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Bombing of InterCape bus still a mystery VELANI LUDIDI The mystery surrounding the bombing of an InterCape bus last Tuesday evening in Strand that was bound for the Eastern Cape continues to baffle.

Some say it was carried out by disgruntled employees, while initial indications suggested in was rogue elements from Nomzamo.

Two people died and more than 30 passengers sustained burn injuries in the attack on the bus which, it is claimed, was petrolbombed by three men who had apparently waylaid it as it drove through Onverwacht Road to collect other passengers on its journey to Mthatha.

The bus driver said he believed his bus was targeted because he refused to take part in an ongoing strike.

Dennis Moyo claims he was also shot at in August for the same reason.

“I was shot at while driving a loaded bus outside Grabouw last month.”

InterCape and the police have confirmed this incident.

The father of two said he’s lucky to have escaped the burning wreckage alive.

Recounting the events of last Tuesday, Moyo said: “As I drove past the robots, I thought I’d heared two stones being thrown in front of the bus; suddenly, a fire broke out. I tried to accelerate, but the flames were getting big. So I stopped and opened the doors for the passengers to disembark...”

A company spokesperson could not confirm that the attack was carried out by strikers, though.

Moyo said the people who attacked him on “both occasions know the route of the bus, as they are former drivers of the company.”

Councillor Jongidumo Maxheke has dismissed reports that the attack was by rogue elements.

“Although there are issues with housing, problems have been ironed out,” he said.

“People would not go to those extremes.”

Mayoral Committee member for Safety and Security JP Smith said: “This doesn’t

Firefighters extinguish the last embers of the burning bus. appear to be the result of protest action; there are no protests anywhere near the scene.”

One of the survivors, Maruba Benzi, said he was grateful to have survived.

One of the first persons on the scene was Paulina Mnukwana, a local resident.

She said it seemed the double-decker bus was on its last rounds of picking up passengers before leaving for its journey.

Mnukwana said she saw an old woman sitting on the top deck, scrambling to get out

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of the bus.

She said: “Boetie, at that time I wish I had wings, so I could fly up and rescue her, because I could see she was walking with a stick. She was also trying to get up, because she was older, but we couldn’t do anything because it was too late by that time.”

Mnukwana said she desperately tried to rescue scores of passengers trapped in the burning wreckage.

It is not yet known whether the old lady mentioned is one of two people who died in

the fire.

Captain Andries Geldenhuys of the Lwandle police said DNA tests will determine the identities of the charred remains of two bodies found in the wreckage.

Meanwhile, the Intercape bus company says it will not suspend services after this, the second attack on its luxury liners in two months.

Moyo said, despite laying criminal charges twice, he is still too traumatised to return to work.

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2 25 September 2015

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Be optimistic, look on the bright side, stop moaning!

I like it when people talk loudly, although there are times when I do not prefer such strident talk.

I was at a train station waiting and, after a while, we were so exhausted from this perennial waiting thing, a common hassle with transport, at some stage I actually dozed off.

When the train finally arrived and people rushed headlong for the carriage entrances, I realised it was full, standing room only.

There were these two elderly men talking X impeccably dressed in casual wear, which somehow proved that they were from around town.

This is opposed to those with a more rustic look, denoting their rural background, from emakhaya.

They were very loud in their conversation, somehow wanting to draw everyone else into their talk.

It was like “you young fellas know nothing,

listen to us talk wisdom.”

But I, for one, was reluctantly drawn into this jabber and the subject of their discussion.

Moaning about this and that. Moaning about how whites are ripping us off. The disparity in wages.

And the yawning economic gap between us and them.

I figured, who doesn’t know that! And yet here were these two oldies going on and on as if what they were saying - to each other and us, their fellow travellers - was new.

Ja, not the most enervating, if annoying. I felt like dozing off again, not easy standing on your feet. So whoever was within earshot was forced to endure this twaddle.

Then, the subject changed to business talk.

Still things were not all okay with these two.

There was this. There was that. What a gloomy picture they painted.

Dear reader, I am sure you wouldn’t want

Don’t look away, stand up I’m really amazed by what is happening in our communities. We have turned to be so passive and careless nowadays. During the time I was growing up, our community was so involved and anything wrong that happened was addressed by everybody. We never had cases where an incident or situation will have no ownership. An example of that is in the conduct of our children; nowadays you see young people in street corners, without feeling self-conscious at all, hugging and smooching each other in the presence of elders, and to them there’s nothing wrong with that. In my time, any man or woman old enough to be my father and mother, was my parent.

And guess what, these things we see and say nothing about become the norm, and our communities forever degenerate into the morass we find ourselves in today.

Young people have more power than the elderly because the old have become passive in dealing with issues. We bypass things as though we do not see them and act as though we are not present, letting things happen right under our noses. We then complain about anything and everything because we do not want to be active.

Riding in a taxi the other day, there was a

heated debate about the response of people to stuff taking place in our community.

As we were talking, we drove past people involved in an altercation, and we assumed that someone was being robbed. A man seated next to me immediately jumped off his chair, opened the window and started shouting with the intention to scare the robbers away. Then the discussion took another turn, and the man became the hero among us, and was showered with compliments.

Then another commuter made a remark that left my heart troubled and I could see that he was uttering those words with a heavy heart too.

He looked at me and said “Sisi, people do not help nowadays” and I could sense that he was talking from experience.

He said people tend to watch as one is being attacked and thereafter approach to ask if you have been deprived of anything.

I can understand that people are living in fear, but if we were active witnesses in the first place, we would not be living in fear now. Let us be active witnesses my people and not let thugs and hooligans rule our communities. )Pumla Skunana-Kamulu works for Radio Cape Pulpit as a presenter. Contact: pumla.tgse@gmail.com.

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me to bore you to death with all the details, lest you also doze off.

Anyway, I eventually reached my intended station and then entered a taxi, and guess who I find to share the same seat?

One of them! That close, he seemed a likeable fellow, with a sweet smile. I liked him. Trying for small talk, I asked what business he was in.

He said he was a pensioner. He went from sweet to bitter.

In life, you do find people who try for this and that, to no avail.

Was he ever in business before, I asked. He told me he had started as a swimming pool builder and repairer. But saved some money to buy a lorry and some material to build houses. He was a hard worker.

He used to lend the lorry out, but over the

years became the worse for wear and was broken down, and nowadays he remained at home doing nothing.

His brothers were good for nothing sots.

If only they could find the wisdom to repair the lorry and make some money, he would be a happy soul.

What about the building material, I asked. It was there too, he said. But he was an old man now. The energy was gone. The youth of today are useless. He wanted to employ them, but they showed no interest.

The more he talked the more I realised that he was creating obstacles for himself. Dear reader, do you also see only obstacles in the way, or, do you see hope? I hope you see hope, for if you do not then its goodbye to the future, and hello despair. Stay positive.

Iinkonzo mazivule amasango ngeLizwi Mandinibulise nonke bafundi beli phephandaba, ngegama le Nkosi yethu u Yesu Kristu.

Namhlanje ndicela siphendule lo mbuzo uthi, “yintoni indima yebandla lika Thixo ekuhlaleni”.

Okokuqala, uMatewu uthi: “ Hambani ngoko niyokuzenza abafundi zonke iintlanga”.

Siyabona ngokwalevesi ukuba kwibandla lika Thixo, into yokuqala ebalulekileyo emaliyenze yile yokwazisa ekuhlaleni ngo Yesu.

Kubalulekile ukuba abantu bazi ukuba inye indlela yokuya ezulwini, nguYesu, kukuba ibandla liphakame, lishumayele lixelele abantu ngo Yesu.

Into esentliziyweni ka Thixo kukuthi abantu basinde ekugwetyweni.

Inye ke indlela abayakusindiswa ngayo emgwebeni, kukuthi ibandla liphakame lishumayele ukuze abantu babuyele kuThixo ngoYesu.

Ngoko ke indima ebalulekileyo yebandla ekuhlaleni: kukwazisa abahlali ngoYesu, ukuze ngomhla wokugqibela abantu basinde emgwebeni.

Ukuba inkonzo yakho ayiyenzi lento, ayishumayeli ukuba abantu bakholwe kuYesu basindiswe, ayikho sendleleni, ayiyenzi intando kaThixo, nabantu ayibakhokheleli endleleni elungileyo Ingaba indima yebandla iphelele ekuxeleleni abantu ngoYesu kuphela na?

Hayi, ayiphelelanga. UYakobi uthi, “Kunceda ntoni na bazalwane bam, ukuba umntu uthi unokholo, ab eke imisebenzi engenayo”?

Ihambisa ithi: “ukuba ke umzalwane nokuba ngu dade, bathi baswele ukudla imihla ngemihla, athi omnye wenu kubo, hambani ninoxolo, yothani nihluthe, nib eke ningabaniki izinto ezo zifanele umzimba, kunceda ntoni na”. Futhi “ukholo ngaphandle kwemisebenzi lufile”.

Ngoko ke Rhamente engcwele ka Thixo, akonelanga ukuba simise iintente, singene esixekweni sishumayela, singene imizi nemizi sixelela abantu ngoYesu, kumele ukuba ivangeli siyiphile.

Kumele ukuba abantu babone uYesu apha kuthi.

Rhamente engcwele ka Thixo, ithi ibhayibhile masibe kukukhanya.

Umbuzo ngulo: “ingaba thina njenge bandla lika Thixo esithi sisindisiwe sikuko na ukukhanya; ingaba abantu bayambona na uYesu apha kuthi” Inkulu indima ekumele idlalwa libandla lika Thixo ekuhlaleni endingazibalayo: Indlala ikhona, kukhona abantu Rhamente engcwele abalala bengatyanga, kukhona abantwana abadlakazelayo, ingaba thina njengebandla sisonga izandla siqhubeke sicula sisith, “ siyakudumisa Thixo, siyakuvuma ukuba unguYehova”?

Iziyobisi nazo zikhona ekuhlaleni, abazali balala ngeenyembezi bekhathazwa ngabantwana abagqitywa yi tik.

Yintoni esingayenza njengebandla ukuze sibekukukhanya ekuhlaleni.

Singabefundisi masivuleni iinkonzo, iinkonzo mazingavalwa emini zivulwe ebusuku, xa kuzakuthandazwa, masivume iinkonzo zisebenze nje nge khusi apho abantu bakaThixo banokufumana khona ukuphila ngokwasemphefumlweni nagezinye iindlela.

Masivume ukuba iinkonzo zisebenze njenge ndawo zokuphuhlisa izakhono, apho khona kunokuqeqeshwa khona abantu bakaThixo ukuze indlala igwetywe. Umzekelo, bangaqeqeshwa kwizinto ezifana nokuthunga, business skills, computers, welding njl njl.

Wena unesakhono sokwenza iwelding, fundisa nabanye ukuze nabo baphume endlaleni.

Ukuba unolwazi oluphangaleleyo ngezibalo okanye mathematics, thetha noMfundisi wakho khona ukuze ufundise abantwana emva kwemini.

Sebenzisa imfundo yakho nesakhono sakho ukunceda abanye. Kanti singawavula amasongo enkozo zethu njengendawo yokunceda abo bazifumana besezingxakini.

Indima yebandla ekuhlaleni kukuba lixelele abantu ngoYesu, khona ukuze ilizwe lenkosi libekukukhanya.

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Bhaca king meets his people in Lwandle VELANI LUDIDI AmaBhaca King Madzikane II and his delegation spent the past weekend in Lwandle, which has a large Bhaca community, to celebrate their heritage ahead of Heritage Day. The event took place last Saturday at the Lwandle Community hall.

The AmaBhaca originally hail from Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape, but arrived in the Cape as migrant labourers and, over the years, have had a strong presence in the cultural milieu of the province.

They are also found in large parts of the Western Cape.

King Madzikane II was hosted by the leaders from the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa).

The atmosphere on the day was convivial, with local AmaBhaca people performing songs and dance, serving traditional offerings such as Inkobe, Isigwamba and umkhupha for people to feast on. Umqombothi brew flowed for all to quench their thirst.

While the men busied themselves with consuming huge amounts of meat and guzzling the brew, the older AmaBhaca women retreated to a house nearby to perform ukuhlolwa kwentombi, virgin testing, and many a girl emerged from the house with a great smile on their face.

As they emerged, the King smiled and remarked “Cows are still coming”.

The King said his coming to the Cape “was to show that we have not forgotten about them (people).

Their culture, their identity must not be tampered with, we must instill a sense of pride in our Bhaca nationhood, especially among the youth here. We need to protect our identity and the heritage of AmaBhaca.”

The king also alluded to the political and transformation challenges faced by his people here.

“I am aware of the struggles people are facing, including the Open Stellenbosch University saga and I implore the youth to not neglect their culture or be ashamed of being Bhaca and not allow anyone to look

Bhaca men display their regalia.

AmaBhaca maidens parade before the king.

Bhaca maiden Zizipho Sambane says she is proud of her heritage.

Councillor JJ Maxheke in audience with the King.

AmaXhosa, Sotho, AmaHlubi, Zulu and Venda, who said they attended the event to show respect to the king.

Councillor JJ Maxheke says he was honoured to host the Bhaca King at Lwandle for the first time.

The weightlifters with their trophies are (from left) Vuyolwethu Ndukwana, who took second place in the recent championships in the u-17, Thobelani Ngxongolo, Thanduxolo Phumangene, Mnyamezeli Setoile, who took first place u-21, Guy Moukiama, Lindela Myabe, Msi Buqa . In front, Khangelani Siyephu and Vuyo Mayekiso, who took fourth place in his debut.

Some of the weightlifters from Strand who will be representing the Western Province in the Ceres Championship on 3 October. From left, are Guy Moukiama, Thanduxolo Phumangene, Lindela Myabe, Mnyamezeli Setoile, Vuyo Mayekiso, Vuyolwethu Ndukwana and Thobelani Ngxongolo. In front are Msi Buqa, Sibongile Mfazwe and Khangelani Siyephu.

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Zizipho Sambane, a Grade 12 learner, one of those who declared their pride in being of Bhaca origin, said she felt honoured by the king’s visit to the region.

Also present at the feast were

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4 25 September 2015

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Home Affairs to the rescue VELANI LUDIDI The Department of Home Affairs has put the smile back on the faces of residents of Ezinkomeni informal settlement, who lost all their belongings in a raging fire last month.

Last month afire broke out in one of the shacks due to an electrical fault, destroying more than 30 others, and left scores of residents homeless.

Officials from the department de- Home Affairs officials hard at work assisting resiscended on the area in their mobile offi- dents of ezinkomeni affairs ces and brought relief to hundreds of PHOTO: VELANI LUDIDI residents by helping them apply for new identity documents. people of Ezinkomeni and they did just that.

They also helped with the issuance of birth I am very pleased with the working relationcertificates for the minors. ship of all the stakeholders involved in makNomandla Bhenxeshe said she was very ing this a possibility,” he said happy that she will be able to have her ID Bolekwa Potelwa, a local, said: “I am very again after she’d lost it in the fire. happy that I will get my ID back and birth Councillor JJ Maxheke said: “We had certificates for my kids and want to thank pleaded with Home Affairs to come to the our councillor who made this possible.”

2 Lwandle shacks catch alight TAMSYN JANTJIES Two shacks caught alight in Lwandle, Strand last weekend.

Liezl Moodie, media liaison officer for Cape Town Fire and Rescue Services, said a fire destroyed a shack on Saturday 12 September.

In her statement, she said Fire and Rescue responded to the blaze in Onverwacht Street at 06:16, managing to extinguish it by 06:21.

“As a result of the fire, one man sustained burn wounds and another was left homeless,” said Moodie. “A water tanker and a rescue vehicle were despatched to the scene.”

The cause of the fire was not yet known at the time of going to print.

According to Captain JP du Toit from the Lwandle police, the second incident happened on Sunday 13 September in Masakhane Street.

“The fire started, we suspect, due to a faulty appliance,” he said. “No one was hurt and the fire was extinguished by community members.”

Elias Xelelo, who lives on the property where the fire broke out, said the shack’s occupier was not at home when the fire broke out.

Flames reach as high as the roof in Masakhane Street.

PHOTO: TAMSYN JANTJIES “We saw the smoke and rushed to the back of the house where the shack is, to see what was going on,” said Xelelo. “We realised that flames were flaring up, so we rushed around. We had to break down the front door to get inside and stop the fire from consuming everything.”

Xelelo said this happened after 15:00 on Sunday afternoon. Du Toit said the number of shack fires in Lwandle has not been high this year.

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The Chain Gang Crew includes, from left, Bryan Mathee, Lucas Valashiya, LeeRoy Mutaurirwa, Chris Jamanda, Sesethu Myeki, Nape Elephant and Sphenathi Ncedana.

Strand talent shines NKUTHALO TYUTULO Strand is the home of the arts – with talented youth, gospel music, hip hop, music, drama, and comedy genres coming to the front.

Sakhubuntu Development Project (SDP) brought this point home when they recently hosted an art competition in Lwandle.

The event was held at the Christ Church to motivate youngsters to chase their dreams by performing in Street Firm Crew consists of, from left to right, Mbongiseni front of a judge panel and a local au- Rasimeni, Luthando Ndzuzo, Zakhele Zwane and Bonga Mgedience. dezi.

According to Kabelo RamothathPHOTOS: NKUTHALO TYUTHULO aki, the event organiser, the competition was held to offer a platform for the youth to express their aspirations, thus ex- the skits of the SDP comedy trio.

Chain Gang, consisting of a South African posing their latent creativity. and Zimbabwean crew, brought on a viby feel One of Lwandle’s hidden talents, gospel singer Nomvangeli Mbambo, did not disap- to proceedings and received a standing ovation point with her vocal prowess as she belted out after performing a song called #Us, which even popular songs like Intaba yase Bhashan and caused the judges to forget their roles and dance to the music.

Moya wokwetsima.

SDP also performed a drama titled Kuyoze Her charm worked like magic as the followkubenini ndihlutshwa kanje, a poignant play ing acts, hip hop, took to the stage with much about a girl suffering abuse under the hands heart-warming gusto.

Street Firm Crew, C.L.B Crew and Chain of an enslaving stepmother.

As the competition drew to a close, and the Gang Crew really rocked the crowds with their judges expected to deliver their verdicts on the repertoire. The Street Firm Crew touched the heart strings of the young audience with their various acts, they revealed that the hip hop acts had drawn even, and asked them to perrendition of Kubuhlungu.

The trio of Kabelo Ramothathaki, Rorisang form another final time.

Alfred Maimele announced their decision Sithathi and Nathi Qwesha from SDP entertained the audience by performing a comedy thus: “All three hip hop crews have made it to the semi-finals. skit on who really led the country.

Each crew is now expected to perform one The audience seemed to eat of their hands. song, which will be judged according to its origAs the competition heated up, Street Firm Crew took the stage again and performed two inality, individual effort, and their talents.”

In the end, it was the Street Firm Crew that songs for the judges, called “Darkness and won first prize and the rest shared the spoils. weakness”, including “Party of my life”.

Ramothathaki said: “I am very proud that The CLB Crew also did their best to impress judges Amanda Madyosi and Alfred Maimele the art groups of Strand combined today and by performing a set of songs titled “When the worked together.” He announced that some of the acts will be included in a movie about the challenges come” and “Zilindile”.

After each round, the tension was eased by creative arts in Lwandle.

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Lack of intervention in juvenile crime a worrying phenomenon I am just a concerned mother whose young daughter has been a victim of robbery by a group of young kids one Saturday early this month, near the Khanyolwethu High School.

According to her, a car passed by while all this was happening and the driver did not help in the circumstances, which seemed to give the thugs more ammunition in performing this dastardly act.

How can someone support such a deed.

What is happening in our community is traumatic to our children. I shudder to think what will become of these young deliquents.

Growing up, what kind of parents will they become, and what kind of society are they expecting to see in future? Is poverty the cause?

I am just concerned.

GLORIA MAKAMBI LWANDLE

Senzwa Project dispute not settled as reported VELANI LUDIDI Contrary to earlier reports in the media, the matter between the bosses of Senzwa Project and their former employees has not yet been resolved.

Senzwa Project was subcontracted to build the Eskom substation in Vulindlela by a company called Bambana Management.

After their bosses failed to pay them their full salaries midway through the construction, the workers downed tools.

One of the workers is on record saying Senzwa Project owners did not even give them reasons for non-payment.

The substation project did not stall dur-

ing the strike, though, as Bambana Management hired another company to continue building the structure.

Lunga Vunda and his associate, Sawela Tyapha, owners of Senzwa Project, had promised to pay their workers the shortfall before the end of August, but to date has not done so.

Even the intervention of Councillor JJ Maxheke and the Khupha Community Forum failed to help the workers’ plight.

Numerous attempts by Kasi Vision to get hold of the owners of the company failed to bear fruit. Kasi Vision regrets the errors contained in the previous report about the dispute being settled.

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The Department of Basic Education has confirmed that Mandarin will be introduced as an optional subject in South African schools in 2016. A circular was issued by the department to national and provincial education authorities to the effect that the Chinese language will be added to the school curriculum in January 2016.

Basic Education spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga said the department will try to teach the language to as many people in the country as possible. The programme is part of a 10year plan signed in December last year by President Jacob Zuma, and will be taught as an optional extra.

However, the move has been met with criticism by the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu), which claims adding Mandarin to the curriculum is “another form of colonisation.”

Sadtu’s general secretary Mugwena Maluleke has said that the union would oppose the introduction of Mandarin to the curriculum, describing it as the “worst form of imperialism”.

In response, the Department said the decision was based on growing demand from parents. Mandarin is currently taught in other Southern African countries.

Hundreds of South African teachers will be trained at three Confucius Institutes designed to promote Chinese culture, it said.

Kasi Vision’s VELANI LUDIDI requested the opinion of some teachers in Nomzamo.

MS NCIKITHWA, also from Nomzamo High, feels that it’s a good thing because our kids will be exposed to other languages as well, but “I feel it should not be compulsory but optional.

They may be in positions where they will have to go to China or another country where Mandarin is spoken. There is nothing wrong with acquiring another language.”

SITHEMBELE NTLOKO does not think it’s a good idea at all. “Another language will affect us badly as teachers. Many language teachers are sitting at home without jobs.

The introduction of this language will open up spaces for foreign teachers to come and teach this language.”

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MS MHLUZI, from Khanyolwethu High School said: “We cannot allow another country to come here and introduce their language. No! We are not good in our own languages at this moment, now we must add another language.

The government is playing games. We have kids who did SeSotho as home language and now we are teaching IsiXhosa, which they are not used to.

It’s so difficult for them.”

MR MANKAYI from Nomzamo High is opposed to the idea. “We have 11 official languages, but radio and television do not give much attention to all of them. Now we must grapple with another foreign language. My question, though, are the Chinese also going to learn IsiXhosa? Why don’t they teach this Mandarin to those working for the Chinese. I’m deeply concerned about this, especially in Heritage month.”

LUNGA SALI, a teacher at Umnqophiso Primary, said Mandarin will confuse the learners.

“We already have a hard time dealing with different dialects here, with children coming from various villages and rural areas of the Eastern Cape. Most children already struggle understanding IsiXhosa or SeSotho; then there is English as an additional language.

Mandarin will be good for South African students studying in China.”

NTOBEKO NDABULA, Mnqophiso Primary said he was also totally opposed to the introduction of the language, “because our kids are still struggling with our African languages.This is going back to colonisation, where people with money dictate to us. Why can’t the Chinese learn our languages? The government should come up with strategies to master our 11 languages.”

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Sports complex in dire state VELANI LUDIDI The state of the Lwandle Sports Complex is so dire that if remedial action is not taken immediately, the place will collapse into a white elephant, and the delinquents in society will find it a ready haven for their brazen criminality.

Built as one of the countrywide projects of the 2010 Fifa World Cup legacy, after South Africa – the first counAlthough the nets are worn down, soccer lovers continue to try on the continent to do so play on the artificial turf, which is also in a state of ill-repair – played host to a successful PHOTO: VELANI LUDIDI cup, the nets have gaping holes and are hanging loose from their pillars, with some of the poles lying on their sides, the seven-a- com League, the Coca Cola Cup, and even side artificial pitch is also in a state of disre- the late soccer legend Thomas Madigage pair. once paid a visit to the venue and first hand Toilets are no longer safe to use because experienced its magnificence, and was duly the sewage pipes are broken. impressed by this facility.

What is even more worrying is the fact But the field is wearing and does not seem that the pitch is the lifeblood of the soccer to be properly maintained, nor do the powloving fraternity of Lwandle, built to cater ers that be show any intention to mend for 32 senior and 26 junior teams, on which things. The Helderberg LFA says they are they play all their league games. playing their part by trying to monitor the According to Linda Pistoli: “We have no field, minus the budget, as the field is the other options but to use the field whenever sole responsibility of the City of Cape Town we play our games,”. to maintain.

Pistoli is the chairperson of the HelderPistoli admits that it is their desire and berg Local Football Association chairper- in their best interests to have the entire comson. plex fixed or upgraded.

When the field was built, it was touted as If nothing is done with the complex, the undoubtedly one of the best fields in the football loving community will be forced to Western Cape. go back to playing in dusty fields and many To prove this point, in a short space of youngsters will be back on the streets, time after its completion, the complex has where they will find themselves in the abhosted big league games such as the Voda- sence of adequate facilities.

The under-11, 12 and 13 teams together with their teachers Mandisa Yamiso, Ms Khentane and Fezeka Mbuthuma PHOTO: VELANI LUDIDI

PERFORMANCE BEYOND EXPECTATIONS

Unmqophiso tops VELANI LUDIDI Umnqophiso Primary School’s under-11, 12 and 13 netball teams came up tops in the Western Cape primary schools tournament, which was held at Brackenfell’s Briston Primary School.

The school’s teams received medals as well as certificates as part of the prizes for the tournament. Zintle Ralarala, one of the winning players said: “I feel so happy that we have won, our first time ever in the tournament.”

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“I am happy for the kids and the reason we won is that they are respectful, they listen to us teachers. I would also like to thank their parents for allowing us the services and time of their children, sometimes we would go home late at night from the games, but have never received any complaints from them. We thank them for their support,” said Ms Mbuthuma.

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