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Months following the incident that left gogo Nomqibelo homeless, she’s till waiting for her house to be repaired. Picture by: Wellington Nobele

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Gogo Nomgqibelo Mkwanazi (80),

a pensioner who lives alone in her govern-ment built RDP house in extension 10 behind Tsutsumani weeps in sorrow as her house is half demolished seven months subsequent to the incident, nothing has been done to help her. “It has now been 7 months and nothing has been done to repair this

house, everyone who had offered to help has not said anything since they last visited here”, says saddened Nomgqi-belo Mkwanazi. The horrifi c accident that nearly claimed gogo Nomgqibelo’s life hap-pened on 29 June 2013. “I was woken up at about 2 o’clock am by a motorist that crashed into my bedroom wall,” she explained to the newspaper. It is believed that two motor mechan-

ics were using a cus-tomer’s vehicle in the early hours without his knowledge and unfortu-nately crashed into Gogo Mkwanazi’s bedroom wall. Gogo Nomgqibelo considers herself for-tunate to be still alive. On the day the accident happened, she decided she will sleep in the other room- a move that saved her life from the ferocity of death. Com-munity members woke up to witness the scene,

and also to rescue gogo as she stays alone. Fum-ing residents thereafter confi scated the vehicle citing they are awaiting the owner of the car to come cover the damage costs. “We kept the car here to make sure that the house is repaired by either the owner of the car or the mechanics re-sponsible for this may-hem,” said chairperson of extension 10 com-mittee Khethi Chiya. “Someone needs to take

accountability”, he add-ed. Chiya took it upon himself to seek all the relevant help from Ward 105 Councilor Joyce Ngwenya. Kgadi Sibeko from the City of Jo-burg region E and ward Councilor Joyce Ngwe-nya allegedly told Chiya that the house would be repaired in due time as the houses in extension 10 are insured. When Alex Pioneer contacted the wards Councilor, before she referred us

to the housing depart-ment, she tipped us that gogo’s house will have to be completely demolished and there-after a new house will have to be built from the foundation. Mean-while gogo Nomgqibelo said: “I have been living in a rented house for 7 months and every one who promised to lend a helping hand has not delivered”, says disap-pointed Nomgqibelo.

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Dear Reader,

President Jacob Zuma has proclaimed 7 May the offi cial date for the 2014 general elections. 20 years following the advent of a democratic South Africa, our democracy seems to grow stronger as each day passes by.

For the fi rst time in history, this year’s elec-tions will see young people born during the transition period and also those born in 1994 taking to polls for the fi rst time. Indeed this year’s elections will be exciting and the “born frees”, as they are dubbed, will exercise their democratic rights of voting.

Hundreds of political parties have registered with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and new parties such as Agang SA, Patriotic Alliance, and Economic Freedom Fighters et al will be on the ballot papers for the fi rst time.

With President Jacob Zuma state of the na-tion address set to take place on Thursday 13 February, the year 2014 has just started for South Africans.

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Nedbank in partner-ship with MST (Mo-

bile Satellite Technology) which specializes in the building and maintaining of mobile clinics visited Zenzeleni primary school on the 6th of February to donate school uniforms, shoes and school bags to learners from disad-vantaged backgrounds.Division Executive of Corporate Social Respon-sibility, Kone Gugushe, spoke to Alex Pioneer about the project’s objec-tives. “We have already donated items in the East-ern Cape, Western Cape, Mpumalanga, North West, Kwa-Zulu Natal and Free State. We are now benefi ting learners in Gauteng and will soon be heading for the Limpopo province”, said Kone. Just as our late Nelson Mandela was passionate about children and edu-cation, Kona pointed out that Nedbank is also pas-sionate about improving children’s outcome and maximizing their poten-tial through the provi-sion of a sound and well-rounded education. “We continue to be inspired by the words of Nelson

Mandela where he said; education is the most powerful weapon which can be used to change the world, Kona added. In 2010 Nedback launched a Back to School cam-paign which was aimed at changing the lives of learners in mostly pov-erty stricken areas. One of their initiatives was to build a knowledge-based economy that involves all South Africans wherever they may live. This year alone, Nedbank has com-mitted R2.5 million to the Back to School campaign enabling 2000 learn-ers from all 9 provinces to have stationary, uni-

form, school bags, books and school shoes so that they can tackle the new academic year with their basic requirements al-ready taken care of. “This year’s campaign was launched with state Presi-dent Jacob Zuma and basic education Minister Angie Motshekga on the 16th of January at Libode in Eastern Cape, we can also be proud that since the project was launched Nedbank has already committed R8 million and plans to commit even more for our next coming tours”, said Public Rela-tions offi cer of Nedbank Lesiba Sethoga.

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On the 28th of Janu-ary, the TEPRASM

(Tshwarisanang Envi-ronmental Pro-Re Active Safety Mentors of South Africa) together with Fire work’s Gys Muller and Carl Kritzinger vis-ited residents at 17th avenue Vincent Tsha-balala road (formally known as London road). The aim of the visit was to probe the issues sur-rounding environmental safety and awareness. Joe Baleka, founder of the TEPRASM spoke to

Alex Pioneer about what their organization does and hope to achieve. TE-PRASM is a Non-Gov-ernment Organization founded in 2006 with primary objective of in-vestigating how much people living in informal households know about environmental safety, and thereafter educate them on alternative methods for safely using energy in their house-holds. As Baleka had en-visioned, they have now visited more than 600 000 shacks not only in Alexandra, but as far as

Thembisa, Phumulong, Ivory Park and West Rand raising awareness on environmental safety, this after a survey stipu-lating that more than 800 shack burn down annually in Gauteng alone. “During our in-vestigations, our fi ndings implement educational interventions”, explains Baleka. One of the proj-ects core objective is to reduce the amount of shack fi res which affect

a lot of poverty stricken areas more especially townships. They identi-fi ed the key fi ndings as paraffi n use, gas leaks and neglecting of candles as the notorious cause of fi res in most cases. As part raising awareness and giving back the Al-exandra community, Joe Baleka Along with Carl and Gys from Fire Works donated solar lights to fi ve households courtesy of Better Lights. “We

are hoping to raise funds by telling the story of these people to corporate South Africa”. Baleka highlighted. The light set consists of three main components, the light, light charger and a cell phone charger. “We can feel safer for our children with these non electrical lights”, Zikhona Matiye-la (mother of three young children) happily said, after received one of the lights being donated.

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The 2013 top performing students were awarded

with bursaries from the Vin-cent Tshabalala Education Trust. The ceremony was held on Monday 22 January 2013 at Alex CJC. Minister of Arts and Cul-ture, Paul Mashatile, who is also the chairman of the Trust Fund, was present at the even to honour the stu-dents. Motivating the class of 2013 to continue per-forming at their utmost best, guest speaker Mr Mavuso Msimang talked about the

visit. Mashatile paid a visit to schools in Alex along with Deputy Minister in the presidency of performance monitoring and evaluation Obed Bapela and Minis-ter of Sports and recreation Fikile Mbalula last year to

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Dear Reader,

2014 marks exactly 20 years of a democratic South Africa. This shows how far South Africa as a country comes from. To date, the country has had at least four democratically elected Presidents, namely Nelson Mandela, the founding President of a democratic South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, Kgalema Motlanthe and Jacob Zuma, respectively.

Prior to the advent of democracy in 1994, voting was a privilege not given to everyone. Simply put, only White People were allowed to vote for the country’s governing party. But today all has changed. Every South African citizen (irrespective of gender, age and race) above the age of 18 with a valid Identity Document is eligible to vote in the country’s elections.

The Independent Electoral Commissions, the body that oversees the country’s election processes, has once again opened its doors for people to register to vote in the coming elections. This is the opportunity that we should all utilize as South Africans. Even people who have registered in the past, it is still within their rights to go check with the IEC if their details still exist on the database.

Remember, voting is our constitutional right. Let’s use it accordingly. The final voting registration takes place on Saturday and Sunday 8 and 9 February 2014.

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significant role education plays in ones life. “Educa-tion means you are prepar-ing yourself for a bright and prosperous future. Without education, there is no nation,” he said. In ten years of its existence, the Education Trust has award-ed more a total of 106 bur-saries and from this number, thirty two graduates have emerged. “The Vincent Tshabalala Education Trust is a brand that keeps its promise,” expressed Louis Seeco who is also a trustee of the organization. In sup-port of the Trust and what it

motivate matric students to escalate from the previous 53% pass rate to any figure higher than 75%. The 2013 average pass rate for all the schools in Alex-andra in sitting at 83.4%, way above the minister’s expected 75% pass rate.

stands for, “each one teach one” (Vincent Tshabalala Education Trust’s motto) campaign has awarded R60 000 cash bursaries to the top matric learners and R35 000 for the runners up who have also performed exceptional-ly well. A total of 736 learn-ers were seated for the 2013 matric exams in Alexandra and from this, 614 learners passed, gradually 95 dis-tinctions were produced, a figure that certainly pleased Mr Mashatile. In his statement Minister Mashatile was proud of the improvement and progress made by the high schools in Alexandra since his last

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TOP PERFORMERS AWARDED WITH BURSARIES.

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Go tsentŠhwa ga mohl-agase o moswa ka

Ward 105, go tsoŠitŠe go tshwarwa ga dikopano gotee le ntwa ya mahlo a mahwi-bidu magareng ga baagi le baŠomi ba City Power ka di karolong tŠe dingwe tŠa Alexandra.Go kopano ya bjale yeo e bego e kgatlam-pana magareng ga baagi le bahlankedi ba City Power gotee le Mokhanselara wa Ward 105 Joyce Ngwenya ka Eastbank Hall ka Al-trek, baagi bao ba di tse-bago gabotse, ba bega gore ngwenya o thupile kopano ya bona le go ipeya go ba moswara-marapo.Kopano e be e tsenetŠwe ke baagi ba Extension 9, empa

ba hlalosetŠa ka ga lenaneo le leswa. Ka lehlakoreng le lengwe, baagi ka 18th Avenue, ba lomantshitŠe meno a ka fase malebana le go tsentŠhwa ga mohl-agase o moswa fao ba ilego ba Šupana le bahlankedi ba

ba go tŠwa ka Tsutsumani bao ba lekilego go ipelaetŠa ka mohlagase o moswa, ba ile ba thibelwa go tŠeya kar-olo nakong ya dipolediŠano.‘Baagi ba bangwe ba lla ka la gore mohlagase wa bjale ke wa theko ya godimo, e lego seo se ba hlokiŠago boroko ka ge ba le dikobjana di magetleng, ’ Gwa rialo yo ngwe wa baagi.Ngwenya o phaetŠe thoko ditatofatŠo tŠa gore o thu-pile kopana ya baagi. ‘Seo baagi ba se bolelago ke se seswa ditsebeng tŠa ka. Ke phatlaladitŠe dipampirir tŠa go tsebiŠa batho ka kopano ye.’Ngwenya a re baagi ba tsebiŠitŠwe kgale ka go tlo tsentŠhwa ga mohlagase. ‘Basomi ba City Power ba thomile ka go tsentŠha dipa-

City Power ka menwana. Taba ya bona e ile ya tsenwa ke maphodisa ka bogare. Go letŠwe gore baagi ba tlo tsh-wara kopano mafelelong a kgwedi ye ka Eastbank Hall go tlo ahlaahla pharela ya mohlagase.

la tŠe ditelele, empa baagi ba thoma go taologa ge go tsentŠhwa mapokisana a manyane ka dintlong.‘City Power e tlo swara ko-pano mo nakong e sa fet-sego pelo le baagi ba Exten-sion 9 go tlo ba ruta le go

Baagi kgahlanong le lenaneo la mohlagase

Picture archive: Residents of River Park protesting against electricity system installed in their area. The incident happened in June 2013 and the police were called in to maintain order.

Minister of Arts and Culture Paul Mashatile awarded bursaries to top performing learners and encouraged them to continue working hard.

Residents of 17 avenue with their new lights

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Only a month since the 2014 academic year

kicked off, schools in Alexandra are more than determined to implement more strategies to im-prove the quality of edu-cation in their schools, this after a survey showed a drastic improvement by the schools within District 9 moving from a 60% matric pass rate to a 83% pass rate in 2013.Minister of basic educa-tion Angie Motshekga announced in a statement on 5 December last year that the department has recommitted to the na-tion on how they intend to improve the quality of education from the for-mative years to matric and beyond. “Such a strategic shift had meant that more evidence-based focus should equally be dedicated to upping foundation skills from the lower grades”, Min-

ister Motshekga pointed out in the statement.Alex Pioneer visited a number of schools in Al-exandra that shared some of the strategies they plan on implementing to im-prove their teacher-stu-dent interaction.“Alex is part of the winning team”, those were the words of

the District Director of Johannesburg East Ray-mond Martin on his visit to East Bank high school. Alex Pioneer spoke to East Bank high educa-tor, Samson Mokgalaka who explicitly pointed out the 18% improve-ment from a 68% pass rate to a 86% pass rate

the school achieved in the 2013 academic year and how they plan to main-tain the improvement. “Like we do on an annual base, we want to arrange more educational trips for learners to focus on the rather crucial subjects such as mathematics, sci-ence and accounting, we

also plan on arranging workshops for our teach-ers to help them interact with learners more effi -ciently and effectively” Mr Mokgalaka added. Principal of Kwa-Bhek-ilanga Selowa Jubere was among the principals who believe in teachers being more involved in learn-

ers personal lives helping them focus more on their studies and not the daily social diffi culties they face. “Our Teachers need to motivate the learners and help them believe they can do it, we need our educators to be good role models to the children”, Jubere said in conclusion.Among the schools vis-ited was Bovhet primary school at 19th avenue in Vincent Tshabalala road (formally known as London road). Speaking to the paper was school principal Mrs Khoza who echoed the words of basic education minister that

the quality of education needs to be addressed from a young and tender age. “With the help of funding from cooperate South Africa, we will be able to provide new strate-gic planning and training for teachers to contribute to the academic wellbeing of our young students”, Mrs. Khoza pointed out.

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OUTCOME 3: ALL PEOPLE IN SOUTHAFRICA ARE AND FEEL SAFEPRESIDENT CALLS FOR RESTRAINT DURING PROTESTS

• President Jacob Zuma is seriously concerned about the violent nature of public protests in the country, which have also included a tragic loss of life of citizens reportedly in the hands of the police and he extended his deepest condolences to the families of all who have died during the protests.

• He further reminded the public about their constitutional right to protest but that this should be done within the ambit of the law, and in a peaceful manner.

• President Zuma also calls upon the police to exercise restraint and ensure that they are well prepared for public gatherings. That they should plan for any eventuality and should be sensitive and ensure that everything they do is within the law.

• “We cannot solve our problems through violence and anger. This is something that we must address at all levels of society as part of nation building and promoting social cohesion and progress," said President Zuma.

“WORKING TOGETHER WE HAVE DONE MORE”

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GREAT YEAR AHEAD FOR SCHOOLS IN ALEX

Wellington Nobele

Madam Speaker of Council, Conny Ba-

pela, recently celebrated her birthday with learn-ers from different primary schools in Alexandra. The decision to celebrate her special day with the young kids was inspired by what Nelson Mandela has said. “The late former presi-dent Nelson Mandela al-

ways spoke about children and how they play a role in the future of our coun-try”, says Conny Bapela. Learners from MC Wei-ler, Carter and Dr Knack primary school celebrated Conny Bapela’s birthday at the Altreck recreational center on Friday 31 January. “We initially planned to take the kids to the Innes-free park in Sandton, but we were let down by the

rain”, says Conny. 210 Underprivileged learn-ers from the three schools were treated to a nice day with brand ambassador of Mc Donald’s South Af-rica, Ronald Mc Donald. Speaking to Alex Pioneer, Mrs Bapela told us about the project she does for the community that is part of giving back to the com-munity. Conny hosts mo-tivational visits to primary

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OUTCOME 1: IM-PROVED QUALITY OF BASIC EDUCA-TIONSCHOOLS TO BENEFIT FROM NATIONAL EDUCA-TION COLLABO-RATION TRUST (NECT)• The National Educa-tion Collaboration Trust (NECT) was launched in August 2013; its primary objective is to strengthen partner-ships among business society, civil society, government and labour in order to achieve the education goals of the National Development Plan.• Among other objec-tives of the Trust is to strive both to sup-port and infl uence the

agenda for reform of basic education.• The NECT has stimulated resources to rollout projects that will assist learning and teaching at more than 3000 schools in eight districts across the country. • The schools identifi ed in the eight districts will also serve as a pilot exercise before the programme is rolled out to other districts in the future.• For background infor-mation on the NECT visit: www.nect.org.za.

“WORKING TOGETHER WE HAVE DONE MORE”

GOVERNMENT NEWS

Wellington Nobele

Edward Nathan Son-nenbergs, also

recognised as one of

the largest full-service law fi rm in Africa, or-ganised a two day fo-rensic science training programme hosted at

their new business cen-tre at the Alex San-Ko-pano centre early this month. The law fi rm that specializes in com-mercial areas of law, tax, forensics and IP; awarded certifi cates to the 36 people that par-ticipated in the training workshop on the 24th and 25th of January. Business centre man-ager Fiona Mainole ex-plained the main objec-tives of the workshop to Alex Pioneer. “This is only the initial phase of

the programme, at this stage the training was for community lead-ers, active members of the SAPS as well as the CPF (Commu-nity Policing Forum) members” said Fiona. Core objectives of the workshop included public sector regulato-ry environment, an an-ti-corruption regime in South Africa, dramatic new anti-corruption compliance require-ments contained in the new companies Act

regulations and to cre-ate awareness of criti-cally important anti-corruption compliance obligation, including the price of compliance.“One of the projects initiatives is to identify and stop Nigerian 419 scams in South Africa, as reports show a lot of innocent people have fallen victim to these scams”, says Fiona. The Nigerian 419 scam is currently the world’s largest scam in terms of monetary losses.

“The more people know about forensic science, the easier it becomes for law en-forcement agencies to tackle these scams”, Fiona concludedAlso present at the ENS Africa award cer-emony was Suad Ja-cobs who is an execu-tive at ENS forensics, as well as the pro-bono coordinator Ngwako Raboshakga who were more than pleased with the project and what it tends to achieve.

ENS Citizen Awards

and high schools around Alexandra discussing is-sues that mostly affect the youth of South Africa. “We are expecting DJ Sbu to come on board as a mo-tivational speaker”, Conny pointed out. The aim of the project is to help learners focus on their studies and forget about their under-privileged backgrounds.Also on board are Mc Donald’sSouth Africa, Pep store and other gen-erous sponsors from the community. Speaker of the house hopes that this initiative will attract more sponsors to come on board to help with the fundamentals learners need to achieve outstand-ing results at the end of the academic year. “We need to identify role mod-els at a young age; these kids are the future of our country”, says Billy Mad-ungandaba, Spokesperson of council who is also one of the projects benefactor.

Conny Bapela celebrates her 52nd birthday with primary schools learners from Alexandra.

ENS training attendees. Picture : provided

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When a heart and diamonds becomes

a club and a spade…In South Africa a divorce will be granted if one of the parties believes that there has been an irretriev-able breakdown in the marriage and that there is no prospect of restoring it.Civil marriages, civil unions and religious mar-riages concluded by a registered marriage of-fi cer can only be dis-solved by court order.

The spouse wanting the divorce must issue a sum-mons against the other spouse stating; that the relationship has broken down and there is no rea-sonable prospect of restor-ing the marriage and the matrimonial property re-gime governing the mar-riage (in community of property, out of commu-nity of property excluding the accrual system or out of community of property including the accrual sys-tem). The summons must indicate how the estate is to be divided accord-ing to the marital regime.

There are 3 grounds for divorce in South Africa:

i)irretrievable breakdown; ii) mental illness; or

iii) c o n t i n u -ous unconsciousness.

i ) I r r e t r i e v -able Breakdown

The court must be satis-fi ed that the marriage re-lationship between the parties has reached such a stage of disintegra-tion and that there is no reasonable prospect of the restoration of a nor-mal marital relationship.

Examples of such instances include;•the parties have not lived together as husband and wife for a contin-ued period of at least 1 year immediately prior to the date of issuing the summons for divorce;

•a party has committed adultery and the party is-suing the summons fi nds it impossible to contin-ue in the marriage; and

•a party has been declared a habitual criminal and is undergoing imprisonment.The court will usually al-ways grant the divorce unless the court feels that there is a possibility of the couple reconciling. In this case the court may postpone the proceedings or dismiss a claim. If this happens and the parties do not reconcile after some, time the court must grant the divorce. If however, the parties do reconcile the summons must be for-mally withdrawn by serv-ing a notice of withdrawal.

ii)Mental Illness A court may grant a decree of divorce on the grounds of mental illness provided the court is satisfi ed that the party against whom the summons is issued;

•has been admitted as a patient to an institution;

•is being detained as a state patient at an institution; or

•is being detained as a mentally ill convicted prisoner at an institution.A divorce order may also be granted if the person against whom the divorce has been issued has not been unconditionally dis-charged as a patient, state patient or mentally ill prisoner for a continuous period of at least 2 years immediately prior to the

divorce summons being issued and at least 2 psy-chiatrists give evidence that such person is men-tally ill and there is no prospect that he/she will be cured of the illness.

iii)Continuous Un-c o n s c i o u s n e s s

A court may grant a de-cree of divorce on the grounds of continu-ous unconsciousness if;

•the person against whom the summons is issued has been in a continuous state of unconsciousness for a period of at least 6 months prior to the issu-ing of the summons; and

•the court is satisfi ed that there is no reason-able prospect that such person will regain con-sciousness after hearing evidence from at least 2 medical practitioners.Various consequences of a divorce must be consid-ered. Such consequences include, for example, maintenance, sometimes in the case of a spouse and always in the case of a paternal child, how pa-rental rights and respon-sibilities will be shared between spouses (always considering what is in the best interests of the child) and division of assets. It is advisable that parties are familiar with the conse-quences of a divorce per-taining to their preferred marital regime prior to entering into a marriage.

It is ideal that parties separate and divorce on amicable terms. A di-vorce will be easiest in cases where both parties communicate adequately with each other and com-promise on certain mat-ters to avoid lengthy and expensive court battles.

Divorce and Separation

MATRIC TIPS You’ve got your Matric in your pocket but you did not enroll for tertiary education. Then apply for a learnership : you’ll receive an allowance to study and job training. You’ll get a national certifi cate and work experience, so a better chance of fi nding a job !What is a “learnership” ?- A 1 year (sometimes more) program- It leads to a qualifi cation in a “non artisan” trade occupation (NQF 1 to 8) : nurse, IT technician, etc. For instance, you can get a “certifi cate in general nursing”- Combine classes at a college/training centre (30 % of your time) with work for a company or gov-ernment department (70 %).Ex : CAT (Commercial Advance Training) 18 months program : students must fi nd a company which will accept to train them based on 2 weeks school and 2 weeks in each department of the company (sales, marketing, etc).How can I fi nd a learnership ?The 21 SETA (Sector education and training authorities) organize learnerships in their economic sector (www.labour.gov.za/contacts/SETA/seta-seta-offi ces). For instance, BANKSETA proposes learner-ships in the banking sector (www.bankseta.org.za) . At FNB and Standard bank, matric school leavers are paid to study about 3 to 5 days/month and work at a bank branch. After a year, you get a “National Certifi cate in Banking” (NQF level 4).The best website to get information about available learnerships is www.limpopocontacts.com/learner-ships. Register your email address to know the latest learnerships.-Check for advertisement of learnership in newspapers, company’s website, etc.How do I apply for a learnership?-if you are unemployed, you must register at an Employment Skills Development Agency (ESDA).-Send your CV to the Human resources department (for attention “Skills development division”) of the companies you are interested in ;- Check that the learnership is good. Ask for the contact details of ex-learners and ask them. Contact :Learnership support service : 012 309 48 08Career Advice Helpline -0860 111 673 – info :valou.hirsch@gmail.com – www.beststudentsofalexandra.blogspot.comValérie Hirsch 083 75077 25 - 011 784 72 98 (tel, fax)Free lance journalist (Le Soir, RTBF, Le Temps, Ouest France, RTL, Deutsche welle, TV5)Sizanani mentorship program - www.beststudentsofalexandra.blogspot.comhttp://mg.co.za/article/2013-03-01-mentors-are-changing-pupils-lives

Learnerships

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senter of Sistas, Tumelo has empowered many young women. Speaking about her time on Soweto TV, she told Alex Pioneer that: “I was 18 years old when I joined SISTAS and the experience was priceless. A blessing to say the least.”But today, Tumelo is the current affairs presenter of Sun-day Live on SABC 1, previously presented by renowned SABC senior political reporter, Vuyo Mvoko. Tumelo some-times stands in for col-leagues on the weekend editions of Morning News programmes and she also has her own show, AM Live on channel 404. Re-ferring to Sunday Live, she said: “This was my very fi rst live show ex-perience and may I just say it was so tormenting at fi rst with many mixed

emotions because I was excited, nervous, happy and scared all at the same time.“Although I am still learning a lot about live broadcasting, I am warm-ing up to the show and its viewers.” Tumelo, like a true focused woman, is very clear about her fu-ture plans. She explained that she wants to “con-tinue working hard and contributing substance within the news and cur-rent affairs industry of my country and continent in all spectrum.” For the great love and respect she has for education, she told Alex Pioneer that she would like to “pursue my post-graduate studies in Media Studies because if there is one phenomenal thing about life is that you can never stop learn-ing.”

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Generations’ Dineo’s She-nanigans are starting to creep out of the closet to catch up with her. Miss M’ya is up in arms and wants to see Dineo exposed. I wish this inves-tigation could back fi re on Miss M’ya herself. She’s not all innocent. She’s as fake as her accent. I’ve never come across a family that is cloud-ed by ongoing bad lucky like the Dlomos. Their bad lucks far surpass their blessings to date. But as for Senzo, the man is getting exactly what he needs. Miss M’ya is bad news and someone should get rid of her before she cor-rupts the whole town. Just in time for Valentines Day the shebbeen mistress is back in love with her on-off Ben 10.Can someone please tell Rhythm City’s Lerato to take a chill? The girl walks on my last nerve, seriously. She thinks she is the IT GIRL and if you ask me I would tell you that there are a lot of people out there who can sing not what Lerato is doing. So, dear, please take a sit back neh? It’s about time Lucilla tastes the bitter medicine of her own doings. DH has lost trust in her and sooner than later, Lucilla and David are going down. Isidingo’s heartthrob Eddie is going through a rough patch and with everything that’s been happening around Ben-jam is adding to his stress level. See, Benjamin should have made himself a favour and listen to his dad, today he wouldn’t be in this pre-dicament. It’s been a while, I miss the real Sibeko’s.Muvhango’s embattled Su-san is in a serious fi x! Every-one around her, Pfuluwani and Vho-Makhadzi included, are clear about what they want from her- to leave the throne of Thathe. Whether people like it or not, power is on Suzan’s side. She may be a “commoner”, as she’s been dubbed nowadays, but she will handle the reigns until Azwindini comes back, only if he won’t get a life sen-tence. Poor Teboho, she is a real loser. She’s no longer the queen of Thathe and her bid to get rid of Shonisani seems to have backfi red on her. Hai, Shonisani means busi-ness. Clearly she’s not going down without with a fi ght. Khomotjo has got Lerumo exactly where she needs him. Soon, the wedding bells will be ringing for the two!

Gossip insider!South African esteemed multi award winning

actress, Florence Masebe (who is best known for her role in Muvhango as Humbulani), is report-edly pregnant with her third child at the age of 41. Ecstatic Florence was quoted in a magazine say-ing “I’m loving this miracle.” Talented television presenter and actor, Aaron Moloisi, is set to appear on SABC 1 fl agship soapie, Generations. Aaron will play the role of Will Hlatswayo- a man who is sexually attracted to other men.

Mokgopo Tilo

The SABC 2’s fl ag-ship and longest

running soap opera, Mu-vhango, is due to air fi ve days a week this year. “Muvhango enters its 17th season… and the SABC has decided to broadcast Muvhango from Monday to Fri-day,” the soapie’s cre-ator and executive pro-ducer, Duma Ka Ndlovu said in the statement. Ka Ndlovu noted that as the soapie continues to im-

prove its standard and develop its storylines, the fans and supporters should look forward to exciting stories that will keep them at the edge of their seats. “Just to wet your appe-tite, Ranthumeng comes back to reclaim his wife, Susan takes bold steps to protect the chieftaincy and Vusi grows up and his grandfathers want him to go to the moun-tain,” he said. However, if rumours circulating in the media are anything

to go by, the return of Ranthumeng into the soapie may not be by Themba Nofemele who left the soapie last year citing unfair treatment and emotional abuse by co-workers, who, as he alleged, went to the ex-tent of telling him that he can’t act. According to reports, singer Brian Themba will resume the role of Ranthumeng. Airing fi ve days is not the only surprise Mu-vhango has for its fans in 2014. “We have em-

barked on an effort to change the Muvhango look. We will be launch-ing the new look soon and introducing a few new actors in an effort to sush up the look. Re-cently Muvhango intro-duced many faces whom the majority of them are household names and the singer, Chomee of “jaiva sexy” fame was one of them. Her ap-pearance on the soapie has since caused a stir on social media. In the 17 years of its

running, Muvhango has had many exciting storylines that ordinary South Africans in rural areas, townships and in-formal settlements can relate to and the show’s heavyweight informs that “our story depart-ment continues to try and break boundaries by bringing you stories that straddle the town-ship/rural divide.” It’s still not known for sure when Muvhango will start playing fi ve days.

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board members from the ANLFA (Alexandra Northrand Local Foot-ball Association) is very much pleased with the progress the association has made since he came on board in 2002. “The Alexandra football as-sociation was formed in 1936 and through work-ing together with other associations, we teamed up with the Northrand football association in 2006 and offi cially formed the ANLFA which is one of 12 local football associations in Gauteng affi liated with SAFA (South African Football Association)”, Motshwene explained. Motshwene went further

to add that “currently, the association has a total of 4000 members and 95 teams participat-ing in the six divisions of the association”. In the last week of Janu-ary, the ANLFA hosted a league game between se-niors of Gauteng FC and Ranger FC at the altrec recreation centre. Motsh-wene who is also in the competition committee subscription emphasised that the main purpose in the ANLFA is to facili-tate all league and com-petition matches and be actively involved in the development of football in Alexandra. “We have a lot to be proud of. Alex academy took third place in the VW junior mas-ters tournament at UJ (University of Johannes-burg) Soweto campus”.

Among other things, Motshwene believes that with the right assistance, Alexandra has the poten-tial of producing more star players consider-ing the likes of Patrick Phungwayo, Lebogang Manyama, Khetokwakhe Masuku and may others, Motshwene explained. The match played on Sunday the 26th ended in a 2-1 win for Gauteng FC, placing them second on the ANLFA league standings. Speaking to the paper, Charles Mak-gosang (Rangers head coach) was looking for-ward to the game as this would raise the bar on their current position in the league standings; un-fortunately they lost the game, leaving them at number 15 on the league.

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ANLFA LEAGUE UNDERWAY

Game offi cials taking a picture with both team captains bofore the game.

Gauteng FC before their match with Rangers FC. The fi nal score was 2-1 with Gauteng FC emerging victorious.