Kaizer Chiefs coach Stuart Baxter says that his players simply stopped playing for a crucial period in the second-half as they were dumped out of the MTN8 by Orlando Pirates on Tuesday.

Amakhosi came into the game trailing 1-0 from the first-leg but got back into the match after netting the opener through Bernard Parker.

Pirates hit back with a penalty though, something that Baxter questioned, as the Sea Robbers progressed to the showpiece match with a 2-1 aggregate win.
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Orlando Pirates coach Roger de Sa heaped praise on his troops after their 1-1 draw against Kaizer Chiefs as they booked their place in the MTN8 final.

De Sa believes that his players showed real character to work as hard as they did after a draining 0-0 draw with Al Ahly in the CAF Champions League on Sunday.

The Sea Robbers won the first-leg 1-0 away to Chiefs, meaning that their 1-1 draw at the Orlando Stadium was enough for them to go through with a 2-1 aggregate win.
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Platinum Stars coach Allan Freese thanked his players for their commitment after they beat Wits 2-1 tonight at the Bidvest Stadium, to qualify for the MTN8 final.

He also thanked the technical staff and the club for their preparation, and was happy with win, despite lamenting the fact that his team weren’t able to play the way that they wanted.

Dikwena won the first leg of the semi-final 4-2 at home, and their 2-1 won tonight, means they won 6-3 over both legs.
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Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti says it will be an injustice to exclude the descendants of Khoisan communities from benefiting from restitution programmes. Nkwinti was addressing over 2000 people at the handover of farmland to the community of Mamre in the Western Cape.

Minister Nkwinti told the community of Mamre that the handing over of communal land and the transformation of the Cape Town Castle into a healing centre for the Khoisan descendants is just the beginning of full recognition of the Khoi and San descendants.

“Unless the people who suffered, who constituted the first line of defence against colonialism the Khoi and the San, unless their spirits are restful where they are, if they are not restful our country will never be at peace.”

Nkwinti handed over the first communal farm land to the coloured community of Mamre under the Transformation of Certain Rural Areas Act.
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AfriForum Youth handed a memorandum on racial profiling in South Africa to Parliament on Tuesday.

“It is difficult celebrating Heritage Day while government is enforcing policies that are specifically undermining mutual respect between communities,” chairperson Charl Oberholzer said in a statement.

“We wanted to portray that race should not determine opportunities in South Africa,” he said. Oberholzer said students’ futures were still being determined on the basis of skin colour.

The memorandum contained a request that students be allowed to choose whether to enter their race on admission and bursary forms. Oberholzer said AfriForum Youth had collected thousands of signatures from students opposed to racial profiling.

He said both black and white students were tired of being judged on race and not merit. The memorandum was received by secretariat of Parliament representative Douglas Scholtz.
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Cape Town – Former gang boss Rashied Staggie tasted two hours of freedom before he was back in Pollsmoor Prison on Monday.

He was released on day parole, which allows him to be outside of prison to work and to visit his family every Sunday. But after a quick visit to his home in Salt River and a stop at the Blue Route Mall in Tokai for an orientation session, he was back in his cell.
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Durban – The three robbers who hijacked and kidnapped Durban North estate agent Dorothy Carlyle and took her on a nine-hour terror ride will be old men before they see the outside of their jail cells.

Durban regional magistrate Anand Maharaj on Monday handed the men – Sthembiso Ntombela, Lindokuhle Dlamini and Smiso Ximba – a combined sentence of 135 years in prison because, he said, they had shown no remorse and their punishment had to reflect the gravity of their offences.
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Johannesburg – A man arrested for possible involvement in a series of gay murders is already serving a seven-year prison sentence for hijacking.

Nhlanhla Msimango was arrested and sentenced last month for a hijacking in Dobsonville, Soweto.
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Durban – Just over 100 cases of corruption involving officials from the SA Revenue Service (Sars) have been reported in the past year, including 20 in the past five months.

Speaking to the Daily News, spokesman Adrian Lackay said some of the cases involved officials working in teams and others who resigned before disciplinary action against them could be finalised.
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Cape Town – The former chairman of the University of the Western Cape council, Brian Williams, has gone to court to challenge his removal.

Williams lodged an application at the Western Cape High Court last week, claiming that the decision the council took at a special meeting on September 12 to permanently remove him as chairman was unlawful.
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