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Bad reflection on state of public health VELANI LUDIDI When the Minister in the Presidency responsible for women, Susan Shabangu, arrived at the Ikhwezi Clinic as part of the “67 Minutes for Mandela”, she walked into the yard, greeted volunteers, took a brush and helped volunteers paint the health care centre.

Clad in an orange work suit, the Minister then put on her gloves and walked around the yard picking up litter and dirt at the clinic that services the communities of Lwandle, Nomzamo and Asanda Village.

She encouraged volunteers who had left their homes, braved the cold weather and dedicated their day and time to International Mandela Day. “I am certain that wherever he is, Madiba is proud because he can see his people have not abandoned him,” she said.

“As we know today is Madiba’s birthday, so this is the best way to celebrate his legacy.”

The Minister went on to interact with members of the community, and handed out blankets and toiletries to young and elderly people with disabilities.

About a month later, all that goodwill seems to have been undone, because a visit to the facility tells a completely different story. The clinic is in a sad state, a mere three years after renovations were completed in 2012.

Patients at the clinic make use of run-down and unhygienic toilets.

The floors are strewn with disposable diapers, sanitary pads, tampons and paper cups.

Dumsani Thatyana, Patients put off by the state of the clinic’s one of the clinic’s regular toilets are compelled to use staff toilets, users, says he was forced which have male and female signs.

On the outside, Ikhwezi Clinic looks serene and peaceful, but inside, patients are greeted by chaos unbecoming of a health facility.

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to use the open field to relieve himself as the pungent smell from the latrines kept many patients away.

“I come to this clinic only because I have no alternative,” he said.

Some patients are forced to use staff toilets which have both male and female signs on the door, which is unusual in public facilities.

However, Councillor Siyabulela Mamkeli, mayoral committee member for health in the City of Cape Town, admitted to the unhealthy state of the facility.

In a recent interview he said: “The clinic management is aware of the challenges at this facility and is working hard to address them.

Not all of the challenges can be addressed overnight, but clients are assured that budget has been allocated in order to make improvements.”

Mamkeli appealed to clients visiting the facility “to work with us by respecting the ablution facilities and helping to keep them clean and tidy after use.”

He claimed the toilets were cleaned at regular intervals.

This statement directly contrasts with what Kasi Vision reporters witnessed, as the toilets were so dirty and smelly it was hard to breathe.

The City also claims to take the safety and health of its patients as its number one priority.

Mamkeli added that the number of clients visiting the clinic per day has, over time, begun to exceed the capacity of the ablutions.

“The City is therefore doing all it can to improve the situation as a matter of urgency,” Mamkeli concluded. )Kasi Vision visited the clinic yesterday (Thursday) and found cleaning staff tidying up the ablution blocks, which, we believe is as a result of the interview. Editor

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EPHOLILE DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Wise up! Be more proactive, don’t be lazy We live in a time where wisdom should be the most crucial element of our lives. Without being self-righteous or anything, I feel as a black nation we are losing what has always distinguished us as a people, wisdom. We are falling into the trap of laziness, and I find we are veering away from progressiveness.

Now you’re probably saying, “what is she on about?”. Well, let me give you an example.

Our winter this year in the Western Cape had virtually no rain. (I constantly ask intercessors to pray for rain because, like electricity and load shedding, we may find ourselves facing water shedding if rain doesn’t come at all!)

This may be a blessing to some who live in shacks, like the people of ePholile and the surrounding informal settlements, whom we did not see migrating from their homes to the community hall this year.

Of course, not having rain in winter does not mean we won’t have it in summer, or any other time of the year – so yes, we must be prepared for the rain when it comes, regardless.

Now, in a place like ePholile it doesn’t seem as if much of that has been happening. One sunny Sunday I took a walk to the Broadway Shopping Centre, looked around and I saw a family sitting in the sun beside their shack sa-

What is an awakened person?

What are we created to do?

What is an awakened person. Many of us believe that the Dalai Lama is an awakened person.

But who else among us is awakened?

Each of us believes he or she is. But are we?

Many think we are because we can speak tsostsi taal. That’s my gripe with many people. We have not changed. We are still they same.

We are still like tsotsis. All we want to do is take, take, take.

Take from someone else. Take from our enemies. And if you talk like that, you are awakened. Think about it. Does an awakened person take from others.

As you sit there thinking about your life, what do you think about?

Don’t tell me you are thinking about taking from someone else, as if that act will restore your soul. Because I don’t think it will.

We are not created to take. We are created to create. If you take and it comes to an end, what will you do next? Will you still take? So you will keep on taking. And others will have to defend themselves.

They will have to build walls around their properties. And what does this tell you? Does it not tell you that our society is one of takers.

We have walls all around us. Today the security industry is such a lucrative business.

And it is just because we are not awakened. We believe in taking from others. We do not believe in creating things for ourselves. We think it is not cool to do that. What if you fail?

For sure, what if you do?

Will that be the end of the world? I don’t think so. Life is long. And yet at the same time it is short. Which means you can take time to create your thing. If you fail, keep on trying.

That’s not a crime.

At the same time it is short because if you do not use your time constructively, you will lose out. Of course those who lose out are the ones that do not believe in creating things for themselves.

They are those that say “I am incapable”, “I can’t!”, “I’m useless.”

They are those that believe they are bewitched. Or, because they are black, they are doomed to failure.

As if God did not endow them with the same powers as whites, Japanese or the Chinese.

But awakened persons do not think like that.

They know what it takes to do things for themselves.

It is perseverance. Self-discipline. Belief.

And desire. What do you want to have. What do you want to be. Awakened persons think like that. And proceed to follow their dreams.

They don’t just want to take. They create.

Stay positive.

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vouring the beautiful day and cooling umphokoqo to feast on.

But their shack looked as if it was going to collapse any time.

A film of what seemed more than likely to happen started playing in my mind. ePholile is built on land that has what we call umthombo (wetlands). On rainy days water comes from underneath the houses and flooding is inevitable. So many dwellings are built on “shaky ground” by chance-takers who are clueless about the finer points of construction.

So, for me, instead of enjoying feasts on beautiful days, take advantage of the respite and fix your house (not an idea that occurs to many people) – you know, lift your structure so the water will not get inside when it rains. Fix the roof so that you don’t have to put dishes on beds, floors and tables.

Now, are we going to blame the government for lack of wisdom here too? Because it seems we put the blame on government for everything nowadays. (Oh, don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe government is immune to lack of wisdom either.)

Nevertheless, every year Z especially when the rains come Z the story hardly changes.

When the informal settlements experience

flooding people are moved to community halls, and are helped by government officials.

Then the City’s disaster management personnel provide them with oovedinga and food parcels, photos are taken, and we hear on the news that something was done for the people. Year after year I pose the same old question X how is this disaster managed really?

Why is it that no one, from government or affected communities, ever thinks the money for oovedinga and food parcels could go towards preparing for umhlozayo? We have companies selling concrete in our neighbourhood.

We all know that when the truck goes out to pour concrete wherever the client needs it, it occasionally returns with concrete remainder. Can’t the government and the community leaders ask the companies to use that to better the floors of the shacks?

Can’t the ePholile people start ilima during the beautiful days and work together to identify dripping roofs and fix them together? Instead our people seem to enjoy being victims and not victors, and beneficiaries instead of proactive communal practitioners.

Seriously, it is time to wise up, Mz’ontsundu!

You are complete, competent I was never a Michael Jackson admirer, granted the guy was popular and celebrated all over the world. He was also very good at singing and dancing.

I could not stand him though. Born black, he decided to change his natural looks and performed a host of surgical procedures to look Caucasian.

By changing his looks he was insulting God. He was also looking down on all black people.

I do not wish to speak ill of the dead.

There was a good side to him as well, including donating money to the poor, singing against wars in Africa and elsewhere.

I recall that on one occasion he was interviewed on CNN, a news agency. Many school kids on a school trip to USA had expressed an eagerness to be like him when they grew up.

Instead, he replied: “Do not wish to be like me, do not wish to be popular and famous like me or to become a pop star like me ... there are many things that you can do to be famous if you will; if you become a street sweeper, sweep that street as though it has never been swept before,” and so on.

After that statement my thoughts were racing about jobs that most of us take for granted.

The lesson here is, whatever you do, do it as if it has never been done before you.

Do it as if it’s the last thing you want to do before you die. Do it all with a smile.

Do it with a sense of diligence and dedication, a sense of economic revolution against job scarcity and unemployment and inequality.

It’s not wrong to be ambitious, but what you do now is paving the way to that dream job, it is enhancing your CV and experiential training.

Even though I may never understand why Michael Jackson decided to be white, I have no right to judge, nor will I understand why Mshoza or Kelly Khumalo decided to bleach their skins white.

Mind you, I also fail to understand why my daughter Nomgigi wants to go for hair extensions, weaves.

Even why she wants to hide her natural looks with all the makeup, eye lashes band nail polish or rouge or lipstick.

Whenever I tried to reason or raise my concern with her, I’ve always been lambasted as being backward or stingy, or too traditional.

I always argued that you are beautiful as you are, you don’t need to change yourself in order to be appropriate or relevant.

Your black skin does not mean you are below average and a second-rate person.

I don’t know if this is linked to South African or Africa’s colonial history, but white skin is always the epitome of beauty and dark is always associated with evil or danger.

Some even suggest that people from “Brown Nations” around the world have a tendency of looking down upon darkskinned people!

Allow me to quote writings by the late Steve Biko in his I write what I like series

by Frank Talk.

Black is beautiful, the second, Black Man you are on your own, and the third, Black souls wrapped in white skins.

In these writings he stressed the point that “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed”. He went on to describe the Black Consciousness movement as an attitude and a way of life.

Being black is not a sin, don’t be ashamed, don’t apologise and don’t explain. You are complete and competent.

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CROWD KEPT ON ASKING FOR MORE

Global choir joins local choir for musical evening On 18 August Solomon Qatyana Primary School in Lwandle shared the stage with a global choir at the Simanyene High School hall, singing and dancing to a mixture of African choral tunes.

Kasi Vision’s Nkuthalo David Tyutulo was there to capture the magic.

Village Harmony is an international choir that was formed by South African Bongani Magatyana and Patty Cuyler from America.

The choir has become a household name with choral music lovers around the country and the world, as it is comprised of singers from across the continents, including our own.

And a chance meeting with Vuyolwethu Maseti, choirmaster at Solo-

mon Qatyana Primary School, led to the choir being invited to perform at the school.

“They said to me they had always wanted to perform in the Western Cape, but needed a host choir so they can be able to express their music,” Maseti offered.

So it is that Maseti set off to organise a gig with his own school choir and Village Harmony.

Then, last Tuesday, the collaboration became reality when the two choirs shared the stage at the school.

True to their name, the visitors impressed their hosts with harmonious melodies.

Although the performance took place way past school hours, it did not dampen the spirits of learners,

Members of the Village Harmony Choir come from different parts of the world, including the USA, Australia, France and South Africa.

teachers and their visitors.

Solomon Qatyana belted out with a song titled ‘Yizanokuthath’ imfundiso, which seemed to draw squeals of excitement from the audience.

Even the American visitors did not disappoint, what with singing popular local numbers in the various vernacular of South Africa. One of the songs, titled Hold On, seemed poignant in the context of keeping on walking and following one’s dreams, as there are obstacles in the road to success.

The crowd kept on asking for more.

The hosts rounded off the evening by performing a stage act involving dancers in traditional attire.

However, the cherry on top was the solo singing of a traditional song by a young American from Village Harmony, who sent the crowd into a frenzy with his solo rendition of the number titled Sabela which he followed up with the seSotho song titled Heyi wena shiyanyana.

Patty Cuyler said she and her entourage were grateful for the collaboration between the two choirs.

After the performance, Thobeka Mqikela, the deputy principal of Solomon Qatyana primary school, thanked them in return for entertaining the school.

Guild reaches out to destitute DAVID TYUTULO The youth section of the Nomzamo Wesleyan Society Guild took time to help the destitute in the area out of their misery.

They visited the Rametsi family of Lukhanyiso Street in Lwandle and handed them groceries.

According to Thembalethu Mancunga, the outreach programme was designed to involve the church in community affairs.

“With the challenges they are facing, they should know that God has not forsaken them,” he says.

Members of the Wesleyan guild are (from left) Charlotte Mancunga said a scout involved in Mbuse, Anezwa Pino and Nosithathu Matse. Seated are Mahthe project had identified the Rametsi lompo and her brother Elliott Rametsi. On the right are, Themfamily as one of those that needed balethu Mncunga, Zukile Dliwako, Wanda Ndala and Sandishelp the most. iwe Mbana.

PHOTO: WESLEY GUILD He added that what made his heart bleed was hearing that the family survived only to assist the family. through the efforts of a sibling who is not mentalBubele Qikwa said they take turns to visit the ly sound. Esona Seku, one of the guilders, prom- family, and make sure that they have something ised to contact social development as a means to eat.

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The Solomon Qatyana Primary School choir on stage

Inspiring peers through art INDWE MHAGA A recently formed youth group from Asanda Village hopes to bring inspiration to their peers through the performing arts and entertainment, in endless efforts to steer them in the right direction.

Called the Strand Youth Development Project, it focuses mainly on further enhancing artistic capacities of youth and using these to address the challenges they face in society daily.

Nkuthalo Tyutulo is a founding member of the youth collective.

He had this to say on the day of the launch: “Teenagers are faced with more difficulties than adults can ever think of; the choices they make today will determine their course in life.

“We want to give them something productive to do in their idle time to assist in developing their mentality and decisionmaking skills.”

The newly-formed group recently shot a film entitled uNomathemba no Lizo, which was produced by Nkuthalo Tyutulo and Nkosayithethi Phakane, and screened during the organisation’s launch.

According to the producers, the aim of the film was to encourage youth development programmes in the three townships of Lwandle, Nomzamo and Asanda Village, recognising their strengths aside from creating a platform for self-expression and good morals. uNomathemba noLizo is a local film that

Actors Siphe Mdolomba, Nkos’ayithethi Phakane, Inga Kopeshe, Bongani Nombanjana, Vuyolwethu Ntanyana and Seele Mokheseng, of the Strand Youth Development performing a play, uNomsa, about teenage pregnancyat the launch of the organisation.

PHOTO: INDWE MHAGA

was written and produced by David Tyutulo and Nkosayithethi Phakane, starring local stars Siyabulela Ngaleka, Kopanang Alfred Motsohi and Manana Latoya Thabeng.

The film concerns a young girl that leaves her village boyfriend Lizo to look for a job in the city and to meet a social network boyfriend Sibusiso.

She ends up being killed by the new boyfriend after he had learnt about Lizo.

The film was not funded by any company or investor, but completed by using Tyutulo’s equipment from Bra Dave Productions, a small business he started in 2010 doing photography and events video recordings.

Teenage pregnancy is at the top of discussions around the country, so it was also a topic of focus on the day.

The challenges relating to substance abuse among male youth and the rate of school drop-out were also discussed.

Speakers emphasised that educating the youth around the risks associated with drugs and unprotected sex and promiscuity was paramount, if the tide is to be stemmed.

Tyutulo added: “We need to arrest these negative thoughts before they take hold of the individual. Educational success and the well-being of our brothers and sisters in this township is crucial.”

The proceedings concluded with entertainment from local hip hop artist V.V.C Gang and Rum ’n Coke rocked the stage performing their new songs.

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Views on taking law into own hands One Sunday morning in June, the community of Lwandle woke up to the gruesome find of three young men who had been burned to death.

Five grown men were subsequently arrested for this alleged act of vigilantism. Kasi Vision’s Velani Ludidi went out on a limb to ask the community how they felt about people taking the law into their own hands.Surely, they hold different views?

AMOS JACOBS: said people should not take the law into their hands as “We have police officers and community forums like Khupha where people should report crimes.

It doesn’t help taking the law into your hands, let the law take its course.

LINDOKUHLE XAKI differed vehemently with moderate views: “Criminals must be killed because the crime rate is increasing every year here in South Africa. Criminals rob you today, get arrested and after two weeks they are back on our streets. Taking the law into our own hands is the way out as criminals are no longer scared of the police or of going to prison. The police are failing us and we are tired(of criminals).

SIVIWE SOMTSWEWU Lwandle Police Station Commander, could never support vigilantism, because he views it as an act of criminality. “It’s barbaric and it’s one of the unwanted ways to solve problems. People should know they are not solving crime but are committing murder. The only people trained to preside over any courts are the judges through the laws designed by parliament. The country’s constitution gives every one a right to live, that is why the death penalty was removed from legislation. No one has the right to take another person’s life, no matter what the other person has done.

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ASANDA MATEWU holds that since crime is one of the major problems in Strand and people feel that the police are not doing enough to bring criminals into book, this results in some community members taking the law into their own hands and punishing the culprits.

Criminals need to be punished. Even now they are taking kid’s lunch boxes here at Nomzamo High School, which is not a cool thing to do. Beat a skollie to teach him a lesson, that’s all I can say.

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EZINKOMENI UP AND RUNNING

Residents rebuild after devastation VELANI LUDIDI Last week, residents of Ezinkomeni informal settlement in Lwandle were left destitute after a raging fire destroyed more than 30 shacks and displaced more than 60 families in one go.

According to reports, the fire was sparked by a faulty electrical connection.

It was on a Sunday night, and many of the victims lost everything in the fire, although no injuries or loss of life was reported.

On Monday, many of those working had to make do with only the clothes on their backs.

School children lost books and uniforms, as even the fire fighters struggled to extinguish the fire.

Because of the close proximity of the shacks, they could not manoeuvre their engine to the scene of the fire.

In the aftermath of the fire, the City of Cape Town’s Disaster Management quickly moved in to offer relief services, like hot meals, blankets and clothing, to stave off the effects of the bitter Cape winter on the victims.

By midday Monday, they were on hand to offer the affected residents starter pack materials so they can rebuild their homes.

Nonesi Nophondo had this to say in the aftermath of the fire: “I don’t even have an ID book now, my children are not in school because all their clothes, including their uniforms, perished in the fire.”

Leonard Atlehang,14, a learner at Solomon Qatyana Primary School, and his parents were lucky to have managed to salvage some items before their shack was razed to the ground.

Atlehang and his parents have since been taken in by a relative.

A man surveys the damage to his shack the morning after.

He said: “I am grateful we all survived the fire and that no one got hurt, but it hurts to know that I am now homeless, I sometimes find myself thinking about all that we lost and where will my mother get the money to buy new furniture.”

However, Sinelizwi Manimani, 13, lost everything, including his school uniform, books and stationery, and has been attending school with only the clothes on his back.

Nevertheless, their school has been generous enough to provide them with new books and stationery.

Buhle Gqibeliso, 11, another learner at Christmas Tinto Primary, displayed trauma on the day of the interview.

Although her family had managed to save some of their belongings, she was shocked to witness theft at the height of the tragedy.

She said she saw unknown people jump out of their vehicle, and, without saying a word, load a neighbour’s refrigerator onto the back of the van and drove off.

According to reports, the fire started at the shack of a man known only as Yondela, who said he had had a faulty electrical connection to his house for a while before the fire.

He added that although he had reported the fault to the relevant authorities, no assistance came his way.

Kasi Vision writers and photographers Tarzan Mbita, Lerato Maduna, Velani Ludidi and Indwe Mhaga visited Ezinkomeni after the tragedy to capture the life of its inhabitants as it unfolded in the aftermath of the fire.

Following is a series of pictures depicting the events leading up to the reconstruction of the shacks.

A man takes a breather as a frontend loader clears the rubble after what seemed to one resident “a long night”

People huddle together in the cold night after salvaging what they could from the fire that struck Ezinkomeni.

Yibanathi Havi, who managed to salvage school wear and Sinelizwi Manimani, who lost everything in the incident.

Municipal services and workers were roped in to clear the site of the fire, in time to prevent the victims having to endure winter elements in a very cold Cape winter.

The municipality was quick to restore services to the area, as can be seen here. The electricity department was also roped in to restore power to the area.

A dog takes a nap (foreground) during the operation to clear the area of fire rubble as the front­end loader goes about its routine in the background.

As can be seen here, children lost out on school on the Monday after the Sunday fire. As the sun seemed to smile on them, some residents found time to bask in its glory and chat about events of the night.

Men who missed out on going to work because of the fire, volunteered their time and skills to help rebuild the shacks with the donated “starter packs”. Here Nonesi Nophond, left, and Luleka Ntsweli, far right in red beanie, also tucked in to help reconstruct their structures.

Luleka Ntsweli, left, and Nonesi Nophondo seem happy that their structures are almost finished building.

Photo left: Yibanathi Havi was lucky to have his schoolwear, while Sinelizwi Manimani lost all his belongings to the fire, and was forced to wear his only remaining clothes to school. However, their school reissued them with stationery.

As has become the norm, affected residents were given free “starter packs” by the council to help them with rebuilding their structures.

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