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Looters in Spine Road behind Pavilion Mall in Durban. • See page 2 / G a l l o I m a g e s S t e w a r t )
• Judge Raymond Zondo’s house was a target•• Former radio presenter and KZN mayor also fingered •
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Zuma to attend brother’s funeral
Jub Jub gets a lashing
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By Ngwako Malatji, George Matlala andSandile Motha
High-ranking members of the ANC’s national executive committ ee, a former mayor in KwaZulu-Natal, a Mpumalanga ANC leader and a former radio presenter are among those named as suspected instigators of the violence that swept through KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
Sunday World has seen an unrest report circulating among ANC and government leaders that forms part of the South African Police Service (SAPS) investigation into the large-scale looting of malls and burning of factories, during what has been described as the country’s worst unrest which has left over 200 people dead and the destruction of property running into billions of rand.
According to the report, a plan was hatched on July 4 in KwaZulu-Natal to render the country ungovernable as part of a campaign to force the government to free former president Jacob Zuma, who is serving a 15-month jail term at Estcourt Correctional Centre for contempt of court.
A high-ranking ANC leader is said to have given instructions to his supporters to burn all trucks on the N2, N3 and other major regional roads “to block all roads leading to the Durban and Richard’s Bay harbour; to loot all shopping malls
and warehouses and to use lethal force when fi red upon by the armed forces”.
The house of Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, whose legal action led to Zuma’s arrest, was also a
target, along with the blocking of all roads
leading to Estcourt Correctional
Services facility.
The mobs were also instructed to “bring all
economic activity in
KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng to a
halt” and “agitate the unemployed, street kids, criminals and thugs” to render the
country ungovernable until the leader becomes president of the country.
The status of the report appears to be under scrutiny. A female cabinet minister has denounced it as the work of information peddlers while her cabinet counterpart
said the report was serious enough not to be dismissed.
On Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa said it was clear that the events of the past week were nothing less than a deliberate, coordinated and well-planned att ack on the country’s democracy.
“The constitutional order of our country is under threat. The current instability and ongoing incitement of violence constitutes a direct contravention of the constitution and the rule of law. These actions are intended to cripple the economy, cause social instability and severely weaken – or even dislodge – the democratic state,” he said.
According to preliminary reports compiled by the national joint operational and intelligence structure, extensive damage was caused to 161 malls and shopping
centres, 11 warehouses, eight factories and 161 liquor outlets and distributors.
Over 2 550 people have been arrested in connection with the unrest, while 212 people died.
Ramaphosa further said that the chaos was used as a smokescreen to carry out economic sabotage. He conceded that the government had been poorly prepared and did not have the capabilities and plans in place to act swift ly and decisively.
A source in the security cluster said police were targeting elements in the taxi industry and hostel dwellers in their crackdown on those behind the unrest.
Divisions in the country’s security apparatus emanating from the ANC factional batt les, lack of timeous intelligence and deployment
of law-enforcement agencies were some of the issues blamed on the poor response to the unrest, sources inside government and the ANC said.
Sunday World understands that the future of Police Minister Bheki Cele, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo and bureaucrats in the security establishment hang in the balance, with Ramaphosa under pressure from inside and outside the ANC to use a reshuffl e to clean up the armed forces.
“The truth is that some of the people in the ANC and in the state are behind this.
“Very soon it will become clear. The president must act on some of the ministers in the security cluster,” said a source close to Ramaphosa.
Another senior SAPS crime intelligence offi cial blamed the failure to deal with the violence eff ectively on the divisions in the security forces.
“We have a divided government. People opposed
to the president have their own agendas,”
he said.Dr Johan
Burger, a senior researcher and consultant in the justice and violence programme at
the Institute for Security Studies,
said the recent spate of looting during
which the police were outnumbered by the protesters should serve as a wake-up call for the government
and the police management not to rest on their laurels.
“ Since the serial crises of top management were fi rst identifi ed by the National Planning Commission in 2012, many functions of the SAPS have deteriorated,” he said.
NEC members named as plottersPlan hatched to make SA ungovernable
President Cyril Ramaphosa confirms that the looting and violence was coordinated. / G C I S
The president conceded that government had been poor-ly prepared
Looters at Chris Hani Mall in Vosloorus.
Looters fill truck with furniture in Springfield, Durban.
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18 July 2021 Sunday World4 Politics
By George Matlala and Sandile Motha
The security forces, who have come under fire for the poor handling of the country’s worst unrest since the end of apartheid, are facing an- other headache – former presi-dent Jacob Zuma’s attendance of his younger brother’s funeral.Sunday World can reveal that the justice crime prevention se-curity cluster is scrambling to put together a plan to ensure that the funeral of Michael Zuma does not become a battle-ground for a bloody confronta-tion between law-enforcement officers and the supporters of the former statesman.There are concerns that Zuma’s supporters could form a human shield such as the one they erect-ed outside his homestead before he handed himself over to the police last Tuesday.Sunday World also understands that the family, through Zuma’s lawyers, have lodged an urgent application to have Zuma re-leased to attend the funeral.“The funeral will be held some-
time this week and we hope by then my brother will have been granted permission to attend the funeral. He is the remain-ing elder and the deceased is his blood,” said family spokesperson Khanya Zuma.Khanya would not be drawn on whether the delay in burying Michael was related to efforts to ensure that Msholozi attends the funeral. “You should under-stand that generally in African culture funeral arrangements take time. For instance, family elders and relatives who stay in other provinces need to be no-tified. But the main problem for the delay was that his wife asked for the postponement be-cause she is not in good health.” Michael died last Sunday after battling a long illness. He served as family spokesperson during Zuma’s tenure as president.Correctional Services spokesper-son Singabakho Nxumalo said they were still waiting for Zu-ma’s application. “Compassion-ate leave for inmates is dealt with in line with Section 44 (1)(a) of the Correctional Services Act. Once an application is received from Mr Jacob Zuma, it will then be processed accordingly,” he said. “There are a number of variables that are considered before a fi-nal decision is taken. There must be a security plan in place each
time an inmate has to temporar-ily leave a correctional facility.” But two independent sources in govenment said Correction-al Services National Commis-ioner Arthur Fraser had already approved Zuma’s attendance of
the funeral.Meanwhile, Zuma supporters who have organised themselves under the campaign #Free- ZumaNow say they will not back down on their demands that Zu-ma be released.
“We cannot give up now, we are fighting against the polit-ical prosecution of Zuma. We will not rest until he is set free,” said Nkosentsha Shezi, a former ANCYL leader and staunch Zuma supporter.
Security cluster in a quandary over funeral of Zuma’s brother MichaelFormer president’s attendance could lead to conflict
President Jacob Zuma and his brother Michael, who will be buried next week. The former president’s family has asked that he attend the funeral. / G a l l o I m a g e s
Racial tensions in Phoenix claim teenager About 20 black people killed by vigilante groups
By Sandile Motha
The life of teenage Sanele Mngomezulu was this week cruely snatched in what ap-peared to be a racially moti-vated attack in Phoenix.
Mngomezulu from Terence Park in Phoenix was on his way home when he was al-legedly fired on with a hail of bullets by vigilantes before his body was set alight and dumped in a veld.
About 20 people were re-portedly killed in the racial tensions, which were appar-ently sparked by the looting of shops in Phoenix and the sur-rounding areas. The residents of the area mainly of Indian’s mobilised and formed vigilante groupings, which allegedly at-tacked and killed blacks.
The mass killings became known as the “Phoenix mas-sacre”, with social media users condemning what is believed to have been racially motivat-ed murders. Those who were killed were apparently accused by the vigilantes, who were
armed to the teeth, of looting their businesses.
The residents subsequent-ly set up civilian roadblocks preventing blacks from access-ing their neighbourhood. Vehi-
cles and property belonging to the black residents in the area were also torched in retaliation.
Police Minister Bheki Cele, though conceding that the looting had created breeding
ground for racial tensions, said police were considering the murders as normal acts of criminality in the province.
The severity of the tensions have also prompted AmaZulu king in waiting MisuZulu ka-Zwelithini to call for restraint, fearing the resurgence of the 1949 violent confrontations between Indians and Ama-Zulus in the province, which claimed almost 150 lives.
Now that the dust has be-gun to settle and businesses are picking up the pieces in the aftermath of mass-scale de-struction and looting of shops in KwaZulu-Natal, the next challenge facing the govern-ment is confronting the racial tensions in the province.
Xolani Dube, political analyst and senior researcher at Xu-bera Research Institute, said the racial tensions if not dealt with head-on had the potential to ignite a civil war.
“The recent killings of black people in the Phoenix area al-legedly by people of Indian de-scent should concern the au-thorities. There is a general feeling among the black com-munity that they are under siege from white and Indian communities. They accuse the racial groupings of ganging up
against black South Africans. This is a recipe for disaster.”
He said the government’s wishy-washy approach on the deliberate economic marginal-isation of poor black Africans was exacerbating the hostile racial relations.
“For instance, in Durban there is no desire from the government to admit that the Indian community has for more than three decades domi-nated the critical economic sec-tor in the province and that there was a desperate need for redress,” said Dube.
Mary de Haas, a violence monitor and researcher, point-ed to the lack of police intelli-gence on the ground.
“Police intelligence servic-es should have identified the threats well in advance but they failed dismally. The recent incidents of violence and loot-ing also showed how vulnera-ble we are as a country, and as citizens,” said De Haas.
The next chal-lenge facing government is confronting racial tensions
Sanele Mngomezulu was killed in Phoenix this week. /S U P P L I E D
Sunday World 18 July 2021 Politics 5
By George Matlala
South Africans have a reason to feel let down by the govern-ment’s handling of the coun-try’s worst unrest, which swept across Gauteng and KwaZu-lu-Natal, leaving over 200 peo-ple dead and a trail of property destruction running into bil-lions of rand, admits State Se-curity Minister Ayanda Dlodlo.
In an interview with Sunday World yesterday, Dlodlo said the rapid spread of the violence had made it difficult for the gov-ernment to contain the looting of malls and burning of facto-ries, among other acts of crime committed by mobs this week.
Dlodlo said that what had started as a campaign to free jailed former president Jacob Zuma had morphed into some-thing unprecedented.
“We knew in our analysis that at some point some of the issues that were happening at the state capture commission … [and] Constitutional Court would cause some ructions of some sort and we forewarned about those ructions,” she said.
“The scale and the rapid movement of what happened made it a little bit difficult for us to really capture it as things were moving. We have dealt with protests before but we have not dealt with large-scale organ-ised looting,” she said.
On Friday, President Cyr-il Ramaphosa said that the destruction of property and theft of goods had cost business-es, consumers and the country billions of rand.
The national joint opera-tional and intelligence struc-ture recorded more than 118 incidents of public violence, arson, looting and other unrest-related events.
Ramaphosa said the govern-ment had been poorly prepared for the unrest and did not have the
capabilities and plans in place to act swiftly and decisively.
Dlodlo said constant en-gagements between security forces and society would high-light what the government did to avert some other actions of sabotage that were planned by the instigators of the violence.
“I must say that South Afri-cans are well within their rights to be feeling let down the way
they do. But I also want us to take South Africans along with us so that they understand what is put in place in terms of intelligence and the interven-tions to react to the intelligence that is given,” she said.
Dlodlo also warned against the slashing of the budgets of the security forces, which af-fect their capacity to deal with situations as they arise.
She called for understand-ing that the violence happened within the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“What we could have done, not today, is to ensure that there is capability to deal with all of these issues. The security forces, including the intelligence of the country, their budgets should not be slashed the way budgets are slashed,” she said.
“It becomes much more diffi-cult to respond to issues when budgets are slashed ... and you are unable to source the equip-ment that you need to become as agile in terms of innovation and technology you employ to deal with matters,” she added.
She also denied reports that she had given Ramaphosa and Police Minister Bheki Cele dossiers two days before the outbreak of the violence.
“That is a complete fabrica-tion. I never gave dossiers to any of the two. Even in the [last] NEC [national executive committee] meeting, I never gave a pres-entation from an intelligence perspective,” she said.
We’ve never dealt with large-scale organised looting before - DlodloMinister says government was caught off guard
Minister Ayanda Dlodlo says citizens should not be blamed for feeling the government let them down. / G a l l o I m a g e s
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By Boitumelo Kgobotlo
Former Orlando Pirates captain and businessman Lucky Lekg-wathi thought his retirement dream crumbled after his res-taurant was looted on Monday.
But on Thursday, Lekgwathi’s fans joined forces when they made donations to the former Bucs star to help him reopen his restaurant in Kliptown, Soweto.
Captain My Captain, as he was known to many, told Sunday World that his new-ly founded Grootman Life-style restaurant was his hope for a better retirement life, but seeing the restaurant empty after looters left only litter and broken glass left him feeling like his dreams were fading.
But his hope was restored when he received several calls from fans who offered donations to help him rebuild the eatery.
“Seeing my restaurant de-stroyed like that really made me feel like the community hates me, but having community members donating for the res-toration made me realise that it was looted by jealous people,” said Lekgwathi.
He said he was informed of the looting at around 10am on Monday, and he was broken by the thought of another black person vandalising a black busi-ness that brings them jobs.
He wandered around in fear of being attacked and only made it to the empty eatery with bro-ken glasses at 2pm.
“It took me R400 000 to build and you can imagine just how much I’ll have to spend to have it up and running again.
“I mean there might be a price hike after all this because businesses need to restore what they lost. “Not only did I want to be in business, I really wanted this to serve as my retirement dream so I invested a lot of mon-ey in it.
“Next thing, they will be saying that football stars die paupers because they spend all their salary on cars, partying and girls.
“And people like me with small businesses are suffering the most because we don’t have business insurances because we are still trying to build our-selves, make some profit and on-ly then can we afford insurance.
“Trust me when I say it doesn’t come cheap,” he said.
Fans come to rescue of ex-Bucs star after riots
Lucky Lekgwathi’s business was vandalised./ F a c e b o o k
By Ngwako [email protected]
The Queen actor Sthembi-so Khoza’s sister claims her brother was assaulted by a female cashier at a Sasol garage when they went to the forecourt to buy pies and flowers for the family.
This is according to the actor’s sister, Nonkululeko Khoza, who was questioned on Wednesday by Midrand police detectives who are investigating a case of assault with intent to do griev-ous bodily harm against her and another one of crimen injuria against her brother.
Nonkululeko and Sthemb-iso have been hunted by the police after cashier Sifiso Ngco-bo reported them to the police last month, alleging that the TV star had insulted her and his sister had hit her in the face with a scanner after an alter-cation over the packaging of a bouquet of flowers he had bought from the garage.
When questioned by the police, Nonkululeko refuted Ngcobo’s allegations that she hit her with a scanner during the scuffle that left her with a deep cut below her left eye and a bruise on her cheek.
She alleged that it was, in fact,
Ngcobo who assaulted Sthemb-iso, fondly known as SK, with the flowers when he asked her to put them in a plastic bag for him.
“She then put the flowers on Sthembiso’s face, beating him with the flowers on his face.”
“I then told her to stop beating my brother with the flowers on his face [and that] she must respect the man. She started swearing at Sthembiso. I never assaulted anyone,” she told the police.
She added that security would have been called to the garage to apprehend her if she had indeed assaulted Ngcobo.
Giving his statement, Sthem-biso also said neither he nor his sister assaulted Ngcobo, but admitted that he swore back at her when she insulted him.
He said all hell broke loose when Ngcobo shoved the flow-ers he bought in his face when he asked her to put them in a plastic bag for him.
“I asked to put them in the packet and she … pushed the flowers in my face three times and my sister came and asked her to respect me as a man,” he told the police.
When Ngcobo said Sthem-biso called him by his charac-
ter’s name in the Mzansi Magic soapie, he lost it and warned her to refrain from doing so and asked her to instead call him by his birth name. “She called me by my character name and I turned around and told her my name is Sthembiso Khoza. She said it again and my sister said that my name is Sthemb-iso Khoza,” he told police. But the two suspects’ version of events, added the source, was contradicted by eyewitness
Welcome Masuku. Masuku, ac-cording to the tipster, told the po-lice that the actor and his sister were aggressive towards Ngco-bo. He further said he witnessed Sthembiso swearing at Ngcobo and Nonkululeko smashing her face with a scanner.
Gauteng police spokesperson Kay Makhubela confirmed that police had questioned the sus-pects. He said the cases were referred to the NPA for a deci-sion whether to prosecute.
Police finally question SK Khoza on assault charges
SK Khoza has denied that he and his sister hit a cashier at a petrol station. / I n s t a g r a m
I asked to put them in the packet ... he pushed them in my face
‘The Queen’ star, sister say cashier ‘attacked’ them
Jub Jub rebuked for stance on looters
By Ngwako [email protected]
Hip-hop sensation Jub Jub, who presents Uyajola 9/9 on DStv channel Moja Love, has been hauled over the coals by the channel’s mandarins for the outrageous comments he made on rioters who were on the rampage this week, looting shops and destroying property in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
Channel CEO Aubrey Tau grilled him about his outrageous utterances, which he viewed as reckless and inflammatory. Jub Jub, real name Molemo Maar-ohanye, is said to have apolo-gised.
Jub Jub caused a stir when he took to Instagram this week and condemned those who criticised looters.
“How dare you judge and call another black person a hooli-gan? I don’t condone looting. What did you expect to hap-pen if they have been misled and lied to for years? Let them
steal if they have to steal. Let them do whatever because the government has not provided.
“This was bound to happen, people are starving,” he said.
This jibe prompted the chan-nel to release a statement and
distanced itself from the utter-ances. Sunday World can reveal that Tau also phoned Jub Jub and reprimanded him.
This after some internal staff members called on the channel to charge and discipline him
for bringing the company into disrepute.
A channel employee, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals, said Tau rebuked Jub Jub for his utter-ances. “He told him that his remarks were widely seen by many South Africans as en-couraging looting and destruc-tion of property and that was unacceptable, especially com-ing from a celebrity of his cali-bre who commands a huge in-fluence and following on social media. I’m told that Jub apolo-gised and he was forgiven.”
Tau confirmed that he had a discussion with Jub Jub and the matter was resolved. “I have had a honest and robust discussion with him and I’m pleased that he was able to see the errors of his ways and we have put the matter behind us and we are moving forward,” he said.
Channel CEO says comments reckless
Staff members called on DStv channel to charge and discipline him
Hip-hop star and presenter Jub Jub was hauled over the coals for defending looters on his Instragram account.
Sunday World 18 July 2021 7News 7
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We are looking to honour phenom-enal women in the following are-as: women in academia and educa-tion, women nurturing communities, women who define business and industry, women in law, women in ICT and science, women in agricul-ture, women in construction and engi-neering, women in healthcare, women driving the public sector, women
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By Ngwako [email protected]
The SABC is set to plunge in-to a near total music black-out if one of the collecting so-cieties succeeds to interdict the public broadcaster from playing songs of more than 38 000 artists and 6 000 re-cord companies aft er a dis-pute over non-payment of R250-million needle-time royalties.
Popular artists whose songs will be removed from the play list of the SABC ra-dio and television stations
include Babes Wodumo, Cassper Nyovest, Black Coffee, Kelly Khumalo,
Master KG, DJ Maphorisa and Kabza de Small.
The South African Mu-sic Performance Rights As-sociation (Sampra) are going the litigation route aft er the SABC ignored several lett ers from the organisation to pay the royalties to them.
Sampra CEO Pfanani Lishiva confirmed that their legal team was pre-paring to ask one of the
high courts in Gauteng to in-terdict the public broadcaster from playing all the interna-tional and local tracks whose royalties are administered by them unless the SABC
pays them royalties for the 2014-2015 and 2015 to 2016 fi -
nancial years and also make commitments to pay future
royalties.Lishiva said the
SABC had been paying
their rival organisation, the Inde-pendent Music Performance Rights Association needle-time royalties instead of them, even though the latt er did not produce evidence of artists and companies they rep-resent.
“We have bilateral or reciprocal agreements with our international counterparts in more than 40 ter-ritories. These bilateral agreements give us the right to represent interna-tional tracks in South Africa, while our counterparts also represent South Af-rica tracks in their territories,” he said.
He said when they showed the SABC these agreements in 2016, the broadcaster proposed a 70%/30% split in Sampra’s favour . Sampra reject-ed the proposed split as it was arbi-trary and discretionary as it was not based on the SABC’s playlists
SABC group executive for corpo-rate aff airs and marketing Gugi Ndima said they were ready to pay the needle-time royal-ties, but was unable to do so because the two collecting societies couldn’t agree on percentage split. She said the SABC has already made an advanced payment of R20-million to both collecting societies.
SABC faces music blackout in royalty showdown
Collecting agency says broadcaster has failed to
pay for needle time
Cassper Nyovest is one of thousands of artists whose music could be removed. / S U P P L I E D
Music by Babes Wodumo could be taken off air should the
SABC not pay needle-time royalties. / G a l l o
I m a g e s
18 July 2021 Sunday World8 Celebrating Mandela’s legacy
By Somaya Stockenstroom
University of Cape Town (UCT) student Kialan Pillay has been described as a genius because of his exceptional intellectual ability.
The 19-year-old is the young-est first-class computer science and mathematical statistics student who will graduate with his bachelor’s degree tomorrow.
Pillay said because he has a photographic memory, he does not have to sit for hours on end studying, which he finds to be a boring task.
“That doesn’t mean I didn’t put in the work. I need to be stimulated constantly,” he said.
Reading for his honours degree in computer sci-ence, the Durban-born teen- ager said he was already read-ing Harry Potter novels when his peers in grade 1 were start-ing to sound out words. He could read at the age of two.
Born to parents who are university professors, he said though they noticed his remark-able abilities at a young age, they did not put extra pressure on him.
Pillay added that he is sad-dened that his father, who died of leukaemia in December, would not see him graduate.
In primary school, his princi-pal told his parents that he was bored in class and, as a result, he was promoted from grade 2 to grade 5. At 10 years old, he started high school at Eden College in Durban and was the top matriculant in KwaZulu-Natal at just 15 years old.
He said his age did not hinder him from attending classes with older children. “There may have been minor bullying issues in primary school, but that didn’t last long. I found that I was and am still able to relate to people older than me.”
In fact, he said, he has a girl-friend two years older than him.
“We study together and she is my research partner. Many times she says she’d swear I was older,” jokes Pillay.
Pillay said his mother made him take a gap year after com-pleting high school. “I’m glad I
By Boitumelo Kgobotlo Innovator Mbangiso Mabaso has introduced Sisanda App Universe to simplify science education in South Africa.
The 30-year-old electrical engineer said studying at a public school in Botshabelo, Free State, with no science lab inspired the idea to build an app that would bridge the gap between public and private science education.
He said they had to imagine what they were being taught and imagining something they have never had a glimpse of was the most challenging thing he had to go through as a science stream pupil, especially when it came to national exams.
“I experienced my own chal-lenges back then, which most public school pupils are still suf-fering from right now, but now we also look at how everyone has been badly affected by the pandemic.
“Children need to study from home, and even though
there is no lab at home, the exams will still ask about dif-ferent parts of the heart and how it looks inside out,” he said.
The app comprises a bundle of science apps that allow pupils to use their smartphone cam-eras to project digital science
apparatus to continue their syllabus outside the school science laboratory.
Mabaso said it is activated through T-shirts and puzzle cubes, which can be purchased on his website to give an aug-mented reality – a 3D view of
real-life features on a digital de-vice. But he was quick to high-light that they were current-ly working to ensure that the app can function without being activated through the T-shirts and puzzle cubes that pupils have to buy to ensure that more
children can use the app.“The T-shirts and puz-
zle cubes work almost like a barcode to give a 3D view of what one needs to study at that particular moment. We cover many science subjects, and because science is forever confirming something new, we are also updating our features at all times,” said Mabaso.
“Visual education is very important and makes it easier for parents to help with school-work when their children are working from home. This is why I always find it hard to put an age restriction, you are just never too young or too old to learn, honestly.”
The free app covers the curriculum assessment pol-icy statement syllabus for natural sciences, technology, physical sciences (chemistry) and life science. This means it can be used by pupils from grade 4 to 12.
Currently supported by the Technology Innovation Agen-cy, an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation, he said they were also trying secure a partnership with the education department to have the app on pupils’ laptops.
Top UCT achiever graduates at 19Kialan Pillay could already read at the age of two
New app simplifies science for SA pupilsStudying from home made easier
The innovator of Sisanda App Universe, Mbangisa Mabaso. / M p u m e l e l o M a c u
Kialan Pillay is UCT’s youngest first-class computer science and mathematical statistics student to graduate.
took the gap year because I got to travel with my mom to aca-demic conferences. I was able to see 26 countries. I also taught myself first-year maths in that year.”
He also played at a few con-certs as he is an advanced piano musician and can also play the violin. “Another thing that keeps me busy is Lego, my friends think I’m crazy because of the amount of money I spend on these pieces, but I thoroughly enjoy building and collecting.”
His goal is to study further at Oxford or Cambridge Univer-sity in the field of computer sci-ence. He said this was his cho-sen field because at the age of 11, he had completed building a game in the Scratch program-ming language during an infor-mation technology lesson.
“At that moment, I decided that this is what I’d like to spend my life doing. I’ve been fascinat-ed by artificial intelligence and its applications for several years.
“In our increasingly glo-balised, automated and digital society computer scientists have the opportunity to impact soci-ety in a multitude of contexts.”
The University of Pretoria al-so reported that in May, 18-year-old Hjalmar Rall, who regis-tered as a student when he was 14, graduated cum laude with a BSc honours in physics.
His goal is to study further at Oxford or Cambridge University
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18 July 2021 Sunday World10 News
Accomplished journalist Bheki Sechaba ka Nkosi, who suddenly
passed away this week, was a revered and distinguished Young Lion who fought with commitment and dignity.
His day is done. His pen has stopped writing. But his work is not done. His call to action remains to be fulfilled.
This Young Lion never stopped roaring. It is impor-tant to note that it is not for
itself that the lion roars. It is always for the rest of the pride. It is for the pride to remain coherent. It is for the pride to find it’s way. It is for the pride to sustain.
In an age where glitzy and expensive shirts that bear the faces of smiling presi-dents have become emblem-atic of a movement that was once the pride of its people, he chose to rather craft beautiful messages. Messages whose core purpose was to teach us, persuade us and guide us.
Messages also that remind-ed us that the work the Young Lions swore to live and die for, remained to be done. It is staring us hard in the face.
Freedom, in the sense that the generation that was char-acterised by Oliver Tambo as the “Young Lions” under-stood it, remains the prize to be
won. Because freedom for this generation, the Young Lions, was never about the flag, the anthem and the big black saloon car with blue lights.
As the Young Lions under-stood it, freedom reigns when the people govern. Freedom reigns when the people share
in the wealth of the country.Freedom reigns when the
land is shared among those who work it. Freedom reigns when there is work and secu-rity for all. Freedom reigns when the doors of learning and culture are open. Freedom reigns when there are houses, security and comfort. Freedom reigns when all enjoy equal human rights.
The immortal words of Anto-nio Gramsci shout at us: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new is struggling to be born. In this interregnum, a great varie-ty of morbid symptoms appear.”
The Young Lions understand that unfortunately the pride is no longer coherent. They realise that hyenas have quietly entrenched themselves in their midst.
The hyenas mimic their roar, they fly their flag, they sing their songs. The hyenas loud-ly and publicly proclaim their membership of the pride, but their ways and values show them for who they really are. The Young Lions wonder loud-ly, what are they to do with all these hyenas in their midst?
Bheki Sechaba ka Nkosi was a revered and distinguished Young Lion, one of the proudest achievements of his generation
of cadres. As a student activist, Vula operative and soldier in MK, he risked all for the glory of his people. He fought his rev-olution at all levels. He did all this with dignity and discipline
Sechaba chose to be among those who document the lives and tribulations of the society and economy in which he lived. Many can attest to his commit-ment and professionalism in his craft. His truth was never owned elsewhere.
He questioned, he cajoled, he argued. But his mission and commitment never changed.
He was the same Young Lion through and through. The free-dom and development of his people remained his guiding light. The need for accounta-bility remained his concern. He never stopped doing all he could to see his country and continent progress.
And he loved his family. And his friendship and warmth was legendary.
All of his comrades and friends deeply mourn his de-parture. We will never forget his beautiful soul. Hamba kahle Mkhonto. Hamba kahle Mngan’ wami.• Ngema is former Mpumalan-ga director-general and Ekurhu-leni city manager. He is currently chief people officer at Transnet
By Kabelo [email protected]
MTN executive Yolanda Cuba has roped in the big guns to mentor young people as part of her foundation’s contribution to mark Nelson Mandela Day.
The Mentorship Boardroom (TMB) will allow young South Africans to be mentored for 67 minutes by captains of indus-try and the country’s thought leaders.
This #67MinutesofMentor-ship is endorsed by the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
The event will see actuar-ies, neurologists, CEOs of list-ed companies, successful entre-preneurs, top-rated journalists, media owners, top executives in technology, financial services, property and many others sheet their tips to success.
MTN head honcho Ralph Mupita, University of Free State chancellor Bonang Mo-hale, University of Cape Town boss Mamokgethi Phakeng, for-mer Mvelaphanda bigwig To-kyo Sexwale and 91 other lumi-naries will mentor the mentees.
Cuba said the event would be a yearly event, which was her way of giving back to society.
“TMB is a platform that is being built by my foundation to ensure that people from all walks of life can benefit from the collective experience and wisdom of society,” she said.
“I saw how I benefited from mentorship. It literally allowed me to dream beyond what I thought was possible and ignited a belief in me that I could move from a child from the dusty streets of Daveyton/Duduza/Guguletu to some of the best boardrooms in the world.”
Cuba started formal mentor-ing when she became deputy CEO of Mvelaphanda Holdings back in 2003.
“At TMB, as my mentor would say, “we irrigate the mind” because our belief is that “a mind once stretched to new ideas, never returns to its original shape,” Cuba said.
“All that potential mentees had to do is e-mail us and tell us who they are, what they do, select three mentors and give us a motivation on why they selected their mentors. The mo-tivations have been heart-warm-
ing. I hope that our mentors and mentees will share their experiences after the Nelson Mandela Day event.”
Cuba’s foundation will al-so host a round-table dis-cussion with Sello Hatang, the CEO of the Nelson Man-dela Foundation, Kone Gu-gushe, who is CEO of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, Sexwale, Mohale and Cuba tonight to discuss The Leadership Philosophies of Man-dela in Modern Times.
Captains of industry to mentor young peopleNelson Mandela Day celebration
Cuba currently holds the position of MTN Group vice-president for the Southern and East African MTN mar-kets. She is the first woman to be confirmed in this position in MTN’s history.
Her illustrious career has seen her named one of the youngest CEOs of a JSE-list-ed company at the age of 29. She was also selected as one of the Young Global Leaders in 2008, an initiative by the World Economic Forum and named one of the “20 Youngest Power Women in Africa” by Forbes Magazine in 2011. Her foundation was deliberate to have women mentees as she is passionate about girls and wom-en being given opportunities.
#67Minutesof-Mentorship is endorsed by Nelson Mande-la Foundation
A bus with birthday wishes for Nelson Mandela is parked at Thokoza Park in Soweto in 2012. MTN executive Yolanda Cuba will remember Mandela with #67MinutesofMentorship. / G a l l o I m a g e s
The Young Lion who roared for us
Sechaba’s call to action still remains to be fulfilled
Khaya Ngema
Bheki Sechaba ka Nkosi
Freedom reigns when the peo-ple govern and when all enjoy equal rights
Yolanda Cuba
11 Health18 July 2021 Sunday World
By Masoka Dube
Lawyers representing more than five people who have been reportedly crippled by staff members at Bernice Samuel Hospital in Delmas in Mpumalanga are in the process of suing the province’s health MEC Sasekani Manzini.
In an interview with Sunday World, Tony Mathe, the law-yer representing the former patients, confirmed he was working on several negligence cases involving the hospital.
A recent case opened against the department of health involves two-month-old baby Snempilo Mathebula whose arm was amputated two weeks ago after a rubber band was left on his hand for more than 24 hours.
His mother found that his hand had turned black and he was taken to Steve Biko Ac-ademic Hospital in Pretoria, where the hand was amputated
In another case Mathe is working on, a two-weeks-old baby’s hand was also ampu-tated after a drip was wrong-fully placed on her tiny hand and damaged it. This incident happened in April.
“There are many lawsuits we are working on that involve this hospital. Besides the babies’ cases, there are more cas-es such as the one of a wom-an who is now in a wheelchair after she was reportedly in-
jured at the same hospital, while another one is unable to urinate after she was reportedly crip-pled at the facility we are talking about,” said Mathe.
However, the lawyer did not divulge how much his clients were demanding from the health department.
In the first case in which a ba-by lost her hand in April, two doctors were suspended after community members staged a protest demanding that they be suspended.
When contacted for com-ment, one of the people suing the department, Deneo Mathebula, the mother of the ba-by who was recently amputated, was re-luctant to talk to the media and referred questions to the fam-ily spokesperson Sibusiso Mathebula
“Me and the ba-by we are fine and at home trying to rest, please
talk to my brother, he is the only person dealing with the media now,” she said.
When contacted, Sibusiso confirmed that they were in
the process of opening a case against the hospital but
could not divulge more details on the ground that they had not finalised the process.
Mpumalanga de-partment of health spokesperson Du-
musani Malamule said the department was aware of sever-al negligence cases that happened at the
hospital. He also confirmed the
Mpumalanga hospital of horror faces more than five lawsuits In less than three months, two babies had their hands amputated due to Bernice Samuel Hospital’s ‘negligence’
lawsuit involving the two babies. He said the department
wanted to talk to the family of the baby that lost his hand three weeks ago, but the lawyer that handled the boy’s case had prevented them from doing so.
“The department wanted to engage the family, but they already approached a lawyer and he barred us from talking to the family. Please note that this situation now makes the mat-ter to be sub-judice, hence no further detailed information can be provided,” he said.
“We appointed a team to investigate the case, as well as the root cause of these two almost similar cases.
“The team was led by the pro-vincial quality assurance direc-tor and had also members of the district clinical specialists. A preliminary report will be pre-sented to the office of the head of the department.
“The report also had some recommendations both to the hospital management and the department of health in the province.
Once these final stages have been completed, the report will then be made public,” said Malamule.
He said the department would implement the recom-mendations of the report if any challenges were identified during the investigation.
From 2018 until the current financial year, the department lost approximately R100-mil-lion due to negligence medical claims, while it faces a futher 900 lawsuits.
By Somaya Stockenstroom
When Bongiwe Sithole’s 54-year-old mother died sud-denly on Monday afternoon at her home in Protea, Sowe-to, she had to call emergency services and have paramedics declare her dead.
But as mayhem swept through Gauteng and Kwa-Zulu-Natal this week, the dis-ruption reverberated to many sectors of society, including the health sector and citizens in emergency situations were severely affected.
Emergency units struggled to even get help to those in need.
“My mom died at about 3pm and we called them immediate-ly. We were traumatised by the death, as well as the looting and riots, which were at its worst on Monday.
We expected a delay, but at 7pm we became concerned that they still had not arrived,” said Sithole.
She said she braved the sit-uation and drove herself to the nearest fire department near Jabulani Mall, dodging burning tyres to get some assis-tance. But she was turned away and told they could not assist.
“I called the Emergency Management Services [EMS] number and was told there were 11 other bodies they had to fetch before getting to us. Need-less to say, they arrived the next
day at 4.30am. Almost 14 hours later. We had to move my mom’s body on the cold floor while we waited,” said Sithole.
She said while she was frus-trated at first because she man-aged to drive through some dis-turbing scenes in the area, she also understood after hearing that there was a stampede in Meadowlands.
Gauteng EMS said they had a high volume of distress calls and that the riots, as well as attacks on paramedics, made it difficult for paramedics and ve-hicles to respond to calls. They had to use their armoured am-bulance to respond to calls since Sunday evening to transfer patients and staff.
Khensani Mahlangu of the South African National Blood
Services said it had unfortu-nately suffered multiple inci-dents of looting and vandalism at multiple donor centres.
“The most highly impacted area by far has been our Kwa-Zulu-Natal operations. Some of these operations are still oper-ating but the general approach that we are taking now is one of caution and some donor centres are temporarily closed, pending the restoration of calm in the province. We will communi-cate with our stakeholders once we resume full operations.
“Operations continue to func-tion in other provinces and we are still collecting blood from donors,” she said.
Dr Freddy Kgongwana, the acting head of hospital services at the Gauteng health depart-
ment, said there was increased pressure at several hospitals particularly at Helen Joseph, Hillbrow and Edenvale hospi-tals. He also said oxygen supply was largely affected.
He said the events were concerning as numbers of Covid-19 cases would like-ly rise because the riots were super-spreader events.
KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Nomagugu Simelane said: “We cannot have the safety and wellbeing of people who are already weak being placed in jeopardy by these unru-ly elements. Only time will reveal the impact of all of these super-spreader events that have played out in the form of the large crowds who have been looting.”
Bernice Samuel Hospital in Delmas is being sued for allegedly crippling patients. / G o o g l e M a p s
Looting cripples Gauteng, KZN emergency servicesGrieving daughter braves mayhem
Mpumalanga health MEC Sasekani Manzini
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18 July 2021 Sunday World
14 Your Finances
ASK FOR ITBY NAME
By Kabelo Khumalo [email protected]
The recent spate of looting incidents and destruction to property, including damage to cars, has made it necessary for consumers to review their insurance plans and ensure they have cover against the risk of loss or damage caused by pro-tests, riots, strikes, civil commotion and public disorder.
Commercial and personal insurance policies currently exclude any loss or damage to assets because of these types of events as insurers are precluded from underwriting these risks, making the South African Special Risk Insurance Association (Sasria) the only entity that provides short-term insurance cover for riots, strikes, terrorism, civil commotion and public disorder to businesses and individuals.
What is Sasria?It is a state-owned company and the
only short-term insurer that provides
cover to all the people and businesses that have assets in South Africa, and govern-ment entities against special risks such as civil commotion, public disorder, strikes, riots and terrorism.
What cover does Sasria provide for in-dividuals?
Vehicle cover: Its special risk insur-ance cover is available to consumers for the protection of personal vehicles, including trailers, against loss or damage caused in the event of a strike, riot civil commotion, public disorder or terrorism.
Home cover: This cover is designed
to protect your house and household contents against losses or damage caused by a strike, riot civil commotion, public disorder or terrorism.
Chris Caalsen, a property manager at Aon South Africa’s commercial risk solutions division, said riot wrap-around insurance (available in the open insur-ance market) combined with Sasria cover is a comprehensive approach in covering the risk.
By Paul Nixon
In 2014, popstar Rihanna sued her accountant and financial adviser Peter Gounis for “allowing” her to squander $9-million (R131-million) that nearly resulted in her bankrupt-cy. His quip in the media in response to the law-suit was priceless: “Was it really necessary to tell her that if you spend money on things, you’ll end up with lots of things and no money?”Conversely, life-long petrol attendant Ronald James Read was such an ardent saver that he had accumu-lated a net worth of $8-mil-lion by the time he passed away at the age of 92. I often think about these two stories when I’m asked about the importance of saving one’s hard-earned money.
Saving is a fundamental part of build-ing wealth. Even the most modest salary can build wealth for an individual who has cultivated the right saving habits, and even the highest-paying jobs can’t prevent you from going bankrupt if you don’t have a solid savings plan (looking at you, actor Nicolas Cage).
Wealth comes from not spending on things or possessions. The premise here is that wealth is not a function of income, it is a function of saving.
It should also be said that there are few things as counterproductive as waiting to save until we earn more.
The majority of people are often sur-
prised when they realise just how much they can save.
In light of this, the first step in cre-ating wealth is making “space” for saving. There is a deceptively simple rule of thumb that can help us to create this space. The 50/20/30 rule provides guide-lines for our after-tax income.
No more than 50% of
your income should be spent on contractual ob-ligations (such as home loan, car repayments, cellphone). Then, at least 20% of this income should be spent on sav-ings. The remainder can then be spent on discretionary items like clothing, eating out or planning for holidays. Note that “savings” is second on the list, so if
you’re spending more than 50% on contractu-
al spend, this should not be at the expense of your savings.
Next, it is important to consider what to do with the money that you save. Bank accounts are good for saving your mon-ey, but you should be thinking about how your money can be set aside in a way that will beat inflation. Equity-based invest-ment vehicles can protect the buying power of your money over the long-term. Investing builds wealth and if done cor-rectly, may supplement and eventfully replace your primary source of income.
It helps to keep your eye on the bigger picture. Devise a goal for yourself that can keep you motivated. It is never too early to begin saving – the only real challenge is getting started. • Nixon is head of Momentum Investments behavioural finance
Saving must be a habit
Get cover for riots, public disorderLooting, damage to property force a rethink on insurance policies
KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng were gripped by incidents of looting and damage to business property this week, leading to billions of rand in losses.
“Without Sasria cover, businesses and private individuals caught in the cross-hairs of violent protests and riot action, run the risk of significant uninsured losses,” said Chris.
“With South Africa being in a frag-ile position, it is crucial to speak to your broker or insurer to address any gaps that may exist in your cover. An expert in the field will also be able to identify any exclusions that may exist.”
Speak to your broker to address any gaps that may exist in your insurance cover
US musician Rihanna
It helps to keep your eye on the bigger picture
15 Business 18.07.2021
By Bongani Mdakane and Kabelo Khumalo
Black business lodestar Mike Nkuna, the founder and exec-utive chairman of Masingita Group, has hit out at the lax ap-proach of the government in quelling unrests that has left mayhem in its wake.
Nkuna in 1983 founded Masingita Group. The com-pany has been involved in property development, con-struction and property man-agement.
The Masingita Group has developed several shopping malls, primarily targeting ru-ral areas and townships with the main goal of fulfilling the socio-economic development requirements of these areas.
Some of the malls owned by the group in Gauteng were not spared the anarchy that envel-oped KwaZulu Natal.
Nkuna, in an interview with Sunday World, said properties owned by the group suffered losses of just over R3-billion.
He said the destruction and looting at Jabulani Mall amounted to at least R2-billion, while the damage caused at Protea Mall goes to R600-mil-lion and Bara Mall R300-mil-lion, adding that all this could have been avoided had law en-forcement got its act together.
“The leaders of this country have no plan and vision to run this country effectively, as the
government fails to look at the problem at hand. Businesses went up in flames and looted under the government’s watch.
“In Jabu lani Mal l, a police station is just across the street, but looters disregarded that and attacked the mall and looted while leaving a trail of destruction behind,” he said.
“Our township economy
is destroyed, and the same businesses that put bread on the table in Soweto are vandalised and looted. This whole thing is going to scare investors, and this means that the same people who looted are going to be affected by their actions post this trail of destruction.”
Other shopping malls owned by Masingita include Masin-gita Mall in Giyani, Zebedie-la Plaza in Polokwane, Boitu-melo Junction in Free State and Masingita Crossing in Malamulele.
Refilwe Monageng, Gauteng spokesperson of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said black businesses were sabo-
By Kabelo Khumalo
It will take years for South Africa’s economy to recover from the mayhem unleashed on the economic hubs of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Na-tal this week, business lead-ers have warned.
Gauteng and KwaZulu-Na-tal account for half of South Africa’s economy and key at attracting foreign direct investments
Shawn Theunissen,the president of the Johannes-burg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said the South African economy is vulnera-ble at this time and the strik-ing season could harm the country’s investment repu-tation internationally.
“Seeing the current situa-tion, investors are most likely to pull out and also not have the confidence to invest in South Africa in the near future. A nation needs a relatively stable currency to attract capital from foreign investors,” he said.
President Cyril Rama-phosa in 2018 set an invest-ment target of $100-bil-lion (R1.5-trillion) over five years. However, the recent unrest has raised questions on whether the country will remain an attractive invest-ment destination.
More than 200 malls have been looted or destroyed and
over 600 stores burnt or damaged thus far with dam-ages estimated at more than R20-billion, the South Afri-can Property Owners Asso-ciation (Sapoa) said.
Sapoa CEO Neil Gopal said shopping centres are being targeted and are first in line with regards to looting.
“Disturbingly, we are also seeing food distribution centres in Durban being loot-ed and destroyed.
This will likelly further exacerbate the crisis and have lasting implications on our food security and the food chain in general,” said Gopal.
“Even if we can get distri-bution centres to deliver to our supermarkets, it will not be possible for the public to purchase goods at malls that have already been burnt and vandalised, or simply closed due to threats of violence.”
The city of eThekwini’s 45 000 businesses are out of commission and stolen stock, and damage to infra-structure and equipment is estimated at R16-billion.
Nigel Ward, the president of the Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said Ramaphosa must de-clare a state of emergency in KwaZulu-Natal.
“The city, the province, the country cannot afford anoth-er 24 hours of looting, proper-ty being destroyed, food be-ing stolen, business owners and employees losing anoth-er day of work.”
Cry, the beloved black economyMasingita Group blames government for failure to act swiftly
Long, hard road to economic recovery awaits Gauteng, KZN
SA brand at risk, warns business
Shawn Theunissen
South African National Defence Force members patrol Jabulani Mall in Soweto this week to assist the police quell the violence in Gauteng. / G a l l o I m a g e s
In Jabulani Mall, a police station is just across the street
taged by political unrest. “Black-owned businesses in
particular cannot afford this turmoil. Black entrepreneurs throughout South Africa have already been in crisis mode for well over a year following vari-ous forms of lockdown restric-tions since March 2020,” said Monageng.
The Black Business Coun-cil (BBC) said that the worst- affected establishments during the looting and destruction are black-owned small, micro and medium enterprises.
“Many of our members in different industries have been negatively affected in various ways. The BBC will be meet-ing with the government and financial institutions to work on a package of relief measures that will assist in reopening of businesses,” said BBC presi-dent Sandile Zungu.
Another group that has invested significantly in the township economy is Old Mutual-controlled Commu-nity Property Fund. It owns Alexandra Plaza, Diepsloot Mall, Eyethu Orange Farm Mall, Gateway Mall, Heidel-berg Mall and Sontonga Mall in Katlehong.
Smital Rambhai, the portfo-lio manager at CPF, said it was too early to quantify losses. “We feel the military deployment should have occurred from 8 July. We are disappointed at the government,” said Rambhai.
18 July 2021 Sunday World16 Insight
Editorial
Aft er fi ve days of what appears like a well-orchestrated plan to desta-bilise the country, a voice was
heard coming from underneath an immaculate Dobbs hat. It was Minister of Police Bheki Cele narrating, among others, the story of the “12 apostles” who are the alleged “instigators” and “conspirators” – a story to be continued as soon as the 12 culprits have been apprehended. Pardon me for yawning out loud.
Before the Cele epiphany, President Cyril Ramaphosa served us a double whammy of speeches. He was almost yodelling with emotion as he delivered his second speech. But it lacked a clear plan to protect our fragile economy and to plug the ongoing jobs bloodbath.
He seemed to hedge all his bets on the double-edged sword of army deployment.
Ramaphosa looked weak and lack-ing in ideas, which is probably what the alleged instigators intended.
The “instigators” appear to have forced their agenda on the country, resulting in the spectacular displacement of Covid-19 prevention protocols. This, as the Delta variant sweeps through the country.
The most incisive commentary on the last Ramaphosa speech was made by the looters themselves. As the president was speaking, the looters were looting, live on television. The police were either no-where to be seen, or watching the looting.
For most of this week, these seemingly well-planned, unimpeded and unhurried scenes of looting were replayed ad nause-am. As one watched these, the possibili-ty of an “inside job”, at least at the level of the government, was writ large.
I wondered not only why the police were absent or inactive but also where the government was – provincial and national – while the country burned.
As I was cracking my head about these heartbreaking events, it dawned on me that, actually, our government may have gone AWOL – and it seems to have been doing this for some time.
Several cabinet ministers confessed to having been “caught off guard” by the unrest. Being shocked and “caught off guard” is the government’s “sick note” or alibi for going AWOL, strategically.
The recent behaviour and subsequent arrest of former president Jacob Zuma may indeed not be the sole cause of the current state of lawlessness.
However, does anyone seriously think the recent shenanigans at Nkandla were mere harmless fun and games? The cur-rent inferno can be linked, at some level, to Zuma’s Goliath-like fl urry of insults of the judiciary, his disdain for the con-stitution except where and when it suits him, and his alleged lack of fear of jail.
Galvanised by these prior messages, for
some of his supporters, the current arson, looting and road blockades are “legiti-mate forms of protests” and a necessary means for securing Zuma’s release . Some politicians are already urging the judici-ary and the president to set him free, or else, the unrest will get worse.
The democratic state seems to have been infected with the looting virus of the apartheid state at Codesa already.
Through the superfl uous 1999 arms deal, the country was fully baptised into looting. Since then, parts of the govern-ment and some of its members have, among other things, become sophisti-cated labour brokers for looting, mainly through the tender system. For this “ad-vanced” system of looting to yield the in-tended results for its benefi ciaries inside and outside of the state, the relevant parts of the government must go AWOL, peri-odically and strategically.
Should there be a huge outcry or too much violence during or aft er a par-ticular looting episode, the politicians will descend on selected “hotspots”, to pacify the masses and prop up the image of the government.
Haven’t we seen them this week?During one of his mass-pacifi cation
expeditions in Phoenix, KwaZulu-Na-tal premier Sihle Zikalala was caught on video using his own fi sts to pacify a suspected looter – an incident for which he later apologised.
My fellow South Africans, the loot-er you see pushing or pulling a trolley full of looted goods out of a burning mall is nothing but a walking metaphor of the value system our government has cultivated – directly and indirectly – for some time. The looter is inspired not only by poverty, but also by the example of corrupt politicians and unscrupulous corporate executives.
Should this week’s publicity drive fail to yield the desired results, the president will probably announce the ultimate pac-ifi er of the masses – a judicial commis-sion of inquiry – aft er which, “normal” looting will resume. Watch this space.• Prof Maluleke is a senior research fellow at the University of Pretoria Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship. Twitt er: @ProfTinyiko
TinyikoMaluleke
When government goes AWOLPresident Cyril Ramaphosa looked weak and lacking in ideas
As the looting continued, our government and its representatives were nowhere to be seen.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s admission of his government’s poor preparedness for what he rightly
described as an orchestrated campaign of public violence, destruction and sabotage was nothing short of chilling to the extreme.
The admission made by the president on Friday night that his government did not have the capabilities and plans in place to respond swift ly and decisive-ly is a serious indictment, which begs the question whether as South Africans are we safe under the custodianship of the current security cluster?
Although reassuring in several respects, the president’s address to the nation remains, in many ways, prob-lematic as it also fell short of inspiring much-needed confi dence in this hour of national despair.
That law-enforcement agencies are “working around the clock to locate and apprehend those responsible for planning and coordinating this violence” is not reassuring enough.
Any responsible government should instead be telling us that those responsi-ble for the violence and rampage on such a massive scale are already behind bars.
That they still have to be identifi ed and acted against is at best symptomatic of a government that is still at sixes and sev-ens in the midst of a national crisis, and at worst indicative of a government that is fi ddling while Phoenix is burning.
This was evident this week as all the government could do was to simply issue statements condemning the violence while failing to take decisive action to stop the mayhem.
Ramaphosa should never have gone on national television to tell South Afri-cans that those responsible for organis-ing this chaos have not yet been appre-hended and that their networks have not yet been dismantled. That is failing us, Mr President.
This week’s events make us wonder if our government is capable of dealing with external threats if it cannot even deal with internal threats.
We can never be certain, Mr Presi-dent, that those who lit the fl ame will not continue to spread it as they are still at large, largely because of your govern-ment’s ineptitude.
We cannot begin to pretend that the government was never warned about such possible violence . Threats of violence have time and again been made in public, long before former president Jacob Zuma went to prison.
It is our fi rm view that the government did not take those threats seriously as proven by the events of this week.
It is our view that neither the intelli-gence nor the whole security cluster both-ered to use those threats as a source of intelligence to plan for potential acts of violence.
Even as violence began to take root across KwaZulu-Natal and Gaut-eng, there were still many prominent individuals who continued to fan the fl ames of violence through their social media accounts.
This fearful government cannot claim to be oblivious to this. We have terribly failed this week. Ramaphosa must return to the drawing board and tell us if this cabinet is really fi t for offi ce.
Government’s ineptitude really cost SA
Sunday World 18 July 2021 Viewpoint 17
One of the downsides of our political system is that elected politicians
have a dilemma imposed on them. They have a constitu-tional duty to always uphold the constitution, but their careers depend on sucking up to political bosses back at party headquarters. Some-times, the promise to always choose constitutional duty runs the risk of upsetting anti-constitutional thugs who wield political power.
Take, for example, how meek President Cyril Rama-phosa has been over the past few weeks. He has been pedes-trian on the question of con-stitutional supremacy. He has hardly engaged the vexed and urgent question of what it is that ultimately accounts for the unrest in the country. But why is the president turning out to be so pedestrian?
There are many reasons for his under-performance but one of them can be found in the dilemma I described above.
If Ramaphosa was respond-ing to the crisis solely as the president of South Africa, he would probably (I hope) respond diff erently to how he
is in fact responding. Part of his actual handling
of this moment is informed by ANC factional batt les, includ-ing a desire on his part to be re-elected as the president of the governing party.
Besides his own careerism, his concerns about the state of the ANC also include a fear of what would happen to the party if the likes of Ace Magashule and David Mabuza were to be in charge.
If these ANC leaders occu-pied the Union Buildings, our country would be even worse off than it is now. So, in a sense, Ramaphosa’s concerns about the ANC do matt er, of course,
for the sake of the country also.But that, nevertheless, does
expose a deep problem in the design and operation of our politics. We are (but should not be) this dependent on the inter-nal state of the ANC. We need to be able to rely, as citizens, on a state that is technically and ethically fi t for purpose beyond the internal batt les of the ANC.
Obviously one can’t have a
completely apolitical bureau-cracy. But we should be aiming at approximating one as such.
And so we certainly should be thinking about a repur-posing our political system to diminish the inf luence deployment committ ees have on public servants and political heads of departments .
You can now see how these tensions are resulting in Rama-phosa’s pedestrian leadership. He cannot – or so he appears to think – be unambiguously assertive about constitutional-ism because he has to consider the impact it might have on the batt le for the soul of the ANC.
You do not get a sense that
when the president speaks and acts that his deepest commit-ment is to his oath of presiden-tial offi ce. What his uncertain-ty, euphemisms and waffl ing reveal is this tension between statehood and party politics.
How should he resolve it? If I were him, I would not
focus, right now, on a desire to be a two-term president. Sure, you cannot fi x the structural issues of any society within a couple of years. But the prob-lem with being consumed by re-election desire is that can stop you from governing effectively. It can stop you from being fully present in the moment. It can stop you from dealing decisively with all of the constitutional delinquents because you may need the backing of some of them at the next party elective conference.
Therein lies one of his lead-ership errors: he is stuck in the ANC mode of continuous internal leadership squabbles, and consequently he cannot infuse his deep knowledge of our constitutional order into his presidency. He is hamstrung by the ANC because he is a product and deployee of the ANC .
Obviously, he cannot be a lone ranger. I am not blind to the diff erence between a presi-dential system and a party-po-litical system. But Ramaphosa should defy the design prob-lem and take a chance on leading without fear of not be-ing re-elected. If he did so, he just might set a trend that alle-giance to the constitution is not a swearing-in gimmick.
President Ramaphosa choked by the stranglehold of the ANC
Tension between statehood and party politics
His handling of this moment is informed by factional battles
President Cyril Ramaphosa cannot be unambiguously assertive about constitutionalism because he has to consider the impact it might have on the battle for the soul of the ANC. / B O N G I W E M C H U N U
While those of us who are in the Defend our De-mocracy Campaign
are fi rm on the primacy of the constitution and importance of all of us being equal before the law, it is becoming clearer that the undermining of these prin-ciples has been allowed to go on for too long without challenge.
Our tolerance of illegality, la-lessness and glamourisation of the crooked over many years has come back to bite us.
For many years, people in the taxi industry have been doing all sorts of illegal things, from small things, such us traffic
infringements right up to murder, with no visible consequences.
We have been seeing ci-vilians wearing military fa-tigue in the streets, at political rallies and funerals and did nothing about it. It is illegal for civilians to wear military uni-forms. This means that we have been observing people breaking the law in our presence and at formal political events and did nothing about it.
Political parties have brazen-ly organised events and rallies that are contrary to lockdown regulations and while the police are present at such ille-gal marches or rallies, nothing really happens. The police and other law-enforcement agen-cies are depicted as toothless and useless entities.
In fact, in many instances police appear to be emasculat-ed and bereft of any legitimacy, dignity and authority.
People do not seem to respect or take them seriously.
Even more egregious is the turning of court appearances of alleged looters of state resources into festivals of sycophantic he-ro-worshipping of the accused. Every court appearance is used as an occasion to organise huge throngs of people to protest and sing defi ance songs against au-thority and the law.
In South Africa, looters of state resources are feted like rock stars. No doubt there are many in our society who admire them and subliminally or otherwise and wish they could be like them.
Ordinary people have no access to state resources, but the malls and businesses are within their reach. So, they loot every shop that they can fi nd as the police stand by and watch. The police watch just as they have watched the taxi people do as they pleased, civilians wearing
military uniforms and political parties organising illegal rallies or matches during a pandemic.
The looting of shops by the masses is no diff erent from the looting of state resources in our state-owned enterprises, municipalities and govern-ment departments. Looting is looting. We have glamourised it and some people engage in it without shame.
Obviously, there are other factors involved in the present looting phenomenon. There is the pain that our people are going through abject poverty and unemployment.
We have tolerated lawlessness for too longMosibudi Mangena
In SA, we have glamourised looting
This is further exacerbated by the punishing Covid-19 lock-down measures.
You also have the creation of a parallel pseudo-state that was created to function and in some ways, subvert the de jure one.
That is the state operated by the Guptas and their allies in the governing party. It is now being mooted by those in authority that rogue elements in state apparatus are plan-ning and stoking the fi res of rebellion. Apparently, the pseu-do-state is now asserting itself more strongly.
Those of us in the Defend Our Democracy Campaign and many other compatriots who are now aghast at the looting, should look back at our compla-cency in the past. We observed law-breaking and glamouri-sation of malfeasance and did nothing. Slowly but surely, we have become a nation of looters, crooks and thieves.
In South Africa looters of state resources are feted like rock stars
Eusebius McKaiser
18 July 2021 Sunday World18 Viewpoint
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Phumla Mkize
... but seriously
I left Johannesburg for Cape Town in the evening to tag behind long-distance buses
such as Translux and the now defunct Greyhound. The trip is hellishly long and, as I did not have an assistant driver, I chose to pace myself along-side the professional drivers.
I arrived in the Mother City the following morning and rushed straight to my place of work at the English daily.
I parked on the streets and foolishly forgot to put my backpack in the boot and left it on the back seat. Around lunchtime, I went to move the car to my employer’s parking as street parking charged by the hour.
As I approached my car, I noticed the back window had been smashed and my maga-
zines scatt ered on the street.The backpack was gone
with my clothes, but the thief had been considerate and left behind back copies of my favourite magazine, New African.
As parts of KwaZulu-Na-tal and Gauteng went up in smoke and a frenzy of looting ensued this week, I watched with alacrity as the poor and not-so-poor people went on a rampage. Triggered by the incarcer-ation of former president Jacob Zuma last week, the riots quickly morphed into a Black Friday rush of expropriating goods without compensation.
Two weeks ago, Swaziland similarly went up in fl ames as protesters demanded King Mswati’s head.
This was diff erent. Ours may have started as a protest but among the crazed looting mob, litt le was said about the former president’s fate.
Young kids joined the fren-zy as shops were emptied.
For many years, leaders and analysts have warned about the worsening scourge of unemployment and pover-
ty, especially of the young. The government, including
that of Zuma while he was at the helm, did not seem to have solutions. When the global recession hit in 2008, Zuma promised millions of jobs but failed to deliver.
I watched keenly as the visuals came in to see what goods were being pillaged.
Nothing was spared as one mall fell aft er another
Groceries, alcohol, refrig-erators, designer couches, plasma TV sets and even cof-fi ns were hauled away. Only bookshops were left standing.
This was déjà vu. The guy who broke into my car had left my books behind. These re-positories of knowledge and mental nourishment have no appeal to the masses.
As business owners count their losses in the after-math of the madness, peo-ple queued for bread, which is in short supply for obvious reasons. Our intelligence service was caught napping while the army was brought in too late.
Kudos to those citizens who defended their towns and kept them loot-free.
Books’ value in times of crisisVusi Nzapheza
STRAIGHT & 2 BEERS
Bookstores were spared in the looting spree
Books, the repositories of knowledge and mental nourishment, have no appeal to protesters, says the writer. / G a l l o I m a g e s
I’m so angry at South Africans. What do we want?
It is time protesters say exactly what they want and stop hiding behind service delivery. Why do we always have to vandal-ise and disrupt the things we fought hard for?
Some of the protesters are not looking for solu-tions or answers to their problems. This is just a way for them to do what they always wanted to do.
There is nothing wrong with protesting, but why vandalise the very things
we use on a daily basis? We ask for schools, then
we burn them in order for the government to give us water. Where is the logic?
We are in the midst of a stressful pandemic. Com-panies are shutt ing down and people are losing their jobs.
As if this pandemic is not aff ecting us enough, we created an even worse situation. Now companies are not shutting down, they are being burnt down, looted and left in a shambles.
What we lack in this
country is not jobs or money. We lack com-mon sense. We lack vision.
We went to school to get all the accolades, but not the learning. Our behaviour is very illiter-ate, uninformed and em-barrassing.
The most dangerous pandemic is not Covid-19, it’s ignorance.
People are looting not because they are poor, but because they want to.
Consolation MathebulaBushbuckridge, Rolle
Author Jay Baer once said: “Con-tent is f i re. Social media is gasoline.”
This means whatever mes-sage we share or communicate on social media, will spread to various areas and reach diff erent audi-ences instantly.
As a result, we should not underestimate the incredible power of what we post on social media, as it has the ability to infl uence opinions.
As South Afri-ca is still reeling from the shock-ing events that engulfed cer-tain parts of
t h e c o u n t r y, where business-es were looted and infrastructure was
torched, let us understand that the flames of this unfortunate fire were partly fuelled by various social media platforms.
This means that social media as a communica-tion tool has the ability to disseminate informa-
SA faces a pandemic of ignorance
Blame social media for the riotstion in an instant, which is sometimes a good thing. But the problem begins when such information is inciteful and encouraging violence and lawlessness.
We have an opportuni-ty to use social media to plead for peace and har-mony and to encourage people to uphold the prin-ciples of ubuntu.
Let us use social media to foster together-ness, thus saving our soci-ety from moral decay.
Malphia Honwane Gott enburg, eManyeleti
Jay Baer
Moegoe
CharmzaTo the communi-ties and residents who have stood their ground against looters and arsonists, declaring: “Not in my name,” you are all charmzas.
Someone needed to stand up to the sab-oteurs in the most aff ected provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng as the sit-uation was becoming dire by the day.
Your actions, charmzas, to a certain extent prevented more mayhem and most importantly, lawlessness to spread to other provinces.
You worked with the army, the police and private security personnel to secure valuable property. We salute you, charmzas.
It can only be our beloved Madiba
Halala to the man who gave us the Randelas, the Dibas, the clapback long before it
became a thing on black Twitt er, the Madiba shirt and dance.
All hail the statesman who enjoyed thousands of exclusive live shows of Kids Say the Darndest Things, long before the fi rst episode aired in January 1998.
He could tell who would have made it to the Mzansi Magic show Marry Me Now SA.
Let’s raise our teacups to our beloved man of a royal bloodline, who did not take any prisoners from other fellow royals.
Today our beloved Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela turns 103. International Nelson Mandela Day celebrates its 11th anniversary.
We now have emojis, emoticons, memes but they do not compare to the memorable interchanges that have earned Mandela a special place in our hearts for good.
Who can forget the verbal spar-ring between our Madiba and another beloved world-famous Nobel Peace Prize honouree Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who have made sure that Vilakazi Street in Soweto made it into the Guinness World Records?
In the only way two neighbours can face-off but still be able to live peacefully in the same street, the Honourable Arch condemned Madiba’s dress code, advising him that it was time for him to dress like the statesman that he was.
Tutu did not particularly like the wild print shirts, saying they were not presidential enough.
Madiba threw the Arch with a jab he did not expect by quipping: “And this coming from a man who’s been wearing a dress all his life.”
And he didn’t mind repeating jokes, icebreakers and clapbacks that proved eff ective. Why fi x it if is not broken, right? Our dear Madi-ba, it is said, when he met a married couple, he would ask the woman: “When did you propose?”
One of his favourite anecdotes, which he oft en told in public, was of a conversation he had with a four-year-old girl. The girl asked: “How old are you? He said: “I can’t remem-ber, but I was born long, long ago.”
She asked: “Why did you go to jail?” He said: “I didn’t go there because I liked it. Some people sent me there.”
She asked: “How long were you in jail?” He said: “I can’t remember, but it was a long, long time.”
The girl concluded: “You are a stupid old man, aren’t you?”
And those in the know say he called the Queen of England by her birthname, Elizabeth. Why? Because she also called him Nelson. He also had royal blood running in his veins aft er all.
In a week in which South Africa was burning and need-ed all the help it can get from law enforce-ment authorities, we didn’t think two police reservists would be on our list of moegoes. Police reservists are those among us who volunteer to perform part-time policing functions or activities to assist the police. What an honourable thing to do. But what a blight these two have put to the many reserv-ists who are serving their communities with dignity, honour and pride.
These two reservists were arrested in Soweto while looting shopping malls in the township. They must face the full might of the law these moegoes!
Sunday World 18 July 2021
19Life
Award-winning comedian Marc Lottering once blocked my view with
his big hair, making me miss Strictly Come Dancing years ago.
Popular internationally since the late ‘90s for his fi rst show Aft er the Beep in 1997, this youthful comedic genius gave me a few hours in between his hectic schedule, exposing his more serious side and how to get over these tough times.
What’s your name, full name, is it really Marc, as that sounds made up?
It’s really Marc Lott ering and I know you like it.
We fi nd ourselves in tense and violent times with the loot-ing, deaths and unnecessary job losses, what’s your advice to the government?
Make all South Africans feel safe again. When you break the law, you go to jail, regardless of who you are. It would be nice to see that again.
What does South Africa need right now?
A personal assistant that can carry my president’s iPad.
Is it hard to be funny when things are so tense?
It’s weird. On the one hand, I’m sad that the country’s in a complete mess. On the oth-er hand, you have to admit that there’s no shortage of new material.
Who makes you laugh?
Any comedian in a line-up show who goes on stage before me and bombs; that always makes me look amazing.
What is the role of comedy during a crisis like this?
We will all go insane if we don’t take a break from the serious news for at least one hour every day. Whether it’s comedy or sex. Or both. Take a break. It’s important for your mental health.
Where can we see you perform?
I have a brand new show com-ing in August. All details on www.marclott ering.com. Please check out my site for all my old shows too.
Who is your favourite woman since we are going into Women’s Month?
Every single mother in this country who hustles hard to keep the family going.
Have you been vaccinated for Covid-19?
I had my fi rst jab already. I’m an old man (he’s over 50, 53 to be exact).
You must admit that your hair is not subtle and must need a lot of products, what’s your favourite hair product?
Leave-in conditioner, been us-ing it forever.
You are always in costume for some of your shows, do you have a favourite designer?
I mostly end up dressing my-
self. I make designer clothing look like crap.
As an award-winning come-dian and celebrity, what’s the worst question you’ve been asked during an interview?
In which circus are you the clown? True story, a young journo asked me that. I spat out my whiskey when I realised he was not joking.
Who is the dearest person to you and where would you take them on holiday locally?
I obviously have to say my partner Anwar Anwar [McKay] because he’s going to read this.
He’s been carrying on about the Drakensberg for years be-cause he’s never been there.
So, for the sake of marital peace, I’ll probably take him there.
I’ve been there for work pre-viously, so maybe I will enjoy it too if I’m not working, but there are only times I can say wow when looking at mountains and hills.
We have many colourful politicians in South Africa, who is your worst politician and how would you confront them?
Are you nuts? I’m not answering this. You’ll nev-er know where the next gig is going to come from.
Many people have been loot-ing all sorts of household items. Would you loot?
show of law and order. We need to see the people in
uniform all over the place. Aft er that, jobs and housing,
as promised year aft er year.
By Kuli Roberts
Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh is no stranger to fame as the son of well-known legal eagle and politician advocate Dali Mpo-fu. The 32-year-old, who holds a doctorate in international re-lations from the University of Oxford, released his latest book,The New Apartheid this week. He is also the author of Democracy and Delusion: 10 Myths in South African Politics, which he pub-lished in 2017.
Speaking to Sunday World this week about his second book, The New Apartheid, Mpofu-Walsh said it pursues the idea that apartheid did not die, it was privatised.
“I don’t think we have prop-
erly defi ned the problem that confronts South Africa. It’s deeper than poverty, unemploy-ment or inequality. All these are symptoms of a deeper malaise. First, we need to defi ne the prob-lem that faces this generation. And I defi ne that problem as the new apartheid.”
“Apartheid continues to persist in South Africa in many guises, despite our democratic order.”
Mpofu-Walsh, who has been married to Sumaya Hendricks for nine years, said he wants young South Africans who are disappointed with the current
situation to read his book, as well as those who believe we need to take drastic steps to remake our country.
The postdoctoral fellow at Wits, who spends a lot of time on academic research, said when writing The New Apartheid, he had to get into the minds of apartheid’s planners and ideologues.
“So, I had to read books writ-ten by people like NJ Rhoodie and HJ Venter about the need for apartheid. Those books were diffi cult to read for emotional reasons. I felt something simi-lar when I had to read FW de Klerk’s autobiography.”
Mpofu-Walsh is multi-talent-ed with a love for music. Along with his debut book, he also released an album of the same title. “I love producing music.”
Speaking about marriage and the secret to a happy union,
Mpofu-Walsh said: “I don’t know if there’s one secret. But any union between two people requires mutual kindness. First, be kind. Then fi nd a partner who is kind. Each person in the union needs kindness from the other at diff erent moments.”
• The New Apartheid’ is published by Tafelberg
Academic Mpofu-Walsh unpacks new apartheid‘It did not die, it was privatised’ Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
is the author of two books
We find ourselves in violent times with the looting, deaths and job losses, but still need some time for fun, writes Kuli Roberts
Take a break and laugh out loud
Hell no! My car is too small for that TV.
When must the ongoing violence end?
Right now. A strong public
Marc Lottering
18 July 2021 Sunday World
20Shwashwi
• You know there’s a leadership vacu-um when a radio presenter and cheat-ing TV show presenters’ opinions trend when the country is under siege from looters and businesses are on fi re. • Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams and disgraced former deputy minister of higher education Mduduzi Mana-
Hotmgosi&celebs
TV presenter Lootlove will have to change her stage name or go back to her birth name Luthando Sho-sha until this looting issue in South Af-rica is sorted. We can’t have a celeb called
Lootlove while it is still such a sensitive issue. Some would think you want to loot their relation-ships and take their lovers.
AmaZulu King MisuZulu kaZwelith-ini, or should Shwa just call him the King, aft er he struggled to read isiZulu on live TV. He really missed the Zulu part of his name. Imagine if Prince William was not able to read the Queen’s language. • So Moja Love’s Uyajola 9/9
presenter Molemo “Jub Jub” Maarohanye ranted on so-cial media, blaming everyone excluding satan for the looting
in the country, which prompted the head of the channel Bokani Moyo to distance itself from his utt erances. May I remind you Jub Jub that it’s been hardly
fi ve years since your release from jail and you are already prompting Shwashwi to scrutinise the conditions
of your parole. • Still on Jub Jub, what’s the obses-
sion with spilling Lerato Kganyago’s secrets? Here at gossip headquar-
ters, we are hoping those fi les will not result in anyone being hand-
cuff ed. Shwa likes a juicy story, not acts of crime. Otherwise be pa-tient, surely we will all discover them
together in time.
Politicians that usually have loud mouths and are the fi rst to comment on issues that do not even concern their portfolios were surprisingly quiet early this week when the looting escalated.
Mr Fix , His Excellency Mr Fearfokol Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula this week, for someone who has shady come-backs to internet trollers, don’t you think you could have used your voice to condemn the looting as quickly as you would comment on celebrity issues?
Minister Bheki Cele, who is usu-
ally at the fore-front when it
comes to dealing with those found with a few bottles of beer and a car-tons of cigarettes, where were you this
time when mobs were trashing bott le stores? I hope you’re happy
that those stores will be closed long aft er the ban on the sale of alco-hol is lift ed, some even for good.
Is the deputy president back from Russia? Please don’t ask Shwa silly questions such as does South Africa still have a deputy president.
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, you let down the country and brought Shwashwi to tears with your tweets. I hope you have sent condolences to the families of those who were killed in the name of #FreeZumaNow.
How to capture the king of amaZulu
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Lootlove
Still missingin action
na, when we were on hard lockdown, broke the laws and visited each other and enjoyed food and beverages. What do you say now that people are break-ing lockdown regulations, the country’s laws and Covid-19 health protocols on such a grand scale? • What took President Cyril Rama-
phosa so long to call a family meeting on the lootings in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng this week? Bheki Cele, as the Minister of Police, you are also free to answer this one. We had to wait for the biggest watched television series to end before the president of the country ad-dressed the nation.
• Suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, how do you feel about the current situation? Don’t bother, I can imagine what’s happening in your mind.• Shwa loves South Africa, our beauti-ful land … “let’s show the whole world, we can bring peace in our land”.
Mzansi needs peace, bold and true leadership
No time to pull the punches
Jub Jub
Lerato Kganyago
Your silence was not golden, Mr Fix Mbalula
Fikile Mbalula
Bheki Cele
David Mabuza
King MisuZulu kaZwelithini
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla
Sunday World 18 July 2021 Shwashwi 21
Shwa is watching the Covid-19 infection rates even more closely in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng following the super-spread-er events of the past few weeks.
It sends shivers down my spine that the looting was going on as if South Africans did not have enough problems.
Some blamed their criminal behaviour on hunger as they stole sound systems. Shwashwi was devastated because steal-ing fridges and sneakers has nothing to do with hunger.
Shwa spotted a man stealing two bicycles for what one can only assume are his kids. Shwa wondered where he would claim he bought them.
Imagine Thuso Mbedu having to explain to fellow actors why a grown man was carrying a pig on his back. There’s no way you can improve a response on these scenes of madness we saw this week.
Folk who have always wanted to be on television stole TV sets, forcing them in-to the cars smaller than their loot. Shwa is glad to hear that some community as-
A LOOTA CONTINUA ... SO DOES COVIVI
Questions?How do we explain to the younger generation the behaviour of old men who stole expensive couches and beds in the name of poverty?
sociations were returning the sto-len property. It is indeed true that “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”.
Tell me, why did they rob a sex shop? An old man walking around with a stolen sex toy is not a sight we want to see. This was stranger than the comments Somizi Mhlon-go makes on Idols SA.
These looters even stripped a surgery. I suppose they were try-ing to fi nd tools to look like their favourite celebrities who have al-legedly been under the knife, like hott ies Khanyi Mbau and Bonang Matheba.
What was even more disturb-ing were the cops who were loot-ing. Were they looking for the Lou-is Vuitt on store to look like their boss and fashion icon Police Min-ister Bheki Cele?
Even trucks arrived to loot an appliance factory. How hideous was it to look at men who looked like Santa carrying fridges on their backs.
It was embarrassing to see how many people bragged on social media, fi lming themselves eating cakes, if not showing off half-a-bot-tle store’s worth of liquor in their lounge – a sight that would send Zodwa Wabantu straight to re-hab just when she thinks she has a handle on her alcohol problem.
One thing Shwa can say is: easy come, easy go, but your phuza face from the stolen alcohol will not be that easy to go. What a sad week in South Africa.Many claimed they were looting because
of poverty but stole chairs.
This week’s events in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng will likely contribute to anincrease in Covid-19 infection rates in the next few weeks.
So, when Mzwanele Manyi said our country would be bett er off with Cyril Ramaphosa released from his responsibili-ties as president of South Africa, did he have anyone in mind?
Ca n Cr i seld a Kananda please tell us how she keeps glowing, and if she is in love?
Are Thandiswa and Nomsa, aka Nomisupastar, the nicest Mazwai sisters or do they have more? We heard rumours.
Thapelo Mokoena, can you please teach these celebrities about maintaining a happy marriage? Yes, we know about the facades, the ones who married fans and the ones pretending. Please Thapelo, it’s hard maintaining a straight and fresh face.
What does Norma Gigaba, I beg your pardon, Mngoma, now do for a living? Shwa has some IT issues.
Is Prince Kaybee the
hott est male celebrity at the moment? It is not Shwa that did the poll, okay.
Can Rebecca Malope and Mara Louw please
release an album so we may have some
joy? Rebecca Malope
Criselda Kananda
Prince Kaybae
Norma Gigaba
Nomsa Mazwai
Thandiswa Mazwai
Mzwanele Manyi
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Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos is missing in action.
I t i s n o w t h r e e months since the Belgian was appointed to lead Bafana through the World Cup quali- fiers starting in September.
We are looking forward to the Bafana tactician making us proud by taking us to the World Cup finals hosted by the Middle East Gulf country of Qatar next year, after the national outcry and disappoint-ment following Bafana’s fail-ure in the last hurdle to quali-fy for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
Granted, and understanda-bly so, the 69-year-old Belgian coach was forced to return home for his second Covid-19 vaccina-tion soon after his appointment.
Puzzling, however, it has also taken him more than
two months for him to get his second jab in a country where about 4.6-million and 40.1% of the population has already been fully vaccinated.
The former Belgian interna-tional and central defender has not been on the bench in Bafa-na’s recent matches after miss-ing a friendly against Uganda last month‚ and did not play a role in the team’s participation in the Cosafa Cup competition that is currently under way in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape.
With assistant coach Hel-man Mkhalele also sidelined by Covid-19, Bafana were guid-
ed by caretaker coach Morena Ramoreboli in the Cosafa Cup and kudos to him. He has done a sterling job under the circum-stances, taking a second string Bafana to today’s final against Senegal.
I understand the ageing Broos enjoys coaching by remote control in the comfort of his lounge back home in Bel-gium as he watches the Cosafa Cup and the upcoming Olympic soccer finals on TV. Safa, un-fortunately, did not put their foot down and insist he returns immediately after getting the jab, travelling restrictions aside.
For crying out loud, the elderly tactician has signed a five-year contract that also binds him to
qualify and lead Bafana to the 2026 World Cup, to be jointly hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico in the Americas.
We know he is certainly no small-time coach and has had an impeccable record of win-ning the Africa Cup of Na-tions with Cameroon in 2017 in Gabon against all odds, beat-ing Egypt, his most significant achievement outside Europe.
Worrisome though is that time is not on our side for the crucial World Cup qualifiers. Broos should have hit the ground run-ning by now. We cannot afford a hold-up in him taking over the reins since becoming the 19th coach of Bafana after replacing Molefi Ntseki, who was sacked
in March for failing to take us to Cameroon.
The Qatar World Cup quali-fying rounds were postponed from June to September by Fifa due to Covid-19 and the unpreparedness of Africa’s venues, and we are facing our nemesis Zimbabwe, Ghana and Ethiopia in the next six weeks.
We understand Broos is draw-ing a salary of about R720 000 from Safa but that is the least of our worries.
In a nutshell, of importance is to familiarise himself with the PSL, its players and to mon-itor overseas contingent that, need his immediate attention, and regrettably, six weeks is not enough, I believe.
Broos must get off his couch and start workingBelgian must return to SA and do his job
Bafana Bafana head coach Hugo Broos has been missing in action for the past two months. How long does it take to get a second Covid-19 jab in Belgium? /G a l l o I m a g e s
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By Xolile Mtshazo
A number of players have distinguished themselves during the ongoing Cosafa Cup, emerg-ing to claim their places in the Bafana Bafana set-up, some-thing that augurs well for the national team as competition for places intensifies.
Here are some of the revelations:
Ethan Brooks: The TS Gal-axy starlet and midfielder, 19, made his international debut in the Under-20 Cosafa Cup and has since graduated to make his maiden appearance for Bafana in the 3-2 friendly victory over Uganda last month.
His performance in the Cosafa Cup has been impressive after making starts against Bot-swana and Eswatini, both 1-0 wins.
The teenager has even drawn comparisons to former Bafana midfield general Steven Pienaar.
Monnapule Saleng: Un-veiled as Pirates players with Goodman Mosale, Kwanda Mngonyama and Bandile Shan-du two weeks ago, the former Free State Stars midfielder, 23, is a good crosser of the ball.
He has good technical skills and his great understanding of football techniques is the very reason Bucs signed him.
He has played for first division club Ella Koto in the last two seasons before Pirates snapped him up. Saleng was with amateur side Orbit College before joining the second-tier outfit Stars.
In the Cosafa Cup first-round match against Eswatini, Saleng assisted substitute Thabang Sibanyoni with a brilliant through-ball that resulted in the 1-0 match winner.
Moegamat Maart: The Sekhukhune midfielder, 25, has appeared in all four Cosafa Cup games before the semi-finals. He was drafted into the team
to play Lesotho, replacing the injured Brooks in a match Bafa-na emphatically beat Lesotho 4-0 leading to the semis.
The Orlando Pirates reject made his senior Buccaneers debut in a 3-1 victory over EC Bees in the Nedbank Cup in 2017 but turned a new leaf at Cape United where he was on loan.
After joining Babina Noko last season, he played a key role in the their promotion to the Premiership. The massive impact he has made at Lim-popo-based club earned him his maiden Bafana call-up for the Cosafa Cup.
Sinethemba Sithebe: The AmaZulu dreadlocked attack-ing midfielder and current Bafa-na co-captain in the regional Casafa Cup was rewarded with his first cap by former coach Molefi Ntseki in the friendly against Namibia last October in preparation for the unsuc-cessful Africa Cup of Nations qualification.
Sithebe, 27, is aggressive, enjoys his playmaker role and is comfortable as a link between the defence and attack.
Sithebe is not afraid to receive the ball even when tight-ly ganged up.
By Xolile Mtshazo
While Kaizer Chiefs CAF Champions League f inal opponents Al Ahly’s president Mahmoud El Khatib splashes special bonuses on his players, Amakhosi’s top brass on the other hand have been mum about their financial rewards.
Chiefs made history in the year they celebrate their 51st anniversary by qualifying for their maiden African Cham-pions League final to face the
Pharaohs of Cairo, Al Ahly, in the penultimate match yesterday.
The Red Eagles of Egypt are coached by former Mamelo-di Sundowns tactician Pitso Mosimane, who squared up against his countrymen, Sowe-to’s Glamour Boys, in the grand finale of the most prestigious Af-rican inter-club competition in Casablanca, Morocco, last night.
After the victory against AS Vita Club of the DRC in the first round, Al Ahly players have re-ceived incentives following their 3-0 win over the Congolese away in Kinshasa.
For their heroics, “Bibo”, as club president El Khatib is
fondly known, gave double-win bonuses convincingly beating Vita, apparently in recogni-tion of the players’ courageous performance.
This was followed by Mosi-mane giving the players a five-day rest to help them recuperate.
In the semi-final match, the
Pharaohs won 3-0 over Tuni-sia’s Esperance, and the Al Ahly bosses decided to reward players with a special bonus after the team’s 1-0 first-leg away victo-ry and similarly, the first team had a two-day rest upon arrival in Cairo last month.
But Mosimane is well too fa-miliar with the tradition of re-warding players with bonuses.
At his former club Mamelo-di Sundowns, Mosimane’s for-mer boss and club president, now CAF head honcho, mining mogul Patrice Motsepe, con-stantly and generously reward-ed players with bonuses for winning major trophies.
When contacted about the possibility of the dangling of the incentive carrot to play-ers for reaching the final, both Chiefs football manager Bobby Motaung and newly appoint-ed sporting director Kaizer Motaung Jr, who were in Cas-ablanca for the final, did not answer their phones or reply to messages sent to them.
By Kgomotso Mokoena
SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee president Barry Hendricks says that all their plans and logistics are on track and that there’s huge excitement in the team with only five days before the 2020 Olympic Games kickoff on Friday.
The games will be held in Tokyo, Japan, after they were postponed from last year due to the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. They will end on August 8.
Hendricks said the majori-ty of Team South Africa were already in the Land of the Rising Sun, with only a few ath-letes yet to make their 20-hour flight to Tokyo.
The SA Olympic Games boss said they would only talk about the number of medals they were expecting once everyone was in Japan because athletes were still pulling out due to positive Covid-19 tests.
“I will make a pronounce-ment on the expectations next week. This is because even to-day [Thursday] one athlete dropped out of the team due to Covid-19, so we want to make sure that the final team is in Tokyo, then we can predict who our medal hopefuls are.”
At the last Olympic Games in Brazil in 2016, Team SA re-turned home with 10 medals.
Chiefs bosses mum over CAF final bonusesAl Ahly players receive incentives
Staff members called on DStv channel to charge and discipline him
Chiefs players celebrate during the CAF Champions League 1st leg quarter-final match against Simba SC. / G a l l o I m a g e s
SA Olympic team’s plans ‘on track’
Akani Simbine celebrates his victory. /G a l l o I m a g e s
Cosafa Cup springs up new brand of Bafana future starsCompetition for places in national side intensifies
A number of players have distinguished themselves at Cosafa
Ethan Duncan Brooks of South Africa during a match against Botswana at Nelson Mandela Stadium early this month. / G a l l o I m a g e s
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Reshu f f l i ng is u n fold-ing at the headquarters of local football - Safa House - as the national association searches for a suitable candi-date to fi ll the position of head of communications.
This comes aft er incumbent Dominic Chimhavi was rede-ployed to stakeholder relations.
TV and radio personalityRomy Titus has been standing in for Chimhavi and she has been tipped for the position on a full-time basis.
This past week, former Banyana Banyana skipper Amanda Dlamini was un-veiled as the association’s head of commercial and marketing.
In May, another female administrator, Lydia Monye-pao, rose to the top echelons of Safa as the chief operating
offi cer. Monyepao is a former Banyana star player.
“What I said when I took over is that women need to be given space at Safa. We must move away from the situation where women were never given serious positions.
“It was only Fran Hilton-Smith who was in a top position, they all used to be clerks,” said Safa CEO Tebogo Motlanthe.
“Part of my agenda was to
transform and to empower, in particular black women. We will give a chance to those who qualify and who will con-tribute to our football and in administration, and that’s why you saw Lydia and the new lady, advocate Rachel Mkhon-to, who works in my office dealing with legal issues. We will continue to give capable women management positions if they are qualifi ed.
“With Romy, I want to
strengthen our relationship with the media. I do not have a media head because Dominic is in another department now. I will be gett ing a media head.
“We are going to rotate media personnel as media offi cers of our national teams. That’s the programme that I have started. As soon as we get a head of media, we will decide on the position of media offi cer.
“Like in Bafana, we want to get a great mechanism that
is why we have a team man-ager [Vincent Tseka] and a communications person,” Motlanthe said.
“We need a communica-tions head, we just came from section 189 and the principle is that what we don’t have inter-nally we must get externally, so the position will be adver-tised and we will start inter-viewing people,” he explained further.
Motlanthe cleared the air with regards to the long-serving SA Under-23 team manager Sinethemba Mbatha, who did not travel to the Olym-pic Games with the team.
“Sinethemba was not oust-ed from the team, she was never employed on a perma-nent basis, she was on a part-time basis.”
Safa CEO intends to empower and appoint more women in top posts
We will con-tinue to give capable women management positions
Reshuff ling targets mostly qualified black women
Safa head of communications Dominic Chimhavi has been redeployed to stakeholder relations. / G a l l o I m a g e s
SABC sports presenter Romy Titus has been tipped to head Safa’s communications department. / G a l l o I m a g e s
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By Kgomotso Mokoena
There is no end in sight with regards to the protracted PSL promotion/relegation saga involving Royal AM and the league bosses. Yesterday, the PSL disciplinary committ ee (DC) sought to sit down and hand down punishment to Royal AM, aft er charging the club for not honouring their four play-off s matches at the end of the season.
In what is a shot in the arm for Royal AM, the matt er has been postponed until Saturday, July 24. The postponement will surely worry the league boss-es in terms of kick-off for the new season.
The KZN club, owned by the fl amboyant businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize, has taken the league to court claiming
that they should get automatic promotion to the PSL because “they fi nished number one on the log in terms of points accu-mulated”. Sekhukhune Unit-ed were officially declared the winners of the GladAfri-ca Championship aft er a court
ruling. They were then promot-ed to the PSL, meaning Royal AM were runners-up and had to contest the play-off s. They did not honour all four match-es and have since been charged by the PSL DC.
Said PSL prosecutor Nande
Becker yesterday: “The club brought an application for a postponement without the necessary documentation. As a result, and in the best inter-est of justice, they have been given an opportunity to fi le the required papers and the matt er will be heard next Saturday.”
Eric Mabuza, the legal rep-resentative of Royal, said that it was clear that the DC should await the outcome of the court judgment, which was argued on Wednesday. “Part of the court case is the question of the PSL being in contempt of court. If we are right, this DC hear-ing is a waste of time. It was a wise decision by the PSL not to continue with the hearing until the case is fi nalised.”
On Friday, Royal AM showed more defi ance when
they wrote to Becker request-ing that the DC hearing should be postponed.
“We submit that it would be imprudent and grossly unrea-sonable to continue with the disciplinary hearing, moreso given the fact that our client has already sought to have the acting CEO of the PSL held in aggravated contempt of court for the very conduct of charg-ing our client.
“To put it bluntly, the PSL would be continuing with the contempt of court if it were to proceed with the discipli-nary hearing, alternatively, the PSL will be pre-empting or pre-judging the outcome of the judgment, which in itself constitutes further contempt of court,” reads the lett er of Royal AM sent to the league.
Two weeks ago, Royal AM lawyers were pushing for act-ing PSL CEO Mato Madlala to be imprisoned. “Our view is that the PSL have acted against the order of judge Nyathi,” said head of legal Happy Godi.
PSL prose-cutor Nande Becker says the Durban club has brought an application for a postpone-ment. / G a l l o
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Defiant Royal AM get room to breatheDC committee will now hear the matter next week
Our view is that the PSL acted against the order of judge Nyathi
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