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President Cyril Ramaphosa handed over more than 4000 hectares of land to the KwaMkhwanazi community in Empangeni, northern KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday.
“This handover of 4 586 hectares of land comes at a time when the attention of our nation is focused on the effort to correct the original sin of land dispossession,” Ramaphosa said.
He also handed over the title deeds of both the land the Mkhwanazi residents have held since 2002 and the land that had been restored on Sunday.
“We firmly believe that people should have the deeds to the land they own,” he said.
The KwaMkwanazi community was forcibly removed from their land in three phases following the enactment of the 1913 Land Act, according to The Presidency.
From 1915 to 1918 the first group of dispossessions took place to the KwaMkhwanazi people, their dispossession was a result of returning World War I white soldiers.
The second phase of dispossession took place in the 1940s, when the white farming community expanded their commercial interests in timber and cane.
‘Restitution, not retribution’
At the height of apartheid supremacy the government of the time between 1958 and 1960 violently removed landowners to cater for the expansion of the white community around Richards Bay and the Mthunzini coast.
Ramaphosa said the history of dispossession of the KwaMkhwanazi community straddled colonialism and the relentless discrimination, prejudice and violence that culminated in the 1948 victory of the National Party in an all-white election.
“Seventy years after apartheid rule commenced, our land redistribution programme is an undertaking in restitution, not retribution,” said Ramaphosa.
The injustice, indignity and impoverishment inflicted on the people of Mkhwanazi mirrored the hardship to which colonialism and apartheid subjected communities throughout a country endowed with great natural gifts that should have been able to provide a life of dignity and worth to all its people, he said.
In response to the inhumane dispossession and injustice brought upon the people of this land, the ANC’s Freedom Charter made a clear call that the land must be shared among those who work it, he said.
“As government, we are intensifying implementation of our land reform and restitution programmes so that South Africans such as the KwaMkhwanazi residents can leverage land for the betterment of their lives and the growth of our economy.”
He announced that government would assist the community with post-settlement packages that would develop their ability to create sustainable income and jobs from the land transferred to them.
“These post settlement support packages are designed to ensure that beneficiary communities, such as Mkhwanazi, build on your existing presence and participation in the sector and shift from subsistence to commercial participants and owners of businesses across the value chains of the assets on their land,” he said.
Ramaphosa said it was government’s belief that communities should take great interest in their land restitution processes and be active participants in all enterprises and activities taking place on their land.
“This community can be exemplary to other recipients of land through its active participation in the administration of funds received through the Phalane Trust. The Mkhwanazi land recipients, through the Phalane Trust, currently own sugarcane enterprises and the Forestry Inn Hotel Pty Ltd that operate on behalf of the community and we encourage this type of entrepreneurship,” he said.
The president commended companies, such as SiyaQhubekha Forests (Pty) Ltd, that have lease agreements on the Mkhwanazi land and “who will provide bursaries for local students studying in areas relevant to the forestry sector”.
Cape Town – Unless there are some sudden additions to their roster, South Africa have just 13 one-day internationals left to be ready for a forceful assault on the 2019 World Cup in just over seven months’ time.
Are they where they should be? I’d say the jury’s out … which is perhaps even to put it a little diplomatically.
The Proteas leave in nine days for three ODIs (plus a token once-off Twenty20 international) in Australia, before completing their CWC prep through the respective, all-formats summer visits to our shores of Pakistan and Sri Lanka respectively – both those tours will include five important clashes in the 50-overs landscape.
At least all three ODI series will be against fellow top-tier foes, as coach Ottis Gibson and company will not have learned a great deal from the short, just-completed visit of modest neighbours Zimbabwe.
Sunday’s intended third and final T20 was rained off in Benoni, leaving the Proteas 2-0 winners to add to their equally predictable 3-0 sweep of the earlier ODIs.
Gibson used the two limited-overs series, but more especially the shortest-format one, to either blood or see more of a generous crop of inexperienced players.
But his experimental charges were not a great deal more than workmanlike, with several batting question marks, in particular, not able to be wiped emphatically from the whiteboard.
It left the following thought: with inconclusive showings in a number of instances by greenhorns, isn’t time running dangerously short now to not only establish them properly in the first-team plans but magically also evolve them into potential World Cup winners in 2019?
While we saw plenty of confirmation of South African strike power with the ball (the ODI venom of veteran Dale Steyn and wizardry across the two series of similarly evergreen leg-spinner Imran Tahir only added to the general state of health) a certain skittishness seems to remain at the crease.
Admittedly not helped by a couple of untrustworthy pitches along the way, the Proteas all too seldom exploded into genuine dominance of the Zimbabweans in the runs column.
In short, they did not often give the impression of being genuine World Cup contenders in a batting sense, a phenomenon that has stalked them for several months and arguably more.
On top of that, serious issues remain about the fluffiness of the SA tail, which only adds to the pressure on the supposed “cream” batsmen to come off.
Several established customers played limited roles – or in the case of Hashim Amla, Quinton de Kock and David Miller no role at all – in the ODIs, and all this did was aggravate the sense of frailty.
The Proteas didn’t look too smart chasing down some modest Zimbabwean totals when the tourists had taken first strike, and in the only match where they had the chance to get in first, they slumped to a red-faced 101 for seven at Bloemfontein before the unlikely figure of Steyn (career-best 60) vitally got them to within a whisker of 200.
One plus was Reeza Hendricks and Heinrich Klaasen both posting half-centuries when they had to hunt down a vaguely demanding 229 for victory in Paarl, so that duo may have slightly enhanced, rather than jeopardised, their World Cup credentials.
Still, Klaasen, for all his strong striking of the ball, showed a frustrating habit over the last couple of weeks of getting out needlessly when the finishing post was well within sight – a luxury that cannot too frequently be repeated against more heavyweight opponents.
You still sense that the Proteas, yet to get to grips with the aching loss of AB de Villiers, lack something in technical tightness and powers of resilience when it comes to their frontline limited-overs batting.
In that regard, perhaps someone like Temba Bavuma, very debatably overlooked for the Zimbabwean ODIs, is the right sort of medicine for a greater feeling of stability?
Gibson said before the series that the feisty, diminutive right-hander, already a Test stalwart, was “still in our conversations” and there has been little evidence subsequently to suggest his name should leave the lips of the brains trust … indeed, actual deployment to the cause seems a wiser course of action.
A mercurial fielder into the bargain, Bavuma has done his very damnedest on two prior ODI appearances to convince of his 50-overs merits: he scored 113 on debut against Ireland in September 2016, and then 48 against Bangladesh around a year later before returning to “twiddle my thumbs” mode for another lengthy period.
Both knocks were as an opener, although he has both the determination and resourcefulness to contribute in other capacities in the order and there is a solid case for saying he should be ahead of all of Dean Elgar, Christiaan Jonker and Khaya Zondo – squad members against Zimbabwe — in the ODI pecking order.
Perhaps that will be rectified for the looming Australian mission.
Hostilities against the World Cup holders begin at Perth on November 4.
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The DA says its lawyers are considering laying charges against President Cyril Ramaphosa following reports that he had prior knowledge of widespread looting at VBS Mutual Bank but allegedly failed to act.
Mmusi Maimane said in a statement on Sunday that the charges would be in accordance with the Prevention of Organised Crime Act (POCA).
City Press reported that Ramaphosa was apparently informed of widespread corruption and looting involving bank executives at a meeting in Johannesburg very early last year.
Sources close to a major VBS shareholder said the shareholder personally informed Ramaphosa, who was not president at the time, about what was going on, according to City Press.
Ramaphosa promised to do something about it, but he did not, according to the City Press’ source.
Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Khusela Diko reportedly told the publication that the Presidency had no knowledge of such a meeting.
Diko’s phone rang unanswered on Sunday and she did not reply to an SMS News24 sent to her.
Maimane said these were “incredibly serious allegations” that needed to be answered by Ramaphosa with “haste”.
READ: VBS looting: ‘Cyril knew, but did nothing’, claim sources
“I will therefore be submitting an urgent question to be asked during oral questions to President Ramaphosa in Parliament on Thursday to confirm the veracity of these allegations,” Maimane said in a statement.
“While President Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Khusela Diko, has denied this meeting ever occurred, the President would be wise to use his final oral questions session for the year next week to play open cards with the people of South Africa,” said Maimane.
Advocate Terry Motau SC released his damning report, The Great Bank Heist, on Wednesday into how 50 individuals and companies, including many of the bank’s executives, received “gratuitous payments” amounting to R1.8bn from the bank.
It has also been alleged that former president Jacob Zuma’s VBS loan of R8.5m – used to pay back part of his Nkandla home upgrades – was used as political security.
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“South Africa cannot afford another compromised president,” Maimane said.
He said the allegations were all symptomatic of the loss of power in the ANC and was demonstrable of the politics of patronage trumping the service of citizens.
“The absence of divisive action and the protection of certain individuals can only mean that unity in the ANC is more important than accountability to the ruling party. And it begs the question of what other scandals the president also had knowledge of. This system of corruption must be broken,” he said.
Maimane suggested that Ramaphosa’s “‘New Dawn’ glass box seems to have shattered”.
“He has already confirmed his willingness to appear before the State Capture Commission and now needs to start picking up the shards of this ANC-created mess and come clean with South Africa,” Maimane said.
Let’s talk orgasms: They’re supposed to feel good, right? (Or, you know, meh…but that’s another story altogether.) What I’m getting at: They’re most definitely not supposed to hurt. Like, at all.
And yet, because the human body is full of mysteries, sometimes orgasms actually do hurt – and that sucks. Yep, we’re talking about those annoying cramps that strike seemingly out of nowhere right after sex.
What causes painful orgasms, anyway?
Okay, so the official name for this pain is dysorgasmia, which again, means you’re having pain either during or after your orgasm, says Dr Christine Greves, a board-certified obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies.
For women who experience pain after they orgasm, the cramping (which can feel like period cramps) usually happens right away and can cause pain for a few hours after sex, Dr Greves says. You can feel the pain or the cramping anywhere in your vagina, and/or in your lower abdomen or back.
Here’s the thing: Your uterus is a muscle, and it contracts when you orgasm. “Just like any other muscle in your body, you may have some discomfort after it gets a workout,” Dr Greves explains.
But in some cases, an underlying gynaecological condition can also trigger that pain or cramping after sex, like pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), endometriosis, an ovarian cyst or uterine fibroids, says Dr Greves.
To put it as delicately as possible, the pain here usually stems from the, uh, friction that happens during sex. In PID and endometriosis, the inflammation and pain already associated with those conditions can be worsened by, well, the penis; though this is less an issue directly related to orgasms, and more about pain during sex as a whole, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
Read more: 8 reasons why you’re having painful sex
Pain during sex isn’t just something you should deal with.
For starters, this is a serious barrier to your pleasure (I’ll say it again for the people in the back: Sex isn’t supposed to hurt). And then there’s the fact that you could have an underlying condition that needs treatment.
“If this is new for you, see your gynae for an evaluation,” Dr Greves says.
If you don’t have any underlying conditions like PID or endometriosis, your doctor may recommend that you try using a hot pad on your pelvic region (to try to get your uterine muscles to chill out) and taking some OTC anti-inflammatory medication to help with the pain.
But again, don’t sit on this and assume that you’re doomed to suffer through crampy orgasms for the rest of your life. “If you notice a change in your body, you should always get it checked out,” Dr Greves says.
This article was originally published on www.womenshealthmag.com
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