Innholdsfortegnelse for 2021-11-07 i Sunday Independent

Wesley Diphoko wesley.diphoko@inl.co.za As South Africans reflect on the election results, it’s also important to reflect on the critical role played by technology in ensuring accurate results and smooth operations for the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC). The technical support provided by Telkom to IEC has been paramount. The IEC had a responsibility to capture data in high-density metropolitan areas, as well as remote rural areas which required improved technology services. Telkom provided the voice and data network backbone for the IEC to allow for the collation and reporting of votes across the country. “The people of South Africa are dependent on our connectivity to make their votes count. It all boils down to the technologies we deploy to service the electorate and the IEC, regardless of where…

The failures in local government are well documented in the reports of the Auditor-General and the lived experiences of citizens. As the campaign for elections moved, citizens cut a grim picture as they sidestepped streams of sewerage and dirty water where water was available and long queues of empty buckets waiting for the possibility of water where taps have run dry. Now we have the results. Not only that, but we also know how they panned out. The electorate have given a clear message that elections are not about service delivery, but about the circus of the elected at the expense of the electorate. These groups refused to go to the polls. They said they will not be part of the circus. The sad part is that among those who…

Gwen Ansell Drummer, saxophonist, composer, activist – and anthropology student – Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse has turned 70. If you wanted a guidebook to the distinctive character of the South African jazz scene, Mabuse’s 50-year career offers one. South African jazz occupies a landscape that is rarely elitist, never haughtily insulated from popular and traditional sounds. Professional survival demands a multiplicity of roles and identities from its artists. And the music has always had something to say about the politics of its day, then and now. Mabuse’s remarkable life shows us all that and more. Sipho Cecil Peter Mabuse was born in Orlando West, a township in the heart of Soweto, Johannesburg’s historically black urban settlement. His father ran a small corner shop selling household supplies, including coal, though he…

Baldwin Ndaba baldwin.ndaba@inl.co.za THE ANC’s national executive committee (NEC), which meets today, faces the daunting task of endorsing and selecting reliable coalition partners who will allow them to retain control of all the municipalities where they obtained the highest number of votes, especially the Gauteng metros. Adding to the ANC’s troubles is the latest EFF demand that any of their coalition partners must agree to give Julius Malema’s party at least full control of a municipality and one of the Gauteng metros – a likely sore point for the provincial leadership. The Gauteng ANC under David Makhura desperately wants to regain control of Tshwane, the capital city, and to retain Joburg, the country’s financial hub, while they continue to be the majority in Ekurhuleni. Already, according to insiders, Ekurhuleni mayor…

Amanda Maliba The face of pink hydrogen in South Africa is a woman, and her name is Blondie Mahlangu. She is the strategic partner at Pink H2. The young entrepreneur who hails from Daveyton, Ekurhuleni, is the first woman to bring the pink hydrogen renewable energy technology to the country and will be the lead of what she hopes will shake up the local energy generation sector. Although she is not the first woman to work in the hydrogen sector, she is the first to lead this type of operation on home soil. With the growing interest in hydrogen as a more clean energy alternative globally, Mahlangu’s role as the strategic partner will be to help further unlock South Africa’s hydrogen potential. Hydrogen, simply put, is an active form of…

Don Makatile don.makatile@inl.co.za The crux of the NIHSS Annual National Doctoral Conference (ANDC) is knuckling down to the business of candidates reading their PhD papers. The 2021 leg of the conference was the 7th, with the accompanying Alumni Conference entering only its second year. The words of Dr Yaliwe Selebogo were apt: “It was a beautiful conference.” She was making concluding remarks and referring to both festivals running concurrently – the ANDC and Alumni segment. According to Dr Selebogo, when the NIHSS calls for submissions, either abstracts or full papers, they more often than not receive full papers. There is no doubt that the candidates cannot wait to share their research findings with their colleagues and doctoral fellows. The PhD topics were, in their myriad ways, as fascinating as they…

Don Makatile don.makatile@inl.co.za The concept of a Good Samaritan was made manifest to a Chiawelo, Soweto man when a total stranger settled his outstanding university fees of many years, totalling a meagre R19 686. 51. All it took the Good Samaritan to ease Musiwa Rambau out of his predicament of nearly 30 years was just two days! Two Sundays ago we carried the story of Rambau who, in 1990, registered for a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) degree at the then University of the North, popularly known as Turfloop, but could not graduate in 1994 because he still had money owing on his student fees. Rambau had majored in Microbiology in his studies. The story detailed the frustrations of a man who virtually saw his academic dream shattered as he grew…

The aftermath of the recent local government elections somewhat compels us to reflect on our condition as black people in Azania. We thus need to honestly ponder on critical questions pertaining to our polity in our quest for true liberation. It’s thus instructive that we remain focused on the ideals of the freedom Struggle. What was the Struggle about? As we do so, we need to quickly accept that the ANC has become so entangled in the oppressive system that it would be unfair (to ourselves) to expect any form of liberation from it. Too much focus on this organisation, like the elections, will distract us from the mission of attaining true freedom. If elections were a potent tool towards liberation, and the ANC was interested in liberating black people,…

“Cyril Gets Booed Again”, screamed a street poster of a daily publication. The headline was in reference to the ignominy President Cyril Ramaphosa suffered when he turned up to vote in his Chiawelo, Soweto, home on Monday. Ramaphosa had become used to such a hostile reception in the surrounds of Soweto. This humiliating treatment was a curtain-raiser to what awaited the ANC at the polls. As usual, the party has been quick to jump into a denialist mode, claiming that it would self-correct. It said as much when it lost the City of Cape Town. Ditto, the Western Cape. The poll served to shatter several myths. The first is the myth that Ramaphosa is more popular than the ANC. The booing baptism puts paid to this fabricated narrative. He may…

The US government issued an advisory to its citizens in Ethiopia or those who plan to travel there, after that government declared a state of emergency amid an escalation in armed violence. “Draft a will, and designate appropriate insurance beneficiaries and/or power of attorney,” it said. It also gave advice for hostage situations. The state of emergency includes a call-up for military service, the closure of some communication and arrests for those suspected of co-operating with terrorist groups.…

Shannon Ebrahim shannon.ebrahim@inl.co.za MANY countries are mired in poverty, but one is hard-pressed to think of a country that is at the precipice of such total collapse that it is forced to pay its government workers in wheat. Few anticipated that a Taliban takeover would bring Afghans to their knees to this extent, where survival means you work in your profession in return for wheat, as the government has run out of money. Among the workers who are considered essential are those needed to urgently build defences in the capital Kabul, against flash flooding that poses a serious challenge in the rainy season. The municipal workers are in a race to dig ditches in order to channel water into the city’s reserves. Strengthening the city’s water and drainage systems is…

| AFP MANCHESTER United suffered another home humiliation as Manchester City cruised to a 2-0 win at Old Trafford yesterday to raise further questions over the future of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Eric Bailly’s own goal and Bernardo Silva’s strike on the stroke of half-time was the difference between the sides on the scoreboard. But that did little justice to the chasm between the teams as only a string of saves from David De Gea prevented United from a thrashing similar to the 5-0 humbling they were handed by Liverpool recently. Solskjaer bought himself some time with a 3-0 win at Tottenham last weekend. But United have now won just one of their last six Premier League games. Solskjaer’s switch to a back five worked a treat at Spurs, but…

Kinsey Gidick We've all seen the social media posts: a cosy cabin or beach house filled with a pack of women, wine in hand, wearing matching jammies and laughing. It’s a girlfriend getaway, of course. “There are special benefits to connecting with other women, people who are not necessarily a part of your everyday life,” says Lekeisha Sumner, a clinical psychologist and assistant clinical professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Sumner says a theory developed by UCLA psychology professor Shelley E Taylor and colleagues, the tend-and-befriend response, could come into play here. In a 2000 article in the journal Psychological Review, the team wrote that, throughout life, “females are more likely to mobilise social support, especially from other females, in times of stress. They seek it out…

Courtland Milloy IN MARITA Golden’s latest book, she reflects on herself at age 21 – a “raise-the-Black-Power fist, Afro-wearing militant activist” college student. This was in the late 1960s, and she was feeling invincible, willing to help everybody but seldom willing to seek help herself. In The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women, Golden describes how, throughout her life, she sought to project an image of “control and strength” in the battle against racism and sexism. The disguise never allowed for a healthy expression of pain and vulnerability. Hence, a myth created to empower Black women has become, many, a deadly burden “built on a foundation of tears we don’t shed, pain we deny,” Golden writes. Too busy helping others…

Shingai Darangwa shingai.darangwa@inl.co.za Infamous drug dealer Pablo Escobar’s fall from grace was set in motion the moment he failed to cut his losses and flee Colombia as danger loomed large. Dizzied by his extraordinary wealth and power, Escobar didn’t heed the warning signs and was eventually gunned down in broad daylight by the Search Bloc that’d been pursuing him for months. Billionaire rapper Jay-Z, once a successful drug kingpin in his own right, avoided falling victim to the same intoxicating allure of the narcotics industry by calling it quits in his early twenties and pursuing his rap dream before he too fell victim to the streets. Ironically, today the 51-year-old's vast business portfolio includes Monogram, a newly-acquired luxury marijuana brand that picks up from where he left off all…

LET US stop vandalism and protect our infrastructure. Damage to public infrastructure, whether through vandalism or theft, is nothing less than sabotage against the aspirations of South Africans. No doubt significant progress has been made in the delivery of water and sanitation services to citizens of South Africa, primarily the poor, by municipalities with support from all spheres of government. These achievements should be celebrated, particularly given the limited resources that the government has at its disposal. There is no doubt that 2020 was a major disruptor to most people’s lives – mainly because of the Covid-19 pandemic, which literally brought the entire world to a standstill. Many people lost their lives, and many more lost their livelihoods. Workers were forced to look for new ways of working; some either…

MERVYN NAIDOO mervyn.naidoo@inl.co.za A Durban doctor has serious misgivings about the Department of Health’s (DoH) recent Covid-19 vaccine rollout programme for children aged 12–17, as well as its handling of various other coronavirus-related matters. Dr Naseeba Kathrada’s organisation, Caring Healthcare Workers Coalition, represented by law firm Pather and Pather Attorneys, were among four applicants who recently lodged an urgent application to halt the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine rollout for children. The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) is the first applicant in the matter, which will be heard in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday. Free The Children–Save the Nation and the Covid Care Alliance are the other applicants. The minister of Health, the national Health Department’s acting director and the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) are the…

From Page 1 A further 69 355 applications had been received from asylum seekers and special permit holders. Another 263 applications came from care-givers with no ID. For the month of August 2021, 8.3 million applications were approved while 3.7 million were declined. From these declined cases, 840 630 applicants lodged appeals. Sassa says in the distress call that the approved applications for August were 88% of the 9. 4 million envisaged as the ceiling. Memela-Khambula warns that “the cost for approved applications for August is R2 910 182 450”. “Even if just these numbers stay in payment for the remaining period, the total cost of these applications is R23 281 459 610,” she said. There are no funds to honour any approved applications above the stated mark, she said.…

Don Makatile don.makatile@inl.co.za Had it not been for the fact that the primary task of the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) is to churn out PhDs, the Humanities Encounters at its Annual National Doctoral Conference (ANDC) would have been its signature event. The book takes on a life of its own here. Everything comes alive – from the authors to the discussant, Professor Sarah Mosoetsa, who finds herself seized with the invidious task of a mother who should not show favouritism among her children. But being a fallible human being, Professor Mosoetsa often inadvertently lets her views slip! The chief executive of the NIHSS said in the first sitting of this year’s Humanities Encounters with Resoketswe Manenzhe that it was “one interview I’ve been waiting for…

Professor Puleng LenkaBula It ought to project the best of Africa’s talents, civilisations, knowledge systems, innovations and intellectuals The notion of a university, a space for teaching and learning, ideation and knowledge production, organised knowledge and engaged scholarship, is not alien to Africa and her people. The case in point is the establishment of the first university in Morocco by a woman, the al-Qarawiyyin University. Africa has its own civilisations, epistemological frameworks, philosophies and knowledge systems. Such an affirmation is pertinent in a context that has always and, dare one say, continues to consume, rely on and even be shaped by foreign civilisations, in particular the American-Eurocentric knowledges and epistemologies. Context ● Research investigation must happen within the context of a community and be home-grown to advance the…

Jerry Mofokeng “While growing up in Lesotho, I had a wish to have a girlfriend. As I have written previously, I saw teenage shepherds who kissed their girlfriends with that endless kiss that looked like they were holding their breaths eternally. At that time, I was not aspiring to have a wife. I just wanted a ‘girlfriend’ I could chase after school. One I would have the exclusive right to chase. There was one girl I was eyeing. She was special because her mother worked in Kgauteng (what Witwatersrand was called by locals) and sent her clothes that made her look like makgowa (white people). I didn’t care that I was poor. My dream was to visit my family in Kgauteng, buy nice clothes for myself, and buy her…

Unzima lomthwalo (the burden is heavy), goes the stirring ballad that was often sung pre-democracy. For more than 20 years the burden has continued to weigh heavily on the hunched shoulders of the majority of South Africans who have been pushed to the periphery of society, kneeling on the sidelines, in constant anticipation of seeing a few crumbs of our much-vaunted democracy and freedom being thrown their way. The long-suffering majority has been abused, been taken for granted, been as invisible as they were in the past, save for when they were needed by the powered elite or when they protested against their calculated exclusion from democracy’s promise. The latter – uniquely termed “service delivery” protests – should have sounded warning bells within administration after administration. Instead, these signs were…

Sudan’s General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ordered the release of four ministers detained since he led a military power grab last week, state-run television reported on Thursday. The army said the formation of a new government was “imminent”. “The Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces has ordered the release of Hashem Hassab Alrasoul, Ali Geddo, Hamza Baloul, Youssef Adam,” Sudan TV said. Alrasoul is telecommunications minister, Geddo heads the trade ministry, Baloul is information minister, and Adam holds the youth and sports portfolio.…

Vijay Prashad “It feels like we are at the end of an era,” Bárbara Sepúlveda tells me on October 12. Sepúlveda is a member of Chile’s Constitutional Convention and the Communist Party of Chile. The era to which Sepúlveda refers is that of General Augusto Pinochet, who led the US-backed coup in 1973 that overthrew the popularly elected government of president Salvador Allende. During the Pinochet era, the military acted with impunity, and the Left was assassinated and sent into exile – while big business (both Chilean and foreign) received all the blessings of the dictatorship. That’s the era that has slowly been sputtering to a halt since Pinochet’s removal in 1990 and since the Chilean people voted to throw out the dictatorship’s constitution of 1980 and write a…

IT’S not uncommon for small and medium enterprise (SME) owners to be forewarned about expanding their businesses too fast, as it can lead to pitfalls in the future. In fact, as a wise person once put it – “accelerated growth can be just as dangerous as no growth at all.” With many business owners using the last couple months 2021 for forecasting and growth- planning purposes, perhaps the time is ripe to explore some of these risks and how to mitigate them. Cash flow problems The Business Partners Limited Q2 2021 SME Confidence Index – a quarterly survey measuring the attitudes and confidence levels of South African SME owners – identified cash flow problems as one of the key reasons why businesses fail. Consider for example that a business’s…

Nosipho Nyide nosipho.nyide@inl.co.za More and more fashion brands are jumping onto the sustainable fashion trend as it becomes more mainstream. Some brands do this with good intentions of actually making a difference and promoting sustainability while others are just trying to get customers to believe that they are eco-conscious by capitalising on greenwashing. Greenwashing refers to when a company or organisation markets itself as environmentally friendly without actually working towards reducing its environmental impact. The marketing gimmick is usually used to lure consumers who only shop goods from sustainable brands. The term was coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld in 1986 after he saw a hotel asking guests to reuse towels in order to “help the environment”, when in reality the hotel just did not want to wash the towels so…

Shingai Darangwa shingai.darangwa@inl.co.za After the nightmare of the past year and a half thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, it almost feels oddly satisfying we’re largely back to being consumed with celebrity gossip. There is controversy at every turn, just like it used to be: Dave Chappelle has returned with his distasteful transgender jokes, Ntsiki Mazwai’s Twitter hate train is back, Cassper Nyovest and AKA still don’t like each other. Last year was a blip on the record, but we’re back on track now. Here, we take a look at three of the most controversial artists filling up tabloid pages: YE There’s really no other place to start than with Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West. Despite a hugely successful career that includes 21 Grammys and a billion dollar…

Don Makatile don.makatile@inl.co.za The chief executive of the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa), Busisiwe “Totsie” Memela-Khambula, fired off a heartfelt SOS to Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu last month, asking the latter to consider closing applications for the Covid-19 R350 Social Relief of Distress Grant once the agency reaches the threshold of 9.4 million approved beneficiaries. The plea by Sassa to the minister is in line with budget allocations approved by the National Treasury – capped at R26.7 billion. During a three-way meeting attended by Sassa, the Department of Social Development (DSD) and the Treasury, the bean counters stressed that they would “only avail R26.2bn, which in essence can only accommodate 9.4 million beneficiaries for a period of eight months”. The difference of R500 million from the initial Treasury allocation…

From Page 1 glorified and continue to do business with the state,” said the executive. The executive added that two Deloitte officials, Thiru Pillay and Shamal Sivasanker, were forced to resign after they acknowledged that “the events related to the Eskom matter occurred on their watch” but nothing happened to Eskom officials implicated in the scandal. “They are still here and I won’t be surprised if they were part of this new deal,” he alleged. According to the executive in terms of the Eskom supply chain management policy, any supplier that breaches its procurement policies must be subjected to the supplier reconsideration committee, a determination made and blacklisted at the national Treasury. “In terms of the PFMA, the board is the accounting authority and must protect the interests of Eskom.…

From Page 1 In its previous meeting with Free the Children, Sahpra apparently conceded that it relied on information furnished to it by the pharmaceutical companies and did not require any specific testing or critical analysis of its own, the court documents read. However, the applicants state that a blanket rollout of the vaccine for children is not within the scope of the authorisation granted by Sahpra, but it was for emergency use only, where each case had to be measured on its own merits before approval was granted. And, the product was in an experimental stage. Therefore, the rollout was “unlawful and highly irregular”, and on that alone, the programme should be stopped immediately. They stated there was no scientific or rational grounds for children to be vaccinated against…

From Page 1 “There is no consultation around the issue even within Eskom itself on the fast-tracking closure of power stations. “So, the money to help do that is to promote neo-liberal policies,” he said. The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said Eskom and Sasol would be the main beneficiaries adding that Ramaphosa’s statement was vague, with critical questions not asked or answered. Those in the energy sector and power supply have criticised the move. Former Eskom head Brian Molefe, who managed to stop load shedding during his tenure, has questioned the move, especially with the very same countries re-commissioning their coal power stations. This week Molefe said he has maintained that solar and wind are not realisable. He said they were intermittent, which…

Roland Mpofu roland.mpofu@inl.co.za Pandemics Data & Analytics (Panda) has warned that Covid-19 vaccines have not lived up to their early expectations of preventing transmission. This is according to the latest data that has shown that countries like the UK that have reached herd immunity but the number of cases are rising while in places where the vaccine uptake has been low, such as in South Africa, the numbers are decreasing. Panda is not quoted in mainstream media because of its stance on the Covid-19 pandemic and its challenges to popular but often untested and unresearched narratives around statistics, lockdowns and vaccines. Panda’s spokesperson Gabriel Brunner said looking at the latest data released by the UK Health Security Agency the mass vaccination of any country should not expect to have a…

Don Makatile don.makatile@inl.co.za Another year; another meeting of great minds. The National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) 2021 virtual annual national doctoral conference – which took place last week under the theme "Building and Dynamising the Humanities and Social Sciences" – started with a keynote address by Professor Puleng LenkaBula, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of South Africa. Professor LenkaBula was part of a triad of a powerful "Womandla" leadership, flanked by Professor Pamela Maseko and Professor Sarah Mosoetsa. The ANDC is the brainchild of the NIHSS, led by its CEO Mosoetsa, which they do in partnership with the South African Deans Association (Sahuda), whose head is Maseko. The latter delivered the message of support, while Mosoetsa did the same with a message from…

Karabo Ngoepe karabo.ngoepe@inl.co.za Entrepreneur Tholulwazi Reconciliator Phungula, 29, who started a watchmaking business using his National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) monthly allowance, discovered his biggest challenge, along with many other small business owners, was bookkeeping and complying with the law. This included that Phungula, along with other SMME entrepreneurs, remain up-to-speed with the SA Revenue Service (Sars) and in good standing with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC). The young businessman from Bethlehem in the Free State has dreams of opening a factory and manufacturing his TRP watches in South Africa, employing thousands of people and selling the products in shops such as Markham and Edgars one day. To get to that level, he needs to formalise his business and ensure it is compliant and funding ready…

Es’kia Letobe “Mazwi” Mphahlele was an iconic South African author, educationist and philosopher, who was born on December 17, 1919, in what Paulo Freire considered a favela in Marabastad, Pretoria. His totem is Kgaga (Armadillo), hence, reference to Mokgaga and Phuthi (Duiker). As I am the eldest grandson of Stephen Moloi (who acted as Jack in Todd Matshikiza’s musical play King Kong, which toured London in 1961), this means that together with Mokgaga’s childhood playmate and neighbour (simply called Moloi), in his autobiography Down 2nd Avenue (1959), we share the totem of Phuthi. Amid the present razzmatazz of Local Government Elections (LGE), it is recalled that Wednesday, October 27, 2021, marked the 13th anniversary of Mokgaga’s death in 2008. Some may stridently ask – Es’kia who? Mokgaga’s non-familiarity to the…

The 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which takes place in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12, brought together more than 120 world leaders for 12 days of talks aimed at forming an agreement on how to tackle the climate emergency. The expectation is that countries will produce 2030 emission reduction targets that will secure global net zero by 2050. For that to happen, the phase-out of coal must be accelerated, deforestation must be curtailed and investment in green energy must rise significantly. Leaders from the Global South are correctly demanding action on the climate emergency, noting that those who were not responsible for creating the problem were bearing the brunt of its effects. The COP…

As the local government election approached, all the big political parties had their eyes fixated on South Africa’s eight metropolitan municipalities: Buffalo City, Cape Town, Ekurhuleni, eThekwini, Johannes- burg, Mangaung, Nelson Mandela Bay and Tshwane. The assumption was that the fate of Buffalo City, eThekwini, Mangaung and Cape Town was known. It was anticipated that the first three would go to the ANC while Cape Town would go to the DA. Given what happened in 2016, when the ANC performed better than the other political parties but needed the support of the African Independent Congress (AIC) to run Ekurhuleni, there was no certainty that the ANC would win the metro with an outright majority. The race for control of Johannes- burg, Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay was anybody’s guess. The…

Chad Williams chad.williams@africannewsagency.com Europe must do the right thing and return all “stolen” African artefacts and precious treasures. In recent years, there have been growing calls for European museums and national facilities in the Western world to honour their agreement to repatriate looted African artefacts that were stolen during colonial times by soldiers and military forces who ransacked the continent of its precious reserves, reserves which are now displayed across museums in Europe to the delight of the elite. According to Wikipedia, between 1890 and 1918 the volume of objects leaving the continent greatly increased as Western colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many pieces of sub-Saharan African art that were subsequently brought to Europe and displayed. These objects entered the collections of natural history museums,…

Eshlin Vedan eshlin.vedan@inl.co.za ORLANDO Pirates co-coach Fadlu Davids believes that his side were dominant in their Soweto derby defeat against Kaizer Chiefs yesterday with luck going against them on the day. “When the opposition coach Stuart Baxter comes to me afterwards and apologises for the penalty, saying that we should have got a penalty in the second half and for the challenge on Terrence Dzvukamanja late on, you know the story,” said Davids. There is an element of truth to what Davids said. Match stats indicate that his side had 65% ball possession and they were ultimately undone via a brace from in-form Chiefs attacker Keagan Dolly. However, Davids also conceded that his side struggled in front of goal which is a problem that haunted them last season. “We exerted…

Stuart Hess stuart.hess@inl.co.za A fourth first class century for Tony de Zorzi gave Western Province the advantage in the ‘Cape derby’ against Boland in Paarl yesterday. De Zorzi scored 129 as WP finished day two of the Division 1 match in the Four-Day Series on 315/4 ‒ that represents a lead of 48 runs. The 24 year old left hand opener, a former SA Under-19 captain, has become one of the mainstays of the WP side ‒ and previously the Cape Cobras franchise ‒ since making the move south from Northerns two years ago. Better known as a one-day player, while still representing the Titans, he has rapidly matured in Cape Town, with Saturday’s innings another example of that growth. No longer just a dasher, De Zorzi now plays with…