Johannesburg – The body of a five-year-old girl was found in the veld in Phomolong, Tembisa on Friday, Gauteng police said.
“It is suspected that she had been strangled and sexually assaulted,” said police spokesperson Lungelo Dlamini.
The girl went missing in the area on Sunday.
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Durban – The Tongaat mall that collapsed, killing two people, was not an unusual structure, an engineer told the inquiry investigating the incident.
Dr Piet Pretorius, tasked with investigating the mall’s design, told the labour department’s inquiry on Friday that the Tongaat mall was not an “irregular structure”, nor was it “a high rise building”.
He believed that it was adequately designed, but that he had concerns about the “accuracy” of the actual structure.
Pretorius has previously said he believed a beam, identified as Beam 7, was responsible for the collapse last November.
He was being cross-examined by advocate Saleem Khan, the legal representative for Gralio Precast – the contractor building the mall.
Based on his observations of the mall structure, Pretorius said, he would have used larger columns for support.
Pretorius was tasked by Andre Ballack, design engineer for the mall, to investigate the cause of the collapse.
Khan accused Pretorius of evading questions to protect Ballack, the design engineer for the mall.
Construction of the ill-fated mall continued despite repeated attempts by the eThekwini metro municipality to stop the building.
The municipality had also not approved the architect’s plans for the mall.
The inquiry will continue on 18 September.
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Durban – The Tongaat mall that collapsed, killing two people, was not an unusual structure, an engineer told the inquiry investigating the incident.
Dr Piet Pretorius, tasked with investigating the mall’s design, told the labour department’s inquiry on Friday that the Tongaat mall was not an “irregular structure”, nor was it “a high rise building”.
He believed that it was adequately designed, but that he had concerns about the “accuracy” of the actual structure.
Pretorius has previously said he believed a beam, identified as Beam 7, was responsible for the collapse last November.
He was being cross-examined by advocate Saleem Khan, the legal representative for Gralio Precast – the contractor building the mall.
Based on his observations of the mall structure, Pretorius said, he would have used larger columns for support.
Pretorius was tasked by Andre Ballack, design engineer for the mall, to investigate the cause of the collapse.
Khan accused Pretorius of evading questions to protect Ballack, the design engineer for the mall.
Construction of the ill-fated mall continued despite repeated attempts by the eThekwini metro municipality to stop the building.
The municipality had also not approved the architect’s plans for the mall.
The inquiry will continue on 18 September.
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Cape Town – The DA on Friday accused the SABC of imposing a “blackout” on a news report involving one of the broadcaster’s senior officials.
“An analysis of media reports indicates an SABC news blackout on the issue of SABC chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s salary,” Democratic Alliance MP Gavin Davis said in statement.
The DA said in a separate statement on Tuesday that a reply it received to a parliamentary question had revealed that Motsoeneng’s annual salary rose from R334 167.72 in 2010 to R2.8m last year.
Davis said on Friday that an analysis of news reports over the past two days, following the party’s earlier statement, showed the story had been covered by 30 radio stations, one television channel and 11 newspapers, but not by the SABC.
“The story did not feature on any of the SABC’s 20 radio stations and various TV news bulletins. The ‘radio silence’ from the SABC on Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s inflated salary is deafening,” he said.
SABC communications head Kaizer Kganyako was not immediately available to comment on the matter.
Upped own salary
Davis said he had written to the broadcaster’s head of news, Jimi Matthews, asking him to confirm the SABC had not covered the story.
“[And] if so, explain the SABC’s decision not to run the story despite its obvious newsworthiness, [and] explain who at the SABC took the decision not to cover [it].”
Davis said that if a story was in the public interest, the SABC was expected to cover it.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela in February released a damming report on Motsoeneng’s conduct, including that he had misrepresented his qualifications – he claimed he had a matric – when applying for his current position.
Madonsela also found Motsoeneng had irregularly upped his own salary three times in one year.
“His salary progression as the acting COO concomitantly rose irregularly from R122 961 to R211 172 in 12 months and was in violation of the SABC personnel regulations and constitutes improper conduct and maladministration,” Madonsela said at the time.
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