A Quantum Mini-bus donated Embassy of Japan in Pretoria would be used optimally to promote disability mainstreaming in the department by meeting transport needs of people with disability in the department and its funded non-profit organisations. The Quantum minibus was donated to the Department of Social Development, Women, Children and People with Disabilities in the North West. Departmental spokesperson Vuyisile Ngesi said Japan has entered into a two-year technical cooperation national Department of Social Development to assist with a meticulous training of 120 public servants including 40 other managers responsible for people with disabilities from all the provinces. “The donation of ten Quantum mini-buses to the nine provinces by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is geared towards the support of the implementation of disability mainstreaming programme in the provinces,” Ngesi said, adding that the wheelchair friendly vehicles are fitted with electric lifts and anchoring devises for wheelchair passengers and other four seated passengers. The Ambassador of Japan Yutaka Yashizawa said his country will always support the programmes of disabilities mainstreaming in the country through partnership with the Department of Social Development.
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Justice served – COSATU
Scores of jubilant COSATU members are still celebrating outside Rustenburg court. This comes after former Rustenburg mayor Matthew Wolmarans and his former bodyguard Enock Mashaba were found guilty in the Rustenburg court today. Phakoe supporters are singing praising outside the court. Sentencing is expected tomorrow.
Phakoe was killed on his return from an ANC meeting in March 2009, just a day after handing over a dossier on fraud and corruption allegedly involving millions of rand to the then minister of local government, the late Sicelo Shiceka. The dossier implicated Wolmarans.
Wolmarans and his former bodyguard and driver, Enoch Matshaba, were arrested last year for Phakoe’s murder. Both accused denied any involvement.
Wolmarans found guilty
FORMER Rustenburg mayor Matthew Wolmarans and his former bodyguard Enock Mashaba have been found guilty in the Rustenburg court. Jubilant Moss Phakoe supporters are singing praising outside the court. Sentencing is expect after 2mp.
Phakoe was killed on his return from an ANC meeting in March 2009, just a day after handing over a dossier on fraud and corruption allegedly involving millions of rand to the then minister of local government, the late Sicelo Shiceka. The dossier implicated Wolmarans.
Wolmarans and his former bodyguard and driver, Enoch Matshaba, were arrested last year for Phakoe’s murder. Both accused denied any involvement.
Health Minister takes NHI to Dr Kenneth Kaunda District
In an effort to ensure the successful implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot, health Minister Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi will from 15 to 17 July embark on an intensive three days stakeholder consultation meeting in Klerksdorp, North West Province.
Today and tomorrow, Minister Motsoaledi will address mayors, traditional leaders, hospital CEOs and health district managers including school principals and governing bodies, health professionals, health workers and labour unions operating in the health sector with the objective of explaining in detail what the NHI pilot entail and the role stakeholders are expected to play.
NPO’s NEEDS FINANCIAL STABILITY – Deputy Minister Ntuli
Deputy Minister of Social Development Maria Ntuli
The sustainability of non-profit organisations plays a crucial role in reducing service delivery backlogs in the communities, the Deputy Minister of Social Development Maria Ntuli said at the North West Provincial NPO dialogue held at Rustenburg Civic Centre.
“Many non-profit organisations in rural communities struggle for survival even though they render good service to our people,” Ntuli said, adding that NPO’s render indispensable services on behalf of the government, especially the services rendered to orphans, child headed households, the vulnerable groups including women, children and people with disabilities.
Ntuli said it is time departmental officials seek creative ways to simplify application forms for registration of NPO and business plans and teach them financial accountability.
Mosetsanagape Mokomele-Mothibi, MEC for Social Development, Women, Children and People with Disabilities called on to all the NPO’s to raise their challenges with the provincial department to get the necessary assistance,” Mokomele-Mothibi said.
“We are more than willing as the department to assist NPO’s. It is our mandate to sustain them financially so that they could render effective services to our people,” Mokomele-Mothibi said.
NPO’s representatives said most of their organisations have common financial problems to render the services as they should. North West has more than 4 580 NPO’s rendering social welfare services to the communities in the four district municipalities. Meanwhile national Department of Social Development is in the process of hosting national dialogues on NPO’s in August this year.
ANC veteran Sina Keitsing laid to rest
ANC struggle veteran, Sina Keitsing, has been laid to rest at Zeerust in the North West. The 94-year-old, was meant to be honoured next week at Nelson Mandela Day celebrations. She had hosted Mandela at her house in Botswanaduring his clandestine trip through Africa in 1962.
Speakers described her as a selfless and dedicated veteran of the liberation struggle.
She sacrificed selflessly in the struggle for freedom, participating in various campaigns which included the 1955 anti-pass protest inPretoria.
Keitsing passed away on the eve of Nelson Mandela Day celebrations, in Lehurutshe. She would have joined other liberation struggle veterans who are being honoured next week.
North West Presmier, Thandi Modise says: “She was not the complaining type, she waited her term but she wanted to do and not to get and that is the biggest lesson that we must give ourselves and future generations.”
The family thanked the ANC for all it had done for the veteran. Sina was the widow of 1956 treason trialist Fish Keitsing.
In 2009 she received the national Order of Luthuli from President Jacob Zuma. SABC
In court for burning classrooms
Twelve people arrested for allegedly setting classrooms on fire and damaging 15 computers during service delivery protests in Bona-Bona, are expected to appear in the Ganyesa Magistrate Court on Monday.
Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said the eight women and four men face charges of arson, public violence and malicious damage to property.
They allegedly placed two gas cylinders in two separate class rooms on Wednesday.
“They opened them and set the classrooms alight and the staff room caught fire from the two classes and 15 computers which were in the room were badly burnt,” said Ngubane.
They also set alight three water tanks. The residents were protesting over poor service deliver in the area.
Job rape man arrested
A 31-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly raping young women seeking employment around Rustenburg in North West, police said.
Colonel Emelda Setlhako said the man was taken into custody in Mogwase after a tip-off.
“He is alleged to have been luring young women by falsely promising them work in the mines around Rustenburg, taking their cellphones and demanding money before raping them in the nearby bushes.”
Setlhako said that on May 11, the man had approached a 19-year-old woman in Rustenburg, promising her that he would help her get a job at Impala platinum mine, as his brother was working there.
They agreed to meet on May 16, for an appointment with the “brother”.
“(They) boarded a taxi to Mogwase. On arrival, the suspect lured the victim to the bushes under false pretence that they were taking an alternative road to the mine. Whilst in the bushes, he allegedly raped the victim.”
Setlhako said the second victim was raped in similar circumstances on June 9.
She said the third woman was the cousin of one of the two victims. The man had met her in Randfontein Mall on Thursday, and she alerted the police.
Police made an agreement with her that she must board a taxi with him.
“While in Krugersdorp the taxi was stopped and police arrested the suspect.”
He would appear in the Mogwase Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges of rape and robbery. – Sapa
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ANCYL’s Lamola in Mahikeng
ANCYL DEPUTY PRESIDENT’S VISIT TO MAHIKENG
This communiqué serves to inform you that Cde. Ronald Lamola, the ANCYL Deputy President, will be visiting the North West Province for an annual Nelson Mandela lecture to be held as follows:
Date : 14 July 2012
Time : 14H00
Venue : Mmabana Mmabatho (MAHIKENG)
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