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A WARM WELCOME BACK Having been closed since April last year for a R4 million facelift, the Rondebosch Public Library, has once again reopened. Pictured are Zahid Badroodien, Mayco member for community service and health; Robyn De Villiers, children’s librarian; Fezile Hlangana, library and information service: marketing and communications; Lameez Taliep, assistant librarian; and Yvonne Naidoo, principal librarian. Patrons of the library can now make use of its drop-and-collect service. The library also caters for limited study and SmartCape capacity due to level one lockdown regulations. See page 3 for the full story.
UPPER CLAREMONT
Heritage protection drive NETTALIE VILJOEN NETTALIE.VILJOEN@MEDIA24.COM
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mbracing the future, preserving our past. While seemingly opposites, these two phrases stand side by side in one sentence – very much like the City of Cape Town’s densification strategy on the one hand, and residents’ desire to protect the heritage resources of their communities on the other. Ensuring these two forces meet instead of clash is the challenge facing many suburbs located in the south. According to an executive summary of the City’s densification strategy, densification means “making more efficient use of our limited urban space – in other words, finding a place for more people to live and work”. Areas targeted for densification include development and activity routes, such as Main Road; activity streets (a local street section of concentrated activity) such as Newlands Main Street, and major economic opportunity zones such as Claremont/Wynberg Central Business. The summary explains this can be done in
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Cape Town by building townhouses, second dwellings (“granny flats”), semi-detached houses, double storeys, low-rise apartments, and, “where appropriate, higher-rise flats”. However, it also states that when urban planners talk about higher density living, they do not mean there should be “high-rise buildings everywhere or strange-looking tall buildings in the middle of residential areas”. “In some areas, three-storey to five-storey buildings will fit in well with a neighbourhood’s character; in other areas, higher-rise flats are already common, so another similar building would not look out of place. In many suburban areas, subdivisions and second dwellings are almost ‘invisible’ and do not change the feel of the neighbourhood at all,” the summary reads. Yet it was exactly the construction of such “strange-looking tall buildings” in the middle of a residential area which led to the formation of the Upper Claremont Residents and Ratepayers Association (UCRRA). A registered heritage conservation body with Heritage Western Cape (HWC), the UCRRA was founded in 2017 by local residents as a result of poor developments which negatively affected the heritage resources and the
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townscape of the area, explains Alexis van der Merwe, chair of the association. One example is The Collingwood, a five-storey block, set on the northern side of Osborne Road in Upper Claremont. The block of flats, which replaced a grade III single-storey structure between 2015 and 2016, today stands shoulder to shoulder with single- and doublestorey residential buildings alongside it on the northern side of Osborne Road and the Bishoplea Park. The western adjacent singlestorey plot was recently sold to a developer, paving the way for yet another high-rise building set to rise in the area. Concerned with the negative impact these large-scale developments were having on the heritage resource and character of the area, the community and interested and affected parties approached the UCRRA with support for its heritage survey of the area and the application for formal heritage protection of the Upper Claremont Village area via a heritage protection overlay zone (HPOZ) procedure. “We now have approximately 200 people, all local residents, who have added their names and support to the UCRRA’s drive for formal protection,” Van der Merwe adds. According to City’s Bo-Kaap HPOZ guide-
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line document, “an HPOZ is the mechanism for the protection of heritage places that the City considers to be conservation-worthy in terms of its heritage strategies. The tangible and intangible aspects of heritage places are acknowledged. The main drive of the HPOZ is the management of the physical/built aspects of heritage: these can be the physical components of traditional practices and traditions”. Van der Merwe describes it as a means to protect and manage the heritage resources of the city. “Densification and development will happen and is required. However, it needs to be managed in a way that it does not damage the heritage resources of this special area.” The first step in the HPOZ assessment process requires the completion of a heritage audit or survey. Having done its background planning and research, with input from the City’s environment heritage resource management department (EHRM), Heritage Western Cape (HWC), as well as specialist heritage professionals as to the correct procedures and processes, the UCRRA survey team (consisting of 10 people) began work on the heritage audit in 2019. V Continued on page 2.
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PEOPLE'S POST | CLAREMONT | RONDEBOSCH Tuesday, 10 November 2020
Chance to chase culinary dream Aspiring chefs or those wanting a change of career could win the chance to see their dreams come true by entering the Capsicum Culinary Studio’s Chef Talent Scout Competition. Up for grabs are six bursaries amounting to R740 000, including the main prize of a three-year bursary towards the study of the school’s advanced culinary arts programme valued at R200 000. The other five prizes will be one-year bursaries for a professional chef programme or professional patisserie programme, awarded to regional finalists to study at one of Capsicum Culinary Studio’s six campuses across the country – Boksburg, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria and Johannesburg. To enter the competition, contestants must create a dish – sweet or savoury – using a red capsicum pepper or any other red ingredient; take a good, clear photo of the finished dish
and upload it onto their Instagram page, tagging @Capsicumcooking and using the hashtag #CapsicumTalent. Entrants must be 17 years of age or older. The competition closes at midnight on Monday 30 November with the names of the 10 finalists from each region announced on Wednesday 9 December. These finalists will be invited to participate in a cook-off in January at the campus closest to them. The winner from each campus will compete in a cook-off to be held at Capsicum’s Rosebank campus in February. A previous bursary winner from Cape Town in another competition, Simone Kershaw (22), is studying the one-year professional chef programme and says her time at Capsicum has been a “bit of rocky road given the Covid-19 lockdown”.
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Due to the time and effort required for the survey work, the team decided to adopt a phased approach. Based on past research and survey work, the team chose the first or Phase one survey precinct as the area bounded by Newlands, Protea, Bishoplea and Osborne roads. The team firstly developed an inventory, namely the age of the building, rarity, roofscape, setback, and also the grading, for each individual site (using external and internal, if possible, site visits), with reference to past research and survey data. The sites and precinct were then revisited, with the focus being on contextual significance, streetscapes and urban pattern (townscape). In terms of the findings, Van der Merwe says: “The survey confirmed that the area has special characteristics and heritage value or significance and can be considered as a heritage resource worthy of protection. This view was also highlighted by the findings of HWC assessments in the area.” With all of this completed, the UCRRA is currently busy with the last step in the survey – documenting the social history of the area. UCRRA has commenced a study of all history related to the area, including reviews of maps, interviews and with reference to several research documents. “This study will take a long time, however, in terms of the key findings, both the literary research and interviews have highlighted the important history related to the forced removals from the Belletjiesbos or “Malay Fields” area in Upper Claremont, specifically between Frederick and Ingle Roads. This will impact the significance of this section of the precinct,” Van der Merwe adds. The UCRRA is busy engaging with the relevant bodies with regard to the survey work completed and the HPOZ application. However, a lot still needs to happen before such an HPOZ will either be granted or denied by the City, including discussions with all interested and affected parties. Van der Merwe admits that such a debate surrounding spatial planning and densification versus heritage protection can be difficult and a contentious topic. V For more information on UCRRA or to get involved, email Wendy Whittaker at upper.claremont.association@gmail.com.
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HEALTH
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ith 76 medical schemes listed on the Council for Medical Schemes’s (CMS) website, there can be no doubt that the health industry equates to big business. But, as with any billion-rand industry, there is also a huge opportunity for fraud, wastage and abuse (FWA). CMS, the statutory body established by the Medical Schemes Act to provide regulatory supervision of private health financing through medical schemes, estimates that 15% of claims in the healthcare industry contain some element of fraud wastage and abuse. While the tendency of medical scheme members, scoffing at high premiums, to place this in the “Why should I care?” category, does exist, Bonitas medical aid and Discovery Health say they really should. People’s Post recently reached out to both these medical schemes – the two largest in South Africa – to ask how prevalent FWA is and how widespread repercussions are. Bonitas answered, saying considering that medical schemes are not for profit and are owned by their members, fraudulent activities impact funds to pay for claims and can contribute towards increased premiums. In short, it has a direct impact on every member of the scheme. Discovery Health agrees: “Undoubtedly, fraudulent activity and billing abuse is a threat to the cost and sustainability of healthcare funding. Estimates show that fraud, waste and billing abuse cost medical aid schemes several billion rands every year in funds that could be used to pay for the critical healthcare needs of our medical aid members.
Checks and balances Although Discovery emphasises that the vast majority of healthcare providers are honest, hard-working, highly ethical professionals, forensic investigations have revealed that there is a small minority of healthcare providers who attempt to defraud medical schemes. Discovery estimates that R1.7 billion of its members’ money is lost to fraudulent claims per year. According to Bonitas, waste and abuse is far higher than fraud and is more easily quantifiable in terms of values as it is usually a clear contravention of tariff codes or a rule that exists. Most of the common practices include billing for services not rendered (over-billing), using incorrect codes for services (at a higher tariff), waiving of deductibles and/ or co-payments, billing for a non-covered service as a covered one, unnecessary or false prescribing of drugs and corruption due to kickbacks and bribery. Bonitas has two levels of checks – namely managed care protocols and treatment guidelines – in place which it checks against in terms of how much the procedure should cost and its FWA initiatives which identify irregularities. The codes assigned to services play a huge role in sniffing out fraudulent activities. Bonitas explains that every medical treatment and diagnosis has a specific code called an ICD 10 code associated with it. “This is a coding system developed by the
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Bonitas advises the following steps to prevent medical scheme fraud. . Keep your personal medical scheme details (such as your membership number) private. . Check your medical scheme statements to make sure that all claims are correct and that you actually received the services you are being charged for. . Keep your membership card safe.
World Health Organisation (WHO) which translates the written description of medical and health information into standard ICD 10 codes. These are important as it allows the scheme to identify the code of the healthcare service you require and to make sure payment is made. The correct ICD 10 code must be included on every claim to ensure you are paid for the correct benefit and the healthcare practitioners are paid for their service.”
Funds recovered Bonitas uses dedicated functional areas which analyses a set of data by applying various algorithms over a period to identify “outliers” or abnormal data compared. These outliers are then scored in terms of the probability of the data being fraudulent. For example, the system analyses all GP claims, compares them and if one set of claims stands out in the data set it is scored according to a level of difference in the claiming pattern. The results are referred to a forensic analyst, using a case management system, to review these high scoring outliers. Using these stringent forensic and positive claim change behaviour, Bonitas says it is estimated that the fund saved over R400 million for the period January 2016 to September 2019. This money is invested back into the fund. Discovery says it too has invested substantially in eliminating FWA in healthcare. Efforts include the deployment of a specialised team of over 100 analysts and professional investigators as well as proprietary forensic software that uses sophisticated algorithms to analyse claims data and identify unusual claim patterns. Over the past four years, between 2016 and 2019, Discovery has recovered or saved approximately R2.1 billion as a result of fraud and forensics activities. With regard to how monies recovered as a result of fraud or abuse are allocated, Discovery says 100% of all recoveries are returned directly to the medical scheme, to the benefit of all members of the scheme. Where the fraud recovery can be accurately linked to a specific claim by a specific member, the recovery is allocated back to that member to ensure a restoration of benefits and limits, if relevant. If the recovered payment came from the member’s medical savings account, then the recovery is always credited back to that account. “There are however situations where it is not possible to link the recovered funds directly back to an individual member’s claim. In these situations, the recoveries are allocated to the scheme’s risk pool, for the benefit of all of the members of the scheme,” Discovery explains. Reporting fraud Should members suspect there has been an overcharge, Bonitas advises that members contact the hospital or doctor directly to query an account and ask for an explanation, breakdown and the ICD codes and the costs. If they suspect fraud, then they should report this to their medical scheme so that this can be investigated. “Our most invaluable tool against FWA are our members,” says Lee Callakoppen, principal officer of Bonitas. “To assist them to be proactive in joining us in the fight, we have a toll-free fraud hotline (0800 112 811) to report any incidents of suspected fraud, waste and abuse and encourage them to use it.” Discovery also encourages members to engage with their healthcare providers and to contact the medical scheme. Should a member suspect fraud, and want to protect their identities, an anonymous tip offline is available on 0800 00 45 11 (toll-free phone number) or email discovery@tip-offs.com, administered by Deloitte to ensure true independence and full anonymity. As soon as Discovery has been informed of any billing or claims irregularities, an investigation will ensue.
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PEOPLE'S POST | CLAREMONT | RONDEBOSCH Tuesday, 10 November 2020
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‘Grand old dame’ at her best R
ondebosch Public Library, one of the oldest libraries in Cape Town, reopened this week after being closed for more than 16 months due to extensive renovations. Patrons of the library can now make use of its drop-and-collect service. The library also caters for limited study and SmartCape capacity due to level one lockdown regulations. The library closed its doors in April last year for the R4 million facelift. The expected completion date had to be extended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Some of the upgrades included replacing the asbestos roof with Italian slate tiles (which included the full restoration of the coupler), major repairs to an interior wall, repair work to underlying brickwork and plastering in other areas of the library and the repairing of woodwork, which entailed some intricate work around the internal window frames and architraves. In addition, the entire interior was repainted, except the high ceiling in the main area, and all of the facility’s carpets were replaced. “It has been a long wait, but it has been worth it. Many of the City’s libraries are grand old dames that require quite a bit of TLC (tender loving care) to ensure that they look their best, and are able to continue serving the public. Rondebosch is no exception, and we can’t wait for the return of full-scale services so that the loyal patrons may see and experience the investment that the City has made in the space,” said the City’s Mayco member for community services and health, Zahid Badroodien. The library is housed in the well-known Rondebosch Town Hall built in 1898. It became part of the original Town Hall building in 1907 and is home to some 80 000 books. The work was carried out in consultation
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All of the Rondebosch library’s carpets were replaced as part of the R4 million renovations. with a heritage architect to ensure compliance with the aesthetics and history of the building. “We encourage patrons to invest in the space too, by helping us look after it, as well as the many thousands of resources that fill the shelves,” Badroodien says.
He added that the City hoped the library would soon be able to extend its service offering. “Our phased-in approach allows us to plan and take all the necessary steps to ensure the safety of our staff, patrons and visitors during these challenging times,” said Badroodien.
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PEOPLE'S POST | CLAREMONT | RONDEBOSCH Tuesday, 10 November 2020
Concrete solution for nurdles RACINE EDWARDES racine.edwardes@media24.com Eco-activists are calling on the government to devise protocols and respond on urgent environmental issues, like the nurdle spillage, which is being felt not only in Cape Town but further west on the South African coastline. For now, however, local non-government and non-profit organisations (NGOs and NPOs) are taking it upon themselves to save the ocean and its animals. Last week, Aaniyah Omardien of the Beach Co-op told People’s Post that, according to her sources, nurdles have been washing up on beaches from Kommetjie all the way to Plettenberg Bay (“What the nurdle?”, 27 October). The Pristine Earth Collective, a NGO dedicated to eliminating singleuse plastics in South Africa, has decided to put the wildlife-threatening nurdles to good use as part of a pilot
project that was first introduced in South Africa last year. George van der Schyff, director at the Collective, explains: “The retrieved nurdles will be taken to the Center of Regenerative Design and Collaboration (CRDC) pilot plant at Cape Concrete in Blackheath where, using a patented formula, the nurdles will join seven types of discarded plastics to be extruded into a building aggregate, making up 10-15% of concrete blocks and pipes.” In simpler terms, the nurdles will be turned into the “environmentallyfriendly” concrete used to make the much-talked-about plastic brick – not to be confused with the eco-brick (plastic-stuffed cooldrink bottles). Van der Schyff explains that this plastic inclusive formula “makes them lighter and stronger with no corrosive properties”. “The concept has proven effective at scale in Costa Rica with a full-scale plant processing over 50 tons of plas-
Nurdles found at Muizenberg beach.
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tic per day, and is being trialled in SA and the US,” he adds. Last year, Deon Robbertze, CRDC South Africa lead partner, said the possibilities for usage of the plastic brick were illuminated. “What we’re doing is taking the (problem) plastic and embedding it into a building product – it doesn’t have to be a brick, it could be a curbstone, it could be concrete pipes, it could be any cement/concrete product. So, you’re adding value and embedding it, you’re lowering the carbon footprint, you’re creating jobs,” Robbertze explained. “And everyone speaks about ‘end of life’, but there’s no end of life to this product because in 60 years if that house needs to be broken down, you can crush it up and do it again. And there’s no deterioration in the strength of the product.” According to Van der Schyff, this is the best solution for the nurdle problem. This, he explains, is because: “They cannot be reused or go into the recycling supply stream, so, sadly, the only other alternative is landfill, which is simply not an option in our eyes.” Nurdles are still being collected to prevent animals from ingesting them as food, among other reason, and will be used for the plastic brick project. They can be dropped off at Cape Radd, Shark Spotters, Two Oceans Aquarium, Kommetjie Surf Shop, Pisces Dive Centre and Beach Blanc Café with your name and the name of the beach on which they were found, to document the scope of the problem. V Visit Pristine Earth Collective at pristinecollective.com or the Beach Co-op on Facebook for more information.
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ikini-clad women of all shapes and sizes turned heads for all the right reasons during a Jerusalema Dance Challenge at Muizenberg Beach. At the turn of the new month, on Sunday 1 November, the dozen Phatt Society and Differently Beautiful ambassadors set out with the aim of drawing attention to body positivity as part of the organisations ongoing #BodyLiberation movement (Phatt and fabulous, People’s Post, 13 October). Melissa Smith, founder of Differently Beautiful and Phatt Society, and the team of plus-sized women were eager to participate in this challenge. “It is not expected from plussized women to do the challenge but we had one vision. We are here to express ourselves as differently thick women, with equal flexibility and movement,” she says. Smith says the challenge has never been done by a group of plus-sized women in this fashion and supporters cheered the women on at the beach. Elmarie Redelinghuys (28), one of the participants, says she auditioned to be part of the event after seeking help while suffering from depression. “I was not sure of what I was getting myself into, but the requirements for the challenge was to be able to dance in a bathing suit and be confident and comfortable.” For Redelinghuys, from Eersteriver, participating in the challenge made her feel unstoppable and accepted among her kind of society again. Women travelled from as far as Worcester and Grabouw to be part of the event. This initiative forms part of an ongoing campaign to get
women to feel comfortable in their own skin. “As part of my EmpowHER Campaign, I felt the need to create an environment where females will be proud to represent the ideal world where all people of all shapes, weights and sizes are able to be themselves and not hide away just because someone else is uncomfortable with how they look,” she says. “More so a space for plussized women to embrace their bodies and wear swimsuits with confidence, regardless of what society deems acceptable. The aim of this event is for anyone who has had to deal with body or fat-shaming and name calling as well as people who actually bully others because of how they look.” The dance challenge was a precurser to the annual Pool Honeys and Thick Thighs cookout to be hosted by Differently Beautiful and Phatt Society on Saturday 5 December. The event was inspired by Smith’s own negative experiences at pool parties and beaches. “The Phatt Cookout Pool Party event, will have a sea of plussized bloggers, motivaters, and everyday curvy females who will get to dance, lounge, take gorgeous selfies, and swim without feeling the need to cover up. This party won’t just be about having a good time – it will be about creating a space for women to feel good about their bodies,” says Smith, adding that continued exposure is key. “We want women to first find their confidence here, I wish to continue to show women that sexy has no size, clearly, we need this community and body-positive events like these to show the world that all bodies are good bodies.” V For tickets or more information, contact Melissa Smith on 081 796 9892 or dbphatt@gmail.com. Tickets to the cookout are also available via Quicket.
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Phatt ambassadors who travelled from far and wide to participate in the dance challenge.
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PEOPLE'S POST | CLAREMONT | RONDEBOSCH Tuesday, 10 November 2020
ZABALAZA THEATRE FESTIVAL WINNER
Poetic work tackles gender violence T
he Baxter’s Zabalaza Theatre Festival 2020 winner, First Accused, written and directed by Mava Silumko, will be performed at the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio, with six performances only, in November. The play was selected out of 36 productions at the 10th annual Baxter Zabalaza Theatre Festival which was held in March, just days before lockdown and the national state of disaster were announced. First Accused looks at how the South African justice system fails the women who suffer emotional, physical or sexual abuse at the hands of their spouses.
The cast of four is made up of writer and director Mava Silumko with Buhle Sam, Sinazo Guga and Lihle Qobongoshe. Silumko, from Strand, has been a participant at the festival for the past seven years. In 2017 he was awarded the Most Outstanding Artist of the festival. “Winning the Best of Zabalaza for 2020 is one of my greatest achievements to date and, given that I have been participating in the festival since 2013, my dream and goal was always to receive this award,” says Silumko. “I hope this production will help to create awareness around this scourge which has
and continues to ravage South Africa. Enough is enough – we have been battling with this issue for too long now.” This year the festival celebrated a decade of the finest development theatre as it continues to develop theatre practitioners from in and around the Western Cape, by providing them with performance platforms so that they can realise their creative concepts. The winning production goes through a mentorship process to raise the standard of the work before it is mounted for a two-week season at the Baxter. The continued support and commitment
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UCT ParaSports Club raises T awareness on blind football he ParaSports Club at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is on a mission to have blind football included as one of the university’s official sporting codes. As one of the first steps towards achieving this goal, the club hosted a benchmarking webinar on the growth of the sport in other parts of the continent and for tips and advice on what UCT needs to do to get the ball rolling. Muya Koloko, one of the founding members of the UCT ParaSports Club and the organiser of the webinar, said the club has been facilitating ongoing conversations with stakeholders on ways to include blind football as an official UCT sporting code. He said the club had earlier collaborated with the League of Friends of the Blind (Lofob) to host a series of workshops to introduce both students and staff to the sport. He described the webinar as phase one of an ambitious endeavour to grow the sport on campus, in the province and eventually in the
country. “UCT is in a prime position to build not only blind football, but para-sport in general. A university’s place is to innovate, educate and improve. Sport is an easy way to build community connections and to make a lasting difference in the lives of people,” Koloko said. The next steps for the UCT ParaSports Club are to further familiarise themselves with the sport, evaluate the opportunities and stumbling blocks and assess how best to integrate blind football as an official sport on campus. Short-term plans are focused on collaborating with UCT Football and Lofob to establish two blind football teams to play in a mini competition. The medium- to long-term goals, Koloko said, are to use the competition as a vehicle to drive awareness of the sport, and ultimately to host a Western Cape blind football league.
“So far, we’re only at step one, which is us trying to create awareness of the sport. Once that awareness grows and the situation allows, we plan on pushing integrated friendly matches to get as many players with or without visual impairments to try the game and gain interest.” Koloko said the club hopes to host a blind football clinic during the course of 2021, depending on the prevalence of Covid-19 infections. The University of Venda and Nelson Man-
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Blind football takes centre stage
The UCT ParaSports club is developing blind football.
T
he ParaSports Club at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is on a mission to have blind football included as one of the university’s official sporting codes. As one of the first steps towards achieving this goal, the club hosted a benchmarking webinar on the growth of the sport in other parts of the continent and for tips and advice on what UCT needs to do to get the ball rolling. Muya Koloko, one of the founding members of the UCT ParaSports Club and the organiser of the webinar, said the club has been facilitating ongoing conversations with stakeholders on ways to include blind football as an official UCT sporting code. He said the club had earlier collaborated with the League of Friends of the Blind (Lofob) to host a series of workshops to introduce both students and staff to the sport. He described the webinar as phase one of an ambitious endeavour to grow the sport on campus, in the province and eventually in the country. “UCT is in a prime position to build not only blind football, but para-sport in general. A university’s place is to innovate, educate and improve. Sport is an easy way to build community connections and to make a lasting difference in the lives of people,” Koloko said. The next steps for the UCT ParaSports
Club are to further familiarise themselves with the sport, evaluate the opportunities and stumbling blocks and assess how best to integrate blind football as an official sport on campus. Short-term plans are focused on collaborating with UCT Football and Lofob to establish two blind football teams to play in a mini competition. The medium- to long-term goals, Koloko said, are to use the competition as a vehicle to drive awareness of the sport, and ultimately to host a Western Cape blind football league. “So far, we’re only at step one, which is us trying to create awareness of the sport. Once that awareness grows and the situation allows, we plan on pushing integrated friendly matches to get as many players with or without visual impairments to try the game and gain interest.” Koloko said the club hopes to host a blind football clinic during the course of 2021, depending on the prevalence of Covid-19 infections. The University of Venda and Nelson Mandela University have been earmarked to be part of the event. He said that formalising the partnership with Lofob and other stakeholders will be a priority in order to facilitate blind football friendly matches featuring blended
teams of players. “We have started the work and hope to have a stable foundation by 2023. At UCT we have
the human, financial and physical resources to make this happen and to provide opportunities for sport for all in our community.”