BY REGINALD KANYANE

MORE than 600 suspects were arrested in North West during last week.

North West police spokesperson, Col Sabata Mokgwabone said the suspects were nabbed for various offences through day to day routine and other operations.

“The operation commenced on Monday last week. We have arrested 156 suspects for contact crimes and 31 suspects were arrested for property related crimes. The police arrested 90 suspects for drug related including driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

“We have also arrested 45 suspects for being in possession of suspected stolen property and many other crimes.  We have a total number of 358 fines issued for liquor, traffic and by-laws related offences,” Mokgwabone said.

He said police confiscated liquor including concoctions, various drugs, ten sheep, seven vehicles, nine firearms and various electrical appliances. Mokgwabone said most of suspects appeared in various courts on Monday.

North West police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Baile Motswenyane commended the police for their determination. She said the police together with other role players will continue with operations of this nature to ensure the safety of various communities.

-TDN

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BY REGINALD KANYANE

THE RESIDENTS in Itsoseng took to the street to demonstrate their frustration and anger over poor basic service delivery yesterday.

According to DA in North West, ANC councilor, Morutse Molefe allegedly promised the residents jobs through the Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP).

DA member, Jacqueline Theologo said: “Molefe was unable to deliver on his promises. His failure to deliver prompted the residents to embark on a strike.

DA in Ditsobotla is deeply concerned to see Itsoseng burning in a protest over failed jobs promised by the ANC.”

“The ANC in Ditsobotla will not be able to deliver on job creation promises because the municipality is marred by maladministration, corruption and incompetence.

“There is not an enabling environment to conduct business as irregular electricity and water supply, poor service delivery and the maintenance of infrastructure are hindering economic growth here,” she said.

According to DA, over 8.9 million South Africans are jobless.

“The DA firmly believes that economic freedom under the ANC is a pipe dream. Where the DA governs, we ensure job creation and development through proper sustainable and long term solutions.

“Instead of making empty promises, we propose pledging an additional R1.2 billion to EPWP to create 181 818 more work opportunities in 2016/17,” Theologo said.

She said the DA will invest in infrastructure to create jobs. Theologo further added that they will improve education system and ensure that people learn the kind of skills that will enable them to get jobs.

“We will also create a nation of entrepreneurs and make it easy for people to start their own businesses,” she said.

The police are currently monitoring the situation.

*NB: Our attempts to reach ANC councilor, Morutse Molefe was futile

-TDN

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Fans make fun of Lerato Kganygo’s ‘photoshopped’ True Love cover, putting Julius Malema’s face on her body.

In the midst of a social media storm over Lerato Kganyago’s True Love cover some social media users thought it funny to take the mickey out of the situation, by photoshopping EFF leader Julius Malema’s head onto her body.

Hundreds of Twitter users took to the site on Monday to complain about Lerato Kganyago’s latest cover, saying that it had been photoshopped to the point where she was unrecognisable.

As messages of support from both fans and celebs, flooded in for Lerato, some decided to produce their own touched up cover replacing Lerato’s head with Julius Malema’s.

Source: http://www.timelive.co.za

BY REGINALD KANYANE
RESIDENTS of Modderspruit, near Brits, marched to the Madibeng local municipality office on Friday demanding that uncompleted projects  in their area be finished.

Community members alleged that there was lack of service delivery in their area.  

EFF member and community leader for ward 31 in the area, Mpotokeng Bodigelo said there are many projects that were left incomplete.

He said that residents want the municipality to deliver on its mandate and speed-up the process on incomplete projects.

“The municipality promised to improve the lives of the community. However they came with empty promises. We were promised a sport field facility worth R2.6m. When you look at that project, it was abandoned and now the area has been vandalised. We were also promised a community hall, road paving and 500 unit RDP houses.

“We just need transparency to all projects taking place within our community. The municipality itself is in shambles. We want the municipality to account and improve the lives of our people. When you look at our roads, they are marred with potholes and there is no water and sanitation in the area,” Bodigelo said.

Another resident said they have three trust accounts belonging to the community. However when they inquire about them they get no reply.

 “We have a trust fund from Lonmin mine, IFM and another one from the complex. We have tried to enquire about these accounts, however to our dissatisfaction, we are told all three accounts balance is zero,” she said.

Another resident shared his views and said: “There is high rate of unemployment in the area. There is no high school in this area. We were promised library, but we are still waiting until now.”

However ANC ward councillor in Modderspruit, Petrus Makgabo said the municipality was hard at work to finish delayed projects. He further added that some of the projects were vandalised by community members.

“The municipality implemented sport field which was in good condition during 2014-15 financial year. And the community park was built before my term. The community started to vandalise it and we approached the mine to fence it.

“Now as we speak the park is fenced and regarding RDP houses, we approached the local government and human settlements department to check if there was any allocation for housing project. Unfortunately there was no such project,” Makgabo said.

The beleaguered municipality was put under administration by provincial government and is under investigation by The Hawks.
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Mamelodi Sundowns have been promoted back into the Champions League after AS Vita Club were disqualifed, CAF have announced.

The Confederation of African Football announced in a tweet from their offcial Twitter account that the PSL side will take the Congolese team’s place in the top-tier competition.

Vita eliminated Sundowns from the Champions League on away-goals after a 2-2 aggregate draw before The Brazilians dropped down into the CAF Confederation Cup, where they were eliminated in the same manner after a 3-3 aggregate draw against Ghanaian side Medeama SC.

This means Sundowns will be in Champions League group stage action as early as 17 June and will have to cut short their off-season break.

They will be in today’s draws for the group stages of both continental competitions, which take place at the CAF headquarters in Cairo at 14h30. 

Pitso Mosimane’s side will be in the mix alongside Al Ahly, Zamalek (both Egypt), ASEC Mimosas (Ivory Coast), ES Setif (Algeria), Enyimba (Nigeria), Wydad Athletic Club (Morocco) and Zesco (Zambia).

More to follow from CAF as this story unfolds…
Source: Kick Off Magazine