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Six more people have died on Eastern Cape roads since the start of the festive season.

On Wednesday night, an SUV collided with an articulated truck between Middelburg and Cradock.

Six people were killed and two taken to hospital with serious injuries.

The latest accident occurred just more than a week after transport, safety and liaison MEC Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe launched the festive Arrive Alive campaign alongside Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane.

Transport department spokesperson Unathi Binqose said the accident occurred on the N10.

“An SUV with seven occupants collided with an articulated truck towing two trailers.

“Only the driver was in the truck,” Binqose said. Three males and three females in the SUV died, including the driver. One adult male passenger sustained critical injuries, as did the truck driver.

Six more people have died on Eastern Cape roads since the start of the festive season.

On Wednesday night, an SUV collided with an articulated truck between Middelburg and Cradock.

Six people were killed and two taken to hospital with serious injuries.

The latest accident occurred just more than a week after transport, safety and liaison MEC Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe launched the festive Arrive Alive campaign alongside Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane.

Transport department spokesperson Unathi Binqose said the accident occurred on the N10.

“An SUV with seven occupants collided with an articulated truck towing two trailers.

“Only the driver was in the truck,” Binqose said. Three males and three females in the SUV died, including the driver. One adult male passenger sustained critical injuries, as did the truck driver.

In an interview with SA Rugby magazine in 2018, Hacjivah Dayimani revealed how he escaped a life of crime and poverty and why he defied his father to pursue rugby rather than boxing.

Hacjivah Dayimani went through three provinces, five schools and countless hardships before making it big at the Lions. He also had to show some disregard for authoritarian decisions.

Dayimani’s wide-ranging skill set was on show for the Golden Lions against the Blue Bulls in September when he scored a brace of tries and made a defining turnover on the tryline in the dying seconds of the game.

Based on that performance, Dayimani seemed fated to fulfil his potential. But an unorthodox family dynamic and unique upbringing meant he had to endure and overcome challenges far beyond simply trying to make it big as a rugby player.

Born in Cape Town, Dayimani is the son of Lushabowang, a Xhosa woman who practises as a sangoma and works as a domestic, and the late Frank Times Ifeanyichukwu, a Sabbath-observing Igbo Jew, former boxer, businessman and author with strong political ties in South Africa and his native Nigeria. Hacjivah is a combination of the Hebrew name ‘Akiva’, which means ‘to protect’, and the Xhosa name ‘Mpumelelo’, which translates to ‘achiever’.

Dayimani admits that while his parents compromised in settling on his name, that was where it had ended. Along with two older siblings, he was raised by his mother in the Milnerton area. His brother, sister and a few of his cousins living close by went into a life of crime and gangsterism. Fearful that her youngest would fall into the same trap, Lushabowang sent the 12-year-old to Cradock in the Eastern Cape, where he lived in a shack with his grandmother and several people.

‘I had to leave Cape Town,’ Dayimani tells SA Rugby magazine. ‘At the time, everyone in my close circle was in and out of prison and my best friend had started to hang out with the wrong crowd too. Sadly, he couldn’t escape that life and is in Pollsmoor Prison. That could have easily been me had it not been for my mom, who felt the best thing for me was to move away.’

Once in the Eastern Cape, Dayimani never looked back. In Cape Town, he had played soccer at Ysterplaat Primary and taken a liking to basketball. It was at Cradock Primary where his rugby career took flight.

‘At my first training session, the coach asked what position I play and I said wherever Bryan Habana plays,’ Dayimani says. ‘We couldn’t afford DStv, but the 2007 World Cup was on SABC, so we were able to watch the Springboks. I only wanted to play because of Habana’s dives. I thought it was compulsory to do it.’

Dayimani’s joy was short-lived, though. A year later he was forced to trade his life in Cradock for a move to his father, who was relatively unknown to him.

‘Although I was free of a life of gangsterism and the influences of my family and friends, the poverty was much worse at my grandma’s. We lived in a shack. My parents weren’t married and I only met my father when I was 11, but my gran decided I had to pack up and go live with him in Johannesburg. She believed I needed a father figure in my life to give me guidance.’

Soon Dayimani found himself living with his father and his family in Kibler Park and enrolled at Danie Theron for his final  year of primary school. But he was so accustomed to getting by without the bare necessities, like electricity and running water, that he found it difficult to adapt to the relatively luxurious lifestyle in the City of Gold.

Ifeanyichukwu had convinced his son to give up rugby in favour of boxing. Dayimani didn’t like it but, afraid to let his father down, he continued and signed up for athletics too. Even when he left the 100m and 200m champions in his age-group in his wake on the track, boxing was to be his priority.

‘I did it to please him, but I was never happy in the ring,’ says Dayimani. ‘I was in training for seven months and heavier than the average 13 year old. I had to fight against guys much older than me when I was graded. Most of my opponents were 18.’

His love of rugby was rekindled in his first year at President High. He scored six tries against Alberton in his first game back on the field, but his first big break came at the Linden Easter Festival, where he was the standout performer, scoring in all his team’s games.

A representative of Jeppe High School for Boys spotted Dayimani’s raw talent and athletic ability and offered him a rugby scholarship. This led to increased tension between father and son because Ifeanyichukwu was against any child of his playing sport on the Sabbath, which is on Saturdays, when school matches normally take place.

‘I was told the bursary would cover 50% of my school fees,’ says Dayimani. ‘But my father refused to pay the other half, in an attempt to persuade me to turn down the offer. I ignored his wishes and asked Jeppe if they could help me get a full scholarship because I wanted to play rugby. I got in as a Jake White scholar, an all-expenses paid bursary programme for underprivileged students.’

In light of this, there was a total breakdown in the relationship between Dayimani and his father. Dayimani had decided to become a full-time boarder at Jeppe and never went home on weekends or during holidays. Despite this dramatic turn of events, his rugby flourished. He was in Jeppe’s 1st XV in 2014 and 2015, playing across the back row and occasionally on the wing.

‘I felt important when I played rugby,’ he says. ‘I felt like I was far away from all the problems that had caused me so much distress. Playing rugby made me happy and I wanted to be happy for a change.’

By then Ifeanyichukwu, who had not watched his son play a single game, had been diagnosed with brain cancer. As fate would have it, he was in hospital when he caught his first glimpse of his son in action when highlights of SA Schools’ 23-16 win over England popped up on the TV in his room.

‘That was two months before his death and he actually called me to ask if I scored a try for South Africa,’ says Dayimani. ‘He told me how proud he was and said he understood why I’d disobeyed him. I just wish he had undergone that mindset shift earlier; perhaps we could’ve spent more time together.’

Notwithstanding the stance Dayimani took against his father, the 20-year-old says religion does play a big part in his life and career.

‘It has never been my intention to disrespect our religion. My argument has always been, why would God bless me with the talent if he was against me using it. To this day, I take time before every game and pray that he guides me as he wishes. Having a close relationship with God has had a positive impact on my career.’

In 2015, Dayimani also received a deserved call-up to the SA U18 Sevens team for the Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa. With one swashbuckling performance after the next in the U19 provincial tournament in 2016 and last year’s Provincial Rugby Challenge, he became one of the Lions’ most prized assets, so much so that the union denied him permission to play for South Africa at the Maccabiah Games in Israel (coach Kevin Musikanth had selected him in the sevens and 15s squads).

More disappointment followed on the national front when he was bizarrely omitted from the Junior Boks squads in 2017 and 2018 and told in no uncertain terms that he did not fit into coach Chean Roux’s plans.

‘I was disappointed and upset,’ he says. ‘They told me I was too small and not physically up for the type of game they want to play. I took it to heart and tried to change my game. Luckily, the Lions coaches intervened and said there is nothing wrong with my physique or physicality. They backed me and it’s working out now.’

Dayimani made 12 Super Rugby appearances for the Lions this season. As at mid-September, he had started all his side’s Currie Cup matches, scoring five tries and earning two Man of the Match awards.

‘I was used as a wing and as a loose forward last season but knew I had to specialise in one or the other,’ he says. ‘I asked to meet with the coaches and told them I didn’t want to play wing any more. I want to settle in one role, preferably as a No 8.’

Dayimani offers a strong running game, physicality in defence, a breakdown presence and an extra lineout option. While many believe higher honours await, he is focused on excelling for the Lions.

‘I have a starting position in the Currie Cup side and now want to get to a point where I’m a regular starter in Super Rugby,’ he says. ‘I’m a big dreamer and want to play for the Springboks, but I’m a long way off achieving that goal. I’m learning as much as I can from the coaches and from older statesmen like Warren Whiteley, Cyle Brink and Kwagga Smith.

‘I’m playing 70% below my potential. When I feel I’m playing to the best of my ability, I’ll start thinking about making a Springbok team.’

Considering his journey, Dayimani expects nothing less of himself.

– This article first appeared in the October 2018 issue of SA Rugby magazine.

Little Louise de Klerk from Cradock celebrated her fourth birthday on Monday – and while family and friends all showered her with phone calls and FaceTime chats, she was sad at not being able to have a proper birthday party with friends.

DispatchLIVE reported that, luckily, a group of hardworking men in the refuse removal team from the Inxuba Yethemba municipality, who were on duty, took the time to serenade her.

Asked whether the team would be getting some cake any time soon, Louise’s father, Ricky, said: “Oh, they already got their share today. We wouldn’t have it any other way.”

On Friday, rural development agrarian reform MEC  Nomakhosazana Meth will be in Cradock to hand over food parcels and fresh vegetables to hawkers.

“Hawkers are integral to the SA economy, offering easy access to a wide range of goods and services in public spaces,” Meth’s spokesperson Ayongezwa Lungisa said on Thursday.  

“The impact of Covid-19 on hawkers and small businesses has been severe. Covid-19 has affected their trade, with some being unable to put food on the table.”

Many smaller businesses are struggling.

Makhanda barbershop owner Siyabulela Tate Hoboshe and his three employees will have no income during the lockdown.

“It truly is a challenging time for all of us. The worst part is having to pay rent at the end of the month, let alone our personal expenses.”

Tate’s Barbershop’s neighbour on High Street is Room Service Linen Supply, owned by Thantaswa Botile, who invested all her money in setting up and opening the store in January and is a long way from recovering her investment.

“I’m not coping. My business depends on people coming, seeing items they need and then buying. I don’t see my business surviving this.”

Border-Kei Chamber of Business executive director Les Holbrook said some of the chamber’s members were saying that by the end of the third week “they won’t have money left.”

Rosheda Muller, president-elect of the SA Informal Traders Alliance (Saita), told the Dispatch a R3,000 payment would “go a long way” towards easing the burden on hawkers.

She admitted it would be difficult to distribute the R3,000, since most informal traders were not organised, but said they were working with  Cosatu to mobilise informal traders.

Catholic Bishop of Mthatha Sithembele Sipuka said poor people would be doubly affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

“It will decimate huge numbers of people” and the stress of “sitting at home for 21 days” means people have no “means to provide for themselves”. — Additional reporting by Bhongo Jacob and Mkhululi Ndamase

If you’re looking for all the latest news in South Africa, you’ve come to the right place; here are the major headlines on Friday 3 April.

The revision of lockdown regulations, affecting public transport and inter-provincial movement, has been met with mixed reactions. In an attempt to curb the coronavirus’ spread, the health department has begun to roll-out its ‘COVID Home Visits Programme’ during the window of opportunity presented by the national lockdown.

Today’s latest news in South Africa, Friday 3 April

Further amendments to lockdown regulations

Following in the wake of Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula’s decision to ‘relax’ capacity protocols concerning the taxi industry, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, added to the ever-evolving regulatory gazette on Thursday afternoon.

Dlamini-Zuma’s amendments deal with three main areas of concern:

1. The rights of movement afforded to mourners within the context of a burial
2. The prohibition of inter-provincial travel (with exceptions for essential workers, freight and funeral services)
3. The rights of repatriation flights ordered to evacuate foreign nationals from within South Africa’s borders (to be overseen by the Department of Home Affairs)
4. The creation of a COVID-19 tracing database and associated reports

Dlamini-Zuma attached, together with the gazetted amendments, an example of a permit required ‘to travel to another metropolitan area, district or province’, adding that law enforcement agencies conducting roadblocks and vehicle checkpoints had been instructed to verify documentation while conducting operations.

Number of coronavirus cases rise to 1 462

The number of positive coronavirus cases in South Africa has risen to 1 462 — an increase of 82 from Wednesday 1 April. Fortunately, Mkhize noted that the death toll had not risen since Wednesday.

‘COVID Home Visits Program’ focuses on 993 strategic priority wards

Government’s newest initiative to combat the coronavirus’ spread is aimed at early detection by way of the ‘COVID Home Visits Programme’. In conjunction with the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the health department has embarked on a vigorous door-to-door testing campaign.

The operation, which will initially focus on ‘993 strategic priority wards’, will make use of 10 000 field workers and more than 60 mobile COVID-19 testing facilities.

Health minister Zweli Mkhize added that the programme would also use technological advancements to trace primary points of contact in an attempt to mitigate secondary-infections.

German tourists to be repatriated from South Africa

Kerstin Bittiger, spokeswoman of the German Embassy in South Africa, has confirmed that repatriation efforts would begin today, following a plea from citizens ‘trapped’ in the country. According to Bittiger, over 5 000 German tourists are currently stuck under lockdown in South Africa.

The closing of borders and almost all air traffic has made the prospect of traditional fare back to Germany almost impossible, leading the German government to step in with a repatriation program. Bittiger noted that the flights would be operated by South African Airways (SAA), adding:

“For the coming days and weeks, we have an enormous logistical challenge ahead of us in order to get our compatriots home.

We are grateful for the cooperation with the South African government. And we are glad to join forces with SAA as a reliable partner. We hope our compatriots will be back with their friends and families in Germany very soon.”

Bittiger did, however, note that any tourists displaying symptoms associated with the deadly coronavirus would not be repatriated back to Germany. Those left behind would need to follow the South African government’s instructions regarding lockdown, quarantine and treatment.

Zwelinzima Vavi in good spirits despite COVID-19 diagnosis

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, has tested positive for COVID-19. During a live interview, Vavi revealed his positive status, adding that he had no idea how he’d contracted the virus. Vavi announced:

“I am fine in good spirits at home and have started to follow instructions of self-isolating!  Have to get everyone tested at home! Family, friends comrades in obvious panic but I am fine and I will win again! Just overwhelmed by media interests which is natural but I can’t cope.”

Vavi said that he underwent the COVID-19 test after developing flu-like symptoms.

Labour inspectors crack-down on uncooperative businesses  

A Department of Employment and Labour blitz inspection in Standerton, Mpumalanga, has led to the closure of Pax Agricultural Primary Co-operation Limited.

The employer was found to be non-compliant with the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act standards and also not adhering to COVID-19 regulations.                                                                                             

The blitz inspections were triggered by a number of anonymous complaints, which were reported to the department.

The inspection found that the employer failed to conduct a risk assessment in order to implement precautionary measures to prevent the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Among other findings, employees were not trained on the precautionary measures to be taken in order to protect themselves against any harm to their well-being, particularly on the risks caused by exposure to hazardous biological agents like COVID-19.

Employees were also not given sanitisers, water and soap for basic personal hygiene, and were not furnished with personal protective equipment, as per the OHS standards. (Source: SAnews)

Fish River Canoe Marathon organisers expect paddling festival to go ahead

With the current uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus outbreak worldwide, organisers of the 39th edition of the Fish River Canoe Marathon are confident that they will be able to put on another exciting instalment of the race from 25-26 September.

This year the world has been thrown into limbo as this virus spreads through every country around the world and South Africa is currently in the grips of a nationwide lockdown to try and curb the spread locally.

All sporting events and gatherings have been cancelled or postponed for the next few months, but with five months until the Cradock classic, organisers are hopeful that we will be back to some sort of normality by then.

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A 54-year-old man by the name of Pangaker Moyhdian, believed to know the whereabouts of missing Tazne van Wyk, has been arrested in the Eastern Cape following a two-week search by Western Cape police. 

Eight-year-old Van Wyk went missing on Friday 7 February. She was last seen by her father in Claire Street, Connaught Estate, in Elsies River, on her way to a nearby tuck shop. 

According to witnesses, the child was last seen with a man who is known to them, but who has since disappeared.

Man accused of abducting Van Wyk arrested in Eastern Cape  

The investigation led Cape Town-based detectives to the Eastern Cape, where they later found the suspect in Cradock, northeast of Port Elizabeth. 

Cradock police arrested Moyhdian in the Cradock policing precinct on Monday 17 February at about 22:15. He is expected to appear in the Cradock Magistrate’s Court soon. 

Van Wyk has still not been found. 

“Tazne was last seen wearing a red-and-white top and red shorts. She can further be identified by the scar on her left hand from a prior operation, a missing tooth in her upper jaw, brown eyes and black hair. She is roughly 20kgs and is 1.5m in height.” 

Western Cape Minister of Community Safety Albert Fritz 

According to EWN, Van Wyk’s mother, Carmen, alleged that Moyhdian was recently released from prison after allegedly kidnapping and murdering his two-year-old son.

According to her, Moyhdian was also stalking eight-year-old Van Wyk. Moyhdian was allegedly staying at a family home situated on the same premises as the tuck shop where Van Wyk was last seen.

‘Our innocent children are under attack’

Eastern Cape Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General, Liziwe Ntshinga commended the police for the speedy arrest of the suspect and added that the Eastern Cape will not allow criminal elements to use it as a springboard for their nefarious activities. She appealed to anyone who has information that can help find the missing minor to share the information with the police. 

“Our innocent and unsuspecting children are under attack from merciless adults and police are their only hope in tracking down those who harm them. We would like the community to heighten their awareness and immediately report any missing person without wasting time,” she said. 

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Further to the Company’s announcement on 24 March 2020, Pan African Resources informs

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to conduct essential services during the 21-day lockdown period (the “National Lockdown”).
The Group’s actions are consistent with the regulations announced by President Cyril

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services, pumping and ventilation activities, metallurgical plant maintenance, inspection of

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and processing activities at its Elikhulu Tailings Retreatment Plant and at its Barberton Tailings

Retreatment Plant (collectively the “Group surface operations”). The Group surface

operations are currently operating at approximately 70 per cent of normal capacity. Barberton

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A relative of alleged child killer Moyhdian Pangarker, who gave him a place to sleep shortly before murdered Tazne van Wyk went missing, has said he is getting death threats and was attacked by someone who tried to set him alight, a Cape Town publication reported on Friday.

According to the Daily Voice, Stanley Adams, 67, found a man pouring petrol against his door on Sunday. The man reportedly doused him with it when he opened the door, but before the assailant could set it alight, relatives came to the elderly man’s aid after hearing him scream.

The attacker fled.

Pangarker is Adams’ brother-in-law. He said locals have threatened to kill anyone related to the murder accused.

He told the publication he had told the police Pangarker had disappeared on the same day Tazne was last seen.

The parolee had been sleeping on Adams’ couch after looking for a place to stay a week before the eight-year-old went missing.

 WATCH | President Cyril Ramaphosa apologises to Tazne van Wyk’s family  

Pangarker was cornered in Cradock last Monday after being on the run for almost two weeks following his identification as a person of interest in Tazne’s kidnapping.

After being transported back to Cape Town from the Eastern Cape town, Pangarker led the police to a stormwater drain outside Worcester where her body was found.

Tazne was last seen on February 7 walking to a tuckshop across the street from her home.

Pangarker, the Van Wyk family’s neighbour, has been charged with Tazne’s murder and appeared in the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

His criminal record dates to the 1980s and he had absconded from parole a year ago.

This week, President Cyril Ramaphosa, after meeting with Tazne’s parents Carmen and Terence, apologised to the residents of Connaught Estate that the alleged killer was released on parole, saying it was proof that there was “something wrong with our parole system”.

Meanwhile, social media reports that Pangarker had been “attacked” and was being treated at Karl Bremer Hospital has been rubbished by the Department of Correctional Services.

Spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo dismissed the claims as “fake news”.

– Compiled by Tammy Petersen

Police officers were allegedly too scared to search a property pointed out as a potential hiding place of Moyhdian Pangarker when he was sought for the disappearance of Tazne van Wyk, her grieving mother told Police Minister Bheki Cele on Wednesday.

Carmen van Wyk said that after eight-year-old Tazne disappeared on February, 7, one of the people searching for her reported a sighting of Pangarker. At the time, he was thought to have been the last person seen with Tazne at the tuck shop just outside their home.

Unsuccessful phone calls were made to police at first. When nobody answered, residents went to the police station to inform them that they might know where Pangarker was.

The mother said police sent just one van to the property where there had been a sighting of Pangarkar and the child.

“When they got in front of that house in that same street, the police told them: ‘I’m sorry, we’re not going in here because we were thrown with stones.’ Can it be that a policeman can refuse to go in where there was a possible lead?” asked Tazne’s mother, Carmen.

As tears welled in her eyes, she maintained an angry strength and told Cele what her family had been through.

With Cele squeezed on the couch between her and Tazne’s dad, Terence, Carmen said police officers should have brought back-up, or at the very least “one simple army van” to check out the house.

This was a reference to the army vehicles patrolling parts of the Cape Flats to assist police action against gangs.

She said after they complained about not getting enough information on the search for Pangarker and Tazne, the police became more active.

She added the family felt as if the police were relying on them for new information.

As they spoke, their voices were drowned out every few minutes by passenger jets flying metres above their corrugated iron roof, on their final descent to Cape Town International Airport.

Their home was hot from the summer sun, and behind the couch Tazne’s award for outstanding achievement in Grade 2 Mathematics hung on the wall. Home-crafted framed collages of family photographs filled the wall space, with inspirational quotes taking up the available shelf space.

Cele listened as the parents said that some people even accused them of being linked to their child’s disappearance.

He was stunned to see how close the front door of the family’s home was to the shop where Tazne was last seen.

The Van Wyks were upset that the media knew before them that Pangarker had been arrested in Cradock in the Eastern Cape, and that a body had been found on the side of the road near Worcester.

“Why does the media have to hear about everything that’s happening and afterwards they [police] come to us when we have already seen it on the phone in the news and heard about it in voice notes?” asked Carmen.

News24 asked Carmen for permission to report on their conversation with Cele, and she agreed.

In a short public address after his visit with the family, Cele said the “first prize” is to keep children safe; the “second prize” is to keep them alive; and, the “third prize” is to know what happened.

He said a task team, which included the Department of Justice and Correctional Services, will examine all aspects of Tazne’s murder, including how Pangarker absconded from parole and why he was released, given his long list of convictions.

“I have listened to the family. They have raised some few issues and these are issues that are going to be pursued and a report will go to the president,” he said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, Justice Minister Ronald Lamola and Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, also visited the family on Tuesday.

Amid calls outside the house by some neighbours for the death sentence, Cele said South Africa’s Constitution forbids it.

He said he had been on the phone daily during the search “pushing” police to find Tazne.

“Besides the few things that they might have done incorrectly, they [the police] put in a lot of effort.”

He would not use the word “happy” to describe his response to the investigation.

“Happy? I can’t be happy with a dead child. If the child was alive, I would be very, very happy. Unfortunately, our best has become the worst when we find a dead kid.”

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Coronavirus has all but brought the world to its knees. Countries are under lockdown. People are being quarantined. Stock markets are falling. Life as we know it has been fundamentally altered, requiring a recalibration of actions and behaviours, both large and small. This global crisis has placed our human fragility into stark focus. Who are we without our health?

When we think of our human rights, dignity, equality, and freedom are the obvious things that come to mind. Now more than ever, it is our right to health that we need to uphold. In order to defend the rights we are entitled to, we must protect our wellbeing and that of others.

It is within our constitutional right to have access to healthcare. But it is up to us to champion this right. The government can only provide treatments, medicines, and services within its available resources. Healthcare in South Africa is still reeling from the effects of apartheid. Although we are valiantly dealing with the outbreak of coronavirus, there’s no denying that we have some way to go in terms of our healthcare system. So it is up to all of us to contribute. Just as we have in the past, we must now stand together for our rights, particularly our right to be healthy. And that means being mindful of the role we can play.

Old divisions, new burdens

In South Africa, our healthcare system is divided between the public and private sector – that is, between the wealthy and poor, and between rural and urban areas. While strides have been made to redress the unequal healthcare system of apartheid, imbalances remain. Approximately only 16% of the population has medical aid coverage, granting them easier access to private facilities which have higher standards of care.

Our public health system, which serves the majority of the population, is inundated with challenges: a shortage of equipment, lack of personnel, an overburden of healthcare users. Many medical practitioners choose to enter the private sector or move overseas to better facilities. The effects of this inequality reflect in the state of our healthcare system in comparison to the rest of the world. In 2016, South Africa was ranked 127 out of 195 countries on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index.

The proposed introduction of the National Health Bill aims to address the deficiencies affecting our health services. Whether it will be effective is yet to be seen. We must all take collective responsibility for our wellbeing. And here is the good news. South Africans are demonstrating what it means to protect and care for one another. Even long before the outbreak, people have been quietly working behind the scenes to improve our healthcare, ensuring no one gets left behind. Our right to health is already in our hands.

The right to health requires action

Committed professionals are transforming healthcare services in their own way, defending the rights of people. Dr Paulo de Valdoleiros only became a doctor at the age of 51. While he always dreamed of helping people, he couldn’t afford to attend medical school until later in life. Recognising the need for accessible care, he allows his patients to pay what they can. “One of the problems in healthcare is that we depersonalise the patient,” he says. “I believe that healthcare is a calling and not a profession like any other.”

In the community of Atlantis, unabating gang-related casualties prevented healthcare workers from attending to the community. So in May 2019, nurse Olivia Pharo cashed in her pension and opened a clinic to assist those in need. She also offers house calls for patients who are bedridden or don’t have transport. In the first three months of opening, she helped over 700 people.

While completing her community service in the small town of Cradock, Dr Nosimphiwo Peni felt the strain of limited resources. She could have moved on to the private sector. Instead, she stayed, determined to fix the problem rather than ignore it. Dr Peni has since opened the first ever 24-hour clinic in Cradock. As the only doctor there, she lives above the facility, always on call.

It is not only doctors and nurses making the change. Optometrist Werner Fourie provides affordable eye tests and glasses to people in disadvantaged areas, while Sizwe Nzima delivers chronic medication to over 2 000 people in Khayelitsha who cannot easily get to the pharmacy. Then there’s Sthembiso Ngubo. After years working as a gardener, he qualified as a paramedic. Now he has his own ambulance service, going into communities that other emergency services refuse to out of fear of crime.

While the world devolves into a state of panic and prevention, these everyday heroes remind us that there is hope. Upholding our right to health depends on individuals dedicated to saving and improving lives. It depends on all of us. Our health is our humanity. So take care of yourself. Take care of your fellow human. We aren’t just bodies, or patients. We are people. And we must protect one another.

                            
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The criminal justice system failed murdered Tazne van Wyk, Police Minister Bheki Cele said at her funeral in Cape Town on Saturday.

Addressing mourners in Elsies River, Cele said government needed to relook the country’s laws.

“Our system failed Tazne van Wyk,” he said, metres away from her little white coffin.

“Some laws are too kind to these perpetrators. These women cause no crimes – these men cause trouble, but we focus less and less on them. Maybe the time has come that the concentration and the calls move to men.”

Cele, Western Cape Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo and Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato were among the mourners at Van Wyk’s funeral at the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa on Saturday.

Speakers at her final farewell charged that government had failed to keep the 8-year-old safe by releasing her alleged killer on parole.

Murder accused Moyhdian Pangarker was cornered in Cradock last Monday after he went on the run for nearly two weeks following his identification as a person of interest in Van Wyk’s kidnapping.

After being transported back to Cape Town from the Eastern Cape town, Pangarker led the police to a stormwater drain outside Worcester where her body was found.

Van Wyk was last seen on February 7, walking to a tuck shop across the street from her home.

Children are killed ‘by our own husbands, brothers and sons’

Pangarker, the Van Wyk family’s neighbour, has been charged with Tazne’s murder and appeared in the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court last Friday.

His criminal record dates back to the 1980s and he had absconded from parole a year ago.

This week, President Cyril Ramaphosa, after meeting with Tazne’s parents, Carmen and Terence, apologised to the residents of Connaught Estate, Elsies River, that the alleged killer was released on parole.

He said it was proof that there was “something wrong with our parole system”.

At the funeral, Mbombo said children were being killed “by our own husbands, brothers and sons”.

“We are bleeding inside, because these are our own relatives.”

Plato said the focus should shift to men.

“The issue is not the women anymore – the skirt she is wearing, the dress, what she looks like or how she walks,” he said.

“The issue must shift a little bit to the men in society.”

Van Wyk was buried at the Modderdam Cemetery.

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Cape Town – Moehydien Pangaker was on Friday charged with the kidnapping and murder of eight-year-old Tazne van Wyk whose body was found in a stormwater pipe in Worcester on Wednesday evening two weeks after she disappeared.

The 54-year-old appeared at the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court where residents crowded Court C and the street outside.

Wearing a beige pants and striped shirt Pangaker covered his face and through his Legal Aid lawyer told the court he has injuries to his neck, ribs, arms and legs allegedly caused by the police.

Pangaker who has sparked an uproar since police named him as the prime suspect in the disappearance of Tazne, will not be applying for bail. 

Earlier emotions ran high inside and outside the court with supporters banging on doors and chanting “we want justice”.

Police officers and court personnel had tough time controlling the crowds. SAPS officers were forced to allow the surging crowd into the already-packed courtroom which is now bursting at capacity. At one stage, the father of Tazne had to appeal to the raucous crowd for calm.

One court personnel member threatened the crowd that he would ask the magistrate to move proceedings to the prison should order not be restored. 

Tazne disappeared metres from her Ravensmead home almost two weeks ago.

On Monday Pangaker, an ex-convict who apparently lived in the same area, was tracked down to Cradock in the Eastern Cape, where he appeared in court and was charged with kidnapping. He was then transported to Cape Town. 

Interviewing of the suspect on Wednesday night led detectives to the gruesome discovery of Tazne’s body in a stormwater pipe outside Worcester.

Weekend Argus 

Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, has admitted that parole boards are given “flawed” data when needing to consider whether a prisoner should be eligible for parole. 

Lamola said on Wednesday that improving data on whether a prisoner would re-offend if released could be the key to improving the country’s parole policy. 

Lamola had convened an urgent two-day meeting with high-ranking officials in his department as well as the province’s correctional service parole boards to address what it sees as systemic flaws in the parole system.

“There are flaws in terms of the data that we put in front of the parole boards. The data needs to be as comprehensive as possible when the board takes a decision,” Lamola said.

“The clearest thing we all need to attend to as a matter of urgency … is the management of data.”

The discussion around parole has been reignited after the recent deaths of eight-year-old Tazne van Wyk outside Worcester and eight-year-old Reagan Gertse in separate incidents, when it emerged that their alleged killers were allegedly out on parole during the incidents. 

Officials have reviewed parole granted in the Western Cape in the last financial year to evaluate whether there had been any failure to comply with the processes and procedures of the Correctional Services Act.

For example, child killers should be declared dangerous criminals and handed an indefinite sentence as allowed by the Act, Lamola said.

“It is high time we send a clear message that re-offending comes at a severe cost to one’s liberty,” he said, adding that criminologists and psychiatrists needed to play a role in the parole process. 

“I am pleased to hear that a team of this nature has been set up to profile all gender-based violence and femicide offender cases to ensure that these offenders are directed to a specific type of sentence plan.”

Lamola said, however, that the parole system was “flawed, but not broken”.

Relooked, revamped

Last week, Lamola together with President Cyril Ramaphosa met with the parents of murdered Tazne, whose body was found dead in a stormwater drain outside Worcester, not far from her home in Connaught Estate.

Moyhdian Pangarker, who stands accused of her murder, has a criminal record stretching back to the 1980s. He had allegedly absconded from parole a year ago. 

He was cornered in Cradock after being on the run for almost two weeks after being identified as a person of interest in her kidnapping. After being transported back to Cape Town from the Eastern Cape town, Pangarker led police to Tazne’s decomposing body.

After meeting with her parents, Terence and Carmen, Ramaphosa apologised to Connaught Estate residents, who were angry after hearing allegations that Pangarker had been released on parole.

Ramaphosa, along with Lamola, told residents that the parole system would be relooked and revamped so that a similar situation does not happen.

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On Tuesday, convicted rapist and parolee Jakobus Petoors, 58, came under attack in the Tulbagh Magistrate’s Court, where he appeared for the abduction, rape and murder of eight-year-old Reagan Gertse.

His parole was revoked following his arrest for Reagan’s murder on Sunday – the same day he went missing.

The boy’s body was found on a riverbank.

Irate residents attempted to assault him in the dock, resulting in the police and prison warders repeatedly returning the accused to the holding cells for his safety.

Parole boards must listen to public

The case against him was eventually postponed in absentia.

“Now, more than ever, we need robust, transparent and consistent practices for managing consequences of non-compliance across the board,” Lamola said.

“Parole boards across the country must be sensitive to the public outcry on gender-based violence and crime in general.

“The actions of the parole boards must enhance the administration of justice in general. We have the tools to give effect to the president’s directive to ensure that the [alleged] murderers of Tazne and Reagan never walk in our communities again.”

Lamola said a discussion document had been compiled to deal with the review of the parole policy.