Writing Chiefs off is perilous-Khune

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Johannesburg – Kaizer Chiefs captain Itumeleng Khune has expressed his delight following his team’s 2-1 victory over Mamelodi Sundowns at the FNB Stadium on Wednesday night.

The Bafana Bafana number one feels Amakhosi were considered underdogs prior to the match on the basis that they lost 4-1 to Sundowns earlier this month in the MTN8 quarterfinals, but he cautioned that you can never write off Chiefs.

“Firstly, I think it was a great match for the fans and I’m sure they enjoyed it,” he told Football411.

 

“People simply wrote us off heading into this match because Sundowns beat us so easy in the MTN8 but we knew this was our opportunity to redeem ourselves.

 

“I don’t think you can ever write off a big team like Chiefs and I must say that credit must go to the whole team for coming out and fighting for the jersey,” Khune added.

 

Meanwhile, Sundowns’ goal on the night, which was initially credited as an own-goal by Khune, has in fact been awarded to Clayton Daniels on the official PSL match report.

 

Chiefs will next be in action against Free State Stars at the Charles Mopeli Stadium on September 1.

Community gather outsid in Griekwastade court

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Griekwastad – Crowds have gathered at the Griekwastad Magistrate’s Court in the Northern Cape ahead of the expected appearance of a teenage boy in connection with the murder of the Steenkamp family.

 

The boy cannot be named as he is a minor.

 

Friends and relatives of the Steenkamp family, killed on their farm Naauwhoek in the Northern Cape on Good Friday, had arrived at the court. Media were also present.

 

A magistrate from the neighbouring town of Groblershoop was expected to hear the case after the local magistrate recused himself.

 

Some media groups had applied for permission to be present in the courtroom for the boy’s appearance, but it was not yet clear whether they would be allowed.

 

The 16-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday in Bloemfontein.

 

Northern Cape farmer Deon Steenkamp, 44, his wife Christelle, 43, and their daughter Marthella, 14, were shot.

 

Police said at the time that Steenkamp’s teenage son heard shots fired while he was busy in an outside storeroom at about 18:30.

 

He discovered the bodies in the living room and drove to the police station in town to report the killings.

 

He also handed two firearms over to police, which he said he had found at the scene.

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Tshepo Masilela to decide soon

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Tsepo Masilela is expected to make a decision on his future within the next seven days. 

 

The Siya crew reported yesterday that the 27-year-old was currently in Spain packing his bags as he prepared to move back to Mzansi and the latest news to reach the crew is that he will fly back to South Africa this week as he prepares to make his decision.

 

Masilela, who is currently contracted to Maccabi Haifa, is thought to be on the verge of a move to Kaizer Chiefs after agreeing personal terms with the Amakhosi, however his agent has explained that he also has other offers in Europe.

 

The defender’s representative, Mike Makaab, told the Siya crew, “It should be done sometime this week or early next week. We’re hoping that we’ll find a final home for him, I’m busy working with Maccabi Haifa on that at the moment.

 

“We still have some serious opportunities for him in Europe, but it’s all about where he’s going to be most settled and where he’s going to get a fair shot at regular game time.”

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Zuma slams Youth Leaders

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President Jacob Zuma has lashed out at expelled and current ANC Youth League leaders for expressing their differences outside the party’s official structures. The President was addressing the ANC’s centenary lecture in honour of the party’s former President Dr. James Moroka in Mahikeng yesterday.

 

 

Expelled ANC Youth League President Julius Malema and some of his close allies have been critical of President Zuma’s leadership.  Malema has used his address to Marikana miners to call for the resignation of President Zuma and Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa. 

 

In a veiled attack on some of the Youth League leadership, Zuma argued that they lacked the discipline displayed by the party’s former young leaders like fortmer president Nelson Mandela and late ANC stalwart Walter Sisulu when articulating their grievances and policy positions.

 

“What is important with this lesson is that these leaders of the ANC were also part of the ANC Youth League leadership. They lobbied the mother body. They did not hold ANC Youth League meetings away from the ANC and debate these issues,” added Zuma.

 

“That’s how the ANC Youth League operates. They don’t campaign and insult the leadership in their own meetings,” says Zuma.

They don’t campaign and insult the leadership in their own meetings

Zuma has meanwhile rejected allegations that his government conspired with Lonmin mine management to kill striking workers. Police shot dead 34 workers during clashes at an informal settlement near the mine, last Thursday.

 

Ten other people, including two police officers and two security guards had also been killed, allegedly by the striking workers. Zuma has since announced a judicial commission of inquiry into the killings.

For more details go to http://www.sabc.co.za

 

Mbatha assaulted me,Mokoka told reporters


Johannesburg – Thato Mokoka’s uncle opened a case of assault on Wednesday against student Constable Sipho Mbatha, the man accused of murdering his nephew.

Captain Nondumiso Mpantsha confirmed that Russel Judas Mokoka laid the charge at the Meadowlands police station, in Soweto, alleging Mbatha assaulted him at his home on August 8.

Speaking to reporters at the High Court in Johannesburg, Mokoka said Mbatha and several police officers jumped over the fence of his home in Bramfischerville, Soweto.

“They said they were looking for me, claiming I had assaulted Mbatha. Mbatha kicked me on my leg,” Mokoka said.

Mokoka said even though the police did not have a warrant of arrest, they took him into custody and kept him in the Johannesburg Central police station cells. He was released the next morning after paying R2000.

He said he did not know if he had been formally charged, and that he now lived in fear.

The docket of the assault case would be handed to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid). Ipid senior investigator Mantsha Rapheshu said he could not comment on the matter.

“We will examine the evidence and then decide to what to do next,” he said.

It was not clear whether the case would affect Mbatha’s murder trial.

Mbatha told reporters at the court that he did not know anything about the accusations, and that he could not comment because the matter was sub-judice.

For more information go to http://www.iol.co.za

Beware of two hippos on the lose

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Cape Town – Residents in Zeekoevlei, in Cape Town, have been asked to keep a look-out for a renagade young hippopotamus which is popping up in gardens and roads after moving into a lake there.

 

City officials are hoping the 2-year-old calf will return back to its pod after appearing in an unfenced reserve following the theft of part of the boundary fence in the neighbouring water body where it lives.

 

“The night before last he was in peoples’ gardens, obviously there were lots of people out,” Julia Wood, manager of Biodiversity Management told AFP. 

 

“And then last night somebody picked him up on one of the roads.”

 

The city will monitor the animal for two weeks but is considering capture or darting if he does not leave Zeekoevlei.

 

“The public is advised to be particularly cautious, as hippos are known to be extremely dangerous wild animals,” the city said in a statement, urging residents and users of the lake not to approach the animal or stop it.

 

“This could lead to dangerous encounters and may potentially prolong the capture operation by influencing the animal’s behaviour. Motorists in the area of Zeekoevlei should be cautious.”

 

The animal is believed to have followed a female hippo who gave birth. The new mother and baby returned to their usual ground but the young hippo, whose sex is unknown, remained behind.

 

The city has six hippos in the False Bay Nature Reserve and residents have been asked to report any sightings.

 

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Women should emulate the generation of 50’s

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By Obakeng Maje

North West Premier Mme Thandi Modise has made a call to women to emulate the generation of the 50’s and declare to all and sundry that South African and African women are tired of the institutionalised disrespect and dignity robbery brought about by failure to provide adequate services to them.

 

 

 

The call was made by Premier Modise in a keynote address delivered on her behalf at the 8th Biennial International Seminar Management Development for Women in Africa held at the International Conference Centre in Durban. 

 

Modise said that like the Lillian Ngoyi generation, women should embark on a symbolic programme of women action that seeks to address the key issues affecting the affirmation of women as a key condition for sustainable growth and development.

 

 

 

The Premier Isolated education as a fundamental area within which the

 

  struggle of women can be fast tracked better that quotas that have attracted mediocrity that women are afraid to even pronounce on because some of them are failing the nation.

 

 

 

“The education and training of the African women should be a non-negotiable at every structure we are assigned to lead and manage. It is in the attitude of mothers towards issues that children will follow. It is therefore important to ensure that we accelerate the literacy rates of women and by extension that of our children.

 

 

 

It is true that educating a woman is educating a nation. It is a fact that societies that have focused on the education of women have the highest rates of development because literacy brings not only information to women but it liberates them from depending on their capacity to be married and/or marryable in order to be productive members of societies they live in,” she

emphasised.

Modise further said that literacy and education will in the long term bring a human rights culture to African societies and that It is through literacy and education that we can reach the marginalised of our womenfolk.

Through we will be able to free them from issues such a involuntary consent to polygamous marriages, involuntary consent to marriage that is not premised on love and many social ills we have recently grown to accept as normal when we know they create the greatest of discontents in our being.

  

Meanwhile, Premier Modise together with 10 women from different organisations are to participate in a four-hour live roundtable discussion to be hosted by Motsweding FM on Thursday 23 August 2012 to honour and celebrate women’s contribution to the 100 years of the quest for liberation.

The roundtable panel discussion is to be broadcasted from the University of the North West Council Chamber as from 8:00pm.

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Get your act together or else,Zuma told Marikana mine owners

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Marikana – President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday warned mining firms they could lose their licences if they failed to provide decent housing for workers, a week after 44 miners died when what started as an illegal strike erupted into violence.

 

Zuma was speaking at a lecture commemorating former African National Congress president James Moroka, in Mmabatho, North West.

 

Even as the president issued the warning – following a meeting with striking miners at the Lonmin Marikan where police shot 34 armed workers on strike a week ago – tensions appeared to be rippling out to nearby mines.

 

Hundreds of workers at the nearby Royal Bafokeng Platinum downed tools, demanding higher pay. The world’s top producer Anglo American Platinum also admitted receiving a broad list of demands from its employees.

 

Pointing out that the mining industry has assets valued at more than R20 trillion excluding coal and uranium, Zuma said the sector should be able to pay its workers a better wage.

 

“In fact it should not be such an industry that has the lowest paid worker, given the wealth they have,” he said.

 

He also noted that the government issued a directive to improve housing conditions for mine workers two years ago.

 

“In terms of the Mining Charter, all mining companies are required to implement measures to improve the standard of housing and living conditions of mine workers,” Sapa reported the president as saying.

Kaizer Chiefs claim Sundowns scalp

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By Obakeng Maje

Johannesburg- Kaizer Chiefs put a sweety revenge when they went on a rampage against Mamelodi Sundowns at FNB Stadium, near Johannesburg.

Two teams were up against each other on a Premier Soccer League encounter. Chiefs started to take the game to the visitors and nearly took a lead when Simphiwe Tshabalala was set through by birthday boy, Siyabonga Nkosi but he couldn’t finished it off as his shot was blocked by in-form Sundowns goalie.

Sundowns started to gel after fifteen minutes where Bafana midfielder, Teko Modise was a thorn on Kaizer Chiefs flesh.

 He ochestrated the moves in the middle of the park and he was nearly rewarded when he unleashed a powerful shot forcing Bafana’s number goalkeeper,Itumeleng Khune to make a sterling save.

Kaizer Chiefs drew a first blood few minutes after the interval when Siyabonga Nkosi received a grasscut shot from Tshabalala and made no mistake by scoring.

 Just few minutes after Chiefs took  lead, they applied a lot of pressure that recipitated into a goal from Kingston Nkhata.

We also see few players receiving yellow cards from bad tackles and that really showed the tempo of the game.

Sundowns coach, Neskeen made few changes by bringing in Liberian international, Anthony Laffor who changed the complex of the game.

Mamelodi-based team pulled one back when Clayton Daniels hit a powerful shot that hit a woodwork and amazingly came back to play where it hit Khune who was found in noman’s land and resulted into rather an own goal.

“We tried our best and we played against quality side. We won the first half,but in second half Chiefs won 50/50 balls and that’s where we lost it” Sundowns coach, Johans Naskeens  said. 

Sundowns took control the game when they brought in former Bloemfontein Celtic player, Hlompo Kekana.

 Chiefs also made some few changes when they wanted to stabilise their midfield when they brought in George Lebese for Tshabalala.

 The tempo of the game kept supporters of teams athe edge of their seats as it was a open game and any team looked like scoring at anytime.

“We played very cautious the first fifteen minutes of the game,but after the interval we came forward and applied pressure” Stuart Baxter said. 

Sundowns knocked Chiefs in MTN Top 8 cup a week ago and this is a sweet revenge for the current trendsetter, Kaizer Chiefs who are leading the pack with six points. 

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More than Four Million worth of property to be forfeited after a Restraint Order

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BY Obakeng Maje

The North West Province Police, Commercial Crime and Asset Forfeiture Unit will on Thursday, 23 August 2012 at 09:00 execute a Restraint Order and attach assets forfeited to the State by the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria in terms of Section 26 of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act 122 of 1999. 
 

The Restraint Order followed after allegations of fraud were leveled against the accused Pieter Willem Van Heerden of Christiana who was arrested on 29 May 2012.  The 28 year old operated his business from his residential place where by he sold fertilizer to farmers and other potential buyers.

He convinced and lured them into placing orders for fertilizer with advance payment of cash.

 

The accused also promised his clients that he would  invest the money in buying and selling fertilizer and other agricultural products of which returns will then go to the buyers in a form of investment returns or dividends.

 His clients have  never  received  money as promised and started to get worried  and confronted him about their returns. When his clients (complainants) became aware of his tricks and wanted to take legal steps against him, he then started issuing and depositing bounced  cheques.

 During his modus operandi, the accused fraudulently solicited  an amount of  Four million, four hundred and thirty four thousands, three hundred and eleven rand (R4 434 311.00.)

 

“Van Heerden, who was arrested by Commercial Crime Unit in the Province after eight cases of similar modus operandi were registered by his clients, appeared before the Magistrates court on 10 July 2012 and was granted a bail of R20,000.00. He is expected to appear again on 28 August 2012 at the Christiana Magistrate’s Court on charges of fraud” Colonel Setlhako said.