Daily Archives: July 5, 2012

Three W Cape schools also without textbooks

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The ANC in the Western Cape says it has discovered at least three schools in the Cape metropole that have not received their textbooks since the beginning of the year. The party says this has emerged following the highly publicised text book saga in Limpopo. 
 
Western Cape ANC leaders visited the affected schools and handed over textbooks this morning. These include Wallacedene, Bloekombos and Ekuthuleni primary schools, which are all in Kraaifontein. 
 
Provincial ANC chairman Marius Fransman says its shameful that the 3 affected schools don’t have textbooks at this time of the year. He says its criminal that DA leader and Western Cape Premier, Helen Zille criticised the situation in Limpopo when she had to the same scenario in her backyard.
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Minister Pandor cornered at summit

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Science and technology Minister Naledi Pandor found herself having to answer some hard questions from a member of the public who had had enough of what he said was an unresponsive government, at the National Cohesion Summit being held in Kliptown, Soweto. 

 

During the Commission on Economic Inequality, a male resident of Pimville said he had skills which had allowed him to make a living during apartheid, but he was unable to make a living under a democratic dispensation. He demanded a hearing with the Minister of Transport. 

For more go to http://www.sabc.co.za

Comedian ‘overstepped the line’

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The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of SA (BCCSA) has dismissed a complaint that a joke by comedian Nik Rabinowitz was blasphemous, it said on Thursday.

“… The joke did not advocate hatred or constitute incitement to cause harm. In the result, the complaint is not upheld,” said BCCSA chairman Prof Jacobus van Rooyen.

In a broadcast over the Easter period on the Redi Tlhabi show on Talk Radio 702, Rabinowitz said “a pastor had a potato stuck up his backside and that it was not holy communion”.

This prompted two complaints.

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Trapped twin, 4, dies in fire

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A day that started out as any other for the Mosia family of Theresa Park, soon turned into a nightmare on Wednesday when their home burnt down, claiming the life of their four-year-old twin son.

In a desperate attempt to save the life of his young boy, Retshepile, Abraham Mosia braved the flames. But it was all in vain as the flames claimed the house and the boy, burning him beyond recognition.

Before disaster struck, Mosia, as he usually does, took his wife Bernice, an SANDF employee, to work just after 6am.

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Approved tax law gives Sars upper hand

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Cape Town – Legislation allowing the SA Revenue Service (Sars) to search business premises without a warrant is expected to come into operation within the next three months. 

The Tax Administration Bill was promulgated into law on Wednesday in the Government Gazette, Sars said in a statement on Thursday. 

The act would come into operation on a date to be determined by President Jacob Zuma by proclamation in the gazette.

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Disappointment at level of black ownership of oil companies

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The findings of the audit into the Liquid Fuels Charter are extremely disappointing given the timelines, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Thursday.

“We are disappointed that this compliance audit reveals that over these 10 years under scrutiny, overall compliance stands at a mere 48 percent,” Peters told reporters in Midrand.

“On ownership, the finding concludes that the average effective narrow-based black shareholding is 18.91 percent, instead of the 25 percent.

For more go to http://www.timeslive.co.za

Sars questions banker who had R1.9m stolen

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He chose the Holiday Inn over luxurious hotels that “feel like mortuaries”, opting to stay there so that he could mingle with his countrymen and women, comprised mostly of Qatari airways crew members.

And the missing millions he had in his hotel room safe were mainly “donations from friends”, as he had brought in a “considerable” amount of cash when entering the country last month.

These were Farid Alshabbar’s words when asked to explain how he managed to get into the country with €500 notes amounting to R1.9 million and still stay at the modest hotel, when Sandton offered a variety of exclusive luxury hotels.

For more go to http://www.iol.co.za

 

Pienaar in SA to face assault charges

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Bafana Bafana midfielder Steven Pienaar jetted in to SA this week to face charges of assault, only for the case to be postponed because the police are yet to complete their investigation.

Pienaar stands accused of assaulting Thabang Mnisi, the son of Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration Ayanda Dlodlo, at a popular Sandton nightclub, Icon, last month.

According to Mnisi’s statement, Pienaar had been part of a group of friends who kicked and punched him in the head.

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Gang steals vehicles to order – cops

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Police believe they have cracked a cars-to-order car theft syndicate operated by men from Soweto after the arrest of five men on Wednesday.

The men – two of whom were nabbed as they attempted to steal a car from Pretoria’s Moreleta Square shopping centre – were found in possession of a Toyota master key and a system modulator override.

This system, once plugged in, overrides any car’s security system and allows the would-be thieves to drive off without having to worry about immobilisers or alarm systems.

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL UPLIFTMENT LAUNCHED!!!

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BY Obakeng Maje
North West- The expansion of an information communication technology (ICT) social upliftment programme to empower previously disadvantaged rural and underserviced peri-urban communities through increased access to information is to be launched by North West Province Premier Mme Thandi Modise at Madiba a Toloane Secondary School in Jericho outside Brits today.

The objective of the Ulwazi Express programme supported by the Department of Trade and Industry and endorsed by the Department of Science and Technology is to catalyze the integration of people from rural communities into the mainstream economy by providing them with general knowledge, current information on matters of public interest and importance including career guidance.

The roll-out of the programme has been in operation for the past two years and is currently running at 27 sites in the province was approved by the Provincial Executive Council in November last year to contribute towards development of the knowledge economy in the North West Province

Premier Mme Thandi Modise has expressed optimism that the programme which offers free access to educational and informative content through enhance ICT digital infrastructure to beneficiaries will improve innovation.

“Innovation only flourishes in an educated society hence the programme seeks to create better informed communities through the world class local and international informative content” added Premier Modise.

The programme is facilitating the building of a knowledge based economy through an informative and educational channel to Thusong centres, Tele-centres, Educational-Support centres, clinics, schools and Further Education and Training centres.

The Consul General of Uganda to South Africa, Hon Wilson Karinge who will be accompanied by three visiting Members of Parliament attending the Commonwealth Conference will also grace the launch scheduled to commence at 10.00 am.