Pietermaritzburg – Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has pulled the plug on construction of a R300m cultural precinct near Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini’s Enyokeni Palace in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
According to the Sunday Independent, Mthethwa has also ordered a forensic investigation into the entire project and into the department.
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THE year is almost over! We’re heading for the New Year and people will be aiming for a fresh start in many areas of their lives.
One of the areas where you might want a fresh start is in your relationship and today SunBuzz shares tips with you to help you make a fresh start in your love life.
A well-known relationship expert in the social networks circles, Mike Fiore, shares in one of his newsletters what he perceives as the seven deadly sins of love.
Mike said if you can avoid any of these in your relationship, you’re well on your way to a
successful one.
He names the following things as bad behaviour and toxic attitudes that should be kicked out if you want a successful relationship:
– Criticism: Dr John Gottman of the University of Washington says criticism is the gateway to a toxic relationship.
Dragging your partner over the coals not just for their actions but for who they are – is wrong. Healthy criticism can be constructive but too much bad criticism is destructive.
– Control: You should be home by 9.30pm. I have to be up early tomorrow and you know I can’t sleep if you’re not there. “Telling them when to be home, how to dress, saying who they can or can’t hang out with and treating your partner like a child who needs permission to do things, is bad and often leads to abuse,” Mike said.
– Emotional dishonesty: Lying about how you feel is not healthy. “It’s way too easy to keep parroting words like ‘I love you’ long after they lose all their juice because you feel like you should still feel that way or you don’t want to make waves,” he warned.
– Prince Charming syndrome: This happens to women a lot more than to men.
A woman will say: “I met this guy. He’s almost perfect! “He fits 95% of what’s on my list and if I can just get him to grow three inches I’ll be SO happy.”
And then they absolutely sabotage what could have been a great relationship by focusing all their time and energy on what’s WRONG with a guy (or girl) instead of what’s RIGHT with them.
– Over-compromising: Compromising in A RELATIONSHIP is wonderful and necessary but overdoing it is not. “Folks compromise to the lowest common denominator and nobody ends up happy,” warned Mike.
– Misunderstanding love: “If you love me, you’ll do anything,” is a popular line. Mike said up until the middle ages when guys in silly hats started writing lovely poems about heaving bosoms and plays about desperate teenagers committing suicide because their families wouldn’t let them be together, the whole concept of romantic love didn’t even exist. “But love is hard work and a choice,” he said.
– Resentment: To be successful in love, you need to be your partner’s biggest cheerleader, their port of safety and the one person who will always forgive them for annoying you and pissing you off.
“For most people, resentment builds up over months and years and decades until you can’t even look at the person you used to love without bile and angst and contempt,” Mike said.
Accept people for who they are and forgive them for not being who you want them to be and celebrate their flaws as much as you do their merits!
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The aircraft carrying the bodies of 74 of the 81 South Africans killed in the Nigeria building collapse landed at the Waterkloof air force base on Sunday morning, SABC news reported.
Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini were at the base.
The SABC were allowed on to the runway ahead of the landing. Other journalists were kept in the officers’ mess at the base.
A total of 116 people died on September 12, when a guest house belonging to the Synagogue Church Of All Nations in Lagos headed by preacher TB Joshua collapsed.
Twenty-six injured South Africans returned a month ago.
Twenty of them had since been discharged from hospitals and re-united with their families.
Government said it would HOST a formal reception ceremony at the site on Sunday that would be broadcast on TV.
The bodies would then be transferred to various provincial mortuaries before private funerals were arranged.
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THIS AXED Generations star’s house is in tatters! Sunday Sun can reveal that the house of the drama queen Nambitha Mpumlwana is falling apart in Randburg, north of Jozi.
Her close friends revealed that Nambitha, who played Mawande in the soapie that was taken off air after she and 15 fellow actors embarked on a strike, is so frustrated that her house is now worn out.
“Nambitha tried to convince her ex-friend Lebo Keswa to sell her a house in the upmarket suburb of Sandhurst in 2012.
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THREE top house DJs are in a concert promoter’s bad books. This after failing to pitch for a gig!
DJs Black Coffee, Kent and Christos were BOOKED to perform at the Easter Buzz Festival in Zeerust, North West. But they never showed up.
Music promoter Odirile Bogatsu claims his group TIS Music had fully paid the trio its fees. This plus other expenses was over R100 000.
Speaking on behalf of TIS Music group, Odirile claims they paid DJ Black Coffee, who requested a Mercedes-Benz hired from Avis, R45 000.
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ZINDZI Mandela allegedly finds herself in a love triangle!
This involves a Ben 10, only known by the name of Hammad, and a top Talk Radio 702 female executive.
The executive’s name is known to the People’s Paper but we haven’t been able to source comment from her.
Zindzi, who is estranged from her MK veteran customary husband, Molapo Motlhajwa, is said to be smitten with Hammad from Nairobi, in Kenya.
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Every time things don’t go according to ideological expectation, the mask of reason slips and we’re back to name calling and chest thumping, writes Craig Dodds.
Cape Town – It was a bit like watching an old movie for the umpteenth time, one you didn’t even enjoy the first time around.
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EFF leader Julius Malema called Small Business Minister Lindiwe Zulu a “street girl” on Friday after she was physically restrained during a verbal altercation with one of his party’s MPs.
“She’s a streetmeid [street girl],” he told reporters in Johannesburg.
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Durban – Goals from Thulani Serero and Tokelo Rantie either side of half-time secured South Africa’s passage to next year’s Africa Cup of Nations, beating Sudan 2-1 at Moses Mabhida Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
Serero was instrumental in creating both, rounding off a move he began eight minutes before half-time, before turning supplier for Rantie, with a terrific through-ball which the striker buried high into the net eight minutes after the break, sending Bafana Bafana
soaring into an unassailable four-point lead at the top of group A.
Sixteen minutes of pure magic, in front of a pumped-up Durban crowd of more than 32,000, wrapped-up a hugely successful qualifying campaign in which South Africa are still unbeaten after five games.
Bafana stumbled late when Salah Ibrahim pulled one back for the visitors, after a lapse in defence allowed the striker to volley home from close range.
The goal made for a tense final 20 minutes, which belonged to Sudan. With 11 players behind the ball, Sudan were allowed to pay regular visits into the Bafana half, often troubling the hosts, who looked appropriately desperate at times.
Heading into the game without a goal on home soil in two previous qualifiers Ä against Nigeria and Congo-Brazzaville Ä
South Africa could have notched-up as many as five more, were it not for some nervous touches at the last second.
A highly-emotional affair on a cold and cloudy Durban afternoon began with a minute’s silence in honour of former captain and goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa, who was shot and killed in Gauteng on October 26.
Darren Keet was solid in only his second ever outing for the national team, having come in with the enormous task of replacing Meyiwa, who had kept four out of four clean-sheets up to Saturday.
Dean Furman was fantastic in his leadership of the team after being named skipper in his 23rd appearance for South Africa.
The afternoon’s attack belonged to Serero and Rantie. Serero, whose performances for Ajax Amsterdam in the Netherlands has earned him a nomination for Caf’s Africa Player of Year, looked his classy best, dazzling the home crowd with pace and skill, while producing defence-splitting passes at will.
Rantie, meanwhile, had a difficult first half after a number of chances went to waste, but followed it up with a better second which led to a fine goal, after the Bournemouth attacker danced his way through on goal, before finishing-off a world-class pass from Serero.
Despite the win, South Africa’s finishing left a lot to be desired. Bongani Ndulula should have sent the team two goals up just four minutes after Serero’s neat finish, but the young striker failed to keep his composure, somehow managing to miss-place his finish wide of an empty net.
Rantie could have bagged a hat-trick with the number of chances created by a Bafana team who put in one of their best performances of the campaign.
Reneilwe Letsholonyane capped the win with his 50th international for the country three minutes from time, coming on for Serero, much to the delight of the Durban crowd, who gave the Kaizer Chiefs veteran a standing ovation and a deafening welcome.
A nervy last 20 minutes looked to have troubled Bafana, who crept back into their shell in defence of their slender, but massively significant, one goal advantage.
A barrage of Sudanese attacks kept the home side camped in their own half, but a resilient back four atoned for the goal they let slip, which was the first of their campaign.
It was a deserved place at next year’s tournament for Shakes Mashaba and his troops, who celebrated as if they had won the World Cup after referee Mohamed Benouza blew the final whistle. – Sapa
The Belville Commercial Crimes Court on Friday convicted and sentenced former SAFA Referee, Clifford Malgas on two counts of corruption and perjury related to his role in attempted match fixing during the 2011 SAFA Second Division play-offs that took place in Cape Town.
He was sentenced to an effective four years behind bars.
Malgas was sentenced to two years for corruption and another two years for perjury, bringing the total sentence to four years.
None of the sentences were suspended and he will therefore serve an effective four years behind bars
The court convicted the disgraced official following overwhelming evidence that he colluded with convicted criminal, Philemon Setshedi, who himself was convicted and sentenced for corruption in 2013.
In her judgment, the magistrate said the act of compromising the integrity of sport was a very serious offence that warranted a custodial sentence.
As stated before, the South African Football Association is working very closely with the South African Police Services and National Prosecutions Authority to pursue the persons who are implicated in wrong-doing during the SAFA Second Division Playoffs in 2011 and corruption in football generally.
The Association, SAPS and NPA will leave no stone unturned to ensure that all corrupt elements within football are brought to book.
“We welcome this custodial sentence as it sends a strong message to criminals that they do not have a place in our sport.
“SAFA has adopted a zero-tolerance to any form of crime and anyone harboring such evil tendencies be warned,” said SAFA President Dr Danny Jordaan.
-TDN
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