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ITH millions of registered voters in KZN expected to visit the polls today, political parties contesting this year’s election are confident that KZN voters will vote for them. New kids on the block, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and Agang SA, are optimistic that they will do better than anticipated. Speaking to the Maritzburg Fever, EFF spokesperson Reggie Ngcobo said that should they win over Gauteng, come the 2019 elections they will “govern this country.” “In South Africa, we have specific targeted areas and that includes Gauteng,LimpopoandKZN.InKZN, we are looking at getting 10% of the
total votes. This will give us enough strength to be part of the legislature. In KZN we might get more than the 10% benchmark. Our rallies and marches have a great turnout and we are confident that we will achieve our targets,” said Ngcobo. Agang SA’s spokesperson Mark Peach, said that they have attracted crowds of supporters in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the North West provinces. “We will do better than anticipated,” said Peach. Minority Front (MF) spokesperson Patrick Pillay said that their expectations are that voters will come out in numbers to vote for MF. “We have always dealt with people at the grassroots level and we know their needs. We are looking at increasing the number of KZN
parliamentary seats. Currently, we have two. We are not afraid of new parties because we have been around for years,” said Pillay. Deputy President of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) Wayne Thring said that they are looking at nothing less than double digit parliamentary seats. “Quite a lot of people have said that they will vote for ACDP and we are extremely optimistic. The ACDP presidenthasgivenusagoalofbeing in the top four,” said Thring. Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) spokesperson Sibongile Nkomo said that they are confident that they will get a lot of votes. “We are willing to get back KZN under an IFP leadership.” Congress Of the People (Cope) provincial chairperson Bheki Khusi
said that they are targeting six parliamentary seats nationally. “We have strongholds in KZN and we are confident that we will get the votes we need,” said Khusi. Even though he admitted that their election campaigns were affected by financial constraints, Khusi said that Cope is not a dying party. “Agang SA will get one national seat by a miracle because they are a failed project. EFF is a strong party, even though their leader talks a lot of rubbish,” said Khusi. AfricanNationalCongress’sSupa Zuma said that in the Moses Mabhida region, the party is not expecting anything less than 80% of the vote. “We are confident that we will get the exact results we got in 2009. We are not afraid of Agang SA and EFF
because they are our grandchildren. They come from the ANC. You cannot expect an organization which was formed out of anger to last for years.YearsbackwhenUnitedDemocratic Movement (UDM) and Cope were formed, their gatherings used to have huge turnouts but where are they now?” said Zuma. Sizwe Mchunu of the Democratic Alliance (DA) said that the party is destined to grow in this election. “I cannot give you exact predictions but we are pleased with how our campaigns have unfolded. We arehappythatthepeopleofKZNand South Africa have welcomed us. We are not threatened or intimidated by the new parties,” said Mchunu. The National Freedom Party (NFP) was not available for comment.
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>> The commission encourages people to go out in numbers to vote NQOBILE MTOLO
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HE counting of ballots will start immediately after closure of voting stations at 9pm today, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said. “For voting stations with small registration numbers, we should start seeing results coming in at about 11pm,” said IEC spokesperson, Thabani Ngwira. Voting stations open today from 7am to 9pm. Voters will receive two
ballots. One is for the national legislature and the other is for provincial legislature. Ngwira said that the elderly and the sick will be given priority in the queues at the voting stations, and there will be people monitoring the lines. About 12 million ballot papers have been printed for KwaZulu-Natal. The number has increased because the voters roll increased to five million. There are 4746 voting stations in the province and 228 in the Msunduzi area.
“Political party campaigning is allowed outside the voting station boundaries on election day. What is not allowed are gatherings as defined in the Gatherings Act,” said Ngwira. He stressed how important the voter turnout is for parliamentary seat allocation. “Seats are allocated on proportion relating to the number each political party received during voting. If a political party receives 55% of the total votes cast in the election, then they will receive 55% of the seat allocation, irrespective of whether there was a three million voter turnout. As the commission, we encourage people to go out in numbers to exercise their right to vote,” said Ngwira. In KZN, the IEC completed training on the management of voting stations for 15 000 electoral staff and 900 area managers who will work at the voting stations. Distribution of electoral material was concluded by 25 April, 2014. Special votes took place on Monday and Tuesday. KZN had 64 533 approved special votes.
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S a result of crime, the toilets at Woodlands Primary School are in a state of disrepair. Maritzburg Fever visited the school recently and noted that the staff and pupils toilets are barely functional due to broken toilet seats, missing sewer and copper pipes, broken or missing taps and sinks, with the boys urinal nonfunctional because the water feed pipe was stolen. Speaking to various parents, residents and concerned community members, who spoke under anonymity for security reasons, it was confirmed that the situation with the toilets is a direct result of increased crime at the school. There have been several robberies at the school, the most recent being on 2 April, 2014. The thieves are alleged to be teenagers from the community. A source said that the school has had eight of its recycling bins stolen. These bins are a part of the Wildlands School Recycling project, which encourages children to recycle, thus making money for the school. There were also 70 hexagonal tables, donated by Maritzburg College which were stolen. However the most common theft of property is the copper pipes, toilet seats, taps and sinks. There have also been holes made intheprefabwallsbytheperpetrators, which have rendered the toilets unusable. Thesourcesaidthattherobberies occur in broad daylight after schoolhasclosedatabout4:30pm.
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The toilets in the boys bathrooms are completely nonfunctional. It is alleged that materials are sold to enable the perpetrators to use the money for drugs. The school management work closely with the Mountain Rise SAPS, Community Police Forum and neighbourhood watch. The
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>> People rush to apply for special identity documents in order to vote NQOBILE MTOLO
>>nqobile@pmbfever.co.za
ITH voting stations opening today at 7am, this week saw long queues outside the KZN Home Affairs building in Church Street. The queue travelled down Church Street and joined Printing Office Street. By Monday morning at 11am, more than 70 people had come to apply for special identity documents (IDs) while others had come to fetch them. Parents and relatives of new born babies also had to endure the long queues in order to apply for and fetch birth certificates. Nomthandazo Masondo from KwaMpumuza had been waiting in the queue for more than an hour. “This queue is not moving. I have come here to fetch my ID because I will be using it to vote,” said Masondo.
Arthur Maseko from Sobantu had lost his ID and had come to apply for a special ID, which will enable him to vote. “The line is moving slowly. I need to get this special ID. If not today, I will have to come back early tomorrow morning,” said Maseko on Monday morning. In another ID saga, approximately 10 Jika Joe fire victims whose belongings, including IDs, were destroyed in the fire are likely not to vote, should they not get their temporary IDs by 9pm today. By Monday afternoon, ward councillor Naleni Atwaru said that she had contacted homeaffairsforassistancebut hadnotreceivedanycorrespondence. “I called the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and they confirmed that you can vote with a temporary ID. They also confirmed that home affairs will be open on voting day,” said Atwaru.
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POLITICALandreligiousintolerance seems to be the order of the day within Kwa-Zulu Natal, taking us back to the horrid days of ethnic violence which once fundamentally divided our people and our province. While I will always be an advocate of Freedom of Speech, it must at all times be tempered with cultural sensitivity. The hallmark of South Africa’s democracy, as recognised by the
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ELOKHU ngamazi umngane wami, uNyikinyibhoxo umfo kaNdosi, bengiqala ukumbona ethukuthele ngalendlela yokuthi abamlamulile ethi uqeda umfundisi ngepayipi engingazi ukuthi ubelithathephi, bamane basho ngaphandle kokunanaza ukuthi kukhulu okumcasulile. Sicela wena mfundi ukuthi emva kokufunda loludaba, usitshele ukuthi bekuyinto engelutho yini ecasule uNdosi, noma yinto ebingakucasula nawe.Okuphawulekilenjekumfundisi wabantu obesegxiza igazi emlonyeni sekuqaqeke nokhololo amahloni esedlala ngaye, amazwi athi: “Bengithi ngiyazincokolela nje noNdosi ngingazi ukuthi kanti sengiyona.” Amadoda ebandla abeseduze kusuka isidumo abelokhu ethi: “Kodwa kwake kwancokolwa ngomfazi womuntu kanje?” Umaesholamadodaathiumfundisi uyilahle ngokuncokola ngokuma kahle komkaNdosi wathi: “Cha wakhetha Ndosi, imanzi eme kahle kanje!” Akabonakalanga ukuthi unyamalale nini uNdosi. Ubonakale esedonsa umfundisi ngogesi wempama kwalandela isibhakela esidabule udebe nolimi, anele angena phakathi kwabo amadoda elamula, wathi qalaqala egcekeni, wathi nya, wabuya engasadle nkobe zamuntu ephefumulelaphezuluephetheipayipielokhu ethi: “Umkami!, umkami!, uthi um-
international community, is our tolerance toward our fellow citizens. I therefore, condone with strongest contempt the cartoon depicting the urination upon the MF logo, which contains religious and cultural entities. Irrespective of our views of political parties, as elected officials, we cannot condone nor promote such blatant racism toward the religious identity of our fellow citizens.
Countless South Africans have sacrificed their lives so that all of us canliveinademocraticandfreesociety. Is this how we repay them? With cheap politicking which seeks to divide our nation, rather than unite them? Our former President Nelson Mandela structured his entire four year presidency around nation building and, for 20 years into democracy, we see dissidents of
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is a non-negotiable term in which event the purchaser will either ONE of the most common ques- have to abide by this term or altertions posed to conveyancers by natively will have to purchase a both sellers and purchasers of different property. Likewise a purproperties (and sometimes for chaserwouldbeentitledtoimpose other property related matters as a similar term and, if the seller well) is who is entitled to appoint were not in agreement with the purchaser’s instance / nominathe conveyancer. There is probably more misin- tion, then the seller will simply formation out in the market place have to find another purchaser – about this issue than any other is- or, if the seller is desperate for the sue. This article is therefore in- sale to proceed, will have back tended to assist you in under- down. Likewise the purchaser standing the position so that you may have to back down. There is a common misconcepcan have your equal say. The appointment of a convey- tion that in KwaZulu-Natal the ancer to attend to the registration purchaser has a ‘right’ to appoint of a transfer is a contractual mat- the conveyancer. This view is ter to be negotiated between the based on a misinterpretation of a purchaser and the seller like any Supreme Court case going back to other aspect of the agreement of 1920 which is often misunderstood by many parties in the propsale. Just as neither the purchaser erty industry. The case concerned nor the seller can unilaterally dic- involved the issue of the appointtate terms and conditions of an ment of a conveyancer and the agreement of sale to the other par- Court held that if the appointment ty, so the appointment of a convey- of the conveyancer to attend to the ancer is equally negotiable. The registration of a transfer was not sellerisperfectlyatlibertytostipu- an issue, or the agreement was silate that the appointment of a con- lent on the choice of conveyancer veyancer nominated by the seller at the time the agreement of sale was concluded, and if the parties had not either expressly or impliedly indicated their desire to appoint a particular conveyancer, then in that event, and in only that event, the purchaser, in KwaZuluNatal, is entitled to ESTABLISHED 1921 nominate the conveyancer. This does not of course mean that the purchaser ATTORNEYS, CONVEYANCERS AND NOTARIES PUBLIC has an inviolable right to appoint his For all your legal advice contact or her own conveyancer. J Leslie Smith & Co. Inc. on Tel: +27 (0)33 845 9700 For more advice or visit www.jlesliesmith.com on this topic please feel free to contact Look out for Law Corner in Maritzburg Fever John Christie at on the first Wednesday of every month christiej@jleslie.co.za.
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Jashvin Pandoo, in Grade 7 at Cordwalles Preparatory School, did very well in the 2013 Beaver Challenge, especially as many Grade six and seven students from schools throughout South Africa participated. A score of 140 is considered phenomenal and last year, Raymond Liversage (dux 2013) scored 156. Pandoo scored an exceptional 164. His score was the highest across 10 other schools in South Africa. This score was shared with another South African student.
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Aiming for a high school scholarship Carter High School recently invited 20 primary school pupils to write the scholarship examinations. Once the results are finalised, the top scoring pupil will be given a full academic scholarship for 2015, kindly sponsored by Discovery. Some of the candidates are (front, from left) Nomnotho Mdluovu (Prestbury Primary School), Tevan Jones (head boy at Eastwood Primary School), Bianca Bar nard (Clarendon Primary School) (back, from left) Keshan Naidoo (Scottsville Primary School), Raevyn Poetgieter (Eastwood Primary School), Cortney Martin (head Girl at Eastwood Primary School), Pryaska Maharaj (Deccan Road Primary), Falak Modi (Longmarket Primary School) and Kyle Moodley (Deccan Road Primary).
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Still in the game sional player, I’m very strict with my sleeping or resting time,” said Bartman. Bartman also believes Arrows can still avoid the relegation chop. “It’s still possible to avoid the chop. We did well for the past four games. We can still make it through to the play-offs, provided we do well in our final games. The whole team is sharing one vision and prepared to go all out to fight to stay in the elite league,” said Bartman. On Saturday, Golden Arrows will play their last game against OrlandoPiratesatMosesMabhida Stadium at 3pm.
PIETERMARITZBURG born and current Lamontville Golden Arrows goalkeeper, Arthur Bartman, said that he is far from hanging up his gloves, and his team will survive the relegation chop. Bartman said that he might seriously think about quitting after next season. The former Real Taj, Maritzburg United and ex-Kaizer Chiefs goalminder turned 42 in March, but said that he is still enjoying his game and not yet thinking about calling it a day. “I am enjoying myself at Arrows. My legs, my body can still carry me and I am still feeling lively. More importantly, I still have the hunger and the passion that keeps me going. Age is just a number. I live clean, eat well and rest a lot. I do go out with friends or colleagues but know very well when to call it a night. As a profes-
- Jerry Barnes * Local PSL side Maritzburg United will play their last fixture on Saturday at 3pm against Mamelodi Sundowns at Harry Gwala Stadium.
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