Johannesburg – Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund says Itumeleng Khune should work on his temper, now that he has been appointed as permanent captain of the national side.

Igesund said on Friday he had spoken to Khune, who is known to lose his cool with match officials, and told him to dial down his temper.

“To be a great captain he just has to calm down in certain situations,” Igesund said at a Bafana training session in Germiston.

“Sometimes he loses his temper, but I’ve spoken to him about that and a lot of things.

“There’s hundreds and hundreds of captains, there’s only a few great captains.”

The Bafana coach ended speculation on the Bafana captaincy by naming Khune as permanent skipper ahead of a friendly international against Lesotho on Sunday, and World Cup qualifiers against Central African Republic and Ethiopia.

“Let me take this opportunity to say that Itu is the captain of the national team from now on,” Igesund said.

The coach was unsure, however, whether Khune would play in Maseru this weekend, confirming either Senzo Meyiwa or Wayne Sandilands could be given the gloves.

“Well I’m not sure he’s going to play at this stage,” he said.

“If I decide to rest him or use him, there will be a stand-in for the day of the match, but it won’t be changing on a regular basis.”

Khune, the captain of Premiership champions Kaizer Chiefs, said he would have no problem stepping up.

“It humbles me as a person and it will improve my leadership skills,” Khune said.

“It’s a heavy responsibility. In the past games the players have responded well from what the coach has told me to tell them. I’m happy, but again I’m humbled.” – Sapa

Cape Town – Anonymous Facebook confession sites are going viral as thousands of university students confess their most intimate thoughts.

The craze started with the Facebook page UCT Confessions, which allows students to post messages anonymously using a code via Google.

UCT Confessions has amassed over 10 000 Facebook likes in just over a week.

The site guarantees it will publish confessions on its page. “Submit your confessions or stories. Nothing you submit will be traced back to you,” it states.

UCT confession 1043 reads “I’ve had a crush on the same girl since my 1st year. 4 years on and I’m so deep in the friend zone, I don’t think I can get out” 

Confession 929 was more controversial: “I think I have kissed just as many girls as I have guys…”.

Many are inappropriate for publication, and concerns have been raised that the nature of the confessions may damage the reputation of the university.

According to the Cape Argus, the creators want to remain anonymous, but said they wanted a platform where students could be heard anonymously: “Not everyone wants to associate themselves with their opinion”.

Three other university confession sites have subsequently been created, with Rhodes Confessions, UWC Confessions, and Shit Maties Say each having more than 1 000 Facebook likes.

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Johannesburg – About 300 cars were taking part in the “drive slow” protest action on Johannesburg freeways, trade union federation Cosatu said on Friday.

“I think there’s about 300. So far so good, our target was 100 and we’ve exceeded that,” Congress of SA Trade Unions Gauteng secretary Dumisani Dakile said.

“It shows the level of support we have,” he said.

The motorcade was on the R24 in Kempton Park around noon.

A number of drivers have joined the protest, including the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC).

Cosatu is staging the drive-slow protest against e-tolling on Gauteng freeways.

The “drive slow” was expected to move from the R24 to the R21 North and then make a U-turn back onto the R21 South and return to the R21, R24, N12, and the N3 South back to Katlehong, where the meeting point was.

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Cape Town – The retail price of petrol will decrease by 8 cents a litre next Wednesday, while diesel will fall by 3.98 cents a litre.

The newly named permanent Bafana Bafana captain, Itumeleng Khune, says that he is humbled at being handed the honour by coach, Gordon Igesund.

Today the Kaizer Chiefs shot-stopped was named by Igesund as the official captain of the national team after former skipper, Bongani Khumalo, was dropped from the side.

Khumalo captained Bafana during the African Cup of Nations earlier this year but then fell out of Igesund’s plans and Khune was given the responsibility for the games that followed.

Now, with crucial World Cup qualifiers against the Central African Republic and Ethiopia to follow this weekend’s friendly with Lesotho, Igesund explained that Khune will wear the armband from now on.

The PSL Player of the Year said at Bafana’s training camp in Germiston, “It’s humbles me, I think it will improve my leadership skills and it’s a hell of a responsibility but in the past games it worked well. I’m happy and once again I’m humbled.

“Given the responsibility I can step up and like I said it all depends on how well I respect the others players and how much respect I can get from them that will take us forward.

“It’s not all about Itumeleng Khune as leader, we have a lot of leaders here, lots of big players who captain their clubs and I’ll sit down with the guys and we’ll have a chat about how they feel. We have a good working relationship.”

It remains to be seen whether Khune will be rested for the friendly against Lesotho this weekend, however he will no doubt start between the sticks when Bafana take on CAR and Ethiopia later in the month.
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Johannesburg – As the government and NGOs raise awareness about the rights of children during Child Protection Week, one mother is desperately searching for her four-month-old daughter.

Charity Moyo, 21, believes the woman she suspects of kidnapping her baby, Thandeka, might have fled the country.
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Johannesburg – The amendments to the Sexual Offences Act that made it illegal for people between 12 and 16 to kiss, fondle or have sex were introduced because other methods of preventing harmful teenage intimacy had failed.

This was the argument of advocate Vincent Maleka at the Constitutional Court on Thursday regarding an application by the Teddy Bear Clinic and the Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect to scrap the two amendments to the act, which they believe are unconstitutional.
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The South African Senior Women’s national football team, Banyana Banyana, this week celebrates 20 years of participation in international football.

On the 30 May 1993, the national Women’s team played in their first international match against neighbours Swaziland and have to date played 154 international matches.

In their short history, the team has achieved several milestones including, qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games, finishing as runners up at the African Women’s Championships three times and being the first South African national football team to beat Nigeria in an international game.

Ranked 53 in the world, the team through the partnership between Sasol and SAFA has played 69 of their 154 games in the last four years, helping the team climb three places in the FIFA rankings.

This is a great milestone for women’s football in South Africa. It has been a long and strenuous journey not only for the national team but for the organisation and women’s football as a whole,” said Fran Hilton Smith, Technical Director at SAFA.

The past 20 years have been all about the development of women’s football in South Africa and today there is a semi-professional league running, the Sasol League, that helps with the identification of talent and has exposed women in all nine provinces to competitive football regularly.

As an organisation we are proud to be associated with the positive developments in South African women’s football. This support for women is part of our endorsement of the government policy on gender equity and women empowerment. We are pleased with the team’s progress in the last four years of our partnership and we trust that women’s football will grow in leaps and bounds,” said Dumisani Mbokane, Sponsorship Specialist at Sasol.

Between the years 1993 – 2008 the team played an average five (5) games in a year. This was before Sasol came on board as the premier sponsors of women’s national team, Banyana Banyana and the Sasol League. Over the last four (4) years, the team has averaged 15 games per year due to the opportunities that have been created by the Sasol and SAFA partnership.

Having a sponsor like Sasol has helped open doors for many young female soccer players. A few of our players are now playing club football for overseas teams and this is due to the international exposure that has been afforded them by the sponsorship. We have also seen many players getting tertiary study bursaries through the exposure they got from the Sasol League,” said Hilton-Smith.
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