Shopping Centre’s fabulously sensational annual fashion event, Eastgate Look of Fashion 2015, took place on Friday, 16 October in the Strelitzia Court at Eastgate Shopping Centre. A jampacked audience enjoyed entertainment with emcee Gert ‘G’ Boshoff and live performances from the dynamic Fever Trio and singing sensation Johnny Apple.

This year, Boksburg High learner Shene Kruger (18) walked away with the Eastgate Look of Fashion 2015 title, followed by Ntombikayise Msimanga (20), a Bachelor of Arts Law Student, as First Princess and Kirsten Tayla McCormack (18), an Engineering Student, as Second Princess.

Shene Kruger explained how she felt about her unexpected win: “I am excited to be an ambassador for Eastgate Shopping Centre, because it is a large brand and it could open many doors for me. I am also excited to be part of this

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Shene wins a trip to Italy, valued at R60 000, sponsored by Sir Franco d’Arrigo, to participate in the 2016 Stella da Europa.

An exciting addition to this year’s event is that the Top Three Winners will gain automatic entry into the Miss South Africa 2016 interview round.

Arthur Kaplan Jewellers, Franco International Hair, Red Square, Stuttafords and Tsogo Sun Garden Court Eastgate were the premium sponsors of this year’s spectacular event.

The prestigious list of judges included Nashil Chotoki (Portfolio Director of JHI), Sir Franco d’Arrigo (d’Arrigo International), Kennedy Tsimba (Former Rugby player, musician and TV sports presenter), Jacinda Louw (Survivor SA 2006 Runner Up, model, MC and presenter), Manlie Wagner (Top

FIRST PRINCESS: Ntombikayise Msimanga, WINNER: Shene Kruger and SECOND PRINCESS: Tayla McCormack

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Eastgate Centre management would like to thank all sponsors for their participation in and contribution to Eastgate Look of Fashion 2015 - without their dedication and support it would not have been as successful.

those who survived the disease.

Lydia Simon, who is the Reiger Park co-ordinator for the Pink Tree Foundation and head librarian at the Reiger Park Library, told the tame TIMES that the Lakeside Primary School, like most other schools in the area, is a dedicated supporter of the Pink Tree project.

Although the campaign only starts during October every year, Lakeside Primary had already wrapped their trees in pink during the month of September, showing their dedication to the fight against cancer, said Simon.

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What everyone should know Human trafficking is the forced slavery of human beings, and is also known as Trafficking in Persons (TIP) or ‘modern day slavery.’ These days, it is one of the most rampantly rising organised crimes around the world. This article will give us the FACTS about trafficking, and how these CRIMES ARE COMMITTED. We often see that individuals or career consultancies recruit educated youth from various parts of the world, promising them lucrative salaries and the fulfillment of their dreams. Later they can convert employees into bonded slaves by forcing them to sign a “contract.”

In concrete terms, human trafficking means the recruitment, transportation,

52 BALLOONS IN MEMORY OF A GREAT LEADER The late Principal Helen Johnson, who passed away in 2012, succumbing to her battle against cancer, was remembered for the leadership she showed during her term as principal at Lakeside Primary School.

The school, along with its principal Craig Jansen, educators and learners, celebrated the late principal’s birthday on 16 October by wearing pink on the day. 52 Pink balloons were released to commemorate 52 years since her birth.

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transfer, or harbouring of people by means of threat, fraud, deception, or force for the purpose of exploitation.

Victims are recruited, often transported; held in the situation through a means such as fear, force, threats, blackmail, witchcraft, or drugs and then exploited by converting them into forced labourers, prostitutes, wives and child soldiers.

TYPES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING Human trafficking comes in many different forms. The two most well-known types are FORCED AND CHILD LABOUR and SEX TRAFFICKING. However, apart from these, there are other kinds of trafficking such as INVOLUNTARY SLAVERY, DOMESTIC SERVITUDE, ORGAN TRAFFICKING, FORCED CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES SUCH AS FORCED DRUG MULES, FORCED BEGGING, ORGAN AND BODY PART TRAFFICKING AND FORCED MARRIAGE. Legal or illegal ADOPTIONS with the intent to sell or exploit the child can also be classified as human trafficking.

Sex trafficking

Sex trafficking cases are very common nowadays. The victims are children, teenagers, or adults and can be male or female. They are forced to work as sex slaves within the prostitution industry, strip clubs, ‘gentlemen’s’ clubs, massage parlours and in the porn industry. Almost 80% of the victims are female, and about 70% of them are sexually exploited in the film, advertising and fashion industries, as well as private organisations.

Girls and boys from poor families are lured from across the world, with the promise of a new life; subsequently they are sold into brothels and bars. According to recent research, most of the traffickers buy and sell women from Asia, the Soviet Union, South America, the west coast of Africa and Southern Africa. Girls who work in massage parlours and bars are often exploited sexually by the traffickers.

They threaten the victim with harm to their families, or with imprisonment or deportation, and terrify them by confiscating their legal documents, like visas, passports and birth certificates.

They are not allowed to keep in touch with the outside world, often have to face the rude behaviour of their bosses and are beaten brutally.

Child trafficking

Child trafficking is one of the world’s major problems. Every year, about 1.2 million children are trafficked by different predators. These predators bring children and engage them in factories, mills and brothels. It is the worst form of child labour as defined by the ILO (International Labour Organization).

The predators attract the child and his family under the guise of providing employment, luring them with promises of a lucrative job and comfortable lifestyle abroad, and buy them for a large amount of money. Then the child is engaged into begging, smuggling, the drug trade, the military, circuses, beer bars, or factories as a labourer. As such, the child has to face tremendous torture physically, sexually, and mentally. Today there is a wide network of these cheats - brokers, owners of brothels, family relatives, friends, the police and political leaders that may be connected with this network.

TO PROTECT THESE INDIVIDUALS FROM HUMAN TRAFFICKING, WE MUST STOP THESE CRIMES. Since the network of traffickers is interrelated, strict measures MUST BE IMPLEMENTED to save people from human trading. These include effective monitoring and coordination between the Ministries of Tourism, Labour and Transport to fight this socio-economic problem. THIS IS A BIG ISSUE THAT NEEDS TO BE DEALT WITH USING AN IRON HAND, AS IT INVOLVES CHILD ABUSE AND THE DENIAL OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS.

What are the HEALTH effects of human trafficking?

‘Human Trafficking, Human Misery,’ a book written by Alexis Aronowitz, states that an estimated 80% of victims of trafficking are sexually exploited, abused or forced into prostitution, as most victims are young women and children.

Victims may have to cater to anywhere between eight to 15 clients in a day. The use of sexual protection is negligible in this industry, leaving the exploited at a high risk of contracting various sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/Aids that they then

pass on to the men and their partners. In some cases, victims are also subjected to substance abuse by being forced to take drugs. Such individuals have to constantly battle with drug addiction. Improper supply of meals and the lack of nutritious food causes malnourishment in these entrapped victims. Poor living conditions also contribute to the development of various diseases that the victims suffer in later years. Trafficking victims also, obviously, receive no medical help.

Resources: Wikipedia, Internet about Human Traffic in the world, the National Freedom Network.

What are the GLOBAL EFFECTS of human trafficking?

Human trafficking is an ill that plagues our society even in the 21st century. ANYONE can become a victim. Not so surprisingly, IT IS THE SECOND LARGEST TYPE OF ORGANISED CRIME IN THE WORLD, after drug trafficking (REF: STOP THE TRAFFIK UK). The effects of human trafficking are numerous and far-reaching.

It is a thriving industry that continues to grow every year and it is feared that it may soon outdo the illegal drug trade. Every day there are thousands of people falling victim to advertisements enticing them with the promise of a better future. Or the victims may have been abducted, deceived or even bought from their own family members. They

are vulnerable due to a lack of education, poor financial standing or dreams of a better life elsewhere.

Millions of lives have been affected.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) estimates that the United States receives an estimated 50 000 people annually who are victims of this illegal trade. The negative economic, health, psychological and societal effects are scary; and traffickers are the only ones that gain from this inhuman ordeal, raking in up to $32 billion a year. Statistics published by the United Nations reveal that as of 2006, only 5 808 traffickers were prosecuted, and 3 160 convicted, in the United States.

What are the PSYCHOLOGICAL effects of human trafficking?

Most traffickers recruit victims between the ages of 6 and 24, because a young victim will easily succumb to force and give in.

They are forced into heavy physical labour in hazardous environments. Many are taught to use weapons and are recruited as ‘soldiers’ in armed conflicts. According to statistics from the U.S. Department of State, globally, two million children are trafficked into the sex trade each year. These children suffer from lack of self-esteem, emotional disturbance, disorientation, and depression and are scarred for life. Child victims develop deep psychological disorders that they struggle with for the rest of their lives even if they have

been rescued. Psychological vulnerability hinders them from having a healthy state of mind in the future. The children are likely to become withdrawn and tend to be suicidal.

In fact, over 71% of trafficked children show suicidal tendencies (Skinner, E. Benjamin.

2008. A Crime So Monstrous: Face-toFace with Modern-Day Slavery. New York, NY: Free Press). Any children born to trafficking victims who are forced into prostitution are taken away at birth, causing further mental agony to the mothers. In fact, the longer the victims have been enslaved, the greater will be their traumatic experience.

What are the SOCIETAL effects of human trafficking?

Victims may be used as bonded labour in their own country or transported to another country where, on their arrival, their passports and migration documents are taken away from them, leaving them helpless and immobile. Sadly, they are often charged as collaborators of the crimes rather than being seen as victims.

They are kept in poor conditions with substandard clothing and food, unhygienic living conditions and no provision for healthcare.

They are often physically and sexually abused by their employers and ‘clients’ for non-compliance with demands - for hours and hours - in order to break

them. This is a very gruesome (but true) picture of the face of our society, hiding behind a wall. Another point to be noted is that victims are deprived of education and all human rights. The victims always struggle to gain acceptance in society from the stigma, after being rescued. Illegal trafficking often intermingles with other crimes such as smuggling of drugs and ammunition. Corruption is so widespread in our world that the greed for wealth only further encourages trafficking of humans to flourish, with no barriers. In such a scenario, the development of a stable and robust society seems like a distant dream.

What are the ECONOMIC effects of human trafficking?

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), human trafficking generates +-$31.6 billion estimated illicit profits worldwide! As calculated by the CIA, a trafficker earns up to $250 000 per victim of the sex trade in a year. Of this sum, the victim is paid a trivial amount or nothing at all, often on the pretext of paying off debts and covering expenses such as food, clothing and lodging. The victims of labour slavery are paid very meagre wages for strenuous physical labour, which prevents them from fleeing. Availability of cheap labour hinders employment opportunities and subsequently, reduces per capita income of the nation.

The financial repercussions cannot be overlooked. In fact, the network of traffickers has gained immense financial strength which allows such illegal activities to thrive without fear of the law. Illegal immigration is also a threat to national security and a cause of

concern for governments worldwide. It gives rise to other ills such as terrorism, poverty, poor standard of living, unemployment, expanding population, wastage of resources, high crime rates, and lack of enforcement of law and order in the country. These factors slow down the economic growth of the nation.

Victims are subjugated by the burden of debts and pressured into forced labour.

Wealth gains from trafficking are redirected to legal activities by investing in businesses or funding public affairs in order to launder the money. Along with forced cheap labour, this creates unnecessary competition for genuine businesses.

But, above all, the loss of valuable human resources is the most regrettable.

It is an undue waste of productivity and development. In fact, it is a disgrace to humanity.

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IRON OF EKURHULENI The Standard Bank 5150 Ekurhuleni African Championship took place on Sunday, 1 November at Germiston Lake Park.

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(Pic: dumelangnews.com) Banyana Banyana captain Janine van Wyk believes qualifying for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Brazil has erased the pain of missing out on the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada.

The South Africans booked their ticket to Rio following a 1-0 victory over a stubborn

Equatorial Guinea at Estadio de Bata on Sunday, 18 October.

Not many had given the Sasol-sponsored Banyana Banyana any chance of returning victorious, but a 62nd-minute goal by USA based Jermaine Seoposenwe was enough to do the damage to the confident home side.

There were scenes of jubilation at the sound of the final whistle as a small crowd of South Africans danced on the field. The coach did not escape as she was hoisted high up in the air. So confident were Banyana Banyana that they brought along T-shirts emblazoned with the words “NEXT STOP RIO 2016,” while the home fans could only watch and ponder on what might have been.

South Africa has maintained an unbeaten record since the start of the qualifiers against Botswana, Gabon, Kenya and now Equatorial Guinea who had always had the better of Banyana Banyana.

SAFA Media sat down with an excited Van Wyk to get her thoughts after the celebrations had subsided.

“Firstly, I must give credit to all my teammates who went out there and gave their all and that is why we came out victorious. We knew what a tough task it was going to be and we knew what was required of us, but we managed to stay together, keep motivated together. This was a really good win; everything went according to plan and everyone was just confident.

“The feeling of belief among the players

before the game was something I have never seen before, and before we went out to play I said to them, ‘This is our time - we need to go to the Olympics.’ We lost out on the World Cup last year and at the All Africa Games, but there was something bigger waiting for us and that was the Olympic Games. So I am over the moon; it’s an incredible feeling and now I know we can go home and celebrate, but more hard work lies ahead of us for the Olympics. We are looking forward to it.”

Van Wyk said the second Olympic Games qualification in a row is exciting, more especially for those who will be participating for the first time.

“As a team it will show how much we have progressed since then. Next year it will be interesting to see and compare the level that we are at, competing against some of the best in the world. I believe South Africa has talent and can compete with international teams. It will also be a way for us to challenge ourselves to check what strides forward we have made. We can’t wait to start preparations for Rio,” she said.

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