Hadeda News - 07 October 2022

Skate Cup Ramps Up Province’s Tourism

The splendour of the Northern Cape was showcased when the provincial Department ofTourism concluded itsTourism Month celebrations in collaboration with the Kimberley Diamond Cup Skateboarding Championships in Kimberley on Saturday

The department treated skaters from across the country to various tourist attraction sites in the Province.They visited the DitshoswaneArts Centre in Warrenton, the Magersfontein Museum, the Kimberley Diamond Brewing Company in Ritchie and Mattanu Private Game Reserve.

The aim of the tours was to celebrateTourism Month and to also showcase the sites in the Province.

The MEC for Sport,Arts and Culture, Desery Fienies, said the collaboration ofTourism Month and the skateboarding championships was an excellent way of not only ensuring that there are visitors to the Province, but also a great means of growing the economy of the Province.

“This year, WorldTourism Day is being celebrated under the theme ‘RethinkingTourism –OpportunitiesAwaits’.This theme is fitting, as the world over the tourism sector is being reimagined following the devastating impact of the Covid19 pandemic.Tourism Month is in line with the Northern Cape’s vision to ignite inclusive economic growth, create sustainable jobs and drive transformation, which are all critical for the recovery of the tourism sector This is part of the National Development Plan, which recognises tourism as one

of the main drivers of the economy,” said Fienies.

“This weekend, as a Province, we conclude WorldTourism Month with a celebration incorporating the provincial skateboarding championships mega event.These events help to position the Northern Cape as a competitive leisure and sports events destination and create temporary jobs to the locals and to the accommodation establishments while the provincial tourism sector is slowly recovering from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

Fienies added that the event also showcased the Province as a premier destination for adventure sport.

“We have skateboarders from across the country and even some international skateboarders who have competed in these championships.The skate park has been recognised as one of the best parks and that is an honour for the Province.As a Province, we want to develop skateboarding in each of our districts. We have seen the impact sport has on the development of our youth and we need to invest and promote various sporting activities.As a department, we still believe in the motto that ‘a child in sport, is a child out of court’.”

Fienies urged residents to visit the various tourist sites in the Province.

“We as residents of this Province tend to want to go visit destinations in other provinces or countries. We overlook the

many treasures we have in your own province.The Northern Cape Department of EnvironmentalAffairs and Nature Conservations has announced its provincial Nature Reserves Open Week, which runs from September 30 until October 10, 2022. During this time, residents will have an opportunity to gain daily free access to local reserves such as Doornkloof Nature Reserve, Goegap Nature Reserve, Oorlogskloof Nature Reserve and Rolfontein Nature Reserve.

“We continuously develop and implement our marketing campaigns under the umbrella campaign of ‘DiscoverYour Neighbourhood, ExperienceYour Province’to encourage day trips, weekend trips and short trips to our provincial visitors.These campaigns are executed across various marketing platforms highlighting the diverse “value for money” tourism experiences in our rural and township communities, as well as the many small ‘dorpies’within the

Northern Cape.”

Kimberley’s rising skateboarding star, BoipeloAwuah, again dominated the championships and skated away as the winner in the women’s section.

Awuah, who said she was excited about winning her section, pointed out that the promotion of skateboarding in the Province has had a great impact on her sporting career

“I am very happy about winning. I will save the prize money. I have been saving all the prize money I won in past competitions as well. Skateboarding in the Province has really grown in popularity and this skate park has made many youngsters realise that this is more than just an ‘extra-mural’ activity. We are now competing and tested against skaters from across the world.This skate park has made it possible for many upcoming skaters to improve their skills and talents,” said Awuah. - DFA

BoipeloAwuah in action before being crowned the winner in the women’s section of the championships. Picture: Soraya Crowie

Amputee Estienne Arndt To Tackle Kalahari Augrabies Marathon

EstienneArndt, the famous 1980’s athlete who ran the Comrades Marathon with a prosthesis, is looking to make history again by competing in the gruelling KalahariAugrabies Extreme Marathon all in the name of charity

ESTIENNEARNDTTOTEST HIS STRENGHTONCE

AGAINIn 1987, EstienneArndt became the most-talked about Comrades runner after he ran the Ultimate Human Race in slip slops.The following year,Arndt gained more traction when he tested his strength again running the Comrades in a cotton kilt, which was the beginning of his fundraising drive for Little Eden, a centre for children and adults with profound intellectual disabilities.

Unfortunately, the same year (1988),Arndt was involved in a motorcycle accident which left him crippled. “In the same year, I lost my foot in a motorcycle accident and several years later in 1996, finished Comrades, being the first amputee to finish with a prosthesis.”

WHYTHE KALAHARI AUGRABIES IS NOTFORTHE

Now at the age of 69, after 20 years of organising the Kalahari Augrabies Extreme Marathon, a 7-day self-sufficient staged foot race in the Kalahari Desert,Arndt has committed to the challenge.

This iconic self-sufficient 250 km desert foot race, also well-known as the ‘Big Daddy’of extreme marathons around the world, will take place from 6 to 14 October 2022.“After 10 years of not really having done much in the way of extreme, at the tender age of 69 this will be my final chance to do something to support the team at Little Eden to take care of their children and adults with profound intellectual disabilities. In my eyes, they are all angels,” he said.AlthoughArndt attempts his last charity race, he still wishes for fellow citizens to continue supporting Little Eden.

“No matter how big or small, please assist me by donating to my BackABuddy Little Eden Fundraiser to enable the wonderful team to be able to take care of their children and adults with profound intellectual disabilities,” he appealed.

1996 amputee Comrades runner EstienneArndt and his wife Nadia will compete in the Kalahari Augrabies Extreme Marathon.

Photo: Supplied.

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500 ml wortels, grof gerasper

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100 g pekanneute, gekap Versiersel: 125 g sagte botter

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saam. Sif koekmeel, bakpoeier, koeksoda, kaneel en sout saam en meng by eiermengsel in. Voeg wortel, klapper, neute en pynappel by Meng saam. Verdeel beslag tussen panne. Bak vir 35 - 40 minute of tot toetspen skoon uitkom. Laat afkoel vir 5 minute in pan. Keer uit op afkoelrakkie en laat afkoek tot koud. 5 ml vanieljegeursel

lig en romerig. Voeg versiersuiker en vanieljegeursel by en klits tot gladde mengsel. Plaas eerste koeklaag op bord en smeer helfe van versiersel oor Herhaal met volgende koeklaag. Versier met gebreekte peanut brittle.

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Driving Dusty Donuts In The Northern Cape

car racing.

The rules are simple:Your car must be older than 1985 model and may not cost more than R40 000.

Then you get together a team – of which at least one hopefully has a faint idea of what’s cooking underneath the bonnet. Invite a bunch of supporters and kick your shoes off.Then take your place and experience this annual, colourful gettogether for a few days.

bands and the atmosphere, and drink in the amazing vibe.

It’s hard to find a spot or event that brings you closer to the action than this, and if you’ve ever wished you could experience the type of atmosphere that only the Go Drive & Camp Bull Run creates, this is your chance.

There are still limited tickets available as spectator, so hurry up if you don’t want to miss out.

The excitement, the people, the music, the vintage cars and the smell of dust and petrol – no-one forgets the Go Drive & Camp Bull Run.

The Go Drive & Camp Bull Run is heading to the Northern Cape town called Vanwyksvlei from 6 to 9 October and it’s going to be one for

the books.

Thanks to the success of the annual Go Drive & Camp Bull Run, it’s usually the first thing people think of when you say the name Vanwyksvlei.The town holds a special place in every Bull Runner’s heart, because it’s not every day you come across hospitality like only the Northern Cape can dish up.

Tickets are available at Quicket – get it now and start creating memories that will last you a lifetime. Or at least until next year, because once you’ve attended one Go Drive & Camp Bull Run, you’ll probably be back for another

The Northern Cape can’t wait to host you for this unforgettable experience.

We look forward to the party in the dust, and though there aren’t any spots left for entrants, we invite you to attend as a spectator – trust us when we say there is plenty to see!

The Go Drive & Camp Bull Run is an event that has no equal in South Africa.About 150 teams from across the country drive thousands of kilometres to come together at the end of the short school holiday and play out their big passion: vintage Come along for the party, enjoy the

The Go Drive & Camp Bullrun is supported by Leatherman as main sponsor and Stanley and Northern CapeTourism as additional sponsors.

‘n Plotwending wat werk

Wenke van Welbekende Gepubliseerde Skrywer - Annerle Barnard

(2019) en Spel (2021) se eindes my ook verras het.

Ek is nou wel die skrywer daarvan, maar ek weet self nooit hoe my romans gaan eindig nie.

Ek het eintlik beplan om Spel vroeër te eindig (by die konflik in Gariepstad), maar dit was vir my nie opwindend genoeg nie en daarom eindig die roman na verdere gebeure.

Handhaaf die spanning

Indien ‘n mens met ‘n “bang” begin, moet jy die spanningslyn kan handhaaf en daarop kan bou.

Konsekwentheid

Maak seker dat jy nooit die geloofwaardigheid van jou storie inboet nie. Indien jy nuwe inligting verskaf, moet dit realisties wees en by die konteks inpas.

Te veel

Die woord “plot” (storielyn of intrige) verwys na die reeks gebeure wat in jou storie plaasvind. ‘n Plotwending (“plot twist” in Engels) verwys na ‘n onverwagse gebeurtenis in die storie. Dit vang die leser onverhoeds en gooi dinge dikwels omver

Hoe skryf ‘n mens ‘n plotwending wat werk?

Alhoewel ‘n mens normaalweg ‘n plotwending aan die einde van ‘n storie verwag, beteken dit egter nie dat dit slegs aan die einde van die storie moet plaasvind nie. Wanneer jou lesers seker is dat hulle weet watter koers jou storie inslaan, verras hulle.

Vermy die volgende:

Vermy situasies wat ‘n blote cliché geword het, byvoorbeeld: jy

skryf ‘n interessante storie en aan die einde tref ‘n bak koue water die leser, want “dit was alles net ‘n droom.” Hierdie werk 100% glad nie!

Moenie te veel leidrade verskaf nie. Wanneer daar te veel leidrade is, raai die leser wat gaan gebeur en dan faal jou plotwending. Sonder enige verrassings raak lesers verveeld.

‘ Wees slinks

Mislei jou lesers, maar nie só dat jy hulle frustreer nie.

‘nAantal lesers van my jeugroman, Sindikaat (2019), het gesê dat hulle die einde glad nie “sien kom het nie.” Een leser het spesifiek genoem dat die roman juis weens die einde vir haar so treffend is. Ek moet bieg dat Sweepslag (2019), Sindikaat

Wanneer jy skryf, onthou: toeval bestaan nie in skryfwerk nie en gewere val nie uit die lug nie.

Toeval werk nie Die benaming “deus ex machina” het sy ontstaan in Griekse teater gevind. Dit is die Latyn vir “god from the machine”. Indien jou karakter in die knyp is en by ‘n krans afval kan ‘n vlieënde hond nie vanuit die niet verskyn om hom/haar te red nie. Indien jy ‘n realistiese storie skryf en jy so ‘n maklike uitweg/uiteinde kies, sou dit as “deus ex machina” beskryf kon word. Verskaf voldoende leidrade

Indien jy te veel leidrade verskaf, gaan jou leser verveeld wees. Wanneer ‘n mens na die filmThe Sixth Sense kyk, besef ‘n mens agterna al die leidrade was daar. ‘n Mens besef dit nie noodwendig terwyl jy na die film kyk nie, maar na die tyd, baie beslis. Dit is juis wat die plotwending so suksesvol maak.

Beperk die plotwendings in jou roman.Te veel gaan nie geloofwaardig wees nie. Vir meer hieroor, kyk gerus na Gustav Freitag en Syd Field se voorstelle betreffende plotpunte enstruktuur

Het jy al ‘n boek gelees of fliek gekyk en gedink dat jy die spesifieke wending glad nie verwag het nie? Ek het al. Veral dieAmerikaanse misdaadfiksieskrywer, Karin Slaughter, het my al ‘n aantal kere heeltemal onverhoeds gevang. Die beste manier om uit te vind wat werk en wat nie is om soveel as moontlik in die genre van jou voorkeur te lees.

Is daar plotwendings in romanse?

Indien daar nie is nie, sal die leser verveeld raak. Romanse werk dikwels volgens ‘n spesifieke resep, maar ons almal word deur die onverwagse geboei en juis daarom is plotwendings so belangrik.

Lekker skryf.

NOORD KAAP TUINE

Making Fashion History - Yinka Shonibare

renaissance,” says Shonibare.

Using Picasso’s collection of African artefacts as a starting point, his works juxtapose chosen artefacts with classical European antiquity

“I want to challenge notions of cultural authenticity by creating a composite ideology, ‘a third myth’, exploring appropriation, cultural identity and the ability to transform beyond what is expected and therefore compels us to contemplate our world differently,” says the artist.

you’re still connected to that heritage.You have to be realistic about how those expressions manifest, so that’s the process of mongrelisation — that we are proud to be a mixture of all these things.This is not a rejection of modernisation or modernity, it is an incorporation.”

His influences are defiantly diverse.The quilts in this show, for example, draw on the long tradition ofAfrican-American quilt-making.

As a conceptual artist, BritishNigerianYinka Shonibare has always had vast, world-changing intentions and there is nothing tentative about the title of his first CapeTown solo at Goodman Gallery.

Restitution of the Mind and Soul is a statement that gets under your skin, occupying your dreams and refracting through multiple historic and contemporary contexts in transformative ways.

“TheAfrican contribution to modernism has never really been celebrated in the way it ought to be,” says Shonibare. This vital and declarative new body of work might be understood as both a remedy and a response to the persistent cultural condition of amnesia and negation — particularly when it comes toAfrica’s constitutive role in the western modernist canon.

Restitution of the Mind and Soul is timeous in more ways than one. Firstly, it happens a full century on from the 1920s, recalling the searching, postWorld War I fervour of modernism, and inducing an uncanny sense of diasporic déjà vu.

Its retrospective gaze is tinted with a radical utopian proposition — what might deep, retrospective acknowledgement make possible?

“During the war in Europe a lot of the Dada artists and the surrealists were against this western power that ended in the use of horrible weapons.They were looking to challenge the

over-industrialised system that rejects nature and environment. And then there was [Sigmund] Freud.

“They were looking to dreaming, to the unconscious.They found a lot of that spirituality within African cultures.TristanTzara and the avant-garde artists, and others like Modigliani, Matisse, Brancusi, Picasso, took their influences fromAfrican artists,” says Shonibare.

“Paris in the 1920s was a space forAfrican expression, a celebration ofAfrican art — jazz, Josephine Baker’s dance.This was a deliberate celebration of the improvisational, the spiritual. But, there was a complete absence of acknowledgement of the people who had inspired it. In the late 1920s and 1930s, there was the Harlem Renaissance andAfrican culture was celebrated. But when World War II happened, there was a recession and all of that stopped.”

Secondly, this exhibition happens during ongoing negotiations around the restitution of lootedAfrican artefacts in the aftermath of the colonial empire. Last month the Horniman Museum and Gardens in London announced it would be returning to Nigeria 72 Benin bronzes looted during the British military raid in 1897.

Objects looted during this raid ended up in around 150 museums across Europe and America. Repatriation of these artefacts and others is gaining momentum.

“We’re

The exhibition features a series of large, jazzy hand-stitched quilts; painted masks, based on those that gave rise to the deconstructed faces of the two figures in Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Cubism; and hybrid sculptures that bring togetherAfrican ancestors and European mythological beings in boldly syncretic new forms.

Accompanying these creations is a slide projection of archival images from avant-garde Paris in the early years of the 20th century Titled Paris á Noir II [Paris to Black II] (2022), it highlights the cultural fluctuations “between facilitating black empowerment and reinforcing the fetishisation ofAfrican cultures by the mostly white bourgeois elite”.

Refuting purist, imperial notions of culture, the talismanic forms hold a magical power of their own new order, carrying forward the artist’s ongoing project of “mongrelisation”.

Shonibare, who was born in 1962, just two years into Nigerian independence, reflects on the source of this applied-life philosophy

“I’d been indoctrinated to reject my own heritage, so I had to rediscover that. I grew up thinking my heritage and culture were ‘primitive’because of my colonial education … Western culture was prioritised, so you would learn Shakespeare and recite western poems and sing ‘London Bridge is falling down’, but you were in Lagos,” he says.

“Restitution is a process of taking back something that you’ve lost. But also understanding that you cannot take it back in its original context.

“There is a displacement, but

“People didn’t have fabric to work with, so they would cut the material from old clothes and stitch them together to make pictures. My choice of quilts is a deliberate sidestepping the western history of art — you see the seams, threads, the process of making. It’s a modernist approach where the process is visible.They’re bold and textured.African music is like that, jazz — it’s improvisational. And there are other elements from music — pattern, repetition.

In the way thatAfrican ceremonies are engaging and involving, this show is about engaging my audience and saying, ‘celebrate this, enjoy this!’”

Shonibare’s spectacular appropriative strategies range from assuming the role of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde’s cautionary 19th-century horror story about the doomed hopelessness of trying to stay forever young, to posting huge posters of himself in cross-cultural, time-collapsing drag on the subterranean walls of London’s underground in the late 1990s. But he is probably best known for his use of Dutch wax-print fabric.

Finely attired in this brightly patterned cloth, the often headless 18th- and 19th-century aristocratic figures who populate his installations, photographs and video works, romp around in a lewd and rapacious fashion that blatantly belies the myth of mannered restraint coded into the notion of western civility and enlightenment.The fabric itself, it turned out, held a myth of its own.

Although it seemed quintessentiallyAfrican, it was through Shonibare’s interventions that audiences learned of its colonial-era origins and circuits of distribution.

The result of Magugu’s sartorial engagement with Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli saw the two designers swap their creations and rework them into their own style for Vogue magazine. Photo: Delali Ayivi

Modelled on the homespun technique of Indonesian batik, the fabric was mass produced by Dutch industrialists in the 19th century, shunned by Indonesia, and then embraced by West African women, who adopted and adapted it as their own.

Shonibare’s use of Dutch waxprint fabric went a long way to popularising the knowledge that globalisation is not the contemporary phenomenon many assume it to be. Our world ricochets and quakes with intercultural hauntings from the past.

These tensions were explored in engaging detail during a packed public dialogue between the artist and Zeitz Museum of ContemporaryArtAfrica’s executive director and chief curator Koyo Kouoh on Saturday

During the Q&Asession, Shonibare’s embrace of being “honoured as commander of the British Empire” came under critical fire, with fellow trailblazer Tracey Rose interrogating his “Trojan horse” insider/outsider approach to dismantling institutions of empire.

He held fast to his paradoxical position, defending the value of generating perplexity and dialogue around assemblages that apparently don’t add up. Rose did not seem to accept this.

Shonibare is a mediatic wizard, who uses materials and media in ways that plant enduring questions about the racialised

power structures that undergird the globalised world.

He pushes expectation and assumption into new dimensions.

The patterns that adorn the surfaces of his hybrid masks and sculptures have been handpainted onto the objects, like a second skin. “Yes, the bodies have been taken over byAfrican patents, if you like,” he quips.

This technique can also be seen in his ecstatic, painted-fibreglass Wind Sculptures, one of which alighted (in 2019) in the gardens of CapeTown’s Norval Foundation. In 2016, Wind Sculpture VII became the first sculpture to be permanently installed at the entrance to the Smithsonian’s National Museum ofAfricanAmericanArt in Washington DC.

The patterns themselves are a mongrelisation of a mongrelisation. Inspired by waxprint patterns, they include abstracted waves, snakes, feathers, flowers, suns.

Shonibare explains: “The reason I started using the Roman figures goes back to when DonaldTrump was in power and the alt-right in the US were using classical sculptures and imagery as a sign of the superiority of western heritage and culture.And I thought there was a gross misperception about that imagery

“The Greeks and Romans painted them.And it was time that made them white.The paints just faded.

“There is no such thing as a

In Magugu’s Genealogy collection he took inspiration from the women in his family, using dated images from the 80s as his source, he transformed their DIY style into high fashion. Aart Verrips

culture that stands alone.The Greeks were inspired by the Egyptians — cultures take from each other. I started making interventions that morphed and developed further. What I’ve done is to return other influences to those marble sculptures.”

It is these varied, bold, subtle,

mongrelised acts of restitution and return that give Shonibare’s work its paradoxical, timetravelling power, shifting it from parody towards a new spiritual register

Restitution of the Mind and Soul will be on at the Goodman Gallery until 12 November

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Kuruman

Large- and small-scale fishers and communities on the Wild Coast of SouthAfrica request that, at the very least, more scientific research be done on the effects of exploration activities, and that various stakeholders undertake greater engagement about such activities to gain a better understanding of any potential impacts of the activities.

This was the message conveyed by community leaders who came together at the second precolloquium dialogue onAugust 25 at the CapeTown International Convention Centre to discuss the possible “coexistence of the upstream petroleum and fishing industries in SouthAfrica”.

The dialogue was jointly hosted by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), and the Petroleum Agency of SouthAfrica (Pasa).A joint statement by various community and environmental organisations describes the engagement as an attempt to “pacify and weaken” the clear message small-scale fishing communities have been sending to the DMRE and Pasa against the “pillaging” of their coastal waters.

“Oil and gas development and fishing activities cannot coexist,” reads the statement, which is endorsed by the Masifundise DevelopmentTrust, One Ocean Hub,The Green Connection, the Coastal Justice Network, KwaZulu-Natal Subsistence Fisherfolks, the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, and the SAFishers Collective.

The community and environmental organisations further state that the dialogue is an attempt by the DMRE and Pasa to make oil and gas exploration “palatable” to fishing communities, and is “deeply concerning and deceptive”.Those

Call For Greater Consultation On Oil And Gas Exploration

interfere with the way in which they receive acoustic signals by masking the natural signals that they are supposed to receive.”

Kirkman adds that the elevated noise levels can also have a range of other biological effects, including behavioural and stress responses among ocean animals and, for those more acutely exposed to the noise, there could be physical and physiological effects, such as temporary or permanent hearing loss or other organ damage.

about 5 km from the sound source,” states Kirkman.

concerned about the impacts of seismic surveys worry about the immediate, short- and long-term effects the noises could have on the marine environment.

Crux of the Matter

Seismic surveying in a marine environment is conducted by noises generated by submerged airguns, which send seismic sound waves through water and into the subsurface of the Earth to investigate underground properties, mostly in search of petroleum, natural gas and other mineral deposits.

DFFE oceans and coast specialist scientist Steven Kirkman says the greatest acoustic energy generated during a seismic survey is downwards, although significant energy is also radiated in other directions, including almost horizontally: “It is almost omni-directional in the ocean.”

The greatest energy is radiated at lower frequencies, and “can transmit very far in the marine environment – hundreds, even thousands, of kilometres have been observed”.

Kirkman adds that because a sound pulse is generated every few seconds, the background noise produced during seismic surveys can be elevated almost continuously.

“This exposes a wide range of species and habitat to chronically elevated sound levels during the course of a seismic survey.”

Further, he says evidence shows the predominant frequency range of seismic surveys is within the hearing range of many marine organisms, including cetaceans and most fish species. Such animals rely on specific frequencies of sound and their sense of hearing for survival functions, such as communication, finding mates and detecting prey and predators. “[Therefore] the noise can

Even if the hearing frequency of animals does not overlap with that of the seismic noise, they can still be affected by the loudness of the noise, which is equivalent to sound pressure levels of about 260 dB, he notes.

Although a lot of research has been conducted on the impacts of underwater noise, including seismic surveys, much of this has focused on whales and dolphins. “There are still many gaps in our understanding, especially with regard to other groups, such as fish and invertebrates.” Some of the research has produced “very conflicting” results, cautions Kirkman.

Aprime example of this is the international literature on the impacts of seismic noise on plankton, including zooplankton and ichthyoplankton, the latter being the larvae and eggs of fish.

“Most laboratory-based studies have shown that there are no impacts on plankton beyond about 10 m from the sound source, but one study inAustralia reported mortality and severely reduced abundance more than a kilometre from the sound source,” he relays.

Kirkman highlights that zooplankton are vital for the functioning of marine ecosystems, and any impact on the species will significantly affect fish and whales.

However, he says another field study produced results that contradict these findings.

“Some [laboratory-based studies on fish] have shown that the noise can cause injury to fish, including permanent threshold shifts in hearing, and barotrauma – pressure- induced injury to the gas chambers in fishes, and also behavioural responses in the wild.

“In the field, some studies have shown changes in the vertical distribution of fishes as far as

Meanwhile, research – presented at the dialogue by the independentAustralian Institute of Marine Science’s representatives, Dr Mark Meekan and Dr Miles Parsons – that focused on the Red Emperor species of fish off the coast ofAustralia showed little disturbance among the species. This study, conducted within a 2 500 km2 fishery management zone, near the Pilbara coast of Australia, involved using multiple acoustic sensors, the tagging and tracking of 387 Red Emperors and the deployment of about 600 underwater cameras to track and measure fish behaviour before and after seismic survey noises were emitted.

“The results reveal there were no short-term or long-term effects on the abundance, behaviour and movement of bottom-living fishes. This suggests seismic surveys have little impact on commercially valuable fish species in this environment,” says Meekan.

Concerns Linger

Notwithstanding these scientific contradictions, SouthAfrican fishing communities, environmental activists and concerned communities are objecting to poor engagement by the relevant State departments and oil and gas explorers on matters pertaining to the environment they rely on for tourism, fishing and recreation, besides others.

Commercial fishing industry organisation FishSAchairperson Loyiso Phantshwa says the organisation has identified disturbance of the migration patterns of the species fished in SouthAfrican oceans, as a result of oil and gas exploration activities, “a number of times”.

Although he says “a degree of research” has been done on the effects of exploration activities on the marine environment, concerns remain about a lasting negative impact, especially on fish stocks in SouthAfrican waters.

“[In terms of] the research and . . . legal requirements imposed on the oil and gas industry to look into environmental impacts, there are gaps.”

In addition, he says there has been a dire lack of engagement between State departments and oil and gas explorers and the

communities that will be most affected by any possible adverse effects caused by exploration activities.

“It cannot be that . . . only the financial needs or the developmental needs [of oil and gas companies] drive a rush to explore in our seas.The sea is a very sensitive area,” he states.

Small-scale fishing nonprofit organisation SouthAfrican United Fishing Front (SAUFF) chairperson Pedro Garcia, admitting that the SAUFF is neither pro nor anti oil and gas exploration, says the SAUFF and large-scale fishers are in a learning process about sharing ocean resources with other industries.

“We are in an environment where there are great uncertainties in terms of [the] advantages or disadvantages [that] oil and gas [activities] may have on our communities,” he says.

In this regard, he says informative community engagement is critical in taking any future exploration forward.

As such, he says a grassroots communication framework (GCF) is critical to ensure engagements between parties are undertaken constructively

“Consultation processes in South Africa have been an absolute dismal failure. It has been a tickbox exercise,” says Garcia, adding that many consultations

to date have preyed on vulnerable people by, for example, offering free food and conducting presentations in languages often poorly understood by local communities.

The aim of the GCF is to ensure meaningful and informed participation between communities and a multistakeholder consultation group comprising representatives of government and exploration and development companies to have all stakeholders and role-players present for consultation.

Meanwhile, he also explains that the perception of a singular agenda being advanced arises when singular and poorly

represented entities approach a community to engage or consult with them and are unable to answer specific questions.

Further, Garcia highlights that, despite the often large sums of capital being spent on mineral exploration programmes, poor planning on the part of the State or an explorer company cannot become the problem of the affected communities.

“Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on our part.You need to give us the time to develop the proper tools for our communities so that they can engage effectively, constructively and meaningfully,” he concludes.

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Die Oos-Kaapse hooggeregshof het Fikile Mbalula, minister van vervoer, en Xolile Nqatha, LUR vir vervoer, beveel om stappe te neem om aanvalle op busse wat aan die langafstandbusoperateur Intercape behoort stop te sit. Die busse word blykbaar deur ontevrede taxiverenigings aangeval.

Ingevolge die bevel, wat Vrydag toegestaan is, het regter John Smith in die hooggeregshof in Makhanda beslis dat die minister en die LUR ’n “verpligting” het om met ’n plan vorendag te kom, insluitend die aanstelling van inspekteurs, die verklaring van sekere verbode gebiede en die opskorting van sekere taxi-lisensies, roetes en staanplekke.

Regter Smith het gesê beide die LUR en die minister het tot dusver hul pligte versuim en hulle het ’n verpligting om met die polisie saam te werk.

Hulle het 20 dae om ’n omvattende plan te ontwikkel om die veiligheid en sekuriteit van langafstandbusbestuurders enpassasiers in die provinsie te verseker. Die plan moet onder eed aan die hof voorgelê word met implementeringstydperke.

Regter Smith het ook beslis dat die voormalige LUR WeziweTikanaGxothiwe, wat inAugustus vanjaar afgedank is, onregmatig opgetree het toe sy Intercape se uitvoerende hoof, Johann Ferreira, opdrag gegee het om met verteenwoordigers van die minibustaxibedryf te onderhandel om “prys, frekwensie en tye” van die busdiens in die provinsie te bespreek. Sy het aangedui dat sy die busdiens sal opskort hangende die uitslag van hierdie onderhandelinge.

Regter Smith het gesê hy sal op ’n later datum volledige redes vir sy bevel verskaf.

Hy het die minister en die LUR beveel om Intercape se koste op ’n strafskaal te betaal.

Ferreira het hom in ’n dringende aansoek tot die hof gewend na wat hy beskryf het as sewe jaar van “terrorisme” in die hande van taxiverenigings waartydens sy busse in honderde dade van geweld en intimidasie geteiken is.

Busse is met klippe bestook en daar is op hulle geskiet.

Werknemers en passasiers is beseer en een bestuurder is dood, het hy in sy beëdigde verklaring gesê. En tydens dit alles het beide die Minister en die LUR “op hul hande gesit”, ten spyte van skriftelike pleidooie om hulp. Sy enigste interaksie met die voormalige LURTikana-Gxothiwe was nadat sy in Mei vanjaar ’n taxiblokkade van beide kante van die N2 by Dutywa bygewoon het en sy hom aangesê het om met die taxi-operateurs te onderhandel.

Hy het geweier

Sowel die LUR as die Minister het in die opstanding van die aansoek gesê wetstoepassing is nie deel van hul werk nie en Ferreira moet met die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens (SAPD) werk.

Fikile het gesê kragtens die Wet op Nasionale Landvervoer is die minister verplig om veiligheid te

bevorder, maar dit is anders as om veiligheid te “verseker”.

Nqatha het gesê die wet het die LUR wetstoepassingsmagte gegee deur die aanstelling van “inspekteurs” – maar dit is opgeneem in provinsiale verkeerstoepassing. En hulle was nie opgelei of toegerus om dade van misdadigheid te ondersoek of te beveg nie.

Albei het gesê die taxi-verenigings het enige betrokkenheid by die aanvalle ontken en skelm elemente blameer

Maar Ferreira het gesê daar is geleer dat diegene wat verantwoordelik is deel is van ’n “groot en gesofistikeerde, georganiseerde misdaadsindikaat wat in staat is om intelligensie in te samel en aanvalle te koördineer”.

“Dit is nie verbasend dat hierdie skelm taxi-verenigings vrymoedig en onbeskof geraak het tot die punt waar hulle absoluut straffeloos opgetree het voor lede van die SAPD nie, wetende dat die staat onwillig, onbekwaam, of erger, aandadig is aan wat plaasvind,” het Ferreira in reaksie op die hofuitspraak gesê.

“Ons het die Minister van Vervoer,

sowel as die Minister van Polisie, gewaarsku oor die storm wat opgebou het teen die langafstandvervoerbedryf, maar niks is gedoen nie.

“Daar is frustrasie en kommer van beide die burgers en sakeondernemings oor hierdie voortdurende mislukkings aan die kant van die staat. Die gevolg van dit alles is ’n land in volslae chaos waar mafia-netwerke nou in beheer is. Ons moet as ’n land besluit watter soort toekoms ons wil hê.”

Hy het gesê hoewel die hofuitspraak ’n groot oorwinning was, het die maatskappy ook die inisiatief geneem om belonings aan te bied, want tot op hede was daar geen arrestasies nie.

“Intercape was die afgelope 18 maande die slagoffer van meer as 130 aangemelde voorvalle van geweld, intimidasie en afpersing. Hierdie aanvalle het ernstige beserings aan Intercape-personeel en passasiers tot gevolg gehad, asook die dood van die Intercapebestuurder Bangikhaya Machana in April.

“In die afgelope paar maande het die aanvalle al hoe meer gereeld geword, al hoe meer wreed en al hoe ernstiger.”

“Ondanks die toename in die aantal en intensiteit van aanvalle, veral in die Oos-Kaap, was daar tot dusver nog nie een enkele arrestasie nie.”

Die maatskappy het belonings van tussen R150 000 en R300 000 aangebied vir inligting wat lei tot die arrestasies en suksesvolle vervolging, nie net van diegene wat vir die aanvalle verantwoordelik is nie, maar ook van diegene wat die gewelddadige veldtog aan die gang gesit het.

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This annual pageant is a search for individuals with leadership skills, dynamic personality, good communication skills and confidence.

Modeling experience is NOTa pre-requisite, although it does benefit the contestant to have poise, grace and confidence; several winners have, prior to entering this event, never set foot on a ramp before.

*Everyone that enters participates in the provincial pageant, as we believe in giving every entrant the opportunity of this experience.

The judging criteria include: personality projection, confidence, leadership qualities, communication skills and natural exuberance, beauty & outfit.

Contestants are expected to be well groomed.There are no height or weight restrictions, but a healthy lifestyle in advantageous.

Contestants wearing dental braces are in NO way penalised, as this is a corrective procedure and quite normal during the teen years. We have had several youngsters win, whilst wearing braces.

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Tiny Miss Northern Cape 4-6yrs

Northern Cape Pageant

Little Miss Northern Cape 7-9yrs Pre-Teen Miss Northern Cape 1012yrs

JnrTeen Miss Northern Cape 1315yrs

Teen Miss Northern Cape 1619yrs

each category

An Overall Jnr & Snr Personality Award

An Overall Jnr & Snr Best InterviewAward

An Overall Jnr & Snr Photogenic Award

An Overall Jnr & Snr StyleAward

MALESAges

Tiny Mr Northern Cape 4-8yrs

Pre-Teen Mr Northern Cape 912yrs

Miss Northern Cape 20-29yrs Teen Mr Northern Cape 13-19yrs

Mr Northern Cape 20-29yrs

AWARDS

AProvincial Northern Cape Winner, 1st runner up and 2nd runner up will be announced in

An Overall Jnr & Snr Public ChoiceAward

Overall DebutantAward

Overall PhilanthropistAward

There is a charity element to the pageant, namely the RoleModels Foundation (NPC).

Any queries can be directed to pro@rsafoundation.org.za or 064 845 4570

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Caitlin Spangenberg (Miss Northern Cape 2022-23)

DuToit Loots (Tiny Mr Northern Cape 2022-23)

Juane Loots (Tiny Miss Northern Cape 2022-23

Jo-Mari Becker (Mrs Northern Cape 2022-23)

Romay Borghesi (Cute Missy Northern Cape 2022-23)

Jeaneigh Borghesi (Little Miss Northern Cape 2022-23)

Maria Spangenberg (Teen Miss Northern Cape 2022-23)

Rika Cloete (Mrs Northern Cape 2021-22)

Die senior dames gaan julle gereeld van hoor die jaar, hulle gaan baie aktief betrokke wees in die gemeenskap.

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Senior wenners vlnr: Caitlin Spangenberg (Miss Northern Cape 2022-23)

Jo-Mari Becker (Mrs Northern Cape 2022-23) Maria Spangenberg (Teen Miss Northern Cape 2022-23)

Die Mevrouens vlnr:Yolande Fourie (Mrs Northern Cape First Runner Up 2022-23), Jo-Mari Becker (Mrs Northern Cape 2022-23),Anzel Swart (Mrs Northern Cape Second Runner Up 2022-23)

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John Pretorius Makes Universal Music American Style

How does a gifted musician from Northern Cape, SouthAfrica with a PhD in Social Science and Mathematics become one of America’s adored composers?

Just ask John Pretorius..

At seventeen years old Pretorius moved from Northern Cape to CapeTown, where he graduated with a degree in teaching. Later he earned a dual doctorate in Social Studies and Math.

However, music held a special place in his heart. John became an expert in Sound Engineering, Production & Jazz Studies. He seized every opportunity to perform locally, often times showcasing his original songs.

Pistorius drew inspiration from his life and history, which led to him writing his most famous song “Sekunjalo Ke Nako.”

It became a favorite anthem for the people of SouthAfrica. John later partnered withAmerican legend Jermaine Jackson (of Motown’s Jackson 5) to perform “Free at Last.” Not only did the song mark the end of the reign of apartheid, but it was also a dedication to freedom fighter Nelson Mandela. Soon after, John Pretorius was sharing the stage performing withAmerican artists Stevie Wonder, the late Ray Charles and others in celebration of Martin Luther King

Day all acrossAmerica.

John has recently announced the 30-year anniversary release of Free at Last – Single by John Pretorius onApple Music.

John formed a camaraderie with producer Quincy Jones, actor Steven Seagal, actor Danny Glover and comedian Chris Tucker. He even recorded with Wyclef Jean on the 2010 FIFA World Cup album “Listen Up!”

John Pretorius has gained respect and recognition all around the world. But since recording the FIFAWorld cup album, he now endeavors to be a part of the Official 2026 World Cup USACommittee.

Humanitarians, global causes and music go hand in hand. So naturally, Mr. Pretorius has formed alliances withAmerican superstars Bono, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie and Bruce Springsteen to record the songs “Land of the Free” and “Human.”

These songs are intended to be theme songs for a series of International World Peace Concerts set to kick off in New York, LosAngeles andAtlanta in March 2023. The event will be in conjunction with other peace concerts worldwide. Education, technology and entertainment have all been

John Pretorius Humanitarian Award (Botswana)

conquered in John’s world. He has completed certifications at Harvard University forApple Technology and One World Global Communication.

John is a regular invitee toThe SallyAwards,TheAmerican MusicAwards and other stellar events. He has made a name for himself in SouthAfrica, France, Germany, Switzerland, London, Singapore,Australia

and many other places around the world but the United States holds a special place in the heart of John Pretorius.

In fact, he has become a valuable asset to theAmerican entertainment industry and a global humanitarian, who continues to prove that with hard work, faith and determination, dreams do come true. - eurweb

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Dezlin Kotzee, ‘n graad 10 leerder verbonde aan Gekombineerde Skool Friersdale RK, neem op 15 Oktober 2022 weer aan die Nasionale WOW spelfees deel wat in Stellenbosch Gaan plaasvind.

Hy het eerste gekom in die provinsiale uitdunne wat ‘n paar weke gelede by Hoërskool Upington plaasgevind het. Dezlin sal in die kategorie Afrikaans, Graad 10, sy staal wys teen skole regoor die land.

Dis alreeds die tweede keer wat Hy die Noord-Kaap op nasionale vlak in die kategorie verteenwoordig. In 2019 het hy ‘n algehele agste plek by dieselfde kompetisie losgespel en hy sê hy sal graag hierdie jaar daarop wil verbeter

Dis voorwaar ‘n merkwaardige prestasie vir hierdie jongman as ons in ag neem dat hy afkomstig is van Cillie naby Kakamas waar geleenthede uiters skraal is.

Ons wens Dezlin alle voorspoed toe en hoop dathy

die gesogte titel hierdie keer na die Noord-Kaap sal bring.

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Jeaneigh Borghesi het die afgelope naweek deelgeneem aan Mini Miss RSA. Sy wen: Rolmodel Sweetheart 22/23, Jnr OverallTalent, Jnr Overall 2nd Runner UpTop Model

Agri SApartnered with the private sector to train hundreds of emerging farmers across SA. There have been complaints about a lack of transformation.

To continue to provide agricultural support even after the training programme has ended is a key goal of the Farming forTomorrow rural development initiative, said Sulaimaan Patel, the training and development manager atAgri Enterprises, a subsidiary ofAgri SA, at a media briefing in Pretoria on Monday

The initiative, which focused on training and upskilling emerging black farmers, was in partnership with the InternationalAgricultural Academy forAfrica andAgriseta. Running for two years, the programme recently came to a conclusion. It oversaw the training of 751 farmers, fast-tracking their access to the beef cattle, wool sheep and goat farming value chains.

R15-million was injected into the initiative.The initiative was a pilot project, and the data collected from it will be used to spur a more expansive programme for a larger group of farmers.Thus far, the programme has been implemented across the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape, Free State, North West, Gauteng and Mpumalanga.

The programme sought to open up commercial markets to the farmers and position them for success.The initiative also provided leadership, management and entrepreneurial training which were inclusive of business planning, as well as identifying opportunities, market access, and understanding company structures.

This approach was taken to

further develop existing transformation training programmes. More than 50 registered companies emerged from the programme.The initiative hopes to further assist with grant funding and SARS tax registration processes.

Follow-through

“There’s a lot of training that happens … what seems to be lacking is the [follow-through] of the training. We brought in a perspective that starts at mental wellness and carries on until today and will hopefully live into the future,” said Patel.

“We’ve created communication channels, helped farmers with access to markets, live market information, market updates continuously. Now my job is to source more funding for [the farmers].They need to get scaled up in some way so that they can scale up their enterprises.”

The programme partners say the initiative was the most comprehensive approach to upskilling emerging SAfarmers to date. Programme conveners found that one of the farmers’ greatest challenges was access to information on pricing, commodity fluctuations, funding opportunities and disease outbreaks in their areas. In response to this, a WhatsApp group andAgri SAsocial media platforms have been used to disseminate information to farmers.

For programme participant William Barnes, a farmer from Oppermansgronde in the Free State, having such an initiative for his community, whose land was returned to them in 2005, has been of great benefit.

“[Oppermansgronde residents]

have been farmers for more than 100 years. It’s just that we never got any assistance under the previous government and that’s why we couldn’t expand. We didn’t have access to the latest technology and information — those were scarce things.

“Now this programme introduces that technology and its transfer, allowing us to grow by applying a level of best practices in farming. So we’re quite hopeful that this is going to take us forward,” Barnes said.

However, the programme hasn’t been without its challenges. In his presentation, Barnes said the agricultural sector was still not transformed. He said black and/or emerging farmers were always sidelined, and while some privileged farmers wanted change in the sector, many opposed this.

Black farmers in SouthAfrica are responsible for between 5% and 10% of overall commercial production, with the industry still dominated by white farmers.

The programme had a large cohort of farmers aged 25 to 34, with women being prevalent in that group, said Johann Stassen, the managing director of the InternationalAgricultural Academy forAfrica. He said that while the emerging farmers had

the resources to produce livelihoods, the knowledge was lacking, with most farmers not keeping records of their stock, making it difficult to grow and to access financial assistance.

Climate crisis challenges

Stassen told Daily Maverick that while farmers were aware of the challenges of the climate crisis, such as water shortages and droughts, they felt unable to take any action to mitigate this.

Patel said the programme was expected to return with the training of more than 1,000 emerging black farmers. He said funding was vital; hopefully from the government as well.

However, Stassen was sceptical about government funding.

“The government is nonexistent,” Stassen said of government support.

“We have gotten to the stage as the private sector where we don’t want to involve them.You do training at the lowest level and you don’t get paid, and once you start pushing, it starts becoming a wheel and deal. It’s a pity, as the government has a huge role to fulfil. But the private sector is seeing that it’s not a sustainable thing; we must go on our own.”DM/OBP

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Bullhorn acacia trees protect their leaves by emitting a chemical that keeps animals away. When an animal, like a giraffe, starts to snack on its leaves, the acacia gives off a chemical that makes the leaves taste very unappetizing.

In another amazing turn of events, other acacias miles away can sense this chemical as well, which triggers their defense chemical. Within 15 minutes of a plant-eater munching on its leaves, acacia’s up to 45 miles away can render their leaves inedible.

This is part of the reason why leaf browsers like giraffes move from tree to tree fairly quickly. When one tree stops tasting good, giraffes will move on to the next.

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Die ‘95 matriek fondsinsameling groep (95 MFG) NGO het besoek afgelê te Mctaggartskamp primêre skool en Vyebos primêre skool, waar hulle weereens ‘n verskil kon maak met die hulp van die Here aan behoeftige kinders, deur aan hulle rugsakke, toiletware, skryfbehoeftes, skoolskoene te oorhandig. Volgens Mnr Richard Blaauw, voorsitter van die organisasie i daar nog baie uitdagings om fondse te bekom,

maar doelgerigtheid en passie vir dit wat hulle doen, staan en keer niks hierdie groepie om te doen wat na aan hul harte lê, volgens God se wil om medelye te betoon aan hul medemens.

Met gereelde skakel het Mnr Blaauw daarin geslaag om Mnr Pvan Rooyen van PVR Begrafnis van Springbok aan boord te kry om ook jaarliks ‘n skenkng te maak om by te dra tot die veryking en verandering

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Die organisasie wil ook die volgende instansies bedank vir hul jaarlikse by dra:

Madaleen, skakel persoon by Sanlam,

Mnr James Booysen van Juedfra Begrafnis, Upington,

Mechaela Willoughby van Pnet Skryfbehoeftes, Johannesburg.

Enige instansie/individue wat die

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The Northern Cape Reports The First Brown Locust Outbreak

As the country welcomes spring, a new generation of locust swarm has been sighted in various towns of the Northern Cape.

The Department ofAgriculture, EnvironmentalAffairs, Rural Development and Land Reform can confirm that the first brown locust outbreak this season is in Upington, Kliprand, Gamoep, Carnavon and Louriesfontein.

The outbreak is as a result of warmer conditions and enough moisture still on the soil after recent rains in some parts of the Province.

More outbreaks are expected in other districts, as the weather becomes warmer and rain expected in various parts of the Province.

With the assistance from the National Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, teams of Locust Controllers were activated and dispatched to control the locust outbreak, in affected areas and nearby farms in the Province. MEC Mase Manopole calls on land owners and farmer to corporate with our ControllingTeams by allowing them access to their premises for

a smooth control of the swarm. MEC further urged drivers to be cautious as our roads become slippery as a results of hoppers (baby locusts) moving from nearby farms onto our main roads.

We further call on members of the public and farmers to report any visibility of these swam in their areas to the following departmental officials:

Ms. Mulalo Matodzi on 083 326 7773, Ms. Vuyokazi Mpumlwana on 084760 8176 and

Dr. Ikalafeng Kgakatsi on 072 198 9882