The Beat 8 June 2018

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The Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality is experiencing serious institutional, financial and governance challenges – Read the full story on page 3

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CRIME | CULTURE

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Police commissioner concerned about increasing crime

Three different fires in a matter of days

This bus which went up in flames on the Mooderfontein off-ramp added to two more fires in recent days.

The bus driver noticed smoke engulfing part of the bus, brought it to a halt, and ordered all passengers to take their baggage and get out. Limpopo SAPS spokesperson, Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe said the bus caught fire due to a technical problem. Photo: Supplied Andries van der Heyde A shack in Koppewaai was destroyed by a fire.

Officials from the Bela-Bela Local Council visited the scene to assess te damage on Monday 4 June.

Among these was the speaker, Zakes Moeletsi, officials from the communications division and risk

management.

Unconfirmed reports suggest the police might be asked to investigate alleged arson.

Shack owner, Salome Mahladisha, chose not to comment.

Risk management head, Thipe Dlamini, promised Mahladisha that the municipality would provide building material in a matter of a couple of days.

He also promised to engage the Home Affairs Department, to assist in replacing her ID book which was burnt in the fire.

Dlamini further said he would engage the South African Social Security Agency to provide food parcels for the family.

Police are investigating.

Another fire destroyed part of the Kingfisher Nest Guest House on the Thabazimbi road.

Modimolle hosts Jamaican poet Mzamane Ringane

Jamaican poet Mutabaruka was billed to perform in Modimolle.

Photo: Supplied

As part of the broader Africa Month Celebrations, Modimolle’s Black Lives Matter Foundation would be hosting one of the worldwide renowned poets, Mutabaruka at the local Phagameng Township.

The Music and Literature Festival will be held at Lekkerbreek Primary School on Friday 8 June, starting at 6:30pm.

Local artists and poets will also have an opportunity to perform alongside the Jamaican poet.

Born Allan Hope, Mutabaruka focuses on, among other issues, politics, culture, social oppression and discrimination.

Black Lives Matter Foundation chairperson Zunaid Mosam said the event would serve to celebrate Africa and further raise awareness on the broader continental discourse.

He said the event would help locals to better understand what the struggles of the African continent were all about.

Mosam said people from neighbouring areas including Bela Bela, Mookgophong and Vaalwater were expected to be part of this event.

“This is one of many other activities that we will be doing in and around Modimolle, to empower the locals with knowledge,” he said.

Limpopo police spokesperson Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe.

Photo: Supplied Lizzy Bapela The police in Limpopo have expressed concern at the steady escalation of crime across the Modimolle-Mookgophong area.

Provincial commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nneke Ledwaba, was particularly concerned about criminality across the Modimolle cluster.

The commisioner’s port of entry was a whistle-stop tour of Mookgophong, whereby the provincial leadership engaged communities on Friday 1 June.

Ledwaba identified certain disturbing and prevalent trends, such as protesting communities disrupting schooling.

Other areas of concern were

incidents of domestic violence, drug abuse and other substances.

The entourage also visited some schools, to encourage learners to stay away from criminality.

The Department of Education, among other stakeholders, was also in attendance.

During the visit, the commissioner also conferred ranks to the newly-promoted police officers.

Limpopo police spokesperson, Lieutenant-Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe, was promoted to the rank of a full colonel.

Ngoepe joined the ranks of the SAPS in 1985.

Ledwaba urged the police officers to work even harder.

Manhunt for farm attack suspects Lizzy Bapela The police in Limpopo have launched a manhunt for three suspects linked to a farm attack in Vaalwater.

A 70-year-old pensioner was robbed of valuables during the attack on Friday 1 June.

One of the four suspects, a 33year-old male person, was arrested.

Limpopo police spokesperson, Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe, said a 70-year-old farmer was surprised by four armed intruders, while walking around the farm.

The suspects frog-marched him into the farmhouse, whereby they robbed him of jewellery, four firearms, a Ford

Ranger bakkie and an undisclosed amount of cash, before they fled the scene.

“The police were notified and reacted swiftly and managed to arrest the suspect within a short space of time,” Ngoepe said.

He said during the arrest, allegedly stolen items, including R8 500 in cash and two toy guns were recovered.

The arrested suspect was expected to appear before the Lephalale Magistrate’s Court this week, on a charge of house robbery.

Anyone with information which can lead to the arrest of the three other suspects is advised to contact Warrant Officer Johannes Metheus Keyter at 082 565 8637, or crime stop number 0860010111, or the crime line SMS at 32211.

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NEWS

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Modimolle-Mookgophong under administration The BEAT Team The unprecedented placing of the Mookgophong-Modimolle Local Municipality under provincial administration has been welcomed allround.

The provincial legislature placed the embattled municipality under administration, in terms of Section 139 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.

In a nutshell, the Constitution empowers the province to act in the event that a municipality cannot and/or does not fulfil an executive obligation, among others.

The Limpopo provincial legislature said in a statement it had resolved to place the Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality under administration.

“The Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality is experiencing serious institutional, financial and governance challenges,” the statement charged.

The legislature further explained that the municipality was characterized by high vacancy rates at senior management level, “wherein only two out of seven positions are filled.”

The province said the municipality was technically “bankrupt”, and that it owed power utility Eskom more than R260 million, which the legislature noted was “the highest in the province”.

The debt towards Magalies Water Board exceeded R12-million, the statement explained.

Modimolle-Mookgophong Mayor, Marlene van Staden, welcomed the news of the placing of the municipality under administration.

In the previous week tyres and logs went up in flames in the embattled municipality. Photo: Marietjie Steenkamp “The decision comes after several appeals for help by the mayor, to various provincial and national departments, in light of the serious institutional, financial and governance challenges faced by the municipality,” she said.

Van Staden said the challenges included, among others, various requests for help with regards to the validity and duration of the previous municipal manager’s employment contract.

She said the new council inherited a

Workers vent their anger in the streets of Mookgophong.

Photo: Marietjie Steenkamp

municipality with serious systemic challenges after years of alleged maladministration and financial mismanagement.

The mayor said since the election of council dating back to 2016, the ability of the council to conduct oversight over the financial affairs of the municipality was “severely hamstrung by the inability or refusal” of senior officials to report to the mayor, executive committee and council on a regular basis.”

She said this was especially true with regards to the statutory obligation to account for “unauthorised, irregular or fruitless and wasteful expenditure”, and other crucial financial reports on the income and expenditure of the municipality.

With the assistance of an administrator and a support team, the mayor was confident the Modimolle-Mookgophong municipality would enter a new phase of financial stability, increased service delivery and infrastructure development.

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NEWS

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Cultural group on the move

The BEAT shortlisted for FCJ Excellence Awards

Dinaledi tsa Setso cultural group.

Photo: Mzamane Ringane

Mzamane Ringane Modimolle-based cultural group, Dinaledi tsa Setso (stars of culture), has vowed to be the advocates of unity by enhancing cultural diversity within the community.

Speaking on the sidelines of the launch of the Waterberg Traditional Health Practitioners committee recently, the cultural group’s leader, Katlego Leikay Marema, said it was important for South Africans to embrace all cultures and promote cultural diversity.

The group was founded by Marema, working with cultural activist and secretary, Tshidi Sebola.

“We did not form the group with the intention to make money. The objective was to remind young people that culture and tradition remain important,” he said.

Marema told The Beat they also strive to develop individual talent, and allow artists to spread their wings when they feel ready to initiate individual projects.

“When we started this group in 2014, we realised that young people in Modimolle needed a home, where they can be given a chance to express themselves, and stay away

SASSA clarifies recipients following ‘fake’ SMS Mzamane Ringane The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) expressed concern over a growing trend of SMS messages, being circulated to grant beneficiaries and subsequently causing confusion among people across the country.

According to SASSA, the recent messages sent to beneficiaries instruct them to re-register their social grants because cash pay-points will be fully phased-out by August 2018.

“The contents of this SMS are misleading and cause unnecessary confusion and panic among social grant beneficiaries.

Beneficiaries are urged to ignore this message as it is incorrect,” SASSA said in a statement.

SASSA has indicated that contrary to this SMS message, beneficiaries do not have to re-register their grants.

They are, however, requested to swap their old cards for the new SASSA card by the end of September 2018.

This can be done by visiting all local SASSA offices, pay-points or

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from crime and drug abuse,” he said.

Apart from the popular Setswana dance and song routines, the group also performs other dances borrowed from the XiTsonga, isiZulu and Sepedi cultures.

Marema made a plea to the community of Modimolle, including government departments and the private sector to support them as they battle to shape the lives of no less than 45 young people.

Dinaledi tsa Setso can be followed on Facebook, email dinaleditsasetso1@gmail.com or can be contacted on 072 341 0993 or 076 108 7271.

MEC warns abusers

selected South African Post Office outlets.

The social security agency said cash paypoints will be gradually reduced, and not fully phased out as alleged in the SMS. This new system will allow beneficiaries to choose the method of payment that they are comfortable with, between direct deposit into a personal bank account (including PostBank), using their SASSA cards to withdraw at ATM machines and wholesalers across South Africa.

“Should a beneficiary choose to have their grant deposited directly into their personal bank account they should go to the SASSA office. This form must be completed by their bank of choice and returned to SASSA,” SASSA advised.

The agency reassured beneficiaries they will continue to receive their social grants beyond August 2018, and that it will make efforts to ensure that the transition of beneficiaries from cash pay-points, to electronic methods of payments, happens smoothly and without any difficulties.

TK Mashaba The BEAT newspaper has been shortlisted for the coveted Forum for Community Journalists Excellence Awards.

Your favourite newspaper, together with sister publication, Die Pos/The Post, have been shortlisted for the category of best headline-writing.

The BEAT editor, Johnny Masilela, was quick to attribute the nomination to “a team effort”.

“From time to time I would come up with a headline for the front page, and would seek the opinion of the reporters as to the intended effect. Yes indeed, this is a team effort,” he said.

The BEAT is on the best headline-writing shortlist alongside editors from Die Pos/ The Post, Vaalweekblad, The Village News. Kalahari Bulletin, Bloemfontein Courant, Roodepoort Northsider and Potchefstroom Herald.

Masilela, the reigning Caxton Excellence Awards Best

Editor Johnny Masilela won the recent Caxton Excellence Awards Best Columnist of the Year.

Photo: TK Mashaba Columnist of the Year, has also been shortlisted for the FCJ Excellence Awards in the category of best columnist of the year, a regular piece which he writes for Die Pos/The Post.

According to FCJ awards convenor of the panel of judges, Fanie Groenewald, there had been an increase of about 20% in the number of entries for this leg of the annual awards, comparable to previous years.

The awards had received entries from upwards of 130 journalists from more than 80 local newspapers, in all the nine provinces.

In unveiling the shortlists, Groenewald said the impression of the judges was that local newspapers were still very much alive in South Africa.

“They are indeed serving their communities very well,” he declared.

Die Pos/The Post editor, Keina Swart, has also been shortlisted in the category of best headlinewriting.

Swart and her colleagues, Willie Nel, is on the shortlist for best front page design, while reporter Ronél van Jaarsveld was shortlisted in the category of hard news.

Award-winning Die Pos/The Post photographer, Herman Steyn, is on the shortlist for best sports photo.

The awards were scheduled to be conferred on Friday 29 June, at a gala dinner at the Leriba Hotel and Spa in Centurion.

Praise for achievers Lizzy Bapela Children marched to highlight their plight. Photo: Lizzy Bapela Lizzy Bapela Limpopo MEC for Social Development, Mapula Mokaba-Phukwana, has come out guns blazing, warning those who abuse children would face the full might of the law.

In a statement dispatched ahead of Child Protection Week, she warned potential culprits they would be arrested and punished.

The statement was released against the backdrop of the Child Protection Week held from Sunday 27 May to Sunday 3 June.

The theme of this year’s event was “Let us protect all children to move South

Africa forward”.

Departmental spokesperson, Adele van der Linde, said the events were held to educate and mobilize communities to take responsibility towards children’s protection and care.

She said the department continued with such programs to visit schools and engage various groups within communities.

Van der Linde further said the department had dispatched a team of subject matter experts and social workers, who work within the Child Protection unit to speak to communities.

In Bela-Bela the event was held at the Antioch River Church on Friday 1 June.

Bela-Bela Mayor Jeremiah Ngobeni has showered praises on several local achievers, among them cricket batsman par excellence AB de Villiers.

The BEAT carried a story in the last edition quoting former caddies and golfers travelling down memory lane, back to the days when De Villiers used to play a fine swing of golf at the now collapsed Warmbaths Golf Course.

Speaking on the occasion of his budget speech at the local Multi-Pupose Centre, the mayor praised De Villiers, who dropped a bomshell announcing his retirement from international cricket.

“We feel particularly blessed with the appointment of Pinky Kekana, the Bela-Bela native, as the deputy minister of communications,” he said.

Kekana is a former Waterberg District Mayor.

He also used the opportunity to welcome incoming

municipal manager, Michael Makhubela, chief cinancial officer, Melvin Marutha, and corporate services head, Jamela Selapyane.

Ngobeni also went lyrical about other hometown achievers, among them Limpopo’s Baobabs netball sensation, Grace Lechaba, and the socialite Semakaleng Mothapo, for being part of a delegation of South Africans to the Young African Leaders Initiative scheduled for the US. On a political note, Ngobeni bode official farewell to former DA Councillor, Kobus van der Merwe.

“He was a very colourful character and persuasive individual. We will surely miss his robust input in council sittings and other developmental engagements,” the mayor said.

Other individuals to which he paid tribute included young soccer goal-minder, Thabang Simelane, who was headed for trials with the Polokwane City Football Club’s development structures.

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Mountain-bike event back in town

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Mookgophong to benefit from soccer

Three-day mountain-bike race in Bela Bela, Limpopo, from Friday to Sunday. Photo: Supplied TK Mashaba It’s all systems go for the opening stage of Liberty Waterberg Encounter mountainbike event scheduled to get under way from Friday 8 June to Sunday 10 June.

Organisers have observed that the new single-track finish would be an endurance test for the front-runners, who were expected to be on high alert.

The three-day stage race in Bela-Bela, will see the routes taking cyclists through Sondela Nature Reserve and Elements Private Golf Reserve.

Route director Mel Meyer said the stages would cover a total of 172-km with 2 774-metres of ascent.

He offered the perfect workout for all riders, “but one they will be able to manage”.

Meyer said they had introduced two changes to the opening stage, which should give the riders something to think about.

“On the first day, the route up to the second water point is the same as last year, but then they will experience something new,” he said.

He explained that a fresh trail of single-track on a 6-km section had been built.

Towns along the soccer tourism route such as Mookgophong stand to benefit bigtime by selling fruit and other foodstuffs to the visitors. Photo: Mzamane Ringane

congratulate Black Leopards FC on winning the PSL promotional playoffs. The club’s promotion to the A mini economic boom awaits PSL will then mean that Limpopo Mookgophong and indeed the entire will have three teams in the PSL next Waterberg region ahead of the new season,” he said.

Premier Soccer League (PSL) Dipela observed that the business season. community stood to be the biggest As congratulations continued to winner during PSL fixtures. flood in at the elevation of Working on the law of averages, Thohoyandou’s Black Leopards The BEAT has in the past observed Football Club into the multi-million that big city soccer teams such as rand PSL, the Limpopo Tourism Mamelodi Sundowns, Kaizer Chiefs Agency Board (LTA) has welcomed and Orlando Pirates, bring along the groundbreaking news. busloads of supporters, who almost LTA chairperson, Andrew Dipela, certainly stop over at Mookhophong said in a statement that the promotion and other towns, for refreshments. of Black Leopards into the paid ranks Rural women in the business of had the potential to improve vastly selling consumables such as the province’s sports tourism profile. homemade marula brew, groundnuts “Limpopo Tourism Agency Board and dried mopani worms, should would like to take this opportunity to also benefit bigtime.

Mzamane Ringane

Several hundred other supporters stop over at towns like Bela-Bela and Modimolle.

Hundreds more soccer followers travel from Gauteng and beyond in minibuses and private sedans.

With three soccer teams campaigning in the PSL — namely Black Leopards, Baroka FC and Polokwane City — this newspaper’s calculation is that each team plays a total of 15 home fixtures.

Overall, the three teams should attract Gautengers at a total of 45 home matches.

For the VhaVenda locals of Elim, Thohoyandou and several other tribal villages, the thousands of soccer followers arriving from Gauteng means more sales for their abundance of pawpaw, avocado and banana.

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OPINION | LETTER

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Humbled by FCJ Excellence Awards shortlist My attempts at writing dates back to my boyhood at Ribane-Laka High School in the Pretoria township of Mamelodi.

At the time English grammar teacher, Odrie Mamabolo, selected my essay as the best of the class.

She urged me to consider journalism as a career. The rest is history.

In later years more inspiration came from erstwhile editor-in-chief of the popular Reader’s Digest (Southern Africa), Wendy Morgenrood.

The good lady had read a column I wrote for the Pretoria News.

She suggested I consider researching and writing fiction, but do it around real-life characters.

One thing led to the other and my very first short story — titled “Baba Mfundisi, the clergyman “ — was published in an anthology called “Crossing Over: Stories from a new South Africa (Kwela Books)”.

Since then I published several other short fiction, some of which has been translated into Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Afrikaans.

Enter my Pretoria-based buddy, the mediccum-filmmaker, Dr Gomolemo Mokae.

The man suggested I try my hand at screenwriting, although I had no clue what a film script looked like.

Months down the line Gomolemo was breathing on my neck, so to speak, urging me to send a short film story idea to the M-

Letter from The Editor Johnny Masilela

It all starts with the printing press.

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The result was that after workshops and shortlists starting at regional level, with mine being Johannesburg, I ended up one of eight finalists flown to Cape Town for the final stretch.

At the end of it all my screenplay, “Christmas with Granny”, was selected and made into a short film. I was really humbled.

Now as early as last Friday 1 June, my colleague and the editor at Die Pos/The Post, Keina Swart, dispatched a list of names shortlisted for the FCJ Excellence Awards.

No less than five of us at the two

newspapers had been nominated for these prestigious awards.

The finalists from our side include Keina, photographer Herman Steyn, the go-getter reporter Ronél van Jaarsveld, graphic designer par excellence Willie Nel, and myself.

I for one was nominated once again for Best Columnist (Die Pos/The Post), and also for the category of best headline writer.

I am still humbled after being named the Caxton Excellence Awards Best Columnist in recent months.

Like the Caxton awards, the FCJ

Excellence Awards are dead serious business.

More than 130 journalists from more than 80 newspapers countrywide had sent in entries.

Veteran journalist and former Press Ombudsman Joe Tlholoe, chaired one of the various categories.

The judging for the scores of categories was conducted in Johannesburg, Cape Town and the North West University’s Potchefstroom campus.

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Write to the Editor at beateditor@gmail.com or PO Box 16 Bela-Bela 0480.

Thank you for excellent service relieved.

William Wentzel, Bela-Bela, writes: I can clearly see our local municipality I want to express my sincere gratitude at under his managerial leadership fast the professional and courteous way in becoming the role model for all government which the incident that I escalated to Sello institutions in the province.

Makhubela’s, municipal manager at the Keep up the good work.

Bela-Bela municipality, attention was handled.

As he is newly appointed in this position, may I say that it is gratifying to experience and be a part of his leadership manner.

Chris Hani Drive, Bela-Bela, 0480, Private Bag X1609, Bela-Bela, 0480 I would also like to convey my gratitude to his managerial staff who have proven excellent customer service to be a reality in a time when that is what we as consumers least expect.

I would like to use this opportunity to APPROVED FINAL 2018/19 IDP REVIEW/ thank the senior BUDGET/PMS FRAMEWORK staff that participated in our Notice is hereby given in terms of sections 16(1) of the meeting for the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, No. 32 of 2000, open and sincere manner in which read together with section 22(2) of Local Government: they collaborated Municipal Finance Management Act, No 56 of 2003, that and the immediate Bela Bela Local Municipality has approved its 2018/19 IDP rectifying action Review/Budget/PMS Framework at duly convened that was taken.

I walked into the Council meeting held on the 29th May 2018. Interested municipal office an parties, community structures, NGOs and business sector extremely are invited to view the documents at municipal building, disgruntled and record office or office #37 as well as on the municipal disappointed rate payer, but left the website www.belabela.gov.za municipality

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Academy on the move

La Masia FC wins Modimolle cup

Bela-Bela Soccer Academy’s Gontse Molokomme in action. Photo: TK Mashaba

TK Mashaba The Bela-Bela Soccer Academy is breaking ground on all fronts.

The academy’s under-15 squad recently qualified for the Waterberg leg of the Copa Coca Cola Cup. The senior team continued to top the standings at the Bela-Bela Local Football Association (LFA), with an eye to be promoted to the Waterberg SAB Regional League.

Bela-Bela Soccer Academy’s under-15 squad was now billed to represent the local cluster at the Waterberg regional showdown.

If the academy does well at this stage, then they proceed to showcase their skills at provincial level.

The youngsters qualified after beating

Settlers Agricultural High School 10-1, and walloping Solomon Mahlangu High School 3-1.

The regional showdown was scheduled to take place at the Settlers Agricultural High School grounds on Saturday 9 June.

Bela-Bela Soccer Academy mentor, Sam Modise, said he was happy at the progress made by the different age group squads.

“This year we want to qualify for the national finals in both the under-15 Copa Coca Cola Cup, and the under-19 Kay Motsepe Cup,” he said.

Bela-Bela Soccer Academy features, among its ranks, Gontse Molokomme, who played for the national under-17 squad in 2017.

The team is packed with talented players such as, among many others, Kgomotso Mokhanda and Kabelo Mokwena.

Danone Nations Cup champs

Benny’s Sports Development Academy is the 2018 under-12 Danone Nations Cup Limpopo champions. Photo: Supplied TK Mashaba Vhembe-based Benny’s Sports Development Academy have won the Limpopo leg of the 2018 under-12 Danone Nations Cup, and is ready to compete in the national finals.

The youngsters beat Kgagudi Primary School in the finals in Polokwane last Saturday 2 June.

The academy have now booked a place in national finals, where it was hoped it would emulate the class of 2016, which won the national title and represented the country at the world finals in France, where they finished 16th.

In 2015 the academy also made it to the national finals.

The other Limpopo finalists were Bela-Bela’s Mmamakwa Primary School, Letjatji Primary School from Capricorn, Miragoma Primary School from Mopani and Kgagudi Primary School from Sekhukhune.

The local youngsters gave it their best shot, but ultimately suffering a 2-1 loss to Benny’s Sports Development Academy.

During the early stages of the tournament, Mmamakwa Primary School beat Miragoma Primary School 1-0, and went on to beat Kgagudi Primary School 4-5 on penalties.

Mbishi Mokwena has been the head coach at Benny’s Sports Development Academy in 2015 and 2016.

La Masia FC celebrating victory in Modimolle. Photo: Mzamane Ringane Mzamane Ringane Modimolle’s La Masia FC cheered up its supporters by winning the Modimolle/ Mookgophong LFA Stream A cup, on Sunday 3 June.

The team went all out to ensure that they salvage the trophy on offer, after losing out on the league title, ending at an otherwise impressive third position.

The league was won by Liverpool FC, after it was confirmed as the league champions in Stream A of the Modimolle/ Mookgophong LFA. On Sunday La Masia FC defeated Tornado FC 3-0 at the Ephraim Mogale Stadium to lift the trophy.

La Masia FC head coach, Tshepo Selamolela, said his boys deserved the gold medals and the trophy, after working hard throughout the season.

“Once we are done celebrating, we shift our focus back to training. Our eyes will now be fixed on the Modimolle Mayor’s Cup,” he said.

Modimolle/Mookgophong Local Football Association chairperson, Hlupi Lehong, thanked all the 10 participating teams, and further congratulated the La Masia FC. On the other hand, the LFA has started the Modimolle/Mookgophong Mayor’s Cup elimination rounds in Modimolle, with the same expected for Mookgophong and Vaalwater shortly.