Read us and advertise online - www.mafikengmail.co.za - like Learners of the winning schools proudly display their trophies and medals won during the Maths Olympiad compe� � on. MEC Matsemela congratulates Olympiad participants DA no Surprised by Irresponsible CFO’s Supra’s threat - p3 Irk MEC Rosho - p5 FREE RUGBY FEATURE INSIDE Established 1889 13 Martin Street; Galleria Arcade; Shop no 1 & 2 E-mail: mailbag@mafi kengmail.co.za GPS Co-ordinates: 25” 51’ 49,42 S • 25” 35’ 40,52 E 27 SEPTEMBER 2019 Tel: 018 381 1330/ 381 2884 Fax: 018 381 0425 R4-00 VAT INCL PAGE 2 MAHIKENG MAIL 27 SEPTEMBER 2019 Seletedi Sekgororoane Family reunion The Good news Column Psalm8:1 Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens .Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place. What is the man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him. You have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honour. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet. All sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of As a norm for every year, the Seletedi family gathered, reunited and strengthened their family ties when this year they the seas .O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is celebrated their reunion in style in Majemantsho Village near Mafikeng recently. The family hosted this reunion with your name in all the earth! a purpose to introduce the young generation to other family members and relatives. The family known as “Kgotla yoo Dira Ba bina Tlou E Kwebu” planted a tree as a symbol of life in the family. Sehudi Seletedi thank everyone who supported the annual reunion. Help to trace families of unclaimed corpses MAHIKENG MAIL-MAHIKENG: Mafikeng Provincial Hospital needs the assistance Kgotso Mogoshane, a psychiatric patients of the public to help them trace or identify the family members of various corpses that who was in the hospital for a very long time have been in the hospital for a long time. but social workers who tried to trace her The hospital has tried to use the not assist. families while she was still alive could not information given to them by the patients The names of the corpses include: to trace their families. who died to trace the families but that did Savanna Rima who according to the hospital The relatives of a baby who’s mother’s records was from name is Tshegofatso Ncube from Lehurutshe Zimbabwe and Betty and Nomatjala Meisane who is allegedly Mthimunye who the from Mpumalanga- though she left home hospital did not have long ago- could also not be traced from records of where she the records given to the hospital. 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Speaking during who reiterated that the university was able the signing ceremony, Prof Mokgoro said and ready to deliver on all areas of the MoU. that central to this collaboration was the The MoU is a five-year plan to work pursuit to fulfil the constitutional statutory together, which is subject to review in line mandates of the two institutions and to assist with the planning cycle of government, the provincial administration in attaining the with the Office of the Premier being the targets as set out in the National Development coordinating agent for the execution of Plan 2030. the MoU. “We hope to see the citizens of “We are looking forward to identifying North West, especially the youth, taking priority areas as indicated in the MoU, with advantage of any programme or plan that our key focus being on how to improve will be actioned as part of this MoU, and we delivery of services at local level. Continued look forward to working together with the learning and development within the NWU so that together we move North West public service will also be central to our forward”, said Prof Mokgoro. Among those Professors Job Mokgoro and Dan The Premier and the Vice Chancellor signing collaboration, taking into consideration present to witness the signing of this MoU Kgwadi. the MoU. that we are working to have our Ikatisong was the MEC for Health Madoda Sambatha, School of Governance fully functional”, said Dr Daryl Balia who is the Deputy Vice Premier Mokgoro adding that the provincial Chancellor, as well as senior government government could only do better and faster officials and lecturers from the NWU Only the truth will by collaborating with the university. Potchefstroom campus. save Supra, says DA Mokgoro dismisses DA’s MAFIKENG MAIL – MAHIKENG: The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the reaction as “mischievous” North West said this week through the opposition party’s provincial leader, Joe McGluwa that they were not surprised to learn that former premier of the North West, Supra Mahumapelo had threatened to speak out against top politicians and business people implicated in alleged criminality “at the right time”. MAFIKENG MAIL – MAHIKENG: The Office of the Premier in the North West This follows reports in the media R100 000,00 or more, must report such Province said last week that they had noted a media statement issued during the same over the weekend linking Supra to the knowledge or suspicion or cause such week by the DA in the province on the High Court’s ruling regarding the decision assassination of prominent businessman, knowledge or suspicion to be reported to by the provincial government to place Kagisano-Molopo Local Municipality under Wandile Bozwana in 2015. any police official.” administration. In the party’s statement, McGluwa McGluwa further called on Supra Reacting to the opposition party’s administration was a clear indication that it said the truth was not hard to define, but Mahumapelo as a former premier and Mahumapelo’s threat to speak out at the senior member of the ANC, to stop his statement, Professor Job Mokgoro’s Office did not have the people of this province’s right time placed him as someone with threats and empty rhetoric, respect the said that the ruling was passed in July best interest at heart, as they suggest that the ability and capability to become the Constitution and to present himself as the this year and to that end, the Office of the the provincial government’s intervention in key witness and to break the silence on main witness in this case. Premier had appealed against the judgement, municipalities was groundless, unnecessary who had killed Bozwana. “The people of the North West have with the hearing already scheduled for early and without impact. “Supra’s seeming unwillingness to a right to know what led to Bozwana’s December this year. “These efforts will however not deter the speak out is an outrage and we challenge death and it is in the public’s interest for “As recent as September 13, the provincial provincial government from working together him to speak the truth and nothing but the Supra to speak the truth.