Indholdsfortegnelse for 2024-06-10 i Cape Argus

SOUTH African rapper J Molley, also known as Jesse Mollett, has made a cautious return to social media following his viral suicide post. In an emotional statement on Insta gram, he opened up about his recent struggles and the new path he’s chosen. “Dear fans and supporters, I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to you today with a heart full of gratitude and humility to share a deeply personal revelation that has transformed my life. “In the past, I have been battling satanic demons within me that I was not aware of,” he wrote. He shared that he has recently experienced a spiritual awakening. “Through the grace of God, I have been saved and have started dedicating my life to serving our Lord and Saviour, Jesus…

A 54-YEAR-OLD man is receiving medical treatment and needs multiple surgeries after being mauled by two pit bulls allegedly on a walk without a leash. Eyewitnesses say Anthony Cupido was left unrecognisable after the dogs “ate away at his face, head and arms like a meal”, leaving him in a pool of blood on Thursday in Rocklands, Mitchells Plain. His heartbroken sisters, Elizabeth and Agnesia Cupido, said their brother was with a friend, Spencer Adams, at the park in Galaxy Way at around 4pm when he was attacked. “We were at home at the time of the incident, when someone came to tell us,” the sisters said. “We thought it was a normal bite but we did not expect it to be such a serious situation. “From what we were…

SOME National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) beneficiaries will be able to breathe a sigh of relief after the financial body processed bulk payments to landlords of private student accommodation for outstanding payments. The payments were made following consultations with NSFAS administrator Freeman Nomvalo and key stakeholders, wherein concerns over the outstanding payments were highlighted. NSFAS said a bulk payment was processed by the end of May and beginning of June, with the next scheduled payment no later than June 18. When queried, NSFAS was unable to state how much money was paid out as part of the bulk payments. Nomvalo also appealed to landlords not to evict students with outstanding payments and said NSFAS was committed to ensuring all legitimate claims were resolved no later than June 18. Landlords…

I met Oaklands High School, Kenwyn, principal Mahir Jeffrey. The topic was the traffic impact assessment and safety of learners regarding the Phase 2 of the MyCiTi Rapid Bus Transport System, which was to commence with construction. Oaklands High has already lost two learners in 2018 and last year in tragic road accidents, both at the intersection of Chukker and Racecourse Roads. A third 14-year-old learner was knocked at the intersection at 7.45am on 3 June 3 this year en route to school. It is imperative that the authorities install adequate traffic calming measures and signage to prevent further injury or fatalities. Children should be seen and not hurt.…

I AM not a person who writes to newspapers as a matter of routine. However, the article on the failings of colonialism is disturbing and not likely to engender the social integration that we all desire. The writer’s words are quite twisted, and to make out that the black man is continually repressed is a distortion of fact. You and the wider world are aware of the terrible things that indigenous people do to each other throughout the world, irrespective of race. For Gencoglu to blame ethnic troubles on our colonial forefathers is disgusting, and this drags down the value of The Argus paper that should promote fellow harmony. He could at least give credit where it is due, and recognise the benefits that the European has brought to the…

To suggest that the 2024 electoral outcome has fundamentally altered how parties relate to one another post-election would be an understatement. Never has the party with a majority of votes found itself thrust into a tailspin of negotiations in a frantic search for a solution that will maximise its electoral performance. As it is wont to do when faced with a seemingly intractable challenge, the ruling party prevaricates, puts its head in the sand, and embarks on its worn-out strategy of “buying and selling”. At the heart of this prevarication is a self-created conundrum. The ANC of Ramaphosa stands for nothing. It wants to be all things to all people. On the other hand, it wants to please the so-called markets. Accordingly, South Africa’s democracy can be sacrificed on the…

DUBAI: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has left for Russia to attend a meeting of BRICS foreign ministers, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said yesterday. The ministerial BRICS meeting will take place in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod today and tomorrow. An estimated 20-25 nations were expected to attend. Russia assumed the rotating presidency of the group of the world’s largest emerging economies on January 1 this year Until recently, the organisation consisted of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. But BRICS admitted four new full members in January: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.…

Belgium voted yesterday in national and regional elections expected to see a surge for far-right Flemish separatists that could make forming a new government even more difficult. The linguistically divided country – split between Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north and French-speaking Wallonia in the south – took 493 days to hash together a seven-party governing coalition after the last ballot in 2019. Now there are fears that figure – or even the record of 541 days set in 2010/11 – could be topped as support grows for the far right in Flanders and far left in Wallonia. When the results are tallied from the votes, held the same day as EU parliament elections, most eyes will be on how the far-right Vlaams Belang fare. Opinion polls have put them on…

MOSCOW: The statements made by the German authorities about preparing for war with Russia are related to the need to please Brussels, Washington and Nato, as Germany has been experiencing problems with its sovereignty since the end of World War II, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said yesterday. Earlier in the week, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said the country must prepare for war by 2029 amid “increasing Russian threats”. “Germany’s position is so complicated, Peskov said. “Can you imagine them tearing up (between Brussels, Nato and Washington)?” Meanwhile, Bundeswehr Deputy Inspector General Andreas Hoppe said yesterday that the German armed forces were planning to significantly increase the number of reservists over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The goal is to build up a reserve to 60 000. The Bundeswehr is…

The Western Province school selectors have announced two sides that will participate in the Craven Week tournament at Hoërskool Monument in Krugersdorp from June 24 to 29. The WP team will be captained by lock Riley Norton of Paul Roos and SA Schools. Paul Roos, unbeaten in schools rugby this year, have six representatives, followed by Wynberg and Paarl Gim with four each. Meanwhile, the Western Province XV will be captained by flanker Briint Davids of Milnerton. WP: Oliver Reid (Paul Roos), Almero Keizer (Stellenberg), Cruz Davey (Paarl BH), Truspe Schoeman (Paul Roos), Riley Norton (Paul Roos, capt), Alutha Wesi (Rondebosch), Josh Neill (Rondebosch), Torren February (Wynberg), Adeeb Borraine (Paul Roos), Yaqeen Ahmed (Wynberg), Emanuel Prinsloo (Paarl Gim), Kobus Blanckenberg (Paarl Gim), Samuel Badenhorst (Paul Roos), Freek De Kock…

BEING famous certainly has its perks, but it also comes with its share of drama, as seen in the trailer for the Showmax Original reality show, Born Into Fame. As a lover of reality television, saying yes to being on Born into Fame wasn’t difficult for Shamiso Mosaka, an MTV presenter and YFM radio presenter. “I am quite private but it came in a year where I told myself that this would be my yes year,” said the daughter of TV and radio broadcaster Azania Mosaka. “This is an out-of-my-comfort zone year; this is the year I wanted to challenge myself in what I do in the industry. So Born Into Fame aligned with that.” As someone with a famous parent, Shamiso doesn’t feel her mom’s success overshadows her and…

AN INDIAN court has refused bail to a member of the notorious Gupta family, linked to orchestrating state capture in South Africa, in connection with allegedly abetting the suicide of a businessman. The Indian-born Gupta brothers – Atul, Ajay and Rajesh – built a sprawling business empire in South Africa after moving here in 1993 as the country opened up to foreign investment at the end of apartheid. Last month, Ajay Gupta, 58, and another family member, Anil Gupta, were arrested in Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand state. The case concerns the death of Satinder Singh Sawhney, 52, a building developer working on housing projects with the Guptas. His corpse was found at the bottom of an apartment block on May 24. Sawhney’s son said he left a suicide note…

Waking up on June 1, I felt as if South Africa had entered an alternate universe in which the gods were crazy. It was as if April 27, 1994 was all an illusion and that the civil war that was looming over us in 1985 was a pending reality. It felt as if Eugène Terre’Blanche, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, Pieter Marais, John Steenhuisen and Carl Niehaus had all colluded and won an epic battle of the gods to rule over us, a pantheon of piqued politicians pontificating to a population who, all like sheep, had gone astray. While I had in earlier columns written about coalitions and a government of national unity, its imminence is a far sadder reality than I had anticipated. How did 1994 begin to mean so little to…

THE article “Bolt blocks 6 000 errant drivers to up safety” (Cape Argus, June 6) refers. The real problem here is who is the employer of the Bolt drivers? Ostensibly, Bolt employs no one in that the employment is done through third parties or the owners of the actual vehicles. This issue needs to be cleared up so that liability can be pointedly structured against someone who has the financial ability to sustain any claims. The other issue is who takes insurance out on any liability against someone being hurt in a motor accident. This is an ongoing issue and needs some finality.…

SOUTH Africa’s underlying reality remains that corrupt ANC cadres are entrenched in tenders, graft and corruption in every municipality, provincial, national government and SOEs – and the EFF, PA and MK want “their share of your tax-funded spoils”. No “coalition” will unseat their hands in the till – rather, it will cement them, and for that reason alone they will eagerly find each other. No matter how much South Africa needs a market-friendly, good administrator like the DA to partner with the ANC to grow jobs and the economy, it simply cannot work. The ANC will never allow the DA access to key ministeries that most need their expertise (security, finance, trade and industry, health). Instead, they will be blocked and fought all the way up and down the country.…

PARIS: US President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, concluded their trip to France yesterday with a stop at an American cemetery that former president Donald Trump declined to visit in 2018, drawing widespread criticism. The Bidens visited Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in Belleau, about 85km east of Paris, to pay respects to US soldiers and marines killed during World War I. Biden is running against Trump for re-election in November. The visit will give him another chance to provide a contrast with his rival. Trump’s White House said in 2018 that the then-president could not visit the cemetery because of bad weather. His chief of staff stood in for him.…

The Bulls are the last South African side left standing in the United Rugby Championship after a lukewarm season for the local franchises. But despite that, a host of young players put their hand up during the tournament and have been rewarded by the Springboks. Here, Leighton Koopman looks back at five youngsters under the age of 23 who impressed during their teams’ campaigns. Ethan Hooker – Sharks, centre Suddenly, South Africa has a bright future when it comes to inside centres that can step into Damian de Allende’s shoes. Hooker is one of them – a strong, hard-running centre with some good soft skills. It helped the 21-year-old immensely playing next to Springboks Lukhanyo Am and Francois Venter at the Sharks. But it’s not just on the attack where…

CAPE Town extortionists have claimed their latest victim, this time prominent Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) Western Cape leader Mzimkhulu Nojozi, who was gunned down near his home in Gugulethu allegedly for refusing to give in to demands. Nojozi, 63, was a senior interpreter at the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court and a long-serving Azapo member. According to the party, he was instrumental in the Gun Free Society Campaign. It is alleged that Nojozi was shot and killed by a group of youngsters after he refused to pay a “protection fee” demanded by extortionists for his flat rentals. According to Azapo president Nelvis Qekema, Nojozi told his comrades a few days before his death that he was visited by “young boys” who demanded he share the rent paid by the tenants in his…

Eight people including three children were killed in a spate of bloody revenge shootings in Khayelitsha at the weekend. In Site C on Saturday, unknown gunmen travelling in a Toyota Quantum entered a barbershop and reportedly asked the people inside about someone who had a firearm before spraying bullets, killing the three children. Devastated grandmother Sheila Dladlu said 4-year-old Enzokuhle was playing with her friends near the scene when she was shot. “We heard the gunshots and then when the suspects were done shooting, I went outside and saw Enzokuhle walk very slowly. I could tell she was injured. “She fell on the ground and when she got up she was staggering and I could see the blood on her clothes. “Her mother went to pick her up and ran…

POLITICAL parties are still scrambling to remove their election posters from street lamps across the city to avoid a hefty penalty, after the deadline passed on Saturday. The City of Cape Town said election posters had to be removed by June 8, however, yesterday DA, EFF, ActionSA and Cope posters were among those still on display in various suburbs. The City said in general, election posters must be removed within 10 days after the election to avoid being penalised. “Posters that are not removed within this deadline will be removed by the City as of Monday, June 10, 2024, at the political party’s cost of R134.10 per poster. “The responsible political party will be billed,” the City said. “The City kindly reminds political parties of the election poster removal rules…

ONLY an ANC-DA coalition in South Africa will work and restore all our core values that the Constitution is based on. Already there is a revolt by certain NEC members and Cosatu against this move. This tells you they will not put South Africa first and only think of themselves and their party, which for 30 years has let the people down with pathetic policies and corruption. I am warning the ANC, as Tutu did, that if they don’t form a coalition with the DA and go with the MK or EFF, we will have a revolution in this country and we will go down with more poverty and suffering like you have never seen before. So the ANC has only one option to save SA. I urge them to…

THE tornado that tore through Tongaat and adjacent areas was probably the most powerful atmospheric force to hit southern Africa in recent history. The sheer destruction of the area bears testimony to the brute power of this immense and scary event. The entire globe is facing unprecedented destructive weather patterns on land, at sea, in the air and in the upper stratosphere, probably caused by warming climatic conditions. The severity of the absolute destruction witnessed in Tongaat will repeat itself in the years ahead as has the recent series of yearly flooding disasters and epic tropical storms that have engulfed and overwhelmed KwaZulu-Natal. We in South Africa are ill-prepared and ill-equipped to face huge natural disasters. Many powerful natural and unnatural events could rock our nation, a 7-magnitude or higher…

Now that the dust is swirling a bit less and the future is still clear as mud, it may be apposite to look at what the erstwhile ruling party should do, in this time of everyone and his dog wanting to force it into coalitions of all sorts, even with apartheid-supporting parties. The ANC appears to be becoming punch drunk and not yet having recovered from a humiliating, if not unforeseen, loss at the polls. They are seriously considering a so-called government of national unity and we now have to hear former ANC “leaders” talking about the imperative to join this coalition of national unity. They (ANC) look like the proverbial deer in the headlights. The time has come for some rational thinking about its and the country’s future. I…

One suspects that if not for the coronavirus pandemic, Gerda Steyn would by now have collected many more Comrades titles. Much like death and taxes, the 34-year-old has become inevitable in the Ultimate Human Race, an unstoppable force with no equal. Yesterday, she proved it once again when she smashed her previous up-run record by an astounding nine minutes. It is her third title, and she joins an illustrious group of runners to have achieved three or more championships. Only six other women have done so, while a further 10 men have accomplished the honour. Steyn won her first Comrades in 2019, before the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled due to Covid-19. She skipped the 2022 event to focus on the New York Marathon, where she finished 12th. That…

WASHINGTON: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held an outdoor rally in sweltering Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday, seeking to shore up support in a swing state he lost twice but which polls suggest is leaning his way in the November 5 election. It will be Trump’s first large-scale rally since a New York jury found him guilty on May 30 of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to a porn star on the eve of the 2016 election, making him the first former president convicted of a crime. The Las Vegas rally came on the heels of a 3-day fundraising push by Trump that included stops in San Francisco and Beverly Hills, where he raised millions of dollars from technology executives and other donors.…

KYIV: Ukraine said yesterday it had hit an Su-57 fighter jet parked at an airfield in southern Russia, its first ever attack on Moscow’s latest generation stealth aircraft. The flagship Su-57 entered into service with Russia’s aerospace forces in December 2020 and was designed to replace ageing Soviet-designed fighter aircraft such as the Su-27 and MiG-29. “On June 8 2024, a Su-57 multi-purpose fighter jet of the aggressor state was struck at the Akhtubinsk airfield in Russia’s Astrakhan region, 589 kilometres (366 miles) from the line of contact,” Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence said. “The defeat of the Su-57 is the first such case in history,” the GUR added. It also published before-and-after satellite imagery of what it said showed fire damage and debris around an Su-57 jet parked on an…