Johannesburg – Protesting Gauteng pupils have headed home after an afternoon of looting and wreaking havoc in Johannesburg, police say.
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We are not Nazis – EFF
Cape Town – The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are not Nazis and are not inspired by Adolf Hitler, the party said in a statement on Wednesday.
EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi described comments in this regard by ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe as “sick observations”.
“Every day, Mantashe manufactures derogatory labels and tries to stick them to the EFF and he is continuously failing because the EFF is growing stronger and stronger,” Ndlozi said.
On Tuesday, Mantashe said that in the same way Hitler had used brown shirts to mobilise support, the EFF was using red overalls.
“Nazis didn’t start by killing Jews,” Mantashe told reporters in Johannesburg following the ANC’s national working committee meeting.
“They started by making many promises… developed a uniform of brown shirts, mobilised society, [and] when it was in power only then did it kill Jews and put them in concentration camps.”
EFF members elected to public office wear red overalls and domestic worker attire in legislatures across the country, to show solidarity with the workers they represent.
This resulted in clashes between the party and the Gauteng legislature earlier this month after they were told the overalls bearing the word “Asijiki” (we will not retreat) on the back were inappropriate for the legislature.
Mantashe said the comparison was fair, based on a political analysis of Julius Malema’s EFF.
The party rejected his statements.
“How on earth can a committee of people who are supposed to lead South Africa come to a characterisation that the EFF is a Nazi-inspired organisation and movement?” Ndlozi asked.
“The EFF has nothing to do with Nazis and is not inspired by Hitler.”
The EFF was radical, leftist, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist.
“Now, any political leader who uses proper ideological tools of analysis and guide to action will know and understand that a movement that draws inspiration from the broad Marxist-Leninist and Fanonian schools of thought cannot be associated with Hitler and Nazis,” said Ndlozi.
“To be Nazi is to massacre workers when they go on strike to demand a living wage.”
SAPA
Two airlifted to hospital after fatal accident in Potch
By Obakeng Maje
Potchefstroom- A man and woman are in a critical condition after their vehicle rolled this afternoon on the R53 outside of Potchefstroom, North West Province.
ER24 paramedics arrived on scene and found the two critically injured patients lying 3 meters away from their vehicle.
Both patients sustained severe injuries and required advanced life support.
“Two ER24 helicopters were called in to transport the patients to nearby hospitals for urgent medical treatment” ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said.
The cause of the collision is not yet known but local authorities were on scene to begin their investigations.
-TDN
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Two airlifted to hospital after fatal accident in Potch
By Obakeng Maje
Potchefstroom- A man,30, and woman in her 40s are in a critical condition after their vehicle rolled this afternoon on the R53 outside of Potchefstroom, North West Province, says ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring.
ER24 paramedics arrived on scene and found the two critically injured patients lying 3 meters away from their vehicle.
“Both patients sustained severe injuries and required advanced life support” Meiring said.
Two ER24 helicopters were called in to transport the patients to nearby hospitals for urgent medical treatment.
The cause of the collision is not yet known but local authorities were on scene to begin their investigations.
-TDN
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Kimberley man sanctioned to life imprisonment for rape
By Obakeng Maje
Northern Cape Police welcomed the rape and murder sentencing of a 35 year-old Kimberley man.
Lieutenant Sergio Kock said the accused, Basil Daniel Van Rooi appeared in the Galeshewe magistrates’ court on Friday.
“He was sentenced to life imprisonment for two counts of rape and 12 years imprisonment for the murder of a 55-year-old woman from Soul City in Kimberley. The sentences will run concurrently” Kock said.
The victim, Feiky Booysen, 55 years-old was raped and murdered during the early hours of the morning on 24th December 2012. The woman was last seen drinking with the accused at her shanty in Soul City.
“Her naked body was discovered in her shanty by a neighbour at approximately 09:00 on 24 December 2012. Police arrested the accused a few hours later. The accused was linked to the crimes through DNA” he said.
The Galeshewe Cluster Commander, Major General Kolie Matthys congratulated Detective Warrant Officer Essie Esterhuysen and Kagisho Detective Team for their good investigative work and said he believe that this conviction will serve as a deterrent to any would-be-rapists and murderers.
“The sentencing was as a result of an intergrated approach by different units within the criminal justice system. Crime against women and children is a priority for the police and we reiterate that those who commit such inhumane crimes will be detected, prosecuted and sentenced to lengthy terms of imprisonment” Matthys said.
-TDN
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Case opened against Modise’s farm manager
JOHANNESBURG – The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) has laid criminal charges of intimidation against National Council of Provinces (NCOP) chairperson Thandi Modise’s farm manager after he allegedly threatened officials who visited the farmhouse in Modderfontein near Potchefstroom.
NSPCA senior inspector Grace de Lange has accused Neo Moepi of threatening her and her colleague and snatching the keys of her car from the ignition when they inspected the farm last week.
De Lange reported the matter to the police on Tuesday.
She says, “He had a scuffle with my colleague but the rest of it was threatening what he would do to us; like the burn the vehicle or [asked] if we are aware of what he could do to us.”
But Moepi has denied threatening the two inspectors with violence and claims he saved them from harm at the hands of farmworkers.
“There’s never been an incident where I threatened anybody, including NSPCA officials. They’re just caught up in their own emotions and I’ve accepted their explanation and their apology.”
Modise is facing criminal charges of animal neglect and cruelty after officials found that the animals were left without food and water for nearly two weeks. This resulted in more than 50 dead pigs, with the remaining 85 cannibalising on rotting carcasses.
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10 accused linked to ‘witchcraft’ fiasco case back in court
By Obakeng Maje
Taung- A case against 10 people who were arrested two weeks ago at Mokassa village, Taung after being linked to a ‘witchcraft’ fiasco will resumes on Wednesday.
10 people were arrested after Vinolia Sesing was allegedly beaten and the community members threatened to burn her alive. Vinolia Sesing was accused of killing Boikie Nthuta and turned her into a zombie.
The atrocity took place two weeks ago at Mokassa 2 village after Sesing was sent packing by Mokgareng villagers. She relocated to Mokassa village on Friday, but that did not augurs well with the residents of Mokassa either.
The allegedly attacked and beat her on her arrival also accusing her of practicing witchcraft. However Sesing told our crew that the accusations leveled against her lack substance.
She was attacked by enraged mob and that allegedly forced her husband to find an option to evaded angry mob. Sesing’s husband allegedly ploughed on few villagers with his car in attempt of escaping the wrath of the mob, and left six people injured and of casualties was transferred to Klerksdorp hospital under critical conditions.
Those who were arrested were charged with attempted murder, assault and malicious damage to property and their case was postponed until Wednesday and remanded in custody.
-TDN
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A minor nabbed with dagga worth R8000
By Obakeng Maje
Kakamas- A crime prevention operation held by Kakamas police this weekend yielded several successes.
Lieutenant Sergio Kock said as part of the operation, police searched several homes and followed up on information provided by the community about suspected criminal activities at certain houses in the area.
“At a house in Langverwag Kakamas, police became suspicious when the occupants refused to open the door. Police could hear the flushing of the toilet and quick thinking by the police officers led them to the pipes outside the house. Police opened the outlet pipe from the outside and found dagga being flushed into the sewer pipe” Kock said.
The suspects attempted to get rid of the cannabis by flushing it.
“Almost 1.8kg of dagga was found clogged in an outlet pipe leading from the flushed toilet to the sewerage system of the premises. The police found dagga with a street value of approximately R8 615 inside the toilet drainage pipe” he outlines.
The police arrested two females and a minor.
They were charged with dealing in dagga.
Kock said a 14-year-old minor was released in the care of a guardian and the other two female suspects aged 30 and 34 appeared in the Kakamas Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
The suspects were remanded in custody and the case was postponed until 4 August 2014 for a formal bail application.
-TDN
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Only dialogue can stop Gaza war – De Klerk
Johannesburg – Former president FW de Klerk on Tuesday said the only way the fighting in the Middle East could stop was through dialogue.
“What is happening there is tragic. I believe that the only way out of it is through negotiations,” he said at the Maropeng Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, where imprints of his feet were made in clay.
“We have learnt in South Africa after centuries of conflict, after decades of growing conflict that the only way to end conflict is for past enemies to sit around the table and talk to each other.”
De Klerk said both sides had to make initiatives that would lead to peace prevailing.
AP reported that the fighting between the two nations has killed over 1 085 Palestinians, 52 Israeli soldiers and three civilians on the Israeli side.
De Klerk gave an example of the initiatives that were taken in SA that eventually led to the end of apartheid and smooth transition into democracy.
“Two initiatives launched the negotiations in South Africa. The initiatives I announced on 2 February 1990 and then the initiatives by Madiba to say we suspend the armed struggle,” he said.
De Klerk said the two initiatives set the stage for meaningful and, in the end, successful negotiations and such initiatives were needed in the Middle East.
“We need the issue of borders to be addressed in a meaningful way and Israel needs to take initiative in that regard to my mind. We need from the Palestinian side recognition of the right of the state of Israel to exist.
“If those two basic things can be dealt with through initiatives by those who have capacity to take initiative in that regard, it will lay the cloth for meaningful negotiations,” he said.
– SAPA
‘Birth control to ensure bursary students don’t fall pregnant’
Durban – The KwaZulu-Natal health department will be injecting 12 female university students with contraception to stop them from falling pregnant as the girls embark to India for pharmaceutical and ultrasonography training, according to reports.
The Daily News reported that the local government were taking drastic steps to ensure the students do not fall pregnant and to avoid the Cuban pregnancy scandal, which embarrassed officials earlier this year.
Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo said the students, who were given full bursaries, would be injected with Implanon, which will prevent pregnancy for up to three years.
Dhlomo said the government had invested about R600 000 per student and it was unfair for the students to abuse the privilege,
The Implanon implant is a matchstick-sized rod which is inserted into the arm that stops the release of eggs from the ovaries.
According to Implanon website, side-effects include: vaginitis (inflammation of the vagina), mood swings, headaches and dizziness.
SA Feminists tweeted: “People were forcibly sterilised, irrespective of what they wanted.”
Jabulani said: “This is on another level – they don’t really have a choice.”
Zimasa Mpemnyama tweeted: “How safe is this? What about choice? Policing womens bodies? maybe?”
Last year Sapa reported that three KwaZulu-Natal students, who were part of a group that studied education and medicine at Turkish universities, where sent back home after two of the students were involved in a drunken brawl and one fell pregnant.
At the time former education MEC Senzo Mchunu, said: “It’s embarrassing. At the end of two months one child is pregnant.”
Mchunu had reportedly promised to conduct pregnancy tests before sending bursary students overseas.
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