Yearly Archives: 2012

Oscar to run in individual 400m

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Johannesburg – Double amputee Oscar Pistorius will compete in the individual 400 metres and the 4×400 relay team for South Africa at the London Olympics, a member of the country’s Olympic federation said on Wednesday.

Tubby Reddy, chief executive of South Africa’s Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc), said Pistorius’s inclusion in the relay team meant he will also be able to take part in the 400m individual race.

“He was named in the Olympic team (in the 4×400 relay) and then the question arose as to whether he was allowed to run the 400 and he can because he is part of the team,” Reddy told Reuters in a telephone interview. – Reuters

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Physio cheat must repay R2m to state

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A physiotherapist who pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering has been ordered by the Pretoria Commercial Crime Court to repay R2.1 million to the Department of Labour’s Compensation Fund.

Jurry Sehunoe, 34, pleaded guilty last year to 15 counts of fraud and 26 counts of money laundering.

He was charged with Maxwell Ramaphosa and Samuel Mfeleng, both of whom are former employees of the department.

It was alleged that Ramaphosa and Mfeleng worked in collaboration with Sehunoe to claim money for patients who had not been seen by Sehunoe or who did not exist.

Last year, Sehunoe admitted to having received large sums of money that were channelled into his personal bank account and those of his businesses. These included a driving school and a construction company.

Sehunoe told the court he was prepared to compensate the Department of Labour for the money deposited fraudulently into his accounts.

After Sehunoe pleaded guilty, the trial of Ramaphosa and Mfeleng was separated and transferred to the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court.

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Money paid for hit, I heard boss saying

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A former City Bowl Armed Response paramedic overheard a conversation in which her ex-boss, Grant Smith, allegedly confirmed that money had been arranged to kill his then-partner, Alan Kusevitsky, the Cape Town Regional Court has heard.

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Deputy editor challenges ‘liar’ to sue

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Put up or shut up.

This was the challenge set by The Star’s deputy editor, Kevin Ritchie, in an interview on Talk Radio 702 today – a day after Gauteng Local Government and Housing MEC Humphrey Mmemezi went on air to deny allegations of fraud, nepotism and bad management.

Ritchie and journalist Baldwin Ndaba, who is behind the investigation of Mmemezi’s alleged corrupt activities, were invited to put forward their side of the story on air after Mmemezi’s interview yesterday, when the MEC threatened to sue The Star, claiming ongoing reports were a “smear campaign” against him.

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Pippie out of hospital

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Pippie’s “day daddy”, paediatric ICU nurse Simphiwe Mabaso, spooned chocolate custard into the toddler’s mouth. He lovingly wiped the excess from around the lips of the little burn victim, coaxing her when she wouldn’t open wide.

Mabaso, Pippie Kruger’s favourite day nurse, was among a host of Netcare Garden City Hospital staff members who needed to say goodbye to Pippie today as she left the hospital after seven months. She was taken to the Netcare rehabilitation centre in Auckland Park.

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Torture bill will affect all officials

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Independent Newspapers

The Prevention and Combating of Torture of Persons Bill could see all public officials – including teachers, nurses and prison warders – liable to be charged with torture.

Several civil society groups held a seminar about the bill on Tuesday.

The bill refers to torture as “any act or omission by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted by a public official or any person acting on behalf of a public official”.

Valdi van Reenen-Le Roux, Trauma Centre director, said the fact that the bill applied to all public officials was significant.

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Zuma not a man of the people

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President Jacob Zuma recently abandoned his motorcade and boarded a packed Metrorail train in Pretoria before he changed to the Gautrain to Joburg and then via Rea Vaya to Soweto.

As usual, Zuma was in a buoyant mood, flashing his trademark wide, toothy grin as he mingled easily with the admiring masses and some bemused commuters as he switched from one public transport mode to another.

He showed his common touch as he expressed his empathy for the plight of passengers relying on overloaded trains and Rea Vaya buses to and from their workplaces.

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Toddler burns hand in electricity box

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Independents Newspapers

Potchefstroom – A four-year-old toddler’s hand was burnt when he put it into a street electricity box in Potchefstroom, in the North West, on Tuesday, paramedics said.

ER24 spokeswoman Vanessa Jackson said the boy was with his parents at a business when he wandered off to play on the pavement.

“He somehow managed to get his little hand into a nearby electricity box,” said Jackson.

His thumb, the palm of his hand and his forearm were extensively burnt, she said.

Paramedics treated him on the scene before he was taken to the Potchefstroom provincial hospital. – Sapa

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Three held for drugs worth R1m

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Klerksdorp – North West police arrested three people and seized ecstacy tablets with a street value of more than R1 million on Tuesday.

“The police were working on a tip-off received on drugs trafficked from Amsterdam in the Netherlands to South Africa,” said Brigadier Thulani Ngubane in a statement.

“According to the information, suspects send the drugs (via) post. The post would then be collected and handed over to the drug dealers.”

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Family bid to stop parole

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Accomplices in the killing of fashion designer Richard Bloom and budding actor Brett Goldin will make another bid on Wednesday to be set free.

The pair’s families have been advised that convicts Jade Wyngaard and Nurshad Davids have served six years of their 12-year sentences, but stand to benefit from an amendment to the Correctional Services Act and President Jacob Zuma’s special prisoner remission.

Davids and Wyngaard were initially sentenced to 15 years each for robbery, kidnapping and possession of an unlicensed firearm, but three years were taken off because they agreed to testify for the State at the trial – which never happened because a plea bargain took place.

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