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It’s Bloem Show time } Sidwell Guduka IT’S that time of the year again which means that in the Free State it’s time for the Bloem Show, one of Mzansi’s biggest and most-entertaining family-friendly expos. Lovers of this exhibition should brace themselves for another exciting programme that includes music and other fun activities. The annual show starts tomorrow and it will run until Saturday, 4 May, at the Bloemfontein Showgrounds. “We are privileged to present the Bloem Show for the 130th time this year. The first Bloem Show took place on 25 May 1883. This event survived the First World War and in 1917 the first tractor was exhibited at the show,” Elmarie Prinsloo, CEO of Bloem Show, said during the official launch of the Bloem Show 2013 at Bloemfontein Showgrounds last Wednesday. “This show came to a stand still during the Second World War. After the war, the first show took place in 1947 and since then has gone from strength to strength. Today the Bloem Show is acknowledged as one of the largest shows in South Africa,” she added. According to Prinsloo, more than 120 000 people visited the Bloem Show 2012 over a period of 10 days. “Some 65% of these visitors was from outside Bloemfontein/Mangaung. About 60% of the almost 450 exhibitors was also from outside Mangaung,” Elmarie said. She added that visitors and exhibitors at the Bloem Show had a direct impact on the economy of Bloemfontein/Mangaung and the greater Free State. “Businesses like guesthouses, hotels, the advertising industry, restaurants, shopping centres, the entertainment industry and filling stations benefit greatly from the extra visitors to the City of Roses every year during the Bloem Show,” said Prinsloo. Well-known acts such as Kurt Darren, Bobby van Jaarsveld, Dr Victor and Rasta Rebels, Steve Hofmeyr, Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse, Zahara and local up-and-coming artists will perform during the festival. The gates open at 09:00 until 20:00 daily, except for Sunday where gates will close at 17:00. Tickets cost R60 for adults, for children under 12 and pensioners R20 and entrance is free for pre-school children. For more information about Bloem Show, call 051-4489894/5/6 or visit www.bloemshow.co.za.
FROM left are Qondile Khedama, communications manager of the Mangaung Metro Municipality, Elmarie Prinsloo, CEO of Bloem Show, Tebogo Seseane, Bloem Show consultant, Anza van der Hoven, Bloem Show staff member, and Teboho Loate, director: Department of Arts, Sports and Culture. Photo: Supplied MAIN entertainment events (Pick n Pay stage) Thursday, 25 April – Hyundai presents Kurt Darren (19:00) Friday, 26 April – Miss Windmill Bloem Show with Wynand and Chereé (19:00)
Saturday, 27 April – WWP wrestling (19:30) Sunday, 28 April – Lollos (12:00) Monday, 29 April – Bloem sec presents Bobby van Jaarsveld (19:00) Tuesday, 30 April – OFM
presents Dr Victor and Rasta Rebels (19:00) Wednesday, 1 May – Vertical Signs presents Steve Hofmeyr (19:00) Thursday, 2 May – PWC presents Juanita du Plessis (19:00)
Friday, 3 May – Karlien van Jaarsveld (18:30) and Ovaltrack racing (20:00) Saturday, 4 May – Hansa Pilsner and Lesedi fm presents Sipho Hotstix Mabuse (20:00) and Zahara (21:00) at Vertical Signs main arena.
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MEC unhappy with conditions at Phekolong } Tladi Moloi “WA bona dipetlele tsa rona” meaning, “You see our hospitals”. These were the words of Benny Malakoane, the new Free State MEC for Health, talking to one of the officials who accompanied him during a surprise visit to the Dihlabeng Regional Hospital and the troubled Phekolong Hospital in Bethlehem last Tuesday. Malakoane said this after he had found that the ear, nose and throat set (ENT) and a suction machine at Phekolong were not working. The nurses at the hospital failed to show the MEC that these things were in working order and they ended up pointing fingers at one another. “We cannot tolerate such things in our hospitals. Next time when I find these things not working whoever is responsible, must voluntarily resign, because he or she wants to go home,” he said. Soon after he had said this, Shelly-Ann Danster, the nursing head, said: “I will resign”. Malakoane said to her: “You see, now you are laughing about it, but when we come, we will send you home.” Malakoane was unhappy with many things at Phekolong. He also pointed out that they could not keep people in the passageway and calls to admission waiting and said people should not be kept long. It was established that people wait long while staff have to search for their files in a small, dark back room which Malakoane was also not happy with. “There has to be an improvement in the IT system to avoid this. This is an old style of filing and we cannot still be using it in 2013,” he said. Malakoane also pointed out that tea time must be abolished because it is being abused. He said he was going to investigate whether it was a condition of employment.
IN HOT WATER: Ouma Noosi, a nurse at the Phekolong Hospital, says “But that one is working” to Benny Malakoane, the Free State MEC for Health.
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“If it is not, we should stop it immediately. You will find nurses ignoring people in the queues and going on a tea break and that is unacceptable,” he said. The MEC did not have many concerns
about the Dihlabeng Regional Hospital of which a part is under construction. “We should get more contractors so that they can finish the process as soon as possible,” he said.
NCOP disappointed with state of projects } Selloane Khalane THE National Council of Provinces (NCOP) expressed their disappointment at the state of projects in the Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality after finding a road contractor using a Primus stove to heat tar and used wheelbarrows to transport construction material to the road. These shocking findings were found during last week’s service delivery oversight in the Free State. The NCOP delegation leader, Mbuyiselo Jacobs, said the committee was “depressed” at the snail’s pace which the municipality was taking to finish projects initiated as far back as 2006. The NCOP ANC delegate, Aaron Mnguni, said they were shocked to find one of the road constructors using the old-fashioned stove to heat up tar and wheelbarrows to transport construction material during their oversight visits in the municipality. Mnguni said the contractor said he had not been paid any money since being given the tender in November last year.
The council was further aggrieved when both the municipal manager and mayor of the district failed to pitch to account for multi-million rand projects that had gone stale and instead delegated a member of the mayoral committee responsible for finance, Mamoroanyane Mositi, who was grilled by the committee. “Altogether R1,8 million down the drain,” Jacobs said referring to the Maluti Dairy Farm project which has lost numerous dairy cattle to theft and alleged corrupt deals. “This is a waste of tax payers’ money,” Jacobs added. The council was concerned that the project manager could not account for remuneration made from the project. Jacobs said he had heard rumours of farmers selling their farms to the Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality only to be later sold back to the original owners at a higher price. The DA NCOP delegate member, Arthur Worth, said the Qwaqwa Lodge initiated in 1996 was in shambles. “Building of the lodge was started in 1996, it is
2013 and it has still not been completed,” Worth said. The Setsoto municipal manager, Sugar Ramakarane, admitted to the council that his municipality was facing a serious sanitation and water challenge. “Spillage flowing into the Caledon River remains a problem we can’t handle on our own,” Ramakarane admitted. Ramakarane said the municipality has spent R21 million on new boreholes and installing a water pipe that will be able to handle the capacity of water demanded. The NCOP Cope delegate, Dennis Bloem, said he was concerned about the R53 million spent on consultants. Bloem said this showed that the people hired at municipalities lacked the necessary skills to do their job. During the sitting it was revealed that 45% of irregular, unauthorised and fruitless expenditure of the province came from the Matjhabeng Municipality. The council congratulated the Phumelela and Dihlabeng Municipalities for being exemplary municipalities for the good work they were doing.
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Magashule to lead celebration } Sidwell Guduka
Down pour of hail in Bloemfontein HAILSTONES as large as grapes, fuelled by light rain, fell for about 15 minutes in Bloemfontein on Friday. People scrambled to seek cover under anything they could. No damage was reported. Photo: Sidwell Guduka
Readers can win with group THE Joyous Celebration, founded 17 years ago will be performing at the University of Free State’s (UFS) Vista Arena in Bloemfontein on Saturday, 4 May. Express and Joyous Celebration have five double tickets to give away. All you have to do to win, is answer this
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THOUSANDS of Free Staters are expected to fill the Free State Cricket Stadium in Bloemfontein on Friday, where Premier Ace Magashule is expected to address the audience on Freedom Day. This year’s celebrations will take place under the theme Mobilising society towards consolidating our democracy and freedom. “The celebrations will recognise and celebrate the strides that have been made since 1994 as we head towards 20 years of freedom and democracy, acknowledging that South Africa is a far better society than it was before 1994,” the Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation said in a statement. “Uppermost in the celebration will be the promotion of unity and a common agenda of building a united and prosperous South Africa. Activities will promote the National Development Plan as a longterm vision which should serve as a basis for partnerships across society to attain the South Africa that is articulated in the Constitution and historic national documents such as the Freedom Charter of 1955. Communities from across the racial spec-
PREMIER ACE MAGASHULE. trum are invited to be part of this provincial celebration,” it reads. This annual event is being held as part of celebrating the country’s freedom and commemorates the first postapartheid elections held in 1994. On the weekend, South Africa will mark the 19th anniversary of taking to the polls in the country’s first democratic elections. For the past 19 years, South Africa has celebrated the achievement of freedom and democracy on 27 April, but this year’s event will be held on 26 April. Since 27 April 1994, South
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Africans from different political stances aged 18 and older have had the right to vote for the political party of their choice – close to 20 million South Africans voted. Friday’s event starts at 10:00. Why Freedom Day is a day not to be forgotten. ) It marked the end of apartheid in South Africa. ) It was also the first free and fair general elections held in South Africa. ) It was the beginning of the new South Africa. ) It is also a day on which well-known world icon, Nelson Mandela, was declared president.
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O nagana o botokwa? GORE eng fa ke rutegile ke ithuetse batho ba lebeletse gore ke tshwanetse ka ikgogomosa? Fa o rutegile mme tiro ya gago e le ya maemo a rileng batho ba lebeletse gore o itshware ka tsela e rileng? O apare ka tsela e rileng. Diaparo tsa gago e nne tsa madi a bitsang? Fa batho ba bona setshwantsho sa me mo lekwalo-dikgang ba re e sa le moriri wa me o le jalo ga o ise o fetoge. A ke re moriri o tsalwa ka o ne. Gore eng o tshwanetse wa fetoga? Fa batho ba utlwa tiro e o e dirang, ba lebeletse gore o ikgogomose o se ka nna motho wa batho. Fa o le kwa tlase o le motho o bonolo e ka re o ba swabisitse. O tshwanetse wa bua ka mokgwa o rileng, wa pagama dikoloi tse dirleng. Wa tsela batho kwa tlase. Ba re ba o ba gatakang go tlhatlogela kwa godimo o tla kopana le bone fa o wela fatshe.
Ba re ba o ba ga takang go tlhatlo gela kwa godimo o tla kopana le bone fa o wela fatshe. Modimo o re tlhodile rotlhe re lekana. Fa a go file sengwe se ikgantshe o ipona e ka re o botokwa go feta ba bangwe. E re o tsena mo mokgatlong, go na le gore batho ba go lebelele ba go ithute ba go beya mo tulong ya gago ka bonako. Ba tshogile gore o tlile go tsaya maemo a bona. Ga ba go fe le sebaka sa go itshupa. Ba go bolela gore maemo a gago o a siye ko tirong. Wena o itlela o sena molato o nangana gore kitso ya gago e ka ba tswela molemo. Nnya ba nagana gore o tlile go tsaya maemo a bona. Motho mongwe le mongwe o na le neo ya
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Enjoy visit from the king ROYAL VISIT: The Shoprite division for the Free State, Northern Cape, Botswana, Lesotho and the North-West province in Bloemfontein was recently visited by King Letsie III of Lesotho. This was to see how fresh products are grown and processed. The king believes that these methods can also be applied in Lesotho, because Freshmark, part of the Shoprite group of South Africa, already supplies fresh fruit and vegetables to Shoprite and U-save outlets in Lesotho. From the left are Johan van der Merwe, financial manager of the Shoprite division, the king, the honourable (David) Letsie III, and Miemie Kleingeld, the public relations officer of Shoprite. Photo: Marietjie Gericke
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GOING STRONG: Petrus Molemela.
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Molemela turns 80 } Sidwell Guduka PETRUS MOLEMELA, Bloemfontein Celtic’s honorary lifetime president, celebrated his 80th birthday last Tuesday. The White Head, as Molemela is affectionately known in football circles, is no longer actively involved in the game after selling the club to current owner Jimmy Augousti in 2002. He bought the 44-year-old club in 1975 from founders Norman Mathobisa, Victor Mahatanya, Andrew Ntake, Moses Mabule, Gabriel Rabayi and Charles Guild. “I enjoyed every minute of my birthday. It was great to celebrate it with the people of
Bloemfontein. I’m grateful to God for keeping me alive to today,” an elated Molemela said. Khumbulani Konco, Celtic CEO, said: “Ntate Molemela has been a vital part of a lasting football legacy and his contribution to soccer, to Celtic and to his friends and family is almost too hard to put into words. “I still have so much respect for him today. He was ‘Mr Celtic’ for many, many years and he has been a great ambassador for soccer in our region,” he said. “Bloemfontein Celtic wishes Ntate Molemela all the best. We salute him!” he added. Molemela is now involved in the construction business in the Free State, but on a smaller scale.
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THE mayor of the Ngwathe Municipality, Joey Mochela, awarded 60 business people – mainly tuckshop owners – with certificates of competence granted by TADI – FET College in an event that was held at Sandersville Hall in Heilbron on Thursday. Photo: Supplied
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Missing
Lost ID, handbag SARAH TITUS of Heidedal in Bloemfontein has lost her handbag with her identity book, passport, driver’s licence, purse and other important documents. Titus says the bag was lost in the area around the corner of Nelson Mandela and West Burger streets on Friday, 19 April. The artificial leather sling bag is cream in colour. Anyone who might have picked up the bag or its contents is asked to contact Lize on 078-460-6932 or Danie on 073-480-6819.
THE 19-year-old Jerlyn Khan has been reported missing by her family. Khan went missing on 11 April in Heidedal, Bloemfontein, and is believed to be in the company of her Bangladeshi boyfriend known only as Zohier. On 14 April the couple was involved in a motor vehicle accident in Grassland where no one was injured. Zo-hier was last seen driving a white Nissan Almera, number plates FFR 199 FS. Two separate cases, one of a missing person and another of a motor vehicle accident, were reported at the Heidedal and Bloemspruit police stations respectively. Anyone who might know of Jerlyn’s whereabouts is asked to call her brother Elton on 079-283-8277 or Const. Ramoolia of the Heidedal police on 051-409-7226. Photo: Family album
Initiative invited to Peru
LET’S PLAY, SuperSport’s corporate social investment initiative, has been given a platform on the International Olympic Committee’s World Conference on Sport for All, taking place in Peru this week. Vaughn Bishop, SuperSport’s manager of CSI and enterprises, will deliver an address on Sports facilities and venues in a developing country, outlining the importance of the accessibility of infrastructure and space to the biggest number of individuals and sectors of sport across the community. “I’m thrilled. The timing of our Playing Field Project is perfect and central to my presentation, which will showcase how the private sector is addressing and adding value by creating play and playing facilities,” said Bishop. Every two years the IOC organises the IOC World Conference on Sport for All. The objective is for participants to share their perspectives, experiences and insights regarding sport for all. The International Olympic Committee has recognised Let’s Play’s depth of knowledge in the field of sport for all. The timing of Let’s Play’s Playing Field Project is perfect as it showcases how the private sector is addressing and adding value by creating play and playing facilities. Commenting on the development, Happy Ntshingila, CEO of SuperSport, said it was a just reward for Let’s Play’s long-standing commitment to under-developed communities.
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Thanks for good service KEDIBONE WA GA SEKHWELA, Bloemfontein: AS South Africans we have now become a “mumbling and grumbling” nation and based on this, we no longer recognise and appreciate the good things in life and in our country. The reason why I’m saying this is because day in and day out when you read the newspapers, listen to news on the radio or watch news on television people are complaining about poor service delivery in their municipalities and even how government is failing them on many occasions. And I must say most of those grievances are genuine, but today let me take this opportunity to give credit
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where it is due. In February, I lost my driver’s licence and the idea of queuing for the application of a new driver’s licence was a nightmare, because I knew how straining it was to get excellent service in most of our traffic departments, especially in my home provinces of Mpumalanga and Limpopo. But I couldn’t believe how quickly
I was assisted at the Mangaung Traffic Department; it didn’t even take 30 minutes to apply for a new driver’s licence and to get a temporary licence. The level of professionalism and commitment from the clerks, cashiers and officers was so amazing. That was batho pele at its best and I just want to congratulate the management and the entire staff at the Mangaung Traffic Department for a job well done and to keep it up. I am also appealing to other traffic departments to visit that traffic department on a fact-finding mission to ask how they get it right, because all South Africans deserve that kind of service in all our municipalities.
Hijackers rape student A YOUNG student has been left traumatised after she was raped five times by hijackers who attacked her and a friend in Bloemfontein. The hijackers assaulted her 22year-old male friend and left him for dead before speeding off with the 18-year-old woman in the bakkie last Thursday night, reported Volksblad. She was raped five times in two different places. Her ordeal finally came to an end after police officers saw her in the vehicle with the hijackers and became suspicious. The cops chased after the hijackers and shots were fired. The bakkie drove into a fence and the hijackers jumped out and fled. The young University of the
Free State (UFS) student said the police officers had saved her life. She is suffering from nightmares and is receiving counselling following the attack. Her friend remains in hospital and has had an operation on his hand. He also has injuries from being assaulted with a hammer on his head and body. A Free State police spokesperson said the hijackers and rapists are still at large. The UFS expressed shock at the incident and said it was offering support to the student. “We remain deeply concerned about the safety of students who don’t live on campus,” UFS spokesperson, Lacea Loader, said. – News24.com
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NCOP wants to see change
Attended launch of development NEW DEVELOPMENT: A new ‘city’ is being developed around the Bram Fischer International Airport outside Bloemfontein. The Mangaung Metro mayor, Thabo Manyoni, said at the project launch on Friday that the 700 ha first phase of the 2 000 ha project will be bigger than the present CBD. Also present at the launch were from left Kaba Kabagambe, head of the municipality’s Planning and Economic Unit, Sibongile Mazibuko, city manager, and Papiki Moeng, mayoral committee member responsible for Planning and Urban Development. Photo: Marietjie Gericke
} Selloane Khalane
‘Not good enough’ houses go down } Tladi Moloi HERSEY MOFOKENG (34), who hails from Bluegumbosch in Qwaqwa, cried as she watched her two-room house being demolished when Ace Magashule, the Free State premier, assisted by a bulldozer driver, destroyed it on Wednesday. However, Mofokeng said she was not hurt at all, but that those were just tears of joy. “I am happy that our government is going to build a house for me,” she said. Mofokeng said the two-room house was not enough for her and the family as she had to share a room with the children. “We have been promised a house with two bedrooms – then I would have my privacy. They said it would take two months for the house to be completed,” she said. The demolishing of the two houses in Bluegumbosch was part of the Operation Hlasela outreach, planned to ensure that services reach the intended beneficiaries and that the government yields the expected results from the service delivery programmes it has embarked on since it came into office in 2009. Olly Mlamleli, the MEC of Cooperative Governance, Traditional Affairs and Human Settlements for the Free State, said they have allocated R54 million which would be used to build houses in the province. She said the premier stated during his State of the Province Address that they should come up
GOING DOWN: Ace Magashule, the premier of the Free State, is in this bulldozer which is destroying one of the houses in Bluegumbosch, Qwaqwa. Photo: Tladi Moloi with a strategy to get rid of all the two-room houses in the province. “We have prioritised some of the areas where those houses were found in the province and Bluegombosch is one of them. We have found that there were 3 400 one door (two-room) houses in the area,” she said. She said she was not in a position to say how many houses would be built in Qwaqwa and added that they would have to wait for the two contractors who
have requested to build two show houses. “We have two contractors here who have requested us to do the show houses. We have given them a chance, as we want to see what kind of houses they would build and after that we will determine how many houses would be built in that place. After having built those houses we will again call on the community and get their views so that we can continue,” she said.
The MEC said those houses where identified by the premier during his door-to-door campaign which was aimed at finding out how people have been living. “I like it because it brings us to the people who entrusted the provincial government to us. When I arrived here I was not happy with one of the houses where two doors from a bedroom and bath room where coming straight to the kitchen. I asked myself where the dignity of our people was.”
THE National Council of Provinces (NCOP) complained about the lack of cooperation received from the Free State Legislature members. This follows a week-long service delivery oversight visit in the province. At the Free State Legislature, Mbuyiselo Jacobs, NCOP delegation leader, suggested to the house that no parallel programmes should be held during the committee’s provincial week. Jacobs mentioned that Premier Ace Magashule and his executive cabinet ran a parallel programme and did not attend any of the committee’s sittings. While the committee did oversights, Magashule, MEC’s and councillors held an Operation Hlasela outreach programme in Bluegumbosch, Qwaqwa, over the week. “There is a lot of disjuncture,” Jacobs said. “They are not taking the council seriously,” NCOP Cope delegate Dennis Bloem said. NCOP ANC delegate Aaron Mnguni said the committee struggled during oversight visits at the various projects, because there were no councillors to brief the committee on progress made on the projects. “We were left on our own,” Mnguni said. Discussing recommendation challenges encountered on the various projects visited by the delegation, Bloem said parliament should be more “strict” on allegations of corruption in municipalities. “Where there are allegations of corruption in municipalities, the special investigative unit (SIU) and Hawks should investigate,” Bloem said. Bloem said findings of such investigations should come with heavy consequences for those found guilty. This follows the auditor general’s concern over the R1,3 billion accumulated due to unauthorized expenditures in the province. Jacobs called for an investigation into the R1,8 million pumped into the Maluti Dairy Farm project which has been non-operational since 2010 after the initial visit by parliament. The committee was informed by a deputy director from the Department of Agriculture, a MJ Malate, that the project had gone stale. The Maluti-a-Phofung Municipality told beneficiaries there were no funds for training. NCOP DA delegate Arthur Worth recommended an investigation into the financial mismanagement and lack of control at the QwaQwa Lodge project which has been without progress over the years. See related story on p 2.
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Please take notice that Frans Johannes Jacobus Lessing intends to make application to the Commissioner of CIPC for the restoration of Lessing Estate Agency (2006/219492/23). Please take further notice that any objection to the application must be lodged with the Commissioner of CIPC within 30 days of the date of the publication thereof, CIPC, PO Box 429, Pretoria, 0001.
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IN THE SOUTHERN DIVORCE COURT HELD AT BLOEMFONTEIN In the Southern Divorce Court held at Bloemfontein in the application of case no: 6495/10 between: ELISA LEMMA Applicant and
BIRUK LEMMA Respondent To: Biruk Lemma Occupation: Unknown Formerly residing at PE, but whose present whereabouts are unkown: Take notice that by summons sued out by this Court, you have been called upon to, within one (1) month after publication hereof, to the Registrar, Private Bag X 7481, King Williams Town, 5600 and to the Plaintiff, of your intention to defend (if any) in an action where the Plaintiff claims: 1.1 Decree of divorce. 1.2 Division of the joint estate. 1.3 Cost of the cause, only if the matter is defended. 1.4 Further and/or alternative relief. Take note further that if you fail to give such notice, judgement may be granted against you without further reference to you. Dated at Bloemfontein on this day Plaintiff's address for service 1373 A Section Botshabelo
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Cheetahs set their sights on Kings } Sidwell Guduka THE Toyota Free State Cheetahs will face the Southern Kings at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein on Saturday. The match kicks off at 19:10. The Cheetahs’ confidence levels may be sky high going into this encounter after defeating the Sharks 12-6 in Durban at the weekend, registering their sixth Super Rugby out of seven matches.
The perennial bottomhalf side, Cheetahs, have been a revelation this season. They have won five of their last six outings – three on tour – and have turned a number of problem areas into success in the past few weeks. And what the Cheetahs will want to do this Saturday is pick up right where they left off against the Sharks. However, the Bloemfontein-based rugby franchise should be very wary of
KEY: Heinrich Brüssow.
the Kings’ backlash in the next fixture this weekend. The Kings are coming off a heavy loss at the weekend, which makes this game something of a must-win for them, especially as it comes just before they face the Waratahs in Port Elizabeth on 4 May. Meanwhile, Naka Drotské’s men are sitting sixth on the combined log with 27 points and lie second on the South African conference log
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behind the Bulls who have 28 points. A victory against the Kings will see them catch up with the log-leading Bulls. On the other hand, Matt Sexton’s troops are in 14th position on the combined log with a paltry 15 points; 9 points clear of the basement side, the Highlanders. The hosts will pin their hopes on Heinrich Brüssow, Lappies Labuschagne, Raymond Rhule, Burton Francis and Willie le
Roux. On Friday, Cheetahs players will be at Kloppers in Loch Logan to mingle with their supporters. “We urge all our supporters to come and meet our players. “The players will be there between 14:30 and 15:30 to hand out signatures and take pictures with fans,” Ronel Pienaar, manager: strategic communication, said. “Supporters qualify for 10% discount on all Puma merchandise sold at
Kloppers and qualify for a lucky draw of a brand-new LG microwave with the show of a match ticket for the game between the Toyota Cheetahs and the Kings,” she added. ) Tickets for this game will be sold at Kloppers on Friday and Saturday until 14:00 at R80 (grand-stand), R60 (adults; open stand) and R20 for students and kids. Tickets are also available from the ticket office at the Free State Stadium.
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Celtic: Now every point counts } Sidwell Guduka BLOEMFONTEIN CELTIC’S failure to score goals is a cause for concern for the whole team ahead of their Absa Premiership match against draw specialists Mamelodi Sundowns at the Pilditch Stadium on Saturday at 20:15. Coach Clinton Larsen’s men wasted dozens of clear-cut scoring opportunities before managing a last-minute goal against Golden Arrows, whom they beat 1-0 in Bloemfontein on Sunday. Joel Mogorosi, who scored the only goal of the match, said they were sharpening their finishing at training and he was confident there would be an improvement against Downs who defeated them 1-0 in the first round at the Free State Stadium. “A game is won by putting the ball in the back of the net and on Sunday we did everything right but score. We need to go back to the training field and work on our finishing. We should have killed the game in the first half, but it never happened as we missed dozens of chances,” Mogorosi said. “Credit must go to all the players who continued to push hard for a goal that we needed so much. We never gave up. In the end, we were happy to have collected three important points. “Every point is like gold at this stage of the season. “We just need to soldier on and keep on working hard. Without hard work there is no success. Goals will eventually come. “It’s just a matter of luck.
Luck seems to have deserted us. We try our level best to get goals, but finishing remains our main problem. “If luck is not on your side, you can do anything but score goals. We should take heart from the fact that we create a lot of opportunities in every game.” Larsen said he was working around the clock to perfect his players’ shooting at training. “Most of the players are frustrated, because they are working tirelessly at training on the final part of our game that is missing. But we’ll keep plugging away. “Our failure to score goals is a combination of a few factors. I think it is positioning, composure and one or two other things. We’ll continue to work hard at training to get things right.” The recenly signed striker Roderick Mutuma may have missed three good opportunities, but Larsen said he was happy about his contribution. “Roderick is a special player. He may have failed to touch the net (against Arrows), but his all-round contribution was very good. “It’s just a matter of time for him to start finding the back of the net quite regularly,” the coach said. Celtic are eighth on the log, on 34 points, from 26 matches. “We are looking to our next game and we hope to collect another three points. The more we get them, the more we’ll move up the table. “If we fail to win, we’ll drop to the bottom half of the table again. We’ll have to work hard to cement our position in the top eight,” Mogorosi said.
IN-FORM: Joel Mogorosi was chosen as Man of the Match for the game between Celtic and Arrows on Sunday. Photo: Barry Aldworth/Backpagepix