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The National Demarcation Board led by its Chairperson Jane Thupana,announced the delimitation of wards on Tuesday 30 June. According tothe opposition in the municipality, the decision to delimitate the wardswas gazetted on Tuesday 21 July without a proper consultation with thecommunity.They say the decision was taken to favour the ruling party in the nextyear Local Government Elections. Mokhine Pitje, a DA councillor in EliasMotsoaledi says the decision was taken in favour of the ruling party,where some of the villages in opposition wards were incorporated to theruling party owned wards, while on the other side they extended the

Delimitation of Wards inEMLM causes tension

opposition ward tovillages where theyknow is a ruling partystrong hold. He saysthe aim of the Demar-cation Board is toweaken the oppositionas it is obviously con-trolled by the ANC.Pitje said a proper pub-lic participation wasnot followed when the decision was taken."The municipality only invited ANC members from all 30 wards in ameeting that was held at the Groblersdal Agricultural Hall on 30 Junewhen the delimitation of wards was announced. It was obvious that theywill favour the process as they were all members of the ruling party," hesaid.He said in ward 10 where Mpumalanga Party's Seun Mogotji is acouncillor, Lesehleng B Section which is Mpumalanga Party and DAstrong hold was delimitated to ward 8 which is a very powerful ANCstronghold under Councillor Monica Daniel Mzinyane.Pitje says now the community is angry and demand answers as they werenot consulted before the decision was taken. He added that residentsknow that the decision was taken to favour ANC in the up-coming LocalGovernment Elections."According to the Local Government Municipal Structural Act, Section22 of 2000, the delimitation of wards must be done through wardcommittees and the community through public participation. It is obvi-ous that the criteria were not followed as the community was notconsulted before the decision was taken. The community became awareof the delimitation on Tuesday 21 July after it was published in theGovernment Gazette. Now they are angry and demand answers promis-ing to protest if the municipality fail to give a full explanation about thedecision," he said.

Elias Motsoaledi DA Councillor Mokhine Pitje says theChairperson of the National Demarcation Board delimitatedElias Motsoaledi wards in favour of the ruling party.

"It is obvious that thecriteria were not followedas the community was not

consulted before thedecision was taken."

He says that Jane Thupana, chairperson of the Elias Motsoaledi Demar-cation Board responded by saying a proper consultation was made butshe failed to produce minutes of the meeting and the roll call."A meeting was organized by the community at Leseseng Village,Tagane Primary School. The community agreed that a meeting must beheld with the Demarcation Board Chairperson Jane Thupana to resolvethe matter. Here the community will be asking questions directly toThupana about the decision. The facilitators of the meeting will beheaded by Ward 10 Councillor Seun Mogotji, Mokhine Pitje, SankhukhuMadisa and Tsie Mohlamonyane. A formal objection letter was also sent

to the Chairperson ofDemarcation Boardand they will also bedealt with during themeeting withThupana," he said.Pitje added that thecommunity is furiousabout the decision. Hesaid the objections willbe closing at the end

of August and they hope to meet with Thupanabefore then and will be expecting a positiveresponse. Ward 10 Councillor Seun Mogotji said the areaof Moutse actually does not belong to LimpopoProvince. He says the community has taken adecision during a referendum to be incorpo-rated to Mpumalanga when Moutse was re-garded as a cross boundary in 2006.Mogotji added that the Elias Motsoaledi De-marcation Board's decision make the commu-nity even angrier as they thought the area willbe incorporated to Mpumalanga Province."A portion of my strong hold in my ward,Lesehleng B was taken to ward 8. The Board hasalso taken Bloempoort and Stop Light Villagesto Ward 11 where Mpumalanga Party's AliMaloba is a councillor. The two Villages werefalling under Ward 14 and full of ANC support-ers only, so that they will influence the commu-nity in our wards to vote for the ruling party inthe next elections. We will fight this until theend and protest if it comes to a push," he said.

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The Groblersdal Hospital workers under the National Educational Healthand Allied Workers Union, (NEHAWU) picketed at the hospital en-trance on Tuesday 28 July demanding the resignation of the CEO. Theemployees were aiming to hand a memorandum of demands to thehospital's CEO Dr Lesiba J Rashokeng but he was not available to acceptit.The employees were complaining about the CEO's bad attitude, sayinghe is calling them juniors who are illiterate. The CEO was appointed atthe hospital in September last year while he was still acting in theposition. He was appointed permanently in November last year. Theysay the CEO was employed without any formal interview conducted bythe Department of Health. Now the union demands that the CEO mustresign before 3 September this year.The secretary of NEHAWU Groblersdal Branch Comfort Matlala saidthey stated in the memorandum that as labour union they struggle withthe formation of committees under the new CEO.He said they are also worried about the cutting of over-time paymentsof staff, shortage of working material at the maintenance department andthe poor arrangements of sectional meetings."We believe in a safe working environment, in promoting departmentalprofessionalism and adherence to Batho Pele Principles, meaning con-sultation and access to information.We demand an immediate removal of the deputy nurse service managerMampulele Leolo. Leolo is accused of manipulating the educationalprocess in the hospital where she sends unqualified nurses to the collegebecause they are friends to her whereas qualified staff is denied thechance to go and study.We also demand the outstanding payments of overtime performed inDecember 2014. We are surprised because the overtime was applied forand approved by the CEO but the money never arrived," he said.He went on and said: "Some of the staff are getting a 30% extra in theirsalaries while to others the money is not applicable, without any reasongiven. Some of staff members are not paid on Sundays and their moneyis still outstanding.We demand an implementation of a 24 hour service to all workers whoare paid for it. Administration Clerks at the Outpatient Department do notopen patients’ files after 14:h00. Pharmacists do not issue medication

Hospital employees demandCEO's resignation

Hospital employees demand the CEO to resign

Employees at Groblersdal Hospital say the CEO, LesibaRashokeng must resign.

NEHAWU representatives in Groblersdal Hospital say theCEO is incompetent and must resign. They say the hospitalhas a single doctor who attends patients on daily basis whilethe other doctors work part-time in the hospital.

after 16:h00 till the following day."He said there is a shortage of staff in GroblersdalHospital at this stage. He said the hospital hasone full-time doctor and the other doctors aresurgery owners and only work part-time in thehospital. 70% of administration workers arevolunteers who are still studying at CS BarlowFET College."We demand that all running projects bestopped as stakeholders were not informedabout them and it is clear that there is corruptioninvolved.They must be investigated. We demand ad-equate working tools e.g. lawnmowers andgarden spades. We demand the safety of nursesescorting patients to other health institutions.We demand the payment of PMDS to all af-fected employees," he said.Matlala added that if the CEO is not resigningbefore 3 September, the matter will be takenfurther and a protest will be organized in thehospital to forcing Rashokeng to resign.The Limpopo Health Department Spokesper-son Macks Lesufi told the Dispatch that theemployee's contract can be terminated only bythe employer.He said up to so far the Department of Healthis not charging the CEO with any offense andhe will continue working for the department."The department is not finding Rashokengguilty of anything but the union has the rightto come forward and raise their concerns as itis stated in the bill of rights.I can assure you that the CEO will continueserving the hospital as he has done nothingwrong according to the Limpopo Departmentof Health," he said.

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After struggling to get a new community clinicfrom the government, Ga-Molepane residentsdecided to build themselves a new clinic. Thetemporary clinic was build through the effortsof the community.A community leader, Lloyd Mankge said theidea came by community members after thegovernment failed to build a community clinicin the area. He said the community was urgedto go to other villages to access health carefacilities. He added that some of the villagersare elderly and cannot afford a R100-00 taxi fareto Madibong Community Clinic where they gettheir medications."There was a mobile clinic in the area before butit no longer came when the department claimedit experienced a shortage of ambulances," hesaid.Lloyd claims that he wrote a letter to the Min-ister of Health demanding a clinic and he wastold the department is going to review its budgetand will come with positive answers."They never came and I made a follow up withthe provincial department about the matter.Health representatives came to visit us and wewere advised to have a building where healthworkers will be deployed to assist us," he said.He said they started going out seeking dona-tions to build a new clinic. Local businessesand Royal House donated."The local headman gave us his old house andhardware stores around Jane Furse donatedbuilding material and that’s when the new Ga-Molepane Community Clinic was born. Healthrepresentatives came on Tuesday 4 Augustand they promised to provide nurses and medi-cation for the clinic," he said.He said the clinic comprises of a reception andtwo consulting rooms for the staff and patients.Lloyd concluded by saying that at this stagethey are waiting for the Health Department toprovide medication and staff in the clinic. Hesaid this will happen soon and people from Ga-Molepane and other neighbouring villages willbe getting services in this new health facility.He said they are still waiting for the departmentto build them a new clinic as this one is onlytemporary.

Ga-Molepanecommunity builds its

own clinic asgovernment services

fail them

Community leader Loyd Mankge in-stalling the door at the temporary clinicin Ga-Molepane Village, Jane Furse.

The community will now access medi-cation and other health facility assist-ance at the new Ga-Molepane tempo-rary community clinic.

Concerned Tafelkop community members, together with EFF supportersclaim the police and the municipality are silencing them when fightingfor poor service delivery in the village.The community says the police are siding with the municipality byarresting protest leaders and charge them with public violence after ademonstration where the community demanded answers about theservice delivery backlog in the area."We tried on several occasions to demand answers about the missingfunds that were supposed to develop the community but we were notgiven answers. The community then took it to the streets as it is the onlylanguage they hear but we as EFF members were arrested for nothing,"said Elias Motsoaledi Ward 28 EFF Chairperson Sibusiso Sefoloshe.He said during the mass protest that was organized by communitymembers on Wednesday 22 April 18 EFF members were arrested."Since then we keep on appearing in court and we think they are doingthis to silence us. They keep on remanding the case and it is clear thatthis is politically motivated. Now we are waiting for our appearance thatwill be on Monday 7 September and hoping that the case will bewithdrawn as we are not guilty," he said.Sibusiso added that the community is looking forward to organize apeaceful march to the Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality after theircourt appearance."We had three peaceful marches to the municipality demanding answersabout the R28 Million that was allocated to supply water from Tafelkopto Luckau Villages, the incomplete RDP houses left by the contractorsand the missing funds of the 20 high mast lights that were supposed to

Millions allocated but still no servicesbe installed in Tafelkop. An amount of R2Million was allocated to install 20 high mastlights but only four were constructed," he said.He went on and said: "The community is strug-gling here. Services are not delivered and I thinksomeone must do something about the situa-tion we are facing. Millions of rands are allo-cated but they end up in other people's pockets.Memorandums are submitted and they promiseto respond but nothing is happening. Some ofthe families have no place to stay and leftstranded after their RDP houses were left unfin-ished by the contractors. The houses are nowwhite elephants and collapsing without beingused by their rightful owners."Sibusiso said a number of meetings were heldto resolve poor service delivery issues but theywere fruitless."Every time when they (the municipality) call ameeting they keep on promising but not imple-menting. We are still struggling to get basicservices such as water where millions are allo-cated from the IDP budget and went missing.We want this to come to an end and we willstand up for the community until the end," heconcluded.

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Philadelphia Hospital is currently facing a trans-portation crisis where paramedics are urged touse Planned Patient Transport (PPT) to pick uppatients at their homes. Doctors and nurseshave also stopped attending local clinics be-cause the mobile clinic vehicle is also broken.The shortage of emergency vehicles has starteda few years ago but the Health Department failsto resolve the challenge. A number of ambu-lances are seen in the hospital premises butthey can't pick-up patients because they arevery old and broken. A paramedic in the hospi-tal who doesn’t want to be named says thehospital has only one ambulance which is alsoin a very bad condition. He says the otherambulance that they were relying on was takento be fixed but they never returned. He addedthat the Health Department sent five PlannedPatient Transport vehicles in May this year thatwere used by other health institutions in theprovince to assist the paramedics in Philadel-phia but they are also in a bad condition. "Onlyone of the five PPT vehicles is roadworthy. Theother four are scraped as their licensing dischas expired a long time ago and they are also not

Ambulance shortage a concern to Philadelphia employees

roadworthy. Some of these PPT vehicles including the ambulance arealready at 257 000Km while the government says the vehicles must notexceed 120 000km. This is putting us at risk in our working place," he said.He said the Transportation Officer in the District is taking time to attendthe hospital to perform his duties and this leads to a backlog in dealingwith the transportation challenges the hospital is facing at this stage."When the matter was reported to him, he replied by saying that the

department has allocated too little money and the transportation prob-lem is still going to last for a long time in Philadelphia. We work underpressure here and it becomes difficult for us as emergency personnel topick up a sick person using the PPT vehicle as it is not designed totransport patients. Some of the patients we are transporting are affectedby this situation where their condition becomes worse," he said. He wenton and said they are understaffed in the hospital and this urges only oneemergency personnel to pick up patients. He said this sometimes makesthe condition of the patient worse just before they can arrive in thehospital. "It is difficult to use a PPT vehicle to go and pick up patientsfrom their homes. Some patients need to be taken care off while beingtransported to the hospital but you can't drive and treat a patient at thesame time," he said. A nurse who works at the clinic in Dennilton toldthe Dispatch that they sometimes have to wait for the ambulance thewhole day. "It is difficult to see a patient groaning in pains while theambulance takes the whole day before it arrives. I feel this is a violationof patients' rights and also our rights as employees of the Departmentof Health. We are not enjoying to work under this conditions at all," shesaid. Macks Lesufi, the Limpopo Department of Health Spokespersonsaid days of ambulances shortages in Philadelphia will be over beforethe end of this month. "The Limpopo Premier Stan Mathabatha an-nounced during his state of provincial address that hundred ambulanceswill be deployed to hospitals around the province. We will soon besending them to the districts and all hospitals will have new ambulancesbefore the end of this month," he said.

A number of old broken ambulances are seen at Philadel-phia Hospital premises. The workers say the Health Depart-ment fails to provide the hospital with new ambulances.

Lucas Moremi (25), was sentenced to 18 years behind bars for rape. Theaccused received his heavy sentence at the Groblersdal Regional Courton Wednesday 29 July."He was arrested on 26 March 2013 at Malebitsa Village near Marble Hallfor raping a 10 year old girl from the same village," said the Marble HallPolice Spokesperson Constable Lethunya Mmuroa.

Man gets 18 years imprisonment for rapeMmuroa said according to the investigation the accused raped the victiminside the bushes on 23 March 2015 at 18:00. He was known to her andthe victim reported the matter to mother that led to him being arrested."A docket of rape was opened at the Marble Hall SAPS and the suspectwas arrested immediately.The girl was taken to Groblersdal Hospital for medical treatment and

physical evidence where it was confirmed shewas raped. The suspect was arrested and ap-peared before court several times until he wasconvicted by Magistrate Rinah Van der Walt.The police welcomed the sentence of the ac-cused," concluded Mmuroa.

32 suspects between the ages of 16 and 65 were arrested at Marble Hallthe beginning of August.The suspects were arrested during an operation conducted by MarbleHall SAPS where nine police stations falling under the Groblersdal PoliceCluster were involved.Other government Department such as the Department of Home Affairs,Environmental Affairs and EMS were also involved.The suspects were arrested for crimes such as assault, drinking liquorin public, illegal gambling, violation of immigration acts, selling liquorwithout licences and possession of dagga. Illegal items such as gam-bling machines were confiscated.Most of these suspect appeared in court on Monday 3 August wherethey were granted bail. Some were release on warnings and paid fines.

Suspects arrestedduring police operation

The suspects get-ting off the policevehicle at the Mar-ble Hall Police Sta-tion after being ar-rested in the opera-tion.

The policeoffloading gam-bling machines atthe Marble HallPolice Station af-ter their ownerswere arrested andcharged with unli-censed gambling.

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When everyone is dressed the same, worryingabout what you look like is not important. Aschool uniform teaches pupils to dress smartlyand not to take pride in their appearance. Thereis no need to worry about peer pressure fromother children.Under the theme, "Make a Child Smile",Nkadimeng Primary School handed over fullschool uniforms to needy learners on Friday 31July. The event that saw 48 pupils from theschool benefiting a full package of school uni-form was part of Mandela Month celebrationwhere the school was aimed to wrap-upMadiba's Month by putting smiles on the facesof these needy children.Parents, educators, learners and other commu-nity members were present at the schoolpremises in Moteti Village Elias MotsoalediLocal Municipality to acknowledge the handover and Mandela Month celebration. Pick nPay Moteti Top Spot contributed by cateringfood to hundreds of people attending the event.The school principal Mrs MC Mohlamonyanetold the Dispatch: "The donation is an effortmade by the Nkadimeng Primary School wherethe staff contributed money to purchase a fullschool uniform for these neediest learners."She said the criteria used to identify the learnerswere made through the Nkadimeng PrimarySchool Base Support Team where a number of48 neediest learners were identified to be ben-eficiaries."The Nkadimeng Primary School Base SupportTeam has actually come up with an idea ofdonating to these learners. Credit must be givento the support team members whom are educa-tors in the school and they are; AN Mokganedi,LDM Moetanalo, MT Mothapo, MMMahlangu and MS Skhosana. In actual fact, allstaff was actively involved. The school's deputyprincipal Mr Eric Matlala also plays an impor-tant role in this institution. The School Govern-ing Body (SGB) also played a major role in theidentification of these neediest learners," shesaid. Mohlamonyane added that most of thepupils attending school at Nkadimeng Primaryare coming from poor backgrounds. She saidthey were urged to identify the neediest onesfor the donation and hoping to identify a biggernumber as time goes on. "We know that amajority of our learners are staying with theirgrandparents and are struggling but we urge toidentify those who are the neediest. Some ofthem attend their lessons wearing thorn uni-forms, some without jerseys to cover them thiswinter while some were coming to school onbear foot. We are hoping that the donation willmake a huge difference in these children's lives,"said Mohlamonyane.She told the Dispatch that the school donatesto its learners not only in Mandela Month, butthey also give a helping hand to these needypupils throughout the year. Mohlamonyanesaid they take care of these children inside andoutside the school premises."Most pupils here rely on government feedingscheme programmes for their entire daily meal,meaning they get food only when they are atschool and have nothing at home. Some areorphaned and vulnerable children, some bothof their parents are unemployed and some aretaken care of by their grandparents. This is alsoa challenge to us as educators," she said.She went on and said they know that there areother pupils in need of school uniforms butthey manage to identify the neediest ones atthis stage. She said they will try by all means todonate to all needy learners in future.Mohlamonyane said residents should come tothe school and donate to these needy children.A pupil, Annah Mokwena was thankful toreceive a full school uniform from her educa-tors. She said she was thinking of giving upschooling but the donation has restored herlove for school and she will never look back butcomplete her matric.

Nkadimeng primary school educators donateschool uniforms

Annah Mokwena showing off her fullschool uniform donated to her by edu-cators at Nkadimeng Primary School.

Pupils at Nkadimeng Primary School with their uniforms they received as adonation from their educators.

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With many people living below the poverty line, the women of FiveMorgan in Dennilton are harvesting the Moringa Oleifera trees leavesand producing nutritious supplements that promise to help reducemalnutrition and boost the immune system. The cooperative, TimeResponse is an existing agricultural farming co-operative which startedin October 2014, and currently has more than 5000 Moringa trees.These women have planted a small forest of Moringa Oleifera trees tohelp eradicate poverty and hunger. The Moringa tree is regarded as amiracle tree. Its benefits have been exploited in other parts of Africa,South America, India and the Far East but were until recently unknownin other parts of South Africa. The women, Martha Ledwaba, PaulineTwala, Kgomotso Ledwaba and Nomfundo Ledwaba are the directors ofthe cooperative. Two men, Ephraim Yende and Amos Makama were alsoincluded to join the cooperative. Time Response was founded by twoLedwaba sisters Martha and Pauline. Martha brings a wealth of Agricul-tural farming experience from her past years of vegetable farming at thesame piece of land that is used to plant moringa. Upon conductingresearch, she found that there are vast and lucrative opportunities inMoringa farming. Moringa is a miracle tree and the most nutrient-richplant ever studied with lots of health benefits. The dynamic organiza-tional culture and nature of Time Response further encouraged thepursuit of this opportunity. Martha also has extensive experience inbusiness management at large which is drawn from 15 years of serviceas the CEO of her own company. The co-operative is already makingmany products from the tree, producing and distributing moringapowder, capsules, teabags and oil. "Our main target market is pharma-ceutical companies, and our local markets are hospitals, crèches, schools,old age homes and the ordinary citizens," she said. She went on and said:"As aforementioned, this initiative seeks not only to bring a newagricultural product to the local community but also to create sustainableemployment for some of the residents, bettering their lives and their

The Marble Hall SAPS arrested a 65 year old man named Joel Masemolain connection with dagga dealings. The suspect was arrested on Friday31 July at Marble Hall Town after the police received a tip-off fromcommunity members."The suspect was found at Municipal offices stalls in the town withdagga with an estimated street value of more than R9000," said theMarble Hall Police Spokesperson Constable Lethunya Mmuroa.He added that the suspect appeared in the Groblersdal Magistrate'sCourt on Monday 3 August and was released after paying the admissionof guilt fine.

Drug dealer arrested inMarble Hall

Sergeant Hellen Phasha and Constable Tshipi Seomanewith the dagga found during the arrest of Joel Masemola.

Dennilton women use Moringa treeto fight poverty

families. As the co-operative grows in successwe intend to plough back into the communitythrough various farming mentorship pro-grammes and youth business empowermentinitiatives, as a part of our corporate socialresponsibility (CSR) portfolio build up. There isa growing demand for Moringa products fromaround the world but the cooperative is unableto meet the demands as we need equipment toprepare the land, we need to build a processingplant to modernize our operations."Martha concluded by appealing to the commu-nity to visit their project to get help from thismiracle tree products that can change their livesto the better. She can be reached on 074 6033262.

Linah Molatane, Ephraim Yende andAmos Makama harvesting moringatree at the Time Response Project inFive Morgan.

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Tafelkop Karate Academy has started with aKarate Against Nyaope Campaign that aims tokeep young people away from drugs and off thestreets. The campaign has already kick-startedand visited primary schools in the village.According to the campaign coordinator JeffreyWalker of MK 23 Walker Developments, theaim of the campaign is to attract more studentsto take part in karate classes or any sportingcode of their choice.He said schools can play a vital role in the fightagainst nyaope and other drugs available intheir respective communities." Our idea is to go to the schools and demon-strate our karate lessons to interest pupils inthis sporting code," he said.Jeffrey says schools are good platforms toidentify and address the behaviour of everylearner. With the help of the respective classteachers, the campaign could be able to identifychildren with drug related problems and takethe necessary steps to intervene."Karate Against Nyaope Campaign is offeringfree karate lessons to students between theages of 7 and 15 and it has gained support fromparents and students since the free lessons

Karate Against Nyaope inTafelkop Schools

A netball elimination tournament was organ-ized by the Limpopo Department of Sports,Arts & Culture at Ga-Molepane Village nearJane Furse in Makhuduthamaga Local Mu-nicipality on Saturday 1 August. MolepaneNetball Club, Moretsele Netball Club andNtwane Netball Club took part. The tourna-ment was aimed to be a top-four but it was laterdeclared a round-robbing match that will ac-commodate only three clubs after one of theteams failed to arrive.The tournament was the first stage of anelimination match for the MakhuduthamagaLocal Municipality Netball Championshipsand was organized by the hubs whereMoretsela were crownd the Ga-Molepane HubChampions.Moretsela Netball Club managed to defeatNtwane Netball Club and Ga-Molepane Net-ball Club to face Twenty-Ten Netball Club forthe Makhuduthamaga Championships finalmatch. Twenty-Ten from Tshelwaneng hasbeen crowned Peter Nchabeleng Hub Cham-pions and the two clubs will face each other forthe Makhuduthamaga Championships matchthat will be held soon after its date announcedby the organisers. In the first match MoretselaNetball Club managed to beat Molepane Net-ball Club with a 38-18 score. Later that dayMoretsela eliminated Ntwane 30-20 and pavedtheir way to the final of the tournament thatwill be held soon.Moretsela Netball Club coach LeratoMankgane told the Dispatch that they workedhard when preparing for the tournament. Shesaid the team is looking forward to representMakhuduthamaga in the province and theyneed support from residents of the entirevillages in the municipality."It was quite a difficult tournament as theteams were determined and playing well. Weare humbled by the win and we are lookingforward to face Twenty-Ten for the finalmatch," she said.Lerato appealed to parents' support and urges

The Tafelkop Academy students demonstrating their karate lessons at theTafelkop Soccer Field during the Karate Against Nyaope Campaign.

Moretsela Netball Club onthe way to represent

Makhuduthamagaprovincially.

them to release their children to participate insporting activities."It is every parent's responsibility to ensurethat their children are taking part in sports. Thisincludes different sporting codes available inthe communities. Sport involvement reducescrime and other social related issues such asteenage pregnancy and substance abuse," shesaid.

were introduced. We appeal to parents to encourage their children to take part in this campaign.We also arranged with the members of the SAPS to come and motivate our students during thiscampaign," he said.

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The Tafelkop based Brothers FC triumphs in the Sekhukhune SAFA inter LFA play-offs. The teamclaimed victory in the play-offs matches held at the Mangabane Sports Grounds in Steelpoort onSunday 9 and Monday 10 August.The team qualified to go and take part in the Sekhukhune Regional play-offs after winning the EliasMotsoaledi Local Municipality promotional league.The coordinator of the Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality Football Association JeffreyMtshweni said the municipality's goal of being represented in the SAB league comes a very longway."This is a great achievement for the team and the municipality at large. We have been longing forthis dream for more than five years and now we are glad we did it as Elias Motsoaledi," he said.He added that after crowning Brothers as the winners of Elias Motsoaledi promotional league,they never looked back and determined to take part in the Regional play-offs. Jeffrey said althoughBrothers won the promotional league by only one point difference. This is separating them fromtheir closest rivals, Tiger Boys FC, they made the municipality proud with their outstandingperformance during the match."It was not easy at all as all the five municipalities in Sekhukhune sent their best teams to representthem. We lost our first match by 3-0 when facing Fetakgomo Local Municipality but we managedto make a good come back later that day and won 2-1 beating Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality,"he said.Jeffrey further said, their neighbours, Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality topped the play-offsand also qualified to take part in the SAB league."We came second in the log with a tie of seven points for each team. We are glad that the winnerof the play-offs is our neighbouring Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality. We are looking forwardto play in the SAB league and make our municipality proud," he concluded.Brothers FC Head Coach Chukwu Mokwena said it was not easy to get this great achievement.

Brothers FC to represent Elias Motsoaledi in the SouthAfrican Brewery soccer league

"It was not easy at all to but we are happy we have achieved a lot today.Our boys were determined and focused when we were playing in thepromotional league," he said.Chukwu added the team is struggling to get sponsors but they are innegotiations with local business people for assistance."The ward councillor David Tladi and Steve Mokwana of MakanyaneTransport assisted us a lot when we were going to play in Steelpoortwhere we claimed victory and form a part in the SAB league. We wishthey can offer us assistance also in the future," he said.He further said that the team will be having trials to give opportunity toyoung people who are younger than 25."Our trials are scheduled to take place in Tafelkop Stadium on Wednes-day 19 August. Determined young soccer players are advised to arriveat the stadium before 16:H00 to try their luck. Our team is looking forwardto offer young soccer lovers a chance to play in the professional SABleague and our dream is also to see these young people playing in themajor leagues in the country," he concluded.

The Elias Motsoaledi representatives, Brothers FC weremaking frequent attacks when becoming promoted to playin the SAB League.

The match was full of suspense when Brothers FC, repre-senting Elias Motsoaledi, played against Ephraim Mogalein the regional play-offs.

Brothers FC promoted to the SAB League when representing Elias Motsoaledi inthe Sekhukhune Regional play-offs.