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Tuks se amptelike studentekoerant / Official Tuks student newspaper / Kuranta ya baithuti ya semmušo ya Tuks
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Student jumps from Humanities Building MOLEBOGENG MANGOALE, MARKO SVICEVIC AND FUMILAYO SOKO A male student died after jumping from the Humanities building (HB) on main campus on Monday morning in an alleged suicide. The university confirmed the incident in a statements labeling it as an “unnatural death of a student”. The university said that the student’s name has been withheld until they received permission to release the name from the parents of the deceased. It is unknown at this stage from which floor the student jumped. Micaela Paschini, a first year BA Law student who witnessed the incident said that she was walking with a friend to the Client Service Centre to get a new student card around 08:30
when she heard a high-pitched scream and a loud bang. Paschini said that her friend told her that she had seen something fall from the HB although she wasn’t certain what it was. Paschini said that she went to the sixth floor of the HB where she discovered the victim’s body and alerted security She said that the security guards arrived on the scene quickly and immediately covered up the body.. Ethel Motlhamme, a senior management officer at Student Support, said that they have already given professional counselling to four students who have been affected by the incident. Nicolize Mulder, UP’s media liaison officer said, “It’s important to remind students of the availability of counselling services at this institution.” The university said that trauma counselling is available for affected students
Rescue workers on the roof of the HB. Photo: Charlotte Bastiaanse
and staff. The incident has raised concerns over the safety and precautionary measures at the HB and other high-rise buildings on campus. This comes after a UP lecturer also died after jumping from the same building in July.
UP has offered trauma counselling to all affected staff and students. Student Support can be reached on their 24-hour crisis service number 0800 006 428 or 012 420 2310.
Curlitzia and Vividus Men win Serenade Nationals MICHAL-MARÉ LINDEN Curlitzia and Vividus Men both claimed the title of Serenade National champions in the women’s and men’s division respectively on Saturday. Curlitzia and Vividus Men represented UP as winners of the university’s leg of the national competition. This year’s finalists comprised of the ladies and men Serenade winners from UP, the University of Johannesburg (UJ), the University of the Free State (Kovsies), North-West University (Pukke) and Stellenbosch University (Maties). Curlitzia have represented Tuks at nationals for the past three years but their car guard theme and refined harmonies managed to secure them the win this year. Soetdoring from Kovsies placed second and Francie van Zijl from Maties placed third. Vividus Men presented a performance titled “Bohemian Melody” and beat out Dromedaris from UJ and Caput from Pukke, who claimed second and third places respectively. Vividus Men were also announced as the overall winners of the competition and will receive R10 000 prize money. This year’s nationals were hosted by UJ and are organised annually by the ATKV.
Curlitzia at Serenade Nationals. Photo: Sansha van der Merwe
Tukkie’s rapist sentenced to life in jail MAXINE TWADDLE The man who has come to be known as “the Tukkie rapist” has been sentenced to life in jail with an additional 40 years. In October 2011, Tsietsi Samuel Mziza broke into a 22-year-old UP student’s townhouse in a security complex in Pretoria. He raped her and stabbed her 23 times, both with a knife and with a machete. She survived the attack, even though eight of her stab wounds were potentially deadly. The victim had opened her gate to allow guests to leave. Mziza was waiting for her in her house when she returned. After the attack, Mziza fled the scene with the victim’s laptop
and cell phone. The victim managed to drag herself to her garden gate, where she was found by a neighbour. Later that night, Mziza was found hitchhiking on the side of the road by police. They became suspicious when they saw the blood on his shoes and arrested him. Upon his arrest, Mziza told the officers that he was feeling unwell. He was taken to the Dr George Mukhari hospital without handcuffs or shackles. He escaped from his hospital room, which was under police guard, two days later. The two policemen charged with guarding Mziza were arrested the same day and released with a warning. They were found not guilty
of defeating the ends of justice and aiding the escape. Mziza was arrested again a week later when he was found breaking into a house. Mziza initially maintained his innocence, but he pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, rape, attempted murder and escape. According to evidence heard in court during the trial, Mziza first hacked the victim with his machete and stabbed her. The pre-sentence psychiatric report says that he decided to rape her after seeing the suffering she was experiencing. Mziza allegedly wrapped a plastic bag around his genitals as “contraception” and raped the victim as she was drifting in and out of consciousness.
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Prosecutor Sanet Jacobs described the brutality of the attack in her closing statement, saying that the blade of the knife used to stab the victim in the forehead had broken off and had to be surgically removed. Jacobs called for the strongest possible sentence, asking “What sort of savage would get satisfaction from having sex with a dying person?” “I wish today I could ask for the death penalty, because it would have been appropriate,” Jacobs said. Mziza has been wanted by police since 2001 on charges of rape and attempted murder. He was allegedly under the influence of drugs on the night of the attack.
Closing Date: 31 October 2014 Sluitingsdatum: 31 Oktober 2014 www.up.ac.za/alumni
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