Ajax coach Muhsin Ertugral has promised attacking football when his team host Kaizer Chiefs at the Cape Town Stadium tomorrow.

The Urban Warriors almost spoiled Amakhosi’s League title party when they beat them 3-1 late last season, and they will be looking for more of the same, despite being rocked by a number of injuries.

“We have about nine injuries, mostly to key players,” Ertugral tells KickOff.com. “However, there is no reason to worry because I have youngsters ready to play.
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Prolific Kaizer Chiefs striker, Bernard Parker, will look to continue his fine form in front of goal when they take on Ajax Cape Town in the Mother City on Tuesday night.

The 27-year-old has continued where he left off last season in the PSL, where he banged in 12 league goals. He currently sits on four in seven league outings in the new campaign.

Parker was recently reported to have had a training ground tiff with Lehlohonolo Majoro, however, it later emerged that the two had made peace and everything was back to normal.
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Orlando Pirates defender Happy Jele is happy to be back in the Bafana Bafana fold again following a two year absence from the national team.
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Lusapho April produced a gutsy performance to finish a well-paced third in the New York City Marathon on Sunday.

April sat back in the lead group for most of the 42km race, before starting to make his presence as he moved up the outside of the eight-man pack with 12km left.

He attempted to chase runaway Kenyans Geoffrey Mutai and Stanley Biwott with less than 10km remaining, after the duo surged clear, and while he was unable to stick with them, he shook off the rest of the field to find himself alone in third place.

The 31-year-old South African was caught by Ethiopian Tsegaye Kebede approaching the finish, but April coasted past a fading Biwott to retain his podium place.

Mutai was more than three minutes outside his own course record, but won comfortably in 2:08:24. Kebede charged through for second place in 2:09:15, and April was 73 seconds outside his personal best, crossing the line in 2:09:45.

Meanwhile, veteran SA wheelchair racer Ernst van Dyk finished second in a tight sprint finish in 1:40:14.

Van Dyk clocked the same time as Swiss winner Marcel Hug after a battle between five athletes down the finishing straight.

It was the fourth time this year that Van Dyk had finished in the top three at a major city marathon.

He also finished on the podium at the Boston, London and Chicago marathons this season.
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Cuba will send more medical doctors to South Africa. Cuban ambassador to South Africa, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio visited the Polokwane and Tshilidzini hospitals in Limpopo on Monday to observe the work done by Cuban doctors in the country.

De Cossio says: “We’re expecting 94 new doctors before the end of the year to come to South Africa. Some of them will come to the province of Limpopo. Well, there will be additional contribution.”

De Cossio adds: “They’ll be working together with the South African doctors to continue to provide health care to the people here. They are highly qualified, they are motivated, they have got experience of working in other countries and I think they can be of help here.”

“And I can appreciate the effort of the government for the delivery of healthcare service. Our aim is to work together to see how the two countries with our respective strength can continue to cooperate for the mutual benefit,” the ambassador explained.

More than 300 doctors have been sent to work in the country since 1994.
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The ANC has accused the Public Protector’s conduct suggesting that she is protecting the interests of a particular section of society.

ANC secretary general, Gwede Mantashe was reacting to Thuli Madonsela’s report on security upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s residence in Nkandla.

Madonsela has handed her report to Ministers in the Security Cluster. Mantashe says the confusion Madonsela displayed when she said she did not know where to take her findings reflects negatively on the President.

He has also questioned a statement by Madonsela before releasing her report that the public will be disappointed about the findings. Madonsela was asked to probe widely criticised upgrades worth R206 million to Zuma’s Nkandla home.
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Mbombela – The trial of a driver charged with murdering 24 farmworkers, when his truck crashed into a goods train in Mpumalanga last year, was postponed on Monday.

George Mandlazi, 33, was not asked to plead to 24 counts of murder, and reckless or negligent driving when he appeared in the Nelspruit Circuit of the High Court in Pretoria on Monday, a Sapa correspondent reported.

The trial was postponed to Wednesday after Mandlazi’s defence told the court it was not ready to proceed.

Mandlazi is out on bail of R3000, which was granted by the Barberton Magistrate’s Court last August.

He previously told the court he intended pleading not guilty.

He was driving the truck when it collided with a coal train between Hectorspruit and Malalane on Friday, July 13 last year. Nineteen people died on the scene of the crash and five died later in hospital or on their way to hospital.

Mandlazi was initially charged with culpable homicide, and then murder. The charge was reduced to culpable homicide at his first court appearance, but was later changed back to murder.

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Maake, Mpumalanga – The wife of former Limpopo premier Cassel Mathale and four others appeared in the Maake Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga on Monday.

Mokgadi Kgohloane and her co-accused would be back in court on December 9, said Hawks spokesman Paul Ramaloko.

They were arrested earlier this year in connection with illegal mining in the Maake area.

The co-accused are Kgohloane’s co-directors in the mining company Blue Platinum Ventures 16, that allegedly operated without a valid permit.

Kgohloane faces a possible R5 million fine or 10 years’ imprisonment if found guilty of mining illegally.

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Johannesburg – No unrest incidents occurred in Khutsong on Monday evening and police were monitoring the area, said Gauteng police.

Police were maintaining a high visibility, said Brigadier Neville Malila.

Six people, including a sangoma, were killed on Sunday, allegedly by residents.

Four of the six bodies were identified as James Magagula, 61, Mojalefa Maleho, 23, Makume Makume and Akhona Ngwati.

“The deceased who were killed in Extension 5, Carletonville are not yet identified. Names will be released as soon as they are available.”

The six were killed after about 400 men, believed to be Khutsong residents, held a meeting to discuss gangsterism.

Malila said a group of men went to a house in Khutsong Extension Three, where they attacked a 61-year-old traditional healer, setting him and his house alight. The man died on the scene.

Other groups from the meeting went to Extension Four, Phase Two, where two young men, allegedly members of a gang, were assaulted and set alight. They also died at the scene.

In Extension Five the groups assaulted a number of people they accused of being gangsters.

“Two alleged gang members were stoned. One died on the scene and the other at the Carletonville hospital,” said Malila.

The body of a sixth man was found on Sunday night. He had been set alight.

Earlier, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa condemned the killings and said the perpetrators would face the law.

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Kimberley – No semen or male DNA was found on the body of the girl killed in the Griquatown farm murders, the Northern Cape High Court heard on Monday.

The information was part of a list of admissions handed in to the court by the defence team of the 17-year-old boy accused of the murders.
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