Premiership

Full Time: Kaizer Chiefs 4-1 Polokwane City

Date: 27 November 2013

Venue: FNB Stadium

A brace from Bernard Parker saw Kaizer Chiefs to an impressive 4-1 win in their Absa Premiership match against Polokwane City at the FNB Stadium on Wednesday night.

It was a start-stop first stanza with a 45 minute delay squashed in-between due to bad weather as Kaizer Chiefs dominated proceedings and took a 3-0 lead into the half time break.

The Amakhosi started really brightly and only had to wait five minutes before taking the lead as free-kick on the edge of the box saw Bernard Parker play Eric Mathoho through on goal with a clever pass. The Chiefs defender made no mistake with an emphatic finish, powering the ball home from ten-yards out, 1-0.
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ABSA Premiership

Result: AmaZulu 2-0 P Stars

Date: 27 November 2013

Venue: Princess Magogo Stadium

A brace by AmaZulu’s Goodman Dlamini was enough to seal a first win in seven league matches as they saw off Platinum Stars 2-0 at the Princess Magogo Stadium.

Dlamini gave hosts AmaZulu the perfect start to their Absa Premiership clash, when he gave them an early lead with a great strike from outside the box leaving Platinum Stars goalkeeper Siyabonga Mpontshane with no chance after being assisted by Njabulo Manqana.
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Maraisburg – A 49-year-old woman died when she was knocked over by a bakkie on the N1 highway in Johannesburg on Wednesday, paramedics said.

The woman was trying to cross the highway when she was hit by a Toyota Hilux just before the Maraisburg road offramp, ER24 spokeswoman Vanessa Jackson said.

“Paramedics who were travelling on the highway came across the woman lying in the road,” said Jackson.

She had suffered extensive head injuries and died on the scene. The driver of the bakkie was not injured.

Police were investigating.

Sapa

Johannesburg – The DA has welcomed a ruling that the Bombela Concession Company fix the ingress of water into parts of the Gautrain’s tunnel in Johannesburg

“Credit must go to the Gautrain management agency for their dogged determination on not backing down and fighting for a “decent” tunnel,” DA MPL Neil Campbell said in a statement on Wednesday.

“This will save the Gauteng public purse a considerable amount of net costs in water control over the 80-year planned lifespan of the tunnel, for which the taxpayer and not Bombela will be responsible.”

Bombela designed and built the Gautrain rapid rail project.

Campbell said the ingressed water had a high lead content, which would corrode the pumps relatively rapidly.

“Therefore, if less water has to be pumped, the pumps will last longer, which will save money.”

Campbell said he hoped this outcome would make other contractors realise that “shoddy, below specification” work would not be tolerated by the provincial government.

The ruling was made by three retired judges appointed by the Arbitration Foundation of SA.

Gautrain spokeswoman Barbara Jensen said the tunnel section between Johannesburg Park Station and E2 (Emergency Shaft Two), and between Rosebank station and the Marlboro portal, was not in accordance with the contract specifications.

“With respect to the tunnel section between Johannesburg Park Station and E2 close to the Wilds in Johannesburg, remedial work must be undertaken by the Bombela Concession Company.”

Jensen said Bombela was not allowed to appeal against the ruling and was expected to present the Gautrain management agency with plans to fix the problem.

Water was seeping into both sections of the tunnel, but the water level between Park station and E2, near Roedean School in Parktown, was far higher than in the rest of the tunnel.

Both problems would be fixed, but Park station would be first.

She said this had been a long dispute between the Gauteng provincial government and Bombela.

It started some time around the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 when the rail company decided not to open the Johannesburg Park Station section along with the rest of the system.

Jensen could not say whether operations would stop during the process of fixing the problem.

“Closure is not open for discussion yet, until Bombela presents (to us).”

She said the plans should have a minimal effect on commuters.

Efforts to fix the seeping water would start some time next year, she said.

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Kimberley – A Northern Cape man accused of raping of a six-week-old baby in Galeshewe will appear in the Kimberley Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, police said.

“As a mother, I was shocked and deeply saddened when I heard the tragic news,” national police commissioner Riah Phiyega said on Wednesday.

“We understand that the man who was arrested is the baby’s uncle,” she said.

“Whilst I am pleased that the perpetrator has been arrested, the incident and similar others which have taken place over the past couple of days in Galeshewe is something of huge concern to the police and broader community.”

The baby was allegedly raped by the 24-year-old man around 11.30pm on Tuesday.

Phiyega said she would visit the family and hold a prayer session on Thursday.

The baby was currently in a hospital intensive care unit.

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Johannesburg – Drama pupils offended by a question relating to baby rape in a matric exam paper were unprepared, examination authorities said on Wednesday.

Umalusi, the external quality assurance council that approved the exam, said dramatic arts was a subject that aimed to equip pupils by freeing their minds of bigotry and prejudice.

“That some learners by implication were offended by the question means the outcomes of the subject were not achieved,” spokesperson Lucky Ditaunyane said in a statement.

“[T]herefore, the learners are conceptually conflating and fudging the real issue of not being test wise and test prepared in dealing with the levels of difficulty and complexity of the test items.”

Some pupils, teachers, and parents were reportedly upset by a question that asked pupils how best to dramatically represent the rape of a baby, symbolically using a loaf of bread and a broomstick. The exam question was based on Lara Foot Newton’s play Tshepang, based on real events.

In 2001, 9-month-old Tshepang was brutally raped by her teenage mother’s ex-boyfriend, who was sentenced to life in prison. She was adopted when she left the hospital after reconstruction surgery.

Ditaunyane said Umalusi’s subject experts and moderators were sensitive to issues of national concern such as rape, violence, and abuse.

It was also important to consider that great dramatic works were contextual, historical, and socially relevant.

The exam question was about how a social issue could be made theatrically engaging, Ditaunyane said.

Excluding the question

Earlier, the basic education department said in a statement it would consider excluding the question from the exam.

“To ensure that no candidate has been negatively affected, the department will mark a sample of the scripts of learners from all nine provinces… to establish any possible disadvantage to the candidates,” it said.

“If there is evidence that candidates have been affected by this question, the question will be excluded from the question paper and the marking guidelines will be adjusted accordingly.”

The department said the examiners and moderators responsible for the exam question were within the prescripts of the curriculum.

The purpose of the question was to assess pupils’ understanding of an “action metaphor”.

“The horror and aversion the audience feels is achieved without resorting to an actual rape… Nowhere is it expected of the candidate to have to literally describe the actual act of raping a 9-month-old baby.”

The department believed that matric pupils, as young adults, were aware of South African social issues.

According to the department the internal moderator said the pupils were expected to explain how the broomstick and bread could be used to make an audience feel the horror of child rape, using props, lighting, sound, and stage directions.

“[The question] is valid and fair because the rape of babies is a relevant societal issue.”

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Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma has declared that a special provincial official funeral be held for ANC stalwart Reggie September, the presidency said on Wednesday.

“The special provincial funeral is reserved for distinguished persons as decided by the president of the Republic,” spokesperson Mac Maharaj said in a statement.

“The president further instructed that the national flag must be flown at half-mast in the Gauteng province on the day of the funeral.”

September, 90, died in Cape Town over the weekend.

Further details of the funeral would be announced later.

He was a former trade unionist, member of parliament, and executive committee member of the ANC.

September was one of the first non-Africans to be elected onto the ANC’s national executive committee, at the Kabwe Conference in Zambia, in 1985.

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Johannesburg – Judgment on whether an accomplice could be convicted for a robbery with aggravating circumstances without proof of intent will be given by the Constitutional Court on Thursday.

On 27 August, the Constitutional Court heard an application by the minister of justice and the national director of public prosecutions for leave to appeal against a decision by the Western Cape High Court.

That court held that part of section 1(1)(b) of the Criminal Procedure Act was constitutionally invalid.

A magistrate’s court had convicted the respondents, Nontambi Masingili and others, of participating in robbery with aggravating circumstances, and the respondents appealed to the high court.

They argued that the conviction of accomplices in a robbery with “aggravating circumstances” without proof of them having intended those aggravating circumstances, was unconstitutional.

The high court found that under current criminal law, liability for robbery with aggravating circumstances could indeed be imposed on an accomplice in the absence of proof of intent for aggravating circumstances.

The court held that the offence violated the constitutional right not to be deprived of freedom arbitrarily, and the presumption of innocence.

In the Constitutional Court, the minister argues that there is no imprisonment without fault under this offence because the State must prove the subjective existence of intent for robbery and the existence of aggravating circumstances.

The minister contends that this level of fault satisfies constitutional requirements.

The respondents argue that it is a constitutional requirement that the State prove the subjective intent behind each element of a crime in order to secure conviction, including aggravating circumstances.

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Johannesburg – A 2-year-old girl was killed when she was knocked down by a vehicle in George in the Western Cape on Wednesday, paramedics said.

“Witnesses reported that the child suddenly appeared in Makou Street,” ER24 spokesperson Christo Venter said.

The toddler suffered serious injuries and died on the scene.

It was not yet known how the child managed to slip away from her guardian.

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Johannesburg – Two men accused of house robbery and burglaries, including a robbery at the house of Crime Line head Yusuf Abramjee, appeared in the Atteridgeville Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, Gauteng police said.

The case was postponed to 4 December for further investigation, police spokesperson Neville Malila said.

The men had also allegedly tried to buy a case docket from the police, he said.

Malila said the men were arrested in Atteridgeville on Monday, and had been linked to robberies at two homes in Erasmia, including Abramjee’s.

“They were arrested for a spate of house robberies, burglaries, and hijackings around Pretoria.”

Police seized three stolen cars, two unlicensed firearms, ammunition and money at the men’s home.

Robbers broke into Abramjee’s house and demanded the keys to his BMW on Friday morning.

They fired shots while reversing out of the garage.

Earlier that morning, the robbers targeted another house in a nearby street.

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