Johannesburg- E-tags and bills will be burnt during the protest, Cosatu provincial secretary Dumisani Dakile said today.
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Bus set alight during TUT student protest
Pretoria – Classes were suspended at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) on Tuesday following a student protest, the university said.
“Groups of students started protesting this morning at the TUT main campus. Very early in the morning a bus was burned down,” spokesperson Willa de Ruyter said.
“All academic activities have been suspended for the day.”
She could not provide further details about the bus.
Student financial aid scheme
De Ruyter said the protest was related to National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) payments. She could not immediately confirm claims that first-year students’ funding applications had been rejected.
“I will have to get more information because there has been a change in the administration of NSFAS funding.”
She said universities and colleges used to administer the funds themselves, but after the change, the NSFAS centralised the funding so it came directly from the scheme.
De Ruyter said students would be updated later.
TUT students protested about the NSFAS in May and in January.
In January the university suspended classes and evicted students from the institution’s residences. It also obtained a court order to stop protests at its campuses.
The Socialist Youth Movement and the Student Representative Council later won an interdict at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria against the unlawful eviction of students. The university was ordered to pay costs.
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MEC Mohono to the deliver key note address at the Lilizela Tourism Awards
Rustenburg- In assuring her department’ strategic support for Tourism business and joining in celebrating excellence beyond the ordinary by Tourism establishments in the province, the North West MEC for Tourism, Desbo Mohono will on Wednesday will deliver the key note address at the Lilizela Tourism Awards which will be held at the Royal Marang Hotel near Phokeng in Rustenburg at 18h00.
Lilizela Tourism Awards are the premier tourism award programme for tourism businesses in South Africa that aim to reward and celebrate excellence across the tourism industry.
These Awards recognize and reward tourism players and businesses who work passionately and with pride to deliver a world class product and service and whose delivery grows South Africa’s global destination competitiveness.
Also expected to attend is His Royal Highness, Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi of Bafokeng Royal Nation and Chairperson of the Lilizela Tourism Awards, Thembi Kunene.
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N West MEC Mohono To Transform Tourism Industry
Rustenburg – In endeavor to solidify her department’s vision of transforming the tourism industry by promoting township and village tourism, North West MEC for Tourism, Desbo Mohono recently met with tour operators at the Devine Boutique Hotel in Geelhout, Rustenburg. MEC Mohono said that in order to truly transform tourism in the province, there is a need for her department and tour operators to form partnerships.
“We need to forge partnerships which will yield much needed improvement within the tourism sector in our province. We need to think outside of the box and create new and endless possibilities. As tour operators who package these tours, we want you to work together with us in showcasing the potential this province has, government can’t do this alone”, she said.
“We need to have our guesthouses and bed and breakfast establishments graded correctly. We need to have a situation whereby major and popular hotels are able to refer their guests to village and township hospitality establishment where these guests can have a totally different tourism experience on how ordinary South Africans live in their township and villages, this is the transformation we want to see”, she said.
In addition, MEC Mohono said that her engagement with these tour operators was just the beginning of their journey together and she alluded that she hopes her department and these tour operators will form a fruitful partnership.
Echoing her words was the Acting Head of Department, Charles Ndabeni who said that his department, under the stewardship of MEC Mohono, wants to change the knowledge infrastructure in the tourism sector.
“The model is going to change, we need your partnership as tour operators to sell these products to the relevant markets. In order to bring about that transformation, we will be traveling across the province meeting with all relevant stakeholders within our tourism industry to ensure that there is proper planning which is aligned to the department’s annual performance plan and strategy”, said Ndabeni.
Chairperson of the North West Tour Operators Association, Kagiso Legobe welcomed MEC’s vision for partnership in transforming the tourism sector. He said that as tour operators they also want to be given an opportunity to make a valuable impact on the transformation within the sector.
“On behalf of the association I would like to thank the MEC for engaging us on her plans for the department, we see that she has good intentions and we are also ready to form these kind of partnerships with government to advance the course of transforming the tourism sector in the province”, he said.
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Oscar’s TV trial setting precedent for media – Booth
Cape Town – Televising Paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial will hopefully open the gates to screening other important cases, defence lawyer William Booth said on Monday.
“I hope, post Oscar Pistorius, [that] the same will happen with other cases, some cases that are even more horrific than Oscar’s case,” he told the Cape Town Press Club.
He believed opening up court rooms around the country would increase transparency and hold magistrates and judges accountable for their conduct.
Media applications would need to be scrutinised on a case-by-case basis and exclude trials where children were involved.
Booth said it might even be possible to televise rape trials if victims were willing. He said a recent survey of United Kingdom rape victims revealed the majority were in favour of giving evidence while televised.
“The rationale is that they wanted to encourage more victims of crime, particularly rape and assault, to come forward.
“It doesn’t have to become a circus.”
Booth said the televising of Pistorius’s trial could be criticised to an extent.
“Traditionally, witnesses shouldn’t talk to each other. What happened here is that every witness knew what the previous witness had said.”
However, he believed witnesses would still have been able to pick up information from social media if the trial had not been on television.
Judge Thokozile Masipa will hand down judgment on Pistorius in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Thursday.
The athlete was charged with murder following the fatal shooting of his model and law-graduate girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He shot her through the locked toilet door in his Pretoria home on Valentine’s Day last year. He claimed he mistook her for an intruder.
Booth predicted there was “quite a significant risk” that Pistorius could be convicted of killing an intruder, if not Steenkamp.
He was asked about the prospects of success of an appeal, should Pistorius be convicted of murder.
Booth said there were two possible grounds for appeal – that of Pistorius claiming he was badgered by the State and that of witnesses not being called because they did not want to be televised.
“If your client is being badgered, you get up as a lawyer. You object. There is also duty on the judge. I don’t believe you can sit back,” Booth said.
It was a different matter if judges continuously overruled, he added.
Booth said the issue of witnesses was not a relevant point because the judgment on the televising of the case made provision for witnesses being called in camera.
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Mogoeng: NPA, protector independence paramount
Johannesburg – Anything other than a truly independent NPA, public protector, and allied institutions are unacceptable, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said on Monday.
“Anybody who makes an effort to… appreciate the theme that runs through my addresses that relate to constitutional institutions will remember that I’m campaigning for near absolute independence of the judiciary,” Mogoeng said.
This included institutions established under South Africa’s constitutional democracy.
“That goes for the NPA, that goes for the public protector,” he said.
He was speaking to reporters at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg after meeting International Criminal Court president Justice Sang-Hyun Song.
“More importantly, if you also have a look at our jurisprudence, of this court in particular, you will realise that anything other than a truly independent National Prosecuting Authority, and public protector, and allied institutions, is unacceptable to me and the broader legal fraternity.
“That’s where we are,” Mogoeng said.
Earlier on Monday, the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans’ Association (MKMVA) appeared to backtrack on reports that its chairman Kebby Maphatsoe accused Public Protector Thuli Madonsela of being an agent for the US Central Intelligence Agency.
Maphatsoe’s special adviser, Ike Moroe, denied the statement but conceded that reference to the CIA had been made.
“He did make reference to the possibility of a CIA machination in an attempt to destabilise the country,” Moroe told reporters in Johannesburg.
“[However] nothing is impossible… from the international intelligence community.”
The Star reported on Monday that Maphatsoe, who is also deputy minister of defence and military veterans, had accused Madonsela of working for the CIA.
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Cosatu condemns attack on NUM member
Johannesburg – The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Monday condemned the intimidation of a National Union of Mineworkers member during an inspection in Marikana by the Farlam Commission of Inquiry.
When the woman arrived in Marikana, dressed in a red NUM T-shirt, miners affiliated to the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) shouted obscenities at her.
She took cover among police officers. Cosatu identified her as Helen Diatile. The NUM is a Cosatu affiliate.
“Cosatu strongly condemns this action which could have escalated into an even more serious incident, and appeals for tolerance among workers,” Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven said in a statement.
“The only people who can benefit from violent confrontations between workers are their employers, who will always seek to exploit such divisions,” he said.
The NUM security team and police escorted Diatile and NUM spokesperson Luphert Chilwane, who was accompanying her, out of Marikana.
“They both opened a case of intimidation at the Marikana police station,” Craven said.
The commission’s inspection was attended by lawyers, Lonmin mineworkers, the widows of slain miners, and journalists.
Commission chairperson, retired Judge Ian Farlam, called the miners to order.
“I am in charge of this inquiry and this is a public place. Everyone is free to wear what they want. You have your Amcu T-shirts on,” he said.
Farlam said he had been informed that a police witness, scheduled to point out some spots, felt intimidated afterwards.
“It will be remembered that when it was drawn to my attention that the NUM representative was being told to leave, I spoke out very strongly about it.
“Despite what I said, the intimidation continued. Thank you very much, the proceedings are terminated,” said Farlam.
The commission is investigating the 44 deaths relating to a 2012 strike in Marikana.
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Let us raise our game against Nigeria – Mashaba
Cape Town- Bafana Bafana coach Shakes Mashaba has challenged his charges to forget about the politics surrounding the Nigeria game, calling them to psyche themselves up for one of the biggest games of their lives.
Addressing members of the media after the morning training session at Athlone Stadium on Monday, Mashaba said the issue of whether Nigeria would be banned or not by the world football governing body, FIFA was neither here nor there as far as the team’s training regime was concerned.
“As far as I am concerned, we will play Nigeria on Wednesday and we are ready to go to battle and it is a big one and I have told my boys to up their game, come Wednesday,” said Mashaba.
The Bafana Bafana mentor said the good thing about Wednesday’s game was the fact that the boys had removed pressure off themselves by winning against Sudan in Khartoum last Friday.
“The 3-0 win was critical but now we need to be even more clinical if we are to follow up our win on Friday. It won’t be a technical match; they are going to be fighting as well. We all know what Nigerians can do,” Mashaba cautioned, adding that he had lots of confidence with the kind of players that he had assembled. “We should be in a position to get something out of the game.”
Second half replacement, Sibusiso Vilakazi, came on eight minutes into the second period and scored a superb brace to send South Africa on their way three days ago, and Mashaba hinted that he was resisting the temptation to include Vilakazi in his starting line-up as a result of the Wits’ midfielder’s heroics.
“In modern football, that is what we call a tactical move. You don’t throw all your good players from the word go. You throw them from the bench when the opposition is tiring. All three subs that came on paid dividends. It was like they were saying; we want to show the coach that we don’t belong to the bench,” added Mashaba.
Apart from Andile Jali, who is nursing a slight knock, Bafana Bafana medical team has given the squad a clean bill of health.
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Forensic auditor’s killer nabbed
Johannesburg – The killer of forensic auditor Lawrence Moepi has been arrested in KwaZulu-Natal after nearly a year on the run, police said on Monday.
“He was apprehended this past weekend after he was found alone, hiding in a rondavel in West Bank, KwaZulu-Natal,” Lieutenant General Solomon Makgale said.
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