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Issue 518

SA STARTS TO FACE LIFE AFTER MADIBA

As the world once again prepares for the worst in terms of Nelson Mandela’s health, are South Africans slowly learning to say ‘hamba kahle to the revered statesman? by STAFF REPORTER

Nelson Mandela’s friend Andrew Mlangeni, who served time with him in prison, told the Sunday Times, “We wish Madiba a speedy recovery, but I think what is important is that his family must release him.

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“IT’S time to let him go” was the front-page headline in the South African Sunday Times, following Nelson Mandela’s return to hospital on Saturday for treatment of his recurring lung infection. Perhaps even a year ago, such a headline would have been taboo, but it seems that at last, as Mandela’s condition is described as ‘serious but stable’ South Africans are slowly learning to say ‘hamba kahle, Tata’. As the country once again holds its breath for news of the revered statesman’s health, there have been calls to face up to the reality that Mandela is an old and frail man. Madiba’s friend Andrew Mlangeni, 87, who served time with him in prison, told the Sunday Times, “We wish Madiba a speedy recovery, but I think what is important is that his family must release him. Once they release him, the people of South Africa will follow. We will say thank you, God, you have given us this man, and we will release him too.” It is the fourth hospital stay for Mandela, who turns 95 next month, since December. Marelise van der Merwe, writing for Daily Maverick during Mandela’s last hospitalisation in April, was brave enough to express what others were afraid to. “My prayers are not for Madiba’s speedy recovery. My prayers and good wishes

are that he will not have a long, drawn-out death; that he will be surrounded by loved ones and look back with satisfaction on the life he lived. He is an old, old man – one who crammed more into his active years outside jail than most people would do in two lifetimes.” Van der Merwe likened South Africa’s predicament to that of a typical fairy tale where the main character loses his mentor at a critical stage. “South Africa is at that critical stage now: we are staring into the abyss, the crisis times have come, and we are about to lose our father figure. But what happens in these stories? The fighter gets up and carries on; he moves forward with the tools the mentor has given him already. And if it is a good story, he emerges continued on page 2

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continued from front page victorious.” Van der Merwe said that if we really want to show love for Madiba, we should not be praying for his health; “It’s not him that needs fixing. We should be praying for ourselves… He has paid his debt to South Africa, and more. He has led each of us to be a better person, a stronger South Africa. Surely it is time for us to lovingly let him go, and to move forward with the lessons he sacrificed so much to teach us,” she concluded. One thing is certain: Madiba’s

final passing will usher in a period of self-analysis probably not seen in South Africa since the coming of democracy in 1994; an unprecedented openness of debate about the exact achievements of South African democracy in its twentieth year. Margaret Thatcher’s death, which marked the symbolic end of an era that saw Britain move irrevocably to the right of the political spectrum, may well pale in comparison to the scale of national introspection South Africans should prepare for.

Helen Zille talks elections 2014 in London next week by STAFF REPORTER

HELEN Zille, leader of the Democratic Alliance, is heading to London next week as part of her campaign for next year’s national elections in South Africa. On Wednesday 19 June she will give a public talk entitled ‘Elections 2014: will it be South Africa’s

turning point?’ win which she’ll give an insider’s view on Election 2014 and the Democratic Alliance’s plan to bring about change in South Africa. Venue: The Large Common Room, Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London, WC1N 2AB Time: 19h00 for 19h30 RSVP to Lisa Rothkegel at lisar@da.org.za by Friday 14 June.

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Somalis protest in London against xenophobic murder of Somalis in South Africa Somalis demonstrate at SA High Commission after Somali shopkeeper Abdi Nasr Mahmoud was brutally stoned to death by a mob in Port Elizabeth and two Somali brothers were allegedly hacked to death with an axe in Limpopo province on Thursday

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BRITISH Somalis held a demonstration on Friday afternoon outside the South African High Commission in London to protest against ongoing attacks on Somalis in South Africa. A large group of Somalis gathered outside the embassy on Trafalgar Square, chanting and holding placards that read ‘Zuma we demand you to stop Somali killing in South Africa’, ‘Justice for Somalis in South Africa’ and ‘Crime against humanity and we condemn it’. This comes after Somali shopkeeper Abdi Nasr Mahmoud was brutally stoned to death by a mob in Port Elizabeth and two Somali brothers were allegedly hacked to death with an axe in Limpopo province on Thursday. Shops in Diepsloot, Johannesburg, were also looted after a Somali man allegedly shot dead two suspected robbers, one of them a Zimbabwean. Police have arrested several people in connection with the attacks, which are reminiscent of the 2008 xenophobic violence that left 62 dead, of which 21 were South African nationals. The intensity of the 2008 attacks baffled many observers; the death toll in that year was seven times the annual average. A Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) report reflecting on the attacks identified competition for jobs and resources, nationalism and South African exceptionalism versus other Africans as the chief contributing factors. Somalis in South Africa are particularly at risk because the Somali community tend to establish cash businesses in poor communities and compete successfully with local businesses. In the aftermath of the 2008 attacks, interventions and the beginning of dialogue seemed to dissipate xenophobic tension but the recent attacks appear to be part of an uptick in violence. The South African government has condemned the attacks. In a statement it said, “The looting, displacement and killing of foreign nationals in South Africa should not only be viewed as xenophobic attacks but opportunistic criminal acts that will undermine the unity and cohesiveness of our communities. There is no cause to justify this heinous crime. We are therefore hopeful that out law enforcement agencies will bring to justice those who incited and perpetrated

these acts.” There are estimated to be more than 100,000 Somalis living in South Africa. A Somali community has existed in SA ever since the Somali civil war broke out in 1991, and continuing unrest and instability in the Horn of Africa has caused the community to grow. The Prime Minister of Somalia, Abdi Farah Shirdon, has called

on the SA government to protect Somalis after this spate of attacks on his countrymen. “I appeal to the Government of the Republic of South Africa as a matter of urgency to intervene and contain this unnecessary and unfortunate violence against Somali business communities to preserve peace and stability,” Shirdon said in an open letter to President Jacob Zuma.

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THE sun came out for last weekend’s hugely successful Dankfees at the Hop Farm in Kent. Old friends were reunited and new friendships forged over pancakes, melktert, braaivleis and rugby. A stage show by Lianie May, Arno Jordaan and Jak de Priester ended Saturday’s feast of entertainment on a high note.

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South African photographer presents ‘Drowning World’ exhibition at Tiwani Contemporary

Gideon Mendel’s exhibition is part of a long-term project documenting flooding in various parts of the globe including the UK, India, Haiti and Nigeria. The exhibition runs in London from 7 June – 27 July

by STAFF REPORTER Tiwani Contemporary presents ‘Drowning World’, an exhibition by South African photographer Gideon Mendel, from Friday 7 June to Saturday 27 July 2013. DROWNING World is part of a long-term project documenting flooding in various parts of the globe including England, India, Haiti and Nigeria. This exhibition, the first in a UK gallery for the artist, features unseen photographs from the Drowning World series, with a focus on Nigeria. The artist portrays climate change through portraits of flood survivors in the remains of their homes, emphasising the collective experience of environmental disaster, erasing geographical and cultural divides. The photographs suggest the aesthetics of portraiture; yet push the boundaries by staging in unlikely environments. The selection includes 15 images taken in Nigeria that have never been exhibited, and five photographs documenting flooding in various parts of the globe including England, India, Haiti and Australia. The exhibition also presents a two-part video of people living amidst floodwaters in Bangkok, as well as video portraits of Nigerian inhabitants returning to their flooded homes. Drowning

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Dankfees 2013, die Suid-Afrikaanse Fees van feeste!

LAAS naweek was natuurlik weer Dankfees en die sonnetjie het sy kop uitgesteek om die duisende Suid-Afrikaners welkom te heet by die Hop Farm in Kent. Ons het darem self douvoordag ons koeke en baksels in die motor gelaai en soos meeste, hul bydraes afgelewer voor die massas opdaag. Dit het ons ook die geleentheid gegee om ‘n lekker sitplek te kry terwyl daar nog plek was. Ek het bietjie kopgekrap, maar sommer gou besluit om nie vêr van die pannekoek en vetkoek stalletjies plek in te neem nie, ag is wel geneem van die luidsprekers wat nie te vêr van ons gestaan het nie, maar nou ja, ten minste sou ons heeldag weet wat, waar

About the artist Gideon Mendel was born in Johannesburg in 1959 and studied psychology and African history at the University of Cape Town. Following his studies he became a freelance photographer, documenting change and conflict in South Africa in the lead-up to Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. In 1990 he moved to London. He first began documenting the impact of Aids in Africa in 1993, and and in in the past 20 years his work on this issue has been widely recognised.

Two powerful images from an exhibition that is meditative, stark and timeous in an era of global warming

World is a poignant depiction of climate change through portraits of flood survivors taken in deep floodwaters, within the remains of their homes, or in submerged landscapes, in the stillness of once lively environments. Keeping their composure, the subjects pause in front of Mendel’s camera, casting an unsettling, yet engaging gaze. These images, taken across the globe demonstrate a shared experience that erases geographical and cultural divides. They invite the viewer to reflect on the impact on nature by

humankind, and attachment to our homes and personal belongings. Beyond the documentary aspect of this project, Mendel subtly treads on the aesthetics of portraiture, yet pushes the boundaries by staging the photographs in unlikely environments. Each portrait isolates individuals, couples or small groups that would otherwise be represented by statistics. The portraits also reveal personality and status through clothes, style and even elegance. As well as representing destruction, water also contributes

aangaan. Die Dankfees is natuurlik nie net ‘n plek waar jy al die lekkernye van ons land kan koop en nuttig nie, maar ook die perfekte plek om ou kennisse te ontmoet en selfs nuwe vriende te maak. So het ek ‘n paar jaar gelede ‘n ou vriend raakgeloop wat saam met my sy klerkskap voltooi het. Groot was my skok dat hy toe wel vrou gevat het en toe noggal ‘n oulike enetjie daarby. Vandag is hulle nou al paar jaar getroud met ‘n pragtige kleinding aan hulle sy en ons sien vreeslik uit na hul kuiertjies in Engeland. (Nee, nie net omdat hy my Klippies “pusher” is nie). Was dit nie vir die Dankfees nie, sou ek my ou maat seker nooit weer gesien het nie, nie te min, om saam met hulle te deel in hul vreugde as nuwe ouers. Dié jaar het ek afgespreek om ‘n dametjie en haar gesin, van my kant van die wêreld daar te ontmoet. Ja ek praat van die Weskus, daar waar ons lekker vinnig en aanhoudend praat, jy moet net mooi luister. So vertel sy my met smaak hoe sy amper by hul kar uitgeval het oor die mannetjie wat haar sò mooi in Afrikaans gegroet het by

die hek. Dit was glo haar eerste Afrikaanse vreemdeling in die ses maande wat hul saam met ons die reën op dié eiland trotseer. Nog groter was haar skok toe meer as duisend Suid-Afrikaners hulle binne die terrein inwag. Almal gelukkig en vreedsaam (sommiges letterlik), die plek het gemaal en gedrom van ons Volk. Ons het gesit en gesels en sommer lekker gelag oor ons skooldae en al die dingetjies van ons wêreld en gou is ou vriende aan nuwes voorgestel, en so gaan ons aan. Ons kon nie die vertoning van Arno Jornaan, Lianie May en Jak de Priester bewoon nie, maar my gedagtes sal gevul bly tot volgende jaar. Gevul met die manne wat so ernstig met hul kortbroeke om hul potjies sit, die gekraak van die tou toe beide spanne sak vir die finale trek en die amper tasbare geur van braaivleis wat die geluide van ‘n onvergeetlike Fees, afrond. My gunsteling egter, buiten vir die rustige gekuier saam met my vriende, is die smaak van daai pannekoekie wat ek vir die dag van more gehou het… Maak seker jy mis nie volgende jaar uit nie!

to the creative process. Washed out pigments create new painterly patterns, damaged films produce soft tones and mysterious haze, while architecture and landscape are reflected in The Sparkling Natural mirror. The selection compiled for this exhibition highlights the confusion of senses between the sight of landscapes of desolation and the attractiveness of colours and compositions. It seeks to examine the tension between drama and picturesque, and the fine line between documentary and artistic imagery.

About the curator Christine Eyene is an art historian, critic and curator. Born in Paris in 1970, she studied History of Contemporary Art at Université de Paris. She has been researching modern and contemporary South African art since the late 1990s,specialising in the story of artists in exile during apartheid and their cultural interactions with the Black Diaspora in France and England. She is currently Guild Research Fellow – Contemporary Art, at the University of Central Lancashire. Tiwani Contemporary Art Connect event: In conversation with Gideon Mendel, 27 June 2013 from 6.30 to 8:30pm. Rsvp to info@tiwani.co.uk

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Desmond Tutu once said at a Youth Day celebration, ‘You and I, old and young, now have a very precious thing, this freedom that was brought with the lives and blood of all – young and old, black and white.’ South Africa’s transition to a free country is something to be celebrated, and remembrance of those who lost their lives in the liberation struggle is imperative. Youth Day will forever be a poignant event for all Africans. The young lives lost during 1976 should be mourned but the passion, belief and courage of the class of ’76 will always be admired. Venue: The Orange Bull Sportsbar Address: 351 Rotherhithe Street, Rotherhithe, Southwark, London SE16 5LJ Entry : £5 All day & Night DJs: VooC

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Nelson Mandela’s Living Legacy ’49-’52: Embracing Communism and the Defiance Campaign

MANDELA took Alfred Xuma’s place on the ANC National Executive in March 1950. That month, the Defend Free Speech Convention was held in Johannesburg, bringing together African, Indian and communist activists to call an anti-apartheid general strike. Mandela opposed the strike because it was not ANC-led, but a majority of black workers took part, resulting in increased police repression and the introduction of the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950, affecting the actions of all protest groups. In 1950, Mandela was elected national president of the ANCYL; at the

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VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we go? Estragon: Yes, let’s go. They do not move. The closing lines from Waiting for Godot, a play by Samuel Beckett. Why does this remind me so much of so many of us, away from our roots and yet clinging on regardless. Do we ever, really move on? After four years living in London, I have met the most interesting and dynamic South Africans; people I would possibly never have met otherwise. No denying it, we seek each other out, smile when we hear the familiar accent, to the point of wanting to start up a conversation as if we met but yesterday. It’s natural – ‘soort soek soort’ and all that, but what interests me most are the families I have met. Such as the other week. There were these two South African families. The parents had moved over decades ago, their children born in England, and I must add, speak better Afrikaans than my own (but then mine were raised in KwaZulu-Natal and everyone knows that there Afrikaans is as foreign a tongue as Ancient Greek, but that is another story.) So here I am conversing with young adults, in fluent Afrikaans, who were born in England, but raised in a culture more at home in Koppies. All fair and well I think, wonderful to perpetuate your origins, honour your forefathers and feel a kinship with your parents’ legacy. What could be the harm in that?

Only, it transpires, one or two of them have this inexplicable need to go ‘home’. They do not feel ‘comfortable’ here; their values and views on morality and life are foreign to their peers. One young boy in particular is determined to go to his dad’s old school, which has created a new dilemma – do you send your child across the ocean to be educated in a school you still have strong ties with, or try to explain that the past is great but they are English and should embrace their new country? Which got me thinking. Do we as parents do justice to our children in the New World? How much of ourselves and our pasts do we impart, create some romantic notion of what it is like in the other country, but risk romanticising it to the point where we befuddle them? Old diehards we may be, but are we not creating a new laager mentality with these young ones, to the point where they will constantly compare? Or wish for something else that may or may not exist anymore? So I asked the parents. ‘Do you consider yourselves South Africans living in England, or English after all this time?’ Once you have instilled in your English born children the culture of your own upbringing, do you then teach them the culture of the country they were born in? It seems not. I pass no judgement. It’s tricky. Perhaps we simply become a group of South African/other wherever we go. Have we ever thought of how these decisions affect our children? Did our forefathers ever think of that? We move, and yet we do not move.

ANC national conference of December 1951, he continued arguing against a racially united front, but was outvoted. Forom then on, he altered his entire perspective to embrace such an approach; influenced by friends like Moses Kotane and by the Soviet Union’s support for wars of national liberation, Mandela’s mistrust of communism also broke down. He became influenced by the texts of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, and embraced dialectical materialism. In April 1952, Mandela began work at the H.M. Basner law firm, though his increasing commitment

to work and activism meant he spent less time with his family. In 1952, the ANC began preparation for a joint Defiance Campaign against apartheid with Indian and communist groups, founding a National Voluntary Board to recruit volunteers. Deciding on a path of nonviolent resistance influenced by Mohandas Gandhi, some considered it the ethical option, but Mandela instead considered it pragmatic. At a Durban rally on 22 June, Mandela addressed an assembled crowd of 10,000, initiating the campaign protests for which he was arrested and briefly interned in Marshall Square prison.

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Dr Mamphela Ramphele speaks out ZAR breaks four-year low on BEE and the need for reform by DAMIAN SUTHERLAND

Dr Ramphele speaks to Gateway to Africa about why BEE is not working

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GTA: ONE of the things you’ve spoken about is BEE. Do you believe BEE has been a complete disaster for South Africa and should be scrapped? If the intention behind it was to level the playing field, your suggestion is that in fact it has led to more cronyism…is there no way of salvaging it? Any policy anywhere in the world which over a period of 19 years fails to meet the objectives of that policy, whether it’s BEE or whatever, it’s time to review. I mean any normal country which decides on a particular policy direction and after 19 years you haven’t levelled the playing field sufficiently to have the numbers you wanted to have. I agree with you, the intention behind BEE was good, but it was soon hijacked to be a conduit… like textbooks have been hijacked as a conduit to take money from the government to the pockets of comrades. BEE has been hijacked to be a patronage system. So it’s not good enough to be black…you’ve got to be so and so’s friend to be able to get, not just deals, but also the funding and all of that. But worse, the worst is the hijacking of BEE by the ANC itself with Chancellor House [the ANC BEE beneficiation vehicle]. Any country in the world with a governing party that does that, would have turfed the government out and charged those responsible with corruption. But the culture of impunity is such in SA that they merrily make money out of my tax money and your tax money. Can it not be made to work? You know what we should be doing is not to focus on can we make BEE work or not, we should say what were the objectives we wanted to meet? The objectives we wanted, was to make sure [of] larger participation of black people in the economy. That there is growth in the economy because the more you broaden the base of participation, the more you’re going to bring in the creative energy [and] all of the innovation and other things that come with that. But we’ve killed that, corruption does not tolerate innovation, because you are not rewarding merit and hard work, you are greasing patronage networks.

And so my view would be what we need to be doing is looking at what are the key successes in levelling the playing fields. The first is education and training, the second is the issue of employment equity properly implemented. Education is the number one leveller of playing fields. I’m sitting here today from Bochum because I’m educated. If we had made sure that every child gets the highest quality education they need, they won’t need you and I to be holding up their arms, they will hold up their own arms. Second we need to make sure that we support training. The SETA system has failed dismally, and being kept there because again it’s part of the patronage system, to give people high paying jobs for no return. We are producing fewer artisans today than we produced under apartheid. Even if you discount the fact that the apartheid artisan training programme was very biased, racist and so on. But those who were given the opportunities were highly skilled artisans. We can’t pull it together even if we were to be given a billion because we have put people in charge of artisan training who know nothing about it. We need to reconnect training with the workplace and only get in the best people to do the training. We need to recruit the people who have left the profession, the plumbers, the engineers, the civil engineers to come back and nurture the next generation of talent. That for me will have a higher impact than what we have been doing so far. Of course we have to have a

change in the ownership structure, but how do you do it, you can’t just give people shares who don’t know anything about the field in which they’re holding the shares. Which is the reason why the mining industry is in the trouble it is, because it got involved in very expensive BEE deals, brought in people into the industry who know nothing about the industry… they’re adding no value. Like Zuma’s son? Of course, but he’s not the only one, there are many of them. There will be the perception, that you’re a very intelligent person, very highly educated, but through your own initiatives through for example Circle Capital with your son [Hlumelo], that you also personally did very well out of BEE. What would you say to that? I’d say yes I did, but look at every one of our deals, we paid for it. We didn’t get handed these free shares, we went heavily into debt to be able to buy the shares in Medi-Clinic, they were not given to us on a plate. We went into debt to buy the shares in Eduloan, every one of the deals we got involved in, we paid for. So I’ve got no shame about having benefited from BEE. And to add that, we only bought in those areas where we could add value. We bought into MediClinic because I’m a doctor, and you can ask the Medi-Clinic people, I added value. We bought into Eduloan because I am an educationalist, and I’m very interested. Ask them, we added value. I wouldn’t go and become a BEE partner in aerospace. What do I know about aerospace?

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BABALWA combines a flourishing career in the UK with a personal long-term project of spreading awareness of cancer in South Africa, where it is often sidelined by the magnitude of the HIV/Aids-TB pandemic. However, cancer kills, and Babalwa is determined to use her training as a therapeutic radiographer to educate women in particular about cancer affecting them. How long have you been in UK? Eight years already. What does your job entail? I’m with the NHS. I scan patients once they’re diagnosed and assess them. I plan a course of chemotherapy with an oncologist, and then I administer it. [Only about one in 10 radiographers administer chemotherapy, the rest are purely diagnostic]. How did you come to be here? I graduated from CPUT in 1999. Then I worked at Groote Schuur for three years for my BTech. That same year when I wanted a mortgage, I couldn’t get one - even for a small house - and that was when I chose to join colleagues in the UK. The plan was just to save. However, to get into the UK, I needed to prove that I could support myself - which meant going to Saudi Arabia first, to save up. By that time, about six of my friends were all working in the UK at the same hospital - so I joined them! Do you plan to return to SA? I have tried going home, but at the

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What would you change to make your job better? At the moment, I’m concerned with cancers affecting women in South Africa. I went to the Cancer Centre back home, and found that there was less information about these cancers. In the UK they are starting to give vaccines for cervical cancer - we are very far from getting there in SA. People are concentrating more on breast cancer - but these other cancers affect people psychosocially too. Government shouldn’t focus just on the big diseases. Cancer statistics at home are behind, too. Cancer still kills and people still need to learn about it. I would be interested in setting up charities and support groups in that area. Even basic procedures like pap smears are becoming less common [as funding becomes concentrated on big diseases]. What was your most rewarding day at work, ever? My work is stressful... part of what I do is giving hope to people. They are diagnosed with this stressful, killing disease and I am there to say, ‘We can beat this’. It’s nice to see people coming in sick and regaining their health slowly.

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DEAN Furman is a late-blooming Bafana Bafana star currently signed to English League One club Oldham Athletic. After years of paying his dues in professional football, Furman was finally selected for Bafana Bafana and debuted against Brazil in August last year. Born in 1988 in Camps Bay, Cape Town to a prominent Jewish family, Furman began his footballing career as a youth team player at Premier League club Chelsea. However, he did not make the breakthrough into the first team and so left the club. Furman then signed for Rangers on 10 May 2006 after being spotted by the club’s youth scout. He was a regular in the reserve side and captained the Under-19 team to the Scottish Youth Cup final in 2007, where they beat Old Firm rivals Celtic. Dean signed a new two-year contract on 24 October 2007, making his debut for Rangers against Dundee United on 10 May 2008, as a second half substitute. By August that year, however, the young Captonian was to move again, trading up to English League Two side Bradford City, where he would be managed by former Rangers midfielder Stuart McCall. Furman’s debut for Bradford City was also as a late substitute in a 3–2 defeat by Aldershot Town. After playing 12 league games for Bradford, he pulled his hamstring, which kept him

out for more than a month before he returned to action in a reserve game. After having returned to fitness, Furman also extended his loan spell with Bradford to the end of the season, eventually scoring Bradford’s first equaliser in a 3–3 league draw with Luton Town later that same month. On the international front, 2008 was to be the year that Furman finally donned the green and gold for Bafana in a match against Australia, but he was denied an opportunity to show his mettle and showcase his confrontational attacking style as he was a reserve who never saw play in the match. Somewhat at a loose end, Furman returned to Rangers at the end of the season and received offers from Ibrox and Bradford City; however, he chose instead to join League One side Oldham Athletic in 2009, aged just 21, on a threeyear contract. Finally at home at Oldham, Furman settled into an aggressive tackling style that won him the Football League Goal of the Year 2011 for his effort against Notts County in August 2010. His star continued to rise with an appointment to the captaincy of the club for the 2011-12 season. The waves the young Capetonian

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ON Wed 19 June DocHouse will screen Beatrice Mtetwa and the Rule of Law, a documentary on Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa. For two decades, Beatrice Mtetwa has been defending peace activists, journalists, opposition candidates, farmers and ordinary citizens jailed unjustly by Robert Mugabe’s government. Despite beatings by police and multiple arrests herself (most recently in March 2013) she continues to fight to uphold the rule of law which she believes in

passionately. Through interviews with Mtetwa and some of her defendants, Lorie Conway’s documentary tells the story of what happens when rulers place themselves above the law. The film opens with Beatrice saying, “People who do things under the cover of darkness are afraid of light. So, if you come at midnight I’ll be there with my headlights glaring…” Although Mtetwa’s arena is Zimbabwe, her message and bravery are universal and her contributions to international human rights jurisprudence has

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been widely recognised. As Zimbabwe faces a presidential election, it is hoped that the film will spark dialogue and change in the country and throughout Africa, while also bringing the story of this inspiring woman to the attention of the rest of the world. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Beatrice Mtetwa and director Lorie Conway. Wednesday 19 June at 8.30pm, The Lexi Cinema, 194b Chamberlayne Road, Kensal Rise, NW10 3JU £7 (£5 conc) Book on www.dochouse.org

THE Zimbabwe Association, in collaboration with the Culture Cluster of the Commonwealth Organisations Committee on Zimbabwe (COCZ) will hold a series of events with the theme Culture without Borders, in various venues across England from 25 June to 1 July 2013. Culture without Borders will address the present-day realities of cultural production, creativity and change in Zimbabwe and the diaspora. Full details can be found on britainzimbabwesociety. wordpress.com and TheSouthAfrican.com Highlights of Culture without Borders include: Tuesday 25 June: Visiting Zimbabwean author Chenjerai Hove leads a story-telling session in the yurt at Spitalfields City Farm.

Wednesday 26 June: International Day in Solidarity with Victims of Torture: Chenjerai Hove and others celebrate courage in the face of adversity. Includes song and dance from a Zimbabwean craft group and a bring and share lunch. Saturday 29 June:Britain Zimbabwe Society Research Day in Oxford. The day will include panels on literature, the visual arts, culture, religion and film with writers, artists and cultural practitioners Chenjerai Hove, Petinah Gappah, Isabel Mukonyora, Brian Chikwava, Chipo Chung, Simon Bright and others. Explore a complex story of defiance and compliance, creativity and audacity in this most troubled and beautiful country. TheSouthAfrican. com/events

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Paul Hart was the right choice for London Olympics after all, says independent commission Independent commission of inquiry finds that a bureaucratic mess was the cause of the dispute between Alexander Peternell and Paul Hart over the sole spot to represent Team South Africa in the 2012 Olympic equestrian event by PAULA BARANOWSKA

SOUTH African equestrian Paul Hart and his horse Heartbreak Hill were wrongly replaced at the 2012 London Olympics, a commission of inquiry has said. Just a few days before the Olympics the world’s top court for sporting disputes, The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) based in Lausanne, Switzerland, over-ruled South Africa’s eventing selection and replaced Paul Hart with Alexander Peternell, who filed an appeal against the decisions taken by both South African bodies to not select him. Now, an independent three-person commission in South Africa has examined the case and concluded that Hart should have gone to the Games. Several witnesses appeared before the joint commission established by the SA Equestrian Association (SAEA) and SA Equestrian Federation (SAEF), with Hart and Peternell providing written submissions. It was found that the selection criteria were determined by different administrative bodies

with differing views, which resulted in a lack of communication between Sascoc, SAEF and SAEA. “I particularly welcome the concluding remarks of the report, which cite emphatically that I was not at fault in this situation and that Heartbreak Hill and I were unjustly denied the opportunity to represent our country,” Hart said. “The death of my horse Harry shortly after the Olympic Games in a tragic accident was extremely difficult to deal with. In a sense, these findings bring me peace – the world will know that Harry died a champion,” he added.

Five South Africans to watch in the Champions Trophy by EVAN BARTLETT

WITH the twin stalwarts of Jacques Kallis and Graeme Smith missing for the Champions Trophy starting this week there is a huge void left in the Proteas line-up. So who are the men with the responsibility to end South Africa’s 15-year drought without a major international trophy? AB de Villiers AB is arguably the key man in the squad. Captain, wicket-keeper and middle-order enforcer – with so much responsibility comes a huge amount of pressure. But De Villiers has shown in the past that he will not shirk from that role. He is still coming to terms with the tactical side of the game, which is especially important in knock-out competition with such small margins for error. Alviro Petersen Drawn in as Graeme Smith’s replacement at the top of the order, Petersen has big boots to fill. His impressive start to the domestic campaign for Somerset will fill him with confidence – particularly his 167 and 91 against Smith’s Surrey. But it is his lack of clout at international level that is Petersen’s biggest area for improvement. He will need to improve on his average of just 31.21 in his 17 ODIs to date and he will be making his comeback to the ODI team after a year in the shadows. Being acclimatised to English conditions could help him to make a mark in this tournament.

Hashim Amla With the Proteas two most experienced players missing a lot of the batting responsibility will fall on Amla. He currently sits top of the ODI batting world rankings with an astounding average of 57.21 and has a proven track record in England. South Africa will heavily rely on him to lay the foundations for big totals and chasing down targets. David Miller David Miller is one of the most exciting prospects in South African limited overs cricket. The young lefthanded batsman will turn 24 during the tournament and will be hoping to celebrate in style. If he can emulate his performance in the recent Indian Premier League where he shot to prominence with a match-winning 101 not out off just 38 balls then he should go some way to doing that. Dale Steyn Another of the team’s most experienced players is Dale Steyn. He will be expected to open the bowling attack and strangle opening batsmen with his tight lines and extreme pace as well as bowling economically towards the end of the innings. Allan Donald has recently described Dale Steyn as the best fast bowler the country has ever produced and he will certainly be one of the most feared bowlers in the competition. South Africa kicks off this year’s Champions Trophy against India on Thursday 6 June at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.

Heartbreak Hill, known as Harry, died after breaking his leg on the flat during the cross-county at Burghley Horse Trials in September 2012. At the time of the pre-Olympics dispute Peternell was ranked number 164, with 76 points, and Hart was ranked number 442, with five points. The South African bodies argued however that Peternell did not fulfill the general criteria because, when he competed in elimination competitions such as the 2010 FEI

World Equestrian Games, he was not officially representing South Africa and had lived in the UK since 2001. However, the CAS accepted Peternell’s explanation that he lived in England because it was necessary to access top level events and the training needed to become a worldclass rider. The commission found that the cause for the dispute was not a conflict of interests but chaotic selection procedures and criteria that were not defined clearly. It was the

first time South Africa had qualified to participate in the eventing competition at the Olympics. “Mr Peternell took advantage of the ambiguity created by the administering bodies but, from a purely legal perspective, we do not believe that he should be criticised for seeking to apply a strict interpretation of the selection criteria so poorly defined and communicated by the administering bodies themselves,” the report said.

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The Bok Drain: to import exported talent, or not? Should Heyneke Meyer pick more overseas-based Boks? There is no correct answer really, according to Rob Flude sense and more green in an experience sense. I don’t believe that it is a knee-jerk reaction by some players to the Bok coach, Heyneke Meyer, turning his back on certain individuals. If that was the case, Heinrich Brüssow would have been long gone! The Bulls, Stormers and Sharkes have lost a string of players to British and French clubs, as well as to Japan. The Sharks have so far managed to lose more than 20 players , but mainly due to injury, such is their rotten luck this season. They will be without JP Pietersen for the Currie Cup as he is off to Japan for a brief stint with Panasonic Wild Knights. The only shining light for the Sharks it seems is the return of their prodigal son, John Smit, to the CEO chair. Compound this diaspora with the number of injuries to key players and there seems to be a vacuum in the Bok setup which has been filled with inexperienced

MIND THE RUCK ROB FLUDE IT IS said that emigrants leave their country of origin to ‘seek greener pastures’ in a place where ‘the grass is greener’. For fear of overusing the word ‘green’, the connotations of the colour – fresh, new, growth, happiness – are synonymous with the process of moving countries (and in the same breath, departing familiar terrain). However, of late, nothing could be further from the truth as far as the Springbok team is concerned. The surge of top players leaving the domestic circuit has spiked recently, leaving local resources distinctly less green in a numbers

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yet exciting and talented youngsters. However, fear not, for the collective starting team for Saturday’s test against Italy in Durban only loses 5 caps from the last test of 2012, against England at Twickenham. With the current high rate of attrition in South African rugby, there could be cause for alarm. I think what is more concerning is that Meyer has picked the exciting squad the fans want, but only because his hand has been forced due to injuries and not wanting to select many foreign-based players. Is it time South Africa went

the route of the All Blacks and refused to pick those playing overseas? I have always believed that we should only pick 2 or 3 per squad – like Jake White did with Percy Montgomery and Jaco van der Westhuyzen in 2004. It’s virtually as good as not picking any overseas-based players – exception-based selection if you like – and one which Meyer seems to be opting for currently, picking only Francois Louw (Bath) and Ruan Pienaar (Ulster) for tests in the southern hemisphere. He did however show intent to pick more UK- and French-based players

for last year’s European tour, presumably for strategic reasons. The way in which contracts with overseas clubs are drawn up is also another way to prevent issues, and something SARU should take an active role in being present at those discussions. Purporting to allow the player the best of both worlds would engender openness and honesty between both parties. Injuries certainly aren’t helping the rift in experience, but preventing these youngsters from leaving the country by picking them now, can’t be a bad thing, can it?

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SA WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM HEADS TO LONDON

South Africa heads to Scotland this week before playing for a place in the 2014 World Cup at the Investec World League semifinals in Chiswick, West London later this month by SHANNON CLARK

South African captain Marsha Marescia comes out of a tackle from her opposing number during the women’s hockey losing game against Germany in last year’s Investec Cup in London. Marsha was named Player of the Tournament at the conclusion of the cup after Holland beat Australia 4-1 in the final. Photo by Gary Baker.

THE South African women’s hockey team embarks on a tour of Scotland and England this week that will culminate in the Investec World Hockey League semi-finals in London. In preparation for the competition the South African squad have just completed a three week camp in China and there is a possibility that they will play in a training match against Argentina when they arrive in London. The Scotland leg of the tour is set to begin on 11 June and will feature a one-off test match against Ireland. This will be followed by a four-test series against Scotland in Edinburgh from 13 to 18 June. The team will leave for London on 19 June ahead of the semifinal which will take place at the University of Westminster Sports Ground in Chiswick from 22 to 30 June. The tournament will be split into two sections. Pool A will see Argentina, China, the USA and Italy play while Pool B will feature the hosts England against Australia, South Africa and Spain. The first eight-country World League semifinal will be played in Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 13 to 23 June and features current world number one and defending Olympic champions The Netherlands plus Korea, Japan and Chile along with

New Zealand, Germany, India and Belgium. For all 16 participating teams in the two World League semi-finals, the stakes are high as the top four teams in each event will go through to the eight-team World League finals in Argentina in December. The two World League semi-finals will also serve as a qualifier for the 2014 World Cup in The Hague, The Netherlands. The International Hockey Federation has stated that it is not yet definite how many teams from each of the two semi-finals will make it through to the World Cup as that is largely dependent on the Continental Championships. “Needless to say, teams will be eager to finish as high as possible to increase their chances to go to The Hague.” Ticket prices start at £5 for juniors/£15 for adults and these will enable buyers to watch four world class matches throughout the day. South Africa’s First Round Match Schedule: Saturday 22 June 7pm: England v South Africa; Sunday 23 June 7.30pm: South Africa v Spain; Tuesday 25 June 5.30pm: South Africa v Australia. The quarter finals and finals will be played from 27 to 30 June. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketzonestore.co.uk or via the Investec World League Ticketing Hotline on 08444 99 32 22.

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