EFF members allegedly attacked by ANC members in Rustenburg

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Rustenburg- The Economic Freedom Fighters says they condemn in the strongest terms what they dubbed ‘cowardly political violence and intolerance by an ANC councillor in ward 22 of Rustenburg’.

They say ANC councillor, Levoyo Tolo Maqwane, led a mob of about 50 ANC thugs and hooligans to attack EFF activists with bricks, leaving their cars damaged.

EFF North West spokesperson Thabo Sehloho said the EFF activists were campaigning in the area for the EFF Second …Anniversary Rally to be held in Olympia Park Stadium.

“The EFF has opened a case with the police at Boitekong Police Station, reference number CAS 176/7/2015. All other fighters whose cars were damaged also opened criminal cases.

“The EFF is fully aware that the coward ANC have resorted to political thuggery and violence in response to with the shifting sands beneath their feet. They are acting according to the directives of their leader Blade Nzimande who said EFF must be killed” he said.

According to Sehloho, there is no doubt that the EFF has gained a massive support in this region and there is nothing except intimidation and violence that the ANC and Nzimande can resort to, to save the ANC fall from grace.

He said EFF wants to send a strong message to both the police and the ANC that it will not stand by when its activists are being attacked and nothing is done. “We are not afraid of anybody and no one has any right to use violence in a political game. If this is the case, the EFF will be forced to defend its political freedoms by any revolutionary means necessary,”.
-TDN
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Deputy Minister Ndabeni-Abrahams encourages the youth to stand up and be counted

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Taung – Deputy Minister of Communications, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has encouraged the youth to take themselves seriously in order to build a legacy that they can be proud of. 

The Deputy Minister was speaking in Taung earlier today where she engaged in a Youth Dialogue with over 400 young people who had been mobilised as part of Bokone Bophirima’s accelerated service delivery programme dubbed Setsokotsane that is currently addressing service delivery backlogs in the area.

 

“The bright future that we earn for depends on our collective efforts. We have a responsibility to build the legacy that we can be proud of. It is only when you take yourself seriously that you will understand that everything that the constitution and the freedom charter articulated,” said the Deputy Minister.

 

Ndabeni-Abrahams was accompanied by MEC for Community Safety and Transport Oageng Molapisi, the Executive Mayor of Dr Ruth Mompati District Municipality Cllr Elvis Tladinyane, the Mayor of Greater Taung Local Municipality Cllr Kaone Lobelo and Kgosi Tshepo Mankuroane, among others.

 

Various public entities that participated in the dialogue included the North West Development Corporation, the National Youth Development Agency, Brand SA  who shared information on the way by which to access available entrepreneurial and employment opportunities.

 

The Youth Dialogue, which was organised in conjunction with the Youth Entrepreneurship Services unit within the Office of the Premier of Bokone Bophirima, was also running concurrently with Setsokotsane exhibitions by various government departments offering services and opportunities to youth.

 

According to the Director of Youth Entrepreneurship Services Thapelo Sekawana, it is important for the government to create such platforms to assist young people to harness opportunities available through training, employment and entrepreneurship. These platforms will in future, be created through the youth camps.

 

Early on Wednesday Premier Mahumapelo met with the Setsokotsane team in Taung to get a briefing on the progress being made, and reiterated his vision about Setsokotsane which he sees as the best approach to respond to the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality in the Province.

 

“Part of the rebranding is to deconventionalise and that’s why there is Setsokotsane, to put theory into practice. It is about putting people in the field to do work and by doing that we will be working towards achieving the objective of the National Democratic Society. Resources are not limitless and that’s why we use little resources that we have to achieve more with less. Through Setsokotsane, we can do work in one day that people have been unable to do in a year,” said Premier Mahumapelo. 

Premier Mahumapelo will be back in the area tomorrow to fulfil one of the promises he made in his State of the Province Address to establish a provincial bursary fund to be known as Kgetsi-Ya-Tsie Bursary and Skills Development Fund.

 

The fund will be launched in Khudutlou Village at Baga-Maidi Primary School Sports Ground on Friday, with a view to assist hundreds of Bokone Bophirima students who struggle to pay their tuition fees and facilitate increased access to educational opportunities to the youth of Bokone Bophirima.
-TDN
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10 Facts about South African schools math figures

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Cape Town – The Department of Basic Education revealed this week that one in four South African schools don’t offer maths in Grades 10, 11 and 12.

The figure was contained in a written reply to the DA’s spokesperson for basic education, Annette Lovemore.

Here is a list of the most important factoids from the department’s response:

1. 75.7% of schools in South Africa offer maths in Grades 10, 11 and 12. That’s 4 484 of the 5 927 schools in the country.

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67 MINUTES ASSISTING TOURISM PRODUCT OWNERS

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BY REGINALD KANYANE
Taung – The Department of Tourism in the North West will spend its 67 minutes Address tourism product gaps as per the grading assessment report, which includes infrastructure and access for people with disability and further promoting and marketing of tourism product in Taung on Friday.

The Department will be joining the provincial executive council and the Setsokotsana programme in Taung in promoting tourism products in Villages Small Dorpies and Township. The venture will also address the geographical spread and seasonality challenges in the tourism sector in the area, as well as promoting enterprise support, especially on tourism products owned by Africans especially women.

Based on the outline, the MEC for Tourism Desbo Mohono has identified Modisa Lodge in Taung as a pilot project to execute the Nelson Mandela day celebrations for this year. This will also promote Agriculture, Culture and Tourism policy pronouncement.

The North West tourism team will among others be engaged in the following:

1. Identification of infrastructure and access into Modisa guest lodge for people with disability.

2. Enterprise support interventions, which includes erection of signage and many other activities.

The event will take place as follows:

Venue: Modisa Lodge in extension 6, Taung.

 

Date  : 17 July 2015

 

Time : 09h00
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Northern Cape Sport Department to honour its heroes

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The Northern Cape Provincial Government will be honouring provincial sportsmen and women who have worked hard to fly the provincial flag high.

The provincial government will be launching the first annual Northern Cape Sport and Recreation Awards on Thursday, 20 August 2015 at the Mayibuye Multi-purpose centre in Kimberley.

The prestigious ceremony will be celebrated under the theme “Today’s champions, tomorrow’s legends.”

The sport awards have been created to recognise and honour individuals and teams who have excelled both on and off the field of play. Those to be recognised should have taken part in various sporting codes from 01 April 2009 to 31 March 2015.

The nomination process was opened from 1st June until 15 July 2015.

The process has allowed various sporting federations, league clubs and other interested parties to nominate their preferred sporting personalities from 16 identified categories. The process has seen the Sportsman of the Year category taking the lead with 7 nominations followed by the Coach of the Year, Newcomer of the Year as well as the Sportswoman of the Year categories.

Categories on people with disabilities are still lagging behind.

The categories seeks to recognise individuals, males, females, people with disability, continental participants, federations, schools and community sport volunteers.

They include awarding recognition to the Sport Star of the year, Sportsman and woman of the year, Sportsman and woman of the year with disability, Newcomer of the year, Coach of the year, Team of the year, Federation of the year, Administrator of the year, Volunteer of the year, Referee of the year, Stakeholder of the year, School Team of the year, Developing school team of the year as well as the School sport structure of the year.

“The department acknowledges submitted nominations which will be subjected to an intensive audit process. We have however extended the deadline for nominations in the category of people with disabilities and encourage relevant bodies to make submissions,” departmental spokesperson, Morapedi Sekhoane said.
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MEC Maine to solicit support from housing developers for International Nelson Mandela Day

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BY KEDIBONE MOLAETSI
TAUNG- In what could be an unprecedented move ever in the history of housing development in Bokone Bophirima, housing developers are expected to pledge their support to build houses for destitute families in and around the Province as part of commemoration of the International Nelson Mandela Day which is celebrated on 18 July every year.

As the rest of South Africans and the world will be dedicating 67 minutes of their time to providing humanitarian work for destitute families, MEC for Local Government and Human Settlements, Collen Maine has also identified a number of impoverished families who are staying in either dilapidated mud houses or shacks to benefit from donations from housing developers.

The United Nations declared July 2009, Nelson Mandela International Day in recognition of Madiba’s contribution to global peace and freedom whilst the 67 minutes symbolises 67 years on uninterrupted and selfless service by him (Madiba) to the people of South Africa. This year’s message is :

“Take Action – Inspire Change – Make Every Day a Mandela Day”.

MEC Maine will meet with these housing developers at a meeting to be held as follows:

Date : 16 July 2015
Venue: Taung hotel school (previously, Taung Tusk)
Time : 18h00
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Pampierstad man arrested for rape

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BY REGINALD KANYANE
PAMPIERSTAD- A 20-year-old man was arrested in connection of rape in Majakgoro village, near Pampierstad.

According Northern Cape police, the incident took place on Tuesday at Majakgoro village where a 11 year-old girl was allegedly raped by the suspect.

“We arrested a 20 year-old man in connection of rape and he will appear in court on Wednesday. The atrocity took place yesterday in Majakgoro village, near Pampierstad” Pampierstad Police Station spokesperson, Warrant Officer Thuso Setumiso said.
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SA urged to prepare for load shedding

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JOHANNESBURG – Eskom has announced that it will implement stage one load shedding today.

The power utility made the announcement via its Twitter account:

Eskom will implement stage 1 load shedding from 17:00 today, which is likely to continue until 22:00 this evening.
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Ndlovu pens one-year deal

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Cypriot side Anorthosis Famagusta has confirmed the length of Dino Ndlovu’s contract after the player successfully completed a medical examination.

The former Mamelodi Sundowns, Bloemfontein Celtic, Bnei Yehuda, Maccabi Haifa, SuperSport United and Mpumalanga Black Aces marksman has penned a one-year deal with an option for a further two years.

Ndlovu spent the second half of last season at Mpumalanga Black Aces for whom he scored two goals in six starts.
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Killer to return to Polokwane

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KickOff.com has been informed that Katlego Mphela has stopped training with Polokwane City, but he is expected to return to Limpopo on Wednesday.

‘Killer’ is set to sign a deal with Rise and Shine after training once with the team.

“As you know he trained with us, but that was once and he has not been here for the past two days. I’m told that he will return tomorrow and, as far as I know, he will play for us this season,” a source tells this website. 
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