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FREE REEE We LEX NEWS FREEREE WeekWeWeeek endingendinng 25 May,M 2018 www.alexnews.co.za Alex News @AlexNewsZA 087 285 8091 AFlorence MoshupyaM is Alexandra’s new female referee who is blowing away male barriers in the beautiful game 8 Tikkun’s think tanks SIPHO SISO Speaking at the launch, Tikkun’s group unemployment. to fi sh so they can stand on their own two [email protected] executive for partnerships and marketing, He attributed unemployment, especially feet. “The responsibility to change your Onyi Nwaneri, said African people, in this of young people, as being the catalyst lives can only be accomplished by you,” Afrika Tikkun has taken some of the youth country and on rest of the continent, were for the heinous crimes and drug Nwaneri added. She said the purpose of from the poorest communities in Gauteng ‘fed-up and tired’ of being subjected to addiction problems being the alumni is, “To create a database and under its wing with the sole purpose of perpetual poverty. witnessed in the country. connect all of you to start engaging moulding them into some of the fi nest “I want it [poverty situation] to change “If the young people and also to use you as mentors, future leaders of this country. and I will fi ght to ensure it does change and cannot become of volunteers and champions to The NGO hopes the youth will then change for the better. Some of you have the fi nest future effect changes in the world be transformed into critical thinkers and been through our programme and gone leaders we want through innovation while change agents who will elsewhere but we want them to be, bringing back the values we have the drive and zeal you to come back home if they cannot need in our country, towns to change the status quo ‘I want it [poverty situation] and be the change agents put food on the and communities.” of perpetual poverty for to change and I will fi ght to in your communities.” table – then there Once in those jobs, African people through She likened their is something Nwaneri urged the youth to its alumni programme. ensure it does change and returning home to a wrong and our learn to give back as well The yet to be change for the better’ mother who never stops investments in them so the organisation can christened programme loving her children, no have all gone to continue to operate brings together all matter how old they are waste.” She said and help others too. of Tikkun’s benefi ciaries of its various and whatever they become. “Afrika Tikkun at Afrika Tikkun “You can also programmes, such as the Cradle to Career is your home, it’s your mother, it’s your they don’t give volunteer your programme, in Alexandra, Braampark, safety net and whenever you have problems people fi sh time to other Diepsloot and Orange Farm, and was you can return to mom’s loving arms.” but they children to launched at a massive gathering of all the Nwaneri said that with the establishment teach tell your alumnus at the FNB Conference Centre in of the alumni programme, the organisation them story,” Sandton. was taking a fundamental stand against how she said. Afrika Tikkun’s group executive for partnerships and marketing, Onyi Nwaneri, addresses the alumnus. INSET: Some Afrika Tikkun alumnus at the FNB Conference Centre in Sandton. Pho- tos: Zanele Siso/Zanephoto Page 2 • Alex News www.alexnews.co.za | Week ending 25 May, 2018 Shack fire case continues BELINDA PHETO prosecutor Lufuno Maphiri it will be transferred to the High [email protected] told the court that the state Court in Johannesburg. needed more time to complete Boshoff maintained that the The state was denied a lengthy its investigation. Maphiri asked state will have to fi nd a way to postponement in the case against the court to postpone the matter speed up its investigations. a woman accused of killing four to September but Boshoff said The defence attorney agreed family members in a fi re she the court could not grant such a with the magistrate. Sedimela allegedly started. lengthy postponement and asked is now represented by a private Mpho Vanessa Sedimela the state for its reasons. attorney who told the court that appeared briefl y before Magistrate The prosecutor responded that he intends to apply for bail as his Renier Boshoff in the Alexandra investigations would take a lot of client was previously represented Magistrates' Court on 11 May. time to conclude as four people by a Legal Aid attorney and the She is facing four counts of were burnt beyond recognition in bail application was abandoned at murder and one of arson. the fi re. Post-mortem reports were the time. Sedimela is accused of starting still outstanding and the state also The case has been remanded to a fi re that claimed the lives of needed to consult with fi re experts 29 June for further investigations. Sisona Nibe (8), Mpumelelo Nibe to determine, among other things, (5), Xolelwa Dyantyi (29) and the substance that was used to A family of four perished in a fi re Nelisiwe Mqongo (16) in April. start the fi re. Furthermore, the that was allegedly started by The accused is understood to be Director of Public Prosecutions Mpho Vanessa Sedimela who the girlfriend of the father of the still has to decide on the forum is understood to have been in a two young deceased, Sisona and where the matter will be heard, relationship with the same man as Mpumelelo Nibe. whether it will continue in the the mother of the two deceased Addressing the court, state Alexandra Regional Court or if children. Photo: Belinda Pheto Corruption charge for City Power offi cer Victim’s strategy jails robber LESEHO MANALA September last year and granted balance of R28 000. However, LESEHO MANALA them quarrelling and picked up [email protected] bail of R5 000, appeared before Noswana threatened to disconnect [email protected] a brick which he used to hit the Magistrate Renier Boshoff the meter if the victim didn't pay accused on the head causing A former employee of City assisted by state prosecutor a bribe of R1 800. R1 400 was A victim's pepper spray helped him to fall. Power was sentenced by Alex Lufuno Maphiri. eventually paid. to send his robber to jail The accused's accomplice Magistrates' Court on 7 May. The offences occurred at a As she was leaving, Noswana following a conviction in the confronted the victim who She received a 24-month prison housing complex in Noordwyk, noticed that the victim shared Alexandra Magistrates' Court. produced the pepper spray sentence with the option to pay a meter with a neighbour. She Andile Jikajika (26) of which he directed at the an R8 000 fi ne after she pleaded ‘She solicited a bribe of then threatened to disconnect the Tembisa was sentenced second robber's eyes disabling guilty to corruption. This after R1 500, which was meter if the neighbour didn't also on 7 May to three years' him. The victim then turned she solicited a bribe of R1 500, pay a bribe of R1 500 to avoid an imprisonment for robbery the spray on the accused which was recovered from her recovered from her’ investigation into the anomaly. after pleading guilty before who he dragged to a nearby when she was arrested. She had The victim agreed to pay, but Magistrate Renier Boshoff. street while calling for help. earlier been sentenced to seven Midrand. She went to the fi rst only the next day. The incident occurred Meanwhile, the accused's years at the same hearing, also for victim's house with the intention A sting was set up, and when the midday on 13 April in Midrand accomplice cleared his eyes corruption, which was suspended of disconnecting the power due accused returned to the complex as where the two confronted the and fl ed and is still at large. for fi ve years. It involved a bribe to an outstanding bill. The victim planned, she was arrested after she victim who dropped off a taxi The victim's plea attracted in the sum of R1 800, which she showed her a payment of R24 000 failed to account for the marked in President Park, Midrand, assistance from passersby received days earlier. that had been made against a total banknotes found in her possession. and robbed him of a tablet after who beat up the accused Zamokuhle Noswana of of R52 000 owed and attested to The notes formed part of the a brief scuffl e. They then ran before handing him over to the Klipfontein, who was arrested in an arrangement made to pay the evidence in court. away and the victim followed police on call. The tablet was Hunt still on for remaining Bramley police escapee them. From a distance, he saw recovered. LESEHO MANALA been sentenced to two years The court heard that they Love of money leads to jail sentence [email protected] imprisonment for escaping from escaped after overpowering and lawful custody. locking up a cook and an offi cer LESEHO MANALA location in the township. Only one of the four robbery The other two, Fikile Mbatha who had brought them food, in the [email protected] When he hadn't coughed suspects who escaped from who was rearrested on 26 April in cell they escaped from. up the money, three days Bramley Police Station’s holding Alexandra, and Fezile Mtsweni They took a cell phone and An Alex woman's lust for money later, she reported him to the cells on 13 April, is still at large.
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