Pretoria News Weekend July 11 2020

— FOUNDED 1898, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA [ IOL.CO.ZA ] SATURDAY, JULY 11 2020 —
Lockdown diary:
100 days
and beyond
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#BlackLivesMatter
a seminal moment
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Gauteng braces for storm
LIAM NGOBENI
liam.ngobeni@inl.co.za
Tent field hospitals set up as Covid-19 cases surge; Gauteng premier latest to test positive for the virus
AS CASES of Covid-19 surge in Gauteng,
the Department of Health is increasing
capacity at hospitals and has set up field
hospitals in tents as it expects a dramatic
increase in admissions.
Yesterday Minister of Health Dr Zweli
Mkhize inspected the readiness of a
tent site adjacent to the Tshwane District
Hospital and Steve Biko Academic
Hospital.
The government, province and
City of Tshwane have also identified
the Tshwane events centre, Dr George
Mukhari Hospital in Ga-Rankuwa and
Kopanong as areas where anticipated
extra needs can be met.
This comes as the premier, David
Makhura became South Africa’s third
provincial head to test positive for
Covid-19. He is self-isolating at home.
After experiencing mild symptoms the
premier, who has been on the go since
the virus reached the country, decided
to get tested on Wednesday.
Makhura revealed his infection
status a day after his health department
said six members of its “Covid-19
War Room” had contracted the virus,
including the head of the provincial
health department, Professor Mkhululi
Lukhele.
Two other provincial premiers, Alan
Winde of the Western Cape and Job
Mokgoro of North West province, have
also tested positive for the virus. Winde
has type 2 diabetes and is monitoring
himself at home, while Mokgoro is in
hospital in Joburg.
South Africa’s confirmed coronavirus
infections have been accelerating as
lockdown restrictions are eased. Cases
rose by 13 734 to 238 339 on Thursday,
the biggest single-day rise since Mkhize
confirmed the virus in South Africa on
March 5.
Speaking yesterday, Mkhize said these
areas were being prioritised because of
the number of cases needing medical
care, which were expected, with the
emergency intervention team due to
provide 1 000 beds in the capital over
the next two to three weeks.
He said the decision on how to manage
the disease was an ongoing one, and
that the government was working with
the province and city to do assessments
and make decisions on where patients
should go, depending on how ill they
were and the demand at the facilities.
He once again referred to the storm
being upon the province, which is taking
over from the Western Cape as the
epicentre of Covid-19 in the country.
The number of confirmed cases in
Gauteng has surged to over 84 000.
“What we are seeing in Gauteng is
not surprising but we must be vigilant
and concerned… we are now going to
see the peak of the pandemic (and) we
expect that there will be lot of pressure
on hospitals and beds.”
The initial strategy had been to
designate a few hospitals for Covid-19
patients, but the pattern of the spread
had led the department to change tactics
and opt for reduced occupancy of beds
in hospital wards and the addition of
field facilities.
Warning against school boycotts
BONGANI HANS
THE Council of Education Ministers
(CEM), led by Basic Education Minister
Angie Motshekga, has threatened
to take legal action if politicians and
organisations arrange boycotts against
the reopening of schools.
Former DA leader Mmusi Maimane
and his One SA Movement are among
those who had called for a stay away by
teachers and learners yesterday.
He made the call in view of the
increased number of coronavirus cases
countrywide, and with reports that
many schools have to shut down for
deep cleaning when staff and children
become infected.
He wants schools closed until after
the peak of infections and winter has
passed. Exams should be rescheduled
for three months after the disease had
plateaued, he said in a memorandum.
“The CEM has not ruled out the
possibility of going to court to seek
protection from all those hell-bent on
obstructing schooling,” it said in a statement,
saying such calls interfered with
the rights of those wanting to be at
school.
This week, grades R, 6 and 11
THE field hospital at Tshwane District Hospital was inspected by Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize yesterday. | THOBILE MATHONSI African News Agency (ANA)
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returned to school, joining grades 7
and 12, who returned earlier. The next
batch of children in grades 3 and 10 are
due back on July 20.
Maimane said that the CEM legal
threat was directed specifically at him
after his stay away call had received a
positive response.
“The question they (CEM) must
answer, is it okay that there is a school
closing every single day in this country
because of Covid-19. Who is going to
take responsibility when more learners
and teachers are getting infected?” asked
Maimane.
GAUTENG Premier David Makhura has
contracted the coronavirus. | African News
Agency (ANA)
“We have not reached capacity yet,
but we are at a level where we can see
the number of admissions is rising very
fast.”
Cold weather
in the city
CHELSEA NTULI
chelsea.ntuli@inl.co.za
WE THOUGHT June 12, 2020 was cold
but we are in for another bitterly cold
day today.
A month ago weather watchers sent
out a warning of the lowest daytime
temperatures of the year to date as an
intense cold front reached Gauteng.
But, this week there was another
warning of the third cold front to reach
the city by today.
The mercury is expected to drop to
2°C overnight but the good news is temperatures
will pick up a bit next week,
according to the SA Weather Services.
The city residents should prepare
for “a partly cloudy, cold and windy
weekend”, forecaster Kumsa Masizana
said yesterday.
“Tomorrow (Saturday) will start with
very low temperatures, and pick up to
around 13°C. For the next few days
we are not expecting any rain over the
Gauteng province, but we are going to
feel the effects of the cold front – and a
second moving in on Monday.
He said after an emergency meeting,
a national intervention unit was established
to look at also putting temporary
beds in tents near hospitals.
Mkhize said patients should not take
being told to go to bed in a tent as not
receiving proper treatment. Rather it
was a way to manage the system to
investigate, isolate and treat those who
were not as ill and leave hospital beds
for those who needed them most.
The increase in cases is not unexpected
with more economic activities
open – and the height of the virus is
expected between the end of July and
early September.
“Following consultations, there was
a view it was safe to open for economic
activities as well as schools. We are
acknowledging that we have to co-exist
with the virus, and learn new ways of
how to cope,” he added.
To date more than 2 million tests
have been done in South Africa.
Meanwhile, Gauteng Health MEC
Dr Bandile Masuku has denied claims
of a tender to dig 1.5 million graves in
Gauteng in preparation for anticipated
Covid-19 deaths.
Responding to a call by Solidarity for
a probe into the alleged tender for the
graves, he said the figure represented the
capacity of graves, but denied there was
a tender to dig them.
“What has occurred is not about
digging, it’s not about tenders, there
are no gravesites that are being dug,”
said Masuku.
“All the preparation that we’ve put
in place is about saving lives,” he said.
Solidarity has questioned forecasts
for the number of Covid-19 deaths and
said 1.5 million deaths would represent
10% of the province’s population.
THE South Africa Weather Service says the temperatures in Gauteng are expected to get warmer
from Monday. | THOBILE MATHONSI African News Agency (ANA)
Snow is possible over parts of the
interior of the Western and Eastern
Cape, and there has been heavy rain,
gale force winds and high sea conditions
along the coast.
Yesterday’s cold weather was
accompanied by load shedding from
noon to 10pm as Eskom faced difficulties
with their power supply, and the
constrained supply situation may persist
throughout the weekend.
According to the record books, July
is marginally colder than June, and the
coldest day in Pretoria in recent history
was June 12, 1963 with a minimum of
-3, 6 and a maximum of 7, 5°C.
Lockdown
measures
harder to
enforce
CHELSEA NTULI
chelsea.ntuli@inl.co.za
A DECLINE in compliance with lockdown
regulations will limit its effectiveness
in curbing the Covid-19 spread.
This is according to a study by a team
led by academics from the University
of Pretoria’s department of Electrical,
Electronic and Computer Engineering,
who say it will become increasingly
difficult to enforce the regulations more
than 100 days into lockdown.
Professor Ian Craig, Dr Laurentz
Olivier and Stefan Botha published the
findings of their study in the online
open-access archive arXiv, based on an
epidemiological model developed by
Craig and Olivier, which they used to
predict that South Africa’s coronavirus
infections could exceed 570 000.
The number of cases in South Africa
has more than doubled over the past two
weeks, bringing the number of known
infections to 224 665 as of July 9. The
death toll has topped 3 000.
Craig said they considered scenarios
of how to flatten the infection curve to
a level that the health-care system could
cope, and how to balance lives and
livelihoods in terms of the economic
impact of lockdown.
They also included what impact the
population’s compliance with lockdown
measures has had in curbing the spread
of Covid-19.
Lockdown levels are typically
increased when the disease spreads,
and reduced when the disease abates,
said Craig.
In Europe, where the peak of the
spread and demand on health care
has passed, life is slowly returning to
normal although some restrictions do
still apply.
Craig said South Africa’s case was
of interest, as government was already
reducing the degree of lockdown
although the disease was yet to peak.
South Africa is now at level 3 of its
lockdown, which allows for various economic
activities, but infection is increasing
exponentially, he said. Health Minister
Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday
that “the storm we have consistently
warned South Africans about is now
arriving”.
Craig said the early, strict lockdown
measures in South Africa had been successful
from an epidemiological point
of view, but great harm was done to an
economy that was already weak before
the Covid-19 pandemic started.
The team’s paper indicated that
when implementing the “flattening the
curve” policy, lockdown, which started
at the end of March, had ended up being
extremely long, which has an economic
impact.
“Preventing economic activity, and
thereby preventing certain people from
earning a living, will likely increase
poverty, which in itself leads to lives
lost prematurely. To address this, the
‘balancing of lives and livelihoods’ policy
was investigated, under which strict
lockdown measures are not imposed for
too long, even though the health-care
capacity may be exceeded,” said Craig.
This policy therefore reduces lockdown
levels to curb economic losses,
even though infection rates may be
considered to be unacceptably high.
The scenario is currently playing out
in various countries in the developing
world, he said.
“There is a very delicate balance
to be maintained when implementing
policy decisions. Consideration should
be given to the effect that policies may
have on the citizens. If not, compliance
may be reduced, and disgruntled citizens
may deliberately violate regulations or
fail to keep track of which lockdown
level is in force.”
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I went to the doctor
recently and she actually
prescribed that I go out for
ten minutes a day, I’m so
depleted on vitamin D
JORMA TACCONE
ICYMI | IOL.CO.ZA
HOW TO GET ENOUGH VITAMIN D
MOST people can make enough vitamin
D from sun exposure during the summer,
but for many, it’s much harder in the
winter because people bundle up indoors
during the cold weather. Here’s how we
can make sure we get enough of it. Go to:
www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/health
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WEATHER
GAUTENG
TODAY’S FORECAST
Partly cloudy
PRETORIA 2 | 13
• PROTEST
Call to speed up child abuse probe
#NotInMyName activists slam police for ‘dragging their feet’, hospital for poor security after attack on toddler
POPULAR CITIES & TOWNS
Min |Max
Pretoria 2 | 13
Cape Town 8 | 15
Durban 18 |22
Pietermaritzburg 8 |20
Margate 16 | 21
Newcastle 8 | 16
Ladysmith 11 | 18
Upington 5 | 14
Port Elizabeth 7 | 17
East London 13 | 19
Kokstad 7 | 15
Bloemfontein 5 | 10
PRETORIA FIVE-DAY FORECAST
Sunday Sunny 2 |18
Monday Sunny 2 |20
Tuesday Sunny 3 |20
Wednesday Partly cloudy 3 | 16
Thursday Sunny 1 |19
JAMES MAHLOKWANE
james.mahlokwane@inl.co.za
CASTRATION is the fitting punishment
for the alleged rapist of a
Ga-Rankuwa toddler, social activists
say, as demands for urgent action by
the hospital where she was in care and
the police continue.
The call was made by a group of
young people who gathered outside
the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital
where the 2-year old had been
admitted.
She was admitted when she showed
signs of respiratory distress and was
apparently in isolation. Yesterday’s
action was led by #NotInMyName
who, together with others, descended
on the hospital just a day after the EFF
held a demonstration.
#NotInMyName general secretary
Themba Masango told the protesters
it was heartbreaking that an innocent
child was subjected to such disgusting
behaviour at a time when South Africa
was fighting the Covid-19 pandemic
and rampant gender-based violence.
Masango expressed outrage that it
took the police more than a week to
get a case number after the case had
been reported on June 25.
“It cannot be. We need to lift our
levels of service. We need to lift our
EYE IN THE SKY
levels of care, especially when it comes
to our children.
“We cannot afford for children’s
lives to be messed up just because we
allow paedophiles to go in and out of
our institutions.”
He said there was only security at
the hospital because of the protests.
“This should be an everyday situation.
People should be monitored… even
the staff that work here should be vetted
every single time,” Masango said.
He and Siyabulela Jentile, the president
of the movement, took a moment to
thank staff members who risked their
lives to help the country to fight the
coronavirus pandemic, and who did
not deserve such disturbing news.
“Castration is what a person of this
kind needs,” Masango said, adding
that a prison sentence was not good
enough for the perpetrator of such
violence against a child.
The hospital’s chief executive, Richard
Lethebe, told the group that the
matter was being investigated by the
Department of Health and the SAPS.
The Pretoria News reported on the
incident on Monday.
Lethebe said the 2-year-old girl’s
aunt told him they were referred to
the hospital on June 15. He said the
mother was told to go home as the
child needed to be placed in isolation.
After the child returned home,
signs of abuse emerged, and a case was
opened with the police and reported
to the hospital.
Lethebe said the matter was being
taken very seriously.
The child and her family were
receiving support from outside the
hospital as the alleged perpetrator
might still be inside the facility, he
said.
Malebo Nkese and Naledi Nkoana,
who were among the protesters, said
they were disappointed that such an
incident could happen in their local
hospital. They wanted justice to prevail
to ensure it never happened again.
• TOURISM
Phases of the moon
Last quarter
Tomorrow
New moon July 20
First quarter July 27
Full moon August 3
Moonrise 23:23 | Moonset 11:12
Kruger Station will open to diners after
provincial borders reopen.
GAUTENG TODAY
Sunrise 06:55 Sunset 17:32
Humidity 35% Wind: Light – ENE
INTERNATIONAL TEMPERATURES
Harare 13 |27
Abuja 21 |25
Cairo 23 |40
Jerusalem 20 | 31
Rome 21 |32
Madrid 23 |38
Paris 14 |23
London 14 | 21
Berlin 12 |20
Moscow 17 |28
New Delhi 34 | 42
Beijing 22 | 31
Tokyo 25 |32
Canberra 5 | 12
Wellington 7 | 11
Ottawa 20 |27
Washington 24 | 35
Brasilia 16 |26
SA celebrity
chef brings a
world of flavour
to Kruger
A MOTORIST removes his belongings from
a damaged car in the aftermath of torrential
rains and floods in Sakamoto, Kyushu
Island, Japan yesterday. | EPA-EFE
More forecasts, weatherSA.co.za
By the power
of the sun...
GARMIN International has
launched a new collection of multisport
smartwatches that use solar
power.
The solar charging technology has
been brought to the Instinct, fenix 6
and 6S and tactix Delta devices and
allows those with an active lifestyle to
do what they love for longer without
worrying about the battery going flat
In certain modes the Instinct Solar
can last more than 50 days with sufficient
sun exposure and in battery saver
mode, Garmin promises an unlimited
battery life.
The fenix 6S Pro Solar (pictured)
can last 10.5 days with sufficient solar
exposure, while battery performance
in smartwatch mode is up to 14 days
indoors and 16 days with sufficient
solar exposure.
These popular watches have modes
for running, road cycling and swimming
as well as mountain biking,
surfing and indoor climbing; sleep
monitoring, Garmin Pay, on-device
music storage, and GPS functionality.
The new watches will be available
in SA soon. | Staff Reporter
ASTRONAUT Colonel Douglas Hurley shared images of Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria at night from the International Space Station (above is Pretoria).
Hurley, along with Robert Behnken, who had been flying to the ISS on Soyuz rockets since the US ended its Shuttle programme in 2011, become the first two American citizens to
return to Space from the US on the Dragon capsule which launched on May 27. The ISS orbits 400km above Earth, is the third-brightest object in the sky and completes multiple
orbits every day. It can be seen from the ground using a new, interactive map called Spot the Station. According to this, it will be visible from Pretoria this weekend: today,7.14pm,
3 minutes, 19°,19° above WNW, 10° above N; tomorrow, 6.23pm, 6 minutes, 40°, 10° above WSW, 10° above NNE.
• GET TESTED
City drive to prevent spreading disease
RAPULA MOATSHE
rapula.moatshe@inl.co.za
DON’T take your symptoms lightly
because you may be a Covid-19 carrier
and end up infecting other people
unknowingly.
This was the primary message
conveyed to scores of people, who
came through for Covid-19 screening
and testing conducted by the
City of Tshwane’s health services at
Ga-Rankuwa shopping centre yesterday.
Johan Human, municipal health
services’ acting deputy director in
Region 1, said the City targeted shopping
malls because they had a bigger
concentration of people.
Ga-Rankuwa was part of region 1,
which accounted for the third highest
cases of coronavirus in Tshwane.
The region with the highest number
of cases was region 3, which
included the CBD and parts of the
Pretoria West.
Human said that every Friday the
City embarked on a screening and
testing campaign in different regions
and wards.
“We usually screen about 300 to
350 people a day, and test between 50
and 100 a day.”
CITY of Tshwane’s
health services
have embarked on
a screening and
testing campaign
at Ga-Rankuwa
Shopping Centre.
| OUPA MOKOENA
African News
Agency (ANA)
Human pleaded with people not to
ignore the symptoms.
“You might have flu as a symptom
and you dismiss it as a minor problem
or as just a sinus, while in the meantime
you are positive and you are likely
to infect your whole family.”
He advised people to see a physician
if they had symptoms like coughing,
itching eyes, sore throats and flu.
“Go to your pharmacy or go to
your clinic. Let them assess you and
if it is necessary get tested. Tests are
free,” he said.
He was particularly pleased with
the response of the community to
the blitz. “We haven’t heard any negative
comments and people expressed
appreciation because it was the first
time seeing people working on the
ground since Covid started.”
Rachel Magano, 58, had symptoms
of flu, coughing and a sore throat and
was screened. “We appreciate the fact
they are screening people en masse,
but we would like them to test all of
us irrespective of the fact that one
displays the symptoms or not.”
She said there were people who
were asymptomatic who could potentially
pose a danger to their families
because they would be spreading the
virus unknowingly.
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SANPARKS is waiting for provincial
borders to reopen before it will open
its accommodation in the Kruger
National Park to visitors, but work
continues on the latest addition to the
park, the Kruger Shalati: Train on the
Bridge hotel and Kruger Station.
The boutique hotel, which will
open post-lockdown, is built out of
old train carriages and sits high on
Selati Bridge, above the Sabie River in
the Selati concession of Skukuza.
It has 31 rooms; 24 in glass-walled
carriages and seven “bridge house”
rooms next to the tracks.
Some may remember the Kruger
Station, site of the old Selati Train
Grill house which operated until 2014,
and which is being transformed into a
lifestyle space that will appeal to train
fanatics, history buffs, families and
foodies and visitors to the park.
Just announced is the addition to
the staff of Andrew Atkinson as group
executive chef.
He has headed many top operations
at venues such as the Michelangelo,
Hyatt Rosebank and Hilton
Sandton. Atkinson has gained popular
appeal through his involvement in the
TV series MasterChef South Africa.
He said the Kruger Station menu
would incorporate the best dishes from
across the world, with a distinct South
African touch.
Kruger Station will cater for overnight
and day visitors to the park,
offering everything from dining in
3638 Restaurant to deli grab-and-go.
The station will have a stateof-the-art
virtual reality venue which
will run 15-minute movies depicting
the history of the park, starting
with the historic elements of the
train line, further enhanced with
virtual fireside talks with esteemed
storytellers.
In addition to job opportunities
for communities, the concession has
taken part in its first incubation project:
a partnership with bakers, Sipho
Mavundla and Believe Mavundhla
who owned the Eagle Dough Buddies,
a small bakery near Skukuza.
The Kruger Station is set to open
first, with an anticipated phased opening
of the hotel in line with the post-
Covid-19 lockdown period.
● The Kruger Shalati Concession,
which manages the Kruger Station as
well as the Kruger Shalati Train on a
Bridge, forms part of the Thebe Tourism
Group.
| STAFF REPORTER

PRETORIA NEWS | Saturday, July 11 2020
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It is an eternal obligation toward the
human being not to let him suffer from
hunger when one has a chance of
coming to his assistance
SIMONE WEIL
ICYMI | IOL.CO.ZA
HUNGER LINKED TO COVID-19
COULD CAUSE 12 000 DEATHS A DAY
As many as 12 000 people could die per day
by the end of the year as a result of hunger
linked to Covid-19. Potentially more than
could die from the disease, warned Oxfam
in a new briefing published.
Go to: www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/health/diet
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• LOCKDOWN DIARY
GAUTENG OVERTAKES WESTERN CAPE
LAID BACK
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
Day 1 of national lockdown level 5.
FRIDAY, MAY 1
Lockdown moves to level 4.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13
Lifting of restrictions on e-commerce.
Sale of alcohol and tobacco banned.
SUNDAY, MAY 24
President Cyril Ramaphosa announces
further reopening of the economy.
THURSDAY, MAY 28
Co-operative Governance Minister
Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma announces
changes for level 3 restrictions. Tobacco
sales still banned.
MONDAY, JUNE 1
Lockdown moves to level 3.
Queues to buy alcohol.
Basic Education Minister Angie
Motshekga postpones reopening of schools
as not all are ready.
TUESDAY, JUNE 2
Gauteng High Court rules in favour of
Liberty Fighters Network’s challenge to
lockdown regulations.
THURSDAY, JUNE 4
Cabinet agrees to extend the State of
Disaster to July 15.
MONDAY, JUNE 8
Schools reopen for grades 7 and 12.
Domestic flights between Joburg, Cape Town
and Durban resume for business travel.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10
Case brought by the Fair Trade
Independent Tobacco Association against
the ban on tobacco sales in court.
A WORKER stands next to a freshly-dug grave at the Honingnestkrans Cemetery, north of Pretoria. The graves are being prepared in the
event that many people may die over a short space of time because of the coronavirus. | SHIRAAZ MOHAMED AP
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
Amendments to level 3 for personal
care services, hotels and restaurants
announced. President condemns rise of
gender-based violence during lockdown.
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja
Kganyago warns of economic downturn.
TUESDAY, JUNE 23
Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize warns of
the “storm” of rising cases.
Directions for reopening of schools
published.
Wits screens participants for the
South Africa / Oxford Covid-19 vaccine
trial which will be led locally by Professor
Shabir Madhi.
The Housing Company Tshwane (HCT) is an entity of and owned by the City of Tshwane (CoT) Metropolitan Municipality. Established in 2001
and registered as a housing institution, the HCT received its mandate from the CoT to implement the CoT’s institutional housing programme
in general; and social housing in particular. The HCT’s mandate includes the development and management of affordable rental housing for
the lower income market as an integral part of the CoT’s efforts to provide housing solutions to its communities. The HCT is accredited by the
Social Housing Regulatory Authority (SHRA). The HCT is accountable through its Board to the CoT.
The HCT seeks to fill the following vacancies on a five-year fixed-term contract.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Ref: 001/07/2020
Remuneration: Negotiable
MAIN PURPOSE: The Chief Executive Officer will establish the HCT as a credible implementation and delivery agency of affordable housing, provide strategic leadership, compliance, financial
sustainability; and support to HCT’s Board, management team and staff.
KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Develop, implement and monitor new strategies to create opportunities for long-term financial sustainability.
• Lead the implementation of the HCT’s long-term sustainability business case/model.
• Implement the business plan in line with the provisions articulated in the HCT’s strategic plan.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and codes (e.g. Municipal Systems Act, MFMA, Companies Act, and King IV etc.).
• Ensure sound corporate governance within all facets of the HCT.
• Foster a high performance culture across the operational areas within the HCT.
• Implement the Board strategy and Board resolutions.
• Account to the Board on key management and strategic priorities.
• Develop and lead a diverse executive management team.
• Develop and implement a stakeholder engagement and management strategy.
REQUIREMENTS:
• A highly accomplished individual is sought for this role and must have a bachelor’s degree and or an equivalent qualification in Engineering, Built Environment and or related fields.
• A minimum of 6-10 years proven senior management experience and some executive management experience at local government level and in the infrastructure planning environment.
• The role requires an individual with a deep understanding and experience of the social infrastructure needs of South Africa and in particular, Tshwane
KEY COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:
• Knowledge: Functioning of the public and local government sector, built environment/construction industry, performance monitoring and evaluation, applicable legislative prescripts and
corporate governance codes, intergovernmental relations framework; and municipal land holding and management legislation and regulations.
• Skills: Strategic capability and leadership, strategic planning, problem solving and analysis, managing conflict, service delivery innovation, programme and project management, financial
management, performance management, contract management, change management, the ability to engage and manage diverse stakeholders, negotiation and communication (written and
verbal); and computer literacy.
• The role requires a flexible work schedule to meet the demands of executive management, and work hours may be long and irregular. This position is based at the HCT’s Head Office in Tshwane.
The HCT offers competitive remuneration within the context of the local government sector, based on the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate.
CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER
Ref: 002/07/2020
Remuneration: Negotiable
Closing date for applications is 17 July 2020.
It’s in the air that we
breathe, scientists
tell WHO
MAIN PURPOSE: Reporting to the CEO, the Chief Operating Officer will provide strategic leadership, direction and support to the Housing Company Tshwane’s core operational units which include
Property Development and Property Management in delivering its affordable rental housing mandate in the City of Tshwane. S/he shall provide the effective implementation of the entity’s annual
business plan and achievement of annual service delivery targets.
KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: Provide leadership, direction, support and advice to the core operational units. Oversee and ensure the provision of strategic and effective operations to the entity.
Oversee and facilitate effective social housing development and management. Provide leadership, guidance to the entity’s operational staff members. Manage and coordinate engagements with
key stakeholders in relation to research.
REQUIREMENTS:
• Must have a bachelor’s degree and or an equivalent qualification in Engineering, Built Environment and or related fields.
• A minimum of 5 years technical experience in a senior management in local government;
• Experience in the preparation and management of strategic plans, operational plans, reporting and management of budgets as per the prescribed legislation;
• Post Graduate Degree in Built Environment will be added advantage;
• Knowledge and understanding of all relevant human settlements development policies;
• Extensive knowledge of local management leadership and management at a metropolitan level;
• Knowledge of the MFMA Treasury Regulations, SHRA, National Development Plan (NDP), KING IV and the Companies Act. Knowledge of all relevant legislation, policies and procedures relating
to local government, human settlements, affordable housing and social housing development;
• Knowledge and understanding of monitoring and evaluation principles. Project and programme management and implementation processes and practices;
• Knowledge and understanding of communications and stakeholder management requirements and processes; and
• Must be able to: monitor & evaluate the organisational performance level, ensure compliance with all statutory & regulatory requirements, and use performance information to plan, and give
effect to the organisation’s strategy.
KEY COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:
• Knowledge: Functioning of the public and local government sector, built environment/construction industry, performance monitoring and evaluation, applicable legislative prescripts and
orporate governance codes, intergovernmental relations framework; and municipal land holding and management legislation and regulations.
• Skills: Strategic capability and leadership, strategic planning, problem solving and analysis, managing conflict, service delivery innovation, programme and project management, financial
management, performance management, contract management, change management, the ability to engage and manage diverse stakeholders, negotiation and communication (written and
verbal); and computer literacy.
• The role requires a flexible work schedule to meet the demands of executive management, and work hours may be long and irregular. This position is based at the HCT’s Head Office in Tshwane.
The HCT offers competitive remuneration within the context of the local government sector, based on the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Interested applicants are invited to apply by submitting their CVs’ clearly marked with the reference number of the position in a Microsoft Word format to shatadimo@tshwane.gov.za.
CONDITIONS OF SERVICE:
The HCT is an equal opportunity employer • Appointments will be made in accordance with the HCT Employment Equity policy • The HCT reserves the right not to make an
appointment. Please do not send certificates, diplomas or testimonials. We thank all applicants for their interest. Communication will be conducted with short-listed applicants
only. Should you not be contacted 4 weeks after the closing date, consider your application unsuccessful.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni
delivers extraordinary supplementary
Budget to a joint sitting of Parliament
to address the Covid-19 pandemic.
THURSDAY, JUNE 25
Regulations for reopening of
leisure activities including restaurants,
coffee shops, casinos, and hotels
published. Travel allowed but
restricted to one’s home province.
MONDAY, JUNE 29
Restaurants reopen with sit-in
service allowed.
TUESDAY, JUNE 30
World Health Organization (WHO)
head Tedros Ghebreyesus warns
the spread of Covid-19 is speeding
up. An assessment of its handling of
Covid-19 will be done.
Dlamini Zuma is granted leave to
appeal the high court judgment that
set aside lockdown regulations.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1
Gauteng High Court turns down
application by Mmusi Maimane and
his One South Africa Movement for
schools to remain closed.
Ramaphosa, on a virtual imbizo,
says schools need to reopen and the
cigarette ban is not for ever.
• CRIME
THURSDAY, JULY 2
Gauteng Premier David Makhura
warns that the Covid-19 storm has
hit the province while Dr Mkhize is
worried about the public letting down
their guard.
Motshekga announces only
grades R, 6, and 11 will return to
school to join grades 7 and 12, with
other grades returning later.
SATURDAY, JULY 4
Day 100 of lockdown.
MONDAY, JULY 6
The High Court rules that early
childhood development programmes
may reopen. Grades R, 6 and 11 go
back to school.
Amendments published around
sports and the opening of libraries,
museums and theatres.
Gauteng provincial spokesperson
Thabo Masebe urges compliance
with level 3 lockdown rules.
According to the National Institute
for Communicable Diseases, onethird
of patients admitted to hospital
with Covid-19 had at least one
comorbidity.
In a letter to the WHO, 239
scientists in 32 countries outline
evidence that they say shows floating
virus particles can infect people with
Covid-19.
TUESDAY, JULY 7
Amendments to the staggered
return of other grades published.
Grades 3 and 10 due back on July 20,
grades 1 and 2 on July 27, grades 4
and 9 on August 17, and grades 5 and
8 on August 31.
Media24 announces the
closure of five magazines and two
newspapers as a result of the impact
of Covid-19 on the economy.
The Western Cape and Gauteng
now each have 33% of the cases. The
death toll tops 3 000.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8
Ramaphosa addresses the
International Labour Organisation
global summit on Covid-19 and the
World of Work.
Mkhize warns again that the
Covid-19 storm has arrived, with
Gauteng preparing mass graves at a
site north of Pretoria.
FRIDAY, JULY 10
Gauteng premier David Makhura
becomes the third premier to test
positive.
South Africa is in 13th spot
globally and Gauteng now has more
infections than the Western Cape.
Professor Salim Abdool Karim
says the virus might be airborne, but
there isn’t enough information yet.
Residents urged to be vigilant
SAKHILE NDLAZI
sakhile.ndlazi@inl.co.za
SINCE the national lockdown
regulations were relaxed, Centurion
residents have seen a spike in
crime, especially vehicle-related.
With the recent increase in
crime, ranging from petty to more
serious forms, Lyttelton police
have urged the community to take
precautions and actively join the
fight against crime.
Spokesperson Captain David
Miller said that in the past two
months a large number of vehicles
had been stolen and broken into
at various shopping centres.
He said police had stepped up
visible patrols across all areas.
“Unfortunately, we cannot be
everywhere all the time and as
such, we are requesting the community
to work together with us
by not leaving valuables visible in
vehicles,” said Miller.
Lyttelton police issued safety
tips regarding vehicle-related
crimes, among them making sure
that when drivers locked their
vehicles, they physically tested
the door handle to make sure it
was locked.
“We know that a great number
of thefts out of motor vehicles
occur by suspects using remote
jamming devices.”
Drivers should remain vigilant
of their surroundings and of
anyone loitering nearby or
watching them.
“Get into the habit of putting
valuables in your boot at
the beginning of your journey,”
Miller added.
Meanwhile, on a small holding
in the north of the city, an elderly
woman was shot and killed and
her husband was assaulted, all for
a cellphone.
Alan and Martie Wolmarans
became the latest victims of the
shocking rise in farm attacks in
the north of Pretoria.
Maksimum Responders were
called to the scene in Grootvlei
Oos, a smallholding area, after a
woman was shot and killed.
“On Sunday evening, security
responders reacted to a call out
to a property where an elderly
woman was pronounced dead, following
an attack around 9.30pm,”
emergency services said.
Hillel Coetzer, AfriForum’s
head of safety for the northern
region, said the incident was
alarming.
“A senseless crime. Just a cellphone
was taken and a woman
had to pay for it with her life.”
Coetzer said four suspects were
allegedly involved in the attack.
Juan du Plessis, the spokesperson
for GAC Risk Solutions, said
the group of suspects had gained
entry to the property by jumping
over a wall.
He said it was not known what
exactly happened.
SCOUNDRELS
DUCK AS ALARM
BELLS RING
FOR US ALL
JOUBERT MALHERBE
BEING naturally suspicious of authority,
I didn’t ever think I’d say that I
am sometimes glad that Big Brother
is keeping an eye on me.
But so it was that I returned from
Brooklyn the other day to an empty
house. My wife had gone out and
she had set the alarm, as we have
been doing for over the more than
20 years that we have been living in
funky Doringkloof.
I had gone to the CD shop to see
if I could get hold of the new Bob
Dylan CD, Rough and Rowdy Ways,
some of which I’ve heard and which
is superb. Rightly said to be his best
work since 2001’s Love and Theft.
Personally I’d go back even a little
further, but Theft featured the ballad,
Mississippi, which alone made ownership
of the album obligatory.
The new album, very bluesbased
from the few songs I’ve heard,
features some instant classics, like
Crossing the Rubicon and Murder Most
Foul, the latter which is about the
assassination of JFK in 1963.
Sadly, I was unable to get hold of
the CD as it hadn’t been delivered –
or even ordered – yet. I’ll try again
later in the week, I said to myself, but
decided to buy a “sale” CD by David
Crosby for the princely sum of R20.
I have had the vinyl edition of the
album, If I Could Only Remember My
Name, for many years.
On the way back from Brooklyn,
I played it on the car CD and it was
great. It features a bit of a who’s who
of the folk-hippie era, such as Graham
Nash, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell
and Jerry Garcia.
Anyway, I digress, this where the
Big Brother thing comes in. I got
home and, of course, the alarm gave
its 40-second warning bleep which
is ample time in which to punch in
the four-digit code to switch it off.
This I did, numerous times, to no
avail, and after the 40-second grace
period, the alarm started sounding
at the back of the house. I was mortified
as I kept on punching in the
code, thinking of how much I hate
it when one of the nearby alarms in
the suburb goes off and bleats for
hours on end.
Ten seconds after the alarm
began, I got a call from the alarm
company who wanted to know what
the score was. Without them even
asking, I gave them the rock musicbased
(natch) password I had chosen.
I called my wife and she quickly
put me to rights. I punched in the
right code (along with the hash key)
and, mercifully, the alarm stopped.
Was I relieved? You bet.
I felt a right prat. I know I didn’t
have to, but I called the alarm company
and asked to speak to the geezer
I had dealt with to explain to him
that all was cool. He sounded baffled,
but wished me well.
Meanwhile, I had to laugh when
I read this week when ANC honcho
Ace Magashule said it was unfair
to blame his guru JZ for the state
capture and self-enrichment era that
prevailed when he ran the country;
it had to do with “collective responsibility”,
he told a TV news channel.
He had no compunction about
throwing other ANC leaders under
the bus when he said Zuma operated
in the company of fellow ministers
and the ruling party’s NEC when the
coffers were looted. He even cited
Animal Farm when he gave the wellworn
ANC line about “not guilty
unless proven otherwise”.
Different context, I know, but I
thought of a much earlier Dylan song
on which he proclaims “patriotism is
the last refuge to which a scoundrel
clings…”
Maybe he can give “collective”
instead of patriotism a go in future.
Sigh.

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SATURDAY, JULY 11 2020 | PRETORIA NEWS
WWORLD
Blessed are the young,
for they shall inherit
the national debt.
HERBERT HOOVER
American engineer, businessman and
the 31st president of the United States
ICYMI | IOL.CO.ZA
EX-WIFE OR FRIEND DEFECATED
IN THEIR BED, SAYS DEPP
LONDON: Giving evidence in his libel
action against the Sun newspaper, actor
Johnny Depp told London’s High Court
yesterday his ex-wife Amber Heard or
her friend had defecated in their bed in
what he described as a “fitting end to the
relationship”.
CORONAVIRUS
UPDATE
COVID-19
GLOBAL FIGURES
• JAPAN
More rain expected as death toll rises to 66, with 16 still missing​
HOTLINE: 0800 029 999
THE coronavirus is affecting 213 countries
and territories around the world.
NUMBER OF CONFIRMED CASES:
12 462 531
NUMBER OF DEATHS:
558 795
NUMBER OF PATIENTS WHO
HAVE RECOVERED:
7 261 539
https://www.worldometers.info/
coronavirus/#countries
Air conditioning may
have spread disease
MUENSTER: Scientists are to test a
new air filtering system at a German
slaughterhouse hit by a coronavirus
outbreak after suggestions that the
air conditioning system may have
helped the virus spread.
Hygiene experts from the
University of Bonn plan to install
the new filter this weekend at a
plant belonging to the company
Toennies before tests begin on
Monday.
German health authorities will
use “smoke tests” at the plant in
Rheda-Wiedenbrueck in the western
state of North Rhine Westphalia.
Last month, 1 413 of 6 139
staff at the plant tested positive for
Covid-19 in what has been called
Germany’s worst localised
outbreak.
Air in the plant must be cooled
to between 6ºC and 10ºC to protect
the meat. It was likely that the
cooled air was then being fed back,
without being filtered, into the
hall where the employees worked.
| dpa
Russia sued over
Flight MH17 disaster
MOSCOW: The Netherlands
announced yesterday that it was
suing Russia in the European Court
of Human Rights over the 2014
downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH17 over war-torn eastern
Ukraine.
Nearly 300 people on board
Flight MH17, en route from
Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur,
were killed when the passenger jet
was shot down by a missile that a
Dutch-led investigative team has
determined came from Russia. Most
of the victims were Dutch.
Russia has rejected the allegation
that it provided the missile to a
pro-Russian rebel group fighting the
Ukrainian military for control of
eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region,
near the Russian border.
Although Russian President
Vladimir Putin has represented such
rebel groups in international peace
talks, the Russian government has
repeatedly denied direct involvement
in the conflict. | dpa
• COVID-19
Experts in
China for
virus inquiry
WHO advance team sent on scoping mission
AN ADVANCE team from the World
Health Organization (WHO) was
headed to China to organise an investigation
into the origins of the novel
coronavirus which sparked the global
pandemic, a spokeswoman said yesterday.
The virus is believed to have
emerged in a wholesale market in the
central Chinese city of Wuhan late last
year, since then closed, after jumping
the species barrier from the animal
kingdom to infect humans.
The two WHO experts, specialists
in animal health and epidemiology,
will work with Chinese scientists to
determine the scope and itinerary of
the investigation, WHO spokeswoman
Margaret Harris said, declining to
name them.
“They have gone, they are in the air
now, they are the advance party that is
to work out the scope,” she said.
This would involve negotiations
on issues including the composition
of the fuller team, she said.
“One of the big issues that everybody
is interested in, and of course
that’s why we’re sending an animal
health expert, is to look at whether or
not it jumped from species to a human
and what species it jumped from,”
Harris said.
“We know it’s very, very similar
ThePeople
Search resumes for former ‘Glee’ actress
LOS ANGELES: US authorities
resumed their search yesterday for
former Glee star Naya Rivera, who
is believed to have drowned in a
California lake while boating with her
4-year-old son. The boy was found on
the rented pontoon boat.
Rivera, 33, who had boating
experience, disappeared on
Wednesday at Lake Piru in about
9m-deep, murky water. | AP
to the virus in the bat, but did it go
through an intermediate species? This
is a question we all need answered,”
she said.
The two experts will spend the
weekend in the Chinese capital.
In an effort to block future outbreaks,
China has cracked down on
the trade in wildlife and closed some
wet markets.
The WHO mission is politically
sensitive, with the US – the top funder
of the UN body – moving to cut ties
with it over allegations the agency
mishandled the outbreak and is biased
toward China.
More than 120 nations called for
an investigation into the origins of the
virus at the World Health Assembly
in May. China has insisted that WHO
lead the investigation and for it to wait
until the pandemic is brought under
control. The US, Brazil and India are
continuing to see an increasing number
of cases.
The last WHO coronavirus-specific
mission to China was in February,
after which the team’s leader, Canadian
doctor Bruce Aylward, praised
China’s containment efforts and information-sharing.
Canadian and American officials
have since criticised him as being too
lenient on China. | Reuters and AP
TOKYO: Parts of Japan still searching
for missing people and evacuating
those stranded by deadly floods
and mudslides were bracing for more
pounding rains through the weekend.
The death toll had risen to 66 as of
yesterday morning, while 16 remained
missing, the Fire and Disaster Management
Agency said. Most are in prefectures
on Kyushu, Japan’s third-largest
main island.
The damage has spread into central
Japan’s scenic mountain villages
known for hot springs and hiking.
Search-and-rescue work continued
in Kuma village, where nine people
were missing and the effort was
delayed by deep floodwater and the
risk of more mudslides.
In the hot springs town of Yufuin
in Oita prefecture, an innkeeper was
found dead, and rescuers were searching
for three of her family members
who were still missing.
A SPITFIRE and a Hurricane fighter
aircraft roared above the village of
Ditchling, East Sussex, yesterday in a
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight over
the funeral procession of Vera Lynn
yesterday, honouring a singer who
became a symbol of hope during World
War II and again during the coronavirus
pandemic before her death last month at
103. Known as the ‘Forces’ Sweetheart’,
Lynn, right, died on June 18 surrounded
by family after a lifetime in which she
• AUSTRALIA
State locked down as coronavirus spreads
AUSTRALIA’S coronavirus hot spot
Victoria recorded 288 new cases yesterday,
the largest number of any state
since the pandemic began, and authorities
warned the spread could worsen.
Victoria, Australia’s second-most
populous state after neighbouring New
South Wales (NSW), has been cut off
with border closures by other states.
All states and territories but NSW had
eradicated community transmission
Mayor found dead after sex crime case filed
SEOUL: The mayor of South Korea’s
capital was found dead yesterday
after he was reported missing amid a
criminal probe and media reports of
alleged sexual harassment.
Mayor Park Won-soon’s body was
found at Mount Bugak, the Seoul
Metropolitan Police Agency said.
There was no sign of foul play and
police did not give a cause of death.
The apparent suicide came after
Nearly 2 000 people were still
stranded in 70 places, chief cabinet
secretary Yoshihide Suga said.
Rescue workers and the authorities
were in touch with most of those areas,
though the extent of damage was not
fully known.
The Meteorological Agency has
FORCES’ SWEETHEART
recorded such songs as The White Cliffs
of Dover and We’ll Meet Again.
Fans and members of the armed forces
lined the streets as her coffin, draped in
the flag of the Union, was driven towards
a private funeral.
Lynn was back in the headlines in April
when Queen Elizabeth II used words from
Lynn’s song to tell the country, ‘we will
meet again’ and urged people to show
resolve during the Covid-19 lockdown.
| Reuters
one of Park’s former secretaries filed
a complaint on Wednesday alleging
the 64-year-old had sexually harassed
her. The police confirmed the
complaint filed against him.
“I apologise to everyone,” Park
wrote in a note released by the city
and his family.
The long-time mayor was
considered to be a possible 2022
presidential contender. | Reuters
issued evacuation advisories in Nagasaki
and other areas on the Kyushu
region due to continuing downpours.
In all, more than 1.2 million people
have been urged to evacuate, though
it is not compulsory.
The agency predicted up to 300mm
of rain throughout today. | AP
of the virus, but Victoria-linked infections
are spreading.
Victoria hopes a second lockdown
in Melbourne, the nation’s second
most populous city with 5 million
people, will curb the spread, imposed
on Wednesday and will last six weeks.
The Victoria tally reflected a new
record of more than 37 500 tests in a
day, state Premier Daniel Andrews said.
Australian states have banned people
crossing borders if they have been
in Victoria in the past two weeks. International
arrivals at Melbourne Airport
have been banned after breaches of
hotel quarantine were blamed for the
country’s only widespread transmission
of Covid-19. Yesterday, Victoria
became the first state to recommend
residents wear masks. Australia has
recorded more than 9 000 cases and
106 patients have died. | AP
Dutch bank to probe
role in slave trade
AMSTERDAM: The Dutch central
bank (DNB) said yesterday it would
launch an investigation into its own
role in the 19th-century slave trade.
Following a similar move by the
Bank of England, DNB said it would
ask independent researchers to
determine what its involvement with
slavery was at the time.
“The investigation will examine
DNB’s role as an institution in
the first years of its existence and
presidents and board members from
that period,” the bank said.
The DNB, which was founded in
1814 by Dutch King Willem I, said it
would decide on further steps once
the inquiry was complete.
The Dutch played a major role
in the global slave trade from the
17th century until the Netherlands
abolished slavery in 1863.
The Dutch West India Company
operated ships estimated to have
traded 500 000 slaves in the 17th and
18th centuries. | dpa
• CHINA
Macau’s casino king buried
as gambling hub faces new era
HONG Kong’s highest-profile officials
and business people paid their
respects yesterday to Macau’s gambling
king, Stanley Ho, who built a business
empire from scratch in the former
Portuguese colony and became one of
Asia’s richest men.
Ho, who died at age 98 on May 26,
presided over the transformation of
Macau into the world’s biggest casino
centre, outpacing the US’s Las Vegas
strip. Shielded from challengers by a
four-decade monopoly on gambling,
Ho grew his operations into one of
the most lucrative gaming businesses
through his firm SJM Holdings, valued
at about $6 billion (R101bn).
His privately held company Sociedade
de Turismo e Diversões de Macau,
or STDM, has stakes in everything
from luxury hotels to helicopters and
horse racing.
Ho’s one-hour funeral ceremony
was attended by black-suited guests,
including local tycoons who wore
masks. Among the pallbearers were
Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, and
senior members of China’s top political
consultative body, Edmund Ho and
Tung Chee-hwa.
White flower wreaths from well
wishers filled the funeral parlour,
including from Chinese President
Xi Jinping.
Ho’s death comes as Macau faces a
critical juncture, with officials warning
that the special administrative region
is too dependent on gambling and
faces acute challenges as it reels from
the impact of the Covid-19.
STANLEY Ho at his 85th birthday party in
Hong Kong on May 26, 2006. | AP
Succession plans for Ho, who had
four wives and 17 known children,
had been in place since 2012, when he
was forced to restructure his business
after a legal battle in the family over
his fortune.
His family remains a part of
Macau’s gambling industry. His
daughter Daisy is chairperson of SJM,
while his fourth wife, Angela Leong,
is a co-chairperson. His daughter
Pansy is co-chairperson of MGM
Resorts Macau unit, and son
Lawrence runs Melco Resorts and
Entertainment. | Reuters
• AFRICA
Talks over controversial
dam remain deadlocked
CAPE TOWN: Negotiations between
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the
filling and operation of the controversial
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
(Gerd) have produced no results after
seven straight days of talks, reported
Daily News Egypt.
According to the report, Egypt’s
Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation
said on Thursday that the delegations
of the three countries had
agreed to send three separate reports
on the talks and their viewpoints to
South Africa, whose President Cyril
Ramaphosa is the current chairperson
of the AU.
Egypt maintained that while
Ethiopia stuck to its “inflexible” positions,
Egypt had shown flexibility
during the resumed tripartite talks,
sponsored by the AU and other states’
representatives and observers, wrote
news outlet Xinhua.
For Ethiopia, the construction and
filling of the dam are not two separate
events, one of the country’s negotiators,
Zerihun Abebe, told the BBC.
Ethiopia’s $4 billion (R67bn) hydroelectric
dam is expected to produce
6 000 megawatts of electricity and
become Africa’s largest hydroelectric
dam upon completion.
The delegations of each country
will meet today with the international
observers separately.
Tomorrow, a ministerial meeting
will be held in the hope of reaching
a consensus.
The talks are expected to last until
Monday. | ANA

PRETORIA NEWS | Saturday, July 11 2020
5
A good newspaper,
I suppose, is a nation
talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLER
American playwright and essayist
ICYMI | IOL.CO.ZA
TRUMP TELL-ALL BOOK
A book by President Donald Trump’s niece,
author Mary L Trump, PhD, describes a
family riven by a traumas, exacerbated by a
patriarch who “destroyed” Donald Trump by
short-circuiting his “ability to develop and
experience the entire spectrum of human
emotion.” See https://bit.ly/TrumpsNiece
OOPINION
CARPING POINT
EDITORIAL
‘Keep the canary
alive in the
coal mine’
KEVIN RITCHIE
@RitchKev
IT WAS brutal this week. Our
economy, already suffering a
nauseating number of unemployed
people, seems to be developing the
same horrible momentum of the
Covid-19 infection rate.
The difference is most of us will
get through the pandemic, not all of
us will survive the economic
contagion.
Media24’s announcement of
newspaper and magazine closures
and the cannibalisation of other
editorial functions provoked the
typical clamour of digital distress.
But all those beating their breasts
should be ashamed of themselves.
Their messages of condolence should
stick in their craw.
Nothing will happen, this is
social media after all: next week will
roll around with a new outrage on
the diary to virtue signal.
Our media is in dire shape. The
coronavirus just took it and gave it a
very hard shake.
This is not a reset, it’s a culling
of the weak in the herd, but there’s
no guarantee who will make it to
the waterhole – or if there’ll even be
water if they get there.
We can blame rapacious owners
draining papers for profit or
reframing news in their own image
and likeness, but the true villains are
the readers themselves.
The media crisis we are living in
now began decades before, when
people stopped reading papers – and
certainly paying for them.
As the eyeballs diminished, so
too did the advertisers until all that
was left was the flotsam and jetsam
of legal notices published under
duress – and the odd, sad sex worker.
Far too many readers stopped buying
papers because they didn’t like how
their echo chambers were being
disrupted – they didn’t like the bad
news, or the stories about people
who didn’t look like them and
certainly didn’t think like them.
Many gleefully reported how they
could get their news for free from
overseas TV channels or from social
media, little understanding that
overseas TV only ever broadcast local
stories when it’s 5-to-catastrophe
while social media is a toxic stew of
fake news, f**kery and fantasy with
lashings of character assassination
and confirmation bias.
Legacy media were often their
own worst enemies, allowing
consultants to lead fearful print
editors and managers by the nose,
evangelising the gospel of clicks,
shovelling the news you’d pay for in
print on to sites for free, squirming
in delight when content went viral
or was “curated” by competitors,
conveniently forgetting that
Facebook “likes” and retweets pay
neither salaries nor the water and
lights.
They blithely ignored the fact
that people won’t pay for papers if
they can get news for free on their
cellphones. The readers didn’t care,
living large on the flush of the
infodemic.
Well, that’s all changing. Another
500 journalists are about to find
themselves on the streets, next to the
thousands of has-beens trying to flip
burgers, peddle insurance or re-write
press releases.
It doesn’t have to get any worse.
Buy your local paper while you still
can, engage with the editors. Hold
them to account.
Make your newspaper, once
again, as Arthur Miller famously said,
“a nation talking to itself”. Keep the
canary alive in the coal mine.
It really isn’t that difficult.
Ritchie is a media consultant and a
former newspaper editor
A DOCTOR talks to a patient at the Coronavirus Unit at United Memorial Medical Center, in Houston, this week. It is important for people with pre-existing ailments to continue taking their
chronic medication during this current health crisis, says the writer. | AP
COMMENT
Comorbidity and Covid-19
DR GLORIA MEMEH
Ensure that those with pre-existing conditions take their chronic medication
FOR EVERY South African, the
Covid-19 pandemic has been a herald
of change, with the deadly plague
creeping into nearly every nation and
state on the planet.
The virus is a red thread that has
been woven into the very fabric of
our being.
We experienced an unprecedented
national lockdown, the likes of which
have never been seen before. Even
after some of the regulations have
been lifted, some now fear the outside
world because of this invisible foe that
we face.
But we cannot allow this fear to
force back the progress we have made
in the fight against chronic ailments
like Tuberculosis and HIV/Aids, which
have long beset our country, and
which remain an issue even during
this time of the corona crisis.
In this time of Covid-19 calamity
when comorbidities may be the
difference between life and death,
taking chronic medication is all too
important.
HIV has has held pandemic status
globally for decades.
In South Africa, it is estimated that
7.6 million citizens are carriers of the
virus, with 4.5 million undergoing
antiretroviral therapy.
During the lockdown, there has
been a 17% decline in viral load tests,
and a consequent decline in HIV testing
and the initiation of antiretroviral
therapy.
According to data from Médecins
Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
in Khayelitsha on the outskirts of
Cape Town, the initiation of antiretroviral
treatment had halved in March
and dropped by more than 50% in
April.
The implications of these declines
are both stark and grim.
With fewer people starting antiretroviral
therapy and viral load monitoring,
we may see an increase in viral
resistance, a spike in transmissions of
the virus and a surge of life-threatening
co-infections like tuberculosis.
In May, the National Institute
of Communicable Diseases (NICD)
recorded a significant drop in TB testing
since the first day of lockdown in
March.
Before the lockdown, the institute
conducted an average of 47 520 TB
tests every single week.
This plunged to a median of 24 574
tests a week, representing nearly a
halving of tests critical in detecting
and monitoring the disease.
According to their report, the NICD
attributed this to restrictions on movement
and public transport.
Regarding drug-resistant TB, there
has been a massive decrease in case
finding and treatment, figures here
also almost halving during the lockdown.
But while HIV and TB carry a certain
notoriety, chronic diseases like
diabetes cannot be forgotten.
Research conducted by the Human
Sciences Research Council in March
indicates that 13% of South Africans
surveyed were unable to access their
chronic medication during the lockdown.
Of greater concern, the study found
that 13-25% of people living in informal
settlements or rural areas revealed
that their chronic medication was anything
but easily accessible.
These figures should startle, for
the simple fact that comorbidities like
diabetes or high blood pressure are a
harbinger of doom for most of those
who will contract Covid-19.
Make no mistake, South Africa
is dealing with what is arguably the
biggest health crisis in our recent
memory.
This is a war that is waged on many
fronts, and while attention is drawn
to the advance of the coronavirus, we
must take heed of the fact that there
are other threats on the horizon.
These threats have long been an
albatross around our necks and losing
ground in this theatre would be
devastating.
Not only because it sets the scene
for more death and sadness because
of those lost to Covid-19, but that it
renders our sustained effort to eradicate
them completely an exercise in
folly.
While the threat of Covid-19
remains a reality, it has never been
more important for people to take
their medication.
Memeh is a general practitioner based in
Johannesburg
The importance of volunteer-funded research
SIMON ELWEN
CONSERVATION or biological research
projects funded through fees from volunteers
or students are common in
many countries, especially in developing
nations, and on projects working
with charismatic mega-fauna.
“Voluntourism” projects, as they
are sometimes known, often have a
bad reputation as little more than gapyear
holidays for wealthy kids to pet
lion cubs or engage in “white saviour”
fantasies, although core concerns
mainly pertain to projects working
with humans and especially children
(Smith & Font 2015, Freidus 2017).
Although no industry is perfect,
we argue that this approach to project
funding wildlife research projects is
valuable, reasonable, and for many
projects essential.
Although there is considerable
scope within this sector, we focus our
commentary on projects with a scientific
biological research focus rather
than “conservation”, “rehabilitation”
or “community engagement”.
We focus on three marine research
groups within South Africa, the (SSRC
(Social Science Research Council),
Dict (Dyer Island Conservation Trust)
and OR (Oceans Research), although
the arguments apply elsewhere. A
significant amount of the primary
research on marine mega-fauna here
since 2010 has been conducted by
these organisations – all of which are
funded partially by “voluntourism”.
A brief review of publications listed
on these projects websites reveals
69 scientific papers or reports, in a
wide range of international journals
and most with international collaborators.
None of the investigators leading
these projects hold permanent academic
or government research positions
and several were completing
their PhDs over this time.
Funds from volunteers and visiting
students (ie those also doing a thesis
as part of their visit) contribute to
both direct project costs and salaries,
without which many of those 69 contributions
to science (and associated
theses) would likely not exist.
These field focused projects provide
budding scientists with exposure
to field skills and project realities not
easily incorporated into time-limited
and theory-focused undergraduate
courses of 100-plus students.
Project fees are functionally the
same as any university or course fee,
but come with the added bonus of
multiple wildlife experiences, which
if undertaken by the students on commercial
tours, would be substantially
more expensive.
Increasingly, many university
students are required to conduct
internship or extended off-campus
placements as part of their degree,
especially those in the growing number
of course-work based Master’s
degrees available in Europe / UK.
Research organisations can provide
access to long-term data, project
concepts, supervision, field training
and often support students onto their
first publications with limited input
from overworked supervisors at their
home university.
It is only reasonable to charge a
fee for this service. Pro rata, internship
fees are typically less than those
paid for an MSc in the UK which
don’t include accommodation and
food and “optional field courses may
incur additional costs”.
Do paid internships bias “gaining
experience” towards wealthier students?
Yes, but the same argument
applies to any form of tertiary education
that is not free.
Do paid internships take away
opportunities from local or poorer
students or limit job creation? In our
experience, no. In most cases, the
fees generated allow the organisations
to exist, contribute to the salaries of
project members and associated staff
and allow for the support of local
students.
Without these training fees, organisations
such as ours would likely not
exist in their current form. They’d
be smaller, run shorter field seasons,
probably and train far fewer students.
We argue that if research projects
are conducted in alignment with
good academic and ethical standards,
funding from “voluntourism” enables
research, student training and collaboration
opportunities in areas which
would otherwise not exist.
We fully support the promotion of
diversity in science, but caution that
blanket calls to ban unpaid internship
positions or advertisement as they are
“a barrier to diversity and inclusivity”
may be counter-productive outside of
the developed world.
Elwen is the director, Sea Search
Research & Conservation and the
Namibian Dolphin Project and is a
research associate in the Department
of Zoology and Botany at Stellenbosch
University and Mammal Research
Institute at the University of Pretoria
White
privilege
needs to be
addressed
IF THERE was one thing South
Africa might have been expected
to do over the last 107 days of
lockdown was to think deeply
on the harsh inequality that
Covid-19 has brutally exposed in
this country.
We have many problems, after
more than quarter of a century
as a politically free society,
many of which have their roots
in our fractured and deeply
dysfunctional past.
There is no overlooking this,
getting over it or wishing it away.
Whether it be police brutality
in Alex, the looting of VBS or
state capture as a whole, Black
Lives obviously don’t Matter. It’s
a phenomenon that permeates
beyond there to every aspect of
our society, from the classroom
to the boardroom and the locker
room.
This week South Africa’s
current ODI and T20 cricketer-ofthe-year
Lungi Ngidi announced
his support for the Black Lives
Matter movement and urged the
rest of his Protea teammates to
join him.
He shouldn’t even have to
ask. But some former white,
national cricketers were horrified.
Boeta Dippenaar and Pat Symcox
took Ngidi to task, arguing all
lives matter and urging that the
government act on farm attacks.
They weren’t the only ones.
They miss the point. If all
lives mattered there wouldn’t be
a need to highlight that Black
Lives Matter not just here, but
worldwide.
Farmers’ lives matter too. But
they’re not the only ones getting
murdered in this country, nor are
they the largest group of victims.
Both issues, black lives and farm
murders, need to be addressed,
but both need different solutions.
To conflate the two is neither
logical nor fair. What it does
do, though, is perpetuate the
arrogance of a white privilege
that has never been properly
addressed since 1994.
Until we do this, we will never
truly forge a nation.
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6 Saturday, July 11 2020 | AFFLUENCE
3 THINGS TO WATCH THIS WEEK
TUESDAY, JULY 14
The Restaurant that Burns Calories:
BBC Earth at 7pm
Welcome to a restaurant like no other.
Behind the scenes is a kitchen, gym and
exercisers – aiming to burn off every calorie
the diners eat. Combines humour with
innovation to reveal the science of calories.
THURSDAY, JULY 16
I Know This Much Is True:
M-Net at 10pm
A man recounts his relationship with his
schizophrenic twin brother, who is in an
asylum. This episode: Lisa Sheffer preps
Dominick for a hearing with Hatch’s review
board that could decide Thomas’s fate.
THURSDAY, JULY 16
The Lowdown with Thomas Gumede:
Mzansi Magic at 8pm
Need your weekly dose of comic relief?
Using social media memes and videos,
Thomas Gumede hosts a humorous and
insightful round-up show highlighting
relationships during this time of lockdown.
n MOVIES
The Fast &
Furious art of
the car chase
IN THE movies, there’s nothing quite
like the thrill of the car chase. The
best ones create the same adrenaline
rush in their audiences as they do in
their characters.
Generating that heightened
you-are-there energy is a feat that
involves meticulous preparation,
including dozens of decisions about
camera placement, vehicle speed and
so much more.
So how to get it all just right?
We went to a Hollywood expert for
answers. With five Fast & Furious
films to his credit, director Justin
Lin has helped craft some of the
most elaborate and exciting chases
in recent cinema. We asked him to
break down five chases from movie
history and explain what makes them
so effective. Here are edited excerpts.
— 1968, ‘BULLITT’
In this action thriller from Peter Yates,
Steve McQueen plays a police detective
tasked with guarding a gangster. But hit
men get in the way, setting off one of
the most memorable car chases in all of
cinema, with Bullitt in a Ford Mustang
and the bad guys in a Dodge Charger.
Justin Lin: What I love is that there is no
music. They made the choice of having
the engine noises be the score. In this
sequence, you really get a sense of
environment, and it feels very authentic.
You actually see Steve McQueen driving
and, in the same shot, the tyres hitting the
ground. For film-makers, that’s one of the
gold-standard shots we always try to get
because it’s obviously very dangerous to
do, to put an actor in a high-speed vehicle
and design a shot that feels effortless.
— 1971, ‘THE FRENCH CONNECTION’
In William Friedkin’s Oscar-winning
drama, Gene Hackman plays Jimmy
“Popeye” Doyle, a New York police
detective investigating a drug-smuggling
crime boss. The villain is trying to escape
by elevated train, while Popeye follows
the tracks in a car below.
Lin: It has a similar approach to Bullitt
in that there is no score. And I love the
fact that it’s trying to take you into the
moment. There’s a mount shot (from a
camera mounted on the car) that they
keep going back to where they’re just
running that car at high speed down the
road. Even with all the technology, you
cannot fake practical speed.
— 1991, ‘TERMINATOR 2:
JUDGEMENT DAY’
In James Cameron’s sequel to his 1984
smash, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton)
and John (Edward Furlong) are targeted
by the T-1000 hi-tech Terminator (Robert
Patrick) while being guarded by the original
Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
Lin: I love how controlled it is. The two
Terminators are so unfazed. You could
tell that James Cameron and Arnold had
a great relationship with the crew and
there was a lot of trust. There’s a lot of
danger, and there’s a lot of prep, and
you’re always pushing each other to see
if you can just eke out a few more frames.
A simple thing of the stunt guy getting
thrown onto the street, to be able to hold
on that shot just an extra 12 seconds
makes all the difference in the world.
— 2011, ‘FAST FIVE’
This was Lin’s third Fast & Furious film,
but the first time the franchise veered into
the heist lane. Not to worry, the cars are still
there, and they go all out in a sequence in
which the crew steals a crime lord’s cashfilled
vault via cables attached to two cars,
with the cops in pursuit.
Lin: What was important about this
was the decision to do this practically.
There were a lot of talks about, hey, let’s
do a CGI vault. And I just didn’t want to
do that. So we actually had a vault and
the two cars dragging it. We had another
vault where it was drivable. It was actually
a vehicle and for certain shots we would
use that. It is so insane to say, hey, let’s
really plan this out and do everything
practically. I’m proud of that sequence.
— 2020, ‘THE RHYTHM SECTION’:.
In Reed Morano’s thriller, Blake Lively
falls into a life of espionage. In one
scene she drives away pursued by killers
through the narrow streets of Tangier in
what seems like one long shot.
Lin: I love this sequence because
you’re just going to stay with the character
in real time. And to put the camera in the
passenger side, I thought, was a great
choice. To be able to design the shot
where you’re not seeing the cuts, it brings
back the choices of Bullitt and French
Connection in that there is a sincerity to
the sequence. I always feel like when we
edit, it’s a cheat. And so, when I work with
my editors, we always say that if we’re
going to cut, we have to earn that cut. |
The New York Times
All (lavish) style,
no substance
Kevin Kwan moves on with ‘Sex and Vanity’, but the
characters are still crazy rich
ANGELA HAUPT
THE wedding of the summer is still
on – and you’d have to be crazy rich
not to squeal in vicarious wonder at
its opulence.
Custom-made Givenchy gowns.
White truffle and caviar pizza.
Millions of rose petals turned into a
decadent carpet at a secluded villa.
Kevin Kwan’s new stand-alone
novel, Sex and Vanity – following
his wildly popular Crazy Rich Asians
trilogy – opens at this over-the-top
affair in Capri, Italy, before whisking
readers off to the Hamptons. That’s
a change of scenery for the author,
whose previous books were largely
set in Singapore and Hong Kong.
But Kwan again delivers a set of
ridiculously rich characters who are
mostly Asian or Asian American.
Sex and Vanity, a play on EM
Forster’s 1908 novel A Room With a
View, begins at the nuptials of two
“international ooh-la-las”, the son
of an Italian count and a Taiwanese
heiress. Among the attendees:
protagonist Lucie Churchill, 19,
and her cousin Charlotte, who’s
chaperoning her so she doesn’t
tarnish the family name. Lucie is a
“hapa” – half Chinese, half Wasp –
and is instantly both drawn to and
repelled by another guest, George
Zao. By the end of the wedding
reception, the two have accidentally
consummated their attraction in
public, much to Charlotte’s horror.
Fast-forward five years, and Lucie
is engaged to Cecil Pike, “the man
that Vulture, BuzzFeed and The
Skimm had proclaimed ‘The Most
Eligible Gentleman on the Planet.’
“He’s unbearable, a nouveau
riche who clashes with Lucie’s oldmoney
family. Still, she’s wearing a
$26.5 million (R451m) ring on her
finger when George appears in New
York, stirring up long-suppressed
desires. As their worlds collide, Lucie
goes to baffling extremes to punt
George back out of her orbit.
Some of the novel’s most
entertaining – and outlandish –
scenes come at Cecil’s expense: he
proposes to Lucie via a flash mob
that includes a troupe of street
dancers, ballerinas and a marching
band in full regalia. Later he
renovates their home so it includes
a Venetian canal in the living room
and a tri-level infinity pool with a
glass bottom so you can see straight
into the wine cellar. “Can’t I please
call in a helicopter?” he implores
Lucie while attempting to flee from
a family gathering.
Part of the novel’s fun is that
Kwan is in on the joke: he excels
at satirising the uber-rich. He’s also
an Olympic-level name-dropper. If I
had a dollar for every reference to an
A-list designer or brand mentioned
here, I’d be – well, still not a fraction
as wealthy as these characters. The
women fly to Paris for couture
fittings; the men dispense brandnew
Aston Martins as casual
make-up gifts after a couple’s fight.
We meet “billenials” (billionaire
millennials) and “mocialites” (male
socialites).
The characters deliver digs as
only a one-percenter could: “It looks
like a Versace dress exploded all over
my room,” Charlotte complains
about a subpar hotel. There are
references to being born at the
“only acceptable” hospital, and each
character’s introduction is paired
with a parenthetical detailing his
or her education. Lucie’s pedigree,
for example: “92nd Street Y Nursery
School/Brearley/Brown.”
Kwan’s trademark snark, which
hooked Crazy Rich Asians fans,
remains on display. As in his earlier
novels, his flippant footnotes are
at times more enticing than the
story line itself. When one wealthy
woman remarks, “It’s because of my
Chinese blood that I haven’t needed
a facelift yet,” Kwan follows up with
an aside: “She’s lying. She had a
facelift and necklift back in 2000.”
Though Kwan hints at the
complexities of being mixed
race, there’s no deep, meaningful
takeaway buried in the story. Few
of the characters are particularly
likeable, and they’re certainly not
relatable. The relationship between
Cecil and Lucie never makes sense,
and Lucie’s aversion to admitting
her feelings for George isn’t
convincing. While the luxurious
scenery helps overshadow some of
these shortcomings, the novel lacks
the pizazz that made Crazy Rich so
successful.
Still, for vacuous entertainment
Sex and Vanity delivers. It’s all style
and little substance – unfathomably
expensive style, which can be
gratifying for those with an appetite
for rich-people problems. At a
time when travel plans have been
jettisoned or postponed, the novel
offers a fun-filled vacation to a
world marred only by the most
trivial concerns. It doesn’t take itself
too seriously. Readers can revel
in the kind of extravagances that
sound like a dream after months
of isolation and anxiety during the
pandemic. It’s like an expensive
champagne: it goes down easy, but
don’t expect to remember it the next
day. | The Washington Post
SATURDAY | JUL 11
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YoTV Big Breakfast 09:00 Imizwilili 10:00 Mzansi
Insider 11:00 Generations – The Legacy Omnibus
13:30 Sport Magazine 14:00 Football Goes Retro
14:30 Laduma 17:30 Roots 18:00 The Launch 19:00
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Morning Live 08:30 Muvhango Omnibus 11:00
Lithapo Omnibus 12:30 Relate 13:00 Talk Ability
13:30 Dijo Le Bophelo 14:00 I Wish I Said 14:30
Trendz Travel 15:00 Touched By An Angel 16:00
Saints Street 18:00 Nuus 18:15 Setswana/seSotho
News 18:30 Butter 20:30 Supernatural 20:57 Lotto
Live Draw 21:00 Supernatural 21:30 Born To Kill:
Class Of Evil 22:30 Side By Side 23:30 Full View
SABC3 06:00 Psalted 06:30 An Nur – The Light
07:00 Sadhana 07:30 Mortified 08:00 Xcellerate
08:30 Challenge SOS 09:00 48 Hours 09:30 Judge
Faith Jenkins Omnibus 12:00 The Longest Date (R)
13:00 Ready For Love (R) 14:00 Hayden Quinn South
Africa (R) 15:00 Mela 16:00 One Direction – Apple
Music Festival 17:00 Dating No Filter 18:00 Top
Billing 19:00 Song Land 20:00 Taste Master 21:00
News @21:00 21:30 Meet The Fockers 23:30 Koze
Kuse
M-Net 06:00 American Housewife Omnibus 08:00
Africa’s Hidden Kingdoms (R) 09:00 Celebrity Family
Feud (R) 10:00 The Masked Singer (R) 11:00 Hawaii
Five-O (R) 12:00 Magnum P.I. (R) 13:00 A Million
Little Things (R) 14:00 Extreme Makeover Home
Edition (R) 15:15 Storm Boy 17:00 The Conners 17:30
Carol’s Second Act 18:00 Modern Family 18:30 Will &
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Castle Rock 23:00 Below The Surface 00:00
Dollface
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The Epic Tales Of Captain Underpants
07:25 Voltron: Legendary Defender
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Omnibus 10:20 Imbewu: The Seed
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Epic 18:00 Steve Austin’s Broken
Skull Ranch Challenge 19:00
NewsNight 19:30 Superstore
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Plane 00:15 Dance Night
Obsession
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Jabu’s Jungle 07:00 DBE Learning Tube 08:00
Generations – The Legacy (R) 08:30 Muvhango
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Emzini Wezinsizwa 10:30 Daily Thetha 11:30 One
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Cutting Edge 22:00 Nyan’ Nyan (R) 22:30 The
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SABC2 06:00 Morning Live 09:00 Raising Babies
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Pasella 11:00 7de Laan (R) 11:30 Muvhango (R) 12:00
Uzalo (R) 12:30 Generations – The Legacy (R) 13:00
Skeem Saam (R) 13:30 Side by Side 14:00 Touched
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AFFLUENCE | Saturday, July 11 2020
7
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS: 9 Issue more than the others
the maximum (9)
10 The answer is to have a liquid mixture
(8)
12 Achieve the correct balance with the
ornamentation (4)
13 No mere mortal, I guess (6)
14 Will lay on drink, you think (7)
15 Commits an error in writing the clue for
"odes" (4,5)
17 Was a welsher a shortcoming, indeed
(9)
18 Spots an insect crawling round the
hole (7)
20 Very keen to get the other flighty
daughter into (3-3)
21 He's come back with a fresh egg (4)
24 Hasn't it yet learned to steer clear of
insect spray? (8)
26 Bought back and restored oneself to
favour (8)
28 So after all is left unfinished, too (4)
29 Going back, see the trainee's mistake
(4-2)
31 Is fast finding what all the study was
for (7)
34 Very sad he ruined the roast again (5-4)
36 A dash just before take-off (5,4)
38 "Lacks stability," they add (7)
39 With which to pay the minder? (6)
40 Story Sally was given specially to
break (4)
41 Only commenting on briefly, but it's
poignant (8)
42 A difficult task for High Command (4,5)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS: 9 Serene (9) 10 Conversation
(8) 12 Always (4) 13 Gambling place (6) 14
Washing cloth (7) 15 Riddle (9) 17 Genuine
(9) 18 Ecstasy (7) 20 Boil (6) 21 Rodents
(4) 24 Conventional (8) 26 Of the Middle
Ages (8) 28 Unsightly (4) 29 Golf club (6) 31
Infernal (7) 34 Sluggish (9) 36 Unpleasant
surprise (9) 38 Jury's decision (7) 39
Probable (6) 40 Magician's stick (4) 41 False
teeth (8) 42 Infamy (9)
ACROSS: 1 The sort of dialect that
to an Irishman is nothing (6)
8 A sailor and I get the cadet to
formally give up (8)
9 What a noise! My stomach – last
month! (6)
10 Dr Leo takes ten? That smells! (8)
11 Give me a car! You be the judge
in it! (6)
12 It's very moving to be so
expendable! (4)
13 Moves tables just to find one
match? (5)
16 You get left with that sly one to
tarnish it (5)
19 I get mad with my hired help (4)
21 I read about having the right to
defend myself against him (6)
22 Let me go, Bert! I will give you
the ale! (8)
23 In a way I'd lost but remained
impassive (6)
24 Cheers in the Territory on seeing
places made available for soldiers
(8)
25 Roy comes to an unusual end
over there (6)
JUMBO CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC 320
DOWN: 1 Interrupted only when I tend to
digress (6,2)
2 Go out when you light up (6)
3 Do get involved in some game (8)
4 Pearls are round, by the way (6)
5 Went up and roughly cased all round,
you conclude (8)
6 Heavy rain accompanied by lightning?
(5,5)
7 Doesn't retire and creates a logjam (5,2)
8 Managed to leave when it became
known (3,3)
11 First the raging gale drowned the
noise (7)
16 Like a really bad oil lamp? (6)
19 Spoils the acts (5)
20 He's a catch (3)
22 Question the female we apprehended
(5)
23 Finds out that money constitutes a
snare (6)
25 Show yourself to have a heart,
perhaps, and emulate (6,4)
26 Knock back the usual (3)
27 Carrying the spray (mace) and a knife
(7)
30 Standing outside "The Goat's Head,"
Peter is worried (8)
31 Keeps it a secret from the firm and
freelances (8)
32 A job you are safe and at home in? (8)
33 Eke out the bit of porridge (7)
35 Fighting to get something done (6)
36 A little flash (6)
37 To hinder from grasping power, I deem
wrong (6)
DOWN: 1 Gun attachment (8) 2 Vascular
organ (6) 3 Differ in opinion (8) 4 Spiritualist
(6) 5 Recommend (8) 6 Improbable (3-7) 7
Furniture item (4,3) 8 Soft fruit container
(6) 11 Shine intermittently (7) 16 Zero
(6) 19 Danger (5) 20 Number (3) 22
Middle-Easterner (5) 23 Kingdoms (6) 25
Disparaging (10) 26 Spoil (3) 27 Survive
(7) 30 Singer (8) 31 Humbleness (8) 32
Vacations (8) 33 Diversity (7) 35 Small
tower (6) 36 Swimsuit (6) 37 Rubber (6)
DOWN: 2 How they flatter and laud
during tea! (7)
3 Put little Leonard in our circle?
That's rich! (7)
4 Pa gets a shiner – the tyrant! (6)
5 Refuses to acknowledge him and
now Sid's upset (7)
6 Some time after, Capone came
on side (7)
7 You cry in tune when you're 100!
(7)
13 I love receiving thanks but you
abuse me! (7)
14 Bats for the French but these are
for their horses (7)
15 States I have a camera (7)
17 Poor humour on campus or
fabulous? (7)
18 Being sheltered, the general
joins our team (7)
20 Doctor! Most of this composition
is showy! (6)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
9
11
7
8
10
12
13 14 15 16 17 18
22
24
36 Minute. 37 Im-P-ede.
EASY: Across: 9 Impassive. 10 Dialogue. 12
Ever. 13 Casino. 14 Flannel. 15 Conundrum. 17
Authentic. 18 Rapture. 20 Seethe. 21 Mice. 24
Orthodox. 26 Medieval. 28 Ugly. 29 Driver. 31
Hellish. 34 Lethargic. 36 Bombshell. 38 Verdict.
39 Likely. 40 Wand. 41 Dentures. 42 Notoriety.
Down: 1 Silencer. 2 Spleen. 3 Disagree. 4
Medium. 5 Advocate. 6 Far-fetched. 7 Sofa bed.
8 Punnet. 11 Flicker. 16 Nought. 19 Peril. 20 Six.
22 Iraqi. 23 Realms. 25 Derogatory. 26 Mar. 27
Outlive. 30 Vocalist. 31 Humility. 32 Holidays.
33 Variety. 35 Turret. 36 Bikini. 37 Eraser.
19 20
21
23
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
TODAY’S SOLUTIONS:
CRYPTIC: Across: 9 Utter-most. 10 Solution. 12
Trim. 13 Divine. 14 Sup-pose. 15 Does wrong.
17 De-fault-ed. 18 N-O-tices. 20 Re-d-hot. 21
O-wen (rev). 24 Green-fly. 26 Redeemed. 28
Al(l)-so. 29 S'lip-up (rev). 31 Careers. 34 He-artso-re.
36 Minus sign. 38 Totters. 39 Tender. 40
Epic. 41 Touching. 42 Tall order.
Down: 1 But-ted in. 2 Strike. 3 Do-minoes. 4
St-ring. 5 Asc-end-ed. 6 Flash flood. 7 Stops up.
8 Got out. 11 Lea-din-g. 16 Wicked. 19 Turns. 20
Ray. 22 W-her-e. 23 L-earns. 25 Follow suit. 26
Rap (rev). 27 Mac-het-e. 30 Presti-g(oat)-e. 31
Co-nceals. 32 S-in-ecure. 33 Stretch. 35 Action.
1 2 3 4 5 6
TODAY'S
SOLUTIONS:
Across: 1 Patois.
8 Abdicate. 9 Tumult.
10 Redolent.
11 Camera. 12 Pawn.
13 Vesta. 16 Sully.
19 Maid. 21 Raider.
22 Liberate. 23 Stolid.
24 Trenches.
25 Yonder.
Down: 2 Adulate.
3 Opulent. 4 Satrap.
5 Disowns. 6 Lateral.
7 Century. 13 Violate.
14 Stables.
15 America.
17 Unicorn.
18 Leeside.
20 Dressy.
NICK BARNETT CHESS
WHAT IS THE CHESS headline you least expect?
‘Magnus Carlsen loses after 4 moves!’ And yet that
is what happened. Of course there is a back story:
Magnus was well on his way to winning the $150,000
Chessable Masters but in the semi-final against China’s
Ding Liren with a minute left, Ding was disconnected
and awarded a zero under the rules. The comments
page went ballistic.
But then Game two, with Ding as White: 1 c4 e6 2 g3
Qg5? 3 Bg2 Qxd2+?? 4 Qxd2 and Carlsen resigns with
this comment: ‘I have immense respect for Ding as a
chess player and as a human being, and … I think it was
the right thing to do.’
It was in the best sporting traditions of chess.
The final result: Magnus Carlsen won the Chessable
Masters.
Notable was the second set against Anish Giri in which
he used a strong pawn sacrifice in the opening which
prompted Yasser Seirawan to suggest it for a best game
collection and who described Carlsen’s play as ‘poetry
when he’s on his game’.
The fourth event of the Magnus Carlsen Tour, dubbed
“Legends of Chess” begins on July 21st.
* * *
ARKADY DVORKOVICH was elected FIDE president in
2018, and proclaimed that ‘women’s chess would be
women’s chess’. In many countries only 5%-10% of
adult chess players are women, although participation
is stronger in Russia, Eastern Europe, China, and India.
Among primary school children numbers are more
balanced.
True to his word an online Olympiad starting 22 July has
been announced. where the teams of six players must
include at least three women, at least one of them aged
under 20. The event lasts a month.
* * *
SLOWLY BUT surely, Chess South Africa is springing to
life. Documents on the www.chessa.com.za website:
• FIDE has recently announced the 'FIDE Online
Olympiad'. Entry to the tournament is by invitation only.
The tournament will be hosted on the LiChess online
platform on the 11 and 12th July. Unfortunately, too late
for my deadline
• Election of Commissions and Technical Committees.
The Chess SA EXBO, in line with the Chess SA
Constitution, announces the formation of the Chess
SA Online Committee. The committee members will be
appointed by the Chess SA Executive Board. In addition,
to find skilled individuals to serve on the committee
itself ExBo will accept recommendations from the
community as well. Nomination for positions on the
various Committees and Commissions is also now open.
Closing date for all nominations is 12 July 2020.
• Remember that ad hoc online tournaments can be
found on their Facebook page.
* * *
For comment or news please write to thechessnik@
gmail.com
PUZZLE BY C Planck
If today is your birthday:
This new year take things your stride, you have
the strength to carry on no matter what. Might
as well face your in for a ride, but you were
prepared. So carry on regardless, you will be
fabulous!
Aries (21 March-20 April)
A week of new experiences awaits you. So time
to be prepared for anything, fate favours the
prepared. Somehow what you couldn’t get before,
is on the agenda. So take the good with the bad.
It’s all a learning curve.
Taurus (21 April-21 May)
It’s all about believing in yourself. This week you
are expressing yourself effectively, leaving nothing
to chance. You are always sure of yourself, so take
that confidence and make it work for you. It’s all in
what you feel.
Gemini (22 May-21 June)
No reason you can’t get what you want. No reason
you should stop trying. Change the game , change
the plan and see yourself trending. So keep the
pressure, and change all that wasn’t working for
you and see what is.
Cancer (22 June-23 July)
Time for a new attitude, but you knew that. New
times require new directions. So change the goal
posts. It wasn’t going, now you can turn things
around. Perhaps to see yourself getting what you
set out for.
Leo (24 July-23 August)
A week of new plans, new desires. You’ve
changed the game plan and turned things to your
favour. Time to cash in. So see to it that you get
all you want and more. it’s simply a case of you
being you.
Virgo (24 August-23 September)
In these times discard anything that’s been
FASTRACK
HAGAR
YOUR STARS
Barbara Kiselev
holding you back, and you can say I gave it my
all. Leave nothing to chance, and plot the way
forward. You are on your way, even if it doesn’t
seem that way.
Libra (24 September-23 October)
This week you have a brand new attitude. You
have changed the way you do things. All this in
the pursuit of a new dream, a new way of doing
things. Much can be achieved, all you need is the
necessary vision.
Scorpio (24 October-22 November)
You were almost there. Time to try again. Renew
those efforts to realise that dream. It’s not
impossible. Times are hard but so are you. You
can go all the way and get all you were hoping
for. Simply put, stick to it.
Sagittarius (23 November-21 December)
In these times it’s a good idea to follow your
heart. Perhaps you’ll stumble onto a good thing.
It’s not a matter of what you want, but who you
want. Yes, even now you can find love. So keep
an eye out.
Capricorn (22 December-20 January)
Before all this started you were on your way. Time
for a reset and try again, and see where you go. So
follow those plans, they are achievable, don’t throw
them away. And yes you can say “I am who I am”.
Aquarius (21 January-19 February)
You had an idea of how to approach things, now
run with it and see what happens. All you need to
know there’s room for innovation. So try something
new and maybe you can get what you want.
Pisces (20 February-20 March)
You can see clearly now, you need that selfconfidence.
The way you approach problems
reveals who you are. Time to take a difficult
situation and turn it to your advantage. You can be
all that you can be, and don’t forget it.
Bill Holbrook
Dik Browne
10 MINUTE CROSSWORD
9
8
10
White to move and mate in 2
Solution:
1. Qd8 Kxa6 2. Qb6 mate!
NEIL HAYWARD BRIDGE
ACROSS
1 Perfectly sound (5,2,4)
9 Insult openly (7)
10 Battle in France, 1916 (5)
11 Deserve (4)
12 Large marsupial (8)
14 Obsequious subordinate (3-3)
16 To champion (6)
18 Apt (8)
19 Exasperate (4)
22 Reconnoitre (5)
23 Loud and hoarse (7)
24 Obstinately perverse (5-6)
DOWN
2 Deduce (5)
3 Owl's cry (4)
4 Existing in fact (6)
5 Acquiescent (8)
6 Plunge into liquid (7)
7 Motto advising caution (6,5)
8 Treated as inferior (6-5)
13 Country of south Asia (8)
15 Help in time of need (7)
17 Quest (6)
20 Unaccompanied (5)
21 Russian legislature (4)
TODAY’S SOLUTIONS:
Across: 1 Right as rain. 9 Affront. 10 Somme. 11 Earn. 12 Kangaroo. 14 Yes-man. 16 Defend.
18 Inclined. 19 Gall. 22 Scout. 23 Raucous. 24 Wrong-headed.
Down: 2 Infer. 3 Hoot. 4 Actual. 5 Resigned. 6 Immerse. 7 Safety first. 8 Second-class.
13 Pakistan. 15 Succour. 17 Search. 20 Alone. 21 Duma.
11 12 13 14 15 16
17
19
21
ACROSS
3 What might we call a grappler (8)
7 Name a wagon attached to a
steam locomotive (6)
8 To have regarded with blind
devotion, is to have done what (8)
9 Name a table wine of Bordeaux
France (6)
10 To broadcast by TV is to do
what (8)
11 Which term describes an
individual (6)
14 What are customary ways of
doing things (6)
17 To have attributed, is to have
done what (8)
18 To keep possession of, is to do
what (6)
19 To take it easy when doing
nothing, is to do what (4,4)
20 Name a metallic element,
symbol Ag (6)
21 Name an alternative term for
indifference (8)
18
20
DOWN
1 What is a direct route (7)
2 Name the place where a person
lives (7)
3 To have produced a letter, is to
have done what (7)
4 Name an English comedian and
character actor, Peter ... (7)
5 To be durable, is to be doing
what (7)
6 When one blushes, one does
what (7)
11 Name an undulating treeless
tract of land (7)
12 Name some racially bigoted
persons (7)
13 What is a personal view (7)
14 To disrobe, is to do what (7)
15 Which term means sharply (7)
16 What are motors known as (7)
TODAY’S SOLUTIONS
Across: 3 Wrestler.
7 Tender. 8 Idolised.
9 Claret. 10 Televise.
11 Person. 14 Usages.
17 Ascribed. 18 Retain.
19 Rest idle. 20 Silver.
21 Easiness.
Down: 1 Beeline.
2 Address. 3 Written.
4 Sellers. 5 Lasting.
6 Reddens. 11 Prairie.
12 Racists. 13 Opinion.
14 Undress.
15 Acutely.
16 Engines.
NORTH
♠ 8 3 2
♥ K 8 4
♦ A 9 2
♣ A Q T 3
WEST
EAST
♠ A 6 4 ♠ Q J T 9
♥ 9 ♥ T 6
♦ K Q T 4 3 ♦ J 7 6 5
♣ 9 8 6 4 ♣ K 5 4
SOUTH
♠ K 7 5
♥ A Q J 7 5 3 2
♦ 8
♣ J 7
Contract: 4♥ by South
Opening Lead: ♦K. What is your plan?
Recommended Line: The key is this: if
East holds the ♣K, a spade lead through
your ♠K could mean you lose three
spades and a club. You could claim that
was unlucky, but you are after success,
not sympathy. This is the way: let West
win the first trick. If West now switches
to a club, win with the ace, and cash the
♦A, discarding your ♣J. Then play the
♣Q. If East plays low, discard a spade.
If West wins, your ♠K is not vulnerable
for the time being. In reality, East covers,
and you ruff. Later, when drawing their
last trump, using the ♥K, you will cash
an established club. You score seven
heart tricks, one diamond, and two clubs.
Luck doesn’t come into it. Good play
overcomes the bad lie of the cards.
SHOE
TREKNET
Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly
Gavin Thomson and Dave Gomersall
DOUBLE CROSSWORD
SUDOKU
TODAY’S SOLUTIONS
CRYPTIC: Across: 1 Picot. 4 Dress up.
8 Passion. 9 Allay. 10 Even. 11 Flatfish.
13 Foot. 14 Moor. 16 Stands in. 17 Scar.
20 Eagle. 21 Express. 22 Sadists. 23 Remus.
Down: 1 Puppetmasters. 2 Caste. 3 Trim.
4 Dangle. 5 Exaction. 6 Soldier.
7 Psychiatrists. 12 Loudness. 13 Flagged.
15 Miners. 18 Cream. 19 Spar.
QUICK: Across: 1 Jewel. 4 Purport.
8 Regular. 9 Cream. 10 Spry. 11 Converse.
13 Nail. 14 Grin. 16 Downcast. 17 Ague.
20 Niece. 21 Exploit. 22 Ejected. 23 Royal.
Down: 1 Jurisprudence. 2 Wager.
3 Lull. 4 Pardon. 5 Recovery. 6 Overrun.
7 Temperamental. 12 Discreet. 13 Nowhere.
15 Ascend. 18 Glory. 19 Spar.
CLANCY
Mark Lynch
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS: 1 A piece of embroidery
makes an unusual topic (5)
4 DS and Super turn out in disguise (5,2)
8 Ardent affection for a kind of
martyrdom (7)
9 Calm some of the hysterical laymen (5)
10 Remove creases from uniform (4)
11 Sole representative of this kind of
marine life (8)
13 & 6 Dn March will provide a definite
time for his movements (4,7)
14 Part of the house taken aback by
'Othello' (4)
16 Doesn't sit at home, but acts as a
deputy (6,2)
17 Mark the leading characters of
Shakespeare's Coriolanus' at rehearsal
(4)
20 Unrestrained glee about a score
below par (5)
21 Make a statement formerly in the
newspapers? (7)
22 Their actions may be painfully
apparent to others (7)
23 Uncle is a classical figure (5)
DOWN: 1 Expert string-pullers (13)
2 Social distinction is apparent in
America's temperament (5)
3 Neat cut (4)
4 Five hundred on the corner hang
about loosely (6)
5 Previous court case showing demand
for extortionate amount (8)
6 See 13 Across
7 They seek to change people's minds
(13)
12 The extent of the volume (8)
13 Gave a signal but grew languid (7)
15 Young people, we hear, are golddiggers
(6)
18 The elite often subjected to whipping
(5)
19 Box for non-metallic mineral (4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
4 Gist (7)
8 Normal (7)
9 Best part (5)
10 Agile (4)
11 Opposite (8)
13 Claw (4)
14 Stupid smile (4)
16 Dejected (8)
17 Shivering fit (4)
20 Brother's
daughter (5)
21 Feat (7)
22 Threw out (7)
23 Kingly (5)
DOWN
1 Science of law (13)
2 Bet (5)
3 Soothe (4)
4 Forgiveness (6)
5 Reclamation (8)
6 Infest (7)
7 Variable in mood
(13)
12 Circumspect (8)
13 Not in any place
(7)
15 Climb (6)
18 Renown (5)
19 Pole (4)
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every
3X3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9 with no repeats.
WORD PLAY
We have found 61 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 40; very good 49; excellent 61.
Today’s solutions: argosy arms arose easy eros essay eyas
gasser gassy gesso goes gorse gorsy gossamer GOSSAMERY
grass grassy greasy gross mars maser mass masse massy
mesa mess messy morass morassy mores morse mosey moss
mossy oases ogress orgasm osage oyes ramose rase rasse
rose rosy sage sago same saros sayso seam seamy sear
smear smeary smog soar soma some sora sore soya

8 Saturday, July 11 2020 | PERSONAL FINANCE
Vital to keep saving even while managing debt
TheBrief
GOLD ETFs DRIVE EXCHANGE-
TRADED PRODUCT MARKET
GOLD bought in the form of exchangetraded
funds (ETFs) has been key to the
growth of the exchange-traded product
(ETP) market this year, reports Mike
Brown, managing director of etfSA.co.za.
The total market capitalisation of all ETPs
on the JSE rose from R100.8 billion at the
end of 2019 to R106.5bn at the end of
June 2020. Brown says this 5.7% increase
in the size of the local ETP industry was
noteworthy given the market turmoil over
this period. The single biggest contributor
to growth was the NewGold ETF, which
increased its shares in issue by 11.7 million,
effectively raising R9.3bn in new capital
over the past six months. Investing in gold
ETFs, which are backed 100% by physical
gold bullion, has enabled many investors
to hedge their losses in other areas of the
market, Brown says.
EARLIER this year, a client wanted to
use emergency savings to settle some
debt. The couple had not touched
their emergency savings for several
years and doubted whether they
would need them soon. I remember
pondering the option but cautioned
them against not having emergency
savings. Fortunately, the couple
followed my advice, as a month later
Covid-19 arrived on our shores, and
they received no income for three
months, forcing them to use their
emergency savings.
We have been lulled into
complacency, thinking there will
always be work, if not in our present
jobs, then elsewhere. We also often
overspend, thinking we will settle
the overdraft or save more next
month. We believe that even though
things are bad, we could somehow
make a plan.
Covid-19 and the resultant
lockdown measures have rocked
many sectors of our economy, with
profound implications. There is
RANDS & SENSE
SIGRID MADONKO
no quick recovery, and forecasts
estimate a 5% drop in gross domestic
product by the end of the year.
Economic theory states that
we need to save to have a healthy
economy. Saving is required for
investment growth, and investment
growth is required to achieve
economic growth.
South African households have a
poor savings culture, and the largest
contributor to savings in the past has
been corporates. Most of us realise
the advantages of saving, and, if we
do not, the current crisis is a huge
wake-up call.
The advantages of savings
are simple: they provide greater
security and freedom. Long-term
savings enable wealth creation
and provide us with options.
These may include starting your
own business or diversifying the
operations of a business.
WHERE DO I START?
Start where you are at. There are
essentially three savings buckets:
emergency, medium-term, and
retirement savings. Each bucket
needs savings in it, and the amount
will depend on your needs, future
plans, and lifestyle. Where we place
those savings will also depend on
our risk profile and how soon we
need the money.
Research in the UK shows that
the investments of individuals who
Reputation of insurance
industry is on the line
use financial advisers perform 2% to
3% better than those who do not.
I found this to be interesting given
the fact that financial advisers also
charge fees, yet individuals perform
better with an adviser. The reason
is that a financial adviser regularly
reminds you to keep saving, not to
withdraw your savings, and to stick
to your plan. The adviser looks at the
bigger picture and helps you achieve
your financial goals.
SHOULD I REPAY MY DEBT FIRST?
Compound interest is the greatest
advantage we have in wealth
accumulation. The sooner you can
get it working in your favour, the
better. I advise clients simultaneously
to save and settle debt. If you neglect
either, compound interest will work
against you.
PLANNING IS KEY
Some key elements in building an
investment portfolio and achieving
financial freedom:
u Budgeting and sticking to the
budget.
u Planning, planning and
planning some more.
u Looking at the bigger picture
and setting your eye on the prize.
u Setting achievable goals with
timelines and reviewing them
regularly.
Structuring a budget and sticking
to it can make the difference
between building up investments
and going into debt. By planning,
stress is removed and there is less
chance of wasteful spending.
Identifying life goals and saving
towards each goal separately will
keep the goals in sight and more
attainable. Saving and achieving
financial freedom comes from small
consistent, disciplined steps and
sticking to your plan.
Sigrid Madonko is a Certified
Financial Planner professional
and director at Quintus Wealth
(www.quintuswealth.co.za).
FSCA PUBLISHES CONDUCT
STANDARD FOR BANKS
THE FINANCIAL Sector Conduct
Authority (FSCA) has published the
conduct standard for banks, along with
a document detailing the expected
impact of the conduct standard, and a
report on the consultation process. The
publication of these documents is the first
step towards rolling out a comprehensive
market conduct regulatory framework for
the banking sector. When the Financial
Sector Regulation Act was introduced in
2018, the FSCA was given the mandate
of regulating the way banking institutions
conduct themselves in providing financial
products and services to customers.
The FSCA says the conduct standard
underwent a comprehensive public
consultation process, coupled with
industry specific engagements. It was also
submitted to Parliament as required under
the act. The conduct standard has been
made final and is available on the FSCA’s
website, www.fsca.co.za
FSCA SEEKS TO LIQUIDATE
JP MARKETS PLATFORM
THE FINANCIAL Sector Conduct Authority
(FSCA) has filed an urgent application
with the High Court to liquidate online
trading platform JP Markets, and warns
that the bank accounts of JP Markets
have been frozen. This follows the
provisional suspension of the financial
services provider licence of JP Markets
last month. The FSCA says it has taken
these steps as it believes that JP Markets
has contravened financial sector laws,
including running an unlicensed over-thecounter
derivatives provider business. It
says the investigation into the activities of
JP Markets is ongoing. Derivatives offered
by such platforms include CFDs (contracts
for difference). The authority warns
that derivatives trading is a high-risk
investment activity.
UNIT TRUST PRICES: As a result of
space constraints, we are unable
to publish the unit trust prices. The
performance data can be found at
www.fundsdata.co.za/navs
“We’re paying the highest tribute
you can pay a man. We trust him to
do right. It’s that simple.” – Harper
Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
ALTHOUGH laws and regulations
are essential for the smooth running
of the financial system, it is on trust
that it stands or falls.
We trust banks, for example, to
be the custodians of our money. If all
banks were to behave like VBS and
simply steal our savings, there would
be no banks; we’d all be stuffing our
cash under the mattress.
Insurance companies are
in a more delicate situation.
You pay a regular premium in
return for a promise: that if you
suffer a financial loss under a
given set of circumstances, you
will be compensated.
If those circumstances do not
arise (for example, you never have
a break-in), the insurance company
does not owe you anything, despite
you having paid premiums possibly
over many years.
What insurers have to manage is
this: they must reasonably be seen
to be upholding their side of the
agreement. They cannot be perceived
by most of their customers – or the
THE SHAREHOLDER activist
organisation Just Share put out a
blistering press release this week after
attending Santam’s annual general
meeting on Tuesday. An edited version
of the statement reads:
“When asked by Just Share whether
it would reconsider its position in light
of a recent judgment against insurer
Guardrisk, Santam stood firm in its
position that it will ‘seek clarity from
the courts of South Africa’. The board
also would not commit to a binding
arbitration process to expedite the
matter. This is surprising, given that
the Western Cape High Court has
provided legal clarity already, finding
WORDS ON WEALTH
MARTIN HESSE | martin.hesse@inl.co.za
public at large – as being reluctant to
pay claims. If most people felt that
way about a particular insurer, the
insurer would go out of business.
Generally, a bank cannot separate
you from your money unless, as in
the case of VBS, it clearly acts outside
the law. But an insurance company
can avoid paying you out and stay
within the bounds of law, by finding
a legal excuse to decline your claim.
Take, for example, a KwaZulu-
Natal case I am following.
An insurer has not paid out
the beneficiary on the life of a
man who was electrocuted in the
course of his work. The insurer has
given no reasons for not paying the
claim, except that it is investigating
unequivocally in Café Chameleon v
Guardrisk Insurance Company Ltd
that the Covid-19 outbreak – not the
lockdown – is the legal and factual
cause of the claimant’s losses, and that
the insurer must pay out the claims.
“Santam’s position is in stark
contrast to chief executive Lizé
Lambrechts’s statement on the
company’s website that Santam is
‘absolutely committed to playing our
part to help alleviate some of the
devastating impacts of this virus’.
“Insurance Claims Africa (ICA),
a public loss adjustment firm, is
representing approximately 500
affected businesses. Collectively,
the circumstances of the death.
The man died three years ago,
and a police report found that the
death was accidental, but the insurer
is still investigating...
Statistics show that insurance
companies pay out most claims. It’s
the cases in which the rejection of
a claim is perceived to be unfair,
and which get wide media coverage,
such as the notorious Momentum-
Ganas case of 2018, that dent their
reputation and erode public trust.
Which brings us to the current
business interruption saga brought
on by the pandemic.
Despite a landmark judgment
going against the insurer Guardrisk
this week, Santam, among
others, hasa dug in its heels on
compensating small businesses
whose cover included notifiable
diseases, essentially arguing that the
policies were never intended to cover
the economic collapse brought on by
the lockdown.
This is very different from the
odd isolated cases that have hit the
headlines in the past. This is a whole
class of cases that has the potential
to irrevocably damage any trust
South Africans have in the industry.
The industry is afraid it will not
SHAREHOLDER ACTIVIST GROUP HITS OUT AT SANTAM
the total value of their claims with all
insurers involved is between R3.5 billion
and R4bn.
“Many of Santam’s business
continuity policyholders are facing
imminent closure, threatening the
livelihoods of the thousands of people
employed by them. Santam has
chosen to go to court to obtain ‘legal
certainty’ in the interpretation of the
disputed policies. Unlike the insurer
and its immensely deep pockets, these
businesses cannot wait months or years
for the resolution of a court process. ICA
has already approached Santam with
a reasonable settlement proposal, but
has been turned away.
SANTAM, among other insurers, is digging in its heels on compensating small businesses
whose cover included notifiable diseases. | African News Agency (ANA)
be able to cope financially with the
flood of claims.
However, anticipating being
overwhelmed by claims cannot
in itself be a reason for declining
them (as was nonsensically argued
in the court case). This would
be like hospitals refusing to treat
Covid-19 patients, for fear of being
overwhelmed. You’ve got to do what
you’ve got to do, or at least as much
as you can do.
In fact, Santam has indicated that
its balance sheet is robust enough
“In a Sens announcement released
[this week], Santam says that it
‘understands the financial distress
on the businesses and individuals
impacted by the national Lockdown
to combat Covid-19’, and that it also
recognises ‘the public interest in this
matter and [is] therefore seeking legal
certainty by having this matter speedily
determined by the courts of South
Africa’. It is hard to reconcile this with
the company’s actions, which point to
a complete lack of awareness of the
impacts of its insistence on taking a
lengthy, expensive legal approach.”
Emma Schuster of Just Share
says: “At the start of the lockdown,
to withstand anticipated claims,
although that may not be true of
all insurers.
The Financial Sector Conduct
Authority has now stepped in on the
side of the policyholders and will
likely force the hand of the insurers.
But it shouldn’t have come to this.
Only one insurance company
as far as I know, Outsurance, has
voluntarily decided to honour these
claims.
It puts the rest of the industry
to shame.
we witnessed an outpouring of grand
gestures and public commitments to
corporate kindness by big companies.
Santam was no exception. If there is
legal ambiguity in the clauses of the
policies held by these small businesses,
Santam should take an approach
which is in line with its public claims
to care about the impact of Covid-19
on the South African economy and on
its clients’ businesses. Instead, the
company seems determined to take a
short-sighted approach which is eroding
its reputation, and which will contribute
to the devastation of a swathe of the
small tourism and hospitality businesses
which are so essential to the economy.”
Case highlights key issues when creating a testamentary trust
IN A recent court case, Van Rensburg
v Van Rensburg NO and Others (March
24) issues around a testamentary
trust were highlighted. As the will
of a deceased person forms the
trust instrument, no further trust
instrument is required to be lodged
with the Master of the High Court.
A will typically does not provide
detailed provisions of how a trust
should be administered. This often
leads to issues arising at a later stage.
In this case, the joint will of the
mother and father provided that on
the death of the father a testamentary
trust had to be established for the
benefit of the mother. The trustees had
to apply the income and the capital
of the trust for the maintenance and
benefit of the mother until her death.
On her death, the trust should have
terminated and the trust assets divided
equally among the four children, or
the survivors of them.
All four children had been
appointed trustees of the trust in terms
of the will.
After the mother’s death, the
brother requested the banking details
from his sisters so that he could pay
over their respective portions of the
trust assets, to wind up the trust.
Unfortunately, the one sister’s
ALL ABOUT TRUSTS
PHIA VAN DER SPUY
emails were intercepted and fraudulent
bank account details were conveyed,
upon which payment was effected.
Her siblings were of the view that it
was not fraud perpetrated against the
trust, but her own issue.
She approached the court to
have the trustees removed, because
she was of the view that they, as
trustees and beneficiaries of the trust,
were conflicted. She requested the
appointment of new trustees, for
them to decide whether to pursue
the matter against the trustees or the
brother, whom she believed acted
negligently in paying her share to an
incorrect account.
The following issues were addressed
in the application:
TERMINATION OF THE TRUST AND THE
RESULTANT LACK OF BENEFICIARIES
The one issue was whether the trust
terminated on the death of the
mother. In this instance, the will was
clear about the termination date – it
had to terminate on the death of
the mother.
It was not the intention for the
trustees to hold the assets for the
benefit of the children, only for the
benefit of the mother.
After the mother’s death,
no further beneficiaries could
be appointed, as the trust had
effectively terminated.
The sister was therefore not
successful in alleging that the trustees
were conflicted due to them also being
beneficiaries of the trust.
Even though people may refer
to each other as beneficiaries in
communication, they are not
beneficiaries if they are not indicated
as such in the trust instrument (will).
The lesson is that a testator or
testatrix should carefully consider
his or her wishes when drafting a
will, as no rights, which beneficiaries
normally have, would be available to
such legatees.
A will should also clearly stipulate
when the trust ought to terminate,
as well as the instructions on
termination.
REMOVAL OF TRUSTEES
The removal of trustees, particularly
in a testamentary trust, where
the testator or testatrix hand-picked
the trustees, will always be a
delicate matter.
The judge in the Volkwyn NO
v Clarke and Damant case of 1946
stated that it “is a matter not only
of delicacy… but of seriousness to
interfere with the management of
the estate of a deceased person by
removing from the control thereof
persons who, in reliance on their
ability and character, the deceased
has deliberately selected to carry out
his wishes. Even if the… administrator
has acted incorrectly in his duties,
and has not observed the strict
requirements of the law, something
more is required before his removal is
warranted. Both the statute and the
case cited indicates that the sufficiency
of the cause for removal is to be tested
by a consideration of the interests of
the estate.”
The judge also referred to the
Gowar v Gowar case of 2016, where
the court was mindful of the fact
that disharmony may exist in the
administration of a trust and that
this is in itself not sufficient for the
removal of a trustee. The court held
that the “overriding question is
always whether or not the conduct
of the trustee imperils the trust
property or its proper administration.
Consequently,… mere conflict
amongst trustees would not be a
sufficient reason for the removal of a
trustee at the suit of another.”
That case established a couple of
important principles:
u The court must exercise its
power to remove a trustee with
caution. Conflict among the trustees
and/or beneficiaries is not sufficient
reason for a court to remove a
trustee. The overriding factor is the
welfare of the beneficiaries and the
proper administration of the trust
and the trust property. A trustee’s
removal will be ordered only if the
trustee’s continuance in office will
prevent the trust from being properly
administered, or will be detrimental to
the welfare of the beneficiaries.
u Neither dishonesty or even
misconduct is required for the
removal of a trustee – the only
requirement is that such removal
must be in the interests of the trust
and its beneficiaries.
IN CONCLUSION
In this case, the trust terminated (as
discussed above), and the role of the
trustees terminated with it. Thus the
judge correctly stated that the removal
of the trustees would be redundant.
The following is clear:
u Trustees of a trust need to read
through and completely understand
the trust instrument.
u The terms of a will creating
a testamentary trust have to be
unequivocally clear. This includes
the wishes of the testator or testatrix,
including whether he or she wants
heirs to be nominated beneficiaries of
the testamentary trust or just residual
heirs of the estate, as in this case.
The decision may have tax and other
consequences.
u Trustees need to verify banking
details before making payments from
the trust’s bank account.
u When a trust terminates, there
are no remaining beneficiaries: the
roles of the trustees terminate with
the trust.
Phia van der Spuy is a registered Fiduciary
Practitioner of South Africa, a Master
Tax Practitioner (SA), a Trust and Estate
Practitioner and the founder of Trusteeze,
a professional trust practitioner.

• EPL
Man Utd are on an upward
trajectory – Neville
PRETORIA NEWS | Saturday, July 11 2020
The Good Read
• FEATURE
9
GARY Neville has hailed Manchester
United’s formidable form of late after
yet another emphatic victory over
Aston Villa on Thursday night.
United ran out 3-0 winners at Villa
Park, thanks to goals from Bruno Fernandes,
Mason Greenwood and Paul
Pogba – ensuring they became the first
club in Premier League history to win
four consecutive games by three goals
or more.
Optimism is extremely high in the
United camp after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s
side extended their unbeaten
run in all competitions to 17 matches
while they are still in the hunt for the
FA Cup and Europa League.
And former United right back Neville
believes his old side are getting
their swagger back, but claims there
is still a way to go until they reach
the levels of Manchester City and
Liverpool.
Speaking on the Gary Neville
podcast, Neville hailed: “Manchester
United are playing with confidence,
arrogance, particularly against teams
that are in the lower end of the table,
teams they have struggled to break
down in the past.
“They look authoritative, they
have possession, control and patience.
They are so sure now that they can
go from walking to injecting quality
through Bruno Fernandes, Paul Pogba,
Greenwood, Martial, Rashford. They
have so many options and United are
looking formidable.
“They are still not there in terms
of Manchester City and Liverpool,
that is where they need to get to, but
they are on an upward trajectory and
are certainly looking a lot better than
they were.
“There is cause for optimism. You
were thinking there wasn’t a midfield,
that Pogba was going to leave, they
• FOOTBALL
TV GUIDE
TODAY
Cricket:
Test Series: England v Windies, First
Test, Day 4, 11.30am, SS2
Golf:
PGA Tour: Workday Charity Open,
Muirfield Village Golf Club, Day 3,
7pm, SS1, SS5, CSN
Motorsport:
Formula 1: Styrian Grand Prix,
Practice 3, 11.45am, SS6; Qualifying,
2.30pm, SS1, SS6; FIA Formula 2
Championship, Round 2: Race 1,
4.45pm, SS6; IndyCar Series: REV
Group GP at Road America, Race 1,
11pm, SS6
Rugby:
Aotearoa: Crusaders v Blues, 9am,
SS1, CSN; Rugby Australia: Waratahs v
Western Force, 11.10am, SS1, CSN
Soccer:
Premier League: Norwich v West
Ham United, 12.30pm, SS3; Watford
v Newcastle United, 1.20pm, SS4;
Liverpool v Burnley, 3.30pm, SS3,
CSN; Sheffield United v Chelsea,
6pm, SS3; Brighton & Hove Albion
v Manchester City, 8.30pm, SS3;
Premier League Wrap, 11pm, SS3;
Premier League TV: Matchday Live
Extra, 11.30pm, SS3; Serie A: Lazio
v Sassuolo, 5.05pm, SS9; Brescia
v Roma, 7.20pm, SS9; Juventus
v Atalanta, 9.35pm, SS9; La Liga
Santander: Osasuna v Celta Vigo,
4pm, SS7; Valladolid v Barcelona,
7pm, SS7; Atletico Madrid v Real
Betis, 9.30pm, SS7
TOMORROW
Cricket:
Test Series: England v Windies, First
Test, Day 5, 11.30am, SS2
Golf:
PGA Tour: Workday Charity Open,
Muirfield Village Golf Club, Day 4,
7pm, SS5, CSN, SS1
Motorsport:
NASCAR Cup Series: Quaker State
400 Presented by Walmart, 1.30am,
| AP
didn’t have a right winger and all of
a sudden Greenwood appears, the
back four and goalkeeper have looked
shaky at times, but they are getting
themselves together.
“It’s looking a lot more positive.
It’s not a time to get carried away,
it’s still a time to invest and improve
the squad but it is a lot better for
Solskjaer.”
United’s victory over Villa has left
them breathing down the necks of
both Leicester and Chelsea in the hunt
for a Champions League spot.
Thanks to their brilliant form of
late, United now sit just one point
behind Leicester in fourth and two
adrift of Chelsea in third with four
matches remaining in the Premier
League.
Meanwhile, United have all but
secured their passage to the Europa
League quarter-finals, where they are
SS6; FIA Formula 2 Championship,
Round 2: Race 2, 9am, SS6; Formula
1: Styrian Grand Prix, Main Race,
3.05pm, SS1, SS6; IndyCar Series:
REV Group Grand Prix, Road America,
Race 2, 6pm, SS6
Rugby:
Aotearoa: Hurricanes v Highlanders,
5.30am, SS1, CSN
Soccer:
Premier League: Wolves v Everton,
12 noon, SS3; Aston Villa v Crystal
Palace, 2.55pm, SS3; Tottenham
v Arsenal, 5.10pm, SS3; AFC
Bournemouth v Leicester City,
7.30pm, SS3; Premier League Wrap,
10pm, SS3; Premier League TV:
Matchday Live Extra, 10.30pm, SS3;
Serie A: Genoa v Spal, 5.05pm, SS9;
Udinese v Sampdoria, 7.20pm, SS12;
Parma v Bologna, 7.20pm, SS9;
Fiorentina v Verona, 7.20pm, SS11;
Cagliari v Lecce, 7.20pm, SS13; Napoli
v AC Milan, 9.35pm, SS9; La Liga
Santander: Espanyol v Eibar, 1.55pm,
SS7; Levante v Athletic Bilbao, 4pm,
SS7; Leganes v Valencia, 7pm, SS7;
Sevilla v Mallorca, 9.30pm, SS7
MONDAY 13 JULY
Soccer:
La Liga Santander: Villarreal v Real
Sociedad, 7.25pm, SS7; Alaves v
Getafe, 7.25pm, SS5, SS1; Granada v
Real Madrid, 9.30pm, SS7; Premier
League: Manchester United v
Southampton, 8pm, SS3, SS1; Premier
League Wrap, 11pm, SS3; Premier
League TV: Matchday Live Extra,
11.30pm, SS3; Serie A: Inter Milan v
Torino, 9.35pm, SS9; Inter Milan v
Torino, 9.35pm, CSN
TUESDAY JULY 13
Soccer:
SkyBet English Football League
Championship: West Bromwich
Albion v Fulham, 5.55pm, SS9;
Premier League: Chelsea v Norwich,
8.30pm, SS3, SS1; Premier League
Wrap, 11.15pm, SS3; Serie A: Atalanta
v Brescia, 9.35pm, SS9, CSN
WEDNESDAY JULY 14
Soccer:
SkyBet English Football League
Championship: Brentford v Preston
North End, 5.55pm, SS10; Premier
League: Goal Rush Wednesday,
6pm, SS3; Premier League: Burnley
v Wolves, 6.50pm, SS8; Manchester
City v AFC Bournemouth, 6.50pm,
SS11; Newcastle United v Tottenham,
6.50pm, CSN, SS4; Arsenal v
Liverpool, 9pm, SS3, SS1; Premier
League Wrap, 11.15pm, SS3, Serie
A: AC Milan v Parma, 7.20pm, SS9;
Sampdoria v Cagliari, 7.20pm, SS13;
Bologna v Napoli, 7.20pm, SS12;
Lecce v Fiorentina, 9.35pm, SS5,
SS12; Sassuolo v Juventus, 9.35pm,
SS9; Roma v Verona, 9.35pm, SS4
likely to face either Istanbul Basaksehir
or FC Copenhagen.
United hold a 5-0 lead over LASK
Linz heading into the second leg of
their last-16 clash at Old Trafford.
The Red Devils are also eyeing silverware
in the FA Cup, in which they
will meet Chelsea at Wembley on July
19 for a place in the final.
| Daily Mail
ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP FIXTURES
Today: Watford v Newcastle, Norwich
City v West Ham (1.30pm), Liverpool v
Burnely (4pm), Sheffield United v Chelsea
(6.30pm), Brighton v Manchester City
(9pm).
Tomorrow: Wolverhampton v Everton
(1pm), Aston Villa v Crystal Palace
(3.15pm), Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal
(5.30pm), Bournemouth v Leicester City
(8pm).
Champions League nightmare for Man City
THE road ahead is a nightmare for
Manchester City with Juventus and
Bayern Munich or Barcelona blocking
their path to the final … and Chelsea
also have the tough side of the Lisbon
draw in the Champions League.
City will face either Juventus or
Lyon, should they progress to the
Champions League quarter-finals,
while Chelsea will face either Napoli
or Barcelona if they stage an almighty
comeback against Bayern Munich.
City look set to reach the quarter-finals
after a brilliant 2-1 last-16
first-leg win at Real Madrid on February
26. The two teams will meet again
at the Etihad Stadium on August 7 to
conclude that tie.
Meanwhile, Chelsea face an uphill
battle to reach the last eight after losing
3-0 at home to Bayern Munich on
February 25. The return leg in Bavaria
MANCHESTER United’s Bruno Fernandes scores the first goal against Aston Villa at Villa
Park in Birmingham, England. | AP
also takes place on August 7.
Elsewhere RB Leipzig, conquerors
of Tottenham in the last 16, will
face Atletico Madrid – with the latter
disposing of defending champions
Liverpool at the same stage too.
The other tie sees Italian outfit
Atalanta face French giants Paris
Saint-Germain. All the quarter-finals
will take place across August 12-15.
Should City progress through their
last-16 and quarter-final ties, Pep
Guardiola’s men would face Chelsea,
Bayern Munich, Barcelona or Napoli
in the semi-finals.
RB Leipzig or Atletico Madrid will
face Atalanta or PSG in the other
semi-final, which will provide the
“home” team for the final at the
empty Estadio da Luz on August 23.
It was a positive draw for those
four clubs as they have managed to
avoid the big-hitters.
PSG and Lyon have been the only
two teams still in the competition that
have not returned to action domestically,
after the French top flight was
finished early due to the pandemic.
Beforehand though, there are four
last-16 ties to be completed.
Aside from City and Chelsea, the
second legs of Juventus versus Lyon
(0-1 on aggregate) and Barcelona versus
Napoli (1-1 on agg) need to be
played.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic
the quarter-finals and semi-finals will
be one-legged affairs as opposed to the
traditional two.
The competition’s completion will
take over 12 days in Portugal with all
ties behind closed doors. The final will
be held at Benfica’s Stadium of Light
on August 23 in Lisbon. | Daily Mail
THURSDAY 16 JULY
Cricket:
Test Series: England v Windies,
Second Test, Day 1, 11.30am, SS2
Golf:
PGA Tour: The Memorial Tournament
presented by Nationwide, Day 1,
8.30pm, SS1, CSN, SS5
Motorsport:
NASCAR Cup Series: All-Star Open,
Race 1, 1am, SS6; All-Star Open, Race
2, 2.30am, SS6
Soccer:
SkyBet English Football League
Championship: Leeds United v
Barnsley, 5.55pm, SS10; Premier
League: Leicester City v Sheffield
United, 6pm, SS3; Everton v Aston
Villa, 6.50pm, SS4; Crystal Palace
v Manchester United, 9pm, SS3;
Southampton v Brighton & Hove
Albion, 9.10pm, SS4; Serie A: Torino
v Genoa, 7.20pm, SS9; Spal v Inter
Milan, 9.35pm, SS9
FRIDAY 17 JULY
Cricket:
Test Series: England v Windies,
Second Test, Day 2, 11.30am, SS2
Golf:
PGA Tour: The Memorial Tournament
presented by Nationwide, Day 2,
8.30pm, SS5, CSN, SS1
Motorsport:
Formula 1: Welcome to the
Weekend, Hungary, 10.30am, SS6;
Formula 1: Hungarian Grand Prix,
Practice 1, 10.55am, SS6; Practice
2, 2.45pm, SS1, SS6; FIA Formula 2
Championship: Round 3: Practice,
12.45pm, SS6; Qualifying, 4.45pm,
SS6, SS1
Rugby:
Rugby Australia: Reds v Western
Force, 11am, CSN, SS1
Soccer:
Premier League: West Ham United v
Watford, 8pm, SS3; Premier League
Wrap, 11pm, SS3
Compiled by: IQBAL KHAN
Supplied by SuperSport, subject to
change
BELOW: Regarded as one of the best all-rounders in the world,
Jacques Kallis and two-time World Cup winner Dan Carter.
| Pictures: AP; EPA
SSPORT
Good enough
should be enough
MARK KEOHANE
Jacques Kallis could have still been playing for Proteas today
GOOD enough is old enough.
Every time a youngster has exploded
on the international sporting scene,
I’ve heard that said. Forget experience,
forget a second-season syndrome. Good
enough is old enough.
But I never witness the same enthusiasm
when it comes to old is good
enough, which is why I took particular
pleasure from watching All Blacks legend
Dan Carter turn it on in style for his
childhood club Southbridge a week ago.
Carter, a two-time World Cup winner,
victorious in 99 of his 112 Tests for
the All Blacks and the record holder for
points scored in international rugby, is
38 years old. A year ago, a 37-year-old
Carter won the MVP in the final of
the Japanese league and was voted the
player of the season
Carter, having played all his rugby
in New Zealand for Canterbury or the
Crusaders, is a member of the Blues
Super Rugby squad.
He recently said in a media interview
that he could play until he was
40 and potentially beyond 40. He said
he expected some of the great players
of this generation to play into their
40s because of their conditioning, their
awareness in daily diets and also their
ability to defy the odds of age.
Carter’s appearance for Southbridge
was sporting romance at its most robust.
He kicked six from seven conversions,
created two tries, made some telling
tackles and got up every time after being
tackled, with the hits often a good few
seconds after the pass.
It was a brilliant occasion, but still
there are those on social media who
condemned Carter for apparently keeping
a youngster on the bench.
“Time to move on,” read one comment.
“Time for a youngster.”
Why?
Surely, good enough is old enough.
Why is there this obsession to retire
older players, regardless of their quality,
ability or dominance?
How many good South African
sports people have been put out to
pasture because the public demanded
someone younger?
Retired Proteas cricketer Jacques
Kallis could still be playing international
cricket today. He was that good.
GERMAN soccer fans may be able to
return to stadiums to cheer on their
heroes in national team and Bundesliga
matches soon, the German Football
Association (DFB) and the German
football league (DFL) said yesterday.
The two bodies are working with
health authorities on ways to reduce
the risk of infection from Covid-19 at
Kallis, in his final few seasons, constantly
was asked when he was going to
retire. Yet, he was still the world’s best
all-rounder, among the elite top order
batsmen, brilliant as a fielder and still
capable of bowling at 140-plus clicks.
Players and athletes, not necessarily
good enough, are accepted because of
youthfulness, but veterans, always good
enough through a proven track record,
are asked to leave the arena!
I’ve never understood why old is an
ugly word in sport for so many supporters
and why quality is secondary to age.
Roger Federer, statistically, the greatest
male player in tennis history with
20 Grand Slam titles, is also the oldest
winner of a Grand Slam at 35.
Why did so many want him to
retire?
Federer’s response to the question of
retirement, was also a question. Why,
when he was still enjoying the game,
succeeding and being competitive,
should he pack it in because of age?
The sporting world would go ballistic
if a 26-year-old champion called time
on his career, which is what happened
when Sweden’s Bjorn Borg walked away
from tennis after winning Wimbledon
six times.
The fans screamed for more.
Why not a 38-year-old, ranked three
in the world pre-lockdown and with 20
Grand Slams and the second most title
wins in history?
Old enough surely is good enough.
“I don’t think the exit needs to be
that perfect, when you have done it all,”
said Federer. “People don’t remember
what were the last matches of a John
McEnroe and Stefan Edberg. Nobody
knows. They remember that they won
Wimbledon and that they were world
No 1. I don’t think the end, per se, is
that important.”
Federer won the first of his 20 Grand
Slam titles 17-years-ago as a 21-yearold.
His last Grand Slam win was as a
35-year-old and in 2019. At 37 he lost
a dramatic five-set final at Wimbledon
to Novak Djokovic.
Federer, who spent a record 310
weeks at No 1, was in 2019 ranked third
behind tennis icons Rafael Nadal and
Djokovic. He was 38. Why the haste to
force him from the court?
Ditto, the many brilliant sports people
in every code.
Hope for starved live action German soccer fans to cheer
heroes as plans are underway for return to stadiums
matches as well as on the way to and
from the stadium.
DFB Secretary General Friedrich
Curtius said in a statement that he
expects that the association will develop
a concept that will allow the German
national team to play in front of spectators
at home games this autumn.
Most sporting events were shut
Cristiano Ronaldo is 35-years-old
and Lionel Messi is 33-years-old. No
current duo has combined to score more
goals at club and international level.
The two remain the biggest names in
football.
Basketball’s maestro Michael Jordan
retired at 40. Heavyweight boxer George
Foreman won the title at 45 and was
still boxing at 50. Bernard Hopkins was
a world champion at 51.
Ice hockey player Jaromir Jagr was 44
when earning his 10th All-Star selection
and more than half of Jagr’s Florida
Panthers teammates weren’t born when
he played his first NHL game in 1990.
Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
was the NBA’s all-time leading scorer
and a six-time NBA MVP and six-time
champion when playing for the Milwaukee
Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers
before turning 40.
After turning 40, he made it to three
NBA finals and won twice. He was also
an All-Star in his final three seasons.
Robert Parish won the NBA with the
Chicago Bulls in 1997. He was 43. Gridiron
football player Vinny Testaverde
won the NFL with the Carolina Panthers
in 2007. He was 44.
American swimmer Dara Torres,
who won nine Olympic medals in four
Olympics, anchored the 4x100m freestyle
relay to silver at the 2008 Beijing
Olympics. It was 24 years after her first
Olympic medal.
Morten Andersen, the soccer playerturned-kicker
from Denmark, played
until he was 47 and finished as the NFL’s
career scoring leader.
Quarterback superstar Tom Brady
is still among the best in NFL at 41.
Tiger Woods completed his 15th Major
success a year ago. He is 43-years-old.
Jack Nicklaus, the winner of a record
18 Majors, won his final Major as a
46-year-old.
Serena Williams, at 37, is still one of
the best female tennis players.
Martina Navratilova, in her prime,
won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, seven
mixed doubles and 31 doubles titles.
She retired in 1995 and, at 44, in 2000,
returned to tennis and won 12 more
doubles titles and three mixed doubles
Grand Slam titles. Her last Grand Slam
success came a month before she turned
50. “The ball doesn’t know how old I
am,” she said.
down earlier this year due to the novel
Corona-19 pandemic. While some
leagues have resumed, matches have
been played behind closed doors and
in eerie silence.
The Dutch football association
(KNVB) said on Thursday that domestic
soccer in the Netherlands would
resume in September with 15% to 35%
of the stadium available for spectators
but with no away supporters allowed.
| Reuters

PRETORIA NEWS | Saturday, July 11 2020
10
• FORMULA 1
| Graphic: MATTHYS MOSS | Source: YouTube; BackpagePix; Archive
Ferrari’s
home venue
for 1000th
Grand Prix
THE Ferrari-owned Mugello circuit
will debut on the Formula One calendar
in September to host the Italian
team’s 1000th championship Grand
Prix, with Russia’s race in Sochi also
confirmed yesterday.
The September 13 race, to be called
the Grand Prix of Tuscany Ferrari 1
000, will follow on from the September
6 Italian Grand Prix at Monza as the
ninth round of a season that has been
heavily revised due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
Russia will be the 10th race on
September 27.
Formula One said in a statement it
still expected to stage between 15-18
rounds in a championship that started
at Austria’s Red Bull Ring last weekend,
with more announcements in coming
weeks.
“We are increasingly confident
in our plans to race throughout the
remainder of 2020,” said Formula One
chairman Chase Carey.
“The Russian Grand Prix is a major
moment in our season and we are
looking forward to being back in Sochi
in September.
“To be able to celebrate an extraordinary
anniversary like the 1 000th
Grand Prix for Scuderia Ferrari at our
own home at Mugello is an incredible
opportunity,” said Ferrari team boss
Mattia Binotto.
“Mugello is not just one of the
most spectacular and challenging
tracks for drivers and cars.
“It is also a
structure that has
made sustainability
one of its priorities.”
Imola, which
hosted the San
Marino Grand
Prix up to 2006,
could yet feature
on the 2020 calendar
if other races
are cancelled.
Formula One
is also lining up
Mattia Binotto
Portugal’s Algarve circuit in Portimao,
with Vietnam still a possibility.
While China has said it will not
hold any international sporting events
this year, aside from trials for the 2022
Beijing Winter Olympics, Formula One
could yet secure an exemption.
Races in the Americas — Texas,
Mexico and Brazil — look doubtful due
to the spread of the new coronavirus
but Bahrain, with a possible two races,
and Abu Dhabi are set to complete the
season in November.
Meanwhile, Mexican Sergio Perez
put Racing Point’s ‘Pink Mercedes’ on
top of the timesheets in first practice
for the Styrian Grand Prix yesterday.
The car has earned its nickname
from being a close copy of the 2019
Mercedes that took Lewis Hamilton to
a sixth Formula One championship.
Perez lapped the Red Bull Ring,
which also hosted last weekend’s season-opening
Austrian Grand Prix, with
a best time of one minute 04.867
seconds on soft tyres.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was
second fastest, 0.096 slower, with the
Mercedes pairing of last weekend’s race
winner Valtteri Bottas and Hamilton
third and fourth respectively but without
using the quickest tyres.
Canadian Lance Stroll was fifth
fastest in the other Racing Point.
Ferrari were off the pace as they
evaluated new parts, with Sebastian
Vettel 10th and Charles Leclerc 12th.
Canadian rookie Nicholas Latifi
stopped his Williams with an engine
problem halfway through the session.
Teammate George Russell sat out
the practice, with the team’s reserve
driver Jack Aitken given some track
time instead and lapping 17th fastest.
Poland’s Robert Kubica, reserve at
Alfa Romeo, was 18th | Reuters
Hassan Howa Michael Holding Lungi Ngidi
#BLACKLIVESMATTER:
A seminal moment for cricket
ZAAHIER ADAMS
zaahier.adams@inl.co.za
“CRICKET back on SuperSport – with
a cracker”.
That was the subject headline of
an email I received from South Africa’s
pay channel earlier this week. The
excitement was palpable. Live international
cricket would be back on our
television and laptop screens after a
three-month hiatus due to the Covid-
19 virus. It was a reason to celebrate.
But when the moment arrived at
the Ageas Bowl for the two captains
Ben Stokes and Jason Holder of England
and West Indies respectively to
walk out for the much-awaited toss we
were greeted with the despairing sight
of pitch covers and empty stands.
The lack of spectators was expected
due to the safety precautions related
to Covid-19, but the entire picture
was anti-climatic. At this point many
would have switched off their live feed
and returned to their Zoom meeting.
They would have missed a great
moment. Although the weather did
not improve greatly with only 17.4
overs eventually possible throughout
the day, Sky Sports – the host broadcaster
– delivered arguably the most
telling piece of sports broadcasting
in years.
It was a seminal moment in the
game and should always be remembered.
Not for the fact that England’s
Dom Sibley was the first batsman to
be dismissed after the Covid-19 break,
but for a film featuring the life experiences
of legendary West Indies fast
bowler Michael Holding and former
England Women’s captain Ebony
Rainford-Brent.
Rainford-Brent’s tears pulled at the
heart strings and stirred emotions deep
Christmas early as
players get to share in
Wimbledon prize money
Arrogance of Symcox is just incomprehensible
within. It made me take a closer look
at myself in the mirror.
Have I in any way – consciously or
subconsciously – been racist towards
anyone through my actions or speech?
Have I judged someone purely on the
basis of their skin colour?
Holding, who is now also a well-respected
Sky pundit, continued the discussion
live on air with his colleague
Nasser Hussain. It was extraordinary
viewing with Holding emotionally
presenting factual evidence of society’s
perception of black people and
the way their achievements have been
diluted in modern history.
It set the tone for a historic day
with the West Indies and England
teams delivering a further statement to
the world about equality and the Black
Lives Matter movement by taking a
knee before the first ball was bowled.
The Windies wore black gloves on
their right hands and raised them in
salute similar to the protests made
by the American sprinters John Carlos
and Tommie Smith as they stood
on the podium at the 1968 Olympic
Games in Mexico. The visitors also
hung the Black Lives Matter flag from
their dressing room balcony.
Hussain was equally rousing alongside
Holding. England’s only male
Test captain of Asian descent articulated
the abuse he received “from
both sides” while coming through the
English cricket system. Hussain stated
it was an issue that society could no
longer suppress.
“People will be tuning in and saying:
‘Not this again’,” he said. “All I’ll
say to those people who say ‘not again’
is that a few weeks ago I watched a
black man being killed in front of my
eyes on Channel 4 news, and my natural
reaction was to look away. Next
THE prize money set aside for the
Wimbledon Championships will be
distributed to 620 players who were
set to take part at this year’s cancelled
tournament, the All England Lawn
Tennis Club (AELTC) said yesterday.
Wimbledon, initially scheduled for
June 29-July 12, was cancelled for the
first time since World War Two due to
the COVID-19 pandemic which has
killed more than 44 000 people in the
United Kingdom.
“We are now in a position to allocate
prize money to the 620 players
whose world ranking would have
enabled them to gain entry into The
Championships 2020 by direct acceptance
into the main draw or qualifying
event,” AELTC said in a statement.
From an agreed total of 10 million
pounds ($12.60 million), 224 singles
players will receive 12 500 pounds
each as they were set to compete in
the qualifying rounds while the 256
players in the main draw will receive
25 000 pounds each. Doubles players
will receive 6 250 pounds each
while wheelchair and quad wheelchair
players are set to get 6 000 and 5 000
pounds each respectively. | Reuters
time that footage came on, I forced
myself to watch because I felt something
inside of myself say: ‘You’ve
been looking away too long.’”
Hussain’s comments are pertinent
in a local context, especially
after I ironically also watched former
South African cricket chief Ali Bacher
being interviewed on SuperSport this
week.
Bacher was unapologetic about
the significant role he played in the
organisation of rebel tours to South
Africa during apartheid. He pleaded
ignorance in regards to the country’s
political situation during the
1980s, claiming white people were
not exposed to the atrocities of the
National Party government.
The point of reference in his
defence was that only after conversations
with former Robben Island prisoner
Steve Tshwete was he cognisant
of his actions and the repercussions it
may have had in hindsight.
But with Bacher being a medical
doctor who practised in Soweto, how
are we supposed to believe this was
not a classic case of “looking away”?
Even further, did he not stop
to ask himself why principled men
such as Holding, Viv Richards and
Clive Lloyd declined the invitation
to tour South Africa despite him waving
virtual blank cheques in front
of them?
I am not here calling for the public
lynching of Bacher, but instead hoping
that everyone, particularly white South
Africa, finally takes off its blinkers and
open its eyes to the fact that sport and
politics are indeed interlinked and not
mutually exclusive.
The late South African Council
of Sport (Sacos) supremo Hassan
Howa’s slogan “No Normal Sport in
A steward at the famous All England Lawn
Tennis Club in London, Britain. | EPA-EFE
an Abnormal Society” – which was
very much in the forefront of society
while Bacher was organising the rebel
tours – was not just a throwaway line.
It was a belief system for many that
were battling against all odds to keep
non-racial sport alive in the various
communities.
It remains important to this day,
particularly when a former South
African cricketer such as Pat Symcox
believes he has the right to tell current
Proteas fast bowler Lungi Ngidi
to appreciate where his next meal is
coming from for simply wanting to
address Black Lives Matter within the
national team dressing room.
Symcox said: “What nonsense is
this. He must take his own stand if he
wishes. Stop trying to get the Proteas
involved in his belief. Besides the fact
that right now Cricket South Africa
should be closed down. A proper dog
and pony show with cricket being
dragged through the mud daily. Buy
popcorn and watch. Now when Ngidi
has his next meal perhaps he would
rather consider supporting the farmers
of South Africa who are under
pressure right now. A cause worth
supporting.”
The arrogance of Symcox’s statement
is simply incomprehensible,
particularly as it was directed at a
young man who had grown up with
parents who were domestic workers
and who had to leave home before he
was a teenager in the hope of working
towards a better life.
Even more disturbing was the fact
that Symcox was not a lone voice.
Another former Proteas batsman,
Boeta Dippenaar, stated, “I am sorry
to say Black Lives Matter has become
nothing more than a leftist political
movement,” and that “All lives matter.
South Africa’s Frittelli in
swing of things after testing
positive for Covid-19
DYLAN Frittelli, Nick Watney and
Denny McCarthy completed the first
round of the PGA Tour’s Workday
Charity Open on Thursday after all
three spent 10 days in quarantine
following positive COVID-19 tests.
The trio were allowed to play after
the Tour updated its return-to-work
protocols on Wednesday and were
grouped together at the Muirfield
Village Golf Club in Ohio.
Under the revised protocols, a
player who tests positive can return
If you want me to stand shoulder to
shoulder with you Lungi then stand
shoulder to shoulder with me regards
to farm attacks.”
Although both will claim they
were merely highlighting the increase
of murders currently happening on
South African farms, which undoubtedly
is unforgivable, they displayed
their absolute ignorance about what
the Black Lives Matter movement is
actually trying to achieve.
I will leave it to the great man
Holding to explain.
“The dehumanisation of the black
race is where this started. And people
will tell you ‘That’s a long time ago,
get over it’. No, we don’t get over
things like that … History is written
by the conqueror, not by those that are
conquered. Until we educate the entire
human race, this thing will not stop.
“People keep telling me there’s no
such thing as white privilege. Give me
a break! I don’t see white people being
followed when they go into the shop.
“Everyone is recognising it. Everyone
is coming together and seeing
the difference in treatment. We are
all human beings so I hope people
will recognise that the Black Lives
Movement is not about getting black
people above white people. It is all
about equality.
“So when you tell people that Black
Lives Matter and they turn around and
tell you that All Lives Matter or White
Lives Matter … Please … we know
White Lives Matter. I don’t think you
know Black Lives Matter, so don’t
shout back at us about All Lives Matter.
It is obvious. The evidence is clearly
there that White Lives Matter.”
These are telling words that must
not be forgotten. Least of all by the
likes of Symcox, Dippenaar and Co.
after spending 10 days in self‐isolation
from the point the symptoms
originated and has not shown symptoms,
such as a fever or cough, for
three days.
Frittelli he was happy to be back
on the course after testing positive
during the Travelers Championship
last month. He tested positive twice
this week but has only ever had
minor symptoms. “The Tour is trying
to monitor things as they move,
and scientists and biologists are still
figuring stuff out today,” said the
South African, who won his lone
PGA Tour event last year at the John
Deere Classic. | Reuters