BY Obakeng Maje
Johannesburg- Kaizer Chiefs was engaged in an intensive meeting with their now former coach,Vladimir Vermezovic.
But it seems the two parties did not share the same philosophy and the vision of the team as the results of that meet did not yell any results.
Vlad Vis heard that he is in talks with Supersport and now is fired by Naturena based team.
Doctor Khumalo,Arthur Zwane and Ace Khuse will take over as caretaker coaches until the end of the season.
BY Obakeng Maje
JOHANNESBURG- The case of ANCYL embattled leader,Julius Malema is under-way as Malema and his legal team are currently arguing against his expulsion of the party.
Malema is curretly been suspended by the ruling party after yet infamous attack on Jacob Zuma’s leadership being compared to “dictatorship”.
The embattled youth leader previously been charged with sowing divisions in the party and bringing it into disrepute,was eventually suspended with immediate effect for five years but he appealed against the sanction being posed and he subsequently expelled after the matter was brought back to NDC for mitigations.
Reoprters are not allowed into the building and we will keep you posted regarding the matter.
BY Obakeng Maje
BY Nastasya Tay
President Jacob Zuma said Africa needs to be less pessimistic about the continent if it wants a chance at economic success.
He also expressed his confidence in the continent’s potential in the coming decades.
The president said Africa will have the upper hand in the global workforce.
Zuma said good governance, peace and economic growth was needed on the continent.
By 2050, Africa will be home to 20 percent of the world’s youth and 25 percent of the global workforce.
Zuma said six of the world’s fastest growing economies are in Africa, with the continent growing faster than Asian nations in eight of the last 10 years.
He said this growth would help produce the crucial resources to improve health, sanitation and Africa’s quality of life.
“Africa must release themselves from the shackles of self-doubt and be ambassadors of the continent.”
He said this will ensure it receives the foreign investment that will create decent jobs.
(Edited by Zethu Zulu)
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center on Wednesday cancelled an alert issued for countries along the Indian Ocean.
This followed a massive 8.6 magnitude earthquake near Indonesia.
The warning was issued to 28 countries and was extended for a further two hours when an aftershock struck off the coast of Sumatra.
Speaking to Eyewitness News, numerous South African holidaymakers in Thailand said they were moved to higher ground.
One Krabi man said he battled to receive information, but things appeared to be returning to normal.
He said staff at the hotel did not say anything further about the tsunami.
South Africa was amongst the countries to be issued with a tsunami watch.
But alerts for Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Durban and the Prince Edward Islands were withdrawn.
Shortly after the quake, a tsunami measuring just 17 centimetres was generated in the Indian Ocean.
There were fears that the wave could gather momentum as it travels.
Kaizer Chiefs will engage the club’s head coach Vladimir Vermezovic to discuss his future in the coming days.
Speculation is rife that Vermezovic may not be offered a new deal when his current contract expires at the end of the season.
According to those privy to the situation in Naturena, the renewal of Vermezovic depends on whether the team wins the League.
However, recent reports claim that his relationship with senior players such as Jimmy Tau and Tinashe Nengomasha has reached an all-time low and it could be on that basis, of his alleged poor relationship with the players, that he may not be offered a new deal.
Bobby Motaung says: “We will discuss his future this week. We have to map the way forward.”
“His job is to win things, that’s his life. His lifeline is on achieving and winning “
– Bobby Motaung
Amakhosi’s football manager further tells KickOff.com that the speculation is “unsettling” the coach; hence his future has to be discussed urgently.
“The speculation is unsettling him, but it would take time because we have to look at this holistically in terms of the plans ahead. We want to kill the speculation of who is coming and everything.
“We are planning now [for next season] so we have to know by the end of the season [what’s the situation with the coach],” he says.
Motaung also hinted that Vermezovic’s future may indeed hinge on whether the team wins silverware this season.
“Part of it [his mandate] is obviously to win the League and cups, that’s what he is here for and it is not an easy thing to do, but that’s the challenge and he knows it as the coach. His job is to win things, that’s his life. His lifeline is on achieving and winning,” Motaung adds.
Chiefs have not a won a trophy this season.
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Just two weeks after Mdluli was controversially reinstated in the police after being suspended from duty for more than a year, the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court was told that he had assaulted a former girlfriend, kidnapped and assaulted two of her friends and her lover, and repeatedly intimidated several members of her family.
The allegations form part of a 67-page submission that was yesterday read out by investigating officer Colonel Kobus Roelofse as part of the inquest into the murder of Oupa Ramogibe 13 years ago. Ramogibe was married to Mdluli’s former lover, Tshidi Buthelezi.
Mdluli has been saved from a court hearing for now because of the withdrawal last month of a string of charges after he made representations to the National Prosecuting Authority last year. He claimed that his prosecution was politically motivated.
The outcome of the inquest will determine if he will be recharged.
The withdrawal of the charges in March has sparked outrage and allegations of interference by President Jacob Zuma and Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa.
But yesterday Roelofse said that he and a team of seasoned police officers, brought in from Cape Town, had obtained 127 affidavits from witnesses and collected 138 exhibits in preparation for the murder trial of Mdluli and three others.
Mdluli and Colonel Nkosana Ximba, court orderly Warrant Officer Samuel Dhlomo, and Colonel Mtunzi-Omhle Mtunzi were charged with murder, kidnapping and defeating the ends of justice.
Roelofse – who was roped in by the head of the Hawks in Gauteng in March last year after several investigators were threatened – detailed a meticulous investigation with watertight statements from witnesses, including seven witnesses now under cover in the witness protection programme.
He told of months of work culminating in the reconstruction of dockets that had “gone missing”, only to be ordered in February to stop all investigations.
Roelofse told of his team’s difficulties in collecting police records – none of the crime registers covered the relevant periods, and some of the record books, case registers and case dockets could be accounted for.
But statements by witnesses allege that Mdluli and the others launched a systematic attack on Ramogibe.
Mdluli, while married to Vusiwane, is alleged to have had an affair with Buthelezi from 1986 and to have played a key role in the murder of Ramogibe in February 1999.
Statements that will be admitted as evidence at the inquest will show that Buthelezi was a schoolgirl when Mdluli started an affair with her. Mdluli claimed that he had paid for her education, that he paid R12000 in lobola to her parents, and that he and Buthelezi were married traditionally.
In September 1997, Buthelezi preferred an assault charge against Mdluli but withdrew it after Mdluli told the investigating officer that his wife wanted the case withdrawn.
Buthelezi met Ramogibe while still in a relationship with Mdluli, culminating in their marriage at the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court in July 1998.
The two, said Roelofse, went into hiding in Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg, after repeated threats by Mdluli.
This included Mdluli, Ximba, Mtunzi and Dhlomo visiting their respective homes and threatening their families in an attempt to pressurise the two into ending their relationship.
In trying to establish their whereabouts, Mdluli allegedly kidnapped Alice Manana and Sarah Ramogale from their homes between August and October 1998.
Manana alleged that Mdluli and his colleagues intimidated and assaulted them, including at the Vosloorus police station.
Manana opened a case of kidnapping and assault against Mdluli but the docket “disappeared” and no action was taken.
A first attempt on Ramogibe’s life was made in December 1998. He reported the attempt and Dhlomo was assigned to investigate it.
Ramogibe was gunned down in February 1999 while pointing out the scene of the first incident.
Dhlomo claimed that two unknown people approached him and ordered him to hand over his service pistol. Shots were then fired.
Roelofse said robbery should be ruled out as the motive for the killing because photos taken at the crime scene show Ramogibe still wearing his gold chain.
The trial was yesterday postponed to April 30.
Earlier, Mdluli’s lawyer asked for a postponement because his client had asked the state for financial assistance.
Magistrate Jurg Viviers said that he had to consider several aspects in deciding on the postponement, including public confidence in the judicial process, the time that had elapsed since the crime was committed, the fact that there are seven witnesses in the protection programme, and the family of the deceased.
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Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula will look into a decision by the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) to have a Chinese company sponsor the Olympic kit, he said on Wednesday.
The committee has come under fire from Proudly SA for signing a five-year sponsorship deal with Chinese company Erke.
The agreement is worth US$4 million but SASCOC said no local company was prepared to foot the bill.
Mbalula said they wanted to support Proudly SA.
“We would like to promote Proudly SA goods and in this particular instance I haven’t spoken to SASCOC. We’ll get to grips with that.”
(Edited by Clare Matthes)
Jakarta – Indonesia issued a tsunami warning on Wednesday after an 8.7 magnitude earthquake hit waters off westernmost Aceh province.
People on Twitter said tremors were felt in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and India. High-rise flats and offices on Malaysia’s west coast shook for at least a minute.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii said a tsunami watch was in effect for Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, Myanmar, Thailand, the Maldives and other Indian Ocean islands, Malaysia, Pakistan, Somalia, Oman, Iran, Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa and Singapore.
A tsunami watch means there is the potential for a tsunami, not that one is imminent.
The US Geological Survey said the powerful quake was centred 33km beneath the ocean floor around 495km from Aceh’s provincial capital.
Said, an official at Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued.
Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.
A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on December 26 2004 triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230 000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh.
Posted: 2012-04-11 07:04
PSL General Manager Derek Blanckensee says the League will consider setting a rule to ban the use of muti in local football.
TV images have recently shown teams in the PSL pouring a substance on the field which is thought to be muti.
Some of the teams include Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Jomo Cosmos. Santos goalkeeper Tshepo Motsoeneng was also shown on TV pouring a substance between the goal posts in a Cup game against Pirates last season.
Blanckensee says at the moment there is no rule that prevents teams using muti.
“There is no guidelines or rule that bans the use of muti in local football and its difficult to take any action against any team found guilty of using muti,” says Blanckensee.
He adds:”I think maybe it is something that we must start to look at because some of the stuff could pose a threat or danger to the turf or the surface.”
It is open secret that local teams use muti including Bafana Bafana after a Sangoma from KwaZulu-Natal claimed he was still owed money for muti that helped the squad during the 2010 World Cup.
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