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Grade 10 kid brutally murdered PETER LUHANGA

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SOCIAL worker and a psychologist attached to the Western Cape Education Department (WCED), provided trauma counselling to pupils at Dunoon’s Inkwenkwezi Secondary School on Monday, September 12, following the shocking murder of a grade 10, 17-year-old pupil.

Provincial police spokeswoman Noloyiso Rwexana, confirmed the murder of the Dunoon youth Siphosethu Mdywe, who was brutally killed when he was returning from a friend’s 21st birthday party on Sunday, September 11.

Isolabantu caught up with the deceased’s, elder brother Sipho. He said he was told by his late kid brother’s friend who witnessed the gruesome killing that six people suspected to be learners at the same school, used planks and sharp objects to

kill Siphosethu.

He said reasons for the gruesome killing are unclear but the incident has left his family traumatised.

Sipho is the first born and his younger brother was the second born and last in the family.

“They tripped him and started beating him with wooden planks and sharp objects.

All the injuries are in the head and in the neck. He sustained deep cuts in the head.

It is painful. We were very close. I am the breadwinner of the family and he depended on me for everything,” said Sipho.

He said: “I am heart broken. He was a quiet kid. Even at school he had good manners.

His teacher cried. They say he was clean and never got into trouble. Other pupils say they’ll never forgive the guys who killed him.” ~ continued on page 3.

Sipho Mdywe holds the student card of his young brother who was slain by six people suspected to be learners at the same school.

Photo. Isolabantu news.

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hevron South Africa celebrated the 50th anniversary of its South African oil refinery in Cape Town by opening its doors to the community on 17 September.

Chevron, which trades as Caltex in South Africa, allowed more than 800 guests on a ‘journey through the five decades’ of a guided tour of its Milnerton-based refinery.

“We take the responsibility of being a good neighbour se-

riously,” said Victor Bester, general manager at the Chevron Cape Town Refinery.

The 100,000 barrel per day refinery informed the public about its processes, projects undertaken and the role the refinery has played over its 50 year history.

The refinery supplies fuel to all airplanes at the Cape Town International Airport and 95 percent of vehicles on the roads in South Africa’s Western Cape Province.

A refinery model exhibition with various aspects of the

refinery processes, including its stringent environmental and safety procedures, awaited visitors after the end of the tour.

Bester said the refinery sustains about 13 500 direct and indirect jobs in the Western Cape.

He said throughout its history the refinery provided jobs that help drive the local economy and invested heavily in social investment projects in the surrounding communities.

Chevron has sponsored liter-

acy programmes in Du Noon and construction of a science laboratory at Bosmansdam High School and funded the Cape Town Science Centre which entertained guests with a 10 minute science show at the end of each session.

“You would never guess that they do everything from aviation fuel and petrol to tar and bitumen– they don’t waste anything,” said Veronica Williams, a Tableview resident who visited the refinery for the first time.

Oontlalontle bazishiyile ii-ofisi zabo

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-ofisi yabo iyavuza xa kunetha kwaye iceiling iyawa, izindlu zangasese azisebenzi kwaye ziphuphuma ilindle.

Izintot zimbi ngohlobo lokuba oontlalontle abasebenzela eMilpark Building eMilnerton bakhetha ukusebenzela phantsi kwemithi kwipaka ekufutshane yabantwana.

Kutshanje Isolabantu lifakene umlomo nabasenzi ababini balapho nabayibeke yacaca into yokuba badikiwe yimeko yale ofisi besithi iyingozi kwimpilo yabo.

Malunga namashumi amabini abasebenzi bathe banikeza inkonzo phantsi kwemithi.

“Ezi-ofisi zabakwimeko embi ukususela ngo 2014 kwaye akukhont yenziwa, iyasigulisa lento.” utshilo omnye umsebenzi.

“Sinukiselwa lilindle kuba izindlu zangasese ziyaphuphuma kwaye azilungiswa,”uqukumbele ngelitshoyo.

Othethela umphathiswa wentlalontle Advocate Albert Fritz uSihle Ngobese uthi: “Ulondoloze lwee-ofisi luphantsi sebee iPublic Works kwaye lomcimbi ufumana ingqwalasela sithetha nje.

Othethela iPublic Works uSiphesihle Dube naye ukungqinile oku esithi imeko ibuyiselwa kundalashe.

Social workers abandon office

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heir office roof leaks when it rains, the ceiling boards are falling down and the office toilets are blocked and overflowing.

Things are so bad that employees of the Western Cape department of social development in the Milpark Building in Milnerton, have resorted to working at a nearby children’s park.

Earlier this month on Friday, September 2, the employees of social development told Isolaban-

tu that they were gatvol of working in a toxic office environment.

About 20 of the office’s 40 employees attended to clients in the park.

One worker said: “The building has been deteriorating since January 2014 and is making us sick.

“We often have to leave the offices because of overflowing sewage from the toilets which are blocked.”

Social development MEC Albert Fritz’s spokesman, Sihle Ngob-

ese, said: “Provincial infrastructure matters are handled by the department of public works.

“Meanwhile, social development’s head of department requested our regional office to look into making space available for some of the workers.”

Public Works MEC Donald Grant’s spokesman, Siphesihle Dube, said his department was attending to the office’s heating, ventilation, blocked toilets and leaking roof.

Kevin Njukuya of Parklands said samples of crude and the different products that we were made to interact with (in the plastic bottles) at the end was a great way the public to understand products from the refinery makes.

Bester and Shashi Rabbipal, chairman of Chevron South Africa also hosted a tree planting ceremony along the Koeberg Road fence of the refinery where 50 indigenous trees were planted.

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Grade 10 kid brutally murdered ~ from page 1

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ipho’s uncle Mzwalane Caji said all the suspects are residents of Dunoon and some of the parents came to visit the deceased’s family and had reportedly admitted to their parents to have taken part in killing Siphosethu, but did not say the reason.

Sipho is pleading for help to bury his brother in the rural Eastern Cape.

“We don’t have money to bury him,” said Sipho.

Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schafer spokesperson Jessica Shelver said the school was informed that a grade 10 learner was attacked in the early morning hours of Sunday when he was on his way home after allegedly attending a 21st birthday party.

“The support services of the District Office is on standby if further support is needed,” said

Shelver, “It is not clear whether the attackers are learners from the school: there are rumours about this, but the police have not identified and contacted the school in this regard.”

Rwexana said Siphosethu was declared dead on the scene and no one has been arrested as yet.

She said investigation is on-going.

“Anyone with information that can assist with the investigation is requested to contact Milnerton SAPS on 021 5283 800,” she said.

Ubulewe evela embhiyozweni umfundi webanga lesibhozo

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nontlalontle nogqirha wengqondo baye bathunyelwa liSebe leMfundo leNtshona Koloni kwisikolo,Inkwenkwezi Secondary School, emva kokuba umfundi walapho ethe woselwa wabulawa ngempelaveki.

Umzimba ka Siphosethu Mdywe ominyaka eli-17 ufunyenwe upholile emva kohlaselo ekucingelwa ukuba luqhubeke ngethuba ebuya epatini yogxa wakhe.

Othethela amapolisa ephondweni uNoloyiso Rwexana, uvumile

ukuba amapolisa aphanda ityala lokubulala.

I-Isolabantu lidlene indlebe nomninawe ka Sipho okhangeleke exheleke kakhulu sesisehlo.

Usichazele ukuba omnye wabahlobo baka Sipho uyibone yonke into ethe yenzeka watsho ekhomba abafundi abathandathu abafunda kwesosikolo njengabo bathe benza esisihelegu.

Bamxangxathe ngamaplanga baze bamhlaba ngeentshuntshe, isizathu sokuqala kwalomlo asikaziwa ncam nangoku.

Utishalakazi okhohlakeleyo uchebe inkwenkwana ngenkani

ISOLABANTU REPORTER

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mhlohli wesiNgesi eDunoon Primary School uzibona ejamelene nezityholo zokuthathela umthetho ezandleni emva kokucheba iinwele zetyendyana ngenkani.

Lo tishalakazi kuthiwa ukhangele isikere kwincwadi zabantwana bakwa Grade 5 waze wonda ngentloko ka Athenkosi Ngxande wamnqunqa iinwele.

Umama walenkwenkwana uSharon Ngxande, 27,ubevutha ngumsindo ngethuba unyana wakhe ominyaka ili-12 efika intloko yakhe igqoloziwe ngoLwesine weveki ephelileyo.

USharon umbuyisele esikolweni ngoko nangoka wafika wanika inqununu ukutya kweendlebe, efuna ukwazi ukuba ichetyelwe ntoni lekwekwe.

“Khange bathumele nencwadi le ekhalazela ubumdaka benwele zomntwana wam. Andikhath-

ali ukuba umthetho wesikolo uthini bekumele ukuba bandixelele ngengxaki abayibonayo.

Lotishalakazi ulithathaphi igunya lokufaka isikere emntwaneni wam? ubuze wenjenjala uSharon eligwele ngumsindo.

Ngokutsho kuka Athenkosi lomhlohli wesi Ngesi udanduluke ngelithi abantwana abavumelekanga ukuba mabakhulise iinwele zabo.

“Uye emva walaqaza ekhangela iinwele ezinkulu uthe akufika kum yaqala inkathazo, uqalise ukundicheba bendingaqumbanga koko ndisuke ndamjonga,” utshilo u-Athennkosi.

Ngokutsho kuka Sharon inqununu ixolisile yathembisa ukuba lotishalakazi uzakufumana isohlwayo esimfaneleyo.

Othethela isebe lemfundo uJessica Shelver uthe uyaqala ukuva isehllo esikumila kunje watsho esoleka ngelithi lotishalakazi ufanele isohlwayo ngenene.

“Bamwisile baze baqalisa ukumbetha ngamaplanga bemhlaba ngezikhali ezizintlobo ngentlobo.

Bamonzakalise kakhulu entloko nasentanyeni. Ibuhlungu kakhulu indlela abambulele ngayo umntakwethu,” utshilo uSiphosethu.

Uhambise ngelithi umninawe wakhe ubengumntu ozolilelyo kwaye wonke umntu ukhathazekile kwanqu nootishala besikolo balile esimantshiyane besakuva udaba lokunabela kwaledyongwana uqaqaqa.

Othethela usapho nongumalume

uMzwalane Caji uthi bonke abarhanelwa bayaziwa kwaye abazali babo sele beze ngaphambili behambisa imiyalezo yovelwano.

Oka Caji ucele inkxaso nokuncediswa ekungcwabeni unyana kuba esithi abathathintwqeni.

“Asinamali kwaye singathanda ukumngcwabela ekhayeni umntwana wethu,” utshilo.

Othethela isebe lemfundo uJessica Shelver uthi bazivile iindaba zokusweleka kwalomfundi kwaye bavakalisa inkxalabo nabo.

“Sithumele oontlalontle nogqirha

wengqondo

ukuze

bancedane

nonxunguphalo olugubungele esasikolo,” u Shelver utshilo.

URwexana ulebele ngelithi akukabikho bani ubanjiweyo kodwa amapolisa alele emkhondweni esenza uphando.

“Nabani onolwazi ngalenyewe makancede

afonele

amapolisa

ase Milnerton kwinombolo engu 0215283 800,” utshilo.

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Cruel teacher cuts pupil hair PETER LUHANGA

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n English teacher at Dunoon primary school is facing a tough disciplinary hearing after taking matters into her own hands.

This after she took a pair of scissors and cut chunks of hair from a grade 5 pupil’s head.

Athenkosi Ngxande’s mum Sharon Ngxande, 27, said she was livid when her son, 12, came home with his hair in a mess on Thursday, September 8.

Sharon said she took her son

Sharon Ngxande was livid when a merciless teacher cut her son’s hair.

Photo. Isolabantu news.

straight back to the school in Dunoon and confronted the principal, demanding to know why her son’s hair had been cut.

“They didn’t send a letter to me to inform me my child’s hair was untidy. It doesn’t matter what the school’s code of conduct says. Where does the code state that a teacher has the right to take a pair of scissors and cut child’s hair?” asked an angry Sharon.

Athenkosi said his English teacher confronted the class, saying pupils were not allowed to grow their hair.

“Then she started searching

the class to see who had long hair and spotted me. She then took her scissors and cut my hair. I wasn’t upset. I just kept quiet,” said Athenkosi.

Sharon said the principal apologised and said the teacher would face disciplinary action.

Jessica Shelver, spokeswoman for Education MEC Debbie Schafer, said: “This is not common practice in our schools.

Disciplinary action has been taken against the teacher.”

Hawks advise elderly on support grants security Staff Writer

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he Hawks’ Commercial Crime busting Unit in the Western Cape earlier this month advised the elderly at Dunoon’s Laphumilanga Seniors club to count their money while at pay points to avoid losing cash to unscrupulous tellers after collecting their benefits.

Meeting the elderly as part of the organisations’ social responsibility, the Hawks’ discussed about the general wellbeing and safety of the elderly.

Captain Anthea Snyder said the elderly must be vigilant when they go to collect their

monthly social security benefits.

Several old people complained about losing money on South Africa Social Security Agency (SASSA) card scams.

Others said tellers at pay points deliberately cheated them without suspecting.

Captain Snyder strongly advised the elderly to count their money before they leave the counters and make sure it was the correct amount.

At the end of the meeting, the Hawks, head of Commercial Crime Unit, Brigadier Neil Oliver who was also in attendance donated a few groceries to the centre.

Ookhetshe bacebisa iinkonde ngokhuselelo lwenkam-nkam Umbhaleli Wethu

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candelo looKhetshe iHawks’ Commercial Crime Unit eNtshona Koloni likhuphe isilumkiso esijoliswe kwinkonde ezifumana inkam-nkam malunga nokhuseleko lwayo.

Kutshanje atyelele amaxhego namaxhegokazi ase Laphumilan-

ga Seniors Club eDunoon nalapho ebachazele ukuba masebezise ‘ipay points’ okanye omatshini bokuhlawula ukuqinisekisa ukuba imali yabo ayilahleki okanye ixuthwe yimiguvela.

Lendibano naba bakhulileyo yinxalenye yephulo looKhetshe lokuzama ukuzeyamanisa nokuhlala kwakunye nokuphucula im-

Fund to quench Cape Town’s thirst by restoring native plants

pilo yabadala elizweni jikelele.

UKapteni Anthea Snyder uthe abantu abadala kufuneka bahlale belumkile xa besiya kwamkela inkam-nkam yabo nyanga nganye.

Intaphane yabandondli isoloko ikhalaza ngokuphulukana nemali yabo ngenxa yobuqhophololo, okanye urhwaphilizo olubangel-

wa kukudontswa kwemali zabo ngamakhadi akwa South Africa Social Security Agency (SASSA) naphandle kolwazi lwabo.

Abanye bakrokra ngelithi abasebenzi ababanika imalini ezitilini -tellersbabaqhatha ngebom kuba besazi ukuba banokratyazo okanye abaqondi.

UKapteni Snyder ucebise

iinkonde ukuba ziyibalisise imali yazo phambi kokuba ziphume apho ziyitsala khona.

Ekupheleni kwentlanganiso owongamele ooKhetshe uBrigadier Neil Oliver obeyinxalenye yalentlanganiso uye wakhupha izipho ezindakanya igrosari zinikwa izikom elo.

Munyaradzi Makoni

Cape Town.

Cape Town’s 14 reservoirs and two aquifers - the largest being Atlantis Aquifer - will need to be managed better, said Van der Merwe.

The Atlantis Aquifer protection zone will likely be the first focus of the fund, he added.

Louise Stafford, Cape Town’s green jobs programme manager said recharge of the aquifer has been reduced by the dense alien plant infestation on its surface as invasive plants use more water than indigenous plants due to their deep root systems which can travel further and absorb more water.

The fund’s investments, while improving water security and ecosystem functions, may also provide a boost to the impoverished surrounding towns of Atlantis, Mamre and Pella, through jobs in controlling invasive plants and

restoring indigenous vegetation,

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he city of Cape Town and The Nature Conservancy are working on a new water fund they expect to run by the end of 2017, to restore and maintain the natural vegetation covering watersheds and aquifers.

Keeping vegetation intact will yield more water for the city’s supply system as the planet warms and there is uncertainty in future rainfall patterns and, said Colin Apse, The Nature Conservancy’s director for freshwater conservation in Africa.

“Depending on the green infrastructure investments chosen, a Cape Town Water Fund could lead to a range of climate change adaptation benefits,” Apse said.

Councillor Johan van der Merwe said the fund which is yet to be fixed would pay for conservation efforts in the west coast area of

Van der Merwe said.

Mike Lucas, a biologist at the University of Cape Town, said South Africa is a water-stressed country with average annual rainfall of less than 400 mm per year. That has to service high demand from domestic use, agriculture and industry.

In the Western Cape, climate models predict the average amount of rainfall will decrease, with less occurring in winter and slightly more in the summer - but with an overall net loss.

“Our precious water reserves will need to be conserved and recycled, particularly in the face of a growing population that rightly demands proper services, including potable water,” Lucas said.

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Learners and SMME’s benefit from SEDA’s expo

Sinenjongo High School learners led by their educator, Zanele Soloshe, who took time to pose for a picture with the expo’s motivation speaker, Caroline Pule — a PhD student at Stellenbosch University..

Photo. Isolabantu news.

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he Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) in the Western Cape, hosted a career and business expo in Dunoon township on Thursday, September 8.

This was the first time that the unit of the Small Business Development Ministry has held a career and business expo in the township, targeting high school learners in the area as well as small, medium-sized, and microenterprises (SMMEs).

The event attracted a total of 71 grade 11 students from Joe Slovo Park’s Sinenjongo High School and Dunoon’s Inkwenkwezi Secondary School.

About 100 SMMEs including local residents aspiring to start their own business came to the event.

The majority of the students that attended the career session of the expo were from Sinenjongo High School in Joe Slovo Park, Milnerton; approximately 15 km from Dunoon. While Inkwenkwezi Secondary School, situated at the door-step of the event venue,

rebuffed the occasion even after their invitation was hand delivered to the school principal, who showed no interest in this historic event. Grade 11 learners that attended came of their own accord.

Sinenjongo High School’s response to the expo is a clear indication that the school is run efficiently with the expertise and dedication of the school’s exceptional teaching staff including the school principal Kuselwa Nopote.

Most students at Sinenjongo High School live in Dunoon and travel 15km, everyday. They do this in search of a well managed school.

Sinenjongo High School has been doing exceptionally well over the years in Matric pass rates with a higher percentage of students eligible for tertiary education compared to the local secondary school in Dunoon which did not take the career expo seriously.

Sinenjongo High School saw an opportunity for their learners to interact with tertiary intuitions at the event such as the Cape Peninsula University of Technology

(CPUT), Northlink College, West Coast College, to name but a few.

The learners were also delighted to listen to success stories from motivation speakers such as, among others, Caroline Pule— a PhD student at Stellenbosch University who holds an MSc in Medical Sciences.

Pule is an ambassador of the South African National Tuberculosis Association; vice-president of the Western Cape Branch of the South African Association of Women Graduates; and an executive committee member of the Association of South African Women in Science and Engineering.

Bomkazi Nyelisa, a 16 year-old, Grade 11 learner at Inkwenkwezi Secondary school, said the career session of the expo was inspiring.

“I’d take up entrepreneurship as a career . It was great. It’s different from other expos I have been to outside of Dunoon. The school didn’t inform us. We just came on our own. We were just told on the road to come to the expo,” said Nyelisa.

“Other learners that didn’t come here missed a lot of opportunities .They missed out a lot on how to be successful in life and how to go about achieving your dreams. It was a great opportunity to interact with tertiary institutions near our school. I think it’s something that should be done more often,” said Khanyisa Mazondo, 16, who is also in grade 11 at the same school.

Thandi Stemela, 17, is a grade 11 learner at Sinenjongo High School. She lives in Dunoon and spends R90 a week to get to and from school in one week.

This is because Sinenjogo High School has a proven track record of achieving higher matric results.

She told Isolabantu: “The expo was great. I liked CPUT’s guidance in that we can pursue post matric studies there and the tuition is affordable.”

Snalo Nyandu, also in grade 11 at the same school agrees.

“The expo was really insightful.

I have learnt that if you fall be-

hind you need to rise up and dust yourself off and move on,” said Nyandu.

Mzwalaneh Caji secretary of the Dunoon Business Forum said the expo advised them on how to run a successful business.

“They showed us direction where and how to access finances to boost our business,” said Caji.

SEDA’s Western Cape provincial manager Alex Qunta said he was excited with the turn out of people at the expo.

“Dunoon needs us (services) more than anything . For instance, you will find that people don’t know SEDA, so we must take SEDA to the people. It’s our first time here in Dunoon but not the last time.

We’ll make a point that we must maintain the presence of SEDA in Dunoon. We have a client journey where we don’t hit and run. It’s a good thing that we came here,” said Qunta.

Bafunde lukhulu kwi expo yequmrhu lorhwebo I sebe elikhuthaza urhwebo losomashishini abakhulayo iSmall Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) ngabula makhumsha belibambe umboniso wengqesho noshishino eDunoon kutshanje.

Ibikokuqala ngqa embalini apho icandelo leSmall Business Development Ministry lisenza umboniso okumila kunje nalapho bebefuna ingqwalasela yabafundi, osomashishini abakhasayo nosindwezama ngokubanzi.

Lomsitho ubuzinyaswe ngabafundi abayi 71- bephuma kwizikolo iSinenjongo High School ne Inkwenkwezi Secondary School.

Ukanti inani loosindwezama nabo banqwenela ukuqalisa amashishini ebebelapho liqikelelwa kwikhulu elivisayo.

Inkoliso yabafundi ibingaba se Sinenjongo High kwaye babonakalise uthakazelelo befunga besithi bazakulandela ekhondweni labo ikholiswe yimisebenzi yabo.

Nangona lomsitho ububanjelwe e- Inkwenkwezi Secondary School libe lincinane kakhulu inani labantwana abaphuma apha.

Inqununu inikwe imbalelwano isandleni imenywa ukuba mayize nabantwana bayo kodwa ayabonakalisa mdla.

Abafundi bebanga lesithoba baziyela beqhutywa ngumdla nokuthanda izinto.

Intsabelo ye Sinenjongo High School kulomsitho ibonakalise ukuba eso sikolo sinolawulo oluqilima kwaye sizisimele kwikamva labantwana abantsundu.

Ukuzinikela kwenqununu uKuselwa Nopote nefuthe lakhe livakele xa abafundi bakhe bebuza imibuzo enomsoco ngethuba kuvulelwe izandla.

Abafundi ebebekhona apha babenethuba lokuncokola nabasebenzi base Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Northland College, West Coast College benikwa ulwazi

amabalwenze

athwese khona isidanga se

besakufika apho.

Abafundi bavuyile ukuva iintetha ezakhayo ebezisenziwa ngu Caroline Pule ongumfundi we PhD e Stellenbosch University apho

MSc kwezobugqirha izifundo.

Oka Pule ukwamele iphulo elikhuthaza ukuphila kakuhle xa unesifo sephepha elenziwa yi South

ngokhetho

African National Tuberculosis Association (Santa) , ukwanguye usekela mongameli we South African Association of Women Graduates, nalo ilungu le Association of South African Women in Science and Engineering.

UBomkazi Nyelisa,16, ongumfundi ka Grade 11 Enkwenkwezi Secondary School, uthe iintetho eziwiswe apho bezichulumancisa kakhulu.

“Ndifuna ukuziqalela ishishini lam, ndirhwebe nabantu abaninzi. Mihle imisebenzi esiyibone apha.

Kuhlele nokubona i-expo isenziwa eDunoon,” utshilo.

“Abafundi abangezanga baphosiwe kakhulu,” utshilo.

UThandi Stemela,17, okwa Grade 11 eSinenjongo High School uthi uvuyisiwe kukuba abeyinxalenye yalomsitho.

“Lomboniso usivule amehlo sabona izinto ebesin-

gazazi, sikhulise nethemba ngobomi bethu,” utshilo.

USnalo Nyandu naye ofunda kwalapho uthi lomsitho umnike ulwazi olunzulu.

Unobhala we Dunoon Business Forum uMzwanele Caji uyincome kakhulu le expo esithi ibavule amehlo ngoku bazakuthi bakwazi ukuqhuba amashishini ngempumelelo.

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SEPTEMBER 2016

SPORT

The cage master of Gatyana

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oming to a soccer mad city of Johannesburg in 2006, with a rugby background from Eastern Cape, Sibusiso “The Monster” Mdoko found new passion in cage fighting.

The 29-year-old Willowvale boy later joined Soweto Pimville kickboxing club, that year.

It was while he was kickboxing when Mdoko enrolled at South West Gauteng College.

He studied Electrical Engineering which he completed in 2008.

After failing to get an apprentice-

ship for the whole of 2009 in Johannesburg, he relocated to Cape Town in search of green pastures the following year.

“I once again struggled to get apprenticeship in Cape Town,” he said.

Mdoko then decided to join Mix Martial Arts (MMA) gym in Parklands where he trained regularly for three years.

He joined the Cape Fights League (CFL) where he won a division title and got promoted to Extreme Fighting Championship (EFC).

Mdoko won three consecutive EFC matches and was put against

Leon Mynhardt, then lightweight champion.

Unfortunately The Monster lost the fight. He blamed the loss on little preparation.

“After all potential contenders were injured, I was ambushed, they picked me to fight Mynhardt,” he said.

“I had just won three successive matches,” Mdoko said adding, he was only given three weeks to train. “It was not enough for me.”

But was quick to admit, he lost a fair match, and he has moved on.

After showing his resilience in that fight Mdoko said, he earned a

lot of respect. Other EFC players started to look at him in a different light.

“I saw a lot of respect coming from other fighters, they saw that I don’t go down without a fight,” he said.

Mdoko has won five out of 10 Extreme Fighting Championship professional matches with four technical knockouts and one submission.

However, Mdoko is disappointed with the lack of sponsorship in EFC. “They only sponsor you when you are going to fight. They know they

will have exposure as the fight is going to be televised. After the fight, they disappear. It’s hard to find sponsorship that lasts long,” he said.

In spite of the disappointments, Mdoko said, his family has been a pillar of support. They attend his fights whenever they can.

“My entire village in Gatyana, Eastern Cape is fully behind me.

They sacrifice their sleep and all gather in one place with blankets and watch my delayed match broadcast on ETV.