Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes with profound sadness the death of legendary sports writer Rodney Hartman, who died after his long and courageous battle against leukaemia at the Linksfield Clinic yesterday;
2) takes this opportunity to pay tribute to Hartman for his contribution to our country's media, especially in advancing sport broadcasting and analysis;
3) acknowledges that Hartman spent a year in the navy before starting his journalism career with the SA Press Association, Sapa, in Johannesburg and went on to write three biographies - on world boxing champion Brian Mitchell, cricket captain Hansie Cronj and All Bacher;
4) recognises that Hartman also covered the beginning of the anti- apartheid movement's sport protests from Sapa's London office, before joining the Sunday Times, where he was that paper's sports editor and later became the inaugural sports editor of The Sunday Independent;
5) further notes that Hartman was first a specialist sports writer for the entire Independent group of newspapers, which publishes The Star, and went on to occupy various executive roles, culminating in his appointment as group sports convenor; and
6) takes this opportunity to convey its profound condolences to his wife Carien, three sons Justin, Oliver and Scott and daughter, Emma.
Motion agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.