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Changing the future for African girls Women are generally discouraged from careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and steered towards traditionally female roles instead.

KnowBe4 Africa vice-president Anna Collard

Johannesburg - With Africa’s future reliant on its ability to adapt to digital transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), levelling the playing field for women has become critical.

The 2021 Tomorrow’s Cyber Heroines study by CyberHeroines, KnowBe4 Africa and Infosphere surveyed more than 445 teachers across 14 African countries to unpack the complexities that face African girls in the technology landscape.

Vice-president for content strategy and evangelist at KnowBe4 Africa, Anna Collard says: “We have to give girls more opportunities, inspire them to get involved in technology and the cybersecurity field, and to remove the preconceived and socialised ideas that prevent women from pursuing careers in technology. The world is digitising rapidly and women are at risk of being left behind. We have to change the dialogue around technology and make it more inclusive for women and girls.”

A recent study by the Association for Progressive Communications underscored the reality of the gender digital divide.

In Africa women have less access to internet-based technologies than men, they have fewer opportunities, and they are even more limited in their ability to move out from under poverty.

“As the world continues to move into automation, women will be the most affected as

their roles are replaced by machines. Change has to start now, to start at home, and it has to be carried through into education,” she adds.

InfoSphere managing director Aprielle Oichoe says: “We want African women to participate in the digital age, we cannot leave them behind. We must empower girls to go into technology and this starts at a young age. We need to make a conscious decision to change the way we treat young girls. The dialogue needs to focus on making technology interesting for girls, not just something that they should ‘leave to their brother’.”

The study found that a lack of education, limited guidance, minimal role models and societal preconceptions have a serious, longterm impact on women’s careers and futures.

With cybersecurity and technology struggling to find skilled people, the market is wide open for those with the talent and the training to build sustainable and successful futures. In addition to thriving careers, training and education in technology and cybersecurity is essential for the wellbeing of young girls and women in Africa.

Key findings from the report indicate that more than 445 teachers from 14 African countries uncover the route to technology and cybersecurity careers for African girls; only 3,7% of African schools offer cybersecurity as a subject; and it has become critical to dispel the stereotypes for women, to inspire them to enter technology, and to create

positive role models that change the shape of the industry.

Collard says: “According to research, women of colour are 34% more likely to be targeted by online hate speech than their white counterparts, and a huge percentage of African girls are concerned about their online safety. We must give them the tools; training and confidence they need to prepare for this online vitriol, and protect themselves.”

The key factors inhibiting women’s entry to the worlds of technology and cybersecurity include negative stereotypes, lack of role models or mentors, low self-confidence, and competing in a male-dominated industry.

Women are generally discouraged from careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and steered towards traditionally female roles instead.

Oichoe says: “There is no such thing as a female role, not anymore; now there is just opportunity. We just have to make sure that this opportunity is given to everyone.”

The report unpacks the findings, insights and solutions put forward by educators and experts across Africa. It examines the education curriculum, the challenges facing young African girls today, and it looks at suggested initiatives that can be implemented to shift perceptions and transform the future for the women of Africa.

For more information on the issues visit the website www.CyberHeroines.com.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN What is Graphic Design?

Are you the person whose maths book was half-filled with doodles?

The one who drew caricatures of your classmates and teachers?

The student that could be traced by the drawings on school desks?

If so, you are most probably well suited for Graphic Design.

If you like spending hours creating images on your computer or I-pad, taking endless pictures on your phone, if you are fascinated by cartoons and comics, then you are even better suited for Graphics.

A Graphic Designer is someone who is curious about all things visual, and better still, able to be critical about what they see.

Everything you see has an element of design to it. Some things are designed to be practical as it might have a specific function like a kettle for instance. A Graphic designer will deal with the pattern on the side of the kettle, and the colour, the box it fits into, the advertisement of the product, the Website of the brand.

Where do Graphic Designers work? Advertising agencies, Design agencies, Web companies, magazines or printing companies, and for a lucky few some of the bigger brands have their own in-house agencies – like Coke or Nike.

Cool thing though, most students start their own companies halfway through their studies. Little selfowned design agencies, doing logos and ads and posters for the hairdresser down the road, or your friends’ mothers’ shop, or an invite to a party or a backdrop for a hall.

What do Graphic Designers do mostly? If we learned one thing from lockdown then it would be that

If you like spending hours creating images you are suited for Graphics

online is quite effective. Most companies and agencies and organisations nowadays have a website.

To be able to build a website they would also need a logo and what we call ‘corporate identity” which is simply a rough guide on colours and fonts (letter types) and layouts that companies use to create uniformity between their products and advertising.

As a Graphic designer, all of the above would be your job.

And should they need a poster or a flyer or a package for their product; that too will be your job. And if they run an in-house magazine or an online presence; that too will be your job. Should the company require a t-shirt or a branded carry bag; the Graphic designer will be the one doing this.

What will you learn at Boston?

We will teach you how to be aware of the visual, how to look at an im-

age critically, analysing colours and layout and fonts and tone and feeling. We will teach you to be more creative, to think up wild and wonderful ideas for ads and campaigns. We will teach you some Adobe programmes, like Illustrator and Photoshop that has become the basics for Designers.

To this we will add Web design programmes and a few others to spice up your life.

We will teach you how to read a brief from a client and how to interpret their requests visually. We will teach you how to be a professional Graphic Designer, and no longer the one who filled their notebooks with doodles.

Not that doodles aren’t cool.

Register now for the Diploma in Media Practices at Boston Media House, specialising in Graphic Design, and create your destiny in the field of design.

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Increase in account takeovers Tech Reporter

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ast year every second fraudulent transaction in the finance industry was an account takeover, a report

by Kaspersky Fraud Prevention has found.

According to events detected by Kaspersky Fraud Prevention from January to December 2020, the share of such incidents increased from 34% in 2019 to 54% in 2020.

Two schemes to get access to a bank account, “the rescuer” and “the investor,” remain among the most common since 2019.

The importance of digital financial services and e-commerce increased in 2020 with people spending more time at home as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Kaspersky experts suggest that it caused a spike in social engineering techniques being exploited by cybercriminals. In addition to the rise of account takeovers, in 12% of fraudulent incidents, legitimate remote administration tools (RAT) such as TeamViewer were used in an attempt to gain access to user accounts.

The fraud prevention team distinguishes two common approaches used by attackers to obtain access to accounts, both continuations from similar trends noticed in 2019. The first sees scammers pretend to be security experts and act out scenarios to ‘save’ users.

They call bank customers posing as security officers and report suspicious charges or payments, and offer their help. They may ask customers to verify their identity through a code sent in a text message or push-notification, to stop a suspicious transaction or to transfer money to a ‘secure account’.

They can also ask a victim to install

Fraud prevention head Claire Hatcher

an application for remote management pretending that it is required for troubleshooting. The scammers often introduce themselves as employees of the largest bank in the region, and use a spoofed caller ID for incoming calls to pose as a real bank.

The second example is where cybercriminals pose as employees of an investment company; or as investment consultants from a bank. They call customers offering a quick way to make money by investing in cryptocurrency or shares directly from the client’s account, without having to go to a bank branch.

As a prerequisite for providing the “investment service”, the investor asks the potential victim for the code received in a text message or push notification.

Head of business development at Kaspersky Fraud Prevention, Claire Hatcher says bank clients always place a high value on ease of access to their accounts and performance of usual financial operations.

“That is why we believe that solutions for the financial industry should provide a high level of security measures, including protection against fraud, which are integrated into the user experience. It’s worth regularly reminding clients about fraudsters’ techniques, so that they are likely to notice something.” Hatcher says.

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Dept evaluates Russian Sputnik Covid-19 vaccine Each ward will be capacitated with 15 Expanded

New waste management model

Johannesburg - Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has said government is evaluating and engaging manufacturers of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, while considering China’s offer of the Sinopharm vaccine.

Mkhize said batches of the Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine were to be used as part of the first phase of the immunisation plan for healthcare workers as early as next week; and that South Africa would also get Pfizer vaccines, to be used in the first phase of the rollout.

“The country has also secured doses from Pfizer for the phase one rollout, so they will be brought forward earlier than originally planned. Our scientists continue evaluating other candidates while engaging manufacturers,” he said.

There are concerns that the Pfizer vaccine has to be stored at minus 70 degrees, but Mkhize said there is a plan.

“They have packaging that carries a freezing capacity that allows them to carry the stuff without it being damaged for a certain period. They have given us the equipment to deal with that. Our provinces have identified areas where there are such freezers,” he said.

From next week, South Africa will also receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccines, which have shown to be effective against the second variant of the virus.

It is understood that health regulator SAHPRA is processing an application for its emergency authorisation.

Public Works Programme employees who will assist with waste management issues Johannesburg - Joburg’s Environment and Infrastructure Services MMC Mpho Moerane recently launched Pikitup’s new co-production model at the company’s Southdale depot.

In a statement the entity said the co-production model is expected to create 2 025 employment opportunities in all the City’s regions and supports the #KleenaJoburgReloaded clean-up campaign.

In terms of the model, each ward in the city will be capacitated with 15 Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) employees who will assist with waste management issues.

Moerane said: “This model entails appointment of cooperatives, nonprofit companies and exempted micro-enterprises, to ensure improved integrated waste management services in the City.”

Pikitup has appointed 48 such companies that will in turn appoint Expanded Public Works Programme workers to assist with the management of litter-picking, street cleaning and conducting education and awareness programmes.

Moerane emphasised the importance of taking ownership of the city’s cleanliness by all who reside in it.

“It is easy to blame the government for everything each time our city is littered with trash. However, to help enhance the cleanliness in our streets, it is important for us to note that the responsibility to keep our city clean remains with all of us,” he said.

He also warned the cooperatives to hire people who reside in their wards, as such people would be responsible for ensuring that local residents did not litter or dispose of waste illegally.

Moerane emphasised that educating residents on the importance of a clean environment is the best option to ensure a cleaner Joburg.

Though the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) is responsible for bylaw enforcement, which includes arresting and also imposing fines on people who litter and those who dump waste illegally, their efforts were insufficient because of a range of reasons, MMC Moerane explained.

Plans to build gasfired power plants

Johannesburg - Harith General Partners, which funds infrastructure development across Africa, is pushing plans to build the first gas-fired power plants in Gauteng and is exploring options to source the fuel.

The fund manager wants to build two gasfired plants at the site of its coal-fired Kelvin Power Station, east of Johannesburg.

The government’s energy blueprint, the Integrated Resource Plan, includes proposals to bring gas to the region from 2023. Harith’s chief executive officer Sipho Makhubela says that target is not ambitious enough.

“We are working on shortening that time frame because we can’t wait that long. The bottlenecks are holding us back,” he says.

South Africa has suffered intermittent power outages since 2008 because of inadequate generation capacity and the poor state of some plants owned by Eskom.

The country is also almost entirely dependent on electricity generated from coal and is under pressure to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Gas, while a fossil fuel, is less harmful to the environment than coal.

Makhubela said the new plants could jointly produce between 450mw and 700mw of power, depending on the technology used.

“The economy needs security of supply, especially base-load supply; this would be base-load supply. A first gas plant that is 60% owned by Harith and 40% held by the Public Investment Corp, which manages state workers’ pensions, could be built on the site of an idle Kelvin unit. The

Harith CEO Sipho Makhubela

second plant could be constructed on another site once a power purchase agreement is concluded between Kelvin and the City of Johannesburg,” he said.

Harith is considering bringing in liquefied natural gas transported by road or rail, or buying gas from Sasol to fuel its new plants.

Moerane said the work of the appointed cooperatives, NGOs and micro-enterprises were critical in ensuring that Joburg rids itself of the tag of being a dirty city.

“The EPWP workers who would be employed must also be responsible for recording and reporting incidences such as potholes, dysfunctional traffic lights, leaking pipes, and monitoring and managing illegal dumping spots, ensuring that dumping did not recur in future,” he said.

Moerane stressed that the people to be employed must be given Covid-19 protective clothing.

“I do not want to be called and asked how is it possible that half of the people who have been employed are now Covid-19 positive. Covid-19 is serious, and I urge all the cooperatives that will be employing the people to ensure that their employees are protected against the virus.”

Moerane appealed to the cooperatives to work with ward councillors to mitigate cases of people who may demand to be employed without following correct processes.

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Women’s summit to reset Africa

The summit will reflect on the most disruptive period in recent history, through the collective anecdotes and shared experiences of contrarians and corporate powerhouses, also recording for posterity the measurable solutions that will reset Africa.

Forbes Woman Africa editor Renuka Methil

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Johannesburg - Since its inception in 2016, the Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit has been a platform bringing together a unique collection of female leaders and trail-blazers from across Africa and the world.

Held a year after the first reported Covid-19 case in South Africa in March 2020, the summit will reflect on the most disruptive period in recent history, through the collective anecdotes and shared experiences of contrarians and corporate powerhouses, also recording for posterity the measurable solutions that will reset Africa.

In honour of International Women’s Day, the 2021 Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit, presented by Mastercard, will be

held for the first time, as a freeto-attend virtual event on 8 and 9 March 2021.

This year’s theme, Africa Reloaded: The Power of The Collective, will look back on the year that changed everything through hardhitting talks, fireside chats and insightful panel sessions, and look forward to a new path of recovery, growth and inclusivity on the continent, as a single market where Africa trades with Africa.

Managing editor of Forbes Woman Africa Renuka Methil said: “This new vision can be achieved only by harnessing the power of the collective, and by collaborating as equal stakeholders in the financial and digital economy.

The Forbes Woman Africa Lead-

ing Women Summit has been a much-anticipated calendar event for the last five years, and this year too, will attract globally renowned thinkers and doers.”

Senior vice president of communications at Mastercard Africa and Middle East, Beatrice Cornacchia said gender equality is a core priority at Mastercard.

“This is why we are proud to partner with Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit for the second consecutive year, and continue our collaboration by bringing diverse perspectives, leveraging networks, sharing insights and resources to help women navigate the current and post pandemic world. Mastercard recognizes the challenges holding women back,

from inequality to exclusion, many of which have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. As such, we are leveraging our partnerships to tackle this problem head on. We believe that working together to connect women to priceless possibilities is fundamental in unlocking their potential. Africa’s inclusive growth depends on it,” Cornacchia said.

ABN Group managing director Roberta Naicker said: “We believe that the summit is a source of inspiration to connect and empower women, helping them to realize their potential and rise to new heights.”

To register visit https://hopin. com/events/forbes-woman-africaleading-women-summit.

Black-owned company to be region’s biggest

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The acquisition of T-Systems business includes about 500 highly skilled staff members and a Tier 3 Data Centre which will enhance Gijima to be the prominent mainframe & IT data services giant in Africa

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Contact: Charles on 060 738 8851 Gijima executive Maphum Nxumalo

ICT company Gijima has announced that the T-system South Africa (TSSA) acquisition has been approved by the Competition Commission, a deal that is expected to position Gijima as the largest black-owned ICT company in Southern Africa, with about 500 employees joining it in March.

TSSA has been operating in South Africa for over 20 years, providing ICT networks, applications and solutions to a number of industries around the country.

Although the announcement was made in October last year, after a

long period of negotiations, the acquisition was still subject to approval from the Competition Commission.

This deal will enable Gijima to have access to international IP, TSSA’s global Cybersecurity Security Operations Centre (SOC), certificates, expertise and best practices.

Further, the acquisition of T-Systems business includes about 500 highly skilled staff members and a Tier 3 Data Centre which will enhance Gijima to be the prominent mainframe & IT data services giant in Africa.

These services will be coupled with Gijima’s existing cloud com-

puting and digitalization offerings.

Gijima Group chief executive Maphum Nxumalo said: “The synergetic nature of this deal, at a time when ICT is playing a major role in the new normal ushered by Covid-19, puts Gijima at the forefront of the digital era, fully empowered to deliver world-class services and solutions in cloud enablement, AI, cybersecurity, IOT and innovative digitalization transformation. We are further encouraged and thankful to Deutsche Telekom for having concluded the historic sale to a 100% black-owned and managed company that enhances transformation in our country.”

CBD cable thieves arrested Last month a cable thief was charged with tampering with infrastructure and was jailed for eight years Johannesburg - Following a tip-off on Saturday morning JMPD officers arrested three men who were allegedly found stealing cables from an underground tunnel in Pritchard Street.

JMPD spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said the officers got a tip-off from security guards after they heard loud cutting sounds from an underground tunnel.

“The officers found three men stealing cables and placing them inside bags that are often used by trolley pushers for collecting plastic bottles for recycling. They were arrested for theft and possession of stolen property,” he said.

Last month a cable thief who was caught with copper cables while trying to steal more in April last year was charged with tampering with infrastructure and was jailed for eight years.

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Council seeks comments on service delivery Johannesburg - City of Joburg Speaker of Council Nonceba Molwele is hosting virtual public consultations to allow residents to determine the character of the City’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP).

The Council led communitybased planning (CBP) outreach sessions on digital platforms are scheduled to run between 9 February and 5 March, affording residents a platform to air views about how the City can deal with backlogs in municipal services.

“These sessions ensure that people are actively involved in their development. They help the City understand community issues better and to address service delivery backlogs,” Molwele says.

The outreach sessions serve as a forerunner to the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) process, designed to produce service delivery policies for each ward in the City’s seven regions.

Molwele says all public comments are critical to ensure a legitimate IDP consultation process as provided for in prescripts of municipal governance.

“This process will assist us to be responsive and to plan accordingly, and also build partnerships between communities and the City,” she adds.

Molwele highlights that the sessions will be held in line with recently adjusted protocols regulating Level 3 of the Covid-19 lockdown. “Consultations will be held in line with Directive 6.7 of the Regulations issued by the Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs. This should be read together with the adjusted Level 3

R10 million to fight GBV

The pledge will go towards the implementation of Pillars 4 and 5 of the NSP on GBVF, covering areas such as response, care, survivor support, healing and economic empowerment

Council Speaker Nonceba Molwele

regulations, which call for stricter adherence to all Covid-19 public health and containment prescripts, especially those relating to gatherings, physical distancing, health and safety,” she says.

The engagements will be streamed live on the City’s social media pages, including Twitter and Facebook. Residents may also join by logging onto the City’s website, www.joburg.org.za; click on Notices, then select CBP meeting.

“You will then select the region and cluster you want to join. You’ll get to join the MS Teams sessions by clicking on the barcode icon.

There is also a link to make online comments and a short video clip on the CBP process,” says Molwele.

Inputs may be submitted to cbpinputs@joburg.org.za or online by clicking on this link: https://share. hsforms.com/1-W81Bz_gS6yf20an7wB-uQ469tl.

Written comments can be submitted through suggestion boxes available at each regional office.

For any enquiries call Yusuf Lachporia on 011 407-6310 or email Yusufl@joburg.org.za.

Teen jailed for murder and rape Johannesburg - Last week the Vereeniging circuit court, sitting at the Palm Ridge regional court, sentenced an 18-year-old youth to 13 years in prison for murder, rape, robbery and assault.

On Thursday National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Lumka Mahanjana said the convict; Thabisile Ntayiya of Sebokeng was jailed for crimes he committed when he was aged 16 in 2019.

“He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years for murder, 10 years for rape, eight years for robbery with aggravating circumstances; and two years for assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

The court ordered the sentences to run concurrently,” Mahanjana said.

On the night of January 19 in 2019 Ntayiya knocked at the door of a 39-year-old woman who lived with her three-year-old son; pretending to be a woman by using a feminine voice, Mahanjana said.

“When the door was opened he

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stabbed her several times in the neck and raped her. The child woke up and saw his mother lying on the floor. When the child asked what was happening he took the child to the mother’s car, which was parked outside. When he could not start the car he left the child on top of a house’s concrete boundary wall and fled. The child fell off the wall onto the yard and was found by the occupants,” said Mahanjana.

Mahanjana added that the halfnaked body of the deceased was found in a pool of blood by her mother, who called the police. A few months later, investigating officer Sergeant Desmond Moko identified Ntayiya as the suspect and arrested him at his school.

“He confessed to the crime and pleaded guilty. Prosecutor Annalie Coetzee said the sentence sends a message that minors who commit offences of gender-based violence will not be spared the full might of the law,” Mahanjana said.

Johannesburg - Cellular network provider Vodacom has pledged R10 million to fund a private sector-led, multi-sectoral Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) Response Fund 1 to support the implementation of the National Strategic Plan (NSP), and the wider GBVF response in the country.

Pioneered by the International Women’s Forum South Africa (IWFSA) and the Presidency in collaboration with several strategic partners, the GBVF Response Fund 1 is the brainchild of a resolution of the Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Declaration, which followed the 2018 GBVF Summit, and is aimed at finding sustainable solutions to ending the scourge of GBV.

External affairs director of Vodacom South Africa, Takalani Netshitenzhe says: “We are delighted about the launch of the GBVF Response Fund 1 as it is going to help the private sector collaborate closely with the public sector to end the scourge of Gender-Based Violence in South Africa. As pioneers in the use of technology in the fight against GBV, at Vodacom we have always believed that fighting GBV requires a coordinated approach and partnership between government, civil society and business. Accordingly, we welcome President Cyril Ramaphosa’s bold vision and plans to look at tackling the scourge of GBV. We will use the R10 million we have pledged

Vodacom director Takalani Netshitenzhe

for programmes identified by the GBVF Response Fund 1.”

Vodacom’s funding pledge will go towards the implementation of Pillars 4 and 5 of the NSP on GBVF, covering areas such as response, care, survivor support, healing and economic empowerment.

Gunmen arrested in CBD Johannesburg - On Tuesday police arrested two suspects aged of 37 and 41 for attempted carjacking and possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition in Main Street, Joburg CBD, according to police spokesperson Captain Xoli Mbele.

He said the suspects allegedly attempted to hijack a 34- year-old male driving a blue Kia vehicle.

“The victim was at Shell garage at corner Mooi and Main streets filling up petrol when he was confronted

by two suspects. They pushed a petrol attendant away; one of them showed him a firearm while his accomplice tried to grab a key from the ignition. He drove away a high speed and came to the police station to report the incident. Intelligence gathered information from the ground was activated and the suspects were intercepted while walking in the street. Police recovered an unlicensed firearm and ammunition from them. The firearm will be

sent for ballistic testing to ascertain if it was used in committing other serious and violent crimes,” Mbele said.

Johannesburg Central police station commander Brigadier Perumal commended the swift response by the police officers in arresting the suspects. He issued a stern warning that if suspects think of coming to Johannesburg CBD to commit crime; they must think twice because they will end up in custody.

Crooks steal City Power transformer Johannesburg - Two men recently broke into a City Power transformer substation at Village Deep and stole a transformer worth R600 000, plunging the area into darkness for three days, according to spokesperson Isaac Mangena.

Mangena said at that time there was a power outage in the area, and the suspects took advantage of it.

“They brought a crane truck and removed the transformer; witnesses said the suspects told business people that the transformer was being taken for repairs because it was faulty. A customer took photos of the truck and the suspects and shared them with City Power Secu-

rity Risk Management the next day, but it was too late since the suspects had already left,” Mangena said.

Security Risk Management’s Sergeant Thela said preliminary analysis indicates that it was organised crime, and that the suspects had assistance of insiders.

“First a commercial vehicle bearing City Power contractor sticker visited the scene as criminal reconnaissance. Later a crane truck bearing a false registration number came and they removed the trans-

former. This is shocking, we need help to identify the suspects and have them arrested,” Thela said.

Anyone with information about the theft is urged to call the police or City Power Security Risk Management control room at 011 490 7900, 011 490 7911 or 011 490 7553.

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UJ playwriting lab applications open

SA creatives’ textile designs feature in global collection

Lakin Morgan-Baatjies UJ Arts & Culture invites aspirant and established playwrights to apply for participation in the second round of its online playwriting laboratory.

In addition to supporting development of seven new works that playwrights worked on as part of the 2020 UJ Playwriting Lab, UJ Arts & Culture also facilitated the development of Hlakanyana, based on an isiZulu folk tale, in partnership with Madevu Entertainment and Janice Honeyman and co-produced a new youth-drama, Mother’s Grimm, in partnership with Jade Bowers Design and Management. This follows several new works developed in collaboration or in residence at UJ Arts & Culture over the past few years.

Head of UJ Arts & Culture Pieter Jacobs says: “Our country is rich in stories and we believe that it is important to develop and archive content that resonate with or is important to our community, that stimulate discourse and that make the world a more beautiful or interesting place, in an African way.”

The aim of this playwriting programme is for participants to complete the script for a 60-90 minute one-act play by the end of 2021. The first cohort of playwrights included Francesco Nassimbeni, TamariskRay Glogauer, Francesca Matthys, Khwezi Becker, Jarred Thompson, Gabriella Pinto and Lalu Mokuku.

Between three and five of the plays

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Mabaso’s winning print, called Rain Maker, was inspired by the first Rain Queen, Maselekwane Modjadji, of the Balobedu people of Limpopo; a combination of repetitive lines and circles reflecting raindrops running down a glass window.

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completed will be selected for a play reading series in 2021.

Application for this year’s playwriting laboratory is now open and new, emerging and established South African writers are invited to apply. The programme will be presented in English, but applicants may also indicate if they are interested in writing a play in another official language.

Applicants are required to submit one monologue of no more than 400 words, and a dialogue no more than 600 words.

The online form that is found on https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=zVp4-u82vEGKlImEEyfgRZ3QjIRn_blJs0t9MwUxH-lURFcxTklVV1ZUM0kzUTJQWDNXU0daWk1RVC4u should be completed and submitted by no later than 26 February 2021.

retoria-based designer Glorinah Mabaso has won the Trenery 2020 Print Competition, and her fabric design features internationally in Trenery’s February 2021 collection, and will travel to France for a two-week design course at the Paris College of Art. Trenery’s Australian team also selected two runner-up designs by Primrose Charmz, 29, and Agrippa Hlophe, 31 to also appear in Trenery’s February range.

The competition forms part of the brand’s support for aspiring talent in the South African art and design community.

The competition was open to emerging local designers, who were to create a unique print with a distinct, modern South African interpretation of a sophisticated summer traveller.

More than 400 entries were judged by a panel that included Visi editor Steve Smith, Norval Foundation

CEO Elana Brundyn, and the Australia-based Trenery design team.

Senior textile designer Bree Dhaliwal said: “There was an interesting variety of submissions, but the eventual winners were chosen for their standout designs that also fulfilled the brief. Glorinah’s print is bold and eye-catching, yet stays true to Trenery’s ethos of timeless, modern simplicity.”

Mabaso’s winning print, called Rain Maker, was inspired by the first Rain Queen, Maselekwane Modjadji, of the Balobedu people of Limpopo; a combination of repetitive lines and circles reflecting raindrops running down a glass window.

Mabaso said: “As the only female ruler in the region from 1800-1854, Modjadji was a respected leader in an era when women were not given leadership positions in society.

Trenery gave me an incredible platform to re-awaken the heritage.”

An interior design graduate of the Design School of South Africa, Ma-

Designer Glorinah Mabaso

baso has worked for architectural firms and recognised for her design excellence in interiors. In 2015 she founded, a studio focused on interiors and wallpaper design, called Renaissance.

Trenery’s SA marketing manager Elouise Brink said: “It was important that the winning designers had a meaningful experience. As part of their prize, they worked closely with the Australian team to learn the process involved in transitioning their designs into screen or digitally printed fabric, and finally into pieces for the Autumn/Winter 2021 collection.”

The Trenery design capsule is available in store and online.

Safa lauds partnership with Sasol ‘By playing for top overseas clubs, the biggest beneficiary of that is the senior women’s national team, Banyana Banyana’ Sports Reporter

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he partnership between the South African Football Association (Safa) and SASOL continues to bear fruits, with more than 30 Banyana Banyana players now plying their trade with top overseas clubs, Safa said in a statement.

Safa CEO Tebogo Motlanthe said he is pleased to see most women footballers having the opportunity to make a huge difference in their lives and those of their families.

“It was unheard of in the recent past for women football to earn a decent living from football, but that has changed, thanks to the partnership between Safa and SASOL, that has seen many women players going overseas and earn a really good living out of football. I would like to commend SASOL for standing

by women’s football and the change this partnership has made to everyone from the players, their families and the general rise in football standards,’’ Motlanthe said.

He added that by playing for top overseas football clubs, the biggest beneficiary of that is the senior women’s national team, Banyana Banyana.

“The team now has a wider pool, and going into the Caf Afcon and Fifa World Cup qualifiers coach Desiree Ellis will have a healthy problem on who to select and who to leave out; a wonderful dilemma to have,’’ said Motlanthe.

Banyana Banyana recently won the Cosafa Cup with a team made up of entirely local based players, and Ellis has spoken about how she intends to fuse the local talent with those plying their trade overseas.

Banyana action during the previous World Cup finals.