Inhaltsverzeichnis für 2023-06-06 in Mercury

THE Minister of Human Settlements, Mmamoloko Kubayi, who was so upset that she had to spend about an hour trapped in a faulty lift that she fired a deputy director-general, has been ordered by the court to reinstate her. The Labour Court in Johannesburg made it clear the minister’s conduct was unlawful as she had not followed procedure when firing Nelly Letsholonyane. Acting Judge M Makhura said: “The minister’s conduct was unlawful. Such conduct should not be condoned by courts of law. This court cannot and should not turn a blind to the injustice and lawlessness.” The minister and the department were ordered to pay Letsholonyane’s legal costs. Letsholonyane, 61, who is only a few years from retiring, turned to the labour court on an urgent basis to get her…

The minister of Home Affairs extended the validity of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs) to June 30 in a directive issued on September 2, 2022. ZEP holders who have not had the opportunity to apply for a waiver and/or visa application, as set out in the Immigration Act 13 of 2002 (Immigration Act), are encouraged to do so in the short window of opportunity remaining before June 30. ZEP holders who fail to make such applications before the deadline will be required to depart from South Africa on or before June 30, voluntarily and lawfully, the directive stated. It warned that those who remained in South Africa without complying with the concession would face deportation. Employers who hired foreign nationals were warned to face increasing scrutiny by the Department of…

Early childhood development (ECD) works wonders in a First World country where everything works, where 99.9% of the citizens are educated, and where the necessary resources and facilities are readily available. Where the teachers are highly trained in this specialist field and ably supported by the parents. ECD in a Fourth World country, where nothing works, is a disaster. All of the above are not available in South Africa, especially in the rural areas. The Education Department cannot even supply the basic infrastructure to existing schools, let alone build new schools, ablution blocks, carry out repairs, provide resources and learning materials, etc. Our children should only start school in the year they turn 7. At ages 4-6 they are extremely physically active and can only concentrate on something for a…

An exam hall and some parts of the University of Fort Hare were torched by students on Sunday night, in an apparent attempt to halt their mid-year exams. Videos circulating on social media show some of the university’s infrastructure up in flames after a group of students had allegedly set alight parts of the campus a few hours before they were to sit for their mid-year exams. According to comments on social media the students are said to be unhappy with the exam schedule as it was “too congested”. But the university said the exams will go ahead as planned. The university confirmed that the foyer of its indoor sports centre where exams are held, was destroyed by the fire, while furniture and a computer lab were vandalised. A…

THE KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2023 World Winter Symphony Season, featuring a line-up of international and local talent, runs in The Playhouse Opera every Thursday, from this week to June 29. Each World Symphony Series concert will start at 7pm. “We are delighted to link up once again with our loyal community of music lovers for our four-concert Winter Symphony Season,” said Bongani Tembe, KZN Philharmonic’s CEO and artistic director. “We have honoured the long-standing traditions of our World Symphony Series by assembling a guest roster of A-list artists, who join our dedicated orchestral musicians to bring our audience hours of musical enrichment. The season goes hand in glove with our commitment to community engagement and skills transfer among new-generation artists and learners.” Anna Sułkowska-Migon, the young Polish conductor who won…

AN internal memorandum from the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department shows that the school nutrition programme continues to experience challenges in providing meals to pupils, weeks after the problems first emerged. A memorandum signed on Friday by the head of department, Nkosinathi Ngcobo, titled, “Delivery of food items for the month of June” details the problems that continue to persist with the programme. Among the challenges is that some suppliers cannot supply food a month in advance as stipulated by the department, because of cash-flow problems. The Mercury reported in April that the programme was teetering on the brink of disaster after food was not delivered to schools, leaving millions of pupils who are dependent on it hungry. The crisis emerged after the department changed the tender specifications to manage the programme.…

JUNE is dedicated to the youth of this county. This dedication is framed along an epoch of time. Importantly, we pay tribute to the young people that perished in what we have come to know as the Soweto uprising. The events of June 16, 1976 in Soweto attest to the importance of youth activism especially towards a common goal of betterment. June also reminds us of the present, a difficult context young people are currently living under. This includes a cloud of uncertainty created by the energy crisis. Young people are also facing challenges related to unemployment, this is shown in the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey. Amid all this despair, there is a need to continually keep focus on the future. This is a future that includes young people…

Political parties won’t act decisively unless South Africans demand it THE irreversible consequences of poverty and chronic unemployment coupled with incompetence and corruption in South Africa’s municipalities that were once a footnote in the news cycle are increasingly making headlines. Many privileged people living in leafy suburbs and working in air-conditioned offices would hardly have noticed. Still, those in the coalface of the deteriorating administration of municipal governments have constantly alerted decision-makers of the dangers ahead. Those paying attention were not surprised by the Auditor-General of SA Tsakani Maluleke’s repeated warnings contained in the Consolidated General Report on Local Government Audit Outcomes such as the one released on May 31. South Africans must brace themselves for hard times ahead as more and more municipalities are plunging into such financial disarray…

Britain has ordered two more accommodation barges to house asylum-seekers, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday. Sunak has pledged to stop crossings of the Channel from northern Europe made in small boats, after record numbers of people arrived last year. But huge backlogs in the processing of applications have put the government under pressure, particularly over housing people while their claims are dealt with. On a visit to the Channel port of Dover, Sunak announced new sites at former Royal Air Force bases to accommodate “hundreds” in the coming months. “Nearly 3 000” will be housed there by the end of the year, he added, arguing it would ease pressure on costly hotels where many migrants have been staying. “To reduce pressures on local communities, we will also house people…

LONDON: Prince Harry’s lawyers accused a British tabloid publisher yesterday of sowing “the seeds of discord” with his elder brother Prince William, after the royal earlier failed to appear at London’s High Court. Harry, King Charles’ younger son, is one of more than 100 high-profile figures suing the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), for alleged phone-hacking between 1991 and 2011. The prince will face hours of questioning today, after he did not attend court yesterday Harry’s lawyer, David Sherborne, yesterday accused MGN of engendering the “mistrust” between him and his brother William 20 years ago. | Reuters…

ESMERALDAS: More than 500 people were evacuated from their homes in northern Ecuador yesterday following flooding caused by heavy rains, President Guillermo Lasso said. No one had been reported dead or missing. Residents climbed on to the roofs or balconies of their homes to protect themselves from the rising waters, images released by the Defence Ministry showed. Rain had fallen for 12 hours without interruption, causing six rivers to overflow, Lasso said. Authorities evacuated around 500 people by boat and another 30 by helicopter. Around 11 750 people were affected by the floods; 16 lost their homes in the Esmeraldas province bordering Colombia. | AFP…

Dhaka: Cash-strapped Bangladesh shut its biggest power plant yesterday because it was unable to afford the coal to fuel it, as a sweltering heatwave creates surging electricity demand. The 1 320-megawatt government-run Payra Power Plant in southern Bangladesh had already slashed production last month due to fuel shortages, but it was forced to go a step further yesterday Bangladesh is struggling against a depreciating currency. The country has faced nationwide blackouts of up to five hours a day in recent weeks as a heatwave sweeps across the country. Bangladesh recorded a temperature of 41.1°C yesterday. | AFP…

Max Verstappen demonstrated that he and Red Bull have enough performance advantage in hand to deliver an unprecedented year, by winning every race. His masterful triumph in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix was the team’s seventh out of seven this year. Lewis Hamilton came home a distant second in his heavily upgraded Mercedes, but admitted it was unrealistic for them to catch the Red Bulls before 2024. Here, we looks at three things we learned from Sunday’s race at the Circuit de Catalunya. Max-imum supremacy signals Red Bull dominion Team chief Christian Horner was at pains to distance himself and Red Bull from any talk of winning every race after this victory, but in praising Mercedes’ upgrade he highlighted the feeble form of their rivals. None of Aston Martin, Ferrari or…

In A recent class of Keiko Kawano’s, art school students held mirrors to their faces, stretching the sides of their mouths upwards with their fingers – they were practising how to smile. There is a surge in demand for Kawano’s services in Japan, where mask-wearing was near universal during the pandemic. Kawano’s company, Egaoiku (“Smile Education”) has had a more than four-fold jump in demand from last year. Customers range from companies seeking more approachable salespeople to governments looking to improve their residents’ well-being. | Reuters…

I’m in South Africa for a brief visit and I’m enjoying your gorgeous country. Resilience and friendliness and hope within the hearts of the people I’ve met apparently far exceed the surrounding community and national stressors. I’m frequently reminded in casual conversations that America – I live in the US – is widely idealised by South Africans. “North America” includes the US, Mexico and Canada. Load shedding is obviously a challenge. I’m amazed at how people appear to adjust to it, embrace it, arrange their lives and programmes around it and simply go on. Given such a necessity in the US, there’d be outrage and people would take to the streets and simply refuse to accommodate the inconven- ience. They’d feel picked on and singled out and express it without…

The desire for politicians to encourage voters to vote for their parties during the next election is understandable. However, the inescapable hard facts of the South African economy, unemployment, the effects of interest rate hikes, load shedding and the high cost of living on the masses must be on the agenda of all political parties’ canvassing campaigns. Together with political democracy the philosophy of economic democracy needs to be deliberated to address the wrongs of the capitalist economic system. A democracy cannot just be about voting and winning votes for politicians or political parties. Yes, voting is important in a democracy but so are human rights, social justice, and the working class, the less privileged and minority individuals or groups should have access to quality education, good health-care facilities, equal…

YOUR May 26 edition “School feeding scheme menu deficient” refers: It is a disgrace to read how the food provided to schools lacks nutritional value. It would be a simple exercise to get an expert to design what was needed and then for schools to purchase in bulk so it would be completely affordable across the board. My wife has been involved with an inner city school for many years which provides nutritional breakfasts for each schoolchild at a low cost. The basis of the food is a product called e’Pap which was developed in 2001 by a South African industrial chemist, Basil Kransdorf. It is a precooked porridge that is a blend of maize, soya, vitamins and minerals. It is in a highly absorbable form and because it is…

The Portfolio Committee on Health has adopted its 75-page report on the National Health Insurance Bill, which will be debated in the National Assembly, but there is opposition to the bill. Parliament says the bill creates mechanisms for the equitable, effective and efficient utilisation of the fund’s resources to meet users’ health needs. “It also seeks to create mechanisms to preclude or limit undesirable, unethical and unlawful practices in relation to the fund. In facilitating effective public participation on the bill, the committee conducted nationwide, in-person public hearings in all nine provinces from October 2019 to February 2020. Additionally, the committee conducted virtual public hearings from May 2021 to February 2022,” said Parliament. Meanwhile, the Hospital Association of South Africa says they believe approving the bill without substantive consideration of…

THE first team of about 200 South African firefighters and management has been deployed to the Canadian province of Alberta to assist with firefighting efforts. This is the fifth deployment by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment’s (DFFE’s) Working on Fire programme team to Canada. The request for urgent assistance came from the Canadian Inter-agency Forest Fire Centre in terms of the existing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Canada and South Africa. Alberta has already experienced more than 550 wildfires this season resulting in damage to property and infrastructure, and displacing thousands of people. Evacuation orders have been put in place in many areas. “I would like to extend my best wishes to the team as you embark on your deployment to Canada to help put out the…

AfriForum has written to Minister of Transport Sindisiwe Chikunga regarding the broken licence printing machine. The civil society organisation said it was reported on May 3 that South Africa’s only licence printing machine had broken down again – less than a year since this happened the last time. AfriForum said that the department said at the time that it would print driving licence cards again within two to three weeks. “However, it’s more than a month later, and the department has not issued any updates on whether the machine has been fixed. “AfriForum’s more than 310 000 members, as well as the public at large, deserve answers and clarity when it comes to this critical service the government is supposed to provide without complications or serious delays.” Campaign Officer for…

A head-on collision involving a fully laden minibus taxi and a long-distance bus on the R61 between Flagstaff and Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape on Sunday claimed the lives of 11 people, including two children. Speaking to the SABC, provincial Department of Transport spokesperson Unathi Binqose said the accident occurred at approximately 1.45pm on a road that has many twists and turns and demands cautious driving. The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) said the long-distance bus and a Toyota Quantum minibus taxi were involved in a head-on crash. RTMC said the bus was reportedly transporting 18 occupants and travelling from Lusikisiki, while the minibus was reportedly transporting 16 occupants and travelling from Flagstaff. “The crash resulted in 11 fatalities (nine adults and two children from the minibus),” said the RTMC.…

The Auditor-General’s latest report on the state of the country’s municipalities makes for grim reading. In delivering the 2021-22 consolidated general report on the local government audit outcomes last week, AG Tsakani Maluleke called on municipalities to build a culture of accountability. She warned that the state of local government is deteriorating and requires urgent attention from authorities at local and provincial levels. ​Sadly, Maluleke’s comments are nothing new as previous reports from her office have shown the same downward trend each financial year. ​There were fewer clean audits recorded with “instability that occurred with the transition to the new administration” put forth as one of the reasons for the decline. Maluleke lamented that inadequate skills and capacity, governance failures and lack of accountability and consequences were the root causes…

A growing number of contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination could clear the way for a Donald Trump victory while throwing up roadblocks for his main rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, party members and strategists said. Republicans who fear Trump is too polarising a figure to beat Democratic President Joe Biden in 2024 worry that if too many candidates jump into the party’s contest, they will splinter the anti-Trump vote. That would allow the former president to clinch the nomination, just as he did in similar circumstances in 2016. Former vice-president Mike Pence, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie and North Dakota governor Doug Burgum are planning to enter the fray this week, bringing the number of challengers to front-runner Trump into the double digits. Political analysts estimate that…

After spending 20 years in jail, a woman once called Australia’s “worst female serial killer” was pardoned yesterday after new evidence suggested she did not kill her four infants. New South Wales Attorney General Michael Daley intervened to order Kathleen Folbigg be freed, based on the preliminary findings of an inquiry that had found “reasonable doubt” as to her guilt for all four deaths. The 55-year-old’s case has been described as one of Australia’s greatest miscarriages of justice. Folbigg was jailed in 2003 on three counts of murder and one of manslaughter following the deaths of her four children – Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura – over a decade from 1989. In each case, she was the person who found their bodies, but no physical evidence showed that she had…

Sydney: New Zealand honoured former prime minister Jacinda Ardern with the title of dame yesterday, citing her leadership after the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ardern, 42, stepped down in January, retiring from politics, saying she no longer had “enough in the tank”. Her successor, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, said Ardern had been named a dame in the King’s Birthday and Coronation Honours List. King Charles III is also head of state in New Zealand. “Leading New Zealand’s response to the 2019 terrorist attacks and to the Covid-19 pandemic represented periods of intense challenge for our 40th prime minister, during which time I saw first-hand that her commitment to New Zealand remained absolute,” Hipkins said. Ardern said she had been in “two minds” about accepting…

Istanbul: Airlines will return to profit and fly a near-record 4.35 billion passengers this year, but the sector’s post-pandemic recovery remains fragile. The industry is forecast to post net profits totalling $9.8 billion (R189bn) in 2023, boosted by the end of China’s Covid restrictions, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said yesterday. Airlines transported a record 4.54 billion people in 2019 before Covid-19. The industry lost $137bn when countries imposed lockdowns and closed borders in 2020. The sector lost another $42bn in 2021 and was still in the red last year as China enforced Covid restrictions, which were lifted in December. | AFP…

WITHOUT belabouring the point, South Africa finds itself in trouble. We have the brains trust to help us get out of the quagmire we seem determined to sink into, but do we have the will? I know I speak for many when I say that many of us positive, happy people are all running on the reserves of our optimism at present. Everyone has ideas on how to overcome the obstacles that currently beset us, but it is their implementation and the lack of true leaders that are the stumbling block to seeing South Africa right its trajectory. In truth, the country has a dearth of good leaders and those that we have often sing a tune counter to the prevailing narrative and fight to have their voices heard above…

With consumers battling interest rate hikes and rampant inflation outstripping salaries, a rare bit of good news of fuel price decreases was widely welcomed yesterday. Consumers have been under pressure after the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) hiked the interest rate by 50 basis points last month. The inflation rate was 6.8% in April, a slight drop from 7.1% in March. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) announced yesterday that both grades of petrol (93 and 95 ULP & LRP) will decrease by 71 cents per litre while diesel (0.05% sulphur) will decrease by 84c per litre and diesel (0.005% sulphur) will decrease by 80c per litre tomorrow. Economists have welcomed the news but warned that due to the weaker rand, a fuel price increase might be…

WORKERS from eThekwini Municipality’s water unit were unable to respond to water-related service delivery complaints across the city yesterday because they had allegedly been “barricaded” in their depots by aggrieved contractors. The Mercury has learnt that contractors who usually do work in the wastewater unit are protesting after the municipality implemented an online procurement system. They are upset over having to use the Supplier Self Service, an online platform that requires quotes for products or services be submitted online. This platform is aimed at improving the municipality’s controls over the procurement system. A video posted by the municipality on its YouTube channel describing the system said those using it should be registered. The video was posted about eight months ago and social media posts show that the municipality has been…

There must be many in eThekwini who are appalled and outraged at the expense of R22 million of ratepayers’ money on statues to commemorate OR Tambo and Nelson Mandela (The Mercury, June 2). Even if eThekwini’s finances were in order, such expenditure is reckless and irresponsible. But of course that is not the case. As a municipality it has been reduced to a state that is unprecedented in its 169-year history: requiring support from the provincial and national govern ments to manage its own affairs (Section 154 intervention). Knowing how the ANC exploits the public purse, there can be no doubt that a sizeable chunk of the R22m has gone into the pockets of comrades and middle-men and that the actual cost of those statues is a great deal less.…

The IFP in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature believes the killing of eight people in Glebelands Hostel in Durban is yet more proof that KZN is a war zone. Again, Glebelands Hostel has been in the news for the wrong reasons. This is the same hostel where between March 2014 and January 2019, more than 120 people died as a result of violence alleged to be perpetrated by hitmen. This is proof that KZN is a war zone where gun-toting criminals do as they please. Further, the question of the effectiveness of the Crime Intelligence Unit has come into the spotlight. As the IFP, we have raised the issue of incompetence on the part of the Crime Intelligence Unit on numerous occasions. The IFP maintains that the unit has a responsibility to…

It was a joyous occasion this week for a 6-year-old child, who was orphaned at the age of five months, when the court ordered authorities to issue her with a birth certificate. The girl, only known as MJM because of her age, now has legal status in the country and in addition, her great-grandmother and great-grand uncle have been declared as responsible for her care. The Tembisa Children’s Court, held at the Tembisa Magistrate’s Court, granted an order for the Department of Home Affairs to register her birth. The girl was not only let down by bureaucratic red tape, as it was proved that she was born in a Gauteng hospital, thus by birth a South African citizen, but social workers were unwilling to take on her case and left…

About 24 people who attended the Royal Show in Pietermaritzburg were stuck on a ride due to a municipal power outage on Friday night. Videos of the incident were shared on social media. Some revellers, who spoke to The Mercury yesterday, described how they had faced anxious moments as the ride was attended to. Thandi Dlamini said she took her family out to the show. “We were enjoying the ride when there was a huge bump and our ride froze in the air. We could not understand what was going on until others on the ground screamed ‘load shedding’,” she said. Joe Naidoo said that the way the ride stopped, they had been stuck at the top of it, and his son had been left traumatised. “This was our first…

THE DA has asked the government for the terms of reference for the panel appointed to probe claims made by the US ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety regarding the docking of a Russian ship in the Western Cape. Brigety had alleged that weapons had been loaded on to the ship, Lady R, at Simon’s Town last December. Defence Minister Thandi Modise has denied this and Brigety has offered an apology to the government. However, President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Judge Phineas Mojapelo to lead an inquiry. The panel also includes advocate Leah Gcabashe and Enver Surty. The DA said it has submitted an application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (Paia) to obtain the panel’s terms of reference, while the party is obtaining legal advice…

Writers have already covered most of the evil aspects of calamities that have befallen the nation as a result of load shedding. There is one more. The wide, rampant but necessary use of voltage inverters has now introduced a highly potential source of explosives directly into the home. Low power inverters are designed for the usual: “To drive a computer, energise a small DVD light and recharge my mobile is all I need, Sir!” However, ambition gets the better of most, so it’s not unusual to also try to connect, perhaps, an electric kettle for a quick cup of caffeine to frantically try to brighten up the foggy darkness inside one’s head. This overloading, most times, produces a reflex reaction from the electrical “system” and may…

Russia said yesterday it had repelled “a large-scale offensive” by Ukrainian forces in the Moscow-occupied Donetsk region as Kyiv was silent about plans to claw back lost territory. Ukrainian officials meanwhile were expected to hold talks with Pope Francis’ peace envoy, Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who headed to Kyiv yesterday for two days of negotiations. Ukraine says it has been preparing a major offensive after months of stalemate to recapture territory lost since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops in February last year. But officials have been tight-lipped about the details. On Sunday, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov posted a cryptic tweet, citing lyrics from Depeche Mode’s song, Enjoy the Silence. “Words are very unnecessary,” he tweeted. “They can only do harm.” Military experts expect Ukrainian forces to test…

Shelling hit western areas of Sudan’s capital yesterday after rival military factions fought through the night, residents said, with reports of deepening lawlessness in Khartoum and in the western region of Darfur. Fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who have been battling each other for more than seven weeks, intensified after the expiry late on Saturday of a ceasefire deal brokered by Saudi Arabia and the US. The conflict has uprooted more than 1.2 million people within Sudan and sent about 400 000 fleeing into neighbouring countries. There has been heavy damage inflicted on the capital where remaining residents are at the mercy of battles, air strikes and lawlessness. In Khartoum East district, RSF troops who have spread out in areas across the capital were…

KABUL: About 60 Afghan girls were hospitalised after being poisoned at their school in northern Afghanistan, police said yesterday. The poisoning, which targeted a girls’ school in the Afghan province of Sar-e Pol, comes after intense scrutiny of girls’ education in the war-torn nation since the Taliban took over and barred most teenage female students and after a wave of poison attacks on girls’ schools in neighbouring Iran. In Iran, poisoning incidents had impacted an estimated 13 000 female students since November. Under Afghanistan’s previous foreign-backed government, several poisoning attacks, including suspected gas attacks, on girls’ schools had taken place. | Reuters…

Jakarta: The US and China have sent warships to the multinational naval drills that began in Indonesia yesterday, despite the rifts between the two powers. Washington and Beijing are engaged in fierce competition on diplomatic, military, technological and economic fronts. The US military has stepped up its Asia-Pacific operations to counter China, which has staged several rounds of war drills around Taiwan. But both dispatched warships to the 2023 Multilateral Naval Exercise hosted by Indonesia in its eastern waters off Sulawesi island. The US Navy has sent a littoral combat ship to the exercise, the US embassy said. | AFP…

King Richard. Scrolling through the channels, I initially thought it was simply another movie trying to propagate colonial dominance. But to my pleasant surprise, it was actually the title of the biographical sports drama profiling Richard Williams – father and coach of tennis superstars Venus and Serena – and his lifelong dedication to moulding his daughters into multiple Grand Slam winners. Not everyone agreed with Richard’s methods. He had the neighbours calling the police and social services to come to the Williams' household to investigate if he was driving those girls too hard. And he was met with even fiercer criticism when he withdrew Venus and Serena from junior competitions to focus on being “normal children”. I believe that Shukri Conrad and Dewald Brevis share a similar relationship. The coach…

Cape Town Spurs vice-captain Jarrod Moroole says the team is on a mission to consolidate their quest for Premiership promotion by emerging winners in tomorrow’s PSL promotion/relegation playoff match against Casric Stars at Athlone Stadium. Moroole, a former Stellenbosch FC defensive midfielder, is one of the experienced hands in the Spurs team. He is also one of four former Maritzburg United players who sent the KwaZulu-Natal visitors packing with a win at Athlone Stadium over the weekend. The other former players who once wore the colours of Maritzburg were Clayton Daniels, Michael Morton - who scored the winner on Saturday - and Nazeer Ali. It was a huge setback for Maritzburg in the three-team mini-league, and Moroole feels Spurs can inflict further damage by defeating Mpumalanga visitors Casric. “It is…