BY Obakeng Maje

RUSTENBURG-On Monday forty (40) mineworkers barricade the road leading to the Extrata Kroondal Mine near Matebeleng informal settlement North West police said.

“The miners threw stones at the police when they were asked not to disturb the smooth flow of traffic. Police used rubber bullets to disperse miners” Captain Makau said.

“Sixty (60) other mineworkers were sitting 100 metres away from the mine waiting for their leadership who were engaged in a meeting with the mine management to give them report on the outcome of their demands” She said.

No injuries were reported. 

BY Obakeng Maje

The North West Province has trained 1828 farmers in livestock, poultry and crop production over the past three years in an effort to improve employment opportunities in the farming sector and promote economic livehoods, North West Province Premier Thandi Modise announced on Monday.

Premier Modise said that the objective of the training intervention was to improve food production and reposition the province as the food basket of South Africa.

“Fresh produce markets that we have launched in Mahikeng and Taung are to be extended to Bojanala Platinum and Dr Kenneth Kaunda Districts in due course to improve access to affordable and diverse food. Primary Animal Health Care programmes that were extended to Morokweng village in Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati are to be rolled out to other districts across the province as well.” said Modise.

The provincial department of agriculture and rural development has commissioned a team of scientists to review livestock improvement strategy to support agrarian reform.

Twenty multi-purpose livestock handling facilities that are to be used as animal pounds across the province have been constructed.

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Limpopo – The driver of a bakkie which collided with a minibus taxi, killing four soccer players in Limpopo, has been arrested, police said on Monday.

Brigadier Hangwane Mulaudzi said the 36-year-old man was treated for minor injuries after the crash and was then arrested for drunken and reckless or negligent driving.

Four soccer players were killed when the bakkie hit the minibus on its side along the R71 near Polokwane on Sunday night.

The taxi landed on its side in the path of oncoming traffic, where a bus carrying Zion Christian Church members crashed into it.

The soccer players were members of the Polokwane City football club and had been travelling from Oscar Mphetha stadium, where they had played their National First Division match against FC AK.

Four players died at the scene while seven others were taken to hospital.

The man was expected to appear in the Mankweng Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. – Sapa

The wife of the priest who was killed at Harrismith on Thursday, 59-year-old Dorothea Britz is still in the Medi-clinic hospital in Bloemfontein following injuries she sustained during the attack.

Sixty-year old Willem Britz and the fiancé of his daughter were shot and killed at the priest’s home, a close family member and an alleged accomplice will appear in the local magistrate’s court today on two charges of murder.

The hospital’s spokesperson, Amanda Appelgryn, says Mrs Britz is in a critical condition. “Mrs Dorothea Britz was admitted on Friday evening, she’s currently in the Intensive Care unit in a critical condition after she suffered a severe head injury. She was taken to theatre on Friday evening by a neuro-surgeon for treatment of the wound and will probably be going back to theatre again during the week for treatment of the wound again; she’s on a ventilator and will perhaps go for brain scans during the next two days.”

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Cape Town – The mom who allegedly sold her own 13-year-old daughter as a sex slave for R50 a time has been arrested.

She will appear in Atlantis Magistrates’ Court in the Western Cape on Monday morning charged with sexual exploitation.

She also faces a separate rape-related charge.

The woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – was finally taken into custody on Friday.

Her arrest followed nationwide outrage after the Daily Voice last week revealed how her daughter was allegedly “rented” to men on a wasteground and outside shebeens near their Atlantis home.

Prosecutors will try to prove the woman sold her daughter for R50 to men in exchange for sex while she fed her own alcohol addiction.

“The case was opened and the mother was arrested this morning on a charge of sexual exploitation,” provincial police spokesperson Warrant Officer November Filander said on Friday.

“She will appear in court on Monday.

“The case is still under investigation.”

Detectives have yet to determine how many men the girl was allegedly forced to have sex with and for how long the nightmare continued.

The child is currently in the care of Atlantis ward councillor and shelter owner, Barbara Rass.

The alarm was raised nearly two weeks ago when the brave teenager told her friend about the abuse, and in turn alerted one of their teachers.

Barbara says she is relieved the wheels of justice have finally begun to turn for the little victim.

“I am very glad that justice has taken place,” she told the Daily Voice.

“These types of children always fall victim again, so my job now is to take care of her. The child has already said she doesn’t want to go back to her mother.”

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BY Obakeng Maje

Rustenburg- This morning at around 07:10 one of Anglo Platinum non-striking miners was allegedly beaten to death at Amandabult.

According to the eyewitness, the bus was carrying non-striking workers to work at Shaft 1 from Rethabile village.

“We were coming from Rethabile village to Shaft 1 when we came across striking miners. They hauled stones at the bus and barricaded roads” Our mole said.

“All of us ran for cover including the driver of the bus.The strikers caught one male from the bus and haul stones at him and beaten  him until he passed on” our informant said.

Our crew contacted North West police for any clarification on the story.

“Up to so far we haven’t received any news regarding the alleged story,but will work on it” Captain Makau said.

If what we received from our mole is anything to go by,the miners death toll increase rapidly.

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BY Obakeng Maje

Banyana Banyana found themselves on the end of a 4-0 drubbing by hosts Equatorial Guinea in the final of the 8th CAF African Women Championship, played in Malabo on Sunday, 11 November 2012.

The Sasol-sponsored South African national senior women’s team travelled to the Malabo New Stadium in high spirits having outplayed Africa’s No 1 side Nigeria 1-0 in Bata on the mainland on Wednesday, but came unstuck against a determined home side.

The hosts went into the break with a 1-0 lead after Gloria Chinasa took advantage of some poor defensive work to head home from a corner kick in the 43rd minute.

Playing in front of 20 000 passionate home fans, Equatorial Guinea doubled their lead in the 66th minute when second half substitute Tiga Costa scored with her first touch of the ball.

The home side were 3-0 up four minutes later, when midfielder and captain Genoveva Anonman made the South Africans pay for some sloppy defending. In the 72nd minute, Chinasa scored her second goal of the title-deciding match, after a fine run on the left before scoring from a tight angle past an outstretched Banyana Banyana goalkeeper Thoko Mndaweni.

Only Banyana Banyana captain and midfielder Amanda Dlamini looked the part on the biggest football stage in African women’s football, with a solid display in her efforts to launch attacks on the home team’s goal area.

While disappointed with the result, the outcome marks the end of a hectic 2012 campaign for the national side, which saw them in camp early in January in preparation for the London Olympics held in July.

The South African team will also be patiently waiting on the latest FIFA and African points rankings to be made public, having travelled to Malabo ranked 56th in the world (up from 61st in July) and 4th in Africa (behind Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and All-Africa Games champions Cameroon).

In the playoff for third and fourth places, Cameroon outplayed Nigeria 1-0.

Speaking after the match, Banyana Banyana head coach Joseph Mkhonza said: “Falling at the final hurdle is a major disappointment to all involved with Banyana Banyana, particularly after the fine effort put in to record our national team’s first ever win over Nigeria in the semi-finals last week.”

Mkhonza added: “Safa and Sasol need to be thanked for their continued support of women’s football in SA since we have proved that with the current crop of players, as well as a vast pool of talent identified via the Sasol League Road Shows, Banyana Banyana should be able to qualify for international tournaments such as the World Cup and the Olympics in the future.”

Note: Banyana Banyana will touch down at O.R Tambo International Airport (international arrivals) at 09h50 on Tuesday, 13 November 2012.

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BY Obakeng Maje

Early reports from the South African Police Service say that four Polokwane City football players have lost their lives in a car accident at Nobody, just outside Polokwane.

The incident took place late Sunday afternoon (11 November 2012).

According to information from the police, the team (Polokwane City), formerly known as Bay United, was coming from playing a First Division fixture against Atlie FC (formerly known as FCAK) at the University of Limpopo.

The two teams had played to a 1-1 draw.

More information will be provided as soon as it is available.

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BY Obakeng Maje

The Orlando Pirates duo of Oupa Manyisa and Siyabonga Sangweni have been withdrawn from the Bafana Bafana squad to face Zambia in the Nelson Mandela Challenge on Wednesday ( 14 November 2012) at Soccer City.

Kickoff is at 20h00.

Defender Sangweni missed his club’s League clash against Free State Stars on Saturday, 10 November after he was withdrawn from the starting line-up following complaints of a knee pain during the warm-up session, while midfielder Manyisa was substituted in the same match after sustaining a thigh injury in the second half.

Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund has called up Kaizer Chiefs defender Siboniso Gaxa, and Manyisa will not be replaced as the coach believes he has enough cover in the midfield.

Bafana Bafana will have a gym training session on Monday morning (12 November) starting at 10h30.

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