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AFCON - Mayor ‘The people of our country and the continent are ready, with tickets already sold out for the opening ceremony’ Staff Reporter news@inner-gazette.co.za

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Joburg Mayor Parks Tau

Pic : Enoch Lehung

uring a media tour to assess the City’s readiness to host visitors this week, Joburg Mayor Parks Tau declared that the City of Joburg is ready to host the 29th edition of the Orange Africa Cup of Nations tournament, which kicks off at the National Stadium on Saturday.

He said: “Johannesburg is truly ready for this weekend’s opening ceremony and to host this sporting spectacle. The people of our country and the continent are ready, with tickets already sold out for the opening ceremony. The City is ready for

a month of the beautiful game.”

Johannesburg is one of the five cities selected to host this biennial soccer extravaganza. It will host the opening ceremony and the opening game between Bafana Bafana and Cape Verde Islands at the National Stadium (Soccer City/FNB Stadium) on Saturday January 19, the second Group A match between Angola and Morocco later the same day, and the closing ceremony and final on Sunday February 10.

The other host cities are Durban, Port Elizabeth, Nelspruit and Rustenburg. Stadium Management South Africa CEO Jacques Grobbelaar assured everyone that the sta-

dium and the pitch were ready.

“We are very satisfied with the state of the pitch. Five weeks ago, we otherwise had no pitch at all. We are very happy with its colour and its lushness. The new pitch is ideal and we don’t expect any problems,” said Grobbelaar.

Soccer great and member of the SA Masters and Legends Football Association, Jacob Buddha Mathathe, said he, too, was satisfied with the state of the pitch and the readiness of the stadium.

“This pitch is very enticing; I’d love to play a game on it. I’m confident that on the day Bafana Bafana will rise to the occasion,” he said.

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Properties face

massive debt Property owners fume about Adprop’s failure to pay municipal bills Xolani Mbanjwa news@inner-city-gazette

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ome property owners whose properties are administered by Adprop Property Management face massive debt after the company was interdicted from operating, and its trust accounts frozen amid allegations of financial irregularities.

The property owners have been advised to lodge claims with the curator for the money they paid the company for levies, water, lights, and sewage after Adprop allegedly “misrepresented” the timing and method of payments and the amounts paid to the City of Joburg.

The North Gauteng High Court last month granted the Estate Agency Affairs Board, the industry regulator, an interdict against Adprop and its directors, Leslie Inglestone and Milton Zinn after they were found to have illegally operated as estate agents and property administrators without a Fidelity Fund

Certificate for more than five years.

The court has also approved the appointment of Bashir Adams, an independent curator, to ascertain the “whereabouts of monies withdrawn” from trust accounts used by property owners to pay for services such as levies, water, lights, and sewage.

According to the founding affidavit by the regulator, the San Francisco body corporate, a complex in Johannesburg, lodged a complaint with the board about Adprop “not making payments of the amounts it was allegedly paying to the council” for services.

The San Francisco body corporate alleged that it incurred R23 000 in bank charges between July 2011 and June 2012 because Adprop was not making payments at the times it said it was making the payments, and that “the funds of the San Francisco body corporate are being used to reimburse a credit card of one of the respondents”. In court papers, the regulator said it was certain

Adprop would not be able to compensate any claims for damages.

“The harm which the respondents are causing and may cause cannot be compensated for by damages. It is also highly unlikely that the respondents will be able to satisfy any order for damages,” said the regulator.

Jimmy Baloyi, acting exec- The affected properties may degenerate into bad buildings like this one in Kerk St, Joburg. utive manager of enforcement Pic : Inner-city Press Agency for the regulator, said they have Adele Asher, chairperson of the Cas- A neighbouring building owes over a started an internal disciplinary investigation after receiving numerous tlerosse body corporate said: “I had a million rand as far as the municipality allegations of improper conduct against feeling about money not being paid to is concerned,” said Asher. the municipality, as we had been cut off She said property owners who are Adprop and its directors. three times for allegedly not paying our owed money by Adprop have been Baloyi said operating without a Fidelity Fund Certificate was a serious of- electricity. When calling Adprop they asked to make individual claims to the always assured us they had just put in curator. “We are all looking for new, refence carrying a fine of up to R25 000.

“It is a criminal offence for anyone to a cheque but, on investigating, a larger liable property management agents, as do so and if found guilty in a court of amount was being demanded by the we still need to pay wages, security, insurance, lights and water,” said Asher. law in this regard, a person may be lia- municipality,” said Asher.

Castlerosse property owners only disJJ Schoeman, a property owner at ble, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding R5 000 or to imprisonment for a pe- covered last week that they owe the Castlerosse, recounted how he had been riod not exceeding five years or to both City of Johannesburg R237 000 in elec- mistreated by Adprop since he bought tricity fees. “I don’t know how much his property 12 years ago. “Two years such a fine and such imprisonment.”

Many properties now have to pay ser- we owe for water. We will have to enter ago my levy bill went to a staggering vices they thought they had already paid, into a debtor’s arrangement with them R50 000, and Adprop once sent a sheriff through Adprop. One such complex is to pay it off monthly and still find the to attach my furniture even though my Castlerosse, also in Johannesburg. The money for current charges. Many build- account was up to date.”

Adprop and Inglestone had not rebody corporate alleges Adprop “swal- ings are worse – owing millions. One lowed” their money, with no explana- building doesn’t even run a cheque ac- sponded to requests for comment at the count and left R875 000 with Adprop. time of going to print. Citypress.co.za tion for where the money had gone.

City gunmen arrested Crime Reporter crime@gazettelive.co.za

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his week Joburg Central police arrested two suspects for possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition in Ntemi Piliso Street, Newtown, according to police spokesperson Warrant Officer Xoli Mbele.

He says police officers on crime prevention duty saw three suspicious males. “They searched them and recovered two unlicensed firearms with no serial numbers and eight rounds of live ammunition. They arrest them, but the third suspect fled.”

In the same period police arrested 53 suspects in the CBD, W/O Mbele says.

“Eight were arrested for common robbery, two for possession of unlicensed firearms, 14 for shoplifting, three for fraud, one for business robbery, one for attempted murder and five for possession of suspected stolen property. The rest were arrested for theft out of motor vehicles, possession of dagga, assault, theft and drunk and driving,” he adds.

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Cop dies in shooting Crime Reporter crime@gazettelive.co.za

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n undercover Johannesburg police officer was gunned down by fellow officers and a colleague seriously injured as they chased armed robbers in Hillbrow on Monday afternoon.

Police spokesperson Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said three men tried to rob the Spar supermarket in Twist Street, Hillbrow.

“One was arrested, but two managed to escape. Officers followed one of the suspected robbers, believing he was armed. When they confronted him, he ran away. Two plain-clothes Hillbrow policemen got out of their marked VW Golf and gave chase as their driver, who had called for backup, tried to corner the suspect with the vehicle.

The suspect then shot and wounded the officer in the neck.”

Lt-Col Dlamini added that several Jeppestown police officers responded to the call for assistance. Spotting the two plain-clothes police-

men, their guns drawn, running past schoolchildren, the officers opened fire on them.

“The two constables were shot.

One officer, aged 31, was killed, and another aged 30 was wounded.

The wounded officers were taken to Milpark Hospital in a serious condition. No arrests had been made.”

A fruit vendor in Bok Street, Joubert Park, was also shot in the crossfire, and was taken to hospital.

Independent Police Investigative Directorate spokesman Moses Dlamini said initial investigations showed that the plain clothes officers had radioed for backup after spotting the suspected robbers.

“Police from Jeppestown responded to the backup calls and opened fire on their fellow officers whom they thought were the suspects. The Jeppestown officers are being questioned about the circumstances of the shootings,” he said.

Dlamini added that the Independent Police Investigative Directorate is still investigating circumstances of the shooting incident.

Environmental management workers empty a bin in the street.

Charges for replacement bins Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

Pikitup has announced that City of Joburg residents will have to pay for the replacement of lost, damaged or stolen 240-litre refuse bins, starting at the beginning of next month.

Pikitup spokesperson Pansy JaliOyedele said Residents and customers applying for the replacement of their wheelie refuse bins will be charged R385, excluding VAT. She added that the city’s waste management entity had previously replaced lost, stolen or damaged refuse bins free of charge, but this had proved unsustainable.

“In the 2011-2012 financial year alone, Pikitup replaced about 8 500 wheelie bins at a cost of about R3 million. This is not sustainable. This money could have been well spent

on accelerating service delivery. It has also come to our attention that in many instances the bins are being used for purposes other than refuse containerisation. Some people use them to store or transport goods,” added Jali-Oyedele.

Lost, stolen or damaged wheelie bins will be replaced by Pikitup upon receipt of an upfront payment by the user, Jali-Oyedele said.

“Payments should be made at the nearest walk-in-centre and not through a commercial bank or electronic fund transfer system. Proof of payment, which must also indicate the ratepayer’s account number, must be faxed to 086 677 6682 or (011) 712-5322,” she added.

Jali-Oyedele said Pikitup would however continue to issue the first bin free of charge. She also explained that the announcement

followed council approval of the City’s new pricing and tariffs structure, circulated in July last year.

The charge for bin replacement will be reviewed on an annual basis.

“Residents and customers have also been reminded that wheelie bins remain the property of Pikitup, and that they may not be used for any purpose other than waste containerisation. They also cannot be moved out of the jurisdiction of the City of Johannesburg. Using Pikitup wheelie bins for any purposes other than refuse containerisation and at non-designated premises is in contravention of the City’s waste bylaws. Suspicious acts of bin theft can be reported to JMPD on 011 375-5911.”

For details contact Joburg Connect on 0860 56 28 74 or (011) 3755555; or visit www.pikitup.co.za.

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Make the right career choices Comment

Parents have to help their children choose the right careers to pursue, depending on their backgrounds, personalities and several other considerations. Consulting career guidance specialists would be beneficial.

This may not be over-emphasised, considering the increasing number of college and university graduates who fail to impress employers and some of them have been considered and dubbed ‘unemployable’.

Those who fail matric exams have an option in studying once more and rewriting the examinations to improve their prospects. However, some of those often prefer to enrol in unqualified institutions, hoping for a miracle to help shape their future.

The attraction to such institutions is that they charge much lower fees and do not demand standard academic requirements necessary for tertiary education. Many youths who failed their matric often enrol in such centres. But most graduates of such colleges have no skills to offer, as expected.

The better option for them is to give it another attempt, study and rewrite matric exams, and use the right route.

Thabitha Brown Troyeville

This weekend is set to deliver the opening of the greatest African football extravaganza at the aptly renamed National Stadium. The opening ceremony is set to display an array of local and continental artistic talent.

This is one sporting event that brings Africans together to showcase and celebrate their footballing and artistic talents. Top African soccer stars who ply their trade in the lucrative European leagues will be back on African soil to display what Mother Africa gave them. At the same time the players who play in Africa will also be there to exhibit the massive African talent in the sport.

Considering the large numbers of people who will travel to the stadium on Saturday the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) has concluded a deal for fans with CAF and the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the Africa Cup of Nations.

The agreement provides free train services within metropolitan cities in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal for fans with match tickets and LOC accredited media workers.

PRASA said it would provide 20 trains to ferry passengers from Pretoria, Johannesburg, Soweto and Vereeniging to Nasrec Station for the opening and final match of the tournament.

Afcon LOC CEO Mvuzo Mbebe said the public transport system will help the majority of the soccer fans who otherwise would have had challenges reaching the stadiums and getting back home.

Echoing Mbebe’s sentiments, we have to thank PRASA’s response to provide a reliable transport solution for the soccer fans.

We pray that the Afcon tournament progresses smoothly, without any incidencies of hooliganism or violence.

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Painful return of the past The invitation to watch the New Zealand versus South Africa test from the members’ pavilion at the Newlands Cricket Ground brought up mixed feelings, Professor Jonathan Jansen writes.

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t was not only my genetic discomfort with special treatment, a hangover from my working-class roots on the Cape Flats. It was Newlands.

“Why do you not support the Stormers?” I am asked all the time by people who assume that, because you grew up in Cape Town, that simple fact translates into a provincial loyalty in sport.

I have too many painful memories of exclusion from Newlands rugby and cricket grounds - let alone the nearby public swimming pool - to walk unconsciously into the members’ pavilion, with its subtle mix of race and class exclusion, that special brand of South African Englishness where the insult is seldom spoken nor immediately obvious.

There is a lingering history to these grounds where the first match was played between Mother Country and Colonial Born in 1888.

But I am always telling my students and friends to “get over” the bitter memories of the past, and my leadership talks encourage a bold and inclusive generosity that moves our beautiful country forward.

“Learn to manage your memories,” I chided my generation of Cape Town friends who still support the New Zealand All Blacks when they play

against the Springboks. So I accepted the kind invitation, amused nonetheless when I was warned to dress “properly” and informed what kinds of attire could deny you access - such as toes not covered by shoes.

It all started very pleasantly. I made small talk with the blazer-and-tie officials swiping us through into the impressive white building - my nephew, the Member, the uncle and my friend.

As non-members we each received a brightly coloured band around the arm just in case, I mused, we were mistaken for Members.

I enjoyed the friendly banter with the catering staff serving meals and drinks from behind the neatly arranged vendor tables. We took our mid-morning snacks at a large, round table, ignoring the “reserved” sign sticking up at us.

It was a beautiful day outside with the large, open windows allowing the bright African light into the dining rooms. On the field below us the larger-than-life player heroes of South Africa were warming up, catching balls thrown into the perfectly greened outfield by one of the coaches.

Cricket had certainly made progress in its transformation, with some of the heroes of the current team regularly achieving man-of-the-match awards from the black-bearded Muslim batsman, Hashim Amla, to the fearsome bowler Vernon Philander, who already took five wickets in the first innings of this match.

There were, of course, murmurs

about too few “African” players in the team, something the visiting New Zealanders would not understand in a society where grades of skin colour still matter.

Still, I was determined to enjoy this day out in the members’ pavilion, ignoring for now the familiar group of noisy young white men on the other side of the stands wearing fake black beards in playful ignorance of the fact that the beard is a mark of religious devotion for the soft-spoken Hashim Amla.

Hard as I tried, I could not ignore the simple fact that we were the only black people, besides the caterers, in the pavilion. Nor could I ignore the fact that people turned, head and nose tilted upwards, to stare at us, but not for too long; that is not the English way.

Down the hallways I tried hard not to think too much about the photographs on display of all-white cricket teams in all-white cricket dress from almost every decade over a century.

They probably did not have time to put up the photos of recent teams that included black players.

We sat at the back, in the last row of white chairs, and on the aisle so that we could, literally, take four or five steps into the bar and toilets without disturbing anyone. At least, so I thought.

Above and ahead of us, in bold red letters against the white roof, was a simple sign saying that spectators should not move during an over of play. Fair enough. I assumed from watching television that movement in

the stands could disturb the vision of the players, though from our section of the pavilion, parallel to the pitch, that was clearly impossible.

Nonetheless, and throughout the day, I obeyed the sign and ignored the individuals who slipped up and down the stairs in front of us during play.

My friend, the other non-Member, then made a mistake. He took a few steps from the bar to his seat during an over. The huge white man looked as if he was about to have a massive coronary. “Get back over here, now,” he screamed.

My friend realised he had made a mistake and apologised, offering that it would not happen again. “It does not matter,” said the official, oblivious to the fact that he was ranting in the aisle during an over.

The way he screamed and spoke down to my friend, a soft-spoken and accomplished professional, got me involved.

“Listen,” I said firmly, “he is already in his seat and he apologised. Why would you want him to come back unless your goal is to humiliate him?

Please use some logic.” The over was now in full swing.

“I am not into logic. Come back here,” he bellowed at my friend.

“You stay right where you are,” I told my friend. And in that moment all the memories of what Newlands means came flooding back with a hint of vengeance.

Prof Jonathan Jansen is Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State; and Honorary Professor of Education at Wits University.

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Training initiative to develop into a full vocational school for the professional stage Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

The South African Mzansi Ballet (SAMB) has invited children children to audition for the South African Cuban Ballet School for the 2013 school year, spokesperson Samantha Saevitzon says.

She explains that the auditions are for children aged between five and eight, and the event will be conducted at the Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein next week on Wednesday.

Saevitzon adds that the training facility for dancers is headed on a rotating basis by visiting ballet teachers from the National Ballet School of Cuba, assisted by Cuban dancers working with SA Mzansi Ballet, as well as South African dancers with SAMB who are being trained in the Cuban ballet method.

“The SA Cuban Ballet School was initiated in 2012 and is now in its

A youth displays great potential.

second year. The internationally respected Cuban ballet training system has produced many acclaimed dancers. With these auditions for the school’s entry level, the SA Cuban Ballet School will be offering three levels of tuition, with the second and third levels having been put into operation in 2012,” Saevitzon adds.

It is envisaged that this training initiative will develop into a fullyfledged vocational school, preparing dancers for professional stage.

“The project was launched in partnership with Cuban ballet, continuing the dance ties with Cuba that Dirk Badenhorst initiated in 2008, which has played a central role in South African ballet,” Saevitzon says. For more call 011 877-6893.

Residents watch TV at the PVA in Joubert Park.

Fans urged to use PVAs Sraff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za

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occer fans around the city will be able to view Afcon matches from public viewing areas (PVAs) in several areas, the City of Joburg has announced in a statement.

It stated that fans may watch all the 32 matches from the huge TV screens in several parts of the city, introduced during the 2010 soccer World Cup event “Township TV has, in partnership with the City of Joburg, made sure that you don’t miss any of the action.

There will be a total of nine public viewing areas (PVAs) throughout the City, where soccer lovers, patriotic South Africans, friends and families can gather and follow the action on big screen high definition TV monitors amid a joyful and celebratory atmosphere.”

The statement encouraged soccer fans to use the big screens to their fullest benefit.

“With a myriad of fans wearing makarapas and blowing their vuvuzelas expected to throng into these venues on match days, you cannot wish for a more vibey cel-

ebration of this continental football extravaganza,” it added.

The PVAs where the Afcon fans may watch matches are in Joubert Park, Joburg inner-city; Sarafina Park, Diepsloot; Ivory Park, Haile Selassie Street, Midrand; Thokoza Park, Rockville, Soweto; Kremetart Park, Eldorado Park; Diepkloof Extreme Park, Immink Street, Diepkloof; Corner Klipspruit Valley Road and Armitage Street, Orlando West, Soweto; Regional Park 4424/8, Mbali Street, Orange Farm 1 and Rose Park, corner Rose Avenue and Argon Street, Lenasia.

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Warplanes pound fighters Bamako - French fighter jets have hit targets in northern Mali since Friday. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the warplanes bombed Gao town, extending their raids deep into rebel territory and helping government forces recapture the central town of Konna.

Fabius said that had France not intervened, the Islamists could have advanced as far as the capital.

Dioncounda Traore Human Rights Watch said 10 civilians died in Konna as Malian forces fought to recapture the town. French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the fighter jets had destroyed rebel training camps and logistics depots in Gao. A UN-backed force from ECOWAS states had not been expected until autumn, and the rebels had taken advantage of this delay to attack, prompting Mali’s interim president Dioncounda Traore to ask for French intervention. French bombers targeted Ansar Dine headquarters in Kidal and its leader Iyad Ag Ghaly, and the fighters have left the historic town of Timbuktu.

France has sent nearly 550 troops to the capital, to be joined by troops from Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Togo. The UK has provided two C17 transport planes to aid the French effort. Support was also coming from the US, Denmark and other European countries.

Mubarak to be retried

Focus on Africa Hosni Mubarak

Govt, rebels in peace deal Bangui – President Francois Bozize has reached an agreement with the rebels who sought to overthrow him, to create a government of national unity.

Friday’s agreement includes a ceasefire, envisages the dissolution of the country’s National Assemby and allows Bozize to stay until 2016. The announcement came after talks in Libreville, mediated by neighbouring nations, organised after rebels swept through the north seizing control of a dozen towns.

Mediator Chadian Foreign Affairs Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat said the national unity pact includes a provision that a prime minister be appointed from the country’s opposition, and legislative elections organised in a year. “The mandate of President Bozize is a constitutional question. We cannot challenge the Central African Republic’s constitution,” said Chadian President Idriss Deby.

Bozize seized power in 2003, and later won elections in 2005 and 2011. The rebels had called for Bozize to step down and dismissed his calls fior a GNU. Their offensive stopped short of the capital but posed the gravest threat to Bozize during his 10 years in power.

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Cairo - A court has ordered a retrial for ex-President Hosni Mubarak after accepting an appeal against his life sentence over the death of protesters. Ex-Interior Minister Habib al-Adly will also be retried on the same charge.

Mubarak will also be retried on corruption charges for which he was acquitted in June. He led Egypt for almost 30 years, surviving six assassination attempts, before the revolt against his rule.

Mubarak’s lawyer Mohamed Razek said the retrial would be based on the same evidence used in the previous trial. At the request of prosecutors, Judge Ahmed Rahman also overturned the acquittal of Mubarak, his sons Gamal and Alaa, and businessman Hussein Salem on corruption charges.

Mubarak is currently in a military hospital after getting hurt in a fall in his prison bathroom. After a 10-month trial, Mubarak and Adly were convicted of conspiring in the killing of protesters. The two men had faced possible death sentences over the killing of 850 protesters.

Victims’ relatives were disappointed that Mubarak was not convicted of ordering the killings. He had not been tried for abuses committed earlier. At that trial in June, he was acquitted of corruption.

Buccaneer leader quits

Uhuru Kenyatta

Deadly ethnic violence erupts Nairobi – At least 10 people have been killed in the south-east in what officials say is a revenge attack.

More people were injured in the attack by suspected ethnic Ormas on a Pokomo village in the Tana River delta region. Security had been stepped up after 100 villagers died in attacks in the area last year. Settled Pokomo farmers and semi-

nomadic Orma pastoralists have clashed for years over farmland in the region.

But some say the fighting is political because elections are due in March.

Following the violence in August and September, an MP from the region, Dhadho Godhana, was arrested for inciting violence.

The UN says this may be related to the redrawing of

Mogadishu - Pirate leader Mohamed Hassan has renounced a life of hijacking ships. His profession earned him fame and fortune - prior to an international naval crackdown that has curbed attacks on maritime commercial craft.

A UN Monitoring Group report said he commanded bandits in the Arabian Sea and off the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa for almost a decade, raking in millions of dollars in ransom payments.

Security analysts said he had already grown rich off the proceeds of piracy and seemed to have decided it was no longer worth the increasing risk.

In 2011, Somali piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the north-western Indian Ocean netted $160m, and cost the world economy some $7bn, according to the American One Earth Future foundation. Just seven ships were seized in the Indian Ocean off Somalia in the first 11 months of last year, compared political boundaries ahead of the election. In to 24 in 2011, after NATO, the EU and others sent the 2007 polls over 1 500 people were killed. warships there. The UN Monitoring Group said auThe ICC has charged politicians like Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto over the deaths. Mohamed Hassan thorities protect pirate chiefs from arrest.

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Delicately made music - airy, spacious, terribly complex but never convoluted - has a lot to teach the Western wizards of metric modulation and layered rythms about grace and balance Bongani Ndodana-Breen

Thenjiwe Nkosi

Lebogang Rasethaba

Piano concerto for Joburg fest

Contemporary art expo C The show explores local, grounded moments of engagement, as broader socio-economic and political changes affect Chinese and South African societies Gilly Hemphill

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South Africa/Chinese art collaboration is set to be presented at the Standard Bank Gallery in Joburg CBD next month.

One of the most critical geopolitical shifts of the 21st century has been the rise of China as an economic power, and its venture into the the African continent. Too often, however, the media sensationalises China-Africa relations, simplistically framing China as either Africa’s new curse or as the economic saviour to the continent. While revived China-Africa relations have piqued the interest of economists, little meaningful cultural understanding exists, and ‘Sinophobia’ is hot on the heels of ‘Afrophobia’.

The art exhibition titled Making Way: Contemporary Art from South, explores the ways in which contemporary artists based in South Africa and China engage with new paths of movement, with economic and cultural shifts, and with the rise of new regimes, new leaders and new social and urban spaces.

This is the first time the works of the internationally acclaimed Chinese artists, Wu Junyong, Chen Qiulin, Maleonn and Qin Ga will

be exhibited in South Africa.

Local artists Lebogang Rasethaba, Gerald Machona, Michael MacGarry and James Webb deal directly with China-Africa relations. While Rasethaba and MacGarry consider personal relationships between Chinese and African people that arise from recent opportunities in trade and education, Webb and Machona play with stereotypical perceptions and constructions of ‘foreignness’ in China and South Africa.

Rapid change in physical and social landscapes often accompanies geopolitical shift. While Wu Junyong’s animation videos mime the absurdity of power, greed, monotony and futility in contexts that lack change, Chen Qiulin grapples with dramatic economic and urban reconstruction in relation to the development of the Three Gorges Dam. Kudzanai Chiurai and Shanghai photographer, Maleonn, register change by questioning the strategies of leaders, and wittily consider the youths’ often awkward relationship to the past as well as their fresh approach to the present.

Both the Chinese and isiXhosa translations of ‘making way’ suggest the notion of opening up the road. In a number of works, art-

‘Cracking

good comedy’

Show is based on the crazy realities and equally crazy characters of a previously bustling Indian suburb

ists such as Hua Jiming, Thenjiwe Nkosi, Gerald Machona, Dan Halter, Dotun Makun and Vulindlela Nyoni challenge the ways in which societies attempt to close down opportunities with ‘Sinophobic’ and ‘Afrophobic’ attitudes as new paths and global patterns of movement open up.

While many of these new roads reflect global reconfigurations, the theme of walking, crawling or corporeally scraping along the ground - as seen in the works of Doung Anwar Jahangeer, Hua Jiming, Qin Ga, Athi-Patra Ruga, Randolph Hartzenberg and Brent Meistre, embeds the action of ‘making way’ in personally, culturally and locally intimate ways.

As such, Making Way explores local, grounded moments of engagement, as broader socio-economic and political changes affect Chinese and South African societies.

Making Way: Contemporary Art from South Africa and China is curated by Ruth Simbao, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University.

The exhibition runs at the Standard Bank Gallery, from 30 January to 28 March, and admission is free. For more call 011 631 4467 or visit www.makingway.co.za

Nolwazi Hlebela The popular Sans Moonsamy and Kas Pillay, aka Those Indian Guys, are once again causing comic mayhem with their new show called Whipped.

This is ‘cracking good comedy’ which takes to the stage at Gold Reef City’s Globe Theatre from 25 January to 10 February.

The entertaining show is loosely based on the crazy realities and

equally crazy characters of a previously bustling Indian suburb.

There are bickering neighbours as a new Zimbabwean family (The Tsvangirais, no relation to Morgan) move in, love triangles and an unsolved murder (Aunt Saras’ long suffering husband Bala has been murdered and she is a main suspect). Then there is also the mystery of a stolen goat.

With all this in the mix plus a bit of dance, music and multicul-

Arts Correspondent omposer Bongani NdodanaBreen is the 2013 Composerin-Residence for the 5th Johannesburg International Mozart Festival (JIMF), opening on 27 January with the theme If you would Dance?.

Ndodana-Breen has written a wide range of music encompassing symphonic work, opera, chamber music and vocal music. According to The New York Times his “… delicately made music - airy, spacious, terribly complex but never convoluted - has a lot to teach the Western wizards of metric modulation and layered rhythms about grace and balance.”

The work that he is bringing to JIMF will be a piano concerto called Mzilikazi, based on a theme from Prof Mzilikazi Khumalo’s Bawo Thixo Somandla, an anthem he wrote 40 years ago at the height of the difficulties of South Africa’s struggle for liberation.

Ndodana-Breen said the the piano concerto shows how far we have come as a country. “It shows how we were resilient during the darkest of times, the hardships we endured as a people. This gives hope for our future, we can overcome anything acting together as a people.”

Performers around the world have performed his music, including the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Vancouver Opera Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic, New York City’s Vox Vocal Ensemble, Music aNoir, Chicago’s Cube Ensemble and Ossia.

Ndodana-Breen has received commissions from Wigmore Hall,

turalism put in, this becomes a mesmerizing hysterical whodunit with a difference.

The cast of Sans Moonsamy and Kas Pillay brings together one of South Africa’s funniest comedy duos, and this year they celebrate their five year anniversary of Those Indian Guys.

Moonsamy has appeared in Funny Bitz and Curry on Laughing both at Gold Reef City as well as numerous TV and big

Vancouver Recital Society, Madam Walker Theatre Indianapolis, SAMRO, UNISA, Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival, the Emancipation Festival of Trinidad & Tobago, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Luminato Festival of Toronto, the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt for the Haydn 200th anniversary, and now also the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival.

He is the composer of Winnie, The Opera, based on the life of Winnie Mandela, which premiered to great acclaim in April 2011 at the State Theatre in Pretoria. Other operas include the children’s chamber opera Themba & Seliba, the chamber monodrama Umuntu -Threnody (commissioned by the National Arts Council) and the short opera Hani (commissioned by UCT & Cape Town Opera) which premiered at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town in 2010.

His current projects include an oratorio Credo based on South Africa’s historic Freedom Charter with novelist Brent Meersman.

Ndodana-Breen was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music in 1998 and was selected as one of the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans of 2011.

He is currently the Creative Director of Pina Ya Thari (Pty) Ltd, a production company he co-founded in 2011. He was director of the Canadian new music organization Ensemble Noir from 1999 – 2007, touring Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa. The rest of the JIMF programme will again include various symphony concerts and recitals.

The final programme is available on www.join-mozart-festival.org.

screen roles including DemoCrazy, Vehicle 19, Blitz Patrollie and Bakgat 3.

Pillay is also no stranger to Gold Reef City and performed in Old School, Queens of Comedy and Those Indian Guys 2.

He is also well known for his role in the comedy Mr Bones 2 with TV credits including On the Couch, Sketch you Later and The Raj on Supersport. He also starred in Blitz Patrollie.

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he 2013 Afcon tourney starting this Saturday is a fine place to spot emerging talent.

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Khune said Bafana stand a good chance. “I believe we have great players who can deliver and there is no reason why we should not do well.This is a new generation of players who are hungry for success and we have a strong belief that we can go all the way.”

Bafana open the tournament against Cape Verde on Saturday, and Khune said the backing of the nation was crucial if they were expected to lift the Afcon trophy for the first time since 1996.

“I thank the fans for their continued support and urge them to continue to be behind the national team. Unity is strength. With their support we can do very well and go far. They just need to exercise some patience as results are mixed at the moment, but we will get back to our winning ways.”

Bafana played to a goalless draw against Algeria in a warmup match at Orlando Stadium last Saturday. Khune and midfielder Kagisho Dikgacoi earned their 50th caps for the national team.

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