Brazil got the better of Zambia in their first ever meeting with a 2-0 victory, in a friendly match in Beijing on Tuesday.

The South Americans showed their intentions from the start and had the woodwork shaking in the third minute from a superb free-kick from Neymar and Kennedy Mweene scrambled the rebound clear.

Dani Alves sent a swerving shot wayward moments later before Zambia won a decent free-kick through Chris Katongo but nothing came from it.
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SuperSport United’s versatile defender, Edwin Gyimah, says that he’s learning from his Ghana teammates while in camp with the team.

The 22-year-old recently earned a call-up to the Black Stars, following an injury to John Boye, and he will be hoping to feature in today’s World Cup qualifier against Egypt, though he can only do that from the bench having been left out of the starting XI.
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Orlando Pirates’ players have been preparing for their CAF Champions League semi-finals second leg match and defender Rooi Mahamutsa tells the Siya crew that the Bucs team have been performing well in training.

Bucs’ players were all excused from international duty during the FIFA break, in order for the team to focus on their dream of capturing a second star.

The only exception made was for Kermit Erasmus as the Bucs striker is ineligible to play for his club in the CAF Champions League because of his involvement with SuperSport United in the CAF Confederations Cup.
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Mpumalanga’s head of community safety Thulani Sibuyi resigned on Tuesday following a spate of criminal investigations against him, premier David Mabuza said.

“We received his resignation letter and we have accepted it,” Mabuza said in a statement.

“After having some discussions with the HOD, we felt that he should recuse himself from his position since leadership responsibilities have been compromised by his personal problems.”

Mabuza said initially they wanted to leave the matter to the courts, but recent allegations compelled Mabuza to give him time to clear his name and to reflect.

Sibuyi, 37, who was convicted of drunk driving in 2008, appeared in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Monday on new charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, impersonating a police officer, and resisting arrest. He is also facing fraud charges involving more than R140 million.

Gauteng police spokeswoman Lt-Col Katlego Mogale said Sibuyi was arrested in the early hours of Sunday after he was involved in an accident in Gauteng. She said his car was fitted with flashing blue lights.

Sibuyi was not asked to plead to the charges and was released on R1000 bail. Sibuyi’s employers did not suspend him after his arrest in August when he was charged with fraud.

He was expected to appear in the Nelspruit Regional Court on November 23 to face the fraud charges. He and his co-accused, Vusi Mashaba, 41, who owns GNT Security, handed themselves to the Nelspruit police on August 8 after a warrant of arrest was issued against them.

According to the State, Mashaba submitted a fraudulent tax clearance certificate on behalf of his company to the department.

The company allegedly illegally benefited from payments of R4m per month for over three years. GNT Security provided security services for the community safety department building.

The two are out on R50 000 bail each.

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East London – A municipal worker was robbed while on his way to deposit money in a bank in Lusikisiki on Tuesday, Eastern Cape police said.

Four men driving a VW Polo ordered the Ingquza local municipality worker out of his car at gunpoint in Main Street, said Captain Mduduzi Godlwana.

“They took two bags of the municipal money, his car keys and his service pistol before they ran away.”

Police were searching for the men.

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Pretoria – Miners wounded and arrested during the Marikana unrest were elated about being represented again at the Farlam Commission of Inquiry, Dali Mpofu SC, said on Tuesday.

Mpofu, who represents the miners, said the ruling by the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday compelling Legal Aid SA to pay the legal costs of survivors of the Marikana shooting was a great reprieve.

“The clients are excited. As their lawyers, we are relieved. We have subsequently learnt now that Legal Aid has made an undertaking to provide the necessary legal funding. Indications are that we are back permanently,” he said.
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Police shot dead a housebreaker when he pointed a firearm at them in Orlando East, Soweto, on Tuesday, said Constable Sibusiso Chauke.

“One of the suspects pointed a firearm at the police and police shot him. He got out of the car and tried to run away, fell a few metres away and died at the scene,” he said.

“One of his other accomplices tried to run away and police managed to arrest him. The other suspect was arrested in the car,” he said.

Chauke said a Volkswagen Polo, a plasma television set and an Xbox were stolen in a housebreaking in Stormill, western Johannesburg, on Tuesday morning.

Soweto flying squad members investigating the housebreaking stopped the car with three men inside on the Soweto Highway. Police found the stolen goods inside the car.

The men arrested would appear soon in the Protea Magistrate’s Court.

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Bredasdorp – Anene Booysen’s injuries were the worst ever seen by the doctor who treated her after her attack, the SABC reported on Tuesday.

The Swellendam Circuit Court heard that Elizabeth de Kok treated 17-year-old Booysen at the Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, before she was transferred to a hospital in Swellendam, in the Western Cape.

According to the SABC, De Kok described Booysen’s intestinal injuries as the worst she had ever seen.

Dr Liezl Taylor reportedly attended to Booysen in Swellendam. She said the extent of her injuries meant she would succumb to them.

The two doctors were testifying at Johannes Kana’s rape and murder trial.

Kana has admitted leaving a Bredasdorp pub with Booysen, hitting and raping her, but has denied killing her.

She was raped and disembowelled and died in the Tygerberg Hospital on the afternoon of Saturday, February 2.

The trial continues.

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Senior management within the police crime intelligence and protection services unit (Cips) in Mpumalanga have been accused of sexual harassment.

A Sapa correspondent reported on Tuesday that since 2011 the SA Police Union (Sapu) had been unsuccessfully trying to get provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Thulani Ntobela to probe the matter.

On December 1, Sapu sent a memorandum of grievances to Ntobela, detailing improper conduct by senior officers against their subordinates in the Cips unit’s offices in Nelspruit.

“A high ranking official summoned a female constable to his office, where he showed her pornographic films,” the memorandum reads.

“He further told the constable that the private parts in the pornographic film are the same as those of the female constable.”

According to the memorandum the same official, a lieutenant, told the female constable that he had seen her in a video having sex with her boyfriend.

“The high ranking officer brushed the constable and she ran out of his office. 1/8He 3/8 continuously phoned the constable, but she refused to go to the office again,” reads the memorandum.

The constable reported the matter to her union, Sapu, and said she was no longer comfortable working under the supervision of her senior.

The memorandum further stated that the same police officer and a brigadier harassed two female constables. It stated that both female constables refused their advances, but the brigadier continued demanding sexual favours.

The alleged victims told Sapu they were no longer comfortable working with their seniors.

The Cips unit falls under the national office of the SA Police Service and is responsible for the protection of VIPs, in particular politicians.

Sapu provincial chairman Isaac Magagula said the union had reported the allegations to the provincial police commissioner, but Sapu was kept in the dark about any developments.

“We reported the incidents to the provincial commissioner. He then appointed a task team to investigate the allegations,” said Magagula.

“Unfortunately as Sapu, we were not privy to the outcome of the investigation until we picked it up from the labour relations office.”

Union representatives were informed by officials from the police labour relations office that the implicated managers needed a workshop on management skills. Despite the workshop there were more allegations against the members of the Cips.

Magagula noted that neither the union nor the complainants were approached to provide evidence or verify the allegations during the internal investigation.

Comment could not be obtained from national police spokesman Colonel Vish Naidoo.

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Cape Town – The Western Cape High Court will sentence a man on Thursday for throwing his infant son to the floor of his home several times in a fit of rage because he had soiled his nappy.

John Hendricks, 25, of Atlantis near Cape Town, appeared on Tuesday before Judge Robert Henney, who said he needed time to consider an appropriate sentence.

The trial would have taken the form of a plea bargain agreement, but the judge said the suggested sentence of 18 years for murder was too lenient.

Defence counsel Ken Klopper told the court he had explained the implications of this to Hendricks, who had chosen to continue with the plea-bargaining proceedings, but would leave the sentencing to the court.

The other option had been to convert the proceedings into a fully-fledged trial.

The judge warned that he did not want Hendricks to later say that he had misunderstood his counsel’s advice, or that confusion or nervousness had led him to mistakenly decide to remain with the plea-bargain proceedings.

The circumstances of the case qualified Hendricks for a minimum sentence of 15 years, but Klopper himself pushed the sentence to 18 years, because of the gravity of the matter.

The judge said he had a sentence of 25 years in mind, but he needed to think about it.

Klopper said he had asked Hendricks why a young father of his age would behave in such a monstrous manner towards his own child.

Hendricks had explained that he was unemployed and had alcohol and drug problems.

The mother of the child, who lived with Hendricks as his “common law wife”, was employed, which meant that Hendricks had to care for the child in the day while the mother was at work.

Hendricks is to be sentenced on charges of murder, seriously assaulting the child’s mother and kidnapping her.

On the kidnapping charge, he kept the mother hostage in their home after assaulting her.

The judge said the toddler had suffered convulsions after being repeatedly thrown to the floor, and Hendricks and the mother had then left the boy to sleep.

The boy was left sleeping the whole of the next day, and was rushed to hospital only when the convulsions started again.

The judge said it worried him that it had taken the couple such a long time to take the baby for medical treatment, and also that they had decided to lie to the hospital authorities that the baby had fallen off a high bed.

State advocate Nadia Ajam told the court that both the child’s mother and her own mother, were in court attending the proceedings.

She said: “We have not yet gotten a full answer as to why a father would do this to his own child.”

Ajam said the condition of the toddler on arrival at the Red Cross Children’s Memorial Hospital had prompted the doctors to involve social workers.

The case continues on Thursday.

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