Mahumapelo resigns as North West Premier

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By KEDIBONE MOLAETSI

The African National Congress (ANC) in Bokone Bophirima has welcomed the resignation letter of North West Premier, Supra Mahumapelo. ANC acting Provincial Secretary, Sussana Dantjie said the ruling party accepts Mahumapelo’s decision with a sense of apprehension, but great pride.

Dantjie said in a statement: “We welcome the Mahumapelo’s voluntarily exit from his deployment as the Premier. We are proud of him for having introduced the five concretes to implement the National Development Plan (NDP), which are Agriculture Culture & Tourism (ACT), Villages, Townships and Small Dorpies (VTSD) economic approach, Reconciliation Healing and Renewal (RHR), Setsokotsane and Saamwerk-Saamtrek philosophy.

“As an organization, we will forever be appreciative and learn from his emphatic principled, but simple approach to issues. We also commend him for having crisscrossed the entire province in pursuit of a better life for our people through the Setsokotsane campaign.”She said in Mahumapelo’s 35 years of revolutionary activism in the ANC, he has mastered the art of remaining simple and humble at all times, despite sustained concocted attacks against him by some friends and comrades.

She said in Mahumapelo’s 35 years of revolutionary activism in the ANC, he has mastered the art of remaining simple and humble at all times, despite sustained concocted attacks against him by some friends and comrades.

Dantjie further said they know that Mahumapelo will continue to serve his movement, the ANC in whatever new role they will decide for him.
She added that they urge Mahumapelo to remain steadfast in what he believes are the necessary tasks of executing the revolution.

“As the ANC in Bokone Bophirima, we still believe in Mahumapelo’s innocence until he has been proven otherwise. We commend him for putting the interests of the province and its people before his own.

“We salute you Moidi for your selfless role in government. Continue leading us on an exemplary role in society as you have done for so many years,” Dantjie said.
North West Provincial government spokesperson, Brian Setswambung said he cannot confirm nor deny if Mahumapelo has resigned, but people should wait for Wednesday media briefing,” 

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NW ANC: MAHUMAPELO MUST BE GIVEN OPPORTUNITY TO DEFEND HIMSELF

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North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo is facing serious claims of corruption and maladministration amid ongoing protests calling for his recall.

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JOHANNESBURG – The African National Congress (ANC) leadership in the North West is rallying behind Premier Supra Mahumapelo despite a decision for the ANC’s top six leaders to begin urgent talks with him  about his fate.

Acting ANC provincial secretary Susan Dantjie says that they welcome the announcement by the party’s national working committee because it will give Mahumapelo a chance to respond to accusations.

Mahumapelo is facing serious claims of corruption and maladministration amid ongoing protests calling for his recall.

The ANC’s top leadership held a series of meetings in the North Westwhere they heard a range of accusations placing Mahumapelo at the centre of rampant corruption.

Dantjie says that the ANC in the province believes that Mahumapelo should be given an opportunity to defend himself.

She says that before the ANC’s top brass take a decision on the premier’s fate, he should respond to the accusations.

“We view this as an opportunity that he has been requesting from the leadership to listen to him, because allegations are allegations.”

Details of the meeting between Mahumapelo and the ANC top six are yet to be confirmed.

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SANDILE MANTSOE GETS 32 YEARS FOR KARABO MOKOENA’S MURDER

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On Wednesday he was found guilty of murdering Karabo Mokoena last year and burning her body.

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JOHANNESBURG – Sandile Mantsoe has been handed an effective 32 years in jail for the murder of Karabo Mokoena.

On Wednesday he was found guilty of murdering 22-year-old Mokoena last year and burning her body.

Mantsoe: I’m a very smart guy. If I really wanted to do something elaborate I would have done better.

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EFF abandons court challenge for secret ballot in anti-Supra motion

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The EFF wants to test the resolve of ANC members of the North West legislature to get rid of embattled Premier Supra Mahumapelo.

The party is abandoning its court challenge for a secret ballot in the motion of no confidence against him.

Instead, it will now write a letter to the speaker of the legislature to demand that the motion be debated urgently.

The EFF wants to test the resolve of ANC members of the North West legislature to get rid of embattled Premier Supra Mahumapelo.

The party is abandoning its court challenge for a secret ballot in the motion of no confidence against him.

Instead, it will now write a letter to the speaker of the legislature to demand that the motion be debated urgentl

“We have no sympathy for Supra. Secret ballot or no secret ballot. We want to expose the crooks inside the ANC, to see if they mean business when they say they want Supra to go. Why don’t they vote with the EFF in our motion of no confidence?” EFF leader Julius Malema said.

He was speaking in Coligny, North West, at a rally to celebrate the party’s Ward 15 victory in by-elections last month.

The speaker of the legislature had earlier decided to indefinitely postpone the EFF’s initial motion of no confidence, when it approached the court to demand a secret ballot.

‘No need for bloodshed’

Malema accused some members of the legislature, including those from the SACP, of refusing to use their powers within the legislature to rid the province of Mahumapelo.

“When we gave them a tool to remove Supra without a drop of blood, through a motion of no confidence, they refused,” Malema said.

The ANC’s national working committee (NWC) was due to meet on Wednesday to discuss Mahumapelo’s fate. Members of the NWC have argued however that only the national executive committee (NEC) has powers to recall a premier.

A battle is expected when the NEC sits this month to discuss the matter, among others.

“We don’t want a drop of blood. We want you to take government using your votes [instead of violence],” Malema said.

“A motion of no confidence is a peaceful thing introduced in our Constitution by Mandela and [others]. They are refusing to use it,” he said.

Protests not ‘genuine’

Malema labelled Mahumapelo as corrupt, accusing him of stealing money from various government departments meant for the poor.

He denounced the violence that recently gripped the North West. Several towns ground to a halt as residents looted shops and set alight public buildings, demanding that Mahumapelo step down.

A 16-year-old boy was killed during the unrest.

Malema warned EFF members against participating in the protests, which he said were part of factional battles within the ANC.

“I don’t want the red berets in places being burnt. Don’t get involved in the looting of shops, it is an ANC thing to do. They are fighting factional battles, it’s not a genuine fight. If it was genuine why don’t they use the EFF’s motion of no confidence to remove Supra without a drop of blood?” he asked.

Malema said the EFF would remove Mahumapelo the same way it removed former president Jacob Zuma, who was now sitting idle in his home village of Nkandla.

The EFF exerted pressure on the ANC NEC to remove Zuma by calling a motion of no confidence against him in Parliament.

The EFF wants to test the resolve of ANC members of the North West legislature to get rid of embattled Premier Supra Mahumapelo.

The party is abandoning its court challenge for a secret ballot in the motion of no confidence against him.

Instead, it will now write a letter to the speaker of the legislature to demand that the motion be debated urgentl

“We have no sympathy for Supra. Secret ballot or no secret ballot. We want to expose the crooks inside the ANC, to see if they mean business when they say they want Supra to go. Why don’t they vote with the EFF in our motion of no confidence?” EFF leader Julius Malema said.

He was speaking in Coligny, North West, at a rally to celebrate the party’s Ward 15 victory in by-elections last month.

The speaker of the legislature had earlier decided to indefinitely postpone the EFF’s initial motion of no confidence, when it approached the court to demand a secret ballot.

‘No need for bloodshed’

Malema accused some members of the legislature, including those from the SACP, of refusing to use their powers within the legislature to rid the province of Mahumapelo.

“When we gave them a tool to remove Supra without a drop of blood, through a motion of no confidence, they refused,” Malema said.

The ANC’s national working committee (NWC) was due to meet on Wednesday to discuss Mahumapelo’s fate. Members of the NWC have argued however that only the national executive committee (NEC) has powers to recall a premier.

A battle is expected when the NEC sits this month to discuss the matter, among others.

“We don’t want a drop of blood. We want you to take government using your votes [instead of violence],” Malema said.

“A motion of no confidence is a peaceful thing introduced in our Constitution by Mandela and [others]. They are refusing to use it,” he said.

Protests not ‘genuine’

Malema labelled Mahumapelo as corrupt, accusing him of stealing money from various government departments meant for the poor.

He denounced the violence that recently gripped the North West. Several towns ground to a halt as residents looted shops and set alight public buildings, demanding that Mahumapelo step down.

A 16-year-old boy was killed during the unrest.

Malema warned EFF members against participating in the protests, which he said were part of factional battles within the ANC.

“I don’t want the red berets in places being burnt. Don’t get involved in the looting of shops, it is an ANC thing to do. They are fighting factional battles, it’s not a genuine fight. If it was genuine why don’t they use the EFF’s motion of no confidence to remove Supra without a drop of blood?” he asked.

Malema said the EFF would remove Mahumapelo the same way it removed former president Jacob Zuma, who was now sitting idle in his home village of Nkandla.

The EFF exerted pressure on the ANC NEC to remove Zuma by calling a motion of no confidence against him in Parliament.

Source: http://www.news24.com

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SANDILE MANTSOE GUILTY OF KARABO MOKOENA’S MURDER

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Sandile Mantsoe is accused of killing his 22-year-old girlfriend Karabo Mokoena last year, burning her body and dumping it in a veld in Lyndhurst.

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JOHANNESBURG – Sandile Mantsoe has been found guilty of Karabo Mokoena‘s murder.

Mantsoe was accused of killing his 22-year-old girlfriend, Mokoena, last year, burning her body and dumping it in a veld in Lyndhurst.

In his ruling on Wednesday, Judge Peet Johnson has found that the State managed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he had murdered Mokoena and burnt her body to try and destroy the evidence.

“That the deceased did not have a tendency to commit suicide, did not attempt it, did not commit it and that the accused killed her.”

He’s questioned why Mantsoe felt the need to dispose of Mokoena’s body if he had not killed her.

Johnson has accused Mantsoe of trying to paint Mokoena as suicidal and depressed in order to drive his narrative that she had taken her own life.

The court will soon hear whether sentencing proceedings will continue Wednesday afternoon.

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‘Hands off Supra’

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NORTH WEST went up in flames last week as protesters called for Premier Supra Mahumapelo to step down.

The scenes of vandalism and looting were still on police officers’ minds when minibuses filled with ANC members parked outside Luthuli House in Joburg yesterday.

Only this time the people were marching in support of Mahumapelo.

The marchers travelled from North West to demand that Mahumapelo be left alone.

More than 1 000 Mahumapelo supporters barricaded the road leading to Luthuli House, bringing traffic to a halt.

The marchers said they represented the Bojanala, Ngaka Modiri Molema, Dr Kenneth Kaunda and Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati regions.

The group claimed a third force was behind the protests in North West.

Mlungisi Mathews, an ANC member in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda region, said many of the people who were calling for Mahumapelo to step down were not even ANC members.

“There are people who are being paid to wreak havoc in our province.

“Many of them don’t even know who Supra is. These people are not members of the ANC, yet they are leading the chaos,” said Mlungisi

According to the group’s memorandum of grievances, North West is ready to hold its regional conference. The memorandum called for members to rally behind the North West ANC’s leadership.

The marchers also demanded that a motion of no confidence suggested by the EFF be done away with.

Their memorandum was received by the ANC’s national executive committee member Febe Potgieter-Gqubule.

The group said it expects a response by Friday.

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‘Those who want to go back to school should do so’- Makoro

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By REGINALD KANYANE

It’s been almost two months since pupils at Baga-Maidi community were prohibited to go to school due to strike over a tar road. The community members in Molelema village in Taung and its surroundings embarked on protests where shops were looted and few buildings were torched in the process.

They also barricaded road linking Taung and Schweizer Reneke and other internal roads with debris and burning tyres. The community members demand tar roads on D208 and D209 respectively.

North West Public Works and Roads department heed their call and offered to construct 10km tar road as a start. MEC Mmule Maluleke said the department cannot construct 71km tar road as there is no budget.

However, Maluleke’ submission was fervidly rejected by community members as they said: “Either 71km tar road or nothing.”

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Community leader, Mothibi Makoro said: “The situation is unscrupulous and school children are mostly affected. We had a meeting with those who are affected and the parents of those children agreed that there will be no school until our demands are met. However, we agreed that those who want to go back to school should do so without being prohibited.

“Some of these school children also agreed with the decision and say they understand the demands are valid. So, we will be meeting with the department today at Greater Taung Local Municipality offices for a way forward.”

Makoro also lambasted those who circulated fake messages on social media under his name. He said people should be wary of that and refrain from redistributing those messages.

“There is a section of community members who want to divide us and create confusion. However, we are aware of those detractors and we will address that decisively. We cannot budge now and let people to divide us. We stand together as community and we want to see our demands being properly addressed,” he said.

North West Education and Sport Development department spokesperson, Freddy Sepeng said the protests affected many pupils especially Grade 12s. Sepeng urged those who are behind protests to let children to go to school.

“We urge those who are behind those protests to refrain from prohibiting pupils to go to school. These protests will affect those children in future. The department understands that communities are angry and their demands are valid. However, it is absurd and irresponsible to prohibit children from attending school.

“We will come up with remedial actions and assist those who are affected. Our teachers will organise extra classes especially during June school adjournment to recover from time lost during unrests,” he said.

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‘Constables took part in looting spree’

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Two police constables have been arrested after they were identified in a crowd that looted shops during a service delivery protest in the Northern Cape.

The pair were on duty during the alleged looting. They were found in possession of suspected stolen cellphones were reported stolen from a local furniture store in Hartswater. The cellphones and many items including television sets‚ electric appliances were stolen during service delivery protests where looting was (the) order of the day. Two arrested police officers were also seen being part of community members who looted business premises in Hartswater and Pampierstad.”

They were arrested after Crime Intelligence‚ Counter Intelligence‚ the K9 Unit‚ Tactical Response Team‚ Public Order Police and Hartswater Police followed up on information that implicated them in the looting of businesses.

“One of the suspects was found with a cellphone in his possession‚ while other phone was found at the other suspect’s house. The suspects were handed to the IPID for further investigation‚” said Tawana.

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Four suspects nabbed with dagga worth R8000

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By BAKANG MOKOTO

FOUR suspects nabbed in connection with dagga during intellegent driven operation on Friday.

North West police spokesperson, Lieutenant Col Amanda Funani said the susppects aged between 24 and 70 will appear in the Ga-Rankuwa Magistrate’s Court on charges of possession of dagga.

“The suspects were nabbed during an intelligence driven operation conducted in Klipgat, Shakung and Jackalsdans.

“Police received information about suspected dealing in dagga activities. The suspects were arrested in different houses where the police discovered dagga with estimated street value of R8000 inside a plastic bags,” Funani said.

North West Police Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Baile Motswenyane praised the community for working together with the police to ensure that drug dealers are exposed and brought to book.

Motswenyane further encouraged the community to continue working with the police in arresting those who ruin the lives of the young people.

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ANC North West NWC meetings collapse

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The ANC’s second attempt to restore calm in the troubled North West province, failed on Thursday.

Members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) and National Executive Committee (NEC) were expected to face off with angry party members who were relentless in their call for embattled premier, Supra Mahumapelo, to go.

But three out of the four scheduled meetings between the senior members and party structures in the province collapsed.

Some party leaders have blamed the spectacular failure on ANC secretary general Ace Magashule’s planning abilities.

The ANC leaders were forced to return to the province to quell violent protests and growing impatience with the party’s indecision about Mahumapelo’s fate.

In the Dr Ruth Mompati region, senior members failed to show up because the meeting was planned in a far-flung area, near the border with Botswana. An NWC member told News24 that the meeting collapsed because the party failed to provide reliable transport to the area.

Meanwhile, in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda and Ngaka Modiri Molema regions, the meetings were called off because they were dominated by party members calling for Mahumapelo to go.

Only the Bojanala region meeting went ahead. It almost collapsed when members arrived and demanded to be allowed to enter. NEC deployee Violet Siwela allowed all present to attend.

An ANC branch leader, who attended the Dr Kenneth Kaunda regional meeting, said: “Some comrades were closed off outside. They had a legitimate reason to attend, yet this REC [Regional Executive Committee] sat handpicking people to be allowed into the meeting.”

He said only the ANC’s head of organising, Senzo Mchunu, attended the meeting.

“Ace [Magashule] didn’t even make his own meeting,” the branch leader added.

Clash

News24 understand the meeting collapsed following a clash at the lodge, which many referred to as a “lion’s den”. Outnumbered Mahumapelo supporters, including provincial executive committee members, walked out of the meeting. Only one PEC member, Kim Medupi, remained behind.

“They bring in bouncers to deal with us and call for a meeting far away at a lodge where lions actually roam free. This is a sign that this was all orchestrated. We know where we stand. We don’t want Supra. We decided on this last year already,” said the branch leader.

Mothusi Shupinyane from Ward 30 in Mahikeng, attended the Ngaka Modiri Molema regional meeting and said NEC and NWC members Obed Bapela and Dakota Legoete arrived for the meeting, but that Nomvula Mokonyane and Meokgo Matuba were nowhere to be seen.

Shupinyane added that, although the meeting started, it collapsed while the regional secretary was delivering a report on the state of the party in the area.

“The venue was far. Some people who were seen to be against Supra had to organise their own transport and means to get to the venue. The meeting literally collapsed when those comrades arrived,” he told News24.

Some people, including Legoete, just ran away and that was the end of the meeting, added Shupinyane.

Before the meeting ended, the regional secretary managed to highlight what most ANC members knew about the state of the organisation.

“Boy Noko confirmed what people had been saying. There is no ANC in this region. Only 33 out of 104 branches are in good standing,” said Shupinyane.

News24 understands those meant to attend the Dr Ruth Mompati regional meeting did not even bother, including its NWC and NEC deployees.

Some said that the venue close to the Botswana border was simply too far.

‘Supra needs to be removed with immediate effect’

Even though ANC members at the Bojanala regional meeting got off to a rocky start, they eventually kept the much-needed meeting going.

“We are honestly proceeding well. We have said all structures which were fraudulently put together must collapse. We’ve called for the PEC to also be dissolved with immediate effect,” said one ANC branch member who was still at the meeting. It continued well into the night.

“There’s an RTT (regional task team) which is completely biased. It must also go,” said the ANC member.

“Most importantly though, is [that] Supra needs to be removed with immediate effect. We can no longer go on with that man,” he added.

Attempts to reach the ANC for comment were unsuccessful.

The failed meetings are fuelling growing frustrations and putting pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa to remove Mahumapelo.

Mahumapelo is facing a palace revolt, supported by the ANC Veteran’s League and alliance partners the SACP and Sanco.

The Veteran’s League is demanding that Mahumapelo be removed, his provincial executive committee be dissolved, and an interim structure brought in.

It submitted a detailed report to the party’s leadership more than a month ago, before violent protests erupted in the capital Mahikeng and spread to other towns.

Source:www.news24.com