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Fishers want answers NETTALIE VILJOEN
keter’s offer was not known) at a fishing community meeting held in November. “Toe hardloop almal na die R320 (everyone ran after the R320),” says Phillips. She emphasises that it was the fishers’ choice and their choice alone to go with Amplified. However, the deal is now surrounded by controversy with claims of unfulfilled promises from both parties. Nodada says the deal was only for live lobster, while the fishers believe otherwise. “No company would promise R320/kg for dead fish just for the sake of securing a deal with a community. It just doesn’t make business sense. Only the local market is interested in buying frozen lobster at a much lower price,” says Nodada. He says the international retail price of live lobster fluctuates depending on the season, but currently, the international retail price is about US$38 per kilogramme (about R540). Achmat, however, says the price agreed upon did not come with any conditions. V Continued on page 2.
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Jazz learners to shine Wynberg Secondary School’s band will take to the stage with some of the greatest names in jazz at the free community concert, a pre-festival of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIFJ) on Wednesday 25 March. The high school learners will perform as part of the CTIJF’s sustainable training and development programme. Each year, one school participating in the programme’s music and career workshops is chosen to perform at the following year’s free community concert. Wynberg Secondary School’s band was selected based on their performance and their participation during four workshops. See full story on page 12. PHOTO: NETTALIE VILJOEN
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aar is ons geld?” (Where is our money?) These words are on the lips of many Hangberg interim and small-scale fishing rights holders who agreed to sell the first phase (50.16kg per person for the 2019/2020 Interim Relief Fishing season) of their 2019/2020 West Coast Rock Lobster allocation to Amplified Projects and Investments, a local marketer. Of the 125 fishers who signed with the marketer, it is alleged that only 20 have been paid in full. The rest have either received a portion of their money or, some claim, nothing at all. Beatrice Yon, chair of the First Indigenous Women group in Hangberg and a community appointed assistant caretaker, claims a well-known line-fisher in the community, Yusuf Achmat, first alerted the community to a possible deal with Amplified, owned by Lithu Nodada, in October last year. “He posted a message on the United Fishers of South Africa WhatsApp group, saying that, for those who are interRight(s), here we go ested, Amplified The West Coast rock lobster was willing to pay season for area 8 opened on R320 per kilogram 14 November last year and is for crayfish,” says set to close on 30 April. Yon. Through the years, the weight Charmaine Philin lobster allocated to individlips, the authorised ual fishing rights holders has representative for declined considerably. the Hangberg fishAt present, it is divided into ing community, two phases: 50.16kg (to be confirms this. She pulled by small fishing vessays Achmat apsels called “bakkies”) and proached her and 51.76kg (caught by commerAmplified’s offer cial fishing companies) per was put on the table, right’s holder. along with two other For the past 13 seasons, offers from Inkosi DEFF has granted interim Keta Marine (R300/ fishing rights to just over 90 kg) and Timo/Wise people living in Hangberg (at the time of the meeting, the mar-
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while the process to implement small-scale fishing rights where being refined. Last year, the minister of environment, forestry and fisheries, Barbara Creecy, finally announced that small-scale fishing rights would be allocated to those who qualified by December (“Fishers’ voices heard”, People’s Post, 15 October 2019). This season – the 14th and last season for interim rights holders – interim fishing rights and small scale fishing rights are running concurrently, bringing the combined number of Hangberg fishers on both lists to 186.
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