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Police arrest three knifemen
The man in this photo is wanted by Hillbrow police in connec-tion with various theft cases in the Hillbrow neighbourhood. The suspect is in his late 20s and of medium built. Anyone with information about his whereabouts may contact De-tective Warrant Officer Khum-alo on cellphone 074 703 2767 or telephone 011 488 6565.
This week Hillbrow police ar-rested three suspects for al-
leged armed robbery and assault, says police spokesperson Sgt Jenny Pillay. She explains that at about mid-night on Wednesday police on pa-trol came across a stabbing victim who was bleeding in the hand. “They then leant that he had been stabbed and robbed of his cellphone by three men who had just fled the scene. The complaint and the po-lice drove in the direction of where the suspects ran, and found the three suspects,” Sgt Pillay says. Police searched the suspects and
found one of them in possession of a knife, and another in possession of the victim’s cell phone, Sgt Pil-lay adds. “The suspects were arrested and the victim was taken to hospital for medical attention.” In the same period a 38 year-old man was arrested on suspicion of dealing in drugs, Sgt Pillay says. “Police received information con-cerning a suspect dealing in drugs. Constable John Phala and Sergeant France Sebetoa followed up on the information which led them to a flat in Berea. Upon searching the flat they found 50 pieces of heroine es-timated to be valued at R5 000 hid-den in a wardrobe, and the man was arrested,” Sgt Pillay adds.
The truck pictured above caused a scare this week when its container
tipped over and crashed onto the wall of
the South African Commercial and Tex-tiles Workers Union (SACTWU) offices in End Street in the Joburg CBD. The driver of the vehicle belonging to Anix Transport company of Durban said the cause of the accident was the
container’s faulty balancing system. No one was hurt in the incident. “I was parking the truck to deliver goods when the container lost balance and fell off, fortunately there was no one in the pavement at that time.”
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Lusitoland festival is back
Romaana Naidoo
Joburg’s annual Lusitoland Festi-val is back, once again bringing
a taste of Portugal to the city. As always, there are traditional food stalls, potent caipirinhas and an abundance of entertainment. Rock group Prime Circle is per-forming at Lusitoland.Hosted by the Lusito Association for the Mentally and Physically Challenged, the festival runs from 19 April to 1 May at Wemmer Pan, Turf Road, La Rochelle. According to the organisers, José dos Santos and Suzy de Lima, the festival has over 16 000 visitors and 147 stalls each year.
This year, the entertainment in-cludes performances by Crazy White Boy, Mi Casa, Jax Panik, Sorina and Flooze, Denim, Prime Circle, Kurt Darren, Liquid Deep, Locnville, DJs Fresh and Euphonik, Jack Parow, and Dr Victor and The Rasta Rebels. When it comes to food, there are six restaurants, seven pubs and street cafés offering grilled peri peri chicken, chouriço, prego rolls, chicken livers, espetadas, giblets and seafood, including prawns and calamari. Lusitoland is the Lusito Associa-tion’s primary fundraiser. All pro-ceeds from the festival go directly to the maintenance and building
of the Lusito School for the Chal-lenged. The Lusito Association was estab-lished in 1979 by a group of Portu-guese parents who found a need for a school for the differently abled. The association started the first Lusito School under the auspices of the Mental Health Society of the Witwatersrand and has subsequent-
ly grown. Tickets for the festival are priced at R60 for teens and adults and R25 for senior citizens and children aged between three and 12. There is a discounted fee of R25 for all individuals on 19, 23, 24, and 25 April. The festival is open from 5pm to 10pm on 19, 23, 24 and 25 April; from 5pm to 11pm on 20, 26 and
30 April; from 10am to 11pm on 21, 22, 27, 28 and 29 April; and from 10am to 7pm on 1 May. Safe and secure parking is available at allo-cated parking areas. For further information about Lus-ito Land or the Lusito Association, visit its website or call the hotline on 079 999 9444 . www.joburg.org.za
Above : community members enjoy a musical performance at the festival. Below : Some of the community members visit the restaurant area.
There are six restaurants, seven pubs and street cafés offering grilled peri peri chicken, chouriço, prego rolls, chicken livers, espetadas, giblets and seafood, including prawns and calamari.
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commentAs the cold season creeps in it has to be mentioned that this is the time for the city’s emergency services depart-ment to work overtime. This is the time when buildings, shacks and plen-ty other dwellings face a potential risk of catching fire, as the cold increases. Last season the emergency services had their work cut out especially in the informal settlements of the inner-city. In the south eastern areas of the city there are such settlements which carry a grave potential risk for fire accidents. This is not the obvious fire hazard that is observed in the inner-city’s aban-doned and hijacked buildings. Here the people live in individual shacks, but there are uncountable and unpre-dictable causes of fire in those areas. At one moment it was a domestic squabble between spouses that led to a whole settlement of 40 shacks burned down. The report said one of the two decided to burn the shack to punish the other, and the fire extended to all the other shacks. Another resulted from a candle that was left burning when resi-dents went out or fell asleep, and that often involved alcohol consumption. The result was similarly devastating. Social services and charity organisa-tions must also get ready to alleviate the suffering of fire victims that are al-most certain to be there, and need their help. In most cases such victims lose everything. They often tell TV crews that ‘I was left with only the clothes I am wearing’, which is often true. Such circumstances are an obvious reflection of poverty in this city of a huge gap between the rich and the poor. The poor are so poor they cannot even afford decent accommodation, while the rich are so rich they do not know what to do with some of their money, but will not give it to the poor.
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Essentials of starting a business
E-toll the richI think the government is having problems with its etolling thing because of poor research. By this time people have shown beyond doubt that they do not want this system, for a vwry simple reason, that they just do not have the mon-ey to pay the system. The government should have first asked the people whether they were going to pay for the road upgrades before installing expen-sive systems that require millions of rands to run. Many of the poor majority say they would rather be jailed than pay the etolling thing. Most people maintain that from their calculations they may not af-ford the payments without leaving their families and relatives hungry and the children without food and money for school fees. I think the government designed this with the rich in mind, so it may as well get the money from the rich, and leave the poor alone.Silas MolapoNewtown
Many people start a business before doing research on the
industry of entry. Although South Africa is rated among the highest entrepreneurial opportunity environments in the world, most entrepreneurs fail be-cause they rarely do research on what they want to do, they lack innovation (e.g. opening a spaza shop when there are 10 other spa-za shops in the area, or opening a bakery when there is no need for one in the area). Other contributors of failure in-clude lack of planning, the use of business finances for personal pur-poses, inability to market products or services. CEO of Business Skills South Africa (BSSA), David Mashamba says there are a number of key el-ements for entrepreneurs to con-sider before starting a business, to ensure success.These include: Planning: This will help ensure success. Any person starting a business should plan on how they will run the business, generate in-come, and map out services to be provided to the market and how these services will be marketed. Planning must be done in writ-ing and outcomes of the plan must always be clear. The plan should include the following; viability of the business, and you should be certain that the market needs the product or service you will offer. The plan should be backed up with research. You need to identi-fy a need and this should not only
be based on personal observation, it should also be based on find-ings from the target market.Skills: To start a busi-ness you must have some skill, whether formal or informal, you need to have an understanding and technical ability on running a business. If you do not have adequate skills, iden-tify some institution that can train you. Most entrepreneurs fail because they be-lieve they can do it, without training on how to run a business. Some courses may take two weeks and ensure that an entrepreneur is able to do financial management or market a business.Cashflow forecast preparation: Most businesses will not make much money to pay salaries in the first few months of starting, pre-pare a cash flow forecast which will help realize how much you need until the business can gen-erate enough to sustain itself. If this is not done you might find you cannot pay rent, wages and operat-ing expenses.Infrastructure planning: If the business requires certain kinds of facilities, you need to ensure that such facilities are in place before you start, e.g if you will be running a butchery for example, there are health requirements prescribed for the kind of infrastructure needed. All this must be researched.
Mashamba advises that one of the most important things is to know customers, in order to survive, and to know how to attract the right target market and retain them, as there is no business that can sur-vive without customers. Entrepreneurs must be careful not to overestimate the market share. Most people start a bakery busi-nesses, believing there’s a need for one. Yet they do not consider where people buy their bread at that time. “These are some of the things that cause small businesses to fail,” says Mashamba. He adds: “First consider services available to people at the time be-fore introducing the same service or product, and if you will intro-duce the same service or prod-uct, give customers value added options, if it’s selling bread, sell bread with raisins or add cakes
to your bakery, and be differ-ent from your competitors to attract customers. Customers will only switch to you if they think your product satisfies them more than the one they are currently using.” Avoid taking loans from loan sharks (omashonisa), it is not possible for a business to sur-vive while paying the kind of interest charged by loan sharks. If you do this, it will only be a matter of time before the busi-ness gets bankrupt. Entrepreneurs must separate personal from business fi-nance, and have different bank accounts for each. Pay yourself a realistic salary like any other
employee; a salary the business can afford. Ensure that the busi-
ness has enough to sustain itself and do not use business funds for personal use. This contributes to the failure of a many small busi-nesses. Ensure you spend time managing the business, if not you will lose your money. Take a petrol station when the owner is available, work-ers will offer to clean your wind-screen, to check your tyre pressure and so on, but when the owner is not there they are not bothered. Mashamba advises that in busi-ness you need to understand that there will be tough times, and the key to responding to that is being able to go on, to endure and keep working even harder and not giv-ing up. Motivate your staff to do the same, and you will succeed. For more information on Busi-ness Skills South Africa and its services visit www.bssa.co.za.
Most entrepreneurs fail because they believe they can do it, without training on how to run a business
Business Skills SA CEO David Mashamba
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Having a strong sense of self-worth and identity is important
to living a healthy, positive lifestyle and enjoying good quality life. So, what does self-worth and iden-tity mean? Educational psychologist, Nadia Louw, describes self-worth as how a person rates themselves in terms of their value, skills, abilities and worth. “Identity, however, is someone’s idea of who they are, what they believe in and what’s important to them,” she explains. But what does this have to do with HIV? According to Precious Mago-godi, Director of loveLife’s Youth Line, young people with a healthy sense of self-worth are more likely to value themselves enough to say no
to risky sexual behaviour, like hav-ing unprotected sex or many sexual partners, which increases their risk of getting HIV. In discussing the importance of hav-ing a strong sense of identity, Ma-gogodi explains that people with a solid sense of identity know who they are, what they believe in and where they’re going in life. “The chances of a young person en-gaging in high risk behaviour, just be-cause they’re friends are doing it are lowered if they know who they are and what they will and will not do,” adds Magogodi. “They’re more likely to stand up to peer pressure and behave in ways that are good for their health and futures.” To build your sense of self-worth and identity, Magogodi explains that it’s important to take time to identify
your strengths and talents, your hob-bies and interests: “Doing this will help you feel good about yourself and will assist in forming your identity. It’s also good to surround yourself with positive people who value you for who you are. Having good self-es-teem is about not letting people treat you badly.” Remember that you are unique with special talents to be proud of, and that you deserve to be treated with love, respect and dignity. If you’d like guidance on issues around self-worth and identity, sexual health information or counselling on a problem you’re experiencing, call loveLife’s toll-free Youth Line on 0800 121 900 or send a Please Call Me to 083 323 1023 from your cell phone. A counsellor will call you back as soon as one is available.
As the publisher of a guide book to the city Spaces & Places Jo-
hannesburg and as a guide who of-fers regular inner-city walking tours I need to bring to your attention a worrying situation that does untold damage to Johannesburg’s reputa-tion as a tourism and people friend-ly city. I am convinced that most city improvement district manag-ers, facility managers and security managers are not aware of this situ-ation, nor of the impact it has on our city’s reputation. The problem at hand relates to the taking of photographs in public spaces. All over the world people travel daily and take photographs of the great scenery of cities and of fa-mous landmarks, be it of the Eiffel Tower, a subway entrance or just an inspirational street. Tourism is growing rapidly in Jo-hannesburg and most visitors are keen to take photographs in order to bring their memories back home with them. Most visitors are espe-cially impressed by the inspiration-al story of the inner-city’s regenera-tion and want to record this through
their own, personal photographs, so that they can show them to friends. Yet, in the case of Johannesburg the precinct/facilities management industry and security companies seem adamant to prevent the posi-tive story of Johannesburg and South Africa travelling through the world. Here are a few recent exam-ples, most of them occurred while I was showing tourists around the inner-city:1. Guards at Bank City (FNB) pre-venting people from taking pho-tographs of the water features and soccer-ball sculptures in the public square.2. A guard at Gandhi Square ap-proached my tourists this Saturday to ask if they had permission to take photographs of the Gandhi Sculp-ture in the public space.3. A Citizen journalist was recently prevented from taking photographs in the Fashion District and at the Fashion Kapitol; this while she was writing a positive story about the city’s regeneration!4. Guards at the ABSA Campus always prevent people from tak-ing photographs of the public art on the pavements and of the build-ings’ exteriors (in both the cases of
Bank City and ABSA the guards are rather aggressive).5. Guards around the Metro Centre (municipal buildings) in Braamfon-tein recently prevented me from taking photographs on the pave-ment near the Rea Vaya stations and on the public square between the buildings!6. A Rea Vaya staff member at the Joubert Park station tried to prevent me from taking pictures of the im-pressive station structure! These are some recent examples. I can think of more: similar things have happened in the public streets around Illovo Boulevard and along the walkways at Melrose Arch.My questions are:1. What harm does it do to any of these places to be photographed? Instead it will help promote the city and benefit the venues and the reputations of the organisations be-hind these places if they are photo-graphed as many times as possible.2. Surely taking photos cannot pose any security risk. Especially not if you consider that all these places can be viewed on Google Earth and Google Street View! Even the inside courtyards of Bank City are visible on Google Earth.
3. Is it possibly a case of security staff not being trained properly and not being briefed properly by their clients/employers? In almost all the cases the security officers want you to go and get a permit or letter of permission to take photographs. Do we really expect tourists to do this? Is there some confusion between filming permits for movies and ad-vertisements and individuals’ own photos? Permits are legitimate and indeed necessary for the use of lo-cations in movies/adverts, but sure-ly not for tourists’ personal photos! Please change this tourism-un-friendly attitude.Please consider my request in the interest of the greater good of Jo-hannesburg and the entire tour-ism industry, a major driver of the economy and potential creator of employment. Also consider it in terms of the knock-on effect that good public-ity through personal anecdotes has on people’s decisions to travel to Jozi and to invest in the property sector and business in general too. Do we really want people travelling over the world telling their friends what a strange place South Africa, and particularly Johannesburg is,
where you can’t even take a photo without being accosted by a secu-rity officer. Can the CID managers, facility managers and security companies brief their staff to be friendly to tourists and locals alike, to be am-bassadors of their great city and to welcome the taking of photo-graphs. No one stops people from taking photographs at Buckingham Pal-ace in London; even of the security guards themselves and also not of the Italian Parliament Building in Rome. In the process these cities have become known as great tour-ist destinations. Why can’t Jozi be the same? So much good publicity is happening around Joburg at the moment and the world’s media have discovered Joburg’s amazing story. Now let’s make the most of it. PS: The situation improved during and after the FIFA World Cup but has worsened considerably in recent months. Main Street Mall around Anglo American is the only place I know of where security officers also used to prevent people from taking photographs previously, but where they welcome photographs today. Can the rest of the city join them.
Prohibition of photography in Joburg’s public and open spacesAn open letter to Joburg’s tourism authorities, City Improvement District managers, facility managers and security companies
Public space...Security personnel prohibit taking of photos in this place.
Surround yourself with positive people who value you for who you are
‘Identity is someone’s idea of who they are, what they believe in and what’s important to them’
Young people with a healthy sense of self-worth are more likely to value themselves enough to say ‘no’ to risky sexual behaviour.
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Taylor verdict next weekMonrovia - Judges of the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone will decide whether ex-president Charles Taylor is guilty of war crimes or whether he is the subject of lies for political reasons as he argues. Taylor insisted that the case is ‘politically motivated’, and that he is a victim of western power play. As the verdict’s date, 26 April was set, the defence lawyers pleaded for the date to be extended. The court rejected their request. It is difficult to predict the outcome of the verdict. Taylor still enjoys admiration among his loyalists, and they are said to be praying for acquittal. If he is acquitted, there are fears that a new and fluid political security environment may rock the country and region. US embassy cables note that rebel com-mand and control structures remain intact. If he is found guilty and sent to Britain to serve what-ever sentence, reactions are unpredictable. In Sierra Leone, with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), said to be Taylor’s proxy army, a spent force and its leaders still in prison, jubilation is expected if it is a guilty verdict for the ex-Liberian president.
Govt arms civiliansKhartoum - Sudan is arming civilians in South Kordofan as fighting against rebels in the South Sudan border intensifies. Reports say supporters of President Omar al-Bashir were given weapons to help the army. Rights groups are concerned that untrained fighters were committing human rights abuses. The International Rescue Committee says 400 refugees were arriving every day at Yida camp, 25km inside South Sudan, up from 50 a day a week earlier. South Kordofan is hit by conflict since South Su-dan seceded in July. The disputed oilfield of Heglig is also in South Kordofan, captured by South Su-danese forces this week. The fighting in South Kordofan has escalated recently since several Darfuri rebel groups joined with SPLM-North to form the Sudan Revolution-ary Front. Arming civilians is not new in Sudan, but it is usually done as part of the Popular Defence Forc-es, a paramilitary organisation. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has suggested that many armed civilians in his country should mobilise to fight against Sudan.
Juba - South Sudan forces have captured a disput-ed oilfield in the area bordering Sudan. Sudan claims the oilfields of Heglig, which ac-count for about half of the nation’s oil production. South Sudan’s army spokesperson Philip Aguer said they now occupy oilfields and other areas of Heglig. “Khartoum refuses to demarcate the bor-der, but we know where it is,” he said. Sudan has urged the UN Security Council and
the AU to pressure withdrawal of South Su-dan troops. Sudan’s parliament has voted to stop negotiations with South Sudan. Sudan has repeatedly bombed southern
territory, including the November attack of a refugee camp in the Unity state.
South Sudan fought a two-decade civil war against the Khartoum government, which led to secession. When they sepa-rated, South Sudan acquired three quar-ters of Sudan’s oil reserves.
Troops seize oilfield
Democracy activists jailed
Salva Kiir
Ahmed Ben Bella
Mbabane - Police have ar-rested democracy activists and prevented people from attending a prayer meeting for democratic rule. This followed the crushing of mass protests last week. The service to pray for democracy was to be held at the Lutheran Church in Manzini, but police set up roadblocks to stop people attending. Among those arrested were members
of the banned People’s United Democratic Move-ment (PUDM) leader, Mario Masuku; Swaziland United Democratic Front (SUDF) information of-ficer, Gugu Malindzisa; Swaziland Youth Congress secretary and organiser, Justice Dlamini and Mcoli-si Ngcamphalala. The Swaziland Solidarity Net-work reported that police dumped SUDF coordinator
Omar al-Bashir
Algiers - Independence struggle leader against France and first president, Ahmed Ben Bella has died aged 95. He died just weeks after the 50th anniversary of inde-pendence. The cause of his death was not reported, but he had experienced respiratory problems. President Ab-delaziz Bouteflika announced eight days of mourning. “Today we lost one of our bravest leaders,” he added. A former soldier in the French army, Ben Bella was a key figure in Algeria’s years-long revolt against French rule. He was imprisoned and only released at indepen-dence in 1962, and became president in 1963. He was later overthrown in a military coup in 1965 and kept under house arrest until 1980. After a subsequent decade in exile in Switzerland, he was pardoned in 1990 and returned to Algeria. Ben Bella was born in 1916 in Marnia, near the Moroc-can border. He joined the French army in his late teens, rising to the rank of senior warrant officer, and playing top-flight football for Olympique de Marseille club. He fought with distinction with the French forces in Italy during World War II and won five French decora-tions including the prestigious Military Medal.
Independence leader dies
Charles Taylor
Wandile Dludlu in Mbabane. Church lead-er Sydney Nyembe and many others were was taken to an unknown location. King Mswati III has resisted calls for democratic reforms to his autocratic rule.
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scrapyard owners not to buy as-sets stolen from the city’s prop-erties. The warning follows the steal-ing of palisade fencing at Queen Elizabeth Bridge in Braam-fontein which the agency says threatens the safety of pedes-trians. “The scrapyard owners are community members. What affects the community affects them as well. They have a duty to report anyone selling the city’s assets. If they are found with such items the scrapyard owner will have to face the con-sequences,” says the agency’s spokesperson Mosa Makha-lima. Guardrails, street name poles, street grid inlets, fencing posts, traffic lights cables and moni-tors are some of the items that have been constantly stolen and vandalised, notes Makhalima. The agency says the homeless sleeping inside tunnels and un-der bridges have been suspected of being the culprits. “They have also been fingered for stealing assets from motor-ists who leave their vehicles un-manned after a breakdown. The vagrants also make fires during the cold season, which threatens the stability of the tunnel.”
As from December 2009 to January 2012, the agency re-ports that 2 168 tools and ve-hicle spares were impounded from street mechanics and con-tractors; 945 vehicles were im-pounded for being repaired on public roads. “Eighty five arrests were made for vandalism and theft of the city’s assets includ-ing five scrapy-ard owners; and 2158 summons were issued for violation of city by-laws,” adds Makhalima. He adds that af-ter being arrested, perpetrators walk free because of lack of evidence.
“The solution is to educate the community. Create a sense of ownership and create awareness of the dangers that come with theft and vandalism. The second solution is enforcing, which is done by JMPD, where vandal-ism and theft is rife.” Makhalima also urges the com-
munity to report suspects steal-ing the city’s assets. “We need members of the community to report the suspects as most of the time they are known,” he adds. Anyone with information on vandalism can contact the city’s call centre on 011 375 5555.
JRA warns scrapyards
Some of the fencing that gets stolen off the bridges in the city. PIc : Inner-cIty Press Agency
Celebrating 21 years of the Artist Proof Studio of New-
town, the Coming of Ageis exhi-bition will officially be opened at the Johannesburg Arts Gallery (JAG) on 6 May. Editions of historic and current studio artists will be showcased in 18 curated spaces within the art gallery. The show will run from 6 May to 6 July. It will include the works of Philemon Hlungwane, Nelson Makamo, Lehlogonolo Mashaba, Lucas Nkgweng, Kim Berman and many emerging talents. New releases of editions from collaborating artists include ac-claimed artist William Kentridge (pictured), Diane Victor, Wim Botha, Norman Catherine, Paul Edmunds, Gerhard Marx, Colbert Mashile, Chris Diedericks, Kud-zanai Chiurai and several others.
The gallery’s public programmes manager, Tiny Malefane says the exhibition will be a unique op-portunity to experience the talent and energy of the artists at Artist Proof Studio. “It will also be an opportunity to experience other established artists who have sup-ported the studio’s growth over the last 21 years,” she adds.
Artist Proof Studio is a commu-nity based print-making studio based in Newtown. It partners with corporates, patrons, foun-dations, artists and individuals to provide a platform to talented young artists to reach their full potential, remarks Malefane. “People can join us on 6 May for a public lecture by William Kentridge, followed by the open-ing of the exhibition by Sibongile Khumalo. We look forward to hosting members of the public at various events during the ex-hibition and will hold a series of
lectures, print-making demonstra-tions, and walkabouts during the month at the gallery,” she adds. The studio was registered as an NPO in 1995. It focuses on in-taglio and relief print-making processes, including lithogra-phy and silk-screening and other mixed media printing techniques. It also trains between 80 and 100 learners in the arts every year.
Expo celebrates art studio
Acclaimed artist William Kentridge
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Miriam Makeba’s autobiography, Makeba - My Story, published by Skotaville, kicks off by singling out hope, determination and song as “the three things I was born with, and will have until I die.”It was song that took her to Don-aldson Orlando Community Cen-tre (DOCC) and Bantu Men’s Social Centre (BMSC), plucking her from apartheid to international stardom as at the Village Vanguard and Carnegie Hall in New York, under the protective prodding and grooming of Calypso music genius Harry Belafonte. By 1956, she was the lead singer of The Cubans and founder of The Skylarks, featuring Abigail Kub-heka, Mary Rabotapi, and Mum-my-Girl Nketle, while doing solo performances for African Jazz and
Variety Show with Dolly Rathebe, Dorothy Masuku and heart-throb Sonny Pillay. The `nightingale voice’ in her soon caught the musical ear of Nathan Mdledle, leader of The Manhattan Brothers at the DOCC, leading to her plum role of Joyce in King Kong, which premiered in February 1959, as Pillay headed for London. On a tour with the show, Miriam was spotted and invited by Ameri-can film-maker Lionel Rogosin to perform two songs in a night-club scene in Come Back, Africa, a clan-destine documentary on the life of black people in South Africa, shot at the dead of night. Rogosin again invited her to the Venice Film Festival, where Come back, Africa would win the Critics’
Award, elevating Miriam to instant fame as people queued for her au-tograph, shouting `Africa, Africa’ in Venetian streets. Now reunited with Pillay in Lon-don, the couple tied their short-lived marital knot, while, Harry Belafonte who had been captivat-ed by Come Back, Africa, was also there for a BBC Christmas Show. Meeting Belafonte resulted in being more professionally self-groomed and developed, carrying herself with the grace of queens and added a dynamic new word to the dictionary of world music – Makeba. No wonder she fondly called him `Big Brother’. Earlier in 1959, nobody wanted to sit next to the only black passen-ger on the Johannesburg-Europe-bound South African Airways flight, so Miriam had all three seats to herself, and stares followed her to the toilet, where she emerged dressed in her nightgown. After all, how was she to know it was not a proper thing to do? In a real-life Cinderella story, `Mama Africa’ had her first sight of America at the age of 27, from the sky on 29 November1959. Two days later, she was shaking scared in Los Angeles on the Steve Allen Show, when told that 60-million people would be watching it. “I imagined 60 million Ameri-cans laughing at me, but I also imagined my daughter Bongi and my mother among them.” So, she
sang - for them - Ntyilo Ntyilo, a melody that touched a spot inside her. Swaying, smiling and moving, she literally sang herself into the collective heart of the American people and the world, completely changing the perception of African music. “Aren’t you the African singer from the Steve Allen Show?” ador-ing fans mobbed her in the streets, back in New York, the next day, asking for autographs. On 3 December, she almost col-lapsed at the Village Vanguard, when `Big Brother’ slightly parted the curtain back-stage to reveal, Sidney Poitier, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Dia-hann Carroll and his wife Julie oc-cupying the front-row seats-, but somehow mustered enough cour-age to render poignant hits like Jikel’ Emaweni, Back of the Moon and Qongqothwane. Lauren Bacall, Cecily Tyson, Sarah Vaughan, Bing Cosby and Elizabeth Taylor were there, when `Mama Africa’ opened at the high-class $750-a-week Blue Angel Club in January 1960, with Taylor inviting her to dinner. When her mother passed on in 1960, `Mama Africa’ longed to come home for her funeral, but could not. Her passport had been cancelled, and could not even at-tend Bongi’s funeral in 1984. Being photographed on top of the Empire State Building against
the New York skyline; spending her first Christmas Day and New Years Day away from home in Sidney Poitier and Diahann Car-roll’s posh houses, respectively, and singing at President John F Kennedy’s birthday party, `Mama Africa’ was indeed a celebrity of enormous proportions. However, fame comes with a hefty price, as political journal-ists harshly reminded the famous African nightingale of where she came from. They wanted to talk about apartheid; to know whether she sympathised with the African National Congress. `This you must avoid. Your moth-er, daughter Bongi and your whole family are in South Africa and will have problems if you say some-thing to displease the authorities,’ she refused to yield. Dr `Mama Africa’ Makeba’s first glimpse of America from the sky on 29 November, 1956, caught her eye and lingered in her mind right until that fateful moment in France on 9 November, 2008, when the grandmother to Zenzi and Nelson and great-grandmother to Lindela-ni collapsed while performing her hit song Pata Pata. World-acclaimed trumpeter Dr Hugh Masekela, her one-time-hus-band, remembers `Mama Africa’ as, “the most influential ambassa-dor ever to emerge from South Af-rica, who paved the way for peace to prevail throughout the world.
Miriam `Mama Africa’ Makeba, music legend and ambassador, would have celebrated her 80th on 4 March 2012, instead we celebrate the making of `Mama Africa’ - the legend, writes Mothibi Mthethwa.
The legend lives on
Lucille Davie
The broken mike on the Brenda Fassie bronze statue (pic) has been repaired and is back in position, at her shoulder. This artwork and eight others will soon to be handed over to the City for safekeeping. Brenda Fassie sits at the entrance
to Bassline across Mary Fitzgerald. The bronze sculpture of Fassie, by Angus Taylor, is po-sitioned outside The Bassline in Newtown. It had lost its microphone, believed to have been broken off by raucous revellers from the club. The life-size Fassie is perched on a barstool with a mike in front of her. Next to her is an-other barstool, an invi-tation to passers-by to take a seat and chill with the diva for a while. At the time of its un-veiling, in March 2006,
Taylor said he created the sculpture with a stool next to it to encourage people to interact with the sculp-ture. He took numerous quotes of hers and embossed them into the bronze in tiny letters, making the sculpture even more interactive as passers-by have to get up close to read them. joburg.org.za
Brenda sculpture repaired
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Fairy tale at Wits
Arts Correspondent
The McLaren Circus will be presented at the Gold Reef
City Theme Park from 23 June to 15 July. The amazing event features perky poodles and magnificent lions, in-credible acrobats, hilarious clowns, astounding aerial shows and aston-ishing contortionists. It one of the best circuses in the country. The group was founded by the McLaren brothers in 2005. The circus tours South Africa, bringing its magic and a range of hilarious acts from every corner of the world to every corner of the country.
Some of its jaw-dropping acts in-clude Casey McCoy and his Afri-can lions including the beautiful white lions. There is also Zimba-bwe’s Zim Zam Boys and their fast-paced and incredible acrobatic acts. Another performance is the ador-able and hilarious clowns, Little Alick and Little Miriska. An aer-ial hoop act, presented by Cape Town’s Jade Petersen is also there; and also McLaren’s favourite min-iature goat Little Billy. There is also an astonishing candle balanc-ing and contortion act from China. The circus also presents the smartest miniature horses ever
seen; a hat juggling act from Hong Kong; and the astounding aerial trapeze act by Miss Nikkita from Australia. Among all those David McLaren presents the perky poodles. Fantasy acts like fire-eating and blowing, walking on swords, lying on nails, and displays of pythons and Arabian camels will also be presented. The McLaren Circus is included in the entrance fee and runs twice daily in the Hippodrome at Gold Reef City Theme Park from 23 June to 15 July. For more information about the presentations call 011 248-6800.
Arts Correspondent
The Wits School of Arts and Wits Theatre present Red Shoes, adapt-ed from Hans Christian Ander-son’s fairy-tale between May 1 and 10. The story, which has been adapted in various media forms, including film, is about a girl who is forced to dance continually in her red shoes. Red Shoes is a tale at the heart of every addic-tion, compulsion and obsession. This is on how we can be obsessed with one thing to the exclusion of everything else, and how that can end up destroying us. In this play the Red Shoes is used as a starting point for a series of narratives that explore this theme in a contempo-rary context. The show will be presented at the Wits Theatre, East Campus in Braamfontein. Director Leila Hen-riques (pictured) is an award win-ning actress who grew up in Johan-nesburg. She trained at the Oxford School of Drama and spent two
years working in various locations in London, including the Tabard Theatre, which specialized in new writing. On returning to South Africa she joined the innovative Loft Theatre Company in Durban. But it was at the Market Theatre that she did some of her most challenging and exciting work. She has performed in both film and theatre. She, together with Irene Stepha-nou wrote the book The World in an Orange – Exploring the work of Barney Simon. Henriques has taught acting at Wits University for the past five years. For more call 011 717-1376.
Own Correspondent
With the decision for the host-ing site for the Square Kilo-
metre Array (SKA) radio telescope imminent, Origins Centre delivers a talk on the subject. Titled The Square Kilometre Ar-ray: Searching for the Origins of the Universe, the lecture is present-ed by Dr Adrian Tiplady (pictured above) , currently the SKA Site bid manager, driving South Africa’s bid to host the telescope. The SKA Project is mankind’s
quest to build the largest, and most sensitive, radio telescope in history. This next-generation scientific facility will probe the very begin-nings of the universe to answer the most fundamental questions facing science today: What is Dark Mat-ter? What is Dark Energy? What are the laws of nature, and how did they guide the evolution of the first stars and galaxies? Are we alone? South Africa, along with eight other African countries, is leading the race to host this giant facility as well as in the development of scien-
tific understanding and technologi-cal innovation. This talk will look at all aspects of this international project - from what we will discover in the future, to what we have already put on the ground in preparation of hosting the SKA. The event will be presented at the Origins Centre in Braamfon-tein. Dr Adrian Tiplady completed his PhD at Rhodes University, and joined the South African SKA Proj-ect in 2005. The event will be on 24 April.
Top circus visits Joburg
Fire eaters will also feature in the McLaren Circus.
Origins of the universe lecture
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First organ of its calibre installed
A group makes a recital dominated by the 8.5 ton organ that was installed at the St Georges Church.
Arts Correspondent
The production of Disney’s Jun-gle Book Kids has proven to be
so popular that its run has been ex-tended until 22 April. “We always knew that The Jungle Book is one of Disney’s most loved properties in South Africa, and The Peoples Theatre’s children’s theatre programme has proven to be a run-away success,” says Walt Disney Africa manager, Christine Service. The children’s theatre programme gets Disney’s treatment of Rudyard Kipling’s classic story, with won-derful songs adding to the visual treat that guarantees excitement from start to finish. The adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic story of a little boy named Mowgli who was raised by wolves in the jungle has been a hit with children since the stories were published in 1893. The People’s Theatre production of Disney’s The Jungle Book Kids features a delightful cast of profes-sional actors and children who will magically weave their way through
the jungle capturing the imagina-tion of every child in the audience while allowing them to participate in the action of this much-loved fa-vourite. The cast of this all-new produc-tion includes Thabiso Tshabalala (Bagheera), Sean McGrath (Baloo), Sebe Leotlela (Kaa,), Gavin Gomes (Shere Khan,) and carefully chosen talented children who will be play-ing various roles including the role of Mowgli. Meet all Mowgli’s unforgettable friends in this colourful production. Sing and dance along while Mowgli learns valuable life lessons on his journey to the Man Village, where he belongs. Having produced crit-ically-acclaimed children’s theatre for over 21 years, with sold-out suc-cesses such as Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, Noddy, Win-nie the Pooh and Peter Rabbit and Other Tales, directors Keith Smith and Jill Girard have taken another classic story and turned it into a spectacular theatre production. The show is on until 22 April.
Arts Correspondent
A new pipe organ at St George’s Anglican Church in Parktown
will be used for services and for a series of concerts featuring interna-tionally acclaimed organists. On 8 April, the Bishop of Johan-nesburg, the Right Reverend Brian Germond, blessed the organ; the first new organ of its calibre to be installed in a Johannesburg Angli-can church in around 70 years. The church’s previous organ was supplied in 1925 by Cooper, Gill and Tomkins, and comprised 10 stops and 581 pipes. The new state-of-the-art instrument, made by Rieger Orgelbau, consists of 33 stops and 1 984 pipes. This ensures a majestic sound with the ability to achieve a varied palette of tonal colours that will provide superb accompaniment to the 24-strong choir, as well as make it possible to perform a wide variety of classical organ repertoire at St George’s. Diocesan organ advisor Sidney Place says while the new organ is a beautiful musical instrument, there were challenges that had to be over-come in its installation. “It weighs 8.5 tons, so additional steel columns had to be installed in the crypt to transfer the weight to
the new foundations that were cast under its floor. A new three-phase blower had to be installed and ducts built to carry the pressurised wind up to the pipes above. Furthermore, the layout had to be adapted to fit almost 2 000 pipes into the same space that had previously accom-modated less than a third of that number. Rieger Orgelbau crafted every bit of the console from scratch, and the organ was assembled on site and adjusted to operate smoothly by or-gan builders Matthias Dobler, An-dreas Aschl, Johannes Simma and Andreea Mustaret. Voicers Michel Garnier and Christian Metzler then added the finishing touches to each and every pipe to ensure an excep-tional blend of sound throughout the church. Following the Rieger pipe organ’s dedication on St George’s Easter Sunday service, the church will host a series of organ recitals by a selec-tion of the world’s leading concert organists. The inaugural concert, on 21 April, is already sold out. It will feature organist Wim Vil-joen and violinist Zanta Hofmeyr playing a new work by Richard Pantcheff which these same artists first performed in Pretoria in Sep-tember 2010, and which received
its UK premiere in London in De-cember last year. Between May 2012 and Febru-ary 2013, the church will present a series of recitals featuring four in-ternational organists who will each give two performances. On 27 and 28 May, Gordon Stew-art, a world-class organist who performs regularly at Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral; will play a blend of lighter pieces alongside more ‘serious’ repertoire. John Scott, regarded as one of the top 10 organists in the world who has been awarded the Lieutenant of the Victorian Order accolade by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the royal household, will bring his “Rolls Royce-quality” music to the church on 13 and 15 August. On 15 and 16 November Olivier Latry, the in-demand “rock star” of the organ world and the chief or-ganist at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, will bring his magnetic per-formance style to Johannesburg. The concert series wraps up in Feb-ruary 2013 with young American organist Nathan Laube, who plays a wide variety of dazzling music and is the ideal role model for young South Africans intending to take up the organ as an instrument. For more call (011) 482-1606.
Following the organ’s dedication, the church will host a series of organ recitals by a selection of the world’s leading concert organists
Howling success for the childrenThe classic story of a little boy who was raised by wolves in the jungle has been a hit with children since 1893
Jungle Book boys...Tahtum Volschenk as Hathi, Kian Du Preez as Mowgli, and the monkeys in Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale.
Arts Correspondent
Fine artist Severa Rech Cas-sarino will present a talk
entitled The Adorned Neck on May 5 at the Origins Centre in Braamfontein. Cassarino produces a superbly crafted range of jewellery called JuJuReál, sold in the Origins Shop. Her talk will involve a light look at the necklace, its branched origins through vari-ous cultures, and its multiple incarnations through materials and times that change. Severa says each JujuReál piece is a small design adven-ture on itself. “The components could be
from a craft-store, an individual supplier, a friend’s or my own travels, or an obscure antique shop relinquishing a delicious bit of the past. But it is the al-chemy of actually putting things together in a particular harmony which creates the magic.” The Origins Centre is situated at corner Yale Road and Enoch Sontonga Avenue in Braamfon-tein. Entrance is free, but those wishing to attend have been asked to book seats through email [email protected], or call 011 717-4700. Tea and cake will be served at the event, and those who attend will have an opportunity to buy items from the JuJu Art range at a 20 percent reduction.
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Tribute to the legends the ArtS
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The MTN SAMA 18 organisers have said in a statement that
this year’s event salutes Ray Phiri and Vusi Mahlasela. “They are true sons of the soil who have enriched South Africa’s musical landscape beyond mea-sure over the decades. They will receive Lifetime Achiever Awards at the 18th Annual MTN South Af-rica Music Awards.” Announcing this year’s Lifetime Achievers, MTN SAMA CEO Randall Abrahams said: “Through Ray and Vusi’s music, they have made an invaluable contribution to the culture of South Africa, and have exported that same culture to the rest of the world.” Both Phiri and Mahlasela have enjoyed success both at home and abroad. Phiri played an in-tegral role in the creation of Paul Simon’s Grammy-winning Grace-land album and tour, and The Voice frequently performing abroad with the likes of South African expat Dave Matthews. Phiri, who recently celebrated 30 years of hit-making withsupergroup Stimela, but who has been a professional musician since the 1960s, is undoubtedly one of South Africa’s music legends. In April 2011, President Jacob Zuma conferred the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver on him for his ‘sterling contribution to the South African music industry and the successful use of the arts as an instrument for social transforma-tion’. That was a really well-deserved accolade befitting a true South African music and dance icon.
Born in Mpumalanga, Phiri was a part-time dancer with the Dark City Sisters before founding The Cannibals, who would establish themselves as the country’s soul music giants in the 1970s. It was in the early ’80s that his long journey with African jazz-fusion outfit Stimela began. With Phiri as its charismatic frontman, vocalist and guitarist, the band released multi award-winning al-bums Fire, Passion and Ecstasy and Look, Listen and Decide (which went five times platinum), as well as the controversial People Don’t Talk, So Let’s Talk. It was no surprise when the track Whispers in the Deep was banned by the apartheid-era SABC; which only served to reinforce Stimela’s already burgeoning popularity. Phiri’s international breakthrough came when Ladysmith Black Mam-bazo and other South African art-ists collaborated with Paul Simon on the groundbreaking Graceland project. He has since reunited with Stimela, which released their most recent album in 2010, and contin-ues to play a pivotal role in cultural and educational circles. This year marked a remarkable, memorable 20 years in music for Vusi “The Voice” Mahlasela. The golden-voiced troubadour from Mamelodi is described thus by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer: “Vusi sings as a bird does: in total response to being alive. He is a na-tional treasure.” This is no exaggeration, for not only does Mahlasela embody the concept of ubuntu in his music, but he also conveys this overarch-ing message with an intensity and clarity of feeling that commands
immediate attention and affection.Mahlasela’s 1992 album When You Come Back announced him as a formidable newcomer on the mu-sic scene, and led to an invitation to perform at President NelsonMandela’s inauguration two years later. Today, he continues to work as a 46664 ambassador for Madi-ba.His incredible vocal range, African folk-bluesy sound, poetic lyrics and strong social conscience immediately propelled the humble Mahlasela to prominence. He has since won legions of fans locally and abroad, touring exten-sively and collaborating and shar-ing stages with the likes of Josh Groban, Angelique Kidjo, Natalie Merchant, Paul Simon, Sting, Ray Lamontagne and his good friend Dave Matthews. Mahlasela has now released three albums on Matthews’ ATO Records in the United States. His 2011 album Say Africa recorded with South Africans Ian Herman (drums), Bakithi Khumalo (Bass), Mongezi Ntaka (guitar) and leg-endary bluesman Taj Mahal as pro-ducer – topped the iTunes world music album chart in its first week of release, and was nominated for a 2011 SAMA. Despite his busy international touring schedule, Mahlasela re-mains true to his roots and per-forms frequently in South Africa, while supporting his Mahlasela Music Development Foundation and other charities such as the Af-rican Leadership Academy and the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. Mahlasela and Phiri will be hon-oured at the MTN SAMA 18 cere-mony on 30 April 2012 at Sun City, in a special tribute performance.
‘True sons of the soil who have enriched SA’s musical landscape beyond measure’
Above: Legend of Stimela fame Ray Phiri
Below: The Voice - Vusi Mahlasela
Both Phiri and Mahlasela have enjoyed success both at home and abroad
Romaana Naidoo
In an effort to make Diwali celebra-tions later this year as inclusive
as possible, Indianspice is seeking input, proposals and support from cultural organisations for its festival, Diwali in Jozi. This year’s Diwali in Jozi will take place in mid-November. Nau-fal Khan, the public relations officer for the festival, says organisers aim to ensure balanced participation and active inclusion of cultural organisa-tions in the planning and implemen-tation of the programme, which will represent the tapestry of Indian cul-ture and religion. “The objectives of this call for pro-posals are to encourage the develop-ment of sustainable partnerships and networks among cultural organisa-tions in order to contribute towards an increased involvement of the gen-eral public in the cultural field.” According to Khan, this specific festival strives to improve public ac-cess to all types of cultural organisa-
tions, enhance the South African In-dian identity on the basis of common values, as well as develop intra- and inter-regional cultural initiatives and partnerships. It also aims to strengthen the net-working capacities of cultural organ-isations and assist with supporting organisations’ activities, strengthen links and dialogue between organisa-tions in Gauteng and other regions of the country, and strengthen relation-ships with other organisations across the world. Hindus around the world celebrate Diwali, an annual festival that serves as Hindu new year. It is a time of de-licious food, friendship and the tri-umph of good over evil. Also known as the “festival of lights”, this five-day celebration stands for a reaffir-mation of hope and a renewed com-mitment to friendship and goodwill. In Hinduism, the festival of lights symbolises the homecoming of Rama, the deity, after a 14-year ex-ile in the forest, and his victory over Ravana, the 10-headed king of the
demons. Rama is welcomed home by his people, who celebrate good overcoming evil. People light rows of lamps in front of their homes and set off fireworks to light his way. Diwali is also a cel-ebration of the slaying of the demon king, Narakasura, by the deity Lord Krishna. Krishna is often represented as an infant or boy playing a flute. It is also known as Dipavali or Deepavali and it is celebrated by the Tamil community, which comes mainly from the south of India, Sri Lanka and Singapore, or whose an-cestors came from those parts. Jainism is an ancient religion of India that prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. It is a philosophy and practice of self-effort to move the soul towards divine consciousness and liberation. Diwali marks this liberation. The public and cultural organisa-tions can submit their proposals and enquiries to Lakshya Malhotra on [email protected] or send a fax to 0865 301 787. joburg.org.za
A performer in the previous Diwali Festival in Newtown.
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The old Ellis Park Tennis Centre is gearing up for a thrilling ten-
nis event in the ACSA Joburg Open which will include top ranked in-ternational players. The country’s premier wheelchair tennis tournament, organised by Wheelchair Tennis SA, will start from 21 April up until next week Wednesday. The tournament is endorsed by the International Tennis Federation
(ITF), and forms part of the fed-eration’s World Wheelchair Tennis Tour, sponsored by Airports Com-pany of South Africa (ACSA). Wheelchair Tennis SA director Holger Losch says the tournament will give local players an opportu-nity to gain world ranking points. “This will also provide a chance for our players to qualify for the London Paralympics in August.” The country’s top ranked men and women players such as Lucas Sit-hole, world ranked 11 in the Quads Division, and Kgothatso Montjane,
world ranked 10 in the Women’s Division, will also participate. “They will be joined by interna-tional stars representing European countries, Japan, Sri Lanka, China, Malaysia and Israel. Notable play-ers that have entered include world number four, Marjolein Buis and world number nine, Sharon Wal-raven both from the Netherlands in the women’s division,” adds Lo-sch. In the men’s division there will be three players ranked in the top 20 of the world tennis. “The play-
ers will include Scotland’s Gordon Reid (12), Ben Weekes of Australia (15) and Japanese star, Yoshinobu Fujimoto (17).” Losch says the tournament will be a memorable one. “Ellis Park is a truly historic venue and will be a fitting wheelchair friendly host for the tournament. We have been hard at work in making sure that Ellis Park will be a warm and hospitable host. The courts are in good shape and the facilities have been well adapted for the players.” The tournament will have both
men’s and women’s squads and junior divisions each compris-ing of a singles and doubles draw. “Round two is scheduled for Sun-day, the quarter finals for Monday, semi-finals on Tuesday and the fi-nals on Wednesday.” The stadium has hosted top in-ternational events before, such as Davis and Fed Cup. “After successfully hosting the World Wheelchair Tennis Champi-onships last year, we feel in tune to host a great week of tennis in the City of Gold,” adds Losch.
