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THING TODAY FOR YOUPAGE 11 City’s budget

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Finance MMC Geoffrey Makhubo addresses the audience during the budget speech event at the Metro Centre. PIC : ENOCH LEHUNG

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Tavern murder suspect nabbedCrime [email protected]

Hillbrow police have arrested a man in connection with a murder that was

committed outside a tavern in Esselen Street, police spokesperson Sgt Jenny Pil-lay says. She explains that the victim went outside the pub and was confronted by four men. “He was stabbed and was taken to Char-lotte Maxeke Hospital, where he passed away. An investigation into the killing has

led to the arrest of one suspect involved in the murder, and three of them are still still at large.” In the same period police arrested a 26 year-old Berea man for allegedly assaulting and stabbing his girlfriend, Sgt Pillay says. She explains that a woman quarrelled with her boyfriend over Facebook messages. “The man assaulted the woman and stabbed her with a broken beer bottle in her hand. The victim sustained injuries to her hand and was taken to Charlotte Maxeke Hospital for treatment,” Sgt Pillay adds.

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This week Hillbrow police arrested a man for being in possession of sus-

pected stolen property worth over R 50 000 in a flat in Hillbrow, police spokesperson Sgt Jenny Pillay says. She explains that police attached to the Robbery Reaction Unit received a tip-off

from a community member concerning sto-len property. “This led the police to a flat in Hillbrow, where they found a man in the flat with five new base and mattress sets, two generators, one TV set and computer equipment worth about R50 000,” she says. The suspect could not provide any infor-mation about the source of his goods, and he was arrested, Sgt Pillay adds.

Man held over R50 000 goods

Mbhazima Lesego waka’Ngobeni

About R37.6 billion will be spent in the 2012/2013 finan-

cial year, R33.4 billion of which will be for operational costs and R4.2 billion for capital projects. Delivering the budget speech this week Joburg Finance MMC Geof-frey Makhubo said this is to ensure continuous service delivery and extension of essential services. The City, along with the private sector, would invest about R100 billion over the next 10 years in infrastructure development to cre-ate jobs and expand economic de-velopment, Makhubo explained. City Power would be allocated

R12.6-billion for operational ex-penditure and R953 million for capital projects to improve quality of supply and service. The money would be invested in electricity infrastructure to reduce losses in electricity, new connections and public lighting. About R5.8-billion would be allocated to Joburg Water as op-erational budget and about R728 million as capital budget, which would be used to mop up water losses and to repair and maintain the City’s water network. Pikitup would receive about R1.33-billion for operations and R54 million for capital expendi-ture. The money would be direct-ed at thwarting illegal dumping,

improving refuse collection and cleaning the streets. The Johannesburg Roads Agen-cy was allocated R274 million for capital expenditure and R548 million for operational costs. The money would be to maintain roads, bridges and storm water systems to avoid further deterioration. About R234 million was assigned to the Johannesburg Social Hous-ing Company to continue its work on projects such as the City Deep mixed housing development. The JMPD received about R1.64 billion for crime prevention, traffic management and by-law enforce-ment. This provided for the de-ployment of 10 officers per ward to intensify by-law enforcement.

Health and social development was allocated R677 million. About R7 million would be diverted to the Food Resilience Programme, which aims to ensure food secu-rity for the indigent. Makhubo said the City would upgrade community facilities such as recreation centres, swim-ming pools, libraries and sports grounds. “We have also made pro-vision for the City’s commitment towards hosting Afcon matches in January 2013.” To extend Rea Vaya to new areas, a capital budget of R992.6 mil-lion and an operational budget of R855.8 million was allocated to the department of transport. For more visit www.joburg.org.za

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Sanctuary for abused women

Pastor Jean Bradley (left) with Nobesuthu Khumalo at the centre. PIC : INNER-CITY PRESS AGENCY


Police have arrested two men and confiscated 60kg of dagga with an

estimated street value of R150 000, and also found R10 000 in cash at a house in Kensington, according to police

spokesperson Sgt Jenny Pillay. She explains that the Johannesburg Flying Squad arrested the men after receiving a tip-off from a community member. “The police followed up on the infor-mation supplied, which led them to a house in Kensington,” adds Sgt Pillay.


Joburg Central police have arrested two men for allegedly attempt-

ing to break into business premises and malicious damage to property at a shop in corner Mooi and Kerk streets. Police spokesperson W/O Xoli Mbe-le says the suspects were captured by the city’s CCTV cameras while they were trying to break the shop’s the

roller door system. “They managed to break the padlocks with a bolt cut-ter, but police quickly moved in and arrested them and the bolt cutter was confiscated,” he explains. Meanwhile police arrested a 21 year-old man for common robbery at corner Bree and Eloff streets. “It is alleged that a suspect robbed a 33 year-old male hawker at his stall. The victim was selling cigarettes and airtime when he was approached by the suspect. He pretended to be a

customer asking to buy airtime. Next moment the man grabbed a plastic bag with airtime worth R180 and ran away,” explains W/O Mbele. The victim screamed for help and ran after the suspect. “A police patrol joined the chase and arrested the man, the plastic bag with airtime and a knife was recov-ered from a suspect.” He has been charged with common robbery and possession of a danger-ous weapon, W/O Mbele says.

CBD cameras foil burglaryPolice officers monitor the streets of Joburg through the city’s CCTV cameras.

Persistance [email protected] Christian organisation catering for abused women and their children, Usindiso Ministries has changed many lives around Johannesburg with the services it offers. Many women have gained expe-rience and self esteem through the counselling sessions and make bet-ter lives for themselves and their children. The NGO’s founder and CEO Pas-tor Jean Bradley said they offer the women counselling to help them ap-preciate themselves, and equip them with skills to help them survive. “We involve them in projects like uphol-

stery, child minding and cookery. FNB helps us and the ladies who graduated in chef training are doing well.” Bradley added that most of the women there are abused by men. “They might have married for the wrong reasons, which makes them vulnerable to abuse. We equip them with skills that help them afford a living, even without men to help them,” she added. The shelter does not have enough funds, so it plans to run fundraising projects like toilet paper making, Pastor Bradley says. Bradley can be reached on tele-phone number 011 334 - 1143.

Cops seize 60kg dagga

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COMMENTAs the cold weather intensifies there have been several fire accidents in the city’s areas of vulnerable accommoda-tion, abandoned and hijacked buildings and also informal settlements. This cold season’s weather related death toll has already reached three. In two of these incidents emergency serv-ices personnel suspected that the blaze was sparked by dangerously connected illegal power connections; and by an abandoned paraffin stove which explod-ed and set the shack alight. Illegal electricity connections have be-come common in many poverty stricken settlements. This is especially so in areas where there are no supplies of alterna-tive sources of energy like for instance firewood and coal. Faced with the biting cold some resi-dents get tempted to tamper with the area’s power supply system to steal the electricity. They then set up a contrap-tion of wires to transmit the electricity for instance from a powerline or switch-board box in the street. When all that is set up it poses great danger to the whole community, with live wires running in the streets where the children play. The connection also causes a strain in the power distribution system, which sometimes leads to ex-plosions that cause fires that affect the whole settlement, and also power out-ages to the rest of the immediate neigh-bourhood. The consequences of this are uncount-able. Businesses may run into serious losses, and all kinds of work that require electric power get halted. Such power connections lead to human lives and economic losses. One way of alleviating energy sources in such impoverished areas is for the au-thorities to supply them with coal or fire-wood at subsidised prices. With an alter-native they may not get overwhelmed by the temptation to steal the power and endanger whole communities.

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Alarmed by the streetkidsThere are these young people

who sleep in Banket Street, near the Kotze Street robots in Hillbrow. I sometimes wonder what really went wrong at their homes that makes it better for them to suffer like this. I happened to know one of them from Bramfischerville in Soweto. He said he and his friends expe-rienced similar circumstances at home, which make it better for them to fend for themselves in the streets. The young man had been abused by his parents, ac-cording to what he said. There are shelters for such people all around the city, but it seems the streetkids prefer to maintain their status. If you suggest they go to a shelter they tell you that there are too many regulations there. This is alarming in that if they think like that then they certainly would not stand the regulations at their original homes, since every home has regulations. So if these young people will rather live in the streets than fol-low regulations, what kind of cit-izens are we grooming here? Are they not those who will not abide by all the laws of the country; in short the criminals who will spend all their time in jail.Rethabile TlokwanaHillbrow

Flavia Masekwameng

In 1987 the World Health Assembly created World No

Tobacco Day, 31 May, to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and its lethal effects. This is a day observed globally by the health sector and all rel-evant stakeholders to highlight specific tobacco control messages, the health risks associated with tobacco use and advocating for effective policies to reduce con-sumption. The theme for this year “tobacco industry interference” is aimed at focusing on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry’s brazen and increasingly aggres-sive attempts to undermine the global tobacco control efforts. Tobacco use is one of the lead-ing preventable causes of death. The global tobacco epidemic kills nearly six million people each year, of which more than 600 000 are people exposed to second-hand smoke. Unless we act, it will kill up to eight million people by 2030, of which more than 80 per-cent of them will live in low and middle-income countries.

Did you know?• Over 25 000 people die each year in South Africa from tobacco related diseases. The annual death toll from the global epidemic of tobacco could rise to eight million by 2030. Having killed 100 mil-lion people during the 20th centu-ry, tobacco use could kill a billion people during the 21st century.• Tobacco use is the second cause of death globally (after hyperten-sion) and is responsible for killing one in 10 adults worldwide.• Tobacco has over 4 500 chemi-

cals, most of which are harmful.• Tobacco causes 29 diseases. E.g. various cancers (lungs, throat, tongue, pancreas, stomach, kid-ney, esophagus and cervix), em-physema heart disease, stroke, chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, eye and ear disease, asthma, etc. Tobacco use is the number one preventable epidemic that the health community faces. It is nev-er too late or too early to quit, the earlier you quit, the sooner your health improves. Within 12 hours your lungs function better, while

in four days your body will be free from nicotine. After a year, your risk of lung cancer and heart dis-ease is halved. Tips for quitting• You can start by reducing the number of cigarettes you smoke per day or the puffs per cigarette if you smoke one per day.• Set a quit date, to get mentally prepared to quit.• Get rid of all cigarettes, lighters and ashtrays.• Get support from family, col-leagues and friends for encourage-ment.• Try to stay away from smokers, places where you used to smoke for first 10 days.• Replace cigarettes with sugar free gum, raw vegetables, drinking wa-ter; be creative and do something to keep your mind off the craving; and always remind yourself why you want to quit smoking. For more infon contact the Joburg Environmental Health Dept, Re-gion F, on 011 - 376 8523, and the National Council Against Smoking 011- 720 3145. Flavia Masekwaneng is Environ-mental Health Operations Manag-er at Joburg Health Department.

World awareness on smoking risksTobacco contains over 4 500 chemicals

Having read the letter in your last edition of Inner-city Ga-

zette in page 4 with the heading Control traffic in busy street, writ-ten by Alicia Hlongwa, I would like to remind all church organisa-tions that there are rules and regu-lations in place that govern how they can operate. I am also a member of a church organisation that operates in the Johannesburg city centre. Recent-ly we attended a meeting with the City of Johannesburg officials, in which we discussed all sorts of issues governing our operations. One of the most important ones

was that our operations must not inconvenience the public. This meant that public places must not be used for our operations because they may cause undesirable situa-tions. In the case outlined in that let-ter this has more than overstepped the regulation. In the picture that is shown the people attending the service have completely blocked

the street, and motor vehicles can-not use the road, including those of the police and emergency services. Having mentioned the last two it is obvious that the gathering is in-conveniencing the public. It is worse if an ambulance has to rush to save someone’s life and cannot pass because the worship-pers are blocking the street. I urge the church’s elders to consider using larger premises that would accommodate all their followers without putting public safety at risk. May the Lord bless you all.Pastor Amon LevisonJohannesburg

Church must get larger premises


Hundreds attend ANC art court bid

ANC protesters march in Kruis Street in the Joburg CBD. PIC : INNER-CITY PRESS AGENCY

‘That picture depicts racism and we are not goint to let it go like that’Persistance Nkomo [email protected]

Speaking in front of the South Gauteng High Court in the Jo-

hannesburg CBD, ANC spokesper-son Jackson Mthembu said his party will defend the rights of the Presi-dent and any South African who has been disrespected by an artist in the name of freedom of expression. He added that the painting by artist

Brett Murray exhibited at the Good-man Gallery does not only under-mine President Jacob Zuma as the President, but also as a black person and action had to be taken. “We had to take this matter to the court because we are peaceful peo-ple, and we want to be an example as to what is to be done when someone else finds themselves in the same situation. We are not just ready to defend the rights of the President

but of any South African who might be defamed in the same manner,” he said. He added that the picture is sub-ject to any interpretation by different people, and may mean that the per-son is a rapist or a womaniser. Mthembu said the picture in not an expression of art but an insult. “We brought the matter to court and we applied that the court takes it as a matter of urgency, and the court

agreed. They also said that the case will have a full bench of judges,” added Mthembu. ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said that the right of ex-pression goes with responsibility, and that picture does not show any responsibility at all. “We should take all action to de-fend the dignity of the president and that of the ANC. That picture depicts racism and we are not going to let it

go like that. The right of expression cannot be used to trample on other people’s rights, and there should be a balance between the right of ex-pression and that of dignity and pri-vacy,” said Mantashe. During the event reports filtered through that the painting had been defaced by two men at the Goodman Gallery in Parkwood. The protesters welcomed the news in jubilation, sang and danced more.

Above is one of artist Brett Murray’s contentious artworks.

Babalwa [email protected]

The two men accused of defacing Brett Murray’s The Spear paint-

ing at the Goodman Gallery in Park-wood appeared this week at the Hill-brow Magistrate Court, charged with

malicious damage to property. The artist behind the controversial paint-ing, Brett Murray was also present. The two accused, Louis Mabokela, 25, and Barend George la Grange, 58, apparently were not working to-gether. The men were both granted

R1 000 bail each, and their trial was postponed to June 28. Murray said thousands of people didn’t go to work just to attend the court hearing on that day, May 22. “They should have been at work, but they marched on the streets of South

Africa just for a painting,” he said. He added that it only took him 15 seconds to remove the painting. “I do not justify my doing but what I did was against my nature. They did not have any right to damage other people’s property as they did. I how-

ever feel more comfortable now that the painting is not there anymore. I’m not involved in any political par-ty. I’m not affiliated to any group or organization, and nobody instructed me to do that, but there were two people who were prepared to destroy that painting,” said Murray.

Bail for men who defaced controversial painting

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FOCUS ON AFRICA

Sanctions for ruling juntaBissau - The UN Security Council has imposed sanc-tions on military officers preventing the return to con-stitutional rule; four generals and a lieutenant colonel who will be subjected to a travel ban. The council demands that the Military Command restores constitutional order, including a democratic electoral process, soldiers return to barracks and the Military Command relinquishes authority. The Security Council said it would add an embargo on arms and financial measures if it became neces-sary. The country was weeks away from holding a presidential runoff election when soldiers arrested the frontrunner and the interim president on April 12. ECOWAS has deployed 600 soldiers there to oversee reform of the army and transition to civilian rule. The ECOWAS troops replace an Angolan force that had the same responsibility. The coup leaders justified the coup by accusing the Angolans of meddling in local affairs. The coup cut short a two-round presidential election expected to be won by former Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior, who is now in exile in Ivory Coast.

‘Regional peace’ treatyAddis Ababa - Ethiopia and Sudan have signed a judicial agreement on extradition of criminals. Ethiopia’s Minister of Justice, Birhan Hailu and his Sudanese counterpart, Mohamed Bushara signed the treaty to ‘enhance regional peace’. Hailu said the new judicial accord will boost their existing multi-lateral cooperation and enhance dip-lomatic relations. Birhan said the agreement will enable them to ar-rest crime fugitives who try to hide in either terri-tory. He expressed his country’s readiness to share experience in legal affairs and the justice system, and to promote judicial cooperation with neigh-bouring Sudan. The Sudanese Justice Minister, Bushara, ex-pressed Sudan’s determination to implement the new agreement and to further cooperate with Ethi-opia in other fields. Ethiopia and Sudan also have other security ac-cords including the agreement signed last Decem-ber not to host each other’s rebel forces in their territory - an agreement aimed at enhancing border security of the two countries, and tackle the mili-tary activities of rebel groups on either side.

Khartoum - In this week’s meeting with Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, AU High-Level Imple-mentation Panel chairman Thabo Mbeki made little progress in resuming talks with South Sudan. Mbeki’s visit was two weeks after the UN Securi-ty Council demanded that Sudan and South Sudan discuss key issues including oil, border demarca-tion, citizenship and Abyei; and reach agreement within three months. The council threatened sanc-tions on any party deemed not to be in compliance with its decision. Sudan accepted the resolution but insisted that the issue of Juba’s alleged support for rebels be tackled before moving to other items. The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) sec-retary Ibrahim Ghandour said the Sudanese leader underscored the importance of reaching permanent peace with South Sudan. Last month the Sudanese army recaptured the oil-rich region of Heglig inside South Kordofan after South Sudan army briefly seized it. Clashes have ignited fears of the eruption of full-scare war.

Peace talks kept on hold

Radio journo faces life jail

Omar al-Bashir

Bujumbura - The Inter-national Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has con-demned the life sentence request by the prosecution against Hassan Ruvakiki a broadcaster who was ar-rested following the broad-casting of an interview with a rebel leader. IFJ Africa director Gabri-el Baglo argued that giving the floor to a rebel leader should not be criminalized,

and called for the release of Ruvakiki. The Union of Burundi Journalists (UBJ) said Ru-vakiki of Radio Bonesha FM appeared at the High Court in Cankuzo, where the chief prosecutor re-quested a life sentence for a charge of ‘complicity with terrorists’ after visit-ing Tanzania where he in-terviewed a rebel leader. In February his defence

Birhan Hailu

Bamako - This week protesters burst into transitional President Dioncounda Traore’s office and beat him up. Hundreds of demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the general secretariat next to the presidential palace because they were angry at his appointment. The army told reporters that they shot dead three people during mass protests by supporters of the March coup who were angry at a deal for Traore to remain in office for a year. The violence came a day after ECOWAS warned junta leader Captain Amadou Sanogo to stop making public pronouncements which imply he is still in control. Mali’s Prime Minister Cheick Diarra appealed for calm and ordered the protests to stop. Traore was attacked after a deal was struck with Capt Sanogo for him to remain in office for a year. Ecowas said Mali faces sanctions if the military is involved. Soldiers allegedly allowed demonstrators into Traore’s office. He was unconscious with a head wound when he arrived in hospital, but was later released. The protesters see him as a member of the political class they blame for the country’s problems.

President gets beaten up

Hassan Ruvakuki

complained about judges blocking access to the prosecution files. UBJ president Alexandre Niyungeko said the case was persecution of journal-ists, and called for Ruvakiki’s release.

In the corner of Kerk and Goud streets in the Johannesburg CBD lies a restaurant with a rich menu in African cuisine. Opened five years ago, Chama Restaurant offers a variety of Af-rican meals which suit everyone from any country in the continent.

Unlike other restaurants which concentrate only on regional African foods, the restaurant’s manager Harrison Mwanza says theirs seeks to accommodate ev-ery African customer. “This is a strictly African restau-rant offering African food. A man

from Egypt can be accommo-dated in our menu, it’s very flex-ible. The guys from Mozambique, Liberia, Lesotho and South Africa eat their lunch here. It’s a perfect place for all Africans of different ages as well,” he adds. The African cuisine includes

beef stews with rice or pap, mogodu with pap, vimbombo or amangqina with pap. For something light you can enjoy fried chicken either with rice or chips with a side salad. The ‘village’ chicken with pap or rice, Zambian traditional fried bream or tilapia as it is called in Zambia with pap or rice is also available. Corn heels and pap, kapan-tan or bait with pap as well okra with pap completes the African dishes. In light meals menu you

will find sandwiches, plain or

toasted, toasted chicken with mayonnaise, toasted cheese and tomato, toasted beef with cheese as well as fried egg and beef burger. “The street is a bit quiet, but a lot of people come here for lunch and supper. Most people do not want to cook, so they prefer to have a takeaway, that’s why we have a lot of customers in the afternoon. Other people come from as far as Midrand to enjoy African meals,” adds Mwanza. All meals are served with veg-etables. “It’s good to serve your customers food rich in proteins,” he adds. The eatery is open from 6am and closes at 7pm. A braai facil-ity is also there, just outside the restaurant. For more details about the meals contact Mwanza on 078 393-18841 or 078 160-0349.

EATERY THAT CHARMS ALL AFRICANS

Above : Manager Harrison Mwanza and customers inside the eatery.Right : The entrance to the Chama Restaurant.

To feature your restaurant in this section call Thembi on 011 042 - 8675

Dioncounda Traore

Three years jail for cellphone thief

CRIME AWARENESS MARCHOn Saturday 26 May 2012, from Hillbrow Police

Station to Constitutional Hill at 09h00

HILLBROW POLICE ARRESTS : 14 - 22 MAY 2012Contravention of court order 2, theft 18, sexual assault 3, assault GBH 19, possession of dagga 6, armed robbery 3, robbery common 13, tres-passing and theft 1, murder 3, house breaking and theft 1, driving without license 11, dealing in counterfeit ciga-rettes 1, drun and driving 19, trespass-ing 3, assault common 27, hit and run 2, fraud 2, murder and kidnapping 2, shoplifting 11, attempted rape 5, pos-

session of drugs 14, carjacking 2, possession of unlicensed firearm 1, rape 2, theft out of motor vehicle 2. Malicious injury to property 5, fraud 2, indecent assault 1, possession of counterfeit money 1, perjury 1, intimi-dation 3, pointing of firearm 1, corrup-tion 1, dealing in dagga 1, possession of suspected stolen property 1, house robbery 1, interference in police du-ties 1, undocumented persons 68

Babalwa [email protected]

The Hillbrow Magistrate Court has sentenced a 26 year-old man to three years imprisonment for stealing a cellphone. The convict, Tebogo Motshwane is a first time offender and plead-ed guilty. He is unemployed and Grade 8 is his highest education.

According to the charge sheet Motshwane grabbed the com-plainant’s phone while she was talking over the line on 12 April in Berea. The magistrate said: “I am con-cerned that victims are women who are unable to defend them-selves. Women in Hillbrow are not able to wear jewellery be-cause of the high crime rate.”

Africa Day is commemorated on 25 May every year.

This year is the 49th anniversary of founding of the Organisation of

African Unity in 1963.

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24 - 31 MAY 2012 INNER-CITY GAZETTE 9 THE ARTS

Classic SA masterpiece

Arts Correspondent

To celebrate the 80th birthday of South Africa’s leading

playwright, Athol Fugard, the Old Mutual Theatre will honour this outstanding theatre luminary with a revival of the classic master-piece, Boesman and Lena. The theatre also believes that it is also most fitting to pay tribute to Fugard who was most recently honoured at the Tony Award cer-emony in the United States for his enormous contribution to interna-tional theatre. The new Boesman and Lena will run from 29 May to 30 June. It will be directed by acclaimed award winning director, writer and actor, James Ngcobo and will star Quanita Adams, Elton Landrew in the title roles and Charly Azade as Outa. The production will be de-signed by Nadya Cohen and the

costumes by Thando Lobese. In this modern interpretation of the play, director James Ngcobo has chosen to shift the dynamic and explore how more than ever pertinent it is in 2012. His direc-tion of this well loved Fugard play is fresh and compelling. The char-acter Outa, is played by an East African, which adds another new dynamic to the play. Boesman and Lena is a small-cast play, set in the Swartkops mudflats just outside Port Eliza-beth. In essence it deals with two lonely weather-beaten squatters trapped in a struggle for freedom and dignity. They are on a journey with all their worldly possessions after their shack was bulldozed. The play shows the effect of apartheid on individuals and concerns a coloured man and woman walking from one shanty town to another.

The play has been translated into numerous languages and has been presented worldwide. It explores the complex mosaic of human emotions, racial politics and uni-versal questions of existence. “I am thrilled to be producing this South African classic, which first premiered in Grahamstown in 1969 starring Athol Fugard and Yvonne Bryceland,” says produc-er Daphne Kuhn. The play was filmed by Ross Devenish in 1973 with the origi-nal cast and later directed by John Berry for the American movie starring Danny Glover and Angela Basset. “The play plumbs the anger; re-gret and self-destructiveness that often accompany poverty and homelessness,” John Berry. Athol Fugard’s Boesman and Lena was inspired by an incident in 1965 when Fugard was driving

down a rural road in South Africa. He noticed an old lady walking along the road in the boiling-hot sun, miles from anywhere, and of-fered her a lift. She was overcome and cried with gratitude. She told him that her husband had just died and she was walking to another farm. If Fugard hadn’t stopped, she would have spent the night on the side of the road. It was a common practice in apart-heid South Africa for farmers to evict workers’ families when the worker died. What struck Fugard was that the woman was in pain and suffering, but was far from defeated. The inspirational Boesman and Lena promises to entertain and leave you moved. The production opens with a week of previews from 29 May and officially on 5 June. For more information call 011 883-8606.

The play explores the complex mosaic of human emotions, racial politics and universal questions of existence

International classic...a scene in Boesman and Elena.

Colours of the diaspora

Arts Correspondent

This week Village Gossip Productions with Market

Theatre Laboratory presented Colours of the Diaspora Spoken Word Conversation… Where Af-rica meets America. Colours of the Diaspora was established in 2005, a collective of performing artists from Los Angeles to Johannesburg using different genres of theatre to pro-voke dialogue and ignite heal-ing within themselves and their communities. This is an ensemble of poets, performers, dancers and musi-cians who produce work that provokes thought, inspire laugh-ter, and illuminate the strength and vitality of the global voice. The production is not merely a showcase; it is a platform for art-ists from all walks of the world to share and engage audiences through choreographed poetry and indigenous music. It featured American poet and choreographer Kharyshi Wigin-ton and Chinyere Tutashinda sharing a stage with SA-born poet Napo Masheane (pictured above), choreographer Deborah Leshika and the well-travelled Indigenous Orchestra. The show was a good time ex-perience. People enjoyed and connected and enjoyed a stylisti-cally unique composition of mu-sic infused into poetry and dance. People made connections, and established artists were heard and appreciated. Audiences had an opportunity to experience a preview of this dy-namic show that made them sing dance, laugh, cry and scream.

A platform for artists from all walks of the world to share and engage audiences through choreographed poetry and indigenous music

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Street soccer league launched

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For the next eight weeks, every Wednesdays afternoon will be

soccer afternoons at Alec Gorschell Park in Berea, as the Kia Street Soc-cer League swings into action. This pilot programme was unveiled two years ago, following the coun-try’s successful hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. For the first time provincial winners from each region will compete in Johannesburg for the National Street Soccer Champion-ship in September this year.

The league is a partnership with youth sports agency Sporting Chance, title sponsor KIA Motors, Dawn Wing, Mille, Foodzone and Supersport Let’s Play. About 20 teams of under 13 boys and girls will be gunning for the overall crown. Inner-city Ambassa-dors and United Stars opened the first round of in Group A. The other teams include Hillbrow Action, Pitter Pot-ter, as well as Manchester United. The region’s league coordinator Philemon Mokgesi said four groups of five teams each will be play for eight weeks, with weekly sessions

of four games. This will be followed by a week of regional finals and ulti-mately the provincial festival finale, towards the end of June. “We urge the community to support this league. It’s only in the best inter-est of their children. It must be noted that it will not only be kids who will benefit from this programme but lo-cal coaches too,” added Mokgesi. Part of the teams that will partici-pate in this league will include play-ers from shelters around the region. “This programme uses the streets as the perfect venue for kids to come to-gether. Many of them have no place

to socialise in a safe environment, so this programme uses streets as a stage where life lessons can be taught, and friendships forged,” he explains. The three year objective of the pro-gramme is to extend it to Southern African countries such as Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, says Sport-ing Chance MD Brad Bing. “Soccer captivates young people everywhere, from the inner-city to the platteland, and has so much to of-fer in the way of life lessons.” For more details on the league con-tact Mokgesi on cell 082 316-6771 or email: [email protected].

‘Soccer captivates young people everywhere and has much to offer in life lessons’

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