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Maybe you’re like me and you love big screen animation features. The characters break into song unashamedly. They have larger-than-life expressions – when they pout, their lips stick out like a shelf and when they laugh, their whole bodies shake and their mouths become as big as their stomachs. Then there’s their uncanny ability to bounce back from setbacks – push them off a cliff and the next moment they’re standing again, singing even. Being a mom has allowed me to watch cartoons as part of my mommy duty. It’s been a privilege to share animation’s finest moments with my son. You know them: the ‘spagetti’ kiss in Lady and the Tramp, Cinderella’s transformation into a princess, the first time Simba the cub in the Lion King is held up for all the animals to see and there is a moment of collective awe when the Whos Living on the clover in Horton Hears a Who are heard beyond the clover for the first time, as they join in collective protest with the words: “We are here!”
In this week’s paper, former Sandringham High School learner Daniel Barker, a member of the Oscar-winning team of Big Hero 6 (see page 3), shares how he overcame challenges to come out on top – realising his life-long dream to work for Walt Disney Animation. Daniel has had a hand in some of the big screen’s magical moments, among them bringing to life the Whos of Whoville in Horton Hears a Who, in his first big break. I went to primary and high school with him, and saw him persevere to realise this dream. I remember sitting in class, wideeyed with all the other kids, as the teacher showed us his first ever cartoon on a TV screen in our classroom. This was before digital, even cellphone technology. Daniel painstakingly drew every frame of the cartoon. Nonetheless, what this scrutiny of animations has made me realise is the big role they have come to play in our everyday lives – and maybe, we can learn a thing or two from these animated heroes. That sometimes, it’s OK just to randomly sing … and skip and dance. That when you laugh, give it your all - use your whole body. That when you have a reason to cry, cry until there’s a puddle of tears and then get up, dust yourself off and continue, knowing the story’s not finished. More importantly, as these characters of exuberant tenacity, and as Daniel, who continued to submit his work to overseas recruiters despite five years of rejection, show: if you believe, anything is possible.
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Heather Djunga heather.djunga@tametimes.co.za
“If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.” (Mark 9 vs 23).
ST CATHERINE’S SCHOOL OPEN DAY St Catherine’s School in Germiston will hold its annual open day in conjunction with a mini cricket festival and live marimba band performance. When: 7 March, 9am to 12am Where: 31 Piercy Ave, Parkhill Gardens, Germiston Contact: (011) 827 4102/4886 or marketing@stcatherines.org.za HOUSEHOLD CONSUMERS LEAGUE MEETING This team of proactive residents will hold a taste-testing session with hot cross buns and marshmallow Easter eggs. When: 11 March, 9.30am Where: James Sadie Library Auditorium, Hawley Road, Bedfordview Contact: loizides@b2einternet.co.za
ABC LADIES CLUB MEETING Well-known actor and motivator Clive Scott will address members over a sumptuous breakfast. When: 12 March, 9.30am for 10am Where: Mercure Hotel, Bedfordview Contact: aplettenbacher@acenet.co.za GRIEF SHARE COURSE Edenvale Methodist Church will hold a Grief Share Course for people who have lost a loved one either long ago or recently and are still battling to come to terms with their grief. When: 12 March, 6pm Where: 61 6th Ave Edenvale Contact: 082 924 9354 (June) BUSINESS NETWORKING MEETING Join a Business Referral Network Meeting with BNI and begin a new chapter in your business. When: Every Tuesday morning, at 7:15. Where: Keg & Crow, Key West Centre, Bedfordview. Cost: R70. Contact: aletm@minutemanpress.com, or 084 444 6973.
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CHAMPIONS SHINE AT GALA EVENT Holy Rosary Primary School recently held a successful and strongly contended annual Inter-house Gala.
CHAMPIONS: Seen here are the prize-winners. Back: Caitlin Driver (Best U12 Swimmer), Jenna-Leee Lange (Best Open Swimmer; 200m Freestyle Challenge winner, Best Senior Individual Medley, and Senior Victrix Ludorum), Daniella Johnston (Best stand and Spirit - Shanahan House) and Kelly Baker (Winning House - Fatima House). Front: Nicola Henderson and Caitlyn Fish (Best U9 Swimmer - joint), Amelia Nolan (Best U10 Swimmer, Junior Victrix Ludorum - joint), and Diantha Thambiran (Best 100m Freestyle Challenge winner, Best Junior Individual Medley, and Junior Victrix Ludorum - joint), with Mrs Alison Watson (Primary School HOD: Sport).
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HOW WILL TAX INCREASES BE SPENT? OPINION PIECE BY PALESA YATES Those earning under R181 900 a year – or under R15 158.33 a month – will find little comfort in being spared a tax increase because the fuel levy increase of 80.5 cents per litre from 1 April will be anything but an April Fool’s Day joke. Lower earners still need to travel to work, eat, buy new clothes and pay school-fees and have a lower percentage of discretionary income than the higher income earners who will feel their monthly R1,105 tax increase proportionately less. To add insult to injury, commuters are unlikely to see their increased fuel payments filling potholes, fixing traffic lights or being used to pull down gantries. Also, despite a R23-billion allocation to Eskom - with the first of three instalments due to be paid in June - load shedding is bound to continue, with job shedding, no doubt, to follow. An additional two cents per kWh will be required from paying consumers until, according to Minister Nene, the “electricity shortage is over;” but nothing was said in the budget speech about tackling illegal connections and no detailed plan or guarantees were given regarding keeping the lights on. The usual sin taxes on liquor and cigarettes were to be expected and so was the promised spending on infrastructure. The Finance Minister has budgeted R813 billion over the next three years for public infrastructure investment. This should be good news in the light of ageing water infrastructure, crumbling roads in many places and dysfunctional sanitation systems. So should Minister Gordhan’s “Back to Basics” strategy to fix local government and the R4.3 billion allocated to help him. These plans, however, are suspiciously close to the 2016 Local Government Elections. The promise to reduce budget allocations to “noncritical activities” is also hollow. Government-funded bashes at hotels should stop altogether - taxpayers cannot afford to pay for workshops and conferences that end an hour or two after a three-course lunch or that require delegates to stay overnight even when they live nearby. Sadly, not much attention was paid to protecting the new tax increases from being mis-used by govt officials. Only two vague little sentences were allocated to our country’s multibillion-rand-a-year corruption habit. “The fight against corruption remains a central priority. Additional allocations have been made to the Public Protector and the Financial Intelligence Centre for increasing their human resource capacity,” said the Minister. Yet, according to an Eyewitness News report, opposition parties attacked the decision to raise personal income tax, with the ACDP’s Steve Swart saying, “Rather look at corrupt and wasteful expenditure of R30 billion a year.” More money should have been spent on fighting corruption. It’s the one crutch that hasn’t been properly beaten by post apartheid, majority led governance. Kymon Giannakopoulos
THE BUDGET IN BRIEF 2015
EXTRACTED FROM FIN24 / STANDARD BANK BUDGET 2015 INFORGRAPHIC
MINISTE FINANCE LA NENE NHLANH
… our projected economic growth for 2015 is just 2%, down from 2.5% indicated in October last year. We expect growth to rise to 3% by 2017.
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Consumer price inflation peaked at 6.6% in June last year. It has subsequently declined to just 4.4% last month, and is expected to average 4.3% in 2015, laying a foundation for economic growth.
6.4%
GROWTH IN BUDGET DEFICIT:
DEBT & LOAN
GROWTH & INFLATION
GDP GROWTH – Expected to accelerate to 3.0% in 2017
REVENUE
Revenue up by Total projected revenue: R1 188.9 billion
42.5%
EXPENDITURE Expenditure up by Total projected expenditure: R1 351 billion
9.1%
PERSONAL TAX
7.9%
Health and Social – 11.6% Education – 19.6% Defence, Public Order & Safety – 12.6% Economic Affairs – 15.2% Community Amenities & Housing – 14.7% Employment & Social Security – 11.4% Other – 4.7%
Personal tax – 36.4% VAT – 26.2% Corporate Income Tax – 18.7% Fuel Levies – 5.1% Customs and Excise Duties – 7.0% Revenue from other – 6.5%
PROJECTED DEFICIT: -R162.2 BILLION
Defense, Public Order & Safety
Education, Sport & Culture
9.9%
8.8%
5.0%
8.0%
TAX PAYABLE IN RANDS
R0 - R181 900 R181 901 - R284 100 18% of each R1 taxable income
R32 742 + 26% of taxable income above R181 900
R284 101 - R393 200 R393 201 - R550 100
SPENDING PLAN Health & Social Protection
TAXABLE INCOME (OF INDIVIDUALS) :
R59 314 + 31% of taxable income above R 284 100
(3.9% of GDP to come down to 2.5% in 2017/18)
Debt Service Costs
R93 135 + 36% of taxable income above R393 200
Housing & Local Goverment
R550 101 - R701 300 R149 619 + 39% of taxable income above R550 100
13.0% R701 301 AND ABOVE R208 587 + 41% of taxable income above R701 300
INCOME TAX
SIN TAX
IF YOU EARN: R181 900 or less per year you will pay less tax. R200 000 per year – you will pay R21 more per month. R500 000 per year – you will pay R271 more per month. R1.5 Million per year – your tax will increase with R1 105 per month.
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SOCIAL MEDICAL GRANTS SCHEMES OLD AGE R1 410 P/M
FOSTER CARE R860 P/M
Monthly medical scheme contributions tax credits will from 01 March 2015 be DISABILITY increased from R257 R1 410 P/M to R270 per month for the first two beneficiaries and from R172 to R181 per month for each additional beneficiary. Medical tax credits related to medical scheme contributions will be taken into account for CHILD both PAYE and proviSUPPORT sional tax purposes. R330 P/M
NET LOAN DEBT - 42.5% of GDP to stabilise at 43.7% of GDP in 2017/18
DEBT SERVICE COSTS – Rising to R153.4 Billion in 2017/18
INFLATION – Expected to accelerate to 5.7% in 2017
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If the 50c on the fuel levy goes to RAF, I will be satisfied that it is going to a good cause. Government should educate people in terms of how the Budget is spent – this will help prevent service delivery protests. Busisiwe Memela
R162.2 BILLION
2% 4.3%
If there is a revenue shortfall, the credit amount allowed to the various sectors should be tightened. A small thing like stores notifying the public that they qualify for an increase in their credit should stop. Juanita Wallace-Swart
Higher tax is a big issue. A few hundred less rand per month. Plus a higher fuel levy means that the fuel price will go up. Ajay Gangadharan
BUDGET DEFICIT:
FUEL & ENVIRONMENT
FUEL LEVY
30.5 CENTS per litre
ROAD ACCIDENT 50 CENTS per litre
PENSION FUND
To eliminate the potential to avoid estate duty, government proposes that an amount equal to the non deductable contributions to retirement funds will be included in the dutiable estate when a retirement fund member passes away.
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heather.djunga@tametimes.co.za Twenty-two years after his death, Di Thompson is honouring her late father Eric Rowan through selling copies of his autobiography to raise money for the Jeppe schools. “My dad was a Jeppe boy through and through,” explained Thompson. “My mom and I went to Jeppe High School for Girls, so the tradition of the ‘black and white’ is strong in our family,” she said. She recently addressed learners of Jeppe High School for Girls, visiting the school to donate
PROUD: Di Thompson and son, Rowan Thompson, remember the late Eric Rowan. a copy of the book to the school’s library. For Thompson, now owner of the Le Visage beauty salon in Bedfordview, this was a memorable experience. “The last time I was on the school’s stage was in 1971 when I was deputy head girl of the school. So, if your maths is good, you will quickly work out that I am now 60 Shades of Black and White!”
Speaking of the book, she said: “A few years back I was contacted by Rick Smith, a prominent cricket journalist from Tasmania requesting me to write a book about my father. I was delighted and so we got to work! It is a collector’s book published in the United Kingdom by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians and is part of a series called ‘Lives in Cricket’.” She explained that the criteria for selection by the organisation were not only outstanding cricketing ability but also having an interesting personality. “My father Eric fitted both these categories to a tee and we are proud that he is the first South African to be included in this series,” she said. Cricket-lovers will remember Rowan as the cricketer who holds the world record for the oldest player ever to score a double century in a test. She illustrated her father’s beginnings as a great sportsman: “Life was tough for young cricketers when my dad came into the game in the 1920s. He was only 17 when first selected to play in a senior league game for Jeppe Old Boys against Old Edwardians (The rival KES boys). They had a star bowler Buster Nupen and my father did not sleep from the Monday he was selected until the Saturday when the game was to be played because he was so anxious! Sure enough, he was bowled out by the first ball of the skilful Buster and when he walked back to the pavilion he got a cuff across the ear from his angry dad, who said to him: ‘If I ever see you frightened when you go into bat, I will give you a hiding and stop you playing cricket!’” She explained that from that moment on, her dad swore never again to fear a bowler – “In fact, there came a time when the bowlers feared him!” “My father had an illustrious career as an opening batsman,” said Thompson. “In 1939, he made the highest ever first-class score by a South African in South African cricket – 306 not out in Transvaal against Natal at the Old Wanderers Club, and in 1950 set a new Currie Cup record of 277 not out - Transvaal vs Griquas. His most famous record was in 1951 when he scored 236 - South Africa
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