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Thandi, a young rhino who was shot by poachers in the Eastern Cape, was saved by SA wildlife vet Dr William Fowlds and has made a full recovery. Photo by Marcél Baumhauer da Silva

|More than 600 rhinos have been slaughtered in South Africa in 2013, already near the total number killed in 2012. Speaking in London ahead of World Rhino Day on Sunday, leading South African wildlife vet Dr William Fowlds said finding and saving an injured poached rhino was like ‘a living hell’ and that changing attitudes to rhino horn lies with young people

ASIAN YOUTH ATTITUDES TO RHINO HORN CHANGING

by HARRIET MANNFOR the first time in the history of rhino poaching, the channels to influence and educate Asian countries against the use of rhino horn are starting to open.

In Vietnam and China, government initiatives, celebrities and young people are beginning to back campaigns and educational programmes to stop the illegal poaching trade, according to leading South African wildlife vet Dr William Fowlds.

“This is an unprecedented chapter in our efforts to reach the market, we have to take advantage of what is going on there,” he said.

Ahead of World Rhino Day, Dr Fowlds was talking at ‘The Changing Face of the Rhino’ lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, London, which brought himself, celebrity adventurer Bear Grylls and CEO of Born Free Will Travers together to discuss rhino conservation.

Rhino horn is popular in south east Asian cultures as it is deemed to have medicinal qualities that cure a plethora of ailments; from the common hangover to cancer.

It has been a long-running perception that conservationists cannot influence this Asian tradition, yet Fowlds noticed a marked change in attitudes during a recent trip to a Vietnamese university.

Far from the university staff censoring his lecture, they encouraged him to be as shocking as possible and the students surprised him by being open and

engaged. Fowlds believes that changing the world’s attitudes of rhino horn lies with young people.

“The youth in Vietnam is an accessible market to get the message across,” he said.

In the last five weeks, South Africa has lost more than 100 rhinos to poachers.

In the last four weeks, at least three rhinos have been poached each night, Fowlds said. Numbers have dropped by 95% in the last century, from 500,000 rhinos to

29,000 across Africa and Asia, Save The Rhino reveals. Rhino horn, which takes 48 hours to get from the body to Asia, is made of keratin. Despite being made from the same material as human fingernails, it is twice as valuable as gold pound-for-pound.

“It is useless. It is valued at that because of greed,” said Grylls.

“I believe we are in the middle of an international wildlife crisis. And the crisis revolves around… the humble rhinoceros horn,” he

added. The legalisation initiative is a proposed solution to the steep increase in the number of poached rhinos in South Africa.

In 2007, 13 rhinos were poached. In 2013, an estimated 900 rhinos will die for their horns.

Supporters of legalisation believe that control will no longer lie with criminals and an increase in supply – achieved by dehorning rhinos in a way that keeps them alive – will see a drop in price and thus

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incentive for poachers.However, Travers claims that

those supporting legalisation are naïve and insane.

In 2009, the convention of international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora approved China and Japan as official ivory trading partners, predicting a drop in the demand for illegal ivory and elephant poaching.

“Far from statisfying demand,” said Travers, “demand was stimulated and elephant poaching has gone through the roof.”

The volume of illegally traded ivory has hit a 25 year high, with 1 kilo of illegal ivory priced 1,000% higher than in 2009.

“The definition of insanity, they say, is doing something over and over and expecting a different result,” Travers said.

The South African government claims that legalisation will allow them to control the rhino horn market and generate resources to

fight poaching.They want to set up a central

selling organisation to manipulate rhino horn prices through price fixing, according to Travers.

When demand is high, prices will be high, when demand is low, prices will be low.

Yet when prices are low it is likely that demand will be stimulated and when prices are high poachers will undercut the legal channel.

“Poor people will continue to be exploited by criminal networks willing to risk someone else’s life to make a killing… and legalising rhino horn will legitimise claims made by some that it works.”

Travers feels there is a shocking degree of cynical exploitation running through this issue.

“I imagine a Chinese or Vietnamese family a few years from now. Their elderly mother is dying from cancer, the children thinking that rhino horn is the cure, scrape together the last resources and buy some. Their

mother dies. They are in poverty. And their tragic circumstances are as a direct result of the blatant exploitation of their …ignorance and superstition.”

Fowlds believes there are other options.

He said: “I don’t believe we have even started to address the demand issue. We have always thought that by protecting our animals we would win this battle but we are being shown that we can’t. It’s a monumental mountain to climb. What I have learnt… is that silver bullet we have been looking for, that one solution to rhino poaching, unfortunately just does not exist.”

Fowlds splits rhino conservation into five subcategories; protection on the ground, information and intelligence, local law, global cooperation – as crime syndicates have their own marketing campaigns – and market reduction.

Without protection on the ground, 25,000 rhinos would die a year. However, Fowlds notes that

the biggest threat to conservation in South Africa is desensitisation.

“Those animals get chalked up on a graph as a statistic and that is the last you hear of it… statistics are threatening to desensitise us South Africans. There is so much killing that when we look at a graph like this we forget what the impact and implications are.”

The rhino has already come back from the brink of extinction in 1960, after a conservation effort in South Africa turned their fate around.

Today, the number of rhinos being poached is increasing at an alarming rate. Without the rhino, Africa will lose its magic and the motivation to protect its ecosystems, Fowlds said.

“This crisis is bleeding conservation dry. And the risk that we face as humanity on the planet, losing something so special, is simply unbearable.”Read more at williamfowldsdaytoday.blogspot.co.uk

Saving the rhino starts with Asia’s youth - SA top vet

National Assembly approves bill giving global South Africans the national vote| But DA insists exclusion of provincial vote from new bill is an electoral ruseby HARRIET MANN

THE NATIONAL Assembly has approved the Electoral Amendment Bill to legally allow global South Africans to vote in national elections.

The approval came despite the DA calling the bill “unconstitutional” as it excludes South Africans living abroad from voting in provincial elections.

The bill is an extension of a constitutional court decision that gave global South Africans the vote in the 2009 elections.

It was published for public comment on Friday and a briefing will be called to explain the full implications of the amendment before the bill is introduced in parliament, News24 said.

The final stage of the legislative process is the bill being signed into law by the president – unless the president sends it back to parliament for redrafting.

The DA, who is taking the matter to the Western Cape High Court, would have dropped the legal action had the provincial vote been adopted into the amendment, bdlive said.

Shadow minister of home affairs DA Manny de Freitas said, “Although the bill now provides for a special vote for citizens who will be absent from their voting district on the day of elections, it still restricts citizens from casting their vote from outside their province.

“The DA will now continue to fight in the courts to ensure that South Africa’s elections are free,

fair and allow all citizens full access to voting.”

Provincial CriticismIn a debate on whether to

include the provincial vote in the amendment, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) argued that the only connection global South Africans have to the country is their nationality.

Whether within South Africa or abroad, allowing people to vote in provincial elections outside of their registered province could “risk the integrity of the polls” it said.

The ANC claimed it would be harder to avoid fraud in the voting process as it would be difficult to asses how many provincial ballots would be needed.

In the DA’s initial proposals earlier this month, chairperson of the DA federal council James Selfe said that the logistics of allowing global South Africans to vote in provincial elections would not be hard.

“Although we agree that the integrity of the voters’ roll is

fundamental to credible elections, so is providing every citizen with the full right to vote,” he said.

Both the IEC and ANC expressed their concerns about getting new voters to partake in these elections when outside their registered province but in South Africa.

This amendment would put the whole system at the “mercy” of the transport system and votes would take longer to count “at a time when there would be a high degree of anxiety among South Africans,” the IEC argued.

To the pollsIn reaction to DA calls for more

polling stations, Selfe said, “At present, overseas voters can only vote at embassies or consulates which might be a great distance from where they are resident and will prevent them from voting.”

The IEC said this was hard to organise outside of South African embassies, but stated that “sufficient preparations” had been made to allow global South Africans to vote.

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South African man killed in Nairobi mall terrorist attack| At least 59 civilians including a South African and a Briton have been killed and many others wounded after terrorists stormed The Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capitalby STAFF REPORTER

THE SOUTH African government has condemned the terrorist attack in Nairobi in which a number of civilians including a South African man from Cape Town were killed.

At least 59 people have been killed and 175 others wounded after terrorists stormed an upmarket shopping mall in the Kenyan capital.

President Jacob Zuma said he was shocked by Saturday’s attack against innocent civilians and expressed his condolences to the family of the South African national, as well as to the government and people of Kenya and especially the families of the many deceased; he wished the wounded survivors a speedy recovery.

“South Africa continues to support Kenya’s and the international community’s efforts aimed at peacekeeping, stability, democracy and nation-building in Somalia.

“Terrorism in any form and from whichever quarter, cannot be condoned and South Africa stands firmly with the international community in condemning all terrorism, and this act in particular. We wish the Kenyan government every success in rapidly resolving this issue with as little further loss of life as possible,” said President

Zuma. The South African High Commission in Nairobi is closely monitoring the situation in close liaison with the Kenyan authorities.

Consular assistance is being provided to the next of kin of the deceased South African.

Militants from Somalia have claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it is retaliation for Kenya’s military intervention in Somalia. An Al-Shabaab spokesman said in an audio message, “Either leave our country or live with constant attacks.”

Meanwhile, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary in charge of Internal Security, Joseph Ole Lenku, told

journalists in Nairobi that the security operation to free hostages still trapped inside the Westgate mall will continue.

“Regrettably, the human loss in the attack also went up overnight. The number of our dead has risen to 59. The number of injured has also risen to 175. Many of the injured were taken to local hospitals, treated and discharged” he said on Sunday.

News channels the world over followed the action on Monday . At time of going to press, military and police actions were ongoing, with explosions, smoke plumes and gunfire terrorising residents of the Kenyan capital.

South African government and mining bosses edge closer to dialogueby JOHN BATTERSBY

MINING investors are moving closer towards a strategic dialogue with government about the future of the mining industry in South Africa following investor engagements headed by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu, in London this week.

Despite tensions over proposed legislation aimed at

encouraging mining companies to sell part of their raw material to manufacturers for value-added “beneficiation”, there was a willingness to listen to government’s case about the way past inequalities still fuelled instability in the industry.

The delegation leaders made it clear that the draft legislation was not written in stone and government was prepared to listen to proposals for amendments to sections which give the Mineral Resources Minister discretionary

power to force companies to sell raw materials at a price determined by the state.

Since the Marikana tragedy in August last year when 34 miners were killed after Lonmin’s platinum mine negotiated separate pay increases for rock-drill operators, who are literally at the cliff-face of the mining industry, there has been little or no new foreign investment in the mining sector and its performance has dropped well below levels in other mining countries.


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South African women launch Sisterhood Imbokodo programme in London| Women came from London and surrounding areas to this modest but by no means meagre inauguration of the women’s empowerment initiative that #IAKS aim to ‘inspire and motivate women to do better and better’

by NOMA PELE

#IAKS Foundation launched their Sisterhood Imbokodo programme (which means rock in Zulu) at the cosy and stylish Mama Jumbe’s restaurant in Eastham, London on 31 August 2013 to end South African Women’s Month on a high note.

Women came from London and surrounding areas to this modest but by no means meagre inauguration of the women’s empowerment initiative that #IAKS aim to ‘inspire and motivate women to do better and better’ hosted by Essex socialite Pily Mirazi.

Guests were treated to inspirational talks from Mary-Anne Anderson (Chairperson of SA Chamber of Commerce), Dr Karyn Moshal (Founder of Chiva Africa) and Patience Ndebele-Omije (CEO, Inspire Women & Children Foundation International).

The three speakers shared their journey thus far, mainly in their professional life, that led them to their current positions. Mary-Anne touched on the topic of self-development and motivated women not to let their present circumstances limit their capabilities, dreams and goals for the future but to use them as stepping stones to get to their destination. She has significant achievements professionally as well as being the first elected female chairperson of the South African Chamber of Commerce in UK, a truly inspirational lady.

Karyn focused on the aspect of her line of work outside being a paediatrician, which is aid work helping to educate those infected and affected with AIDS about ARV treatment and living with AIDS. She

finished on a stirring note, letting women know that they don’t need a lot of resources to make a difference, as long as you have the passion and the right kind of support and to not be afraid of the challenges.

Patience rounded off the speeches by sharing her story of how an aunt of hers instilled a great sense of caring for the wellbeing of those around her that aren’t immediate family, but her community that was treated as though they were. This simple act of respecting women and children and placing value of them has been the core of her values that have led her to carry on her aunt’s legacy in Zimbabwe and now in the UK.

Between the encouraging speeches the ladies were treated to emotive poetry by David Lee Morgan and David Gacheru as well as music performed by the beautiful Nobuhle Mumbe – all three were a hit with the crowd. The wine went down freely as the women nibbled away at some light refreshments. Full advantage was taken of the photo opportunity with the African heritage inspired décor of the restaurant providing a gorgeous backdrop, turning one of the intervals into a photo-shoot.

There was much chatter along the way, including a discussion about what sisterhood meant to each of the individuals. Many spoke of similar topics, with responsibility and accountability proving popular. A number of the attendees met for the first time, including two who grew up only streets apart in Pretoria! One of the ladies commented “It’s good to have an occasion where I get to meet women I don’t necessarily cross

paths with on regular basis.”Many echoed this statement and

said that the event was fruitful for them, praising #IAKS for putting on the afternoon with such class. The ambitious duo known socially as Iman Afrikan and KasiSoul said they were very pleased with the turnout, and that “everyone made an effort not only to be there but came ready to engage and share ideas and they were dressed so nicely. We are grateful to everyone for the input and we hope this continues to be a platform where women can share and build each other up”.

The next event on 5 October (venue tbc) will include a gig to help raise much needed funds for Childline in KwaZulu-Natal. The charity which helps around 28,000 children may have to close down as they only have enough funds to get through the month of September however; with the help of Chiva there is still some hope to keep them going until a more permanent solution can be found.

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The women’s generosity touched #IAKS as £100 was raised through a raffle draw. All the proceeds went to Lihlohonolo, a nine-year-old boy from Gauteng, who the Foundation has resolved to support as his father is suffering from an Aids related illness, his mother died from the disease and the two have no family to support them.For more information about the next event or #IAKS Foundation e-mail [email protected] for find them on Facebook HashtagIAKS and twitter @hashtagIAKS.

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Landmark” vertical (various different vintages) tasting of the range of wines from Kanonkop held at the Travellers Club on Pall Mall.

It was indeed the first time that Kanonkop had done something of this scale in London and its understandable why. The wines on show were something to behold indeed. Every vintage of Pinotage from 2002 to 2011. The very sought after Black Label Pinotage 2006 and 2011. Cabernet Sauvignon ’91, ’94, ’03, ’07 and 10. The flagship Bordeaux Blend Paul Sauer from ’91, ’95, ’97, ’98, ’03, ’05 and ’09.

As Johan Krige, the owner said: “We wanted to show every vintage of Pinotage that we have. Not hide behind the good vintages but show the more difficult ones as well”. ‘Difficult’, that is, in the sense of winemaking, as Abrie Beeslaar, Head Winemaker, wonderfully described during our tasting: every vintage is different; [the product of a commingling of] the weather, the rain, the wind and sunshine at Kanonkop…you can taste that in the glass. Even if you stick with the exact same wine making techniques you won’t be able to control what Mother Nature throws at you.

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Kanonkop VerticalAS an avid fan of old South African wines I was exceptionally excited to get an invite to “a

Top 10 facts you didn’t know about SA| How well do you really know South Africa? You may know that the only street in the world to house two Nobel Peace prize-winners is in Soweto and that we have three capital cities. However, here’s a list of some facts about South Africa that you might not know.

by GRANT MOWATT

SOUTH Africa is the first, and to date only country to build nuclear weapons and then voluntarily dismantle its entire nuclear weapons programme.

Today, nearly three decades after the Cold War ended, there are still 23,000 nuclear warheads in the world.

They are held by just nine countries: the US, Russia, Britain, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea. Since the end of the Cold War, South Africa has unilaterally dismantled its nuclear weapons and is the only country to do so.

South Africa has the world’s second most transparent budget (Deloitte, 2012)South Africa ranks second out of 100 countries for the transparency and accountability of its budget processes, according to the latest Open Budget Index Survey by the Washington-based International Budget Partnership.

South Africa scored 90 points out of a possible 100 points in the Open Budget Index report of 2012, standing out as one of only six countries worldwide that releases extensive budget information to the legislature and the public in general.

SA is ranked second out of 183 countries for good practice in protecting both borrowers and lenders when obtaining credit for business (World Bank Doing Business Report 2013)With a range of laws and legal to protect the borrower and the lender, South Africa has consistently performed well against the other 185 countries that took part in the survey.

The University of South Africa is a pioneer of tertiary distance education and is the largest correspondence university in the world (Unisa)Founded in 1873 as the University of the Cape of Good Hope, Unisa became the first public university in the world to teach exclusively

by means of distance education in 1946. Today, the university has approximately 300,000 students.

Since the 1940s, South African golfers have won more golf majors than any other nation, apart from the United States (South African Golf Association).With golfers like Gary Player, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen and Charl Schwartzel, it’s little wonder why South Africa has been so successful in the world of golfing. Gary Player alone has won nine majors and 24 PGA Tour wins.

South Africa has 45 million active cell phones (population 49 million) – ranking in the top 5 globally in terms of mobile phone coverage. (Deloitte, 2012)It should come as no surprise that the country that invented touchtone dialling offers world-class telecommunications. Today, more South Africans use cell phones than radio, television and personal computers.

Table Mountain alone has over 1,500 species of plants, more than the entire United Kingdom. (Lark Tours)We all know that the Cape Floral Region represents less than 0.5% of the area of Africa, but is home to nearly 20% of the continent’s flora but the tiny area of Table Mountain has more plants than 4 countries.

SA has the world’s third highest level of biodiversityWith two oceans, the country’s topography and prevailing winds, South Africa creates an environment has everything from; lush forests to savannah and desert. Only Brazil and Argentina beat us on this on.

South Africa has the second oldest film industry in the world (Set Build)Only the USA created a film industry before South Africa. In 1898 The Empire Palace of Varieties in Commissioner Street, Johannesburg, first screened films of views of Johannesburg taken from the front of a tram and of the President of the Transvaal Republic, Paul Kruger, leaving his house for the Raadzaal. The favourable exchange rate, good weather conditions, varied locations and world-class production facilities have made South Africa a preferred destination for international film, television and commercial producers.

South Africa has the most official languages in the world (Guiness World Records)South Africa has 11 official languages: English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi, Xitsonga, siSwati, isiNdebele and Tshivenda. Although India has 18 languages recognised by its constitution and can be considered as official, each language is recognised as the official language of a certain area e.g Kashmiri in Kashmir.

forefront of quality and (most importantly) consistency in South Africa since it started producing wine since the early part of the 20th century.

The first recorded commercial plantings of Pinotage were done in the early 1940s at Kanonkop, according to Beeslaar. And this combination of history and new winemaking techniques shines through in the wines. We were fortunate enough to have the Pinotage legend that is Beyers Truter in our midsts as well. Listening to him talk about how a Pinotage develops with age was inspiring.

Truter joined the estate in 1980s and together with brothers’ Johann and Paul Krige continued the traditions developed on this highly prized estate. More recently Beeslaar, who joined the team in 2002, has taken over from Beyers and continues the good work passed down from generation to generation.

Overall the night was extremely well received and there was definitely instilled in everyone present that Kanonkop wines have huge potential when aged and I for one will be putting down my Paul Sauer wines for the next 10-15 years.

South African singer Jeanette Akua has the ‘Xhosa Factor’| South African-born X Factor UK contestant Jeanette Akua wowed the judges with more than just her singing voice, making it through to the bootcamp stage of the talent competition with her rendition of ‘Skinny Love’by HARRIET MANN

SOUTH African singer Jeanette Akua has secured her place in The X Factor bootcamp with her rendition of Bon Iver’s ‘Skinny Love’.

The 21-year-old beauty consultant wowed judges Nicole Scherzinger, Sharon Osbourne, Gary Barlow and Louis Walsh with more than just her voice on last Sunday’s episode.

Although Akua has lived in Romford, Essex for the last two years, she grew up all over South Africa and spoke fluent Xhosa on this week’s show.

“I am from the Xhosa tribe… I speak Xhosa, that’s my mother tongue,” said Akua.

After her onstage audition, which resulted in four yeses, Walsh said “ You have got star quality!”

“You are a vision,” said Osbourne, “See you at bootcamp.”

Akua had previously impressed the four judges in the closed room audition stage with her rendition of Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’.

Barlow said, “ Do I feel like I am in the room with a star? Absolutely!”

Akua said afterwards, “Getting four yeses in my room audition just proved to me that this dream of mine isn’t so crazy after all,”

The 100 contestants in bootcamp will be whittled down by approximately half for the Judges’ Houses stage.

If she makes it through to the Judges’ Houses, Akua will be in Scherzinger ’s group, the judge she would most like to “grind” with, she told the TalkTalk Backstage Party.

Between nine and 16 acts are expected to make it through to the live finals. Most bookies have pegged Akua at 33/1 to win, though some are at 16/1.

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Love in the wings| Sometimes love is not too careful about being practical

YOU remember that scene from Love Actually. The one where people mill around Arrivals and wait expectantly for a loved one? It’s goodbyes and hellos – a mauling of emotional excess, but beautiful none the less. My eldest alighted from Arrivals yesterday, pleased to be with her family, but sadly, having left her heart on another continent.

Sometimes love is not too careful about being practical. You are not supposed to fall in love with someone who lives thousands of miles away. Duties, financial implications, family ties all play a part in this theatre of Romeo and Juliet and I often wonder how many other lovers are kept apart by borders?

I remember my grandfather. The architect who left Amsterdam in search of work in 1902. Jumped aboard a ship headed for Cape Town, and a promise of an

engagement to a young women, to send for her. Back then, one never just married or lived together, it was ‘proper’ to wait until the fiancé had established his worth and could support a wife. I have this image of her waving goodbye on the quay, watching his ship pull out of the harbour to…what? The man had one wooden chest filled with his only belongings, a good suit and a pocket watch. Cape Town had no work, a train to the Transvaal. The aftermath of the war required architects and builders in the Free State and off he went. Years passed, and in that time, communication was sporadic; letters written in long hand coming off the ships. But the young lady waited while my grandfather forged a new business, often cycling over thirty miles to the next town, over fences, farmlands and the odd river to find compensation for work done. One trip back to Holland a year, to have a cup of tea, maybe hold hands and then off to the land of what the young lady thought was palm trees and beaches.

My grandmother, poor thing, found neither palm trees or much water in the heart of the Free State. When at last she was summonsed, she crossed the oceans to meet I think more of a stranger but one she was willing to wait for. Never saw her mother again. Didn’t much like the plains and dust of Kroonstad and spoke only Dutch.

In all those years, her love never faded.

Thank goodness for Skype, for texts, for visual contact. Flights are overnight. Time apart is time to assess the future, finish degrees and establish careers. The waiting will not be as long.

The thing is. Technology today allows immediate access to the one chosen, but nothing will replace the actual touch. Seeing them walk through the door, having news to share, even an argument is so much better when both lovers are in the room. Not quite the same when love is done via satellite.

Maybe the story is not such a happy one, but so romantic. Love in the wings.

VIOLENCE across the country escalated, with many fearing civil war as the State of Emergency declared in 1986 stretched on and intensified. Under pressure from an international lobby, multinational banks stopped investing in South Africa, resulting in economic stagnation. Numerous banks and Thatcher asked Botha to release Mandela – then at the height of his international fame – to defuse the volatile situation. Although considering Mandela a dangerous “arch-Marxist”, in February 1985 Botha offered him a release from prison on condition that he ‘”unconditionally rejected violence as a political weapon”. Mandela spurned the offer, releasing a statement through his daughter Zinzi stating “What freedom am I being offered while the organisation of the people [ANC] remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.”

Botha’s gambit| As the 1986 State of Emergency dragged on, Botha makes an isolated and incarcerated Mandela an offer he can refuse



Book review: Jane Raphaely Unedited| Jane Raphaely brought world-class writing and glossy advertisements to a rather restricted and parochial South African audience and influenced younger editors and entrepreneurs like Khanyi Dhlomo

by SUSAN MILLER

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JANE Raphaely brought glamour to the lives of many South African women when she firstly launched and edited Fair Lady and then entered unknown waters by bringing the far more risqué Cosmopolitan brand to South Africa.

Born in 1937 in ‘small, ugly’ Stockport, UK, her arrival in South Africa was publishing’s gain as the then Jane Mullins followed South African Michael Raphaely back to Cape Town and married him.

The book’s an honest look at many of her struggles – from her at times difficult childhood in Stockport to her years at the London School of Economics to ‘falling into appearing on a TV show in America’ to her start in the copywriting industry in Cape Town.

A Briton who ‘reclaimed’ her Jewishness from her beloved mother’s side, she saw South Africa’s racially-based apartheid laws from a fresh, outside perspective and was horrified by what many white South Africans at that stage possibly considered ‘normal practices’.

‘It was the constant guilt that was agonising. The yawning gap between our lives and those who deserved a better place,’ she says.

Ironically it was two articles in English that she wrote for Afrikaans women’s magazine Sarie, which were translated, that brought Jane to the attention of the then assistant editor of Sarie, Alba Bouwer. The irreverent articles earmarked her for future attention when Nasionale Pers, that bastion of Afrikanerdom and a National Party supporting behemoth, decided it could no longer ignore the English-speaking, white women’s market.

We all know of JR’s legendary

prowess in editing and publishing and the success of Fair Lady – first edition March 1965, and then the move to Cosmopolitan in 1984 but it must have been extraordinarily scary and she makes it comes to life when she explains the suddenness of her move from the rather staid Fair Lady to the raunchier Cosmo. She left her staff standing in rows ‘speechless’ as she left.

And it’s endearing how she amalgamates her staff over the years – at all times believing in people’s attributes and matching skills to portfolios.

This is a look at South Africa through its darker years from a position of relative privilege when many in those positions simply ‘didn’t see the wrongs of South Africa’.

Barriers were broken – first in Fair Lady where South Africa’s English-speaking white women and others where given a voice and a forum to discuss their issues in a very patriarchal society.

Cosmo of course pushed the barriers in other ways, bringing the sexual liberation of women to the fore and igniting huge a amount of debate while doing so.

Jane Raphaely’s liberalism is obvious in the book and certainly, many of her actions challenged the archaic press restrictions of the day and broadened the range of topics South Africans were exposed to. A gutsy editor, publisher and businesswoman, she was determined to bring the world’s fashion, sexual politics and cutting-edge photography to isolated South Africa.

Cosmo was ‘colour-blind’ and both magazines were censored and had editions banned by the Government’s Publications Control Board.

I loved her attitude to facing down troublesome adversaries – ‘simply smile and wave’ – and the fact that initially not understanding a word of Afrikaans helped her cope with any slings and arrows at Nasionale Pers. Her other enjoyable advice: ’Say yes and don’t do it.’

What is very surprising is the virtually free reign she seems to have been handed by the Board at Nasionale – to what she describes as an English-speaking Jewish uitlander with not all that much media experience – who was pregnant to boot.

It was fascinating to read how working soon after giving birth was virtually unknown in South Africa then and so she was not only editing cutting-edge material but living her life in a way that challenged the country’s norms.

Moving into the times of changes under FW de Klerk and the re-emergence of Nelson Mandela there are some gems in the book. Who knew for instance that imprisoned cadres on Robben Island fought to

get copies of Cosmo – and that JR arranged for copies to be sent every month after finding out.

She brought glamour, world-class writing and glossy advertisements to a rather restricted and parochial South African audience and must have influenced younger, black editors and entrepreneurs like Khanyi Dhlomo – who started her career at Nasionale Pers’ True Love magazine.

Jane is open about her worries and guilt as a working mother – issues which are still very real for many women – and acknowledges the ‘angels’ who helped to raise her growing family and the ‘South Africanness’ of their positions.

I am not sure if her husband Michael asked to be excluded from this book or not – the picture is of a happy marriage and he seems to be quietly building the family business he came back to South Africa for while she builds her publishing and editing role.

He comes into the publishing picture as JR leaves Nasionale for Cosmo and then Republican Press, forming Associated Magazines with advertising mastermind Volker Kühnel .

Aside from an early remark that she had to work and write under the name Jane Raphaely as he ‘didn’t want to ever be referred to as Mr Mullins’ Michael Raphaely seems refreshingly happy with her successes and fame.

Perhaps that is one of the true lessons of the book.

Jane Raphaely is obviously a doer and a chance taker and other triumphs like persuading Oprah Winfrey to bring her magazine O, The Oprah Magazine to South Africa are detailed. Refreshingly, so are some failures.

This is an insight into a crucial period in South Africa’s history, into a social milieu of Cape-based movers and shakers and into the ever-changing publishing world.

It’s a must for those who believe that committing yourself to print is ‘one sympathetic mind calling out to another’.


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IT is very important for South Africans in the UK to keep in mind that they need to apply for an extension of their visa, or indefinite leave to remain before the expiry of their current visa. If a person overstay on their current visa, for more than 28 days, they would need to leave the UK and make a new application from their home country. The implication of this would be that a person would also lose the qualifying period spent on the visa that would have counted towards example indefinite leave to remain. BIC has had unfortunate cases where persons contacted us, after overstaying on their Ancestral Visa, and where they should have been able to apply for indefinite leave to remain, they now have to re-apply for the Ancestral visa and re-start the qualifying period towards indefinite leave to remain.

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Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, did however say that tapering will begin “possibly later this year” as the Fed will first wait for economic data improvements. The Rand gave up most of the gains it made against the Dollar, on Friday, as the understanding is that the tapering is merely delayed. According to RMB’s John Cairns “The Rand pullback reflects the global pattern: the market thinking is that the reaction to the Fed decision was overdone. After all, tapering has

Fed cuts quantitative easingjust been postponed.” This week’s markets will pay close attention to the Eurozone and a series of Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) reports to be released on Monday. After the losses the Rand suffered on Friday, it was boosted early today by the Chinese Manufacturing Index showing the highest levels in six months.

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Legendary magazine TNT put into administration| The publisher of the backpackers’ bible, once compulsory reading for Saffas in London, has had long-running financial troublesby STAFF REPORTER

TNT Multimedia, publisher of TNT Magazine and associated websites, was formally put into administration earlier this month.

This is not the first time the popular travellers’ magazine has been handed to administrators. The same company, Moorfields Corporate Recovery LLP, were appointed as administrators of TNT Publishing Limited back in

September 2011. TNT Multimedia was the new company that then took over responsibility for the business, which has itself now been put into administration.

It has been a dramatic fall in fortunes for the legendary free title. At the turn of the century, TNT Magazine was the undisputed bible for South Africans, Australians and New Zealanders in London who worked to fund their travels. The first port of call for any newly

arrived backpacker when it came to finding accommodation, work and travel deals, was TNT Magazine.

Circulation of the often 300+ page tome was regularly more than 60,000 a week. Commonly regarded then as the backpackers’ phonebook, its client list of mostly travel and recruitment advertisers was so impressive that in late 2000 the magazine, along with its related websites and titles, was purchased by the Guardian Media

Group for a sum reportedly in excess of £30million. However, the years immediately following that acquisition saw the emergence of the internet as the dominant media format for information in the areas that TNT’s advertising model relied on most: recruitment, travel and classifieds. Most notably this came in the form of abundant jobs boards and the likes of Gumtree.com. Competition also emerged from Blue Sky Publications (publisher

of this website). Another challenge that faced the market was the changing demographic of Aussies, Kiwis and South Africans in the UK. Increasingly, Antipodeans were eschewing the bar-working backpacker stereotype for well-paid professional employment. TNT and administrators Moorfields Corporate Recovery were both contacted for comment but were unable to make a statement at the time of publication.


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JOHN Stokes is a familiar sight around London – his knowledge of the city’s history is immense. The energetic 64-year-old works in the UK during the summer months, then spends the winter months back in South Africa, usually from November till the end of February.

When did you arrive in the UK? I arrived in the UK in 1986.

What, briefly, have been the steps in your career up to this point?I started working as a tour guide in 1998 and in 2012 decided to join a company offering tours of London at night and seeing London at night is magical.

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What would you say is the biggest change in London streets in the last ten years?The biggest change in London Streets, is the vast number of bicycles which have appeared due mainly to the “Boris bikes” which were introduced by the current Mayor Boris Johnson, promoting bicycle transport in the Capital. There are now many bicycle docking stations where tourists and locals alike, can rent bicycles for a very affordable amount.

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you’re from? How many get it wrong?The majority of British tourists on my bus tend to correctly guess where I am from. Tourists from Non English speaking countries assume that I am a local. However, it has been said on many occasions, that South African English is much easier to understand and many tourists have come forward at the end of a tour and told me that they understood my commentary.

Spending part of the year in South Africa, the rapid changes in life here must strike you with especial clarity. What one thing would you bring from SA to London if you could? I would love to bring a Zulu Dance team to London. I used to love watching Zulu dancing and in my youth, when I worked as a sales representative in South Africa for a Company producing ingredients for traditional Zulu beer, I was invited to judge teams of Zulu dancers.

Do you have a trick for keeping visitors cheerful and interested in bad weather?Bad weather tends to be a problem in my industry and when it rains, guests tend to go down to the lower deck and I try to keep them amused by asking them to sing a song in their native language for the other tourists on the bus.

What one thing would you most like to bring from the UK to SA? One thing that I would most like to bring from the UK to SA are the British trains which are very modern, very frequent and very fast.

What has been your most rewarding day personally, and your most rewarding day professionally (two separate occasions, if possible), in this industry?My most rewarding day personally in this industry, was receiving a call from the Directors of Harrods, the most famous departmental store in London, to work on their own sightseeing bus whilst their regular tour guide was away on vacation. My most rewarding day professionally, was hosting a high level Delegation from the Thai Government on my tour bus and being invited to visit them in Thailand whenever I wished.


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Canapes, drinks, music and magic at the Middle Temple| London’s Middle Temple will provide the perfect setting for an evening of wine, food and entertainment in aid of Zimbabwe a National Emergency.

ZIMBABWE a National Emergency (ZANE), in partnership with Homes In Zimbabwe, will be hosting a reception at the Middle Temple on 3 October. This historical London venue will provide the perfect setting for an evening of wine, food and entertainment. Special guest speaker is the Right Honourable Andrew Mitchell MP.

Guests have the opportunity to tour the historical Temple Church at the start of the evening with a recital by South African flutist Marlene Verwey before the main reception. The evening will be a relaxed occasion with delicious food and wine and close-up magic from Johnny Oxford – all in the rather splendid surroundings of the Elizabethan hall of the Middle Temple.

ZANE is a UK registered charity working to help the most destitute, vulnerable and impoverished people in Zimbabwe. Homes In Zimbabwe merged with ZANE earlier this year and the combined charity is the largest supplier of financial aid to pensioners in Zimbabwe. ZANE

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Over 2,400 pensioners rely on ZANE simply to survive with the figure growing on a daily basis.

Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP has been the Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield since 2001. He was previously the Member of Parliament for Gedling from 1987 to 1997 during which time he held office as a Government Whip and was Minister for Social Security.

He also served as a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party 1992-93.

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Middle Temple Hall is one of the four ancient Inns of Court and one of the finest examples of an

Elizabethan hall in the country. Built between 1562 and 1573 it features a double hammer beam roof carved from the oak of Windsor Forest and an elaborately carved screen made in 1574. The traditional oak panelled walls are festooned with Coats of Arms and the impressive windows are made from heraldic glass memorials to notable Middle Templars. The first performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is recorded as having taken place here in 1602.

The Temple Church is one of the most historic and beautiful churches in London. The Church was built by the Knights Templar, the order of crusading monks founded to protect pilgrims on their way to and from Jerusalem in the 12th century.

The evening’s programme is as follows:

6.30pm: Recital in the Temple Church by Marlene Verwey followed by a tour of the Inner Temple Church and address by The Revd Robin Griffith-Jones, Master of the Temple.7.15pm: Reception in the Middle Temple Hall7.50pm: Address by Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP9.30pm: Carriages, canapes, bowl food and wine included.Venue: The Middle Temple Hall, Middle Temple Lane, London EC4Y 9AT

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Uncovering Ethiopia| Ethiopia is ancient, but it has quite a bit to teach the rest of Africa about fostering and refining the best in one’s own culture. For food, for architecture, and for a deep, rich and accessible history, touch down in Addis Abeba when next you fly South

by BRETT PETZER

ETHIOPIA - the proud, deeply religious, fast-changing former realm of Haile Selassie is something like the Tibet of Africa (if Tibet had managed to oust China by now, instead of, as Addis Abeba does, whole-heartedly welcoming the Middle Kingdom’s investors and merchants). Ethiopia is also, like Tibet, a place that many Western tourists are disappointed to see in the flesh, because it’s a thriving and full-bloodedly commercial country, rather than a poor, austere charity appeal film where proud but famished people scratch at subsistence crops in the shadow of rock-hewn churches. The point is that Ethiopia is still poor, but that that poverty is being fought back with all the deliberation that saw the Emperor’s cavalry and muskets see off the Italians at Adwa in 1896, very unexpectedly drawing a stripe under the total colonisation of Africa by Europe.

In line with this disparity, Ethiopia receives two sharply divergent types of tourist. First there are the well-diggers, especially Church groups but also the acolytes of Saint Angelina J, come to uplift the poorest of the poor, to be seen high-fiving over bottled water at hotels. Then there are fairly well-heeled, well-educated bourgeois bohemians who know all about Harrar and njera and the Battle of Adwa. Addis

Ababa’s Big Aid caring classes tend towards the latter Bobo type, who fit carefully-wrapped Ethiopian Orthodox Church icons into overhead compartments on planes and pronounce everything perfectly; I was among all of these people representing a nice mix of the two groups and hoping no one would notice. I was from South Africa, the Texas of Africa, inclined to just speak English louder at any uncomprehending local, but here for the architecture (Bobo) but living on something like $5 a day (very much, I imagine, in the tradition of Ethiopia’s mountain hermit monks, even if I am not, like the sixth-century Abba Garima, able to spit on the ground Adwa and create entire new life forms).

I was a Capetonian in Addis Abeba and Asmara for research on the two countries’ totally unique architecture – both ancient and modern (yes, Eritrea, of which Asmara is the capital, has one of the richest concentrations of Modernist architecture outside Tel Aviv). What I knew of Ethiopia was that the food is one of Africa’s great cuisines – rich, layered, and accompanied by a coffee ceremony of quite effortless grace. I also knew, due to using the distinction against people whose deadlines I had missed, that their calendar is the Julian, which England cast off (in favour of the Papist Gregorian calendar) only in 1752, by declaring

that the day after Wednesday 2 September would be Thursday 14 September. I also knew a something about Ras Tafari, acquired in equal parts through a misspent youth and an early-2000s government-school matric syllabus.

That last part was probably the most permanently striking thing about Ethiopia. They were never colonised, really. The tortured relationship Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa have with their metropoles and the languages carried here with the rifle and the whip simply doesn’t exist here; beautiful, semitic Amharic is Africa’s Ancient Greek, and that unbroken living tradition infuses everything in Ethiopia with a self-sufficiency that enthrals. People are poor, but the poverty is just a detail; Ethiopian culture is so rich and echoing and legible in Western terms – with its distinct Christian iconographic tradition, its written literature, and its long and involved history with other Christian and Near-East civilisations that one is able to engage with it thinkingly and feelingly, rather than snap at natural wonders to a tight itinerary. By far the greatest such wonder are the churches at Lalibela. It is hard to think of them as something entirely built; they are closer to being eternal forms liberated from the surrounding solid rock, like Michaelangelo said of his marble sculptures. Unlike Renaissance marble, however, the Lalibela churches remain in situ, adding a heady elemental quality to the rustle of worshippers. Awe always makes me hungry, and being hungry in Ethiopia as a visitor means you are about to have a very good time.

Given the usual quality of Ethiopia’s cuisine, which is thousands of years in the making – I’m talking about floury white njera (savoury pancakes) made from highland tef, fragrant doro wot (the national dish – a chicken stew) – I have never yet been disappointed by the food in this country that many South Africans over 30 still remember as a synonym for famine. But, even so, the experience of dining at Ben Abeba encapsulates most of what I love about this country. The restaurant, just down the Sekoto Road from the rock-hewn churches, spirals up from an entrance ramp to

crest over a valley that stops where the horizon stops. Inside, or outside, you consume the view while fresh Ethiopian and Scottish dishes are brought to you – the restaurant being a labour of love for a binational couple. It all ends with the coffee ceremony, traditionally accompanied by a bowl of popcorn. Imagining the grace and ritual of the Japanese tea ceremony applied to what Starbucks sells, I relaxed when I remembered that coffee is Ethiopian. Even today, a few decades after the overthrow of the Derg dictatorship, coffee is a quarter of Ethiopia’s exports, with that from Harrar the most prized. I

sipped my coffee, I looked out at the view you can see below, and I knew for sure that if Africa’s culture has its deepest roots here, we’re all going to be OK.

South Africans require a visa (about R140.00 for a 30-day single-entry Tourist visa) for Ethiopia, as well as a valid international certificate for yellow fever vaccination. ZAR 100 buys 189 Ethiopian birr at time of writing, which is quite a lot: a full meal at Ben Abeba for one comes to less than that. GBP 100 gets you about 3000 Birr, which saw me through ten days of travel (somehow).

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AS THE 2013 Spring and Summer seasons are finished we thought we would honour some teams in our in2Touch Leagues who have shown great spirit and enthusiasm towards touch. We asked each team to give us a profile on their team and this is what these teams had to say.

The first team is a social team who play in the Putney/Wandsworth Mixed league.

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The Incoming Tide are a diverse outfit of Saffas, Aussies, Brits and

Shaun. A select few of us, including Rob, Brad and Murray, have played in the In2Touch leagues before and once lived together in rural Barnes. Nick has also played in the touch leagues both here and in his native Australia. We have a few touch virgins in the squad, including Beverley, Gemma, Ruth and Amy however they do bring a wealth of enthusiasm and stamina to the squad. Dan the Man and cider-loving Shaun were both born with a rugby ball in hand and have therefore taken to touch like a duck to water. Our goal for the season is to avoid a low tide and to ride the wave to glory!

The next team also plays at Putney/Wandsworth Men’s league:

The Gasman Effect - Tuesday Night Mens

Our team is called “the gasman effect” after our friend Mark Aschmman who works for Lynx and runs so fast, he is the gasman. We are a Saffa team for all parts of SA who met in London through mutual friends and generally playing sport.Goals for the season are basically surviving the fitness and not passing out.

Then we have a team who didn’t even know each other a week before the league started. They were a bunch of individuals who asked to be put into a team so they could play touch for the season. They play

Meet some of the great In2Touch teams!| Get to know some of the teams who made it their mission to bring their A-game at In2Touch leagues every weekend this season

at the Clapham/Wandsworth league in the Mixed division:

Hammertime (U can’t touch this) - Tuesday Mixed

We were drawn together as an assortment of enthusiastic individual players and it was love at first touch. We’re all getting to know each other and gel as a team on the pitch, greatly assisted by our post-match socials in the pub. We’ve taken a few defeats as good experience and enjoyed our first win ... allowing us to roll out our highly anticipated MC Hammer inspired victory dance ...Our last team play in the Clapham Common Mixed league:

Gene HackmanTeam ‘Gene Hackman’ with an

honest and open account of who they are and what they are about this year:

We are a smattering of Irish, English and Australians who were initially going to call ourselves Mel Gibson, but then we feared people would think we were trying to somehow associate ourselves with him and we didn’t want anyone thinking that(!) so we changed our name to Gene Hackman.

The thing about Gene is he is the right type of ordinary that the common man can relate to. The boy next door type (and we don¹t mean

the fake Hollywood version like Mathew McConaughey) we mean the real ordinary looking farmer you actually grew up beside in rural Ireland who had the head of a potato and a smile of a man who had just swallowed a bag of wasps.

The ambition of this season is to make Gene Hackman proud and if he were to turn up to one of our games then that would be super. If we could start and win one fight that would also be great (but unlikely..), other than that hopefully score more tries than we let in.²

We wouldn’t be able to offer so many leagues at all these venues without our fantastic players and teams.Thanks to everyone who played in our leagues this year and we look forward to seeing you all back you in the Autumn, or early next year.

With 16 venues around England from Clapham Common and Regents Park to St Albans and Manchester, with over 600 teams playing in the London leagues alone and over 1,000 teams playing country wide, touch rugby is taking the nation by storm.

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Unbeaten Sarries put Bath to the sword| Saracens recorded their third consecutive bonus point win of the season convincingly beating Bath 31 – 17by STAFF REPORTER

THE DAMAGE was done in a breathless first 40 minutes as two tries from in form England winger David Strettle, one for the returning Alex Goode and another for ex-Bath custodian Matt Stevens blitzed the west country team.

Saracens began the game at furious pace, testing the Bath defensive resistance with some fine running from the likes of Strettle, Taylor and the superb Chris Ashton.

After Farrell and Heathcote exchanged penalties it was the in-form David Strettle who crossed for his first of the afternoon, showing scorching pace to finish off a flowing backs move deep into the Bath 22.

From that moment on Saracens were simply irresistible. The second score of the afternoon would go to the returning Alex Goode who dummied the covering Bath defence to wriggle over, Farrell again added the extras.

Sarries dominance was plain to see as Bath struggled to get any foothold in the game. Repeat penalties in the Bath 22-meter area continued to test referee JP Doyle’s patience as Saracens hunted for their third score. In wasn’t long until Mr Doyle’s paitence ran out, as he yellow carded Bath hooker Rob Webber.

With the extra man Saracens took full advantage of their numerical advantage, as ex-Bath prop Matt Stevens flopped over to score his

teams third try.With the minutes ticking down to

interval, Strettle scored his second afternoon after selfless work from his wing partner Chris Ashton. Farrell converted to make the score at half-time 31 – 3.

The second half was a much more tight affair, with a series of set-piece penalties awarded to either side. Bath fortuitously scored their first try of the game, with imposing winger Semesa Rokodugni plucking out Goode’s cut out pass to race away to score. Ford converted.

As the game wore on both sides introduced their respective benches, with Saracens seeing the welcome return of Kelly Brown and Neil De Kock from injury. Bath scored late on through Dave Attwood, but the result was never in doubt.

Saracens are now four points clear at the top of the Premiership table and look in imperious form.


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Du Preez century sets up Proteas Women’s winby STAFF REPORTER

MIGNON du Preez scored her maiden One-Day International century to propel the Momentum Proteas Women to a 96-run victory over the Bangladesh Women at the Bidvest Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday. This win gives the Proteas Women a 2-0 lead in the ODI series, and another series win over their sub-continent counterparts.

The Proteas were sent into bat in overcast conditions but quickly adapted to the lively Wanderers conditions. Trisha Chetty (16) lost her wicket early. However, Du Preez and Lizelle Lee (71) put together a 106-run second

wicket partnership to gain some momentum.

Du Preez surged along to her century in the last over of the innings, and also passed 1 000 ODI career runs during her knock off 105 balls. Dane van Niekerk played an important supporting role in the latter part of the innings, and was unbeaten on 34. Du Preez and Van Niekerk put together 92 for the fifth-wicket, which ensured the Proteas Women finished on a competitive total of 237.

In response, Bangladesh Women’s openers started positively with an opening 50-run stand. Newcomer Elriesa Theunissen made the breakthrough when she dismissed Ayasha

Rahman for 26. This wicket was followed by the two quick wickets of opener Fargana Hoque (27) and Rumana Ahmed (7) and the start of the downward spiral. The rest of the order had no answer to the bowlers, with leg-spinners Dane van Niekerk (3/27) and Sunette Loubser (3/15) accounting for the bulk of the wickets.

The series moves to SuperSport Park on Tuesday (Heritage Day) for the third and final ODI. | Women’s SA Cricket Captain Mignon du Preez

India’s SA tour: confusion reignsby JEREMY BORTZ

CONFUSION remains over India’s tour to South African shores over the summer as talks between Cricket South Africa (CSA) CEO Haroon Lorgat and Board for Cricket Control in India (BCCI) Secretary Sanjay Patel failed to provide any answers. The pair met in Dubai this past week while both were attending the ICC Chief Executives’ Conference, but did not reach any understanding on the number of matches or the dates for India’s tour.

CSA has now said that confirmation will only be reached after the BCCI’s AGM on 29 September. Some finality to the uncertainty may be delayed even further according to reports from ESPNcricinfo that N Srinivasan, if he succeeds in extending his tenure as BCCI president for another year, will meet the CSA president Chris Nenzani at the ICC board meeting in London on October 16 and 17 to finalise the tour. (The first Test against Pakistan in the UAE is due to begin before this on the 14th). The original schedule released by CSA in July saw India touring for close on two months from mid-November to late January and playing 12 matches (three Test matches as well as seven one-day international and three T-20 matches). The maximum number of matches now appears to be seven (two Test matches, two one-day internationals and two T20’s) as India have confirmed a two Test home West Indian series in November while also bringing forward the tour to New Zealand to mid-January. There is also talk of a tri-series between India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan due for late November but nothing as yet been confirmed.

Although no solution was reached, Lorgat said the meeting was a productive one and he remains optimistic that a solution can be

found: “I am happy to say that we had a constructive meeting and I would like to thank Sanjay for his friendliness and support in trying to find a way forward,” commented Lorgat. “After listening to Sanjay, it is clear that we will now have to wait for the BCCI’s AGM to be completed before any tour schedule can be confirmed. CSA have not commented further and the schedule released in July remains in place for now. Even CSA’s ticketing partner have the fixtures listed as published although tickets only go on sale from 28 October. Although most would agree that relations between the two boards are at an all-time low, Lorgat’s comment would seem to suggest otherwise:

“It is key for all of us to make sure that the good relationship between our respective Boards is maintained and, in fact, strengthened and that we also honour the proud history between our two countries,” added Lorgat. “Our Board Presidents are also in discussion and we will now arrange for them to meet soon after the BCCI AGM.” This is a frustrating tine for all cricket lovers and one can only hope India play at least two Test matches. While a two-Test series would be a huge disappointment, as the adage goes, something is better than nothing.

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NETBALL PROTEAS BEATEN BY ENGLAND| In the first match of their UK tour, South Africa’s netball team went down 49-38 against England

by STAFF REPORTER

IN a nail-biting first test match against England on British soil, the SPAR Proteas fought a good fight, starting off strong, only to fall slightly behind towards the end of each quarter of the match, eventually losing 49-38 in Bath on Sunday.

The score was neck and neck to begin with, until it equalled at five-all in the first 7 minutes of the first quarter, whereafter South Africa took the lead.

The combinations set by Coach Elize Kotze worked very well. Bongiwe Msomi was her usual Tigress on centre, supported by Simnikiwe Mdaka on wing attack, and the team of the lanky Melissa Myburgh on goal shooter and Maryka Holtzhausen on goal attack was a powerful one.

The SPAR Protea players were focused and feisty on court, and maintained majority of the possession until England equalled at 10-all, just scoring a final goal to end the first quarter 11-10.

The second quarter was much the same as the girls in green and gold levelled out the field with their first goal, and then leapt ahead by three goals within the first four minutes. England crept up, but South Africa was having

none of it and maintained their lead well into the second quarter. However, a few consecutive goals and England was able to close the gap again with an 18-all score, sneaking in a further two goals before the half-time whistle.

It was the third quarter that let the SPAR South African side down, as they were not able to capitalise on a number of turnover balls. England was quicker at getting their ball into the goal circle, and was able to gain a lead of 31-23 in the sixth minute. South Africa found their rhythm and began closing in, but lost it again after England called time, and lagged at the end of the quarter by 29 to 35. Coach Elize Kotze made a number of changes in the final quarter which included switching Myburgh with Vanes-Mari du Toit and bringing Thuli Qegu on as wing defence.

Some new combinations aided in team stamina, but the last three minutes of the final quarter were England’s spotlight.

The ladies in red made a number of intercepts and quick passes to score consecutive goals, and they finished the match with a 49-38 win. England Coach Anna Mayes gave credit to the South African side after the match; “You can never underestimate a team that

South Africa brings, they have a lot of depth in the team, all respect and acknowledgement to South Africa, especially in their attack.” Mayes, wasn’t as happy with her own team’s performance; “We were ill disciplined and didn’t cherish any of the ball possession that we were given or gained. We probably only found our groove in the last three minutes of the final quarter of the game.”

SPAR Proteas Coach Elize Kotze said that this was a good first game to see where the SPAR Proteas stand against England; “I am disappointed that we weren’t able to capitalise on all our ball possession, and that we are still lacking in about 20 minutes of our game, but this was a good test to see where we are, and what we need to improve on.”

“I need to settle my combinations” said Kotze, “we still have two tests left and I need to put up the best 7 who are able to play at this intensity.”

The second test between the SPAR Proteas and England will take place on Wednesday 25 September at Wembley Arena at 7.45pm GMT. The third test will be on Friday 27 September in Worcester at 7.45pm. netball-sa.co.za.| Proteas goal shooter Melissa Myburgh fights for the ball with England’s Stacey

Francis in a tough first game for the South Africans

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