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A month ago Steven Hanson was released as part of President Jacob Zuma’s remission programme – and on Thursday he appeared in the Porterville Magistrate’s Court on charges of rape and abduction.
Hanson, 51, and his co-accused Jurgen George, who is charged only with rape, were arrested at Hanson’s home in Porterville.
It is alleged that the two men kept a 39-year-old woman at his house for three days and raped her several times.
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BY Obakeng Maje
The South African Breweries’ (SAB) ‘beer behind our boys’, Castle Lager has extended its two decade long association with the South African Senior Men’s National Team (Bafana Bafana), by an additional 5 years.
“We are extremely proud of our association with Bafana Bafana and thrilled to renew our sponsorship of the team for a further five years. Over the last twenty years we have stood by them during their highs and lows and look forward to making a meaningful contribution, as they re-establish themselves at the top of African Football, starting with the 2013 African Cup of Nations” says Vincent Maphai, SAB Executive Director Corporate Affairs and Transformation.
Football has been a key part of Castle Lager, with its first sponsorship foray into the sport going back to 1959. The relationship with Bafana Bafana began some two decades ago, at the time of South Africa’s readmission to international football in 1992, when Castle Lager became the team’s first sponsor.
The brand has seen the team through three FIFA World Cup final appearances (1998, 2006), including on home soil in 2010. And the crowning achievement still remains lifting the Africa Cup of Nations trophy in 1996.
“As much as we focus on the past and our long and fruitful relationship with Bafana Bafana, we at SAB are excited about the future of the team with the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2014 FIFA World Cup on the horizon.
“We will continue to lend whatever support we can to the team to ensure that future South African stars get the same wonderful opportunities at international level that those over the past 20 years have enjoyed,” says Maphai.
The South African Football Association (SAFA) has extended its thanks to Castle Lager for the support given over the years, as well as the future commitment.
“Castle Lager has always been Bafana Bafana’s undisputed number one supporter and we as SAFA are very excited and grateful at this sponsorship extension. Castle Lager has always been synonymous with the country’s Senior Men’s National Team and the next five years is going to continue the exciting journey,” said SAFA President Kirsten Nematandani.
“For any national team to do well on the international stage, there is need for financial backing and we are very grateful to Castle Lager for sticking with Bafana Bafana through thick and thin,” he added.
Castle Lager’s highly successful SuperFans campaign will again rally the nation behind Bafana Bafana later this year during the 2013 African Cup of Nations. Called “Africa United”, the campaign will see 16 PSL fans chosen as Bafana Bafana SuperFans.
Bafana Bafana’s next international fixture will be away in Sao Paolo, Brazil on 7 September 2012. Castle Lager will accompany the team as a new era dawns for the national team under the stewardship of recently appointed head coach, Gordon Igesund.
JOHANNESBURG- Former Premier Soccer League players will be gratuating today at SAFA House after undergone an intensive coaching training organised by the football body.
BY Obakeng Maje
Some of the graduating participants include Fabian McCarthy (formerly Kaizer Chiefs); Duncan Lechesa (formerly Free State Stars); Goodman Mazibuko (formerly Moroka Swallows); Sam Magalefa (formerly Jomo Cosmos); Michael Manzini (formerly Mamelodi Sundowns) and Lehlohonolo Seema (formerly Orlando Pirates).
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MOROKWENG: The Community of Bona-Bona village near Morokweng in the North West Province burnt down Tlotlang Thuto Middle School during their service delivery protest.
Two classes and a staff room were burnt down.
This happened on wednesday at about 2:00 in the morning.
“It is alleged that the community members broke the burglar door of the school kitchen, took out two gas cylinders and placed them in each class” Brigadier Ngubane said.
“They opened them and set the classroom alight. The staff room caught fire from the two classes and fifteen computers which were in the room were badly burnt”He yelled.
No one has been arrested and a case of arson, public violence and malicious damage to property has been registered.
Mamabolo, whose A-sample tested positive for methylhexaneamine after he won the 89km ultra-marathon in Durban last month, would face a hearing on a doping charge, Saids CEO Khalid Galant said in a statement on Friday.
“Now the process to constitute a hearing will proceed and a date will be set where Mamabolo will be afforded the opportunity to defend himself against the charge of doping,” Galant said.
Galant explained that the B-sample test, which is a 30ml sample of the original sample of the athlete, is a confirmation test to confirm the result of the A-sample.
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The discovery of fossilised bones from a 2-million-year-old hominid species that could be a direct ancestor of modern humans made international headlines when it was announced at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in Gauteng two years ago.
On Friday, another major announcement has revealed the discovery of yet more bones believed to be a part of that same partial skeleton discovered at the Malapa cave site in the Cradle of Humankind in 2009 that is a new species of hominid, Australopithecus sediba.
It has been widely, though not universally, hailed as a bona fide transitional species between early ape-like people and modern humans, showing a mosaic of characteristics shared by earlier species of apemen like Australopithecus africanus and more recent ancestors of humans such as Homo erectus.
The new bones – including parts of a jaw, a complete femur (thigh bone), ribs, vertebrae and other important limb elements – will create a completeness never before seen in the human fossil record, said Professor Lee Berger, a palaeoanthropologist at Wits University and leader of the Institute for Human Evolution’s research team investigating A. sediba.
“This discovery will almost certainly make Karabo (the name given to the skeleton) the most complete early human ancestor skeleton ever discovered,” said Berger, who made today’s announcement from Shanghai, where he is visiting as part of a SA delegation.
And another world first is that ordinary people will be able to watch in real time as scientists from Berger’s Institute for Human Evolution investigate the find and prepare the specimens – both on site at the Cradle of Humankind and through live internet streaming.
It will, however, be a very slow process, because the “new” bones are encased in a solid rock.
It’s all something of a Berger family affair.
The bones of Karabo, probably a boy aged between about nine and 13, and another partial skeleton were discovered by Berger’s then nine-year-old son Matthew.
He was on a fossil hunt with his father at the newly discovered subterranean cave site.
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Debbie Calitz says was raped by her captors during her 20-month hostage ordeal in Somalia, a report has said.
Speaking to the Daily News in Durban on Wednesday, Calitz and her partner Bruno Pelizzari, who landed in South Africa almost two weeks ago, relived aspects of their capture.
Calitz said the most harrowing part was the kidnapping. “It was like a dream,” she said.
They described how they were taken hostage after their yacht, SY Choizil, skippered by Peter Eldridge, was hijacked off the Kenyan coast en route to Richards Bay from Dar es Salaam in October 2010. Eldridge was later rescued.
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Nineteen people were killed and 24 others were injured, four critically, when a truck carrying farm workers was struck by a train at a level crossing near Hectorspruit in Mpumalanga, paramedics said.
According to Netcare 911 spokesman Jeff Wicks, the cause of the accident was unclear and would be investigated by police.
Wicks said it appeared that the truck had passed over the level crossing and was hit by the train.
The force of impact saw the truck cleaved and flung from the railway line.
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New gang leaders trying to popularise themselves are behind the spate of attacks on foreign shopkeepers in Cape Town, according to the Western Cape branch of the Somali Association of SA.
The association said on Thursday that “Somali-phobia” was to blame for the latest attacks on foreign-owned shops in Valhalla Park and Beacon Valley in Mitchells Plain.
Chairman Abdikadir Mohamed said the association’s members in Valhalla Park have been told that new gang leaders who were trying to “stamp their authority” in the area were behind attacks on Somali-owned shops on Tuesday.
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BY Obakeng Maje
Pretoria– Yesterday the president, Jacob Zuma wished the South African
Olympic team good luck during a presidential sent-off in Pretoria.
Zuma urged the participants to bring home gold and as the country
celebrating one of its icons, Nelson Mandela’s birthday.
“In sport there is always a loser and a winner,so let be a latter.
Just go there and do better than Beijing” He said.
The team will departure today to take part in te biggest sporting
event in the world.
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