30 January 2015 R1-20/FREE
Bela-Bela
Municipality
Morris Maluleka addressed protesting municipal employees on Monday, 26 January. Photo: TK Mashaba.
Municipal employees overturned trashcans and hurled papers during their protest. Photo: TK Mashaba. TK Mashaba Bela-Bela municipal workers downed tools on Monday, 26 January after a delay on the payments which were due on Friday, 23 January. The workers overturned dustbins and refused service while they demanded their salaries. According to the information The BEAT was able to gather, the municipality is alleged to have a large backlog of payments for service providers. “This is a sad situation,” said a municipal worker who spoke to The BEAT under condition of anonymity.
workers shut down offices after delay in payment
Municipal cars parked during a protest by workers demanding their payments on Monday 26 January. Photo: TK Mashaba.
“We have bills and accounts to pay. How can they delay our payments? This has never happened before.” Rumours ran rampant in the crowd on Monday, with some saying that the municipality is paying more than R1 million per month for rented trucks, while some say that it might have been better to buy their own truck. Matome Sebelebele, the municipality’s spokesperson, said that he was aware of what the workers were suffering, but added that the delay was due to a system issue. “Remember, we use different banks for paying different individuals, and some
might have received their payments on time while others suffered a delay,” he said. Municipal manager Morris Maluleka managed to calm the situation when he delivered an address on the payment issue. “As you all know, you are getting paid using a Cash Focus system. You were expecting payment on Friday, but what happened was that some of the transactions did go through on Friday, while others were not processed,” he said. “I realized the problem on Friday, but you know they don’t work on weekends. I asked the municipality
to do cheques to the bank so that they can process your payment, but the only bank which could assist us was ABSA.” Maluleka told the employees that they should all have received their payments by Monday afternoon, and urged workers to return to work. He also urged municipal employees to have a positive approach to problems rather than “closing the municipality and trashing papers.” At the time of going to press some, but not all, municipal employees had been paid, and most of the municipal employees had returned to service.
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Criminals make use of neglected areas Justin Steyn Incidents of housebreaking are said to be on the increase in and around BelaBela. Dana Smit, a resident in Ludorf Street, said that the increase in incidents are due to unkept areas. “A neighbour of mind had her laptop stolen one morning. I have observed many people sitting around an open site near our home. The site itself is overwhelmed with long grass and refuse, and it would be easy for criminals to observe the comings and goings of residents.” Warrant Officer James Findlay of the
Modimolle Police said that there have not been any reports of incidents in their area, but advised residents not to approach persons who sit near their homes. Do not approach any person you deem suspicious regardless of whether they are near your home. It would be best to call the police or your appointed security and let them handle the situation. If you do that criminals will know that residents are aware of their surroundings,” he said. The Bela-Bela municipal spokesperson, Matome Sebelebele, could not be reached for comment regarding the site in Ludorf Street.
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Police closes down illegal bakery The police had to close the bakery down and stop operations until they have all the necessary documentation
The bread at the bakery looked dirty. Photo: TK Mashaba
The bakery was shut down in part because of health concerns due to dirty pans. Photo: TK Mashaba
Dawn Bakery was shut down by the police on Thursday, 22 January. Photo: TK Mashaba TK Mashaba The Bela-Bela SAPS and the Department of Health busted a bakery known as Dawn Bakery on Thursday, 22 January. The bakery was situated a few kilometres from Sondela Nature Resort, and was forced to close down after it was found that it was operating without the proper documentation. Ten alleged illegal immigrants were arrested on the spot but two more fled into the bush after seeing the police vehicle. The owner of the place told the police that he was still new and said that he was not aware of any
irregularities. The owner was fined R300, and the bakery was closed down until they could comply with the rules. A representative from the Department of Health said that the place was a health hazard, especially as it is manufacturing food. “The police had to close the bakery down and stop operation until they have all the necessary documentation,” said personnel. The alleged illegal immigrants who were arrested were later released. Two people who did not have their documentation with them were asked to obtain the relevant documents.
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Ex-Offenders showcase their achievements
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Jan Mokoka is still learning by helping in the family business. Photo: Lizzy Bapela
Almon Mhlanga is named a 62F offender, meaning he is still awaiting trial and is now out on bail. He runs a small business of selling soft drinks and is still looking for a stable employment. Photo: Lizzy Bapela
Sello Lebelo is currently attending a SETA computer course through the Correctional Services’ skills training programme, which attendees get R1 500 monthly stipends. The course is meant for offenders only and currently has 15 attendees. It began on April 2014 and ends on April 2015. Lebelo is now in the dress making and music business. Photo: Lizzy Bapela
A proposed cellular tower in the residential area of Jinnah Park has caused upsets among residents. Photo: Justin Steyn
Koos Khonothi will survive life after jail through his family’s support. Photo: Lizzy Bapela
Koketso Nkhumane is still unemployed but his neighbours and parents confirmed he is a changed young man. Photo: Lizzy Bapela Lizzy Bapela The Department of Correctional Services in the Bela-Bela cluster, under the leadership of Malefane Pholosi, showcased their parolees’ and probationers’ achievements obtained during their incarceration. Pholosi and his members from various sub-offices paid the achievers a special visit on Thursday, 22 January. The visit was aimed at ensuring that the offenders implement what they obtained during detention, their behaviour after their release and their assimilation into the community. A total of 50 offenders were visited and all related positive experiences. The offenders obtained certificates in Anger Management, Substance Abuse, HIV/AIDS and Life Skills, while some of them chose to qualify themselves as pastors,
Madikana Lebelo ventured into the fast foods business, looking into expanding into a township restaurant. Photo: Lizzy Bapela
Andrew Mabaso got a job at the Public Works’ project, Expanded Public Works Programme. Photo: Lizzy Bapela
ABET teachers and builders. During the rehabilitation process, Pholosi engaged with government departments and institutions, asking for volunteer or paying opportunities for the offenders, as another way of showing communities are now fully rehabilitated and ready to reintegrate into society. The aim is to help them obtain proper employment and acceptance into society. Pholosi said that rehabilitating an offender takes a great deal of thought and a positive attitude from officials, rather than a punishment-centred mind-set. He said that taking the offenders through every step of rehabilitation produces better results and the offenders become motivated to stay safe with their fellow community members. The members and officials
motivated the offenders and gave them counselling according to their needs and experiences during their visits, as well as congratulating them on their achievements. The offenders expressed their gratitude for the officials’ treatment and assured them of their cooperation until the end of their sentences. They are all expected to submit their CVs and qualifications to the Department of Correctional Services, which will pass them on to the Department of Labour’s database for possible employment opportunities. The visits were also graced by two local community members who are interested in working with the Department. Dorah and Steve Baloyi spent the day with Pholosi and other officials, showing them the ropes in their day-to-day routines.
Justin Steyn A proposed cellphone tower in Jinnah Park in Bela-Bela, is set to cause major upsets. In an official notice published on Friday, 16 January the applicant, DLC Communications said that it intends to erect a 35 meter high telecommunications mast and base station around the residential area. The application is currently being screened for objections, which closes on Friday, 14 February, and its particulars can be viewed at the Bela-Bela municpality’s planning and development offices. The headmaster of Jinnah Park Primary, Amanda Jansen van Vuuren, said that she is against the application, and said that it will hamper the health of learners and possibly cause electrical interference in the
school’s technical equipment. “I am totally against the application, as it poses a possible health risk to our learners. I am also concerned that this tower will disrupt our computer and telephone lines,” she said. A resident who preferred to remain anonymous said that she plans to petition against any mast being erected in the area. “You cannot place a cellphone tower in a residential area such as ours. It would have to be approved by every resident and radiation screenings must be conducted,” she said. The anonymous resident said that she plans to hold a meeting with other residents in order to inform them about the proposal and petition against its implementation.
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When the Russian Army liberated the camp, they discovered an entire warehouse full of spectacles taken from the victims. Photo supplied
The living conditions in Auswitch were atrocious. Photo supplied
Ne ver Ag ain Nev Again This week Tuesday, 27 January, was the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Russian soldiers. Survivors of that camp, now all quite elderly, made the trip to the site of the camp, where they laid a wreath at the foot of the so-called death wall, where prisoners were executed by firing squads between blocks 10 and 11 of the camps. During the six years AuschwitzBirkenau stood, an estimated 1,1 million people were murdered there. Many of them starved or froze to death in the icy northern winters. Many more were systematically slaughtered. There are photographs of the personal effects of those murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. An entire warehouse full of spectacles. Mountains of shoes. Tangled piles of artificial limbs taken off those destined for the gas chambers. When the Russians liberated the camp they found 837 000 women’s garments, apparently taken from the dead. The victims of Auschwitz were shaved and given uniforms and numbers to dehumanize them, to turn them into cattle so that their murderers could feel less guilty. If you look at the pictures, especially aerial photographs, it looks like any other factory from that era. Rows and rows of buildings, some bigger, some smaller. In a way, a factory is exactly what it was. Quite aside from the camp known as Auschwitz II – Monowitz, which was in fact a satellite camp built to staff a nearby factory, the entire complex of AuswitchBirkenau was a factory dedicated to turning people into corpses. The Birkenau camp had four crematoria working day and night to dispose of the victims of the gas chambers. Residents of the small town the Germans called Auschwitz, some kilometers from the main camp, spoke of a ‘hellish glow’ on the horizon, where the fires burned day and night for almost six years. When it became clear that the Germans were losing the war — the Russian Army was marching into Poland and there was nothing left to stop them — the camp commandant was ordered to evacuate the camp and destroy any traces that genocide had ever been committed there. It was a bit hard to hide that evidence,
but he tried his best. He ordered the camp’s records destroyed, thereby destroying any hope of ever discovering the true fate of more than a million people — we know that they were there, but there is no way to find out who most of them were — and ordered the remaining prisoners on a forced march to Bergen Belsen in Germany. Almost 20 000 of them died on the road. Some 7 800 people were left behind at the camp, too sick or small or starved to follow. Those seven thousand were rescued by the Russian Army. It’s seventy years later now and even if they escaped mortal justice, those who committed these atrocities have certainly gone to face whatever judgment there comes for all of us, but we can never allow ourselves to forget. It would be so easy to say that it was long ago and far away, but it’s really not. The thing we tend to easily forget is that the people who ran places like Auschwitz were not actually demons. Oh, there were certainly some with a bit of brimstone in their bones — like the infamous Doctor Mengele, who was very interested in twins — but on the whole, the majority of even the Nazis were people like you and me. Some of them liked to read, some of them liked music. Some of them liked sports, or the theatre. The point is that, on the whole, they were ordinary people. Ordinary people who stood by and let a million people be murdered on their watch. Who participated in the attempted genocide of an entire race. Ordinary people allowed this atrocity to occur, ordinary people helped it happen. A man named Burke once said that ‘all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing,’ and that is what happened during the Holocaust. The world did nothing, stood idly by, and six million people were murdered. If they had stood up earlier, if they had believed the reports coming out of Germany and Poland sooner, millions might have been saved. That is why it is important to say to ourselves Never Again. Never again will we allow the human race to be so lost to evil as to let the horrors of Auschwitz happen again.
The motto above the main gate of Auswitch is ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ which translates to ‘Work will make you free’. Sadly, the only freedom on offer in the camp was the freedom to die. Photo supplied
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Bela-Bela Local Municipality invites applications from suitably qualified candidates to fill vacant positions within its establishment. Budget & Treasury Department Chief Accountant: Assets Management Duration: Permanent Remuneration: R 248 058.89 per annum Requirements: Three years Bachelors Degree or National Diploma with major in Accounting. 3-5 years’ experience in Financial Management.A valid Drivers License. Duties: Manage and coordinate maintenance of assets register in accordance with policy. Manage the maintenance of Council assets. Arrange for stock counts; production an annual stock take certificate for Council approval. Writing off losses after consultation with relevant departments. Identifying new assets, and analyzing expenditure incurred and arrange for physical bar coding of assets. Auditing all asset movements monthly; performing stock counts every three months; producing an annual stock take certificate for Council approval. Monthly reporting of assets management divisional activities. Ensure coordination of activities associated with assets budget details, vehicle management and insurance. Supervision of divisional staff. Notice Number: 4/15 Finance Management Interns (5 Positions) Duration: 2-year contract Remuneration: R 100 000 per annum Requirements: Three years’ Bachelors Degree or National Diploma with majors in Economics, Accounting or Finance. Computer Literacy with knowledge of Excel. Duties: Interns will be given the opportunity to get practical exposure in; Revenue Management. Expenditure Management. Supply Chain Management. Assets Management. Budget and Reporting. Internal Audit. General Financial Management Functions. Notice Number: 5/15 Accounts Preparation Clerk Duration: Permanent Remuneration: R130 357.99 per annum Requirements: Grade 12 with Commercial Subjects. 1-2 years relevant experience.
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100 Bela-Bela youths trained for sports administration Young people of Bela-Bela posed for a photo with the HBR facilitators after completing their sports coaching and administration workshop. Photo: Lizzy Bapela
Lizzy Bapela A hundred youths from Bela-Bela have landed themselves an opportunity in sports administration and coaching following a training workshop by the NPO Hola Bon Renaissance (HBR). The workshop started in Bela-Bela a year ago, taking place at a local community hall, and all the attending youths responded well to it. The program is powered by the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) and the Department of Public Works and its Expanded Public Works Program (EPWP). NYDA funds the HBR in order to allow them to implement successful volunteer programs involving young people and using the youth build method. The agency seeks to create a platform for the youth to participate in
the mainstream economy of the country by initiating, facilitating, implementing, monitoring and coordinating youth development interventions aimed at reducing youth unemployment and social cohesion. One of the attending youths, soccer coach Shandrall Alberts, said that the program has been wonderful and beneficial to him, and covered all there is to know about coaching and administration in sports. Alberts also said that programs like these show the youth that sports is not solely about the athlete, but also includes positions behind the scenes, which can be careers. Volleyball fan Wilson Matlaisane also commended the organization for the efforts they made in helping young people acquire more skills in the
Mpho Lekgoathi, the deputy principal of Hleketani Primary School, posed with Joseph Ditsele and Maria Makwela from Die Pos/The BEAT during a recent donation of stationery to the school. “I would like to thank The Post and The BEAT for their donation of stationery for our Grade R to 3 learners,” he said. TK Mashaba
The principal of Albert Luthuli Primary School, Lesego Molefe, posed with Joseph Ditsele and Maria Makwela from The Pos/The BEAT during a recent donation of stationery to the school. “As the school we are grateful for the donation of stationery we received from our local print media,” he said. “It is true that our print media cares for the development of our education centres.” TK Mashaba
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Mmamakwa Full Service Primary School principal Alpheus Lelaka posed with Joseph Ditsele and Maria Makwela from Die Pos/The BEAT during a recent donation of stationery to the school. “I would like to thank The Post and The BEAT for the donation they made to the needy learners at the school. On behalf of the school I wish them luck in 2015 and to prosper in what they do,” he said. TK Mashaba
sporting codes of their choice. He said that it gives them pleasure to see such organizations empowering the youth as they do not always receive all the support they need from local government. Supporting the program is the BelaBela Municipality’s Special Programs Officer David Raborolo, who said that the youths needed it and will help them to implement certain programs that they have always wanted to. Facilitators Tshepo Maropeng and Sam Khambule told The BEAT that they had a great time working with the youths and are looking forward to seeing them implementing the skills acquired by the program. The two sealed the deal by organizing a get-together with the youths which is scheduled for 7 February at Bela-Bela Lodge.
Johan Adams and Connie Gulakwo, the principal and deputy principal of Spa Park Primary School posed with Joseph Ditsele and Maria Makwela from Die Pos/The Post during a recent donation of stationery to the school. “We are blessed here in Bela-Bela to have guardian angels like The BEAT and Die Pos. Indeed, their concern for the plight of the less fortunate is not only a reports or gossip but a visible intervention,” he said. TK Mashaba
Khabele Primary School Principal Mpho Motshegoa with Joseph Ditsele and Maria Makwela from Die Pos/The BEAT during a recent donation of stationery. “As the principal of the school I appreciate this wonderful donation to our school,” she said. TK Mashaba
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NTK Happy Boys mour ns the loss of a player “We have lost a great person and a good player who has just signed with our team”
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Qualitho smashes Happy Hearts 6-1
Modimolle All Stars have started a losing streak in the last two matches. Photo: TK Mashaba
TK Mashaba NTK Happy Boys in Modimolle is mourning the loss of one of their players after a short illness. Lesiba John (24), who was playing as a defender for the team, passed away on Wednesday, 21 January, after being admitted to Modimolle Hospital on Monday. According to team owner Simon Makhubela, Lesiba was a soccerloving person and his sudden death has left the team distressed. “We’ve lost a great person and good player who has just signed with our team,” he said. “It is very depressing to lose someone this young. He used to help other junior players to develop their skills as soccer players.” “I talked to his brother last week on Monday. He told me that John was not feeling well. I never thought it was this serious until he told me he had been admitted to hospital. It was a shock to find out on Wednesday that he has left us,” Makhubela said. He said that his number 12 jersey will
TK Mashaba
Lesiba John (24) recently passed away after a short illness. John was a player for Modimolle-based team NTK Happy Boys. Photo supplied be a memorial for his team. Lesiba will be buried this weekend and their fixture games against Boys to Men has been moved to a date which has yet to be confirmed.
Stream A has revealed new tactics for their team, beating Happy Hearts in a thrilling 6-1 match and moving to position 5 on the log. Happy Hearts, on the other hand, is continuing their trend of being on the bottom of the log as showed in the 2013/2014 season. Modimolle All Stars lost their second consecutive game, being beaten 2-1 by NTK Happy Boys, who are sitting in second place on the log. All Stars was beaten by M. Mmamoet Arsenal 4-2 last week. Bela-Bela Pirates also taught Bazooka a lesson when they beat them 4-1 while Young Pirates lost 4-2
to Celtic. Home Defenders beat Diesel n dust 2-1 while M. Mmamoet Arsenal beat Boys to Men 1-0. Total Surrender played to a 4-all draw with Troublemakers. It appears that Surrender has found a winning formula after their impressive performances in the past few weeks. In Stream B, SASE did not show up to play against Mookgophong All-Stars while Maxoma failed to play Vegas. Ditlou played a 1-all draw with Mokopane Stone Breakers while Real Madrid lost 4-3 to Juventas. Simple Yellows lost 2-0 to Ratanang while Siwelele beat PJ Stars 4-2. Mosesetjane All Stars lost 3-2 to Thaba while Yster United beat Black Rangers 5-2.
“R ugb y is in m yb lood, ” sa ys Blue Bulls’ ne west pla yer “Rugb ugby my blood, lood,” says new play “There is no such thing as a sport for a certain race. If you are good at what you do you won’t see any racial differences — sport is sport! TK Mashaba Bela-Bela’s Thabo Mapharumela (17) told The BEAT that rugby is in his blood during a recent interview. Mapharumela says that, like many other children who grew up loving sports, he found the one he wanted and never looked for another. Mapharumela was selected in 2005 to join the Phagameng Rugby team, and in 2014 was recruited for the Limpopo Blue Bulls. “That made me realize that I have real potential as a rugby player,” he said.
Mapharumela said that he wants to break the stereotype that rugby is a white man’s sport. “There is no such thing as a sport for a certain race. If you are good at what you do you won’t see any racial differences — sport is sport!” the passionate seventeen-year-old said. He said that he would love to encourage those who want to play sports to go for what they want with passion and dedication. “I’m going to play for the Limpopo Blue Bulls only during tournaments and weekends as I have to balance my studies with my sports,” he said.
Thabo Mapharumela proudly showed off some of the trophies he has won in his rugby career. Photo supplied
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