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Agents of Change, the We Care Ministry’s youth empowerment programme, have found shocking

revelations in the Bika township, But-terworth.

The youth programme’s supervisor, Sibulele Yawa told Ikamva LaseGcuwa: “We usually conduct door to door cam-paigns and Bika was no exception. Our members were so shocked to found that there was always a 16-year-old woman living alone in Bika. We asked her why and she revealed everything to us.”

Yawa said the woman, whose name is known to Ikamva LaseGcuwa, disclosed that she was HIV positive. “She also has two young kids who are both HIV positive. The young woman is heading her family since her parents also died,” said Yawa.

What is shocking, said Yawa, is that the woman is being abused by her 32-year-old boyfriend. “The boyfriend is

not the father of the two kids and the problem is that he does not want to accept the HIV status of his girlfriend. The boyfriend is also an alcoholic and we fear he might spread the virus,” said Yawa.

Yawa said they are glad the young woman has revealed her HIV status. “More should follow suit and stop hid-ing because that will endanger their lives. We are now on progress in help-ing the young woman. We are also in progress in making sure that her young kids are rescued and be placed in the safety area,” she said.

Yawa said young people in Mnquma, like any other place in South Africa, are faced with mammoth tasks that need guidance all the time. “There is a lot like drug abuse, teenage pregnancy and unemployment. What we have found out is that young people out there are not aware of the problems they are in, until someone comes closer to them. We had played an important role in changing the mindset of many of them.”

Shocking revelations in Bika

SITHANDIWE VELAPHI

Uluntu lwaseGcuwa lusabambe onge-zantsi luzama ukucinga ukuba yin-toni unobangela ofikelele kwisigqi-

bo sentwazana ehlala kumamatyotyombe aseSkiet, nebanjwe ngamapolisa kwizity-holo zokubulala imveku yayo enenyanga ezimbini.

U-Andiswa Fikile, oneminyaka engamashumi amabini ananye (21), ubanjwe emva kokutyiwa sisigquku sokubulala umntwana wakhe oyikwekwe. Kuvakala ukuba oku kwenzeke ngomhla wamashumi amabini ananye (21) kwin-yanga yeNkanga.

Lentwazana yakwaFikile imkrwitshe ze yayokumlahla kwihlathi elikwindawo eyaziwa njengeExtension Six eGcuwa. Emva koko, ngokomlomo wamapolisa, iye yatya tyum iqhatha onozala bayo ngelithi imse kuloyise umntwana.

Isithethi samapolisa uKapteni Jackson Manatha uthi: “Abazali balentwazana baye bakrokra ze bagqiba ngelokuthi batsalele umnxeba kuloyise womntwana. Bothuke de baphantse bayokuwa xa besiva ukuba akukho kwamntwana kuloyise.”

UManatha uthi abazali balentwazana baye bagqiba kwelokumncwina ngemibu-zo u-Andiswa, ngenjongo zokuqonda uku-ba uphi umzukulwana wabo. “Ngenene uye wabasa kwindawo yexhwayelo apho

bafike sele ebolile lomntwana. Amapoli-sa aye ayibamba ngezityholo zokubulala lentwazana,” utshilo uManatha.

Amapolisa athi unobangela welisikizi awukaziwa. Ephemfula kwelinqaku, uSi-bulele Yawa, okhokela ivela-tanci elijolise kutshintsho lwempilo yolutsha i-Agents of Change yaseGcuwa uthe: “Abantu abat-sha bafuna ukukhuthazwa ngokwasem-phufumlweni. Zininzi izinto abagexeleka kuzo nezifana neziyobisi, ukukhulelwa okungenamfuneko kwakunye nokungayi esikolweni.”

UManatha uthi lentwazana izakunikwa ithuba elilodwa lokuvavanywa nguMan-tyi, ze emva koko liqhube ityala.

Ongamele iqumrhu lamapolisa anga-makhosikazi kwindibanisela yezitishi zaseGcuwa uLt Bulelwa Ngxaza ugxeka abazali njengonobangela wokuqhekeka kwezimilo zamantobazana.

“Into eqaphelekayo ngoku, kukuba nga-mantombazana abonakala efaka abazali ezingxakini. Oomama emakhaya kufuneka baphakame bazame ukuqeqesha iintsana zabo. Zininzi izinto umntu angazenza ukunqanda ukukhulelwa. Ezizinto zifana nocwangciso kwakunye neentsilathi (con-dom),” utshilo uNgxaza.

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Mnyani’s accused sentenced for other offence

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Luthando Ngambu (18) who is accused for mur-der of Butterworth teach-

er Mlungisi Mnyani, together with his 17-year-old friend, was expected to apply for bail on December 11 at Butter-worth Magistrate’s Court but his recent conviction for car theft in East London changed all of that.

He is currently serving a sen-tence in East London for car theft but also an accused in a murder case of Mnyani, who he was also church goer with in

Butterworth. Ngambu, a student at Nda-

bankulu Senior Secondary School with the unnamed mi-nor, are accused of murdering Mnyani who was a teacher at Thembelihle Junior Secondary School at Ndabakazi Village, Butterworth.

It is alleged that Mnyani was drinking with Ngambu in a tav-ern at Ndabakazi Village on No-vember 09 prior to his murder.

“Both went to sleep at the home of the educator as his wife was at Bizana where is she is teaching. It is believed the deceased became drowsy

Unyaka onesiqhuma eziseleniBATANDWA MALINGO

Uzakugqiba unyaka wonke ebhadla ez-iseleni zogcino lwamapolisa uLung-iswa Xuba nongunkosikazi kum-

fundisi wamaTshetshi (St Peters Anglican Church) uOngama Xuba emveni kokuba uMantyi waseGcuwa elihlehlisele umhla we 11 kweyeNkanga kulonyaka uzayo (11 November 2013) ityala lakhe nalowo aty-holwa naye uVuyo Mehlo.

Esisibini sabanjwa ngomhla wama 24 kweYeThupha kulo umiyo ngokurhaneleka ekugwintweni ngokumasikizi komfundisi uOngama Xuba. Bakhe bavela kwinkund-

la kamantyi waseGcuwa ngomhla we11 kweyeDwarha ngesicelo sebheyile suka umantyi wasikhabela kude esithi izizathu abazibekayo azanelanga ukuba bangade bakhululwe bangagcinwa eziseleni.

Siye savela kwakhona ke esisibini ngomh-la we 11 KweYomnga kwinkundla zaseGcu-wa apho uMantyi athe ityala labo lizakux-oxwa kwinkundla ephakamileyo kwalapho eGcuwa ukusuka ngomhla we 11 ukuya kwi 22 kweyeNkanga kulonyaka uzayo.

Into leyo ethetha ukuba sizokugqiba un-yaka onenyanga ezimbini sithothoza ez-iseleni zamapolisa esisibini silinde umhla wokuxoxwa kwetyala.

and slept. It was at that stage that Ngambu drove away with the car of the deceased and he went to his friend at Komga near East London,” said police spokesperson Capt Jackson Manatha.

The pair allegedly drove back to Mnyani’s house where they attacked him while he was still sleeping then drove to Komga with his corpse where they left it between Komga and King William’s Town.

The 17-year-old friend also appeared

before preliminary inquiry which is exclu-sive to the magistrate, investigator, lawyer, prosecutor and the parents only.

According to Child Justice Act 75 of 2008 he cannot follow the normal court proce-dure. He is kept at a centre for young of-fenders in East London.

The case was then postponed to January 18 as the defence could not apply for bail as the accused is already in jail serving an-other sentence.

Fidelity workers return to work without increament BATANDWA MALINGO

Fidelity Security Ser-vices in the province have since returned to work after they were threatened to be fired by their employers following their illegal strike which they em-barked on December 03.

The workers claim they are currently getting R2 500. Upon that, workers claim, there are some de-ductions which were not formally commu-nicated to them.

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Workers, who are on their first ever strike action, are respon-sible for transport-ing money to pension pay points and some banking institutions.

They said that they are paid “peanuts, billed for company vehicles repairs, drive unsafe vehicles, re-ceive no medical aid and no compensation fund.”

Ikamva LaseGcuwa visited the company on a rainy morn-ing of December 05 and found workers protesting outside the company yard at Ibika Township while the work continued inside with locked gates after the com-pany had acquired external workforce.

The workers al-leged that the com-pany temporarily employed foreigners in their places to con-tinue with the opera-tions. We spoke to the workers of whom some have been with

the company for more than 10 years.

“We are on strike because we are treat-ed badly here, how can they expect you to feed your family, school and cloth your children with R2800?” asked one worker.

He continued and said that when the company vehicle’s tyre burst they are expected to cough up R1100 to R1500 from the little that they get which would then leave them with noth-ing.

Another one echoed his words and added that even the com-pany vehicles are not safe. “So even if you die while work-ing here, your family won’t get anything,” he said.

Butterworth branch depot manager Leslie Mawisa said that the workers were on an illegal strike but he said that the company is running smoothly at the time.

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Mbhashe Local Municipality, which was once declared one of the poorest in the country, told journalists it is moving ahead to be the force to be reckoned with on service delivery and prior-itising work ethics.

The embattled municipality said since its council removed mayor Olga Nonceba Mfecane in October, things have change. “Roads are being built and repaired, streets in all our towns are being cleaned, ratepayers are coming on board and we are clear on our direction,” said the new mayor Mthetheli Mbhele.

Mbhele said Mfecane was one stumbling block on Mbhashe service delivery. “Under her leadership, we agreed, we were her councillors but she has the people of Mbhashe. She, in fact, has plunged the municipality of corruption ranging to R28m which now we are on process of retrieving,” said Mbhele.

He said the municipality can never be the same without Mb-hele. “Her leadership was questionable. She was the political principal but she never cared about some of the projects which were key to developing the people of Mbhashe,” said Mbhele.

In a report published by the Daily Dispatch recently, MEC for Local Government Mlibo Qoboshiyane said he was progressing well to consider invoking Section 139 1c in Mbhashe. This sec-tion is invoked when the municipality cannot perform its du-ties.

Cope councillor in Mbhashe, Nkosinathi Ndlodaka, said: “The ANC has a bad habit of confusing municipalities with ANC branches, and they seem not tolearn from their past defeats in courts over these improper implementation ofsection 139 of the constitution. This is a clear factionalist agenda to pro-tect MEC’s ever failing political darlings who are under siege in these municipalities.”

Mfecane recently told the newspaper she was not involved in any fight in the municipality. She said allegations of corruption and fraud labelled against her, are unfounded and baseless. “If you say I am guilty of corruption, why cannot you provide proof of that,” she said.

‘Mnquma political dust settling?’SITHANDIWE VELAPHI

Mnquma Local Municipality speaker Nomnikelo Magadla recently told Ikamva LaseGcuwa that she has not yet received a letter from MEC for Local Government Mlibo Qoboshiyane, who or-dered the municipality to reverse its decision of suspending mayor Bhabha Ganjana.

Ganjana said the decision to suspend him last month was illegal. He said he was never even consulted or received a letter for such “in time.” “I demanded that letter by myself and it was vague in its content,” he said.

Qoboshiyane said he will never allow council-lors who just woke and feel to suspend others. “The suspension of Cllr Ganjana was illegal and I have not yet received a letter from Mnquma council which reasoned why the mayor was sus-pended,” said the MEC.

Mnquma’s communication team said the mu-nicipality has recently fallen prey to a lot of neg-ative and inaccurate media coverage, which has in turn caused a lot of confusion amongst our community members, employees and stakehold-ers at large.

“The Municipality would primarily like to put it on record that there are two legitimate heads in the municipality. Our Political Head is His Worship Executive Mayor Councillor Baba Mn-tuwoxolo Ganjana and at the helm of the admin-istration we are still headed by Municipal Man-ager Mr Ngamela Pakade.

“On 20 November 2012, a special council meet-ing which was not on the institutions planned and adopted calendar of events was convened at the request of Councillor Nomnikelo Magadla who is the Municipality’s Council Speaker. The said council meeting sat, yet it did not meet its quorum as wrongly reported on the Saturday Dispatch of 24 November 2012. To meet a quo-rum, there should be a minimum of 50% + 1, which then translates to 32 councillors, yet on

the 20th November, there were only 30 councillors present at the meeting,” Mnquma said on its state-ment to media.

A letter from Qoboshiyane, which Ikamva LaseGcu-wa has in possession, said: “In terms of the Municipal Systems Act (as amended) (Clause 14(2) of the Code of Conduct for Councillors) it is the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) that has been empowered by legislation to suspend a councillor for whatever reason, and not the Municipal Council”.

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Man dozes off after raping 82 year old woman A man was arrested while sleeping at his vic-tim’s bed at Xilinxa Village, Ngqamakwe for allegedly raping an 82 year old woman. Police say that the woman was sleeping in her room while her son was sleeping in his separate room on the night of December 09. It is alleged that the victim felt some footsteps at about 11 pm then saw her door being pushed wide open by a man who threatened her with a knife. The 42 year old suspect then entered and raped the victim but she managed to identify the suspect as the friend of her son from the same village.

It is alleged that the suspect felt asleep once he finished raping the old woman. The clever old woman left the suspect in deep slumber in her bed to wake up her son who called the community members. The community found the suspect snoring and arrested him. He was then given to the police by community mem-bers unharmed. He briefly appeared before Ngqamakwe Magistrate’s Court on December 12 facing rape charges.

18 boys arrested for attempted murder18 boys between 19 and 21 years of age were arrested after they allegedly injured a 19 year old boy in what is believed to the faction fight between the boys from Mkhonkotho Village

and Holela Village of Centane. The 19 year old boy was assaulted at about

08 in the morning near Madiba Informal Set-tlement at Msobomvu Township Butterworth on December. The severely injured victim was then rushed to Butterworth hospital in a seri-ous condition. The arrested boys will all ap-peared before the Butterworth Magistrate’s Court on December 10 on attempted murder charges.

Mqanduli man killed over a zoll of tobaccoA 30 year old man was stabbed to death on in the evening of December 08 for taking a zoll of tobacco from another man by force at Futye village in Mqanduli. It is said that the deceased and the suspect were in a traditional ceremony enjoying themselves with liquor and meat. It is alleged that the deceased asked for tobacco from the suspect whom he refused and the de-ceased took it by force. Police say that the sus-pect became angry and stabbed the deceased to death. The SAPS found a knife at the scene. The 54 year old man was then arrested and he briefly appeared before Mqanduli Magistrate’s Court on murder charges.

70 year old Butter-worth granny mur-deredA concerned villager saved the day when she

Crime Reportfound 70 year old Butterworth granny murdered in the morning of November 04 at Zangwa Vil-lage in Butterworth. Nompucuko Tshuku was staying alone as her elder son was out of Butterworth where he was visiting family friends while her younger son was sleeping with another family in a different homestead within the same village. It is alleged that the deceased was found by the villager who was worried that she did not see her as she was supposed to go and collect her old age pension at her pay point that day.

Police found that the deceased had suffered a slight wound on her lower body and had scratches around her neck. Police say that the suspect was found in her bed, they allege that she might have been raped. Two suspects between the ages of 20 and 23 respectively were arrested for the cold blooded murder. They both appeared be-fore the Butterworth Magistrate’s court on December 06 for murder.

25 year old stabbed by cousinA misunderstanding that took place on the night of December 02 between relatives resulted in murder of a 26 year old woman at Gwadana Village, Dutywa. It is alleged that the 25 year old had an argument with her 25 year old cousin brother.

It is further alleged that the cousin brother stabbed his cousin sister with a sharp instrument on her upper body which led to the death of the woman instantly. The suspect then took on his heels and ran for his life but the community who were at the homestead where the crime took place chased him. They caught up with him and he was arrested. The community then handed the man over to Dutywa Police.

The bone of the contention is yet to be established but the suspect was charged with murder and he briefly appeared before the Duty-wa magistrate court on December 04 on murder charges.

65 year old Wil-lowvale wom-an raped A woman who is stays alone at Mahasana Village, Willowvale was attacked and raped very on the morning of December 02. Police say that the suspect pushed the door of the house of the victim and raped the 65 year old woman. The victim alerted community mem-bers within the village as she knew the perpetrator.

Community members hunted the suspect, found him and he was arrested by the community. He was handed over to Willowvale Police where he was charged with rape. The 26 old suspect appeared before the Willowvale magistrate court on December 04.

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Cluster commander Colonel Coert Jordaan praised and thanked the community for their assistance in crime fight-ing. He urged the other com-munity members to emulate the actions of Mahasana Village especially during the 16 days of activism of no violence against women and children and the beyond.

14 year old Madiba girl raped Sosulele Mrwetyana (29) who had just finished his 10 year jail sentence for rape was arrested again by Butterworth police after he allegedly raped a 14 year old girl at Madiba Informal Settlement in Butterworth. Po-lice say that the girl was alone at the time of the incident but after the mother was informed, she contacted the man in blue. Mrwetyana was then arrested and appeared briefly before the Butterworth Magistrate’s Court on December 12 for rape charges.

Ethiopian na-tional killed in NdabakaziPolice are investigating a case of murder after a 31-year-old Ethopian national, who was running two trading stores in Ndabakazi (Butterworth), was found murdered at Jojweni Lo-cation, Butterworth. It is alleged that he drove his car from one of his trading stores at Mqam-beli Location to Ceru Location where he was staying with his 29-year-old South African girl-friend. The girlfriend told police that she heard him closing the doors of his car and expected him to come inside their house.Police spokesperson Capt Jack-son Manatha said: “The girl-friend was worried when he did not come inside and pan-icked. She went outside and did not see the man and his car. She then contacted the police telephonically. The man hunt ensued and the car of the man was found at Ndabakazi forest without him. Police dog unit from East London was called and they searched the forest but in vain.”Manatha said Butterworth Po-lice opened a missing person profile. The body of the Etho-pian national was then found in an open field by villager with two wounds on his upper body. He was found at Jojweni Loca-tion. No suspect has been arrested and anyone with information is requested to contact Butter-worth Police at 047 401 1100 , Crime Stop 08600 10111 or sms Crime line 32211. But-terworth Police have opened a murder case.


Commentary

LETTERSIzityholo zokubulawa kwemveki yaseSkietZambi ke ezo ndaba,ingakumbi ngexesha ilizwe lonke liphethe uphulo olulwa nempatho-mbi kumanina nabantwana (16 days of activism against women and children abuse)Siyabonga J Msengana, Ngqamakhwe

Jehova nithi abantu batheni? Kuliwa nempatho gada-lala kubo nabantwa bajike benze amanyukunyezi anje kwabona hayke ndoyisiwe.Jonathan Sokuyeka, Ngqamakhwe

Yaz sometimes I wish I was God!#feeling d pain# If I waz ill purnish dis whitch gal,ubom bakhe bonke coz she dnt know wat she want! But I know god will ansa that innocent child!Winnie Rori Ntwanambi, Centane

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Can’t put my finger on it

It is that time of the year when families, loved ones shared love, exchange gifts kids buying for Christmas, yes it is the festive seasons. Those that leave, work in far away cities come home to spend time at home and enjoy the holidays. What is sad at this time are the continuing reports of murder, rape and abuse of women and children by parents, partners even though we have it has been a few days of the 16 days of activism against abuse of women and children launched every year in Novem-ber to highlight this scourge. What really shocked me is the murder of less than three months infant allegedly by her mother in Butterworth recently and the report of a son raping her mother in Lady Frere. Has our moral fibre dis-intergrated to such levels we now torment our own parents, children who brought or we brought to this world. It is shame to be part of a society that seems to not have any solution to this prob-lem. We only hope and wish that swift justice will be done with such cases as they are now become a daily bread in our lives and may the sentences be harsher than it is now. Really can we reconsider calling back the death sen-tence or is this my emotions speaking? Ikamva we like to wish all those learners who passed their exams great things for 2013, to those that did not make the cut next year still another opportunity. To 2012 matric group still biting their fingers eagerly awaiting their results, I want to say whatever the outcome never believe in failure take this as a chal-lenge. I is on a sad note that we will be parting ways with Bathandwa Malingo who has been with Ikamva the past six months, he has become part our lives at newsroom, our readers and clients. We wish him the best of luck as he continues with his studies and thank WSU/SNA for having given opportunity to work with this Journo in making. Last but not list, we wish our readers, clients and supporters the best festive and prosper-ous new year. As they say in Xhosa, Sinin-qwenela iholide ezimnandi nonyaka ozele amathamsanqa!!!!Sivuyile Mbatha

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Hooray WE CARE

We Care Ministry, a non-governmental organisation in Butterworth, recently celebrated its ten year anniversary. The celebrations were held at Butterworth Christian Centre where the organisation started. We Care has impacted many lives of people in the Mnquma area. They had an achievement of touching the lives of 44 000 people, in 2011 alone, manned by their 250 caregivers. The founder of the centre, Nokwanda Ntloko, wrote for Ikamva LaseGcuwa. In this article Ntloko shares with us the ups and downs of running an NGo in the midst of global economic crisis.

This is what Ntloko said:

We Care started in 2000 as Butter-worth Christian Centre (BCC) HIV/AIDS Ministries with ten ladies. In 2002 we got registered with De-partment of Social Development as We Care. We were helped by the church (BCC) with an office. I, as the founder, felt that I had a calling for this, hence in 2006 I resigned from a profession of teaching and became a fulltime manager for We Care. Our core business is primary health care – home based care, counseling, treatment support, health promotion, youth mentor-ing, skill development and food gar-den promotion

My resignation in 2006 came with a breakthrough of getting funding from EUPDPHCP (Euro-pean Union) for three years from 2008 to 2010. This funding made it possible for us to have an office that we are now renting at King Street, Butterworth. It is full of furniture and have a manager, retired profes-sional nurse, finance person and 17

caregivers who are all on stipend .It was for the first time that our care-givers have bank accounts, thanks to EU. Our areas that we were focus-ing on were informal settlements of Skiti, Bhungeni and Siyanda in-cluding the town of Butterworth. In 2009 because of the demand for the service we had to add other areas like Mission, Mzantsi, Tobotshana and Mpenduza and those caregiv-ers were funded by Department of Social Development and we then added a secretary in the office.

We had a challenge that people were knocking to our offices for the services where we do not have competency on. The aforemen-tioned challenge made us to focus on searching for more funding .We saw a tender application from Daily Dispatch by IDT and we expressed our interest. It was in 2010 and we got the tender to employ 150 care-givers. In 2011 we had about 200 caregivers and in 2012 it was whop-ping 250 caregivers in Mnquma which is of Centane, Butterworth and Nqamakwe focusing on areas

where there are no such services.Social Development helped us to

buy food parcels for our destitute families, school uniform for the un-fortunate and disadvantage pupils, Christmas clothes for Office for Vic-tims of Crimes (OVC). We have edu-cational tours, camps and outings for our OVC.

Recently we have discovered that we have been not having close fo-cused to young people between ages 18 and 35 and we immediately took on board young people who are role models and not drinking and smoking to mentor. They are starting with their surroundings and schools where they are known having talks with parents and their children addressing challenges and doing referrals where possible. Our country’s hopeless young people are need of spiritual motivation. Our young people are living an ab-normal life. They suffer from drugs, substance abuse, HIV/Aids and un-employment.

Ntloko is the manager at We Care

Inyhikithya yokubhubha kwabantu eTholeniSiyoneliseka lungenelelo lukaRhulumente namapoli-sa aseGcuwa kumcimbi waseTholeni. Siyazi ukuba mhlawumbi kungaba kanti akakabanjwa oyena mntu ebefudula esiduba-duba kodwa ke sithi noko sonelisekile kukukhathalelwa nguRhulumente. Kudala sikhalaza malunga nokunqongophala kongenelo lukaRhulumente apha eTholeni. Umhlali waseTholeni, eGcuwa

Uqhankqalazo kwaFidelityBekunga abaqashi bakwaFidelity bangaphendula kwizikhalazo zabasebenzi babo. Kubi ukubona abantu abathwaliswe uxanduva njengabasebenzi bakwaFidelity, bekuqhankqalazo. Lowo ngumngcipheko welizwe liphela.Themba, Msobomvu

‘WE CARE for hopeless’


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OVER INDULGENCE DURING FESTIVE SEASON

The festive season is rolling in full speed. Sum-mer has finally arrived and we are busy getting ready for festivities. There are lots of great things

about holidays such as having time off work, relaxing and recovering after a busy year, having precious time with the family and friends, enjoying beach and food. Unfortunately the busy festive seasons makes us over indulge. We over eat, over drink, over suntan, under sleep.

Too much food in a short period of time will have effect on the body. If you overeat you will gain weight. Fatty and meaty food is associated with a higher risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke. It is especially dangerous on hot summer days when the body may be dehydrated from heat and lack of water. South Africans of all ages love bray. It’s a great way to catch up with friends and family as well as consume delicious food. Make healthy choices – lean meat, os-trich sausages, chicken breasts, fish have less fat and are much better for you than lamb, beef, pork, drum-sticks. If you have to have red meat, eat it in modera-tion. Over eating will damage your body and may even kill you. It very hard to loose extra kilos and so easy to gain them. Enjoy your braai by choosing healthier op-tions and right amounts of food.

Sweets is another problem. Just because it’s a holi-day people consume enormous amounts of chocolates, sweets, biscuits, cakes and juices. The problem is all the extra kilos from this food, risk of diabetes, prob-lems with teeth… Some thing sweet in moderations is OK, but do not overdo it. Try control yourself by avoid-ing the sweets, which might be the easiest option. If you don’t have one, you won’t want another one. Do not give sweets as presents rather give fruit (for ex-ample, strawberries and apples). Fruit is delicious and much healthier.

Alcohol is another killer during the festive seasons. Do not drink and drive as accidents are fatal and bring devastation instead of holiday to the families and friends. We know that the number of accidents dur-ing the festive seasons increases and alcohol is a main

reason behind it. So be responsible. If you decide to have an alcoholic drink and you are unsafe to drive, do not drive, stay where you are and ask someone else to drive you. Think of your family and other people on the roads who will be put in danger by drunk drivers.

Alcohol does not only lead to road accidents. Drunk people pick up fights easily and hurt each other, some-times killing each other. There are many more people brought to hospitals with gunshots and stab wounds during the holiday season. Majority of the injured peo-ple are drunk. Being under influence of alcohol stops people from thinking clearly and judging the situation appropriately and these results in unnecessary fights. Weapons (gun or kitchen knives), fights and alcohol are extremely dangerous combination that ends up in terrible tragedies.

If too much alcohol was drunk it may even lead to alcohol poisoning. It is very dangerous and might even kill person. Alcohol damages liver and pancreas. Un-fortunately, there is not a cure for such damage. We can treat it, but won’t be able to cure alcohol damage to the body. Someone who is very drunk may vomit and breathe in vomit, which may also kill them. Hang-over with a headache, nausea, irritability is a common problem after drinking alcohol. Lots of water and pain killers such panado will help to recover from hangover. Be sure to avoid it though.

Constant partying and not sleeping enough and not giving your body a deserved rest also has detrimen-tal effect on the body and the mind. Unstable sleeping hours is the biggest stress to the body. This stress may have some immediate effect such as bad mood and ir-ritability and long-term effect’s such serious illnesses, flu, depression etc. Lack of sleep makes it very difficult for people to function well and follow daily activities. Lack of sleep makes driving dangerous and is a cause of the accidents.

Beach is the must during summer holidays. But as much as it is fun to spend time on the beach it may be dangerous. Sun can burn! Be careful and avoid direct sun in the middle of the day and for long time (more

than half an hour). If you want to age quickly spend your day in the sun and you will achieve it, on the oth-er hand you would like to look young you should avoid sun. When you are in the sun always use sun-protec-tive cream. It will protect your skin from developing cancer as well as will help to stay young. Always wear a hat in sun to protect yourself from sunburn and over-heating. Protect your children from sun as it is even more dangerous for them.

Be careful in water. Every year many children and adults drown. It is very sad statistics. Even people who can swim can still drown. So make sure you swim only between the flags where there are lifesavers. My ad-vice to not swim if there are no lifesavers on duty. Your life is too precious to take the risk. Ocean is dangerous, and even the water that looks the calmest may have a strong current that you cannot see and won’t be able to fight. Never go swimming alone. Never (even for a second or minute) leave your children unsupervised near water. Small kids can drown even in the toilet ball and it takes seconds for them to get into the pool and disappear. It is especially dangerous during festive seasons when big families and friends get together and small children are looked after by many people in which case everyone thinks that the other person is with the child meanwhile the child may be putting themselves in danger. Ninety percent of children who drown are under some sort of supervision at the time. It takes only four minutes without oxygen for irrevers-ible brain damage to occur. Playing in water is lots of fun and my favorite activity in summer. Have fun and stay safe!

Have lots of fun with your families and friends and keep healthy meanwhile you are having great time. Make sure you eat healthy (lean meat and vegetables and fruit), drink lots of water, avoid overeating and overdrinking alcohol, sleep a lot, stay safe in water and on the beach. Playing sport is an excellent activ-ity which brings lots of fun and will keep your healthy. Enjoy your holidays, have a great Christmas and New Year!

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Professor Khaya Mfenyana who heads WSU’s Office of the Vice-Chancellor uttered these words to the Faculty of Health Science graduates who were formally taking their sworn Oath to uphold the tenets of their chosen professions in-ducted into the practice of their noble professions.

The group of 248 graduates inclusive of Medical Doctors, Social Workers and Clini-cal Associates took a pledge of service as a declaration signifying the umbilical rela-tionship they have with their communities at the Nelson Mandela Drive Site, Mthatha Campus on 6 December.

“We have tried to instill in you a sense of leadership where you understand that you are change agents for your life, your community and your country. It then becomes critical that each and every one of you upholds integrity, ethics and professionalism within the health profession until you stop practicing or leave this earth,” emphasized Professor Mfenyana

Oath-taking ceremonies are important for health pro-fessionals as they signify the direct relationship these pro-fessionals will have with the lives of human beings and the importance of serving those lives in a selfless manner.

Statistics of communicable diseases, mother and child, injuries and non communi-cable diseases seem to be on the rise in South Africa. Grad-uates need to take the skills and knowledge given to them

at WSU to communities and decrease the numbers cur-rently making the rounds in the public domain by finding innovative ways to do so said Mfenyane.

He continued that ‘respect-ing one’s self means being able to respect your profes-sion and its ethics as well as serving with diligence, re-spect, truth, integrity, humil-ity and care’.

Speaking on behalf of their colleagues graduates shared the same sentiments: that they are ready to be guided by their profession’s prin-ciples and policies as well as be guided by everyday les-sons they have learned in the classroom and most impor-tantly lessons learned in the practical field of study.

“I believe that for most of us our profession is a calling that we are passionate about and we commit to giving ev-erything we have physically, emotionally and otherwise to make sure that we help soci-eties to the best of our abili-ties,” said Luyanda Mbanga,

MBChB.Other speakers on the day

strongly emphasized that stu-dents pay critical attention to the pledge that states that ‘they should serve to the best of their knowledge, skills and attitudes for the good of all humanity, to do no harm and to be aware of patient rights which include confidentiality.

“Once you are out there know your limits and con-tinue to study extensively so that you refine your skill. We do not want to see our students facing charges and being tabled at the HPCSA Professional Conduct Review Committee for negligence and endangerment of people’s lives,” concluded Professor Mfenyana.

Mrs. Nothemba Lupuzi said that it was a great joy to witness her daughter tak-ing her oath as the occasion marked the result of years of hard work by her daughter to achieve her dreams, as well as personal sacrifices she had to endure in support of her child’s dreams.

Ntokozo and Ncandweni grace ButterworthBATANDWA MALINGO

PRAISE, worship and singing were the order of the day at Msobomvu Hall on December 08 when Ntokozo Gospel Group hosted its Gospel Festival which is aimed at showcasing local talent and to show how well established singers operate.

The festival which is its fourth year attracted local artists like Vava, Yolanda, Sine and Assemblies of God Junior Choir. Ntokozo Gospel lead singer Ndabele Chief Mtoto said that the idea came about as they saw that there were no gospel festivals in South Africa.

“There is no gospel festival in South Africa, there are only cultural festivals and gospel is not included in those festivals,” said Mtoto of the 10-member group, Ntokozo.

He said that the main objective of the festival was to show these lo-cal acts how big groups like Ncandweni conduct themselves on stage and also show their journey in the music industry.

“We wanted to make sure these local groups see how big groups do things and also that they must be persistent as things turn to take time that what is expected,” he said.

The festival kicked off with local artists sharing the stage with guest artists like Unathi from Bisho, Mawethu from East London, Oomakoti Bevangeli from Mthatha, the hosts Nkokozo Gospel Group and the South African Music Award winning group Ncandweni Christ Ambas-sadors.

Ndabele Mtoto said that he is happy with the way things turned out but was disappointed with the absence of Mnquma Local Municipal-ity as they were invited.

He thanked the Eastern Cape Provincial Arts and Culture Council (ECPACC) for their support throughout the years. He also thanked the community for coming out in numbers to support the festival.

“I think next year we’ll have to host it in a stadium because a hall is too small for such an event,” he said.

He also sent a Christmas message to their fans. “You must go and have fun and not put yourself in dangerous situations, also keep in mind that Christmas day was created for us to enjoy by God,” he said.

IN SONG: Ntokozo Gospel group performing at the Gospel festival held at Msobomvu Hall recently. Picture: Batandwa Malingo

PRAISING: Ncandweni Christ Ambassadors dancing during their performance at the Gospel Festival at Msobomvu Hall. Picture: Batandwa Malingo

Eyeing new fashion trends By UNATHI JONGIHLATHI

The summer season has arrived and fash-ion fanatics must be asking themselves what the biggest trend is and what fashion designers have in store for them this sea-son.

“Spring and summer are always the more adventurous seasons, you are able to play around more with colours and tex-tures and you're really only limited by your imagination,” says Sifiso Mthethwa, a fash-ion designer based in Durban.

Certain colour trends become promi-nent complementing the current season. According to Sifiso the vintage look will be more dominant and we will see more neon colours creating a cleaner fashionable look for both men and women.

Adding to the anticipated colour trends this season, Sihle Stemela, a young and upcoming fashion designer from East Lon-don, says: “Colour dictates the mood and attitude of the season. Flawless fabrics and pastel colours bring in the punk fashion trend, which is all about wearing studs, combat boots and ripped jeans.”

Pulane Monakale, an established de-signer based in Cape Town, said: “We live in a world that is forever changing and we constantly have to reinvent ourselves as human beings. Fashion does just that, it changes the way you feel, look and think.”

Pulane says she will be using clashing prints: wearing different prints together and colour-blocking in pastel colours.

Modern style is derived from trends that existed in the 1920s up to the 60s. Fashion trends come and go but still in spring and summer season dresses, mini-skirts and shorts remain a must have but fashion de-signers have also given us all kinds of fun fashions.

“An expected style this spring and sum-mer is your peplum dresses which is a short overskirt or ruffle attached at the waistline of a dress or skirt that look more like pyja-mas. Furthermore, 1920s inspired dresses and suits and even the way of dressing for guys. This is very much inspired by the

Great Gatsby, which is a novel about spring and autumn in the 1920s. Also 60s inspired dresses and platforms inspired by the 60s,” said Pulane.

Another trend anticipated to be big this season is the softer green and orange colours with lots of neon coloured bags and shoes. “The clas-sic look is here to stay and you will be seeing that with dresses and skirts coupled with sleeveless tops and vests. You will also see some cuffed shorts, very tailored,” said Sifiso.

A male fashion fanatic Bathandwa Malingo said: “I will be rocking my bright coloured skinny jeans and I will also go for bright blazers. I want to explore different colours in differ-ent fabrics.

“This year fashion for guys is changing and I personally like it be-cause we are pushing the limits and it’s like we are making a statement because clothes designed for men are usually the dark colours but now we are moving with times,” said Malingo. – WSU-SNA

Style: Models showing off summer fashion in pastel colours. One of the must have’s is a peplum dress (right) featuring a short overskirt or ruffle attached at the waistline. Photo: Sinalo Mcetywa

WSU Health Graduates Take Oath

A PLEdGE: Health Professionals solemnly declare to uphold the tenets of their chosen professions during the oath-taking ceremony in Mthatha's WSU NMD Campus. Photo: Supplied

“You are only excellent if you are relevant to those you serve”


Biography of Nadine GordimerNadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".

Gordimer’s writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that re-gime, works such as July’s People were banned. She was active in the anti-apart-heid movement, joining the African Na-tional Congress during the days when the organization was banned. She has recent-ly been active in HIV/AIDS causes.

Gordimer was born near springs, Gau-teng, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg, the daughter of Jewish im-migrants. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a watchmaker from Lithuania near the Latvian border, and her mother, Han-nah “Nan” (Myers) Gordimer, was from London ,England.

Gordimer’s early interest in racial and economic inequality in South Africa was shaped in part by her parents. Her fa-ther’s experience as a Jewish refugee in czarist Russia helped form Gordimer’s political identity, but he was neither an activist nor particularly sympathetic to-ward the experiences of black people under apartheid. Conversely, Gordimer saw activism by her mother, whose con-cern about the poverty and discrimina-tion faced by black people in South Africa ostensibly led her to found a crèche for black children. Gordimer also witnessed government repression firsthand when yet a teenager; the police raided her fam-ily home, confiscating letters and diaries from a servant’s room.

Gordimer was educated at a Catholic convent school, but was largely home-bound as a child because her mother, for “strange reasons of her own,” did not put her into school (apparently, she feared that Gordimer had a weak heart). Home-bound and often isolated, she began writ-ing at an early age, and published her first stories in 1937 at the age of fifteen. Her first published work was a short story for children, “The Quest for Seen Gold,” which appeared in the Children’s Sunday Express in 1937; “Come Again Tomor-row,” another children’s story, appeared in Forum around the same time. At the age of 16, she had her first adult fiction published.

Gordimer studied for a year at the Uni-versity of the Witwatersrand, where she mixed for the first time with fellow pro-fessionals across the colour bar. She also became involved in the Sophiatown re-naissance. She did not complete her de-gree, but moved to Johannesburg in 1948, where she has lived ever since. While tak-ing classes in Johannesburg, Gordimer continued to write, publishing mostly in local South African magazines. She col-lected many of these early stories in Face to Face, published in 1949.

In 1951, the New Yorker accepted Gordi-mer’s story “A Watcher of the Dead”, be-ginning a long relationship, and bringing Gordimer’s work to a much larger public. Gordimer, who has said she believes the short story is the literary form for our age, has continued to publish short stories in the New Yorker and other prominent lit-erary journals. Gordimer’s first publisher, Lulu Friedman, was the wife of the Parlia-mentarian Bernard Friedman and it was at their house that Gordimer met other anti-apartheid writers.

Gordimer’s first novel, The Lying Days, was published in 1953. In 1954, she mar-ried Reinhold Cassirer, a highly respected art dealer who established the South Af-rican Sotheby’s and later ran his own gal-lery; their “wonderful marriage” lasted until his death from emphysema in 2001. It was her second marriage and his third. Their son, Hugo, was born in 1955, and is today a filmmaker in New York, with whom Gordimer has collaborated on at least two documentaries. Hugo Cassirer later married Sarah Buttrick, and had three children: Kate, Roland, and Con-

rad. Gordimer also has a daughter, Oriane (born 1950), by her first mar-riage, in 1949 to Gerald Gavron, a local dentist; they were divorced with-in three years. PoLITICaL aND LITEr-ary aCTIvISM

The arrest of her best friend, Bettie du Toit, in 1960 and the Sharpeville massacre spurred Gordi-mer’s entry into the anti-apartheid movement. Thereafter, she quickly became active in South African politics, and was close friends with Nelson Mandela’s defence attorneys (Bram Fischer and George) during his 1962 trial. When Mandela was released from prison in 1990, Gordimer was one of the first people he wanted to see.

During the 1960s and 1970s, she con-tinued to live in Johannesburg, although she occasionally left for short periods of time to teach at several universities in the United States. She had begun to achieve international literary recognition, re-ceiving her first major award in 1961. Throughout this time, Gordimer contin-ued to demand through both her writing and her activism that South Africa re-ex-amine and replace its long held policy of apartheid.

During this time, the South African gov-ernment banned several of her works, two for lengthy periods of time. The Late Bourgeois World was Gordimer’s first personal experience with censorship; it was banned in 1976 for a decade by the South African government. A World of Strangers was banned for twelve years. Other works were censored for lesser amounts of time. Burger’s Daughter, pub-lished in June, 1979, was banned one month later; the Publications Commit-tee’s Appeal Board reversed the censor-ship of Burger’s Daughter six months later, determining that the book was too one-sided to be subversive. Gordimer re-sponded to this decision in Essential Ges-ture (1988), pointing out that the board banned two books by black authors at the same time it unbanned her own work. July’s People was also banned under apartheid, and faced censorship under the post-apartheid government as well: In 2001, a provincial education depart-ment temporarily removed July’s People from the school reading list, along with works by other anti-apartheid writers, describing July’s People as “deeply racist, superior and patronizing”a characteriza-tion that Gordimer took as a grave insult, and that many literary and political fig-ures protested.

In South Africa, she joined the African National Congress when it was still listed as an illegal organization by the South African government. While never blindly loyal to any organization, Gordimer saw the ANC as the best hope for reversing South Africa’s treatment of black citizens. Rather than simply criticizing the organi-zation for its perceived flaws, she advo-cated joining it to address them. She hid ANC leaders in her own home to aid their escape from arrest by the government, and she has said that the proudest day of her life was when she testified at the 1986 Delmas Treason Trial on behalf of 22 South African anti-apartheid activists. Throughout these years she also regu-larly took part in anti-apartheid demon-strations in South Africa, and travelled in-ternationally speaking out against South African apartheid and discrimination and political repression.

Her works began achieving literary recognition early in her career, with her

first international recog-nition in 1961, followed by numerous literary awards throughout the ensuing decades. Liter-ary recognition for her accomplishments cul-minated with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, which noted that Gordimer “through her magnificent epic writing has in the words of Al-fred Nobel been of very great benefit to human-

ity”.Gordimer’s activism has not been lim-

ited to the struggle against apartheid. She has resisted censorship and state control of information, and fostered the literary arts. She refused to let her work be aired by the South African Broadcast-ing Corporation because it was controlled by the apartheid government. Gordimer also served on the steering committee of South Africa’s Anti-Censorship Action Group. A founding member of the Con-gress of South African Writers, Gordimer has also been active in South African let-ters and international literary organiza-tions. She has been Vice President of In-ternational PEN.

In the post-apartheid 1990s and 21st century, Gordimer has been active in the HIV/AIDS movement, which is a signifi-cant public health crisis in South Africa. In 2004, she organized about 20 major writers to contribute short fiction for Tell-ing Tales, a fundraising book for South Af-rica’s Treatment Action Campaign, which lobbies for government funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and care. On this matter, she has been critical of the current South African government, noting in 2004 that she “approves” of everything President Thabo Mbeki has done except his stance on AIDS.

While on lecture tours, she has spoken on matters of foreign policy and discrimi-nation beyond South Africa. For instance, in 2005, when Castro fell ill, Gordimer joined six other Nobel prize winners in a public letter to the United States warning it not to seek to destabilize Cuba’s com-munist government. In 2001 she urged her friend Susan Sontag not to accept an award from the Israeli government, though she angered some (including her biographer) by refusing to equate Zion-ism with apartheid. Gordimer’s resistance to discrimination extended to her even refusing to accept “short listing” in 1998 for the Orange Prize, because the award recognizes only women writers.

In 2006, Gordimer was attacked in her home by robbers, sparking outrage in the country. Gordimer has apparently refused to move into a gated complex, against the advice of some friends.

Gordimer self-identifies as an atheist, but has not been active in atheist organi-zations.Work aND THEMES

Gordimer has achieved lasting in-ternational recognition for her works, most of which deal with political issues, as well as the “moral and psychological tensions of her racially divided home country.” Virtually all of Gordimer’s works deal with themes of love and politics, particularly concerning race in South Africa. Always questioning power relations and truth, Gordimer tells stories of ordinary people, reveal-ing moral ambiguities and choices. Her characterization is nuanced, revealed more through the choices her charac-ters make than through their claimed identities and beliefs. She also weaves in subtle details within the character’s names.

ovErvIEW oF CrITICaL WorkS

Her first published novel, The Lying Days (1953), takes place in Gordimer’s home town of Springs, Transvaal, an East Rand mining town near Johannes-burg. Arguably a semi-autobiographical work, The Lying Days is a Bildungsroman, charting the growing political awareness of a young white woman, Helen, toward small-town life and South African racial division.

In her 1963 work, Occasion for Loving, Gordimer puts apartheid and love square-ly together. Her protagonist, Ann Davis, is married to Boaz Davis, an ethnomusicolo-gist, but in love with Gideon Shibalo, an artist with several failed relationships. Ann Davis is white, however, and Gideon Shibalo is black, and South Africa’s gov-ernment criminalised such relationships.

Gordimer collected the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for A Guest of Honour in 1971 and, in common with a number of winners of this award; she was to go on to win the Booker Prize. The Booker was awarded to Gordimer for her 1974 novel, The Conservationist, and was a co-winner with Stanley Middleton’s novel Holiday.

The Conservationist explores Zulu cul-ture and the world of a wealthy white in-dustrialist through the eyes of Mehring, the antihero. Per Wästberg described The Conservationist as Gordimer’s “dens-est and most poetical novel”. Themati-cally covering the same ground as Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm (1883) and J. M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country (1977), the “conservationist” seeks to conserve nature to preserve the apartheid system, keeping change at bay. When an unidentified corpse is found on his farm, Mehring does the “right thing” by providing it a proper burial; but the dead person haunts the work, a reminder of the bodies on which Mehring’s vision would be built.

Gordimer’s 1979 novel Burger’s Daugh-ter is the story of a woman analyzing her relationship with her father, a martyr to the anti-apartheid movement. The child of two Communist and anti-apartheid revolutionaries, Rosa Burger finds her-self drawn into political activism as well. Written in the aftermath of the Soweto uprising, the novel was shortly thereafter banned by the South African government. Gordimer described the novel as a “coded homage” to Bram Fischer, the lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists.

In July’s People (1981), Gordimer imag-ines a bloody South African revolution, in which white people are hunted and mur-dered after black people begin a revolu-tion against the apartheid government. The work follows Maureen and Bamford Smales, an educated white couple, hiding for their lives with July, their long-time former servant. The novel plays off the various groups of “July’s people”: his fam-ily and his village, as well as the Smales. The story examines how people cope with the terrible choices forced on them by violence, race hatred, and the state.

The House Gun (1998) was Gordimer’s second post-apartheid novel. It follows the story of a couple, Claudia and Harald Lingard, dealing with their son Duncan’s murder of one of his housemates. The novel treats the rising crime rate in South Africa and the guns that virtually all households have, as well as the legacy of South African apartheid and the couple’s concerns about their son’s lawyer, who is black. The novel was optioned for film rights to Granada Productions.

Gordimer’s recent novel, Get a Life, written in 2005 after the death of her long time spouse, Reinhold Cassirer, is the story of a man undergoing treatment for a life-threatening disease.


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THIS month’s focus is on technical or practical careers or what I will refer to as artisan careers in this article. Let’s face it, all of us have different capabilities, some people are good with their hands, some are thinkers, some are caregivers, some like to problem solve etc so it’s important to know which category you fall under.

Artisans are critical to the functioning of society and I don’t think the importance of this category of workers is stressed. When we are young, our parents and guardians dream of us getting exemptions and going to university to become lawyers and doc-tors. The reality though is that a country needs a range of activities to be performed by its citizens in order for it to function; for example for hospitals in the country, doc-tors and nurses are needed to perform ser-vices; for roads and bridges that are built, bricklayers, welders, builders are required otherwise a country like South Africa has to bring people from other countries to perform these functions. Thus a country demands an integrated economic system where there is good jurisprudence, civil engineers, teachers, doctors, traders, arti-sans and farmers etc.

A few years ago, the South African government released its assessment the number of people who are artisans in the country and pronounced that there is a dire shortage of them. The government recognised that the country needed to pro-duce 20 000 artisans per year for the next 5 years in order to meet the growing needs

of the country including big projects such as Eskom’s increase in electricity capacity, the build programme that government has embarked on under the National Planning Commission. Programs such as ASGISA were developed to address these short-ages.

Artisans are used even for ordinary household use. When your geyser bursts or you want to install a borehole in your village home, or water taps where you live, you need an artisan – this consists of plumbers, electricians, pipe fitters, boiler makers and bricklayers and carpenters. Come to think of it, how many plumbers do you know, and are your age? The typical plumber is someone who is 50 years+ has been in the industry for years and has a few casual workers who help him com-plete the job. The beauty about training as an artisan is that is also a path to entre-preneurship. Once you have trained at an accredited institution and you have done the practical training, you could open your own plumbing business for example, if you do not want to be employed.

So how to do you go about getting train-ing as an artisan?

To become an artisan, a learner needs to do theoretical and practical training. The theoretical training is done at a technical college. For the practical training a learner needs to become an apprentice by signing a contract with an employer who will teach him/her the skills of the trade of interest.

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• Minimum requirement for entry: Grade 11 or equivalent qualification

Perhaps being an artisan might not only be practical but actually cool and a clear path towards entrepreneurships and a critical path to building rural towns.

This month’s Career focusPlumbersCarpentersBoiler makers Welders

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to catch you.As Maria Robinson once said, “Nobody can go back and start a new be-

ginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Nothing could be closer to the truth. But before you can begin this process of transformation you have to stop doing the things that have been holding you back.Here are some ideas to get you started:

1. Stop spending time with the wrong people. – Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you. If someone wants you in their life, they’ll make room for you. You shouldn’t have to fight for a spot. Never, ever force yourself to someone who continuously overlooks your worth. And remember, it’s not the people that stand by your side when you’re at your best, but the ones who stand beside you when you’re at your worst that are your true friends.

2. Stop running from your problems. – Face them head on. No, it won’t be easy. There is no person in the world capable of flawlessly handling every punch thrown at them. We aren’t supposed to be able to instantly solve problems. That’s not how we’re made. In fact, we’re made to get upset, sad, hurt, stumble and fall. Because that’s the whole purpose of living – to face problems, learn, adapt, and solve them over the course of time. This is what ultimately moulds us into the person we become.

3. Stop lying to yourself. – You can lie to anyone else in the world, but you can’t lie to yourself. Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult chance we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Read The Road Less Traveled.

4. Stop putting your own needs on the back burner. – The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. Yes, help others; but help yourself too. If there was ever a mo-ment to follow your passion and do something that matters to you, that moment is now.

5. Stop trying to be someone you’re not. – One of the greatest challenges in life is being yourself in a world that’s trying to make you like everyone else. Some-one will always be prettier, someone will always be smarter, someone will always be younger, but they will never be you. Don’t change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.

6. Stop trying to hold onto the past. – You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.

7. Stop being scared to make a mistake. – Doing something and getting it wrong is at least ten times more productive than doing nothing. Every success has a trail of failures behind it, and every failure is leading towards success. You end up regretting the things you did NOT do far more than the things you did.

8. Stop berating yourself for old mistakes. – We may love the wrong person and cry about the wrong things, but no matter how things go wrong, one thing is for sure, mistakes help us find the person and things that are right for us. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

9. Stop trying to buy happiness. – Many of the things we desire are expensive. But the truth is, the things that really satisfy us are totally free – love, laughter and working on our passions.

10. Stop exclusively looking to others for happiness. – If you’re not happy with who you are on the inside, you won’t be happy in a long-term relationship with anyone else either. You have to create stability in your own life first before you can share it with someone else. ReadStumbling on Happiness .

11. Stop being idle. – Don’t think too much or you’ll create a problem that wasn’t even there in the first place. Evaluate situations and take decisive action. You cannot change what you refuse to confront. Making progress involves risk. Period! You can’t make it to second base with your foot on first.

12. Stop thinking you’re not ready. – Nobody ever feels 100% ready when an opportunity arises. Because most great opportunities in life force us to grow beyond our comfort zones, which means we won’t feel totally comfortable at first.

13. Stop getting involved in relationships for the wrong reasons. – Relation-ships must be chosen wisely. It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company. There’s no need to rush. If something is meant to be, it will happen – in the right time, with the right person, and for the best reason. Fall in love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely.

14. Stop rejecting new relationships just because old ones didn’t work. – In life you’ll realize that there is a purpose for everyone you meet. Some will test you, some will use you and some will teach you. But most importantly, some will bring out the best in you.

15. Stop trying to compete against everyone else. – Don’t worry about what others doing better than you. Concentrate on beating your own records every day. Success is a battle between YOU and YOURSELF only.

16. Stop being jealous of others. – Jealousy is the art of counting someone else’s blessings instead of your own. Ask yourself this: “What’s something I have that everyone wants?”

17. Stop complaining and feeling sorry for yourself. – Life’s curveballs are thrown for a reason – to shift your path in a direction that is meant for you. You may not see or understand everything the moment it happens, and it may be tough. But reflect back on those negative curveballs thrown at you in the past. You’ll often see that eventually they led you to a better place, person, state of mind, or situation. So smile! Let everyone know that today you are a lot stronger than you were yesterday, and you will be.

18. Stop holding grudges. – Don’t live your life with hate in your heart. You will end up hurting yourself more than the people you hate. Forgiveness is not saying, “What you did to me is okay.” It is saying, “I’m not going to let what you did to me ruin my happiness forever.” Forgiveness is the answer… let go, find peace, liberate yourself! And remember, forgiveness is not just for other people, it’s for you too. If you must, forgive yourself, move on and try to do better next time.

19. Stop letting others bring you down to their level. – Refuse to lower your standards to accommodate those who refuse to raise theirs.

20. Stop wasting time explaining yourself to others. – Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it anyway. Just do what you know in your heart is right.

21. Stop doing the same things over and over without taking a break. – The time to take a deep breath is when you don’t have time for it. If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting. Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.

22. Stop overlooking the beauty of small moments. – Enjoy the little things, because one day you may look back and discover they were the big things. The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you.

23. Stop trying to make things perfect. – The real world doesn’t reward per-fectionists; it rewards people who get things done. Read Getting Things Done.

24. Stop following the path of least resistance. – Life is not easy, especially when you plan on achieving something worthwhile. Don’t take the easy way out. Do something extraordinary.

25. Stop acting like everything is fine if it isn’t. – It’s okay to fall apart for a little while. You don’t always have to pretend to be strong, and there is no need to constantly prove that everything is going well. You shouldn’t be concerned with what other people are thinking either – cry if you need to – it’s healthy to shed your tears. The sooner you do, the sooner you will be able to smile again.

26. Stop blaming others for your troubles. – The extent to which you can achieve your dreams depends on the extent to which you take responsibility for your life. When you blame others for what you’re going through, you deny respon-sibility – you give others power over that part of your life.

27. Stop trying to be everything to everyone. – Doing so is impossible, and trying will only burn you out. But making one person smile CAN change the world. Maybe not the whole world, but their world. So narrow your focus.

28. Stop worrying so much. – Worry will not strip tomorrow of its burdens, it will strip today of its joy. One way to check if something is worth mulling over is to ask yourself this question: “Will this matter in one year’s time? Three years? Five years?” If not, then it’s not worth worrying about.

29. Stop focusing on what you don’t want to happen. – Focus on what you do want to happen. Positive thinking is at the forefront of every great success story. If you awake every morning with the thought that something wonderful will happen in your life today, and you pay close attention, you’ll often find that you’re right.

30. Stop being ungrateful. – No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs. Instead of thinking about what you’re missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.

Three-day music feast for Centane BATANDWA MALINGO

Things are set to be different this fes-tive as all roads are set to head to the First Annual Centane Event from De-cember 31 instead of travelling to East London for fun, that’s according to Muzi Canca, the man behind this three-day music fair.

The event idea of the event comes from Canca whose origin is in Centane but was raised and is still in Johannes-burg.

He said that the main aim of this event is not to party but to showcase the talent of Mnquma artists to the people of Centane and some producers who he said are coming from Johan-nesburg.

“I invited and paid for two produc-ers from Jozi, one is DJ Tunza from 109 productions which is working with

Kalawa Jazmee and also Dj Solti who owns BSS productions,” said Canca.

All artists, poets, djs in the Mnquma vicinity are invited to contact Muzi to perform at the event which will see one or more of them being chosen to record in Johannesburg if they are “good enough”.

“Every artist is invited to perform and we will then recruit some of them,” he confirmed.

Canca said that he also wants the people of Centane to have responsible fun at home other than travelling to East London for end of the year par-ties.

Other than the two djs from Johan-nesburg the line up also includes art-ists from Port Elizabeth and Alice.

There will also be motivational talks during the three-day event.

Canca also said that the event is not

about partying but will also open doors for artists and other people to meet and share contacts which will benefit them in the long run.

“It costs a lot to host this kind of event but I am doing it to help the people of Centane, I just wish other people can follow suite and do whatever they can do to uplift this community,” he said.

The ticket for the whole three days is R30 and food and drinks will be avail-able for sale inside Centane Hall, the official venue for the event. Tickets will be available at the door.

Canca promised that police will be available from December 31 to the Jan-uary 02 to keep calm.

Artists, poets, djs and other per-forming artist who are interested in performing at the feast are urged to contact Muzi Canca on 073 341 3394 or Eddie Canca on 073 930 2344.


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Now that the results of the much anticipated ANC’s 53rd national elective conference are out, it is worth repeating that Zuma, secre-tary general Gwede Mantashe and chairperson Baleka Mbethe have all retained their position with an outright majority. They have been democratically elected by ANC members who know why they have done so. I think it is important for all of us to respect their decisions. KwaZulu Natal Premier Zweli Mkh-ize, former ANC spokesperson Jessi Duarte and businessman and ANC heavyweight Cyril Ramapho-sa have joined the top six. Mkhize joins as treasurer general, Duarte as deputy secretary general and Ramaphosa as deputy president.

In our previous issue I wrote on this page a column titled ‘Zuma set

to emerge victorious’. That has indeed happened as it was certain. In the last issue I wrote that, through Business Day, former deputy president Kgalema Mot-lanthe said: “The fact that you hear noises from time to time saying, “You mustn’t stand — you mustn’t do this” and so on, there is no appetite for elections. Elections in an organisation are an instrument for strengthening the organisation, not weakening it — but that’s only when it works and people accept it for what it is. I don’t want to lead an organisation where I have no sense of what the members think of me, and by arrangement. I would never do that. That is why it’s important that their assessment of you and the expression of their will must not be interfered with. Once it’s interfered with, if I offered them sweeteners or jobs, I would never actually know whether they had confidence in me or not.”

Days later after my column, Motlanthe announced he will stand against Zuma. He has stood and has lost. But what will happen after the exit of Motlanthe from the top structures of the ANC and subsequently from government in 2014 or otherwise? I think this question lies solely from the top management of the ANC. Even those who voted for Zuma’s second term do not doubt Motlanthe’s political credentials. I also do not doubt Motlanthe’s political credentials. He is indeed the man of integrity and honour, undoubted-ly. But Motlanthe has disappointed me by portraying himself as an outsider to some of the problems cur-rently besetting the country. Motlanthe is still part of South African government and therefore part of its problems.

On several occasions, through campaigns, Mot-lanthe was urged by many who were supporting Zuma, to continue with his position as deputy. He has been misled by factions in the movement and just

chose to turn a blind eye for those who were calling for continuity and change. The continuity and change campaign was for Motlanthe to also continue with his position. The continuity and change scenario, I believe, is meant to look at the problems currently facing the country. Let’s wait and see if they cannot succeed and changing the lives of poor people.

The people whose hope is for better governance and improved service delivery want an ANC that will spend too much of its time debating and fighting for their rights. Slates and tarnishing one’s image will not help these people that I have just mentioned in the previous sentence. What is needed is an ANC led government that is free of corruption and ten-der irregularities. The ANC under President Zuma will killing itself if it cannot learn from public spats and slates which were posed by the former deputy president (Motlanthe) group. The ANC under Zuma should wake up work towards bettering the condi-tions of the poor.

The new elected leadership of the ANC should strive for unity and eliminate factionalism in its ranks. Factionalism and weak branch structures have posed a threat to the ANC. The ANC should fight for another threat in its ranks, that of tender systems. President Zuma raised this during his po-litical report on December 16. This needs to be elim-inated or else it will virtually destroy the ANC. The time of the unit in the ANC is needed. The time for consensus in the ANC is needed. Time for factional-ism and jostling for power is not needed. Time for power mongering and the use of state machinery for influence is destructive and is not needed. Time for individual worship is equally to destroying the fu-ture of the ANC. A strong and united ANC is what is needed.

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Ncapai Junior Sec-ondary School’s gymnastics team in Butterworth is have to Johannesburg to compete in the na-tional gymnastics games.

The team com-peted and won in provincial Port Eliz-abeth which then resulted them in gaining entry in the nationals.

Ncapai JSS team which compromises of 14 girls domi-nated the contest

by performing all disciplines required that is gym star, skip star, aero star and display.

The team which is coached by Non-kululeko Xopa who is also an educator at the school and Lwando Xoseka is determined to do well in Johannes-burg as they have performed in the international stage in Switzerland last year.

Xopa said that she does not doubt her team at all. “In 2007

we were in Austria, last year we were in Switzerland, what you saw in Olym-pics games is exactly what these kids are doing here,” she said.

She said that it makes her proud to see them succeed as they face many chal-lenges. “We don’t have a hall at school so we practise out-side and when it rains we can’t prac-tise, we don’t have a sports centre be-cause these kinds of sports need to be

practised in a sports centre,” said Xopa.

She believes if they had a sports centre the team would have been “excellent” that they are now.

Ncapai JSS prin-cipal Thembinkosi Zamxaka wished the children well and said that he fully supports the team as it keeps chil-dren away from the streets. “We are glad that they are going places because that will inspire other kids to join in,” said Zamxaka.

WORKING HARd: Ncapai JSS students performing one of their disciplines at Msobomvu Hall in Butterworth recently. Picture: Batandwa Malingo

“From the rural areas and making it big”

LINING UP: Holy Stars (green) and Hungry Lions were one of the teams that made it to the final following soccer games organised by Eastern Cape provincial legislature speaker Fikile Xasa in Dutywa in January this year. Holy Stars was awarded a brand new kit while Hungry Lions was given R500.00 by Xasa on his personal capacity. The games were played at kuDoti Location. Picture: Sithandiwe Velaphi

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