Taung- As the nation pulls down the curtain on Women’s Month, North West MEC for Local Government and Human Settlements, Collen Maine will recognize the role played by women in disaster management, fire fighting and rescue services, by awarding them with certificates of appreciation in Women in Disaster management event to take place at Taung Sports Ground on Friday at 09h00. 

Ten women (10) women have been selected from different wards in Greater Taung Local Municipality and have been trained on Fire Fighting and First Aid. The training was to introduce disaster risk reduction at ward level to enhance the survival skills of vulnerable communities, especially women and children who bear the brunt of disasters.

“The programme is in line with the National and Provincial Disaster Management Policy Framework and the Disaster Management Act. The project seeks to present women from historically disadvantaged communities with information on first aid and fire-fighting” departmental spokesperson Ben Bole said.
-TDN
Follow us on Twitter@Taung_DailyNews or @IceT_
 

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is considering opening a camp for matriculants from Kuruman after a lengthy protest over a road closed schools.

“It is a huge concern for us because learners haven’t been to school since June 4,” Motshekga’s spokeswoman Troy Martens said on Thursday.

“We are looking at different options at the moment, including taking matriculants to a camp to learn. The plans are in place, we just need the learners to come back to school.”

She said 16,000 pupils from 54 schools in different villages were affected. Of these 496 were matriculants.

Motshekga was in the area on Wednesday to talk to the community, with the expectation of re-opening schools.

However, the community was adamant that the situation would not change.

A group calling themselves the Road Forum began protesting in June demanding that a 130km stretch of road in the John Taolo Gaetsewe district municipality be tarred.

The protesters were barring pupils and staff from going to school to get the attention of the authorities.

In that month, Northern Cape premier Sylvia Lucas’s spokesman Monwabisi Nkompela said the tender to tar the road was opened on June 12 and closed on July 18.

“The tender is at a stage where the project managers at the [roads and public works] department are evaluating which bidder met the specific requirements,” Nkompela said at the time.

He could not be reached for comment on Thursday.

In July, the administration blocks of some schools in the area were set alight.

Martens on Thursday said Motshekga was worried about the safety of pupils, and would be engaging with the provincial department of education and parents about the matter.

-Sapa

Cosatu in the North West is up in arms over the continued lockout of workers who took part in a metalworkers strike over wages, spearheaded by Numsa last month.
For more http://www.thenewage.co.za

​

Sentencing of a Rustenburg man who solicited nude photographs from young daughters of divorced mothers on social media was postponed on Wednesday, North West police said.

The case in the Rustenburg Regional Court of construction worker Anthony Louw was postponed to September 8 as the court was awaiting transcription records, said Captain Elsabe Augoustides.

Louw pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. The sexually enticing or explicit images were of young girls, some in early puberty. One girl was reportedly 12.

Using the names “Shivon”, “Chivonne” or “Chevonne”, he befriended divorced women and then their daughters on BBM and WhatsApp, police said.

He flattered them and the girls later sent him photos of themselves posing naked some in front of the name signs of Rustenburg schools.

He was arrested after a tip-off.

– Sapa

By Obakeng Maje
Mogwase- North West police are investigating a case of murder and attempted murder after a 47 year-old woman and her son were shot by unknown suspect/s on Wednesday, says Captain Pelonomi Makau.

A woman was asleep at her house with her children aged 6,7,21 and 23 in Lerome village, near Mogwase when unknown suspect/s knocked at the door.

“A 21 year-old boy allegedly went observe who is at the door, but was shot in the chest immediately after unlocking the door. The suspect/s pounced on the mother and shot her dead before fleeing the scene” Makau said.

A seven year-old girl and her little brother aged 6 were left unharmed while their 23 year-old brother escaped through the window.

A 21 year-old boy was rushed to local hospital for medical attention and is reported to be in stable condition.
Police said anyone with information that could lead to any arrested requested to come forward.

Police investigations continue.-TDN
Follow us on Twitter@Taung_DailyNews or @IceT_

By Obakeng Maje
Mogwase- North West police are investigating a case of murder and attempted murder after a 47 year-old woman and her son were shot bt unknown suspect/s on Wednesday, says Captain Pelonomi Makau.

A woman was asleep at her house with her children aged 6,7,21 aand 23 in Lerome village, near Mogwase when unknown suspect/s knocked at the door.

“A 21 year-old boy allegedly went observe who is at the door, but was shot in the chest immediately after unlocking the door. The suspect/s pounced on the mother and shot her dead before fleeing the scene” Makau said.

A seven year-old girl and her little brother aged 6 were left unharmed while their 23 year-old brother escaped through the window.

A 21 year-old boy was rushed to local hospital for medical attention and is reported to be in stable condition.
Police said anyone with information that could lead to any arrested requested to come forward.

Police investigations continue.-TDN
Follow us on Twitter@Taung_DailyNews or @IceT_

Cape Town – The Economic Freedom Fighters have applied for an urgent interdict against Speaker Baleka Mbete and Parliament to stop the suspension of their MPs, according to reports on Thursday.

Earlier all 25 EFF MPs received formal letters from Mbete asking them to motivate why the party should not be suspended from Parliament for disrupting a sitting.

Cape Town journalist Gaye Davis tweeted: “EFF to go to High Court for urgent interdict against Speaker and Parliament to stop the suspension of their MPs [sic].”

EFF leader Julius Malema made the announcement during a press conference at the party’s offices at Parliament on Thursday.

Last week, the EFF defied orders from Mbete to leave the National Assembly after they disrupted presidential question time.

They chanted that President Jacob Zuma should repay public funds spent on his home in Nkandla.

#EFF Malema: We will all respond to the speaker and reject her attempt to suspend us.. We will give her reasons

— POWER987 News (@POWER987News) August 28, 2014

#Malema: Want shortcuts to political questions. That’s what they did in the ANC when they took us through a DC. That’s that they do. #eff

— SUNESIS (@sunesistrader) August 28, 2014

#Malema says he will share his letter with the media as it is a “useless” letter from a “useless person”! #EFF

— Andisiwe Makinana (@andiMakinana) August 28, 2014

#Malema: Baleka Mbete is a speaker of the ANC not parliament. We’ll go to court and summit our letters “concurrently. ” #EFF

— Sibusiso Banda (@AwesomeSBU) August 28, 2014

News24

Cape Town – All 25 EFF MPs on Thursday received formal letters from Speaker Baleka Mbete asking them to motivate why the party should not be suspended from Parliament for disrupting a sitting.

“We received the letters today and we have to respond by tomorrow,” said Economic Freedom Fighters MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.

EFF leader Julius Malema was expected to brief media at the party’s offices at Parliament at 13:00 to announce how it planned to respond.

Last Thursday, the EFF defied orders from Mbete to leave the National Assembly after they disrupted presidential question time.

They chanted that President Jacob Zuma should repay public funds spent on his home in Nkandla.

SAPA

Johannesburg – The ANC said on Thursday it noted the Supreme Court of Appeal’s order that the so-called Zuma “spy tapes” be released, after opposition by President Jacob Zuma.

“We trust that today’s [Thursday] outcome will bring the matter closer to finality,” African National Congress spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said in a statement.

The court ruled that within five days, the National Prosecuting Authority had to comply with a previous order, in an application brought by the Democratic Alliance, to release the tapes.

The actual recordings, internal memoranda, reports and minutes of meetings dealing with the contents of the recordings had to be provided.

Conversations on the recordings were cited as a reason to drop fraud and corruption charges against Zuma, shortly before he was sworn in as president in 2009.

Political conspiracy

The tapes allegedly reveal collusion between the former heads of the Directorate of Special Operations, the now defunct Scorpions, Leonard McCarthy, and the NPA’s former head Bulelani Ngcuka, to manipulate the prosecutorial process before the ANC’s Polokwane conference in 2007. Zuma was elected ANC president at the conference.

At the time, acting NPA boss Mokotedi Mpshe said they showed there was a political conspiracy against Zuma and so the case could not continue.

The DA applied for access to the recordings and despite winning previous court cases could not obtain them.

Zuma’s legal team had argued in the latest application that the DA would use them against him for political gain.

SAPA

North West MEC for Community Safety and Transport Management, Gaoage Molapisi will address more than 500 women from different departments and stakeholders who will be attending women against corruption campaign to be held in Majakaneng.

MEC is expected to highlight on the role of women on the fight against corruption in the public service, the success recorded by the women traffic officers during their women’s month special operations and further challenges faced by women as they perform their day-to-day operations.

“The women against corruption campaign is informed by the Chapter 14 of the National Development Plan (NDP), which is intended to create a zero tolerance for corruption in South Africa by 2030” departmental spokesperson Rebaone Moeng said.

The campaign will be held as follows:

Date: Friday 29 August 2014

Venue: Mokolobetsi Secondary school

Majakaneng (Madibeng Local Municipality).

Time: 07H00
-TDN
Follow us on Twitter@Taung_DailyNews or @IceT_