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Arise and Shine at Carnival
The container situated on the corner of Longkloof Circle in Heideveld.
PHOTO: EARL HAUPT
HEIDEVELD
Soup kitchen creates stir EARL HAUPT @EarlHaupt
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Arise and shine to observe a true spectacle of colour, glitz, glamour and entertainment at the 10th annual Cape Town Carnival set to brighten up 1.2km along the Cape Town Fan Walk on Saturday 16 March. Organisers, performers, sponsors and spectators joined in celebrating the official 50-day countdown to the carnival on Wednesday last week. People’s Post is one of the media partners to the event. The Carnival is described as an international event with thousands of locals being joined by spectators from other parts of the country and the world, who travel to observe the marvel first hand. The carnival is also an opportunity for social cohesion, bringing together people from different communities across the city. Pictured are performers, Shaunagh Hoshe from Langa, Chanté Wildeman from Athlone and Asanda Mehlo from Crossroads. Read more on page 8 PHOTOS: SAMANTHA LEE
soup kitchen used to feed children in Heideveld has become a bone of contention in the last week. Isaac de Jongh, who helps run the kitchen which feeds underprivileged children in the community, alleges that ward 44 councillor Anthony Moses is victimising him. De Jongh says they were forced to pay a building fine of R1800 last week. The fine, which was paid on 18 January to the Wynberg Regional Court “Our church’s NPO was taken to court for running a feeding scheme from private church grounds in Longkloof Circle,” De Jongh said in a statement. He added that in 2015, “the ward councillor of ward 44 sent an inspector of the plans department (Ledger House in Athlone) to our feeding scheme container to deliver a court order against our feeding scheme container. The inspector clearly stated that day that the councillor of ward 44 made the case against the feeding scheme container.” However, Moses has blatantly denied the allegations. He says he has never raised a “formal complaint” against the kitchen. “I have also not sent any building inspec-
tors to inspect the property. Certain comments made by the pastor is that I am against the soup kitchen. We are not against poverty alleviation in our communities, because there are so many in poverty,” Moses said. Moses instead accused De Jongh of misleading the church on whose property the container is situated. “He (De Jongh) has misled the church board in terms of placing the container there. He should know better because he was a ward committee member for five years and he has been educated, in those five years, what are the planning processes within the municipality,” he added. De Jongh says he handed in plans to the plans department in Athlone “on numerous occasions”, but the City keeps instituting “new building regulations”. “We never had the opportunity to speak our mind and our side of the story to the judge as we always had to appear on new dates. After three years of attending/appearing for this case we were told that we should move the container five metres from the boundary line,” says De Jongh. Moses says that the container just needs to comply with building regulations in order to continue operating, as it has for the last few years. V Continued on page 3