Hadeda News - 03 February 2023

You Can No Longer Sell Crypto In S.A. With Dodgy Numbers, Under New Ad Rules

SouthAfrica's Code of Advertising Practice, used by theAdvertising Regulatory Board (ARB) to ban specific ads or sanction advertisers who overstep, now has a specific section to deal with crypto assets.

And it says those selling bitcoin and its fellow crypto tokens have to be very clear and unambiguous about the risk of losing money

The section on crypto joins specific rules for a long list of other industries, including workfrom-home schemes, charities, property, and cellphone services, which may pose unique risks to consumers if improperly promoted.

The crypto rules were created alongside companies in the industry, lead by Luno, which said it wants buyers to enter the crypto market with their eyes

open.

Membership of theARB is voluntary, and advertisers can choose not to be bound by its rules. But the body has the power to direct its media members to not accept specific ads, to close off distribution even if an advertiser will not comply with its ruling.

Under the new rules, any advert for crypto must carry words at least similar to "investing in crypto assets may result in the loss of capital".That warning may not be offset by the overall message of the ad.

Other rules hold that:

any crypto asset or service must be explained "in a way that is easily understandable for the intended target audience” benefits and features must be presented balanced against risks any claim about returns or forecasts must be backed up by evidence, with explanations of

how forecasts are calculated a reference to past performance must include the warning that it is not indicative of future performance advertising can't promote borrowing money to buy crypto assets, unless the advertiser is a registered credit provider If social-media influencers or other ambassadors are used in

promotion, they must disclose payment or freebies and steer clear of deception, as in any advertising under general rules. But they are also specifically required, when it comes to crypto tokens, to "share factual information only" – and they may not make promises about returns or benefits. - Business Insider

Vir wie skryf jy?

Wenke van Welbekende Gepubliseerde Skrywer - Annerle Barnard

van MuchAdo about Nothing nie. Die groter meerderheid 13-jarige seuns sal hou van Fast & Furious, Percy Jackson,Avengers: Endgame en moontlik ook Star Wars.

Is jy in voeling met jou teikengehoor?

Die beste manier om jou teikengehoor te bepaal, is om te kyk na die films wat hulle aandag trek en ook na die boeke wat hulle lees. Weereens: wat is die belangstelling van die groter aantal persone? Daar is 13-jariges wat van MuchAdo about Nothing sal hou, maar die groter hoeveelheid? Beslis nie.

met die van volwassenes. JJ het in ‘n futuristiese krotbuurt grootgeword en sy taalgebruik moes by sy karakter pas.

Ek moes ook baie nadink oor die kleredrag en haarstyl van elke karakter

Is dit maklik om vir tieners en kinders te skryf? Probeer self en laat weet my

Wanneer jy skryf, dink aan die volgende:

Woordeskat: is jou woordeskat in lyn met die van jou teikengehoor?

Ten eerste skryf jy vir jouself en daarom moet jy skryf wat jyself graag sal wil lees, maar wanneer jy ‘n manuskrip aanpak met die hoop om dit te publiseer, moet ‘n mens besef dat jy vir ‘n teikenmark/gehoor skryf.

‘n Uitgewer is per slot van rekening ‘n besigheid en sal daarom slegs ‘n boek uitgee indien hulle reken dat daar ‘n aanvraag na hierdie spesifieke boek sal wees.

Ken jou teikenmark

Om hierdie rede is dit belangrik om jou teikenmark te verstaan en te weet wat die teikenmark graag lees. Vele volwassenes is mal oor Jane Austen se boeke. Beteken dit dat die gemiddelde tiener daarvan gaan hou?

Die heel beste raad wat ek enigiemand kan gee: lees so veel as moontlik in die genre waarin jy wil skryf. Indien jy nie hou van die gewilde boeke wat vir daardie teikenmark geskryf word nie, moet jy moontlik ‘n ander teikengehoor oorweeg.

Selfs al reken jy dat alle volwassenes meer Shakespeare

behoort te lees en dat sy dramas daarom opnuut bemark behoort te word, beteken dit nie dat jou poging gaan slaag nie.As die lesers nie aan die idee byt nie …

Ten eerste moet jy besluit watter genre vir jóú gaan werk. Daarna moet jy besluit vir watter ouderdom jy wil skryf. Wanneer jy eersgenoemde weet, moet jy uitvind waarin jou teikengehoor belangstel. Onthou, die geografiese en ekononomie sal ook ‘n invloed op jou teikenmark hê.

Indien jy wonder oor als wat ek sê, dink aan films. Watter tipe- en ouderdom gehoor sal deur die volgende films getrek word?

Fast & Furious

MuchAdo about Nothing

Percy Jackson

Elizabeth I

Star Wars

Avengers: Endgame

Vra jouself nou weer af: vir wie skryf jy?

Iemand wat slegs van kunsfilms hou, sal moontlik nie lus wees vir ‘n Marvel-film nie en die gemiddelde

13-jarige seun gaan beslis nie hou

My teikengehoor is tieners. Ek het ‘n goeie begrip wat vir tieners belangrik is, waarvan hulle hou en waarmee hulle stoei. Hulle taalgebruik is ook baie interessant. Benewens sleng, het jy al opgelet dat ‘n tiener jou in een asem op tien verskillende maniere kan vertel presies hoe onnosel jy nou eintlik is? Volwassenes noem ‘n ding een maal.Tieners herhaal goed op verskillende wyses.

Ten tye van die skryf van Sweepslag en Sindikaat moes ek voortdurend oplet na tieners se gedrag, kleredrag, taalgebruik, belangstellings, ens.

Spel het sy eie uitdagings gehad, want Lukas Brandt is nie die gemiddelde tiener nie. Sy gedrag moes grotendeels ooreenstem met die van ‘n tiener, maar nie sy taalgebruik en kleredrag nie. JJ se taalgebruik moes tipies tiener wees, maar Jolene het by robotte grootgeword. Haar taalgebruik stem dus nie ooreen met Lukas s’n nie en ook nie met JJ s’n nie.

Ek het vanaf die uitgangspunt gewerk dat robotte nie figuurlike taalgebruik sal kan interpreteer nie, daarom maak Jolene nie daarvan gebruik nie. Lukas het hoofsaaklik tussen volwassenes grootgeword en daarom stem sy taalgebruik ooreen

Karakters: sal jou teikengehoor met jou karakters kan identifiseer?

Temas: is die temas wat jy aanraak in lyn met die van jou teikengehoor?

Tempo: is die tempo/pas waarteen jou storie beweeg in lyn met die van jou teikengehoor?

Kompleksiteit:Tess Gerritsen is ‘n mediese dokter. Hoe skryf sy haar krimi’s sodat Jan Publiek dit steeds kan verstaan?

Skryfstyl: Gaan almal aanklank by Franz Kafka se stem, narratief en beeldspraak vind? (Ek eet my tekkies met sole en al indien dit die geval blyk te wees. Hy was egter ‘n uitmuntende skrywer!) Indien jou teikengehoor nie by jou skryfstyl aanklank vind nie, beteken dit nie noodwendig dat daar fout is met jou skryfstyl nie. Dit beteken moontlik dat jy jou teikengehoor verkeerd geïdentifiseer het.

Inhoud: is die inhoud van jou boek geskik vir jou teikengehoor? Indien iemand my gevra het of tieners oor vampiere sou wou lees, sou ek gedink het dat dit gek is, maar kyk net hoe gewild is Stephenie Meyer seTwilight-reeks. Kyk waarvan hou jou teikenmark! Wat lees hulle? Na watter films kyk hulle? Sal sekstonele en vloekwoorde in boeke geskik wees vir ouderdom nege tot twaalf? Nee.

Vir wie skryf jy?

Gaan doen jou navorsing. Lekker skryf!

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To raise funds for the construction of our 551.95m fence surrounding our Multipurpose Centre we are hosting a Valentines Gala on the 14th of Feb. 2023

Date:

14 February 2023, 7pm - 10pm

Venue: Koda

Multipurpose Centre, 198 Leeukop Street, Rosedale, Upington

Price: R200 per ticket/ person

Theme: Black Tie: Red & Black

Smaller Wine Grape Crop Expected, Possibly The 4th Lowest In 17 Years

Vinpro, a non-profit company which represents close to 2 600 SouthAfrican wine producers, said in a statement on Wednesday that in the run-up to the 2023 wine grape harvest, which runs from January toApril, the second of four crop estimates by viticulturists and producer cellars indicated a smaller crop than 2022.The estimate is also down from the first one published in December 2022.

“The crop is estimated to be smaller at this early stage, maybe even the fourth smallest crop in 17 years,” it said. Vinpro is not alone in predicting a smaller grape crop.

The SouthAfricanTable Grape Industry in December forecast that overall harvest volumes would be 15.1% lower than the figures recorded in the 2021/2022 season.

Conrad Schutte, the manager of the Vinpro team of viticulturists who issue the crop estimate together with industry body SA Wine Industry Information and Systems, said the season was characterised by mostly average cold units and fewer snow deposits on mountain peaks than in previous seasons.

"However, it was still enough to meet the vineyards' cold needs. Winter temperatures were mostly warmer in all the wine-

producing regions and rainfall was significantly less except for the Northern Cape," he said.

Vinpro said a warmer spring and dry soil conditions resulted in budding occurring earlier The evenness of budding was satisfactory, but for certain cultivars such as Chardonnay, budding was uneven in some areas. Flowering occurred earlier than normal in most vineyards and large differences occurred during the set of cultivars.

During the second week of December the season changed notably when downpours brought welcome relief to the mostly hot and dry season.The rain eased pressure on irrigation scheduling since groundwater levels were below normal and growers could not properly apply irrigation scheduling due to load shedding.Along with the rain, there was sporadic hail damage in Paarl, Worcester, and Robertson.

Fungal disease pressure, particularly powdery and downy mildew, was exacerbated by the wet conditions and growers had to adjust spray programmes accordingly. Damage also occurred to roads and other infrastructure.

"The decrease in the estimate is mainly attributed to vineyard uprooting, especially the Northern Cape, Olifants River,

and Swartland," Schutte said.

“Furthermore, high disease pressure, especially the resultant powdery mildew infections in the Northern Cape, Olifants River, Swartland, Paarl, Stellenbosch, Cape South Coast, and CapeTown, will negatively impact the crop size. Heat peaks in December and January also caused sunburn, especially in the Swartland, Worcester, and Breedekloof. Across all regions, mainly the intensively irrigated areas, the lack of electricity needed for irrigation pumps to work will further negatively impact the crop size."

However, wine grape production in the Klein Karoo is estimated to be higher than the 2022 season thanks to young vineyards coming into production, and promising water levels.

Vinpro said the next crop estimate by viticulturists and

producer cellars would be released in the third week of February

Meanwhile, the SouthAfrican Table Grape Industry released its second crop estimate for the 2022/2023 table grape season, saying the industry expects 2022/2023 volumes inspected for export to decrease by approximately 8.1% compared with the figures quoted in the first crop estimate published on 31 October 2022.The revised crop estimate anticipates that approximately 66 million cartons (4.5kg equivalent) would be inspected for export, with the upper limit projected at 103% and the lower limit projected at 97% of this figure.

Export volumes were expected to align very closely with South Africa’s five-year average, which should result in export markets receiving sufficient volumes of good quality grapes from the country, it said. - IOL

ESKOM paid R9.7bn in penalties in terms of a takeor-pay agreement with Exxaro Resources, according to Bloomberg News which cited a presentation by the power utility to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts in SouthAfrica’s parliament onTuesday

Eskom told Scopa that the penalties related to coal that should have been delivered to its Medupi power station.

More penalty payments were

Take-or-pay Coal Penalties To Exxaro – With More To Come

in the offing as a coal stockpile at Medupi stood at 17.6 million tons at the end of November, the utility said.

“Eskom will, thus, incur further take-or-pay penalties if Medupi Power Station cannot burn the minimum contractual volumes.”

Medupi and Kusile are the newest coal-fired facilities owned by Eskom, but delays and defects at the plants have stifled their nearly 9,600 megawatts of combined capacity, leaving the nation

more vulnerable to power outages, said Bloomberg.

Eskom also reported that negotiations for Kusile’s coal supply with Seriti Resources are advancing and the parties agreed to a three-year supply deal as they work on a decade-long contract, said the newswire.

Theoretically, Eskom has about 45,000MW in capacity but just over 20,000MW are out of action owing to breakdowns in its fleet,

predominantly coal-fired. It normally supplements coal fired power with electricity from diesel-fired open cycle gas turbines but a shortage of funds means it has limited amounts of the fuel.

News24 said earlier this week Eskom is seeking about R5.9bn in diesel rebates and needs R7.5bn in funds to procure enough diesel to operate its open cycle gas turbines that would stave off higher loadshedding stages until March 30.

Fizzy drinks are a popular beverage choice in SouthAfrica, but health concerns regarding their sugar content and the implementation of the health promotion levy (HPL) have changed the soft drink industry in the country

There are dozens of different types and flavours of fizzy drinks to be found in SouthAfrica, and the country has a strong culture of socializing, with many events and gatherings taking place at which soft drinks are consumed.

According to Statistica, as of 2023, the SouthAfrican soft drinks market is worth $3.26 billion (R56.3 billion). By 2027, 11% of spending and 3% of volume consumption in the soft drinks segment will be attributable to out-of-home consumption (bars and restaurants).

However, due to its popularity and the addictive nature and effects sugar has on individuals, fizzy drinks came under fire in SouthAfrica with the implementation of the health promotion levy (HPL) in 2018.

The tax, colloquially known as the “sugar tax”, was an attempt by the SouthAfrican government to address the country’s runaway diabetes epidemic and the high rates of obesity that fuel it.

According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) latest statistics, more than a quarter of SouthAfricans are obese. In 2018, diabetes was the secondlargest cause of death among SouthAfricans after tuberculosis. However, the implemented tax and increasingly health-conscious SouthAfrican consumers have impacted the soft drink market.

Currently, the sugar tax is charged on non-alcoholic sugary beverages with more than 4g of sugar content per 100 ml – which

works out to about 10% of the cost per litre of sugary drinks.

This pushed producers to cut the sugar in their soft drinks to avoid the tax and hand off the price increases to consumers by hiking retail prices.The combination of the two has cut sugar intake in the country by nearly a third.

The first scientific evaluation on the impact of the tax in South Africa, conducted in 2019, showed that consumers were already buying 28% fewer sugary drinks.This has likely changed even further in 2023, as many consumers opt for low-sugar or sugar-free options or switch to healthier alternatives.

BusinessTech looked at over 50 fizzy drinks available in South Africa to see precisely how much sugar is contained in each serving (per 100 ml).

We found that 36 fizzy drinks in the country have a sugar content above the government’s threshold of 4g per 100 ml, while 23 have adjusted in sugar content to be under the threshold or slightly above.

Surprisingly, the sugar king of fizzy drinks is Woolworths’ Passionade sparkling fruit drink, with 13.4g of sugar per 100 ml.

This is then followed by Schweppes’Dry Lemon, White Graptiser, Woolworths’Ginger Beer, and Red Grapetiser in fifth. Each with 12.8, 12.5, and 12.3, respectively.

On the other end of the spectrum, Coca-Cola has done a fair bit in reducing its sugar contents, as it holds the most spots with the least amount of sugar per 100ml.

Sprite has the least, with only 3.1g per 100 ml; its Fanta

Passion fruit is second with 3.4; and Sparletta Iron BrewandTwist Granadilla is tied in third with 3.5g per 100 ml.

Twist Lemon, Coca-Cola’s Fanta Orange, Fanta Grape, Sparletta Sparberry, Pine Nut, andApple Rush are tied for fifth place – with a sugar content of 3.6g per 100 ml.

The table below shows all the fizzy drinks we looked at and their respective sugar contents.The drinks are listed in descending order based on sugar content per 100 ml.

Brand Soft Drink Sugar content (g)

Woolworths Passionade 13.4

Schweppes Dry Lemon 12.8

Appletiser White Grapetiser 12.5

Woolworths Ginger Beer

Failed’: Danish Newspaper Apologizes For Its COVID Coverage

ADanish newspaper has apologized to its readers for not questioning the government’s data and narratives more throughout the first two years of the pandemic.

The Ekstra Bladet, founded in 1904, said it should have done more due diligence in examining the government’s data and conclusions before reporting them:

“ForALMOSTtwo years, we - the press and the population - have been almost hypnotically preoccupied with the authorities' daily coronatal,” wrote Bladet journalist Brian Weichardt. “THE CONSTANTmental alertness has worn out tremendously on all of us.That is why we - the pressmust also take stock of our own efforts.And we have failed.”

In the mea culpa, which went viral onTwitter earlier this month, Weichardt suggested the newspaper should have asked more questions about how public health officials were tabulating data:

“WE HAVE NOTbeen vigilant enough at the garden gate when the authorities were required to answer what it actually meant that people are hospitalized with corona and not because of corona. Because it makes a difference.Abig difference. Exactly, the official hospitalization numbers have been shown to be 27 percent higher than the actual figure for how many there are in the hospital, simply because they have corona. We only know that now

OF COURSE, it is first and foremost the authorities who are responsible for informing the population correctly, accurately and honestly The figures for how many are sick and died of corona should, for obvious reasons, have been published long ago…”

Journalists should have avoided adopting the state’s rhetoric and narrative on vaccination and Denmark’s hospitals, particularly the superlatives that accompanied them, Weichardt stated.

“The vaccines are consistently referred to as our 'superweapon'. And our hospitals are called 'super hospitals,'" he wrote. “Nevertheless, these superhospitals are apparently maximally pressured, even though almost the entire population is armed with a superweapon."

He continued:

"Even children have been vaccinated on a huge scale,

which has not been done in our neighboring countries.

IN OTHER WORDS, there is something here that does not deserve the term 'super'. Whether it's the vaccines, the hospitals, or a mixture of it all, is every man's bid. But in any case, the authorities' communication to the population in no way deserves the term 'super.'”

An Independent Monitor of Power

The apology is an important reminder that the traditional role of journalism has been “an independent monitor of power,” not a mouthpiece for power

“Journalism has an unusual capacity to serve as watchdog over those whose power and position most affect citizens,” the American Press Institute (API) explains. “It may also offer voice to the voiceless.”

For this reason, theAPI says, it is imperative that journalists not become “seduced by sources” or “intimidated by power.”This means not simply regurgitating the data and words of politicians and bureaucrats, but analyzing them critically

Throughout the pandemic, this often has not happened—and it’s a problem that goes well beyond Denmark.

In the United States, media have tended to view the utterances of Dr Anthony Fauci, the White House’s top medical advisor, as a kind of gospel. MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace could have been speaking for many when she called herself “a Fauci groupie.”

The NIH head has been featured on more magazine covers than can be easily counted, saw his life the topic of a Disney biopic, and (as of June of last year) had done no fewer than 400 media events—even though his role is not a public relations one.

Most media have been shy to question or criticize Fauci, despite his pandemic flip-flops, and are content to take his words on faith. Some journalists even appear to have published articles pushing back on narratives problematic to Fauci’s public messaging at his request.

Fauci himself has taken a hardline approach to those critical of his pandemic strategies.

“....they’re really criticizing science,” Fauci said in November, “because I represent science.”

‘They CallTech Support’ How did media go from questioning those in power to

parroting them?

One answer can be found in an article written by Michael S. Schudson, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, that explores the role of journalism in liberal democracies.

Schudson, like theAmerican Press Institute, says the first job of journalism is to report the truth (“to put reality first,” he writes). The problem, he says, is that many today cannot agree on what is true in an age that, for better or worse, is increasingly relativistic.

“Most college sophomores in their first philosophy class will walk in with the argument that ‘it’s all relative’and that ‘that’s just your opinion!’— no research, argument, or discussion can alter our preconceptions,” writes Schudson. “That’s why we call them sophomoric.”

Students don’t truly believe “everything is relative” though, and their actions show this, Schudson explains.

“If their computer malfunctions, they do not pray that it be fixed by divine intervention, nor do they normally kick the computer,” he says. “Instead, they call tech support — they turn to experts.”

Experts, Schudson seems to be saying, is where people and good journalists will go to find out what is real.

“When reality insistently knocks at the door, the premature commitment to ‘everything is relative’is left behind,” he says. “Relativist or modernist or postmodernist, left or right — all will seek out experts.”

The State’s Dance With ‘Court Intellectuals’

Schudson’s suggestion that the experts are the source of truth and good journalism seems flawed for two reasons. First, he doesn’t seem to realize that this suggestion creates an obvious tension with journalism’s other primary goal—to monitor and hold accountable those in power, not serve as a mouthpiece for them.

Second, Schudson, somewhat naively, seems to overlook the experts’proximity to political power. Perhaps he simply doesn’t see this as a problem.

After all, there is a tendency to view public officials and experts as altruistic and acting solely in the public interest. Public choice theory (and common sense), however, suggests this view is also naïve; individuals don’t shed self-interest simply because they

work for or on behalf of the government. (See more on public choice theory below)

Schudson isn’t wrong that journalists must rely on experts to help us explain the world, which is complex. But to see “the experts” as the ultimate source of truth for journalists is a bizarre philosophy, and it overlooks the lengths the state and experts will go to advance their own interests, working in tandem.

In colorful language, the economist Murray Rothbard explained how this lewd dance between the state and “Court Intellectuals”—experts, professors, journalists, etc.—works.

“Since its rule is exploitative and parasitic, the State must purchase the alliance of a group of ‘Court Intellectuals,’whose task is to bamboozle the public into accepting and celebrating the rule of its particular State,” Rothbard wrote in a 1976 essay. “In exchange for their continuing work of apologetics and bamboozlement, the Court Intellectuals win their place as junior partners in the power, prestige, and loot extracted by the State apparatus from the deluded public.”

When journalists say, “'Experts say' has become a telltale sign of propaganda," they are referring to the phenomenon described by Rothbard.

None of this is to impugn the expertise of experts. (Few, to my knowledge, question Dr. Fauci’s expertise as an epidemiologist. The primary complaint against Fauci is that he has gone far beyond his role as a medical advisor.)

It’s merely to say journalists (and citizens) should recognize their proximity to power and influence, and realize that experts, like politicians, don’t shed self-interest simply because of the work they do.The expert's data and comments should be scrutinized, dissected, and discussed, not treated as gospel or used as prima facie evidence for coercive policies. (As the economist Ludwig von Mises once pointed out, there is no “ought in science”; science can only tell us what is.)

Ekstra Bladet, Denmark’s newspaper, appears to have gleaned some of these lessons during the pandemic.

Let’s hope more news outlets around the world do the same. Fee.org

Hippos Sets His Sights On Saving Rhinos And ‘fallen Stars’

PC Ferreira, a Karoo farmer and owner of the Karoo Gariep Conservancy between Colesberg and Hanover, embodies theAfrikaans expression, ‘‘n Boer maak ‘n plan.’ In his case, the Boer or sustainable farmer who reintroduced hippos in the Northern Cape is making several plans – and his next big project is to establish rhinos on his farm and to invite tourists to spend a day with a rhino.

Ferreira is also the driver of the Karoo Seekoei River Nature Reserve initiative, a conservation plan including 450,000 hectares of land belonging to 57 owners along the river in a reserve. For Ferreira it is not only about nature conservation and tourism, however. He has also established three non-profit organisations in a project melding 16 towns around Hanover into a tourism route. He is working on a safe house for troubled ‘fallen stars’, a skills training facility, a heritage hub for the San people…. and a plan to use beehives to help street kids. Ferreira told BizNews that he believed that the Karoo is one of the last safe havens for rhinos and that you could give him a list of reasons why things shouldn’t work, but “there is always the possibility that it can work”.

– Linda vanTilburg

The project to bring hippos back to the Northern Cape

The first big thing for me was to bring the hippos back to the Northern Cape. In 1778, we shot the last hippos in the Northern Cape – about 200 years ago –this was Governor Van Plettenberg from the Netherlands. He was the guy that shot as many as 26 hippos per day in the mid 1700s and the one thing leads to the next thing. So, I got to know SANPARKS, I got to know the formal government structures of

conservation, got some good contacts and good relationships going. We managed to bring the hippos back.That opened up the knowledge of what happened on this river way back in those early days when they first moved from the VOC to claim some land in the Karoo. This was 1730 when the first six guys claimed some land and all the harsh things that happened like in the rest of the country. I read about one morning when 162 San were shot and killed. These are the things that change your views and your visions of life and the way you see life and it had a huge impact on me as a believer, a Christian. Later on, I proclaimed my land as the Karoo Gariep Nature reserve.Acouple of years later we proclaimed the Hanover Aardvark Nature Reserve, which is on another property, and we’ve developed all the houses on the farm as guesthouses and lodges to the point where it’s now done. It was a thirty-year project and the hippos are back there. One of the other things I really wanted to do was to bring Buffalo back. We’ve got a nice strong herd of about 27 now

Spend a day-in-the-life of a Karoo rhino, with 10% of the money for local communities

The next big plan is rhinos for which we had our fence inspection only two days ago. So, the fences are up, I’m quite sure I’ll get my permits to bring them back. Maybe for the first time ever, I’ll be offering the public the opportunity to come and look after the rhinos, to be my eyes on the ground. So, you will be able to buy from me – I don’t want to call it the antipoaching experience – I’d rather call it a day in the life of a Karoo rhino. I want to reinvent that old wheel.At this stage, the whole poaching industry is playing on our emotions. We can’t do anything with rhinos. We can’t

shoot or eat or cull them. So, there’s no use, there is no income. I believe we need to add, we need to put a value on a live rhino, which I like to think I can develop into a tourism product. I can sell to my agents a product which will allow them to get clients to come and spend the day with the rhino.And they will pay me R2,500 for that experience, 10% of which I will give to my local community, my farm workers, who are normally targeted by the poachers just to get information on the whereabouts of these animals. So, once I do this for the first time ever, I think, there will be a value on a live rhino.The money will flow in from the formal tourism industry. We won’t go out and beg for money, and some of the money will end up with our poor black communities and they will, for the first time, make money out of a live rhino. There are all these nice projects going on that I am very excited about.

Rhinos are better protected in the Karoo – there’s no place to hide

I think the Karoo is one of the last safe havens. In Gauteng, up along the Kruger National Park, you walk five metres and you’re behind a bush or rock. In the Karoo you have to walk eight kilometres before you find a bush or a rock.There’s no place to hide. If I see a helicopter, it must be on my property. If you see a helicopter in Gauteng, it can be over 20 properties. So, we have large properties in the Northern Cape. I don’t want to say it’s a foolproof thing. For sure not. I might have the ability to have people with my animals 24 hours a day, all day and I might have the ability to make those guys pay for being with the rhinos. It’s a nice experience. It’s a nice purpose.

Proposal for a 450,000-hectare

Karoo Seekoei River Nature Reserve is gaining traction, could get protection from fracking.

The Seekoei River Nature Reserve is the river I live on. It’s a 300-kilometre river, starting at New Bethesda and it runs into the Orange River at the VanderKloof Dam.Then it runs through 75 title deeds that belong to about 50 landowners. The total land surface of those properties is about 450,000 hectares – close to half a million

hectares. We know that South Africa wants to proclaim or wants to have about 20 to 25% of its land surface under formal protection.That’s with all the other countries of Commonwealth nations and in the Northern Cape, we need about 6 million hectares to do so. I don’t think the government has the money to buy those properties and if they can buy it, they can’t manage it. So, we do have a problem and that’s why I’d like to think we can build a bridge between the local farming community and government. There are some perks. If I proclaim my land as a nature reserve, I might ask the government to exclude me from paying land taxes.That’s a big plus for me. It might protect my property from fracking and other mining operations. It might be easier for me to go and market myself as a nature reserve or part of a bigger nature reserve to the world than just marketing a little guesthouse in the Northern Cape. So, the idea is to persuade farmers as much as possible on this river and try to ask them to proclaim nature reserves so they won’t lose anything.You keep on farming under a management plan…. Those 50 farms could generate about R200 million a year out of wool and I don’t think you have to lose any of that.

Ahouse of safety for ‘fallen stars’and secure training facilities

I’d like to stay in this country and to be able to stay here you must make a difference and it has to come from our side. It can’t come from their side.They’re not the guys with the money They’re not the guys with the education. So, I would say the guy with the money, the guy with the education, the guy with the resources, it will be his responsibility to initiate the changes. We need to educate. We need to save lives.The first thing which is important that I would love to see soon is what I call a house of safety And I’d like to roll this out over 16 towns. So, I had my meetings with the police departments and the social development departments, and they will support [the initiative]….Above a certain level in society, the social grant system works wonderfully, but below a certain level of development and if there’s no self-esteem, there’s

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no heritage, if there’s no identity, then I think you can fall prey That’s what’s going on in the small towns of the Karoo. It’s a problem for the police, it’s a problem for the social system, it’s a problem for everybody and it’s also a problem for that specific person, whom we like to refer to as a fallen star. We might not have enough of those places where you can take somebody for one night and say listen, I’ve got a place where you go, stay alive, you won’t get raped, you won’t get robbed and tomorrow morning at eight, then we can process your case. So, I’d like to

get that off the ground as soon as possible. Ahouse of safety With that comes a secure training facility. If you pick somebody up off the street and you invest money in saving that life and trying to build that person, you need to give them the skill as well.You need to give hope.You need to try to break the cycle. So, a skills training facility for me is crucial. I think that’s where I will position myself in the next ten years, trying to raise funds for these projects. Those two projects will cost £2 million rent each per year to train 10 to 15 kids every five months or so. I’m talking to a lot of

people and there’s a lot of movement. It hasn’t happened yet, but I’m quite sure it will happen. It’s like the hippos, it’s something good.

Beehives to get kids off the street

If you live in a small town like Hanover and you become one of my members on the Karoo Oasis route, that means you will have a guesthouse or tourism activity Well, I will bring four hives to your lodge, and we will go in once a year and harvest that honey. We will label it and you will sell it in your lodge to the community at the premium price.

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I will take that money back from you and I will give it to the little shop in the street where most people stand and beg. If anybody in the community sees anybody begging, you can send that person into the store and say, listen, there’s already R10,000 worth of bread and milk waiting for you. If you walk into the little store, the store owner who is now a partner will give you a garbage bag and you will first have to go and clean the street, fill up the garbage bag. Once you hand in the garbage bag, you will get the bread and milk.These are the ways that I would love to use nature. - Biz News

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Roodepan SAPS Raids Scrapmetal Business Premises, Confiscates Alleged Stolen Items And Arrest Suspect

Members of Roodepan Police Station arrested a 65 year old male on Saturday, 28 January 2023 for possession of suspected stolen property after conducting compliance inspections at his premises.

The team responded to information of possible illegal business dealings at a scrapmetal business in Eagle Street in Roodepan and activated a normal compliance inspection at the said premises.

Thirty three (33) copper cobra T-Joints and 10 copper cobra taps to the value of R20 325.00 were confiscated.The suspect is expected to appear in the

Kimberley Magistrate’s Court soon, on a charge of possession of stolen property.

The Roodepan Station Commander, Colonel Pieter Jansen lauded the SAPS members for the meticulous and professional search and seizure that led to the arrest and recovery of suspected stolen property. He further said that the Roodepan Community had been complaining for some time about assailants that had been busy destroying their tap infrastructures, this arrest will serve as a deterent to those that seem to be a market for this kind of crimes.

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Last week the Royal Astronomical Society awarded the MeerKATteam the 2023 GroupAchievementAward ‘for a series of spectacular observations in radio astronomy, the highlight being the images of the Galactic Centre region and the spectacular radio bubbles’.

There is a picture on Dr Fernando Camilo’s office wall of a smug President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is perhaps being a bit of a show-off.

Asmiling Ramaphosa is standing next to his subdued Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, and behind the two statesmen is a blown-up photograph of a South African success story

What it is, is the clearest-yet image of the centre of the Milky Way, which is a good 25,000 light years from the Karoo, in the heartland of SouthAfrica, from where the MeerKATradio telescope snapped it.

That image came about when Camilo and his team decided to take the then new MeerKATradio telescope for a spin and pointed it to a corner of the southern sky.

In the past, other radio telescopes had battled to penetrate the dust and gas that shrouded the centre of the Milky Way

Money shot

But the MeerKATteam got the money shot. What they achieved was an image drawn not by light, but by radio and x-rays, of a black hole and strange filamentlike structures.

Five years later, and that image, says Camilo, is still the clearest shot of the centre of our galaxy

But what Camilo and his colleagues didn’t know then was that those 64 antennas staring up at Karoo sky also captured something else.

The scientists analysing the same data that produced the shot of the centre of the Milky Way found giant radio bubbles. Bubbles so big they stretched 1,400 light years across … and they had never been spotted before.

“The shape and symmetry of what we have observed strongly suggest that a staggeringly powerful event happened a few million years ago, very near our galaxy’s central black hole,” declared astronomer William

Cotton, one the team that observed the phenomenon, when the discovery was announced back in 2019.

Politicians have used MeerKAT’s achievements for photo opportunities and just over a week ago it was science’s turn to acknowledge the achievements of the team that has been making some remarkable findings.

2023 GroupAchievementAward

The RoyalAstronomical Society awarded the MeerKATteam the 2023 GroupAchievementAward

“for a series of spectacular observations in radio astronomy, the highlight being the images of the Galactic Centre region and the spectacular radio bubbles”.

“It is nice to have a stamp of recognition from the professional societies that was really very cool,” says Camilo, who is chief scientist at the SouthAfrican RadioAstronomy Observatory

July will mark the fifth anniversary of the inauguration of MeerKATand, for those working on the project, it has been a busy, exciting time.

So far the scientists involved with MeerKAThave published 180 journal articles.

“Those 180 papers are a small fraction of all the data that has already been collected, there are hundreds of papers in the pipeline that will come out in the next couple of years,” explains Camilo.

One of the team members involved with MeerKATin the beginning was astronomer Dr Tana Joseph.

She likes to borrow an oddball phrase from the former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, when she talks of MeerKAT

“It is all about the unknown knowns; that is what captivates me. We are seeing those unknowns, and that is fun and so cool,” she laughs.

MeerKATis chalking up discoveries that astronomers didn’t know about.

“The theory has to maybe catch up with the observations,” she adds.

Joseph is quick to point out that the team behind these discoveries comprises a whole ecosystem of software engineers, big data scientists and other technicians who make sure that the radio telescope keeps eavesdropping on the universe.

And those new discoveries are set to continue, especially as MeerKATis in the middle of an upgrade.

The telescope is getting 16 new antennas.And with 80 antennas, MeerKATwill be able to see even further and clearer

If all goes to plan, the new additions will come online next year or in early 2025.

With those extra ears pointed to the sky listening for radio waves, Camilo explains, MeerKATwill become ideally suited to the hunt for hydrogen, an element that is abundant throughout the universe but is very difficult to find. “Hydrogen is the simplest element in the universe. It is the fuel that makes up stars, but the gas is very hard to detect out there in space. It actually emits these very, very faint radio waves, which makes MeerKAT the best telescope in the world

for detecting it right now,” he says.

Development spin-off

As the project has grown since its inception more than a decadeand-a-half ago, there has been another spin-off, away from the radio-wave pictures of far-away galaxies.

“We not only built a telescope, but my colleagues here spent a lot of effort in developing the team here in SouthAfrica, and now, 15 years later, from a point when we just had a handful of astronomers, there are now dozens and dozens spread around universities across South Africa,” says Camilo.

In time MeerKATis set to become part of the Square KilometreArray, an international project that is being built in Australia and SouthAfrica.

“Sadly for those of us who loved MeerKATsince the beginning, MeerKATas a standalone instrument will cease to exist,” says Camilo. “But we don’t know when that will happen, and we still have several years of this decade with MeerKAT, so we are trying to squeeze as much great science out of it as we can.”

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The satellite dishes that make up the KAT radio telescope in Carnarvon, Northern Cape. The Square Kilometre Array telescope will be built here and will be the largest telescope in the world. (Photo: Gallo Images / Foto24 / Jaco Marais)

The Karoo Array Telescope construction site, part of the MeerKAT Project, near Carnarvon in the Northern Cape. (Photo: Gallo Images / Foto24 / Cornel van Heerden)

Judge Wants To See Where ‘sex work’ Place is...Woman Trafficked from Springbok

The three are charged with 40 counts of rape, trafficking, kidnapping, debt bondage, drug dealing and assault. Witness gives shocking testimony about how she was held hostage, drugged and forced into prostitution

It is alleged that they worked together to recruit a number of women for the purpose of sex work.

She testified that she and another victim would be asked to stand outside to get more clients, and once inside the house two henchmen, referred to as “Moola” and “Alex”, would make sure they wouldn’t leave until the client was satisfied.

CapeTown -The trial of sex trafficking trio Edward, 42, Leandre, 38, andYannickAyuk, 32, continued on Wednesday in the Western Cape High Court where another victim broke her silence after years in hiding.

The victim, who has two children with the State witness, Monday Daniels, spoke about how she assisted Leandre and others to get

more clients.

The woman was trafficked from Springbok to theAyuks’Brooklyn house where the “sex for drugs” services were traded.

Acting JudgeAlma de Wet said an inspection in loco – a visit to the Brooklyn house – would be conducted nextTuesday to jog the memory of the victim for an accurate description of the crimes.

The women were allegedly manipulated by Leandra to leave their homes in Springbok in the Northern Cape under the pretext of finding jobs in CapeTown, while the brothers recruited from the Eastern Cape.

The woman said she and another victim were forced into assisting theAyuks to lure men into their Brooklyn house.

Much like the other women, she said she came to CapeTown looking for “work” and would take the clients to theAyuks’house, where she spent only four days.

When asked by State advocate Maria Marshall how much she was paid, she said R150, which would be used to give theAyuks their R50 share for the use of the room, while the rest was used to pay for her dependence on “rocks”, also known as fentanyl.

Speaking of how she was used by theAyuks, with another victim, she said, “she also got clients”. “Sometimes in the room and sometimes in the quiet place.”

When asked by the prosecutor what the quiet place was, she said it was where she would be locked away from the outside, with the supervision of the henchmen, to finish the job of prostitution. - IOL

A woman was trafficked from Springbok to the Ayuks’ Brooklyn house where the “sex for drugs” services were traded. File Picture: Ayanda Ndamane/African News Agency (ANA)

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Upington Lions Klop Kenhardt Northern Lions Krieket

Upington Lions het Saterdag 28 Januarie 2023 die pad gevat om teen Kenhardt Northern Lions in Kenhardt te gaan speel in die ZFMT20 liga. Dit was vroeg reeds warm en soms het daar 'n paar verlore wolke oor die krieket veld gehang.

Upington Lions het die 1ste naweek van die ZFMT20 liga vas geval teen College en wou regmaak waar dinge verkeerd gegaan het.

Upington Lions wen die loot en besluit om 1ste te kolf. Jacques Steenkamp 6(6) & Riaan Von Waltzleben 32(17) open die beurt vir Upington Lions.

Upington Lions verloor hulle 1ste paaltjie met die telling op 9/1 na 1.4 beurte. Jaco Beukes 43(36) sluit hom by Riaan Von Waltzleben aan. Riaan & Jaco slaan die bal die veld rond en vind die grens met mooi krieket houe. Hulle 2 is ook betrokke in 'n 64(26) lopie vennootskap. Upington Lions verloor hulle 2de paaltjie met die telling op 73/2 na 6 beurte,Nielbert Kitching 35(26) kom in op nr 4. Nielbert en Jaco is betrokke in 'n vennootskap van 61(35) lopies om die 3rd paaltjie en het aangegaan met die kolf beurt lopie tempo waar Riaan & Jaco opgehou het. Upington Lions verloor hulle 3rd paaltjie met die telling op 143/3 na 11.5 beurte.

Chris Voges 36*(22) kom in op nr 5 , Chris jaag die bal die veld rond,hardloop vinnig tussen die paaltjie en vat die wedstryd heel weg van Kenhardt Northern Lions. Upington Lions eindig met hulle telling op 205/5 na 20 beurte. Dit is die 1ste keer dat Upington Lions meer as 200 lopies in 'nT20 slaan.

Na die breuk het Upington Lions veldwerk gaan doen. Jaco Beukes & Marius Goussard open die boulwerk vir Upington Lions

en het Kenhardt vroeg in die moeilikheid gehad met hulle telling op 17/6 na 5.3 beurte. Met baie goeie boul & veldwerk deur

Upington Lions beperk hulle Kenhardt tot 60/10 in 14 beurte. Boulers wat goed doen was Marius Goussard 4 beurte - 15 lopies - 4 paaltjies, Jaco Beukes

3 beurte - 10 lopies - 2 paaltjies , SJ Becker 2 beurte - 7 lopies - 1 paaltjie, Chris Voges 2 beurte - 7 lopies- 1 paaltjie & Johan Deetlefs 1 beurt - 0 lopies - 1 paaltjie.

Upington Lions wen met 145 lopies en is op die bord in die jaar se ZFMT20 liga.

Dankie Kenhardt vir die lekker wedstryd en die goeie gees waarin dit gespeel was. Is altyd lekker om daar by julle te kom speel.

Upington Lions Krieket Klub se beste kolwers:

1. Jaco Beukes 43(36)

2.Chris Voges 36(22)

3.Nielbert Kitching 35(22)

4.Riaan Von Waltzleben 32(17)

Upington Lions Krieket Klub se beste boulers:

1. Marius Goussard 4 beurte -15 lopies - 4 paaltjies

2.Jaco Beukes 3 beurte - 10 lopies - 2 paaltjies

3.SJ Becker 2 beurte - 7 lopies1 paaltjie

4. Chris Voges 2 beurte - 7 lopies - 1 paaltjie

5. Johan Deetlefs 1 beurte - 0 lopies - 1 paaltjie

Upington Lions Krieket Klub man van die wedstryd:

Kolwer: Jaco Beukes 43(36)

Bouler: Marius Goussard 4 beurte - 15 lopies - 4 paaltjies

Baie geluk manne, julle het julle goeie spel van verlede naweek voortgesit met goeie kolf en boulwerk in die wedstryd hou so aan.

Chemical Evidence For Milk, Meat, And Marine Resource Processing In Later Stone Age Pots From Namaqualand, South Africa

The subsistence practices of Later StoneAge (LSA) foragers and herders living in Namaqualand SouthAfrica are often difficult to differentiate based on their archaeological signatures but characterizing their dietary choices is vital to understand the economic importance of domesticates. However, ethnohistoric accounts have provided information on the cooking/boiling of marine mammal fat, mutton, plants, and milk by early herders and foragers across the Western Cape.To further investigate these reports, we use lipid residue analysis to characterize 106 potsherds from four open-air LSAsites, spanning in time from the early first millennium to the late second millenniumAD.Two sites (SK2005/057A, SK2006/026) are located on the Atlantic coast whereas sites Jakkalsberg K and Jakkalsberg M are located further inland on the southern bank of the Orange River. Notably, at the coastal sites, the presence of marine biomarkers suggests the intensive and/or specialized processing of marine products in many vessels.The dominance of ruminant carcass products at inland sites and probable sheep remains confirms the importance of stockkeeping. Furthermore, and in good agreement with ethnohistoric accounts for its use, our results provide the first direct chemical evidence for the use of dairy products in LSA western SouthAfrica.

Introduction

During the 15th Century, European ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope encountered pastoralists with large herds of livestock1,2,3,4 at the newly established provisioning station at Cape Town.Yet these sheep and cattle remain archaeologically enigmatic5, making it difficult to study Indigenous herd management strategies and human-animal relationships. Questions as to the introduction of domesticated animals to southernAfrica, the subsequent spread of herding and the beginnings of dairying practices, also remain unresolved.

Looking to the northwest corner of SouthAfrica, the Namaqualand coastal desert, extending along the west coast over 1000 km, is the optimal location for unequivocal herder sites (indicated by the presence

of domestic animal bone) as the homeland of Nama pastoralists. Spoegrivier Cave in Namaqualand is the location of the oldest directly dated (AMS 14C) sheep bone (confirmed through palaeoproteomics6,7) in SouthAfrica at 2105 ± 65 BP (OxA-3862), together with a horn core from site KN2005/0041 directly dated to 1625 ± 25 BP (OxA-22933) and identified through aDNAas Bos taurus8, suggesting the early presence of herders in the region. However, although there are many (c. 1500) Late StoneAge (LSA: 40 kya to historic times) open-air, single occupation sites in the region (the vast majority being shell middens and scatters along the coastal plain)9, to date, only ~ 15 have definitively been identified as herder sites, based on the presence of domesticated animal remains10.

One of the difficulties lies in distinguishing between forager and herder sites as both have similar material cultural signatures after 2000 BP: stone tools, pottery, wild fauna, and ostrich eggshell beads11.This means that LSAsites with domesticate remains are simply labelled herder and those without, forager. In western SouthAfrica, this oversimplistic dichotomy can easily overlook the fluidity of subsistence practices (e.g., ‘hunterherders’12,13,14,15) during the LSAand how groups may have incorporated available resources into their diet. Further complicating matters is that faunal assemblages within the region are often highly fragmentary, making attributions between sheep and similar-sized local wild bovids, such as springbok and grey duiker, somewhat problematic7,16,17,18.This is particularly relevant as the timing of the introduction of domesticated sheep to southern Africa is still not fully understood.

Ethnohistoric accounts of the use of pottery in western South Africa

Cape Ceramics found along the west coast of SouthAfrica take three broad forms, lugged, spouted, and bowl-shaped. Lugged pots, commonly associated with herders, have pointed bases, flared shoulders, constricted necks and two opposed suspension lugs12,13,19. Spouted pots are generally indistinguishable from

lugged pottery below the shoulder but have an obliquely angled spout13. Bowls are small hemispherical vessels with thick, crudely finished walls and round bases that lack decoration, bosses, or lugs19 and are commonly associated with foragers. However, whilst most ethnohistoric accounts20, as cited in 21, illustrations22 and archaeological23 evidence suggest that pottery typology did follow the generalized “herderforager” dichotomy, there are also accounts of foragers using lugged pottery and herders using open-mouthed bowls. For example, two historical illustrations attributed to S. Daniell21 show an unmistakeable “herder” lugged vessel standing in a forager camp and the other an unmistakable “forager” bowl hanging from a forked stick strapped to an ox ready for transport21 (see also Stewart24 for an archaeological example of this fluidity in pottery use).

Although relatively scarce, ethnohistoric accounts have provided some information on what foodstuffs early herders and foragers processed in their ceramic pots, namely the cooking/boiling of marine mammal fat, mutton, plants, and milk25. For example, in 1654, Jan van Riebeek (of the Dutch East India Company) noted that he observed Khoekhoe (nonBantu speaking Indigenous nomadic pastoralists) using pottery to render whale blubber26. Certainly, postcontact herders were known to have used marine mammal grease as an important component of body adornment26 and as a supplement to their lean diet27.

In the course of his travels through the Western Cape in the late 1700’s, Le Vaillant noted that pottery appeared to be used for the purpose of melting animal fat into grease and discusses Khoekhoen guides breaking up elephant bones and rendering their grease in tea kettles28. Laidler10, during his travels through Namaqualand in the early 1900’s, observed that pots were of such hardness that they could be used for rendering fat29. However, there are relatively few accounts specifying which animals were processed, although Laidler10 notes that when a springbok was killed, its blood was brought

home in its own stomach and boiled in a new pot, which would then be used to cook the meat from the springbok29.There are also a few (vague) accounts of ceramic pots being used to cook the meat of domesticates (cattle, sheep) and/or wild game in their own fat30,31.

Although ethnohistoric accounts reveal that milk comprised an important component of the diet of herding peoples living in western SouthAfrica1,32,33,34 they generally suggest that milk was rarely, if ever, stored in pots25. Instead milk would either be consumed directly from the animal or collected in organic containers such as wooden buckets, calabashes, reed baskets, and leather bags25,35. Despite this, there are some reports of milk being cooked/boiled with meat and/or plants in ceramic pottery for both subsistence and medicinal uses. In 1731, during his travels through the south western Cape, Kolb36 noted the cooking of mutton, the entrails of cattle, and wild game with blood and milk, while, in 1907, Schultze35, travelling through Namaqualand and the Kalahari, discussed the consumption of game hide that was first boiled for an extended period in milk. He also noted that the Khoekhoen would sometimes boil bulbs, corms, or blossoms from Gazania spp. (Namaqualand daisy) with milk to make a porridge.They would also raid ant nests for buffalo grass (Aristida spp.) which they roasted, ground to flour, and cooked with milk into a porridge.

Schultze19 also described medicinal remedies in which milk was used. In particular, the treatment for chickenpox was to drink diluted milk boiled with a handful of goat’s dung daily until symptoms receded25. Watt and Breyer-Brandwijk37 also recorded the Nama boiling the tubers of Pelargonium antidysentericum in milk for the treatment of diarrhea.

Milk was also used as a topical treatment. For example, Dapper30 observed healers, after cauterizing lacerations, applying freshly-cooked sweet milk mixed with a specific herb (species not mentioned) to the wound.

” Rustigheid se Moses

Spring, 1988: In days gone by, when DeAar was a full-steamahead kind of town, the locomotive drivers would yank their whistles late at night as they approached the Karoo settlement. Each driver would have his own signature tune, and his family living in the town would know it well.They would prepare for his return the minute that whistle went off.

To the general public of DeAar, the particular lilt of a loco whistle would indicate the way the Karoo wind was blowing that night –and what kind of weather they could expect the next day. Nearly everything in DeAar revolved aroundThe Colossus, the steam locomotive. For more than a century, the railroad tracks sang the praises of these huge metal dragons criss-crossing South Africa – and meeting in this Northern Cape town.

National steam no more

Steam has disappeared from our railroad system, except for the occasional heritage train experience.And then the sight of a loco in full toot across the veld is a wonderful hit of nostalgia.

Along-standing community of locomotive drivers and stokers retired to DeAar in the 1980s, perhaps to be close to one of the country’s last refuges of the steam train.

Aman like Piet Claassen grew up next to the tracks, in a little railway house in Kranskuil. His father worked on the railways, and so young Piet joined the SAR&H as well.That was the way, then. “If your father was a railroad man, you became one as well,” said this huge 49-year-old senior staffer at DeAar Station.

Piet learns to stoke

When Piet was 16, he went to Keetmanshoop in then-South WestAfrica as a station cleaner It was the only job available on the railways, and he spent six long months cleaning trains and learning the time-honoured art of stoking.

One day a stoker fell sick and the supervisors chose someone from the yard – Piet Claassen.The driver was one Willem Rossouw, with 30 hard years’experience.

“Willem was a good man. He knew his train well. If you couldn’t keep the steam flowing, he did it for you.”

Piet Claassen became Willem Rossouw’s regular stoker, the “driver’s eyes on the left-hand side”. He would fire up the loco and he would keep that fire burning for 21 days.Then the steel, brass and copper machine would have to be meticulously serviced, cleaned and polished.

The sound of the steam

There were a hundred things to learn: water levels to be kept constant, steam pressure to be monitored, the fire kept “just right”, the sound levels sweet and on an even keel.

“The sound in a steam locomotive is very important.And there was always a lot of it.The funny thing was, we used to sit in the caboose and talk through all that hissing and chugging. We somehow heard each other, or read each other’s lips – it was strange.

“If we were sitting somewhere else, with that level of noise going on, there was no way we could hear normal speech. I suppose the old ear just tuned the steam sound out.”

He described the different

sounds made by the loco on a run: “You’re going up a steep hill in 425 tonnes of steam locomotive.That old thing talks to you, you work on the sounds and the cadences.And then on a straight, with speed, there comes that smooth, rhythmic chug – and you’re at one with your train.

“The locomotive sounds are rooted in you.You learn to pick up the smallest abnormality And the sounds come from everywhere: the stoking, the wheels, the regulator, the valves, the steam release.”

Boel rides along

When Piet Claassen finally became a loco driver, he took on two habits that soon became his trademarks: a constantly-lit pipe filled with Boxer tobacco and a dog called Boel.The dog would sit at his feet in the caboose through all his long trips, traversing the Karoo at night, sleeping over in the Kimberley Station rest rooms, and keeping him company on his long shifts away from home.

“I smoked a pipe because when you light a cigarette in the cabin, the wind smokes more of it than you do.And the dog, well, one day the loco inspector discovered him up there with me. Boel had to stay home after that.”

He said the crew stop-overs at the rest rooms across South Africa were an essential element of the fun in the job.

“You prepared your own food in these rest rooms and were supposed to catch some sleep before your train continued. But you actually ended up with some of the other crews, swapping stories through the night.”

OomApie remembers

Abraham Isaac Ludwick goes by the name of OomApie. He is retired and living in DeAar in a house that was once not too far away from the night whistles of the incoming locomotives. Oom Apie Ludwick always wanted to join the army but he was too short, he says.

“It was just after the Depression. I became a coal trimmer with the railways.Then I became really interested: I realised these colossal machines would show me the world one day. I became a stoker at 23, a driver at 30.”

As a stoker, he worked with two drivers, Vlakhaas Davis and Fred

Budd. He stoked from Kimberley to Beaufort West, Keetmanshoop to Luderitz and then up on the Johannesburg run. “In those days, the drivers had no mercy for you.Today, they love you.”

Hunting from the footplate

On the Southwest runs, Oom Apie and his stoker would always take a rifle along, rolled up in canvas at the back of the cabin, to shoot “something for the pot”. When they were on a goods trip, it was possible to stop and hunt for a short while.

“One time, Koot Blaauw – the stoker – shot a gemsbok right between the eyes. Between us and the conductor, we tried to load it onto the train.The sun was just going down, and I switched on the train headlights. Here comes this police sergeant and his constable, from nowhere, it seemed to me.

“We told the sergeant we had just run over the buck, and that we didn’t want to see it die a slow death so we slit its throat. He helped us load it, and we butchered it.Then the sergeant took me aside and said:

“’OomApie, if I didn’t know you I’d arrest you. Next time you run over a gemsbok, don’t hit it precisely between the eyes!’

“We gave him a haunch and he left.”

Running Fowl of the Law

Another time, OomApie was working with a certain Gwar Liebenberg on a trip and they shot a guinea fowl for the pot. The bird was duly cleaned and dropped into the fire bucket. When they reached their rest stop at a tiny depot called Usikus, they found a large pot and began cooking the guinea fowl in a stew mix.

“We always travelled with some potatoes and onions, just in case. Anyway, we left the guinea fowl cooking overnight, and the next morning I saw this policeman entering the rest room.”

OomApie told Gwar to prepare the train for their speedy departure. He would rush in and rescue the fowl from the cooking pot before the policeman could catch him.

“But the policeman stayed and sat with me at the table. I couldn’t wait for him to leave.” So the two

Locomotive sounds come from everywhere – the stoking, the wheels, the regulators, the valves and the steam release.” Image: Chris Marais

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crusties sat there making small talk, eyeing each other

Eventually, the conductor came in to call OomApie, and the desperately hungry driver thought, that’s it! Policeman or no policeman, I’m taking my fowl!

As he rose, so did the anxious policeman.Together they walked to the pot.And each man grabbed his own guinea fowl and left in a separate direction from the other

Breakfast fresh from the furnace

In some circles, it is believed that if the Voortrekker invented the braai, then the train men perfected it.

“We used to take the shovel and load eggs, bacon and sausages onto it.After a short stay in the furnace, the aroma of the best breakfast in the world would filter through the loco. Likewise, coffee brewed in a steam locomotive cannot be beat.”

OomApie Ludwick has some taped memories of the Era of Steam, mostly friends of his who

had recorded their experiences for posterity. Playing the tape, you hear those old voices bringing back the past.

“… you came to know the spade. Placing the coals carefully onto the furnace, 12 hours a day You were exhausted, but then that was life. Other stokers would teach you the spade, you would get better with the days.

“Once the steam is in your blood, you cannot keep it out. When a loco beats well, you get chicken bumps on your body The hissing of the steam, the smell of the oil. That whole machine has a life of its own.”

Taking a shine to a loco

And despite the freezing arrivals in DeAar, when snow covered the tracks and cold steel burned the unprotected hand, the winter nights on the Karoo prairie with the wind howling like a banshee and the blistering hot days in the Southwest, the steam experience crept into their souls.

Said OomApie: “Some of the stokers would spend three hours shining up their trains before

departure. “At home, you love your wife. On the tracks, the locomotive is your first love.At times, you are more at home in the caboose than out of it.To see that light smoke trail from a Class 25 loco, to hear the sound as it goes uphill with the driver opening up the regulator ever so slightly – that is mother’s milk to a train man.”

Read in Daily Maverick: “Karoo oddities – tales from the quirky, magical heartland of South Africa”

The locomotive graveyard

The steam locos all carry feminine names: Marjorie, Hessie,Anna, Elna, Eliza, Lizette, Ina.They were named after crewmen’s wives and daughters way back then. Piet Claassen has a loco named after his daughter Selma – but it’s also destined for the DeAar steam train graveyard.

To walk around that graveyard is the poignant experience that still brings thousands of international steam train enthusiasts to DeAar every year The locos are stripped of their name plates,

copper pipes and brass fittings.

They stand, stark and bleak, as the wind howls through the empty cabins.The locomotives are lined up end to end, waiting to be purchased and shipped out to the front lawn of some South African small town hall, or simply butchered for scrap by blowtorching.

Nearby, is the rail yard.The best time to be there is at dawn, when soft light reflects off the steamy shanks of the gleaming machines. It’s obviously a sight and sound experience because with a shiny locomotive comes its incessant steam-breathing.

The working locos testify to the pride of their crews.

“We kept them cleaner than our own clothes or our food boxes,” says OomApie. “Even out on a trip, on a slow uphill, we would get out and polish the train. By the time it pulled into a big station, it shone like a jeweller’s shop.” DM/ML

This is an extract from Karoo Roads I – Tales from South Africa’s Heartland, by Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit.

“The hissing of the steam, the smell of the oil – that whole machine has a life of its own.” Image: Chris Marais

An old guy admiring an old steam train in action – a perfect pairing. Image: Chris Marais

In the heydays of South African steam, the locos were named for the wives and daughters of their drivers and firemen. Image: Chris Marais

“Even out on a trip, we would polish the train – by the time it pulled into a big station, it shone like a jeweller’s shop.” Image: Chris Marais