Daily Archives: March 11, 2014

DSAC CELEBRATES CULTURE WITH THE BATLHAKO BA MATUTU


Mabe’skraal-The North West Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC) will next week host two events in honour of the community of the Batlhako Ba Matutu of Mabeskraal.

Over the past few months, DSAC has been hosting community events with Magosi around the Province as part of a drive to enhance moral regeneration, preservation of culture and highlighting issues of heritage.

“This is important for our Department to engage with the Magosi in order to fulfil our mandate,” said MEC Mme Tebogo Modise.

“We aim to celebrate the lives, culture and history of our communities and heroes and heroines who played an important role in the liberation struggle.

“Vast numbers of people from the Mabeskraal community were banished by the Apartheid order to areas such as Driefontein and Phaposane. They subsequently returned to Mabe’s Kraal after the end of Apartheid. We don’t want that to go unnoticed in our history.”

A history of the banishment of the people of Mabe’s Kraal has been recorded in two forms. In written form, it is part of a book by Dr Saleem Badat (Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University), titled The Forgotten People, which was published recently.

The Freedom Park has also documented the banishment through the placement of the names of all those banished on the walls of the institution.

The North West Province continues to showcase its efforts in unearthing critical elements of the liberation struggle. Through these efforts of we bring to the fore the role people of the Province played in the fight for our liberation struggle.

Through its Museums and Heritage Unit, DSAC continues to provide extensive support to rural communities and their traditional leadership. This helps the Department identify heritage sites, places of significance, historical buildings, graves of heroes and heroines amongst others. These will also be included in a database for declaration.

Details of the event on March 15 are:
Venue: Mabeskraal Primary School

Time: 09h00
-TDN
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Gordon Igesund Snr passes on


By Obakeng Maje
Johannesburg-The South African Football Association (SAFA) would like to send out its heartfelt condolences to Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund on the passing on of his father, Gordon Igesund Snr.

Igesund Snr passed away on Monday. He was 81.

He is survived by his wife, four children, several grandchildren and great grandchildren.

“This is a massive loss. He was the rock of my life,” said Bafana Bafana coach.-TDN
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ACTING MEC MOHONO DELIVERS 300 HOUSES TO MMATAU AND SIGA FAMILIES


By Obakeng Maje
Mmatau-Ms Ellen Matshaba of Mmatau village in the Moses Kotane local municipality has every reason to celebrate after receiving a house from government.

Matshaba has been living in a mud house for the past 52 years, which has been exposing her to hazardous environment and compromised her health and that of her family members.

Ms Matshaba is one of the 300 beneficiaries in Mmatau and Siga villages of Moses Kotane who benefited from government’s low cost housing programme. The 70 year old Matshaba, who also lives with disability and other beneficiaries, could not stop singing praises when the acting MEC of the Department of Human Settlements Public Safety and Liaison, Desbo Mohono handed keys to their new houses.

Receiving keys to her house Matshaba could not contain her excitement and further shared a tier of joy, as she thanked government for rescuing her from the mud house that compromised her health. She lives with her daughter and two grand children. Her family survives on her pension money and that of the two grand children.

“I am so delighted I can’t even tell. My life and that of my family will change for the better and my family will have a home forever. May God bless this government and let it grow from strength to strength,” said Matshaba.

According to Acting MEC Mohono, the Department has made sure that the houses which were handed over were of quality and safe to live in. She said that government will continue to make sure that it delivers houses where they are mostly need.

“This important government programme will make sure that the dignity of our people is restored and that they enjoy the fruits of democracy. I am sure that we will all celebrate the 20 years of democracy with pride as we look back where we come from and what government has achieved. We made a promise as government, to make sure that we house our people and we will continue to do that,” said Mohono.

MEC Mohono congratulated Gogo Matshaba and other beneficiaries and urged them to take care of their houses and make them homes.  The handing over of 8000 houses which started in February will continue until the end of March. The MEC will among others hand over low cost houses, rental stock, financially linked individual subsidy programme and Community residential units.-TDN
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Khenyeza banned for 6 games


By Obakeng Maje
Johannesburg-The Arbitrator into the Mabhuti Khenyeza matter has ruled that the Mpumalanga Black Aces striker be suspended for six competitive games under the auspices of the Premier Soccer League (PSL).

The ruling brings to an end the long standing saga involving the player that has dragged on for months.

“The PSL had referred the Khenyeza matter for Arbitration on August 29 last year following the decision by the SAFA Appeals Board to change his earlier punishment from a 12-month ban to a R50 000 fine, half of which was suspended” Safa spokesperson Matlhomola Morake said.

Khenyeza, while playing for Ajax Cape Town last season, was found guilty of swearing and spitting at a linesman, and suspended for 12 months by a PSL disciplinary committee.

But the player successfully appealed his sentence to the mother body which reduced his 12-month ban to an effective R25 000 fine.

“The PSL in turn appealed against what they termed a light sentence resulting in the latest ruling by an independent Arbitrator” Morake said.

Apart from the 6-game ban, the Arbitrator also fined the player R100 000 which is wholly suspended for the current season on condition the player is not found guilty of the same offence during the period of suspension.

Each party will have to pay 50% of the hearing costs as well as the arbitration costs.-TDN
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