By TDN

Mahikeng-The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture in the North West Province will be hosting a Provincial Boxing Indaba from 6th to 7th September 2013 that will be held at Mmabatho Palms. 

This came as a call from the National Minister of Sport and Recreation for all provinces to host Indabas that will culminate to the National Boxing Indaba that will be held from 27-28 September 2013.

“The objective of the Provincial Indaba amongst others is to deliberate on effective and efficient good practices that will prove the administration and regulation of Amateur and Professional Boxing in the province” MEC Tebogo Modise said. 

“It is also to ensure and safeguard the safety, health and general well-being of boxers as well as to improve the stature of provincial titles” she said. 

Modise said the need to host these indabas came as a result of concerns and challenges ranging from amongst others lack of support system for active and retired boxers, insufficient talent development in boxing to mention a few.

The delegation expected at Indaba are Boxing Clubs, Provincial Boxing Structures, District Boxing Committee, Female and male boxers, Trainers as well as representatives from Boxing South Africa (BSA) and South African Amateur Boxing Organization (SANABO).  

“North West Provincial Indaba under the theme “Galvanizing Boxing for Boxers” will have four Commissions to deliberate on aspects which will add value to the discussions and recommendation for the National Indaba” Modise concludes. 

The commissions are as follows:

Commission One

    Roles of SANABO and BSA

    Boxing Act/ Regulations

    Enforcement of rules and. regulations

Commission Two

    Role of promoters and standard set by BSA

    Communication with Stakeholders

    Matters arising from BSA road shows

    Marketing of boxing

Commission Three

    Promotion of female boxing

    Development of boxing in Schools

    Development of boxing in the Province

    The role of Academies in the development of boxing

Commission Four

    Anti-doping and scientific support

    Training of coaches and officials

    Education and welfare of boxers 

This two day event will commence with a Gala Dinner on the 6th September, aiming at honoring our Boxing Legend Mr. Norman Pangaman Sekgapane for the role he played in putting the Province in the Map of boxing and will end with the Indaba on the 7th September 2013.

The Gala Dinner and Briefing scheduled as follows:

Gala Dinner

Venue: Mmabatho Palms

Date: 06th September 2013

Time: 18h00-TDN

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In preparation of the National Golden Games competition which will be held in October at Pretoria Show Ground, The North West Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities together with Department of Health will be hosting the Provincial Golden Games Event on the 5th September 2013 at Klerksdorp Openhiemer Stadium. 

Golden Games are government’s initiative to improve the quality of life for older persons and to encourage active aging. Golden Games promotes health, wellness and competitive sport for adults 60 years and above, which is able to reduce the risk of developing certain conditions such as heart disease, hypertension etc.

The Golden Games were first launched in Eastern Cape in 2009 and have since attracted Senior Citizens from across the province who are taking part this competition. The games range from Athletics, Duck walk, Relay, Dress Up, Passing the ball, Ball throw, juskie Soccer for both male and female. 

As expected and required the Games started at Service Point level within all four Districts hosting Community Golden games sport days where older persons took part for selections ending which culminated to the Provincial leg.

“Recreation is always an exciting and interesting way to keep fit and active especially during the aging period” said MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture Mme Tebogo Modise.  “With exercise, you only get the physical health benefits. “ I would like to also encourage youth around the province to take part in sport and recreation activities and to also avoid criminal activities” further said Mme Modise.

The Provincial Games will be held as follows:

Date: 05 September 2013

Time: 09h00

Venue: Openheimer Stadium Klerksdorp

Pic:(Arrested suspects with police)

By Obakeng Maje

Kimberley-Provincial Crime Intelligence, Galeshewe Crime Intelligence and Kimberley SAPS Visible Policing worked tirelessly for the past 48 hours to ensure that the burglars responsible for the break-in at the Home Affairs Department in Kimberley are brought to book. 

The burglary took place at the Department Home Affairs in Du Toitspan Road, Kimberley where two flat screened televisions and two Q-boxes were stolen during the evening of Friday. 

“Most of the suspects were filmed on the video footage during the incident. Three male suspects were arrested in Galeshewe and further questioning led the police to the places stolen goods” lieutenant Sergio Kock said.

The police recovered one flat screened TV from a male in De Beers, Kimberley and another from a male in the Kimberley CBD. 

“Both men were arrested for being in possession of stolen goods and one Toyota Camry was also confiscated in this regard. The police are still searching for the two Q-boxes and three male suspects who are at large” Kock said.  

The men will appear in the Kimberley Magistrates’ Court soon. 

The investigation continues.-TDN

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Malamulele – Limpopo Premier Stan Mathabatha has blamed the violent protests that erupted in the Thulamela local municipality this week on tribalism.

A Sapa correspondent reported that the Malamulele community went on the rampage on Monday, damaging property including a grader, truck, six cars, two public store rooms, 37 houses, and four offices belonging to the public works department.

The protesters demanded their own municipality, separate from the Thulamela municipality.

“We are calling for the community of Malamulele to refrain from using tribalism elements in their demand,” said Mathabatha’s spokesperson Kenny Mathivha.

Mathivha acknowledged that the Malamulele people had been demanding their own municipality for many years.

He said it was not the competency of the provincial government to demarcate, but that of the Demarcation Board.

“The Demarcation Board is in the process of resolving their problems and they will know the answer very soon.

“South Africa is not a federal government, but a constitutional democracy. We can’t see people damaging the infrastructure in 20 years of democracy. Yes, they should voice their concerns, but not become violent,” he said.

Venda vs Tsonga

The Thulamela local municipality is divided into two predominant groups, mainly Venda and Tsonga-speaking.

The differences in language are also known to arise within the municipal council.

Limpopo police spokesperson Hangwani Mulaudzi said the violent protest involved about 15 000 community members.

“More than 15 000 people went on a rampage on Monday morning, damaging and looting shops.

“Four of their shopping complexes were damaged and looted completely; they damaged 37 houses, burnt a grader, a truck, and lit six cars.

“We also managed to stop them from burning the local hospital, and we had to use force… On Monday they kept us fully busy for the whole day and we had to use rubber bullets to stop them,” he said.

Mulaudzi said 51 people were arrested and charged with public violence. They were expected to appear in court on Wednesday.

The situation was “calm” on Tuesday but police were monitoring.

– SAPA

Cape Town – The ANC membership of seven men linked to recent sanitation protests in Cape Town has been temporarily suspended, a Western Cape party official said on Tuesday.

“This is the result of continuous defiance of the organisational instruction to desist from engaging in activities that bring the African National Congress into disrepute,” provincial secretary Songezo Mjongile said.

“They are not to take part in meetings of the ANC or speak on its behalf.”

The men are Jaji Diniso, Sthembele Majova, Thembela Mbanjwa, Yanga Mjingwana, Bongani Ngcombolo, Loyiso Nkohla and Bongile Zanazo.

Nkohla is an ANC councillor.

He and Andile Lili, a former councillor and provincial ANC youth league leader, had already appeared before the regional disciplinary committee, Mjongile said.

The others would appear before the committee within 30 days.

Lili was expelled as a councillor in March after being found guilty of taking part in the illegal demolition of houses and for making derogatory comments to Khayelitsha residents.

The ANC suspended him for bringing the party into disrepute.

He is challenging the expulsion in the Western Cape High Court.

Nkohla was given a three-year suspended sentence last year for disrupting President Jacob Zuma’s centenary speech at the Good Hope Centre.

Poo protests

Cape Town has been hit by a number of faeces dumping incidents in the past few months by people protesting about sanitation in informal settlements.

Many believed the portable flush toilets (PFTs) being rolled out by the city were no better than the bucket system.

Human faeces was again dumped on the steps of the provincial legislature last month.

This happened at the same time nine men appeared in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court for allegedly dumping human waste at Cape Town International Airport.

They are Nkohla, Lili, Mjingwana, Diniso, Zanazo, Mbanjwa, Ben Dyani, Bantubakhe Mqobodiya, and Wandisile Mkapa.

They allegedly dumped 10 buckets of faeces at the airport’s departures terminal on 25 June. They are charged under the Civil Aviation Act and face up to 30 years in prison if found guilty.

Lili was previously arrested with more than 100 others at a Cape Town train station in June for allegedly plotting to dump human waste in the city.

On 4 June, a group of people in Khayelitsha threw human waste at a bus and cars used for transport to a green economy event hosted by Western Cape Premier Helen Zille.

A day before that, two men dumped faeces on the steps of the Western Cape legislature in a protest about the PFTs.

– SAPA

Bloemfontein – A member of the SA Air Force (SAAF) based at the Bloemspruit Air Force Base appeared in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on a murder charge on Tuesday.

Corporal Simphiwe Magudulela, 27, told the court, through an interpreter, he would like to apply for legal aid.

The matter was postponed to 10 September for a possible bail hearing.

This followed a shooting at the base, outside Bloemfontein, that saw a man being killed and another critically wounded early on Sunday morning.

“A member on duty shot two colleagues. One of them died on the scene and the other is in a critical condition,” Free State police spokesperson Harry Nagel said on Monday.

He said the shooting took place at around 02:00 on Sunday.

“We are investigating a case of murder and attempted murder.”

SA National Defence Force (SANDF) spokesperson Xolani Mabanga confirmed the incident.

He said the injured SANDF member had been stabilised and was recovering in hospital.

Mabanga said the circumstances leading to the shooting at the base were being investigated.

– SAPA

Johannesburg – An 18-year-old school pupil was given a five-year suspended sentence by the Nelspruit Regional Court on Tuesday for trying to rape a 5-year-old girl.

A Sapa correspondent reported that Mduduzi Lucky Mpila,18, from Barberton in Mpumalanga, had been found guilty of attempted rape.

Mpila, a Grade 10 pupil, had pleaded not guilty.

He was arrested in 2011 when the girl’s mother reported that her child had been sexually abused.

Magistrate Willie Wilkins sentenced Mpila to four years’ imprisonment.

The sentence was suspended for five years.

Passing sentence, Wilkins said Mpila was 16-years-old when he committed the crime and had a chance to change his life.

According to a social worker, the girl was not physically injured during the incident and was coping well at school despite the ordeal, Wilkins said.

Had the teenager succeeded in raping the girl, the sentence would have been life imprisonment.

“You had a very good relationship with the victim’s parents until your criminal act on their daughter… which changed everything. They no longer have trust in you.”

The State had requested direct imprisonment, that Mpila’s name be placed on the sex offenders’ register, and that he be declared unfit to work with children and to possess a firearm.

“Your defence has argued against the State’s request and said you are still very young and may need better employment in the future. If I agree with the State, doors will be closed for you as no employer would hire you,” said Wilkins.

He said he was giving Mpila a chance to change his life.

“You are still too young… I am giving you a chance to change your life for the better. I have decided to agree with your defence, but all will depend on your behaviour during your suspended sentence.”

– SAPA

Johannesburg – The death toll in the Melmoth bus crash at the weekend has risen to 10, KwaZulu-Natal transport authorities said on Tuesday.

“This follows the passing of another young girl, who died from injuries at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital last night [Monday],” said Transport MEC Willies Mchunu.

“The girl had been airlifted from Ngwelezane Hospital after being in a critical condition,” he said, describing the news as devastating.

“On behalf of the provincial government, we would like to send our condolences to the family, who have now also lost their daughter and sister.

“We are indeed a province in mourning and our prayers are that we do not lose more lives,” he said in a statement.

After the accident on Sunday, it was reported that 10 people, including the bus driver had died in the crash.

On Monday, officials reduced the number to nine, after it was found that the driver had not died, but was injured and recovering in hospital.

The bus was travelling on the R66 near Eshowe, and was heading to uMzumbe in Port Shepstone, when it overturned and hit steel barriers.

It was carrying people returning from the annual reed dance at the Nyokeni Palace. More than 60 people were injured.

Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said the barriers pierced the front of the bus.

The latest report from the provincial transport department indicated that the deaths were of eight girls who took part in the dance and two women who accompanied them as guardians.

Mchunu said investigations showed that the bus had been speeding and had faulty brakes.

Traffic officials had earlier stopped the bus in Nongoma and found that its driver was under the influence of alcohol.

“The driver was arrested and detained in Nongoma, and subsequently replaced with another driver, who was behind the wheel when the accident occurred,” said Mchunu.

Government would cover the cost of the funerals.

– SAPA

Johannesburg – The DA in Mpumalanga has laid criminal charges against the Govan Mbeki municipal manager and the director of technical services, the party said on Tuesday.

The Democratic Alliance claimed municipal manager Mmela Mahlangu and director of technical services Bongani Mtshali had contravened the National Water Act by failing to address sewage problems in the municipality.

“The sewage leaks in the municipality are so severe that they have affected three water sources, namely the Grootbrak River in Evander/Embalenhle, the Waterval River in Leandra/Lebogang, and the Blesbokspruit in Bethal/Emzinoni,” DA councillor Tim Denny said in a statement.

“Water samples taken from these sources have shown catastrophic levels of faecal coliform bacteria, which is dangerous for both human and animal consumption.”

The municipality could not be reached for comment.

Mpumalanga police spokesperson Colonel Leonard Hlathi confirmed that a case had been opened at the Embalenhle police station.

Denny said the DA and members of the community had been trying for more than a year to get the municipality to repair the sewerage problems.

The municipality had also failed to inform residents of any health risks.

“It is both Mr Mahlangu and Mr Mtshali’s direct responsibility as municipal and departmental heads to ensure that sewage is disposed of in a manner that will not pose a threat to the well-being of the community,” he said.

– SAPA

Johannesburg – Police on Tuesday night cordoned off the ANC’s headquarters in Johannesburg after an apparent attempt to set the building alight.

The party’s Jackson Mthembu said a “suspicious” fire had broken out in the reception area next to the main entrance.

He said security guards had put out the flames, which had almost reached the ceiling of the reception area.

“We view this in serious light as it appears as an act of attempting to destabilise the ANC through acts arson and sabotage,” said Mthembu.

He added that the police at Luthuli House would investigate the source the fire, while ensuring that there is no other pending threat to the building and people in the building.
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