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SEBENZILE NGAN-GELIZWE, the mayorof the MatjhabengMunicipality, is of theview that the proposedannual budget reflectsthe collective determi-nation of the munici-pality to address thechallenges of striking abalance between astruggling local andnational economy.

Presented during thecouncil meeting last Friday, thebudget for the 2014-’15 financialyear isR1 954 071 637. The proposedincome to be collected from thebudgeted income is R1 609 153 696,

based on a pay rate of72%. The budget is forthe towns formingMatjhabeng – Welkom,Virginia, Odendaal-srus, Allanridge,Ventersburg andHennenman.

Ngangelizwe saidthe municipality hadmade provision forbad debts ofR344 917 941. Thecapital budget for the

2014-’15 financial year isR198 246 000 comprising MunicipalInfrastructure Grant (MIG) fundingof R156 246 000 and internallygenerated funds ofR42 000 000.

He said the annual budgetcontinued to respond to themandate of the Matjhabeng LocalMunicipality for infrastructuremaintenance, infrastructuredevelopment and local economicdevelopment.

“We realise that the 2014-’15financial year should be ap-proached with realism and fiscaldiscipline to accomplish identifiedpriorities. The annual budgetcontinues to respond to themandate of the Matjhabeng LocalMunicipality for infrastructuremaintenance, infrastructuredevelopment and local economicdevelopment,” he said.

Ngangelize said the projectedrevenue for the financial year

2014-’15 was based on a projectedpay rate of 72% for 2014-’15, whichwas informed by a revenuecollection rate year to date of 70%at 31 January.

The 2014-’15 budget hasproposed a tariff increase forthe following services:) Water: The proposed increase bySedibeng is 8%. However, themunicipality proposes an increaseof 4% in the water tariffs for the2014-’15 financial year;) Electricity: There will be anincrease of 7,39% in electricitytariffs for the 2014-’15 financialyear as stipulated by Nersa andthe National Treasury;) Rates: It is proposed that theassessment rates increase with 6%.

As from the 2014-’15 financial year,agriculture will pay 75% forassessment rates with a discountof 25% and) Refuse and sewerage: Anincrease of 5,5% in refuse andsewerage rates has been proposed.

Ngangelizwe said the decisionsthat had led to the budget hadbeen influenced by two veryimportant factors: The aspirationsof the community as reflected inthe public participation processand other engagement activitieswhich provided a platform forcommunities to raise their con-cerns about service delivery andother matters, and the need to planfor a long-term financial sustaina-ble future for the municipality.

Budget tries to strike a balance

SEBENZILE NGAN­GELIZWE

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} Teboho Setena

THE Free State Department of Education isdetermined that the late delivery ofworkbooks at a school in the Lejweleput-swa District will not affect performance.

Books for both the first and second termincluding Mathematics, Sotho and Englishbooks, were recently delivered to the HaniPark Primary School in Welkom.Express Goldfields & NFS reliably learnt

that the books were expected to be deliv-ered long before the schools opened for the2014 school year. However, the books weredelivered just two weeks before thelearners started writing their second termexaminations.

This publication was reliably informedthat at some schools the books weredelivered just a day before the recentgeneral elections on 7 May.

Howard Ndaba, the department spokes-person, said textbooks had been deliveredon time with the exception of workbooksthat had been delivered on 6 May. Headded that the department was aiming atachieving a good pass rate in the province:a matric result of 90% with 40% qualifyingfor a bachelor’s university entry.

However, he could not clarify what hadcaused the late delivery of workbooks thatsaw learners having to study withoutworkbooks the first and the better part ofthe second term.

Ndaba was also unable to say howcritical the workbooks were in learningand teaching as well as the problems latedelivery might have caused.

Meanwhile, the South African HumanRights Commission (SAHRC) has sincestrongly warned that the failure to deliverlearning material, including textbooks atschools, affects the rights of learners toeducation.

This comes after a recent ruling by theNorth Gauteng High Court against theLimpopo Province’s Department of Educa-tion to force authorities to deliver outstand-ing textbooks. Basic Education For All(Befa) took the department to court,supported by civil rights group Section27,because not all Limpopo learners hadreceived their textbooks for this year.

The findings of the commission were thatthere were vast disparities betweenprovinces in terms of their proficiency andsuccess at managing the delivery oftextbooks or learning material.

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THE House of Hope Project inWelkom is celebrating its tenthanniversary.

Situated in Stateway, it wasstarted in 2004 and is nowhousing more than 27 vulnerablechildren. A safe haven forvulnerable children, it serves asa safe house for abandonedbabies and toddlers with specialneeds, infected or affected byHIV and Aids.

In pursuit of its mission togive hope to the hopeless, thecentre has managed to helpplace abandoned children incare and have the societyembrace them.

“House of Hope was started bymembers of the AFM Deo Doxabecause the community had ahigh rate of abandoned babiesmost of whom were infectedwith HIV or Aids.

“It was challenging to sustainthe project but with the supportof the community and also withassistance in funding from theprivate sector we managed topull through,” said Jackie Botes,project manager at the centre.

She said the church was thefacilitator of the centre’soperations and that there wasstill a lot that could be done tosafeguard children.

“We should not be celebratingGreen Ribbons Day known asChild Protection Day. Theemphasis should be to give

guidance to children because oncethey start school they begin to askquestions.

“Why did their parents neglectedthem? Why did they infect themwith HIV and Aids?

“We try to heal them becausethey are hurting – which is normal.We all need parents,” she said.

She said the negativity of thecommunity regarding the HIV andAids status of children was one ofthe challenges they had to over-come.

“We had to educate the communi-ty,” Botes told Express Goldfields &Northern Free State.

Apart from financial support, shesaid they also needed educationalmaterial like Mathematics andScience books for the 18 children atthe house.

House of Hope is growingfrom strength to strength. It hasexpanded to support the commu-nity in its daily challenges,including pregnancy and drugaddiction, to assure that therights of children relating tocare and protection as containedin the Constitution are realised.

They will be renaming the ZoëLife Centre were assistance isgiven with pregnancy testing,pre-abortion counselling andpost-abortion support to womenin crises.

Botes attributed their expan-sion to the growing need fortheir services in the community.

She said they were dealingwith numerous rape casesresulting in mothers losing theirbabies because it is such atraumatic experience.

She said these women,however, received counsellingfrom social workers that wouldhelp them get back on their feet.

Botes encouraged the victimsto not give up.

“The greatest advice is to live20 years with happiness and toforget about the 16 years ofdisappointment.”

A new programme for drugaddicts faced with difficulties,called Tough Love for Drugs,will be added at the centre.

It aims to make addicts realisethey are creating even worseproblems for themselves bydoing drugs and thinking itmight solve their problems.

THE South African National BloodService (SANBS) appeals to thepublic to support its on-going blooddonation campaign themed GiveBlood for those Who Give Life. Thecampaign coincides with the interna-tional drive that will see countriesaround the world commemorateWorld Blood Donor Day (WBDD) on14 June. The Welkom branch of theSANBS has set the target to collect730 units of blood for June insupport of the goodwill initiative.

The global blood donation initia-tive aims at raising awareness of theneed for safe, good-quality blood andblood products and honours themany voluntary unpaid blood donorsfor their life-saving gifts of blood.World Blood Donor Day’s purpose isfurther to create widespread aware-ness about the need for the availabil-ity and appropriate use of safe bloodand blood products, and the need formany more people to make acommitment to regular voluntaryunpaid blood donation.

Established in 2004, the campaignfalls on the birthday of Karl Land-steiner, who discovered the ABOblood group system, which is usedtoday to ensure safe blood transfu-sions.

The WBD Day is an annual eventthat is jointly sponsored by theWorld Health Organisation. It is oneof eight official international publichealth campaigns marked by theWorld Health Organisation (WHO).

This year’s campaign Safe Bloodfor Saving Mothers is to develop astrategy to highlight the need fortimely access to safe blood in theprevention of maternal deaths. Thedeath of a woman from complica-tions during childbirth continues tobe a serious global health challenge.Approximately 800 women die frompregnancy or childbirth-relatedcomplications daily.

Just about all of these deaths occurin developing countries. More thanhalf of them take place in sub-Saha-ran Africa and almost one third in

South Asia. The risk of maternalmortality is highest for adolescentgirls under 15 years of age. Severebleeding during delivery and afterchildbirth is a major cause of death,illness and long-term disability.Largely, it is the most common causeof maternal mortality and contri-butes to around 34% of maternaldeaths in Africa, 31% in Asia and21% in Latin America and theCaribbean.

The SANBS has dedicated theentire month of June to increaseawareness regarding the criticalneed for timely access to safe bloodas part of a comprehensive approachto preventing maternal deaths. Bloodtransfusion has been identified asone of the nine key life-savinginterventions for the management ofpregnancy-related complications.

“Childbirth and other gynaecologiccomplications are amongst thehighest demand for blood daily inSouth Africa,” said Vanessa Raju,SANBS communication manager.

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Blood a valuable resource

Home a safe haven

JACKIEBOTES, the projectmanagerof House of Hope in Welkom.

THE House of Hope staff members with some of the children in their care are from the left MatshilisoSeela, Franci Harmse and Nopi Khathatse. Photos: Teboho Setena

GRAIN FIELD CHICKENS, a subsidiary of VKB Agriculture Limited, is adynamic role-player in the chicken industry with an abattoir in Reitz in theEastern Free State. The services of the following person are currentlyrequired:

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THE 2014 Free StateenterPRIZE JobCreation Challengesponsors haveshortlisted over 100applicants for theinitiative’s firstphase. These selectedapplicants will moveonto the next phaseof the challengewhere they will betaught invaluablepresentation skillswhich will stand them in good stead toultimately realise their business aspirations.This exciting competition is aimed at job

creation through the development of smalland medium enterprises in the Free State.The initiative is a partnership between the

International Labour Organisation (ILO) andthe Department of Economic Development,Tourism and Environmental Affairs (Detea),the Small Enterprise Development Agency(Seda) and the Flemish InternationalCooperation Agency (Fica).“We are extremely pleased with the

number of entries received. When we startedthis initiative in 2013 we received 549applications. This year we received 768excellent proposals from numerous sectorswhich we evaluated according to job crea-tion, growth potential, sustainability, marketdemand, innovation, as well as relevantexpertise. We managed to narrow these downto 121 applicants who will move on to thenext phase of the challenge,” said WinnieSereeco, ILO national project coordinator.The shortlisted candidates will take part in

a one-day training workshop at the Universi-ty of the Free State (UFS).Thereafter, their business case will be

moved on to the third phase of the Free StateenterPRIZE Job Creation Challenge wherethey will be required to present theirbusiness plans to a panel of judges at theUFS.The winners and runners-up will share

R7,5 million in prizes, in different categories.These prizes are set to be announced at agala dinner on 19 June.Additional support and prizes will be

provided by sponsors that include Nedbank,Microsoft, Deloitte, Blue Pencil, MicrosoftBizSpark, Free State Agriculture, Petco,Gramercy Millennium Group, DevelopmentFranchising, Sport for All, PVC, New Africa,UFS, CUT, Inobits and ViGO.

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THE Thabong Police are ona full-scale manhunt for fourarmed robbers who went ona rampage robbing a mini-su-permarket and raping twowomen last Thursday.The incident sent shock-

waves through the communi-ty and took place at about01:30. The suspects, who arestill at large, gained access tothe dwelling by breaking thebedroom wall which isadjacent to the supermarketsituated in Constantia Roadin Welkom’s township ofThabong.Malebo Khosana, the police

spokesperson, said thesuspects went on to breakdown the door of the room.He said the three victims,

the supermarket owner, aBangladeshi national, hiswife and their employee, awoman, woke up to a loudbanging as the robbers brokethrough the wall of thedwelling.Khosana said the robbers,

of whom three had coveredtheir faces with scarves, hadoverpowered the victims.“The owner and the wife

ran to the kitchen wheretheir employee was sleeping.They then all entered theshop to seek refuge. One ofthe four suspects pointed afirearm at the owner anddemanded money. All themoney in the supermarketwas stolen. The employeewas raped by three of thesuspects in full view of the

shop owner, while his wifewas taken to a bathroomwhere she was raped by allfour of the men.“The robbers used tape to

tie their hands and covertheir mouths before fleeingthe scene with money,airtime vouchers, cigarettes,some stock and a blackNokia cellphone.“The suspects assaulted the

supermarket owner stabbinghim with a knife and beatinghim with a steel pipe. Hewas admitted to hospital withmultiple injuries sustained tothe the head and hands,”

said Khosana.He said the stolen items

were worth about R12 700and an undisclosed amountof money was stolen. Thesuspect who was armed witha firearm was light incomplexion, slender and tall.He was wearing a blacktracksuit top, sky blue jeansand black All Star sneakers.The second was in possessionof a knife, dark-skinned,slender and of mediumheight and he was wearing agreen tracksuit top. Theother two were also dark incomplexion, of medium

height and of medium build.One of them was wearing redtrousers and all of themspoke Sotho.Khosana said they were

investigating a case of houserobbery, attempted murderand seven counts of rape. Heis appealing to the communi-ty to assist the police byproviding information thatcan lead to the arrest of thesuspects. Anyone withinformation can call theinvestigative officer RaboiSehume on 079-433-2729 or057-910 2300 during officehours.

Robbery shocks Thabong

WO THABISO TWALA shows the hole through which four armed robbers gained accessto a shop and house where they raped two women and robbed the shop owner.

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TWO members of thegang known as VatosLogos, Samukeliso PrinceDlalisa (23) and MohauRavaza Manyeli (24), willeach spend 18 years inprison for the murder ofDikano WellingtonSelane.The Kroonstad High

Court found them guiltyafter their recentappearance for thegruesome murder of thedeceased.The third accused in

the murder case, PapiDaniel Nakedi (19), wasacquitted by the court.The murder took place

on 13 December 2013 atOppenheimer Park inThabong, Welkom.The assailants attacked

Selane and stabbed himat about 08:00 in broaddaylight. The deceasedwas a member of a rivalgang known as theInternational JuniorPortuguese (IJP).Selane’s killers waited

for him at a salon.“Prince called him.

Before he could saysomething they stabbedhim and he fell to theground,” said MaleboKhosana, the ThabongPolice spokesperson.He said the deceased

had been rescued fromhis violent assailants by

a community member,who had used a broom tostop the men fromfurther harming Selane.Khosana said the

members of the policewho had rushed to thecrime scene had foundthe victim weak andunable to talk followingthe brutal assault.He had multiple stab

wounds to the righthand, neck and leftcheek.Khosana said Selane

had been taken to theBongani RegionalHospital where he hadlater died.Const. Klaas Mofukun-

yane, the investigatingofficer, arrested the threesuspects after an in-depthinvestigation.Lt Gen. Simon

Mpembe, the Free Statepolice commissioner,welcomed the outcome ofthe case in terms of thepolice’s fight againstgangsterism.“Mofukunyane and the

members who assistedhim have done us proud.“We welcome the

verdict by our courtsconveying a message toyoungsters involved incriminal group activitiesthat their evil acts willnot go unpunished,” saidMpembe.

Gang memberssentenced to 18years for murder

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Government

Leaders

Free State Premier:Hon Ace Magashule

Speaker:Me. Sisi Mabe

Mr. Msebenzi Zwane MEC forEnvironment, Tourism and SMMEsDevelopment

Me. Mathabo Leeto MEC forSports Arts, Culture & Recreation

Mr. Butana Kompela MEC forPolice Roads and Transport

Me. Mamiki Qabathe MEC forAgriculture and Rural Development

Mr. Tate Makgoe MEC forEducation

Me. Olly Mlamleli MEC for HumanSettlement and CooperateGovernance

Dr. Benny MalakoaneMEC for Health

Me. Ntombela MEC forSocial Development

Mr. Sam Mashinini MEC forPublic Works

Me. Elzabe Rockman MECfor Finance

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PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA: Hon. JACOB ZUMA DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA: Hon. CYRIL RAMAPHOSA Aaron MotsoalediMinister of Health

Angelina MotshekgaMinister of Basic Education

Blade Nzimande Minister ofHigher Education and Training

Bathabile Dlamini Minister ofSocial Development

Collins Chabane Minister ofService and Administration

David MahloboMinister of State Security

Derek HanekomMinister of Tourism

Dipuo PetersMinister of Transport

Ebrahim Patel Minister ofEconomic Development

Edna Molewa Minister ofEnvironmental Affairs

Faith MuthambiMinister of Communications

Fikile Mbalula Minister ofSports and Recreation

Gugile Nkwinti Minister of RuralDevelopment and Land Reform

Jeffrey RadebeMinster in the Presidency

Lindiwe Sisulu Minister ofHuman Settlements

Lindiwe Zulu Minister of SmallBusiness Development

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Lynne BrownMinister of Public Enterprises

Maite Nkoana-MashabaneInternational Relations andCooperation Minister

Malusi GigabaMinister of Home Affairs

Michael Masutha Minister ofJustice and Correctional Services

Mildred OliphantMinister of Labour

Naledi Pandor Ministerof Science and Technology

Nathi MthethwaMinister of Arts and Culture

Ngoako RamathlodiMinister of Mineral Resources

Nhlanhla NeneMinister of Finance

Nkosinathi NhlekoMinister of Police

Nomvula MokonyaneMinister of Water and Sanitation

Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula Ministerof Defence and Military Veterans

Tina Joemat-PetterssonMinister of Energy

Rob DaviesMinister of Trade and Industry

Senzeni Zokwana Minister ofAgriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Siyabonga Cwele Minister ofTelecommunications andPostal Services

Susan Shabangu Minister ofWomen in the Presidency

Thembelani NxesiMinister of Public Works

Pravin Gordhan Minister of Cooperative Governance

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Tjhelete E Ngata

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SUPERSPORT’S LET’S PLAYand Express Goldfields & NFS aresearching for talented youths inthe region that excel in differentsporting codes. Are you orsomeone at your school good atsport? Are you a young coachwho is coaching future stars? Wewant to hear from you.

SuperSport’s Let’s Play identi-fied the need amongst the youthto get more sports active toenable them to expose theirtalent.

With this in mind, SuperSportand Let’s Play, in associationwith Express Goldfields & NFS,have launched a special initiativefor 2014. They want to find andgive recognition to learners ateither primary or high schoollevel who excel in sport.

This is a competition foranyone aged 6 to 18. The winneris chosen from all the nomina-tions received for that month.The monthly winner will receivea Let’s Play hamper. From all theentries received each month, oneathlete will be chosen as theSuperSport Let’s Play Sports Starof the Month. At the end of theyear one candidate from all thewinners during the year will bechosen as the SuperSport Let’sPlay Sports Star of the Year.

Send your nomination today.Nominations received before the20th of every month will beincluded in that month’s selec-tion. Nominations received afterthe 20th of every month will becarried over to the next month’sselection. Nominations mustinclude your name, age and ashort paragraph (200 words orless) on what you have achieved,as well as your contact details.

You can email your nominationto supersport@zpr.co.za or send afax to 086-552-4922. For moreinformation contact Lynne orJuanré on 051-522-9574.

Be thesportsstar ofJune

} Teboho Setena

A BRIGHT FUTURE beckonsfor Molaodi Matlokotsi inplaying football at a high level.The teenager is set to returnfor final assessment by giantsSuperSport United early inJuly with the prospect of beingenlisted by the Premiershipoutfit. Matlokotsi returned onSunday from the first-legassessment in Pretoria wherehe had spent a gruelling weekof trials.

Playing as an offensive mid-fielder on left wing, he impressedthe Pretoria-based team that iscurrently on the hunt for an idealcandidate to bolster the team forwhen the 2015-’16 season com-mences in August.

The aspiring youngster iscurrently a gr. 11 learner at theHarmony High School and alsoone of the players in the Harmo-ny Sports Academy footballdivision headed by Pitso Mokoe-na as the development headcoach.

“The boy has football talent.The fact that he has been calledfor final assessment shows he istalented. Matlokotsi is a com-pletely different player or person,is disciplined and humble. Hedoesn’t hide his background,”said Mokoena, former Free StateStars midfielder.

Matlokotsi’s unexpectedinvitation by SuperSport, theformer three-time AbsaPremiership champions, cameshortly after his impressiveform at a series of youthdevelopment tournaments, themost recent being the interpro-vincial South African FootballAssociation (Safa) u.20 champion-

ship staged in Bloemfontein.Matlokotsi was one of theplayers selected by Ephraim“Shakes” Mashaba for an u.20camp.

However, the prominent mentordecided to not include theyoungster in the 23-membersquad of the u.20 team currentlycampaigning to qualify for the

2015 African Youth Champion-ships.

Matlokotsi’s exclusion saw awindow of opportunity open withSuperSport inviting him for trialsto assess his football ability.

“I did not expect to receive acall-up by a professional team sosoon. I’m delighted about theopportunity and motivated. Mycoach, Pitso, always encouragesus to work hard, to be disciplinedand to play with passion. Iattribute all this to his mentor-ing,” he said.

Matlokotsi was one of theplayers in the squad that repre-sented the Free State at the u.20inter-provincial tournament inBloemfontein.

He was part of the Free Stateu.17 team that participated at the2011 national tournament in Port

Elizabeth where Mokoena spottedhis talent.

“He has improved drasticallyover the five years,” said coachMokoena.

Raised by a single parent,Mamotse Matlokotsi, he was bornand bred in Welkom’s townshipof Thabong. He currently liveswith his mother and two siblingsat D Hostel. He grew up playingsoccer with his peers in the dustystreets of the township.

“My mother played a signifi-cant role in unleashing my talent.She registered me with the localteam Dinonyana FC at the tenderage of ten, I think. I think sherealised I had a talent forfootball,” said the teenager.

The left-footed player dreams ofplaying for a Premiership andNational First Division team.

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DESTINED FOR STARDOM: Youngster Molaodi Matlokotsi (left) and Pitso Mokoena, Harmony SportsAcademy football coach. Photo: Teboho Setena

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We supply spare parts: Filters, Fanbelts,

Spark Plugs, Brakepads, and Glow Plugs

We supply spare parts: Filters, Fanbelts,

Spark Plugs, Brakepads, and Glow Plugs

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