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September 2018

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Dunoon dagga smokers celebrate ConCourt ruling

Dunoon man cheats death

Dunoon churches on a mission to combat crime

Wheelchair users demand better transport

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Dunoon NGO give youth a shot in ďŹ lm industry

Nicas Pillu, Zizipho Gontsi and Christine Fyvie at the screening of short films in Dunoon on heritage day. Photo. Peter Luhanga

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fter applying for funding a Cape Town non profit organisation was selected out of over 700 non profit organisations from around the world, emerging at the top to receive the United Nations Youth Solidarity fund

administered by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.

The MyDunoon organisation was one of only two organisations from Africa who were part of the hundreds applying for the sought-after funds.

With the experience of seasoned filmmakers working for the organisation,

MyDunoon decided to utilise the UN’s youth solidarity funds in training youth in digital film production and introduce them to opportunities in the film and acting industry.

35 Youth from Dunoon, including South Africans and youth from neighbouring African countries were recruit-

ed to take part in the training that began in June and ran for three months, with lessons taking place on weekends at the Dunoon Sophakama primary school, thereafter going to locations within the township to film.

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Dunoon NGO give youth a shot in film industry From page 1 After learning film language, and the technical and creative skills required to produce films, the trainees shot six films on locations such as the township streets and informal settlement alleyways.

Of the six films, which are between seven and nine minutes long, three were submitted to this year’s annual 48 Hour Film Project.

One of the three was nominated for the best use of props and the audience award.

One of the trainees was 21-year-old Zizipho Gontsi, who said they were divided into three groups according to age.

She said a short film her group produced was the one nominated for the best use of props and the audience award at the 48-hour 48 Hour Film Project.

Participating in the creation of this short film has resulted in her receiving a scholarship to study a three year film production course at City Varsity next year, said Gontsi.

“I am so grateful. I thank God that such an opportunity came to my life I have

never received a gift that is worth more than R5 000. After graduating from the film school I’d like to open my own film production company and be able to impart skills to other black youth in the township,” she said.

During the digital film production training run by MyDunoon, she said they learnt how to operate a camera, write a movie script, production management, cinematography, and design.

The training, she said, focused on practical aspects rather than theory.

Asked about her experience of the training, she said she believed that being passionate about what you are doing meant you’d always discover new skills and ways to adapt to those skills.

The training has also seen Tanzanian Nicas Pillu awarded a scholarship to study acting at City Varsity.

“I feel good to have won a scholarship to study an eight-week course in acting,” said Pillu.

“I have been in South Africa since 2009. It is great to do what I have always wanted to do, but due to lack of funds I was unable to pursue my dreams,” he

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MyDunoon founder, Christine Fyvie, said they had trained 35 youth in digital film making with funds from the UN youth solidarity.

“The training was diverse from different cultures. We challenged them on prejudice and bias and told them the benefits of working with diverse people,” said Fyvie.

“Through that we created films around the topic of diversity. The aim was to challenge the xenophobic attitude within the community. We did this through making powerful stories,” she said.

She said the opportunity for the trainees to make films for the 48 Hour Film Project was “amazing” as it was actually for professional film makers. Besides the scholarships that resulted from their participation, some of the trainees were placed in film industry internships.

The short films were screened to the public in the Dunoon community hall on Heritage Day. “We thought to screen them on this day to celebrate the diversity of our heritage,” she said, “ I believe in arts (and) film can be a powerful means to spread a message in a creative way.”

She said she did not want to disclose how much funding MyDunoon received from the UN youth solidarity fund but according the UNAOC website, the Youth

Onset; Zizipho Gontsi and Yanga Nukani at a location filming. Photo. Supplied.

Solidarity Fund (YSF) supports youthled organizations that foster peaceful and inclusive societies by providing seed funding to outstanding projects promoting intercultural and interfaith dialogue.

It awards grants up to USD 25,000 (approximately R358,750).

Established in 2008, the fund responded to calls for action made by young civil society leaders around the world on the importance of establishing funding mechanisms for youth-led organizations. Since its creation, YSF has funded 57 youth-led organizations in 34 countries.

Dunoon dagga smokers celebrate ConCourt ruling “The police will not waste petrol to come and arrest people dealing and smoking dagga”

In broad day light in full public view outside the Dunoon Community Health Centre (CHC), Bigone Bigone comfortably rolls his dagga joint, lights up with a match, and takes a long pull before releasing a stream of smoke through his nostrils.

The Dunoon man was once bust for being found in possession of a small amount of weed - just enough to roll a single joint! He paid a fine at the Milnerton police station and was released.

But on Thursday 20 September, Bigone smoked weed in full public view in celebration of the Constitutional Court ruling on Tuesday 18 September which decriminalised dagga for private cultivation and private use.

“The police will not waste petrol to come and arrest people dealing and smoking dagga [in their homes]…they will have to arrest hardcore criminals roaming the streets. There are hardcore criminals walking in the streets armed with guns but the police have been concentrating on arresting us for smoking dagga, something that we like that is in our blood,” said Bigone.

“I think now, after the ConCourt ruling, they will have more time to focus on more important things,” he said.

He said he had been waiting “too long” for dagga to be decriminalised.

“I started smoking dagga to help meditate. I was too lonely. These herbs would take me away from thinking…it would

make me feel irie. When the ConCourt decriminalised the dagga, it made me feel that I am a real Rastafarian. The herb is from Africa and makes me feel African,” he said.

He added that the ruling freed him from the fear of police arrest and he was planning growing dagga in his backyard for personal use.

Like Bigone, Athenkosi Maqaqa was very happy. He shared Bigone’s dagga joint.

“When I smoke, it makes me feel calm and makes me think quickly and ahead,” said Maqaqa.

He was once arrested in in the rural Eastern Cape after his elder brother, who was selling dagga, asked him to keep it.

“My brother used to sell it but I learnt smoking from my peers. The legalisation of dagga is what we have been looking forward to. I am very happy. I don’t have a place to grow (so) I’ll just have to make plans to buy it as usual. Dagga prices vary depending on the quantity, it ranges from R2 to R20.00,” he said.

Writing in the Daily Maverick,Pierre de Vos, a law professor at the University of Cape Town, said the ConCourt ruling has provided interim relief that will make it unlawful for the police to arrest adults who privately cultivate, possess or use relatively small amounts of dagga.

The ConCourt gave parliament 24-months to update the relevant legislation.

Bigone Bigone smokes dagga to celebrate the ConCourt ruling. Photo. Peter Luhanga Parliament, De Vos said, may of course pass legislation to provide different guidelines to police officers, but Parliament was now constitutionally prohibited from passing legislation that would criminalise the private cultivation, possession, and consumption of cannabis.

“While Parliament can tweak the laws to ensure the effective enforcement of laws to criminalise the commercial manufacture and dealing in cannabis, any such law would have to respect the rights of an adult to cultivate, possess and consume cannabis in private,” he said.

After the ConCourt ruling, Bigone Bigone is very happy that smoking dagga is no longer a criminal offence.

Photo. Peter Luhanga.

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Dunoon man cheats death

Bystanders ignore man stabbed several times.

Dunoon neighbourhood watch coordinator Noluthando Ludziya and Norman Mazibuko who cheated death by inches when he was stabbed multiple times.

Photo: Isolabantu After being stabbed all over his torso, a-36-year-old Dunoon man is lucky to be alive.

Norman Mazibuko cheated death by inches when he was stabbed multiple times, suffering puncture wounds to his back, shoulder, chest, stomach, as well as well as defensive wounds on his arms and hands.

“I was attacked by six young men between the age 16 and 20. Three young men pulled out knives, and swore at me blocking my way, the other three were behind my back with knives as well,” said Mazibuko.

“I tried to cooperate with them, all they did was stab me. I heard the sound of knives clicking at my back, the

sound made me realise that I was being stabbed… it happened so fast… I tried to defend myself with my back pack to no avail, they keept on stabbing me.”

He said he ran toward a nearby tavern and fell at the entrance. He thought people would help him but to his shock people at the tavern, including the security, just watched him as blood oozed out of his fresh wounds.

“The thugs followed and wanted to finish me while I lay defenseless on the ground I realised that everyone is watching and I’m not getting any help. I was left for dead.”

He said only after some time, a passerby asked him who to call for help. He responded that they should call the owner

of a poplar tavern in the township. It was only then that onlookers gave him any attention.

“I lay there in pain in a pool of my blood, surrounded by the members of community. I heard them saying they knew the young thugs and that they robbed people very close to their home.

After some time a police van came. I was relieved and thought that I would get help quickly. I was pulled from my pool blood and thrown into the police van like a criminal and driven to hospital.”

The thugs didn’t have chance to steal from him.

Mazibuko’s stabbing, which happened in Siyabonga Street on Wednesday 13 June, paints a grim picture of the in-

creasing incidence of violent crime in Dunoon.

Here, thugs commit crimes with impunity and are left to roam the streets freely, with the nearest police station located about 10 kilometres away in Milnerton.

According to the latest crimes statistics released this month, for the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018, there were 55 murders in the Milnerton policing precinct; 34 attempted murders; 206 common robberies; 660 cases of robberies with aggravating circumstances; 579 common assaults; and 938 drug-related crimes.

“There is an ongoing proliferation of drugs in Dunoon and it’s the source of all crimes. The thugs start using drugs and go to rob people to sustain their substance abuse. But to my surprise no one is getting arrested,” said Dunoon neighbourhood watch coordinator Noluthando Ludziya.

Ludziya said when residents requested policing services, the Milnerton police kept complaining that they were underresourced.

“The police always complain of not having enough resources. We don’t understand that. It’s been the same story for years on end. How long is it going to take?” she asked.

“People are dying. There is no order in Dunoon, they recently bombed an ATM. The robbers are targeting Dunoon because it’s easy to commit crime.”

An email requesting comment was sent to the Milnerton police on Wednesday 19 September, but no response has been forthcoming despite numerous follow-up calls.

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EDunoon, umtshayiweHlathi ugubha isigwebo seConCourt “Amapolisa akayi kuchitha ipetroli ukuba afike abanjwe abantu abasebenzisayo nokutshaya isondo”

Ekukhanyeni kwelanga ngokubanzi ngokubanzi kwimbutho yoluntu ngaphandle kwe-Dunoon Community Health Centre (CHC), u-Bigone Bigone unamathele ngesigxina sakhe, ekhanyisa ngomdlalo, kwaye uthatha umtsalane omude ngaphambi kokukhulula umsi womsila emakhaleni akhe. Indoda yaseDunoon yayigxininisekile xa ifunyenwe inomlinganiselo omncinane wokhula - nje ngokwaneleyo ukuba uqokelelane kunye! Wakhokhela intlawulo kwisikhululo samapolisa saseMilnerton waza wakhululwa. Kodwa ngoLwesine ngomhla we-20 kuSeptemba, uBigone wavutha ukhula kwindawo kawonkewonke ngokubhiyozela isigwebo seNkundla yoMgaqo-siseko ngoLwesibili ngo-18 kuSeptemba owawuchaza isalathiso sokulima okuzimeleyo kunye nokusetyenziswa kwangasese.

“Amapolisa akayi kuchitha ipetroli ukuba afike abambe abantu abasebenzisayo nokubhema [emakhaya abo] baya kufuneka babambe izigebengu ezinzima ezihamba ngezitrato. Kukho izigebengu ezinzima ezihamba ngezitrato zixhobile ngezibhamu kodwa amapolisa aye agxininise ekusibambeni ngenxa yokutshaya intlanzi, into esiyithandayo yinto egazini lethu, “kutsho uBigone. “Ndicinga ngoku, emva kwesigqibo seConCourt, baya kuba nexesha elide lokugxila ezintweni ezibalulekileyo,” watsho. Uthe wayekade elinde “ixesha elide” ukuba idokodo lichazwe. “Ndaqalisa ukutshaya ihlathi ukuze ndincede ndicamngce.

Ndandisoloko ndedwa. Le mifuno yayiza kundithabatha ekubeni ndicinga ... yayiza kundibangela ukuba ndive. Xa iConCourt idlulisa isigxina, yenza ukuba ndive ukuba ndingumRasta. Imifuno ivela eAfrika kwaye yenza ukuba ndive ngo-Afrika, “watsho.

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ndive. Xa i-ConCourt idlulisa isigxina, yenza ukuba ndive ukuba ndingumRasta. Imifuno ivela eAfrika kwaye yenza ukuba ndive ngo-Afrika, “watsho. Wongezelela ukuba isigwebo sakhe samkhulula ekubanjweni kokubanjwa kwamapolisa kwaye wayecwangcisa ukwanda kweragga kwindlu yakhe yokusebenzisa. NjengoBigone, u-Athenkosi Maqaqa wayevuya kakhulu. Wabelane ngesigxina sikaBigone. “Xa nditshisa, kumenza ndiziva ndizolile kwaye ndicinga ngokukhawuleza nangaphambili,” kusho uMaqaqa. Wayebanjwe eMpuma Koloni yasemaphandleni emva kokuba umntakwabo omdala, othengisa intlanzi, wamcela ukuba agcine. “Umntakwabo wayedla ukuthengisa kodwa ndafunda ukutshaya kwintsapho yam. Ukusemthethweni kweedagga yinto esijonge phambili. Ndonwabe kakhulu. Andiyena indawo yokukhula (ngoko) ndiya kucinga ukuba ndithenge njengesiqhelo.

Ixabiso leDagga lihluka ngokuxhomekeka kubukhulu becala, liphuma kwi-R2 ukuya kwi-R20.00, “watsho.

UMbhali kwi-Daily Maverick, u-Pierre de Vos, uprofesa wezomthetho kwiYunivesithi yaseKapa, wathi isigqibo seConCourt senze ukukhutshwa kwexesha eliya kwenza ukuba kubekho mthethweni ukuba amapolisa abambe abantu abadala abahlakulela ngasese, bafumane okanye basebenzise inani elincinci idaka. I-ConCourt inike ipalamente-iinyanga ezingama-24 ukuhlaziya imithetho efanelekileyo. EPalamente, u-De Vos uthe, mhlawumbi unika umthetho ukuba unikeze izikhokelo ezahlukahlukeneyo kumapolisa, kodwa iPalamente ngoku yayivunyelwe ngokomthetho ukuba idlulise umthetho oza kubetha ukulima, ukusetyenziswa kunye nokusetyenziswa kwe-cannabis. “Nangona iPalamente ingayinceda imigaqo ukuqinisekisa ukusetyenziswa ngokusemthethweni kwemithetho yokukrexeza ukuveliswa kwezorhwebo kunye nokujongana nomnxeba, nayiphi na loo mithetho iya kufuneka ihloniphe amalungelo omntu omdala ukuba ahlakulele, athathe kwaye adle isinabha ngasese,” watsho.

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Culture on display at Heritage Day celebrations in Dunoon

Dunoon residents, teachers and learners at Inkwenkwezi High school joined all South Africans in celebrating national Heritage Day.

West Coast College celebrates Heritage Month

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est Coast College celebrated Heritage Month with music, dance, drama, and other activities. The event took place on Saturday, 15 September at Wesbank. Students from all five campuses (Atlantis, Citrusdal, Malmesbury, Vredenburg and Vredendal) participated. Acting principal, Mr Lungisa Mbulawa, would like to thank Student Support Officers under the leadership of its manager, Ms Ntombekaya Nduna, for a job well done.

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NGO yase-Dunoon inika ulutsha ithuba lokuzibandakanya kwiFilm Industry

Abahlali baseDunoon bazalise i holo lase Danoon ngomhla welifa lemveli ukuba libukele ukuhlolisiswa kweefilimu eziveliswa kwimihla yaseDunoon. Ifoto. Zinikezelwa

Emva kokufaka isicelo sokufumana inkxaso-mali yenkxaso-mali yaseKapa eyayingenayo inzuzo yanyulwa ngaphandle kwama-700 angenakuncedo kwimibutho evela emhlabeni wonke, ekhulayo phezulu ukuze athole iNgxowa-mali yeZizwe eziManyeneyo yoLutsha olulawulwa yiZizwe eziManyeneyo.

Inhlangano yaseMyDunoon yayingomnye wemibutho emibini evela e-Afrika eyayiyingxenye yamakhulu afaka isicelo seemali ezifunwa emva.

Ngamava abenzi befilimu abasebenza ixesha elifanelekileyo, basebenzela umbutho, i-MyDunoon yanquma ukusebenzisa i-UN yentsha yolwabelwano lwemali ekuqeqesheni ulutsha kwimveliso yefilimu yedijithali ize ibonise amathuba kumabonwakude nakwi-industry act.Ulutsha olusuka kuDunoon, kuquka nabemi baseMzantsi Afrika kunye nolutsha oluvela kumazwe angummelwane aseAfrika baqashwa ukuba bathathe inxaxheba ekuqeqesheni okwaqala ngoJuni baze baphumelele iinyanga ezintathu, ngezifundo ezenzeka ngeveki kwiSikolo saseprayimari saseDunoon Sophakama, emva koko ziya kwiindawo ilokishi ukuya kwifilimu.

Emva kokufunda ulwimi lwefilimu, kunye nezakhono zobugcisa kunye nobuchule obufunekayo ukuvelisa iifilimu, abaqeqeshwayo batyhila iifilimu ezithandathu kwiindawo ezifana nezitalato zaselokishi kunye neendlela zokuhlala eziqhelekileyo. Kwiimifanekiso ezithandathu zeefilimu, eziphakathi kwemizuzu ezisixhenxe neyesithoba, ezi zintathu zangeniswa kulo nyaka weProjekthi ye-48 ye-Film Film. Omnye waba bathathu utyunjwe ukusetyenziswa kakuhle kweeprops kunye neendleko zabaphulaphuli. Omnye wabaqeqeshi wayeneminyaka engama-21 ubudala, uSizipho Gontsi, owathi bahlukene ngamacandelo amathathu ngokumalunga nobudala. Uthe ifilimu emfutshane iqela lakhe livelise nguye otyunjelwe ukusetyenziswa kakuhle kweeprops kunye neendlebe zabaphulaphuli kwi-48 yeeyure ezingama-48 zeFayili yeProjekthi.

Ukuthatha inxaxheba ekudalweni kwefilimu emfutshane kuye kwaphume-

la ekufumaneni i-scholarship ukuba ifunde ikhosi yeefilimu zeminyaka emithathu kwi-City Varsity ngonyaka ozayo, utshilo uGontsi. Ndiyabulela gqitha. Ndiyabulela uThixo ukuba lelo thuba lafika ebomini bam andikaze ndifumene isipho esixabisa ngaphezu kwe-R5 000.

Emva kokugqitywa kwisikolo sefilimu ndingathanda ukuvula inkampani yam ifilimu yokuvelisa kwaye ndinako ukunikezela izakhono kwezinye ulutsha olumnyama kwilokishi, “watsho. Ngexesha lokuqeqeshwa kwefilimu yedijithali eqhutywe yi-MyDunoon, wathi bafunde indlela yokusebenzisa ikhamera, bhala i-movie script, ulawulo lwemveliso, icinematographic, kunye noyilo. Uqeqesho, wathi, ligxininise kwimibandela ebonakalayo kunengcamango. Ubuzwa malunga namava akhe oqeqesho, wathi ukholelwa ukuba ukhathalela malunga nento oyenzayo kuthetha ukuba uya kuhlala ufumanisa izakhono ezintsha kunye nezindlela zokuzivumelanisa ezo zakhono.

Uqeqesho luye lwabona uTanzanian uNicas Pillu wanikezela ukufundela ukufundela ekwenzeni iSixeko saseVarsity. “Ndivakalelwa kukuba ndiphumelele i-scholarship ukufunda iikhosi zeeveki ezisibhozo ekusebenzeni,” kusho uPillu.”Ndibe eMzantsi Afrika ukususela ngo-2009. Kuyinto enhle ukwenza oko ndandifuna ukukwenza, kodwa ngenxa yokungabi namali ndingenakukwazi ukuphandela amaphupha am,” watsho.

Umsunguli waseMyDunoon, uChristine Fyvie, uthe baqeqeshe ulutsha olungama-35 kwifilimu yokwenza ifilimu kunye nemali evela kubumbano be-UN yolutsha. Uqeqesho lwahluke kwiinkcubeko ezahlukeneyo. Sawacebisana ngokubandlulula kunye nokuxela kunye nokubaxelela iingenelo zokusebenzisana nabantu abahlukahlukeneyo, “watsho uFyvie. “Ngaloo nto sidala iifilimu malunga nesihloko sokuhlukahluka. Injongo yayikukunzima ukujonga ingxaki yokuxhatshazwa kwabantu ngaphakathi kuluntu. Senze oku ngokuwenza amabali anamandla, “watsho.

Uthe ithuba lokuba abaqeqeshwayo benze ifilimu kwiProjekthi ye-48 yeFil-

imu yeFilimu “yayimangalisa” njengoko yayinokwenzela abenzi befilimu abaqeqeshiweyo. Ngaphandle kweengxowamali ezibangelwa ukuthatha inxaxheba, abanye abaqeqeshwayo babekwe kwiistages. Iifutshane ezimfutshane zihlolwe uluntu kwiholo yasekuhlaleni yaseDunoon kwiSuku loLuntu.

Uthe, “Ndiyakholelwa kwezobugcisa (kwaye) ifilimu inokuba yindlela enamandla yokwandisa umyalezo ngendlela yokudala.” Uthe akafuni ukucacisa ukuba iMyDunoon ifunyenwe njani kwiNgxowa-mali ye-UN yoluntu, i-Yunifolthi yeYouth Solidarity Fund (YSF) isekela imibutho ekhokelwa yintsholongwane ekhuthaza uluntu kunye noluntu olubandak a n y e k a y o ngokubonelela ngezimali ngembewu kwiiprojekthi eziseleyo. ukukhuthaza intetho yeenkcubeko kunye nentsebenziswano. Iibhaso zinika i-USD 25,000 (malunga ne-R358.750).

Eyasungulwa ngo-2008, i-fund yabe isabela kwiimfuno zenkqubo eyenziwa

yienkokheli zoluntu jikelele kuluntu ngokubaluleka kokuseka iinkqubo zemali zenkxaso-nkqubo eyenziwa lulutsha.

Ukususela ekudalweni kwayo, i-YSF ixhaswe ngemibutho yama-57 ekhokelwa ulutsha kumazwe angama-34.

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IiCawe zeDunoon Utywala obuxabisa kwiinjongo zokulwa amaxabiso angange nolwaphulo-mthetho R400 000 bubanjwe

ngamaPolisa kwi Tarven eyaziwayo.

UMBHALI

INTATHELI YABASEBENZI Iicawa zaseDunoon ziye zaqalisa inhlangano engenzi nzuzo ukulwa nolwaphulo-mthetho ngomthandazo.Iicawa ezili-15 ezinxulumene nenkonzo yebandla laseZiyon i-Milnerton isebe lihlangene ukuze liqalise inkonzo yebandla yaseDunoon yaseZiyon. Bafuna ukuba uThixo angenelele kwaye enze iSixeko saseKapa sinike umhlaba ongekho phantsi apho bangazakhela khona indawo zonqulo, njengokuba njengamanje beqhuba iintlanganiso kunye neentlanganiso zomthandazo kwiingqungquthela zamashishini ngasemva kwezindlu ze RDP kunye nakwiindawo zokuhlala ezingaqhelekanga.

Amanye amalungu ajika izindlu zabo ze-RDP kumakhaya omthandazo ngeCawa.Imizamo yangaphambili yokufumana iSixeko inike umhlaba apho bayakha khona iicawa abazange bahlangabezane nayiphi na impumelelo.Umsunguli weChurch Generation Church eZiyon, uVuyani Masizani, ongumongameli we-Dunoon Zion Church Ministry, uthe bacebise ukuba benze in-

hlangano engenzi nzuzo (NPO) ukulwa nomhlaba kwiSixeko saseKapa EKapa.

UMasizani uthe i-NPO iya kugxininisa ekujonganeni neengxaki zoluntu ezichaphazela uluntu, njengokusetyenziswa kakubi kweziyobisi, ubundlobongela nokukhulelwa kwentsha.

I-NPO ibhaliswe kwiSixeko saseKapa kwaye yahlulwa kwakhona ngoMgqibelo 8 Septemba kwiSikolo saseprayimari sase-Dunoon saseSophakama. “Siye sahlula zonke iicawa phantsi kwe-zion ngoko loo mzi ungabona inani elipheleleyo lamabandla afuna umhlaba ukuba akhe indawo zonqulo,” kusho uMasizani.

UNoxolo Masizani uthe umbutho ufuna ukuhlanganisa amasonto ukuze ancede ukulwa nesibetho solwaphulomthetho. Siyafuna ukuba iicawa zisebenze ngokwahlukileyo. Sifuna ukukunceda ekulwa nokulwa nolwaphulo-mthetho.

Siye sabona ukuhanjiswa kweenkonzo ngokungahleliyo, izibhikiso apho izibonelelo zamasipala zonakaliswa (okanti) aba bhikishi ngamalungu ecawa zethu.

Sifuna ukungenelela ekujonganeni nomsindo wabo, “watsho.

Pay R4 if you want to use the toilet at Home Affairs

Security guards at Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape demand money from people who need the toilet

BY NOMBULELO DAMBA-HENDRIK People visiting Home Affairs in Cofimvaba near Queenstown, Eastern Cape, say security guards force them to pay R4 if they need to use the toilet. If they don’t pay, they are told to “hold it in” or use an open field nearby to relieve themselves.

This “business” has been ongoing for years, say locals, and the price has kept rising.

When GroundUp visited the offices, the toilets were locked. Two elderly women needed the toilet urgently. “First pay, then you can use the toilet,” a security guard told one of them.

Nosebenzile Gwele, 62, from Mcungco village, said, “We are forced to use the open field if we do not have money to pay for the toilet. What is sad is that this is a

government place and we are voters but we can’t use toilets for free. We are forced to pay.”

Gwele said she had arrived at the Home Affairs office at 8am. She was waiting for her grandchild to get a new ID card. She said she had already paid R8 to use the toilet so far that day.

A woman who identified herself as Nosandise from Chamama village said she was no longer ashamed of using the open field in front of Home Affairs. “People see our bums; we just made peace with that,” she said.

Home Affairs spokesperson Thabo Makgola said the provincial management was looking into the matter. When GroundUp checked two weeks later, guards were still demanding payment to use the toilet.—GroundUp

Utywala obuxabisa i-R400 000 bubanjwe eDanoon ngexesha lokuhlaselwa kwe-tavern eyaziwayo yiNkonzo yamaPolisa aseMzantsi Afrika (SAPS) Umpu, uTywala kunye neMpahla yesiBini yesiXhosa (i-Flash) kunye noLwazi loKhuseleko loLwaphulo ngokubambisana ne-Ofisi yoTywala lwePhondo kunye neSixeko saseKapa Amagosa oQinisekiso loMthetho.

Umsebenzi ohlangeneyo wenziwe ngoLwesibili 11 Septemba malunga 1pm,atsho amaPolisa aseMilnerton.

UMeli weisitishi samapolisa uKaputeni uNopaya Madyibi uthe i-tavern yavalwa ngenxa yokuhlaselwa.

“Kutyholwa ukuba iBhodi yoTywala

yenze iindlebe apho iipolisa zamangqina ngokubhekiselele kumnini ngokungahambisani nemithetho yoTywala ukususela ngo-2009 ukuya kuFebruwari kulo nyaka,” kusho uMadbi.

Uthe intetho iqhutywe kwaye ilayisenisi yotywala yesohlwayo yatshitshiswa.

Umnini uneentsuku ezingama-30 zokubhena kodwa akazange ahambisane.

“Umsolwa ugcine isakhiwo sivulekile kwaye siqhubeka neshishini lakhe.

Kuqhutywe umsebenzi ophambili okhokelela ekuthinjweni koTywala kwixabiso eliqikelelweyo lika-R400, 000, 00 kwaye indawo yavalwa, “kusho uNopaya.

IKHWELO LOKUNGENISWA KWEZICWANGCISO ZENDLELA YOKUQHUBA UMSEBENZI NGOKUJOLISWE EKUQHUTYWENI KWEZIKO LOPHUCULO LABANTWANA ABASELULA (ECD) LASE- WOLWERIVIER ISebe loPhuhliso lweNtlalo noPhuculo laBantwana abaselula leSixeko saseKapa limema imibutho ebhalisiweyo engophuculo labantwana abaselula nemibutho engajonganga-nzuzo (ii-NPO) ekwalapha kwinqila yeKapa ukuba ingenise izicwangciso zokuqhutywa komsebenzi eziyakuthi zithathele ingqalelo ekuqhutyweni nasekulawulweni kweziko lophuculo labantwana abaselula elise-Wolwerivier. Umfaki-sicelo othe waphumelela uyakuthi angene kwisivumelwano esisemthethweni solawulo lwesakheko kunye neSixeko.

Isicwangciso esingokuqhutywa komsebenzi kufuneka siqulathe inkqubo ecacisiweyo yemihla ngemihla enge-ECD, isicwangciso-buchule sokusebenza nesicwangciso esihlanganisiweyo esiluqilima.

La maxwebhu alandelayo abalulekileyo kufuneka akhaphe okanye ahambe kunye nesicwangciso sokuqhutywa komsebenzi: • • • • • • • •

Ikopi yesatifiketi sokubhalisa se-NPO Ikopi yomgaqo-siseko wombutho Isakheko solawulo se-NPO Inkqubo yokufunda ye-ECD okanye inkqubo yemihla ngemihla Izishwankathelo/ii-cv ezingeengcali ze-ECD kunye neekopi eziqinisekisiweyo zemfundo Iikopi eziqinisekisiweyo zee-ID zaseMzantsi Afrika zabafundisi-ntsapho Izatifiketi zokukhululelwa ngokungqinelana nemigaqo yoMthetho ongezaBantwana (umzekelo, isikhululelo esivela kumapolisa, njalo-njalo) Ileta yesiphumezo ephuma kwikomiti yabahlali okanye kwiforam yoluntu engeye-ECD

Izicwangciso zendlela yokuqhutywa komsebenzi kufuneka zingeniswe ngesandla kuPhozisa Cungcu, weSebe loPhuhliso lweNtlalo noPhuculo laBantwana abaselula, 2nd Floor 44 Wale Street, Cape Town, phambi kwentsimbi ye-16: 00 ngoLwesihlanu we-12 kweyeDwarha (Okthobha) 2018.

ISixeko kuyimfuneko yokuba silandele iinkqubo zoLawulo loBonelelo ngoMsebenzi weZiko ngokujoliswe kuchongo nokutyunjwa kwee-NPO zangaphandle ezibhalisiweyo ukuze zisebenze kwizakhiwo ezilawulwa siSixeko.

Kuyakuthi kuthathelwe ingqalelo kuqala ii-NPO esele zinikezela ngeenkonzo ze-ECD kwindawo emiselwe iziko elo le-ECD. Qhagamshelana Phozisa Cungcu umnxeba 021 417 4085, ifeksi 0862 011 396, phozisa.cungcu@capetown.gov.za ukuze ufumane enye ingcaciso.

LUNGELO MBANDAZAYO UMPHATHI WESIXEKO 61/2018

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Dunoon churches on a mission to combat crime

...the people’s eye

Wheelchair users demand better transport

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City’s Dial-a-Ride service criticised for being pricey

Nongasabekho Muyeko, Vuyani Masizani, and Noxolo Masizani at their church in Dunoon. Photo. Isolabantu News STAFF REPORTER Churches in Dunoon have launched a non-profit organisation to combat crime through prayer.

15 Churches affiliated to the Zion church ministry Milnerton branch have teamed up to launch the Dunoon Zion church ministry. They also want God to intervene and get the City of Cape Town to allocate vacant land on which they can build places of worship, as they currently conduct services and prayer meetings in makeshift shacks at the back of RDP houses and in informal settlements. Some members turn their RDP houses into prayer homes on Sundays.

Previous efforts to get the City provide land on which they can build churches have not met with any success.

Founder of the Dunoon-based New Generation Church in Zion, Vuyani Masizani, who is also president of the Dunoon Zion Church Ministry, said they had been advised to form a nonprofit organisation (NPO) to fight for land from the City of Cape Town.

Masizani said the NPO will also focus on addressing social ills affecting the community, such as substance abuse, violence, and teen pregnancy.

The NPO has been registered with the City of Cape Town and was relaunched on Saturday 8 September at Dunoon’s Sophakama primary school.

“We have listed all the churches under zion so the city can see the total number of churches requiring land to build places of worship,” said Masizani.

Noxolo Masizani said the organisation wants to unite churches to help fight the scourge of crime.

“Churches shouldn’t be divided. We don’t want churches to operate separately. We want to help in the fight against crime. We have witnessed random service delivery, protests where municipal infrastructure is vandalised (yet) these protestors are members of our churches. We want to intervene to address their anger,” she said.

Dunoon resident Joshua Matsidiso and Aphiwe Jwili too part in the match.

Photo: Ashraf Hendricks

THEMBELA NTONGANA “We want to travel like everyone else,” read a placard at a protest by about 50 people living with disabilities who marched from Artscape on the Foreshore to the Cape Town Civic Centre on Wednesday 19 September 2018 “We are humans,” read another placard. They were demanding a better service from Dial-A-Ride transport.

The march, organised by the Cape Town Association for the Physically Disabled, drew people from Nyanga, Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Phillipi and Dunoon.

In April 2016, users of the Dial-A-Ride service protested over the availability, cost and safety of the service and against the use of MyCiTi branding on the vehicles.

The City has been providing the Dial-aRide (DAR) service to residents with special needs since 1999. DAR is subsidised by the Western Cape Government and the City. It is used by people with disability to get to schools, work and hospitals.

“To remain on the waiting list for years is unfair while Dial-a-Ride busses are driving around with one or two people inside,” read the memorandum of demands.

The protesters want more busses; caregivers to be allowed to accompany them; the drivers to be given training in how to deal with the disabled; and the service to be extended to people living in informal settlements.

Mandilakhe Mlungwana of the Cape Town Association for the Physically Disabled, based in Gugulethu, said as social workers they have been receiving complaints from clients about Dial-a-Ride.

“Their buses do not want to go into informal settlements and they refuse to take someone with their carers even though most of the people need to be accompa-

nied.”

“Most of the clients depend only on social grants and are struggling to afford the fees that they have to pay,” said Mlungwana.

Among the protesters was 66-yearold Joshua Matsidiso from Dunoon. He

Thozi Mciki, who is 52, says he has to hire two cars when going to Groote Schuur Hospital. Mciki has a large, special electric wheelchair, which travels in one car. He cannot bend his legs so he has to lie down in another car. He has been on the DAR waiting list since October 2017.

People living with disability marched from Artscape on the Foreshore to the Cape Town Civic Centre on Wednesday. They are demanding a better service from Dial-A-Ride transport and that the service extend to informal settlements. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks says he has been on the waiting list since 2011. “I applied and got a letter four months later saying that they can’t accommodate me because [they] were full and [they had] put me on the waiting list.

Till today I am still on that waiting list.”

“I have given up on calling and checking on what is going on because it is the same story all the time. I need their help because I stay alone and have to spend my pension money paying people to transport me. That is money that I could have spent on food,” he said.

Matsidiso says he has to wheel himself to the clinic, which is about five kilometres from his house.

“If it is raining like today, I have to pay someone R20 to go and fetch my medication or hire a car for R200, because taxis do not stop for us,” said Matsidiso.

Ronald Kingma, manager for the Transport and Urban Development Authority, received the memorandum, which gave the City until 22 October to respond.

Mayoral Committee Member for Transport and Urban Development Brett Herron told GroundUp that the service currently transports 350 regular users and 2,270 ad hoc passengers. It has a fleet of 24 vehicles retro-fitted for wheelchairs.

“As from 1 July 2016, the City only allows caregivers/travel assistants on the DAR service if an occupational therapist has found that their assistance is necessary. Unfortunately we can make no exceptions,” said Herron.

—GroundUp

Coca Cola Cup quarter finals come to Dunoon DAVID ROSSOUW

The Dunoon Local Football Association hosted the under 18s, ladies and senior men Coca Cola Cup quarter finals of Safa Cape Town at the Dunoon Sports complex on Sunday 15 September.

Dunoon Local Football Association (LFA) chairperson Amos Siwayi said it was an honour for them to host one of prestigious competition’s quarter finals, and that he was grateful to the Safa Cape Town regional executive for granting the LFA the special occasion In the under 18 division, which kicked off at 11:30, Grassy Park came up against Saxon Rovers, while Goal Hunters faced off with the mighty Glenedene United.

Outstanding football was played by the boys in both matches, and it was difficult

to predict who would come out tops. But at the final whistle it Grassy Park who came out just ahead of Saxon Rovers with a one-nil lead, while and Glenedene United beat Goal Hunters convincingly with three goals to one. Grassy Park and Glenedene United now qualify for the semifinals and will play either Santos FC or Silver Spurs.

In the ladies quarter finals Dangerous Heroes had no competition as they beat Burnly 3-0, with Asanda Tshazi striking twice within 15minutes after the beginning of the second half. In the second semifinal, the experienced RV United midfielders held more than 60 percent of ball possession during the match, but could not score any goals as Spurs defenders were solid as a rock and fought to the end. After referee Sthembiso Stwayi

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Dunoon LFA and SAFA Cape Town bring the Coca Cola Cup Quarter finals to Dunoon Sport complex blew his whistle for the last time to indicate that normal time had expired, RV United knew they still had a changc in the penalty shootout. But they were held off by and outstanding goalkeeping performance by the Spurs keeper. RV United, who were finalists last year, ended up being knocked out by Spurs FC who won with 5-4 on penalties. Dangerous Heroes and RV United will now face either UWC Ladies or Santos Ladies in the semifinals.

In the men’s senior division, Vasco Da Gama of Cape Town Tygerberg LFA took on Wanderers FC of Langa Ndabeni LFA, while Belhar Spurs of Northern Suburbs took on Beacon Spurs of Mitchells Plain.

Wanderers FC beat Vasco Da Gama by two goals to nil. In an exiting second semifinal match, Belhar Spurs and Beacon Spurs fought until the bitter end, but

Beacon Spurs had the last say when they put finally put the ball into Belhar’s net to progress to the semifinal.

Siwayi said despite the shortage of soccer fields across the peninsula due to the drought and water restrictions imposed by the City at the start of the season, outstanding football was seen throughout the competition.

“We are very impressed with the kind of football played at the Dunoon sports complex. In the ladies division, they have shown that their soccer skills are improving,” said Siwayi.

“With this kind of football displayed across the peninsula, soccer quality is improving and supporters can lick their lips for mouth wateringfootball in the semifinal and the final of this prestigious amateur football competition.”