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Friday 29 January 2021 - DAILY NEWS SUMMARY

Pretoria News (www.pretorianews.co.za) Page 1 – Barman held for non-alcoholic gin

The Star (www.iol.co.za)

Page 1 – Zuma, Zondo to face off

Citizen (www.citizen.co.za)

Page 2 – More pupils drop out due to Covid

Mail & Guardian(www.mg.co.za)

Page 1 – Covid-19 vaccine: Where it will be sent and who will guard it Page 1 – Agriculture: Plans for a rival to the Land Bank

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Barman held for non-alcoholic gin

Atrayo Nolte is still adamant he will institute a damages claim against the police

Pretoria News

29 Jan 2021

ZELDA VENTER zelda.venter@inl.co.za

JACQUES NAUDE African News Agency (ANA)GENERAL manager of Hennie’s Sports Bar and Restaurant, Atrayo Nolte, pictured with owner Werner Pretorius, was arrested for serving a customer a non-alcoholic drink. | THE SALE of a non-alcoholic gin and tonic drink and a subsequent eight-hour stint in a police cell by the manager of Hennie’s Sports Bar and Restaurant in Moreleta Park may cost the SAPS dearly.

Atrayo Nolte is adamant he will institute a damages claim against the police, who stormed the popular restaurant a week ago and insisted that he was serving a patron with an alcoholic drink.

For Nolte, it is not about the money or the harrowing time he spent in a filthy cell at the Garsfontein police station, but a matter of principle.

“They made me feel like a criminal. The more I tried to explain it was a non-alcoholic gin and tonic, the more they accused me of selling alcohol,” he said.

Speaking to the Pretoria News, Nolte said he was at the bar around mid-morning last Friday when three patrons whom he had not seen before walked in.

“They insisted on being served with an alcoholic drink, but I kept on telling them we only had non-alcoholic beer and non-alcoholic gin and tonic (Soho Grand, which comes in premixed bottles).”

After they had had their breakfast, some in the group ordered non-alcoholic beer, while others ordered a gin and tonic. “They asked whether I would ’make it nice’ for them’. I repeated that all we had and may sell under the Covid-19 regulations were non-alcoholic drinks.”

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Nolte said moments after he had served the table with their non-alcoholic drinks, three police officers stormed into the restaurant.

“They refused to adhere to the Covid19 regulations by signing in and having their temperatures taken. One of them just kept on shouting ‘show us the alcohol’.”

Nolte said he kept telling them that they did not have alcohol. Their stock was locked up in the storeroom.

He showed the officers the bottles of non-alcoholic premixed bottles of gin and tonic which he had served, but according to him they were not interested. He also told them that they could do a breathalyser test on the patrons served with the drink, but this was also refused.

According to him, one of the officers said he took a sip and to him, it was definitely an alcoholic drink.

Nolte said he took the officers to the storeroom and showed them sealed bottles of alcohol and closed boxes containing bottles of alcoholic drinks.

The police confiscated the stock and Nolte and his employees even helped the SAPS carry it to the car. He said even the non-alcoholic Soho Grand bottles were confiscated.

Nolte said he was told to follow the officers to Garsfontein police station, which he did.

There he was told to sign a document, which he thought was an inventory for the alcohol which was taken. “I asked whether I could go home, but I was told to follow an officer down a passage, which I did. Next moment I was asked whether I knew my rights and I was told to take off my belt and shoelaces. I had no idea what was happening.”

Nolte said he was taken into a cell, which became his home for the next eight hours, until the owner of the sports pub and restaurant, Werner Pretorius, who was not there at the time of the raid, managed to secure bail for him. “It was a nightmare in the holding cell. Inmates did not wear masks and I had to spend the entire time on a concrete floor. One inmate was kind enough to give me his blanket.”

Nolte appeared in the Hatfield court on Tuesday on charges of violating the Covid-19 regulations.

The State, however, refused to prosecute due to a lack of evidence.

Nolte, a father of two, said his biggest fear, was that he could give his five-month pregnant wife and children Covid after his stint in the cells.

His lawyer, Alet Uys, is in negotiations with the SAPS to get the confiscated alcohol back.

She said they were definitely pushing ahead with a damages claim. An upset Pretorius said if the SAPS had taken five minutes to listen to Nolte, none of this would have happened.

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Zuma, Zondo to face off

Concourt rules that former president must appear before the Zondo Commission

The Star Late Edition

29 Jan 2021

SIVIWE FEKETHA siviwe.feketha@inl.co.za

FORMER president Jacob Zuma’s plan to invoke his rights and refuse to answer to

allegations of state capture against him before the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture suffered a heavy blow yesterday as the Constitutional Court ruled that he is compelled to appear before the inquiry.

The commission, headed by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, had approached the apex court on an urgent basis on December 29 in a bid to force Zuma to comply with its

summonses which it issued against him.

Delivering the judgment, Justice Chris Jafta said it was ironic that Zuma had set up the commission and that the directives had been issued in terms of

regulations made by him.

Justice Jafta said Zuma’s behaviour towards the commission was “a direct breach of the rule of law”.

Zuma’s legal counsel had last year indicated he would remain silent if he was forced to appear before the inquiry.

The Constitutional Court has, however, ruled that Zuma had no right to remain silent, as this right was available to those who had been arrested and accused, not witnesses.

Justice Jafta said Zuma would be able to use the privileges extended to witnesses by the Commissions Act, including that the witness could not be compelled to give answers that would expose him to a criminal charge.

“But it is the witness who must claim the privilege against self-incrimination by demonstrating how the answer to a specific question would breach the privilege. This privilege is not there for the taking by witnesses. There must be sufficient grounds that in answering a question, the witness will incriminate himself,” he said.

The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution, which joined the proceedings as amicus (friend of the court), had unsuccessfully argued for Zuma to also be deprived the privilege against self-incrimination.

In November, Zuma staged a walkout from the inquiry after his application for Justice Zondo to recuse himself failed, as he accused Justice Zonda of treating him unfairly and of being biased against him.

Justice Jafta, however, contradicted Zuma’s assertions of bias and instead said the commission had treated him with kid gloves compared to other witness who had been promptly slapped with summonses.

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Justice Jafta said while the commission was to blame for the situation it found itself in relation to Zuma’s delaying tactics, the court had allowed direct access on the matter as finalisation of the allegations against Zuma were a matter of public interest. “The former president is firmly placed as the centre of investigations which include that he had surrendered constitutional powers to unelected private individuals. The allegations investigated are so serious that if established a huge threat to this country’s fledgling democracy would have occurred,” he said.

Zuma was also slapped with the cost order on the matter.

Zuma’s lawyer, Eric Mabuza, had not responded by the time of publication.

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More pupils drop out due to Covid

WITHDRAWN: DEPARTMENT FLAGS 20 000 CHILDREN

The Citizen (Gauteng)

29 Jan 2021

Simnikiwe Hlatshaneni simnikiweh@citizen.co.za

Almost 4 000 scholars unaccounted for in Gauteng.

Covid-19 could have caused South Africa’s biggest school dropout rate yet. The department of basic education projects historically high dropout rates based on the number of matric pupils who were not accounted for by the final exam last year.

This was revealed in a presentation shown to parliament last week on the department’s readiness to reopen schools next month.

More than 20 000 matric pupils from Gauteng, the Western Cape, Limpopo and KwaZuluNatal were unaccounted for by the end of 2020 and were flagged as possible dropouts by the department.

The Western Cape led the pack with 5 147 matric pupils unaccounted for while in Gauteng the figure was 3 980.

In KwaZulu-Natal, 100 000 pupils were expected to write the matric exam and four percent of them were unaccounted for. In Limpopo, this figure was six percent.

The numbers of pupils who possibly dropped out are: 154 in the Eastern Cape; 784 in the Free State; 408 in Mpumalanga; 580 in the Northern Cape; 360 in the North West and 360 in the Western Cape.

According to the presentation, schools struggled to achieve complete curriculum coverage for2020. In Limpopo, Grade 11s finished 50% of the curriculum. In the Western Cape, completion hovered between 68% and 75% for most subjects with Gauteng not doing much better with 67% completion for English and 80% for its physical science curriculum.

In October, the department told parliament that based on analysis of household survey data, at least 50% of youths completed Grade 12 in the last few years.

“An alternative method of comparing the number of matric passes for a particular year to the 18-year-old population of the same year suggests that the figure could be as high as 56%”

School governing bodies have expressed concern that high school pupils may have faced the most pressure to drop out of school during the lockdown period sparked by the pandemic.

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Covid-19 vaccine: Where it will be sent and who will guard it

The first batch of vaccines is almost here but a top government adviser says achieving herd immunity by the end of the year is ‘unrealistic’

Mail & Guardian

29 Jan 2021

Chris Bateman

Photo: Dhiraj Singh/bloomberg/getty ImagesVaccinating the globe: Workers on the Covid-19 vaccine production line at the Serum Institute of India in Pune. The factory is making the Oxford-astrazeneca vaccination.

As South Africa deploys heavy security to prevent theft from the precious first batch of 1.5- million Covid19 vaccine doses intended for vital frontline healthcare workers, it has emerged that the vaccines will not go to “hotspot” facilities first.

Instead, they will be distributed across provinces simultaneously after they land at OR Tambo international airport from India’s Serum Institute in the next few days, with delivery

promised by Monday, according to department of health spokesperson Popo Maja.

The security contingent guarding the first vaccine batch’s transport to a secret central depot in the Gauteng area will probably be akin to that afforded a foreign head of state.

Maja said South Africa was drawing heavily on the vaccine-rollout experience of other countries, adding that whenever consignments were transported, and wherever they were stored, security would be top of mind.

“We have to guard against criminality and corruption. We’ve learnt our lessons from the corruption we encountered with the personal protective equipment for healthcare workers.

We don’t want a repeat, especially with something as vital as this,” he said.

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“Also, we’re prioritising healthcare workers wherever they may be — not by hotspots … [The vaccines] will first go to a central base and, once all the regulatory protocols are completed, to the provinces,” Maja added.

Even with South Africa’s second infection peak slowly waning, both the private and public healthcare sectors remain under enormous pressure, with intensive care units full, wards almost at capacity and healthcare workers fast burning out.

Grilled about the rushed attempt to bolster the country’s historically underfunded and thin adult immunisation network, Maja said President Cyril Ramaphosa and Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize had assured that “money should not be a problem”.

“Covid has made us all realise, in public and in private, that we need a health system that tends to the needs of all our people, regardless of their socioeconomic status,” he said.

Covid-19 vaccine researcher and government adviser Professor Shabir Madhi, from the University of the Witwatersrand, said South Africa has among the lowest vaccine coverage rates and is among the top 10 countries with the most under-immunised children globally, performing worse than Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Madhi described Mkhize’s goal of sufficient Covid-19 vaccination to reach herd immunity by the end of the year as “unrealistic, if not impossible”.

Dr Lesley Bamford, who is overseeing the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, confirmed that the first planning meeting of provincial department

heads took place only on 8 January.

The impending vaccine rollout is the largest ever attempted in South Africa, and expert observers are sceptical about whether the country will be ready with Eskom outage back-up plans, proper vaccination training, a strategy to overcome vaccination hesitancy, and the human resources necessary to effect the rollout.

However, Maja said that the Expanded Immunisation Programme would be “doubly expanded now,” and the lessons learned from that programme, plus a partnership with the private sector, would ensure a successful response.

“Our colleagues are working flat out to ensure this happens … We’re putting together online manuals, training, social-mobilisation programmes, reallocating staff, a quality-assurance team — we’re scaling up wherever we can,” he said.

Vaccination would begin with frontline healthcare workers (1.25-million), then move to essential workers (2.5-million), people in congregate settings (1.1-million) and people older than 60 years (5-million),

before moving on to larger groups at a lower risk.

Janine Simon-meyer, a South African organiser for UN children’s agency Unicef, told the health department’s stakeholder cyber briefing last week that there was “a lot of concern and a big gap around understanding what healthcare workers think and feel about the vaccine and the rollout”.

A snap cyber survey has been designed and is available on the Internet of Good Things (Which in many countries, including South Africa, does not incur data charges for visitors, visit https:// za.goodinternet.org/).

The survey aims to establish the potential effect of vaccination hesitancy on training, implementation, and vaccine uptake by healthcare workers.

A Human Sciences Research Council survey conducted early this month found that up to 18% of all South Africans would “definitely or probably not take the vaccine” and 15%

“didn’t know if they would”.

Simon-meyer said the intention was to have all vaccinators trained by 3 February and all frontline workers

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vaccinated by the end of the month. She said the cyber attitudinal survey would provide crucial preliminary behaviour-change data.

Dr Pradaruth Ramlachan, the director of the Newkwa Health and Wellness Centre in

Newlands, Durban, last week told a Discovery Health webinar that the 30% positivity rate for Covid-19 tests in South Africa’s second wave was six times higher than the level at which the World Health Organisation determined a red flag warning.

Ramlachan said poor access to hospital beds and a paucity of facilities and equipment were taking healthcare practitioners to their limits, with drug and ventilator shortages forcing them to decide who died and who lived. Added to this was the constant fear of their own infection and death.

This week, Sahpra also announced the green light for patients to take Ivermectin to treat Covid-19.

The regulators’s chief executive, Dr Boitumelo Semete-makokotlela, said there was not enough data for the body to give full authorisation of the drug for human use.

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Agriculture: Plans for a rival to the Land Bank

The state-owned institution’s financial woes have led farmers and

agribusiness to consider making an offer on the bank, starting a cooperative bank or partner with global commodities futures traders

Mail & Guardian

29 Jan 2021

Siqalane Taho

Photo:

David HarrisonReaction: The failure of the Land Bank has acted as a catalyst for the agriculture sector to find alternative forms of financing.

The agricultural industry says an alternative agricultural financing institution to the Land Bank could be established within a year. According to the president of the World Farmers’

Organisation and chairperson of the Southern African Agri Initiative, Theo de Jager: “An independently owned and financed bank could be up and running in around a year from now if discussions go well. Remember we did not start these discussions now. We started with the late Mohammad Karaan in 2017.”

Karaan, a respected agriculturalist locally and internationally, died of Covid-19 complications in mid-january.

Agricultural groups have suggested the part-privatisation of the Land Bank to ensure that farmers have a reliable financing source.

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The proposals for a restructured or an alternative to the Land Bank comes on the back of the bank’s announcement of a R2.8-billion loss in the financial year with R8.18billion in

nonperforming loans.

The auditor general’s report highlighted several key matters that have led to the bank’s poor performance and a significant proportion of nonperforming loans. These included poor management controls, credit models not being maintained and not having the right credit models.

The Land Bank has also been badly affected by a squeeze on access to financing from capital markets as a result of the devaluation of its credit rating and South Africa’s sovereign rating, which meant that it was borrowing at higher rates than commercial institutions.

Restructuring the Land Bank will need to take account of, among other things, the balance sheet, providing enhanced support to emerging farmers on a financially sustainable basis and providing support to commercial agriculture, the treasury says.

De Jager says three options are being pursued as an alternative source of financing for farmers.

These include raising capital from foreign investors and making an offer for the Land Bank;

establishing a farmer-owned co-operative bank or establishing a structure to partner with international agricultural commodities futures traders.

“At the moment, we are in discussions with various potential investors from overseas. We have Zoom meetings every week to raise capital to make the government an offer,” says De Jager.

He says that there is a lot of interest from foreign investors, but some are put off by political uncertainty regarding land expropriation policies.

There has also been strong interest in establishing a co-operative bank similar to Rabobank, the Dutch co-operative bank. Discussions are ongoing with various parties, including foreign investors, farmers’ organisations in South Africa, and former co-operatives intermediaries.

Kees Verbeek, chief representative of Rabobank Kenya, says: “Yes, we are aware of the opportunity at the Land Bank. We are in Africa and we are an agricultural bank. We also find Africa to be an interesting place to operate in general. We see a future in agricultural banking in Africa, especially considering technological advancements in the digitalisation of value chains.”

Faans Roos, joint chief executive officer of Capital Harvest, says there is big interest in the private equity markets for investing in the agricultural sector, especially when looking at the numbers.

“So, if they were to go out for tender and you could buy 40% of the Land Bank, I think there would be a lot of interest from the private equity side and investment funds. Even the four main commercial banks in South Africa” says Roos.

The African Development Bank and the New Development Bank could also be tapped to help finance either a public-private partnership or help fund the Land Bank purchase.

The treasury says it welcomes private sector involvement in the Land Bank, but this would need to be guided by the 2016 Private Sector Participation framework.

The agricultural sector has made progress in establishing a platform for accessing production capital from international agricultural commodities traders in Europe and North America.

Mark Barnes, an investment banker and former chief executive of the South African Post Office, says there are established agricultural future traders and discussions are already happening. If all goes well, they could have a structure in place within six months.

“We are now in discussions, and the real challenge is how we aggregate future agricultural supply in South Africa so that we benefit from diversified risk and efficient pricing. The financial failure of the Land Bank and uncertainty of the national treasury guarantees is a

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catalyst for the creation of such a body, whereas previously the Land Bank owned the game,”

says Barnes.

He argues that markets are calling for a restructuring of food security funding, which is likely to result in the disintermediation of classic bank funding.

There have also been investigations into establishing a new co-operative bank, which would be a partnership between foreign investors, local farmers and agribusinesses such as co- operatives and international insurance or agricultural businesses.

Agri SA says the Land Bank should be overhauled and a public-private partnership established, where 40% of the bank would be owned by the government and 60% by the private sector.

Christo van der Rheede, executive director of Agri SA, says this partnership split would extend to board level, management appointments and credit committees at the bank including a critical role in overseeing bank operations.

“We are not proposing the takeover of the function of the state. If I know I’ve put in an investment based on that ratio of 40 to 60% I can claim 60% of the profits. That’s the kind of incentive that the private sector will go for,” says Van der Rheede.

John Purchase, chief executive officer of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa, disagrees with Agri SA regarding the restructuring of the Land Bank. He says he cannot see how investors will want to invest in the Land Bank given its dire financial situation and government’s unwillingness, as a sole shareholder, to provide 100% guarantees.

“The Land Bank holds approximately 29% of South Africa’s primary agricultural debt. Now that’s a big number. So, if the Land Bank were to collapse then it would pose a significant systemic risk to the whole agricultural sector in the country,” says Purchase.

The Land Bank’s loan book is worth about R45-billion, with roughly R35-billion being the commercial book. It is anticipated that this will see a considerable reduction as borrowers move to commercial lenders that offer better loan rates and additional services.

Purchase says that, in the commercial sense, the Land Bank will shrink as clients seek alternative financing sources and in the future it will focus more on development finance, which tends to be riskier because of the applicants’ credit profile, among other issues.

“You can see now that nonperforming loans are massive at the moment; well over 10% of loans,” says Purchase. “But if they want to go down the development route then the

government is going to have to support them, and considerably more so than they do at the moment.”

The Land Bank did not respond to the Mail & Guardian’s requests for interviews and information. But a spokesperson did note that chief executive Ayanda Kanana has been involved in negotiations with local funders as well as international development finance institutions.

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영국, 남아공발 변이 유입 우려에 UAE 발 입국 금지키로

자국민은 입국시 10 일간 격리…영국-호주 이동에도 영향 미칠 듯

(런던=연합뉴스) 박대한 특파원 = 영국이 신종 코로나바이러스 감염증(코로나 19) 변이 유입 우려로 아랍에미리트(UAE)발 입국을 금지하기로 했다.

29 일(현지시간) 로이터 통신에 따르면 그랜트 섑스 영국 교통부 장관은 전날 트위터를 통해 UAE 와 부룬디, 르완다를 여행 금지 대상 국가에 포함하기로 했다고 밝혔다.

이는 남아프리카공화국에서 처음 확인된 코로나 19 변이 유입 가능성 때문이라고 설명했다.

이에 따라 이들 국가에서 출발하거나 경유해 영국에 도착한 이들은 입국이 거절된다.

영국인과 아일랜드인, 영국 거주권을 가진 제 3 국 국민 등은 입국이 허용되지만 10 일간 자가 격리를 해야 한다.

영국 정부 발표에 따라 이날부터 두바이발 런던행 직항 항공편 운항이 중단될 예정이다.

에미레이트 항공은 이날 오후 1 시(그리니치표준시·GMT)를 기해 모든 영국 출·도착 항공편 운항을 중단하기로 했다.

에티하드 항공은 영국행 항공편은 운항하지 않되, 영국발은 계속 유지할 예정이다.

이에 따라 영국으로 돌아오려는 영국인은 경유 항공편을 이용해야 한다.

이번 결정은 호주나 뉴질랜드와 영국 간 이동에도 영향을 미칠 것으로 보인다.

통상 영국에서 호주를 가거나 반대의 경우에도 UAE 두바이 공항 등에서 경유하는 경우가 많기 때문이다.

이와 관련해 호주 정부는 영국발 전세기를 추가해 영향을 최소화할 예정이라고 밝혔다.

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