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Project spreads its wings RACINE EDWARDES RACINE.EDWARDES@MEDIA24.COM @RAEEDWARDES

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he Zoe Project has been a pillar in the Retreat community for more than two decades. Having founded the organisation in 1998, Tracy Aitken recently decided to expand the reach and work of the organisation beyond pregnant women.

Operating from premises located behind

the maternity and obstetrics unit (MOU) at the Retreat Community Health Centre (CHC) in Cafda, the project serves the needs of underprivileged pregnant women in the community and from as far as Lotus River and Hanover Park.

The project empowers women through the training of birthing companions (doulas) and birthing support programmes, counselling, and antenatal, mother and baby classes.

It takes a holistic approach to mother-andbaby care.

Aitken says: “Because we’ve been here in the community for so long, you can’t just stick to pregnant ladies. And now since we have the centre, we have more opportunities and counsellors and more manpower because of the volunteers.”

Over the years, the project has begun to support the family as a whole by speaking to new fathers, assisting with substance abuse support through the Second Chances Outreach programmes, working to get people out of gangs and into restoration pro-

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Last year, it began the Princess Project at Sibelius High School in Steenberg. Aitken says: “What we’re trying to do with the Princess Project is educate with facts. It’s a fourweek course we do with the Grade 8s. For the next five years, our focus will be to get the schools closest to the centre on board, so the girls can recognise our counsellors and come here if they have problems and want to discuss things or even just for a hug.”

The project has about 80 volunteers. Of them, some work at the Retreat CHC MOU and 30 provide services at Mowbray Maternity Hospital. Others are in the process of getting the Hanover Park MOU residency upand-running.

“We have two new doulas who have started there and they will be having a doula week at Hanover Park. They will be speaking about who a doula is. We are there to help the mom from the head down – psychologically, how to breathe, how to walk, how to handle pain – and we go into the labour ward with them,” says Aitken.

Her dream is for their work to reach even further. “We are branching out into the bank clinics – all the ones that fall under Retreat.

Our vision is to be able to implement this project in all the MOUs in the Western Cape.”

The project’s antenatal classes are already reaching more people than other birthing programmes, hosting a first-of-its-kind antenatal class for teens. These classes help to prepare expecting mothers for the birth of their babies.

In addition, the project aims to uplift the ambience of the clinic.

“We’ve put in fans, heaters, and purple sheets for the babies. We provide underwear and packets of course salt for the ladies to wash with after birth. These are all free, to be handed out to all the moms, in addition to the baby packs and mom packs,” says Aitken.

She adds: “We’ve got a new lady here – a life coach – who comes from the community.

She will be conducting talks on dignity, communication development and self-improvement.”

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PEOPLE'S POST | RETREAT Tuesday, 17 March 2020

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Enough with the cell masts, residents say RACINE EDWARDES @RaeEdwardes On Thursday 23 January, the City of Cape Town issued a notice to residents of Retreat with regards to an application to rezone a portion of erf 81511, 50 Sixth Avenue in Retreat, from single residential zone 1 to community zone 2.

Warren Petterson Planning made the application on behalf of the Maranatha Morning Star Pentecostal Mission Church of Republic of South Africa.

According to ward 72 councillor, Kevin Southgate, this application will be followed by another to allow for the erection of a 15m tall, free-standing base telecommunication station (a cell mast) on the erf.

The construction of cell mast towers has been a controversial topic in recent years, with the community arguing against them in many cases. Karin Petersen, Dolf Visagie and Adrian Africa are residents who are opposed to this most recent application.

On receipt of the application letter, they drew up a petition and garnered signatures from almost 80 people. Later they learned that a petition only counts for one head.

They also discovered not all residents affected received the City’s application letter.

“They send the letter out, but they didn’t publish it. Not all of the residents know.

They (residents) work, some people work late, the post office was on strike – not all of them received the letter,” says Africa.

The three then drafted individual letters to be signed by the same 80 or so residents.

“We went to the City this morning (Wednesday 11 March) to hand these objections in and we were told they don’t want the letters physically. They want us to scan and send the letters to them. They make it so difficult so that people just don’t have the energy to do it,” Africa laments.

These letters were sent to the City via email on Wednesday.

The residents argue that property values in the area would drop, that the towers pose a health hazard and that it would attract criminals who steal the batteries used to power them.

“The average age here is 60 and upwards.

They are elderly and vulnerable and we do not need another cell mast here,” says Africa. “In this area, Retreat, there’s eight of the towers. This one is close to a block of flats.

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Subforum meeting in Steenberg The sector 3 subforum will be having a meeting on Thursday 2 April at the Steenberg community centre, at the corner of Cradock Road and Symphony Avenue in Steenberg.

All non-government organisations, neighbourhood watches, residents’ associations, community benefit organisations, early childhood development centres and other role players are invited to attend the meeting at 19:00.

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They (the City) say the radiation remains above 15m so it doesn’t affect residents that much – because the average house is about 3m tall – but there’s a block of flats (taller than 3m).”

Southgate says the community is littered with cell masts. He says “the cell phone companies are approaching people in poorer communities because the people are in great need of financial resources”.

Petersen adds: “The City says there is no proof it will affect your health but have they done their research? And why should there be eight in Retreat? They are sacrificing us for money.”

Southgate encourages residents who are not in favour of the cell mast to express this at a public meeting. “This application is for rezoning. To get the cell mast erected will be another process. It is incumbent of the residents or civic associations to arrange a public engagement.”

Contact your residents’ association or visit the Retreat community hall on the corner of Retreat and Toring roads to request a community meeting.

V Have your say on the çonstruction of cell mast towers by emailing racine.edwardes@media24.com.

Stop asking ‘when’ s a relatively newly wed, I am constantly being confronted with the question: “when?”

I don’t even think it is necessary for me to explain what I am referring to, as this question and constant bombardment resonates with any and everyone despite their age, race, background, life experience or relationship status.

If you are not in a relationship: when?

If you are in a relationship and not engaged: when?

If you are engaged and not yet married: when?

If you are married without kids: when?

When you have a kid, for number 2/3/5/10: when?

And the list goes on. And on. And on. And on.

As a society, it seems we are incapable of minding our own business.

And at this stage I’m not sure what to say in response anymore. Most often I resort to a humorous or sarcastic reply. “Don’t plan my womb” is usually the go-to.

But then I started thinking about it a bit more and realised that while I am not sure if I am even able to have children or not, there are many women out there who have been confirmed infertile.

And naturally also some who simply do not want to procreate due to family history, personal preference, crime, careers or whatever other reason they have. Side note, yes, they are entitled to this choice.

Now think about this: a woman who longs for a child, who is incapable of conceiving her own and cannot afford the process of

adoption. I am sure this is a heartbreaking realisation for any person. Then you, busybody, come in hot with that stupid, insensitive and quite frankly inappropriate question of “when?”

Some would never admit this is their situation and to be honest, it in any case is none of your business. I mention this because should this happen to you – and the likelihood of this happening is very probable – apologising and standing with egg on your face will not remove the hurt you inflicted on the women already battling to come to terms with this. And all in a bid to make small talk.

I was raised with the phrase, “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all”.

And now I am telling you, asking “when” is not a conversation starter, it is not a topic up for discussion and if you ask me again, just one more time, I might slap you with a “WHEN are you going to stop being an insensitive prick and mind your own business”?

And on top of that we should stop accepting that older generations should be allowed to say and do as they please, based purely on their age. We smile and shrug it off when in fact this is completely unacceptable.

If you really are desperate to start a conversation with someone, ask them how they are doing, talk about the weather or ask them what exciting things are happening in their lives.

Leave the “when” and the “you-got-fat” conversation starters for the bottom of the barrel . . . but that’s another story for another time.

-Samantha Lee-Jacobs

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PEOPLE'S POST | RETREAT Tuesday, 17 March 2020

STEENVILLA

Concern over drugs and gangs rises RACINE EDWARDES @RaeEdwardes

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everal residents who live in Steenvilla, the Sohco social housing development in Sheridan Park, have expressed concern over the alleged increase in gang and drug activity at the complex in recent years.

A resident, who did not want to be named for safety reasons, claims there are drug dealers and gang members who take over the homes of vulnerable women and do their drug and weapon trade from certain units.

“He preys on young women or those who are struggling financially and takes over their house. Then they keep the drugs there, and he gives it to the young children who are the runners,” she claims.

She adds that in some instances, singleparent households are targeted. The drug dealers allegedly use drugs or alcohol to score a space at the unit and feed the addiction of the vulnerable women to stay there.

“They sell it under your nose, it’s right on your doorstep,” she says. “And we are parents; we are worried about our children.”

Former resident, who also did not want to be named, says she relocated last year. She describes drugs and gangsterism as a common thing in the community.

“Drugs and gangsterism pop up everywhere. And it was there (when we lived there). We, as a committee, brought it forward while we were there, in 2016 or 2017.

I’m sure it could have escalated since,” she says.

She adds that while many are afraid of the illegal activities, they will not come forward.

“You can’t point out who it is exactly but you know it’s happening. And it’s dangerous. If you point it out, because you can become a target once you come forward.”

The Sohco Group CEO Heather Maxwell says the company does all it can to keep residents safe. “We receive a number of complaints from residents, which are actively followed up on. Sohco also monitors the security situation at Steenvilla on an ongoing basis.

“We have a substantial security team onsite and daily random patrols by police. In

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Steenvilla, a Sohco social housing development in Sheridan Park. collaboration with all law enforcement agencies and through integrated crime prevention strategies, we have and continue to work to rid Steenvilla of drugs, gangsterism and crime. We understand that this will continue to be an ongoing activity,” she says.

Capt Stephen Knapp, spokesperson for Muizenberg police, says: “I can confirm that we have regular interventions there. And we do affect arrests for various offences inside the complex.”

Maxwell adds a range of social crime prevention initiatives have been implemented.

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“This includes school holiday programmes attended by Steenvilla children, where they are taught many skills such as youth resilience. They are introduced to preventative alternatives to gangs, drugs and crime. Substance abuse prevention and awareness sessions are held and we are currently planning an intervention to reduce domestic violence in consultation with the directorate for public prosecutions.”

However, Maxwell and Knapp say these interventions alone cannot rid communities of crime.

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“Sohco needs the cooperation of residents as partners in ensuring safety. Security at Steenvilla begins in every unit and family at Steenvilla. We do have great cooperation and partnership with some residents but need a lot more,” says Maxwell.

The company is compiling a list of unemployed residents at Steenvilla to find opportunities and learnerships for them but says: “This has, regrettably, also produced a poor response but we continue this effort.”

Residents should contact security, Sohco management or local police with concerns.

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PEOPLE'S POST | RETREAT Tuesday, 17 March 2020

SEAWINDS

Engeldoe retires with a smile RACINE EDWARDES @#RaeEdwardes

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he principal at Zerilda Park Primary School in Seawinds will bid farewell to her colleagues and learners at the end of this term. Lorna Engeldoe is retiring after 45 years in education.

“I’ve been teaching for 45 years as a whole and 31 years here. I need a rest after 45 years,” she said before her surprise farewell on Thursday 12 March.

“I started at Palmerston Pre-Primary School in Plumstead. I was there for 14 years and then I was seconded to Zerilda Park Primary School. When I got here it was actually an Afrikaans school,” she recalled.

The outgoing principal fo Zerilda Park Primary School, Lorna Engeldoe, with deputy principal, Ronald Zamanjah.

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Engeldoe said she faced many challenges during her years as a teacher.

“I went through hell – not just with parents or children, but with the teachers also!”

But she did meet her husband, who was also working as a teacher in Plumstead.

And the greater Retreat community, she said, taught her so much about the hardships that some people – and children – endure daily.

On Monday 2 March, Engeldoe turned 65 years old and was officially notified that her time in the schooling system had come to an end. She said now she wanted to catch up on activities she hadn’t been able to do for 45 years.

“I’m just going to sleep until the cows come home. And I’m going to have nothing to do with a timetable – nothing like that.

I’m just going to be free and play it by ear and take it as it comes.”

Drusilla de Wet, the school administrator, said she had been on this journey with Engeldoe for 30 years.

“She started in 1989 and I started in 1990.

I mean, 30 years is a lifetime – we’re like family. It is very hard to see her go.

“We’ve had lots of ups and downs and we’ve conquered them all,” said De Wet. Later, a teary-eyed Engeldoe was escorted to her surprise party. Learners and teachers

read poems, sang songs, performed skits and spoke about the role model they will miss.

“We are here today to bid farewell to our principal,” said the deputy principal, Ronald Zamanjah.

“We are here to celebrate the 45 years of service that she’s given to learners here and elsewhere.

“Mrs Engeldoe has been at Zerilda Park for 31 years – some of your mommies aren’t even 31 years old – and 14 years she has served as principal,” he told the learners.

He added: “She’s always ruled the school with an iron fist but she’s also a very loving person and a compassionate person. And she’s not only a principal; she has a husband and a son and now she will be able to spend more time with them.”

Engeldoe said she will enjoy her time in retirement and offered words of wisdom to future generations and staff.

“I always talk to the teachers and tell them that we must uplift each other. It would be a better world if we did that.”

And finally, she divulged her secret to remaining youthful.

“What people must learn is to stop concerning themselves with other people’s lives. Mind your own business!”

A teary-eyed Lorna Engeldoe is escorted to her farewell assembly by her friend and colleague, Drusilla de Wet.

Flying squad makes arrests in Steenberg Maitland flying squad’s efforts to remove criminals from the community yielded positive results when they arrested four suspects aged 20, 23, 30 and 34 for being in possession of an unlicensed firearm, a hijacked vehicle, imitation firearm and drugs.

The flying squad received information

from a tracking company of a Toyota Quantum that was hijacked in Bishop Lavis.

On Tuesday 10 March, at about 00:30, the flying squad spotted a vehicle fitting the description in Steenberg, approached it and found four suspects in the vehicle.

Upon searching the vehicle they found a

Norico 9mm pistol with serial number 40024685 with eight rounds of ammunition, a black imitation firearm, 9mm rounds (12), mandrax, dagga and five cellphones in the vehicle.

Further investigation confirmed that it was the hijacked vehicle.

POLICE CHALLENGE LAVENDER HILL LEARNERS: The City’s metro police department held its latest Youth Leadership Camp at the Princess Vlei Eco Centre at the beginning of March. Attended by 31 learners from Lavender Hill Secondary School, the camp forms part of the department’s social crime prevention programme. Youth leaders were put through their paces while experiencing the outdoors. The City says the youth camps are aimed at empowering young people with skills and knowledge to encourage leadership and promote crime prevention – imparting valuable skills in dealing with anti-social behaviour, decision making and how to deal with peer-pressure.

PEOPLE'S POST | RETREAT Tuesday, 17 March 2020

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GANG CULTURE

Breaking the cycle of gangsterism SAMANTHA LEE-JACOBS SAMANTHA.LEE@PEOPLESPOST.CO.ZA

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o become men, black men go to the bush, white men went to the army and coloured men go to prison.”

This was the concerning statement relayed to provincial minister for community safety, Albert Fritz, during a visit to local prisons.

The aim of the visit was to interact with prisoners who would be able to assist the department in formulating reformative programmes for at-risk youth to ensure they did not get caught up in a life of gangsterism and crime.

“I was very worried about this statement because something must be done to change this mindset,” says Fritz.

While gangsterism exists all over the world and throughout the broader South Africa, it has become synonymous with the Cape Flats.

Here, police say, children as young as six are recruited into gangs.

Chezron Fouten, who grew up in Tafelsig, left gangsterism behind while serving a 10year prison sentence for murder and gun possession.

Before he reached puberty, Fouten had washed the blood of countless victims from his hands, convicted of the serious crime at only 10-years-old.

“I was involved in gangsterism for 17 years. I started when I was seven. At that time I didn’t get the love I wanted from my mother and I did not grow up with a father.

It was then that I started looking for friends and the friends I became involved with were gangsters. That is how it all started,” says Fouten.

“I was a hitman for the gang and I was good. I took out some of the top guys. The murder I was convicted of was the only one they caught me for. I was sentenced to 10 years in prison for murder and gun possession and when I was inside, I became a member of the 28s gang.”

The cycle of young arrests for gang and serious crimes is also something under review, says Fritz.

“When a child gets arrested anywhere, whether it be Mitchell’s Plain, Hanover Park or wherever (something must be done).

Any other child is normally at school, any other child belongs with his or her family.

They belong to us,” says Fritz.

“When a child is arrested, we must stop wanting to throw them away. This is why the Western Cape Safety Plan is so important. What that plan speaks to is when a child is arrested, that we use the principle clause of diversion. We take those children and try to save them and to get rid of the whole gangster thinking. We need to put these children in a programme and walk with them for at least a few years. We assist them with skills development and then we hand them over for a further intervention.”

The diversion clause refers to children being placed in reformative programmes rather than incarcerating them.

In a 2003 National Assembly meeting on the Child Justice Bill, members of Parliament discussed the clause of diversion in detail, acknowledging several constitutional matters.

The minutes read: “On the issue of whether diversion is constitutional from the victim’s perspective, particularly in relation to serious offences such as rape and murder, the Community Law Centre makes reference to section 12(1)(c) of the Constitution.

It provides that ‘everyone has the right to freedom and security of the person, which includes the right to be free from all forms of violence from either public or private sources’.”

The deliberations further speak to a victim’s right to life, human dignity and freedom and security of the person.

According to an article published by Unicef South Africa, around 38 000 youths are arrested in the Western Cape each year.

For many of these youths this stems from the established gang culture in the province.

Reformed gangster and drug addict Ashley Hendricks says gangsters are role models in their communities. “We see them

Once tagged, reformed gangsters say they are forever branded as gangsters. wearing nice clothes, we see them drive cars and being respected by so many. It is only when you are in the gangs that you realise it’s not all it’s cut out to be.”

Hendricks was a member of a local gang and says this was a tough time in his life.

He was 12 when he first got involved, and he says it was then that he became “a man”.

“There are things I don’t want to talk about. Things I saw, things I had to do,” he says.

Hendricks says leaving was hard. “But I know it needed to be done. I was always told, once you’re in, you can’t get out. Not only out of the gang but also away from the boxes people put you in. They see my tattoos and still say I’m a gangster.”

In a recent study conducted by Dr Jane Kelly for her University of Cape Town (UCT) doctoral thesis, she interviewed several former gangsters in the hope of understanding the gang culture. “I was interested in not only the process of exiting a gang but how they maintained that after they had left the gang because there’s often a risk of rejoining, particularly in the context of poverty and unemployment,” said Kelly in a statement.

Many of the people she spoke to came from broken homes and families where love and a sense of belonging were absent.

This was the same for both Fouten and Hendricks who lacked father figures.

Fritz says this is a common factor that must be addressed through programmes if needed.

Kelly further found that for many the turning point is finding God. She pointed out that disillusionment with the gang and choosing to desist is not a single event: “This is a process that unfolds over time, [with them] coming to realise that, ‘No, they’re not there for me. That isn’t what I want for my life anymore’.”

Religion emerged as a key factor, giving them a sense of meaning, belonging, absolution and a new community.

What was of interest to Kelly was that gangs respect religion and wanting to become “a man of God” as a way of exiting.

Fouten is now an evangelist who uses his experiences to discourage youngsters from joining.

“They will listen more to someone who has experienced it first hand,” he says.

For Mark Jeneker, living the high life as a drug dealer, religion was what pulled him out.

Following decades of drug abuse and dealing, he has now devoted his life to keeping children from following the same path and it was his love for the arts that ultimately saved his life.

He was always artistic but fell into drugs and gangsterism at the age of 13.

“I was a drug dealer for 20 years and because I was into gangsterism I did not care about anything,” he says. “I used everything from Mandrax to dagga, alcohol and even dealt in guns because I was a leader figure in the gangs.”

Taking up the role of a father figure to his step-grandchildren, he began to realise he was not setting the best example.

“I was raising children and I lost one in a car accident and the year after I lost the other one. They were not gangsters. I raised them in church, but I did not go,” he says.

“I was a drug user and after they died I felt something was not right, because why did they die and I didn’t when I was doing all the wrong things?”

He has since started a foundation that helps children keep busy in some of the area’s gang-ridden communities.

What Jeneker, Hendricks and Fouten have in common is that they have all been able to escape a life of gangsterism and now use their experiences to better the lives of vulnerable children, giving them the chance to avoid following the same path.

While reformed gangsters are making strides in changing the narrative, areas such as Mitchell’s Plain, Bishop Lavis, Khayelitsha, Elsies River and Manenberg among others continue to be plagued by gang violence.

In recognising the need for intervention, safety and security fraternities attached to all three spheres of government have deployed additional resources to stem the scourge.

In noticing the negative impact gang tags has on the community and the overall moral of residents, the City of Cape Town established an illegal graffiti task force that by January last year had removed 10 million m² of gang tags across the city.

The unit was started in 2010 with one officer and has since grown with millions of metres of gang tags removed from city walls.

JP Smith, mayco member for safety and security, says the areas were identified during operations and through notification from the community.

Graffiti tagging, especially gang tagging, is destructive to the look of a community says Smith, adding that illegal graffiti is a concern.

“It is incredibly destructive to the visual aesthetic of a city and in turn the confidence of the people when an area has all these indicators of discord and disorder. Tagging says that this is a place where lawlessness reigns.

Especially gang tagging, these indicate that it is an area where gangs are in charge and

PHOTO: SAMANTHA LEE-JACOBS

I am keen to delete their fingerprint off our communities,” says Smith.

In a statement, Smith continues: “Negative images and words not only scar the urban landscape, but also those residents who have to look at it daily. Getting rid of gangster graffiti will help restore dignity to many communities and instil a sense of pride.”

In a quest to bolster police’s crime fighting efforts the City of Cape Town, in partnership with the provincial government recently announced a multi-billion rand investment initiative. As part of the plan 3000 law enforcement officer will be trained and deployed across the province in the next five years.

A total of 500 officers have already been deployed, with an additional 500 expected to be deployed before the end of the year.

During a Western Cape Safety Plan meeting in February, premier Alan Winde said safety was a big concern.

He continued that while they were in the process of calling on the national government to hand over the management of policing to the province, when their request had been continuously denied, they decided it was time to work together.

“We are happy about the police minister Bheki Cele’s decision to introduce 1 000 more police officers for the province,” said Winde. The officers were deployed in December. “But the stats show that there are not enough police officers in the province.”

Winde says the extra visibility of law enforcement officers has already resulted in a significant decrease in the murder rate where they have been deployed.

In bid to further curb gang activities, police have deployed members of the anti-gang unit.

The unit was officially launched by President Cyril Ramaphosa and Cele in Hanover Park in November 2018.

Ramaphosa said at the time that the national anti-gang strategy sought to holistically address gangsterism.

“This strategy is a community-based strategy with a focus on street-level outreach, community development, conflict mediation and changing community norms in order to reduce violence and criminality,” he said.

Since then, the unit has made strides in reducing gang-related crimes such as gun possession, investigation of murders and shootings and confiscations of drugs.

Following an outcry from different communities, members of the South African National Defence Force were deployed in the province last year to assist police in clamping down on gang-related crimes. The force is expected to move out of the gang-ridden areas this month.

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riscilla Abrahams is turning locals from Steenberg and Grassy Park into top-class ballroom dancers.

The Steenberg resident fell in love with dance when she was only six years old.

“When I was younger, it was at the age of nine, I started (classes in dancing). I didn’t compete because we didn’t know about schools out here. Then I first went to a local coach that did normal dancing for adults – social classes. So I went to social classes like that. The coach told me I should have done it competitively.”

Shortly thereafter, she was noticed by the likes of Manny Gomez, Jackie Price and Bernard Johnson – all professional dancers and coaches who were making waves in the ballroom field at that time.

Priscilla had started dancing before the international sporting sanctions on apartheid in South Africa had been lifted. As a result, she just missed her opportunity to compete overseas. It was only around 1995, that a group was again able to compete on foreign soil.

Shortly after, she stopped dancing. She only returned to dance in 1999.

After a few years of being back in the sport, she says: “God showed me young kids and when I opened my school it was because I had a lot of family children, and I was thinking, ‘How am I going to keep these children off the streets?’ ” She opened Silla’s School of Dance in 2003.

She started it in Cradock Road near the Steenberg police station and took in her parents as her first students.

In an attempt to showcase what the school had to offer, she began dancing competitively.

“The school just grew and grew – and I love kids. I had single parents whose kids didn’t

Ballroom dancers, advanced and novice, warm up for their practise. have fathers, and dancing was my way to keep these kids occupied and make successful dancers of them – some are musicians now; some are still very much in the ballroom world.”

In 2009, Priscilla was invited to dance in an international competition in Belgium – something she had been dreaming of for decades – but she wasn’t able to make it.

Now she grooms the next generation of award-winning competitive dancers at the recreation centre in Coniston Park every Tuesday and Thursday.

Jake Erasmus (19) and Ephraim Jacobs (17) have both competed at Western Prov-

ince and South African level, coming first and second in South Africa at a single meet, cementing their position as two of the top dancers in the country.

Both entered the sport at the age of five.

Ephraim says dancing is his passion and he can’t imagine his life without it. Jake, on the other hand, says getting into dance wasn’t his choice.

“I was forced into it, but the first time I danced a competition, I got a trophy. And then I liked the feeling of achieving something. Then I also found a love for dancing in that. And no one likes losing so it makes you work harder.”

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Now, he says, he never stops dancing. “I walk to the kitchen and I’m dancing, I’m eating and I’m dancing – I’m always dancing.”

Priscilla adds: “Their parents tell me that even when they’re walking in the aisles at the shop, they’re dancing.”

She also teaches ballet classes, hip hop and more.

Charging only a small fee for students, she finds that raising money to get the dancers to compete can be challenging. She encourages anyone who would like to help her students realise their dreams to donate.

V To assist or for more information, call Priscilla on 068 210 8308.

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Covid-19 puts shows on hold The Lilliput Children’s Theatre Company will no longer be staging The Ugly Duckling and Other Stories at the Nassau Theatre during the school holidays.

The play was planned and rehearsed based on Hans Christian Andersen’s magical story of an ugly duckling who turns into a swan, the stage adaptation, which sticks closely to the original fairytale, is filled with colourful characters.

Elton John Duffy, who has been producing children’s theatre and delighting audiences far and wide for the past 27 years, is the show’s director.

The classic fairytale had been given a modern twist and included songs from Mich-

ael Jackson, Justin Bieber, One Direction, Taylor Swift and Meghan Trainor.

Following president Cyril Ramaphosa’s address to the nation over the Covid-19 virus pandemic and measures that have been introduced to curb its spread, organisers decided to call the show off.

“Gatherings of more than 100 people will be prohibited,” said Ramaphosa.

“Where small gatherings are unavoidable, organisers will need to put in place stringent measures of prevention and control.”

For queries, call Elton John Duffy on 083 364 8284 or 021 558 2650 or you can email lilliputtheatre@gmail.com.

V For more information visit www.lilliputplayers.co.za.

A group of Strandfontein Secondary School learners who would have participated in the Cape Town Carnival, before president Cyril Ramaphosa banned large gatherings on Sunday 15 March.

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Elton John Duffy and Desle Mc Conney in a scene from The Ugly Duckling, which which will no longer be running at the Nassau Theatre.

Up and coming talent wanted The Mayoral performing arts competition, Cape Town Expozed, is back for a second year and is looking for the Mother City’s next star.

Entries for Cape Town Expozed will close on Monday 30 March.

“We are looking to provide an opportunity for young up-and-coming talent who have been waiting for a platform to showcase their abilities on a big stage,” says mayor Dan Plato.

The competition is open to singers, dancers, musicians, poets and aspiring magicians among others.

“This is more than just a talent competition but we want to train, develop young people and provide them with the tools required to build a long-lasting career in whichever discipline they choose. I want to encourage the youth to take up this opportunity as this

could be the stepping stone to launching a wonderful career,” says Plato From the entries, Cape Town Expozed will host auditions between Monday 6 and Thursday 9 April where the top eight will be chosen. They will perform at the Freedom Day concert to be held on Saturday 25 April where a winner will be chosen.

The winner will walk away with a R10 000 cash prize.

Participants will be exposed to music industry business training, mentorships and workshops conducted by some of the leading performance art professionals.

Judges for the competition include musicians Robin Pieters, award-winning choreographer Elvis Sibeko, and Cape Music Institute director Camillo Lombard.

V Visit the Cape Town Expozed Facebook page for details on how to enter the competition.

group of 40 learners from Strandfontein Secondary School meant to participate in this year’s Cape Town Carnival will have to wait a little bit longer to showcase their skills following the cancellation of the annual event.

The carnival was scheduled to take place on Human Rights Day, Saturday 21 March, on the Green Point Fan Walk.

However, following president Cyril Ramaphosa’s address to the nation over the COVID-19 virus pandemic and measures that have been introduced to curb its spread, organisers have decided to call the carnival off.

“In consultation with our stakeholders, the trustees and management of the Cape Town Carnival resolved to cancel the carnival parade in the best interests of the health and welfare of all people and particularly the communities we serve,” a statement from the organisers read. “We would like to thank the 44 community groups, the individuals performers, and the carnival staff that have worked tirelessly to prepare for this event.”

Prof Rachel Jafta, chair of the Cape Town Carnival Trust, said: “My heart goes out to the carnival communities and management tea that have worked so hard to make this year’s parade extra special. Don’t lose hope; we will be back. We thank our sponsors and suppliers for their understanding in these uncertain times.”

Jean Prinsloo, principal at Strandfontein Secondary, says the school is the only high school in the Strandfontein community and “is a beacon of hope for a mixed community that has a few informal settlements such as 7de Laan and Plasie.”

The group, featuring 40 learners from Strandfontein and suburbs like Pelican Heights, Pelican Park, Mitchell’s Plain, Khayelitsha and Nyanga, was meant to showcase their parade, Umswenko: Move to

Your Own Beat.

Umswenko was originally expressed by miners as a way of celebrating life beyond the hardships of day-to-day work, using song, dance and fashion as a way out of their grim reality.

In its new incarnation, it is once again enlivening a group of people in difficult circumstances, giving them a sense of purpose, joy and unity.

“We’ve been practising rigorously for about a month now, sacrificing intervals, practising after school, and even doing three-hour sessions on a Saturday,” says Judith Simmers, one of the Strandfontien group’s choreographers.

Led and choreographed by Simmers, Fadley Hamsa and Merissa Schrikker, the group had evolved quickly into a safe place of fun, friendship, laughter and brilliance.

Keeble-Mercuur, who would have been a participant in the carnival and would have represented the school, says there’s a buzz among the learners that wasn’t there before.

According to the Strandfontein learners, the many hours of practising and togetherness have enabled the children to build new friendships, keep themselves out of harm’s way, and open their minds up to new possibilities in their own lives.

Recalling how it all started, Keeble-Mercuur tells the story of how a teacher, caught up in “the gees and magic” of being a part of the 50 000-strong carnival crowd before; “ran right along the parade route, next to the floats and through the crowds.”

“I think, for her, and for us, to see the absolute joy, pride and confidence on the bright young faces of those passing performers, spotting some of our very own learners shimmying in the belly dance, was something to behold and we as a school just had to get involved.”

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he Cape Town Softball Association season ended with an exciting week of softball.

In the women’s Super League Knockout (KO) competition, Lavender Hill won their first major trophy when they beat Westridge Yankees 3-2 in a riveting final at the Turfhall softball stadium on Sunday 15 March.

The outcome is the first major title won by the young Lavender Hill team.

With the score locked at 2-2 from the second innings, the match went into an extra tiebreaker inning. Yankees failed to score in the first tiebreaker innings. However, Lavender Hill had other ideas and sealed the game when Kelsey Fortuin crossed the plate courtesy of a Melissa Savage hit to right field after Fortuin was advanced on a sacrifice bunt from Grivonne Rhoda.

Just 24 hours earlier, Yankees put the skids on Lavender Hill when they ran out 6-1 winners to retain the league title.

As expected, both sets of pitchers contained the batters throughout the two games.

In the men’s major league KO final, Hamil-

tons scored four runs in the seventh innings to clinch a famous victory over Westridge Yankees.

Hamiltons managed only three hits in their first six innings. Marc Quickfall’s double set the stage for a superb batting display by the Hamiltons offensive with Altino Elliott adding another double.

Yankees failed to respond.

In the league competition, Khayelitsha Eagles failed to beat Pirates allowing Yankees to clinch the title at the finish line.

Yankees had a good day at the ballpark when their men clinched the second division KO and their women’s major league team clinched the double at the expense of Table View Tornados. The results are: Women: Saturday: Super League: Heideveld Yankees 0, Falcons 15; Kenfac Phillies 5, Glenthorn A’s 8; Lavender Hill 1, Westridge Yankees 6 First League: Panthers 14, Glenthorn A’s 15; Battswood 5, Blackheath 7; St Martins 0, Lavender Hill 6;

Jason Ripepi of Westridge Yankees (left) runs out Hamilton’s Nigel Kerchoff on second base during the softball men’s knock out finals played at Turfhall on Sunday 15 March. Hamiltons won 5-2, which also brought the softball season to a close.

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Crusaders 0, Khayelitsha Eagles 15; Panthers 9, Blackheath 10 Second League: Kenfac Phillies 4, Silvertree Titans 20; Falcons 13, Tantasport 5; Table View Tornados 3, Devonshire Rovers 14 Men: Sunday: Major League: Hamiltons 5, Westridge Yankees 2 First League: Hamiltons 15, Blackheath 4 Second League: Westridge Yankees 13, Heideveld Yankees 6 Women: Super League: Lavender Hill 3, Westridge Yankees 2 Major League: Westridge Yankees 9, Table View Tornados 0 First League: Khayelitsha Eagles 4, Glenthorn A’s 0 Second League: Silvertree Titans 10, Table View Tornados 0

Lavender Hill’s Miché Hendricks (left) celebrates with Melissa Savage after the final run was scored to beat Westridge Yankees 3-2 a during sudden death in the super league KO final on Sunday 15 March at Turfhall. The KO title was Lavender Hill’s first major title, after finishing runners up to Westridge Yankees in the league. Yankees annexed the league title on Saturday 14 March after beating Lavender Hill 5-2.

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Following president Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration placing the country in a state of disaster in response to the COVID-19 outbreak on Sunday 15 March, major sporting bodies have cancelled their fixtures.

The Western Cape Provincial Sport Confederation (WCPSC), which oversees multiple sporting codes and reports to the South African Sport Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC), have released a statement saying they have taken heed of the recommendation that encourages social distancing to curb the spread of the coronavirus. “We request that all members in the sporting fraternity begin the immediate practice of social distancing,” read the statement by WCPSC president JP Naudé.

The statement further outlines that all sport in the province is postponed or cancelled with immediate effect for the next two weeks (14 days), which includes: . Clubs, district, provincial and national activity and includes junior and senior sports activities. . Amateur and professional sports gatherings. . Formal and informal sport gatherings . Private and institutional sports gatherings. . Practice and competition.

“Although the first action is a suspension of 14 days, this could change or be extended on further notice. We will continue to engage with our partners and the health authorities so that we, in turn, may advise you with accurate and timeous information so that you are in a position to make informed decisions. “If ever there was a time for the sport to contribute to the nation, this is it.” Other notable sporting bodies and events which have cancelled or postponed activities include Absa Cape Epic, Athletics South Africa, Boxing South Africa, SA Rugby, The Sunshine Tour, Tennis South Africa, Two Oceans Marathon, the Varsity Cup as well as the Western Province Cricket Association.

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