E-mail: [email protected] Tuesday 26 April 2011 Tel: 021 713 9440 Fax: 021 713 9481 ATLANTIC SEABOARD CITY EDITION “Telling it as it is” CAPE TOWN Shop 4, Grand Central Complex Old Post Building, Cape Town, 021 462 0218 / 462 0232 GODWIN OPTOMETRISTS AND CONTACT LENS PRACTITIONERS OPTOMETRISTS We accept all Medical Aids as well as Credit & Debit Cards, Edgars, Sales House, Jet & RCS Free Second Frame and Free Eye Test with every pair of spectacles purchased We test eyes 50% OFF SELECTED FRAMES FREE selected Sunglasses when purchasing any pair of Specs Vredehoek woman attacked VERNA VAN DIEMEN T HE family of a Vredehoek woman who was stabbed in her home and left for dead last Monday is offering a reward for the arrest and conviction of their sister’s attacker. The 43-year-old woman has been fighting for her life in hospital. She was stabbed a number of times in her neck and torso. Details of the attack are sketchy, but it is understood that the woman was stabbed in the kitchen of her Rocklands Road flatlet at about 15:45 by an intruder. After the attack, the woman ma- naged to drag herself up a flight of stairs to the main house – which is on the same property as her flatlet. Here she was helped by the occu- pant of the house, who phoned the ambulance. Her condition was critical when she arrived at the hospital and she needed eight units of blood. Her sister, who asked that none of the family’s names be mentioned, says: “It appears that the person who did this to her meant to finish her off. She was severely injured and the injuries suggest that he in- tended killing her. The stab wounds were mainly in her neck and torso.” The woman gave a brief descrip- tion of her assailant to the occupant of the main house before she lost consciousness, saying that it was a single young man, unknown to her. Police said there was no sign of forced entry. Cape Town Central po- lice spokesperson, Captain Ezra Oc- tober, said his station responded immediately when they received the call. The motive is unknown. Henry Giddy, Cape Town Central Community Policing Forum chair- person, who was on the scene after the attack, says he suspects it was “a burglary gone wrong”. “The attack happened in the mid- dle of the day, so we can only think that this person tried to break in and was surprised to find someone at home,” said Giddy. It is believed that the woman was on her way to work when she was attacked. After staying at the woman’s bed- side and praying that she would wake up with “as little damage as possible”, the family told People’s Post that she was declared to be in a stable condition at the weekend. While remaining on a ventilator, she had begun responding to cer- tain things. Nicola Jowell, chairperson of the Devil’s Peak, Vredehoek Neigh- bourhood Watch, said: “It is the first time anything like this has happened in the area. We are in shock that someone can come into the neighbourhood and do some- thing so horrific at that time of the day.” Three weeks ago a similar violent attack took place in neighbouring Tamboerskloof, and got the area’s crime-fighting bodies on high alert. The owner of a house in Leeu- kloof Drive was lucky to escape alive after he was attacked, tied up and robbed by two men armed with knives and a screwdriver. The man defended himself against the bur- glars, striking one of them with a panga but his attackers subjected him to a harrowing ordeal. He was gagged with a sock soiled with the blood of one of the robbers and locked up in the toilet while his safe was ransacked. The Tamboerskloof Neighbour- hood Watch reported on their web- site that the men had entered the property, possibly from the moun- tain and gained access to the house through the sliding door. According to the website the bur- glars were in the house for about 30 minutes. One of the “brazen” sus- pects changed into a shirt belong- ing to the victim and left his own shirt at the scene. The men stole a .38 Special hand- gun, jewellery, an Apple Mac lap- top, a cellphone, a camera, sun- glasses, bank cards and cash. After they left, the man alerted the police who launched a search in the mountains. The police, together with the neighbourhood watch, armed re- sponse officers and members of SANParks, combed the bush on the mountain and surrounding streets for two hours. The following day Tamboerskloof Neighbourhood Watch Members searched the bush behind the house and found the two pairs of white socks used by the suspects. Giddy said: “The attacks are a concern for us. Both could have been fatal.” October said he could not com- ment on the Leeukloof Drive inci- dent “until he had all the informa- tion from the detective”. Reality show shot in Cape Town 11 Tony Robinson speaks out 2 Memories of the Green Dolphin 6 David Bristow is on a crusade to raise funds for Operation Smile. See story on page 3. Photo: Supplied Miles to smiles
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E-mail: [email protected] Tuesday 26 April 2011 Tel: 021 713 9440 Fax: 021 713 9481
ATLANTIC SEABOARD CIT Y EDITION
“Tel l ing it as it is”CAPE TOWN Shop 4, Grand Central Complex
Old Post Building, Cape Town, 021 462 0218 / 462 0232
GODWIN
OPTOMETRISTS AND
CONTACT LENS PRACTITIONERS
OPTOMETRISTS
We accept all Medical Aids as well as Credit & DebitCards, Edgars, Sales House, Jet & RCS
Free Second Frame and Free Eye Test with everypair of spectacles purchased
We test eyes
50% OFFSELECTED FRAMES
FREE selected Sunglasses when purchasing any pair of Specs
Vredehoek woman attackedVERNA VAN DIEMEN
THE family of a Vredehoekwoman who was stabbed in
her home and left for dead lastMonday is offering a reward forthe arrest and conviction of theirsister’s attacker.
The 43-year-old woman has beenfighting for her life in hospital.
She was stabbed a number oftimes in her neck and torso.
Details of the attack are sketchy,but it is understood that the womanwas stabbed in the kitchen of herRocklands Road flatlet at about15:45 by an intruder.
After the attack, the woman ma-naged to drag herself up a flight ofstairs to the main house – which ison the same property as her flatlet.Here she was helped by the occu-pant of the house, who phoned theambulance.
Her condition was critical whenshe arrived at the hospital and sheneeded eight units of blood.
Her sister, who asked that noneof the family’s names be mentioned,says: “It appears that the personwho did this to her meant to finishher off. She was severely injured
and the injuries suggest that he in-tended killing her. The stab woundswere mainly in her neck and torso.”
The woman gave a brief descrip-tion of her assailant to the occupantof the main house before she lostconsciousness, saying that it was asingle young man, unknown to her.
Police said there was no sign offorced entry. Cape Town Central po-lice spokesperson, Captain Ezra Oc-tober, said his station respondedimmediately when they receivedthe call. The motive is unknown.
Henry Giddy, Cape Town CentralCommunity Policing Forum chair-person, who was on the scene afterthe attack, says he suspects it was“a burglary gone wrong”.
“The attack happened in the mid-dle of the day, so we can only thinkthat this person tried to break inand was surprised to find someoneat home,” said Giddy.
It is believed that the woman wason her way to work when she wasattacked.
After staying at the woman’s bed-side and praying that she wouldwake up with “as little damage aspossible”, the family told People’sPost that she was declared to be ina stable condition at the weekend.
While remaining on a ventilator,she had begun responding to cer-tain things.
Nicola Jowell, chairperson of theDevil’s Peak, Vredehoek Neigh-bourhood Watch, said: “It is thefirst time anything like this hashappened in the area. We are inshock that someone can come intothe neighbourhood and do some-thing so horrific at that time of theday.”
Three weeks ago a similar violentattack took place in neighbouringTamboerskloof, and got the area’scrime-fighting bodies on high alert.
The owner of a house in Leeu-kloof Drive was lucky to escapealive after he was attacked, tied upand robbed by two men armed withknives and a screwdriver. The mandefended himself against the bur-glars, striking one of them with apanga but his attackers subjectedhim to a harrowing ordeal.
He was gagged with a sock soiledwith the blood of one of the robbersand locked up in the toilet while hissafe was ransacked.
The Tamboerskloof Neighbour-hood Watch reported on their web-site that the men had entered theproperty, possibly from the moun-
tain and gained access to the housethrough the sliding door.
According to the website the bur-glars were in the house for about 30minutes. One of the “brazen” sus-pects changed into a shirt belong-ing to the victim and left his ownshirt at the scene.
The men stole a .38 Special hand-gun, jewellery, an Apple Mac lap-top, a cellphone, a camera, sun-glasses, bank cards and cash.
After they left, the man alertedthe police who launched a search inthe mountains.
The police, together with theneighbourhood watch, armed re-sponse officers and members ofSANParks, combed the bush on themountain and surrounding streetsfor two hours.
The following day TamboerskloofNeighbourhood Watch Memberssearched the bush behind the houseand found the two pairs of whitesocks used by the suspects.
Giddy said: “The attacks are aconcern for us. Both could havebeen fatal.”
October said he could not com-ment on the Leeukloof Drive inci-dent “until he had all the informa-tion from the detective”.
Reality showshot in CapeTown 11
Tony Robinsonspeaks out 2
Memories ofthe GreenDolphin 6
David Bristow is on acrusade to raisefunds for OperationSmile. See story onpage 3.
Photo: Supplied
Milesto
smiles
Page 2 People’s Post Atlantic SeaboardCity Edition NEWS Tuesday 26 April 2011
Your ward candidatesFOLLOWING on last week’s in-troduction of ward candidates inPeople’s Post, we this week pub-lish more profiles of political par-
ty members who are makingthemselves available as wardcouncillors.
Elections for local government
representatives will take placeon Wednesday 18 May – declareda public holiday – and residentswill have the opportunity to vote
into power a representative theybelieve will represent their com-munity’s interests within theCity of Cape Town.
Ward 54 Ward 77 Ward 54 Ward 77RicardoSedres isthe Ward54 representativefor theInkathaFreedomParty andhas longtrackrecord ofselflesscommunity service.He is wellknown inhis home suburb of Hanover Park wherehe is instrumental in fight for the rightsof backyard dwellers.
Christopher Moseadie istheInkathaFreedomParty’srepresentativefor Ward77. He isvery involved incommunity structures inHout Bayand is instrumental in resolving community problems.
The African Christian Democratic Party’s DavidRoberts(Ward 54)serves onthe Western Province andWesternCapeSportsCouncils, and is greatly respected forbringing policy changes for school sportand funding for sports federations. Hisstudies in Adult Education at UCT haveprepared him to impact the socioeconomy of communities.
The African Christian DemocraticParty’sCherylHowie(Ward 59)is a teacher and hasbeen a loyal memberof theACDPsince itsinception in 1993, serving in varioussenior posts. She has the energy andcommitment to serve all residents andstrives for righteous governance andjustice for all.
Where there’s a will,there’s a loopholeTONY ROBINSON
IFyou investR10 000 ina financial insti-tution, you will earn between R60 andR70 a month. Invest the same amount ina solar water heater and you will saveabout R300 a month in electricity costs.
Nextyearyouwill saveR400amonth, andR500 the year after that – and it won’t stopthere.
A solar water heater must surely be oneof the best investments around. Why, then,has South Africa been so slow to convert tosolar? Probably because Eskom does not re-ally believe in solar power. Their subsidyscheme was just a quickie public relationsexercise and a sop to the renewable energylobby.
Their mistake was to subsidise any solarwater heater as long as it had the technicalblessing of the SA Bureau of Standards. Asa result, half the subsidies were spent onimported units, so the money flowed out ofthe country to Europe, Israel, Australia andChina.
If the subsidies had been used only for lo-cally-manufactured products, they wouldhave created work for our factories, eco-nomic growth and jobs.
Greater production volumes would leadto improved efficiencies, better productsand reduced unit costs. That would encour-age more South Africans to go solar and wewould create the base for an industry thatcould export to the world.
Instead, Eskom subsidised imports com-peting with our local products. Did Eskomand the government learn nothing from theimplosion of the textile industry?
And where is Cosatu in all this? Are theunionists so near-sighted that they cannotsee that subsidising imports is stupid andthat it destroys jobs? Did they, too, learnnothing from the bloodletting in the cloth-ing factories? Why are they not bangingdown the doors of the Department of Tradeand Industryanddemandingahalt to subsi-dised imports?
Perhaps the answer is that the scheme
has been such a pathetic failure that no-body has taken it seriously. It has given usjust 64 000 units against a government tar-get of one million and a potential marketof twice that number.
Now Eskom is to stop the subsidies.Perhaps the City council can do better. It
could go into partnership with industry tosell solar water heaters – locally madeones, of course.
It is not an idea without precedent. Yearsago the council used to sell electric stovesfrom a showroom on the ground floor ofElectricity House in Strand Street.
The intention was to promote the use ofelectricity and the business plan was mar-vellously simple. Instalmentswereadded tothe monthly electricity bill and those whodidn’t pay had their power cut off.
Electricity House has gone but the con-course of the Civic Centre should do nicelyfor a showroom. The business plan wouldhave to be modified to get around the Mu-nicipal Finance Act – but where there’s awill, there’s a loophole. The rewards couldbe great in the form of savings for people,a reduced risk of blackouts and a boomingsolar industry.
You’d better go in disguiseTHE annual Teddy Bear Fair will be held onMonday 2 May at the BuitenverwachtingWine Farm in Constantia from 10:00 to 16:00.
There will be many teddy bear tables andteddy bear lovers can enjoy food, drinks andhave a lovely picnic under the trees. Therewill be lots of fun entertainment for the chil-
dren, such as jumping castles, face paintingand colouring competitions, as well as lotsof prizes. To order a picnic, contact Adrienneon (021) 794-1012 or 083 257 6083. For more in-formation on the teddy bear tables, contactBrian on (021) 887-9001 and for everythingelse, contact Anna on 074 186 2578.
Women doing it forthemselvesTHE Business Women’s Showcase will be held on Mon-day 21 May at SMG BMW Century City.
The event offers exhibitors of women’s services andproducts a fashion show by Danielle Margaux, hairand makeup stylists Reto of Style lounge, a top interna-tional speaker and author on the personal brand, Tim-othy Maurice Webster, Nomfusi and the LuckyCharms, and the Black Orchid Burlesque dancers.
Stacey Norman, of Kfm, will be the master of ceremo-nies for the event, which is a fundraiser for the Excel-leration Bursary Fund, a Section 21 company offeringbursaries to young women in job skills or career-relat-ed courses.
Tickets are available from Computicket at R130 eachand there are no tickets available at the door.
Exhibitors are welcome to contact [email protected] or 083 310 9765 before Saturday 30 April. Youcan also visit www.finewoman.co.za.
Tribute toAsian iconsZINDAH PRODUCTIONS ishosting a tribute to the Asianculture icons of South Africa.
The musical production willbe directed by Ganie Parker tohonour and remember those pi-oneers of the communities andpast local greats of the WesternCape who kept the spirit of artsand culture alive and well.
A request is made to friendsand family for memorabilia andphotos, old media clippings orany information useful for abrochure, and send it to [email protected] or PO Box1112, Cape Town, 8000, by theend of April or call (021) 637-1684, (021) 696-6226 or071 384 1237.
Tuesday 26 April 2011 NEWS People’s Post Atlantic SeaboardCity Edition Page 3
Man robbed on highway
Beware of online fraudsters
Turning miles into smiles
Talks at Stonehaven
REYANA STEYN
AN ELDERLY man was robbed byarmed men after he went to the aid ofhis daughter whose car had brokendown on the highway.
“The incident happened on Monday 18April at 06:00 on the N2, close to the Ath-lone turn-off,” says Warrant Officer IanBennett, Athlone police spokesperson.
Douglas Minnie (61) says he went to as-sist his daughter, who hadbeen taking her husband towork when they had cartrouble on the N2.
“She phoned me and Iwent to assist her. She tookmy car and took her hus-band to work while I waitedat her car. I was standingnext to the car waiting for as-sistance when I saw twoyoung men walking acrossthe bridge from Athlone on-to the N2.
“They walked towards meand asked me for a cigarette.I told them:‘I don’t have one.’ One of them asked mewhere I lived, while the other onewalked to the other side of the car andbegan scratching in the car. I askedwhat he was doing and he said he wastaking the radio because they neededmoney.”
Minnie says he tried to grab the manto stop him from taking the radio whenthe other man pushed him.
He pushed back and a scuffle broke
out. “One of the men took out a screw-driver, while the other had his hands un-der his jacket and kept saying he was go-ing to shoot me,” says Minnie.
“Then one picked up a brick from theground and hit me over the head with it,then threw it at me. I fell to the groundand when I looked up, I saw them run-ning away with the radio.”
Minnie says when his daughter re-turned she was shocked at what had hap-pened. She returned with a tow-truck
and the car was towedaway. The injured man re-ported the matter at Ath-lone police station and re-ceived medical attention.
“People must be carefulwhen they get stuck on theroad, because it could havebeen worse. I didn’t thinkwhen the two guys ap-proached me that they weregoing to rob me.”
Bennett says people mustensure that their cars are ingood condition. “Cars can
break down at any time, but vehiclesmust be in a roadworthy condition.Criminals will target people who are ina vulnerable position, like being stuckon the side of the road. Motorists mustbe vigilant especially when travelling.They should also call for assistance be-fore they step out of the vehicle.”
Anyone with information on the twomen who robbed Minnie is urged to con-tact the police station on (021) 697-9238 orCrime Stop on 08600 10111.
THE South African BankingRisk Information Centre(SABRIC) urges bank clientsto be wary after a recent spateof phishing emails solicitingclients’ card information.
Phishing spam reported toSABRIC shows that perpetra-tors are soliciting card infor-mation through these emailsto make fraudulent onlinepurchases since these transac-tions do not require the pres-ence of the card nor the cardholder.
While this is not a newscam, it is becoming moreprevalent than before, saysKalyani Pillay, SABRIC’schief executive officer.
“It is clear that perpetratorsare now able to solicit morepersonal information frombank clients than was the casepreviously.
The content of the phishingemails is also changing regu-larly, and range from securitywarnings purporting to comefrom the bank to notificationsof bogus deposits into bankingaccounts,” she explains.
These shifts in trends signalserious changes in the phish-ing landscape, and she urgesbank clients to be extra vigi-lant with their personal infor-mation.
The information centre’s in-telligence indicates that per-sonal information is not limit-
ed to a client’s ID numbers orbank details.
Information such as bankstatements, credit card CVVnumbers, pay slips, cellphonenumbers and other similartypes of personal informationshould not be shared withoutgood reason.
Phishing emails targetinglocal bank clients have beenon the rise since late 2009, Pil-lay continues, with thenumber of phishing websitesspecifically designed for thispurpose detected and closedby the banks trebling in thefirst quarter of last year.SABRIC warns:
. Never respond to emailsappearing to be from yourbank that request your per-sonal details. No bank will ev-er ask you to confirm or up-date your account details viaemail.
. Never follow a link on amail to access your bank’swebpage. Access the webpageby physically typing the nameof the web address that youwere given when you signedup for internet banking inyour browser and confirmthat you are on a secure site bylooking for the “lock” icon onyour browser before loggingon.
. Never provide your on-line ID, password or PIN toanyone and never write them
down or share them – not evenwith a bank official.
. Do not save your internetbanking password on yourdesktop.
. Do not make your pass-words too personal.
Rather create passwordsthat have letters and numbersthat cannot be attributed toyou.
. Do not leave your compu-ter unattended after you haveentered your internet bankingpassword.
. Always log off or sign offat the end of a session.
. Avoid doing internetbanking in public areas suchas internet cafés, or on anycomputer that can be accessedby strangers.
. Change your PIN andpasswords frequently.
. Place sensible transactionlimits on your accounts.
. Ensure that you have thelatest anti-virus software ap-plications loaded on your com-puter, and make sure that youdownload all security patchesfor your operating system in atimely fashion.
. Only provide your creditcard details to reputable com-panies.
. Do not open emails fromunknown sources – deletethem immediately, even if thetitle and sender details appearto be related to your bank.
TAMMY PETERSEN
A “late mid-life crisis” and a desire tochange the lives of thousands of chil-dren affected by deformities has led toa social cyclist from Muizenbergputting his feet to the pedals of his sel-dom-used bicycle and setting off on a4 500 km tour from the Zimbabwe bor-der to Cape Town.
David Bristow, an author and formereditor of Getaway magazine, travelled toBeit Bridge on Wednesday 6 April andtwo days later, with a cool wind pushinghim along, started his life-changing ex-perience on Friday 8 April.
His cycling journey is in aid of Opera-tion Smile, an organisation that pro-vides free reconstructive surgery tochildren and adults with facial deformi-ties throughout southern and centralAfrica. Money raised will go towardsthe organisation’s R5 million fundrais-ing goal for the year.
Bristow, who says he is thoroughlyenjoying this “fantastic tour”, com-plained only of a “very sore backside”on Friday when People’s Post caught upwith him on day seven of his 50-day ex-pedition as he cycled through Magoe-baskloof. “This is such a life-changingexperience,” the 55-year-old says. “It isan awesome adventure, and whatmakes it even more rewarding is know-ing I am making a change in children’s
lives through this endeavour.”Bristow says the thought of the young
people who will benefit from the fundsraised during his trip inspires and moti-vates him to keep peddling.
“I was blessed with three beautiful,healthy children, and when I think ofthose crippled physically and emotion-ally, I realise why this experience is soimportant.
“I havealwaysbeen impressedbypeo-ple who raise money for charity, and itis such a rewarding feeling to be doingthe same.”
Bristow and his good friend, SteveThomas, from Pinelands, are also enjoy-ing their visits to local villages, wherethe people have been very accommodat-ing.
“It seems the simpler the area, thefriendlier the people,” he muses.
The “big guy” says that although hehas grown muscles in places he neverthought he could, the ride continues tobe exhilarating.
“I like doing unusual things and thisis definitely one of them. It’s somethingI will remember for the rest of my life.”
. Follow Bristow’s experience on hisblog, www.spineofthedragon.co.za, orvisit the Operation Smile Facebookpage for updates.
To make a donation to the organisa-tion, phone
(021) 481-9135.
Bargain book saleTHE Friends of Central Library (FO-CAL) will be holding a special “BargainSale of Books” on Saturday 7 May – justin time for Mother’s Day – at the CentralLibrary in Darling Street, Cape Town
from 09:00 to 14:00.There will also be a Cake and Cookie
sale.All proceeds will be going towards theCentral Library. Donations are needed.For more information or to make a dona-tion, contact the Book Room on (021) 467-1542.
THE Union of Jewish Women (UJW) will behosting the following Wednesday events at10:00 for 10:30.
. On 3 May, Bev Shaefer, DA ward candi-date for Sea Point, will talk on “A Celebra-tion of Failure”.
. On 11 May, Nikki Wohlman will talk on“Simcha: A Collage and History”.
. On 25 May, June Juritz will talk on“Yachting in Green Point in the 1890s: OneFamily’s Story”.
The venue is Stonehaven in Sea Point andentry costs R20. On Thursday 5 May theUJW’s Cape Town branch will hold an AGMat 15 On Orange, Orange Street, Cape Townat 09:30 for 10.00.
Parking will be available. Then on 5 Maythe Friendship Club lunch will take placeat Stonehaven at 12:30.
WANTED: The Western CapeHawks Commercial Crimes Unitrequests the assistance of thepublic in tracing 44yearoldAbigail Leonard, who is wantedfor various crimes. Leonardworked at a company in theBrackenfell area as a credit controller. According to the Hawks,she allegedly “used her positionto defraud the company andmisappropriate funds, gainingabout R2 million”. A warrant forher arrest has been issued onvarious charges, including fraud, theft and money laundering. Anyone with information on Leonard’s whereabouts can contact the investigating officer, Lieutenant Colonel De Villiers on(021) 9183568 or 083 708 3141.
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Take a world-class ride on the MyCiTi bus from the Airport to Cape Town for only R50.Buses depart from outside the terminal building every 20 minutes between 05:10 and 21:50
and will take you straight to the Civic Centre Station in the CBD.
For more information: Transport Information Centre (toll-free 24/7) 0800 65 64 63www.capetown.gov.za/myciti
PICK UP & GOPICK UP & GOTO TOWN.TO TOWN.
Experience biodiversity
Suport Bel Porto’s charity drive
THE Biodiversity Expo kicks off atthe Old Mutual Conference Centre atKirstenbosch on Thursday 5 May andruns until Sunday 8 May.
This free event is in its fourth yearand attracts participants and exhibi-tors who want to engage with visitorson conservation issues.
Schools can enjoy a host of fascinat-ing exhibits over the first two days,while the whole family can partici-pate in the weekend activities, learn-ing more about birdlife to wildlife,South Africa’s unique eco-systemsand flora to an overview of how biodi-versity affects all of us.
On Sunday 8 May a conservationadventure leads teams through thegarden to find unique treasures that
are the keys to biodiversity for the fu-ture.
There are prizes for the winningteams.
Apply before Friday 29 April by visit-ing www.biodiversityexpo.blogs-pot.com.
Following the adventure activitiesJungle Theatre will present their pro-duction Hoerikwaggo at 15:00 and theawarding of the prizes (and the treas-ures revealed) will take place at 16:00 toend the day (and the Expo) at 16:30.
Visit their blogspot for regular up-dates on www.biodiversityexpo.blogs-pot.com.
For more information go to [email protected] or www.san-bi.org.za.
LANSDOWNE’S Bel Porto School, whichspecialises in education for physicallyand mentally challenged youth, will behosting a golf day at the Kuils River GolfClub on Thursday 19 May.
A four-ball costs R1 200, and corporate
sponsorship is R2 500.For more information about the golf
day phone Judy Sobotker on (021) 697-2986 or 083 951 0294.
Alternatively, email [email protected].
Get hip hoppingTHE Cape Town Eisteddfod Hip Hop DanceCompetition will be taking place on Saturday 28and Sunday 29 May.
All “hip hoppers” are encouraged to join inon the action with substantial cash prizes up forgrabs in this new event.
For more information and for entry forms,contact Sharon on 082 563 1693 or email [email protected]
DID YOUKNOW that,for the 2011 lo-cal govern-ment elections, polls willtake place in 278 munici-palities nationwide? Thisis down from 283 in 2006.There are now eight met-ropolitan councils, 226 lo-cal councils and 44 dis-trict councils. –(www.sabcnews.co.za)
‘I’d rather pay for myson’s drugs than lose him’TAURIQ HASSEN
AT THE end of every month,a Factreton mother meets
her 17-year-old son on the frontstep of their house and handshim R1 000 from her salary tofeed his tik habit.
She says she gives him the moneybecause she cannot bear the effectwithdrawal has on him.
“It hurts me to see him the wayhe is when he is not using drugs,and while I do know that the drugswill hurt him even more, he is mybaby and I will not lose him to any-thing.”
The woman has three sons, agedbetween 17 and 28, four nephews,aged between 19 and 27, three bro-thers, aged between 24 and 42, allliving under the same roof. Theyare all addicted to various drugs.
In the beginning of the year, hertwo oldest sons left home and joinedgangs in order to feed their drug
habits. In her three-bedroom housethereare several padlocksguardingcupboard doors, and multiple lockscan be seen on each door around thehouse.
Valuable belongings are hiddenin every corner of the house tomake sure these items are not soldoff for money to buy drugs.
“Nothing is safe in this house, be-cause you can wake up tomorrowand find that your whole kitchenwas carried away during the night,just so that they can get their nextfix,” says the woman.
The mother says she literallytook the battle to the streets, fight-ing off drug peddlers and mer-chants, gangs on the corner andthieves attempting to steal from herhome.
“This was my life and I fought formychildren’s safety, but it’s too latenow, because they are all way toodeep in it and I don’t believe thereis a way out for them,” says themother.
Her attempts to steer herfamily away from the druglife were all in vain. Shesays she has now reacheda point of “not caring”.
“If this is the life they
choose to live, then there is nothingmore I can do but support their hab-its, as I don’t want to lose my lastchild and any more family mem-bers,” she says, a tear rolling downher face.
In the past, she sent all three sonsand two nephews for rehabilitationat various clinics around CapeTown, but says: “The minute theyreturn to this area they go back totheir old state or end up not even at-tending these clinics for help, so I’mforced to stop caring.”
Dale Sampson, a former socialworker in the Factreton area,worked with teenagers addicted todrugs and his story echoes the painfelt by this Factreton mother.
Last year, he says, he had fourcases in the area, where it was re-quired of him to assess the livingconditions of the family.
One particular case was “trulyshocking” and made him under-stand the difficulties many young-sters face today.
“I arrived at the home and foundpeople dealing drugs right in theopen. Upon entering the house,there were three people using drugsin the living room, with four morefamily members smoking dagga in
the back yard,” says Sampson.The people in the living room did
not even notice that there was astranger in their home.
Sharon Alexander, social workerat the Shawco Community Centrein Kensington, said drug use re-mains a “major problem in the ar-ea”.
“There have been no changes inthe situation and drug dealers arestill dealing on a large scale,” saysAlexander.
In the past, Alexander had sever-al meetings with the local Commu-nity Police Forum and KensingtonPolice, but is sad to see the drugtrade increasing despite such ef-forts.
“The people, especially the chil-dren are easily influenced and be-come quickly hooked on the drugs,”says Alexander.
Colonel Natasha Thomas, stationcommander at the Kensington Po-lice Station, also regards the drugproblem as “very serious”.
“The drug problem, especiallyaround teenagers, is very serious inthe area, but we are doing every-thing we can to address the prob-lem,” says Thomas.
She confirmed that during last
year, arrests for drug-related crimeincreased by 13,3% in the 2010/2011financial year. The KensingtonSAPS are now working closely withthe area’s Community Police Fo-rum. They are currently initiatingtwo projects which will see first-time offenders (youths found in pos-session of drugs) referred to com-munity organisations for help, andthe Adopt a Family project, wherechurches and mosques in the areaare encouraged to work with, andsupport, families who are affectedby drug abusers in the household.
“Members of the community areencouraged to work with Kensing-ton SAPS and CPF to collectivelyaddress the problem in this commu-nity,” says Thomas.
She says police officers are con-ducting several operations in theprecinct to address the drug prob-lem at different times during theyear. “This constitutes the execu-tion of search warrants and alsostop and search operations,” Tho-mas explained.
Members of the public are en-couraged to contact the station on(021) 594-7020 or radio control on10111 or Crime Stop on 086 001 0111to report any illegal drug activity.
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GREEN LOOT: SAPS Flying Squad membersarrested two suspects in possession of 24boxes of dagga in the Epping industrial areaon Thursday 21 April at 09:30. The arrestfollowed a tipoff from a member of the community. Shortly after the call, police spottedthe yellow Isuzu truck in Gunner’s Circle,where it was searched. Police found the boxes crammed with dagga worth an estimatedR550 000. They arrested the driver and hispassenger, aged 25 and 31 respectively,both from Nyanga, for possession of drugs.They will appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court today. Police urge the community to report all illegal activities at theirnearest police station, or on the tollfreenumber 08600 10111. With the contrabandis Western Cape Flying Squad member, Constable Arietta Williams. Photo: Captain Piet Smit
THE public can now comment on the Cityof Cape Town’s new Early Childhood De-velopment (ECD) policy.
Thenewly revisedECDdraft policyaimsto address all the aspects of establishingECD centres and is applicable to all ECDcentres.
“The new draft policy states the sameminimum standards and policy state-ments should apply city-wide and acrossdifferent income groups,” says BrianWatkyns, chairperson of the City’s plan-ning and environment portfolio commit-tee (Pepco).
The policy provides planning and landuse management guidelines for the estab-lishing of ECD centres, health and safetystandards, information on the operationalmanagement of these facilities and guid-ance as to what assistance the Departmentof Social Development will give to thesecentres after they have been approved.
James Vos, councillor and chairpersonof the City’s health portfolio committee,says the policy aims to ensure children’sneeds are met at all ECD centres across theCape metropole.
Although the application and registra-tion process for ECD centres is dealt withby the Department of Social Development,various City departments give their input.
These departments include health, fireand rescue services, as well as the depart-ment of planning and building develop-ment management.
Comments on the draft policy will be ac-cepted until 17 May.
The draft policy can be downloaded atwww.capetown.gov.za or can be forward-ed by email upon request to [email protected].
Hard copies are available for viewing atall subcouncil offices, district planning,health and social development offices andpublic libraries.
TWO top DJs will bring the housedown at club Galaxy in Rylands onThursday 5 May when they joinforces for the second time.
DJ Fresh and Euphonik havejoined forces and became one of thehottest acts in South Africa betterknown as F.eU – Fresh plus Eu-phonik equals F.eU.
Based on the hot success of 2010soriginal F.eU release of the samename, Soul Candi Records deliversF.eU Too with more “hot house an-thems and fresh sounds, flawlesslymixed by the two maestros of theirgenre”.
Combining original materialwith tracks from fellow local Houseplayers and international House gi-ants, the mixes bring relevant andmuch sought-after tracks straightfrom the clubs to the home.
The first instalment of the F.eUbrand saw gold sales almost in-stantly and F.eU Too is tipped foreven bigger sales figures basedpurely on the powerful track list-ing.
Live, these two are “phenome-nal”, bringing the art of perform-ance back to DJing.
Previously, the two DJs haveopened massive doors with the Ul-timix at six feature on Fresh’s 5FMdrive time radio show.
With a brand new album about todrop and a huge tour in April, thetwo are once again all about thebusiness of music.
Digging deep into their recordboxes, Fresh and Euphonik bringthe finest tracks to the people asthey embark on this second instal-ment.
The show will start at 23:00 andentry is R60 per person.
All ladies enter free until 22:00.For more information call Gal-
axy on (021) 637-9132.
Second chance for failed matricsMELISSA PAPIER
THE Metro South Education District(MSED) of the Western Cape EducationDepartment (WCED) has announced itsplans to assist Grade 12 pupils whofailed last year.
The MSED said last Wednesday that thedepartment will be rolling out a pro-gramme to encourage unsuccessful 2010matriculants to successfully completetheir matric this year as full-time candi-dates.
Glen van Harte, the MSED curriculummanager, says the district’s matric passrate last year was 76%.
“This means that 1 600 pupils failed to re-ceive their matric certificate. What wefound was that many of these pupils failedby 1% to 3% and we can’t afford to let thesepupils slip through the system.
“It is our view in the district that we mustallow these pupils a second chance at obtain-ing this precious certificate,” he said.
This opportunity is only for pupils withinthe Metro South District, which includesMitchell’s Plain, Lower Crossroads, Philippi,Nyanga, Brown’s Farm, Retreat, Lotus River,Grassy Park, Wynberg, Lavender Hill, FishHoek, Ocean View, Masiphumelele, Kom-metjie, Noordhoek, Sun Valley and Wynberg.
Former pupils wanting to participate inthis programme must:
. Commit themselves to a full-time studyprogramme for 2011.
. Commit to attending tutorial sessionsduring the holidays and on selected Satur-days and after school.
. Attend all lessons regularly without ab-sence.
. Work closely with Dr John Gibbon, whois the district’s programme manager.
“The district will support all pupils in
achieving this goal. We will purchase thenecessary stationery and textbooks for pu-pils in addition to supplying pupils withgood teachers and tutors.
“Because some learners are waiting forthe supplementary examination results –which will be available on 3 and 4 May –we will be meeting with all interestedlearners at a later stage,” he said.
The meeting will place on Sunday 8 Mayand Monday 9 May at the Lentegeur Hospi-tal Auditorium and the Ottery Hall, situat-edat theOtteryYouthCareCentre, at 10:00.
“While the year for matriculants is near-ing the half-way mark, we are confidentthat with the right attitude and our sup-port pupils will not only pass, but will dowell enough to continue studying further.It is never too late to start a good practice.”
For more information call Edith Leemanon (021) 370-2066 or email [email protected].
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Thank you for the music, Green DolphinGARY VAN DYK
WHENpianistAndrewLilleyplays the last chord on the
stage of the Green Dolphin Res-taurant in the Waterfront on Sat-urday night, or early on Sundaymorning, the end of an era closesfor the music scene in CapeTown.
Jazz lovers in the city, South Afri-ca and across the world are stillcoming to terms with the closure ofthis landmark venue, where jazzhas been performed since its ope-ning in 1990, and many major starson the local scene took their firsttentative steps into musical ca-reers.
For me this venue will alwayshave special memories, fromwatching The Four Sounds performin safety helmets to launch the ven-ue while building was still inprogress, to hosting various show-cases of young talents that went onto become giants in the industry.
While the legends of SA jazz hadtheir time on this stage – and thereis even a list of international starsthat were there – for me the high-light will always remain their focuson fostering the next generation ofjazz cats that were rising through
the ranks. Gavin Minter was in theforefront of making this all happenway back in about 1998 when helaunched the various showcases ofyoung talent that were featured intheir wintry Wednesday night ses-sions.
This is where I had the joy of in-troducing talents that were to riseto the top of their profession. A shyJudith Sephuma singing her wayinto our hearts, Jimmy Dludluworking his way through some be-bop chops, Mark Fransman mes-merising us with his piano skill,and the “boy band” of jazz at thetime, Breakfast Included (two ofthem are now Goldfish), taking usinto what young people really want-ed from their music.
This trend was to continue for aslong as there was a sponsor waitingin the wings to support this initia-tive, and in recent years we got tosee some sounds coming from be-yond the music students from thecolleges but some real sounds fromthe heart of the Cape Flats.
Here you got to hear some realCape flavours from people like gui-tarists Lorendo Brown and JuliusMay, Delft’s Donveno Prins blew upa storm with many bands on theshowcases, the ESP band from Stel-lenbosch showed us that the wine-
lands was producing some greatsounds to go with the wines of theregion, and a young bassist, Jonath-an Rubain, made his bass talk andtell tales of how this music couldempower our youth.
Look at the life of guitarist Cam-eron Ward, starting out with thegroup Inkhokeli from the flats inOttery: he is now the guitarist tour-ing the world with Hugh Masekela.
There are just too many similarstories and these few words will notbe able to do justice to what thisvenue has meant to all the musi-cians who graced that small stage.
I would also like to thank RalphSchulman for his passion to keepthis sound alive, and his interestwhen he was there to share in a newsound making its debut at a show-case.
And, his constant support whenthe venue was needed to raise mon-ey for a musician in need.
If you want to catch the last fewperformances at this venue, theDave Ledbetter trio is there tomor-row, singer Nomfundo Xaluva onThursday, Mas Que Nada on Fridaynight, and Andrew Lilley on Satur-day with a jam session to end it all.
While there is all this sadness,let’s remember that there is a glim-mer of hope that there are plans to
open at another location. We’ll waitand see and remember the words ofthe song that inspired this venue:
Lover, one lovely dayLove came, planning to stayGreen Dolphin Street supplied
the setting
The setting for nights beyond for-getting
And through, these momentsapart memories live in my heart
When I recall the love I found onI could kiss the ground onGreen Dolphin Street.
BLISTERING: Bassist Jonathan Rubain is a blur of musical excitement withCameron Ward on guitar and sax man DonVeno Prins in one of the showcasesat the Green Dolphin. Photo: Gary van Dyk
Final note forGreen DolphinVERNA VAN DIEMEN
THE V&A Waterfront manage-ment is considering alternativeoptions – including a music ve-nue – for the space occupied bythe Green Dolphin Jazz Restau-rant, which closes at the end ofthis month.
According to the Waterfront,the Green Dolphin managementdecided not to renew its lease.
Emma King, spokesperson forthe Waterfront said: “The res-taurant’s current lease ends atthe end of this month, and thereare no discussions under way re-garding a new contract.”
When contacted by People’sPost, Green Dolphin Jazz Res-taurant owner Ralph Schulman,said: “I cannot comment on whythe venue is closing down.
The negotiations are at a sen-sitive stage and if I say anythingit could put a spanner in theworks.”
Schulman would not confirmwho he was in negotiations with.The only absolute informationhe gave was that the entertain-ment spot would close its doorsat the end of the month.
“This venue will definitelyclose,” he said.
In a press release, the Water-front hinted that the decrease inbusiness had been the cause ofthe decision.
King said: “The Green Dol-phin has had a long and success-ful history at the V&A Water-front and for many years wasCape Town’s pre-eminent jazzvenue.
“Over the years however, the
public has seen many other en-tertainment offerings openacross Cape Town, and this,along with changing tastes, hasmeant that this iconic restau-rant is not the drawcard it oncewas.”
King said they have not madeany decision on who will behoused in the venue.
“We are looking at options. Ithas not been decided who willlease the place and we cannotspeculate.”
Schulman would not saywhether the closure had any-thing to do with the recent saleof the Waterfront.
The new owners are Growth-point and state investment or-gan, the Public Investment Cor-poration (PIC), who bought thesizeable piece of real estate forR10 billion just a few years aftera Dubai-based consortium ac-quired it for R7 billion.
Gavin Minter, Green Dol-phin’s entertainment manager,told People’s Post: “I’m not sureif you realise the impact this willhave on our local and nationalmusic lovers and musicians.
“Speaking to musicians andlisteners over the past monthhas made me realise how impor-tant this venue has been to themusic industry.
“Besides a few hotel and res-taurant type venues, there willbeno jazz clubavailable forCapeTown musicians to ply theirtrade and earn a living from.”
The final performance on Sat-urday 30 April will feature theAndrew Lilley Trio, who alsoopened the venue 20 years ago.
SPOILT GUESTS: The UCT RAG annual Golf Day in aid of SHAWCO was held on Friday 15 April at the RondeboschGolf Club to raise awareness and funds for the organisation. UCT RAG is a studentrun organisation thatserves as the fundraising arm of SHAWCO (The Students’ Health And Welfare Centres Organisation), whichis the largest studentbased volunteer organisation in the southern hemisphere. At the Golf Day the playerswere treated to goodies to the value of R160 000. Photo: Supplied
TEE OFF: Volunteers and trustees of TheFriends ofValkenbergTrust at a charity golf day insupport of patients and staffat ValkenbergPsychiatricHospital. Seventytwo golfers took part inthe “MentalHealth Day”event atRondeboschGolf Club onThursday 14April. According to the trust, a 2007 study by the Medical Research Council says that, in any one year, one in six South Africanssuffers from a mental illness – the most common being anxiety, depression and alcohol abuse. The funds raisedwill be channelled into volunteer projects to bring hope and comfort to patients and to increase their chancesof a permanent return to health. Phone (021) 4472092 or email [email protected]. Photo: Supplied
New singers sought for prestigious choirTHE Philharmonia Choir of CapeTown, a prestigious oratorio choir,is seeking new singers in all voiceparts, especially tenor.
The choir’s programme for thesecond half of 2011 comprises per-formances of Sir Edward Elgar’s
great oratorio, “The Dream ofGerontius”, on Thursday 4 August,and of Johannes Brahms’ “GermanRequiem”, on Thursday 24 Novem-ber. In both cases the performanceswill form part of the official concertseries of the Cape Philharmonic Or-
chestra. Auditions for prospectivenew members will be held on Satur-day 30 April and Saturday 7 May.
Applicants should contact Di vander Westhuizen by emailing [email protected] or call (021) 788-5159 to make an appointment.
Decipher the Rosetta StoneJONATHON DOWNS willspeak on “Discovery at Roset-ta: The Sword and the Stone”at thenextmeetingof theUni-versity of the Third AGE
(U3A) Cape Town at the Bax-ter on Thursday 28 April at10:00 for 10:30.
For more information call(021) 531-5604.
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The return of Krismis Makeover for FugardA NEW production of “Krismis vanMap Jacobs” will be presented inthe Artscape Theatre from 3 to 14May, starting at 10:00 in the morn-ings for schools.
The play is an adaptation by Dav-id Kramer of Adam Small’s novel.
This work, which is the Afri-kaans setwork for Grade 12 learn-ers, is set against the backdrop offorced removals to the Cape Flatsin the early 1970s.
After seven years in prison,feared gang leader, Map Jacobs, iseligible for parole and the questionon everybody’s lips is whether Maphas changed or not.
The play examines the pain andgrief of that period and also looksat the “good times” people had be-fore the “big days”.
This new production is directedby well-known theatre man, AlfredRietmann, who has also designedthe set. Rietmann has designed forproductions in the Artscape NewWriting Programme and receivedFleur du Cap nominations for theproductions of “A Circus Side
Show” and “The Tent”.“Krismis van Map Jacobs” fea-
turespopular actor,ChristoDavids,in the lead role, with Cedywn Joel,Royston Stoffels, Charlton George,Ferdinand Williams, Shameelah Is-mael, David Johnson, VaneshreeLingham, Jackie van der Heever
and Loukmaan Adams.Costume design is by Illka Louw
and lighting design by NicholasTilney.
Bookings for the show can bemade at Computicket or contact theArtscape Dial-a-Seat on (021) 421-7695.
GOING THROUGH CHANGES: Christo Davids in the lead role of Map Jacobs.
THE Fugard Theatre is re-placing all its existing seatingwith new theatre-style indi-vidual seats.
The work will be completedin time for the two live per-formances of Vusi Mahlaselaon Friday 29 April and Satur-day 30 April, and the openingnight of Athol Fugard’s newplay, “The Bird Watchers” onSunday 10 May, which Fu-gard is directing. Rehearsalsare in full swing at the thea-tre.
General manager, DanielGalloway, says: “It is a signif-icant outlay, but one whichwe hope will bring a level ofcomfort to our audience andenhance their enjoyment ofproductions at The Fugard.I’d like to think they willmatch this gesture by comingmore regularly.”
The Fugard Theatre is alsoinstalling a high definitionprojection and cinema sur-round sound system thisweek to match their new
seats.This new initiative launch-
es The Fugard Theatre Bio-scope. Galloway says that, inthe run-up to Athol Fugardbeing presented a LifetimeAchievement Tony Award onJune 12, The Fugard TheatreBioscope has scheduled aweek of screenings of filmsbased on his works, from“Boesman & Lena” and “TheGuest” to “Tsotsi”.
“We will be hosting film fes-tivals and presenting themedfilm showcases of our ownthroughout the year.
On Monday 13 June wehope to be able to screen, freeto all Friends of The Fugard,television coverage of theTony Awards ceremonywhere we can gather to cele-brate Athol in style,” saidGalloway.
Bookings can be made onwww.computicket.com.
Alternatively by phoningthe Fugard Theatre Box Of-fice on (021) 461-4554.
Learning is key at LofobMELISSA LE ROUX
THE League of the Friends of the Blind(Lofob) in Grassy Park held a specialevent on Tuesday 19 April to thank to PepStores for a generous R40 000 donation.
Established in the 1930s, Lofob has dedicat-ed decades of service to blind and partially-sighted people of all ages.
At the event, held at Lofob, guests were giv-en a sneak preview of the latest equipmentthat had been bought using the Pep donation.
The equipment will be used as part of theEarly Childhood Development (ECD) pro-grammeto further enrich the lives of blindand partially-sighted children.
The ECD programme followsthe same for-mat as that taught to children at a regular pre-school; however, the pupils’ lessons will betaught in braille.
“Education is key – it is still a part of ourmission and part of all the work that we dohere,” says Lofob executive director, PhilipBam. ECD teacher, Benita Petersen, adds:
“One of the most important objectives inthe programme is developing a child, to gethim or her ready for school.
“We need to instil the importance of brailleintochildren at an early age. They have con-versations, they spell words – it’s all part oflearning.”
Sadley Martin(left) and hiswife Valdela,from GrassyPark.
Some of the people who were at the Lofob event included, from left, Kareldu Plessis, from Lotus River, Alvin Witten, from Pinelands, and Jean Williamsfrom Heathfield.
James deGouveia fromDurbanvilleand MacBam fromGrassy Park.
From left, Franklin Farmer, from Plumstead, Cara Cato, from Kenilworth, and Gildo Michelitsch, from Camps Bay.
Visual theatre company turns sixOBSERVATORY-basedvisual theatre companyFrom The Hip: Khu-lumakahle (FTH:K) cele-brated its sixth birthdayat the Kwalapa OrganicsWholefoods Centre in theMontebello Design Cen-tre in Newlands Avenue,Newlands.
The event was held onTuesday 19 April andguests enjoyed snacks,drinks and a specially-made FTH:K birthdaycake, as well as perform-ances by FTH:K’s train-ees.
FTH:K combined thebirthday celebrationswith its annual generalmeeting and the compa-ny’s committee gave feed-back on some of the high-lights of the previousyear, including winningthe Fleur du Cap andStandard Bank Ovationawards.
JOLLY GOODFELLOWS:Members ofthe FTH:K theatre companywith the cakethat was madeto celebratethe occasion.Photo: LizeMarieMoller
CELEBRATION:ThobekileMbanda, Mzingisi Diwu, Nodumo Sameand Cara Loening at theFTH:K birthdayparty at theKwalapa Organics Wholefoods Centre.Photo: Christine Skinner
ALL SMILES:Michelle Busch,Tanya Surtees andCharles Kieck atthe FTH:K birthdayevent which washosted on Tuesday19 April.
PARTY: FTH:Ktheatre companytrainee membersMarlon Snyders,Sinethemba Mgebisa, ChristopherBeukes and TomriSteyn enjoy thecompany’s sixthbirthday party.Photo: Christine Skinner
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Mystery reality show shot in Tokai
Calling on graffiti artists
Rest and unwind
LIAM MOSES
BEING trapped in an aban-doned mental hospital for
two days and subjected to strenu-ousmentalandphysical testsmayseem like a nightmare to mostpeople, but 12 Cape Town resi-dents volunteered for it.
A reality show called “Whodun-nit?” saw contestants overcomingmental and physical challenges towin R1 000, bragging rights and pos-sibly fame, should the show be takenup by a television station.
“Whodunnit?” is a cross betweenthe reality television series “Survi-vor” and a murder mystery role playin which one competitor is the “kill-er” while the other 11 try to stayalive and follow clues to solve thecase.
Director Jacques Brown says thecontestants were removed fromtheir comfort zones and tested inevery way during filming.
“I think it was very challengingfor the contestants,” says Brown.
“It was emotionally, physicallyand physiologically challenging be-cause they didn’t have comfortablebeds to sleep in, there weren’t anydoors or windows in the asylum andthey had difficult tests to complete.”
The show was filmed in the aban-doned mental asylum in Tokai For-est, and contestants faced challengessuch as paintball wars, an archerycompetition and freeing themselvesafter being tied up. The challengewinners received either a clue tohelp them find the killer or “safe
house” status, which granted themimmunity from the killer and theright to choose the next victim.
According to Brown, the show’sunusual format and unique cinema-tography make it unlike any realityshow seen in South Africa.
“I think it’s exciting and differentto other reality shows,” said Brown.
“I don’t want to give too muchaway, but I’ll say that the way weshot it is different to what people willsee in other reality series. The othershows are just focused on the con-testants. It will be more interestingvisually.”
Brown says the show was madeeven more riveting by the fact thatviewers could try and work out whothe killer was while watching thecontestants compete.
“I think people should watch it be-cause they can try to figure it out
themselves and they can watch thecontestants as they try to do thesame thing.”
The entire programme was filmedon a budget of R5 000.
Brown and his co-producer, ChrisSpinas, have not yet approached anybroadcasters to air the show but areconfident about finding a channelonce they have edited all 11 episodes.
This is the second version of“Whodunnit?” to be filmed. The orig-inal was filmed and aired in the USin 2010 by Cody McCollum, a friendof Spinas. McCollum then allowedSpinas and Brown to film the seriesas long as they called the show by thesame name and used the same themesong.
Visit their website on www.who-dunitsa.yolasite.com for more infor-mation on the show or the contest-ants.
THE LINEUP: The contestants on “Whodunit”, (back row): Kyle Bedingfield, Billings Siwila, Charlie Manner, an actor known only as Bingo, Bertrand Logan, Richard Slater and Inger Jansen. Front row: Bianca Kaltwasser, Astralita Dreyer, Sebastian Owen Murray, Tarryn Sessions and MatthewBernstein. Photo: Roche Pienaar
THE Arthritis Foundation ishosting a breakaway trip toGoudini Spa from Monday 30May to Friday 3 June.
The tickets cost R850,which includes accommoda-tion and transport. Therewill be hydrotherapy ses-sions and education on ar-
thritis during the week. Tosecure your seat pay a R200deposit into Standard Bankaccount 270922210 WCBranch, then fax deposit slipto (021) 421-7330 and pay offthe balance by the end ofMay.
For more information con-tact Julie on 079 238 5927 orNimo on (021) 696-8879.
HANDS OF HONOUR, a non-profit organisation operat-ing on the Cape Flats, is look-ing for an aspiring or estab-lished graffiti artist to painttheir logo onto a 3x3 metrewall.
Their mission is to restorehonour, dignity and self-worth to those who havebeen adversely affected bypast injustices and present
economic downturn alongwith its various social illslikepoverty, unemployment,crime and substance abuse.
There is a chance that thiswork will receive exposurein the mainstream mediaand will also feature on theirwebsite. Anybody interestedcan contact Paul on072 138 9150 or [email protected].
Cast your special voteVOTERS will be able to cast a special vote in the munici-pal elections for the first time.
The application process for special votes opened on Friday15 April, and will run until Wednesday 3 May at 17:00.
South African citizens whose names appear on the Voters’Roll but cannot vote on election day at the voting station inthe voting district where they are registered, qualify for aspecial vote.Votershave to apply for a special vote – inperson– at a local Municipal Electoral Officer or someone else cansubmit the application on their behalf.
Those applicants who cannot vote on Wednesday 18 Maywill cast their special votes on Monday 16 May between 08:00and 17:00 at the voting station in the voting district wherethey are registered.
Those who are physically infirm or disabled will be visitedby IEC staff on 16 or 17 May at their homes. Voters may onlyvote in the voting district where they are registered.
For more information contact the Independent ElectoralCommission’s on its tollfree number 080 011 8000.
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. I fully support Mr Osman Shaboodi-en’s views on “we want alcohol-freeBo-Kaap” but doesn’t the illegal saleof alcohol in the area known as “TheKraal” also need urgent attention?Brian
. In response to the disqualifica-tion of our youth in the “Dallas Cup”in the USA. Apart from the weak ad-min on the organiser’s side for thistournament, the American embassycould have expedited the Visa appli-cation. They are too occupied sortingout who is a terrorist and who is not.It is one of the worst countries to ap-ply for a Visa, unlike South Africawhere it is so easy for foreigners to en-ter our borders with a smile and mostnot even requiring a visa. Huge blameshould be placed on the embassy. Playyour tournaments in other countries
where you are appreciated. Cader. I wonder how many of the volun-
tary posts which the IEC advertisesactually go to the unemployed? I’veseen many well-paid so called “publicservants” working at these stations.How much brain power would it re-quire to count votes or mark a fingerwith a marker! Who is the IEC tryingto fool? A Waterwitch
. Who are our local councillors?Perhaps their names should be pub-lished. Another suggestion or requestis to list and publish contact detailsfor the reporting of the abuse of stateresources, for example law enforce-ment vehicles parked for hours eachday and night at a residence thenwhen needed for a call-out one is toldthat there are no vehicles available!Another is the reporting of speedingvehicles, trucks and buses in a resi-dential area. Fed up
. You get good and bad landlords
and tenants. Funny thing is how peo-ple accept any place and rules, butwhen they can’t pay rent, they cryfoul. Consumer
. Pick n Pay tells you R1 equals onepoint on their Smart Card. However,they lie because you get 1 point perR100 spent. So generous!
. The return on the Pick n Pay cardis R1 per R100 spent. So its R10 for eve-ry R100 rand spent. The benefits arenot similar to what Clicks offers, rath-er it’s money for nothing. So why dopeople complain? Lucille
. Tony Robinson says he’s “not im-pressed” with people who “look forevidence to support their particularview”, and then tells us to “just Goog-le” his latest prejudice.
It takes more than one
Your SMSes
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Apology
RESPONDING to the letter(“We welcome the flats”, Peo-ple’s Post, 19 April).
I understand your point ofview, for I have garbage flyinginto my yard and even rats andwitness men doing their dailynecessities there or smokingtik. It is of course much worsefor me. I am supposed to havea guest room on the back.
I get the discouraging feel-ing that the owners are usingthe garbage argument againstus and we should definitelynot be blackmailed into ac-cepting abuildingwhichwedonot agree with because of theirnon-compliance with regula-tions.
We do not say no to anybuilding. We are asking themto first take us into considera-tion in all aspects.
That is effectively happen-ing right now.
I also have spoken repeated-ly to Bennie Venter at theHealth Department of theCouncil, having previouslysummoned the owner, JohnMeddick, to clean his dump.That it is also known to thepeople who are involved in lo-cal matters.
His email is [email protected] and Iwould gladly be backed byemails from other neighbours,especially those on Lion
Street, as he does feel very con-cerned by the health hazard andthat would help him in havinghis department take action incleaning and fencing the area.
In the meantime, the dumpmust be dealt with, I agree. Addi-tionally, I have really tried mybest to change the situation withthe kids on the corner. As theNeighbourhood Watch wellknows, I was even night-patrol-ling with the men for a while. Ithas actually gotten better as faras I know, with other mothers al-so getting involved last year inkeeping an eye on the muggingsthat used to affect school kids.
And actually, I do watch thatno vagrants settle there. No laterthan yesterday did I phone thepolice to inform them about thecrazy man who lately spends hisnights wacking a tree under ourwindows!
Unfortunately it takes morethan one person to stop theneighbours or others fromdump-ing and nobody has been finedyet because of lack of implica-tion. The main thing responsibleis lack of respect from those whodump and as for the kids, it istheir difficulty integrating intoadulthood. Communication andaction are required, but blocks offlats surely won’t change ourquality of life.JOANNA TOMKINSBo-Kaap resident
ARE you not ashamed of taking ourmoney and in return showing us pu-trid programmes? It gets worse astime goes on. And they are all repeats.Before, it was only on one channelthat all the South African local junkwas shown, but now it’s on every sta-tion. From 18:00 to midnight there isonly one show per night that is worthwatching on four nights a week. Whymust we also be bombarded with
wrestling every night? There are nonew movies; what is shown is fromyears ago and sometimes as old as amonth. Why all the repeats?
I assure you we do not suffer fromAlzheimer’s, not remembering whatwe have seen over and over again.
What has happened to “Law & Or-der” – SABC 3, “Silk Stalkings” – etv,“Cheaters” – etv, “Desperate House-wives” – SABC 3, “Medium” –
SABC 2, “Without a Trace” – SABC 2,“Ghost Whisperers” – SABC 2,“Judge Joe Brown” – SABC 1, “TheAmazing Race” SABC 3, to name buta few shows.
Please, the money we pay is not foryour luxury cars and dwellings, butfor decent shows.
I definitely will not be paying anyTV licence until such time that I seesome of our good shows are broughtback. Local rubbish should be free.VG BEHRENSPinelands
LAST week’s Treknet cartoongave the impression that a per-son named “Gamat” was under
the influence of alcohol. While itwas not the intention of the car-toonists,
People’s Post apologises for of-fence that may have been causedto Muslim readers.
Historic holidayTOMORROW (Wednesday) South Africanswill celebrate Freedom Day, a historic day fora country and people once divided along ra-cial lines.
Seventeen years ago, people of colour werenot allowed to vote and were subjected to op-pressive minority rule. They were forced tolive, fight and die in inferior areas and evict-ed from their homes. Barren District 6 is a tes-timony to the atrocities that characterisedApartheid.
Not all welcomed the changes that usheredin a new order while some elected to forgetthe pain of the past, focusing instead on thejoy and hope of the present.
Part of the present is the younger genera-tion, and it is both good and sad that theymissed out on the unrest of the ’70s and ’80s.Good, because many youth like them losttheir lives in the liberation struggle, and sadbecause today’s youth seem to lack a true ap-preciation for the privileges that come so ea-sily to them. They take for granted the privi-lege of having the political freedom to livewhere they wish, the privilege of attendingschools with world-class sports and academicfacilities and the privilege of having equal ac-cess to jobs. Sadly, most do not know enoughof our country’s troubled political past to tru-ly value what they have.
Of greater concern though, and an irony, isthat while we have the freedom our constitu-tion and a democratic government afford us,we are not really free. How can we be whenpoverty, unemployment, crime and violenceon women and children headline our exis-tence?
This should be the burning question as wereflect on our freedom tomorrow, as we standunited in celebration of all that we’veachieved; of what we’ve shown the world, andourselves. And so we should celebrate Free-dom Day by also honouring the unsung he-roes – the community workers and the police– who fight daily to ease poverty, joblessnessand crime.
EARLIER this month, Julius Malema,ANC Youth League president, accusedDA leader Helen Zille of “dancing like amonkey” to get votes from the electorate.
Keeping such a keen eye on her moves,
Malema must have sat up and taken notewhen he heard that a field mouse hadscampered up Zille’s leg under her jeanswhen she visited his home town, Seshegoin Polokwane, on Thursday.
For Malema, the puzzle about HelenZille’s dancing might be solved and hemay now have one less wonder to ponderabout her before laying his head to restat night.
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Baboon protectorsto monitor humansDALEEN FOUCHÉ
A GENEROUS private donation is thedriving force behind a new initiative
by the Baboon Liason Group (BLG), toprotect the Chacma baboons in the south-ern Cape Peninsula.
Apart from financing additional babooncollars, the R100 000 donation by a Cape Towncouple will help fund the Baboon ProtectorProject which will help Western Cape envi-ronmental authority, CapeNature, enforcenew legislation, in terms of an amendmentmade to the Nature Conservation Ordinance19 of 1974.
The amendment prohibits the public fromfeeding baboons in any space – private orpublic.
CapeNature has not initiated a single pros-ecution in terms of the new or the old legisla-tion, mainly due to a lack of available infor-mation which would allow it to successfullydo so.
Fanie Bekker, director of CapeNature, be-lieves that things are about to change withthe help of the new Baboon Protector Project.
The BLG, made up of civic and ratepayers’associations from areas affected by baboons,has worked with the Nature ConservationCorporation (NCC), the service providertasked with baboon management on the CapePeninsula to design the prototype of the Ba-boon Protector Project.
“Baboon Protectors” are to focus on keep-ing members of the public away from wildbaboons and are to inform them about ba-boon behaviour and the consequences of“foolhardy” interactions. Two baboon moni-tors employed by the NCC have been selectedto become Baboon Protectors, and have al-ready received training in law enforcementand communications.
They have also been equipped with a cell-phone and a camera to record and report dif-ficult situations.
If this pilot project is successful, it couldbe rolled out into other problem areas, suchas the Tokai Forest.
Dr Lesley Shackleton, who represents theSimon’s Town Civic Association (STCA) onthe BLG, says the Baboon Protectors have
been trained to identify people feeding ba-boons and trace eyewitnesses, which willhelp CapeNature prosecute such perpetra-tors.
The project has already been launched andthere is one Baboon Protector on duty fromdawn to dusk every day.
They will be stationed in the Miller’s Pointand Smitswinkel Bay area for four months.
This area is a popular spot visited by tour-ists, and is infamous for car raiding by ba-boons. The Smitswinkel Bay troop’s allegedalpha male, Fred, was recently euthanised.
The relevant authorities, the City of CapeTown, CapeNature and Table Mountain Na-tional Park, said at the time that Fred’s ag-gressive behaviour and his ability to opencar doors, led to his demise.
“This is what we hope to avoid,” says DrGraham Noble, chairperson of the BLG, “andthe way to do this is to educate people thatbaboons are wild animals. People and ba-boons must be kept at a distance from eachother,” he says.
Bekker says CapeNature “strongly sup-ports” this initiative. “The protectors will beour eyes and ears on the ground.”
He says the current problem with enfor-cing the new legislation prohibiting feedingof baboons, is that people who phone with tip-offs do not have enough information for Cap-eNature to follow up on.
But, he maintains the Baboon Protectorshave now been trained to source this infor-mation.
Bekker is confident that the initiative willbe a success, adding that after a trial period,the authorities will aim to raise money topossibly even roll out the project to other hot-spots.
The Baboon Protector wears a distinctiveorange vest, which distinguishes him fromthe monitors. The Protectors will integratetheir activities with those performed by themonitors.
NCC supervises the protectors, who will befully employed by them. NCC will also em-ploy an additional two monitors to fill the va-cant monitor positions.
“We hope this will be a win-win project,”saysDrJustinO’Riainof theUCTBaboonRe-search Unit.
Dallas 2010: How itwent downIN response to your article, “Dallas
tour debacle” (People’s Post, 19 April):Last year, during the same period,
my family and I were part of the Dallas2010 tour, my spouse being one of the twocoaches of the team and my son playingin the team. Our team was treated firstclass in Dallas as we were the upcominghosts of the World Cup.
I just want to mention a few issues thataffected our trip.
1. Team preparation: Mr Basil Palan-yandi did not arrange practices andgames and fields. Everything was lastminute, which was frustrating to the coa-ches. The boys were also never all thereas they were involved in other things.
2. Team funds: Most of our funds weredeposited into one or other account of theorganiser. Mr Palanyandi asked me to-wards the end of the year to collect out-standing monies from the parents. WhenI collected the money I would hand it overto him immediately. This was the trendup until the last meeting Mr Palanyandiheld with the boys and their parents ata local campsite.
3. Team gear: There was absolutely nosponsorship, even though we went underthe auspices of the Archbishop DesmondTutu’s foundation. As parents we had tofork out money for everything. The boysreceived their gearon the lastminute andthe gear was not up to scratch. Jacketsand bags were promised as part of thegear – this we paid for, but to date theseboys and the rest of the touring partyhave not received any bags nor jackets.
4. Team departure: We had a farewellat a local hotel. There was not enough
food, and families of two boys from Stel-lenbosch pitched (Mr Palanyandi told usthey were not in the team any longer al-though their flights had been for paid al-ready). This occasion was disastrous.
The departure date changed to twodays later. Mr Palanyandi and the headcoach did not make it to Dallas. The headcoach arrived in time for the last gameas Mr Palanyandi did not book his ticket.
5. Team arrival and team transport inDallas: Mr Palanyandi never booked andpaid for any team transport in Dallas.This we found out on the eve of our depar-ture. After telephoning Dallas to confirmthe booking, we were told there was notransport for us, so the coach and I hadto run around frantically finding fundsfor transport. A player’s parents helpedus out. After being at the orientationcamp for three days we had to find some-one to take us back to Dallas to collect thevan and then to the hotel. This van wasnot big enough for all and put more pres-sure on the manager and coach. Thecoach had to take responsibility for driv-ing the van without an internationaldriving licence because the managerwould not do it. To crown it all this wasnot the first trick. We only found out af-terwards. Between my family and themanager we had to use our own funds forgas for most of the time as there was nomoney from Mr Palanyandi as promised.
6. We arrived in Cape Town all well af-ter the tournament and we had a good ex-perience, but to date we have not had afeedback meeting with Mr Palanyandi.JULIA FALKENSybrand Park
Knockout Challengeon the rollYOUNG footballers can start polishing theirball skills for the premier youth tournamenton Cape Town’s soccer calendar: the annualEngen Knockout Challenge for under-17s.
The inter-club tournament will be playedfrom Friday 29 to Sunday 31 July at theStephan Reagon Sports Complex inWestridge. It is the eighth edition of this pop-ular annual youth soccer showcase.
The tournament is a guts-and-glorychance for soccer players to make theirmark in a hotly contested arena. The win-ning team gets a R10 000 cheque and a year’sworth of boasting rights. Sports wear com-pany Umbro is the technical sponsor.
People’s Post is again proud to be the printmedia sponsor of the tournament. This willbe the fifth consecutive year that People’sPost provides the official print media cover-age. “It has been an enriching partnership
for us,” comments Annelien Dean, People’sPost editor. “As a publication we whole-heartedly back the aim of the Engen Knock-out Challenge to provide a credible platformfor young talent to shine. We really wish allparticipating young footballers everythingof the best for the tournament, and we en-courage the community to go out to the tour-nament to see the energetic and excitingfootball that will be on display.”
The four seeded clubs in the 16-team com-petition will be Ajax Cape Town, Engen San-tos, Vasco Da Gama and Cape United FC, thedefending champions. Tournament coordi-nator Gilbert Kruger says that the entrydeadline for the play-off phase to qualify isSaturday 30 April. The play-off matches willbe held during May and clubs intending toenter must submit their entries on a club let-terhead to [email protected].
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THIRD TRIUMPH: Olesya Nurgalieva of Russia wins her third Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon as Fikile Mbalula, the Minister of Sport and Recreation, follows to honour her atthe finish of the women’s race at UCT on Saturday. Olesya finished in a time of 3:33:58,while her twin Elena – with three previous Two Oceans triumphs – placed second in3:37:44, after pulling up with a painful calf after 30 km. Two other gold medal winnersfrom Cape Town were eighthplaced Farwa Mentor and VOB’s Joanna Thomas, who placed10th and first master overall. George Ntshiliza of Port Elizabeth won the men’s marathon.
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FUN ON THE RUN: The tiny tots race – one of the Old Mutual Two Oceans noveltyevents – drew a huge entry of children and enthusiastic parents, who enjoyed thefun run at UCT on Good Friday. Photo: Peter Heeger/Gallo Images
OVER THE TOP: Ethan Sampson of ASD Cape Town bicycle kicks as Matthew Rhoda ofAjax Cape Town FC closes in during a Winners Section semifinal at the Premier Cup under19 championship at Belhar yesterday (Monday). ASD Cape Town won 31 on penalties,after a 11 tie.
CHARGED UP: George Ntshiliza of Port Elizabeth kept the South African flag flying high whenhe won the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon that finished at the UCT Sports Complex on Saturday. Ntshilaza (31), running in the colours of Nedbank, clocked 3:08:31 and finished 18 secondsahead of second placed Mr Price athlete Motlokoa Nkhabutlane of Lesotho, after taking thelead less than a kilometre from the finish. The men’s and women’s marathon winners eachreceived R250 000 in prize money. Photo: Peter Heeger/Gallo Images
TOP RACKET: Elana Joubert (left) won the women’ title and Cheryl Ann Murphy placed second atthe recent Western Province Racketlon open championship held at the UCT Sports Complex.
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Engen Santoslaunches fan walkENGEN SANTOS FC have planned a fan walkfrom Langa Indoor Sports Centre to AthloneStadium for Santos’s clash with Orlando Pi-rates on Saturday 7 May.
Building on the success of the World Cupfan walk, which united people from all walksof life in the spirit of the game, Santos hastaken the bold step of creating a fan mile tothe stadium.
Spectators as well as those who want tocome along to enjoy the experience can safelypark their cars at the sports centre as theymake their way to the stadium.
Spectators will enjoy a host of entertain-ment along the way in Lourie Street, Bridget-own.
With strict security along the fan walk,fans will meet at the sports centre at noon tocross the Bhunga Avenue Bridge on theirway to Loerie Street, Dr Abdurgahman Ave-nue and Springbok Street to enter the stadi-
um gates.Fans are urged
to purchase tick-ets at Com-puticket andSho-prite/Checkersbranches beforethe match. Notickets will be on
sale at the stadium. The match starts at 15:00.Goolam Allie, the chairperson of Santos,
encouraged Capetonians to “come out and en-joy the day with us”.
“There will be great entertainment, plentyof security and return shuttles for those go-ing back to their parked cars after the match.Add the magic of soccer, and it’s an occasionnot to be missed,” said Allie.
Pirates are vying for the league title thisseason and Santos are looking to secure itsplace in the top eight in theAbsaPremierSoc-cer League – so nothing can dampen the spir-its of either team or their fans.
Santos FC together with its partner, Engen,will play host to the sassy La Vuvuzela, whowill entertain an anticipated 20 000-strongcrowd at Athlone Stadium.
. People’s Post is giving away ten sets ofdouble tickets to the game. To enter the luckydraw for the tickets, SMS “Santos” to 34586by noon on Thurs-day 28 April. SMSescost R2 each. Win-ners will be phonedand must be willingto collect their tick-ets from Santos’s of-fice in LansdowneRoad, Lansdowne.
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Sharks crave Newlands showdownLOUIS DE VILLIERS
THE Stormers will have to stop a fewsturdy players in their tracks at New-
lands on Saturday if they want to stay atthe top of the Super Rugby series.
Not only do the Sharks sound cautiouslyoptimistic that Bismarck du Plessis will be fitand ready to play against the Capetonians,but the storming flank, Jean Deysel, could al-so return to the team.
In addition, John Smit delivered a tidy per-formance against the Hurricanes as theSharks’ hooker.
Du Plessis is a football freak that wouldmake most teams, and the Sharks do not con-stitute most teams.
Tendai (The Beast) Mtawarira and Willem
Alberts also looked sharp against the Hurri-canes on Saturday, which will make for a lip-smacking spectacle at Newlands for thosewho appreciate rough and ready rugby.
John Plumtree, the Sharks’ coach, justsmiled at the question of whether he wouldconsider Deysel, saying: “If he is fit.”
Deysel has played the past three VodacomCup matches, so this requirement is easilymet.
The Sharks coach is preparing for a diffi-cult mission. “I do not see much in it for usthat they had a bye this weekend. It will nothelp to hit at them for 40 minutes – it is moredifficult than that. “There is more thanenough at stake – both teams will know after-wards exactly where they stand,” he said af-ter the match against the Hurricanes.
According to him, his team will not be tak-
ing a leaf out of the Reds’ book.The Queenslanders are the only team that
could trump the Stormers this year and thisis largely the result of tactical kicking.
“The Reds’ recipe will not work for us. Wewill stick with what suits us. You can also nottry to read too much into one match.”
An area of the Sharks’ play that concernstheir coach is their line-out work. The Sharkslost a couple of throw-ins – not a fatal error,but their line-out possession was sloppy onthe whole and put them on the back foot.
“We tried out a few options, but it did notgo well. Our line-out work is currently not ac-curate enough, and if we don’t urgently ironit out, the Stormers will put us under uglypressure.”
The former Stormers lock, Ross Skeate,was in the middle of the line-out on Saturday,
but was not an overwhelming success.No-one knows better than the Capetonians,
though, what the talented Skeate is capableof, and Plumtree was also satisfied with hisperformance.
He singled out the contributions of his re-placements: Jannie du Plessis and KeeganDaniel, who were on the replacements benchfor a change but performed superbly duringtheir time on the field.
“Jannie and Keegan did very well and Adi(Jacobs) was as dangerous as always when heran on from the bench. There is healthy com-petition in the team.”
With the Stormers doubting the availabili-ty of fly half Peter Grant, an extremely impor-tant cog in their defence, there is already theprospect this week of a few feisty Sharks spe-cifically targeting this channel.
Dallas tour row intensifiesBRIAN GAFFNEY
THE controversy surroun-ding the ill-fated DallasCup tour for under-15s to
America rages unabated follow-ing the disqualification of the 17-player squad from the annualevent that started on Sunday 17April.
So much so that more angry par-ents of the touring players havecontacted People’s Post, whichbroke the news “Dallas Tour Deba-cle” in its Tuesday 19 April edition.
The parents and friends alsoplaced the report on Facebook,which was then read by the touringchildren in America.
The article revealed the anguishthe youth footballers experi-enced – through no fault of theirown – after the team was disquali-fied for failing to register on timeand arriving late for the tourna-ment.
Former Springbok rugby playerDale Santon, whose son plays forWynberg St John’s AFC, and Win-ston Faulmann, whose son is amember of the Western ProvinceSports School, were among parents
who vowed to put the recordstraight once the team returns fromDallas. Faulmann spent overR60 000 for him and his wife to goon tourwith their son,whileSantonforked out over R20 000.
Amid the chaos, tour coordinatorBasil Palanyandi – who has beeninvolved in several previous Dallastours – has been targeted by the par-ents for not fulfilling “his dutiescorrectly and timeously”.
They blamed Palanyandi for thedelay in the issuing of visas by theAmerican Consulate in Cape Town.This resulted in the tour group leav-ing on separate flights on Friday 15and Saturday 16 April, instead of onSunday 10 April for Dallas, as hadbeen scheduled. The controversydeepened when Dan Vaughan, theaide for Archbishop Desmond Tutu,said last Monday that the Archbish-op had withdrawn his support forthe Dallas tours since 2009, afterPalanyandi “failed to submit audit-ed financial statements, as well asfor other conditions regarding mis-representation that were not ad-hered to”.
It has also come to light that noexecutive member of the Safa CapeTown – which has distanced itself
from the tour that was en-dorsed by the South Afri-can Football Association(Safa) – honoured invita-tions to attend a farewellfunction for the tour
group.Palanyandi serves on the execu-
tive (head of fixtures) for the SafaCT – which has indicated it willsummon him to a meeting after hisreturn from Dallas.
In another twist to the debacle,this newspaper established thatPalanyandi liaised with some pa-rents and other stakeholders in-volved in the Dallas Cup tours viathe email address [email protected] from the offices of theLFA Cape District, and not throughthe [email protected] address, which serves as acontrol point for all emails regard-ing soccer. It is understood that Pal-anyandi’s email was only supposedto be used to fulfil his duties as sec-retary of the Facility ManagementCommittee (FMC) for the LFA CapeDistrict, which is based at the Wil-liam Herbert Sports Complex inWynberg.
Winston Engledoe, the presidentof the LFA Cape District, alsoserves as chairperson of the FMC.
The LFA Cape District said lastweek that “it had not received anycomplaint from any parents overthe last 10 years regarding the Dal-las Cup Tournament”.
“Like any club (Ikapa), requestedpermission from Cape District, Safaand Safa CT to partake in the DallasCup tournament.
“We are, however, unaware ofthe financial implications as no
funds were directed via Cape Dis-trict for this tour.
“Cape District is not in a positionto comment on the operational is-sues for this tournament or any oth-er tournament hosted by any otherclub.”
But Carla Goodman, whose sonplays for Camps Bay AFC, wasamong parents who confirmed theywere contacted via the email ad-dress basil@capedistrict in connec-tion with pre-tour arrangements.She said the parents will meet to de-cide what action they will take re-garding the tour debacle, prior tothe tour group’s arrival at CapeTown International Airport onThursday 28 April.
Mohamed Shabodien, the reser-
vations manager for an Athlone-based travel agency, confirmed yes-terday (Monday) that the tourgroup will return home via London.
When Palanyandi was contactedby this newspaper on Wednesday 13April to give his side of the story,he responded: “Your call regardingthe Archbishop Desmond Tutu Ika-pa United team – no comment.
“You are however invited to at-tend the report back meeting oncethe team returns. Will give youdate, time and venue for that meet-ing.”
Arrangements were made for thetouring team to compete in friendlymatches in Dallas after its disquali-fication.
. See letter on page 14.
Ikapa United tour coordinator Basil Palanyandi is seen last week with cheerleaders from the Dallas Cup tournament and some youth players from CapeTown at a postfriendly match celebration. Photo: Supplied
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