8 NEWS FRIDAY MAY 23 2014 The Star
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IN THE LAST days of his life,Nelson Mandela often drew hisface into a pensive gaze as hethought back on his life, saidNdileka Mandela, his grand-daughter.
She found that familiar lookstaring back at her inside Mandela
– The Authorised Portrait: In
Memoriam Edition, a 399-pageautobiography that is filled withphotos of Madiba’s journey, hispersonal letters, and interviewswith loved ones and prominentpoliticians.
The book was launched at theNelson Mandela Centre of Mem-ory last night.
In attendance were Ndileka,anti-apartheid activist and formerpolitical prisoner Ahmed Kath-rada, and partners of the NelsonMandela Foundation.
The documentary Countdown
to Freedom was also screened.The In Memoriam Edition, pub-
lished by Wild Dog Press inpartnership with PQ Blackwell,contains a last chapter on Man-dela’s passing and photos from hisfuneral.
The first edition, published in2006, sold 23 000 copies within thefirst six months.
“He was an amazing man,with his ability to bring peopletogether,” said Sibongile Sibiya,founder of a non-profit organisa-tion in Freedom Park, Soweto,while flipping through the book on
display at the centre.Nicky Allen, a representative
from Wild Dog Press, said shehoped the autobiography wouldhelp older generations rememberMadiba’s legacy and also be a
learning tool for the born-frees. “Every library, every school in
the country should have a copy ofit,” she added.
The documentary, which re-counted the days leading up to the
elections in 1994, was bittersweetto watch, Ndileka said after thescreening.
“He’s really gone. I’ll never seehim again. I miss his sense ofhumour,” she said.
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Police negotiator islabelled incompetentA POLICE officernegotiating with vio-lent strikers inMarikana in August2012 had no pros-pects of success, theFarlam Commissionof Inquiry heardyesterday.
“Your negotiatingwas foreign to the people whowere on strike. In order to be asuccessful negotiator, you haveto give something back,”George Bizos SC, for the LegalResources Centre, said duringcross-examination in Pretoria.
He asked Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen James Mc-Intosh, a hostage negotiator atMarikana, near Rustenburg,North West, in August 2012,what he had offered the strik-ers. McIntosh said he offeredsafety and security.
“The briefing we receivedwas to disarm the strikers. Wewere there to negotiate peace.We do not negotiate on behalfof employers or labour bro-kers,” McIntosh said.
Bizos said the workers’weapon was to withdraw theirlabour to bring about a just
solution to theirproblem.
“What did youoffer them in relationto their main de-mand?” Bizos asked.
McIntosh said po-lice had told the strik-ers they were notthere to negotiate
labour issues.Bizos said he would argue
that McIntosh was incompe-tent as a chief negotiator. Heasked McIntosh if he agreedthat to be a good negotiator, onehad to show independence.McIntosh agreed.
Dali Mpofu SC, for thewounded and arrested miners,suggested McIntosh could notbe an independent negotiatorbecause he was working for thepolice, and that there was a dis-pute between the strikers andthe police.
“Would you agree that, fromthe strikers’ point of view, theydid not feel unsafe?” he asked.
McIntosh agreed, but saidwhen the strikers moved awayfrom the hill near the Lonminmine, they were not safe asthere had been attacks. – Sapa
Baby in cell with woman held over internet scamTEBOGO MONAMA
THE SOUTH Africanwoman arrested in con-nection with a multi-
million-rand internet scam –who is due to be extradited tothe US – has a two-month-oldbaby.
New mother RhulaneHlungwane was arrested ear-lier this week with 11 Nigeri-ans in connection with internetscams believed to be worth$300 million (R3 billion).
Her two-month-old babygirl, who is still being breast-
fed, is in a prison cell with the23-year-old Hlungwane.
The child is believed to havebeen fathered by the scam’salleged kingpin, Rasaq AderojuRaheem.
The ring was bust throughcollaboration between theHawks and the US Immigrationand Customs’ Homeland Secu-rity Investigations.
Hlungwane was arrested inSunnyside, Pretoria, along withRaheem, Femi Alexandra Me-
wase, Olufeni Obara Omoraka,Olandimenji Agelotan, OleseginSegi Shanekan, Olasupu Ode-bunmi, Sesan Farin and Anou-luwapo Segun Adegbemigun.
They are going to staybehind bars until the extradi-tion is concluded.
They are accused of atransnational scam that in-cludes online-dating scams,credit card fraud, shippingfraud and identity theft. Someof their accomplices, mainly
Nigerian, were arrested in theUS and Canada.
The group appeared at thePretoria Magistrate’s Courtearlier this week on charges offraud and theft. They are to beextradited to the US.
The Hawks and their UScounterparts have been moni-toring the ring for months,even before Hlungwane waspregnant, and indicated theyhave a strong case against her.
Hawks spokesman Captain
Paul Ramaloko said: “The childis currently with her in thecells because it is her humanright to breastfeed the child.
“We have young children inprison cells, but they arereleased when they get older. Itis up to her if she wants thechild to go to the US with her.”
Centre for Child Law direc-tor Anne Skelton said mostcountries allowed mothers tobe in prison with their smallchildren.
“Normally, in an extraditionor deportation case, the childis taken along with the mother.It would be appropriate that themother and child not beseparated.
“In South Africa, motherscan keep their children untilthey are 2 years old or longer,depending on the circum-stances. Different countrieshave different rules, but most ofthem allow children in for acertain period.”
Ramaloko said they werestill trying to check if the 12 arelinked to other crimes locally.
Last year, the Department ofSocial Development repatri-ated at least 16 children withSouth African mothers whowere held in foreign prisons.
Earlier this month, a nine-month-old baby born to a drugtrafficker in a Brazilian prisonwas brought to South Africa,the Social Development Depart-ment said.
Investigations into thealleged crimes started after aMississippi woman was sent apackage by her suitor on anonline dating site in 2011.
The prospective lover thenasked her to reship the packageto Pretoria. Police found thatthe package had been boughtwith stolen personal informa-tion and a fraudulent creditcard.
According to police, oncethe reshipped packages arrivedin Pretoria, they were thenposted on the internet as beingfor sale.
Two-month-old expected to accompany her when she is extradited to US with ring members
Revised bookon Madibalaunched
KIERAN LEGG
THE LONG walk to freedom is paved withplastic bricks. At least that is what thecreators of Legocy seem to think.
The short tribute to Nelson Mandela,which hit YouTube yesterday, was cobbledtogether from the Lego bin to re-createportions of the icon’s life as described inhis autobiography.
During the clip, figurines are broughtto life using stop motion, cutting betweenscenes of what Madiba’s life on RobbenIsland might have looked like if it hadbeen more blocky.
In one clip, he is lying on his bed in hiscell, a tiny picture of Winnie Mandela onthe wall. In another he is chipping away inthe limestone quarry on the island.
His famous speech on the GrandParade in Cape Town following his releasefrom prison in 1990 is played over scenesof protesters burning their pass books inbarrels of Lego flames or holding upminiature scribbled posters as theyconfront the police.
“We pulled an all-nighter to finishthis,” said Fran Luckin, executive creativedirector of Quirk Joburg, the team thatput together the short movie.
Armed with borrowed and boughtLego sets, the team went to workconstructing their props. It was an unusualactivity for the ad agency, but it was for agood cause.
Quirk had entered the YouTube FilmHack competition, a Google initiative in
collaboration with the Nelson MandelaFoundation, that called on companies tocreate a campaign to inspire SouthAfricans to follow in the footsteps ofMandela.
“As is the nature of these hacks, youdon’t have much time. Your options arereally to quickly shoot your own stuff oruse existing footage,” said Luckin. “That’swhat we expected the other teams to do,so we settled on Lego to stand out fromthe crowd.”
The short clips ends with the message:“You’re never too young to know thewhole story. Help us keep the legacyalive.”
The campaign has now taken on a lifeoutside of the competition, said Luckin.
“Now we are going to hand over arequest to Lego on December 5 to releasea Madiba Freedom Fighter set… I think it’simportant that we keep his legacy alive sothat the born-frees will never forget thiscountry’s miracle.”
Mandela Foundation spokeswomanDanielle Melville said that yesterday wasthe first chance to take a sneak peek atthe competition’s entries.
Three videos have been selected forthe final round, and will be judged onTuesday.
CAMPAIGN: A Lego tribute to NelsonMandela has gone viral.
UniqueMandelaLegocy
Most SA bread doesnot carry GM noticeMELANIE GOSLING
LABORATORY tests haveshown that almost all bread onSouth African shelves containsgenetically modified organisms(GMOs).
But most brands do notcarry GM labels.
This week, the African Cen-tre for Biosafety, an NGO whichcampaigns against the geneticengineering of food in the con-tinent, released results of tests,conducted for them by the Uni-versity of the Free State’s GMOtesting facility, on eight popularbrands of white bread.
Seven contained GM soya,an ingredient of bread. Thesewere from Checkers, Wool-worths, Spar, Premier Foods’Blue Ribbon, Pick n Pay, TigerBrands’ Albany Superior andFoodcorp’s Sunbake.
The only brand to carry aGM label was the Woolworthsbread, which said: “May begenetically modified”.
Mariam Mayet, director ofthe African Centre for Bio-safety, said the law requiredfood containing any GM prod-ucts to be labelled as such.
Zakiyya Ismail of theAfrican Centre for Biosafetysaid the companies tested hadeither failed to label GM breador carried misleading and con-fusing labels. Some were alsolobbying the government toweaken the GM labelling regu-lations under the ConsumerProtection Act.
The only bread that was vir-tually free of GM content wasPioneer Food’s Sasko whitebread, in which the GM contentwas “so low as to be unquantifi-able”. Ironically, this brand wasthe only one that carried a GMlabel which said: “Producedusing genetic modification”.
Mayet said the law was thatany food with a 5 percent ormore GM content must belabelled as such.
Andrew Nel of Pick n Payand Sarita van Wyk of Checkersboth said their bread containedless than 0.5 percent of soya.
Lauren Wilson of Spar saidsoya content in their bread“premix” was between 3 and5 percent.
Premier Foods, Foodcorpand Tiger Brands had notreplied by late yesterday.
NOSTALGIC: Ndileka Mandela pages through Mandela – The Authorised Portrait: In Memoriam Edition at the book’s launch atthe Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Houghton, Joburg, last night. PICTURE: MATTHEWS BALOYI
