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AGING battles at UKZN’s Pietermaritzburg campus between students and riot police intensified on Monday. Theprotestsareoverarumoured registration fee increase. Police were forced to fire rubber bullets after students threw stones at them and members of Risk Management Services. In the process, one student was arrested and three others were injured and rushed to hospital, according to Students Representative Council (SRC) president Lungani Nhlenyama. He insists management told themthattheannualregistrationfee

will rise over 100%, but the institution rubbished those claims last week. Academic programmes were set to resume on Tuesday after being suspended for two days following violent protests on Thursday. Angry students threw stones at a passing car and forced the driver to reverse away. They carried sticks and placards with statements such as; “F**k management, down with R9 000. This means war”. The crowd, consisting of hundreds of students, continued tipping over rubbish bins before proceeding to the library lawn where they started burning tyres. A fierce fight broke out when a student drenched the burning tyres with a fire extinguisher. That fuelled the situation and the group turned on him, but he kept

them at bay by spraying them with the extinguisher. The crowd then ran to the police chanting, “gun free country”. Theyalsothreatenedtostormthe police station, demanding that the arrested student be released. Environmental science student Micaela Keddie said their lecture was disrupted and students in class were forced to get out. “They came in banging the door and shouting at us. Our lecturer had to rescue us through the back door. I support the strike but it’s not properly done. It’s unfair to force us out of the class,” said Keddie. Provincial police spokesperson Thulani Zwane disputed the SRC’s report that a student was arrested. He said no incidents had been reported. Meanwhile, the Higher

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NEWLY appointed Brigadier Maxwell Mgobhozi was welcomed into the position as the Station Commander for the Pietermaritzburg Station in Loop Street this Monday. The former Kokstad Cluster Commander took over from his predecessor, Brigadier Johan Reynders, who recently returned to his home town and family in Escort. Mgobhozi said that he is here to stay and promises to fight crime with passion, strength and teamwork. Acting Pietermaritzburg Cluster Commander, Brigadier Francis Bantham, was excited to present the PMB police members with their new head Bantham added that she hoped that the new station commander would empower the officers to continue to work hard. “Every station hasitsownchallenges, but what we need to remember is that we are all here to do one thing and that is to fight crime. Brigadier Mgobhozi, you have our full support,” said Bantham. Mgobhozi was warmly welcomed by various members of the Pietermaritzburg station, each of whom offered him their full support “We need to work together as a team. Over the next month I will get to know everyone,” said Mgobhozi. He said that he has a love for crime prevention and is confident that he and his team will continue to fight crime and work together.

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Midlands Medical Centre (MMC) Private Hospital participated in Pharmacy Week which is an awareness campaign celebrated nationally from 1 to 8 September. Mid-Medic Pharmacy (the institutional pharmacy of the Hospital) celebrated by hosting a number of events, including presentations for staff and patients on antibiotics. The week also featured a fun day with a clown at MMC’s Paediatric Ward, bringing cheer to children in the ward. Mid-Medic Pharmacy also hosted blood pressure and blood glucose testing for staff and the general public. This year’s theme is ‘Use Antibiotics Wisely’. Pictured putting a smile on the face on two little patients, were (back, from left) Nozipho Makathini (Richmond resident), Nonhlanhla Shelembe (Imbali resident), Jeremy Bartle (clown), Junaid Essa (Pharmacy manager at MMC) with Paediatric patients (front) eight year old Luyanda Zondi (L) and six year old Nomonde Shelembe.

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XECUTIVE Committee (Exco) members were shocked to learn that there are about 3000 Msunduzi owned land parcels which cannot be accounted for. This information was revealed during a presentation of the Msunduzi land audit by Msunduzi town planner Mthobisi Khumalo. “What have you done about the properties that you couldn’t find because there might be dozens of those?” asked Exco member Bill Lambert. Exco member Thulani Xulu said that the municipality needs to find out what happened to these properties because there are people who are in dire need of decent houses. Exco member, Eunice Majola, proposed that the Msunduzi planning team consult former economic development employees as they might have more information on how to solve the mystery of the unaccounted land parcels. A report compiled by Siyazama Consulting shows that there are 8598 Msunduzi owned municipalities. Of the 8598 properties, 2759 properties were not in the 2011 asset register. Deputy municipal manager for economic development, Dr Ray Ngcobo, said that there are different reasons for the unaccounted property. “The first is that there is a list of properties which have been counted twice. We are clearing those ones so that we can have one property description. There are properties that are missing because previously, there was going to be a housing development where a general layout plan was produced but the development never happened. “Thediagramhasalreadybeencaptured.So now we have to go to court, in some instances, to nullify those general layout plans so that we can revert back to the original plans. Lastly, we

have a number of state owned properties, especiallyinEdendale,whichwehaveacquired as the municipality through proactive land acquisition, which have to be moved from the private owners to the state,” explained Ngcobo. Ngcobo said that with the planning team cleaning the system by validating properties, the number of unaccounted land parcels is reducing. Khumalo said that the aim of the land audit is to create a municipality development investment portfolio so that they can create a land release programme to determine which land needs to be released, considering the demands for the city. “Some concerns were that some evaluations were not complete. Some comments were missing while some were delayed from various departments. The delayed and insufficient information caused not only disappointment, but a frustration to us as we were compiling this report. It is important that an office for strategic land release programme and investment development portfolio be established to promptly update, compile and archive all strategic land release related information in a hard copy and in a shelved file, so that we can have power over the city,” said Khumalo. “Land requires a specialised management programe. We want to have a programme within economic development where we would be able to tell an investor on the spot that which land would be required in future for the provision of services in terms of Section 14 of

the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA), or tell them that we will be able to dispose of the land. “Land therefore becomes an instrument to secure private investors whilst balancing municipal service delivery,” said Ngcobo. “The land issue is very sensitive. When we do the investigations, we must maintain a high degree of transparency,” said Msunduzi mayor Chris Ndlela. Khumalo said that there is stakeholder engagement where Siyazama Consulting has compiled a report regarding the unaccounted for land parcels. “When we come back, we will release that report. Once we get the full comprehensive audit report, we will be able to see all the links and gaps,” said Khumalo.

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TRAFFIC signals at various intersections will be implemented during the 2014/ 2015 financial year. These include the corner of Deccan Road and Olympia Way in ward 28, R103 (main road) and Pope Ellis in ward 37, intersection at Blydon Road,

ReggieHadebeandKarelLandmaninward23and thelasttrafficsignalwillbeatthecornerofTopham and College Road in ward 27. Traffic studies were conducted by Msunduzi’s transportation planning unit for the analysis of the warranted traffic signals in 2009 and in 2012. On 19 December, 2012, an estimated traffic signal backlog of nine intersections was presented to council and this amounted to R3 540 000, however only R1 million was approved for the implementation of traffic signals in the 2014/2015 financial year. Only four listed intersections were priortised and implemented. A report from the infrastructure services portfolio committee states that traffic signals can only be installed at intersections where traffic counts have been done to determine a suitable traffic signal control. To provide safety for road users and pedestrians,themunicipalitywillalsobeinstallingcalming measures in all wards at different locations. The first priority will be at school zones and public amenities, the second will be at high accident locations and the third will be in residential areas. The total cost of the construction of all speed humps in all wards for 2014/ 2015 amounts to an estimated cost of just over R1, 4 million.

AFE City has received a clean audit from the Auditor-General (AG). They are also being recognised as among the best entities in the country. To celebrate this milestone, Msunduzi mayor Chris Ndlela presented the trophy to Safe City on behalf of the AG. Safe City was one of eight municipal entities in the country to receive a clean audit, and one of three in the KZN province to receive the accolade. SafeCitychairpersonanddirector, Zinhle Sokhela, thanked the municipality and the office of the AG. “It is good to hear that we can see the light considering where we come from. We have accepted the fact that the amount of work that we do at this stage is more than the funding we get. The funding we are receiving is far less than what we are expected to do. There is some money that we can generate to extend our CCTV footprint. “InSeptemberof2010,wehanded over an automatic number plate recognition system to the council so thatweareabletocatchtrafficoffenders and issue warrants of arrests to get the money sitting out there,” said Sokhela. She said that from September 2010 to June 2011, Safe City was able to generate R1,5 million from traffic offenders. “From 2011 to 2012 we were able to generate another R1,5 million. In 2010, we were able to make 2362 arrests and issue 3032 warrants of arrest. From July 2011 to June 2012, we were able to generate R1,5 million with 1682 arrests and 2155 warrants of arrest. We saw a decline from 2012 to 2013. I think this was due to the challenge of manpower. We saw the money that was generated sitting at only R757 000,” said Sokhela. She said that the 2014 collections were very poor, with only R169 000 generated for council. “I have no doubt that there is about R11 to R12 million sitting out there that we should still be able to collect,” she added. Sokhela said that there are critical areas in Pietermaritzburg which need CCTV cameras. “We have submitted a number of proposals to the municipal manager’s office. There are critical areas we need to look at, particularly targeted substations. We still need funding to make sure that there are CCTV cameras installed around substations. “We still need to make sure that we get funding to install camerasinareaslike EdendaleandNorthdale. There is quite a list of areas that need CCTV cameras. Besides that, within the city there has been reduced crime in areas where there are cameras. However, we have identified hotspots in areaswhereweneed to install more cameras. All we requireismorefunding,” said Sokhela. “We believe that if we work together, there is a possibility thatwecanreachout to all the corners of the city because crime is all over. It is not just confined to the CBD; however the face of the city is the CBD,” said Ndlela.

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A high tea will be hosted in aid of the Sunflower Fund on 12 September at Barz Café and Deli, situated at Nottingham Road inside the Gowrie Estate from 9am to 2pm. The event aims to raise money to pay for the tissue typing of potential bone marrow stem cell donors for inclusion on the South African Bone Marrow Registry. The more donors on the registry, the more hope leukaemia patients have of finding their life-saving donor match. Entry fee is R60. For more information, contact Kenwyn Geyser at 083 632 3224 or email kenwyn@sunflowerfund.org.za. Pictured are hosts Barbara Zietsman (L) and Wendy Venables with Kenwyn Geyser (R). PHOTO: SUPPLIED

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Pietermaritzburg's very own, Martin Van Vuuren and Genevieve Phillips are performing in the 2014 edition of Shall We Dance at the Playhouse Theatre.

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Mzansi Stories THE Hexagon Theatre will feature Mzansi Stories from 16 to 18 September at 6pm. A lot of criticism has been levelled at the ‘Born-Free’ generation - we’ve all heard it - perhaps even said it: ‘they’relazy,entitled,theydon’tvalue their freedom’ etc. However we seldom hear their responses to this criticism. What does this generation have to say about growing up ‘free’ whataretheirstories,theirhopesand

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fears for the future of South Africa, 20 years into its democracy? Is the legacy of Nelson Mandela and so many other freedom fighters being honoured through the actions of this generation? Is reconciliation possible? Where is the rainbow in the rainbow nation? Where do we belong in this multicultural mix? Join this talented cast of second andthirdyeardramastudentsasthey explore and relate stories of their own special and often complex relationship to Mzanzi, told through the mediums of dance, physical theatre, spoken word, prose and song.

OCAL Ballroom and Latin dancers, Genevieve Phillips and Martin van Vuuren, are performing in Shall We Dance 2014 at the Durban Playhouse. Phillips and Van Vuuren have been dancing since the ages of eight and 17 respectively and have been great friends for a number of years which made for an easy partnership. The couple form part of the Mark WilsonStudio’sformationteamperforming a Jive and upbeat Cha Cha and share the stage with dancers from various dancing schools. BothPhillipsandVanVuurensaidthat they are “extremely excited and happy to be dancing together”. This is Phillips’ third appearance at Shall We Dance, having previously partnered Ben Brandon of Ben’s Dance Studio. This is Van Vuuren’s debut performance. The pair have practised daily for many

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hours over the past few months and have had to make the trip to Durban to join their team to practise to ensure they offer an exceptional performance. The host for the show is Damon Beard from East Coast Radio, who is joined by a number of dancing schools, as well as

professional Ballroom and Latin stars, Grant Esterhuizen and Jeanne Swart, South African ballroom champions PenwellNhlapoandEvelynKgoleandthe World British Open Exhibition Champions of 2013 Gerhard Van Rooyen and Amor Kruger.

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Scottsville Primary School participated in the Pietermaritzburg Spelling Bee competition recently hosted by MCS School Scottsville Primary placed first in two categories and were the overall winners of the competition (front, from left) Natasha Mannikam, Sakina Sitoto, Ryan Govender, Sue Jacobsen (back, from left) Amone Stieger, Nina Mbambalala, Christian Mitewu and Kayla Ramdhany.

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In celebration of Arbour Week, Cowan House pre-primary pupils (from left) Otham Vilakazi, Kulungile Kuzwayo and Rhett Beaumont enjoyed climbing the trees in the school grounds on a beautiful Spring day in Hilton.

Laddsworth Primary visits Macrorie House

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One of Pietermaritzburg’s well preserved, historically significant buildings, Macrorie House Museum, brought history to life for a class of Grade three Laddsworth Primary School pupils recently. The haunted parlour, whale tooth, the ‘uncomfortable’ bicycle and the plastic dust covers on the beds were all noted as favourites by the pupils. Roxanne Thomas, the museum curator was a hit with the girls who were fascinated with her Victorian outfit. Pictured at the museum are (from left) Monika Grobelaar, Amy Kelman, Cleo Daly, Rachel Wheeler, Megan Brown, Cara Upton and Andiswa Ngcobo.

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Russell High School recently competed in the annual Varsity College schools quiz. Russell placed third out of 35 teams who participated in the event. Pictured with their certificates are the Russell High team (from left) Ashley Voges, Sindiswa Mkhize, Sanele Mbanjwa and Thando Ngubane.

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As representatives of the Howick High School Eco-Club, two pupils recently joined the Duzi Umgeni Conservation Trust (DUCT) on a field trip to the Umgeni River. Nosipho (L) and Zinhle Gwala helped with the assessment of the water quality, identifying water organisms and using a scoring system. The state of the Umgeni River is of great concern and it takes pupils like these to make a difference.

The Grade three classes at St Nicholas have been studying germination, have combined this with recycling of plastic bottles and put these to good use. The children are growing herbs and spring onions in celebration of Spring Day (back, from left) Ontha Mkhize, Nothando Ngcobo, Andiswa Africander, Luyanda Vidima (front, from left) Aphelele Khwela, Buhle Baloyi, Nia Cele and Siphesihle Mthethwa.

The pre-primary boys at Cordwalles Preparatory School treated their nannies to a morning of activities and songs. The special bond between each boy and his nanny shone through as they engaged in games, puzzle making and creative work together. A delicious tea rounded off the happy morning. Pictured are Locke Lloys-Ellis (L) and Mavis Lushaba working on a puzzle together

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T Charles swimming sensation Chad Idensohn has his sights set on qualifying for the short course World Championships in Russia next year. The 18-year-old, Grade 12 pupil was born and bred in Zimbabwe and moved to board at St Charles in 2012. He recently competed in the Junior Olympics in

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Nangen,ChinawherehebroketwooftheZimbabwean male national records in the 50m and 100m freestyle. Speaking to Maritzburg Fever, Idensohn said that he hated the water when he was younger and did not enjoy swimming. It was only after competing with his father in a triathlon that he began to enjoy swimming and slowly began to realise his potential. He said that he has been in club swimming for about nine years now and is currently in the Seals squad under the guidance of Wayne Ridden. “Competing in the Junior Olympics was the highlight for me. It was such an amazing experience,” he said. Although Idensohn is passionate about pursuing his swimming, he is determined to obtain a degree in the academic field. “Swimming is not going to last forever so I want to have a good degree behind me as well,” he said.

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Idensohn added that he is currently in the process of obtaining a swimming scholarship in America where he will be able to both swim and study. Balancing his swimming and school work has been something that he has had to work at. “It’s always hard to get the right balance because you can’t afford to let either fall down. It’s still something I’m working on but I’m determined to do it,” said Idensohn. St Charles pupil Chad Idensohn recently competed in the junior Olympics in Nangen, China PHOTO:SUPPLIED

Local heroes and odd-shaped balls JONATHAN COOK

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