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THISweekend, fromFriday to Sun-day, the Mthatha Heritage Festi-val will take place in various ven-ues in Mthatha with the mainevent, The Jazz Festival, on Sat-

urday, September 20, at the Mthatha Coun-try Club from 2pm.

“The festival is an annual event that hasthe vision of creating a lot of fun, platformsof economic growth and networks for theFormerTranskei to celebrate nationalHerit-age Month and as a tool to showcase its localtalent in style as well as its diverse culturesand traditions,” said festival director, TandoSapepa Nogaga. “This festival is very goodfor the advancement of Mthatha’s profile asa tourist destination and the central town ofthe former Transkei,” said Nogaga.

As South Africa is celebrating 20 years ofdemocracy, the organisers said this year thefestival is going to celebrate 20 years of de-mocracy authentically and in style.

With something for everyone in this year’sprogramme, the line-up of the Jazz festivalconsists of big internationally recognizedstars like Caiphus Semenya, Ringo Madlin-gozi, Sfiso Ncwane, Ntando, Ifani, and Mt-hatha’s very ownSnouxPoswa,BushyDuba-zana, DJ PK, Anger, Master Jam, DJ Martinand many more.

Included as part of the festival is thelaunch of the Mthatha Heritage Cup soccertournament with a knockout battle betweenthe four Vodacom Provincial league teams,namely Mthatha Bush Bucks, Thembu Roy-als, Mthatha City and Zimbane Killers.

The tournamentwill take place onSeptem-ber 20, together with aHeritage Golf Tourna-ment andAerobicsMarathonwhich couldbe

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Ringo Madlingozi is oneof the top­notch perform­ers ready to entertain thecrowds at this year’sHeritage Festival.PHOTO: SUPPLIED

viewed at the Mthatha Country Club.The 21kmMarathon, which is dedicated to

Zithulele Sinqe, a long-time record-holderfromMthatha, will start at the MaqhinebeniLocation and end at the Mthatha CountryClub on September 20.

Nogaga said the KSD has now officially in-tegrated the Mthatha Heritage Festival intoits annual “KSDMonth” programme for Sep-tember and the OR Tambo District Munici-pality has adopted this Festival as part oftheir Tourism Month programme.

“This is a unique example of partnershipbetween Local Government, the private sec-tor and the community. Most companies, de-partments and organizations that have spon-sored the festival in the past, are still onboard.This shouldserveasmotivation for theMthatha businesses that haven’t yet joinedthis innovative initiative,” said Nogaga.

Tickets are available at Computicket andat De’leulz International at the Southern-wood shopping mall at R200 each and R500for a VIP ticket. Festival goers are encour-aged to bring their cooler boxes and campchairs.

The programme will start on Friday, Sep-tember 19 at 10am, with a Cultural Paradefrom Mthatha City Town Hall to MthathaCity Hall, an Opening Ceremony at MthathaCity Town Hall at noon, a Cultural Festivalat Mthatha City Town Hall and a HeritageGala, Mthatha City Hall at 6pm.

There will also be a Pre-party at WhatLounge from 10pm.

The Festival will end on Sunday, Septem-ber 21 with a picnic at Nongoloza Car Washfrom noon.

. To register for the 21km Marathon, the10km fun run and the 5km fun walk, contactSiza Nyangeni from the Cheaters Club at061 412 5677.

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AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

THREE people were killed in a fatal accidentlast Saturdaymorningwhen three cars collid-ed on the notorious R61 between Libode andMthatha.

The R61, stretching from the Umzimvububridge – through the towns of Bizana, Flag-staff, Lusikisiki, Port St John’s and Libode –toMthatha isknown for itshighaccident rate.Apart from the many stray animals and

potholes on this road, residents feel that thehigh accident rate is also due to the non-visi-bility of traffic officers on this route.Arrive Alive’s spokesperson, Tsepo Mach-

aea, said the accident occurred in the morn-ing and that three cars were involved.The accident happened around the Nkau-

kazi area and thevehicleswere going in oppo-

R61roadaccident claims three lives

Officials cleaning up at the scene of theaccident where three people were killed on theR61 on the weekend. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

site directions.“According to witnesses, there were three

vehicles involved. One of the deceasedwas onthe back of a bakkie,”.According to the eye wittnesses, one of the

vehicles involved, a Chevrolet Cruze, had leftthe accident scene.At time of going to print the policewere still

looking for the vehicle, which is believed tohave no windscreen, and its driver.People are urged to be on the look-out for

it and to kindly inform the police should theysee a car fitting this description.

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

THE King of the AbaThembu, BuyelekhayaDalindyebo, has written a letter to the Min-ister of Cooperative Governance and Tradi-tional Affairs, Pravin Gordhan, EasternCape Premier Pumullo Masualle, MECFikile Xasa, National Chairperson for theHouse of Traditional Leaders and EasternCape House of Traditional Leaders Chair-person, Ngangomhlaba Matanzima, re-questing information on the appointment or

coronation and recognition of SiyambongaMatanzima as King of Western Tembuland.

The royal house had confirmed this, stat-ing that the king has reacted on an invita-tion letter sent to him by Chief GwazinambaMatanzima. The invitation was extended toKing Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, reigningking of the Thembunation, to attend the cor-onation of Siyambonga Matanzima, whichis scheduled to take place at Qamata, Cofim-vaba tomorrow, September 19.

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volved in a battle wit somemembers callingthemselves members of the royal family,wanting to dethrone him.The matter was argued in court last week

and judgement is pending.

Another fight for AbaThembu

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MTHATHA High Court came to a standstilllastWednesdaymorning, September 10,whentwo prisoners, Sakhiwo Mvoko (30) andYandisa Bila (32), opened fire while trying toescape from custody.

The two were arriving in Mthatha Highcourt from the Kokstad maximum prison forthe hearing of one of 17 charges which includ-ed bank robbery, a cash-in-transit heist and

murder.SAPS Communications Officer, Mzukisi

Fatyela, said Bila retrieved a firearm from adustbin while he was pretending to be throw-ing away a take-away container.“Bila took the firearm and pointed it at the

escorting Correctional Services officer whileMvoko took the officer’s firearm,” said Fatye-la.He said the officer, after being disarmed,

ran for cover but they shot and injured him.Shooting ensued between the prisoners, the

SAPS and members of Correctional Services.The two prisoners were shot dead.Mvoko and his crew had been involved in

a spate of criminal activities in the Transkeiregion. This was not their first attempt to es-cape. The suspects had managed to escape onJanuary 2007 from the Ngqeleni Magistrate’scourt, but were later re-arrested on July 2007in KwaZulu Natal.In 2011 they had escaped again from the

Wellington prison inMthatha andwere re-ar-rested in Gauteng in the same year and takento the Bhongweni Maximum prison in Koks-tad, which is considered one of the most se-

cure prisons in the country.“They were kept in Kokstad because of

their escapehistoryandbecause theywere re-garded as most dangerous prisoners,” saidFatyela.He said Mvoko was shot and fatally injured

on the spotwhile Bila died a fewminutes afterthe crossfire.Fatyela said an investigation into the fire-

arm in the dustbin would be carried out.) The Weekend Post reported this past

weekend that a set of counterfeit keys, be-lieved to be for unlocking handcuffs, wasfound in Bila’s throat during a post mortem

Mvokokilledduring crossfire in court

A Correctional Services officer guards in front of Yandisa Bila's lifeless body in the Mthatha HighCourt afer the crossfire. PHOTO: BABALWA NDLANYA

The prison warder who was shot and injured receiving first aid from paramedics before beingtransported to hospital. PHOTO: AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

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REPORTER

TEACHERS, academics and researchers inlinguistics were branded “the firstline of de-fence” in South Africa’s endeavours to pro-tect and reclaim a supposedly waning herit-ageby safeguarding its indigenous languages.

This was a heartfelt, passion-fuelled asser-tion made by renowned author and writer-in-residence at the University of the WesternCape, Dr SindiweMagona during her addressat theWSU-hostedAfricanLanguageAssocia-tion of Southern Africa (ALASA) InterimConference which took place in Mthatha re-cently.Looking to closely address the theme at

hand titled “Reclaiming ourAfricanHeritagethrough language”, Magona said the weapon-ry needed to defend and protect an Africanheritage already under heavy duress lay withthose in the education sector – the teachersand administrators.“It is you (linguists) who have the power to

reverse the wrongs that are putting our lan-

guages and culture at risk of disappearingwith the sands of time. Standup against a gov-ernment and society that continues to fail toacknowledge the sacredness of who we areand what we are as a people,” said Mogona.Magona’s address, titled “Zemk’iinkomo

magwalandini! Cry, the beloved language”cast a wide eye on a series of issues that needto be addressed in order for this country tobegin marching in the right direction in ef-forts to reclaim its heritage.She said a number of issues would need to

be addressed with extreme urgency in orderfor the country to reclaim its heritage.“Using language as an instrument to re-

claim our heritage is not something that willhappen overnight. We have to look at our so-cio-economic realities and see how these havecontributed to a people who have no self-re-spect or respect for another anymore.”“We have to look at our government poli-

cies and interrogate whether these talk topreservation of our heritage and respect ofour culture as Africans. We also need to lookat whether we are battle-ready as people to

fight for what is essentially ours,” she saidimpassionedly.Magona’s addresswas preceded by another

thought-provoking talk by leading linguis-tics expert, renowned linguist and founder ofthe Centre for Advanced Studies of AfricanSociety (CASAS), Professor Kwesi KwaaPrah who, on the opening day of the confer-ence delved into the importance of culture inthe development of a people.“Culture in general, language and literacy

are crucial and central to the developmentendeavour. Without our cultures there is lit-tle or no hope formeaningful change for Afri-cans. Imean changewhichwill ensurewe de-velopmentally advance and do not culturallydisappear,” said Prah.

‘Languageheritagemustbe reclaimed’

Dr Sindiwe Magona’s address hitat the heart of the problemsconfronting the stability of the

country and its waning heritage.PHOTO: SUPPLIED

AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

TO ensure that all the affected and impactedcommunities share in conservation success-es, the Department of Environmental Af-fairs have a robust programmeunderpinnedby strong community involvement.

The Minister for the Department of Envi-ronmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, gave thisundertakingwhile launching thePeople and

Parks conference in Mthatha last weekTuesday.Molewa attended the conference along-

side the Minister of Rural Development andLand Reform, Gugile Nkwinti, and spokes-person of the African National Congress,Jackson Mthembu.“People are at the heart of conservation

and environmentalmanagement. They formits cornerstone, its foundation and its build-ing blocks,” said the Minister.

He added that the establishment of pro-tected conversation areas came at a greatcost to indigenous and local communities.“Communities were displaced and dis-

posed of and the People and Parks Pro-gramme is ameansof redressbyacknowledg-ing theexperiencesof these communities andensuring their futureparticipation inand themanagement of these parks,” she said.Molewa highlighted that the government

has invested close onR1 billion throughPeo-ple and Parks related projects.MinisterNkwinti said that nature conver-

sation was without a doubt a national inter-est but that it had challenges.

“It is also a reality of our ghastly past thatthe creation of nature conservation areasfollowed a pattern of land dispossession anddeprivation of livelihoods for the rural com-munities who were on the receiving end,”said Nkwinti.He added that his department fully sup-

ports the People and Parks Programme, be-cause the affected communities were gener-ally not consulted and did not receive anycompensation.He further reminded the conference that

government has re-opened the lodgement ofland claims for a period of five years, endingon June 30, 2019.

People benefit fromparks

REPORTER

THEEasternCapeNationalCouncil of Provinces (NCOP)delegation has called on the provincial department ofHu-manSettlements to address the challenges posed by bene-ficiary absenteeism on its housing programmes.

The delegation visited a rectification project in Mqan-duli where 500 houses built in 2010 will have to be demol-ished. The visit formed part of the NCOP’s ProvincialWeek, where Members of Parliament visit their respec-tive provinces.The Whip of the EC NCOP delegation, Mandla Rayi,

said beneficiary challenges had resulted in fights, pro-

tests and projects. Often houses would stand unoccupiedwhile issues remained unsolved.“The province should be transparent with who it in-

cludes in its projects. People should not be disgruntledto the point of not trusting officials,” said Rayi.He said that another challenge that was underscored

in the province surrounds people who sub-let houses af-ter getting houses meant for indigent people.“In worst case scenarios, other people sell the houses

meant for poor people to foreign nationals,” he said.The provincial Auditor-General representative,

Sithembele Peters, told the delegation that the lack of ac-countability and transparency, the lack of IT systemsandthe poormonitoring of consultants hampered delivery ofservices in the province.He said district municipalities were ignored and did

not accomplish what they were set up to achieve.The Department of Human Settlements was contacted

to get their side on the challenges picked up by the NCOPdelegation.The spokesperson for the department, Lwandile

Sicwetsha, said they would only respond as soon as thedelegation had compiled and submitted a report to thedepartment about their findings.

NCOPnot impressedwithhousingproject

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SANELE JAMES

OWING to under utilisation, developingfarmers are starving, even though the East-ernCape is one of the richest provinces in livestock.

These were the words of Dave Swift of Afri-vet, at an information session with develop-ing farmers in the area that were held in Zix-

holosini Great Place, Ngqeleni on September10. The information session is anannual initi-ative of Cowdens, John Taylor Livestock andAfrivet – companies that specialise in live-stock medication and feed, which seek toequip rural farmers with the necessary farm-ing skills.Developing farmers were educated on an

array of subjects affecting the farming busi-ness, including breeding and birth, business

and animal welfare.Swift described the Eastern Cape as the

richest province in South Africa in as far aslivestock is concerned, but said the farmerswere lacking the knowledge on how to usetheir livestock to earn money and to producecommodities such as food and to provide em-ployment.“If you drive around the province, it is live-

stock everywhere, but the owners of the live-stock know little of how to make a living outof their animals,” he said.He continued to saymost of the rural devel-

oping farmers seemed to breed their livestockfor bragging rights, saying they kept them astrophies while complaining of hunger. “If it

doesn’t produce, sell it.”Farmers and pupils of a local high school,

Dimanda Senior Secondary School, were giv-en an in-depth session which featured thereadiness of livestock for slaughtering, point-ing out signs of illness and suggesting rele-vant medication.A post mortem was conducted on a sheep

for further illustration. This had proved to bemost informative and had revealed informa-tion most of the farmers didn’t know.Among the dignitaries who attended the

session, was the Councillor of the area andassistant manager of Rural Development andAgrarian Reform, Mzondeli Ngqele, who ap-plauded the initiative.

Lessons fordeveloping farmers

Dave Swift educatingfarmers about ways ofcaring for their stockin Ngqeleni.PHOTO:SANELE JAMES

Dr Hanre Bredekampand Dr TinasheChimatira conductinga post mortem on asheep as part of alesson at the Farmers’information day inNgqeleni.PHOTO: SANELE JAMES

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Chief Sikhokhele Nota from AmaHlubi Triabal Authority, King Mamuru III from Pedi Kingdom andKing Jongilanga Sigcau of Lwandlolubomvu Traditional Council gracing the Pondo TraditionalFestival in Ntabankulu. PHOTO: KHAYA MAGENU

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Igugu LamaMpondo Traditional Group performing for the MEC’s Nancy Sihlwayi and WeziweTikane during their visit to Mbizana last Friday. PHOTO: PHINDILE GQELE

Looking cute in traditional attire with their sunglasses during the Pondo Culture Festival wereThembeka Mphako Wettes and Nomafaku Ndamase. PHOTO: DUMISANI NTULI

Women looking beautiful in their traditional attire attended the “Stop Gender Violence” campaignat Siwisa location in Mbizana. PHOTO:PHINDILE GQELE

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Become our Youth Journo todayFROM the people who brought you CitizenJournalist, nowcomes thenewandexciting in-itiative for our young writers – Youth Journo.

Youth Journo is a programme presented byMedia24’s Local Newspapers, of whichOP Ko-erante forms part of, that gives high school stu-dents the opportunity to share their schools’news with the rest of the community online.

But it is not only restricted to school news

– anything that is of importance to teenagerscouldbesubmittedunderYouthJournoonourwebsite, whether it be dating tips, book or CDreviews or more serious matters like drugabuse among teenagers.

To launch this exciting project,OPKoerantewill be giving away a laptop to a school thatsubmits themostYouthJourno entries online.

To enter for this competition, learners – orratherYouthJourno’s–wouldhavetogotoour

website to tell us why their school is the best(only online entries will be accepted).

How to enter

Go to www.mthathaexpress.co.za. The Youth Journo(or his/her parent) must register as a user on the

website and then click on “Tell Your Story”.The online form you need to fill in is as easy to use

as Facebook. The Youth Journo must remember tofill in his/her name and surname, upload a photo ofhimself or herself and also mention the school’s

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REPORTER

THE Congress of the People (COPE) is stillwaiting for the Speaker of Mbhashe Munici-pality, Councillor Mkhuseli Mcotshwa, toapologize about the threats that were madeby ANC Councillors in the Council Meetingheld on September 10.

COPE Councillor Nkosinathi Ndlodakasaid the carrying of fire-arms into a councilmeeting and other dangerous weapons wasnot accepted at all.

“This is utter disrespect for council rulesand a clear attempt to intimidate councillors.We want to know how these people were al-lowed into the council armed despite thepresence of the security in the municipality.We have no doubt that there was a pre-medi-tated plan to cause harm to some of us in themeeting. Remember we attended the meetingnot aware of what was on the agenda and hadno reason to suspect violence,” said Ndloda-ka in a letter addressed to the speaker.

He said they are demanding an apology andan assurance that that kind of behaviour willnot be allowed and will be reported to the po-lice. Failing which they will have no optionbut to organize their own security includingtaking such measures that will be necessaryfor their personal protection.

“We have weapons and we can use them ifthere is a need, but we respect the integrityof public institutions. We are councillors byright and are not in council by mercy of theANC and we deserve to be treated with re-spect. Note, that in the exercise of our rightsand as a preventative measure of the same oc-currence we are taking the matter to the po-lice for their investigations.”

According to the Council Standing rulesadopted by council on December 12, 2011, No37 on page 15 reads:

“The Carrying of weapons by a Councilloror any other attendee (with the exception ofduly authorized law enforcement agencies orpersonnel) at a meeting of council or any ofits committees is strictly forbidden. For the

purpose of this rule, any instrument intendedto inflict grievous bodily harm shall be con-sidered a weapon.

(1) The Councillor or any other attendeefound to be carrying a weapon at a meetingcontemplated in this rule shall be ordered bythe speaker to leave themeeting immediately.

(2) Any Councillor, who leaves a meetingcontemplated in this rule as a result of carry-ing a weapon, shall be considered to have ab-sented him or herself from the meeting with-out an apology.”Express contacted the Speaker of Council-

lor Mcotshwa to find out why the ANC coun-cillors were allowed in the council chamberswith weapons which was against the standingrules of the council and why they were notasked to leave themeeting.No comment couldbe obtained before time of going to print.

No comment could also be obtained from thespokesperson for the Department of Local Gov-ernment and Traditional Affairs, MamkeliNgam to find out what action will be taken byhisdepartment toaddress the issueofMbhashe.

COPEdemandsapology fromtheSpeaker

The Speaker of Mbhashe Local Municipality,Mkhululi Mcotshwa from whom the COPECouncillor are demanding an apology regardingANC Councillors who carried weapons tocouncil chamber. PHOTO: BABALWA NDLANYA

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THE news surrounding the death of the noto-rious Sakhi Mvoko and his friend Yandisa Bi-la while trying to escape in court last weekwas met with different views from the public.

Uyazi, death is another thing and for peopleto rejoice at one’s death is not really a nicething to hear, especially as a parent.

We just hope that fellow youth abazifakekwicrime can learn that crime does not paybut leads to imprisonment and death. We sendour condolences to the deceased families.

When you raise your child, you don’t thinkor hope that he or she will turn out to be crimi-nal and when he or she happens to turn to thatpath, I am sure your dreams and anticipa-tions for your child go down the drain and itis definitely not a good feeling.

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Ukuhamba kukubona! Last week we visiteda high school in Ncambele and we met theteacher who was driving with her Teddy bearon the passenger’s seat. Eyona nto that caught

our eye was the size of the teddy bear whichwas like that of a human being and the teachermade sure that her passenger was buckled up.

When we asked the students about the ted-dy bear, they told us that yinto yakhe, everyday when she comes to work she has the teddybear next to her and is always buckled up.

They said even during lunch time, she eatsalone in her car with the teddy bear! Wow,talking about the love of artificial pets. Maybeshe is tired of the staffroom gossip or friendshad let her down and she decided to have afriend who doesn’t gossip nor talk nonsense.

What happened to the respect for theelders

Parents send their children to the Englishmedium school not for them to lose respectbut to learn and be able to face the challengesof life.

But what we saw in Ntabankulu with theVIP’s including journalists leaving before thefinish of the festival was very rude.

What is sad was that it was not at her home

where she did that.What happened? Tell us guys we are listen-

ing. As the other journalists were eating andremembered that their other colleagues camelate and they should be hungry as they calledthem to come and dine with them.

Wow that was when the trouble started thisgirl told them that they should go to the othertent where the community would be servedand when our other colleague was trying toexplain to her that those were journalists.

She started shouting and said, “I am doingyou a favour since I know you stop callingyour friends.”

This annoyed our colleagues since she wasshouting and even when they were also tryingto reason with her but that went down thedrain and the journalists did a noble thingand left without eating. We would like towarn you young girl, if you think since yourfather is a leader he was elected he is not achief so behave. Treat people the way youwould like to be treated. What is worse, youdid this in front of the journalists and radiopresenters yet they know your father.

Next time they need to be auditioned be-fore

The Pondo Cultural Festival in Ntabankuluwas successful but we think that next timewhen they hire sound and choose the Masterof Ceremonies (MC) they should first auditionthem to see what the sound is going to be likeand how the MC is going to handle the pro-gramme. These were the only two things thatspoiled the festival. The sound was very badand I won’t be surprised if they don’t pay forit. It was cutting off when the person was busytalking and when the group was performingon the stage. How can this guy who owns itcan travel all the way from Mthatha to Nta-bankulu with such a bad sound. And the MCmade people to make noise and lack concen-tration as he was not live. I won’t be surprisedif he is a teacher looking at the way he wasputting his finger to his mouth when he want-ed people to stop making noise as he was ina classroom.

He reminded us that advert which used toadvertise the generator ‘No Noise’.

Crime reallydoesn’t pay

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MTHATHA’s third movie has been complet-ed and will première next month.

The movie, ‘Away From Home’ is thebrainchild of Cranium Media and it is theirthird release following ‘Zanele’ and ‘Ubomi’.

Writer and Producer Kofi Boateng saidthe movie is now in its final stages of editingand by next month, it will be ready for theawaiting Mthatha fans.

‘HomeAwayFromHome’ is the most antic-ipated movie. Based on the life of a foreignerwho arrives in Mthatha to survive, the up-coming movie has built up excitement fromfans who watched the first two,” said Boat-eng.

He said he had worked with a group of 16characters and 45 extras with some from theprevious movies and others being totallynew talent.

“Our youth from Mthatha are not sup-posed to be relocating to bigger cities to real-ize their talent in acting because the talentI saw from the local youth is marvelous butthey are forced to relocate due to lack of fa-cilities and interest to help,” he said.

The future for Cranium Media is not indoubt. After the release of this movie, theywill be shooting yet another Mthatha-basedproject, a drama series for the Nigerian TV.

Boateng said it is really strange for the lo-cal talent to be recognized by other coun-tries while they struggle locally.

Plans in the pipeline for Cranium Mediaincludes producing comedies, chick flicks,

religious and political stories.‘A Praying Family’ is one of the projects

they will be busy with after they finish withpart two of ‘Away From Home’ movie.

Leading actress Lusanda Kali said themovie is so beautiful and it is somethingthey cannot wait to show to the world.

“We have so much talent in the OR Tambo

region but we struggle to get help from therelevant people and it is such a shame,” saidKali.

A special gratitude has been extended toEbony Restaurant and Dr Tobo for their sup-port throughout the shooting of the movie.

The movie will première on October 11 atthe Mthatha Town hall in the evening and

tickets are available from all Latitha Optom-etrist shops and Glitz salon in Madeira fromR100 only.

DVD’s for the movie and also for the previ-ous two, ‘Ubomi’ and ‘Zanele’, will also besold at the launch.

For more information, contact Kofi Boat-eng on 083 513 2030 during office hours.

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Two new 1,2 litre engines have replacedthe 1,4 and 1,6 litre engines and providemuch improved performance and fuel con-sumption. Although both engines are ofsimilar capacity, performance is vastly im-proved (see specifications below).

Today’s modern engines are a far cryfrom the engines of the sixties and the sev-enties, they are reliable and incrediblycomplex and are fully controlled by compu-ter, which makes tuning and modifying byback yard mechanics virtually impossible.

TheVWPoloequippedwiththelatestTSIengine is packed with electronic wizardrywhich provides a searing performance.Our test car was equipped with the DSG au-tomatic 7 speed gearbox which we rate asone of the best available in the world.

Combined with paddles behind the smallleather bound steering wheel the drivercan harness the energy of the engine to pro-duce the best fuel consumption and per-formance from the car.

Just imagine a 1,2 litre engine capable ofpropelling the car to a top speed of 196 km/h-mind boggling!!

Many buyers these days are under theimpression that all automatic transmis-

sions use more fuel than manual transmis-sions, however, the modern automaticgearbox, and especially the DSG automaticgearbox, is just as frugal as a manual gear-box.

The pick of the bunch is the 1,2 TSI 66kWengine which has a claimed fuel consump-tion of 4,9 litres per 100km. Outwardly thenew Polo has face-lifted details and has in-creased in length by 2mm, but the changesare imperceptible except for new alloywheels.

Inside many new ergonomic and visualimprovements catch the eye along with anall new infotainment system and optimisedclimate control systems. Bluetooth allowshands free- mobile phone connectivity.

VERDICT:The sad outcome of the huge technologi-

cal strides made by the manufacturers ofmodern vehicles is the rapid price increas-es that happen annually.

We unfortunately live in a time when in-flation is rampant and the motorist may aswell get used to the fact that decent trans-port will cost in the region of a quarter toa million rand.

The Polo is a brilliant little car however,which explains its position as topping thesales charts on a regular basis.

PRICES (VAT and CO2 emissions tax included)1.2 TSI 66kW Trendline R188 3001.2 TSI 66kW Comfortline R209 7001.2 TSI 81kW Highline R233 3001.2 TSI 81kW Highline DSG R247 8001.2 TSI 81kW CrossPolo R241 000

. GerryGericke isanEast Londonbusinessmanandmember of theGuild ofMotoring Journalists andhaswritten for variouspublications locally andnationallysince 2005. He has also served as a Jury memberon Car of the Year by the South African Guild of Mo-tor Journalists after being accepted in 1989. He hasa background of 40 years in Rallying in SA andabroad.

EXPRESSONWHEELS:GERRYGERICKE

NewPolo1.2 capableofmind-boggling topspeed

The new Polo has face­ lifted details on theexterior and has increased in length by 2mm, butthe changes are imperceptible except for newalloy wheels. PHOTO: MOTORPRESS

Inside the new Polo features many new ergonomic andvisual improvements with an all new infotainmentsystem and optimised climate control systems. Bluetoothallows for hands­free connectivity. PHOTO: MOTORPRESS