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Vulnerability During Time Of Need.

Most say and believe that there is a stigma or myth attached to being vulnerable and that it shows weakness and this mind-set can be dangerous.

Most say and believe that there is a stigma or myth attached to being vulnerable and that it shows weakness and this mindset can be dangerous.

Vulnerability is a form of pure courage where emotional risk and exposure of ones true self is needed. We as human beings are Neurobiologically all in search for a sense of connection in turn giving us meaning and purpose to our lives that leaves us with a sense that we belong and worthiness.

Vulnerability in my opinion and belief is a stepping stone and means to creativity and joy in our lives but what we tend to do in the process of shying away from being vulnerable is to numb the bad emotions we feel thus leading to also numbing he good emotions we need to feel such as happiness, joy and gratitude and we make the uncertain, certain and strive for nothing but perfection when in actual fact we were born imperfect and wired for struggles in life.

To Mask not to mask: A latest guide to wearing of masks for children.

There has been a lot of controversy and confusion for parents and care givers when it comes to our precious little ones and how to keep them protected during COVID-19.

The World Health Organisation on the 21st of August 2020 released a public statement on the guidelines regarding the wearing of masks for children in relation to the age groups as well as co-morbidities of children in the context of COVID-19.

Since most children who do contract COVID-19 only get mild symptoms, there have been cases of inflammatory syndromes that are associated with the Coronavirus infection.

A multidisciplinary team comprising of The World Health Organization (WHO), Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), Guidance Development Group (GDG) and experts in various fields from UNICEF and the International Paediatric Association (IPA) came together to review evidence relating to children and wearing of non- medical (fabric) face masks in the context of Covid-19.

It was noted that the WHO said that wearing of masks for children between the ages of 5 years and under should not be required and was based on the overall interests of the child including the “psychosocial needs” and the point of view of that they are not able to use masks independently without the use of much and constant assistance.

The WHO has said that children in age groups between ages six and 11 should depend on a handful of factors such as:

· Local Infection rates

· Access to replaceable and clean masks if need be according to COVID-19 regulations and guidelines.

· Social and cultural environment such as beliefs, customs, behaviour or social norms influencing the community.

· Social interactions of the population and community, especially with and among children;

· Children’s abilities to use masks safely and correctly and adequate supervision by an adult.

· The impact of mask-wearing on learning and psychosocial development which parents should be in constant consultation with teachers, caregivers and medical providers.

· Considerations of exposure for specific settings such as households with elderly relatives and those with a high risk of contracting serious COVID-19 symptoms.

Finally, children and adolescents 12 years or older should wear a mask according to the same conditions and guidelines as adults such as when going outside when in public, inside shops, public transport and other crowded venues.

One thing to be noted is that masks are not the silver bullet and people tend to be less vigilant and careful when they wear a mask, the CDC had said in June 2020. Other critical safety measures and precautions still need to be adhered to such as hand washing and sanitising, and social distancing guidelines.

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ROLE OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IN THE CIDB REGISTRATION PROCESS

The NHBRC carries out 4 to 8 home inspections at each phase of the home building process.The whole objective of the home inspections, is to ensure that the home is built in line with its minimum building standards.These building standards can be found in references found within the home building manual that applicants receive when registering the National Home Builders Registration Council.

The manual references center around the SANS series, most importantly, the SANS Manual 10400, 10082, 10137 as well as 2001. These manuals go into deep details with each topic of the home building process such as floor spaces, roof angles, concrete mixes etc. Usually, the inspections are carried out by a home inspector, supervised by a quality assurer. The quality assurer is there to conduct an audit on the work performed by the home inspector.

Usually, before the initial visit, the quality assurer together with the home inspector, will load the approved municipal building plans together with the home inspections checklist loaded onto the NHBRC’s mobile app. They will also familiarize themselves with the site address before making their way. It is usually advisable for the home builder to be on site with the initial visit, however, it is not compulsory, as some home builders manage multiple building sites.

None the less, it is always advisable, to leave someone competent who will greet and introduce the NHBRC inspectors to the building site and show them around. It is usually advisable, never to start building prior to the initial site visit. However, the only site preparation that you can do, is to excavate the trenches, however, do not pour concrete as yet into the trenches. Some of the home inspections procedures included on the home inspector’s checklist, is the checking of the adopted mix ratios of the different uses of concrete mix. For example, your technical manager might need to explain the water ratio that is going to be used for mixing concrete before it gets poured into the trenches.

Each phase of the home inspection process can go either way. If you pass the first phase and the secondary phases, chances, there are going to be fewer home inspections coupled with less delays for the completion of your home building. However, if you fail, the initial home inspections, then expect to spend more money and time, busy correcting your failures to meet the minimum home building standards.

Usually, if there is a failure in your home building process, the NHBRC shall give you 7 working days in which to rectify the short coming. On the secondary follow up process, you must make sure that all practical evidence is available such as engineering drawings etc. If the NHBRC inspector is happy with the corrections, you can then move onto the next phase. However, if you do not meet the requirements on a subsequent visit, your building plans will be halted by the NHBRC. Your file shall be sent to the legal department, disciplinary hearings shall be scheduled and multiple penalties and lawsuits from various parties will ensue.

It is advisable that you thoroughly develop a checklist of the minimum requirements to be observed when building a home. Most home builders do not know the minimum standards. You can consult the SANS 10400, 10137, 10082, 2001 as well as the home building manuals issued by the NHBRC to ensure that you maintain the minimum standards prescribed by the National Home Builders Registration Council.

The NHBRC is a statutory body recognized by the South African Courts and have far reaching powers. Any disobedience of the act can see you thrown in jail. Especially, the part of conducting the home building process without being registered with their body. Builders must remember, the National Home Builder’s Registration, only prescribes the minimum as well as the maximum standards to be adhered to when building a home. One such standard requirement is the minimum and maximum diameters of a cavity wall.

Please take care & make sure that you use NHBRC accredited architectural and engineering firms when coming up & executing your house plans. It can prove to be quite too costly not to comply with the NHBRC’s minimum & maximum building standards requirements. For more articles visit https://fixonate.co.za.

CIDB FINANCIAL CAPABILITY

When registering for the CIDB grades 2 & higher, the CIDB starts introducing terms such as financial capability, works capability as well as available capital. If you are an engineer by trade, this can be daunting as these terms belong more the accounting lingual.

In this article, I will try to explain what financial capability means in as lay man’s terms as possible without confusing you with the accounting lingual. Financial capability simply refers to 3 measurement items that are to be found within your company’s financial statements.

Those terms are Revenue, Assets & Liabilities.

As I said, I do not want to use the accountant’s language and I will be breaking these into your everyday language use. Revenue refers to how much money your engineering firm made within the past 12 months of a financial year.

But before I lose here, accountants do not refer to Revenue as the actual money received in your bank but rather, the actual sales that you made within that particular financial year. Let me illustrate this with an example, Let’s say you scored one contract for the whole year with a contract value of R1 Million. And let’s assume that within that year, you only completed 80% of that project, the accountant will only recognize R800,000 as your revenue. They are not interested in whether that money came into your bank or not, as long as there is satisfactory proof that 80% of the project was completed and that you submitted an enforceable invoice.

So, what does this mean for the CIDB is that the CIDB will take into consideration your revenue figure in conjunction with other factors when deciding to upgrade you for any grade higher than 2. The higher your revenue figure, the higher the CIDB grade you might qualify for as this demonstrates your financial capability to put financial resources together to carry out and finish future larger construction projects.

The second measurement item refers to your asset structure. Assets according to accountants include items such as building plant such as excavators, graders, water tanks, bomags, computer equipment, furniture, office fittings, office accessories, inventory such as cement & bricks on hand, invoices issued but not yet paid by your customers etc. The more of these assets you have, the greater your financial capacity score.

However, a third measurement factor comes into play here. There is no point in having engineering equipment but you owe a lot of money on it, and for this reason, the CIDB takes into consideration, the total amount of funds owed by your business in order to arrive at your net assets value. This amount is what the CIDB refers to as your equity within the business. In other words, if your business had to be sequestrated, how much of those assets would you remain with.

Now, since you are an engineer and not an accountant, this information might sound all too complicated to present to the CIDB, however, the CIDB does not need evidentiary proof of it. All this information is found in the balance sheet presented within your financial statements when applying for an upgrade.

Therefore, to wrap it up, your financial capability score will be measured solely on the financial statements presented to the CIDB by a qualified registered chartered accountant or another accountant in good standing with any of the accounting professionals controlling body.

If the CIDB doubts the information presented by the accountant in terms of your financial capability score, they might request for supplementary information, such as two year bank statements, statement of VAT submissions to the South African Revenue Services or financial reports issued by the governments basic accounting system for projects carried out in the public sector.

CIDB grades are awarded best on how well you score on the CIDB’s financial capabilities scale. The higher the score, the higher the CIDB grade. Contractors must not confuse financial capability score together with works capability.

The two are totally different items however, the main difference between the two, is that financial capability is used to measure your future financial capabilities whether works capability measures your past capabilities by looking at the actual highest project successfully completed by your firm within the past 5 financial years.

Take care and wishing you the best with your CIDB registration & Upgrade. For more information about CIDB registration and upgrades visit https://fixonate.co.za/services/cidb-registration/.

NHBRC HOME INSPECTIONS

The NHBRC carries out 4 to 8 home inspections at each phase of the home building process.The whole objective of the home inspections, is to ensure that the home is built in line with its minimum building standards.These building standards can be found in references found within the home building manual that applicants receive when registering the National Home Builders Registration Council.

The manual references center around the SANS series, most importantly, the SANS Manual 10400, 10082, 10137 as well as 2001. These manuals go into deep details with each topic of the home building process such as floor spaces, roof angles, concrete mixes etc. Usually, the inspections are carried out by a home inspector, supervised by a quality assurer. The quality assurer is there to conduct an audit on the work performed by the home inspector.

Usually, before the initial visit, the quality assurer together with the home inspector, will load the approved municipal building plans together with the home inspections checklist loaded onto the NHBRC’s mobile app. They will also familiarize themselves with the site address before making their way. It is usually advisable for the home builder to be on site with the initial visit, however, it is not compulsory, as some home builders manage multiple building sites.

None the less, it is always advisable, to leave someone competent who will greet and introduce the NHBRC inspectors to the building site and show them around. It is usually advisable, never to start building prior to the initial site visit. However, the only site preparation that you can do, is to excavate the trenches, however, do not pour concrete as yet into the trenches. Some of the home inspections procedures included on the home inspector’s checklist, is the checking of the adopted mix ratios of the different uses of concrete mix. For example, your technical manager might need to explain the water ratio that is going to be used for mixing concrete before it gets poured into the trenches.

Each phase of the home inspection process can go either way. If you pass the first phase and the secondary phases, chances, there are going to be fewer home inspections coupled with less delays for the completion of your home building. However, if you fail, the initial home inspections, then expect to spend more money and time, busy correcting your failures to meet the minimum home building standards.

Usually, if there is a failure in your home building process, the NHBRC shall give you 7 working days in which to rectify the short coming. On the secondary follow up process, you must make sure that all practical evidence is available such as engineering drawings etc. If the NHBRC inspector is happy with the corrections, you can then move onto the next phase. However, if you do not meet the requirements on a subsequent visit, your building plans will be halted by the NHBRC. Your file shall be sent to the legal department, disciplinary hearings shall be scheduled and multiple penalties and lawsuits from various parties will ensue.

It is advisable that you thoroughly develop a checklist of the minimum requirements to be observed when building a home. Most home builders do not know the minimum standards. You can consult the SANS 10400, 10137, 10082, 2001 as well as the home building manuals issued by the NHBRC to ensure that you maintain the minimum standards prescribed by the National Home Builders Registration Council.

The NHBRC is a statutory body recognized by the South African Courts and have far reaching powers. Any disobedience of the act can see you thrown in jail. Especially, the part of conducting the home building process without being registered with their body. Builders must remember, the National Home Builder’s Registration, only prescribes the minimum as well as the maximum standards to be adhered to when building a home. One such standard requirement is the minimum and maximum diameters of a cavity wall.

Please take care & make sure that you use NHBRC accredited architectural and engineering firms when coming up & executing your house plans. It can prove to be quite too costly not to comply with the NHBRC’s minimum & maximum building standards requirements. Visithttp://fixonate.co.za/nhbrc-home-inspections/ for more information.

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T.S.H

T.S.H is a South African artist, He started his music career at the age of 16.

Hosting cyphers and performing for free this was his way of getting public exposure.

T.S.H's first performance was at a birthday party at his hometown,T.S.H went to school in Soweto.

''Evodia sets to stars?" These are the early days of Evodia's Career and she seems to always amuze and she has always been flamboyant when it comes to everything she works on. The hot? as hell model made her first appearance on the Never Thought music videos of the uprising artist Poetic Zulu(Crazy Dee SA which features Young B. Evodia recently revealed her second coming to LE2 and AwoL's Never make it out which is the most anticipated project in 158. Evodia as talked about her experience with her new Agency 2RANDS TO 2MILLION (PTY) Ltd.  We should be expecting a hot ball drop from our Queen? this year. 

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FLIZZY

Is a performing Artist based in Johannesburg South Africa, born in the middle ages of the 90s on the 12th of April. He finished school in 2016 and then started pursuing his dream career to become the next Superstar in your Hometown. He is also an independent individual with a massive passion in music, in one of our interviews with him he says "Music is not what i am but it’s who & how i feel or express myself to the world nothing more, nothing less PERIOD!'‘, this clearly shows his much love with music. He is mostly inspired by the current situation and the environment surrounding him all times but the weird thing is FLIZZY never reveals his role model.

He confidentially recognises himself as a diverse artist because of his ability of exploring new sound from time to time, however basically we would like to describe him as a Hip hop artist.

He began realising his talent at high school where he used to do rap battles, cyphers and performed at school functions such as Prom Nights. In 2016 he dropped his first album called Blur Life Wonders, then later the following year he released an EP titled TRIBAL X THE I but back then he was well known as Flizzy Breezy. Due to his interests in expanding his fan base from a Local sensation to an international level he later shortened his name to FLIZZY in order to solidify his place at a global scale.

Looking at his old songs & his current new songs we noticed a great change between them in terms of his growth in content, performance and mostly as an individual person. His maturity as a musician has allowed quite a number of new opportunities for the artist and new grounds of engaging with his new fans

He always shows great love to those who have been buying & listening to his music since the day he started his journey, not forgetting his appreciation to those who also came along the way and supported his energy.

He promised us new releases this year in an interview saying "anytime this year am dropping a massive joint with a hint of afro pop in it, fasten your seat-belts folks lols" We just can’t wait to hear what flizzy has in booth for us., so make sure you stay tuned for any new updates from our finest artist and keep on supporting the Young African Giant.

Don’t forget to follow Flizzy @badbwoyflizzy on all social platforms.

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Keorapetse Elvis April is a music producer/Club DJ known as "Gumete De Dj" born and bred in Rustenburg,NW. Plays and compose Afro House and Amapiano. First release for Gumete De Dj was an Album called Dizz Dizzr that was Dropped on the 23rd of April 2020 and another single for house africa that was dropped 24th of april 2020 and here is my website link https://g.co/kgs/gfjzse and please go to my (youtube channel is gumete de dj please subscribe and let other people know about my youtube channel and there is another ep coming stay tune.

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