Die Matie – 23 October 2019

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Cat and mouse at Huis Muis BRYNLEY VAN AARDT

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uis ten Bosch women were recently informed that their home would not be ready for occupation until October 2020 due to renovations being added to the schedule alongside the necessary repairs. The majority of the women will be moving into “Huis ten Bosch 2020”, in the new Huis Marais building. In a meeting held last week, the current Huis ten Bosch residents were informed of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) plans for their residence by Pieter Kloppers, the Director at the Centre for Student Communities (CSC). Due to this extra construction, Huis ten Bosch will only be taking in residents from 2021. Stan du Plessis, Chief Operating Officer at SU, said the building plan includes renovations like the compartmentalisation of all rooms, the installation of fire doors in the rooms and the layout of evacuation routes, the installation of fireproof ceilings, a new fire alarm system in the residence and kitchen, as well as the provision of additional electric points in the rooms. Current Huis ten Bosch residents, along with about 30 first years, have been given different options for their housing for next year. The options include moving into rooms in Victoria Street, in Paul Kruger and Armentum or 30 spaces in other SU residences as well as the 74 spaces in Huis Marais’s South section above their archives and clubhouse. “We are thankful for the opportunity for Huis ten Bosch 2020 to live in a building that will keep

HOUSES UNITE The building that will become ‘Huis ten Bosch 2020’, and house about 70 Huis ten Bosch women. Photo: Hugo Ubisse most of our community located together and we will face the challenges that come with it in order to continue being the great residence that campus has come to know,” Ella van Rensburg, prim of Huis ten Bosch, said. According to Stander Terblanche, the prim of Huis Marais,

the shifting of Huis Marais from a men’s residence to a temporary mixed residence will not be easy. “We understand that Huis ten Bosch needs our help and we do want to help them, but Huis Marais is already one of the smaller residences and every member of the house already participates a

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lot, now the rest of the house will have to bring double the gees next year,” Terblanche said. Huis Marais did not accept the move right away and tried to see what they could do to keep their residence the way it currently is. “We tried to give them alternatives to give the committee to look

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at, but at the end, the committee stuck to Huis Marais being chosen because according to CSC we can make the easiest divide between male and female side in res. A temporary wall will be built in the middle,” Terblanche continued. Huis ten Bosch women were also given the option to leave Huis ten Bosch completely and move into another SU residence but then they would not be allowed to return to Huis ten Bosch in 2021. Megan Collins, a first year at Huis ten Bosch decided to move permanently into Nerina next year, and said that she does not want to be uncertain or end up in a residence she does not want to be in. A first year at Huis Marais said that the Huis ten Bosch women are not to blame. “We obviously don’t blame the Huis ten Bosch girls, because they can’t help it. We blame our residence head and the CSC, because 18 of must go live in Huis Visser and 12 others in flats opposite Merriman and then we get a whole lot less first years, maybe even none.” According to Terblanche, Huis Marais is taking on about 36 first years for next year, pending on the final decision, but they expect that 29 residents will have to be accommodated outside of Huis Marais to create space for Huis ten Bosch. “We don’t have a final answer on the flats yet and if we get them it will be mostly the residents that applied for senior living spaces, didn’t get in, and were placed back in Huis Marais,” Terblanche said. Martin Viljoen, SU spokesperson said that Dr Johan Groenewald, the Residence Head of Huis Marais has indicated that he would not like to make a comment at this time.

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NEWS

Nigeria welcomes SU Green light for cannabis farm

SEBASTIAN UYS

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ive members of the 2018/2019 Students Representative Council (SRC) of Stellenbosch University (SU), alongside official university staff, visited the University of Lagos from 14 to 18 October. The University of Lagos hosted its first International Week which was themed, “Education in a Connected World”. The week’s focus was academic but also sought to address the requirements of effectively educating students in the 21st century. The SRC engaged with the governor of Lagos, met the Deputy Speaker of the Nigerian State Assembly and connected with students from local schools. Carli van Wyk, 2018/2019 SRC Chairperson, said, “Visiting Lagos has been an eye-opening experience.” “After the xenophobic attacks in SA, I was unsure of how we will be received in Nigeria. Against all odds, the University of Lagos, the King of Lagos, statesmen and locals have received us with open hearts and invited us to visit again,” Van Wyk said. Following the September xenophobic attacks in South Africa, of which many were directed at Nigerian-owned businesses, SU was the only South African university to attend the event. “South Africa and Nigeria need to take their roles as leaders of the African continent seriously and place reconciliation and the needs of the African continent first, in order for all African people

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LEADERS IN NIGERIA The 2018/2019 SRC with the vice-chancellor of University of Lagos, Professor Toyin Ogundipe, and Dr Nico Elema, Manager of the Centre for Collaboration in Africa at SU. Photo: Supplied to prosper and move forward,” Van Wyk added. Alex van Greuning, vice-chairperson of the 2018/2019 SRC said that “visiting Nigeria has reminded me of the resilience of the African spirit”. “The amount of goodwill here towards South Africans despite the xenophobic attacks in Johannesburg and Pretoria has been truly humbling. The commitment to relationship and unity in Nigeria has convicted me as a South African to pursue those values to the same extent,” Van Greuning said. A three day state visit between the Presidencies of Nigeria and South Africa was also held at the beginning of October. President Cyril Ramaphosa took to Twitter to emphasise Nigeria and South Africa’s role as driving forces in the integration of African nations and President Muhammad U Buhari of Nigeria declared that, “As the two largest economies in Afri-

ca, there are many areas in which Nigeria and South Africa can share experiences, invest and cooperate. Ours is a relationship full of potential and promise and this can only be a win-win for our peoples and for Africa at large.” According to Paulu Joubert, the 2018/2019 Prim Committee Chairperson, the future relationship between these two nations will have to be one that is founded upon respect. “There are a lot of similarities between South Africa and Nigeria and engaging with the student leadership here has shown me the unity within the struggles that we as African nations face,” Joubert said. Joubert added the visit showed him that “African nations can only flourish if we work together”. “Only if we stand together as Africa can we undo the injustices of the past and and set our own standards,” Joubert said.

S T E L L E N B O S C H -based strawberry farm, Polkadraai, has become the first to legally grow marijuana in the Western Cape. The cannabis company, Felbridge, was issued a licence by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority following a two-year application process that began in October 2017. The success of the application required a thorough police clearance, information on the company, Felbridge, and an established deal with foreign buyers for the produce. Felbridge is predominantly owned by the Zetler family, also owners of Polkadraai. According to the company’s website, “Felbridge is committed to improving society via the proven medical benefits of cannabis in our everyday lives”. The cost of an approved marijuana farm has been estimated to be between 3 and 5 million rand. Recent policies regarding marijuana, such as the removal of Cannabidiol (CBD) from the list of highly controlled drugs and the decriminalisation of the personal use of marijuana by the Constitutional Court have changed the face of the dagga industry in South Africa during the last few years. In an interview with CapeTalk, Leslie Zetler discussed some of the aspects of the licence process and approval. The investment to

diversify the strawberry farm has been costly and the family has invested “quite a bit” Zetler said. The licence permits Felbridge to use 14 000 square metres of the strawberry farm to grow marijuana. Tests will be run on 150 square metres of the farm before the development of 5,000 square metres of dagga production proceeds. In his interview with CapeTalk, Zetler said that this will only happen once Felbridge is “satisfied with the produce”. According to Zetler the licence permits Felbridge to produce twenty tonnes of dried marijuana per year. Zetler says “yields are forecasted to happen between four to five times a year” and “the farm has possible future plans to increase production by extending the greenhouse”. While the strawberry farm and pickings will remain, visitors will be picking strawberries on the same premises as the Western Cape’s first legal dagga farm. Zetler says the dagga grown on the farm will be on an “isolated patch which is more secure”. According to Helena Wasserman, financial journalist from Fin24, the industry may be a lucrative investment in the future. “The South African domestic market for cannabis and related products, excluding consumer CBD products, will be worth around R27bn by 2023,” Wasserman said.

#ImStaying: gaan jy gly of bly? #ImStaying is ’n Facebook-groep, waar Suid-Afrikaners redes gee waarom hulle nie sal wil emigreer nie. Jean-Marie Uys het met mede-Maties gaan gesels oor hoekom hulle sal kies om te bly.

Pierre-Louis Bredenkamp, tweedejaar BCom (Entrepreneurskap en Innovasiebestuur)

Tehillah Truter, eerstejaar LLB

Janca Fourie, eerstejaar BA (Drama en Teater Studie)

Jean-Paul Kulumba, first year BEng (Electronic)

Lebone Moiloa, first year BA (International Relations)

EK sal net so graag soos die volgende mens wil reis, maar ek sal nie my tuisland wil verlaat nie. Net omdat daar ’n uitdaging is, beteken nie dat ons nou moet vlug nie. Ons moet juis gebruik maak van hierdie uitdagings wat ons vandag in die gesig staar om te verbeter. Hoe het ontwikkelde lande hul status bereik in die eerste plek? Wat werklik die verskil maak, is die manier waarop jy kies om te reageer, en dit bepaal wie jy as landsburger en individu is.

EK sal in Suid-Afrika bly, omdat ek baie lief vir my familie is en hulle nie sal wil agterlaat en in die vreemde ’n lewe sonder hulle sal wil skep nie. Ek is ook hier grootgemaak en voel dat dit vir my moeilik sal wees om so iets aan te pak sonder om huis toe te verlang. Ek dink ook dat die land ’n besonderse skoonheid het met vele variasies in ekosisteme. Ek sal ook my kursus in ag moet neem – omdat regte nie ’n internasionale graad is nie.

EEN van die redes waarom ek in Suid-Afrika sal wil bly, is omdat dit so divers is en vir mens spasie gee vir die uiting van identiteit. Ek dink ons land omarm individualisme en die ryk historiese agtergrond van elke mens beklemtoon dit. Ek hou ook nie van die idee om te trek en daar by heel nuwe kulture te probeer aanpas nie. Terwyl ek oorsee was vir ’n paar weke, het ek begin verlang na die reuk van braaibroodjies en Suid-Afrikaanse stemme.

I moved here from Uganda and chose to study. In my opinion, the South African environment has, compared to the rest of Africa, a greater forward-thinking and developmental mentality. I also value the vast diversity in South Africa, making it more advantaged in the sense that more opinions from different backgrounds are available, essentially cultivating broader mindsets. The diversity also allows room for accommodation for different backgrounds.

THIS is my home. I don’t see the point in leaving, because previous generations fought hard for the freedom. By leaving you are spitting in the face of previous generations and all the battles that they had to fight. You are disregarding your heritage and cultural norms by adapting to a foreign country. I believe our differences are what brings us together, and you will not find our sense of community across racial and cultural boundaries in any other country.

NUUS

23 Oktober 2019

Nuwe lewe vir kliniek TOM LEE

SU language policy remains unchanged

Vertaal deur: Dominique Fuchs

NICOLE NASSON

ie ou vervalle gebou langs Die Mystic Boer in Victoriastraat 7, bekend as die gewese Stellenbosch-kliniek, gaan ’n herlewing ondergaan. Die eens gemeenskaplike kliniek se deure het in 2008 gesluit en het sedertdien in onbruik verval. Dit gaan binnekort verander word in ’n plek waar Stellenbosse B-BBEE (Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment) entrepreneurs van volgende jaar af handel kan dryf. Kliënte kan uitsien na ’n koffiewinkel, ’n kunsen modegang, kantore, geskenkwinkels, konferensiekamers, ’n haarkapper en ’n nael- en klankstudio. Ranyaka, die nie-winsgewende organisasie agter die inisiatief, is ’n sosiale onderneming wat in 2013 gestig is. Volgens Sonja Olivier, die bemarkingsdirekteur van Ranyaka, lê die organisasie se wortels in stadsen streeksbeplanning. en sal die inisiatief die basiese besigheidsopvoeding aan plaaslike entrepreneurs verskaf. “Ons sal werkswinkels en opleidingsprogramme aan die plaaslike besighede verskaf om hulle op te lei oor hoe om besigheidsplanne op te trek, hoe om besigheidsrekeninge oop te maak, hoe om te begroot, hoe om ’n besigheid te registreer en te verstaan hoe kontantvloei werk,” het Oliver gesê. Volgens Marli Goussard, die ondernemingsonwikkelingsbestuurder van Ranyaka, sal Vic-

AFTER three years of legal proceedings, the Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled that the 2016 language policy of Stellenbosch University (SU) is constitutionally justified. Justice Johan Froneman handed down a unanimous decision in favour of the 2016 policy, which found, amongst other things, that SU’s “decision-making structures, with a scrupulous eye on racial equity, access and inclusiveness, judged that a downward adjustment of Afrikaans, without by any means eliminating it, was warranted.” Gelyke Kanse, a voluntary organisation, along with the president of the Convocation of SU and six other applicants, originally took the case to the Western Cape High Court to have the 2016 policy reviewed and set aside. They argued that the policy is an infringement on the rights of Afrikaans speaking students. The Western Cape High Court, however, ruled in favour of Stellenbosch University. The case was overseen by Judge Kate Savage and Judge Daniel Dlodlo. Dlodlo said he failed to comprehend the argument made by Gelyke Kanse saying that Afrikaans speakers who cannot obtain Afrikaans tuition at the university would forego tertiary education altogether. He believed the policy did not diminish the usage of

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SPIEKERIES Een van die vertrekke in die nuwe gebou in Victoriastraat 7. Foto: Catharina van der Mescht toriastraat 7 die gasheer van ’n samewerkende gemeenskapstransformasiemodel wees. “Hierdie projek kyk na bestaande entrepreneurs wat hard van die huis af werk en wat nog nie aan die mark blootgestel is nie weens hul benadeelde agtergrond. Die gebou sal ’n ruimte skep vir sulke mense om handel te dryf en hul besigheidsprodukte te ontwikkel,” het Goussard gesê. Sy voeg by dat die eintlike mikpunt is om problematiese versperrings in die gemeenskap af te breek deur van handel gebruik te maak. “Die essensie daaragter is om mense te help om met mekaar in aanraking te kom, oor ras- en sosio-ekonomiese-skeidings heen.” Hierdie inisiatief sal ’n beperkte aantal plekke vir entrepreneurs beskikbaar stel en kandidate sal moet aansoek doen vir ’n plek. Kanditate sal egter aan sekere vereistes moet voldoen om oorweeg te word vir die aansoekproses. “Ons het eers uitstallings van produkte waartydens ons dan po-

tensiële kandidate identifiseer en dan begin ons met die aansoekproses. Hierdie formele aansoekproses sal ’n formele kriteria insluit. Laastens sal ons die kandidate met diensverskaffers paar,” het Goussard gesê. Hierdie projek sal ook die Universiteit Stellenbosch se Besigheidskool (USB) betrek deurdat hulle opleiding aan die inisiatief sal verskaf. “Ons het sewe entrepreneurs, wat alreeds gekies is, gepaar met USB-studente. Menigte van die tweedejaar ekonomiese wetenskappe-studente het studies gedoen oor sommige van die entrepreneurs se besighede,” het Goussard gesê. Tré Delange, ’n tweedejaar BCom (Aktuariële Wetenskap)student en plaaslike inhoudskepper, dink dat die inisiatief ’n stap in die regte rigting is. “Ek dink dit gaan ’n platvorm verskaf, groei stimuleer en ’n kreatiewe omgewing skep,” het Delange gesê.

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Afrikaans, but rather attempted to maintain and increase Afrikaans offerings at the university, as the policy states. Gelyke Kanse then took their case to the highest court in the country, the Constitutional Court. According to the 2014 language policy, the university contributed to multilingualism by using Afrikaans as an academic language while safeguarding and advancing the language. In addition to this, the policy states that English be offered as an international language and a common language for students who are speakers of other indigenous South African languages. However, SU revised the policy in 2016. The 2016 policy states that English and Afrikaans are to be taught in combination with English being the primary medium of instruction. Undergraduate lectures are structured to be conveyed in English, summarised into Afrikaans, with class notes in both English and Afrikaans. Provision is made for real-time translators and for the possibility of separate classes if it is a large group of students. Gelyke Kanse was originally founded to oppose the 2016 language policy, but has since then adopted the objective to preserve Afrikaans. In a media press release, SU said that it welcomes the ruling and that the policy.

Students experience Ubuntu behind bars KIRSTY BUCHOLZ

FIFTEEN Stellenbosch University (SU) students and fifteen inmates from Brandvlei Prison received SU-accredited competence certificates for completing the Ubuntu Learning Short Course on 8 October. It is the first interdisciplinary short course held in a prison in South Africa. Dr Mary Nel of the SU Law Faculty and the Academic Director of the course, came up with the initiative after being inspired by similar projects in America and the United Kingdom (UK). The course was a partnership between SU and the Department of Correctional Services and was funded by SU’s Division for Social Impact and Faculty of Law. According to Nel the aim of the course was to break the misconceptions that society has about prisoners. “We always have preconceptions of each other… but the minute we meet, talk, learn together and make that human contact, those roles completely go out of the window. Then we are just fellow people in a classroom, learning. We were thinking it would take us a long time to break down those barriers but, really, it doesn't. “The potential of people that are behind bars are incredible. I

SMELL OF SUCCESS Inmate Awande Mshotana and Dr Mary Nel, academic director of the Ubuntu Learning Short Course, at the celebration of the course completion at the Brandvlei Correctional Facility on 8 October. Photo: Supplied wasn't doing it for people behind bars only, I was doing it for my students and myself as well. We were all learning,” Nel said. Nel adds that the course was a pilot project and will run again next year, but going forward, she hopes to expand the initiative. According to Andile Nelani, the regional coordinator of education and training at the Department of Correctional Services, a further aim of the course was to change

perceptions and bring people with diverse backgrounds together. Nelani hopes that the Brandvlei Prison can become a theatre of learning instead of simply a correctional establishment. The fourteen-week course took place weekly since March, with each class being three hours long, and dealt with the theme, “Am I because we are? Exploring selves and communities”. This encompassed the subjects of law, litera-

ture, history and economics. The course facilitators were SU’s own Doctors Mary Nel, Chet Fransch of the Department of History, Daniel Roux of the Department of English and Debra Shepherd of the Department of Economics. Roux, who was responsible for teaching the English Literature component of the course, said he was able to rediscover the value of the Humanities that “is increasingly obscured by the technocratic orientation of modern universities”. He called his experience “a deeply meaningful, transformative encounter that both illuminates and strengthens our sense of what it means to be human.” “I realised that while this idea of learning is basically dead in the mainstream academy, it now survives in the form of “social outreach” programmes such as this one,” Roux said. Roux’s academic field is prison literature, so he has always been conscious of stereotypes about prisoners. “It was instructive to be reminded that criminality is very often engineered by social forces, and in fact rarely reflects inherent character traits. Indeed, if one were to measure criminality by the harm caused and/or the extent of the theft, the real criminals are often socially rewarded and occupy

positions of power and influence in society. They do not see the inside of a prison cell.” Professor Thuli Madonsela, Chair in Social Justice at the Faculty of Law and former Public Protector of South Africa, commended the program for nurturing humanity and fostering the spirit of Ubuntu. Madonsela says that it is an important initiative to support rehabilitation. “Do you think if we were equally cruel towards those who have wronged society, things will be better? I don't say there should be no consequences for wrongful action, but rehabilitating those who have missed a step is better because if they are going to come back to society, we need them to integrate properly. “We need them to be respected as members of society and not judged by what they did in the past. They should be judged by what they are prepared to do after they have been through the corrections process,” Madonsela said. Prisoner and course participant, Awande Mshontana, says that the course has equipped him and his fellow participants to be historically aware and to raise persuasive legal argument. Mshontana has confidence that the courses participants will be responsible citizens.

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STUDENTELEWE

How to prevent burnout

DOMINIQUE VERSTER

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ith exam season looming ahead, the average student tends to regress into a state of neglect: one that includes copious amounts of coffee and long, sleepless nights. This is, however, a foolproof recipe for creating a batch of burned out Maties students, and burnout is something that none of us need this close to the holidays. Yet, there is no need to fear. Your neglectful behaviour need not be transformed completely, only managed in order to survive the exam season. This article will serve as an aid to the struggling student in regulating their bad lifestyle habits, so sit tight. That being said, this is not an unrealistic instruction guide on how to become an entirely different person overnight. Even though the average student should be getting around eight hours of sleep per night, especially during the exams, we all know that this is not realistic. Instead, you can focus on the many ways to guide and even utilise the consequential drowsiness caused by a long night behind the books. Research shows that drowsiness and fatigue can actually be beneficial to the study process, especially when paired with exercise. According to a chronobiology study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, your brain retains higher concentrations of information and skills if you study in your most tired state and then go to bed directly after. This means that instead of pulling that all-nighter, call it quits at 3am to let your brain process the information. Exercising beforehand will also maximise your studying capacity as the exercised body will

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KAMPUS QUOTES “Ek kan nie wag om my man se geld te gebruik nie.” – BA-student “Academically I’m the failed middle aged singer performing in the Neelsie.” – Struggling student “I’m a 32 waist with a 36 ass.” – Gymbul complaining about his glutes “English girls in Stellies are cooked, and they know it.” – English girl in Stellies “Honey, you can’t date me if you’re a vegetarian. I’m such a piece of meat.” – Well-done student

MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS Don’t just keep your grades in check, your mental health is equally as important. Photo: Kesia Abrahams pump oxygen and nutrients to the brain. According to Dr. Douglas B. McKeag, exercising before that six-hour bib session can make you more alert, open, and able to learn new information. Even though moderate amounts of coffee have also proven to enhance study performance, an adult should be limited to one strong cup a day as not to overly stress the body. Consistent exposure to caffeine can in actuality contribute to burnout symptoms and should thus be avoided. When you find yourself dozing off after a night of insufficient sleep, one can again stress the importance of steering away from the My Brew coffee stand. Rather do some light exercise to stimulate the spread of oxygen to the brain or take a cold shower to activate your adrenals,

as suggested by journalist Patrick Allan. These methods are far more sustainable and less taxing on the body than the regular dose of caffeine. Drinking water regularly can also go a long way in distributing oxygen throughout the body and thus heighten alertness, so also keep a 2l water bottle on hand. The last thing you want to do when you feel overcome with drowsiness during the day is to take a nap. This will leave you feeling even groggier afterwards and further disrupt your sleep cycle. According to various studies, if you should find yourself falling asleep during the day, limit the nap to 30 minutes or less. By limiting daytime naps, you allow yourself to sleep far deeper the next evening, and easily fall

back into the rhythm of your regular sleep cycle. It also aids in establishing a routine, which can help your body anticipate the amount of sleep you will get daily and adjust accordingly. Steering more towards organisational habits, a simple and effective tip to manage stress would be to plan your workload every morning. Your planning doesn’t have to be in depth or detailed, it should just consist of a plotted list of goals that need to be completed. This can keep your brain clear of clutter and help you track your study progress. It can also act as a motivating agent, as checking items off a list releases a dose of serotonin (the hormone that regulates motivation) according to psychology journalist Lauren Marchese.

“Ah shit, ek het sesuur reserve vir my depressie-sessie.” – Student wat ‘n geleentheid vermy “Socially, I am on the beach. Academically, I’m wearing stilettos.” – Concerned student “Fuck all these 20/20 vision people, out there seeing for free.” – Frustrated four-eyed student “The only apple I use is for nutrition.” – Android user “You never know what you are going to get when you walk up those stairs.” – Student using the stairs by Tamaties

As dit broekskeur gaan PULP REVIEW MARYNA ADSHADE

’n NUWE lid, Custom Alterations, het onlangs by die Neelsie-familie aangesluit. Hierdie versteekte juweel kan op die onderste vloer van die Neelsie, om die draai langs Hutmakers, gevind word. Dit is nie moeilik om te sien hoekom so min mense van hierdie winkel weet nie. Custom Alterations is behoorlik weggesteek en meeste studente sal met die eerste oogopslag maklik verby die winkel loop. Dié van ons wat nie 20/20-visie het nie of sommer net onoplettend is, sal dit ook maklik miskyk, maar vir die wat die kans waag om in te loer, wag daar ’n aangename verrassing. Agter die toonbank sal die eienaar van die winkel, Arshad Muhammad, jou met ’n vriendelike glimlag groet. Volgens Muhammad is dit maklik om die winkel mis te kyk en daarom is dit geen verrassing dat min mense al ’n draai kom maak het nie. “Dit was eers iemand anders se besigheid. Ek het dit eers verlede week oorgekoop by die vorige eienaar en juis daarom is die winkel

The Game Changers Director: Louie Psihoyos Starring: James Wilks Rating: 3/4 Stars ARMIN PRINSLOO

DIE VERSTEEKTE JUWEEL In die Neelsie is ‘n weggesteekte klein winkeltjie wat jou drome sal bewaarheid. Foto: James Smith nog nie lank hier nie,” sê Muhammad. Muhammad verduidelik dat hy veranderinge aan klere kan aanbring, soos om some korter of langer te maak. Sy vaardighede is egter nie beperk tot net veranderinge aanbring nie. Hy kan ook rokke maak. Hy sê dat dit moeilik is om voorbeelde van pryse vir sy dienste te gee, aangesien die prys afhang van presies wat alles gedoen

word. Gereelde Neelsie-besoekers moet dus nie net verby Custom Alterations loop nie, maar kan ’n draai kom maak. Kledingstukke wat ’n rapsie te groot is of somerklere wat net-net te klein is, as gevolg van die wintervetjies, is nie meer ’n probleem nie. Dié winkel is die ideale plek om daardie lastighede na te neem en sal verseker dat jou gunstelingdenim weer perfek sit.

IF you thought that athletes need to eat meat in order to perform at the highest level, then, like me, you would be proven wrong. The Game Changers, spearheaded by MMA champion James Wilks, is the bold documentary that is currently shaking the world of sports nutrition to its core. The film tells the stories of a number of world-class athletes who, after their switch to veganism, saw vast improvements in their athletic performance. Initially, I was sceptical of the film and of these unknown faces appearing on screen, presenting their information as gospel. However, as soon as Arnold Schwarzenegger popped up, bolstering

the film’s credibility tenfold, I knew that this was the real deal. Aside from Arnie’s cameo, the highlight of the film is the story of vegan strongman, Patrik Baboumia, and his attempt to break the world record for heaviest weight ever carried by a human being. There are some documentaries that stand out above the rest, that transcend the medium to tell a story. These films are personal stories that possess a touch of humanness that sometimes exceeds imagination and fiction. The film succeeds greatly in being a persuasive video essay, but it falls short of being a great piece of cinema that will be loved and remembered for years to come.

STUDENTELEWE

23 Oktober 2019

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Campus closet: die Stellenbosch-manne Mia van der Merwe het op kampus gaan kyk vir manne wat gedurende die warmer seisoen die sizzle in styl sit.

DIE HIPSTER

PASTEL-KOMBINASIE

JAMES DEAN, IS DIT JY?

SEXY STREPE

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HIERDIE ensemble is perfek vir die gemaklike en praktiese hipster. Dit is moeiteloos, maar steeds nuwerwets; buite die kulturele verwagtinge van hoofstroom-giere. Die uitrusting omvou die definisie van ’n hipster perfek. Die denimbaadjie betrek ’n hoofstroom-modegier, maar wyk weer af deur dit te kombineer met die bont en veelkleurige patroonkortbroek. Om die uitrusting af te rond en prakties te maak, word dit met ’n kampusgunsteling gekombineer – plakkies.

DIE uitrusting vang die wese van die on the go student vas. Die klerekombinasie is eenvoudig, prakties en gemaklik. ’n Wit kledingstuk is ’n noodsaaklikheid in ’n klerekas, want dit kan met enigiets gekombineer word. In hierdie geval word ’n wit kortbroek met ’n sagte pers T-hemp en wit tekkies gedra. Die bagasie met ’n sonbril werk goed saam om die besige Matie se styl vas te vang. Dit is so eenvoudig, maar tog perfek.

HET iemand Danny Zuko gesê? Die volgende styl is vir die meer gewaagde mans op kampus. Die bad boy-styl is ’n tydlose styl wat nog nooit gefaal het nie. Swart is ’n bemagtigende kleur indien dit reg gedra word – die oorheersende swart ensemble word goed afgewissel met ’n wit hemp. Die wit hemp onder ’n swart leerbaadjie is ’n cliché-wenner. Die uitrusting is klassiek en totaal en al moeiteloos – skaf net ’n leerbaadjie en ’n bietjie houding aan, dan sal die styl vir enige man werk.

DIE klerekombinasie is moeiteloos chic. Die gewone donker jeans is definitief nie nuut op die mode-scene nie. Dis hoe jy dit kombineer met die res van jou klere wat die styl joune maak. In die uitrusting word ’n donker jean met ’n los, gestreepte knopieshemp gekombineer. ’n Los hemp saam met ’n noupassende jean laat ’n kleiner geboude figuur groter vertoon, dus is dit nie net meer stylvol nie, maar ook ’n illusie vir die oog. Die uitrusting word afgerond met ’n maroen keppie.

HIERDIE uitrusting is ’n kombinasie van ’n hoofstroom-modegier en Harry Styles. ’n Geskeurde ligte jean word met ’n los knopieshemp gekombineer. Die knopieshemp het ’n paar knope los en daar hang kettings om sy nek. Die uitrusting sluit ook ringe en ’n stylvolle en praktiese tas vir klasloop in. Die wit tekkies komplimenteer die uitrusting perfek deur dit ’n algehele ligter voorkoms te gee. ’n Militêre groen keppie rond die uitrusting af.

Entrepreneurs engage in Conscious Consumerism REBECCA PITT

IT takes 2,700 litres of water to make your most preferred H&M T-shirt. Fast fashion is nothing new yet we turn a blind eye because fast fashion remains easy, simple and affordable. As Thunberg inspired “you stole my childhood” quotes Buzz Media pages, big-talk surrounding sustainable and ethical living have resurfaced. Perhaps the sustainability problem seems to be a somewhat distant reality solely faced by environmental activists and statistic scores. This is not true. As consumers the sustainability debate is quite rightly ours to hold. Yet this needn’t be a grand or all-consuming task. We simply decide to be conscious consumers and with that, make conscious decisions in what we choose to buy and what we choose to decline. Entrepreneurs Lauren Calitz (second-year fashion student at the Elizabeth Galloway Academy) and Mosima Ngwenya (economics student), have started sustainable and ethical-minded businesses in order to promote a conscious approach to the fashion buying industry.

PUTTING THE PLANET FIRST With the amount of waste being produced by the fashion industry, designers like Mosima Ngwenya and Lauren Calitz are following an ethically conscious route in their businesses. Photo: James Smith “I became conscious of the wastage that the fashion industry contributes as the second most polluting industry in the world after oil. I became a lot more mindful of the fabrics I sourced, as well as the wastage during the production process. I realised that clothing

that could be styled more than one way would be a more viable option in terms of sustainability and utilising one’s resources,” Calitz said. Both Calitz’s businesses “lol_ xo_clothing” and “a girl named sophie” run on Instagram.

“My business is based on providing conscious clothing to individuals. I currently create clothing that can serve as dual/multi-purpose, resulting in a longer lifespan for the garment. I do not want to be associated with fast fashion, but rather create lasting, durable

items. “My second business is very new, and based on using fabrics sourced locally from natural fibers such as linen, hemp, organic cotton and fibres that are grown without the use of toxic pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.” Some of Calitz’s garments are also stocked at The Hub on Dorp Street. Ngwenya runs her mobile vintage store “Modest_operandi” on Instagram and Facebook platforms. Ngwenya buys quality second-hand clothing items, as well as books, ornaments and jewellery, and resells them for a more affordable price. “The main aim of my business is to make modestly styled quality vintage and retro clothing affordable to everyone. I have always admired the way in which women in the 40s and 50s dressed. “Clothing was modest and accentuated the best parts of the female figure in a flattering way. Furthermore, fashion is often exclusive and inaccessible to certain social groups and even though this is true from a financial perspective, quality is expensive, I believe that it should be made accessible to all,” Ngwenya says.

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Liefde by die Dam is terug in die Kaap vir die tweede keer. Dominique Fuchs praat oor wat verwag kan word hierdie jaar.

iefde by die Dam 2.0 maak op 16 November weer ’n verskyning in die Kaap by Meerendal Wynplaas. Die show is vernoem na Valiant Swart se trefferliedjie en moet magical wees, want verlede jaar het iemand propose op die verhoog. The Voice SA-wenner, Tasché Burger, gaan vir die eerste keer hier optree saam met ander bekendes soos Die Heuwels Fantaties, Francois van Coke, Early B, Majozi en Loki Rothman. Die legendariese Arno Carstens gaan ook vir die eerste keer optree by die Liefde by die Dam-reeks en gaan meestal liedjies van sy album Die Aandblom 13 en ’n paar van sy wêreldbekende liedjies speel. Schalk Bezuidenhout, die geliefde komediant, sal die event interessant hou deur die gasheer te wees. Bezuidenhout het ook gesê dat mens meer liefde kan gee vir ander: “deur te reply! Niks wys ’n gebrek aan liefde soos geen antwoord op WhatsApp nie, of dit nou jou meisie of jou ma is. Die mense met die koudste harte in hierdie wêreld is die mense wat jou boodskap lees en jou los met twee blou ticks en ’n gebroke hart.” Lukraaketaar, ’n akoestiese musiekduo wat na 11 jaar weer terug

is op Suid-Afrika se musiek-scene, gaan ook te siene wees. Dié duo bestaan uit die gesoute Pierre Greeff, geliefde voorsanger van Die Heuwels Fantasties, en Alwyn Kotzé. Nes vele ander musiekgroepe het hul reis in die geliefde Bos begin. Pierre Greeff, een van die organiseerders van Liefde by die Dam sê: “Meerendal met die wynlande en berge as prentjiemooi agtergrond is die ideale venue vir ons Kaapse konsert. Hierdie jaar maak ons meer spasie vir konsertgangers en daar sal ook meer kroeg-fasiliteite wees. Kom kuier saam!” Soos die meeste jongmense hoop ek van harte dat daar minder ouer garde by hierdie jaar se Liefde by die Dam sal wees nadat ek laasjaar een van my hoërskoolonderwysers raakgeloop het. Verlede jaar was ’n stowwerige affêre met sand wat óral vasgesit het. Liefde by die Dam is effens misleidend, want ’n mens kan nie daarin swem om van die sanderigheid ontslae te raak nie. Berei jouself voor op die afgryslike Kaapse wind, afgryslike duur drankpryse, ’n afgryslike verkeersopeenhoping, maar een moerse jol. Maak gereed vir “Dagdronk”,

DAARSY BOYS Francois van Coke verlede jaar by Liefde by die Dam. Foto: Verskaf want by Liefde by die Dam is dit nie net ’n liedjie in die agtergrond nie, maar ’n realiteit vir lede van die gehoor. Geen vloeistowwe mag ingeneem word nie en kaartjies is steeds beskikbaar op Howler teen

R195. Dit begin om 9:00 en sal 18:00 eindig. Die event is kontantloos en geld kan voor die tyd op ’n Howler-armbandjie gelaai word. Vir die kosvrate sal daar ’n verskeidenheid kostrokke beskikbaar wees om hul cravings te demp.

Liefde Wen samel na die afloop van die konsert komberse in vir minderbevoorregtes. Greeff sê: “Ons help graag ander, bring jou kombers en los dit na die konsert. Liefde Wen sal seker maak dit kry die regte huis.”

How to get your scare on this Halloween CHRISTOPHER JOUBERT

LET this be your guide to some of the best Halloween festivities to get you ready for scary season in Stellenbosch. Halloween season has already begun in Stellenbosch with festivities such as the Pulp Cinema Club’s screening of Carrie and dress-up party on 17 October. Also, last Friday Happy Oak hosted the Halloween Edition of Drakefest. If you have not been able to attend any of these functions then fear not, because there will be a large variety of Halloween festivities tailored to you.

The Monsters Ball takes place this Friday at Aandklas and is the annual monstrous dress-up event with a R1000 cash prize to the best dressed person. There are going to be some scary drink specials spilling around the bar and some creepy décor for what is promised to be one of the craziest Halloween parties on offer at Stellenbosch. The University of Stellenbosch Wine Culture Society (USWCS) will be hosting their closing function at the Neelsie on 25 October. The party is called Terror in the Woods and will be “the culmination of every dark twisted fairytale that was never meant to be a Disney hit, but rather the original Brothers’ Grimm vision”.

Tickets are currently on sale, with R50 for members, R100 for non-members and R120 at the door. This will include unlimited wine, the USWCS infamous punch and some pizza! The Halloween Forest Night Run at Muratie Wine Farm is on Thursday 31 October. This is for those whom are willing to brave the dark forest and run either a five or ten kilometre single track with a prize for the best Halloween costume. The evening will be a lot of fun for anyone with an interest in running and who enjoys Halloween festivities. For those wanting to get out of town for the night, the Hey Joe Brewing Company will be throw-

ing a Halloween party on 1 November at La Brasserie farm in Franschhoek. With tunes supplied by DJ Charl van Zyl and prizes for the best dressed, this event is going to be a lot of fun. Also, The Hey Joe Brewing Company will give you a free beer if you dress up. And free beer is the best type of beer out there! Cape Town is also hosting a number of Halloween parties all around town. With events at Wonderland Club this Friday, Evol on 1 November, Mercury Live on 2 November and plenty more. This Halloween promises to be a party!

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‘Invasion’ at SMAC

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Ernst van der Wal’s solo exhibition is currently showing at SMAC Gallery. Alexander Brand spoke to him about his inspiration behind it.

omething has invaded SMAC Gallery and it has us transfixed. Ernst van der Wal, acclaimed writer, practicing artist, researcher and lecturer gives us an in depth view of his solo exhibition – invasion. It is both intriguing and aesthetically pleasing and warrants a closer look. According to Van der Wal, a senior lecturer at Stellenbosch University’s Visual Arts Department, invasion was triggered by a miniscule photograph he found in a medical journal after which he proceeded to enlarge through the use of Indian ink and graphite, capturing the technology of mid20th century ink printing. He was fascinated by the factual nature of the photograph, but equally fascinated by how it also comes across as very intimate. As he was still a novice in this particular technique, it took him almost three years to complete. The exhibition includes a variety of different disciplines, ranging from Indian ink and graphite on Fabriano paper to wood, ash and imitlin sculpture work. A few of the pieces were completed in advance, before Van der Wal decided on assembling the pieces for exhibition in February. invasion deals with how we currently view and previously viewed science. Since the majority of the photographs were taken from the 1930s, 1940s, where people (especially in our country) had a very distinct view of science and humans, it is very applicable to our current environment. This all links to the title, invasion, because it takes an investigative look at the past and how certain things were seen as fact, but looking back now it might seem absurd. It takes a deeper look at how we, as humans, perceive these bewildering environments we experience around us, but also within us. From the

UP-CLOSE Ernst van der Wal posing with one of his art pieces from ‘invasion’ at SMAC gallery. Photo: Hugo Ubisse more factual pieces, he moves into much more abstract ones that “speaks more to our contemporary understanding of invasion.” Van der Wal is very successful in this and uses circular pieces that represent bacterial forms, but also takes on a moonlike image. These can also be interpreted as lenses, either being seen as microscopic lenses looking within or telescopic lenses looking at the sky. Van der Wal is also captivated by the entire exhibition dealing with environments that we cannot fully grasp, and that this causes fear, but also pinpoints that unde-

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niable human curiosity. As someone who regularly deals with topics regarding the LBGTQ+ community, as seen in his previous works as well as his doctoral thesis, he says he enjoys that the exhibition deals with aspects that are applicable to the queer community, but can also be applied to the rest of humanity. Older medical journals and textbooks, such as the ones he used, show clearly just how many prejudices humans had concerning race, sexuality and gender. Because of this, Van der Wal wants the viewer to leave his

exhibition knowing that science is a process and not an end result and that we constantly need to look back and reevaluate our current beliefs. It is not every day that we have the opportunity to experience and appreciate incredible artwork like this, and furthermore artwork created by one of our own alumni. So in your next study break, swing by SMAC gallery and pay invasion a visit. The exhibition is open until 16 November and definitely worth making a trip down to Church Street.

Review: Dagdrome in Suburbia DOMINIQUE FUCHS LEMUEL BLIGNAUT

Francois van Coke het op 18 Oktober sy derde solo-album, Dagdrome in Suburbia, vrygestel by die uitverkoopte Sun Arena in Pretoria. Op die dag wat dit vrygestel is, was die album eerste op iTunes en dit is tans landswyd vyfde op Apple Music. Die liedjie met dieselfde titel is ’n collaboration tussen Spoegwolf en Van Coke. Spoegwolf leen hul unieke klank aan die liedjie en Danie se stem sorg vir hoendervleis. Met “Bomskok” keer Van Coke weer terug na sy rock-wortels en jy tik onbewustelik saam op die maat van “tikkende tikkende tikkende tydbom”. “Daarsy Boys” feature Hunter Kennedy, kitaarspeler van Fokofpolisiekar en Die Heuwels Fantasties, en is ’n feel-good tune. “Dis asof ons die punk dads van die burbs is wat ons kinders Spur toe vat. Ons het die liedjie toevallig geskryf nadat ons twee se families saam Spur toe is. Die laaste liedjie op die album, “Hey Babe,” is ’n liefdesbrief wat Van Coke aan sy vrou Lauren geskryf het. Die lied vertel hoe Van Coke en sy vrou ontmoet het. Hierdie duet saam met Tasché Burger, The Voice SA-wenner van 2019, is nostalgies en emosiebelaaid. Die album is beskikbaar op Spotify, Google Play Music, Apple Music en YouTube.

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A sustainable lifestyle, we just don’t care enough NINA STEVENSON

A SCENE any Stellenbosch student is familiar with: the outdoor, concrete, campus bins – always occurring in trios – all perpetually filled with coffee and iced-drink cups. In my time here I’ve had trouble understanding why university students, who one would conclude to be somewhat educated, can’t understand the dire climate situation we are in. Single-use plastics are continuously used, yet people still put them in THE WRONG BIN. Slowly over the past year a sad truth has dawned upon me: people simply don’t care (enough). At least, people don’t care when it's inconvenient. The “ditch the straw” movement starting in 2017 is one such example. People actively made changes because it was trendy (and hence convenient), and suddenly, a vast range of reusable straws made from a variety of different materials were available everywhere. The change made in this was incredible. But what about all the other single-use plastics? Do they not kill turtles? Only 9% of plastics are being recycled worldwide, while the rest eventually end up in the sea – most of the time via rivers – breaking down into microplastics which are consumed by sea life, and yes, eaten by us through the consumption of sea life. Not to mention the breakdown of plastic has highly toxic effects on the ocean as a whole, including phy-

*Nina is a final year BA Music student , who loves writing and Roots Vegan Bar. toplankton, which is estimated to produce at least half of the oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere. Now, I’m not here to preach to you why the lifestyle you’re living is wrong. Everyone has reasons as to why they choose to live the way they do. I’m simply here to remind you to question these reasons. As we are currently in a climate crisis, our present actions will irreversibly determine the course of human life to come. So what can you do? Here I list three tips, all equally important. Keep yourself informed. We are in an age when knowledge is more accessible than ever, so make proper use of it. This will ultimately lead you to care more about your actions involving sustainability, leading you to act as such. Use your voice to challenge producers of greenhouse gas emissions. This is where we find the greatest escalation in our impending climate doom – in 2017 a study showed that 100 companies were responsible for 71% of carbon

emissions since 1998 (as shown in the Carbon Majors Report by CDP). Be mindful of ways that waste interacts with your life, and make necessary changes. You’ve heard it before, and I’ll say it again. Get a reusable water bottle, shopping bag and cup (chances are if you can afford a to-go coffee, you can afford a R100 cup), and actively make use of them where you can. Cut out unnecessary waste from your life, and dispose of it responsibly (the three bin system is pretty straight-forward). In the long run, many of your practices pay themselves off, saving you money thereafter – the menstrual cup I bought two years ago paid for itself in six months. These kind of waste-efficient practices aren’t hard to do. Most people simply just can’t make the extra effort, or they don’t find them to be convenient. You might have to dig deep here, but you need to remind yourself that your laziness and/ or inconvenience is a small price to pay for the recovery of a world in crisis. After practicing these efforts, they become second nature. No one’s asking you to go fullon zero-waste or vegan (although I would be wildly supportive), I'm here to ask you to continually grow and challenge your sustainability, in whatever small steps work for you. As the saying goes: we don’t need a handful of people doing sustainability perfectly, we need everyone doing it imperfectly.

Faith is not bad: critical response TIVAN LEAK

SEBASTIAN UYS wrote in the previous edition of Die Matie to explain that atheism is also a belief – just as believing in a deity is a belief. There are some flaws along the road to reaching the conclusion of his argument that lead to misunderstandings. I am going to attempt to address some of these. One of the greatest misunderstandings, I have noticed, at Stellenbosch University is a flawed understanding of the scientific process. Sebastian claims that “we can all agree that a fact is either a) something that is self-evident to everyone (e.g. there is a rock in the road) or b) something that is not self-evident to the senses, but can be proven scientifically. Any other position that is held that can’t be demonstrated in any of these two ways is one that includes some degree of faith”. This is a grave oversimplification of something that has been theorised extensively in the philosophic literature. So, what does science do? Science tries to establish general rules from specific observations. This is done by setting up a hypothesis, which is then tested against specific empirical observations. An example would be the hypothesis that “all metals expand when heated” – a classic example from prof. Smit’s philosophy of science class. This hypothesis, if it were a universal truth, would mean that all metal would expand at any time – past, present or future – when heated. Science cannot prove that the hypothesis is true because that would mean that every piece of metal in all of time would have to be tested to prove the hypothesis. What happens

with every empirical observation that aligns with the hypothesis, is that the hypothesis becomes more likely to be true, however, if an empirical observation contradicts the hypothesis, the hypothesis is to be rejected. A famous example that is regularly used is that of the black swan. The story goes that there was a point in history where the statement “all swans are white” was thought to be a universal truth. Then one day black swans were discovered – disproving the statement that “all swans are white.” The power of science lies in its scepticism and its adaptability. The difference between science and the belief in a deity is that science sets out the conditions under which it would reject a hypothesis and religion doesn’t. Science can propose that if any metal is heated at any time and it doesn’t expand then the theory that “metal expands when heated” would be rejected. Religion doesn’t do the same – by, for example, stipulating that if a person prays and their prayer isn’t realised that the god they prayed to doesn’t exist. Instead, it is explained away by, for example, saying that it wasn’t God’s will. To believe in gravity and to believe in a deity both rely on faith, but the reasoning behind the two beliefs are fundamentally different. When Sebastian states that “there is no fundamental difference in how either side makes their arguments” I cannot agree with him. It would seem that his argument relies on discrediting atheism by showing that it relies on faith – this is pretty ironic to me (using faith as a discrediting mechanism). Af-

*Tivan Leak is a BCom (hons.) Economics student who attended prof. J.P. Smit’s second year Philosophy of Science class. ter establishing that both rely on faith, he concludes that there is no fundamental difference in the way the sides make their arguments. This is simply not the case. Believing that all metals expand when heated requires faith – it means that the person holding this belief has faith that all metals that can ever be heated, will expand. This belief is based, to a large extent, on empirical observations that are objective in the sense that anyone who conducts the experiment should come to the same conclusion when using the same method. Believing that there is an entity that created the universe and that presides in another realm also requires faith, but it cannot be investigated as a scientific hypothesis. It is placed safely where no one could prove it false even if it was. I believe that this piece has demonstrated that faith is not something that necessarily discredits someone’s position. Also, that there are different types of beliefs – those that are falsifiable and those that are unfalsifiable. Scientific hypotheses are falsifiable. Religious beliefs are unfalsifiable – even if they are false.

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How to handle harrasment and obsessive people at Stellenbosch University LAUREN WESLEY-SMITH

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hen harassment starts in your own life, it can be imperceptible. Two years ago, I would never have dreamt that my new friend would become my stalker. Though I’m no professional, nor is my own case over yet, there were a number of red flags that have become clear in retrospect. Alone, these instances might not constitute harassment, but the more they pile up the more carefully you should consider your situation. One of the first signs was the encroaching of space. It’s natural to see a lot of someone when they’re in your department, but when they’re always around you it can be a bit much – especially if they’re an ex-partner. There’s ALWAYS an excuse though. In my experience, he started attending my classes, waiting around my stuff, and would follow me around the department and to my locker. A similar boundary problem can happen with friends. It’s not fun asking people to take sides, but it can be necessary. Even after we broke up, though I didn’t see much of his friends, he still felt entitled to all of mine: I had no-one to turn to without him being there. He became so dominant in conversations, often talking over me, that it became a choice of bickering with him about it, making everyone uncomfortable, or keeping silent and shrinking into myself. The difficulty with establishing boundaries is that you can seem rude, and can feel like you’re overreacting or being controlling. Even if you discuss it with the person and their behavior improves slightly, it can still feel like your boundaries are constantly being pushed. The major red flag was when he began using my friends against me. One day he told me a slew of damning things my friends had said: I was the toxic one, but he defended me against them ‒ but maybe they had a point and I should be nicer, or we shouldn’t be friends. I was gutted – it wasn’t easy being friends with an ex, but I had tried! It was only when talking to someone external that the situation became clearer – he was isolating me from my friends, positioning himself as my savior while using their words as a weapon. Upon talking to these friends, I discovered he’d twisted or even fabricated their words. I realised I’d been the only one compromising while he invaded my life, so I took his advice and ended the friendship. From there the toxicity began to manifest in an uglier, indirect manner. He made a scene about leaving the room if I entered, scrambling, run-

*Lauren is a fourth year BMus student, specialising in cello performance. ning, leaping into bushes, and parkouring over Neelsie walls. From others, I heard about the name-calling and the mean things he said. He fretted loudly about not wanting me to hear, but it was just a tactic to shift the blame from him onto the friends who told me. All of his misconduct against me and friends caught in the crossfire was blamed on the emotions I triggered in him, and yet any friend who put their foot down was treated to the same melodramatic exits. Next, he began spreading malicious rumours. It was mortifying, and took me some time to start speaking about it – if I brought it up, surely it would create doubt that it was true? However, this was not the case at all – only by opening up did I begin to feel valid in my concerns, and with that support behind me I became confident to take it as a harassment case to the Equality Unit. The final incident solved my indecision between an informal or formal complaint. On a public desk, someone found his handwritten list detailing every time he’d seen me since I ended the friendship six months prior ‒ including the time, date, place, who I was with, and how it fitted into my schedule, along with a rating of how much trauma the sighting induced. It also noted when I began seeing someone new, and on exactly which day I blocked him on social media, through which he’d already been cyber-stalking me. This convinced me to take it up as a formal harassment complaint. My case isn’t over yet. However, I’ve learnt that the most important thing is not to stay silent ‒ it only gives them more power. Although not everyone may feel comfortable initially discussing it with the Equality Unit or their department, it’s vital to have a confidante you can talk to, whose judgement you can trust if they suggest you take it further. As a final year student, I wanted nothing more than to ignore it and focus on graduating. But harassment is no small matter, and what could happen next? Don’t give them that power – speak out, and end the silence.

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Amano: one for the books

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Willow-Ruby van der Berg spoke to James Smith about his business, Amano, which makes appealing and affordable environmentally-friendly notebooks.

co-anxiety is starting to take over our lives with the majority of the news that we consume featuring the ever increasing temperatures, threatened ecosystems and dreadful reports about the Amazon. Internationally, school children and university students have put their education on hold in order to stand up against this tragic environmental problem that faces us all. A final-year BA Humanities student from Stellenbosch University, James Smith, is also taking a stance against this problem and inspires hope through his notebook business called Amano. Amano was launched last year and sells notebooks that are 100% sustainable and affordable. “Last year I hand bound a notebook as a gift for a friend. I really enjoyed the whole process and started to experiment with different binds and materials. I decided that it would be a really fun way to make some extra cash so I built a website and started selling the notebooks online and people were really interested from the start. I was very conscious about the negative environmental stigma around paper notebooks, so I sourced 100% recycled paper to ensure that the notebooks were as environmentally friendly as possible. Of course I could have made more money by using unsustainable materials, but caring for the environment has been the core of Amano from the beginning, and always will be. I want to show people that environmentally friendly products can be beautiful and affordable,” explained Smith. Many are under the impression that environmentally-friendly products are more expensive and not neccessarily as aesthetically pleasing, but Smith has shown us that it is possible to have notebooks that are affordable, sustainable and apealing. A new addition to his range are notebooks that have cover pages made from Bier Paper, which is made from old beer labels, is already a favourite amongst many students on campus. Smith has some Italian and Maltese heritage and this shows in the name Amano which is a contraction of the Italian phrase “a mano” which means “by hand”. “I was in Italy when I decided that I really wanted to make a business out of my bookbinding so it just made sense at the time. Amano doesn’t hand bind the notebooks anymore as I simply couldn’t keep up with the demand, but the legacy of being handmade and personal remains. The name means a lot to me as it shows how far the business has come in such a short time,” Smith elaborated. Smith also mentioned how

GO GREEN Amano’s owner, James Smith, sitting with one of their hard cover notebooks on campus. Photo: Willow-Ruby van der Berg Amano has grown over the past year. “It has gone from a hobby that made me a little bit of extra cash to a fully fledged business. These days we produce both softcovers and hardcovers that are both as environmentally friendly. The notebook style has changed and I am loving the new look with rounded corners and neat stitching. Amano launched a new website last week, all of our books are available for online purchase using card payments and we ship the notebooks to your door anywhere in the country. I see Amano as a totally new company than what it was earlier this year, but the mission of environmental sustainability has remained. It has been amazing to see the support for eco-friendly products recently, I am glad Amano has risen to the occasion and is now more eco-friendly than ever before.” Amano is an innovative local business that focuses on sus-

tainability and also supports other local businesses throughout its production line. By doing so it not only makes use of environmentally-friendly materials but it also reduces car-

“Of course I could have made more money by using unsustainable materials, but caring for the environment has been the core of Amano from the beginning, and always will be.” bon emissions. Smith also gave us a breakdown of exactly how Amano is sustainable and making a difference. To Smith’s knowledge Amano notebooks are the most environmentally friendly notebooks available in South Africa, and possibly in the world.

All their writing paper is 100% recycled and is certified by Blue Angel, FSC and Eu Ecolabel as being environmentally sustainable. Their cover papers are each eco-friendly in their own right and range from produced using 100% post-consumer waste to paper made using only wind-power and old beer labels. The thread that is used to bind the notebooks is made in Cape Town by a carbon offset factory that runs on 30% solar power. “Our books are bound in Cape Town by a fully black-owned business that meets the Empowerment Index prescribed by the South African Department of Labour. Every consideration has been taken into account to ensure that Amano notebooks are as environmentally and socially sustainable as possible, and this will always be the case,”said Smith. Amano has managed to produce these eco-friendly notebooks,

whilst keeping their prices affordable for students as well as drastically lower than their competitors in the luxury notebook industry. “I want to prove that environmentally friendly products can be better quality and more affordable than their environmentally damaging competitors’, currently we are achieving this and it will only get better from here,” said Smith. It also does not stop here for Smith as he plans to take Amano even further. James has plans to make the notebooks a globally recognised eco-friendly product. He is in the process of making the books available for purchase internationally, which should be organised by Christmas this year. Locally, James is in discussions with Shop Zero in Cape Town and the online store Faithful to Nature – Amano notebooks will be available on their shelves soon. “I am also going to start a publishing division of Amano next year, this will work as a platform for local writers and artists to get their work published in an environmentally ethical way, and without the red-tape of going through a corporate publishing house. I hope this will especially encourage South African students to share their writing and tackle environmental and social themes,” said Smith. Like Smith, each of us is responsible and able to make a difference in order to help our environment. Smith believes that if we do it out of a place of love then we will be able to make the changes that are neccessary to help reduce the negative impact on our environment. Smith elaborates on this point by stressing that we need to think of the bigger picture when it comes to environmentalism. “There are many big and small things we can all do to curb the environmental crisis. I believe that the best eco-tip is just think. We need to just think about our actions and the greater impact they have on the environment, as we often forget the choices we have in our daily lives. It shouldn’t be a case of “do Nike or Adidas have more sustainable shoes” it should be “do I really need a new pair of shoes? Could I simply get mine repaired?” “I also think that eating more vegetarian meals is a great way to be environmentally conscious. We need to eat everyday, so ensuring that we eat a few meatless meals every week has a positive long-term environmental impact, and it’s easy to find delicious vegetarian meals online.” This goes to show that there is no need to lose hope in this battle. Smith is truly making a difference one notebook at a time. Check out their website at www.amanobooks.org.

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Prins crowned Sportswoman of the Year KESIA ABRAHAMS HELÉNE LEONARD

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o Prins has made 2019 her year. The Stellenbosch student qualified for the under-21 South African Netball team, joined the Protea squad and she was recently awarded the Cape Winelands Netball Player of the Year. According to Prins, however, the Maties Sport’s Sportswoman of the Year nomination came as a surprise. “I rocked up at Maties Sports Awards and I looked at the sports pamphlet and on the last page I saw a picture of myself, by Sportswoman of the Year and then I was like, ‘I am so honoured. It is so cool to be nominated’, and by the end of the evening they called my name, announcing the Sportswoman of the year, and I was so shook.” However, a win is a win. Prins’ netball journey has been a long one. She was just five years old when she first picked up the ball, but she sealed the deal in grade four when she decided that she wanted to be a Protea netball player. “I kind of always knew that this was something I was passionate about and that it was something I wanted to do,'' Prins said. Due to her exceptional sports-

manship, Prins received ample bursary offers from universities all over South Africa, but she decided on Stellenbosch University (SU) because she felt it would strengthen her netball career. SU also offered her the best bursary out of all the institutions. On top of that, she just likes the town and its people. “I love Stellenbosch, it’s a great town. My friends are here and it’s pretty.” Prins is currently decompressing after a tiring, yet a phenomenally successful season. She joked about using her Maties Sports Awards winnings, a whopping R 10 000, to register for Maties Netball next year, but after being a member for six years, she is unsure of her future with the club. “I love this club, the club has been good to me, but what does the future hold?” Prins said. The development of Maties Sports was a big talking point at this year’s Maties Sports Awards, which took place on 16 October, and according to Prins, many discussions were about how much the club has grown, especially with regards to the increasing involvement of women at the club. She, however, says that she would like to see the club improve even further, especially where bur-

sary equality between the sportsmen and sportswomen is concerned. “Equality and bridging the gap of getting the same amount would be great. Just a little bit more money into women's sports would be great,” Prins said. Although Prins has been a big feature at Maties Sport for a long time, that is not where she spends all her time. She is a final year education student who has a love for children and would ideally like to teach grade five. But teaching is apparently not her first choice. Prins aims to use her platform to pursue a career in the fashion industry and she signed with a modelling agency called The Management on 11 October. This, however, doesn’t seem to be the end of her netball journey. “I am finishing my studies this year, so I am branching out. But I will definitely still play netball. The goal is to try and make the World Cup 2023 team.” This year’s World Cup team inspired Prins and she feels that netball has come a long way in South Africa. In the previous World Cups, according to Prins, the Proteas would end up in fifth place, but this year’s semi-final playoffs

PRINCESS Jo Prins at Maties Sport’s glamour event where she won the Sportswoman of the Year award. Photo: Francois Lombard against Australia was a big step for the team and South African netball in general. She says that the interest in netball has grown tremendously since the Proteas’ stellar efforts in Liverpool. “People would come to me and say like, ‘oh my word netball is so cool’, and then I would say, yeah, that’s why I do it. Sponsors are actually waking up and seeing that it

is a sport to get involved with.” Prins seems excited about this shift in netball’s fortunes and sees herself playing a part in it. For her, every person’s journey is different, and she strives to inspire young girls to always try to be the best version of themselves. “Never compete with the person next to you but rather with the person you were yesterday.”

Maties Gimnastiek: Flink, fiks, fantasties

LIAN VAN WYK

DIE MATIES GIMNASTE het sakkevol indrukwekkende truuks. Dit weet enigeen wat onlangs hul video op die groot skerm in die Neelsie gesien het. Dit is moeilik om dié aanloklike kombinasie van spronge, bollemakiesies en lawwigheid mis te kyk. Figure op ’n skerm bly ongelukkig nou maar eenmaal buite bereik, maar soos dit nuuskierige joernaliste betaam, het Die Matie by die groep tuimeltowenaars gaan aanklop om uit te vind waarmee hulle hulself besig hou. Volgens Patrick Moerkhe, Maties Gimnastiek se tesourier vir 2018/2019, was dié klub, afgesien van sy ryk geskiedenis en top gehalte afrigting, nog altyd ’n plek waar studente van hulle stres ontslae kon raak. “Studente kan hul lywe oefen terwyl hulle deel raak van ’n gemeenskap waar ’n gedeelde liefde vir gimnastiek bande van vriendskap smee.” Oor hierdie punt blyk daar geen struweling onder die gimnaste te wees nie. Danial De Gouveia, ’n komiteelid en natuurlik ook ’n gimnas, sê dat Maties Gimnastiek soos ’n familie is. “In my drie gimnastiekgevulde jare hier op Stellenbosch het ek nog nêrens anders meer tuis gevoel nie. “Hier by Maties Gimnastiek het ek ongelooflike vriende gemaak en van die beste oomblikke in my lewe ervaar, of dit nou met gimnastiek te doen gehad het of nie. Hierdie gevoel bly my jaar na jaar by, al vang party van die gimnaste graad of trek weg. Maties Gimnastiek se vibe lê diep en dit smeer op elke lid, nuut of ervare, af.” Elke familie het tog ’n gom wat

TUIMELTOWENAARS Klublede gun vir Pokkel die eer van ’n foto by Varsity Cup. Foto: Verskaf dit bymekaar hou en die Maties Gimnastiek-familie is geen uitsondering nie. Die klub is in die vroeë 1980’s deur Fred en Jenny Roebuck op die been gebring en is op die Van der Stel Sportgronde geleë. Dit het begin met slegs drie lede, maar het veelvoudig uitgebrei en word vandag deur ’n uitvoerende komitee van studente bestuur, wat in die 2018/2019 termyn deur Tommie van Eeden, die voorsitter, en Mari van der Westhuizen, die ondervoorsitter, gelei is. Lede betaal ’n jaarlikse of half-jaarlikse fooi, wat volgens Van der Westhuizen vir die onderhoud van die klub se fasiliteite, afrigters se salarisse en ander bedryfskostes gebruik word. Sy sê die klub is nie slegs vir studente nie en dat dit werkende mense en studente van

ander instellings verwelkom. Die gimnaste word deur vier afrigters afgerig, almal onder toesig van Noko Dalisiko, die klub se sportbestuurder. Oloff Bergh is die hoofafrigter, Maia Rawlins is verantwoordelik vir die vroue, David Carmichael-Green vir die mans en Amy Marais rig ritmiese gimnastiek af. Die span oefen regdeur die jaar, eksamens en vakansies ingesluit, en dit blyk nie sonder rede te wees nie. Moerkhe sê die span neem elke jaar in Junie aan die USSA-gimnastiekkompetisie deel waar hulle teen die NWU, UK, Tukkies en Wits kompeteer. Hulle is ook betrokke by ’n jaarlikse vriendskaplike Intervarsity-kompetisie teen die UK. Individue het die geleentheid om aan die Wes-Kaap proewe deel te neem en as hulle goed genoeg

vaar, kan hulle aan die nasionale kompetisie deelneem. Ernstige kompetisie is egter nie altyd aan die orde van die dag by Maties Gimnastiek nie en die klub bied iets vir elkeen van sy lede. “Ons het iets vir alle gimnaste, of hulle nou sopas begin het of gevorderd is in die sport. Niemand behoort te dink dat hulle nie goed genoeg is om by Maties Gimnastiek aan te sluit nie,” sê Van der Westhuizen. Matthias Reich, ’n voormalige Maties-gimnas, beaam hierdie stelling. “Die hele besigheid is ’n lekker mengsel van toewyding en pure pret. Party mense kom een keer ’n week om net rond te bons en ander is nogal toegewyd, alhoewel hulle ook partykeer net rond bons.” Oefeninge vind Maandae tot

Donderdae plaas en met ’n wye reeks dissiplines wat ritmiese en artistiese gimnastiek, trampoliene en ’n oneindige reeks tuimelinge insluit, is daar vir die lede van dié klub te kies en te keur. Dit klink egter nie asof hulle hulself heeltyd in die gimnasium afsloof nie. “Die banter by die klub is iets om te beleef. Ek het al telkemale meer gelag as wat ek geoefen het,” sê Reandie Fick, ’n komiteelid. Dit is egter nie net banter waarna voornemende Maties-gimnaste kan uitsien nie. Die klub speel pool en kry mekaar vir sushi. Kampe en staptoere in die omliggende area is ook deel van die sosiale kalender. Hierdie aktiwiteite mag dalk studentegerig klink, maar volgens Mariska Smithers, een van die lede van die klub wat nie meer studeer nie, is dit glad nie die geval nie. “Ek het baie meer by die klub gevind as waarvoor ek gehoop het. Met die aanmoediging van die komiteelede en deur die oop harte van elke Maties-gimnas het ek baie gou soos ’n lid van die familie gevoel. Ek is dalk nie meer ’n student nie, maar ek word altyd by die pret ingesluit, selfs buite die gimnasium,” sê Smithers. Dit is dan ’n klein deeltjie van die Maties Gimnastiek-storie. Dié wat daarby betrokke is, is toegewyd aan hul sport en hul klub en dit is lekker om te sien. Van der Westhuizen vat dit mooi saam: “Kom loer by Maties Gimnastiek in. Jy sal nie daaroor spyt wees nie. Ons is regtig een groot familie en ons ken almal mekaar. Ons sweet en lag saam en ons deel ons uitdagings en suksesse. Op die ou end bring ons die beste in mekaar uit. Die klub is ’n plek waar ons saam ons grense toets en waar ons vriende maak wat ons die res van ons lewe sal bybly.”

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KLINIES KORREK Medies Mans kon darem hul oorwinning oor Huis Visser in die manshokkiefinaal vier, al moes hulle deur donker tye struwel in die proses. Foto: Francois Lombard

Huis Visser krag(te)loos teen Mediese masjien CATHARINA VAN DER MESCHT

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ie koshuishokkie-winterliga het die afgelope week tot ’n dramatiese einde gekom toe die Medies-spanne Donderdagaand as die kampioene van beide die mans- en vroueliga gekroon is. Die vroueliga-finaal het tussen Medies Vroue en Oudstudente afgespeel. Medies het die wedstryd met ’n eindtelling van 1-0 gewen nadat Erica van Rooyen, Medies-hokkiespeler, die enigste doel van die wedstryd in die eerste helfte aangeteken het. Die Oudstudente het hul bes probeer om op te vang, maar Medies se onwrikbare verdediging het verseker dat die trofee in hul hande beland het. Medies het ook die Oudstudente se doelwagter op haar tone gehou en sy moes menigte male keer vir lewe en dood om die bal uit die doelhok te hou. Volgens Gretchen Zwiegers, Oudstudent-speler, was die wedstryd maar rof en onbeskof soos dit ’n goeie hokkiekragmeting betaam, juis omdat beide spanne hul alles gegee het. “Ek wil nie iemand uitsonder nie, maar ons doelwagter was regtig vir my uitstekend,” het sy gesê. Sy het bygevoeg dat haar span steeds trots kan voel oor hul veggees en die gehalte van hul spel, al het hulle verloor.

TWEEKUNS Medies Vroue het ook van hulle laat hoor en hul wedstryd ook gewen. Foto: Francois Lombard ’n Skare toeskouers het die vrouespanne kom ondersteun tydens hul taai geveg op die baan. Emja Langeveldt, Medies-hokkiespeler, sê haar gunstelingoomblik van die liga was toe Medies Vroue en Medies Mans albei die finale gewen het, boonop “met ’n pawiljoen vol ondersteuners al die

pad vanaf Tygerberg”. In die mansliga-finaal het Medies net-net vir Huis Visser met 2-1 geklop. Huis Visser het in die eerste helfte ’n doel aangeteken, maar hul momentum was vinnig daarna deur ’n geelkaart onderbreek. Hulle het egter teen halftyd 1-0 voorgeloop.

Binne die eerste vier minute van die tweede helfte het Pieter Mienie, Medies-speler, ’n skitterende doel aangeteken. ’n Groenkaart is kort daarna as waarskuwing aan Medies toegeken, maar die span het kopgehou en nie toegelaat dat dit hulle keer nie. Met 20 minute op die horlosie oor, het Mienie

weer ’n doel aangeteken. Eskom het ook ’n onverwagse invloed op die wedstryd gehad toe die krag om 20:15 afgegaan het en die baan in donkerte gehul was. Die spelers moes tot 20:23 wag vir die krag om weer aan te gaan. “Die tydsberekening kon nie slegter gewees het nie. Ons was besig om baie druk op hulle [Medies Mans] te plaas op daardie punt en dit het gelyk asof dit als weggeval het toe die wedstryd weer begin het. Dankie Eskom,” het Gareth Simmonds, Huis Visser-speler, gesê. Simmonds beweer wel dat sy span hul beste gegee het en ’n goeie wedstryd gespeel het. “Medies was ’n baie sterk span en ons het ’n goeie geveg opgesit, maar daar gaan altyd ʼn wenner en ’n verloorder in sport wees. Ons was net dié keer die verloorder.” William Gardiner, Medies-hokkiespeler, het gesê dat sport oor baie meer as net “die uur op die veld” gaan. “As mens die sport eerbaar kan beoefen, dink ek jy het regtig sukses daarin bereik. In die jare wat kom, sal ons aanhou streef na goeie gehalte hokkie en om dit met ’n gesindheid, wat beide onsself en ons opposisie respekteer, te beoefen.” In die plaatafdeling van die koshuishokkieliga was die manswenners Olympus en die vroueplaatwenners Academia.