The BEATBEAT R1-20/FREE 13 July 2018 CommunityCommunity newspapernewspaper EFF co-ordinator Sello Moswoeu is confident the party’s candfidate Andreas Mwambo is heading for the council chambers. — Read more on page 3 Photo: TK Mashaba Photo: TK Vaalwater farworkers on the move. Read more on page 3 Mashaba 13 July, 2018 2 | NEWS | CRIME Website: diepos.co.za Zimbabwean dies in Suspect bolts from courtroom illegally. Andries van der Heyde A third charge of an attempt to escape from lawful custody was added, after he was re- gruesome murder A Zimbabwean immigrant bolted from the arrested. Bela-Bela Magistrate’s on Wednesday 4 July. He was appearing in court for a formal bail 05:00 and 06:00, as his shift ended at Marietjie Steenkamp However, the wannabe fugitive was re- application. 04:00. arrested by a policeman on the premises. The matter has been postponed to Thursday An eyewitness who first discovered the Walter Majecha (26) appeared on charges 12 July. The discovery of the mutilated remains of man’s body said the gruesome find was of housebreaking and entering the country He remained in custody. a 50-year-old Zimbabwean national around 06:00, while a woman who chose outside Mookgophong on Wednesday 4 to remain anonymous said she saw July has shocked the local community. bloodstains in the vicinity. SAPS investigating Warrant Officer Ledwaba explained that the man had not Medic reported to commission George Ledwaba said the man, who has spend two nights at home, and that he not as yet been identified, was on his way usually walked home in the company of from his place of employment at Waltkon fellow workers. Abbatoir on the Roedtan road after He was all by his own on that fateful working night shift, when he was Wednesday, Ledwaba said. attacked. Ledwaba further added police He said the man was hit from behind investigations suggest the murder was The inspection with a brick on the head, and that also his pre-meditated. went well. Photo: throat was slashed with a sharp The forensic team from Modimolle Lizzy Bapela instrument. SAPS also worked on the scene of the Ledwaba said the man was also crime. wounded in the face. No arrests had been made as on He said the murder took place between Wednesday 11 July. ‘Drug dealer’ drops bombshell party’s complaint against Dr Sithole. Lizzy Bapela Smalle retorted in a statement: “The DA finds such behaviour abhorrent and will The DA has lodged a complaint against not tolerate racist remarks hurled at one of Bela-Bela Hospital clinical manager, Dr our members of parliament, while Dan Sithole, with the South African conducting a constitutionally-mandated Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), oversight inspection.” following alleged “racist remarks.” “The DA will further lay a complaint at DA Shadow Deputy Minister of Health, the Health Practitioners Council of South Lindy Wilson, and provincial leader, Africa against Dr Sithole for unethical Jacques Smalle, visited the hospital on the behaviour. The ANC government has strength of complaints by community failed the poor and vulnerable by members that patients were being turned subjecting people to sub-standard and in away on a daily basis. certain instances no health care services,” The situation, the DA has alleged, Smalle said. resulted in the death of at least one patient. In response, Bela-Bela Hospital The DA further alleged that when Wilson spokesperson, Bhuti Moagi, said the raised concerns during a briefing with hospital had a complement of doctors hospital management, Sithole allegedly which included some from Cuba. said something to the effect that “she He assured the DA delegation that no (Wilson) must not come with her white patient would leave the hospital without mentality”. consultation, and that arrangements were Wilson on Tuesday 10 July confirmed the in place to attend to patients according to SAHRC had acknowledged receipt of the their needs. Self-confessed drug dealer Thapelo Frans Motaung with former mayor Lucas Nhlapo. Photo: TK Mashaba. Con artist on the loose his hand in the fight against drugs. old man who is the manager to see his TK Mashaba Phetla further confirmed that Motaung had Mzamane Ringane phone, as it had cracks on the screen,” he been imprisoned several times previously, said. A self-confessed drug dealer from Bela- on charges of dealing with drugs, but had The police in Modimolle are looking for an Ngoepe said preliminary police Bela dropped a bomshell asking the been released on parole. alleged con artist who has tricked at least investigations revealed that after community to forgive him for his “I know I offended a lot of people in my two businesses into believing he was a conducting his “inspection” at the car wash, transgressions. community, and would like them to accept labour inspector. the impostor disappeared with the victim’s Thapelo Frans Motaung, better known as my apology,” Motaung said. The con artist struck first at a mall in cellphone. “Bomba”, voluntarily took to the podium Former Bela-Bela Mayor, Lucas Nhlapo, Modimolle recently, accessing the premises “We believe that this suspect might have during an event hosted by the Ikageng said Motaung’s ground-breaking confession by imposting himself as a labour inspector. committed a number of (other) crimes using Youth Centre at Forever Resorts on was the beginning of a journey to rid the Limpopo SAPS spokesperson, Colonel the same modus operandi in and around the Tuesday 3 July. streets of the townships of drugs. Moatshe Ngoepe, said the alleged impostor area, or beyond, but the police Bela-Bela Detectives Commander, “We need to have forgiving hearts and informed mall management he needed to investigations will tell as they are still Lieutenant-Colonel Abel Phetla, has work with Motaung to help fight this probe businesses sub-letting space on the unfolding,” Ngoepe. confirmed that a charge of drug dealing is pandemic,” he said. premses. The South African Police Services (SAPS) still pending against Motaung. Nhlapo was scheduled to lead a drug However, the alleged con artist is pleading with anyone with information Speaking during the event at the resort, abuse march on Mandela Day, 18 July. disappeared, with no losses reported from that can lead to the arrest of the suspect to Motaung made the startling confession that He said Motaung has been lined up as one business owners. either contact Detective Sergeant Amanda he was a drug dealer, but that he had of the speakers at the end of the march, “The suspect further went to one of the car Rossouw on 071 133 8524, the crime stop changed his ways, and asked members of culminating in an event at the local Multi- washes in the area, introduced himself number 0860010111, the crime line SMS the community to embrace him in lending Purpose Centre. again as an inspector, and asked a 50 -year- 32211 or visit the nearest police station. 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Vaalwater tobacco The Tobacco Institute of Southern Africa farmers affected (TISA) national chairperson, Francois van by the illicit trade der Merwe, said in a statement the institute in cigarettes. had commissioned the highly-respected Photo: Supplied Ipsos to conduct the impact of the illicit trade of fags on the broader economy. The release of the report has attracted the attention of the mainstream media, with van der Merwe being interviewed both on TV and radio, and quoted at length in the mainstream daily and weekly press. Speaking during a media tour of the Vaalwater tobacco farmlands in early February, Van der Merwe said the illicit trade in tobacco threatened more than 10 000 jobs nationwide. A significant chunk of these jobs, he Ipsos research shows that almost 8-billion commitments made recently to Parliament available for sale, in no less than 100 000 indicated, were opportunities in and cigarettes this year will be sold illegally, by the SARS acting commissioner to take shops across South Africa.