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ABATHEMBU King BuyelekhayaDalindyebo’s son, Azenathi (23),is the right person to take overthe kingship if his father goes tojail, the king’s aunt claims.

Nongenile Madlamini Nyoka is the young-er sister of Buyelekhaya’s mother and shewaspresent during the initial stages ofBuyel-ekhaya and No-College’s marriage.

No-College is the mother of Prince Azena-thi who is from Ngqamakhwe and is a judge.

Nyoka said there was no question aboutAzenathi’s birth and he was the right man totake over his father’s reins as he was hisrightful son, whom Dalindyebo got in mar-riage (ngumntwana wokhukho).

Nyoka was responding to the anti-Dal-indyebo camp, which disputed Azenathi’sclaim to take over the kingship, stating thathis birth status was questionable and theywanted to check rigorously if he was not con-ceived by his mother before marriage.

The group, who call themselves the Ngan-gelizwe Royal Family, dismissed the nomina-tion of Azenathi as the next AbaThembuking.

At a meeting last Sunday (October 11) atBumbane Great Place, AmaDlomo agreedthat Azenathi should take over if his father

failed in his battle in the Constitutional Courtto avoid serving 12 years in jail.

Despite that pronouncement, the Ngengel-izwe Royal Family maintained that it was itwhich had a full mandate to debate, amongother things, tradition and customs associat-ed with the kingdom of AbaThembu, includ-ing succession.

Nyoka said they could argue about otherthings, but Azenathi becoming his father’ssuccessor was the right thing.

“All the Dlomos know that even those whoare trying to dispute the issue of the kingshipknow the truth and custom cannot change.Azenathi is the person to take the throne.”

She said Azenathi’s mother had been wel-comed by AmaDlomo as a wife of theirs andshe had never come there pregnant. She hadbecome pregnant when she was already thewife of Buyelekhaya.

“She carried the spear of welcoming in theroyal house and all the necessary measurestook place to welcome her home and Azenathiwas born,” Nyoka said.

King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo’s fate willdepend on the decision of the ConstitutionalCourt following the judgment of the SupremeCourt of Appeal which gave him 12 years’ im-prisonment for crimes including arson, as-sault with intent to cause grievous bodilyharm, culpable homicide and defeating theends of justice.

‘Azenathiis eligibletobeking’

No­College Dalindyebo and her son, Prince Azenathi Dalindyebo, in jovial mood. Azenathi isexpected to take over the kingdom of AbaThembu. PHOTO: SIM MDLEDLE

BABALWA NDLANYA

AMAXHOSA King Zwelonke Sigcau says heis not happy about how he is treated by thegovernment.

Sigcaugavevoice tohis painduring thevis-it of National Assembly speaker BalekaMbete at Nqadu Great Place in Willowvale re-cently.

He said his area was rich in titanium andgranite and theywanted these to be processedin their area to create job opportunities fortheir children.

“One of the things that you must not forget

is education because there is no one who cantake away your education qualifications,”Sigcau said.

“That is why we always want the best edu-cation for our children.”

He said President Jacob Zuma must ap-point someone tospeakwithhimwhenhehadproblems because it seemed that the Depart-ment of Local Government and TraditionalAffairs was not treating him in a good way.

He said that when he was invited to visitkings in other provinces, the department al-ways told him there was no money to bookflights and accommodation for him.

Sigcau said the government must stop ap-pointing just anyone to be the MEC for theDepartment of LocalGovernment andTradi-tional Affairs.

AccordingtoSigcau, theMECmustbecho-sen from among the traditional leaders be-cause they knew about traditional affairs.

“You just appoint any person you like tobe the leader of Traditional Affairs, even ifhe or she knows nothing about our issuesand how we work, and this is killing this de-partment,” Sigcau said.

Amaxhosa king complainsabout how he is treated

Amaxhosa King Zwelonke Sigcau is not happy about how he is treated by the government.PHOTO:YANGA SOJI

‘The governmentmuststop appointing justanyone to be theMEC forthe Department of LocalGovernment andTraditional Affairs.’­ AMAXHOSA KING ZWELONKE SIGCAU

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IKHATSHWEngesidimanesithozelainkondekazi ebisele ine minyaka ey-i-104 ubudala yakwi lali yase Gumat-ana eMqanduli, ukuya kubekwakwikhaya layo loku gqibela ngoL-wesihlanu lwale veki igqithi-leyo.UNkk Nojikile Mali (104) uthewatala amehlo abantu abaninzi ngo-ku phila iminyaka emininzi kwayeesaze nzela yonke into kuquka noku-ya kutheza kunye nokuzi phekela.

Lo ka Mali uno mntwana oyintombazana omnye naye otshateleeDutywa, kanti uThixo uthewamba-bala ngokuba anakekelwe liBandlalase Mthini Evangelical Movementemva kokuba ebonwe ngumsunguliweli bandla kumcimbi woku bhiyoz-elwa ukuzalwa konga sekhoyo no-waye sakuba nguMongameli wom-zantsi Afrika uGqirha Nelson Man-dela nowawu banjelwe eQunungonyaka ka 2009.Echaza uBhishop Tshepo Ma-

chaea uthe baye bamndwendwelauNkk Mali emzini wakhe nalaphowafika wabona ubugxwayiba ebehlala kubo.“Kulapho ke sili bandla sathatha

isigqibo sokuba simokhele indlu em-agumbimabini ngeli zamaukuphuc-ula ubomi bakhe, bendi mthathanjengo mama wam. Sithe xa sigqibaukumokhela lo ndlu owaye sakubanguMphathiswa wesebe loku hlalis-wa luluntu, naye ongase khoyouNksz Nombulelo Mabandla wa-mokhela enye indlu kwakhona,”kubeka uMachaea.Eli bandla belithe gqolo ukumen-

zela isikhumbuzo soku zalwa umak-hulu lo nobe zalwa ngenyanga kaFebhuwari ngomhla wesibini. Nga-phandle koku loka Machaea ebekwaphinde aqinisekise ukuba xa eg-ula uya kwagqirha kwaye nokutyakukhona kwikhaya lakhe ngama xe-sha onke.Ngosuku lwango lwesihlanu in-

tente ibigcwele ichitheka ngabantuebe bezothi ndlela ntle kuNkk Mali,

kuquka nabazalwane bebandla ebekhonza kulo.“Nangona nje ebesele emdala kod-

wa intliziyo yona yophukile kubabendi sele ndimthatha njengo mzaliwam nanjengoko ndinge nabo aba-zali. Kodwa ke ebesele emdala kubakaloku beku ngunyaka we-104 loephila.”Ukanti kwelinye icala intombi ka

Nkk Mali uNkk Nowezile Somdaka(67) uthe umama wakhe ube neny-weba yoku phila iminyaka eminzingenxa yendlela awayezi phethengayo esemncinane nanjengoko eb-esoloko ephakamisa intlonipho.“Kwaye ubenga zityi izinto ezin-

inzi umama kuquka ukutya okunetyuwa, amafutha nkqu neswekileyenye yezinto esicinga ukuba zi-menzewaphila ubomi obude kakhu-lu,”kubeka uNkk Somdaka.Udlulise amazwi ombulelo kuba-

zalwane bebandla laseMthini kuqu-ka noMachaea ngelithi bazi bonaka-lisile Ubuntu babo kwikhaya lakwaMali.

Ingcwatywengesithozela inkondekazi ebina -104ubudala

UNkk Nojikile Mali ubeke khaya lakhe loku gqibela ene minyaka eyi­104ubudala. PHOTO:BABALWA NDLANYA

Mpisekhaya, Colly Dlani, Nozakhe Hlengane, SiphokaziSitwayi and Asanda were dressed to kill for a tradition­al ceremony which was held over the weekend inMthatha. PHOTO: SIM MDLEDLE AND LUTHANDO YASO

Sibabale High School learners in Ugie during their farewell.

These ushers made sure that the Mthatha Christian school matric farewell was asuccess. The function was held in Southernwood, Mthatha recently.

These stars of tomorrow are Mbuqe learners who werecaptured by the Express crew over the weekend.

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UMKOMISHINALA wamapolisa kwiPhondoleMpuma Kapa u-Lieutenant-General CeliweBintauvakaliseukuxhelekaumphefumlokuku-qubha kwamalungu enkonzo yesipolisa ety-waleni ingakumbi ootata. Uthe into embindakakhulu kukuba emva kokuba umntu ezitshizekanobom ngotywala uthatha izigqibo ezingat-shongo khona.

“Siyazi amalungu ethu anoxanduva oluninzilweentsapho ezinkulu nezininzi kananjalo kod-wa ibe imali ingekhonto leyo ithi ikhokelele ek-ubeniumntuathathe izingqiboezingalunganga.Uthe okuqubha etywaleni kwamalungu abo ku-

thi kukhokelele ezintweni ezininzi ezifana nok-uzibulala okanye umntu abulale umlinganewakhe nosapho maxa wambi.Lo kaBinta ukuthethe oku ngelixa endwen-

dwele kwidolophu yaseMthatha kwiveki esi-su-kakuyo.Uqhubewathingathiamalunguenkon-zoyesipolisaangathandaukuzisondezaecawenikunasezikroxweni kuba loo nto ingathi ibe sisi-sombululo kwiingxaki abajongene nazo. “Kub-alulekile futhi ukuba umntu ayithethe ingxakiyakhe kuba izolo soze lifane nenamhlanje”, ut-shilo.Uthe okuzityintya kanobom ngotywala kuthi

kwandisa iingxaki umntu ebejongene nazo deagqibe ekubeni enze into engalunganga kubaethundezwabutywala.Ubhenele kwiicawauku-

ba zibeke amalungu wabo emithandazweniukuze ahlukane neli shwangusha lithi licha-phazele iimpilo zawo kwakunye neentsapho.Ethetha oku nje uBinta umhlokolokazi

waseMthatha nowayephethwe gadalala ngu-myeni wakhe owayelipolisa kwisikhululo sa-mapolisa i-Central eMthatha uthe waphume-lela ityala kwinkundla yezibheno eBloemfon-tein emva kokumangalela urhulumente.Le nkosikazi yathi yafaka isimangalo kwim-

inyaka elishumi eyadlulayo emvakokuba abap-hathi bomyeni wayo bohluleka ukuthathaummpunangonawayebikile ukubaumgrogrisangokumdubula xa sele ezitshize ngeenyembezizomlungu. Emveni kokuba ebikile waphindawafika nommpu umyeni wakhe wadubula le

nkosikazi waba naye sezidubula wasweleka,ngethamsanqa yasinda le nkosikazi.Emva kokuphumelela eli tyala le nkosikazi

ibe izibeka ethubeni lokuba ifumane isambasemali eyi R5. 8 million yomonzakalo kumpha-thiswa wamapolisa.

Kubongozwaamapolisaehlisekwiinyembezi zikaVitoliyaUmKomishinalawamapolisa eMpumaKoloni unjengeleCeliwe Binta ngelixaebongoza amapolisaukuba ahlukanenegqabi likalonji.PHOTO:SIM MDLEDLE

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

IN an attempt to end the senseless killing ofpolice officers, the police in the Mthatha clus-ter conducted a prayer service at the Multi-PurposeCentreinNgangelizwelastThursday.

Thepolicewere joined in theprayer serviceby various faith organisations, which ap-pealed to God to send His holy spirit so thatthe killing of police officers would come to anend.The prayerwas a response to last year’s sta-

tistics onpolicekillings,which showed that 63officersnationwidehadbeenkilledonduty.Ofthose 63, 12 occurred in the Eastern Cape.King SabathaDalindyebomayorNonkoliso

Ngqongwawas among the dignitaries who at-tended the event.Inheraddress,Ngqongwasaidthewholena-

tion needed to talk toGod to stop the senselesskilling of police officers throughout the coun-trybecausetheyweretheprotectorsofsociety.She sentwords of condolence to the families

of the victims, saying their bloodwouldwaterthe freedom from crime which was coming

soon. “Like it or not, we cannot hand over thiscountry to the criminals. The communitiesneed to work with the police in reporting thecriminals among them.“Weneed to support thembecause thehopes

of our society are on their shoulders,”Ngqong-wa said.Provincial commissioner Lieutenant-Gen-

eralCeliweBinta said that by conducting suchcampaigns they were trying to mobilise com-munities to join hands in the fight against po-lice killings.She said the Eastern Cape was big, but the

police were trying their level best to reducecrime throughout the province.“For instance, recently in crime reduction

statistics we were number two,” Binta said.She revealed that they had established strat-

egies to train their members to use the toolsthey had available to protect themselves.Binta agreed that some police officers disap-

pointed them because they also became in-volved in criminal activities.“We don’t smile for such officers. They will

harvest the results of being involved in crimi-nality,” she said.

Prayer to stop killing of police officers

Members of the SAPS during the prayer service in Ngangelizwe, Mthatha. PHOTO: SIM MDLEDLE

BABALWA NDLANYA

LIZINIKELE ngokwalo kwiziko lamapolisaityendyana elirhaneleka ngokuhlaba ze li-bulale isinqanda-mathe salo kuba sisirhan-ela ngokuba siyajola. Esi siganeko senzekekwindawo yaseAuckland kwidolophu yase-Dutywa.

Osisithethi samapolisa uCaptain JacksonManatha usingqinile esi siganeko watshoesithi, ngobusukubesiganeko ezi zithandanibezi sendleleni egodukayo ngelixa indoda leisibuza ngokujola kwaso isinqanda-matheesi.“Emva koko kuthiwe uye warhola imela

ze wasihlaba kulo mzimba ungasentla. Umfi

uzamile ukubalekela kumzi okufutshanenalapho afike khona waquleka kwaba ku-kusweleka kwakhe,”kubeka uManatha.Wolekengelithi, ukuzakuthi gangoku iga-

ma likamfi belingeka thiwa pahaha kubazingekaziswa zonke izihlobo zakhe. Kulin-deleke ukuba umrhanelwa lo avele phambikwe-Nkundla yamatyala kunge kudala.

Ityendyana lizinikelengokwaloemapoliseni

BABALWA NDLANYA

A MAN who allegedly murdered the gran-ny of his child and attempted to kill his girl-friend has handed himself over to the po-lice in Msobomvu.

He has been charged with murder andwill appear before the Butterworth Magis-trate’s Court.It is alleged that the man ignored a pro-

tection order preventing him from enter-ing the shack of his girlfriend, the mother

of his child, at the Zizamele informal set-tlement in Butterworth.He allegedly wentto the shack and demanded to take hischild. When the granny (55) tried to chasehim away, he allegedly murdered her andalso tried to murder her daughter (25).

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AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

NORTH Pondoland residents have occupieda land in Mizizi locality after they felt thatthe land was wrongfully used by the Commu-nal Property Association (CPA).

The residents claim that the CPA, is de-stroying their land by turning it into a sandmining area for their own benefit.

The residents from three locations beingMfolozi, Hlolweni and Tyeni were movedfrom the land many years ago to make wayfor the sugarcane plantation that was estab-

lished in the area. After the project was laterterminated, the land was left with no activeprojects.

Elliot Mditshwa, Chairperson of Mizizi De-velopment Forum said that they have decidedto re-occupy their land that they gave out fordevelopment but is now being vandalized.

“While the land was still used as a sugar-cane plantation, many jobs were created mak-ing it easy for the locals to feed their familieswhile working locally and building schools,community halls and constructing accessroads,” said Mditshwa.

He added that they are calling for the inter-vention of the provincial government because

even though they are occupying their land,they are protecting it hoping that it could

be used for developmental projects for thebenefit of everyone.

Traditional leader Chief JongamampondoMditshwa said that the problems there start-ed when some government officials inter-vened showing interest in the development ofthe land while giving ownership of the landto the wrong people.

“They formed the CPA with the wrongclaimants to the land who vandalized the landso badly that the offices and buildings thatwere there were destroyed,” said ChiefMditshwa.

He said that he will meet with the communi-ty and convince them to save the land for de-velopment as he is already in talks with poten-tial funders to develop this piece of land.

Residents re-occupy their vandalized land

Elliot Mditshwa, Chairperson for Imizizi Develop­ment Forum. PHOTO:AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

REPORTER

FARMERS in the rural village of Ntshiqo, be-tween Tsolo and Maclear, are working with theInstituteofNaturalResourcesNPC(INR)totestrainwater harvesting techniques in theirhomestead gardens.

This participatory action research is part ofa Water Research Commission-funded projectentitled: “Up-scaling of rainwater harvestingand conservation on communal crop and ran-geland through integrated crop and livestockproduction for increased water use productivi-ty” (Project no. K5/2177/4/).

The project is investigating how rainwaterharvesting and water conservation can im-prove crop and livestock water productivity.

Water productivity is a valuable tool formeasuring how effectively water is used. Itmeasures the total beneficial outputs in rela-tion to the amount of water used. This is partic-ularly important because South Africa is asemi-arid and water-scarce country.

“Rainwater harvesting is any system thatcollects and stores water; for example, a dam isa rainwater harvesting system, as is a roof wa-ter collection tank (‘JoJo’ tank),” says JonMcCosh, project leader, Institute of Natural Re-sources.

“The basic elements of a rainwater harvest-ing system are a collection area (for example,a water catchment or a roof top) and a storagearea (a dam or a tank),” says McCosh.

With so many different techniques to choosefrom, the researchers sat down with farmersand discussed the different options available tothem and selected the preferred technique inparticipation with the farmers.

The farmers chose contour rainwater har-vesting, probably because this is what they arefamiliar with. Working with four farmers tostart with, they implemented micro-catchment(in-field) rainwater harvesting and conserva-tion. This means that the field itself is used to

collect and store rainwater. Contours arespaced at two- to three-metre intervals on theslope. The space between the contours gener-ates runoff when it rains. The water collects onthe contours and goes into the soil, where plantroots can use it.

To test the effect of rainwater harvesting onyield, farmers divided their fields and planteda portion of the field the way they would nor-mally plant (the control) and the other portionwas planted using the rainwater harvestingtechnique. Results from the first year of re-search show promise.

Baweni Sokhombela, whose garden is 0.2hain size, almost doubled his yields by introduc-ing rainwater harvesting (440kg of maize com-pared with 264kg using his normal practice –this is equivalent to an increase from 1.2t/ha to2.0 t/ha).

Gloria Quvile farms 0.3ha of land near herhomestead. Her harvest from the control was1 500kg, while her harvest from the rainwaterharvesting treatment was 2 300kg. This isequivalent to an increase from 5.1 t/ha to 7.8t/ha, an increase of more than 50%.

“Unfortunately not all farmers got good re-sults. Weeding fields is difficult work and somefarmers couldn’t control weeds adequately, re-sulting in poor yields. At a farmers’ day, suc-cessful farmers showed off their fields andshared their experiences with rainwater har-vesting. This generated a great amount of inter-est with farmers and the farmers who did notget good results were encouraged to try again,said Mr Nongcawula of the Eastern Cape De-partment of Rural Development and AgrarianReform.

“The results from the first year of researchsuggest that rainwater harvesting in fields candramatically increase crop yields for farmers.Byintercroppingwith fodderplants, soilhealthis improved and there is additional feed availa-ble for livestock in winter. Our research willcontinue to double-check that the results fromthe first year are repeatable,” says McCosh.

Rainwater harvesting shows promise inNtshiqo

Gloria Quvile (centre) shows off a cob with Mr Nongcawula of the Eastern Cape Department ofRural Development and Agrarian Reform (left) and Nokulunga Gasa of the INR.

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SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

IMPORTANT infrastructure improvementprogrammes in the Amathole District Mu-nicipality have been suspended only tempo-rarily, because of a shortage of funds, East-ern Cape Premier Phumulo Masualle hassaid.

He was responding to questions from theDA leader in the legislature, Athol Trollip,regarding the suspension of the projects.

Masualle said some projects had pro-gressed faster than expected and this had re-sulted in the municipality spending its2014/15 Municipal Infrastructure Grant al-location before the end of the financial year(April 15).

This had affected the 2015/16 budget andplans and requests had been made to theprovincial Treasury and the CooperativeGovernance and Traditional Affairs Depart-ment for additional funds, but no positivefeedback had been received.

“The projects are not terminated, they aresuspended for a while until the municipality

is in a better financial state to continue withthem.

“Service providers already appointed willcontinue with projects until they have beencompleted,” he said.

Masualle clearsair onsuspensionofAmatholeprojects

Premier Phumulo Masualle. PHOTO:SIM MDLEDLE

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STREET cleaners in Elliot are up in arms afterhaving to work without payment for threemonths. The cleaners,whowork for a companycalled Silver Stars and are all from the areassurrounding Ugie, say they have not been paidsince June.

The 100 workers also say the management ofthe company,which is based inQueenstown, isno longer answering their telephone calls afterpromising to deposit the owedmoney into theiraccounts.

“We have been phoning them to inquire

about ourmoney, but they are playinghide andseek,”oneof theworkers,NosiphoFakentweni,said.

“It is really affecting us because we do haveresponsibilities and our children are at school.

“If we don’t get paid at work, how are we go-ing to pay their fees at school?

“Our landlords are also fightingwith us overour rent even though we are faced with thisproblem. But they are right because no onewillallowyoutostayonhisorherpremiseswithoutpaying rent.”

Shesaid theywerestill cleaning the townshipeven though they were not being paid becausethey hoped that one day they would be paidtheir money.

OnWednesday, (October 7) the workers tookto the streets in Ugie and addressed their con-cerns to the mayor of Sakhisizwe.

Awomanwho is in amanagerial position inthe company, namedFezeka butwho refused togive her surname, said she had no commentabout thematter, stating itwas beyondher con-trol because the workers had taken it to the Of-

fice of the Presidency.“Yes you are right if you say I’m one of the

managers of the company, so I cannot answeranything. That’s right,” she said, putting downthe phone.

Fakentweni confirmed they had written tothe office of the presidency, but said they hadnot yet received a response.

Attempts to get the Office of the Presidency,aswell as themayor of Sakhisizwe, to commenton the matter were fruitless.– SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

Cleaners fumeoverworkingwithoutpay

BABALWA NDLANYA

BUTTERWORTH Choral Society (BCS)showed its talent during the EasternCape 2015 Melting Pot Competition thatwas held at Bizana Wild Coast Casino onOctober 4.

According to the Public Relations Offi-cer of the BCS, Jackson Manatha, thechoir obtained second place in bothWest-ern and Vernacular pieces.

The choir has lot of rural young choris-ters from Centane and Butterworth villa-ges.

“The choir got second place in the stan-dard section which had nine choirs fromall over the Eastern Cape,” said Ma-natha.

According to Manatha the choir wasestablished in 2005 aimed at keepingyoung people away from drugs andcrime.

He said the choir is celebrating tenyears of its existence this year and it hasmembers who love what they are doing.

Manatha said the choir won three tro-phies and is looking forward to winmanycompetitions in future. The BCS choir

conducter, Mzimasi Fadana said it wasnot easy but they tried their level best tocome home with the awards.

Butterworth Choral Society does it again

Members of the BCS posing for a photo after winning two pieces during the Melting PotCompetition. PHOTO:SUPPLIED

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IN an attempt to improve environ-mental management, the Wildlife andEnvironment Society of South Africa(Wessa) has forged a partnership withschools throughout South Africa withthe introduction of a programmecalled Wessa Eco-Schools.

The aim of the programme was to

encourage schools to improve theirenvironmental management, said An-diswa Mbanjwa of Wessa. This mes-sage was expected to spread to the sur-rounding communities and get peoplereally “caring for the earth”.

Wessa worked recently with Qum-bu Village Junior Secondary Schoolteachers and pupils to clean up theMzeke River.

The river has been neglected by the

community and as a result the wateris no longer consumable.

Wessa, teachers and pupils spent anentire day cleaning the river banks,finding abandoned animal carcassesandmanyotherthingsthatweredirty-ing the environment and spoiling thebeauty of the river.

The provincial Department of Wa-ter and Sanitation contributed plasticbags, gloves and rakes. Teacher Nom-

bulelo Lokhwe said the river’s poorstate was due to the lack of a properrefuse collection strategy and the ab-sence of public toilets.

She questioned the Mhlontlo mu-nicipality about its support in thismatter.

“The municipality needs to take anactive role, by building public toiletsor perhaps a fence around the river,”she suggested.

She expressed gratitude to Wessaand all involved in the initiative.

“There should more programmeslike this until the whole of society getsits hands dirty in cleaning the envi-ronment.”

She said the pupils had learnt a lotin this initiative and the importanceof caring for the environment wouldremain in their minds.

Pupils roll up sleeves for environment

Qumbe Village learners cleaning at Mzeke River in Qumbu. INSERT: Learners carrying the carcass of a goat that was found in the river bank of Mzeke river. PHOTOS: SIM MDLEDLE

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

PARENTS of autistic children havecalled on the Department of Educa-tion to build a school in Mthatha toaccommodate their children as atpresent they have to travel long dis-tances to find such schools.

Autistic pupils are easily dis-tracted and need special classes,with one-on-one teaching.

The only government school ofthis type in the Eastern Cape is theQuest Special School in Port Eliza-beth.

Nomaza Nkohla, the leader of theOR Tambo Autism Spectrum Disor-der task team, said the absence ofa school for the autistic in Mthathawas badly affecting children in thearea who had this disorder.

She said the Quest school in PortElizabeth was always full, which re-sulted in a long waiting list and di-minished the chances of autistic

children getting a decent education.She said the school in Port Eliza-

beth needed people who could af-ford to go there, but those in the ru-ral towns of Transkei found it diffi-cult to send their children therebecause of the distance and cost.

Nkohla said they had held meet-ings with the department andraised the matter.

“We need a government schoolthat will accommodate advantagedand disadvantaged children whohave autism throughout the Tran-skei.

“And it must have a boarding fa-cility so that such children do nothave to travel when they attendschool.

“We would love the school to havean occupational therapist, dietitianand speech therapist,” she said.

Nkohla called on all parents withautistic children to come forwardand join the battle to get the school.

“We need to ascertain the num-

ber of parents who have such chil-dren and submit it to the depart-ment in an endeavour to make ourproposal strong,” she said.

Bandlakazi Bambeni of Mthathawas the first parent to write a letterto the national Department of Edu-cation appealing to it to build aschool in the area.

Bambeni mentioned the distan-ces she had to travel to look for aschool in Port Elizabeth for hereight-year-old child.

“Yes there are private schools,but they are very expensive, aboutR3 200 a month, and they are not inUmtata but in East London. Thatmoney is too much, especially for asingle parent and unemployed per-son like me”, she said.Express is in possession of

e-mails in which Bambeni commu-nicated with the national Depart-ment of Education. She was re-ferred to the provincial depart-ment.

Parents call for autism school Nomaza Nkohlahas called for aschool for autisticchildren inMthatha. PHO­TO:SIM MDLEDLE

REPORTER

WALTER Sisulu University (WSU)celebrated its students’ hard workand dedication by awarding 734 de-grees, diplomas and certificates todeserved graduands during the insti-tution’s 2015 September graduationceremony at the Mthatha campus.

An overwhelming majority of 418women were capped, 321 men re-ceived the honours, and 31 of the totalgraduated cum laude.

A total of nine PhDs, 25 master’sand 39 honours degrees were award-ed.

Six of the PhDs were conferred up-on students in the university’s edu-cational sciences faculty and thehealth sciences faculty received thethree remaining accolades.

In May, WSU had a total of 4 534graduands and seven doctoral de-grees.

The total number of WSU gradu-ates for this year is therefore 5 273,with the total number of doctoral de-

grees conferred standing at 16.This was a good number of doctoral

degrees compared with previousyears, despite the fact that the uni-versity was an institution in transi-tion, where doctoral degrees/PhDswere only offered in education andhealth sciences, the university said.

The university also announcedthat the Department of Higher Edu-cation and Training had just ap-proved the offering of doctoral de-grees in natural sciences at the insti-tution.

“The university is to make a sub-mission to the Higher EducationQualifications Committee and thento the South African QualificationsAuthority for registration of thequalification,” the university said ina statement.

“So, those of you who want to doPhDs in natural sciences at WSU, theopportunity for that is coming soon.

“Watch this space. This productiontrend will definitely improve the fi-nancial situation at WSU in the yearsto come.”

WSUhonoursmore than700graduands

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NCEBA DLADLA

GAUTENG-based Port Elizabeth gospel mu-sic producer, Sizwe Zako, has unearthed newtalent from the dungeons of Libode in Nyan-deni in the Transkei.

This musical treasure with the hoarsevoice, isOzayoNdamase (26). His album“Ndi-celeNtonye,” showsZako’s golden touch, sim-ilarly brought by great stars like RebeccaMalope and Vuyo Mokoena.It is through Sizwe Zako Production that

music fans were blessed by Eastern Capegroups like Bantu Church of Christ, theLord’s Comforters and Youth with Missionfrom where artists such as Veliswa Skeyi,Malibongwe Gcwabe and Khanyisa – to men-tion but few – had been able to cut their teeth.Through Ozayo – who was born with de-

formed feet and who is blind and could notspeak properly for a long time – Zako has dis-covered a true worshipper with great talent.Meeting Ozayo was by sheer chance, remi-

nisced Zako.He said hewas assistingwith theBattle of the Municipalities Talent Search inMthatha. When they were packing up toleave, Ozayo came and pleaded that they gavehim a chance.“He blew us away. I realised that this was

real talent. Ozayo told me that for him it wasnot about the competition. He asked me torecord him, because there was this thing boil-ing inside him which wanted to get out. Andthe rest, as they say, is history,” said Zakoproudly.Zako used “the best engineers” to work on

Ozayo’s sound and he is happy with the finalproduct – great praise and worship songssung with sincerity by someone who did not

just sing, according to Zako, but who also isa believer who trusts in God.“I have never been to school. I was born

with a disability. I suffered from fits and bothmy parents (Magadi and Sicelo Ndamase)died while I was still young,” said Ozayo, theeighth of nine children. He said he startedsinging from an early age.He said he joined the Assemblies of God

Church and sang from hearing other peoplesing. People paid him R20 to buy bread.“I want to thank God for tat’ uSizwe Zako.

The Lord bless him,” he said.He added that he wanted to thank Bishop

Tsepho Machea too, for giving him his firstbreak at cutting a CD.He sold the music himself until he heard

of the talent search competition which gavehim the break to sell his music in all musicstores in the country.

OzayoNdamasegoesnational

Gospel musician Ozayo Ndamase’s faith shinesthrough his music. PHOTO:NCEBA DLADLA

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

THE two boys who call themselves the Ghet-to Colleagues, from Qweqwe locality inMthatha, are among the nominees for thenewly established Eastern Cape MusicAwards (Ecmas) which take place on Satur-day, October 17, at the East London Multi-Purpose Centre.

The two passionate youngsters are Sim-phiwe Nomgcana and Bongani Manengela

who met at the Zamukulungisa High inQweqwe. They saw that they each had talentwhen they were preparing for a beauty pag-eant at the school and then joined hands.They established the kwaito group called

Ghetto Colleagues which keeps kwaito en-thusiasts on their toes whenever they per-form. Since the inception of the group in 2005they have dazzled Mthatha audiences withtheir silky dancing skills.Simphiwe said it was a great honour to be

nominated for the Ecmas awards and thatwas why they were appealing to people tovote for them.“Ït is our intention to keep the flag of this

town high, but to do that we will need oursupporters and people throughout the East-ern Cape to vote for us,” he said. The group

has already released two albums, includingtheir red-hot track calledTea Time, and theyare preparing the next album.They were nominated for Best Kwaito

group. To vote, sms ECMAS best kwaitoghetto-colleagues to sms line 33459.Artists that have been nominated include

Zahara (Country Girl) and Nathi (Nomvula)with their new albums.The artistswho are going to performat the

awards are Nathi, Zahara, Vusi Nova, Ifani,Mobi Dixon, Berita, Yves, RobieMalinga, Si-phokazi, Kholeka, Bethusile Mcinga, En-dumisweni Gospel Group, Buthovuthela,MaviM, Zoe Daka, Navada, DJ Bino, Amaw-ele Ka-Mamtshawe, Sinomusa CulturalGroup as well as Ecmas hip hop and gospelensembles.

Mthatha kwaito stars need your vote

Simphiwe Nomcgana is one of the GhettoColleagues who are among the EC MusicAwards nominees. PHOTO:SIM MDLEDLE

BABALWA NDLANYA

BATHABILE Pikela from the Ndabakazi lo-cality in Butterworth is ready to spread theword of God with his gospel singing.

Pikela, who uses his voice to heal brokenhearts, has just released his second CD, ti-tled Bhala Paulos.He is a member of the Uniting Presbeteri-

an Church in South Africa (Irhabe).“I grew up in a Christian home and that

is why I ended up singing gospel,” he said.“My CD consists of 16 tracks and there

is a bonus track called Jeremiya Masigod-uke.”He said his music was traditional and

speaks to all people.He has won three traditional gospel

awards.He said he had worked on his second al-

bumwith producer SosoMdingi and his en-gineer was Kamva Mcinga, the son of gos-pel artist Lusanda Mcinga.

Giving a word of advice to the youth,Pikela said it was important that theymake choices that would pave the way toa better life for them.He said alcohol and drugs were danger-

ous so they should stay away from them be-cause they would destroy their future.

Gospelartist spreads thewordofGod

Bathabile Pikela spread his wings to preach thegospel through his music. PHOTO:SUPPLIED

There is light at the end of the tunnelYou know what, when you see someone

who looks like he or she is seized by alcoholor wrong practices in this world, don’t throwin the towel over that particular person. It’sjust that God is still paving his or her wayif not moulding his or her part.There are people out there who are regard-

ed as useless, but later on you will see suchpeople againmoving forward in life, their ap-pearance total changed.We had the astonishment of our lives re-

cently when we met a woman who used todrink as if there was no tomorrow.

She had a professional Phuza Face, be-causewayengathi ulala khona avukele kubo.Now she is a decent woman and she is mar-ried to a very handsome guy who met her inthesemnandi places. Uyabona ke ukuba kuy-abhaqeka nakwezi ndawo nangona nje aban-inzi bengazi thandi ncam.Jonga ngoku u-sisters ufumene umyeni.

Inene umntu xa engakafumani umntu wak-he kuye kungathi akasoze amfumane and ab-eyinto nje nawe ozixelela ukuba soze itshint-

she. Siyakubelelelawethu ntombi, uwugcineumendo wakho kuba unqabile and ke kuthi-wa emendweni kuyanyanyezelwa. Obvious-ly, uyivile intlupheko yaphaya etywaleni ne-kulapho uzibona sele unendoda ekumark(leyo) nokuba ubungafuni ndoda umoshe njengokusela utywala bayo ekuthingileyo.

Asidingi kwazi imbali yenuBafethu everybody in thisExpress landhas

his or her own secrets, which we don’t wantto hear about.Kusikhathaze kakhulu okuthethwe ngom-

nye umjita kwi-vrou yomnye umjita nekuca-ca ukuba babehambisana ngexesha lobutshababo mara ngoku akuthethi ukuthi maka-hambe esima ngaye apha ebantwini ukubawayenjani ngelixa babesathandana.Loo nto leyomfethu ibifunawena nentlizi-

yo yakho ungabe uhamba uthetha ngo-vrouwenye i-outie. Even nalo wakho zikhona iz-into awazenzayo namanye amadoda ebun-tombini bakhe mara abahambi bethethangaye. Loo nto yaziwa ngabo neentliziyo za-bo. Uvile ke boet? Asiyithandanga daai ding.

Danger of faking GodYou can blind us in this Express land but

you will never blind God above. Why boys?It’s just that there are people who act in

front of our eyes as living pure lives but be-hind the scenes they are Satan uqobo lwak-he.You can even blind the people by wearing

a nice church uniform if not a suit and carry-ing a very advanced Bible with the word ofGod, but if ukholo is not in your heart or ifit is not a calling you are just playing andGod will reveal that. Okay, here is a story.There was a guy whom we lived with at

Khwezi township in UTA a couple of yearsago. Actually he was a yard-mate.The guy claimed he had been saved and he

prayed about half of the night - even the mid-dle of the night.Okay, we had no problem with that even

though his action was a bit tormenting be-cause he always disturbed us in our slumber.But ke nothing esasingayenza the guy wasaccepted the calling and ethetha nenkosiyakhe. Every weekend he was not in UTA,

stating that he was going to spread the wordof God in other places particularly Idutywa.Okay son of God. You remember we said Godwill reveal if your ways are not as we seewhen you are in front of us.In January we met the man again pushing

the word of God very strongly in UTA.As you know we travel a lot and sithanda

ubumnandi.We took a journey to Idutywa where he

used to visit, stating that he had a lot of fol-lowers there. OW!Siya eclubini ke thina xa sifika endaweni

nekulapho sifumana khona iindaba. Sihlelisibetha okuncane wangena in this clubu-pastor as we normally used to call him.He was with beauties of the soil in jeans

and miniskirts and he looked like sefikileapha kwinyembezi zikaVictoria kuba ebese-thethela phezulu ephatha kunqabula aphin-de aphathe izinqa zaba sisi.Wadlala pastor! We asked to the woman

next to us ukuba liyamazi na. Lavele lasikha-thalisa, xa lisithi linxila lalapha eli, qha lih-lala eMthatha. HOW! Kanti unjanji?

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KULINDELEKE ukuba kubemdak’iisalikumdlalo weNational First Division Leagueozakube uphakathi kweqela loMthathaBucks kwakunye neWitbank Spurs kwibalalezemidlalo iMthatha Stadium ngeCawa em-veni kwemini.

Lo mdlalo ugaleleka kanye ngexeshaiBucks iphantsi koxinizelelo olulunguman-galiso ngenxeni yokuba iyivule kakubi ka-khulu isizini yeNFD League. Eli qela lase-

Mthatha lidlale imidlalo emithandathu kwe-li nqanaba, kodwa alaphumelele namnyeumdlalo. Ndaweni yaloo nto libethiwekwemithathu laza ladlala ntanganye kwe-minye emithathu.Kungokunje Amathol’amnyama asahleli

emsileni kuluhlu lwamaqela eNFD Leaguengamanqaku amathathu, kwaye akubonaka-li kuzakuba lula kweli qela ukuba lisuke ku-le ndawo ingekhontle ngale mpela veki.IBucks ukuba ifuna ukubetha eliqela li-

kwindawoyesibini (WitbankSpurs) kuluhlulwamaqela eli nqanaba kuza kufuneka

iwasebenzise onke amaqhinga enawo, nan-jengoko umdlalo kulindeleke ukuba ube-kwizinga eliphezulu.Eny’into eza kubaluleka kwiqela laseM-

thatha kukuba liwasebenzise ngobuchuleamathuba eliwafumanayo ebaleni, kubaAmathol’ amnyama kuninzi lwemidlaloedlulileyo aphose amathuba acacileyo nto

Stadium.Iziphumo ze-ABC Motsepe League zem-

pela veki: Morning Stars 2 vs 3 Matta Milan,FC Buffalo 1 vs 2 Zimbane Killers, YoungIdeas 0 vs 0 Future Tigers, FC Bees 3 vs 3SUBS, Mthatha City 3 vs 1 Lion City, FC Elli-ot 1 vs 1 Tornado kunye neHighbury 1 vs 0Emperors.

Ingaba iBucks izakuphinde ibethelweekhayakwakhona?

leyo ebangela ibekanti awakaphumelelinomnye umdlalo xa kunamhlanje.Lo mdlalo weBucks kwakunye neSpurs

kulindeleke ukuba uqale ngecala emvenikwentsimbi yesithathu kwibala iMthatha

ANELE RAZIYA

IVENKILE ethengisa izixhobo zokwakhakwidolophuyaseDutywa, uBuild it ku-linde-leke ukuba ibambe itumente yebhola ekhat-ywayo yabaneminyaka engaphantsi kwe-shumi elinesithathu ngomhla wamashumimabini anesitha-thu kule nyanga kwibalaiNgumbela Stadium kwakule dolophu.

Kule midlalo kuthiwa onke amaqela ase-

kuhlaleni amkelekile ukuba athathe inxax-hebakuyonanjengoko injongoyayo ikukuk-huthaza ulutsha kwezemidlalo.Iqela elifuna ukuba yinxalenye yale mid-

lalo malibhalise kule venkile enga-kafikiumhla washumi amabini anesi-thathu kulenyanga imiyo.Kule midlalo kuyalelwa ukuba iqela ngal-

inye kufuneka lize nabadlali abalishumi el-inesihlanu kwakunye nomqe-qeshi walo,kwaye abadlali baphathe iza-ifkethi zabo

zokuzalwa. Abadlali abanga-kwazanga uk-wenza njalo bazakuvinjwa ithuba lokubayinxalenye yemidlalo.Le tumente kulindeleke ukuba idlalwe ig-

qitywe kwangolo suku lunye, kuba lemidla-lo icwangciselwe olu suku nto leyo ethethaukuba amaqela azakukhiqana.Amaqela aqhube kakuhle kolu khuphis-

wano kulindeleke ukuba afumane amabha-soancumisayo,kwayenoluntu luyamenywaukuba luze kunika inkxaso kule midlalo.

Kuzakubanjwa imidlalo yetumente yebhola ekhatywayo eDutywa Stadium