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CAPE TOWN

Sights, sound, splendour

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t has been a decade of splendour for the Cape Town Carnival having lit up the streets of Cape Town with colour.

Looking ahead to the next 10 years, the 11th carnival will celebrate the “Incredible journey: sounds of South Africa”.

The official theme was launched at Nasdak, the rooftop venue at the Media24 centre, in the CBD on Friday 31 January, beginning the 50 days’ countdown to this year’s event.

“We started with one float in Long Street with 12 000 spectators,” says Prof Rachel Jafta who has been part of the carnival for several years.

Jafta says, this year, carnival goers can expect to see and hear parades inspired by all local sounds – from marimba to marabi, uhadi to riel – showcasing the music, song, dance and art of our country.

Jay Douwes, CEO of Cape Town Carnival, says: “We are celebrating 10 years of igniting joy and unity through creativity. Through this project, we have seen the incredible ingenuity and talent of our people and are proud to have been able to provide the platform for locals and international visitors to experience this.”

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People’s Post is an official media partner of the event.

General access to the carnival is free but bleacher-style terraced platform seats are available for purchase (R350 each) along with the ultimate Cape Town Carnival hospitality experience – exclusive raised-platform seating, including drinks and finger foods (R1 390 each).

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for Multichoice South Africa, says: “At the end of the day, we want to enrich people’s lives and make a positive and valued difference. That’s what makes our partnership with the Cape Town Carnival compelling.”

Several exciting floats, along with 2000 performers, will again line the streets.

To close the show, a float inspired by the Afro-future will excite audiences and offer an insight into what organisers believe the future of the country and the carnival will look like.

The Cape Town Carnival will take place on the Fan Walk on Saturday 21 March.

Thousands of spectators are expected to line the streets.

Cape Town mayor Dan Plato says the City is excited to again be part of the carnival as it is a unique opportunity that unites people from all over the city. Plato says they will continue to enforce their stance on genderbased violence and use their platform to say, “Enough is enough”.

V Samantha Lee-Jacobs took these photos.

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on Monday and Wednesday nights for juniors from 17:00 to 18:00 and for seniors from 18:30 to 20:00. Players are to wear their soccer boots. For more information, call club secretary Tania on 083 329 3298.

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PEOPLE'S POST | WOODSTOCK | MAITLAND Tuesday, 4 February 2020

MAITLAND

Walkways to bring safety for residents T

he construction of new walkways in Garden Village, Maitland, is scheduled to start this week.

The work will take place from 07:30 until 17:00 on weekdays, weather permitting and is expected to be complete within a week, should all go as planned.

The new walkways will be constructed along Perseverance Road, Haig, Discovery and Beatty avenues.

“Improving road safety in neighbourhoods and making an area easily accessi-

ble to all residents is one of our service delivery priorities. This particular area is frequented by pedestrians wanting to access the local primary school; educare; community centre and soccer club in the neighbourhood.

I am very pleased that the residents in the area will soon have safe walkways to use on their way to school and other community facilities,” says Mayco member for transport, Felicity Purchase.

The cost of the project amounts to

around R420 000 and local labour will be sourced from the community via the subcouncil jobseekers database.

Residents and road users that make use of these roads are advised that traffic moving in both directions will be affected during the construction period.

Flag personnel will regulate traffic in one direction at a time.

Work areas will also be temporarily demarcated to regulate traffic flow during the day.

Vehicles will be allowed to park in the demarcated area after 18:00, provided that they vacate the work areas before 06:30.

Parked vehicles that obstruct the construction works will be moved or towed away.

“The project comes with some inconvenience, and I want to thank the residents in advance for their patience. We will try to get the project done as soon as we can, and hopefully, all of us will soon reap the benefits,” says Purchase.

First 500 officers ready to fight crime in identified hotspots NETTALIE VILJOEN As a fake grenade drops to the ground, learner law enforcement officers launch themselves diagonally away from the would-be explosive device.

A split second later and a few metres away, they drop to the ground, face-down, bodies in a straight line, with the soles of their boots pointed in the direction of the blast. Toes are kicked into the sand, hard, with flexed feet forming a shield. The thick rubber soles in position to catch most of the shrapnel. They hope.

But don’t try this at home.

The soon-to-be auxiliary law enforcement officers were put through their paces at the City’s Metropolitan Police Department Training Academy in Ndabeni on Tuesday 28 January. They represent the first half of the 1 000 officers to be deployed through the run of the year as part of the City’s Safety and Security

Directorate’s Law Enforcement Advancement Plan.

This initiative, a joint venture by the Western Cape provincial government and the City of Cape Town, will guide the City’s efforts to assist the provincial safety plan launched by premier Alan Winde last year.

Five hundred of these recruits will join the ranks of the City’s law enforcement services after their passing out parade at Athlone Stadium on Sunday 9 February.

The rest are scheduled to complete their training by July. Ultimately, the safety plan foresees a total deployment of 3000 officers.

The men and women, who received peace officer and traffic warden training, will be able to enforce municipal by-laws, issue fines and execute warrants of arrest.

On the day that People Post visited the academy, the officers were in the middle of tactical stop and approach training, which includes procedures to correctly and safely deal with

potentially dangerous suspect vehicles in the field.

Trainers, who play the role of the “crooks”, purposefully make the scenarios as stressful as possible, coming up with sneaky ways to throw the trainees off guard or to catch them out.

Adding extra pressure to the already tense situation was the presence of two visitors – mayor Dan Plato and mayco member for safety and security JP Smith. They were there to inspect the officers’ progress.

Plato said he was pleased with what he saw.

“We can’t send them to the streets without the necessary basic training. They are being trained by people who have years of experience behind them. I am confident that they will know what they are doing.”

The appointment of the new officers will be guided by crime pattern analysis within areas. The officers will be assigned to 10 key crime hotspots which will be announced at

Learner law enforcement officers participate in stress exercises at the City’s Metropolitan Police Department Training Academy in Ndabeni.

CITY OF CAPE TOWN

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the passing out parade.

Plato believes the programme will have a meaningful impact in helping to keep communities safe.

“Safety is the primary responsibility of the police. However, as a caring government, we have to play our part in filling the gaps left by inadequate police resources in the city and province,” he said.

Smith said stress training played a crucial role in preparing officers for real-life incidents. “These exercises make them aware of the variables,” he explained, saying that they were repeated many times, imprinting officers’ actions and reactions and giving them a sense of control.

Smith says the recruits would go a long way to compensate for the loss in the provincial police staff.

Today there are 4 500 less officers in the field than there were five years ago, leaving 85% of stations under-resourced, he said.

He blames attrition for the huge reduction in police numbers in the province. He says over time, as officers retired or resigned, positions were not filled.

“The dwindling in police officers has left communities bleeding. The first thing is to get the numbers right. Next is building competency, quality and refinement,” he said.

Going ahead, the auxiliary law enforcement officers will receive continuous, on-thejob legislated training and, after two years, they will advance to being law enforcement officers. Sgt Vernon Johnson, one of the chief trainers at the academy, says the first batch of recruits have shown a tremendous amount of passion and drive.

“They are very enthusiastic. There were quite a few who had injuries, but they pushed through. Their level of dedication is phenomenal.”

During his 18 years as a police officer, Johnson has worked in the tactical response, gang and drug tasking, and substance abuse units.

His experience is but an example of the many skilled and accomplished trainers at the academy who recruits can learn from.

Johnson’s parting advice to graduating officers is: “As I mentioned in class, be aware of your surroundings, don’t get sidetracked and always watch your six.”

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GOVERNMENT

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successor for the current provincial head of health was officially announced on Thursday 23 January.

Dr Keith Cloete will take up office on Wednesday 1 April, following the retirement of Dr Beth Engelbrecht.

Provincial minister for health, Dr Nomafrench Mbombo says: “Dr Cloete has deep roots in the communities of the Western Cape. Hailing from Worcester, and having studied medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT), he performed his internship at Groote Schuur, New Somerset, Peninsula Maternity and Red Cross hospitals.

“He started his professional career as a medical officer at the Mitchell’s Plain Community Health Centre, and has worked in multiple positions towards the senior management level in the department over the past 28 years.”

She adds: “I believe he is well-positioned to grasp the community needs but also the

complexities of the wide range of health systems challenges. He has also worked extensively in inter-governmental initiatives locally, and has participated nationally and internationally as part of various health initiatives.”

Cloete has outlined some of his focus areas for the next five years to include serving every member of society to have a healthier and more dignified life, working collaboratively with citizens and all sectors of society to address the health care needs of all citizens, as part of providing universal health coverage and creating an endearing culture of trust and mutual respect within the department.

He will also focus on investing in the development of the capabilities of all staff members to provide leadership and being able to cope with the ever-increasing complexities faced in the healthcare system and to continually improving the healthcare

system in the province.

“I am humbled by the responsibility of the position that I will hold. I am thankful for the opportunity to play my part to contribute towards the greater good, with a special commitment to the most vulnerable members of society,” he says.

“I thank my predecessors for the solid foundation that has been laid to build upon, and pay my sincerest appreciation to especially Dr Beth Engelbrecht for her exemplary leadership and for creating an enabling and person-centred culture in our department, over the past five years.”

In closing, he says he is excited to start work with his new teams.

“I am extremely fortunate to be able to work with an exceptional team of managers and clinical staff members. I believe that we will continually improve our healthcare system in order to serve our society better,” he concludes.

Records tumble as Yoshi moves on It has been more than 740 days since her release and now loggerhead turtle, Yoshi is hitting record-setting migration figures of 35 400km.

The longest swim recorded by a human is 2 882km over 157 days by Ross Edgley, who

lost chunks of his tongue during the swim due to extensive salt exposure.

Humpback whale migrations have been recorded at about 5 000km – with a record of 8 000km. Yoshi would definitely be able to keep up with them. Yoshi has also covered more distance than the very famous great white shark, Nicole, who covered 11 000km to visit Australia in 2004. To try and put this into context – Yoshi has covered almost 1.5 million lengths of a gym swimming pool.

Austra-

Yoshi while at the Two Oceans Aquarium.

lian scientists from the Western Australian department of biodiversity, conservation and attractions as well as from Griffiths University, have made contact with the Two Oceans Aquarium due to great interest in Yoshi’s journey but also in Yoshi – she might very well be an Aussie by genetics.

“We are hoping, in collaboration with them and our own oceans and coast department and local geneticists, that we might just be able to figure this out. They are also on standby should she decide to head to shore and nest. To have global support for Yoshi is just incredible,” says Renée Leeuwner, Two Oceans spokesperson.

“Right now she is, as usual, moving between distinctive ridges (which means more food). She is about 150km north of the Sonja Ridge, 210km north of the Cape Range Fracture Zone and about 290km north of the Cuvier Basin. “During the late Jurassic period this area formed part of Gondwanaland – which was pretty much composed of South American and African landmasses on the west, and Antarctic, Madagascan, Great Indian and Australian landmasses in the east – before it separated off into the continents we know today.”

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Pace seals hat-trick in Cape Town L

Lee-Anne Pace claimed her 25th career victory when she sealed a hat-trick of Cape Town Ladies Open wins on the Sunshine Ladies Tour. The Pearl Valley golfer carded rounds of 72, 69 and 67 to win by five shots from Nobuhle Dlamini at King David Mowbray Golf Club.

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ee-Anne Pace hopes her Cape Town Ladies Open hat-trick is a good omen as she begins to resuscitate her career on the Sunshine Ladies Tour in 2020.

Pace successfully wrapped up her 25th career victory with a five-shot victory on eight under par after closing with a five-under 67 on a blustery final day at King David Mowbray Golf Club on Friday 31 January.

Her last visit to the winner’s circle was in the same event two years ago at Royal Cape Golf Club and her first success was also at Royal Cape in 2016.

“I’m super, super happy,” said Pace as she hugged the trophy and flashed a big smile at the applauding crowd during prize giving.

“I didn’t expect it this week. Last year was a write-off; I just didn’t enjoy it anymore. I missed two cuts and decided to take a total break from the game. The break did me the world of good. I played two events in the last six months and missed the cut in both, so I didn’t really expect to start this well. But time away from the game was really good for me. I am in a good place in my life and I felt very comfortable out there. I am enjoying it again. This is perfect to start building form for the Ladies European Tour.”

Pace opened with an even-par 72 and dipped three shots below par in the second round to start the final day one shot behind Nobuhle Dlamini on four-under.

She reeled in three birdies over the first

six holes, and managed to come through the second and fourth holes relatively unscathed.

“I doubled the second hole and bogeyed the fourth in the first two rounds, so that cost me four shots,” Pace said.

“I don’t know what it is about that second hole, but I bogeyed it again in the final round. Luckily the birdies on one, three and six gave me a boost.”

Pace lauded her caddie, 16-year-old Bridge Fund Manager Junior Series finalist Jere Brits from Paarl, for guiding her to the winner’s circle.

“Jere had been absolutely brilliant all week and he deserves a lot of credit. He gave me all the right clubs, the lines and the pace and even an eagle at the 14th. I wanted to hit an 8-iron and he talked me into a seven, and we got the eagle.”

Two perfectly-timed shots on the ultimate hole set her up for a birdie finish and she nailed it.

With a record setting start to the 2020 season, how much would Pace like to finish it off with a record fourth triumph in the Investec South African Women’s Open in midMarch?

“It’s definitely in the back of my mind, as is winning the Investec Order of Merit,” she said.

“I got so close last year, and I would love to get the win. That trophy comes with spots

in the British Women’s Open and the Evian Championship and LET membership until the end of 2021.

More than anything, it would be great to be the first four-time winner.

“It was a really great week with the putter and I was driving it better every day, so I am looking forward to the rest of the season, and to keep on building form. And hopefully Jere’s mom and dad will let me borrow him again for Westlake.”

While Pace was in blistering form, Dlamini struggled to recreate the magic of her second round 67.

The 2019 Investec Order of Merit winner paid the penalty of an errant drive at the par four second with a double bogey and had to settle for second on three-under.

Durbanville rookie Tara Griebenow played the final round with Pace and Dlamini and finished an impressive third on level par after rounds of 73, 71 and 72.

Ernie Els and Fancourt Foundation member Larissa du Preez bagged the Leading Amateur honour.

The Silver Lakes golfer carded rounds of 73, 75 and 73 to tie American Jordy LaBarbera for eighth overall on five-over 221.

The Sunshine Ladies Tour travels to Sun City next for the R400 000 SuperSport Ladies Challenge presented by Sun International at the Gary Player and Lost City courses from Tuesday 4 to Thursday 6 February.