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Love is in the air 20 couples tie the knot on Robben Island ISOLABANTU NEWS

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wenty couples tied the knot on Robben Island in Cape Town on Valentine’s Day, February 14.

It was the 17th wedding ceremony hosted at the former prison where people were isolated, banished and exiled for hundreds of years. It has since been re invented to a place of love.

Speaking to Ilisolabantu, couples couldn`t hold their tears of joy.

Grace Msibi, a school teacher, and her husband Sumanga Michael Msibi said having a wedding at Robben Island on Valentine`s Day was a privilege. “This place is known as a place of horror where political prisoners were kept during apartheid. Today it’s an Island of love. Just like the biblical calvary that was known to be a place of punishing thugs but it turned to be a place of greatness after Jesus died there. My husband and I are now part of the Robben Island history,” she said. Home Affairs Minister, Malusi Gigaba presented marriage certificates to

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Gigaba said South Africans are being duped into fraudulent marriages of convenience with foreigners. He said last year alone his department uncovered around 5000 fraudulent marriages. The Chief Heritage Officer, Pascal Taruvinga, said the 20 couples that wedded at Robben Island today symbolises 20 years of Robben Island as a Heritage Institution.

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the newlyweds.

“Marriage is a lifetime commitment. We are not here just to witness the ceremony but to witness the new life,” said Gigaba.

“We pray for God’s blessings to all the couples.”

Another couple, Monica Jaxa and husband Sakhiwo Ngqani said they have been waiting for this day. “As a couple we feel blessed to be part of Robben Island,” said Monica. “I’m very happy to have a wedding here, I actually enjoyed a lot since it’s my first time being here,” he said. The couple has been together for 14 years.

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R39,3 million library for Dunoon

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partnership between the DA led Western Cape government and its led City of Cape Town will see the construction of a R39, 3 million library in Dunoon township near Milnerton. A contractor was recently appointed and has already started clearing the site in preparation for building to start. The City relocated 12 families who were living in shacks on the site and demolished their homes to pave way for the construction of the multi million rand project.

ANC ward 104 councilor, Lubabalo Makeleni, said the City provided building materials for the relocated families and arranged for connection of electricity at the New Rest squatter camp.

“Our children have to travel four kilometres to Table View library, some have to travel more than 20 kilometres to Milnerton to access a library, sometimes traveling on foot.

The building of a library in Dunoon means that our children will perform better at school” he said. He said construction of the library will also create work opportunities for the community and provide construction contracts to local contractors to work as sub-contractors.

“The construction will also boost profits for local vendors who will sell their merchandise at the construction site,” he said. In addition, when construction of the library is complete, there will be more job

opportunities for local residents.

anticipated that construction of the library

on an annual basis and the City will be

Area north mayco member, Suzette Little,

will be completed by June 2018. She said

responsible for managing the library. “The

said the City is responsible for the execution

once complete, the full operational budget,

overall cost of the project is R39,3 million,

of the project and has awarded the tender

including staff costs, will be funded by

including construction costs as well as

for the construction of the library.

the Western Cape government to the City

professional fees,” said Little.

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Sugar tax will cost jobs – Cosatu

PETER LUHANGA

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abour federation Cosatu has expressed concern that the proposed tax on sugar-sweetened beverages may lead to the loss of thousands of jobs in the sugar industry.

Making a submission on Tuesday, February 14, on the proposed tax at a public hearing hosted by Parliament’s committees on finance and health, Cosatu’s parliamentary liaison officer, Matthew Parks, said the trade union feared the effect that the sugar tax – proposed to begin on April 1 – would have on jobs.

Cosatu is South Africa’s largest trade union, boasting more than 2 million workers, and is part of the tripartite alliance with the ANC and the SA Communist Party.

Parks compared Treasury’s estimate of 5 000 job losses to the figure mooted by the SA Cane Growers’ Association – a 5 817 job loss – adding that the sugar industry employed 79 000 workers on 22 300 farms.

The cane growers’ association further estimates that the sugar tax will reduce farm incomes by between 15% and 30%. It goes on to question the affordability of the proposed tax at a time when one out of two farms are heavily indebted and one out of three emerging farms fail.

Parks said about 15 000 jobs in the sugar sector had been lost because of lower global prices.

He added that 2016 saw 52 000 job losses in the mining sector, 10 000 in the retail

sector and 1 000 in the banking sector. Vacancies in the public service and at universities had been frozen, and thousands of posts at Telkom and the SA Post Office outsourced.

He made reference to last month’s 1 350 job losses in the poultry sector and the laying off thousands farm workers over the past 20 years.

Parks said all this was against the background of the reduced mining sector workforce from more than a million 20 years ago to current estimates of 400 000.

In addition, he said, 100 000 jobs were lost in the textile industry in the 1990s when government lifted tariffs “too quickly”, and the number of Telkom staff had shrunk from 50 000 to 5 000.

He said Treasury needed to be careful

said public health concerns drove the deci-

about overtaxing an already heavily taxed

sion to raise the excise tax on tobacco prod-

and poor nation.

ucts in the 1990s and that, thanks to these

Healthy Living Alliance, an alliance com-

tax changes – more than any other tobacco

prising 10 health and social justice organi-

control interventions – a dramatic reduc-

sations, supported the proposed sugar tax.

tion in smoking had occurred.

ers were employed in the sugar industry,

Its representative, Tracey Malawana sub-

He was dismissive of predictions that up

particularly on sugar farms and mills in

mitted that taxes on sugary drinks were

to 60 000 jobs might be lost because of

KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga.

particularly effective in reducing con-

the sugar tax, saying parties involved in

“Government does not appear to have any

sumption and improving health among

the tobacco industry made similar alarm-

plan to prevent its estimated 5 000 jobs

lower-income consumers, who were re-

ist claims in the late 1990s, when govern-

losses,” he said.

sponsive to price increases and suffered

ment announced that it would increase ex-

“The silence of Treasury and the depart-

disproportionately from the ill effects of

cise tax on cigarette tax to 50% of its retail

ment of health on this matter indicate that

obesity.

price. Despite scare tactics, legislation was

they view such job losses for those fami-

Professor Corné van Walbeek, the principal

passed and as a result, the population had

lies’ breadwinners as necessary collateral

investigator in the Economics of Tobacco

benefited from smoke-free places and not

damage,” he said.

Control Project at University of Cape Town,

being bombarded by tobacco advertising.

“Throughout all these massive job losses, government has shown itself to be unwilling or unable to protect jobs, to intervene timeously to save jobs or even to create jobs,” said Parks.

He added that an estimated 79 000 work-

Uxambuliswano lomthetho luvala ulwakhiwo lwebala

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go Januwari ka 2014, iBhunga leSixeko sabekela bucala izigidi zeerandi ezingama R16,5 ukuze kwakhiwe ukracaza webala lemidlalo.

Le projekthi ibandakanye ukuphuculwa kwemeko zokuthuthwa nokuthwala kwamanzi ebaleni apho, ukwakhiwa kwethafana lwe scate-boards , idonga lokudlala umtybilizi, indawo yokugcina izinto, izitulo zababukeli, amabala ebasketball, netball antlobo ziqinileyo nezithambileyo kwakunye ne clubhouse.

Ngeloxesha iBhunga lalicinga ukuba leprojekthi iyakuqukunjelwa ngomnyaka mali we 2014/15, nto leyo yazisa uchulumanco kuluntu lwase Dunoon.

Ngoku ngumyaka ka 2017, iclub house ayikagqitywa ukwakhiwa kwaye umakhi akabonakali ndawo tu kwaphela.

Ibala lebhola alisetyenziswa ntoleyo ivua umnyele kubahlali balendawo.

Nangona kunjalo, ezinye iinxalenye zelibala ziye zavuleleka ukuba zisetyenziswe ,emva kokuba ilungu lekomiti kasodoluphu uBelinda Walker, ethe wayivula ngokusesikweni lendawo ngo December 2015.

Kusukela ngoko abahahlali bebelinde ukuba kugqityezelwe iindima ezishotayo.

Kodwa basajonge enkalweni nangoku!

Ngowe 2014, igosa lesixeko uMnu Van der Merwe wathi izicwangciso zolwakhiow zenziwa ngowe 2011 laze laqalisa ukwakhiwa ngo2012.

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ngokuya kuhlola undonakele lafika lamangaliswa.

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isixeko

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okwalilungu

uSuzette

Little

lekomiti usixelele

ukuba leprojekti ikhutyazwa kukungavani kwabomthetho, abeSixeko nabakhi.

ULittle uthe ulwakhiwo lwebala lugqityiwe koko bashota ngeempepha zesiqinisekiso ezivela kubakhi.

Sithe xa simbuza ukuba liyakugqitywa nini na ukwakhiwa elibala asafumana mpendulo.

Okwangoku amaqela ebhola aqhubeka edlala kumathafa akude kufuphi nebala eli.

Uceba uLubabalo Makeleni, uthe amaqela adlala kwi South African Football Association (Safa) asoloko embuza ukuba bayakuze balisebenzise nini na elibala.

“Lamaqela afuna impendulo kodwa mna andinayo kuba nesiXeko asinayo impendulo bame ngelithi balinde kutyikwe okuthile,”” utshilo uMakeleni.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESS PROPOSED EXPANSION OF THE DIESEL STORAGE FACILITIES AT THE KOEBERG NUCLEAR POWER STATION, FARM DUYNEFONTYN NO. 1552, MELKBOSSTRAND Notice is hereby given of a Public Participation Process in terms of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998) (NEMA), as amended, and the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014.

Proposal and location: the proposed expansion of the diesel storage facilities at the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station (KNPS) by installing two mobile above ground diesel tanks on the Farm Duynefontyn No. 1552, Melkbosstrand. The primary purpose of the diesel fuel tanks is to provide a diversified and separate, additional source of diesel fuel during an extended loss of Alternating Current (AC) power following an emergency, to supply: 1. The emergency mobile diesel powered water pumps which will be used to provide reactor core cooling and nuclear spent fuel pool make-up; and 2. The Emergency Control Centre (ECC) diesel generator which will allow the ECC to perform its command and control function.

The storage strategy is to have one diesel tank permanently positioned at the Ekhaya site (Alternative 1 – Preferred Alternative) or at the Transport Garage (Alternative 2), and the second diesel tank located at the Bulk Stores, which is at the Portable Emergency Equipment Store site.

Applicant: Eskom Holdings SOC Limited Environmental authorization is required in terms of NEMA for the following listed activities: Government Notice: R983 (Listing Notice 1): Activity 51: The expansion of facilities or infrastructure for the storage, or storage and handling of a dangerous good, where the capacity of such storage facilities will be expanded by more than 80 cubic metres. The procedures for a Basic Assessment Process are being followed.

Availability of the Basic Assessment Report (BAR): the Draft BAR will be available for public comment from Friday, 24 February 2017– Monday, 27 March 2017 at the Koeberg Public Library (Merchant Walk, Duynefontein); Wesfleur Public Library (Arnold Centre, Bunting Crescent, Atlantis); Cape Town Central Library (Old Drill Hall, Corner of Parade and Darling Street, Cape Town); Koeberg Visitors Centre; and Doug Jeffery Environmental Consultants’ office in Klapmuts.

The BAR will also be made available on our company website: www.dougjeff.co.za.

Opportunity to participate: Interested and Affected Parties (I&APs) are hereby invited to register as I&APs and/or to comment with regard to the proposed application. In order to register or submit comment, I&APs must provide their name and contact details (postal address as well as preferred method of communication, e.g. email, fax, registered mail, normal mail, etc.); and must give an indication of any direct business, financial, personal, or other interest which they have in the application to the contact details below.

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Izibini ezingashumi amabini zitshatele esiqithini

Umphathiswa wezekhaya uMalusi Gigaba enikezela ngesiqinisekiso somtshato ku Marche Lindsay Lakey no Sibusiso Makhubu. Kufote : Misheck Makora.

NGU: MISHECK MAKORA

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zibini ezingamashumi amabini zizimanye ngeqhina lomtshato kwisiqithi iRobben Island njengenxalenye yokubhiyozela usuku lwezithandani iValentine’s Day ngomhla we February 14.

Ibilityeli leshumi elinesixhenxe umsitho okumila kunje usenzeka apha sukela oko kwathi kwakhululwa amabanjwa epolotike.

Lentolongo yodumo isuke mav nje yay-

indawo yokuphalaza iimbilini zothando.

Bethetha ne Ilisolabantu, abatshati babonakele bechulumnacile kakhulu.

UGrace Msibi oyitishalakazi nomyeni uSumanga Michael Msibi bathe ukutshatele kwesisiqithi kubanga imincili engapheliyo kubo. “ Lendawo yindawo yenkxwaleko kuba yayivalele abantu bakuthi. Namhlanje isisibonakaliso sothando, ifana nje ne Khalvari ekwafela kuyo uYesu- yintaba yethemba.

Senza imbali namhlanje,” utshilo.

Ithala lencwadi elixabisa izigidi NGU PETER LUHANGA

ali ezakuchithwa ekwakhiweni kwelithala

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lencwadi.

bambiswano phakathi kweSixeko norhulumente wephondo kube ngunozala wokwakhiwa kwethala leencwadi elixabisa izigidi zeerandi eDunoon.

Iqikelelwa kumyinge we R39,3 million im-

Umakhi usandula kutyunjwa kwaye sele eqalisile ukusebenza kwisiza esityunjiweyo.

ISixeko kuye kwanyanzeleka ukuba sisuse amakhaya alishumi elinesibini kwesi siza

Swimming pool hours to save water

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ue to the current water restrictions implemented in the City of Cape Town, the operating times at all public swimming pools for the remainder of the summer season has been changed with effect from 13 February 2017.

With the exception of Sea Point, Mnandi Resort pool and four City indoor facilities, all public swimming pools has been closed from Monday to Thursday. The swimming pools will only be open to the public from 14h00 until 17h00 on Fridays and from 10h00 to 17h00 on Saturdays and Sundays, until the end of March when pools will close for the winter season. “With the low usage levels during the week, it is impractical to keep these pools open while facing the current water crisis in Cape Town,” said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member Alderman JP Smith.

Because these swimming pools need to be backwashed every day in order to maintain optimum water quality levels, it is estimated that more than 1 680 kl of water per day will be saved just by eliminating the daily backwash of these pools. With pools only staying open on weekends, only one backwash per week will be needed. Showers at pools will be switched off and splashing in pools will also be monitored and restricted.

Only normal bathing costumes may be worn when swimming at public swimming pools as significant water can be wasted just by swimming in casual clothing. “The situation is not ideal, but I trust the public can appreciate the severity of the situation and will support this measure, over and above their individual water-saving efforts,” said Smith.

Umphathiswa wezekhaya uMalusi Gigaba unikezele isiqinisekiso somtshato kubo bonke aba bebezimanya.

“Umtshato sisithembiso sothando nokuzinikela okungapheliyo. Silapha ukuze sibengamangqina esiqalo sobomi obutsha,” u Gigaba utshilo esongeza ngelithi, “sithandaza ukuba uThixo anendisele.”

Esinye isibini uMonica Jaxa nesithandwa sakhe uSakhiwo Ngqani bathe kudala bawulinda lomhla, “Siziva sichulumance kakhulu lolusuku

sibafudusele ndaweni yimbi.

“Abantwana bethu bahamba imigama ukuba bakwazi ukufunda iincwadi eTable View Library, abanye bahamba ngaphezu kwemigama engama 20 ukuze bafike eMilnerton befuna ukwenza umsebenzi wesikolo. Ukwakhiwo kwethala eDunoon kuza kuba luncedo kakhulu kwaye kuthetha ukuba abantwana bethu bazakwenza ngcono esikolweni,” utshilo uceba walendawo uLubabalo Makeleni.

lokuba sibe yi nxalenye ye Robben Island,” utshilo. “ Ndonwabe kakhulu kukutshatela apho, eney endivuyisayo kukuba kokokuqala ndisiza apha,” utshilo.

Omele i-Heritage Office eRobben Island Museum uPascal Taruvinga ukutshata kwezibini ezingama 20 esiqithini kufuzisela iminyaka engama 20 iRobben Island yayekayo ukuba likhaya lamabanjwa.

UMakeleni ukwathe ulwakhiwo luzakuvusa izithuba zengqesho kubahlali balapha logama ikontraki ezincikana zizakuthi zizuze nazo.

Omele ibhunga ekwakikomiti kasodolophu uSuzette Little, uthe iSixeko sithwele uxanduva lokuzisa iinkonzo eluntwini kwaye sele betyumbe inkampani ezakwakha ngokukhawuleza.

Uthi bacinga ukuba elithala lakugqitywa ukwakhiwa ngomnyaka ka 2018 ngoJune.

UKULUNGELA UBUSIKA ISixeko saseKapa sizama kangangoko ukuphendula kwiimfuno zabo bantu bangenamakhaya kwisithuba sexesha lasebusika ngo-2017 kwaye abo bantu sibanikezele uncedo ukuze kucutheke inani labantu abangenamakhaya abasezitalatweni. ISixeko sinenjongo yokwenza ubuhlakani nemibutho ezimeleyo/NGO’s, imibutho engajonganga-nzuzo/ii-NPO’s nee-PBO’s ezibonelela ngeesheltha kwabo bangenamakhaya, ngokuthi sidibanise imithombo yala macandelo ukuze babenakho ukuxhamla ngakumbi abo bangenanto.

Inkqubo iyakuthi imiselwe ukususela ngowo-1 Meyi ukuya kowama-30 Septemba 2017.

Iyakuthi ibonelele ngendawo yexeshana yoomatrasi kwaye akulindelekanga ukuba loo mbutho udale nayiphina indawo yesigxina eneebhedi zokulala. Ukuba loo mbutho uye wathobela ummiselo, iSixeko siyakuthi sibonelele ngabasebenzi be-EPWP ukuze bancedise.

Iifomu zokwenza isicelo ziyafumaneka kwa-www.capetown.gov.za/readyforwinter.

Nceda ungenise ifomu egcwalisiweyo ku lorraine.frost@capetown.gov.za ngentsimbi ye-16:00 ngoLwesine we-9 Matshi 2017.

ACHMAT EBRAHIM UMPHATHI WESIXEKO 24/2017

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Legal dispute stalls sports facility project

PETER LUHANGA

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n 13 January 2014, the City of Cape Town announced that its R16, 5 million investment in Dunoon’s multi-use sports facility was at an advanced stage and progressing well. The project entailed the upgrade of drainage to the sports fields, construction of a skate-able forecourt, a climbing wall and a slide, a detention pond, spectator seating, hard and soft landscaping, an informal basketball or netball tree, mixeduse hard courts, a mixed-use synthetic surface court, a spray park and a changing room, office facility and clubhouse. At the time, the City expected the project to be completed before the end of the 2014/15 financial year, which brought much excitement to the community. Three years

later the clubhouse is standing incomplete, with no contractor on site, the soccer field not being used and this is angering the residents. However, the Dunoon spray park – which forms a part of the multi-use sports facility - was completed and was officially opened by mayoral committee member for community services and special projects, Belinda Walker, in December 2015. Since then residents have been looking forward to the completion of the other phases of the multi million rand investment. And they are still waiting!

In 2014, mayoral committee member for energy, environmental and spatial planning, JohanVan der Merwe, said planning and design phase for the northern sport facility started in 2011 and the first phase of construction began in 2012.

Isolabantu News, set out to establish what has stalled the project for two years since the expected date of completion.

Area north mayco member, Suzette Little told Isolabantu News, that the project has been stalled because of a legal dispute between the City and contractor. Little said the Dunoon sports ground development was completed.

“In order to get the occupation certificate for the building, the property had to be subdivided, survey diagrams drawn up, and the new property registered, which we are currently doing,” said Little. When asked when the rest of sports facility eventually be completed, the City left the question unanswered.

In the meantime local football clubs continue to play league games outside

the township. ANC ward 104 councilor, Lubabalo Makeleni, said local football clubs affiliated to the South African Football Association (SAFA) constantly demanded answers from him asking when they will be able to start using the sports field.“The local soccer clubs want answers and when I ask the City I always get the same answer that they are waiting for certain documents to be signed,” said Makeleni. “It’s unacceptable as people are impatient and want to know why they have this infrastructure for two years and it`s not being put into use. It’s very embarrassing to be a councilor in a ward where there is a project that cost millions of tax-payers money and yet the final product is not finalised.”