Khuluma May 2019

Words: Keith Bain, Picture: Supplied DISAPPEARING SPECIES DISCOVER

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People. Ideas. Things.

THE VANISHING

It’s by no means a day for
celebration. Rather, it’s testament
to the dire state of our world today
– 17 May is Endangered Species

Day. Among those doing their
bit to raise awareness are South
African filmmakers Bruce Young

(who made the documentary
Blood Lions) and Johan

Vermeulen (known for Kalahari
Tails). In their new film, The Eye
of the Pangolin, the duo showcase
Africa’s four pangolin species.

These curious, infrequently
spotted creatures were all but
unheard of until a few years ago,
but are now in the limelight mostly
for the wrong reasons: they’re the
most trafficked animals on the
planet, servicing a cutthroat illicit
industry. Aside from issues such

as habitat depletion, they’re
facing extinction due to an
insatiable demand in Asia where
their scales are used in Chinese
medicine and their meat is
a delicacy. The Eye of the Pangolin
was filmed in the Kalahari, Ghana’s
Bia Forest, Dzanga-Sangha Forest
in the Central African Republic
and in Gabon’s Lopé National Park;
it will be widely available for
online viewing and download

as of 17 May.

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sCtheaprhitaynB_feegrirnesirWaith Me ost people will look at this
photo and just see 950
Roafndkoinmdnacetsss1369276lilikkeess children showing up for
a meal. But that’s not
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sitting in his wheelchair holding a soccer ball
kulula.com – his favourite sport that he will most likely
never really get to play. And my dearest
Lazi, without shoes. Again. Despite my
best efforts to hand out a new pair
every week.
‘And then there is my beautiful little
Charmaine. She lives with her mom and
an older and younger brothers. I have
been to their house many times and they
never have food. I honestly don’t know
how they survive.
‘These little hands grab mine as I walk
across the play area. I see their faces when
I close my eyes. And I carry their hearts in
mine every time I say goodbye. These are my
kids. We are not related by blood, but rather
by love. In just under two years they have
completely changed my life and in return
I am desperately trying to change theirs.’
This is from a post written by Stephan
Ferreira on his Facebook page, Charity Begins
With Me. This big-hearted young man from
Gauteng has been battling leukaemia since
2013, but somehow he – and his friends – find
the time and energy to make a difference
in their West Rand community through
tireless charitable acts, from organising food
donations for feeding over 900 disadvantaged
children to renovating a community centre
for them and organising baked treats for our
often-neglected elders in old age homes.
‘The idea behind Charity Begins With Me
is to show people how easy it is to make
a difference. You don’t need a lot of money.
You don’t need a lot of time. You just need
to do something! No act of kindness is too
small. If we all work together we can
change the world…’

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WHAT OUR FOUR-LEGGED 684 likes
FRIENDS TEACH US
Olwethu Dlamini and his dog Special. #fundanenja
When he first met his new best friend, he named him
Sniffer, because everything in sight was given a good 4 DAYS AGO
sniff. ‘But then I decided Dot was a much better name
for a beautiful dog,’ says eight-year-old Phiwokuhle fundanenja FOLLOW
Kunene from Mpophomeni township, just outside Howick Funda Nenja
in the rolling hills of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. Every
Friday afternoon, Phiwokuhle and Dot race to their class 1 054 likes
at a dog training initiative called Funda Nenja, which
roughly translates from isiZulu to ‘learning with a dog’. Sitting is easy, not so much staying! #fundanenja
Here, under the guidance of founder Adrienne Olivier and
her team of trainers, 80 children and their dogs are taught
discipline and respect.

Phiwokuhle is very diligent with training his energetic
brown and white pooch, but admits it’s not always easy. ‘Dot
can do “sit” and “down”, but he can’t do “stay” or other things
because he likes to go smell instead,’ he says. ‘The most
important thing I’ve learnt is how to love your dog and keep
him safe, and now when I walk Dot in the streets I keep him
on my left side when we pass other dogs and then the other
dogs won’t fight with him.’

For his dad Sibusiso, his son’s classes over the past year
have done wonders for him. ‘Phiwokuhle struggles with
learning and concentration. Here he has learnt how to take
responsibility and be punctual. He even does his homework
by himself now,’ the proud dad enthuses. ‘Funda Nenja has
helped our township – children have somewhere to go
now and learn so many necessary lessons. It’s a very
powerful project.’

For Adrienne, the most rewarding aspect of her work is
seeing the loving bond and trust develop between her two-
legged and four-legged students and the healing effect that the
dogs have on children that often come from very challenging
home circumstances. ‘By changing their attitudes and emotional
response towards their pets, we’re investing in the future and
not just applying a “Band-Aid” approach to animal welfare,’
says the professional dog training instructor who launched her
initiative in 2009 and also provides social welfare to her students
and veterinary services to the community. ‘Our children will
hopefully become agents of change and role models of responsible,
caring dog owners in their communities, as well as maturing into
compassionate adults who adopt a kind, non-violent approach to
life in general.’ fundanenja.co.za

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#fundanenja the children and their dogs, and ultimately their families
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rabies vaccine and dewormed. #fundanenja

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THUSA NGWANA GENO!

Maybe you’ve seen him dressed in his graduation gown, standing at a robot in Pretoria or

Potchefstroom, but shrugged him off without a second glance. If you had looked closer at the

cardboard sign round his neck, you’d have read: ‘I am a graduate and I want someone to be like

me! #ThusaNgwanaGeno’. And if you’d engaged him in conversation, you’d have discovered that

the humble John Ntshaupe Molepo is a lecturer at North West University’s School of Social and

Government Studies in Potchefstroom.

The founder of the Youth Empowerment Organisation (YEO), a non-profit organisation that

helps disadvantaged students with financial challenges and skills development, John launched 976 likes

his Thusa Ngwana Geno initiative in 2017 to help first-year students pay their registration fees. PLANTING SEEDS
OF KINDNESS
The name means ‘Help your sister/brother’ and it’s a very personal campaign for John. ‘I had
When he woke up one
financial problems while I was studying, as it was difficult for my mom to afford the fees, but she morning in 2017, Johan Scott,

and our community helped me,’ he relates. ‘I didn’t want other students suffering that way and a retired policeman from
Heidelberg, was shocked to
wanted to help them achieve their dreams.’ see someone had stripped
his pride and joy, his veggie
So he recruited a group of graduates to take to the roads and ask for motorists’ spare change. garden. However, rather than
getting the police involved
Surprisingly, taxi drivers became their most generous contributors. ‘I was shocked when one taxi or giving into anger, Johan
grabbed his spade and took
driver gave me a R200 note, a more novel approach: he
dug up his own sidewalk
saying, “My child once suffered
and planted all sorts of
yyoouutthheemmppoowweerrmmeennttssaa.co.za FOLLOW and I know the pain of not having seeds, including tomatoes,
money. I’m doing this so that the pumpkins, eggplants and
next child doesn’t suffer.” Some
beans, creating a new
even pledged to contribute R50 pavement garden whose
produce could be picked by
every day they saw us at the anyone in his community
who wanted it. ‘Instead of
robots. Then, there was another getting angry, I realised that
they’re not stealing, they just
gentleman, although not a taxi need food. And since I can’t
give them a job, the least
driver, who handed me R5 000
I can do is share my
in cash and said, “Young man, vegetables with them,’ he
told Sunday Times journalist
what you are all doing is great. Kgaugelo Masweneng. When
asked what his ultimate
Be blessed.” I cried.’ gardening advice to those
struggling with growing
John and his team have vegetables was, he replied,
‘Any vegetable or ower is
managed to assist more than like a human being. When
you give it love, it loves
200 students with these
you back.’
donations, as well as money

donated by companies and

individuals who sponsor

individual students, he says.

‘It’s vital that every South

African gives back to their

community and lends their

help to those who need it

764 likes to most. The government alone
gmraed!’u#aTtheuasnadNIgwwaanntasGoemneoone can’t solve every social
‘I am a problem – we need to work
be like together to assist each other.’

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primate_care FOLLOW many misperceptions that persist among
CARE: Centre for Animal Rehabilitation us about these ‘intelligent, curious, family-
and Education orientated, adaptable problem-solvers,’
says Samantha Dewhirst, C.A.R.E.’s
586 likes assisting managing director. ‘Many write
off baboons as aggressive vermin, but
Rinetshceueh,eraerhtaobfilAitfarticioan!,#rperleimasaeteo_fcoarrpehaned baboons baboons are iconic to Africa and deserve
our empathy and appreciation for the role
Pictures: Thabo Molepo, Sarah Pryke, Stephan Ferreira, Focus Photo CARING FOR THE Eavie was brought back from the brink that they play in nature. There are only
MISUNDERSTOOD of death. five baboon species in Africa and chacma
baboons are only found in Southern
When they found Eavie, she was clinging With her strength restored, she joined Africa. They offer immeasurable value
desperately to her dead mother who’d C.A.R.E.’s quarantine nursery where she to a healthy ecosystem as they aid seed
been killed in a snare. Eavie’s bones were met orphans Benjamin, whose mother dispersal, which is particularly important
jutting out through her thin, dehydrated had also died in a snare, and Sebastian, in that most South African land is split up
skin due to severe malnourishment and who lost his mom to vicious dogs. Eavie by fences, so seeds aren’t spread as easily.
her sweet little face was much darker has since bonded with her adoptive In times of drought, they help feed other
than it should have been, an indication of baboon mother Bianca and has joined the species that can’t climb trees to reach the
stress and trauma in a chacma baboon. 442-strong population of rehabilitated greenery – they discard fruit and branches
But under the gentle hands of the vets chacma baboons at the sanctuary that that ground-dwellers can eat. They also
and caregivers at C.A.R.E. Baboon & borders Kruger National Park. love bugs, especially termites, locusts and
Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre on the even scorpions, which helps keep these
banks of the Olifants River in Limpopo, Getting South Africans to care for the populations in check.’
welfare of baboons isn’t easy, due to the
Male baboons can seem scary with
their large canines, but they only use them
for survival and for bluff too, she says.
‘Baboons live in tight social troops and
males protect their families fiercely. What
you don’t realise is how loving the males
can be, until you see them taking care of
their infants who even ride on their bellies,’
says Samantha.

Another misperception is that baboons
are plentiful, but recent studies suggest
that their population is at risk. ‘Our
biggest stumbling block is finding safe,
suitable land owned by open-minded, kind
landowners who welcome our baboons,’
admits Samantha. However, C.A.R.E.
has managed to successfully release
14 troops into the wild and maybe one day
soon Eavie will be able to taste freedom
and roam her homeland unhindered.
primatecare.org/donate

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'My family is a blurry mess of brains and idiocy all in one,’ writes
20-year-old Saskia Bailey in her memoir, Whatever. ‘I love them, but
I don’t really want to be stuck in a room with them forever.’ In this extract

from the intimate account of her life so far, the author gets to grips
with her genetic and familial lineage

t isn’t all it’s made place, exploiting the hands that worked
out to be being the for him and getting richer and richer
great-grandchild of until at one point, he was the richest
the person Vanity Fair man in the country. That didn’t last long
labelled ‘Rhodes the though, largely as a result of other family
Second’. Don’t get members’ bad management and my
me wrong, the inheritance was lovely. great-grandfather’s susceptibility to being
I’d imagine, though, it was eaten up very taken advantage of. I’m very good at being
fast by my father, from whom I get my taken advantage of too. Like the time
‘mature’ palate. My dad, Beezy, grew I had an after-party and someone stole
up in the Cradle of Humankind, just money from the safe. Anyway, Great-
outside Joburg. My grandfather, Jim, Grandpapa wasn’t exactly an angel, but
used to say that Johannesburg had being a Randlord, he was a ‘man of his
a heart of gold. Cold, hard and yellow. time’ (as my history teacher described him
His father, Abe, had basically built the when I challenged her).

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DISCOVER GENE POOLS One of the impressive things he did frustrated, they’d go at it like rabbits
was tell his ‘guy’ on the stock exchange and because birth control wasn’t really
112 MAY 2019 to write on a note, ‘Abe Bailey is selling a thing, reproduction was rife. So, Jim
all his gold mines’ and drop it on the was born when Abe was probably in
floor. The 20-something intern was his 50s – there seemed to be a trend in
confused but did it anyway. Of course, my family of fathers having sons really
someone noticed the note, picked it up late in life. Abe had already done his bit
and got spooked; the news travelled in World War I and, later, Jim would be
fast and it wasn’t long before other recognised as a war hero after World
mine owners realised that if Abe was War II. My grandfather was a fighter pilot
selling, there was clearly something in the war and I shudder to think that he
terribly wrong. They felt super lucky to was no older than I am now… What the
come into this information and, thinking hell is wrong with countries that send
that they were now privy to secret mere children out to kill? Jim wrote
information and avoiding a terrible fate, extensively about being a pilot, including
they put their mines and land on the a beautiful poem in which he compares
market for half the price. Abe phoned his fellow pilots to birds migrating and
his ‘guy’ and instructed, ‘Buy it all.’ And watches them all being shot down. To
so Abe Bailey bought just about every this day, my father can’t read that poem
mine in Joburg for half-price. It wasn’t without crying.
illegal – it was just naughty. His son Jim
felt pretty bad about Daddy’s exploitation Jim was fascinating, but he had his
and when he came to South Africa, he faults. For instance, he met a woman he
was all eccentric, with way too much considered ‘eccentric’ and together they
money to know what to do with. He knew had a son who would become one of the
that he loved music, though, and loved most famous case studies for extreme
travelling around Africa to hang out with schizophrenia this country has ever seen.
people like Tanzanian president Julius All this time, the daughter of a friend,
Nyerere. Jim didn’t care much my gran, was waiting in the wings. She
for ‘separate but equal laws’ – he didn’t was 30 years younger than Jim and
care much for the societal norms in desperately in love with him. They’d met
general. So, he founded Drum magazine, when she was in her teens and she says
for what reason I’m unsure – if it was she fell in love with him when he, quite
a matter of white guilt, then so what. bizarrely, threw a dachshund dog at her.
But then most of what I have done Some would say it was love at first sight.
has been out of guilt, I guess. Either She got what she wanted – being the
way, Jim didn’t care too much about determined child of an orthodox doctor.
what was ‘acceptable’ at the time. A He was also kosher but was still fed
brief summary of him: Jim was born pork every morning by his dear wife who,
with loads of siblings because in those incidentally, had a boyfriend on the side.
days people tended to marry people My grandmother set her eye on the prize
they didn’t mind being stuck in a room and made it happen. She can be a force
with and then, because they were so to be reckoned with and so they were
quickly married. I don’t know much

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about the actual wedding, but I assume to stay at your place, you say yes – and Raised by her eccentric
my quirky gran wore a suit. They had you know that they are obliged to do the artist parents, Saskia
a bunch of kids, but my father was not same in return. I guess the reason you
one of them – despite being raised by trust family in this way is because you Bailey seemed to always
Jim, and all the time believing that he both know that you’re stuck with each want to be a writer.
was his father. My dad’s real father was other till death, unless either of you Published by Jacana,
a man by the name of Dennis. have the balls to sever the ties, which
only few members do. This constrictive Whatever is her debut
Dennis was an incredible man and contract can destroy your relationship memoir, comprising
apparently the reason for my funny over time, however, because nobody 30 fragmentary chapters
gene. He just kept sleeping with women likes not having a choice. The smaller written in a darkly
and, for some reason, always had sons. family you have, the better, richer and funny, brutally frank
The details of my dad’s conception happier you’ll be. They sap you over and utterly un ltered
are a secret closely guarded by my time for absolutely no reason other
grandmother. But what we do know is than the results of two people making style. She delves
that Dennis worked for Jim at Drum. One love sometime before you were even into her own family
fateful day he was told that the boss born and now you’re tied together by history, and ponders
wanted to see him in his office. Dennis some bond, some blood pact. I know it’s such issues as white
was probably a little nervous, I’d imagine, sad that I’m this cynical about family; privilege, sex, death,
and upon sitting him down, Jim came I suppose it’s because I’m of muddled drugs, the future, and
right out with it: ‘Erm, I believe you’ve European-white-South African descent. the narcissistic world
been sleeping with my wife. Please don’t.’ If I was more aligned with my Jewish of social media. Her
And that was that. My dad only worked blood, I’d be happy to share my last writing a ords insight
all of this out when he was 30 and called piece of bread with a cousin, because in into the millennial
Dennis, who was regarded as a good pretty much every religion and culture experience, articulating
family friend, and put it to him: ‘Where other than my own there is a sense of what it feels like to grow
were you in 1962?’, to which Dennis family, normalised by the strong sense of up in a world apparently
replied, ‘Probably in bed with your community from which I’m estranged. teetering at the brink
mother.’ As a result, I have been gifted
with Dennis’s branch of the family, They say it takes a village to raise of annihilation.
too, including his sons and their a child, but I was raised by my parents
children. I still have not met some of only some of the time and by nannies
my extended family – and I’m sure the rest of the time. Ironically, being in
Dennis died not even knowing about a blanket on my Xhosa nanny’s back
some of them – but the ones I have was when I slept most peacefully.
met I adore. Dennis passed down the Perhaps that’s why a lot of white people
wonderful drinking gene that I so are so messed up – they’re deprived of
happily embrace, as well as a love community and so lack the love that
of random romantic encounters that inevitably comes with that.
hopefully won’t result in me having
sons nonstop. I don’t hate my family, because that
wouldn’t exactly be original, would
There’s this strange obligation we are it? But I do equate a lot of them to
cursed with at birth, the obligation we mosquitoes. I just sincerely feel that you
have to family. If a family member asks should be able to choose your family.

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If the smell of burning rubber
gets you all worked up, then Red

Bull has a treat in store for you

ans of screeching engines Adding to the thrill, Cape Town fans will
and the hot slick and witness Scottish Formula One legend,
smoke of burning rubber David Coulthard – aka DC – behind the
will get a taste of Formula One in the wheel. Coulthard, who is known for his
Mother City when the world-touring smooth driving style and ability to tackle
Aston Martin Red Bull Racing crew
sets up its Cape Town Circuit early circuits where chicanes are common,
next month. The one-day event is finished in the top three of the world
designed to showcase how top-tier championship five times, ascended the
vehicle engineering and podium 62 times, and won 13 F1 Grand
high-performance
driving collude Prix races. Two of those wins
to produce truly were earned on the tight,
phenomenal four- narrow streets of Monte
wheel action. The Carlo, which is where
machine in question Coulthard delivered Aston
has won four back- Martin Red Bull Racing’s
to-back Formula first podium in 2006.
One World While there’s no racing
Constructors’ involved, the Cape Town
Championships. demonstration driving
Capable of event includes all the
accelerating sound and fury, plus
from zero to the smells, sparks
100km/h in and smoke of
2.4 seconds an F1 gathering.
and able to reach speeds of Coulthard
over 250km/h, it’s been showcased on will not only
the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, in the docklands of Marseille,
through Belfast’s tiny city centre at night, and even on the be showing off the vehicle’s
roof of a Miami skyscraper. incredible road handling and grip around
corners, but demonstrating its compelling playfulness, too. He’ll
be joined by local motorsport stars, who’ll add a South African
dimension to the show.

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Coulthard
(right) with Red
Bull driver Max
Verstappen (middle)
and Australia’s
Daniel Ricciardo

IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT for the 1996 season. He won two races and 2000, and finished 2nd – behind Words: Keith Bain, Pictures: Jarno Schurgers, Marcel van Hoorn,
in 1997 and finished third in the World Michael Schumacher – in the 2001 Drivers’ Getty Images, all Red Bull Content Pool
Born in Twynholm in southwest Drivers’ Championship in 1998. While Championship. In 2005, he moved to Red
Scotland, David Coulthard has racing with McLaren, he won five races in 1999 Bull and, in 2006, secured the team’s first
in his blood. His grandfather competed podium. He retired from F1 racing at the
in the Monte Carlo Rally, and his father, end of 2008 after finishing runner-up in
who was the Scottish national karting the Drivers’ Cup. He went on to become
champion, gave him his first kart for his a journalist and television presenter and
11th birthday. He became the Scottish commentator, while continuing with Red Bull
Junior Kart Champion, the Scottish Open as a testing and development consultant.
Kart Champion, and the British Super 1 In 2010, he briefly returned to active
Kart Champion. When he transitioned motorsports, and has also won the Race
to Formula 3, he enjoyed a number of of Champions twice – in 2014 in Barbados,
victories, including the Macau Grand Prix, and then again last year in Riyadh where he
and was the Le Mans 24 Hours Winner defeated Petter Solberg in the final.
in the GT class in 1993. He progressed to
Formula One with Williams F1 after the Coulthard will
death of Ayrton Senna in 1994, and the be in the Aston Martin
following year won his first Grand Prix driver’s seat during the
in Portugal, before moving to McLaren Red Bull Cape Town Circuit

happening at the
Grand Parade, in front of

City Hall, on 2 June.
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START YOUR ENGINES

If thoughts of Red Bull’s Aston Martin get you revved up, consider a trip to Knysna for the Jaguar
Simola Hillclimb, South Africa’s answer to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. From humble
beginnings in 2009 when just 47 entrants competed in a single class event (won by the legendary
Sarel van der Merwe who raced an Ashley Masters V8), the Hillclimb has evolved into an
invitational competition with prizes in 20 di erent classes. Entries are now limited to 65 for
Classic Car Friday (for historic, classic and vintage cars representing the period from pre-war
to 1985), and 84 for the King of the Hill Shootout when the country’s fastest machines duel it
out on Simola Hill. Last year, entrants clocked 1 406 timed runs up the 1.9km route; last year’s
Shootout winner was Andre Bezuidenhout (pictured) who also set the lap record of 35.528
seconds in his Gould GR55. Activities kick o on 2 May with the Classic Car Display on Hedge
Street, followed by a parade that continues along Waterfront Drive. 2–5 May, speedfestival.co.za

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and of course John and Yoko all did it. And those iconic creations from South African a slightly tart dimension to the sweetness of
that’s what Richard Stirton (who won the jewellers, Shimansky. Crafted in 18K white the naturally fermented juice of hand-picked,
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the record’s called Naked and is meant 6 Miracle substance or not, fulvic acid is
metaphorically – it’s all about Stirton ‘getting 4 Expo giant Messe Frankfurt brings its being described in glowing terms in scientific
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You can, of course, listen to it fully clothed, exhibition – ATF Expo – to Cape Town next soil, and in the human body acts as an
but that wouldn’t be nearly as much fun. month. With over 150 exhibitors from antioxidant and electrolyte, speeding up the
10 countries, it’s an opportunity for buyers absorption of essential minerals into cells,
2 Robots and algorithms, say the to discover all manner of textile products, fuelling muscle activity, and reducing muscle
forecasters, are coming for our jobs. And from casual apparel, functional fabrics and fatigue and lactic acid build-up. One way of
tech’s ever-expanding foothold makes the children’s clothing to formalwear and the getting it into your body without eating dirt is
career landscape unknowable. Under the latest fabric innovations. Aside from the by drinking MiWater, a thirst-quenching mix
microscope at this month’s My Future trade exhibition, there will be fashion of purified water and natural fulvic acid.
4.0 Summit are robotics, gaming and shows, business-to-business matchmaking drinkmiwater.com
the upskilling required for tomorrow’s job meetings, and trend workshops. CTICC,
market. It’ll showcase coding, virtual 12–14 June. 7 Winter is coming and for many that
reality, nanotech, AI, 3D printing, and much spells chapped lips or even more serious
more, with talks by industry leaders, tech blistering and cracks. To the rescue is
junkies and trend analysts. And visitors can Blistex Conditioning Lip Serum – it
spend time with Pepper, South Africa’s first contains a moisturising, nutrient-rich
humanoid robot, who’ll be available for formulation of olive and avocado oils, vitamin
chats and selfies! Ticketpro Dome, Joburg, E and omega-3 fatty acids which penetrate
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deliver concentrated nutrients to the tissue,
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8 Co-located with the aforementioned ATF 8 a massive showcase of sporting disciplines
Expo, Source Africa is a similarly-focused – from amateur and pro bodybuilding to
textiles trade exhibition that includes African dancing, five-a-side football, arm wrestling
country pavilions, business seminars, cocktail and sports for the deaf. And there will be
functions and a fashion show organised by some hot bods showing off their, um,
Enterprise Mauritius. Its objective is to sixteen packs, of course. 17–19 May,
promote textiles, clothing, footwear and arnoldclassicafrica.com
fashion accessories made in Africa,
showcasing them to international buyers and 12 Forget the elephant in the room.
boosting trade within the continent. CTICC, Now there’s elephant dung in your gin.
Cape Town, 12–14 June, sourceafrica.co.za Indlovu Gin is infused with botanicals
foraged and eaten by elephants – they’re
9 From Anthonij Rupert Wyne, Terra del 9 10 extracted from their dung and cleansed
Capo Sangiovese 2016 is a lighter, Italian- 11 before infusion. The idea for an elephant
style wine that could easily become your go-to 13 dung gin came to Paula Ansley while she
winter red. You can buy a bottle direct from the was hearing about pachyderm feeding
eponymous Terra del Capo Tasting Room on 14 habits on safari. Elephant dung has long
the Anthonij Rupert estate in the Franschhoek been brewed as a tea and used in
Valley. Tastings will reveal ripe cherry, subtle traditional medicines, so why not gin, she
plum and layered spicy flavours, which pair thought. Along with juniper, angelica and
well with warming Italian dishes, of course. citrus flavours, Indlovu has earthy
rupertwines.com undertones and a spice note from the
elephant harvested botanicals. ibhu.co.za
10 ‘The concept was born of an ache,’ says
Dada Shiva about the first track off his new 13 Another reason to visit Anthonij
album, E55NCE. The Cape Town hip-hop Rupert Wyne is for this month’s Shiraz
artist says the song – ‘Ionizing Radiation’ – & Charcuterie Festival. The gathering in
came to him after he got a headache from the Franschhoek Valley offers an opportunity
a series of unanswered phone calls. ‘I know to taste (and purchase) wines from 18 top
it sounds like pseudo-medicine,’ he says, ‘but Shiraz-producing estates. Among the special
I felt as if the microwaves emanating from my vintages on offer will be the limited release
cellphone were melting my brain.’ Dada Shiva, Anthonij Rupert Syrah and the site-specific
whose real name is Karabo Mokgatle, is known Cape of Good Hope Riebeeksrivier Shiraz.
for his strident lyrics and energetic, hard- 25 May, webtickets.co.za
hitting sound – if the album is anything to go  
by, his brain survived the meltdown and his 14 Blindside is the most recent novel
creativity is at 100%. The album might just by Wilna Adriaanse, who knows how to
blow your mind, though. dig into the South African underbelly. This
  tale plumbs the depths of a thriving criminal
11 Ja, boet, so even if you haven’t been underworld – whose reach spans the globe
to the gym more than seven days this week, and infiltrates every part of society. Which
there might be something for you at the might sound quite a lot like the daily news,
Arnold Classic Africa, a sport and fitness but the action is in fact centred on an honest
expo happening at four venues across cop, Lieutenant Ellie McKenna, who goes
Joburg. Part of a series of global events undercover and finds herself in a den of
bearing Schwarzenegger’s name, it’s deadly, dirty-dealing snakes.

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JOB SATISFACTION DISCOVER

Focus!

Are lunch breaks for wimps, or do they make us more productive? Is it true that you can improve

office performance simply by relocating the kettle or coffee machine? And what are Monk Mode

Mornings and Hack Weeks? These and many more questions are investigated by Bruce Daisley
in his new book, The Joy of Work. As a taster, we have this extract in which he looks at the

benefits of focusing on one thing at a time

L et’s address that thought that been complicated. If we don’t have a job, researchers used a smartphone app to
you’ve been having – the one we’re unhappy.Yet when we do have a record over a million observations from
you only ever dare mention job, we invariably rate work as our least tens of thousands of individuals in the
to yourself as a half-formed favourite activity. We also say that the UK, they found that being at work scored
single thing we most dislike at work is the second lowest happiness score. Only
notion or to friends when drunk. You being with our bosses. No wonder that ‘being ill in bed’ was regarded as being
running away to grow courgettes seems worse. Commuting was also regarded
have a strong suspicion that you’d be so attractive. as a thoroughly unenjoyable activity. It’s
worth noting, though, that if being an
happier doing something else, don’t you? Survey statistics certainly aren’t office worker gets you to only a six, being
encouraging on this front. Office workers a farm worker scores even lower: 4.5.
Perhaps you could travel the world. asked to evaluate their lives out of Even if you have a nice porch to sit on
10 tend to give it around a six. When
Possibly you’d enjoy being a farmer –

an organic farmer, perhaps, growing

courgettes or purple-sprouting broccoli.

Our relationship with work has always

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at nights with your lovely little dog, Rex, Bruce Daisley has found that constant distraction is
for company, you’d probably still only worked for Twitter, Google and a sure path to a sense of discontent.
achieve 5.5. Courgette growing, then, YouTube, and in his hugely popular Psychologists at Harvard University,
is probably not the answer. What is? podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat, he has using another smartphone prompt to
dug right into the DNA of work, talking check on what people at work were
It’s been known for some time that to leading experts about how we can make thinking and doing, discovered that for
money doesn’t lead to happiness – or, our jobs more fulfilling, more productive and 46.9% of the day they weren’t thinking
at least, that while a certain amount of infinitely more enjoyable. In The Joy of Work, he about very much. They were in a fug
money is key to a sense of security and distills his discoveries into 30 succinct tips that of blurry mind-wandering. And while
wellbeing, it doesn’t follow that the more cover various aspects of contemporary office mind-wandering can take you down
you have, the happier you become. The life. His ideas will help you break the status pleasant paths, it seems to be one’s
inversion of that equation is probably quo, show you how things can be done darker thoughts that stick: those in the
rather less familiar to people, though. better, and point you towards survey who were particularly prone to
Researchers Andrew Oswald and self-distraction were 17.7% less happy
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve looked at the a happier working life. than their more focused colleagues. As
comparative performance of siblings the researchers put it: ‘A wandering mind
to see whether happier teenagers A win-win (or lose-lose) style situation. is an unhappy mind.’
went on to perform better financially in At the same time, researchers at
adulthood. They found that young people Warwick University have found that If you want to be happier in your job,
who reported being more content with the productivity of happy workers is then, doing one thing at a time is a route
their lives went on to earn significantly likely to increase by 12%. Any unhappy to happiness as well as productivity.
more money later in their lives. How employees, on the other hand, are shown There are times when we need to be
much more? Using accepted measures to experience a 10% reduction – meaning unstressed and expansive in our thinking
of trying to calibrate happiness into a 22% total difference in output from – when we need divergent ideas coming
a score, their data suggests that for every their contented colleagues. to us. But no idea is of any value unless
1% more life satisfaction that individuals we have the undistracted concentration
showed at the age of 22, they earned So, how do you make yourself to bring it to life. In an age when many
$2 000 more at the age of 29. (Of course, happier at work? Well, in this book, of us have dozens of Internet tabs open
this is not the case with that tiny number I outline a variety of ways to recharge in our browsers, when we can quickly
of jobs that involve high pay and huge such as taking a break from email skip from one activity to another to try
stress – such as investment banking.) to getting a better night’s sleep. And to make progress, it can feel that haste
while they are effective for a variety means getting more done. In fact, the
However, if you are able to achieve of reasons, they are also important opposite is true: your mind will most
happiness at work, not only are you likely because the greater focus they give you readily serve you with creative thoughts
to end up earning more, but you’re also is in itself a source of greater happiness. if you’ve completed more of the jobs
more likely to stay in work. Scientists Time and time again, scientists have expected of you. And to get things done
call this ‘reverse causality’. In essence you need to focus.
the relationship runs both ways.

HAPPINESS AIN’T SO RANDOM Pictures: Tera Vector/istockphoto.com

Depressingly, research reveals that you’re less likely to experience an essential baseline of happiness if you come from a poor family. The
stress of being poor, and the undermining effect that poverty has, tends to make people more negative, and that spills over from one

generation to the next. Betty Hart and Todd Risley at the University of Kansas found that by the age of four, children in the low-income
families that they studied had in total heard 125 000 more words of discouragement than praise. Those in affluent households, by

contrast, had heard 560 000 more words of praise than discouragement. If, as is surely the case, the words we hear affect how we view
ourselves and how we shape our ambitions, then this is cruel news.

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WHERE DONKEYS REST DISCOVER

CUTE ASS CAN BE discoFINAL FLING

S ome of the donkeys – like Andy, Sheila and Dowwe Dolla – were rescued from ver something
unscrupulous farms where they were being fattened up for slaughter before beingWords: Keith Bain, Picture: Supplied
sold off to lion parks. Lulu, a big-eared beauty from Barrydale, was found emaciated
with barbed wire wrapped around one of her hind legs – it took months in a veterinary new
clinic to save the limb. Shaggy-coated Ziggy, meanwhile, was rescued from a petting zoo as a foal –
she’d been horribly neglected and was caked in muck and grime. Adorable Amy, on the other hand,
once belonged to an over-zealous feeder and developed a serious weight problem as a result…

At Eseltjiesrus on the outskirts of McGregor, these and other donkeys who have been abused
or neglected are given a permanent refuge with paddocks to roam and warm digs in which to sleep
at night. They’re fed a healthy diet and have no riders to carry or carts to haul
– aside from posing for pictures and looking adorable, they have
no chores at all, in fact.

The charitable organisation that cares for these
rescued donkeys relies on donations and
fundraising. Donors can adopt a donkey
from just R600 for a year, while
visitors to the sanctuary can lend
support by stopping at the
little on-site café or buying
a few bottles of specially-
labelled Eseltjiesrus
wine. Another way of
contributing to the
donkeys’ wellbeing
is to visit during the
annual Eseltjiesrus
Book Fair when
thousands of
bargain-priced
tomes, new and
used, are on
sale. Once you’ve
stocked up on
books, you can chat
with the donkeys
and then explore the
village of McGregor or
go for a walk through
the adjacent Vrolijkheid
Nature Reserve. There are
also overnight mountain trails
all the way to Greyton and plenty of
lovely guesthouses in the village, too.
17–19 May, donkeysanctuary.co.za

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