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The Citizen
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Citizen
Are you runway ready? Durban Fashion Fair launches model search
IF you are a model with passion for fashion, a flair for the dramatic, and a desire to be part of something big, then the judges for Regional Durban Fashion Fair (DFF) Model Search Roadshows are looking for you. The model-casting will commence on Saturday, June 7, at Durban Botanic Garden and end on June 20, at The Pavilion Shopping Centre. Gugu Sisilana, eThekwini Municipality's spokesperson, said the search is open to models from all eThekwini regions, who are between the ages of 18 and 35 years. ALSO read: Another title for Musgrave model 'The municipality under the banner of the DFF, is calling all aspiring models looking to professionally venture into the modelling industry not to miss this opportunity. We are looking for female, male and fuller-figure female models,' Sisilana said. She said finalists will undergo two months of training on various modelling aspects to prepare them to strut the runway at this year's annual DFF showcase and make their grand entrance into the industry. Sisilana encourages models who meet the requirements to participate in the regional model search roadshows planned for their nearest areas. 'Compulsory documents to bring on site for castings include a copy of your ID to verify your age and proof of residence,' she advised. Female models: • Minimum height – 1.75m with no heels. • 87cm – 9cm hip measurement. • Must wear body-fitting clothing and bring heels to the casting – jeans not allowed • Advised to wear minimal make-up. Male models: • Minimum height – 1.84m. • Trouser size 30 to 32. • Must wear fitted T-shirt or shirt and closed shoes or trainers to the casting. • Must be in good physical shape Fuller-figure female models: • Minimum height – 1.75m without heels • 38 to 42 trouser-size measurement • Must wear body-fitting clothing and bring heels to the casting – jeans are not allowed • Advised to wear minimal make-up Full schedule of the DFF Regional Model search roadshows is as follows. They all commence at 09:00. June 7, Durban Botanic Garden • June 8, Umlazi Mega City • June 15, G Hall, KwaMakhutha • June 20, the Pavilion Shopping Centre For more information, email or call 031 311 4497. For more from Northglen News, follow us on Facebook , X or Instagram. You can also check out our videos on our YouTube channel or follow us on TikTok. Click to subscribe to our newsletter – here At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
The Citizen
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Citizen
Durban Fashion Fair model search kicks off this June
IF you are a model with passion for fashion, a flair for the dramatic, and a desire to be part of something big, then the judges for Regional Durban Fashion Fair (DFF) Model Search Roadshows are looking for you. The model-casting will commence on Saturday, June 7, at Durban Botanic Garden and end on June 20, at The Pavilion Shopping Centre. Gugu Sisilana, eThekwini Municipality's spokesperson, said the search is open to models from all eThekwini regions, who are between the ages of 18 and 35 years. ALSO read: Another title for Musgrave model 'The municipality under the banner of the DFF, is calling all aspiring models looking to professionally venture into the modelling industry not to miss this opportunity. We are looking for female, male and fuller-figure female models,' Sisilana said. She said finalists will undergo two months of training on various modelling aspects to prepare them to strut the runway at this year's annual DFF showcase and make their grand entrance into the industry. Sisilana encourages models who meet the requirements to participate in the regional model search roadshows planned for their nearest areas. 'Compulsory documents to bring on site for castings include a copy of your ID to verify your age and proof of residence,' she advised. Female models: • Minimum height – 1.75m with no heels. • 87cm – 9cm hip measurement. • Must wear body-fitting clothing and bring heels to the casting – jeans not allowed • Advised to wear minimal make-up. Male models: • Minimum height – 1.84m. • Trouser size 30 to 32. • Must wear fitted T-shirt or shirt and closed shoes or trainers to the casting. • Must be in good physical shape Fuller-figure female models: • Minimum height – 1.75m without heels • 38 to 42 trouser-size measurement • Must wear body-fitting clothing and bring heels to the casting – jeans are not allowed • Advised to wear minimal make-up Full schedule of the DFF Regional Model search roadshows is as follows. They all commence at 09:00. June 7, Durban Botanic Garden • June 8, Umlazi Mega City • June 15, G Hall, KwaMakhutha • June 20, the Pavilion Shopping Centre For more information, email or call 031 311 4497. For more from Berea Mail, follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram. You can also check out our videos on our YouTube channel or follow us on TikTok. Click to subscribe to our newsletter – here At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
IOL News
4 days ago
- Business
- IOL News
Durban buildings up for sale: eThekwini Municipality's strategic move
The eThekwini full council held at the Durban ICC. Image: Sibonelo Ngcobo / Independent Newspapers Councillors have granted the eThekwini Municipality the go-ahead to negotiate with the business rescue practitioners and bondholders of Urban Lime Prop SA (PTY) Ltd to purchase the Durban Chambers and Durban Club place buildings, estimated at R120 million. The matter was approved at a council meeting on Thursday, where the property development company is undergoing a business rescue process, according to the municipality, which has accumulated substantial municipal debt. The buildings, which are currently not in use, are strategically located near the Durban City Hall, where the city is leasing two other high-rise buildings. In a report presented to the council, the municipality stated that this presented a timely and strategically aligned opportunity to acquire the buildings. The report stated that the deal could offer a practical solution to the long-standing challenges in securing compliant, cost-effective, and permanent office accommodation rather than relying on leased properties. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Advertisement Next Stay Close ✕ The report stated that the proposed acquisition will meet two key objectives: The recovery of significant outstanding municipal debt. The reduction of long-term leasing costs through the ownership of suitable accommodation assets. The city estimates it will have to spend R10 million in total to repair the fire detection system, get an electricity compliance certificate, and repair the air conditioning and lifts. Cyril Xaba, eThekwini mayor, said the city must carefully evaluate the deal and not buy something that will not deliver potential benefits. Xaba said the council's directive is to prioritise insourced services as a cost-saving mechanism and that this acquisition was described as a significant advancement in addressing the current challenges associated with municipal offices operating from leased premises that are no longer compliant with prevailing building standards. During an Executive Committee meeting (Exco), several councillors spoke about the issue. Themba Mvubu, EFF Exco member, said the emphasis should be on the acquisition of the building to benefit the city and save costs. DA Exco member Andre Beetge said the city should not jump into the deal without conducting due diligence. He said at face value, it appears to be a good proposition and that the municipality should be wary not to put itself into a problem where millions are spent on further renovations. 'We must not buy an asset that requires money to fix. We did this in the past, and we do not want white elephants,' he said. Mdu Nkosi, an IFP Exco member, said he welcomed the move because in most of the buildings that the municipality was renting, there were challenges. Nkosi mentioned that one of the buildings used by councillors has roof leaks, cockroach infestations, and pigeons entering the ceilings. According to Nkosi, the municipality will save money if it goes this route and avoids paying exorbitant rental fees. "Officials cannot do anything, but if we do have our buildings, we will be able to maintain them. This will be a motivation to the municipal employees who are having challenges in their workspaces. You have visitors who enter some offices and find that they are poorly maintained and buckets collecting water from leaking roofs,' he said. Nkosenhle Madlala, the ANC Exco whip, said that for years, councillors have been vocal about the municipality paying exorbitant amounts for the rental of office space. 'At a council meeting, a councillor did the math on how much we were spending per year on rentals while we could be owning the building. This process takes us a step closer to ownership,' he said.
Daily Maverick
5 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Maverick
Pay less attention to presidents and premiers and focus on mayors, they matter way more
We pay way too much attention to presidents and premiers and not nearly enough to mayors. Nothing that the first two ever do can directly affect me this afternoon, this week or even this year. In fact, most of what they do never touches sides in real terms. But the mayor can change my life within an hour. Is the power restored after an outage, the gushing water breach in the road stemmed, the blocked sewage pipe cleared, the rubbish collected, the storm-felled tree across the highway removed, the fire brigade turning up timeously? If I lived in a flooded township, it would be the mayor who could ensure that emergency help was available and that it arrived. Competence and incorruptibility at municipal level make a massive difference. And the converse is true. The destruction caused by incompetence and dishonesty at a municipality is both enormous and immediate. And, the converse of the converse is that the opportunity for rapid renewal is immense. Just see what the DA's energetic Chris Pappas has achieved inside a mere 12 months as mayor of uMngeni. Aside from Cape Town, excellently served for the past three years by a hard-working, pragmatic and highly functional mayor in Geordin Hill-Lewis, our track record of governance in major metropoles is abysmal. Johannesburg is the well-publicised poster child in this regard – eight mayors in six years – but the rest are no better. Nelson Mandela Bay has had 10 mayors in 10 years, including Danny Jordaan for a brief time, and they've had an astonishing 15 city managers in five years. Tshwane has had six mayors in six years and Mangaung five in five. eThekwini's recent mayoral list includes Zandile Gumede, investigated by the Hawks in connection with fraud (like fake employment creation), money laundering and corruption. There was a time when our city mayors did not matter that much. They were fundamentally ceremonial and got to prance about with a silly chain around their necks. Often, they rotated on an annual basis. But nowadays they are elected, executive leaders of widespread metropoles with massive budgets and the capacity to inflict misery on millions through exorbitant rates and minimal service delivery. This accurately reflects the fact that the English word 'mayor' is derived from the Latin 'magnus', meaning great or powerful, via the French derivation of 'maire'. (Before that, their equivalents in Britain were known as 'portreeves' … which, in my view, is a far superior name.) Stepping stone to higher office All of this is why the municipal elections at the end of next year should matter to everyone as much as, if not more than, the national ones in 2029. The candidates should be the brightest and best that parties can find, instead of burying their limited talent on the dozing backbenches of Parliament or in the Cabinet. The testing experience of being a successful mayor ideally should be a training ground and a stepping stone for national office. Helen Zille, whose zeal and attention to detail best suited her to the on-the-ground work of being Cape Town mayor for three years, is a local example of this playing out. So, to a lesser extent, is Herman Mashaba's transition from DA Joburg mayor to national shapeshifting irritant. And there are rumours, which he denies, that Hill-Lewis will take a shot at John Steenhuisen's DA leadership job next April. The ANC tends to go the other way — deploying downwards from the Cabinet to dysfunctional metropoles without any success. Maybe Parks Tau, who somehow survived five years as Johannesburg mayor from 2011 and is now an up-and-coming trade minister, can break that mould. The French provide the best example of this kind of leadership production line. Five of its last eight presidents were mayors at some point in their careers, as were 18 of the country's last 24 prime ministers. In London, there have been three mayors under the new structure. One, Boris Johnson, became prime minister. The incumbent, Sadiq Khan, is a good bet to follow him to Downing Street someday. In the US, the sanest, sharpest and most promising figure in their tainted political landscape is Pete Buttigieg, who is known as Mayor Pete because of his eight years' running the small city of South Bend, Indiana. But no mayor of a major American metropole has ever become president unless you count Grover Cleveland's brief experience in 1881 as the boss of Buffalo (and two others in the even more distant past who ran small towns). Possibly more relevant to us is Turkiye, where their authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, first made his name as mayor of Istanbul and is now doing his best to illegitimately thwart his rising rival Ekrem Imamoglu, who is the current mayor of that fabulous city. Or Mexico, where their first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, came to everyone's attention as a savvy and strong mayor of its sprawling capital, Mexico City. There's a very strange example in the Philippines where the highly controversial Rodrigo Duterte served seven terms as a 'law and order' mayor of Davao City before becoming a wild and often lawless president, and then being arrested by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity, murder, torture and rape. He is currently in detention in The Hague, awaiting trial from where, in absentia, he has successfully run once again for election as Davao City mayor. I am not claiming that being a mayor automatically ensures great national leadership skills – hello Boris! – but it is a real job affecting real people in real time. You face consequences and you get to understand the full implications of actions (or inactions) coming down to you from the national or provincial levels. If you start political life up in the rarified air of Cabinet meetings and Parliament, where the indirect tools of words, policies, legislation and budget allocations are all you have to work with, you may never really get what truly matters — which is the garbage being collected tomorrow and the potholes being filled yesterday. DM
The Citizen
6 days ago
- Climate
- The Citizen
Isipingo Hills reservoir to shut down for repairs
ETHEKWINI Municipality has announced that the Isipingo Hills reservoir will shut down to allow for maintenance work to be done on May 29, from 08:00 to 18:00. Also read: Umkhomazi water tender sparks legal battle In a statement, eThekwini said the maintenance is necessary to improve the flow of water from the reservoir to customers. The Isipingo Hills reservoir also supplies other dependent reservoirs, including the Isipingo Beach and Athlone Park reservoirs. Both these reservoirs will be affected by the shutdown. The following areas will be affected: • Isipingo Hills • Orient Hills • Prospecton • Isipingo Beach • Old Durban Airport • Athlone Park • Parts of Umbogintwini • Galleria Mall • Arbour Crossing For more information regarding water supply, the public can download the eThekwini Municipality's mobile app to log faults or send a WhatsApp message to 073 1483 477. Alternatively, call the toll-free number 080 311 1111 or email Eservices@ For more South Coast Sun news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can also check out our videos on our YouTube channel or follow us on TikTok. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter and get news delivered straight to your inbox. Do you have more information pertaining to this story? Feel free to let us know by commenting on our Facebook page or you can contact our newsroom on 031 903 2341 and speak to a journalist. At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
