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SA SLASHES HIV INFECTIONS BY 41%

Ahead of World Aids Day, new HIV infections in SA down 41%, Aids-related deaths decrease

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CCORDING to a new report released ahead of World Aids Day (Saturday 1 December) by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids), South Africa has cut the rate of new HIV infections by 41% since 2001, with a drop of at least 50,000 in the last two years. The report found that these dramatic improvements were brought about by increasing domestic public investment in combating HIV/Aids to US$1.9billion in 2011 - a five-fold increase since 2006. South Africa has scaled up its provision of state-sponsored antiretroviral therapy by 75% in the last two years, ensuring that 1.7-million people had access to the life-saving treatment. The country has slashed the number of Aids-related deaths by 100,000 since 2005 - showing that antiretroviral therapy has emerged as a powerful force for saving lives. The area where the country had made perhaps the most progress, according to the UNAids report, was in reducing new HIV infections in children, with the number of children newly infected with HIV falling by at least 40% between 2009 and 2011. UNAids also found that these improvements in HIV prevention and treatment were echoed across

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LOVE AND LOSS: British-Nigerian playwright and actress Mojisola Adebayo and South African dancer Mamela Nyamza perform in I Stand Corrected, on stage at at Ovalhouse Theatre in London until 8 December fresh from its sell-out run in South Africa. Telling the story of two black lesbian lovers who try to touch each other across the supernatural divide, the play is a response to the epidemic of ‘corrective’ rape in South Africa. Read more on thesouthafrican.com/entertainment

sub-Saharan Africa, the part of the world most affected by HIV. Since 2001, rates of new HIV infections have been cut by 73% in Malawi, 71% in Botswana, 68% in Namibia, 58% in Zambia, 50% in Zimbabwe and 41% in Swaziland.

At the same time, sub-Saharan Africa has reduced its Aids-related deaths by one-third in the last six years and increased the number of people on antiretroviral treatment by 59% in the last two years alone. Impressive gains were also made

in cutting deaths from tuberculosis in people living with HIV, the report found, with TB-related Aids deaths in sub-Saharan Africa falling by 28% in the last two years. ...continues on next page

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‘Power of One’ author Bryce Courtenay dies South African-born Australian author Bryce Courtenay has died of cancer at home in Canberra

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SOUTH African-born Australian author Bryce Courtenay has died at his Canberra home, his wife has announced. Courtenay, whose bestsellers include The Power of One, had terminal stomach cancer and recently announced he had “only some months” left to live. He died on Thursday night surrounded by his family and pets. The 79-year-old didn’t let his fight with cancer slow him down, with his 21st and final novel, Jack of Diamonds, being released this month. He wrote a moving epilogue to Jack of Diamonds: “It’s been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives. Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, Thank you. You have been simply wonderful.” Born in Johannesburg, Courtenay spent his childhood in a small village in the Lebombo Mountains in Limpopo province.

In 1955, while studying journalism in London, Courtenay met his first wife, Benita, and eventually emigrated to Sydney, Australia. They married four years later and had three sons. Courtenay was diagnosed in May 2011, but was only told of his prognosis a few months ago. He has had most of his stomach and part of his intestines removed. “I said to the doctor ‘now don’t bullshit me, how long have I got?’ and he said on an average nine months but it could be less,” he told the Nine Network. “I have achieved those things that seemed at one stage in my life to be absolutely impossible. I’ve had a full life and an extraordinarily fortunate life. It’s had its tragedies but then everybody’s had their tragedies,” he said. One of Courtenay’s sons, Damon, a haemophiliac, died of AIDS in 1992 after contracting HIV in a blood transfusion. He was only 24. The author of the international bestseller The Power of One,

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what can you do?” “Do I exaggerate? You bet I exaggerate. I take a fact, put a top hat on it, a silk shirt and a bow tie and striped trousers and a tail coat and a pair of tap shoes and I do a Fred Astaire with a fact. But I don’t ruin the fact. I never ruin the fact. I’m just giving it life.” Courtenay’s wife Christine said in a statement, “We’d like to thank all of Bryce’s family and friends and all of his fans around the world for their love and support for me and his family as he wrote the final chapter of his extraordinary life.”

‘Record numbers of people accessing treatment’ continues from previous page... “This accomplishment is due to record numbers of people with HIV/TB coinfection accessing antiretroviral treatment - a 45% increase between 2009 and 2011. India, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe accounted for two-thirds of all new people with HIV/TB co-infection being treated.” The latest data from countries in sub-Saharan Africa and around the world “tell a story of clear success”, with record numbers of lives being saved in the past six years, and more than half a million fewer people dying from Aidsrelated illnesses in 2011 than six years earlier. A thousand days remain for the world to achieve its 2015 global Aids targets of reducing sexual transmission of HIV and new HIV infections among people who inject drugs by 50%, eliminating new HIV infections among children, providing antiretroviral treatment to 15-million people, and reducing TB-related Aids deaths by 50%. These targets form part of the UN Millennium Development Goals agreed upon by all UN member countries in 2000. To enable the targets to be reached, countries committed to investing up to $24-billion annually on combating HIV/Aids by 2015. The UNAids report shows that countries are increasing their Aids response investments despite a difficult economic climate, with the global gap in resources needed annually by 2015 now at 30%

- $16.8-billion was available in 2011. “In 2011, for the first time ever, domestic investments from lowand middle-income countries surpassed global giving for HIV,” the report states. “However, international assistance, which has been stable in the past few years, remains a critical lifeline for many countries. In 26 of 33 countries in subSaharan Africa, donor support accounts for more than half of HIV investments.” At the same time, UNAids said, countries had to take steps to reduce their dependency on international assistance for HIV treatment programmes. The United States accounts for 48% of all international assistance for HIV and, together with the Global Fund for Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, provides the lion’s share of investments in HIV treatment. Some South African World Aids Day events in UK: • Something Red: HIV/AIDS Awareness Charity Event: An evening of guest speakers, live entertainment and good food, all to raise funds for CHIVA-Africa. 1 Dec 6pm, Oxford • Screening of Spud, the movie: Join Starfish Greathearts Foundation for a screening of Spud, The Movie to mark World AIDS Day. 5 Dec 6.30pm. London. More details on www. thesouthafrican.com/news

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Call for establishment of sexual offences courts

International 16 Days of Activism for gender based violence launched in SA

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WOMEN, Children and People with Disabilities Minister Lulu Xingwana has called for the harsher sentencing of perpetrators of violence against women and children and for the sexual offences courts to be re-established speedily. “By giving women and child abusers harsher sentences, our courts are continuing to play a role in sending a message to these abusers that their actions will not be tolerated. Those who commit

atrocities and murders against women and children must rot in jail. They do not deserve bail or parole. They must not be allowed to share the same spaces with our women and children, nor must they be allowed to roam our streets. We also urge the Minister of Justice to speed up the re-establishment of the sexual offences courts,” said the minister. Xingwana said the Domestic Violence Act must be heightened to ensure that the perpetrators of abuse towards women and children are dealt with effectively. She was speaking at the launch of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign in Kimberley in the Northern Cape on Sunday. The minister said on this important day, South Africans must pause and ponder the real impact of gender-based violence. These include direct costs relating to health care services, judicial services, social services and other related services. She said gender-based violence robbed women and children of the opportunity to become productive citizens of the country. “It denies them their constitutional rights and condemns them to a life of perpetual fear. They are therefore prevented from enjoying the fruits of our freedom and democracy.” Despite South Africa’s constitutional and legislative protection, violence based on gender and sexual orientation remained at unacceptable levels. The violence can take different forms such as sexual harassment, abuse, assault, rape, domestic violence and other cultural

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practices that are harmful to women and children, such as ukuthwalwa and ukungenwa. The minister called for a partnership between government and civil society organisations to deal with the scourge of violence directed at women and children. “Government cannot do this alone and therefore depends on mutual partnerships with nongovernmental and women’s organisations, business, faith-based organisations, traditional leaders, political parties, various sectors of society and communities,” she said. The success of the 16 Days of Activism campaign was dependent on the partnership between government and various sectors of society including the media. “We believe that the unacceptably high levels of gender-based violence require the collective efforts of all South Africans,” she said. The campaign takes place annually from 25 November to 10 December. - SAnews.gov.za

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An examination of an absurd world SA artist William Kentridge’s film installation opens at Tate Modern

by JEREMY KUPER ON Sunday 11 November William Kentridge’s installation I am not me, the horse is not mine opened at Tate Modern in London. The piece features six-minute films based on Russian writer Nikolai Gogol’s short story ‘The Nose’, and the Shostakovich opera on the same subject. The images are projected simultaneously across seven giant screens in the new ‘Tanks’ area of Tate Modern, giving the projections a larger than life aspect. I am not me, the horse is not mine, deals with the theme of the absurd. “Not just as the amusing or the foolish or the stupid. But the absurd… as one of the ways in which we can generate knowledge,” Kentridge said at his talk at the Tate to coincide with the opening of the work. It is “about the way in which we both apprehend and swallow the world and meet the world halfway,” he said. In ‘The Nose’, middle-ranking civil servant Kovalyov wakes up one morning to discover that his nose is missing. Kovalyov eventually tracks down the nose, which is masquerading as a more senior bureaucrat, and he confronts the nose as it steps out of a carriage. The nose is later apprehended by the police and returned to him, but

cannot be put back onto his face. Luckily one morning Kovalyov awakes to find that his nose has grown back and he can return to normality. The composer Shostakovich was a member of the Communist Party just after the Russian Revolution. Hence Kentridge makes references to the early Soviet period in the installation, the era in which Shostakovich wrote his Nose opera. Kentridge uses old films of Russian people marching and demonstrating, which he combines with his own animation to create a collage. Archive footage of a Russian man on a horse shows the rider with a giant nose painted on where his head should be. Other scenes show the nose riding a horse and a nose climbing a set of stairs. One screen features extracts from the Stalinist show-trial of Bukharin, who is arguing for his life against absurd allegations, as his accusers simply laugh at him. To Kentridge this idea of the absurd is a different way of looking at the world, and helps us to understand “the world as fractured, as incoherent, as defying our expectations of logic, which we would impose on it.”

“If you think of the racial classification in South Africa under apartheid, where you didn’t just have white and black, you had coloured… Asian… other Asian… Chinese… honorary white, the list becomes an absurdity. But that is followed through with such assiduity by the state, that there’s a very strange thing.” Something that is quite clearly absurd and not in some abstract way, but daily life for all of South Africa’s non-white inhabitants. “It has to do with the fundamental crack in the kind of logic and then following this distorted logic to the ends of the earth. And I think that may be a reason why the Gogol… and the Soviet Union felt so prescient.” However, “the differences” between South Africa and Russia under Stalin “are greater than the similarities.” The exhibition is free to attend and runs until 20 January 2013.

by GEORGE HULL WITH the Mangaung conference approaching, and Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s charges stacking up against Julius Malema, he faces a make-or-break moment. Now, more than ever, we need an in-depth understanding of the expelled ANC Youth League President and his power base. At first suspecting Fiona Forde was a “bloody agent”, Malema later warmed to the Irish journalist and, over two years, granted her hundreds of hours of interviews. An Inconvenient Youth – released last month in an updated international edition – tells us what she discovered. Forde, like many who have spent time with Malema one-to-one, praises his intelligence and charm. He is “thoughtful”, “emotionally open”, “extremely clever” – a “political genius”, even. This does not stop her confronting him with the series of kickbacks and freebies her sources agree companies gave Malema for Limpopo tenders. The best part of the book talks us through his evasive answers. At one point, not denying a 10% holding in one of the implicated firms, Malema can only say, a bit desperately, “But have you seen the money go into my account?” The court will hopefully demand better answers in the weeks to come. To place her subject in context, the author takes us through some of the ANC history Malema himself so often invokes. The idea is to draw illuminating parallels, but it is unclear what Forde thinks these are. She likens the Malema faction to the anti-communist nationalists of the 1950s – leaving us wondering why, in that case, it is in the ’50s communist idiom of National Democratic Revolution that Malema articulates his message. There is talk of a return to élitism; but Malema and Zuma bear little resemblance to the ANC’s founding élite of overseas-educated aristocrats to whom she compares them. She then alternately criticises AB Xuma for not capitulating early enough to the militant youth of his time, and Jacob

Zuma for not disciplining young upstarts in the way Xuma did. This inconclusive historical analysis leaves a void, which Forde fills with amateur shrinkery. She puts the violence of Malema’s rhetoric down to his having reached maturity after the armed struggle – “to this day he tries to re-enact the war he feels he missed out on”. His alleged “angry outlook on life” she attributes – based on nothing but a quotation from Achille Mbembe – to a “selfhatred” which engenders “racism”. The book abounds with ill-judged, unsubstantiated speculations of this kind. It is as though Forde had forgotten that Malema is, as well as a sinner, a politician. One does not need to suffer from “war envy” or “negrophobia” to think South Africa’s economic policies over the last 16 years have contributed to its problems. Malema’s alternative proposals – nationalisation, forced land redistribution, closer economic ties with Zimbabwe – may well be catastrophically misguided. If so, Forde would have done well to explain why, and why, despite this, these ideas have such a large uptake. As things stand, we will have to wait a while longer for a book which makes sense of the Malema phenomenon. TheSouthAfrican.com/ Entertainment

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The missing middle – building the suburbs for Africa’s middle classes Gateway To Africa speaks to Soula Proxenos of International Housing Solutions about the challenges of building an African suburbia

by MILTON LINDSAY IN SOUTH AFRICA and the rest of the Sub-Saharan region, the housing industry is comprised of a two-tier pyramid. Developers, eager to capture the massive amounts of wealth concentrated at the top of society, build sprawling compounds and vast mansions for those who have reaped the wealth of Africa’s resource sector, while the remainder of the developments consists of low-income housing. “Everyone thinks that the money sits with the rich,” says Soula Proxenos, managing partner at International Housing Solutions (IHS). “But, in fact, the truth is that there is a huge amount of money to be made in the lower ends of the market, because nobody thinks there’s any opportunity there.” Since 2007, International Housing Solutions (IHS), a private equity firm based in Johannesburg, has worked to capitalise on what Proxenos calls the “missing middle” in South Africa’s housing market – the shortage of housing available for the country’s expanding middle class. According to Proxenos, IHS provides equity to developers for “large or medium-sized housing projects for middle class families, because in South Africa what is needed is equity to kick start these type [of projects]. Often the equity is early money and thisChallenge equity print Nedbank Golf makes the difference between what the developer can afford and the loan-to-value ratio that banks are comfortable with.” IHS will provide equity for a developer at various points in a particular project, Proxenos says, and IHS will “encourage developers to move down the pyramid of income,” and cater projects toward a broader portion of the population. In the past five years IHS, which manages a 10-year private

equity fund worth R1.9 billion ($214 million), has completed 32 development deals – providing affordable housing for 26,000 families in South Africa. IHS partners with medium-sized and large-scale developers, and projects range anywhere from 133 units to 8,000-unit developments. Although IHS will work with developers on various types of projects, Proxenos says her firm will only finalise a deal when both the prospective market, as well as the potential developing partner, are deemed to be suitable. Proxenos says, “before making a final decision on a project IHS will ask questions like: Is the developer sound; what does the actual development look like, and does it make sense based on [IHS's] own market studies on the location?” While IHS has yet to venture outside of South Africa, Proxenos says that similar stratified market dynamics exists “in every emerging market,” where “you’ve got a growing population, urbanisation. And in many of these markets, a growing middle class.” Proxenos says this includes many countries within Sub-Saharan Africa, and IHS has been actively searching for potential deals outside South Africa, including Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Mauritius and Ghana for the past few years. Ghana, in Proxenos’ eyes, is one Sub-Saharan economy that looks ad.Page 1 21/9/12 11:16:47 especially attractive. “The country is showing many signs of positive development,” Proxenos says. “It has a sophisticated mortgage market, meaning mortgages are readily available. They’ve found oil, but it hasn’t gone to their head – which is often the problem – and the private companies in Ghana really do seem to be making significant progress.” “It’s definitely showing a lot of potential.” However, “a country

must have so many different factors lining up” before IHS will deem it ready for investment, Proxenos says. The main question in Sub-Saharan Africa is: “Is a country institution ready?” “IHS is putting institutional capital into an economy that has been starved of this type of capital,” Proxenos says. “So it will make sure there is the institutional reporting, management and control over this absent class to make sure the institutional capital get [the] supporting that it needs, the reporting that it needs and that the money is very judiciously invested.” Proxenos says weak institutions are why IHS is somewhat unlikely to enter countries like Zimbabwe or Nigeria in the near future, despite each having extreme potential and a burgeoning middle class. “[IHS] must be certain that a country’s institutions will be able to protect the capital invested,” Proxenos says. “And institutions must have the wherewithal to actually pull the whole deal together.”

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Another problem encountered by IHS, when it has looked into expanding outside of South Africa, is that developers and financial institutions are drawn to the wealth generated by the resource sector – particularly in Angola and Mozambique where “mineral industry drives most investors to focus on building villas and luxury hotels.” However, Proxenos says “huge potential remains” throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. “It’s just a matter of waiting for the critical mass to build up in a particular country before [IHS] moves into the market.”

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BULLET BIOGRAPHY Born: 1950 in Oranjezicht, Cape Town School: Cape Town High Tertiary education: Social Science degree (UCT), Industrial Relations Honours (Wits) and MA (Warwick) Came to the UK: In 1977 Career trajectory: • 1978: Worked for a year as Industrial Relations officer with Mobil Oil • 1979: Joined British Labour Party as secretary on Africa & Middle East • 1984: Joined BBC, working primarily on Africa, specialising in Horn of Africa & Southern Africa. • 2012: Retired from position as Africa editor for BBC World Service News Selection of published books: • Power! Black workers, their unions and the struggle for freedom in South Africa, 1984 • South Africa: Out of the Laager?, 1991 • War in the Horn, 1999 • Unfinished Business: Ethiopia and Eritrea at war, 2005 • Ethiopia and Eritrea: Allergic to persuasion, 2007 • The Hamster of Hampstead Heath, 2007 • Who Rules South Africa?, 2012

What was the hardest thing about coming here? Good grief. The hardest thing about coming to the UK as a young South African in the 1970s was that I came with a lot of chauvinistic ideas and getting used to British women who were feminists was pretty tough. Do you still get homesick? Of course… I miss all the obvious things, like the wonderful food and the wonderful people... the sunshine, all the usual things. To be honest with you, I left South Africa always expecting to go back. I was involved with the trade union movement between ‘73 and ‘76 and with the Soweto uprising, I was involved in that a bit. I came over here to do a final degree and was always going to go home but then met a British girl and fell in love. So I stayed. It’s not very complicated [he laughs]. Were you picked up by the police in South Africa? Ja, a couple of times, but nothing serious. The people I was involved

with had a much harder time. They were people like Willie Hofmeyr who is now the head of the asset forfeiture unit in SA. He was a legal advisor to Thabo Mbeki in parliament. People like Debbie Budlander, who’s an activist, and her brother Geoff Budlender who’s a lawyer. What is different about South Africans? Compared with whom? They work hard? No, that’s not what’s different about them. The reason South Africans do well in Britain is that they don’t know what they’re not supposed to do. They just go and do it. They take the risks. When a lot of British kids leave school they think well I’m working class, I can’t do X… South Africans come here, they don’t know what they’re not supposed to do. They give it a try. They have a lot of energy and optimism, and do fantastically well. You find them all over, whether they’re surgeons, running banks, law… They’ve done tremendously well - black and white.

What about the landscape, the big sky, the beaches…? All those things. I was never one for beaches much, because I’ve got red hair and I burn, but the mountains. But I’m going back. Next March I’ll spend three months at UCT. I’m going to be writer in residence. I’m writing another book on the early years of the ANC and I’m looking forward to it enormously. How often do you go back? Every year. Although there were 13 years when I could not go back, because I was banned by the government from getting a visa. You wouldn’t go and live there though? No, I wouldn’t go and live there for one simple reason, and that is, leaving aside the crime issue, because I have spent my whole working life working with Africans and when I’m in Britain people tell me I’m stupid, people tell me I’m wrong, people criticise my views every single day. But nobody ever said to me you’re saying it because you’re white. I’ve known I was white since I was about two or three years old…

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The quirky and undeniably charming Alexander Bar is the perfect spot, in the heart of the city centre, to catch up with friends, play a game of chess or grab a drink before heading out to the nearby clubs. Photo by Jesse Kramer.

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Bars (and a pub for good measure) • Alexander Bar: Possibly the quirkiest bar in town, this dimlylit bar offers tasty nibbles and excellent drinks set against vintage décor. Fancy playing a game of 30 seconds? Just grab it off the shelf. Need a drink, but too lazy to get up? Call the bar from the antique rotary dial telephone on the table (or even call the person at the table behind you). 76 Strand Street, CT | 27 (0)21 300 1088 • Julep: One of Cape Town’s best kept secrets, Julep is unassumingly located down a rather dark alley off Long Street. The bar offers some off the best cocktails in the city; try their Strawberry Moscow

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Mule – you won’t regret it. Vredenburg Lane, off Long Street, CT | 27 (0)21 423 4276 • Barristers: You may be visiting home, but if family is getting too much and you’re longing for a pub to escape to then look no further than Barristers, with their excellent selection of beers and over 130 wines on their list. They even offer fish and chips and a Sunday roast – enough said! Corner of Kildare Rd and Main St Newlands, CT | 27 (0)21 671 7907 New Years Eve parties • Rezonance Festival: This four-day festival is held at Contermanskloof Farm in Durbanville and features some of the biggest names in trance. The theme is ‘Transformation’, which seems like an apt way to start the new year. Tickets are R470 at www.webtickets.co.za • Kirstenbosch New Year’s Eve Concert: The city’s botanical gardens is a favourite among locals in the summertime, so why not bring a picnic and see the new year in while listening to live performances by Hugh Masekela and Hot Water. Tickets are R270 at www.webtickets.co.za • Rock the River: Located outside of Cape Town in the Boland region, Rock the River brings together South Africa’s biggest rock bands, including Van Coke Kartel, Lark, Ashtray Electric and many others. Tickets are R400 at www.computicket.com Gigs & Events • 1 December – Freshlyground: The seven-piece band will be

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performing hits from their new album, Radio Africa. Oude Libertas, Stellenbosch | From R140 • 13 to 23 December – The Nutcracker: The traditional version of this fairytale ballet is a perennial favourite for the festive season. Artscape Opera House From R140 • 15 December – Mother City Queer Project: No matter your persuasion, you’re certain to have a fabulous time at the continent’s biggest costume party. Cape Town Stadium | From R290

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‘Running with Mother’: Hopefully a marathon not a sprint The novella ‘Running with Mother’ deals with post-independence Zimbabwe from the viewpoint of 14-year-old Rudo

by MARK HORTOP RUNNING with Mother by Christopher Mlalazi is more novella than novel but this little book packs a punch. Published

by Zimbabwe’s Weaver Press in 2012 the novella deals with postindependence Zimbabwe from the viewpoint of 14-year-old Rudo Jamela, the daughter of an Ndebele father and a Shona mother. When government troops embark on a violent spell of ethnic cleansing and capture Rudo’s father, Rudo and her mother must flee their homestead to avoid being caught up in the violence: but caught up they are. The Shonadominated troops initially let Rudo go because of her Shona heritage (her schoolmates are not as fortunate) but as the killing gathers pace and community members start to turn on each other, no one appears to be immune. Rudo, her mother, her aunt, and her tiny cousin are caught in a desperate battle for survival. My understanding of the story was undoubtedly influenced by

Mugabe’s former home becomes tourist attraction by TENDAI PILATWE TOWNSHIP tourism has worked well in South Africa, where tourists are taken to places such as Nelson Mandela’s house in Soweto. It is hoped it will do the same for Zimbabwe, where the tourism department has rolled out its township tourism scheme to promote tourism in the country when it co-hosts the United Nations World Tourism Organisation general assembly with Zambia next year. The scheme will take tourists to Harare’s Mbare and Highfields townships to see houses where Robert Mugabe and nationalist leaders like Joshua Nkomo lived before independence in 1980. Under its township tourism programme, launched by Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi last weekend, Mugabe’s former home has been turned into a national monument and declared a national heritage site. “It is fitting that the houses that housed the early nationalists and provided meeting venues during that period be enshrined … for posterity’s sake,” said Mzembi.

Despite the areas being dogged by poverty, water shortages and poor refuse collections, it remains to be seen if the concept will be embraced or shunned by tourists from western countries. The Victoria Falls and game reserves are currently among the country’s top attractions. Figures show that Zimbabwe tourism is picking up. According to the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority, tourism receipts increased from $634m in 2010 to $664m last year. The ZTA attributes the increase to a rise in foreign tourist arrivals and the introduction of the multicurrency in 2009. The country’s tourist market share is comprised largely of arrivals from Africa, which contribute 89 percent, followed by Europe with five percent. Also, tourists to Zimbabwe from China and Hong Kong have almost trebled, shooting up from 12,000 in 2010 to 31,000 in 2011. The ZTA says the boost in these arrivals is a result of Zimbabwe marketing its tourist attractions in Asia.

the deep despair I feel at the mess Robert Mugabe and his henchmen have made of Zimbabwe but even without that context the story is harrowing and depressing. Rudo symbolises the fragile hope and potential that is in Zimbabwe but her experience is sobering to say the least, and this is realistically depicted. Mlalazi doesn’t go for the feel-good denouement and thus emphasises the seemingly

intractable problems facing Zimbabwe. Mlalazi captures Rudo’s voice perfectly; some of the imagery is beautiful and the reader cannot help but admire the protagonists’ resilience but I finished Running with Mother with a profound feeling of sadness and anger. There is little suggestion that things are going to change, little hope. I got the sense that the novelist, along

with the rest of us, is just holding his breath waiting for Mugabe to die. I hope Mlalazi gets to write a sequel in the near future as he is a marvellously accomplished storyteller. I just pray that Zimbabwe provides him with a better story to tell. Running with Mother is available on www.africanbookscollective. com

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Proteas show incredible heart in second Test Debutant Faf du Plessis bats entire final day to earn South Africa a morale-boosting draw

by JEREMY BORTZ AGAINST all odds, the Proteas fought back magnificently to bat out the final day of the second Test match at the Adelaide Oval, and secure a remarkable draw. Faf du Plessis became only the fourth South African to score a century on debut, after Andrew Hudson, Jacques Rudolph and Alviro Petersen, batting for almost eight hours to end on 110 not out (off 376 deliveries). Du Plessis also made an invaluable 78 in the first innings for a heroic Test debut. Du Plessis’s special fifth day hundred elicited memories of Jacques Kallis’s match-saving 101 not out to draw the Boxing Day Test match back in Melbourne in 1997. Du Plessis was magnificently supported by vice-captain AB de Villiers, who made his slowest Test score (33 off 220 balls), and an injured Kallis, who scored a brave 46 batting with a strained hamstring (to add to his first innings score of 58). He also enjoyed able support from the tailenders with Dale Steyn seeing out 28 deliveries, Rory Kleinveldt 17 and Morné Morkel 15. Australia will be bitterly disappointed with their final day efforts, needing only six Proteas’ wickets to win. Thankfully for South Africa, the pitch didn’t break

up as badly as expected. The hard-fought draw will not take away from the fact that much like the first Test at the Gabba, the bowlers failed to come to the party. While they bowled well in patches, they were unable to consistently apply pressure. Proteas’ assistant coach Russel Domingo felt the Proteas lacked a killer instinct. “We just weren’t able to maintain any sort of pressure with the ball. We seemed to release pressure a little too easily. We weren’t able to dry up an end, and there were runs flowing both sides of the wicket.” Runs were certainly flowing at leg-spinner Imran Tahir’s end, with him finishing the Test with figures of 0 for 260, the most expensive wicket-less Test match figures of all time. Australia were 102 for three in the first innings and 111 for five in the second, but on both occasions, the Proteas were unable to hammer home their advantage. Take nothing away from Australia, though, who batted superbly throughout. Captain Michael Clarke scored his fourth double-century of the year while Mike Hussey continues to enjoy fine form in the series scoring a hundred and a fifty. Let’s not also forget captain Graeme Smith’s first innings century, another innings of

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tremendous courage. Australia piled on over 500 in their first innings and the Proteas batted superbly on the second day to keep the match alive. The Proteas demonstrated why they’re number one in the world to fight back magnificently when seemingly down and out at various stages of the Test match. The third Test starts at the WACA on Thursday and with the series allsquare, it’s sure to be a humdinger of a match. TheSouthAfrican.com/ Sport

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Superb defence sees Springboks record fourth straight win at Twickenham

by ROB FLUDE he Springboks ended 2012 on a high with a determined effort, grinding out a 16-15 win over England on a wet winter’s day in London. The win saw the Boks return to South Africa with an unbeaten record from their three matches, having also edged out Ireland and Scotland. The result also means the Springboks are unbeaten by England in 11 consecutive matches, having last lost to them back in November 2006, and with one draw in June this year. While many critics will feel that the game was a dour struggle, the persistent rain would have hampered things to a great extent, however the teams still produced moments of excitement and enterprise. The Boks scored the only try of the match, and it was a strange moment to say the least. They were 9-6 to the good at the break, with the two flyhalves, England’s Toby Flood and South Africa’s Patrick Lambie, exchanging penalties. It began not long after the start of the second half, when Lambie grubbered the ball, which then hit England outside centre

Manu Tuilagi’s boot and bounced back to Lambie’s boot, which in turn ricocheted into the arms of Bok fullback Zane Kirchner, who set up a ruck. The Springboks drove up, and scrumhalf Ruan Pienaar passed to lock Juandré Kruger, who went into the tackle, but somehow lost the ball backwards in the contact. England’s scrumhalf Ben Youngs hacked at the ball, but it went straight onto the boot of Bok wing JP Pietersen, sending it forward towards the England goal-line. Ben Morgan, England’s lock, put his hand up, but knocked on, and straight into flank Willem Alberts’s arms, who crashed over the line for a try. With such a strange and rapid sequence of events, referee Nigel Owens required assistance from the TMO, who duly confirmed that a try had indeed been scored. With Lambie adding the conversion to make it 16-6 to the visitors, it seemed the Boks could then start playing with a bit more freedom and put some nails on the boring coffin. However, England put over three more penalties through replacement Owen Farrell, one of which was in the dying moments of the match. Their captain Chris Robshaw elected to

take the three points and then try win the game with another penalty or a drop-goal, rather than kick to the corner and go for the try. It drew boos from the home crowd, and ended up saving the Boks, who had put in so many tackles all game, and may have been a bridge too far for them to keep England out again. While the win would have given the Bok dressing room an air of elation after the game, the year itself was rather inconsistent. Coach Heyneke Meyer’s first year in charge of the Boks leaves him with a 58% winning ratio, through seven wins in 12 matches. The two draws – against England and Argentina – would have taken the gloss off an otherwise acceptable year. However, with the emergence of players such as Eben Etzebeth, Marcell Coetzee and Francois Louw, next year is a chance to improve further and challenge the All Blacks, who are some way out in front as the best team on the planet.

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