E F SASTERN REE TATE

TEL: 058 ­ 3035411 WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2013 WWW.EXPRESS­NEWS.CO.ZA FREE

SHACKS in the Selahliwe informal settlement in Bohlokong. Photo: Tladi Moloi

} Tladi Moloi

EARLY last year Olly Mlamleli, the MEC forCooperative Governance and TraditionalAffairs (Cogta), and Ace Magashule, theFree State premier, promised the residentsof Selahliwe (“we are dumped”) that theywould soon be moved to the newly devel-oped Vogelfontein near Baken Park.

However, it looks like the residents willhave to wait longer than they expected asMagashule has failed to estimate when theywould bemoved there. He told Express East-ern Free State they were expecting to startbuilding at the site before the end of thisweek.

Magashule spoke to Express EFS soon afterhe had addressed the die-hard ANC sup-

porters following a recent door-to-doorcampaign which was conducted inBohlokong, Bethlehem.

“We’ll start building at the site nextweek,but I am not sure when the residents willbe taken to that area,” he said.

Magashule said the reason why he couldnot confirm the move, was that they werenot only going to build houses there, but al-so schools, shopping malls and many otherbuildings.

“We are doingwhatwe call human settle-ment,” he said.

Selahliwe is an informal settlement nearPhumlamqash township in Bohlokong. Ap-parently it is nowabout21 yearsold and thusfar those people who are living there arewithout electricity and running water.

Magashule and Mlamleli made theirpromises early last year during their Opera-tion Hlasela visit to Bethlehem.

A few months ago people were over themoon to see their names advertised in thenewspapers, as all the names of people whoqualified for the site were published.

These desperate people thought theywouldhave left thedevastatingSelahliwe forthe new site before Christmas, but thingshave not gone according to expectations.

Selahliwe has about 1 842 people in some546 households.

During his Hlasela visit, Magashule said:“We are indeed going to take all the peopleto the new place and after that we do notwant to see any houses in Selahliwe beforewe have developed it for others.”

Magashule said they were going into a dif-ficult election which would also be markingthe 20-year anniversary of democracy.

“Many people have lost hope and we havetomake sure thatwework hard and encour-age our people not to give up.

“We have to give people the site. Peopleare getting houses, but they need the site.Young people want to start their own hous-es and we have to make sure that we givethem the sites that they need.

“We want our people to eat the fruits offreedom,” he said.

He said they would never allow people toillegally occupy land.

“We have agreed as the government thatwhen people illegally occupy a site, weshould let the police remove them,” he said.

Selahliwe still waitingMagashule says long­awaited houses are to be built soon

2 EXPRESS EASTERN FREE STATE, WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2013

NEWS

} Tladi Moloi

A TENANT died while sevensurvived a fire that burned downa house in Bereng Street inBohlokong near Bethlehem. Theshocking incident happened onSaturday. According to thesurvivors they noticed the fire ataround 23:00.Petrus Xaba (38) from Warden

died in his room and wasremoved from the house by thestate mortuary personnel afterthe fire had been extinguished.It is alleged that the fire

started in the deceased’s roomand some of the tenants saidthey believed he forgot to switchoff the stove after cooking.Lebohang Motaung (22), who

witnessed the burning of thedeceased after she had failed torescue him from the fire, said: “Iwas still in bed when I heard asound from the opposite door. Ithough people were fighting until

I decided to go out and checkwhat was going on. Immediately,after opening the door, I cameacross the smoke.”Motaung said she started

kicking the door in an attempt toopen it, but the door could not beopened. “I took an iron andbroke the window, but I couldnot reach in with my hand topull him out of the window. Thefire was strong by that time andI thought of saving my two littlekids,” she said.Motaung, mother of two kids

aged three years and threemonths, said she grabbed herkids and waited outside by thefence crying. “I wished I couldhave saved him,” she said.She said they would appreciate

any kind of help from goodSamaritans as they had losteverything in the house.Tshepo Mofokeng (37), the

owner of the house, said he couldnot believe it when he received a

call from one of the tenants whotold him about the house thatwas on fire. “It was around 00:00when I got the call. I rushed tothe house and found police carsand the fire brigade attending tothe fire,” he said.He said it was very unfortu-

nate that they ended up losingone of the tenants and added thathe also felt the pain of those wholost everything in the fire.“Imagine some of those people

had to report to work thefollowing day, yet they had losttheir clothes,” he said.Mofokeng said he was going to

meet with the ward councillor tonegotiate any possibilities ofhelping him to get the house inits original shape again. “Webelieve that the municipality willhelp us,” he said.Sgt Majang Skalkie, the police

spokesperson, confirmed theincident and added that aninquest case had been registered.

Tenant (38) diesin house fire

HEARTBROKEN:TshepoMofokeng, theownerof thehouse that burneddown,with LebohangMotaungwho tried to help collect what remained of the belongings. Photo: Tladi Moloi

} Tladi Moloi

FIVE suspects were recently arrest-ed for stock theft.Sifiso Zungu (22), Papie Mthombe-

ni (28), Bongani Dube (36), BekaniMdakala (29) and Jan Bezuidenhout(20), a farmer, are expected to appearbefore the Harrismith Magistrate’sCourt onFriday for formalbail appli-cation.They have briefly appeared before

the same court last Friday.The five suspect were arrested last

Tuesday by the Kestell Stock TheftUnit following a tip-off from one ofthe community members.According to Sgt. Mmako Mophir-

ing, the police spokesperson, the fivesuspects were arrested on allegedstock theft through community in-formation at the Mountview Farm,District Harrismith, where threecows were slaughtered.A farmer was among the people

who were arrested and his bakkiewas confiscated.“At about 16:45 the commander

and other six members of the unitwent to theMountviewFarmoutsideHarrismith near the N3 where theyfound three slaughtered cows. Theywere removed from the storeroomnext to the kraal. On further investi-gation it was discovered that cattlewas sold to people who had a funeralin the township ofHarrismith. In theprocess four suspects were arrestedand linked to the scene on the farm,”he said.Mophiring said the same day at

about 22:30 a follow-up was conduct-ed from the farm to town at McKech-nie Street, Harrismith, where theteammade a stop at a certain restau-rant. It is believed two carcasseswere sold and kept here.He said the place was searched in

the presence of the owner who wascalled in.“He showed the police a cold stor-

age room in which a lot of freshbleeding meat was found packed onthe shelves not orderly placed withits legs. The owner was arrested onthe spot and the meat was removedfor further disposal,” he said.“Stock theft is our priority crime

in the Free State and we will notleave a stone unturned to search,seek and convict those involved inthe criminal activities pertaining tolivestock. It’s a thorn and a painfulsituation that the farming communi-ty undergoes with their stock beingstolen. We urge people to stop pro-moting buying stolen properties andreport such activities to the police.“I want to thank the willing com-

munity who fight crime through in-formation and building good rela-tions with the police. Also I congrat-ulate the Stock Theft Unit for theirreaction towards the informationand arrests executed. The trust fromcommunity comes naturally whenwe respond to service delivery,” saidLt Gen. Simon Mpembe, the FreeState provincial commissioner.

Stock-theft unitpraised for reaction

THE fresh meat of the stolen cows which was recovered in a restaurantin Harrismith. Photo: Supplied.

‘He showed the po­lice a cold storageroom in which lot offresh bleeding meatwas found packedon the shelves notorderly placed withits legs. The ownerwas arrested on thespot and the meatwas removed for fur­ther disposal.’–Sgt.Mmako Mophiring

EXPRESS EASTERN FREE STATE, WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2013 3

NEWS

} Selloane Khalane

THE battle to secure theWolhuterskop Game Re-serve in Bethlehem by theTyrannus Apostolic Churchis coming to an end, the FreeState government has said.

“No one denied Jesus amountain when he wantedto pray,” said Economic De-velopment MEC, MosebenziZwane.

Zwane was one of manyMECs, senior managers andANC leadership attendingthe church’s moral regener-ation men’s march againstwoman and child abuse onSunday. The church’s sen-ior pastor, Apostle SimonMokoena, told congregantswho had flocked to the serv-ice that the Free State gov-ernmenthad signedover theland to the church.

Mokoena told congre-gants that a certain “whiteparty” was hindering theprocesses of allowing thechurch to purchase the land.

“Why would you vote fora party that won’t give youthis land,” Mokoena ques-tioned his congregants dur-ing the sermon.

Mokoena urged congre-gants to vote for a party thatwas “for” the church.

In August, DA Free Statelegislature member RoyJankielsohn opened a caseof fraud and conspiracy tocommit theft against Pre-mier Ace Magashule. Thecase follows a promisemadeby Magashule to hand overthe title deed of the land to

the church during a youthconference in Botshabelo inAugust. Zwane told Volks-blad, parent paper of Ex-press, he has instructed theDihlabeng Municipality toerect a fencearoundapart ofthe game reserve being uti-lisedby thechurch toensurethat birds andanimals at thegame reserve are protected.“The church’s application touse the game reserve fol-lowed guidelines and wastherefore approved,” Zwanesaid.

During the event Ma-gashule campaigned for the2014 national elections andtold congregants the ANCbelonged to them andMokoena.

“We would not lead if itwasnot foryourprayersandsupport,” Magashule said.

During an interview withVolksblad Magashule saidthe Free State governmentwas partnering with thechurch to eliminate socialills and improve the moralfibre of society. Magashulesaid government supportedthe churches endeavours tosecure the land anduse it forchurch activities. “The landis our heritage as Africans,the land that was stolenfrom us,” Magashule said.

Although the church isnot yet the official owner ofthe game reserve, the nameof the church has been in-scribed on a hill there.) Visit www.express-news.co.za or express-paper.mobi to see morephotos from the service.

Premier Ace in a giving mood

IN A GIVINGMOOD: Free State premier, Ace Magashule (in red and white stripe shirt), leads a march against abuse in Bethle-hem with members of the Tyrannus Apostolic Church and ANC members. With Magashule on the left is Economic Develop-ment MEC Mosebenzi Zwane in conversation with Tyrannus church leader, Simon Mokoena. Photo: Reginald Witbooi

4 EXPRESS EASTERN FREE STATE, WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2013

Vusi Tshabalala, the acting executive mayorof the Maluti-a-Phofung Local Municipality,said he was happy that the MEC had visited.

He added that her visit was helpful and theywere hoping to improve on some of the thingsthat they discussed during their meeting.

early December to check the progress.“The first meetings are very nice; we engage

politely with each other, but we expect the tem-perature to rise in the second round when wesee the progress is not there. I hope the progresswill be there,” she said.

in the past. That is part of what we haveachieved in visiting all the municipalities.”

Rockman said there were issues that theyhave asked the mayors to specifically attend to.She added that they would come back on a sec-ond round of visits at the end of November or

} Tladi Moloi

ELZABE ROCKMAN,MEC for Finance in theFree State, recently visited 23 municipalitiesthroughout the Free State. These visits wereaimed at helping the municipalities to achievea clean audit status in 2014.

Rockman concluded her journey at the Malu-ti-a-Phofung Local Municipality on Wednesday.

She said she was delegated by the NationalTreasury to all the municipalities in the prov-ince, excluding the Mangaung Metro.

“We are not making sufficient progress toachieve clean audit statuses. Some of the muni-cipalities are making progress, but there werea number of municipalities which seemed tohave gotten stuck in the challenges that havebeen there for the past three to four years,”Rockman said.

She stated that they knew they needed to dosomethingdifferent in order for them to achievetheir goals.

“We then decided to engage the mayors andthe political leadership. The engagement hasbeen there before between the Department ofCo-operative Governance and Traditional Af-fairs (COGTA), theProvincialTreasuryandmu-nicipalities at official level, but we have not en-gaged sufficiently to bring the political leader-ship on board.

“We wanted to ask them to ensure that theytake the responsibility to drive certain process-es within the municipality, so that we ultimate-ly improve financialgovernance, financialman-agement and the sustainability of municipali-ties. Those issues directly impact on servicedelivery. And through all of this we will ulti-mately achieve our improved audit outcome.”

She said the audit no longer only took into ac-count financial management, but the perform-ance management part as well.

“So without the political leadership beingvery strong in terms of giving direction, guid-ance and exercising oversight, those are issuesthat we feel we have not sufficiently addressed

NEWS

Rockman rallies for clean audits

ELZABE ROCKMAN, the MEC for Finance in the Free State, and Vusi Tshabalala, the acting executive mayor of the Maluti-a-PhofungLocal Municipality. Photo: Tladi Moloi

FROM the left are Kananelo Mosea, Nomthandazo Dhlikililiand Prudence Hosha during the recent New Horizon CollegeFashion Show. Photo: Supplied

THE body of ThaboMaruping (46) wasrecovered by thePetrus Steyn policefollowing a reportfrom a communitymember.

The body wasfound at the Reitzand Petrus Steynold road near LongFarm in the PetrusSteyn district onSunday morning.

Sgt. MajangSkalkie, policespokesperson, saidthe police werecontacted.

On arrival at thecrime scene thepolice found thebody of Thabo lyingon the ground witha head injury.

She said he waswearing blue jeans,an orange shirt andbrown tekkies.

“An inquest wasregistered forinvestigation.

“The policeappeal to thecommunity if theyhave any informa-tion with regard tothe incident tocontact the investi-gating officer,Detective Lieuten-ant ZachariaHlongoanae, on082-466-7034,” shesaid.

HelpSAPSwithmurder

Show fashion flair

EXPRESS EASTERN FREE STATE, WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2013 5

NEWS

ONLY ten more days until Z PR’sfirst ever Kids Carnival and our bud-ding entrepreneurs, talented super-stars as well as Pageant Kings andQueensare getting ready for theKidsCarnival which takes place on 26 Oc-tober.This year the prestigeous event

will be held at the Engo Centre’splayground area (formerly the Chil-dren’s Home located at 43 VictoriaAvenue, Willows). The Kids Carni-val is open to all young entrepre-neurs between the ages of 6 and 17free of charge and any money madeby young traders is theirs to keep.Additionally, therewill be aKidsGotTalent competition, as well as a Lit-tle Miss Kids Carnival and MisterStrongman pageant. Lynne Land-man, organiser for this great project,says the competition encourageschildren with great creative ideas tomake loads of money and to learnabout business in a fun, innovativeway. Kids have the opportunity tosell their products at a bustling fleamarket, while they are being judgedbyapanel of judges. “The judges lookfor the best product, best stall andbest sales team,” says Landman.“Thus far we have received loads

of entries and we are very excitedabout the creativity of our children.The ideas we have received thus faris brilliant and includes a wide va-riety of products and services,” saysLandman. For more information,call the Kids Carnival hotline at 051-522-9574 or email kids@zpr.co.za,Monday to Friday, during officehours. Alternatively visit http://zpr.co.za/carnival/.

Kids Carnival almost here

SOME of the “Golden Girls” who will take part in Kids Got Talent 2013.Sitting is Tshidi Mahanele and Susie Davids and Rymonde Jafta stand-ing. Photo: Supplied

THENewHorizon College obtained great results during the recentNational Eskom Expo for Young Scientists. They received fourmedals, three bronze and silver in the competition. The learnersare from the left Theodrine Ngaka, Tselane Tladi, Relebohile Mo-taung and Retlametswe Losaba. Photo: Supplied

PHUUUUUUUUSH . . . AgoodSamaritanwas caughtoncamerahelpingto push one of the traffic department vehicles of the Dihlabeng LocalMunicipality that had trouble starting in one of the street in Bohlokong,Bethlehem. Photo: Tladi Moloi

6 EXPRESS EASTERN FREE STATE, WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2013

EXPRESS EASTERN FREE STATE, WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2013 7

Jemina is looking forwork: Cashier, cleaner,receptionist. Code 10, Gr. 12and N4 - N5 . (071 955 3149/078 281 9850.

120: Please take notice thatthe MMUSAPELOCONSOLATION

MAKGONGAONA intendsto make application to theCommissioner of CIPC forthe restoration of BLUECRANE CATERING(2009/057551/23). Anyobjections to this

application must be lodgedwith the Commissioner ofCIPC within 21 days of thedate of the publication

thereof. CIPC, PO Box 429,Pretoria 0001.

CALVES AVAILABLE.MANAMANE A TENG

RE REKISA DIKGOMO LE DINKU

TSA MAFULE MOKETECLOETE

082°445°3396/082 773 8492.

LETSATSI FINANCEAND LOAN:

Low on cash? Need toconsolidate? Contact ustoday to see how we canhelp you. Qwa Qwa:

058°713°2387. Fax number086°546°3205.

Need cash?We can help!

We have opened a newbranch in Qwa Qwa for yourconvenience. Visit us todayat the Bus Rank Building on

Setai Street, Qwa Qwa.Contact us on 058°713°2247

or visitwww.letsatsifinance.co.za

today.

For the placement of

your legal notices.

LEGAL NOTICES

Contact Adelina at

058 303 5407/084 673 9986

or e-mail

adelina.mokoena@volksblad.com911/QWA/18 AUG10/JJ

8 EXPRESS EASTERN FREE STATE, WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2013

E F SASTERN REE TATE

} Tladi Moloi

THE veteran skipper of the FreeState Stars, Paulos Masehe, wants tolift a trophy before he hangs up hisboots.

He is quite aware that Ea Lla Kotohas had a good run in both the Tel-kom Knockout Cup and the NedbankCup.

Masehe says the team has learnt alot in the cup championships andthey now know what they should doto march to the finals of the competi-tion.

This coming Sunday either Ea Lla

Koto or Amakhosi will be knockedout of the Telkom Knockout quarter-finals. The two teams will battle fora place in the semi-finals of the cupwhen they meet at the Charles Mope-li Stadium.

Kick-off is at 15:00.The Bethlehem-based Stars ad-

vanced to thequarterfinals of theTel-kom Knockout with a 2-0 home victo-ry over AmaZulu.

Danny Venter and Abdul-Basit Ad-am guided the team.

Chiefs booked their place in thequarterfinals with a 3-0 victory awayto the PSL rookies Polokwane City.

Ea Lla Koto’s best show in the Tel-kom Knockout era is reaching thesemi-finals, a feat they achieved lastseason as well as in the 2007-’08 and2008-’09 campaigns, while Amakhosihave lifted the trophy three times inthe Telkom Knockout era, winningthe competition in 2007 -’08, 2009 -’10and 2010-’11.

“We need to be consistent. We justneed to take each and every game se-rious and make sure that we beatthem. I am sure that this time we willmanage to win the semi-finals andhopefully reach the finals,” he said.

Masehe said he was confident that

they would win the cup should theyreach the final stage of the tourna-ment.

Both Steve Komphela and StuartBaxter will be watching the 90 min-uteswithhawkeyes – theyknowhowimportant a win will be on the day.

The two coaches are not strangers.They have worked together with thenational team, Bafana Bafana.Komphela was the right-hand man toBaxter in 2004.

The Soweto Giants hope for re-venge as they were kicked out of thequarterfinals of the 2012 NedbankCup, with Stars grabbing a 1-0 win.

However, Stars will be motivatedby the home turf advantage and thetwelfth man in the form of the sup-porters.

The ability of strikers to scoregoals will be key here.

Should both teams fail to win thegame in an open play, it will be decid-ed on penalties.

Stars will pin their hopes on thefree scoring Adam, Venter, LuyoloNomandela and Katlego Mashegowhile Knowledge Musona, BernardParker, Siphiwe Tshabalala and Re-neilwe Letsholonyana will be expect-ed to do the job for Chiefs.

Race is on for KnockoutLUYOLO NOMANDELA fights for the ball with the Kaizer Chiefs player Siboniso Gaxa. Photo: Supplied