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Managing Lesotho’s coup: should SA be involved?

| As the events of the weekend got regional and international leaders worried, South Africa’s involvement in the mountain kingdom’s government take-over appears to be far from clear by sertan sanderson The South African government has condemned a military takeover in Lesotho over the weekend, which bore all “the hallmarks of a coup d’état,” according to SA Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) spokesperson Clayson Monyela.

On Saturday, the Lesotho Defence Force had taken over several police stations in the landlocked mountain kingdom, including the main police headquarters in the capital, Maseru.. The army had also forcefully shut down all radio and TV stations, resulting in a total black-out in broadcast activities and communications.

The incidents have reportedly forced Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane and at least one other of the leaders in the Coalition Government to go into hiding, including Minister of Gender and Youth, Sports and Recreation, Thesele Maseribane.

The two leaders are rumoured to be in South Africa.

In the meantime, foreign ministers of various member countries of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) have confirmed their attendance of an upcoming emergency meeting to discuss the events. Prime Minister Thabane has signalled that he would not be attending the talks but was instead planning to return to Lesotho. Dirco has warned the military in Lesotho that South Africa, the SADC and the African Union (AU) would not tolerate the unconstitutional take-over of the

| South African-born singing sensation Nicky Schrire will be bringing her gentle vocals and jazzy sounds to The Pheasantry in Chelsea on 28 September

neighbouring country. However, there had been early reports that SA troops might have been involved in either assisting with or hindering the attempted coup, but these allegations have since been denied by the SA Defence Department.

It remains unclear whether any kind of military action might presently on the agenda for South Africa, but judging by previous engagements in the region it may altogether be possible that SA could consider sending troops into Lesotho to stabilise relations one way or another. The last time that

SA had troops on the ground in Lesotho was in 1998, when over 60 people had died in clashes.

Lesotho has seen a series of military coups since its independence in 1966. More recently, tensions had besieged the small African kingdom since early last year. After months of political infighting, the prime minister had suspended parliament in June with permission of the king.

The events in Lesotho have caused ripples around the world, with United Nations’ SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon stating that

he was concerned about the reported military takeover. The SecretaryGeneral called for respect for the constitutional order and democratic rule in the country and urged all parties to refrain from violence.

The United States’ Department of Defence has also stated that it felt “concerned by clashes between security forces [...]in Lesotho”, following the recent creation of the African Standby Force (ASF) to be in charge of security in the African region; the ASF is expected largely to build on existing South African defence infrastructures.

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ANC and Public Protector in fiery political standoff | Just when you thought that Nkandla couldn’t get any more ridiculous, the ANC decides to pull out the big guns against Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, pushing her into a corner just short of a constitutional crisis. But the Public Protector proves that she is determined to fight back

By sertan sanderson The ongoing spat between the ANC leadership and the Public Protector’s office reached its boiling point last week, as either camp began to spread accusations about the other, bringing the Nkandla scandal back into public consciousness.

The ANC continued with its attack on Public Protector Thuli Madonsela in response to the scathing statements made in her letter directed at President Jacob Zuma earlier in August. The ruling party implicitly accused Madonsela of timing the leaking of the letter to deliberately coincide with the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) vociferous protest in parliament two weeks ago, where EFF MPs had demanded that Zuma should “pay back the money” as indicated in Madonsela’s original March report on Nkandla.

ANC parliamentary spokesman Moloto Mothapo attacked the Public Protector, arguing that her timing amounted to an “interesting coincidence”. ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe also joined the chorus of ANC voices accusing Public Protector Thuli Madonsela of being part of an alleged conspiracy involving the EFF, even threatening her with disciplinary action.

“We don’t want to remove the Public Protector, we want the Public Protector to do her work correctly and behave correctly.

[But] we are observing an antimajoritarian liberal offensive on the movement.”

Mantashe’s deputy Jesse Duarte made the indictments against Madonsela even more concrete, stating that the leak occurring at the same time “when the EFF undermines the people of SA is too much of a coincidence”

The Public Protector’s office reacted swiftly to the avalanche of accusations, responding to the accusations against her office with a widely publicised press conference. Madonsela identified in her own words why she had called the event before responding to the charges against her: “We believe we’re going through a difficult moment regarding the role of this office and there are chances to find common ground.”

Thuli Madonsela then conceded that the leak of her recent letter addressed to President Jacob Zuma was a serious “problem”, adding that the accusatory statements made against her by the ANC after the event only “compounded the problem.”

She mentioned that she could only reveal that the leaking of the letter was attributable to a politician, but did not divulge any details about the partypolitical affiliation of said politician. Madonsela’s had made previous claims that the ANC had leaked the letter itself, but told a reporter later at the press conference that she would not name the source of the leak.

The Public Protector also specified that despite recent attacks against her office by the ruling ANC, it had been the ANC twenty years ago, which had insisted on the establishment of a Public Protector’s office at the dawn of SA’s democracy.

Madonsela emphasised that she would be requesting a formal meeting with President Zuma in the expectation of finding a mutually agreeable way forward.

She also mentioned that it was her hope that the controversial matter of President Zuma’s private homestead at Nkandla would be resolved without having to resort to taking action in courts, adding

that she had advised the President on the best way forward already.

It is unclear whether this was a direct reference to her Nkandla report, in which she had demanded that the President repays a portion of the costs attributed to the “security updates” at his KwaZulu Natal homestead.

The president has shirked that responsibility so far, dragging out the final word on Nkandla – perhaps beyond the days of his presidency.

Meanwhile the ruling party continued to put its weight behind the president, saying that Zuma is not directly accountable to the Public Protector, and explaining that she should instead have waited to hear the results of the parliamentary committee (to be headed by police minister Nkosinathi Nhleko – as per President Zuma’s request) before penning and leaking her letter prematurely – whether it may have deliberately coincided with the EFF’s actions in parliament or not.

In her closing statements, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela reminded her critics that she esteems her treatment of the

ANC to have been fair thus far, implying that this may yet change: “Even if Parliament is not happy (with me), hysteria and mudslinging is not the way to go. You don’t throw mud at someone and remain with clean hands.”

Thuli Madonsela also added that she feared for her life, saying that she was now regarded as “somebody who is the enemy of the ruling party”. She has since approached the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) with her concerns to have her security detail beefed up, which is presently on covered by the SAPS’s VIP Protection Unit.

With its majority in parliament the ANC is likely to continue fighting off the Nkandla scandal using all means at its disposal – even if that means that playing dirty becomes a permanent fixutre of its rhetoric. But with even the most loyal of ANC supporters beginning to turn against the ruling party and voicing their dismay on talk radio broadcasts across the nation, Nkandla may end up haunting the ANC well beyond Jacob Zuma’s days.

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Will 74,400 women be raped this August in South Africa? | Rape advocacy campaign Blow the Whistle says every 36 seconds someone is raped in SA and therefore 74,400 women will be raped in August. But is this number accurate?

by Africa Check “More than 45,000 South African women raped so far this month,” reads the chilling headline of a Times LIVE article published on 20 August.

The article lists Blow the Whistle, a rape advocacy campaign launched by luxury rewards programme Legacy Lifestyle, as its source.

The organisation’s director, Mike Rowley, is then quoted as saying that “[i]n August 2014, statistically there’ll be a total of 74,400 rapes”.

On its website Blow the Whistle explains how they reached this number: “According to the statistics, every 36 seconds someone is raped in South Africa.

That works out to 100 people every hour and 2,400 women every day.”

Their home page also features a counter that ticks over every 36 seconds to show a rape as having occurred.

South Africa does have appalling levels of rape. But could the number truly be this high? Readers asked us to check the claim.

Sexual offences mistaken for rape When contacted, the marketing manager at Legacy Lifestyle, Andrew Ehmke, told Africa Check that they had come to this number by consulting the police’s 2012/2013 analysis of crime statistics. It showed that 64,514 rapes were reported in that year, he said.

“Through our discussions with various centres and based on numerous articles… we estimate that only 7.5 percent of rapes are reported,” he explained. “This means that there are roughly 864,000 rapes per year.”

So are Blow the Whistle’s calculations sound?

First off, the organisation mistook all sexual offences reported with rape cases reported.

In South Africa, rape statistics are not reported separately by the police, but fall under the sexual offences category, which includes rape and sexual assault (of men, women and children), but also bestiality, flashing, public masturbation and more, as described in Criminal Law Amendment Act 32 of 2007.

Brig. Seimela Nkoshilo, a statistician in the police’s research and statistics unit, has previously shared with Africa Check that 49,376 rapes were reported to the police in 2012/13. The sexual offences count for that year stood at 66,387. (Not 64,514 as Blow the Whistle claimed –

that was the number for 2011/12.)

By mistakenly assuming that all sexual offences were rapes, the campaign overstated the number of reported rapes by more than a third, said Tom Moultrie, an associate professor of demography at the University of Cape Town and director of its Centre for Actuarial Research.

“This is false and misleading,” he added. “On top of that, the authors implicitly assume that all the victims are women.”

Under-reporting under-researched But rape is notoriously underreported and police statistics are therefore but the tip of the iceberg, Romi Sigsworth, a gender specialist at the Institute for Security Studies, told Africa Check.

“As such, the exact prevalence of rape in South Africa is unknown and, to a large extent, unknowable,” she said.

Lisa Vetten, a researcher specialising in gender violence at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, told Africa Check that estimations can only be regarded as reliable when they are based on peer-reviewed data generated by surveys conducted with random, representative samples of women.

Ehmke provided three articles that he says Blow the Whistle based their estimate on that only 7.5 percent of rapes are reported.

However, none of these articles reference credible, peer-reviewed and representative surveys and Ehmke did not respond to emails asking how they deduced the 7.5 percent figure from them.

The first article is a News24 reader comment piece which asserted that a rape was committed every 26 or 36 seconds (the writer later contradicted herself by stating “on average, a woman is raped every four minutes”). It shares a large portion of its text with Wikipedia’s sexual violence in South Africa page.

The second document is a report released by Tearfund, a Christian relief and development agency based in Durban, which says that “it is estimated that between 80 and 95 percent of rapes [in South Africa] are not reported”. The last document is an article on JournalismIziko, a news site run by journalism students of the Durban University of Technology, which stated that “75 – 95 percent of rape crimes are never reported”.

Vetten told Africa Check that there were other credible studies that Blow the Whistle could have used if they wanted to more reliably

estimate under-reporting rates.

The most recent study into reporting rates found that in South Africa’s Gauteng province, only one in 25 rapes (4 percent) had been reported to police. But this provincial rate cannot be extrapolated to the whole country.

The last national approximation is from a study released in 2002, which estimated that only one in nine rapes (11.1 percent ) were reported to the police.

Using this outdated estimate and 2012/13 rape statistics suggest that 444,384 rapes were committed in 2012/13. This is almost half of Blow the Whistle’s number.

Michelle Solomon, a journalist, researcher and sexual violence activist, expressed skepticism over the sincerity of the campaign. “We have no way of knowing for certain that these numbers are exaggerated.

We only know that the numbers the organisation did use are not the generally accepted figures and that they didn’t research the issue in enough depth for their campaign to be much more than opportunistic of women’s month.”

Conclusion: Blow the Whistle’s rape calculations are botched Blow the Whistle is wrong to claim that someone is raped every 36 seconds and that 74,400 women will therefore be raped this month in South Africa. They have overstated the number of rapes reported to the police and also seem to have thumb-sucked underreporting rates.

According to Ehmke Blow the Whistle publicise rape statistics with the goal of raising awareness.

“We by all means do not pretend to be the be all and end all of rape stats,” he said.

That being the case, they should have been more careful in designing their campaign. The rape counter on their website for one creates the impression of hard and fast data and they have ignored the fact that some of those raped are men.

As Solomon concluded: “Sexual violence is a blight in South Africa, and we need as much help as we can get. What we don’t need however, are flash-in-thepan campaigns that do nothing to actually help survivors of sexual violence, nor do they use the correct statistics or share information that would serve as a form of advocacy.”

Researched by Kate Wilkinson; Edited by Anim van Wyk at africacheck.org

Zuma, Putin discuss ways of strengthening ties | Russian President Putin stresses the need for the two governments to work on implementing the agreements signed during his state visit to South Africa last year, while calling for the strengthening of tourism, cultural and educational exchanges amid growing political isolation

by Staff reporter

South African President Jacob Zuma and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed various ways of strengthening ties between their two countries during a meeting at the NovoOgarevo presidential residence outside Moscow last week.

According to a statement by the Presidency, Putin stressed the need for the two governments to work on implementing the agreements signed during his state visit to South Africa last year, while calling for the strengthening of tourism, cultural and educational exchanges.

He also commended the work that had been done by the RussiaSouth Africa Business Council, which resulted in a 13 percent increase in trade between South Africa and Russia in 2013, and asked for the country’s assistance in taking over the leadership of the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grouping next year.

Zuma, for his part, appealed to Putin for Russia’s support in South Africa’s drive to improve the delivery of water, sanitation

and energy in the country, and to tackle the challenges it faced in education and agriculture.

He briefed Putin on the security situation in Africa, and requested support for establishing the African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises, a temporary standby force capable of responding quickly to crisis situations in Africa.

Zuma also raised the matter of the repatriation of the remains of South African liberation heroes, including Ivor David Jones, JB Marks and Moses Kotane, who are buried in Russia.

“Both Presidents committed themselves to working together in […] further cementing the existing warm relations between the two countries for the economic and social development of their peoples,” the Presidency said.

Various Western countries have recently been distancing themselves from Russia in the aftermath of the military incursion into Ukraine, as the relationship between SA and Russia continues to deepen.

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Pea soup with duck egg and ham | Chef Petrus Madutlela shares a dish that has been a big hit with the locals in Kent

BY PETRUS madutlela When I first came to London in December 2010, it was one of the coldest winters on record and my first experience of snow. It didn’t matter – being in London was such a buzz. I was fortunate to be appointed as a chef de partie at The Savoy. That was a dream come true and an excellent grounding for my UK career.

Today, I’m Head Chef at the Hengist Restaurant in Aylesford, Kent. We are busy developing new menus and I want to share a dish with you that has been a big hit with the locals.

PEA SOUP WITH DUCK EGG AND HAM Ingredients 900 ml Vegetable Stock 1 kg frozen peas 100g butter 2 x duck eggs (hen’s eggs are fine if it’s a challenge to find these) 50 ml olive oil 50 g smoked thinly sliced pancetta (or parma ham) Garlic croutons prepared with the following ingredients: brioche, 2 clove of garlic, mixed with 50g butter Method Blend the stock with the peas and strain through a sieve. Emulsify with butter over a low heat.

Fry the eggs over a low heat, then use a 10 cm cutter to cut a disc of yolk and white.

Bake the pancetta in the oven, pressed between 2 sheets of parchment, with a heavy oven tray on top, for 15 minutes 180 ˚C. Crush to a powder.

Prepare garlic croutons by spreading the brioche slices with the buttery garlic paste, then cutting into 1 cm chunks. Bake in to the oven for about 10 minutes at 180 ˚C, until golden brown.

Crush to a powder & mix with the pancetta.

To serve, place the duck egg in the centre of the plate, with crumb at one side.

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Cape Town’s pop-up store for the homeless goes global

| A groundbreaking idea turns the old adage “beggars can’t be choosers” on its head , succeeding around the world

by Daluxolo Moloantoa Looking out from their advertising agency balcony onto the main street, two Cape Town advertising creatives have changed the way people give and receive for humanitarian reasons worldwide.

The copywriter and art director team of Kayli Levitan and Maxmillian Pazak say they were simply looking for a way to bring together the “haves and havenots” who fill the streets around their workplace area every day.

With support from their ad agency M&C Saatchi Abel, and partnering with the nearby headquarters of the Haven Night Shelter, Cape Town’s largest network of homeless shelters, the team have fine-tuned a concept aimed at changing the process of giving and receiving. The idea is simple, and yet uniquely ingenious, and it has gone viral, and has captured the imagination of people worldwide.

“We work in a very trendy part of Cape Town called Green Point.

Restaurants, designer stores, hotels and more line the streets,” says Levitan. “But on the other hand there is a huge problem in the area.

From our balcony we see the haves and the have-nots walk the streets

every day. You are often told not to give to the homeless, as you are not sure what they are going to do with the donation. People are also sometimes ignorant as to where to take their donations, as they haven`t been exposed to this kind of life before. We saw a middle ground. A place where it would be easy to donate, and more importantly, a place to give with dignity to those who do not have.”

Exactly how does a Street Store work?

“The Street Store is made up of a series of five or more posters,” says Pazak. “They can quite literally pop-up in any community that the store is needed. People bring in their donations, which we help them to ‘hang up’ on our posters with a hanger design. And then “drop” shoes and accessories into our boxes. Shop assistants then help the homeless have a full shopping experience choosing from the clothing on display, for free.”

Thanks to a well-timed web presence and social media drive, an overwhelming number of donors came to donate for the pilot street store in Green Point.

So successful were the first four activations in Cape Town that the agency was inundated with

requests to duplicate The Street Store across the world.

To date the concept has grown to see street stores being duplicated in the city streets of Brussels, Vancouver, San Diego, Sao Polo and a number of other cities worldwide since then.

Were there challenges in activating the pop-up store?

The biggest challenge was the fear that people would not take up the call to donate. “We had sleepless nights leading up to the first pop up store, but were overwhelmed by people’s generosity,” says Pazak. Another challenge was that the vast majority of the homeless are men (unsurprisingly it is women who spring clean their cupboards more often) but thankfully no one went away empty-handed.

So far more than 263 cities from around the world have signed up to host a Street Store — posters have been translated through social media into nine languages. As the Street Store concept rolls out globally, picking up momentum, kudos have been coming in from all corners, including at the 2014 Cannes Lions Festival. M&C Saatchi Abel was awarded a prestigious Gold Lion in the design category, a bronze in the media

category, with six other shortlists, including the Grand Prix for Good Award in June.

The Executive Mayor of Cape Town, Patricia de Lille said: “This is a great example of how progress can be made possible together. It is wonderful to see private companies step up to the plate, using their ideas and resources to play a role in solving social problems in an innovative way. It is our vision in the City of Cape Town that all companies will follow in this example, because that is when our potential

as a city will truly be limitless.”

On top of an endless stream of words of encouragement that are received daily, Levitan says that they receive an additional 30/40 questions and requests a day to download the branding material.

It is hardly surprising that another award-winning design initiative originates out of the Mother City, the designated 2014 World Design Capital. The Street Store is a demonstration of how simple ideas, that touch people, will find their own way around the world and create remarkable change.

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Become an emperor of wine with Emperor Wines

| You don’t have to fly all the way to the Cape to get a hold of your favourite South African grapes; Emperor Wines is bringing all the glory of South African wines to South Africa House in London of 12 September

By Bongani Mtlhavani Emperor Wines will host an all South African wine session aimed at educating South Africans living it the UK about the wide variety and supreme quality of South Africa’s finest wines . The wine tasting session will be held at South African House on Trafalgar Square on 12 September 2014.

The South African took time to

chat to the host Paul Grinstead of Emperor Wines to tell us what the event aims to achieve and also what lovers of South African wines should expect at this premium event.

What is the event all about?

The aim of the event is an educational approach to enable guests to learn, taste, interact and experience a selection of South

Your Personal Invitation to Experience South Africa’s Finest Wines

The Emperor Wines Premium South African Wine Tasting Please join our Masterclass Tutored Tasting of South Africa’s finest wines presented by our Master of Wine and the Winemakers, followed by a Walk-around tasting of our award winning estates.

South Africa House, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DP 12th September 2014 17.30 — 21.30

Book your tickets now at:

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or Contact: paul@empwines.com Tel: 01403 865 677 / 07737 457 423

Participating Estates:

Anwilka, Ashbourne, Bouchard Finlayson, Cape Point, Chamonix, DeMorgenzon, Delaire Graff, Elgin Vintners, Fairview, Glenelly, Guradian Peak, Hamilton Russell, Iona, Jordan, Kaapzicht, Klein Constantia, Meerlust, Mulderbosch, Paul Cluver, Rupert & Rothschild, Rust en Vrede, Southern Right, Spice Route, Steenberg, Thelema , Ken Forrester

Africa’s finest wines presented by our South African specialist Master of Wine, Lynne Sherriff MW, and the producers and winemakers of South Africa’s top estates themselves who will be here in London for the event.

What options are there for wine lovers wishing to attend the event?

There are two options of attending: Option 1 is the Masterclass Tutored Tasting and Walk-around Tasting. There are two Masterclass sessions to choose from, one at 6pm and the other at 8pm where examples of South Africa’s finest wines from our selection of the country’s top award winning estates will be presented by our South African specialist Master of Wine, Lynne Sherriff MW, and the winemakers and producers themselves. The ticket price for this option is £30.00 which, as I say, also includes the Walk-around tasting where the full ranges of our participating award winning estates can be sampled.

Option 2 is the Walk-around Tasting on its own which will enable guests to taste, interact and experience a selection of South Africa’s finest wines and the full ranges of all our participating award winning estates.

What can South African wine lovers look forward to?

Apart from the privilege to taste and experience a selection of South Africa’s finest wines across a number of key grape varieties and styles, they can also look forward to a highly educational and entertaining experience, particularly in the Masterclass sessions where

they will learn directly from the winemakers and producers themselves in a highly interactive approach.

Will the guests be able to get hold of a bottle of their favourite wine?

With more than 150 premium wines on show from South Africa’s finest estates, I am sure they will find their favourite bottle or otherwise appoint some of these superb wines on offer as their new favourites. Should guests wish to purchase any of the wines there will be Emperor Wines order forms on hand for each estate with delivery being made directly to guest’s homes.

What are the participating wine estates, any foreign wines or will the event be exclusively South African?

Emperor Wines specialises in premium South African wines only and therefore the event itself is exclusive to South African wines.

We have a fantastic selection of participating estates at this, our first event of its kind, and the full ranges of the following top award winning South African estates can be tasted, analysed and enjoyed at the event: Anwilka, Ashbourne, Bouchard Finlayson, Cape Point, Chamonix, DeMorgenzon, Delaire Graff, Elgin Vintners, Fairview, Glenelly, Guardian Peak, Hamilton Russell, Iona, Jordan, Kaapzicht, Ken Forrester, Klein Constantia, Mulderbosch, Paul Cluver, Rupert & Rothschild, Rust en Vrede, Southern Right, Steenberg and Thelema.

What’s your favourite varietal?

They are all my favourite

varietals as they each have a unique place and offering depending on the location, occasion, cuisine, company and time of day in which you find yourself. I enjoy white varietals such as Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay or Semillon as an aperitif on warmer days or with seafoods or lighter meat dishes and red varietals such as Shiraz, Cabernet or Merlot, or even blends of these, with pastas or red meat dishes and strong cheeses. Rosé on a hot summers day with seafood salad is also a great favourite of mine.

They all have a place of their own!

Can you tell us more about Lynne Sherriff?

Emperor Wines is very privileged to have Lynne Sheriff MW as our consultant South African specialist Master of Wine who will be leading and chairing the Masterclass Tutored Tasting Sessions at the event. Although Lynne has lived in the UK for many years now, she grew up in South Africa and has a very special feel and incredible knowledge of the South African wine industry. Amongst her many accolades and achievements Lynne was the first South African to gain the international title of Master of Wine and the first and only South African to become Chairman of Institute of Masters of Wine.

How can people get involved?

All wine interested consumers are welcome to join us at South Africa House, Trafalgar Square in London on Friday, 12 September 2014 from 5.30pm to 9.30pm; for tickets and details they can visit www.empwines.com or email me at paul@empwines.com or even call me on tel no’s: 01403 865 677 / 07737457423.

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Know your flag: South African Heritage Month Nicky Schrire comes to Chelsea

| One of South Africa’s leading jazz ingénues, Nicky Schrire is taking over London stages and will be coming to renowned music venue THE PHEASANTRY to perform with her new band on 28 September by staff reporter Schooled at the University of Cape Town and at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music (under the guidance of Dave Liebman, Peter Eldridge and Theo Bleckmann), jazz vocalist Nicky Schrire is an award-winning performer and composer, who has played at venues in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Ireland, London and South Africa.

London-born Nicky Schrire was raised in Cape Town, South Africa and has recently returned to live in London after studying and living in New York for five years. On 28 September, Nicky will be performing at the elegant Pheasantry in Chelsea, where her smooth vocals will complement the Italian menu and wine list.

Nicky’s debut album Freedom Flight was hailed as “an auspicious (if under-appreciated) debut” by JazzTime’s Christopher Loudon.

Her sophomore release Space and Time featured some outstanding duets with pianists Gerald Clayton, Gil Goldstein and Fabian Almazan.

Described as “50 minutes of emotionally eventful, richly crafted music” by the Ottawa Citizen, the album garnered Schrire comparisons to artists like Norma Winstone, Joni Mitchell, and Karryn Allison. The album release tour saw duo performances with pianists Josh Nelson (Natalie Cole), Nikki Iles, Huw Warren, Randy Porter (Diane

Schuur), Mike Del Ferro, and Gerald Clayton. This was followed by the 2014 release of her alloriginals EP To The Spring, which further established her as a “voice of great originality” (London Jazz).

Schrire’s musical teammates have included Ben Wendel (Kneebody), Taylor Eigsti, Dave Hamblett, Bokani Dyer, Borislav Petrov (Tin Men and the Telephone) and Shane Cooper in the past. She will make her “Jazz at Lincoln Centre” debut this coming October as part of Carnegie Hall’s UBUNTU Festival, which celebrates the music of South Africa with performances by Hugh Masakela, Vusi Mahlasela, Abdullah Ibrahim, and many more at venues across New York City.

Nicky is thrilled to be performing with a newly formed group for her performance at The Pheasantry.

Along with Tom Hewson (piano), Matt Ridley (bass), Jon Scott (drums) and special guest Adam Waldmann (saxophone), she will share her original compositions, and arrangements of South African jazz repertoire, and always has some sonic surprises in store for music fans of all genres.

Book online or call 0845 6027 017 to reserve tickets for a rare South African jazz experience in London When: Sunday, 28 September 2014 Time: Show Time 8:00pm Doors Open 6:00pm Cost: £15 Where: The Pheasantry, Pizza Express, 152 Kings Road, Chelsea

| It’s Heritage Month in South Africa, and each week we’ll be looking back at our roots. This week’s lesson: the South African flag by deva lee With a new country, came a responsibility to tell new stories.

Twenty years on, it’s time to re-tell some of these great tales — and the making of our flag is one of the best.

Colouring a nation The flag’s design had recently been finalised by SA’s former State Herald, Fred Brownell and given final confirmation by FW De Klerk, Cyril Ramaphosa and Mandela himself in early 1994.

This came after more than 7000 designs failed to impress the negotiating council, and Brownell was enlisted to design the flag — within a week. Displaying that indomitable South African ability to ‘maak ‘n plan’, Brownell sealed the flag’s fate

In an interview with the BBC, he explains that the design of the flag symbolises “convergence and unification” above all else.

He says there was “no particular significance into the colour”, but that he decided on green for aesthetic reasons. Nonetheless, he realised that red, white and blue were reminiscent of the country’s colonial past. Adding black and gold, the design looked forward to SA’s political future and the struggle’s heritage.

Halt! We need 100,000 flags Confirming the design was only the start of a national rush to get it ready in time. The flag almost didn’t make it to Madiba’s inauguration.

As Denis Beckett explains in his

book, Flying with Pride: The Story of the South African Flag, factories around the country answered a call to produce flags ahead of the ceremony. From industrial manufacturers to small-time seamstresses, all hands were on deck.

But they couldn’t keep up. Flag manufacturers in the Netherlands were tasked with supplementing local production, but when they soon ran out of material and had to import from Japan and outsource to other European countries.

Despite these myriad of setbacks, the flag made it just in time. It flew high above the Union Buildings on 10 May 1994 as the country heard their new president make one of his most famous speeches.

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Over 3,000 books belonging to distinguished British author Doris Lessing’s personal collection will be donated to the city library in Harare - almost one year after her death.

The executors of Lessing’s estate decided to split her impressive collection of literature between the University of East Anglia and the Harare city library, with the majority of the librophile’s personal library contents to be sent to Zimbabwe with the help of the author’s favourite charity, Book Aid International.

Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni praised the donation, saying that the city was “delighted and grateful”: “It is most heartening to hear that Doris Lessing, with this magnificent gesture, has taken her love for this country beyond her death. We have every reason to feel special to have earned this much in her wishes” A representative of Book Aid international, the charity which has been enlisted in helping with the logistics of sending the books to Zimbabwe, said: “These books will be deeply appreciated by the people of Zimbabwe, for whom books are a precious but rare resource.”

Doris Lessing had died of old age in her London home in

November 2013. Among her many accomplishments, Lessing had received a Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Despite her sometimes contentious views, her professional accomplishments were widely recognised as forming a leading part of the 20th century’s heritage of literature.

Lessing had spent her formative in Southern Rhodesia (presentday Zimbabwe) from 1924 to 1949. Her involvement with anti-apartheid groups in London from the 1950s onward had resulted in her being banned from both Southern Rhodesia and South Africa for several decades. She was allowed back to enter Zimbabwe after 1982 and visited the country in 1988.

For the remainder of her life, Doris Lessing continued to be an advocate of literacy, caring deeply for the betterment of Zimbabwe.

An unnamed family member spoke to The Guardian about the motivation behind the donation: “In light of consultations conducted in Zimbabwe, agreement has been reached that the recently refurbished Harare city library would be an appropriate home for the collection not only because Doris Lessing lived for some years in Harare, but because she cared deeply about the country and facilitating access to books in Zimbabwe.”

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By Bongani Mtlhavani The South African government recently introduced the Department of Small Business Development to oversee growth and development in the small businesses sector under the leadership of Lindiwe Zulu.

It’s not just old-established names, who are trying to benefit from this new initiative but a lot of promising young blood coming to the fore as well.

We take a look at some of the country’s young entrepreneurs who have seized opportunities and have taken over leadership in SA’s growing business landscape.

Luvuyo Rani Alongside his brother Lonwabo, Luvuyo founded Silulo Ulutho Technologies – a company servicing youth and adults in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces, equipping them with much-needed computer skills.

The company’s overall vision is to empower all African citizens to become part of the digital community. This dynamic duo initially ran their business from a boot of their car. Since then, Rani has been nominated for an award at the Junior Chamber International Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (JCI TOYP) in Germany, ten years after he had started his company, which honours ten outstanding young people under the age of 40 each year.

‘Brett Bailey is undoubtedly the most provocative stage director in South Africa’

Ludwick Marishane Time Magazine named him one of the “Top 30 under 30 people that are changing the world” in 2013. Having invented “DryBath” at the age of 17 – a product set to revolutionise sanitation in impoverished areas – Marishane is the founder of Headboy Industries.

He is so dedicated to his product that Marishane was quick to file patent and thus became South Africa’s youngest patent filer.

Marishane was rated the best student entrepreneur in the world at the Global Champion of the Global Student Entrepreneurs Awards in 2011. All this led Google to name him as one of the 12 brightest young minds in the world in 2011 as well. This young innovator holds a Bachelor of Business Science, majoring in Finance & Accounting, from the University of Cape Town.

Vusi Thembekwayo Vusi is a world-renowned public speaker, ranked first in Africa for public speaking, who went on to receive a third place at the global English Speaking Union International Competition. This vibrant motivational speaker has graced our televisions screens playing advisory roles in various programmes, including SABC’s One Day Leader. His latest project is being one of the panel of the South African version of British investor programme “Dragon’s Den,” which will start playing to audiences on Mzansi Magic in September.

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Ezlyn Barends Ezlyn is the Managing Director of Dad Fund, a non-profit organisation with a purpose of shaping the future of young leaders in South Africa.

She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship & Marketing and a Higher Diploma in Marketing Communications.

Currently based in the United Kingdom and doing her MBA at the Henley Business School, Barends has recently been named one of the the Mail&Guardian 200 Young South Africans for 2014.

Siyabulela Xuza Xusa is an example of the high calibre of scientists South Africa needs. This young South African scientist has had NASA name a planet after him, in honour of his work in developing a recordbreaking rocket and creating safer, more energy-efficient rocket fuel.

The 25-year-old from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape is currently studying at Harvard University in the US in a bid to develop new energy technology, which he hopes will in turn help the planet.

Nick Kaoma Nick saw an opportunity creating in street-wear, and his idea bore fruits when his company “Head Honcho” was launched in 2011.

“Head Honcho” is a street-wear brand that emerged from the streets of Cape Town. The brand’s name implies that the clothing is made for people who aspire to be tomorrow’s moguls, leaders and achievers. Their apparel is stocked up by major retailers and is featured notably at youth themed events around the country.

Tebogo Ditshego Ditshego is the chief executive officer of Ditshego Media, a blackowned public relations company. He has recently been listed by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 for 2014.

His client list includes O.R. Tambo International Airport, Vodacom and Justine amongst others.

Rapelang Rabana Rabana is a co-founder of Yeigo Communications, a major software company based in Cape Town. She co-founded the business alongside Wilter du Toit and Lungisa Matshoda shortly after completing her studies at the University of Cape Town in 2005. Amongst some of her accolades Rapelang was selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum and was invited to join the Annual Meeting in Davos 2012.She is also an Ambassador and Juror for the United Nations World Youth Summit Awards, and to top it all up she was also listed by Forbes on

30 under 30 – Africa’s Best Young Entrepreneurs.

Amongst some of her accolades Rapelang was selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum and was invited to join the Annual Meeting in Davos 2012.She is also an Ambassador and Juror for the United Nations World Youth Summit Awards, and to top it all up she was also listed by Forbes on 30 under 30 – Africa’s Best Young Entrepreneurs.

Jonathan Liebmann Liebmann is a property entrepreneur and is behind the famous Maboneng Precinct, which is reviving the City of Johanneburg to its former glory.

With several buildings running

under his name one cannot help but think that he is fast becoming the Donald Trump of South Africa.

Neftaly Malatji A passionate social entrepreneur Malatjie was born 1991 in the rural area of Molati in Limpopo.

Malatjie is the founder of the Diepsloot Youth Projects. It was the love of his township and the passion for youth empowerment that led this young entrepreneur to start a youth organisation, which assists youth to find employment equipping them with skills for the workplace. Since the tender age of 11 Malatjie has always been helping children and youth, as he continues to devote his time to changing the state of his community.

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| Galle: Sri Lanka’s answer to Cape Town with Durban weather

“I’ve followed the Proteas to many | I’m peering over the ramparts of a 17th-century Dutch fort, wondering how much closer to the edge I can go before I plummet to an early grave. There’s a fascinating showdown on the grass down below, where a malicious crow mercilessly bullies a monitor lizard in some kind of turf war. Somewhere in the distance, across a road fuming with tuk-tuks, buses and endless herds of schoolkids, the Proteas do battle in a test match

By Richard Asher It could only be Galle. I’ve come here to see Hashim Amla’s men take on the Sri Lankans at their blue-riband venue, Ceylon’s answer to Cape Town. South Africa faces a tough assignment as they leap into the scary post-Smith, post-Kallis era: overcoming the Lankans at home.

I’ve followed the Proteas to many places, but nowhere quite like this. Galle is a weird anomaly.

It isn’t really Sri Lanka. Inside the fort walls are creature-comfort guest houses, ice cream parlours (favoured by Sri Lanka’s batting kingpin Kumar Sangakkara, whom I bump into on the eve of the match), farty arty shops and real cappuccinos. Cape Town could pull this off - well if its own Dutch castle were as big.

Which is not to say that Galle and its Fort aren’t pleasant. No way.

Sri Lanka couldn’t pull off a tacky, touristy vibe if it tried. The Fort feels lived-in because it is. Think cute colonial houses, scattered among mosques and churches and Buddhist temples. Church schools that seem to mass-evacuate at all hours of the day. Early-morning joggers (I’ve noticed Lanka is Asia’s portliest country, and it seems certain rotund locals have developed an awareness of this), and kite-flyers indulging the nationwide obsession. Even the snoozy tuk-tuk drivers aren’t very good at ripping off the Westerners that frequent the place. That’s Lanka for you: they’re not very good at taking your money.

Day one has been a jol.

I’m surprised to bump into approximately four other South Africans here to combine cricket with a holiday in a place that’s kinder to a ZAR-populated wallet than almost anywhere else (their currency is as useless as ours!). We make friends in the grandstand after Amla wins the toss and bats. While Dean Elgar amasses a century, we drink Dilmah iced tea and wolf down top-notch hot dogs. At lunch, we’re set upon by a horde of schoolkids, clad in white and just dying for a handshake or a high-five. When play resumes, though, the shark attack ends as suddenly as it began, and the high-on-life children sit down quietly once again.

As the game wears on – and it’s particularly wearing as JP Duminy crawls to his ton on the second afternoon – the party atmosphere in the ground builds. This despite the home side conceding 455 in the first innings, and ultimately a lead of 163. Lankans need neither a winning side nor alcohol to dance like madmen: give them a drum and they put us to shame with their joie de vivre.

By day three I’ve figured out that the beach outside the eastern gate is a gem.

Where else can you take a dip during lunch and not miss a ball? It’s an essential relief from a muggy climate that would make Durban feel like a walk-in fridge. I leave my bag on the

| There’s more than just cricket to Sri Lanka, but it’s a great place to start

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sand, confident that Lankans are too nice to steal. They don’t. But a two-metre dragon waddles over the beach not long after I’m dry.

I suspect the crows leave these biggies alone.

As South Africa, led by quick runs from AB de Villiers, top up their lead on day four, I meet some of the local cheerleading superfans. I chat with Dayana, the hunchbacked guy you’ve seen on TV, and Bangalla, who lets me try his Lasith Malinga wig. And hands me his Sri Lankan flag. I shrug and wave it. I’ve got nothing but praise for Lanka and its people. If they

| Tuk Tuk: not just a form of transport but really a state of mind

weren’t playing South Africa I’d be right behind them.

Every now and then I see a handful of bemused tourists wander onto the grass banks.

Entry is free. I doubt the Dutch backpacker girls had any clue what this bizarre sporting spectacle was, but they seemed to enjoy the sun and the Lion beer anyway. It’s unusual for international sport to sit so close to a tropical tourist hotspot. One evening, up on the Fort once more, I overhear a local trying to explain cricket to a German couple. You can imagine.

There’s one more box I want

to tick after stumps on the fourth evening, the hosts having made a scary good start to their pursuit of 370. I simply must play cricket in Sri Lanka. A park game will do.

For this, I head to Fort’s recreation area, a bumpy strip of grass perfect for sunset-spotting. Local families chase a variety of balls, picnic and do that enjoying-life thing in the relative cool of evening.

And yes, there’s cricket going on.

Soon I’ve found a game. A curious little bat, stunted and bowed, and a tennis ball, suffice. I take three clean catches, which is more than I can say for my record in the Oxfordshire Cricket Association’s

7th division.

Day five goes swimmingly for South Africa. There lurked the spectre of a miracle Lankan chasedown, fuelled by a steady diet of Imran Tahir long hops, but instead Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel cleaned up the batting.

Sangakkara got out wretchedly for the second time in the match, hitting another desperately ordinary ball straight to a fielder.

He’d laughed when, that first evening, I’d asked him to be kind to our bowlers. I doubt he intended to oblige like that.

A week later the Proteas clung on

for a draw in Colombo, claiming a long-awaited Lankan test series win in alien, trying conditions.

Watching on TV back in healthand-safety land, where you’ve zero chance of falling off a fort, I was already pining for a return to this chilled-out nation of smiles.

Richard Asher stayed at the Galle Fort Heritage Villa, in the heart of Galle’s historic fort district. It’s a ten-minute stroll from the cricket ground.

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Rand weakens against the Dollar | The Rand weakened against the US Dollar yesterday, closing at USD-ZAR 10.65, compared with Wednesday’s close of USD-ZAR 10.61 by 1st contact The Rand depreciated into a mixed performance from the Dollar against the major crosses and a mixed to stronger performance from commodity currencies, but was consistent with a moderate decline in global risk appetite and thus a weaker performance from most emerging markets.

The Dollar weakened against the Pound and the Yen, while strengthening against the Euro.

The Rand depreciated against all of the major crosses, with the biggest move seen against the Yen. The ZAR was the only commodity currency among those we monitor that depreciated last week. All but one of the EM currencies we monitor

depreciated through last week; the exception was the BRL. The Rand was the third-worst performing EM currency (beating only the HUF and the RUB).

Turning to commodity prices, gold and platinum rose by 0.6 percent and 0.4 percent, respectively. Copper and Brent meanwhile fell by 1.4 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively.

Non-residents were meaningful net buyers of local equities (ZAR 754 million) but were mild net sellers of local bonds (-ZAR 119 million).

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| South Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at market prices increased by 0.6% in the second quarter of 2014, Statistics South Africa, said on Tuesday

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This means that the South African economy has avoided a recession following on a -0.6 percent decrease in the first quarter of 2014 Briefing reporters, Executive Manager for National Accounts at Stats SA, Gerhardt Bouwer, said that the largest contributors to the quarter on quarter increase of 0.6 percent was general government services and the transport, storage and communication industry which each contributed 0.4 percent of a percentage point.

The finance, real estate and business services contributed 0.3 percent of a percentage point to growth.

According to the data, the growth in the finance, real estate and business services was due to increases in banking activities.

Mining and quarrying and the manufacturing industry were among the industries that contributed negatively to GPD (having contributed -0.4 percent percentage points and -0.3 percent percentage points).

Economic activity in the manufacturing industry reflected negative growth due to lower production in food, beverages and tobacco and petroleum among others, noted the report by Stats SA. This as the mining industry recently saw the end of a five month strike in the platinum sector.

“Most people’s eyes were on the platinum [sector] but I think this negative growth was more an overall poor performance of the mining industry. It was not only platinum. There was poor performance in the gold and other mining activities. There are a lot of reasons for that [like] safety stoppages, strikes etc.,” explained

Bouwer.

In the second quarter of 2014, nominal GDP was estimated at R891 billion, which is R17 billion more than in the first quarter. The agriculture, forestry and fishing expanded by R19 billion to R34 billion while general government services expanded by R6 billion to R140 billion.

According to data electricity, gas and water expanded by R5 billion to R27 billion, while manufacturing and mining and quarrying both contracted R1 billion to R90 billion and R66 billion.

In the second quarter the largest industries were the finance, real estate and business services at 21.2 percent followed by general government services at 17.2 percent, while the wholesale, retail and motor trade, catering and accommodation industry accounted for 16.1 percent and the manufacturing industry was at 11.1 percent.

Recession The data means that the South African economy has avoided a recession following first quarter GDP data that showed a seasonally adjusted GDP at market prices slumped at an annualised rate of 0.6 percent for the first quarter of 2014.

The Reserve Bank in its June Monetary Policy Review (MPR) said that while the domestic economy has suffered several adverse supply shocks particularly from strike action as well as electricity shortages which led to negative first quarter growth, it was unlikely that the country would fall into a recession.

This decrease in growth — the worst since the second quarter of 2009 when the world’s economy dipped as a result of the global

recession — comes after the GDP grew by an annualised rate of 3.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013.

Analysts had expected the economy to show moderate growth in the second quarter.

“Real GDP expanded by a seasonally adjusted annualised 0.6 percent quarter-on-quarter.

Although better than the contraction of 0.6 percent recorded in the first quarter, it is still slower than the 0.9 percent quarter-on-quarter expected on average by the markets and our own forecast of a 1.4 percent improvement,” noted Nedbank economists.

According to the economists the outlook for the economy remains murky.

“Recent economic indicators suggest that the weakness continued into the third quarter, with the NAAMSA strike disrupting manufacturing output throughout July. Consumers are generally expected to remain cautious given pressure on household income, rising debt service costs and a deteriorating job market. However, the mining and manufacturing sectors should fare better off a low base, supported by some improvement in global demand.

“Although South Africa avoided recession, underlying conditions remains generally weak and confidence is still very fragile. The risk to the growth outlook therefore remains firmly on the downside,” said Nedbank.

Earlier last week, Standard Bank said it expected GDP to expand by 0.6 percent which was weaker than market expectation of a year-onyear growth of 1.2 percent and a quarter-on-quarter growth of 0.9 percent.

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Upcoming O2 Touch Autumn Leagues at Clapham Common

| After a few weeks’ break from our O2Touch Summer Leagues ending and enjoying the Thames River on our In2Touch Boat Party, all the In2Touch players are itching to get involved in our upcoming leagues at Clapham Common

By in2touch This week will see the start our Clapham Common September Shootout on Tuesdays and Wednesdays evenings. This Shootout league is a slightly different format compared to our usual touch leagues as instead of a 40 minute game against one opposition, the teams get to play two different teams for 20 minutes each. Then in the final week of this short four week league the teams will play a drop off version of the normal touch game for their final. The drop off is when teams start with five on the field instead of six players and then they play for two minutes and if neither team has scored they drop off another player until it goes down to three players on each team and the first team to score wins.

There will be a brand new league that we will be running at Clapham Common on Mondays for beginners only. This league will help beginners learn the basic rules of the game as well as giving them the opportunity to learn while playing as the referee will also help coach the players. This league is for any player new to the game of touch

or if you have only played one or two seasons before. It is a great way to learn while playing actual games in a league format and not having to play against experienced players.

Our popular Autumn League will also be up and running again starting on Sunday the 14 September from 12pm onwards at Clapham Common. This Autumn league offers Mens, Mixed and Ladies divisions with a varying degree of beginners, intermediate and experienced teams taking part. The Clapham Common Autumn League runs for eight weeks and gives teams the opportunity to play and socialise with a Sunday Roast and a few drinks at our very popular aftermatch venue, Gigalum.

If you would like to enter a team or if you don’t have a team and would like to join as an individual into any of these leagues at Clapham Common then please feel free to contact us on 020 8542 0827 or on tracy@ in2touch.com You can also have a look on our website, www.in2touch.com for more information regarding any of our upcoming leagues such as the Active Touch and Regents Park Leagues.

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| STEALING GOLD: James Thompson and John Smith stun an unsuspecting crowd as they set a World Best Time and win gold just inches ahead of the favourited French team on Saturday 30 August in Amsterdam. Photo by Brett Florens

Gold for sA at the World Rowing Champs

| Olympic gold medalists James Thompson and John Smith made rowing history on Saturday as they set a new world record at the World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam By deva lee Olympic gold medalists James Thompson and John Smith made rowing history on Saturday as they set a new world record at the World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam Thompson and Smith are two of the Awesome Foursome that won Olympic gold at the London 2012 Olympics.

The pair narrowly qualified for the race, and the commentators remarked that they “had to battle through from last place at 1000 metres” in the semi-finals.

All eyes were on the Norwegian world champs, who hadn’t had a

great season, and the Germans, who had performed well in the regatta. The French were also in the spotlight, having set a world best time in the heat.

Starting in lane 1, Thompson and Smith went largely unnoticed by commentators and spectators in the first 1000 metres. No close-ups of the SA boat were featured, and their Olympic gold medal is only mentioned four minutes in.

Of the French, a commentator said: “I fully expect them to win a gold medal”.

Anyone watching the pace of the boats would have seen a steady performance by Smith and Thompson, but the commentators

didn’t mention it. Maybe if they’d paid any attention to their Twitter feeds, they would have seen the Saffa boys coming. On the day of the race, Smith told the world on twitter:

We’re up at 15:19. Top 3 go through to the final! Eyes wide open for the race of your life!

— John Smith (@John_ bean_Smith) Smith made good on his word.

In the last 500 metres, Thompson glances over his shoulder at the French and Norwegians and lets Smith know a medal is within their

reach. The pair sharply climbed up to 42 strokes per minute, leaving the commentators with only the classic sporting cliche: “The crowd’s going wild!”

In a photo-finish that left the crowd flabbergasted, the lightweight men’s double sculls team crossed the finish line so closely that for a few seconds noone was sure who had won.

Smith collapsed into the boat as the announcement is made that the pair had won gold. Thompson screamed in celebration, using words even his mother would allow.

The pair set a World Best Time of 6:05.36. This also the best

result ever to be obtained by a South African crew at the World Championships.

The two took to Twitter to share their excitement:

The dream. Speechless.

Thank you to all those who work so hard to make athletes’ dreams come true.

World champion, world record! — James Thompson (@jmtrow) Watch the nail-biting race on worldrowng.com

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