Monthly Archives: July 2012

THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED FOR A MISSING HEAD REMINDED IN CUSTODY!!

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BY Obakeng Maje

Wolmaranstad- Three suspects who were arrested in connection of a missing head of Ezekiel Motloung will appear back in court on the 16 of July for bail applications. 

Thabang Rampai(20), Daniel Letlhoma(24) and a Sangoma Motlatsi Phiri(32) appeared briefly at Wolmaranstad Magistrate Court today and their case were reminded.

They were arrested after a municipal worker discover a gruesome event at Lobaleng Location at the graveyard. The municipal worker were busy cleaning the graveyard and realise that the was a grave that was tempered with.

 It was discovered that the body with a missing head belongs to Ezekiel Motloung.

Two days after Motloung was buried, a municipal worker alerted the family that the grave had been tampered with. When they arrived at the grave with the police they found Motloung’s head had been cut off.

According to relatives of Ezekiel Motloung, who was buried on July 1, the three arrested after a tip-off were well known to them. They had attended Motloung’s funeral and had been very helpful.

At the time, police spokesman Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said the body was still in the coffin, but the head was missing.

” Three suspects will remain in custody after the magistrate postpone their case to 16 July and they will be appearing for bail appearance” Captain Pelonomi Makau said.

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Tlale delighted with Promotion

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Roses United coach, John Tlale described securing promotion to the National First Division by winning the Vodacom League Play-offs as “the best feeling” in his short coaching career.

 

The former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper guided the Free State side to the summit of group A and went o to beat Milano United in the final of the Play-offs on Sunday. The 45-year old coach said he had always wanted to lead his side to the NFD and having come close in the previous season he was delighted to finally make his dream a reality.

“It’s the best feeling since I have been a coach. To finally get promoted after having missed out in the previous season, you can’t ask for more. The team has been brilliant and knew what was needed to be done,” he told PSL.co.za.

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Mngqithi confirmed as Chippa coach

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As reported by KickOff.com this morning, Manqoba Mngqithi will lead Chippa United in the 2012/13 season. 

Chilli Boys owner Chippa Mpengesi told KickOff.com last week that he would stick with Roger Sikhakane, who led the team to promotion.

“We have a coach who understands our team culture; I can’t afford to have someone that will come with a different philosophy. I am happy with the coach and the technical team and that will remain the same with no changes,” Mpengesi said at the time.
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Three held over missing head

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A traditional healer and a pastor’s son were among three people arrested in connection with the theft of a head from a grave in Makwassie, North West, last week, the Sowetan reported on Monday.

According to relatives of Ezekiel Motloung, who was buried on July 1, the three arrested after a tip-off were well known to them. They had attended Motloung’s funeral and had been very helpful.

Two days after Motloung was buried, a municipal worker alerted the family that the grave had been tampered with. When they arrived at the grave with the police they found Motloung’s head had been cut off.

At the time, police spokesman Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said the body was still in the coffin, but the head was missing.

Ngubane told the Sowetan they discovered a head in a bucket wrapped in plastic on the roof of the traditional healer’s house.

The three were expected to appear in the Wolmaransstad Magistrate’s Court on Monday. – Sapa

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Cope MP sent packing after inflight incident

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Cope MP Dirk Benjamin Feldman, was sent back to South Africa following an incident aboard an SAA flight.

A Cope MP who was part of parliamentary delegation visiting India, Dirk Benjamin Feldman, has been sent back home. Parliament says in a statement that Feldman was ordered back home following an incident aboard an SAA flight on Saturday. He was briefly detained by Indian security upon arrival at Mumbai Airport, but was subsequently released and allowed to proceed with the delegation to Delhi.

“They detained him for a few hours at the airport and then released him.”

SAA’s head of internal flight services, Martin Kemp, said such incidents occurred infrequently.

For more go to http://www.sabc.co.za

Zuma – Edusolutions link baseless: Maharaj

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Attempts to link Edusolutions, the company contracted to deliver textbooks in Limpopo, to President Jacob Zuma’s RDP Education Trust, were baseless and unfortunate, the presidency said today.
 
“Many companies donate to charitable organisations in South Africa, including the president’s education trust,” spokesperson Mac Maharaj said in a statement. “Donors do not have any preferential treatment with regards to government tenders or any other state business.”
 
Neither were they exempt from being investigated if the need arose. “They are treated like any other company by government departments.”
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Doctors: We must choose who lives

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Government doctors are “playing God” daily, having to decide which critically ill children will get a chance to live.

Restricted by a severe bed shortage in intensive care units for children, paediatricians at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, in Johannesburg, send at least one severely ill child who needs specialised care to a general ward every day.

“Children die because there are not enough ICU beds,” said Professor Vic Davies, head of the paediatric intensive care and neonatal unit at Charlotte Maxeke.

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

Eskom’s R36m party spree to be probed

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Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba would never support “wasteful and insensitive” behaviour and would meet officials from his department to have a R36 million Eskom party bonanza explained to him, his spokesman said on Sunday.

City Press reported that Eskom had spent R36m on parties for its staff and their families last year. Board and management team bonuses amounted to R54m last year.

The DA said it would write to the chairman of the portfolio committee on public enterprises, Peter Maluleka, to ask that Eskom chief executive Brian Dames be called before the committee to explain the spending.

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Cheers as woman is executed for adultery

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This frame grab received on July 8, 2012, taken from an undated video which was handed over by a Qol villager to the Parwan provincial government shows a man (centre L) pointing an AK47 rifle at a 22 year old woman named as Najiba (C), who is sitting at the edge of a ditch shortly before being executed by gunfire in Qol village, Parwan province, north of Kabul.

Kabul – A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video obtained by Reuters showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law even near the Afghan capital.

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In the three-minute video, a turban-clad man approaches a woman kneeling in the dirt and shoots her five times at close range with an automatic rifle, to cheers of jubilation from the 150 or so men watching in a village in Parwan province.

 

Cheers as woman is executed for adultery

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iol pic wld taliban execution22

This frame grab received on July 8, 2012, taken from an undated video which was handed over by a Qol villager to the Parwan provincial government shows a man (centre L) pointing an AK47 rifle at a 22 year old woman named as Najiba (C), who is sitting at the edge of a ditch shortly before being executed by gunfire in Qol village, Parwan province, north of Kabul.

Kabul – A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video obtained by Reuters showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law even near the Afghan capital.

http://www.iol.co.za

In the three-minute video, a turban-clad man approaches a woman kneeling in the dirt and shoots her five times at close range with an automatic rifle, to cheers of jubilation from the 150 or so men watching in a village in Parwan province.