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Cable thieves arrested

Father wanted for child kidnapping

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A JMPD officer with two arrested scrap metal dealers responsible for cable theft.

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wo people have been arrested for the cable theft that plunged a large portion of the City of Johannesburg into darkness.

The arrests were made following a tip-off to the city’s Group Forensic Department on Tuesday afternoon.

City Power revealed it will cost the utility around R15 million to replace the cables that were stolen. Authorities believe a cable theft syndicate struck again over the weekend, gaining access to the underground tunnels where they made off with dozens of copper cables.

Inner City Gazette Journalist Moses Moyo was on the scene.

“The City of Johannesburg has just arrested two individuals that are responsible for cable

theft and tons of copper cables have been recovered. It’s a massive arrest and there is so much stolen goods in this yard.” Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba was also there.

He says the amount of copper found is staggering. “The city’s cables have now been found and we’ve got the culprits, [they are] people from India and other parts of the world who are in this country illegally.”

Mashaba has described the cable theft that plunged a large part of the CBD into darkness as economic sabotage.

“This is economic sabotage of the highest order.

“As I am talking to you now our residents in the inner city have been without power for the last 72 hours or so.” - http://ewn.co.za *By the time of going to print many areas in the inner-city were still without power .

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Police are requesting the assistance of the community to help them with information that may lead to the arrest of Mostafa Makhlouf 21-year old wanted for child kidnapping. He is an Egyptian National.

It is alleged that the suspect kidnapped his one month old daughter at Mayfair on the 04th of September 2017 at 16:00.

The father of the child went to see his child at his former girlfriend’s house.

He took the child from her mother and went outside of the house and allegedly jumped into a Gold Peugeot 206 and drove off at high speed.

He bumped the grandmother of the child as they tried to stop him. Police are appealing to the community; anyone with information of the whereabouts of the suspect appearing in this photo to contact Johannesburg Central Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit Constable Matshata on this line: 083-438-8475.

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Mayor’s claim – undocumented foreigners make up 80% of Joburg inner city – wrong

Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba is a year into his job and trying to make good on election promises to clean up the inner city. Yet different sources of data contradicts his claim about the share of undocumented foreigners living there.

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even people have been shot and wounded in Johannesburg CBD. It’s not yet clear what lead to the shooting but police are on the scene.

Paramedics say two people are in a critical condition while the other five were treated on the scene outside a block of flats before being taken to hospital.

ER24’s Russel Meiring said: “They were shot outside a block of flats on Kerk Street in Braamfontein in the Johannesburg CBD. Paramedics arrived on scene and found all seven patients lying outside the flat.”

Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za he mayor of Johannesburg does not mince his word when it comes to the state of the inner city. Herman Mashaba has often spoken of his plans to clean up the central business district of South Africa’s city of gold.

But one claim keeps resurfacing.

“As many as 80% of the inner city residents are undocumented foreigners,” Mashaba told business news publication Bloomberg. He said something similar in a Radio 702 interview before.

Johannesburg’s inner city includes wards 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 123 and 124, Mashaba’s acting spokesman, Luyanda Mfeka, told Africa Check.

He said the mayor’s statement had to be understood in relation to his experience with hijacked buildings in the inner city. (Note: Hijacked buildings are residential property taken over by individuals or groups who are not the owners.

Residents are then ordered to pay rent to them and not to the landlord or rightful owners.)

Mfeka told Africa Check that raids on abandoned buildings revealed “that a large portion of the specified buildings’ inhabitants are undocumented foreign nationals”.

“In the instance of the Cape York building, a formerly hijacked building within the inner city, of the 343 residents in the building, 303 residents were identified as undocumented foreign nationals,” said Mfeka. “That is just over 88% of the inhabitants.”

The mayor had attended a raid of the Cape York building in May to search for a missing teenager. It was evacuated in early July after

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seven residents died in a fire.

Mashaba’s office was unable to provide information on how the residents’ nationalities were established, referring us to the department of home affairs.

But director of deportations, Nolwandle Qaba, told us that they “are unable to say how many undocumented migrants live in a particular building”, including Cape York.

City of Joburg Group Forensic Investigative Services spokesman Lucky Sindane told Africa Check that “no data was collected at Cape York”.

Sindane said that a planned raid at the building was put on hold as a result of the fire.

“It is during these crime prevention operations (raids) that we work with the social development department and other stakeholders [and] that data is collected on the residents,” he said. (Note: Mfeka responded to our findings. We posted his full comment at the bottom of this piece.)

Migrants make up 26.2% of inner city residents

The Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO) is a partnership between the Universities of Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand as well as the Gauteng provincial government. The GCRO builds datasets that can be used to inform the development of cities in the province.

Every two years, the GCRO conducts a Quality of Life survey. During the most recent one, carried out between July 2015 and May 2016, about 30,000 respondents from across Gauteng were surveyed. According to the GCRO, the sample of respondents was designed to be representative at ward level for each of the 508 wards in the province.

A researcher at the GCRO, Christian Hamann, told Africa Check that the survey “does not point to proportions as large as 80%” of inner city residents be-

ing immigrants.

According to GCRO director Rob Moore, migrants who participated in the survey were not asked whether they are documented or not, so both documented and undocumented cross-border migrants would have been included.

Hamann analysed data for the inner city’s wards from the Quality of Life survey for Africa Check. It showed that of the respondents in the inner city wards: 26.2% had migrated to Gauteng from another country, 25.4% had migrated from another province, 48.5% had been born in Gauteng.

“It is important to note that these figures from the Quality of Life survey are average figures for the wards in the Johannesburg inner city and do not necessarily reflect the population demographic that might be found in hijacked buildings,” Hamann said. “This would require a dedicated study of its own to determine.”

A report by the city’s social development department on the raids of five derelict buildings in Doornfontein (ward 123) in July 2017 also does not support the mayor’s figure.

The report stated that 183 residents were profiled, with only 30.6% of them being foreign nationals. The majority were undocumented (47) and the department of home affairs detained them.

(Note: On another page, the report claims that 150 of the 183 residents were South African. We have followed up with the department for clarity.)

Data from South Africa’s last census in 2011 similarly contradicts the mayor.

Africa Check used Wazimap, an interactive website that provides access to census data, to pull data on the estimated share of people born outside the country in the inner city wards.

The highest share of foreign-born was

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in ward 64 (Berea and Hillbrow), where 43% of the respondents indicated they were born outside South Africa.

During the census, people were asked where they were born, not whether they are documented or not. It is therefore expected that “all types of immigrants” will be counted, a discussion documentfrom Stats SA stated.

When Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba told a publication that as many as 80% of the inner city’s residents are undocumented foreigners, he was basing it on his experience of hijacked buildings, a spokesman told Africa Check.

Three different sources of data contradict this. A province-wide survey of all wards suggested that 26.2% of residents in Johannesburg inner city wards migrated from another country.

A report on raids of 5 hijacked buildings in an inner city ward showed that the majority of residents were South African. Furthermore, results from South Africa’s last census indicate that the share of foreign-born residents in the inner city wards does not exceed 43%.

While researchers say that the share of foreign nationals may be as high as 80% in individual buildings, no data supports the mayor’s blanket claim about the inner city. source: africacheck.org

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City of Joburg wins top green award Staff Reporter news@inner-city-gazette.co.za he City of Johannesburg has reclaimed its status as South Africa’s greenest municipality.

The City was named the overall winner of the metropolitan category of the 2017 edition of the annual Greenest Municipality Competition (GMC) Awards at a glittering ceremony in Bloemfontein recently.

The honour, which carries a total of R3.5-million in prize money, was bestowed on the City by Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs Barbara Thomson in recognition of its job creation projects around issues such as waste management, climate change and the green economy.

The prize money will be ploughed back into infrastructure projects aimed at preserving and protecting the environment. The City last won the award in 2015 but lost it to eThekwini the following year, before reclaiming it this year.

Welcoming the award, Member of the Mayoral Committee for Environment and Infrastructure Services Cllr Nico de Jager said the accolade served as a motivation to continue developing an environmentally sustainable city in line with its strategic objectives.

“We’re honoured to be named the overall winner of the metropolitan category of the Greenest Municipality Competition. This coveted award is testament to the fact that the City of Johannesburg is committed to the sustain-

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The award, in total of R3.5-million prize money, was bestowed on the City in recognition of its job creation projects around issues such as waste management, climate change and the green economy. able preservation and protection of its ecological assets and to the improvement of the quality of life of its citizens. It also serves as a motivation to bolster our efforts to effect increased sustainable environmental programmes,” said MMC De Jager.

The GMC panel commended the City’s entry, which focused primarily on climate change green economy projects, including carbon sequestration programmes such as tree planting, waste minimisation efforts, environmental education and public participation programmes by various entities, the rollout of smart Wi-Fi-enabled benches in city parks, inner city park safety programmes, CCTV cameras in city parks, the declaration of the tree planted by former president

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Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Minister Thomson said funding the competition was of great strategic importance as it galvanised municipalities to initiate projects that addressed their Integrated Development Plans and forged links with the Extended Public Works Programme mandate to create temporary employment and offer skills development opportunities.

She acknowledged the important role played by municipalities and their willingness to embrace the green economy through the implementation of long-term sustainable policies and strategies.

“This is an important development for our country because it demonstrates an increasing awareness and realisation that our prosperity as a country is inextricably connected to the well-being of our environment,” said Thomson.

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he 2017 edition of the Cell C Inanda Africa Polo tournament at the Inanda Club in Sandton ended in disappointment for the South African team recently when it was overcome by Zimbabwe in the final game of the three-day challenge.

The spectacular, glitzy and glamorous event, attracted 4 000 spectators from far and wide, including celebrities such as actress Pearl Thusi, musician Thembi Seete, former SABC3 Talk presenter Noeleen Maholwana-Sanqu, Top Billing presenter Bonang Matheba and actor Thabo Rametsi.

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The Inanda Polo Africa Cup tournament started several years ago and has partnered with the City of Johannesburg and other sponsors to help it grow the sport and increase its popularity among previously marginalised communities, dispelling the belief that it is elitist.

“The City Johannesburg has been our host city partner for the past six years, and the journey has been absolutely incredible because its support has been amazing.

“Our other partners have also given us good support to make the tournament possible,” said Yvette Mason, of the event organisers.

She said every year the event was attended by up to 4 000 people purely because of the limited

capacity of Inanda Club.

“We enjoy keeping it that way because it is a premium sport. Being a premium event means it is in big demand. The teams that compete in the tournament come on board by invitation.

“This year we have Zambia and Zimbabwe, who are participating for the first time.

“We had a total of eight teams, each consisting of four members,” Mason said.

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