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July 5 to 11 2019 Vol 35 No 27 @mailandguardian mg.co.za The GOOD NEWS Edition

Buy this newspaper if you want to feel better about yourself, the country and the continent 2 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 INSIDE Welcome to our good news edition

NEWS Child off ender closes the circle his country continues to function The news is, necessarily, dominated by the This is not sunshine journalism. Our publica- Youth helped to leave behind a life of crime 7 — to the extent that we can use that stories of corruption and abuse of power. This tion will continue to dig into how this country word — because of incredible peo- week is no different. The Mail & Guardian works and hold those in power to account. We Saul’s bold last stand for the ANC Tple. While our leaders talk about reports on how the already broken kingdom of will continue to play our role as an important Premier wants to ‘reinvent the future’ 9 the lost decade, it was civil servants eSwatini almost became a tax haven, with the part of a working democracy. And we will who worked under oppressive leadership to help of the same Trillian Capital that did so also strive to tell more stories about the good Fun and games that change lives keep the lights on most of the time. While our much damage in South Africa. people and the good things happening in our Gaming fosters problem-solving skills 12 leaders sat inside and watched the wholesale The M&G also has a story about how the country, and on the African continent. looting of our institutions, it fell to people in South African Revenue Service (Sars) will miss We are humans because we talk and we How to catch a serial killer civil society to go to the courts and stop dis- its revenue collection targets, which will put share stories, lessons and insights — the M&G ... and why SA is so good at it 14&15 asters from happening, such as the ruinous countless lives at risk because money meant is going to be better at doing exactly this. nuclear deal, and to get climate change legis- for social services doesn’t make it into the fi s- Expect a good news edition every two months, The father of Alexandra lation enforced. And, while our leaders kept cus. But that story also looks at the people and more stories of this nature in the weeks ‘I was born to serve, it’s my calling’ 16&17 silent, it was journalists who worked soul- fixing Sars, who lived through the destruc- between these special editions. destroying hours to alert the public to the pil- tion wrought by the organisation’s previous Send us suggestions — [email protected] HEALTH lage happening under a Zuma presidency. leadership. is a good starting point. Let’s spend more time This pee test could save your life South Africa is still here because of good These are the kinds of people that this good celebrating the people who keep making this Quick TB diagnoses are in sight 18 people. news edition is about. country a place we want to fi ght for.

AFRICA Africa, the hopeful continent Stories of resilience and ingenuity 20&21 IN BRIEF Our fears don’t tell the whole story Don’t let negativity blind you 22 Backseat driver to the rescue BUSINESS A passenger in a Jo’burg minibus taxi came to NUMBERS OF THE WEEK Raw power dumped on farms the rescue when the driver was temporarily At the tender age of 15, Cori “Coco” Gauff made history Sewage could be used to make biogas 23 blinded. Tshepiso Shongwe told the Sowetan as the youngest player in the Open era to advance how the skorokoro she was in moved into to reach Wimbledon's main draw and then beat Greener cars have electrifying potential oncoming traffi c, attracting the attention of ... but policymakers are slow to adapt 26 the metro police. The taxi driver then alleg- her idol, Venus Williams, in their first-round 15 edly had an altercation with the authorities, in clash at the All England Club which the offi cers used pepper spray. The taxi Sport driver was left writhing in pain, while his con- The amount of money cerned commuters wondered how they would in euros that residents get to work. Shongwe stepped in and took the wheel, while the blinded driver changed gears. of Madagascar must 525pay for a round-trip ticket to Egypt, All “sho’t lefts” and “after robots” were adhered to, according to reports. The fearless stand-in which includes meals, water, a match received a R20 “thank you” from the taxi driver ticket, and airport transfer. This has Bafana for her eff orts. been organised by the country's and Egypt President Andry Rajoelina, who Zille or Juju for UCT chancellor? in pressure has chartered a plane for all July 1 was the pot 1 As the University of Cape Town prepares to announce its new chancellor, the chatter on fans who wish to attend 182nd day of campus is about whether it will be former the Afcon round of 16 2019. Half of Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille or the 182 COMMENT & ANALYSIS matches on Sunday the year has passed and the world Fixing the economy is the biggest task Economic Freedom Front’s Julius Malema. moves into the second half of the Never mind Ramaphosa’s foes in the ANC, The position became available because Graça year this week the economy is the major challenge 27 Machel’s 10-year term is nearing its end. The post is largely ceremonial, but requires Why I support active euthanasia “an individual of stature, with exceptional Eusebius McKaiser on the right to die 30 personal qualities and integrity”. The DA stu- dent body on campus has EDUCATION nominated Zille, who, Leadership can fi x poor schooling it argues, has done Why Fezile Dabi district did so well 32 exceptional work TheR245/m² latest Rode Report says that to uplift the people Rosebank is the most expensive CAREERS, JOBS, APPOINTMENTS 38-43 of the Western office property node in Cape. 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The beleaguered tax His said his starting point is that he accepts the bona fi des of the Nugent agency will probably report and will implement its rec- miss its revenue target ommendations. He added that he is working with Nugent and his team in again, but it is on the his bid to turn Sars around. Much of this work will concern road to recovery as the the 1 400 or so people who work at new commissioner Sars. A large, framed picture in the reception area of Kieswetter’s offi ce revives critical units shows thumbnail photos of smiling Natasha Marrian Sars employees. They appear happy, laughing and clinging to each other. he South African Revenue This is despite the picture being Service (Sars) has set up mounted during Moyane’s tenure, a crack team in the office when staff morale collapsed. Tof commissioner Edward Insiders this week said that they Kieswetter to tackle any have faith in Kieswetter, but that cases that emerge from the Zondo there are still severe human resource inquiry into state capture and the issues that need to be addressed, Nugent inquiry into Sars. This team most of them caused by the fact that is watching for opportunities to claw those pushing Moyane’s agenda back the tens of billions of rand that remain in critical positions in Sars. have been looted from the state. Kieswetter said the Bain remodel- Two months after taking office, ling had infl icted signifi cant damage Kieswetter is moving apace in an and he is addressing this, but it will attempt to reverse the destruction of be a slow process. the tax agency under Tom Moyane’s Sars and the treasury are working rule — but he is also targeting the Taxing work: Sars commissioner Edward Kieswetter (below) will implement all of the Nugent commission of together to lodge a civil claim against broader state capture project, which inquiry’s recommendations. The inquiry into the tax agency found that Sars ‘reeked of intrigue, fear, distrust Bain and to bring criminal charges hit state-owned enterprises and the and suspicion’. Photos: Delwyn Verasamy and Freddy Mavunda/Business Day (below) against the company, as recom- fi scus hard. mended by Nugent. It was a baptism of fi re for the Sars said in an interview this week that he behind the tax issues sits a criminal bring about the change becomes the Kieswetter said that Bain still has doyen. He re-entered the organi- has set up dedicated capacity in his intent, so that is why we are work- change. So, if you come in here like a case to answer, even though it had sation he once helped shape into offi ce to respond when matters are ing very closely with the prosecut- a bull in a china shop, you also inad- returned what it had earned, with a world-class revenue collector at raised before the Zondo commission, ing authority and the investigating vertently create the wrong culture,” interest, from its contract with Sars, the beginning of May. Over the past as well as tackle allegations made authority so that we don’t miss the Kieswetter said. which was irregularly awarded. He five years, Sars has degenerated before Nugent. The team is headed opportunity to collaborate.” He is not working with the said that paying back the money was into an organisation that, accord- by former Sars acting commissioner Doing so would “make sure that Moyane-aligned executive commit- not enough to reverse the damage ing to retired Judge Robert Nugent, Mark Kingon. those people who have been actively tee he found when he arrived at Sars, caused by Bain’s operating model. “reeked of intrigue, fear, distrust and This move comes on the back of involved in the capture of the state describing it as on “pause” rather Bain said said it agreed that paying suspicion”. reports that Gavin Watson, who are brought to book”. than being completely disbanded. back the fees was not enough but has To add to its woes, the contraction heads dodgy services provider Sars is by no means out of the The committee took critical deci- taken a range of internal measures in the economy could culminate in Bosasa, now called African Global woods after former commis- sions, together with the previous to prevent the same mistakes in the Sars again missing its revenue tar- Operations, was grilled by a “confi - sioner Moyane’s ruinous reign, but commissioner, about the running of future. It would also “have the appro- gets. But Kieswetter said the revival dential” Sars inquiry about Kieswetter said the tax agency was the tax agency. priate discussions” if it is asked to of key sections such as compliance, his tax aff airs. Attention on a slow road to recovery. Kieswetter said: “I also have to help with “further inquiries”. the large business centre and was initially drawn to The far-reaching redesign of be careful that I don’t appear to be In the meantime, those side- the illicit economy units would Bosasa at the Zondo the Sars operating model, which Moyane in a diff erent guise and treat lined in the Bain overhaul have begin to turn things around. inquiry. was conducted in cahoots with people the way that he treated them.” received meaningful work, although The taxman’s scrutiny of “Now remem- Boston-based consultancy Bain & Among the fi rst decisions Moyane Kieswetter has yet to iron out the state-capture allegations ber,” Kieswetter Company, was central to the damage took at Sars was to disband its execu- operating model and reporting lines. is welcome news for South said, “we are moti- inflicted during the Moyane years. tive committee, the Nugent inquiry Doing that requires Kieswetter to Africans, who are confronted vated for tax conse- The restructuring displaced more heard. But Kieswetter said he con- work 20-hour days. He said his deci- daily with whistle-blowers’ quences but than 200 Sars senior managers and tinues to tap into the experience of sion to return to Sars was illogical, hair-raising reports invari- sidelined critical and experienced these individuals. given the enormity of the task, but of the extent to ably employees. The Nugent report — the culmi- that it was a call to his “soul”. . which the state Kieswetter has to tread carefully: nation of the inquiry into Sars — The Sars story is not over, with was captured simply repeating what Moyane had identified a few individuals on the dodgy politicians still training their and taxpayers’ done, which was, in Bain’s words, to executive committee who played an arrows at it. This time around, Sars is money abused. “neutralise” those who were hostile insidious role under Moyane. prepared and has the support of the No individuals to his ill-intentioned project, would Again, Kieswetter said he is not treasury and the president. involved have be a mistake. targeting anyone but has had conver- “I have work to do. I will remain yet been held to “I have to work within the law, I sations with those identifi ed in the focused on rebuilding Sars. I can’t account. have to apply my mind, I have to be report and is taking legal advice on aff ord to be distracted,” Kieswetter Kieswetter fair and transparent. The way you how he should proceed. said. 4 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 News Mswati wanted Trillian to turn his

The Gupta-linked company that had an ‘interest’ in South African state-owned enterprises used a similar modus operandi to try to get a slice of the pie in Eswatini’s government projects

Sabelo Skiti & Thanduxolo Jika within weeks, on several projects the Eswatini government was undertak- usinessperson and for- ing and planning for the future. mer government minis- These included construction of ter Tokyo Sexwale pulled the multibillion-rand International Bstrings to secure a multi- Convention Centre (ICC), two billion-rand Eswatini five-star hotels in Ezulwini Valley, deal for Trillian Capital, a company between Mbabane and Manzini, and owned by people with close links to an ambitious plan to position and the Gupta family. The deal would market the country as a tax haven. have seen the firm help in the con- Trillian’s high-level planning docu- struction of Las Vegas-style hotels ment, seen by the Mail & Guardian, and a conference centre. It also had shows that the company was asked plans of making the kingdom a tax by Eswatini to arrange between haven. R400-million and R700-million to Sexwale, who was non-executive complete the ICC, plus a further chairperson of the controversial R2-billion for the construction of Gupta-linked fi rm at the time, bro- two Las Vegas-style fi ve-star hotels — kered a meeting for its top executives one adjacent to the ICC and another with Eswatini monarch King Mswati near the new King Mswati III III and then another one with International Airport. According to the then finance minister, Martin the document, the main purpose of Dlamini, in September 2016. the ICC, which was funded initially These two meetings were followed by the government, was to host next by several other high-level meet- year’s African Union summit. Inside track: Trillian was ings with senior government lead- “A subsequent loan of US$80- asked to help finance large ers, including those of the Eswatini million was obtained from Taiwan, projects (above) and met Central Bank. but would only take construction with Former Finance Minister The meetings paved the way to stage 70% complete. The client Martin Dlamini (right) Photo: for Trillian to get the inside track, requires an additional R400 million Mandel Ngan/AFP

to R700 million to complete the venue and requires sup- port in obtaining the funds,” the document reads. It is not clear what came of these ambitious plans to use Eswatini as Trillian’s spring- board into the rest of the African continent. Eswatini press secretary Percy Simelane confirmed that the APPLY NOW government had met Trillian but said “the company did not APPLICATIONS FOR ACADEMIC meet our standards and the pro- Wood. This was in a bid to help the and Trillian’s majority owner Essa, as cess was stopped. We therefore company tailor proposals to treasury well as Mohamed Bobat and Malcolm PROGRAMMES (2020) NOW OPEN have no loan agreement and other government departments. Mabaso, the adviser to then mineral with them.” A trail of leaked emails from the resources minister Mosebenzi Zwane. At the time Trillian time showed how Van Rooyen for- Bobat, another of Van Rooyen’s advis- was making head- warded the classified document, ers, forwarded it to Wood. Previously lines in South Africa which detailed business opportuni- Wood had also been given confi den- for all the wrong ties in Africa, a plan to deal tial fi nancial plans of the co-operative reasons. with ratings agencies as governance department when Van Its business prac- well as proposed govern- Rooyen was minister there. tices were exposed in ment spending, to his Trillian made the news after for- a 2017 report by advo- adviser Ian Whitley. mer employee Mosilo Mothepu blew cate Geoff Budlender Whitley then the whistle on how Wood knew, and into the company. sent it on to told her two months before, that This followed his Gupta ally Nhlanhla Nene would be removed as investigation into fi nance minister in December 2015. alleged multimillion- Trillian was also the beneficiary rand corrupt prac- of the capture of state-owned enter- tices at Eskom and prises and siphoned off hundreds ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES Transnet. of millions of rand, including R600- 7VZ[NYHK\H[L+PWSVTHZPU4HUHNLTLU[PU[OLÄLSKZVM! Sexwale commis- million from Eskom (without a valid • Public and Development Management sioned the report in contract and for work that was never • Public and Development Sector Monitoring and Evaluation October 2016, after done) and nearly R200-million from • Security numerous allega- Transnet for work that was done by tions of corrup- another company. 4HZ[LYVM4HUHNLTLU[PU[OLÄLSKVM.V]LYUHUJL tion in Trillian, In Eswatini, last month the (Research and Coursework) which was 60% Pretoria High Court ordered Trillian • Thematic areas for this programme: Public Policy, Development and owned by Gupta to pay Eskom’s money back. Economics, Governance and Management, Public and Development associates Salim Trillian was given access to Sector Monitoring and Evaluation, Peace and Security, Social Essa and Eric Wood. high-level administrators, includ- Security and General The M&G asked Sexwale ing the assistant governor of the Closing date: 31 October 2019 to comment but he had Central Bank Mfan’fikile Dlamini, not done so by the time of whom Trillian executives met at the Research Degrees publication. bank’s headquarters in Mbabane on • Master of Management by Dissertation The Eswatini operation September 27 2016. • Doctoral studies and scope of the meetings, According to the Trillian docu- Closing date: 15 December 2019 as well as information shared, ment, the meeting discussed the Talks: Eswatini Please visit: www.wits.ac.za/wsg follows a similar pattern to creation of an offshore banking Contact: [email protected] the way four-day fi nance min- King Mswati III centre. The document also said: Call: 011 717 3505 or 011 717 3520 ister Des van Rooyen, within met with Trillian “This topic is still very new to them Apply online: http://www.wits.ac.za/postgraduate/applications/ hours of being appointed, also top executives in and only a high-level desktop study shared confidential informa- 2016 to seek help was done a few weeks ago. An older WSGWITS Wits_WSG >P[Z:JOVVSVM.V]LYUHUJL tion meant for the Cabinet in building his study dating back to 1999/2000 was with Trillian chief executive kingdom performed by the Central Bank. Do Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 5 News country into a tax haven

Projects and pension funds

As well as the construction of the multibillion-rand International Convention Centre (ICC), two five-star hotels and marketing Eswatini as a tax haven, Trillian also identified 13 other projects that the country was looking at in the future. These included hydro and ther- mal power-generation projects and the Western Railway Link, which would have had trains Linked-in: Tokyo Sexwale (left) commissioned a report into the business practices of Trillian after allegations of corruption emerged. The company running through South Africa, was part-owned by Eric Wood (right) and Salim Essa, both Gupta associates. Photos: Alaister Russell/Gallo Images/Sowetan and Paul Botes Eswatini and Mozambique. Some of the projects would be not have a copy of this and have for the next two weeks: top-down optimisation as well as researching of financial constraints, were meant funded by reforms to pension requested it from KPMG.” financial model to be done on the ICC new revenue with respect to the rev- to be completed in May (ICC) and fund legislation, which was also Earlier that same day, Trillian vis- and the hotels; high-level position enue diversification.” October (hotels). discussed with Trillian, that ited the financial planning office in paper on the tax haven and offshore Earlier this year, the ama Corruption has driven Eswatini’s would create more local instru- the capital and met the principal sec- bank; of the other projects in the pipe- Bhungane Centre for Investigative economy to the brink of collapse and ments for pension funds to retary of economic planning, Bertram line, TCP (Trillian Capital Partners) Journalism published an article the country, along with South Africa, invest in. Stewart, as well as his counterpart at will identify work streams that could detailing how the ambitious prestige is also considered among one of the This meant that the funds finance, Bheki Bhembe. In that meet- potentially be executed by the team. projects in Eswatini had quadrupled most unequal in the world. had to keep 50% of their wealth ing, the company was mandated to “Consideration will also be given from R1-billion to R4.8-billion — a The king’s hunger for impractical in the country, up from 30% secure funding for the ICC and hotel to the financial viability to TCP of the number not confirmed by the gov- first-world infrastructure — includ- before, thus increasing money projects, as well as negotiate with project as the projects are filtered; ernment there. ing the R2.5-billion international circulating in the economy. — potential operators for the hotels. the scope of TCP’s services are likely The projects, which have been airport that services one airline, SA Thanduxolo Jika & Sabelo “Post the meetings, the team has to encompass feasibility studies, delayed by more than a year from Airlink — has made the situation Skiti agreed on the following deliverables financial models, capital raising, cost last year’s completion dates because worse. DREAMS DO COME TRUE, MR. PRESIDENT.

“IT ALWAYS SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL IT’S DONE.” NELSON MANDELA

The Khaliques ‘suit trade-in campaign’ has been an incredible success, with over 1 000 suits collected, which will be handed over to Afrika Tikkun on Nelson Mandela day. An incredible 3 000 suits have been donated to those in need, since the inception.

Khaliques stand behind the President and his dream to create job opportunities for young school and university leavers. Together, the Vision 10 000 campaign has created permanent jobs for over 60 graduates. Of course, we have a long way to go, but it’s a start.

Khaliques thank those loyal customers who have handed in their old suits and call on business to help in any way possible, to unite behind supporting local manufacture.

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Inspirational: Khadija Patel of prostration, with the caption: years is particularly felt. Liverpool notable. One popular chant heard “Muslims praying at half time at the Mohamed Salah are European champions and much around Anfi eld these days goes like n April 2015, Liverpool fan Ste- match yesterday #DISGRACE.” of their success can be attributed to this: “Mo Sa-la-la-la-lah, Mo Sa-la- phen Dodd became famous His tweet provoked an outrage, a two players, the Egyptian Mohamed la-la-lah, If he’s good enough for you, — internet famous. He posted police complaint and eventually the Salah and the Senegalese Sadio he’s good enough for me. If he scores Ia photo on Twitter of two men club committed itself to investigating Mané. Both are exceptional football- another few then I’ll be Muslim too. praying during the halftime the matter. It’s not clear what exactly ers. They are also Muslims who cel- If he’s good enough for you, he’s good break at Anfield, the home stadium happened to that investigation. Four ebrate their goals by dropping to the enough for me. He’s sitting in the of Liverpool Football Club. The men, years is a long time; the world has ground in sujood — just like the men mosque, that’s where I wanna be.” Asif Bodi and Abubakar Bhula, were moved on. in the picture shared by Dodd. It’s unlikely that Salah has inspired pictured in sujood, the Islamic act At Anfi eld the passage of these four Salah’s popularity is particularly a mass wave of Muslim conversions. But a working paper by political scien- tists at Stanford University has found signs that his popu- larity might actually have helped to tackle anti-Muslim senti- ment in Merseyside. One Facebook experiment with 8 000 British Liverpool fans gave respondents foot- balling facts and questions. A third Catch President Cyril Ramaphosa and world-renowned of those surveys future forecaster George Friedman at SA’s first ever also included a slide describing Salah’s Digital Economy Summit, hosted by 4IRSA. commitment to praying regularly. All users were then Through the summit, 4IRSA aims to stimulate an asked about their attitudes to Muslims. inclusive, fact-based dialogue to help shape a coherent Of those who saw the slide about Salah’s national response to the 4th industrial revolution in SA. faith, 23% thought Islam was compat- ible with British val- ues, compared with 18% of the other fans. It’s not exactly a huge diff erence, but the experiment sug- gests that a reminder of a positive example of Muslims can alter opinions. The academics also hunted for signs of broader changes in Islamophobic senti- ment in Liverpool since Salah was signed. Here too, while the rest of the United Kingdom registered spikes in hate crimes — some attributed to bet- ter police reporting — Merseyside, by contrast, reported a slight fall. The analysis of data sets on Twitter yield similar find- ings. What this translates to in sim- ple terms is that Islamophobia in Liverpool seems to have been kept in check at a time when it was rising elsewhere because of an association with Salah, who has been able to rein in the prejudice of Liverpool fans. Another popu- lar chant at Anfield describes Salah as a “gift from Allah”. When he, and Mané, drop to the ground To join the discussion between industry, after scoring a goal academia, government, labour and civil in the din of celebra- tions at Anfield, it society, go to seems that exposure to people who are diff erent to ourselves can truly help shift our bias. Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 7 News The Good News Edition

Second chance: The Soshanguve Secure Care Centre (above) is one of 31 facilities for children awaiting trial or who have been convicted for crimes they committed. The centre runs Childprogrammes to rehabilitate children, offender including psychiatric assessment and care, group closes therapy and teaching youngsters the various skills. Photos: circleHiram Alejandro Durán

Children commit crimes. The reasons they do are rarely simple and the solution is not a criminal record. In the second part of a series about children in conflict with the law, Athandiwe Saba talks to youngsters who have turned their lives around, thanks to government programmes

arabile Thejane was to jail. I didn’t know anything about 13 when the police secure centres. I just knew I was caught him inside his going to jail with hardened crimi- Oteacher’s house, trying nals. I was scared.” to steal so he could buy He speaks softly and rarely makes booze. After his fingerprints were eye contact as he narrates his story of taken, a slew of burglaries were con- how he ended up at the centres, run nected to him. His parents could by the department of social develop- only see a downward spiral and a ment. After his arrest, a social worker life of incarceration for him. wrote a report and sent it to the mag- The 24-year-old from Pampierstad istrate. He was then transported to in the Northern Cape says: “By the Lerato Place of Safety, in Kimberley, time I was arrested, I was closer to 14 where he spent six months waiting years. On that day I was on my way for his trial. to school but I changed my mind and “During the time at Lerato Place decided to go back home. While at of Safety, six boys raped me. At the home I remembered that my teacher time that this was happening, I did was living alone so, while she was at not think about it. I tried very hard school, this would be the best time to to block it out. But a case was opened break into her house. and the boys were prosecuted.” “But a neighbour saw me and Social workers called in his family called the police, who found me so they could talk about Thejane’s Changed: Anathi Msindo, December and I thought to be cool campaigns aimed at helping people inside the house. They beat me up rape. Talking to them about his a former addict who stole again I needed money for alco- tackle substance abuse. and took me to the police station. crime was also a way for him to to pay for drugs, attended hol. I don’t know why I did it again Thejane smiles when he tells of They beat me up again. At that time understand that what he had done a three-month diversion because I had everything at home. I how he learned how to use a com- they took my fingerprints and all the was wrong. This step allowed him to programme at the Walter just wanted a sense of belonging.” puter and how to build things with previous cases I had thought I had be released into his parents’ care. Sisulu Child and Youth Thejane was arrested again, and “my own hands. This gave me a rea- got away with caught up with me. I But, instead of taking his second Care Centre. She is now appeared in court before being sent son to wake up every morning and had a lot of cases. chance, he went back to break- back at school. Photo: to the Molehe Mampe Secure Care try to be a better person for myself “I was just thinking I was going ing into people’s houses. “It was Hiram Alejandro Durán Centre, in Kimberley, to await trial. and my parents.” He was then sentenced to five years He was then chosen to represent in a secure centre. the De Aar centre at the first national Teen who lost her way grasps her second chance Thejane was moved from one cen- youth camp that was held in the Free tre to the next before ending up at State. “And after that, I was chosen the one in De Aar. This, he says, was to be the chairperson of the Youth It took a long time for Anathi thing I could sell. I could never be She did this at the Walter Sisulu his turning point. Forum in the Northern Cape prov- Msindo to connect the dots and broke when I was with my boys. Child and Youth Care Centre in “This time around I knew I had ince for two years.” work out why she had become Kufuneka ndibavusele [I needed to Johannesburg. to change my ways. But it was only These opportunities allowed him addicted to drugs, and stole to make it happen for them].” “I learned a lot in that short when I arrived at a secure centre in to work closely with other young- maintain her habit. But the one time Msindo says she period of time. I met my social De Aar that I fell in love with carpen- sters like him. “It was only last year, when I sat didn’t steal from her neighbour she worker, who was the first person try, and the hours to make anything “I was a leader and I didn’t even down with a social worker and my was arrested for taking his phone to really ask me what my problem gave me time to think. know it. The programmes I went family to unravel what was hap- and R800. “No one believed me. My was, and who listened. I got coun- “I started to open my mind because on showed me I could do this and pening to me. I finally told them heart was broken. Everyone asked selling and check-ups at the clinic I realised that there was no future on I could use my life story to make that at [the age of] seven, my uncle how they were meant to believe me in Protea Glen. I grew from this the path I was on. I kept to myself a a change in other people’s lives. raped me. My cousin saw this but, when I was so used to taking peo- and, by the time I left the centre, lot of the time and joined a number I was ready to go back into my because we were so young, we ple’s things.” I was the Anathi I truly wanted to of groups, which taught me that if I community.” didn’t tell anyone.” Msindo was sentenced to a diver- be.” don’t stand for anything, I will fall After his release, Thejane became In 2014, at the age of 13, she sion programme for three months. The 19-year-old returned to for anything.” an intern at the social development started smoking weed and crys- This aims to give a child offender a school and is hoping to one day At this point in his story, Thejane department and is now learning how tal meth. “I became a menace in second chance, by preventing them become a motivational speaker lifts his head, straightens his shoul- to be a childcare worker. the community. Breaking into from having a criminal record and and a lawyer specialising in cases ders and stops wringing his hands. He has come full circle. He’s back people’s homes, stealing their addressing the root causes of their involving children. — Athandiwe He becomes animated as he talks at the Lerato Place of Safety — only phones, money, clothes and any- criminal behaviour. Saba about joining programmes such this time he is helping troubled as Breaking the Chains, and other young people change their lives. 8 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 9 News The Good News Edition Saul’s bold last stand for the ANC

The fate of the ANC electorate no longer inhibited by loy- alty to the liberation movement. is on the line as the According to Saul, this means next generation of shedding the “status quo bias” which has plagued the party for two dec- party leaders fight to ades and calls for his generation of ‘reinvent the future’ in leaders to “reinvent the future”. “Reinventing the future means we contested provinces must not take anything for granted; we must question the current insti- Natasha Marrian tutional practices and cultures,” he told the lekgotla. rom a premier who spent He provided a stark example of R50 000 on KFC in just 10 how political leaders are prioritised days in office to one who is at the expense of citizens. Frejecting excesses such as “I was informed that when the flashy cars, blue-light con- vehicle of the premier or officials voys and the premier’s residence in reaches 120 000km, it must be his first week in office, the Northern changed. That is what I was told. Cape has turned a corner. This is what the ministers’ handbook The newly appointed premier, is saying … but in the same province Zamani Saul, has raged against even we have ambulances with mileage of a bowl of fresh fruit awaiting him in 952 000km that carry sick and vul- his office each morning, dismissing it nerable people to and from health as “wastage”. centres. “If I want fresh fruit, I can go and “We cannot, as revolutionaries, be buy it myself,” he said. confronted by a moral dilemma and Saul’s approach to governance thus think this is a difficult question … it far was neatly encapsulated in a fiery requires boldness for us as leaders address he delivered at the ANC’s to put ourselves at a disadvantage in provincial lekgotla in preparation for order to create an advantage for the his State of the Province address on poor.” Friday. The leader with a doctorate of law “Institutional practices that place in public law and jurisprudence, us on a pedestal and deify us at the a master’s degree in development cost of service delivery must be studies from the University of the done away with … a critical part of Free State and a master’s law degree our struggle now is to fight against from the University of the Western self-indulgence and self-aggrandise- Cape, has his work cut out for him. ment,” he said. The Northern Cape is in a precari- His approach is novel and fresh — ous fiscal position, with debt in but likely to ruffle feathers in a coun- excess of R3-billion. The auditor gen- try and a province in which political Game-changer: Northern Cape Premier Zamani Saul has vowed to cut costs and serve the people of his eral’s recent municipal audit report office is a fast track to the high life; a province, which would be to the benefit of the ANC in the next elections. Photo: Emile Hendriks/Gallo/Foto24 showed that 62% of the municipali- career and not a calling. ties in the province are in a vulner- Saul said his approach — in which premier said in the lekgotla that structure to endorse President Cyril The three are the next genera- able position. And Saul said that half he has thus far diverted funds from his approach is by no means a “sur- Ramaphosa as a successor to former tion of ANC leaders, but they are all of the province’s households were cars for officials to buying ambu- prise package” — the resolutions president Jacob Zuma. on notice and in a perilous position poor, with unemployment standing lances, vowed to get rid of the pre- imply that political leaders should In the 2019 general election, Saul with the electorate. Their failure at 26% — 60% of those unemployed mier’s residence and allocate the “unclothe” themselves of execu- was among three ANC chairpersons to turn around the fortunes of the are young people. proceeds to a premier’s bursary fund, tive luxuries and serve as “ordinary and premier contenders who were ANC in their respective provinces is His success will be imperative if and ban blue-light convoys and pic- activists”. effectively put on notice by the elec- set to have a far-reaching effect on he hopes to improve the ANC’s elec- tures of himself and MECs in provin- Saul is aware of the risk should he torate. The ANC’s support in the the party’s future in these areas, and toral fortunes in the Northern Cape. cial government offices — is based and his executive fail to do this, and province slipped to below 60% for nationally. For now, his stance is welcomed but on ANC resolutions from its national the risk of maintaining the status the first time, with the party winning In fact, a loss in these three prov- the key question is whether he will conference at Nasrec in December quo in his province. only 58% in former stronghold and inces in the next election would translate it into action. If he and his 2017. “We are on notice. We are only left the Democratic Alliance making seri- relegate the ANC to a rural party, executive fail, he is aware that they These, however, are not the resolu- with 7%. If we lose that in the next ous inroads. with its bases limited to provinces would be handing the province over tions being punted by ANC secretary election, we are going to be relegated Gauteng Premier David Makhura such as Limpopo, Mpumalanga, to the opposition. general Ace Magashule, who has to the opposition benches,” he said. won back the country’s economic the Free State and the North West. “If we don’t address the question fixated largely on the South African Saul is the ANC Northern Cape heartland by a sliver, with just 50% But declines in electoral perfor- of youth unemployment … I see Reserve Bank. chairperson and his election to the of the vote, and KwaZulu-Natal mance were recorded even in these myself as the last ANC premier of The resolutions Saul is implement- helm of the province in 2017 was Premier Sihle Zikalala presides over provinces. the Northern Cape … we cannot lack ing entail closing the gap between tightly fought. Under his leadership, a divided province, where the ANC Saul, Makhura and Zikalala, then, imagination, we have to be creative,” political leaders and the people. The the province became the first ANC got just 54% in the last poll. are burdened by the reckoning of an he said.

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Property investment Name of stokvel: Rustenburg Property People can contribute as little as R3 300 per month to invest in property to be purchased and Business ventures developed. Members are said to get a return on investment once Name of crowdfunding stokvel: Puno the first property is sold. “As black people, we need to start doing stokvels for business. Crowd- “Stokvels are things that we grew up with — literally. funding is just a fancy way to say stokvel. A few friends and I wanted to Our moms bought our shoes with stokvel money or get into manufacturing and the best way for us to collate the funds and paid for trips. Why not use a model where we group formalise this was to start a stokvel. Now we have more than 40 people ourselves and work together as a black nation to grow?” who take part. Members contribute about R840 a month. This pot of — Lebogang Ratema, Rustenburg Property money has been used to provide members with start-up capital for their Investment Stokvel chairperson businesses, and now we are going in as a co-operative to buy a tissue-manufacturing machine. We will also be moving into making sanitary towels.” — Founder of Puno, Mothupi Kgopa

Property savings Name of stokvel: oGatsheni Property Travel Members buy shares collectively in larger property portfolios to bypass the high-interest, 20-year Name of stokvel: Flight Centre home-loan term. Monthly contributions range from R3 500 to This stokvel enables members to get travelling discounts on flights, as well as having access to R15 000 with the aim of handing over property to individual other products such as better holiday prices and travel advice. members in 10 years’ time. “[Our model] is giving the less The minimum monthly contribution is R500. “Many financial and travel fortunate or those who can't really afford to build their institutions are offering amazing discounts to those who cannot afford dream houses a reality in terms of them affording the rates to save on their own. Flight Centre has a stokvel where that they are given. It empowers people in investing in people can join as individuals or as a group of no more than 30 people.” property and acquiring knowledge about the property.” — Lance Nkwe from Flight Centre — Mhlekazi Ndhlovu, oGatsheni president House building Wigs Name of stokvel: Masakhe Ladies Name of stokvel: Weave and Make-up Squad A group of Cape Town women from Philippi, Crossroads, Khayelitsha and Strand have The stokvel was started by 11 Jo’burg women who felt hair and started a stokvel with a difference. They call themselves the Masakhe Ladies (let’s make-up products were too costly. “Each month we would all pay R200 build each other) and they pool their money to build houses. “Women face the to two members, equating to about R1 000 for each of them. The agree- most hardships. The 28 women each contribute R2 400 which we pool to build ment was we put money into each member’s bank account one of the members a house, renovate their home or build flats at the back of and they can either buy themselves a weave or make-up, or both. their yards. These flats ensure women have a steady income.” After the purchase you must take a picture and send it to the group — Ntombekhaya Nyama Plati, Masakhe Ladies founder as proof. We had penalties for people who did not make payments on time or who did not follow the rules to ensure that there was no scamming.” — Member of the Weave and Make-up Squad datadesk Datadesk, the M&G centre for data journalism, produced this story Graphic: JOHN McCANN Compiled by M&G DATADESK * Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 11 The Good News Edition ‘Accidental’ author climbs bestseller list

Lester Kiewit “There are so many coloured guage and dialect of his an emotion. “I still speak like that, so release — 5 000 sold copies guarantee intellectuals. People who have done youth — a combina- I just wrote the way I speak. And I still bestseller status in the South African usuf Daniels, a former so much more than just being jovial. tion of English and speak like that to my kids, whether book market. The book has just been auctioneer, describes But this is my story,” he says. “It’s Afrikaans, with they go to Rustenburg Girls’ High sent for its fi rst reprint. himself as someone who not a political story. It’s a fun story liberal use of curse or not. I’m not going to change. And “Some people dream of writing Ybecame an author by of me growing up, coloured.” words to empha- people who’ve read the book stop me books, and they think about what mistake. He refuses to Daniels’s 21 stories are written in sise a mood or and say, ‘Thanks for keeping it real,’ they are going to write. I didn’t plan call himself a writer, preferring the the Cape Flats patois. He decided and it just makes me feel lekker warm any of this. I just picked up my phone title of storyteller. to remain true to the lan- inside.” and posted something to Facebook. His book, Living Coloured (Because Daniels’s publishers say almost Now, months later, I’m sitting in Black & White Were Already Taken), Storyteller: 3 000 copies of his book were sold bookshops talking about a book I is soaring up the bestseller list Yusuf Daniels within the first month of its wrote. I feel very lucky.” in bookstores around the country. It’s a collection of short sto- ries of Daniels’s childhood, growing up in the suburbs of Athlone and Mitchells Plain during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. It’s this time period, when the term “coloured” was yoked upon brown people, that frames his tales, with the backdrop being apartheid and segregation. “I was there the day my granny was put out in District Six. But, wherever they put us we still had fun,” Daniels says, recalling his youth. Today, he looks the epitome of the cool dad: polo-neck jer- sey, stylish winter coat and an expertly coiff ed hairstyle. Putting pen to paper was never the plan, he says. It was never an ambition. But bore- dom had him taking to social media to write what was in his head. “It started with a groin injury. I was lying on Dr Ling’s acupuncture table. While I was lying there, I picked up my phone and I wrote exactly what was happening to me, with a little added coloured spice. I posted it on Facebook and the response was amaz- ing. I posted another seven stories in seven days.” Those posts were the start of his literary career. His ability to weave stories and describe mood, place, time of day and characters allow readers to picture exactly what he is writing about. Daniels says this is a result of growing up in a family of storytellers, from uncles spin- ning yarns to his father tell- ing stories around the dinner table to him and his siblings. The first-time author said that, unknown to him, a friend had printed his posts and sent them to publishing companies. “The next day I got two calls from people I did not know saying they want to meet me,” he says. Although the book high- lights the trauma his family and many like him endured during apartheid — from forced removals to being dumped on the Cape Flats — Daniels says he wants to remember the good times of being young and to guard against the harsh realities of life. Winter Reading

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Professional gaming with staggering amounts of money to be won,” he says. can mean earning The highest-paid gamer in the big bucks for elite world, Kuro Takhasomi, a 25-year- old German, has accumulated nearly competitors. It also R60-million. The grandest prize pool fosters problem-solving at a gaming tournament is at a com- petition called The International, skills in casual players which offers R350-million across dif- ferent games, such as Fortnite and Eyaaz Matwadia Call of Duty. This money is changing the hen Zuhair Ebra- industry, and individual lives. For him woke up on Ebrahim, the money he won play- the morning of ing Fifa has allowed him to focus on WJuly 23 2017, he becoming a chartered accountant. was a regular sec- Holding that controller and piloting ond-year university student; some- virtual footballers around also takes one who was worried about how he away the stress of work and study. was going to survive financially over James says more people are realis- the next seven days. ing that gaming comes with lots of His grip on a video game controller benefits. would erase that worry and change “On the smaller scale, gaming lets his life. players explore worlds and scenarios Later that day, he went to the larg- they would never normally explore,” est e-sports tournament in South he says. “So this builds their imagi- Africa, hosted by VS Gaming, to play nation, and most importantly, the for a chunk of the R1.5-million prize idea that nothing is ever over and to pool. The game he played that day, keep trying until they get a level or Fifa 17, is the world’s most popu- skill right.” lar football simulator. It’s a game These skill sets, he says, translate Ebrahim spends about 7.5 hours on, Plugged in: Kuro into the real world, “where gam- every weekend. Ebrahim took all Takhasomi (above centre) ers automatically think nothing is that practice with him and was ready from Germany is the impossible and approach problem- for any challenge. highest-paid gamer in the solving and challenges with this He says his interest was not the world and Zuhair Ebrahim same mindset”. money. “On the day, I was more (left) has won the largest “On a larger scale, we have people excited than anything, but what kept e-sports tournament in winning hundreds of thousands in me focused wasn’t the prize, it was South Africa. Photos: Jeff prize money from winning tour- me knowing that I was the best and I Vinnick/Getty Images and naments. That’s a life-changing wanted to prove it again.” Delwyn Verasamy experience no matter who you are. He won R500 000. Additionally, some people have won “The next day I woke up and I was local gaming industry is ready to trips overseas to compete on the still in disbelief at what had hap- jump over these hurdles. “We’re international stage,” James says. pened, but I also never felt happier in moving forward very quickly, and And, while the characters in this my life at the same time,” he says. are lucky to have the luxury of seeing article are men, gaming is leaving Nearly 90% of South Africans don’t where others failed in other environ- behind its past of only men play- earn that much money in a year, but ments so we can avoid some of the ing. James says women gamers are Ebrahim was grateful for his earn- same pitfalls.” common and get the same amount ings. He promised 10% to charity and South Africa still has challenges of respect as men. Sasha “Scarlett” gave a share to his parents, brothers, when it comes to playing against Hostyn is the top female gamer cousins and friends. people overseas. But, locally, latency in the world and has earned more He says: “All I can remember from months from simply being good at a between South Africa and Europe or is less of a problem and the gaming than R4-million from winning that week of the tournament was jok- video game, which is unreal.” the United States, is an issue. Long scene here is growing. tournaments. ing around and discussing with my Moloi earned R400 000 for his cables stretching over thousands Although he’s won R650 000, James says that to be a gamer, all family and friends that somebody is win, and went on to represent South of kilometres delay information Ebrahim does not consider himself a person has to do is pick up a con- going to wake up to an SMS saying Africa at the Fifa e-World Cup, which packets. a professional gamer. But he thinks troller and play. This means the R500 000 has been deposited into took place in Amsterdam. The Fifa When you’re gaming, it means that it could become a job in the next barriers to entry are much lower your account, and it just happened to prize there was $250 000. someone with a better internet con- 10 years. than for other professions. It could be mine.” All this is putting South Africa on nection is able to react faster than “E-sports as a whole is growing at be a Zuhair Ebrahim earning crazy Last year, Ebrahim lost to Thabo the global gaming map. But there you are. In football, that’s the differ- a remarkable rate. In South Africa, amounts of money or it could be Mike Moloi, but still earned R150 000 are problems. Michael James, a ence between getting the ball and I think that people will actually be your grandmother finishing a level of for coming in second. senior project manager at online starting a counterattack, and miss- able to make a living from e-sports in Candy Crush on her iPhone, but one The amount of money he won still gaming publisher NAG says that ing a tackle and conceding a goal. the next 10 years as more and more thing is for sure: the gaming industry shocks him. “I made R650 000 in 12 latency, caused by the distance But James is confident that the events are taking place each year is changing lives.

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Two local companies have come up with a way to reduce the harm caused by plastic polluting rivers and killing ocean life Fresh idea: Ray de Vries’s company in Hout Bay ‘manufactures’ water from the humidity in the air and bottles it in glass bottles with steel caps, cutting plastic out of the process. And the glass bottles are re-used. Photo: David Harrison Paddy Harper plastic bottles and caps. It was a natural pro- identifi ed four more sites around the country ing the number of plastic bottles by up to a he world seems to be collaps- gression for us to take,” he says. for development in the future. This will mean million a year,” he says. ing under the weight of plastic “This is a much more responsible product people can get water from factories near “For us to make the world more green, it being used in everything, from to supply to the market. The biodegradation them, cutting down on pollution from trucks has to be a profi table process. That is what Tcellphones and shampoo to food has been confi rmed by two major composting transporting the bottles of water. will drive business to go about things the packaging and the machines fly- fi rms, so we are very happy with the results.” Air Water supplies 30 restaurants and right way. What we’re doing here, in a way, ing into space. Plastic is found in the stom- De Beer says they are now testing how to retailers around Hout Bay, collecting the is taking water back 50 years to the era when achs of dead whales and in the water people produce plant-based bottles that can hold empty 330ml and 660ml bottles when it milk was delivered to your doorstep in a glass drink. But this disaster is also driving a global carbonated drinks. makes its next delivery of water. bottle that was returned. This is the same response, with companies cutting down on The plastic-free bottle technology has De Vries says: “Customers are loving it. We model.” the use of plastic and finding alternatives to attracted the attention of Air Water, another can supply water in a thick, glass bottle that De Vries, who says he invested “everything it. innovative Cape Town-based company. is diffi cult to break at the same prices as a I had” in the bottling project, is targeting In Cape Town, one packing company is pro- Its owner, Ray de Vries, says the biode- plastic bottle of water. the tourism market, which consumes up to ducing biodegradable bottles from polymers gradable bottles “really caught my attention” “We are selling water, not the container, so 250 000 bottles of water a month during high made from plant starches. because they solve a problem for companies they return the bottles, which removes the season. FortisX, which manufactures packaging that want to find an alternative to plastic constant cost that would be associated with Because it is a global industry, the local for the medical and health industry, went bottles. producing plastic bottles. tourism industry is working hard to stop into full production last month. Its plant can His company bottles water drawn from the “This is a completely diff erent movie. This using plastic bottles. This creates a huge manufacture two million bottles from corn, humidity in the air, by cooling it down until is a model that is sustainable and responsible. opportunity for companies to produce glass potato and sugarcane starch each month. it condenses and drops into a tank. It’s then Profi tability drives business, business drives or biodegradable bottles. The company is already supplying biode- fi ltered nine times and further purifi ed using jobs and more business and more jobs mean And the hotel industry regulations banning gradable bottles to local and international ultraviolet light. This means water doesn’t more money, and a happier Earth, by reduc- glass bottles next to pools has also created a clients, less than two years after starting to have to be stored in dams, rivers or reservoirs niche for the sugarcane technology. experiment with biodegradable alternatives. — a centralised and expensive way of moving “I believe in beach and river clean-ups, but The bottles, made from polylactic acid drinking water around. that’s at the end of the line. We need to nip extracted from plant-based dextrose, are suit- The water is then bottled in glass bottles “This is a model that the plastic problem in the bud at the other able for still water, juices, milk and pulps. The with steel caps. is sustainable and end, at the source,” says De Vries. polymer doesn’t have a gas barrier, so it can’t De Vries says: “We measure our success His words would have once come across hold carbonated drinks and sparkling water. in the number of plastic bottles we save the responsible. Profi tability as idealistic, but with so much plastic pollu- The plant starch has to be imported from Earth from. The money comes after that.” drives business, tion plaguing the world, the market for solu- Europe. De Vries has one suburban bottling plant in business drives jobs and tions is exploding. FortisX and Air Water are FortisX chief executive Nicholas de Beer Hout Bay — now in its second year of opera- two local examples of companies seizing the says they had been “pleasantly surprised” by tion — which is producing 30 000 to 50 000 more business and more opportunity to do things diff erently. Smaller the results of tests after they tried various bottles of water a month. 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The country may have the third highest number of repeat murderers, but the police’s elite profiler unit has never lost a single case. A forensic psychologist talks about tracking them

Sarah Smit & Kiri Rupiah

often don’t like to tell people what I do,” forensic psychol- ogist Gérard Labuschagne ‘Isays, leaning back comfort- ably in his seat at the Mail & Guardian’s offices in Johannesburg. He’s here to talk about the successes of South Africa’s forensic profilers — a 100% conviction rate. “If I’m out, I dread the question: ‘What do you do?’ I try to avoid it. When I was in the police service, I would just say I’m a policeman and people would just stop talking to me.” Labuschagne is dressed in a slick blazer and is toting a khaki green backpack. His steely demeanour, an effect of his bald head and blue eyes, softens when he speaks. He headed up the police service’s investigative psychology section Top killer: Moses Sithole was convicted of 38 murders and 40 rapes in Quarry murderer: Richard Nyauza wore in court a pair of pants given to (IPS), South Africa’s equivalent of the 1997. Psychologist Micki Pistorius helped develop a profile of him him by investigative psychology unit head Gérard Labuschagne FBI’s behavioural analysis unit, for 14 years, before he resigned in 2016. Local profilers Pistorius met Ressler in 1995, a year have encountered over the years. serial killers, but behind the United That is part of his problem; behav- Forensic psychologists work with after she founded the IPS. The unit, made up of psycholo- States and England. According to the ioural analysis is a field plagued by the police to profile and track down Pistorius profiled some of South gists and detectives, has had trouble list, South Africa has had 117 serial Hollywood tropes. When people find offenders. The profile allows police Africa’s most prolific serial killers, retaining experienced investigators, killers between 1900 and 2016. out that he is a profiler, like Jack to start guessing a killer’s next move, including Moses Sithole, who com- who, according to a 2018 Sunday But these lists have their problems Crawford from The Silence of the so they can catch them. The profile mitted at least 38 murders and 40 Times report, have left amid com- — often killings haven’t been linked Lambs, Labuschagne must field the of American serial killer Ted Bundy, rapes. Pistorius’s profile predicted plaints about low pay and heavy together, and some countries don’t inevitable questions about his pen- compiled by the FBI’s Robert Ressler, that Sithole would contact the media. caseloads. have the investigative skills to work chant for true crime films and books. led to his capture in 1978. Ressler, In 1995, Sithole contacted The Star The newspaper’s article also carried out that there is a serial killer in Talking about the gulf between who is credited with coining the under a fake name and confessed his a startling but contested ranking that action. the way things are done in the mov- term “serial killer”, believed Bundy crimes. puts South Africa third on the list of Labuschagne says that during his ies and how it works in real life, looked for young women with long During her six years at the helm of countries with the most serial killers time in the police service, he worked Labuschagne’s words snap with hair parted down the middle. He said the IPS, Pistorius trained more than and rapists, behind the United States on 110 serial murder cases, includ- derision. Bundy hung out at bars, ski resorts, 100 detectives in investigating serial and Russia. The Radford University ing that of quarry murderer Richard His conversation goes from the beaches and other locations where murders. and Florida Gulf Coast University Nyauza. When his sentence of 16 life difficulties of what was a sometimes young people gathered. Five days Although the IPS may have had serial killer database, which has terms for a series of gruesome mur- thankless job to the small triumphs after this profile went public, authori- an illustrious beginning, it has information on 4 068 serial killers ders in 2002 and 2006 was handed of being part of a team tasked with ties in Florida arrested Bundy. also not been immune to the prob- and 11 680 victims since the early down, Nyauza smiled and said he helping to solve some of the country’s Acclaimed South African foren- lems of underfunding and skill short- 1900s, also puts South Africa third “felt nothing”. most serious crimes. sic psychologist and author Micki ages other law enforcement units on the list of countries with the most “It changes nothing,” Nyauza said before being led down to the cells. Before his descent, he took the time to shake Labuschagne’s hand. The art of unmasking the hunters of humans Labuschagne was responsible for linkage analysis resulting in Nyauza’s conviction on all 24 charges against Little is known about the true num- 1880s, when British police sur- taking, terrorism, child abduction, murders taking place over more him. With his 110 cases, Labuschagne bers behind serial killings. geon Thomas Bond of London’s white collar crime, kidnapping, than a month and including a sig- has probably encountered far more Independent fact-checking organ- Metropolitan Police attempted to extortion, cybercrime, and serial nificant period of time or “cooling serial killers than his colleagues isation Africa Check says there’s no make inferences about the person- sexual homicide. The common off period” between them. abroad, he says. way to figure out those odds as yet. ality of one of history’s most prolific thread is that these are all psycho- Last year, the Sunday Times Being able to count the number of Doing so would need to take into and as yet unidentified serial kill- logically motivated crimes. newspaper made the claim that: serial killers South Africa has had is account both probability and the ers, Jack the Ripper. In 2015, the FBI hosted a serial “South Africa ranks among the a testament to the success of the IPS state of data on multiple killings. The formal emergence of the murder symposium to work out an world’s worst three countries – and the country’s DNA database, What we do know is that if some- discipline only came about in 1972, internationally accepted definition after the United States and Russia according to Labuschagne. “We have one is killed by a hunter of humans when the FBI’s behavioural science of “serial offence” — there wasn’t — for serial murders and rapes.” A the ability to have a fairly accurate this is a good country in which to unit was created. This unit began one. The FBI defines serial killing similar claim was made in a 2006 record … We have a lot [of serial get the case solved. South Africa is to investigate the rising tide of as “a series of two or more murders, article — although the claim only murders], we know that. And we can home to some of the best behav- serial rapes and murders across the committed as separate events, usu- referred to serial murders. show you that we have a lot.” ioural analysts, more commonly United States. The profilers did this ally, but not always, by one offender Africa Check delved into the Thanks in part to the database, known as profilers, in the world. by examining four crucial aspects acting alone”. More than 130 claim and has cautioned against the IPS has a strong reputation for This criminal profiling occupies of suspected criminals’ behaviour: experts from 10 countries, includ- such comparisons on the basis catching serial killers. Labuschagne the intersection between psychol- antecedent (that is before the crime ing South Africa, agreed on this of a number of factors — such as confidently says: “No one has ever ogy and law enforcement. It is has occurred) tendencies, manner definition for serial murder: “The the fact that definitions of serial walked out of a court and was found based on the premise that behav- of crime, body disposal method, unlawful killing of two or more offences differ, as do legal defini- not guilty. iour reflects personality: what a and post-crime behaviour. victims by the same offender(s), in tions for rape and murder. “I think over the years that what we criminal does or leaves at a crime Since then, the techniques of separate events.” In addition, many databases use did, and how we did it, worked. We scene can help to identify them criminal investigative analysis There are other, less formal, defi- media as sources of possible cases, had a very good success rate in solv- through their mental, emotional, have advanced, allowing the FBI nitions of who constitutes a serial which may erroneously take into ing serials. We have never really had and personality characteristics. and other law enforcement agen- killer. These include a person who account murders that are not nec- one who continued to kill that we The American Psychological cies around the world to develop murders three or more people, essarily a part of a series because of didn’t catch.” Association says that early offender profiles in a range of usually in service of abnormal psy- differing definitions of serial mur- criminal profiling was used in the crimes such as arson, hostage- chological gratification, with the der. — Kiri Rupiah A career in profiling Labuschagne says the unit’s reputa- Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 15 News and why SA is good at it

The hunters: Gérard Labuschagne in the Quarry Murders operations room (far left). The trail of victims led to Richard Nyauza. The profiler worked on 110 serial killer cases at the police’s investigative psychology unit, set up by forensic psychologist Micki Pistorius (left). Today Labuschagne (above) is the director of L&S Threat Management. Photo: Liza van Deventer/ Foto24/ Gallo Images and Hiram Alejandro Durán

are detectives without university who has watched a lot of TV and degrees. thinks it’s so cool. Then they come “It is very difficult for people to here and they have to deal with the know what the job is about, specifi - frustrations of being in the police and cally the psychologists. Policemen they have to go to autopsies and sit in know. They’ve seen murders and court and go to crime scenes. So some they have been to crime scenes and of them don’t last very long … It’s not tion is bolstered by its training and lar way to be able to solve certain puz- It’s also a career that people autopsies.” for everybody. research output. zles,” Labuschagne says. drift into. Labuschagne says that As he talks, Labuschagne gestures “But you get people who are just It runs a three-week course to train Getting the right people is becom- because much of what goes into for emphasis, each one threatening to able to deal with it longer.” detectives in how to identify and ing more diffi cult, with forensic psy- criminal profiling is learned on topple the cellphone on the armrest deal with psychologically motivated chology in law enforcement becom- the job, many of the people who recording the interview. The personal cost crimes — serial murders and rapes, ing “probably a dying thing”. have ended up working at the IPS “It’s different for a psychologist, The tough parts of the job are accom- paedophilia and intimate partner panied by the rush of working on murders. Labuschagne says that the complex cases, Labuschagne says, South African Police Service is the calling his time with the police ser- only law enforcement agency in the Seven serial killers vice “the most fun 14 and a half years” world that regularly runs these types Who, where and of his life. of intensive training courses. Although he isn’t the archetype During his tenure, the unit was when they murdered of the brooding detective, he says also part of the largest study in the Years Possible number Type of that the years of being privy to the world, using police case fi les, when it Name of killer Countries active in active Confirmed number of victims of victims of victims details of some of the country’s most teamed up with the John Jay College gruesome crimes have taken their of Criminal Justice in New York in Dr Harold 1975 250 Mostly elderly toll. This is part of the cost of help- 1 United Kingdom 218 2014 to assess the types of serial hom- Shipman to 1998 to 459 female patients ing South Africa to successfully track icide in South Africa. The sample for down its serial killers. Luis Colombia, Ecuador, 1992 172 to 300 Male street the study consisted of 302 off ences 2 138 “I don’t think that even if you love it committed by 33 offenders that Garavito Venezuela to 1999 or more children and it is fantastic, you would be naive occurred in the country between 1953 to say that it doesn’t aff ect you as a Pedro Colombia, Peru, 1969 300 to 2007. 3 110 Female children person.” Labuschagne, who has provided López Ecuador to 1979 or more After leaving the police, he realised training to Scotland Yard and the Javed 1998 Male street children he was operating at a high level of Pakistan 100 100 FBI, talks about these achievements 4 Iqbal to 1999 and orphans stress and tension that had become with dry candour — avoiding any his daily norm. sugar coating of how tough a career it Samuel 1978 “I think there was a form of PTSD 5 United States 53 56 Adult females is. “You’re asking people to do a very Little to 1990 [post-traumatic stress disorder]. But horrible job, with no career path and not the type where you wake up in Andrei Soviet Union 1989 More Female adults in which every time you step into a 6 52 the middle of the night with night- court you risk your reputation being Chikatilo (Ukraine, Russia) to 1996 than 52 and children mares and fl ashbacks,” Labuschagne destroyed. You see really horrible says. He adds: “Now I’m defi nitely a Moses 1994 More Unemployed stuff … And then they go: ‘All this shit 7 South Africa 38 lot more relaxed. and I’m earning less than an intern.’” Sithole to 1995 than 38 adult females “I’m not saying that I love people in

Not everyone has what it takes. Graphic: JOHN McCANN Data source: NEWS REPORTS general. And I’m not the warm, out- “Your brain has to work in a particu- going person I was 15 years ago.” 16 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 The Good News Edition

TheThoughtful: Linda Twala (left),father who has won many awards (right), showsof his grandchildren Alexandra: the emergency lights he gives to pensioners during power cuts.‘I Photos: was Hiram Alejandro Durán

Linda Twala, 75, was born to one of the original spaces for young and older people, making him an residents of Alexandra, which has come to represent invaluable member of the impoverished township. South Africa’s inequality, with wealthy Sandton Twala spent a day last week with Mashadi Kekana across the road. He buries people and creates safe for the Good News Edition. This is his story

he only time Linda Twala for the Care and Welfare of the Aged gets to be alone with and Disabled Persons. “It was then his thoughts is when he that I started serving God’s chil- Tis cruising in his silver dren,” Twala says, clasping his hands Chrysler. But, even then, together on the table of his home. the people on the streets of Alexan- In Alex, Twala is still known as the dra township drift in, demanding his man who buries people. He runs the attention. “Yebo baba”, “Ntate Twala” Twala-Ama-Afrika funeral parlour and “hola madala” are respectfully but when someone dies who doesn’t shouted from nearly every street have relatives, or a family can’t afford corner, and he hoots or opens his a funeral, he steps in and buries peo- window to wave and greet back in ple for free. acknowledgement. People bend But he is much more than an down to take a peek at the man with undertaker. When there is an emer- the silver hair, brushed back in his gency in Alexandra, he is the first trademark hairstyle. What could respondent. be exhausting or even an intrusion None of this seems to contrib- seems only to give Twala a sense of ute to any heightened ego — Twala feeling right at home. speaks more about the importance To say Twala is a people’s person of the effect that he has, rather than is like saying we need food for suste- on what it says about him. “I don’t nance; it’s not something you need regard myself as a leader or as some- to even mention. He says it’s a gift he one who is high up. I always regard inherited from his mother, Annie. myself as a servant of God’s children. She was one of the first black I was born to serve. When there are people to settle in Alexandra, in fire or flood victims, I am there. It’s a mud house, when the town- my calling.” ship was formed in 1912. Annie’s father worked as a chef for Herbert Tough path to legendary status Papenfus, a farmer who owned the Centre of it all: Phuthaditjhaba, Twala was involved with the ANC land that would eventually become which Linda Twala built (above), in the 1970s and 1980s, and used to the township. Alexandra was named houses a library, a gym, a music hold political meetings, which were after Papenfus’s wife. centre, a clinic and a feeding illegal then, in his house. These meet- Twala says it was his mother who scheme (left). Photos: Oupa Nkosi ings would be attended by the likes of taught him about the importance Paul Mashatile, a student activist and of sharing what little you have with had passed away. When I told my co-founder of the Alexandra Youth others. “My mother was a domestic parents that I’d like to bury her, my Congress during apartheid and now worker and she taught us discipline, father said, ‘Don’t be crazy. What do ANC treasurer-general, and Obed respect and how to live with people. you know about burying people?’ Bapela, who played an active role Even though she didn’t have much, “My mother stood by me and I in the struggle and is now a Cabinet she always gave food to the hungry said that although I didn’t have the member. Unfortunately, these meet- and the homeless.” money, I am good in carpentry and ings were also attended by govern- Twala was born in the township 75 can make a coffin.” ment informants. years ago and is known as the father Twala started the process of find- “There were government informers of Alex, a title he takes very seriously ing people who could help him with among us that we didn’t know about. if his home is anything to go by. The the funeral. A pastor at the St Hubert These informers told the police that house, on 2nd Avenue, about 5kms Catholic Church offered to bury during the day Twala gives out food uphill from the Jukskei River, can Tshabalala, even though she hadn’t and blankets to those in need, but at only be described as the home of gets to chat to older people. During meat, and a hug for the road. been a member of the church. Taxi night he holds these meetings,” he many. The gate to the compound is a drive through the township, Twala owners helped with transport and a says with a chuckle. always open, encouraging a constant stops on 4th Avenue at 97-year-old The beginning local undertaker handled the burial. In 1986, his house was bombed by stream of visitors. Inside, stacks of Elizabeth Mataboge’s house. Twala Twala says his generosity started “On the day of the funeral, I was sit- apartheid security forces. “I remem- boxes are filled with food parcels recently built a toilet inside her home when a woman who was always vis- ting in the church and my father came ber we were getting ready to unveil a and on the tables are books and sta- because she was struggling to get to iting his mother died in 1967. He straight to me. I was scared, thinking few tombstones and there was an air tionery for the children’s reading and the one outside. It’s clear that he has was 23. “The first person I buried he’s going to hit me, but he shook my of excitement. My children were in writing clubs he hosts in his home. a soft spot for her — his face becomes was Rosie Tshabalala. When I was hand and said: ‘Well done, son, you’re the house and they were happy. I left Twala speaks in a voice that, more animated when he asks after her growing up, she would point at me a man now.’ I was so happy. I started my house to go to 2nd Avenue [his although soft, demands attention. wellbeing and puts his arm around with her walking stick and say, ‘You walking tall. This is where the passion mother’s then house] and on the way, He has a wealth of knowledge that he her shoulders. At the end of the con- are going to bury me.’ The night she for taking care of the elderly and the I saw the police. After a short while, does not mind sharing; he is a walk- versation, he asks her what she’d like died, I couldn’t sleep the whole night. vulnerable started.” I got a call saying I must get out of ing history book of the township. him to get her. He leaves with the In the morning, people came to my Soon after Tshabalala’s funeral, Alex immediately because I am being His face lights up the moment he promise that he’ll get her chips and mother and told her that the old lady Twala formed the Alexandra Society looked for high and low and when I Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 17 News

bornOn the ball: On the way to an oldto friend, Elizabeth serve, Mataboge (right), Linda Twala saw youths it’s playing with an oldmy ball and happened tocalling’ have a new one in his car. Photos: Hiram Alejandro Durán

of abomama, older women, knit- ting in the main hall of the centre, he remembers each person’s name. Twala asks how they are recovering from various ailments. He also asks after their grandchildren, who are stressing them so much that they say their blood pressure is increasing. It’s not just older people who have Twala’s heart; the young ones do too. He describes them as “our future leaders”. “This centre came about when I said I’d rather live at my mother’s home and build a centre of excel- lence so that 10 years down the line, we are able to decrease crime in the community by meeting our children’s demands head on,” he explains. Waving at a group of 12 children sit- ting in a circle in a classroom, he says: “Some of these children are going to end up in Parliament.” Aside from the Phuthaditjhaba Centre, Twala was involved in build- ing the Alexandra Technical College, now a campus of the Johannesburg Central College. He also played a role in founding another centre called Thusong, which trains and develops the skills of young people.

Caring for the carer “Do you know what my children did a while ago? I was so cross with them. They organised a surprise party for me when I was turning 70. When I got to the venue, there were placards saying happy birthday and I was so Good Samaritan: When the bitter winter cold hit this week, Linda Twala shocked. Do you know how much and his grandchildren distributed food and blankets to people in ‘Line up until it’s your turn’ they spent? R35 000! And I was wor- Alexandra township. Photo: Oupa Nkosi ried, thinking if they had given me that money, I would have spent it asked what was happening, I was told vices and early childhood develop- As someone who has lived in depth about his thoughts on the among our senior citizens and made that my house was up in flames.” ment classes. Alexandra through the times of movement and the recent protests, sure they each get a food parcel to Twala’s three daughters were able The back wall of the main hall is no electricity, the bucket toilet Twala says his main problem is take home. But I appreciate what they to escape the burning house and peppered with photographs of Twala system and when there was still that there are people who are new did because they recognised the work hide. “Everything was burnt in the with prominent figures, includ- a communal well, Twala has seen to Alex who want to get housing that I do. house but the only thing that mat- ing struggle icons Nelson Mandela, the township transform before his and services before people who “Later again, my children organised tered to me is that my children were Adelaide Tambo and George Bizos eyes — but he doesn’t like how it have been there for decades. a trip to Brits and told me that there is safe,” Twala says. as well as former United States presi- has changed. “When I was growing up, there a meeting that I need to attend. I was He decided that instead of rebuild- dent Bill Clinton. Clearly taking pride “I’m not at all happy with the were buses in Alex and when you there for three days. The first day — ing his house, he would build a in the wall, he stops and gives a thor- state of Alex right now,” Twala were going somewhere, you stood hao! — they wanted to do a massage “centre of excellence” and call it ough explanation of each photograph says as he points out of the win- at the back of the line and didn’t on me. I went in for the massage but I Phuthaditjhaba, which means gath- — why the person was there and what dow at a view of shacks squeezed just go to the front. You lined up kept looking at my watch, but the staff ering and taking caring of nations. happened that day. up against each other. until it was your time to go on. were already told that I can be impa- The result is an expansive double-sto- Twala is involved in the day-to-day Alexandra has been in the spot- It’s no longer like that. Everyone tient so they knew how to deal with rey building, which stands tall right running of the centre, but people light since protests in April and wants to be at the front and that is me. The second day, it was another in the middle of houses and shacks. always crowd around him as soon as June over the socioeconomic con- wrong because in Alex, there are massage again and I asked, ‘What is With school holidays under way, the he steps out of his car. He takes this ditions in the township, especially people who got here first, a long happening, when are we leaving?’ hallways are packed with children in his stride. On this Tuesday morn- about issues such as poor housing, time ago. “On the third day I discovered that wearing a variety of coats and bean- ing, he manages to order R30-worth service provision and the illegal “Alexandra is the mother of all these children bang’tholile, they really ies against the morning chill. of amagwinya for the centre’s staff occupation of land. The protests the townships but what’s happen- got me. They just wanted me out of from the woman making them out- have been championed by the ing right now is heartbreaking,” Alex, to be alone and get massages.” Feeding stomachs and minds side, while also greeting and hugging #AlexTotalShutdown movement, Twala says before taking a long Twala shakes his head and starts The centre houses a feeding scheme a group of children who are pulling which is made up of residents who pause. “This is not what we and laughing. It is clear that he won’t for older people and children, a com- on his jacket. say they have had enough. our elders fought for.” — Mashadi forget these events. These are the puter lab, a gym, a library, music It’s evident that he has a sharp Although he is hesitant to go in- Kekana extremes one has to go to for a man rooms with instruments, health ser- memory; when he talks to a group who is never truly alone. 18 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 Health

ThisA cure starts with a diagnosis: pee Globally, activists test are pushing for a new, could simpler TB test to make its way save to countries like South Africa your that need it most. Photo: life Alexander Joe/AFP

What if diagnosing South Africa’s deadliest disease never been diagnosed, the study pub- 2016 study published in medical half of all TB cases in people living lished in the journal Aids revealed. journal The Lancet found, they were with advanced HIV. was as simple as taking a pharmacy pregnancy But that has now changed. also less likely to die. The research For centuries, the world relied test? That day may be closer than you think Recently, a new low-cost test was showed that when used in hospital- on the naked eye and a microscope developed to diagnose TB in hard- ised, HIV-positive patients, the Lam to uncover the bug that is now the COMMENT machine that could deliver a TB to-catch patients, particularly those test led to a roughly 20% decrease in leading cause of death in South Keertan Dheda diagnosis within two hours. By 2011, with advanced HIV. It works in death rates. Africa. Today, we finally have a test there was a growing field of rapid much the same way a pharmacy The early results of the trial led the designed for those who need it most, he white plague”, tests for the disease that, accord- pregnancy test does, and all in about WHO to recommend the test’s use in but diagnosing one out of every two consumption — and ing to the WHO, would affect more 25 minutes. people living with advanced HIV and patients correctly is far from perfect. on South Africa’s than eight million people in that year The test looks to detect a type of TB symptoms in 2015, although the The good news is that more sensitive ‘Tgold fields, phthisis alone. sugar-bound molecule found in the body stopped short of greenlighting versions of the Lam test may soon — whatever its name, But there was a problem: whether cell wall of the TB bug in a few drops the test for broader use based on lim- become available. the bacteria was on the prowl long it was the samples under Koch’s of urine placed on an absorbent ited evidence. The proverbial holy grail remains before modern science dubbed it microscope, or what was loaded paper strip. This molecule is known Then, in 2018, another study, also a low-cost test that can diagnose TB tuberculosis. into the fancy GeneXpert machines, as lipoarabinomannan, or Lam for published in The Lancet, and con- in people with or without HIV — and On March 24 1882, scientist Robert these tests all relied on sick peo- short. If the TB Lam test produces a ducted among about 3 000 people that doesn’t rely on patients to pro- Koch discovered the bug that causes ple’s ability to produce sputum from single red line, it signals to health- in Malawi and South Africa, indi- duce that hard-to-cough-up gunk TB and named it mycobacterium deep within the respiratory tract. It care workers that patients should be cated that the urine dipstick — when called sputum. We also need sim- tuberculosis. was a task too difficult for most of started on TB treatment. combined with GeneXpert testing ple tests that could be given to large Using the most advanced technol- the 38 000 children the WHO says Today, the Lam dipstick is the only — could pick up TB in people with numbers of people at a time to rule ogy of the time, Koch’s trusted micro- develop active TB each year in South point-of-care test for TB we have. HIV before they’d even begun to out TB quickly, especially in high- scope, the tiny germs had a rod-like Africa. But what does it mean for patients? experience symptoms of the airborne risk areas such as informal settle- appearance — it was a scene that, Many people with HIV — who Well, a team and I conducted the disease. ments, where poor living conditions in 1882, had only been made possi- account for about 70% of all TB first real-world controlled study to But the TB urine test has its limits. can drive the spread of the disease. ble through Koch’s invention of new deaths in the country, according to find out, putting it to the test among Negative tests don’t necessarily rule Day in and day out, our hospitals types of staining techniques that the latest WHO report — also found almost 3 000 HIV-positive patients out TB so more tests are needed to and clinics are inundated with peo- would make first TB, then cholera, producing sputum challenging. with TB symptoms in 10 hospitals in confirm a negative diagnosis, and ple who are at risk of TB or already come alive under the microscope. And this gap can prove deadly. four countries: South Africa, Zambia, some types of genital fungal infec- showing symptoms. We need better, And for more than a century, this A 2015 review of three dozen stud- Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Half of the tions will also cause false positive simpler and faster tests to help to is what TB tests looked like: rows of ies and more than 3 000 autopsies patients were randomly tested for TB results. It also shouldn’t be used in stretch the resources we have further scientists hunched over their micro- of adults and children living with by means of standard sputum-based the estimated 40% of South Africa’s — and to make sure people do not scopes in labs across the world, des- HIV in the Global South found that methods, including the GeneXpert TB patients who aren’t HIV-positive continue to lose their lives to a treat- perately searching for those tiny rods TB was responsible for four out of and, yes, even Koch’s old, micro- and early indications are that it able disease. among the gunk and gob that people 10 deaths. Among those who died of scope-based test as well as the TB doesn’t work well in children. could bring themselves to cough up TB, more than 40% had TB in places Lam test. The other 50% of people And, finally, the TB Lam stick can’t Professor Keertan Dheda is the as part of sputum samples. other than their lungs — meaning it only received standard testing. detect whether the kind of TB a per- head of the University of Cape Then in 2010, the World Health would have been missed by conven- People who were tested through son has is resistant to common drugs Town’s division of pulmonology as Organisation (WHO) endorsed the tional testing. the Lam diagnostic were not only used to treat TB. For reasons such as well as its Centre for Lung Infection GeneXpert — a coffeemaker-sized Almost half of the patients had more likely to start treatment, the this, the dipstick will still miss about and Immunity Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 19

Life and love in the cancer ward

Death comes for all of us and when it does, we hope it’s a good end. We hope it has meaning, we hope it’s painless and that those we leave behind are cared for. Turns out it’s a shared hope, whether you’re aged 80 or eight

Joan van Dyk

he young girl in the pic- ture is ecstatic. She’s just finished a hike up Table TMountain. Cassie Mitchell’s* hands are stretched out in victory, etched out against Cape Town’s fresh blue skies. Mitchell has terminal cancer. The picture sits in Jennifer Geel’s consulting rooms at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital. The paediatric oncologist splits her time between the hospital and the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre. “When she was diagnosed, we were ready to try everything,” Geel explains. She adjusts her pale pink cat-eye glasses from the podium where she’s speaking. It’s at an academic conference on paediatric cancer in Johannesburg. A good death: South Africa’s nurses are not trained or authorised to provide patients with the pain medication they need. Photo: Aly Song/Reuters Mitchell’s medical team jumped into action to cure the teenage patient, Access to Palliative Care and Pain prescribed morphine to become back and the other just below her col- tre. There, in Geel’s offi ce, the photo of consulting with international experts Relief shows. addicted, says Liz Gwyther, the chief lar bones, Herbert explains. The nurse Cassie Mitchell sits in silence. and planning for a host of treatments. Back at the hospital, Buhle’s death executive of the Hospice Palliative would then put pressure on the mom’s Her mouth is wide open. After initial treatments failed Mitchell shook Herbert. When she took a look Care Association of South Africa. chest from both sides, pushing hard. “She’s shouting, ‘I’m free, I’m chose not to pursue further care. around the ward, she realised that the She explains: “There’s very little It was as if the motion set off some- happy,’ ” Geel says. children’s pain was being neglected. research into the addictive properties thing in the mothers, she says, releas- “Adolescents think they’re immor- t Charlotte Maxeke Academic She explains: “Busy doctors would of morphine when it’s used for pain ing weeks of fear and anxiety in wor- tal,” the doctor sighs. “We nasty medi- AHospital’s child cancer unit, prescribe morphine sparsely. Some therapy, partly because it’s such an ried moms who would collapse into cal people tell them otherwise.” Brenda Herbert is the ward children would get it once a day, some old and cheap drug. The big compa- tears. The unknown is scary but even a mother, but to patients like Buhle twice a day if they screamed.” nies aren’t interested.” But for every mom, dad, grand- sick teenager wants to know what Ngcobo* the retired nurse is just Pain management is a crucial part A 2003 article published in the jour- mother or grandfather worried sick death will be like. Mama Brenda. of palliative care, which improves nal Continuing Medical Education, about a cancer patient, there’s often a “I’ve had some of the most brutal Ngcobo, who was about four years the quality of life of people with life- also says patients will not get psy- brother, sister or cousin watching as conversations with teenagers who old, was a drama queen and all the threatening illnesses such as cancer. chologically addicted to, or become well, and a sick sibling can bring up begged me to tell them every gory nurses adored her. They were thrilled But in South Africa, morphine is physically dependent on, morphine a range of emotions: fear, loneliness detail,” Geel explains. when the girl’s cancer was cured: she highly regulated as a schedule 6 drug, if it’s managed well. The publica- — even jealousy, says Chantel Lowry, “Often, they want to know whether was fi nally in remission and could go which means nurses can’t prescribe or tion merged with the South African a social worker at the Wits Donald they’ll be in pain when they die, or home. administer it. A policy to change this Medical Journal in 2014, Gordon Medical Centre. whether they will lose control, or When Buhle’s mother burst back has been in draft form for at least six Next, Herbert put the following She explains: “Siblings are often the they’ll ask if they can die at home sur- into the ward months later with a years. question to the sisters: “Do you feel forgotten casualties when it comes to rounded by familiar things.” screaming child in her arms, Herbert In Uganda, nurses and specially like you know how to manage pain?” life-threatening illnesses.” Geel pauses, then warns: “Don’t was convinced the little girl was just trained palliative care workers have Not a single one betrayed any One sibling Lowry counselled had disregard what they’re feeling being her melodramatic self. been allowed to prescribe morphine doubt. no idea his sister was ill, and instead because they’re dying anyway. We “Her shoes were two sizes too since 2004. Once nurses were allowed thought his mother and sister went on have to keep giving them the best small,” she says. “I thought that was to help patients manage their pain, anaging a patient’s physi- a holiday without him every so often, care possible. They’re living, until what was causing pain and I bought palliative care could soon be found Mcal suffering is only one when in reality they were going to they die.” her a bigger pair.” in nearly all health facilities in the part of palliative care. It hospital for cancer treatment. When Cassie Mitchell was given But little Buhle’s cancer had country, according to The Lancet also includes psychological and even That’s why the Childhood Cancer all the information she asked for, returned. A short while later, she died Commission. spiritual counselling for patients Foundation of South Africa (Choc) supported by her parents, she chose at home. As early as 1992, the World Health and their families to help a person organises an annual “sibling camp” to forego uncomfortable treatment Herbert sighs: “To our shame —that Organisation noted that doctors’ to die in a humane way or adjust to where children can ask people in exchange for better quality of child died in pain.” and nurses’ fears about possible a new reality of living with a chronic like Thandeka Ngcana, Chris Hani life. In 2014, about 1 000 children and addiction to pain killers had left a condition. Baragwanath Academic Hospital’s She died a few days after she adolescents were diagnosed with can- pain gap worldwide, leading health In Herbert’s ward, nurses began to oncology fellow, anything they want returned from her trip to Cape Town cer, data from South Africa’s National workers to withhold pain medica- notice that uncomfortable hospital about cancer, chemotherapy and and after conquering Table Mountain. Cancer Registry data shows. The tion until late in a person’s illness waiting chairs and the anxiety of a death. “She saw her friends. She shopped data on how many of the country’s and under-prescribing for pain, 2001 sick child were taking a toll on moth- Most importantly, says Lowry, they for her grandmother. Baked.” childhood cancer patients survive is guidelines published in the Southern ers — specifi cally, on their necks and have the opportunity to play. Geel brushes hair from her face. scarce. But in a small South African African Journal of HIV Medicine shoulders. Over the course of her career, The audience is silent as she describes Medical Journal study conducted at noted. The authors called this fear “Opposite each sick child is a mom, Herbert has learned that pain goes far Cassie’s last months. “She lived her life two paediatric cancer units in 2014, unwarranted. propping herself up on her elbow, just beyond muscles and should be treated to the fullest.” about 50% of the young patients In Johannesburg, Herbert decided watching their child — for hours,” with more than morphine. were still alive fi ve years after being to interview nurses in the ward, ask- Herbert says. She concludes: “Pain management * Not their real names diagnosed. ing them whether or not they thought So the ward sisters came up with a is an art.” Each year, nearly 2.5-million chil- correctly prescribed morphine would simple solution: neck and shoulder This story was produced by the M&G Centre for Health Journalism, dren die in pain from life-threatening lead to addiction. massages. he Charlotte Maxeke Academic Bhekisisa diseases such as cancer, a 2017 report They all said yes. At the end of these massages, nurses THospital is opposite a tree-lined www.bhekisisa.org by The Lancet Commission on Global But it’s rare for people who take would place one hand on a mother’s street just north of the city cen- 20 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019

The good news Africa edition The hopeful continent

Last week, the Mail & Guardian put out a call on overwhelming. We received dozens of examples of Twitter for inspiring, uplifting and positive stories courage, hope, resilience and ingenuity. What follows from around the African continent. The response was is a small selection, compiled by Simon Allison

Kenya beats Big Coal said. “I did this so people like me don’t need to In 2016, Kenya’s state environmental agency feel like who we are is a crime.” — Nominated gave the green light to the construction of a by @MzansiMaasai new coal-fired power plant on the hitherto pristine island of Lamu. The coal plant would Fatwa against child marriage be Kenya’s first. Environmental activists were The deputy imam of Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, outraged: not only would the power plant upset among the world’s most prestigious centres of Lamu’s delicate ecosystem, but it would also Islamic learning, issued a fatwa against child increase Kenya’s carbon footprint at a time marriage — the first decree of its kind that when the effects of the global climate emer- could protect millions of children from being gency are becoming ever more apparent. forced into marriage. So they fought back. The island’s residents “Marriage in Islam is based on the consent demonstrated against the proposed plant, and of both parties, particularly the young woman. international organisations supported a legal Such consent requires the young woman to challenge, which argued that the environmen- have reached the age of maturity and reason, so tal impact assessment had not been properly that her consent is validly given,” it reads. conducted. Last month, the activists won: The decree was drafted during the first Kenya’s National Environmental Tribunal sus- African summit on child marriage and female pended the licence that had been granted to genital mutilation, which took place in Dakar in Amu Power to build the controversial plant. June. It was the result of a months-long discus- “We are now old, but we inherited a clean and sion between civil society groups and Al-Azhar. healthy environment from our fathers, and it is Child marriage is a huge problem in Africa our duty to give our children a clean and healthy — in sub-Saharan Africa, four in 10 women are environment as well,” said Save Lamu vice- Some good: Rwandese refugees in Uganda mark the anniversary of the 1994 genocide at married before their 18th birthday — and it is chairperson Mohamed Mbwana. —Nominated the Kasensero memorial. Despite Uganda’s open policy on refugees, Reliefweb reports that hoped that the fatwa will help to change atti- by Nanjala Nyabola (@nanjala1) Rwandans have faced detention, forced repatriation and attacks. Photo: Isaac Kasamani/AFP tudes of religious leaders in countries with high rates of child marriage. — Nominated by Ruth Free trade for all Maclean (@RuthMaclean) Fifty-two African nations have so far signed the African Continental Free Trade Area agree- Cameroonian’s meteoric NBA rise ment, which officially went into force on May In the world of professional sport, potential 30. Once it is fully operational, the agreement superstars are usually discovered early, their will affect 1.2-billion people and bring in about talent honed from a young age. But Cameroon’s $3-trillion in gross domestic product. Its back- Pascal Siakam was 15 years old before he picked ers say the agreement will unlock the conti- up a basketball for the first time. nent’s economic future and usher in a new age In addition, he had already decided on a of peace and prosperity. career as a Catholic priest. But so obvious was But not everyone is convinced. Big question Siakam’s natural talent that he got a schol- marks hover over how and when the agreement arship to a university in the United States, will be implemented, while Nigeria — Africa’s although there were more hurdles to overcome: largest economy — has yet to confirm whether his father died in a car accident before his first it will participate. full season of college ball. Alone in a foreign Nonetheless, the speedy passage of the agree- country, Siakam has described this period of his ment from pipe dream to continental law is an life as his hardest. achievement in its own right, indicating that Since then, Siakam has gone from strength there is serious political will behind greater to strength, culminating in a starring role as continental integration — and that pan-Afri- his unfancied Toronto Raptors beat the Golden canism is alive and well. It is also a victory for State Warriors in the NBA finals. As signifi- the oft-maligned African Union, which has cant is what his meteoric rise means for other been pushing hard for a continent-wide free Green victory: A Greenpeace member carries a coffin during a protest against the African athletes — the NBA scouts will prob- trade deal for years. construction of a coal-fired electricity plant on Kenya’s Lamu Island. The National ably pay more attention to the continent from “Yes, there are plenty of nagging points, but Environment Tribunal blocked the initiative. Photo: Baz Ratner/Reuters now on. — Nominated by Jamie Hitchen one must commend the speed and enthusiasm (jchitchen) around what, if properly managed, could be a game-changer,” said Babatunde Fagbayigbo, The West rejects, Uganda accepts professor of international law at Unisa. — As of May 31, the tiny, landlocked, lower- Nominated by Babatunde Fagbayigbo income nation of Uganda was hosting 1 276 208 (@BabsFagbayibo) refugees — in a country that already has a popu- lation of 42.8-million. Homosexuality is not a crime Two thirds of these refugees are from neigh- With a bang of his gavel, a judge in Botswana bouring South Sudan, which is in the midst of overturned centuries of injustice, prejudice and a long-running civil war. Others come from discrimination. all over the region, including the Democratic “A democratic nation is one that embraces Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Somalia, tolerance, diversity and open-mindedness,” Rwanda, Eritrea, Sudan and Ethiopia. said Judge Michael Leburu at the end of a “Uganda has continued to maintain an open- three-year court battle. “We have determined door policy to refugees based on traditional that it is not the business of the law to regu- African hospitality and not turning away any- late private consensual sexual encounters body who is running to us for safety,” says [between adults]”. Hilary Onek, Uganda’s minister of relief, disas- The decision to decriminalise homosexuality ter preparedness and refugees. was met with wild celebrations by lesbian, gay, This approach stands in shameful contrast to bisexual, transgender and intersex organisa- the images emerging from Europe and North tions around the world. America, where governments are choosing to let Letsweletse Motshidiemang, the 24-year- refugees and migrants drown at sea or starve in old from a village in northern Botswana who desert crossings rather than provide assistance. lodged the historic legal case, said in an inter- Fightback: An elite police unit and rangers in the Niassa National Reserve in northern “Uganda remains open to neighbours fleeing view with The Christian Science Monitor: “I’m Mozambique are celebrating a year of no elephants being killed by poachers. Between conflict. The response has its critics and short- just someone who takes pride in who he is,” he 2011 and 2014 the elephant population was decimated by about 7 600 comings but, in a world gone crazy with border Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 21

Memories: Kenya’s Garissa University has held its first graduation ceremony since al-Shabab militants killed 148 students in 2015. Photo: Aden Duale/twitter controls, it’s something,” says Lydia Numuburu, with the rest of Africa’s systems could be more Mozambique has just celebrated a full year a Ugandan journalist. — Nominated by Lydia facilitated, and the fl ow of business and invest- without a single elephant dying at the hands Numuburu (@namlyd) ment, and of course tourism, could be easily of poachers. The milestone is a remarkable felt here in Ethiopia,” says Sileshi Demisew, achievement and shows that the war on poach- SA snubs rapist musician a spokesperson for Ethiopia’s immigration ing can be won. Koffi Olomidé is one of the most famous names department. Between 2011 and 2014, the number of ele- on the African music scene. He is also a con- Part of the AU’s continental integration phants in the Niassa reserve decreased from victed rapist, having been found guilty of the schemes is to promote visa-free travel for all 12 000 to just 4 400 as a result of poaching, statutory rape of a 15-year-old dancer by a court Africans within the continent. Ethiopia’s open according to ANAC, Mozambique’s National in France in March. Olomidé, whose real name borders are a positive step in the right direc- Conservation Area Administration. is Antoine Agbepa Mumba, was given a two- tion. — Nominated by Ryan Cummings (@ Something had to change, so the government year suspended sentence. Pol_Sec_Analyst) put together an elite policing unit to help rang- It was unclear what eff ect this verdict would ers combat the poaching. The tactic worked, have on his career, but the Congolese musician Diaspora responds to Idai with poaching incidents becoming less and less continued to receive invitations from clubs When Freeman Chari heard that his coun- frequent. and venues across the continent to perform — try, Zimbabwe, was being battered by Cyclone “ANAC hopes these celebrations will increase including at the Gallagher Estate in Idai, he wanted to help. But what could he do the level of awareness of society in general, and Johannesburg and the Shimmy from Ohio in the United States, where he cur- of the communities who live in and around con- Beach Club in Cape Town. rently lives? He quickly set up a GoFundMe servation areas in particular, of the importance But South Africans had other campaign online, in an effort to raise a few of protecting biodiversity,” the state conserva- ideas. A hastily arranged cam- thousand dollars to help with the relief eff ort in tion agency said. — Nominated by @_mwaa_ paign, under the banner “Stop Chimanimani region, which was worst hit. The Koffi Olomidé”, attracted huge response exceeded all his expectations. More Garissa University bounces back support for a petition to stop than 2 000 donations later — mostly small con- When Garissa University was attacked by al- his performances in the country. tributions from other Zimbabweans in the dias- Shabab militants in 2015, the relatively young Bowing to this public pressure, both venues pora — he had raised more than $84 000 to buy tertiary institution had not yet held its first announced that the shows would be cancelled desperately needed food, blankets and building graduation ceremony. On that day, 148 students — thereby depriving Olomidé of an influen- supplies. were killed. tial public platform, and a chance to rehabili- Not all of the money raised by Chari could be The rest of the student body transferred to tate his reputation. — Nominated by Koketso used for the immediate emergency response, nearby Moi University and completed their Moeti (@Kmoeti) so he has put the remainder into developing education there. local schools — installing electricity, fi xing up Since then, it has been a struggle for Garissa’s Ethiopia opens its borders the school buildings and buying chairs and management to convince students that it is Last year, Ethiopia was one of the most dif- desks. a safe place to study. That’s why last month’s fi cult countries for other African countries to “Together we can complete this journey graduation ceremony — the fi rst in its history — get into: in a measure of visa openness by the and transform some lives,” he said on was such an important moment. African Development Bank, it ranked 50 out of Facebook. “We will not forget what happened. No chal- 54 countries. This poor record was even more Chari’s efforts have made him a lenge is too great not to be overcome. Al-Shabab embarrassing given that Addis Ababa is the Raptor rapture: Pascal hero in Chimanimani, and a symbol wanted this university closed, but now this is home of the African Union. Siakam was going to of how one person, harnessing the col- the fruit of our resilience,” said local MP and But things changed this year when the gov- be a Catholic priest until lective power of thousands, can make a parliamentary majority leader Aden Duale. ernment made it possible for citizens of any scouts at a Basketball real diff erence. — Nominated by @TichRay, The university’s chancellor, Hellen Sambili, African country to obtain a visa on arrival, in Without Borders @jay_maveneka, @KusemaShepard added: “We remember those who lost their an explicit eff ort to foster a closer bond with the programme noticed his lives, and their families. The university will rest of the continent. talent. Photo: Don Juan Wins in the war on poaching remain strong and it will transform this region.” “This social bond of interaction of Ethiopians Moore/Getty Images The Niassa National Reserve in northern — Nominated by @Mohamedkorane1 22 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 The Good News Edition THE BIG PICTURE / Mufananidzo mukuru / Aworan ńlá / As-surat al-kabira CONTINENTAL DRIFT

Zimbabwe passports run out The latest symptom of Zimbabwe’s economic crisis is that the govern- ment has run out of vehicle licence plates and passports, which means that new vehicles cannot be regis- tered and that no one can leave the country, unless they already have a passport. These shortages come in addition to shortages of bread, petrol and electricity, a result of decades of economic mismanage- ment and a dire deficit of foreign currency.

Airstrike in Libya a ‘war crime’ A migrant detention centre in Tripoli, Libya, was hit by an air- strike on Tuesday night, killing at least 44 people and injuring 130. The attack “clearly amounts to the level of a war crime”, said a United Nations envoy. General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army is thought to be responsible. The group launched an assault on the capital several months ago, in an effort to dislodge the internationally recognised government based there.

Biya’s security convicted Five members of Cameroonian President Paul Biya’s security team have been convicted of assaulting a journalist in Switzerland and given three-month suspended sentences. Against the grain: Egypt was once known as the breadbasket of the world. Although predominantly a desert country, the lush soil along the banks They were released immediately of the Nile proved to be extraordinarily fertile and provided the necessary conditions for the ancient Egyptian empire to thrive. But, as Egypt’s after the sentence was handed population has increased, so has the pressure on its arable land and the country now has to import grain to feed its citizens — despite the best down on Wednesday — just a day efforts of its farmers, such as this woman in the El-Menoufia Governorate, in the northern part of the country. Photo: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters after they were arrested for the crime. They were found guilty of roughing up the journalist, who was covering an opposition protest outside Biya’s hotel, injuring him Our fears don’t tell the whole story and damaging property. Biya is frequently criticised for spending too much time — and money, to the tune of several million dollars a stay Don’t let negative likely you may be to commit suicide. — in luxury Swiss hotels. We just need to replace a story of headlines blind you to doom with a truer story of progress. Sudan to release prisoners the fact that humanity is One of the lessons we have learnt Sudan’s Transitional Military from our work of equipping young Council has agreed to release healthier and wealthier Africans with happiness and resil- all political prisoners, said the than ever before ience skills is this: our fears are African Union’s envoy to Sudan on boring. These fears, heightened by Wednesday. Further details on the clouds of doom, distort our accept- agreement have not been forth- OPINION ance of the opportunities around us. coming. The announcement came Chude Jideonwo & These fears are the same fears against the backdrop of tense talks Damola Morenikeji that have been around since people between the transitional council gained cognition: Will I be happy? and protest leaders about what the o humanity’s best Will I find love? Will I be healthy? political system in post-revolution- days lie ahead of us But we know that what is really ary Sudan should look like. The or behind us? It’s the exciting about us are the things that protesters want any interim gov- Deternal question in the lie at the other spectrum of emo- ernment to be led by civilians, but post-Enlightenment tion: creativity, collaboration, trust, Sudan’s generals have so far been world. We were forged and evolved faith and, as the Harvard Grant reluctant to cede power. in fear; that’s how we survived the Study reminds us, love and mutually jungle. Thus, it is reasonable to see rewarding relationships. (The study ‘I don’t intend to fit in’ the world as one in which hope is an Good times: Though leaders such as Donald Trump may tempt us to has tracked 268 men since 1938, dur- When he was just five years old, endangered species. despair, the authors believe that, as a species, we’ve never had it better ing the Great Depression. It is con- Magid Magid arrived in the United This feeling is valid. But valid than we have it today. Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters tinuing and has expanded to include Kingdom as a refugee from Somalia. does not mean true. In his book, women and the men’s children.) A quarter of a century later, a mete- Factfulness, Swedish professor Hans safe; we are doomed. These are feel- are wired in such a way that even if Nations have risen out of destruc- oric political rise has culminated — Rosling described the pervasive cog- ings that have been amplified in the frequency of bad news were to tion and poverty, people have over- for now, at least — in him taking up nitive bias that can lead to a feel- a world led by the likes of Donald decrease, we would start to expand come heartbreak and trauma, com- a seat as a member of the European ing of doom: “We must recognise Trump, Jair Bolsonaro and, probably our definition of bad news and keep munities have grown through lack Parliament in Strasbourg. But his … when we get negative news, and soon, Boris Johnson. finding more of it. One way to deal and scarcity, and people around the first day did not go smoothly. He [remember] that information about But these feelings are not benign. with this bias is to know it exists and world have linked up to make things was asked to leave by security, pre- bad events is much more likely to Not only can they have a major effect to consciously seek out information better for people they do not know. sumably because he did not fit the reach us. When things are getting on an individual’s self-esteem, but that challenges our biases. We know that the world, and our usual parliamentary profile. “I know better we often don’t hear about negative perceptions of the world can So, if you are feeling overwhelmed lives, can get better because we have I’m visibly different. I don’t have the them. This gives us a systematically also affect how we interact with it. by the state of the world, remember the example all around us every day. privilege to hide my identity. I’m too-negative impression of the world Last year, a study published in this: humanity has made consider- There is no need to deny all the BLACK & my name is Magid. I don’t around us, which is very stressful.” the journal Science by Harvard pro- able improvements in the several things that remain wrong in our intend to try fit in. Get used to it!” Although there is a lot of bad news, fessor David Levari and colleagues dimensions of human wellbeing. world, and the work that yet remains Magid commented on social media. Rosling reminds us that there is just examined this problem. “In a series If you were alive even less than 200 ahead. But we must never forget as much good. But the positive devel- of experiments, we show that peo- years ago, there is a 90% chance that that despair is not the complete Garissa attackers jailed opments are hard to notice because ple often respond to decreases in the you were illiterate. story. Reality is more nuanced than Three people have been convicted good news, often, isn’t news enough prevalence of a stimulus by expand- The likelihood of getting killed in that single story, and the reality — for their role in the 2015 attack on for the media — it doesn’t sell — and ing their concept of it. When blue a war is slimmer than it used to be our reality today, and the reality of Garissa University College in Kenya, gradual improvements are not dra- dots became rare, participants began some decades ago. Access to educa- human progress, based on all the in which 148 people were killed. matic enough to be news. to see purple dots as blue; when tion and learning is at an all-time data we have from history — is that The attack was orchestrated by al- The resulting focus on pain and threatening faces became rare, par- high and we are living longer, health- our world has in its belly an abun- Shabab, an Islamist militant group despair distorts reality, not just ticipants began to see neutral faces ier and wealthier lives than at any dance of the good and the beautiful. based in Somalia. One attacker, because the news may be false or as threatening; and when unethical other point in history. thought to be more directly exaggerated, but because it can lock requests became rare, participants That doesn’t make irrelevant the Chude Jideonwo is the founder involved, was given a life sentence, you in an echo chamber, and feeds began to see innocuous requests as news that loneliness and depression of media group RED and Joy, Inc. while the other two were jailed for you with self-reinforcing messages: unethical,” the study found. are on the rise, and that the wealthier Damola Morenikeji is the chief 41 years each. — Briefs sourced the world is dangerous; no one is In other words, human brains and safer the place you live, the more operating officer at Joy, Inc from BBC and Reuters Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 23 Business Raw power dumped on farms

About 500 tonnes of sewage is trucked daily across Gauteng and disposed of on mielie fields instead of being used to make biogas

Kevin Davie

here is an expansive view of northern Johannes- burg from the edges of Tthe informal settlement of Diepsloot. Below, on the dusty and wintry highveld, is the Northern Water Waste Treatment Works sewage farm. The back entrance to the sewage works is a little more than 100m or so away. Photographer Delwyn Verasamy and I are here this week because apparently these works, rather than treat the sludge on site, truck toxic, unstable sludge in an untreated form to farms where it is dumped as fertiliser. This seems unlikely because, on a previous visit to the site a few weeks ago, I saw three large multimillion- rand engines capable of transform- ing biogas, produced in the sludge treatment process, into electricity. This was a vision of what a decarbon- ised economy can look like, where unhygienic waste is used as a renew- able source of clean energy. But the engines operate at no more Waste of energy: Trucks carry untreated sewage sludge from Northern Water Waste Treatment Works to farms, where it is used as fertiliser. If the than 20% capacity because relatively sludge were used to produce electricity, it could save the City of Johannesburg millions of rands each year. Photos: Delwyn Verasamy little of its potential biogas feedstock is produced on site. Rather than trucks, also wanting to get to the at the current concentrations ade- being put through the digesters that farmland. quately, he told the city authorities. produce biogas and stable nontoxic We followed the two trucks for just “Furthermore, the digesters are solids that can be used as fertiliser, more than 100 metres to a mielie suspected to contain large amounts much of the sludge is trucked away field that had been harvested, with of grit, which additionally reduces in a wet, untreated and toxic form. just bits of stalks remaining. their effective capacity, and very lit- When we arrived this week, we saw The trucks had stopped towards tle or no monitoring is done on the the first giant tip trucks making their one edge of the large field, a long digesters,” he said. way to the entrance to the works. black line through the field indicat- Juncker proposed a turnaround Our information was that each truck ing where previous consignments plan for the site whereby it would makes three dumps a day. We settled had been offloaded. One truck had produce quality sludge for use in on- down to wait. After about 30 min- used its hydraulic arm to lever its site digesters and sufficient biogas utes the first truck to leave the site cargo up, disgorging its contents and to be able to meet much of the site’s emerged. adding to what had already been electricity needs, as well as stabilised Its contents — wet sludge — were dumped. The drivers then drove back and saleable fertiliser. leaking from the tailgate, splattering and forwards a little, slamming on He estimated the savings for the on the road. Where the open truck their brakes to get as much of the city of a reconfigured Northern joined the main road, we got close sludge out as possible. The undercar- Works at R80-million a year and enough to smell its disgusting load. riage of the trucks showed evidence suggested private funding could We had no idea where the truck of their inability to contain their be sourced for the project, because was heading; our sources had sug- loads: the axles and wheel hubs were megawatts of power. But he is unable well-managed site looks like. it makes a strong financial case. gested somewhere in Gauteng, but encrusted with faecal matter. to run the engines at more than 20% The result — after emerging from Juncker suggests the costs of put- perhaps even Limpopo. One of the men offloading the capacity because of the insufficient the anaerobic digestion process that ting sufficient digesters in place and What we saw was clearly happen- sludge said each truck typically biogas being produced as a result of separates solids and gas, and after upgrading facilities to be able to ing on an industrial scale: no sooner makes three deliveries a day to inadequate sludge treatment. lying in the sun for at least five sunny treat the sludge on site and convert had we hit the road than two or three farms; one farmer in the area gets In a May 2017 document prepared days — is a dry, stable powder that the biogas to energy would be about more trucks tooted as they passed deliveries to six of his farms. We were for Johannesburg mayor Herman farmers can pick up for use on their R700-million. in the opposite direction to pick up also told that the dumped contents Mashaba’s administration, Juncker fields. It looked like any other store- “A well-considered sludge treat- another load. are sprayed and later ploughed into points out that the majority of the bought fertiliser and I would have no ment plan will result in increased The truck made its way across the fields as fertiliser. sludge produced at the works is problem handling it. biogas production (and electricity Gauteng, heading mostly east, fol- Up until this point I had not appre- transported, untreated, at great Juncker has, for several years now, production) and has a strong busi- lowing a set of busy arterial roads, ciated the scale of the operation. expense — about R35-million a year. been trying to get Mashaba and his ness case with viable financial pay- including through commercial and During the 45 minutes we were at executive to reconfigure Northern back. Such a project could even be residential areas, all the time leak- this site, five trucks arrived to offload orthern Works’s water-use Works to manage its waste in a considered [on] a build, own, oper- ing the contaminated sludge from its their contents. licence criteria require an hygienic, environmentally friendly ate and transfer project basis, where giant tailgate. Karl Juncker, the owner of WEC NA1a quality of sludge to and economically sustainable external funding could be attained,” We followed the truck towards Projects, said the sewage works be produced at the works, manner. Juncker said. Kempton Park and then to north- needs to dispose of more than 500 Juncker said. “This is currently not In August last year, Juncker wrote My inquiries to Mashaba’s admin- east of OR Tambo International “wet” tonnes of sewage a day in the happening and results in noncompli- to Mashaba “as a concerned resident istration were sent to Joburg Water, Airport, where, quite abruptly, the slushy consistency they are trans- ance with its licence requirements.” of Johannesburg and professional in where spokesperson Isaac Dhludhlu truck turned off the tar road onto a porting at the moment. I saw properly treated sludge dur- the water industry to highlight my said the agency would be unable dirt road on farmland. This is 64km Juncker should know. His com- ing a recent visit to the Zeekoegat serious concerns regarding the state to meet my print deadline because from the sewage works. pany had the contract to install the sewage works north of Pretoria. The of Johannesburg Water”. financial year-end reports are due. I pulled over at the turnoff for a three biogas-to-energy (electric- Southern African Biogas Industry Northern Works’s current digester “We will try and provide compre- moment, only to be hooted at from ity and heat) engines at Northern Association chair, Jason Gifford, capacity is less than 10% of what is hensive feedback by the end of the behind by another of these giant Works, capable of producing 1.1 took me there to show me what a required to treat the sludge produced week,” he said. 24 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 Business BIZ BRIEFS

Fintech fills the funding gap Zim pays Eskom, in part Power utility Eskom has con- fi rmed that it has received payment from Zimbabwe. On Tuesday, Zimbabwean Energy New companies are Minister Fortune Chasi posted on Twitter proof of the country’s plugging the funding $10-million payment to Eskom. gap for small businesses, He said the payment does not guarantee that Eskom will especially in townships supply Zimbabwe with power because Eskom is still owed Thando Maeko $350-million. “It must be paid,” Chasi added. In a statement f you think small business, released the same day, Eskom chances are you’ll think new — confi rmed that it had received and probably — risky. But not the payment but did not disclose Ifor fintech credit-provider Fun- the amount. The utility said there drr. It sees opportunity. needs to be discussions between Its target market is businesses that the two parties to “fi nd a mutu- have been in operation for 12 months ally benefi cial solution to the out- and have turnover or an asset base of standing debt. Eskom is a com- more than R1-million. mercial operation and will be Fundrr’s co-founder and chief guided by the contracts we have executive, Idan Jaan, says its clients in place with Zesa [Zimbabwe are typically new businesses that Electricity Supply Authority].” have been turned away by tradi- tional fi nancial institutions. Loans Savings at lowest-ever level are typically in the range of R20 000 South Africa has recorded the to R500 000 and on an unsecured lowest gross national savings basis. ever, averaging 14.4% of gross “The whole objective of Fundrr was domestic product (GDP) for 2018. to do unsecured lending because we In 2017, it recorded an average wanted to have a turnaround time of of 16.3% of GDP. “South Africa’s no longer than 24 hours. We believe current savings rate is also well that a quick turnaround time is the below the average for emerging basis on which we built Fundrr,” Lifesaver: Dineo Skosana, owner of the Sandwich Baron in Hatfield, Pretoria, took a loan from Fundrr after her markets, which “highlights the Jaan says, explaining that it is not business had a few bad months and large financial institutions turned her down. Photo: Oupa Nkosi country’s need to attract for- possible to provide a secured loan in eign investment”, says Stanlib a short space of time. chief economist Kevin Lings. The health of any business, big “Alarmingly, despite low levels of or small, is dependent on its ability Mismatch for small business borrowers investment, South Africa is cur- to access sustainable and reliable Funding amounts sought by small, medium and micro-sized enterprises rently running a savings shortfall fi nancing but, according to a report of 3% to 4% of GDP, which is released in late June by the Banking The percentage of equivalent to between R150- Association South Africa (Basa), SMMEs seeking funding billion and R200-billion,” Lings small, medium and micro enter- Other of up to R250 000 R250000 to added. “The country remains prises fi nd it diffi cult to get funding. 27% highly dependent on attracting The data shows that a combined foreign savings to supplement its total of 73% of small enterprises are R5-million poor level of domestic savings. left out in the cold by financiers. 44% The amount of funding typically The low level of savings means Fourty-four percent of those seek offered by financiers, but that South Africa is not in a posi- funding of up to R250 000, and 29% many SMMEs want to tion to fund its own economic seek funding of up to R1-million. borrow less than success.” The large divide between demand R250 000 and supply of funding for small Pick n Pay’s naked ambition businesses creates a “funding gap” Retailer Pick n Pay this week of between R86-billion and R356- launched a range of “nude walls” billion, the Basa report said. 29% The percentage of at 13 of its stores, where cus- Fundrr, which itself has been in SMMEs seeking funding tomers will have the option of operation for only 12 months and is plastic-free shopping for a wide between R250 000 and R1-million funded by angel investors, has so far Graphic: JOHN McCANN Data source: BASA range of fresh fruit and vegeta- provided loans totalling R7-million bles. The nude walls are a trial to small and medium enterprises. to measure customers’ readiness The sandwich franchise owner Invoice Worx, is another fintech that are required when it comes to cle and they can pay themselves and to switch from prepackaged Dineo Skosana, from Pretoria, is company challenging traditional fi nancing business,” Ntutela says. their assistants,” he says. to loose products. It comes as one of 60 small businesses that have modes of lending in an era of Most informal traders do not keep Zande allows registered owners to retailers face growing pressure received loans from Fundrr. Facing increased technological adoption. up-to-date fi nancial records or com- apply for fi nancing, check balances from customers to reduce the a debt of R150 000 in franchise The company was founded in 2017 ply with the legislative requirements and make payments through their use of plastic in their stores. fees by the end of April this year, by Siya Ntutela and Mdu Thabethe, that are sought by fi nancial institu- cellphones. The platform also allows “Consumers are increasingly Skosana approached Fundrr after chief executive and chief operat- tions to access funding. Ntutela says for cashless transactions between more conscious about the envi- being turned away from financial ing offi cer respectively, and aims to financiers have to reimagine what suppliers and retailers. ronment. Plastic is now front of institutions. bridge the gap between spaza shop products and services the country’s The company negotiates trade dis- mind for customers,” says Pick n “I had gone through bad months owners and fast moving consumer fi nancial infrastructure off ers to the counts with suppliers on behalf of Pay group commercial director back-to-back and my bills actually goods (FMCG) companies by provid- informal sector. shop owners before goods are deliv- Paula Disberry. went up. I was stuck between a rock ing fi nance to spaza shops. “You have to fi nd a creative way of ered. It has raised the line of credit and a hard place because I had to The Euromonitor Shifting Market underwriting that particular market with suppliers from 30 to 60 days. Report suggests revenue fi x choose between paying salaries or Frontiers Megatrend: Africa Rising or creating products more suited for Repayment terms for shop owners The Financial and Fiscal paying head offi ce its dues,” she says. report says spaza shops have a com- that market. Financial infrastructure are seven to 14 days and Zande does Commission has singled out the The 35-year-old took up Fundrr’s bined annual turnover of R7-billion. in the country was never built on the not charge any interest or mark-up weak credit and bill collection flexible payment plan for loans Despite this large revenue stream, premise that there is going to be a on the products. systems as stumbling blocks of three to 12 months. Clients can most spaza owners are unable to get Soweto with four million people liv- “We prefer not to charge interest. in strengthening the country’s choose from daily, monthly or bi- credit from FMCG companies, in ing in it,” he says. We want to deliver to the customer municipalities. The commis- monthly repayments. part at least because some owners Zande provides cash and credit but who we want to charge are the sion said in a report into public “At first I didn’t know that we remain unbanked. facilities to spaza shop owners in big manufacturers,” he says. fi nance management, released could pay daily. Because we are “Informal business and semifor- need of stock. Spaza shop owners Zande has a warehouse in Ermelo on Monday, that although 75% of a cash business, I chose the daily mal business are actually ignored. requiring fi nancing are required to and another in Nelspruit and plans the revenue collected by munici- option,” Skosana says. They are ignored just because they provide proof of location, turnover, to open one in Orange Farm, south palities is self-generated through Fundrr uses an internal process can’t comply with the various things purchase history from their current of Johannesburg, in the next three rates, taxes and utility tariff s, this that collects 100 data points, includ- suppliers and a copy of their identity months. “The future of any shop- could be bolstered through inter- ing bank statements, value-added documents. ping in South Africa is e-commerce. ventions by the national govern- tax payments, lease agreements, Zande buys stock directly from We are what Amazon is in America ment. The commission recom- social media presence and the com- “The future of any manufacturers, which it distrib- for the township. Society is chang- mended that the treasury allow pany’s and directors’ credit data to shopping … is utes from its warehouses to spazas ing. Our future is building the next councils to collect additional determine its growth prospects and e-commerce. We through its driver network. e-commerce platform, particularly revenue, such as tourism and fi re creditworthiness. “It actually works out cheaper for the township,” Ntutela says levies, to increase income. The Companies with a low “Fundrr are what Amazon because the driver doesn’t have report comes a week after the score” pay lower interest rates, while is in America for the same cost structure that I have. Thando Maeko is an Adamela auditor general found that only higher scores mean higher rates. We’re saving money and they are Trust business reporter at the 18 of 257 municipalities achieved Zande Africa, formerly called the township” making money. They own the vehi- Mail & Guardian clean audits. Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 25 Business CCMA cases pile up with new law

But both the commission and the department cacy sessions to ensure awareness,” she says. “We believe as the depart- of labour say they have everything under control ment that there is no crisis; we have this under control. We make Tshegofatso Mathe ered in breach of the law, the matter sure that even with complaints is referred to the CCMA for a ruling. they are attended to within the set he Commission for Con- This may involve the commission timeframes.” ciliation, Mediation and requiring the employer, for instance, The National Minimum Wage Arbitration (CCMA), has to pay double or thrice the minimum Commission is set to conclude Trecieved 1 073 minimum wage plus interest for a prescribed research on the effect of the mini- wage referrals for the first period. The details of offenders may mum wage on employment, poverty, half of this year pushing its over- also be published on the department’s inequality and wage differentials by all caseload to over 100 000 com- website. the end of September. plaints. Its work also includes 8 792 The department says it regularly The National Union of cases involving basic conditions of holds inspections and “employers Metalworkers of South Africa has employment. that are found [to be] noncompliant opposed the minimum wage, calling But CCMA director Cameron are given a chance to rectify, failing it “a poverty wage”. Morajane says it has “put measures which we refer them to the CCMA. “The wage is not a living wage and in place to be able to process referrals This is happening currently,” says Minimum wait: The CCMA received thousands of cases after the new that is why we’ve always rejected within the statutory 30-day period, chief director for statutory services wage law came into effect in January. Photo: Oupa Nkosi it,” said spokesperson Phakamile including early engagement with the Fikiswa Mncanca. Hlubi-Majola. parties through our pre-conciliation The national minimum wage came are complying.” tion of written arbitration awards. “The minimum wage does nothing process”. into effect on January 1. It stipulates As of June, the commission says it According to the department, sec- to deal with the race-based unequal Of the minimum wage cases, “a a minimum wage of R20 an hour, or has received 1 073 disputes relating tors that are on the wrong side of the wage created during the apartheid total of 17% arbitration awards were R3 500 a month. Employers unable to to claims of alleged noncompliance law are manufacturing, hospitality, era. The whole thing is designed to issued”, he says. That means 182 cases comply can apply for exemptions. To in terms of the National Minimum community, wholesale and retail. benefit big business.” have been dealt with so far. He says qualify for an exemption, employers Wage Act. In addition, 201 cases were “On domestic [workers] we nor- Union federation Cosatu, which there is no backlog of cases. need to submit their financial infor- received dealing with compliance mally receive complaints that employ- has supported the minimum wage, The department of labour’s chief mation and show that they have con- orders and applications for certifica- ers are not paying the minimum acknowledges that the implementa- director responsible for labour rela- sulted affected employees. wages. And when you follow up, in tion has both successes and difficul- tions, Thembinkosi Mkalipi, says not Between January and June this most instances it is those employers ties. Most employers are abiding by all companies are complying with the year, 385 applications were received, As of June, the that are not registered as employers the new regulations and this means minimum wage law. “If your question of which 247 were approved, affecting commission says with the Unemployment Insurance “significant increases in wages for is whether all employers are comply- 45 051 workers, said Mkalipi. it has received Fund,” says Mncanca. millions of workers”, according to the ing with the law, the answer [is] ‘No’. In his State of the Nation address, Protecting employees at peo- union’s parliamentary co-ordinator, That is why there are cases at the President Cyril Ramaphosa said: “The 1 073 disputes ple’s homes can be tricky because Matthew Parks. CCMA.” There are fines for not com- national minimum wage has been relating to claims of access can be difficult. “In this case plying with minimum wage regula- in place for six months and the early we rely on employees to report and Tshegofatso Mathe is an Adamela tions. Where an employer is consid- indications are that many companies noncompliance the department will conduct advo- Trust business reporter at the M&G 26 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 Business Greener cars have truly electrifying potential

But South Africa will have to adopt proactive policies to increase demand and manufacturing Driving change: Adriaan Turgel with one of the cars he is importing from China. He is a big electric vehicle enthusiast but is frustrated by local policymakers’ failure to promote this technology. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy Lynley Donnelly from tax concessions to preferential parking concessions. These incen- on cars with internal combustion preserving the local industry’s posi- policy and incentives programmes ’ve always been a car guy. tives should be urgently adopted by engines. tion would require signifi cant invest- are “technology neutral”. My father was a car guy South Africa’s policymakers, says In 2017-2018, fuel levies contrib- ments by original equipment manu- But, until South Africa’s domestic and I’m a car guy,” says Turgel. Instead, they “are up their uted R70.9-billion to government’s facturers (OEMs) — the international demand profi le for electric vehicles ‘IAdriaan Turgel, who is own jumper”. revenues, according to the authors. A car companies that manufacture or changes, it makes little sense for sitting in his office on a Globally, the world’s transport sys- decline in sales of cars with internal assemble vehicles here — to update OEMs to change their production bright, frigid Johannesburg morn- tems are moving towards electrifi ca- combustion engines would lead to their facilities to produce electric platforms to make electric vehicles ing. But, unlike a typical petrolhead, tion, with countries such as France reduced carbon tax revenue, which vehicles, say the authors. locally, he said. petrol is not a feature of his passion. and the United Kingdom targeting raised R1.3-billion on these vehicles “While government has no direct However, should this change, and Instead, it is electric vehicles that outright bans of petrol- and diesel- in 2017-2018. control over the models manufac- given the global nature of the auto- occupy Turgel, who has come to own engined cars in the coming decades. But the negative effect would be tured by OEMs in the South African motive value chain, Moothilal said he 17 over the years. A host of other countries have set tar- ameliorated by decreased crude oil, plants, proactive policy options are would be “unoncerned that we can- He is into vehicles that are “sim- gets for electric vehicle sales. petrol and diesel imports, which cost available to facilitate the transition not or will not be prepared for that ple, cost-effective, environmentally China is by far the world’s leader $11-billion in 2017 or about R155- and ensure that the country retains change”. friendly and appropriate for task in electric vehicles, according to the billion at current exchange rates. a strong automotive manufacturing The OEMs are global companies, as transport”. International Energy Agency. The These imports would be “displaced industry in the long run,” it said. are the majority of their components Turgel has recently been awarded China Association of Automotive by locally produced electricity, with In the 2017-2018 year the local suppliers, he said. “All of them will a licence to manufacture, import and Manufacturers stated in April that its favourable impacts on South Africa’s automotive industry received about already, at their various global head- build vehicles, and has a showroom sales of battery electric vehicles had foreign exchange reserves, the rand R30-billion in support. Directly and quarters ... be planning for whatever and workshop in Cape Town. Turgel, risen 83% on a year-on-year basis. exchange rate and economic devel- indirectly (including retail and car the vehicle demand trajectory looks the owner of Liebermann Pottery, Sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles had opment”, according to the paper. maintenance businesses), it supports like in the next 15 or 20 years.” something of a Johannesburg insti- risen 91% over the same period. As the price of electric vehicles falls about four million jobs, the report When South Africa eventually tution, focuses on small electric vehi- But the switch to electrifi ed trans- — they are expected to be competi- said. gets its fi rst electric vehicle produc- cles for niche and cargo applications. port in South Africa comes with tive by 2024 and reach parity by 2029 tion platform from an OEM, said The cars, which are double or single a series of potential pitfalls that on an unsubsidised basis — com- ut, according to Hiten Moothilal, those suppliers will just occupancy vehicles and come from require active policy interventions by muters across all segments could see Parmar, the director of the “naturally upgrade” their produc- China, will not “go Cape to Cairo”, the government to manage the nega- their transport costs decline by 57% BuYilo eMobility Programme, tion capabilities to meet this new but will work for people with a com- tive eff ects and maximise the posi- to 60%, according to the authors. which promotes electric demand. mute of less than 100km a day. tive ones, warn experts. But there Private car owners would benefit mobility, although 60% of vehi- Until electric vehicle prices decline, The numerous other applications are clear opportunities — notably directly and public transport com- cles are exported to the EU, neither electrifying public transport — par- for these cars — from delivery ser- in areas such as electrifying public muters indirectly, assuming a full the Automotive Production and ticularly buses — makes the best vices to quiet security patrol cars transport — which could mean large pass-through cost for consumers. Development Programme nor the business sense for South Africa, — are what really get him excited. benefits to South Africans, includ- The paper also argues for ways to future South African Automotive according to Khanyiselo Kumalo, The electric vehicles, which can be ing in better air quality and higher manage the transition to electric Masterplan provides supporting an energy analyst at GreenCape, a charged on a three-point plug at disposable incomes as citizens spend vehicles to retain the competitive- mechanisms to promote the uptake Western Cape nonprofit organisa- home, are “fucking fantastic”. less on their travel. ness of the local automotive indus- of electric vehicles. tion that drives the adoption of green The 65-year-old’s enthusiasm is, In a paper by consulting firm try. The sector receives substantial Many EU countries are banning economy solutions. however, sharply tempered by a deep Change Pathways and the think-tank industrial policy support — through the use of new petrol and diesel vehi- “Electric vehicles at the moment frustration with what he likens to a Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies, the Automotive Production and cles as early as 2025, he said, mean- are quite elitist; they are for high Kafkaesque bureaucracy and the fail- authors Anthony Dane, Dave Wright Development Programme and ing the automotive industry is likely income earners,” said Kumalo. “The ure by policymakers to promote elec- and Gaylor Montmasson-Clair out- the South African Automotive to lose its principal markets. only way that marginalised groups, tric vehicles in South Africa. line the policy implications of a tran- Masterplan, which takes eff ect from “Proactive policy reform is or the people who travel the furthest In regions such as China and the sition to electric vehicles. 2021 — to produce petrol and die- required for South Africa to adapt ... are able to benefi t and access this European Union, “there are so many Some of the key areas where sel cars, the majority of which are to the global value-chain technology technology, is if it’s applied to public incentives, advantages and encour- uptake in electric vehicles would be exported to markets such as the EU, transition grappling the global auto- transport.” agement by the state to make elec- felt include declines in government as domestic demand has declined. motive industry,” said Parmar. Electrifi ed buses address not only tric vehicles your choice”, ranging revenues from fuel and other levies Given the shift to electric vehicles, Importantly, the local market for the problem of greenhouse gas emis- electric vehicles needs to be pro- sions, but congestion problems too, Existing internal combustion engines moted. Electric cars are not manufac- she notes. tured locally, and taxes on imported “Unlike passenger vehicles, buses Cleaner fuel vs electric cars Efficient Euro 6 internal combustion engines electric vehicles are subject to the are fit for purpose,” she says. They Million Grid-charged electric vehicles (EVs) tonnes Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions same duties as ordinary cars. are more effi cient, moving more peo- All imported passenger cars are ple with less energy, and they cross- of CO2 There would only be a 12% cut in CO2 emissions with 100% There would be a 34% cut in CO2 emissions if 100% of subject to a 25% tariff, with the subsidise commuters across diff erent 60 of potential market penetration of Euro 6-fuelled engines potential market penetration of electric vehicles is reached exception of vehicles with internal income groups. combustion engines from the EU, According to GreenCape, buses 50 which are taxed at 18%, according are already manufactured in South to the paper. They are also further Africa. They are subject to between 40 hit with an ad valorem tax, based on 70% and 80% local content require- 12% their relatively higher retail prices. ments and they enjoy duty-free 30 These taxes should be reduced, imports of all drivetrain components. Parmar said, because it would boost But, a diesel bus typically costs 20 Cut would be 67% with zero- 34% carbon electricity for charging demand and not harm the local man- between R2-million and R3-million, ufacturing sector. and an electric bus can cost between 10 Renai Moothilal, the executive R6-million and R10-million, depend- director of the National Association ing on its scale. So, although the 0 of Automotive Component and running costs may be substan- No change Result with 50% of Result with 100% of No change Result with 50% Result with 100% Allied Manufacturers — which repre- tially lower, the upfront capital Graphic: JOHN McCANN Euro 6 penetration Euro 6 penetration of EV penetration of EV penetration sents components manufacturers in cost for electrifi ed buses can still be Data source: TIPS REPORT 2019 the sector — says current industrial prohibitive. Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 27 Comment& Analysis Failure to fix Graphic: JOHN McCANN the economy will undo Cyril

The president can get rid of the loathsome political figures but he can’t control everything

of public prosecutions or a compe- Richard Calland tent South African Revenue Service commissioner. Now, Ramaphosa has to turn the economy around. If he does, he will s Cyril Ramaphosa winning or bring society with him, and his politi- losing? This is the burning ques- cal woes and fiendish foes will fade tion of the day. And because it is into the background. If he fails, his Igenerally a time of great anxiety enemies will seize upon this and the and growing uncertainty, here political current against which he and throughout the world, the fear must swim will get stronger, prompt- that he might be losing is adding ing a downwards spiral. further angst to an already febrile This is all that really matters. atmosphere. Ramaphosa has to succeed in resus- We need him to win. Ramaphosa, citating the economy. imperfect though he no doubt is, This anxiety about the president’s is the best bet available — a gifted prospects of success may explain political leader with the experience some of the expressions of disap- and agility that are the minimum pointment at his State of the Nation requirements needed to succeed. address, much of which failed to This is the rebuttable proposition appreciate that a “good” Sona should that animates South Africa’s daily be an act of statecraft and strategic political fare and which provokes intent rather than a tedious check- invective and concurrence, as well as list of “action plans”. For some peo- apprehension. ple’s taste, there was not enough of a The only opinion that should mat- perch. It was deemed to be too vague Zwane or a Faith Muthambi or a step, which is, in short, that South just; and in his own way — putting in ter was recently issued by the elec- or dreamy. Bongani Bongo to honour the consti- Africa needs to get out of coal and the pieces of the jigsaw one at a time, torate: a clear vote of confidence in But, as ANC veteran MP Yunus tutional obligation to hold the execu- fossil fuels — and fast — and to lev- trusting in process rather than out- Ramaphosa’s leadership — given Carrim pointed out in his majestic tive to account is akin to expecting a erage this imperative to tilt public right confrontation. that the election pivoted on the ques- contribution to the parliamentary two-year-old to not wee on the carpet and private investment decisively In this respect, Frene Ginwala tion of whether a splenetic ANC debate that followed, Sona was criti- if you remove their nappy. These peo- towards renewable energy and thus and Kgalema Motlanthe may just could be trusted with five more years cised for being “long on vision and ple pissed on the Constitution when a different development pathway. be about to embark on their most of government despite the degrada- low on details” but better that, he they were in the executive. They Ramaphosa’s “new deal” needs to be important task of all their years of tion of the former president Jacob rightly argued, than the opposite. should be nowhere near any position a fully-fledged “green new deal”. noble service to the ANC: investigat- Zuma years. Much of the criticism focused on of public office, let alone chairing a This is the policy debate that South ing their party’s secretary general. Thus, the starting point for any the “dream passage” towards the parliamentary committee. Africa should be having, not fretting Ramaphosa can rely on them to do assessment of Ramaphosa’s pros- end of the speech. As Carrim argued, It reflects poorly on Ramaphosa about whether ANC secretary gen- what needs to be done. The tactics pects is to note a certain political the dream term was used to convey because, as president of the ANC, eral Ace Magashule was once again being displayed by Ramaphosa’s ene- reality: that he is probably as power- a much-needed sense of hope, which he must take responsibility for eve- trying to derail Ramaphosa’s inward mies suggest that they, too, are anx- ful now as he has ever been and as is especially important for the first rything that happens in its name. investment strategy by issuing a ious, if not desperate. It suggests that powerful as he ever will be. But, as Sona of a new administration at a It undermines confidence that the statement calling for what he called they are losing and that they know it. Marx poignantly pointed out, “Men time of national angst. president is sufficiently in control “quantity easing”. But the road is bendy and with make their own history, but they He is right. The details will come, and distracts from his attempt to set How, for example, can one have a many a pothole along the way. do not make it as they please; they in the various budget votes in the a new strategic course. And raises a serious, reasoned debate about the Surviving the fightback may only be do not make it under self-selected coming weeks, and in the medium serious doubt as to whether he can extent to which monetary policy and possible if Ramaphosa succeeds on circumstances, but under circum- term strategic framework, and then, get the parliamentary caucus to do inflation targeting would need to be the even tougher battlefield of turn- stances existing already, given and added Carrim, “through our effective what they need to do in terms of eased to allow for the sort of stimu- ing the economy around. transmitted from the past.” oversight of the executive”. their constitutional obligation to lus and transition-bridging public On both fronts, he must take the Ramaphosa inherited the most Regrettably, at that point we stum- investigate and then remove public investment that a fresh macroeco- sort of risks he generally prefers awful bequeathal from his predeces- ble once again over the detritus of protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane from nomic approach might require when to avoid. It may not be possible to sor. Key state institutions broken by the Zuma era. Some of the most office — essential if she is not to dog the saboteurs are deliberately mud- build a consensus about what to do. the ravages of state capture — includ- malignant members of the state cap- him for the next four years. dying the water with feckless talk Ramaphosa may have to risk defeat ing, it turns out, a rogue public pro- ture network not only wriggled their Nonetheless, Sona has certainly got of messing with the mandate of the in three years’ time (at the next ANC tector; a fiscal crunch, with reckless, way back into Parliament but now people talking — not least the idea South African Reserve Bank, as well national elective conference), so as populist promises — such as free ter- find themselves appointed to chair of new, smart cities. On one read- as pointless “nationalisation”? to give his country three good years tiary education for all and a divided parliamentary committees. ing, it appeared a random thought. In Thabo Mbeki’s time, only three now rather than survive longer and and ill-disciplined ruling party with a This is inexcusable. No “political On another, more considered view, people were allowed to speak pub- consign us all to five or more medio- gangster secretary general. management” imperative can pro- it suggests a new boldness and a licly about such matters: the presi- cre years of continuing decline. This is the political economy of the vide justification: to ask a Mosebenzi new willingness to transform the dent, the minister of finance and the Like flies around a summer’s braai, Ramaphosa era: the biggest issue the economy with a fresh paradigmatic governor of the Reserve Bank. Now, the Magashules and Mkhwebanes president and his administration outlook — such as that proposed economic policy is a plaything in the will be swatted away, one by one. But face is the state of the economy. But, by Neil Coleman, the co-director of factional warfare in the ANC, mak- they are nothing compared with the much of the political and institu- “Men make the Institute for Economic Justice, ing Ramaphosa’s mission impossible mountain Ramaphosa must climb on tional context is toxic. their own history, among others. even harder. the economy. In the past year he has begun to but they do not So it was good to hear Ramaphosa So already there are some insid- rebuild state institutions — with speak of the climate emergency early ers who in the words of one, fear Richard Calland is an associate remarkable speed and effect, make it under on his speech, signalling that he is that Ramaphosa may already have professor in public law at the Uni- whether it be the quartet of commis- self-selected aware of South Africa’s responsi- “lost the moment”. A tad too soon versity of Cape Town and partner in sions of inquiry, the appointment of bilities as a good global citizen. But for such a conclusion. But he dare the political risk consultancy, The an independent national director circumstances” he failed to take the next logical not dally. For he is winning, but only Paternoster Group 28 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 Comment & Analysis EFF hypocrisy and our prejudice

he Economic Freedom Fighters are hypocrites. The party’s lead- ers appear unable to hold firm to their convictions when con- fronted with personal benefit. This holds true for many of us — hypocrisy could be taken as a given condition of being human. TBut these are elected officials. As such, we expect them to at least have the compunction to better reconcile their public utterances with their private actions. We expect them not to be entangled in the annihilation of the country’s first black- owned bank when they spend so much time lobbying for new ownership of the South African Reserve Bank, for example. It is simply untoward for a party, whose leaders style themselves as a bul- wark against a corrupt elite, to be implicated — by association or otherwise — in similar behaviour. And, yes, you would think that people behaving in such a contradictory way would be smart enough to dispose of the accompanying detritus of such con- tradictions themselves. Their apparent penchant for pairing (expensive) champagne with (even Overcoming hurdles: A youth organisation has found that young South Africans have an appetite to mend more expensive) views over Camps Bay — after wearing red overalls in social ills and change the national pessimistic outlook, despite the obstacles they face. Photo: David Harrison Parliament in solidarity with the working class — is, according to the Daily Maverick, certainly a stark contradiction. But it is also just that: a contradiction. Let’s not pretend that the EFF’s sanctimony that has erupted on behalf of the poor is bereft of contradiction itself. The self-same people who claim to Youth, dare to dream express outrage on behalf of the country’s poorest people are also complicit in the continuing exploitation of these people. That’s you sitting there reading this on your cellphone, made with parts that are dug out of the blood-soaked earth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. And that’s you sitting there reading this in the newspaper, while a woman scurries to clean up after you. Young people need to be able to imagine a better In doing so, we could build new So, leaving aside the tone of the Daily Maverick story that resulted from a and boundless stores of social capi- bit of dustbin-digging, replete with its sanctimonious correction of spelling, future if they are to stand a chance of creating it tal and foster an ideas economy for this is part of a longer-term struggle for media organisations to try to work social change. out how they live alongside the EFF. YOUTH their areas. They burn with the call- There are precedents and proto- What the current controversy around the EFF’s party in Camps Bay reveals Ashley Roman ing to inspire others. They share types to which we can turn. We’ve is the flimsiness of our own prejudices. opportunities, identify or establish seen how investment in education Remember that this is the same Julius Malema, the EFF leader, who, with magine a South Africa where bursary opportunities, raise funds has paid off in countries such as the aid of a band of close friends, made a pretty penny out of public infra- two young men — one white or source clothing for children, China and Singapore and we’ve seen structure projects in Limpopo, and debilitated parts of the province in the and from a wealthy suburb, the teach other youngsters how to be the innovations that have come out process. From empty plates and school feeding schemes to barely drivable Iother black and from a poor financially savvy, and are social of these countries. roads, the legacy of this merry band of tender riders is well known in the township — are asked to work change drivers in the making. But South Africa is still a long province. together to address a pressing social Our role is to support young peo- way away from this. Consider the But this Malema was played down when the EFF set itself up in opposition concern. ple in recognising that they all ridicule levelled at President Cyril to the kleptocratic regime of Jacob Zuma. In that moment, the wily politi- They’re also encouraged to think have vast and untapped reserves of Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation cian was transformed from the deplorable ANC Youth League leader, who creatively and innovatively, beyond agency, which they can harness to address, not just by opposition par- demanded so much more than anyone was willing to allow, to the straight- the boxes in which they’ve been solve the problems right on their ties, but also by rival factions in his talking politician unafraid of the very party that had birthed his political rise. placed by our society. Now imagine doorsteps. We’ve also found that, own party and by members of his His voice was audible over the deafening silence in Luthuli House as the that together, using their combined by bringing together young people own team. In a country beset by a country was plundered by Zuma and his associates, Gupta & Partners. It was knowledge, skills and resources, from polar-opposite contexts, we near-pathological Afropessimism, Malema’s booming cry for the president to pay back the money that would they come up with an innovative can create a sense of connectedness one would have thought that the help lay a foundation for people inside the ANC to find their voices. plan to tackle crime in the town- out of that difference. They learn to president’s address — in which he And so, far beyond the many hundreds of thousands of people that Malema ships by deploying a drone to map understand each other’s contexts imagined a bold new South Africa would reach through his new political party, he also became the begrudg- out crime hotspots. They then pre- and to work together authentically in which every 10-year-old can “read ing beloved of that part of South Africa that fancies itself politically aware, sent those maps to the police as a without hiding behind socially con- for meaning”, of bullet trains that socially concerned and generally better educated than anyone else. resource for monitoring crime. structed barriers of race, class or connect megacities, of a cutting- Malema was welcomed into spaces from which he was once denounced Farfetched? Idealistic? Naïve? gender. Rather than obsess with edge public health service, of a food- — his presence at events guaranteeing quotable quotes and attendance for Wishful thinking? what makes them different, they secure populace driven by smart media trying to find other sources of income. He spoke at events where the No. This is one of many true sto- choose to look at what they have in agriculture, of networked modern ideology was firmly fixed in rescuing South Africa from something apparently ries from a project, Activate! Change common. cities, and of comfort and prosper- scarier than what he represents. And so he was accepted. We laughed at his Drivers, in which we have worked Sadly, these approaches and ity for all South Africans — would jokes and he was lauded. Senior editors cosied up to him. The validity of his and connected with more than capacities are not nurtured in the have been universally embraced as presence was not questioned because it was not threatening anyone except 3 200 youths from around South curriculums of mainstream educa- a visionary blueprint for the coun- the president. Africa. What we have found is that tion. At Activate! we’ve sought to try. Instead, the president is widely And now, Zuma is gone (although we can never be sure) so the contestation there is not just capacity but also grow these mindsets in alternative lambasted as “a dreamer”, and not over Malema’s presence in the public sphere resumes. an insatiable appetite to tackle spaces. By the end of this year, we in the flattering sense. Let’s be clear: it is imperative that we point out when politicians, whatever our country’s social and economic hope to have expanded our network This is an indictment of the state their stripes, ignore their electoral promises in favour of expediency. It is ills. These youths are also deter- to more than 5 000 young people. of our nation. Surely, what the presi- similarly imperative that we point out when politicians prefer privilege over mined to rewrite the narrative of But our project can only scratch dent was doing was inviting us to principle. But it is also important to acknowledge that journalism does not pessimism and despair that is so the surface. Imagine the exponen- imagine a new society vastly dif- happen in a vacuum and that prejudices seep into the tone and focus of our pervasive in our country. They do so tial potential for change that would ferent from what we behold now. work. This, in part, is why the newsrooms that report on our country need despite the many obstacles they face be unleashed should the school cur- Once we’ve imagined it, we can start greater diversity — in both faces and ideology. in their daily lives, from poverty and riculum incorporate programmes to ask ourselves how to create it. Malema has certainly not been an unwitting object in the curation of the sub-standard education to a pre- that seek to encourage innovation, When he closed his address with a public idea of himself. He has been very astute in crafting very different ver- vailing national cynicism about the beyond the school entrepreneurship poem by Nigerian writer Ben Okri — sions of himself for very different audiences. future. programmes that have been floated. which includes the line “Our future But how much champagne the fighters drink, where they drink it, their In working with these young peo- is greater than our past” — we are shopping sprees at top fashion retailers, and moralising about whether ple, we’ve been able to identify some drawn into a world of possibilities, they may or may not use the services of sex workers is ultimately not about key constructs that can be drawn and of imagination. Malema, or the EFF. This is fundamentally about us and how we respond to on to unlock their potential. We’ve Our role is to Denying that world of possibilities the idea of Malema. learned that by introducing them is to deny all of us the possibility of a Our prejudices, just like the principles of politicians, are not fixed. They to new mindsets, including prob- support young future that is greater than our past. shift constantly, often determined by our own benefit in a moment. lem-solving, creative thinking and people in Because the fighters could have been up to no good in Camps Bay, or they innovation, they are able to map out recognising that Ashley Roman is the national pro- could have been having a party with friends. But the agonising debate over alternate pathways for themselves grammes manager at Activate! what they were doing there is really a mask for an objection about the fact and others. they all have vast Change Drivers South Africa and a that they were there at all. Those who come to us already and untapped Bertha Centre scholar at the Univer- have fires blazing in their bellies. sity of Cape Town’s Graduate School M&G Media Ltd They are working with people in reserves of agency of Business Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 29 Comment & Analysis VERBATIM

“There is no Bosasa, as we speak, at correctional ser- vices.O So inmates are cooking their own food as we speak now. They eat, they bake their own bread, they do everything that relates to their own lives. It’s an opportuni- ty, a big one, from that transition of Bosasa. It’s an opportunity for us to give these opportunities to the inmates to learn.” — Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola, speaking to News24. The contract was terminated after allegations were made at the Zondo inquiry into state capture.

“My goal is to win it. I said this before: I want to be the great- est.O My dad told me that I could do this when I was eight. I’m still, like, not 100% confi dent. But you never know what happens.” — Cori Gauff , at 15 the youngest ever qualifi er for Wimbledon, speaking after she beat Venus Williams in the fi rst round of the tournament.

“This is the time to teach some of the people who had beenO defaming us. It’s the time because we thought, let’s leave them, let’s educate them, let’s do this ... but you can see the agenda of the anti-revolution taking place in South Africa.” — ANC secretary general Ace Magashule, speaking to News24 about taking legal action against those who have linked him to the formation of the African Trans- formation Movement, which was formed before the May 8 elections.

Hacking while KwaZulu-Natal burns ”You know‚ we’ve got to think about everybody always comparingO the team to the 1996s. last year over a taxi killing but is out In 1996 Mandela had just come in Not much has changed on bail pending an appeal. Zondi’s with that government‚ everybody in the province in the supporters want him back in office was optimistic ... our country’s not and are gearing up for a street cam- the same at the moment. People past couple of weeks. paign to force the hand of their politi- are not as hopeful. So we have re- And, contrary to our cal bosses. ally been given the mantle of ‘Give The ANC’s provincial leader- us hope’. And that’s a pretty heavy paper’s theme, what ship still hasn’t fi red Durban mayor burden sometimes.” — Bafana news there is, isn’t good Zandile Gumede, whom they placed Bafana coach Stuart Baxter, speaking on 30 days leave last month, after she before Bafana’s third group D match, was arrested in connection with an against Morocco, in Egypt. allegedly dodgy R208-million refuse- Paddy Harper removal tender. Gumede’s supporters in the eThek- YEARS wini region have taken to the streets, threatening more mayhem if she isn’t AGO hursday. returned to her office immediately, It’s a blissful Durban with councillors close to her taking morning, all soft light and Tough job: New KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala certainly has his sick leave to avoid attending council Leading militant Harry Gwala Tsummery temperatures, a work cut out for him. Photo: Thulie Dlamini/The Times/Gallo Images meetings and halting the functioning has been given the boot from the superb end to what turned of the city in protest. South African Communist Party out to be a rough fi rst week back at trict municipality. Life had returned the ANC took power in the province, Gumede’s stand-in, deputy mayor amid allegations of “hit squad” work. to normal. For now. earmarked by a wave of political kill- Fawzia Peer, has allegedly been the activities against ANC and SACP The two-edition lay-off was a thing Back in Durban, I was floored ings in the party, the collapse of key target of a poisoning attempt, with leaders. Gwala, a stalwart who of great beauty, which ended far too by a nasty bout of fl u, which I had municipalities and the near failure of paraffi n placed in her water bottle at served two long prison sentences quickly; the rhythm of doing as little managed to avoid until now. In a the eThekwini metro. a council meeting. Peer was rushed to for ANC and SACP activities, was as possible broken, just as it was get- matter of hours I was reduced to a Zikalala has his work cut out if he hospital and is now back at work. suspended for six months. The ting comfortable, by the dreaded and sweating, hacking mess, a two-leg- hopes to halt the decline and undo Scary stuff , but a reality of political ANC has so far not taken action inevitable return to work. ged pile of misery, unfi t for human the damage done since 2016, when life in KwaZulu-Natal. against him. Part of the holiday was spent in interaction. the ANC slate he headed took over I hit the TV remote, keen to catch Gwala this week rejected the Port Edward where, thankfully, Plans to scour the province for a and recalled the then premier Senzo up on the overnight news. allegations against him as “fabri- the freshly reinstated water supply good news story — no mean feat in Mchunu, replacing him with Willies. It’s bad. cation” and “total lies”. But they appears to be holding out, despite itself, given the state of KwaZulu- The killings haven’t stopped either. Again. were taken seriously enough by the increased demand created by the Natal and the collapse of so many of Another former ANC mayor has The KwaZulu-Natal depart- his party colleagues to suspend school holidays. its municipalities — died swiftly, with been gunned down, this time at ment of education district office in him for six months for “organisa- A week before schools closed, the the rest of the week spent operating Mandeni, where warring taxi groups Pietermaritzburg, which houses its tional indiscipline”. But behind Port Edward area had been dry as a by telephone from behind the mucus linked to factions in the governing records and its human resources the SACP statement lie reports bone, the desperation apparent on curtain. party’s regional leadership fought a division, has gone up in fl ames. The to SACP and ANC leaders which the faces of the local people, 175 000 of Not a particularly auspicious return 45-minute gun battle this week. entire top floor of the building has have alarmed them — alleging whom had been forced to share bore- to duty, or a satisfying way to go about One of the factions wants the ANC been destroyed, along with all the Gwala was involved with hit hole water with livestock or wait for it things, but then again, at least I didn’t KwaDukuza region to reappoint its computer equipment and paper fi les squads which targeted senior to be trucked in for three months. get the fl u while I was on holiday. secretary, Musa Zondi, who was jailed on it, a couple of weeks after Zikalala alliance leaders in the Natal Last week, the roads around the Not much has changed since I’ve and the new education MEC, Kwazi Midlands who opposed the “iron- KwaZulu-Natal South Coast town been away. Mshengu, announced plans for a fi sted” way he ran the region. were no longer punctuated with KwaZulu-Natal’s new premier, Sihle Gumede’s supporters skills audit to root out corruptly Gwala, who failed to attend the water containers left out by residents Zikalala, has delivered his state of the appointed teachers and other state meeting when he was suspended, hoping to catch the “waterkan” on its province address, promising rapid in the eThekwini employees. received notice of it by letter. rounds. action against corruption, increased region have taken Mshengu goes live to contradict an In reaction, he lambasted the The taps were no longer dry — or investment and effi cient governance earlier statement by departmental SACP: “It boils down to witch- spewing brown water drawn directly under his watch. to the streets, staff that they suspected the fire to hunting. They’ve judged me and from the Umtamvuna River in the I wish him good luck with that. threatening more be the result of arson, saying a staff condemned me.” — The Weekly case of the Banners Rest area — after His predecessor, Willies Mchunu, mayhem if she isn’t member may have left an electric Mail & Guardian, July 1 to 7 pumps that had broken down were presided over what was arguably the heater on overnight. 1994 eventually repaired by the Ugu dis- worst period of governance since returned to her offi ce Perhaps. 30 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 Comment & Analysis

Graphic: JOHN McCANN Why I support active euthanasia

People’s morality, religion or culture should not patient autonomy but not let unre- debate this moral elephant honestly. ency here. We respect autonomy fl ective or impulsive expressions of I think we should legalise active more during the earlier stages of override other people’s right to end their lives wishes be a hasty basis for choosing euthanasia because the moral case someone’s life than we do near the death? for doing so is persuasive. end of their life. Why is that? pressure from anyone to end her life What about the medical ethics First, we keep claiming to take the Second, we need to think ethically Eusebius McKaiser but that the quality of life she now and role of doctors? Given increas- value of autonomy seriously. It is about our attitude towards suffer- has meant that she wished to suff er ingly rapid advances in treatments central to our Constitution and has ing. Suff ering isn’t cool. I was almost no longer. for many medical conditions and ill- been the basis of many social policies in tears listening to family members Sadly, her last bit of suffering nesses that are painful or terminal, we have adopted or chosen to reject. talking about the incredible levels woman killed her involves the isolation of travelling who decides what prospects there Besides the law, we also rightly make of suff ering some of their loved ones grandfather in 1992. all the way to Europe to die there, are of survival? How many doctors reference to the value of autonomy in experienced during the last stages of She did this in a instead of dying at home. She would or specialists must jointly give input some of our ethical reasoning. terminal illnesses. Aneighbouring coun- have wanted to be surrounded by into a decision of this kind? How To take one of countless examples, You might think suff ering is nec- try, having watched friends and family in her fi nal days. much time must the medical experts we think that it is wrong for a doc- essary for you. But is it your place to him suffer excruciatingly and after When I asked her how she feels say someone probably has to live tor to not get the consent of a patient compel other people to adopt your he had pleaded with her to help him about some people who may think before a desire to hasten death can before performing a certain opera- values? end his life. She told this story on my it shameful to consider assisted sui- be expressed and actioned? tion. We recognise, say, that it is Here we must be honest, too, about radio show recently, talking publicly cide, she said she doesn’t care about What, too, about mental health? unethical to bypass the autonomy of the sociology of religion. for the first time about what had others’ feelings. She cares most Very often the debate on active a patient in a discussion about their Sometimes we do not think happened. deeply about her own life and her euthanasia focuses on the physical welfare. straight about received “wisdom” She had never spoken about this values and wishes for herself. She body, but many people with mental This is also why the more egali- handed down through religion and event because she was scared that cannot be bothered to spend the end health illnesses may argue that they tarian societies become regarding culture. We have received ideas she may be jailed for murder. To of her life being absorbed by the mor- are qualitatively in similar states as gender equality, the more we recog- about how we must die that become avoid possible requests to have her- alising narratives of people who are someone suff ering, say, the very fi nal nise that women’s rights to bodily the de facto basis of public policy. self extradited from South Africa, she not her. stages of an incurable, aggressive integrity and reproductive autonomy But we need to allow for value plural- chose not to reveal the country where There are two sets of issues here — and merciless cancer. What should matter — because women, as per- ism — the idea that there are many this happened. policy and morality. public policy say about this? sons, deserve to have their auton- plausible values, even if they are in She simply wanted to convey the I do not want to discuss the nuts omy respected and affi rmed. If your confl ict with each other — in public confl ict she had felt between how she and bolts of a policy that allows active take policy debates very seri- autonomy is to be limited, then the policy. thought ethically about her grand- euthanasia — that is a debate I can ously. We could craft sensible pressure will be on the one doing the Your god or deity may forbid you father’s desperate request and the return to, if there is interest among Ipolicy on all of these legitimate, limiting of that right to justify why from hastening death. If others do law forbidding assisted suicide or readers — because policy debates can practical questions and issues if the limitation is fair. But the pre- not share your moral framework, active euthanasia in the country in be a smokescreen for the elephant we thought that active euthanasia sumption, in the fi rst instance, is in why should they be governed by a which this had happened. in the room. I want to talk about the should be allowed. The policy lan- favour of respecting autonomy. law of general application that is The woman is clear that, for her- elephant. So, let me simply say the guage to be chosen and framework to So why then do we not respect the founded on the moral rules of your self and her grandfather, she did the following about policy. Obviously we be settled on aren’t insurmountable autonomy of people, under defi ned religious or cultural community? right thing ethically. But she has pri- need to think carefully about a range challenges for lawmakers, in collabo- circumstances, who express a wish Finally, dignity is a central moral vate anguish, one could sense, about of practical policy fears. How would ration with experts and activists, and to die? value of our liberal constitutional the law and varying attitudes of peo- you design an assisted suicide policy, also through an iterative process of Yes, we can debate what the policy foundation. The connection between ple towards what happened. in a deeply unequal society such as meaningful public consultation. should be, but that is detail, frankly. dignity, roughly understood as There is a legal prohibition against ours with concomitantly high levels There is no use pretending you Those who are morally squeamish intrinsic self-worth, and autonomy, active euthanasia in South Africa. of poverty and unemployment, that think we cannot design a good policy need to recognise that they have the roughly understood as self-govern- This is why an older woman, who reduces the risk of someone choos- when secretly your biggest objec- higher burden in this debate to make ing, is important and brings us full clearly had her mental faculties ing to die because they think they tion is a moral one, and your practi- argument for limiting the autonomy circle. intact, called in on the same show are a burden on a family? How, too, cal objections are secondary — even of a person who is lucidly expressing If we truly want all people to live and cogently explained a decision do you deal with a momentary bout when they are sincere practical a wish about wanting to die when dignifi ed lives, then we must extend she has taken. She is weeks away of hopelessness during which some- worries. That is the elephant in this medical experts, pending the meet- that idea to allowing for people to from going to Europe where she one might feel they want to die when discussion. ing of criteria stated in an adopted self-govern their dying with dignity. will be able to die a dignifi ed death they are fi rst diagnosed with a termi- Some people think active eutha- policy, have agreed that there is no Let’s choose rationality and com- through assisted suicide. nal illness? What safeguards do you nasia is a case of “playing God” and hope of living much longer. passion over moral squeamishness She told me that she was under no build into the policy to both respect that it is ethically unacceptable. Let’s We must examine our inconsist- and overreaching conservatism. Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 31 Comment & Analysis Beware the psychopath boss Trump pays in messiah

Their behaviour Graphic: JOHN McCANN tive work behaviour when their self- esteem is threatened.” money causes stress, burnout, Schoeman says narcissists favour thoughts of suicide, “indirect bullying tactics” such as withholding information, ignoring high absenteeism rates people and spreading rumours to THE FIFTH COLUMN and physical illness discredit others. They are also more Shaun de Waal likely to sexually harass because of their inflated sense of importance Browsing through the news feed BODY LANGUAGE and tendency to exploit others. on my phone the other day, the Linda Christensen The “darker personality”, she says, words “Breaking Israel” popped up. is the psychopath, who replaces the Something from BDS or Hamas? No sychopaths are not just narcissist’s exploitative tactics with — it was an article from breakingis- found in serial killer mov- a predatory drive for strategic con- raelnews.com, and the news was that ies and crime novels — quests, domination and cruelty. the Pilgrim’s Road connecting the Pthey stalk corporate cor- “Successful” psychopaths share the Shiloah Pool and the Temple Mount ridors too, where their same core characteristics as those had been opened to the public. trail of destruction may not include who become criminals — deceit, These are bits of the ancient City murder but can mean the death of manipulativeness, indiff erence to the of David underneath present-day productivity, motivation and profits. consequences of their actions, super- East Jerusalem, where archaeolo- The manipulation, deception, culture and ethical standards — one in 100 of the general population ficial charm, lack of empathy and gists have been digging for more infl ated self-opinion and back-stab- diminishing shareholder value and has psychopathic traits. This rises to lack of remorse — but tend to come than a century. The biblically and bing of the corporate psychopath returns on investment.” one in 25 among business leaders. from more privileged backgrounds Zionistically inspired diggers are and narcissist can cause depression, Workplace bullying is a major In what she calls “the curse of con- and have higher IQs. keen to fi nd anything showing Israel anxiety disorders, burnout and phys- cause of work-related stress, fi dence”, Schoeman says that many “Successful psychopaths tend to be was founded there by King David ical illnesses: conditions which cost Schoeman says, pointing to a 2017 of the traits characteristic of psycho- more conscientious than those with a in the early Iron Age. They’ve found the South African economy more survey in the United States which paths — such as charm, fearless dom- criminal record. They are less impul- some old walls and terraces, but than R40-billion annually. found that adults were being bullied inance, boldness and a “grandiose sive, negligent and irresponsible, but none have been dated conclusively to Corporate Mental Health Week at levels similar to teenagers — 31% sense of self” — are also what help this doesn’t mean they are always that period. Most seem to date from turns the spotlight on work-related of adults had been bullied at work people get ahead in business. law-abiding citizens — they may just the days of King Hezekiah, about half stress that accounts for more than and almost half believed that bully- The people to be most concerned be better at avoiding being caught.” a century after David is presumed to 40% of all workplace-related ill- ing behaviour was becoming more about, she says, are those with nar- Schoeman says the bullying tactics have lived, but still the City of David nesses in South Africa, with at least acceptable in the workplace. cissistic personality and antisocial of the successful psychopath were organisation uses that name for the one in four employees diagnosed “In the same survey, 70% or more personality disorders. based on assessing the usefulness disputed ruins, fudging the fact that with depression. of bullying victims had experienced Narcissists can be brilliant strate- and weaknesses of those around they are probably much older. Renata Schoeman, psychiatrist stress, anxiety or depression, 55% gists, have the courage to take risks, them, manipulating others to bond The title of the piece on breakingis- and associate professor in leadership reported loss of confi dence, 39% suf- push through change and use their with them, using their victims’ feed- raelnews.com (conveniently abbrevi- at the University of Stellenbosch fered from lack of sleep, 17% called in charisma and visions to inspire oth- back to build and maintain control, ated to BIN) is a fudge, too: “Recently Business School, says it is often the sick frequently and 19% had suff ered ers, fi tting into conventional ideas of and then abandoning them when Discovered Pilgrim’s Road in leaders — who should be at the fore- mental breakdown. leadership. they were no longer useful. Jerusalem ‘Brings Truth and Science front of reducing workplace condi- “Emotional stress can also cause Yet, “these masters of self-image, She says both narcissists and to a Debate that has Been Marred By tions that lead to stress and burnout or aggravate physical illnesses such who take credit but deflect blame, psychopaths had traits that could Myths”’, it says. This is ironic: the — who contribute to the problem, as gastrointestinal ... and cardiovas- tend to gather a group of codepend- be positive, “but they can also cre- archaeologists cheered on by BIN are rather than the solution. cular problems, and hypertension, ent people around them to support ate highly toxic environments with purveying the myth, and they don’t “We are not talking about the ‘diffi - while victims of workplace bullying and reinforce their behaviour. They just as significant an emotional listen to archaeologists who insist on cult’ boss here,” Schoeman says. “The had double the risk of considering profess loyalty to the organisation and fi nancial toll on employees and proper verifi cation. bullying tactics of corporate psycho- suicide in the fi ve years following.” but are really only committed to organisations as other more obvious What’s weirder, though, is that the paths increase confl ict, stress, staff Chief executives have the highest their own agenda. workplace stress factors”. ad that pops up when you read this turnover and absenteeism; reduce prevalence of psychopathic traits “Narcissists tend to be over-sensi- BIN page is for the Limited Edition productivity and collective social of all jobs — a rate second only to tive to criticism, over-competitive, Linda Christensen is a communica- Trump Jerusalem Temple Coin. “As responsibility; and erode corporate prison inmates. It is estimated that and often engage in counter-produc- tions consultant the next stage in the Messianic pro- cess,” we’re told, “the Sanhedrin of Israel released a new coin honoring King David in preparation for re- establishing the Davidic Dynasty.” The coin carries the profiles of United States President Donald Trump and Persian king Cyrus the Great. The latter let the Jews return to Israel after exile in the sixth cen- tury BCE. Trump is of the view that Jerusalem is the true capital of Israel, and those awaiting the messiah and the re-establishment of the Davidic kingdom obviously do too. Rabbi Hillel Weiss, the spokes- person for the Sanhedrin, a revived religious body, is quoted thus: “We commemorate US President Donald Trump in connection with his Messianic activities. Donald Trump is the numerical value of the Messiah, the Son of David, who comes from Edom.” If you’re confused about what the “numerical value” of the messiah might be, you will be more confused when you read down into the com- ments. Christians and Jews disa- gree vehemently about the messiah, though the article claims they agree on the “Judeo-Christian values” that underpin both Israel and the US. The Trump coin, at least, echoes another element of the BIN story about the Pilgrim’s Road. It men- tions some coins found during the excavations, dating from the time of the Roman siege of Jerusalem in the 70s CE, which would end in the destruction of the city. The coins had little monetary value, apparently, but carry the legend: “For the freedom of Zion”. A doomed gesture of defi ance, then, and belief in a fantasy future. 32 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 Education Leadership can fix poor schooling

School district officials and principals can achieve great results if they collaborate meaningfully

COMMENT of the basic district practices and the Vusumzi Chuta importance of the support afforded by the district office to the school he Fezile Dabi district has principal through instructional consistently been one of leadership. the best-performing dis- The findings also show that some Ttricts contributing to the districts do not perform as well Free State department of as they should in their efforts to education’s recent dominance of the improve the effectiveness of their top spot in the national senior certif- schools. According to these studies, icate pass rates. In the 2018 national the various intervention measures matric examinations, the province introduced often focus on district recorded an 87.5% pass rate and directors and the duties they are Fezile Dabi district outperformed expected to discharge to support all districts nationally, attaining an school principals. impressive 92.3% pass rate. It is vital to empower district offi- School districts are a critical com- cials, but more effort should also ponent of the country’s education be made to improve pupils’ perfor- Graphic: JOHN McCANN system. They serve as delivery hubs mance by supporting instructional for the department of basic educa- leadership at school level. To date, enable them to monitor the effec- therefore, is examined not only in well-planned sessions with district tion to provide quality teaching and most schools continue to receive tive implementation of teaching and relation to its support of schools, but officials. learning at schools across the coun- poor service and support from their learning strategies. also in relation to its ability to formu- The research by Jita and Mokhele try. Given their strategic role and districts, and the kind of instruc- OAligning the curriculum, instruc- late relevant policies. illustrates this point further: they proximity to schools, in recent years tional leadership practices they are tion and assessment standards is viewed this as the reason for the the department has consolidated and expected to employ to support school a fundamental practice to support ow did we, at the Fezile accumulation of content knowl- streamlined their functions with a principals have not been fully under- instructional leadership. It is impor- Dabi district, successfully edge and improved skills by school view to improving their capacity to stood by all at the district level. tant to understand that if these Himplement our instruc- leaders. service and support schools. This is the challenge the educa- instructional leadership elements tional leadership initiative? District leadership was, therefore, The department has also noted tion system faces despite a plethora operate in isolation, learner perfor- District-level support for instruc- examined, not only in relation to its that most schools’ academic perfor- of guiding tools and policies avail- mance will not be realised. tional leadership by school principals support for schools, but with regard mances are closely linked to the level able for supporting schools. Experts OAny meaningful decision-mak- is crucial for enabling principals to to its ability to formulate policies and of support and involvement of the argue that the absence of specific ing process can be easily understood deal with organisational issues. This set up structures that would form a districts under which they fall. Thus, practices that districts should adopt and managed if it is informed and is so that an environment conducive support base for instructional leader- schools that produce better results to provide targeted, quality and sus- backed by reliable data. Therefore, to learning and achieving improved ship by school principals. are those served by well-function- tained support to school principals effective data analysis plays a pivotal pupil performance can be fostered. Finally, the focused programmes ing and better-run district offices. compromises the standard of learn- role in guiding instructional leaders In this regard, our district organised and capacity-building activities for Similarly, poor academic outcomes ing outcomes. to use multiple sources of informa- capacity-building programmes, par- district officials and school princi- are a reflection of inadequate sup- It is important to understand who tion to assess performance and to ticularly for district officials. pals ignited love and passion among port and service the schools receive the major players are to ensure effec- improve learning. Monitoring is a Through the collaboration between the officials. Today, they continue to from their districts. tive implementation of instructional crucial element of all leaders’ respon- the Kagiso Shanduka Trust (KST) provide support to school principals As a district director myself, I can leadership that will improve learning sibilities. After the analysis of data educational partnership and the Free in the implementation of curriculum attest to this reality. Districts that outcomes. These are: district direc- and decision-making processes, it is State department of education, the activities. provide better services to schools tors, chief education specialists and critical for instructional leaders to Fezile Dabi district was assisted by The collaboration between the pro- are those that promote and support circuit managers who directly super- begin the process of monitoring the the programme for the improvement vincial department of education and instructional leadership driven by vise school principals. implementing decisions arrived at, learner outcomes. The KST’s primary KST has been, and continues to be, a school principals. The instructional informed by proper reading of data. function is to support instructional strong catalyst in the Fezile Dabi dis- leadership approach was developed he following are some of the OEffective use of resources and leadership across the sector, espe- trict becoming the beacon of hope for in the 19th century in countries such key elements of instructional decentralised accountability mecha- cially for district officials. effective teaching and learning that as England and Australia, with the leadership. nisms are important elements that This was also boosted by the first- it is today. T primary aim of improving learning O Consistent collabora- are instrumental in improving learn- ever professional learning groups’ The communication of goals, as a outcomes through an inspection tive work between district officials ing. It is necessary to indicate that for initiative, which benefited both dis- core instructional leadership prac- system. The focus was on how peo- and school principals, and effective districts to support schools there is a trict officials and school principals. tice, needs to be improved. Many ple in leadership positions can influ- implementation of instructional lead- need for a shift from what districts It is through these platforms that school principals confirmed this ence or improve pupils’ scholastic ership practices can provide good currently focus on, especially in cur- we are able to initiate and further need, especially during one-on-one performance. South Africa was not support for better learning outcomes. riculum and instruction. They should align our programmes to improve sessions. excluded from this trend. O Teaching and learning must rather use resources to anchor teach- learning. The principals unanimously agreed In the early years, leadership aimed occupy the top agenda of every edu- ing and learning. These are but some of the activities that the failure by district staff mem- at improving pupils’ performance by cational institution. While there is Research by two education experts, the district employed in establishing bers to communicate school goals focusing on school principals. But, acknowledgement that there are Loyiso Jita, from the school of math- a safe and orderly environment and effectively to school principals per- as the concept of school leadership other duties those in leadership are ematics, natural sciences and tech- creating a climate of expectation con- petuates misunderstandings, and evolved, the focus shifted to the way expected to perform, teaching and nology education, University of the ducive to improving learning. that the lack of support and partner- leaders at district offices support learning cannot be relegated to a Free State, and Matseliso Mokhele, The provision of direction and ship between schools and districts instructional leadership to improve lower level. In fact, this should be an from the department of curriculum support was found to be impor- tends to affect pupil performance learning outcomes. This has become area where most of the leaders’ time and instructional studies, Unisa, in tant in improving learning, and negatively. even more necessary for South Africa is allocated. 2014 highlighted the importance the department of basic education as a result of poor learning outcomes O Personal development is one and value of support they viewed as has acknowledged and given this Dr Vusumzi Chuta is the district that persist despite ongoing supervi- of the strategic elements that assist the reason for the accrual of content a stamp of approval. It is on this director of the Fezile Dabi district sion of schools by districts. instructional leaders with the proper knowledge and improved skills by basis that the district guided school at the Free State department of This article seeks to highlight some selection of relevant materials and school leaders. District leadership, principals through continuous and education Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 33

What’s the real value of a PhD?

The qualification must evolve beyond the niche to improve the society in which academics live

COMMENT Ylva Rodny-Gumede

inister Naledi Pandor should be commended for Mundertaking and completing her doc- toral studies (“How to complete your doctorate while serving in the Cabi- net”, June 21). And not only for doing so while in full-time employment, as a mature student and a female, but also for investing time and money in a venture that many would say is little else than a vanity project unless directly required for a specific job. The question is what the value of a doctoral degree is, and whether the “four years of little sleep, no weekends and missed meals” will be worth it, as stated by Pandor, the former minister of higher education and now minister of international relations and co-operation. A PhD is, in most contexts, a piece of in-depth research that not only adheres to stringent criteria for reli- ability and validity, but that also con- forms to the specifi c rules and struc- tures of the academy. Requirements vary between countries and contexts, as well as between theory-based studies vis-à-vis practice-based ones. Traditionally, the PhD has been a ticket for entry into the academy and today it is a requirement for a job in academia. The department of higher edu- cation and training’s revised stra- tegic plan for 2015-2016 to 2019- 2020 clearly articulates the need Graphic: JOHN McCANNN to improve post-school education and training, and emphasises the Aspiring students do need to place. To get more students into the slightly older than students enrolled supervisor played, but also that of importance of improved postgradu- weigh up the costs and benefits of professional doctorate, we will have in master’s programmes, but what other people inside and outside of ate outputs alongside practical skills pursuing a doctoral degree. The to look to streamlining and easing they share is the cost and uncertain- the academy, including fellow post- development to meet very specific academy aside, industry might not the recognition of prior learning ties that come with their studies. graduate students. socioeconomic development needs. always value doctorates and, in processes that give institutions of Whether in employment or not, stu- Far from the rule, research cohorts But, worldwide, the academy fact, research shows that, bar highly higher education the right to recog- dents come to further their studies need to be made a priority and built is still shaped by its emphasis on niched industrial research skills, nise experience other than academic to increase their employability and into the degree. There are many theoretical knowledge, often pit- candidates with a PhD might be degrees for entry into postgraduate to open doors to new opportunities. alternatives to the one-on-one super- ting theoretically based subject shunned ahead of candidates with a studies. They often lack fi nancial and other vision model. It can be divided and disciplines against those perceived master’s degree. Today, such processes are geared support that might help to ease the shared between diff erent people and as practice-based, with interdisci- A master’s degree is seen as more to show that students have acquired burden of juggling work, studies and different groups and be discipline- plinary subject fields and degree applied and specifically geared the theoretical skills needed to pur- family. And the postgraduate journey specific but also interdisciplinary paths yet to be developed. No less towards a profession or fi eld. sue a degree in a specifi c fi eld rather tends to come at a cost, fi nancially as and consist of academics, fellow stu- so in cash-strapped environments Thus, for students seeking to do than actually looking at the practical well as socially. dents and industry experts, and a where the teaching project is increas- a doctorate with the purpose of or other knowledge needed to take Hence, I am glad that Pandor had student’s employer. ingly dependent on, and subsidised improving their employability out- the research project further. a PhD study group to rely on. This is Additionally, although the role of a through, self-sustained funding mod- side the academy, we need to find In addition, we need to fi nd ways not always the case and many stu- supervisor has traditionally been one els, generated through accredited ways of making the research and the of limiting the costs of pursuing a dents fi nd postgraduate studies very of guiding, not only the research but research as well as industry and non- research process adaptable to the PhD. This is particularly important lonely, particularly when pursuing also to mentor students for a future governmental funding sources. future job market. It’s a job market if we are to get more women to pur- research degrees without any taught career in the academy, there is a new The development of new and where research often needs to be sue doctoral studies. The postgradu- components. And rarely do they have role and function to be forged here innovative degree paths and ways of geared towards specific timelines ate students whom I have supervised access to colleagues and professors to — one that speaks to the supervisor structuring postgraduate research and funding requirements, and and who have passed through my guide them and advise them before as promoter and mentor in a much and the eff ect it can have on socioec- where fi ndings need to be reported office over the years have all expe- embarking on their studies. broader context to meet the specifi c onomic development is needed. This in ways that diff er from the ways in rienced their own trials and tribu- My own PhD studies were fraught needs of the student with regard to is particularly important in the light which a doctoral thesis is written up lations, and no more so than the with difficulties. They were con- employability as well as broader soci- of a rapidly changing economy that for an academic audience or exami- female students. ducted in London without fund- etal needs. is gearing up for the fourth — and nation panel. Doctoral students tend to be ing, and topped up by costly study If we do this, we can create new even fi fth — industrial revolution. In this regard, the professional loans, and with three kids, two of doctoral degrees and qualifi cations, South Africa does not have the doctorate as well as a practice-based whom were born during my studies. and a new generation of students “problem” faced by many developed doctorate play a role. The profes- I cannot recall ever discussing my with degrees that not only take economies of an oversupply of PhD sional doctorate differs from the We need to fi nd research with anyone apart from a them places but that take our society holders, and higher education is traditional PhD in that it is taken ways of making the yearly catch-up with my supervisor places. eagerly looking for lecturers with the predominantly by practising pro- and, of course, with the many people requisite qualifi cations. But positions fessionals. There is usually a taught research and the I had the great fortune of interview- Professor Ylva Rodny-Gumede is are not readily available, despite the component and the research under- research process ing for the thesis itself. But, overall, with the department of journalism, National Development Plan’s target taken usually relates to the profes- adaptable to the it was a lonely, expensive and taxing fi lm and television at the University of having at least 75% of academics sional practice of the student and journey. of Johannesburg. These are her acquiring PhDs by 2030. can also be undertaken in the work- future job market Pandor stresses the role that her own views 34 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019

• Entrepreneurship: Mobilise and catalyse capital to allow youth ventures and start-up companies to grow, achieve economies of scale, and move into underserved markets, provide scale up opportunities including physical and virtual mentorship initiatives for young entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial and business development education delivered within a network of in-person and virtual spaces and Incubation services delivered through established companies. • Engagement: Identify virtual and physical leaders to coach, nurture and continuously support emerging leaders across thematic areas on the continent. The 1 Million By 2021 initiative adopts a Pan- African outlook and facilitates long term strategic partnerships to open up new opportunities for young FOSTERING NEW people in Africa. It will promote African solutions and innovations, co-created with and driven by young APPROACHES TO people, while building frameworks, institutions and structures for effective engagement of ADDRESS THE stakeholders, sustainable financing, implementation

CHALLENGES Twelve pathways have been identified as drivers for the 4Es to facilitate the expansion CONFRONTING of opportunities in youth development THE AFRICAN 12 SOLUTION PATHWAYS YOUTH EDUCATION

Scholarships

Alternative Pathways

Models for Teacher Development

frica has about 420 million young people collaborative and pan-African lines. EMPLOYMENT aged 15 to 35 and this number is expected In April 2019, the African Union rolled out a new to increase to 830 million by 2050 and Internships and Apprenticeships A initiative the 1 Million By 2021 which aims to approximately 46% of Africa’s labour force will reach 1 million young people in Africa by creating be young people aged 15-34 by 2063. Presently Job Centres opportunities for youth to actively and meaningfully youth face significant challenges in accessing key drive the full realisation of Africa’s Agenda 2063. The development resources such as education, skills, Digital Skills initiative which was launched at the AU Headquarters employment and experience barriers to engagement in Ethiopia, during a four-day Pan African Forum ENTREPRENEURSHIP that would enable them to contribute to society. organised under the theme ‘Africa Unite for Youth: Approximatley 50% of secondary-age Africans are Bridging the gap and reaching African Youth;” brought Growth Capital out of school and access to quality education which together over 400 young people from across the builds relevant skills are limited. In addition there is continent to co-create solutions identified around Nurture start-ups a rising mismatch between education and the needs the key areas of Employment, Entrepreneurship, of industry and the labour market. Furthermore, Education and Engagement (4E’s) which will ENGAGEMENT an estimated 11 million youth enter the job market accelerate socioeconomic development on the annually; however, only 3 million formal jobs are continent. The 1 Million By 2021 Initiative will address Leadership Programmes created within that time frame. The lack of waged the roots of the problems facing youth and identifies jobs push the youth into the informal sector where gaps such as the mismatch of qualifications and Exchange Programmes jobs are typically less stable and have lower earning work force requirements, limited or restricted youth potential. As a result, thousands of young Africans participation in leadership and governance structures, Forums resort to desperate measures including forced insufficient number of teachers at secondary and migration in search of jobs, livelihood, and a better vocational level and limited access to investment Youth Engagement future. capital for young entrepreneurs, among a myriad Marginalisation and the failure to invest in young of other issues. and accountability. The initiative builds upon the people exposes Africa to economic underperformance The 4Es and 12 Solution Pathways progress Africa is making in improving capacities and brain drain, youth criminality, and political and • Education: Provide scholarship opportunities through education and skills development; creating, social unrest of youth in the society. The extent to to young people especially young women at as well as establishing conducive environments for which we are able to commit to youth development all levels (secondary, post-secondary, TVET), opportunities in employment and entrepreneurship through transformational initiatives will be key to provide alternative pathways and remote learning for young people and ensuring they are meaningfully harnessing Africa’s demographic dividend and resources and tools for skills development and engaged in the development agenda of the achieving Aspiration 6 of Africa’s Agenda 2063 establish a Teachers Without Borders program continent. Along with other strategies such as the which envisions “An Africa whose development to address quality of delivery and availability. Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA) and is people-driven, relying on the potential of African the Continental Strategy for Technical and Vocational people, especially its women and youth, and caring • Employment: Provide professional internships Education and Training (TVET) as well as the push for children”. and apprenticeship programs to ensure young to ensure African states ratify the African Youth people are able to contextualise learning to the To achieve this vision stakeholders need to identify and Charter the African Union aims to ensure Africa’s world of work, establish physical and virtual implement initiative that will embolden stakeholders youth are equipped to benefit from and drive the job preparedness and matching services to to consider new perspectives, test new ideas and achievement of Agenda 2063. connect young people to available opportunities, scale up promising practices across the continent develop a digital skills program to prepare young that will improve the lot of youth in Africa. This will people for new skills that enable them to be be done through leveraging public-private sector Find out more about 1 Million by 2021 and other AU globally competitive and access roles outside partnerships among key regional and continental programmes targeting the youth by visiting www. their traditional geographical areas. players in the development space, leading to the au.int/en/youth-development of Agenda 2063. incorporation of a sustainable ecosystem built along

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ORGANISATION PLEDGE

1 OPEN SOCIETY • 1 Million USD initial support FOUNDATIONS • Pledge to sustain support of the project

• Avail the AUC a Digital and TV learning platform focused on vocational training towards equipping youth for jobs of 2 TRACE today and tomorrow, to respond to the pathways of alternative learning and digital skills under the Es of education and employment respectively.

3 UNICEF • Technical support and financial resources for the finalization, implementation and monitoring of initiative strategy; design of financing architecture; strengthen Youth Division coordination and communication; monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management, exchange and learning on continental innovations. • 200 members of the African Union Youth Volunteer Corps (AUYVC) • Facilitate implementation through Gen U global partners, knowledge assets and UNICEF country offices • Contextualize Gen U Promising Ideas to 1x21 pathways, and provide expertise, technical assistance and financial support towards development, incubation and realization of promising African ideas

• Train 40,000 small business owners in digital marketing skills across 10 African countries through existing Facebook initiatives; 4 FACEBOOK • Provide opportunities for youth to apply to Facebook-supported programmes • Provide physical space for programmatic activity linked to learning and development through NG Hub in Nigeria

5 GENERAL • Support with design, lessons learnt and partnership scalability options of GE SIYB program in other countries and ELECTRIC national youth initiatives • Support / Ideation of program design and sharing of lessons to build broader digital functional skills for youth with non-technical backgrounds. • Assist to deploy/scale the employability assessments using internationally validated testing instruments from similar markets to 300 thousand youths • Support with training and access to the 3D printing maker lab in Lagos GE Garages for cohorts on the AU skills program • Open to support and explore coaching from pool of internal GE leaders and access to e-learning soft courses to nurture emerging leaders on AU program

6 VMWARE • Expand Virtualize Africa programme in partnership with the AU to train Africans in virtualization and cloud computer discipline for the creation of employment opportunities

7 ILO • Increase internship opportunities in African ILO offices and HQ in Geneva • Support increased youth engagement in trade unions, business associations and policy fora on decent work in Africa • Provide the Global Youth Employment forum in Nigeria as a platform to support 1x21 • ILO/IFAD and ILO/AFDB projects on rural and informal economy will specifically target youth; • Orient the AUC/ILO/ITU programme on decent jobs for youth in Africa’s digital economy, and blue economy in Africa’s island states, to promote the 4Es

8 KOREA • Support the initiative through the Korea-Africa forum and the Korea-Africa Start-up Fair in Addis Ababa

9 UNFPA • UNFPA Africa to invest 500 million USD in programmes and initiatives directly aimed at young people

• Experience sharing to replicate and scale evidence-based approach to youth engagement especially social media engagement 10 AGA KHAN FOUNDATION • Replicate and scale existing Aga Khan Innovation Centre in Nairobi to develop new business models for media viability through mentorship of entrepreneurs and nurturing of start-ups in the new media-related business

• Strengthening of existing cooperation in the 4Es through the Pan African University (PAU) support, AGYI, SIFA and 11 GERMAN GOVERNMENT Agricultural TVET for women • Additional funding of 14m euros financial assistance and 1.5 million euros for technical assistance on SIFA

• Establish 5 Africa 2063 Youth Innoparks in each African region as a centre of innovation for the acquisition of 12 JOBS4AFRICA FOUNDATION knowledge, practical and interpersonal skills for employment; entrepreneurial skills to develop businesses; a platform for youth engagement.

13 ECOBANK • Pledge to support any/all of the pathways

14 AFREXIM • Provide support in training for trade finance, banking, regional and economic integration. Work with other partners in BANK capacity building including university degrees and modules in university diplomas and certificates. • Provide internships, JPOs and research sabbatical programmes • Provide necessary capital and financing for young African Entrepreneurs as well as SMEs • Work with the AUC and partners to support African start-ups and SMEs through Afrexim Incubation programme • Leverage planned continental leadership programme as a platform for an enabling ecosystem for Africa’s future leaders

• Train African students, start-ups and developers in 21st century tech skills, equipping students in data science, AI, machine learning, as well as entrepreneurship and business development with a target of 10,000 students trained 15 AFRILABS within 24 months. • Utilize annual Afrilabs gathering up until 2021 to convene and engage key stakeholders supporting youth to promote 1x2021

16 SAVE THE CHILDREN • Technical support and experience sharing on the 4Es

17 AFDB • Leverage AfDB Jobs for Youth in Africa

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CLOSING DATE: MONDAY, 22 JULY 2019 AT 12H00. If you have not been contacted within a month of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. For application forms and full requirements, go to: www.ru.ac.za/jobs

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The Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management at the University of Witwatersrand consists RIÀYH6FKRROVWKUHHRIZKLFKRIIHUXQGHUJUDGXDWHDQGSRVWJUDGXDWHSURJUDPPHVZKLOH WZRRIIHUSRVWJUDGXDWHSURJUDPPHVH[FOXVLYHO\7KHIDFXOW\LQYLWHVWDOHQWHGTXDOLÀHGDQG VHOIGULYHQLQGLYLGXDOVWRDSSO\IRUWKHIROORZLQJSRVLWLRQV SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ADJUNCT PROFESSOR/ PROFESSOR (2 POSTS) $SSOLFDWLRQVDUHZHOFRPHGLQDOODUHDVRI$FFRXQWDQF\ SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS SCIENCES SENIOR LECTURER IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS $SSOLFDWLRQV DUH ZHOFRPH LQ WKH 'LYLVLRQ RI ,QIRUPDWLRQ V\VWHPV LQ WKH DUHD RI EXVLQHVV DQDO\WLFV FACULTY OF COMMERCE, LAW AND MANAGEMENT ACADEMIC DIRECTOR: ONLINE LEARNING (LEVEL OF SENIOR LECTURER) $SSOLFDWLRQVDUHZHOFRPHGLQWKHDUHDRI2QOLQH/HDUQLQJ FACULTY OF HUMANITIES WITS SCHOOL OF ARTS LECTURER/SENIOR LECTURER (ART HISTORY, CURATORIAL AND HERITAGE STUDIES)

Full details can be found on iRecruitment (the University’s careers website). Please apply via iRecruitment: https://irec.wits.ac.za Closing date: 12 July 2019

The University is committed to employment equity. Preference may be given to appointable applicants from the under-represented designated groups in terms of the relevant employment equity plans and policies of the University. The University reserves the right to verify all information provided by candidates and to verify credit standing. Please note that correspondence will only be entered into with short-listed candidates. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment or to re-advertise.

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OSISA is a growing African institution committed to deepening democracy, protecting human rights and enhancing good governance in the region. Our vision is to promote and sustain the ideals, values, institutions, and practices of an open society, with the aim of establishing vibrant and tolerant southern African democracies in which people, free from material and other deprivation, understand their rights and responsibilities and participate actively in all spheres of life.

In pursuance of this vision, OSISA’s mission is to initiate and support programmes working towards open society ideals and to advocate for these ideals in southern Africa. Established in 1997, OSISA works in 11 southern African countries: Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. OSISA works differently in each of these eleven countries, according to local conditions.

OSISA seeks to recruit for the following key position:

Programme Manager: Education

ROLE OVERVIEW The Programme Manager: Education - ESJ will be responsible for the planning, management and implementation of Education within the Economic Social Justice cluster. S/he will be required to identify opportunities for grant making within the Economic Justice programme and manage the provision of grants to key national and regional partners. He/she will play a strong role in facilitating networks amongst OSISA partners within the Economic Justice Programme and in convening dialogue and debate on issues relevant to OSISA’s overall mandate.

RESPONSIBILITIES • Programme Initiation • Programme Implementation • Programme Impact • Grant Making • Communication and Advocacy

KEY COMPETENCIES Planning & Organising, Interpersonal Skills, Results Focus, and Collaboration.

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For further information and detailed job description for the position, please visit www.osisa.org Interested applicants should forward a one-page cover letter and detailed CV to humanresources@ osisa.org with the relevant position as the subject heading. Closing date for submission is 12 July 2019. Only shortlisted candidates will receive a response.

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Rand Water hereby invites suitable candidates as per Rand Water’s requirement to BUSKAID apply for the following: GENERAL MANAGER: COMMUNICATION & STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT Group Shared Services Portfolio | Location: Rietvlei THE LINDER AUDITORIUM Overall responsibility: sTo position Rand Water as a partner of choice in Water and Sanitation provision sThis will be enhanced by positioning and managing the Rand Water brand as a key player in the Water and Sanitation sector to unlock commercial value sCommunicating Rand Water strategy to shareholders, external stakeholders and within the organisation s Undertaking key media engagements and providing opinion pieces on key Water and Sanitation sectoral issues. Job requirements: sA Postgraduate Qualification (NQF Level 8) or equivalent qualification will serve as an advantage s Membership with a recognized professional body or similar recognition in the community of practice (current or Vivaldi eligible for future registration) sAt least 5-8 years’ senior managerial experience SUN 21 in Communications, Marketing and Stakeholder Management. Mozart Desired Experience: sAn MBA or other Master’s Degree in Communications, Marketing or Public Relations or equivalent qualification at NQF Level 9 is Mendelssohn desirable s Broad knowledge and understanding of the Water and Sanitation JULY sector will be an added advantage s Knowledge and understanding in the field of Strategy formulation and implementation. Sarasate 3:00 PM Notice Number: 3802 Classic In making the final selection, consideration will be given to achieving Rand COMPUTICKET Water’s Employment Equity Objectives. Pop Songs For a detailed job specification and to apply, please log onto our website at 011 340 8000 www.randwater.co.za under “People and Employment”. R280, R240, R180 Township Closing date: 12 July 2019 Should you not receive correspondence from Rand Water within 30 days of (groups and concessions) Kwela closing date, please accept that your application has been unsuccessful. Rand Water reserves the right not to make appointments to any of the advertised positions at any stage.

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CITY OF CAPE TOWN JOB OPPORTUNITIES The City promotes and applies the principles of employment equity. People with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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Bradley Steyn worked for the apartheid security police, but was recruited to Umkhonto weSizwe and infiltrated right-wing conspiracies. He worked with novelist Mark Fine to turn his story into a book, Undercover with Mandela’s Spies (Jacana). This is an edited extract, telling of one frightening operation

e slowed to a crawl with me.” In the end, I agreed. as we squeezed Outside, Mr Panic’s crew had between a house hitched themselves to our convoy. Wand a burnt-out They did not amount to much of a taxi and then threat to potential attackers because came to a stop in an alley behind the their arsenal consisted of no more small home. than two firearms and a cricket I instructed my team to secure the bat. This was only getting better. I perimeter. Inside the house was a walked over and introduced myself large man who I’ll dub “Mr Panic”. I with a friendly warning: “If I see any asked him to take a seat at the dining of you point a gun in my direction, I table as we needed to go over a few will shoot you.” That broke the ice. points. Mr Panic pulled up a chair, We ripped the South African Black sat for 40 seconds, then bopped up Taxi Association decals off three of again. That wasn’t working for me. I Mr Panic’s vehicles and loaded up. needed him to focus. I swear, if the Three men took one, while Neil de Major hadn’t been around, I’d have Beer, Mr Panic and I followed in handcuffed the oke to the table. another. Mr Panic’s boys were bring- Instead, I grabbed his hand and ing up the rear in the third. The Major touched his clammy palm. It was had left us earlier to go on a logistics time for my special talk. run. We needed lots of ammunition, “You’re really frightened, I know including potent 7.62mm cartridges … That’s perfectly normal.” It was to feed into our R5 machine guns. important to acknowledge his fear. It was almost nine by the time we “I get it. Combat isn’t your thing, reached the underpass to the Golden but remember fear is your key to Acre mall. Then … Crack! Crack! We fl eeting solution; I smelled leaking pinned between Mr Panic’s shoulder was time for the clean-up. survival. That’s where your flight- were taking gunfi re in the confi ned petrol, and so did Mr Panic. blades to prevent him attempting The shot-up taxis suff ered a diff er- or-fi ght instinct comes from. So get quarters of the van. “We have to get the fuck out of another mad dash, I started to lay ent fate. I took them to a scrapyard ready to use it.” “Fuck!” Neil shouted. “No, man!” here!” he screamed, as he bolted down fi re and managed to get off a in Atlantis, a manufacturing town But my motivational speech had Blood splattered the inside of the directly towards the war zone. A few more 9mm rounds without los- created using a complicated scheme fallen on deaf ears; Mr Panic only had passenger window. It continued quick sweep of my leg ankle-tapped ing my face. of relocation tax credits that col- eyes for his shoes. “Don’t look down to squirt out of the driver’s neck as Mr Panic and brought him heavily to Sirens. The police were closing in. lapsed the moment the incentive … Look at me! Now look at that man our vehicle slowed. The bullet had ground. Only thing, he was now out The rival taxi gang panicked; they programme ended. over there,” I said, pointing to Neil. severed tissue, tendons, veins and in the open. started yelling among themselves The scrapyard owner had sur- “Listen only to that operator and me. axons, the thread-like nerve fibres Neil laid suppressive fire from and then clambered into a vehicle vived the economic bust because We are your best chance to stay alive.” that transmitted impulses from cell behind the van’s wheel well as I with a Congress for Democratic Taxi he’d decentralised his business My “second” swept the house to to cell within his body. With the sig- crawled forward. I grabbed Mr Panic Associations decal and sped off . activities and had a side hustle as a see who else was there. Then I made nal to his brain lost, our driver’s foot by the collar to drag him to safety, Neil joined me, and we bundled dagga dealer. He was the silent type sure all team members could identify drifted off the accelerator and the but he was now bawling. Each time Mr Panic into the lead taxi. Neil then who liked to do favours for the SB the client. Over the next several min- taxi ground to a stop. I yanked, he cried louder, bringing headed off to the safe house in Paarl (Security Branch). Sometimes he’d utes, they dropped by, one at a time, I had challenges of my own. I unwanted attention. Bullets began and, armed with a father’s anxious even melt down gold into generic to see the man they were charged to couldn’t see as the blood spray had stitching their way toward us. note, Mr Panic’s crew set off to fetch ingots when Andy chose to pay us protect. We couldn’t have one of our covered my Raybans. I wiped them I had to slap him, hard, across the the taxi honcho’s daughter. with gold instead of cash. guys take out Mr Panic by mistake. with my sleeved forearm. Then Neil’s face, to try to centre the oke. We My attention was now focused on Eventually, I headed home to my “You have any firearms in the large frame flew over the seat and then took shelter back behind the the wounded driver. He had lost a place in Fish Hoek and stripped off house?” I asked. “Promise I’ll give landed on top of me, “Sorry, Boet, we van, which was now pock-marked great deal of blood. I carefully lifted my blood-soaked clothes, wrapped it back when you need it.” Mr Panic need to move.” with bullets. With my left knee him into the rear of the vehicle and them in a plastic rubbish bag and pulled a .38 Special from the belt sup- I grabbed Mr Panic and, pushing made him as comfortable as pos- headed for the shower. As I washed porting his bulging belly, and as soon his head down, steered him to sible. That done, I took over driving my face and hands, I noticed that as he no longer held the weapon as a the rear of the taxi. Mr Panic duties and headed for the highway. the fingers on my left hand were pacifi er, the shakes began. The poor was now Mr Obedient and tak- My destination was a friendly veteri- still stuck together with blood. I was guy was terrifi ed. ing instructions well. I kicked narian who had done a mandatory immediately overcome by the same All the while the landline had been out the back window. On our two years’ medical internship before feeling I had had as a 17-year-old, in ringing. It persisted, loud and shrill. haunches, hidden by the van’s he realised animals were preferable the shower after Strijdom Square. Probably someone belatedly sound- chassis, I saw that we were no to people as patients. My heart started to race. But I had ing the alarm. I disconnected the longer receiving contact on our He was a useful chap. He assured to shake that off because that’s also ringer. Peace at last. left flank. No such luck on the me the driver could be sufficiently when I realised I had been shot. But our location was way too vul- other side, though. Fully auto- stabilised to give us time to get him The bullet had pierced the inside of nerable. We needed to move before a matic fi rearms were ripping into real medical care. Nor did the vet my left bicep. Only three centimetres grenade or petrol bomb hit the place. us. I pushed forward and tucked fl inch when I asked him to manipu- from my heart as my arm lay vertically I ordered us out of there and planned him behind the densest part of the late the wound to look more like at my side. The moment my brain reg- to relocate to a safe house in Paarl, vehicle, the engine block. And then a knife stab. Later that night we istered what had happened, the pain about 45 minutes away. came an additional worry. Where transferred the driver across to the kicked in. I kept splashing cold water But Mr Panic had other ideas. He was that fucking R5? I couldn’t fi nd naval base at Saldanha. The doctors on the wound, trying to cool it down, wanted to bring his daughter with it, which meant it was me and my never questioned the nature of the but the hurt would not subside. him. I explained that we had to 9mm against the fully automatic driver’s wounds, although they took I called “Zoë”, the woman we secure him fi rst, and then I’d send machine gun that was clapping and his condition seriously. I left after worked with at our pager company, guys to bring her in. But Mr Panic echoing off the walls around us. military doctors topped our man up and had her forward a message to flipped. “No. No! She’ll only come But any of this would only be a with blood and antibiotics. Then it Neil: I’m alive. Assistance needed. Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 45 Winter Reading Good, evil and poetry in between the stories

THE COMIC DESTINY by Ben Okri 10 novels, four collections of poems, of Freedom and was republished this feast where there is not enough food ken a word during the whole time I (Head of Zeus) four books of essays and four vol- year. In it, the author showcases how for everyone: “We ate with some was in that room, being mistaken for umes of short stories. He has been talent and intellect can push bound- awareness of those behind us, who someone else. I wanted to belong. I Oupa Nkosi awarded numerous prizes, including aries and dispel conformity. were not eating and who did not wanted to belong there.” the Man Booker prize in 1991 for his He uses storytelling, poetry and move. They merely watched us eat- There are many other fascinating Ben Okri was once asked how poetry novel The Famished Road. scriptwriting interchangeably in this ing.” This is Okri’s subtle but very stories. Some will leave you with a could help us in troubled times. His Born to an Urhobo father and Igbo book, merging them into one form, strong meditation on inequality. heavy heart, some with guilt and answer was: “Poetry goes straight mother in Nigeria during the Biafran so that even readers who aren’t fans Another story, Belonging, is a tale some with questions. Okri challenges to the truth of things, with extraor- war, he was almost killed because he of poetry can find pleasure in reading of anxious loss of identity and place: us to go through this journey with dinary gravity, with great rhythmic could not speak much of his father’s it. The author has carefully crafted 13 “The fear increased in me. Any him and to reflect on human behav- beauty. So it moves the heart as well language, because he’d spent most of stories, believing as he does that the minute now I would be unmasked. iour. The Cosmic Destiny is about as the mind at the same time.” his earlier years in London. number 13 symbolises freedom. What would I do then? I felt awful. good versus evil, love versus hate, His love of words has propelled The Comic Destiny was first pub- One story, The Mysterious Anxiety I dreaded it. I hadn’t got myself into freedom versus bondage, peace ver- him to publish plays, film scripts, lished in 2009 under the title Tales of Them and Us, is about guests at a this deliberately. I hadn’t even spo- sus war and silence versus noise. Words that shatter the silence

The author writes from experience about Australia’s inhumane refugee policy and offshore prisons

NO FRIEND BUT THE MOUNTAINS The island is a prison, operating by Behrouz Boochani (Picador) under the logic of the Australian border-industrial complex. As Theresa Mallinson Boochani phrases it, this system is about “returning the refugee pris- urdish-Iranian Behrouz oners to the land from which they Deprivation: Refugees at the Manus Island processing centre lived as if in prison. They could choose to be Boochani spent four came”. This is both a description deported but few did, fearing returning to the country they had fled. Photo: Eoin Blackwell/AAP/MINDS years imprisoned in one of the system’s intended deterrent Kof Australia’s offshore effect — prisoners can choose to be released together with the blood that poetic sensibility, but a reflection of by being in a prison; the silence of lit- detention facilities, the deported to their country of origin, flows from their arms and wrists. his grander project: to describe and tle contact with the outside world. Manus Island Regional Process- although few do so, for fear of perse- Few of the characters Boochani interrogate the politics of border pol- But there is also the silence that ing Centre in Papua New Guinea. cution — and an embodiment of life describes or the events he recounts icies and refugee internment, as well emanates from that outside world: The centre has been closed and on Manus, where harsh discipline are real in a strict journalistic sense. as to acknowledge the importance the cruel bureaucracy that works Boochani is no longer locked up but, works to turn prisoners against each Instead, the book is a “truthful first- and agency of refugees collaborating overtime to enforce silence about the without travel papers, he remains other and make life unbearable. hand experience of what it has been to dismantle this system. hellish conditions it has created; the confined to the island. The reduction of people to num- like to be detained within that sys- There’s a line in the book, when people who have heard the stories of He cannot leave even to receive bers — Boochani became MEG45 — tem”. Identities were manufactured Boochani and his fellow refugees are life on Manus and other refugee pris- literary and human rights awards — as they enter the prison system; the and composite characters created, travelling to the shore in Indonesia ons and choose to block this knowl- some of them, ironically, bestowed violence of the guards as they beat so as not to make the prisoners more to embark on their journey. They edge out, to silence the truths that by the Australian government. up a prisoner who wants permission vulnerable. must be quiet, so as not to attract the are too terrible to be acknowledged. Boochani’s chronicle of his years to call home to speak to his dying Translator Omid Rofighian aptly attention of the police. “Everything Everything — including the sys- in Manus prison, No Friend But the father; the pettiness of the same refers to Boochani’s writing as “hor- depends on silence,” he writes. tems of refugee incarceration Mountains, was transmitted to the guards as they destroy a makeshift rific surrealism”. This silence is instrumental in around the world — depends on wider world using WhatsApp mes- backgammon board — these are all His memoir stands apart from securing a refugee’s safe passage to silence; on our perverse, wilful deci- sages and voice notes. It is a harrow- part of a system designed to deny many contemporary refugee nar- a new land. But, when they arrive at sion not to know. Boochani’s No ing read: from his boat ride from the refugees humanity. Many turn to ratives that follow a redemptive arc their destination they are faced with Friend But the Mountains is a vital, Jakarta to the deprivation, brutality self-harm: the humiliation of stand- of an individual overcoming adver- new silences. There is the silence first-person work that pierces this and torture of life on Manus. ing in a queue to receive a razor is sity. This is not only because of his that is caused by being on an island, silence with excruciating precision. 46Winter Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 Reading When bouncers shoot bouncers

Author probes battles of believable story about these (alleged) taking the political battle too far — gang lords and their activities, and in the process compromising the security and gangsters because there’s also a huge amount actual fi ght against crime and gangs. of misinformation and disinfor- There are intimations throughout THE ENFORCERS: INSIDE CAPE mation swirling about. Some of it, The Enforcers that political fi gures TOWN’S DEADLY NIGHTCLUB BATTLES apparently, even comes from the even higher up are involved in some by Caryn Dolley (Jonathan Ball) police’s crime intelligence division — way, possibly protecting the gang- and we know how crime intelligence, sters for reasons of their own. Zuma, Shaun de Waal especially during Jacob Zuma’s ten- for one, was reported to have met key ure as president, was able to gener- Cape crime figures, possibly in an ape Town’s gang wars, ate report after report with all sorts attempt to boost the ANC’s electoral and the killings that are of eyebrow-raising claims about chances in the Western Cape (great their most visible ele- almost anyone. strategy!); one of them appeared Cment, were back on the All through Dolley’s narrative, with him at a rally. front pages of the Sun- for instance, Jeremy Vearey, the Vearey led a long investigation into day papers recently. There seems leading police officer in the battle the many weapons that had disap- to be a surge in such murders at the against these forms of criminality, peared from police custody and then moment, and Caryn Dolley’s book is is accused again and again of being reappeared, with their serial num- an excellent explanation of what lies involved himself in the gangs and bers fi led off , when people had been behind them. She has been investi- their battles, or to be on one side or murdered. At least one police offi cer gating this arena for some time, and the other. Lieutenant Colonel Charl was found to be selling off confis- The Enforcers brings us up to date. Kinnear, another key investigator cated or surrendered guns to gang It’s hard, though, to come up with and the main witness in a long bail members, but when the probe was a succinct summary of the battle of hearing for alleged gangster Nafiz just reaching a climax Vearey was the gangsters, first, because it’s so Modack, was alleged to be doing all suddenly transferred to a diff erent complicated and obscure, and, sec- this because he was in the pocket of police job. ond, because so few of those involved Lifman, Modack’s chief competitor. In another suspicious instance, have been brought to trial, let alone Dan Plato, the Democratic Alliance Dolley herself documents with her convicted, so just about anything mayor of Cape Town from 2009 to own photograph a strange meet- to be said about the participants is 2011 and once more from 2018 (after ing at Cape Town’s One&Only hotel longstanding gang structures, such sources of revenue that may be at “alleged”. Patricia de Lille was removed from between Modack and Northern as the 26s and the 28s, and those play (how does the drug trade tie in Figures such as Jerome “Donkie” that position), has been a source of Cape police commissioner Risimati running the security industry, espe- with this “protection”?), but that just Booysen and Mark Lifman, whose repeated claims against Vearey. This Shivuri. cially those charged with the “protec- means there is a lot more to investi- names crop up repeatedly in any may be motivated by politics, Vearey That Dolley manages to tell a read- tion” of clubs and night spots. That gate and uncover in this dark world. such account, are insistent that they being an ANC loyalist and appoin- able and credible story about these industry is now about twice the size Let’s hope Dolley, and other probing are legitimate businessmen with no tee, but it certainly looks like Plato’s (alleged) gangsters and their doings of the actual police force, and seems journalists, can get there — and that involvement in this skulduggery. willingness to give credence to the is in itself a remarkable feat. She often to skirt the edges of illegality. law enforcement gets properly on It’s also hard to come out with a tales of various dodgy informants is draws the links between the Cape’s She doesn’t go deeply into all the board. NEW BOOKS

Reading takes you places! BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL BLOOD ON HER HANDS: SOUTH by Lauri Kubuitsile (Penguin) AFRICA’S MOST NOTORIOUS The READ Organisation is bringing a love for reading to Described as “compassionate, FEMALE KILLERS by Tanya Farber our communities with the Red Reading Box, the Word dramatic, deeply moving and (Jonathan Ball) Warrior Competition and the Read Aloud Magic Box. unforgettable” by fellow author Award-winning journalist Niq Mhlongo, Lauri Kubuitsile’s Tanya Farber, co-author with Alf second novel (coming after The Khumalo of his biography, looks at Join the growing group of Word Warriors Scattering, a 2017 prize-winner) the lives and acts of South Africa’s and enter the 2019 Word Warrior is set in 1871. Nthebolang and her women killers: Daisy de Melker, mother are forced to fl ee their Charmaine Phillips, Joey Haarhoff , competition (open to anyone home after her father has been Najwa Petersen and others. between 9 and 16 years of age) accused of witchcraft. Nthebolang with Detective Nkomba taking the lead in solving ends up in Ntsweng, where the A HEADMASTER’S STORY: MY LIFE IN another mystery. Visit www.read.org.za for more relations between Christianity and EDUCATION by Bill Schroder information on the competition. traditional religion are not easy. (Jonathan Ball) The author describes how he ASLEEP AWAKE ASLEEP found his calling as a teacher Red Reading Box by Jo-Ann Bekker (Modjaji Books) — helping young people realise A fun-filled box with stories, games, puzzles and Thirty-nine stories that can be THE CHOICE BETWEEN US and reach their potential. He loads to do for the whole family. A new box will read as an account of South by Edyth Bulbring (Tafelberg) taught at Sacs, Western Province Africa’s turbulent history, as one The author of The Club and The Prep, Rondebosch Boys’ High, be launched in September this year! woman revisits milestones and Mark returns with this story of Westerford and others, becom- key moments manifest in the two girls linked by blood — and ing headmaster of Pretoria Boys’ Read Aloud Magic Box suburbs and wilds, from politi- two acts of betrayal. Fifty years High in 1990, taking on the Four sets of 12 beautiful story books, cal assassinations to reparations. after nine-year-old Margaret saw challenge of one of the top state “An utter delight,” said Bridget her family torn apart at the time schools in the country. After mostly set in Africa, will take you on adventures of Hilton-Barber. of Nelson Mandela’s 1963 trial, a retirement, he returned to the the imagination. troubled teen fi nds a letter in an fray to mentor a struggling town- FOR THE PEOPLE: A SMALL TOWN’S old drawer … ship school. Find both boxes at www.thereadshop.co.za STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID by Anelia Schutte (HQ) FRAGRANCE OF FORGIVENESS HOW TO BUSINESS: INSIGHTS FROM Few white kids growing up in by Rashida Khan (Kwarts) A BUSINESS LAWYER WHO HAS Together we can create a reading nation Knysna in the 1980s would have In this sequel to her award-win- SEEN IT ALL by Pieter van der Merwe seen “the other side of the hill”, ning novel Mirror Cracked, Khan (Reach Publishers) Contact READ Educational Trust on as Anelia Schutte did when she tells the tale of Azraa Hassim’s life An easy-to-read guide to business 087 237 7781 or e-mail us at was young. She accompanied her after the death of her daughter to management, from purchasing a social-worker mother to the black a harrowing disease and the bitter company to employng the right [email protected] or visit www.read.org.za township, and ended up getting divorce from her husband of 19 staff and managing day-to-day involved in the struggle against years. A tough, touching story of concerns, negotiations and apartheid. survival, healing and freedom. risk. Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 47

Triangulum brings the past into the future

A merger of science fi ction, mystery and history

TRIANGULUM by Masande Ntshanga Although this format may come (Penguin) across as straightforward, or some- what dull for science fiction, it is Zaza Hlalethwa off set by Ntshanga’s use of diff erent f writers have a responsibil- iterations of the same voice. At times ity to capture the times they the protagonist addresses the reader exist in, in order to critique the directly, at others her thoughts and Istatus quo — especially when experiences are relayed through nation-building is under way — extracts from letters, dream record- Masande Ntshanga’s Triangulum ings, documents she has to sign or is a testament to the ability to do so journals. And, although the plot Page-turner: The book fair will offer many opportunities to engage with writers, readers and lovers of books without forfeiting his creativity. remains within the confi nes of the Using South Africa’s socioeco- three-act model, by not presenting nomic, technological and political the protagonist’s accounts chrono- tapestry as his primary references, logically, Ntshanga addresses the Ntshanga has fashioned his com- protagonist’s inner turmoil, as well SA Book Fair will rock mentary on the nation into a layered as the scientifi c theory according to work of fi ction that damns us all. which chronology is trivial because Set in what used to be the Eastern time is relative. Cape’s Ciskei homeland, a bewil- Ntshanga’s engaging style of writ- The programme for the third edi- (renowned for Kwezi) and Nathi Zulu, who lost his life scaling Mount dered teenage girl is lost somewhere ing employs the reader as an agent tion of the South African Book Fair Ngubane. Kilimanjaro, Gabi Lowe, author between suffering a concussion in uncovering the unknown that was announced at a function in The National Book Week Magic of Get Me To 21, and social activist on the playground and losing her is hidden in plain sight. To do this, Johannesburg last week. A project of Tent “offers ongoing activities for Ndileka Mandela share their inspi- mother. She is haunted by appari- the reader is encouraged to revisit the South African Book Development children throughout the day. All are rational stories of survival, catharsis tions that appear to convey coded earlier passages and remain acutely Council, the fair will take place at invited to attend events in the tent, and transcendence; messages. Without the closure of a suspicious of all characters in order Constitution Hill from September 6 from toddlers to grandparents, and • Dismantling the Patriarchy: grave for her mother, or the proof of to stay afloat while reading. With to 8 and off ers a packed schedule of to revel in the affi rmative power of An all-women panel hosted by femi- a corpse, the protagonist chooses to the addition of an existing past fi t- events for people of all ages and with books and reading — for the first nist book club Confembulate, fea- regard the hallucinations as super- ted into the framework, Triangulum a wide range of interests. time or the 1 000th time”. turing writers Kelly-Eve Koopman natural messages that will lead to becomes equal parts science fi ction, An ample selection of emerging The above events are free to enter. (creator of the six-part web docu- her mother’s unknown whereabouts. mystery and historical fi ction. and established authors will partici- Entry fees will be charged at other mentary Coloured Mentality), In Triangulum, the influences of By time-travelling and genre- pate in a variety of panels, talks and events. Performances and discus- Keletso Mopai (author of Monkeys) science, indigenous knowledge sys- bending, Triangulum is able to pack demonstrations. sions are featured at the dedicated and Makanaka Mavengere-Munsaka tems and psychology are at play, a mean and nuanced punch. From At the centre of the fair will be a spaces of the Poetry Café and the (Perfect Imperfections) aim to get making the reader uncertain about the curious naivety of an orphaned general exhibition showcasing all African Philosophy Café. under the skin with their real-life whether the girl’s sightings are extra- teenager to her relenting and kinds of books. Beside the “vault full The Underground Booksellers Tour and fi ctional challenges to tradition terrestrial, ancestral or schizophrenic. fatigued adult musings, the protago- of books”, say the organisers, there on Saturday September 7 at 10am will and stereotypes; Despite this uncertainty, the pro- nist navigates the reader through will be a “wealth of experts from the feature Griffin Shea, the owner of • Black Tax and its Discontents: tagonist’s convictions are cemented the reality of how little South Africa publishing industry ready to assist independent bookshop Bridge Books, Niq Mhlongo, recent winner of the as the apparitions open up her small and the world at large is willing to you, with support materials for leading bibliophiles to hidden and Media24 Herman Charles Bosman world to reveal the motives behind change for the good. learners and teachers and the best unexplored places in the city. Prize for Fiction, writer Dudu the abduction of three girls who When people are mined for data research and nonfi ction books from Among the many other sessions Busani-Dube and publisher-at-large went missing on her mother’s birth- as the earth is for minerals, the rise university presses”. are: Phehello Mofokeng look at how his- day, as well as a human and drug- of surveillance and the self-serving Alongside the general • Love Without Borders: tory keeps a whole generation in trafficking criminal network facili- nature of capitalism is clear. When exhibition will be an illus- Author and commentator debt; and tated by her peers. characters turn to self-medication trators’ exhibition in Fred Khumalo, interna- • Sex, Lies and the Bare Naked But there’s more to Triangulum and drugs during trying times, it the Oval Atrium of the tional star Sarah Ladipo Truth: The “queens of all things sul- than a troubled teenager’s quest for refl ects the surge of substance abuse Women’s Jail, featuring Manyika and debut try and salacious”, Eva Mazza, Dudu her missing mother. With a plot that and the disregard for mental health children’s book illustra- author Rémy Ngamije Busani-Dube and Jackie Phamotse unfolds over a 40-year period in post- in society. tors Mogau Kekana “transcend geography conduct a hot discussion about their apartheid South Africa, Triangulum The idea is also explored through and Toby Newsome, (and all that it symbolises) erotic writing. takes its time unpacking our recent themes of secrecy, corruption, colo- as well as comic in their contemporary master- Launches at the fair will include history while mapping out the possi- nisation, abandonment, excess, reli- book illustra- pieces of human connection”; those of Professor Kojo Yankah, bilities of our near future. gious propaganda, hedonism and tors Loyiso • Life Reclaimed: a former member of Ghana’s The unnamed protagonist’s narra- wasteful living. The sense of global Mkize, Letshego Zulu, widow Parliament, with his book on tive unfolds alongside the phasing out apathy is heightened by the novel’s Clyde of racing driver Gugu Ghanaian leader JJ Rawlings; of the Bantustan system in the 1990s, world as portrayed through the lens Beech Nigerian-British author and profes- the economic erosion of South Africa of a black, middle-class, queer pro- sor of literature at San Francisco from the early 2000s, the normalisa- tagonist who suffers physical and University, Sarah Ladipo Manyika tion of surveillance and the harvest- emotional traumas. (best known for her novel Like a ing of personal information for mar- Overall, Ntshanga’s prose is served Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun), keting purposes in the present day, by his creative sensitivity and his with the rerelease of her iconic work and goes into the future to forecast an dedication to research. Through In Dependence; and Swedish writer ecological disaster by the 2040s. patient descriptions of overt fea- and journalist Elisabeth Åsbrink Ntshanga presents Triangulum tures, right down to the most disre- with her historical work on the post- using a three-act structure in which garded of details, Ntshanga is able war dispensation of Europe, 1947: the narrative is divided into the set- to articulate a place or a being, be it When Now Begins. up, conflict and resolution phases from the past, present or future, as if Reading for all: At Visit southafricanbookfair.co.za and presented in the first person. he were always there. last year’s book fair for the full programme. 48 Mail & Guardian June 28 to July 4 2019 Festival Makhanda: No more lullabies

The National Arts Festival offers space for reflection about our fractious global moment

Niren Tolsi Mabuta’s set at the 32nd Standard Bank Jazz Festival. Introducing the he azaan, the Islamic call piece Log Out Shut Down, Cooper to prayer, spirited its way said: “Sometimes you have to switch through Makhanda this off and be in the here and now. Tweek during the 44th edi- That’s what I love about music: you tion of the National Arts are 100% at the sharp point of time.” Jazzed-up: The Standard Bank Festival — into places and spaces of The requirement for people to be at Young Artist for Jazz, trumpet colonial and apartheid trauma, reli- time’s sharpened point, rather than player Mandla Mlangeni gion and dispossession, while simul- on the wrong side of history, was evi- (above), Elton Landrew and taneously moving into contempo- dent in many of the acts performing Iman Isaacs star in All Who Pass rary minds. at the jazz festival in Makhanda. (left) and Interlaced, by festival It was heard in Neo Muyanga’s During their set last Friday, featured artist Berni Searle musical composition accompanying Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz, (below). Photos: Rafs Mayet, Interlaced, a visual art installation trumpet player Mandla Mlangeni, Mark Wessels and supplied in St George’s Cathedral by the fes- and his six-piece Tune Recreation tival’s featured artist, Berni Searle. Committee performed an especially were during apartheid. Muyanga had used the azaan as the mournful version of their song That South Africa has been unable basis for the piece, which was first KeSona, a critique of the absurdist to respond structurally to the prob- performed on the carillon of the grandstanding and bouts of violent lems debilitating us — gender-based Belfry of Bruges in Belgium, where disruption that characterised Jacob violence, the criminalisation of the Interlaced was filmed and initially Zuma’s State of the Nation addresses poor by a state that often lurches screened. when he was the president. towards authoritarianism, the con- It trailed up and down the east- The composition opened with centration of the economy among facing slope leading to Fort Selwyn guitarist Reza Khota co-creating a a white elite, an incapacity to effec- and the 1820 Settlers Monument, disturbing, dysfunctional ambience tively redistribute land — was made which towers over the Eastern Cape with pianist Afrika Mkhize, their clear during the National Arts university town formerly known as interplay highlighting the warped Festival. Grahamstown. The blustery winds edges of democracy, before it built Especially in This Song is that swept through Makhanda for to a point where blood appeared For…, the work of the Standard a few days activated the mountain- to drip from every piano note and Bank Young Artist for Visual Art, side music boxes/ancestral shrines, Mlangeni’s trumpet playing ached Gabrielle Goliath. which formed part of artist Thania with the pain of a democratic dream Verbatim testimony by eight Petersen’s outdoor installation, so definitively deferred for South rape survivors occupies one wall of Ziyarat (a form of pilgrimage). Each Africa’s black majority. the Monument Gallery, salvaged box, set to the bayati makam, the The set demonstrated another from the invisibilisation that rape musical mode used in the azaan, level of assurance in Mlangeni’s endures in this country. whirred into ghostly recollections stage performance and also On two opposing screens, women- of shared and personal histories, included the track, The Troubles We or queer-led musical groups per- whispered around notions of what Enjoy, another trenchant examina- form cover versions of songs chosen is alien or the “other”, of what and tion of our collective present. by the survivor for their personal who belongs, or doesn’t. Swedish jazz funk legend Nils significance. There is a glitch in the It preceded the menacing, omi- Landgren’s big band made clear live recording: an organic repeti- nous rumble of the bulldozers com- during their superlative perfor- tion by the performer/s, like a stuck ing to destroy Cape Town’s District mance that politics and music, clusion in the dance performance the prevailing state of our nation: record, which causes the audience Six in All Who Pass, the powerful even if the latter gets you grooving piece The Boat, which examines “I’m still angry. There, under the to delve into that space created. story of forced removal and the and booty-shaking, remain inter- corrupted neocolonial African surface. Some days I scratch at the To contemplate. To consider. To mechanisms we use to cope with twined. The set included pieces states and the migration their vio- anger and it inflames. It bursts open inhabit a space of “traumatic recall”. trauma, by the 2019 Standard like Cannonball Adderley’s Mercy, lence against citizens causes. And again, bright red, ugly, a freshly split Nonku Phiri and Dion Monti per- Bank Young Artist for theatre, Amy Mercy, Mercy!, a “funky Abba” jazz the subsequent violence of these wound. It won't heal and I won’t form Soundgarden’s Black Hole Jephta. take on Super Trouper, called Walk migrations. be ashamed of it. But I can’t walk Sun, which is dedicated to rape sur- The azaan’s presence in what is Tall, and a blistering version of In one of the piece’s most disturb- around these streets — live here — vivor Gabriel Xavier, The Wretched unashamedly marketed as “fron- Marvin Gaye’s classic, What’s Going ing scenes, people fight over graves with that wound wide open.” perform Beyoncé’s Save the Hero, tier country” was a challenge to On?, which demanded you dance because there are no other resources dedicated to Sinesipho Lakani. Makhanda as much as it was to our — and contemplate mothers crying left to plunder. edia is replete with evi- Msaki, featuring Lebogang Ledwaba increasingly polarised age — a time because sons are dying, and fathers A refreshingly outward-looking Mdence of traumatic dispos- and Thembinkosi Mavimbela, per- when, around the world, vilification wanting to escalate wars while piece that considers the continent session in contemporary forms the Xhosa traditional hymn of class, race and religion is easily picket line brutality persists. It is a with pitch-perfect choreography South Africa, as shacks are demol- Uyesu Ulithemba Lam, which is mainstreamed for populist and fas- timeless song —ever pertinent in an and set design, The Boat is a col- ished and shack dwellers are shot at. dedicated to “a woman who chooses cist expediency and violence. age when black lives continue to not laboration led by the 2016 Young Gentrification has also heightened to withhold her name” but in her It was a reminder that art and matter. Artist for Dance, Themba Mbuli, the precarious state of those forced testimony is clear that, “You must artistic inquiry remain essential to and includes music by Xolisile to the margins of society. This is one fight for life.” adding light and depth to the myr- he sense that humanity is Bongwana. of the themes examined in Searle’s A Despite the pressures the National iad conversations we have as South Tcareering towards its self- Our wounds, whether inflicted by Place in the Sun, a new multichan- Arts Festival faces, it remains a Africans in a country inescapably destruction looms over a apartheid or the failures of democ- nel video installation commissioned space where there are very few connected to the rest of the world world manipulated by Big Men like racy, remain. They are repressed by the National Arts Festival and songs for political anaesthesia or during one of humanity’s most dan- Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, and are continuously reproduced. supported by the Maitland Institute amnesia. It lends hope that this gerous, and fractious moments — Jacob Zuma and Vladimir Putin. It is a trauma and consequential where Searle was artist in residence. moment, after the Marikana mas- even if money is tight, the arts sector The human condition appears not dance with psychological pain made A Place in the Sun is situated in a sacre, is similar to the post-June 16 is shrinking, as are audiences with far off from the rabies-infected state clear in G7: Okwe-Bokhwe, about decommissioned pool in Maitland, 1976 massacre moment in Soweto. disposable incomes, and the state of “self aggression” described by the Gugulethu Seven, the stubborn an area that Searle described dur- It was “seedtime” then, the poet appears intent on growing an ethno- Jemma Kahn’s virologist to the sud- stains of the past which cannot be ing her artist walkabout as one of Mafika Pascal Gwala noted in No nationalist form of arts and culture. denly talking rabies virus in her petri erased and a “new” South Africa the most diverse parts of Cape Town More Lullabies. When, “What went It was a call, perhaps not so much dish in the deeply considered theatre built on “the backs of our faceless with its mix of African migrants liv- round has come around/ This time to prayer, but to self-reflection, con- piece Cellist with Rabies. It is what martyrs [where] democracy is a pla- ing there. The area is due for “rede- the plants will grow/ and bear fruit templation, curiosity and a commit- happens when the rabies in a dog’s cebo and the dead keep dying”. velopment” along what is called the to raise up more seed/ There’ll be a ment to exist in the present. saliva is at its peak but it has no one Our wounds are, as a character “Voortrekker Road Corridor”. These refreshing persistence of the wits/ This was something bassist Shane to bite — the dog turns on itself. forcibly removed from District Six diverse groups are under a simi- Because this time/ There’ll be no Cooper pointed to during his band It’s an idea taken to its brutal con- in All Who Pass succinctly describes, lar threat as the mixed race groups more lullabies.” Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 49 Opinion Does it help us to remain “disadvantaged”?

Zukiswa Wanner Graphic: JOHN McCANN the argument that could be made that universities in the West were regarding the historical margin- making it too expensive for African Last Friday on Facebook, University alisation but I wonder: How do you academics to have interviews with of Fort Hare vice-chancellor Sakhela take your power back and become authors from this continent, he Buhlungu informed those who fol- the standard if you are constantly decided he would fi x this. He started low him that he had just come back othering yourself? a project interviewing his liter- from a workshop. When this group of eight univer- ary peers across Africa so he could The workshop involved the sities talk about a need to change make those interviews available to department of higher education their name to be forward-looking, it African academics and students free and training and vice-chancellors may look like a cosmetic change, but of charge. A project like this should from the eight universities formerly it’s important, as it seems that pre- be something that these universities known as historically black univer- viously white universities are claim- should be thinking of focusing more sities and currently known as his- ing historically black or previously on and investing in. torically disadvantaged institutions. disadvantaged status so that they And, just in case Buhlungu and The programme seeks to level too, can access the new funding. In his fellow vice-chancellors missed the playing fi eld by providing spe- a country where the majority of the it, if a name is needed, I’m throwing cial funding to these institutions, population is black and now able to mine kulowomgqomo. Let’s keep it Buhlungu wrote. attend tertiary education, universi- simple and call these universities The eight universities — ties could easily argue on the basis the group of eight. The name is not University of Fort Hare, Walter of a history that is 10 or 25 years old sophisticated but all involved will Sisulu University, University that they, too, are historically disad- know which universities are being of Zululand, University of the vantaged institutions or historically referred to without having to fi ght Western Cape, University of black universities. about percentages of black or pre- Limpopo, Mangosuthu University I would hope, too, that one of the viously disadvantaged staff and of Technology, University of Venda agreed priorities of the eight uni- students with previously nonblack and Sefako Makgatho Health versities, when they receive more universities. Sciences University — were under- ing by the department of higher we are previously disadvantaged, funding, will include leading the We can then work on how we funded during apartheid. education and training. how much does it assist us to keep narrative on what an African uni- will decolonise our curriculums This led to inadequate resources The naming of these eight uni- repeating it? Does this not, in versity of the future should be like. to ensure that the University of Al and meant facilities were inferior to versities is equally important and I essence, hold us down in a way? Perhaps this is a chance to create a Quaraouiyine in Fez, Morocco, is those of the historically white uni- understand the academics’ reserva- As for “historically black”, while truly African curriculum and peer- considered as important in knowl- versities. Indeed, though they have tions regarding the terms “histori- that appears to make sense in the reviewed journal articles by aca- edge generation as any Ivy League some of the best brains in South cally black universities” and “histor- United States where black people demics (and the journals to publish college or Oxbridge, and to guaran- Africa, these universities are still ically disadvantaged institutions”. are the minority, it seems to make them) that centre this continent. tee that a student attending any of playing catch-up in a system that I, too, have concerns regarding the little sense in a country and on a Some months ago I had a chat the group of eight can have the same was biased against them. Hence, the naming. continent where the majority of the with author Nuruddin Farah at a opportunities as a student from any importance of the changes in fund- After all, when we know that population is black. I understand literary festival. When he noticed other university upon graduation. 50 Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 Photography

Beauty of being: Sitters such as Gabriel McGowan (left), Kyle Kheswa (centre) and Sami Maseko form part of photographer Cole Ndelu’s project, A Study of Femininity. The abjectPhotos: are Cole Ndelu the subject

Through a personal sitters to be soft, sensual and vulner- able.” Although this practice may be lens that appreciates informed by Ndelu’s come-up sta- the fluid nature of tus, it feeds into the photographer’s need to create a comfortable, home- femininity, magic is like setting for her sitters. Apart created from her sitter’s comfort being good practice in photography, it is a tool that Ndelu uses to realise her Zaza Hlalethwa desired end. Seeing that portraits capture an “We tend to interpret portraits as encounter between the sitter and though we were reading something the photographer, one of the ways inherent in the person portrayed … Ndelu looks to “subvert the abject” We easily link the people’s facial fea- is by aff ording her sitters room to be tures to the content of their character. themselves with the hope that it will This is odd. After all, we no longer be carried through the lens. From believe you can determine someone’s the crowns of their heads to their personality by measuring their skull bare décolletage, the soft-skinned, with a pair of calipers … Not all por- blemished subjects of Ndelu’s por- traits are created equal: To be great, traiture fi ll each frame with expres- they must contain presence, tension, sions that seem to be a dance a fi nely balanced amalgam of feeling between vulnerability and control. and craft.” — Teju Cole, The New With a full-time job as a content York Times (2018) producer for the brand and design agency HKLM, Ndelu is only able to ’m just attracted to people’s shoot after 5pm and on weekends. faces,” declares Cole Ndelu, “It’s not ideal because it gets a bit a photographer who, in draining juggling work, art, rela- ‘Ispite of specialising in con- tionships and rest,” she admits. ceptual portraiture, shies Floral focus: Ndelu uses her subjects Nkuley “Projects take me a little longer to away from the label “artist”. Masemola and Kopano Selebano (left) and Dumisa complete because I’m not actively Since graduating from the Mathabathe to challenge heteronormativity shooting or planning shoots every Stellenbosch Academy of Design day. My schedule just doesn’t allow.” and Photography in 2016, Ndelu Masemola and art director Sandile tures such as scars, birthmarks, eye tion. Nothing is without intention. So far her eff orts have earned her has busied herself with the task of Mhlongo, sitters whom Ndelu iden- bags, fl ared nostrils, laugh lines and The deliberate placement of flora, the 2018 Getty Images creative bur- creating work that celebrates and tifi ed as men, who “challenge mas- general asymmetry. Instead of hiding use of light and gestures on her sit- sary grant along with the opportu- honours marginalised black people, culinity and heteronormativity, these features, she draws atten- ters’ faces work towards a seamless- nity to exhibit her work at Somerset using her fi xation with faces. not just in the way they dress tion to them by placing her sit- ness that is almost invisible. House in London. “The abject is feared because it but in their way of being”. ters before flora or decorating This can be seen in the only black With the emergence of an over- disturbs the norm; [think] hegem- To “subvert the abject”, their faces with it. “The use of and white portrait from the series. whelming number of photogra- onic masculinity, whiteness and Ndelu shoots her sitters at fl owers is intentional because Here skateboarder and photogra- phers and talks of the field being heteronormativity. That’s the inten- close range, before a sof- they’re a direct link to nature pher Kyle Kheswa stands before the saturated, watching Ndelu not only tion of this work — to disturb, to tened, unfocused back- which, like femininity, is fl uid, camera to showcase his side profi le, thrive but continue her efforts to challenge ways of seeing those who ground. Using a Sony vibrant and diverse,” his eyes looking away. The left side honour the facets of blackness that are othered and to challenge ways of Alpha 7ii camera and Ndelu explains. of his face has two distinct scars, are vulnerable, feminine and inclu- being,” she explains. alternating between In the place of one on his cheek bone and the other sive of queer identities through por- In her current project, A Study a Sony 24-70mm additional equip- on his forehead. Using light and traiture, is admirable. of Femininity: A Radically Soft and a Samyang ment and studio fl ora, Ndelu draws attention to this Learning as she goes, Ndelu is Portraiture Project Subverting the 50mm 1.4 lense, space, Ndelu side of his face by placing flowers unwavering when she admits that Abject, Ndelu looks to undermine Ndelu’s portrait- relies on thor- between the two scars and ensuring the process is “a lesson in consist- the school of thought that “associ- making practice ough art direc- that the right side of his face is not ency, time management, profession- ates femininity and blackness with is an act of mini- as well-lit as the left. alism and adaptability … The ses- anything other than beauty, resil- malism that sees Facial Adjacent to her choice in equip- sions can get quite exhausting and ience and power”. her working with attraction: ment are the subjects of her work. after a day of giving pieces of myself, The need to broaden ideas of available light. Photographer The sitter selection process is a sen- I feel so depleted. But it’s worth femininity is a carry-over from The outcome is Cole Ndelu sitive one. “I keep my sessions small, it when I’m scrolling through the Ndelu’s earlier photo series, Boys an act of honouring honours with few distractions. And food. day’s shots or a sitter tells me that Will be Boys, which features dancer unfavourable but the flaws in I always feed people … I believe in I’ve captured them in a way that Kgotlelelo Sekoto, model Nkululeko realistic facial fea- people’s faces creating conditions that allow my they’ve never seen themselves.” Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 51

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South Africa will be forced to demonstrate some came very much against the run of play and the There’s also the belief that star player Percy 2-0 fi nal score was a fl attering conclusion. Tau should be given a freer role; that paragon of grit on Saturday evening or face an early exit The Pharaohs are also dealing with a nasty consistency Hlompho Kekana is underutilised; off -fi eld scandal that could prove distracting. or who should be between the sticks … but as Luke Feltham seconds away in a couple of games from get- Attacking midfi elder Amr Warda was expelled Baxter insists: “Team selection is always an issue ting through on our own power,” Baxter said on from the squad after allegations emerged that for media and supporters because that’s what he sun is finally shining a ray or two Wednesday, the morning after Mali beat Angola he sexually harassed women online but he was opinion is. People have diff erent opinions. If I on South African sport. to secure South Africa a spot in the next round. reinstated after the side’s senior players came asked all the PSL coaches, who were very well Bafana Bafana are through to “People would have then said that was a great to his aid. His fi rst opportunity to return comes informed, they would probably have diff erent Tround 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations. performance. But that’s what our game is about, against Bafana. opinions as well. So if you take media and you We don’t quite know how and many it’s about perceptions. One refereeing decision, “We need to believe in second chances,” take supporters as well, then you’re going to get believe it’s undeserved. But we’re there. And or one missed shot can change perceptions. Salah urged the nation on Twitter. A veritable a myriad diff erent opinions, which is our game.” that, in this dark moment, is good enough. “We’ve got this opportunity now to play god in the country before the fi asco, the recent The defence has been mostly stable, Baxter Think of what we’ve had to endure in a mere against the host nation in front of a load of peo- Champions League winner’s stubborn support went on to say. Attack has been the main issue. month. Banyana Banyana faltered at their ple in a very, very hostile environment. That’s of Warda has tarnished his standing somewhat. Something that can be rectifi ed by improving its maiden World Cup, the Proteas never arrived the time you want people to stand up and I Whether that will have any eff ect on his abil- effi ciency by only “15%”. at theirs and the Super Rugby semifi nals played think the group are looking forward to it.” ity to single-handedly dictate the direction of a As to whether he would make any signifi cant out without concern for us. That second part is not what’s in dispute. game remains to be seen. changes, he was more cryptic. “I think we’re A similar fate was scheduled for Bafana. Until, Egypt represent a daunting prospect: the Afcon All in all this Egyptian iteration is solid, if going to do exactly the same as we’ve done now; it turns out, a tough scrap against our sparsely- pedigree, the talent-laden squad and a default not sensational. It’s a vast improvement on we’re going to look at the opponent, see which populated desert neighbours was good enough, ability to fi ll any ground in this tournament. the post-revolution years but some way off the player we think fits them badly and try and after all. Call it mathematics, luck, a shot in Until this decade, which was kicked off by silky dynamism of the glory days of Mohamed build a game plan around that. There’s no great the dark … we’re there now and still have the political instability, the North Africans were the Aboutrika, et al. time to start moving between systems, but we opportunity to achieve something great. team to beat on the continent. As the most suc- At the very least there’s enough room for can during the game if we have to.” Of course, destiny can only do so much to cessful team in Afcon history, they’ve won seven Baxter to take his shot. The public pressure may Pressure is a common theme leading up to assist the performance. South Africa’s overly titles, three of them consecutively between be of a very diff erent kind to that of his oppo- kick-off at Cairo International Stadium. Under- passive approach in the last-minute loss to 2006 and 2010. nents, but it can be equally burdensome. fire Egypt know their demanding public will Morocco was troubling. Coach Stuart Baxter This year they made qualifying for this stage Much of the critique has centred on the not easily forgive a failure to progress to a home knew a draw would do and duly set out to do look fairly easy — although certainly not play- Scottish coach’s headstrong refusal to break quarterfi nal. Bafana are equally aware that a as little as possible to sully the 0-0 scoreline. It ing fantastically — dismissing everyone in their with his preferred choices. The benching of third loss from three of four games will invari- worked for 89 minutes but, lose sight of the ini- group without conceding a goal. Premier Soccer League (PSL) player of the year ably see the axe swing in multiple directions. tiative and you’re always liable to be punished. The chinks are there, however. Uganda Thembinkosi Lorch, in particular, has been met What could stay the execution is a demonstra- “The people that think ‘well, you know you got strolled into their box with worrying ease in the with countrywide groans every time the line-up tion of a little ruthlessness — no matter who’s through the back door’ or whatever … we were last outing. Mohamed Salah’s curling free kick is released. on the pitch. 2 Supplement to Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 Sport Cameroon’s keepers of faith: Onana and Ondoa

The cousins are rivals for the Indomitable Lions’ No 1 jersey, but their relationship is amicable Keeping it in the family: Goalkeepers André Onana and Fabrice Ondoa both play for Cameroon. The cousins have played soccer together for more than a decade. Photo: Cees van Hoogdalem/Soccrates/Getty Images Carlos Amato over Guinea-Bissau and the goalless draw with Ghana. you can say we have been together in democracy. Democracy means you result of François Omam-Biyik’s tow- eing a reserve goalkeeper The crucial backstory here is football for nine, maybe 10 years. Five have to accept there are two parties. ering header in the second half. As the can be one of the saddest Onana’s decision to decline selec- years of that was in Barcelona, shar- You have to accept the other party tournament progressed, a 38-year-old jobs in football. No team tion for the 2017 Afcon to retain and ing a room.” also has a role to play. Roger Milla transformed African foot- Bcan do without a second secure his hard-won place at Ajax. There was a very different flavour “But in Cameroon, he who has ball with a goal-scoring streak of sur- keeper, but if you have That fateful call, which was not well to the relationship between two ear- power is worth everything; the other real charisma, firing the Indomitable the job, you reek of redundancy. received in Cameroon, has proved lier Cameroonian greats — Joseph- guy is worth nothing. They only know Lions all the way to the quarterfinals. Unlike fringe outfielders, you never wise for Onana. And it was a gift to his Antoine Bell and Thomas N’Kono. totalitarianism. Instead of being Throughout, N’Kono had excelled get a run off the bench in which to cousin. Ondoa seized the opportunity For a decade and a half, from 1980 to pleased to have two good goalkeep- in goal, directing the Cameroonians’ stake a claim for a starting place. to shine in Gabon. But as is often the 1994, the two fought for the national ers, they wanted to have one, all on ferocious pressing game from the So you train and wait and train and case with African keepers, heroism on jersey, as Ian Hawkey recounts in his his own.” command centre of his box. But in wait, hovering around the camp like the international stage has not trans- acclaimed history of African football, Here Bell was referring to his extra time of the quarterfinal against a fleshy ghost. lated into progress at club level. Feet of the Chameleon. most galling setback. On the eve of England, he fouled Gary Lineker in You are a hapless presence. If you Legendary French coach Claude Cameroon’s opener against Argentina the box at 2-2, and Lineker struck are not actually praying that some Rivalry built on brotherhood Le Roy worked with both men. “The at the 1990 World Cup, he was the the resulting penalty past him. The minor physical or legal misfortune Ondoa’s home base these days is not potential in the two of them was just man in possession, having starred in dream shattered. befalls the starting goalkeeper, then far from Onana’s in Amsterdam, fantastic,” he told Hawkey. “But in a Afcon that year in Algeria. For Bell, there would still be one everyone thinks that you are. though in the much humbler sur- totally different way. Tommy had his But after attacking the national more chance of greatness — at the The situation in international roundings of Oostende. He moved sobriety, and then you had the show- side’s traditionally shambolic prepa- 1994 World Cup, a campaign that squads is a bit different, because at to the sleepy Belgian port city from manship of Bell.” rations in an interview with a French ended badly with a 3-0 clobbering by least the backup keeper has a real job Sevilla Atlético (Sevilla’s reserve side) N’Kono was taller, steadier, with newspaper, Bell was deposed at the Brazil in the group stage. As per tradi- back at his club. André Onana of Ajax in 2017, but he is the No 2 keeper for a powerful and accurate throw. Bell last minute in favour of N’Kono, with tion, the squad preparations had been Amsterdam, who was supposed to be Oostende, with Frenchman William was more lithe, more charismatic coach Valery Nepomnyashchy appar- chaotic, leading to a player protest led Cameroon’s reserve goalkeeper at the Dutoit the man in possession of the — a natural leader who captained ently the messenger rather than the by Bell over broken financial prom- Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), is a starting jersey. Olympique de Marseille. executioner; the Russian was widely ises from the federation. case in point. He also happens to be Even another epic Afcon campaign N’Kono had the jersey at the 1982 seen as the instrument of the foot- Plus ça change — the more things one of the most talented young net- from Ondoa for Cameroon may not and 1990 World Cups, while Bell bal association and of the political change, the more they stay the same. minders on the planet. dislodge Dutoit — in the keeper’s jun- had possession when Cameroon authorities in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s Just a couple of weeks ago, the Lions Inconveniently for Onana, the gle, possession is nine-tenths of the won the Nations Cup in 1982. At the capital. briefly refused to board their flight same can be said of the man with law. time, European clubs were even less Even Argentina’s Diego Maradona to Egypt unless unpaid bonuses and whom he competes for the No 1 jer- Meanwhile, Onana is back in the inclined to hire African keepers than was puzzled. When the teams trooped appearance fees materialised. sey, Fabrice Ondoa, who is Onana’s Cameroon squad. At last, Europe- they are today, so N’Kono’s move to off at half-time, with the scoreline still But don’t bet against another cousin and his former roommate at based African stars can participate in Sevilla in 1982 was groundbreaking, at 0-0, he asked N’Kono: “What are title for the Indomitable Lions this Barcelona’s La Masia youth academy. the first Afcon to be staged during the as was Bell’s ascendancy at Marseille. you doing here? I thought Bell was month. The stubborn excellence of Ondoa’s stellar performances were European off-season without jeop- the man?” Cameroonian football has always pivotal to the Indomitable Lions’ ardising their day jobs. And the two Toxic political battle been about transcending chaos — triumph in the last edition of Afcon rivals think of each other as brothers. For Bell, the battle between the Chaos a catalyst for success and, if possible, having two giants in Gabon. He seemed undroppable “We played together as kids,” Onana two great keepers could have been The game got stranger yet for in goal. It surely can’t hurt if those leading up to this year’s tournament told The National newspaper in the healthy, but instead it was toxified, Maradona, who was treated fairly giants love each other. but coach Clarence Seedorf, who United Arab Emirates. politicised. “The rivalry was strong,” brutally by the Cameroonians, who played for Ajax in his youth, handed “Then we were together at the he told Hawkey, “but in the end it went on to achieve one of the great- This article was first published on Onana the No 1 jersey in the 2-0 win Samuel Eto’o Academy in Douala. So was badly used. Africans don’t like est shocks in World Cup history as a New Frame Pragmatic Netherlands look to scupper US juggernaut in Women’s World Cup final

Luke Feltham “The next goal, if they want to Jackie Groenen, a player who had really succeed, is to work on the not scored for a year, to settle things. Could this week’s World Cup semi- fine details that make the differ- Against the US, Wiegman will finals have been more different? ence between winning and losing at probably try to force a tight game United States vs England was deli- the highest level,” she wrote of the again and look for another clichéd cious: two rivals offering a slick, English. moment of brilliance. Her side’s abil- tactical back and forth that caused It’s easy to see how the US gets that ity to keep a clean sheet in the open- time to evaporate in front of us. The edge. The ability of coach Jill Ellis to ing minutes will probably determine Netherlands defeat of Sweden was … use Alex Morgan’s pace and power as the success of that strategy. cagey, to put it euphemistically. a fulcrum for building attacks, resist- Banyana Banyana coach Desiree Those last hurdles are microcosms ing the temptation to optimise her Ellis was overjoyed when her side of what each finalist will be expected goal output, is remarkable. contained the Americans for 35 min- to bring to the tournament’s climax Ditto for Christen Press’s seamless utes in a friendly back in May and on Sunday evening. introduction on to the left wing after this tournament has shown why. The Americans arrive on a run replacing Megan Rapinoe, and the They’ve never lost a World Cup game that befits their favourites tag. After adaption of goalscorer Carli Lloyd in which they scored first and, in surging to an 18-0 aggregate score in into a presence that slows down the this edition, have wasted no time in the group stages, Spain and resilient game. doing so — their longest stalemate is hosts France were overpowered in By contrast, the Netherlands have On the ball: England’s Fran Kirby battles for possession with the US’s a ridiculous 12 minutes. the knockout. made getting the job done look ardu- Alex Morgan in the semifinal. Photo: Quality Sport Images/Getty Images The Dutch are going to have to After the victory against Phil ous. Still, get the job done they have. slow down proceedings if they’re to Neville’s England, former goalkeeper Sarina Wiegman has outsmarted proved the difference. Her shrewd semifinal, the Euro 2017 champi- emerge as world champions. Going Hope Solo enthused how it was the tough challenges from Cameroon back-heel off a corner was a delight ons once again rode the swells and toe-to-toe with the American jugger- finer details that gave the world and Canada in the group stages and she repeated the coolness when waited for their moment. It was a naut will be great for us neutral view- champions the edge over one of their before passing the test of 2015 final- she slotted in a last-minute penalty. day for the keepers and it took a sur- ers, but the US team’s experience and most vociferous challengers. ists Japan. Lieke Martens’s quality Against Sweden in Wednesday’s prise 100th-minute low drive from nous will always be favoured. Supplement to Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 3 Sport Amateurs revive fever-pitch soccer

The Steven Pienaar Community Cup restores the essence of the beautiful game that too often evaporates in the stadiums of professional football

Luke Feltham

rofessional football is about winning. That is about as uncontroversial Pa statement as you can get. Success is the only measure of self-worth — there’s no Real sport: The Steven Pienaar Community Cup is supported by fans Warm-up: Team members of Robin Crest, from the University of nobility in losing. from Westbury and beyond. Photos: Hiram Alejandro Durán Johannesburg, get ready for the final game against the Magicians In this way, sport mirrors the val- ues and direction of modern society: Pienaar is keen to stress that the failure in any aspect of life is ruth- safety of attending residents is para- lessly punished. mount. He also understands that If you have any doubts about this, an injection of positive news about just take a peek at Twitter or drop Westbury would not go amiss. the words Bafana Bafana into a “I’m from Westbury so I know casual conversation this week. The there’s not a lot going on in the com- ire reserved for the men’s national munity [to keep youngsters active],” football team would have seen them Pienaar continues. “We try to moti- fl ogged upon their eventual return, if- vate the community to believe that ancient rules applied. when we work together we can build Although sympathy for our not- something. I’m quite happy that so-beloved national team is hard to everything ran smoothly the last justify, in the middle of the mael- month. strom of commercialism and suc- “We want to get people active and cess-at-all-costs attitude that the get them to take responsibility. At global game has become, it’s easy to the end of the day, the community forget how pleasurable it can be to needs support and help and that sit back and enjoy a football match. comes from within.” To soak up the cheer and lose your- Pienaar has long stood as the fi gure self in 90 minutes of action — even who represents the idea that a diff er- if that action is not conducted by our ent life is possible for many disillu- promised idols, but rather by people sioned youngsters growing up in the you’ve never heard of before. area. That opportunity arose for me It was more than 20 years ago, in recently in the most unexpected of 1994, that current AmaZulu coach locales: the Bill Jardine Stadium in Cavin Johnson unearthed his talent Longdale, just south of Westbury, and persuaded him to take a shot Johannesburg. This was the venue Victory: The Magicians psych up before the final game (below) and celebrate (above) winning the at Ajax Cape Town. The next two of the final of the annual Steven competition, started by former Bafana captain Steven Pienaar (insert), who is from Westbury decades would take him around the Pienaar Community Cup. world — his most notable spell saw Started by the former Bafana cap- the two-week competition, played fi t- him assume a leading creative role tain in 2003, the competition was tingly on June 16, Pienaar patrolled at Everton in the English Premier an opportunity for him to give back the sidelines of the stadium. As each League. Now, a year into his retire- to the neighbourhood from which final concluded — the under-19s, ment, just his presence is enough to he hailed. In the years that have fol- women’s and open finals — he was represent hope. lowed, it’s become clear that it has summoned to the erected podium The main event on the day, the become far more than any sort of PR to dish out silver medals and hand- open fi nal, was played out between stunt. shakes to the losers and a big, shiny the Magicians from Mandeville, Beginning with only four teams trophy to the victors. He happily Krugersdorp, and Robin Crest, from in its maiden edition, it is now the posed for selfi es with any fan, player a residence at the University of event that many of the best amateur or staff member who gained access to Johannesburg. teams around the city look forward the secured fi eld. At the risk of sounding preten- to (the R100 000 fi rst prize certainly Although certainly not lacking a tious, it was a pure footballing aff air. assists in that regard). Aside from the raucous atmosphere of its own, the Both sides went at each other with- 32 slots available for the main “open” closing day had a distinctly diff er- out inhibition, the referee doing his stream, there are also multiple age ent fl avour to the past two weeks of part to ensure the game fl owed with groups that are on off er — 152 junior competition. The previous rounds few unnecessary interruptions. The teams entered this year, going as low were played on what locals call amateur grit on display made for an as under-9, with an over-35 category “The Open Ground”, a field at the entertaining back-and-forth, with in the other direction. Last year saw entrance of Westbury that doubles the favoured local teams played, the obstacles regarding sponsors and all crunching, but not malicious, tackles the introduction of a well-received as a hangout spot. Anyone driving atmosphere reached fervent noise that,” Pienaar says. “And even ques- aplenty. women’s section — in which 60 sides down the wide Ontdekkers Road levels that could rival most Premier tions over whether it was going to The Magicians eventually grabbed signed up. during those preceding weekends Soccer League games. By evening the take place. The most important thing the winner in the 80th minute and it “That was very important for us, would have noticed an end- party would begin and many of the was to get the community together, was they who scooped both a Pienaar you know,” Pienaar says of the deci- less collection of parked younger people spilled over in the especially with all the stuff that’s handshake and the shiny trophy. sion to open up a women’s division. cars crammed up along direction of where the revelling con- been going on [recently] around A couple of hundred supporters at “Because we want to get everyone the outside streets. tinued after dark. Westbury.” the very least had shown up to sup- involved in sports, not only boys. Inside, hundreds of On the final cold Monday, how- In October, it will be a year since port them and matched their success “We started off just getting kids Westbury’s residents gath- ever, anything that might compro- the neighbourhood found itself dom- with heartfelt singing long after the that were hanging around ered on the slopes above mise the integrity of the occasion had inating the national news agenda. game. Despite no local teams mak- the corners during the pitch. Families been snuffed out. Most noticeably, Already fed up with years of gang vio- ing it to the final, the venue was school holidays to form arrived with bulg- the police presence was ubiquitous, lence and inadequate police response still packed, predominantly with teams and come play, ing cooler boxes with metro vans in the parking lot to it, residents exploded in protest Westbury residents. and now we have filled with snacks and offi cers stationed in and around after Heather Peterson was killed by To them the annual event has over 150 teams that and cooldrinks; the stands. a stray bullet while walking her son become so much more than a reason took part this year. groups of friends Alcohol and hookahs were also home from school. to support their own: it is an occa- We want everyone huddled banned in an effort to foster an Despite months of subsequent sion to celebrate the power football to get involved. Not around hook- atmosphere friendlier to families. promises by authority fi gures, such has in bringing everybody together. only through football; we ahs; older men With a crowd of 2 000-plus and no as Police Minister Bheki Cele, many As for the rest of us? Revelling in want parents to encourage had their spots negative incidents to speak of, the still feel that not enough is being that authentic joy is a rare pleasure their kids through sport.” booked with camp- extra planning paid off . done to curb violence in the area. we’re not often privy to in a modern On the last game day of ing chairs. When “We had our ups and downs, the When talking about the event, stadium. 4 Supplement to Mail & Guardian July 5 to 11 2019 Sport

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(6) suites at the southern apex. Opposite, in the northwest corner 18 Rounded projection (4) The axis route starts in the cir- of centre court, is the ball distribu- 19 Leading actor (4) cular orchard right atop the hill, tion hatch. Ball girls rush off after where picnickers can escape the hub- exchanging old balls for new. More 14, 664 bub and enjoy the panoramic views than 50 000 balls are used in the over London. The orchard is ringed course of the tournament. by an ornamental pond. Beyond is Beneath the bridge between centre the Aorangi picnic terrace, dubbed court and the players’ enclosure atop LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS Henman Hill or Murray Mount, the main press room, fans wait, hop- Quick Crossword 14, 663 Cryptic Crossword JDE 189 depending on individual taste, where ing to spot Roger Federer. The path people with the cheaper grounds then drops and opens out between passes sit and watch the centre court the umpires’ restaurant and the action on a giant screen. southwest corner of centre court, The pop of champagne corks from whence the curious smell of blends in with the thud of tennis fresh laundry emanates after dark. shots as people tuck into strawber- The overhang of court 3 provides ries, sandwiches and crisps. “Let’s the route’s only shade. In quieter go! I’m stepping in!” says one man, moments, the competitors can hear picking his way through the maze of the teacups clinking in the players’ picnic blankets. restaurant opposite. Resplendent in On the west side is the charity their blazers, a fresh set of eight line resale ticket booth, where regular judges shelter, waiting to start an ticket-holders wait to snap up the hour-long shift on court 4. centre court seats of early leavers. The route kinks round the steep Charlotte (30), from the northwest court 12 temporary stand before outskirts of London, was first in the opening on to a new section of pine resale queue, having already queued decking and picnic tables. It features outside from 4.30am. a future sustainability zone, answer- “I’ve been doing this every year ing the big questions such as, “How How to play Sudoku: Place a number from 1 to 9 for 15 years. I just love queuing!” she will we make plastic circular?” and SUDOKU in each empty cell so that each row, each column and says. “I’ve never not got centre court showing off the electric cars used to each 3x3 block contains all the numbers from 1 to 9. tickets. You have to be patient and transport the players. In a new fan prepared: sunscreen, water ... and experience zone, tennis fans can don 61LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION Prosecco. “People think we’re crazy virtual reality headsets and have a go queueing [for] 11 hours, but we love at playing on centre court. 49 8 it!” says Charlotte. The route ends at the new 7136239864517 Down the slope, at court 18, some Rosewater Pavilion, the poshest seats 185792463 peer through the slats to glimpse in the house. Entry costs £5 982 per 423 the action. The plaque on court 18 person on men’s final Sunday, but a 647351289 commemorates the longest-ever ten- mere £1 644 on the second Tuesday. 65 594627138 nis match, where John Isner beat Guests have a four-course à la carte Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the final menu overseen by Albert and Michel 837361485792 set after 11 hours and five minutes Roux, centre court seats, a free bar 5891728139645 in 2010. “It was absolutely foolish. and the promise of star visitors. 872946351 70-68!” exclaims one picture-snap- The luxury is lavish — but way up 65 3 ping passer-by. at the other end of the grounds, on 956213874 Next along is Court 14, where peo- the hill, the punters seemed to be 78413578926 ple waiting for a seat crane five-deep having just as much fun. — AFP