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CLARICE, M-NET, DSTV CHANNEL 101, 9.30PM FBI agent Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds of The Originals) returns to the field one year after the events of The Silence of the Lambs. As she tries to navigate the political world of Washington D.C. while returning to the field of catching serial killers and sexual predators, she’ll uncover family secrets that have been haunting her throughout her life. TOP GEAR S30, BBC BRIT, DSTV CHANNEL 120, 7.59PM Freddie, Chris and Paddy head to the Lake District for an emotional reunion with their own dads’ old cars. Chris also tests Lamborghini’s hybrid Sian. TEMPTATION ISLAND USA S3, 1MAGIC, DSTV CHANNEL 103, 8.30PM Four couples at a crossroad embark on a journey to test their relationships.…

Siyabonga Mkhwanazi, Kelly Jane Turner and Viasen Soobramoney The Department of Health has come under fire from MPs about the slow pace of administering doses of vaccines to healthcare workers and this will lead to the government missing its own target to reach population immunity. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize and his senior officials in the department appeared before MPs yesterday on the rollout of the vaccines. Members of the health portfolio committee were not happy about the slow pace of administering vaccines to over 1.2 million healthcare workers. This was after the latest figures showed that fewer than 300 000 healthcare workers have been vaccinated since the programme began. IFP MP Magdalena Duduzile Hlengwa, DA MP Siviwe Gwarube and Naledi Chirwa of the EFF were not happy that the…

Kailene Pillay kailene.pillay@inl.co.za AN old newspaper article from 2011 alleging that the Gupta family were influencing appointments of people in key government institutions and had known about an upcoming Cabinet reshuffle, has come to light at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture. The article was introduced as part of evidence by advocate Alec Freund. It alleges that Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula told then president Jacob Zuma at a 2011 ANC NEC meeting that he was informed about the reshuffle. Freund quizzed ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe on whether he knew about the Gupta influence allegations back in 2011. Freund said the newspaper allegations were not taken seriously by the ANC “and now we are all paying the price”. Mantashe said at the time when he was ANC Secretary-General, his…

Shakirah Thebus shakirah.thebus@inl.co.za CAPE Malay cookbook author and chef Fatima Sydow has expressed her gratitude for the love and support she received during her radiation therapy for cancer. While undergoing the gruelling seven-week treatment, Sydow continued to share her cooking videos online. Sydow completed 35 radiation treatments at the Life Vincent Pallotti Hospital, and celebrated her final treatment on Tuesday. Her first cookbook, The Journey of Cape Malay Cooking with Fatima Sydow, was self-published in 2015; Cape, Curry & Koesisters in April 2019 with sister Gadija and Fatima Sydow Cooks this month. It’s already the country’s top-selling cookbook. Sydow co-hosts the Kaap, Kerrie en Koesisters TV show with Gadija. “During lockdown last year, when we were allowed to do exercising again, I started to walk. I loved walking in…

Rianna Wentzel | Grassy Park My opinion is that so many of us are walking around daily with issues that make us feel helpless, hopeless and in many instances, unable to express ourselves fully about what is bugging us. For families and loved ones left behind, it is often difficult to imagine what led a family member, a friend or even a celebrity to commit suicide. There are many factors that can influence a person's decision to commit suicide, the most common of which is severe depression. Mental illnesses that can increase the risk of suicide include, among others, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, eating disorders and schizophrenia. Other factors that often manifest itself, sometimes years later, are in the form of traumatic stress as a result of…

Ebrahim Essa | Durban I AM taking an antidepressant that releases the same dream every night – a nightmare of being back at university and struggling to understand some advanced maths, while my classmates don’t seem perturbed in the least. On some nights, the dream shifts to high school, where I battle with some geometric theorem. On other nights, I am again in my BSc class in India where I see my Indian classmates coping fairly easily with the likes of Riemand’s Theorem, while I feel intense nausea. The same helpless feeling over and over again. My mind now shifts to the present day, where I have been a successful teacher of physical science being able, with luck, to encourage students to achieve some excellent results. So this…

LATE on Tuesday night, an interesting story broke on the Daily Maverick’s home page – of late most news in South Africa breaks late at night. DA Western Cape leader Bonginkosi Madikizela, who is also the Transport and Public Works MEC, had allegedly lied about his qualifications, or rather his lack of thereof. Since 2009, when former Western Cape premier Helen Zille introduced Madikizela publicly and gave him the Human Settlements portfolio in her first executive, she claimed in public that he had a BCom degree. On the Western Cape government’s website, the lie was repeated, Madikizela had a BCom degree. Somehow it was leaked to the Daily Maverick that Madikizela had never attained the qualification, and pressure was placed on him to supply his CV. And that’s where his…

Seven years after hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram jihadists in Chibok, north-east Nigeria, more than 100 were still missing, Amnesty International said yesterday. Several more mass kidnappings of schoolchildren have occurred in northern Nigeria since Chibok, resulting in hundreds of schools being shut in a region where the literacy rate and school enrolment are already very low. On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram gunmen seized 276 girls aged between 12 and 17 from the Government Girls Secondary School in the remote town of Chibok. “Although most escaped or were later released, more than 100 girls remain in captivity,” Amnesty International said in a statement.…

Ashfak Mohamed ashfak.mohamed@inl.co.za THE good news for potential South African athletes is that Sascoc has raised the funds to send both the Olympic and Paralympic teams to Tokyo. But it will not be “business as usual” in the Japanese capital, due to Covid-19 protocols. Sascoc president Barry Hendricks announced during the 100-day countdown media conference in Johannesburg yesterday that the governing body will cover all costs for Team SA, after recent reports that some sporting codes may have to raise some of their own funds to compete in Tokyo. In unveiling shoe brand Veldskoen as a new sponsor, Hendricks said a “new sentiment” had developed among sponsors and the business community to support Team South Africa. “And just yesterday, we sat with another sponsor, which we will announce in the…

Kedibone Modise kedibone.modise@inl.co.za South African short film Two Hues is making waves on the global stages. The Cape Town-based film, which was screened at the UK film festival, was awarded the Best Director prize at the North Europe International Film Festival. The film festival took place in London from April 5 to April 10. Two Hues is a short psychological drama and an exploration of the artistic nature of a manic-depressive. Co-directed by Weaam Williams and Dominique Roxanne Jossie, the film delves into the world of the feminine psyche and explores the duality of patriarchy. The film centres around Natasa, a bipolar photographer, who is also a silent victim of rape. While she still stays with her parents, Natasa feels pressured by her family to marry and wear a…

Sihle Mavuso sihle.mavuso@inl.co.za FORMER president Jacob Zuma has refused to mitigate before his sentencing by the Constitutional Court. Instead, he accused it of being used by the Zondo Commission to violate his rights and unfairly jail him. In a letter served as his response to a directive from Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng that he should recommend an appropriate sentence for defying the commision’s summons, Zuma said no trial had taken place. Instead of filing the required 15-page affidavit that was due yesterday, the former president penned a 21-page letter to explain his defiance. He said his decision not to take part in the case was informed by the fact that all courts had been unfair to him. “While giving me the right to a hearing is something I could commend,…

Ramaphosa given five picks for two spaces Zintle Mahlati zintle.mahlati@inl.co.za PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa will have to pick from a list of five candidates to fill two vacant positions at the Constitution Court. The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) concluded interviews with eight candidates this week, with the nominations discussed yesterday. The JSC has selected high court Judge Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane, high court Judge Jody Kollapen, Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) Judge Mahube Molemela, SCA Judge Rammaka Mathopo and Judge Bashier Vally. The five names – two women and three men – will be submitted to Ramaphosa to decide on the final two. Concourt justices are appointed for a non-renewable 12-year term. Further vacancies will open up in October when Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng retires, along with judges Chris Jafta and Sisi…

Loyiso Sidimba loyiso.sidimba@inl.co.za THE government has promised to stop paying billions of rand to its suspended employees to stay at home and to tighten the management of public servants. Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu recently revealed that suspensions of thousands of public servants pending the finalisation of their disciplinary hearings cost the government R4.5 billion between 2019 and January this year. The Department of Public Service and Administration’s new guide on managing discipline in the public service, which is dated March 2021, states that the formal process involving serious allegations of misconduct dealt with by holding a disciplinary hearing should lead to suspensions of not more than three months. The sanction of suspension without pay should also not be longer than three months after the presentation of mitigating…

Tarryn-Leigh Solomons THE General Fuel and Road Accident Fund levies comprise a considerable amount from every litre of fuel sold but citizens don’t see tangible benefits from these taxes, the Automobile Association (AA) says. The association’s chief executive Willem Groenewald addressed the portfolio committee on mineral resources and energy yesterday. He said currently, combined fuel taxes amounted to R6.11 per litre of fuel but that there were several questions relating to the allocation and utilisation of these funds. “For instance, we continue to fund the Road Accident Fund through fuel taxes but it is poorly managed, and a drain on our country’s resources. “Apart from poor management, have we fully explored alternatives to compensate victims of crashes, and, critically, has the private sector been consulted for their inputs?” Groenewald…

These days we spend much of our time wearing masks, but strangely, we don’t seem to have trouble recognising each other in public. I go to the shops with most of my face hidden and friends greet me as usual, “Hi David,” and I reply, “Hi André,” or “Hello Dawne,“ or whatever, without a problem even though all I can see are spectacles and a hat. What is it that makes each of us recognisable when our faces are hidden? I am reminded of a little joke about a penguin who walks into a bar and asks: “Has anyone seen my brother?” And the barman replies, “ I don’t know. What’s he look like?” The point is that to human eyes all penguins look identical, but to a penguin each…

PN Hendricks | Hanover Park FOR anyone to retire with dignity and in good physical health in a community with many social challenges, says a lot. To serve a community, as teacher, a deputy principal for more than 30 years and as principal for about three years at Mountview High in Hanover Park, Mr Heinrich Bowers is that man. Bowers grew up in Oribi Court, Hanover Park, as one of seven children. He grew up very poor. Mountview High is going to be the poorer with his leaving. Many would say the show must go on, but how do you replace such an important person? For many of the learners, he was the father or granddad they never had. For educators, he was a mentor. For non-educators, he…

The slow violence of hunger and food insecurity are often experienced in invisible ways A DECADE ago, Rob Nixon, a professor in the humanities and environment studies at Princeton University in the US, introduced the concept of slow violence in the context of climate change and environmentalism. He explained slow violence as violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence, at all. While profound, Nixon’s concept of ”out-of-sight violence” and ”violence of delayed destruction” was challenged by Professor Thom Davies, from the University of Nottingham in the UK, who urged scholars to instead ask: ”Out of sight to whom?” He argued that structural inequality mutated into noxious instances…

Jihadist fighters who raided the northern Mozambique town of Palma last month may be planning their next move, analysts say, raising fears of more attacks in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province. On March 24, Islamic State (Isis)-linked militants launched a strategic, co- ordinated assault on Palma that overwhelmed security forces and caused French energy giant Total to abandon a nearby gas project. Dozens of people were killed and thousands displaced by a raid considered one of the worst acts of Islamist militancy in southern Africa. Speculation is now rife about what to expect next from insurgents boosted by the latest assault, during which they garnered fresh provisions and ammunition. “What is sure is that there is going to be another major attack,” warned Institute for Security Studies researcher Martin Ewi…

JAKARTA: The death toll from tropical cyclone Seroja, which recently hit Indonesia’s province of East Nusa Tenggara, rose to 181, while 47 people remain missing, according to the latest official data. At a virtual press conference held by the country’s disaster mitigation agency yesterday, the province’s deputy governor, Josef Nae Soi, reported that at least 250 people were still suffering injuries caused by the flash floods and landslides triggered by the cyclone earlier in April. The number of evacuees was nearly 50 000 people, but many of them have started returning to their homes or families. Floods and landslides in the province also destroyed a number of houses, public facilities, roads and bridges in the affected areas.…

Throughout his life, WWE CEO Vince McMahon has been a polarising figure. To some, the 75-year-old is a genius businessman who revolutionised the sports entertainment industry through the WWE. To others, he is a madman who has used various WWE storylines to showcase some of the bizarre thoughts which go through his mind. The truth is probably somewhere in between. Here are just some of the outrageous stories over the years. Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero square off for the custody of young Dominik Yes, that’s right, the late Guerrero featured in a ladder match against Mysterio for the custody of a young child. In the storyline, it was portrayed that Mysterio’s real-life son (Dominik) was the biological son of Guerrero from an affair during his real-life separation from wife…

Sisonke Mlamla sisonke.mlamla@inl.co.za STUDENT organisations have welcomed the progress by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) to provide students with laptops on Sunday. The entity said it was expecting its first batch of laptops for NSFAS funded students who were registered at a public University and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges. NSFAS chief corporate services officer, Sibongile Mncwabe said the announcement followed a mandate from the Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Blade Nzimande. Mncwabe said since Nzimande's directive, NSFAS has gone into several consultations with stakeholders to ensure the successful rollout of the process. National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) general secretary Zola Saphetha encouraged NSFAS to work with institutions in relation to the laptop project and to fast-track the delivery of…

Ntombi Nkosi ntombi.nkosi@inl.co.za THE EFF wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to rein in Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan. Last night EFF spokesperson Vuyani Pambo hit out at Gordhan’s latest statement about his discussions with Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng over judicial matters – as well as the performance of his friend and comrade, KZN Judge Dhaya Pillay – stating that the party no longer trusted him. “If Jamnandas (Gordhan’s middle name) truly respects the independence of the chief justice he would not have asked such a question which compromises and deligitimises the integrity of the selection process. In fact, knowing that he is friends with Judge Dhaya Pilllay, he should have stayed far from the chief justice especially at such a time when his bosom buddy is before the chief justice…

Mayibongwe Maqhina mayibongwe.maqhina@inl.co.za THE banking sector yesterday warned Parliament about removing a section in the Employment Equity Act that classifies employers with fewer than 50 employees as designated employers upon meeting a specified turnover threshold. The Banking Association of South Africa (Basa) raised the alarm when it was making an oral presentation at the public hearings of the employment and labour portfolio committee. “We are of the view that this has potential of creating a loophole for employers who employ 50 or more to restructure in a manner that excluded them from affirmative action regardless of their annual turnover,” Basa’s Ayanda Baepi said. The proposed amendments to the Employment Equity Act seek to speed up transformation in the private sector. The bill will empower Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi…

What are the books you enjoyed most reading? At Rosmead Primary School I was introduced to the world of books by Mrs Joyce Parker, a teacher who set me on the path of loving books. I owe my career as a teacher to her and I dedicate this article to her. I remember the phrase which I often cited to my pupils – “read the word to read the world”. How Mrs Parker drilled this phrase into my head I do not know, but it has served me well. She introduced me to authors who have stood the test of time. Today we often are told that learners do not have a long attention span and therefore our talking in class must be limited and writing minimal. The world says…

THE RESIGNATIONS of a police chief and an officer who shot dead a black man, Daunte Wright, in Minneapolis have failed to end unrest over Sunday’s killing, the BBC reported yesterday. According to the Chicago Tribune, chief Tim Gannon and officer Kim Potter quit the Brooklyn Centre Force on Tuesday, a move mayor Mike Elliott hoped would help heal the community and lead to reconciliation after two nights of protests and unrest that followed the killing of Wright. CNN cited Elliott as saying Potter decided on her own to resign from the police department. “We did not ask her to resign. That was a decision she made,” he was quoted as saying. The US broadcaster said people voiced concerns that Potter resigned and was not fired, but Elliott said he…

SEOUL: South Korea’s president yesterday ordered officials to explore petitioning an international court over Japan’s decision to release contaminated water from its wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea amid protests by fisheries and environmental groups. According to plans unveiled by Japan on Tuesday, the release of more than 1 million tons of contaminated water into the sea from the plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 will start in about two years after filtering it to remove harmful isotopes. The plan drew opposition from its neighbours South Korea, China and Taiwan. South Korea summoned Koichi Aiboshi, Tokyo’s ambassador to Seoul, and convened a meeting to craft its response.…

Stuart Hess stuart.hess@inl.co.za South Africa 203/5 (Markram 63, Malan 55; Nawaz 2/38) Pakistan 205/1 (Babar 122) Pakistan won by 9 wickets, lead four-match series 2-1 Babar Azam delivered another masterful innings at SuperSport Park yesterday as Pakistan successfully chased a total of more than 200 for the first time. The Pakistan captain has already produced an innings of rich quality on this tour – in the opening one-day international at the same venue – and yesterday’s performance was also packed with classical shots. Babar made 122 off just 59 balls, hitting 15 fours and four sixes, and was more aggressive than in the ODI, because this situation demanded it, after South Africa had batted along at 10 runs an over throughout their innings. The pursuit of a target as…

Ashfak Mohamed ashfak.mohamed@inl.co.za HAVING grown up on the Cape West Coast, Keagan Johannes has a ready-made hero in Embrose Papier, who comes from the same region, at the Bulls. But while Papier – who was born in Clanwilliam and spent time in Lambert’s Bay and Darling before moving to Pretoria – is a Springbok, it doesn’t mean that Johannes – from Mamre – is in total awe. The 21-year-old halfback is determined to make his mark in the senior team after excelling in the Under-21 title-winning side last year. He has already earned a few caps for Jake White’s team in recent months, with his quick service from the base, big boot and incredible pace already evident. Those are attributes that Papier also possesses, and with Ivan van Zyl joining…

Eshlin Vedan eshlin.vedan@inl.co.za Although Kaizer Chiefs have been significantly below-par in terms of their DStv Premiership performances this season, coach Gavin Hunt’s troops did show that they have some resolve by advancing to the quarter-finalsof this season’s CAF Champions League. The Glamour Boys earned a vital 2-2 away draw with Horoya in their final Group C game last weekend which ensured that they advanced to the last eight as group runners-up behind Wydad AC. “It was very difficult in Guinea. We know how Africa is. We managed to come up with a good result which made us qualify for the quarter-finals,” said 21-year-old Chiefs defender Njabulo Blom. “It is a great feeling because the Champions League is not just any cup. We know that we are representing South Africa in…