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Family mourns South African on Flight MH17

| Preliminary reports confirm that a South African national was travelling on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down in eastern Ukraine last Thursday, leaving all 298 passengers dead by sertan sanderson

| OVERLOAD: Jade Doreen Waller, an innovative young artist from Cape Town, is creating a stir in the visual art industry with her unique approach to urban art. Waller has been invited to hold a solo exhibition at cutting edge gallery, Graffik, in Notting Hill, which opens on Friday. Read more on page 7

It’s believed that South African helicopter pilot Cameron Dalziel (43) was among the 298 passengers who died on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 last week.

Dalziel had moved to Miri in Malaysia in December with his wife and two sons, where he had been working as a rescue pilot for CHC Helicopters. Dalziel had been sent for training in the Netherlands just before the fatal crash and was on his way back to his family in Malaysia, when the airliner crashed in Ukraine on Thursday following a missile attack.

Dalziel is said to have been travelling on his British passport, as the South African government continues to deny the presence of any of its citizens on the flight. According to an official announcement made earlier by the Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO) there had been no South Africans were travelling on board of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.

DIRCO spokesperson Nelson Kgwete had said that there were no South African passengers on the downed flight: “Our mission in Kuala Lumpur informed us that amongst the passengers no one was travelling with a South African passport. We are aware of reports that there were two men with links to South Africa on board. According to consular policy, the country where the passport was issued should assist in

terms of consular services.”

But unofficial reports had already suggested shortly after the aviation accident had occurred that at least one South African had been on board the flight. Dalziel’s family later confirmed that he was among those killed on the flight.

The status of dual nationals, including those with dual SA citizenship, has not been investigated yet, as the recovery process from the fatal crash of the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur is dragging on due to a lack of cooperation of the local authorities. The data examined thus far has solely taken the passport information which was used to travel on flight MH17 into account.

The plane was reportedly shot down from the ground, but it remains unclear whether proRussian elements or Ukrainian separatists were behind the attack, which killed all of the 298 passengers and crew members, over half of whom were Dutch nationals.

Western governments have increasingly been putting the blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of illegally arming pro-Russian rebels in the east of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the belligerent parties have been accusing each other of being the perpetrators behind the attack.

Malaysian Airlines may be witnessing the worst year in its history, after another of their flights, MH370, had disappeared over the Indian Ocean earlier in 2014.

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SA welcomes new BRICS Bank

| South Africa has hailed the establishment of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) and Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA), adding that all resolutions and declarations taken at the summit were done on an equal basis by staff reporter

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The five members of the group - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) - laid out the designs of the NDB and the CRA in a declaration released, following their sixth summit in the Brazilian city, on Tuesday.

The new bank will be based in Shanghai, China, while an African regional centre of the bank, to be located in South Africa. The regional centre will be opened concurrently with the headquarters before the first loan in 2016.

The bank will have starting authorized capital of $100 billion, of which $50 billion will be subscribed.

The five countries decided that the first chair of the Board of Governors shall be from Russia, the first chair of the Board of Directors from Brazil, and the first President of the bank from India.

The bank, according to the Fortaleza Declaration, is aimed at “mobilising resources for infrastructure and sustainable development projects in BRICS and other emerging and developing economies”.

Economic potential of the bank Speaking to the media fresh from the summit on Thursday, Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said government is excited about the economic potential that the bank will bring to the continent.

Minister Nene said the bank will help mobilise resources for infrastructure investment and address development challenges.

These he said include transformational infrastructure development projects that allow the

region to take forward its regional integration agenda.

“What is unique about this bank is that it is established by developing countries who understand development challenges and have demonstrated their ability to tackle such challenges. So we are excited about this development and more so what it means for South Africa and the continent as a whole,” Minister Nene said.

Based on sound banking principles, Minister Nene said the NDB will strengthen cooperation among countries and will supplement the efforts of multilateral and regional financial institutions for global development.

This, he added, will contribute to the developing countries’ collective commitments for achieving the goal of strong, sustainable and balanced growth.

BRICS countries will enjoy equitable shareholding of the bank.

Minister Nene said the bank will cooperate fully with the development partners and the international financial institutions.

“We will complement the efforts of existing institutions and alternate source of financing for global development.”

Regional offices of the bank The minister said they are not disappointed that South Africa is not hosting the bank. In the past SA offered to host the bank.

“We are not disappointed; remember the decision was taken by the summit and the leaders collectively. We are also happy with the regional offices in Africa as a country fighting for African integration.”

The regional office, he added,

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is going to do a number of things including the project development facility, and lead in the implementation of the infrastructure projects in the region.

Looking ahead, Minister Nene said the regional office of the bank might spread to other parts of the world and looking at other shareholders - from other developing countries, although the BRICS countries would have the majority 55percent shareholding.

Developing countries have long complained that loans from organisations like the World Bank have always come with strings attached and thus advocated reforms at these institutions.

The BRICS nations constitute one fifth of the world’s economic output and account for half of global economic growth however their representation at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) does not match their growing economic might.

Contingent Reserve Arrangement During the summit, the leaders had also agreed on plans for a CRA. At its core, the CRA is a pledge to help one another in times of financial crisis.

Each country will achieve this by together pledging a total of US$100 billion to a common pool - with China contributing the most (US$41 billion), Brazil, Russia and India contributing $18 billion each, and South Africa the least ($5 billion).

These pledges will not be physically put aside, but will be made available in times of crisis.

The minister dismissed fears of dominance from the stronger economies like China, saying all member countries are committed to playing equal and striking the balance.

“The shareholding will be equal.

We do not for see any dominance.” SAnews.gov.za

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Joost supports South African’s “Long Walk” from Jo’burg to Durban | Marky Warren starts his “long walk” to raise awareness about Motor Neuron Disease (MND), as one of SA’s biggest sporting legends, Joost van der Westhuizen, makes a rare public appearance in his support By sertan sanderson A South African from London has embarked on an journey across SA in order to raise the profile of those living with Motor Neuron Disease (MND), also known as ALS. The walk from Johannesburg to Durban will raise funds for Joost Van Der Westhuizen’s J9 Foundation, which was formed by the rugby legend in aid of those suffering from the fatal illness like himself.

In a rare public appearance, Marky’s rugby sporting hero Joost Van Der Westhuizen (Springboks and Blue Bulls) joined him in a public announcement on YouTube to gather support for the initiative.

Marky Warren has started walking from Johannesburg and Durban, and is en route to a 390 mile (624 km) journey, which began on Mandela Day, 18th July 2014. He started his journey at the Ballz Radio studio in Jozi and will hopefully be finishing at the LIV Village in Durban. Marky performed a similar walk as a “warm up” last month in the UK, when he walked from Cardiff to London, covering a distance of approximately 38km (23.6 miles) per day.

Marky Warren told thesouthafrican.com last month that he has been training for his fundraising event and organising logistics since January.

“I work in Canary Wharf and I’ve been walking home to Wimbledon every day, which takes over three hours. You just have to keep walking. But when you walk from Johannesburg to Durban, it might be two days before you see another town. So you need a full support team as well as security. Especially in terms of refreshments, you always have to stock up.”

Professional rugby players are a key risk group to suffer from ALS; two other South African rugby players, Tinus Linee (Western Province, Stormers) and Ryan Walker (Sharks), are also affected by the incurable disease, which in all instances is ultimately fatal.

You can follow Marky Warren’s progress on his Twitter handle @PharSideUK or facebook page (www.facebook.com/ TheLongWalkSA) and make donations to the J9 Foundation in South Africa.

Repeat wedding bells as nine-yearold renews vows with senior wife

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| Once is good but twice is better: schoolboy remarries 62-year-old in a traditional ceremony to appease the spirits of ancestors by staff reporter A nine-year-old South African boy has renewed his marriage vows to a woman 53 years his senior after a dead ancestor had told him to marry the sexagenarian in visions and dreams last year.

Sanele Masilela from Tshwane had originally got hitched with Helen Shabangu, 62, in February last year. Ms Shabangu was already married and had five children at the time, but nonetheless decided to repeat the ceremony last week in order to perform the more traditional aspects of the wedding ceremony with her young husband in Mpumalanga.

Sanele’s mother, Patience Masilela, had said at the initial wedding ceremony: “This is the first time this has happened in the

family. Sanele is named after his grandfather, who has never had a white wedding before he died, so asked Sanele to get married.

He chose Helen because he loves her. By doing this we made the ancestors happy. If we hadn’t done what my son had asked then something bad would have happened in the family.”

The marriage is said to have shocked part of the local community last year but Sanele’s family insist that the repeat ceremony it is just a spiritual ritual and not a legally binding contract.

The couple did not sign a marriage certificate at the time, nor do they have to live together.

Both Helen Shabangu and Sanele Masilela went back to their normal lives after last year’s ceremony and only returned to the community

as a ‘married’ couple last week again in order to perform the ritual.

A cow was slaughtered at the festivities, which also included a three-tier wedding cake.

The Daily Mail had reported last yearthat Sanele had reportedly been told to marry Ms Shabangu by his late grandfather. His family, fearing divine retribution, quickly arranged a wedding, which was organised in two months and cost £1,500, including £500 lobola (traditional dowry) paid for the bride.

Sanele himself had described the marriage with much excitement: “I told my mother that I wanted to get married because I really did want to. I am happy that I married Helen – but I will go to school and study hard. When I’m older I will marry a lady my own age.”

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The Braai 365 recipe for Steak and Gorgonzola Sauce | Mat Hartley braaied every day for 365 days as a challenge to raise funds and awareness for rhino conservation. So he knows a thing or two about cooking meat! Here’s his delicious recipe for steak with gorgonzola sauce By matt hartley You can do this recipe with any kind of steak, but make sure you follow my tips on how to firstly buy, and then braai the perfect steak.

Ingredients (based on serving 3-4 people) - 2 Fillet Steaks (21 or 28 day matured) - Butter (1 Tsp) - 1 Shallot - Sour Cream (125ml) - Gorgonzola Cheese (80g) Preparation This is pretty quick to do, so get the braai ready and then make the sauce. Preparing for the sauce, all you need to do is finely chop the shallots and crumble the gorgonzola into pieces.

Sauce 1. Melt the butter in the pot 2. Once melted, throw the shallots in and cook until tender (should take about 2 minutes) 3. Throw the sour cream and Gorgonzola into the mix and simmer for a few minutes until the cheese has melted, stirring continuously.

4. Once it’s melted, leave it to stand and go and get the steak ready for the braai.

Braai Time Make sure the coals are really hot and braai on high heat until it’s cooked the way you like it (see my article above on how to braai the perfect steak).

Now throw the sauce over it and enjoy!

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Vote for the meerkat! | Help a South African to win the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 50th anniversary People’s Choice by voting for his photo By staff reporter

| Sentry duty: Neil Aldridge’s photograph of a Meerkat in the Makgadikgadi Pans is up for a People’s Choice award

A striking photo of a meerkat by a UK-based South African wildlife photojournalist has been selected in a special Wildlife Photographer of the Year 50th anniversary People’s Choice vote – and it needs your support Neil Aldridge took the black and white photograph in Botswana on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Pans while on commission for BBC Wildlife magazine. ‘Sentry Duty’ was one of eleven of his photographs that reached the finals in this year’s competition.

Neil, who currently stays just north of London, is an awardwinning photojournalist, writer and professional wildlife guide.

He is known for his documentary photography of conservation issues, controversial and endangered wildlife and man’s relationship with these creatures and their environments.

Neil’s work is influenced by his career in the conservation sector and his time growing up in Africa.

He is a qualified wildlife guide and his enjoyment of the natural world is enhanced through a love of birding, travelling, watching wildlife and painting.

Being a former South African international rower and a follower of many sports and outdoor activities, Neil also enjoys the physical challenges that photographing wildlife in remote locations brings.

He encouraged South Africans to cast their votes for his picture.

“There are some exceptional pictures in the shortlist taken by some great photographers. It would mean a lot to me for you to visit the link below and vote for my shot as your favourite. Thank you for your support!”

Voting closes on 5th September 2014. You can only vote once. The winner will be revealed on 21st October 2014 and will receive the first ever People’s Choice Award Vote for the meerkat at: www.nhm.ac.uk/ See more of Neil’s work at www. conservationphotojournalism.com

An Audience with a Comic Genius

| An Audience with Pieter-Dirk Uys at Soho Theatre is an evening spent with a legendary entertainer who does not disappoint in bringing a large slice of South Africa to London By liz frost This weekend I attended a show at the Soho Theatre called An Audience with Pieter-Dirk Uys. Not entirely sure what (or whom out of the legendary performer and satirist’s character arsenal) to expect we were given an entertaining whistle stop history of the political intricacies of South Africa.

Piquing my curiosity were the 14 boxes lining the back of the stage, flanked by wooden crates.

In Act One, Uys dived straight into a run-through of South Africa’s political history for the life span of our ‘tour guide’ starting at ‘Oom Daniel’ Malan and the beginnings of nationalism, taking a left at his admission to owning a banned picture of Nelson Mandela, stashed under his mattress, concluding with FW de Klerk and the fall of apartheid.

Four lucky audience members were then given the chance to choose a numbered box in which lay the accessories for a character Uys would then perform. I was delighted to see Noelle Fine, chosen first and then second too.

Her first commentary was a

recent update as Noelle sat in Toronto airport. She was returning from a school reunion held in Canada, as opposed to Cape Town due to mass emigration. Her second contrasting appearance was a flashback from 1985 revisiting the fear of revolution and sense of ‘impending doom’ as the regime began to crumble.

The third box was empty, cleverly symbolising the recent spate of empty government promises. Grace Mugabe was then chosen and performed to much laughter tinged with bitter reality.

The final act took us through the last 20 years of democracy, from Madiba to Zuma and touching on Malema. It was fantastic to see that Uys has not lost his bite, nor his enthusiasm for our homeland.

His ability to poke fun while remaining upbeat is inspiring.

The jewel in Uys’s crown, Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout, was then introduced by a voice recording made by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu (assuring us he was indeed the real thing).

She regaled us with tales of making koeksisters for Madiba and translating ‘Umshini Wam’ for the Queen.

I left the theatre thoroughly entertained, uplifted and proudly South African. Long may this national treasure continue to help us laugh at ourselves, and see the many positive aspects of our country.

The show runs until 27th July 2014 and I’m tempted to go again to see what other character gems remain unopened in those boxes!

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LONDON GOES SA: Bok van Blerk on singing, acting and post-De la Rey fame | Conrad Brand chats to Bok van Blerk, one of the South African performers in the London Goes SA concert on 1st and 2nd August the stage and started to attack me after I turned to face the drummer.

Suddenly I just felt something on my back, fighting me. I didn’t know who it was, I thought it was the bouncer and I shoved her off and got off the stage. That was quite funny in retrospect. And on another occasion a girl came to me and asked me if I could lick her and I said, sorry I am not a dog and walked off.

By Conrad Brand The first thing I need to ask you, and it’s probably the question asked by most people, where does the name Bok van Blerk come from?

Bok is my nickname from school which all my friends called me from Standard 6 and it’s got a long story behind it. So when I was thinking about a stage name I thought the surname Van Blerk quite fitted the name Bok. From your many hits it is clear that you know your supporters, or what they want to hear. What makes your music unique in South Africa?

I think my first album was a good mixture of different songs. I think it represented me – serious songs and I like to party as well.

There are some light hearted songs and always on my albums there will be a rugby song, because I am a massive rugby fan and then obviously the deeper side as well.

I like writing songs with a deeper meaning. One of the greatest feelings is for someone to come to you after a show and tell you what your song meant to them. ‘De La Rey’ had a patriotic feel to it, and I think the media tried to make it something it definitely is not. I am not a politician, it is a song of remembrance. It is like Laurika Rauch’s ‘Mannetjies Roux’, it is a tribute to a legend, same as De La Ray, a great war hero and someone actually against the war, as some would find it difficult to believe.

How would you describe your music?

Some people would like to see more serious songs like ‘De la Rey’ from me, but I am actually a fun guy, I like my jokes and storytelling. I try to sing things true to our culture, rugby, biltong, braaivleis, brandewyn, girls en bietjie trots.

Do you write all your own songs?

I definitely can’t take all the credit. Some of the biggest songs on my albums were written by Johan Foster and there are others that are also very lyrically driven. I always have a big influence on what is written and what I sing and we have proper planning sessions before we start writing a new album. I have learned a lot from Johan and am privileged to write with him the last ten years. I am definitely a stronger writer now. We have also discovered a very strong new writer, we call him Appel, Kristoff Kotze, who has written four songs on my new album.

Of your own songs, which one is your favourite?

Difficult question to answer. I go through phases. There are such nice songs on my current album, Steek die Vure Aan, that I can’t pick a favourite, but maybe I would say ‘Van Hings’ or ‘Koue voete en warm liefde’ is the flavour of the month.

What would your advice be to any aspirant singer in South Africa?

In the era we now live, sales of CDs are down by more than 60% and record companies are trying to break new artists into markets in a really economically challenging time in South Africa for people to buy albums. Everything has doubled in price the last five years – advertising, producing and music videos when the sale of CDs has halved. It is very difficult to break into the market and record companies carry huge risk in taking on someone new. It’s going to be a difficult road, but there nothing that beats determination and hard work, hard work, hard work. Just keep on knocking and explore the new avenues that have opened in the last couple of years.

If you really want it, it will take hard work and determination and keep dreaming. I did!

What has been your career highlight so far?

One of the best things in my career was De La Rey being the biggest debut album for any artist in South Africa and the second biggest Afrikaans album ever and in 2007 it took six or seven awards. My second album was the biggest over all genres the following year. A lot of people said De La Rey was a one hit wonder but I think we have done well with all the albums since.

What is the strangest thing that has happened to you on or off stage?

A lot of funny things happen on tour but one night at Presley’s in Boksburg a woman jumped onto

How many followers do you have on Twitter and what was your last tweet?

Let’s see, 73 200 and my last tweet was to thank the guy for our website who played a part in me winning the World Cup of music.

Every four years there’s a World Cup of Music where Jacaranda FM listeners vote for their favourite artist, and I won that. I was up against Pink and One Direction and a few other South African artists. I was up against Kurt Darren in the final and beat him, in the Semis I was up against Theuns Jordaan.

Are you Bok the singer or actor?

Definitely Bok the singer trying to act! I must have done something right in Platteland, my first movie three or four years ago, because after that movie came out I got phone calls from every second producer in the country wanting me in their film. So ja, I am in a very privileged position to do a bit of acting. I don’t see it as a new job, just an extension of my current job Bok the Entertainer, just a different form of entertaining.

I see you are involved in another movie, Leading Lady.

How was it working with the beautiful Katie McGrath?

It was actually fun and a big shock when they asked me to play a lead in an international movie. It came as a big surprise and a real privilege to work with the likes of Katie McGrath.

What are you currently working on music-wise, and any other movies in the pipeline?

No new albums. My latest album is about six months old and we will probably start a new one next year. Next week I am off to Mozambique to shoot a new movie and Leading Lady is coming out in November. I am also looking forward to working on the second season of Bok for Sports next month.

Who is your favourite South African artist and why?

Valiant Swart – I like the way he uses lyrics very cleverly and he is just one of my favourite songwriters. I listened to Koos Kombuis and Valiant Swart 15 years ago when I got a bit homesick. Koos is also a fantastic songwriter, along with David Kramer and Anton Goosen.

Who is your hero? And don’t you dare say Chuck Norris!

Haha! Bakkies Botha. Musically I would say Bruce Springsteen.

Also Mark Knopfler for the way he plays guitar and brings the soul out of the instrument.

What’s on your bucket list and have you ticked something off recently?

Obviously I still have a long list of things I want to do and think I am way too young to start thinking of ticking them off before I die. One for sure is I want to do more for hunting and nature conservation, things are in a desperate state.

Where do you see yourself in 10 to 20 years? Music/ acting?

Hopefully on a yacht, sailing the world! No, I would obviously still want to be involved in singing and acting. If you asked me this ten years ago, I would not have given you the right answer. Things change so quickly nowadays.

What is the first thing you will pack for your tour to London?

My Oyster card and a couple of pounds left over from my previous travels. I think some of my friends will ask me to bring things you don’t get there. It is hunting season here, so I might have to slip in some biltong.

What are you looking forward to seeing while in London?

It is summer so I am looking forward to the sunshine. Summer time in England is always good – people have more smiles on their faces than in winter. And I’m looking forward to seeing a few friends I haven’t seen for a while.

If you were to see a West End show, what would it be i.e. would it be a musical, drama, ballet or opera?

Difficult one, probably a musical.

Bok van Blerk will be joined on stage on 1st and 2nd August 2014

by Theuns Jordaan, Riana Nel and Juanita du Plessis.

Tickets for London Goes SA are available on www.eventimapollo. com/events/detail/london-goes-sa

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Graffik Gallery hosts first exhibition by SA urban artist | Capetonian artist Jade Doreen Waller has been invited to exhibit her solo work at cool urban gallery, Graffik, in Notting Hill By staff reporter Jade Doreen Waller, an innovative young artist from Cape Town, is creating a stir in the interdisciplinary visual art industry with her unique approach to urban contemporary art.

Waller has been invited to a solo exhibition at cutting edge urban gallery, Graffik, in Notting Hill, London from 25th July to 7th August 2014. This will be her first international solo exhibition. Her work was first shown in a group exhibition at 34FineArt Gallery in 2010 and created quite a buzz.

For the upcoming exhibition – Overload - the artist has created

a completely new body of work that shows off her creativity and skill. Waller’s concepts are deeply rooted in urban contemporary subculture, evident in the multiple layers of images in her work.

The works are symptomatic of an information overload.

Her paintings present bundles of tightly packed regurgitated symbols, which purge and scream the plethora of scattered thoughts that dart around Waller’s brain during an engagement with her canvas. Her allegories, a glimpse into Waller’s world, are superbly realised with meticulous detail, reminiscent of Dutch

and Flemish styles, making her work inescapably alluring. The scenes of Waller’s works show a bizarre juxtaposition of objects in unexpected arrangements; their realist execution with their sugared-up yet metallic use of colour all work to create artworks that speak to the discourse of Pop Surrealism, in which young artists use traditional methods in contemporary ways.

While mesmerised by the sumptuousness of Waller’s paintwork, the onlooker is met with image clusters of a constipated consumerist culture about to explode. Trapped inside Waller’s brain, by way of her paintings, one feels assaulted by the densely packed meteorites of urban street culture. Like a virus inhabiting her mind, it’s easy to feel contaminated by her corrupt organisms. Within the infected galaxies of her daydreams, Waller’s conglomerates of toys, pills, food, body parts, cartoon icons, insects, bric-a-brac, games and accessories become suspended between the beginning and the end of creation. While her paintings capture a private cerebral conversation, they offer a crystal clear reflection of the transient and accumulative symbols of our urban existence.

Waller’s ability to innovatively manipulate and combine contrasting images offers a lucid insight into how she interprets and perceives her surrounding reality.

Graffik Gallery is at the forefront of the street art movement, exhibiting the best international urban artists such as Banksy, Mr Brainwash, D*Face, Tee Wat, The Dotmasters, Trust.iCON, Obey, Binty Bint, Alec Monopoly, Robin Coleman, Skyler Grey and Stik.

The exhibition runs from 25th July 2014 to 7th August 2014.

Details on http://graffikgallery.com

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I am an imam, but I’m also gay - | South African imam Muhsin Hendricks shares details of his personal journey from details of a failed marriage to his work as a gay rights activist. Sertan Sanderson learns about the INNER CIRCLE he has built to help queer Muslims in South Africa and beyond, who are battling to reconcile their faith with their sexuality By sertan sanderson As I enter the unassuming mosque hidden away behind the store-front facades of Cape Town’s southern suburbs, I realise that I’m joining a Muslim worship for the first time. I remember how I had sneaked into the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem ten years earlier just to see the “Dome of the Rock” and to try to comprehend its place within the greater Middle East conflict.

But this time, ten years later, the context is much different.

I’m not entering a holy shrine in the Middle East under false premises, but I’m rather coming here to the depths of Wynberg to share a conversation with a man, who may be described as one of the more controversial figures in Islam – not just in South Africa.

It is not just the sum of his views, which squarely challenge the fastest-growing religion on earth, but it is in fact his entire persona, his credo, his ethos, which almost appear to turn the very concept of Islam on its head: Imam Muhsin Hendricks is one of the few Muslim community leaders in the world, who is outspokenly gay; a man, who dares to swim against the tide in a day and age where several countries and communities around the world still condemn gay men to death on the sole grounds of their sexual orientation.

“I was brought up in a very orthodox home. My grandfather was the imam of a mosque in Cape Town and my mother used to teach in the mosque. I was virtually born in the mosque. It was a very safe environment for me until I became aware of my sexuality,” Hendricks recounts the beginnings of his personal journey, which would later take him across the world as an educator, public speaker and counsellor.

A sheltered upbringing Born and raised in Cape Town, imam Hendricks has lived to enjoy the many freedoms that the South African constitution grants its subjects since the abolition of apartheid. His formative years were spent far away from the kind of political prosecution, which homosexuals in places like Iran or Saudi Arabia may know too well. However, it wasn’t always that way.

“I was hearing my grandfather was preaching from the pulpit that gay people would go to hell, so there was no place of expression for sexuality in my life. So I applied for a scholarship to study Islam in one of the madrassas in Pakistan because I just couldn’t believe that a merciful and compassionate God would reject me for something, which I didn’t even actually choose. So I chose to live in Pakistan for four years at the end of my teens to study to become an imam.”

Love and marriage With that foundation in Islamic studies in Pakistan, you might expect that Hendricks would perhaps have found some of the answers that he had been looking for throughout his life. However, his uneasy journey rather turned out to lead to a major U-turn, which saw him marry a woman despite his acute awareness with regard to his same-sex attraction.

Through the rocky marriage, Hendricks went on to father three children, the oldest of whom is now a mother in her own right.

It all feels a bit overwhelming to believe, as I face a bubbly man who’s hardly even middle-aged sitting across from me, without even have so much as a Jack Russell in my own life.

“I started early. I’m not that old,” Hendricks jokes when he sees my amazement at the details of his illustrious family tree.

“But that’s what the community tells you: you should just get married and then it will all go away. You’re told to fast, and read the Quran, go to a spiritual person to have yourself dejinxed of evil spirits, and then ultimately you’re told to get married to sort out your sexual deviations. And so I got married. But it didn’t even take us a year to realise that we had made a big mistake.”

Muhsin Hendricks gazes at the floor solemnly as he admits to that mistake. At the same moment, I feel overcome with a

wave of my own self-awareness while following his gaze. I realise that I’m finding myself inside a mosque, kneeling on the floor and talking to a religious man about sex in the way that you talk to your car dealer about your servicing plan. As I grow increasingly self-concious about the fact that a small hole in my sock might be exposing my little toe, Hendricks continues with the narrative of his failed marriage.

“We tried to stay together for the sake of the kids. There was no more sexual relationship between us; we were sleeping in separate rooms. And then one night, we both just finally addressed it. We agreed that it was not working and then we separated. I gave her everything that I owned. I told her that she could look after the children. I would come to see them once a week. I missed them very much, but I was just so confused in my head at the time.”

Fasting to reconcile “Then I approached a friend of mine, who was living on a farm, and asked him for a place for me to stay for a few months while I sorted myself out. There was only a horse’s stable that was empty.

So I cleaned it out and slept in there for three months. I had vowed that I was going to fast until God would tell me what was wrong with me – or change me.

And I came out of that 80-day fast as an activist. I guess that’s what God was trying to tell me.”

Hendricks tells me the details of how he came out, how he shared his story with the press while exposing himself to all sorts of abuse in return. But despite some harsh reactions he maintains that it was probably the best thing he could ever have done.

“I was prepared to die for this.

I needed to let the world know that I was an imam, but that I was also gay. I even had a fatwa taken out against me, which means that I was officially taken out if the fold of Islam. But that has only created more interest in my work.

So I’m grateful for that. Some Muslims may want to live like this still is 7th century Arabia, but it’s not. If I can’t be part of their Islam, so be it.

I admit that this was not the reaction that I had expected as his conclusion; listening to the story of a struggling man, who had been torn in his heart for many years, who had fought through

a hopeless marriage and had then suffered attacks by those he had opened himself up to, I’m stunned to hear that he would come to the epiphany that honesty would still remain the best policy in all cases.

“My conviction and my need for authenticity were greater than my fear of death. I would rather want to meet my creator knowing that I didn’t live a false life. Now I live on the peripheries of society. I know that. But I’m not a flamboyant queen running around in my underwear in bright colours. I have a mobile mosque on wheels during Cape Town’s Gay Pride, but that’s as far as I ever really venture into the gay scene.”

It almost sounds as if imam Hendricks didn’t come out so he could be gay, but that he was born with a gay identity so he could benefit from the growth acquired by experiencing a coming out, and to go on to share his story with others around the world, which is exactly where his journey took him to next.

LGBT activist and imam Within a few years of his coming out, Hendricks found himself travelling all over the globe while connecting with other gay and lesbian Muslims and other LGBT individuals, who felt abused at the hands of their religion. Hendricks soon turned into the ultimate poster-boy of a growing underground movement, which does not only address questions of gender and sexuality within Islam but hopes to portray a different face of the religion than the conflict-ridden faith shown on 24-hour news channels.

“I’ve encountered thousands of gay and lesbian Muslim on my journey now. Literally thousands. But I’m not interested in people’s sexuality. Beneath all that, there’s always a soul that’s yearning to understand itself.

And that’s what I’m interested in.

I’ve been through such struggles trying to reconcile my religion with my sexuality. I saw other people who didn’t have such tools to reconcile. So I wanted to provide others with tools to make sure that they don’t get into drugs or commit suicide or lose themselves in any other way.”

With that goal in mind, Muhsin Hendricks went on to establish INNER CIRCLE in 1996; his Cape Town-based community

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and I’m prepared to die for this outreach centre grew into a fully-fledged Not-For-Profit Human Rights Organisation within a matter of a few years, its core values holding a vision of creating “a global Muslim community free from discrimination based on religion, sexual orientation and gender identity.”

Injustice in the name of Islam However, before he even knew it, Hendricks’s says that his mission had become much bigger than simply addressing a matter of sexuality.

“I learned that homosexuality was just the first avenue to address a lot of other injustice committed in the name of Islam.

And now you’d be amazed at the amount of straight people that are attracted to our organisation.

So I realised that I’d taken on something big. I’ve taken on the patriarchy that sits behind Islam.

It’s not easy, and it requires a good amount of faith to do that work. But thankfully, I am in the business of faith.”

It may appear like a slippery slope to straight-forward queer activism when it is faith itself that had led Hendricks to fight for his convictions in the first place, but the prolific religious leader asserts that his approach is all about scholarly foundations and academic research when it comes to justifying his cause and defending his religion, without ever ignoring the importance and the impact of his ministry.

“We’ve even had people come to INNER CIRCLE who became Muslim only after coming here.

We don’t teach that Islam is a club with rules. We teach humanity. The prophet himself simply taught a spiritual system. I don’t think he intended for Islam to become organised in the way it is now. Islam has become an elite club around the world – one with membership reserved for the traditional patriarchy only.

INNER CIRCLE, on the other hand, challenges that view, and even threatens it. For if gender becomes fluid, where does the patriarchy ground itself?

While bending traditional gender images, imam Hendricks has performed nine same-sex marriages in total since finding his spiritual calling in life, complete with traditional Islamic ceremonies. His own marriage to a man of Indian descent was also sanctified as a “nikkah” – a marriage in Islam – while certain cross-cultural elements were brought in to ensure that his Hindu husband also got

his traditions honoured at the interfaith ceremony.

“We’ve been married for three years now, together for eight years. That is longer than most straight relationship I’ve encountered in many places.”

Sodom and Gomorrah Despite the fact that Hendricks stands out as unusual voice within South Africa’s Muslim community, he is not alone in the battle against the shackles of patriarchy in Islam.

There are a number of further noteworthy gay imams in the world, such as in Washington, in Rotterdam, and in Paris, he tells me. Hendricks adds that there are many other religious leaders in Islam, who remain in the closet about their sexuality. He asserts that he empathises with their journeys, but that Islam itself demands authenticity.

“In Islam, your character should be the Quran. But the Quran is not against homosexuality. Even scholars have begun to agree on that nowadays. All they can say is that it is a sin but not a crime. Yet nothing about homosexuality is mentioned in the Quran.

“You have the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, which if you study properly is about prostitution, molestation, rape and other such instances. It’s not about gay people. The Quran is not obsessed with gays in the way that some of these imams seem to be obsessed with gays.

“In fact, what is mentioned in other sources is that even the Prophet himself had men working for him in his household, who had no interest in women whatsoever.

So our existence is acknowledged and even supported by the sayings of the Prophet. If the Prophet can have a gay servant, it means that he gives his blessing to that sexuality.”

Hendricks also mentions that Islam has a much-ignored history of homosexuality.

Role model “If you want to look for role models, you don’t have to look far. Abu Nawas wrote homoerotic poetry, Rumi was clearly in love with chums, and Shah Hussain in India was very much distracted by the Punjabi boys. We have our queer role models within the tradition of Islam, and one day I hope to be one too.”

Whatever the future may hold for imam Muhsin Hendricks, it is clear he has long moved on from the days of being a closeted man, hiding away from the world behind a sham marriage, and has come to create a modern reality,

| ”I’ve encountered thousands of gay and lesbian Muslim on my journey now. Literally thousands. But I’m not interested in people’s sexuality. Beneath all that, there’s always a soul that’s yearning to understand itself. And that’s what I’m interested in”

which not only works for him but also inspires those, who come to him for guidance.

His attempt to bridge the understanding between gay Muslims and their communities has become a global spiritual network – a family -which is aware of its rightful place within

their faith. And for that alone, he deserves being called a modernday role model for Muslims the world over.

“You can say that I lead a very modern life. My husband is Hindu. But he doesn’t practise.

Well, I actually think that he’s a closeted Muslim.

“We’ve been married for three years now. I have four beautiful children, and I worship God everyday. What more can you ask for?”

It would appear that for Hendricks, the story of his personal growth and of INNER CIRCLE have come full circle.

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Hard-hitting novel by former SADF conscript exposes dark side of military | Kill Yourself & Count to 10, based on the real apartheid-era camp Greefswald, is a gripping new novel by the London-based South African writer Gordon Torr. We spoke to him about how his personal experiences in the SADF inspired the book By karen de villiers They’re psychopaths, violent offenders, drug addicts, sexual deviants and social misfits. And these are the good guys. In the notorious military camp known as The Vault, they are considered unfit to wear the South African Defence Force uniform. As part of a brutal rehabilitation programme they become the experimental toys of a rogue psychiatrist. Into this macabre world conscript Lloyd Norton wanders innocently due to a clerical error. He will never be the same again.

This newly published novel by Gordon Torr, based on the real apartheid-era camp Greefswald, not only rips open an all but forgotten chapter in a chilling history, but also tells a gripping rite-of-passage story.

Gordon is a former journalist, mission school teacher and advertising copywriter. He curated the voter education campaign that preceded South Africa’s first democratic election. His advertising career took him from Johannesburg to Mexico City and finally to London, where he was appointed Global Creative Director of JWT, the multinational advertising agency. He lives in Wimbledon with his wife and three children.

After reading Kill Yourself & Count to 10, Karen de Villiers asked Gordon some burning questions:

Kill Yourself & Count to 10 is obviously a personal account of a very dark time in your life. Why has it taken so long to write and how do you feel about completing it now?

Everyone was brutalised by apartheid, the oppressed as well as the oppressors, but you couldn’t have said that twenty or thirty years ago without sounding like an apologist for the regime. Nor could you have written about that other apartheid, most keenly felt in the South African Defence Force, between the Afrikaner power structure and the feckless wishywashy liberal English speaking conscripts they needed to make up the white-skinned numbers but treated with vicious contempt.

Now things have changed, and stories like mine can be received and understood not as the kind of polarising polemic that characterised most South African writing in the last three decades of the 20th century, but with the grace of historical perspective, for what they are, windows on a time and place that was what it was, for better or (mostly) worse.

So it feels good, not only to have written it at last, but to have been able to write it; I mean “good” in the sense of relief, the way it feels good when you finally get to vomit up that acidic bolus you haven’t been able to digest.

How has the book been received so far? Have you connected with others who endured the same experience and how do you think it could impact on the literary world?

Who would you say your main audience would be?

So far? Disbelief, anger, nausea, horror, dismay, outraged indignation and a kind of hilariously dark fascination – it pretty much depends on how much you know about me, or about the experiences of friends or family who went through the system during those dark years.

Time will tell if it has any merit beyond its personal or historical revelations. As for the audience, I can only paraphrase Cesar Cruz in saying that I hope it disturbs the comfortable and comforts the disturbed.

You mention Dr Aubrey Levin and his ‘experiments’ throughout the book but fall short of relating a direct experience with any of the characters in the book. i.e. the ‘shock treatment’ and other methods he employed.

Thoughts on this?

For two reasons, the first being the legal aspect. Levin is notoriously litigious. He has a history of successfully silencing press and online journalists who have attempted to expose his SA crimes.

He even managed to have his named removed from the meticulously researched Aversion Project.

(See www.mrc.ac.za/ healthsystems/aversion.pdf and http://archive.samj.org.za) Even though Dr Levin is now behind bars in a Canadian prison, many of his SA victims are still too afraid (or sometimes just too ashamed) to speak out. So I had to take scrupulous care to stick to the facts of my limited experience at his hands, or to information provided directly to me by sources I knew and trusted.

The second reason is that he himself (as the Canadian trial has revealed) took good care to limit his abuse to one-on-one sessions behind closed doors, hence the lack of witnesses and the paucity of hard evidence. In this sense he was, as I tried to express in the novel, less of an immediate physical threat than a kind of baleful spirit supervising his perverse experiments in the safe and distant background.

Greefswald is the factual truth, just as I describe it. What happened to him afterwards remains a mystery.

What else lies in store for Gordon Torr?

If the question is whether I have other stories in me that I feel equally passionate about telling, the answer is yes. The reception of Kill Yourself will determine whether there are people out there who want to hear them.

How to get hold of the book: South Africa: Paperback copies in most bookstores, or on Kalahari. com; UK: As an ebook from Foyles

Why did you choose this title for the book, based on the song sung by Johnny Hayes?

Even if he appears only for a few pages, Johnny Hayes is the real hero of Kill Yourself. We know he was a flesh and blood person, that his real name was Johnny Hayes, and that what he did when he arrived and what happened to him in

I vote for George Clooney any day

| It is not sport when tabloids sell misguided, deliberate gossipporn: when innocents are aligned for the ever wanted buck. Let’s face it though, we thrive on the misfortune of others and celebrities are the ‘unreal’ we like to idolise and criticise at the same time

The Optimist Karen de Villiers

You go George Clooney. You have my vote. Had it some time ago, thanks to the looks, the flair, the ’30s Hollywood pin up attitude, but of late, you have my vote for calling it for what it is, and taking on The Daily Mail.

Oh gullible one, moi, is a secret slave to the tabloid that

is the gossip pool of the world.

And I sucked it all up, awash with the human condition that is the celebrity falling into a taxi, crying in some war torn country, or just looking plain Botox/ Photoshop skeletal at Cannes.

Till good old George rang the bell of reason. Not true, not acceptable, not swallowing the apology. The man is taking a stand.

Some little drone in the office must be sweating. That same little drone who is paid to fabricate the threads of a possible story and turn it into a ‘news’ item. Which we buy into willingly. Only this little episode got me thinking… which I do sometimes (think,

that is) are we really so desperate to read about celebrity that we believe blindly? How much of what we read is even a smattering of the truth, and why do we do it?

Gossip columns aside, we have become experts at tapping into the latest update; we know in a second what is going on in the world. Social media is a good thing is that sense, allowing oppressed to tell their story where media is banned, even though I could have done without some of the graphics. Like Gaddafi dying for instance, haunting to say the least. I am a big fan of the freedom of speech, for transparency and truth. And

then getting back to the gossip channel, I do wonder at the feeding of the monster syndrome.

You see, this hypocrite likes to proclaim that those seeking fame should suck it up, deaf to the ‘I am a victim’ of the media when it actually happens. Come on, did I tell you to buy a monkey or twerk that little behind for some extra publicity? Want to wear meat, you deal with it sister! Don’t come running to me Lindsay Lohan when the going gets tough, your antics break the boredom of my day.

Yet there is the fine line. A lie is a lie. It is not sport when tabloids sell misguided, deliberate

gossipporn. When innocents are aligned for the ever wanted buck.

Let’s face it though, we thrive on the misfortune of others and celebrities are the ‘unreal’ we like to idolise and criticise at the same time. Human nature I’m afraid.

Maybe I just love this story because George defended his future mother-in-law. Sweet.

He may be prepared to take the knocks of fame, but draws the line at others in his sphere, cast into the limelight without seeking it. Perhaps because he can take on the giants of media and tell them to get stuffed when others cannot.

Who knows, but in this instance, I vote for George.

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Botswana’s Defence, Justice and Security minister Ramadeluka Seretse has assessed the political climate in Zimbabwe to be safe enough for the refugees to be repatriated to their homeland but didn’t share any details with regard to the process that would be involved in the suggested mass return.

The news comes as South Africa is stepping up its own border controls and clamping down on Zimbabwean immigration with a new set of visa rules.

Under the new guidelines, Zimbabweans would have to return home to extend their visas, which can take several months to process.

In most cases they would likely lose their jobs while waiting for the Department of Home Affairs to process their renewals, which would make their right to return to SA as immigrants null and void.

There are at least 200,000 Zimbabwean immigrants in SA, who were mostly given special four-year permits in 2010. With those permits set to expire by the end of 2014, South Africa is now trying to gain the upper hand on its immigration situation despite the fact that the Zimbabwean government had signalled its willingness to cooperate with SA authorities last month in a bid to extend the visas in question.

With Zimbabwe facing economic difficulty on a grand scale and with an unemployment rate close to 80 percent, President Robert Mugabe appears to be keen to hand over responsibility for the sustenance and safeguarding of his citizens. But many Zimbabweans are also reported to be reluctant to return home, with millions having found new lives and homes in the diaspora.

This crackdown on immigration comes as part of a greater

immigration reform in South Africa, which has seen migrants from all over the world suffer setbacks, amid stale progress for existing visa applications.

An unprecedented number of immigrants to South Africa had filed an application at the Western Cape High Court to set the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) into motion to process long overdue residence and work permits, which have faced extreme delays due to the introduction and adoption of these new immigration guidelines.

More than 900 applicants have reported dissatisfaction with their processes, saying that the new immigration laws introduced overnight at the beginning of May have practically halted their applications.

While Zimbabwean application would still handled as “special cases” by the Department of Home Affairs, all other nationalities will in future be deferred to a private company by the name of VFS dealing with immigration applications. Despite facing some criticism for turning to the private sector, it is expected that the Department of Home Affairs might speed up application procedures for all with its new set of guidelines. It has long been known as the most underperforming government department in SA, with projected timelines for applications often exceeding their deadlines by several fold.

Other changes introduced by the Department of Home Affairs recently, which might affect Zimbabweans in SA, include an automatic five to ten-year ban applied to those, who outstay their visas, as well as travel restrictions for those travelling with children, who in the future will have to prove consent from all parents or caregivers involved that the child is allowed to travel, in addition to producing birth certificates upon arrival at a South African point of entry.

Most immigrants to South Africa are reported to come from Zimbabwe, with roughly a quarter of all applications for visas and permits coming SA’s neighbour to the north. These statistics do not take asylum seekers and illegal immigrants into account.

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| Financial wellness is something that can be gained, not overnight but through a process. This process can be taught, it can be learnt but most of all there are people to help you along the way. Money should not be a taboo subject but rather one of learning, gaining and succeeding

By Ross Goodwin Do you know of someone who has had a personal trainer or someone help them with a diet plan? There are many people who have a life coach, a business mentor or refer to their antenatal classes as a coaching session. These are all matters where people have an idea about the topic but could be better at it. They want to get better to improve an aspect about their life.

The same thought process can be attributed to money. We all use it, everyone needs it but not everyone has the confidence to take control of it. Financial wellness is a term that is sometimes bounced around investment seminars or with your

financial advisor, but what does it actually mean and how can you achieve it in your life? To get to that point we need to put the building blocks in place, it is one thing learning by trial and error, but what if we didn’t have to, what if we could give ourselves the best possible chance to gain our financial independence.

As a money coach, I come across a wide variety of people and it doesn’t matter who you are or where you are in your life journey, understanding your money and making sure you are giving yourself the best chance of maximising your income is something that is priceless. It is

not going to happen overnight and it is a process, but by being your own master of money gives you choices. Having the ability to choose is an amazing gift in life and when those choices are not dictated by your financial restrictions the freedom they give is soul enlightening. Remember that even if you think you are good at managing your money you can always be better – ask a fitness buff if they are ever satisfied and you’ll find they are always striving for another level.

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Minimum requirements for spouse and partner visas | Unfortunately the Court of Appeal, in a unanimous determination, allowed the Secretary of States appeal and held that the Immigration Rules concerning the financial requirements for spouse visas were lawful

by JP breytenbach On Friday 11 July 2014, the Court of Appeal finally released the determination in the case of MM v Secretary of State’s for the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ 985.

Unfortunately the Court of Appeal, in a unanimous determination, allowed the Secretary of States appeal and held that the Immigration Rules concerning the financial requirements for spouse visas were lawful.

Following advice from the Migrant Advisory Committee, an independent body, the government on 9 July 2012 introduced a minimum income requirement at £18,600 for sponsoring a spouse partner, rising to £22,400 for also sponsoring a child and an additional £2,400 for each further child.

The Court of Appeal held that the requirements had as their legitimate aim the reduction of the expense on the public purse and an enhanced prospect of integration within British society.

Therefore, although it was

common ground that the financial requirements were an interference with human rights, the Court held that the interference was a proportionate one, given the legitimate aims, and that the figures required were rationally connected to those aims.

The Court further held that the prohibition on inter alia third party support and reliance on the spouse or partner’s potential earnings were rational and connected.

There was an obvious reluctance by the Court to interfere with and substitute its own view what it perceived to be well-researched and thought out provisions.

Members of the Migrant Advisory Committee, who were tasked by the Government to determine what income level a family would need to have no recourse to public funds and upon which the figures are based, have stated that their brief was unconnected to the setting of a minimum income threshold.

The Home Office have now stated that from 28th July 2014, the 4,000 applications currently on hold pending the

determination of this appeal will now receive a decision (be refused).

Permission to appeal to the Supreme Court will be sought but there will be another long wait of many months for all those affected by the decision.

For families desperate to an alternative solution, there is the so-called ‘Surinder Singh’ route.

For more information on this please contact a BIC consultant for more information.

JP Breytenbach Director of BIC, Breytenbachs Immigration Consultants Limited For more information please contact BIC at info@bicimmigration.com or visit our website atbic-immigration.com

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Proteas’ post-Smith era begins in style | The Proteas recorded a memorable win in the first of two Tests against Sri Lanka but news of ball tampering leaves a sour taste in the mouth by jeremy bortz Continuing from their historic one-day international series win, the Proteas convincingly won the first Test in the southern coastal city of Galle by 153 runs. Set an unlikely but not impossible 370 to win in 122 overs, the hosts looked in with a big shout at stumps on day four on 110 for one and many were questioning Hashim Amla’s declaration.

But spearhead Dale Steyn, who picked up five wickets to end with figures of 9/99 – the best figures by a fast bowler in Galle, and Morne Morkel, who ended with

four wickets in the second innings, effectively ended the contest inside the first 20 overs on the fifth morning as the hosts lost five wickets.

The ‘post-Smith’ era could not have begun any better and new captain Amla will be a very satisfied man after the Proteas won only their third ever Test on the island, and their first since 2000.

Unfortunately, though, the taste in one’s month is not all sweet given the news that Vernon Philander was fined 75 percent of his match fee for tampering with the ball. The Proteas claimed they had done nothing wrong but rather

than fight the charge and risk more severe sanctions, they accepted the Match Referee’s decision.

Philander is the second Proteas player to be fined for this offence in nine months after Faf du Plessis was fined 50 percent of his match fee in the series against Pakistan in October. In both instances, no further action was taken by the ICC and the incidents seem to have almost been swept aside quite quickly.

The Proteas have claimed that all teams do it to some degree but that is absolutely no excuse and it needs to end immediately. The Proteas do not want people to start

questioning their phenomenal success over the past two years.

Already I have read that a few people are (privately) starting to question the incredible reverse swing Steyn is able to get with the old ball (to get reverse swing requires the ball to be as clean as possible on one side and as scuffed up and dirty on the other) and these murmurs and mutterings will only increase in light of this latest incident.

Once your reputation has been tarnished and your credibility questioned, there is simply no way back. Those stains remain forever, blighting not only current success

but that achieved previously too.

The Proteas must continue to let their cricket do the talking and this simply cannot happen again.

The second Test starts in the capital Colombo on the 24th and should the Proteas win this second and final Test, they will reclaim top spot in the ICC Test rankings, Furthermore, it would put to bed the memories of 2006, which was the last away series the Proteas lost. Frustratingly, the Proteas play very little Test cricket in the coming 12 months thus any momentum will be lost but for now, let’s live in the present and savour a wonderful win.

Who are our gold medal hopes for the Commonwealth Games?

Continued from page 16 part of the silver medal-winning medal relay quartet. Both went on to win Olympic gold medals in London in the 200m butterfly and 100m breaststroke respectively.

Le Clos is a better swimmer than he was four years ago, while Van der Burgh remains the world’s leading breaststroke swimmer.

They both face tough opposition, as swimming is a particular strength among a number of Commonwealth countries, but should be able to add to their impressive medals collections.

Legitimate threat Someone who has emerged as a legitimate medal threat since Delhi is distance swimmer Myles Brown, who will contest the 400m and 1 500m, as well as the 200m freestyle relay. He has proved his ability time and again on the Fina World Cup circuit and during 2013 he smashed Ryk Neethling’s South African record for the 1500m by almost three seconds. However, it is in the 400m where he believes he has the best chance of success.

Recently, on the Mare Nostrum

circuit in Europe, Brown won gold over the 200m, 400m and 800m distances, picking up seven medals, six of them gold, in Monaco, Canet and Barcelona. His sole silver was in the 1 500m.

While not identifying potential medal-winning performances from Karin Prinsloo, Hill said: “Karen started what has been a great year well in in Australia [at the BHP Billiton Aquatic Series in Perth].

She has got better and better and she has had a great summer in Europe now and she’s ready to go.”

South African lawn bowlers stood out in Delhi, winning three gold medals in the women’s and men’s triples and the men’s pairs.

Included in the line-up this time around are Gerry Baker, who won gold in the pairs with Shaun Addinall, and the trips gold medal winning team of Tracy-Lee Botha, Susan Nel and Susanna Steyn.

Women’s javelin While a number of South African men will be eyeing medals in track and field competition, javelin thrower Sunette Viljoen will be aiming the first woman in the history of the Commonwealth

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Games to win three gold medals in succession. England’s Tessa Sanderson has three gold medals to her name, but they came in four Games: 1978, 1986 and 1990.

To win gold again, though, Viljoen will have to see off the challenge of Australia’s Kimberley Mickle, who with a throw of 66.83 metres has the second best mark of 2014 in the world. Viljoen’s best so far is 64.77, which also trails another Australian, Kathryn Mitchell, who has twice bettered the South African star’s mark.

The performance of 100m sprinter Simon Magakwe will be one to watch. He became the first South African to break the 10-second barrier in April, but up against a wave of outstanding Jamaican speedsters a medal would be a huge bonus for the South African champion.

The country looked a good bet for a 4 x 100m relay medal, but the withdrawal of Anaso Jobodwana, a 200m finalist at the London Olympic Games, has undermined the team’s prospects. Jobodwana said he was not in form after undergoing hernia surgery earlier in the year.

400m star An interesting medal prospect is 400m runner Wayde van Niekerk, who smashed the South African record in New York City at the beginning of June, clocking a time of 44.38.

Three Commonwealth Games’ athletes are ranked above him, world leader Kirani James of Grenada (43.74), Isaac Makwala of Botswana (44.01) and Deon Lendore of Trinidad and Tobago (44.36). James should rightfully be regarded as the gold medal favourite, but a medal of another colour is a definitely possibility for Van Niekerk.

Cornel Fredericks owns the

second fastest time over the 400m hurdles among Commonwealth Games’ athletes his year, having stopped the clocks after 48.58 seconds in June, just one-tenth of a second slower than Jamaican Roxroy Cato’s best. Fredericks is a medal contender and LJ van Zyl, a gold medal winner in Melbourne in 2006 and a silver medallist in Delhi in 2010, is another possible medallist.

Middle distance prospects South Africa boasts outstanding middle distance competitors in Andre Olivier (800m) and Johan Cronje (1500m), but the problem they have is dealing with the strength of African middle distance running.

Olivier showed his form to be good by finishing in second place over the two-lap race at the most recent Diamond League meeting this past weekend in Glasgow.

However, he was well behind Kenyan world record holder David Rudisha, who, when he is on song, is in a different league to any other runner on the planet.

Cronje, who surprised by winning a bronze medal at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow, is also in good form.

He finished fourth in the Diamond League meeting in 3:34.97, a decent time against strong competition, but Kenya’s Silas Kipligat, who won the event was more than two seconds clear of the South African.

Top triathlete Someone to keep an eye on is triathlete Richard Murray. He has been a star performer on the ITU World Triathlon Series, but in order to medal faces a double challenge from the outstanding Brownlee twins, Alistair and Jonathan, among others.

Alistair won the ITU World

Series event in Hamburg on the weekend, but is ranked below Murray in the world rankings, in eighth place, with the South African in fourth place, while Jonathan occupies second place.

The Brownlees, though, are the men to beat with Alistair having won the London Olympics and Jonathan having claimed the bronze medal.

Cycling Like the triathlon, cycling is a sport that is a strength of Commonwealth countries. South Africa has some outstanding talent, but would do well to claim a cycling medal. Perhaps the best medal prospect is track star Nolan Hoffman, who won silver in 2012 in the scratch race at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne.

Bernard Esterhuizen, who won the 1km time trial at the UCI Junior World Championships in Italy in 2010, is an intriguing talent. In recent times he has shone while competing in the USA, and in sprint events anything is possible.

Sevens rugby With Rio de Janeiro set to feature rugby at the Olympic Games for the first time in 2016, the competition in Glasgow takes on more significance than in the past.

The Blitzbokke should be in the hunt for a medal after finishing second on the the 2013/14 HSBC Sevens World Series. They lost some form towards the end of the Series as injuries took their toll, but the break between the last tournament in London in early May and the start of the Commonwealth Games should have done the team a world of good. At their best, they should battle it out with New Zealand for the gold medal.

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WHO ARE TEAM SOUTH AFRICA’S GOLDEN HOPES?

| South Africa has set a target of at least 15 gold medals and fifth place overall in the Commonwealth Games, which starts on Wednesday in Glasgow. We take a look at some of the athletes with the best chances of winning medals

By Brad Morgan Team South Africa arrived in Glasgow last week and has been settling in to the athletes village in Dalmarnock, on the east side of the Scottish city in preparation for the Commonwealth Games, which starts on Wednesday.

The team is aiming for at least 40 medals across 15 different sporting codes as they take on their Commonwealth counterparts from 70 countries.

SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) president Gideon Sam, interviewed at a Johannesburg send-off for the athletes last week, said: “We have set our target for 40 medals, and out of those 40 we want at least 15 gold, which would give us a very good position of around fifth on the

medal table, and that’s what it is all about.

“You can have all the medals, but if you don’t have gold medals you just don’t feature on the medal table,” Sam said.

‘Swimming is in good form’ Questioned about which sports he expected the medals to come from, Sam said: “Swimming is in good form, and I am looking at lawn bowls. I am looking at wrestling, our wrestlers did well in the last Commonwealth Games in India. We are overdue in boxing. We are overdue in weightlifting, so, yes, we believe that there is enough spread [of medals], anchored by swimming.”

He was a little less buoyant about the prospects of track and field athletes, given the

administrative problems that have haunted the sport in South Africa in recent times. “I am a bit reluctant to say that athletics will also contribute, but I know that the athletes will give us their best.

“What we need to do with athletics is to take the athletes from the Commonwealth Games and prepare them 120 percent for the Olympics, because what we really need to do is to have those two – swimming and athletics – anchoring the rest of the team,” Sam reckoned.

Potential swimming medallists Graham Hill, who was head coach of the South African swimming team in London, and who coaches golden boy Chad le Clos, identified some of the

potential medallists from among the team, saying: “The swimmers have had some good results in the past and we have Cameron van der Burgh up there with two events, we have Roland Schoeman in two events, we’ve got Chad le Clos in six events, we’ve got Sebastian Rosseau, Dylan Bosch, all highly ranked, Karin Prinsloo is a medal hope in the freestyle events, so we’re looking pretty good.

Le Clos is facing a stiff challenge, as Hill explained: “He’s taken on a big programme.

He’s in six individual events and three relays, so its nine races.

It’s a tough programme. It’s something no one has attempted before, so it’s going to be great, and we’re testing it on the road to Rio.”

Pushed to offer up how he thinks the swimmers could do, Hill said: “I would really be happy if we could come home with nine or 10 medals.”

In last Games in Delhi in 2010, the swimming team fared well, winning seven of the team’s 12 gold medals, along with four silver and five bronze medals.

The big guns in the team are undoubtedly Le Clos and Van der Burgh.

Le Clos won the 200m butterfly and 400m individual medley at the 2010 Games, added a silver in the 4 x 100m medley relay, and bronze medal in the 4 x 100m and 4 x 200m freestyle. Van der Burgh did the double in the 100m and 200m breaststroke and was

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