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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
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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
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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

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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
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Johannesburg- Paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s lawyer Barry Roux has lashed out at police inefficiency saying they were to blame for many criminals not being convicted.

“There’s tardiness. They don’t take the docket to court – sometimes they don’t take it because they sold it. Or sometimes they don’t take it because they have misfiled it,” Roux told law students at the University of the Witwatersrand yesterday, The Citizen reported.

He said the biggest problem in South Africa was that people who committed crimes did so knowing “there’s a fair chance they won’t get caught – or if arrested, won’t get tried”.

Roux called on police to “wake up”.

He also criticised certain procedures in court that led to delayed justice.

“If justice is delayed long enough people don’t show up anymore or simply forget what happened,” he said.

Pistorius was charged with murder following the fatal shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He shot her through a locked toilet door at his Pretoria home on Valentine’s Day last year. He claimed he mistook her for an intruder.

Judge Thokozile Masipa will hand down judgment in the trial on September 11.

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By Obakeng Maje
Rustenburg- A 31-year-old woman from Thabazimbi appeared in Rustenburg Magistrates Court on Monday after being charged with perjury. 

She was arrested on Friday while opening a case docket claiming that she and her boyfriend were hijacked while at a parking lot in Rustenburg. 

The wide-awake police officials managed to realise that the same car that the complainant was reporting it to be hijacked, was actually reported to be hijacked a day before in Northam.

“It is alleged that police officials called Northam police station where it was confirmed that the car was reported to be hijacked. The complainant was then arrested and charged with perjury as she had already done a sworn statement under oath” captain Pelonomi Makau said.       

Upon appearance in court, she was granted R500 bail on condition that she report daily at her nearest Police Station until she appears again in court on Wednesday, 17 September 2014.  

The North West Provincial Commissioner; Lieutenant General Zukiswa Mbombo would like to warn dishonest people involved in this kind of criminal activity that police will deal with them effectively. 

“It is this kind of criminal activities that deny innocent citizens access to service delivery due to channelling of  resources to false and fraudulent activities like this case” said Lt Gen Zukiswa Mbombo.  
-TDN
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The Department of Culture, Arts and Traditional Affairs in partnership with South African Traditional Music Awards (SATMA) will be hosting the SATMA Nominee Launch for the second time in a row at Mmabatho Convention Centre on the 30th August 2014.

SATMA Awards are a platform to honour and market traditional music across the country. Since 2005 the SATMA’s have brought all races and ethnic groups together through celebration of diverse music that transcends tribal, racial and geographic line.

The SATMA will be celebrated under the theme “My Culture, Your Culture, One Nation” which calls for unity amongst South African ethnic and racial groups as well as African in the Diaspora through Traditional Music.

“As we will be heading into a Heritage Month, The Department of Culture, Arts and Traditional Affairs will be hosting a Media Briefing to launch the Satma Nominee Launch as well as the Heritage Month Activities” departmental spokesperson Shirley Montsho said.

The Media launch will be held as follows:

Date: 30th August 2014

Venue: Mmabatho Convention Centre

Time: TBC

-TDN
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