Johannesburg – An 18-year-old man from the Sixhotyeni location in Centane died after being struck during a game of stick fighting, Eastern Cape police said on Saturday.
He was hit with a stick on his upper body during the fight on Friday afternoon, said Captain Jackson Manatha.
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Pretoria – Tshwane metro police have arrested 32 pedestrians found walking on freeways across the city, spokesman senior superintendent Isaac Mahamba said on Saturday.
“We have identified that pedestrians are involved in several accidents which happen on our roads. The 32 we have arrested will be charged for being a source of danger on the freeways,” he said.
Mahamba said the police had also arrested two people for drinking and driving.
Four drivers had been nabbed for speeding since Easter holidays began.
He said there had been no major accidents across the city so far.
Mahamba said the Tshwane metro police was deploying more than 50 police officers per shift to monitor the roads.
“That has been working wonders for us. Those officers are not static, they are moving across the city and ensuring law enforcement,” he said.
“Whenever they suspect a vehicle of being unroadworthy, they stop it and do the checks. We would like to urge motorists to be patient and abide by rules of the road. Long distance drivers must remember to take breaks at intervals to avoid fatigue.”
On Thursday, Tshwane mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa joined hundreds of police officers inspecting traffic on the N1 heading to Limpopo.
Several trucks were fined for excessive loading. – African News Agency
Mahikeng Ministers Fellowship has called on believers assembling for Good Friday and Passover celebrations to remember families of the 147 students killed,those injured during the Garissa University massacre and the Kenyan nation in their prayers.
“We wish to condemn in the strongest terms possible the henious act of terrorism and extremism that have cast a dark cloud over Kenya,” Chairperson of MMF(an interdenominational pastors fellowship),Apostle Zandisile Reginald Mpame said.
In conveying condolences to the families of those killed and wishing scores of those injured a speedy recovery, Apostle Mpame said that those behind atrocities represent evil which has no place in civilised societies.
“In remembering a nation that is in mourning,we should denounce sectarian violence, hatred and rededicate ourselves to pray for peace across the continent, intercede for the lost, the hopeless and the helpless,”Mpame highlighted.
Kenyan authorities said that though around 500 to 815 students have been accounted,hundreds remain missing in the aftermath of the seige during which four attackers were killed.
They have identified a possible mastermind of the attack as Mohammed Mohamud also known by the names Dulyadin and Gamadhere.
Mohamud who is alleged to lead Al Queda-linked terror group Al-Shabaab’s cross-border raids into Kenya was a teacher at an Islamic religious school, or madrassa.
He had claimed responsibility for a bus attack in Makka, Kenya, in November that killed 28 people.A $220,000 bounty has been posted for him.
Kenyan police statistics reportedly that 312 people have been killed in Al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya from 2012 to 2014. Thirty-eight people were killed and 149 wounded in Garissa in the same period.
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