ABSA Premiership

Result: Maritzburg 0-1 SuperSport

Date: 23 October 2013

Venue: Harry Gwala Stadium

SuperSport United struck late on to secure a hard-fought 1-0 win away to Maritzburg United at the Harry Gwala Stadium on Wednesday night.

The result ensured that new Team of Choice coach Clinton Larsen got off to a losing start while Cavin Johnson’s men returned to winning ways after a slight dip in form in their recent league outings.
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Absa Premiership

Full Time: Bidvest Wits 0-0 Polokwane City

Date: 23 October 2013

Venue: Bidvest Stadium

Despite dominating the majority of the game in front of their home fans, Bidvest Wits could not break down a resilient Polokwane City defence as their Absa Premiership match at the Bidvest Stadium on Wednesday night ended 0-0.
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Absa Premiership

Full Time: Ajax Cape Town 1-0 Free State Stars

Date: 23 October 2013

Venue: Cape Town Stadium

A solitary goal from Stelio Ernesto, otherwise known as ‘Telinho’, handed Ajax Cape Town their first win of the Absa Premiership season after beating Free State Stars 1-0 at the Cape Town Stadium on Wednesday night.
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Telkom Knockout Cup

Result: Orlando Pirates 4-0 Golden Arrows

Date: 23 October 2013

Venue: Orlando Stadium

Lennox Bacela bagged a hat-trick as Orlando Pirates hammered Golden Arrows 4-0 in their Telkom Knockout quarter-final at the Orlando Stadium on Wednesday evening. Kermit Erasmus scored the other goal.

Pirates will now join Supersport United, Platinum Stars and Kaizer Chiefs in the Telkom Knockout semi-finals.
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Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs could meet in the final of the Telkom Knockout after missing one another in the semi-finals.

It will be far from easy for the Soweto giants though, as Kaizer Chiefs will host Platinum Stars in the second semi-final while Orlando Pirates will travel to SuperSport United in the other.

The draw for the last four took place just after Pirates’ convincing 4-0 win over Golden Arrows at the Orlando Stadium on Wednesday. Pirates’ semi-final match will take place on 20 November due to their CAF Champions League committments.

Chiefs took the long route to the final with a 4-2 penalty shootout win over Free State Stars after the game had ended 1-1.

SuperSport also impressed with a 3-1 victory over Moroka Swallows while Dikwena, who recently lifted the MTN8, disposed of Mamelodi Sundowns 2-1.

The full draw was as follows:

20 November 2013: SuperSport United v Orlando Pirates

2 November 2013: Kaizer Chiefs v Platinum Stars
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Johannesburg – A foreign shop owner arrested in Bekkersdal, near Westonaria, will be charged with attempted murder, Gauteng police said on Wednesday.

Constable Elsie Tshonte said the man was arrested for possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.

“Police are now also investigating attempted murder,” she said.

Residents told the police the man had a gun with which he had shot another man.

“Police officers searched the shop and found the gun.”

Tshonte said police were continuing to monitor the area following violent service delivery protests.

Earlier, protesters gathered near the local taxi rank and burnt tyres.

Last week, 35 protesters were arrested and charged with public violence after a petrol bomb and stones were thrown into the police station.

Three police vehicles and a disaster management vehicle were damaged.

Tshonte said no protesters were arrested on Wednesday.

Sapa

CAPE TOWN – The investigating officer working on the rape and murder case of Bredasdorp teenager Anene Booysen has defended the police probe.
Johannes Kana is standing trial for the rape, mutilation and murder of the 17-year-old in February.

The trial resumed in the Swellendam Circuit Court on Wednesday.

Kana confessed to raping Booysen but denied killing her.
Warrant officer Edmund Abels told the court Booysen’s rape and murder case was thoroughly investigated.

He said all tip-offs and leads were followed up.

Abels said even though the teenager mentioned the name “Zwai” when questioned about the suspects, no concrete forensic evidence could link him to the crime.

The court also heard a bra, which belonged to Booysen, had blood on it.

But again, no forensic evidence could be decisively linked to Kana.
The case resumes on Monday.
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JOHANNESBURG – The medium-term budget policy statement has given South Africa some breathing room, ratings agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) said on Wednesday. Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivered his speech in Parliament, Cape Town. Speaking to Talk Radio 702/567 Cape Talk’s Bruce Whitfield this evening, the minister defended his optimistic view of the economy as a whole. – See more at: http://ewn.co.za/2013/10/23/SP-reacts-to-budget-speech-1#sthash.NzloeDCK.dpuf

Johannesburg – A military colonel who committed an armed robbery at an Eastern Cape police station 18 years ago, has handed himself over to the military police, the defence department said on Wednesday.

Brigadier General Xolani Mabanga said Colonel Nceba Patrick Bobelo reported to the joint operations headquarters in Pretoria on Tuesday afternoon.

“Arrangements were made for him to be taken by the military police. The military police then consulted with the correctional services department and the police for him to be handed over,” Mabanga said.

“The correctional services officials from Pretoria indicated that he [Bobelo] had to serve his sentence in the Eastern Cape. They were discussing the modalities of having him transferred.”

Disappeared from Mbombela home

Mabanga said there were no indications that Bobelo was trying to evade arrest or that he was trying to run away because he handed himself over.

On Tuesday, Eastern Cape police spokesperson Colonel Sibongile Soci said a warrant of arrest has been issued and police are looking for Bobelo.

Beeld reported on Tuesday that Bobelo disappeared from his Mbombela home in Mpumalanga before police could arrest him.

According to the report, indications were that Bobelo was trying to evade arrest. Soci told the newspaper Bobelo was not considered a fugitive.

Bobelo’s appeal against his prison sentence failed in 2001, but neither the army nor the justice department were able to explain why Bobelo, commander of the military’s joint tactical headquarters in Mpumalanga, had avoided jail.

Advanced rank

In 1995, he was one of four defendants convicted of robbing the Ntabethemba police station in the Eastern Cape. Two policemen were attacked and several firearms were stolen.

The four were sentenced to 12 years in prison each, of which three years were conditionally suspended.

One of the four appealed successfully in 2001, but Bobelo and the other two were ordered to start serving their jail terms immediately.

Bobelo, however, spent the next 12 years being advanced to the rank of colonel.

Following a Beeld report two months ago on Bobelo’s involvement in the robbery, the National Prosecuting Authority in the Eastern Cape received a query from the SA National Defence Force to determine why Bobelo had not served his sentence. The warrant for his arrest was then issued.

– SAPA

Johannesburg – Police shot and injured a man they caught stealing from a furniture shop in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning, metro police said.

He and three accomplices were robbing a Joshua Doore furniture shop on the corner of Fox and Delvers streets at around 08:00, Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said.

A JMPD officer caught them red-handed as they were loading TVs and radios onto a van.

“One was shot in the leg during the scuffle as they were trying to flee,” he said.

He and another man were arrested. The other two ran away.

The arrested men would be charged with armed robbery at the Johannesburg Central police station.

Police were searching for the other two.

– SAPA