Polokwane- The new Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane will host the Orange Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2015 qualifier between Bafana Bafana and Congo Brazzaville.

The all-important clash will take place on Wednesday, 15 October 2014, five days after the two teams clash in the Congolese coastal city of Point Noire on 10 October.

Kickoff is at 20h05.

But before the Polokwane clash, South Africa will travel to the notorious Point Noire stadium for a meeting with the same Congo (Brazzaville) on Friday, 10 October 2014. That encounter is scheduled to kick off at 15h30.

The Point Noire match will be Bafana Bafana’s third in the qualifiers following clashes with Sudan whom they crushed 3-0 and Nigeria (0-0).

Next week coach Ephraim ‘Shakes’ Mashaba is expected to announce his squad for the Congo clashes.

“I am glad to take the match to Polokwane. The people of Limpopo have never disappointed whenever Bafana Bafana play in Polokwane and we expect another bumper crowd on 15 October,” said coach Mashaba.

After two rounds, Bafana Bafana lie second with four points from two games while Congo is leading the pack with six points folllowing wins over Sudan and Nigeria.

The Super Eagles are third with one point, while Sudan are bottom of the table with no points.

Bafana Bafana still have to travel to Nigeria for a return leg against the Super Eagles.
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Galeshewe- Police have offered a reward of R50 000 for any information leading to the arrest and successful prosecution of a murder suspect.

“It is alleged that in November 2013, a 88-year-old Galeshewe woman was raped and murdered. No arrests have yet been made in this case. The deceased , Agnes Galehole was found naked in her house in Bella Street Galeshewe” colonel Priscilla Naidu said.
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Pietermaritzburg – A 24-year-old woman made a brief appearance in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday, charged with the rape of her husband.
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Johannesburg – Zimbabwean farmer Crawford von Abo, who suffered huge losses in land grabs in his home country, has been attacked on his Free State farm, Beeld reported on Tuesday.

Seven armed men attacked the 82-year-old farmer in his kitchen on his farm in Bothaville on Sunday morning.

He was hit over the head and tied up alongside his 79-year-old wife Bibi, and three farm workers.

Their assailants made off with money and cellphones.

“Luckily I have never in my life been scared, I just get angry,” said Von Abo.

“I am the very ‘die donner in’ [angry]…”

He said he told one of the farm attackers who threatened to slit his throat that he was not scared of him.

In 2011, Von Abo lost a court bid in South Africa to secure an order against the Zimbabwean government to pay him compensation after he became the victim of land grabs.

Von Abo had built up a large farming enterprise over 50 years in Zimbabwe, but was left penniless when his 14 farms were virtually destroyed by land invasions.

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Johannesburg – Several legal organisations on Monday said they were concerned by the threats and personal attacks directed at Judge Thokozile Masipa who presided over the trial of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius.

The Legal Resources Centre, Section27, and the Centre for Child Law said the wave of criticism directed at Masipa personally in relation to her judgment had resulted in her requiring police protection.

“Some of the remarks may even border on hate speech, defamation and contempt of court. These comments allege that Judge Masipa is corrupt, and or that her gender and or race rendered her incompetent in appropriately applying the law to the evidence presented,” the group said in a statement.

Masipa acquitted Pistorius of the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp who he shot dead through a locked toilet door at his Pretoria home on Valentine’s Day last year.

He alleged to have mistaken her for an intruder.

Pistorius was instead found guilty of culpable homicide.

The legal organisations said while it was understandable that many people may disagree with the judgment, it condemned the attack on her which it labelled unacceptable and inappropriate.

“[The attacks] serve no purpose but to undermine her judicial capacity,” the groups said.

“Judge Masipa’s gender and or race should be an irrelevant consideration in opinions on her judgment of the Oscar Pistorius trial or any other cases she adjudicates. Her decision last week required a considered application of the law in relation to the evidence presented by both parties.

“Whether male or female, black or white, the process would have been the same. It was her decision to make and she made it.”

The three groups said threatening Masipa because she is black because she is female should not be tolerated in the current constitutional framework, where equality and non-discrimination are of paramount importance.

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JOHANNESBURG – The Hatfield Magistrates Court in Pretoria has postponed a case against radio and TV personality Sbusiso Leope who was arrested on Friday for speeding.
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According to a news report on Nature,  the drug,  lactocillin, hints at the untapped medical potential of this microbial landscape.

Michael Fischbach led a team to figure out how our microbiomes (the bacteria living in our bodies) impact our health, research which proceeded to reveal thousands of molecules that could act as drugs.

One example of these was a thiopeptide antibiotic produced by a bacteria that normally lives in the vagina.
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Johannesburg – No arrests have been made following a fatal shooting in Doornfontein, Gauteng police said on Monday.

“We [are] still looking for the suspects,” police spokesperson Doniah Mothutsane said. “We still don’t know the motive for the shooting.”

A woman was killed and five people were wounded in the shooting in Davies Street on Saturday.

At the time, Mothutsane said a gunman arrived at a block of flats and opened fire at random.

Netcare 911 paramedics said three adults and three children were wounded.

SAPA

Johannesburg – A woman whose husband was killed in a farm attack two-and-a-half years ago called for the reinstatement of the death penalty at public hearings on Monday.

Bernadette Hall, who was speaking at the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) public hearings on farm attacks, was asked what kind of sentence she thought would be appropriate for those found guilty of farm killings.

She hesitated for a few moments before replying: “It’s impossible… I personally feel the death sentence, or a really lengthy prison sentence.”

Hall said the problem with long imprisonment was that taxpayers had to pay for criminals to be fed and clothed.

“Our tax money is paying for that. I still end up looking after the man that killed my husband.”

The SAHRC hearings are chaired by commissioner Danny Titus and are being held in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.

AfriForum previously complained to the SAHRC that the police were not doing enough to protect farming communities.

According to AfriForum, 91 attacks on farms and 42 murders on farms have been reported in South Africa since January.

Hall called for police to be better trained in dealing with victims of farm attacks, and in collecting evidence.

Arrest made

Almost a year after her husband’s murder the police arrested someone in connection with the crime. The matter was eventually thrown out of court due to a technicality, Hall said.

She said the police questioning and court process was traumatic.

“Every day in court I felt like a criminal.”

Hall still lives on her farm, even though there having been five attacks on farms and three murders in her immediate farming community in the past two-and-a-half years.

She has stopped farming maize, because the attackers who killed her husband hid in their mealie field to watch the family before the attack.

She said the police needed to beef up security in rural areas as the country was rapidly losing productive farmers.

Hall said her farming community had organised a patrol to bolster security in their area, but this had been problematic.

“When a farmer leaves his wife and children at home they are sitting targets.”

The police are expected to make submissions at the hearings later this month.

SAPA

Johannesburg – A woman whose husband was killed in a farm attack two-and-a-half years ago called for the reinstatement of the death penalty at public hearings on Monday.

Bernadette Hall, who was speaking at the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) public hearings on farm attacks, was asked what kind of sentence she thought would be appropriate for those found guilty of farm killings.

She hesitated for a few moments before replying: “It’s impossible… I personally feel the death sentence, or a really lengthy prison sentence.”

Hall said the problem with long imprisonment was that taxpayers had to pay for criminals to be fed and clothed.

“Our tax money is paying for that. I still end up looking after the man that killed my husband.”

The SAHRC hearings are chaired by commissioner Danny Titus and are being held in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.

AfriForum previously complained to the SAHRC that the police were not doing enough to protect farming communities.

According to AfriForum, 91 attacks on farms and 42 murders on farms have been reported in South Africa since January.

Hall called for police to be better trained in dealing with victims of farm attacks, and in collecting evidence.

Arrest made

Almost a year after her husband’s murder the police arrested someone in connection with the crime. The matter was eventually thrown out of court due to a technicality, Hall said.

She said the police questioning and court process was traumatic.

“Every day in court I felt like a criminal.”

Hall still lives on her farm, even though there having been five attacks on farms and three murders in her immediate farming community in the past two-and-a-half years.

She has stopped farming maize, because the attackers who killed her husband hid in their mealie field to watch the family before the attack.

She said the police needed to beef up security in rural areas as the country was rapidly losing productive farmers.

Hall said her farming community had organised a patrol to bolster security in their area, but this had been problematic.

“When a farmer leaves his wife and children at home they are sitting targets.”

The police are expected to make submissions at the hearings later this month.

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