Friday 29 August 2014Year 5 134th Edition Tel: 013 262 4416

An Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality formeremployee Mrs Gugu Nhlaane, was paid the

A Groblersdal traffic officer was arrested and charged with bribery by thepolice on Monday 25 August. According to Warrant Officer StanleyMagaela from Groblersdal SAPS, it is alleged that the traffic officercaught a woman for exceeding the speed limit near Motetema on Friday22 August. The officer demanded a cold drink as she broke the law. Thewoman refused and the officer decided to hold her driver’s licence untilshe paid the bribe. The woman then went to report the matter at theGroblersdal SAPS on Monday 25 August. The police then decided to setup a trap against the traffic officer. He was then phoned by the womantelling him that she has the cold drink money in her possession. Thewoman and the officer met and she gave him R40-00 as a bribe. He wasthen arrested on the spot and was charged with bribery. He appearedbefore the Groblersdal Magistrate’s Court on Monday 25 August andgranted a R1000-00 bail. He will appear again on Monday 22 September,investigations continue. EMLM was contacted for comment. MarindaBurger replied, "Due to the fact that the matter is sub judice themunicipality cannot comment at this stage."

R48 000 for Ghost employee at EMLMamount of R48 000-00 while she officially re-signed. Gugu Nhlaane was working in the mu-

nicipality’s Department of Infrastructure andshe officially resigned 31 March this year.According to Mpumalanga Party CouncillorSeun Mogotji, the municipality kept on payingsalary in Gugu’s bank account when she leftalready.Mogotji went on: “The Municipal Managerknew about the resignation of the former em-ployee as she submitted her resignation andworked the required time as she was serving anotice before her contract was terminated on 31March this year.Surprisingly the municipality kept on payingher salary that resulted in wasteful expenditureaccording to the municipal act.”“Now as councillors we start to ask ourselves

questions that all employees that are listed inthe monthly report to be paid are actually exist-ing and working for the council,” he said.Mogotji added that it is now important thatevery employee in the municipality must bechecked that they are existing and serving inthe Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality.“This must be done as a matter of emergency toascertain more ghost employees in the munici-pality,” he said.“If this is an indication of the actualmaladministration and mismanagement that isprevailing within the ambit of the MunicipalManaging Portfolio, serious consideration isurgently required to substantiate against thoseresponsible,” concluded Seun Mogotji.

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Recently, the gate at the Lusaka Regional Grave-yard was stolen by criminals. According toBushy Mamba, who is taking care of thegraveyard, since the gate was stolen, strayanimals damage graves and tombstones andillegal immigrants are burying their loved onesthere. “We have been noticing some unknown gravessince the gate was stolen. I am staying a fewmeters from the graveyard and know everyfuneral that is taking place in the weekends,” hesaid. “There is a potion where the LimpopoDepartment of Health buries people who diedbut the family members did not claim the body.These bodies come from hospitals includingJane Furse, Ga-Matlala, Glen Cowie, Philadel-phia and Groblersdal. But now the place isbecoming full of unknown graves after somepeople have been buried illegally there,” hesaid. He added that now the criminals who stolethe gate are coming back to steal the grave nametags because they are made of metal and theycan sell it as a scrap metal.He added that the department aimed to make iteasier that after locating the family members ofthe deceased, the remains will be exhumed to be

Stealing from the deadgiven a proper burial at home. “Now it becomesdifficult as some of the grave name tags havebeen stolen by criminals and the graves are nownot identifiable at all.”Mr Mamba reported the matter to the wardcouncillor and hopes that the news will reachthe municipality.“At the moment I work tirelessly chasing awayanimals. There are some expensive tombstonesin the graveyard and it is not fair to families tocome back and re-erect their tombstones afterthey have been damaged by these animals. Ihope the police will also act to arrest thoseresponsible in stealing the gate and name tagsin the graveyards,” he concluded.Ward 6 Councillor Chris Mhlanga told theDispatch that he reported the matter to the EliasMotsoaledi Local Municipality.“The municipality has reported the matter tothe insurance company and promised that thegate will be replaced as soon as the insurancepays,” he said.

Bushy Mamba standing at the LusakaRegional Graveyard entrance. Thegraveyard has no gate after criminalsstole it to be sold as a scrap metal.

The Groblersdal SAPS are concerned aboutrecent crime incidents taking place atVaalfontein Farm near Groblersdal. The policenow decided to identify the area as a hotspot forcrime such as armed robberies, rape, farm at-tacks and drugs. According to Warrant OfficerStanley Magaela from Groblersdal SAPS, crimeis starting to be rife in the area and this may becaused by too many illegal immigrants. He said

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the most recent inci-dent took place on Sat-urday 23 Augustwhere the police ar-rested two suspectsin possession of unli-censed firearms andstolen cell phones.“The suspects werespotted by Wips Se-curity officers in thelate hours of Saturday.The security ap-proached them andthey started running.One of the suspectsthrew away a rifle whilethey were trying toescape,” he said. Headded that the secu-rity personnel man-aged to catch two sus-pects and one fled onfoot. They were ap-prehended to the po-lice and charged withpossession of unli-censed firearm. Laterthat day the policeorganized a raid andarrested 57 illegal im-migrants from Zimba-bwe. “The farm iswhere many illegalimmigrants harbourwhen they arrive fromZimbabwe. They arenow committing crimeand it is difficult totrace them as they arenot here legally. Allthe arrested immi-grants were foundwithout legal docu-ments and will be de-ported soon,” he con-cluded.

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“If there was water available, we should nothave lost our clothes.” These were the wordscoming from Zanele Mhlanga from New Standin Dennilton after a mysterious fire ate hisfamily’s house. According to Zanele, the fire,that started mysteriously on Wednesday 20August and burned their goods includingclothes, beds and some of her sister’s projectproducts, should have been stopped if waterwas available in the tap. On Wednesday 20August the family noticed smoke coming fromthe back of the house. When they went toinvestigate, they found that some of the roomsat the back of the house were on fire. “Weimmediately shouted our neighbours for as-sistance and they responded quickly. We thenrushed to the tap to find water and stop theblaze before damaged everything but we weredisappointed to find that water was not avail-able,” she said. She added that more peoplecame and they decided to stop the fire with sandthey picked up from the garden. “The sand didnot stop the fire in time and our belongings kept

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Some of the community members trying to stop the fire atthe Mhlanga home in Dennilton. The Mhlanga family claimthat the fire badly damaged their belongings after therewas no water in the tap.

on burning. We had to take some of our clothes out of the house but somewere already burnt to ashes. At the stage we don’t know the cause ofthe fire. We have children here but we are happy because no one washarmed by the fire,” she said.

On 22th and 23th August, Creative Minds Groblersdal hosted a 2 daybusiness and career expo at Groblersdal DLU Hall. According to co-owner of Creative Minds, Mrs Kholo Makena, their aim was to connectstudents and emerging entrepreneurs to a number of possible opportu-nities and give small businesses a platform to exhibit their products orservices. She told Dispatch that they are planning to host such exhibi-tions and workshops on a regular basis. Amongst those in partnershipwith Creative Minds were - Small Enterprise Development Agency(SEDA), National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), Eskom, AngloAmerican, Moutse Community Radio station (MCRS), SIM Consult-

Business and Career Expoin Groblersdal

ants, Road Accident Fund, MakgoboshengBrake and Clutch, Thesefana Cooperatives,Save9 Deco, Mahlako and Pheladi ExclusiveEvents, Pati and Lebza events, Johnson IJ (soletrader), Solartech, Casper Fashion show,Marothi Pule Horse Cart Transport, LoveLife,Sekhukhune FET College, Nkangala FET Col-lege, RoseBank College, UNISA Online Regis-tration Fund, University of Limpopo and Uni-versity of Pretoria.

Hlengiwe and Maphenyo with BettyMahlangu of Thesefana Cooperatives.

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The Marble hall Police ar-rested 21 suspects betweenthe ages of 19 and 54 fordifferent crimes in weekendof Saturday 23 and Sunday24 August. The suspectswere arrested at Moutsewest, Marble Hall Town andthe surroundings.According to ConstableLethunya Mmuroa fromMarble Hall SAPS, the sus-pects were arrested for dif-ferent crimes including as-sault common, assault withGrievous Bodily Harm(GBH), malicious damage toproperties, possession ofdagga, rape and drinking liq-uor in public.

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The Constitutional Court is expected to hear anapplication for leave to appeal against a rulingregarding the Bapedi kingship. The case stemsfrom a dispute between the Mampuru andSekhukhune Royal Families.The commission on traditional leadership dis-putes and claims ruled that the Mampuru royalfamily lost the kingship to the Sekhukhuneroyal family in 1861. Mampuru II, instead oftaking the Sekhukhune's challenge to fight forthe kingship, fled and sought refuge in anothertraditional community.He later returned and killed Sekhukhune I, butdid not ascend the throne. As a result, thecommission determined kingship laid withinthe lineage of Sekhukhune I.The Mamone royal house unsuccessfullybrought an application under the Promotion ofAdministrative Justice Act to review the com-mission's decision. It argued in the High Courtthat the commission's decision was irrationaland based on an incorrect application of therule that kingship could be usurped throughmight and bloodshed.The Mamone royal house's appeal to the Su-preme Court of Appeal was also not successful.At the Constitutional Court, the Mamone RoyalHouse will argue the commission acted irration-ally, failed to take relevant facts into accountand deviated from the principle of primogeni-

Bapedi Kingship, still a battleture, by which succession to traditional leader-ship is established.The commission argues the customary law ruleof usurpation through might and bloodshedwas established, and applied rationally, in de-termining where the Bapedi kingship lay.

Kgoshi Mampuru Mampuru has lost abattle to the Sekhukhune family toclaim his Bapedi Kingship at the Con-stitutional Court.

Cashbuild, southernAfrica’s largest build-ing material retailer,has handed a reno-vated TswelopeleEducare Centre overto the community ofDennilton. A monthago Cashbuild startedrenovations at the fa-cility. Tswelopelecommunity pre-school is an early

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childhood development centre in Dennilton.This school was started 16 years ago by Prin-cipal Mokori Skhosana and provides a valuableand very necessary facility to many families inthe area. In recent years, Tswelopele pre-schoolhad outgrown its facilities and was desperatelyin need of an additional classroom but due to alack of funding this hasn’t been possible.The crèche’s principal Mokori Skhosana ex-pressed her gratitude of the newly renovatedfacility. This is exactly the type of project thatCashbuild’s Community Support Programme

caters for. “Cashbuild is about community part-nership and upliftment,” says Werner De Jager,Chief Executive of Cashbuild. With Cashbuild’sinvolvement and support, the school was up-graded and will have three classrooms, a kitchenand an administration room. A perimeter wallwas also built and painted with bright colours.The total contribution to the school was R45000. For more information on this project or anyof Cashbuild’s other Community Support Pro-grammes please contact Thembelani Tukwayo084 744 3236

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The Elias Motsoaledi Zonal League that wassupposed to commence in August has beenpostponed. According to the Secretary of EliasMotsoaledi Local Football Association JeffreyMtshweni, the association is currently experi-encing problems at the Sekhukhune SouthAfrican Football Association (SAFA) Region.He said currently the participating teams arebusy with friendly matches while they are stillwaiting for the league to start in October. Headded that they will be starting with teams andplayers registration from the first week of Sep-tember.“We are anticipating to officially start with theregistrations in September. All soccer teams areadvised to contact our offices for registrationsbefore the starting of the league that is sched-uled to start in October,” he said.Jeffrey further said that all teams from EliasMotsoaledi Local Municipality are encouragedto register in time so that the officials will knowthe exact number of teams that will be participat-ing in the league this season.“We become disappointed when some of theteams want to join the league after we haveplayed about three matches. This year we en-courage team representatives to register in timein order to start with the league in the firstmatches,” added Jeffrey.He went on and said: “Registering of teams intime will allow us to deploy coordinators tosome parts of the municipality after counting anumber of teams that will be participating. Forinstance, if we get more registered teams inareas like Roosenekaal, we will be appointing acoordinator who will be reporting directly to theassociation.”He said the league has three divisions which arepromotional, under 13 and under 15.

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“Now we are preparing for the SekhukhuneRegional under 13 selections that will be takingplace at Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality onSaturday 30 August. The selected players willform the Sekhukhune squad that will be partici-pating provincially. The following day on Sun-day 31 August we will be at the Greater TubatseLocal Municipality whereby we will be select-ing the under 15 Sekhukhune Regional soccerplayers. They will also be participating in theprovincial matches representing the district.For any questions regarding the EliasMotsoaledi Local Football Association Leagueregistrations, people are welcome to contactMr Jeffrey Mtshweni on 083 575 4223.

The Secretary of Elias MotsoalediLocal Football Association Mr JeffreyMtshweni urge community membersto come and register their teams inthe league before it commences inOctober this year.