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4 AUGUST 2 2008 NEWS Close-up shots banned in Oprah school sex trial Teen could be latest choking craze victim

By CANDICE BAILEY Venter yesterday told reporters to stop now. If anyone needs a 27, indecently assaulted girls by By SHEREE BEGA Watt, 17, of Elandspoort, stran- euphoric or sexually aroused In March 14-year-old Marius this had been decided by the close-up they need to ask the kissing them, touching their gled himself with a thick rope. state, is surging in popularity. Prinsloo of Brits was found When the trial against alleged magistrate, Thelma Simpson. magistrate personally for breasts, forcing them to touch A Pretoria boy may have Reports suggest the teen- According to Beeld newspa- hanging from a cupboard door sexual offender Virginia “While the court has been authority,” said Venter. her breasts and creeping into become the latest casualty of a ager intended to undo the knot per, the game is apparently the by a scarf. Photos were later “Tiny” Makopo resumes in the lenient towards the press During an in loco inspection their beds and telling them to fatal game played by teenagers, when he felt faint but it would newest craze among teenagers found on his cellphone of him Sebokeng Magistrate’s Court shoving lenses in Tiny’s face, this week, the former matron of be lesbians. which involves asphyxiating not come loose. in western Pretoria. playing the game. in October, the media will not the defence has raised objec- the Oprah Winfrey Leadership She is accused of assaulting themselves to achieve an Experts have warned that The newspaper reported Sandra Hoffman, a coun- be allowed to take close-up pho- tions. Academy revisited the place a girl, 13, by slapping her, euphoric state. the game, in which youngsters yesterday that Watt may have selling psychologist, warned tographs of her unless they “The media has had more where she allegedly indecently pulling her hair, forcing her to It was while apparently cut off oxygen to the brain been the second boy to have that children were seeking dan- ask for permission. than enough time to take close- assaulted girls aged 13 and 14. sit on a bare floor and rubbing playing the “choking game” on through strangulation with a died from playing the game in gerous forms of “immediate State prosecutor Etienne ups of Ms Makopo and it needs The state alleges Makopo, custard in her hair. Monday that Kobus van der rope, belt or tie, to achieve a the past month. gratification” for recognition.

New national ANC to go after library opens its doors coloured vote in By LESEGO MASEMOLA The new state-of-the-art Nat- ional Library in Pretoria city centre has been unveiled by President Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki joined Arts and Cul- ture Minister Pallo Jordan and upcoming poll Public Works Minister Thoko Didiza and other dignitaries who were taken on a tour of the R300 million building by archi- tect Jeremie Malan. Brown’s cabinet sets ball rolling The library is situated on the corner of Struben and Andries streets and is 10 times By LYNNETTE JOHNS the most important portfolios, bigger than the existing library SMS the Argus transport, public works and in Vermeulen Street. The ANC will aggressively SMS your views to 32027 property management, which It can accommodate 1 600 chase the coloured vote in the Each SMS costs R1 gets the lion’s share of the users at a time. upcoming election as the party budget, to health. The hi-tech building is battles to hold on to the West- Another source said the new equipped with more than 500 ern Cape. And new premier cabinet was to “consolidate our computers, an internet café, a has set the ball Yesterday an ANC source coloured support. It is rare for training room and a large refer- rolling by putting a cabinet said one of the key components coloured voters to leave the ence section. together that contains five of the new provincial cabinet ANC. They would rather stay In his address Jordan said: out of a possible 10, was that four of the MECs and away from the polls”. “We are trying to make our including herself. the premier were coloured. The ID was touting itself as libraries warm and engaging Securing the coloured vote Another source said three of a new home for coloureds and public spaces that are thronged is crucial to any party that the MECs, Cobus Dowry, Pierre many who could not see them- by young learners seeking wishes to control the province Uys and Patrick McKenzie, selves voting for the DA, but knowledge. as they are the majority group. were former NNP members. were fed-up with the ANC, “Along with the expansion Coloureds make up about 50% Additionally, another old NNP would vote for the ID. “The next and extension of library serv- of the people of the province, member, Joyce Witbooi, will be few months are going to be cru- ices, needs to leap- followed by Africans who con- appointed as deputy speaker. cial. For the first time in years SHORE THING: The ships stranded at Melkbosstrand drew many curious onlookers Picture: MLANDELI PUZI frog its libraries from a book- stitute roughly 30% and whites This week the ID slammed the ANC is going to be going out based, segregated past into an who make up 20%. Brown for appointing so many aggressively trying to get the open, democratic, inclusive, Politically, coloureds are former NNP members. Rodney coloured vote back.” international and multi-media split, but the ANC says tradi- Lentit, the ID’s Western Cape Lentit said coloured people Hundreds flock to see stranded fishing trawlers informational future.” tionally coloureds who vote secretary, said his party was would vote as their consciences Jordan said the government ANC are loyal to the party. “shocked by the promotions in dictated, but the ID was gear- took the challenge seriously of However the ANC is con- the new cabinet of three for- ing itself up to be part of the making the 21st century an cerned about coloured anger mer NNP members”. provincial government, which By BRONWYNNE JOOSTE shore of Kreefte Bay, amid The 20m trawler’s crew The NSRI’s Craig Lambinon African century. over the treatment of former The ANC source said it meant it would rely heavily on fears they may break up. abandoned ship in 5-6m swells said its rescue craft Spirit of The government was deter- premier , who came as a surprise to many the coloured vote. Hundreds of onlookers flocked On Thursday Seawin Sap- and struggled through the surf Vodacom was forced to head to mined to ensure that all people was axed late last month, and that MEC Marius Fransman But the number of coloureds to view two fishing trawlers phire, with a crew of 13, had to the shore. deeper water. had access to literacy and could frustration at the ongoing fac- had not been dropped from the in the cabinet could become which ran aground in high seas engine failure in heavy seas Several were treated for Yesterday afternoon hun- harness it to expand their hori- tionalism in the party. cabinet and he was almost cer- another bone of contention. An off Melkbosstrand this week. and sent out a distress call. hypothermia and shock. dreds of people came to view zons and their skills, he said. The threat posed by the ID tainly kept because of his race ANC supporter said yesterday Requests have gone out to Weskus 1, with a crew of An hour later Seawin Sap- the large trawlers being bat- Didiza said she was happy has also galvanised the ANC and his popularity along the if Rasool had appointed so salvage companies to begin the seven, went to their rescue but phire also ran aground, and tered by the heavy seas. her department was involved into trying to hold on to its West Coast. Fransman, how- many coloureds he would have process of hauling the Seawin suffered mechanical problems shore-based rescue personnel Metro police prevented peo- in what she described as a existing coloured support. ever, was moved from one of been called anti-African. Sapphire and Weskus 1 off the and then ran aground. helped the crew to safety. ple from venturing too close. national asset.

Child porn law nearly ready

Parliament’s portfolio committee on home affairs has finalised leg- islation to combat child pornography and con- trol access to porno- graphic material. The chairman of the committee, Patrick Chauke, said children’s ability to have access to pornography on their cellphones should be regulated. The bill seeks tighter control over films, games and cer- tain publications. It also aims at harsher punishment for child pornography.