Former Orlando Pirates striker Andries ‘Local is Lekker’ Sebola says the Buccaneers need to attack Esperance from the first whistle if they are to beat them and progress to the CAF Champions League Final.
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The Siya crew can reveal that Boebie Solomons’ appointment as Polokwane City’s new head coach is imminent.

The former Santos coach, who was allowed to hold talks with the PSL newcomers by his employers at Bloemfontein Celtic, where he is currently an assistant coach, is set to take charge of City’s bench from next Wednesday when they resume their league duties with an away fixture against Wits.

According to the Soccer-Laduma sources close to the club, Solomons has agreed terms with Polokwane City, but the finer details still need to be ironed out.
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Orlando Pirates coach Roger de Sa has revealed his expected line up ahead of their CAF Champions League semi-final second leg clash against Esperance on Saturday night.

The Sea Robbers travel to Tunisia after a goalless draw in the first-leg at the Orlando Stadium – meaning a score draw will be enough for them to book their place in the final.

Discussing his selection on Robert Marawa’s radio show, De Sa has opted to have Ayanda Gcaba partner Rooi Mahamutsa in the centre of defence for the crucial encounter.

Oupa Manyisa and Andile Jali will be looking to control the middle of the park while Tlou Segolela, Daine Klate and Sifiso Myeni will pour forward trying to score or set up striker Lennox Bacela.

The winner will go on to face either Egyptian giants Al Ahly or Cameroonian side Coton Sport in the final of the continental competition.

This is the expected line up:

Pirates: Senzo Meyiwa, Happy Jele, Rooi Mahamutsa, Ayanda Gcaba, Thabo Matlaba, Andile Jali, Oupa Manyisa, Tlou Segolela, Daine Klate, Sifiso Myeni, Lennox Bacela.
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Pretoria – One of four men arrested for the murder of Johannesburg cluster commander Maj-Gen Tirhani Maswanganyi pleaded with a sangoma “to make his case go away”, the Pretoria North Magistrate’s Court heard on Friday.

Provincial investigating unit commander Colonel Abednego Shibiri said Nditsheni Daniel Nefolovhodwe sought the services of a sangoma prior to his arrest on June 25.

“We have the transcripts of the phone records. He called the sangoma on the 24th and told him that accused number one 1/8Ndaedzo Isaac Vele 3/8 had been arrested and wanted the case to go away,” Shibiri said during the four men’s bail application.

He told the court that Nefolovhodwe had spoken to the sangoma in Venda.

Nefolovhodwe’s lawyer disputed Shibiri’s claims and said the police should have brought the transcript to court.

Shibiri said the evidence was not before the court because the transcription process had not been concluded.

Earlier, the court heard that Vele did not have money and would not abscond if released on bail.

Johann Engelbrecht SC, for Vele, cross-examined Shibiri about the police evidence against his client.

“I have a problem in this matter. You come here to oppose bail in this matter on the basis of the expectation that further evidence will reveal A, B, or C. Where are the cellphones and the iPad (of Maswanganyi)?”

Shibiri said ongoing investigations would disclose the people who took the murdered policeman’s property.

Engelbrecht was not convinced: “Oh please, you don’t know that the further investigation will recover the cellphones and the iPad. You hope that, possibly.”

Shibiri said his hopes were pinned on the investigations currently underway. However, Engelbrecht contended there was no evidence placing his client at the scene of the crime.

Vele, Nefolovhodwe, Tshepo Mosai, and Roger Godfrey Moseki are accused of killing the senior policeman.

Maswanganyi was found dead in a field near Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, near the R101, in June.

His hands and feet were bound. A police patrol found Maswanganyi’s abandoned Isuzu bakkie next to the road.

A police uniform and police identification card were in the bakkie, which prompted a search.

Three of the four accused, including Vele and Nefolovhodwe, were members of the SA National Defence Force.

Engelbrecht said Shibiri’s team had found that Vele could not escape and start afresh in another country.

“His financial position is virtually zero. No money is in the possession of the accused which would enable him to leave and stay out of the country.

“You also confirmed his residential address and found that he has a pregnant girlfriend whom he is planning to marry.”

Shibiri disagreed.

“I am a police officer and in my experience people have left countries without a cent. People also come into countries without a cent,” he said.

“We confirmed about the girlfriend, but I cannot say anything about him wanting to marry her. He 1/8Vele 3/8 is the one who knows that.”

Shibiri told the court the evidence linking Vele to the crime was his own confession, admissible in court.

Engelbrecht said Vele would surrender his passport to the police in an attempt to increase his chances for bail.

Shibiri said investigations so far had revealed that Vele had been out of South Africa 16 times.

The bail applications were postponed to November 6 and 7.

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Pietermaritzburg – A Pietermaritzburg policeman shot and critically injured his wife and then turned the gun on himself after an argument on Thursday.

Police spokesman Colonel Jay Naicker confirmed the 31-year-old woman, identified as Nana Sibisi, was in a serious condition in hospital.
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Durban – The former head of geographic information and policy at the eThekwini Municipality, Jacqui Subban, would swear at staff and “act like a thug” during staff meetings to get her way.
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Durban – A bully who almost paralysed a Shallcross teenager with a dangerous wrestling manoeuvre has been suspended from school – for the second time – after he was involved in an assault on the cousin of his previous victim.
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Johannesburg – Some Diepsloot residents angered by the killing of two children vowed on Friday to vote for the Economic Freedom Fighters in general elections next year.

“In other countries if you kill you get killed, but in South Africa you are awarded with a comfortable life in prison. You eat healthy food and you have a television,” said Reneilwe Mokwena, 34, a mother of four.

Another mother, Darksha Fenyane, 36, said the two of them would be voting for the EFF, saying President Jacob Zuma had let them down.

“We voted for him not knowing he is like this. He must not come here because we will hurt him,” said Fenyane.

The bodies of two-year-old Yonelisa Mali and her cousin Zandile Mali, three, were found on Tuesday. They were reported missing at the weekend. Four men appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges of rape and murder. The case was postponed to Thursday for the men to apply for Legal Aid.

A fifth man, who was arrested early Friday morning in Alexandra, would appear in the court on Monday.

Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane urged Diepsloot residents to support the family of the two toddlers.

“This is something that must never happen to anybody’s child,” she said outside the family’s home in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg.

She said police received information which helped them make the arrests.

“What has happened today 1/8Friday 3/8 in Diepsloot is a demonstration that community and police relationship are very important. Their partnership can go a long way.

“Now that the suspect has been arrested let’s all rally behind the family give them the necessary support. Give the mothers space to grieve the loss of their children so that they can find closure.”

She told reporters the family was thankful and looking forward to a swift prosecution of the perpetrators.

Earlier, residents gathered outside the police station to protest about the murders. They demanded that police release the fifth man so they could burn him.

Police were in the area as Economic Freedom Fighters supporters and African National Congress supporters clashed. EFF supporters accused ANC supporters of beating them.

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Johannesburg – Cope North West has welcomed Friday’s South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg ruling naming Mosiuoa Lekota as the party’s president.

“We [are] now certain that the storm is over and we have only one Cope in South Africa under the stewardship of Lekota, therefore once again [we] recommit to our founding principles of 2008,” said Congress of the People (Cope) acting provincial secretary Rammupudu Mooketsi.

He apologised to the party’s members and thanked them for their support.

“We… apologise to our members, supporters and everybody who looks with hope upon us for the disappointment they endured because of this matter,” he said.

The party’s youth movement also welcomed the ruling.

“This long-awaited judgment finally brings to an end the most painful period for Cope, its leadership, members and supporters across the country,” said Cope Youth Movement leader Nqaba Bhanga.

Cope’s leadership battle

Earlier on Friday, Cope spokesperson JJ Abrie said acting Judge Craig Watt-Pringle had ruled that Cope’s leadership, led by Lekota, and elected during its inaugural congress in Bloemfontein in 2008 was the party’s only legitimate leadership.

“The ruling further confirms the conclusion of [Cope] that the aborted first national congress of December 2010… in Thaba Tshwane was not quorate and, therefore, did not happen, let alone elect new leadership of the party,” he said.

The leadership battle started when Lekota expelled Mbhazima Shilowa from the party after an internal disciplinary hearing found him guilty of mismanaging the party’s parliamentary funds. Shilowa had refused to participate in the inquiry.

On 18 July 2012, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria struck from the roll an application by a Cope faction aligned to Shilowa to stop disciplinary hearings against Cope members pending the outcome of the Shilowa-Lekota leadership dispute.

In February 2011, Lekota obtained an interim court order recognising him as the party’s president and restraining Shilowa from claiming the title of party leader.

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Johannesburg – Fifteen teenagers suspected of setting part of the agriculture department building alight, just outside Malamulele, were arrested on Friday, Limpopo police said.

The building, situated 10km outside the town where protests are flaring, was partially burnt resulting in substantial damage, police spokesperson Hangwani Mulaudzi said.

“We are trying to douse the fire, though it is proving to be tricky as there are cars that also caught fire,” Mulaudzi said.

The 15 teenagers, aged between 15 and 18, were due to appear in the Malamulele Magistrate’s Court soon.

“These are small groups of young boys [they] also attempted to burn a hardware store and a bus depot, but we managed to contain that,” Mulaudzi said.

Malamulele police had been bracing themselves for protests over a demarcation dispute in the north eastern Limpopo town.

Mulaudzi said police were still monitoring the situation and remained on high alert in the area.

Around 20 000 residents went on the rampage earlier in the week after the municipal demarcation board did not grant them a meeting in which they planned to demand their own municipality.

The protesters burnt down a government building and shops during the protest.

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