BY Obakeng Maje
Herewith wanted suspect for publication. The said suspect is 18 years old. He is sought after on a case of Robbery. He is a black male of medium build. He wear a beanie with his hair showing in front. He speak Tswana.
The I/O on this case is WO Danie van Niekerk of Ikageng Detective Service. He can be contacted on the following number: 018-299 7599 / 084 712 7667.
BY Obakeng Maje
A man wanted by police and here with Id-kit. The said wanted person are a black male of about 39 years old, tall and slender and speak Sepedi and Setswana.
They used a white W/V Golf vehicle. Both suspect’s is sought after by the SAPS on a case of Rape.
Suspect number 2 is a black female person of 38 years old.
She is medium height and is of fat build. She also speak Sepedi and Setswana and she has got a shoulder length wig. She had a butcher knive with her. She also travelled in the white v/w golf.
The I/O in this case is Cst Bulannga of Potchefstroom FCS. She can be contacted on the following number: 078 495 7731.
BY Obakeng Maje
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JOHANNESBURG – A three-year-old girl who underwent a groundbreaking skin graft operation at the Garden City Clinic in Johannesburg, is in a stable condition.
Around 40 pieces of skin, which were specially cloned and grown in the United States, were transplanted onto Pippie Kruger’s back, face, chest, arms and legs on Monday evening.
Garden City Hospital manager Esme Abrahams said Kruger was doing well.
“Pippie had a quiet night. She’s been placed on a ventilator and it was just routine care that was rendered throughout the night.”
The cloned skin, which has a 24-hour shelf life, was flown in from Boston on a 21-hour flight.
It had to be rushed to the hospital.
One of the surgeons who worked on Kruger’s case said the operation was a complicated procedure.
Plastic surgeon Dr Ridwan Mia said the window period for the viability of the grown skin and logistics of keeping her body warm were complex.
But he said he was thrilled with the overall success of the operation.
It is unclear when the little girl will be allowed to go home, but she will be sedated for the next week.
Kruger has been in hospital since New Year’s Day, after she sustained third degree burns to 80 percent of her body during a braai accident.
(Edited by Thato Motaung)
Bafana Bafana striker Tokelo Rantie, who spent the last season on loan at Orlando Pirates from Swedish side IFK Hassleholm, might join the Buccaneers on a permanent deal next week.
The 21-year-old from Parys played a crucial role for the League champions in his first PSL season and has attracted offers from other Swedish clubs like Malmo, but the player’s business manager Nadeem Mahmood says the striker might stay with the Buccaneers.
“TK had a great season with Orlando Pirates and for his career’s sake we want him to stay with Orlando Pirates,” Mahmood tellsKickOff.com.
“We are ready to contact his club but unfortunately Swedish clubs are on holidays until next week. We will get in touch with them regarding the player joining Pirates on a permanent basis.”
Rantie scored the first of his seven goals after coming on as s substitute against Jomo Cosmos.
The scourge of rape in North West has reached unacceptable levels, premier Thandi Modise said on Sunday.
“When the scourge of sexual offences against women reaches infants, toddlers and young girls, every parent who has a child should be worried that the scourge has reached unacceptable levels and proportion,” said Modise.
She was reacting to news that a four-year-old girl was raped in Tlhabane near Rustenburg on Friday.
Police spokesman Sergeant Philani Nkwalase said the girl’s mother noticed something wrong with her when she bathed her on Friday afternoon.
“She immediately took her to the doctor and a rape incident was confirmed. The police are investigating a rape case and there is no arrest at this stage,” he said.
Nkwalase said the mother took her daughter to a creche on Friday, and went to fetch her in the afternoon as any other day.
Modise has called for an in-depth investigation that would ensure the speedy arrest of the callous perpetrator of the rape.
She reiterated the call she made recently for the partnership between police, crime prevention structures, churches, faith-based organisations, women organisations, non-government organisations and other civil society organisations to be strengthened to combat the scourge of sexual offences against women and girl children.
She said the spate of rape incidents that was experienced in recent weeks, particularly those involving victims known to perpetrators, pointed to moral decay that needed urgent intervention.
The premier appealed to women not to leave their girl children with strangers, visit taverns and other drinking places at night, walk alone at night, ask for or accept lifts from strangers. – Sapa
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Canberra – A 32-year legal mystery over the death of a baby in Australia’s outback came to an end on Tuesday when a coroner found a dingo was responsible for killing infant Azaria Chamberlain, a case that split national opinion and attracted global headlines.
The coroner’s finding ends a three-decade fight for justice by Azaria’s parents, Michael Chamberlain and Lindy Chamberlain, who was jailed for three years over her daughter’s death before she was later cleared.
“This has been a terrifying battle, bitter at times, but now some healing, and a chance to put our daughter’s spirit to rest,” Michael Chamberlain told reporters in the Northern Territory capital Darwin after the coroner’s ruling.
Azaria disappeared on Aug. 17, 1980 from a tent in a camping ground near Uluru, a towering, haunting monolith formerly known as Ayers Rock, one of central Australia’s main tourist attractions.
Azaria’s body was never found. Her parents always maintained she was taken by a dingo, an Australian native wild dog.
“Obviously we are relieved and delighted to come to the end of this saga,” Lindy Chamberlain, now known as Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, told reporters outside the court.
The dingo-baby case has been dramatised several times, and was turned into a Hollywood film “A Cry in the Dark”, starring Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain.
Northern Territory Coroner Elizabeth Morris found evidence from the case proved a dingo or dingoes were responsible for 9-week-old Azaria’s death and ruled that her death certificate should read “attacked and taken by a dingo”.
“What occurred on 17th August, 1980, was that shortly after Mrs Chamberlain placed Azaria in the tent, a dingo or dingoes entered the tent, took Azaria and carried and dragged her from the immediate area,” Morris said.
In an emotional finding, Morris then offered her condolences to the Chamberlains and one of their sons, who were in the Darwin court room.
“Please accept my sincere sympathy on the death of your special loved daughter and sister Azaria. I am so sorry for your loss,” she said to the family. “Time does not remove the pain and sadness of the death of a child.”
A first inquest in 1981 supported the parents’ account but, a second inquest in 1982 overturned that finding and recommended Lindy and Michael Chamberlain stand trial over Azaria’s death.
Lindy Chamberlain, then pregnant with her fourth child, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Michael Chamberlain was convicted of being an accessory and given a suspended sentence.
A judicial inquiry, known as a Royal Commission, overturned the convictions in 1987, leading to Lindy Chamberlain’s release. A third inquest in 1985 returned an open verdict.
The latest inquest, however, heard new evidence of several dingo attacks on humans, including details of how a nine-year old boy died in Queensland after being attacked in 2001. – Reuters
By Botho Molosankwe
Forty-three prisoners are back behind bars barely a month after receiving a presidential early release.
The prisoners were part of the 37 783 who were released from May 15 after President Jacob Zuma granted a special remission of sentence to certain categories of prisoners.
The 43 were arrested for a range of offences such as rape, attempted murder, robbery, assault, kidnapping, theft, stock theft, possession of drugs, possession of stolen goods and housebreaking. Two are women.
Department of Correctional Services spokeswoman Sibongile Khumalo did not give further details on where the crimes were committed, but confirmed that two of the 43 had been released from Gauteng prisons.
Two of the offences were committed in Gauteng and the others in other provinces.
Khumalo said the prisoners had had to attend a pre-release programme to facilitate their smooth integration into the community.
They had been taught life skills and it had also been drummed into their heads to leave a life of crime behind them.
Their arrests will not have any bearing on the sentences they were pardoned while serving. They may qualify for another pardon in the future.
“It will depend on what criteria will be used in future to pardon them, so we can’t say whether they will qualify for the pardon or not,” Khumalo said.
After the announcement of the special remission was announced, Hamadziripi Tamukamoyo wrote on the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) website: “Although there have been assurances from the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) that the lessons from past remissions have been learnt, some have warned that the DCS is not equipped to adequately manage either the remission or the post-release process.
“This is a crucial point, considering that for years the DCS has failed to recruit and retain staff at the appropriate levels. In addition, there has been a continued disproportionate allocation of the budget, with the rehabilitation and well-being of offenders receiving the smallest share.”
In light of the rearrest of the prisoners, Tamukamoyo’s colleague, Tizina Ramagaga, researcher in the Crime and Justice Programme at the ISS, said it was possible the released prisoners had not been completely rehabilitated.
“The department won’t know whether the person to be released is completely rehabilitated because the fact that rehabilitation is being offered is not a guarantee that the person is rehabilitated when they are given the pardon,” Ramagaga added.
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By Kamini Padayachee
The 35-year-old man who is charged with abducting and raping a teenage girl after he lured her on Mxit is to be charged with another count of statutory rape in connection with a second teenage girl who has come forward since his arrest last week.
The man, who cannot be named until he pleads, appeared on Monday in the Durban Regional Court and was denied bail by Magistrate Fariedha Mohammed.
Mohammed said that he was a danger to society given that he was charged with assaulting young girls and that his seven previous convictions showed he had no respect for the law.
The man, testifying in support of his bail application, broke down in the box and apologised for what he had done.
He told the court the incident was a “horrible mistake” and that he was “sorry”.
Prosecutor Val Melis said the man, who was initially charged with two counts of rape and the abduction of the first girl, now faced a third charge of statutory rape of the second girl.
In his testimony, the man said he lived with his mother and that he was unemployed.
He said that he was going to plead not guilty to the charges against him.
“I was not aware that she (the first girl) was 14 when I picked her up.
“She looked older, at least 16 or 17. She told me that she wanted to run away and I offered to help her.”
He also claimed that he had been in a “kind of love” relationship with both teenage girls.
He added that he was not aware of the massive search which was launched for the missing teenager.
“I actually wanted to get her home because I knew that her parents would be worried.
“If I had known what was happening, I would have returned her, trust me. But I did not know what to do – I panicked. I did love her. I am sorry – it was a big mistake.”
He admitted he had lied to the girl about his age when they had chatted on social networking site Mxit.
Melis told the man that he had said he was 19 because he knew that the teenager would not have been interested in speaking to him if she had known his real age.
The man replied: “That could be right.”
Melis also told that the court that the girl would testify that the man had taken away her Sim card and locked her in the house when he was away.
The man denied this and said the girl had his keys to the house and had flushed her Sim card down the toilet.
The case was adjourned to July 13. – The Mercury
By Tania Broughton
Suspended national police commissioner Bheki Cele was slated on Monday for attending the court case of his “foster daughter”, wealthy businesswoman and tax fraud accused Shauwn Mpisane.
Mpisane – who has strong family ties with Cele – pulled in the big guns for what was to be day one of her trial on R5-million tax fraud charges.
As she stood in the dock of a Durban regional court in her trademark towering heels and designer gear, a smartly dressed Cele – her “father figure” – sat behind her in the public gallery.
He arrived alone and without ceremony. He acknowledged reporters but then spoke to no-one and did not return after the lunch adjournment.
But Paul Hoffman of the Institute of Accountability in Southern Africa slammed his presence in the courtroom as “utterly inappropriate”.
“It’s right up there with jailed former police commissioner Jackie Selebi when he said of Glen Agliotti ‘he’s my friend… finished and klaar’. And look at where Selebi is now.
“He is violating all the principles expected of him by the constitution. That he maintain high standards and ethics, that he be objective and accountable… these principles are totally foreign to the way he behaves.”
The DA’s Dianne Kohler Barnard said: “One would have thought he was in sufficient trouble. One would not expect someone in his position to do this.
“It could be seen as putting pressure on the case. It is most inappropriate. He has no boundaries and does not understand the impact of what he does sometimes.”
Cele’s spokesman Vuyo Mkhize, said he had gone to court to give Mpisane moral support.
“Her father, now deceased, was his best friend. He promised to look after her. He was in town and he took the opportunity. He considers her his foster daughter.
“Those who say he should not have, have no understanding of the concept of innocent until proven guilty. You do not abandon people just because they are charged.
“He is, and has always been, sensitive to the perception created by association with people found to have digressed the law.”
Mpisane’s other “big gun” was respected advocate Wim Trengove, SC, who on Monday launched a pre-trial application attempting to persuade magistrate Blessing Msani to compel the State to disclose more details of its case against her so that she can properly prepare for trial.
It was revealed at the start of proceedings on Monday that the State had compiled a new charge sheet in which Mpisane and her close corporation Zikhulise Cleaning, Maintenance and Transport, are facing 118 charges of fraud and one of contravening the close corporations act.
The act disqualifies someone from running a business if he or she has been convicted previously of fraud. – The Mercury
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