Black Leopards captain, Mongezi Bobe, could be on his way out of the club at the end of the season. 

The loyal midfielder has been with Lidoda Duvha since their promotion from the NFD, their scrape with relegation last season and also during their impressive CAF Confederations Cup run last season. 

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Stockholm – Singer Justin Bieber on Thursday seemed to shrug off the latest controversy surrounding his European tour after Swedish police said they had found drugs on his tour bus, but could not link them to any single person.

Bieber, 19, has made headlines in the past two months for showing up late for his own London concert, walking shirtless through airport security in Poland, posting a cartoon of himself in bed with a young woman, and expressing the hope that Holocaust victim Anne Frank would have been a “belieber” like his millions of fans.

On Thursday, Swedish police said an officer smelled marijuana on an empty tour bus outside the hotel where Bieber was staying before his Stockholm concert on Wednesday.

They said they found a small amount of drugs, but had no suspects and did not plan further action.

“Some of the rumours about me… Where do people even get this stuff. Whatever… Back to the music,” Bieber tweeted on Thursday to his 38 million Twitter followers after announcing he had arrived in Finland.

Representatives of the Canadian singer, who started his career as a squeaky-clean 15-year-old, had no comment.

In Stockholm, police spokesperson Kjell Lindgren said the drugs were being sent for analysis. “We don’t know who had the drugs or who smoked them, so it will be hard to link them with any individual,” Lindgren said.

Bieber has been on the road with barely a break since September 2012 on his Believe world tour, where he has been greeted by screaming young girls and blaring headlines for some bizarre behaviour.

In March, he abandoned a pet monkey at Munich airport because he did not have the right papers, and flew back to Los Angeles for 36 hours and into an altercation with a neighbour.

Last week, he came under fire in the media on grounds of taste after he wrote in a guest book at the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam that the 15-year-old Holocaust victim and diarist was inspiring and “hopefully she would have been a belieber”.

The museum later defended Bieber, saying they were delighted he had visited and that his comments were innocent. – Reuters

Taung-FORMER North West MEC for health and social development Rebecca Onewang Kasienyane, who died at Mafikeng Hospital last Sunday after an illness, will be buried at Lokaleng village in Taung tomorrow.

Kasienyane, pictured, who had a rich history in participating in the struggle to liberate South Africa from apartheid, was born in Taung on March 7 1952.

At the time of her death, she was serving in the North West provincial legislature as the chairwoman of the portfolio committee on economic development and tourism.

“We are saddened by the loss of this humble human being, who was my predecessor and a dear fellow comrade in the ANC,” current provincial health and social development MEC Magome Masike said this week.

“She laid the ground for the good work that we continue to do to improve the health of our people. We share the loss that is deeply felt by the family and hope that they will find solace in knowing that God is with them.”

North West legislature spokesman Mongezi Tsenca said: “We mourn the untimely death of this dedicated servant of the people. May her soul rest in peace, knowing that many will pick up her spear and continue with the struggle until all our people have a better life.

“We dip our banners in memory of this gallant fighter for our people’s liberation.”

Kenny Morolong, spokesman for the ANC in North West, said: “We will remember her for her sound political leadership, maturity and her unflinching passion to improve the lives of our people.

“She was one of the most reliable cadres of our movement, who carried herself with integrity, dignity, humility, discipline and respect.

“Throughout her political activism Kasienyane displayed profound qualities of a revolutionary cadre, who placed the interests of our movement above her own.”

Kasienyane, affectionately known as Sis Ribs, was sworn in as a member of the provincial legislature on May 6 2009.

She joined the ANC’s underground activities in 1987, and later became the chairwoman of the ANC Lokaleng branch and deputy chairwoman of the ANC Women’s League in the Northern Cape region in 1993.

She was also the ANC’s provincial executive council member in Northern Cape from 1994 to 1996.

Kasienyane became the treasurer for the ANC’s then Bophirima region in North West from 1996 to 2001, before joining the ANC Women’s League’s provincial executive committee from 2001 to 2004.

She served as the ANC Women’s League national executive committee member from 2003 to 2007, later the ANC’s deputy chairwoman for the Bophirima region from 2005 to 2007.

Kasienyane was a provincial coordinator for the Women’s National Coalition from 1993 until 1994, when she became a monitor for the Independent Electoral Commission for the first democratic elections in South Africa.

She later became a councillor in the Bophirima district council from 1995 to 1999.

She was elected as a member of Parliament, serving in the portfolio committees for social development and agriculture from 1999 to 2004.

In 2008, Kasienyane was elected to the ANC North West’s provincial executive council as the party’s treasurer.

After the 2009 national elections, Kasienyane served as the provincial health and social development MEC until 2010.

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North West University (NWU) Potchefstroom campus biokineticist, Prof Cilas Wilders, has cautioned the South African Rugby Union (Saru) to ensure that “bulletjie” rugby was banned in all schools despite the sport’s increasing popularity at pre and primary school level recently.

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The book collection of Prof FF Odendal, editor-in-chief of the HAT (Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal) for several years and well-known Afrikaans linguist has been donated to the Centre for Text Technology of North West University’s Potchefstroom Campus.

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The provincial health department has acquired the services of a helicopter as part of its fleet of emergency vehicles in a bid to reduce response time to critical and life threatening situations across the province.

The helicopter was unveiled at the Mafikeng Provincial Hospital yesterday and reports are that it has already saved two lives after responding to an accident.

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The South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) in the province has called on the SAPS authorities considering to dismiss two police suspects arrested for armed robbery on their arrival in Mahikeng from Mareetsane on Monday.

“Robbery has an element of dishonesty, which warrants dismissal from public office and must be set as a deterrent factor against those with the same modus operandi in the service. We condemn misconduct and applaud the team of policemen who arrested the suspects,” Sanco’s Packet Seaketso said.

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Many parents heaved a sigh of relief when c was introduced in schools through the subject, life orientation, in 1997.

However, the questions asked at a two-day seminar on sexual education was whether schools were equipped to deal with these “embarrassing” issues and whether the teachers were the right people to introduce these topics to impressionable youngsters.

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Twenty-two thousand public servants were charged with misconduct for corrupt activities and R300 million recovered from perpetrators, the National Public Service Commission revealed in Potchefstroom on Thursday.

Speaking on the first day of the two-day workshop to empower coordinators of National Anti-Corruption Hotline (NACH) cases within North West provincial government departments, Public Service Commissioner James Mudau urged departments to improve coordination of investigation of cases for their speedy resolution.

Commissioner Modau said that if departments could put more effort into speedily finalising investigation of reported corruption cases, the hotline will play a crucial role in the fight against corruption in the country.

Modau said the rate of feedback and the number of cases closed since the inception of the NACH, is a worrying factor as members of the public are not getting information or feedback on the cases they have reported.

“The public loses trust in reporting alleged corruption against government officials, which paints a negative picture as far as the fight against corruption in the public service is concerned. We have the responsibility to make sure that our people are prioritised by dealing cases as they report them to the hotline,” he stressed.

Acting Head of Department in the Office of the Premier, Humang Mashimbye called on investigators in provincial departments to spare no effort in resolving cases referred to their departments speedily in order to restore the confidence of whistle blowers and the general public in institutions set up by government to fight the cancer of corruption.

Premier Thandi Modise has consistently called for an onslaught against Corruption and for it to be uprooted as it has a negative impact on development, democracy, human rights and governance.She has said that capacitating anti-corruption structures would serve to promote ethical culture, deepen an improved understanding of the many facets of the scourge of corruption and strengthen implementation of programmes to combat it.Four officials per department attending the workshop are being empowered on investigation of white collar crime including strategies on how to deal with fraud and corruption from a legal and investigative perspective, techniques and a guide to financial crime that include corruption, bribery and money laundering.

By Obakeng Maje

Mahikeng-North West Department of Health for the first in history show-case it’s EMRS Helicopter that will service critically injured patients in the District. 

North West Health Department unveiled Emergency helicopters today. 

“I have made it clear in my 2012/13 Budget Speech that we are going to take advantage of the national tender RT79 to get an emergency helicopter to augment our fleet of Emergency Medical Rescue Services vehicles”. 

“I am proud to announce that the helicopter has arrived and ready to service our people” Dr Magome Masike said. 

Dr Masike said the development comes as they chart ways to aggressively respond to the plight of the communities and improve its response time. 

In line with the Primary Health Care Re-engineering Programme, we are on course to Reengineer Emergency Medical Services to improve the response times of ambulances to all communities to be in line with national targets he said. 

The Department decentralized EMRS in 2007. 

This development together with acquisition of new ambulances has helped to improve response time as emergency vehicles are now placed closer to the communities they serve. 

“We are also planning to establish and fund Emergency Medical Rescue Services satellite stations in the districts to uncompromisingly improve our reaction time” said Masike. 

The aeromedical service has been awarded for a period of two years and the service provider is a joint venture between ER24 and Halo Aviation and the cost of the service will be around R750 000 per month. 

This will include the lease of the helicopter, provision of a pilot and one advanced life support paramedic. 

“An additional paramedic will be from our Emergency Medical Rescue Service Training College in Orkney. 

“We have contracted 30 flying hours per month” said Masike.

Klerksdorp Tshepong Hospital Complex is the main hospital in the North West province providing some tertiary services and a larger number of secondary services.  

As a result, our regional hospitals regularly refer patients in need of specialized care to the hospital. 

“Due to the vastness and the rural nature of our province it is more frustrating for a sick patient who has to travel long hours to receive specialized care” Dr Magome Masike adds.  

The acquisition of this helicopter will ensure that emergency transfers from rural areas are done quickly, as this will cut down on the normal long driving hours”. An emergency hospital transfer from Vryburg to Klerksdorp will now be completed within two hours whereas previously it would take up to six hours. 

He said aeromedical service will not only be used to respond to emergencies; it will also be used for specialized services to remote areas.  

In cases where some of our patients in remote areas are in urgent need of specialized services, a specialist will be sent to them via aero medical services.  

Specialised Outreach Teams will also be able to utilize the service to conduct outreach programmes in remote rural areas, thereby implementing the concept of Batho Pele Principles to the latter said MEC. 

The service will be accessed through normal emergency procedure of contacting the emergency medical service call centre on 10177 toll free number for any emergency. 

“Our communication centre will determine the nature of the incident and ensure that the correct mode of transport is dispatched to the scene of emergency” he said. 

The helicopter can also be called to an emergency by paramedics on an accident scene or Doctors at a healthcare facility who wants to transfer a patient to another hospital as a matter of urgency.

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