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eNCA | CATCH IT LIVE: Inquest into death of Ahmed Timol to resume on Monday
* Editor’s note: This live event will be broadcast live on eNCA.com and is expected to start at 10am.
JOHANNESBURG – The re-opened inquest into the death of Ahmed Timol will get under way at the North Gauteng High Court on Monday.
eNCA | Timol’s brother details his own torture at inquest https://t.co/D1O9sKG7L6 pic.twitter.com/TnFrazJLen
— eNCA (@eNCA) June 29, 2017
After Timol died, the police claimed his death was guided by a Communist Party document that encouraged activists to commit suicide rather than betray their comrades.He died in police custody 45 years ago.
READ: SA confronts Ahmed Timol’s and other apartheid-era custody deaths
The anti-apartheid activist was a young teacher from Roodepoort and a member of the communist party.
Naik, ends by thanking the court for listening to his story, clarifying again that he was not a police informer #TimolInquest pic.twitter.com/3Z83mK8DsZ
— African Child (@ZikhonaTshona) June 29, 2017
The official report states that Timol committed suicide by jumping from the 10th floor of John Vorster Square.
eNCA | Fellow detainee, brother to take stand in Timol inquest https://t.co/bKd3j6oQS0 pic.twitter.com/TxbRz0g1N1
— eNCA (@eNCA) June 29, 2017
But, his family launched its own investigation which uncovered new evidence. His family, comrades, and friends believe he was either pushed out the window or thrown out after being tortured to death.
The re-opened inquest heard five days of evidence in Johannesburg last month.
eNCA | George Bizos tells of security police and torture at Ahmed Timol inquest https://t.co/RCrUSp3LLD pic.twitter.com/jLlvDq08Vc
— eNCA (@eNCA) June 28, 2017
Among the witnesses was Dr Essop and renowned activist and lawyer George Bizos.
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Sport24.co.za | Rennie: Pro12 move good for Cheetahs, Kings
Lloyd Burnard – Cape Town
Cape Town – Chiefs coach Dave Rennie can’t seem to get away from South Africa.
He has been in Cape Town three times in the last year alone, and after winning Saturday’s quarter-final against the Stormers at Newlands, the Chiefs could be back in South Africa on August 5 to take on the Lions in Johannesburg in the tournament final.
Of course, they have to beat the Crusaders in Christchurch first.
It is Rennie’s last season with the Chiefs before he heads to Scotland for a stint with the Glasgow Warriors in the Pro12, but even once he has made that move it seems that Rennie’s involvement with South Africa will continue.
An official announcement has not been made yet, but the Kings and Cheetahs are expected to be unveiled as new additions to the Pro12 any day now.
Both franchises were cut from Super Rugby 2018 as part of SANZAAR’s tournament restructuring, and they have not wasted any time in cashing in on other opportunities.
“Last time I was here in Bloemfontein I said this would be my last time here in Africa,” Rennie joked at Newlands on Saturday.
“Of course, we’ve come back (to Cape Town) now and then I’m going to a competition where the Cheetahs and Kings are heading over to too.”
On a more serious note, Rennie said he was “not sure” if the decision to cut teams was good for Super Rugby.
“I don’t even know what Aussie side is going to go out, but if it’s the Force then they finished second in their Conference,” Rennie said.
“I thought the Cheetahs and Kings were outstanding at various times this year and they got a lot of good results.
“South African teams have got to immerse themselves in a couple of competitions and their rugby will keep growing.
“In the end, maybe going over to the Pro12 is really good for them.”
Rennie added that South African Super Rugby would have benefited from having the players from the Cheetahs and Kings integrated into the other four existing franchises.
“I think, ultimately, if you’d gone down to four sides and six teams combined onto four it would be a hell of a lot stronger,” he said.
“But clearly that’s not going to happen.”
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eNCA | IN PICTURES: 140 people rescued from Harties cableway
JOHANNESBURG – A multi-faceted rescue in the North West Province required 140 people to be evacuated from the Hartebeespoort cable-way, 70km North of Johannesburg, on Saturday.
Pic: Mountain Club of SA Search and Rescue (Facebook).
According to Mountain Club of SA Search and Rescue, a mechanical problem occurred at mid-day on Saturday and left most of the cable-way guests stranded at the top station whilst 15 (including a 6 month old baby) were stuck in gondolas suspended high above the ground along the cable way.
The rescue team, which was lead by the Mountain Club Search and Rescue, comprised of a ‘team of teams’ with members of the Cable Way operations team, Off-Road Rescue Unit, Lonmin Surface rescue team, and MSAR Gauteng.
Pic: Mountain Club of SA Search and Rescue (Facebook).
“The safety of the visitors was the primary concern whilst the rescue required coordination of multiple smaller teams to ensure that the majority of the stranded visitors could all be brought down before dark,” said Mountain Club of SA Search and Rescue in a Facebook post.
“The last rescuers and visitors were safely off the mountain by 20:00.
“Technical rescuers evacuated the gondolas using ropes to slide down the cable to reach the gondola and then lower passengers in harnesses one by one to smaller teams to escort them down the mountain.”
Pic: Mountain Club of SA Search and Rescue (Facebook).
Mountain Club of SA Search and Rescue says the cable-way management chartered a private helicopter with a view to expediting the evacuation of any frail, very young or very old people, but used it beyond that, flying a number of the visitors from the top station whilst others were taken down a jeep track by 4x4s.
The rescue team comprised of approximately 60 rescuers and 12 4x4s.
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Health24.com | Should it really take tragic celebrity suicides to shine the spotlight on mental health?
Ernest Hemingway shot himself in 1961. Kurt Cobain shot himself in 1994. Alexander McQueen took a cocktail of drugs and hanged himself in 2010. Robin Williams hanged himself in 2014. Chris Cornell hanged himself May 2017. And now Chester Bennington from Linkin Park.
The World Health Organization estimates there were 788 000 suicide deaths worldwide in 2015. That’s a rate of 10.7 per 100 000 people.
Let that sink in for a moment. Seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand people chose to end their lives in one year.
Sadly, though, it seems like it takes the death of a celebrity such as Linkin Park’s lead singer Chester Bennington for the world to take notice of mental health.
Living with a mental illness is difficult. Even with the advances in treatment, it’s a constant daily struggle. Bennington’s death rocked the world and many people took to social media to share their grief.
Feeling numb
The lyrics from Linkin Park’s hit Numb read: “I’ve become so numb, I can’t feel you there. Become so tired, so much more aware. I’m becoming this, all I want to do is be more like me and less like you.”
For me, depression manifests as a fog that follows me everywhere I go. The fatigue I feel is constant and debilitating, and getting out of bed every single day is a struggle. I feel numb. When the fog gets heavy, I start to doubt myself. I stop believing in myself. In our darkest hours, depression makes us believe that we are burdens to the people in our lives.
Depression has this terrible way of creeping up on you – making you feel like you’re worth nothing.
I take every day as it comes and allow myself to experience the lows. I constantly remind myself that the low (depression) will pass and life will get better again. The good days are what get me through the bad ones.
But the fact remains: I have depression.
Suicide is not cowardly; it’s real
The lyrics from the last song Bennington wrote, Heavy from the first single from Linkin Park’s seventh album “One More Light”, perhaps hint at his suicidal thoughts: “I’m holding on, why is everything so heavy? Holding on to so much more than I can carry. I keep dragging around what’s bringing me down. If I just let go, I’d be set free.”
Suicide is always labelled as the coward’s way out, it’s selfish to the people you leave behind. But what you have to understand is that when you suffer from depression, you see suicide as a way of relieving those who love you from the burden you are.
You believe they will be better off without you; they will be able to get on with their lives without worrying about you and your depression.
I don’t expect everyone to understand that or agree with it but I do ask that you choose the words you use around mental illness and suicide carefully.
I lost someone I knew to suicide in 2015. I remember the day I received the news – it shocked me to my core. I listened to the opinions of how he was a coward, how he was selfish and took the easy way out. “How could he have done that to his family?” They asked.
But what was less obvious was that he had been dealing with his own demons. I grieved for him, for his death. But I also mourned for the utter despair that depression brought him. And then I prayed that in his death he would find the peace he was looking for and the inevitable release from the torments of his depression. The torments I face every single day.
His death went unnoticed as one of those 788 000 who committed suicide in 2015 – only those who knew him, knew he had killed himself. Yet, when a celebrity chooses to take his or her life, the world suddenly comes to a standstill and yet, while mourning, people question why someone like Bennington would commit suicide. He had it all – fame, fortune, family.
Depression affects 300 million people
But that’s the thing about depression; it doesn’t discriminate against age, gender or wealth. And unfortunately it takes celebrities committing suicide and opening up to their struggles for the world to take notice – but always briefly while it’s newsworthy and trending.
Ashley Judd checked into a treatment facility in 2006. She told Glamour magazine, “I needed help. I was in so much pain.”
Ryan Phillippe’s battle began when he was young. He told Elle magazine, “As you get older, I think it decreases more, but I’m just innately kind of a sad person.”
Jon Hamm told InStyle magazine, “We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it’s actually a strength. It’s not a weak move to say, ‘I need help.’ ”
Robin Williams, who committed suicide in 2014, told NPR’s Terry Gross in 2006, “Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.”
JK Rowling’s dark moods inspired the soul-sucking Dementors in the Harry Potter books. She opened up to Oprah Winfrey, “It’s so difficult to describe [depression] to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. But it’s that cold absence of feeling – that really hollowed-out feeling.”
Stop using the word ‘stigma’
Yet why does stigma still exist around mental illness? And should we be using the word stigma that comes with its own set of negative connotations? Is a word like prejudice or discrimination not more accurate? Would people take more notice of mental illness then?
“Other people are worse off than you.”
“Pull yourself together.”
“It could be worse.”
Sure, it’s easy to use those words but the old adage walk a mile in someone else’s shoes rings true when it comes to mental illness. Unless you’ve walked the road of mental illness it’s hard to understand how hurtful those words are. How difficult it makes life, how it sucks the will to live from you.
If there is one thing I ask, grieve for the death of Chester Bennington, celebrate his life and his music but stop stigmatising mental illness. Stop discriminating against those who suffer (often in silence) from mental illness. Start talking about mental illness openly and with compassion.
As George Shrouder tweeted shortly after Bennington’s death: “Depression is hard to understand. But if it can kill Robin Williams, Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington I’d say it’s pretty damn real.”
Yes, depression is pretty damn real.
If you need help, contact SADAG. You can speak to a counsellor between 08:00 and 20:00 Monday to Sunday by calling 011 234 4837. For a suicidal emergency call 0800 567 567. The 24-hour contact is 0800 12 13 14. Alternatively, you can SMS 31393and SADAG will call you back.
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News24.com | The Zuma exit plan
2017-07-24 07:58
Ralph Mathekga
There is an idea that is doing rounds regarding an exit plan through which to see President Jacob Zuma out of office.
It was reported a few weeks ago that there seems to be a plan in place to ensure that Zuma quietly leaves office and we all forget about everything he is alleged to have done while in office including facilitating what has now come to be known as state capture; a wholesale corruption involving also the Gupta family.
Information about what this plan could fully entail is coming out a bit by bit; starting with a report that a R2bn settlement package could be made available to Zuma. At first glance this idea sounds crazy in the sense that South Africa’s laws are clear; no one is above the law and there is no room for a special provision to cut deals such as this.
As a way to sell the idea that Zuma should be allowed to leave quietly and he should not be prosecuted for corruption, reports of this plan are trickling into the media space in what appears to be a carefully orchestrated attempt to test the waters regarding how far this idea can be taken forward.
The question for me is whether this is a plan that South Africans are willing to live with and embrace to save their politics from Zuma’s legacy, or is this merely an attempt by some within the ANC to simply persuade Zuma to stay out of an increasingly tense succession tussle within the party.
As some of the leaders within the ANC are coming to terms with the reality that Zuma still has a hold within the party and he is willing to fight to ensure a favourable successor takes over from him, the best weapon is to convince him to step aside and stop attempting to anoint a successor within the ANC.
This would mean that the ANC leaders would be willing to interfere with the functioning of state institutions – at least the prosecution authority—with the goal to avoid a messy succession battle within the party. The goal will be to save the ANC from implosion; a possible eventuality if Zuma succeeds in anointing his successor within the party. It should not be the concern of the general public as to whom the ANC decides to elect as a successor for Zuma. Eventually, the general population would get an opportunity to assess that decision come the 2019 elections.
The problem I have with this hinting that a settlement package for Zuma might be on the cards is the fact that if this is implemented in whatever form, it would mean that South Africans would have been brought to compromise on their institutions in the interests of saving the ANC. It should be clear that in principle, failure of the ANC to manage to manage its succession is entirely an internal party matter which should not be resolved by cutting deals that undermine the integrity of democratic institutions in the country.
This type of arrangement works where there is no democracy, perhaps as a condition for shifting towards democracy. To adopt democracy and then enter into this type of deals 20 years into democracy is simply an act of vandalising our democratic institutions to save only the few who have made wrong decisions in our society.
If an agreement is reached among the business elites and political elites to settle with Zuma, that would be worse than state capture. That would actually mean that not only is state capture permissible, but it can also be rewarded. The idea is not to persecute Zuma and possibly set the country on a tailspin, but it should be about fairness and openness. State capture was facilitated by the political and business elites in this country, and it would be a travesty if the elites are allowed to feed us another gentlemen’s agreement regarding how this ought to be resolved. The solution to this issue lies squares within the laws of this country, and not in another elite pact.
– Ralph Mathekga is an independent political analyst and author of the book When Zuma Goes. He writes a weekly column for News24.
Disclaimer: News24 encourages freedom of speech and the expression of diverse views. The views of columnists published on News24 are therefore their own and do not necessarily represent the views of News24.
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