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MEMBERS of the South Afri-can Civic Organisation(Sanco) and communitymembers in Cofimvaba haveaccused the Intsika Yethu

Municipality of selling land owned by citi-zens of the town.

Sanco chairman Nkosinathi Mhlambisosaid they had heard last year that peoplewere going to be relocated by themunicipal-ity, but there was no place for them to go.“We heard that the municipality had sold

this land. People have lived there since the1980s, but now themunicipality wants themto go away,” Mhlambiso said.He said they had tried to ask the office of

the MEC for Local Government and Tradi-tional Affairs, Fikile Xasa, to intervene butnothing had happened.This year themunicipality had continued

to threaten the community members andthey had ended up protesting because theywanted to know why the municipality hadtaken this decision.Intsika municipal spokesman Zuko

Tshanagana said the issues raised by Sancohad been resolved through Xasa.“No charge was laid against Sanco, but

there is an interdict against individualswho invaded the municipal land illegally.It is known that in this country you cannotmove people and not offer them land to stay.There is land where they can be relocated,”Tshangana said.

Protesters burn rubbish in Cofimvaba toshow their anger. PHOTO:SUPPLIED

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THE R212-million Mthatha Airport up-grade is 97% complete, excluding the run-way, and will fully be operational in Octo-ber.

This was revealed during a site tour byEastern Cape Premier Pumulo Masualle,Eastern Cape Transport MEC Weziwe Tik-ana and government officials last Thurs-day.They were there to witness the progress

of Phase 1, which is refurbishment and ba-sic infrastructure development, to get clos-er to the vision of Phase 3 of a “logistical

hub.The airport can now receive bigger air-

craft like 737s and 36 200 passengers havealready landed at the airport since the be-ginning of this financial year,” Masuallesaid.He said the airport unlocked the gates for

tourists to come in numbers to the ORTam-bo region as it was where heroes like Nel-son Mandela had been born and buried.“It simplifies the way of visiting the area

and we are expecting more people to visitMandela’s site.“This is also part of improving the econo-

my of the region as people from outside willbe more interested to visit because of the

airport,” Masualle said.He stressed that there was a need for ad-

ditional airlines to open the gates for moreinvestors in Mthatha.Masualle urged the private sector to get

more involved in the project at the Mthat-ha Airport. “We are expecting more air-lines to accommodate the entire South Af-rica.”So far there is only one airline operat-

ing at Mthatha Airport, South AfricanAirlink which flies between Mthatha andJohannesburg. There is one flight in themorning and one in the afternoon, accom-modating 86 passengers on each flight.Airport manager Anderson Maduneni

said 80% of the passengers on this routewere business people at present. “We needto rake in more airlines so that we can seemore activity at the airport.”He said that since the death of former

president Nelson Mandela he regularlysaw people from the United Kingdom,Germany and other countries, whichwould also be an economic boost for theregion.“I can confirm that our runway is of na-

tional standard and surely after ourlaunch there will be interactions to addcertain destinations like Durban, CapeTown or East London. We are in the finalstages now,” Maduneni said.

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A NGQELENI woman accused of planting agun outside the Mthatha High Court in anendeavour to assist the escape of her brother,Yandisa Bila, and cash-in transit heist king-pin Sakhumzi Mvoko has been sentenced tofive years’ imprisonment by the court.

Aviwe Bila entered into a plea bargainwith the state to reduce her murder chargeto one of culpable homicide.

Attempted murder charges she faced afterher brother and Mvoko shot and wounded acorrectional services officer were changed totwo counts of assault.

Bila also faced charges of possession of anunlicensed firearm and illegal ammunitionand aiding the escape of convicts.

The incident in September last year, inwhich Mvoko and Bila exchanged gunshotswith correctional services officials outsidethe court, left the two accused dead and thecorrectional services officer injured.

It also raised concern over the protectionof South African courts.

Aviwe Bila was later arrested at her homein Ngqeleni and she admitted that she hadplanted the gun in a dustbin next to the doorof the Mthatha High Court after setting upthe plan with her brother and Mvoko, whowere being kept in the Kokstad maximumsecurity prison but attending a series of cas-es in the Mthatha High Court.

After entering the court premises with aheavy guard of correctional officers andtraffic officers, Yandisa pretended he wasthrowing away something in the dustbin,and pulled out the gun from the bin andfired.

Mvoko grabbed a gun from an officer andthe exchange of gunshots ensued.

Both Mvoko and Bila were shot dead inthis incident.

Aviwe was sentenced by Mthatha HighCourt Judge Fathima Dawood.

She was represented by her lawyer, Ma-thew Mphahlwa.

Gunplanter in court escape is sentencedAviwe Bila duringsentencing in theMthatha High Court.PHOTO:YANGA SOJI

REPORTER

A MAN (25) has been arrested by the Dutywapolice after allegedly murdering another man(19) at the Ngonyama location in Dutywa.

It is alleged that the two were at a circumci-sion ceremony in the location when a quarrelbroke out.

Police spokesperson Captain Jackson Ma-natha said the suspect had allegedly drawn a

knife and stabbed the other man in the upperbody.

“The victim was taken to his home by othervillage men, but he died while waiting for trans-port to hospital,” Manatha said.

Murderat circumcision ceremony

A MAN (52) has been arrested after a grand-mother (75) was raped at Kabakazi location,Centane, last week.

Thevictimsaidshehadrecognisedtheman

and pleaded with him to stop what he was do-ing, but he had ignored her.

“Theoldgrannycriedoutveryloudandherneighbour came to her rescue,” police spokes-person Captain Jackson Manatha said.

“The suspect ran away, but was traced andarrested on Friday.”

The man had been charged with rape andwould appear in the Centane Magistrate’sCourt soon. – BABALWA NDLANYA

Gogo (75) raped at Kabakazi location

BABALWA NDLANYA

LIVELE kafutshane phambi kweNkundlayamatyala ixhwele elijongene namatyalaamabini okubalwa ityala lokudlwengula ku-nye nokuxhwila lase Sisonke Township kwi-dolophu kuCentane.ULuvuyo Mahintsho (43) ujongene nesityholo

soku dlwengula intwazana ene minyaka eli-15neya siwa kuye ngenyanga ka April ngelithiuza kuye lapha. UMahintsho uvele kulenkundla ngejongo zokufaka isicelo sebheyileze, isicelo eso sakhatywa yinkundla yamatya-la. Ityala limisiwe, kusaphandwa.

Kuvakala ukuba uMahintsho uthe wa-

banjwa ngamapolisa ecandelo eli jongene no-ku hlukunyezwa kwabantwana i-Butter-worth Family Violence Child Protection andSexual Offences Unit (FCS) kule veki igqithi-leyo.

Othethela amapolisa uCaptain Jackson Ma-natha ukuqinisekisile ukuba ixhoba eli lasi-wa kumrhanelwa ukuba ale laphe.

“Kurhaneleka ukuba uye wagqiba nezihlo-bo zexhoba ukuba alitshate ze wali lobolangenkomo ezimbini kunye namabhokwe am-athathu,” kubeka uManatha.

Ukanti omnye wabahlali uye wazisa ama-polisa ngesi siganeko nalapho ke iButter-worth FCS iye yavula ityala ze wabe uya-banjwa umrhanelwa.

Ixhwele livele kwinkundla yamatyala ngelo kudlwengula nokuxhwila

REPORTER

SIPHO Steward Mlamla (27) of Phepheni lo-cation in Mount Ayliff has been sentencedto 20 years imprisonment in the MountFrere regional court on rape charges.

He was found guilty after an incident onJuly 26, 2014.

The victim (16) was chatting to her friendsat about 18h00 inside the room that theywere renting as school children.

Mlamla arrived at the room, kicked thedoor open and forced the victim to go withhim to his home threatening her with aknife.

While they were at his home he raped thevictim until the following morning at about07h00.

) Simthembile Mnkisimane (28) of Lut-shiko Location in Mnceba A/A in Ntabanku-lu has been sentenced to 18 years imprison-ment in the Mount Frere regional court for

shooting a girl and raping another.The incident took place on October 02, 2012

at about 19h00 at Mnceba location in Ntaban-kulu.

The two girls, aged 17 years old, were onthe way from another locality when the sus-pect approached them and pointed a fire armat them demanding sexual intercourse.When they refused, he fired a shot and in-jured one of them and raped the other.

DNA results helped in identifying him asthe perpetrator.

Lengthy jail sentences for rapistsbyMount Frere court

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“We are positioning Mthatha Airportthrough a three-phase programme to be apassenger and freight hub, linking road,rail and air transportation and effectivelya gateway to the east of the province,” Tik-ana said.

She said the new terminal building hadall the modern electronic surveillance sys-tems for security. By working togetherthey could make the airport the catalyst forsocio-economic growth in that part of theprovince, she said.

The chairperson of the Mthatha Airportdevelopment team, Dr Somadoda Fikeni,expressed his gratitude to the role playersin the project and appealed to them to sticktogether and take care of the structure ofthe airport in making sure it did not be-come a white elephant.

“The management needs to be improvedand not everything must be authorised inBhisho,” he said.

MthathaAirportoperationalinOctober

Eastern Cape PremierPumulo Masualle,Eastern Cape TransportMEC Weziwe Tikanaand government officialswent on a site tour ofthe upgraded MthathaAirport last Thursday.PHOTO: SIM MDLEDLE

THE Eastern Cape Department of Educationhas allocated R1.8-billion to build schoolsthroughout the province.

Education MEC Mandla Makupula said thiswas part of improving the standard of educa-tion in the province and putting an end to pu-pils having to travel long distances to get toschool.

He said the main focus would be on the rural

areas and ensuring that mud structures weredone away with.

“Our emphasis will be on big schools withhostels to accommodate pupils,” he said.

“We are trying to stop the closure of schoolsbecause of low enrolments. If the pupils stayat the school, there is no way they can leave.”

He said rural schools battled with enrolmentbecause people were moving to urban areas.

We need to accommodate a large number ofpupils in one school to avoid that,” Makupulasaid.

Schools at the top of the list for the construc-tion of hostels in the former Transkei includethe Smut Ndamase Senior Secondary Schoolin Libode and Makhawula Senior SecondarySchool in Mount Frere.– SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

R1.8-billion tobuild schoolsandhostels

A WALTER Sisulu University academichas etched her name in history by becom-ing the first black female graduate in thecountry to obtain a PhD in administration.

Tsolo-born Dr Beauty Makiwane, who isalso the first black female with a disabilityto head an academic department at WSU,defied all odds when she obtained her PhDfrom the University of Fort Hare last year.

“That day signalled the greatest day ofmy life – it will forever be embedded in mymemory. It represented the due benefits ofhard work and dedication,” Makiwanesaid.

At just two years old tragedy struck Mak-iwane when she suffered a severe case ofpolio, leaving her permanently disabledwith a loss of movement in her right leg.

“Although I don’t recall it, I believe thatmoment changed the course of my life be-

cause it left me with a physical disabilitythat affected my life immensely,” she said.

There’s a whiff of just re-wards that envelopes her re-cent appointment as head ofdepartment – a feat cloakedin hard work which can betraced back to her begin-nings as a secretary at theuniversity’s Mthatha cam-pus in 1990.

It was six years beforeMakiwane obtained herfirst post-school qualifica-tion – obtaining her bache-lor’s degree from the uni-versity through the aid of a study subsidy.

“I later pursued postgraduate studies, ob-taining my honours and masters degrees in1999 and 2001, all the while still employed

as a secretary,” Makiwane said.In 2003 she had to resign her post as secre-

tary after the universi-ty eventually appoint-ed her a part-time lec-turer in the publicmanagement depart-ment to conduct even-ing classes.

“At one stage it wasthe norm for me to go tobed at midnight prepar-ing for a class the next

manent employment as a lecturer.Since then, she has had many stints as

an acting head of department before she fi-nally landed the job earlier this year.

“Education, the key to success, is accessi-ble. Knowing my strengths resulted in tre-mendous exposure and opened doors I nev-er thought I could enter. I view my weak-nesses as a tool to face challenges, applyingknowledge, skills and experience to elimi-nate and eradicate them,” she said.– REPORTER

Walter Sisulu University’s Beauty beats the odds

day so that it did nottake away from mywork during the day.

I actually held two jobs for the universityas secretary and part-time lecturer.”

Five years later, in 2009, Makiwanereached another milestone – gaining per-

Dr Beauty Makiwane in her office.

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AYANDA MILISA MADIKIZELA

THE Goxe Agri-tourism project in Mount Ay-liff is harvesting its products and is happywith the quality of the production.

The project, started in 2009 in the KwaGo-gela location, came second in the commercialsector at the Female Entrepreneur awardsheld at the Wild Coast casino last week andwas awarded a cash prize of R32 000.

Project member Constance Bucu said theharvesting was going well and they had hadto employ more people to help them.

“The project has 20 permanent membersand has employed 12 more casuals fromamong the unemployed youth, men and wom-en from the surrounding villages to help usaround the farm,” Bucu said.

She said that although they had a combineharvester, they mostly used labour to collectproduce that fell off their plants during rainyseasons.

Goxe Agri-tourism has a 50ha farm and sellsits products locally.

“We already have a buyer for our crops thisyear, which will be 800 bags, which is goodnews for our project,” Bucu said.

They are selling a 50kg bag for R150, whichmakes it easy for them to pay their casual la-bour.

Patience Nxadi, one of the beneficiaries ofthe project, said its establishment hadbrought light into their lives.

“Before all this, we were unemployed wid-ows who were living below the poverty line,but now our children and grandchildren arewell taken care of,” Nxadi said.

They were now able to send their childrento school and renovate their homes, whichhad been dilapidated.

The project received funding of R500 000

from the Eastern Cape Development Corpora-tion in 2013 and bought a tractor and accesso-ries.

Last year, the Department of Trade and In-dustry bought them a combine harvester anddriller machines worth R350 000.

With the latest cash injection from the De-partment of Rural Development and AgrarianReform, they said, they would buy irrigationequipment.

Constance Bucu of the Goxe Agri-tourism project in Mount Ayliff receives an award as a runnerup at the Female Entrepreneur awards. PHOTO:GREG NOTA

Constance Bucu, Nondumiso Nozintwana, Beauty Mazwana, Lumka Bucu and Patience Nxadi showoff some of the mealies harvested from their fields. PHOTO: AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

Casual labourers with crops harvested from theGoxe project fields. PHOTO: AYANDA MADIKIZELA

Harvest time for top female farmersHarvest time for top female farmers

BABALWA NDLANYA

TWO shearing sheds officially opened byEastern Cape Rural Development andAgrarian Reform MEC Mlibo Qoboshoyanein Libode last week are set to give an eco-

nomic boost to 237 sheep farmers in the area.

During the ceremony, Qoboshiyane hand-ed over wool baskets, wool pressers and sort-ing and picking tables to the farmers to helpthem process and clean their wool before it

is packed for market.The first shed was handed over at the

Mamfengwini location and the second inMafusini in the Nyandeni Local Municipal-ity.

Qoboshiyane said the departmentplanned to build a factory, run by South Af-ricans, with the aim of decreasing the highnumber of people who still went to themines looking for jobs.

“We want to you to see that there is noneed to go to the mines. All you need to dois look after your livestock. We want to seeyou becoming millionaires one day becauseof farming.”

He said they were looking forward to see-ing the youth taking part in farming insteadof roaming around looking for alcohol.

The chairperson of the MamfengwiniWool Growers Association, ThandabantuMakhalima, said they were happy aboutwhat the department done for them.

“We are hoping this initiative will put usin a better place. It was not easy for us whenwe started this farming as we depended onother community members to lend us theirhouses to use as shearing sheds. Now thatis history because the government had res-cued us.”

He said they would make sure the shedswere secured at all times so that they werenot vandalised.

New shearing sheds for Libodewool farmers

MEC Mlibo Qhoboshiyane shows off hisshearing skills. PHOTO: BABALWA NDLANYA

MEC Mlibo Qhoboshoyane hands over a shearing shed to Mamfengwini community members.With him is the chairperson of the Mamfengwini Wool Growers Association, ThandabantuMakhalima. PHOTO:BABALWA NDLANYA

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RESIDENTS of Ugie and the surrounding ar-eas have vowed that they will make the townuncontrollable and bring everything to astandstill.

This follows the deadlock of a meeting be-tween the community and PG Bison manage-ment on Saturday, August 8.

On Monday (August 17), the residentsvowed to embark on a massive protest whichwould bring the town to a standstill.

The protest by the residents started onTuesday, August 4, and since then 10 peoplehave been arrested and charged with publicviolence.

Since the commencement of the protest ac-tion the police have been working around theclock trying to control the situation.

The road entering the town was blockedand heavy smoke was coming from the for-ests surrounding Ugie.

It is alleged that residents resorted to burn-ing the forests to express their discontentover the arrest of their colleagues and not get-

ting any response from PG Bison. On Fridaya helicopter worked the whole day trying toput out fires in three forests.

The residents accused the company,,which owns the forests, of violating theagreements made when PG Bison started tooperate in the forests 15 years ago.

According to community leader BenetMeyi, the company promised to create 4 500jobs for local people, include sub-contractsand tenders to be allocated for the local peo-ple, but that is not happening.

He said PG Bison had even promised to getmore involved in social activities and buildcentres for community development, butnothing had materialised.

Instead, the company had written lettersstating it would terminate the contracts ofsome contractors which had been hiredthere.

“It also surprised us that the company isnow demanding to get only local people whohave a Standard 10 education.

“In the previous agreements there wasnothing like that mentioned.

“We have been trying to meet the company

management to address the issue, but theyshowed no interest in meeting us.

“That is why we resorted to toyi-toyingand we are prepared to make this town un-governable if they don’t respond to our con-cerns,” he said.

It has been established that the companypromised to give feedback to the communityafter meeting with the board of directors.

But Meyi vowed that they would continuewith their protest action until they promisedto respond to their concerns.

The residents who embarked on the strikeare from localities including Ugie town andtownship, Maclear, Ngqangqolo, Ncembu,Zabasa, Etrustini, Lunyaweni and parts ofthe Elundini Local Municipality.

PG Bison on Tuesday strongly condemnedthe protest action. In a media statement theysaid that PG Bison employs approximately400 employees in the region, and has facilitat-ed the creation of numerous small and medi-um enterprises as service providers in the ar-ea. These SME’s employ at least a further2 500 people in the area.

“It is our understanding that the protest ac-

tion is conducted by members of the sur-rounding communities and relates largely tothe lack of job creation, service delivery andinfrastructure development in the area,” thestatement read.

“This protest action is not supported by theemployees of PG Bison, and as a result therepresentative union CEPPWAWU has alsodistanced itself from the matter.

“Although the company has sympathywith many of the complaints of the communi-ty at large, these cannot be resolved by thecompany. However, as a significant employ-er in the area, PG Bison is committed to work-ing within the formal structures to assist inresolving the situation.

“Unfortunately the protests have resultedin damage of company assets and intimida-tion of our workforce and their families, in-cluding children. These actions are stronglycondemned by PG Bison,” the statementread.

Big stones were used to block the road enteringthe town of Ugie. PHOTOS:SIM MDLEDLE

Ugieunder siegeUgieunder siege

BABALWA NDLANYA

THE family of an 18-year-oldGrade 12 pupil in Mthatha arefrantically trying to trace theirson, who went missing on Sundaylast week.

Mbutho Sakwe, a pupil at the Ex-celsior Private School in Mthatha,was last seen on Sunday afternoonwhen he was on his way to visit his

grandmother at the Corana loca-tion in Libode.

His aunt, Joyce Mfili-fili, saidMbutho had been accompanied bya friend, who had told her he hadleft him in Waterfall to return tohis home in Ngangelizwe Town-ship.

“We are not sure what hap-pened. We don’t know whether hedrowned in the Ngqubusini Riveror what actually happened.

“On Friday he attended theGrade 12 farewell party and he re-turned home even though they hadan after party,” Mfili-fili said.

Mbutho had left his phones athome.

She said they had reported thematter to the Ngangelizwe policestation, but police spokespersonLieutenant Colonel Mzukisi Faty-ela said he did not have any infor-mation about this incident.

Family frantic aboutmissing son

BABALWA NDLANYA

UBEKWE kwikhaya lokugqibela uCe-ba wombutho ophikisayo i-UnitedDemocratic Movement (UDM), nobese-le enguCeba ityeli lesibini kuMasipalawaseMbhashe, eDutywa.

UCeba Lindile Xana wakwi lali ya-seNtlonyana kwidolophu yaseXhora,ubekwe kwikhaya lakhe kule mpelaveki igqithileyo kwakule lali ya-seNtlo-nyana.LokaXanaushiyengasemvaab-antwana abahlanu kunye nabazuku-lwana abahlanu.

Othethela umbutho we-UDM uCebaMzimkulu Tetyana umchaze lo kaXananjengo mnye wooceba ebebephumeizandlakwayeekwaziukwakhauluntungengcebiso zakhe.

“Silahlekelwe kakhulu singumbut-ho we-UDM kuba kaloku UXana ube fa-na nesisele senyathi kuthi. Kwaye na-kwi ntlanganiso zooceba ubecebisakakhulu.” Kubeka uTetyana.

Woleke ngelithi, noxa nje kwintlan-ganiso zooceba (Council Meeting) kudi-bana ooceba bemibutho eyohlukeneyo,bekungabi-kho krutha-kruthwano

kwindawo enoXana kuba yonke intoebeyithetha ngesizotha nesithozela.

Uveze ukuba enye into abaza kuthi

bamkhumbule ngayo zinkqubo abathibazenze nanjengoko kulungiselelwaulo nyulo kulo nyaka uzayo.

Ubekwekwikhaya lokugqibelauCebaUbekwe kwikhayalakhe uCeba waseMbashe uCebaLindile Xana.IFOTO:ITHUNYELWE

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Where are his friends now?READER, you know about the utterancewhichsayswhendaysaredark friendsare few.That’s what we noticed about a guy whomwe used to meet driving with his friends allnight long at the time we were still grooving.They were travelling almost all the nightclubs of UTA in one night.Wawubona nje ukuba there is a good rela-tionship kula majita ehlala endawonye, maraamanye babengenazikari. Nina gossip teamnanibabona nisiyaphi? Kaloku as you knowwe are always on the street looking for gossipnews, not booze or girls, and we get paid forthat.Aish, da man is suffering now and we don’tknowwhere his friends are nowwhile he is inthat situation. He has no car presently but hestill loves mnandi places even though hisfriends are nowhere to be found.We met him in Chicago trying to go back tohis room. He even told us he tried to phone theguy whom he used to “jujuma” with, but hewasnotpickinguphiscellphone.Andweknowthe man was the one who always put on thepressure to move from one place to anotherwith his car.Shame, we felt bad and helped by transport-ing him to his room in Norwood.This is UTA ke ndoda during your affording

days friends are all over you, but when thingsare bad they just vanish and do not help evenwhenyouneed it.AskuGeshesafika lawayenefriends all over but once his vehicle got in-volved in an accident at the TutorNdamase ro-bots they were nowhere to be found. Mara keif uphinde wagrand ntwana bazakuphindebavelebefunaukusebenzisakwakhona.Pasop.

We are not safe on these roadsUyazi sometimes uthi xa ubona umntu elah-la isayidi uve ubethelwa nawe kuba daai dingperhaps it can end up affecting you as well.We just popped in to Libode to buy some-thing to eat when we saw a heavily drunk oldman driving a green private car.He was trying to get out of the car but wasunable to do so becausehewas flat-footed if notgrand drunk. Until a young chap came andhelp him to came out.Do you think la mntu angayibona imoto ezaphambi kwakhe xa eyila-way because beku-bonakala ukuba usazakuqhuba nanjengokoengene kwindawo ethengisa utywala waphin-de waphuma namanye amadampi amane. Wefound it difficult to watch that as he was strug-gling to get inside now. Ucinge ke lowo mntuusazakuqhuba.Bafethukunzima ezweni sokh-ile. I wonder bafunda ntoni abantwana bakhexa enokufika ekhaya enjeya.

Watch out for these herbalistsWe fail to understandwhy people don’t wantto listen because we have been telling themabout these brothers from our neighbouringcountries, but it seems as if abantu bakuthiabafuni kumamela.Recently we met a guy who was crying outbecause his wealth had been robbed by theseguys promising to make him a millionaire.Kwathiwa makakhuphe yonke imali ebankto addmore fortunes to it. Naso ke naso isiyat-ha esikhulu sesixelelwa ukuba imali engakamakangayikhuphi mara yena wafostela kuhlekukaMzeke Mzeke kuba uboniswe imali ib-igcwele ibag kwathiwa ukuba angakhupha leisebanki ingangeyakhe le ebeyibona. Engaqa-le anikwe le seyikhona nje phambi kokuba ay-okhupha le yekha. Shame, our people are …aishabazakuthi siyabathuka.Nditsho entsom-ini akukho mntu wakhe wathi elihlwempuwenzaomnye isetyebi. So, bantubakuthi yeka-ni obuyatha kuba ayikho le nto. Xa umntuezakunika iimpuku zemali usayifunelani ima-li ezakuwinisa iLotto ungaboni kwalaphakuyeukuba lomntuakakudingiukuwina iLot-to kuba unezinto zakhe. Ungavele uthi ubonaukhandlaza ehamba ngenyawo erenta iqoko-bhe le matshisi le ndlu athi uza kukutyebisanawe uvume lo nto kodwa uyazibonela njenawe ukuba uyazedlulela kulo mntu nalapha

asebenzela khona akukho nto ithi angakunikaizityhwentywe zemali. Mfethu umphile lo R80000 lo gqirha yincame iqale phantsi mara use-benze ngengqondo yakho iyeke ukukuxelelaizinto ezingaspnze zenzeke. Uvimile moss.

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YINTOMBI yegqirhakazi elaziwayo elokishinieNgangelizwe eMthatha ethe yaphakathi kwa-bathe babanjwa kugqogqa ubuqhutywa nga-mapolisa kutshanje kwiindawo ezingqongeuMthatha kwakunye naseNgangeli-zwe.

Kulo gqogqakuthekwafumaneka intlaninge

yomya kumzi wegqirha eli nekufumanisekeukuba ngowentombi yalo. Ingangelizwe yenyeyeendawo ekuvakala ukuba iphala phambilingeziyobisi nekuyinto ekhokelele ekubeniamapolisa aqhube lo gqogqa. Ngokwengxelokuvakala ukuba amapolisa agaleleke kwelikhaya engabhungisanga kungumbo nomxes-ibe wezigulane ebezize kunyangwa kweli gqir-ha nathe xa ekhangela apho ezindlini azithela

phezu kwamasaka entsangu kwenye yezi ndluzeli khaya likakhohlelesingeni.Intombi le ithe yabanjwa nekulindelekeukuba ivele kwiinkundla zamatyala kungent-suku zatywala. Olu gqogqo luthe lwaqhubekanakwindawo yase Ndisane cebukuhle neQok-olweni nalapho kuthe kwabanjwa omnyewasetyhini nomya. Intombi le yeqgirha itheyabanjwa kwisitalato iHliso nethe yafumane-

ka ineenxowa ezimbini zomya nenxabisa nga-maxabiso obumnyama into ephaya koR6 985-00.Kanti kuphinde kwafumaneka nenyambala-la yomnyeumthunziweenkukhu osele ufakweezimvulophini kwakunye nemali. Amapolisaasiqinisekisile esi senzo ediza nokuba olugqoqgo beluqhutywa yi-Dog unit ibambisenenamapolisa aseNgangelizwe.

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Amaploisa aseNgangelizwe kwakunye necandelo lezinja emva kokubamba umya kwendawoyaseNgangelizwe naseQokolweni. PHOTOS: SIM MDLEDLE Amasaka entsaku kwakunye nenye esezimvulophini nethe yabanjwa eMthatha.

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THE Eastern Cape Liquor Board hosted aschools debating competition and dramaabout underage drinking in Mthatha lastweek.

Among the schools which took part inthis competition were Ngangelizwe SeniorSecondary School, Nozuko Senior Second-ary School, St John’s College, MthathaTechnical College, Zimele Senior Second-

ary School, Holy Cross Senior SecondarySchool, Zamukulungisa Senior SecondarySchool and Zingisa ComprehensiveSchool.The liquor board says it continues tofight underage drinking in the impover-ished communities of the Eastern Cape.Board spokesperson Mgwebi Msiya saidthey were trying to educate people to usealcohol responsibly.“We want to ensure that children are notusing alcohol because this is killing our

economy. We believe that pupils can playa major role in fighting this behaviour,”Msiya said.He said the main aim of the competitionand dramawas to make these young pupilsmessengers to their peers of the board’stheme that “Booze is not for learners”.The board was responding to results ofa socio-economic research study in 2012which found that about 36% of pupils inGrades 8, 9 and 10 have tasted liquor.Findings on the prevalence of alcohol

consumption among pupils had raisedalarm within the board and interventionstrategies had been developed to ensurethat schoolgoing children were educatedabout the negative effects of alcohol abuseand underage drinking.One of the pupils, Abongile Jevu fromZingisa Comprehensive, blamed advertsfor glamourising alcohol.St Johns Senior Secondary School wona computer and a voucher for R1 500 forwinning the debate.

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EMVENI kweeminyaka ebalekayo abathandibebhola ekhatywayo kwisixeko saseMthathabengasabukeli midlalo ekwinqanaba labadlaliabahlawulwayo, kodwa ngalempela veki banet-hamsanqalokubabazakubukelaumdlalookwel-ozinga nozakube uphakathi koMthatha BuckskwakunyeneVascoDAGamakwibala iMthathaStadium ngentsimbi yesithathu ngeCawa.Kulindeleke okokuba abathandi bebhola

ekhatywayo kwisixeko saseMthatha neziphalu-ka bagaleleke kwibala laseMthatha Stadiumukuzakunika inxasokwiqela lasekuhlaleni eliz-okube lidlala umdlalo walo wokuqala kwinqan-aba eliphezulu leNational First Division (NFD)League.Lomdlalowenqanaba leNFDLeague, ugalele-

ka kanye kulommandla xa abathandi bebhola

ekhatywayo besajonge enkalweni nanjengokoiimidlalo ye-ABC Motsepe League yesizini ent-sha ka2015 /2016 ingekaqali, nto leyo izakuban-gela ukuba utsale umdla ongumangaliso kulun-tu ngokubanzi.Ukanti uluntu lwephondo leMpuma Kapa

gabalala lizakube lijonge lukhulu kuMatholeAmnyamaukubaadlalekakuhlekumdlalowok-uqala wokuvula isizini yeNFD League 2015/2016.I Vasco DAGama yaseKapa kulindeleke uku-

ba ibeyiyo ezakuthi yenze ezibukwayo nanjeng-okoithengeabadlaliabaneabatshabamazwean-gaphandle kweli loMzantsi Afrika ukulungise-lela lomdlalo wokuvula isizini kwelinqanaba.Phakathi kwabadlali abatyikitywe yiVasco

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wamagqibela kankqoyi kwi-ABC MotsepeLeaguePlay-OffseKimberleykwinyangaepheli-leyo yiMbombela United ngamanqaku amabinikwelinye uJulius Dube wabuya wakhululwangabaphathi beqela leBucks, nakubeni wadlalaindima enkulu ekubeni Amathole Amnyamaanyuselwe kumngangatho weNFD League.Ukugxothwakwakhe lo kaDube kweli qela la-

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Bucks kukuba iqela labo lityikitye abaphi abad-lali abatsha ukuziqinisa nangokumbi ukwazilimelane nalomngangatho uxhomileyo nowuy-intshayelelo ye-ABS Premier Soccer Leaguekweli loMzantsi Afrika. – ANELE RAZIYA

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