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Concerns over threats levelled at the driver in the horrific crash which killed five teenagers near Timaru, and members of his family, have prompted a call for calm from community leaders.
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Stuff. Averis also believes that the Blandswood Ford near the village was a potential safety hazard for emergency services, road users, walkers and the six resident families. He said there was no footpath for pedestrians who were forced to walk on the tar seal road. Another problem was there were no while lines painted in the middle of the road, Averis said. “We have lots of tourists [domestic] and it’s only a matter of time before someone gets clipped.” He was disappointed the Timaru District Council Road Safety co-ordinator Daniel Naude and board chairman Wayne O’Donnell, along with other board members at the meeting, supported the idea but said to change the speed limit was a complex and lengthy process.
Nelson Mandela famously said: “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you speak to him in his own language that goes to his heart.”
In a country with 11 official languages and countless other unofficial languages people are often forced to live in a world where they find themselves perpetually lost in translation.
An exhibition at the Standard Bank Art Gallery in Johannesburg,
Photographs in Our Mother Tongue, curated by Same Mdluli, showcases the works of more than two dozen prominent South African photographers from the bank’s corporate collection.
The exhibition asks if an image truly does speak 1,000 words or if the same linguistic barriers that divide so many, exist in an image as well. These questions are by no means simple to answer – the exhibition title perhaps provides a lens through which to address them.