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ANC Treasury General, ZweliMkhize, said the ANC should beat the forefront of speaking outagainst corruption and shouldbe acting as whistle blowers and

support all investigations into irregularities.

Mkhize was speaking at the Alfred Nzo me-morial lecture in Mount Ayliff Hall last week.He also called for decisive action to be takento remove all those involved in corruption.

“The ANC must set an example of revolution-ary morality and ethical leadership as a mon-ument to our heroes, like Alfred Nzo, OliverTambo, Moses Kotane, Moses Mabhida, Wal-ter Sisulu, Albertina Sisulu and others.

According to him, ANC leaders shoulddemonstrate to South Africa that NelsonMandela’s Legacy is safe with the ANC as le-gitimate custodian of all the values Madibahad represented,” said Mkhize.

In a warning to ANC members againstplaying dirty political games, Mkhize said itwas not in their culture and tradition to airdirty laundry in public. He said leakingrecords of confidential deliberations – oftendistorted to favour personal points of view –brought the ANC to public ridicule and scorn.

“We must stamp out division. Many in-stances where divisions appear are not owingto differences of opinions on how to imple-ment the Freedom Charter, but on how tosubvert governance by individuals attempt-

ing to utilize their official status for personalgain,” said Mkhize.

He described Nzo as a good listener, respect-ing the opinion of all people, even that of hisopposition. According to him Nzo was neverintimidated and had the intellectual depth topositively influence people.

“To honour Alfred Nzo today, we must workhard to rebuild the founding values of the Af-rican National Congress. We must double ourefforts to forge unity and to fight against rac-ism, tribalism and sexism. We need to builda truly caring and compassionate society,”said Mkhize.

The Alfred Nzo District Municipality wasnamed after Nzo who was born and bred inthe Thabachicha village in Matatiele.

Alfred Nzo was the longest serving Secre-tary-General of the ANC. During his tenure,he was sent to various countries includingEgypt, India, Zambia, Norway, Tanzania andhe had also represented the ANC in the UnitedNations Assembly.

Together with Oliver Tambo and others,Nzo formed part of the ANC’s backbone, hold-ing down the fort and propagating the party’sstruggle while their comrades were impris-oned on Robben Island and in other prisons.Once the ban on the ANC had been lifted andNelson Mandela was released from prison in1990, Nzo returned to South Africa.

Nzo has received the “Order of FriendshipAmong People, Praesidium of the Union of theSoviet Socialist Republic’s Supreme Soviet”in 1985, and was also bestowed in 2003 withthe “The Order of Luthuli” by former Presi-dent Thabo Mbeki.

Alfred Nzo’s sister, Nomazotsho Nzo, saidshe was very happy that her district munici-pality was still remembering him.

Alfred Nzo District Municipality DeputyExecutive Mayor Sixolile Mehlomakhulusaid they have decided to put aside June asAlfred Nzo month. They had also put asidesome money to produce a documentary onNzo’s life in partnership with the EkurhuleniMunicipality in Gauteng and Zambia.

Mkhizewarns corrupt leaders

ANC Treasury General Zweli Mkhize at the Alfred Nzo memorial lecture. PHOTO:KHAYA MAGENU

In awarning to ANCmembers againstplaying dirty politicalgames, Mkhize said itwas not in their cultureand tradition to air dirtylaundry in public.

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THE Eastern Cape department of educationhead of department (HoD)MthunywaNgonzohas been suspended pending an investigationinto the R60-million school furniture tendercontract.

Last week provincial education MEC Man-dla Makupula confirmed that Ngonzo hadbeen placed under precautionary leave fol-lowing the alleged school furniture tender ir-regularities.Makupula said Ngonzo had been given

leave of absence until anomalies around theR60-million school furniture tender allega-tions and its investigations are complete.Departmental spokesperson Loyiso Pu-

lumane saidNgonzowould remain suspendedpending an investigation of the allegations ofmismanagement regarding the tender.“There are matters that need to be investi-

gated and the law requires that investigationsof this nature be finalised within 60 workingdays. These are normal administrative proc-esses of thedepartment andas suchweappealto the public to allow space for all due proc-esses to be finalised,” said Pulumane.

Deputy director general of institutional op-erations management, Ray Tywakadi, hasbeen appointed as the acting head of the de-partment to ensure smooth running of the ad-ministration, and Ngonzo will remain as theHoD until the outcome of his investigation.Ngonzo has been praised for successfully

bringing stability in the department and im-proving the province’s matric pass rate.Two years ago Ngonzo replaced advocate

Modidima Mannya who was sacked byformer premier Noxolo Kiviet after Mannyahad a fallout with teacher union, Sadtu.Sadtu successfully put pressure on Kiviet

to sack Mannya after allegations of malad-ministration, fraud and corruption surfacedagainst him.Under Ngonzo’s leadership there was sta-

bility in the troubled department and theprovince recorded an improved 64.9%matricpass rate last year.

Education MEC Mandla Makupula (left) hassuspended the head of education MthunywaNgonzo (right) following allegations of school

furniture tender irregularities.PHOTO: MANDLENKOSI MXENGI

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SPOKESPERSON for the Eastern Cape de-partment ofLocalGovernment andTradition-al Affairs, Mamkeli Ngam, has vowed thatmore arrests of bogus traditional surgeons inthe Libode area would follow.

Ngam’s utterance follows the arrest of a tra-ditional surgeon, Samkelo Mvubu, who hasbeen chargedby theNational ProsecutingAu-thority (NPA) with two counts of murder.Ngam said he was collecting information

and was communicating with the Libode po-lice ahead of the expected arrests of at least

four more bogus surgeons in the region.Mvubuappeared in theLibodeMagistrate’s

Court last Wednesday.It is alleged that Mvubu circumcised two of

the initiates that have died this initiation sea-son. The murder cases emanate from the dis-covery of the two dead bodies by the policeat an illegal circumcision school.According to NPA regional spokesperson,

Luxolo Tyali, in addition to the two counts ofmurder, Mvubu is also facing two counts ofcontravening the Health Standards Tradi-tional Circumcision Act No 6 of 2001.Meanwhile, in the same court of the district

of Libode, on Thursday, July 3, three male

teenagers (16-17) appeared on charges of un-lawful circumcision for circumcisinganotherboy (16).The young initiate was rescued by the po-

lice and is currently in a serious condition intheNelsonMandelaAcademicHospital inMt-hatha.The three teenagers were not released into

the custody of their parents, but were insteadreferred to the Bosasa Place of Safety in Mt-hatha, until their next court appearance onJuly 10.Tyali said the NPA was taking these cir-

cumcision-related cases very seriously.“Wewill vigorously prosecute all circumci-

sion-related cases without fear, favour orprejudice.Andwhere convictions are securedwe shall argue for the harshest possible sen-tences. We appeal to members of the public,especially parents, to be vigilant and to ex-pose these bogus traditional surgeons andnurses,” he said.AT the time of going to print, 24 initiates

have died in the Eastern Cape with at least131 being hospitalised or kept at rescue cen-tres.The premier of the Eastern Cape and the

MEC for Local Government and TraditionalAffairs, Fikile Xasa, was expected to addressthe media yesterday.

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YANDISA POPPY DLEMBULA

IN the hope of helping young boys recoverfrom illegal circumcision practices, theCommunity Development Foundation ofSouth Africa (Codefsa) is working hand inhand with the Department of Health (DoH)to place rescue and treatment centres inLusikisiki, Libode and Mhlontlo (Qumbuand Tsolo).

Codefsa chairperson, Nkululeko Nxesi,said that the rescue centre in Lusikisikiwas up and running and that about 80 boyshave been treated here, while the centre inMhlontlo was still under construction.“The rescue centre in Libode has been

running since last year, when it helpedabout 120 young boys to get treatment for il-legal circumcision practices,” added Nxesi.

He said the rescue centre that was underconstruction was their main focus, sincethey wanted to make sure that each andevery corner of the region gets the helpneeded in order to lower the death rateamong initiates.“We will fight the existence of illegal cir-

cumcision schools with all we’ve got be-cause they are undermining the impor-tance of the circumcision tradition,” saidNxesi.Circumcision school owner, Ayanda

Magini from Qumbu, said that they ap-plauded the work done by Codefsa, sinceit helped in fighting the negative percep-tion parents have towards this tradition.She said there was nothing negative aboutthe tradition itself, but that greedy peoplewith no knowledge of the tradition madeit look dangerous.

Circumcision rescue centresto assist initiates YANDISA POPPY DLEMBULA

THE traffic congestion in Lusikisiki has leftmany residents questioning the role of the In-gquza Hill Local Municipality in improvingthe traffic flow in the small town.

Themayor, Councillor PatMdingi, said themunicipality was working hard to improvetraffic flow in Lusikisiki and estimated thatby January 2015 the town would have freeflowing traffic.He said the traffic jams were caused by taxi

ranks that were everywhere along the mainroad.“Two roads, that will also be used to enter

town, are under construction as we speak –

meaning that themunicipality is doing some-thing to improve the small town of Lusik-isiki.”Mdingi said that the taxi ranks would be

moved to Ebhungeni which is closer to town.He said this would help with alleviating traf-fic congestion.Badanile Mbungunya, a motorist, who

uses the road on a daily basis, was happyto hear that the municipality was doingsomething to solve the traffic problems inLusikisiki, which he described as unbeara-ble.“Traffic jams cause us to be late for work

every day. During peak hours there are notraffic officers controlling the traffic flow,”said Mbungunya.

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YANDISA POPPY DLEMBULA

THREEdays after a shopping centre in Lusik-isiki caught fire, the building remained fullof smoke and explosions could still be heardfrom inside, posing a threat to passers-by.

In his initial report, police spokesperson,Captain Mduduzi Godlwana, applauded thefire department for its quick response to thescene, but last week he claimed that the firedepartment did not do enough to put out thefire.“I got a call fromanangry communitymem-

ber who was complaining about the explo-sions. We then had to call a fire rescue teamfrom Port St Johns to come and intervene,since the one in Lusikisiki said they were outof fire extinguishers,” said Godlwana.He said red danger tape was put around the

building to keep people away from the build-ing and to identify the site as a danger zone.A hawker who trades opposite the burnt

building, Zibuse Nkosiyaphantsi, said whilethe red tape helped, it was still not enoughto ensure the safety of people near the build-ing.“The police did not seem to take the burn-

ing of this building seriously. At least nowweare sure that the fire is out, since there is nomore smoke coming out of the building,” saidNkosiyaphantsi.The fire broke out on June 28.

Smoke remains threedaysafter fire

Residents of Lusikisiki passingby the burnt out supermarket.

PHOTO:YANDISA DLEMBULA

YANDISAPOPPY DLEMBULA

THE speaker of the Alfred Nzo District Mu-nicipality, Sandile Sello, accompanied bymembers of themayoral committee, handedover flasks and shawls to more than eightypeople aged between 60 and 90 in Sibi Vil-lage, Matatiele, last week.

The team also donated gardening equip-ment (wheelbarrows and spades), seeds andfertilizer to the village’s community project,

as a way of encouraging residents to domore. Sello encouraged the community ofSibi to take good care of its elderly, sincethey were the people who helped bring free-dom to the country.He said theyhaddecidedto donate to the elderly with the aim of dis-couraging abuse of the elderly.The elderly of Sibi village were delighted

with the generosity shownby themunicipal-ity and their wish is that God would blessthem and that they would continue to do thesame for the elderly in other areas.

Municipality donates to theelderly

One of the beneficiaries receiving someclothes donated by the Alfred Nzo DistrictMunicipality. PHOTO:SUPPLIED

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YANDISA POPPY DLEMBULA ANDPHINDILE GQELE

THE Mayor of the Mbizana LocalMunicipality, Makhaya Twabu,recently handed over a school tothe Mandlobe village communityafter it was reconstructed by themunicipality.

During the ceremony, childrenfrom the rural areas were encour-aged to see the importance of edu-cation.The Mandlobe Senior Primary

School (JSS) started as a smallmud building, built by parents,owing to the fact that otherschools were far away and trans-port was lacking. Twabu said thatthis was the first school of its kindin the whole area of Mandlobe.“The school handover initiative was the be-

ginning of celebrating the late NelsonMande-la’s life, because to him education was the

most important tool to takepeople out of pov-erty. This was the right time to do this sincethis is Mandela month.”

The chairperson of the SchoolGoverning Body, Zamile Baliso,said the opening of the schoolbrings a lot of joy for the parentsand children of the community,since they had always dreamt ofsuch a school.This school has 7 classrooms

and about 8 administrativerooms including a laboratorywith 27 laptops, a staffroom,kitchen and 26 water tanks.The headman of the village,

Lungisa Faku, said the openingof the school was like a dreamcome true for him, since he wasa former Mandlobe SPS pupilhimself. “Happiness cannot de-

scribe the way I am feeling right now. Aftertrying for such a long time to develop thisarea, this is the first step towards a brighterfuture for our little village.”

Mayorhandsoverrebuilt school

The new and improved, Mandlobe Senior Primary School (SPS) situated in the deep rural area ofBizana. PHOTO:YANDISA DLEMBULA

Mayor MakhayaTwabu. PHOTO:PHINDILE GQELE

Mayor Makhaya Twabu and headman, Lungisa Faku, officially open the new school buildings.PHOTO: YANDISA DLEMBULA

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EIGHT new classrooms are currently beingbuilt at the Matshezi Senior SecondarySchool (SSS) which had its roof blown offduring a storm in January this year.

The storm left no fewer than seven class-rooms roofless and rendered large parts ofthe school unusable.The school, situated in theKutshuze local-

ity outside Bizana, is one of the five schoolsto be reconstructed through the disasterschool relief programme, piloted by Coega,with Indwe Quantity Surveyors as projectmanagers and funded by the Eastern CapeTreasury Department.Zanemvula Magwa, a principal agent

from Indwe Quantity Surveyors, said con-struction was already under way and thatfour classrooms should be completed beforelearners go back to school after the winterholiday.

“Owing to the state of the building, wewere not able to simply replace the roof.This iswhywe decided to rebuild the class-rooms,” said Magwa.He said R9 million had been set aside to

build 22 classrooms and 42 toilets at fiveschools in the disaster schools relief pro-gramme. The schools are Matshezi SSS,Mqokweni SSS, Lujwana SSS, RwantanaSSS and Nqwati SSS.Matshezi’s principal, Ntomboxolo

Mbooi, said they were happy with the con-struction of the new classroooms, sincethey had been teaching pupils in difficultcircumstances.Chairperson of theMatshezi SchoolGov-

erning Body, Fundile Kunqasi, said hewasspeechless since the construction of thenew classrooms were exactly what theyhad wanted. He said they would now workon making sure that parents don’t taketheir children out of the school which theydid when the school lost its roof.

New classrooms forMatsheziSenior Secondary school

Construction of new classrooms is under way at Matshezi SSS. PHOTO:YANDISA DLEMBULA

PHINDILE GQELE

INaneffort to improvematric results, theDe-partment of Education (DoE) has organiseda winter school camp, conducted by experi-enced teachers, at Bizana Senior SecondarySchool.

Pupils are eating and sleeping at the schooluntil the camp ends on July 18.They were instructed to bring their own

bedding and food is being supplied by the de-partment.The camp is structured to cover the most

challenging subjects, like Physics, Life Sci-ences, Mathematics and Commercial stud-ies. The department has, in an effort to en-

sure that pupils are given time tomaster thesubjectmatter, sent some of the best teachersin the different fields to the camp.“This is a great opportunity. We have the

most experienced teachers from all sur-rounding schools. This can only produce bet-ter results at the end of the year,” saidNomawethu Hintsa, a pupil from Hlaman-dane Senior Secondary School (SSS).The local high schools attending thewinter

camp include Bizana SSS, Hlamandane SSS,Chief Dumile SSS,Madikizela SSS,MarelaneSSS,Mpondombini SSS and others attendingat Bizana Village.“Winter School will only work for those

who are enthusiastic about a better future,”said a parent, Msuthu Madikizela.

Winter classesassistmatriculants

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THE Umzimvubu Local Municipality hostedits second Annual Ratepayers’ Awards Cere-mony where ratepayers, dressed to kill, tookcentre stage in the small towns of MountFrere and Mount Ayliff.

This incentive programme was primarilydesigned to recognise, encourage and rewardratepayers who continually ensure that theirbills for rates and services were paid in fulland on time.

Thobile Melani, chairperson of the MountFrere Ratepayers’ branch, applauded the mu-nicipality for keeping a good relationshipwith the ratepayers and encouraged them tokeep on developing the small towns that theylead.

“We have seen the Municipality run pro-

grammes of a similar nature and introducingnew approaches in building and maintainingrelations, but this time around, the idea defi-nitely deserves to be applauded,” added Mela-ne.

Just over a year and a half ago, the munici-pality had had hostile relations with its rate-payers and they were at loggerheads most ofthe time. Petitions and Legal filings were theorder of the day between the municipality andratepayers.

The initiative was greatly commended bythe guest speaker, Nombasa Nkomana, a Sen-ior Manager of the Special Programmes Unitat the Provincial Local Government and Tra-ditional Affairs Department.

Umzimvubu Ratepayers were congratulat-ed on their accomplishment of coming witha peaceful solution which resulted in a goodworking relationship with the municipality.

Umzimvubuawards ratepayers

Umzimvubu Local municipal representatives with Ms Maqashalala (middle), Sophia Park residentreceiving two brush-cutters. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

YANDISA POPPY DLEMBULA

THE Umzimvubu Local Municipalitydonated 20 litres of paraffin to morethan ten villages including Nkanji,Qwidlana, Nophoyi and Kwa-Mpiti, asan alternative source of energy inMount Ayliff and Mount Frere.

More than 100 community membersqueued at the community halls to re-ceive their share of the paraffin whichwould help them keep warm this win-ter.

Umzimvubu mayor, Khulukazi Pan-gwa, said the programme was part ofshowing communities within the mu-nicipality that they do care aboutthem.

“Our main priority as the munici-pality is to make sure that each andevery community member from thearea that we lead, is living in good con-ditions,” added Pangwa.

These community members wereidentified by their ward councillors aspeople with limited means and in needof government intervention. Speakingon behalf of the beneficiaries, AkhonaMathundana, thanked the municipali-ty for the initiative as they could nolonger afford paraffin.

“We love our municipality so muchbecause it shows that they do careabout us individually. This will nowensure that we are going to have awarm winter, since we can now useour heaters,” said Mathundana.

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MONTY Whiteboy Jantjies, who participat-ed in athletics, rugby and boxing during hissporting career, spent some time with Ex-press reporter, Simbongile Mdledle, in theLegends’ Corner.

Out the three codes, Jantjies excelled mostin boxing, in which he became a Borderchampion, later reaching the South Africanchampionship in the amateur division.Jantjieswas born inMdantsaneTownship,

which is regarded as “the home of boxing inSouth Africa”.“I grew up in a place where one had to pro-

tect oneself with one’s fists. My involvementin sport started in grade 5. I never becamea professional, because I sustained a head in-jury, forcing me to quit boxing,” saidJantjies.Opponents who had given him sleepless

nights were Ayanda Barnabas andMthobeliMhlophe.After hanging up his boxing gloves,

Jantjies kept being involved with the devel-opment of the sport. He moved from EastLondon to Coffee Bay where he guided andtrained Goodman Dywili, who became Afri-can Baby Champion in the OR Tambo re-gion. “I amproudaboutwhat Ihaveachievedwith that boy.”Jantjies said things were not always easy

during the Apartheid years. “It was very dif-ficult during Apartheid, because there weretwo amateur bodies, one for blacks and onefor whites. One had to fight hundreds offights before becoming a professional andthere were challenges due to a lack of equip-ment back then.”

Jantjies said the youth should put theirminds and energy into sport and education.“If they do this, they will never regret it.”Jantjies is an educator at the Fairfield Jun-

ior Secondary School in Mthatha. He is hap-pily married and blessed with two boys. Al-though he spends most of his time in Mt-hatha, he still visits Mdantsane during theholidays.In his spare time he loves to read, run and

watch boxing.

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Monty Jantjies. PHOTO: SIM MDLEDLE

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BORDER’s u13 Coca-Cola CravenWeek teamhad the honour of playing in the main gameof the tournament at theKings Park Stadiumin Durban on Friday after three unbeatengames during the week.

Despite their backline being regarded asthe most exciting of the week and havingscored two tries, they lost 29-14 to WesternProvince in thegame which isregarded as theunofficial final.WP and Bor-

der were themost impressivesides on theopening day ofthe week andthey continuedto play the mostattractive rugbythroughout.Border produced the turn-around game of

the tournament when they beat EasternProvince 24-13 on Day 3 of the week (Thurs-day). EP led 13-0 at the break and it stayedthatway for the first 10minutes of the secondhalf. It was all Border after that and they ranin four tries without reply to end EP’s un-beaten run and booked themselves a place inthe unofficial final.Border’s final against Western Province

featured a contrast of playing styles. Prov-ince had the stronger forwards and three oftheir five tries came from driving mauls,while Border had the most exciting backlineof the week.They managed to score two tries in the fi-

nal, but their speedsters never saw enoughof the ball and Western Province were goodvalue for their win in the end.Daniel Venter scored two of the pushover

tries for Province, with the others comingfrom Benjamin Van Schalkwyk andMeiringEbersohn (two). Fabrizio Linnert kicked twoconversions.

The Border tries were by Austin Brandt,Sibusiso Javu. Rayden Masters convertedboth tries.

. TheU13 Coca-Cola CravenWeek is in its51st year of existence and is named in hon-our of former SA Rugby president, Dr DanieCraven, who opened the first U18 Coca-ColaCraven Week in East London in 1964.At the first game Dr Craven said: “The

board wants the game to be played in theright spirit. This includes: attacking, adven-

turous, open, con-structive rugby,without the interfer-ence of the result,and without dis-tracting from thegame. If the school-boys can accept thisspirit, it will extendto our national ap-proach, to the bene-fit of all.”The game has

changed enormous-ly since then. The teams are far better pre-pared and the entire approach to rugby is farmore professional but there’s no questionthan Craven’s call for attacking, adventur-ous rugby was answered in Durban lastweek.Cravenwas also at pains to stress that this

is a festival. There are no log points kept,and no overall winners or losers. What hasemerged is the phenomenon of the “maingame” – the week’s concluding fixture – withthe honour of playing in it reserved for thetwo teams that play the most attractive, ef-fective rugby during the week.It’s easier to decide on the main game at

the U13 Coca-Cola Craven Week than it is atthe other Coca-Cola Youth Weeks becausethe primary schools play fourmatches at theweek, not three as the older players do.That means that, by the end of the week,

it’s unlikely that too many teams will havewon all three prior encounters. So, the maingame will probably feature the two “A sec-tion” teams who are unbeaten at that stage.

BorderU.13’sexcel at Coca-ColaCravenWeek

Adrian Dirks of Border in the match between Eastern Province and Border. PHOTO:SUPPLIED

It was all Border after thatand they ran in four trieswithout reply to end EP’sunbeaten run and bookedthemselves a place in theunofficial final.

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PLAYERS have shown much dedication in apre-season tournament for 12 teamsatMsobom-vu sports grounds in Butterworth recently.

Secretary of theButterworthFootball Asso-ciation, Mvulinile Tose, said they were host-ing a pre-season tournament ahead of the pro-

motion league games for the 2014/15 season.“The Promotion League will start on Au-

gust 1. All teams participating now, will alsotake part in this league.Wewant tomake sureabout the number of the teams that we havein this Association,” said Tose.He said thepromotion league ends inMarch

next year and the winning team will be pro-moted to the SAB Regional League.

He said although they had a wealth of tal-ented players, they were still facing challeng-es which had to be addressed by authorities– one such challenge being the fact thatMsobomvu has only one sports ground to ac-commodate all games. Teams who participat-ed in Stream A were Montego FC vs BurningBush FC. Montego won 3-1.Killers FC and Filler Angels failed to show

up for their matches.In Stream B, Green Lovers FC played

against TK Lions FC and drew 0-0. FC Rela-tives and Butterworth All Stars FC drew 2-2.

In Stream C, Golden Arrows FC playedwith Young Masters FC who also drew 2-2.The last game of the day was played be-

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Action during the tough match between Montego FC and TK Lion at Msobomvu Sports Ground.PHOTO: BABALWA NDLANYA

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