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Black Britons
to take
Covid-19 jab
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British stand-up comedian,
actor, singer, writer and
television presenter - Sir
Lenworth George Henry CBE,
better known as Lenny Henry; has
written an open letter to encourage
Black Britons to take the COVID-19
vaccine.
Sir Lenny’s letter, supported by
the NHS, has also been turned into
a powerful short film directed by
BAFTA Award winner - Amma
Asante, which features Lenny
alongside Adrian Lester, David
Harewood, Naomie Ackie, Rt. Rev.
Rose Hudson Wilkin, Bishop of
Dover and Adjoa Andoh. The film
aired across Sky, BT Sport, Viacom,
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Sir Lenny Henry urges Black Britons
to take Covid-19 jab
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Discovery, A&E and ROK.
12 Years a Slave actor and Oscar
nominee - Chiwetel Ejiofor; author
Malorie Blackman; actor Thandie
Newton; football pundit - Garth Crooks;
performer George the Poet; musician
KSI, radio personality Trevor Nelson;
and Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh; are
among those who have put their names
to the letter which encourages Black
adults in the UK to make informed
decisions about the vaccine and protect
themselves and the people they care for
by getting vaccinated when their turn
comes.
Sir Lenny Henry said: “I felt it was
important to do my bit and so I wrote
this letter to Black Britain asking people
not to get left behind, to not continue to
be disproportionately impacted and to
trust the facts from our doctors,
professors and scientists, not just in the
UK but across the world, including the
Caribbean and Africa.
“I hear and understand the concerns
which people of all backgrounds are
wrestling with, but which are
particularly concerning in Black
communities. I want people to be safe, I
don’t want people to die or end up in
hospital because of Covid-19. So I’m
saying, when your turn comes, take the
jab.
“I want to thank everyone who has
signed the letter and dear friends who
took part in Amma’s beautiful film.”
More than 30 million people have
now received their first COVID-19
vaccine dose, meaning over half of the
UK’s adult population have been
vaccinated and will soon develop strong
protection from serious illness, saving
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Television veteran Sir Lenny says he
understands the concerns of many in the
Black community but tells them he
doesn’t want their concerns about the
jab to leave them disproportionately
impacted by the pandemic.
An Office of National Statistics
(ONS) survey taken from 13 January to
7 February shows that less than half
(49%) of Black or Black British adults
reported that they were likely to have
the vaccine and NHS data shows that
only 466,000 of Black British adults
have had a first dose of the vaccine so
far.
Amma Asante, who directed the
film, said: “Creating something for the
community I come from was important
to me, particularly on a health issue that
is as life and death as coronavirus.
“I wanted to make a film that
acknowledges the concerns of Black
people while sharpening the lens on
why the vaccine is so important, and
why we deserve to have our lives and
the lives of our loved ones protected.
“I hope the film can contribute to
making a difference”.
Professor Kevin Fenton, London’s
Regional Director for Public Health
England, said: “We know our Black
communities have been among the
hardest hit during this pandemic, but we
also know there are some among us who
are less likely to come forward for the
life-saving vaccine.
“We can all play a role in
encouraging our friends and family to
take it up when offered, whether that’s
answering questions or concerns they
may have, pointing them towards
information and advice from trusted
sources, sharing our own experiences of
getting the vaccine or declining to pass
on myths and misinformation
circulating on social media.
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cousins,
Don’t let their sacrifice be in vain.
We love you!
Don’t let your understandable fears be
“Getting back to normal life in the We know we don’t say it often what holds you back. Don’t let your
UK will mean every one of us joining enough and sometimes we have our concerns be the thing that widens racial
the over 30 million people across the disagreements, like all families do, but inequality in our society. Don’t let Black
UK who have already taken up the wherever you are we love you from the people continue to be disproportionately
vaccine. So I am fully behind Sir bottom of our hearts and we know you impacted by this terrible disease. Many
Lenny’s call to our Black communities. love us.
in our community say they do not want
Let’s all do our bit, keep our loved ones And we want to see you again. to take the vaccine, much more than
safe and end this pandemic sooner COVID-19 has kept us apart for far too other groups. But the fact is we have
rather than later.”
long. We want to hug you, we want to been disproportionately affected by the
People who have received a letter celebrate with you, we want to go out virus, many of our loved ones have
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Signatories to the letter have come normal. Well what people are calling the Thank you.
from across the spectrum of British new normal. The reality is the new Lenny
society. From the business world, normal may mean needing a vaccine to
signatories include Karen Blackett do many of the things we now take for Signatories to the letter
OBE, Ric Lewis, Sonita Alleyne OBE, granted.
• Dr Maggie Aderin Pocock, MBE
Eric Collins, and Wilfred Jones.
Because we love you – we want you • Sir David Adjaye, OBE, architect
Names from the arts and to be safe and we don’t want you to be • Naomi Ackie, actor
entertainment include Malorie left out or left behind. While other • Sonita Alleyne, OBE, Master, Jesus
Blackman, Lemn Sissay, Roy Williams, communities are rushing to get the
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Reni Eddo-Lodge, George The Poet and vaccine and millions have already been
KSI and from sport – Garth Crooks and vaccinated, some Black people in our
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Horror in Cabo Delgado:
Unaccompanied children arrive
in Pemba after violence
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Unaccompanied children have started
to arrive in the coastal town of
Pemba in northern Cabo Delgado
province, Mozambique, following last
week’s brutal attacks by insurgents on Palma
and surrounding areas, Save the Children has
said. In the past few days, an estimated 3,100
people have fled Palma to the sea or to the
bush, with an unknown number now in
Pemba.
The agency has deployed a team of child
protection and water and sanitation experts
to Pemba port and airport, to support arrivals
fleeing the recent violence. The organisation
is especially looking out for unaccompanied
children, who are travelling without family
or the company of an adult.
At 9 am on 28 March, the team saw a
small boat with four people on board,
including a 12-year-old boy, Amimo*, who
was visibly scared and barefoot. Amimo told
the team that he became separated from his
family when his village was attacked on
Wednesday, 24 March.
After providing him with food and
safety, Amimo told the team:
Some displaced families at Pemba Airport, Mozambique
Horror in Cabo Delgado
“I was playing with my friends near my
house. When the attacks started, I ran to my
house and found my mother and brothers. I
told my family to run away, but they said to
wait. I didn’t want to wait, so I ran to the
beach because that is near my house. When
I arrived at the beach, I found a boat carrying
people. [It] was far from the shore, so I had
to swim to the boat. When I got there, I was
rescued and we left towards Pemba.”
The exact number of casualties after the
recent violence in Palma, a town of about
75,000 people in Cabo Delgado province, is
unclear. Many are still unaccounted for.
Earlier this month, Save the Children heard
from displaced families that children as
young as 11 were being brutally murdered
by insurgent groups.
Chance Briggs, Save the Children’s
Country Director in Mozambique, said:
“Children have witnessed scenes of
unimaginable and unspeakable horror. We
cannot begin to imagine how they must be
feeling, or the fear in their parent’s hearts.
Separated children are particularly
vulnerable and our teams are doing all they
can to identify them and reunify them with
their families as quickly as possible. I am
incredibly proud of their commitment to
ensuring no child is overlooked in this
nightmare scenario. This is a terrible and
horrific situation for children, for parents, for
the community and for all the people in Cabo
Delgado.”
“We are calling on the international
community to release funds to support these
children. They need urgent support, both to
meet their basic needs – food, shelter,
medical care – and to help them recover
mentally from these attacks. This means
psychosocial support by trained counsellors,
and child protection case management for
children who don’t know where their parents
are.”
“Critically, all parties to this conflict
must ensure that children are never targets.
They must respect international
humanitarian and human rights laws and
take all necessary actions to minimise
civilian harm, including ending
indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks
against children.”
Over 670,000 people are now displaced
inside Mozambique due to the conflict in
Cabo Delgado – almost seven times the
number reported a year ago. At least 2,658
people have died in the conflict, including
1,341 civilians, although this number is
likely to be higher after last week’s violence.
The situation has seriously deteriorated over
the past 12 months, with the escalation of
attacks on villages and district capital towns.
Cabo Delgado is also still reeling from
consecutive climatic shocks, including
2019’s Cyclone Kenneth, the strongest
cyclone to hit the northern part of
Mozambique, and massive floods in early
2020.
Save the Children and its partners is
responding to the needs of conflict - and
cyclone-displaced children and their families
in Cabo Delgado. The organisation’s
response has directly reached over 118,000
people, including over 72,000 children, with
child protection, education, health (including
COVID-19), food security and livelihoods
improvement, and water and sanitation
programming.

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College, Cambridge
• Baroness Valerie Amos, Master,
University College Oxford
• Amma Asante, MBE, writer/director
• Adjoa Andoh, actor
• Zeinab Badawi, Journalist, Chair,
Royal African Society
• Karen Blackett, OBE, GroupM UK
CEO, WPP Country Manager
• Malorie Blackman, OBE, writer
• I. Stephanie Boyce, Deputy Vice
President, Law Society
• Dr Margaret Casely-Hayford, CBE,
Lawyer, Chair, Shakespeare’s Globe,
Chancellor, Coventry University
• Dr Nira Chamberlain FIMA FORS
CSci PhD HonDSc, President of the
Institute of Mathematics and its
Applications
• Eric Collins, CEO, Impact X Capital
• Garth Crooks, OBE, exfootballer/football
pundit
• Professor Patricia Daley, Vice
Principal at Jesus College, Oxford
• Reni Eddo-Lodge, aournalist and
Author
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, CBE, actor
• Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, MBE,
The Black Farmer
• Ekow Eshun, writer and broadcaster
• Professor Kevin Fenton, London’s
Regional Director for Public Health
England
• Simon Frederick, TV director and
photographer
• George the Poet, spoken-word artist,
poet
• Patricia Hamzahee, advisor,
investor, philanthropist
• David Harewood, MBE, actor
• Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, MBE,
actor
• Rev Rose Hudson Wilkin, Bishop of
Dover MBE
• Chris Hughton, Football Manager at
Nottingham Forest Football Club
• Dame Vivian Hunt
• Adrian Joseph, OBE, Managing
Director, Group AI and Data
Solutions at BT
• Kanya King, CBE, Founder MOBO
Awards
• Dame Donna Kinnair, Chief
Executive and General Secretary of
the Royal College of Nursing
• Wol Kolade, Managing Partner at
Livingbridge
• Carol Lake
• KSI (Olajide Olatunji), musician,
YouTuber
• Baroness Doreen Lawrence
• Adrian Lester, CBE, actor
• Darren Lewis, Assistant Editor,
Daily Mirror
• Denise Lewis, OBE, Olympic
heptathlon gold medallist, TV Sports
Presenter
• Ric Lewis, Executive Chairman,
Tristan Capital Partners, Founder
Black Heart Foundation
• Trevor Nelson, MBE, radio
personality
• Thandie Newton, OBE, actor
• Dr Sandie Okoro, Senior Vice
President and Group General
Counsel, World Bank
• Sir Kenneth Olisa, Lord-Lieutenant
of Greater London
• David Olusoga, OBE, historian and
broadcaster
• Trevor Phillips, OBE, writer,
broadcaster, businessman
• Professor Cynthia Pine, CBE,
Professor of Dental Public Health,
Queen Mary University of London
• Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol
• Dr Nicola Rollock, Distinguished
Fellow, Faculty of Education at
University of Cambridge
• Tom Shropshire, General Counsel,
Diageo
• Lemn Sissay, MBE, author, poet and
broadcaster
• Tevin Tobun, CEO and Founder of
GV Group
• Alex Wheatle MBE, novelist
• Dame Sharon White, Chair of John
Lewis Partnership
• Charlene White, TV news anchor,
ITV
• Roy Williams, OBE, playwright
• Marcia Willis Stewart QC, Director,
Birnberg Pierce
• Lord Simon Woolley, Founder and
Director of Operation Black Vote
• Gary Younge, Professor, Manchester
University and journalist

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Help available for domestic
abuse victims
The United Kingdom government is
reminding those in the Black
community that: help and support is
still available during the coronavirus
pandemic through the ongoing
#YouAreNotAlone domestic abuse
campaign.
The #YouAreNotAlone campaign,
which is open to people of all ethnicities,
ages and backgrounds, was first set up in
April 2020 in response to the increased
demand for domestic abuse services during
the first national lockdown. It aims to
reassure and inform anybody at risk of, or
experiencing domestic abuse that:
●
●
●
Help and support is available for victims
and their children during and beyond the
coronavirus pandemic.
There is support available for all victims
if they are able to leave home to seek
help during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under the current lockdown rules,
people are allowed to leave home if they
are at risk of harm, including domestic
abuse.
●
●
If you are in immediate danger you
should call 999 and the police will
respond.
You, and your children, can still access
domestic abuse support services even if
you are worried about your immigration
status.
Liz Kingsley, Director of Safe Arms, a
non-profit organisation dedicated to raising
awareness of domestic abuse and improving
the lives and mental well-being of domestic
abuse survivors, said: “Domestic abuse can
be physical, psychological, sexual,
emotional and economic, and can be carried
out by a partner, ex-partner or a family
member. Whoever the abuser is, and
whatever form the domestic abuse takes, all
domestic abuse is a crime.
“I want all Black women that are victims
of domestic abuse to realise they are not
alone, and that help is available for them
and their children during and beyond the
coronavirus pandemic. We all have the right
to live free-from pain and anxiety, so I urge
people to put themselves before their partner
Adesope Olajid
or community and seek the advice and
support they deserve.”
Adesope Olajide - SHOPSYDOO TV
and radio broadcaster, and podcast host,
said: “Domestic abuse is a disease that
affects the entire (Black) community, which
is why people should band together to
support the men and women that have
experienced this crime. It’s very important
to ensure that victims have access to the
right support and assistance needed to aid
them in their recovery. As a public figure, I
am committed to using my voice, influence
and platform to sign post people to where
they can receive help, and to educate young
people on the long-lasting effects of
domestic abuse.”
According to the Crime Survey for
England and Wales (CSEW) year ending
March 2020:
● An estimated 7.3% of women (1.6
million) and 3.6% of men (757,000)
experienced domestic abuse in the last
year.
● Between April 2020 and February 2021,
women’s domestic abuse charity -
Refuge saw a 61% increase in calls and
contacts logged compared with the first
three months of 2020.
● Refuge also saw a 700% increase in the
number of visits to its Helpline website
(from 10,500 to 73,595 average visits
per month), which holds information on
recognising domestic abuse, safety
planning and women’s rights and
options.
The #YouAreNotAlone campaign also
encourages people that know someone
experiencing domestic abuse to seek
support at gov.uk/domestic-abuse or to call
the freephone 24-hour national domestic
abuse helpline being provided by Refuge on
0808 2000 247 (in England, see alternative
helplines below).
Following the recent widespread
discussions about women’s safety, the
Government reopened its Violence Against
Women and Girls . The aim is to understand
the views and lived experiences of people
from all backgrounds to help shape the new
Violence Against Women and Girls strategy
and ensure the Government is able to
protect more victims and tackle
perpetrators.
To learn more about the support
available during and after the national
lockdown, visit gov.uk/domestic-abuse. You
can also call or contact one of the below
organisations:
Helplines:
● The Freephone 24-hour National
Domestic Abuse Helpline run by Refuge
for victims in England: 0808 2000 247.
The Helpline also has access to
interpreters.
● The 24-hour Live Fear Free helpline for
domestic abuse victims in Wales: 0808
80 10 800 or text 078600 77 333.
● The Men’s Advice line offers support
for male victims of domestic abuse:
0808 801 0327.
Key organisations:
●
●
●
Liz Kingsley
- this service was set up during the
coronavirus pandemic to offer advice
and support to men and women that
have experienced domestic abuse. The
contact number is 07710 022382
- an organisation that works with Black,
Asian and visible minority ethnic
women who have experienced domestic
abuse. Contact number 020 8472 0528
- a non-profit organisation dedicated
to raising awareness of domestic abuse
and improving the lives and mental
well-being of domestic abuse survivors.
For support email:
info@safearms.org.uk
● - a not-for-profit organisation
committed to challenging all forms of
gender-related violence against Black
(Asian and African-Caribbean) women
and empowering them to gain more
control over their lives. Contact number
020 8571 9595

Health
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Don’t be fooled – April Fools
health myths
By Dr Helen Flaherty
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My smoking won’t affect those around me
My stress is not serious
Sometimes it can be difficult to
separate fact from fiction, so here
are some common myth-busting
tips surrounding heart health:
I need to avoid eating fat to be
healthy
This is not true as fat provides the
body with essential nutrients.
Unsaturated fats slow down the buildup
of plaque within the arteries and
I need to avoid eating fat to be healthy
therefore reduce blood pressure.
Examples of unsaturated fats are olives,
avocados, salmon and nuts. Of course,
eating too much of any fat would be
unhealthy, therefore aim to consume
fats in moderation.
Doing lots of cardio is the best
way to lose weight
This is also false as weight loss is
occurs when you burn more calories
than you consume. Having more lean
muscle mass helps your body burn
more calories at rest. Therefore, in
addition to a smart nutrition plan, a
combination of both high-intensity
cardio and strength-training is the best
method to lose weight. UK physical
activity guidelines suggest five 30-
minute exercise sessions per week, with
two of these focusing on resistance
training (body weight exercises/lifting
weights).
Drinking red wine will reduce my
risk of heart disease
It is true that red wine contains some
antioxidants that can help reduce blood
pressure, simply because red wine is
made from red grapes. There is no
evidence that drinking red wine directly
reduces your blood pressure, whereas
there is lots of evidence directly linking
alcohol consumption with increased
blood pressure.
My stress is not serious enough to
get help with
Stress symptoms can move quickly
from acute to chronic if they are not
managed. Stress hormones will affect
how well a person functions in
everyday life. They are shown to effect
multiple physiological systems (the
immune system, the cardiovascular
system, the endocrine system, the
gastrointestinal system). No stress
symptom is too small to ask for help
with.
My smoking won’t affect those
around me
This is false, and even if you think
you are being careful second-hand
smoke is a real danger. Non-smokers
that are exposed to smoke over a long
period of time have a 25% - 30%
increased risk of coronary heart disease.
* Dr Helen Flaherty is the Head of
Health Promotion at Heart Research
UK.
Doing lots of cardio is the best way to lose weight
Drinking red wine will reduce my risk of heart disease

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Census
11 things you think you know about the
census but are wrong
1. Census 2021 is over – I’ve missed
Census Day so I don’t have to do
it
Wrong! Every household is required by
law to complete the census and even
though Census Day – 21 March 2021 –
has been and gone, it is not too late to
complete a questionnaire. We have had
a great response to Census 2021 so far,
but everyone needs to respond as soon
as possible to avoid a fine.
2. Students don’t count in the census
Students are vitally important and do
count! All students need to be included
in the census, and they should complete
a form for their usual term-time address
even if they weren’t there on census
day. If they’re currently living at their
home address, they will need to be
included in the census for that
household too. If you’re an
international student and not currently
in England or Wales, but would
normally be, we also want to count you.
All universities and colleges have
details of how to get a census form. Or
go to census.gov.uk and request an
access code.
3. You only count yourself at the
house you were in on Census Day
Everyone needs to complete a return at
their usual address, even if they weren’t
there on Census Day, as local services
will still be required at both addresses.
If the pandemic has changed where you
are currently living, for example if you
moved out of a city to a rural or holiday
home prior to lockdown restrictions, or
you haven’t visited your city commuter
flat because of lockdown, you still need
to complete a census form at both
addresses. Visit census.gov.uk to
request an access code for your second
address.
4. You don’t need to complete a
return for an empty house
It is important that we have a census
return for all houses, even if nobody
usually lives there – for example
holiday homes and caravans - because
it’s a census of housing as well as a
census of population. Local councils
need to know about all houses in their
area so they can plan services and work
out how many new houses need to be
built. Visit census.gov.uk to request an
access code if you own an empty house,
flat or caravan.
5. I’m not a British citizen, so I don’t
have to be counted
Everyone staying in England and Wales
on Census Day, March 21, has to be
counted.
6. My information will be shared
That’s not the case. Personal census
data is kept under lock and key for 100
years. No individual or their responses
can be identified in the statistics we
publish. In fact, your personal
information can’t be seen by anyone
who makes decisions about you. It
cannot be used by government to
influence benefit claims, a residency
application, immigration status or
taxes, or by landlords or any other
private organisation.
7. he census is pointless. It doesn’t
help me.
The census benefits us all by
underpinning all the services every
single one of us relies on. It provides
information on our living
arrangements, health, education and the
jobs we do and the information from it
will help inform policy at a local and
national level for years to come. From
school places to the planning of bike
lanes – census information is even used
when deciding where to build new
supermarkets, what food to put on the
shelves and how many parent and
toddler spaces to put in the car park.
8. If you can’t get online, you can’t
do the census
This is the very first time we are asking
everyone to respond online if they can
and we’ve had a terrific response. If
you know someone who doesn’t have
the skills or confidence to do it online,
help is at hand. We have census
support centres across England and
Wales, offering telephone and face to
face support visit, to find a centre near
you. You can also call our contact
centre. Call 0800 141 2021 in England
and 0800 169 2021 in Wales for help or
to order a paper questionnaire.
9. Census officers will ask for
personal information
A field officer will only ask for a
householder’s name and phone number
if they request a new online code. They
will also ask for the householder’s
name if they request a paper
questionnaire.
However, they will never ask to see
personal documents like passports or
birth certificates. Field officers will
never ask for payment and they will not
enter your home.
10.Census officers will fine you on
the doorstep
Do not be scammed. Census field
officers will never ask for a payment on
the doorstep. The role of field officers is
to give help and encouragement to
those who have not yet filled in their
census questionnaire online or on paper
after Census Day and direct them to the
support services they need. They will
be operating in the same way as a postal
or food delivery visit. They also carry
ID to show they are genuinely working
on the census.
We will continue to support people to
respond to the census but if a household
refuses to fill out a questionnaire we
will ultimately proceed to an interview
under caution, which may be followed
by a court summons, a fine of up to
£1,000 and a criminal record.
11.I’ve got to pay a fine online for
making a mistake on my census
Do not be scammed. For a fine to be
imposed your case must go to court for
non-completion of the census. You will
never be issued with a fine by text
message, on social media or by email.
Our Cyber Intelligence team is scouring
the web for phishing sites and taking
them down. If you find a site that looks
suspicious or receive text messages
with links to sites asking for money
related to the census, do not engage
with them. Report them to the Census
2021 Contact Centre by ringing 0800
141 2021 in England and 0800 169
2021 in Wales.
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Sport
Unstoppable Christel Janet Kotze is a
National Rugby Coach to be watched
Rugby Africa's Namibian Unstoppable, Christel ‘CJ’ Kotze
Raising the flag of Rugby high in
Namibia and across the African
continent, Rugby Africa’s ()
Unstoppable Christel Janet (CJ) Kotze is
certainly a force to be reckoned with.
Handpicked as one of 12 leading women
in Rugby on the African continent as part
of Rugby Africa’s #Unstoppables, the
Absolute Rugby producer and coach is
certainly a beacon of inspiration to
women in the game.
Twenty-seven-year-old Kotze was
born with the game in her blood, having
watched former Namibia international
wing and her dad Jaco Kotze during his
training sessions. Joining the sport back
in 2013, she formed part of a historic
moment for Namibian ladies in 2014,
when she made the cut for the country’s
first ever national women’s Rugby team.
With lots of learnings coming off the
team’s first play in the 2014 Africa
Women’s Sevens in Kenya, Kotze
grabbed 2015 with gust as she led her
team and tasted a win in the Africa
Women’s Sevens tournament held in
South Africa.
‘The 2015 tournament in South
Africa had a different energy around it.
The squad felt stronger, the belief in the
team was bigger. Something was telling
us that this tournament was going to be
better than the previous year. It was in
game two of day one where everything
just came together. I was in the right
place at the right time. I got the ball on
the right wing and just did what was
expected of me. I found the gap and I ran
as if my life depended on it, scoring the
try under the post. Just moments later, I
managed to convert the try. It was only
after the game that I realised what had
happened and how big it was!’
Noting that it has been a struggle to
get the game back on its feet, Kotze said
that it only started picking up in 2019
when a group of people who
passionately believed in Women’s
Rugby, pushed forward resulting in the
formation of regional teams. By the start
of 2020, there were three distinctive
teams in the central area of Namibia.
Today, there are currently six senior
Women’s Rugby teams countrywide.
‘The future of the game in Namibia
seems to be bright once again, with more
schoolgirls taking an interest in the
game, meaning on a grassroots level the
game is growing. This in turns feeds into
clubs and eventually the national side is
growing. Hopefully with this, the
Namibian national women’s team can
once again step up and become a
contender at African cups and not just as
a participant in the next two years.’
With aspirations to become the first
national coach of the women’s national
team, Kotze is currently coaching on
both Club and high school level,
following an ACL injury that led her to
trade in her Rugby boots for a Rugby
whistle. As the first woman in Namibia
to attain her 7’s level 2 coaching
certificate in 2019, Kotze admitted that
the biggest challenge that Women’s
Rugby is faced with is the stigma
surrounding women in the sport.
‘While coaching the boys at Orban,
it is safe to say that it did not come easy.
In the beginning it was hard trying to
convince fathers – who are experts in the
game in their own right - that two ladies
could coach their boys. However, we
stuck through it and yes at first, we did
not win but the skill level and
understanding of the game the boys had
was clear and with each passing year the
wins started rolling in. In the last two
years, as the boys approached a big tour,
a few fathers joined us to help hold
tackle bags and just generally help where
needed. Slowly their perspective
changed about women coaching boys. I
think the biggest lesson I learned
through coaching the boys is to keep
believing in your vision even if others do
not see it or believe it. Keep believing in
yourself.’
Rugby Africa General Manager,
Coralie van den Berg, said that Kotze
epitomised what an Unstoppable stood
for. ‘Through the Unstoppable project,
Rugby Africa is raising the profile and
promoting women in Rugby for a
sustained change in the perception and
diversity of the sport. An area that needs
a special focus is the representation of
female coaches and match officials as
this is very low. Kotze is truly aiding in
this focus area and is excelling in her
coaching expertise. Her found love for
coaching and her stance to give young
boys and girls a real shot at a good
Rugby future is remarkable.’
Rugby Africa Women’s Rugby
Manager, Maha Zaoui said that Kotze
was a shining example of leading
women in Rugby within Africa. ‘CJ truly
stands heads and shoulders with her
male peers. Through her contribution
and determination, we certainly could
see a future national coach taking her
team all the way to the Rugby World
Cup. It is exactly her passion and deep
love for the game that we need to light
the path for future women in Rugby.’
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