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GREG NOTA
Informal traders operating their business-es in containers and shacks in Mbizanatown were furious after the municipalityserved them with notices last week Tues-day to vacate within seven days even
though the matter was still pending in court.
Spokesperson for the business operators,Zwelenkosi Ngidi, said last year they receiveda court order from themunicipality whowantedto have them removed from the places wherethey are trading. Since that was their only liveli-hood they hired a lawyer to challenge themunic-ipality in court.“I amsurprised that themunicipality is giving
us letters to vacate while they know very wellthat the matter was still in court. It is againstthe law for the municipality to remove us fromwherewe are, since it is clear in the constitutionof this country that if a person had built in anarea and was not removed within 24 hours, theperson removing him or her must find an alter-native place for that person.”He said after receiving the notices the traders
were very angry and they wanted to go to themunicipal offices to stage a sit-in and destroywhatever they could. He said he had, however,managed to calm them down.The lawyer representing the traders, Lindile
Qhina, said after receiving a call fromhis clientshewrote a letter to themunicipality asking themto stop harassing these people since the casewasin court. He said the case would have been final-ized by now if the municipality’s lawyer was at-tending but every time when they go to court,there was no-one from the municipality.“The interim order that was granted by the
court to themunicipality to evict the traders hadlapsed. It is only the court interdict that welaunched which is still pending in court and ifthe municipality attends that can be finalized,”said Qhina.Express contacted the office of the Mbizana
Municipal Manager, Luvuyo Mahlaka, for com-ment. Thepersonwhoanswered thephonewant-ed to know what the call was about and it wasexplained to her that a comment was neededfrom themanager regarding the notices given tothe traders.She said themanagerwas busy on another call
and took the Express reporter’s contact details,but at the time of going to press he had not re-turned the call.
Traders tovacate land
Spokesperson for the traders, Zwelenkosi Ngidi, in front of the containers that the municipality wants to have removed. PHOTO:GREG NOTA
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ADVOCATES known for their work duringthe Farlam Commission will defend the so-called Plangweni Eight who were arrested aft-er the looting of an overturned truck led to thedeath of two people when police opened fire.
At least 13peoplewere injuredafterMzambapolice opened firewith liveammunitionon thecrowd,whowere allegedly looting the truckonthe R61 outside Mbizana on December 2 last
year.The eight suspects, which were arrested for
theft andattacking thepolice, appearedbrieflyin the MbizanaMagistrates Court without theadvocates and their casewas remanded toFeb-ruary 23.According to reports, the advocateswill also
be representing the two people who died dur-ing the shootout – awoman (32) and aman (19).Renowned advocates from the Marikana
Commission of Inquiry, Dali Mpofu, backedby Richard Spoor’s office and Matthew Chas-
kalson, have decided to defend the accusedand demand compensation for damages to thevictims.The shootingwith pump guns and 9mmam-
munition against a crowd of communitymembers took place at about 8 am in themorning.The incident happened after a truck carry-
inga cargoof rice, sugar andbeans stalled androlled backwards uncontrollably after tryingto pass a long slope on the R61. The cargo fellon the road side.
Eight community members were arrestedby the Mzamba police and charged with theftand attacking the police after they startedlooting the cargo on the side of the road.Among the accused is an 82 year-oldwoman
who was shot first. She was hit by two pumpgun bullets in her forehead when allegedlywatching the event from afar.Another accused is the mother of an 8 year
old boywhowas allegedly sitting under a treewhen the child was hit by a stray bullet in theleg.
Advocates to representPlangweni victims
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THE petrol price is falling so quickly thata further reduction of R1 may be on thecards, according to economist MikeSchüssler of economists.co.za.
“About two weeks ago I thought it woulddrop another 25 cents, then about a weekago it looked like it would be a 50 cents’drop. Now it is looking like a rand declinecould become true,” he said.“That would be the second R1 decline
and would bring the whole reduction toover R4 or a saving of R580 per month forthe average motorist.”Thiswill again boost consumer spending
on other products and services, in his
view.“Notice how empty shops were just after
Christmas as products sold more than ex-pected. This would be close to 6% of formalsector disposable salaries - that is take-home pay after taxes and pensions, usingBankservAfrica data,” he explained.“Consumers will take this as another
good sign and if it were not for the poweroutages, I would estimate that this wouldhave boosted the gross domestic product(GDP) by 2% to 2.5% by now. That is if itlasted for the whole year, of course.”The BankServAfrica Disposable Salary
Index shows that typical disposable sala-ries are still just under R10 000 per monthand the average just over R12 000.In his view what is now needed is to “get
Eskom going and get all politics out” of thepower utility.Saijil Singh, lead analyst of Coface, the
international credit insurer, says theirprojections indicate another drop in petrolprice is definitely on the cards, and a 50creduction is a strong likelihood.“There are various factors to consider
here and the prevalent one is definitely thedrop in oil price. We must be careful, how-ever, to not ignore the reality of a veryweak rand and gains in a dollar-based com-modity are not directly translated locally,”he warned.“Simply put, while the oil price has come
down by more than 50% in the last sixmonths, it does not mean that consumerswill see a 50% fuel price reduction locally.”
Petrol price could drop by R1Another factor to note, he pointed out,
is that Coface believes the current Brentprice to be an overreaction due to weaken-ing demand from the US.“We are further predicting the price to
normalise around the $75 mark in the lat-ter part of 2015,” he said.“Overall, consumers should be getting
some relief in the form on a fuel price cutlocally, but consumer confidence is stillvery low and we should not expect this toimmediately translate into an increase inretail spend.”In his viewmost consumers will be wary
of a petrol price hike later in the year andcautious activity could definitely be ex-pected.– Source: news24
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Sivakele isithonga sokuwa komth’ omkhulu eNgquzanelanga ethe yazimasa le nkonzo kuqukaneenkokheli zopolitiko ephondweni. Ezi-nyeziyinzalelwane yaphaya empuma yaMam-pondo. uSolomzi ebeyinkokheli etshatshe-leyo kumbutho okhokhelayo iANC. Usutywekukufa ngomhla weshumi kule nyanga imiyoemva kwengulo ende. Emva kwenkonzo eq-hutyelwe kweli ziko uye wabekwa kwindawoyakhe yokugqibela kwilali yaseNgobo-zana
kwalapho eLusikisi. Le nkokheli nechazwenje ngebi-yincutshe ibikwa-nguSihlalo weSe-be lakwa 14 kusukela ngomnyaka ka2007 nda-wo leyo ebeke wayikhokhela nje ngoceba. Uk-wakho-kela kwi REC ne PEC yeANC YouthLeague, de bamiswa ngo2014. Ubelilo ne-ko-manisi. Inkokheli yolutsha ephondweni uN-dumiso Sapepa uyichaze inxaxheba kaSolom-zi kumzabalazo nje ngeyakhe yankulu yayeingagugqi. Udize ukuba nguye uSolomziowathi wayila ingingqana yo–lutsha kwinda-wo yaseNgquza Hill kwaye ngelo xesha waye-
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EASTERN Cape Rural Development and AgrarianReform MEC, Mlibo Qoboshiyane, together withPremier PhumuloMasuale, reopened the Tsolo Ag-riculture and Rural Development Institute (TAR-DI) last Thursday in Tsolo.
Also part of the event was Agriculture, Forestryand Fisheries Minister, Senzeni Zokwana, and Ru-ral Development and Land Reform Deputy Minis-ter, Mcebisi Sikwatsha.Qoboshiyane said the re-opening launches the
three-year agricultural diploma that will start offwith the dipping and castration of livestock.“TARDI has been processing student applica-
tions from interested students, some of whom havesince been admitted to study at the Institute,” saidMEC.He said that the diploma will equip all provincial
animal health practitioners with professionalknowledge to help curb livestock parasites, controlstate controlled diseases, and provide veterinaryextension and advisory services to communities.“Owing to the cases of rabies and other animal
diseases prevalent in their areas, the first groupof students hails from Alfred Nzo, Amathole, ChrisHani, Joe Gqabi and OR Tambo district municipal-ities.”TheMEC highlighted that quality animal health-
care was critically important to the economy of theprovince because agriculture was one of its maineconomic drivers, and a major contributor to itsdomestic product.The first group of 30 students had been accredit-
ed by the South African Veterinary Council(SAVC) to study a bridge course for 18 months, con-sidering their accredited diploma in animal pro-duction.The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries also handed over a veterinary clinic tothe Institute.
Diploma in AnimalHealth launched
Eastern Cape Premier Phumulo Masualle, Rural Development and Land Reform Deputy Minister Mcebisi Skwatsha, Agriculture, Forestry andFisheries Minister Senzeni Zokwana, Eastern Cape Rural Development and Agrarian Reform MEC Mlibo Qoboshiyane, tasting bananas grownby a Lusikisiki-based co-operative during the re-opening of the Tsolo Agriculture and Rural Development Institute. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
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REPORTER
THE South African Police Services (SAPS)arrested three female suspects who were
driving aToyotaAvanza loadedwith six bagsof dagga on Friday, January 23, at Mzamba.
The arrest followed after a member sta-
Womenwithdaggaarrested
tioned at MzambaSAPS received in-formation about awhite Avanza driv-ing from the direc-tion of Lusikisiki to-wards Durban.Members who
were on patrolstopped the vehicleon the R61 Roadnear Redoubt Loca-tion.“Six bags of dagga
weighingabout 64kgandwith an estimat-ed street value ofR200 000 was discov-ered. Three femalesuspects betweenthe ages of 27 and 35years were arrestedfor dealing in daggaand possession ofdagga and were de-tained at MzambaPolice Station,” saidpolice spokespersonLieutenant KhayaTonjeni.They appeared in
the Bizana Magis-trate’s Court onMonday, January26.
GREG NOTA
BUSINESS owners, many of whom are for-eign nationals, are living in fear following aspate of armed robberies last week Tuesdayand Wednesday.
One foreign national business owner, whodid not want to have his name published fear-ing for his safety, said the incidents of lastweek have left them all with the question of“who will be the next victim?”
“These armed robbers are aware that wesleep in our business premises that we rentfrom the locals. They attack when they knowthat most of the people are sleeping and no onewill identify them. We wish that communitymembers from the areas where we rent busi-nesses will assist us in identifying these cul-prits and isolate them from society,” he said.According to him the community need them
the same way they need their support in buy-ing from their shops. They are bringing grocer-ies closer to the people as they don’t need to
travel to town saving on transport money.Provincial Police spokesperson Lieuten-
antKhayaTonjeni confirmed the armed rob-beries that took place in three areas of Bi-zana and an assault at the Greenville area.
He said on Tuesday, January 20 a case ofan alleged business robbery in Ngcingwanelocality was reported and Bizana police areinvestigating.“A case of robbery was also reported and
is currently under investigation after an in-cident that happened atKhaleni locality also
on Tuesday. At time of going to print no sus-pects had yet been arrested.There was also a report of another business
robbery and assault in the Greenville area onWednesday,” said Lt Tonjeni.He said a Somali (33) man was assaulted on
the scene.Despite rumours that someone had died at
the scene, according to Lt Tonjeni no one diedduring this incident.No one has yet been arrested and police are
investigating.
Businessownersare living in fear
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Ngokwengxelo, kuvakala ukuba lamakhwenkwe agagene nala madodangethuba ezingela iintaka kwihlathi el-ikula lali. Kutyholwa ukuba la makh-wenkwana anyanzeliswe ukulencaubudoda benye yaloo madoda lo gamaenye indoda kubikwa ukuba iyeyadlwengula enye kuloo makhwenkwe.Ingxelo zidiza ukuba la makhwenkwe
akakhange ayi-bike le nyewe emakhay-eni awo. Ukanti esi sihelegu sithe save-la elubala ngelixa elinye lamaxhobalihlaselwa kukurhawuzela okunganya-mezelekiyo apha kwilungu lo-kuzik-hulula.Kudizwe ukuba unina wexhoba uye
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TEACHERS have heeded the call by the De-partment of Education and started teachingon the first day of the new academic year.
To ensure that this was in fact the case andthat schools were ready for the year, the East-ern Cape Department of Education PortfolioCommittee chairperson Kholiswa Fihlani,committee members and leaders from politi-cal parties visited several schools in the subdistricts of Lusikisiki and Flagstaff.
According to the Acting District Manager,Thozamile Binase, some of the schools theyvisited did experience a few hiccups whichwere resolved.
The schools that they visited were Nomza-mo Junior Secondary School (JSS), Thembu-kazi JSS, Meyisi Senior Secondary School(SSS), Mgezwa SSS, Hillbrow SSS, Jiba SSSand Botha Sigcau SSS.
Binase said some of the challenges thatthey came across at these school were short-age of desks, school bags not being deliveredin time and problems with the infrastruc-
ture.“At Jiba SSS there was a problem whereby
parents had chased away the principal but thatwas resolved and the principal is back at theschool.
“Nomzamo JSS and Hillbrow SSS had a ma-jor problem of infrastructure which causedovercrowding in the classrooms but fortunate-ly for those two schools they have been ear-marked for construction,” said Binase.
He said at most of the schools that they visit-ed, teachers and learners were ready to startworking as learners were in classrooms on thefirst and second day and in some cases therewere only a few learners that still needed tobe admitted.
Teaching startsondayone
Yomela Tobo readyto start Grade R atSuperkids School inBizana.
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The Grade Rclass on theirfirst day atSuperkidsSchool.PHOTO:NELLY NONJO-VU
Grade 1pupils fromTshazi Senior
PrimarySchool werebusy with
their tasks ontheir first day
at school.PHOTO:SUPPLIED
Minenhle Tobo getting ready tostart her Grade R at SuperkidsSchool in Bizana.
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Aphiwe Tobo is happyto start Grade 1 thisyear and he is lookingsmart in his schooluniform.
PHOTO: SUPPLIED
Grade R pupils from Mfuneli Junior Secondary School atNyaka village busy in their class on the first day of school.They were (from left to right) Siyabulela Ntsasazana, NcumisaNtsasazana, Jackson Nondlwana, Limi Geza, YongamaZangwa, Sipho Ntobela, Siphesande Dingile and VuyokaziMvemve. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
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REPORTER
OVER 200 children from Ngwekazi SeniorSecondary and Barkerville PrimarySchool in Mount Frere received uniforms,shoes, stationery and soccer kit from Ned-bank as part of its Back to School Cam-paign.
Mobile libraries and labs were also do-nated to the schools.
Initiated in 2010, the campaign, whichforms part of Nedbank’s holistic educa-tion programme called Fundisa, had in-vested over R11 million for more than10 000 learners’ uniforms, shoes and sta-tionery.
One of the beneficiaries, Mzuxolo Ga-gashe, a matriculant from Ngwekazi Sen-ior Secondary School said; “The schooluniform, shoes and stationery I receivedwill enable me to focus more on my studieswhile the mobile library and labs will helpme and fellow learners to prepare betterfor matric exams.”
Nedbank’s Fundisa programme aims tobuild effective schools through infrastruc-ture development, teacher training, build-ing leadership capacity and providingclassroom-based support.
The bank had also been contributing tothe improvement of education outcomesfor learners in Grade 9 to 12 through itscareer guidance programme “My FutureMy Career” and the Matric Revision Pro-gramme, which forms part of Fundisa.
“We partner with government, civil so-ciety and communities to contribute to thegoals of the National Development Plan.Education is a key Corporate Social In-vestment (CSI) focus area for Nedbank asit contributes towards a strong and flour-ishing knowledge-based economy,” saidKone Gugushe, Divisional Executive forCSI at Nedbank.
“We believe that investing in childrenwill create a better society for all of us.”
The bank encourages all people in SouthAfrica to contribute towards the campaignby smsing the word ‘school’ to 40017 to do-nate towards stationery, uniforms andshoes.
MountFrereschoolsgetbigboostfrombank
Mandla Mgcinafrom Phakama
Research Develop-ment with
Ndwekazi learnerspractising theirskills on the
electricity circuitwhich was part of
the equipmentdonated by
Nedbank to theschool.
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Lumko Mtimde, a member of the NationalEducation Collaboration Trust, MEC for theEastern Cape Department of Education,Mandla Makupula, and a learner, LumanyanoMangindana, look at some of the books thatwere donated by Nedbank. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
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YOU know what, when you see someone wholooks like he or she is seized by alcohol or bythewrong act on this world, don’t throw in thetowel with that particular person.
It’s just thatGod is still pavinghisorherwayif notmouldinghis orherpot. Therearepeopleout there whowere regarded as useless peoplebut later on you see such people againmovingforward in life, their appearance changed.Wehad the astonishment of our lives recent-
lywhenwemet a ladywhoused to be out theredrinking as if there was no tomorrow.She had a professional Phuza Face, because
wayengathi ulala khona avukele kubo.Now the lady is a decent woman and she is
married to a very handsome guy who met herin these mnandi places.Uyabona ke ukuba kuyabhaqeka nakwezi
ndawo nangona nje abaninzi bengazi thandincam.Jongangokuu-sistersufumeneumyeni.Inene umntu xa engakafumani umntu wak-
he kuye kungathi akasoze amfumane and ab-eyinto nje nawe ozixelela ukuba soze itshint-she. Siyakubulelela wethu ntombi, uwugcineumendowakho kuba unqabile and ke kuthiwa
emendweni kuyanyamezelwa.Obviously, uyivile intlupheko yaphaya ety-
waleni nekulapho uzibona sele unendoda eku-mark (leyo) nokuba ubungafuni ndoda umos-he nje ngokusela utywala bayo ekuthengileyo.
Asidingi kwazi imbali yenuBafethu everybody on this Express land has
his or her own secrets which we don’t want tohear about. Kusikhathaze kakhulu okutheth-we ngomnye umjita kwi-vrou yomnye umjitanekucacaukubababehambisangexesha lobut-sha babomara ngoku akuthethi ukuthi maka-hambe esima ngaye apha ebantwini ukubawayenjani ngelixa babesathandana. Lo ntoleyomfethu ibifunawenanentliziyoyakhoun-gabe uhamba uthetha nge-vrou yenye i-outie.Even nalo wakho zikhona izinto owazen-
zayo namanye amadoda ebuntombini bakhemara abahambi bethetha ngaye; loo nto yazi-wa babo neentliziyo zabo.Uvile ke boet? Asiyithandanga daai ding.
Danger of faking GodYou can blind us on this Express land but
you will never blind God.
Why boys?It’s just that there arepeoplewhoact in front
of our eyes as if they are living pure lives butbehind the scenes they are Satan uqobo lwak-he.You can even blind the people on this land
by wearing a nice church uniform if not a suitand carry a very advanced Bible, but if ukholois not in your heart or if it is not a calling youare justplayingandGodwill reveal that.Okay,here is a story.There was a guy whomwe used to stay with
at Khwezi Township in UTA some couple ofyears ago.Actually he was a yard-mate.The guy claimed that he was saved and he
prayed about half of the night even in themid-dle of the night.Okay, we had no problem with that even
though his action was a bit tormenting to usbecause he was always disturbing us in ourslumber.But ke nothing esasingayenza the guy had
accepted the calling and ethetha nenkosi yak-he.Every weekend he was not in UTA, stating
that he was going to spread the word of Godin other places particularly Idutywa.Okay sonof God.You remember we said God will reveal if
your ways are not as we see when you are infront of us.In January we met the man again pushing
the word of God very strong in UTA.As you know we travel a lot and sithanda
ubumnandi.We took a journey to Idutywa andit is where he used to visit stating that he hadlot of followers there.OW!Siyaeclubinike thinaxa sifikaendawenine-
kulapho sifumana khona iindaba.Sihleli sibetha okuncane wangena in this
club u-pastor as we normally call him.He was with beauties of the soil in jeans and
miniskirts and he looked like sefikile aphakwinyembezi zikaVictoriakubaebesethethelaphezulu ephatha kunqabula aphinde aphatheizinqa zaba sisi.Wadlala pastor! We asked the lady who was
next to us ukuba liyamazi na.Lavele lasikhathalisa, xa lisithi sisinxila sal-
apha esi, qha sihlala eMthatha.
There’s lightat endof tunnel
AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA
YOUNG Gospel sensation, Yongama Mrwetyana (19), isspreading his wings and the word of God, not onlythrough his music being played by local community ra-dio stations, but also through his motivational talks.
Mrwetyana is giving these talks on UCR, Khanya, Ink-onjane, Vukani and Alfred Nzo community radio sta-tions.He is also currently working on his new social show
at Bay TV which will be aired around March this year.“I want to live a life that will be a motivation to many,
especially for those in my age group,” said Mrwetyana.He said he wants young people to know that whatever
they want to achieve in life is possible with faith in God.
Gospel star wants tomotivate othersYongama Mrwetyana is on a mission to not only make his own dreams come true, but to motivate others to do the same.
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“I am now a Gospel artist and that has always beenmy dream,” he said.He said he loves working in radio but not more than
singing Gospel and worshipping God through music.“I love radio and I have big plans of growing in it, but
my music career comes first. I live it and it is my minis-try.”Mrwetyana is currently busy with the in-store distri-
bution of his two albums (“Undithandile” and “Ebene-zer”) and said that sales of both albums are doing well.He is also going back to school this year to finish his
Matric at Holy Cross High School. By doing this he isalso hoping to motivate other young people to put educa-tion first. “Education is very important. As an artist youneed to sign contracts and before you can do that youmust be able to to read and understand what is written.”
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ANELE RAZIYA
BUTTERWORTH United FC punished theirneighbours Green Lovers FC with five goalsto zero during their SAB Regional Leaguegame.
The match was played in hot weather con-ditions atMsobomvu Sports ground last Sat-urday.
After their humiliating defeat to the visi-tors, GreenLovers coachGoldenNguqu saidthey played very well but their goalkeepermade somemistakes which resulted in themhaving to pay the price.
“I really don’t know what went wrongwith our goalkeeper today because he usedto make great saves and he is a good goal-keeper.
“But todayhe conceded three unnecessarygoals. We did not deserve to lose the gamebecause we created a lot of chances but un-fortunately we could not manage to convert
those opportunities into goals,” said Nguqu.He added that they started the game with
young players in order to test them and give-them a chance.
He urged community members to supportsoccer and to come in numbers to thegrounds to watch the games as this wouldencourage the young players a lot.
Butterworth united FC bossMzwamadodaSinyanya said his team maintained theirgame planwhichwas 4-3-3. They used highlyskilled strikers upfront with the aim of scor-ing goals and they were equal to the task.
“Before the match we told our midfieldersto pass the ball quickly to the strikers so thatwe could outrun Green Lovers’ defendersand punish them, and they did exactly whatwe told them.”
He said he was happy with a win but wasdisappointed with the turnout at the stadi-um. He said he would like to see people sup-porting the games and coming in numbersto the stadium.
ButterworthUnitedpunishesits neighbours
Butterworth United striker (wearing black jersey with red shorts) giving the Green Loversdefenders (in green jersey) a hard time during the game which they won 5-0. PHOTO: SUPPLIED