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BY REGINALD KANYANE
A 22-YEAR-OLD man was enthroned as a new chief of Ba-Ga Mothibi Tribal Authority at Sekhing village, in Taung on Saturday.

The inauguration ceremony was attended by dignitaries.

MEC for culture, art and traditional affairs (CATA), MEC Ontlametse Mochware said they will continue to support traditional leaders in the province.

“We are very proud to be inaugurating Obakeng Mothibi as the new chief. His father’s young sister, Ponatshego Mothibi will be a regent until 2019. Obakeng Mothibi said he is not ready to ascend the throne.

“We provided laptops, vehicles and also cattle to empower traditional leaders. Chiefs are the leaders within communities. So we believe they will help the government to fight challenges the commuties are faced with,” Mochware said.

Provincial chairperson for The House of Traditional Leader, Kgosi Madoda Zibi said they welcome the new chief.

“We will give him the necessary support. As the organisation, we want to fulfill our objectives. We want to change the lives of the masses. We also appreciate the support we receive from the government,” Zibi said.

Ponatshego Mothibi who was appointed as regent said: “We are grateful that finally a chief has been appointed. We will work together with the community to make sure we change the lives of the people. We will also make sure we engage with elders to get guidance from them.

“The chief, Obakeng Mothibi is still at school so he said he was not ready to be the chief. I will be in charge until 2019. So he will take over from me afterwards. There are so many challenges facing the community. However we believe that the time for change has arrived,” she said.
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Johannesburg – Murder convicted Oscar Pistorius has lamented why his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp did not tell him she was going to the bathroom the night he shot through his toilet door four times, killing her. 

In his first television interview since the incident, with ITV’s Mark Williams-Thomas, the former paralympian described his version of the events of February 14, 2013. 

He said that after they had supper that night, he and Reeva went to bed.

 “So we sat in bed for a while and I just said to her: ‘Listen, if I fall asleep, would you mind just closing the doors and switching off the telly, and then I pretty much fell asleep after that’,” Pistorius said in the interview that was carried locally on M-Net’s Carte Blanche on Friday night.

“It must have been shortly after 3 o’clock that I woke up.  I had opened my eyes, the curtains weren’t drawn closed, and the sliding doors were still open.  Reeva had forgotten to close them.”

After describing the events leading to him firing through the door Pistorius said he now questions all the variables of that night. 

“You can ask yourself a million times why didn’t I just close the [sliding] door before I went to bed? Why didn’t Reeva close the door? Why didn’t, when she got up to go toilet just tell me? Why didn’t she shout at me from the toilet?  

“All these things, I can’t say why she didn’t do them, she didn’t do anything wrong, But it is difficult… to know if one of those small things didn’t happen, that the situation would be different, and I would still have her here with me.”

When questioned over criticisms that he was a poor witness during his trial, he said: “I had been in court by the time I took the stand, probably close on 30 days and I unfortunately had to deal with the police for a year and several months leading up to that”. 

“I disclosed to the court that I was on medication, that I was on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety and sleeping tablets.” 

Pretoria High Court Judge Thokozile Masipa is expected to hand down a murder sentence for Pistorius on July 6. 

The Supreme Court of Appeal previously overturned her verdict of culpable homicide for Pistorius, and replaced it with one of murder. 

Source: http://www.new24.com

Kelly Khumalo’s tell-all interview on MTV Base Africa on Friday evening saw the singer reflect on her troubled past including surviving an alleged abusive relationship with convicted killer Molemo ‘Jub Jub’ Maarohanye.

The Asine star sat down with MTV Base Africa for an exclusive feature entitled Behind The Story: Kelly Khumalo to set the record straight on her controversial private life which has hogged headlines over the years.

Kelly held nothing back and did not mince her words during the one hour exposé.

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One of the aspects of Kelly’s life that the interview delved into was her rocky romance with Jub Jub.

The singer revealed that she would be lying if she said their romance was all bad.

The background:

Kelly recalled how she and Jub Jub met in the industry and before they knew it, they were in love.

“He was very sweet but I think we all lose ourselves especially when drugs are involved. He had his demons and I had mine,” Kelly explained.

Allegations of abuse:

Kelly said that things started spiralling out of control when she fell pregnant. “I am pregnant. He’s not there. He’s never there. He’s drugging. There’s other women. That’s when things started getting very heavy for me,” she said.

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Speaking about an incredibly low time in her life, Kelly said that being in an abusive relationship along with her drug addiction played a pivotal role in her becoming a “shadow of herself.”

Jub Jub’s arrest:

Kelly did not mince her words when she said she has nothing to feel guilty about, where Molemo is concerned.

When asked by MTV presenter Sizwe Dhlomo what that time was like in her life, Kelly described it as confusing.

“I was left confused, hurt and broken. I was a first time mother and I was trying to support a partner who’s very abusive both physically and emotionally.”

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Kelly said that at the time of Jub Jub’s arrest her career was suffocating because of the association, and she just needed to get out.

“You can only do so much and I remember feeling, I’m tired of this nonsense. There’s so much drugging, there’s so much abuse – I had enough and I had to let go.”

On sharing a child with Jub Jub:

Kelly told Sizwe that if Jub Jub is released soon he will have a restraining order against him. When questioned about the son they share, Kelly replied: “A child he has never supported? A child who’s mother he abused in front of?”

She also made it clear that there’s no space for Jub Jub in her life. “For me Molemo doesn’t exist.”

Molemo ‘Jub Jub’ Maarohanye is currently serving jail time after being convicted of culpable homicide.

It has been reported that the musician will be eligible for parole at the end of 2016.

Attempts to get comment from Jub Jub’s legal team on the allegations proved unsuccessful.
Source: http://www.timelive.co.za