CAPE TOWN – A suspect has been taken in for questioning following a fatal shooting in Athlone.
Two people were shot and killed after a fight broke out at a karaoke bar in Belthorne Estate on Saturday night.
Police discovered the body of a 40-year-old man outside the Turfhall Stadium when they attended to the scene shortly before midnight.
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MOSCOW – Spain coach Vicente del Bosque celebrated 100 games in charge with a 1-0 victory over Belarus in a Euro 2016 qualifier on Sunday, Manchester City’s David Silva scoring the goal.
Victory at the Borisov Arena kept European champions Spain in second place in Group C with 15 points from six games, three points behind group leaders Slovakia.
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JOHANNESBURG – Sudan’s foreign minister has said the country’s President Omar al-Bashir will leave South Africa when he’s ready to and is not bound by a High Court decision obliging him to stay.
Al-Bashir has been in this country attending the African Union (AU) Summit in Sandton but his visit has landed South Africa in a difficult diplomatic situation.
Pretoria – Assertions that the NPA is driving an agenda against deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Nomgcobo Jiba are incorrect, NDPP Mxolisi Nxasana said on Friday.
“When I received a call from the national police commissioner (Riah Phiyega), to be honest I still don’t know what was the reason for her call. She said the summons was not issued properly,” Nxasana told journalists at the National Prosecuting Authority’s office in Pretoria.
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Cape Town – The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation weighed in on the Rhodes statue debate on Friday, proposing that a statue of UCT’s chancellor, Graça Machel, could be erected on the university’s campus.
It added that a monument to the white UCT students who played a role in the anti-apartheid struggle should also be considered.
In a statement written by its executive director, Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu, the organisation credited students on campus for sparking an “important societal debate”. However, she said they had no right to destroy “our history, as some are threatening to do”.
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Johannesburg – Luke Tibbetts’ uncle Lewellyn Valentine could not hold back his tears on Friday as he described how the three-year-old boy’s death had affected the family.
“It has left my family shattered,” he told the High Court in Johannesburg, sitting in Palm Ridge, during arguments in aggravation of sentence.
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Mahikeng Ministers Fellowship has called on believers assembling for Good Friday and Passover celebrations to remember families of the 147 students killed,those injured during the Garissa University massacre and the Kenyan nation in their prayers.
“We wish to condemn in the strongest terms possible the henious act of terrorism and extremism that have cast a dark cloud over Kenya,” Chairperson of MMF(an interdenominational pastors fellowship),Apostle Zandisile Reginald Mpame said.
In conveying condolences to the families of those killed and wishing scores of those injured a speedy recovery, Apostle Mpame said that those behind atrocities represent evil which has no place in civilised societies.
“In remembering a nation that is in mourning,we should denounce sectarian violence, hatred and rededicate ourselves to pray for peace across the continent, intercede for the lost, the hopeless and the helpless,”Mpame highlighted.
Kenyan authorities said that though around 500 to 815 students have been accounted,hundreds remain missing in the aftermath of the seige during which four attackers were killed.
They have identified a possible mastermind of the attack as Mohammed Mohamud also known by the names Dulyadin and Gamadhere.
Mohamud who is alleged to lead Al Queda-linked terror group Al-Shabaab’s cross-border raids into Kenya was a teacher at an Islamic religious school, or madrassa.
He had claimed responsibility for a bus attack in Makka, Kenya, in November that killed 28 people.A $220,000 bounty has been posted for him.
Kenyan police statistics reportedly that 312 people have been killed in Al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya from 2012 to 2014. Thirty-eight people were killed and 149 wounded in Garissa in the same period.
Six people died in different incidents on the eve of Easter Friday on the roads of Bokone Bophirima.
In the early hours of Thursday, driver of a sedan lost control and vehicle overturned just 10 km from Lichtenburg to Coligny. The driver died on the scene and passenger survived with serious injuries.
In Klerksdorp at around 19H55, a 32-year-old cyclist was hit by a red Polo vivo and died on the scene.
A case of drunken driving and culpable homicide was opened after a bakie collided head on with a taxi and passenger of the bakie died on the scene.
Traffic Authorities reports that the driver of the bakie was driving recklessly as he was overtaking while there was an oncoming traffic.
In the early hours of today, a Taxi that was traveling from Krugersdorp got a puncture and a driver lost control just few kilometers outside Delareyville. One passenger died at the scene of the accident and at a later stage two passenger were reported dead at the hospital. About 8 people are seriously injured and four with slight injuries, all admitted at hospitals.
Community Safety and Transport Management MEC Gaoage Molapisi send his message of condolences to the bereaved families and said that the Provincial Government is wounded by the deaths of people on the roads.
“We are concerned and seriously wounded by the rate in which we are losing our people’s lives on the roads especially at this time of the year.
It is very sad to receive the news that your loved one is dead when you are still excited and preparing for warm welcome.
We therefore send our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and wish speedy recovery to those admitted in different hospitals,” said Molapisi.
The departmental MEC further condemned reckless and drunken driving and said those found on the wrong side of the law would be locked behind bars.
“There are people who drive under the influence of alcohol and they are the ones causing us death and pains unnecessarily, the drive recklessly, speeding and overtaking while it is not safe to do so.
These are people who belong behind the cells and we will definitely ensure that they are locked up.” warned Molapaisi.
Due to the increase of traffic levels on the roads this Easter, the department has strengthened its operations and increased visibility.
Senior Managers of the Department are been deployed on the roads across the province to monitor the flow of traffic and further ensures that Traffic Authorities are visible enough on the roads.
“Our traffic officers must no longer hide behind the trees and trap motorists, but they must be on the road and be visible,” said MEC.
Last year at this time, the province had already recorded 7 fatalities, 9 seriously injured in five crashes.
“This is a slight decrease, because today we have at least recorded six fatalities and we humbly request our people to obey the road rules. We already have enough fatalities,” concluded Molapisi.
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Six people died in different incidents on the eve of Easter Friday on the roads of Bokone Bophirima.
In the early hours of Thursday, driver of a sedan lost control and vehicle overturned just 10 km from Lichtenburg to Coligny. The driver died on the scene and passenger survived with serious injuries.
In Klerksdorp at around 19H55, a 32-year-old cyclist was hit by a red Polo vivo and died on the scene.
A case of drunken driving and culpable homicide was opened after a bakie collided head on with a taxi and passenger of the bakie died on the scene.
Traffic Authorities reports that the driver of the bakie was driving recklessly as he was overtaking while there was an oncoming traffic.
In the early hours of today, a Taxi that was traveling from Krugersdorp got a puncture and a driver lost control just few kilometers outside Delareyville. One passenger died at the scene of the accident and at a later stage two passenger were reported dead at the hospital. About 8 people are seriously injured and four with slight injuries, all admitted at hospitals.
Community Safety and Transport Management MEC Gaoage Molapisi send his message of condolences to the bereaved families and said that the Provincial Government is wounded by the deaths of people on the roads.
“We are concerned and seriously wounded by the rate in which we are losing our people’s lives on the roads especially at this time of the year.
It is very sad to receive the news that your loved one is dead when you are still excited and preparing for warm welcome.
We therefore send our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and wish speedy recovery to those admitted in different hospitals,” said Molapisi.
The departmental MEC further condemned reckless and drunken driving and said those found on the wrong side of the law would be locked behind bars.
“There are people who drive under the influence of alcohol and they are the ones causing us death and pains unnecessarily, the drive recklessly, speeding and overtaking while it is not safe to do so.
These are people who belong behind the cells and we will definitely ensure that they are locked up.” warned Molapaisi.
Due to the increase of traffic levels on the roads this Easter, the department has strengthened its operations and increased visibility.
Senior Managers of the Department are been deployed on the roads across the province to monitor the flow of traffic and further ensures that Traffic Authorities are visible enough on the roads.
“Our traffic officers must no longer hide behind the trees and trap motorists, but they must be on the road and be visible,” said MEC.
Last year at this time, the province had already recorded 7 fatalities, 9 seriously injured in five crashes.
“This is a slight decrease, because today we have at least recorded six fatalities and we humbly request our people to obey the road rules. We already have enough fatalities,” concluded Molapisi.
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Mahikeng Ministers Fellowship(MMF) has expressed shock that a Zeerust pastor has been arrested in connection with an elderly woman’s rape ordeal.
“Although we subscribe to the principle of innocent until proven guilty, we wish to condemn in the strongest terms possible the despicable act allegedly committed by one we expected to be at the forefront of the fight against the scourge of rape and gender based violence,” Chairperson of MMF( an interdenominational pastors fellowship),Apostle Zandisile Reginald Mpame underscored on Friday.
The 35-year-old pastor was denied bail after he appeared in the Motsedi Magistrate’s court on a charge of rape on Monday.
The pastor,Melusi Shepperd Lugalo allegedly raped a 68-year-old woman on Saturday morning.
He had given the woman a lift before he sexually molested her.
According to police,the incident happened in Radikhudu village at about 7am.
“It is alleged that the victim,who stays in Botswana,visited her relatives in Dinokana on the said date,she was at the hitch-hiking spot when a Volkswagen Polo stopped next to her to offer her a lift. She allegedly got inside the vehicle and the accused allegedly drove to a nearby bushes and raped the victim,”Captain Pelonomi Makau said.
Makau said that the victim later managed to escape and sought help from passing motorists.
“She was assisted and the accused was apprehended after police were called.”
The accused was remanded in custody and will appear in court again on Monday.
In expressing disappointment with the developments and sympathy with the victim, Apostle Mpame said that pastors as spiritual leaders are expected to play a crucial role in leading public advocacy to mobilise men in their communities to speak out against violence against vulnerable elderly,women and girls and to defy the destructive stereotypes that serve to normalise gender inequality.
“Silence is the best friend of impunity that needs to be broken for intensified united action to stamp out the scourge of rape and gender based violence,” Mpame stressed.
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