The Hawks have not made any arrests since the shooting of the well-known Kimberley diamond trader Trevor Pikwane and his wife, Johanna, on Saturday.

The couple survived the attack and they are recuperating at a local private hospital. The Hawks spokesperson Capt Paul Ramoloko said they were following positive leads.

“We also call on members of the public to assist us in this regard. If there is anyone who has information that could lead to the arrest of the suspect or suspects, we urge them to call Capt Dolf Laurens on 082 331 4700,” he said.

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New Ajax Cape Town coach Muhsin Ertugral is confident he can turn around the club’s fortunes and help them escape top-flight relegation.

Ertugral replaced former head coach Jan Versleijen this week, on the eve of their crucial Absa Premiership derby against fellow strugglers Chippa United at Philippi Stadium on Saturday.

Versleijen stepped down, citing his disagreement with the initial appointment of Ertugral as the club’s technical director.

Now in his third spell with the Urban Warriors, the Turk took charge with Ajax in second last position in the table, ahead of the weekend fixtures, three points clear of Chippa.

“I think we can achieve a lot in four games,” Ertugral said.

“I know most of the players, and I can see the spirit will be passed over to me and the players. I need to give them the energy, the confidence. I think we can make it.

“If I had any doubts in my mind I would not have come.”

Recently appointed Chippa coach Mark Harrison, the club’s sixth manager of the season, preferred to play down the significance of the derby factor, but he was also confident they could avoid the chop.

“We have got to go do our job and that’s all we can do,” Harrison said.

“We can’t look at permutations. It’s in our hands now, and we can stay in this league.

“I don’t think in a local relegation derby there are any favourites. It’s going to be 22 players out there giving everything they have got to try and achieve three points.”

Even if they failed to pick up points this weekend, Harrison felt they were in with a chance of clawing their way out of the bottom two.

“This is just another game. You can’t go into it in a frenzy. You have to approach it as you would any other game.

“Lose, win or draw, we still have three games after this.”
      
-Sapa

Eastern Cape – A seven-year-old girl has died in a fire in Butterworth, Eastern  Cape police said on Friday.

Captain Jackson Manatha said the girl’s body was burnt beyond recognition on Thursday evening in a commune near Butterworth Hospital.

When the fire brigade arrived on the scene, it was found the girl had been trapped in the burning house.

“The mother of the deceased girl managed to take her little baby  to safety, and thought that the seven-year-old girl had escaped on her own,” Manatha said.

The mother and the baby were not harmed.

Police were investigating. – Sapa

Pic: (Lerato Semino)

By Obakeng Maje

Taung– North West police are looking for a girl who went missing on the 12th of April 2013 at Pudumoe village, near Taung.

Lerato Semino,20 went missing and police urge anyone who has any information regarding Semino’s whereabouts can contact an investigating officer. 

“The missing person is a black female, aged  20 years.  She went missing on the 12^th April 2013 from her house in Pudimoe” police said. 

The I/O in this case is WO M.R. Sediti of Pudimoe Detective Service. 

He can be contacted on the following number:  053-995 9142.

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Premier’s Integrated service delivery Turn Around Strategy delivers for Chris Hani

A R1, 27 million school infrastructure renovation project is to commence at Chris Hani Secondary in Jouberton in the next few week, Office of the Premier of the North West announced at a meeting of stakeholders this week.

The renovations are part of an Integrated Service Delivery Turn Around Strategy that was initiated by Premier Thandi Modise aimed improving academic performance, good governance and extramural activities at the school. The intervention followed after the Premier’s visit to the school during the monitoring of opening of schools in January this year.

The intervention which was embraced by Matlosana Development Forum and several government departments that came on board has created a condusive environment for learning and teaching to improve academic performance,good governance and extramural activities at the school.

One hundred and seventy learners from needy households have already received school uniform and group counselling sessions through the Department of Social Development, Women, Children and People with Disabilities for learners who were struggling with drugs, alcohol abuse and other pycho-social factors.

Twenty-five parolees were deployed by the Department of Correctional Services for a clean-up campaign that improved cleaniless and are developing a food garden with the support of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. PANNAR will provide seedlings and technical skills to groups involved in the food garden.

The Department of Economic Development, Environment, Conservation and Tourism assisted in ensuring safety against dangerous reptiles during the scraping of the school yard.  The Department of Public Works,Roads and Transport provided graders and tractors for the Letsema Cleanup campaigns that were supported by the ward councillor, parents at the school and the broader community.

The Department of Education has maximized its support to the school by deploying experts to strengthen the Senior Management Team (SMT), provided text books and furniture and has fast track implementation of the National School Nutrition Programme at the school.

Peer education programmes and career guidance to learners is being conducted by Moemedi creations.

Telkom will assist with IT infrastructure and avail bursaries to identified learners while GCIS will provide strategic support on profiling and marketing service delivery initiatives of government. 

 Other partners who have contributed are Community Development Workers and some of the local CBOs around Jouberton.

North West University-Potchefstroom Campus has joined the partnership and committed to implementing the Ikateleng Project aimed at empowering learners with extra Physics, Maths and Accounting classes at the University every Saturday to improve results at the school.North West Premier has welcomed the recent announcement that has been made by the North West University, Potchefstroom Campus which has pledged to implement multiple programmes that will enhance learners performance and boost the morale of the SMT and Student Governing Body.

During her address delivered at the stakeholder meeting on Wednesday involving departments responsible for the Turnaround strategy, Beatrix Bouwman, Director for Community Engagement from North West University said that she is confident that 

 ownership of the intervention is very visible from the services that have been rendered by departments and other partners.

 She added that the University will be looking at implementing programmes such as Musikhane which is focusing on cultural aspect of the community and training learners to be active. Other possible programmes are X20 which aims to improve numeracy skills of learners.

  ENACTUS is an International body that support learners in accounting and they are in contact with the Team President to work out a stategy of rolling out at the school.

The University also offers the Siyafunda and Ikateleng that enables learners to have access to internet, reading labs and to excel in mathematics.

Representatives from university further announced that the partnership with Chris Hani Secondary School will bring integration between the school and communities and they will continuously research on the impact and psychological aspects of the learners.

 The Chairperson of the SGB Mamane Sxaka expressed her appreciation to the intervention that has been implemented by government at the school” We are now able to walk freely since the grass that has been surrounding the school for years has been removed. We are now going to have a food garden and our children were given uniforms and will be able to work with computers to achieve good results at the end of the year” she said.

The school principal, Mandla Bothile also committed to ensure that school management team works harder to ensure that the benefit of the interventions implemented by government and its partners is translated into improved and increased pass rate at the end of the year.

Renovations and roll out of interventions at Zinele Geqe Primary school in Jouberton which Premier Modise and MEC for Education, Louisa Mabe visited during the reopening are to be rolled out in the next few weeks.

Department of Environmental Affairs spokesperson, Albi Modise, says it may look like they are losing the war against rhino poaching but they will win the battle.

Speaking on SAFM AM Live with Xolani Gwala, Modise said they are working hard to fight rhino poaching and are discussing with other countries who are involved to stop poaching South African rhinos.

The number of rhinos poached in South Africa since the beginning of the year has increased to 249. The Department of Environmental Affairs says the Kruger National Park remains the hardest hit. Last week, the number of poached rhinos increased from a 167 to a 180.

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Robert Modiadie has revealed to Soccer-Laduma that he will be going back to the University of Pretoria during the preseason, for a chance to sign with the side in the 2013/14 season.

The former Orlando Pirates goalkeeper has struggled in his search for a club in the PSL in the last few months. He recently had a trial with Tuks before leaving the side for FC AK, where he is currently training as looks to maintain his fitness levels.

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Black Leopards captain, Mongezi Bobe, could be on his way out of the club at the end of the season. 

The loyal midfielder has been with Lidoda Duvha since their promotion from the NFD, their scrape with relegation last season and also during their impressive CAF Confederations Cup run last season. 

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Stockholm – Singer Justin Bieber on Thursday seemed to shrug off the latest controversy surrounding his European tour after Swedish police said they had found drugs on his tour bus, but could not link them to any single person.

Bieber, 19, has made headlines in the past two months for showing up late for his own London concert, walking shirtless through airport security in Poland, posting a cartoon of himself in bed with a young woman, and expressing the hope that Holocaust victim Anne Frank would have been a “belieber” like his millions of fans.

On Thursday, Swedish police said an officer smelled marijuana on an empty tour bus outside the hotel where Bieber was staying before his Stockholm concert on Wednesday.

They said they found a small amount of drugs, but had no suspects and did not plan further action.

“Some of the rumours about me… Where do people even get this stuff. Whatever… Back to the music,” Bieber tweeted on Thursday to his 38 million Twitter followers after announcing he had arrived in Finland.

Representatives of the Canadian singer, who started his career as a squeaky-clean 15-year-old, had no comment.

In Stockholm, police spokesperson Kjell Lindgren said the drugs were being sent for analysis. “We don’t know who had the drugs or who smoked them, so it will be hard to link them with any individual,” Lindgren said.

Bieber has been on the road with barely a break since September 2012 on his Believe world tour, where he has been greeted by screaming young girls and blaring headlines for some bizarre behaviour.

In March, he abandoned a pet monkey at Munich airport because he did not have the right papers, and flew back to Los Angeles for 36 hours and into an altercation with a neighbour.

Last week, he came under fire in the media on grounds of taste after he wrote in a guest book at the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam that the 15-year-old Holocaust victim and diarist was inspiring and “hopefully she would have been a belieber”.

The museum later defended Bieber, saying they were delighted he had visited and that his comments were innocent. – Reuters

Taung-FORMER North West MEC for health and social development Rebecca Onewang Kasienyane, who died at Mafikeng Hospital last Sunday after an illness, will be buried at Lokaleng village in Taung tomorrow.

Kasienyane, pictured, who had a rich history in participating in the struggle to liberate South Africa from apartheid, was born in Taung on March 7 1952.

At the time of her death, she was serving in the North West provincial legislature as the chairwoman of the portfolio committee on economic development and tourism.

“We are saddened by the loss of this humble human being, who was my predecessor and a dear fellow comrade in the ANC,” current provincial health and social development MEC Magome Masike said this week.

“She laid the ground for the good work that we continue to do to improve the health of our people. We share the loss that is deeply felt by the family and hope that they will find solace in knowing that God is with them.”

North West legislature spokesman Mongezi Tsenca said: “We mourn the untimely death of this dedicated servant of the people. May her soul rest in peace, knowing that many will pick up her spear and continue with the struggle until all our people have a better life.

“We dip our banners in memory of this gallant fighter for our people’s liberation.”

Kenny Morolong, spokesman for the ANC in North West, said: “We will remember her for her sound political leadership, maturity and her unflinching passion to improve the lives of our people.

“She was one of the most reliable cadres of our movement, who carried herself with integrity, dignity, humility, discipline and respect.

“Throughout her political activism Kasienyane displayed profound qualities of a revolutionary cadre, who placed the interests of our movement above her own.”

Kasienyane, affectionately known as Sis Ribs, was sworn in as a member of the provincial legislature on May 6 2009.

She joined the ANC’s underground activities in 1987, and later became the chairwoman of the ANC Lokaleng branch and deputy chairwoman of the ANC Women’s League in the Northern Cape region in 1993.

She was also the ANC’s provincial executive council member in Northern Cape from 1994 to 1996.

Kasienyane became the treasurer for the ANC’s then Bophirima region in North West from 1996 to 2001, before joining the ANC Women’s League’s provincial executive committee from 2001 to 2004.

She served as the ANC Women’s League national executive committee member from 2003 to 2007, later the ANC’s deputy chairwoman for the Bophirima region from 2005 to 2007.

Kasienyane was a provincial coordinator for the Women’s National Coalition from 1993 until 1994, when she became a monitor for the Independent Electoral Commission for the first democratic elections in South Africa.

She later became a councillor in the Bophirima district council from 1995 to 1999.

She was elected as a member of Parliament, serving in the portfolio committees for social development and agriculture from 1999 to 2004.

In 2008, Kasienyane was elected to the ANC North West’s provincial executive council as the party’s treasurer.

After the 2009 national elections, Kasienyane served as the provincial health and social development MEC until 2010.

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