Daily Archives: April 19, 2012

Heavy guard for gang rape accused!!!

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BY Obakeng Maje and SAPA

Johannesburg – Seven people, including two minors, accused of gang raping a mentally ill Soweto teenager arrived at the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court under heavy guard on Thursday.

Court proceedings were slightly delayed as the police docket arrived after 09:00 and officials were trying to allocate a courtroom to the case.

The seven were arrested in Dobsonville, Soweto on Tuesday, after they were matched to the descriptions of the rapists seen in a video recording of the attack.

The video of the 17-year-old girl being raped went “viral” on the internet on Wednesday, and was one of the main topics trending on social networking site Twitter.

‘Let them rot in jail’

A group of about 30 women from the ANC’s Women’s League arrived at the court in a bus dressed in ANC colours. 

They were armed with posters reading: “cut their penis – no bail”, “let them rot in jail” and “done with rapists”, and sang freedom songs.

Members of the girl’s family were outside the court. Gauteng safety and security MEC Faith Mazibuko was there to support the girl and her family.

“We need to fight this scourge that is in our communities. All those that are doing wrong things to women must be brought to book,” Mazibuko said outside court.

“If you are a man you must use your brain to think, not your trousers.”

Child porn

National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga told reporters outside court that it was illegal to have a copy of the video, or distribute it.

“The situation of child pornography is a criminal offence… We will charge these people as well,” Mhaga said.

The girl went missing on March 21 and was found in a man’s house in Braamfischerville, Soweto on Wednesday. 

This man was the eighth person arrested for the crime. It was not known when he would appear in court.

Journalists would not be allowed in court to cover proceedings as the case involved minors, but Mhaga would brief them afterwards. 

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2Pac Hologram at Coachella 2012 Video Tweeted by 50 Cent, Ice T Comments on Twitter!!!!

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The 2Pac hologram Coachella 2012 video was recently tweeted out to rap fans by none other than 50 Cent. Meanwhile, various rappers continue to give comments about the image, including the legendary Ice T.

The Tupac Coachella hologram continues to live on, days after it disappeared from the concert stage. Countless celebs and fans are continuing to bring it up, whether it be how amazed they were by the feat, or to make jokes about the hologram related to other news. Rapper 50 Cent was on stage for the Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg portion of Coachella this past Sunday, but not present during the Tupac hologram’s appearance. However, he tweeted out to his millions of followers late on Wednesday night with the following message:

“Check this out its the VIDEO of COACHELLA (w/ Tony Yayo, Tupac, Snoop, Dr Dre)”

Of course, 50 is sending that out a little late since the video’s already hit over 5 million views or so on YouTube, but his YouTube video (below) includes some behind the scenes footage, and views of the hologram that seem different from other videos. While 50 was part of the concert, veteran rapper Ice T wasn’t there. However, he posted some interesting comments on Twitter saying:

“The cold thing is the ONLY time most people have EVER seen Tupac perform was it the Hologram.. I’m lucky that I knew him as a friend..

That being said… I LOVED the Tupac Hologram. #SUPERDOPE”

He also added this photo on Twitter which shows just how the holographic 2Pac image was created. Ice T now joins the list of other rap stars who have praised Dr. Dre’s work. Previous rappers who have weighed in on the matter include Kendrick Lamar, Warren G, Nas, Raekwon, and Kanye West. It’s only a matter of time before the Tupac hologram starts up its own Twitter accounts and appears on the late shows and daily talk TV!

SA hockey men Maxed for London qualifier!!!

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A determined South African men’s hockey team jet off at 12.30 pm on Thursday for the Land of the Rising Sun, and will be hoping that golden rays shine brightly upon them in Japan as they look to clinch the last remaining berth available at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

From April 26 to May 6, the SA side will compete in the FIH Olympic Qualifier in Kakamigahara, where they will have to win the gold medal to qualify for the 12-team tournament at the Olympics.

It has been a long and involved qualification process thus far for the men’s team, which began back in September when they won the African Olympic Qualifier in Zimbabwe, only to have their spot retracted after additional criteria were put in place.

They then narrowly missed out on securing their qualification at the Champions Challenge held in Johannesburg in November, having walked away with a bronze medal when a top-two finish was required to confirm their place at the Olympics.

It’s been a case of so near and yet so far, but there are still plenty of reasons to be positive about the team¹s prospects of securing a positive result in Japan.

Since the Champions Challenge, they have drawn a series with Great Britain (ranked fourth in the world), as well as recorded a series win over Austria, who will participate in the upcoming Qualifier.

Furthermore, the 12th-ranked SA team recently beat India in India for the first time ever, maintaining the positive win-loss ratio that they’ve enjoyed over the past year in spite of the fact that the majority of matches have been played against higher-ranked opposition.

Coach Gregg Clark said he had been extremely encouraged by the form shown by the current squad.

“We have, in my opinion, the most complete group of international hockey players this country has seen for a few generations and it is our goal to make it to London and to achieve a significant result,” he enthused.

Midfielder Wade Paton, who could earn his 50th cap for South Africa if picked to participate in the team’s first game against Brazil on April 26, said preparation had been going well.

“We really have a good group of players and we’re all friends, which helps quite a lot. It comes down to a trust factor because a lot of us are based around the country and world. So we might not interact on the same sort of basis as the Springboks or Proteas do when they have camps all the time.

“You have to trust that your teammates are putting in the hard work to know that they will deliver when it really counts. We are fortunate to have that and we have had some really good training.”

In recognition of the team’s success as well as their potential, Mr Price Sport is now the official kit sponsor of the SA men’s team, which Clark said was a major boost.

“We’re really looking forward to donning our new green and gold Maxed kit for the Olympic Qualifier in Japan and clinching the qualification spot. We’re confident that we’ll make our new sponsors proud to be associated with not only great athletes, but great South Africans.”

It was a sentiment echoed by the President of the South African Hockey Association, Dave Carr: “We are pleased to have a premier South African brand of the stature of Mr Price Sport on board in our quest to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics.

“It is certainly an exciting time in our Road to London that the SA Men’s hockey team will be presented with their Mr Price Sport kit ahead of the final Olympic Qualifier to take place in Kakamigahara, Japan. The Mr Price Sport brand will be a constant reminder to the team of the support from all South Africans.”

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Barca, Real up against it in UCL

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t was being billed as the dream final in the Champions League: Barcelona v Real Madrid.

At this rate, however, neither of the Spanish giants will make it through to the May 19 showpiece in Munich.

A day after Madrid was beaten 2-1 at Bayern Munich in the first leg of their semifinal, Barcelona – and its star forward Lionel Messi – slumped to a 1-0 loss at Chelsea on Wednesday.

With 72 percent possession and 24 shots attempted, Barca’s players came away from Stamford Bridge shaking their heads wondering how they’d lost. Their hopes of becoming the first team to defend the Champions League hinge on overturning the deficit next Tuesday at the Camp Nou.

“Only winners are remembered,” Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola said, when asked if his team had been “mugged.”

“This game is about putting the ball into the net. And it’s the most difficult thing.”

With Messi in the team, scoring hasn’t been much a problem this season.

The Argentina international’s current tally in all competitions stands at 63, four off the record set by German great Gerd Muller in the 1972-73 season. Yet, for once, he was subdued, often dropping too deep and being caught up in a clogged Chelsea midfield.

A prodigious defensive effort, particularly by centre backs Gary Cahill and John Terry, kept one of the world’s most fearsome attacking units at bay in the driving rain. When gaps were found, Alexis Sanchez and Pedro hit the goal frame and Cesc Fabregas had a shot cleared off the line.

At the other end, Chelsea had a deserving matchwinner in Didier Drogba.

With Chelsea’s only shot on target in the whole match, the 34-year-old Ivory Coast striker – in perhaps his last season at the London club – met a cross from Brazil midfielder Ramires in first-half stoppage time to score the only goal.

It was Drogba’s 38th Champions League goal – only Messi has scored more since the 2003-04 season – and capped a tireless display by the striker who was forced to live off scraps all night.

“Didi is all about these big nights, the big occasions. He put fear into the Spurs defense (in Chelsea’s FA Cup win) at the weekend and he did that again tonight,” Terry said.

Interim Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo spoke on the eve of the match about needing “two perfect matches” to get past Barca.

After a win and a clean sheet, one of them is out of the way but there is much work still to be done. Keeping Messi quiet for another 90 minutes at the Camp Nou will require a Herculean effort.

“Sometimes it feels like they have 20 players,” Di Matteo said. “We watched Barcelona against A.C. Milan and Real Madrid, top European clubs, and they did exactly the same to them.

“They have a unique style of play, with quality players. They are the only team in the world who can do that.”

Since replacing the fired Andre Villas-Boas at the start of last month, Di Matteo has turned Chelsea’s fortunes around, with 10 wins from 13 games. Drogba, Terry and Frank Lampard – fondly referred to as Chelsea’s “old guard” – have been key to that revival and were standout players against Barcelona, back to their best under a new manager who has restored harmony to the dressing room.

“In the past, a lot of people have had the opinion that our boys were over the line and too old to play at this level,” Di Matteo said. “They gave their answer on the pitch.”

With a must-win “Clasico” against Real Madrid in the Spanish league to come on Saturday, three days before the return leg against Chelsea, Barca is facing up to the biggest week of its season.

Finishing the campaign without either of the La Liga or Champions League titles they won last season is now a real prospect.

“They’ll have 10 men behind the ball, they’ll defend, they’re stronger than us, they run, they jump more than us,” Guardiola said of Chelsea, which hasn’t lost to Barcelona in its last six meetings.

“We have to try and take the game under control and discover a way of scoring the goals.”

Barcelona’s last loss in the Champions League also came in London, a 2-1 defeat at Arsenal in February last year in the first leg of the last 16. On that occasion, Guardiola’s side also dominated the game yet squandered chance after chance before Messi’s brace of goals helped them over the line in the second leg.

With its increasingly resolute defense and hounding midfield, Chelsea should put up a much better fight than its city rival did that night.

“Nothing has been decided yet and we need to play another game like this one if we are going to get through,” Di Matteo said.

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Stuart Baxter headed to Chiefs

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BY LOVERMORE MOYO

Kaizer Chiefs have already identified their next coach with the club’s football manager Bobby Motaung having already met with their prospective new coach Stuart Baxter during a recent visit to London.   

KickOff.com has learnt that Motaung travelled to London accompanied by Steve Kapeluschnik of Stellar Africa prior to the match against Golden Arrows at the end of last month to meet Baxter.
    
Motaung didn’t travel with the team to Durban but only arrived on the day of the match after arriving from London where the purpose of his trip was to tie down Baxter.
  
Though the details of what was agreed on during that meeting in the UK are still cloudy it is believed that Baxter has already agreed in principle to take over the Chiefs job in the new season.
 
It is no secret that Baxter will come at a heavy package but with Chiefs apparently keen to have him on board they are prepared to stretch their muscles to meet Baxter’s demands.  
    
Baxter – who had a spell as Bafana Bafana head coach from 2004-2005 – is currently without a job since being fired in Finland where he was the head coach over a year ago.
    
He was linked with the coaching job at Swedish club Malmo FF last year but he turned down the offer.
 
With Bobby Motaung having already made indications of their talk with Baxter, KickOff.com tracked down Kapeluschnik who neither denied nor confirmed his involvement in the recruitment of the 58 year-old.
  
“Those things I don’t discuss. Those things you need to talk to the clubs concerned because I cannot speak about that at all,” says Kapeluschnik.
  
The sudden ‘parting of ways’ with Vladimir Vermezovic last week after being informed by management that his contract will not be renewed was surprising in that though it was given he will not be at the club next season he was at least expected to stay on until the end of his contract in June.
   
However, reality is that in informing VV that they will not renew his contract the Chiefs management already knew of what plans they had in as far as bringing in a new coach is concerned.
 
Chiefs have in the meantime lost both games that they have played since Ace Khuse took over with the assistance of Doctor Khumalo and Arthur Zwane. 

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Furman extends Oldham contract

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South African-born midfielder Dean Furman has signed a one-year contract extension at English League One side Oldham Athletic. 

The 23-year-old, who was called up by former Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira for an international against Australia in 2008, joined Oldham a year later and was appointed captain at the start of this season.

“When I signed a three-year contract in 2009, there was an option to extend for another year,” he tells the club’s official website. “I am delighted to have accepted. I have enjoyed my football here and the last three years have flown by.”

Furman, who was born in Cape Town, came through the youth systems of Chelsea and Glasgow Rangers.

Youth agency wants to jail CEOs

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 BY AMUKELANI CHAUKE

The National Youth Development Agency wants the power to jail captains of industry who do not implement youth development policies.

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The agency’s chairman, Andile Lungisa, said that, with 70% of the country’s jobless under 35, a more rigorous approach was needed to deal with the unemployment rate and the slow pace of youth development.

Speaking in Pretoria yesterday, Lungisa said the amendment of the National Youth Development Agency Act – which he hopes will reach parliament by June – would force both the public and private sectors to implement the national youth policy approved by the cabinet in 2009.

“We are currently amending the act. We want the act to be able to bite, and then we can hold people accountable, we can take people to jail, we can take people to the Human Rights Commission,” he said.

Lungisa said he hoped that government departments – under the oversight of Performance Minister Collins Chabane – would implement the policy guidelines.

He said the agency would use the National Economic Development and Labour Council to ask companies to promote youth development.

Lungisa said he was concerned that, in the private sector, youth development was moving at the pace of a “Beetle” instead of a “C-class” Mercedes-Benz.

He said some companies allocated their channelled funds from their charity budgets when asked to invest in youth development.

He also criticised the DA’s continued calls for Cosatu to stop opposing the implementation of the Treasury’s proposed youth wage subsidy at the council.

The launching of the subsidy, a R5-billion tax credit to be introduced over three years, was postponed this month.

Cosatu said the subsidy would lead to employers hiring younger, inexperienced workers to get the subsidy, and that they would then off-load their older employees.

“What will happen with the implementation of the subsidy: you put 200 young South Africans on the subsidy and then you subsidise big business.

“After two years … they are going to be off-loaded, they are going to go back on the street and take in other people. Is that addressing any challenges of unemployment?

“Why don’t we take that money and invest in skills, where young people will be able to start their own projects, where they can create their own jobs?”

Lungisa said South Africa should promote entrepreneurship, and cited Vietnam, which he said has an unemployment rate of only 3.5%.

Cosatu meets ANC to discuss tolling

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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said it was due to meet with the African National Congress (ANC) again on Thursday to discuss possible alternatives to paying off the debt incurred in building the e-tolling system. 

The trade federation announced plans to hold what it calls the “mother of all protests”. 

E-tolling is due to go live at the end of the month. 

Cosatu wants to find common ground on how to pay off the expensive infrastructure already in place for e-tolling. 

It is adamant that regular drivers and passengers should not be the ones to spend years paying back that debt. 

Cosatu said it will announce its final plans for protests soon and will keep a close eye on the legal challenge, which was launched to try and delay the launch. 

That case will be heard in court next week. 

South African National Roads Agency Limited meanwhile claims it is starting to see a pick up in the number of people buying e-tags. 

(Edited by Clare Matthes)

SEVEN BOYS WHO GANG-RAPED 17 YEAR OLD GIRL APPEAR IN COURT!!!

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BY Obakeng Maje

Seven suspects who allegedly gang-raped a 17 year old mental handicapped girl will appear in Rodepoort Magistarte Court this morning on charges of rape and kidnapping.

The girl was gang-raped three weeks ago and given R2 to buy her silence. Rape ordeal was filmed and the video since went viral around the country. 

The seven boys aged between 17-20 were arrested and since after the rape took place,the girl went missing. But the girl was found yesterday afternoon and taken to the police station.

The MEC also visited the police station yesterday and had an eye-to-eye talk with the girl. SAP[S spokesperson, Kay Makhubela confirm the arrest. “We have arrested seven boys who allegedl;y gang-aped the young girl and the ordeal was filmed. And the suspects will appear before magistrate at Rodepoort Magistrate Court on charges of kidnapping and rape” he said.

NPA urge people who have the video on their cellphones to delete it and stop the distribution of it as that is illegal. This cost an outcry around the country.