THE HOUSE THAT FORGOT HOW TO LAUGH

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 There was no love missing in our house, because there was no love left to miss.That was our secret. We were not sad. Sad would have been easier.In House 24, 2nd Street, Germiston - the Molefes were perfect.6:00 AM - Alarm. 6:15 AM - Mom in the kitchen. The sound of the spoon against the pot. Same pot. Same porridge. Every day for 7 years. 6:30 AM - Dad at the table. Phone brightness on his face. He nods at Mom. Mom nods back. That's their good morning. 6:45 AM - Me and Junior. We eat with the TV on mute. Mom says TV at breakfast rots your brain, so we watch the pictures move with no sound.No one shouts. No one throws plates. Our neighbors who scream at each other at night - they have more life than us.We just... live. We pay. We eat. We sleep. We repeat.Then Mrs. Khumalo gave us the project."Grade 4s, for Life Skills this week: Record 10 moments your family laughed together."I took my pink notebook home like it was gold.DAY 1 - Monday I wrote the date and waited. Dinner....
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ANCYL scouts for firms to nationalise

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Johannesburg - The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) will start identifying what strategic sectors of South Africa should be nationalised, deputy president Ronald Lamola said on Monday.

"The NEC (national executive committee)... has begun internal deliberations to take forward the resolution for strategic nationalisation and will be making submissions to the ANC," Lamola told reporters in Johannesburg.

"The mineral wealth to be nationalised should be based on the economic importance of the mineral or sector concerned."

This was a resolution taken at the ANCYL's national executive committee meeting on August 17 and 18.

Lamola said the ANCYL would propose that Sasol [JSE:SOL], Kumba Iron Ore [JSE:KIO] and Arcelor Mittal [JSE:ACL] be among the companies to be nationalised. The league was looking for others to add to the list.

"We are now scouting," he said.

Minerals such as iron, platinum, vanadium, manganese and zinc should also be added to the list. Lamola said this was in line with resolutions made at the African National Congress' policy conference held in June.

At the meeting ANC national executive committee member Enoch Godongwana said the party had decided not to pursue nationalisation of mines, but added there was consensus that there should be greater state intervention.

Lamola said the ANCYL was calling for Section 25 of the constitution to be amended to enable the strategic nationalisation of mines and expropriation of land without compensation.

"We also call for the establishment of an expropriation commission that will be able to expropriate in the public interest and for public purpose and remove this task from the untransformed court of South Africa," he said.

The league believed amending Section 25 was the only way to eradicate inequalities in the country.

At the ANC's policy conference Agriculture, Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said expropriation without compensation would happen only with land that had been acquired illegally.

She said the expropriation policy South Africa had at the moment was unconstitutional and needed to be brought in line with the legislation.

"We do not need to change the constitution for this," Joemat-Pettersson said.

The conference had not set any goals for expropriation, but would rather wait for a land audit to be completed at the end of the year, she said.

Lamola criticised private companies, saying they continued to be unpatriotic and dismissive of the people.

"Corporate South Africa remains the only sector that has never appeared before the truth and reconciliation commission for their own atrocities committed against the people of this country during apartheid. There shall never be any recrimination for their actions."

Lamola said an "economic Codesa" was needed. He was referring to the Convention for a Democratic SA, talks held in the early 1990s to help bring about the end of apartheid.

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