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ANOTHER LENYORA FROM TAUNG, KISS MAKING IT BIGGER AND BETTER!!!!

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BY Kgatliso Ramose
 
Music is an art that entertain and teaches simultaneously. Musicians use it as a tool of communication.
We chat with  Tlhaloganyo Thagakane AKA kISS Wa le yeah., a 29 year-old rapper who uses his music to tackle social issues and motivate youth!!!
 
THE HUMBLE BEGINNING- WHERE IT ALL STARTED?
His ability to play with words is able to capture the attention of the crowd and spread the message of hope.
‘I wanna put myself on the map and be a recognised rapper from Taung, there are whole lot of possibities, everything is possible” he stated
 
His musical journey dated back in decade.
“I started writing music shortly after I finished my matric back in 2002, and I started performing at poetry session in Kleksdorp” he said.
 
The energetic rapper who was born and bred in Leshobo in Mokgareng, appoximately 3 km away from Taung.
 
Although his peers take music as a career, he have a different idea.
 
“To me music, is more than a hobby and i take it very it seriously. I cannot say is a career as i have a fulltime job” Tlhaloganyo said. 
 
Grew up listening to music he admit is so hard to pin-point few influences, but on that long list there is Bafitlhile, Tkzee and Nas
                                                     
TRIAL AND TRIBULATION
He admited that road was not all rosy and smooth, he had his fair chances of hardships and state of doubts.
 
“I wont say i have reached the stardom yet, on this road there are lot of challenges like making beats, recording and platform to showcase your talent” said buoyed rapper”.
 
KISS continues “There is also lots of empty promises and deceit. If it was easy I would’ve realised my first project in 2005 or 2008” he said.
 
BOPAKI “THE WINNING PROJECT”
 
His debut album Bopaki “the winning project” will be finished in July.
 
“I call it Bopaki “The winning project” because I had to come up with an evidence of what i’ve been doing and I expect it to put me on another level as it is my first album” he stated.
 
He worked with Aylo of Purple beats record in Cape Town and different producers include the likes of his boys Bassman El of So Africa from his home village, T cool of Stroke 5 and Matric from Cape Town.
 
” I will be performing around Cape Town in a Hip-Hop scene and we are also planning to have radio interviews to promote the album” he outlined.
To keep in touch with Taung-born rapper 
Fan can get hold of kiss on his facebook page Tlhaloganyo Thagakane or like his page Kiss Wa Le Yeah
 
   Twitter account: @TlhaloganyosoA
 

ANOTHER LENYORA FROM TAUNG, KISS MAKING IT BIGGER AND BETTER!!!!

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BY Kgatliso Ramose
 
Music is an art that entertain and teaches simultaneously. Musicians use it as a tool of communication.
We chat with  Tlhaloganyo Thagakane AKA kISS Wa le yeah., a 29 year-old rapper who uses his music to tackle social issues and motivate youth!!!
 
THE HUMBLE BEGINNING- WHERE IT ALL STARTED?
His ability to play with words is able to capture the attention of the crowd and spread the message of hope.
‘I wanna put myself on the map and be a recognised rapper from Taung, there are whole lot of possibities, everything is possible” he stated
 
His musical journey dated back in decade.
“I started writing music shortly after I finished my matric back in 2002, and I started performing at poetry session in Kleksdorp” he said.
 
The energetic rapper who was born and bred in Leshobo in Mokgareng, appoximately 3 km away from Taung.
 
Although his peers take music as a career, he have a different idea.
 
“To me music, is more than a hobby and i take it very it seriously. I cannot say is a career as i have a fulltime job” Tlhaloganyo said. 
 
Grew up listening to music he admit is so hard to pin-point few influences, but on that long list there is Bafitlhile, Tkzee and Nas
                                                     
TRIAL AND TRIBULATION
He admited that road was not all rosy and smooth, he had his fair chances of hardships and state of doubts.
 
“I wont say i have reached the stardom yet, on this road there are lot of challenges like making beats, recording and platform to showcase your talent” said buoyed rapper”.
 
KISS continues “There is also lots of empty promises and deceit. If it was easy I would’ve realised my first project in 2005 or 2008” he said.
 
BOPAKI “THE WINNING PROJECT”
 
His debut album Bopaki “the winning project” will be finished in July.
 
“I call it Bopaki “The winning project” because I had to come up with an evidence of what i’ve been doing and I expect it to put me on another level as it is my first album” he stated.
 
He worked with Aylo of Purple beats record in Cape Town and different producers include the likes of his boys Bassman El of So Africa from his home village, T cool of Stroke 5 and Matric from Cape Town.
 
” I will be performing around Cape Town in a Hip-Hop scene and we are also planning to have radio interviews to promote the album” he outlined.
To keep in touch with Taung-born rapper 
Fan can get hold of kiss on his facebook page Tlhaloganyo Thagakane or like his page Kiss Wa Le Yeah
 
   Twitter account: @TlhaloganyosoA
 

WOMAN DIES IN OLD AGE HOME!

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CAPE TOWN – A 90-year-old woman has died in a fire at an old age home in Kleinmond.
Fire. Picture: sxc.hu.

 

The blaze broke out in the early hours of Wednesday morning at the Gerimed facility.

News24 is reporting that Sophia Rautenbach was unable to escape.

More details to follow.

CHIEFS WON’T BE ENGAGED IN “TAG OF PRICE WAR”

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BY Obakeng Maje

Kaizer Chiefs are very adamant that they will get their men, even though the competition seems intensified. Kaizer Chiefs announced a month ago that they have agreed personal terms with Bloemfontein Celtics defender, Eric Mathoho and only waiting for Celtics to accept their offer.

It seems the Naturena-based club has a mammoth task to accomplished because the free-spending Mamelodi Sundowns also want to lure the hard-nail defender to Chloorkop.

Chiefs Director of Football, Bobby Motaung say they will not be engaged in the catfight as every player has a choice.

““We have made our plans, and that includes having alternative targets. If a certain player decides not to joins us, we will look at our alternatives,” Motaung tells KickOff.com.

“We always hope a player will join us, but we will not be drawn into an auction situation.” he said.

Kaizer Chiefs hoe to bring Free State Stars, Edward Manqele and Bloemfontein Celtics defender, Eric Mathoho to Naturena to help the club revive to former-selves.

It seems for the Soweto giant to bring back glory days back to Naturena, they will have to break a bank and find their men.

They’ve already obtain a services of Bafana Bafana right-back, Siboniso Gaxa and former Supersport captain, Morgan Gould.

 

 

‘Sisulu shift not a demotion’

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Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and convicted murderer Dina Rodriguez during the ceremony for graduates who obtained an e-literacy certificate at Pollsmoor on 14 May 2012. Picture: Aletta Gardner/EWN

CAPE TOWN – The country’s new cabinet ministers and their deputies were sworn-in at Tuinhuis on Wednesday.

According to a political analyst, the appointment of Lindiwe Sisulu as the new Public Service and Administration minister should not be seen as a demotion.

The former defence minister was shifted following Tuesday’s Cabinet reshuffle.

Sisulu takes over from the late Roy Padayachee, who passed away in Ethiopia earlier this year.

Independent political analyst David Monyae said her new post was not insignificant.

“I think the president wants someone with a much stronger hand to bargain with trade unions and at the same time, restructure the entire public sector.” 

President Jacob Zuma reshuffled his cabinet for the third time.

He moved Sibusiso Ndebele from the Transport Department to Correctional Services.

It has been speculated that his removal was due to his handling of the Gauteng e-tolling system. 

Former Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is now the new defence minister.

Cele: Humiliated, abused by hearings

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Bheki Cele appears at the news conference in Pretoria. (Werner Beukes, Sapa)

Pretoria – Axed police commissioner Bheki Celeon Wednesday said he would file a complaint with the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) against retired judge Jake Moloi. 

“He [Moloi] was very hostile towards me,” Cele told reporters in Pretoria.

“I felt humiliated and abused,” he said referring to the board of inquiry hearings.

Cele said it was strange that Moloi’s report found him unfit for the job of police commissioner, though his performance in crime-fighting exceeded that of all his predecessors.

“How can you say I’m unfit?” he said.

“My efforts in crime-fighting seem to be irrelevant.”

Court application

Cele said he would file an application with the North Gauteng High Court by the end of the week.

He wanted the court to review President Jacob Zuma‘s decision to fire him based on the “flawed” report by Moloi.

Cele said Moloi had tried to tarnish his reputation.

He said he had minutes from a meeting that Moloi was present at with the prosecutors and people from ministers’ offices, discussing going to Zuma to ask to have more charges brought against Cele.

“If you [are] a presiding officer I would not expect you to sit in a meeting with prosecutors,” he said.

When asked what he would do next, Cele said he was going to KwaZulu-Natal to relax and think.
However, he did not rule out going back into politics.

Political life

“I love politics and politics loves me,” he said.

“I would not be surprised if I go back to the active political life.” Cele said he would never abandon the ANC.

He also said he continued to have an excellent relationship with Zuma.

“The root of the relationship is long; 25 years,” he said.

Despite going to court, Cele said he would “go quietly”.

“I will not engage in any pointless back-chattings; I will simply shut up and go home,” he said.

“I’m not dying for this job anymore.”

– SAPA

Satawu liable for riot damages

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The Constitutional Court has upheld a judgment that holds trade union Satawu liable for a riot damage claim.

The court ruled on Wednesday the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) was responsible for damages caused during a march in Cape Town in May 2006.

It found that the Regulation of Gatherings Act afforded victims effective recourse when a gathering became destructive and resulted in injury, loss of property, or life.

“The organisations are intimately involved in the planning, supervision, and execution of the gathering, but the potential victims are not,” Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said in the ruling.

“Because of this, the organisations would be in a better position than innocent victims to identify individuals or institutions which caused the damage.”

He said Satawu had the opportunity of a “soft landing” if it could track down those responsible for the damage caused during the protest and recoup its loss from them.

The majority of the court also held that the defence provided for by the law is viable and that the limitation on the right to freedom of assembly in section 17 of the Constitution was reasonable and justifiable.

Judge Chris Jafta, in a concurring judgment, said Satawu’s appeal should be dismissed since it failed to prove that the law limits the right to freedom of assembly.

Satawu took the matter to the court after the Western Cape High Court found the union liable for the damages.

Several car owners and traders who were affected brought the claim.

The Supreme Court of Appeal upheld the High Court decision.

The damages were awarded under a provision of the Act, which creates a statutory liability on the part of organisations under whose auspices a demonstration was held.

Satawu had argued that the ruling and the wording of the Act would have a chilling effect on union members’ rights to organise protests and demonstrations, as it would lead to financial ruin.

The respondents, including the then minister of safety and security, contended the provisions were consistent with the Constitution.

The City of Cape Town had joined as an intervening party and agreed with those sentiments.

The Freedom of Expression Institute sided with Satawu and were admitted as friends of the court. – Sapa


Stray bullet kills mom

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A Cape Flats mother died in her kitchen in front of her seven children after she was hit by a gangster’s stray bullet.

Elsabe Petersen, 42, instinctively ran to look for her teen daughter when she heard several gunshots fired outside her Elsies River home.

Minutes before the shootout, Elsabe sent the 14-year-old to a nearby tuck shop to buy a candle and she feared her child could be hurt.

It was before 8pm on Monday when rival gang members opened fire on each other in Porterville Court, Elsies River.

Without thinking, the panic-stricken mother opened the door and ran out looking for her child.

Elsabe was barely outside her home when she was hit in the back by a stray bullet.

On Tuesday, Bronwin Petersen, 18, described how he and his siblings watched helplessly as their mother collapsed in a pool of blood.

 

“My mom came from work and she was busy cooking supper when she sent my sister to the shop,” he says.

“Just after my sister left, we heard the gunshots and my mom went out looking for her.

“When she opened the door they (gunmen) shot at our house and that’s when my mom was hit.

Bronwin says his mother turned back after she was shot and collapsed inside their kitchen while they scurried to get help.

“My ma het ingekom toe sê sy net ‘ek was geskiet’ en toe val sy op die vloer [My mom came in and said she was shot, then fell on the floor],” says the teen.

 

“We were all standing in the kitchen around her.

“I ran to our neighbour and asked them to call an ambulance.

“When I got back, I closed the wound with a towel to stop the bleeding and covered her with a blanket while my stepdad held her.

“By the time police arrived, she was already gone.”

His sister Kaylin says she was on her way to the shop when she heard the shots.

“I was walking to the shop when they started shooting,” she says with tears in her eyes.

“My mom sent me to buy a candle which she wanted to use in one of the rooms.

“When the shots went off, I ran into the house next door.

Elsabe died in front of her partner Kevin Adams and their children aged 22, 18, 14, 11, eight, six, and her youngest son just three years old.

When the Daily Voice visited the family at their home on Tuesday, Kevin was at the mortuary to identify her body.

Bronwin was left with the responsibility of taking care of his younger siblings.

The visibly shaken children were all quietly seated next to each other on their tattered sofas.

Meanwhile outside, angry residents clashed with police following the terrible tragedy.

“We want the police to arrest the people who did this,” one furious woman shouted.

“An innocent mother died because she wanted to protect her children.”

Police say a 30-year-old suspect was arrested on Monday in connection with Elsabe’s murder.

Provincial police spokesman Warrant Officer November Filander says the suspect was found without the firearm.

“Police found (Elsabe) lying on the kitchen floor,” he says.

“Two rival gangs fired shots at each other when she went outside looking for her daughter.

“The community alerted police to the whereabouts of the 30-year-old suspect who was arrested shortly thereafter without a firearm,” Filander explains.

The man will appear in the Goodwood Magistrates’ Court once he’s been formally charged.

*This article was published in the Daily Voice


Top cop appointment an insult: Sapu

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BY Obakeng Maje

SAPU demises the appointntment of newly SAPS General commissioner, Riah Phiyega who was appointed by president Jacob Zuma after firing embattled Bheki Cele. The Police union say that is an insult as there are more individuals who have vast experience more than Phiyega. 

“We were of the opinion that the president would (have) learnt that non-police officers have not made any good national police commissioners,” Sapu general secretary Oscar Skommere said in a statement.

“The continued imposition of others in the top SAPS (SA Police Service) office is not only an insult to tens of deserving officers, but it also demoralises them.”

Skommere said the SAPS was a “military environment” and it deserved to be kept that way.

However, Sapu would respect Phiyega’s appointment and was willing to work together with her.

“We also want to state it categorically… that as professionals we are willing to work with whomever is in that office, including the new national police commissioner,” he said.

“We call upon all SAPS officers as disciplined men and women in blue to give the new national commissioner the necessary support in her new office.”

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THREE KIDS DIED IN A BLAZING FIRE!!!!

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BY Obakeng Maje

Three children aged 14, 9 and 7 lost their lives when the woody house they were sleeping in was destroyed by fire last night Tuesday 12 June 2012 at about 21:15.

The incident happened at Safe Haven for children (Orphanage) in Hartbeespoortdam.

 

The victims were allegedly some of the children who were placed under the immediate care of Safe Haven orphanage by the Department of Social Services and the Magistrate Court, after their parents passed away.

The three victims were sleeping in a wooden house which is one of the bedrooms.

 According to the information received, two of the three kids Norman Khoza 9 and Given Matlala 7 left Laurence Khoza 14 in the kitchen before going to bed and he later joined them in their bedroom which is situated not far from the kitchen.

At about 21:15 the domestic worker noticed flames coming from their room and immediately informed the authorities.

“The owner tried to put the fire down while waiting for the fire brigades who were already summoned to the scene. When the emergency services and the police arrived, the whole Woody room was already scalded by strong blaze” Brigadier Ngubane said.

The deceased who were burnt beyond recognition, were removed to the state morgue. The police had since registered an inquest dossier.

 

Meanwhile other 31 children who were kept at separate sleeping rooms were not affected by the fire and they are reported to be well and safe. 

“At this stage the cause of the fire is unknown to the police and  Police Forensic experts are conducting investigations in order to determine what could have been the cause of the fire” said Brigadier Ngubane.