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Hundreds of people, led by The Elders, gathered in the Cape Town CBD for a symbolic march on Nelson Mandela Day to honour the icon and to launch a global project, ‘Walk Together’. The Elders, a group founded by Mandela and made up of former heads of state, peace activists, and human rights advocates, include Mandela’s widow Graça Machel (left, in purple) and tycoon Sir Richard Branson (in leather jacket).

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can regain that moral compass.

I think we are deviating at the moment,” said Makgoba.

Activist Mamphela Ramphele said moral leadership started with citizens themselves.

“Leadership starts with each one of us,” Ramphele said.

“We are the ones that elect leaders,” Ramphele said.

“If we elect a leader who already has 783 charges of corruption (against him), we are responsible for the mess that’s happening right now,” Ramphele added.

“We need to now believe enough in ourselves to say we want only leaders who live the values of the rule of law, equality for all, human dignity, and respect for the constitution.” – ANA P6

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need more and more,” Machel said, adding that The Elders were “here to stand up for the values of peace, justice, equality and health”.

Former Irish president Mary Robinson and international business tycoon Sir Richard Branson were among the luminaries who attended the march.

Speaking to African News Agency after the march, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba said it symbolised what the world and South Africa was in dire need of – moral leadership.

“South Africa and the world are limping in terms of their moral acumen and if The Elders could stand up and point to the ways Mandela pointed us to… we

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prove their prize-winning quality, which could raise their value.

“Such a quantity of prizewinning cheese would retail (at) between five hundred to six hundred pounds. But with their certificates, they could be worth thousands,” Rich Clothier, the managing director at Wyke Farms, said “Prize-winning cheese, along with a certificate like this would be very famous all around the world.”

Staff at Wyke Farms, which exports cheese to 160 countries

including the US and France, were devastated over the missing cheese and feared whoever took it could try to ship it abroad.

Because of the unwieldy weight and bulk of the two cheeses, Clothier said that the theft could have been planned.

“There were hundreds of cheeses in the marquee but only two blocks were stolen,” he said.

“They were big blocks, about the size of a small suitcase. It’s not as if they can be hidden in a handbag or a jumper.” – Reuters

HILE South Africans celebrated Mandela Day by performing acts of goodwill, some of the country’s most influential civil society groups, former finance minister Pravin Gordhan and current ANC MP Makhosi Khoza made another plea for President Jacob Zuma to step down.

However the ANC in KZN said the calls were being made by those “who hate Zuma” and wanted to blame him for all the country’s woes.

Zuma, speaking at the Mandela Memorial lecture in Empangeni yesterday, said no other party in South Africa carried the responsibility of the ANC. “That’s why they don’t care; they just push a negative narrative. These opposition parties are in trouble because they can’t tell people that we don’t have good policies because we have superior policies,” he said.

Yesterday, the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and Save SA held a Conference for the Future of South Africa in Johannesburg that was focused on putting a stop to state capture. Former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas, South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) secretary-general Zwelinzima Vavi, UDM MP Nqabayomzi Nkwankwa and several ANC stalwarts, veterans and analysts were there.

In a passionate address, Khoza said: “I am here to defend the ANC commission and not a dishonourable and disgraceful leader. As an African feminist, I find the patriarchal system oppressive. I find being led by a man who harasses women extremely intolerable. He (Zuma) promised to stay for one term, he never did… it is not my pain but the pain of all South Africans. This is a president who promotes tribalism,” she said.

“This is a president, when black intellectuals express their views he calls them ‘clever blacks’. I am black, I am clever, I am educated and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.”

She later said: “You are haunting the South African nation… please, Mr President, step down.”

Gordhan, who was speaking at the inaugural Liliesleaf Legacy Conference, held at Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, Johannesburg, also urged Zuma to go.

Gordhan said: “I think the president should move aside and let somebody take over this country and reset the course so that we can fulfil the kind of aspirations that Mandela and his generation had for South Africa.”

In his keynote address at the Future of South Africa conference, Save SA’s convener Barney Pityana said the forces behind state capture should not be underestimated.

“Our campaigns against state capture threaten livelihoods, incomes and lifestyles of many people – starting with the Zuma and Gupta families, but extending deep down into many

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LONDON: A British cheese maker has offered a £500 (R8 420) reward for the recovery of 40kg of prize-winning cheddar, stolen from an agricultural show, in south-west England.

The award-winning cheddar and the reserve champion, each weighing 20kg, were allegedly stolen on Saturday after being left in a marquee in Yeovil, not far from the village of Cheddar, after which the world-renowned cheese is named.

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some who travelled from as far as Grabouw to attend the march.

“The Elders are going to be launching a campaign we call ‘walk together’ precisely to take up the long walk to freedom which is really the flag Madiba has left for us.”

The Elders, made up of former heads of state, peace activists, and human rights advocates, including Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon, Desmond Tutu, Machel, Jimmy Carter, Hina Jilani, Mary Robinson, and Ernesto Zedillo, among others, were also celebrating a decade since the group’s founding.

“He brought together, women and men, wise people, who could become a moral voice which we

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THE Elders, a group of statesmen and women brought together by Nelson Mandela to act as a moral compass for the world, yesterday launched their “Walk Together” campaign by marching through the streets of Cape Town.

Led by Mandela’s widow, Graça Machel, The Elders, accompanied by a large group of local residents, gathered at the City Hall, where Mandela made his first speech on his release from prison in 1990, and made their way to the Cape Town International Convention Centre to celebrate the date of Madiba’s birth.

“From wherever he is, he is beaming… and we want him to feel and know we still love him deeply,” Machel told the crowd,

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aspects of the state.”

He said that those against state capture had a difficult task as there were many who were unhappy with their stance against corruption.

“They call us many names, but we have a common purpose, that is to serve South Africa. Once Zuma is gone, it is our responsibility to ensure the next leaders are credible,” Pityana said.

However, Zuma remained defiant yesterday as he said opposition parties “hang on to this word ‘corruption’ because they have nothing else to talk about. “The ones who have the economy don’t want to let go.”

ANC spokesperson in KwaZuluNatal Mdumiseni Ntuli said there were genuine problems in the country, but they were being exaggerated.

“We are not happy about the Gupta e-mails. If there are comrades in the pockets of others that must be dealt with.”

He said that the idea that all the country’s problems would be resolved if Zuma was removed was not true.

Ntuli also took aim at Khoza, saying the party could not allow her to

continue as she had been behaving.

“This is no longer freedom of speech (by Khoza)…

“We cannot have a situation where a comrade goes around rubbishing the ANC. We will be calling on the national office to discipline her,” Ntuli said.

Independent analyst Bukani Mngoma said the opposition by civil society was not necessarily against the ANC but against corruption, state capture and President Jacob Zuma.

However, the ANC should be worried about the developments, adding that they signify that there is a groundswell of people opposed to Zuma, he said.

Mngoma said the Save SA movement was styled along similar lines as the UDF in the 80s.

“The UDF was a formation of progressive forces opposed to apartheid, irrespective of political affiliation.

Save SA is also a formation of those opposed to state capture. We are beginning to see some parallels between what is happening now and what happened under the banner of the UDF,” Mngoma said.

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papers in the Constitutional Court on why Minister Bathabile Dlamini should pay out legal costs from her own pocket,� he said.

Black Sash also said it was concerned about the departure of senior officials in government.

Black Sash spokesperson Esley Philander said they were concerned whether Sassa would be able to “procure services timeously to ensure the proper functioning and integrity of the agency’s national payment system�.

Philander warned that South Africa must not face another extension of the Cash Paymaster Services contract when it expires in March.

This followed the Constitutional Court decision early this year to extend the contract for another 12 months while another service provider was found. “Furthermore, we hope that Magwaza’s exit from Sassa will not place the outstanding Constitutional Court matter on whether Minister Dlamini should be held liable for legal costs as well as the investigation into the parallel work streams in jeopardy,� said Philander.

also an SACP resolution, that the Post Office/Bank must be given the responsibility of ORE questions distributing social grants, as were being asked opposed to a private company,� yesterday with said SACP spokesperson Alex regard to the deMashilo. parture of South African So“Among others, cial Security Agency Magwaza deposed an (Sassa) boss Thoaffidavit in a Constikozani Magwaza, tutional Court case with the SACP, Cosatu on the crisis that enand Black Sash engulfed social grants tering the fray. distribution,� he said.

Meanwhile, Social Cosatu has called Development Minisfor Dlamini’s head ter Bathabile Dlamini and warned that if the kept a low profile, givTHOKOZANI wheels come off on soing no indication of MAGWAZA cial grants, the blame who Magwaza’s sucshould be put at the cessor might be. door of the minister.

Dlamini’s spokesCosatu spokesperson Sizwe person, Lumka Oliphant, said Pamla said Magwaza had been “the minister will make an anpushed. nouncement in due course�. “We strongly condemn the The SACP demanded anintimidation tactics and death swers after it was said Magthreats that have been directed waza had left because his relaat him, and we call on Parliationship with the minister had ment to demand answers over broken down irretrievably. his departure,� said Pamla.

It said Magwaza firmly sup“The federation reiterates ported using the South African its position that Minister BathPost Office to distribute social abile Dlamini is no longer an grants to 17 million beneficiasset to the department. She is, aries. in fact, a liability,� he said. “Magwaza is well-known “It is no coincidence that for his firm position in defence Mr Magwaza had been pushed and the advancement of the out, when he was due to file ANC’s resolution, which is

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took part in the initiative organised by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and Save South Africa.

Mothapo referred to earlier threats when Khoza and members of the portfolio committee on public service and administration, which she chairs, visited a health facility in Mpumalanga in April.

PARLIAMENT and the SAPS have agreed to provide security to ANC MP Makhosi Khoza following a number of death threats against her.

The latest threat against Khoza came last week, with a warning that she had 21 days to live.

Speaker Baleka Mbete and National Council of Provinces chairperson Thandi Modise said yesterday that after consultations with the SAPS they had agreed that Khoza needed security.

Parliament’s spokesperson, Moloto Mothapo, said the decision came after a security assessment on the MP. Khoza could not be reached for comment last night as she was flying out of Joburg after her participation in an initiative calling for President Jacob Zuma to step down from the Presidency.

Almost 100 civil society organisations, Khoza and other prominent South Africans

the necessary support to Dr Khoza as soon as possible,� he said.

A number of parties and civil society groups have called on Parliament and the police to provide security for Khoza following the death threats.

Khoza has said the threats were directed not only at her but also at her children.

Last month she was forced to leave her home in Durban after alleged threats by the ANC Youth League in eThekwini.

But the Youth League denied it had made public her home address or threatened her.

Khoza has spoken out against Zuma.

She wrote to Mbete asking for a secret ballot in the motion of no-confidence against Zuma on August 8.

Khoza was a member of the standing committee on finance before she was appointed to chair the portfolio committee on public service and administration.

Report Mbete received a report following this incident. She then referred the matter to the police.

Mothapo said the police conducted a security assessment and submitted their report to the Speaker and Modise last Thursday. “The security assessment confirmed a security threat existed and appropriate support must be provided to Dr Khoza,� said Mothapo. “In this regard, Parliament is working with the SAPS to ensure that the two institutions collaboratively provide

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A motorbike rider was critically injured and a passenger in a bakkie seriously injured in an accident on the N2 north-bound near the Nandi drive off-ramp yesterday afternoon. A collision involving the bakkie, a truck and the motorbike resulted in the truck landing on top of the bakkie, trapping the bakkie passenger. Rescuers used the Jaws of Life to free the passenger, and traffic was backed up for more than two hours. The injured were stabilised before being taken to hospital.

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Zuma reiterates calls for two deputies in ANC Zimasa Matiwane PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma yesterday outlined his strategy for two deputies, saying it would combat disunity within the ANC and end factionalism.

Speaking at the Nelson Mandela memorial lecture at Empangeni, the president expressed support for a call that factions in the party contesting positions be allowed to have representation in the top leadership of the organisation.

Zuma said the party’s constitution must be changed to enable the proposal.

He said his proposed formula was better than leaving the ANC fighting “forever�.

Zuma said in December the conference must take the resolution, so that the next election fight is not as vicious as the current one. “Some of the strong leaders who were defeated in Polokwane left the organisation to form something called Cope.

It’s a matter we need to discuss, otherwise the organisation will keep getting smaller,� he said.

Zuma said the objective was

this mission,� he said. The not to appease or manipulate president said the youth must the contestants, but how to lift the country and people unify the organisation. out of the clutches “I am pleading of poverty and unwith the province to employment. debate this matter. It’s “The youth must critical, if we fail we know that we were will keep on reducing not born like this, us our numbers. It’s imblack people. Saying portant for the life of we can finish poverty the ANC.� without bringing Zuma said the back the land is just a slate where the windream.� ner took all, by its Zuma encounvery nature creatJACOB ZUMA raged the youth to ed divisions, as the study. losers began plotting. “You must fill terHe implored party tiary institutions, not just to members to emulate Madiba get a job but to create jobs, so and work for unity. that SA can be free economicHe also called on the youth ally because now we are just to fight for radical economic politically free.� transformation.

He said the vote was the “Madiba brought us togethfirst step towards economic er, this generation should emancipation. cement that togetherness to “We need to know how to make sure that they impleuse our political power to get ment programmes that are economic freedom. These are about radical economic transinterlinked.� formation to expand access to Nelson Mandela had from a the economy by black people, young age started to develop a education, and many other vision for the nation – “that is public programmes. why they built the ANCYL to “As young leaders of the impact the mother body�.

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A 52-YEAR-OLD man who claimed to be a prophet was arrested for allegedly raping a 20-year-old woman near Mkhuhlu, outside Hazyview, Mpumalanga police said yesterday.

Spokesperson Sergeant Gerald Sedibe said the man allegedly sexually abused the woman under the pretext of being a prophet. “According to information, the incident happened on Monday, when the young woman who was ill went to seek help from the ‘prophet’, accompanied by her boyfriend. “The suspect took them to the bushes under the false pretext that he was going to pray for her and instructed the boyfriend to go back,� Sedibe said. “He began to perform his injunctions giving the victim some concoction to drink, then told her to undress so he could apply some on her body. That is when he raped her.�

Sedibe said the woman reported the rape to the police and the man was arrested the same day. He is expected to appear in the Mkhuhlu Magistrate’s Court today on a charge of rape. – ANA

THE popular tourist attraction of Margate Beach has had to be closed due to a pump malfunction at Margate 4A pump station which caused a sewage spillage at Nkongweni Lagoon on Friday.

Spokesperson Simon April said the Ray Nkonyeni Municipality took the decision to close the beach for bathing and recreational activities for the protection of beach-goers and other citizens. “Ray Nkonyeni Municipality wishes to state on record that it received a report from the Ugu District Municipality Environmental Health only after it was inundated by queries on the issue. “After water tests were done in the lagoon it was discovered that the E coli levels were far above the accepted levels, hence the closure of the lagoon.�

April said that on Sunday they received authorisation for breaching and the river mouth was opened. Water samples were taken from the breached area and the swimming area below Wimpy. “Signage prohibiting the use of the beach for bathing and recreational purposes was then erected.�

April said the malfunction of the pump had been corrected. “The situation is monitored on a daily basis and water sampling is done, and we are optimistic that the beach will be opened soon.�

The municipality apologised to disappointed holidaymakers for the inconvenience.

FOR THE RECORD IN OUR story yesterday about InspectorGeneral of Intelligence Setlhamamaru Dintwe promising to probe the intelligence report on Pravin Gordhan, which allegedly led to Gordhan’s sacking, we incorrectly referred to Dintwe’s legal adviser as Jay Naidoo.

His legal adviser is, in fact, Jay Govender.

The error is regretted. â—? The Mercury welcomes comments and suggestions, or complaints about errors that warrant correction.

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Bluff school principal opposes court order Bernadette Wolhuter THE unseated principal of a Bluff primary school is refusing to back down.

In February, the governing body (SGB) of Glenardle Junior Primary won a high court bid to have the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education’s appointment of Priscilla Bedesi to the position of school principal, set aside.

The SGB said she was not on the recommended list it submitted after the interview process.

On the day Judge Gregory Kruger granted the order, the matter was expected to be argued. But no one from the State Attorney’s office, representing the department and Bedesi, was at court and the judge subsequently ruled in favour of the SGB.

Rescission Now Bedesi has taken matters into her own hands and filed an application for the rescission of that court order. “As one of the respondents for which the state attorney was on record, nobody appeared on my behalf and no arguments were presented regarding my contentions on the matter,� she said in her founding affidavit.

She went on to say that in December, the department issued a notice withdrawing the powers of the governing body of the school. “It must be the case that had Judge Kruger been aware of the previous direction terminating the powers of the governing body, he could not and would not have made the order he granted,� she said.

In response, Donovan Avenant, an SGB member, has filed an affidavit opposing the application.

In it, he said Bedesi had no case for rescission. “All the respondents in

the principal application were served with a notice of set down,� he said. “Judge Kruger was obviously satisfied with service of such notice at the time the matter came before him, otherwise he would not have granted the relief sought in the principal application.�

Avenant, who was at court when the order was granted, said also present at court was a representative from the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu), previously represented by the same state attorney as Bedesi in the main application. “No notice of set down was ever served upon (him) personally notifying him of the appearance date.

The document was only served on the state attorney who was on record for him. The inescapable conclusion is that (he) knew to be in court on the day because he was informed of the date by the state attorney,� Avenant said.

He called Bedesi’s approach to this litigation “astounding to say the least�. “She left the state attorney to its own devices in representing her ...

She has only herself to blame for the events that transpired,� he said.

The department’s Durban Central circuit manager, Thamsanqa Hlatshwayo, also filed an affidavit on behalf of Head of Department Dr Enock Nzama and MEC Mthandeni Dlungwana. They are listed as respondents in Bedesi’s rescission application but they are not opposing it and Hlathswayo stood by much of what Bedesi said.

However, he said the state attorney had not been aware of the February court date and said the state attorney was in the process of preparing a rescission application, when Bedesi’s application was served on them.

The matter was adjourned indefinitely yesterday.

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Jockeying drives political killings political violence in KwaZuluNatal since the 1980s and has published extensive research on the subject.

He said unlike the violence of the 1980s, the current violence is more selective as it is targeted at leadership. “My contention is that there seems to be a culture of eliminating the competitor instead of outperforming them. It is also the same in taxi violence.

Cleansing “Competition is very rife in local government mainly because there are more positions available there than national and provincial legislatures.�

Zulu’s comments come as there has been an upsurge in the killings of councillors and municipal officials in towns such Umzimkhulu and Richmond.

Last week three ANC councillors in uMzimkhulu survived an assassination attempt, after gunmen opened fire on them.

On Monday, the commission heard from community activist Vanessa Burger that most of the hitmen involved in political assassinations are based at the Glebelands hostel.

The commission, chaired by advocate Marumo Moerane, is investigating the causes of all politically-related killings

recorded in KwaZulu-Natal since 2011.

Inkosi Phathisizwe Chiliza, the chairperson of the provincial House of Traditional Leaders, also testified at the commission, saying amakhosi were deeply concerned by the killings. Chiliza said the current killings are linked to the violence of the 1980s and the early 1990s. “What we need now is to have a cleansing ceremony which will involve all political parties�. He said such a process should be led by King Goodwill Zwelithini and should involve traditional leaders in the province.

He said the king and traditional leaders had been very instrumental in ending faction fighting in the province and the same could be achieved with political violence.

Contacted for comment yesterday, Peter Munns, the chairperson of the Christian Coalition, said what was needed to solve the political violence was a peace accord.

This would involve civil society, various interest groups, the business community and government. “The politicians are in denial that we are in crisis,� he said, adding that crime and violence had a negative impact on tourism and investor confidence.

Family of councillor blames events at municipality for shooting Thami Magubane

shooting,� said his cousin Vusi Dlamini. “My cousin has been in politics all his life – he startTHE family of ANC councillor ed in school and nothing ever Sindiso Magaqa has spoken happened to him. He moved to out for the first time detailing Durban and to Johannesburg the circumstances leading to (where he was secretary-genhis shooting on Thursday. eral) of the ANC They h ave Youth League. When pointed the finger that was disbanded of blame at the he returned home.

Umzimkhulu coun“The problems cil, saying what started when he happened to him joined the Umzimstarted inside the khulu council. He municipality. started investigatIn the past four ing things that were months, they said, not going right and things got so bad SINDISO then he became a tarthat he had had to MAGAQA get,� Dlamini said. hire bodyguards at Magaqa became his own cost. a PR councillor for the ANC The family said the murafter the local government der of Umzimkhulu Speaker elections in August.

Khaya Thobela in April had Dlamini said Magaqa had motivated Magaqa to hire attempted to investigate delays bodyguards. in the building of a communMagaqa and fellow counity hall. cillors, Nonsikelelo Mafa and “The hall was taking a very Jabu Mzizi, were shot in a car long time to complete and he in Umzimkhulu. got involved and thereafter The Mercury understands the threats started. He was that he is still in a serious confollowed around by unknown dition but is improving. cars and in one instance, a car His family and friends have followed his car to a funeral. refused to give updates on his “On the day that he got condition or the extent of his shot, he was with a bodyguard injuries. but had sent him to buy air“The issues inside the time. It’s clear those who shot council are to blame for this

him had been waiting for that opportunity,� said Dlamini.

He said the shooting had shocked and devastated their family and Magaqa’s partner. “She is struggling. “We are also fearful and we need police protection.�

Magaqa’s friend Les Stuta said, “For the past few months we have been careful about where we went because of the threats.�

A former councillor who declined to be named concurred with the family’s accusation, saying: “This is an internal issue in the municipality. “There are also issues at the branches. Things started going wrong in the run-up to the local government elections last year.�

The mayor of uMzimkhulu, Mphuthumi Mpabanga, said he had tried to visit Magaqa in hospital on Sunday but was not allowed access as he was not on the list of approved visitors.

He said councillors were living in fear and the council was planning to provide security to those who had been threatened. “People are being killed and we do not know where the attacks are coming from or why.�

Permits at centre of metered-taxi beef UBER drivers have been urged to apply for permits in an effort to bring peace to the metered-taxi industry.

The metered-taxi association said Uber and other e-hailing taxi drivers were supposed to apply for e-hailing permits under the metered taxi sub-category.

The frustration of metered-taxi drivers arose when Uber drivers allegedly operated on their routes without permits. “Uber drivers need to have permits. It is not like they (permits) will work against them‌ there will not be

much of a difference between us when they get these permits,� said Gauteng Meter Taxi Council secretary Hendrick Ndou. “We honestly do not have any problem with Uber, nor are we scared of competition, but we need them to operate legally.�

Ndou said the only difference would be how they were contacted by their customers.

Last week, Transport Minister Joe Maswanganyi said Uber drivers needed to apply for permits. – Mercury Correspondent AHAD

Cycling 2 000km to save South Africa’s rhino Kamcilla Pillay A CONSERVATIONIST with Durban roots recently hopped on his bicycle in an effort to help save the rhino.

Wayne Bolton embarked on the expedition, dubbed the OLLI Frontier Ride on July 1 and this week cycled into KwaZulu-Natal.

The main aim of the ride, he said, was to continue creating conservation awareness, to thank wildlife rangers for the role they play in protecting the country’s natural heritage and to raise funds to support the organisation, Care for Wild Africa, the biggest rhino orphanage and sanctuary in the world.

It is built on three conservation pillars: rescue, rehabilitate and release.

The 2 000km ride began in Port Elizabeth from Kragga Kamma Game Reserve and will go through KwaZuluNatal to the Mozambique border where Bolton plans to

Wayne Bolton with Neil Hampson and Derek Grose from Gwahumbe Game and Spa and Olli, the rhino, which arrived PICTURES: JOHAN PRETORIUS in KwaZulu-Natal this week. plant a flag with the message “Close the gates�, in reference to the route poachers often took through the countries’ borders.

A life-size, fibreglass rhino named Olli, with the words: “One cyclist, 20 game reserves, riding for rhinos from Nelson Mandela Bay through the Zulu

Kingdom to the Mozambique border,� joined Bolton on the journey.

It was pulled along on the “Olli Trolli� by the team’s support vehicle. “I feel the compelling need to do what I can to help halt the decimation of our world rhino species.

“South Africa is home to about 95% of the world’s white rhino and 40% of the critically endangered black rhino,� said Bolton. “As much as my focus has been on saving our rhino population, it is clear that the problem is a lot broader than just our rhino. “The world has lost threefifths of her vertebrate numbers since 1970 through habitat loss, overconsumption, pollution, invasive species and disease. “Extinction cannot be our legacy – the time has come to move from caring to doing.�

Bolton said he had cycled 1 200km already and was enjoying the journey. “This way, I’ve been able to interact with people and tell them why I’m doing this.�

For additional information or to contribute to the campaign, visit the website www. oneland.co.za or email organisers on info@oneland.co.za or nikki@oneland.co.za

Bid to halt feeding scheme tenders fails Bernadette Wolhuter ALLEGATIONS of dodgy new tender awards for the National Schools Nutrition Programme (NSNP) in KwaZulu-Natal emerged in the Durban High Court yesterday.

A group of business people and companies lodged an urgent court application in a bid to halt the awarding of the tenders, which are expected to be announced today.

Their application for an urgent interdict was struck off the court roll because Judge Themba Sishi found it was not urgent and because the 191 new service providers listed as respondents in the court papers had not been properly notified of the action against them.

But speaking outside court, members of the group and its legal team vowed to continue their fight. In her affidavit,

one of the applicants, Tyvitta Baloyi, said business people, companies and needy schoolchildren in the Pinetown district who rely on the food they receive through the NSNP would suffer.

Harm “If, as appears likely, many of the people who (the department) intends to award the tender (to) are incapable of properly performing the service, this will cause irreparable harm to the children who are entitled to enjoy the benefit of school feeding,� she said.

A former service provider, like her co-applicants, Baloyi said a preliminary investigation of the bidders the department last month identified as those to whom it intended awarding the new tenders “revealed a number of disquieting features�.

“A company search has revealed that there are significant issues in respect of 25 of these, where either the company does not exist, or is in the process of de-registration, or has not paid annual returns or only paid them after the submission date (in which event it would not have been able to put up a tax clearance certificate that was valid), or it is in the process of being deregistered, or the director is related to government employees, or the company is not from the Pinetown district, or its registration was such that it could not have obtained documents prior to the briefing session.�

Baloyi said successful bidders were now trying to “market� their bids at a premium to former service providers who

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were unsuccessful in the new tender process. “One bidder is seeking payment of R120 000,� she said. “Others are approaching existing suppliers for loans and who clearly have no experience or expertise.�

But in an interim answering affidavit, the KZN Education head of department, Dr Enock Nzama, called the group’s submissions “vague�. “They contend there were ‘difficulties’ with at least 25 of the 191 bidders which the department has indicated its intention to award the tender to. The applicants contend these difficulties were evidenced after performing company searches,� he said. “None of these company searches are attached.�

THE DA is writing to the KwaZulu-Natal acting provincial commissioner, Major-General Bheki Langa, asking him to task his detectives with “doing their jobs� and arresting convicted fraudster and former police spokesperson Vincent Mdunge. “This man has been convicted. All his appeals have been turned down so therefore it is the job of police to arrest him and take him to the Department of Correctional Services to serve his sentence,� the party’s spokesperson on community safety and liaison in the province, Dr Rishigen Viranna, said yesterday.

Mdunge is supposed to be serving a five-year prison term for fraud, but weeks after his latest appeal was dismissed he is still not in jail.

In 2014, the Durban Regional Court convicted Mdunge for using a fake matric certificate to advance his career in the SAPS and further his studies.

He was convicted on one count of fraud for receiving a salary to which he was not entitled and another for submitting his forged matric certificate to Unisa.

In February, the Pietermaritzburg High Court dismissed a bid to overturn his conviction and sentence. Then last month, the Supreme Court of Appeals dismissed another bid to the same effect.

Provincial director of public prosecutions, advocate Moipone Noko, this week told the Daily News that if a person who was meant to report to prison did not, it was “up to police to issue a warrant of arrest�.

But police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbhele said yesterday that they had done their job and could only arrest Mdunge with a warrant from the court. “They can’t just say it’s not their duty,� Viranna said. “The body tasked to do arrests is the police. In cases like this, it is the job of the police.�

He said it almost seemed as if police officials did not know the law. “This is becoming more and more common, where it seems like these policing authorities have to be told to do their job rather than just doing it. It’s a very slippery slope to not doing anything.�

Mdunge’s lawyer, Yusuf Omar, said he had been instructed not to comment.

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BURLINGTON: Flooding last week destroyed all the cash in the vault of a south-eastern Wisconsin bank.

Fox River State Bank president Keith Polleck refused to disclose how much money was ruined, but said the Federal Reserve will have to replace every dollar.

Polleck told WISN-TV that the vault is water resistant but not waterproof. As the river rose above flood stage, water flooded the bank, rising up to 53cm deep.

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HE jockeying for positions at municipal level is one of the main causes of the upsurge in political violence gripping KwaZulu-Natal.

This is the view of social scientist, Professor Paulus Zulu who told the Moerane Commission, currently sitting in Durban, that imposing a set of qualifications for public office may minimise violence. “Positions, money and the opportunity to leapfrog from where you are, are some of the main causes,� said Zulu.

He said it was easy for people to be elected as councillors as there were no prescribed requirements for such positions, and that most councillors were people who would not be employable elsewhere. “For people to get positions all they have to do is shout the loudest, sing and dance the most.�

He said to correct this, the whole municipal council system would have to be revamped.

Zulu added that the “moral qualifications are also questionable� as there are people who occupy public office despite having criminal records.

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Call for Day of Rage over al-Aqsa Mosque

BAMAKO: Islamist extremists are believed to be behind an ambush which killed eight Malian soldiers in the nation’s desert north.

The bodies of the soldiers were discovered on Monday. They went missing a week ago after their convoy was attacked on the road between the towns of Gao and Menaka.

“They were killed in the fighting last week. There are eight of them. I have two nephews who were killed,” said Badian Ag Hamatou, a member of parliament from Menaka. “They were encircled by the jihadists.”

A team sent to the scene had identified the bodies of the missing soldiers, who were subsequently buried where they were found.

Malian soldiers are regularly targeted in attacks by Islamist groups, some of them with links to al-Qaeda. – ANA

EAST JERUSALEM: Palestinian Authority-affiliated movement Fatah called for a Day of Rage today as tensions build up over Islam’s third holiest shrine, the al-Aqsa Mosque in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem.

Following a shooting attack last Friday by three Israeli-Arab gunmen on Israeli police, which left two officers and the three gunmen dead, the Israeli authorities closed the mosque for several days as they investigated the shooting.

This was the first time in 50 years that Muslims were banned from praying there after an Australian with a mental illness tried to burn down al-Aqsa in 1967.

Jerusalem’s Old City was also closed to Muslim worshippers, apart from those who live inside the walled city, while Israelis and tourists were

free to come and go. Following the attack, metal detectors have been installed at all the entrances of the mosque, but the Muslim Waqf, which administers the holy site under Jordan custodianship, said this was unacceptable interference and an attempt by Israel to take control of the mosque.

Over the past few days. Waqf officials have refused to enter al-Aqsa and called on worshippers to hold prayers outside the mosque in protest.

On Monday night, several Palestinians were injured, including women. children and a Palestinian politician, as angry protesters clashed with Israeli security forces.

Palestinians fear that the Israeli authorities want to divide al-Aqsa as happened in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in the southern Israeli

occupied West Bank, after a Jewish American settler, Baruch Goldstein, opened fire on Muslims worshipping there in 1994, killing 29 and wounding 125.

“This move by Israel is part of its plan to Judaise East Jerusalem and assert its sovereignty over the whole of the city,” said Halima Abu Haniyeh, a Palestinian journalist.

Under international law, East Jerusalem is illegally occupied by the Israelis and is where the Palestinians hope to establish the capital of a future Palestinian state.

In an attempt to establish facts on the ground, the Israelis have changed the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem, incorporating large parts of the West Bank into its borders and building illegal settlements in East Jerusalem.

“There are currently over 300 000

Israeli settlers living illegally in East Jerusalem,” said Abu Haniyeh.

“For Palestinians, however, there is a chronic shortage of housing,” she added. “Furthermore, an extreme right-wing Israeli movement called the Temple Mount Faithful want to build the third Jewish Temple in the place of al-Aqsa Mosque.”

Although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep access to the mosque as is, sharing access between Jewish visitors and Muslim worshippers, there are members of his hard-right government who advocate a change in the status quo to allow Jews to worship there.

The sensitivity over al-Aqsa has lead to mass unrest in the past and Fatah’s political rival in Gaza, Hamas, has called for an uprising over al-Aqsa. – ANA

Emergency rule request MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte wants to extend martial law in the entire island of Mindanao and nearby islands until the end of the year to ensure public safety and in order to quell the rebellion in the southern Philippines, his spokesperson Ernesto Abella said yesterday.

Abella said Duterte had sent a seven-page letter to the country’s Congress on Monday requesting an extension of martial law until December 31.

“The primary objective of the possible extension is to allow our forces to continue with their operation unhampered by deadlines,” Abella said. – Xinhua

Turkey arrests activists ISTANBUL: A Turkish court ordered the arrest of Amnesty International’s Turkey director and five other human rights workers in a sign of what rights advocates say is the government’s growing intolerance of critical voices.

The Amnesty director, Idil Eser, was detained along with nine other human rights advocates this month during a raid on a hotel where the group was attending a workshop.

The formal charges were not available, but Amnesty said the rights workers had been held on the “unfounded suspicion of ‘committing crime in the name of terrorist organisation without being a member”. – Washington Post

Landmines kill 62 TRIPOLI: The Libyan army said on Monday that 43 army engineers have been killed and 27 others wounded in landmine explosions.

The mines were planted by terrorist groups in the city of Benghazi.

The army spokesperson Al Awamy confirmed that the number of victims among civilians rose to 19 as a result of the mine explosions that occurred during the past 10 days. He said the civilian victims were mostly merchants and shop owners in Darnah Street.

The spokesperson warned residents of Al Hoot market in Benghazi against returning to their homes until the mines had been found and removed. – Xinhua

Gunmen kidnap priests KINSHASA: Gunmen in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo kidnapped two Catholic priests in an area at the centre of over two years of massacres by unknown assailants, the country’s conference of bishops said on Monday.

Charles Kipasa and Jean-Pierre Akilimali were taken from Our Lady of the Angels parish in Bunyuka by a group of around 10 assailants just before 10pm local time on Sunday.

“Priests are men of God who devote their lives to the good of the population without a political agenda. To hurt them is to harm the community they serve,” the National Episcopal Conference of Congo said. – Reuters

US President Donald Trump, left, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

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Afghan war stepped up KABUL: The US air war in Afghanistan has returned to a level of intensity not seen since American forces fought Taliban militants daily in 2012, according to recent military data.

As of June 30, US and coalition aircraft had expended 1 634 munitions in Afghanistan this year.

In 2015 and 2016, that figure was 298 and 545 respectively. Most of this year’s strikes have been on the Taliban.

The surge in US-led air attacks comes as the Pentagon weighs whether to send more troops. Some see an increase in support for the US’s longest war as futile.

– Washington Post

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A teenager walks through Nardo Camp for the displaced in Ethiopia’s Somali region, where drought has left millions needing food aid.

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Climate change destroys pastoralist way of life NARDO CAMP: Zeinab Taher once roamed through Ethiopia’s arid Somali region tending a herd of 350 sheep, goats and cattle with her nine children.

Then the autumn rains failed and the grass that fed her animals didn’t grow. No rain came this spring, and then the livestock began to die.

Now, the 60-year-old woman huddles in a makeshift windblown camp with several thousand others, depending on food and water from international agencies.

Another drought has seized the Horn of Africa, devastating the livestock herders in these already dry lands.

Even as the government and aid agencies struggle to help them, there is a growing realisation that with

climate change, certain ways of life in certain parts of the world are becoming difficult to sustain.

In Ethiopia, which unlike neighbouring Somalia or South Sudan has a functioning government, the emergency effort has kept people alive.

Authorities and aid agencies are trying to get beyond the immediate humanitarian response and encourage a shift to livelihoods less vulnerable to drought and climate shocks.

“In many pastoral lands, pastoral livelihoods are no longer viable,” said Samir Wanmali, the deputy country director for the World Food Programme.

An estimated 450 000 people in the south-eastern Somali region have abandoned their nomadic lifestyle and retreated to camps to receive

food aid in recent months, according to the International Organisation for Migration. At one of the camps, an expanse of sand and thorny scrub dotted with hundreds of huts made out of plastic tarpaulins and twigs, Taher worried that even when the drought ended, she couldn’t simply resume her traditional way of life.

“Even if it rained, we have no animals,” she said. “I can’t think of going back to herding.”

Last year a drought caused by the El Niño warming phenomenon in the Pacific baked Ethiopia’s fertile highlands in the north and centre of the country and left more than 10 million people needing food aid.

This year, temperature changes in the Indian Ocean have caused a drought in the south and east

of the country, a much more arid region populated by shepherds and their flocks. There are an estimated 5 million people in Ethiopia’s Somali region, of whom about 40% are pastoralists engaged in raising animals, according to the last census.

Last year, the Ethiopian government scraped together $700 million together with nearly $1 billion in international assistance to fight the drought. For this year’s crisis, nowhere near the same funding is available as international donors grapple with severe hunger crises in two neighbouring war-torn nations – Somalia and South Sudan.

However, the latest humanitarian assessment indicates that 7.8 million people in Ethiopia need food aid.

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Eastern Ukrainian separatists proclaim new state DONETSK: Separatists in eastern Ukraine yesterday proclaimed a new state that aspires to include not only the areas they control, but also the rest of Ukraine.

The surprise announcement, in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, casts further doubt on the 2015 ceasefire deal that was supposed to stop fighting in Ukraine’s industrial heartland and bring those areas back into Kiev’s fold, while granting them wide autonomy. It also caught some rebels unaware, and they said they had no intention of joining the new state.

More than 10 000 people have died in fighting after Russian-backed rebels took control of parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions in April 2014, after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. The rebels originally sought to join Russia, but the Kremlin stopped short of annexing the area or publicising its military support for the rebels.

Donetsk separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko said rebels in Donetsk and Luhansk, as well as

A local resident sits in his house, which was damaged by recent shelling, in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine.

PICTURE: REUTERS representatives of other Ukrainian regions, would form a state called Malorossiya.

Most of the areas, which are currently part of Ukraine, were referred to as Malorossiya, or Little Russia, when they were part of the Russian Empire.

Zakharchenko said they were drawing up a constitution that would be put to a popular vote later.

“We believe that the Ukrainian state as it was cannot be restored,” Zakharchenko said in remarks carried by the Tass news agency. “We, representatives of the regions of the

former Ukraine, excluding Crimea, proclaim the creation of a new state which is a successor to Ukraine.”

Although separatists in the east do have sympathisers in other Ukrainian regions, they have not attempted to capture territories there, nor do they have any political representation there.

Separatist leaders in Luhansk, however, later denied being part of the deal.

A local news website, Luhansk Information Centre, quoted rebel representative Vladimir Degtyarenko as saying they were not informed of the plans and have “great doubts about the expediency of such steps”.

Throughout the conflict, the rebelcontrolled areas have been ruled by self-proclaimed authorities in Donetsk and Luhansk, who call themselves the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic. Separatist leaders in Luhansk, unlike their counterparts in Donetsk, have tended to stay away from directly expressing intentions to join Russia. – AP

CAR refugees sleep in the open after fleeing to DRC KINSHASA: Escalating violence in the unstable Central African Republic (CAR) has driven more than 102 000 civilians into the equally ungovernable Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Of these, 60 000 have fled to the neighbouring country since ethnic violence between Christian diehards and Muslim radicals peaked in CAR in May.

The refugees are accommodated in churches, derelict buildings, schools and clinics while some are sleeping in the open after crossing the CAR border into DRC. “Refugees are staying everywhere they can. They desperately need more healthcare, food and shelter,” a UN High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman said.

Incessant clashes between Islam-

ist and Christian extremists have battered CAR since 2013 when the government of President Francois Bozize, a Christian, was overthrown.

Muslim leader Michel Am-Nondokro Djotodia took over but resigned a year later after an upsurge in violence.

The government of Faustin-Archange Touadéra, elected last year, has struggled to stem the anarchy.

The DRC is also experiencing

militancy that has worsened since President Joseph Kabila remained in power despite the expiry of his mandate late last year. Thousands of Congolese have fled to Angola, which itself is undergoing tension ahead of elections set for next month.

Of the $55 million (R712 million) the UN needs for the DRC-CAR situation this year, only $2.8 million has been received.– CAJ News

N THE wake of a national dry run vote for the National Constituent Assembly on Sunday, President Nicolas Maduro defended Venezuela’s “dignity and sovereignty” against threats by US President Donald Trump, who in a statement on Monday described Maduro as “a bad leader who dreams of becoming a dictator”.

“If the Maduro regime imposes its Constituent Assembly on July 30, the US will take strong and swift economic actions.”

Trump’s threats were repeated by the US State Department which released a statement calling on “the government of Venezuela to abandon the proposed National Constituent Assembly”.

The warning came after record numbers turned out to participate in a historic dry run vote for the Constituent Assembly, which, Caracas says, is aimed at easing tensions and creating a more representative constitution.

Despite the mass show of public support, the event was largely ignored by many international media outlets, as international leaders continued to criticise the Venezuelan government and demand immediate elections.

White House spokesperson Sean Spicer called on Venezuela to cancel the Constituent Assembly and convene “free and fair elections”.

EU diplomat Federica Mogherini likewise urged Maduro to suspend plans to convene the Constituent Assembly, noting that the move would be “an important gesture” toward de-escalating tensions.

This message was echoed by Spanish President Mariano Rajoy and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, who penned an opinion piece for Spanish newspaper El Mundo criticising the Venezuelan government.

Maduro has reacted sharply to the criticism, telling Rajoy “get your nose out of Venezuela” while reminding the “insolent” Mogherini that “Venezuela is a free, sovereign

country… not a colony of Europe”.

In defence of the Constituent Assembly, Maduro recalled the Battle of Ayacucho in Peru, a concluding military victory of the Latin American revolutionary wars, in which the forces of Grand Marshal Antonio José de Sucre forced Spanish forces to surrender and end its reign over South America.

“Ours is a Constituent Assembly for independence, sovereignty and national dignity,” Maduro claimed.

“Let Europe say what it wants to say, we do not care what Europe says. We care about this land, our dignity, the land of the liberators of the Americas.”

The dry run vote was held on Sunday in anticipation of the official vote for the National Constituent Assembly on July 30.

Given a surge in right-wing protest violence, Tibisay Lucena, president of the National Electoral Council, said the voting exercise was important to ensure that the voters can exercise their right to vote in safe conditions. She explained that part of the exercise was to identify those localities where the safety of voters could be threatened.

While there were some reports of violence, the dry run vote was largely carried out in a festive mood.

Almost 500 polling centres were authorised and nearly 1 950 voting machines were deployed to help voters learn how to use them.

The dry run vote coincided with a symbolic referendum called by the opposition which asked people to vote whether they want a constituent assembly or not; whether they want the armed forces to support the existing constitution and the decisions of the national assembly; and whether they want immediate general elections.

Venezuelans in other parts of the world, including Miami, New York and Spain, also participated in the non-binding referendum.

Opposition leaders claimed more than 7 million Venezuelans participated, 98% of whom opposed the assembly, but short of the 11 million they had hoped for in a country of just under 20 million voters.

Thai farmers back ex-PM’s party BANGKOK: As the trial of former prime minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra over an extravagant rice subsidy programme winds to a close, her rural supporters are resisting attempts by the ruling junta to silence her family’s political machine.

Yingluck and her Puea Thai Party say the trial is politically motivated, aimed at discrediting a populist movement that has won every election since 2001.

Yingluck’s brother Thaksin Shinawatra first introduced the rice programmes before he himself was ousted in a 2006 coup. But Yingluck took it a step further by offering to buy rice from farmers at up to 50% above market prices.

The measure helped her sweep to power in the 2011 general election.

But government losses from the scheme – which also distorted global rice prices – helped fuel protests that led to her removal from power days before the 2014 coup.

If found guilty, Yingluck like her brother Thaksin, would be disqualified from becoming premier again.

Thaksin has been living in self-imposed exile for 11 years to avoid serving a two-year sentence over a corrupt land deal.

That has left political circles

guessing who would lead the party in the next election, scheduled for next year, and whether that leader could possibly be someone outside the Shinawatra clan that has dominated the movement until now.

Farmers from the Shinawatra powerbase in the north-east said they would vote for the Puea Thai Party again in the next election.

“The Yingluck rice scheme made rice farmers prosperous from having a reliable income that came on time,” said Paisan Pachanda, 59, a rice farmer and co-operative leader in Khon Kaen, a major commercial hub that lies on a plateau in the centre of the north-east region.

“If there’s an election… people in the north-east will still vote for the Puea Thai Party, even if there is no Shinawatra in the party,” he said.

Even the rival Democrat Party concedes Puea Thai remains unchallenged in the north-east.

“Puea Thai Party’s political base, its MPs and politicians have developed strong networks in the north-east,” said Ong-art Klampaiboon, deputy leader of the Democrat Party.

“So even if the party changes its leadership it is unlikely that it will affect its strong bonds on the ground,” he said. – Reuters

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For more than 80 years the Mercury Hibberdene Home has offered children a short seaside holiday free from care and deprivation. More than 1 500 children are given this opportunity each year in PICTURES: LEON LESTRADE a safe, happy environment with nutritious meals and loads of activities, managed by committed staff. On Mandela Day, the holidays were in full swing.

Changing lives, 67 minutes at a time KwaZulu-Natal people from all walks of life showed their commitment to the legacy and spirit of Nelson Mandela by offering their 67 minutes to a worthy cause this Mandela Day

Shoprite Checkers staff spent 67 minutes at Natal Settlers, in Umbilo, painting walls, gardening PICTURES: NQOBILE MBONAMBI and handing out goodies to the elderly.

Shoprite Checkers chief operating officer Willem Hunlun gives tasty treats to Maralyn Oday, 78.

Shoprite Checkers staff working in the gardens at Natal Settlers.

KZN Health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo helps out during the building of a house for a paraplegic woman in uMbumbulu as part of Mandela Day.

As part of the Dolphins cricket franchise’s efforts for Mandela Day, Hollywoodbets Dolphins player Sibonelo Makhanya, Dolphy the mascot, and players Vaughn van Jaarsveld and Cody PICTURE: DOCTOR NGCOBO Chetty play with kids at Kingsmead.

Sibonelo Makhanya and Cody Chetty interact with children from child welfare.

KZN MEC for Transport, Community Safety and Liaison, Mxolisi Kaunda, and KZN Health head of department, Dr Sifiso Mtshali, spent their 67 minutes at Sizabantu Nazareth Gardens in KwaNongoma.

PICTURE: MBUYISELO NDLOVU

Zia Vawda checks out an artwork of Nelson Mandela in Florida Road, Durban.

PICTURE: DOCTOR NGCOBO

Marriott embraced Mandela Day by giving Kloof SPCA a donation of pet food, which started at 67 tins but has since grown, as well as a tray of cakes and savouries. Pictured at the Kloof SPCA with the tower of 67 tins of pet food and three yorkies who are looking for a ‘forever’ home are, from left, Liz Valentine (distribution manager, Marriott), Lisa Mörck (marketing manager, Kloof and Highway SPCA) and Greg Hoffmann (Marriott).

St Paul’s Anglican Church Durban, supported by Standard Bank, provided a hearty meal for people living in shelters or sleeping on the streets in central Durban.

UrbanHouse Media, teamed up with Harcourts of Hilton to sew fleece blankets for a local NPO, Thandi House Baby Home.

Pictured with their pile of blankets are Harcourts staff (back, from left) Trish Parsons, Tracy Summerton, Shirley Stephenson and Andrew Snyman. Front, from left: Nikki Chapple (UrbanHouse Media), Linda Eyre, Michelle Byres, Juelz Gule and Hayley Strachan (UrbanHouse Media).

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Opinion

THE MERCURY

WEDNESDAY JULY 19, 2017

EDITOR’S VIEW

Long walk continues

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T IS remarkable how almost four years after his passing Nelson Mandela remains a gift to the nation and the world that keeps on giving.

For who else could attract some of humanity’s most respected leaders to the Mother City to continue the Long Walk to Freedom from the spot where he made his triumphant reappearance in public after 27 years in apartheid jails.

These leaders are grouped in an organisation Madiba formed 10 years ago of eminent persons called The Elders, tasked with helping to resolve conflicts around the world.

Led by Mandela’s widow, Graça Machel, The Elders, accompanied by a large group of residents, gathered at the Cape Town City Hall, where Mandela made his first speech on his release from prison in 1990, and walked to the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

Machel took to the podium and said “thank you so much for your presence here”, before leading the crowd in a song wishing Madiba, who died in December 2013 at the age 95, a happy birthday.

The Elders, who are made up of former heads of state, peace activists, and human rights advocates, including Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon, Desmond Tutu, Graça Machel, Jimmy Carter, Hina Jilani, former Irish president Mary Robinson, and Ernesto Zedillo, among others, is also celebrating a decade since its founding.

Robinson and international

business tycoon Sir Richard Branson were among the luminaries to march in Cape Town yesterday.

Their gathering was to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Elders and to launch the group’s new global project, “Walk Together”, a continuation of Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom, said Machel.

At around noon The Elders, alongside leaders from District Six who were forcibly removed from their homes by apartheid, and 1 000 local residents, walked from the Grand Parade outside the Cape Town City Hall, where Mandela made his celebrated Freedom speech in 1990 to a gathering at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

The event featured discussions on the world’s ongoing humanitarian issues and celebrating The Elders’ work to date.

That all of this is inspired by the midwife-in-chief of our democracy, our founding President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, who brought so much compassion and love to the world, must fill South Africans with pride and gratitude.

He was from among us, from our flesh and blood.

We must be an equally extraordinary people to have given the world such exceptional leadership.

It is a paradox of our times, therefore, that post-Madiba we should be sitting with some leaders who continued to underwhelm and disappoint the nation.

Thought for the day Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – American author and motivational speaker Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

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Hopelessly misled by a party at war with itself THE BURGLARY at the offices of the Chief Justice, Hawks, NPA and the heists at OR Tambo International speak volumes about our national security.

We have seen prisoners entertained by strippers. The leaked Gupta e-mails speak to our “state of security”. Violent protests and hooliganism by Black First Land First reveal the crisis in our police and intelligence structures.

Last year, President Jacob Zuma

ANC is trampling on good Mandela did I SPENT Mandela Day reflecting on his life with nostalgia and a tinge of sadness. Mandela was man of great stature and a very unique human being. His legacy will live on forever and his life will continue to be studied by all scholars far into the future.

To think on how the current ANC and its discredited leader have trampled on all the good Mandela has done gives one the shudders. It makes one sad.

The current cabal continues to loot the state and the ANC leadership is too afraid to act against such brazen thuggery.

The ANC has been captured by the evil Guptas.

One was even more horrified to hear President Jacob Zuma was giving a Mandela memorial lecture.

What can President Zuma say about Mandela’s life?

The ANC under its current leader has lost its moral compass and is in a state of decay. The putrefying stench the ANC leaves behind continues daily, be it scandals of corrupt activities or inept leadership.

God bless Mandela; long live his spirit!

D PAKS Durban

denied that South Africa is a violent society, but protesters burnt universities, clinics, schools, municipal buildings and blockaded roads.

The Bloemfontein City Hall was burnt, allegedly by SA Allied Workers Union hooligans. People torch trains and buses, but the president says we are not a violent society.

We see “ANC on ANC” violence – 25 people have been killed in KwaZulu-Natal and no one has been apprehended. Combatants against

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corruption like Bomber Ntshangase in Mbombela, Mzwandile Mkhize in Hibiscus Municipality and recent killings in Richmond are examples of the ANC at war with itself. Soon the ANC will be known as Anarchy National Congress or African National Criminals as factionalism and corruption are characterised by the spilling of blood.

In South Africa xenophobic violence is not treated as a criminal offence, hence there are no prosecu-

tions for xenophobic crime. All this, including the burglaries, speaks to a weak state.

We have a weak state, incapable of dealing with crime. A corrupt government will be undermined by criminals. Instead of shouting rhetoric in press briefings, Minister Fikile Mbalula must do his work.

He must act against Zuma anarchists in Black First Land First.

As we become a Mafia state, we will be downgraded, making it dif-

ficult for Nomvula Mokonyane to pick up the rand, which will result in unemployment, crime and a decline in foreign direct investment.

The suicide bombers are not the likes of Makhosi Khoza, but those in government who create fertile ground for criminals to thrive.

The SACP must call for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the Guptas.

MABEL NGWENYA Durban

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Don’t throw good money at bad drivers THE EDITOR’S View (The Mercury, July 17) is spot on. One only uses bait to catch fish or treats/rewards to teach animals new tricks.

It is absolutely preposterous that the municipality wants to throw money at the taxi industry to get them to drive properly. Whose money is going to be used?

The real problem is that the municipality is too scared of implementing any by-laws against the taxi industry.

GLEN CHRISTIE Berea

SA should adopt US electoral model PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma continually blames white people and apartheid for his and his administration’s failure.

A report obtained exclusively by a weekend newspaper revealed that Zuma was asked to step down by the ANC’s integrity commission, but Zuma turned them down, this time shifting the blame onto the West, having the notion that the West wants him out.

Zuma is such a magical person and the ANC appears to be gullible and succumbs to what he says.

However, now we have Speaker of the National Assembly Baleka Mbete having presidential aspirations.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, former AU commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and others have their eyes on the prize.

There is much clamour about who will be South Africa’s next president. Why can’t our country adopt the American system of electing a president?

Allow the president of the country to be chosen by the people dir-

ectly and not by the ANC provincial delegates.

Once elected, he is in office for four-year terms, (this system we already have in South Africa) and during this period the president is not undermined, nor are attempts made behind the scenes to topple him.

He may decide to stand for office for one more term, and his future is decided at the next presidential election.

South Africans have something to learn from the US electoral model.

ISMAIL MOOLLA Umzinto

Rohingya Muslims are still not free REAL freedom and democracy will only come to Burma when the military government loses its financial support from the outside world and surrenders to the will of the people.

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her party have failed to ease the plight of the Rohingya, despite her reputation as a fighter for human rights.

The Rohingya Muslims are considered the most persecuted ethnic minority in the world. Since 2012, they have faced state-sponsored persecution and have been denied health care, livelihood, food and freedom of movement.

Most of the Rohingya population lives in Rakhine, one of the poorest provinces of the country; they are bound to live in ghettos and not allowed to go out of the boundaries

without government permission.

To get citizenship, ethnic minorities have to prove they have lived in the country for 60 years.

Suu Kyi was considered a second liberator of the country after her father’s struggle for independence but it seems all her thoughts and promises were of a fickle nature.

NASRINE AKOOB Durban

Kindness at licence centre appreciated MY DRIVING licence is due for renewal. I am elderly, and not good on my feet, so I phoned the licensing offices at Mariannhill and asked if I could avoid the two flights of steps up to the banking hall.

A Mr Radebe told me to drive round the back and park in the parking provided, which opened on to a ramped approach, but there were so many people waiting that I could not stand that long, and was moved on by a security guard and a traffic officer who refused to listen to my request for help.

Two days later, we visited the offices again. The queues were as bad but my wife went up to the banking hall to see what could be done. She was asked to see a Mrs Thandi in an office at the rear, which we did. I was treated with kindness and understanding and the renewal functions were soon completed, thanks to her and a traffic policeman.

People were friendly and helpful to an elderly white man. This is the way everyone should behave to achieve the peaceful, happy and

co-operative state that ordinary people want.

Thanks to all concerned.

KEN LEIGH Kloof

School to reward outstanding teacher TOGETHER with Nizamia Islamic School and my friend and colleague Mr Dan Shoba, the principal of Carisbrooke Primary School, I am pleased to announce the launch of a teacher incentive programme competition at the school on Mandela Day. The competition speaks to the idea that improving the quality of education would result in an upward spiral of real change in our societies and communities.

In this depressing economic climate, giving of our best consistently is becoming very difficult. Children, in general, lack the enthusiasm to study and stay focused, due to various distractions.

This mood is especially highlighted in the disadvantaged communities, where basic needs are sometimes impossible to meet.

Therefore, the task of the teacher is very arduous. To keep up the momentum of consistent hard work, much motivation is required over and above the normal salary the teacher receives. Incentives in some material form, for example cash, will encourage and motivate teachers to perform at their best.

By placing the teacher at the centre of learning and teaching, we believe a radical transformation can

be achieved in the education sector.

In this regard, we decided to give the “most outstanding teacher” a small, but relative, token of appreciation.

The award will be given at the end of each year, starting in December.

MOHAMED SAEED Pietermaritzburg

Military creating further violence THE Israeli government is once again responding in a militarised way.

There have been hundreds of arrests and Palestinian access to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound has been limited. Parts of the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem are closed to Palestinians.

This constitutes collective punishment on the entire population.

In the past, these measures have proved themselves ineffective at ending violence.

Decades of dispossession, occupation and discrimination are the main reasons for Palestinian resistance. Further Israeli military repression will never end the Palestinian desire for freedom, nor will it address the root causes of violence.

The current actions by the Israeli government and army are likely to create further violence, destruction and the entrenchment of division. Only justice and equality for all will bring peace and quiet to the residents of Israel and Palestine.

SAJIDA TIMOL Overport

Why do we still dance around the destructive pillars of privilege?

HE HAS LONG been dead, but his ideas are truly alive. Still dangerous. Tomorrow, Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary, philosopher, doctor and perhaps the most influential anti-colonial thinker of the 20th century, would have been 92. His ideas of race and critical theory of colonisation and assimilation have never aged.

Born in Martinique in the French Antilles, Fanon lived in France, Algeria, Ghana and Tunisia. He died from cancer at the age of 36 in 1961. His work was all-encompassing. Supporting the Algerian struggle for independence from French rule, he became a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front.

Fanon’s ideas were as revolutionary in their time as they are today – rejected, fought over, and yet welcomed by those inspired by its single-minded vision of social change.

His ideas form the backbone of much of Steve Biko’s work on Black

Azad Essa AT WORLD’S END Consciousness and the need for decolonisation. The utterings of decolonisation by today’s students, the Fallists, are by definition Fanonian.

Interpretations of his large body of work have shifted with the times, his ideas being used and abused by thinkers, leaders and snake charmers alike. But, at its core, the values remain the same.

His seminal work Black Skin, White Masks (1952) explored the “inferiority complex” endured by the colonised, with the subsequent thirst of blackness to aspire to whiteness in a bid to progress.

In Wretched of the Earth (1963) Fanon gave the oppressed a road-

map to end occupation. He dedicates an entire chapter to violence, and alludes to it being a perfectly credible method of revolt or means of removing society from the clutches of occupiers.

Fanon analysed the impact of colonisation on the oppressed; he explored the incapacitation, the despair and the self-hatred. He concluded that inferiority was neither predisposed nor natural. It was created by racism itself.

If you are black or brown in South Africa and were lucky enough to enter a former Model C school or make your way to university in the 1990s, or entered the job market where you were to encounter whiteness, your primary task was to prove you could belong in a white man’s world. This could be as simple as adopting an accent, condemning a cultural ritual or changing your diet.

In Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon discusses apartheid South

Africa, noting that even as a minority, whites never had to feel inferior.

And this was true, anywhere, from the US to India and Australia.

The structure of colonial racism allowed it to be so. This continues even today: You could be in a call centre in India and Savitri would lose the Delhi accent and morph into Samantha to keep American customers comfortable.

Fragility Such is white fragility. You could be a veteran Palestinian writer, but editors will trust a white male to tell the story of your people because you cannot be trusted to be impartial. Such is white privilege.

In the US you could be a film star, but if you were black you were just as likely to be pulled over by a white policeman as the next black man.

Such is the nature of white distrust.

Would a white American need to change his or her name for an Indi-

an or African market? No. In the late 1800s and early 1900s Jews changed their names to fit in an anti-Semitic Germany, years before the Holocaust was even conceived. You would have thought Western Europe would have broached their bigotry by now. Imagine what it might have been like for a black or brown person back then.

Even in France today, a brown or black child named Mustafa or Fatima will always be brown or black, always “the other”, regardless of the name.

Such is the curse of the white standard, which Fanon saw as the “limitation of French citizenship”.

But Fanon did not merely point out the latent racist structure that governed societies, be it French or South African. He called for action.

This is why he joined the Algerian struggle for independence from French rule. He denounced capitalism, but warned Africa against im-

plementing a template of socialism.

He called for reparations from colonial states and argued that “moral reparation for national independence does not fool us and it does not feed us.”

Read today, the world is still a conflagration of haves and havenots. Whereas “Europe is literally the creation of the Third World”, as Fanon says, Joburg is virtually the creation of the sweat of rural South Africa and even Malawi.

The economies of our hinterlands and those of Malawi remain devastated, in what is an extension of what he describes as the “geographical configuration” of colonial governance.

The contexts have changed. Colonialism in its most crass form is over. But democracy and development enforce a similar version of colonial rule, under sophisticated lexicons of “freedom” and “free markets”.

The slums are still full, the lives

of the poor still cheap and dispensable. “You are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich,” still holds true. If you are black and rich, it is likely to be a result of your proximity to whiteness.

Fanon’s work resonates because his words continue to provide a theoretical mind map of the despair and alienation experienced by the disenfranchised.

We can argue that South Africa does not share the same experience as French colonies, and that violence, as much as it might be a retort, need not be the solution. Possibly.

But as Fanon ends Black Skin, White Masks with: “O my body, always make me a man who questions”, amid continued inequality and deprivation, we still deserve better answers. ● Essa is a journalist at Al Jazeera. He is also co-founder of The Daily Vox.

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Heavenly greetings from Madiba My legacy belongs to all who promote my ideals and value systems, and who are largely invisible, except on July 18 Mandela Day, for 67 minutes, Nelson Mandela ‘tells’ Brij Maharaj DEAR loyal readers of The Mercury

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GREET you in the name of the non-racial, unifying, revolutionary, social justice and freedom-fighting ANC, and of course, the now mandatory RET, and the struggle against WMC… Sorry, force of habit – I have to retract.

Sadly, my beloved organisation is now the home of tenderpreneurs, fraudsters and felons, many masquerading as ANC members with manufactured Struggle credentials, with a common purpose – to loot the public purse at the expense of the poor and disadvantaged. Perched high in my divine abode, Alan Paton reminds me, my beloved country is crying.

I bring you heavenly greetings from the abode of Peter the Saint!

All newspapers in South Africa and the new age community rejected this column as fake news. Bravo to brave Branko for believing in me, and especially my values, and granting me this space.

I am glad to displace that hyper-critical, holier-than-thou, cynical maverick Brij-overtroubled-waters, he has nothing decent to say about my party or anyone else for that matter – what cheek! Okay, before you flood the letters’ column, he does “speak truth to power”. He frequently makes me borrow St Peter’s dictionary, and reminds me of the cantankerous Mac – these Maharaj fellows are normally related in some way.

I did read his flattering comments at the Maha Sabha’s memorial service: “As we celebrate Madiba’s life… if all South Africans, and indeed, the global population, adopt at least one of his principles, then the lot of humanity will be significantly improved on planet Earth. Madiba was an extraordinary person who… set the highest standards in terms of ethics, morality and integrity, which his successors have struggled to emulate.”

It is a sign of how low the moral, ethical and integrity bar has been set that there is an urban legend doing its rounds that for the 67 minutes in my honour (which I believe I hardly deserve), government officials and politicians from my party should not steal from the public. A tall, impossible order, as is evident from the trove of recently leaked e-mails about looting resources of the state, and the conduits to Dubai.

On my arrival at the pearly gates, I heard a familiar voice shouting “Madiba! Madiba! Please save me. You visited my house in Chatsworth. I put your photo on the front page of the Daily Maverick!” I turned around to see the Raj in what appeared to be a holding cell, a little larger than that on Robben Island.

It was adjacent to the zone of Fire, Brimstone, and Eternal Damnation, and I could recognise Verwoerd,

praise his political master has turned the SABC into a circus.

Sadtu protects and promotes incompetent teachers, and destroys the youth and future of my beloved country. Moreover, the poor still use matchsticks and tyres to connect with politicians (reminds me of a member of my family).

The tensions in the tripartite alliance sound serious. The threats by the SACP to go it alone are ominous, and some have pronounced that this will mark the end of one of the few active commie groups in the world.

Of course, when the body dies, parasites have to move on, looking for greener pastures. Once the centre cannot hold, things fall apart.

The ANC has the capacity to turn its electoral fortunes around by selecting its strongest candidate (from what some have described as a lacklustre group). Aspiring candidate Cyril Ramaphosa has suddenly discovered that he has vocal cords and has vowed not to keep quiet. One wonders why he was silent and danced to Umshini wami – blind loyalty or fear?

No doubt all will be revealed in his memoirs!

With the wisdom of hindsight, I wonder whether I made the right decision when I did not select him as my successor? And would the course of history (a subject that ruthlessly reveals all) have been significantly different?

I was aware of the ANC’s plans to relocate Parliament from Cape Town (largely to spite the DA), but was surprised to learn that the seat of government has already moved to Saxonwold, from where the captured levers of the state were operating since 2009. However, in order to ensure that there are no ideological and regional biases (eg that the Zulus from KZN hold disproportionate sway on political decision-making), all-important executive decisions will now apparently be made in a geographically neutral zone – Dubai.

Diplomatic immunity is guaranteed in Dubai and no government officials will face the public humiliation of having their luggage screened, and being forced to reveal state secrets and private assets. This Middle East destination is so tempting that even ministers like Des van Rooyen go there for a day, and return with empty bags – mission accomplished.

Given the threats against the safety of the president (one emanating from within the ruling party, and the other from Home Affairs), he has been spirited away to a secret, secure location in Dubai, where you can lose vital body ap-

pendages for any criminality. To avoid volatile currency fluctuations, protect the autonomy of the Reserve Bank, and prevent the new public protector from demanding more changes to the constitution, a genetically modified clone (which is remotely controlled from Saharanpur in India) has been installed in the president’s office in Pretoria.

The various allegations about misconduct, abuse of the oath of high office, larceny, treachery, abdication of duty, violation of public duty and responsibility, pilfering from the public purse to favour select family and friends (and domestic discord due to poor performance) are all true, and the clown – sorry, clone, takes full responsibility.

The real, honest president, who has the highest levels of integrity and morality, is safely ensconced in Dubai.

There are some unconfirmed rumours that the clone is being offered R2 billion to leave, so the real president can return and take over the reins of government.

And who are these puppeteers from the Saxonwold compound, with extraordinary wealth, power and influence to apparently appoint cabinet ministers? Can spice-pedlars capture the state?

Before you hastily use the six Ietter “R” word and get me wrong, some of my best friends are Indians.

I know SA Indians to be hard-working, honest, peace-loving, and very religious folk. I beg you to expose the corrupt, those with quick, questionable wealth, and stop parading them at your public and private functions, and especially not in your sacred places of worship.

Please do not try to contact me as there is no internet, cellphone, wi-fi or postal service here. All such equipment is confiscated upon arrival, so as not to contaminate the ethereal atmosphere.

I need to conclude, but before I sign off I will let you into a secret. I made a request to St Peter for a visa to visit SA for a week. For once, he was not exasperated and it would appear that my visa may be granted.

Of course, whether the ANC government will allow me to enter SA, a country I can barely recognise, is another matter. I will keep you posted about further developments in this matter.

So until we meet again, on earth or in Heaven… and hopefully not “next door”…

I remain Yours Madiba

The problem with sharing space with Gandhi is that one has to be celibate and abstain from alcohol and meat

Nelson Mandela shares his observations on South Africa today from the right side of the pearly gates.

Vorster, PW Botha and Hansie Cronje immediately.

Apparently there was a long queue and Lucifer was struggling to cope. I managed to convince St Peter and vouched for the Raj’s “transformation” – after all, he did sell (out) MF voters to the ANC! The Raj was allocated the lowest rung in heaven, provisionally. I warned the Raj that if he crossed the floor here, then it would only be in one direction! (I also subsequently learnt that St Peter does not like breyani!)

You will be glad to know that I enjoy Platinum Plus status – the highest rung in heaven – which I share with Martin Luther, Mohandas Gandhi, and Mother Teresa.

Luther believes that Obama had not realised his potential and deserved a third term as US president, to protect the Americans from being “Trumped”! I reminded him that it was this type of third-term wistful

thinking by my immediate successor that was responsible for the current mess in my country.

The problem with sharing space with Gandhi is that one has to be celibate and abstain from alcohol and meat. I am an African – that is a tall order, especially the vegetarian bit. Gandhi and Teresa do not trust each other. He thinks that she wants to convert him, and she muses that in his dhoti that the “half-naked fakir” is lewd. When I tease Gandhi about the latter, he refers me to his book, Experiments With Truth.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru are also here, and continue with their earthly quarrels beyond the pearly gates, and have been warned to behave

by St Peter, or they will be sent “next door”. Last year I jokingly suggested that Pakistan’s woes could end with re-incorporation into India, and the Hindus and

Muslims refused to speak to me, but were forced to forgive and forget during Eid and Diwali, respectively.

I sometimes have a chat with Satan across the fence, who tells me that he is merely doing his job. He has invited me to present a motivational talk to the inmates of hell, and suggests that my experiences on the Island would be useful. I am thinking of proposing that those who have behaved and display exemplary conduct could apply for a weekend pass to heaven. My concern is that St Peter will have a fit!

I intend to get new arrival Kathy (Ahmed Kathrada) to plant the seed.

Talking about incarceration, I am amazed by the privileges accorded to prisoners, including the titillating stuff. No wonder SA jails are bursting at the seams!

How the pendulum of time swings – some in the ANC call me a “sell-out”, and my photos now fea-

ture on the DA’s election posters. As my sprightly 90-year-old comrade, Ben Turok, argued recently, the kindergarten antics of the DA reveal that it is not ready to govern. However, the serious failings and faults of the ANC could hand an electoral majority to the DA and its allies on a plate in 2019.

In addition, a debate rages about the “unashamed manipulation” of my legacy! My legacy belongs to all who promote my ideals and value systems, and who are largely invisible, except on the annual July 18 Mandela Day charade for 67 minutes. Gandhi was quick to console me, revealing that he has been allocated 24 hours on October 2 in India, without impact.

It was obvious from the antics of the fake sign language interpreter at my funeral that the SABC employs clowns. However, Hlaudi’s attempts to protect, promote and

● Maharaj is a geography professor at UKZN. He writes in his personal capacity.

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What I found interesting about this comment was that, although life in the Congo was so horrific on account of the politics, such that he was forced to escape in search of sanctity here in South Africa, he had not lost his values as an individual. Is this a recent phenomenon among South Africans or have we always been such a crude and rude nation?

Recently an SABC announcer who had his own music show lost his job on account of having made rude comments about President Jacob Zuma on Facebook. He apologised when Zuma’s son defended his father against such attacks.

But the question arises: Whose fault was it? To call the president a zombie is very offensive indeed, but he has been called even worse names in and outside Parliament.

He has been depicted in paintings in the most outrageous light and brought before court on a litany of charges.

He is largely impervious to the constant battery of insults from opposition parties hurled against him.

What incites us to be so unmannerly? Is it on account of our most distressing lack of leadership by a once proud political party? Have we started to dismantle our country because we perceive ourselves to be powerless? Are we mimicking the president and the ANC leadership by behaving the way we do?

Let’s examine our collective responses to state capture.

Isn’t it strange how perceptions of the same behaviour by the same individual may be viewed differently

When the fish rots from the head, it slowly seeps downwards into the rest of its body. Indeed, rotten leadership produces bad governance, which in turn creates social dysfunction among the people.

So when the president calls on all South Africans to heed Mandela Day with acts of welfare towards the poor, who will take him seriously?

Instead the people are starting to display a collective tendency to be destructive and inconsiderate of their fellow beings. They seem to care less about building a future

and more about looting the coffers.

Politicians are the prime example of dishonesty and self-indulgence.

Their distorted sense of loyalty to party and personality overrides that of truth and morality. Their bad example spreads and produces negative influences.

Rampaging students burn down the very structures from which they seek educational succour. Health workers protest to the detriment of their patients and teachers and civil servants care less for their vocations. Taxis and buses meander through the streets in flagrant disregard of traffic laws as they stop wherever they want to pick up passengers and drive recklessly through red lights. Pedestrians saunter across streets blissfully unaware of traffic lights.

We are gradually making a mockery of adherence to rules, the very modus operandi of a functioning society. “As long as I am okay Charlie, to hell with you.”

Few of us examine our individual contributions to negative perceptions of ourselves as a group. We seem to be falling into a rut of alienating our fellow South Africans from each other through legislation, cultural misunderstandings, insensitive behaviour and discriminative practices.

We hide behind cultural barriers that allow us to do whatever we please under the guise of “my culture” and “racial rights”.

For as much goodwill as there is in this country, there is in equal measure a great deal of ill will.

The goodwill comes from exemplary citizens of all races who are

Makhosi Khoza has allegedly received death threats for speaking out against the ANC and supporting a secret ballot.

honest salt-of-the-earth citizens swimming upstream to make an honest living in a country they love and wish to save from its horrendous past. But the bad-willed people are fast gathering momentum and, like some rotten apples in a basket of healthy ones, they are spreading their rot rapidly.

The tentacles of darkness have arisen from the very structures of government where nepotism, racism, ethnic nationalism and other forms of deep-rooted racism abound.

We are struggling as a nation to get rid of the rotten apples that have contaminated the leadership of the ANC. How do we save the mavericks who are brave and honest enough to

fight for South Africa and not for an ailing and wounded party?

If there is any award to be given it should go to the lone ANC MP Dr Makhosi Khoza for daring to speak out and challenge her obedient and loyal colleagues in Parliament. In asking her fellow MPs to vote with a conscience in the no-confidence motion against President Zuma, she supported the introduction of a secret ballot.

For this so called “bad behaviour” she has allegedly received death threats and condemnation by the ANC Youth League, who claim that she has “an exaggerated” sense of self-importance and who is a “political un-rehabilitated delinquent with a history of absconding

when she does not get her way”.

Isn’t it strange how perceptions of the same behaviour by the same individual may be viewed very differently depending on what their sense of reality is?

Human beings have a way of rationalising their actions to support their beliefs. History, however, will record the truth and in the pantheon of true stalwarts like Albert Luthuli, Nelson Mandela, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and more lately Thuli Madonsela, Khoza will surely feature proudly.

Every society deserves to hear these voices of its moral conscience who may be defined as mavericks, fiercely independent thinkers who are principled beyond party loyal-

ties, whose loyalties are directed towards truth and not power.

In the process they may challenge the status quo and insist that the organisation or the institution works from a strong sense of integrity. The maverick is unafraid to question authority, buck trends or do the right thing.

When Winnie Madikizela Mandela was asked by a young woman what the future of South Africa held, she replied: “Fighting apartheid was in many respects easier.

We knew who our enemies were and they were in Pretoria. So we marched and toy-toyed and were united against apartheid.

“Now our enemy is our very own compatriots who are corrupt and disinterested in the poor. We have come to realise that transformation isn’t as easy as we thought it would be and this is why it is important for us to develop partnerships with the captains of industry.”

She ends on a chilling note of warning to the ANC that if the party is not worthy of good governance, Mandela himself had said that the people should rise against it and hold it accountable in the same manner and vigour as we fought against the apartheid regime.

Surely, it’s the people of South Africa who are greater than an organisation or its leaders in a defunct state. The challenge is for us to fight against our own self-destruction. If not we all go down together! ● Rajab is a columnist and the interim chair of the Democracy Development Programme.

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53 Hospital Road (Opposite from the main store), Durban Tel: 031: 368 6777 • Email: sales@osmans.co.za

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From

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SALE

ALL GARMENTS

R590

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CLEARANCE

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BI - FOCAL

JETSURE

SPECIAL ENDS THIS WEEKEND

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City View Centre, 10 Mathews Meyiwa Rd Greyville, Durban

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COALITION SPECIAL from R1500.00

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PER NIGHT

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R550

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PER NIGHT

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BLOCK MACHINES

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R349 per couple per night

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INCLUDING SUPPLY AND POUR OF 25MPA CONCRETE MIX

HOUSE HOTEL

R100 Service Fee Couples R600 - Two nights per unit Email: casinolodge@yahoo.co.za

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R299.00 P/N PER COUPLE - MIDWEEK (MON - THURS)

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Contact Elisha: 072 843 9391

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OPENING SOON 89 St Georges Street, Durban

WE BUY AND SELL

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with driver

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CARS CASH WANTED 4

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27 Ely Road, Umbilo

1 Room, enclosed porch, kitchen, toilet & Shower R2600

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Office Closed On Saturdays

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Close to beach and shops.

R18 000

1 & 1½ bedroom

1 room, kitchen,toilet, showerR2500 each

Call Centre 240m² with Fitted Bar to let

Office Closed On Saturdays

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Newly Renovated

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA (KwaZuluNatal Local Division, Durban) La Lucia, (date), Application In the matter between:

LINDANI WISEMAN MYENI AND PROMISE SINDISIWE MYENI (HLATSWAYO)

(the Applicants) In re: CHANGE OF MATRIMONIAL PROPERTY REGIME OF: LINDANI WISEMAN MYENI AND PROMISE SINDISIWE MYENI (HLATSWAYO) IN TERMS OF SECTION 21(1) OF THE MATRIMONIAL PROPERTY ACT NO 88 OF 1984 TAKE NOTICE THAT ON 03 AUGUST 2017 AT 09H30 OR SO SOON THEREAFTER AS THE MATTER MAY BE HEARD, THE ABOVEMENTIONED APPLICANTS WILL APPLY TO THE DURBAN HIGH COURT, DURBAN, MASONIC GROVE, DURBAN, FOR AN ORDER IN THE FOLLOWING TERMS: 1. The Applicants be granted leave to enter into the Notarial Contract, thereby changing their matrimonial property regime from that of community of property and of profit and loss to a matrimonial property regime out of community property excluding the accrual system; 2. The change of the matrimonial property regime shall have effect as from the date of registration of the Notarial Contract with the Registrar of Deeds, Pietermaritzburg; This gazette is also available free online at www.gpwonline.co.za STAATSKOERANT, 17 JULIE 2015 No. 38993 21 3. The First and Second Applicants be authorised to have such Notarial contract executed and registered in accordance with the provisions of the Deeds Registry Act 47 of 1937; 4. The Registrar of Deeds be authorised to register the Notarial Contract; 5. The order:5.1. will lapse if the Notarial Contract is not registered by the Registrar of Deeds within 2 (two) months of the date of the granting of this Order; and 5.2 will not prejudice the rights of any creditor of the Applicants as at date of registration of the contract.

6. The Applicants hereby give notice of the Application to all Creditors of the Applicants wherever they may be found.

7. Creditors of the Applicants are entitled to the following a) Should any creditor of the Applicants wish to oppose the Application or make any representations in respect thereof such Creditor may do so in writing to the Registrar of the High Court of South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Local Division, Durban; b) A copy of the aforesaid written grounds for opposition and/or representations must be served on the office of the attorneys for the Applicant at ANITHA D CHETTY & ASSOCIATES, UNIT 2, 3 RYDALL VALE PARK, DOUGLAS SAUNDERS DRIVE, LA LUCIA, Fax number - (031) 566 4976 c/o GOVENDER PATHER PILLAY ATTORNEYS (31 PARRY ROAD, GROUND FLOOR, DURBAN) All enquiries can be addressed to: Anitha D Chetty & Associates, Unit 2, 3 Rydall Vale Park, Douglas Saunders Drive, La Lucia.

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APPLICATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION LICENCE (AEL) AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT NOTICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT PROCESS FOR THE PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CATO RIDGE CREMATORIUM SITUATED IN THE ETHEKWINI METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY LOCATED IN THE PROVINCE OF, KWAZULU-NATAL Notice is hereby given in terms of the Environmental Management Act (Act No.107 of 1998) as amended and The National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act (Act 39 of 2004), as amended, for the proposed development of a crematorium.

Afzelia Environmental Consultants (Pty) Ltd has been appointed by Miroja Projects (PTY) Ltd to conduct an environmental impact assessment for the proposed development of a Crematorium in Cato Ridge, situated in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, located in the Province of KwaZulu Natal.

The Proposed Crematorium is situated within Cato Ridge in an area comprised of low-medium density residential development (south-west) and industrial infrastructure (north).

Safal Steel and Assmang Manganese Cato Ridge Works are located adjacent to and 900m to the north of the site respectively. The site is bordered by the Regional Road (R103) and a railway line, with the National Road (N3) lying to the south of the site (300m). The GPS Co-ordinates are: 29°43'50.10" S, 30°36'16.47" E Listed Activities An Environmental Authorisation is to be obtained in line with the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations (2014) as published in Government Gazette 40772. Considering Government Notice No. R 327 and R 325 of Listing Notice 1&2, Activities 6 and 28.

An Atmospheric Emission Licence in terms of Section 2 Category 8 of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act (Act 39 of 2004): Thermal Treatment of Hazardous and General Waste, Sub-category 8.2: Crematoria and Veterinary Waste Incineration, which includes the Cremation of human remains, companion animals (pets) and the incineration of veterinary waste INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE AS INTERESTED AND AFFECTED PARTIES (I&APS) Any person desiring to comment regarding the proposed project may do so in writing within 14 days from the date of publication of this notice to: Air Quality Office, eThekwini Municipality, PO Box 2443, Durban or 9 Archie Gumede Place, Durban 4001.

Also, a copy of the AEL Application and Scoping Report will be available for public review from 17 July to 25 August 2017 at Cato Ridge Library and Hammarsdale Library for public review, please send comments/questions and any concerns to Ms Deshni Naicker or Mr Louis Dlamini using the below contact details.

CONTACT DETAILS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT PRACTITIONER: Contact person: Deshni Naicker or Louis Dlamini Afzelia Environmental Consultants (Pty)Ltd Postal Address: PO Box 37069, Overport, Durban, 4067 Fax: 086 6922547 Telephone: 031 303 2835 Emails: louis@afzelia.co.za and deshni@afzelia.co.za

Turning old junk into useful and crafty gems Elizabeth Mayhew

A

SIDE from donating a fair share of goods to my local thrift shop, I try to concoct new uses for old stuff. Here are 10 super-easy ways to give everyday items new purpose.

In most cases all you need is a few minutes, scissors, tape and glue.

VASES: Have a cylinder glass vase left over from a flower arrangement someone sent you? Rather than have it collect dust in a cupboard, why not turn it into a picture frame? Not only is it pleasing to look at, but you can also hide stuff behind the picture – like your television remote controls. First cut a band of coloured paper the same height as the vase. Centre a photo on the piece of paper and affix it with double-sided tape. Bend the paper to fit inside the vase.

The author framed a collection of potato sacks for a design client. PICTURES: ELIZABETH MAYHEW

EMPTY TINS: Transform old tins by covering them in Japanese washi tape. Similar in texture to masking tape (in that it’s super easy to tear), washi tape is much more durable and comes in tons of pretty and stylish patterns.

MAPS: Rather than have your maps sit unused in a drawer or cubbyhole, you can turn them into place mats.

Choose maps of where you live, favourite destinations or somewhere that you are about to go on holiday. Cut them to size and laminate to reuse or use once and dispose of.

GIFT WRAP AND WALLPAPER: Create instant art by framing wallpaper samples or even scraps of your favourite patterned wrapping paper. Or take any “paper” collection and turn it into art.

I recently framed a client’s collection of potato bags.

TOOTHBRUSH HOLDERS: These make an ideal vase because they have holes that keep the flowers in place. Fill with water, place the lid on top and add flowers.

Just make sure that you cut the flower stems short enough so that the vase doesn’t topple over.

WINE CORKS: Save the corks from finished bottles of wine. The next time you have a dinner party, make a slit on

The author likes to use old dishes, such as this tureen with a broken cover, to display flowers. PICTURE: ANNIE SCHLECHTER one side and insert a place card in each cork.

LEFTOVER TILES: Don’t discard unused tiles from your bathroom renovation. Instead, attach adhesive felt tabs to the bottom corners of the tiles.

Stack them and keep them handy to use as coasters.

TEA SAUCERS: Put a pretty orphan tea saucer to use in your powder room as a soap dish.

CASSEROLE DISHES: If you’ve broken the top of a

covered casserole dish (like I have), use the bottom as a vase for fresh flowers or as a pot for plants or orchids. If using it as a planter, make sure you create a drainage layer by adding some stones or pebbles to the bottom of the pot, under the soil.

OLD-FASHIONED TOAST RACKS: Store new mail in the slots of a toast rack; when it gets full, go though the mail, pay bills, respond to invites, and shred or toss anything else. – The Washington Post

An old tin is transformed with Washi tape.

A world first: Couple say I do in frigid Antarctica Chris Brooke

Independent Media will publish an Industrial Supplement to coincide with the KZN Industrial Expo in July. The premium supplement will be dedicated to the Industrial Sector and will include: pumps and valves, pipes and fittings, hydraulics and pneumatics, forklifts and materials handling, power tools and plant hire, machinery and equipment, steel/structures/fabrication, nuts/bolts/ fasteners and industrial warehousing.

If your company is involved in the industrial sector, this is an opportunity to profile your business in the supplement and also take advantage of our digital and online offerings.

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GETTING married in one of the most remote places of earth was always going to be a challenge. In the icy wastes of Antarctica there’s no church and the nearest bridal shop or jewellers are many, many kilometres away.

But, being intrepid polar explorers, Julie Baum and Tom Sylvester rose to the challenge and became the first couple to tie the knot in the British Antarctic Territory over the weekend.

Improvisation was the order of the day.

Baum, 34, with the help of fellow researchers, made her own wedding dress. Sylvester, 35, cut brass wedding rings in the research station workshop.

They shared their big day with 18 colleagues at the British Antarctic Survey’s largest research station below the Antarctic Circle.

The ceremony was conducted by station leader Paul Samways.

Baum, from Birmingham, said: “Over the last 10 years Tom and I have been travelling around the world. Getting married in Antarctica feels like it was meant to be.”

– Daily Mail

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Daily Inspiration FORGIVENESS

QUICK CLUES

“Waiting for the fear to disappear, before you do something, will have you never do it. Your reason for wanting to do anything and the benefits of doing it has to always be huger than your fears.”

ACROSS 6, 20 Down & 14 Across What the angler who seeks flattery is doing? (7,3,11) 7 Checks the organ controls (5) 9 Wretched word of apology (5) 10 Lost dials I’m returning (7) 12 Charts repay rearranging for this exploratory body (6-5) 14 See 6 Across 18 Depict the harbour with a shaft of light behind (7) 19 A fish which is put on ice (5) 21 He’ll see you’re not out of place at the function (5) 22 Workmen in the club (7)

DOWN 1 He’s under-age to be a coal producer, we hear (5) 2 See 16 Down 3 Gain knowledge – what writers need may be found within (3) 4 Suitable name for star actress (6) 5 They are bound to support the injured members (7) 8 Loading boat having less cargo?

(7) 11 First, second or third, maybe, making a disturbance in spoken examination (7) 13 Nobody plays with him (7) 15 To dawdle, as one who makes earthenware (6) 16 & 2 Down Assuming command and withstanding the attack (6,6) 17 The Tempest showing some of Caliban’s tormentors (5) 20 See 6 Across

ACROSS 6 Custodian (7) 7 Opinions (5) 9 Inclination (5) 10 Enslave (7) 12 Jumping insect (11) 14 Understood (11) 18 Boring tool (7) 19 Adhere (5) 21 Expel (5) 22 Despoil (7)

DOWN 1 Cunning (5) 2 Impede (6) 3 Enemy (3) 4 Accident (6) 5 Jersey (7) 8 To charm (7) 11 Shuns (7) 13 Commend (7) 15 Lessen (6) 16 Stretch (6) 17 Performed (5) 20 Beer (3)

ACROSS 1 Cascades when the tide subsides (10) 7 Is embodied in one strange sound (5) 8 Given a current service and presented with the bill (7) 10 Indecisive as to this neat arrangement (8) 11 Get a number put down the wrong way (4) 13 He doesn’t conserve liquid about the beginning of summer (6) 15 The size of what can no longer be used by campers? (6) 17 Journey for one who goes to pot (4) 18 Those engaged in this sort of exploration may go to bed! (8) 21 and 12 Down Overheads incurred by track athletes? (7,8) 22 A sudden movement to begin with (5) 23 The results of their efforts may be seen at playtime (10)

DOWN 1 Woeful cries from the country can be heard (5) 2 Venue for the works of 23 (8) 3 Make a renunciation about a piece of hypocrisy (6) 4 See 19 Down 5 The last of the fuel to catch fire (7) 6 Where to find those who are having a row (2,3,5) 9 It nettled a wayward dabbler in the arts (10) 12 See 21 Across 14 Revolver found in the cottonmill (7) 16 One entitled to get moved on the board (6) 19 and 4 Down Doesn’t attend when supports are withdrawn (5,4) 20 It’s held in camera, but may be seen by the public (4)

“The fear will exist as long as you continue to grow.”

(Dr Susan Jeffers) Your growing lies in your doing: doing differently, doing better, doing outside of your comfort zone. No growth happens inside of a comfort zone and growth of any form requires the willingness to experience discomfort and fear.

One of the most common universal fears is the fear of facing the unknown. We have no idea of what awaits us there and we believe that we will experience less control and more vulnerability in a new zone. Linked to this fear, is the unconscious prevention of wanting to leave our current comfort zones and space of “predictable safety”.

We feel more protected and less vulnerable in our comfort zones.We have to understand that when we resist fear, we resist the opportunity to learn and to grow. If you were born to become the greatest version of yourself, you have to be prepared to fear so that you can grow.

Personal Challenge: Which fear have you been waiting on to disappear before you ventured to do? Do it!

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HOW IT WORKS Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9 with no repeats.

Yesterday’s solutions: Across: 6 Gainsay. 7 Total. 9 Too. 10 Kidnapper. 12 Glider pilot.

15 Take lessons. 17 Gathering. 19 Nod. 21 Inert. 22 Fittest.

Down: 1- Savoy. 2 End. 3 Magi. 4 Complaint. 5 Care for. 8 Snores.

11 Elsewhere. 13 Dreary. 14 Savanna. 16 Poise. 18 Nail. 20 Sty.

CODECRACKER

Yesterday’s solutions: Across: 6 Changed. 7 Acute. 9 Apt. 10 Appraisal. 12 Acknowledge. 15 Contemplate. 17 Reference. 19 Art. 21 Agree.

22 Present.

Down: 1 Shape. 2 Inn. 3 Heap. 4 Accidents. 5 Strange. 8 Trowel.

11 Scattered. 13 Number. 14 Foreign. 16 Grant. 18 Cure. 20 Use.

Code Cracker is challenging, but fun. Each number in the grid represents a letter of the alphabet. For example, today 11 represents B, so fill in B every time the number 11 appears. You have 2 letters in the grid to start you off. Enter them into the main grid and then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters go in the missing squares.

Code Cracker does not always use all the letters of the alphabet.

Yesterday’s solutions: Across: 6 Ransack. 7 Impel. 9 Age. 10 Endearing. 12 Electricity. 15 Copywriters. 17 Bagatelle. 19 Opt. 21 Cover. 22 Gas ring.

Down: 1 Range. 2 Ash. 3 Scan. 4 Embracery. 5 Reunite. 8 Secret. 11 Playmates. 13 Carves. 14 Rotator. 16 Spans. 18 Lead. 20 Fry.

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WORDGAME

WE HAVE found 109 words that can be made from the letters in the square, each of which uses the letter in the middle and contains at least four letters. We challenge you to beat this, and also to make at least one nine-letter word. No abbreviations, initials or foreign words unless they form words in everyday use. No plurals.

Today’s Target Good 72; very good 88; excellent 109. Solutions tomorrow.

ACROSS 1 Merit (7) 7 Sweet bay (6) 8 Feeler (7) 9 Surfaced walk (4) 10 Cause physical pain to (4) 12 Boxer (7) 14 Of water (7) 16 Formal agreement (4) 18 Hay bundle (4) 20 Distinguished (7) 21 Financial gain (6) 22 Cooks gently (7)

DOWN 1 Former Greek monetary unit (7) 2 Indian instrument (5) 3 Tenant’s payment (4) 4 Stretchy (7) 5 To desert (4,4) 6 Mild (6) 11 Exchange made as a compromise (5-3) 12 Moves about restlessly (7) 13 Revolves (7) 15 Prey (6) 17 Sharp mountain ridge (5) 19 Movie (4)

Yesterday’s solutions: acme alum amice amir arum calm calmer came camel cerium claim claimer clam clime cram cream crime culm emir ileum lame larum lemur lima lime mace macer macle male mali malice marc marcel mare marl maul meal MERCURIAL mica mile miler miracle mire mule mural mure murra realm ream rearm reclaim rime urim The compiler uses Chambers 21st Century Dictionary (1999 edition)

Yesterday’s solutions

BRIDGE FINDING FAULT Cy the Cynic says that finding fault is like washing windows: All the dirt is on the other side.

“We beat 3NT,” a club player told me, “no thanks to my partner’s defense.”

West had led a diamond: six, king, ace. South led the queen of spades, winning. He next led his deuce of clubs to dummy’s ace and returned the jack of spades.

“My partner won,” I heard, “and led another club. South took the king and lost a spade to my ace.

I returned a diamond, and South took the queen and led another diamond. When my partner won, he led a heart — finally — and South won only eight tricks.”

DUMMY ENTRY South could make 3NT. After his queen of spades wins, he can manage the clubs to get an extra dummy entry to set up and cash the spades. He leads the six to the king and later his deuce to the four.

East thought West’s opening lead should have been a heart, the unbid suit. Then 3NT always fails. Maybe East was right, but it’s easier to wash off your

partner’s dirt than your own.

DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ Q ♥ A 7 3 ♦ A Q 9 4 2 ♣ Q J 6 2. Your partner opens one spade, your respond two diamonds and he bids two hearts. What do you say?

ANSWER: It would be easy to leap to 3NT, and that would be your best contract much of the time. But partner’s hand is not well defined, and he would pass 3NT with a hand such as A 10 6 5 4, K J 10 6 5, K, A 4 when six hearts would be a decent contract. Bid three clubs. You may have another chance to bid 3NT later.

SOUTH DEALER N-S VULNERABLE

MADAM & EVE

Yesterday’s solutions: Across: 1 Ill-assorted. 7 Ruin. 8 Peebles. 9 Tut. 10 Alone. 11 Ballot.

13 See fit. 16 Denim. 18 Loo. 19 Inertia. 20 Upon. 21 Get-together.

Down: 1 Iguana. 2 Lentil. 3 Septet. 4 Omega. 5 Tell off. 6 Descent.

11 Budding. 12 Lenient. 13 Solace. 14 Enough. 15 Indoor. 17 Motto.

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WHITE TO PLAY Hint: Sacrifice and mate.

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News in Brief Recession squeezes Shoprite sales SUPERMARKET group Shoprite said yesterday that trading conditions in South Africa remained challenging in the second half of its financial year. “The challenging trading conditions in South Africa continued in the second half of the year, and the South African supermarket operation increased sales by 10.1 percent,” the company said in a trading update. But it said that on a “like-for-like basis” – a comparison that usually excludes the effects of expansion or acquisition – sales increased by a more moderate 6.9 percent.

Elsewhere in Africa, Shoprite said it “recorded sales growth of 13.5 percent, mainly due to the impact of lower commodity prices and the devaluation of certain currencies”. – Reuters

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Shareholders back Vodacom deal Step closer to R35bn entry into Kenyan mobile market

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Claims of fishy deals rock fishing industry Regis Nyamakanga

VODACOM yesterday took a step closer to finalising its R35 billion entry into the lucrative Kenyan mobile banking market after its minority shareholders gave its deal to acquire a 34.9 percent in Safaricom the thumbs up.

The deal will see Vodafone increase its interest in the Vodacom Group from 65 percent to 69.6 percent.

Shameel Joosub, the group chief executive at Vodacom, said that the transaction presented the company with the opportunity to diversify its financial profile in a single transaction.

“The vote of confidence from Vodacom’s minority shareholders is an important milestone in our journey to become a leading digital company and empowering a connected society,” Joosub said.

Earlier this year, Vodacom announced that it had agreed on a deal in which it would acquire a 34.94 percent indirect interest in Safaricom from Vodafone by acquiring 87.5 percent of the issued share capital of Vodafone Kenya.

Vodafone Kenya is wholly owned by Vodafone. Vodafone will retain a 12.5 percent interest in Vodafone Kenya, equivalent to 4.99 percent interest in Safaricom, after completion of the proposed transaction.

Safaricom is currently 35 percent owned by the government of Kenya, while Vodafone Kenya holds a 39.9 percent stake; public investors hold a 25 percent equity and Safaricom employees 0.07 percent.

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THE BANK Bank of England (BoE) yesterday unveiled its first plastic £10 note, which features 19th century British novelist Jane Austen and will be available to the public from September. Last year, the BoE launched a £5 note made from a polymer film that it said is harder to forge. Yesterday marked the 200th anniversary of Austen’s death. – Reuters

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The Vodacom World mall in Midrand, Johannesburg. Earlier this year, Vodacom announced that it had agreed on a deal in which it would acquire a 34.94 percent indirect interest in Kenya’s Safaricom from Vodafone.

PHOTO: BLOOMBERG Vodafone is selling down its stake in Safaricom as part of its drive to streamline its African businesses. The company provides a range of telecommunications services, including mobile and fixed voice, SMS, data, the internet and mobile money (M-Pesa) to more than 28.1 million customers.

Vodacom said Safaricom was the market leader in Kenya with a 71 percent mobile customer market share. According to the International Monetary Fund, Kenya is projected to grow at 6 percent per annum

over the next five years.

Dobek Pater, a telecoms analyst at Africa Analysis, said the deal provided Vodacom with a greater presence in the East African region where the company already had footprints.

“It provides Vodacom with a direct stake in a company that is by far the strongest telecoms operator in the Kenyan market – one of the growth markets in Africa – with good financial returns,” Pater said.

“This means that Vodafone Group will have more than 50 percent shareholding in

Safaricom through its own share and indirectly through Vodacom Group shares. It may allow Vodafone to better control Safaricom going forward, although I am not privy to how the shareholders’ agreements are structured.”

Safaricom’s mobile money platform, M-Pesa, is an important driver of Kenyan economic growth, providing financial services to more than 19 million customers. M-Pesa, launched 10 years ago, lets people without bank accounts use their mobile phones to transfer money.

The tie-up between Safaricom and Vodacom comes just a year after Vodacom dropped M-Pesa in South Africa after it failed to gain traction in the country.

In the year ended March, Vodacom reported that its international operations had recovered from the customers disconnected in the prior year, adding 2.5 million customers, a 9.3 percent increase to total 29.7 million. South Africa’s customer base grew by 8.6 percent in the period to 37.1 million.

Joosub said the deal found

favour with shareholders, because the Kenyan Market promised good returns.

“This is an exciting deal that provides Vodacom shareholders with access to a high growth, high margin and high cash generating business in the attractive Kenyan market.

“The proposed transaction increases our presence in East Africa and makes Vodacom a formidable player in financial services on the continent.”

Vodacom shares dropped 0.41 percent on the JSE yesterday to close at R173.57.

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THE NATIONAL Treasury has awarded the Integrated Financial Management Systems (IFMS) tender to US-based multinational computer corporation Oracle.

Industry sources this week told Business Report (BR) that the tender was awarded to Oracle “sometime last year”.

The tender has been a source of speculation, with insiders claiming it needed to be investigated.

“The matter is being looked into and further details will be shared once it has been concluded,” Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba said yesterday.

IT Web reported in May 2014

that the IFMS project was conceived in 1998 and approved by the cabinet in 2005.

“It was a National Treasury-led joint initiative with the Department of Public Service and Administration and the State IT Agency (Sita),” IT Web said at the time.

“Its objective was to replace the numerous disparate, inadequate and/or outdated systems employed throughout the public sector.”

It is clear to BR that the IFMS initiative turned out still to be a constant source of controversy, attracting criticism on the system architecture, partner and/ or solution selections, top-level project strategy and manage-

ment, operational planning and oversight, and the feasibility of the stated objectives and deadlines. Nothing has changed since IT Web published its article.

BR research on the IFMS tender can be summarised by various headlines spread over many years: “Sita taken to task over IFMS tender”; “Accenture snares government finance system”; “Controversial Sita tender reissued”; “SAP wins R800m IFMS deal”; “Small firm grabs IFMS tender (ICT Works)”.

But on August 4 last year a short statement was released by the Treasury: “The National Treasury has concluded the contract with Oracle Corporation to purchase software licences.

“The software licences relate to the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) programme. It brings government closer to fully implementing a 2005 cabinet decision to replace legacy systems for managing supply chain, human resources and finance functions with a modern integrated system that will improve service delivery.

“The successful purchase of the software licences paves the way for the next steps in the process, which will include completing the centralised design of the IFMS solution, planning and procuring the hardware (including hosting infrastructure) as well as software implemen-

tation services.”

Various sources contacted yesterday said they were aware that “millions have been paid to both SAP and Oracle”.

One has to question what has been delivered against these contracts. Is it software to the amount of R450 million?

It is also interesting that senior managers previously employed

by Sita are now being employed by Oracle.

Another source said openly: “It is impossible to get any IT contract in government without paying serious kickbacks, and if the right business groups are not involved.”

BR will investigate the IFMS tender further.

Note from the editor Early in May last year a business contact asked if I could assist him and his partner with “government contacts for SAP, who at the time was nervous that they might lose the IFMS contract”.

They were working on specific contracts with SAP. I was then introduced to the SAP SA sales executive, who told me: “SAP was perfectly aligned to win the IFMS tender since Gauteng and the Western Cape run on SAP, but that there are rumours that Oracle approached another IT company with strong connections in government to help them win the tender.”

SOUTH Africa’s multi-billion rand fisheries industry has been rocked by allegations of corruption and bribery, which has shaken corporates in recent weeks.

Industry sources said yesterday that last week’s suspension of the director-general of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing, Mike Mlengana, could open a “Pandora’s box” in an economic sector, which is said to be riddled with dodgy deals.

Mlengana was reportedly suspended because he refused to sign a massive contract with The iFirm, a company owned by two former police generals, Mzwandile Petros and Thulani Ntobela.

Petros is the former police commissioner of Gauteng, while Ntobela held the position in Mpumalanga.

The contract was reportedly put in front of him without the proper tender process for contracts in excess of R500 000 being followed. Minister Senzeni Zokwana announced Mlengana’s suspension last Wednesday.

Industry sources said the department had recently awarded a number of tenders under questionable circumstances, including one valued at R150 million, which was given to a preferred company, where a 19-year old sat on the company’s board directors.

Documents supporting the bid showed that 19 year-old had 25-years experience in the fisheries industry.

In another bizarre incident, the department allegedly issued a tender to an organisation that never bid for it and had to approach the courts to cancel the tender.

Department spokesperson Bomikazi Molapo said: “We cannot comment further on this matter, pending the outcome of the internal investigations.”

In May this year, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations, the Hawks, visited the department’s offices in Pretoria and confiscated a laptop and cellphone belonging to an official.

The department said it was co-operating with the Hawks’ investigation.

Sources said Mlengana’s suspension was the climax of long simmering tensions between him and Zokwana.

Mlengana said he knew he would be suspended for refusing to award the tender.

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Don’t try to be original, just try to be good. – Paul Rand, graphic designer.

Good governance is alpha and omega of success Parmi Natesan and Dr Prieur du Plessis

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NCE often seen as a compliance burden, corporate governance is maturing into a critical tool for building successful, sustainable organisations and nations – something South Africans understand better than most.

When the Cadbury Report on corporate governance was released in the UK in 1992, closely followed by King I in 1994 in South Africa, corporate governance was understood largely in terms of the systems, processes, policies and structures needed to direct and control companies.

While some organisations immediately understood the link between how an

organisation was governed and its ability to deliver, most found it burdensome – another set of regulations with which to comply. These companies used to throw the darts (so to speak) first and then paint the target where the darts landed, because they had no clear idea of what they were aiming for.

Fast-forward to King IV that was launched in November 2016, where corporate governance is defined as the “exercise of ethical and effective leadership by the governing body” to achieve certain outcomes: ethical culture, good performance, effective control and legitimacy.

We have thus moved away from a compliance mindset to the notion of board leadership to achieve desirable goals, ie knowing where the target is before throwing the darts.

Events in our country have driven home the message that corporate governance is critical. We know that without governance, leadership can degenerate into tyranny, fraud and personal fiefdoms.

Equally, governance without leadership risks ineffectiveness, bureaucracy and indifference, to paraphrase Mark Goyder, the British governance expert and author.

There has also been considerable

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research linking effective corporate governance to significant, quantifiable benefits for organisations and countries.

One of these is foreign direct investment.

An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development research report

by Maria Maher and Thomas Andersson

on Corporate Governance: Effects on firm performance and economic growth concluded that corporate governance affects the development and functioning of capital markets, and “exerts a strong influence on resource allocation” in a world characterised by increasing capital mobility.

This is a hard lesson South Africa is busy learning after the country’s recent credit downgrades, with the possibility of more to come. As Arthur Levitt, chairperson of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, said: “If a country does not have a reputation for strong governance, capital flows elsewhere.”

In short, corporate governance improves access to capital, and potentially its cost, for countries and companies, especially in the developing world, concludes an IFC study entitled Corporate governance matters to investors in emerging market companies,

by Vikramaditya Khanna and Roman Zyla.

Research is also starting to emerge that links corporate value to corporate governance. A local study by Isaih Dzingai and Michael Bamidele Fakoya on the Effect of Corporate Governance Structure on the Financial Performance of JSE-Listed Mining Firms concludes that if mining firms comply with corporate governance codes, they will benefit as will the economy as a whole.

Studies in the US, summarised in Jay Eisenhofer’s article, Does corporate governance matter to investment returns, found that “the quality of a particular company’s governance practices and procedures posi-

country has subsided. (The credit rating of Russia has been unchanged over the past two years.) Furthermore, business confidence in South Africa will need to improve significantly before the rating agencies will react positively.

What will happen to emerging market bonds when developed countries’ central banks tighten monetary policies? The US bond market has already factored in further tightening and the real bond yield

spread between US and German government bonds have already opened up to more than 100 basis points – US bonds are offering higher real yields than German bonds. When the Eurozone countries start to tighten it is probable that the gap between the US and Germany will narrow.

The real yield curve per corresponding credit rating of the Eurozone will probably shift upwards and while there may be some upward pressure on government

tively correlates with both good corporate financial performance and shareholder value. Simply put, good corporate governance does in fact pay.”

Seventy-one percent of South African directors believe corporate governance adds value to the business, the 2nd edition of the IoDSA Directors’ Sentiment Index Report reveals. Of course, corporate governance also lowers the risk of corporate scandals and reputational risk.

To conclude: corporate governance comes about when the board exercises ethical and effective leadership to improve the organisation’s sustainability, which hinges on its ability to make good profits while being seen by society as a legitimate, responsible user of its common resources.

As the performance of some of our stateowned enterprises and our government itself shows, without it the organisation is not profitable either to itself and its shareholders, or to society as a whole.

bond yields in developing economies the gap between the real yield curve per corresponding credit ratings of the Eurozone and developing economies such as Brics is likely to narrow from the current 300 basis points.

South Africa has missed out on the global economic recovery compared to other developing nations and cannot afford blunders going forward. It is the bond market, stupid!

Parmi Natesan and Dr Prieur du Plessis are executive director: Centre for Corporate Governance and chairperson of the Institute of Directors (IoDSA), respectively. Enquiries: info@ iodsa.co.za. Better Directors. Better Boards.

Better Business.

Rating cuts – the sword of Damocles over our heads THE BOND MARKET Ryk De Klerk

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ARLIER this year ratings agencies downgraded South Africa to speculative grade or junk status and the threat of further ratings cuts is hanging over the country like a sword of Damocles, demoralising and confusing business, policymakers and investors.

Some question the motives of the rating agencies. Are they trying to influence monetary and fiscal policy or do they want to influence political outcomes?

The ratings should be seen in perspective though. South Africa’s derating followed in the footsteps of the other two major emerging economies – Brazil and Russia. The two other Brics countries, China and India, managed to escape the deratings.

But what are the markets telling us about South Africa’s credit risk rating? The inferred risk of investing in a country is reflected by the country’s 10-year government bond yield spread to US treasuries, where the latter is deemed very low risk.

When compared to the credit ratings of agencies such as Fitch and S&P it is evident that in the case of South Africa the bond yield spread leads the credit ratings.

The bond market as early as January 2008 had already priced in a lower rating while the rating agencies only lowered the country’s rating at the end of 2012. Have they underestimated the risk?

Nenegate in 2015 came as a shock that led to the virtual simultaneous widening of the yield spread and the lowering of the country’s credit rating.

History, however, shows that the inferred risk of investing in South Africa as measured by the bond yield spread to US treasuries is event-driven.

It is evident that the bond market is currently unfazed by the recent cut in the credit ratings to junk status and that investors in South Africa’s bond market disagree with the credit agencies’ assessment – for now at least – as the downgrade had little or no effect on the bond yield spread.

In the case of Russia and Brazil their bond yield spreads to US treasuries also lead the countries’ credit ratings and were also event-driven.

In 2008 the spike in Russia’s bond yield

RYK DE KLERK is the co-founder of PlexCrown Fund Ratings, where he initiated and developed the ratings methodologies on which the annual Raging Bull Awards are largely based. De Klerk has had 37 years’ experience in the investment industry and was instrumental in the development of the South African derivatives market in the late 1980s. Previous positions included head of mining research, investment strategist, senior portfolio manager and chief investment officer. De Klerk is currently a consultant for PlexCrown Fund Ratings. spread coincided with the sell-off in crude oil amidst the global liquidity crisis. This led to the downgrading by the credit agencies. The same happened at the end of 2014 when oil prices collapsed.

In the first half of 2015 protests in Brazil and a weakening economy led to the bond yield spread to US treasuries widening. In August that year protests increased and it was announced that the country sank into recession. The sell-off in bonds was followed by a number of downgrades by the credit agencies to junk status.

In Russia and Brazil the bond yield spreads to US treasuries had almost always increased ahead of rating downgrades to junk or near-junk levels and decreased significantly afterwards – “sell the rumour, buy the fact”?

Furthermore, business confidence in South Africa will need to improve significantly before the rating agencies will react positively.

South Africa’s internal and external affairs obviously play a major role in domestic and offshore confidence in the country and therefore creditworthiness.

The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Business Confidence Index is an excellent indicator of where the country’s credit rating is heading.

It is evident that although the downgrade in December 2015 was justified and should have been expected, business confidence (although still low) at the time of the recent downgrades was in fact higher than in December 2015.

The timing of the recent downgrade and warnings of further downgrades can only be ascribed to the rating agencies anticipating a worsening South Africa’s economic and/or socio-political environment or another unknown factor.

Although the credit rating cut in December 2012 led to a resultant drop in the external value of the rand the currency tanked more than a year before the next rating cut in the aftermath of Nenegate. While volatile, the rand is currently near the levels preceding Nenegate.

South Africa’s bond yield spread to US treasuries and credit rating should also be seen in context to other countries. The real yield curve (adjusted for inflation) of the Brics countries is approximately 300 basis points higher than their Eurozone counterparts, given their average credit rating and approximately 200 basis points higher than the Southeast Asian countries.

Disagree Investors in the South African bond market, rightly or wrongly, are telling us that they disagree with the rating agencies.

South Africa’s real yield indicates that the bond market considers the credit rating of the country to be at least one notch higher – that is still investment grade and not speculative. Credit agencies underestimated South Africa’s risk from January 2008 to November 2012. Are they overestimating the risk now?

Downside risk in the South African bond market should not be underestimated though. If the bond market decides to agree with the credit agencies South Africa’s real 10-year bond yield spread to US treasuries could increase to nearly 4 percent from the current 2.8 percent. The South African 10-year bond yield could therefore increase by more than 120 basis points.

No country’s bond market and credit ratings are immune to shocks. If the credit agencies decide to cut South Africa’s rating by another notch and the market buys their story – especially in case of a shock (announcement or other) – the yield spread could rise to 4.2 percent, or 140 basis points, or higher from current levels.

Even in the absence of a shock a further derating of South Africa by the credit rating agencies is likely to lead a spike in the yield spread, but it may be short lived.

South Africa’s junk status in the eyes of the rating agencies is unlikely to change over the short-term.

The Russian experience shows that it could be a mistake to expect improved credit ratings when the country’s rating reached junk level status or bordering on junk status despite the bond markets indicating that the risk of investing in the

❚❚ FOR THE RECORD ❚❚ JUST THE FACTS: G20s ECONOMIC WEIGHT On Friday, July 14 2017, Business Report used an incorrect picture on the Royal Bafokeng Platinum trading update story. The company has brought it to our attention that the picture cast a negative image on itself and its operations. The error is regretted.

WHAT share of the global economy was represented at the July 2017 G20 summit? The G20 nearly two decades on still includes 19 of the world’s 20 largest economies.

1. The 43 countries of the G20 (counting all EU member-countries) produce 85 percent of the world’s nominal GDP ($63.1 trillion/R818.57trln).

2. This economic heft tmakes G20 co-operation on resolving economic issues of trade, finance and legal compliance across world borders so important.

3. The country with the smallest economy represented individually in the G20 is South Africa ($313 billion).

4. The largest economy is the US ($18 trillion/R233.5trln), which is just ahead of the EU’s 28-member economy ($16trln/€14.5trln).

5. Although the G20 was formed in 1999, it remains fairly representative of leading economies.

6. The G20 nearly two decades on still includes 19 of the world’s 20 largest economies. (Spain and the Netherlands are represented via the

EU).

7. Switzerland is the only top-20 economy not represented in the G20 in any capacity.

8. South Africa’s economy is smaller than the non-G20 economies of Nigeria, Iran, Thailand, Norway, Venezuela, the UAE or Egypt.

9. These non-G20 countries are all key economic or political players in their respective regions.

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Favourite makes hopping return SODASTREAM is making a comeback by attracting lager drinkers into home brewery.

They’re looking to form a beer partnership that will push its carbonated water machines into British homes again.

Chief executive Daniel Birnbaum revealed that the company is in discussions with potential partners that will provide liquid beer concentrates to pair with its machines in the next 12 months.

This comes after trials in countries such as Germany, Switzerland and Austria saw SodaStream offer concentrates that created a 5 percent lager with its machines.

Birnbaum said that it is a lot quicker and easier and at the end a higher-quality product to do home brewing with SodaStream than it is to go ahead and do your own existing home brewing the way you do it right now. – Daily Mail

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Amplats to take R2.2bn impairment knock Platinum producer expects its basic earnings to shrink up to 189% in half year to June

Vukile beats target in capital raising Sandile Mchunu

Dineo Faku ANGLO American Platinum (Amplats), the world’s biggest platinum producer, said yesterday that it expected impairments totalling R2.2 billion to result in basic earnings shrinking by up to 189 percent in the half year to June.

Amplats said the plunge was primarily a result of posttax obligations, a write down of a term loan to Atlatsa Resources and a loan to the Bakgatla Ba-Kgafela community.

The impairments also included the Union Mine, which the company said in February it would sell to a subsidiary of Siyanda Resources for R400 million, R950m equity in-

terest in Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum mine owned by Royal Bafokeng and the R45m equity for Bokoni Platinum.

It said as a result, basic earnings were expected to decline between R1.06 billion and R1.37bn, which was between 169 percent and 189 percent lower than the prior year’s restated figure of R1.54bn.

The loss translated to a basic earnings a share loss of between 405 cents a share and a loss of 520c a share, which was between 169 percent and 188 percent lower than the prior year restated figure of 588c.

Amplats said it also expected headline earnings to drop between R550m and

R875m, which was between 67 percent and 47 percent lower than the prior year restated

figure of R1.65bn and to between 210c and 335c a share, a decline of between 67 percent and 47 percent than the prior year restated figure of 629c.

The company blamed technical problems for lower refined production in the period.

It said the Waterfall Number 2 furnace had been refurbished, but there had been a backlog from 2016 of some 65 000 ounces of platinum which was expected to be made up during the second half of 2017.

It also said a high-pressure water leak at the converter planthad impacted one converter plant Phase A on June 4.

Last week Statistics South Africa said that while mining

production increased 3.6 percent year-on-year in May, platinum group metals (PGM) were a significant negative contributor and shrank 17.5 percent in the period.

Seleho Tsatsi, an investment researcher at Anchor Capital, said the low earnings forecast and low production were no surprise. “It is no secret that the (platinum) sector as a whole is under pressure, due to low rand PGM prices,” Tsatsi said.

“Whilst everyone in the industry is struggling, Amplats has the relative advantage to peers of a generally lower cost base.”

The dim forecast came a day after Amplats competitor Lon-

min, which is the world’s third biggest platinum producer, improved mining production and cut costs in the third quarter to June.

Tsatsi said Amplats earnings were less geared to rand PGM prices due to this lower cost base and because from next year a greater proportion of earnings would come from the refining business.

“Despite the pressure that they’ve been under recently, Amplats’ share (and all platinum miners’ shares) continue to reflect higher rand platinum prices and need higher platinum prices to justify the current valuations,” he concluded.

Amplats shares dropped 0.8 percent to R315.50.

AECI expects headline earnings per share to rise up to 35% Sandile Mchunu

Mark Dytor, the chief executive of AECI, said the improved rainfall in summer should give the group’s agricultural business a much-needed boost.

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SOUTH African-based explosives and speciality chemicals company, AECI, said in a trading update yesterday that it expected increased earnings when the group presents its half year results next week.

AECI expects its headline earnings per share (Heps) to be between 381 cents a share and 396c for the six months to end June. This would mean an increase of between 30 percent and 35 percent as compared to the same period in 2016.

“In compliance with the JSE listings requirements, shareholders are advised that for the half year to end June, AECI’s Heps is expected to be between 381c and 396c, that is 30 percent and 35 percent higher than the 293c reported for the half year to end June 2016. Earnings per share (Eps) is expected to between 380c and 394c, also 30 percent to 35 percent higher than the 292c reported for the prior corresponding period,” the group said.

AECI said in the prior corresponding period Heps and Eps were negatively affected by

the settlement cost (non-cash) of AECI’s post-retirement medical aid liability. The post-tax effect of this was R98 million, or 93c a share.

AECI’s results for the period are expected to be revealed on or about July 26.

The revival in the agricultural sector might just help to put the group on the right footing.

AECI is focused on providing products and services to a broad spectrum of customers in mining, manufacturing, agricultural food and beverage and general industrial sectors.

The group operates in five different areas, which are mining operations, water solutions, agrochemicals, food additives and ingredients, and explosive and speciality chemicals.

In the six months to end

June 2016, the business was negatively affected by a constrained environment in South Africa and abroad. This constrained environment led to lower profits as the group reported 42 percent decline in operating profit to R571m.

The company, which has operations in more than 20 countries, said both its core businesses of mining and agriculture had undergone a lean spell during the period with the fall in commodity prices and a drought that had crippled the agricultural sector in southern Africa. However, the revival in the agricultural sector might just help to put the group on the right footing.

At the beginning of 2017, the Crop Estimates Committee predicted that South Africa would record a harvest maize crop in this harvesting season with 15.63 million tons.

The group’s chief executive Mark Dytor said the drought had cost the company between R30m and R40m in the last period. The improved rainfall in summer should give the group’s agricultural business a much-needed boost.

VUKILE Property Fund, the listed real estate investment trust (Reit), said yesterday that it had managed to raise R900 million through the placing of 48 066 103 new shares.

The company had intended to raise R500m through an accelerated book build. The group managed to achieve and beat its target by R400m in less than seven hours of opening the book build.

“In light of strong demand, the amount of capital raised was increased from R500m to R900m through the placing of an aggregate of 48 066 103 new shares. The book was significantly oversubscribed, even at R900m,” the fund said.

Of the R900m capital raised, R578.75m was raised pursuant to the accelerated book build process at R18.80 a share, R71.25m by way of placement with management at R18.80 a share and R250m by way of placement with the Encha SPV at R18.53 a share in terms of the Encha equity funding platform arrangements as detailed in Vukile’s circular issued on June 5, 2013.

The fund said subject to approval by the JSE, listing and trading of the new shares was expected to commence at 9am today.

It had earlier reserved the right to increase the size of the equity raise. Java Capital acted as sole book runner. It is not the first time the company has raised cash in the form of a book build.

In April last year, it success-

fully raised R400m through an accelerated book build. It was initially seeking to raise R300m but increased the amount because of strong demand.

Vukile made a big investment at the beginning of July in Spain when it announced an acquisition of a portfolio of nine high-quality, newly-built retail parks across Spain via its new 98.3 percent Spanish Reit subsidiary Castellana Properties.

Boosts exposure The R2.8bn off-market transaction increases Vukile’s diversification and it boosts its international exposure to about 21 percent of total property assets. The acquisition also grows its Spanish portfolio to 11 properties.

Chief executive Laurence Rapp commented after the acquisition that the transaction had given Vukile immediate scale in Spain. “Vukile now offers the most focused exposure to the Spanish property in the South African Reit market.

The acquisition represents a 6.2 percent pre-geared property yield and reaffirms Vukile’s prospects to deliver growth in dividends between 7 and 8 percent,” said Rapp.

In the results to end March, Vukile reported a fall in gross property revenue to R1.8bn from R2.3bn. Profit was R1.5bn, slightly down from R1.6bn the previous year. Headline earnings per share were 151.13c a share, down from 168c. Vukile’s shares fell 2.31 percent yesterday to close at R19.

NUM worried about intimidation THE NATIONAL Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said yesterday that it was “deeply worried” about intimidation, harassments, suspensions and assaults of its members by the mine management at the PMG Mine in the Northern Cape.

“The company has employed the services of heavily armed security guards to harass, intimidate and assault NUM members at the mine,” alleged the union.

“One NUM member was assaulted by the mine security

last week and another member who is a supervisor at the mining department was suspended on Friday last week by PMG Mine after he questioned the mine manager why the NUM member was assaulted.”

The union said it was “deeply concerned” that a worker, who was assaulted by the security last week, was suspended yesterday morning after he opened a case at the local police station. He is charged with bringing the company into disrepute. – ANA ADVERTISING FEATURE

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TGR Attorneys understands the business, economic, social and political dynamics within South Africa, and are uniquely positioned to be the Legal advisors of choice.

S TGR Attorneys continues its steady growth path, its founding directors are grateful for clients who have in recent years broken out of the briefing pattern and tendency to assume that black law firms lack historical experience.

Peter Tshisevhe elabo rates, “Their faith in us has allowed us to grow to 30 professional staff. We anticipate even greater support and rapid organic growth and, to this end, we have made investments to ensure future capacity.

“Meanwhile, one of the advantages of a medium sized firm is that we are agile, and able to scale quickly, if required.”

He adds, “Too many black law firms are held back by an assumption that they lack historical experience, yet most of their lawyers trained and spent extensive time practicing law within the big firm environment, before breaking away to start their own firms.

“During that tenure, they were trusted with big matters from large clients, but those same clients don’t seem to trust them once they move out on their own.

“The black lawyers don’t leave their experience behind so the myth that their firms do not have the requisite experience is absurd. The expertise sits with the individual, not a brand name.

He points to numerous cases where senior white lawyers have broken away to start a two- man firm, and their big corporate clients follow them: “This is prevalent in the banking and mining sectors particularly, but, when senior black lawyers with the same experience move on, they are deemed to lack capacity or resources.”

His co-director and co-founder Matodzi Ratshimbilani says, “Many new areas of law have emerged in recent years. These include competition law, B-BBEE, Protection of Personal Information, forensic and procurement regulations, and many other regulatory fields.

“All lawyers whether they work for big, medium or small firms have the

Founding directors, Matodzi Ratshimbilani and Peter Tshisevhe

The positive impact of being trusted same amount of exposure, and the old excuses hold no weight.”

Both directors emphasise, however, that TGR has worked hard to gain the support of enlightened private and public sector clients.

There is also a tendency among corporates to make a token gesture by allocating a small percentage of their legal budget with B-BBEE firms.

After which they return to their normal practices of briefing big firms, regardless, of the quality and expertise they have experienced.

Ratshimbilani adds, “There also a notion that if certain percent of my budget should be spent with black firms, I should spread this between a number of firms.

“The problem with this model is that there is no significant volume to allow for large organic growth and an ability to challenge the larger firms directly.

“Thus, indirectly, and perhaps without intention, this creates a glass ceiling in terms of size for black firms.

“In the past, there was also often a view that only the big firms had access to the research and information required to serve clients effectively.

“The onset of the information age has changed this.

“Today all lawyers have access to judgements, case law, publications and research.”

In TGR’s case, as with many other black law firms, its senior lawyers all have significant experience in the big firm environment.

Tshisevhe says, “We hold our trainees and professional staff to the same high standards and it is a privilege that our enlightened supporters, both in the public and private sector, often brief us on their most complex matters.

“This provides our staff with quality training and exceptional skills.”

Founded in 2011 by then senior commercial lawyers, Tshisevhe and Ratshimbilani, TGR Attorneys is a 100 percent black-owned commercial law firm based Sandton.

The directors speak of a unique understanding of the business, economic, social, and political dynamics within the South African environment.

Its team includes specialist professionals in the fields of Corporate and Commercial, Mergers and Acquisitions, Banking and Finance,

Commercial Litigation, Competition and Real estate.

Together, they offer more 100 years’ experience in commercial law and related fields.

The firm boasts diversity in terms of race and gender. Fifty-five percent of the professional staff are female and more than 75 percent of the professional staff are black.

He adds, “We pride ourselves on excellence, and this is showcased, not only through the quality of service we provide, but also through our promotion of further learning.

“Among them our TGR professionals boast a Doctorate, a chartered accountant, eight Masters degrees, and 11 post-graduate diplomas and certificates across various fields of law.

“Importantly, a number are engaged in further studies as this is strongly encouraged.”

TGR was awarded a PMR Africa Award for Small and Medium law firms for three consecutive years, and Chairman Peter Tshisevhe has been included in the Best Lawyer’s awards in the mergers and acquisition practice area.

The firm currently serves Stateowned entities, financial institutions, JSE listed clients, as well as numerous private companies and public sector entities.

It also provides legal advice to, amongst others, the JSE listed companies PPC, Arcelormittal, MTN, ABSA, FNB, Nedbank, Telkom, and Sasol. Its parastatal clients include Transnet, IDC, PIC. The firm is also supported by preeminent BEE companies, such as Phembani, Wiphold.

Tshisevhe concludes, “In an environment, where there is strong concern around the quality of legal professionals, especially black owned firms, we aim to be an example of ethical behaviour, excellence, quality and professionalism, which we strive for in all we do” Ratshimbilani adds “TGR aims to be a flexible, agile medium size black owned firm, competing on a par with the large firms in terms of quality and expertise.”

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Gigaba stifles Prasa – Molefe ‘He derails smooth running of rail agency’ Kabelo Khumalo OUTGOING chairperson of the embattled Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) Popo Molefe has accused Minister of Finance Malusi Gigaba of being an impediment to good governance at the rail agency.

Molefe, whose board’s tenure runs out in two weeks, yesterday claimed that Gigaba had withheld a Treasury nominee to the Treasury’s board and that his position as chairperson of the board was undermined.

The ANC veteran said that Gigaba and Transport Minister Joe Maswanganyi had stifled the board’s efforts aimed at inculcating the spirit of good governance at the ailing railing agency. “These two ministries have withheld the two nominees so that the board, which requires six people to correlate, must not have a quorum,” Molefe said.

“The board cannot finalise its work because there is no quorum.”

The Treasury is not represented on the Prasa board after its previous representative Landon McMillan resigned.

Gigaba and Maswanganyi

were not available for comment.

However, Maswangayi has said new boards for Prasa, the Civil Aviation Authority, the Cross-Border Road Transport Agency and the Road Accident Fund would be installed by next month.

Last year, Prasa received an unqualified Auditor-General’s report after it was found to have lost R13.9 billion in the 2016 financial year due to irregular expenditure, a big jump from the R500 million wastage reported in the 2014/15 finan-

R13.9bn Prasa’s loss due to irregular 2016 expenditure

cial year. Molefe said the board would get the rail agency’s monies back from Swifambo and Siyangena contracts.

This month, the high court in Johannesburg ordered Swifambo to pay back the R2.6bn it received from the rail agency for locomotives it had procured from it. The deal pitted Molefe and former Prasa chief executive Lucky Montana against

each other as the former approached the courts in 2015 to set the tender aside. However, Prasa’s bid to invalidate contracts worth about R4bn awarded to Siyangena Technologies failed in May, when the high court in Pretoria dismissed the rail agency’s application on a technicality.

Prasa’s contracts to Siyangena were declared unlawful by the public protector in her damning report titled “Derailed”. This is not the first time Molefe has taken his political heads to task over Prasa’s management. Earlier this year, he was engaged in a titanic battle with former minister Dipuo Peters over senior departmental official Collin Letsoalo’s secondment to Prasa in an acting capacity after Montana’s sacking last year.

Peters then relieved the board of its duties, accusing it of failing to adhere to good corporate governance. Molefe accused Peters of protecting Letsoalo from accountability after he was accused of having hiked his annual salary by 350% to R5.9m – a decision later reversed by the high court in Pretoria, which reinstated Molefe and his board.

Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown says corruption and maladministration are enemies of radical economic transformation.

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Graft claims have tainted Eskom’s image, Brown admits Ziyanda Mbolekwa PUBLIC Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown yesterday acknowledged the charges of maladministration and corruption made against state-owned power utility Eskom.

Brown told the opening of the three-day POWER-GEN & DistribuTECH Africa summit in Sandton that none of the allegations had been proved.

But Brown admitted that the allegations have tainted the

image of the utility.

“None of the allegations have been proved in a court of law yet, but they have fundamentally eroded integrity.

Certain matters are now in court, and I am constrained to say more about them,” she said.

Brown launched a probe into Eskom in May. “I have also asked the new interim board of Eskom to conduct certain short-term investigations of their own and report to me with recom-

mendations. There will be more announcements in this regard in due course about Eskom and other state-owned entities in my department’s portfolio.”

Brown said maladministration and corruption were enemies of radical economic transformation.

“Twenty-three years after apartheid, our country continues to suffer gross inequality from poverty and unemployment. My own view is that this: Mandela and his generational

leaders laid a table with enough seats for all to be able to eat.

“Although we may not all agree on the specific means and precise terminology (radical economic transformation), there is broad society agreement with the ANC’s identification of the meaning to accelerate transformation – to take the national democratic revolution that was once a Mandela-led (revolution) to a more logical and just conclusion, to a South Africa that belongs to its

people,” she said.

“Eskom is there to generate jobs and power, but its bigger role is to use its muscle to develop infrastructure to enable industrial growth.”

Willy Majola, the acting group chief executive of Eskom, said Eskom had improved its performance over the past year.

“We are saying to big business: we are open for business and let’s power the growth of the South African economy and the region.”

Dineo Faku A PRIVATELY held company is constructing Gauteng’s first new mine in 12 years and plans to become a global leader in fluourspar mining, a strategic mineral used in industrial applications ranging from plastics to glass.

The R1.7 billion Nokeng Fluourspar Mine, north east of Pretoria, whose first production is expected in February 2019 and owned by SepFlour, plans to leverage South Africa’s position of being home to 17 percent of the world’s fluourspar reserves.

Nokeng chief executive, Rob Wagner, told journalists yesterday that the company had signed offtake agreements with three customers, who were set to purchase 40 percent of production in the first three years of operation.

He said the 60 percent difference was expected to be placed on the open market. Wagner said the company’s primary markets would be in the US and Europe and it would extend market share to India and the Middle East.

“We managed to sell the view to the off-takers that the price of fluourspar will rise, which is unusual, because we are at the bottom of the price cycle. We were able to sign the agreements after spending 18 months on airplanes and taking a face to face approach to luring investors,” he said.

The construction of the mine, which was announced last month, comes as the mining sector has been rocked by uncertainty following the gazetting of the Mining Charter III.

Unfazed Wagner said the deal was closed days before the charter was gazetted and lenders were currently unfazed.

He said funding for the mine was a mix of debt and equity by local and international investors, including Nedbank, adding that it had taken a long time to convince risk averse investors on board amid the policy uncertainty.

“The lenders’ view at this stage

is that the charter will not be implemented in its current form.

We are evaluating the impact of the charter and we do not have a problem with its intent, but the issue is the timeline and methodology,” he said. Wagner said the mine was in line with the charter requirement as it was 34.8 percent black owned and employees had 10 percent in share options.

In terms of employment opportunities, Wagner said yesterday that the mine was expected to create 200 permanent jobs, including contractors, and 300 shortterm jobs would be created in the construction phase.

“We are only going to employ 143 people on the mine, the rest will be contractors and security.

Our focus is on building infrastructure and providing education opportunities that will benefit the community,” he said.

Wagner also said that 40 percent of costs were likely to be transport, because the product would be transported by truck to the Richards Bay and Durban ports.

Growthpoint begins Exxaro project Sizwe Dlamini GROWTHPOINT Properties, South Africa’s leading real estate investment trust (Reit), has commenced its multmillion-rand development of a new head office for Exxaro, one of the largest South African-based diversified resources companies.

The R600m development of the new Exxaro headquarters is the second phase of Growthpoint’s redevelopment of the prime Lakeside office site on West Street, Centurion, directly opposite the Centurion Gautrain Station.

Exxaro’s new corporate headquarters will consolidate its offices in Pretoria and Joburg into a single, thriving workspace, located at a convenient midpoint in an accessible location for its staff and business partners.

Growthpoint’s highly skilled development and workspace design team is delivering an innovative green building. Exxaro, which has business interests locally as well as in Europe and the US, will occupy all of the new building’s 18 500m² of gross lettable area on a long lease.

The development broke ground in February and construction will commence from September this

year. It will be complete for occupation in 2019, when it will be able to accommodate up to 1 400 Exxaro staff members.

Growthpoint Properties office division director Rudolf Pienaar said: “We are excited to develop this new head office, tailored to meet Exxaro’s specific requirements that will be a healthy and energising working environment for this leading business, its people and its partners to thrive.”

For its design, construction and operation, the new Exxaro head office is in tune with top commercial buildings in the world’s most prominent urban centres.

Reflecting Exxaro’s environmental commitment, the building is designed for a 4-Star Green Star SA certification from the Green Building Council of SA (GBCSA), which is also in line with Growthpoint’s high-environmental standards for its offices.

Exxaro chief executive Mxolisi Mgojo said: “The new location and style of the building is aligned with our strategy on innovation and consideration for carbon emissions reduction.”

“Growthpoint’s new development for Exxaro also signifies the beginning of the urban trans-

formation along the commercial edge of Centurion and approaching the Gautrain station,” said Nico de Jager, regional asset manager for the office sector of Growthpoint.

“Working with the City of Tshwane, Growthpoint is upgrading the roads and traffic flows in the area, including adding a new right-turn lane from Gerhard Street into West Avenue,” said De Jager. Traffic signal settings on West Street, around the building, will be refined. Also, Growthpoint is working with the city to create a vibrant pedestrian walkway.

“We are invested in improving the areas surrounding the new Exxaro head office. This responds to the growing popularity of the area, increasing development… and the higher number of people who access the area through West Street,” said De Jager.

Growthpoint is the largest South African primary listed Reit and is becoming a leading international property company.

It also owns a 26.9 percent stake in the €1bn (R14.92bn) property portfolio of London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market-listed Globalworth Real Estate Investment, the largest owner of office space in Romania.

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Rand stretches gains, EOH tumbles 9% Reuters

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THE RAND added to recent gains yesterday, remaining in favour with investors in search of higher yields as the dollar eased on dimming hopes of interest rate hikes soon.

By 5pm, the rand had gained 0.2 percent to R12.9278 compared to its close of R12.9550 overnight in New York.

The local unit burst through the 13 psychological mark on Monday on its way to a two-week best as last week’s decision by government to suspend new mining laws combined with weak US economic data

soothed investor anxieties.

High-yield but riskier assets were buoyed by the dollar’s continued slide following weaker-than-expected housing data and the collapse of a health bill.

Meanwhile, stocks were lower with South Africa’s largest technology group EOH Holdings falling almost 9 percent after allegations of corruption surfaced. The firm denies wrongdoing.

The benchmark JSE Top40 index dropped 1.2 percent to 46 927.84 points, while the all share index lost 1.05 percent to 53 261.64 points.

EOH was the biggest faller on the all share index, dropping

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8.81 percent to R115.80 a share, after an opinion piece in Business Report newspaper accused the company of being involved in impropriety in its contracts with South Africa’s welfare agency.

“It’s a very controversial article and paints them in a very negative light, that creates uncertainty and markets don’t like it. Shareholders have had a knee-jerk reaction and there’s been a sell-off,” Independent Securities trader, Ryan Woods said.

Shoprite retreated 2.71 percent to R200 after it said trading conditions remained challenging in the second half of its financial year.

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MARKETS 19

BUSINESS REPORT Wednesday, July 19 2017

Absa Fund Managers Limited.: Absa Abs. - A 1.72 169.51 2.74 Absa Africa Eqty Fdr - A 1.36 82.64 0.00 Absa Bal. - R 1.22 434.90 3.64 Absa Bond - A 0.88 117.32 7.92 Absa Core Inc. Fund - A 14.08 99.80 4.21 Absa Euro Inc. - A 0.95 119.34 0.00 Absa Flex. Inc. - A1 0.67 109.47 0.00 Absa Fundisa - A 1.08 107.99 7.57 Absa Gl. Core Eqty Fdr - A 1.1 118.94 0.57 Absa Gl. M Ast Fdr Fund - A 12.88 90.35 1.79 Absa Gl. Prop. Fdr Fund - A 13.23 92.51 0.00 Absa Gl. Value Fdr - R 1.51 512.71 1.85 Absa Inc. Enhancer - A 0.86 109.67 7.50 Absa Infl. Beater - A 1.45 168.38 4.79 Absa Infl. Lnk Inc. Fund 16.48 98.94 3.36 Absa Large Cap - A 1.18 726.48 1.86 Absa Mgd - A 1.84 168.03 3.14 Absa Money Mkt - A 0.57 100.00 7.51 Absa M-M Bond - A 0.93 128.17 6.93 Absa Mgd Wlth Acc. FoF - A 2.53 170.23 2.91 Absa Mgd Wlth Creation FoF - A 2.53 180.76 1.42 Absa M Mgd Wlth Presv FoF - A 2.48 156.32 3.92 Absa M Mgd Wlth Prot. FoF - A 2.42 146.36 4.52 Absa Opp. Inc. FoF - A 1.62 105.23 6.67 Absa Pound Sterling Inc. - A 0.91 101.33 0.00 Absa Prop. Eqty - A 1.74 382.84 4.22 Absa Prud. FoF - A 3.73 304.34 0.00 Absa SA Core Eqty - A 2.35 112.04 0.00 Absa Select Eqty - A 1.72 556.39 1.41 Absa Smart Alpha Def. - A 1.92 92.36 3.81 Absa Smart Alpha Eqty - A 1.74 88.02 1.62 Absa Smart Alpha Inc. - A 1.42 99.79 7.21 Absa Smart Alpha Prop. - A 2.06 105.21 4.63 Absa US $ Inc. - A 0.89 127.16 1.81 Absa Wlth Pres.+ - A 2.1 94.94 2.74 Africa Collective Investments (RF) (Pty) Ltd: Excelsia Eqty ACI Fund - A1 98.48 0.00 MSM Prop. ACI Fund - A1 102.23 0.00 Allan Gray Unit Trust Management (RF) Pty Limited: Allan Gray Bal. - A 1.6 10214.69 2.03 Allan Gray Bond - A 0.58 1092.37 8.57 Allan Gray Eqty - A 2.34 37876.92 1.05 Allan Gray Money Mkt - A 0.29 100.00 7.73 Allan Gray Optimal - A 2.18 2299.12 1.51 Allan Gray SA Eqty - A 1.97 36742.27 1.69 Allan Gray Stable - A 1.65 3439.41 3.55 Allan Gray Tax-Free Bal. - A 1084.95 2.27 Allan Gray-Orb. Gl. Eqty Fdr - A 2.09 5962.02 0.01 Allan Gray-Orb. Gl. FoF - A 1.83 3704.52 0.01 Allan Gray-Orb. Gl. Optimal FoF - A 1.43 1965.45 0.00 Anchor Capital (Pty) Ltd.: Anchor BCI Africa Flex. Inc. Fund 2.15 99.75 3.89 Anchor BCI Bond - A 0.72 105.11 8.60 Anchor BCI Diversified Gr. - A 2.51 103.60 1.13 Anchor BCI Diversified Mod. - A 2.09 105.65 2.77 Anchor BCI Diversified Stable - A 1.63 104.49 4.52 Anchor BCI Eqty - A 1.23 180.39 0.76 Anchor BCI Flex. Inc. - A 1.26 104.35 6.64 Anchor BCI Gbl Cap+ Fdr - A 2.35 93.24 0.00 Anchor BCI Gbl Eqty Fdr - A 2.2 108.53 0.00 Anchor BCI Mgd - A 1.98 109.94 1.92 Anchor BCI Prop. - A 1.87 96.13 3.81 Anchor BCI SA Eqty - A 1.21 107.22 0.40 Anchor BCI Wrld. Flex. - A 1.25 124.99 0.88 Anglorand Management Company Ltd.: Anglorand Gr. - A 461.70 0.00 Argon Asset Management (Pty) Ltd.: Argon BCI Abs. Ret. - A 1.91 99.13 4.89 Argon BCI Bal. Fund - A 1.59 99.30 0.02 Argon BCI Wrld. Flex. - A 2.96 287.06 0.00 Ashburton Management Company (RF) (Pty) Ltd.: Ashburton Africa Eqty Opp. Fdr - A 90.38 0.00 Ashburton Bal. - A 1.09 125.85 3.17 Ashburton Bond Fund - A 0.99 100.52 7.07 Ashburton Def. - A 0.88 164.05 6.01 Ashburton Enh. Value SA Trckr - A 0.69 112.72 2.83 Ashburton Eqty - B1 1 715.93 1.92 Ashburton Gl. Flex. - A1 1.85 211.36 0.04 Ashburton GOVI Trckr - A 0.63 98.95 7.22 Ashburton Gr. - A 1.14 273.79 1.72 Ashburton Low Beta SA Comps Trckr - A 0.69 98.34 1.91 Ashburton Moment. SA Trckr - A 0.71 81.15 3.14 Ashburton Money Mkt - B1 0.36 100.00 7.58 Ashburton M-Mgr Bond - B1 1.12 1016.06 8.43 Ashburton M-Mgr Eqty - B1 1.61 1815.42 1.10 Ashburton M-Mgr Inc. - B1 0.99 1155.67 7.09 Ashburton M-Mgr Prop. - B1 0.96 2176.13 4.88 Ashburton M-Mgr Prud. Flex. - B1 1.1 1657.74 2.89 Ashburton Prop. Trckr - A 0.63 98.03 5.49 Ashburton SA Inc. - B1 0.78 101.46 8.33 Ashburton Stable - A 1.04 102.52 7.02 Ashburton Targeted Ret. - B4 1 126.54 4.00 FNB Gr. FoF - B1 102.83 1.35 FNB Gr.+ FoF - B1 102.91 0.94 FNB Inc. FoF - B1 100.14 5.34 FNB Mod. FoF - B1 101.19 1.86 FNB Stable FoF - B1 100.71 2.45 BlueAlpha Investment Management (Pty) Ltd.: BlueAlpha BCIASeasons - A 2.11 412.81 0.49 BlueAlpha BCI Gl. Eqty - A 1.84 147.77 0.00 BlueAlpha BCI Select Eqty - C 1.69 129.13 1.34 Boutique Collective Investments (RF) (Pty) Ltd.: 36ONE BCI Eqty - A 1.13 491.19 0.00 36ONE BCI Flex. Opp. - A 1.54 585.27 0.19 36ONE BCI SA Eqty Fund - C1 1.5 120.21 0.00 4D BCI Aggr. Flex. FoF - A 2.57 146.98 0.71 4D BCI Cau. FoF - A 2.24 131.73 3.86 4D BCI Flex. - A 1.68 123.86 0.54 4D BCI Mod. FoF - A 2.26 152.00 2.16 Absa Access BCI Aggr. - A 1.06 105.13 2.63 Absa Access BCI Bal. - A 1.09 105.67 3.58 Absa Access BCI Cau. - A 1.02 104.24 4.42 Absa Access BCI Gr. - A 1.16 104.48 3.15 Absa Access BCI Passive Bal. - A 0.87 103.71 3.58 Absa Access BCI Passive Gr. - A 0.56 101.67 2.03 Absa Access BCI Stable - A 0.91 104.36 4.71 ABSA BCI Inst Flex. Inc. Fund - C 0.7 102.34 1.97 ABSA BCI SA Low Resid Risk Eqty - A 0.25 94.94 0.86 ABSA BCI SA Moment. Eqty Fund - A 0.31 92.71 0.71 ABSA BCI SA Value Eqty Fund - A 0.3 101.32 0.76 ABSA Wlth BCI Aggr. FoF - A 1.46 103.95 1.71 ABSA Wlth BCI Bal. FoF - A 1.28 104.08 2.94 ABSA Wlth BCI Cau. FoF - A 1.2 102.16 4.67 ABSA Wlth BCI Gr. FoF - A 1.42 104.02 2.27 ABSA Wlth BCI Stable FoF - A 0.91 102.56 6.27 ADB BCI Bal. FoF - A 2.25 195.12 2.58 ADB BCI Flex. Prud. FoF - A 2.36 191.87 1.66 Amity BCI Conserver FoF - A 2.32 163.30 2.77 Amity BCI Flex. Gr. FoF - A 2.21 212.71 0.49 Amity BCI Gl. Diversified FoF - A 2.59 114.08 0.00 Amity BCI Mgd Select - A 1.86 99.28 2.30 Amity BCI Prudent FoF - A 2.23 178.22 1.72 Amity BCI Stable Select - A 1.63 102.81 4.00 Anchor Securities BCI Flex. - A 1.73 91.79 0.21 API BCI Mgd FoF - A 1.44 103.82 2.45 API BCI Stable FoF - A 1.53 105.55 4.06 API BCI WW Opp. FoF - A 1.86 109.37 1.03 AS Forum BCI Aggr. FoF - A 2.67 232.19 1.35 AS Forum BCI Cau. FoF - A 2.18 167.34 3.18 AS Forum BCI Mod. FoF - A 2.51 213.00 2.03 Atlantic BCI Enh. Inc. - A 1.17 96.78 6.43 Atlantic BCI Rl Inc. - A 1.34 105.98 3.30 Atlantic BCI Stable Inc. - A 0.55 96.71 8.19 Aureus Nobilis BCI Cau. Fund - A 2.07 100.86 3.98 Aureus Nobilis BCI Mgd Fund - A 1.99 100.36 1.96 Autus BCI Bal. - A 2.97 289.40 0.00 Autus BCI Eqty - A 2.77 123.78 0.00 Autus BCI Gl. Eqty Fdr Fund - A 1.62 119.37 0.00 Autus BCI Inc.+ - A 0.69 121.01 7.35 Autus BCI Opp. - A 3.13 278.63 0.00 Autus BCI Prop. - A 1.56 137.24 3.16 Autus BCI Stable - A 2.65 207.39 3.04 Autus BCI Wrld. Flex. - A 2.08 150.85 0.43 Baobab BCI Flex. Opp. - A 3.01 147.91 0.00 Baobab BCI Prud. Mgd - A 2.92 102.25 0.11 Baroque BCI Moderato FoF - A 2.67 206.05 2.36 BCI Best Bld Bal. - C 1.48 115.97 2.11 BCI Best Bld Cau. - C 1.36 114.64 3.94 BCI Best Bld Flex. Inc. - C 0.78 104.88 6.63 BCI BB Glb Eqty - A 2.51 242.17 0.00 BCI Best Bld Gl. Prop. - A 1.85 111.02 1.02 BCI Best Bld Spec. Eqty - C 1.24 115.96 2.16 BCI Best Bld WW Flex. - A 1.77 323.04 0.00 BCI BetaPlus Bal. - A 1.11 105.58 2.81 BCI Franklin Gl. Rl Est. Fdr - A 6.43 81.00 0.00 BCI Inc.+ - C 0.63 105.30 9.04 BCI Money Mkt - A 0.36 100.00 7.88 BCI Prud. FoF - 3B1 2.1 205.76 1.62 BCI Stable FoF - 3B1 1.86 154.59 4.04 BCI Templeton Gl. Fdr Fund - A 7.58 96.95 0.00 BCI Value Fund 0.95 98.63 0.42 BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - 3B1 2.41 137.01 0.52 Bovest BCI Cons. FoF - A 2.14 107.71 3.16 Bovest BCI Mgd FoF - A 2.25 108.26 2.35 Bovest BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 2.77 111.13 0.00 Brenthurst BCI Bal. FoF - A 1.87 102.20 0.00 Brenthurst BCI Cau. FoF - A 1.88 101.80 1.84 Brenthurst BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 102.07 0.00 Caleo BCI Act. Inc. Fund - A 1.12 101.17 3.56 Caleo BCI Bal. FoF - A 2.19 102.86 0.82 Caleo BCI Eqty - A 2.38 98.60 0.25 Caleo BCI Wrld. Opp. FoF - A 2.51 187.04 1.90 Capita BCI Bal. - A 2.03 119.15 2.05 Capita BCI Cau. - A 1.88 114.70 3.23 Capita BCI Rl Inc. - A 1.34 102.77 6.94 Capstone BCI Bal. - A 1.57 102.54 2.50 Cartesian BCI Money Mkt - A 0.49 100.00 7.32 Centaur BCI Bal. - A 2.19 150.04 2.09 Centaur BCI Flex. - A 2.16 653.64 1.63 Colourfield BCI Eqty Fund - A 103.24 0.04 Colourfield BCI Inc. 1 - A 0.63 105.19 5.54 Colourfield BCI Inc. 2 - A 0.67 103.38 1.84 Colourfield BCI Money Mkt - A 0.15 100.00 7.63 Consilium BCI Flex. - A 2.28 261.20 0.98 Consilium BCI Wrld. Flex. - A 1.56 159.83 0.80 Cratos BCI Eqty - A 1.13 91.54 2.49 CS BCI Aggr. Prud. FoF - A 3.3 169.45 0.00 CS BCI Flex. FoF - B 2.77 202.57 0.61 CS BCI Prud. FoF - B 2.61 178.64 1.29 CS BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 3.36 103.39 0.00 Dinamika BCI Cons. FoF - A 2.85 171.24 2.41 Dinamika BCI Wrld. Flex. - A 2.37 103.78 0.64 Dotport BCI Cau. FoF - A 2.06 150.05 3.97 Dotport BCI Eqty Fund 1.3 101.52 0.03 Dotport BCI Flex. FoF - A 2.51 303.23 2.70 Dotport BCI Prud. FoF - A 2.39 254.27 3.58

M Edge BCI Bal. - A 1.88 102.90 Edge BCI Cau. - A 1.91 102.58 Edge BCI Mgd Aggr. Fund 2.12 103.39 Efficient BCI Bal. - A 1.12 223.51 Efficient BCI Cau. - A 1.28 103.75 Efficient BCI Eqty - A 1.3 394.08 Efficient BCI Fixed Inc. - A 0.89 108.30 Efficient BCI Prop. - A 1.28 348.20 Efficient BCI Wrld. Flex. - A 1.97 322.61 EFPC BCI Bal. - A 2.53 101.42 Evolve BCI Cons. - A 2.56 108.61 Evolve BCI Mgd - A 2.02 100.22 FAL BCI Bal. - A 1.34 100.97 Florin BCI Mgd - A 2.63 97.70 Foster BCI Mod. FoF - A 2.51 171.95 GFA BCI Mgd FoF - A 2.73 192.81 GFA BCI Stable FoF - A 2.13 165.84 Harvard House BCI General Eqty - A 1.26 284.34 Harvard House BCI Flex. Inc. - A 1.15 129.38 Harvard House BCI Prop. - A 1.86 103.96 iCap. BCI Eqty Fund - A 2.98 101.33 Instit BCI Bal. Fund - A 2.18 100.78 Instit BCI Cau. Fund - A 2.54 100.64 Instit BCI Eqty Fund - A 1.49 96.68 Instit BCI Mgd FoF - A 3.1 102.92 Instit BCI Stable FoF - A 2.55 103.11 Instit BCI Wrld. Eqty Fund 0.94 102.08 Integral BCI Eqty Fund - A 1.91 105.20 Kanaan BCI Bal. FoF - A 2.98 189.83 Kanaan BCI Flex. FoF - A 3.22 186.31 Lunar BCI Wrld. Flex. - A 1.84 101.51 Maitland BCI Flex. FoF - A 2.26 160.94 Median BCI Bal. FoF - A 2.56 100.41 Median BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 2.47 104.17 Millenium BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - B 101.01 Montrose BCI Cau. FoF - A 2.24 165.47 Montrose BCI Flex. FoF - A 3.93 231.34 Montrose BCI Mod. FoF - A 2.63 202.24 Morningstar BCI Gl. Eqty FoF - A 1.71 100.85 N-e-FG BCI Eqty - A 1.66 178.76 N-e-FG BCI Flex. - A 2.28 193.23 N-e-FG BCI Inc. Prov. FoF - A 2.56 188.90 Naviga BCI Bal. Gr. FoF - A 2.41 293.17 Naviga BCI Flex. FoF - A 2.37 205.30 Naviga BCI Gl. Eqty FoF - A 0.91 102.69 Naviga BCI Inc. Plan. FoF - A 1.14 123.90 Naviga BCI Mod. FoF - C 2.24 190.61 Naviga BCI SA Eqty - A1 1.96 180.95 Naviga BCI Secure Gr. FoF - A 2.18 209.21 Naviga BCI Wrld. Eqty Fund - A 98.11 Naviga BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 2.67 101.69 Olympiad BCI Mgd FoF - A 2.27 177.21 Olympiad BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 2.67 153.51 Optimum BCI Bal. - A 2.01 115.97 Optimum BCI Eqty Fund - A 1.71 104.32 Optimum BCI Mgd Gr. - A 2.15 117.45 Optimum BCI Stable - A 2 115.53 Optimum BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 1.91 94.09 PBi BCI Bal. FoF 1.53 105.58 PBi BCI Cons. FoF - A 1.33 103.28 PBI BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 1.93 100.51 Platinum BCI Bal. FoF - A 2.49 253.53 Platinum BCI Inc. Prov. FoF - A 2.17 166.99 Platinum BCI Wrld. Flex. - A 1.8 373.70 Plexus Wlth BCI Bal. - A 1.72 207.82 Plexus Wlth BCI Cons. - A 1.7 171.69 Plexus Wlth BCI Flex. Prop. Inc. Fund - A 97.94 Plexus Wlth BCI Prop. - A 1.03 272.48 Point3 BCI Bal. FoF - A 1.64 101.60 Point3 BCI Cons. FoF - A 1.68 100.10 Point3 BCI Mod. Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 1.85 101.14 PortfolioMetrix BCI Bond FoF - A 0.55 106.78 PortfolioMetrix BCI Eqty FoF - B1 0.98 108.63 PortfolioMetrix BCI Gl. Eqty FoF - B1 0.79 137.11 Portfoliometrix BCI Gl. Prop. FoF - A 0.93 86.43 PortfolioMetrix BCI Inc. FoF - A 0.67 105.10 PortfolioMetrix BCI SA Prop. - A 0.7 111.31 Pri.Client BCI Wrld. Flex. Fund - B 2.22 99.95 Providence BCI Wrld. Diversified - B 1.43 108.94 PWS BCI Cau. FoF - A 1.72 102.95 PWS BCI Mod. FoF - A 1.78 103.02 PWS BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 1.78 106.94 Qtum BCI Bal. FoF - A 2.28 292.13 Qtum BCI Cap.+ FoF - A 2.33 216.10 Qtum BCI Core Inc. - A 1.24 103.83 Qtum BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 2.8 167.05 RCI BCI Flex. Gr. Fund 1.54 102.08 RCI BCI Flex. Mgd - A 2.17 376.98 RCI BCI Wrld. Flex. Fund - A 1.94 103.50 Rebalance BCI Infl.+ 3 - A 2.04 109.53 Rebalance BCI Infl.+ 5 - A 1.76 109.36 Rebalance BCI Infl.+ 7 - A 2.53 117.47 Reitway BCI Gl. Prop. - A 1.6 219.82 Renaissance BCI Cau. - A 2.15 104.38 Renaissance BCI Gl. Best Ideas Fdr - A 1.55 111.85 Renaissance BCI Mgd - A 2.13 104.76 Renaissance BCI Wrld. Flex. Fund 0.58 99.24 Rowan Cap. BCI Bal. FoF - A 1.99 100.90 Rowan Cap. BCI Inc. FoF - A 1.58 100.61 Rudiarius BCI Africa Eqty - C 1.51 89.00 S BRO BCI Bal. FoF - A 2.39 241.16 S BRO BCI Def. FoF - A 2.28 153.75 S BRO BCI Mgd FoF 2.67 100.12 SA Ast Man BCI Cau. - A 2.17 107.61 SA Ast Man BCI Mgd - A 2.07 110.59 SA Ast Man BCI Mod. - A 2.13 110.09 Sasfin BCI Bal. - A 1.24 123.07 Sasfin BCI Eqty - A 1.76 338.32 Sasfin BCI Flex. Inc. - A 0.76 101.03 Sasfin BCI Optimal Inc. Fund - A 1.83 102.85 Sasfin BCI Prud. - A1 1.39 181.95 Sasfin BCI Stable - A 1.04 114.22 Select Mgr BCI Cau. FoF - A 1.92 155.46 Select Mgr BCI Flex. Eqty - A 1.69 197.96 Select Mgr BCI Flex. Gr. FoF - A 2.42 365.65 Select Mgr BCI Gl. Mod. FoF - A 2.45 275.30 Select Mgr BCI Prud. FoF - A 2.44 310.12 Sesfikile BCI Gl. Prop. Fund - A1 1.33 80.56 Sesfikile BCI Prop. - A1 1.38 2091.94 Signature BCI Bal. FoF - A 2.39 104.39 Signature BCI Stable FoF - A 2.26 103.24 Signature BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 3.06 104.70 Simplisiti BCI Flex. FoF - A 3.41 187.82 Simplisiti BCI Inc.+ FoF - A 1.65 114.95 Simplisiti BCI Mgd Protector FoF - A 2.83 165.76 Skyblue BCI Cumulus Mod. FoF - A 2.51 176.57 Skyblue BCI Kimberlite Cau. FoF - A 2.24 148.12 Skyblue BCI Solar Flex. FoF - A 2.19 188.94 Southern Charter BCI Bal. FoF - A 2.18 180.08 Southern Charter BCI Def. FoF - A 1.74 164.84 Southern Charter BCI Gr. FoF - A 2.26 191.56 Southern Charter BCI Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 2.54 132.74 Stonewood BCI Gl. Eqty Fdr - A 1.27 104.80 Stonewood BCI WW Flex - B 1.87 119.75 Stringfellow BCI Flex. FoF - A 3.05 204.46 Stringfellow BCI Stable FoF - A 2.59 193.63 Tantalum BCI Cau. - B 0.88 102.29 Tantalum BCI Str. Inc. - A 1.07 101.51 Visio BCI Actinio - A 2.66 724.19 Visio BCI General Eqty - A 1.3 110.65 Visio BCI SA Eqty - A 99.42 Vital BCI Bal. FoF - A 3.07 98.63 Vital BCI Cau. FoF - A 3.88 99.63 Wlth Associates BCI Bal. FoF 1.19 101.07 Wlth Associates BCI Cau. FoF 1.14 100.72 Wlth Associates BCI Flex. Gr. FoF 1.51 99.30 Wlth Associates BCI Mod. FoF 1.11 102.06 Wlthworks BCI Cau. FoF - A 2.65 105.42 Wlthworks BCI Mgd FoF - A 2.19 108.14 Bridge Fund Managers (Pty) Ltd.: Bridge Bal. - A 1.72 159.56 Bridge Diversified Pref. Share - A 0.89 87.25 Bridge Eqty Inc. Gr. - A 1.24 130.81 Bridge Gbl Eq Inc Gr. Fdr - C 1.7 98.53 Bridge Gl. Mgd Gr. Fdr - A 1.6 2135.15 Bridge Gbl Prop. Feed Inc - A 1.87 327.36 Bridge High Inc. - A 1.03 1089.30 Bridge Mgd Gr. - A 1.2 148.25 Bridge Stable Gr. - A 1.22 2119.96 Cadiz Collective Investments: Cadiz Abs. Yield - A 0.97 103.74 Cadiz Bal. - A 1.54 196.17 Cadiz Eqty - A 2.12 225.86 Cadiz Money Mkt - A 0.29 100.00 Cadiz Stable - A 1.24 110.70 Cadiz Wrld. Flex. - A 1.58 195.40 Capricorn Fund Managers (Pty) Ltd.: Capricorn SCI Bal. Fund - B1 1.15 967.35 Capricorn SCI Eqty Fund - B1 1.12 946.86 Catalyst Fund Managers (Pty) Ltd.: Catalyst Flex. Prop. Pres. - A 1.31 115.63 Catalyst Gl. Rl Est. Fdr - A 2.11 406.99 Catalyst SA Prop. Eqty - A 1.51 417.05 Celtis Financial Services (Pty) Ltd.: Celtis BCI Cons. FoF - A 2.02 160.78 Celtis BCI Flex. FoF - A 2.33 202.89 Celtis BCI Mgd FoF - A 2.03 110.86 Ci Collective Investments (RF) Prop Ltd.: 1st Fusion Ci Guarded - A 1.58 101.44 1st Fusion Ci Temperate - A 1.63 102.29 1st Fusion Diversified Gr. - A 1.66 102.71 Analytics Ci Bal FoF - A 2.22 632.40 Analytics Ci Cau. FoF - A 2.03 233.70 Analytics Ci Man Eqty - A 1.6 605.21 Analytics Ci Mod FoF - A 2.13 388.40 Analytics Ci WW Flex FoF - A 2.52 662.12 APS Ci Cau. FoF - A 1.86 1529.89 APS Ci Eqty FoF - A1 1.83 1603.93 APS Ci Gl. Flex. Fdr Fund 1.63 95.72 APS Ci Mgd Gr. FoF - A 2.01 2003.19 APS Ci Mod. FoF - A 1.93 1809.99 AstMix Ci Bal. FoF - A 1.8 102.07 AstMix Ci Cons. FoF - A 1.77 101.72 AstMix Ci Mod. FoF - A 1.82 102.25 Dynasty Ci Wlth Accum. FoF - A2 1.56 1646.50 Dynasty Ci Wlth Pres. FoF - A2 1.43 1474.90 Galileo Ci Bal. - A 1.22 101.17 Galileo Ci Gr. - A 1.28 100.09 Galileo Ci Guarded - A 1.17 101.23 Investhouse Ci Bal. Fund - A 100.79 Investhouse Ci Cau. Fund - A 101.04 Kruger Ci Bal. FoF - A 1.67 1977.75 Kruger Ci Eqty Fund - A 1.77 2201.54 Kruger Ci Gl. FoF - A 1.59 1890.15 Kruger Ci Prud. FoF - A 1.69 1882.96 Moore Stephens Ci Bal. FoF - A 2.11 101.48 Moore Stephens Ci Gr. FoF - A 2.11 102.51

M 0.54 2.01 0.08 2.98 4.36 1.90 7.49 4.61 1.03 0.56 2.50 1.14 2.34 0.93 2.14 2.15 3.88 2.52 6.80 6.57 0.00 1.46 2.93 0.09 0.00 1.25 0.27 1.06 1.43 0.00 0.81 2.72 0.73 0.67 0.00 1.65 0.00 1.47 0.00 0.77 1.22 3.53 2.24 0.88 0.00 5.81 2.34 1.00 3.93 0.00 0.00 2.19 0.57 2.58 1.33 1.61 4.21 0.93 2.40 4.22 0.46 1.85 3.97 0.95 3.41 4.33 1.30 4.67 2.47 3.92 1.71 8.37 2.83 0.13 0.49 7.90 4.50 0.20 0.31 0.26 0.00 0.00 1.62 3.45 7.17 0.00 0.35 0.60 0.00 3.56 1.89 0.13 2.00 2.98 0.00 2.10 0.84 1.06 5.41 3.10 2.85 3.45 0.51 3.99 3.18 3.62 0.47 0.00 7.99 1.53 0.31 2.68 3.28 1.07 1.20 0.00 1.53 1.83 4.21 0.69 1.16 0.00 0.00 5.87 1.83 3.46 3.85 4.63 2.20 3.72 1.53 0.18 0.00 0.56 0.54 2.74 5.44 7.07 1.55 2.05 0.00 0.72 2.49 1.98 5.17 0.82 2.82 2.28 1.34 2.05 9.46 3.52 0.11 0.00 0.01 8.08 4.71 5.90 9.68 2.24 0.17 7.74 4.17 1.24 1.22 0.54 3.63 0.00 4.06 3.45 0.23 1.71 2.63 2.10 1.48 1.50 3.71 1.55 2.60 0.00 4.30 2.29 0.00 2.45 3.26 2.44 3.16 2.70 1.69 2.58 3.29 3.02 3.38 0.00 0.06 3.61 1.15 0.00 4.33 3.06 2.15

Moore Stephens Ci Stable FoF - A 1.74 102.13 3.64 NFB Ci Bal. FoF - A 0.94 1632.48 4.27 NFB Ci Cau. FoF - A 0.95 1482.12 5.28 NFB Ci Eqty - A 1.51 1700.88 0.69 PFPS Ci Bal. FoF - A 1.56 102.39 2.39 PFPS Ci Cau. FoF - A 1.36 104.09 4.47 PFPS Ci Mod. FoF - A 1.39 102.88 3.61 Quattro Ci Cau. FoF - A 1.95 104.29 3.11 Quattro Ci Gr. FoF - A 1.81 107.00 2.09 Quattro Ci Mod. FoF - A 1.83 105.14 2.74 Quattro Ci Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 2.07 112.79 0.00 Roxburgh Ci Bal. FoF - A 1.68 102.17 2.87 Roxburgh Ci Bal.+ FoF - A 1.76 102.07 2.32 Roxburgh Ci Cons. FoF - A 1.69 102.70 3.38 WWC Ci ALSI Beta - A 0.51 97.18 1.92 Community Growth Management Company Ltd.: Community Gr. Eqty - A 0.59 1165.82 7.23 Community Gr. Gilt - A 0.61 150.22 8.29 Contego Asset Management (Pty) Ltd.: Contego B1 MET Inc.+ - A 1.2 100.70 7.99 Contego B2 MET Prot. Inc. - A 1.7 115.12 5.82 Contego B3 MET Prot. Bal. - A 2.43 202.36 2.21 Contego B4 MET Prop. - A 1.77 315.01 4.74 Contego B5 MET Prot. Eqty - A 2.04 213.02 1.46 Contego B6 MET Value Eqty - A 2.54 196.69 0.58 Contego B7 MET Gr. Eqty - A 1.18 150.57 1.52 Contego MET Accum. FoF - A 2.89 244.40 1.54 Contego MET Cre. FoF - A 2.96 246.14 0.60 Contego MET Pres. FoF - A 2.9 195.89 3.21 CoreShares Index Tracker Managers (RF) Proprietary: CoreShares Green ETF 0.48 1853.00 2.90 CoreShares Preftrax ETF 0.56 904.00 9.89 CoreShares PropTrax SAPY 0.58 6673.00 5.42 CoreShares PropTrax Ten 0.54 2173.00 4.68 CoreShares S&P 500 3189.00 1.67 CoreShares S&P Gl. Prop.

3328.00 3.75 CoreShares Top 40 Equally Wgtd ETF 0.31 4895.00 3.25 Coronation Fund Managers Ltd.: Coronation Bal. Def. - A 1.78 180.48 3.77 Coronation Bal.+ - A 1.64 10180.03 2.01 Coronation Bond - R 0.87 1481.99 8.06 Coronation Cap.+ - A 1.68 4075.54 2.92 Coronation Eqty - R 1.16 16577.10 1.22 Coronation Fin. - A 1.46 5957.76 2.87 Coronation Gl. Cap.+ (ZAR) Fdr - A 1.87 223.32 0.00 Coronation Gl. Emerg. Mkt Flex. (ZAR) - A 1.8 247.56 0.00 Coronation Glb Eqt Select [ZAR] Fdr - A 1.82 117.07 0.00 Coronation Gl. Mgd (ZAR) Fdr - A 1.87 286.21 0.00 Coronation Gl. Opp. Eqty [ZAR] Fdr - A 2.52 9765.84 0.00 Coronation Glb Strat USD I [ZAR] Fdr - A 1.12 134.78 0.00 Coronation Industrial - P 1.16 19804.24 1.10 Coronation Jibar+ - A 0.53 1096.52 8.27 Coronation Mkt+ - A 1.62 8102.80 2.78 Coronation Money Mkt - A 0.29 100.00 7.70 Coronation Optimum Gr. - A 1.59 9889.09 0.23 Coronation Prop. Eqty - A 1.43 6378.23 4.32 Coronation Res. - P 1.32 9247.87 0.94 Coronation SA Eqty - A 1.26 107.32 1.21 Coronation Smaller Cos - R 1.2 7274.57 2.26 Coronation Str. Inc. - A 0.99 1542.36 7.26 Coronation Top 20 - A 0.84 13503.81 2.24 NAM Coronation Bal. Def. - A 4227.58 3.72 NAM Coronation Bal.+ - A 162.72 2.34 NAM Coronation Cap.+ - A 170.12 2.26 NAM Coronation Money Mkt Fund - A 100.00 4.77 NAM Coronation Str. Inc. - A 115.05 6.63 db x-trackers (Proprietary) Ltd.: db x-trackers DJ Euro 50 Idx 0.86 5232.00 1.56 db x-trackers FTSE 100 Idx 0.86 12370.00 3.18 db x-trackers MSCI Japan Idx 0.86 1112.00 2.21 db x-trackers MSCI USA Idx 0.86 3007.00 2.05 db x-trackers MSCI World Idx 0.68 2510.00 1.98 Discovery Life Collective Investments (Pty) Ltd.: Discovery Agg Dyn Ast Opti FoF - A 1.94 102.46 2.58 Discovery Bal. - A 1.89 200.62 2.19 Discovery Cau. Bal. - A 1.66 141.82 3.39 Discovery Cons Dyn Ast Opti FoF - A 1.69 101.29 5.02 Discovery Diversified Inc. - A 1.16 109.47 7.57 Discovery Dyn. Eqty - A 1.85 136.02 0.87 Discovery Eqty 1.85 167.96 1.18 Discovery Flex. Prop.

1.43 212.75 4.71 Discovery Gl. Bal. FoF - A 1.93 237.62 0.00 Discovery Gl. Eqty Fdr - A 1.96 223.24 0.00 Discovery Gl. Rl Est. Securities Fdr - A 1.77 102.57 0.00 Discovery Gbl Value Eqty Fdr - A 2.06 204.53 0.00 Discovery Mod. Bal. - A 1.65 147.09 2.93 Discovery Mod Dyn Ast Opti FoF - A 1.75 102.11 4.17 Discovery Money Mkt - A 0.58 100.00 7.42 Discovery 2010 - A 2.35 161.37 1.92 Discovery 2015 - A 2.06 162.96 2.17 Discovery 2020 - A 1.99 165.03 2.11 Discovery 2025 - A 1.96 168.42 1.99 Discovery 2030 - A 1.96 167.19 1.75 Discovery 2035 - A 1.96 168.36 1.51 Discovery 2040 - A 1.97 160.61 1.21 Discovery 2045 - A 1.96 163.27 1.04 Discovery Target Retirement 2050 - A 2.61 103.41 0.73 Discovery Wrld. Best Ideas - A 2.18 96.79 0.42 DSFIN Services (Pty) Ltd.: Optimum BCI Flex. - A 2.08 668.24 2.38 Optimum BCI Prop. - A 1.63 124.07 4.30 Fairtree Capital (Pty) Ltd.: Fairtree Eqty Pres. Fund - A1 2.44 215.89 0.20 Fairtree Flex. Bal. Pres. - A1 3.18 120.49 0.37 Fairtree MET Smart Beta Fund - A1 1.44 102.86 2.74 Flagship Private Asset Management (Pty) Limited: Flagship IP Flex. Value - A1 1.68 4242.73 0.49 Flagship IP Prud. Variable - A 2.26 207.12 0.05 Flagship IP Wrld. Flex. - A 2.11 501.03 0.00 Flagship IP Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 2.42 653.85 0.00 Foord Unit Trusts Limited: Foord Bal. - R 1.58 5423.39 2.28 Foord Cons. - R 1.28 1131.63 3.34 Foord Eqty - R 1.11 8122.05 2.30 Foord Flex. FoF - R 1.43 2803.39 1.09 Foord Gl. Eqty Fdr - R 1.57 1388.17 0.00 Foord Intl Fdr - R 1.91 3609.11 0.00 GCI Wealth: GCI MET Bal. FoF - A 2.1 191.86 3.36 GCI MET Bal.+ - A 2.23 111.20 0.23 GCI MET Flex. FoF - A 2.63 223.17 1.83 GCI MET Inc. - A 1.42 104.20 5.52 GCI MET Stable FoF - A 2.4 116.97 2.69 GCI MET Wrld. Flex. - A 2.28 181.10 0.00 Glacier Management Company Limited: Glacier Money Mkt - A 0.57 100.00 7.52 Grant Thornton Capital Management Company(Pty)Ltd.: GTC Passive High Eqty FoF - B2 4.13 104.84 0.00 Gryphon Collective Investments (RF) (Pty) Ltd.: GryphonAShare Trckr - A 0.35 651.32 2.45 Gryphon Dividend Inc. - A 0.94 100.33 6.52 Gryphon Flex. FoF - B 0.66 1095.08 6.18 Gryphon Gl. Eqty - B 1.05 1266.09 0.33 Gryphon Money Mkt - A 0.31 100.00 7.60 Gryphon Prud. FoF - B 0.85 1091.25 6.29 H4 Collective Investments (RF) Pty Ltd.: Cannon Eqty H4 Fund - A 1.62 229.24 2.23 CITADEL Bal. H4 - B1 1.86 1624.33 2.52 CITADEL Gl. Eqty H4 FoF - B 2.49 3129.53 0.00 Citadel SA 20/20 Eqty H4 Fund - B1 1035.97 0.00 CITADEL SA Bond H4 - B 1.05 1248.06 6.77 Citadel SA Dividend Eqty H4 - B1 1.5 1105.70 3.19 CITADEL SA Eqty H4 - B 1.47 4319.43 1.72 Citadel SA Inc. H4 - B1 0.59 1015.97 7.67 CITADEL SA Money Mkt H4 - B 0.59 100.00 7.58 Citadel SA M Factor Eqt H4 - B1 0.93 948.24 2.98 Citadel SA Prop. H4 - B1 1.17 1148.71 4.95 Citadel SA Prot. Eqty H4 - B1 1.18 1084.01 4.27 H4 Diversified - B1 1.33 1143.04 3.66 H4 Gr. - B1 1.5 1160.25 2.37 H4 Stable - B1 1.19 1062.97 3.97 H4 Wrld. Eqty - B1 1.61 1277.21 1.32 Imara Asset Management SA (Pty) Ltd.: Imara BCI Bal. - A 1.7 95.17 6.08 Imara MET Eqty - A 1.93 247.08 0.16 Imara BCI Inc. - A 0.99 88.15 9.60 Investec Fund Managers SA (RF) (Pty) Ltd.: Investec Abs. Bal. - A 1.38 169.48 2.94 Investec Cau. Mgd - A 1.78 175.19 3.78 Investec Commodity - R 1.19 1635.50 0.69 Investec Diversified Inc. - A 0.99 116.23 7.74 Investec Emerg. Cos - R 1.15 1274.38 0.84 Investec Eqty - R 1.15 4821.91 1.24 Investec Gl. Francise Fdr - A 2.1 749.94 0.00 Investec Gbl M-Ast Inc Fdr - A 1.91 150.35 0.00 Investec Gl. Str. Mgd Fdr - A 2.25 343.05 0.00 Investec High Inc. - R 0.87 115.67 8.50 Investec Mgd - R 1.32 1012.89 2.93 Investec Money Mkt - R 0.58 100.00 7.49 Investec Namibia High Inc. - A 0.89 108.55 7.28 Investec Namibia Mgd Fund - R 1 583.91 2.40 Investec Namibia Money Mkt - A Inc 0.54 1000.00 7.56 Investec Opp. - R 1.34 1084.51 2.50 Investec Prop. Eqty - A 1.43 552.92 4.79 Investec Stefi+ - A 0.7 102.95 7.71 Investec Value - R 1.36 1460.20 0.00 Investec Wrld. Eqty Fdr - R 1.28 996.37 0.00 Investec Wrld. Flex. - E 1.92 97.19 2.12 Investment Solutions Unit Trusts Limited: Invest. Sol. Aggr. Passive - A1 0.55 104.92 2.73 Invest. Sol. Cons. Passive - A1 0.54 102.00 5.33 Invest. Sol. Enh. Inc. - A 1.06 102.29 7.80 Invest. Sol. Flex. FoF - A 1.9 119.49 0.15 Invest. Sol. Gl. Eqty Fdr - A 2.47 439.49 0.00 Invest. Sol. Gl. Fixed Inc. - A 2.07 269.01 0.00 Invest. Sol. Inc. - A 1.19 99.91 8.21 Invest. Sol. Infl. Lnk Bond - A 1.16 132.27 2.38 Invest. Sol. M-M Bal. FoF - A 1.77 412.96 1.84 Invest. Sol. M-M Eqty FoF - A 1.75 623.78 1.35 Invest. Sol. Performer Mgd - A 1.41 161.58 2.49 Invest. Sol. Prop. Eqty - A 1.51 467.36 5.34 Invest. Sol. Pure Fixed Int. - A 1.16 112.02 7.91 Invest. Sol. Rl Ret. Focus - A 1.26 205.73 4.77 Invest. Sol. Stable FoF - A 1.25 140.44 3.70 IS Str. Gbl Bal. Fdr - A 1.44 127.51 0.00 Invest. Sol. Superior Yield - A 0.63 100.70 8.19 Invest. Sol. US $ - A 0.68 203.24 0.00 IP Management Company: Emperor IP Gl. Moment. Eqty - A 3.06 1255.60 0.00 Emperor IP Moment. Eqty - A 2.24 946.14 0.54 Engelberg IP Flex. - A 1.68 900.04 1.57 Engelberg IP Inc. - A 1.83 1021.25 0.06 Engelberg IP Wrld. Flex. Fund - A 1.46 971.34 0.52 FG IP Inter. Flex. FoF - A 1.83 2210.27 0.00 FG IP Jupiter Inc. FoF - A 1.04 1180.72 6.80 FG IP Mercury Eqty FoF - A 1.39 2949.34 1.02 FG IP Neptune Gr. FoF - A 1.39 1086.97 3.12

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Value FoF - A 2.76 292.98 IFM Technical - A 1.47 387.05 JM BUSHA Investment Group (Pty) Ltd.: JMBusha MET Rl Ret. - A 1.69 135.78 Kagiso Collective Investments Limited: Kagiso Bal. - A 1.54 164.80 Kagiso Eqty Alpha - A 1.58 720.00 Kagiso Islamic Bal. - A 1.48 149.25 Kagiso Islamic Eqty - A 1.41 230.19 Kagiso Protector - A 1.63 2851.81 Kagiso Stable - A 1.55 148.60 Kagiso Top 40 Trckr - R 0.71 6177.92 Laurium Capital: Laurium Bal. Pres. - A1 2.04 109.38 Laurium Eqty Pres. - A1 1.14 120.11 Laurium Flex. Pres. - A1 1.75 178.34 Lion of Africa Fund Managers Pty Ltd.: Lion of Africa MET Eqty - A 3.7 145.03 Lion of Africa MET Rl Ret. - A 2.04 122.19 Marriott Unit Trust Management Company Ltd.: Marriott Bal. FoF - A 2.12 2645.51 Marriott Core Inc. - A 1.15 108.77 Marriott Dividend Gr. - R 1.15 8914.43 Marriott First World Eqty Fdr - A 1.41 2151.90 Marriott Gl. Inc. - A 1.04 465.68 Marriott High Inc. FoF - A 1.42 967.23 Marriott Inc. - R 0.89 110.29 Marriott Inter. Gr. Fdr - A 1.95 1607.03 Marriott Inter. Rl Est. Fdr - A 1.39 458.58 Marriott Money Mkt - A 0.31 100.00 Marriott Prop. Eqty - R 1.16 959.67 Marriott Prop. Inc. - A 1.16 1013.03 Marriott Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 2.37 2799.19 Mazi Capital (Pty) Ltd.: Mazi Cap. Prime Bal. - A 1.63 98.71 Mazi Cap. Prime Def. Bal. - A 1.14 100.01 Mazi Cap. Prime Eqty - A1 1.22 260.37 Mazi Cap. Prime Prop. - A 1.2 132.10 MET Collective Investments Ltd.: AMF MET Mgd - A 2.19 113.84 Blue Quadrant MET Wrld. Flex. - A 1.6 140.91 Counterpoint MET Bal.+ - A1 1.58 127.97 Counterpoint MET Cau. - A1 1.31 193.66 Counterpoint MET Enh. Inc. - A1 0.69 119.44 Counterpoint MET Gl. Eqt Fdr - B 1.76 91.21 Counterpoint MET High Yield Eqty - A1 1.08 126.97 Counterpoint MET Mod. - A1 1.53 119.14 Counterpoint MET Value - A1 1.49 367.56 Destiny M Ast MET FoF - A 2.67 4742.09 Destiny Prud. MET FoF - A 2.32 3452.13 Imalivest MET Bal. - A 1.56 289.33 Imalivest MET Wrld. Flex. - A 1.34 207.64 Insight Cap. MET Flex. FoF - A 1.67 139.46 Maru MET Swix Enh. Fund - A 1.43 98.80 MET Cap. Pres.+ - A 1.87 102.80 MET Def. FoF - A 2.52 192.65 MET Flex. FoF - A 2.39 190.59 MET General Eqty - A 1.45 1518.93 MET Odys. Bal. FoF - A 2.12 275.34 MET Odys. Cons. FoF - A 1.97 192.85 MET Target Ret. - A 3.85 51.16 Metope MET Prop. - A 2.16 114.07 Northstar MET Inc. - A 1.24 99.48 Northstar MET Mgd - A 2.16 207.42 Perpetua MET Bal. - A 2.81 97.09 Perpetua MET Eqty - A 1.28 89.60 Saffron MET Act. Bond - A 1.4 115.76 Saffron MET Opp. Inc. - A 1.23 118.06 Saffron MET Top 20 - A 1.19 126.40 Stewart MET Abs. Ret. Bld FoF - A 1.87 117.38 Stewart MET Macro Eqty FoF - A 2.6 179.63 Truffle MET Flex. - A 1.46 213.37 Truffle MET General Eqty - A 1.46 200.22 Truffle MET Inc.+ Fund - A 0.83 101.96 Warwick MET Bal. - A 2.58 155.00 Warwick MET Bal. FoF - A 3.01 127.10 Warwick MET Enh. Inc. - A 1.31 101.16 Warwick MET Eqty - A 2.18 83.23 Warwick MET Intl Mgd Fdr - A 3.81 94.34 Warwick MET Prop. - A 1.48 98.85 MI-PLAN (Pty) Ltd.: MI-PLAN IP Beta Eqty - B2 0.79 2288.60 MI-PLAN IP Enh. Inc. - A 0.91 982.82 MI-PLAN IP Gl. Macro - B5 1.02 2063.32 MI-PLAN IP Gl. Prop. Fdr - B5 1.32 1472.25 MI-PLAN IP Infl.+ 3 - B5 1.21 1773.58 MI-PLAN IP Infl.+ 5 - B5 1.11 2199.67 MI-PLAN IP Infl.+ 7 - B5 1.13 2890.85 MI-PLAN IP Sarasin Equisar Fdr - B5 1.78 2258.59 MI-PLAN IP Wrld. Macro - B2 1.3 1743.52 Triathlon IP - D 1800.40 MitonOptimal Asset Management: MitonOptimal IP Act. Beta - A 0.8 1133.76 MitonOptimal IP Defended Beta - A 1.23 834.11 MitonOptimal IP Diversified Inc. FoF - A 2.14 144.52 MitonOptimal IP Flex. FoF - A 2.76 275.10 MitonOptimal IP For Flex. Fdr - A1 1.87 275.18 MitonOptimal IP High Conv Eqt - A 1.12 127.19 MitonOptimal IP Int.+ - A 0.74 100.97 MitonOptimal IP Prud. FoF - A 2.69 219.64 MitonOptimal IP SA Infl. Lnk Idx - A 0.6 127.82 MitonOptimal IP Wrld. Flex. FoF - A 2.58 221.28 Momentum Collective Investments Limited: Aluwani Top 25 - R 1.16 1094.57 Ampersand Moment. CPI+ 2 FoF - A 1.72 157.82 Ampersand Moment. CPI+ 4 FoF - A 1.8 161.18 Ampersand Moment. CPI+ 6 FoF - A 1.99 163.89 Ampersand Moment. Eqty - A 1.87 114.42 Ampersand Moment. Flex. Prop. Inc. - A 2.03 131.97 FNB Gr. - A 1.49 1281.61 FNB Namibia Bal. Fund 101.62 FNB Namibia Enh. Money Mkt 153.83 FNB Namibia Infl. Lnk 99.35 FNB Namibia UTs General Eqty 770.94 FNB Namibia UTs Inc. 102.30 FNB Namibia UTs Money Mkt - R 100.00 Moment. Bal. - R 1.49 803.72 Moment. Best Bld Bal. FoF - B1 2.18 4876.47 Moment. Mfocus FoF - A 1.4 6392.28 Moment. Best Bld Stable FoF - B1 1.97 2672.64 Moment. Bond - A 0.89 154.72 Moment. Cap. Enhancer - A 1.5 190.46 Moment. Cons. - A 1.49 189.50 Moment. Diversified Inc. - B1 1.19 1472.60 Moment. Diversified Yield - A 1.19 112.63 Moment. Enh. Cau. Gr. Fof - A 1.83 2170.10 Moment. Enh. Diversified Gr. Fof- A 1.98 2748.58 Moment. Enh. Gr. FoF - A 99.61 Moment. Enh. Gr.+ FoF- A 2.03 4185.08 Moment. Enh. Stable Gr. FoF - A 100.02 Moment. Enh. Yield - A 0.58 89.06 Moment. Eqty - R 1.16 3824.72 Moment. Factor Eqty FoF - A 2.05 152.38 Moment. Fin.s - A 1.45 537.45 Moment. Flex. - A 1.83 542.24 Moment. Inc.+ - A 1.16 109.82 Moment. Industrial - A 1.8 1152.96 Moment. Infl. Lnk Bond - A 1.22 156.15 Moment. Inter. Bal. Fdr - A 2.51 340.90 Moment. Intl Cons. Fdr - A 1.89 216.22 Moment. Intl Eqty Fdr - A 1.89 385.35 Moment. Intl Inc. - A 1.1 127.80 Moment. Max. Inc. - A 0.88 108.16 Moment. Money Mkt - A 0.58 100.00 Moment. Optimal Yield - A 0.94 165.65 Moment. Positive Ret. - A 1.5 104.79 Moment. Rl Gr. Core Eqty - A 100.28

M 2.43 4.33 1.38 0.94 2.02 1.94 0.86 4.10 3.33 2.61 1.98 5.40 9.04 3.69 2.45 6.39 1.42 0.74 0.00 0.97 4.30 1.90 0.67 0.04 0.82 2.39 3.50 2.14 2.11 2.13 2.66 0.00 4.65 3.82 8.14 2.72 2.26 2.12 8.35 7.69 2.38 3.00 7.24 7.15 6.63 2.27 3.33 5.00 1.48 4.90 3.15 0.00 1.81 4.04 7.86 0.00 3.07 2.83 0.44 1.48 2.17 1.93 0.55 3.97 1.55 1.89 1.01 0.00 1.14 1.79 3.85 3.83 4.19 7.32 2.43 1.77 2.07 5.01 6.45 4.71 5.46 0.35 2.39 1.40 7.70 1.41 1.07 7.56 0.56 0.00 5.19 2.69 7.47 0.64 0.00 3.78 3.16 2.91 0.00 1.84 0.00 2.11 6.99 3.54 2.12 0.00 2.03 7.91 2.52 1.77 0.00 1.71 2.52 1.53 0.94 1.24 4.71 1.95 1.12 0.00 2.60 0.63 7.46 7.86 2.59 2.08 1.58 3.71 7.90 3.56 3.82 7.15 7.41 4.36 2.72 0.17 1.45 0.00 8.24 2.07 1.24 3.30 3.00 8.89 0.65 4.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.74 7.45 2.61 5.60 0.43

Moment. Rl Gr. Eqty - A 1.76 230.70 Moment. Rl Gr. Prop. - A 1.44 427.19 Moment. Rl Gr. Prop. Idx - A 105.38 Moment. Res. - A 1.8 1515.68 Moment. SA Def. Gr. - A 99.93 Moment. SA Flex. Fixed Int. - A 101.07 Moment. SA Rl Gr. Prop. - A 106.48 Moment. Small Mid-Cap - A 2.17 1069.85 Moment. SWIX Idx - A 0.59 98.52 Moment. Target Cau. Gr. FoF - A 99.28 Moment. Target Diversified Gr. FoF - A 99.48 Moment. Target Gr. FoF - A 99.65 Moment. Target Gr.+ FoF - A 99.17 Moment. Target Stable Gr. FoF - A 100.09 Moment. Top 40 Idx - A 0.62 644.70 Moment. Trending Eqty - A 100.27 Moment. Value Eqty - A 99.44 Moment. Value - A 1.56 751.94 RMI Spec. Mgr Money Mkt - A 0.44 100.00 RMI Spec. Mgr M Inc. - A 0.91 101.12 RMI Spec. Mgr Unconstr Fixed Int. - A 1.03 102.83 Nedgroup Collective Investments (RF) (Pty) Ltd.: Nedgrp Inv Bal. - A 1.59 971.36 Nedgrp Inv Bra. Wrld. Flex. - A 2 296.24 Nedgrp Inv Core Bond - A 0.44 147.05 Nedgrp Invest. Core Diversified - B 0.48 1909.96 Nedgrp Inv Core Gl. Fdr - A 0.81 965.42 Nedgrp Invest. Core Guarded - B 0.48 1493.48 Nedgrp Inv Core Inc. - B 0.59 99.82 Nedgrp Inv Entrepreneur - R 1.16 1695.48 Nedgrp Inv Fin.s - R 1.39 26729.02 Nedgrp Inv Flex. Inc. - A 0.93 1496.79 Nedgrp Inv Fundisa - A 0.13 117.14 Nedgrp Inv Gl. Cau. Fdr - A 1.56 2061.76 Nedgrp Inv Gl. Eqty Fdr - A 1.55 759.32 Nedgrp Inv Gl. Flex. Fdr - R 1.56 881.95 Nedgrp Inv Gl. Prop. Fdr - A 1.46 911.37 Nedgrp Inv Gr. - R 1.18 2388.17 Nedgrp Inv Mgd - R 1.28 366.22 Nedgrp Inv Min. & Res. - R 1.21 1374.77 Nedgrp Inv Money Mkt - R 0.59 100.00 Nedgrp Inv Opp. - A 1.64 4699.38 Nedgrp Invest. Pri. Wlth Eqty - A 1.1 6347.34 Nedgrp Invest. Prop. - A 1.16 176.50 Nedgrp Inv Rainmaker - A 1.74 12581.36 Nedgrp Inv Stable - A 1.24 173.89 Nedgrp Inv Value - R 1.16 5981.38 NewFunds (Pty) Ltd.: NewFunds Eqty Moment.

0.38 2970.00 NewFunds Govi 0.25 5531.00 NewFunds ILBI 0.35 6500.00 NewFunds MAPPSâ„¢ Gr. 0.15 2034.00 NewFunds MAPPSâ„¢ Protect 0.16 3506.00 NewFunds NewSA Idx 0.57 4725.00 NewFunds S&P GIVI SA Fin.s Idx 0.18 3911.00 NewFunds S&P GIVI SA Res. Idx 0.2 4056.00 NewFunds S&P GIVI SA Top 50 Idx 0.19 4570.00 NewFunds S&P GIVI SA Industrial Idx 0.21 6645.00 NewFunds Shariâ ™ah Top40 Idx 0.13 308.00 NewFunds SWIX 40 Idx 0.35 1640.00 NewFunds TRACI 3 Month Idx 0.23 2227.00 Novare Investments (Pty) Ltd.: Matrix NCIS Eqty - A 1.88 1090.75 Novare Cap. Pres. FoF - A1 1.16 1168.40 Novare Flex. - A1 1.35 987.07 Novare Wlth Accum. FoF - A1 1.33 1467.92 Novare Wrld. Eqty Fund - A1 997.74 Novare WW Flex. - A1 1.33 993.73 Novare Wrld. Flex. FoF - A1 1.42 1500.86 Oasis Crescent Management Company Ltd.: Oasis Bal. - D 1.69 567.02 Oasis Bal. Stable FoF - D 1.61 249.59 Oasis Bond - D 0.59 108.09 Oasis Cres. Bal. High Eqty FoF - D 1.58 166.86 Oasis Cres. Bal. Prog. FoF - D 1.62 252.08 Oasis Cres. Bal. Stable FoF - D 1.48 155.91 Oasis Cres. Eqty - D 1.61 1011.70 Oasis Cres. Inc. - A 0.66 120.12 Oasis Cres. Intl Bal Low Eq Fdr - D 2.15 86.74 Oasis Cres. Inter. Fdr - D 1.69 411.66 Oasis Cres. Intl Prop. Eqty Fdr - D 1.2 159.65 Oasis General Eqty - D 1.16 791.93 Oasis Inter. Fdr - D 1.79 403.08 Oasis Money Mkt - A 0.36 100.00 Oasis Prop. Eqty - D 1.15 545.17 Old Mutual Unit Trust Managers (RF) (Pty) Ltd.: Adviceworx OM Enh. Inc. FoF - B1 3.19 204.80 Adviceworx OM Infl. plus 2-3% FoF - B1 1.56 219.00 Adviceworx OM Infl.+ 3-4% FoF - B1 1.76 223.67 Adviceworx OM Infl. plus 4-5% FoF - B1 1.82 227.79 Adviceworx OM Infl. plus 5-7% FoF - B1 1.94 227.44 OM Albaraka Bal. - A 1.47 294.65 OM Albaraka Eqty - A 1.74 2044.64 OM Bal. - R 1.3 1509.62 OM Bond - R 0.89 341.56 OM Cap. Builder - A 1.53 251.09 OM Capped SWIX Idx - A 200.34 OM Core Cons. Fund - A 0.75 201.51 OM Core Diversified - A 0.85 209.04 OM Dyn. Floor - A 1.61 459.82 OM Fin. Serv. - R 1.17 1372.54 OM Flex. - R 1.31 1558.35 OM FTSE RAFIAWorld Idx Fdr - A 1.21 455.87 OM Gl. Bond Fdr - A 1.8 549.26 OM Gl. Cur. Fdr - A 0.87 333.41 OM Gl. Emerg. Mkt - A 2.76 420.42 OM Gl. Eqty - R 1.23 2516.23 OM Gold - R 1.19 624.50 OM Gr. - R 1.29 2731.17 OM High Yield Opp. - A 1.45 1601.98 OM Inc. - R 0.88 123.69 OM Industrial - A 1.46 2575.60 OM Int.+ - A 0.65 202.53 OM Intl Gr. FoF - A 2.63 526.84 OM Investors’ - R 1.16 39490.77 OM Mgd Alpha Eqty - A 1.44 9233.15 OM Max. Ret. FoF - A 1.81 306.34 OM Mid & Small Cap - R 1.17 1958.46 OM Min.&Res. - R 1.17 6178.43 OM Mod Bal. - A 1.97 207.63 OM Money Mkt - A 0.58 100.00 OM MM Aggr. Bal FoF - A 2.91 211.82 OM MM Bal. FoF - A 2.08 934.14 OM MM Cau. FoF - A 1.72 236.55 OM MM Def. FoF - A 2.01 655.42 OM MM Enh. Inc FoF - A 1.29 250.79 OM MM Eqty FoF - A 1.62 955.29 OM MM Max Ret. FoF - A 3.44 214.09 OM MM Money Mkt - A 0.61 100.00 OM Namibia Dyn. Floor 1.5 327.68 OM Namibia Enh Inc - A 1 410.38 OM Namibia Gr. - A 1 2066.16 OM Namibia Inc. 0.75 225.40 OM Namibia Mgd 1 947.48 OM Namibia Prop.

0.85 202.89 OM Namibia Rl Inc. - A 1.2 227.23 OM Nedbank Nam Corp - A 0.6 183.00 OM Nedbank Namibia Money Mkt 0.6 100.00 OM RAFI 40 Idx - A 0.9 320.61 OM Rl Inc. - A 1.42 278.73 OM SA Quoted Prop. - A 1.45 1010.99 OM Stable Gr. - A 1.65 298.77 OM Top 40 Idx - A 0.74 922.48 OM Top Cos - R 1.16 3047.84 Personal Trust International: Personal Trust Cons. Mgd - A 1.41 171.82 Personal Trust SA Eqty - A 1.49 163.14 Personal Trust Inc. - A 1.57 134.09 Personal Trust Mgd - A 1.44 207.00 Personal Trust Prudent FoF - A 2.12 400.71 Prescient Management Company Ltd. (PIM): 27four Ast Select Pres. FoF - A1 1.32 159.89 27four Bal. Pres. FoF - A1 1.24 2209.90 27four Gl. Eqty Pres. Fdr - A1 1.75 134.34 27four Shari’ah Act. Eqty Pres. - A1 1.77 222.96 27four Shari’ah Bal. Pres. FoF - A1 1.6 144.17 27four Shari’ah Inc. Pres. Fund - A1 101.16 27four Stable Pres. FoF - A1 1.19 1751.72 3 Laws Climate Change Eqty Pres. - A1 2.52 111.16 ABAX Gl. Eqty Pres. Fdr - A1 0.43 106.02 ACP Eqty Pres. Fund - A1 1.58 91.98 ACP Gl. Eqty Pres. Fdr Fund - A 1.63 100.71 Aeon Bal. Pres. - A1 1.14 138.16 Aeon Enh. Eqty Pres. - A1 0.74 179.50 Afena Eqty Pres. - A1 5.74 156.78 Afena MM Pres. - A1 1.02 100.00

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M 1.12 3.90 0.00 0.42 0.35 1.36 0.00 1.30 1.23 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.04 2.12 0.52 0.48 2.16 7.63 8.76 7.59 2.58 0.08 8.58 3.26 0.00 5.09 7.93 1.64 2.31 7.44 7.22 0.00 0.02 0.06 0.00 2.53 3.14 0.56 7.54 2.71 1.40 8.26 1.08 4.16 2.59 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.88 1.83 1.33 1.40 1.73 1.40 0.00 0.00 0.79 5.27 0.87 2.46 0.33 1.08 1.46 2.31 3.14 7.61 0.14 0.81 1.07 0.00 3.63 0.00 0.00 1.62 2.19 0.57 7.40 4.52 3.45 4.47 3.84 3.21 2.78 2.49 0.38 2.33 8.35 4.30 0.13 0.68 2.35 3.33 3.05 1.91 0.00 0.00 1.34 0.11 0.19 0.46 1.69 3.18 7.45 1.03 7.49 0.00 1.71 1.46 0.60 1.71 0.85 3.13 7.56 1.23 1.62 3.63 2.33 6.80 1.31 0.31 7.78 3.63 0.00 2.26 0.00 2.34 4.00 6.28 0.00 8.04 2.33 6.09 4.39 4.01 2.00 1.58 3.39 2.87 7.28 2.90 2.03 2.34 3.07 0.00 0.28 1.84 0.87 4.34 0.95 0.00 0.53 0.00 3.90 2.40 1.51 6.64

African Alliance Eqty Pres. - A1 1.05 8987.35 1.78 AfricanAlliance SA S&P GIVI Eqty Pres - A1 0.84 8981.14 1.91 Astbase CPI + 2% Pres. FoF - A1 1.18 102.19 4.78 Astbase CPI + 4% Pres. FoF - A1 1.23 100.18 3.50 Astbase CPI + 6% Pres. FoF - A1 1.4 97.15 2.14 Astbase Glb Flex Pres. FoF - A1 1.45 104.15 0.00 Aylett Bal. Pres. - A1 1.24 123.46 3.45 Aylett Eqty Pres. - A1 1.16 3144.30 2.04 Balondolozi Abs. Ret. Pres. - A1 1.36 102.37 5.04 Bateleur Flex. Pres. - A1 2.31 275.54 1.89 Bateleur Gl. Eqty Pres. Fdr - A1 2.19 124.42 0.00 ClucasGray Equilibrium Pres. - A1 0.89 114.23 4.16 ClucasGray Eqty Pres. - A1 1.85 187.29 2.51 ClucasGray Future Titans Pres. - A1 1.54 232.71 1.93 Cohesive Cap. Flex. Pres. - A1 2.07 120.37 1.83 Cohesive Cap. WW Flex. Pres. - A2 0.71 106.26 6.97 Cordatus Bal. Pres. FoF - A1 1.77 105.09 2.31 Cordatus Wrld. Flex. Pres. - A2 1.2 151.58 1.65 Cordatus Wrld. Flex. Pres. FoF - A2 2.33 142.30 1.28 EMH Pres. Bal. QtPlus - A1 121.53 0.00 EMH Pres. Inc. Prov. - A1 114.92 0.00 EMH Pres. Money Mkt - A1 100.00 7.15 Fairtree ALBI+ Pres. Fund - A1 99.69 1.13 Fairtree Bal. Pres. Fund - A1 1.92 99.69 0.00 Fairtree Flex. Inc.+ Pres. Fund - A 1.24 111.35 5.42 Fairtree Gl. Rl Est. Pres. Fund - A1 1.7 105.65 0.00 Fairtree Gl. Smart Beta Pres. Fund - A1 0.65 106.42 0.32 Green Oak Inc. Pres. - A1 0.59 103.13 8.13 Huysamer Eqty Pres. - A 1.7 1959.45 1.72 Huysamer Opp. Pres. - A1 2.63 1501.09 0.62 Integre Large Cap - A1 1.85 124.63 2.61 Integrity Eqty Pres. - A1 1.45 97.90 1.28 Long Beach Flex. Pres. - A1 2.61 326.76 0.00 Long Beach Mgd Pres. - A1 4.29 154.97 0.00 M1 Cap. Gl. Eqty Pres. - A1 3.72 99.93 0.00 M1Cap. Eqty Pres. - A1 1.6 112.16 1.21 Maestro Eqty Pres. - A 2.06 2976.41 0.43 Mergence Abs. Ret. Pres. - A1 1.4 120.48 3.42 Mergence CPI + 6% Pres. - A1 1.55 105.35 2.76 Mergence Eqty Pres. - A1 1.23 192.82 2.17 Mosaic Flex. Pres. Fund - A1 1.87 98.15 4.54 Prescient Abs. Bal. - A1 1.32 315.04 4.06 Prescient Abs. Def. - A2 101.29 0.00 Prescient Africa Eqty - A1 3.86 135.68 0.00 Prescient Africa Sustainable Eqty - A1 4.36 94.34 0.00 Prescient Bal. - A2 0.55 107.07 7.33 Prescient Bond QtPlus - A1 0.91 109.98 8.37 Prescient China Bal. Fdr - A1 4.58 214.15 0.00 Prescient Core Eqty - A2 0.41 106.62 1.89 Prescient Eqty Act. Qt - A1 1.23 2014.39 2.68 Prescient Eqty Defender - A1 1.55 112.66 6.09 Prescient Eqty Inc. - A1 1.31 132.93 3.05 Prescient Eqty Qt - A1 0.61 558.52 4.90 Prescient Flex. Fixed Int. - A2 0.6 104.54 5.50 Prescient Gl. Eqty Fdr - A1 2.28 206.56 0.00 Prescient Glb Inc Prov. Fdr - A1 1.4 261.44 0.00 Prescient Gl. Positive Ret. Fdr - A1 2.68 134.34 0.00 Prescient Inc. Prov. - A1 0.86 137.20 6.62 Prescient Living Planet - A1 1.59 141.35 2.50 Prescient Money Mkt - A 0.42 100.00 7.72 Prescient Positive Ret. QtPlus - A1 1.08 235.80 7.33 Prescient RECM Gl. Fdr - A 1.46 105.35 0.00 Prescient Stable Inc. - A1 0.86 102.29 7.27 Prescient Wlth Bal. FoF - A1 1.19 164.79 2.97 Prescient Yield QtPlus - A1 0.58 103.08 7.87 Seed Bal. - A1 1.9 188.44 2.55 Seed Eqty - A1 1.22 121.11 1.89 Seed Inc. - A1 1.28 104.36 6.54 Seed Stable - A1 1.85 139.62 3.75 Steyn Cap. Eqty Pres. - A1 1.49 95.30 1.22 Stylo Gl. Bond Pres. FoF - A1 1.31 96.97 0.21 Stylo Gl. Eqty Pres. FoF - A1 1.01 107.11 0.10 Stylo Gl. Rl Est. Pres. FoF - A1 0.87 97.60 1.27 Tower Cap. Core Inc Pres. - A1 1.23 101.97 6.81 Tower Cap. Eqty Pres. - A1 2.1 116.79 0.14 Prime Collective Investment Schemes Management Co: 10X Prime High Eqty - A 0.73 105.32 2.73 AlphaWlth Prime Small & Mid Cap - A 1.32 123.96 0.47 Corion Prime Gr. - A 1.61 109.03 1.32 Corion Prime Stable - A 1.23 106.86 4.16 Hollard Prime Dyn. Inc. - B 0.8 102.89 7.01 Hollard Prime Eqty - B 1.3 123.18 1.62 Hollard Prime Money Mkt - B 0.34 100.00 7.70 Hollard Prime Prop. - B 1.26 154.05 4.00 Hollard Prime Str. Assertive FoF - B 1.62 128.49 2.64 Hollard Prime Str. Bal. FoF - B 1.53 126.08 3.31 Hollard Prime Str. Def. FoF - B 1.61 120.97 4.15 Hollard Prime Yield-Plus - B 0.67 100.51 7.76 Lynx Prime CI Bal. FoF - A1 1.67 2825.97 1.96 Lynx Prime CI Cau. FoF - A1 1.49 1845.64 2.61 Lynx Prime CI Gl. Diversified FoF - A1 2.61 240.94 0.00 Lynx Prime CI Opp. FoF - A1 1.77 2825.26 0.33 Prime Bal. FoF - A 2.16 113.39 2.86 Prime Cabernet Stable FoF - A 2.18 146.89 4.50 Prime Eqty FoF - A 2.9 119.82 0.00 Prime Gl. Flex. FoF - A 2.44 129.48 0.00 Prime Inc.+ - A 0.54 101.07 7.82 Prime Mgd FoF - A 2.2 119.81 1.42 Prime Money Mkt - A 0.46 100.00 7.42 Prime Shiraz Prud. Aggr. FoF - A 2.48 210.50 2.07 Prime Stable FoF - A 2.09 106.98 4.80 Prime Target Ret. - A 2.14 128.70 2.10 Prime Wrld. Eqty Fund - A 99.09 0.00 Professional Provident Society Management Company: PPS Bal. FoF - A2 1.3 156.60 2.54 PPS Bal. Idx Trckr - A 0.91 103.99 2.63 PPS Cons. FoF - A2 1.13 145.98 4.29 PPS Enh. Yield - A2 0.37 101.13 8.29 PPS Eqty Fund - A2 1.22 166.05 1.66 PPS Flex. Inc. - A2 0.65 108.29 7.41 PPS Gl. Bal. FoF - A 2.37 106.86 0.00 PPS Mgd Flex. FoF - A2 1.48 190.58 1.28 PPS Mod. FoF - A2 1.27 170.62 3.16 Prudential Portfolio Managers Unit Trusts Ltd.: Prud. Bal. - A 1.58 617.02 2.63 Prud. Core Value - F 1.12 755.63 1.74 Prud. Dividend Max. - A 2.12 1191.48 0.78 Prud. Enh. Inc. - A 1.22 122.63 6.40 Prud. Enh. SA Prop. Trckr-A 0.76 300.68 5.04 Prud. Eqty - A 2.18 1238.11 0.90 Prud. Gl. Cau. Mgd FoF - A 1.93 225.71 0.00 Prud. Gl. High Yield Bond FoF - A 1.6 315.61 0.00 Prud. Gl. Value FoF - A 1.95 318.37 0.00 Prud. High Int. - A 0.64 100.43 7.68 Prud. High Yield Bond - A 0.89 125.46 8.37 Prud. Inc. - A 0.56 100.30 4.23 Prud. Infl.+ - A 1.57 371.69 2.55 Prud. Money Mkt - A 0.44 100.00 7.33 Prud. Namibian Bal. - A 188.24 2.65 Prud. Namibian Enh. Inc. - A 103.78 6.71 Prud. Namibian Infl.+ - A 0.6 260.60 3.51 Prud. Namibian Money Mkt - A 0.55 100.00 7.70 PSG Collective Investments (RF) Ltd.: PSG Bal. - A 1.73 6862.69 2.90 PSG Diversified Inc. - A 1.17 121.55 7.23 PSG Eqty - A 1.73 1102.29 0.64 PSG Flex. - A 2.01 519.87 1.59 PSG Gl. Eqty Fdr - A 2.4 226.41 0.00 PSG Gl. Flex. Fdr - A 2.07 180.51 0.00 PSG Inc. - A 0.87 102.77 8.14 PSG Money Mkt - A 0.6 100.00 7.37 PSG M-Management Bal. FoF - A 1.96 153.87 2.19 PSG M-Management Cau. FoF - A 1.94 158.54 2.04 PSG M-Management Eqty FoF - A 2.07 757.73 1.39 PSG M-Management For Flex. FoF - A 2.76 222.55 0.00 PSG M-Management Inc. FoF - A 1.59 175.17 6.26 PSG Stable - A 1.74 141.92 5.38 PSG Wlth Cre. FoF - A 2.63 3381.13 0.98 PSG Wlth Enh. Int. - A 0.84 100.53 7.31 PSG Wlth Gl. Cre. Fdr - A 2.62 170.81 0.00 PSG Wlth Gl. Mod. Fdr - A 2.85 251.11 0.00 PSG Wlth Inc. FoF - A 1.84 1222.73 6.05 PSG Wlth Mod. FoF - A 2.48 2941.44 1.62 PSG Wlth Pres. FoF - A 2.47 2070.86 2.99 RECM Collective Investments (Pty) Ltd.: RECM Bal. - A 3.26 120.52 1.95 RECM Eqty - B 1.3 2240.10 1.71 RECM Gl. Flex. - A 0.01 4293.24 1.80 RECM Money Mkt - A 0.19 100.00 7.53 Rezco Collective Investments Limited: Rezco Eqty - A 1.49 1145.74 3.30 Rezco Mgd+ - A 1.51 1909.16 3.34 Rezco Stable - A 1.23 997.04 4.25 Rezco Value Trend - A 1.46 5712.81 3.75 RMB CIS MANCO: Ashburton Government Infl. ETF 0.47 2051.68 2.75

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Ericsson in earnest bid to turn around fate This is about value creation and the long game – there’s no easy quick-fix Niclas Rolander ERICSSON yesterday cautioned that turning around the beleaguered phone-equipment maker would require even steeper cost cuts, testing the patience of investors who sent the stock tumbling the most this year.

Ericsson fell as much as 11 percent to 54 kronor (R84.25) in Stockholm after the company posted a second-quarter loss and warned that a faltering market amid technology shifts could cause as much as 5 billion kronor of operating income to evaporate over the next 12 months.

“We’re three months into the Borje Ekholm, chief executive of Ericsson, says tough market conditions warrant steeper cost cuts to turn around the beleaguered phone equipment maker and wants the company to improve its own efficiency.

PHOTO: BLOOMBERG strategy,” chief financial officer Carl Mellander said in an interview. “I think you should have patience because this is about value creation and the long game.

There is no quick fix, this is about strategic work and a repositioning of the company.”

Chief executive Borje Ekholm, who took the helm in January, is under pressure from activist investor Christer Gardell to deliver a speedy turnaround. His plan hinges on reducing costs and scaling back expansion plans that have not panned out, while refocusing on Ericsson’s core business of selling networking equipment ahead of the expected roll-out of 5G networks. Gardell’s fund Cevian has acquired a 6.5 percent stake in the company since March.

Accelerating “We are not satisfied with our underlying performance with continued declining sales and increasing losses,” Ekholm said yesterday. “In light of current market conditions, we are accel-

11%

The drop in Ericsson’s shares on the Stockholm stock exchange yesterday erating the planned actions to reduce costs.”

Ericsson’s closely watched adjusted gross margin shrank by 3.4 percentage points from a year earlier to 29.8 percent in the second quarter. The company swung to a net loss of 1 billion kronor from a profit of 1.59 billion kronor a year earlier.

The company said it would accelerate cost cuts over a previously set goal to achieve an annual run-rate reduction of at least 10 billion kronor by mid-2018.

Ekholm said Ericsson had identified 42 service contracts that the company would exit, renegotiate or transform. The company has hired banks to review a possible sale of its media holdings, people familiar with the matter said in June.

In 2016, Ericsson’s sales declined by 9.8 percent, and the company yesterday said it expected a “high single-digit percentage” drop in the market for radio access networks this year, a bigger fall than previously expected.

“There is a change in environment,” Ekholm said on a conference call. “We see a more challenging investment environment in Europe and Latin America. That’s clearly the market areas with the biggest impact. But the market conditions have been tough,” Ekholm said. “It’s quite clear that we need to improve our own efficiency.” – Bloomberg

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Ban on airline laptops lifted THE US Transportation Security Administration said on Monday it was lifting a ban on passengers on Saudi Arabian Airlines carrying large electronics such as laptops on US-bound flights, the last carrier under the restrictions. In March, US officials imposed restrictions on passengers carrying laptops and other large electronic gear in cabins on nine airlines, most of which were Middle Eastern carriers, to address the potential threat of hidden explosives. Last month, US officials announced new security requirements for all airlines, rather than an expansion of the laptop ban, and have been dropping the restrictions from airlines as they boosted security. On Thursday, the US Department of Homeland Security issued a revised directive to airlines around the world in response to requests that it clarify aviation security measures scheduled to begin taking effect later this week. An airline official briefed on the matter said the directive gave airlines more flexibility and additional time to obtain explosive trace detection equipment. The official was not authorised to discuss sensitive security issues with the media and requested anonymity. – Reuters

INDIA

Carrier plans labour buyouts AIR INDIA is drawing up a proposal to offer voluntary buyouts to just over a third of its 40 000 employees, a senior company official said, one of the largest such offers in India’s state sector, as the airline slashes costs ahead of next year’s sale. The official, who could not be named, said the state-owned airline had also put fleet expansion on hold, scrapping a proposal to lease eight Boeing 787 widebody aircraft. Air India’s board approved the proposal in April. However, nothing further had been done. India’s flag carrier is on the block after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet last month approved plans to privatise the loss-making airline. Founded in the 1930s, Air India has a complex fleet, there are too many staff relative to rivals and the airline is $8.5 billion (R110bn) in debt. Since 2012, the Indian government has injected roughly $3.6bn to keep the carrier afloat. – Reuters

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EOPLE drawing cash at an ATM in the Texas town of Corpus Christi were astonished to get handwritten notes through the receipt slot, asking for help.

One read: “Please help.

I’m stuck in here and I don’t have my phone. Please call my boss.”

They chuckled. Here was a bank with a sense of humour.

But then a customer realised there was something fishy. Banks don’t have a sense of humour. He called the police.

The cops arrived and heard a faint voice calling from inside the ATM, Sky News said.

Investigating further, it turned out a locksmith was trapped in the ATM, where he had been changing a lock from it to the room behind.

He had left his cellphone and the swipe card that could have got him out in his truck outside.

The cops fell about

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Beetle art

Clutchie Nightingale at the Traditional Schools Luncheon at Salt Rock, to settle a wager over Kearsney versus Maritzburg College.

I wonder if Sars would allow it as tax deductible?

Graham Linscott mercidler@inl.co.za

Skinny dipping HUNDREDS of Finns took to the water starkers at a spot east of Helsinki the other day in a bid to break the world record for the biggest naked swim.

They numbered 789, which breaks the previous record set in Australia by a narrow margin of three.

They are waiting for ratification by Guinness World Records, Huffington Post said.

Well done to those feisty Finns.

But of course it’s nothing compared with the grand splash made once a year down at Mpenjati nudist beach, on the south coast, by the Philosophy Circle of the Street Shelter for the Over-Forties – though we leave Guinness World Records out of it. Our members are most shy and reticent.

A couple take pictures at a lavender field in Kuyucak Village, near Isparta province, Turkey.

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laughing. Then they got him freed. His name has not been released.

“The guy has suffered enough,” a cop said.

Next week: “Locksmith trapped in bottle store.”

Following week: “Locksmith trapped in house of ill repute.”

Iceberg approaches A MASSIVE iceberg – by the sound of it, about the size of KwaZulu-Natal – has broken free from Antarctica and is drifting in the Southern Ocean. Nobody has any idea where it will go. It will take many years to melt.

What if it should catch currents that take it up the east coast of Africa? It might then drift ashore at Durban, becoming a part of the Bluff.

The abominable Bluffman becomes the abominable snowman.

Suddenly we would have bob-sledding and ice hockey besides rugby, cricket and football. Our lives could be transformed and enriched.

Look out for penguins in the surf at Addington beach – that means the iceberg is approaching.

There’s already a chill in the air.

Rugby typo OUCH! What a horror typo!

Keith Parkinson, former president of the Natal Rugby Union, points out that Natal won the Currie Cup for the first time in 1990, not 1980 as I said on Monday.

Mea culpa! And I was there at Loftus. Tony Watson dotted down that winning try right in front of me.

No doubt I will be punished by a round of drinks at the rugby get-together Parky has once a month.

Rugby is getting expensive.

Next month I have to give a sixpack of beers to Zululander

SPIKE, a stag beetle from Japan, is capturing the hearts and minds of people around the world with his original drawings.

A stag beetle seems to be like our rhino beetle.

Spike and his owner, an English teacher named Mandy, skyrocketed to internet fame this week.

Mandy said she had been experimenting with the kinds of thing Spike could grasp with his strong mandibles when she gave him a marker.

He then proceeded to draw.

His art was so popular on the internet, she put some of it up for sale on e-Bay, where the top bid was $150 (R1 942).

Stag beetles are popular pets in Japan, where Mandy is teaching..

Tailpiece “WOULD you like to dance?”

“I don’t like this music and even if I did, you’d be the last person I want to dance with.”

“I’m sorry, you must have misheard me. I said you look fat in that dress.”

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The company markets the security robot as better than real guards in part because it never gets bored. But it appears to have looked to put an end to that work and has driven into a pond.

Pictures from the Georgetown Waterfront – the shopping centre and office complex where the robot worked – show staff

looking to decide how best to fish it out.

The Knightscope security robot, which looks like a rounded Dalek, is a cheap way of patrolling sensitive and public areas. It costs only $7 (R90) an hour to rent out.

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KEEPING YOU ON THE RIGHT TRACK

Howells in the lead ANDREW HARRISON DELIRIOUS NOMAD Picture: Nkosi Hlophe

HE battle for the KZN Champion Trainer’s title offers punters an opportunity to cash in with two trainers locked neck-and-neck for the championship.

It’s down to the wire and with just five meetings left to the end of the current season it is still touch-and-go between Duncan Howells and defending champion Dennis Drier.

The title is decided by number of wins in the province and Howells currently leads on 68 with Drier a close second on 64.

Third on 56 wins is Dean Kannemeyer.

With both trainers all-out to increase their winning tally punters can be assured that each of their runners will be revving at maximum for the next fortnight.

The pair saddle eight runners each at Greyville today, including a couple of reserves, which adds some needle to the afternoon’s events.

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Bad Attitude Howells does not have a runner in the card opener but the rumour mill has been grinding that Drier has a smart first timer in Bad Attitude that will be ridden by Anton Marcus for Mayfair Speculators.

However, the gelding will need to be all of what is expected as he faces a few form runners in the likes of Paul Gadsby’s colt Lucius Fox, Northern Rebel from Mark Dixon’s yard and two first timers from strong stables in Twister Vortex and Bobby Shafto

from Sean Tarry and Johan Janse van Vuuren respectively.

Both have runners in the second where Drier saddles Blazing Heart who has been showing signs of coming to hand and races in pacifiers for the first time.

The Howells-trained Steve Rubell found some market support on debut

(12.35) - DOWNLOAD THE tabGOLD INFORMATION APP MAIDEN of R85000 over 1000m 1PLATE 1st Leg Bipot 4N10-0.4 8N12-5.7 6N14-10.5 4N12-1.4

2D12-4.8

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BARBARELLA NIGHTS* 3g (G H Van Zyl)B Fayd’Herbe THE REFORMATION* 3g (C Eudey) . . . . . . . . . .M Ntuli LAND OF THE GODS* 3g (D S Bosch) . . . . . .A Forbes ROYAL BODYGUARD* 5g (D Egdes) . . . . . . . .S Brown TWISTER VORTEX 3g (S G Tarry) . . . . . . .E S Ngwane* MERMAID SIREN* 3f (C Laird) . . . . . . . . . . . .T Godden BAD ATTITUDE 2g (D R Drier) . . . . . . . . . . . . .A Marcus BOBBY SHAFTO 2g (J J van Vuuren) . . . . .D Mansour LUCIUS FOX 2c (P M Gadsby) . . . . . . . . . . .A Delpech MARCH PREVIEW 2g (G B Puller) . . . . . . . .A Mgudlwa NORTHERN REBEL 2g (M Dixon) . . . . . . . . .K de Melo RIVER OF JANUARY 2c (D R Drier) . . . . . . . . . .S Veale PLAY THE LAFF (AUS)* 3g (P V Lafferty) . . .Reserve 1

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RESTED - Barbarella Nights (49 days); The Reformation (49 days); Land Of The Gods (73 days); Royal Bodyguard (49 days); Mermaid Siren (56 days); Lucius Fox (60 days); March Preview (80 days); Northern Rebel (49 days); Play The Laff (60 days) FORECAST: No betting available.

SPEED RATINGS: LAST RUN : Northern Rebel -0.20; Barbarella Nights -0.77; Royal Bodyguard -1.57; The Reformation -2.05 BEST AVERAGE : Northern Rebel -0.61; Barbarella Nights -1.02 BEST TIME : Northern Rebel -0.20; Barbarella Nights -0.77 PREVIEW: LUCIUS FOX made a smart debut. He has a good draw and should come on from that debut effort.

NORTHERN REBEL has been knocking at the door. He was a narrowly beaten favourite first up on the poly and can do better over this shorter trip. BARBARELLA NIGHTS has improved in blinkers and his two best recent efforts have been over course and distance which puts him in with a decent chance. Anton Marcus has chosen debutante BAD ATTITUDE over two other possible rides so is one to watch in the market. (Andrew Harrison: 9-11-1-7).

RICHARD MCMILLAN’S TIME RATINGS: (11) Northern Rebel (1) Barbarella Nights (6) Mermaid Siren

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TURF CONQUEROR 3g (P V Lafferty) . .D De Gouveia* RATSO RIZZO 3g (C Laird) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S Moodley* SHERMAN 3g (N I Van Wyk) . . . . . . . . . . .B Fayd’Herbe CHILLI AFFAIR 5g (A Wright) . . . . . . . . . . . .A Mgudlwa WINTER MARCHEN* 4g (W A Nel) . . . . . . . . .G Wright BAYON 3g (W Whitehead) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S Randolph O’REILLY 3g (A J Rivalland) . . . . . . . . . . . . .W Kennedy STEVE RUBELL 3g (D C Howells) . . . . . . . . .K de Melo BADAWEE 2c (D Kannemeyer) . . . . . . . . . . .A Delpech BLAZING HEART! 2g (D R Drier) . . . . . . . . . .I Sturgeon MAJESTIC MOON 2g (P M Gadsby) . . . . . . .D L Habib VERISIMILITUDE* 2c (C Laird) . . . . . . . . . . . .T Godden CLUBHOUSE 3c (N I Van Wyk) . . . . . . . . . . . .Reserve 1 BRAZEN BOY* 3c (C Eudey) . . . . . . . . . . . . .Reserve 2 MR MCHARDY 3g (D Egdes) . . . . . . . . . . . . .Reserve 3

although he has drawn one outside of Steve Rubell in Marriott Road.

The Big Chill does duty for Drier in the third and Roy’s Hollyhock for Howells and with the scratching of the likely short-priced favourite, Torrey Pines (coughing), the contest between the two becomes that much more relevant.

- ALL TO COME MAIDEN PLATE (F & M) of R85000 over 1600m - LIGHTNING SHOT BAR MR 75 HANDICAP of R80000 over 1st Leg Pick 6 1400m 3(13.45) 5(14.55)

GREYVILLE POLY WEDNESDAY

5T11-9.8 2N10-0.8 7N14-8.8 6N10-2.3

but it was over a year before he made another racecourse appearance. It was a modest effort on the poly but there may be big improvement to come. He could pay to follow in the betting.

However, Kannemeyer’s colt Badawee has more obvious credentials and could upstage them both

Roy’s Zara and Victory Cross will do duty for Howells in the fourth, both in with chances as is Queens Chapel for Drier whose two best recent efforts have been on the poly.

Howells has a bye in the fifth but Drier sends out Delirious Nomad, a winner of his last start and improved in blinkers.

He takes on stronger here where Master Of Mischief is over his favourite course and distance and could make it home for Wendy Whitehead in what is an open affair.

Hallowed Spring (Drier) and Mythical Magic (Howells) are a possible exacta proposition in the sixth, the two drawn alongside each other with two lengths separating them when last they met, Hallowed Spring going the better.

However, Roy Is Second could upset this prediction.

She is re-united with Anthony Delpech after contesting the KZN Breeders Levelling the Playing fields series and although a little up in class she goes very well over course and distance for Delpech and Alyson Wright.

Roy’s Regis rounds off the day’s contest for the two championship rivals and could add to a possible good day for owner Roy Moodley who has a number of runners in with strong winning chances. The Australian import won really well first up on the poly track and may have too much fire power for his older rivals who are a fairly average bunch. Roy’s Regis along with Torrey Pines could prove a lucrative double on the day.

61 60 57 56 53 50 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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B - Blazing Heart; Verisimilitude; Brazen Boy RESTED - Bayon (103 days); O’Reilly (42 days); Mr Mchardy (42 days) FORECAST: No betting available.

SPEED RATINGS: LAST RUN : Ratso Rizzo 0.66; Sherman 0.62; Turf Conqueror -0.87; Blazing Heart -0.96 BEST AVERAGE : Turf Conqueror -0.67; Sherman -1.07 BEST TIME : Turf Conqueror 0.66; Ratso Rizzo 0.66 PREVIEW: BADAWEE has a tricky draw to overcome but he has shown some ability and meets a fairly modest field.

He could prove a tough too good. WINTER MARCHEN has also drawn on Marriott Road but has shown recent improvement. He could enjoy the drop in trip. CHILLI AFFAIR can do better than his last effort from a wide draw. He has been consistent. (Andrew Harrison: 9-5-4-1).

RICHARD MCMILLAN’S TIME RATINGS: (1) Turf Conqueror (2) Ratso Rizzo (3) Sherman

2N16-3.0 2D16-1.5 8N14-8.7 5N16-5.5 7N12-7.8 8S19-10.5 8N16-8.9 8S10-7.9 5S10-12.3

2N14-2.5 7S16-3.6 4N16-4.0 8S16-10.5 4D16-3.3 0S12-9.9 9N16-8.5 5D14-4.5 8D12-4.7 5D10-8.8

3S16-2.2 1 -10 2S16-1.8 2 -8 4S20-2.8 3 -5 3N16-2.2 4 -2 4N14-4.0 5 -13 5S16-5.8 6 -12 3S16-2.5 7 -3 3D12-1.3 8 -9 9N14-10.0 9 -15 0S10-7.5 10 -6 2N12-4.2 11 -1 8S12-4.0 12 -14 9N10-8.1 13 -4 0S10-12.8 14 -11 6t12-12.6 9V10-10.3 8T14-5.0 15 -7

POMONA 3f (C Laird) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A Marcus ROY’S HOLLYHOCK (AUS) 3f (D C Howells)A Delpech FRENCH TOAST 3f (P L Lunn) . . . . . . . . . . .W Kennedy ALESNADO 4f (W A Nel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .G Wright SHRIKE* 4f (D Egdes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S Brown STREETS OF GOLD 4f (K Naidoo) . . . . . . . . .T Godden DOCTORS ANSWER* 2f (K Naidoo) . . . . . .S Moodley* EXQUISITE EIGHT 2f (P V Lafferty) . . . .D De Gouveia* PURDEY 2f (L Forbes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A Forbes THE BIG CHILL 2f (D R Drier) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S Veale TORREY PINES 2f (J J van Vuuren) . . . . .SCRATCHED YESS (AUS) 2f (J Ramsden) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M Winnaar GOT YOUR BACK 3f (D S Bosch) . . . . . . . . .I Sturgeon CHICA MUSICA 2f (D C Howells) . . . . . . . . . .Reserve 2 MAGICAL CHARM 2f (J J van Vuuren) . . . . .Reserve 3

64 62 53 52 51 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

60.0 60.0 60.0 60.0 60.0 60.0 56.0 56.0 56.0 56.0 56.0 56.0 60.0 56.0 56.0

B - Purdey RESTED - Alesnado (49 days); Shrike (56 days); Exquisite Eight (87 days); Chica Musica (42 days) FORECAST: 5-1 Pomona, Roy’s Hollyhock, 6-1 Exquisite Eight, Yess, 8-1 Doctors Answer, 16-1 French Toast, 20-1 and upwards others SPEED RATINGS: LAST RUN : French Toast -0.24; Doctors Answer -1.35; Alesnado -1.36 BEST AVERAGE : Pomona -1.73 BEST TIME : French Toast -0.24 PREVIEW: There should be very little between POMONA and ROY’S HOLLYHOCK judged on their last showing. The latter is not all that consistent but can go one better. THE BIG CHILL has found market support in both sprints and can improve over this trip. She is one to watch. (Andrew Harrison: 11-1-2-10).

RICHARD MCMILLAN’S TIME RATINGS: (11) Torrey Pines (1) Pomona (4) Alesnado

- RACING. IT’S A RUSH MAIDEN PLATE (F & M) of R85000 over 2000m 1st Leg Jackpot 4(14.20)

2N20-2.0 4S19-6.8 5S19-7.0 0S19-15.8 2N14-3.0 5S19-7.0 0D12-8.2 7N19-3.8 2N20-1.8 0D14-16.8

3N16-4.2 4N20-6.5 3N20-5.2 6N16-6.2 7S16-5.5 5N16-6.2 0S10-11.8 2N20-2.0 8N20-25.8 7N14-8.0 7S12-8.5 9S12-9.2 6S16-6.0 0S19-19.5 7N20-13.3 5N16-9.4 4S16-2.5 7N20-5.8 9N16-9.2

6S16-3.8 1 -10 2S20-1.8 2 -1 0S20-10.0 3 -3 8S16-5.8 4 -9 8S14-12.2 5 -15 8S20-9.0 6 -8 8S16-7.8 7 -2 5N20-6.6 8 -7 6S20-6.5 9 -13 4S16-3.0 10 -14 0N16-12.5 11 -12 7S14-11.5 12 -4 0S16-15.2 13 -6 4S16-2.2 14 -11 9S20-9.5 15 -5

FONTEYN 3f (Y Govender) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M Byleveld 58 60.0 VICTORY CROSS 3f (D C Howells) . . . . . . . .K de Melo 56 60.0 QUEENS CHAPEL 3f (D R Drier) . . . . . . . . . . . .S Veale 54 60.0 MISS FERRIS 3f (J G Dittmer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S Brown 53 60.0 LIBERTY MARKET 4f (P L Lunn) . . . . . . . . .W Kennedy 52 60.0 RAPUNZEL 3f (M Dixon) . . . . . . . . . . . .* D De Gouveia 51 60.0 HONEYMOON COVE* 3f (C Eudey) . . . . . . . .K Sakayi* 49 60.0 PALACE MYSTERY* 4f (D I Campbell) . . . .S Moodley* 49 60.0 MPHUMI 6m (L Denysschen) . . . . . . . . . . . . .D L Habib 47 60.0 ROY’S ZARA (AUS) 2f (D C Howells) . . . . . .A Delpech 0 55.0 SERAPHIC 2f (C Laird) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C Bantam* 0 55.0 TOO FREE TOO 2f (M D Miller) . . . . . . . . . . . .A Forbes 0 55.0 MADAME BUTTERFLY 3f (N I Van Wyk) . . . .Reserve 1 31 60.0 ROY’S KAITRINA 3f (D C Howells) . . . . . . . .Reserve 2 61 60.0 AMBERCROMBIE 3f (F Robinson) . . . . . . . . .Reserve 3 45 60.0

B - Queens Chapel; Rapunzel RESTED - Palace Mystery (61 days); Seraphic (49 days) FORECAST: 5-2 Roy’s Zara, 4-1 Fonteyn, Victory Cross, 6-1 Queens Chapel, 8-1 Palace Mystery, 14-1 Mphumi, Seraphic, Too Free Too, 16-1 Miss Ferris, Liberty Market, 20-1 and upwards others SPEED RATINGS: LAST RUN : Victory Cross -0.06; Mphumi -0.92; Roy’s Kaitrina -1.35; Rapunzel -1.37 BEST AVERAGE : Roy’s Kaitrina -1.56; Fonteyn -2.15 BEST TIME : Victory Cross -0.06; Mphumi -0.92 PREVIEW: ROY’S ZARA has come on with each outing and can improve even more over this trip. Stable companion VICTORY CROSS has been a touch disappointing but was close-up last start and has a strong chance in this field.

SERAPHIC found betting support last run but made no show. She looks capable of better. FONTEYN has been consistent and can finish in the money again. (Andrew Harrison: 10-2-11-1).

RICHARD MCMILLAN’S TIME RATINGS: (2) Victory Cross (14) Roy’s Kaitrina (1) Fonteyn Although every effort is made to carry the correct information, Independent Newspapers does not warrant that the information as printed is correct and consequently it does not accept any responsibility or liability from any errors NM_RAC_E2_190717 P01 and/or omissions in the information carried.

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7S16-13.6 6N12-2.8 5N12-3.1 0S14-6.1 4N14-2.0 1N16-3.0 0D12-4.5 7N14-4.8 4N19-2.0 6N12-3.8 5N18-5.7 3S16-2.9 9S12-5.4 9S12-6.4

9N16-5.4 1 -5 3N12-2.5 2 -2 2N14-0.5 3 -14 5N14-2.1 4 -4 2N14-0.1 5 -12 7S16-7.8 6 -7 6D14-2.5 7 -10 1N14-2.8 8 -8 1N16-0.2 9 -3 4N10-3.1 10 -13 3N14-5.5 11 -6 9D14-4.0 12 -1 4D16-5.0 13 -11 0N14-15.1 14 -9

CAT IN COMMAND 6g (P L Lunn) . . . . . . .S Randolph 75 VAR DU BOIS 4g (D I Campbell) . . . . . . . . . . .A Forbes 75 KING DJANGO 4c (D S Bosch) . . . . . . . . . . .A Delpech 74 LONELY ARETHEBRAVE 5g (S G Tarry) . . . .A Marcus 72 MASTER OF MISCHIEF* 4g (W Whitehead)B Fayd’Herbe 71 DANCE OFF 3g (W A Nel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .G Wright 71 PUTCHINI 5g (N I Van Wyk) . . . . . . . . . . . . .B Jacobson 69 KINGS EMPIRE 3g (D Egdes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S Brown 70 DELIRIOUS NOMAD* 4g (D R Drier) . . . . . . . . .S Veale 68 NAPOLI 4g (A Wright) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .T Godden 68 UNCLE JB 3g (A Wright) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A Mgudlwa 69 CIPHER* 3g (G B Puller) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .M Ntuli 67 VERY VARY 3g (A Wright) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Reserve 1 66 LET’S GO WEST 5g (M Dixon) . . . . . . . . . . . .Reserve 2 64

60.0 60.0 59.5 58.5 58.0 57.0 57.0 56.5 56.5 56.5 56.0 55.0 54.5 54.5

C/D - Master Of Mischief; Putchini; Kings Empire; Let’s Go West RESTED - Master Of Mischief (122 days); Dance Off (60 days); Kings Empire (56 days); Delirious Nomad (82 days); Napoli (46 days); Uncle Jb (56 days); Very Vary (101 days); Let’s Go West (56 days) FORECAST: 5-1 Lonely Arethebrave, Dance Off, 6-1 Var Du Bois, King Django, 7-1 Master Of Mischief, Uncle Jb, 81 Delirious Nomad, 10-1 Cat In Command, 14-1 Kings Empire, Napoli, 20-1 and upwards other SPEED RATINGS: LAST RUN : King Django 1.07; Delirious Nomad 0.96; Cat In Command 0.27; Var Du Bois 0.02 BEST AVERAGE : King Django 0.32; Putchini -0.11 BEST TIME : King Django 1.07; Delirious Nomad 0.96 PREVIEW: Wide open. MASTER OF MISCHIEF failed narrowly over course and distance last time out. He has been in good form and can go one better. KING DJANGO has been knocking at the door and can go one better in this company. VAR DU BOIS was having his first run after a lengthy break last time out. He has some useful form to his credit and jumps from a good draw. CAT IN COMMAND is struggling for his next win but is down in the handicap and could be competitive again. (Andrew Harrison: 5-3-2-1).

RICHARD MCMILLAN’S TIME RATINGS: (3) King Django (4) Lonely Arethebrave (9) Delirious Nomad

6(15.30) - SOCCER 13 FM 69 HANDICAP (F & M) of R80000 over 1400m

0D12-11.5 1N14-0.2 8S12-4.2 3N16-1.0 3N16-0.5 4S16-2.8 8N14-7.2 4S16-6.8 4N14-1.2 2N14-2.8 8N16-3.6 9S16-6.7 7S10-6.2 1S12-2.0 7N14-5.4

9N10-7.2 1N12-0.8 0N14-5.7 5N16-2.4 7S12-6.0 2N14-1.2 1N16-2.0 1N14-1.0 7N16-5.4 5N14-8.0 0S12-14.8 0S12-6.5 1N14-3.0 0S12-99.0 0N14-16.1

0S12-7.5 1 -6 4N14-1.9 2 -7 2N14-0.8 3 -12 5N16-3.1 4 -2 5S16-5.6 5 -3 1S14-4.2 6 -4 8S16-6.5 7 -13 0N12-12.5 8 -10 4N14-2.1 9 -1 0S12-5.0 10 -11 0D14-6.1 11 -5 9S16-3.2 12 -8 8N12-5.3 13 -9 0S12-9.4 14 -14 8N14-28.5 15 -15

SHEBANG 3f (P V Lafferty) . . . . . . . . . . .D De Gouveia* NOODLE 4f (A J Rivalland) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A Marcus JUST RAP 4f (D Egdes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S Brown HALLOWED SPRING 3f (D R Drier) . . . . . . . . . .S Veale ROY IS SECOND 3f (A Wright) . . . . . . . . . . . .A Delpech DUNDRUM 5m (M Dixon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .I Sturgeon CELESTIAL GOLD! 3f (L Crawford) . . . . . .B Jacobson SPACE NEEDLE 3f (W A Nel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .G Wright MYTHICAL MAGIC 4f (D C Howells) . . . . . . .K de Melo POWER HORSE* 4f (W Whitehead) . . . . . . .S Moodley* EARHART 3f (J G Dittmer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A Forbes NORTHERN STORM 3f (K Naidoo) . . . . . . .W Kennedy GORGEOUS GUEST 3f (A Wright) . . . . . . . . .Reserve 1 SPIRITOFADVENTURE 3f (M Dixon) . . . . . . .Reserve 2 ROY’S RAKARA* 4f (K Naidoo) . . . . . . . . . . .Reserve 3

71 68 67 68 67 65 66 65 63 58 59 55 65 65 62

60.0 59.5 59.0 58.5 58.0 58.0 57.5 57.0 57.0 54.5 54.0 52.0 57.0 57.0 56.5

C/D - Noodle; Just Rap; Roy Is Second; Space Needle; Power Horse; Earhart; Gorgeous Guest; Roy’s Rakara RESTED - Noodle (56 days); Just Rap (56 days); Hallowed Spring (49 days); Roy Is Second (53 days); Space Needle (46 days); Gorgeous Guest (46 days); Spiritofadventure (115 days); Roy’s Rakara (119 days) N/A - Celestial Gold FORECAST: 4-1 Noodle, Just Rap, 5-1 Mythical Magic, 6-1 Hallowed Spring, 8-1 Roy Is Second, 12-1 Dundrum, Celestial Gold, 14-1 Space Needle, 16-1 Power Horse, Northern Storm, 20-1 and upwards others SPEED RATINGS: LAST RUN : Hallowed Spring 0.85; Dundrum 0.30; Roy Is Second -0.50; Celestial Gold -0.93 BEST AVERAGE : Hallowed Spring 0.00; Roy Is Second -0.66 BEST TIME : Hallowed Spring 0.85; Mythical Magic 0.39 PREVIEW: Open. MYTHICAL MAGIC has her third run after a break. She found good market support last run and looks primed for this event. ROY IS SECOND is much better than her last two on the turf, her best recent form over course and distance. NOODLE is in good form and goes well on the poly. She should be thereabouts. JUST RAP was a close-up second last start but has drawn wider her that could count against her. (Andrew Harrison: 9-5-2-3).

RICHARD MCMILLAN’S TIME RATINGS: (5) Roy Is Second (6) Dundrum (4) Hallowed Spring

Gala dinner kicks off Festival of Racing THE Gold Cup Festival of Racing, a first for South Africa, takes place over two days, Saturday and Sunday next week, July 29-30.

The Saturday sees the running of the Grade 1 World Sports Betting Champions Cup and eight other races and Sunday the running of the Grade 3 eLAN Gold Cup supported by two Grade 1 juvenile features, the Premiers Champion Juvenile Stakes and the Thekwini Stakes on a 10-race card.

All of these races could influence the outcome of the Equus Awards, horseracing’s equivalent of the Oscars that will be announced on Tuesday, August 15.

Grand finale The two-day festival of racing is the grand finale to the current horseracing season that officially ends on Monday, July 31.

The festival kicks off with an exciting Gala Dinner in the Silver Ring Room at Greyville Racecourse on Thursday evening ,27 July 2017.

“The Gala Dinner launches the inaugural Racing Festival in style,” says Gold Circle’s Marketing Executive Graeme Hawkins.

“The evening promises to be a great mix of good food; good wine, excellent entertainment and a wonderful opportunity for guests to mingle with Celebrities and sporting heroes across the spectrum,” he added.

Mallett Guest speakers will be former Springbok and Springbok coach Nick Mallett, former Bafana Bafana star Delron Buckley and current Comrades Marathan Champion Bongmusa Mthembu while celebrated artist Aaron McIlroy will provide the entertainment.

The 3-course buffet dinner will include wine and malt and additional entertainment will be provided by the Break-Thru Dance Company, with horseracing’s own “funny man” Paul Lafferty acting as MC. For bookings and further information please contact Nosipho Hadebe on 031 573 2682 or nhadebe@prosportinternational.com

- TRACK & BALL GAMING MR 62 HANDICAP of R62000 over 1400m 7(16.05)

1N12-0.5 2N16-1.2 0N14-6.1 2D14-0.5 3N16-3.5 0S12-10.9 7N12-5.7 7N12-3.7 8D12-9.0 6S14-3.8 3S17-3.2 3N12-1.5 5N12-3.6 0D16-4.2 0N16-5.9

4N12-1.5 8N16-8.6 0S16-8.2 1N16-0.1 2N16-0.2 5S14-4.0 0N16-9.3 2N12-1.0 0S12-9.9 5D12-4.9 1S14-0.2 0D12-4.0 2N12-0.2 7N14-5.5 6S12-8.0

5N12-1.1 1 -1 0N16-15.2 2 -14 0N16-6.0 3 -15 0S16-11.5 4 -7 0N16-7.7 5 -9 0D14-11.1 6 -2 0N12-5.5 7 -4 8N12-3.7 8 -10 1N12-1.8 9 -5 1N14-0.2 10 -3 4S16-5.8 11 -8 9N12-4.8 12 -13 4S12-3.8 13 -12 7N12-2.6 14 -6 0N14-5.5 15 -11

AZNERAK 4f (D S Bosch) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A Delpech 62 60.0 JOSHUA’S ANSWER 4g (L Forbes) . . . . . . .S Moodley* 62 60.0 SILVER INSPIRATION* 5m (N I Van Wyk) . .W Kennedy 62 60.0 CUPKING 3g (P V Lafferty) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .K Sakayi* 63 59.5 SECRET SUCCESS* 4g (G/K Anthony) . . . . . .A Forbes 61 59.5 ROYAL EXPLORER 2g (M D Miller) . . . . .B Fayd’Herbe 78 59.0 HOUSE HUNTER 3g (M L Roberts) . . . . . . .C Bantam* 62 59.0 SPECIAL ENCOUNTER 5g (A Wright) . . . . .A Mgudlwa 60 59.0 ROY’S REGIS (AUS) 2c (D C Howells) . . . . .K de Melo 76 58.0 GOLD CHALICE 3g (D R Drier) . . . . . . . .D De Gouveia* 60 58.0 JUST POSITIVE* 4g (D Egdes) . . . . . . . . . . . . .S Brown 57 57.5 SINGH IS KING 4g (K Naidoo) . . . . . . . . . . . . .J Samuel 56 57.0 SILVER CENT 4g (L Crawford) . . . . . . . . . . . .Reserve 1 54 56.0 MOGOKITY* 5m (M Dixon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Reserve 2 51 54.5 KOLINSKY (NZ) 4g (A J Rivalland) . . . . . . . . .Reserve 3 51 54.5

C/D - Joshua’s Answer; Silver Inspiration; Secret Success; Gold Chalice; Mogokity; Kolinsky B - Kolinsky RESTED - Aznerak (46 days); Joshua’s Answer (82 days); Cupking (143 days); House Hunter (46 days); Special Encounter (46 days); Just Positive (60 days); Silver Cent (77 days); Mogokity (172 days); Kolinsky (257 days) FORECAST: 3-1 Roy’s Regis, 6-1 Aznerak, 7-1 Secret Success, Royal Explorer, 12-1 Special Encounter, Gold Chalice, Just Positive, 14-1 Joshua’s Answer, 20-1 and upwards others SPEED RATINGS: LAST RUN : Secret Success 0.32; Aznerak -0.42; Silver Cent -0.56; Roy’s Regis -0.67 BEST AVERAGE : Secret Success 0.38; Joshua’s Answer -0.37 BEST TIME : Cupking 1.08; Secret Success 0.64 PREVIEW: ROY’S REGIS made marked improvement when tried with a tongue-tie and making his poly debut. He could still be well below the handicapper’s radar and can follow up. ROYAL EXPLORER is another two-year-old in the field and has shown some useful form in good company. He looks more than capable in this field. SECRET SUCCESS took on much stronger last time out after showing consistent form before that. He should have a big chance in this company. AZNERAK has been consistent over shorter. He’s drawn well here and the extra should not be a problem.

(Andrew Harrison: 9-6-5-1).

RICHARD MCMILLAN’S TIME RATINGS: (11) Just Positive (5) Secret Success (1) Aznerak

(16.40) - DURBAN VIEW RESTAURANT MR 70 HANDICAP of R78000 1000m 8over

9S10-3.9 2N10-2.2 4S10-3.0 0S12-7.7 1N10-0.8 6N12-5.4 3S10-2.0 1D12-1.2 7N10-3.6 5N10-6.2 7N10-2.9

8N10-6.1 7N10-4.2 2N10-1.8 2N10-0.1 6N10-1.9 4N14-2.5 4N10-1.6 0S12-13.2 0N12-6.5 8D10-6.5 0D10-10.5

0N10-3.9 1 -6 0N10-6.4 2 -10 5N12-2.2 3 -4 7N10-4.4 4 -1 4D10-4.6 5 -3 1N12-2.2 6 -8 8S10-8.8 7 -11 4N12-2.9 8 -7 7N10-3.4 9 -5 8N14-3.0 10 -2 6S10-8.2 11 -9

KEPT SECRET* 6m (B Impey) . . . . . . . . . . . . .S Brown VAMPIRELLA* 4f (W Whitehead) . . . . . . . . .S Moodley* EDDIE SWEAT* 6g (F Robinson) . . . . . . . . . . .A Marcus ROY ROYALE (AUS) 7g (A Wright) . . . . . . . .A Delpech THE LION GUARD* 3g (L Forbes) . . . . . . . . .T Godden COP THIS 3f (L Denysschen) . . . . . . . . . . . . .I Sturgeon ALL TRUE MAN* 5g (P L Lunn) . . . . . . . . . .S Randolph VICTORY TRIP 2f (D S Bosch) . . . . . . . . .E S Ngwane* MIESQUE’S MAGIC 3f (D Egdes) . . . . . . . . . .K Sakayi* RISKY ROSCO 6g (N I Van Wyk) . . . . . . . . .W Kennedy SHOOT THE BULL* 5g (K Naidoo) . . . . . . . . .J Samuel

70 69 67 67 66 65 63 77 53 46 46

60.0 59.5 58.5 58.5 57.5 57.0 56.5 56.0 52.0 52.0 52.0

C/D - Kept Secret; Vampirella; Roy Royale; The Lion Guard; All True Man; Miesque’s Magic B - Eddie Sweat RESTED - Eddie Sweat (96 days); Roy Royale (46 days); The Lion Guard (73 days); Cop This (131 days); Risky Rosco (56 days) FORECAST: 2-1 Victory Trip, 6-1 Cop This, All True Man, 7-1 Kept Secret, The Lion Guard, 8-1 Eddie Sweat, 10-1 Roy Royale, 16-1 Vampirella, Risky Rosco, 20-1 and upwards others SPEED RATINGS: LAST RUN : Roy Royale -0.35; Eddie Sweat -0.71; The Lion Guard -0.80; Victory Trip -0.80 BEST AVERAGE : Eddie Sweat -0.44; Roy Royale -0.57 BEST TIME : Roy Royale 0.24; Vampirella 0.06 PREVIEW: EDDIE SWEAT goes well over course and distance and blinkers could see him home. VICTORY TRIP has shown some promise. She takes on males here but has some scope. KEPT SECRET is never too far off them. She goes well this course and distance and can feature. VAMPIRELLA is seldom too far back and is another in with a chance. (Andrew Harrison: 3-8-1-2).

PREVIEWS BY ANDREW HARRISON RICHARD MCMILLAN’S TIME RATINGS: (4) Roy Royale (7) All True Man (3) Eddie Sweat

YESTERDAY’S VAAL RESULTS & DIVIDENDS GREYVILLE SELECTIONS

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ANDREW HARRISON

COMPUTAFORM

PERMS

(9) Lucius Fox (11) Northern Rebel (1) Barbarella Nights (9) Badawee (5) Winter Marchen (4) Chilli Affair (11) Torrey Pines (1) Pomona (2) Roy's Hollyhock (10) Roy's Zara (2) Victory Cross (11) Seraphic (5) Master Of Mischief (3) King Django (2) Var Du Bois (9) Mythical Magic (5) Roy Is Second (2) Noodle (9) Roy's Regis (6) Royal Explorer (5) Secret Success (3) Eddie Sweat (8) Victory Trip (1) Kept Secret

(1) Barbarella Nights (11) Northern Rebel (9) Lucius Fox (4) Chilli Affair (2) Ratso Rizzo (1) Turf Conqueror (1) Pomona (2) Roy's Hollyhock (4) Alesnado (2) Victory Cross (14) Roy's Kaitrina (3) Queens Chapel (8) Kings Empire (7) Putchini (2) Var Du Bois (6) Dundrum (5) Roy Is Second (2) Noodle (1) Aznerak (3) Silver Inspiration (11) Just Positive (7) All True Man (4) Roy Royale (1) Kept Secret

PA (R192) Leg 1: 9 x 5 Leg 2: 11 x 1 Leg 3: 10 x 2 Leg 4: 5 x 3 x 2 Leg 5: 9 x 5 Leg 6: 9 x 6 Leg 7: 3 x 8 PICK 6 (R432) Leg 1: 11 x 1 x 2 Leg 2: 10 x 2 x 11 Leg 3: 5 x 3 x 2 x 1 Leg 4: 9 x 5 x 2 Leg 5: 9 x 6 Leg 6: 3 x 8 JACKPOT (R72) Leg 1: 10 x 2 x 11 Leg 2: 5 x 3 x 2 x 1 Leg 3: 9 x 5 x 2 Leg 4: 9 x 6

VAAL TUESDAY JULY 18

WELCOME TO VAAL MAIDEN JUVENILE PLATE 1000m R95 000

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1ST: 9 VICOMTE (2 B g Var (USA) - A Star For Maria (AUS)) (L Hewitson; 15/10).

2ND: 4 DARKEST HOUR (J P v'd Merwe).

3RD: 3 COLD FRONT (C Zackey).

4TH: 1 BENNU (S Brown).

Win: 9 R1.50. Places: 3 R2.80; 4 R1.60; 9 R1.00. Swingers: 3x4 R6.50; 3x9 R4.50; 4x9 R1.80. Exacta: 9x4 R5.50. Trifecta: 9x4x3 R34.70. Quartet: 9x4x3x1 R102.50. Tote Favourite: 9 VICOMTE. Scratched: 7 SO LONG SPRING Owned by: Mr N Kokkoris.

Trained by: Gavin van Zyl. Bred by: Mrs J Brannigan & Mr G Davies. Won by: 0.75; 0.8; 0.1; Time: 58.65 sec. Then came: 10 FAST LOOKS; 6 RAISE A FLAG; 8 TONIUS; 2 BLING BALL; 5 NOORDWES;

ALL TO COME MAIDEN PLATE (F & M) 1200m R95 2000

1ST: 2 GOTOLUVHER (3 B f Trippi (USA) - Jambalaya (IRE)) (G Wrogemann; 5/1).

2ND: 9 ICE ART (A Delpech).

3RD: 11 TIE DYE (S Brown).

4TH: 3 KITTY COO (C Maujean).

Win: 2 R7.70. Places: 2 R2.00; 9 R1.00; 11 R5.50. Swingers: 2x9 R2.00; 2x11 R12.80; 9x11 R4.90. Exacta: 2x9 R14.70. Trifecta: 2x9x11 R172.70. Quartet: 2x9x11x3 R838.90. Tote Favourite: 9 ICE ART. Scratched: Nil Owned by: Mr M J A Ferreira. Trained by: Louis Goosen. Bred by: Drakenstein Stud (Nom: Mrs G A Rupert). Won by: 1; 2.25; 0.5; Time: 71.77 sec.

Then came: 12 WINGS OF CHARNE; 1 OF THE MOON; 6 AQUA-

TIQUE; 8 EVANGELINE; 10 LA GIRONA; 7 CORIANDER QUEEN; 4 ORISSA; 5 A ROSE FOR JULIET; Double: Dividend: R18.90 Winning Numbers: 9 x 2

FLAMINGO PARK RACEDAY 5 AUGUST MAIDEN PLATE 1200m R95 000

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1ST: 1 JUST AN AFFAIR (3 B g Just As Well (USA) - Flying Affair) (K Zechner; 5/2).

2ND: 2 LAUREN OF ROCHELLE (W Marwing).

3RD: 5 SINGASWEWIN (R Munger).

4TH: 12 SWEET JULIET (C Zackey).

Win: 1 R5.20. Places: 1 R1.70; 2 R1.30; 5 R2.00. Swingers: 1x2 R3.50; 1x5 R3.60; 2x5 R4.20. Exacta: 1x2 R18.30. Trifecta: 1x2x5 R69.80. Quartet: 1x2x5x12 R222.30. Tote Favourite: 2 LAUREN OF ROCHELLE. Scratched: Nil Owned by: Mr J M Cola. Trained by: Lucky Houdalakis. Bred by: Clifton Stud. Won by: 0.05; 0.25; 1.05; Time: 71.34 sec. Then came: 4 LEEUWPOORT; 3 MONTY PYTHON; 9 KENTUCKY BOY; 7 POWERED BY MALHUB; 10 RED CHEQUE; 6 TWOUNDERPAR; 8 DOMINICO; 11 ROCKING ROMEO; Double: Dividend: R37.80 Winning Numbers: 2 x 1 Pick 3: Dividend: R98.40 Winning Numbers: 7,9 x 2 x 1

MR 82 DIVIDED HANDICAP 1200m R112 000 4WWW.ITSARUSH.CO.ZA

1ST: 1 SPORTING MONARCH (3 Ch g Rebel King - Sporteska) (C Zackey; 17/10).

2ND: 2 SHIVERING SEA (G Wrogemann).

3RD: 6 TOKYO DRIFT (J P v'd Merwe).

4TH: 5 HOT AUGUST (M Mjoka).

Win: 1 R3.30. Places: 1 R1.60; 2 R2.00. Swingers: 1x2 R2.40; 1x6 R3.00; 2x6 R4.50. Exacta: 1x2 R10.50. Trifecta: 1x2x6 R53.30.

Quartet: 1x2x6x5 R212.70. Tote Favourite: 3 GOLDEN MAN. Scratched: Nil Owned by: Mr & Mrs G Eckert. Trained by: Brett Warren. Bred by: Highflyer Stud.

Won by: 0.15; 2.25; 2.35; Time: 70.45 sec. Then came: 4 NORDIC REBEL; 3 GOLDEN MAN; Double: Dividend: R18.20 Winning Numbers: 1 x 1 Pick 3: Dividend: R208.00 Winning Numbers: 2 x 1 x1

ASSOCIATION MR 69 DIVIDED HANDICAP 1200m R88 000 5RACING

1ST: 9 LAST GIRL STANDING (4 Ch f Announce - Champion Tibbs) (S Khumalo; 7/2).

2ND: 10 QUATTRO (R Munger).

3RD: 5 TIGER'S LEGACY (J P v'd Merwe).

4TH: 2 SNOW IN SEATTLE (C Zackey).

Win: 9 R3.60. Places: 5 R1.80; 9 R1.70; 10 R6.40. Swingers: 5x9 R3.70; 5x10 R22.40; 9x10 R16.60. Exacta: 9x10 R66.90. Trifecta: 9x10x5 R628.10. Quartet: 9x10x5x2 R4,777.30. Tote Favourite: 9 LAST GIRL STANDING. Scratched: Nil Owned by: Mr St John D Gray. Trained by: St John Gray. Bred by: Dempers Stud. Won by: 0.25; 0.5; 1.25; Time: 70.21 sec. Then came: 11 WOTTAHOTTIE; 8 RONIN WARRIOR; 13 AMBER FLASH; 6 MY TREASURE; 12 BOMBS AWAY; 4 DRAGOON; 14 RAMBO; 3 I'M A RAPTOR; 1 EXCLUSIVELY TRENDY; 7 KING OF MANI; Double: Dividend: R13.50 Winning Numbers: 1 x 9 Pick 3: Dividend: R69.10 Winning Numbers: 1 x 1 x 9

SOCCER 6 FM 68 HANDICAP (F & M) 1000m R88 6000

1ST: 4 CLAREMORRIS (3 Ch f Visionaire (USA) - Mayo) (J P v'd Merwe; 14/1).

2ND: 1 CATALUGA (C Zackey).

3RD: 6 BURGUNDY ROSE (S Brown).

4TH: 11 QUEEN AT WAR (M Mjoka).

Win: 4 R23.50. Places: 1 R2.40; 4 R6.60; 6 R2.60. Swingers: 1x4 R17.10; 1x6 R11.20; 4x6 R25.60. Exacta: 4x1 R201.20. Trifecta: 4x1x6 R1,149.00. Quartet: 4x1x6x11 R12,514.80. Tote Favourite: 2 MEMPHIS BELLE. Scratched: Nil Owned by: Cracking Pace Syndicate (Nom: Mr M S Cruickshank). Trained by: Roy Magner. Bred by: Summerhill Stud (Pty) Ltd. Won by: 1.25; 0.35; 0.65; Time: 58.15 sec. Then came: 2 MEMPHIS BELLE; 5 PIPKIN; 7 SUCCESFILLY; 12 BERDANINE; 10 LADY ON FIRE; 3 ANALYSE THAT; 9 GOODNESS ME; 8 NEVER GIVE IN; Double: Dividend: R62.80 Winning Numbers: 9 x 4 Pick 3: Dividend: R205.40 Winning Numbers: 1 x 9 x 4

A TABLE 011 6811702 MIDDLE STAKES (F M) 2400m R105 000 7&BOOK

1ST: 4 DALLEY (4 B f Ideal World (USA) - Lady Helen) (A Delpech; 1/1).

2ND: 9 CRANBERRY CRUSH (J P v'd Merwe).

3RD: 1 BANDOLA (K Zechner).

4TH: 5 BLUE SAGE (G Wrogemann).

Win: 4 R1.40. Places: 1 R2.90; 4 R1.00; 9 R2.60. Swingers: 1x4 R3.60; 1x9 R11.80; 4x9 R3.10. Exacta: 4x9 R10.20. Trifecta: 4x9x1 R62.50. Quartet: 4x9x1x5 R397.80. Tote Favourite: 4 DALLEY. Scratched: 7 SOLAR QUEST Owned by: Mauritzfontein (Pty) Ltd (Nom: Miss J B Slack). Trained by: Lucky Houdalakis. Bred by: Mauritzfontein Stud.

Won by: 2.25; 0.75; 2.5; Time: 150.21 sec. Then came: 6 ROSE WATER; 3 ARTE; 8 THE RIGHT ANSWER; 2 TOBESURETOBESURE; 10 VISION OF DAHLIA; Double: Dividend: R35.20 Winning Numbers: 4 x 4 Pick 3: Dividend: R134.80 Winning Numbers: 9 x 4 x 4,7

NEXT MEETING IS THURSDAY 20 JULY MAIDEN 1700m R95 000 8PLATE

1ST: 3 TIGER JET (3 B g Tiger Ridge (USA) - Jetstream Lady) (R Munger; 8/1).

2ND: 13 MONEY MATTERS (K Zechner).

3RD: 10 HARINGTON PORT (G Wrogemann).

4TH: 6 MISTER LISTER (C Maujean).

Win: 3 R6.00. Places: 3 R1.70; 10 R3.20; 13 R3.40. Swingers: 3x10 R8.60; 3x13 R13.00; 10x13 R24.60. Exacta: 3x13 R68.00. Trifecta: 3x13x10 R1,059.90. Quartet: 3x13x10x6 R12,407.40.

Tote Favourite: 14 SESS (AUS). Scratched: 2 SYNERGY; 9 DEVIL'S PEAK Owned by: Messrs G J Nassif, Z L Nassif & J Nassif.

Trained by: Scott Kenny. Bred by: The Fort Stud. Won by: 0.15; 0.15; 1; Time: 106.86 sec. Then came: 5 VICTOR YOUNG; 7 THE FALLS ROAD; 8 ORO NEGRO; 4 ARTIFICIO; 12 JUSTIFY; 11 HELLO; 1 JAY ZEE; 14 SESS (AUS); Double: Dividend: R15.50 Winning Numbers: 4 x 3 Pick 3: Dividend: R393.40 Winning Numbers: 4 x 4,7 x 3 BIPOT Dividend: R95.30 Winning Numbers: 4,7,9 x 2,9 x 1,2 x 1,2 x 9,10 x 1,4 JACKPOT Dividend: R672.30 Winning Numbers: 1 x 9 x 4 x 4,7 PICK 6 Dividend: R22,331.60 Winning Numbers: 1 x 1 x 9 x 4 x 4,7 x 3 PLACE ACCUMULATOR Dividend: R148.60 Winning Numbers: 2,9,11 x 1,2,5 x 1,2,6 x 5,9,10 x 1,4,6 x 1,4,7,9 x 3,10,13

RESULTS Cricket Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe Test, day five Colombo Zimbabwe 1st innings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 (C. Ervine 160; R. Herath 5-116) Sri Lanka 1st innings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 (U. Tharanga 71, D. Chandimal 55; G. Cremer 5-125) Zimbabwe 2nd innings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 (S. Raza 127, M. Waller 68; R. Herath 6-133) Sri Lanka 2nd innings (Overnight: 170-3; Target: 388 runs) Dimuth Karunaratne b Williams . . . . . . . . . 49 Upul Tharanga c Moor b Cremer . . . . . . . . 27 Kusal Mendis c Williams b Cremer . . . . . . . 66 D Chandimal c H. Masakadza b Cremer . . 15 Angelo Mathews c and b Cremer . . . . . . . . 25 Niroshan Dickwella c Chakabva b Williams . 81 Asela Gunaratne not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Dilruwan Perera not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Extras: (b-9 lb-8 w-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Total: (for 6 wkts, 114.5 overs) . . . . . . . . . 391 Falls: 1-58 U. Tharanga,2-108 D. Karunaratne,3-133 D. Chandimal,4-178 K. Mendis,5-203 A. Mathews,6-324 N. Dickwella Did not bat: R. Herath, S. Lakmal, L. Kumara Bowling: S. Raza 13-1-58-0; S. Williams 43.52-146-2(w-2); G. Cremer 48-6-150-4; M. Waller 4-0-10-0; C. Mpofu 6-3-10-0 Result: Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets

Cycling Tour de France Stage 16 (Le Puy-en-Velay - Romans-sur-Isere, 165 km) 1. Michael Matthews (Aus / Team Sunweb) 3:38:15” 2. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor / Team Dimension Data) ST 3. John Degenkolb (Ger / Trek-Segafredo) 4. Greg Van Avermaet (Bel / BMC Racing Team) 5. Christophe Laporte (Fra / Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 6. Jens Keukeleire (Bel / Orica-Scott) 7. Tony Gallopin (France / Lotto-Soudal) 8. Tiesj Benoot (Belgium / Lotto-Soudal) 9. Maciej Bodnar (Poland / BORA-hansgr ohe) 10. Romain Hardy (France / Fortuneo-Oscaro) 11. Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (South Africa / Team Dimension Data) 12. Rigoberto Uran (Colombia / CannondaleDrapac) 13. Chris Froome (Britain / Team Sky) 14. Simon Yates (Britain / Orica-Scott) 15. Mikel Landa (Spain / Team Sky) 16. Romain Bardet (France / AG2R La Mon diale) 17. Damiano Caruso (Italy / BMC Racing Team) 18. Fabio Aru (Italy / Astana Pro Team) 19. Nairo Quintana (Colombia / Movistar Team) 20. Imanol Erviti (Spain / Movistar Team) 21. Warren Barguil (France / Team Sunweb) 22. Stefan Kueng (Switzerland / BMC Racing Team) 23. Oliver Naesen (Belgium / AG2R La Mondiale) +15” 24. Nicolas Roche (Ireland / BMC Racing Team) +17” 25. Michael Schaer (Switzerland / BMC Racing Team) 26. Nikias Arndt (Germany / Team Sunweb) +22” 27. Scott Thwaites (Britain / Team Dimension Data) +23” 28. Daniele Bennati (Italy / Movistar Team) +28” 29. Louis Meintjes (SA / UAE Team Emirates) +51” 30. Pierre Latour (France / AG2R La Mondiale) Classification: 1. Chris Froome (Britain / Team Sky) 68:18:36” 2. Fabio Aru (Italy / Astana Pro Team) +18” 3. Romain Bardet (France / AG2R La Mondiale) +23” 4. Rigoberto Uran (Colombia / CannondaleDrapac) +29” 5. Mikel Landa (Spain / Team Sky) +1:17” 6. Simon Yates (Britain / Orica-Scott) +2:02” 7. Daniel Martin (Ireland / Quick-Step Floors) +2:03” 8. Louis Meintjes (SA / UAE Team Emirates) +6:00” 9. Damiano Caruso (Italy / BMC Racing Team) +6:05” 10. Nairo Quintana (Colombia / Movistar Team) +6:16” 11. Alberto Contador (Spain / TrekSegafredo) +7:10” 12. Warren Barguil (France / Team Sunweb) +8:48” 13. Pierre Latour (France / AG2R La Mondiale) +14:32” 14. Alexis Vuillermoz (France / AG2R La Mondiale) +15:45” 15. Mikel Nieve (Spain / Team Sky) +16:25” 16. Emanuel Buchmann (Germany / BORAhansgrohe) +20:28” 17. Carlos Betancur (Colombia / Movistar Team) +23:50” 18. Guillaume Martin (France / WantyGroupe Gobert) +28:19” 19. Brice Feillu (France / Fortuneo-Oscaro) +28:41” 20. Tiesj Benoot (Belgium / Lotto-Soudal) +30:10” Mountain Classification: 1. Warren Barguil (France / Team Sunweb) 117 2. Primoz Roglic (Slovenia / LottoNL-Jumbo) 38 3. Thomas De Gendt (Belgium / LottoSoudal) 38 4. Mikel Landa (Spain / Team Sky) 33 5. Alexis Vuillermoz (France / AG2R La Mondiale) 28 6. Chris Froome (Britain / Team Sky) 25 7. Daniel Martin (Ireland / Quick-Step Floors) 23 8. Fabio Aru (Italy / Astana Pro Team) 22 9. Alberto Contador (Spain / Trek-Segafredo) 22 10. Steve Cummings (Britain / Team Dimension Data) 20

Rugby Coca-Cola Craven Week St Stithians College, Johannesburg Namibia 52 Valke 36, Leopards 72 Zimbabwe 17, Griquas 42 E Province Country 20, SWD 27 Eastern Province 22, Sharks 53 Blue Bulls 33.

Coca-Cola Academy Week Golden Lions XV 62 Zimbabwe 14, Blue Valke 51 Border Country 12, SA LSEN Schools 57 Griffons Country 36, Namibia 16 Pumas Country 15, Border 35 Leopards 15, Blue Bulls 27 Free State 22, Pumas 23 Golden Lions 20.

Today’s Fixtures Coca-Cola Craven Week Griffons v Border Country, Boland v Griquas, Border v Limpopo Blue Bulls, Free State v Pumas, Golden Lions v Western Province.

Coca-Cola Academy Week Limpopo Blue Bulls v Griquas Country, Griquas v Sharks Country, E Province v SWD, E Province Country v Valke Blue, W Province v Sharks.

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May the luck of the Irish and venom of Vikings be with the Sharks I AM of Irish descent. My dad was a proud Ulsterman from Belfast. Among much of the Irish folklore he taught his four youngsters was the legend of the Leprechauns, those little bearded fellows with pointy green hats that come out of hiding in the twilight.

Just last night at the bottom of my garden they told me that the Sharks are going to beat the Lions on Saturday. I love those little fellows who say the unlikeliest things when they come out to play. I even love the men in white who are taking me away!

Ha ha. So yes I am pointing fun at my Irish ancestry but

Mike Greenaway RUB OF THE GREEN heck let’s be serious for a moment and talk rugby.

Over the last two years Ireland have beaten the All Blacks twice, once in Chicago and then in Dublin a year later.

We are talking about a New Zealand team that seemed to be invincible and cruising to a record of wins against tier one nations — only to be stopped in

their tracks – in Chicago of all places. Al Capone must have been placing a bet from his grave.

And then there was a sprinkling of Irishmen in the Lions team that beat the All BLacks in Wellington a few weeks ago and drew the match in Eden Park, to leave the series at a stalemate that nobody could have predicted.

What I am saying, if you will forgive my celebration of being Irish, is that the Pluck of the Irish, never mind the luck the same jolly folk can conjure up, can produce the unexpected.

No team is guaranteed vic-

tory in sport. Ask the Springboks when they played Japan in the first round of the 2015 Rugby World Cup. I was at that game in Brighton and when Heyneke Meyer and Jean de Villiers fronted the media, they looked like ghosts.

If you had asked them then if they believed in Leprechauns — or a Japanese equivalent — they would have nodded.

But if we cut through the fantasy and get real, the Lions (the Johannesburg ones) are not unbeatable even if their record of 13 games undefeated at Ellis Park suggests otherwise.

Like the All Blacks, they

are not omnipotent. Sport is all about the mental state you are in when you pitch up for a match that has do-or-die status.

The Sharks were not in the Last Chance Saloon last week when they played the Lions in Durban because the outcome of the match simply did not matter (unless the Sharks had fluked a win to become the toast of Christchurch).

Of course the Sharks wanted to initiate some form after losing to the Bulls in their previous game, but in the back of their minds was the fact that it did not matter if they lost because that would mean a much more feasible quarter-final

against the Lions at Ellis Park than one against the Crusaders in Christchurch, after 24 hours of exhausting travel.

That was the reality of the situation.

You can’t tell players that it is do or die when it is not.

Which is why the Sharks will be a completely different animal at Ellis Park this weekend.

Now it IS do or die. Sharks wing Kobus van Wyk had a wonderful way of putting it, and this obviously came up in a team talk on Monday.

“We are adopting the Vikings approach. When they invaded a new land they wanted

MAN OF THE MATCH BATTING

An all-round man in Philander Stuart Hess Nottingham

V

ERNON Philander, pictured, somewhat grumpily dismissed suggestions from his captain that he was “the new Jacques Kallis”.

“Absolutely not,” he grunted, bringing a snort from Faf du Plessis. No one in South African cricket wants the pressure that comes with that sort of comparison - certainly not a 32 year old who has very much carved his own niche in the international arena.

However Philander is still not regarded in many quarters as a bona fide all-rounder.

That has to do with his batting mainly and a Test average of 26.13 that belies his considerable ability.

In teasing Philander with the Kallis comparison Du Plessis made reference to a technical change Philander has made with the bat - “his technique is becoming the same as Kallis as well, that back lift.”

More seri o u s ly, Du Plessis noted, was the extra responsibility Philander shouldered in the second Test as a batsman, while still fulfilling his new ball duties.

“We left a batsman out to play two all-rounders and with that comes extra responsibility on his shoulders.

“We gave him the promotion to 7 because I back his technique and his batting and he responded beautifully by getting crucial runs for us,” said Du Plessis.

In Philander’s case perhaps a truer reflection of his all-rounder status is an examination of his performances in England. In five Tests he averages 40.28 with the bat, and has scored three fifties here. With the ball, he averages 21.60. By any measure of a top class all-rounder, those numbers put Philander in the highest bracket.

A better comparison to draw for Philander would be Shaun Pollock who also batted at no.7 and used the new ball – in fact with the ball, though different in build, they are similarly blessed with the ability to exploit any assistance off the pitch.

Pollock for instance averaged 43.87 with the bat - he

scored two half-centuries in England - and 25.25 with the ball.

As he did at Lord’s in 2012, Philander scooped the Man of the Match award at Trent Bridge on Monday. His runs - 54 in the first innings and 42 in the second - as instrumental in the match’s outcome as his wickets.

“Playing international cricket you’re always going to be judged and have people making comments,” said Philander.

“But that’s something that we as a side put out of our minds. We’ve got a job to do, we’ve got to take 20 wickets.

I’m not too fazed about personal accolades. As long as I fulfill my role in the side and continue to contribute with bat and ball I’m doing my job.”

Philander’s batting has not received as many plaudits possibly because he was not always called on to contribute.

For a large part of his Test career, he played in a side which carried seven frontline batsmen so he wasn’t called upon to make runs too often.

In this new structure, where he bats higher up the order - albeit just one spot - he will have more opportunities to make an impact. His technique is solid, he has a very good eye and hits the ball powerfully.

As was seen at Trent Bridge, he’s no slogger, and when called upon to knuckle down late on the first day, he showed the kind of responsibility his skipper had demanded.

In total he batted for 224 minutes across two innings, and in both knocks he had to face the second new ball and did so with great care and intelligence.

Du Plessis called his partnership with Chris Morris for the seventh wicket - which totalled 74 - a match winning one.

In this new structure, Philander can be expected to play a much bigger role with the bat and thus, South African supporters may start to think of him as more than just a magnificent seam bowler.

In a country which has produced many great all-rounders – Kallis, Pollock, Lance Klusener and Brian McMillan – soon we will have to include Philander.

Matthews is back in the green ROMANS-SUR-ISERE: Michael Matthews improved his chances of winning the points classification on the Tour de France, as the Australian claimed the 16th stage yesterday after his Sunweb team worked hard to keep green jersey holder Marcel Kittel out of contention.

Sunweb rode hard in the first climb of the day as German Kittel was dropped, making sure he would not come back, and they collected their third win in four stages after Matthews won stage 14 and Frenchman Warren Barguil prevailed on stage 13.

Matthews collected points in the intermediate sprint and at the finish to narrow the gap with Kittel to 29, setting up a duel with the Quick-Step Floors rider in the final days of the race.

“It had been the same guy every year for five years (Peter Sagan), now

this is going to be exciting,” said Matthews, who outsprinted Norway’s Edvald Boasson Hagen and German John Degenkolb.

Degenkolb complained that Matthews did not hold his line in the sprint, but the Australian was adamant he raced fairly.

“I saw the sprint on TV afterwards.

I sprinted in the same direction, I did not change my line. I left a space between me and the barrier,” Matthews said, adding that Degenkolb had grabbed him by the neck after the finish. “He grabbed me by the neck.

The officials saw that, I don’t know what they’re going to do about it. I don’t think it’s very sportsmanlike.”

Ireland’s Dan Martin, slipped to seventh, 2:03 behind race leader Chris Froome, who retained the yellow jersey after his Team Sky’s brutal acceleration 14km from the line caused the decisive split in the peloton. – Reuters

Louis Oosthuizen At 54 in the world rankings, he was a 200/1 long shot in 2010 … but won by seven strokes at St Andrews. Two years ago he was joint runner-up, also at St Andrews, when Zach Johnson won a three-man playoff. He’s also been a runner-up at the Masters (2012) and US Open (2014) and is South Africa’s best chance of producing another Major winner. He’s been in decent form in 2017 so expect the 34-year-old to put up a good show.

Branden Grace It’s time the 29-year-old went all the way at a Major. He’s come close at the US Open and the PGA Championship, posting topfive finishes in the last two years, but the big win has yet to come.

He’s a seven-time European Tour winner, and also won the 2016 RBC Heritage title on the PGA Tour so he’s got the game, but his form hasn’t been good in 2017. His best Open finish was tied-20th at St Andrews in 2015.

The rest of the Saffas teeing it up tomorrow: Ernie Els, Brandon Stone, Darren Fichardt, Dylan Frittelli, Jbe Kruger, Shaun Norris

Open for a charge Jacques van der Westhuyzen takes a look at South Africa’s top three contenders at the 146th edition of the Open at Royal Birkdale tomorrow

Charl Schwartzel The 32-year-old chipped in for a birdie at the first, pitched in for eagle on the third and birdied the last four holes to win the 2011 Masters title. An 11-time European Tour winner, Schwartzel has also won on the PGA Tour (the 2016 Valspar Championship), but his best finish at the Open came in 2014 at Royal Liverpool when he finished tied-seventh. Last year he tied for 18 … but could 2017 be the year Schwartzel tames the links?

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TEE OFF TIMES (GBR and Ire, unless stated) AM 7.35 Chris Wood, Mark O’Meara (US), Ryan Moore (US) 7.46 Phachara Khongwatmai (Tha), Maverick McNealy (US), Stuart Manley 7.57 Stewart Cink (US), Sandy Lyle, Jeunghun Wang (Kor) 8.08 Thongchai Jaidee (Tha), Paul Broadhurst, Roberto Castro (US) 8.19 Tom Lehman (US), ByeongHun An (Kor), Darren Fichardt (SA) 8.30 Billy Horschel (US), Soren Kjeldsen (Den), Danny Willett 8.41 Steve Stricker (US), Matthew Fitzpatrick, Emiliano Grillo (Arg) 8.52 Jason Dufner (US), Branden Grace (SA), Bryson DeChambeau (US) 9.03 Russell Knox, Alex Noren (Swe), Ian Poulter 9.14 David Duval (US), Prayad Marksaeng (Tha), KT Kim (Kor) 9.25 Young-Han Song (Kor), David Horsey, Dylan Frittelli (SA) 9.36 Mike Lorenzo-Vera (Fra), Charles Howell III (US), Shiv Kapur (Ind)

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9.47 Russell Henley (US), Fabrizio Zanotti (Par), Peter Uihlein (US) 10.03 Brendan Steele (US), Alexander Levy (Fra), Webb Simpson (US) 10.14 Wesley Bryan (US), Anirban Lahiri (Ind), Alfie Plant 10.25 Darren Clarke, Gary Woodland (US), Harry Ellis 10.36 Pat Perez (US), Padraig Harrington, Thomas Pieters (Bel) 10.47 Henrik Stenson (Swe), Si Woo Kim (Kor), Jordan Spieth (US) 10.58 Justin Rose, Louis Oosthuizen (SA), Justin Thomas (US) 11.09 Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Brooks Koepka (US), Tommy Fleetwood 11.20 JB Holmes (US), Brandt Snedeker (US), Shane Lowry 11.31 Shaun Norris (SA), Richard Bland, Luca Cianchetti (Ita) 11.42 Yi-Keun Chang (Kor), Chan Kim (US), Mark Foster 11.53 Sung-hoon Kang (Kor), Tony Finau (US), Matthieu Pavon (Fra) 12.04 Alexander Bjork (Swe), Joseph Dean, Robert Streb (US) 12.15 Julian Suri (US), Robert

Dinwiddie, Adam Hodkinson 12.36 Adam Hadwin (Can), Andrew Johnston, Todd Hamilton (US) 12.47 John Daly (US), Adam Bland (Aus), Connor Syme 12.58 William McGirt (US), Toby Tree, Jamie Lovemark (US) PM 1.09 Austin Connelly (Can), Matthew Griffin (Aus), Matthew Southgate 1.20 Cameron Smith (Aus), Bill Haas (US), Callum Shinkwin 1.31 Brian Harman (US), Michael Hendry (Nzl), Martin Laird 1.42 Ross Fisher, Ernie Els (SA), Bernd Wiesberger (Aut) 1.53 Tyrrell Hatton, Martin Kaymer (Ger), Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 2.04 Jason Day (Aus), Zach Johnson (US), Sergio Garcia (Spa) 2.15 Andy Sullivan, Joost Luiten (Ned), David Lipsky (US) 2.26 Rickie Fowler (US), Adam Scott (Aus), Paul Casey 2.37 Matt Kuchar (US), Richie Ramsay, Ryan Fox (Nzl) 2.48 Charley Hoffman (US), Kevin Kisner (US), David Drysdale

3.04 Hideto Tanihara (Jpn), Jimmy Walker (US), Thorbjorn Olesen (Den) 3.15 Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Brandon Stone (SA), Sean O’Hair (US) 3.26 Pablo Larrazabal (Spa), Daniel Berger (US), Yuta Ikeda (Jpn) 3.37 Paul Lawrie, Kevin Chappell (US), Yusaku Miyazato (Jpn) 3.48 Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson (US), Charl Schwartzel (SA) 3.59 Jon Rahm (Spa), Patrick Reed (US), Lee Westwood 4.10 Phil Mickelson (US), Francesco Molinari (Ita), Marc Leishman (Aus) 4.21 Rafael Cabrera-Bello (Spa), Scott Hend (Aus), Bubba Watson (US) 4.32 Paul Waring, Kyle Stanley (US), Kevin Na (US) 4.43 Xander Schauffele (US), Gi-Whan Kim (Kor), Andrew Dodt (Aus) 4.54 Haotong Li (Chn), Kent Bulle (US), Haydn McCullen 5.05 Jbe Kruger (SA), Nick McCarthy, Ashley Hall (Aus) 5.16 Ryan McCarthy (Aus), Laurie Canter, Sebastian Munoz (Col)

to conquer, they burned their boats upon beaching. Why? Because it signified that they were not going back. It was forward to victory or nothing.

They could rebuild new boats later when victory was secured.”

For Sharks fans, it is encouraging indeed to hear of the mental state the Sharks are going to be in come kick-off on Saturday.

May the luck of the Irish and the venom of the Vikings be with them!

And do not be surprised to hear of a burning bus outside Ellis Park just before kick-off ...

Birkdale the most Open Champs LONDON: The 146th Open Championship, which will be staged at Royal Birkdale Club, looks set to be the most open in recent memory.

Henrik Stenson of Sweden defends the title but a case could be made for about 30 players on a links course that, if the wind blows, will be a test of skill and patience.

World No 1 Dustin Johnson is looking to rediscover top form after the freak injury he suffered at the Masters, when he slipped on a wooden floor and hurt his back.

Johnson will have to be at his best on the course north of Liverpool, which hosted the Open in 2008, when Ireland’s Padraig Harrington won.

Rory McIlroy, the 2014 winner, missed his last two cuts, at the Irish Open and Scottish Open.

However Sergio Garcia, the Masters champion, lifted a weight off his shoulders when he won his first major title at Augusta in April.“Everybody knows how much I love the Open and I’d love to have at least one of them before I hang up my boots,” he said Justin Rose was pipped by Garcia at the Masters but has the pedigree to do well.

“In 2017 I’m looking to re-identify myself by winning these major championships, because I can’t let these years slip by,” he told reporters.

Americans Jordan Spieth, Phil Mickelson and Ricky Fowler, Australian Adam Scott, and Spaniard John Rahm are fancied to do well.

Local hero Tommy Fleetwood will have the fans on his side, the 26-year-old from Southport, trying to become the first Englishman to win the Open since Nick Faldo in 1992.

“To win the Open at Birkdale would be the ultimate,” said Fleetwood, who finished fourth at the US Open.

“Doing it anywhere is a dream but to win it five minutes from where you grew up, there would be nothing more special than that.”

Harrington showed nice form when he finished fourth at the Scottish Open.

“I always go back to the Shane Lowry quote: ‘I think I’m going to win even when I’m not playing’,” he said.

“I come in this week with a bit of form so I’m looking to play good and contend. I’m something of a defending champion here too, so I want to take it all in and enjoy the good feelings here.” – dpa

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Lanka deny Zim COLOMBO: Niroshan Dickwella and Asela Gunaratne hit crucial half centuries to guide Sri Lanka to their highest ever run chase as the hosts defeated Zimbabwe by four wickets on the final day of an intriguing one-off Test yesterday.

Chasing 388 for a win, the hosts had been reduced to 203/5 before Dickwella and Gunaratne combined in a stand of 121 to anchor the chase. Dickwella was out for 81 while Gunaratne, who was suffering from a hamstring injury, remained 80 not out. – Reuters

Baby Sharks bite Bulls THE KwaZulu-Natal Sharks beat the Blue Bulls 53-33 in an impressive display on day two of Craven Week at St Stithians College yesterday.

Of the 13 tries between the two teams, eight were scored by the Sharks. The KZN side raced to a 38-0 lead before the Bulls began a spirited fight-back in the second half, closing the gap to 38-26 before the Sharks got two late tries and a penalty to make the game safe. Their backs, small but full of tricks, ran the big Bulls players ragged. It was a great team effort with No 8 Pepsi Buthelezi and flank Dylan Richardson impressive up front, while Sanele Nohamba, Cham Zondeki and Siyande Cele were exciting with ball in hand. Cham Zondeki, Rhynhardt Jonker, Conan le Fleur and Siyanda Cele scored for the Sharks, with Nohamba slotting five conversions. The Sharks and SWD, who beat Eastern Province 27-22 yesterday, will likely meet tomorrow, with the winner having an inside track to Saturday’s main game. Aimee Barrett-Theron became the first woman to referee a Craven Week game in the SWD v EP fixture. – Theo Garrun

SA rue missed chances WHILE the South African women’s hopes of reaching the Hockey World League Finals were dashed following a 1-0 defeat to Germany, they can still qualify for next year’s World Cup. With six penalty corners going the way of South Africa and nine shots on goal, the hosts had ample opportunity to seal passage to the semi-finals.

With a minute left in the first half, Germany broke the deadlock when Camille Nobis scored after a period of home dominance. The hosts need to finish among the top six to earn a place in the World Cup. – Ockert de Villiers

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017

SOUTH AFRICANS PUSH ENGLAND TO THE BRINK

So near, yet so far for Proteas Zaahier Adams

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HEY came, they fought, but ultimately they did not conquer.

South Africa will return home without the ultimate prize after their nail-biting two-wicket defeat to England in their ICC Women’s World Cup semi-final in Bristol yesterday.

That’s the cold reality.

England were stronger, more experienced and, ultimately, calm in their execution.

It was a sensational climax to a hugely entertaining game, with England tailender Anja Shrubsole striking the winning boundary with just two balls remaining off Shabnim Ismail’s final over of the innings.

South African sports teams are renowned for their courageous spirit and never-say-die attitude.

Last night the Proteas women showed it spreads across codes and gender. It is ingrained in their DNA. South Africa should never have got so close after only posting 218/6, courtesy of knocks from Laura Wolfvaardt (66) and Mignon du Preez (76 not out).

It certainly seemed beyond expectation when England were coasting to victory at 139/2 with their two star batters, Sarah Taylor and captain Heather Knight, at the crease.

Ayabonga Khaka had delivered the two early wickets in an impressive opening spell but needed support.

Van Niekerk called on a bit of “Madiba Magic” to produce a brilliant direct hit to run out Player of the Match Taylor for 52.

Just there and then Van Niekerk gave her team the belief to do the impossible.

The conviction grew even further when England lost Knight and Natalie Sciver for the addition of only six runs.

England, though, bat really deep, with players such as Fran Wilson (30 off 38 balls) and Jenny Gunn (27 not out off 27 balls) coming in lower down the order.

South Africa continued to toil away even when the game was slipping out of their grasp. Moseline Daniels removed Katherine Brunt with a beautiful inswinger, before Marizanne Kapp and Ismail kept the dream alive with late strikes.

Ismail’s wicket came in the last over, with England requiring just 2 runs for victory, off the final four balls.

The mood switched from ecstasy to heartbreak in moments though when Shrubsole

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England L Winfield c du Preez b Khaka . . . . . . . . 20 T Beaumont b Khaka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 S Taylor run out (van Niekerk) . . . . . . . . 54 H Knight c Wolvaardt b Luus . . . . . . . . . 30 N Sciver b Luus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 F Wilson c Chetty b Kapp . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 K Brunt b Daniels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 J Gunn not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 L Marsh b Ismail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A Shrubsole not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Extras: (b 5, w 17, nb 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Total: (8 wkts; 49.4 overs) . . . . . . . . . . 221 Did not bat: A Hartley Falls: 1-42 (Winfield, 8.3 ov), 2-61 (Beaumont, 12.6 ov), 3-139 (Taylor, 32.1 ov), 4-142 (Knight, 33.2 ov), 5-145 (Sciver, 33.6 ov), 6-173 (Brunt, 42.2 ov), 7-213 (Wilson, 47.6 ov), 8-217 (Marsh, 49.3 ov) Bowling: S Ismail 9.4-1-49 (2nb); M Kapp 10-1-43-1 (4w); A Khaka 10-2-28-2 (1w); M Daniels 10-0-47-1 (2w); D van Niekerk 5-0-25-0 (1nb, 1w); S Luus 5-0-24-2 (2w) Result: England win by 2 wickets (2 balls remaining)

hit the boundary with the first ball she faced.

The dream was crushed.

However, when the dust has settled, which may take some time for Ismail and Van Niekerk especially, they will realise how far South Africa have come so quickly.

They have defied most observers and will now know anything is indeed possible.

They will know they made some elementary mistakes: poor running between the wickets during the middle overs, while the catching and general glovework from wicket-keeper Trisha Chetty left a lot to be desired, but they will be a stronger team for it.

Back in 2000 Daleen Terblanche had to console her team after South Africa’s only other appearance in a World Cup semi-final.

Back then they were simply content to have reached the final four.

Although fiercely proud of her team’s achievements, Van Niekerk will give no such speech.

She will know her side pushed one of the very best team’s in women’s cricket to the very limits and next time – there will not be a17-year wait for another chance – that only a victory will satisfy the desire of this courageous and talented group of women.

MALCOLM MARX In Australia this year, Elton Jantjies (in the 83rd minute against the Force) and Warren Whiteley (in the 80th minute against the Rebels) scored after the siren had sounded. The Lions won those games 24-15 and 47-10.

In the 54-10 win over the Kings in May, fullback Coetzee also scored after the siren had sounded to signal fulltime, while Ruan Combrinck went over in the 80th minute against the Sunwolves a few weeks ago. At the end of the first 40, as seen by Coetzee last weekend, the Lions have also scored when their op-

ponents have least expected them to have a go.

Lions attack coach Swys de Bruin said yesterday that the players want to make the most of the possession that comes their way, whether it’s before or after the hooter sounding. “If you’ve got the ball and given an opportunity to score points, why would you kick it away?” asked De Bruin.

“We want to score tries... that’s why we play the game.

We’ll always look to run the ball and score points, unless of course we’re under serious pressure.

“Having a go when no one expects you to also sets a positive tone; it ensures a positive mindset is maintained during halftime.”

The Sharks, after being caught “sleeping” by Coetzee last weekend, and also when they met in April when Malcolm Marx scored a try on the stroke of halftime in the narrow 34-29 victory for the Lions, will be all too aware of what the team from Johannesburg can do when they meet in the quarter-finals at Ellis Park this weekend.

Root of England’s cricket problems Stuart Hess

South Africa L Wolvaardt b Knight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 L Lee b Shrubsole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 T Chetty st Taylor b Sciver . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 M du Preez not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 M Kapp run out (Shrubsole/Taylor) . . . . 1 D van Niekerk run out (Sciver/Hartley) 27 C Tryon c & b Gunn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 S Luus not out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Extras (w 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Total (6 wkts; 50 overs) . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Did not bat: S Ismail, A Khaka, M Daniels Falls: 1-21 (Lee, 5.3 ov), 2-48 (Chetty, 11.4 ov), 3-125 (Wolvaardt, 31.2 ov), 4-126 (Kapp, 31.5 ov), 5-168 (van Niekerk, 41.3 ov), 6-170 (Tryon, 42.1 ov) Bowling: K Brunt 10-1-40-0 (1w); A Shrubsole 10-1-33-1; N Sciver 4-0-251(1w); L Marsh 9-0-37-0; A Hartley 9-0-400; J Gunn 6-0-35-1; H Knight 2-0-8-1 (1w)

South Africa captain Dane van Niekerk is dejected after her team narrowly lost to England in their World Cup semi-final PICTURE: REUTERS yesterday.

A different beast in Lions’ den, warns Du Toit Mike Greenaway IT WOULD be inappropriate to call Thomas du Toit a beast of a man, seeing he is enjoying a good run of games at loosehead prop because of injury to the famous Beast Mtawarira.

“Thomas the Tank Engine” is instead the name earned by the 127kg, 22-year-old loosehead, to the extent that he has a picture of a tank painted on the bakkie that he drives.

The real Beast has a neck strain and Thomas has been starting in the Sharks No 1 jersey for the last four games and is building up a head of steam.

This weekend the Tank is heading for Ellis Park and he says that his seven colleagues in the scrum have no fear of the Lions machine awaiting them in Saturday’s Super Rugby quarter-final in Johannesburg.

“We are going to give it our all, don’t worry about that,’ the smiling Du Toit said. “The pressure was on the Lions last

week to top the log and we let them, maybe because we did not have the right mindset, but that is not going to happen again this week.”

The Lions have won 13 Super Rugby games in a row at Ellis Park and they have their sights on a home semi-final if they beat the Sharks.

“We have to give credit and respect when it is due and they have been playing very well at Ellis Park for some time, so it is up to us to bring it on ... and that is going to inspire us rather than put us off. Records are there to be broken,” said the affable Du Toit.

He truly is a the most genial of giants, but he and his teammates have to flick the switch come the first whistle.

“The whole psychology has changed,” said Du Toit, who played twice against the French Barbarians last month.

“I imagine it is like a Test match when the only thing matters is that you win. It does not matter how you get there,

Lions the masters of post-hooter try time THE LIONS go into the Super Rugby playoffs as the second best try-scoring team, with 78 five-pointers so far. What many people don’t know is that a good number of those tries have come in the dying minutes of a half, and sometimes even after the hooter has sounded to signal the end of a half.

One thing the Lions players under coach Johan Ackermann will never do is go to bed after a game wondering what might have been.

They’ve become the masters of the post-hooter try; as witnessed again last weekend when Andries Coetzee went over in the corner in Durban moments after the siren had sounded to signal the end the first half and after the Sharks had hit back through a fortuitous try by Kobus van Wyk. It was not the first time this season – or last year – that Ackermann’s men dotted down when other teams simply opt to run the ball into touch or kick it into the stands.

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Coming just a week after last Saturday’s meeting in Durban, De Bruin said his team were in for a tough assignment. “They asked a lot of questions of us when they came up here first time round and we know we’re in for a very physical arm-wrestle,” he said.

“We certainly didn’t produce our A game in Durban... maybe because the players were overexcited and the adrenaline was pumping after seeing the Hurricanes beat the Crusaders (which gave the Lions a chance of finishing top of the overall log).

So, we’re going to have to be

much better this weekend.” ● De Bruin, meanwhile, has got a lot more than just the Super Rugby quarter-final to keep him busy with this week; he’s also got to help the Currie Cup side prepare for their opening match in the competition, against the Pumas in Nelspruit on Sunday.

De Bruin will take over full-time from Ackermann – who’s joining Gloucester in England – post Super Rugby, with his first assignment the Currie Cup. Super Rugby duties though will prevent him from fulfilling those obligations for now.

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You do whatever it takes.”

The Lions have said they are not going to change anything about how they play.

They are going to attack and aim to score tries.

“And we are not going to change how we play,” Du Toit said. “We are a little more conservative and we are going to play a very intense, structured game, but are not going to get loose and give them chances for the turnover ball they love (to counter attack). For us it is all about upping our intensity and cutting out our errors.”

Last week, in the first half between the Lions and the Sharks, the hosts dominated the set scrum and were given two penalties. It changed in the second half and the Lions were awarded three penalties by referee Marius van der Westhuizen, who will again be the referee on Saturday.

“When it comes to the scrums, you build a relationship with the referee, you build

the idea that you have dominance,” Du Toit said.

“Sometimes that relationship changes when you bring on your substitutes. We had the dominance in the first half but the Lions obviously had a chat at half-time and they came out and scrummed differently.

“Credit to them in that they changed the way they scrummed,” Du Toit said.

“The pressure is on the front row for both sides because how you dominate the scrum is how you present the base from which your halfbacks can attack. You want to wheel the scrum to give your half-backs that platform to play and the opposition is aiming for the opposite.”

Du Toit said that the set scrums were just about equal last week, but on Saturday it could be different.

“Our front row is excited about this game, we know how we perform has a big impact on what happens later,” Du Toit said. “We can’t wait!”

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NOTTINGHAM: From the smiles and roars of approval at Lord’s to the despair and heated criticism at Trent Bridge – Joe Root can attest, that a week is a long time in Test cricket.

South Africa made bold moves between London and here, making three changes – one enforced – while their captain made a profound impact.

Faf du Plessis has been Test skipper less than a year but has a firm hand on his team.

Root is still earning his stripes, but must show the kind of strength and leadership Du Plessis provided leading up to the second Test.

There are plenty questions for England. One of those may be taken out of Root’s hands after x-rays on Gary Ballance’s left hand confirmed a broken index finger.

Root called for Ballance’s selection in this series. However scores of 20, 34, 27 and 4 are not the returns expected of a No 3 batsman and there was a grim inevitability about his second innings dismissal to Vernon Philander at Trent Bridge. The technical shortcomings with his weight on the backfoot, which sees him stuck on the crease, have been exploited by Philander and Morkel.

Keaton Jennings is also battling and could drop to No 3 – Ballance would’ve been considered at No 5, but it seems that Tom Westley will be given a chance, with Mark Stoneman set to partner Alastair Cook.

In terms of their bowling it seems that Liam Dawson will retain his place, but whether he starts is dependent on England wanting to play two spinners at The Oval. It’s no longer the fast bouncy pitch of yore, but carrying two spinners is a luxury and Dawson in particular is not worthy of such.

Mark Wood is another whose position will be under the spotlight. While Chris Morris stepped up for the Proteas at Trent Bridge, it was glaringly apparent how much the pressure on the South African batsmen decreased when Wood was brought on to bowl.

England coach Trevor Bayliss described his team’s performance at Trent Bridge as a “shocker.” The onus is on the hosts and their young captain to show the kind of bold leadership South Africa displayed in the short turnaround between Tests one and two. England have a lot longer to consider their next step – the third Test only starts in eight days’ time.

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FORMER Pinetown beauty salon owner is ploughing her way to success as a farmer in Baynesfield in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands and also plans to soon become the first black farmer in South Africa to grow golden kiwis.

Zama Buthelezi, 35, founder of The She Creative House trading as Soil Sista is also preparing to take ownership of Glentworth Farm which she turned around from a R1.9 million farm property valuation to R5.5 million in 2015. And she also recently got the attention of South African Breweries (SAB) as one of the top 10 finalists in its 2016 class of youth entrepreneurship programme, SAB KickStart Boost.

But Buthelezi’s entrepreneurial journey has not been an easy one and she had to try her hand at a couple of businesses before finding what she describes as her “calling” as a vegetable farmer.

She initially registered to study a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in accounting at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, but she left her studies to start a beauty clinic in Pinetown offering nail, facial and hair treatments. She then decided to take a job as a bookkeeper at Ernst and Young before moving to Unilever where she worked across different departments, gaining valuable business knowledge and skills until 2009.

Buthelezi quit her corporate job and joined her husband, Andile, 37, to run the KwaZulu-Natal franchise of Core Catering Supplies until 2011, when her sugar-cane farmer fatherin-law suggested that “it was time to come back to the family business”.

“My father-in-law has a farm at Albert Falls and he said it was time to come back to the family business and also in terms of succession planning, so we went back to the farm and it didn’t make sense to have just one farm.

“We needed two farms, so we looked for a vegetable farm and started learning about vegetable farming.

I have always known that I wanted to be in business,” Buthelezi said.

Buthelezi’s farm was in a dilapidated state when she signed a lease to take over operations from the previous owners.

“We started from scratch and brought it up to production. Everything we have planted and sold we have taken the money and put it back in. It has been pure organic growth and now the farm is in a position to be able to afford to pay a bond,” Buthelezi said.

Buthelezi has developed the farm into a successful operation where she now employs 16 permanent staff and 15 seasonal workers, which she aims to grow to 23 and 20 respectively by 2019.

She practises sustainable farming techniques and produces high-quality vegetables, cane and fruit with a strong focus on green vegetables such as green mealies, cabbage, lettuce, spinach and green beans as well as potatoes and butternut.

The farm also has a pomegranate orchid and Buthelezi plans to establish a golden kiwi orchid in October which will make her the first black farmer to grow the sought after, mainly imported, exotic fruit.

Buthelezi added that a farmer in Richmond, who became the first local farmer to harvest a successful crop of golden kiwis in February, will

Zama Buthelezi has taken a dilapidated farm in Baynesfield and turned it into a successful vegetable farm PICTURE: SUPPLIED that is creating jobs for local people. mentor her. “Usually, black farmers get into something late when all the money is made.

“I will be the first black farmer to plant it and I am excited about that,” she said.

Buthelezi is now planning to purchase the farm and in the long term she aims to grow it into a major commercial operation with

a R60 million turnover as well as to expand into contract harvesting and agro processing.

What drives Buthelezi is the fact that she is creating jobs and she has found her passion working the land.

“I always say to my staff that their children should not have the same lives they had.

“So it is changing the future gen-

erations. It’s about creating jobs.

“Being able to see something growing from seed to food for the nation is quite a skill and I think farmers have a rare skill set of being able to manage cash flows.

“It takes a person with a great foundation and I come from a background of a family that is in business. I have found my calling.”

‘Corruption is the enemy of the poor in SA’ Lyse Comins

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BUSINESS, civil society and the government must act swiftly to deal with rampant crime and corruption that has contributed to the country being given junk status.

This is the view of the president of the South Coast Chamber of Commerce and Industry and member of the KZN Growth Coalition and KZN Growth Council, Dr Peter Munns, who is organising a “Business Chambers Against Crime/Civil Society Against Corruption” conference in Durban, that will bring together public and private sectors to tackle these issues with a view to stimulating economic growth.

The five-day conference will be held at the Durban International

Convention Centre, near the end of the year.

“Crime is the enemy of the economy and corruption is the enemy of the poor and the needy because every cent wasted and lost is a hatpin in the heart of the poor and destitute, and lack of service delivery and infrastructure is the enemy of the entire country,” Munns said.

“We have got junk status and we are now technically in a recession, so we have moved beyond a fragile situation, to a crisis state, to another failed African state and what are we going to do about it? What we need is transparency, responsibility and accountability. There is no hope in the past but we can learn from it by changing our future,” Munns said.

Munns said it was time for busi-

ness, the government – including the SAPS, the National Prosecuting Authority and the Department of Justice – and civil society to join “hearts and minds” to find implementable solutions to the country’s problems.

Practical outputs would be an important outcome of the conference, with the signing of a peace accord and the establishment of a national peace commission, to ensure that the parties upheld their commitments to it, Munns said.

“We need to stimulate the economy. We want to develop a collective consciousness and a mutual understanding in the way things are done that will lead to meaningful change.

We need wisdom, leadership, unity and truth in action,” Munns said.

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OST small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) steer clear of government tenders despite the fact that broad-based BEE and tendering rules favour them.

The reason, SMMEs say, is because public institutions don’t pay them on time.

More than 80% of SMMEs don’t do business with the government at any level for this reason, according to the 2016 SMME Insights Survey conducted by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).

The average turnover of enterprises surveyed was R10.9 million, with a third employing between six and 49 people.

There were 1 061 participants, of which 116 were from KZN. The survey’s finding was that SMMEs believed they could flourish if the tender process was simplified and made more transparent, and if the government and big business paid their accounts on or before 30 days.

Senior executive for the public sector Julius Mojapelo said that while there were many SMMEs doing honest deals with the government through a legal, transparent process of procurement and tendering, the survey showed most preferred to steer clear of the government.

He said SAICA was working with the government to improve public finance management capacity to address the problem.

“Providing public finance management capacity-building support is a priority at SAICA,” Mojapelo said.

“This involves collaboration with public sector institutions to help them improve financial management systems and processes to ensure sustainable service delivery.”

Paying SMMEs on time would be one of the outcomes, he said.

“SAICA is also educating SMMEs and SAICA members who interact with SMMEs on the process of doing business with the government.

“This makes it easier for SMMEs to tender for contracts,” Mojapelo said.

He was optimistic that the government would improve its payment behaviour.

“I see signs of the government’s commitment to turning the situation around through recent legislation and measures,” Mojapelo said. “Among them, Treasury Regulation 8.2.3 states that, unless determined otherwise in a contract or other agreement, all payments due to creditors must be settled within 30 days from receipt of an invoice or, in the case of civil claims, from the date of settlement or court judgment.”

Mojapelo said measures the government was putting in place included the establishment of a dedicated call centre within the National Treasury to assist institutions and affected suppliers in resolving non-payment of suppliers/creditors appointed through the supply chain management process.

Non-payment The National Treasury will also provide quarterly reports to Parliament regarding the non-payment of creditors within 30 days, and make the reports public.

However, Mojapelo empathised with the plight of SMMEs struggling to get payment.

“The Small Enterprise Development Agency payment-assistance hotline is a very important platform that SMMEs can use to facilitate payment of long outstanding payments from public sector institutions,” Mojapelo said.

He added that legislation protected SMMEs in instances of slow payment.

“Should entities fail to comply with the 30-days payment terms, this will result in non-compliance with the Public Finance Management Act and Treasury Regulations.”

The National Treasury gazetted the revised Preferential Procurement Regulations in January this year, which encouraged the government and state entities to procure at least 30% of goods and services from SMMEs and co-operatives.

SMMEs wanting to report slow payment by government can call 0860 766 3729.

Senior directors and staff from Mancosa and Regent Business School at the announcement of the institutions’ new venture as part of Honoris United Universities.

Higher education network plan Network Reporter LEADING private higher education institutions Management College of Southern Africa (Mancosa) and Regent Business School are set to form part of the first pan-African higher education network.

Honoris United Universities, the first pan-African higher private education network, was recently launched in London.

The network, built upon its “collaborative intelligence” concept, brings together the pioneering efforts of leading tertiary education institutions in North and southern Africa to educate Africa’s next generation of leaders and professionals.

The network includes the leading post-secondary education group in Tunisia, Université Centrale Group, and Morocco’s Université Mundiapolis, which is renowned for its international approach and focus on employability.

Recently Honoris United Uni-

versities announced that, subject to regulatory approvals, Ecole Marocaine des Sciences de l’Ingénieur, which is the largest private institution in Morocco and the leading private engineering school, Mancosa and the Regent Business School will form part of the Honoris United Universities network.

Both Mancosa and Regent are South Africa’s leading private distance-learning institutions, focused on providing accredited, accessible and affordable education.

In a press statement, Honoris said these agreements in Morocco and South Africa marked the genesis of the pan-African education leadership position that the network sought to cement.

As a whole, Honoris United Universities will offer more than 100 degrees in fields including health sciences, engineering, information technology, business, law, architecture, arts and design, media, education and political science.

“Delivery is focused on student success and includes a blend of on-campus learning centres and distance learning,” Honoris said.

In addition, Honoris announced the appointment of Luis Lopez as its chief executive officer.

The body said: “Luis brings a strong track record of significantly widening student success and international management experience from Laureate International Universities.”

Lopez said he was proud to introduce Honoris United Universities, a platform providing international-quality education.

“It is rooted in the vision of the founders of the member institutions.

“Aware of the vital need for their communities to develop human capital, they have each worked for decades to build relevant and demanding academic models with the dual objectives of developing the employability and the life skills of their graduates.”

Retrospective changes to tax laws and the rule of law CAN Parliament amend tax laws (or any laws for that matter) so that they apply retrospectively, or are such changes contrary to the rule of law and constitution?

For the first time, in Pienaar Brothers (Pty) Ltd v Commissioner of Sars, our courts have squarely addressed this issue.

Pienaar Brothers approached the Gauteng High Court for an order declaring an amendment to the amalgamation transaction provisions in section 44 of the Income Tax Act, 1962 unconstitutional and invalid because such amendment applied retrospectively.

The amendment was promulgated on August 8, 2007, but was deemed to come into operation on February 21, 2007.

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Graeme Palmer TAX TALK The taxpayer had concluded an amalgamation transaction in March 2007, and in May 2007 made a distribution to shareholders out of its share premium account.

When the distribution was made it did not constitute a dividend as defined in the Act and no secondary tax on companies (STC) was payable. However, the retrospective amendment changed this, and following an audit by Sars in 2011, an assessment of R3.6 million

for STC was raised.

The crux of the taxpayer’s complaint was that the retrospective change to the law offended against the principle of legality and the rule of law, one of the founding values of the constitution. The taxpayer further contended that it was given insufficient warning of the proposed amendment. The court, however, held that there was no authority or legislative provision that “a fairly precise warning” needs to be given before Parliament can pass retrospective legislation.

After an exhaustive examination of both South African and international laws, the court concluded that the rule of law does not preclude retrospective legislation. But at the same time Parliament cannot legislate with

retrospective effect as it pleases.

There must be a standard by which the constitutional validity of retrospective legislation is judged. The court determined that there were two main standards, the “rationality test” and that of “reasonableness”. If the law limits a fundamental right the “reasonableness” standard applies, or “sufficient reason” in the case of a deprivation of property. If there is no infringement of the Bill of Rights, the basic “rationality” standard applies.

As there was no limitation of a fundamental right, the court applied the “rationality test”, which is not a test of whether the legislation is fair or reasonable or appropriate. The court concluded it was rational for Parliament

to be closing a tax “loophole” retrospectively and dismissed the taxpayer’s application. ● This article has been written

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The Mercury Sprint which was held at the Greyville Racecourse at the weekend, was a great success with horse Bull Valley and jockey Karl Zechner winning the main race. Money was raised for The Mercury Hibberdene Home and with patrons also PICTURES: TERRY HAYWOOD PHOTOGRAPHY winning prizes.

Djia Mambu, Wilfred Okiche and Clare Louis.

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Lungile Duma from the KZN Film Commission, Fanele Ntuli and Karuna Pillay of DIFF.

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FUN WALK Tafta (The Association for the Aged) held its annual family Fun Walk on July 15.

In the Tafta Fun Walk 5km, Cheryl Wheatcroft took first place, Jason Keith, right, took second place and third place went to Bruce Page.

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WOMEN MEAN BUSINESS Hirsch’s Homestore Ballito in partnership with the ILembe Chamber of Commerce and Industry recently hosted a Ladies Networking Morning with a great turnout of businesswomen at the Ezulwini Guest House.

Glenda Thompson, Ntombifuthi Mavundla and Jaime Ernst.

Winner of the lucky draw prize of a two-night stay at Fairmont Zimbali Resort for four people was Victor Ogram, who was presented with his prize by Zandile Nembe of Independent Media.

Sophia Marco, Jennie McCallum and Mia Olivier.

Gary and Shelley Birnie, Andre Boje, Nichola and Leon Lotter.

Westville team that participated in the event were Vanine Weekes, Marie Laing, Esther Green, Tracey Phillips and .

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OME years ago, I was able to acquire an almost full set of the General Manager’s Reports issued by the South African Railways & Harbours (SAR&H), which later became SA Transport Services (SATS) and ultimately Transnet.

Documents like this make for interesting scrutiny, especially to follow the progress of the country’s railways and ports. In the case of the Durban port, they are a valuable record of history.

For readers interested in how the port and Durban Bay developed, it might be entertaining to dip into these windows of history from time to time – not each of nearly 80 years’ worth, but perhaps at say five-year intervals to follow how the port, and later that of Richards Bay, came to be developed.

A good place to start is with the report for 1911, which was an important milestone for the harbour administration in South Africa because it marked the first full year of a centralised South African harbour service after the political realignment into the Union of South Africa.

With this unification, the harbour administrations of the Cape and Natal came under the umbrella of the SAR&H – a set-up that continues to this day, even though the organisation has undergone several name changes. In 1981, it became SATS and then in 1990, Transnet was born.

Incidentally, as these name changes took place, they coincided with a distinct depreciation in the quality of information contained in the reports, with less emphasis on the physical attributes of the group, such as the development of the railways and harbours, and more focus on financial aspects.

By 1910, the Port of Durban had become the premier port in southern Africa in terms of cargo throughput and ships and ship tonnage handled, although the Mozambican port of Lourenco Marques (now Maputo) ran it close. The case with Lourenco Marques had historical and political

The then new 2 000-ton capacity cutter suction hopper dredger Labrus at work in the Maydon Channel. causes, which the South African government would seek to address in subsequent years.

The capital accounts of the General Manager’s Report for 2011 show that a greater amount of money was being spent on developing Durban harbour than on Cape Town.

Durban’s geographic position in relation to what was then known as the Witwatersrand (now a part of Gauteng) was the key factor in the growth of Durban as a gateway port, not only for the then new South Africa, but most of the neighbouring states as well.

The harbours always played second fiddle to the railways in the old SAR&H, as indeed they continue to do to this day, although some may dispute this. In the reports, much greater detail is available for someone wanting to follow the progress of existing or new railway lines, or bridges and stations and the acquisition of new locomotives and rolling stock. But limited as it is, the detail of the progress with each harbour is recorded and documented and remains invaluable.

One of these interesting sections in the 1911 GM’s Report reveals that not only did South Africa have five recognised “main” ports (Table Bay, Mossel Bay, Algoa Bay, Buffalo Harbour and Durban), but a number of

“minor” ports were also listed, along with details of how much money was spent on them and the revenue received in return.

These minor ports on the SAR&H’s “books” included Knysna, Port Alfred, Port St Johns, Port Shepstone, Port Nolloth, Storms River and Hermanus.

Collapsed It reveals that a total of £85 745 had been expended on Port Shepstone in making that river port navigable – an effort that finally collapsed with the arrival on the lower South Coast of the railway. Ship calls at some of the minor ports had become sparse or had even stopped altogether and leaving just the prefix “Port” to remind us of what might have been.

In 1911 Storms River, however, continued to be visited by a coastal steamer operating between Port Elizabeth and Knysna, while Port Nolloth on the West Coast warranted half a page of detail, showing that no less than 114 ships called during the year which included eight sailing ships. Most of these ship calls were for the purpose of loading copper from the mines near O’Okiep, but more than 1 400 passengers also made the journey to

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this isolated little harbour near the mouth of the Orange River.

Coming back to Durban, the 1911 report shows that in that year, 1 480 steam ships called at Durban (Cape Town 1 234) along with 93 sailing ships (Cape Town 29). In addition, 25 “men-of-war” ships called here in Durban. Durban was and would remain an important port of call for naval vessels for the next 50 to 60 years.

The average size of steamships calling at Durban in 1911 was 4 559 gross, while 68 were of more than 10 000 tons gross register.

Coal bunkering was one of Durban’s important “export” commodities back then – with steamships requiring coal to heat their boilers. With the proximity of the Northern Natal coalfields and Durban as a terminus for many ships calling from UK and Europe, as well as being a handy midway port-ofcall for ships plying between Argentina and the Far East, the Bluff coal terminal was a busy place.

According to the report, the whaling season for 2011 was a highly successful one, with the number of whales captured and brought to Durban totalling 1 015, compared with 531 in 1910 and 155 in 1909.

Down at the Point, the old wooden wharf had been replaced with a

concrete quay 216m in length and a depth alongside of 11.6m. That’s quite impressive. At Congella, as Maydon Wharf was then referred to and where the development of new wharves was still fairly new, 158.5m of wooden wharves had been provided. By that stage, Durban harbour boasted of having 4 010m of berthage.

To maintain the right amount of depth alongside these quay walls the harbour dredgers had been busy and a total of almost 3.7 million tons of spoil had been dredged from the entrance and harbour. Also during the year, a new suction cutter dredger named Labrus arrived from the Clyde and was put immediately to work at Congella.

In 1911, the port did not yet have a dry dock. Instead ships were repaired on a floating dock which was situated initially at Salisbury Island, but in 1911 was relocated to I berth, which is an area opposite Cato Creek now covered by the base of the T-Jetty. The floating dock, had a similar lifting capacity (8 500 tons) of the two present-day floating docks, Eldock and Dormac Dock 1 at Bayhead, and in 1911 no less than 35 merchant ships and one warship, with a combined tonnage of 75 780 tons, underwent repairs on this dock.

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THE recent dredging of the access channels to the port of Maputo has proven to be an enabler for other infrastructure projects in the port, one of these being Grindrod’s Terminal de Carvão da Matola (TCM).

This is an open storage dry bulk handling terminal customised to handle coal and magnetite. The works, which were completed this month, included the deepening of its existing berth pocket to -15.4m below Chart Datum to accommodate fully laden Panamax vessels and refurbishment work and the installation of a new fender support structure and fender system extending the quay by an 8.5m offset.

The fender system and supporting structure were designed and constructed by South African marine contractor, Subtech.

The larger TCM shiploader has been modified by way of extending the boom to load at this offset. A second ship loader will be modified later in the year.

These installations and modifications

The modified ship loader at Matola.

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were completed during a 19 calendar day operational shutdown of the existing quay.

The berth was reopened on July 5 and the first Panamax vessel, the 98 800-dwt bulker Martine loaded 83 403 tons and sailed on July 8 bound for China.

During the period January to June this

year, TCM exported 750 000 tons of coal and 1 800 000 tons of magnetite. Bongiwe Ntuli, CEO of Grindrod Freight Services, attributes this to “the demand for export capacity driven by the recovery in commodity prices, and the support from our rail partners Transnet Freight Rail and CFM”.

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Banker to brand guru

Young Durban entrepreneur Mbali Bhengu is activating brands and switching audiences on with her marketing consultancy.

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Lyse Comins MBALI Bhengu, 29, a creative and entrepreneur by nature who has refused to accept failure, quit the corporate banking sector to pursue her passion for marketing – and in just a year has clinched some top clients.

Bhengu, who worked as a personal banker at Nedbank, landed up in banking by default. This was after her first graduate intern job as a brand ambassador at Capitec Bank led to her working initially as a consultant at branch level before she became a sales consultant and then team leader. Bhengu had obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in media and communications at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and later her Masters degree, so banking was not part of her original career plan. In fact, she had really wanted to study drama but her parents coaxed her out of the idea.

Bhengu eventually quit the bank and tried to start up her marketing consultancy, Mind Switch, a few years ago. When it failed she accepted a job at Nedbank in 2015.

But her entrepreneurial spirit could not be contained and she quit last year to give her business idea another chance, this time with success.

Passionate about marketing and activations, she tirelessly employed her skills to promote her own brand on social media and radio. She also hosted an upmarket brand empowerment seminar as a business launch at Audacia Manor in Morningside. Her efforts led to her clinching valuable brand building media interviews on Gagasi FM, YFM and Cliff Central. “I am a marketer, so self PR is critical,� Bhengu said.

She has since been contracted to do work for the Vodacom Durban July, Durban Tourism, the Durban

International Film Festival and Nedbank. She was also recently chosen as one of 10 finalists in the SAB KickStart Boost and received R50 000 in grant funding.

Bhengu’s Durban-based consultancy focuses on providing companies with out of the box marketing solutions with emphasis on campaign development and brand activations.

Her business offerings focus on corporates with a special focus on servicing emerging SMMEs. Bhengu employs one contract worker and eight part-time people. She aims to employ eight full time people by the end of 2018 and is enjoying the challenges and personal growth entrepreneurship presents. “Entrepreneurship is fun. We do not work for brands, we work with brands. I am most proud of the brands we have worked with and the events we’ve pulled off.�

What motivates Bhengu is her dream that her business could be a “poster child� for employment in South Africa. “The possibility of becoming an internationally recognised company, drives me every day. Brands are everywhere and the hunger to produce sustainable ideas and activations really excites me.�

Birth of a new business body in the Midlands PETA LEE WITH the sad demise of the Midlands Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the beginning of last year, businesses in Howick and the surrounding area, have been without a formalised networking structure ever since.

But that’s about to change. The independent National Employers’ Chamber (NEC) was registered as an NPO earlier this year, and officially launched in Howick on June 22.

Founders Gerhard Botha of Rivers Labour Consultants and Terence James of auditing firm Russell James & Co Inc believe the new organisation will provide business support for members. “We want to provide a service to local businesses but also other employer organisations – similar, in a way, From left: Founding members of the new National Employers Chamber, headquartered in Howick, are to the Afrikaans Handelsinstituute,� explained Botha. “Ideally, we want like-minded organisations and Gerhard Botha, Odea Botha and Terence James. individuals, from small, medium and large companPICTURE: PETA LEE ies, from all sectors, to feel they have a safe and reliable back-up from the NEC.�

As a case in point, the NEC has taken to heart the proposed new KZN Business Bill. Last night the organisation held an information workshop open to all local businesses. The Bill is seeking to levy a registration and licensing fee on all businesses across the province. “These are the types of issues we would like to help businesses with,� said James.

Thursday, August 3, 2017 – Hilton Hotel Durban Botha added:“What has become increasingly apparTopics to be discussed include: ent is that business communities really need to unite to

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WAZULU-NATAL is set on becoming the first province to offer a degree in investment promotion that will help the province, country and African continent to attract foreign investment.

The Trade, Investment Promotion and Economic Development Programme (Tiped) is the brainchild of Mxolisi Miya, executive manager for corporate services at Trade and Investment KwaZulu-Natal (TIKZN).

It is a trade and inward investment promotion agency established to promote KwaZulu-Natal as an investment destination and to facilitate trade by assisting local companies to access international markets.

Already 22 students have enrolled for the inaugural course launched in March 2017.

The advanced programme will consist of two modules of two days each, to be offered over two months, commencing on August 17 in Durban. Thereafter, the Master’s programme will be introduced.

Zamo Gwala, chief executive of TIKZN, said KZN had made history by offering the investment degree in South Africa for the first time. “Global and regional competition in attracting foreign direct investment continues to intensify as traditional competitive advantages are eroded and the information about the investment destinations becomes easily accessible to investors. “It is critical for investment promotion agencies such as TIKZN and municipalities to resource themselves with professionals who are highly competent. “These individuals must also possess a range of pertinent technical and soft skills to remain competitive in the constantly changing trade

and investment environment,� he said.

Miya who is also responsible for human resources and marketing at TIKZN said when he came to the realisation that no academic training was offered locally in investment promotion, he decided to establish a tailor-made programme.

He approached the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) which was keen to partner with TIKZN and a memorandum of understanding was signed to introduce the course which is currently only offered at Scotland’s Edinburgh-Napier University at Master’s level. “It is within this context that TIKZN decided to engage with UKZN to initiate an advanced degree programme focusing on development economics; investment promotion and trade and development finance. “It is also important that this programme puts more emphasis on addressing economic challenges faced by emerging African countries.�

The programme will be most useful to anyone working in the investment promotion space, including local municipalities, he said.

TIKZN will provide support for the academic programme.

Simon Tankard, chief executive of UKZN’s Extended Learning Unit, said: “We are very excited to be offering studies in investment promotion which is relevant to the needs of all stakeholders wanting to build their capacity to engage effectively with investors into South Africa and other markets in Africa. “The Tiped is designed to provide a seamless pipeline to build South Africa’s capacity to lead and manage strategic and sustainable investment, both inwards to the country and in building the country’s export capacity to global markets, in line with the strategic goals and objectives of key stakeholders.�

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New vision for policing An analyst examines data, trying to predict where officers should be deployed, at the Camden County Police Department’s Real-Time Tactical PICTURES: MISHA FRIEDMAN BLOOMBERG Operation Intelligence Centre in New Jersey. The data includes a mug shot blurred out by Photoshop.

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HERE’S a story Brett Goldstein likes to tell. It starts on a Friday night in 2010 with him poring over maps.

Goldstein was a commander at the Chicago Police Department, in charge of a unit using data analysis to predict where certain types of crimes were likely to occur.

Earlier that day, his computer models forecast a heightened probability of violence on a particular block.

Now that he and his partner were there, Goldstein was doubting himself.

“It didn’t look like it should be a target for a shooting,” he recalled.

Still, they staked it out. Goldstein’s partner argued that the data must be wrong. At 11pm, they left.

Several hours later, Goldstein woke up to the sound of his BlackBerry buzzing. There had been a shooting – on the block.

“This sticks with me because we thought we shouldn’t be there, but the computer thought we should be there,” Goldstein said. He took it as vindication of his vision for the future of law enforcement.

Last year, Goldstein founded CivicScape, a technology company that sells crime-predicting software to police departments.

Nine cities, including four of the country’s 35 largest cities by population, are using or implementing the software, at an annual cost from $30 000 (R390 000) for cities with less than 100 000 people, to

black men in Minnesota, Ohio and $155 000 in cities with populations Wisconsin. In each case, the officer’s of more than one million. Goldstein defence relied on his perception of was checking in on two clients: the danger. The worst-case scenario with police departments in Camden and predictive policing software is deLinden. ploying officers to target areas with Goldstein is well suited to be a their ears raised, leading pitchman for police them to turn violent in departments. In Chiwhat would otherwise cago he rose from pabe routine encounters. trol officer to the city’s The police departchief data officer over a ments Goldstein visited seven-year government in New Jersey didn’t career. raise any questions He’s also peddling about fairness, but there something that every was scepticism. He had department is after barely started speaking nowadays: technoBRETT GOLDSTEIN to officers in the Linlogical sophistication. den Police Department The criminal justice when the man who handled the system produces reams of data, and city’s procurement process confessed new computing methods may turn how wary he was of software vendany pool of numbers into something ors’ magical-sounding claims. useful. Technology is transforming The Camden County Police the craft of policing.

Department’s Real-Time Tactical The historical information these Operation Intelligence Centre or RTprograms use to predict patterns of TOIC, as it’s known, is a windowless crime aren’t a neutral recounting of room from which the department objective fact, they’re a reflection of runs its technological initiatives. socio-economic disparities and the When Goldstein visited this month, aggressive policing of black neighthe futuristic sheen had been underbourhoods. Computer scientists mined by the failure of the building’s have held up predictive policing as a air conditioning. poster child of a how automated deStill, the department’s leadership cision-making can be misused. thinks the RT-TOIC represents the A numbing progression of pofuture of policing. About a dozen lice shootings in the past several people were at work, most sitting at years serve as a reminder of what’s at stations displaying four to six comstake when police officers see certain puter screens. Screens showing maps communities as disproportionateand footage from surveillance camly threatening. Last month, juries eras were displayed on the wall. failed to convict officers who killed

Camden integrated CivicScape into the RT-TOIC three months ago.

The company’s maps are always running, changing hourly to reflect updated data. When targets change, analysts switch their screens to the surveillance cameras pointed at those blocks.

Officers translate what’s happening in the RT-TOIC to officers on the street.

Officers in patrol cars didn’t know whether an order was derived from newfangled maths, the judgement of a superior officer or a mixture, said Kerry Yerico, the department’s director of criminal intelligence and analysis.

On the day of Goldstein’s visit, Yerico and Lieutenant Jeremy Merck, the watch commander on duty, were discussing an area CivicScape had flagged. Merckrecognised the area – his officers had said that drug dealers were ramping up operations there.

Neither Yerico nor Merck knew exactly how the department’s computers and humans had homed in on the same spot.

The guts of CivicScape’s predictive system are a series of neural networks. Neural networks examine large data sets in which the inputs and outcomes are labelled. They then determine patterns they can use to predict what will happen when presented with new data.

In CivicScape’s case, the inputs are the historical data sets provided by their clients, and the outcomes are past crimes. – Bloomberg

A NEW type of malware that threatens to send your private pictures, messages and internet browsing history to your friends has been discovered.

LeakerLocker can be accidentally downloaded through apps on Google Play.

It locks your phone’s home screen and claims to have made a backup of any “sensitive information” you have stored on it.

It then threatens to leak it to everyone you know, unless you pay off the criminals behind it.

According to McAfee, the world’s largest dedicated security technology company, the apps Wallpapers Blur HD and Booster & Cleaner Pro both carry the threat, which has the potential to cause extreme embarrassment.

“LeakerLocker locks the home screen.

“It then accesses private information in the background, thanks to its victims granting permissions at installation time,” said McAfee.

“Not all the private data that the malware claims to access is read or leaked.

“The ransomware can read a victim’s e-mail address, random contacts, Chrome history, some text messages and calls, pick a picture from the camera, and read some device information.”

Wallpapers Blur HD has been downloaded between 5 000 and 10 000 times and has a rating of 3.6 stars (out of five).

And Booster & Cleaner Pro has between 1 000 and 5 000 downloads and a 4.5-star rating.

Both apps have been reported to Google, which is investigating.

If LeakerLocker does manage to infect your phone, McAfee says you should refuse to pay the $50 ransom it demands.

“Doing so contributes to the proliferation of this malicious business, which will lead to more attacks.

“Also, there is no guarantee that the information will not be released or used to blackmail victims again,” the company said.

Realistically, however, it’s inevitable that some people will decide to make the payment, due to sheer panic. – The Independent

What you can do to make your computer work better THERE are several options to consider to help boost a PC’s performance. There are system maintenance tasks that free up resources or make data faster to access and there are hardware upgrades that improve the speed at which your system can process data.

Hardware upgrades such as an SSD can set you back R2 000, but they deliver significant improvements in performance, while other changes might offer a noticeable boost and cost nothing more than a bit of your time.

SSD A large part of a PC’s performance is attributable to how fast it can read data from or write data to its primary hard drive. Most PCs ship with a standard hard drive

Andrew Parker SWITCHED ON that uses spinning magnetic discs to store data.

Solid state drives (SSDs) are unlike a standard hard drive because they have no moving parts. There are no spinning discs and no roving heads to read the data. They consist of something called flash memory, which stores data on static highspeed circuits.

It’s similar to the memory used in portable USB memory drives, but more reliable and robust.

Functionally SSDs appear to the user like a normal hard drive, but

they operate much faster and the performance increase they can offer is often astounding.

I’ve written at length about SSDs and how to go about installing one.

You can download an earlier Switched On series from www. tinyurl.com/SSDseries2017.

The process involves copying your operating system to the new SSD drive or reinstalling it from scratch – not a task for the inexperienced, so get professional advice if you’re not comfortable with this sort of tinkering.

You can email me using online@ intech.co.za if you have any questions.

Defragmenting Defragmenting is like getting a friendly PA into your home office

for a tidy-up: it organises all related data into cohesive sections rather than leaving bits of files scattered all over a disk.

Defragmenting a hard drive is an important maintenance procedure that any PC stalwart will swear by, but because even standard hard drives are a lot faster than they used to be, it doesn’t offer the performance boost that it used to.

Modern Windows versions usually perform “defrag” automatically, although it’s worth checking to see if this has completed recently, as it won’t run if your PC is not on at the scheduled time. Details for defragmenting a drive in a Windows 7 PC are at www.tinyurl.com/win7defrag2017 . For Windows 10 systems see the guide at www.tinyurl.com/ win10defrag2017.

Drivers Problematic drivers can cause performance or reliability issues.

They’re a type of software used to send commands from your computer to its internal hardware and external devices such as printers and scanners.

Because there are so many different systems and configurations available, drivers regularly require updating to deal with bugs and incompatibilities. Unfortunately, issues can be caused by either using outdated drivers or (less frequently) as a side-effect of installing updated drivers. There’s a useful guide to updating drivers for all versions of Windows at www.tinyurl.com/ driverupdate2017 . See you next week for more.