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A FRESH APPROACH TO LOCAL NEWS 23 November 2021
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“ Clearly what has happened today is that the ANC has decided to use this as a political ploy.” Tania Campbell is a South African politician who is the newly elected Executive Mayor of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. As a member of the Democratic Alliance, she was elected to the role on 22 November 2021. Campbell had previously served as the DA’s caucus in the metro. Campbell has been a Democratic Alliance councillor in the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality since 2000. In 2013, she was elected chairwoman of the DA caucus in the metro. She was also the DA’s community safety spokesperson in the metro. In October 2020, she was elected as DA caucus leader after the incumbent, Phillip de Lange, resigned after a motion of no confidence was brought against him.
The DA’s Mpho Phalatse has made history by becoming the first female mayor in the City of Johannesburg. Phalatse won by a resounding margin – bagging 144 votes while the ANC’s Mpho Moerane only managed to receive 121.
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In a tweet, Masina congratulated Campbell and insisted that the transition will be peaceful. “Congratulations to the newly elected exec. Mayor of the city of ekurhuleni cllr tania campbell. As an outgoing mayor we are committed to a peaceful transition of power. Thank you to and our coalition partners for the opportunity to serve the city these past 5 years. Asbonge,” he said. The DA had to make a U-turn on their election strategy and put Campbell forward for the metro’s top job after initial mayoral candidate Refiloe Nt’sekhe withdrew from her position as councillor.
The DA has swept home major victories in the metro on Monday, securing its first victory after Raymond Dlamini took over the speaker of council position from the ANC’s Patricia Khumalo. Refiloe Nt’sekhe – who was the DA’s candidate for the Mayoral position before absconding from today’s meeting – clarified that she had made the decision to resign from the opposition party earlier this month, but was still standing behind the party with her full support. Speculation has been growing that Nt’sekhe had grown dispondent due to a belief that she was being used by the party to garner black votes. “Clearly what has happened today is that the
ANC has decided to use this as a political ploy. And have not processed the resignation, therefore also using the racial narrative which is actually quite wrong.”
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Mpho Phalatse will officially take charge of the sprawling metro, a little over two years after Herman Mashaba quit the post and the DA lost control of Joburg. Earlier this month, it seemed like the ANC would keep hold of the city… but it now looks like they have been blindsided by the work of the EFF and ActionSA. Voting patterns in the election of House Speaker Vasco da Gama – also a DA representative – suggested that the Red Berets and Herman Mashaba’s party had secretly thrown their weight behind the Blues. The DA’s candidate Vasco da Gama was elected speaker. Da Gama, who was in the post between 2016 and 2019, received 147 votes while the ANC’s Eunice Mgcina got 118. The DA makes a comeback in Joburg, thanks to support from the EFF and ActionSA. Phalatse has admitted that she hadn’t anticipated emerging victorious in the election for mayor, particularly given the fact that coalition talks between the DA and ActionSA, Freedom Front Plus, ACDP and UDM didn’t end so well. While this isn’t Phalatse’s first rodeo (she was Joburg’s MMC for Health under Mashaba ), what else is there to know about her? Phalatse is a qualified medical doctor – she studied at the Sefako Makgatho University and MEDUNSA and did her internship at Tembisa Hospital in 2005. She then did community service in Hammanskraal, where she offered services at Jubilee Hospital as well as various clinics within the area. Phalatse is also a Certified Independent Medical Examiner (CIME) with the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners (ABIME). She is a single mom of three children (ages five, 11 and 18).
23 November 2021
Noodle Deaths: Investigation Looking Into 2 Different Brands
It’s still unclear if the deaths of five children in separate tragedies were caused by food poisoning. Investigations are still under way. Recently, two siblings in Mpumalanga died reportedly after sharing a packet of noodles. It came just days after three children died in the Eastern Cape. They too had eaten noodles. The Health Department said that the investigations had been prioritised. The department’s Murdock Ramathuba said: “The investigation is ongoing. It’s a long process to try to come down to one thing because there are many factors that are involved in cases of food poisoning unless it is laboratory confirmed or other factors that might be involved.” He said that the noodles were two different brands. “We had a meeting on Friday with one of the brand owners and we have requested a meeting with the other brand owners, which we could not meet over the weekend. We are hoping to meet with them today [Monday] to just go over what could have gone wrong,” said Ramathuba. He said that they took samples of the noodles. “With the biological samples quicker to get, we have received those. There was no serious alarm that we found from the biological samples so far. With the chemical samples, we are still waiting on the analysis to make a determination on what could have been the case.”
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Couple Convicted After Selling Their Baby For R500 Pretoria parents dad, Wayne Loubser, 36, and mother, Justine Loubser, 32, have been found guilty of child neglect, common assault and failure to register a baby, in the Pretoria High Court this week. The mother of the six month old infant was also found guilty of a charge of human trafficking after they tried to sell the child for R500. National Prosecuting Authority North Gauteng Regional Spokesperson, Lumka Mahanjana, said the couple had been found guilty of the crimes after it was established that they had intended to sell the baby. “This is after it was put on record in court that after the couple had the baby in April 2020 they did not register the child at the Department of Home Affairs with the intention of selling the baby and for the baby not to be traced back to them,” she said,” Mahanjana said. She said that a woman, identified only as “Saunders” who owned a food cart in Booysens, had met the couple around July /August 2020. “She first met Wayne who asked her for food from the food cart. The following day Wayne came with his wife, Justine to introduce her and the baby who was two months old at the time,” Mahanjana said. “Wayne proceeded to ask Saunders for R50 in order to buy nappies for the baby. Saunders asked her daughter inlaw to go buy them and gave them to the couple. From then Saunders continued
to buy nappies and baby formula for the baby,” she said. “It was also put on record in court that the couple made the baby drink cool aid while the father ate the baby formula. The court also heard that the couple repeatedly assaulted the baby a number of times on different occasions. The mother would take the baby to her work place at a pub while the father would drop the child off at Saunders’ food cart while intoxicated,” Mahanjana said. A doctor who examined the infant testified in court that on 6 November 2020 she completed a J88-medical form, which stated that the child had five day old bruises on the head, chest and right arm and a rash on his buttocks. The court heard how the couple had missed vaccination appointments to prevent clinic nurses from seeing the bruises. On two separate occasions the parents individually tried to sell the infant to Saunders. “The father approached Saunders first and offered to give her the baby for R2000 and asked to go with her to the Department of Home affairs to register the baby as hers. While the mother on 3 November 2020 approached Saunders and offered to give the baby to her for a fee of R2500 because she wanted to leave her husband
R 1 mil lawsuit: Julius Malema wants Kenny Kunene to apologise for calling him a frog and a cockroach Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Leader Julius Malema accuses Kunene of hate speech and tribalism, and wants him and the Patriotic Alliance (PA) to retract the statements or face being sued for R1m each. According to the Sunday Times, Malema’s lawyers, Ian Levitt Attorneys, have written to Kunene, calling on him to retract comments they say have caused “significant reputational damage” to their client. The lawyers said in the November 19 letter: “Your defamatory statements are meant to impugn the integrit and
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“ Infant forced to drink kool-aid while dad guzzled baby formula.”
and Pretoria,” Mahanjana said. Wayne returned to the food cart the next day to ask Saunders if she had considered his offer. Saunders informed him that his wife also tried to sell the baby for R2500.00. Wayne then reduced his price to R1000. “On 5 November at midday, Justine went to the food cart to ask Saunders to reconsider buying the baby and reduced her offer to R500,” Mahanjana added. Finally, on 6 November, Wayne went to the food cart and threatened to kill the child if Saunders did not buy him. “Later that day the mother also went to the food cart without the baby. When Saunders enquired about the baby she told her that he was home because he fell from the bed,” Mahanjana said. An informer then reported the matter to the police, who together Saunders, set up an entrapment for the couple. “The police gave Saunders R500 to buy the baby from the couple. The exchange took place outside the couple’s house between Justine and Saunders, while Wayne was inside the house. The mother took the money and gave Saunders the baby and returned back to the house,” Hahanjana said. “Immediately after, the police went inside the house, confiscated the money and arrested the couple. The baby was taken to a health care facility for observation and is currently in safe care,” she said. The couple has been in custody since their arrest. The matter was postponed to 1 February 2022 for sentencing.
good name of our client by suggesting, alternatively implying, that he is a criminal, he is subhuman, with the further purpose and/or intent of dehumanising to him and he is harmful to others and is vermin.” Kunene was speaking on eNCA following the announcement of the local government results. Kunene said he will “deal” with Malema and threatened to expose him. He added that he will reveal the reasons why he left the EFF. “Once I am done, I will then deal with this little frog. Julius is just an irritating cockroach that I must now deal with
publicly,” Kunene said. “When I meet him, he must tell me that I am a bantiti (convict) to my face. In the meantime, I will be calling the media and addressing all these issues publicly. After wecockroach.” have done what our people have voted for us to do, we wjust ant to conclude our coalitions and set up our governments — and then I will deal with this little Kunene was responding to comments Malema made in a press conference where he said he cannot imagine the EFF working with the PA, calling them sbantiti (convicts).
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Estranged Husband Of Vicki Terblanche Arrested For Murder The estranged husband of the murdered, Vicki Terblanche (42), was arrested on Wednesday evening. According to police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu, he is detained on a charge of murder. “At about 20:15, the 53-year-old male was arrested at his house in Millpark. He is expected to appear in court soon,” Naidu said. The bail application for Reinhardt Leach (32), who was the boyfriend of Terblanche at the time of her murder, will be heard this morning at the Gqeberha Magistrate’s Court. WHO IS THE OTHER ACCUSED? Naidu said Dylan Cullis (24), also arrested for the murder, remains in custody. Cullis is a friend of Leach. The body of Terblanche was found in a shallow grave in an open field in Greenbushes in Gqeberha. This gruesome discovery was made two days after Leach reported Terblanche missing to police on 21 October. Terblanche is the mother of a 12-year-old boy. HOW DID TERBLANCHE DIE? Naidu said the post-mortem report has yet to be released to SAPS, but preliminary findings suggest Terblanche suffocated to death. WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE TERBLANCHE’S BODY WAS FOUND? “On arrival, police found that the doors, including the garage door, were wide open. Intuitive that something was amiss, police roped in forensics to assist. While still at the house, a 32-year-old man arrived and indicated that he lived there.” She said the police officers recognised the man as he had reported his girlfriend missing on Thursday, 21 October 2021, at the Mount Road police station. “The man was then taken to the police station for questioning. Naidu said at about 03:00 on Saturday morning, after an intense investigation, detectives, with the assistance of the K9 Search and Rescue Unit, found the body of the missing woman Vicky Terblanche buried in a shallow grave in an open field in Greenbushes. “Circumstances leading to her demise are under investigation,” she said.
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Jason Rohde Must Start Serving Jail Sentence Former property mogul Jason Rohde will have to start serving his effective 15-year jail sentence for the murder of his wife Susan. He had hoped to wait for the outcome of his Constitutional Court appeal at his home in Plettenberg Bay. But on Thursday, the Western Cape High Court dismissed his application for the extension of his bail, pending the Constitutional Court appeal. This means he must report to officials to start serving his sentence by 11:00 on Saturday. His lawyer, William King, indicated that the decision would be appealed. Rohde was found guilty of his wife’s murder in December 2019. He was the CEO of Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International Realty. He said she hanged herself in a hotel room at Spier wine estate. But the court found that he murdered her and staged a suicide. They had been through a tense period in their marriage over his affair with an estate agent, Jolene Alterskye.
“ Rohde was found guilty of his wife’s murder in December 2019. He was the CEO of Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International Realty.”
Rosemary Ndlovu tried to claim insurance payout from jail Being behind bars did not stop the copturned-serial-killer from trying to lodge more insurance claims for her deceased relatives. According to Sgt Keshi Benneth Mabunda, who was the investigating officer in her case, several months after her arrest Ndlovu began calling for insurance policies from her jail cell, wanting to lodge claims for the death of her younger sister, Runny. However, unlike other relatives who she had killed, Runny had fallen ill and died in 2018 after Ndlovu was arrested for trying to kill their other sister, Joyce Ndlovu, and her five children in Bushbuckridge. Mabunda said when Ndlovu again tried to tap into insurance funds, he had red-flagged her
among insurance companies as he continued investigating the case, trying to uncover exactly how many other relatives she had killed to claim from insurance funds. Mabunda said he was surprised when he got a call from an insurance company wanting to verify Ndovu’s whereabouts and the status of her case after they had received a telephonic claim from her. “At that point, I was busy with another case against her, because she was posing threats to me,” Mabunda said. “She had hired people to kill me and had said if she doesn’t kill me, she will make me suffer by getting to my son at school. She had said she knows where my son goes to school and would bury him alive,” said Mabunda, who explained
how Ndlovu’s incarceration did not prevent her plotting and wanting to hire people to carry out crimes on her behalf.
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AB De Villiers Retires From All Cricket 23 November 2021
AB de Villiers, who is widely regarded as one the Proteas’ all-time greatest cricketers, has officially hung up his boots.
“It has been an incredible journey, but I have decided to retire from all cricket. Ever since the back yard matches with my older brothers, I have played the game with pure enjoyment and unbridled enthusiasm. Now, at the age of 37, that flame no longer burns so brightly. “That’s the reality I must accept – and, even if it may seem sudden, that is why I am making this announcement today. I’ve had my time. Cricket has been exceptionally kind to me. “I would like to thank every
I have played the game with pure enjoyment and unbridled enthusiasm. Now, at the age of 37, that flame no longer burns so brightly. teammate,
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possible without the sacrifices made by my family – my parents, my brothers, my wife Danielle and my children. I look forward to the next chapter of our lives when I can truly put them first.”
member who has travelled the same path, and I am humbled by the support I have received in South Africa, in India, wherever I have played. “Cricket has been exceptionally kind to me. Whether playing for the Titans, or the Proteas, or RCB, or around the world, the game has given me unimagined experiences and opportunities, and I will always be grateful. “Last, I am aware that nothing would have been
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SAFA President vows to fight until justice is served SAFA president expressed how dissatisfied they are with the match officials in the last game of Bafana Bafana and Ghana. According to him, the match was manipulated. “We are very angry, we are very upset. We will fight this matter until the end. That’s why immediately after the match we informed the match commissioners that we are challenging this outcome. We feel that this match was manipulated which carries a sanction of five years” “What we have done today is that we’ve made a detailed analysis of the Match. We have found that 89 percent of the wrong decisions were made against Bafana Bafana. It can’t be right” “This is not the first controversy with this ref. The same ref was attacked in
Tunisia because of a similar situation. We are also saying when a match involves a team from West Africa, you can’t have a referee from the same region “We also raised the issue of VAR… CAF must now introduce VAR. We knew this is the last match of the group stage qualifying and there are many incidents that have happened previously. There will be a congress on the 25th and we will raise these issues.” After Bafana Bafana’s controversial loss to Ghana, SAFA filed an official complaint. FIFA yesterday confirmed to have received SAFA’s appeal, and are reviewing it. Former referee Ace Ngcobo stated that 89.3% decisions went against Bafana. He also criticised Senegalese referee Maguette N’Diaye of being unfair to Bafana Bafana. Ace Ngcobo’s analysis of the first half of
Bafana Bafana’s loss against Ghana: 1. Incorrect calls AGAINST Bafana Bafana: 25/28 2. Incorrect calls AGAINST Ghana: 3/28. 3. 89.3% of the incorrect calls made by the referee in the 1st half were against South Africa. Draw for the playoff round is scheduled to take place in December. Bafana Bafana’s appeal pending review. SAFA CEO Tebogo Motlanthe commented on the incident after confirming their appeal to FIFA, “We suspect the game was fixed and our position is that it must be investigated. The conduct of the match officials [from Senegal] left much to be desired and we want both CAF and FIFA to investigate. We salute the boys and the technical team for the good work they have done.”