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Lighting up the festive season A scene captured during the annual Festive Lights Switch On event at Grand Parade on Sunday 1 December. The event, hosted by the City of Cape Town, officially marks the beginning of the festive season in the city, allowing families to have a fun time out. Like every year, it attracted thousands of Capetonians, young and old, who enjoyed lots of free, live entertainment; video mapping; food and drinks; and even a laser show.
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street map of Claremont pinned up on the wall of Lt Colonel Marnus Fourie’s office at Claremont police station shows a concentration of blue stars and dots in the Upper Claremont area. The blue stars indicate incidents of theft of a vehicle while the dots represent theft out of motor vehicles. According to Fourie, 12 crimes (residential burglaries, theft of motor vehicles and theft out of motor vehicles) have been reported in the area located directly behind Cavendish Square Mall in the past 28 days. He says although the past two months’ stats on the number of thefts out of cars is pretty much on par with last year’s figures, the area is a known hotspot for theft out of or from a vehicle. To avoid paying for parking at Cavendish Square, many motorists park their cars on
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the street in this area and then walk to the mall. Fourie says he understands that people are trying to save money but, if you think about it, spending R13 on undercover parking now could save you from spending R4 000 on an insurance excess later. “People assume that most of the cars being broken into belong to residents who live in the area, but we have found that most of the targeted vehicles are owned by people who shop or work in the area,” says Fourie. He says, where possible, car owners should park their vehicles in an enclosed property as most thefts out of or from a vehicle are from cars parked on the street. And, most importantly, don’t leave anything valuable in your car. “We can spend millions on manpower, police patrols and security, but as long as we are creating opportunities for criminals these type of crimes will continue. We have found that even those small car cellphone
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chargers, which retail for about R20, are enough incentive for criminals to break in,” says Fourie. Col. Maree Louw, station commander at Claremont police station, says that these types of crimes can usually be traced back to drug users. “These small and expensive items, such as laptops, cellphones and money, that are stolen from vehicles are easy to sell.” She also says these crimes are being committed by people who live outside of Claremont. “There is a huge influx of cars daily from Khayelitsha and Hanover Park. They drive into Claremont, do surveillance, hit their target and then get out.” Louw says licence plate recognition cameras have been helpful. Neighbourhood watch groups and security companies alert the police through WhatsApp if a suspicious vehicle is seen in a hotspot area. However, she says criminals are now in the habit of
regularly replacing their number plates with new ones. She says, just like the police, criminals have informants too. “They use intelligence and implement strategies to get away with their crimes,” says Louw. Claremont police station, in cooperation with Claremont community policing forum (CPF), has taken steps to address these crimes. In the past month, police have made several arrests of persons in possession of dangerous weapons and implements that can reasonably be used to commit burglaries or theft out of and from motor vehicles. Fourie says the maximum deployment of police officers and resources occur during 10:00 and 00:00. “According to our crime statistics, 73% of all incidents happen in this time slot,” he says. V Continued on page 2.
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PEOPLE'S POST | CLAREMONT | RONDEBOSCH Tuesday, 3 December 2019
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Spine Road remains top donor F People's Post is published by WP Media, a subsidiary of Media24. CLAREMONT / RONDEBOSCH 30 834 copies distributed Tuesdays to the following areas: Bishopscourt, Claremont, Kenilworth, Newlands, Mowbray, Rondebosch, Rosebank, Ndabeni, Pinelands. OTHER EDITIONS People's Post also has the following nine standalone editions: Woodstock / Maitland (16 391) Mitchell's Plain (83 340) Retreat (23 423) Grassy Park (21 838) Lansdowne (21 130) Athlone (30 252) False Bay (30 972) Constantia / Wynberg (30 069) Atlantic Seaboard / City (29 246) Total print order: 318 495 WHOM TO CONTACT EDITOR: Thulani Magazi Email: Thulani@media24.com REPORTER: Nettalie Viljoen Email: Nettalie.Viljoen@media24.com SALES MANAGER: Shafiek Braaf Tel: 021 910 6615 Email: Shafiek.braaf@peoplespost.co.za MAIN BODY ADVERTISING: Silvana Hendricks Tel: 021 910 6576 Email: Silvana.Hendricks@peoplespost.co.za CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: 087 353 1328 Email: classifieds@peoplespost.co.za PRESS CODE, CORRECTIONS People's Post subscribes to the South African Press Code and we are committed to journalism that is honest, accurate, fair and balanced. Under our editorial policy, we invite readers to comment on the newspaper's content and we correct significant errors as soon as possible. Please send information to the news editor at Thulani@media24.com or phone 021 910 6500. Alternately, please contact the Ombudsman of Media24's Community Press, George Claassen at george.claassen@media24.com or 083 543 2471. Complaints can also be sent to the SA Press Ombudsman on telephone 021 851 3232 or via email khanyim@ombudsman.org.za or johanr@ombudsman.org.za
or the third year in a row, Spine Road High School has ranked first on the Western Cape Blood Services’ (WCBS) list of top donor schools. Learners and staff collectively donated 619 units of blood for the year, increasing their contribution by 82 units from 2018. The school also enrolled the highest number of new donors, with 226 signing up this year. “Young people play a vital role in the maintenance of our blood supplies – we are hugely grateful for those schools and institutions where we conduct regular blood drives,” says WCBS education officer, Marike Gevers. The rest of the top three also remains unchanged with Fish Hoek High School in second place collecting 505 units – 53 more than the previous year – and in third place HTS Drostdy in Worcester, with 469 units – 35 units more than the previous year. Punt High School in Mossel Bay came in at number four, with 396 units collected, and Outeniqua High School from George was fifth with 395 units. Consistently remaining in the top ten since starting a blood donation clinic in 2017, in sixth place is Bellville High School collecting 392 units. It is followed by a brand new entry, Bergvliet High School, collecting 348 units and the eighth place is shared by Langenhoven Gimnasium in Oudtshoorn and Westerford High School in Newlands both collecting 335 units each. Another two new entries, is in ninth place Fairmont High School from Durbanville (333) and the tenth place is taken by Settlers High School from Bellville (324).
FROM PAGE 1 Besides Claremont police vehicles that patrol known hotspots, metro police, law enforcement and traffic police officers, who mainly patrol the Main Road, are also on alert for theft out of cars or residential burglaries. He says the support of active neighbourhood watch groups and private security companies in the area also play an important role in the prevention of crime. Fourie encourages residents to become
The top ten is determined by the most units collected per school and doesn’t take into account the actual size of the schools. The WCBS extended an extra word of congratulations to Langenhoven Gimnasium, as they only have 385 eligible donors that could donate, which is learners between the ages of 16 and 18, but still managed to collect 335 units in 2019. Currently, WCBS have 129 blood donation clinics at educational institutions around the Western Cape, of which 108 are at high schools and 21 at tertiary institutions. In 2019 the youth, donors between the age of 16 and 25, collectively contributed to 27% of the WCBS overall collections. Recruiting young people is key to keeping up with the growing demand for blood and blood products in the Western Cape. “Well done and thank you to all of our school clinics and the blood donor super stars who attend them. Each unit of blood donated can save up to three lives,” says Gevers. The donation process is quick, safe and takes only 30 minutes. For health and safety reasons, donors are required to be between the ages of 16 and 75, weigh
over 50kg, be in good general health and lead a safe sexual lifestyle. V For more information on how to help keep blood supply levels high during the December holidays, SMS “Blood” to 33507, call WCBS on 021 507 6300, WhatsApp 060 549 7244, email info@wcbs.org.za or visit www.wcbs.org.za.
involved. “We need more street watchers – people who are not necessarily active but who serve as the police’s eyes and ears on the streets.” He explains that the best street watchers are residents who are usually at home during the day and who are familiar with their environment – they know who should and shouldn’t be in the neighbourhood. “If they notice anyone suspicious in the area, they should immediately report it by dialling 10111,” says Fourie.
He also emphasises the importance of reporting all crimes to the police, including relatively small ones, for example, a broken window. “If we don’t know about a problem in an area, we can’t prioritise it.” Fourie says crime tends to escalate. Criminals who commit small crimes usually move on to bigger ones. “At the moment, none of the thefts out of or from cars or of the residential burglaries reported had incidents of violence linked to them. We have to act now to prevent it from getting there.”
Make Christmas special for those who need it most Do you want to give back this festive season? Join the Ladles of Love volunteers in putting together the annual Christmas lunch for homeless people on Sunday 8 December. Danny Diliberto, founder of the organisation, says they hope to reach 700 people and extra hands and donations would be welcome. All volunteers will be expected to meet on the corner of St Georges Mall and Church Street at 07:30 to help set up the area. This
entails preparing food, live music and gifts for all. “Join us as a volunteer at this very special Christmas event and enjoy the wonderful atmosphere. It is a day full of love, laughter and dancing and a great opportunity to meet and connect with some of the homeless community,” Diliberto says. V Interested parties are encouraged to book their slot on Quicket: https://qkt.io/AFT0PA and for donations visit: www.payfast.co.za/donate/go/ladlesoflove.
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PEOPLE'S POST | CLAREMONT | RONDEBOSCH Tuesday, 3 December 2019
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he look of dismay on a two-year-old’s face when he or she swipes a TV screen and nothing happens usually makes parents smile. And while the speed at which small children pick up technology is cute and amazing, it can also be a bit worrying. The explosion of apps aimed at kids, like TikTok, raises all kinds of privacy questions. Take for instance the use of built-in facial recognition which helps users track each other. And then there is the R25 billion fine that YouTube had to pay two months ago for illegally collecting children’s data
for adverts. Author and human rights campaigner Murray Hunter recently published a children’s book, Boris the BabyBot, on digital privacy. The book, which follows the misadventures of a baby-tracking robot, tackles this topic in a way that is both playful and engaging. Hunter says, as much as BabyBot aims for fun and play, it has become important for children to be savvy about how technology collects and uses their private data as well. Having worked on digital rights issues for The Right2Know Campaign for years, Hunter has spent lots of time talking with adults
about surveillance technology and digital privacy. “Really, these are conversations about the world we’re creating for the next generation. So I started wondering how we could re-centre the conversation around children who will inherit this world.” He says the idea for the book began to take shape earlier this year when he was passing through an airport. “I was looking at all the cameras and scanners when the idea popped into my head: what would happen if we did a story that sparks children’s curiosity about the hidden world behind all this technology?” Some time after that, friends came to stay with him in Observatory for a few days with their 18-month-old, Eilidh. “She became the inspiration for the baby in the book – the one that’s ‘too messy, too sticky, and who is having too much fun to be tracked’.” Although the 33-year-old has published several serious reports and booklets on surveillance issues, including an investigation on the State and espionage on journalists, this is the first time he tried his hand at writing, and illustrating, a book. He wrote the book in a few stretches at Claremont library in late June and early July, as well as in the evenings and over weekends. “I wanted a space that had good light and
a nice sense of community and as it happened my local library in Obs was temporarily closed at that time for upgrades, so I settled in at the Claremont library,” he explains. His “quality controller” was a young fellow named Max. The three-year-old went through all the drafts of Boris the BabyBot. “He gave the first sign that children would find a special connection with this story, when I learned that he’d asked his parents to read the story a dozen times in the first few days,” he says. The book’s designer, Wilna Combrinck, also asked her two children to give real-time feedback. Hunter says the things the children seemed to enjoy most about the book was the sounds made by the robot – “beep, beep, boop!” – which they often repeated around the home. That and the appearance of puppies. The book, which is now in print, was published through a crowdfunding campaign that reached 100% of its target in less than a week, with the majority of the funds coming from overseas. About 10% of the print run (2 500 copies) is being donated to the Nal’ibali Campaign for children’s reading clubs. Of the remaining books, about 300 have already been sold through pre-orders, international and domestic, and the rest should be available from local retailers (distributed by Sula Books). It should also be available to order on request at larger retailers. The books sell for R150 each. Alternatively, you can also borrow the book from the Claremont or Observatory libraries. Hunter has donated copies to these libraries. While the book is there to raise awareness and to be enjoyed, Hunter has compiled activities and resources to help unpack the issues at https://boristhebabybot.org/resources/.
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PEOPLE'S POST | CLAREMONT | RONDEBOSCH Tuesday, 3 December 2019
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enilworth Centre will again join hands with Rise Against Hunger Africa for its 10th year to pack 100 000 meal packs – 50 000 meals more than in 2018 – on Saturday 7 December. The One Million Plus One packathon will start at 09:00 and shoppers are invited to give an hour of their time to join an assembly line, packing food to help feed hundreds of starving children. Expresso TV presenter, Graeme Richards, will be MC for the packathon and live musical acts will keep customers and meal-packers entertained. The TV personality has been involved with Rise Against Hunger for several years. Richards said: “Ten to 20 children die due to starvation every day in South Africa. We have to unite as a nation to bring an end to these tragic statistics – and through Rise Against Hunger, we’re making progress.” The One Million Plus One campaign is spearheaded by Richards in partnership with marketing agency, The Blue Room. “Last year, through our Meals for Mandela campaign, participating centres managed to pack 100 000 meals altogether. This year, I wanted to up the ante to a million and
one, hence the name One Million Plus One,” he explained. The Kenilworth Centre was the first shopping centre to host Rise Against Hunger’s meal packathon a decade ago. This year it is one of five centres participating. Centre manager Michelle Britton says it has been a great journey. “Our goal during the first packathon we hosted in 2009 was 34 000 meal packs. This year our aim is 100 000 meal packs. Our successful history and the heartening contribution from our community will ensure that once again we meet our goal.” Meals for the upcoming One Million Plus One packathon have been sponsored by Oceana. Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief organisation. With the goal of eradicating world hunger by 2030, it relies on the generosity of corporates for meal sponsorships and the public for meal packing. To take part, go to www.rahafrica.org and sign-up for a slot, or visit the centre on the day at 1 Doncaster Road, Kenilworth. V For more information, visit the Kenilworth Centre Facebook page or contact 021 671 5054.
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PEOPLE'S POST | CLAREMONT | RONDEBOSCH Tuesday, 3 December 2019
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e slept on the floor of his backyard barbershop for two years while staying off the streets and away from drugs. Now Warren Theunis is giving back to the industry that saved his life by “trying to make barbering cool again.” “I want to see barbering be valued as a profession; something that is cool, that kids strive to become one day. I want barbering to receive the respect it deserves,” says Theunis. His passion for the craft stems from the role it has played in him becoming the person he is today. “I was a drug addict from the age of 15 to 20. I was doing drugs every day and that was my lifestyle. “I dropped out of school and because my mother wasn’t very happy with me she kicked me out,” he says. He adds that his addiction became progressively worse; from smoking dagga to buttons and then to doing rocks. “My drug habit was aggressive. On 25 May 2000 I gave up on drugs. I remember being drugged out of my mind, having uppers and downers the night before. “I was up early that Sunday morning and ironing my pants when a friend asked me why I was ironing and if I was going to church. Being cocky, I said ‘yes, are you going with’. Here we have these two drug addicts heading off to church. On that day I got saved and really started loving God.” He began offering free haircuts and found his passion. Succumbing to societal pressures, he accepted a job in sales, but he never felt he was living his purpose.
“I felt like I lost my way, as if I was doing something to please other people, because we are pressured into wanting to do something more mainstream because it pleases someone else,” he says. After being retrenched he decided to venture into barbering full time. He took his last wage and bought a basic clipper kit. He had converted his bedroom in his grandmother’s backyard into a barbershop. He says he owes much of his success in staying clean on his determination to make barbering a success while sleeping on the floor of this shop. Since then he has put much of his focus on getting barbers to become qualified, compliant and seeing the industry become more regulated. He has achieved this through advocating for funding from SETAs, working on and with the boards of various bodies, establishing the Western Cape Barbering Association, running and facilitating workshops on health and safety and teaching as part of qualifications. “I spent the first few years just sharpening my craft and then for the last 10 years, I have been working and focusing on every other barber. In order to do that I first needed to sharpen my own skills,” he says. Theunis is also the South African owner to the rights for BarberCraft SA. BarberCraft started out in New Zealand in 2016 and recognises the professionalism and achievements of barbering in their country, and the diversity of services available to Kiwi men. After attending BarberCraft in 2017, The Claremont resident enquired about bringing the exhibition to South Africa and was able to buy the rights to present the event in the country, with the first event held in
2018 and the 2019 edition held in October. In noticing his advances in the industry and his nature of giving back through his Groomed for Change initiatives, Theunis was approached by fashion retailer, Markham who offered him an in-store barbershop at the Golden Acre in the CBD. Theunis also owns Urban Cuts in Strandfontein where he started Groomed for Warren Theunis Change, which sees the shop offer free haircuts to pensioners on a set Wednesday of every month. “When I accepted it, I signed the contract that will see this shop handed over to the next young barber who will be trained to take over it and take ownership. Right now, 20% of all proceeds of this shop goes toward Groomed for Change,” he says. This pays for meals and supplies for the pensioners. Theunis soon realised there was further opportunity for him to use the platform to help educate the seniors and create a platform for socialising. “As addictive as my personality was in doing drugs and all the bad things, that’s how addicted I am to doing good now,” he says. “Seniors are very close to my heart. It
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started as a senior’s day at my shop and then listening to their stories I saw many of them found it difficult to embrace senior or retired life. It so quickly grew to more than 65 seniors coming to the shop,” he says. “I want it to be more than just a haircut. It must be a haircut plus education.” His hope is to see the project grow beyond Strandfontein, with several other shops offering a chair or two to expand the reach of the programme. “It is not about me or the fact that I started the initiative. I just want to see the project grow so that all seniors can benefit. This is a great need and he seniors must be taken care of,” he says. V For more information on how to get involved, visit www.mrbarbersa.co.za.
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PEOPLE'S POST | CLAREMONT | RONDEBOSCH Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Hit returns to cinema to thrill Frozen returns to the big screen this week with its sequel opening at Ster-Kinekor Cavendish on Friday 6 December. Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumnbound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa’s powers in order to save their kingdom. There will also be a Frozen 2 activation at Ster-Kinekor Cavendish on Saturday 7 December from 10:00 to 15:00.
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frika Ablaze is calling on all dancers, singers and actors to an audition for their upcoming show, I am Rain. The auditions take place on Saturday 7 December from 10:00 to 15:00 at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective at 26 Wesley Road, Observatory. For more information, email: afrikaablaze1999@gmail.com or call 063 367 8691. Alternatively, visit www.afrikaablaze.co.za. The production will run at the Baxter Theatre in April 2020.
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PEOPLE'S POST | CLAREMONT | RONDEBOSCH Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Crusaders conquered by Giants SEAN CAMPBELL
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hile Grassy Park Crusaders opened the scoring, they struggled to kick on against Maitland Giants as they went down 12-1 at Rooikrans sports field in Grassy Park on Saturday 30 November. Giants secured their win with four runs in the third innings and a massive haul of seven runs in the fourth innings. Crusaders started with Niyaaz Galant on the mound. Giants threatened as early as the second innings with bases loaded and one down. However, they were retired scoreless as Ashwin Kleintjies turned a double play from third base. Crusaders took a 1-0 lead at the end of the second innings as they scored their solitary run when Jaime Mauritz crossed the plate off the bat of Warren Adams. Giants open their scoring in the third inning with four runs from four hits and a fielding error from Crusaders. Crusaders replaced Galant with Lucien Swartz. Swartz, however, came in for heavy punishment as Giants amassed seven runs from six hits including a three-run homerun from Marc Quickfall. Crusaders also made two errors in this inning. American-born Connor Walsh was Giants’ best hitter with three hits. He was well supported by Quickfall, Kyle Ripepi and Altino Elliot who contributed two hits each. Hawaiian-born Eland Tsubata pitched a steady five innings for Giants conceding six
Rehan Peck of Grassy Park Crusaders (left) runs into trouble near home plate as he encounters Maitland Giants’ catcher Kyle Rossouw, who prevents him of scoring a run during a major league game played in Grassy Park on Saturday 30 November. PHOTO: RASHIED ISAACS hits, walking two and striking out seven hitters. At Chukker Road, VOB Macaws went down 13-5 to Athlone A’s. A’s scored runs in six of their nine batting turns. VOB didn’t help their cause as their pitchers gave away 18 free bases and their fielders made nine errors.
VOB started with the German youngster Lou Helmig who only last 1.2 innings, giving up six runs from three hits, four walks, three hits by pitch. He was replaced by Derick Baylis who kept A’s scoreless for three innings with A’s leaving eight runners on base. Regular catcher Luke November pitched the last three in-
nings conceding two runs in each innings. Cameron Fortuin and Matthew Diedericks shared the pitching duties for A’s. In other Major League results, Bothasig Knights maintained their unbeaten record by beating Van der Stel 12-0, and Bellville Tygers beat Durbanville Villains 13-10. Grassy Park Crusaders recorded their first win when they beat Athlone A’s 18-15 on Sunday 1 December, playing two extra innings from last week’s tied game. Last week, the teams were tied 11-11 after 10 innings and could not complete the game due to poor light. In the Promotion League, second place Helderberg Pirates shocked log leaders Westridge Yankees 14-0 at Stephan Reagan Sports ground in Mitchell’s Plain. Pirates came out with guns blazing, scoring 11 runs in the first inning off the pitching of the usually reliable Luwayne du Plessis. Pirates’ opening runs came from five hits, five walks, and two errors. Darren Chalmers was Pirates’ best hitter batting 5/5. Kieran Clackett was in top form on the mound for Pirates as he restricted Yankees to six scattered hits. This win takes Pirates to twelve points, level with Yankees. In other Promotion League results, Lansdowne Eagles went down 8-2 to Milnerton Mavericks and Battswood beat Silvertree Titans 20-1.
Varsity College celebrates its semi finals win The Independent Institute of Education’s Varsity College Cape Town touch rugby first team celebrated its recent 14-7 victory over the Untouchables in the semi-final game in the Villagers League. The team had a rough start to the league, losing four games, but that quickly picked up with them winning the semi-final. They are now gearing up to
compete in the final against DT Warp. The team has entered the league thrice and won the second division of the league twice. “Our team is very strong and league-competitive. We look forward to a challenging game and hope to win,” said 21-year-old second year B.Comm Economics student and first team captain Josh Wegener.
Gold for Tyra in El Salvador Fish Hoek resident Tyra Buncombe was crowned the women’s world long-distance prone paddleboard champion on Monday 25 November, after winning the 18km race in brutally hot conditions at Playa El Tunco, El Salvador. In a day of high drama, numerous competitors in both the women’s stand-up paddleboard, as well as the women’s prone paddleboard races, completed the three lap course incorrectly and were disqualified. Twenty-year-old Buncombe from Fish Hoek Lifesaving Club, who is competing as a member of the South African stand up paddleboard team, correctly navigated the course amid the confusion and was awarded the gold medal as the first racer to do so. The feat was made more impressive by the fact that Tyra was paddling an unfamiliar paddleboard borrowed from the English
team due to logistical problems in getting her board to El Salvador. As a result, she has been unable to train or familiarise herself with the course since arriving in El Salvador five days before the event. The 2019 Surf City El Salvador ISA World Stand-Up Paddleboard Championships concluded yesterday (Monday 2 December), and included various stand-up paddleboard and prone paddleboard race disciplines as well as stand-up paddleboard surfing. The six-member South African team are competing against 150 athletes from 27 countries in the eighth edition of the annual event. In 2018 Tarryn King from Cape Town became the first South African gold medallist at the event when she won the women’s stand-up paddleboard 200m sprint race.
The Independent Institute of Education’s Varsity College Cape Town campus touch rugby first team is gearing up for the Villagers League final.
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n the wake of the tragic events which saw a young player lose his life on a soccer field, Safa Cape Town (Safa CT) has pledged to increase its safety profile across the local football associations it administers. Saturday 5 October was a dark day for community football when Imtiyaaz Wagiet left home never to return again. Sadly, in a match between Bayview’s u.16 team and Strandfontein, Imtiyaaz collapsed on the field with no medical professional or qualified first aider. According to his coach at Bayview, Mark Rodrigues, he was then loaded into his parent’s car and taken to the nearby fire station. “People tried to resuscitate him. After 10 minutes they took the boy and put him in his parents’ car. They took him to the fire station. At the fire station, they tried their best to keep him alive. He was there for around 10 minutes, but he then passed on,” he says. Two years ago, People’s Post,
through their freelance sport photographer Rashied Isaacs, highlighted the dire need for health and safety personnel on community sports fields (“Safety no walk in the park”, 14 February 2017), but with the tragic events at Westridge Oval last month, Isaacs’ worst fears were realised. According to Isaacs, Wagiet’s death once again highlighted the need for thorough emergency planning for all sports and he is determined to bring about change at the different sporting venues, partnering with an accredited company to offer free first aid training for coaches as far back as 2014. Earlier this year, Isaacs refused to attend any more Safa CT events unless they addressed the apparent safety issues which saw Wagiet tragically lose his life. As a result, Safa CT president Bennett Bailey met with Isaacs to discuss his concerns and to pledge their commitment to the safer sports field project. Bailey then committed to introducing a holistic plan around safety for the 70 000 registered players in the 35 local football associations
(LFAs) he leads. “We have introduced, at a regional level, a constitutional clause where we refer to our medical officer, who is responsible for safety at our events. That we are going to bring and cascade to a local level, so that there is a pathway from local to provincial to national – that we all speak the same language,” Bailey said, adding that these policies now need to be enforced. “One of the things we are going to start with is to instruct all LFAs to appoint a medical officer in terms of the Safa regional and national constitution,” said Bailey. The new local football season starts in April next year, which is the time earmarked for changes to take effect. Bailey hopes that players and other informal associations follow Safa CT’s suit by placing more importance on safety. “It is like boxing where you cannot start the fight without a paramedic or an ambulance being onsite,” he says, adding that even third division clubs will be able to be trained up in first aid.
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Safa Cape Town president Bennett Bailey (left) and Rashied Isaacs.
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