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FURIOUS VILLAGERS SAYRULING PARTY WILL NOTBE GETTING THEIR VOTEMany residents of a small village in an ANC-led ward

insist they will not be voting in the May 8 elections,

even chasing IEC officials away

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Op i n i on

BETWEEN THEDEVIL AND THEDEEP BLUE SEAWhen the state has to choose

between human rights and its

own authority, a choice is clear

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LINES OF TRUSTFOR WORKERAND EMPLOYERCan I be fired if I know a colleague

is stealing, and I do not report the

matter to the company?

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Sp o r t

FIRST HE JUMPED SHIP,NOW HE WANTS TOJUMP COUNTRY AS WELLNot content with honing his skills with the Proteas,

and then dumping them, Kolpak’s Duanne Olivier

now says he wants to play for England

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RAY JOSEPH

Key players have responded tothe questions surrounding theawarding of Lottery monies tonon-profits associated withcontroversial Pretoria attorneyLesley Ramulifho.

Ramulifho failed to answerdetailed questions e-mailed tohim.

Instead he responded: “Yo u r

various repeated articles ande-mail questions about mesince last year are well notedand frankly exhausting to read.

“On Denzhe – you have re-peated same issues enough andI’m happy to answer any newquestions in this regard. To thispoint this matter was fully ven-tilated and settled from theNPO standpoint. On the othertwo NPOs, my advice to you isto contact the relevant directorsof the said NPOs and ask what-

ever questions you deem fit.Accordingly, I’m not a directorof either or a spokespersont h e r e o f. ”

When clarification of his an-swers was sought, Ramulifhoresponded: “I don’t work foryou Raymond. Stop harassingm e. ”

Liesl Moses, listed as one ofthe directors of the latest Ra-mulifho-associated non-profitsto be funded by the LotteriesCommission, said: “We are un-

der a confidentiality and non-disclosure clause agreementwith our funders.

“Should you wish to get anyinformation relating to thegrants, kindly address the sameto the funder [Lotteries Com-m i ss i o n ] . ”

But, she added: “We will behappy to invite you and yournewsmakers for the opening ofthese new toilets school facil-ities upon completion to help

RAYMOND JOSEPH

Lo tt o ’s funding arm gave R10mto employees of Pretoria lawyerLesley Ramulifho for “sanita -tion projects” at 15 schools, butthe street address of his con-struction offices is an upmarketcomplex in East London wherenobody has heard of their com-p a ny.

The suburban block of flatswas listed as the physical ad-dress for the non-profit com-pany Dinosys which wasawarded the R10m contract bythe National Lotteries Commis-sion.

The award was made despitean ongoing investigation intoanother project in which thecontroversial Ramulifho is in-vo lve d .

It was one of two grants,totalling R20m to build “san -itation facilities” at 25 schoolsawarded in November to twoNPOs that have employees ofRamulifho as directors.

In its application for lotteryfunding, Dinosys signed theR10m contract with the Lotteryfor the “construction of san-itation facilities” at 15 schools.

It provided an East Londonaddress, 14 Summit Road, Bea-conhurst, suggesting that therecipient schools may be in theEastern Cape.

But a flat complex is to befound at this address, and noneof the tenants are aware of abusiness operating there.

Ramulifho was a director ofboth companies but resignedhis directorships a few monthsbefore the grants were award-ed, according to Companiesand Intellectual Property Com-mission (CIPC) records.

The latest funding brings toR60m the known total in grantsallocated since 2017 to fourdifferent NPOs and non-profit

companies (NPCs) associatedwith Ramulifho.

The funding is for a variety ofprojects: a drug rehabilitationcentre, a sports developmentprogramme and the construc-tion of toilets at schools.

At least two of the fourknown projects funded by Lot-tery use Ramulifho’s law officesin Garsfontein, Pretoria as theirregistered postal address.

A third NPO used the officeaddress as its official address inits successful application forLottery funding.

And three of Ramulifho em-ployees – Liesl Moses, TsietsiJoseph Tshabalala, and LouisaMangwagape – are listed di-rectors of both of the latestNPCs to be funded.

Tshabalala describes himselfon LinkedIn as a “r e ce p t i o n i st ”employed at Ramulifho’s lawo f f i ce s .

Project s●In its application for Lottery

funding, Dinosys said its phys-ical address was 14 Summit

Road, Beaconhurst, East Lon-don. But when journalistLisekho Madikane visited thisaddress for GroundUp, she dis-covered it was for a complexcalled Summit Green.

She spoke to several residentsand a helper working there, butnone of them knew of anybusiness being run out of any ofthe flats.

An elderly couple who havelived at the neighbouring 16Summit Road for many yearssaid they were not aware of aconstruction company operat-ing from the flats next door.

And the owner of Loyiso CivilConstruction, which operatesfrom a nearby house, said hewas not aware of Dinosys or anyother construction companyoperating in the area.

Ramulifho was appointed adirector of Dinosys in January2018 but resigned his direc-torship in September 2018,about two months before thegrant agreement was signed,according to CIPC records.

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LOT TO’S R10mMYSTERY TOILETPROJECT IN ECCompany linked to LesleyRamulifho grantedmillions to providesanitation but businessnot found at ‘the address’

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G a rd e nlaunchedto honourm u rd e re dactivist sTEMBILE SGQOLANAte m b i l e s@ d isp atc h .co. z a

The four towers stand tall andproud on a hill overlooking theLingelihle township in Cradockeach honouring the CradockFour who were brutally mur-dered in 1985.

The towers bear the names ofMathew Goniwe, Fort Calata,Sparrow Mkhonto and SiceloMhlauli who were murderednear Bluewater Bay by the se-curity police while travellingback home from Port Elizabethin 1985.

Yesterday, government lead-ers officially launched the Cra-dock Garden of Remembranceafter a multi-million rand re-furbishment of the memorialco m p l ex .

G o n iwe ’s widow, Nyameka,said the garden was long over-du e.

“We as families even thoughtthat it was not going to be doneas the space was identified andleft empty for years and endedup being vandalised,” she said.

She said the garden had beenestablished for a purpose and itshould be used to create culture,history and distribute knowl-edge to South Africans.

“This site should be guidingus as the Cradock Four guidedthe country before they werebrutally murdered. This mustbe the light that stands on top ofthe mountain and sheds lightfor everyone,” Goniwe said.

Mhlauli's widow, Nom -buyiselo, said there were partsof the history of the CradockFour that needed to be edited.

“We urge those who are writ-ing to consult with the familiesso that we can write our ownh i st o r y, ” she said.

She still remembered the daythe four activists died and howthe attack by the state on thefamilies did not stop there.

“The families were harassed

after the death of the our hus-bands. I can’t even count thetimes they came to my housekicking down the doors andharassing us,” she said.

She said the garden of re-membrance gave themst r e n g t h .

“We must protect, guard andreprimand those who are van-dalising the garden,” said Mh-lauli.

Tourism minister DerrickHanekom said the departmenthad spent R28m on the pro-ject.

"This was built by the ex-panded public works pro-gramme workers and peoplewill be employed to keep the

site clean," he said.Hanekom said the monu-

ment project had exceeded hisexpectations and would c r e at ejobs.

"The local economy will beboosted as tourists come to visitthe site," he said.

He said the monument hadpotential for attracting people.

"The place is huge and has aconference centre, wall of re-membrance and a small hall,"he said.

Hanekom urged the people ofCradock to take care of thememorial.

Economic development, en-vironmental affairs and tourismMEC Oscar Mabuyane said theyhad committed to help educaterelatives of the Cradock Fourl.

“We want to make these fam-ilies independent,” he said.

He also announced StandardBank had contributed R20,000to Solomon Akona Primaryschool to buy school uniforms.

More reports, pictures – P7

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SOLID REMINDER: A man pays homage to the Cradock Four in front of four giant concrete pillars. Officials

launched a Garden of Rembrance at the site on Human Rights Day in the town. Picture: TEMBILE SGQOLANA

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The first South African Netflixoriginal series, S h a d ow , is rock-ing local and international au-d i e n ce s .

It is gritty, edgy and unapolo-getically South African.

A young girl is horribly slain.Johannesburg detective andformer task force specialist,Shadrach “S h a d ow ” K h u m a l o,quits his job to become a “f i xe r ”for people who, like him, havebeen failed by the criminal jus-tice system.

Shadow is played by award-winning South African actorPallance Dladla who shot tofame as the runner-up of SABC1’s season 2 of Class Act.

Dladla is best known for hisrole as Duke on Mzansi Magic’sIs’t h u n zi .

The eight-part series takesviewers on an emotional jour-ney. Shadow has been affectedby a personal trauma in his lifeand as such, he wants to dogood to others.

Director Gareth Crocker de-scribes Shadow as a “modern-day Robin Hood with a bit of adark side”.

“Because of the trauma he has

faced, he seeks vengeancewhich has made him bitter,making it difficult for him tomove on from his past,” saidC r o c ke r .

The local production wasfilmed in Johannesburg withlocal actors and local content.

The series explores the lo-cations of Hartbeespoort Dam,Dinokeng Big 5 Game Reserveand the Kevin Richardson LionS a n c t u a r y.

“While set and grounded in

who tackles all challengesthrown her way, head on.

Ashley helps keep Shadowcentred when he becomes en-gulfed in his “du t i e s ”.

The series has received greatreviews on social media fromsome local and internationalvi ewe r s .

●@Shad_Spikes on twittersaid, “S h a d ow on Netflix is re-ally good. I suggest y'all geth i p. ”

●@I_am_Nashdee said, “Imust honestly say I was a bitsceptical at first, but four min-utes into watching #Shadow onNetflix, I was in awe. You guysdid the things with that series.It ’s world class. Thank you@PallanceD @AmandaDupontand the rest of the cast and crew.Amazing work there.”

●@Amouranaa tweeted,“Wow I didn’t know it was 4 inthe morning, my eyes are gluedonto this series on Netflix calledS h a d ow . It’s dope.”

●@MatNetflixFan echoedthe above sentiments by saying:“I just discovered S h a d ow on@netflix I’m about half waythrough it I’ve been loving it sofar. It’s about a vigilante whocan’t feel pain, what’ not to like?I can’t wait for season two.”

Shadow was launched onMarch 8 and is available onNetflix globally.

A boulder-sized fish of a kindknown to sink yachts haswashed up on an Australianbeach.

The 1.8 metre specimen –believed to be a Mola Mola, orocean sunfish – came ashorenear the mouth of the MurrayRiver in South Australia at thewe e ke n d .

The enormous creature is dis-tinctive for both its size andpeculiar shape, featuring a flat-tened body and fins.

The fish can weigh up to 2.5tons (2,200 kilograms), accor-ding to National Geographic.

A photo circulating on socialmedia showed two people on abeach standing over the giantspecimen, which had died.

“The amount of news andmedia from all over the worldwanting to report it has been onanother level,” Linette Grzelak,who posted the image to Face-book, told reporters.

South Australian Museumfish collection manager RalphFoster said the fish was actuallyat the smaller end of the scalefor the species.

It earned its name for baskingin the sun near the ocean’ssurface, but is also known todive several hundred metres in -to the depths, he said.

“I’ve actually had a good lookat it. We get three species here,and this is actually the rarestone in South Australian waters,”Foster told the AustralianBroadcasting Corporation(ABC).

“It ’s probably an average-sized one.

“They can get nearly twice asbig as that,” he said.

Mola Mola have also beenknown to damage vessels, saidFo st e r .

“We get a lot of them hit byboats, and some of them are solarge they actually sink yachts,”he said.

“We know very little aboutthem. It’s only in the last fewyears that technology has al-lowed us to start learning aboutthem.

“They are amazing things,they really are.” – AFP

NONSINDISO QWABEnonsi n d iso q @ d isp atc h .co. z a

No one from the Buffalo Citym ayo r ’s office was on hand toreceive a petition calling for theclosure of East London Zoo onT h u r s d ay.

Hundreds of animal rights ac-tivists gathered outside the zooanticipating the handover of thepetition signed by more than4,000 people, but were disap-pointed when not one officialfrom mayor Xolo Pakati’s officearrived to accept the docu-ment.

Khoisan activists, includingANC MP Christian Martin, con-cluded their 11-day protestwhich saw them sleeping andliving in a cage at Retail Park inBeacon Bay, on Human RightsDay. They have been supportedby world-renowned conserva-tionist and documentary film-maker John Varty in highlight-ing conditions at the zoo.

The large group of protesterschanted and danced withcolourful placards and banners,

New series ‘S h a d ow ’ gives Dladla star statusActo r ’s internal battlesenthrall viewers

NICO GOUS

South African free diver AmberFillary‚ 46‚ is trying to break aGuiness World Record of divingunder ice in a lake in Finland,after struggling with an eatingdisorder‚ alcoholism and boutsof suicidal depression.

“I am under no illusion thatthis is going to be easy.

“In South Africa I managed toswim underwater for up to135m without taking a breath‚but in near-freezing tempera-

tures your muscles are slower‚so swimming is much morechallenging as you use moreox yg e n , ” Fillary‚ whose recordfor holding her breath underwater is six minutes‚ said onWe d n e s d ay.

Johanna Nordblat is the cur-rent record holder. She d ove50m under the ice in 2°C tem-perature water in March 2015wearing only a swimsuit‚ maskand cap.

Fillary finds that diving calmsher mind. – Ti m e s L I V E

BATTLING DEMONS: Pallance Dladla plays the role of Shadow in the first South African original Netflix drama and thriller series ‘S h a d ow ’, streaming

globally. Picture: SUPPLIED

A modern-dayRobin Hood with abit of a dark sideGareth Crocker

Africa, S h a d ow has an inter-national feel and deals withissues and challenges facingmost people around the world.S h a d ow has been created toappeal to a wide internationalaudience, beyond merely Africaand the diaspora.” said Crocker.It is only fitting for a heartfeltdrama-thriller to have a loveinterest for the protagonist.

eSwatini actress, model andtelevision presenter Amandadu Pont plays Ashley, Shadow’sk r y p t o n i t e.

Ashley is a fearless, confident,reliable and strong woman

you write more constructivestories around our black schoolpupils dying in the toilet pits.”

Denying that Ramulifho wasinvolved in the two latest non-profit companies to receive Lot-tery funding, she said: “We can-not speak on behalf of Mr Ra-mulifho and you will be betterserved if you refer any questionsrelating to him directly.”

Lotteries Commission com-munications head NdivhuhoMafela also avoided answeringspecific and detailed questionsabout the funding and the re-lationship between Ramulifhoand the people involved, saying:“It is bizarre for you to expectthe Lotteries Commission toanswer questions about peo-ple’s private personal relation-ships due to the fact that theyare mere beneficiaries.

“The Lotteries Commission

deals with registered organi-sations, a fact that you delib-erately ignore at all cost. Thethree organisations listed in thequery (IAM4GG, Dinosys andZibsifusion) are beneficiaries ofthe Lottery, and funding wasrecently granted to them.

“These projects are underway, and the normal NationalLotteries Commission processof monitoring progress reportsand monitoring and evaluationare also being implemented asper each organisation’s grantagreement.

“It is important to note thatthe Lotteries Commission doesnot fund individuals, but or-ganisations in the form ofNGOs, NPCs and other PublicBenefit Organisations and thatrelationship with a beneficiaryis governed by a grant agree-ment which is a civil contract.”©GroundUp

Dinosys signed a R10m con-tract with the Lottery inNovember 2018 for the “con -struction of sanitation facilities”at 15 schools. Both the LotteriesCommission and Liesl Moses,the “chairperson” and a directorof the company and an em-ployee of Ramulifho, refused tosay where the schools were,whether Dinosys had any ex-perience in construction pro-jects, or who would build thefacilities.

●Another non-profit, Zibsi-fusion, signed a grant agree-ment in November 2018, for the“implementation of sanitationin ten public schools”.

The “physical address” for thecompany is given as a post officebox in Malamulele in Limpopoin the grant agreement signedwith the Lotteries Commission.The “registered office” of the

company is that of Ramulifho’slaw offices.

The agreement was signed by“chairperson” Louisa Mangwa-gape, an employee of Ra-mulifho. She failed to respondto e-mailed questions about thegrant and Ramulifho’s relation-ship to the company.

CIPC records reveal thatMangwagape, Moses and Tsha-balala are all active directors ofthe company and list Ra-mulifho’s law offices as theirpostal address. Ramulifho be-came a director of the companyin May 2017 and resigned inMarch 2018, a few months be-fore the Lottery funding grantwas signed.

●A third non-profit, DenzhePrimary Care was dormantwhen it was hijacked and usedto receive about R28.5m be-tween June 2017 and January2018 to build and run a drug

rehabilitation centre near Pre-toria.

The project is the subject oflitigation and is facing allega-tions of shoddy, incompleteconstruction, and claims that asmuch as R20m in Lottery fund-ing is unaccounted for. The bro-ther of the Lotteries Commis-sion’s chief operating officerPhilemon Letwaba was sole di-rector of a construction com-pany at the time it signed aR15m Lottery-funded contractto build the rehab. He sub-sequently resigned his direc-t o r s h i p.

●I AM MADE 4 GOD’SGLORY (IAM4GG), a Limpopo-based project “to provide infra-structure in order to advance

sport, recreation and physicalactivity in communities acrossthe country”, signed a R11,37mgrant agreement with the Lot-teries Commission in April2018.

In its application, IAM4GGsaid the project was aimed atsports “t ra n s f o r m at i o n ” andathletes from “disadvantaged . .especially rural communities”.In its funding application,IAM4GG lists Ramulifho aschairperson and Moses as“Treasury ”, and gives thel aw ye r ’s offices as the compa-ny ’s address. According to thefunding application, the projectwould create 60 full-time and40 part-time jobs and benefitover 16,000 people.

Ramulifho has also con-firmed that he used more thanR535,000 of Denzhe’s Lotteryfunding for two Ocean Basketfranchises he purchased in Gau-

teng. He made this admission ina sworn affidavit confirming aconfused and contradictory af-fidavit by Denzhe’s founder,Takelane Tshikalange, who hadearlier laid a complaint withpolice that her organisation hadbeen “st o l e n ” and used to applyfor Lottery funding.

The affidavit contradicts thesworn affidavit she had earliermade to police. It came after aGroundUp investigation re-vealed the Ocean Basket pay-ments.

In her statement, Tshikalangeconfirmed that Ramulifho hadused the company’s money topay for the Ocean Basket fran-chises, but claimed he had “re -paid it”. The Lotteries Com-mission ignored a request fromGroundUp for comment onwhether this was an acceptableuse of grant funding.© 2019 GroundUp

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Lawyer at centre of Lotto award scandal Roleplayers respond

No joy for zoo protestors as official fails to pitchmuch to the amusement of pass-ing motorists who hooted insupport of the cause.

Martin was disappointed thatBCM had failed to pay attentionto their protest.

“I’m very disappointed inthem because we did everythingaccording to procedure as theyrequired, and still it still did notyield the intended results. Thiswas our way of honouring Hu-man Rights Day,” Martin said.

Earlier, the Khoisan activistsstepped out of the cage to cheersfrom supporters, and releasedtwo white doves as a symbol oftheir release.

A motorcade of protestersthen drove to the zoo, led by alarge group of bikers.

Martin said the experience ofliving in a cage was “emotion -ally, mentally, physically ex-hausting and traumatic”.

“I had a choice getting into thiscage and coming out, and if I hadto go one more day I would’vebroken down. Animals do nothave that choice. We feel thatthis is extreme abuse. Animals

like the bear have been there for34 years, without any stimula-tion. Some have even died inthere because of the non-stim-u l at i o n . ”

Martin said the group lived ona vegan diet in order to empa-thise with the food that animalsin enclosures are forced to eat.

“The abuse, ill-treatment andfreeing of animals is for all of us.God created animals and gave ushumans dominion to look afterthe animals, not to ill-treatthem,” Martin said.

He said the activists wantedthe zoo to be transformed into arecreational botanical garden ofr e m e m b ra n ce.

Varty, who added his voice tothe cause of freeing the enclosedanimals, said a zoo was a repre-sentation of how the humanspecies forced their dominanceover all other species.

“An outdated zoo like the EastLondon one is the past andshould become obsolete.”

Attempts to reach the mayor’sspokesperson, Luzuko Buku,were unsuccessful.

ADAMANT: Animal activists gathered outside the East London Zoo on

Thursday, calling for its closure. Pictures: SIBONGILE NGALWA

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About 200 activists occupied aCape Town golf course onT h u r s d ay ‚ calling for it to beused for affordable housing.

Reclaim the City spokesper-son Zacharia Mashele said theactivists got into RondeboschGolf Club “through the backg at e ” after the main gate wasclosed as they approached.

Mashele said City of CapeTown metro police officerswere monitoring the protest‚which was p e a ce f u l .

The activists were due to hearNick Budlender‚ one of the Ndi-funa Ukwazi researchers whoproduced a report on Tuesdaycalling on the City of CapeTown to redistribute publicly-owned land such as Ronde-bosch Golf Club.

The club‚ with about 500members‚ pays R1‚000 a year tolease the 45ha between the M5and the Black River‚ andBudlender said it was typical ofland across Cape Town that wasused in an “inefficient‚ exc l u s iveand unsustainable manner”.

TimesLIVE has asked the Cityof Cape Town and RondeboschGolf Club for comment. –Ti m e s L I V E

Activists wantgolf course givenover for housing

SA attempt at ice dive record

50mThe currentworld recordfor under-icediving, heldby JohannaNo rd b l at