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he City of Cape Town is appealing to residents to be on the lookout for its workers as it ramps up the new prepaid smart electricity meters in the Claremont, Kenilworth and Wynberg areas. The free and compulsory rollout is currently underway until September. According to the City, property owners who do not comply may face disconnection. Residents will receive a letter in their post box with an appointment date. They have 14 days to respond. Installation takes about an hour. Xanthea Limberg, Mayco member for energy, said the meters help residents manage costs. “One of the most important things for residents to know is that electricity costs are the same irrespective of the type of meter used. The meters do not supply electricity, they just measure usage,” she said. “The new meters make it easier for residents to manage their electricity costs as they can see their usage in real-time. Importantly, they allow qualifying residents the opportunity to switch to the affordable subsidised Lifeline Tariff, which includes free basic electricity units.” The Lifeline Tariff is available to qualifying low-income households. It includes a set amount of free power each month. However, some residents in areas where the rollout has already taken place have reported problems. Prepaid tokens have been rejected with messages such as “used,” “old” or “duplicate”. These residents fear losing money. SCAM WARNING
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PEOPLE’SPOST | Athlone|Lansdowne Tuesday, 1 September 2026
20% of Gr 4s can ‘read’
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ore than 914 000 South African Grade 4 learners cannot read for meaning in any of the country’s 11 official languages, according to the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (Pirls).
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2022, concentrated in North West, the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. The World Literacy Foundation (WLF) estimates the cost to South Africa’s economy at approximately US$5,13 billion a year in lost productivity, foregone earnings and reduced workforce participation, applying Unesco’s economic model for illiteracy. Earlier WLF estimates have ranged as high as US$6,7 billion.
That figure represents 81% of the cohort. It places South Africa last among the 57 countries and regions assessed in the most recent study, released in May 2023. The country also recorded the steepest decline among the 33 participants with comparable trend data. The proportion of learners unable to read for meaning rose from 78% in 2016 to 81% in 2021, erasing a decade of slow gains. In 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa set a national goal: every 10-year-old should be able to read for meaning by 2030. Four years out, the trend is moving the other way.
Illiteracy is not only a South African problem. Unesco estimates that 739 million adults worldwide cannot read. The WLF works across five continents to close that gap, one classroom, one book and one reader at a time. “South Africa has the researchers, teachers and programmes that know how to close this gap,” said Andrew Kay, CEO and founder of the WLF. “Those voices belong on the world stage.”
ADULTS LEFT BEHIND
OXFORD SUMMIT CALLS FOR PAPERS
Adult literacy tells a similar story of averages hiding gaps. South Africa’s adult literacy rate stood at 91,15% in 2024, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) Institute for Statistics. However, the Department of Higher Education and Training reports that 3,9 million adults remained functionally illiterate in
A GLOBAL CHALLENGE
This research will feature at the World Literacy Summit at Oxford University in March next year. Researchers, policymakers and teachers from more than 85 countries will meet under the theme “Literacy in a Connected World”. Literacy specialists working on South African reading outcomes, mother-tongue instruction, foundation phase teaching or adult
Nearly one million South African Grade 4 learners cannot read for meaning, according to the latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
3,9 MILLION ADULTS ‘ILLITERATE’ education are invited to submit a paper or presentation proposal. The deadline is 30 August.
The WLF operates in 54 countries with a mission to eradicate illiteracy by 2040. According to the foundation, 92% of online donations go directly towards books, learning spaces and literacy programmes for children and adults in need.
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Today, Spring day, is the start of days become longer as we enter the final stretch of the year. For many of us, it is a reminder that another year is moving quickly and that perhaps some of the things we promised ourselves in January have not happened. But perhaps September is a better time to take stock than January ever was. We often treat the beginning of a new year as our only opportunity to change. We make resolutions, set goals and convince ourselves that we will become different versions of ourselves from 1 January. Yet life does not wait for January. Life changes in the middle of the year, in the middle of a career and sometimes in the middle of plans we were certain would work out. A job disappears. An application is rejected. A relationship ends. Money becomes tight. A business fails. A qualification takes us somewhere we did not expect to go.
We discover that the career we worked so hard to build no longer makes us happy. Sometimes the uncertainty is external. Sometimes it is internal. You simply wake up one day and realise that the person you have become is no longer comfortable with the life you are living. That is where reinvention comes in. Reinventing yourself does not necessarily mean throwing your entire life away and starting from scratch. Sometimes it means repositioning yourself. It means asking: Where am I now? Where do I want to go? What do I need to change to get there? The qualification that once seemed like the key to a particular career may no longer be enough. But experience matters. So does adaptability. Perhaps you do not need to start over. Perhaps you need to present yourself differently. Update your CV. Learn the skill you have been putting off. Build a portfolio. Apply for the position you keep telling yourself you are not qualified for. Speak to someone working in the field you want to enter. Take the course. Start the side project. Position yourself for the opportunity before it arrives. Too often, we wait
until we are forced or desperately need change before preparing for it. There is also something else that holds many of us back: age. We have created timelines for our lives as though everyone receives the same instruction manual. By 25, you should know what you want. By 30, you should have a successful career. By 35, you should own a home. By 40, you should have everything figured out. But I’ve lived long enough to see life does not work that way. Some people find their calling at 22. Others at 42. Some build successful careers and later realise they want something completely different. Others have to start again because circumstances leave them with no choice. There is no expiry date on ambition. We should also be honest about what reinvention can do. It cannot protect us from uncertainty. You can make sensible plans and still lose your job. You can work hard and still be overlooked. You can prepare carefully and still have life disrupt your plans. Reinvention is not pretending that these things do not hurt. It is refusing to believe that a setback has to become your identity. Perhaps that is what makes a new
season such a useful metaphor. Spring does not ask whether winter was successful. It simply arrives. We should give ourselves the same permission. If the career you chose no longer fits, you can reconsider it. If your goals have changed, you can change them. If the version of yourself you created years ago no longer reflects who you are, you can let it go. You do not need to have the next five years figured out. You need to know what you are willing to do next. So perhaps the question is not whether you have achieved everything you wanted this year. Perhaps it is: Are you positioning yourself for the life you want next? There are still months left in the year. More importantly, there is still time. Life will continue to change whether we are ready for it or not. We may not be able to control what comes next, but we can decide whether we remain stuck in what no longer serves us. Sometimes reinvention is not about becoming someone new. It is about becoming ready for who you are still capable of becoming. And there is no better time to begin than now.
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PEOPLE’SPOST | Athlone|Lansdowne Tuesday, 1 September 2026
FoodForward SA, launched the expansion on Thursday 20 August at the Wallacedene Clinic, in partnership with the City of Cape Town Health Department. PHOTO:SUPPLIED
Nutrition drive expanded NAMHLA MONAKALI Lansdowne-based non-profit organisation (NPO) has expanded its mother-and-child nutrition programme to reach 70 more mothers, young children and families in Bloekombos and Wallacedene, Kraaifontein.
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17,8 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY WERE FOOD-INSECURE IN 2023, 8 MILLION SEVERELY SO.
FoodForward SA, launched the expansion on Thursday 20 August at the Wallacedene Clinic, in partnership with the City of Cape Town Health Department. The programme focuses on the first 1 000 days of a child’s life, the period from conception to a child’s second birthday. During this window proper nutrition lays the foundation for lifelong health, growth and brain development. Local clinics identify underweight mothers and malnourished children. Health workers monitor their growth over time. Mothers receive nutrition education and monthly food parcels from FoodForward SA. To date, the NPO said, 535 patients have completed the full nutrition intervention. More than 1,5 million children suffer from malnutrition every year in South Africa. The FoodForward SA Household Food Insecurity Report shows that 17,8 million people in the country were food-insecure in 2023. Of those 8 million faced severe food insecurity. This leaves young children at risk of stunting, a condition where a child is too short for their age because of chronic under nutrition. Stunting can cause lifelong physical and cognitive developmental challenges. South Africa produces more than enough food to feed its people, yet millions remain without enough to eat, according to FoodForward SA. The organisation recovers surplus food from supply-chain partners and redirects it to communities in need.
parcels, said food is a powerful connector. “This will restore dignity and hope in the community, and the children’s lives will be positively impacted,” he said, Chantal Naidoo, Coordinator of Health
Programmes for the City, said mothers now have the opportunity for a healthier pregnancy and healthy babies who will grow into healthy children. FoodForward SA Board Member Namhla Skweyiya thanked the health-care workers for their role in society. She reminded mothers that they had been entrusted with their children, to support them to reach their full potential. FoodForward SA, established in 2009, is South Africa’s largest food redistribution organisation. It operates in all nine provinces and is a certified member of the Global Foodbanking Network.
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PEOPLE’SPOST | Athlone|Lansdowne Tuesday, 1 September 2026
Local police appeal for vigilance AVRIL FILLIES bey road safety rules and ensure your passengers are safe. This was the message from Helen Kwatiyo, chair of the Lansdowne Police Women’s Network and deputy chair of the Mitchells Plain Sub-District on Wednesday 25 August, when they conducted a vehicle checkpoint as their celebration of Women’s Month in the Lansdowne Police Precinct.
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Female officers and admin staff of Lansdowne police in partnership with Ward 60 metro police and neighbourhood safety officers conducted the vehicle checkpoint. They showcased their skills in policing activities and also handed out pamphlets educating the public to stop the scourge of domestic violence, gender-based violence and other crimes relating to abuse of women and children. A total of 62 vehicles were stopped and seven road-traffic fines were issued for driving without a valid driver’s licence and other road-traffic
A SPATE OF VEHICLE THEFTS AND THEFTS FROM VEHICLES SEEN. offences. Kwatiyo also urged motorists to join the fight against GBV and crimes against women and children in their homes and workplace. Col Alroy van der Berg, station commander of Lansdowne, shared his concerns pertaining to theft, theft out of and from motor vehicles, which have escalated the past month. “The Lansdowne Police Precinct experienced a spate of theft of motor vehicles, theft from motor vehicles and theft out of motor vehicles from July into August. These crimes still persist and are ongoing. No arrests have yet been made.” Van der Berg encouraged residents to be vigilant at all times and ensure that their vehicles are properly locked and fitted with an alarm system.
“These thefts have occurred mostly all over the precinct and the perpetrators are targeting wheels and other valuable items in vehicles. A complainant in Derna Road, Kenwyn woke up in the morning and discovered that his vehicle was on cement blocks and all four wheels were stolen. In another incident, in Haywood Road, Crawford, a complainant was doing a job after parking his Fiat Uno in the road and on coming out afterwards he found his car was stolen.” Van der Berg urged all vehicle owners to be extra careful and protect their belongings and be vigilant at all times. Anyone who witnesses these vehicle thefts and break-ins can contact Lansdowne police on 021 700 9046/9047 or 082 378 8760. You can also contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111. Anonymity for information given is absolutely guaranteed. Helen Kwatiyo, chair of the Lansdowne Police Women’s Network, with Col Alroy van der Berg, station commander. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
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PEOPLE’SPOST | Athlone|Lansdowne Tuesday, 1 September 2026
Local author shines a spotlight on a n***** M
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ia Arderne created the distance she needed to recover from traumatic experiences by shifting them onto a n***erige book character named Lucian. “It helps to have a protagonist because you can externalise yourself and your experiences,” she writes. “It’s easier to have a character go through the tougher stuff. It doesn’t have to be so intense.” However, the author picked up some secondary trauma while researching the barbarism of an apartheid-era torturer for her latest novel, How to Stop Being a Naai. “I ended up reading the TRC transcript,” she said. “I read the whole thing. I haven’t recovered.” The result is a story that takes dark turns but still maintains the laughout-loud satirical humour the title promises. “I wasn’t trying to get super heavy with it,” Arderne says. “But I ended up going down rabbit holes and becoming deeper and more sincere at places I didn’t really expect.” WHO IS MIA ARDERNE?
Arderne is a young writer based in Mowbray. Her debut novel Mermaid Fillet, was long-listed for the Sunday Times/CNA Literary Award in 2021 and taught as a prescribed text at the University of Cape Town from 2022 to ’24. She has also written a young-adult romance, A Thousand Eyes on You, and several short stories. How to Stop Being a Naai is her third book, which she wrote after a period of
AUTHOR MIA ADERNE WANTED HER CHARACTER LUCIAN TO REPRESENT THE WEAKNESSES THAT EVERYONE HAS. being “institutionalised,” working on her mental health. WHAT IS HOW TO STOP BEING A NAAI ABOUT?
Arderne said the book began as a personal guide of nine steps to becoming a better person. The cover synopsis describes Lucian as a “Philanderer. Alcoholic. Sell-out.” “Lucian stumbles his way through nine steps, from ruthless self-acceptance to ultimately channelling his inner naai,” it reads. “In other words, he will try anything except go to actual therapy.” Curiously, Arderne said the character of Lucian is based on herself, “... maybe more than I would like to admit.” She also drew on her own family history. “I drew quite a bit on the paternal line of my family because I learnt some toxic behaviour from them. A lot of those people are no longer with us. I was, like, speaking to ghosts a little bit.” The process was both healing and painful. “There’s an element of that which was maybe more healing than traumatising. And there’s also a mourning; like, you grieve for these people again when you mine those relationships and those memories.” The book also went deeper than expected. Research for a character named Archie led her to explore
apartheid-era South African Defence Force soldiers, how they interacted with one another and the kinds of crimes they committed. In the end what started out as a satirical selfhelp book turned into a novel that explores morality through deeply flawed characters. “You could replace that word,” Arderne says, referring to the title, “with morality or a measure of morality. We all have lines that we get to where we’ll say ‘now this is over the line for me. This is immoral for me.’ I wanted Lucian to represent the weaknesses we all have. He’s representative of my weaknesses, people’s weaknesses.” NOT A SELF-STEP BOOK
Publishing the book came with a lot of surprises for Arderne. The first was the interest from her editor. “I spoke to my editor and my publisher almost, like, in jest and she was, like, ‘okay, send it through.’ I did. It was just a guide. It was just nine steps. And then she was, like, ‘look, I think you need to add a character.’ So Lucian came.” The next surprise was people’s reaction to the book. “I have a lot of people who want to buy it for other people in their lives because they have n***s in their lives that they think need this help,” she said, adding that she frequently needs to remind people that this is fiction and not a real self-help book, despite
a disclaimer inside the book . “It says on the cover it’s a novel, but I think it reads as a self-help book. I really hope they’re not expecting real advice. I mean, I’m not a psychologist.” Social-media posts also attracted a lot of surprising ire. “Some guys are quite defensive about Lucian. A lot of the men commenting were, like, ‘why are you dragging this guy?’ not realising it’s a fictional character. ‘You’re defending someone who’s not real!’ “And then I have all these Lucians in my comments, just lots of guys named Lucian who were not happy with me. And I’m, like, it’s just a name.” Mia said she chose the name because it was one of her favourites, ironically. “The Lucians of the world are not happy with me, man. They are not happy with me at all!” Conversely, women have commented on the social-media posts lambasting the character as a “f**cker”.
The cover of Mia Arderne’s third book.
WELL-RECEIVED
Overall, Arderne said the book has been well received and sales at the recent launch were good, but she jokes it may well have been because of the “provocative” title. The most common reflection, though, is that the book is funny. “Most of the feedback I got was that it was quite funny, and yet my writing isn’t generally funny. So it’s been quite cool to hear that.” Mostly, though, people have said they related to the characters, especially Lucian. “People tend to sympathise with Lucian more than I would have thought,” Arderne said.
Mia Arderne is a young writer from Mowbray.
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