Daily Archives: June 12, 2014

NWest youth dialogues to focus on unemployment and funding for youth enterprises


Mahikeng-Youth unemployment and access to finance for youth entrepreneurs will be the focus of 19 youth dialogues that are to be hosted by the Office of the Premier across the province as part of the programme to celebrate June Youth Month, Premier Supra Mahumapelo disclosed on Thursday.

Premier Mahumapelo said that the dialogues to be hosted by Youth Development in the Office of the Premier in partnership with the National Youth Development Agency, the Department of Labour and municipalities are aimed sharing information on the Provincial Youth Job Plan with the 9000 young people and exposing youth enterprises to funding opportunities.

In inviting civil society, business and labour organisations to make a difference by helping implement the Social Accord on Youth Employment, Premier Mahumapelo said that youth are the foundation for the South Africa that government aspires to build as outlined in the National Development Plan.

“While we are intensifying our effort to assist young people to rise above their socio-economic challenges with youth development programmes, we believe that together we can support our youth by turning every workplace into a training space and help create apprenticeship, learnership and internship opportunities for youth at places of business,” Mahumapelo said. 

Unemployed youth who are not registered with the Department of Labour as job seekers are advised to bring their CV’s while youth entrepreneurs are encouraged to bring business plans related to infrastructure, water, sanitation and transport at the dialogues

Information to be shared with youth -owned enterprises includes accessing  concessional funding through the R1 billion Youth Fund of the Industrial Development Corporation and  the Small Enterprise Financing Agency which has made R1,7 billion available over the next five years for youth enterprises.

The engagements start tomorrow at 10:00 at Madibeng Sun Way near Silkaatsnek outside Brits, OR Tambo Hall in Tlokwe Township, Ratlou, Kgakala, Delarayville, Tlhabologang, Reagile, Christiana, Pudumong and Ipelegeng Community Halls.
 

The last sessions of the engagements are to be held on Saturday at Barolong Boo- Ratshidi Hall, Madikwe Sports Ground, Ntsweletsoku Tribal Kgotla, Colridge, Khuma, Morokweng  and Venterdorp Extension 5 Halls.
-TDN
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‘House of horrors’ dad back in court


Johannesburg – A man accused of abusing and keeping his five children and wife captive in his Springs home will appear on Thursday in the Springs Magistrate’s Court.

The 36-year-old, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his family members, was arrested last month.

He faces charges of child abuse, rape, assault, and defeating the ends of justice.

The man was denied bail at the last court proceedings. He later tried to commit suicide by slitting his wrists in his holding cell.

Magistrate Roy le Roux found the man had not come close to convincing the court that it was in the interests of justice to release him on bail.

He had made a false statement that his son was missing, and could be charged with perjury.

“The State has a strong case as far as attempted murder is concerned,” Le Roux said in his ruling.

He was referring to a medical report on one of the man’s children, an 11-year-old boy.

He had numerous bruises and scars, including one on his head, allegedly from being hit with a knobkerrie.

The man was arrested in May after his 11-year-old son fled the family’s house in Springs and ran to a neighbour’s house to beg for help. The neighbour called police.

The man allegedly kept his wife and five children, aged between two and 16, captive in the house for several years and assaulted them.
SAPA

Blatter looks to tennis, cricket


Sao Paulo – FIFA chief Sepp Blatter on Wednesday called for football managers to be given two challenges per match when they could check key refereeing decisions against video replays.

The suggestion, which came out of left field at the close of the FIFA congress, would mimic systems used in tennis and cricket and comes with goal-line technology about to make its World Cup debut.

“I think it’s a good idea, if it’s feasible or applicable we will see in the future. But when I have an idea, generally I try to bring it through,” Blatter told reporters in Sao Paulo.

On Thursday, the tournament opener between Brazil and Croatia will become the first World Cup match to feature goal-line technology, a failsafe to check whether a team has scored.

Blatter’s enthusiasm for technology is counter to the views of UEFA chief Michel Platini, who is expected to challenge for the FIFA presidency next year and is an opponent of the goal-line system.

Blatter, who previously also opposed goal-line technology, said “if you have a mind you can also change the mind.

“I think when I’m analysing football you should not only analyse it outside the field of play but also inside. I spoke with former footballers, former coaches,” he said.

“You must have the feeling when you’re looking at so many matches of football and you’re having 34 cameras there and it’s so evident what happened,” added Blatter.

“I think it’s a good idea, if it’s feasible or applicable we will see in the future. But when I have an idea, generally I try to bring it through.”

He said he would raise the proposal with the International Football Association Board (IFAB), which oversees the laws of the game.

– AFP

Ramaphosa to replace Zuma at Kimberley celebration


Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma will be fit to deliver the state-of-nation address on Tuesday, his spokesman said.

“President Zuma is resting and working from home. He is currently busy working on the state-of-the-nation address, which he will deliver next week,” Mac Maharaj said on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the presidency said Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa would stand in for Zuma at Epainette Mbeki’s funeral and at other events.

Zuma would also not deliver the main address at the national youth day celebration in Kimberley on Monday, as earlier diarised.

“He must maximise the time he has to rest,” Maharaj said.

Ramaphosa would replace Zuma at the June 16 youth celebrations in Kimberley.

“The president will spend 16 June working on the Sona. He requested Parliament to bring forward the Sona date… to enable him to attend the African Union summit in Equatorial Guinea on 25-26 June, the dates that were initially scheduled for the Sona

debate.”

The Sona debate was moved to June 18 and 19.

Zuma was discharged from a Pretoria hospital on Sunday after spending a night there.

African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe said at the weekend that Zuma, 72, went for a routine health check.

Mantashe said the ANC’s election campaign had been punishing and all senior members of the party would take time off one after another to “re-energise”.

Zuma was also not attending a three-day Cabinet lekgotla in Pretoria he was initially scheduled to lead from Tuesday.

Ramaphosa was chairing it.

Sapa

City maps road ahead for Lwandle evictees


Johannesburg -A new housing development project is being planned to accommodate evicted Lwandle families and others from surrounding areas, the City of Cape Town said on Wednesday.

“The city is already in the advanced stage of planning a major new housing project in Macassar,” mayoral spokeswoman Pierrinne Leukes said in a statement.

“This development will allow beneficiaries from Solis Town, Greenfields, Polile, Wag ‘n Bietjie, Macassar backyarders and families affected by the Sanral evictions to be accommodated.”

Some 846 families were evicted from the South African National Roads Agency Limited’s (Sanral) land in Lwandle, near Strand, a week ago.

Their shacks were demolished and set alight. Many lost their personal possessions and were left with nothing but the clothes they were wearing.

Following an uproar from many sectors of society, Sanral proposed to move the families to other land it owned as a more permanent solution.

The families were transported to alternative Sanral-owned land in Blackheath, which is a largely established residential area.

Residents of the area were reportedly outraged at the arrival of the families and demanded that the families leave the area.

In the interim, the families would settle in Blackheath, said Leukes.

“The city will provide the necessary emergency housing starter structure. The city will also provide sanitation, in the form of chemical toilets on the periphery of the Sanral land,” she said.

Over the next three months, the city would provide full flush toilets on the city-owned land on the periphery.

On Tuesday, Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu held a meeting with Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille to map a way forward for the families.

The two also visited the families at a hall they are being accommodated in. – Sapa

Cosatu: Police refuse to arrest white perpetrator


Ganyesa- The Congress of South African Trade Unions in the North West province is disappointed that a white person has not been arrested after he assaulted a nine year-old child on 28th May 2014 and putting the child in a room with snakes.

COSATU leadership has visited the child on Tuesday and found him still traumatised and still in a bad state; and the police has not yet arrested the alleged perpetrator.

COSATU is informed that this is the third time that the same person has assaulted a person and no arrest made due to his relation with the police management in the area.

COSATU has addressed the community which wanted to burn the property of this person and pleaded for calm, but COSATU cannot guarantee that calm will be there after the leadership has left and, should anything happen there, no one should be blamed except the police.

“COSATU calls on the senior management of the police to make sure that the person is arrested by the end of business today and be prosecuted; afterwards he should be removed from the village to ensure the safety of the community and all his victims” Cosatu Solly Phetoe said.

COSATU calls on the Department of Social Development to visit the family and make sure that the child gets proper care and support from them.

COSATU also calls on the provincial government to intervene immediately as the situation might get out of hand.
The family can be contacted through its representative, Onneilwe @ 0765948890
-TDN
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