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Mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity in Africa fell markedly in the second half of last year and was likely to remain subdued this year as the global economy remains in a perma-crisis state, a new report has found. International law firm Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) released its Global M&A 2022 Insights and 2023 Outlook yesterday, which studied whether the M&A market can fully absorb the current perma-crisis state, with once-in-a- generation events now erupting with disturbing frequency. HSF said the ongoing worldwide uncertainty and its economic effects would continue to have an impact on M&A transactions in Africa, though the upward trend of M&A transactions was expected to continue, especially from private capital investors. This comes after a marked deterioration in M&A conditions in the second half of 2022, with…

The BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index (BETI) ended the year positively, despite the ongoing dismal economic context, and it signals an improvement in the economy. “After six consecutive months of declines, the BETI rose to an index level of 132.1 in December, almost on par with the January 2022 level of 132.8,” BankservAfrica head of stakeholder engagement Shergeran Naidoo said in a statement yesterday. Naidoo said, however, that “there are indications that we could expect ‘more of the same’ in 2023,” as the main challenges of load shedding and households under pressure from elevated inflation and interest rates are likely to remain. The BETI increased by 1.7% on an annual basis versus a 0.9% decline in November. “The monthly, quarterly and annual improvements all signal some improvement in the broader economy,”…

As Eskom announced stage 6 load shedding until further notice yesterday, energy experts have called for the National Energy Crisis Committee (NECC) established by President Cyril Ramaphosa to provide regular updates on progress it is making to alleviate the worsening energy security crisis. The concern about lack of information on load shedding comes after Eskom announced that it would escalate load shedding to stage 6 throughout the day and night as it had severe capacity constraints. In July last year, Ramaphosa cut short an international trip to address the nation on the severe load shedding. He then announced the establishment of the NECC, which is chaired by the director-general in the Presidency and brings together all the departments and entities involved in the provision of electricity. However, there have been…

“MY daughter, 42, is struggling. She ‘met’ a man online who has captured her heart and she’s been sending him money. Being ‘connected’ to him has become like a drug to her. She can’t move away from the computer until she hears from him. “This is costing her money (which he demands) and taking up her life. She waits for him to be online but he never waits for her. It’s all dominated by him. “What do you suggest? This is breaking our family to see it happening. Please help.” The kinds of interventions necessary are unlikely to come to you via a newspaper column. This situation is deeper than requiring guidance or suggestions. Your daughter is being cruelly manipulated at the whim of someone who is likely to have…

The National Freedom Party (NFP) believes it is critical that apartheid-era ministers and high-ranking officials are questioned and compelled to share information regarding unsolved cases of missing individuals, or those who died under mysterious circumstances during the apartheid era. With the death of apartheid minister of police Adriaan Vlok, we are reminded that these people are going to their graves with pertinent information needed to give hundreds of families closure. As a country, we have bent over backwards to foster an era of reconciliation and forgiveness despite the heinous crimes committed against the majority of the citizens by the illegitimate apartheid regime. These people should have been in prison, but they were given immunity. The least they could do is give these families closures. Furthermore, the NFP believes that we…

I have just come back from a short visit to the Western Cape, and like many people before me, have found the comparison in all facets that affect our life such as driving behaviour, cleanliness of public spaces, service delivery and a general difference in ambience, the Western Cape far surpasses our province, and in particular eThekwini. This conclusion is not “rocket science” since almost everyone from our area who visits the Cape has the same experience. This set me thinking where our municipalities currently rank in the country as a whole in all the facets which contribute to a good life. The results of my analysis are extremely disheartening but not a surprise. For metropolitan areas, eThekwini ranks last out of the eight metros for good governance, that is…

A KWAZULU-NATAL man charged with killing a policewoman, Sergeant Nomkhosi Dlamini, in Pietermaritzburg has been released on R10 000 bail. Zamokuhle Christopher Vezi, 42, is accused of killing Dlamini, 48, from Thornville, while she was attending to a complaint in Snathing Village in eMahlathini. On November 11, police officers were investigating a case of assault and went to the suspect Vezi’s house. Vezi allegedly refused to open the door even though officers had identified themselves. When officers returned to their vehicle, Vezi allegedly opened fire on them. According to KZN police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Netshiunda, at the time of the incident Dlamini was with two captains, who were also seriously injured. “Reports indicate that the three police officers were investigating a case of assault with intent to cause serious bodily…

A now former employee at a car-hire company at Oliver Tambo International Airport, who was dismissed as he refused to get a Covid-19 vaccination on religious grounds, won his case against his employer in arbitration, when the commissioner declared his dismissal to be substantially unfair. It was ruled that the car-rental company had to pay Owen Cook six months’ salary. The company had adopted a mandatory vaccination policy, but Cook had applied for exemption from the policy, which was declined. He was dismissed in March last year for gross insubordination by refusing to carry out what the company said was a reasonable instruction, in that he failed to present a Covid-19 vaccination certificate as instructed. The employer was of the view that Cook was a frontline worker and could not…

A non-governmental organisation (NGO) calling itself Blackhouse Kollective Foundation (BHK) wants to be allowed to join today’s legal battle between former president Jacob Zuma and President Cyril Ramaphosa as a friend of the court (amicus curiae). In the case, Ramaphosa wants the court to set aside summons for private prosecution that have been filed by Zuma. Zuma wants to privately prosecute Ramaphosa as “accessory after the fact” in connection with his matter against State advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan. The two have been charged with violating the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Act for allegedly leaking Zuma’s confidential medical information during his arms deal trial. The NGO says it wrote to both warring parties asking if they had any qualms with it joining the matter and Zuma’s legal team…

Renewed optimism likely to be reflected in Lunar New Year celebrations The easing of Covid-19 restrictions in China in early December has already provided a boost to economic recovery, with Foxconn, which supplies Apple products from its factory in China, reporting a 14.2% month-on-month (m/m) jump in December revenue to $20.5 billion (R348.2 billion). The company’s Zhengzhou plant is estimated to be responsible for as much as 70% of iPhone production. “As production and operations have gradually returned to normal at the Zhengzhou campus in December 2022, Components and Other Products and Smart Consumer Electronics Products delivered double digit growth (month-over-month),” Foxconn said in a statement. Foxconn noted that its Zhengzhou plant had “basically returned to normal” in December, and economists expect that this return to normal will be reflected…

LUSAKA: Zambia has started rationing electricity supply to mining companies following reduced power generation after a drop in water flowing into Lake Kariba, the state-owned power utility Zesco said. Water levels were down at 1.66% of usable storage for the Kariba North Bank Power Station in Zambia and the Kariba South Bank Power Station on the Zimbabwean side of the lake, said the Zambezi River Authority, which manages the dam. The north bank power station has an installed capacity of 1 080 megawatts (mw), while the power station in Zimbabwe has a capacity of 1 050MW. Hydropower contributes to more than 75% of Zambia’s electricity. |…

KABUL: A suicide bomber blew himself up near Afghanistan’s foreign ministry, where a Chinese delegation had been due to meet yesterday, Taliban officials and witnesses said. An AFP team was conducting an interview inside the information ministry next door when the blast took place. More than 20 people were injured. In the aftermath, bodies lay strewn outside the high-walled compound of the ministry. The ministry itself did not appear to be badly damaged. Ahmadullah Muttaqi, a senior official in the prime minister’s office, said no foreigners were present at the time of the attack. |…

The fate of Soledar in east Ukraine was unclear yesterday with the Kremlin saying it was important not to “rush” to declare victory in Soledar, hours after Russia’s mercenary group Wagner claimed it had seized control of the town in east Ukraine. “Let’s not rush. Let’s wait for official announcements,” AFP reported Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov as saying in a statement. In the early hours yesterday, Wagner’s boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed his fighters controlled the salt mining city in eastern Ukraine. He also said some “urban battles” were still being fought in the town centre. Ukraine denied the claims, with its army declaring “Soledar was, is and will be Ukrainian”. Kyiv and Moscow’s forces have said that the battle for Soledar – a gateway town outside the key city of…

UNION Bordeaux Begles will travel to Durban this weekend to find a Shark Tank overflowing with the alphas of their species, as the Durbanites will surely pick their most powerful and experienced matchday 23 to maul the visitors into submission come match day. The Sharks lost to Connacht this past week in the United Rugby Championship (URC), but that was very much a second-string outfit, with the union’s Springboks, such as Thomas du Toit, remaining behind, sitting comfortably surrounded by the contentment of house and home. Before the 24-12 loss to the Irish franchise, the Sharks were on a five-match unbeaten run. They had scrapped to invaluable victories over the Ospreys in the URC, as well as the Harlequins and Bordeaux in the Champions Cup, before blasting past the Lions…

Tharisa Minerals, the platinum group metals (PGMs) and chrome co- producer, said yesterday that its mining volumes were affected by unprecedented rainfall not seen in the history of the mine. In its production report for the first quarter of the 2023 financial year, released yesterday, the group said rainfall in the first quarter was 27% higher than in previous years. Tharisa Minerals CEO Phoevos Pouroulis said output in the quarter was hampered by unprecedented rainfall in the open pit where it mines in the North West. “While the changes we have made to the pit layout provided significantly better drainage, access to the pit was nevertheless hampered due to the high water level, directly resulting in pit flexibility being compromised. Our stockpile management strategy was implemented over the past 24…

Parents of school-going children in KwaZulu-Natal are being hit in their pockets as they prepare for the start of the school year. The large amounts that have to be forked out for stationery, school uniforms and scholar transport will add to the woes of struggling consumers. The National Association of School Governing Bodies and the KwaZulu- Natal Parents’ Association yesterday urged schools to be more accommodating of parents, who were battling financially due to the rising cost of living. According to stationery lists seen by The Mercury for items that must be purchased and supplied by parents, the average cost of stationery for a primary school pupil at a government school was around R1 000, with the cost for a high school pupil rising to more than R2 500. For…

The IFP has vowed to utilise all measures at its disposal to oppose any attempts by the ANC to review the Political Party Funding Act. This after the ANC resolved at the conclusion of its national conference earlier this month that the act should be reviewed. The party has been dogged by the embarrassment of not being able to pay its staff, and this led to concerns that the conference would be disrupted by pickets – but this was avoided with all staff being paid weeks before the gathering. The funding act states that political parties must make a quarterly disclosure to the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) of funds of more than R100 000 that they receive. Parties can receive R15 million from an individual or entity in a…

The Mercury’s headline – “Disappointment over ANC’s anthem snub”, on January 10 refers. The exclusion of the Afrikaans and English portions of the national anthem by the ANC Youth League, at a government party event, is a warning signal to South Africa’s white youth of what treatment they can expect in future years from today’s ANC Youth League members when they obtain future political power. People must acknowledge the unfortunate truth that the ANC's Youth League is obviously telling us that there is no future in South Africa for European people. Will our president tell the public what he intends doing about this blatant racism, as he has shown in the recent Mangaung (Bloemfontein) swimming pool incident, how quickly he can react, and that he will not accept racism in…

Religion is big business. While it’s true that the church has played a valuable role over the ages in ministering to the spiritual, emotional and even physical needs of its congregants, there are also many greedy, unscrupulous pastors who have amassed a fortune and live off the gullible masses. They live a life of luxury and opulence and even unashamedly proclaim to the world that Jesus made them rich. Many of the evangelists in the US are millionaires. Appropriately named Creflo Dollar is worth $27 million, while the richest of them all is Kenneth Copeland, who has a staggering net worth of $760m and lives on a $7m tax-free estate. It’s heaven on earth for him. No wonder the Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day. In South Africa, too, the church has…

The deputy mayor of the Msunduzi Municipality, Mxolisi Mkhize, has hit back at allegations by the DA that municipal resources were used to deliver food parcels to residents in ward 28, to entice them to vote for the ANC. Mkhize dared the DA to produce one family that he gave food parcels to, on Sunday, as the ANC campaigned for the by-election in ward 28. The by-election is in a ward previously held by the DA and is scheduled for Wednesday. DA Msunduzi leader Ross Strachan issued a statement accusing the ANC of using state resources to campaign for the by-election. He had alleged that a municipal vehicle was seen “apparently handing out food parcels on Sunday, while a stone’s throw away the ANC were campaigning for the ward 28…

Intercape has hailed a Makhanda High Court ruling which dismissed Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula’s leave to appeal an order forcing him and Eastern Cape Transport MEC Xolile Nqatha to develop an effective action plan to provide safety for the company’s bus drivers and passengers. Judge John Smith in his ruling this week said he was of the view that the appeal had no reasonable prospects of success. Mbalula’s appeal was dismissed with costs, including the costs of two counsel. The long-distance bus company took the officials to court following years of attacks which escalated last year when a driver was killed and many others wounded. A bus driver was also wounded in a shooting in Cape Town in December. “I must say, however, that the minister’s resistance to co-operation with…

Police are searching for gunmen who shot dead two men in the Durban CBD on Tuesday afternoon. Darryl Manickum and Tyron Pillay, both 30, were seated in a blue Hyundai i10 when they were confronted by the gunmen and fatally wounded. The incident took place on Yusuf Dadoo Street at about 4pm. According to provincial police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda, reports indicated that the two men were seated in a vehicle when they were approached by the two armed suspects who started shooting at them. “The victims succumbed to their injuries at the scene. The suspects are reported to have fled the scene in a grey Toyota Avanza with Durban registration plates.” Despite reports that the shooting may be linked to an ongoing turf war between rival gangs, Netshiunda…

Human skeletal remains were recovered from overgrown vegetation on Gemini Crescent in the Everest Heights area of Verulam yesterday. Security company Reaction Unit South Africa (Rusa) spokesperson, Prem Balram, said members of the unit were called out to the scene at 11.29am after a passer-by made the discovery. “On arrival, reaction officers were led about 20m from the road into overgrown vegetation where the skeleton, dressed in grey/blue faded trousers, was located,” he said. Balram said a red T-shirt and a humerus (upper arm bone) were found nearly a metre away. The foot bones weren’t found. “It is believed that dogs from the neighbourhood had removed the bones from the scene, but this could not be confirmed,” said Balram. The race and sex of the deceased couldn’t be determined, he…

Trade volumes between Kenya and South Africa have always been minimal compared with each country’s engagement with its other major trading partners. But in recent years, leaders of the two countries have been taking steps to stimulate trade. Trade and foreign policy analyst Paul Odhiambo and economist XN Iraki discuss the trade obstacles between the two countries and how these can be overcome. What are the major imports and exports between South Africa and Kenya? Paul Odhiambo: Kenya’s exports to South Africa (in 2020) included gold, soda ash and cut flowers. In 25 years, the exports of Kenya to South Africa increased at an annualised rate of 0.49%, from US$30.7 million in 1995 to $34.6m in 2020. Kenya also unveiled its plans to start exporting meat to South Africa…

Washington: All flights across the US were grounded due to a technical glitch in the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) computer system. This was reported by NBC News that was quoting a source in the aviation industry. The US FAA system that alerts pilots and other flight personnel about hazards or any changes to airport facility services and relevant procedures was not processing updated information, the civil aviation regulator’s website showed yesterday. “Operations across the National Airspace System are affected,” the Official Twitter account of the FAA tweeted. |…

THE US state of California braced for a major cyclone yesterday, the National Weather Service (NWS) said, after tens of thousands of people were placed under evacuation orders due to a barrage of storms that killed at least 17 people. On Tuesday, torrential downpours caused flash flooding, closed highways, caused sinkholes, toppled trees and swept away people – including a 5-year-old boy who remains missing in California. About 66 000 homes and businesses in the most populous US state were without power yesterday, according to tracking site Poweroutage.us. The new storm was expected to hit northern California and was also forecast to bring more snow to the Sierra Nevada mountains, the NWS said. California governor Gavin Newsom said at least 34 000 people had been told to flee. However, an…

A Turkish court sentenced the head of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) to more than two years in prison for disseminating “terrorist propaganda” yesterday but ruled that she should be released after being in detention since October, human rights activists said. Dr Sebnem Korur Fincanci, a prominent rights defender and internationally- respected medic had called for a probe into the Turkish army’s alleged use of chemical arms against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq. Fincanci was detained and jailed in October for using a television interview to highlight the claims that first surfaced in media close to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The militia alleged that 17 of its fighters had died in Turkish chemical weapons attacks in the mountains of northern Iraq that month. The PKK launched an insurgency against…

LEHLOHONOLO Majoro, who seems to have put his injury worries behind him, is raring to go as AmaZulu look to solve their struggles in front of goals and get their season back on track. The veteran forward has had an injury-interrupted 2022/2023 campaign and missed five league matches through those setbacks. Usuthu have struggled for either that last pass in the final third or the last touch to put the ball in the net under both coaches Brandon Truter and now Romain Folz. The Durban club are the third-lowest-scoring side in the division with 11 strikes in 15 league games. The former Bafana Bafana striker has expressed how good he feels without injury and will look to help his side find their form in front of goal. “Now that we’re…

International banking group says that energy crunch is hurting SA economy BNP Paribas South Africa has warned that the could could experience the worst power cuts on record with at least 200 days of loadshedding this year, as Eskom deteriorates even further. This comes as Eskom on Tuesday night ramped up its rotational power cuts to Stage 6 in the evenings, and Stage 4 during the day until further notice, crippled by unplanned breakdowns. The struggling power utility has implemented loadshedding everyday since the beginning of the year as more than half of its generating capacity remains offline. BNP Paribas senior economist Jeff Schultz yesterday said their long-held expectation of more acute energy supply challenges continued to materialise, and energy supply crunch will hurt even as energy intensity falls. Schultz…

South Africa’s transition to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 could cost almost R6 trillion, according to a report by the National Business Initiative (NBI), in collaboration with Business Unity South Africa (Busa) and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). According to the report, titled “Financing South Africa’s Just Transition”, the power sector offers the greatest opportunity for affordable decarbonisation. The report focused on what sources of finance are available to fund the transition, and how climate finance can be unlocked as a critical enabler of South Africa’s transition, especially for high-priority investment areas. The report found that R1 trillion is required by 2030, and R5.9 trillion is needed by 2050 to fund the net-zero transition, but many of these investments, it said, were commercially viable and would reduce existing expenditure on…

SINCE the beginning of December, the eThekwini Municipality’s electricity department has faced escalating attacks on its infrastructure, with cable thieves striking during load shedding. Head of electricity in the municipality, Maxwell Mthembu, yesterday detailed the unit’s extensive challenges. Mthembu spoke to The Mercury as the unit has come under pressure because of prolonged power outages in some areas. Councillors in areas such as Sherwood and Bonela have complained about outages, especially during the festive season. Some of these areas have been out again since Sunday. DA councillor Ernest Smith alleged that part of the problem was that the city had allowed many of its in-house staff to go on leave, which left the remaining staff struggling to respond. Mthembu said a challenge they had faced since December was cable theft…

DIY is the in thing. A useful glossary comes this way of the instruments so fundamental to DIY operations: Wire wheel – Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench at the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned callouses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say: “Oh bugger!” Angle grinder – A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short. Pliers – Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood blisters Belt sander – An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs. Hacksaw – One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle … it transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion,…

As we enter 2023, it is devastating to see that so much remains the same with a spate of recent reports regarding the horrific rape and murder of women and children in the eThekwini region. KwaZulu-Natal remains the province with the highest number of gender-based violence (GBV) incidents and it is clear that much work needs to be done to turn this around. This requires on-the-ground action – across all spheres of government. The DA believes that there is a dire need for the formation of a formal task team – comprising private and public sector – to deal with this scourge. In the KZN legislature, upcoming budgets need to be focused on reducing the prevalence of GBV. Furthermore, there needs to be research on why our province has such…

The IFP notes the ANC’s recent resolution to move Eskom from Public Enterprises to the Energy Department. As the IFP, we have raised this issue and have long been calling for Eskom to be moved to the Energy Department. The IFP has gone on the record in 2022 during debates in Parliament, as well as in IFP statements, calling for Eskom and other state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to be moved to their line function departments. On May 24, 2022, during a parliamentary debate, IFP deputy president, Inkosi EM Buthelezi, stated: “The IFP believes that if we want to bring stability, we must stop making (Eskom, SAA, Denel) nomadic. Instead, we should put them under their proper line function departments. This will ensure far greater accountability and stability.” On July 8, 2022,…

The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) has urged donors in KwaZulu-Natal to donate blood. Sifiso Khoza of SANBS KZN said that across the country, blood banks needed to collect 3 500 units of blood every day of the year. “This is to ensure that we have at least five days’ stock to supply the hospitals and blood banks throughout the country. KZN needs 500 units of blood every day, but unfortunately we hardly make this number. The reason is that less than 1% of the population are blood donors. We currently have only 480 000 donors on our panel. “As of today (yesterday), KZN is on one day’s cover; which means if we don’t get any donors/potential donors visiting our donor centres or mobile clinics today we’ll…

Some South African women who have fallen victim to violent crime, including rape, say they feel let down by the SAPS and the justice system. At least three women who are all victims of rape said the offenders in their cases were all walking freely in the streets of their neighbourhoods. A young Gauteng woman, who is a rape victim and spoke to The Mercury’s sister newspaper The Star yesterday, asked if South Africa was losing the battle against rape, gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF). The newspaper established that the rape case the woman opened on December 26, 2022, at Thokoza police station had been withdrawn without any police officer contacting her. The woman had been raped by a man who had befriended her during a night out with her…

Paris: Six people were wounded yesterday by a man wielding a knife at the busy Gare du Nord station in Paris, police and prosecutors said. The man was arrested by police at the station – a busy commuter hub which also serves as a departure point for trains to northern France, London and northern Europe – after they opened fire and wounded him, said a police source, who asked not to be named. The police were treating the stabbings as a criminal act, not a terrorist attack, a source close to the case said. The attacker sustained a life-threatening chest injury as police fired several rounds, the source said. |…

Geneva: A former Liberian warlord appealed a 20-year prison sentence for war crimes in a Swiss court yesterday, as prosecutors broaden the indictment to include crimes against humanity. Alieu Kosiah was found guilty in June 2021 of multiple atrocities committed during the first of Liberia’s back-to-back civil wars, in which about 250 000 people died between 1989 and 2003. Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court found him “guilty of violating the laws of war”. The verdict marked the first time a Liberian was convicted – either in the west African country or anywhere else – of war crimes committed during the conflict. |…

The British and Japanese prime ministers signed a new defence deal at the historic Tower of London when the pair met in London yesterday, Downing Street said. The agreement is the latest sign of London’s growing interest in the Asia-Pacific region, and Tokyo’s efforts to strengthen its alliances to face the challenges posed by China. The deal creates a legal basis for the deployment of British and Japanese troops on each others’ territory for training and other operations. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office called it “the most significant defence agreement between the two countries in more than a century”. “This Reciprocal Access Agreement is hugely significant for both our nations – it cements our commitment to the Indo-Pacific and underlines our joint efforts to bolster economic security,” said Sunak. Japan…

The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Iraqi Ambassador to Tehran after a number of Iraqi officials called the Persian Gulf the “Arabian Gulf” during a regional football tournament, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said yesterday. “We summoned the ambassador of Iraq to the Foreign Ministry and notified the Iraqi side of the sensitivity of the great Iranian nation about the use of the exact and full term of the Persian Gulf,” Amirabdollahian was quoted as saying by Iran’s Tasnim news agency. On January 6, Fifa president Gianni Infantino attended the opening ceremony of the tournament, where he called the Persian Gulf “Arabian Gulf”. Muqtada Sadr, Iraq’s most influential Shia politician, also referred to the gulf in the same way in his greeting message to the guests of the…

ORLANDO Pirates have 'trust in the process' and they will not give up on the title race as they believe they'll turn the tide if they learn from their hardships. Pirates are currently enduring a rough patch, having only racked up one win in their last seven league games. That poor streak, which includes losing to both Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns, has put coach Jose Riveiro and his charges under huge pressure. So much so that the Spanish-born coach is forced to turn the tide on Saturday afternoon at home to Golden Arrows or he will run the risk of losing his job as they trail leaders Downs by 21 points. But Riveiro says they are not giving up. “We are all going through different moments in the…