Friday 13 March 2015Year 6 146th Edition Tel: 013 262 4416

Sekhukhune district municipality fails to pay for water and leavesresidents’ taps dryOn Monday 1 March, an urgent meeting was held by the ExecutiveMayor of Sekhukhune District Municipality Cllr Mogobo David Magabeand councillors of the Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality.The meeting’s topic was the water shortages experienced in Moutse. Itis alleged that Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality shut down water supplyin Moutse. The decision comes after allegations that SekhukhuneDistrict Municipality owes R16 Million to Dr JS Moroka Local Munici-pality for the supply of water.During the meeting, managers from Sekhukhune District Municipalityacknowledged that they have received a two weeks notice letter indicat-ing that Dr JS Moroka is intending to shut down the water supply forMoutse as the district municipality fails to pay for its water supply.“Fortunately the Executive Mayor was very co-operative. The matterwas not reported to his office and he was not aware.,” said EliasMotsoaledi Local Municipality Councillor Ali ka Maloba.He said after realising that the fault is not on the Sekhukhune Districtside, he went to the reservoir at Moteti accompanied by some of theMoutse Business Forum members where they discovered that some ofthe valves supplying Moutse with water were already closed.

No Payment,No Water

“Employees working at the reservoir indicatedthat the officials from Dr Js Moroka andThembisile Hani Local Municipality were nothappy for the reservoir to supply the commu-nity of Moutse because the reservoir belongsto the former Kwa-Ndebele Government inMpumalanga Province. Now as Moutse fallsunder Limpopo, the reservoir cannot cater forthem,” he said.

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Councillors from Moutse and members of the Moutse Busi-ness Forum looking at the valve that was closed by Dr JSMoroka Municipality after Sekhukhune District Municipal-ity failed to pay a R16 Million water debt.

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One of the key focus areas for Albany Bakeries is to assist in educatingschool children throughout the country in any way possible. With thisobjective in mind, Albany together with Shoprite are visiting selectedschools in Limpopo and Mpumalanga as part of the Albany SchoolDonations Campaign.The campaign aims to donate much needed learning material andfacilities as per the schools’ wish lists. Mzimhlophe Primary School,Sinetjudu Primary School, Hlomanani Secondary School, ThandulwaziPrimary School, Magaduzela Primary School and Motwaneng PrimarySchool will be visited by Albany bakeries and Shoprite Soup Kitchenstarting from 10 March 2015. The campaign is expected to run till April2015.Albany Bakeries donated Albany Superior White and Brown bread,projectors, 50 classroom chairs to the value of R5000-00 and dictionariesduring their visit to the Mzimhlophe Primary School in Siphaku Vlakfonteinnear Monsterlus. Shoprite Soup Kitchen went to the schools and soupand Albany bread were distributed amongst pupils.“The children are a real example to all of us. Most of them areunderprivileged, coming from impoverished backgrounds lacking ineven the essential resources. However, they have not let this stop themfrom going forward with their lives,” says Sonelle de Villiers, AlbanyBrand Manager.“The Albany bread and soup were greatly appreciated by the learners,teachers, and food handlers in past school visits and hope we willachieve great feedback with the upcoming visits,” says Helena Yssel,Sales Manager at Albany Pretoria Bakery who manages the ShopriteSoup Kitchen on behalf of Albany.

Albany Bakeries assists disadvantaged schools

Mzimhlophe Primary School pupils queuing to be servedwith Shoprite Royco Soup and bread at the Albany SchoolDonations Campaign.

The Limpopo Department of Health recalledPhiladelphia Hospital's CEO Mr. FS Mosimegestarting from Friday 6 March. According tosources inside the hospital, Mosimege is nowdeployed at the Department of Health offices inthe Waterberg District Municipality. It is notclear at this stage that Mosimege will be hold-ing a senior post in the district offices. It isalleged that Mosimege was removed due tomaladministration and underperformance bythe Health Department. Recently, the Ministerof Health Dr Aaron Motsaoledi said they havedone an analysis to look at the suitability of thehospitals' CEOs and they realised that CEOswith no health background were struggling torun the hospitals. He said the current situationwas that these positions were either occupiedby people who do not have health backgroundor are at lower levels. He said the departmenthave people at level 8 (clerk) who are hospitalCEOs. Mosimege was replaced by EliasMtshweni as acting CEO of Philadelphia Hos-pital. "He was misleading the hospital andfailed to address workers issues to the provin-cial office. He did clearly not deserve the posi-tion at all," said one of the employees who don’twant to be named. He said the departmentbecame aware of Mosimege'sunderperformance after some employees per-sonally addressed their issues to the provincialoffices. He added that they also reported themaladministration of the senior official in theprovince. "He was not capable for the job. Heled to many protests since he took over as CEOin the hospital a few years ago. Some employ-ees, especially union leaders, were suspendedfor nothing by the former CEO," he added.He said decision to recall the CEO from office issupporting a process to improve service deliv-ery. Limpopo Department of Health Spokesper-son Macks Lesufi could not be reached forcomment as his cellphone was on voicemail.

PhiladelphiaHospital CEO

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Standing from Left to right, StevenPoley (Albany Sales Manager), Wash-ington Mabaso (Shoprite Branch Man-ager Groblersdal), Tiny Ntuli(Mzimhlophe Primary School Princi-pal) during the hand-over of 50 class-room chairs donated by Albany.

Continues from page 1...Elias Motsoaledi Ward 2 Councillor AlfredBand Phatlane said Sekhukhune is takingresponsibility for the maintenance of thereservoir. “The pumping machines are main-tained by Sekhukhune and also the electric-ity is been paid by Sekhukhune as the res-ervoir is in its territory,” he said.The Dr JS Moroka Municipality ManagerMr Benny Mahlangu told the Dispatch thatthe valves were opened after Sekhukhunepaid R3 Million for water to Dr JS MorokaLocal Municipality. “The water is now run-ning at the villages after an agreementreached with Sekhukhune. We agreed thatthe remaining R13 Million will be paid withinthe next 6 months,” he said.

NoPayment,

NoWater

A Senior Mechanical Manager and other work-ers in the mechanical department at EphraimMogale Local Municipality have allegedly de-frauded the municipality by purchasing dieseland petrol using the municipality’s fuel allow-ance card. According to a source who wishesto remain anonymous, this was discovered in avideo footage taken at Obaro Fuel Station inMarble Hall Town. He says the footage showsthe Senior Mechanical Manager filling a largenumber of empty containers with diesel andpetrol and loading them in the municipalitybakkie. The video footage is said to be recordedat Obaro in July last year. "The investigationwas done by the municipality officials at ObaroFuel Station after the records shown that theofficial used his petrol allowance card at the fuelstation to purchase petrol and diesel amount-ing to thousands of rands. The municipalitybecame aware after the senior managers’ fuelallowance bill was always high since he wasappointed in the position," he said. He furthersaid that it was discovered that the official wassupplying diesel and petrol to a friend's con-struction vehicle at the tar road project linking

Senior Mechanical Manager accountablefor theft but not prosecuted

Marble Hall and Siyabuswa. He added thatalthough the officials in the municipality are inpossession of the video footage that provesthat the senior manager broke the law, he is stillcontinuing with his duties in the municipality."A criminal case should be opened against theofficial as he broke the law and the municipalityis in possession of supporting evidence. I thinkthey are trying to cover his tracks so that he canget away with this crime he committed. We arenot surprised because the municipality alwayscovers tracks of corrupt officials andcouncilors," he further said. He went on andsaid: "The manager is not only stealing themunicipality’s petrol and diesel, he even openeda service station where some of the vehicles inthe municipality are serviced. This was done forself benefit. Some of the drivers claim that hesometimes takes their keys and petrol cards byforce in order to purchase fuel using differentnames and different petrol cards when defraud-ing the municipality," Allegedly a hearing washeld at Ephraim Mogale on Tuesday 10 Marchand it was revealed that the person in the videowas allegedly given the card by someone in the

municipality to go and purchase diesel. Sourcessay the issue is still under investigation in themunicipality and the accused people in thematter will continue attending hearings. EphraimMogale Local Municipality CommunicationsManager Mr. Jan Phasha said: “I am not awareof the allegations and cannot comment at thisstage. What I can do now is to go and check onthe matter before I can comment any further.”

“It will be a wonderful three days of people coming together to help makea difference in the lives of the school children and their families. Albanyis honoured to have the opportunity to play a role in helping the familiesof the villages rebuild their lives and create a better future for the familiesand the children of the community,” concluded de Villiers.

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The newly installed Chief at Kolofane Village,Justice Maila, claims the Bantwane Royal Houseis in the process of removing him from histhrone.Justice was installed Chief of Kolofane Villagein Dennilton on Saturday 14 February. Hun-dreds of community members attended to wel-come him on the throne. According to Justice,the allegations were made at the communitymeeting held at Ntwane Village on Sunday 8March. “I was not attending the meeting on thatday but I heard rumours from the people that

Justice Maila’s chieftaincy in dispute by the BantwaneRoyal House

representatives from the Bantwane Royal Houseare not happy about me being a chief and theywill pay me a visit soon,” he said. “I wonder whythe Bantwane Royal House want to interfere inthe issues of Kolofane because the area is outof their area. The decision of installing me as thechief was made by the people and they arehappy about me being a chief in the area,” hesaid.Acting Bantwane Kgoshi, Chucky Mathebetold the Dispatch that Justice is not the chiefand he doesn’t even have the royal blood. “Hisgrandfather, that he is claiming was the chief,was only appointed by the government to makesure that people take care of the environment.He was not actually a chief in that village,” he

said. He added that the installation of a chiefmust be recommended by the House of Tradi-tional Leaders and signed by the premier. “Inour books it still appears that John Mathebe isthe chief of the village. We just heard of theinstallation of the new chief without our recom-mendations.I can confirm to you that the area where Justiceis claiming to be chief is falling under Bantwanekingship,” he said. Mathebe concluded: “Wehave written a letter to the House of TraditionalLeaders disputing the ruling of Justice Maila ashe is not the chief. He actually doesn’t haveroyal blood and doesn’t deserve the throne inthe area of the Bantwane Royal House,” hesaid.

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The newly installed chief of Kolofanein Dennilton is in dispute with theBantwane Royal House.

Elmon wins Supa Quickvoucher

Five male suspects named Bongani Simelane (24), Mandla Dlamini (34), Xabangani Mhlanga (29),Jomo Ndlovu (34) and Elias Maroga (32) were arrested by the Dennilton SAPS for armed robbery.“The five were arrested by the police after searching for them in connection with the armed robberythey committed at Bakwena Supermarket in Marapong Village, Dennilton. They committed thecrime on Tuesday 10 February. The police searched for them for more than a week until they werearrested,” said Lieutenant Masemola from Dennilton SAPS. She said the five suspects robbedthe supermarket of an undisclosed amount of money, boxes of cigarettes and airtime vouchers.“Two firearms and ammunition were found during the arrest of the suspects. They appeared beforethe Moutse Magistrate’s Court and they were denied bail. They will appear again soon. Aninvestigation is underway,” she said.

Five suspects arrested for armed robbery

One man died and another one was hospitalized after they were beaten by the community atMajakaneng Section in Tafelkop Village on Monday 2 March. According to Constable BoitumeloMatlala from Motetema SAPS, the victim died on the way to hospital after injuries he sustainedduring the beatings. “The two victims were brought by two Pakistani to the police station afterthey were assaulted by the community accusing them of being connected with a string of crimestaking place in the area,” he said. “An ambulance was called but unfortunately one of the victims,named Doctor Selahle, died before he could reach the hospital,” said Matlala. He said a case ofmurder was opened at Motetema SAPS and four people were arrested. “They appeared beforethe Motetema Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday 3 March. They will appear again on Friday 20March. The investigation is underway,” he said.

Man died after beating by community

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Mentally ill man arrested forraping an eight year old

childA 52 year old mentally ill man named Samuel Mahlangu was arrested after raping a 8 year old child.According to the police report, the victim was on her way to visit her aunt at Taereni in Dennilton.“Apparently when the victim was in the bushes, the suspect attacked the child and started toundress her. He overpowered and raped the little girl and she was rescued by people who werepassing by,” said Lieutenant Masemola from Dennilton SAPS.She added that it was discovered that both the suspect and the victim were mentally ill.“The suspect was taken to custody and appeared before the Moutse Magistrate’s Court on Friday6 March. He is still in custody and will be checked for his mental fitness before he can beprosecuted,” she said.

Man killed by a womanhe raped

A 50 year old male was beaten with a digging spade and died in Tafelkop Majakaneng the policesaid. The incident took place on Saturday 28 February around 19:45.“The deceased forced entry into the woman’s house. He then produced a knife instructing thevictim to undress. He then raped the woman and fell asleep,” said Constable Boitumelo Matlalafrom Motetema SAPS.He said the woman took a digging spade and started assaulting the perpetrator. She then left himbleeding and informed some of the community members.“The deceased was rushed to Groblersdal Hospital but died the following day after sustainingserious head injuries. The deceased was later identified as Tumisang Lucas Chego. A case ofmurder is under investigation,” he said.

Suspects arrested inpossession of stolen

cigarettesTwo men were arrested at Motetema for allegedly robbing an employee of a cigarette companywho was delivering cigarettes to a shop on Thursday 5 March. According to the police report, the employee stopped to deliver cigarettes when he wasoverpowered by two unknown suspects who forced him back into his vehicle and drove to abushy area where they off loaded the cigarettes into their own vehicle before fleeing. Two hours later, police got a report of a suspicious vehicle at Manapyane Village. The policearrived at the house and two people tried to run away. The house was searched and R200 000worth of cigarettes were recovered. The two were arrested and would face charges of possession of stolen property. Investiga-tions to link them to more incidents are continuing.

The body of a man aged between 25 and 30 was found lying dead in the bushes near MarbleHall Town the police said. The body was discovered by a community member on Thursday 5March at Mamaneng Village a few kilometers from Marble Hall Town.“The police were called and rushed to the scene after the gruesome discovery. The deceasedwas wearing grey trousers and a black T-shirt,” said Constable Lethunya Mmuroa from MarbleHall SAPS.He added that several pistol cartridges were found next to the body. He was having visible bulletwounds on the head, chest and left arm. Police opened case of murder and they are busy withinvestigations.“The body was taken to Groblersdal Government Mortuary for post mortem. The deceased isnot yet identified. The police are appealing for assistance from the community to assist withthe identification of the deceased. Anyone with information regarding the deceased and thesuspect(s) is urged to call the nearest police station on 08600 10 111 or Marble Hall SAPS on013 261 8614,” he concluded.

Dead man found in thebush

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To develop literacyskills and the habit ofreading among pri-mary school children,Room to Read held aLibrary Week celebra-tion at Velangezwi Pri-mary School inSiyabuswa. LibraryWeek was declared totake place nationallyfrom 13 to 21 Marchthis year at variousschools. Pupils from16 primary schoolsaround Siyabuswaparticipated byshowcasing the skillsthey benefited fromthe organization.The aim of the weekwas to encourage li-brary practitioners toengage with eachother and to raiseawareness of thevalue of libraries as aone-stop, socially in-clusive space.“It has been threeyears since we startedwith the LibraryProject Programmethat includes libraryand classroom sup-port,” said the Room-to-Read LiteracyCoach Mr JacobBoroko.

Library Weekcelebrated atVelangezwi

Primary

He told the Dispatch that his duty is to assist grade 1 to grade 3 educatorsto equip learners with reading and writing.“With this Room-to-Read programme, we assist educators in the class-room teaching learners reading and writing Sepedi as their mothertongue. At the end we celebrate Library Week engaging learners toshowcase their skills through presentations,” he said.He added that libraries must take the lead in being active communitypartners towards developing an informed and educated nation.“This means providing access to information about health & hygiene,economic empowerment, poverty eradication and education in desiredspaces that foster lifelong learning and knowledge exchange. This isfurther enhanced by skilled and proficient library staff to connect theircommunities to relevant and appropriate information and knowledgeresources, emerging technologies, as well as dynamic and innovativeprogrammes and services for personal and community development,”said Boroko.He went on and said the celebration of Library Week is also aimed topromote the country’s intellectual and literacy heritage.“We are now looking forward to engage 16 other schools aroundKwaggafontein to showcase their Sepedi reading and writing skills verysoon. This will be done to showcase libraries as desired spaces forcontributing towards the development of an informed nation, and SouthAfrica becoming an information society. Enhancing nation building andcommunity development by opening the doors of learning to all,” heconcluded.

Pupils and parents came in numbers at Velangezwi PrimarySchool in Siyabuswa.

Learners were showcasing their read-ing skills they achieved through Room-to-Read programme.

One of the pupils presenting her read-ing skills during the Library Week cel-ebration at Velangezwi Primary Schoolin Siyabuswa.

Hyper Save Jane Furse has announced their winner in the Win a Bakkie competition. Revan Strydom, manager, handedthe bakkie to brother and sister, Paul and Shurly Matsebe, on Saturday 28 February 2015. The competition span was 5months, since October 2014. Revan said that Hyper Save would like to thank the community and give their support toJane Furse. “We pledge our support to the people of Jane Furse and thank them for the support.” he said. Paul and Shurlywere blown away by the great news and could not stop smiling. “Thanks to Hyper Save for the great surprise. We areso happy.” Shurly said.

Hyper Save givesbakkie away

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On Wednesday 4 March Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality FC hostedMotetema SAPS FC for a friendly soccer match. The match was organ-ized at Groblersdal Chris Wiid Rugby Stadium and started at 17:00.The host started the match by attacking the visitors penetrating into thebox demanding an early goal. A good scoring chance by Elias Motsoalediwas denied by the goalie in the 6th minute. A counter by Andersonentered the box passing a ball to Andries whose shot went straight intothe keeper’s hands.The host continued the pressure but Tau was also denied a goal whenhis shot went wide facing the goalie. After being pressured for the firstten minutes, the visitors started playing good passes in the mid-field andshooting from long ranges. The Motetema SAPS pressure led to the hoststarting to pass their balls to opponents, this raised pressure from thevisitors and they started to put more pace in the match. An opening goalwas scored by Motetema SAPS FC in the 18th minute, after a free kickout of the box. Motetema SAPS’ free kick specialist Khoza, made nomistake and took the ball straight to the poles and beat the goalie to makethe score 1-0 to his side. After the goal the host started to play longpasses to try and find their strikers to equal the scoring. Their attemptto score failed when defenders managed to stop balls from entering theirbox. Towards the 30th minute the visitors started playing back passesand stopped attacking. This nearly caused them a punishment becausetheir defender passed a ball to an opponent but the keeper came for arescue, managed to catch the ball just before Anderson could shoot.Towards the end of the first half, the municipality dominated the matchbut they didn’t score an equalizer after being denied by the defendersand most of their shots from long range went wide. The first half ended1-0 to Motetema SAPS.

Motetema SAPS punishes Elias Motsoaledi in a friendlyIn the second half the host continued thepressure and started to shoot out of the boxtrying to beat the goalie to claim an equalizer.Elias Motsoaledi’s Kenny went out of luckwhen he tried to score the goal but his hangerwas denied by the keeper. Matlala conceded acorner instead.The match completely took a different turntowards the 70th minute when Motetema SAPSmade a comeback and dominated after a fewsubstitutions. They nearly extended the leadwhen Khoza penetrated the defenders but hisshot went wide facing the goalie.A free kick was given to Elias MotsoalediMunicipality a few meters out of the box aftera player was roughly tackled. The host’s chanceto equal the scoring failed after the set piece hitthe visitor’s wall and went back to the field.Another host’s scoring chance was deniedafter Andries’ shot re-bounded on the goalie‘shand and ended up being a corner.Towards the 80th minute the host playerspushed forward attacking and led the visitorsto play half ground. A number of attempts weremade by the host but they failed to score anequalizer until the end of the match. The matchended 1-0 to Motetema SAPS FC defeatingElias Motsoaledi Local Municipality FC.

Frequent attacks were made by Elias Motsoaledi LocalMunicipality when.

Both teams played good passes in the mid-field in thesecond half of the match.

The Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality Football Association Leagueis postponed after the municipality failed to clear the playing fields.According to the coordinator of the association Jeffrey Mtshweni, theleague was scheduled to start in the beginning of this month but is nowon stand still as the fields are not in a good conditions.“I approached the municipality to send the grader to come and clear thefields but I was told that the grader is broken. Recently I saw the graderclearing the road in the villages and I hope they will send it to come andclear the fields,” he said.He said that sometimes he has to pay the grader to clear the fields. Headded that now he will engage the councillor to assist as his plea alwaysfalls to deaf ears at the municipality.“There is a sport councillor in the municipality who is doing nothing topromote sports in the area. You can ask yourself what the person whois appointed to promote sports in the community really doing whenseeing young people roaming the streets doing nothing,” he said.Jeffrey went on and said: “It seems like I am failing these young stars asthey are now starting to ask when the league will start. They are nowplaying on the streets. I hope the municipality will send the grader to clearthe fields so that the league will commence early next month.” heconcluded.

EMLM soccer onhold because ofno co-operation

of EMLM

The visitors’ defenders were solid at the back denying thehost to score an early goal.