Noconfidence Marches Against President Zuma Held Across the Nation on Tuesday
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To win awesome Miss Mangaung Kom vier gospelfees prizes, go to wants to see change saam met bestofbloemfontein.co.za in the city Kevin Leo and vote for your favourite PAGE 3 PAGE 8 Bloemfontein business! Voting closes 8 September 2017. THURSDAY 10 AUGUST 2017 NEWS YOU CAN USE FREE Members of opposition parties in Bloemfontein took part in various #Noconfidence marches against President Zuma held across the nation on Tuesday. The Democratic Alliance #Noconfidence (DA) held a public viewing of the Cape Town March in the Bloemfontein CBD. The Economic Freedom Front (EFF) marched from the Ramkraal Prison to the provincial office, stating that they are there to tell the premier, Ace Magashule, that he is next. They then marched to Hoffman Square. Members of the Congress of the People (COPE) stood along President Brand Street with their placards, chanting as drivers were hooting when passing them. PHOTOS: PIERCE VAN HEERDEN Samwu slams MMM over vacancies PULANE CHOANE those who are interested to continue to metro has only addressed one of the issues during one of our LLF meetings but they [email protected] apply. that led to a strike that lasted almost a simply refused to address the issue, stating Secretary of the union, Thabang Tseoua, month earlier on this year. that the LLF was not the platform to said “Samwu is of the view that the “The metro has only given us the R2 500 discuss salary increments, however, we While hundreds of hopefuls in the process followed was not in accordance salary increments and even this is a partial want to hold them to account because Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality were with municipal policies and is therefore adjustment, as not all the workers have they have performed on salary increments happy with the advertisement of vacancies unprocedural. Part of the policy requires received these increments,” Tseoua said. in the past, such as when senior employees at the metro that have been made available, the metro to consult with the Local He said the metro is yet to reimburse in the metro received their metro salary the South African Municipal Workers’ Labour Forum (LLF) before placing ads and the workers’ retrospective payments adjustments, as well as more recently with Union (Samwu) says the metro did not this has not been done.” amounting to R40 000, which are metro the R2 500 increments that were given to follow the correct procedures when it Tseoua also said that some of the positions salary adjustments. our workers,” he said. advertised these vacancies. advertised are not part of the metro’s According to him one of the union’s Tseoua said the union will continue to Rumours have been doing the rounds that organisational structure and that he demands was that long-standing workers engage with the metro, but is considering these vacancies have been frozen, however, intends to challenge the metro through who have gone on retirement as at 31 May taking aggressive steps against it as per municipal spokesperson, Qondile Khedama, various channels as “the metro cannot just 2017 also ought to receive a once-off the Labour Act should it continue to avoid confirmed in a statement he released on change the organisational structure.” R50 000 gratuity payment for service negotiations. He also said the union has Monday that this is not true and that the He added that tension between the union rendered to the metro. “We tried to not yet decided whether or not to pursue vacancies remain open. He encouraged all and the metro continues to mount as the engage with the metro last week Friday strike action within this regard. R1 230 900 R249 900 R509 900 R349 900 R269 900 R199 900 R299 900 R279 900 R279 900 R399 900 R299 900 R199 900 2 COMMUNITY NEWS • GEMEENSKAPSNUUS www.bloemfonteincourant.co.za • [email protected] • 10 August 2017 Elijah Djan, founder of Nubrix, a company that Meer inwoners kla produces bricks from wastepaper, presenting his talk on entrepreneurship. PHOTO: VOXOMNIA PHOTOGRAPHY oor studentehuise JERETHA OOSTHUIZEN Senne Bogatsu, sukkel reeds met hierdie [email protected] spesifieke huise sedert 2011 en haar storie is veel erger as myne. Hierdie lys hou Liesel Wessels is vir meer as ‘n jaar ‘n eintlik aan en aan.” inwoner van Universitas en in dié tyd was Wessels sê verder: “Ons besef dat as sy en haar man meer as 30 keer slagoffers ons nie die besluitnemers nou inlig nie, van lawaaierige, ongedissiplineerde die proses vertraag sal word.” As laaste studentehuise. Studentehuise in spesifieke addisionele uitweg het hulle ‘n aanlyn- strate hou volgens Wessels partytjies wat petisie opgestel wat hopelik toestande vir soms tot 4 uur in die oggend duur. Sy nie net ‘n paar van die bure met klagtes Audience on egde of their seats skryf in ‘n ope brief aan proffesore Francis sal verbeter nie, maar ook die onskuldige Petersen van die Universiteit van die studente wat probeer studeer vir toetse PIERCE VAN HEERDEN 2017, Lerato Machetela, gave a satisyfing Vrystaat en Henk de Jager van die Sentrale terwyl hul huismaats partytjie hou. Hulle [email protected] account of how gumboot dancing was Universiteit vir Tegnologie dat sy en haar het reeds meer as 183 ondersteuners en improving the lives of young black boys in man in Maart 2017 alleen tot vier erge het tot dusver nog nie eens die petisie Several change-makers from around the Jagersfontein and how taking a moment gevalle van rumoerigheid gehad het, selfs ‘bemark’ nie. Sy stel voor dat mense country got together at the TEDxUFS to look at overlooked potential can yield gedurende weeksdae. sommige van die stories lees op die talk on the campus of the University of inspiring results. “Ek het nie woorde om aan u te beskryf webtuiste en sien hoeveel huishoudings the Free State (UFS) last Saturday. Serial entrepreneur, Elijah Djan, hoe ons lewens hierdeur geraak word hierdeur geaffekteer word. TEDx, an international platform that gives highlighted the similarities between nie; ons voel geheel en al moedeloos” sê Petisie-skakel: https://www.change.org/p/ ideas the chance to change the world, innovation and entrepreneurship, Wessels. Sy sê in haar brief dat hulle soms student-houses-in-bloemfontein-must- is aimed at getting the Bloemfontein addressing African innovators to begin so woedend raak dat hulle iets wil aanvang be-registered. In ‘n artikel wat op 2 community talking about their ideas. thinking like entrepreneurs to solve wat heelwaarskynlik op iets baie leliks sou Julie 2017 gepubliseer is, word gestel dat The theme for the year is Prism of Africa’s problems. uitloop, maar omdat hulle Christene en akkommodasie ‘n belangrike aspek van die Possibilities. The head of the IT department at CUT, wetsgehoorsame burgers is, probeer hulle sukses van die UVS is en gevolglik is goeie The speakers had the audience at Dr Muthoni Masinde, had a great lesson ‘n beter manier vind. gehalte akkommodasie belangrik vir elke the edge of their seats with thought- to give on the value of indigenous Hulle het al baie met KPA, wat hierdie individuele student om suksesvol te wees in provoking ideas that challenged their knowledge and the wealth of valuable huise bestuur, gepraat. “Ek het selfs ‘n sy/haar studies. “Sommige van die primêre perspectives and led to conversations assistance it provides to small-scale vergadering tussen drie bure met klagtes, vereistes vir akkreditasie by die UVS sluit in that matter. farmers. KPA, GPF, kaptein Jones, Tjaart van der Walt die getal student wat geakkommodeer word Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh combined rap and Experienced water scientist, Murendeni (DA-raadslid) gereël, maar wat absoluut in elke kamer, die gehalte van kombuise reason to deliver a chilling narrative of Mafumo, spoke about decentralising the op niks uitgeloop het nie,” sê Wessels. Sy en kitchenettes, die aantal ablusiefasiliteite, student protests through hip hop, in country’s water, especially for informal voel sy het werklik alles gedoen wat sy die bestaan van gewone kamers in huise preparation for his upcoming book and communities. moontlik aan kon dink. In hierdie stadium en huisreëls, algemene onderhoud, ens, album, Democracy and Delusion. Furthermore, he revealed how the loop hulle die pad volgens die wet en het “ sê Quintin Koetaan, Senior Direkteur: A professor at UFS, Chris Viljoen, warned country could save on the costs of water reeds ‘n tweede “buite die hof”-vergadering Behuising en Huissake van die UVS. about the dangers of how people services by using locally-sourced material geskeduleer. “Ek probeer regtig hard Diensverskaffers van private akkommodasie currently produce food and gave an to treat its water. glo dat dit die laaste een is, maar ek het wat nie op die kampus geleë is nie, het insightful idea about improving the ways The phenomenal Thato Mokhothu nie veel hoop nie. My storie is maar net tot 31 Julie 2017 gehad om aansoek om food is distributed. delivered an account of working in een van baie soortgelykes. My buurvrou, akkreditasie te doen. One of the 200 Young South Africans of male-dominated industries as a female. Siyonzana responds to issue about R100 000 for councillor’s funeral PULANE CHOANE metro met with the family, who fact that it was decided in council [email protected] communicated their needs to does not legitimise the item. them. The family was not able to He added that the allocation of Follow @Bfncourant Like Bloemfontein Courant Speaker at the Mangaung cover all the costs of the funeral. the money for the councillor’s Metropolitan Municipality, Mxolisi We told them to borrow some of burial goes against the Municipal Siyonzana, said that he sees no the money and we would replace Finance Management Act and also wrong with giving the family of it if a resolution to pay out the the stipulations as set out by the the late Tshepo Motsumi, who money had been made in council,” Treasury.