Cape Town – The University of Cape Town has made an undertaking to move away from outsourcing services on its campus and to find the additional funding needed to achieve this “somehow”, it said on Wednesday.

“Last night (Tuesday), we made a commitment to the principle of insourcing. A process to determine the modalities, framework and timeframes of the implementation of this decision will need to be agreed upon by all parties involved,” vice-chancellor Max Price said in a statement released on Wednesday.

Key points of the statement were released on the university’s official twitter account and the student representative council welcomed the announcement.

“This decision assumes that we will have a commitment from staff and students that operations at the University of Cape Town will be allowed to return to full capacity,” Price added.

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New Delhi – India’s government said on Wednesday it would ban foreigners from using surrogate mothers in the country, a move likely to hit the booming commercial surrogacy industry.

Ranks of childless foreign couples have flocked to the country in recent years looking for a cheap, legal and simple route to parenthood.

Health industry estimates put the size of India’s surrogacy business at nine billion rupees ($138 million) and growing at 20 percent a year.

But critics have said a lack of legislation encourages “rent-a-womb” exploitation of young, poor Indian women.

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Johannesburg – ANC councillors who don’t enjoy the support of their communities could be out of a job next year, regardless of their influence in local ANC structures.

This may be part of the consequences of a selection system that will see communities deciding on ANC candidates even when they aren’t members.

The move is part of the ANC’s attempt to clean up its image ahead of what are expected to be fiercely contested local government elections next year.

This comes as the party seeks to address the connection it has seemingly lost with many communities where opposition parties are eating into support by championing community struggles, even where ward councillors are ANC members.

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Steve Komphela, coach of Kaizer Chiefs reacts instructs during the 2015 MTN 8 Final football match between Ajax Cape Town and Kaizer Chiefs at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth, 19 September 2015 ©Chris Ricco/BackpagePix

Kaizer Chiefs coach Steve Komphela believes that every coach in the Absa Premiership is under pressure to deliver results this season, not only himself.

Mandla Ncikazi, Kosta Papic and Kinnah Phiri have already been shown the respective doors at Maritzburg United, Polokwane City and Free State Stars.

SuperSport United coach Gordon Igesund is the latest coach under huge pressure after a very poor start to the season, and Komphela says every coach is feeling it.

“Coaching is about pressure. I read a book from Pep Guardiola in which he says coaching the first team is not nice, it’s never nice,” says Komphela.

“Even Jomo Sono is under pressure at Jomo Cosmos [despite also being the chairman] because human beings are creatures of performance, you want to perform, you want to do better.

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BY KEDIBONE MOLAETSI

The Northern Cape SAPS said they welcome the rape sentencing that was handed down to two Douglas men in the Kimberley Regional Court yesterday.  

Petrus van Nel (31) and Vincent Long(31) were both sentenced to double life sentences for the rape of two females. The incident took place on January 22 in 2012  in a veld near the Douglas/Campbell Road .

Northern Cape police spokesperson lieutenant Sergio Kock said: “The two female victims and a male friend were on their way home during the early hours of the morning when they were accosted by the accused. The accused threatened them with knives and chased away the male friend who was accompanying the females.”

Sock said the accused took turns in raping the females in the veld and thereafter  took them to the house in the vicinity.

“At the house the men again raped the females separately at knife point. The victims who were aged 18 and 22 years old at the time of the incident, opened rape charges against the unknown men. Police arrested the men hours later in the Douglas vicinity.”

The accused were found guilty on October 20 2015 and remained in custody until their sentencing.  

Petrus Van Nel was charged with 4 counts of rape and he was handed down two life sentences and an extra twenty years imprisonment. Vincent Long was charged with three counts of rape and also handed down two life sentences and 10 extra years for the offences he committed.

All the sentences will run concurrently.

The Kimberley SAPS Cluster Commander, Major General Jean Abrahams lauds Detective Warrant Officer Duncan Vertue from the Kimberley Cluster Family Violence Child Protection and Family Offences unit for a brilliant job done.  

“It is with pride that we see our members working extremely hard to remove criminals from our street. The convictions result in justice for the victims concerned and the community feel safer when the perpetrators are incarcerated. It also sends out a stern message and when you do crime, you will do the time.”
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BY REGINALD KANYANE
The North West Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Premier, Finance, Economy and Enterprise Development will hold a meeting with the Office of the Premier over Annual Reports 2014/15 in the Legislature Committee Room at 08H00.

Premier Supra Mahumapelo, senior management of the department including representatives from the Office of the Auditor General will attend the meeting.
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 BY REGINALD KANYANE

POLICE at Pudimoe police station, near Taung, said they were ready to fight and prevent crime this coming festive season.

  Station commander, Colonel Matshidiso Moruting said they have started operations to combat house breaking and business robbery crimes and they will intensify the campaign until festive season.

  “Pudimoe cluster serves close to 13 villages and our campaign will be kick-starts this week. We have put business robberies and house breaking matter at the top of the list. We will start with blue light patrol. We want to encourage our community members to make sure that they leave their lights on if they going somewhere or leave someone in the house. The criminals monitor your movements, so let make sure that we are always observant.

“We have also experienced break-ins some of accommodations where residing Vuselela FET college students. Another issue was break-ins at our schools during holidays. We urge our school governing bodies to make sure the schools are safe during festive season. We will be visiting our local taverns to see that they comply with liquor act.  We will make sure we apprehend those who find themselves at the wrong side of the law,” she said.

  Moruting said that they have identified the hotspots and police visibility will be on high alert.

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BY REGINALD KANYANE
THE NORTH West public works met with Taung residents over D221 road.
The meeting between Maphoitsile, Manokwane and Magogong village residents with the department of public works did not yield any fruition on Monday.

Acting Head of Department(HoD) for Public Works, Vuyo Mbulwana said: “We sent our district managers to meet with the D221 road residents. I have not received any fit back and I will inform you after gathering all details.”

The D221 road that was supposed to be compacted back in 2012, was abandoned by the department after they alleged that there was no enough funds in their coffer.

The contractor was appointed three years ago, but had to take the matter via legal route after the department tried to removed it and appointed another contractor.

The community of Manokwane went on rampage and burnt three houses in public protests in 2012.

Community leader, Peter Seokwang said that they could not get answers from the representatives.

“We could not get answers from them, so we sent them packing. We want to hear it from MEC Madoda Sambatha. We want to know when the contractor will be on site to commence with road construction,” he said.
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BY TNA REPORTER

THE newly appointed North West Transport Investment (NTI) board has called for a forensic audit to clean up the entity that has been in the news for all wrong reasons.

The board made the resolution at its first sitting since it was appointed early this month.

Board member Fetsang Mokati said: “The board received some reports on the NTI and its subsidies. Other reports are still outstanding and the board will ensure that it receives such reports in order to have a complete understanding of the status quo.

“These reports are crucial for the board to execute its responsibilities with distinction.
“The board resolved that in the interim it will it will study the reports received so far while awaiting the outstanding ones. An immediate and urgent action which the board has taken is to institute forensic investigations which will assist the board to unravel some of the intricacies that are embedded in the reports.”

Mokati said the board will take appropriate action once the forensic audit is complete and outcomes will be made public.
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*Note: (The article firstly appeared on The New Age newspaper)

BY KEDIBONE MOLAETSI
MORE 33 000 learners sat for their National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations across the country and the North West province reported no mishaps.

North West Province registered 33 844 candidates  for NSC who wrote their first papers in English Home language, English first additional language, Consumer studies and Hospitality studies on Monday.

MEC for Education and Sport Development in the North West, Wendy Matsemela visited three examination centres in Dr. Ruth Segomotsi Mompati district. Matsemela visited Kgosietsile Lethola Secondary and P.H. Moeketsi Secondary schools in Taung as well Noto Secondary School in Kopela village.

P.H Moeketsi secondary school had two examination centres which housed candidates from Bogosi Secondary after threats by community members to disrupt schooling and examinations due to service delivery demands.

Learners wrote all three papers without any irregularities. Explaining her visit, Matsemela says “The most important thing for visiting schools is to monitor that candidates uphold the integrity of examinations and that they abide by the pledge on the code of conduct. So far the examinations have gone smoothly and we wish them all the best,” Matsemela said.

Candidates are expected to write Accounting on Tuesday.
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