Kaizer Chiefs striker Lehlohonolo Majoro scored the goal that clinched the league title for the Amakhosi in Wednesday night’s 1-1 at the Peter Mokaba Stadium with SuperSport United.

Majoro took his personal goal scoring tally in the league to nine for the season, and after playing a big part in the side’s championship success, he told the Siya crew that Amakhosi wanted it more and deserve the trophy.

“We wanted it more. We deserved to even win the game though it ended up in a draw. You saw how we played and everyone in the team wanted to win. 

“We could have scored more goals but that one goal gave us the trophy and we deserved it. I didn’t just score, not for myself, but for the team and I am glad I did score that goal,” the Bafana Bafana striker explained. 

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Johannesburg – Former Hawks spokesperson McIntosh Polela learnt he had been fired via media reports on Thursday, EyeWitnessNews reported.

“Neither my lawyer nor myself have received a letter saying I have been dismissed from the SAPS,” Polela was quoted as saying.

His dismissal is believed to be a consequence of a Twitter comment he posted last year relating to the conviction of Molemo “Jub Jub” Maarohanye and his co-accused Themba Tshabalala for murder and attempted murder.

Sapa could not immediately reach Polela for his comment.

On Twitter on Thursday, under the hashtag #FriendsofTosh, one user asked Polela: Dude is this the end or the beginning? Have you got something up your ankle holster?

Polela responded: I’m a tenderpreneur, but did not elaborate.

Response

Earlier, The Star newspaper reported that Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa revealed Polela’s dismissal in a written response to a question from the DA in Parliament this week.

“The officer was dismissed on 27 March 2013, and the internal appeals authority confirmed the same,” Mthethwa reportedly said.

“The officer was paid R323 238.41 during the period he was on suspension,” Mthethwa said, according to the report.

Polela declined to comment to The Star.

He was suspended last year after he tweeted in October: I trust Jub Jub’s supporters gave him a jar of Vaseline to take to prison.

He was commenting after the conviction of Maarohanye and Tshabalala for killing four schoolchildren and injuring two others while drag-racing on a street in Soweto in March 2010.

They were each sentenced to serve an effective 25 years in prison.

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Rustenburg – Brigadier Adriaan Calitz gave the order for police to shoot at striking Marikana miners in August last year, the Farlam Commission heard on Thursday.

A video clip taken from a helicopter that Calitz was in during the police’s dispersal operation at Marikana was played to the commission.

“Shoot at the target, shoot at the target,” Calitz was heard saying on the clip.

In the clip, he is also heard saying: “Get out there and engage.”

Calitz was one of the commanders assigned to the Marikana operation.

Major General Charl Annandale, who was under cross-examination at the commission, confirmed Calitz’s voice was audible in the clip.

“That was Papa One, Brigadier Calitz,” said Annandale.

Annandale headed the police’s tactical response team during the wage-related unrest at Lonmin’s platinum mine last year.

He said he was at the joint operations centre listening to the police radio when the instruction was given.

The commission adjourned early on Thursday as several people were due to attend the memorial service of Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) member, Mawethu Steven, also known as Steve Khululekile. 

He was gunned down at a tavern in Marikana at the weekend.

Steven was one of several commission witnesses killed in the last few months. His memorial service will take place at the Karee mine.

Scores of mineworkers were expected to attend the service, at which Amcu president Joseph Mathunjwa was expected to speak.

Crucial information

Earlier, the commission heard how police officers deployed to Marikana during last year’s wage-related unrest could have had more information about what happened.

“I cannot exclude the possibility that some of the 600 officers who were there could have other [pictures and videos on their cellphones] that they did not hand in,” Annandale said.

He said the officers were asked to hand in any information they had, but that officers were not required to use their cellphones.

“There’s no protocol for officers to use their own private cellphones and cameras, as professional people are appointed for such,” said Annandale.

Five police videographers had been deployed to take footage at the unrest. Some cellphone footage had been handed in as evidence at the commission.

Nokukhanya Jele, for the SA Human Rights Commission, said she had waited several months to get the pocket books of police officers at Marikana.

On Thursday, the SAPS handed over around 500 of the books to Jele and her team.

The commission heard the pocket books could contain crucial information.

A typical entry in an officer’s pocket book would have information on the post they held on a particular day, and the type of vehicle and firearm in their possession, Annandale said.

“In terms of Marikana, they would say when they went on duty and whether they used their firearms or not,” said Annandale.

The commission, chaired by retired judge Ian Farlam, is investigating the deaths of 44 people killed in Lonmin’s wage-related unrest last year.

Police shot dead 34 striking mineworkers in Marikana on 16 August. Ten people, including two police officers, were killed in the preceding week.

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Johannesburg – A Parliamentary debate on the unauthorised landing at the Waterkloof Air Force Base has been moved forward, the African National Congress said on Thursday.

It would take place on 22 May instead of during the week of 4 to 7 June, the office of the ANC Chief Whip said in a statement.

“Our proposal for the debate to take place on 22 May was accepted by all parties at today’s [Thursday] National Assembly programming committee meeting.”

The ANC said it made the proposal in view of the fact that the government’s probe into the matter had been concluded.

Earlier in the day, acting Minister in the Presidency Edna Molewa said there would be no attempt to keep secret a report from the investigation by a group of directors general.

Molewa and Cabinet colleagues endorsed preliminary findings of the probe into how the Gupta family managed to land the plane at the national key point without executive authority.

She said it was now up to the justice, crime prevention, and security (JCPS) cluster of ministries to release the findings to the public.

JCPS chairperson Justice Minister Jeff Radebe was in the country, but his colleagues in the cluster were in Russia on a working visit with President Jacob Zuma.

Radebe and the other ministers would decide in which form the outcomes of the probe would be made public.

Molewa said: “What we are really saying to you as South Africans, is that this matter… was never intended to be kept under wraps… You will be informed about it.”

The aircraft was carrying 270 guests to the wedding of Vega Gupta, 23, and Indian-born Aakash Jahajgarhia at Sun City.

Government faced a storm of criticism over the incident, given the perception that the Gupta brothers are close to President Jacob Zuma.

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