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TO INFINITY AND BEYOND: South Africa officially launched the first of 64 antennas that will make up the MeerKAT radio telescope, the country’s precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), at the SKA South Africa site outside Carnarvon in the Northern Cape last week. The SKA will be a mega telescope about 100 times more sensitive than the biggest existing radio telescope. It will include 500 000 antennas scattered across southern Africa and Australia.

South AfrIcA hEADS for mAjor EcoNomIc crASh, EXPErt WArNS| A controversial report warns that South Africans should prepare for a financial crisis, as foreign investments shy away and market speculation decreases

by sertan sandersonSOUTH Africa may be on the cusp of an economic bust with a substantial unemployment trend, according to a report published by a prominent economic analyst last week.

Jesse Colombo warns that numerous economic bubbles, which had grown in emerging markets across the world (including South Africa) as a result of the 2008 credit crunch, were in imminent danger of inflating beyond control and imploding in the foreseeable future.

Among the reasons for his predictions published in FORBES Magazine, Colombo names a measurable decrease in investment in SA, not just in hard assets but also in market speculation, as the rand remains weak and the Reserve Bank continues to struggle to stabilise the South African economy. He also stresses that while much attention has been given to the ongoing issue of the rand devaluation, there would appear to be a lack of understanding of the underlying causes to the economic challenges in SA, which might lead to a major financial and economic crisis.

While Colombo’s analysis is focused on financial problems unique to elements within South Africa’s economy - from escalating government debt to irresponsible personal borrowing - the report also challenges a number of current political developments stifling growth and thus weakening the rand. These include the recent hike in interest rates and other government-mandated trends, which would dishearten investors from coming to South Africa, following a five-year period of relative liquidity based on more encouraging lending practices and welcoming ventures based on the illusion of easy credit.

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Colombo adds that over $1 trillion on average has annually been flowing into emerging market economies from the United States, China, Japan and beyond over the past four years – more than twice the annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of South Africa. Especially with construction projects from China being drawn to southern Africa, the infrastructures for growth were laid rapidly at an inflating rate after the 2008 financial crisis. SA’s all-time low interest-rates at the time further attracted

such investment, encouraging the creation of this credit bubble and leading to the financial sector becoming one fifth of South Africa’s entire GDP.

But with political and economic trends in South Africa stifling further such developments in an already massively inflated financial sector, Colombo reckons that the country may be in for a rude awakening, as emerging markets around the globe are finding themselves forced to come up with

creative solutions to keep their respective economies afloat. If one of these bubbles were to burst, Colombo warns, the rest will likely follow suit.

He reports in particular on the housing market, which might be in for a major crash after years of record-breaking prize inflation and its associated reckless lending practices. Colombo adds that he does not want to cause panic with his analysis but to empower people to take action and take appropriate measures now.

“As you know, the United States’ credit housing bubble last decade inflated due to low interest rates and now I’m seeing the same phenomenon across most emerging markets including South Africa.”

Adding to the problem of low mortgage rates is a growing amount of unsecured loans, which are authorised by South African banks since the National Credit Act of 2007, as well as a growing underground ‘loan shark’ movement (so-called mashonisas), who can charge up to 60 per cent interest for personal loans for South Africa’s struggling working class.

Most township households are now in one way or another connected to debt and are struggling to keep up with their repayments, which is then used as a political bargaining tool by trade unions to push for higher wages, trying to help the victims of debt while effectively further stifling the country’s economy with ongoing strikes and subsequent shortcomings in productivity.

All these factors put together, Colombo warns of the creation of a bubble, which cannot sustain itself nor contribute much in terms of confidence to the South African dream.

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by Charlotte tobittFOUR parties have been taken out of the South African election race after they failed to pay their deposits by the deadline on Tuesday night.

There are now only 29 parties in the running after the Africa Unite Party, Dagga Party, Lekgotla for Democracy Advancement and SA Progressive Civil Organisation were removed from the ballot paper.

Kate Bapela, spokeswoman for the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC), said: “This is four fewer than the 33 parties that had provisionally indicated their intention to contest the national election… but it remains the highest number of parties to contest a democratic national election in South Africa’s history.”

Last week, 31 parties were issued with notices indicating that they had not yet submitted candidate lists or paid the R200,000 deposit in regard to about 300 candidates, and all but four then met the requirements.

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However, the Africa Unite Party, a “people’s party” who were founded on March 7 by Robin Denton, are fighting back.

Denton said: “We are hoping to contest this election but the odds are slim as we did not manage to come up with the high deposit.”

However, writing on the community section of news24.com, Denton said: “I want to set the record straight. We had the money for the deposit. We even offered it to the IEC. We are still contesting in these elections as a political party and we are fighting back with all guns blazing. But to pay a deposit to serve the people… this is morally wrong

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and certainly is not a criteria for proving seriousness.”

However, Bapela defended the purpose of the deposit.

“In the interest of democratic elections it is not desirable to have a multi-page ballot paper that not only hampers election processes and make them much more expensive but, and this is more serious, also confuses voters by making it extremely difficult (if not impossible) for many of them to identify the party they had come to vote for,” she said.

Denton confirmed that he has been to the constitutional court and submitted the party’s case to be heard. He also urged all South Africans abroad to vote.

The party’s manifesto says: “Despite being small it has a large vision. The primary focus for this election is the farm attacks and racially motivated violence, economic empowerment for all and prison reform.”

Other disillusioned partiesAnother party, the Dagga Party,

has high hopes for the future.“Dagga legalisation is like a

dagga bush – it keeps growing,” party leader Jeremy Acton said. His party had a sponsor in the Canadian medical marijuana field but they still could not meet the whole cost.

Lekgotla for Democracy Advancement is still in the race in Limpopo and Gauteng provinces despite being disqualified from contesting nationally.

The Economic Freedom Fighters went through a failed court bid to reduce the deposit price, but did make the payment on time.A candidate list is now available for public inspection at www.elections.org.za.

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by frank burbagePRESIDEnT Jacob Zuma has denied guilt in the Nkandla scandal, instead blaming cabinet ministers and government officials for the misappropriation of funds during the project, which saw costs balloon to R246m from an initial projected investment of R65m. Speaking during door-to-door campaigning in Gugulethu on the outskirts of Cape Town, the President told the ANN7 television channel: “I did not use the public’s money in Nkandla. What I’m saying is I’m not guilty. Even if they look for me under a tree they can’t find me. I did nothing wrong. I did not do anything…They (government ministers) did this without telling me, so why should I pay for something I did not ask for?…They (the media and political opposition) go around and say this fella used public money. I am not guilty, there is no case against me. I am a person just like you.”

The ANC has closed ranks in an attempt to protect their leader. On Sunday the National Executive Committee met in Cape Town, during which they decided that Zuma should not be expected to shoulder responsibility for

| President Jacob Zuma blames ministers and government officials as the ANC closes ranks around its leader

Zuma: I didn’t ask for Nkandla upgrades – why should I pay?

decisions they say were made by ministers and government officials. newspaper reports over the weekend suggested that former Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa would be expected to shoulder some of the blame. This is despite the fact that public protector Thuli Madonsela, author of the ‘Secure in Comfort’ report into the Nkandla scandal, specifically said to The Sunday Independent that if one person was undoubtedly absolved of

any guilt, that person was Sisulu: “There has been communication with minister Sisulu and my findings show that the minister of defence (at the time) was never involved. There has been no evidence that implicates her. none of the officials ever mentioned her name before the provisional report and now,” said Madonsela.

Jessie Duarte, Gwede Matnashe, Baleka Mbete, Cyril Ramaphosa, Zweli Mkhize and Jacob Zuma were all at the meeting.

Afterwards, Public Works minister Thulas Nxesi said that Zuma “happened to be caught in the cross-fire” but that really the mis-spend was the result of mistakes made by officials in his own department, which he said has been responsible for numerous bureaucratic and financial blunders in recent years. “The Nkandla security upgrade is just one more example of the systemic crisis that was Public Works. It is merely the tip of the iceberg,” he said, citing renovations of the central government offices in Pretoria in 2006 which were meant to cost R59m but had ballooned to R330m by the time they were complete. The cost of building a prison in the Northern Cape also escalated from a projected R100m to R1 billion. “Corruption knows no colour,” he said. “There is corruption in the public sector as well as the private sector. That is what happened in Nkandla.”

It was nxesi who formed the inter-ministerial task force to investigate the scandal but then classified the report’s findings after claiming that their release would pose a security risk, which has resulted in criticism from within the ANC. An NEC member said this week on condition

of anonymity: “how do you commission an investigation, and when the report comes out you classify it? It raises more questions and the credibility of the report you release later comes into question. Why should people not suspect that the report that was eventually released was doctored?”

But on Sunday ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said that the party had fulfilled its obligations with regards to Madonsela’s findings on nkandla. Speaking at a rally in Langa, he denied reports that Sisulu and Mthethwa would be expected to shoulder responsibility for the financial irregularities. “I was in the meeting and that was not discussed, nor did we make such a decision. All the NEC did was to acknowledge that we have done what we should do as the ANC”, said Mantashe.

In Chatsworth, Durban, Zuma’s spokesman Mac Maharaj said the media had been making a big deal out of what was a “non-issue.” Speaking at a fund-raising dinner on Saturday, Maharaj said: “You (the media) are making an issue out of something that is not big. You are telling the people that the matter is big.”

by frank burbageA 72-year-old Austrian pensioner has died at the most dangerous beach in the world after being attacked by at least one shark. Eight people in the last five years have been killed while swimming at ‘Second Beach’ in Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape.

Catherine Yazbek, a local guesthouse owner who witnessed the incident, said: “The tide was coming in and they were swimming like lots of others on the long weekend, not that far out … It was the worst (attack) I’ve ever seen. It looked like there were a number of sharks that had attacked him and a large part of his body below the waist had gone. It definitely wasn’t a one-off bite.

Lifeguards Siphosoxolo Njila, Sizwe Dusubana and William James jumped into the water to

| Attack blamed on bull shark claims the life of 72-year-old Austrian pensioner at Port St Johns beach

Shark kills Austrian tourist at ‘world’s most dangerous beach’ in Port St John’s

retrieve the victim’s body. They were not on duty but witnessed the attack because they were enjoying a day at the beach. Njila described seeing the Austrian’s body being forced up out of the water as the shark attacked. “He then turned around to face the shark and tried to hit it on the head, but its jaws were open and his arm fell right between its teeth and the arm was gone…(Then) he collapsed and the current started dragging him out to sea. His head was bobbing in and out of the water, and you could see that he was still alive and fighting,” said Njila. They estimate that the man was alive for about 20 minutes after the attack, trying to swim to shore despite one arm being bitten off.

Michael Gatke, another witness, spoke of being astounded at how quickly swimmers returned

to the water after the incident on Saturday afternoon. “It’s incredible,” he said. “People were there in the waist-deep water, swimming, while the body was still being taken out of the water.”

No other country in the world has a comparable rate of shark fatalities over the last ten years, most of which are blamed on bull sharks. There has been speculation that the nearby Umzimvubu River had become a breeding ground for bull sharks due to the fact that traditional healers throw entrails of slaughtered animals into the water in the area. A preliminary investigation by South Africa’s Department of of Environmental Affairs began in 2009 but whether this was the cause of the increasing number of attacks was never confirmed because the researchers ran out of money.


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PADDY Power’s advert for bets on the Oscar Pistorius trial has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK after it received 5,525 complaints from the general public, which is a new record for complaints to the regulator.

The Irish bookmaker offered odds on the fact that Oscar Pistorius may not be convicted of the pre-meditated murder of his partner Reeva Steenkamp on 14 February 2013.

The tagline “Money back if he walks” was deemed to bring advertising into disrepute by trivialising the killing of Steenkamp as well as the Paralympian’s disability. The ASA’s conclusion was that the advert was likely to cause “serious or widespread offence.”

The ASA said, “We acknowledge that the ad had appeared in the context of a high profile murder trial that had received extensive media coverage and was of interest to the public. We considered it would therefore have been reasonable to foresee that serious or widespread offence was likely to be caused by placing an ad that sought commercial advantage based on that trial and which made light of the sensitive issues involved… Given the content of the ad, and the prevailing circumstances at the time of its publication, we concluded that it brought advertising into disrepute.”

According to the creators of an online petition calling for Paddy Power to remove the advert, “This type of random carelessness for the lives of women by Paddy Power is an affront to those women

Paddy Power trial ad banned after record number of complaints| The Irish bookmaker’s advert appeared in the UK with the tagline: “It’s Oscar time. Money back if he walks. We will refund all losing bets on the Oscar Pistorius trial if he is found not guilty”

and their families. paddy Power are putting all survivors and the families of those who died through even more pain and anguish and they must stop.”

The advert only appeared in print once – in The Sun on Sunday a fortnight ago. The text in the advert stated: “It’s oscar time. Money back if he walks. We will refund all losing bets on the Oscar Pistorius trial if he is found not guilty.”

news International has since apologised for any offence caused and said it published the advert “in good faith”.

However, when the Daily Mail contacted Irish bookmaker Paddy Power for a comment regarding the ASA’s decision, their response was “In your face KFC!” suggesting that they were happy the advert had caused such widespread offence.

Oscar Pistorius testimony delayed| It was anticipated that Pistorius would take the stand in court on Friday – but now the trial has been adjourned

by frank burbage OSCAR Pistorius’ trial has been postponed until 7 April because one of Judge Masipa’s assessors has been hospitalised due to illness. David Smith of the Guardian (@SmithInAfrica), who has been covering the case in the Gauteng High Court since it began, tweeted on friday morning: “Judge Masipa: ‘We cannot proceed this morning… One of my assessors is not well… I suggest we postpone this matter until 7 April.” Both the prosecution and defence teams agreed to the postponement.

The ill court assessor is Janette Henzen du Toit, one of the two legal experts appointed by the judge to assist her in reaching a verdict. Masipa spoke this morning of the court not being “properly constituted” due to Henzen du Toit’s absence, meaning the trial could not continue.

The court room was packed before this morning’s announcement was made because it had been expected that Pistorius would take the stand today in his own defence now that the state has rested its case.

Although Pistorius does not have to testify, his defence team has previously spoken of it being “likely” that they would open their defence with testimony from the six-time Paralympic gold medallist.

by belinda liversedgeTravellers from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa could be importing the deadly virus into South Africa, The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (nICD) has warned.

In an alert issued to port health authorities, nICD said that they should watch out for arrivals from Guinea where the killer disease has claimed 59 lives.

As well as Guinea, health officials are investigating five deaths in neighbouring Liberia after people crossed its border in search of medical treatment.

CBC reported that ‘panic has erupted’ in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, after just two suspected fatalities. Government issued warnings on state radio urging people to wash hands and avoid contact with sick people.

But the official statement from nICD is that there is only “low” risk for South Africans.

A statement on its website seemed to contradict the risk inferred from the leaked alert stated on Business Day:

“The outbreak is confined at the moment to remote rural parts of Guinea and few people would travel

| ’South African border health authorities has been warned to watch out for arrivals from countries such as Guinea where an Ebola outbreak has claimed 59 lives

South Africa on alert for Ebola

to this area for work or tourism.“Health workers and family

members of the infected persons in the outbreak area would therefore be at risk,” read the commentary dated today, 25 March.Ebola has a fatality rate of 90% and leads to severe hemorrhagic fever in victims.

There is no vaccine or treatment. Vomiting and bleeding which are experienced by the sufferer as the disease progresses represent the main dangers of its contagion, because Ebola is transmitted via blood or other bodily fluids of infected people.

The World Health Organisation says that health care workers have been infected with Ebola when not wearing gloves, masks or goggles. It even warns that the disease can be transferred through a dead person killed by Ebola.

In July 2012 an outbreak in Uganda was dismissed by the nICD as a minor concern for South Africa, because they said it was unlikely Ebola victims would be in a position to travel.

The first case of diagnosed Ebola fever in South Africa was in 1996. The victim was a nurse who had been infected with blood from a doctor from Gabon who had Ebola.


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rwandan diplomats expelled following assassination of exile| Rwandan political exiles fear for their lives in South Africa after former Rwandan Intelligence chief found murdered on New Year’s Eve in suite 905 of the Michelangelo Towers Hotel, Johannesburg

by frank burbageSOUTH Africa has expelled three Rwandan diplomats after security services linked them to a spate of attacks against Rwandan political exiles in South Africa. The Rwandan government responded by expelling six South African diplomats and accused Pretoria of harbouring individuals involved in “terrorist acts” in Rwanda.

“As the South African government, we want to send a very stern warning to anybody, anywhere in the world, that our country will not be used as a springboard to do illegal activities,” Justice Minister Jeff Radebe told a news briefing. He said evidence associated the diplomats with “illegal activities that have taken place where there were attempted murders, including a murder.”

former Rwandan Intelligence Chief Colonel Patrick Karageya was found murdered on New Year’s Eve in suite 905 of the Michelangelo Towers Hotel, Johannesburg. Speaking to the BBC, his nephew David Batenga revealed that Karageya had been lured to the hotel on the pretext of meeting an old friend called Apollo Kirisi, and spoke of the scene when he discovered his uncle’s body almost 24 hours later: “There had been a bit of scuffle, everything was just a nightmare. We found a towel full of blood and the rope used to hang him.

“There are so many reasons why he may have been murdered,” said Batenga. “Because of the job he did and because of what he knew, given his position for all those years when he was part of the Kagame regime.” Karageya was forced to flee Rwanda in 2008 after falling out with the regime and went on to set up the Rwandan National Congress, but Gabriel Gatehouse of the BBC believes that the murder may have been due to a series of meetings that Karageya held with South African and Tanzanian military between early 2012 and and late 2013.

The aim of these meetings was to form a UN brigade made up of South African and Tanzanian soldiers who would travel to the Congo to combat a Rwandan-backed rebel group called M23 who had been operating with impunity in the area since their formation in early 2012. But Karageya’s attempted intervention meant that this proxy Rwandan army was soon on the run and was defeated by November 2013, resulting in Karageya’s murder. On the 12th January Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame said that “treason brings consequences. You

can’t betray Rwanda and not get punished for it…For anyone, it’s a matter of time.”

The murder has served as another stark warning for other Rwandan exiles in South Africa such as General Kayumba Nyamwasa, former chief of staff for the Rwandan Armed Forces. Nyamwasa lives in hiding under South African state protection. Speaking to the BBC at a secret location outside of Johannesburg, nyamwasa said: “I ran away from somebody I thought was going to harm my life. And that [person] is the president of Rwanda. [President Kagame] said that Patrick and I are like flies, and if it requires him to use a hammer to kill a fly, he will do it.” Six men – three of them Rwandan – are currently on trial in Johannesburg after an assassination attempt against Nyamwasa in 2010 and there have been two more attempts since, the latest earlier this month.

President Kagame has a history of relentlessly targeting ‘enemies of the state’ whether at home or abroad. Speaking about the situation in Rwanda, nyamwasa said: “there have been disappearances and executions but no one is talking. That is the terror.” In 2011 three Rwandan political exiles living in London were warned by British intelligence services that their lives were in imminent danger. There have also been enemies of Kagame’s regime attacked in Mozambique, Kenya, Belgium and Sweden, while dozens of members of the Rwandan National Congress in exile in South Africa spoke to the BBC of threats of “elimination” if they did not maintain silence.

During his interview with the BBC, Nyamwasa also accused President Kagame of ordering the rocket attack which killed Rwanda’s former President Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994, an incident that sparked the genocide in which 800,000 Tutsis were killed, but offered no evidence. Kagame has always maintained that the attack was carried out by Hutu extremists to provide a pretext for the mass murders. President Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Army has since been accused of mass killings of Hutus in response, a topic that is consequently strictly taboo in the country.

Speaking about this silence, nyamwasa said: “There was no deliberate intention to carry out a genocide against the Hutu,” he says. “But talking about people dying in war, and in particular some Hutus dying in war, undoubtedly yes, they did. The issue is [President Kagame]

says nobody died. And yet people know either a parent a wife or a child who died. The circumstances should be explained. And then people can talk about reconciliation.”

Following the mutual diplomatic

expulsions, the Presidents of South Africa and Rwanda – Jacob Zuma and Paul Kagame – met in the Angolan capital of Luanda in an attempt to defuse the discord. Zuma told public broadcaster SABC that the two leaders had

“agreed to share some detailed information and deal with the issues” and his office later released a statement saying that “there was agreement that the two countries must discuss the issue and find a mutually agreeable solution.”


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by rebeCCa Meeson-frizelle A number of international feature films and documentaries have emerged in the wake of the passing of Nelson Mandela in December.

January saw the release of the biographical box office hit, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, while the documentary Plot for Peace, which premiered in the UK just last week, tells the untold story of ‘Monsieur Jacques’, a French businessman who was instrumental in negotiating Mandela’s release from prison.

Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me, which was screened at London’s Human Rights Film festival last week, suggests that this is indeed another piece of cinematography centred on the global icon – yet it retains some ambiguity. On the other hand, that is precisely the aim of the documentary – to purposefully present a series of open-ended, non-conclusive ideas rather than focus on Mandela personally.

Khalo Matabane employs a distinctive approach in his documentary, which reflects his personal quest to seek answers to his own questions, born out of his experience growing up and living in both apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. The liberation of Nelson Mandela in 1990, after 27 years imprisonment, was symbolic for the country’s black population, including Matabane, who grew up in the village of Ga Mphahlele in Limpopo province. Hopes for equality and justice, after more than 40 years of brutal repression under the country’s apartheid regime, had never been higher. In the shadow of Mandela’s leadership, however, Matabane wonders whether the very ideals that Mandela famously fought for have prevailed in contemporary South Africa or whether they have quite simply been abandoned.

Matabane documents his odyssey

| In this thought-provoking documentary, Khalo Matabane explores the ideals Nelson Mandela fought for (freedom, reconciliation and forgiveness) and questions whether they hold any resonance in contemporary South Africa

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as if embarking on a novel; he begins with a prologue before diving the documentary into chapters and carefully titling them according to the ideals that Mandela stood by: freedom, Reconciliation and Forgiveness.

The 39-year-old South African filmmaker’s thoughts are embellished by enlisting various voices throughout the documentary, who can also perhaps be seen as part of Matabane’s wider attempt to seek answers. Matabane draws on an impressive range of personalities, from academics to fellow filmmakers, playwrights and journalists, but also some of Mandela’s closest allies including Ronnie Kasrils, South Africa’s former Minister for Intelligence Services and also international politicians such British Labour MP Peter Hain, and former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. The Dalai Lama is also another notable interviewee.

“The interesting thing about Nelson Mandela is the association he had with people that you didn’t think he would associate with,” said Matabane at the documentary’s UK premiere at the Curzon Soho cinema in Central London on Saturday. “There’s a broad spectrum of people who are right-wing, conservative, liberal, radical, militant, bankers, executives, poor people… The idea was to have a whole range of people to look at the contradictions of Mandela.”

The comments of each individual interviewed in the documentary provide differing dimensions to the perception of Mandela and his legacy in the ‘Rainbow Nation’. The anti-apartheid figurehead is so often likened to the exuberant image of a knight in shining armour, but while the majority of the interviewees express their admiration for the man, they approach the subject with cautious optimism.

Zubeida Jaffer, a South African journalist who was active in the apartheid era, is one such example. She describes Mandela as a very charming man but emphasises another aspect to his character, rendering him also capable of being “as cold as ice”. Thus the film presents itself as a critique of Madiba rather than relentlessly singing his praises – and this makes for tolerable and refreshing viewing.

‘freedom’, the first chapter of the 85-minute long documentary, begins with the resonant footage of Mandela walking free after 27 years of imprisonment. This scene, combined with Mandela’s subsequent liberation speech at Cape Town’s City Hall, is imbued with hope and joy for the peoples of South Africa.

However, as the documentary progresses, poignant images and testaments of death, suffering and despair become increasingly prevalent. The burgeoning question becomes whether Madiba’s principles of freedom, reconciliation, and forgiveness were envisaged through rose-tinted glasses.

Mandela successfully spearheaded efforts to bring the apartheid regime to its knees, and therefore surely achieving equality and justice for the black population. But, as the film asserts, it depends how you define equality and justice. South Africa remains a country ravaged by poverty, and the economic disparity between white and black has never been greater.

At one point in the film, Matabane poignantly asks whether the struggle against white domination a struggle was to benefit all, or simply for a few? We are left to draw our own conclusions.Watch the film on BBC iPlayer (Available until Tuesday 21 Apr 2014)



| A South African and her British husband visit the new Soaring Eagle Spur in Leicester to indulge their addiction to Spur ribs and sample some of the other classics on the menu. Here’s their verdict…

Soaring Eagle Spur: Top quality food in a stylish setting

by lisa taylor WHEN I found out a few months ago that the Soaring Eagle Spur branch was opening in Leicester I was thrilled. It doesn’t get much better than Spur for a South African looking for a taste of home!

Just a short trip down the motorway from Nottingham to Leicester and we were there. When my British husband John and I arrived, we could smell that famous Spur Steak and Grill aroma from about a block away.

I wouldn’t say the restaurant features classic Spur style décor, but has more of a restaurant bar feel to it. This seems to work considering the location is opposite the Leicester football stadium. They also have a lovely outdoor space and when Leicester has a match on, they turn it into an outdoor braai area selling take-away Spur burgers and pints of beer for all the football fans to get a quick taste of Spur before the game.

It’s busy inside but very welcoming, and so lovely to hear all the different accents mixed together from around the world. It seems it’s not only South Africans who enjoy a Spur meal.

We were seated by a Lithuanian waitress called Gerda, who was extremely friendly and happy to tell us about the Spur specials for the evening.

We ordered the Jug of The Day – Blueberry Mojito from the cocktail menu. The sweet, fruity berries with the sharpness of the lemon are a twist on the classic mojito. It’s a refreshing flavour that I’m sure will complement any dish on the menu.

for starters, I ordered the Cheesy Nachos with Smoked Daddy Pit Beans and my husband ordered the Jack Daniel’s Glaze Half Buffalo Wings. We shared them to get a taste of both.

The portions were both generous and well presented. The nachos came with a dollop of guacamole

and sour cream. They are nice and crunchy, with just the right amount of sauce, and the Daddy Pit Beans had a lovely smoky flavour to them.

The buffalo wings are so soft and juicy, they fall apart in your mouth and you can taste the sweet Jack Daniel’s whisky glaze with the grilled chicken flavour. Dip it in the creamy blue cheese sauce it is served with and it’s a taste sensation. They also add some crunchy cucumber sticks as a garnish.

For the mains we went with the Spur Special of the night, which was the Combo. Buy one Combo and get one free every Monday – amazing value for money!

We each ordered the Steak and Rib Combo, requesting the Bacon and Blue Cheese Rib-eye Steak. Nothing was too much trouble for the Spur team as they aim to please and were more than happy to customise our meals.

The portions were extremely

generous, and the presentation was classic chargrilled perfection. Spur definitely know how to grill a steak. I love mine medium rare and they always get it right first time. The quality and size of the meat is amazing – a soft, juicy, thick-cut 8oz steak covered in smoky bacon and smothered in blue cheese and spring onion sauce. The flavours go so well together and I enjoyed every mouthful. And we still had half a rack of ribs to go!

The famous Spur rib is just a classic! Tastes exactly like home. The best ribs in the world – I don’t think anyone can beat them! And John agrees, the first time he tried Spur ribs he became addicted and will not eat ribs elsewhere now. The Spur BBQ basting sauce is a legend and the succulent meat will leave you wanting more.

The generous portion size did get the better of me and hard as I tried I couldn’t finish everything, but in true Spur style I asked for a ‘doggy bag’ to enjoy later!

To finish the meal, it was a tough decision with some delicious desserts to choose from. I picked the Sticky Toffee Pudding Cheesecake which combines my two favourite desserts! It’s a sweet treat that tasted like heaven. The creaminess of the white chocolate cheesecake layer really goes well with the unbelievable sticky toffee sweetness of the light sponge layer. And the soft Spur-made vanilla ice-cream a real palate cleanser.

John asked for the Any Given Sundae with Cadbury’s fingers of fudge. A treat for any sweet tooth! Soft ice-cream with chunks of chocolate and fudge drizzled in chocolate sauce served in a sundae glass.

Soaring Eagle Spur Leicester serves top quality food in a stylish setting. A place where you can go on any occasion whether it is a family meal, a fun night out with friends or a romantic meal with a special someone.


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SA playwright reza de Wet’s ‘The Brothers’ on stage in London| The late, great Reza de Wet has won more theatre and literary awards than any other South African playwright. This week her play ‘The Brothers’ is on stage at White Bear Theatre in Kennington

by staff rePorterTHE Brothers examines Russian dramatist and author Anton Chekhov’s relationship with his brothers.

During a night-long vigil preceding the funeral of their brother Kostia, Anton and Aleksander Chekhov are drawn into an agonising and explosive confrontation with each other and with deeply hidden aspects of themselves.

As the play unfolds, it becomes a searing portrayal of human misery and the redemptive power of the creative impulse.

PLAYWRIGHT – Reza de WetReza de Wet has won more

theatre and literary awards than any other South African playwright. She was a prolific and socially conscious writer who had written 12 plays in 15 years (five in English and seven in Afrikaans). She won nine awards for her scripts (five Vita Awards, three Fleur du Cap Awards and a Dalro Award), as well as every prestigious literary award (a CNA Prize, a Rapport Prize and twice the Herzog Prize, the highest honour in Afrikaans literature). She died of leukaemia at the age of 59 in January 2012.

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by Penny Matthews BEFORE I knew it, the sun had started to shine and blossoms and bulbs sprouted on random trees and fields of green. Spring is teasing the Londoners! Despite taking the pre-warned caution that this might be only a momentary thing, South Africans instinctively race to their webers and braai tongs.

It was as if a subliminal message circled the streets of Wandsworth and the air was filled with rugby supporting shouts and charcoal briquette aromas. I quickly learned that the Super 15 Rugby had begun and followers of Southern Hemisphere sporting brilliance would dominate every Saturday’s SKY viewership. It might seem odd that this tournament goes on for what may feel like months and months, but it doesn’t matter. You pick your team on the day and avidly watch their every move. If you are lucky, you’ll catch the game commentated by the notorious Hugh Bladen – the voice of home rugby!

| Before I knew it, the sun had started to shine and blossoms and bulbs sprouted on random trees and fields of green. Spring is teasing the Londoners! Despite taking the pre-warned caution that this might be only a momentary thing, South Africans instinctively race to their webers and braai tongs

Sunny out – It’s braai time

There are certain tips and traits about this sunny Saturday ritual that I feel proud to share for the coming weekends:

1) Invest in a weber. While we only know it as a ‘braai’, for those locals who do not understand this odd word, your weekly invitation is for the real way to ‘barbecue’.

2) Accept the fact that boerewors cannot easily be found. However, substitute this with the genius of an olive oil and salt crusted roasted chicken. If one can, depending on the space of your weber, place a beer inside. It’s all quite simple – generously lather your chicken in oil and salt and leave on the weber for about an hour.

3) This is undoubtedly complimented with mielies and lamb chops. Wrap up your mielies in foil, dress your chops with olive oil and rosemary and once again.. place on the braai. This outside oven cooks anything.

4) Despite the fact that these ingredients do not require much turning and tossing, make sure to appreciate the South Africanism of men and their webers. Rule of thumb goes that each male must hold any form of a braai tong – be it even a carving fork. On each check of the meats’ status, tap the tongs together to express achievement and take a sip of one’s beer. When conversation falters, check your ranking in SuperBru’s fictitious betting log.

5) Leave no room for female intrusion into the circle of trust that surrounds the male fire, but

always work together to provide snacks. Substitute the desired wet and fatty biltong with ‘cool original’ Doritos, chilli sprinkled popcorn and my new found discovery of ‘crisp’ m&m’s (found in the blue packets).

6) Girls: Pop open the Prosecco or odd Bins finest Austrian Riesling (Dry Riesling Bergrettung http://www.oddbins.com/wine/white/riesling) and do what you do best. Marvel at your creation of spinach, avocado and buffalo mozzarella salad. Try to be inventive and add a little ingenuity. A sprinkling of fruit and nut mix is a welcome surprise in a fresh crunchy mouthful or go for the addition of goats cheese and beetroot.

7) Be sure to wear pumps or havaianas and your long awaited best short sleeve top. Remember not to be shocked at the transparency of your skin – unfortunately what we thought was born and bred olive skin, is now pale and in dire need of colour

It all comes together and what lies before you is the homely essence of braai Saturday. Banter, smoke stained clothes and food with which no gas barbecue can compete. No matter where you are in the world, any day spent like this will bring laughter, silly slander, local political argument and undoubtedly the consumption of all brought food and drinks late into the evening.

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I would like my last message to be…| Why does it take a tragedy to make us say what we’re thinking? Maybe we should be living our hopeful last impression of ourselves

SITTInG in the lacklustre Terminal 1 of Heathrow Airport, waiting to check in. I am that person who sacrifices the entire day to get to the airport; cannot arrange anything, meet anyone, I just have to get there. So I always get there a billion years too early. Such a fear I have of traffic, earthquakes and any hindrance that I get there a billion years to early. Do not laugh, it has happened that the passport stayed at home and there was time to get it.

Which means I have to wait for check-in to open before I get to airside. The bag is wrapped in coffin-white, eco-killing plastic (am going to South Africa afterall) and I am at Costa. I don’t actually want to eat anything

substantial – I am the poor recipient of every beer drinking, burger chomping flatulent on every single aeroplane. I seem to attract disgusting people who should be banned from flying. They snore, sniff, spill and smell. So eat nothing for fear of standing accused of the same crime.

Sitting here though, feeling that knot in the pit of my stomach, always inexplicably anxious, I think about those passengers on the doomed Malaysian flight.

It is a little too close to home, timing wise, though I have utmost faith in the pilot and those jovial crew members only South African Airways present; larger than life, gleaming smiles and the ability to make you feel as if you are well ‘just happy’ being on the flight.

Whether said crew would be able to save my life… let’s just say, I am looking forward to the wine.

Thinking of those passengers who realised they were not going to touch down and their lives reduced to minutes. I wonder what they would want to say? What message would you like to scribe or voice, having less than, say 30 minutes to leave your

This is Captain Lottering Speaking: Marc Lottering jets in to London

by staff rePorterThis April, acclaimed South

African comedian Marc Lottering will return to Soho Theatre with his brand new one-man show, This is Captain Lottering Speaking.

Armed with his popular characters and in Soho for one week only, Lottering promises to keep you in stitches…

All the usual suspects are there: Auntie Merle the housewife, Galatia Geduldt, Smiley the taxi dude, Travis the party animal, and Colleen the Cashier from hell. This time, everyone’s going to the airport, so fasten your seatbelts!

A household name in South Africa, Lottering regularly works in television and theatre, having scooped numerous awards along the way.Fri 4 – Sat 12 Apr, 9.15pmSoho TheatrePreviews & Mon-Tue £10, Wed-Thu £15 (£12.50), Fri-Sat £20 (£17.50)Book on http://sohotheatre.com

| South African comedian Marc Lottering brings his latest one man-show, This is Captain Lottering Speaking, to Soho Theatre in London – for one week only

little mark on mankind? And I don’t mean the usual and totally understandable bits about your family, about wanting more time to do the bucket list – or even that you have finally realised that money is not going to give you the best memories in life.

When the chips are down and you have one last chance to tell your story – what would you say?

And then, take all this angst away. Nothing is going to happen, and if it does, that’s life, as a pilot once said: ‘ Life if what you make of it, and if you don’t make it, that’s life.”

Pause to think. Should we need to be in a life threatening situation to vortex into one moment – to say what we should be thinking about anyway? Maybe we should be living what would be our hopeful last impression of us. Not wait until we have no possibility for change.

That is where the Optimism comes it, I can prepare my speech and practise what I preach while I still have the chance.

Why does it always take a tragedy to make us think? or just sitting at an airport, a little nervous about flying…


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by frank burbageZIMBABWEAn president Robert Mugabe is planning to cap the salaries of executives of state-owned companies at $72,000 a year including benefits after an investigation by the BBC’s Brian Hungwe in Harare revealed that some chief executives were earning up to $500,000 (£300,000) a month.

“In the public eye, these exorbitant salaries and allowances are not only corrupt but also obscene,” Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa told the BBC. “The public’s outrage is justified.”

Several cases of tax evasion have also come to light as a result of the investigation: one chief executive of a state-owned health insurance company was receiving a wage of $230,000 while also receiving benefits of over $300,000 per month which weren’t taxed. Meanwhile the chief executive

| Zanu-PF and MDC united in condemnation of systematic corruption and tax evasion

Mugabe to cap salaries of state-owned company executives

Kariba threatens to burst as lack of funding delays urgent repairs| As the Zambian government announces that Kariba Dam is in a serious state of disrepair the international community prepares to rush to the rescue

by sertan sandersonSEVERAL southern African

countries might face a crisis in the imminent future as major structural damages challenge the integrity of the Kariba Dam on the Zimbabwean-Zambian border, according to Zambian Energy and Water Development Minister Christopher Yaluma.

Yaluma announced on state radio that urgent repairs would have to be carried out within three years to avoid a flooding catastrophe that could see millions of people overrun by a massive deluge beyond Lake Kariba. However, both of the cash-strapped countries harvesting energy from the dam appears to lack the funds needed to finance the $220 million worth of repairs on the ageing dam.

“It’s quite serious but we are determined to resolve it,” Yaluma announced on the radio broadcast.transactions in all these various monetary denominations, starting to offer accounts in all the foreign currencies now available in Zimbabwe.

It is unsure how much the actual banknotes from these Asian countries will eventually circulate on the streets, as Zimbabweans have grown accustomed to using the South African Rand for daily transactions and reserving US Dollar bills for greater purchases.

However, with the ongoing devaluation of the South African Rand, the new currencies might soon become street tender, as a the growing bartering industry in the country aids in further disintegrating its ailing economy.

Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa predicted last December that a multi-currency system will remain in place in Zimbabwe for the foreseeable future, and that a return of the

Zimbabwean Dollar might still be considered if the country’s economic liquidity stabilised notably. All things considered, amid fears of a renewed financial crisis in Zimbabwe, it is highly unlikely that we’ll ever see the day.

Built in 1955, the Kariba Dam is one of the world’s tallest hydro-electric dams, standing at 128 metres high. It marks the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, both

of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation was receiving a monthly salary of $37,000 despite the fact that workers had not been paid for over six months.

Zimbabwe has yet to fully recover from the hyper-inflation which rocked its economy a few years ago. The country does not have its own currency, instead using the legal tender of eight other nations, meaning the economy is still very fragile. Zimbabwe also still has major corruption issues in its bureaucratic systems: it is currently ranked 175th of 177 in the global corruption index.

An opposition MP for the MDC, James Maridadi, said this was “just the beginning” of the investigation into ‘Salarygate’ and said there were a number of MPs and senior government officials involved in the misappropriation of state funds. The average wage in Zimbabwe is just $370 a month.

of which run their own respective electric power plants to generate electricity from its turbines. However, in case of major flooding following a potential collapse in the wall of the dam, the consequences would affect several other Southern African countries, which happen to also straddle the Zambezi river – in addition to Zimbabwe and Zambia. Such a worst-case catastrophe would also affect scores of people in Malawi

and Mozambique. About 40 per cent of the region’s electricity would also irreplaceably be cut off.

Measures to save the dam have not been taken yet, however, the World Bank, the European Union and the Development Bank of Southern Africa appear to be workshopping a solution to fund the required repairs before it is too late.

The news of the Kariba Dam’s fate came in the same week as floods hit Masvingo province a little further south in Zimbabwe, leaving thousands displaced and causing $200 million worth of damage at a time, when Zimbabwe is already struggling with its economy. The floods were caused following a leakage in an ill-conceived dam project in the region.

The current tragedy at the Tokwe-Mukorsi dam reveals that homelessness and malnutrition are not the only consequences that would follow such a deluge: the current backlog of stranded villagers suffering to reach hospitals to receive anti-retro-viral medication to combat hIV/AIDS prove that authorities aren’t prepared to accommodate and manage any such disasters.

Weather-related floods across southern Africa have managed to reach as far south as Limpopo Province in South Africa last week.


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by Margot knightTHE Democratic Alliance’s Shadow Minister of Finance, Tim Harris, addressed South African Londoners on Thursday night on the issue of South African’s economy and DA priorities for the upcoming general election.

Harris began by highlighting three areas of the DA’s manifesto; three reforms which he believes can have a “huge effect” on the country. The first related to “tackling the problem of underperformance” and driving trade. The second involved the scrapping of exchange controls which Harris called an “apartheid relic”. “The existence of the controls boggles the mind,” he added. His third point dealt with privatisation. Harris, who believes the country is “not spending enough, maintaining and building infrastructure”, stated that the DA will find “innovative ways” to get assets into the hands of “ordinary South Africans”. Some of these ideas, while already in the National Development Plan (NDP), have not been addressed, he said, using the example of accountability of teachers which has been greeted by “a deafening silence from the ANC”. The reason the NDP is not

DA’s tim harris: Three reforms that could change South Africa’s economy| In an address to South Africans in London, the DA’s Tim Harris highlighted three areas of his party’s manifesto; three reforms he believes can have a “huge effect” on South Africa’s economy

being implemented, he said, is because “government leaders are fundamentally opposed to it”.

The second half of Harris’s speech offered five reasons for optimism about South Africa, the first being Africa’s potential and the DA’s hope to “open up South Africans’ eyes to opportunity”. Secondly, “when government and businesses work together, they do extraordinary things”, he said, using the World Cup as an example. Thirdly, he referred to South Africa’s resources and ingenuity, able to make the country internationally competitive. Fourth, South Africa should not be “obsessed” with the idea of beneficiation to the extent that the country is not experiencing growth, but rather resources should be exported and “then we will see investors starting to come”, he said. Finally, Harris mentioned the “incredible growth trajectory” the DA has experienced in recent years. The party is expecting between 20 and 30% of votes in the upcoming national elections.

one of the final issues harris addressed involved an ‘insider/outsider’ division in the job market. He believes the ANC are not protecting those who are

unemployed and unrepresented by unions. According to Harris, the employment rate can grow by 8% in ten years with the “right reforms”. Addressing the controversy on everyone’s mind, he stated: “The R200m nkandla upgrade personifies everything that’s most corrupt about the ANC.”

He concluded his talk by looking towards the election. Mentioning challenges such as the collapse of the Mamphela Ramphele deal, competition in the form of Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters and possible Western Cape complacency, harris remained confident in the DA. “Our election objectives are definitely in sight for next month,” he said.

Before handing the floor over to questions, Harris referred to ANC monopoly over the media in the run up to the elections, giving it the term the “ANC squeeze” since, he said, the ANC “squeeze us with a show of force”. however, harris is confident that, “this time”, the DA will have the TV coverage and the radio ads so that the public will know that “young black people marching on the streets” for the DA “is a real thing”.

| In the previous three weeks we have discussed the issues of ‘good character’, travel restrictions and the Knowledge of Language and Life requirement as things one have to keep in mind between receiving your indefinite leave to remain and applying for your British citizenship

by breytenbaChsThIS week we conclude this topic, with the issue of retaining your South African nationality.

South Africans must note that if they want to apply for British citizenship, they have to apply for the Retention of South African citizenship before they acquire British citizenship, in order to safeguard their SA citizenship.

This way their SA citizenship is protected and they are able to hold dual citizenship.

If you fail to formally apply for dual citizenship permission before becoming a British Citizen through naturalisation, you will automatically lose your South African citizenship. It is possible to re-instate one’s South

African citizenship once it has been lost, but may cause quite an administrative hassle.

The process to retain your South African nationality has two stages. The first is to apply for a Certificate of non-Acquisition from the uK home office. This is a letter confirming that you have not yet acquired British nationality.

Once this letter is received one will be able to submit the second stage of the application to the South African High Commission. This is when you will be applying for your Certificate of Retention, which will mean that, when you become a UK national, you will still retain your South African nationality, and will thus be a dual citizen of both South Africa and

Things to keep in mind between receiving ILR and applying for British Citizenship – Retaining your South African nationality

the UK. This application can be done in person or post.For further information or for assistance with your application, please contact one of consultants who will be able to provide specific information in your unique case.Please contact our offices at [email protected] or phone us in London on 0845 074 0514.JP BreytenbachDirector of BIC, Breytenbachs Immigration Consultants Limited.www.bic-immigration.com


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Carbon calculator launched to examine SA emissions| A South African carbon calculator modelled after the UK will enable anyone to examine and come up with energy policy

by daMian sutherlandSA experienced its first interest rate high in five years as inflation reached new levels earlier in the year.

The local currency gained nearly one percent against the US Dollar on Thursday after the Reserve Bank left its interest rate on hold. The Reserve Bank did, however, make it clear that it would raise the interest rate at the drop of a hat to combat inflation if need be.

Weak economic growth results from the US also boosted the Rand; this impacted the Dollar and played into the hands of developing currencies. Disappointing US manufacturing data heaped further pressure on the Dollar, leading investors to look elsewhere.

On the local front, many tourists are still in SA to take advantage of the great exchange rate, even as summer draws to a close.

by Charlotte tobittSOUTH Africa has launched its own carbon calculator with the aim of reducing its CO2 footprint by 2050.

The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Judith Macgregor, spoke in Pretoria about how South Africa created their calculator in under a year – quicker than the UK.

She said: “Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a technical and complicated task, but it is important to offer information to the public to explain why government is taking action.

“The great thing about the calculator is that it encourages the user to put forward what they think should happen, not just focus on the things that they don’t like.”

She has also said that the calculator will help South Africa with “good policy making”.

The simple calculator follows the British model, and the idea is that by keeping an eye on emissions in the country,

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politicians, scientists and the general public alike will be able to explore different potential scenarios in energy consumption and emissions so they can adapt their own usage and come up with suggestions to better the environment.

But how crucial is this for South Africa compared to other countries?

The only other countries currently using this calculator system are the UK, China, South Korea, Taiwan and the Wallonia region of Belgium, although eight other countries are currently in development.

According to United Nations figures from 2010, South Africa creates the twelfth highest annual CO2 emissions in the world with 1.47% of world emissions. The UK is in tenth place with 1.57%.

however, these figures are far behind those at the top of the table: China creates 26.43% of the world’s emissions, the USA creates 17.33% and India creates 6.41%.

While China and India both either already use a carbon calculator or have one in development, the USA does not appear to be doing anything similar, so questions may be raised as to why they aren’t leading the crowd with these calculators, especially as they are such a huge country.

Equally, it seems that South Africa’s emissions were already going down by themselves: between 2009 and 2010 they went from 10.1 to 9.1 metric tons of carbon dioxide per capita, according to the World Bank.

It is feared that climate change contributed to the recent higher frequency of flooding, but just because South Africa decreases its emissions does not mean that its environment will be saved.

South Africa is classified as a newly industrialised country, which means it is richer than developing countries but without all the signs of a developed country, including infrastructure. This means it is still more at

| British High Commissioner to South Africa, Judith Macgregor

risk from the consequences of climate change, for which richer countries are often exclusively blamed.

Ultimately, although the UK’s emissions have reduced over the last twenty years, the Carnegie Institution for Science suggested in 2010 that this is because of outsourcing – meaning that manufacturing, and therefore pollution, now largely happens elsewhere, usually in poorer countries.

If the carbon calculator means that politicians push for the same solution in South Africa, the country may go up in the world ratings but it will just be giving the problem to someone else, which does not ultimately help the global environment or help reduce emissions by 80% by 2050 as planned.

On the contrary, at the launch the Department of Environmental Affairs’ Judy Beaumont said that the calculator can be used to plan.

“Users of the 2050 calculator can boost energy supply by

building additional wind turbines, solar panels, coal or nuclear. Or they can reduce energy demand by insulating people’s homes and changing travel behaviour,” she said.

If this is the case and South Africa takes a more hands-on approach than the UK, the country could actually be a forerunner on the sustainable world stage and the country’s infrastructure could change for the better.

Richmond Practice is the success story of a mumpreneur| When Johanna Renz was presented with the problem of what to do with her career after having a baby; her response was Richmond Practice: A one-stop private doctors‘ service developed with help from her husband and private GP, Dr Sebastian Renz

AS a pregnant mother and the parents of a young family the couple knew from first-hand experience that a healthy and happy pregnancy is an important key to staying productive. If your baby is well and sleeps at night, it is much easier to keep the show on the road“. Their main idea was hence to make specialist doctors‘services in pregnancy and the early years of life more readily available to young families.

You can therefore attend Richmond Practice without a referral and are usually seen on the same day by a private GP, consultant paediatricians and/or a gynaecologists/obstetrician who are on duty 60 hours per week for appointments, baby scans, breast feeding advice, vaccines and checks.

The practice was started with limited start-up capital and developed through the credit crunch, while Johanna was pregnant and after the birth of their daughter. At first all profits were invested back in to the company, while the couple were still working in the NHS. They can still remember how much money they saved by getting their baby gear from the NCT’s Nearly New sale – which they continue to actively support. The surgery quickly grew

from a single room at Roseneath Dental Practice, with a secretary taking appointments from her home, to a fully fledged service with eight doctors including six consultant specialists.

The years of hard work have paid off and the couple has both been able to play an active part in family life and their careers. Their daughter and Johanna’s experience of being a mother in the Borough

has been critical to the success of the practice. Richmond Practice is now registered with the Care Quality Commission and BUPA and The Parent’s and Baby Directory in 2012 and 2013 commended it as one of London’s top private clinics with multi-lingual doctors.19 Sheen Road (opposite Waitrose car park), Richmond, TW9 1AD020 8940 5009


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Battered Blitzbokke salvage pride with Plate win at Hong Kong Sevens| The Springbok Sevens rugby team will have to wait another year to try and win their maiden tournament title at the Hong Kong showpiece

| With only days before the beginning of our 2014 April Shootout League, the countdown is on to one of our biggest years of touch on record

by staff rePorterSouth Africa won the Plate Final at the Hong Kong Sevens tournament on Sunday after scoring a close fought 19-14 victory over Wales.

The Springbok Sevens earned 13 valuable log points as they slipped to second on the HSBC Sevens World Series standings with just two more rounds to play in Glasgow (3-4 May) and London (10-11 May).

New Zealand won the Cup Final 26-7 against England to regain the outright World Series lead on 136 points, seven more than South Africa. Fiji remains third on 112.

Jamba Ulengo (2) and Kwagga Smith scored the tries for a severely

Let the summer touch fun begin

by JessiCa PowellThIS month at Clapham Common will see the return of the ever-popular “April Shootout” league, which were a massive success last year and proved to be a big hit with all players and teams. With such demand, we will be running the April Shootout League again this year. The format is quite different from the normal spring and summer touch games: each team will play 2 x 20 minute games a night and the league will run for four weeks, finishing just before the spring leagues start.

The last week will be a finals week with teams playing 2 x 20 minutes of special format ‘Drop Off’ games. The ‘Drop Off’ it is a really exciting way to decide a normal knockout game of touch, where the team drops a player after a certain time period until there are three on each team, and then the first to score wins. The April Shootout is the perfect way to get into the regular touch season while getting some early season fitness and socialising in at the same time.

With only a few spaces available, the matches have already been over-subscribed in for the Clapham April Shootout, with one of the reasons being the amazing after-party we throw.

April Shootout Party Bringing back the roaring

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at Gigalum is set to be adorned by girls in pearls and guys in ties. our first social event for 2014 will be the April Shootout “Flappers & Gangsters” Roaring Twenties party. There will be prizes for best-dressed male and female – so make sure to dress to impress.

We also have some news for all our teams: as we appreciate your loyalty we’re excited to announce that from spring on we will be offering discounts to all of our great In2Touch teams.

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depleted Springboks Sevens against Wales, who tested the South Africans’ resolve throughout, according to SuperSport.

Earlier on Sunday morning England beat the Springbok Sevens 14-7 to hand them their first defeat in a Cup quarter-final this season. That meant that SA was relegated to the Plate competition, where they defeated the USA 24-19 in the semifinals.

South Africa’s playing resources were stretched thin because of injuries to captain, Kyle Brown, Phillip Snyman and Cecil Afrika while Branco du Preez also received a blow above the eye against the USA and had to be replaced.

The England defeat also brought

to a halt South Africa’s fine and impressive run of appearing in five consecutive World Series Cup Finals. Furthermore, the Springbok Sevens will have to wait another year to try and win their maiden tournament title at the Hong Kong showpiece.

Afterwards, stand-in skipper Frankie Horne explained it was extremely tough to play with the assortment of injuries the team picked up over the three days.

he said: “We lost Kyle after he went off in the second minute of our first match on friday and was then ruled out of action for the rest of the tournament as a precaution. Cecil injured his groin and Phillip was also sidelined for the last two

matches because of a sore neck,” explained Horne.

According to the veteran, he is however glad the Blitzbokke could gather 13 points in the end from their Plate Final win over Wales.

Plate semifinalWerner Kok made a try-saving

tackle in the final seconds of their Plate semi-final against an impressive USA, who lost a real cliffhanger 24-19.

The Blitzboks were determined to put their loss against England in the Cup quarter-finals behind them and quickly raced into a commanding 24-0 lead.

Ulengo (2) and Stephan Dippenaar (2) scored the South

Africans, but the USA hit back with three tries in the second half to almost snatch the game away from the Blitzboks.

With time running out and the USA enjoying all the momentum, Kok made a crucial tackle to force a penalty at the breakdown as South Africa held on for win.

Cup quarterfinalIn the second half the Blitzbokke

had several opportunities to score again but handling mistakes and defence by the English prevented them from adding another try. Jack Clifford then scored a long range try and England then absorbed the pressure to close the match out and eliminate South Africa.

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AB DE VILLIErS: LEADINg from thE froNt oNcE morE| To many, AB de Villiers is the most valuable player in the Proteas’ squad, and his performance this weekend at the Twenty20 internationals just reinforced why

by JereMy bortzAFTER a tense and rather turbulent week, the Proteas are through to the semi-finals of the World T20. Following a narrow loss to Sri Lanka, a nail-biting two run victory against the Black Caps and a hard-fought six run victory against the determined Dutch, the Proteas beat England in a superb 389 run thriller over the weekend to secure their place in the final four.

And like so often in the past, it was AB de Villiers who literally and figuratively led from the front. Captaining the side in place of Faf du Plessis, who had been suspended for a slow over rate, De Villiers underlined once more why he is without doubt not only one of the best batsman in the world but also the most valuable member of the Proteas’ squad.

Coming in at number three, a position many argue he should occupy permanently, De Villiers hit a superb 69 off just 28 balls (with nine fours and and three sixes) to guide his side to 196, the highest score of the tournament to date.

He then marshaled his bowlers expertly, and fielded superbly too, to lead the Proteas to a narrow three run victory against England thereby securing their place in the semi-finals.

over the past five years, De Villiers is the only batsman across both Tests and one-day internationals to average more than 60. Compared to a Test average of less than 42 before 2009, his post-2009 average has leaped to 64, an increase of more than 53%. He has averaged more than 55 in each

of his last six Test series, four of which have been against Australia and Pakistan, and one each against India and new Zealand.

In the shorter 50-over format of the game, his average has shot up from 36.40 to 62.51, a rise of almost 72%. In addition, his strike rate has gone up to very nearly a run a ball – he has scored 4001 runs from 4002 balls during this period.

These numbers are in addition to his added responsibilities of keeping wicket in the longer format of the game and captaining the side in the 50 over format. With the recent retirement of Graeme Smith, many expect de Villiers to take over the captaincy of the Test side as well and it is likely he will relinquish the gloves if not immediately then in the short term.

I suspect he will move just a few steps to the side to occupy Smith’s position at first slip while not keeping will allow him to come in at number four and improve his impressive numbers even more.

So far, however, his stats in Twenty20 internationals aren’t in keeping with his class and his numbers in other formats. While his IPL numbers are as we would expect; averaging 37.72 at a strike rate of 162.8 over the past two seasons, before this World T20, de Villiers averaged just 19.76 against the Test-playing sides at a strike rate of 116.81.

This World Cup is improving these numbers and and all fans will be hoping that continues to be the case as the Proteas aim to throw off the ‘c-word’ shackle and deliver at a world cup.

| AB de Villiers of South Africa receives man of the match from A J M Nasir Uddin after the ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014 match between England and South Africa at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Saturday in Chittagong, Bangladesh. (Photo by Graham Crouch-IDI/IDI via Getty Images)

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