Less than R30 000 in value, and more than 30 years old is the kind of car you need to drive to qualify for the Jam Jar Challenge – a charity event organised by some Gqeberha friends to raise money for the Cheshire Homes.
It’s also an annual excuse for a group of men to behave incredibly badly.
Founded by Gqeberha entrepreneur Paul Engler in 2013, it started with an invitation to participate in a charity rally in KwaZulu-Natal.
“It didn’t happen and so I decided to do something in my home town,” he said.
With nine people in three cars, they set off on the first Jam Jar rally – an event that snowballed into the 30-car, 120-person event that it is now.
The Cheshire Homes, which cater for chronically physically disabled adults, is the rally’s charity of choice. Its route is along the rural backroads between Gqeberha, Makhanda and Port Alfred. In addition to donations of groceries or school clothes on the way, each team of four must complete a list of tasks, earning either points or penalties.
One of the less onerous tasks is stopping and buying a round of drinks at a local tavern, where they also braai.
The 30-plus-year-old vehicles break down a lot.
“We’ve had 13 so far,” Engler said on Saturday 13 November – Day 2 of the rally. “Last year we had 45 breakdowns in one day.”
Riaan Claasen of Gqeberha company Universal Equipment is on hand with two mechanics to see to the more complicated breakdowns.
The participants – friends, and friends of friends – come mostly from Gqeberha, but there were also teams from Durban and Gauteng. Asked how their trip had been so far, every group said “Awesome”.
They actually all did use the word, “awesome” eExcept for the apparently very out of it Hip-Ous, who answered, “We have absolutely no idea.”
Tax information for small businesses from the South African Revenue Service
#Your Tax Matters
We continue our focus on Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs). This month, we are exploring the functionalities available for SMMEs on eFiling and how to register a representative.
Registering for eFiling
If you are not yet registered as an eFiler, you can register by:
Visiting the SARS eFiling website www.sarsefiling.co.za and clicking on REGISTER; or
Downloading the MobiApp and tapping on REGISTER
As a registered taxpayer, you can sign up to use the SARS eFiling service, which allows you not only to file a return, make payments to SARS or request a tax clearance certificate, but also gives you access to many other benefits via an electronic platform.
For further guidance, please watch the SARS TV on YouTube.
eFiling Service Offerings available to SMMEs
The following services and functionalities are available on eFiling:
Enquire on the outstanding debt and make a payment
Enquire on the outstanding returns
Request your Tax Compliance Status
Notice of Registration
Filing your Income Tax Return
Update personal details (including bank details)
Request Statement of Account
Register for Income Tax
Submission of Supporting Documents for an audit case
Lodge a Dispute Tax Product Registration (incl. Tax Number Registration)
Tax Directive Management
Lodge a complaint
Refund status
Audit status
Username Retrieval and Password Reset
Registered Representative
Registering a representative
A registered representative is a person who is appointed with full rights to act on behalf of another legal entity (e.g. Companies/Company director, Trust/Trustee etc). A registered representative can set up an eFiling profile of the company, and has full rights to act on behalf of the company.
Requirements:
One official representative must be appointed to represent the company on all tax products registered with SARS.
Registered representatives must be registered with SARS.
Individuals, in a practitioner capacity, are not permitted to be registered representatives.
Registration Process and Tax Type Activation
Supporting documents needed for registration to become a registered representative of a company:
Certificate of Incorporation / Registration (CoR14.1)
Letter of authority signed by a Director or a Board resolution approving appointment (not older than 3 months).
Copy of a valid identity document or drivers licence/ Passport or temporary ID of representative.
Selfie or image of representative holding his/her identity document with note that reads “Update my details”.
Proof of residential address, not older than 3 months, of the representative.
Note: Turnaround time for registration is 21 working days, provided all required documents were submitted.
Common errors that you should avoid because they can delay the updating of the registered representative:
Registration documents not signed.
Selfie of representative holding his/her identity document not attached.
Letter of appointment not signed by directors/members etc.
Practitioners should not apply to be the registered representative.
Submitted documents not legible.
Company name or registration number differs from attached documents.
What’s new: Enhanced Notice of Registration functionality
The Notice of Registration functionality on eFiling was enhanced. The current Notice of Registration functionality for PIT and VAT has now been extended to include CIT, PAYE and Trusts. eFilers can now access their Notices of Registration for all tax types online by following these easy steps:
Step 3:Click SARS Registered details on the side menu
Step 4: Select Notice of Registration
Step 5: Select the relevant tax type: VAT or CIT or PAYE or Trusts
Regional News
Taxpayers are reminded that the Filing Season for Individuals ends on 23 November 2021. If you have received an auto-assessment SMS from SARS, you need to either accept the auto-assessment, or edit it by filing a tax return. If you fail to do so, an estimated assessment based on the data at our disposal will be issued by SARS. Any tax return filed after 23 November 2021 will be subject to a penalty for late submission.
Don’t forget, if you want to visit a SARS branch, you need to make a booking. You can call 0800 00 7277 and choose the “0” (zero) option, or SMS 47277 with the word “Booking” followed by a space then your ID number/Passport number/ Asylum Seeker number.
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Staff joined students in a march from Eastcape Midlands College in St Aidan’s Avenue to a candlelight vigil for Anele Kampu in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Steven Lang
‘This was a child of your own town,’ Makhanda leaders told
By Sue Maclennan
A double burial in Makhanda last Saturday marked three weeks of anguish since Eastcape Midlands College (EMC) student Anele Kampu was found dead in her boyfriend’s room. Her father, Zalisile Kampu, died a week after hearing of his daughter’s death and they were buried side by side at Mayfield Cemetery last weekend. Fellow students and staff marched with the family through town in a protest against gender based violence and gathered in a moving tribute at Fingo Square on Friday 5 November.
Makhanda student Anele Anita Kampu was enrolled in her second year of a National Certificate in Vocational Tourism, Level 3, at Eastcape Midlands College (EMC) and around 300 students, staff members, family and friends gathered for the candlelight memorial at Fingo Square in Makhanda on the eve of the double funeral and burial. Tourism lecturer Wanda Makeleni was among the first to speak and he described Anele as colourful, vibrant and intelligent.
EMC Stakeholder Manager Mike Sideba, on behalf of the College, spoke of the terrible cost of her death – not only to the lives of her family, friends and fellow students, but to the town.
“The leadership of Makhanda is here and you should know that this college belongs to the community of Makhanda,” he said. “We have lost not only a daughter, sister and friend, but a potential developer of Makhanda.” Students were not only young people with dreams, families and futures, but valuable assets for the town and its future, Sideba said.
Makhanda born and raised, Anele attended Ntaba Maria Primary School and Kutliso Daniels Secondary School before enrolling at Eastcape Midlands College. Born in 2000, she was 21.
“The leadership of Makhanda must know that this was a child of your own town,” Sideba said.
His address followed a call by Makana councillor and ANC Makana Subregion Chairperson Mabhuti Matyumza to revive Men’s Forums, and for men to stand up and say, “not in our name”.
The EMC SRC’s Gender and Transformation Officer, Joleen Arries, said, “Anele Kampu was killed while she was working to achieve her dreams. It’s time to stand together against gender based violence and not allow another innocent life to be taken.”
Fellow Tourism student Asiphenati Ngesi delivered a moving poem.
“I am so broken,” she said afterwards.
But for the close to 300 gathered there, even those heartfelt words were cold comfort as they absorbed the terrible events of the past three weeks.
Around 50 members of staff and students had marched from EMC’s Makhanda campus in St Aidan’s Avenue to Fingo Square in Raglan Road, where others joined the moving tribute.
On Saturday 23 October, Anele’s lifeless body was found in her boyfriend’s M Street room. Anele’s father collapsed when he heard the news. A week later he died of a stroke.
Anele’s heartbroken mother, Nomonde, sobbed as tributes flowed for her daughter.
Speaking quietly at the edge of the gathering, Anele’s elder sister Bongiwe said, “My sister was kind and loving. She was a people’s person, so very humble. She was a sweet girl – she didn’t deserve what happened to her.
“Today, I wish this is the last time we are gathering for this. Over and over, we must mourn someone who has died because of gender based violence. And now it is my own sister.
“She didn’t deserve this.”
Police confirmed that a case of murder was opened on 23 October 2021 and Anele’s boyfriend was named as the only suspect.
“His mother went to her son’s outside room to fetch his washing. When she knocked and got no response, she opened the door,” said police spokesperson Sergeant Majola Nkohli.
In front of her lay Anele’s lifeless body. There were noticeable injuries on her upper body. She was declared dead on the scene and a case of murder was opened.
“But the suspect was nowhere to be found,” said Nkohli.
Six days later, on 29 October, the 22-year-old man handed himself in at Joza Police Station. His first court appearance was on 2 November. The next day he was granted bail of R1000.
“The case was postponed for further investigation and his next appearance is on 10 December,” Nkohli said.
Photos: Steven Lang
Photos: Sue Maclennan
Photo: Lithemba Busakwe
LEFT TO RIGHT, FROM THE TOP: 1_Eastcape Midlands College Student Liaison Officer Lithemba Busakwe addresses students and staff gathered in St Aidan’s Avenue for a march to a memorial service for EMC student Anele Kampu in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Steven Lang 2_Students and staff set off from Eastcape Midlands College in St Aidan’s Avenue for a memorial for Anele Kampu in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Steven Lang 3_Staff joined students in a march from Eastcape Midlands College in St Aidan’s Avenue to a candlelight vigil for Anele Kampu in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Steven Lang 4_Mpho Kopeli, Lukhanyiso Cezula and Taonga Phiri were part of a Rhodes University SRC delegation that joined Eastcape Midlands College students and staff in a march from the EMC campus in St Aidan’s Avenue to a candlelight vigil for Anele Kampu in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Steven Lang 5_Rhodes University SRC member Lindi Gqamana-Mngeni was part of a Rhodes University SRC delegation that joined Eastcape Midlands College students and staff in a march from the EMC campus in St Aidan’s Avenue to a candlelight vigil for Anele Kampu in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Steven Lang 6_Staff joined students in a march from Eastcape Midlands College in St Aidan’s Avenue to a candlelight vigil for Anele Kampu in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Steven Lang 7_Gideon Minyelela, Siya Silatsha, Sihle Japhela and Thembinkosi Ngqoyiya said it was painful for a young girl to pass away. They had come to show their support at a memorial for Eastcape Midlands College student Anele Kampu in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Steven Lang 8_Student Liaison Officer Lithemba Busakwe leads Eastcape Midlands College staff and students in a march to a candlelight vigil for Anele Kampu in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Steven Lang 9_Eastcape Midlands College student Anele Kampu’s family listen to tributes during a memorial ceremony for her at Fingo Square, Makhanda, on 5 November 2021. Anele’s mother, Nomonde, is seated in the centre. Photo: Steven Lang 10_Reverend Melikhaya Fiki was among the clergy at a memorial for Eastcape Midlands College student Anele Kampu in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Steven Lang 11_Asiphenati Ngesi delivered a moving poem at a memorial for Eastcape Midlands College student Anele Kampu at Fingo Square, Makhanda, on 5 November 2021. Anele was Asiphenati’s second-year Tourism classmate. Photo: Steven Lang 12_Eastcape Midlands College Acting Campus Manager Nkululeko Magopeni reads a tribute to Anele Kampu during her memorial in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Steven Lang 13_Makana councillor and ANC Subregion Chairperson Mabhuti Matyumza speaks at a memorial service for Eastcape Midlands College student Anele Kampu in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Steven Lang 14_Rhodes University SRC members Mpho Khopeli and Lindi Gqamana Mngeni light candles at a memorial service for Eastcape Midlands College student Anele Kampu in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Sue Maclennan 15_Nomonde Kampu holds a candle at a memorial service for her daughter, Anele Kampu, in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Sue Maclennan 16_Zalisile Kampu collapsed when he heard his daughter Anele had been found dead and a week later he died of a stroke. They were buried side by side at Mayfield Cemetery on Saturday 6 November 2021. Photo: Lithemba BusakweNomonde Kampu holds a candle at a memorial service for her daughter, Anele Kampu, in Fingo Square, Makhanda, on Friday 5 November 2021. Photo: Sue MaclennanZalisile Kampu collapsed when he heard his daughter Anele had been found dead and a week later he died of a stroke. They were buried side by side at Mayfield Cemetery on Saturday 6 November 2021. Photo: Lithemba Busakwe
Makana Independent New Deal (MIND) Makana has laid a charge of fraud at the Grahamstown Police Station after 27 votes cast for its candidate in Salem, Ward 13, allegedly went missing. The grouping of independent candidates is also challenging authorities to reinstate the missing 28th seat in the Makana Council.
Candidate Andrew Kirk said a MIND party agent had WhatsApped him results for the Salem Land Claim voting district soon after the ward and Council PR counting was completed: Kirk had attracted 27 ward votes and 15 Council PR votes.
The next count was for the District PR votes which MIND wasn’t contesting.
“Our agent wasn’t aware he had to stay until all the counting was complete and left, thinking their role was finished,” Kirk said.
But the results issued by the IEC shortly after midday on Wednesday reflected only the PR votes. The ward vote showed zero.
Coordinator Jock McConnachie has lodged a formal objection to the result.
“The basis of the objection is that the number of ward votes for MIND as declared (0) does not accord with the number of votes recorded at the count and as noted by MIND’s party agent and other party agents (27) but which result was not formally signed off due to an oversight/irregularity by the IEC official in charge and which has led to the declaration of an incorrect result in respect of the votes registered for MIND,” McConnachie wrote in a letter dated 3 November 2021. The letter was addressed to the Municipal Electoral Office via Municipal Manager Moppo Mene and Electoral Project Coordinator Vuyo Ponoshe.
McConnachie has also called for the reinstatement of a Council seat that went missing after the 2011 local government elections.
Won by an earlier iteration of MIND, the seat was occupied by a councillor who then crossed the floor to the ANC. When the party dissolved itself, the municipal manager at the time failed to declare a vacancy and so the 27-seat status quo has remained.
Now, McConnachie says the 2021 MIND grouping would have a ward seat (Ward 13) if the votes at Salem had been correctly recorded and the 28th seat had been reinstated.
“MIND objects to the allocation of only 27 seats (14 ward + 13 PR) on the Makana Local Council whereas the correct allocation should be 28 seats (14 ward + 14 PR) and MIND believes that if the votes cast for MIND at the Salem Land Club Voting District 10330052 are correctly calculated and declared and if the correct number of 28 seats is allocated on the Makana Local Council, it will result in the additional seat being allocated to MIND.”
Police confirmed that a case had been opened at the Grahamstown Police Station.
“The SAPS can confirm that a case of fraud was opened on Wednesday, 3 November 2021, after the allegation of vote rigging at the Salem voting district in Makana,” national spokesperson Brigadier Vish Naidoo said. “At this stage, there have been no arrests and the investigation is continuing.”
The IEC’s Eastern Cape spokesperson Julie Stanworth said she would be able to respond to the query on Monday.
An analysis of vote counts in the Makana Municipality reveals at least three remarkable changes in the state of local politics.
The first, and arguably most extraordinary change, is the advent of the Makana Citizens Front (MCF) and its powerful surge throughout the 14 wards of the municipal area.
Local observers believed the MCF could do well in traditional DA strongholds and this indeed proved the case. The MCF had its highest levels of support in the only two wards where the DA candidates won – Wards 4 and 8.
In Ward 4 the MCF secured 31,62% and in Ward 8 it received 28,22% of votes. The MCF clearly swallowed large chunks of DA support and put historically safe seats in jeopardy.
It was not anticipated however, how well the MCF would do in traditional ANC wards. In some of these seemingly impregnable wards, the ANC saw its support plummet from the heights of 70-80% in previous elections to 50-60% levels in 2021.
Previously, if the ANC showed any vulnerability in its traditional strongholds, it feared populist discontent leaning towards the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). The MCF surge effectively held the EFF in check.
The MCF’s even spread of support is astonishing as the only areas where the new kid on the block did not put in a significant showing was in the rural wards.
The second recalibration of power structures in Makana is a result of the precipitous drop in the number of people who voted for the ANC. The incumbent party still won 11 of the 14 wards and secured enough votes to add three more proportional representation (PR) seats to its caucus of Councillors – but now its majority in Council is as thin as it gets.
The ANC will have 14 out of 27 Councillors when Council reconvenes and will have to think carefully before putting any matters to the vote. Previously the ANC with twenty seats enjoyed a sizeable majority in Council and could comfortably disregard any objections from the opposition.
The third remarkable feature of Monday’s election was the massive drop in the number of DA voters. It lost support in all wards in Makana. In some wards the nosedives were shocking: in Ward 12 it crashed 51,45 percentage points and in ward 4 the loss was 28,82 points.
In large areas of Makana, the DA has ceased to be relevant to voters. The MCF took support from all parties, but it hurt the DA the most.
Numbers, comment and short analysis of ward by ward final results in the 1 November 2021 local government election in Makhanda shared here, with permission, from Steven Lang’s Twitter feed @PoliticalBent
#ElectionResults2021 for Ward 5 in #Makana Municipality the ANC a massive win. Interesting result is that MIND got more support than the EFF and DA combined
WARD 5 ANC CANDIDATE: Gcobisa Mene
(MCF: Zongezile Tsotsa; MIND: Chris Bower; DA: Mohammed Ullah; EFF: Nolutando Buwa)
#MakanaWard 6#ElectionResults2021 The ANC won the ward with almost precisely the same result that it had in 2016. The MCF gobbled up most of the votes cast for an independent in 2016. The EFF took a few extra votes.
In #MakanaWard 7 the ANC dropped almost 20 percentage points in its support and the DA lost about half its support. The MCF notched up yet another big gain.
WARD 7 ANC CANDIDATE: Lunga Masinda
(MCF: Xolelwa DOnyeli; EFF: Anele Gacula; DA: Xolani Madyo)
#ElectionResults2021 in #MakanaWard 8 confirm the DA’s Cary Clark as Councillor to replace B Jackson of the same party. The MCF’s Nuthu Blow came in 2nd with a creditable 28%
Ward 7 in the Makana Municipality was the first ward to release full results. It has a registered population of 1,525 voters – but only 598 turned out to vote. This means that the voter turnout for the ward was just a shade under 40%.
#ElectionResults2021 in #MakanaWard 9 – The ANC lost a huge part of its support to the MCF but it still won the ward by a comfortable margin. This is one of the few wards where the EFF lost support too.
WARD 9 ANC CANDIDATE: Thozamile Yaka
(EFF: Anelisa Bentele; MCF: Zwelethemba Yaka; DA: Luvuyo Sizani)
#ElectionResults2021 in #MakanaWard 10 – The ANC won the seat even though it lost a large proportion of its support. The MCF took almost a quarter of the votes in the ward and the DA has become almost irrelevant in the ward.
WARD 10 ANC CANDIDATE: Zodwa Cetu
(MCF: Mxolisi Ntshiba; EFF: Lusanda Boma; DA: Xolani Madyo)
#ElectionResults2021 in #MakanaWard 11 show the ANC holding on to a reduced majority while the MCF made significant inroads into the share of other parties.
WARD 11 ANC CANDIDATE: Sakhiwe Zono
(MCF: Thandisizwe Matebese; EFF: Thembela Gqasana; DA: Thandisizwe Dudu)
#ElectionResults2021 in #MakanaWard 12 dominated by Rhodes University produced a narrow victory for the ANC’s Mzobanzi Nkwentsha. The MCF and EFF candidates followed closely behind.
WARD 12 ANC CANDIDATE: Mzobansi Nkwentsha
(MCF: Xabisa Bodla; EFF: Thulani Tshabalala; DA: Tiego Thotse)
WARD 13 RESULTS (IEC RESULTS DASHBOARD)
WARD 13 ANC CANDIDATE: Wandisile Matina (MCF: Milo Geelbooi; DA: Brian Jackson)
#ElectionResults2021 from Ward 14 in #Makana show massive drop in support for the ANC and the DA. An independent candidate received almost a quarter of the votes.
#MakanaWard 14 #ElectionResults2021 The Independent Candidate, Vuyani Nesi won the Ward seat with 40,45% or 724 votes. The ANC had the most PR votes with 49,54 or 650 votes. Nesi received 721 votes in the Alicedale Town Hall voting district, No. 1004001 Reply
#Turnout figures for all wards in #Makana#ElectionResults2021 Ward 12 (students) had the lowest turnout while the largely rural Ward 14 had the highest percentage turnout in the municipality
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