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Volume 06, 17 March 2015, Week 12 Delivered every Tuesday Tel: 011 862 8500 Fax: 011 869 7335
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I refer to the suggestion from Mr Steffers that stop orders should be implemented on consumer banking accounts in order to prevent non-payment to Eskom. In theory this sounds good but can we please have some clarification in respect of the following: accounts are not for the same amount every month and sometimes there are interim amounts so would the billing department be authorised to deduct from the banking account whatever amount the consumer account reflects? Also, what recourse would the consumer have to prevent payment of accounts which he believes are incorrect and which he would like to query before payment is made? How would an electronically-based system prevent the
payment being automatically deducted from the banking account and,
if indeed such an option was in place, how would non-payment in that particular month reflect on future payments and deductions? Even if there
was a facility for this type of occurrence,
which in any event is highly unlikely, surely
there would be a deadline for a complaint to be lodged and it might be difficult for the consumer to comply timeously. Currently, the consumer has an option not to pay the account if he believes it to be incorrect
and, in this instance, he obviously runs the risk of being cut off as the policy is to “pay now and query later.” Whilst this system is obviously not ideal it nevertheless allows him the option not to pay. As we are all aware, the billing department is notorious for sending out incorrect accounts and simply ignores all attempts to try to rectify some. I personally spent approximately four years trying to sort out errors on my accounts and anyone who has been in the same situation knows how frustrating this is. Could there, for example, be an instance whereby a consumer is incorrectly billed for thousands and thousands of rands which has happened on many occasions and finds that the billing department has cleared out his banking account? As we all know, no cash refunds are ever made and, if someone is indeed lucky enough to receive satisfaction in respect of an incorrect charge, the electricity account is just credited accordingly. When I consider the chaos in which the billing department has operated over the last few years with systems malfunctioning, incorrect accounts being sent out and no system in place to deal with consumer queries, quite frankly, I personally would be absolutely terrified to give the billing department any form of access to my banking account whatsoever. If they can allow their own system to get into such a state as to warrant the phrase “billing crisis,” just imagine what they could do to our banking accounts.
I couldn’t help but whistle The Bangles’ 1986 number one hit ‘Walk Like An Egyptian’ while I was on my way to the amazing Tutankhamun - His Tomb and Treasures exhibition. tame TIMES was specially invited to review the exhibition which is currently running at the Silverstar Casino in Krugersdorp until 12 April 2015. In light of the ancient Egyptian c i v i l i s a t i o n sitting right up there at the top of my list of things I inexplicably love (along with Elvis and cats), it was a real treat to get the chance to meander through King Tut’s treasures. Feeling giddy and with goosebumps abound, I found the exhibit “epically stimulating” – the
exact response I wrote in the giant comments book on exiting the spectacular exhibit. Also on exit, I had my photo taken behind the King Tut cardboard cut-out which was
equally exciting. We review this spellbinding exhibit in this week’s
issue. Be sure to check it out on page 8.
Karin Blignaut The way to go!
Like · Reply · March 4 at 9:27am
Kerry Price Nee Bennett Love love love it!!! Banting is the best!!!
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Amelia Frans Myburgh It’s a way of eating not a diet. Read about it
or Google it. You will be surprised.
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Karen Bredenhann Don’t even know what it is other than what
appears to be yet another diet fad.
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Unemployment, poverty and inequality remain thorns in the side of South Africa, crippling our country both socially and economically. While South Africa’s national statistics agency, Statistics South Africa, reported that the unemployment rate declined in the fourth quarter of 2014 to 24.3% from 25.4% in the third quarter, unemployment remains rife. Based on statistics acquired from Statistics South Africa and the International Labour Organisation, Good Governance Africa (GGA) highlights through its compiled statistics that South Africa has the third highest unemployment rate in Africa and the highest youth unemployment rate. “Only Mauritania, at 31%, and Lesotho, at 26%, had higher unemployment rates than South Africa in 2014,” said GGA. “South Africa is the only country in Africa where more than half of 15- to 24-year-olds are jobless. Its 52.6% youth unemployment rate is the continent’s highest,” GGA added. In the light of increased unemployment levels, many desperate jobseekers in the country have turned toward alternative forms of earning a living. Enter the informal waste collector – many youth are entering into the recycling business as a means of earning a day’s wage. These waste collectors surf the streets of Johannesburg on their steel trolleys in a bid to turn your trash into their treasure. They trawl the dustbins for plastic, paper, glass and any other recyclable material to sell. Waste collecting has become a business for many unemployed youth, such as Richard Malankane. Aged 21, Malankane travels every day from his place
of residence in Jeppe Street, Johannesburg Central to the southern suburbs in search of recyclable
materials. Malankane has been an informal waste collector for five years. He hunts for recycling material from Monday to Friday; he collects
and sells his loot every two weeks. Many youth like
Malankane wake up at around 05:00
in the
morning and meander through various suburbs in Johannesburg with their trolleys trailing behind them, spending most of their days digging through dustbins. Malankane takes the “trash” to a scrapyard located in Jeppe Street. Depending on how much he collects, he can make between R80 and R100 per load. “I can make between R700 and up to R1000 in two weeks,” said Malankane. “I use the money to support my family,” he added. Malankane and his fellow waste collectors are sadly seen as a nuisance by some of Johannesburg’s residents. Although regarded by some as a hazard on the roads, contributors towards littering and invaders of privacy, they have to collect waste to survive. “People have harassed me,” noted Malankane. “But I have a wife and children to support. It’s a living for me,” he added. The informal waste collector trade poses great opportunities in addressing South Africa’s plethora of problems, including the dire need to address climate change and environmental concerns. Informal waste picking, as it is internationally known, is a global phenomenon, and is mostly practised in developing countries. There are more than 15-million waste pickers worldwide, with many of them belonging to associations and organisations. Locally, the South African Waste Pickers’ Association (SAWPA) highlights that there are about 60,000 waste pickers in South Africa. According to this non-profit environmental justice service and developmental organisation, SAWPA was established in 2007 as an organised national movement of people working on landfill sites and in streets collecting recyclable waste materials and earning an income from selling this waste material. SAWPA was instrumental in ensuring that the government recognise waste pickers as part of the economy of the country through national legislation concerning waste management. With waste becoming a major problem in South Africa, the waste picker movement can surely assist in alleviating the issue.
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Richard Malankane (21) collecting recyclable material outside the tame TIMES offices in New Redruth, Alberton(Photograph by Stephen Davey)
To bant or not to bant, that is the question so many South Africans are pondering. With the inception of the Tim Noakes diet – an eating lifestyle that banting has become synonymous with – many have adopted a high-fat, low- carbohydrate diet which has become quite a phenomenon in the country. But banting is nothing new. Sports scientist Professor Noakes’ eating plan was originally prescribed in 1861 by surgeon William Harvey to undertaker William Banting, with great success. Appropriately dubbed the Harvey/Banting diet, banting grew in popularity and became the standard treatment for weight loss in all the major European and North American medical schools until it died down after 1959 when a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet became the latest food fad. Then in 1974 Dr Robert Atkins revived banting and the diet became a local hit in 2010 thanks to Noakes. Banting is all about a high-fat, medium-protein and low-carb way of eating. Fat has long been an eating enemy; however, good natural fats are highly welcomed in the banting diet. The diet also highlights how you should only eat when you are hungry and that snacking is a habit that should be stopped.
Furthermore, grains and sugar are a no-go – interestingly, fruit is frowned upon in the diet, due to its high sugar content. So what does Noakes eat himself? Noakes told Heath24 that for breakfast he eats eggs, bacon, sausage or cheese, yoghurt and the previous night’s fat/protein meal. For lunch he will eat cheese, nuts, biltong and for dinner one of the delicious meals from his Real Meal Revolution book, with lots of vegetables/salads. Noakes noted that once sugar and carbs are banished from your diet, your brain will automatically regulate the amount of calories that you require and thus your body weight will eventually reach the weight that it is meant to be. Eradicating carbs can result in what is called “low carb flu” – which could include lethargy, brain fog, nausea, upset stomach and headaches. This is where the Noakes diet has come under fire. Noakes has been deemed number one public health enemy and has been called both deluded and dangerous. Critics have raised concerns about Noakes’ diet, highlighting that the diet may result in nutritional deficiencies, increased risk for heart disease, diabetes mellitus, kidney problems, constipation, certain cancers and excessive iron stores in some individuals in the long-term. Despite the flack, Noakes has stuck to his guns. From 19 to 22 February, the first international low-carb, high-fat banting summit was held in Cape Town in the effort of sharing views and research on food as medicine, and medicine as food. Attended by 400 doctors and dieticians from around the globe, the summit was hosted by Noakes and organised by Karen Thomson, granddaughter of the late pioneering heart surgeon, Prof Chris Barnard. In conclusion, it was agreed that saturated fat in the diet is beneficial and that low-carb is the way to go. The summit ended with speakers calling for a bottom-up dietary revolution – a return to eating ‘real’, unprocessed, unadulterated, ‘clean’ food.
By Candace King
The tame TIMES banting challenge:Several staff members at tame TIMES took up the challenge to live by the banting diet and around 100kg has been lost amongst eight staff. tame TIMES encourages its readers to take up the challenge too – send us your banting diet stories and testimonies to [email protected]
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Raga ECSTaSY
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Inner Circle Entertainment is proud to present Raga Ecstasy, a concert of Indian classical and fusion music, at The Lyric Theatre on 29 March.Raga Ecstasy features sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee from India, as well as tabla player and producer Talvin Singh from the UK. Chatterjee’s music is inspired by the sound of the late Pandit Nikhil Banerjee and combines the tone and richness of the Nikhil
Banerjee style and a contemporary touch of his own urban sensitivity. Chatterjee says, “South Africa, like India, has innate rhythm and music all over. Indian classical music and jazz is so similar, making South Africa an obvious destination for us to share and
spread the tradition of Indian classical music.” Singh is a producer, composer and tabla player known
for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and
bass. Singh is generally considered to be involved with an electronica sub-genre called “Asian Underground,” and more recently as Indian and/or Asian electronica. After collaborating with Siouxsie and the Banshees as well as Björk in the early 1990s, Singh released his debut album ‘OK’ which received the Mercury Music Prize in 1999. Singh has since collaborated with a variety of acts including Madonna and Massive Attack. Don’t miss these two Indian music legends live in concert. Tickets range from R200 to R350.
Details: The Lyric Theatre, Gold Reef City Casino, Corner Northern Parkway and Data Crescent, Ormonde, 011 248 5000, www.goldreefcity.co.za
a nIgHT wITH THE kHOISan
an enchanting storytelling evening shared by the khoisan community will take place on 28 March at the klipriviersberg nature Reserve (knRa). The magical evening will be spent around a camp fire listening to compelling stories told by the Khoisan people of the south of Jo’burg. Their history, heritage and culture will be revealed through storytelling, coupled with traditional music and dance. Taking place at the Old Farm House, the evening will kick off at 17:30 for 18:00 and you are welcome to bring a picnic basket, drinks,
chairs and blankets along. This exclusively unique event is brought to you by the KNRA, KlipSA, SOJO and the Jackson Drift Khoisan Development Association. Tickets are R100 per person, which will include tea and coffee. Tickets are limited to the first 60 people. Book your space by 25 March with Lea Brash on [email protected].
Details: Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve, Impala South Gate entrance, 084 804 4073, www.klipriviersberg.org.za
The Lido Hotel will be running an Easter holiday night market on 03 april. Taking place at the under roof lapa and gardens, the market will feature food stalls, kids gardens, a live band as well as lucky prize draws and an exciting Easter hunt. Entry fee includes a R20 parking ticket.
Details: The Lido Hotel, Johannesburg Road R82 (R550/R554), Eikenhof, 082 349 9924, www.lidohotel.co.za
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speaker; a shopping area as well as goodie bags and lucky draw prizes. For this event, Woman@work’s charity of choice is Door of Hope Children’s Mission. Starting at 18:30, the dress code is smart casual and the cost is R250 per person. Booking is essential. Details: Thaba Eco Hotel, Impala Road, Kiblerpark, 082 781 7554, www.womanatwork.co.za
From 15 to 19 April The Glen Shopping Centre will be running a Hobby & Gadget Expo. The expo will feature several exciting stands specialising in hobbies and gadgets which will be situated throughout the centre. The Hobby & Gadget Expo is suitable for all ages. Details: The Glen Shopping Centre, Corner Orpen and Letaba Streets, Oakdene, 011 435 9252, www.theglenshopping.co.za
THE FUTURE LOOKS DIGITALLy bRIGHT
A South African start-up, brighter Futures Tuition, has developed an innovative mobile platform that helps learners improve their maths marks by up to 14% within a matter of months. This is against a backdrop of severe criticism of the performance of South Africa’s education system and a growing recognition of a link between basic mathematical skills and a country’s economic growth. The technology was developed by Siyavula, a Mark Shuttleworth Foundation beneficiary, and models the way in which pupils learn. “Parents are concerned that poor maths results limit the career choices of their children and this is why tutoring support is a growing market. Their feedback is that the combination of mobile technology and tutoring is compelling, especially when they are seeing such significant improvements in just a few months,” explains Joanne Brink, Chief Executive Officer of Brighter Futures Tuition. Brighter Futures Tuition provides high quality, cost-effective extra maths support for Grade 8 to 12 learners. Its maths tutor sessions use curriculum-aligned technology and highly trained tutors so each learner has an individualised learning experience in a small group setting. It currently has six maths centres in Gauteng. There are opportunities for existing independent tutors and retiring high school maths teachers throughout Gauteng to join Brighter Futures
as micro business owners to help learners study at their own pace, while still getting the advantage of individual attention. Joseph Makuwa is a Brighter Futures Tuition entrepreneur who is currently completing his third year in engineering at Wits University. Makuwa began tutoring mathematics last year and enjoyed seeing the difference he could make in the results of his students. “They think that science and maths is difficult, but it is just a mindset. Once you get the hang of it, you get the fun of it,” he says. Makuwa continues, “Our technology makes the practising fun, so learners don’t feel like they’re doing hard work. And it uses cellphones, which is not only something that learners always enjoy using, but also means that the learners have easy access to additional exercises at times that are convenient to them.” Brink says, “We are recruiting people with university level maths and science skills – who could be ex-teachers, current students or graduates – to help us roll out the programme further. While our system doesn’t address the systemic education issues in South Africa, we can help our learners to improve their marks and ultimately have brighter futures as a result.” The programme is currently being rolled out across several schools in the South of Johannesburg including President High School in Ridgeway. Details: 0861 884 8466, www.brighterfuturestuition.org
Lusito welcomed well known radio presenter Darren “Whackhead” and his wife Samantha Simpson to their school on 06 March. The Lusito School for the Physically and Mentally Handicapped had the pleasure of a special visit from the Simpsons. Lusito Executive Committee members, Tony da Mota and Noemia Contente, welcomed the guests and took them on a tour of the Lusito School. Details: 011 435 8583, www.lusitoassociation.org.za
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Most South Africans obtain their water from dams that are generally remote from where the concentration of users are. This leads to expensive pipelines,
pumping costs and high maintenance requirements over great distances at rates not sustainable into the future. Additionally, household water consumption per capita is increasing and the population is growing. Thus new ways must be found to reduce, reuse and store water. National Water Week, 16 – 22 March, culminating in #WorldWaterDay on 22 March, offers an opportunity to reconsider the value of water and the need for sustainable management of this scarce resource. It is also the right time to reassess rainwater harvesting as one of the prime solutions. Rainwater harvesting is simple and easy and offers huge advantages. To consumers it offers self sufficiency in water supply and the convenience of not being dependent on remote water sources. To the environment it offers a reduction in flooding and erosion caused by covered and sealed surfaces. Rod Cairns, Managing Director of JoJo Tanks, believes that a water secure world is a joint responsibility and that every South African should invest in some sort of system to save water. “We live in a relatively dry country, with an average annual rainfall of about 464mm (compared to a world average of about 860mm). Furthermore, rain tends to be concentrated in certain areas and does not fall consistently throughout the year,” says Cairns. “These
facts, combined with increasing pressures on water resources and infrastructures in South Africa and worldwide, indicate that there may simply not be enough water to meet our future needs and the need to save water will be forced upon us. We need to think of rainwater harvesting as part of a sustainable water strategy. With water prices under pressure to sustain infrastructures and water interruptions recurring more often, rainwater harvesting systems offer significant benefits including convenience, water security and value,” he adds. Although our first step should always be to reduce the amount of water we use, our next step should be to look at replacing the high quality drinking water we use for low grade uses such as toilet flushing, irrigation, household cleaning and car washing, by installing rainwater harvesting tanks. JoJo Tanks would like to encourage all citizens to adopt a water conservation approach that is a combination of reducing the amount of water used, being sensitive to
the many competing demands placed on this fragile resource and most importantly, to supplement non-potable water usage
with rainwater that is free from the sky. Concludes Cairns, “Water is
the lifeblood of the planet. To conserve it we need to shift our
reliance from centralised water supply lines to decentralised rainwater harvesting at point of use – a more robust, resilient
and planet-friendly approach. Collecting rainwater from our own
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By Morné Brits, KNRA ChairmanThe Johannesburg Zoo has for a long time had an offsite facility to provide breeding, quarantine, research and auction facilities for the zoo. A number of years ago the decision was taken to move this facility from Rietvlei on Swartkoppies Road to the farm Rietkuil situated in Parys. Last year the Johannesburg Parks department (then known as Johannesburg City Parks) amalgamated with the zoo to become Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ). It would now seem that the newly formed JCPZ is looking to relocate some of the Parys zoo farm facilities back into Jo’burg. JCPZ Manager for Protected Areas,
Bishop Ngobeli, has on numerous occasions mentioned to me that he would like to establish camps in the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve (KNR) to house some of the animals from the zoo farm as a ‘tourist’ attraction. I naturally, and as tactfully as I could, said that I would have a problem with this as it will h a v e far-reaching environmental
impacts for the area. To allay my concerns, I
directly asked Ngobeli at the November 2014 stakeholder meeting whether there were any plans to relocate and house zoo farm animals in
the KNR in a camp system. He categorically stated that
JCPZ are not considering the KNR for those purposes, but that they
were indeed looking at other areas in Jo’burg for this. I felt appeased. My
fears were obviously unfounded. In the four months since the stakeholder meeting I have heard rumours from many divergent sources that there are definite plans afoot to turn the KNR into the next zoo farm. There has been no formal written communication from JPCZ since the November 2014 meeting and three planned meeting dates have not happened and no notices of the cancellation of these meetings were ever sent out. To make matters worse, no minutes were produced for this meeting and Ngobeli’s words are surely even now fading in the memories of those who attended. Am I just paranoid? Or is there indeed something happening behind the scenes that is being kept from us? To avert catastrophe and to publicly state the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve Association’s (KNRA) opinion on this matter, a formal resolution has been drafted with regard to the housing of zoo farm animals in camps
in the KNR. This resolution was adopted at the executive committee meeting held on 02 March 2015. In essence it states that the KNRA is opposed to any and all plans to build wildlife camps in the KNR for the purpose of housing large mammals in smaller enclosed areas. The environmental impact associated with such camps would be disastrous and would exacerbate the already poor veld conditions that resulted from the massive overgrazing of the veld by introduced game. The KNRA’s business plan clearly states that in all such matters the precautionary approach will be followed to ensure that no detrimental and long-term impacts occur in the area that we are custodians of. Will JCPZ push ahead with such plans without formal and thorough public participation? I don’t know, but what I do know is that it will not happen without the KNRA putting up a bitter fight to avert such a catastrophe.
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