A beggar who was helped by the readers to get a job, has gone back to the streets.
Several months ago, News24 ran the story of Joseph Phukubje, a bright, homeless young man who had for months stood at a Sandton traffic light with his CV at hand, begging for a job.
Phukubje had caught the eye of a Good Samaritan, Pamela Green, who took to Facebook and called for assistance to get him a job, a place to stay, and get off drugs.
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THE YOUNG women rush to the clinic to get as many female condoms as they can lay their hands on.
While matrons think they want to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies and STIs, these young women know better.
THEY KEEP THE LITTLE SPONGES FOR DOING MAKE-UP – AND THROW AWAY THE OILY BAG!
“The sponge is a quality product,” said Sandile Mkhebe (22) from Section A in Botshabelo, Free State.
“My friend introduced me to it and I’ve been using it without a problem for about six months.”
How successful the condoms are at protecting women from sexually transmitted infections or unwanted pregnancies is not known – but there are many beautifully made-up women in Botshabelo who are very happy.
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WHEN they met 21 years ago, they longed to have their own house.
Instead they have always lived in a one-room house abandoned by a villager more than 30 years ago.
The windows have been smashed and the door has been destroyed and the house has no electricity.
Phillip Mametja (63) and Mmalusi Monama (65) from Ga-Manthata, outside Polokwane in Limpopo, told Daily Sun that they met soon after their marriages went bad. They decided to move in together.
“We have been praying to God to bless us with a good Samaritan who will build us a house because our voices seem to have reached their limit,” said Phillip.
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FROM the outside this house doesn’t look special but inside, cops found a drug factory.
They also found bullets and gunpowder, as well as dagga plants in the backyard of the house in Bainsvlei, Bloemfontein, on Sunday.
The police said the discovery came after two arrests earlier in Bloemfontein’s Brandwag area.
Sergeant Fikiswa Matoti told Daily Sun: “On Sunday at about 3am, two men aged 22 and 39 were arrested by members of the Bloemfontein flying squad for drug dealing.”
Police went to the 39-year-old suspect’s house in Bainsvlei and they found drugs and chemicals with a street value of R2 million.
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BY REGINALD KANYANE
Kimberley Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit Appeal to the community to help in tracing a man who might be able to assist them with their investigation on a rape case. The man is coloured, aged between 20 and 27 years old, light in complexion and he is approximately 1.6 metres tall.
It is alleged that on 30 July 2015 at about 10:00am, a 30-year-old woman was walking to her work through Klisserviller veld in Kimberley when accosted by the suspect. The suspect allegedly ordered the victim to undress and that is when the victim hit him with her elbow and tried to run but the suspect hit her with a stone on the head. A struggle ensued between the two. The woman screamed and a passer-by came to her rescue while the suspect ran away.
Anyone with information is requested to contact Detective Sergeant Antonio on 082 302 0468 or Kimberley Police Station on 053 838 4213.
-TDN
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BY REGINALD KANYANE
One person died while fourteen others were injured after a taxi burst into flames on the N3 near the R554 this afternoon. A report from the scene indicates that it appears that the wheel of the taxi came off and while sliding on the axel the vehicle burst into flames. Exact detail to the cause however will remain a subject for police investigation.
Netcare 911 paramedics the fire services and other ambulance services arrived at the scene and found the vehicle engulfed in flames. All the passengers except one person managed to escape from the inferno. After triaging the injured, it was found that one person tragically died due to extensive burns, five people were critically injured, one a small child while eight others sustained injuries ranging from serious to minor.
After the injured were stabilised they airlifted a man with 80% burns with the Netcare one helicopter while the others were transported by ambulance to various hospitals in the area for the care that they required.
-TDN
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BY Seatlathebe Lepomane
Eusebius McKaizer’s views on the Star newspaper make for an interesting observation. This common line of thought that has come to characterise the middle class opinionistas who have been projected by the mainstream media and shoved down our throats, is all too familiar and progressively running out of relevance.
There has of late been an emergence of a new trend from comments that are targeted at any attempt towards reconstruction and rebuilding in the ANC, emanating from outsiders who have fashioned themselves as gatekeepers of opinion making in the country. Eusebius McKaizer is predictably no exception to this.
The opinion piece on the Star newspaper of Monday the 07th September 2015, titled “ANCYL didn’t rise from the ashes” commits classical fallacies not uncommon to his kind, those who are self-anointed thought leaders. Such an air of self-importance they carry! While nobody contests with the catchy phrase, which will put him in the good books of the marketing department at Independent Newspapers, misled and misleading allegations are made in that article which need honest engagement.
True to the character of so called owners of knowledge, such a sense of authority is used to comment on the internal matters of the ANC Youth League by one who has never been a member of ANC Youth League nor the ANC. The doomsayer begins by predicting a future for the Youth League, as gloomy as the English winter.
While so many of our poor young people who have put their faith and aspirations for economic freedom in their lifetime on the shoulders of the ANCYL, can only marvel at your knowledge and mustering of English culture and its topographical dynamics, to a point where you may comment on its ‘gloomy winter’ with such authority, let us educate you about the ANC Youth League which we know.
The ANC Youth League went through a period that sought to cleanse itself of its past mistakes and this period has seen about the constitution of two subsequent National Task Teams with the mandate to rebuild the structures of the Youth League and prepare it for a National Congress which would be constituted by correctly built branches that are true to the character of the ANC Youth League. It is the processes and the outcomes of this Congress which McKaiser makes opinions on, with such a misled sense of authority.
In the nature of ANC Youth League congresses, which was no exception during the 25th National Congress, reports are submitted on how far we have come since the last National Congress and such gives us a picture of where we are in our political and administrative growth, amongst others. We then discuss policies which will take us forward as well as elect leaders mandated to carry these policy positions forward. It is this one aspect of Congress which McKaizer seems to be interested in, processes around election of leaders!
Whereas McKaizer makes claims that “Yet, despite at least three people being willing to become president of the ANCYL, a bizarre and hasty elective process resulted in one Collen Maine being elected unopposed. The rules that resulted in this outcome were anti-democratic. Not in the sense of being unlawful as such, but certainly not in the spirit of promoting maximum contestation of ideas and leadership.” Democracy is not such a relative concept Mr McKaizer, don’t distort it to suit your interests.
Part of the democratic processes in electing leadership during ANCYL Congresses is that nominations would be made either prior Congress, through duly constituted Branch General Meetings or from the floor, during Congresses. A threshold is set for nominations, within the Constitution of the ANC Youth League and if we remain with only one contender who would have passed such a threshold, it then becomes nonsensical to put one candidate through a voting process, the only thing you seem to think sums up democracy. This process was followed to the latter during the 25th National Congress. We can only wonder which undemocratic processes you are then referring to.
Whereas you lament the absence of the notion of individuals selling their vision to be elected, such a culture does not exist in the ANCYL nor in the ANC. Delegates advance ideas in their commissions at Congress as they would have been mandated by their branches. These ideas find policy expression through resolutions taken at Congress.
The leadership that is elected then gets collectively tasked with the mandate to implement these resolutions. It is the vision of the Branches we are interested in, and not presumptions of individuals. Our leaders are expected to articulate a collective vision on the resolutions we would have taken at Congress and that can only come after Congress. We remained true to this culture and your likes cannot tell us about how we should run our processes. As for the issue of role models, we leave it to McKaizer to prove that the individuals who make our ANCYL NEC leadership collective are not and cannot be role models, something he has dismally failed to prove.
We emerged from the 25th National Congress inspired to take the path correctly articulated in the ANC Today by former President of the ANC Youth League, Comrade Malusi Gigaba, that being; First, the urgent need to rebuild the ANCYL, in terms of both its organisational machinery as well as political and ideological orientation; Secondly, the urgent need to mobilise, organise and educate – that is, conscientise – the youth in general so that they remain a dependable, conscious and disciplined revolutionary-democratic force;
Thirdly, the urgent need to re-establish the vast political influence of the ANCYL in society in general, among the youth and within the ANC and finally, the urgent need to define the role of the youth during this period that the movement has unanimously decided to characterise as the second phase of the democratic transition.
We indeed agree with you that the ANC Youth League did not rise from the ashes. That was not the point. The 25th Congress laid a foundation for the Youth League to rise from the ashes and we are contend with that as well, not only the history which your assumed we are exclusively content with. Rising from the ashes is a process and not an event defined by Congress. We will embark on that future orientated process as we unapologetically advance economic Freedom in our lifetime!
Seatlathebe Lepomane is a Chairperson of the ANC Youth League in the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati Region. He writes in his personal capacity.
The letter does not represent the views or Taung DailyNews and it employees or whatsoever. The letter remains the opinion of the writer.
-TDN
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BY KEDIBONE MOLAETSI
North West Nguni Cattle farmers have emerged best during the Agricultural Research Council’s (ARC) National Beef Performers Awards. The Awards were held as part of the ARC’s annual event at Pretoria on August 28 this year.
Medupe Agricultural projects are the National Emerging Beef Farmers of the year as well as the provincial winner of the same category.
The other winner, Barui Driehoek Agricultural Cooperative based at Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District came top as the winners of the National Best Elite Cow of the year.
The Medupe project owners, the elderly Medupe couple are ecstatic at the accolade and said they can’t stop looking at the great compliment presented to them. They said the win will put them on a map as best performing farmers. Since their first Nguni loan back in 2007, the Medupe’s have not looked back and did everything in their power to keep their project sustainable.
According to the department, the Medupe family repaid their loan back in 2011. They have 32 heifers and one bull as well as 28 calves. As part of their Award, the Medupe’s have won a week trip to visit the United States of America next year in June to attend the Beef Improvement conference and learn more on the Nguni farming. Speaking on their recognition, Medupe said they appreciated the credit and acknowledge that it will encourage other farmers.
“This motivates us to work even harder. We would like to develop farming to commercial level and I believe we can do it. We use our money to support our family and the journey has not been easy. However we managed to take our children thus far and helped them further their studies.
“We believe farming need to be treated like a business. I am very grateful because I saw so many young people taking part here. The youth stand a better chance of bringing transformation in the sector and the age allows them to move to even greater heights,” he said.
Barui Driehoek Agriculture Cooperation cooperative won the ARC emerging Beef Farmer award back in 2011, and previously won the Female Entrepreneur Awards, Top Commercial Markets in 2013. Matshidiso Mooketsi of Barui said the recognition they received is humbling. She said only passion has moved them from strides. She further said she believe that more is still to come and their project will reach even greater heights.
MEC Manketsi Tlhape congratulated both projects. She said she is quite confident of the efforts of the farmers in the province. Tlhape encouraged the winning projects to share good practices with others so that the province elevates its good performance.
The North West Nguni cattle development project started in 2006 as partnership between the Industrial Development Committee (IDC), Department of Rural, Environment and Agricultural Development (READ) and the Northwest University (NWU) with the aim of re-introducing the Nguni cattle in the province by providing deserving beneficiaries with heifers and bulls on a grant-loan basis.
“The loan includes 23 heifers and one bull. After five year, the loan should be repaid with 12 Nguni cattle which should include 11 heifers and one bull. The intension of the project is to contribute towards alleviation of poverty and job creation,” Tlhape said.
The project has reached the 9th phase and 78 project sites had been awarded 23 heifers and one bull each, and it has 78 sites across the province.
-TDN
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BY KEDIBONE MOLAETSI
MEC for Finance, Economy and Enterprise Development Wendy Nelson said government and private companies will thrive if more women are educated and engaged as important pillars of the economy. She further mentioned that the diversity in leadership will enable the province to achieve innovative solutions for the economic and social challenges currently facing the province, and allow for equitable and sustainable economic growth.
Addressing departmental and agencies women staff recently, Nelson said women that it’s time to expand themselves from generally holding leadership positions in common industries such as health, education and welfare to positioning them more in male-dominated fields and executive decision-making authority in powerful domains.
“We are capable to lead economic development roles in our families and communities, we can continue to reflect on what our mothers and sisters has achieved economically, socially and politically”. Let us be more focused on economic development activities that will assist the department to Rebrand, Reposition and Renew the province to be an economic hub.
“Together, we must ensure that the progress we have made as a nation to promote women empowerment and gender equality is not reversed” Nelson said.
Chief-director for corporate service, Matshidiso Jansen-Mwase encouraged women to be king makers in the workplace and within the society. She further told the women employees that their effort for service excellence is noticed and appreciated.
The event ended with a thought provoking message from senior administration officer and asset management, Lenika Booysen who said: “Stop from being comfortable in a dysfunctional situation.”
They also had a chance to get tips on financial management and legal issues on types of marriages, divorce and maintenance. Women were spoiled with beauty gifts from North West Gambling Board.
-TDN
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Johannesburg – A Home Affairs official’s alleged mistake has left a woman struggling for the past two years to get birth certificates for her twins.
Nthabiseng Molefe, 26, from Katlehong, says she was repeatedly sent from pillar to post in her bid to obtain the documents for her children, who were born in March 2013.
She went to Home Affairs in Germiston when her twins were four months old. An official, who she identified as Eddie, helped her.
Minutes later, Eddie told her he had filled in the date of birth incorrectly.
“He told me to leave and that he would call me. But he never did,” Molefe said.
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