By Obakeng Maje

Potchefstroom-North West University provisional suspended the student representative councilor Orapeleng Daniel Matshediso.

The suspension came about after Matshediso was being accused of misconduct.

According to the letter that was sent to Matshediso also in our possession, he has been suspended as a president and as a member of the institutional student representative councilor.

The letter states: Please note that in terms of paragraph 5 of the students disciplinary rules of the North West University you are hereby provisionally suspended as president and member of institutional student representative council of the North West University until such time as the disciplinary hearing regarding the charges of misconduct is finalised.

According to university, Matshediso is prohibited to participate or attending any meetings or assemblies as a president or a member of the institutional student representative.

The disciplinary hearing will be heard on the 07th of May whereby Orapeleng Matshediso is accountable of 13 charges.

Our attempt to get Matshediso side of the story was futile as said he was busy addressing media.

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Johannesburg – The SA Football Association (Safa) is seeking to match Bafana Bafana against world champions Spain in commemoration of former president Nelson Mandela’s birthday.

Safa president Kirsten Nematandani on Thursday revealed an invitation to this effect had been sent to the Spanish Football Federation.

“We have yet to receive a reply,” said Nematandani.

“So there is nothing definite to the proposal at this stage. But we are holding thumbs.”

Nematandani said it would be difficult to secure the fixture for Bafana against the number-one ranked team in the world.

“We also have to take into account that they will be playing in the Confederation Cup rehearsal for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil during June and this could be another complication,” said Nematandani.

“We shall just have to wait and see.”

Nematandani said a July 18 date (Mandela’s birthday) would not be possible, and sometime in August would be targetted. – Sapa

AmaZulu coach Craig Rosslee insisted the relegation battle was still far from over despite coming away with all three points from their latest Absa Premiership outing on Wednesday.

An 81st minute goal by Ayanda Dlamini steered Usuthu to a narrow 1-0 win over Bloemfontein Celtic at the Moses Mabhida Stadium with victory moving the Durban side onto 28 points, four clear of the drop zone.

“We are still involved in a dog-fight with the relegation battle,” Rosslee said afterward. “The fact of the matter is we’ve targeted getting three points in our home games…we achieved that objective tonight and don’t want to look too far ahead.

“The objective is to make sure the club survives in the PSL, it keeps its status. We know there’s 15 more points to play for, there’s obviously that magical target, but we just got to make sure it’s one game at a time and we apply ourselves accordingly for each one.”

AmaZulu appeared to have been fortunate to have come away with the win after the visitors had dominated the entire first half and the early parts of the second period too.

It was only because of some poor finishing and several strong Tapuwa Kapini saves that Rosslee’s men had stayed in the contest, although Siwelele were thankful to their goalkeeper Patrick Tignyemb for keeping them in the contest during the final 30 minutes.

“They may have had chances, but we had more effective chances,” the home coach explained. “So it’s not a fact that we were lucky, I think considering what we had and the players we had out there, we came away with a good three points.”

The winner came in the 81st minute when Dlamini rounded a defender and goalkeeper Tignyemb, who had parried a difficult save from a Thokozani Mshengu shot into the path of the striker.

Substitutes Mshengu and Kagiso Senamela had also made a huge difference after coming on.

Rosslee added: “We came into the game a bit thin because of injuries. I thought it was evenly balanced and very tactically contested.

“I think KG (Senamela) and Mshengu made a difference for us and they got us going a bit. It was an invaluable thee points.”

For Celtic boss Clinton Larsen it was a fifth consecutive match without victory and one that left them in 10th spot on the log.

“Once again the team played well without getting the result,” the coach said. “I’ve been saying that for the past few weeks now, but we’ll keep the faith. I think the team is still improving with every game.”

Larsen also felt they deserved more from the game, but refused to give up on a top-five finish.

“We dominated the first half and should have put the game to bed,” he added. “Unfortunately it wasn’t to be, but with 15 points still to play, I believe we can still finish in that top six looking at tonight’s results.”

For more http://www.psl.co.za

SECURITY fears after recent incidents of fan misbehaviour at games has prompted organisers to reduce Dobsonville Stadium’s capacity for Saturday night’s clash between Moroka Swallows and Kaizer Chiefs.

Despite huge interest in the PSL fixture, Swallows will sell only 15000 tickets for the 18000-seat venue.

Swallows’ brand and communications manager Siyabonga Sangweni said: “We expect a huge crowd because Chiefs are in the running for the league and have a big following.

For more http://www.sowetanlive.co.za

The North West Provincial government has approved the establishment of a provincial traffic college to meet the demand for the recruitment of new traffic officers and continuous training of provincial and municipal traffic officers.According to Premier Thandi Modise, the envisaged provincial traffic college to cater for the training of 400 traffic officers traffic officers over the next three years is to be kick-started at an estimated cost of close to R10 million.

Premier Modise said that for the current financial year the provincial road traffic management authorities in partnership with State and Security, Sector and Training Authority is targeting the recruitment of 120 trainees.

“The use of colleges outside the province has proved to be expensive for the province and resulted in fewer officers being trained and undergoing refresher courses as the thirteen established colleges tended to give first preference in their intakes to local recruits,” stressed Modise.The new college to be housed at the old Batswana High School Hostels in Mahikeng 

 is expected to offer courses for traffic officers diploma, examiners of vehicles, examiners of driving licences, inspector of Driving License Testing Centre, Dangerous goods, Weigh Bridge Management and speed detection.

Other refresher courses to be offered at the college for the benefit of 505 provincial traffic officers and 200 from municipalities for a maximum of 10 days will include amendments of Legislation, street survival, firearm training, advanced driving, case floor management, speed management.

Platinum Stars’ influential defender Benson ‘Mayanga’ Mhlongo says it is time for them to enjoy the benefits of playing under no pressure after attaining the Top 8 mandate that management had laid down for them at the beginning of the season.

Stars have suddenly emerged as the biggest threat to disturbing Kaizer Chiefs’ smooth run to the League title as champions Orlando Pirates continue to lose grip on their title defence.

For more http://www.kickoff.com

A well-placed Mamelodi Sundowns official has confirmed to the Siya crew that Sibusiso Kumalo has officially signed a pre-contract with the club.

News broke earlier this week that the 22-year-old was on the verge of joining the Brazilians after failing to agree new terms with his current club, Moroka Swallows. However his representative, Tim Sukazi, revealed that the proposed deal with Downs had not been concluded at the time.

For more http://www.soccerladuma.com

Johannesburg – More jobs need to be created to ensure that the total number of South Africans employed is significantly increased, deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe said on Thursday.

“The benefits will reach many more people through sustainable, decent work opportunities and in this we will avoid youth employment schemes that simply displace older workers.”

Motlanthe was speaking at the launch of the accord on youth employment at the Hector Peterson Square in Soweto.

“I want to stress the urgency with which we need to carry out this task. We have agreed that a comprehensive strategy is necessary to achieve this.

“Such a strategy will require that the structural challenges in the economy are addressed, including poor skills, weak infrastructure, monopolies and cartels and lack of partnerships at workplace level.”

The youth employment accord has six commitments.

The first is on education and training. It commits in particular to improve education and training opportunities for the gap grouping between school-leaving and first employment.

The second commitment is on work exposure, to connect young people with employment opportunities, through support for job placement schemes and work-readiness promotion programmes for young school leavers that provide young people with work experience. The third commitment is to strengthen measures that increase the number of young people employed in the public sector, through co-ordinating and scaling up existing programmes under a youth brigade programme co-ordinated with industries, particularly new industries where young people can be drawn in large numbers and should be progressively realised.

This include clear targets for new jobs in areas such as infrastructure, the business process services sector and the green economy, particularly the manufacture, installation and maintenance of solar water heaters. The fifth commitment is to youth entrepreneurship and youth co-operatives. Public agencies such as Small Enterprise Finance Agency, Small Enterprise Development Agency and the Jobs Fund will be encouraged to develop and strengthen dedicated programmes of support for youth enterprises and youth co-operations. The sixth commitment is to develop private sector measures to expand the intake of young people, with targeted youth support and incentives approved by all constituencies. It is important to improve private-sector youth absorption given that most sustainable new jobs are expected to be created in the private sector. Motlanthe said business organisations have endorsed the youth employment strategy as a practical and concrete way in which partnerships could be developed.

“We wish to complete all the preparatory work so that programmes can be announced between today and June this year, which is National Youth Month.”

He said the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has agreed to set aside R1 billion to make low-interest rate loans available to youth-owned or youth-focussed enterprises over the next three years.

The IDC would also provide technical support to young people to assist in accessing these funds and will refer them to other support available in the state. – Sapa