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HEARTBROKEN: Tsholo Mopeli, the Mabolela Village chief, and the disabled RoselineKupe watch as a bulldozer destroys a shack during the eviction at the Bokamoso Informal Settlement, a piece of land known as Remaining Extent on the farm Bluegumboschnear the University of the Free State’s Qwaqwa Campus. Photos: Tladi Moloi

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} Tladi Moloi

BOKAMOSO. – An uncertainfuture looms for residents ofironically-named ‘Bokamoso’ (thefuture), an informal settlementopposite the University of theFree State’s Qwaqwa campusafter they were evicted in thecold early hours of last Wednes-day.

As many as 10 police Nyalavehicles, around 60 policeofficers as well as members ofthe police’s tactical responseteam set about destroying shacksand evicting people from 06:00.

As early as 03:00, when ExpressEastern Free State arrived on thescene, residents had alreadystarted burning tyres andblockading roads to the settle-ment in a futile attempt toprevent the eviction from takingplace.

Iceburg, a private company,was hired by the Maluti-a-Pho-fung Local Municipality to evictpeople who have illegallyoccupied that land for threeyears. They destroyed the shacksand a few well-built houses. Onlythe furniture was taken to one ofthe factories in Qwaqwa.

Residents could only watch asa bulldozer set about destroyingtheir shacks while others hadample time to dismantle theirshacks themselves.

The site was illegally sold to

the community by Tsholo Mopeli,the chief of Mabolela Village,back in 2011. It is alleged thatthey bought the sites for betweenR500 and R1 000.

In 2012, the local municipalityopened a case against the chieffor illegally occupying themunicipal land. The High Courtlater ruled in favour of themunicipality but the chiefappealed.

He lost three times before hetook the matter to the Constitu-tional Court. On 23 May averdict was issued but it alsocame back with bad news for thechief.

It reads as follow: “TheConstitutional Court has consid-ered this application for leave toappeal. It has concluded that theapplication should be dismissedas it bears no prospects ofsuccess. Other: Applicationdismissed.”

Ntsubise Nakedi (62) said itwas painful to witness his houseof R80 000 which has been therefor a year going down. “We havejust voted for the ANC and thisis how they reward us. I wantmy money back. I worked as adomestic worker. After takingmy package I built this housewith the assistance of my sister.

“I built this house because thechief gave us hope that we wouldnever leave the place,” she said

Mpho Mohalajeng said the

ANC was playing with them.“We have just wasted our

votes. They waited for our votesknowing that in the end this iswhat they would do.Vusi Tsha-balala (Maluti-a-Phofung mayor)and his team are disrespectingus,” he said.

Mopeli, the chief of MabolelaVillage, said it was heartbreaking to see residents housesbeing destroyed.

“The worse part is that theydid not even give us notice tovacate the place. We are disap-pointed with the actions taken byour municipality,” he said.

Mopeli also said that theywould go back and decide ontheir next move because theybelieved they could not lose theland so easily.

He told Express that theywould take the matter to theHuman Rights Commission on

Monday.On 15 November 2012, Boka-

moso residents were advised tobuy sites when the municipalityannounced that there were sitesavailable for the community atthe Phuthaditjhaba Extension 10.

Mopeli said the site wasexpensive because most of thepeople were not working.

“They said there were 208 sitesand we had given away 780 siteson this land. The problem was ifthey had so few sites who wouldgo there?

“They wanted to sell the sitesfor R10 000 which was too much.My people only paid R500 to getthe sites and that is why evenpeople who were jobless couldafford the sites,” he said.

A media statement from themunicipality on that matterreads as follow:

With regards to the eviction of

illegal occupants at the remain-der of the farm “Bluegumbosch199”, the first eviction order wasserved on 12 July 2012.

The process has since beenpostponed by appeal applicationsmade in the name of MorenaTsholo Mopeli and others. Itwent through the High Court,Supreme Court and finally theConstitutional Court.

The municipality furtherexplained that on 23 May, theConstitutional Court ruled infavour of Maluti-a-Phofung LocalMunicipality activating the courtorder dated 12 July 2012.

Through the office of theExecutive Mayor, the followingmeasures took place:

1. A meeting was held with theMabolela Tribal Council.

2. A meeting was held with theillegal occupants of the said area.

3. Church leaders met with theillegal occupants.

4. Information was broadcaston local radio stations.

5. Notice boards were utilizedfor displaying the order and loudhailing also took place.

All these measures were takento encourage the illegal occu-pants to vacate the land. Themunicipality is, however,identifying and taking care of thedestitute families.

Transport and storage of goodswas also provided by the munici-pality.

Bokamoso residents evicted“It was heart breaking to see residents’

houses being destroyed, the worst part isthat they did not even give us notice to vacate the place. We are disappointed by the

actions taken by our municipality”

NTSUBISE NAKEDI and her younger sister Ethel MopeliMakoanyane points at thehouse which was destroyed during a recent eviction at the "Bokamoso" an informalsettlement, a land known as Remaining Extent on the farm Bluegumbosch near theUniversity of the Free State’ Qwaqwa Campus. Photo: Tladi Moloi

ONE of the evicted residents is crying on the ground as they were evicted at the Bokamoso an informal settlement, a land known as Remaining Extent on the farm Bluegumbosch near the University of the Free State’s Qwaqwa Campus.

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Forensic process intrigues learners} Tladi Moloi

FICKSBURG. – Members of theFicksburg Police Station, togetherwith members of the BethlehemForensic Services visited the gr. 12learners of the MaralanengSecondary School in the Meqhe-leng Township recently.

The visit was aimed at teachingmatriculants how the police goabout in investigating a crimescene.

WO Maki Likhethe of the unitsaid that they normally collectedvarious forms of evidence fromcrime scenes which was thentaken to laboratories to beanalysed.

“At the scene of a burglaryfingerprints must be lifted usingadhesive tape, fluorescent magnet-ic powder and a magnetic brush,”he said.

The learners were amazed whenfingerprints were lifted from paperthat had been used in the class-room.

“The biology section is re-sponsible for the analysis ofevidential material of biologicalorigin like body fluids, humantissue and hair.

“Blood and human tissue aremostly collected from murderscenes, hence the scene must notbe contaminated by walking orremoving anything that might beused to connect the suspect withthe crime.

“Semen, hair and finger nailscrapings originating from suspect-ed rapists are collected from therape victim, and for this reason wealways urge victims not to washthemselves. Victims are remindedthat they must report the rape

within 72 hours so that they canreceive a tablet that preventssexually transmitted diseases.

“This section also does facialreconstruction and individualisa-tion when the flesh of the deceasedhas decomposed beyond recogni-tion or when a human skeletonneeds to be identified,” Likhetheexplained.

He told the students thatfirearms confiscated from crime

scenes and illegal firearms foundin the possession of suspects wereusually submitted for ballisticanalysis.

“Each and every firearm leaves aspecial mark on the projectile aftera shot has been fired. The markwill be used to link to the serialnumber of the firearm – this willalso reveal the firearm licenceholder.

“Firearms must be kept inside a

locked safe that is securelyfastened to a wall or be on thelicence holder’s person, holsteredat all times,” he said.

He said police investigatorsalways took note of health andsafety measures at the scene of acrime. He asked the community tostay clear of crime scenes becausethey could be exposed to hazardslike chemicals, biological materialsuch as blood and explosives.

“Sometimes criminals may stillbe at the scene and they mightharm someone arriving on thescene.

“All physical evidence collectedfrom the scenes are handed topolice forensic scientists foranalysis. They study and interpretit according to acceptable scientificprinciples to bring criminals tobook and to protect the innocentfrom prosecution,” he concluded.

LETAMOMOHLABI andWOMaki Likhethe with gr. 12 learners of theMaralaneng Secondary School during the crime experiments demonstration.Photo: Supplied


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THOSE WERE THE DAYS: Reabetswe Tshabangu, Lerato Molelekwa and Fedile Mofokeng in their school uniform, commemorating 16June. Photos: Supplied

SONTO MOLOI from the University of theFree State’s Qwaqwa campus commemorates 16 June.

Cause for a big celebration

} Teboho Setena

STRINGENT measures with apossible takeover by thenational Department of Healthregarding the management offinances appear to be the lastresort to rescue the trouble-rid-den Free State Department ofHealth.The prospect of placing the

department under administra-tion was further fuelled by DrBenny Malakoane, the MEC forHealth, who admitted thedepartment was in a diresituation.After months of pretending

the department’s situation wasjust a storm in a teacup,Malakoane came clean aboutthe department having hit rockbottom at last Tuesday’s mediaconference in Bloemfontein.Express Goldfields & NFS

reliably learnt that last Thurs-day a task team had visited theBongani Regional Hospital inWelkom on a fact-findingmission to assess the extent ofthe problems that have beenparalysing service delivery.The task team pitched at the

hospital unannounced and itwas said to be visiting otherhospitals that were in a similarsituation.The visit further fuelled

speculation of the possibility ofthe provincial Department ofHealth being placed underadministration to rescue it fromthe doldrums.The problems at the Bongani

Hospital, directly arising fromthe department’s financial woes,saw nurses down tools lastmonth.Their action was in protest of

what they deemed the depres-sive conditions they had beensubjected to work under.The nurses had to be content

with working without basicitems such as surgical gloves,needles and nappies.They complained bitterly

about a shortage of doctors andnurses, a situation which forcedthem in turn to work longhours and overtime.As a result the Bongani

Hospital only performs surger-ies deemed as emergency cases,

leaving patients booked forsurgery in pain and discomfort.This publication learnt that

the nurses had not been paidfor overtime duties since lastyear.Neither have their perform-

ance appraisal monies beenpaid.The DA revealed that the

Department of Health had

entered the current financialyear with a R700 millionshortfall due to accruals fromthe previous financial year.Malakoane’s repeated request

for an additional R4 billionbailout on top of its R8,1 billionallocation to function properly,was declined by Elsabe Rock-man, the Free State MEC forFinance, when tabling the

provincial budget in March.“We reject this statement.

Unfortunately, MEC Malakoanefailed to admit that financialand administrative mismanage-ment were largely to blame forthe current sad state of affairsand narrowed it down tofunding constraints,” saidMariette Pittaway, the DA’smember of the provinciallegislature.Pittaway said they had failed

to justify Malakoane’s requestfor bailout.“Considering our shrinking

provincial population, thissurely can’t be the case. TheDepartment of Health mustrestructure its administrativeand financial managementfunctions, bringing it in linewith the Public FinanceManagement Act.“We can’t allow people in

need of medical care to beshown away from hospitals dueto the inability of the depart-ment to work smarter anddeliver better,” she said.The DA was adamant that

Malakoane table a concretestrategy to turn public healtharound, and put forward thefollowing recommendations:) to present a plan to addresscritical staff shortages andimplement an effective recruit-ment and retention programme;) to implement the recommen-dations of the Auditor Generalin the department’s entireprocurement process to bring itin line with the Public FinanceManagement Act;) to implement a clearlydefined monitoring programmeof all contracted serviceproviders; and) to recruit and appointcompetent and suitably quali-fied individuals to the executivemanagement of health facilities.

MEC admits collapseTask team assigned to assess extent of problems

RIOT ACT: Dr Benny Malakoane, the MEC for Health, at last Tuesday’s media conference, explainingthe Department of Health’s problems which have negatively impacted on service delivery across theFree State. Photo: Mlungisi Louw


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I HAVE no doubt in my mindthat to many of us, especially,black South Africans – whosechildren, sisters and brothersdied in the course to acquiresocial justice and freedom, that16 June induces some sense ofpain and suffering, which we cando without.There is an immeasurable

amount of sorrow that is embed-ded in our minds to the extentthat whenever this day comes,one is reminded of massacresand the oppression of our peopleat the hands of the apartheidregime.My purpose here is to explain

a particular view which I hold,and which you have taken yourprecious time to read andperhaps attempt to betterunderstand.However, I am in no way

trying to persuade the readerhere to share my personal beliefsnor do I attempt to attract you tojoin a particular school ofthought.I should like you to remain

intelligently critical and open-minded and use your judgmentwith understanding, and ofcourse, with the desire todiscover.I should therefore like you to

walk with me this journey intothe present.One day a friend of mine, who

is also a lawyer, shared with mehis experience during theapartheid era.

HumiliatedHe went on to tell me that

during the 1980s, when he was a

young boy of approximately 10 to12 years old, he happened toaccidentally bump into a whitewoman on the street while hewas walking from the shoppingcomplex in town.She screamed very loudly to

get the attention of her husband,who then came running fromtheir car, which was parked inthe parking lot, to the rescue ofhis lovely wife from what heperceived to be a serious attackon her.He grabbed my friend and

hauled him by his clothestowards his wife shouting “Is ithim, is it him?”My friend was trembling with

fear, not knowing what was sobad about what he had done andthe fear of not knowing whatwas going to happen to him evenmade him wet his pants.Tears fell from his eyes down

to his cheeks as he defencelesslywatched this big and strong mandragging him around in full viewof the public.He practically begged him for

his mercy.To the reader here this may

sound like a less serious incidentcompared to other horrendousviolations of human rights this

country has seen during thoseyears.As he continued revealing this

ordeal to me his eyes were filledwith guilt, anger, sorrow andmore.

Lifetime scarsI should believe, given the

manner in which he narratedthis story and the tone that hehad used, that the pain heendured on that fateful daycannot be measured nor can it beerased in his mind at all.I have begged the reader here

right from the beginning to becritically intelligent and beopen-minded to my movement ofthought and not to accept itwithout proper analysis so thatwe can together embark upon amission of finding peace, harmo-ny and tranquillity.In as much as we celebrate

Youth Day, and of course Ibelieve that it is right to do so,but equally, it brings back thepainful memories of the past wehad to endure.Do you see why I say that we

should rethink if it serves us anypurpose as a nation to continuecommemorating days like these?Our government has made

significant strides in ensuringthat we all live together in peaceand harmony through pro-grammes such as “reconciliationand nation building” and so on.In my view, no matter how

unpopular it may be, the onlyday which remains significantand relevant to our present daylife and living is Freedom Dayon 27 April.

Chained to our pastA great philosopher and

spiritual teacher, Jiddu Krishna-murti, wrote in one of his books:“Without freedom from the past,there is no freedom at all,because the mind is never anew,fresh, innocent. It is only thefresh, innocent mind that isfree.”Freedom has nothing to do

with age, it has nothing to dowith experience and it seems tome that the very essence offreedom lies in understandingthe whole mechanism of habit,both conscious and unconscious.”We have over the years

classified ourselves as belongingto a particular race, religion,political party, nationality, sectand so on.The moment we define our-

selves as belonging to a particu-lar class or group, we separateourselves from the rest ofmankind.Therefore any difference of

class, sect or group in anysociety will inevitably lead toconflict as it has always been thecase in the past.As in the case of my friend

here, we are always chained inour past – not physically, but inour minds.I am therefore persuaded that

we can only consider ourselvescompletely free if our minds arefree from the past.In conclusion, Jiddu Krishna-

murti laments; “After all, this isour world, it is yours and mine –not to live as Greeks, or Ameri-cans or Indians or Russians butas human beings. But unfortu-nately we have national, econom-ic and religious barriers andliving behind these barriers wetalk of brotherhood, we talkabout love, peace and God.”To really know what love is we

must abolish all these barriers,and each one of us must beginwith himself.) Adv. Temba Diba is founderof the Great Minds Institute ofSouth Africa.

Should we still observe 16 June?My viewAdvocate Themba DibaFounder of Great Minds Institute ofSouth Africa

‘In as much as we celebrate Youth Day, andof course I believe that it is right to do so,

but equally, it brings back the painful memories of the past we had to endure.’


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} Tladi Moloi

BETHLEHEM. – Hard work anda passion for canoeing has earnedboth Success Mahlaba and hismentor, Cyprian Ngidi, of theDihlabeng Canoeing Club, Proteacolours courtesy of the SouthAfrican Canoeing Federation(SACF).Mahlaba and Ngidi were

recently awarded their Proteablazers by the SACF.According to Ngidi, who is also

the South African Canoeing headcoach, the blazers were awardedto them following the goodresults they produced in the pasttwo seasons.“We have managed to provide

good results at the Free Statechampionships, as well as theKwaZulu-Natal championships inthe past two seasons. We alsoachieved good results in theSouth African championship thatsaw us being selected to go toEurope to compete in threeworld cups and a world champi-onship,” Ngidi said.Ngidi, who is also an athlete,

said in most of the races, espe-cially the one in Africa, they hadachieved first and second positionfor about two seasons.“That made us some of the best

competitors in South Africa.Because of that background, wewere selected to get these Proteablazers,” he said.He said the standard of canoe-

ing in the Free State was verylow, because they did not havemore people participating in thesport. He said they would love tosee people attending in numbers

to promote this rare sport in theprovince.Mahlaba said he was very

happy with the award. He said hehad been in the game for eightyears and what made him love it

even more, was that the resultswere becoming visible.“Representing South Africa

outside the country was amoment I will never forget,” hesaid.

Protea colours for canoeing stars

TJHETANE MOFOKENG (middle), the executive mayor of the Dihlabeng Local Municipality, with Success Mahlaba (left) and Cyprian Ngidi ofthe Dihlabeng Canoeing Club. Photo: Tladi Moloi


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JUNE is Blood Donor Month and 3M, withthe South African National Blood Service(SANBS), are encouraging everyone todonate blood.

To honour this noble service, 3M isdonating 70 000 specially designed plastersin support of this challenge.

3M and SANBS challenge you to donateblood this June and win. All you have todo is take a “selfie” of your arm afterdonating blood showing a speciallydesigned 3M plaster.

Use the image to encourage yourfriends, family and colleagues to alsodonate blood and be a 3M “selfie” hero onFacebook and Twitter (use #GiveBloodSelf-ie) and win weekly hampers.

Safe blood saves lives. Every time youdonate blood, you can help up to three orfour individual recipients. Every daythousands of people would die if othersdid not donate their blood.

By donating blood, you are givingsomeone something money cannot buyand science cannot create.

Most of the components of blood usedfor transfusions have a short shelf life andmaintaining a constant supply is apersistent problem.

Thabo Ngema, junior product specialist,said: “3M is committed to actively contrib-ute to sustainable development throughenvironmental protection, social responsi-bility and economic progress.”

Ngema added: “Each person, if every-thing is in order, usually donates about480 ml of blood. We are hoping to collect33,6 million ml of blood through thiscampaign.”

You don’t need a special reason to giveblood; you just need your own reason. Ifyou can’t think of a good one, here aresome reasons other people came up with:) Some give blood because they aresupporting a friend.) Some know that a family member or afriend might need blood someday.) Some believe it is the right thing to do.) You will feel good knowing you havehelped save a life.) Regular blood donations help to keepthe levels of iron in the body in check,especially in males. This has shown toreduce heart disease.) A single blood donation helps you shed650 kcal.) High levels of iron have been implicatedin certain cancers. Theoretically, donatingblood frequently will reduce the risk ofcancer.

To make a difference and be part of thiscampaign please like our Facebook page“NexCare South Africa” and follow us onTwitter @nexcaresouthafrica.

Don’t forget to hashtag #GiveBloodSelfieand mention @thesanbs in the tweet towin weekly prizes.

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FORMER PLATINUM STARS mentorOwen da Gama believes appointing aforeign coach to lead Bafana Bafana couldprove detrimental to the development ofSouth African football.

Da Gama – who also turned out forMoroka Swallows during his playing days– says Safa’s intentions of maintaining aharmonised playing philosophy amongjunior national teams right up to seniorlevel will only succeed with a local coachat the helm.

Frenchman Hervé Renard and ShakesMashaba are among the coaches who arebeing linked with the Bafana coachingpost.

Safa are expected to announce GordonIgesund’s successor at the end of thismonth.

“A local coach is ideal for Bafana. If youlook at other African countries that haveappointed foreign coaches, you will noticethat they are not consistent in terms of

getting results,” Da Gama tells Kick-Off.com.

Asked whether European coaches arenot better equipped with modern coachingtechniques than their local counterparts,Da Gama responds: “Do foreign coachesknow more about our own players thanlocals? Are they familiar with our cultureand the characteristics of South Africanfootball? I do not think so.

“Foreign coaches are not super coaches.Local coaches, on the other hand, have abetter background of our football.

“What Safa must aim at is to expose asmany local coaches as possible to themodern trends of football.

“This will ensure that the knowledgethey gain is used to the benefit of localfootball. We must see more coachesenrolling for courses in Germany, Italyand other countries,” adds the ex-OrlandoPirates tactician.) Source: KickOff.com.

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} Tladi Moloi

SENEKAL. – The FK Football Club contin-ues to fight the championship on the tablewhile Free State Stars Development areuncertain of their future.The battle continues and the FK manage-

ment believes the team will be victoriousand go all the way to represent the SafaThabo Mofutsanyana SAB Regional Leaguein this year’s promotional play-offs.As the log table stands, Stars are the

stream B winners with 39 points after 18games and FK are second with 38 points in17 games. They only need three points tobecome the champions in that stream.The winner will have to play against the

winner in stream A, which has beenconfirmed as Dla2 FC, and will then repre-sent the Thabo Mofutsanyana District in thepromotional play-offs.The FK Football Club was accused of

fielding four u.21 players instead of therequired five in their game against Manches-ter United from Ladybrand earlier this year.The team appeared before the league

disciplinary committee in March and theywere found guilty and docked three points.They appealed the verdict. Express Eastern

Free State learnt that the case had beenheard last week Sunday but that teammanagement was still not happy with theoutcome and were planning to take thematter to Safa.

Stars and Dla2, who are at the top of theirrespective log tables, will, therefore, have towait for the outcome of the case. Until thennothing can be done.However, the two teams are still training

hard in preparation for the play-offs.The winners in this region will join the

winners of Lejweleputswa, Xhariep, FezileDabi and the Mangaung Metro in battling itout as the provincial champions, but the twoteams that will go through to the final stageof the contest will automatically be promotedto the Safa Second Division for next season.France Qamakoane, FK chairman, con-

firmed they had appealed the regional rulingbecause they had felt there had been nojustice.

“Those people are telling us about anamendment to a rule that we know nothingabout. They have a copy of it, but nevergave it to the teams. We spoke to the teamto check if they had something like that butthey did not,” he said.Qamakoane said Pinana Ramotala had

been u.21 at the time he had been fielded inthat league game.“He was a few months away from turning

22,” he said.He said the team would still play in

tournaments in preparation for the upcom-ing play-offs.Dimakotso Mokoena, the league coordina-

tor, said she was not in a position tocomment on the matter.

FK FC taking case to SafaON THE BALL: Qolane Ratolo, FK FC player on the ball, with Rampa Rantai running next to him during their league clash against Badoroang FC. Photo: Tladi Moloi

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