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Full time: Morocco 1-1 South Africa

Date: 11 October 2013

Venue: Agadir Stadium

A first half strike from Tokelo Rantie was cancelled out in the second 45 by Issam EL Adoua as South Africa and Morocco played to a 1-1 draw in an international friendly at the new Agadir Stadium on Friday night.

The opening 45 minutes saw Bafana Bafana playing the better football as they looked hungrier to win the ball and thus dominated the midfield battle early on.

The away side made their intentions clear early on as Daylon Claasen let fly with a long range effort in the second minute which sailed narrowly wide of the target.

Two minutes later and Tokelo Rantie used his pace to get behind the Morocco defence, but his effort on goal from just inside the box was a timid one and easy for the keeper to save.

In the seventh minute the home side had their first chance on goal as El-Arabi met a well-delivered cross, but he saw his header superbly saved by Itumeleng Khune.

In the tenth minute Bafana made their good start pay off, Rantie opening the scoring with a clinical finish after latching onto a Classen through ball, and silencing the home crowd, 1-0.

Thereafter, South Africa continued to dictate the flow of play as Morocco saw very little of the ball.

Just before the half hour mark, Lerato Chabangu was unlucky not to find Bafana’s second goal as he saw his free-kick from roughly 25-yards out well-saved by the keeper.

Morocco did manage to create another chance in the 33rd minute as a rare foray forward saw El Kaddouri break into the Bafana box, but he fired his effort wide of the target.

That seemed to inspire the Moroccan attack and Khune was called in action two minutes later to deny Benatia a thunderous effort from long range.

Bafana still ended the half the stronger of the two sides as Bernard Parker slipped Sibusiso Vilakazi through on goal in the 40th minute, but he fired his effort straight at the keeper when he should really have scored.

The second 45 saw Morocco come out firing and they soon levelled matters, Issam EL Adoua heading home a Younes Belhanda free-kick five minutes after the restart, 1-1.

After that, however, the game became a little dis-jointed with both sides making numerous substitutions.

The next chance on goal came via a 25-yard free-kick that Ayanda Patosi struck for Bafana, but he saw his effort easily saved by the keeper.

Ten minutes later and El Kaddouri almost found the winner for the home side after driving into the box, but he fired his powerful shot agonisingly wide.

The game ended all-square.
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Middendorp takes up the role after yesterday resigning from fellow Premier Soccer League outfit Maritzburg United.

The position became vacant when Clinton Larsen quit Phunya Sele Sele on Monday.

“I am excited to take on this challenge knowing the huge support that this club has and the existing resources that they have invested,” Middendorp said in a statement released by the German’s agent, Steve Kapeluschnik.

“I am looking forward to coaching the players and I am passionate about helping the club fulfill its potential.”

Middendorp, whose contract runs until 2016, is expected to be in the stands when Celtic contest the annual Macufe Cup with one of his former clubs Kaizer Chiefs at Free State Stadium on Sunday.
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Cape Town – Three teenage girls have been rescued from a brothel by the City of Cape Town’s Vice Unit and the Hawks.

The City reported today that the two units had joined forces in an undercover operation at the brothel in Parklands on Wednesday.
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Johannesburg – The family of a Randfontein girl who was killed by a self-confessed Satanist said they were unhappy with the sentence their child’s killer received on Friday.

Keamogetswe Sefularo’s 15-year-old murderer was sentenced to 10 years in prison, two of which were suspended in the High Court sitting in Palm Ridge.
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Graaff Reinet – Three youths and two men were sentenced for murder by the Graaff Reinet High Court on Friday, Eastern Cape police said.

A 16-year-old, a 14-year-old, and a 15-year-old were jailed for in effect 10 years each, said Captain Rochelle Carelse.

Ricardo Lomberg, 19, was jailed for in effect 20 years, and Nantheniel Blouw, 22, was sentenced to life plus 41 years in jail.

The five broke into a house on a farm near Graaff Reinet in August. The farm owner was stabbed 21 times and his wife was stabbed 11 times and hit over the head with a bottle, said Carelse.

The group fled with six firearms, a vehicle and household items.

They were arrested two days later at a roadblock in Knysna, after a shoot-out with the police.

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Johannesburg – A woman accused of falsely claiming her baby was kidnapped was granted bail of R3000 by the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Friday, police said.

Busi Nkosi was charged with perjury and defeating the ends of justice, and would appear again in court on November 22, said Lt-Col Katlego Mogale.

On Monday, 42-year-old Nkosi reported her baby boy had been kidnapped in a robbery in Kempton Park.

It was initially reported that three men and two women broke into a house in Kempton Park West on Monday evening, tied up Nkosi and her 16-year-old daughter, and drugged them.

Police said the robbers were reported to have taken the baby, its clothes and Nkosi’s cellphone.

The father arrived home after 10pm and untied his wife and daughter.

Police found no signs of forced entry.

“Through investigation, the police managed to trace the child and found him with his mother in Witbank 1/8in Mpumalanga 3/8,” said Mogale.

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Johannesburg – A man who confessed to assaulting and setting alight his friend Kirsty Theologo in an apparent satanic ritual said he was testifying for her, the High Court in Johannesburg, sitting in Palm Ridge, heard on Friday.

“From the very beginning, we (he and his co-accused) confessed. We turned ourselves in to the police, so I won’t be standing here trying to defend myself or lie to the court,” said Linden Wagner.
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Cape Town – Two teenagers accused of killing Cape Town schoolboy Glenrico Martin made their first appearance at a pre-trial conference in the Western Cape High Court on Friday.

The purpose of pre-trial conferences is to ensure no technical hitches delay proceedings when the actual trials commence in the high court.

Wilston Stoffels, 18, and Jevon Snyman, 19, appeared before Judge Robert Henney, who postponed the matter to November 8, when they will appear at a second pre-trial conference. They remain in custody.

Russell Cloete, representing Legal Aid SA, told the court that a legal aid advocate had yet to be allocated to represent Stoffels.

He said the Western Cape branch of Legal Aid SA had “numerous challenges” which had not yet been resolved.

He said several criminal cases were pending in the high court, all with multiple accused who each required legal aid representation.

He said the legal aid problems which had to be resolved did not affect Snyman, who was represented by privately-funded attorney William da Grass.

The two abandoned their bail applications before the case was transferred from the Wynberg District Court, in Cape Town, to the high court.

Martin, 18, was shot on Wednesday, May 15 while entering the Spes Bona Secondary School premises in Athlone, on the Cape Flats.

At the time, Captain Frederick van Wyk said three men Ä two of them armed Ä wearing school tracksuit tops, approached Martin. One of them shot him in the head.

Paramedics revived him and took him to the Groote Schuur Hospital where he died soon after arrival.

Snyman was arrested in Athlone the next day and Stoffels was arrested in Bonteheuwel the day after that.

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Pretoria – A farmer and his son were acquitted by the High Court in Pretoria on Friday of killing two men nine years ago, SABC reported.

The bodies of Morris Morua, 36, and Zacharia Leso, 34, were found on Douw de Beer’s game farm in the North West after they were shot for allegedly hunting illegally.

The SABC reported that De Beer and his son Dylan were found guilty of defeating the course of justice and cellphone theft.

The judgment reportedly shocked Morua and Leso’s families.

“My feeling is that this judgment is very much unfair… they murdered them,” Morua’s father Thomas Maragela was quoted as saying.

“They say they shot in self-defence. How do we know that?”

According to the broadcaster, he said there was no proof because no post mortem could be done.

In 2011, Captain Nick Pitsoane, the investigating officer, testified that the only human remains found on the farm, near Boschkop, in April 2004 were 10 small bones.

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Johannesburg – A man suspected of raping a mentally ill woman in Soweto was arrested on Friday, Gauteng police said.

The man had been on the run since Sunday after allegedly raping the woman, Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela said.

“The man was with the woman’s nephew at a shebeen on Saturday night and left the shebeen while drunk,” Makhubela said.

The nephew, knowing that his friend was going to his aunt’s house in Zola, left the shebeen shortly afterwards.

“He found his friend on top of his aunt and had a fight with him.”

The man ran away. The police were notified and a case of rape was opened.

The woman was taken for medical attention.

The man will appear in the Protea Magistrate’s Court once he is formally charged.

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