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Vutha News R1 CAPTURING LOCAL & ENTERTAINMENT NEWS! Friday 31 MAY 2013 Distribution Areas: Daveyton: BP, Engen, Total, Daveyton police station, Municipal offices, Shell garage, Daveyton library, HP Mokoka Library, Chris Hani clinic, Sgodi clinic, Daveyton main clinic, Unisa Daveyton campus, Daveyton mall, Post office (Majutene)/ Post office (Daveyton mall. Etwatwa: Jerry Moloi Library, Ema 13 clinic, Council offices/ Council offices (Barcelona), Police station, Joy clinic, Barcelona clinic, Caltex & Engen, Sgodi clinic, Enviroserv, City of Ekurhuleni (communications & marketing office) Parents strike against Principal Read on page 2 A 14 year old boy kills family members just to drink their blood!!! Read Story on page 2 years in existance Constable Glory Maluleke pointing where the body of a child was found PAGE 4 Blankets for the elderly PAGE 8 The Final Reckoning
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Vutha NewsR1CAPTURING LOCAL & ENTERTAINMENT NEWS!Friday 31 MAY 2013
Distribution Areas: Daveyton: BP, Engen, Total, Daveyton police station, Municipal offices, Shell garage, Daveyton library, HP Mokoka Library, Chris Hani clinic, Sgodi clinic, Daveyton main clinic, Unisa Daveyton campus, Daveyton mall, Post office (Majutene)/ Post office (Daveyton mall. Etwatwa: Jerry Moloi Library, Ema 13 clinic, Council offices/ Council offices (Barcelona), Police station, Joy clinic, Barcelona clinic, Caltex & Engen, Sgodi clinic, Enviroserv, City of Ekurhuleni (communications & marketing office)
Parents strike against Principal Read on page 2
A 14 year old boy kills family members just to drink their blood!!! Read Story on page 2years in existance
Constable Glory Maluleke pointing where the body of a child was found
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Blankets for the elderly
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The Final Reckoning
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The 14-year-old boy appeared before Benoni Magistrate’s Court on charges of Murder. It is alleged that the boy con-ducted a prayer outside of his sleeping room before the in-cident occurred.
It is alleged that the suspect, after praying at 00:00 mid-night, was armed with an axe, hacked to death his mother and died instantly on the scene, his grandmother (58)
who is still in hospital recov-ering and his little brother who was only 7-years of age died later in Hospital. All the victims were in the same shack sleeping when the in-cident occurred. Two of his sisters escaped an attack un-harmed to seek help from the neighbours. When the attack-er heard the noise of people outside the yard, he grabbed a 3-month-old child and fled the scene. Neighbours tried to give chase, but the suspect disappeared with the child in the long grasses that where close by. Police were sum-moned to the scene, and they launched a hunt. During the search in an opening field, a body of the child was found
with injuries. “We called the Public meeting the same morning asking the commu-nity to assist in tracing the attacker, late in the afternoon, the same day, a boy was seen walking on the street of Bar-celona, about a kilometre away from the scene,” said Constable Timothy Masilela. He was arrested and taken into custody then later trans-ferred to Place of safety until he appeared before Magistrate in Benoni on 4 counts of Murder. Commu-nity members accused the teen of sacrificing his family in an apparent satanic ritual. Neighbour Andries Dlamini said the community spared the teen’s life to get answers.
“The community thought of killing him but did not do so as we could have lost infor-mation and the full story of what happened. He claims the teenager is involved in Satan-ism. He said he is a satanist. If he kills, he is sacrificing his family for the boss.” Dlamini said the teenager believed a “higher force” told him to kill his family. “He said it came from his mind and told him to kill them because of the full moon.” The Executive Mayor of Ekurhuleni has expressed his shock and he has set up a team of community leaders led by councilors to interact with relatives of the deceased to accord them a decent fu-neral.
14-year-old to face four counts of murder
Patrick Marothodi Meludi (25) of Etwatwa was sen-tenced to 20 years impris-onment, after he was found guilty of Robbery. He was found guilty in the Benoni Magistrate’s Court recently. The incident hap-
pened in 2012, December, when the victim was on her way to church on early hours of Sunday morning. Victim was robbed off her cellphone, after she was pointed with a knife on her face. She recog-nised her attacker and alert-
ed the Police. The accused was later arrested and found guilty of armed robbery. He would spend his next twenty years of his life in jail, and Constable Timothy Masilela said this proves that crime doesn’t pay.
Robber sentenced to 20 years
imprisonment
Although classes were not disturbed, parents had a strike against the principal of Melodi Primary School in Sgodi for not taking them serious. Parents allege that the school has dropped its academic performance which they say results to their chil-dren repeating the same class the following year. Parents say this however is because of the principal who comes late followed by the teachers.
“If the head is not leading by example, then how can teach-ers do what’s right?” asked one parent who did not want to be mentioned by name. Angry parents say the princi-pal has bad approach towards the parents and community. “Whenever you go to the school and ask for the Princi-pal, we get to be told that she is busy. If you are lucky, then you can see her but the way you’ll come out will be worse
than the way you came in that office. She has made parents and teachers cry because of her insults,” the parent con-tinued. The protesting parents said she doesn’t respect stu-dents or adults. “She speaks with a disheartening tone, be-haves like a bully and creates an unfriendly environment for everyone around her. “What’s worse is, whenever we call the meeting with the SGB to discuss about such matters,
the principal does not attend,” the parent continued.Parents also allege that when-ever they want to notify the Department of Education they get to be told that they cannot demand the District. “It’s really funny cause now that we have decided to pro-test they come rushing,” said the parent. Another parent told Vutha news reporter that her child tells her that toilets are always
locked during school hours because the cleaner says she has cleaned the toilets and cannot repeat the same thing twice or thrice. “My child told me that they share the male toilet with boys and the cleaner tell them she’ll guard the boys not to touch or hurt them,” a parent said. Parents say they do not want to give the principal a second chance, all they want is a new princi-pal.
Vutha News asked the De-partment of Education regard-ing allegations made against the principal, they said they are sending an intervention team to the school to assess all these allegations. “If they prove to be true, we will take disciplinary action against those implicated,” said the Department of Education’s Communications Director Charles Phahlane.
Parents strike against PrincipalParents call her “an under miner”.
Constable Glory Maluleke pointing where the body of a 3 months old baby was found.
The leadership of Ward 67 on behalf of all wards in Davey-ton organised a stakeholder meeting were Business sec-tor, Ngos, CPWS, QLTC, FBO, SANCO, ANC, SAPS, MPD, SGBs, and Clrs dis-cussed on matters concern-ing the community. Amongst other things raised by the pas-tors was how to root out Sa-tanism, bullying and drugs in schools. Pastors and Business owners also raised their wor-ries of foreigners’ business owners and churches taking over the land whilst they are being side lined. People from
the community appreciated the ANC and the work they do for the community, how-ever, they said the service de-livery is slow and wanted to know what can speed up ev-ery process. ANC CLR Ma-dihlaba addressed the masses on what they have pointed out and explained to them the procedures they need to follow. About 200 people at-tended the meeting and they hoped for the better.
Stake holderseminar
The Daveyton Police sta-tion took it upon themselves to honour and celebrate the child protection week.
They went to Kuzimisele Primary school in Daveyton last week Tuesday. Under the theme “Play your part,
Child protection week campaignworking together to protect children” learners were taught about safety in and outside the school premises. They were also told not to allow anyone to touch their private parts. “If anyone has touched or raped you, tell your teachers or some-one in the family that you can open up to,” said the Police spokesperson Captain Alfred Nakana. The Daveyton SAPS iden-tified 10 needy kids in the school and donated school jerseys to them. “This is our winter warmer campaign,” said Nakana. The child protection week was run throughout the week.
On the last day of the cel-ebration, the members of the police together with the CPF and youth Desk distributed pamphlets with the aim of forming partnership with the community to fight against crime. The community was given a chance to voice out their con-cerns with the police. Members of the community were also told that any unat-tended case they have laid against anyone can also be brought forth. “We want the community of Daveyton to be happy at all times,” said Nakana.
The 20 and 29-year-old sus-pects were taken into custody shortly after they were arrest-ed on the scene of Business Robbery, which took place at Emaphupheni. Two of these suspects were amongst the six suspects who were found by Etwatwa Police jumping from the roof of a business during the earlyhours of the morning last week Friday. These suspects were apprehended on the
scene shortly after the victims of crime called the Police who were patrolling few streets away from the scene, it took Police under 5 minutes to re-spond and found the suspects on top of the roof struggling to gain entrance from the roof. Suspects were arrested and found in their possession armed with hand guns. They (suspects) are expected to appear before Benoni Mag-istrate’s Court facing the charges of Attempted Busi-ness Robbery and Posses-sion of unlicensed firearms. Further investigation will be conducted to determine any linkages of this firearms to other serious cases reported. Police have launchedmanhunt to get other four sus-pects behind bars.
Robbers with
firearm aprehended
W/O Morage seen with learners of Kuzimisele Primary School after getting their jerseys.
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Lethokuhle Home Based Care is in desperate need of dona-tions and funding. The centre is based in Barce-lona and was started in Feb-ruary this year by 6 Women joint by Bishop Silingile. Co-member, Winnie Boroko, said the project was started by them after they saw how el-derly people are treated badly in the community. “The cen-tre has helped many people in the community as they not only look after elderly people but they visit them at home to see how they can further as-sist. “We do their washing, Iron and clean for them be-cause most of them stay alone and cannot do these things on
their own,” said Boroko. In most households we find there is no source of income. Grandmothers have no iden-tity documents and children have no birth certificates. We help them apply for their documents.” Boroko ex-plained that the centre has even helped Sello Rakgatla who is blind to get an Identity Document. “I did not have an Identity Document because my birth Certificate got lost. Lethokuhle workers have helped me get one and for that I will always be grate-ful,” said Rakgatla. They cook every Thursday for the elders with money that they contribute from their
own pockets and make them exercise so they could stay healthy and fit. “We do this because we have realised that the elderly people stay alone during the day and that makes them think a lot so we want them to enjoy their lives and meet up with other elderly people,” said Boroko. Simon Halane also confirmed that the care workers visit him regularly. “They cook, clean and wash for me without ask-ing for money or anything in return,” he said. Anyone who would like to donate or land a helping hand to this centre can contact Ma-ria 072 963 9444.
Home based care in need of funds
Ikwezi Lomso Construction and Projects Company Di-rector donated 30 blankets to elderly people of the St. Albnans Anglican Church in Daveyton recently as part of its outreach programme.
The Director, Stephen “Punki” Mohapi said they donated for the elderly people of St. Alb-nans Anglican as he is also a church member there. He said
the initiative was aimed at strengthening relations with the elderly people, and at rec-ognising their role in provid-ing wisdom to communities. “This is part of outreach work that we will continu-ously engage in,” said Mo-hapi. “These are the most relevant people. We could not think of any other people to donate to be-sides them.”
Blankets for the elderly
This event was organised by the FBO and QLTC to honour mothers for the value and role they play in the community. Speakers included representatives from SADF, GDE, FBO, QLTC, SAPS and NICSA.
Mothers honoured on mother’s day
Thuli Masello ThomoThere are lots of weird churches and who knows what happens in them, but it scares me though.
Eric MahlanguI think both because we always get different stories about this thing but what worries me is that there were no such long time ago.
Ocean-Pearl TiyahIt is a religion which peo-ple practice and trust me those people are powerful and no one can stop them because we(Christians) never pray by faith.
Tumelo King Rod MalopeDevil worshipers, that boy who killed his family in Barcelona must also be killed.
Mbali Mashaba Lee-GalIt’s a religion. I was terri-fied to even see the Satanic Bible, We (Christians) real-ly need to pray to overcome such horror.
Nomhlekhabo Thoko SkosanaIt’s time we check church-es that are around and see what they are doing, espe-cially the ones selling wa-ter and oils.
Satanism, do you think it is demons or a religious practice?
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After months of work to stop deductions from social grants, the Black Sash welcomes the long overdue decision by SASSA to prevent unlawful deductions being made from social grants by financial pro-viders which trade in micro-loans.After SASSA introduced an automated biometric-based payment system last year, we were horrified to find that grant beneficiaries were ex-periencing an avalanche of unauthorised and unlawful deductions from their social grants. As a human rights organisa-tion working in the area of social security, Black Sash
was alerted by community monitors, and saw the nega-tive effects of these deduc-tions first hand, in engage-ment with beneficiaries at payment points. We were shocked at how little of their grant amount remained for food and other basic family needs. In terms of Regulation 26 (A) to the Social Assistance Act, only one deduction for a fu-neral benefit, not exceeding ten percent of the monthly grant amount, may be autho-rised by the grant beneficiary and paid by SASSA. No other deduction may be made from a beneficiary’s grant, through their bank account, as a mat-
ter of law.For the past months we have urgently raised the issue of unlawful deductions from grants through formal sub-missions, monitoring reports and letters; and in meetings with decision makers. If de-ductions were to continue unchecked, we feared the sys-tematic erosion of our social grants system by immoral elements of the private sector and called on government to take immediate steps to curb this potentially devastating trend.The decision, announced this week, to strictly enforce the law is a welcome indication of SASSA’s commitment to
protect the massive invest-ment made by South African society in our social secu-rity system in order to allevi-ate poverty in our country.Although positive, this step will not protect grant ben-eficiaries, a vulnerable group by any definition, from be-ing targeted by unscrupulous members of the micro lend-ing sector for short-term and unsustainable high interest rate loans, once the grant is paid out.In this regard, Black Sash appeals to the Legislature to amend the National Credit Act of 2005 to align it to provi-sions in the Social Assistance Act which states that ‘grants
may not be transferred, ced-ed, or pledged or in any way encumbered or disposed of..’ The Social Assistance Act’s provision is specifically to ensure that grants are used to ensure a decent quality of life for beneficiaries.We also call for an indepen-dent economic enquiry to determine the real socio-eco-nomic impact of redirected social grants to the formal and informal micro finance industry. WE APPEAL TO SOCIAL GRANT BENEFICIARIES TO BE VIGILANT AND REPORT ANY QUESTION-ABLE DEDUCTIONS FROM THEIR SOCIAL
GRANTS. After June 2013, should a so-cial grant beneficiary have a problem with deductions we urge them to please call SAS-SA directly at 0800 601 011 or the Black Sash free paralegal helpline at 072 66 33 739.For more information, please call:Elroy Paulus 082 748 5621Jonathan Walton – 083 658 7097RatulaBeukman – 072 174 3507Tebogo Lelaletse – 076 243 3793
Unlawful, immoral deductions from social grants should stop, says Black Sash
The idea of “CCMA User Forums” flows from the CC-MA’s partnership building and networking focus, and the associated view that we need to be talking to each other more. The overall objective of the User Forums was to facilitate information and ex-change experiences and ideas between the CCMA and all stakeholders involved, and in
particular, parties that make regular use of the CCMA on a range of areas linked to meeting the goals and vision of the CCMA. During the discussion problems experi-enced by users when dealing the CCMA were touched on and the user information and training needs regarding dis-pute resolution and preven-tion. Commissioner Xolani
Nduna presented the Holistic approach in job saving. He told the users that as they can be assisted to understand fi-nancial information when us-ing holistic approach and also be assisted with retrenched workers by linking them with institutions like UIF, SETAs for their workers to get better educational training and im-proved skills.
CCMA user
forums Recently at the Jerry Moloi Library Lenst’word Trad-ing and Projects brought this workshop to young en-trepreneurs of Etwatwa and Daveyton with the aim of empowering them with skills and development to manage their companies at a high level of professionalism. “We had invited NYDA, SAAYC, GEP and MSV Holdings to share what they have that can empower these young entrepreneurs,” said Sikhalo
Sikhonde. About 108 young entrepreneurs attended the workshop and were positive after the workshop. One of the objectives of the workshop was to create a dialogue with these corporate institutions with our entrepre-neurs, for them to ask ques-tions on how they can assist in empowering them and that was achieved. Also to bridge the gap be-tween both parties in ex-changing information with
our young entrepreneurs. Lenst’word trading and Proj-ects amalgamated with MSV Holdings in initiating this workshop and also with the help of Jerry Moloi Library. Also the team behind the scenes that worked tirelessly in making sure that it be-comes a success. “I would like to thank the young en-trepreneurs of Etwatwa and Daveyton for responding well to the invite,” Concluded Sik-honde.
Entrepreneurship workshop to encourage young business
owners
The number of rhino poached in South Africa since the be-ginning of the year has in-creased to 367. The number of people arrested in con-nection with poaching now stands at 114. The majority of these (109) were alleged poachers, with 5 being couri-ers. A total of 50 suspected poachers have been arrested in the Kruger National Park. The Kruger National Park continues to be the most se-riously affected by rhino poaching, with 247 animals being killed in the Park since the beginning of the year. In the North West province 35 rhino have been poached, 33 in KwaZulu-Natal province,28 in Limpopo Province, 23 in Mpumalanga province and one in Gauteng Province. A total of 50 poachers have been arrested in the Kruger National Park where Hout-boschrand Section Ranger,
Andrew Desmet was shot and wounded in the stomachduring a joint operation to arrest rhino poachers near Letaba. He remains in stable-condition in the intensive care unit of a Nelspruit hospital. Water and Environmental Affairs Minister, Mrs Edna Molewa, has wished Mr Desmet a speedy recovery. SANParks Head of Commu-nications, Paul Daphne said while the increasing number of suspected poachers being arrested in the Kruger Na-tional reflected the escalating number of people engaging in rhino poaching, it was also an indication that the anti-poach-ing measures put in place by SANParks were working. Among the actions taken in the Kruger National Park to combat rhino poaching have been the adoption of a mili-tary stance in tackling rhino crimes, the deployment of an
unmanned drone provided by Denel, the deployment of two surveillance aircraft and the use of tracker dogs. The De-partment has signed biodiver-sity management Memoranda of Understanding with the Socialist Republic of Viet-nam and the People’sRepublic of China, recently signing an implementation plan with Vietnam putting into action initiatives aimed specifically at curbing rhino poaching. The signing of theMoU with Vietnam is al-ready starting to yield results through increased securitymeasures against alleged rhi-no horn smugglers. South Africans are urged to report incidents of poaching and tip-offs to theanonymous tip-off lines 0800 205 005, 08600 10111 or Crime-Line on 32211.
Rhino poaching update
Gauteng Education MEC Ms Barbara Creecy today launched a programme to improve the quality of les-sons to grade 8 and 9 learners through satellite broadcasts. The service will broadcast di-rectly to priority high schools during lesson time so that teachers can integrate the broadcasts into their teaching time. Broadcasts are auto-matically recorded for revi-sion or afternoon lessons. The broadcasts have been piloted in 15 schools from February and will now be rolled out to 385 schools that are part of the Senior Secondary School Improvement Programme during the course of the year. “We are acutely aware of the fact that Gauteng’s educa-tion system has the task of producing graduates who are able to become the next gen-eration of skilled workers, engineers, and managers the advanced industrial economy of our province requires if it is to continue to grow,” said MEC Creecy. “This means rapidly improving the quality of maths and science teaching available to learners in our most disadvantaged schools. Around the world, schooling systems are using technology
to assist in dealing with edu-cational inequalities. We see this as an exciting innovation that brings Gauteng in line with this international trend,” MEC Creecy said. The pro-gramme is an extension of the Secondary School Improve-ment Programme (SSIP) that has seen the matric pass rate increase by 12% in the last four years to 83.9%. The im-mediate target of the satellite broadcast is to rapidly im-prove learner performance in maths and science in grades 8 and 9. Turning around learner performance in these gateway learning subjects is central to encouraging more learners to choose these subjects for matric in Grade 10. The sys-tem does not only provide for one way communications. Learners and teachers use landline and mobile phones and social media platforms such as Facebook, Mxit and Twitter to communicate back to the central broadcast stu-dio to ask questions or make comments. The programme will roll out over the next few years, starting with the installation of equipment in all 385 priority high schools by the end of 2013. The first test broadcasts that started in
February beamed daily Grade 8 and 9 maths lessons into classrooms in a first group of schools. All participating schools have standard lesson plans and pace-setters which enables the department to know where the lessons are. The lessons are broadcast from a central location to participating schools and the teacher focuses on the more difficult concepts. The satel-lite platform also provides on-the-job training for class teachers who also attend fur-ther lessons in the afternoons. Teachers in the schools in-volved so far have been en-thusiastic in their response to the programme as have dis-trict officials who are over-seeing its implementation.
Expected Budget Focus 2013/14
MEC Creecy is expected to announce a budget of R29.2 billion for the 2013/14 finan-cial year. This budget would be a remarkable 649% in-crease over 18 years, and an increase of 7.8%, or R2.1-billion, over last year’s R27.1 billion.
Satellite broadcasts to help improve low grade 9 ANA results -- Creecy
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According to basic education minister, Angie Motshekga, there are as many as 3 million school children in South Afri-ca who do not have the privi-lege of working at a desk. In addition, there are over 24 000 schools who require desks. As many of these children do not have formal classrooms, they are forced to either kneel on the ground, or work on make-shift desks during their school day. As you can imag-ine, they not only experience extreme discomfort, but their educational development is considerably hampered, and they could subsequently struggle to become posi-tive contributing members of society. While building structured class-rooms and providing them with the rel-evant furniture would be the ideal, this is unfortunately not an immediate solution, due to the substantial investment
required. Sharon Smith who won the facebook PR Worx competition went along with the DeskBags team on the 3rd of May 2013 to hand over 300 DeskBags to the Grade R’s and one’s at Daveyton Intermediate School. The PR Worx Marketing Direc-tor Madelain Roscher came up with the DeskBags inno-vative and viable alternative solution, in which you can make a significant difference in helping to uplift education-al standards in Africa. “Our DeskBags are not only func-tional eco-friendly school bags, but also provide a por-table desk solution. The bag allows the child to carry his or her books and stationery, while the flap is reinforced with durable Perspex, that when folded open, allows for instant desk support too, Ro-scher said. She also explained that the product is made from
the vinyl of recycled bill-boards, and is so robust that if looked after well, can last a whole school career. “The bags are waterproof, reflec-tive, and light enough for pre-primary scholars to use. So there is no need for children to worry about books getting wet should kids get caught in the rain,” she added. The reaction on the children’s face when they received their bags was astonishing. “Our goal, through our csi initia-tive, deskbags are made to help empower children in South Africa to flourish in their educational develop-ment,” Roscher said. She said they believe that every single child should have the oppor-tunity to be educated without being hampered by classroom conditions, lack of education supplies and all the issues currently plaguing education in South Africa.
Daveyton School children given deskbags
children at the Daveyton Intermediate School after recieving their deskbags.
The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality wishes to warn the public to not fall prey to false bursary scheme adver-tisements which are circulat-ing on online media at pres-ent. It has come to the Metro’s at-tention that the website Mat-ric411.co.za has placed infor-mation detailing the fields of study which the municipal-ity’s bursary caters for, the value of the bursary and June 30 as the closing date for ap-plications. “The community is advised that the Ekurhuleni Metropol-
itan Municipality’s commu-nity bursaries are advertised annually during the months of August or September. Ad-vertisements are placed in local newspapers,the munici-pality’s website, at municipal offices, libraries and via ward committee councilors,” con-tinued Modiba.Community members are en-couraged to contact the fol-lowing officials to enquire about the community bursary scheme and to confirm au-thenticity of adverts:Busisiwe Sibiyaon 011 999-6342;
MatsieMolotsi on 011 999-6342; Liezel Simons on 011 999-0039; Nelson Mosala on 011 999-8480; Frieda Mananaon 011 999-8677; or Minnie Oosthuizen on 011 999-3632.
The EMM apologizes to those affected by this act and for any inconvenience it has caused.
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Sport Vutha News R1Friday 31 MAY 2013
The preschool phase is crucial in the development of a child, and encouraging them to partake in physical activities contributes to the fine-tuning of their gross motor skills. The City of Ekurhuleni is aware of this fact, and through its Kiddies Olympics programme, it has contrib-uted to the growth of hun-dreds of children since 2003. According to Skill Builders online “gross motor skills are the skills we use to move our whole body, arms and legs. They include running,
jumping, walking and bal-ance. These skills generally de-velop in an order and build upon each other. As a result, if a stage of development is missed or delayed, the higher level skills will also be de-layed or may never develop at all.” Recently children from crèches, day care centers and nursery schools within Ekurhuleni participated in this year’s annual Kiddies Olympics held at the Mehlar-eng stadium in Tembisa. The four to six year olds
competed against each oth-er in the disciplines of ball throwing, ball hopping, ring throwing, ball kicking, ball dribbling and cycling. According to organizer of the event, Letta Ramano, the main objective of the programme is to ensure that children are physically active from a young age and also to increase their interest in par-ticipating in sports even be-fore they enter school. “This programme is therefore an in-tervention tackling childhood obesity.
It also introduces the kids to the basics of formal sport which they will participate in at primary school,” says Ramano. A total of 343 pre-school institutions registered to participate in this years’ tournament which was rolled out in three parts. The first leg was the area games held at Customer Care Area (CCA) level. During the second leg, teams who won the first leg represented their CCAs for a place in their re-gion team. “The final leg which is the Metro-wide games, is the main highlight of the tourna-
ment and a total of 90 pre-schools made it to the 2013 Ekurhuleni Kiddies Olympics of 2013” continued Ramano. She further expresses the mu-nicipality’s wishes that each and every crèche within the City of Ekurhuleni participate in these games in order to in-tensify social-cohesion.“If there are any preschools who have not heard of this initiative, they should contact the City’s Sports and Rec-reation office on (011) 999- 3289 and make enquiries with Mbali Gumbi” pleads Ramano. The tournament ended with a prize giving
ceremony where Little Stars Edu-Care took the first place prize in cycling. The school’s excited princi-pal, Princess Zwane, said: “Participation in the games helps build the kids’ confi-dence and they learn to in-teract with other players in some of the sporting codes.” “These games help develop the kids’ gross-motor skills and they motivate them to want to come to crèche every day,” added Nobuhle Zikhali, principal of Mbalenhle Day Care which came second in at second place for ball throw-ing.
Growth through play Ekurhuleni
kiddies olympics 2013 Kicking it for the team - Boys representing their teams and Mbalenhle day care in blue shirts are
leading the game.
Hekkie Budler will face a hard battle when he steps into the ring with tough as teak former IBF and IBO champion, Nkosinathi Joyi in the Centre Court at Emperors Palace on 15 June. Aptly dubbed the Final Reckoning boxing tour-nament, Budler will defend his IBO Strawweight world title. This fight will see two of the best little fighters in the world go toe to toe; the versatile and great puncher Joyi against Budler, the scientific workhorse who’s defensive skills have improved with trainer Colin Nathan.
