Hadeda News - 24 Maart 2023

Mystery Of Vanished Courier Driver

It has been eight months since a courier driver who is subcontracted to a company vanished without a trace while transporting goods to George and had planned to visit family in CapeTown.

Hours after Granville Leen from Knysna greeted his wife, Bernadette Leen and their three children, his work vehicle, a Nissan NP200, was found in the Northern Cape near Garies containing his personal belongings.

Bernadette said she would not give up the search for her husband who was last seen on CCTV footage via a tracking device onAugust 13, 2022 in Franschhoek.

Leen was also apparently seen on footage in Clanwilliam.

OnAugust 12, 2022, Leen had apparently planned a weekend trip for his family toAshton to his cousin but decided to travel

alone when his wife and children could not avail themselves due to school activities and examination preparation.

Leen had delivered the parcel at GeorgeAirport and stopped off at his uncle’s home in Riversdale while en route to his cousin inAshton.

“I told him that it was too last minute and if he had discussed the trip with our eldest daughter who was in matric,” explained Bernadette.

“My daughter had to prepare assignments and a test and we decided we were going to stay at home.

“He left home around 3pm for George airport and said he would stop off at his uncles in Riversdale and he did arrive in Ashton at his cousin’s home.”

Bernadette said her husband’s journey took a dramatic turn when he suddenly decided to

change his plans once he reachedAshton.

“When he arrived inAshton he said he had heard something at the bakkie and they called the police,” she explained.

“He then decided he would be driving to his brother who is in CapeTown.

The family had relocated to Knysna from Belhar in 2018.

“He was still active on WhatsApp until after 1am on August 13 2023,” she said.

“The company had found his vehicle on the 13August near Garies.”

Bernadette said she handed over his cellphone to police hoping for answers.

“I opened a missing persons docket with the police and police were unable to retrieve anything from the cellphone because it is locked.

‘I will not give up looking for my husband. Our 22nd wedding anniversary was in December.”

Bernadette explained she had joined various missing persons organisations in her quest.

ChazThomas ofTrack nTrace said they were not at liberty to comment on the case yet as they were following up on leads.

Amissing person’s flyer for Leen was created and distributed by Knysna CPF, Community Policing Forum. - Weekend Argus / IOL

Karakterisering in jou storie.

Wenke van Welbekende Gepubliseerde Skrywer - Annerle Barnard

Boeke vir tieners

Dit herinner jou aan die uiterlike, anders het jou karakter aan die begin van die storie bruin oë en later groen oë. Verder gebruik ek ‘n karakterkaart om my te help om my karakters te beplan.

Vir my is die hoofkarakter se doelstelling, motivering en innerlike konflik deel van die karakterisering — en daarmee saam ook die protagonis se grootste vrees.

Mense het dikwels waarneembare mannerismes. Vermy egter clichés. Jou karakters se persoonlikhede, asook hulle sterk eienskappe en swakhede kan ‘n storie baie interessant maak.

Tatoëermerke.

Plascon gesig (baie grimering).

Boeke vir tieners

Karakterisering

Sterk eienskappe:

Goeie interpersoonlike vaardighede.

Goeie danser/skut/swaardvegter/sportman of -vrou, ens.

Fisiek sterk (Marvel films).

Vinnige reflekse.

Uitstekende kok of bobaas bakker

Uitstekende bestuurder –gevorderde bestuursvaardighede (Fast & Furious films).

Spesiale konneksie met diere, byvoorbeeld Bossie in Sindikaat (jeugfiksie).

Boeke vir tieners

Hoe werk karakterisering in jou storie?

Maak jou karakters se unieke eienskappe ‘n belangrike deel van die plot.

Tris (Beatrice Prior) in die Divergent-reeks (jeugfiksie) is van die begin af gefassineerd met die Dauntless-faksie. Sy pas egter nie perfek in enige van die kategorieë in nie en mense soos sy word as ‘divergent’beskou. Sy is anders, wyk van die normaal af.

Katniss Evergreen (The Hunger Games) is ‘n uitstekende jagter en dis dan ook juis haar vaardigheid met ‘n pyl en boog wat haar help om die ‘spele’te oorleef.

Paul Rudman in Sindikaat (jeugfiksie) is ‘n sportiewe, buitelugpersoon met sy eie innerlike stryd: depressie en angs.

Gebruik unieke eienskappe wanneer jy jou karakters skep, maar moenie dit misbruik nie, want dan verloor dit effektiwiteit.

Elke karakter in jou storie kan byvoorbeeld nie lomp wees nie. Miskien het een slegte kommunikasievaardighede en ‘n ander een buitengewone danstalent.

Dink aan die Marvel-karakters. Almal het superkragte, maar hulle kragte verskil en hulle lyk almal

anders.Almal se omstandighede en persoonlikhede verskil ook (Iron Man vs.Thanos vs.The Hulk).

Wees oorspronklik.

Hou mense dop en neem kennis van hulle unieke eienskappe.

Laat ruimte vir uitsonderings.

Ek is oor die algemeen redelik ernstig, maar sal soms ‘n grappie maak. Wanneer ek wel ‘n grap maak, vind mense dit soms ekstra snaaks. (Een van my sibbe is die Oros by elke kuier en laat almal lag. Ek het bloot nie daardie gawe nie.)

Nes mense, kan jou karakters ook afwyk van dit wat gewoonlik van hulle verwag word, m.a.w. die ernstige persoon maak dalk onverwags ‘n grappige aanmerking.

Hoe om karakterisering in jou storie te beplan?

Wanneer ek besluit het wie en wat my karakters gaan wees (dikwels ontwikkel hulle verder tydens die skryfproses), gaan soek ek ‘n foto op die Internet (daar is hordes foto’s op Pinterest) soortgelyk aan dit wat in my kop is. Dit herinner jou ook aan jou karakter se uiterlike en help met die karakterisering in jou storie.

Paul Rudman in Sindikaat (jeugfiksie) is sportief en in voortdurende konflik. Hy word deur twee sindikate gejag. Sy stryd handel oor oorlewing (innerlik en uiterlik).

Karakterisering in jou storie

Onder is enkele voorbeelde. Hou mense dop en sien self hoeveel eienskappe daar is wat jy op jou karakters van toepassing kan maak.

Mannerismes:

Naels kou.

Swaai jou sokkies soggens drie keer deur die lug vir goeie geluk voordat dit aangetrek word.

Kou aanhoudend kougom.

Vroetel voortdurend — dit kan ook ‘n teken wees van angstigheid, of selfsADHD.

Praat altyd stadig en baie duidelik.

Vat voortdurend aan die linkeroor, veral wanneer senuweeagtig.

Persoonlikheid en ander eienskappe:

Introvert

Ekstrovert (die Oros van die partytjie!)

Pynlik netjies.

Ongeorganiseerd en ongestruktureerd.

Baie snaaks, en maak altyd grappe. Dit kan ook ‘n personal wees wat die karakter aanneem om angs te verdoesel. (Sindikaat)

Kla voorturend oor alles, byvoorbeeldAdriaan Roux in Sindikaat (boek vir tieners).

Baie lojaal, soms ten koste van die self.

‘nTweegesig. ‘n Jakkals.

Eienaardige brilvorm.

Karakterisering

Vreeslose persoon.

Gladde mond: laat onwettighede goed lyk (Neil Caffrey in die White CollarTV-reeks).

Swak eienskappe:

Onleesbare handskrif.

Slegte bestuurder

Altyd laat.

Swak organisatoriese vaardighede.

Sosiaal lomp en maak nie maklik vriende nie.

Kompulsiewe leuenaar Boeke vir tieners

Karakterisering (Foto: Unsplash)

Karakters is mense en mense is kompleks.

Ted Bundy (‘n berugte reeksmoordenaar wat 30 vrouens vermoor het) het in ‘n stadium by die hulplyn van ‘n sentrum in Seattle gewerk waar die doel was om selfdood te verhoed. Sy kollegas het gesê dat hy ‘n empatieke mens was. Hy’t homself egter as die mees koudbloedige persoon op aarde beskryf. Selfs skurke, reeksmoordenaars en kompulsiewe leuenaars is mense met vele fasette.

As ‘n leser van jou karakters hou, is daar onmiddellik spanning, want die leser wil hê dat die hoofkarakter moet oorleef (The Hunger Games/Divergent/I am Number Four/The Fault in our Stars) of sy/haar einddoel bereik (Marvel/Looking forAlaska/City of Bones).

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Jy benodig

• 8-10 lamstjops

Vir die marinade

• ½ koppie bruinsuiker

• ½ koppie bruinasyn

• 1 eetlepel kerriepoeier (sterk of matig na smaak)

• 1-2 knoffelhuisies, fyngekap (opsioneel)

• 1 teelepel borrie

Manie’s Bistro

• 1-2 eetlepels appelkooskonfyt

• 1 teelepel sout

• ½ teelepel witpeper

Só maak jy

1. Meng al die bestanddele vir die marinade saam en kook dit in ’n potjie op die stoof of in die mikrogolf.

Koel die sous af in die yskas.

2. Pak die tjops plat in ’n ziplock sak of ’n nie-metaal bak en gooi die sousie by. Sorg dat die sousie goed

versprei is en die tjops heeltemal bedek is.

Marineer die vleis vir ten minste 3 dae. Die gemarineerde tjops kan tot 2 weke in die yskas hou.

3. Braai die tjops vir ’n paar minute aan ’n kant oor matige kole tot gaar. Jy kan ook met die braaislag nog marinade aansmeer.

Bron: Facebook / Suidwesters / Flippen Lekker Braai Resepte.

KODA Upington Helping the Community One Step at a Time

On the 7th February 2023

KODAMultipurpose Community Development Association attended the CPF meeting held at the Rosedale police station.At this particular meeting were various other NPO's, different school's and many other law officials.This particular meeting allowed us to share our different challenges, events, services and also ways of working together to bring the change we wish to see in our local communities. We hereby want to make known to all NPO's, NGO's, Schools, ward Counselors and all other community

leaders the importance of this meetings.Together we can achieve so much more. We urge you to share the official date of the next meeting and also to attend.

For more information about our organization

Please contact us:

Info@koda-multipurpose.com

054 008 5006

Or visit our website & social media platforms.

Website: www.kodam.org

Facebook: KODA

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KODA Upington Feeding the Needy- An Essential Service

KODAis situated in Rosedale Upington and plays a vital role in a community where unemployment is above 50% and the lockdown left more people impoverished. KODA has a kitchen where meals are made for hundreds of locals on a weekly basis, and in many cases it would be the only meal for the day.They have staff available for

councelling, and have intervened in cases of domestic abuse especially where children are involved. Due to partnerships with businesses in Upington the kithchen can continue to provide meals when most times the only thing on a person’s mind is his/her next meal. When peopl live hand to mouth KODAhas stepped up.

Clicks & KODA Donate Glases

Elderley

The photos are from the Heritage Festival KODA hosted

The ladies in blue are from Clicks who donated reading glasses to the elderly The photo at the park is from Radio Riverside's Charity Fun Run where we won R1000.The lady holding the big cheque is Mrs. Beau-Line Nel.

Mr FJ Booysen, our Treasurer.

Contact details:

FJ Booysen Treasurer

Koda Multipurpose Community DevelopmentAssociation

063 910 9943

Info@koda-multipurpose.com

Launches Multipurpose Sporting Facility

The Sol Plaatje University (SPU) Sport Precinct, a first of its kind in the Northern Cape, will be officially opened by SPU’s ViceChancellor and Principal ProfAndrew Crouch on 24 March 2023.

SPU officials and stakeholders will be joined by the National Lotteries Commission, who partly funded the Sport Precinct project that started in 2016. Conveniently situated in the heart of Kimberley, the SPU Sport precinct is a mixeduse facility that has sport offices, student residences, a conference facility, and world class sporting facilities for soccer, netball, hockey, tennis, basketball, rugby, cricket, and volleyball.

As a premier attraction to

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the city, the SPU Sport Precinct will deliver an exceptional visitor experience to both supporters and attendees.A proud member of the Northern Cape community, SPU has made the precinct

available for hire to the public for recreational purposes, as well as affiliated sports and recreation clubs. Sol Plaatje University prides itself on providing excellence and establishing strong long-

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term relationships with our stakeholders. We encourage the public to use and access our spaces, and to join SPU as a trusted partner for events and sports.

Vrydag 24 Maart 2023

Hassle-free Trip For The Spoorloos Team On A Long Fifth Day

The Spoorloos team began their #HaalAsem journey for mental health awareness on Friday March 16. On Saturday March 11 they finished their fifth day on the Orange River

The team woke up early that morning and started their 140km river journey from Prieska to Boegoebergdam and enjoyed the breathtaking landscapes on this remote river route throughout the day

They saw osprey, buck and a mountain range covered by what looked like a thousand quiver trees.

The smooth river flow made the

long distance bearable, but with little to no cellphone signal, it was challenging to contact the recovery (ground) team.

When the teams arrived at Boegoebergdam the men agreed that after five successful days on the river the boats officially passed their initiation, and were named “Otter 1” and “Blesbok 2” with the recovery vehicle now known as “Kobra 11”

The teams looked forward to a good night’s rest at the end day five and took time to mentally prepare themselves for day six’s trajectory; 120km from Boegoebergdam to Upington.

“Always remember that the storms you are facing now will pass and remind yourself to look

for the rainbow when it does.” * Day five trajectory proudly sponsored by Legen Capital

Wildlife Worries Farmers Bordering SKA Nature Reserve

to try to protect livestock or eliminate small predators, who are proliferating due to the absence of large carnivores that would ordinarily keep their numbers in check. “Normally if you have proper fencing between yourself and a game farm or a reserve, you can get it under control, but in this case you just don’t get it under control.”

‘No progress, only promises’

the fencing project was only secured in December and that the tender would be advertised in earlyApril. Once a contractor is secured, it is expected to take at least 30 months to complete around 223 kilometres of fencing.

This means farmers face at least two more years of stock losses.

Farmers neighbouring the new game reserve around South Africa’s Square KilometreArray radio telescope are growing frustrated by the impacts of predators on their livestock.

The Meerkat National Park is being created on 135,000 hectares of former farmland that buffer the telescope’s sensitive equipment from interference. It will not be open to visitors but will be used to study dryland ecosystem dynamics.

The reserve will be managed by the country’s national parks system but has not yet been fenced. Small predators such as

black-backed jackals and caracals have moved onto the land in recent years.

Wynand Boshoff, an academic and politician from the Northern Cape, where the park is located, told Research Professional News that the problem is most pressing during lambing season.

“The wool breeds—the merino sheep—they are more vulnerable to this sort of thing. It could easily be that the farmer will lose 15 to 20 per cent of the lamb harvest…It could be higher,” he said.

Boshoff says it has also placed an additional burden on farmers

During an oversight visit to the Northern Cape in January 2022, the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Innovation heard concerns from a sheep-farming cooperative around a lack of predator management within the park and resultant stock losses.

More than a year on, there’s still no date for construction of the fence to commence. “The problem is that there has for such a long time not been any progress, only promises,” Boshoff says. In response to Boshoff’s parliamentary question about a construction date earlier this month, science and higher education minister Blade Nzimande said the funding for

The Square KilometreArray site falls within SouthAfrica’s poorly studied Nama-Karoo biome.As well as collecting weather and climate data, researchers will monitor changes in vegetation and animal populations in the park. Insights from the research could increase understanding of how the Karoo and other arid regions might fare in relation to climate change.

Lucius Moolman from South African National Parks told Research Professional News that managing problem animals will only become his agency’s responsibility once the fence is up. Until then, he says, that responsibility falls to the South African RadioAstronomy Observatory, which manages SKAin SouthAfrica. -

Using a standard laptop computer and a seemingly insignificant piece of rock, retrieved from the discarded material of a diamond mine, two researchers from QUThave succeeded in resolving a longstanding geological puzzle concerning the formation of diamonds in the ancient continental roots of the earth.

The research findings, authored by QUTPhD student Carl Walsh, QUTProfessor Balz Kamber, and EmmaTomlinson fromTrinity College, Ireland, have been published in the esteemed academic journal Nature.

As part of his MSc research, Mr Walsh employed computer modeling techniques to analyze a rock sample sourced from the African continent, which was extracted from the bottom of the lithosphere – the outer layer of the Earth lying between 30km and 250km beneath the surface. Mr. Walsh further explained that the most significant aspect of a continent was not visible to the naked eye.

“If you think of an iceberg – the visible part – if you just had an

iceberg floating on the ocean surface it would tip over like a boat.This is like the keel of an iceberg,” he added.

“We basically had a known starting composition of a rock, which is representative of the earth’s mantle at an early time in the history of the earth before all the continents were formed.

“We took that starting composition and modelled what would happen to it if it was progressively melted, and what would be left over.And that material is what forms the bulk of the roots of ancient continents that are still around today.”

The objective of this research, according to Professor Kamber of QUT’s Faculty of Science, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, was to utilize a computer model to investigate the mechanisms that led to the creation of these subterranean roots.

“The model essentially predicts which minerals and melts will be present as you change the temperature of the mantle. So, it’s a predictive tool you can compare with the composition of

actual minerals and rocks,” Prof Kamber added.

The rock fragment utilized for the advanced computer simulation was excavated between 1871 and 1914 and subsequently deposited in the “waste-pile” of the Kimberley diamond mine, famously known as “The Big Hole,” situated in Kimberley, Northern Cape, SouthAfrica.The specimen subjected to the simulation, garnet harzburgite, was extracted from a kimberlite pipe and procured by Professor Kamber, an expert in petrology, which deals with the study of rocks and the conditions under which they originate. He carefully broke down the rock into a smaller size that could be conveniently transported.

“It contains a jumble of minerals that were entrained on the way up as they ripped through the base of the whole continent in a supersonic volcanic eruption –the likes of which we have never seen,” Professor Kamber added.

“The minerals in this rock sample are so badly hurt, they are screaming still today, they were absolutely smashed.

“It is so exciting to see this preserved, it is extremely old –3.3 billion years old. Probably the oldest rock most people will ever hold in their hands.”

According to Mr. Walsh, the research has successfully solved the puzzle of diamond formation and the corresponding temperatures required for this process, as diamonds can transform into graphite if subjected to excessive heat.

“But yet, when we look at the rocks that contain diamonds, they must have been heated to massive temperatures.

“So why is it that it is exactly

those rocks that experienced the highest temperatures that ended up having diamonds?”

The research conducted by them presents a challenge to the prevalent explanation of the twostage surface-level process of “melting and stacking.”

“Previously, it was believed that most of the ancient deep roots of continents would have been host to diamonds, and that these diamonds were destroyed over time, because the base of the continent is continually invaded and eroded by volatile rich melts and fluids,” Walsh added.

“Our work suggests that actually this might not be the case, that diamonds are rare today – and were in fact always rare.”

“And that’s because we can for the first time know what is missing from the cradle of the diamond and we can go hunt for it at the surface.”

As per Professor Kamber’s statement, the current distribution of heat and temperature in the mantle of the Earth is not uniform.

“We have areas of relatively uniform mantle temperature, and areas where the mantle is a lot hotter These are known as mantle plumes.And we have expressions of these in Hawaii and Iceland.

“What we’re studying is the effect of ancient plumes – when much hotter plumes than we have now would have hit the base of a growing continent.”

Mr. Walsh has now traveled to Canberra to reproduce comparable rocks in the laboratory at theAustralian National University’s Research School of Earth Sciences. -

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ZFM Members Arrest Four Men For Stock Theft And Possession Of Stolen Goods

Members who were busy conducting operational duties on Monday, 20 March 2023 received information about a white Renault Cleo transporting sheep on theAskham road. The vehicle was spotted about 10km outside Upington and a high speed chase ensued.

The vehicle was later stopped and four sheep were found in the boot of the vehicle.

The occupants of the

vehicle failed to provide proof of ownership.The vehicle was also circulated and found to be reported as stolen on a CapeTown Central case.

The police arrested four men and a woman aged between 29 and 36 respectively The suspects are facing charges of stock theft and possession of stolen property

They are all expected to appear in the magistrate court in Upington soon.

SPU Hosts Thought-Provoking Human Rights Day Dialogue

The Division of StudentAffairs of Sol Plaatje University (SPU) hosted its first Human Rights Day Dialogue on 15 March 2023, titled “Race relations in Contemporary SouthAfrica: Addressing the Complex Challenges of Cohesion and Diversity through Human Rights”.

Two esteemed thought leaders joined the dialogue as guest speakers: Prof Muhammed Haroun, who is a research associate at the University of Johannesburg and associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Botswana, as well as Mr Imtiaz Cajee, the nephew of slain apartheid activistAhmedTimol and author of In the Murder ofAhmedTimol: My Search forTruth.

Dean of StudentAffairs, Ms Nicole Morris welcomed and thanked the esteemed guest speakers, the university’s ViceChancellor and Principal Prof. Andrew Crouch, the staff, and students for their attendance. In her opening remarks, Dean Morris encouraged all attendees to consider their role in addressing these complex challenges in society, but also work together to promote and protect the human rights of all citizens locally and internationally The Human Rights dialogue forms an integral part of the University’s co-curricular student programme in providing knowledge and insight to our youth.

Prof Muhammed reminded students how lucky they are to be at an institution named after an iconic figure like Sol Plaatje, a human-rights activist who inspired many – not just politically but academically, too: “We are an institution named after a very iconic figure, so we must never forget this figure. In fact if we look at all our universities in SouthAfrica there is no institution except for maybe one or two that are named after an iconic figure. So, we must take inspiration from him and others like him.”

Prof Muhammed also emphasized the importance of human rights – and how important the principle of Ubuntu is. He went on to explain the global impact of human rights and how the global context impacts human rights at a local level, as well as the observance of human rights through a social lens, whereby racial segregation continues to challenge our society today. He concluded by encouraging everyone to live by some of the most important values of human rights.

Our second speaker, Mr Imtiaz Cajee, reminded the audience what life was like during apartheid in SouthAfrica. During his presentation, he shared the trauma he and his family faced after losing his uncle, struggle activistAhmedTimol, to the apartheid system. Mr Cajee shared how he spent most of his life trying to find the truth about

what happened to his uncle. He also shared the difficulties he encountered while trying to get the state to open a second inquest to investigate his uncle’s death.

In ending his presentation, Mr Cajee encouraged attendees to take inspiration from his story He encouraged them to take a stand to fight and preserve the legacy of their loved ones who stood up against the apartheid system. “You do not need to depend on lawyers, humanrights activists and academics only They have an important, critical role to play but one of the reasons we formed the party as the victims’family group is that, as families, our voices must never be lost. We must stand as a collective and fight to preserve the legacies of our heroes and heroines.”

After these insightful presentations, students engaged in a thought-provoking questionand-answer session. Burning questions included where we are as a country in terms of human rights and demonstrating ubuntu, and whether the apartheid system is to blame for the state of the society we live in today rather than questioning the capitalist system that is detrimental to our society?

The entire day was underpinned by a strong message about individual responsibility. In the words of Prof Muhammed: “We must work towards reinforcing positive values in our homes and workplaces that will help us achieve social cohesiveness. It starts from home; it starts from within and then it spreads.”

Speakers at SPU’s first Human Rights Day Dialogue

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New Laws To Make Hate Speech A Crime In South Africa –Including On Twitter, Whatsapp And Other Social Media

Critics have not been convinced, however

Some extreme examples of how the laws could be twisted were given when the bill was first published – such as basic insults based on someone’s age or occupation being regarded and hate speech and sending someone to jail.

communicates anything to one or more persons in a manner that could reasonably be construed to demonstrate a clear intention to be harmful or to incite harm; and promote or propagate hatred, based on one or more of the grounds.

The NationalAssembly has passed the Prevention and Combating of Hate crimes and Hate Speech Bill, which aims to clamp down on various forms of “hate speech” in SouthAfrica.

The bill was first introduced to the NationalAssembly in 2018 but lapsed in 2019 before being revived the same year The bill had been put on hold pending two Constitutional Court judgments.

Broadly, the bill seeks to address what the government noted is an “increasing number of incidents motivated by prejudices, in the form of hate crimes and hate speech”, and to assist people who are victims of and harmed by such speech.

Specifically, if passed into law, the bill will create the offences of hate crimes and hate speech and put measures in to prevent and combat these offences.

Despite several ongoing significant amendments since being introduced, many controversies continue to surround the proposed law The biggest hangup over the regulations is the large number of characteristics which would be covered under ‘hate speech’.

Under the new laws, hate speech will be defined as a clear intention to be harmful or incite harm, or promote or propagate hatred based on these characteristics: Race; Gender;

Belief;

Culture;

Language; Birth; Disability; HIV status;

Nationality; Gender identity;

The bill makes some provision for this by including the need for a victim impact statement, which should indicate the extent of the harm caused by the alleged hate speech – but the definition of “harm” is equally as broad.

This crime is notable in that it includes any person who intentionally distributes hate speech through an electronic communications system which is accessible by any member of the public; or accessible by, or directed at, a specific person who can be considered to be a victim of hate speech.

The bill states that these laws do not apply if the communication is done “in good faith in the course of engagement”.

Sex, which includes intersex; Colour; Religion;

Ethnic or social origin; Sexual orientation;

Albinism; or On top of the long list of characteristics that could be considered in hate crime or hate speech cases, the bill also covers various channels through which these crimes could be committed.

Occupation or trade.

For the purposes of the laws, harm means “substantial emotional, psychological, physical, social or economic detriment that objectively and severely undermines the human dignity of the targeted individual or groups”.

The new laws define hate crimes and hate speech as follows:

Hate crime

This relates to the following:

Artistic creativity, performance or expression;

Academic or scientific inquiry;

Fair and accurate reporting in the public interest or the publication of any information, commentary, advertisement or notice;

Communicating hate speech, in particular, covers any: display; written, illustrated, visual or other descriptive matter; utterance; representation or reference; or an electronic communication.This means the new laws will explicitly cover social media and online communications.

Opponents and critics of the bill have highlighted the broad and vague nature of the targeted characteristics and the channels through which the so-called ‘hate speech’can be communicated, leaving the laws open to abuse.

Akey example is how ‘belief’is protected under the laws – and many beliefs can be regarded as being in conflict with other protected characteristics.

The bill tries to skirt around this by exempting certain forms of communication from being regarded as hate speech – such as religious expression – so long as the speech does not “advocate hatred that constitutes incitement to cause harm” based on the characteristics.

Ahate crime is an offence recognised under any law –excluding the common law offence of crimen injuria –committed by a person who is motivated by their prejudice or intolerance towards the victim, the victim’s family member or the victim’s association with or support for a group of persons who share one or more of the aforementioned characteristics.

The crime is based on one or more of the actual or perceived characteristics.

Any person who commits this offence is guilty of a hate crime and liable on conviction to a fine or imprisonment for a period not exceeding eight years or to both a fine and imprisonment.

The criminal record of a person who has been convicted must explicitly record the underlying offence as a hate crime.

Any prosecution in terms of this section must be authorised by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Hate speech

The crime of hate speech is any person who intentionally publishes, propagates, advocates, makes available or

Interpretation and proselytising or espousing of any religious conviction, tenet, belief, teaching, doctrine or writings, that does not advocate hatred that constitutes incitement to cause harm, based on one or more of the grounds.

The Director of Public Prosecutions must authorise any prosecution in terms of this section.

The same penalties apply if convicted.

The bill has been opposed by the DemocraticAlliance, the Freedom Front Plus and the ACDP, who have argued that the regulations would be used to limit freedom of speech and abused by politicians.They argued that the bill is addressing something that is already protected by the Constitution.

The bill was adopted by the NationalAssembly, 237 in favour and 79 against.Business Tech

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Deelfontein Siding – Once A Massive Military Field Hospital In The Karoo Veld

If you gave money to the Deelfontein cause, you would know exactly where it was being spent.

There is monogrammed Imperial Yeomanry crockery, there are gardens, a playhouse whereThe Prude’s Progress is one of the productions, a horse racing track, a cricket field, and tennis courts.They even race meerkats for money in the officers’mess!

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At the height of its one-year existence as the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Deelfontein had 800 patients and 200 staff. Excellent fund-raising back in the UK ensured a non-stop supply of essentials and not-soessentials; the boxes of cigars, booze and chocolates that make the world go round when you’re lying sick or wounded in another man’s country

Over a space of 12 months, more than 6,000 patients were treated at this five-star hospital in the veld. Of the 134 who died, 112 succumbed to typhoid – also known as enteric fever

If you know nothing of the backstory of a place, you might as well be half-blind.

The ImperialYeomanry

We leave the little Northern Cape settlement of Richmond as the first morning rays begin to tickle the steeple of the Moederkerk in the main road, and drive west on dirt roads, following the signs to DeAar and Merriman. Our mission for today is to look at what’s left of Deelfontein, once a railside settlement that bustled with the cacophony of matters of war: troop trains leaving, hospital trains arriving, mounted regiments passing through with news from afar, daily traffic in the massive tent city and the occasional outflow of celebration from the officers’mess. This time it’s different. I leave my camera for now and take a seat on a rock at the foot of the hill. Besides the scratch of my wife’s pen on her notebook and the plaintive, rising whistle of a clapper lark, it’s as peaceful as can be.

Suddenly I’m back in 1899, during the Black Week of December 10-17.The thinly stretched colonial forces of the BritishArmy have just lost nearly 3,000 men in the defeats of Stormberg, Magersfontein and Colenso.They are currently no match for the Boers. It’s time to recruit a better class of British soldiers.The call goes out for “eight thousand men who can ride well and shoot straight” in order to overcome the veld skills of the SouthAfrican farmers.

Anew cavalry force, the Imperial Yeomanry, comes into existence. During the course of this bitter colonial war, more than 35,000 men join the 177 ImperialYeomanry companies. Although some are ill-trained

and turn out to be “incompetent, cowardly and drunk”, in the main they are young, fit, sharp-eyed horsemen.

Asmall group of British high society led by Ladies Chesham and Curzon make an impassioned appeal via the newspapers to the British public and raise nearly 175,000 pounds.That’s big money for its time – enough to set up four hospitals with building materials, equipment and all personnel needed.

Tent town in the Karoo veld

There will now be a hospital for wounded and sickYeomanry soldiers in SouthAfrica, staffed by a handpicked selection of top doctors and medical personnel.

The site of the new hospital is a spot in the Karoo veld next to a railway siding called Deelfontein, not far from DeAar and near enough to the theatre of war to be accessible by train. Within the first few months of 1900, Deelfontein has been transformed.

Amassive tent town has sprung up. It’s the kind of medical centre we in the present-day Karoo can only dream of having in our dorpies.

There are operating theatres, recuperation wards, an X-ray hut, a dental unit, an ophthalmology section, a dispensary, a fire station, stables, street lights, waste disposal units, filtered drinking water, an ice-making machine, and a therapeutic “Russian bath”. Eventually, there are 15 ward buildings, each named after one of the donor organisations.The entrance to each ward is named after a particular donor individual, as is each one of the available beds.

I know all this not because I’m some kind of history buff. I am sitting on a rock in the veld in the winter sun with an excellent book on Deelfontein called Yeomen of the Karoo, authored by Rose Willis,Arnold van Dyk and JC “Kay” de Villiers.

I normally get very confused with books on theAnglo-Boer War, often referred to these days as the SouthAfrican War This battle, that skirmish, this victory, that defeat, this treaty, that betrayal and suddenly we’re up in the endless mopane forests of the Far North with Breaker Morant shouting at his execution squad:

“Shoot straight, you bastards!”

The various stages of this war embrace a lot of encounters and a very big piece of geography Sometimes it can get confusing.

ButYeomen sets out the context both here and in the United Kingdom and then, without meandering, takes the reader into the well-curated and told minutiae of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein.

Concerts in the Officers’Mess I read the account of one George McCarthy, who visits Deelfontein during a hectic British party to celebrate the lifting of the Siege of Mafeking.

After champagne, whisky and much feasting, the large group of men and women climb the koppie that looms over presentday me sitting on a rock.They build a huge bonfire and have a sing-song for 30 minutes.Then they descend, in the dark.

“I had the pleasure of escorting a lovely nurse down,” says George in a letter to a friend, “which I did without any broken bones to either of us. We then returned to the officers’mess where we had an impromptu concert till the train arrived at 23:45 to take us back to DeAar.”

Critter racing

I’m dipping intoYeomen as the sun finally forces me into the shade of a nearby pepper tree. The authors have laced this book with so many gripping snippets that the graveyard in front of me seems to bustle with ghosts coming to wondrous life through a story well told.

One of the most eccentric Deelfontein treasures unearthed by the writers comes from a timeless report in a treasured publication calledAnimal Life and the World of Nature:A Magazine of Natural History throughout the World (1902):

“Sport in wartime would seem a paradox, and yet the average Britisher is so devoted to playing at something that, even amid the clash and din of war, he seizes the first available opportunity to get up a match of sorts.The 1st January, 1902, was a day long to be remembered in one of our largest military hospitals in SouthAfrica.

“Deelfontein is about 30 miles south of DeAar Junction, out on the vast karroo in Cape Colony Boer and Briton fraternised that day, and the farmers from far and near, many of them allied by ties of kin and sympathy with the enemy, failed not to accept the kindly invitation of ColonelAT Sloggett and his staff.

“Among the ‘events’of a long and varied programme, quite the most interesting was the animals’race.The gentle lamb and the swift ostrich, the dog and the wily jackal (three varieties), not to omit the small meer-kaat of the veldt, pitted their swiftness and endurance against each other for their own amusement and that of the white

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Nearby Deelfontein Siding you’ll find the remains of a hotel that could have once rivalled The Lord Milner in Matjiesfontein. Image: Chris Marais

and black residents and visitors.

“Roars of laughter greeted the efforts of each owner to urge on his pet.The learned medico with his lamb (which persisted in stopping and gazing plaintively the other way), the brave hunter with his jackal, and the learned ‘padre’driving his meer-kaat contributed fun indeed, with several others.

“Great was the applause when one of the jackals passed the ribbon, an easy first.”

TheYeomanry hotel

We drive down the road to what’s left ofTheYeomanry, a onceclassic Karoo hotel that was inspired by the Lord Milner in Matjiesfontein. Even here, the book in my day pack contains the good oil.

EliasAdamstein was a Karoo smous born along the border between Russia and Germany

En route into the Great Karoo, he chanced upon Matjiesfontein and met the innovative entrepreneur called Jimmy Logan. Elias was duly impressed by the man’s vision and drive. He became a significant ostrich breeder throughout the Karoo and Kalahari crossover regions.At Deelfontein, where he bought a farm,Adamstein built a general dealer and small hotel.

But Deelfontein Siding was seriously off the beaten track compared to Matjiesfontein, so the people who frequented Adamstein’s hotel (first named the Deelfontein Hotel and then theYeomanry Hotel) were mainly local farmers, the odd prospector and some overland travellers passing by on the train or on horseback.

No matter The hotel offered a five-star menu three times a day, there was a popular bar, a butchery, a unique watersoftening system and bathrooms with hot and cold running water

Ghosts of departed soldiers

One of Elias’sons, Julius “JJ” Adamstein, eventually took over the management of the hotel, where he used to play his violin for recuperating soldiers.

“And on the days when there were no guests, when the lonely little hotel stood empty and only the ghosts of departed soldiers roamed the plains, the mournful, melancholic sound of Julius’ violin could be heard sighing plaintively across the Karoo veld,” say the authors.

The hotel remained open and in Adamstein hands, with JJ’s nephew Julius living alone in the “vast, empty hotel”.

As we prepare to depart this nowfascinating location, we notice a more modern ruin between the cemetery and the hotel.This was once the Deelfontein Post Office That Never Was, andYeomen has the story:

“Locals say that one day a train arrived, off-loaded building

supplies and puffed off. Intrigued, they wondered just who had ordered so much building material and why. Before they could even ponder the answer, a second train arrived and offloaded some work crews.”

They built a post office (much like the hospital and the hotel, I guess) in the middle of nowhere. It turned out that the building had been meant for Dealesville, not Deelfontein. It never opened, and was subsequently stripped and vandalised.

Awhile later, the authors send me a selection of archived images taken from the book. One of them looks like a Monty Python sketch, with operating theatre staff pretending to amputate a patient’s limb.

Even in the dark times of war, the human spirit will find its lighter side.And that’s one of my takeaway lessons from a day at Deelfontein. DM/ML

A posed photograph of an operation in progress at a hospital theatre in Deelfontein. Image: Courtesy of the Van Dyk ABO Trust Collection

The late Percy Moss, lost in memories at the Deelfontein cemetery. Image: Chris Marais

The most significant remaining ruin at the nearby Yeomanry Hotel: the welcoming portico. Image: Chris Marais

One of the skeletal trees that stand guard over the Deelfontein gravesite. Image: Chris Marais

The Northern Cape is known for a diverse flora and fauna species. Nieuwoudtville is a renowned tourist attraction due to the wide selection of indigenous flowers. The small town received about 22mm of rain in March, which was enough to ensure that the Brunsvigias will flower. By mid-April they should be in full bloom.Individuals interested in walking around the area, will be permitted to climb the ladder bordering the Hantam National Botanical Garden and the Wild Flower Reserve.