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MAMOTSEKIMAPAI (28), who hails fromthe Petsana Township near Reitz, is a moth-er of two children: a girl aged ten and a fiveyear-old boy. She was married to KgwadiMokoena who died five years ago, and ac-cording to her, life has been a nightmare af-ter the passing of her husband.She says they depend on the two child

grants, of which the sum is R580, to live. Itmeans the family can only spend R19 perday. She says the money is not enough asthey sometimes go without food for three tofour days.“I wish I could get a job so that I could

change our lifes. I wish my children couldexperience the good life that other kids aregetting. I have to pay school fees and buyclothes and food out of that R580,” she said.When her son, Vincent Mokoena, was

three months old, the women with a goldenheart from the St Elizabeth Children’s Pro-gramme in Reitz took it upon themselves tolook after him and raise him.The St Elizabeth Programme caters for

HIV/Aids victims and orphans, as well asvulnarable children in Nketoane. It waslaunched in 2004 by the lateElizabethAnton.Mapai says she was ill at that time, that

is why the last born child was taken.NowthegoodSamaritanshavebuilt a two-

room house for the family, courtesy of theSouth African Catholic Bishops Conference(SACBC). On Thursday Mapai, said at thehanding over of the house she was happywith the housewhichwas given to them andadded that the problem of being congestedin a small shack was over.According to Lioba Motjotji, the project

manager at the St Elizabeth Children’s Pro-gramme, they built a house for the family be-cause they wanted to protect the children.“We have a kid in that family that we

adopted when he was three months old. So wefelt that it would be proper to build them ahouse, since the house that they were living inbefore was not good,” Motjotji said.Motjotji said that it was the first house that

they had built and added that initially theywanted to build five house.“We should have built five house for different

families, but the problemwas thatmost of themdid not have the site registered in their names.”Motjotji said the donation was from the

SACBC.“In the past year we would normally only

renovate houses, because we did not haveenough money.”The Nketoane Local Municipality was also

part of the celebration and donated food parcelsto the family.Mzwandile Manzi, the community services

director, said they heard that other beneficiar-ies could not get houses because they did nothave thesites registered in theirnamesandadd-

ed that as themunicipality theywouldmakesure that they identify the site for them.He also promised that they would help St

Elizabethwith a vegetable garden to feed thechildren.When asked what the municipality’s plan

was to help the mother who was not work-ing, he said: “We are going to start a pro-gramme in September and with the assist-ance of the ward councillors hope to employpeople like her,” he said.

Mother gets a huge giftThankful for new house and supportThankful for new house and support

GOLDEN GIFT: Officials from the Nketoane Local Municipality and the St Elizabeth Children’s Programme during the official handingover of the house. They are from the left Mamotseki Mapai, (the house’s owner), Lioba Motjotji (project manager at the St ElizabethChildren’s Programme), Kgaketla Mokona (Ward 8 councillor), Nhlanhla Nkomo (speaker: Nketoane) and Paola Leema. Photo: Tladi Moloi

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KHOTSO PETERDAVID MAPHAL-LA, Sesotho veteranwriter, urged youngauthors to come to-gether and promoteAfrican languages.He said it was time

for them to sit in the

driving seat andmake their mark.“We want young

writers. I have writ-ten books, and Iwould love to producepeople who can setthe standard higherthan me. During hisaddress at the Writ-ers Day celebrations

held at theUniversityof the Free State(UFS), Qwaqwa Cam-pus, on Thursday.”He encouraged the

Metjodi Writer’sClub to recruit morepeople and pointedout that he was wor-ried by the death ofyoung writers. He

said Metjodi had losttwo young people in ayear.“Today we are en-

couraging thewritersto come together anddo their job. They canonly achieve goodthings if they areunited,” he said.Maphalla said So-

tho used to be an un-

derrated language,but that people weretaking it seriouslynowadays.“Our people should

be proud of their lan-guage, as am I,” hesaid.Maphalla said it

was their duty as vet-eran authors to en-courage young people

towrite in their homelanguages.Andre van Zyl,

head of Humanitiesat theuniversity, saidthe event was aimedat stimulating read-ing among the stu-dents. He said theevent was celebratedannually.“We normally in-

vite learners fromdif-ferent schools to bepart of the event andthis year we invitedthree schools,” hesaid.Katleho Mokoena

(18), a gr. 11 learner ofthe Thala Bodiba Sec-ondary School inQwaqwa, said he washappy tobepart of the

Writers Day and add-ed that as a poet hewas inspired.“I was happy to be

part of the event.“I stoppedwriting a

few years back, be-cause I thought noone would considerus, but after this mo-tivation I’ll startwrit-ing again.”

Veteran writer inspires African writers

REPRESENTATIVESof theUniversity of the FreeState (UFS), QwaqwaCampus,MetjodiWriters Club and learners of the different schools in the ThaboMofutsanyanaDistrictMunicipali-ty area attended the Writers Day celebrations. From the left are, front: Elsa Crause, campus vice-principal: academic and research, Khotso Peter David Maphalla, Sesotho writer,Andre van Zyl, head of Humanities, and Nkomile Tsuluba, secretary general: Metjodi Writers Club; back: Kelebogile Malebu of Tiisetsang Secondary, Lerato Putsoane of Thala Bodiba,Thabiso Mofokeng of the Metjodi Writers Club, Mohau Simela of the Sekgutlong Secondary School and Mathapelo Mofokeng. Photo: Tladi Moloi

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TEBELLO MOKABO (20) has been sent to jailfor ten years by the Bethlehem Regional Court.

He was recently found guilty on a charge ofattempted rape and was positively linked to thecrime by DNA tests.

One morning in November last year Mokaboattempted to rape a four-year-old girl at herhome in the Mashaeng location near Fouries-burg. Mokabo was working at the victim’shouse.

On the day of the incident the child’s motherleft the child with him. Mokabo took the child

to a shackoutside andattempted to rapeher, butdid not succeed and fled the crime scene.

When the mother arrived home, the child toldher about her ordeal. The mother reported theincident to the police and a case of attemptedrape was registered for investigation.

The suspect was arrested in January at the

Riebeek farm in the Fouriesburg district. Hewas denied bail and remained in custody untilsentencing.

The case was investigated by Detective War-rant Officer Malefetsane Mokone of the Bethle-hemFamilyViolence, ChildProtection andSex-ual Offence Unit.

THOUSANDS of learners in colourfuluniforms descended on the Universityof the Free State’s (UFS) Qwaqwa Cam-pus on Saturday to attend the 2013 OpenDay.

This annual event informs learners andcommunity members about study pro-grammes that the campus offers, as wellas financial aid opportunities, sports andculture, and health and wellness, amongstothers.

During the formal welcoming session thelearners were given a better understandingof what the UFS was all about.

Prof. Prakash Naidoo, the campusprincipal, gave the learners what hereferred to as the top reasons why every-one in attendance would benefit fromstudying at the UFS in 2014.

“This is the fastest transforming univer-sity in the world and we have the bestvice-chancellor and rector in Prof. Jona-than Jansen,” Naidoo said to strengthenhis argument.

In encouraging learners to work harderin order to achieve the goals that theyhad set for themselves, Elsa Crause, thecampus vice-principal: Academic andResearch, emphasised the importance ofreading.

“Reading and studying hard are impor-tant if you are to succeed in life,” shesaid.

She motivated the students to read asmuch as they wrote in order for them toachieve the best and to make their studylife interesting.

UFS showcases opportunities on campus

LEARNERS getting an extra Geography lesson in the laboratory at the University of the Free State’s Qwaqwa Campus. Photo: Supplied

Man sent to jail for attempted rape of four-year-old girl

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Donation brings joy} Tladi Moloi

EIGHT LEARNERS of the De EchoPrimary School, a farm school situat-ed about 12 km west of Paul Roux onthe Senekal Road, have benefitedfrom the second edition of the Dihla-beng Charity Soccer and NetballCompetition.They recently received an educa-

tional boost when the charity com-mittee visited them to donate schooluniforms and school shoes.The learners, who mostly come

from disadvantaged families, couldnot hide their feelings and smiled

from ear to ear.TheDeEchoSchoolwas the second

to benefit from the charity cup afterDihlabeng Hospice had become thefirst.According to Lefa Mashiloane, the

coordinator, they hoped to host twotournaments before the end of thisyear.He said theyhadalreadyhelpedtwo organisations and that their aimwas to reach as many as possible.The success of the tournamentwas

driven by the committed employeesof different departments such as So-cial Development, Correctional Serv-ices, theSouthAfricanPoliceService

(SAPS), the Dihlabeng Municipality,Fire Department and SANParksGolden Gate.Each department contributes R500

as affiliation fee for the tournamentand that money will be used to buysomething for the identified organi-sation.During thecompetitionall thedepartments battle each other on thefield to become the champions inboth soccer and netball. Thus far theSAPS has dominated in the soccer di-vision winning the championshiptwice in the row while the energeticwomenof theDihlabengnetball teamhave claimed it twice also.

THEBethlehembranch of theAfrikaanse Taal- enKultuurvereniging(ATKV) donated blankets to the Eden- Christelike Bediening andto Christenburg onWomen’s Day. The blanketswere collected frommembers in and around Bethlehem. From the left are Gert Beuk-man (resident: Eden), Ben Venter (chairperson: ATKV), Louise Ven-ter (treasurer) and Past. Dicky Maritz (Eden). Photo: Supplied

Donate blankets

THE Dihlabeng Charity Cup organisers, representatives of the school and the beneficiaries with the donatedschool uniforms. From the left are, back: Thahane Dikomo, Rev. Nyama, Betty Simela, Teboho Mohono,Ephraim Motaung, Moyakazi Malindi and Lefa Mashiloane, coordinator of the tournament, with some ofthe learners of De Echo Primary School. Photo: Supplied

MEMBERS of the Lindley Crime Prevention Unit with the re-covered dagga. From the left are Sgt Petrus Maartens, Stu-dent Const. Tebalo Motaung, Const. Mamasusu Mohlamme,Student Const. Phakiso Mofokeng, Student Const. Lieket-seng Mosia and Student Const. Lefa Nkomo. Photo: Supplied

Vigilant policeconfiscate dagga} Reporter

MEMBERS of the SouthAfrican Police Service (SAPS)of the Lindley Police Stationhave arrested two suspectsaged 28 and 34 for dealing indagga.The duo was arrested last

Wednesday evening.According to Sgt. Majang

Skalkie, police spokesperson,the members of the CrimePrevention Unit were onpatrol when they received atip-off about a suspiciouslooking white Toyota Avanzasuspected to be loaded withdagga.Skalkie said they followed

the information and conduct-ed a waylay operation on the

R707 road between Lindleyand Arlington.“They tried to stop the

vehicle, but the driver of thesuspicious vehicle increasedspeed and refused to stop.The police chased the vehicleto the Ntha location.“They stopped and

searched the vehicle andrecovered nine big bags ofdagga and one small bag.”Skalkie said the dagga

weighing 320 kg with anestimated street value ofR 416 000 and the vehicle wereconfiscated by the police.“One suspect is a Lesotho

citizen.“Both suspects will appear

before the Lindley Magis-trate’s Court soon.”

AUTOZONE BETHLEHEM recently donated blankets andcoffee mugs to the Bethlehem Child and Family WelfareCentre. The centre has over the past three years re-united64 street children with their families. They have 15 live-inchildren all ofwhomareover the ageof 18 andare current-ly attending school. The facility also offers a safe housefor domestic violence victims and hosts services for themental and physically disabled. The BethlehemChild andFamily Welfare Society is a non-profit organisation andis dependent on volunteers and donations from the pub-lic. Anyone interested can contact Deon Erwee on 058-303-7503. Present at the hand-overwere, front: EmilyMo-fokeng (caregiver); from the left, back: Ellen Mofokeng(caregiver), Charmaine Smit (Autozone branchmanager),Pius Mofokeng and Jacob Mokoena (both Autozone).

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Gives warmth to victims and disabled persons

Delegation visits Bohlokong HospiceA DELEGATION representing theFree State Department of Health re-cently paid a visit to the BohlokongHospice to lend their support as part oftheir contribution to social upliftment.The hospice provides care and sup-

port to people infected and affected bylife-threatening and life-limiting ill-nesses.Their primary focus is to provide in-

patient unit care and treatment to indi-viduals with advanced Aids and tuber-culosis (TB), as well as any other formof terminal illness.Most if not all of the affected families

are not trained to take good care of theill, while others work or have othercommitments and are not able to lookafter patients in need of constant atten-tion.“We are very grateful to officials

from thedepartment for their presencehere today. The grant we receive fromthe Department of Health is our onlysource of funding and helps keep ourdoors open, but most of it goes towardsthe daily running costs, as well as sti-pends for administrators and our 19home-based carers. Unfortunately, wecannot at the moment afford to remu-nerate our volunteers,” said VictoriaKhoza, the nursing home’s finance of-ficer.

Khoza said they had many morepressing needs such as a shortage ofequipment, ailing infrastructure, secu-rity and certain medical supplies. Shesaid they could do with additional sup-port, especially from the local businessfraternity and the community.Members of the community are

urged to show their love, humanity,caring and compassion which are the

cornerstones of ubuntu. They are en-couraged to do their bit in making eve-ry day a Mandela Day by supportingthis worthy project.The Bohlokong Hospice is located at

theVogelfontein farmnearBakenParkin Bethlehem.For more information and to make a

contribution call 058-304-4946, 072-129-6472 or 073-247-8527 during office hours.

HELPING HANDS: Melita Tsotetsi, administrative clerk at the BohlokongHospice, Victoria Mokhele, head of nursing at the Dihlabeng Regional Hos-pital, Victoria Khoza, finance officer, EmmaMoloi, quality assurance:mater-nity unit, andAgnesMothibedi, projectmanager, at the hand-over of donat-ed groceries and consumables. Photo: Supplied

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MISS BETHLEHEM EXPO

Time running out toenter competitionTIME is running out to enter theannual Miss Bethlehem Expo com-petition.Quite a few entries have been re-

ceived thus far, but everybody in-terested to enter has time until theend of August.The competition is being held by

Volksblad’s three weekly newspa-pers inBethlehem:Vrystaat,Malutiand Express Eastern Free State.The Miss Bethlehem Expo forms

part of the annual Bethlehem Expothat takes place on 4 and 5 October.There are five categories: 4 to 8

years, 9 to 12 years; 13 to 15 years,

16 to 24 years and a section for mar-ried women.Those interested can send a full-

length as well as head-and-shoul-ders photo to inskrywings@volks-blad.com. Only original photos in ajpeg format will be accepted as thephoto will be published. Those whohave entered but did not see theirphoto in the newspapermust pleaseresubmit their photo in the formatas required. Please indicate whichcategory your entry represents.Readers will be able to vote for

their favourite entry from the pub-lished photographs.

THYS VAN SCHALKWYK (on the right, business manager: Budget Insurance Company) from Somerset West visi-ted Bethlehem to be the first, together with Jannie Labuschagne (marketing mangager: Free State, NorthernCape and Northern KwaZulu-Natal), to buy ten tickets for Project Runway, the glamorous event presented bythree of Volksblad’s Central Local Newspapers: Maluti, Vrystaat and Express Eastern Free State. Their aim withthis was to show community involvement. They would also like to support Cansa and the J9 Fountation (ofJoost van der Westhuizen) in this way. They challenge all motor dealerships and insurers to buy tickets for theirclients as well.

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Age group 9 to 12 years

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Six months beforeelections we’ll seeprogrammesabandoned through-out the five-yearterm being finalisedand officials beingfriendly to citizens.

The very samemayors who were

unavailable for appointments and meetingsare now good public speakers and evencampaign in the house of worship.

I ask: Till when, my fellow SouthAfricans, are we going to be fooled, liedto and deceived?

Till when will they continue raisingtrust-fund babies and let us raise grantbabies?

Till when will we trust people whoneglect us and buy black German cars,hire security guards and make us feelinferior?

The revolution continues and I for onesay enough is enough.

TIME and timeagain I ask myselfwhether we ashumans understandresponsibility.

I wonder if weunderstand thatwith great powercomes responsibili-ty and accountabili-ty.

In less than a year, many South Africanswill be heading to the polls and yet againcampaigns by politicians will flood ourtelevision sets, publications and socialmedia. We’ll get to hear empty promises ofthe provision of houses, service deliveryand infrastructure.

We’ll see transport being organised andofficials using their own cars to take oldpeople to vote – transport that is unavail-able throughout the five-year term whenthese very same people have to apply forgrants, go to hospitals or clinics andcontinue to struggle.

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MOHLAODI MPHUTHI, Bohlokong,Bethlehem:

LIKE a drunkard this government isdrunk on power – losing direction in publicaffairs and found on wrong footing. Urina-ting on the public’s face, laughing at thechaos of the oppressed.

People are not too intoxicated to spotabuse of power.

Like Verwoerd whothought his offspringwould reap a white future,instead it met with a blackuprising.

They can exploit andmakea racket, but their fu-ture generations will in-herit total rebellion. Forhow long will the masses get less than whattheir votes had promised?

Manifestos are lies, seasonal and tempo-rary brainwash to get politicians on the gra-vy train. Service delivery was never meantto be protested against and begged for, or areactionary stunt.

People need opportunities to tend forthemselves not welfare in return for theirvotes. We need to educate society that thestate was created to serve not to starve, tor-ture or to kill. Our people need to be taught

that the solution to a non-serving state is to-tal overthrow, through ballots or any othermeans possible.

Tell the people the truth that the strugglewas not about apartheid, but about everygovernment that goes against the will of thepeople. Awaken the masses and tell themthey are the change they wish to see.

Andries Tatane fought this system withhis bare hands and died a hero as a result

of injustice. Marikanaminers faced exploita-tion and were killedrather than compen-sated.

There is no need toshut up the govern-ment, they should beshut down instead.

The current political dispensation rein-vents slavery of some sort through the chau-vinism of our own leaders. Leading us to adark and dull future of poverty, unemploy-ment and chaos.

If people are quiet about burning issues,they are selling out. Enough with powermongers who rule with lust and greed. Theymust not rule, they must be stopped.

Time for anarchy is over. We are no long-er fighting colonialism, but our own home-grown oppressors.

MBUSI MUSAWENKOSI RADEBE,Bohlokong, Bethlehem:

MY good people and leaders, it isimportant to organise something in theearly stages and in a timely fashion.

It is time for political parties to openlypublicise their ambitious partners andthe organisations that they wish to forma coalition with on time.

Economic policy and internationalrelations are important for the voters tounderstand long-term political outcomes.Our country has liberals, neo-Marxists,Pan-African Marxist, nationalists,communists, Maoists and regionalists, soit is important to publicly declare tomiddle-class, poor citizens asking forhope.

There is usually an unfair and dirtysituation regarding every post-electionperiod – secret agreements with partiesthought to be opposing, questioning ofleadership regarding policies leading toexpulsion.

There is no reviewing and a lack of

review and accountability. This systemexposes our turn to eat the “slogan ofcomrades”

A lack of reporting to the people leadsto anarchy.

In 2011 Egypt faced mass demonstra-tions and the National DemocraticParty’s offices were set on fire, but theMuslim Brotherhood suffered the samefate in 2013 as it supporters had prac-tised on Mubarak’s regime.

All these malpractices are caused byconfusion, frustration and surprises thatpeople got.

Leaders must give the people all theinformation, not only half – lest thepeople become distant to the governmentadministration.

Our oppressors arehome-grown

Government mustinform its people

Enough is enough

All these malpracticesare caused by confu­sion, frustration andsurprises . . .

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A DRAW for the Mashinini Enter-prise Trust Top 8 Tournament wasconducted in the Reformed Church inBethlehem on Saturday.Eight teams who finished in the

top four of Stream A and B in theSafa Thabo Mofutsanyana SABLeague will fight each other on Satur-day in the quarter-finals of the tour-nament. Four teamswill march to thesemi-finals which has a first and sec-ond leg.The Free State Stars Development

Academy, who are the defendingchampions, will lock horns with thechampions Mighty Wits in theBohlokong Derby. The game is set totake place at the Motloung SportsGrounds on Saturday at 15:00.The winner of the competition will

pocket R8 000, the runner-up R4 000and third place R2 000 ,while the teamfinishing fourth will receive R1 000for their hard work.Last year the tournamentwas spon-

sored with R85 000 and this year Dav-

id Mashinini, the owner of MashininiEnterprises, increased it to R110 000.He said hewas happywith the tourna-ment and added that next year theywould sit around the table to nego-tiate a new deal.However, he made it clear that next

year when a new deal was negotiated,the DihlabengMayoral League wouldbe part of the negotiations.“Sponsoring this tournament was

part of my social responsibility. Thecommunity has been supportive andI believe in giving back,” he said.He said he was not only sponsoring

football, but that some of the NGOs inthe community had benefited fromthe enterprise.Mashinini said he was impressed

with the standard of the competitionand the final was of world class.“Let the games begin and may the

best team win,” he concluded.Abiel Lethoba, the Safa Thabo Mo-

futsanyana president, said they werein high spirits as they were again giv-ing the youth an opportunity to showtheir talent in the field of play with

a view to solidify their skills, enter-tain the crowds and contribute in theadvancement of soccer.He said the Mashinini Cup had the

potential to stand head to toe withevents such as the Bay Hill Cup inCape Town and others that were localbut with a national flavour.“We rise to the occasion, we create

a conducive environment for excel-lence, we account properly and deliv-er a professionally run event. This isthe second year and we are confidentthat last year’s milestones andrecords will be broken.“It is in the hands of the teams and

administrators to ensure that weachieve the set objectives as enteredinto,” he said.

Full fixtures for Saturday:) Dikwena United FC vs City SpursFC – Masimong Sports Grounds.) Zimisele FC vs Dla 2 FC – Bluegum-bosch Stadium.) Manyatseng United Brothers FC vsManchester United FC – Arthur PitsoStadium.

Teams battle it out

SHOWTIME: David Mashinini, owner of Mashinini Enterprises, and Abiel Lethoba (third from right), Safa ThaboMofutsanyana president (middle), holding a trophy with members of the teams that are going to take part inthe tournament with them. From the left are Sizwe Nhlapho, Free State Stars Development Academy, EdwinNtahane,ManchesterUnited, TebohoDlamini (Dikwena),Mashinini, VusimuziMotloung (Dla2), Lethoba,Vusimu-zi Mbele (Zimisele )and Lebusetsa Miya, Free State Stars Development Academy captain. Photo: Tladi Moloi

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