Monthly Archives: April 2014

MEC Maloyi appeals for stability in Bloemhof


Bloemhof-MEC for Human Settlements Public Safety and Liaison Nono Maloyi has condemned in strongest terms, the burning and vandalisation of both public and private property in Bloemhof/Boitumelong civil unrest that started on Monday. Thus far houses belonging to municipal officials and government property were destroyed by residents who are protesting over service delivery in their area.

“We are not going to allow anarchy to prevail. We are a democratic state which has platforms and channels to present dissatisfaction or challenges. We will not also allow people to destroy other people’s property mainly because they are dissatisfied. We will make sure that anyone taking the law into their own hands should be arrested and face the full might of the law,” said MEC Maloyi.

MEC Maloyi further appealed for peace and stability in the area. He further called on leaders of the protesting group to use proper channels in communicating their dissatisfaction. He said that destroying property will not assist in addressing their challenges.

Thus far property which includes houses belonging to municipal mayor and other councilors have been burned, while vehicles belonging to motorists traveling along the N12 were stoned. Residents continue to throw stones at police officers who are maintaining a law and order in the area.

About 120 protesters have already been arrested since yesterday. Residents demand that the municipal council should be dissolved or be placed under section 139C.-TDN
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A 17 year-old teen arrested for murder in Setlagole


By Obakeng Maje
Setlagole-North West police arrested a 17 year-old minor for allegedly killing a Bangladesh shop owner in Setlagole village, near Mahikeng.

Sohel Rana was instantly killed in a robbery on Monday.

Three suspects allegedly entered a local shop and pointed a shop-owner with a firearm. The 17 year-old teenager shot Rana in a head after the security guard pounced on them.

“Three suspects allegedly fled the scene and the security guard shot one suspect on the foot” sergeant Kelebogile Moleko said.

Police followed a lead and arrested a suspect who was shot on a foot.
“He is under police guard in Mahikeng hospital and will appear before court soon” Moleko said.-TDN
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Traffic Management Learnership Opportunities In North West


The North West Department of Human Settlements, Public Safety and Liaison (Public Safety and Liaison Branch) invites applications for the Traffic Officer’s Diploma Learnership, which seeks to capacitate unemployed youth with knowledge of and skills in traffic law enforcement. Upon completion of the programme, the learners will receive a national qualification in the form of a Basic Traffic Officer’s Diploma (NQF Level 4).

Salary: Minimum stipend of R2 700 per month (Ref. 2/2014)

Duration: 12 Months

Requirements

Grade 12 (Matric Certificate)

Valid driver’s licence

Between 18-35 years of age

Attach medical report indicating that the applicant is fit to do strenuous exercise/training

Certificate from SAPS indicating that the applicant does not have a criminal record

NB: Female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Please Note:

• Applications will only be considered from unemployed South African citizens, aged between 18 and 35 years

• Candidates who have already participated in a learnership programme in any Government department will not be considered

How to apply

Applications should be made on form Z83 (download here), obtainable from any Public Service department and accompanied by a comprehensive CV, certified copies of all qualifications and Identity Document.

Application form should be signed and dated. Failure to submit the requested documents will result in your application not being considered.

• Should you be in a possession of foreign qualifications, they must be accompanied by an evaluation certificate from the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). Please take note that all qualifications are subject to verification

• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. Faxed and e-mailed applications will also not be considered

• The Department reserves the right not to make appointments and correspondence will be limited to short-listed candidates only. It will be expected of candidates to be available for selection interviews on a date, time and place as determined by the Department.

All applications must be forwarded to the Director: Human Resources Management, Department of Human Settlements, Public Safety and Liaison, Private Bag X19, Mmabatho 2735, for attention Mr Gilford Moshito Malotane or hand deliver at the Department of Human Settlements, Public Safety and Liaison, Office No 130/131, Administrative Wing, New Head Office Complex, Old Parliament Building, Ngaka Modiri Molema Road.

Please direct all enquiries to Mr GM Malotane, tel. (018) 388-1049.

Closing Date: 11 April 2014
-TDN
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Dewani case delayed


Cape Town – The case against honeymoon murder-accused Shrien Dewani was delayed in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday.

Proceedings would get under way at 12.30pm, National Prosecuting Authority provincial spokesman Eric Ntabazalila said.

Dewani, who arrived around 11.20am, was still being processed at the court, he said.

Dewani arrived at the court in a police convoy, consisting of marked and unmarked cars. He entered through a side court gate.

Media at the Western Cape High Court were told they were not allowed to take pictures of Dewani.

A policeman addressed reporters and cameramen inside courtroom one and made it clear that all camera equipment should be removed at 10.45am.

The officer said the media were not allowed to take pictures as per order of the justice department.

Dewani landed at Cape Town International Airport earlier on a private aircraft.

“He has been transported by a chartered plane from the Bristol Airport in the United Kingdom to South Africa. The department of justice procured the chartered plane,” spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga said in a statement.

Among the reasons for the private aircraft was that Dewani had previously shown suicidal tendencies, said Mhaga.

When Dewani appears in court he is expected to be charged with conspiracy to commit murder and defeating the ends of justice.

He claimed he and his wife Anni were kidnapped at gunpoint as they drove through Gugulethu in Cape Town in a taxi in November 2010.

The couple had been on honeymoon in the country. He was released unharmed, but his wife’s body was found in the abandoned car the next day. She had been shot dead.

Xolile Mngeni was convicted of the murder and jailed for life.

Prosecutors allege Dewani hired him to kill his wife. Two other alleged accomplices are also already serving jail terms in connection with the crime.

Dewani has denied any part in the murder. – Sapa

Bafana squad announced


Gordon Igesund has announced his Bafana Bafana squad to face Australia and New Zealand next month.

Mpumalanga Black Aces midfielder Themba Zwane has been rewarded for his good form with a debut call-up, but there is no space for in-form Mamelodi Sundowns duo Teko Modise and Lebohang Mokoena, as well as Bidvest Wits duo Sthembiso Ngcobo and Sibusiso Vilakazi, and Keagan Dolly of Ajax. 

Missing from the 5-0 drubbing against Brazil is Bongani Khumalo, Dean Furman, Daylon Claasen and Dino Ndlovu.

Goalkeepers: Itumeleng Khune, Ronwen Williams

Defenders: Thabo Nthethe, Buhle Mkhwanazi, Siyanda Xulu, Anele Ngcongca, Thabo Matlaba, Tsepo Masilela

Midfielders: Kagisho Dikgacoi, Siphiwe Tshabalala, Thulani Serero, Andile Jali, Oupa Manyisa, Ayanda Patosi, Bongani Zungu, Themba Zwane

Strikers: Bernard Parker, Tokelo Rantie.

The match against Australia takes place at ANZ Stadium in Sydney on May 25, with the game against New Zealand on five days later at MT Smart Stadium in Auckland.
For more http://www.kickoff.com

Big Brother winner addresses controversy


After having unprotected sex twice on the show, Big Brother winner Mandla Hlatshwayo says he wishes he had been more responsible and used condoms.

Hlatshwayo and Lexi van Niekerk kept viewers glued to their seats with their steamy romance and sex scenes.

Despite the fact that the show was sponsored by a popular brand of condoms, Lovers Plus, and condoms were easily accessible, the two did not make use of them.

Hlatshwayo said there was no excuse for not using a condom as they were placed all over the house.

“It was a heated moment, I do feel that we should have been responsible as condoms were a few metres (away).”

Hlatshwayo and Van Niekerk’s indiscretions happened before the Human Sciences Research Council released a survey on the increasing prevalence of HIV.

The survey reported that among men aged between 25 and 29, condom use fell to 36.1 percent, down from 44.1 percent in 2012, and women were also reported to have registered a decline in condom use.

Catherine Hlatshwayo, Mandla’s mom, sounded irritated during a telephonic interview with The Star.

Asked for a comment on the sex scene between Mandla and Van Niekerk, she said: “It’s nothing, I’m fine with it,” and quickly hung up the phone.

The two had sex a few weeks ago on national television during “shower hour”, and Hlatshwayo asked Big Brother for morning-after pills during his next diary session.

The couple’s two-week courtship started off with a sensual massage and moved on to late-night talks and showers.

Hlatshwayo said he and Van Niekerk would meet and talk about whether they wanted to pursue a relationship.

Hlatshwayo, who has a girlfriend and child outside the show, said the relationship with his girlfriend had “challenges” before he entered the house, and they weren’t on speaking terms.

He felt he owed her an explanation about the events on the show.

“I want to explain myself so we can part ways the best way we can.” – The Star

Mob kills three after a crate of beer stolen


Cape Town – Three alleged thieves – two of them teenagers – were attacked and killed within eight hours on Sunday by a mob in Khayelitsha.

The murders followed allegations by residents of D-Block in Site C that the three had stolen a crate of beer.
For more http://www.iol.co.za

Boitumelong location calm after unrest


Mahikeng – No violence was reported in Boitumelong near Bloemhof on Tuesday morning, North West police said.

“Police are monitoring the scene. There has not been violence this morning [Tuesday]. There is nothing new,” Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said.

On Monday, six houses and a community hall were torched during a violent protest in the area.

Schools were also disrupted and the N12 was barricaded with burning tyres. Police were pelted with stones and one nyala was petrol bombed. Two police officers were injured and taken to hospital.

Protesters were demanding the resignation of the mayor and some councillors, accusing them of nepotism and failing to deliver basic services.

Around 100 people have been arrested since the protest began last Wednesday. They have been charged with public violence and malicious damage to property.

Sixteen of them appeared in the Bloemhof Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

The case was postponed to Friday when they were expected to apply for bail.

SAPA

Oscar describes start of relationship with Reeva


Pretoria – Oscar Pistorius met his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a mutual friend on 4 November 2012, he told the North Gauteng High Court on Tuesday.
They met through a mutual friend, Justin Devaris, and “hit it off” over lunch.

Afterward she told Devaris that he had forgotten that he had RSVPd with a partner for the SA Sports Awards and Divaris suggested Steenkamp.

Pistorius said he did not think Steenkamp would be that “carefree” but he took Divaris’s advice and she said yes and she would be ready in an hour and a half.

‘Fantastic date’

They went to the SA Sports Awards and later spoke until late. They were famously photographed at that event. He told Divaris that “Reeva was a fantastic date”.

The following day he asked her if she wanted to go for coffee and they saw each other every day for the next six days.

She went overseas after that and when she came back they took November and December getting to know each other.

“I asked her to come with me and she said she needed some time alone,” he said of holiday plans he was making.

She wanted to spend time with a friend at Christmas but the friend cancelled plans and they spent Christmas together with his friends Darren Fresco and his girlfriend.

When he later went to Cape Town she asked if she could stay in his house in Pretoria.

At the end of January it was starting to “pick up”.

The SA Sports Awards is when he “cheated” on his former girlfriend Samantha Taylor, according to Taylor’s testimony earlier.

‘Difficult relationships’

Pistorius said he and Steenkamp had both been in “difficult relationships” before they started dating.

“We both had things that kept us back in our relationship. We had both come out of difficult relationships.”

He said that initially “I was more into her than she was”.

As they got to know each other better, they started caring about each other, he said.

“We started seeing a future with each other.”

On the subject of cars, Pistorius said they both shared an interest in them.

“She was a car enthusiast. It was a common interest of ours.”

Pistorius is accused of the murder of Steenkamp in his Pretoria townhouse on 14 February last year. He shot her through the locked door of his toilet, apparently thinking she was an intruder.

Pistorius is also charged with contraventions of the Firearms Control Act. He allegedly fired a shot from a Glock pistol under a table at a Johannesburg restaurant in January 2013.

On September 30, 2012 he allegedly shot through the open sunroof of a car with his 9mm pistol while driving with friends in Modderfontein.

SAPA

DA welcomes probe into Nkandla before elections


Johannesburg – Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko welcomed National Assembly Speaker Max Sisulu’s reported intention to investigate the Nkandla report before the 7 May elections.

“The DA welcomes the Speaker of the National Assembly’s full consideration and action on the DA’s request for the establishment of an ad hoc committee to investigate the Nkandla scandal,” she said in a statement.

“I requested the establishment of such a committee in terms of section 89 of the Constitution immediately after the release of the public protector’s report on 19 March 2014.

“We have, however, received no official correspondence from Mr Sisulu and we will provide full comment only once the establishment of this inquiry is confirmed. This will also clarify the exact mandate of the committee,” Mazibuko said.

Earlier, Beeld newspaper reported Sisulu had decided to set up a multi-party parliamentary committee to consider Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s report about costly security upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s private home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal.

Beeld quoted DA chief whip Watty Watson and Freedom Front Plus chief whip Corne Mulder, who both confirmed that Sisulu would appoint an ad hoc committee.

“The Speaker phoned me and told me he planned to set up an ad hoc committee and that he wanted to consult,” said Mulder.

“The Speaker said the ad hoc committee would have to work morning, noon and night up to the elections on May 7 to get the work done in time.

“He [Sisulu] said he wanted to complete it before May 6. That means the committee should present a report before then and then the National Assembly should be called upon to consider the report.”

According to parliamentary rules the Speaker needed to consult with political parties before setting up such a committee.

In her report Secure in Comfort Madonsela found that Zuma and his family improperly benefited from the R246 million security upgrades, which included a swimming pool, a cattle kraal and an amphitheatre.

Madonsela also found that Zuma breached the Executive Members’ Ethics Act.

She recommended that a percentage of the money be repaid.

Zuma, in his response to the report, said last week he would await a Special Investigating Unit report on the matter before giving full and proper consideration to the matter.

Sisulu’s office told Beeld that a statement would be released once a decision on the committee had been taken.

– SAPA