A shooting occurred Tuesday night on Martin Luther Kinglaan in Diemen, leaving one person injured. The suspects, dressed in dark clothing, fled the scene toward Diemen Station, authorities said. Emergency services received the first reports of the shooting around 10:30 p.m. Police and medical responders arrived at the scene, where they found one victim who had been shot. The individual was transported to the hospital by ambulance. The victim’s condition has not been disclosed. Police cordoned off the area around Martin Luther Kinglaan to conduct an investigation. Forensic teams examined the scene for evidence, and officers interviewed witnesses. The police have appealed to the public for assistance. “If you witnessed the incident or have relevant information, please contact us,” said a spokesperson for the Diemen Police. They have also asked anyone with camera footage from the area to share it with investigators. Witnesses can provide information by calling 0900-8844 or anonymously via 0800-7000. © 2012-2025, NL Times, All rights reserved. Get quick access to your favorite articles Manage alerts on breaking news and favorite drivers Make your voice heard with article commenting. Ex-Formula 1 driver and four-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Jan Magnussen will return to Formula Ford 1600 in the Walter Hayes Trophy at Silverstone next month.  The 1992 Formula Ford Festival winner, father of Haas F1 driver Kevin, will take part in the Silverstone extravaganza on 2-3 November at the wheel of a Van Diemen RF78 run by Mike Gardner’s GT Race & Trailers operation.  Like the Foundation Racing RF92 in which Magnussen won the Festival at Brands Hatch 32 years ago, the older Van Diemen will be liveried in the colours of Duckhams, the British oil brand. The Walter Hayes will be Magnussen’s second outing in FF1600 since his famous Festival victory, which was sealed from the back of his heat after he was excluded from qualifying.  The Dane, now 51, contested the 50th anniversary Festival in 2021 in a Low Dempsey Racing Ray GR14, but the WHT will be his first appearance in a Van Diemen since 1992.  Magnussen revealed to Autosport that the Silverstone outing in the RF78 came up purely by chance.  His 15-year-old son Luca, Kevin’s half-brother, is friends with Gardner’s step-son Giancarlo, which resulted in an introduction when Magnussen was racing at the Silverstone Festival in August.  “Luca and Giancarlo are karting buddies and were hanging out when I came over to do the Festival,” said Magnussen.  “That’s how I got to meet Mike and Giancarlo’s mother.  “He was telling me about all the Formula Fords he’s involved with and was showing me some pictures, and the subject of the WHT did come up. “After the weekend, Mike contacted me, and said, ‘Look I’ve got a car, why don’t you come over and do the WHT?’ “I don’t see myself as a historic racer, but I love driving the old cars when the opportunity comes up.  "I’m really looking forward to the WHT: the RF78 is a bit before my time, but it looks super-cool.” Magnussen raced a Ford-engined Turner GT in the Historic Tourist Trophy and a Shelby Daytona Cobra in the International Trophy for Classic GT Cars at the Silverstone Festival, sharing both with fellow countryman Nikolai Mortensen. His son Luca races in the Italian-based ROK Cup series this year after winning the Danish X30 senior title in 2023.  Magnussen nearly lost the chance to win the 1992 Formula Ford Festival as the result of a late deal with Duckhams to run his Van Diemen in its colours. New bodywork in the oil company’s livery, which a works Van Diemen had run every year since 1984, was supplied to Foundation ahead of qualifying.  What the team didn’t know was that it was lighter than the much-repaired set of panels it had been running, which resulted in Magnussen’s exclusion from qualifying when his RF92 was found to be underweight.   But the Dane was able to come through to take Festival honours after around-the-outside manoeuvres on Neil Cunningham and then Oliver Gavin at Paddock Hill Bend in the final. From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker. Receive exciting Motorsport news, updates, and special offers straight to your inbox. do it safe”: free condoms for Diemen teens July 19 2024 Photo: Depostiphotos.comThe town of Diemen is to hand out free condoms in an effort to combat the rise in sexually transmitted diseases among youngsters A majority of council members supported the motion from D66 The measure will come into effect in 2025 and 2026 The condoms will be handed out in designated places where girls can also get free menstrual products The parties referred to figures from national health institute RIVM which point to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases The provision of the condoms is accompanied by a campaign do it safe” aimed at informing youngsters about STDs and their consequences We could not provide the Dutch News service without the generous support of our readers Your donations allow us to report on issues you tell us matter and provide you with a summary of the most important Dutch news each day Many thanks to everyone who has donated to DutchNews.nl in recent days We could not provide this service without you Please help us making DutchNews.nl a better read by taking part in a short survey who was sentenced to life in prison by a court had his sentence reduced to 25 years and four months after an appeal on Wednesday The Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled that the 44-year-old from Amsterdam is guilty of ordering a brutal daylight assassination attempt in Diemen in November 2015 but acquitted him of ordering the assassination of Iranian man Ali Motamed in Almere two weeks later Prosecutors had again recommended a life sentence against F The court read the verdict from the highly-secured courthouse near Schiphol Airport F., also known as “Noffel,” was sentenced to 18 years in jail in 2018 for the murder attempt in Diemen in which dozens of shots were fired at Peter R The court ruled that he had issued an order to kill the Amsterdam criminal who barely survived the attack managed to survive by trying to chase down the gunmen in his car before he drove into a drainage ditch off Fregat First responders had to fish him out of the water and pull him into an ambulance to begin treatment Prosecutors in the original case presenting evidence based on chat messages sent via the encrypted platform Ennetcom the district court added a life sentence on allegations that F helped orchestrate the murder of Ali Motamed an Eneco mechanic who was not believed to have any ties to the criminal underworld The Iranian died as a result of the shooting in front of his home in Almere in 2015 The Court of Appeal said there was evidence that F which was only prevented because the gunman he recruited was jailed before the Almere incident the court said there was not enough evidence to show that he was involved in the actual murder Acting as an "intermediary and conduit" is not enough to demand a life sentence was instead convicted on appeal of the lesser crime of attempted solicitation of murder and his conviction for wide-scale money laundering was also upheld "spoke with apparent ease and without any moral sense about this murder as a purely business matter a nice gig,” the court wrote in a statement "The court considers that the defendant’s actions left no doubt about his ruthless and merciless attitude: a human life was worth nothing to him F.’s lawyers were stunned by this decision but said that the acquittal of arranging a murder was “completely correct.” They said last month that this should never have been a conviction partly because the assassination was already discussed in decrypted communications long before the device attributed to F They also recalled that Stefan Blok, the Minister of Interior Affairs at the time, told Parliament that the intelligence services AIVD and MIVD had “strong” indications that the government of Iran was behind the murder of Motamed. The attorneys pointed out that nothing was found during the investigation to suggest any contact between Iran and any phone that F Motamed allegedly lived in the Netherlands under a false name. He was presumed to be on the run from the Iranian regime after committing a bloody murder was found at a home in Landsmeer the following day Evidence showed the 52-year-old Diemen woman was killed and prompted police to take a suspect into custody Alleman was the co-owner of a small accounting and tax advisory firm in Landsmeer She was last seen in the village just north of Amsterdam on January 8 Her car was discovered on Thursday at a McDonald’s in Amsterdam-Noord where police had conducted an investigation “Based on information from the investigation the police decided to enter a home on Dorpsstraat in Landsmeer officers found the woman’s lifeless body,” police said a few hours after police released a statement saying they were concerned for her well-being A 31-year-old Amsterdam man was arrested later that night The man was identified as a suspect over the course of the investigation but police have not revealed a possible motive He was due to be questioned by police on Friday and was only allowed to have contact with his attorney Alleman described herself as a married mother with at least one grandson when she was recently profiled in an article in the Telegraaf about how much fun she and her family have around the Christmas season She and her husband have spent the last two decades collecting houses and other miniatures to place in their massive Christmas village display in their living room Her family opened their Diemen home up to the neighborhood to show off the display in December “Luckily my husband likes it as much as I do because it’s impossible to do it on your own He was already a big fan of Christmas when we met.” Energy supplier Vattenfall has confirmed they are finally canceling their plans to build a biomass power plant in Diemen the company is investigating whether it can heat homes sustainably using other options including geothermal energy and residual warmth This is stated in a cooperation agreement by Vattenfall with several municipalities and the provinces of Noord-Holland and Flevoland Biomass power plants are often criticized by environmental organizations Wood is one of the biological-based raw materials that are burned in the plants This results in air pollution and can contribute to deforestation Vattenfall had plans to build a large biomass plant in Diemen which would have used wood pellets But the Council of State ruled last year that the Province of Noord-Holland gave permission for this too easily Residual heat is the heat that is released by waste incineration plants or in the industrial sector it is transported to homes as a means of warming them Geothermal energy is extracted by pumping up warm water sometimes hundreds of meters underground Vattenfall is also focusing on the use of large electric boilers and converting a power station in Diemen to use hydrogen instead of natural gas Vattenfall said that they have received “active support” from the municipalities and provinces for the development of sustainable heat sources the company has said that there are still “important challenges” to make the alternatives of gas heating affordable for suppliers and customers The cooperation agreement does not include any agreements on financial support from municipalities or provinces towards Vattenfall the energy company and the lower authorities are entering into discussions with the government on subsidies Vattenfall will supply residual heat from data centers and water purification plants with its heating network from Diemen for the equivalent of 140,000 homes Chair Fenna Swart of the Clean Air Committee (CSL) called the decision "a great victory for nature and our air quality." She added that the committee will continue to fight against biomass Swart predicts a significant increase in subsidized biomass use because the combination with CO2 capture and storage has been on the rise recently Current issue,  Podcasts,  NewslettersTasmanian devilsby Luke Davies SocietyJonathan auf der Heide’s ‘Van Diemen's Land’ with subtitles) late in Jonathan auf der Heide’s strange – and strangely compelling – Van Diemen’s Land The voice-over runs sporadically yet hauntingly through the film and is at times reminiscent of that in Terrence Malick’s 2005 The New World (“What voice is this which speaks within me?”) “There’s nothing to a piece of man”: the simple phrase fits neatly into the meditative monologue that becomes a kind of compendium of dark death ruminations; it even sounds a little Shakespearean for this is a film about Australia’s most notorious cannibal – the convict Alexander Pearce who was hanged in 1824 – and it’s Pearce (Oscar Redding) who is speaking the words “Pieces of men” might be the more apt phrase by the time this film is through Pearce’s story became part of colonial folklore almost as it was happening or Modern Facts; Containing Narratives of the Most Extraordinary Occurrences of Recent Date Marcus Clark fictionalised Pearce as the convict Gabbett in his novel For the Term of His Natural Life Robert Hughes brilliantly captured a certain nightmarishly gothic derangement in his vivid portrayal of Australia’s penal settlements Early nineteenth-century Hobart and Macquarie Harbour are blighted and godforsaken and Hughes’s Pearce is a perfect product of this hellish environment It would seem that Hughes’s rendition has seeped into the consciousness of a new generation Now that some of that generation are making movies it’s no surprise that Pearce would emerge in film Michael James Rowland’s docudrama The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce aired on ABC TV took as its premise the notion that Pearce spawned a bloodline of hillbilly cannibal freaks who continue to wreak anthropophagite havoc in the Tasmanian wilds to this day Tasmanian auf der Heide has taken a more mannered He made the short film Hell’s Gates on the same subject and now brings to the screen a fully realised version of the tale Hughes describes the impenetrable wilderness around Macquarie Harbour as “dripping twilight from dawn till dusk” and it seems there’s not a dry frame in Van Diemen’s Land Cinematographer Ellery Ryan has captured beautifully the sodden tonal density of Tasmania’s old-growth forests It’s a palette of sombre greens and greys; there’s barely a shot of sky Werner Herzog managed this in his great Aguirre atmospheric claustrophobia in a totally outdoor environment the bush is cloying and devours: “Eight men in this dark wood Far from God’s eyes.” (Further along: “Four godless men walk to the devil.” The voice-over is like an adult version of ‘Ten Green Bottles’.) The woods are indeed dark and deep This land is the opposite of the Virginia settlement in The New World “Here the blessings of the earth are bestowed upon all None need grow poor.” Virginia was seen as new Eden; Van Diemen’s Land was wasteland and dumping ground we’re with a timber-felling work party of eight convicts the sooner we can go home.” There is no home anymore the distant birthplace of “little pock-marked blue-eyed” Pearce who was sent to Australia for stealing six pairs of shoes There is only the bleak prison lodging of “Hell’s Gates” Auf der Heide has kept narrative complexity to a minimum Their numbers dwindle as their hunger increases We’re not pursuing any traditional journey of a hero through an ordeal Nor do we get a sense of the men being chased they effectively belong to it and the world outside the wilderness ceases to exist auf der Heide seems to be interested in exploring in a group of men already beaten into submission the tensions that play out between the primal impulse to survive and the numb comfort of despair between triumph of will and surrender to fate is the tension between paranoia and co-operation The US reality TV show Survivor was based on this but Pearce and his fellow convicts don’t seem capable of anything so sophisticated as Game Theory Pearce takes no part in the first murders except as an observer and Robert Greenhill (Arthur Angel) is portrayed as the true instigator He was just a kid,” says Pearce to Greenhill of the second victim Nor does Pearce participate in the party’s furtive decision-making conversations other than by nodding his  agreement as if in a trance – though in voice-over he says things like but the flesh of Dalton rots his teeth.” Later as we get a glimpse of an arm being stuffed into a blood-soaked canvas bag while the men pack up their meagre camp “Easier than cutting sheep.” His transformation from blank-eyed shoe thief to cinematic blood-cipher is gradual consistent and complete: “Your soul to the devil He confessed all to the chaplain and magistrate Robert Knopwood convinced the other prisoners must still be alive this time with fellow convict Thomas Cox in tow with about half a pound of Cox in his pockets (That sentence is best not read aloud.) The rest of Cox’s butchered body lay nearby Pearce also had with him some of the food the two had escaped with from prison auf der Heide has managed to humanise Pearce and his party “In Ireland I’d be rovin’,” sings one man mournfully “With her at my command / But I wake up broken-hearted / Upon Van Diemen’s Land … ” “Do you have a pretty one back home?” asks one of the convicts “for lonely she’ll die.” Actual death for these men is everywhere and imminent; then there is the long One is not necessarily much worse than the other A convict talks of what they all just left behind: “After the first hundred you could see his spine pokin’ through So for the next hundred they had to whip his arse He never tried to escape after that.” “There’s no going back,” says another “Not for any of us.” The men huddle together something more than animal but less than human imbued with qualities of fairytale and waking nightmare It reminds us that – beyond the land’s original inhabitants – there were no ‘Australians’ in the 1820s; there were English and Scots and Irish and they were made up almost exclusively of the downtrodden and the downtreaders and free settlers were still greatly in the minority Auf der Heide has taken this oppressive material and made of it His film will certainly not be to everyone’s tastes: the character arcs are extremely subtle and The film doesn’t try to lead us to any conclusions It doesn’t try to investigate Alexander Pearce’s motives or psychology wading through a welter of blood in a seer-like trance whatever frustrations may emerge from the audience’s experience of wanting firmer ground Van Diemen’s Land is somehow redeemed by a bizarre and unexpected narrative vehicle: the Gaelic voice-over Even when enigmatic – “If you have no scars the crow will eat your eyes” – it seems perfectly placed like a ripple of music heard faintly against thunder Joseph Campbell pointed out that in some monotheistic traditions “What is the nature of the power that sustains Satan through eternity?” One response is that it is simply the memory of the echo of God’s voice when God said “Go to hell!” “That is a great sign of love,” comments Campbell dryly since the worst kind of hell – and Satan feels the worst of it We witness Pearce becoming more and more of a phantom as the bloodshed increases seems to be sustained by the memory of an echo and by the pain of what is absent – society there’s nothing at all of ‘civilisation’ in Van Diemen’s Land As in David Malouf’s novel An Imaginary Life we are at the barbarous far fringes of empire the violence is played out in contrast to the settlers’ attempts to be civilised; the two are interwoven in the drama Jonathan auf der Heide dispenses with the contrast entirely: if there is a God “he dances with an axe in his hand,” and if there is culture “There’s a distant scream inside me,” says Pearce The Monthly is a magazine published by Schwartz Media For subscription enquiries, call 1800 077 514 or email [email protected] For editorial enquiries, email [email protected] A large majority of the local council has voted in favor of handing out free condoms to residents in Diemen Only two council members voted against the motion The plan is for condoms to be handed out in 2025 and 2026 in places where free menstrual products can currently be found The parties had handed in the motion ‘Do it right do it safely!’ because they think action is needed to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and “to promote sexual health.” they referred to research conducted by the health institute the RIVM in June 2023 which showed that the number of STDs among young people is increasing The parties think that “preventing is better than curing and prevention starts with awareness and availability of condoms.” The free condoms must be accompanied by information about STDs and safe sex The parties also used the motion to ask the municipality to find out how it can encourage catering establishments and associations to install condom vending machines Make your voice heard with article commenting has relaunched the Van Diemen name in a collaboration with former Pacific F1 and Indycar team boss Keith Wiggins whose Pacific Racing squad carried Bertrand Gachot to the British Formula Ford 1600 title in 1985 with the groundbreaking Van Diemen RF85 Wiggins heads up the company's US operations in Indianapolis best known for his work on the 1991 TOM'S 031F Formula 3 car and who played a key role in Panoz and McLaren GT sportscar projects has designed a chassis that will initially compete in US sportscar racing in the SCCA's P1 category and be available for track day use in the UK "This has been going on for a while – we started work late in 2020 during COVID when an exciting opportunity presented itself "We've designed what is essentially an FIA Formula 3 chassis which we'd like to use for multiple purposes for racing championships and track days to try and spread our net over as many clients as possible." The car is designed to be flexible for 350bhp "For the US we've designed it to fit a 2.5-litre Mazda but it's up to customers to decide which engine they want to use for each market," added Firman we've got a 2.3-litre Ford EcoBoost built by Mountune." Firman wants to return Van Diemen to its traditional single-seater market in which it was dominant from the 1970s to the 2000s - most notably in Formula Ford but it also achieved success in Formula Renault and built the Formula Vauxhall Junior cars "That's why we've done a car to FIA F3 rules so we can get back to our heritage and start pitching for these championships to try to lower the costs for drivers," said Firman "It would be nice to see the costs come down and spread the net for a wider audience We'll try to keep the company lean and mean The cars will be produced from the old Van Diemen factory near Snetterton "We've given it a lick of paint!" said Firman whose father remains on board: "His experience is essential." The head office will be at Silverstone with the initial cars – named RF350 – expected to be delivered as early as February 2023 the year that also marks the 50th anniversary of Van Diemen's formation From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport In order to keep delivering our expert journalism we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page An exclusive gallery of Ayrton Senna’s Van Diemen RF81 from the December 2018 issue of Motor Sport. Pick up or download your copy here Ayrton Senna’s Van Diemen RF81 – chassis 528 – has just been restored by Van Diemen founder Ralph Firman and Motor Sport has the full story in the latest issue Firman gave Ayrton Da Silva his big break in the UK and this car was painstakingly restored in Norfolk Senna finished fifth on his FF1600 debut at Brands Hatch on March 1 and took his maiden victory there a couple of weeks later The Van Diemen also features the Minister 1600 engine We are the first people to see it for decades McLaren stole the show at the 2025 Miami Grand Prix with a dominant 1-2 finish that left rivals trembling Here are the key takeaways from a pivotal weekend in Formula 1 The Miami Grand Prix weekend was action packed both on and off the track Here's a look at what you may have missed from the event McLaren crushed the opposition in the Miami Grand Prix with Piastri taking his third straight win in a race that looked like Norris's to lose Mark Hughes answers the main questions from the sixth round of the 2025 season Piastri wins the Miami GP to take his third consecutive victory to consolidate his championship lead ahead of Norris It would be fast and challenging; a touch daunting It would have sharp gradient changes –… Six decades after Motor Sport's famous continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson ran his Porsche 356 across Europe it's now racing again following a long and careful restoration Voice of 90’s motor racing is completing project to revive hidden gems of motor sport film and television Ferrari's F1 car is set to feature a 'blue livery' at the 2024 Miami GP – we look back on the other times Maranello cars haven't run in red Tasmania Police have unveiled their brand-new $13.4 million patrol vessel marking the start of a new era for the force’s marine and rescue services The state-of-the-art PV Van Diemen vessel is the final of three to be delivered under a replacement program and follows the construction and commissioning of the $8.6 million PV Cape Wickham and $3.6 million PV Dauntless Fire and Emergency Management Felix Ellis said the Van Diemen will serve Tasmania Police and the community for years to come “With impressive speeds and world-class capabilities Tasmania Police are in a better position than ever to protect our coastline and ensure the safety of our waters,” he said “Investments like the Van Diemen sends a clear message to those who feel they can do the wrong thing around our coastline – you will be caught.” which provides a more stable platform for officers to work from in rough seas It also has advanced search and rescue capabilities including a digital forward-looking infrared camera sonar and 3D mapping and seabed mapping abilities Assistant Commissioner Glenn Keating said the Van Diemen will live in both Hobart and Launceston It will be used for search and rescue operations “The vessel itself can travel up to 1,000 nautical miles from shore and also has … an inflatable winch and pole that can be launched very quickly to assist in coastal shoreline searches,” he said Send your photos, videos and tip-offs to[email protected], use our News Tips form or call and leave us a message on 03 6124 2526 Pulse Tasmania is published by Pulse Media Group Pty Ltd Vattenfall has been granted permit and Dutch SDE++ subsidy to build a 150 MW “Power-to-Heat” E-boiler at the company’s heat and power plant Diemen in Amsterdam The final investment decision is scheduled for mid-2022 after the recently initiated tender has been completed The E-boiler is believed to be the largest in Europe and can be put into use in 2024 “We are very glad to have been awarded both the permit and the SDE++ subsidy for building a large 150 MW E-boiler at Diemen. Vattenfall wants to supply 100% sustainable heat in the Amsterdam region by 2040. In addition to E-boilers, Vattenfall is therefore also working on a number of other sustainable heat sources, such as biomass data center heating and aqua thermal heat,” says Ulrika Jardfelt The Dutch SDE++ scheme provides subsidies for the use of techniques for the generation of renewable energy and other CO2-reducing techniques SDE++ subsidies are awarded over a period of 12 or 15 years The E-boiler is similar to a 'kettle': the installation converts electricity into hot water which can be supplied to households and companies or that can be stored in the already present heat buffer “The E-boiler only switches on if the electricity mix is sustainable with a lot of electricity from solar and wind the gas-fired power plants in Diemen are still needed to produce electricity – power plants that also supply heat very efficiently We expect that these gas-fired plants will remain necessary in the coming decades for security of supply in the Netherlands; first on natural gas but later hydrogen from renewable sources,” says Alexander van Ofwegen With the current expected deployment of the E-boiler Vattenfall initially expects to be able to supply approximately 15% of the heat in the Amsterdam region with renewable wind and solar electricity the number of hours that the E-boiler can run will increase in the coming years given the growth in the number of wind and solar farms in the Netherlands Vattenfall commissioned a 120 MW e-boiler in Berlin which so far is the largest within the company More information about the E-boiler 2019: Vattenfall inaugurates Europe’s largest water boiler for heat storage in BerlinFor further information:Vattenfall Press Office +46 (0)8 739 50 10, press@vattenfall.com Which is why it may become increasingly important to reuse residual heat from places such as metro stations and data centres Vattenfall launches structured bidding process for its Berlin heat business Germany's largest heat accumulator is expected to be commissioned at the start of next year The heat storage is located on Vattenfall's site at the Reuter West CHP plant in Berlin and is no.. Contact us LinkedIn YouTube Instagram Facebook Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21,000 employees For more than 100 years we have electrified industries supplied energy to people's homes and modernised our way of living through innovation and cooperation More about Vattenfall Kristyn Harman receives funding from the Australian Research Council The research in this article has been funded by ARC DP230100267 Victoria Nagy receives funding from the Australian Research Council University of Tasmania provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU View all partners Emma Cotton (or Cotterell) sailed into Sydney harbour on the Rubicon in 1833 as a free immigrant Emma’s genteel life unravelled four years later when she appeared before a Sydney court charged with stealing a bundle of “wearing apparel” Emma was transported to Van Diemen’s Land (lutruwita or Tasmania) for seven years a local newspaper reported she was “better known as old Emma the fortune teller” If Emma had been able to foretell her own future Conditions for convicts in Van Diemen’s Land were tough. Food was rationed. Many prisoners spent time in penal stations such as Port Arthur, female houses of correction known as “female factories” where convicts were required to serve the initial period of their sentences Details of Emma’s case were carefully captured in a convict indent register five of these rectangular registers with their spidery handwriting and tatty bindings survive women and children who arrived free or were born free in the Australian colonies but became convicts in Van Diemen’s Land They challenge popular narratives of Australian history suggesting only convicts from Britain and Ireland were transported to Van Diemen’s Land The oldest was a 75-year-old man who laboured on a road gang As well as Indigenous convicts from the Cape colony (now part of South Africa) and New Zealand more than 60 Aboriginal men from mainland Australia were transported as convicts during the 19th-century frontier wars In the Port Phillip District of New South Wales (now Victoria), some Aboriginal warriors engaged in economic sabotage. Yanem Goona, also known as “Old Man Billy Billy”, was thought to be a ringleader. When a large flock of sheep was driven off a station near Mt Arapiles in 1845 a white-led Native Police contingent tracked the missing animals locating around 200 sheep in a “bush yard” built by local Aboriginal people Yanem Goona was arrested, tried and sentenced to ten years’ transportation to Van Diemen’s Land. When serving his initial probationary period at Norfolk Island a visitor noted how the old man cried whenever he thought of home Yanem Goona died in custody at the Impression Bay probation station on October 31 1848 Of these 627 people named and detailed in the register Forty-five went through the South Australian law courts 247 free people were sentenced to transportation and sent to Port Arthur and other convict establishments The first entry in the register is for Thomas Carroll an Englishman who arrived free in Launceston in November 1831 and his services breaking in fillies and colts After moving to Hobart and working as a groom Carroll was found guilty of stealing a saddle and sentenced to transportation for seven years He was sent to work on a road gang a few miles from Hobart Peter Haley (or Caley) was a groom in Adelaide before being sentenced to transportation for ten years for horse stealing Born near Cape Town, Haley was a Khoisan man who arrived free in Sydney in 1839 By 1850 he had become a notorious horse thief The following year he was transported to Van Diemen’s Land where he served 15 months at Cascades probation station before being sent into service at New Norfolk His sentence was extended to transportation for life Haley was hanged in Hobart in February 1859 alongside one of his friends Not all formerly free people who became convicts in Van Diemen’s Land were sentenced to transportation Occasionally their sentence was “death recorded” meaning they were sentenced to death with an immediate reprieve a southeast Asian sailor found guilty in Adelaide of attempted murder on the high seas When he and seven other convicts were sent to Hobart in June 1851 on the brig Union the Adelaide Observer announced their departure under the headline “A Good Riddance” The median age of these convicts was 42.5 years – much higher than today’s median age of 31 years for offenders Joseph Levy appeared before the Berrima Circuit Court in NSW in September 1841 One of six children from a Catholic family living at Blacktown Joseph was a key witness in a case involving an alleged horse-stabbing Levy told the court the horse’s owner had promised him a cow and a calf if the boy said he had witnessed the attack Levy was charged with perjury then transported to Van Diemen’s Land for seven years He received a total of 83 “stripes on the breech” and spent 61 days in solitary confinement was a carpenter from Dublin who came out to Van Diemen’s Land as a free migrant He was 75 when tried in Hobart in 1836 for receiving 40 pounds of stolen mutton and sentenced to transportation for 14 years Caffray laboured on the Grass Tree Hill road gang on the outskirts of Hobart while under sentence He died in 1854 from paralysis at Impression Bay on the Tasman Peninsula rape and assault) account for only 8% of cases resulting in transportation to Van Diemen’s Land robbery and stealing from a person (49.5% of cases) horses and sheep) also figure frequently (12.3% of cases) which don’t attract lengthy prison sentences today perjurers and those convicted of “unnatural offences” also lost their freedom Convicts who offended while serving their sentences received further punishments All the free people who became convicts in Van Diemen’s Land had something in common The activities they engaged in were criminalised Those who survived the system were viewed as “tainted” within their own lifetimes But the criminal deportation of these formerly free people tells us more about colonial Australian attitudes and values than it does about the individuals themselves The municipality of Amsterdam is meeting with Diemen and the Rijkswaterstaat to determine how to handle the traffic chaos caused by road works on the A10 Rush hour traffic has been crazy in the Amsterdam region for three days straight there was a 35-kilometer traffic jam on the A10 The travelers’ organization ANWB advised road users to expect an hour of delay Traffic jams on Wibaustraat and Weesperstraat added another 15 minutes to the typical travel time but we are jammed again,” an ANWB spokesperson told Parool traffic only started to subside from around 7:00 p.m On Tuesday, the municipality of Diemen complained that the issues on the A10 were causing a lot of detour traffic The municipalities of Amsterdam and Diemen will meet with the Rijkswaterstaat in the coming days to monitor the situation and come up with possible measures a spokesperson for Amsterdam’s traffic alderman Melanie van der Horst told Parool The parties already agreed to place digital signs in Diemen to divert traffic via Gooiseweg and lessen the pressure on the municipality Rijkswaterstaat also expects that the traffic will decrease in the coming days as more people go on holiday and motorists get used to the new situation on the A10 Amsterdam will monitor whether that is the case and take measures if needed A challenge-exposure model was developed for dose-dependent induction of subclinical (moderate) atrophic rhinitis (ar) in conventionally raised Dutch Landrace and Large White pigs Under favorable climatic and housing conditions pigs were intranasally challenge-exposed with Pasteurella multocida-derived toxin (Pm-T) 3 days after pretreatment by inoculation with 1% acetic acid Pigs were challenge-exposed with 1 of the following Pm-T doses: 0 (control) or 40 μg of Pm-T/ml of phosphate-buffered saline solution (pbss) subclinical (moderate) ar status was defined as intermediate conchal atrophy (grade 2 for ventral conchae on a 0 to 4 scale and grade 1 or 2 for dorsal conchae on a 0 to 3 scale respectively) and perceptible difference in change in brachygnathia superior (cbs) between control and challenge-exposed pigs between the beginning and end of the study All Pm-T-exposed pigs had nasal damage that was dose-dependent The higher Pm-T doses resulted in higher ventral conchae atrophy and dorsal conchae atrophy scores resulting in significant (P < 0.05) differences between controls (3.88 mm) and the 13- weight gain per week for Pm-T-exposed pigs was lower than that of controls after week 3 (P < 0.01) and 40-μg Pm-T-treated groups respectively intranasally administered Pm-T mimicked the pathogenic effect of in vivo infection with toxigenic Pm strains The optimal model to induce subclinical ar appeared to be 13 μg of Pm-T/ml (0.5 ml/nostril/d) on 3 consecutive days Our model should enable studies of exogenous and endogenous factors involved in development of ar independent of the colonizing ability of the Pm strain used Subscribe to newsletters © 2025 American Veterinary Medical Association. 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Powered by KGL PubFactory The May 20 monthly issue of Linn’s Stamp News just landed on the presses and goes in the mail to subscribers Monday And if you subscribe to Linn’s digital edition you’re at the head of the line with early access Saturday Here are three stories you'll want to check out Perhaps you’re more familiar with the name of Van Diemen’s Land today: Tasmania beginning with its first stamps issued in 1853 Sergio Sismondo tells this gripping story in Unveiling Classic Stamps Michael Baadke provides all the essential information about booklet stamps which were originally developed as a convenience for postal customers Today collectors avidly pursue booklet stamps Denmark’s vacation pay stamps have their genesis in 1938 when all Danish workers were guaranteed two weeks of paid vacation each year Nordic Stamp Scene columnist Christer Brunstrom deftly explains the history and development of these unusual stamps Connect with Linn’s Stamp News:  US Stamps This week more international students than ever arrived in Amsterdam to study at the UvA Folia spoke with three of them about their first few days here ‘It’s not as common for Dutch students to smoke weed as I thought.’ studies Philosophy at the University of British Columbia What is the most fun thing you’ve done so far?‘Getting my bicycle My first ride had everything I expected after studying the Dutch culture: I saw beautiful canals I got lost a lot and people screamed at me angrily.’ And the scariest?‘Your intersections without traffic lights What has surprised you?‘It was a bit of a shock to find out I would live in Diemen Especially when I smelled the freshly mowed grass that made me think of home where I worked as a landscaper.’ What have you found the most difficult?‘To remember where I parked my bike But it’s black so it blends in easily with all the other ones.’ And the most rewarding?‘To buy stuff from Ikea to help me feel comfortable in my new room Because that’s the hardest thing when studying abroad: making yourself feel at home.’ studies Psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico What is the most fun thing you’ve done so far?‘The welcome party in my student flat at the Prins Hendrikkade I met so many amazing people from all over the world and heard a lot of interesting stories.’ And the scariest?‘I worked in the U.S. but then I lived in Mexico for a year so I have to get used to the language again Especially with all the different accents here.’ What has surprised you?‘The enormous amount of bicycles everywhere.’ What have you found the most difficult?‘To miss my friends and my favourite Mexican dish: pozole – soup with meat and vegetables.’ And the most rewarding?‘The fact that I’m here Not many people in Mexico get that opportunity.’ studies Psychology at the University of British Columbia What is the most fun thing you’ve done so far?‘A canal cruise Everyone was drinking and playing beer pong but I just sat down and talked with some other international students lifestyles and learned a lot from each other.’ And the scariest?‘Not knowing what my seventeen flat mates in the Weesperflat were going to be like What if they wanted to party all the time and I would never get any sleep The scariest thing now is having to share three mini fridges with all of them.’ What has surprised you?‘It struck me that it’s not as common for Dutch students to smoke weed as I thought it was it’s more tourists and international students that do it.’ ‘To make the most of the introduction week and at the same time spend enough time with my mom and sister who were here for four days And the most rewarding?‘I don’t feel the pressure to act like some cool guy I’m being accepted for who I am.’ BRSCC National Formula Ford 1600’s 2018 champion Niall Murray will return to the series for this weekend’s Snetterton season finale in a 2021-spec Van Diemen car While there have been no new Van Diemen FF1600 models in a decade development has continued on previous cars from the brand and Team Dolan’s work on its title-winning Van Diemen RF99 has resulted in the BD21 car The updated machine was debuted in Champion of Brands FF1600 last month with Murray at the wheel His Snetterton entry is further preparation for racing the car in the FFord Festival on October 30/31 Murray will join Dolan’s usual trio of drivers this weekend while Low Dempsey Racing has also expanded its line-up at Snetterton by adding Andre Castro USF2000 racer Castro has earned his seat at the team by being one of two recipients They will both contest the Festival at Brands Hatch as well as the Walter Hayes Trophy at Silverstone on November 6/7 PWR1 Racing will be present at Snetterton with two cars for debutant Jeremy Fairbairn and FFord veteran Adam Quartermaine won the USA SuperNationals in X30 Junior karts in 2018 then spent a year in senior karting before graduating to single-seaters in Formula 4 last year He came second in the YACademy Winter Series then 14th in 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security is no easy trick You may have to explain to agents why you have props like a bullwhip in your carry-on Making it big in showbiz as a magician and escape artist is no easy trick but Sabine the Sorceress did just that She’s the only woman in the six-star variety troupe "The Illusionists," appearing at the Redding Civic Auditorium on Tuesday The show features some big names among young magicians including the 2018 World Championships of Magic winner An Ha Lim of Korea Other featured performers are daredevil Jonathan Goodwin of Wales British comedian and trickster Paul Dabek and Aussie unusualist/magician Raymond Crowe Van Diemen's youth wasn't spent catching bullets in her teeth or using a bullwhip to snap petals off flowers between other people's teeth — both tricks she's mastered.  “Dance was my life,” said van Diemen she'd gone professional with The Holland Show Ballet.  Then a magician's assistant in the show was injured and she was asked her to fill in she performed the fire cage illusion. "There’s fire in it She emerged unsinged and absolutely hooked on magic. “I immediately thought ‘This was amazing. I want to keep doing this.'" She learned the trade for a few years as a magician's assistant she began a five-year collaboration with Dutch illusionist and Vegas headliner Hans Klok “The first gig was the West End" magic show “Impossible” in London she said. "So much for taking it slow.” Her parents weren't exactly dazzled by their daughter's new career, she said They’re very ‘keep your feet on the ground’ kind of people.'" Their opinions changed after they saw her show she said. Now all of her parents' friends seem to know about their famous daughter The 2018-19 season of "The Illusionists" is van Diemen’s first She’s also the first female member in the history of the troupe magic has been mostly a man's world Until recently, women who headlined did so as part of a couple's act, like the Pendragons “We’re breaking barriers at the moment,” van Diemen said of women magicians Maybe little girls in the audience will think van Diemen gives a magic kit to a girl in the audience and urges her to practice While she’s “very aware of being the only female in a men’s group,” her fellow cast members treat her as one of the gang “They have no mercy,” she said “They don’t treat me as ‘the woman.’ We’re very equal and they make me feel super welcome.” “I try not to move or dress overly sexual so the audience perceives me as one of the" performers Van Diemen’s repertoire includes audience favorites like the water tank escape a variation on the trick made famous by Harry Houdini “Doing illusions gives you a lot of adrenaline because lots of things can go wrong,” she said “Sometimes I want to tell people how it’s done because it’s so difficult my God! How is that possible?’” She doesn’t want to spoil surprises by revealing what tricks she’ll do Tuesday but she hinted there's going to be a special feat with daredevil Jonathan Goodwin “It’s actually not magic," she said You have to really trust each other to do those things.” Read more: Pho sure, the Vietnamese food at this Redding restaurant is a hit a decade later Read more: Film debuts 7 months after director moved to Redding on worst night of Carr Fire Read more: How this Shasta High alum went to study nursing and landed a role in Hollywood Read more: What the Truck? Yes, drive or walk up for some deli faves Van Diemen describes The Illusionists as "Vaudeville 2019." It's also family-friendly, she said “It’s not made for kids,” but “it’s nothing too scary.” Redding is a one-night stop on the show's six-month North American tour.  Traveling to new venues daily can be a little taxing, van Diemen said but the physically-demanding performances are a joy “I love to see the looks of wonder and astonishment on people’s faces Go to http://sabinevandiemen.com to read more about van Diemen including her blog where she writes about life as a magician — including how to get through airport security with a bullwhip What: “The Illusionists: Live from Broadway” call 229-0022 or go to www.reddingcivic.com When he arrived in the UK in 1981, having cut his teeth karting in Italy, Senna entered all three of the separate Formula Ford championships that existed in the country back then. For a young Brazilian, not yet fluent in English and with a distaste for the climate in England, Snetterton in Norfolk was a considerable culture shock. But Senna was there to try the Van Diemen (pictured), the most competitive single-seater at the time. Lotus team manager, Peter Warr, from his biography, Team Lotus: My view from the pit wall The late, great writer Russell Bulgin had known Senna since his earliest days in the UK. For the November 1986 edition of the much-loved magazine Cars & Car Conversions, Bulgin arranged for F1’s rising star to sample several different rally cars, including Phil Collins’ Brooklyn Motorsport Ford Sierra RS Cosworth. The piece is now regarded as a classic of modern automotive journalism. "I know nothing about rallying. I’ve seen pictures in magazines, sometimes watched it on television. And I deliberately haven’t listened to anyone about rally driving. I want to find out for myself," Senna said. "Well you can see the talent of the guy within two-and-a-half miles. He made a right balls of the first corner, but you could feel the embarrassment coming down the intercom. Straight away he said 'I’m so sorry' and he realised it’s no good driving this car slowly, you’ve got to get to grips with it," Collins told Bulgin. "It’s much more exciting than in a Formula One car. Because here you don’t have the top, top speed, but you have a tremendous acceleration. Unbelievable acceleration – and it’s rough. It’s a much more instant emotion than it is in a Formula One car," Senna concluded. Bulgin noted: "Senna’s last try in the Cosworth is wonderful. He takes the final left-hander in three jolts of oversteer, running the car up the shale piled on the track edge to strengthen his exit. The engine note doesn’t waver, the hands pummeling the steering wheel. He looked like a rally driver: a brave rally driver." (For more, check out Maurice Hamilton’s excellent book, Senna, available from Blink Publishing) Look out for your regular round-up of news No money from the licence fee was used to create this website The profits we make from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes BBC is a trademark of the British Broadcasting Corporation views and opinions on NZ and International Motorsport Christchurch’s Will Neale has extended his lead in the 2024/25 Yokohama South Island Formula Ford Championship after winning three races including the prestigious Wigram Cup in the weekend.  With home track advantage Neale also finished second in the second race at the Wigram Revival meeting with the win going to rival “Very happy with the weekend,” said Neale.  “We made the best of what we have as we are still struggling with engine power.  It’s the first weekend without my dad so a massive thanks to Gerard.” It had been close racing on Saturday at the Euromarque Motorsport Park in Ruapuna.  First Neale (Van Diemen RF94) put his car on pole position winning the Hampton Downs NZ Racing Academy $500 cash prize for fastest qualifier with Dylan Grant (Van Diemen RF03) second quickest ahead of Dylan Petch (Van Diemen RF93) Jack Noble-Adams (Ray GR21) and Izaak Fletcher (Ray GR20) In the first of four races on Saturday afternoon it was Grant that took the lead from Neale it was Neale who crossed the line ahead of Grant and Petch Grant reversed the top order winning the second race on Sunday morning and his first of his southern season  He took the lead after Neale bogged down on the line dropping to fourth and having to work his way through to second on the line Petch finished third with Fletcher fourth ahead of Noble-Adams The third race of the weekend had a dramatic conclusion for two of the top runners denting both their overall title chances.  While Neale initially took the lead on the main straight Petch was able to get by on his right while Grant slipped passed on his left.  However they came together causing significant damage resulting in neither driver finishing and crucially no championship points “We got a little bit lucky after both Dylan’s (Grant and Petch) came together,” said Neale.  “It’s still very competitive as we saw in the last race when Dylan Petch got his car together and was quick out of the gate.  I’ve been struggling with my starts all weekend which has been stressful.” The final race of the weekend was the 12-lap Wigram Cup which saw Neale once again take the lead from Petch Noble-Adams and Fletcher.  Grant had been unable to make the start while Petch made it just in time “The car wasn’t terrible,” said Petch.  “Towards the end it was all over the place.  It was a good outcome from a skewed car.  We had to put green (new) tyres on it as we destroyed two of the rims in the crash.  We didn’t really get a chance to pressure the tyres properly so we went high and they came in pretty much bang on at the start but then eventually Will was able to create the gap.” Neale led all the way to the chequered flag to etch his name on the Wigram Cup with Petch second ahead of Noble-Adams and Fletcher “We got some good points although I would have preferred not to get the DNF (in Race 3),” said Petch.   For his efforts Petch picked up the NAPA Auto Parts Driver of the Day Award The South Island Formula Ford Club acknowledge the support from Team Hutchinson Ford Available across the Formula Ford season is a $60,000 Formula Ford prize pool from the Tony Quinn Foundation with funding for travel and testing opportunities with TOYOTA GAZOO Racing NZ NAPA Auto Parts has prizes for both Driver of the Day and Rookie of the Year while Yokohama return as the tyre of choice for Formula Ford Racing in NZ This summer sees a collaboration between Rodin Cars and MotorSport NZ to create a new pathway to Formula 1 with the NZFF champion and selected Formula Ford drivers invited to an all-expenses-paid three-day testing and evaluation program with Rodin Cars in New Zealand.  From there a driver who exhibits exceptional talent has the possibility to test with Rodin Motorsport in the UK with the possibility of securing a seat in one of Rodin’s F4 teams Drivers and teams head to Teretonga Park in Invercargill for the third round in two weeks’ time Overall Points after 2/5 rounds1/ Will Neale 5962/ Izaak Fletcher 4473/ Dylan Grant 4104/ Dylan Petch 3985/ Jake Bryant 3236/ Jacob Begg 3217/ Ryan Denize 3068/ Jacob Cunniffe 3029/ Cameron Freeman 28210/ Dyson Freeman 25211/ Michael Hey 22412/ Toby McCormack 18013/ Jack Noble-Adams 16314/ Gary Love 120 Christchurch 1:30.3185/ 75 Jack Noble-Adams You must be logged in to post a comment Deputy chief health officer Annaliese van Diemen had faced demands for her resignation after posting a controversial tweet Victoria’s deputy chief health officer did not breach the department’s code of conduct when she likened Covid-19 to Captain Cook’s arrival in Australia But she has since been spoken to about the potential for social media use to undermine community trust in the public service and has deleted Twitter from her work phone Deputy chief health officer Annaliese van Diemen faced demands for her resignation last week following a controversial tweet she posted on the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook’s landing Email: sign up for our daily morning and afternoon email newsletters App: download our free app and never miss the biggest stories Social: follow us on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or Twitter Podcast: listen to our daily episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or search "Full Story" in your favourite app Photograph: Tim Robberts/Stone RFWas this helpful?Thank you for your feedback.“Sudden arrival of an invader from another land, decimating populations, creating terror. Forces the population to make enormous sacrifices & completely change how they live in order to survive. Covid-19 or Cook 1770?” she tweeted. Liberal backbencher James Newbury referred the tweet to the state’s public service watchdog, who released its investigation into the matter on Tuesday. It found van Diemen did not breach the department of health’s code of conduct in posting in the tweet. Department of health secretary Kym Peake said van Diemen was spoken to about the risks of social media use when working in the public sector. “The risks of private use of social media when working in the public sector, and in particular when occupying a role that involves high profile public communication, have been discussed with Dr van Diemen,” said the letter from the Victorian Public Service Commission. “In addition, Ms Peake has advised the commission that Dr van Diemen recognises the risk of diverting attention from the critical public health messages to the community and has subsequently removed her Twitter account from her phone.” In a statement, the Department of Health said it would not be taking any formal disciplinary action. “The department supports Dr van Diemen and the incredible role she has played and will continue to play, in fighting this virus,” a spokeswoman said. The incident, however, has prompted a review of the department’s social media guidelines. said van Diemen was doing an “exceptional job” in responding to the pandemic “I don’t think that it’s a matter worthy of any great comment or scrutiny and certainly not criticism from the government,” he told reporters on Tuesday Newbury said Dr van Diemen should apologise or delete the tweet “A real sign of remorse would be to delete it,” he told 3AW “Victorians shouldn’t be paying public servants to be leftwing political activists Please check your email and enter your one time pin below:   Open in Gmail Sorry there was an error loading the audio Police Minister Senzo Mchunu told Parliament on Tuesday that the Stilfontein mine tragedy in which 93 illegal miners died and nearly 2,000 were arrested was a consequence of South Africa’s insecure borders Calling illegal immigration a “huge problem”, the minister said: “The overall fundamental issue is border management”. He was addressing a joint meeting of Parliament’s portfolio committees on minerals and petroleum resources, and police.advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads Police top brass and officials from the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources briefed the committees on illegal mining and derelict and ownerless mines said a total of 944 police officers took part in the operation at Stilfontein from August 2024 up till March 2025 at a cost of R23-million for deployments and R9.8-million for overtime payments Read more: Stilfontein mine rescue ends with 78 dead, 246 rescued and ringleaders in custody  Asaneng said the majority of the illegal miners were undocumented migrants the people that came to the surface were Mozambicans 197; and one Congolese and one Malawian,” he said — a total of 1,826 illegal mining which is a criminal offence for anybody to conduct mining you need a licence or a permit “They must be permitted and these people were not permitted to be operating there, hence the police were leading the operation. They were also charged by Home Affairs for being in the country illegally, including for possession of gold-bearing material and unlawful possession of explosives that they used underground.”advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads Asaneng told the committees that a “total of 93 corpses were retrieved” He said that 640kg of gold-bearing material worth about R46-million and 6.2kg of refined gold worth R6-million was confiscated in addition to nearly half a million rands in cash “All these dockets have since appeared before court” and 35 had been finalised Police employed a “surrender or starve” strategy to force miners to surface in Stilfontein that aimed to “smoke them out” according to Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni Daily Maverick reported last month that according to the Mining Affected Communities United in Action (Macua) at least 20 of the miners died of starvation and dehydration The organisation appointed an independent pathologist to carry out autopsies on the dead miners Read more: Stilfontein massacre a stark reminder of South Africa’s ongoing struggle with human rights violations While the mine rescue operation has ended, the shaft is still being guarded by the police because of other crimes in the area.advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads Mchunu sought to underscore the points made by the SAPS top brass “I would imagine that among issues that we have to deal with is border management.” Referring to the illegal miners who had entered South Africa without documentation “That alone is a huge problem and a huge challenge It could have gone to mining and then we learn through illegal mining that there is this problem but it could have gone elsewhere “Because it is clear it is not just a reflection of what’s happening in illegal mining It could be there like this and it could be worse The overall fundamental issue is border management.” He urged the departments and Parliament to throw their weight behind security cluster efforts to address this “fundamental issue” “This is what will be the consequence if we continue with borders that are leaking.” DM Unfortunately everything is “a huge problem” when we have a government which is both useless and stealing from our people ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " Concerns persist at the RXL student housing complex in Diemen following reports of a suspicious individual further raising fears and concerns among residents reports surfaced about possible sexual assault and intimidation incidents around the housing complex An anonymous student recently contacted NL Times to indicate that the residents still feel unsafe in and around the housing complex In June, students informed NL Times that multiple serious sexual assault and harassment incidents allegedly took place within the Rode Kruislaan complex About a thousand students live in the complex southeast of Amsterdam A man reportedly chased women as they walked into their apartment building in May the victim said she managed to break free from the man in a struggle A police spokesperson confirmed NL Times at the time that two incidents were reported including a “serious sexual incident” on May 9 in one of the buildings of the student complex and a report of a woman being harassed in another building of the complex during the night between May 26 and May 27 A student reaching out in late July complained that the situation had not changed there were more “concerning” related incidents The resident also said that residents received a letter from Liever De Key dated from July 25th stating that there had been another incident presumably involving the same suspect a spokesperson for Liever de Key confirmed another incident took place at the beginning of July at the Rode Kruislaan presumably with the same person.” The latest incident did not take place around the student complex but on the forest path towards the Diemen train station A spokesperson for the Amsterdam police said that there were no reports of additional sexual assaults after June 1 but noted two reports of a “suspicious person.” The police have since taken safety measures without divulging specifics for security reasons Liever de Key also informed NL Times that extra safety measures had been implemented such as “improving cameras on the site and in the flats and additional patrols by the police,” the spokesperson said The housing corporation also created a WhatsApp neighbourhood prevention group where residents can inform each other of suspicious situations "There’s almost never any messages in it," said the resident who contacted NL Times "I hope DeKey informs new residents that are just now moving in of the events that occurred this summer," the resident added When asked about the prevailing sentiment within the housing complex they are scared to return home alone late at night or after the sun sets." “More media attention needs to be given to this situation and the person needs to be caught,” the resident added The much-vaunted plan to produce “green steel” in South Africa is off the cards for now and its role as a catalyst and anchor of domestic demand for green hydrogen in the country is at risk This is according to both Sasol and ArcelorMittal South Africa who had explored the possibility of producing the steel in the Freeport Saldanha Industrial Development Zone in the Western Cape.advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads Daily Maverick previously reported that on day one of the Africa Energy Week conference in 2022 representatives of Sasol and ArcelorMittal signed a deal to investigate the feasibility of developing carbon capture technologies to produce sustainable fuels Read more: Sasol and ArcelorMittal sign deal to look into feasibility of carbon capture and ‘green steel’ The now seemingly failed foray into green steel production represents a great loss to both South Africa’s efforts to mitigate its carbon footprint and to catalyse broader sustainable economic growth According to ArcelorMittal’s Decarbonisation Roadmap 2023 report in 2021 it envisaged Saldanha Works “initially producing lower carbon steel and would be centred on Saldanha’s advanced Midrex plant (the only such plant in Africa) The second leg of their roadmap, the authors of the report write, entailed the Conarc plant “being restarted as a scrap smelter (electric arc furnace) using renewable energy, for continuous casting and rolling”.advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads “Subject to regulatory and funding arrangements being made and affordable renewable energy and rail transport being secured we suggested that Saldanha could produce 600,000 tons of steel per year by as early as 2023 we projected that Saldanha Works could account for South Africa’s largest single private-sector off-taker of green hydrogen catalysing the development of a green hydrogen industry.”  Read more: Sasol and ArcelorMittal to breathe new life into SA’s West Coast economy with green hydrogen hub To best understand what green steel is, one needs to understand how steel is currently produced. The International Energy Agency (IEA) explains that about 75% of steel is still largely made in coal-fired blast furnaces which pump large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere Huge amounts of energy are also needed to heat the furnaces to above 1,000°C Globally, the steel industry is responsible for roughly 2,6 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions, which is about 8% of global emissions When these coal-fired blast furnaces are replaced with ones that run on carbon emission-free green hydrogen the steel that is produced is accordingly considered green steel Asked for an update on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Alex Anderson, senior manager for group media relations and external communication at Sasol, said: “The partnership was an exploratory MOU, and based on those outcomes both parties chose to not pursue further as it wasn’t feasible.”advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads Anderson explained that it was no longer feasible due to the costs and benefits involved, and the two companies moving in different business directions with different priorities. advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads we’ve only got so many resources in the form of people and budgets.” About 3,500 jobs are set to be culled when ArcelorMittal South Africa stops steel production at the end of January at its operations in Newcastle and Vereeniging Read more: How government dithering pushed ArcelorMittal to shut down steel operations Asked for an update on their green steel plans said that those plans were not a priority at present the ArcelorMittal team is fully focused on the Longs announcement The company is also in a closed period.” Amsa will release its annual results on 6 February 2025 ArcelorMittal notes that “Large amounts of clean energy are required to effectively decarbonise steel-making processes Steel remains a crucial enabler to SA’s economy.”  In its Decarbonisation Roadmap 2023 report ArcelorMittal optimistically suggests that “As a very large industrial concern ArcelorMittal South Africa has the ability to catalyse the development of a thriving domestic green hydrogen economy one that creates significant employment by competing and exporting internationally We can play an important role in driving such development by providing a large it needs to be stressed that the financial viability of our renewables procurement will be influenced by Eskom/Nersa’s pricing structures,” the authors write adding that: “The extent to which Eskom is able to green its electricity generation and the pace at which it rolls out renewables will have a bearing on our decarbonisation efforts and those of most manufacturing industries.” The Just Energy Transition Project Management Unit in the Presidency and the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa told this reporter that: “Currently grey hydrogen (from steam reformation of methane gas) costs $1.50/kg to produce Green hydrogen produced via electrolysis of water using renewables-generated electricity costs $5 to $6/kg Approximately 60% of this cost is for electricity 30% for electrolysers and 10% for transport a reduction in price depends very much on renewable electricity generating costs falling still further the appropriate pricing of carbon taxes is another factor that will contribute to project viability “The costs of green electricity and of electrolysers will reduce penalties in key global markets on goods produced using non-green technologies are ramping up over the next decade We can anticipate that the right price point will be reached within the next few years Based on the downward price trajectory of renewable energy and electrolyser costs it has been projected that South Africa will reach $1.50/kg by 2037.” DM the year when we realize that green steel needed more commitment in 2025 to viably priced the year when we lose our coastline due to rising sea levels why are new buildings being built on the beach The Chinese and Indians do not waste their time on ‘green’ steel why should SA destroy itself over ideas that don’t work?Certainly not for a third-world country that is regressing minute-by-minute The Chinese and Indians continue to open coal-fired power stations Annaliese van Diemen’s tweeted analogy drew ire of state opposition MPs Victoria’s deputy chief health officer, who drew a historical analogy between the arrivals of James Cook and Covid-19 to Australia, has been defended by the state government, which has praised her for doing “an outstanding job”. Dr Annaliese van Diemen, public health physician and general practitioner, who holds degrees from Monash, Sydney and James Cook universities, tweeted: “Sudden arrival of an invader from another land, decimating populations, creating terror. Forces the population to make enormous sacrifices & completely change how they live in order to survive. COVID19 or Cook 1770?” Sudden arrival of an invader from another land, decimating populations, creating terror. Forces the population to make enormous sacrifices & completely change how they live in order to survive. COVID19 or Cook 1770? Van Diemen was drawing an analogy between the arrival of Europeans in Australia in the late 18th century and the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. European explorers had been visiting the Australian continent since the 17th century, and Cook did not settle in Australia. But British settlement, led by Arthur Philip, followed Cook’s extensive mapping of Australia’s east coast. Read moreVan Diemen’s tweet generated a vituperative response from opposition members of the Victorian parliament said the tweet was embarrassing and inappropriate “Daniel Andrews’ deputy chief health officer should be working on giving Victorians a pathway out of Labor’s lockdown not giving us woke political commentary on Twitter,” he said in a statement “No wonder many Victorians are questioning why our lockdown has no end in sight: the government is too busy playing politics on Twitter.” Senator for Tasmania (known as Van Diemen’s Land until 1856) Eric Abetz suggested van Diemen (the Victorian doctor not the erstwhile governor general of the Dutch East Indies) read historian Geoffrey Blainey and “stick to the task at hand” of suppressing the pandemic “I’m sure her medical expertise is exceptional Her attempt in the discipline of history would be hysterical if she didn’t expect to be treated seriously non-relevant attempted analogy may enhance her ‘wokeness’ credentials amongst the few but will leave the vast majority of Australians demanding a focus by her on the urgent task at hand,” he said said the deputy chief health officer was “doing an outstanding job protecting Victorians from this deadly pandemic” “Criticism from angry MPs is irrelevant to the fight against this virus.” The Deputy Chief Health Officer is doing an outstanding job protecting Victorians from this deadly pandemic. Criticism from angry MPs is irrelevant to the fight against this virus. #springst The new Van Diemen RF350 is a break from the firm’s traditional cars One of the most famous names in single-seater racing will be revived by ex-Formula 1 driver Ralph Firman Jr who aims to continue the legacy established by his father Founded in 1973 by Ralph Firman Sr and Ross Ambrose Van Diemen became a major force in the junior single-seater market over two decades churning out winning machinery for formulas Ford sports cars and more from its factory near Snetterton in Norfolk Now the brand – whose name is derived from Van Diemen’s Land the former name for the island of Tasmania where Ambrose was born – is returning under the stewardship of Firman’s son best known for his 2003 F1 season with Jordan Firman has partnered with ex-Pacific F1 boss Keith Wiggins and engineer Andy Thorby to help produce a new sports-racer which is planned to compete in the SCCA championship in America from next season The 2023 season coincides with the marque’s 50th anniversary who famously mentored a young Ayrton Senna when he arrived in the UK from Brazil The new car is based on an FIA F3 chassis and has been designed to fit a range of engines We’ve designed what is essentially an FIA F3 chassis which we would like to use for multiple purposes for racing championships and trackdays The company eventually would like to get back to building more traditional single-seater machinery in the future At least two women at the RXL student housing complex in Diemen have reported incidents of serious sexual assault and harassment in recent weeks raising fears and concerns among other residents The incidents have been reported to criminal investigators The incidents involved female residents living in the complex on Rode Kruislaan which is managed by the housing corporation Lieven de Key Women were reportedly chased by a man as they walked into their apartment building in May She said several other frightening incidents have also happened both in and around the complex "But not necessarily sexual in nature," she noted Another student who contacted NL Times separately said that at least one student repeatedly reported safety concerns residents felt as if police "refused to investigate." A police spokesperson confirmed that two incidents were reported including a “serious sexual incident” on May 9 in one of the buildings of the student complex The police also received a report of a woman being harassed in another building of the complex during the overnight period from May 26 to May 27 The police are now trying to determine if the two cases are related The police spokesperson could not confirm information about additional incidents saying that records showed that only the two cases mentioned were reported to them She said that extra measures have been taken such as increased surveillance in the area The neighborhood police officer has also been in contact with residents about the incidents residents also expressed concerns about broken locks in the student complex "It’s a super common thing in our building," Akriti explained While the lock is not defective when examined visually who studies Politics and Media at the University of Amsterdam said the atmosphere has changed since reports of these incidents adding that women in particular now feel unsafe in the complex but you're scared of everyone on the street," she added." Measures have been taken by a few female residents Many intentionally return home before sunset or refuse to take set foot into an elevator with someone they do not know A WhatsApp group has also been created so that people can report when they arrive home at night allowing others from the building to pick them up “There is strong female solidarity; we need to look out for each other,” she said She regrets these measures had to be taken “I should be allowed to go out at any time.” She told NL Times that the housing association first contacted the residents on June 6 expressed that they felt unsafe in and around the buildings of the student complex A police officer was present during the meeting as they were primarily told what they could do to feel safer but they make us feel like it's our responsibility to take care of it.” housing corporation Lieven de Key expressed their “shock” at these incidents A spokesperson mentioned that even though cameras are installed at the entrances and lifts the recent events may trigger a re-evaluation of the current lighting arrangement to enhance safety measures He also emphasized that the building manager maintains a presence in the complex's office four days a week “Residents can contact him with all their questions.” Akriti said she believes these efforts fall short as she feels residents are not being taken seriously she felt a dismissive attitude from the police when people called to report what was happening “Dutch police need sensitivity training,” she said Akriti expressed her belief that this perceived insensitivity could be a deterrent for women when considering whether to report incidents to the police The police spokesperson expressed regret upon hearing that residents of the complex did not feel they were being taken seriously and emphasized that both incidents were “taken very seriously.” She also wanted to point out that not only possible victims but also people who know more about the incidents "We are calling on everyone to come forward and share their stories,” she said