Daily Archives: September 25, 2012

Pirates collect three points

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Ajax Cape Town, who have not beaten Orlando Pirates away since 2008, lost again on Tuesday evening.

Classy goals by Sifiso Myeni and Takesure Chinyama made coach Roger de Sa smile as Pirates took all the points off Ajax at Orlando Stadium.

De Sa started with Thulasizwe Mbuyane up front, supported by Myeni, Daine Klate and Tlou Segolela – three wingers in essence – which baffled commentators as to how they were going to line up.

But while Segolela was off form, Myeni – playing more through the middle – and Klate both fired and helped Bucs to the victory.

Myeni’s goal came in the 55th minute and was a great piece of individual skill followed by an excellent strike.

Chinyama’s goal came on the back of him being booed by sections of the crowd, even though he had only come on as a second-half substitute.

 

The big Zimbabwean quickly shut the fans up though, when he turned sharply and powered in a left footed drive in the dying seconds of the game.

 

The opening half lacked quality with both sides giving the ball away too easily.

 

But while the home side dominated, Ajax restricted Pirates to shooting from distance and each time Sander Westerveld came out on top.

 

Bucs should have gone ahead after 22 minutes when Segolela got into space behind the left-back, but while he did very well to go around Westerveld, he was off balance when he shot and Nazeer Allie got back to clear off the line.

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Strikers haul stones at passing trucks in CBD

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Striking truck drivers in the Johannesburg CBD threw stones at passing trucks on Tuesday, metro police said.

 

“The trucks were passing Beyers Naude square, where truck drivers are protesting,” Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said.

 

“Companies are requested to tell their people not to send any trucks into the Joburg CBD in order to avoid further violence and damage to trucks.”

 

Earlier, the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) said over 20,000 employees in the road freight sector were on strike over their pay increase on Tuesday.

 

Employees in the road freight sector — which includes truck drivers –were demanding a 12 percent increase. Their employers had offered 8.5 percent.

 

Satawu said the strike came about when wage negotiations deadlocked after protracted discussions since early June at the National Bargaining Council for the Road Freight and Logistics Industry (NBCRFLI).

 

Satawu spokesman Vincent Masoga said no marches were planned for Tuesday, but that workers would gather at Beyers Naude Gardens, opposite the Johannesburg Library, for news.

 

Notice was given for a strike from Monday, but the effects were not immediately visible because it was a public holiday.

 

Minnaar said traffic was being diverted from Simmonds street and Pritchard street as well as at the intersection of Harrison and Pritchard streets and President and Sauer streets.

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Inaugural “Youth in motion” camp launched

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BY Obakeng Maje

Sport and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) and the North West Department of Sport, Arts and Culture are this week launching the inaugural Youth In Motion camp that will take place in Rustenburg from September 29 to October 6.

The project is held in association with the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA).

 

The North West camp will be attended by more than 300 youth from all four provincial Districts. 

 

The idea follows international programme experience where youth camps were held with great success – which prompted the Minister of Sport and Recreation, Mr Fikile Mbalula, to launch and implement an indigenous youth movement that will nurture a spirit of nation-building.

It is further aimed at providing young South Africans with life skills and values that will help them develop into proud and patriotic citizens. 

 

 “This is a major step for us, as we work closely with the national Department of Sport and Recreation for the benefit of our youth,” said MEC Tebogo Modise. “The age group we are looking at is between 14 and 25, which is critical for the future of our Province and the country.”

 

Ms Modise added that they had secured the expertise of individuals from in and outside of the Province to make sure that the youth benefit to the utmost, including mentors. “We want the camp to be an exciting and life-changing experience for the youth.

They will get the opportunity to participate in outdoor activities , learn about teamwork and leadership in a practical and fun way.”

 

Part of the camp is an Outreach Programme where Campers will do Youth Service in terms of the National Youth Services Programme led by the MEC .

 

“We have partnered with NGO, Age in Action and identified the Old Aged homes around Rustenburg Area. October is regarded as Older Persons Month and the 1st to 7th October 2012 is Grand Parents’s Week.

 

“Based on that, our participants will be divided into eleven groups doing National Youth Services by Cleaning, Painting and performing services identified by our partners, Age in Action.

The MEC will plant trees as legacy and giving equipment for the Older Persons to play Golden Games Codes.” 

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Road freight strike starts

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Johannesburg – Over 20 000 employees of the road freight sector were on strike over their pay increase on Tuesday, the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) said. 

 

“At major depots, workers have downed tools and there is picketing at factories and warehouses,” said Satawu spokesperson Vincent Masoga. 

 

Employees in the road freight sector – which includes truck drivers – were demanding a 12% increase. Their employers had offered 8.5%. 

 

The strike came when wage negotiations deadlocked after protracted discussions since early June at the National Bargaining Council for the Road Freight and Logistics Industry (NBCRFLI), Satawu said. 

 

Satawu, a Congress of SA Trade Unions affiliate, is the biggest union in the four-union strike, with an estimated 28 000 members in the road freight sector, said Masoga. 

 

They ranged from drivers delivering fuel, to workers associated with a truck network which travelled around the country or crossed borders to neighbouring countries for other deliveries. 

 

The other unions are the Transport and Allied Workers’ Union, the Professional Transport and Allied Workers’ Union SA and the Motor Transport Workers’ Union. 

 

The Road Freight Association, which represents employers, told its members on its website: “Although unions are consulting members on the proposal, the strike notice stands, so employees can strike…” 

 

Masoga said the parties in the bargaining council were expected to meet at the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration at 3pm on Tuesday for further negotiations. 

 

Satawu said the unions were aiming for an inflation-related wage settlement of 12% across the board for implementation in 2013 and 2014. 

 

They also wanted an equal increase for workers classified under the council’s extended bargaining unit.

 

Masoga said no marches were planned for Tuesday, but that workers would gather at Beyers Naude Gardens, opposite the Johannesburg Library, for news.

 

Notice was given for a strike from Monday, but the effects were not immediately visible because it was a public holiday.-Sapa

Was Sanders turned away by Hospital?

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JOHANNESBURG – There are calls for an inquiry into why former world boxing champion Corrie Sanders was refused admission to Steve Biko Academic Hospital just hours before he died.

Sanders’s family claims he was turned away after being shot during a robbery at a Brits restaurant because the shooting happened outside the Tshwane council’s borders.

He died at Kalafong Hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Sanders was attending his nephew’s 21st celebrations. The assailants made off with valuables from the patrons.

North West police are still searching for his three killers.

Gauteng Democratic Alliance spokesperson on health Jack Bloom says the former boxer’s chances of survival would have been greater if he was admitted to Steve Biko Academic.

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Dewani case continues today

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The state and the defence are this morning expected to wrap up closing arguments in the Anni Dewani murder trial within a trial in the Western Cape High Court.

 

The state closed its case in the admissibility test of murder accused Xolile Mngeni’s confession statement last week.

 

The defence has chosen not to call any witnesses. Mngeni has pleaded not guilty to five charges against him, including murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances. His defence wants his confession kept out of evidence because it says Mngeni was tortured and assaulted into making the confession and pointing out the crime scenes.

 

Anni Dewani was murdered in an apparent hijacking in November 2010, while on honeymoon in Cape Town. Her husband, Shrien, who is fighting extradition to South Africa is the alleged mastermind behind her murder. 

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Miners continue with strike despite threats

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Johannesburg – Workers at several Anglo American Platinum mines have decided to continue their strike, despite management threats to dismiss all those who didn’t show up to work by Monday evening.

 

“There is no one going back to work, guaranteed 105%, there is no one going to work the night shift today,” worker representative Siphamandla Makhanya told local radio after a short meeting with miners on Monday.

 

Amplats, the world’s top platinum producer, resumed operations last week at the five mines in the Rustenburg platinum belt that it had earlier shut down over safety concerns.

 

The company first threatened the miners with dismissal if they missed work on September 19, before pushing back the date a few more times, with the latest set for Monday evening.

 

Amplats considers the strike illegal.

 

“We have given people until the night shift, and the night shift has not started yet. We can check tomorrow,” Amplats spokesperson Mpumi Sithole said earlier in the day.

 

The strikers, who hope to meet with management on Tuesday, are pushing for at least the 11-22% raises that Lonmin miners at the nearby Marikana mine received after a deadly strike that left 46 dead.

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