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Activists call for climate emergency Zoë Postman

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bout 50 activists led by the Extinction Rebellion, picketed outside the Gauteng Legislature in the Joburg CBD on Friday afternoon, calling on government to declare a climate emergency.

Some of them displayed posters which read: Greed kills our world, Tomorrow is too late, Capitalism is the problem and No action, no future.

Extinction Rebellion coordinator, Sunny Morgan, said the march was part of a larger campaign to speak

Some of the climate activists during the demonstration.

the truth about climate change, and ensure that the future of the country is in the hands of responsible people.

The demands were for government to declare a climate emergency, act immediately to halt biodiversity loss, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a transition that protects workers and vulnerable people.

“We are here to send a clear message that they can

no longer ignore the voices of ordinary people,” said Morgan.

He said the organisation has written letters and memorandums to national government but “those letters died a gentle death somewhere”.

“As long as they fail to respond and engage, we will be making our voices heard, until government engages with us responsibly. And the objective with that is the declaration of a climate emergency,” he said.

He said declaring a climate emergency would allow for more resources to be allocated to tackle climate justice.

He said the campaign would extend to the private sector, especially banks that are funding industries and proj-

ects detrimental to the environment.

Raeesah Noor Mahomed, a matriculant at Parktown Girls High has been boycotting school every Friday to raise awareness for climate change.

She said she has been following the climate justice movement and has attended marches.

“But in December and January when the Australian fires were happening, I was looking into my matric year, supposedly the most important year of my life, and I couldn’t understand how I could carry on with matric like everything was normal because it’s not,” said Mahomed.

She said if natural disasters, like the fires in Australia had to happen

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in South Africa, the country would not be able to recover and the effects would be devastating.

Inspired by teenage Swedish environment activist Greta Thunberg, Mahomed said she decided to boycott Friday classes until government declares an emergency.

Munnira Katongole, also a Parktown Girls learner, said she is inspired by Mahomed and decided to join her protests. “It is important for young people to be at the forefront of the climate change movement because it largely affects youth. It’s so pathetic to draft policies without voices of youth who make up the majority of the country,” she said. GroundUp

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Robot resources soon to be alongside HR Warehouse picking involves robots working independently or alongside humans.

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y 2025 at least two of the top 10 global retailers will establish robot resource organisations Senior research director Kelsie Marian to manage non-human workers. “mesh” with the human team; essenSenior research director at Gartner, Kelsie Marian says the retail tially meaning that both sides will industry continues to transform need to learn how to “collaborate” through a period of unprecedented to operate effectively together,” says change, with customer experience as Marian.

An example is an autonomous rothe new currency.

“The adoption of new digital tech- botic kitchen assistant that learns an nologies and the ever-changing ex- operator’s specific recipes and prepectations of customers continue to pares them according to the wishes challenge traditional retailers, forc- of the operator. The robot can work ing them to investigate new-human in harmony with the operators who, hybrid operational models, including in turn, have to adapt to changing artificial intelligence (AI), automa- consumer tastes.

Choosing the right candidate, hution and robotics,” Marian says.

Gartner research shows that 77% of man and machine, for the job is critiretailers plan to deploy AI by 2021, cal for success. A combined effort with the deployment of robotics for from HR, IT and the line-of-business warehouse picking as the number hiring managers will be required to identify the skills needed to ensure one use case.

Warehouse picking involves smart the pair work together effectively.

“Retail CIOs must provide onrobots working independently or alongside humans. In the future, re- going maintenance and monitoring tailers will establish units within the performance for effectiveness. If not, organisation for procuring, main- the team may be counterproductive taining, training, taxing, decommis- and lead to a bad customer experisioning and proper disposal of robot ence,” Marian says.

The introduction of AI and robotresources.

In addition, they will create the ics will likely cause fear and anxiety governance required to ensure that among the workforce; particularly people and robots can effectively among part-time workers.

It will be vital for retail CIOs to collaborate.

Many retail workers want to use AI work with HR and business leaders specifically as an on-demand or pre- to address and manage employees’ dictive assistant, meaning the robot skills and concerns; and change their will need to work alongside humans. mind-set around the development of “This means the robot will have to robot resource units. ITOnline

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Vodacom to launch 5G services Johannesburg - Cellphone network provider Vodacom expects to offer 5G mobile services to its South African customers this year.

Vodacom executive Shameel Joosub said that would be by using a network being built by another African operator, Liquid Telecom.

Liquid Telecom announced last month it was building a wholesale 5G network that would be available from early 2020, using its share of the 3.5 GHz spectrum required for 5G. It said it would allow other operators to roam on its network.

“We expect to be able to launch 5G services in South Africa this year.

This is possible thanks to a recent roaming agreement with Liquid Telecom, as 5G spectrum is largely unassigned in South Africa,” Joosub said.

Vodacom, majority owned by Britain’s Vodafone, said it would manage the 5G network on behalf of Liquid Telecom, but did not say where or when the 5G service would be available to customers.

Mobile operators in SA have complained about delays in allocating the spectrum needed to roll out 5G, which provides much faster connections than 4G networks.

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load-shedding Vodacom executive Shameel Joosub

Vodacom and rival MTN have been running pilots for the next-generation technology using spectrum from the regulator but they are not yet permitted to offer this commercially.

The Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA), has said it would outline in April the process and timing for licensing and assigning 5G spectrum.

Rain, a mobile operator that only provides data services, has launched a fixed-wireless 5G network, offering a fast broadband connection to homes and businesses without requiring cables; available in Joburg and Tshwane.

Vodacom, which has already launched a 5G mobile service in neighbouring Lesotho, would be the first operator in South Africa to offer 5G to mobile users.

Johannesburg - City Power has explained how its technology helped keep the lights on last week, when Eskom clients suffered load shedding.

The technology, which is functional in some parts of the city, allows remotely switching off items like geysers to save electricity, according to City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena.

He explained that load-limiting is only possible with households which have smart meters. “Of the 390 000 City Power customers, less than half of them have smart meters, which allow for individual households consuming too much power to be temporarily switched off. “About 150 000 smart meters were rolled out. Some of them are offline due to maintenance and load-limiting on them is not working,” he said.

City Power gets about 90% of its electricity from Eskom, and 10% from the Kelvin Power Station, east of Joburg.

“The extra capacity that City Power has comes from ripple relays control, which gives us up to 100MW. We have added 40 000 new ripple

relays to households to aid in the remote switching off of geysers in peak hours,” Mangena said.

He explained that load-limiting through the use of smart meters can give City Power up to 70MW of electricity.

“For load-limiting to occur, Eskom notifies City Power of the megawatt contribution needed to keep the lights on.

City Power then sends SMS notifications to its customers, as well as a message to the smart power unit indicating the number of megawatts City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena needed from that particular yield 153MW over 65,037 smart household. If the house is consuming less power than the thresh- meters. The long-term interventions old, the electricity remains on; but using this will yield 775MW using if the power consumed is above the 330 000 meters,” Mangena said.

He added that through this initialimit, the smart meter disconnects tive, the Kelvin Power station was the power supply to the house.”

He added that the meter will not able to contribute between 80MW switch power back until the amount and 200MW to the national grid. of load required is acceptable, so the “Based on the current initiative, household will need to switch off City Power can contribute 521MW non-essential items to be switched to keep the Joburg lights on. If City Power can reduce the use of elecback on.

“In the future successful imple- tricity via load-limiting, fewer areas mentation of load-limiting should will need load-shedding.”

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Stolen Metrorail cables found Thousands of commuters were left stranded on Monday morning after the theft stopped trains operating in that corridor

A group of men play a card game at Barnato Park.

Card games heal public park Dennis Webster

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queezed between Hillbrow Street, Tudhope Avenue and Park Lane in Berea, Barnato Park, as it is informally known, appears to buck the trend of many of Joburg’s inner city parks.

Where parks are often plagued by drugs, alcohol, petty crime and uncollected trash, Barnato Park is a family affair.

Its grass squares were filled with young couples and families throughout the summer holidays, and on weekday afternoons it is a sanctuary for school children on their way home.

The park sits among a host of inner-city schools, Johannesburg Girls Preparatory School and Barnato Park High School among them.

Unlike many of the other inner-city parks that have been upgraded over the past few years, Barnato Park has low perimeter fences with multiple entry points, facilitating access to the park rather than restricting it. It has also been fitted with enough rubbish bins, which means keeping it tidy is easier.

Timothy Maphosa, 45, is one of the men who spend afternoons on the northern fringe of Barnato Park playing Casino.

Played between two players or two teams of two players each, the game revolves around fairly basic but rapid addition, with players combining cards to add up to the tricks established by partners and opponents.

Maphosa arrived in Johannesburg in 1995 from Tsholotsho in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Together with his wife and three children, he now shares the living room of a two-bedroom Hillbrow apartment with a family he doesn’t know.

After a stint packing supermarket shelves, Maphosa became a security guard in the early 2000s. He now works security at large events, like sport matches and music concerts, when he can get a shift. But he struggles to secure regular work.

“You’ve got stresses, like no permanent work,” he says.

For Maphosa, cards in the park offer respite from this uncertainty.

“I come here to push time, to kill time. If I am here, I forget about those stresses. The concentration on Casino distracts me.”

With card players for the most part keeping money out of the game, Barnato Park is mostly a gambling-free space. For Maphosa, it’s down to Casino’s partner-based set up. Nobody is willing to risk money on somebody else’s skills, he says.

While South Africa has been Maphosa’s home for more than two decades, his countryman, Thembalethu Mthunzi, 22, recently arrived. At one of the four draughts tables in the centre of Barnato Park, Mthunzi is scraping out a different sound with plastic bottle tops in a series of quick and calculated moves.

But behind the spectacle of Mthunzi’s draughts play, he is philosophical

about the game. “It helps with quick thinking,” he says.”

Like Maphosa, Mthunzi says that spending an afternoon at play in the park is a healthy distraction from otherwise difficult days. Since arriving in South Africa towards the end of 2019, he has been unable to find the work he had been hoping for.

Draughts, he says, “keeps my mind from just thinking. There are many things to be stressed and depressed about. I find this helps me. Before I know it, it is sunset, and I did not smoke, I did not steal.”

In the late 19th century, Barnato Park was a part of Johannesburg’s immense private wealth. It made up a sliver of the estate of one of Joburg’s most infamous randlords, Barney Barnato, who built his mansion nearby. At the time, his estate included a lake big enough to boat on.

Now owned and managed by the municipality and used by the cosmopolitan residents of Hillbrow, Berea and Yeoville, Barnato Park is the image of a functional public good.

On the southern end of the park, a group of primary school boys has devised a game of their own.

In 2011, Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo was moved out of the council’s Environmental Sector into the Community Services portfolio, in an effort to orientate the city’s parks around its people. If this decision is to bear fruit, those who play games in Barnato Park every day might hold part of the answer. New Frame

Benoni - Metrorail has recovered stolen cables from the Van Ryn station in Benoni worth millions of rands.

The railway company’s protection services investigation team acted on a tip-off, which led to the arrests of two people in Heidelberg.

Thousands of commuters were left stranded on Monday morning after the theft stopped trains operating in that corridor, and commuters had to make last-minute plans to get to work or school.

Metrorail said it had seen a spike in the number of cables being stolen by criminals, resulting in train services being suspended for hours at a time.

Metrorail called on communities to work with police to track down

Metrorail spokesperson Lillian Mofokeng

and arrest those dealing with stolen cables.

Metrorail spokesperson Lillian Mofokeng said: “Communities have to name and shame the people who are involved in these acts of criminality. We believe that these people are in our communities, we know them, we know the scrapyards they’re feeding, so we are from time to time doing random visits with the police.”

After the recovery of the cables Mofokeng said two suspects were identified. “They were busy cutting down cables and melting them to ensure they lose identity.

It is evident that when communities partner with Metrorail officials and law enforcement agencies to fight this element of criminality, we will succeed,” she said.

A screen grab from CCTV footage of the men loading the cash into their van.

Fake CIT guards seize cash Alberton - A group of men who allegedly posed as Fidelity cashin-transit guards escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash and valuables from Pick’ n Pay store at the New Redruth Village Shopping Centre in Alberton, Gauteng on Sunday.

A Fidelity Cash Solutions worker who would not be named said they could not comment on the incident as the footage did not clearly identify the suspects as wearing the company’s uniforms.

“They are not Fidelity guards; and there is no indication that they are from a specific company, and therefore we cannot comment. It can be anybody, we tried to enlarge the footage yesterday and we still could

not see whose uniform that is, and we don’t know who it belongs to,” she said.

Police spokesperson Captain Mavela Masondo said police have opened a case of theft under false pretences, and are searching for the suspects. “It is alleged that two suspects entered the shop dressed in Fidelity guard uniforms, pretending to be cash collectors,” Masondo said. “The suspects took an undisclosed amount of cash and used a VW Combi as a getaway car,” he said.

Masondo appealed to anyone with information that can help in the robbery investigation to contact their nearest police station or call Crime Stop on 08600 10111.

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Charity group appoints new CEO ‘Her zeal to reach out to street children is admirable, and led her to be the co-founder of the Johannesburg Alliance for Street Children only a few months later’ Hillbrow - Community organisation Mould Empower Serve (MES) that feeds the poor and displaced people, has appointed a new CEO. The board of directors appointed Leona Pienaar as the new CEO with effect from 15 January.

MES is a Christian social development organisation that has been changing the heart and soul of the city since 1986, and has been working towards providing sustainable solutions to poverty in the Joburg inner-city, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Kempton Park.

Pienaar’s appointment followed the resignation of former CEO Reverend Alan Childs, and interim appointment of Reverend Johan Krige, whose term ended in December last year.

Pienaar has worked for the organisation for more than 25 years.

MES board chairman Reverend Hannes Windell said Piennar has contributed positively to its vision in various capacities.

MES CEO Leona Pienaar

“Ms Pienaar has had a heart for MES since she joined MES as a service year volunteer in 1994. Her zeal to reach out to street children is admirable, and led her to be the cofounder of the Johannesburg Alliance for Street Children only a few months later,” Windell added.

Pienaar holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of Stellenbosch and for the past 13 years, she has led the organisation’s national fundraising and marketing team, raising on average more than R33 million each year to fund the various MES programmes across South Africa.

Some of the notable initiatives she has founded in this role include the popular yearly Hillbrow Unplugged charity concert which takes place on 9 February.

Pienaar said: “I look forward to adding value to the delivery of the vision of MES, a vision which I adopted very personally since the beginning of my career.”

Cop and security guard shot dead Elandsfontein - A police officer and a security guard were shot dead in an attack by a group of armed men near Tembisa on Saturday afternoon, police confirmed.

They said the police warrant officer from Ivory Park was with the security guard and a woman travelling in a police vehicle when they were attacked at the corner of R562 and M57 in Elandsfontein near Tembisa.

Police said a group of at least five men, travelling in a small SUV

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opened fire on the police vehicle, instantly killing the policeman and the security guard. “The motive for the attack is unknown at this stage. The police have mobilised the 72-hour activation plan.

We appeal to anyone who may have information on the whereabouts of the suspects to contact the SAPS Crime Stop number 086 00 10111, or tip-offs may be provided via MySAPSApp. All information will be treated with strictest confidence and callers may remain anonymous.”

Eldorado Park - Residents have carried out daily raids to chase out all drug dealers in the area, because law enforcement had failed to do so; according to community leader and anti-drug activist Dereleen James of the Yellow Ribbon Foundation.

She said since 2013 there has been all spheres of government visiting the area, but their interventions are short-lived and have no impact.

“That is why we take to the streets and give drug dealers a 48-hour notice to vacate our area,” she said.

Community activists went door to door to hand over letters of demand to suspected drug dealers, who they said are complicit in the spate of neglected, abused and abandoned children. The message, stop dealing or face a forced eviction in 48hrs.

James said the effects of drugs in the community were devastating.

“A baby has a blue eye, and another was burned with boiling water, and an 83-year-old woman was locked up for three days without food for

refusing to hand over her Sassa card. Her son has already dug her grave in the yard; enough is enough,” she said.

James said their #OperationUpandOut had achieved considerable success, with about 30 core members and hundreds waiting to join up.

She added that some community members were however concerned with the campaign.

“Should we be worried about where dealers are sleeping when our children are sleeping in the mortuary? We want to call out all other communities Community leader Dereleen James around Johannesburg to stand rested last Friday for possession of up to drug abuse and reclaim drugs which included methcathitheir communities,” she said.

Eldorado Park police spokesper- none (Cat), mandrax and crystal son Constable Roxanne Gibb said meth.

“Cases ranging from murder to it is constant battle, especially with the minors. “They get hooked and assault were reported last weekend up doing other crimes because end, and among those who were they cannot afford their habit. They arrested was a 17-year-old boy steal from their families, which we who allegedly stabbed his 22-yearold brother; and has been charged witness most of the time.”

She said three people were ar- with murder,” Gibb said.

Part of the transport hub construction site in the Joburg CBD

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City builds massive transport hub Johannesburg - The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), on behalf of the City of Johannesburg, is constructing a transport hub called the Johannesburg International Transport Interchange (JITI) facility.

The infrastructure project is located at the corner of Gwigwi Mrwebi and Simmons streets in the CBD. In a statement the JDA said construction of the project is 85% complete, and will include a 50 000 square metre international long distance and cross border transport, and shopping hub.

The JDA said 3 300sqm of the total space is devoted to retail, including large retail outlets, banks, ticketing offices, food courts and informal traders.

The facility will also include a bus terminus for cross-border buses, together with ranking and holding space for 648 taxis and 20 buses.

Security of the facility will be man- construction of this project is also aged from a control room equipped playing a role in job creation and with a building management sys- skills development, with 30% of tem, including CCTV cameras and the contract value being awarded to SMMEs. access control.

A total of 18 SMMEs and 34 loThe City’s Transport MMC Nonhlanhla Makhuba said the City ex- cal labourers were appointed for periences an increase in demand for the execution of the portions of the works in the infrastructure project. road space.

The project, expected to be com“The state-of-the-art JITI will ensure that efficient mass public plete in May, will be handed over transport networks and connec- to the City’s Transport Department. tions, transit-orientated multi-use precincts, together or all your with strategic land-use planning anel eating and and zoning regimes are realised; pray ainting so we connect our people to opportunities to live, work and play in the city,” she said.

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Sorrow after death of legendary photographer Lusanda Zokufa

T Some members of the Paradise Blue cast.

Market Theatre hosts Black History Month play Newtown - With the month-long run of Paradise Blue the US Mission to South Africa has announced its support, through a grant of R1.4 million, for the production of Paradise Blue at the Market Theatre, to run between January 31 and March 1.

In a statement the US Mission said to commemorate Black History Month, recognized each year in February, it has partnered with the Market Theatre to deliver high impact and thought-provoking theatre to South African audiences.

“This year marks the fifth anniversary of this collaboration, initiated by the Market Theatre’s Artistic Director, James Ngcobo in 2016. Paradise Blue is a dynamic and jazz-infused

drama by award-winning African American playwright Dominique Morisseau about what is at stake when building a better future.”

The play captures the yearning of individuals sidelined by life into the role of second-class citizens living and working in a black neighbourhood on the cusp of obliteration as part of the city’s plan to eliminate “blight.” The characters face issues that resonate with South African audiences and enlighten them to the similar struggles faced by low-income inner-city communities.

The Market Theatre’s production of Paradise Blue features a cast of leading South African actors, with Aubrey Poo in the leading role of Blue,

supported by Pakamisa Zwedala and Seneliso Dladla as his fellow band members P-Sam and Corn. Busisiwe Lurayi plays the naïve Pumpkin and Lesedi Job the threatening Silver.

US Ambassador-designate Lana Marks said they are pleased to honour Black History Month with this production of Paradise Blue. “I look forward to seeing this compelling and difficult story of the effects of gentrification come to life, and I think South Africans will see an echo of their own struggles in this American story.”

Performances are through March 1, 2020, in the John Kani Theatre at the Market Theatre, Tuesdays to Saturdays at 20:00 and Sundays at 15:00.

he family of late legendary photographer Santu Mofokeng has released a statement concerning the death of Africa’s world acclaimed photographer, thinker and mentor.

The statement said it is with sorrow that the family shares the news that Mofokeng passed away peacefully on 26 January in the presence of his loving family.

“His last days were filled with love and support from his family, including loving messages from friends and practitioners from all over the world,” the family statement said.

Starting his career as a street photographer, Mofokeng went on to work as an assistant and then became a news photographer.

Subsequently, Mofokeng joined the Afrapix collective and went on to carve an international career that has won him accolades, which include the Ernest Cole Award in 1991, the 1st Mother Jones award for Africa, also in 1991 and the Prince Claus Award in 2009.

Late photographer Santu Mofokeng

At the age of 60, the legendary documentary photographer was honoured with an honorary doctorate from Wits University on 4 July 2016.

Mofokeng documented life, landscape and memory in South Africa. His visual stories include research journals, essays and published photography books, which continue to make a critical contribution to the learning and teaching of photography.

“His legacy is being incorporated in photography research and development programmes. The demand and interest in his photography archive is growing globally.

He has left all of us with a valued modern heritage in the arts and culture sector,” the statement said.

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he National Under-20 Women’s team, Basetsana, showed great fighting spirit in their preliminary second leg 2020 FIFA U20 World Cup qualifier at Orlando Stadium against Zambia on Saturday.

The team’s coach Jabulile Baloyi applauded her charges after they came back twice, cancelling out any lead the visitors pulled against them, to force the match to end in a 2-2 draw. This means that Basetsana progress into the first round of qualifiers, after beating Zambia 4-2 on aggregate, having won the first leg 2-0 in Lusaka.

Baloyi said they now shift their

Some members of the Basetsana team that won the first round against Zambia.

focus in getting past Botswana in the next round.

“The girls played really well and we will now face Botswana in the next round,” she said.

Baloyi added that there will be a lot of preparation going into both of those legs. “Our main goal is to qualify for the Costa Rica and Panama 2020 FIFA U-20

Women’s World Cup and nothing less,” she said.

Zambia’s Under-20 Women’s coach, Charles Haalubono wished Baloyi well in the remaining rounds of the World Cup qualifiers, adding that he hopes Basetsana go all the way to secure their first FIFA U-20 Women’s World appearance.

Baloyi said it was very kind of Haalubono to share such remarks.

“I hold him in high regard in his application of tactics when it comes to coaching. He also told me that this team has the potential of qualify to this year’s 2020 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup tournament,” Baloyi said.