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THE community of Port Eliza-beth is still reeling in shock aft-er the execution style triplemurder of a mother and two ofher children at Joe Slovo loca-

tion (Ezinyoka) in the early hours of Tues-day morning.

Nosandiso Booi (43) and her daughtersNoluvuyo (19) andAsemahleBooi (16)were

all shot in the head - execution style.LihleVanda (23), a family friendwhowas

spending the night with the family, wassleeping in the flat in the backyard whenshe heard noises coming from the mainhouse. Mkhuseli Booi (23), son of the de-ceased,was also in the flat in the backyard.“We were asleep when we heard noises

at around 2am. Mkhuseli asked me if Iheard the noises and I said I did,” saidVan-da.

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Nosandiso Booi (45). Noluvuyo Booi (19). Asemahle Booi (15),

Police andshockedbystanders atthe homewhere amother and hertwo daughterswere shotexecution styleearly yesterdaymorning.PHOTO:NCEBADLADLA

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THE funeral of an eight-year-oldMotherwell boy who hanged him-self last Wednesday afternoon al-legedly because he could not get aschool uniform will be held on Sat-urday.

Alwaba Qupe (8) who was tostart Grade 2 at NxanelwimfundoPrimary School in Motherwell, al-legedly hanged himself after hisunemployed mother, Amanda(34), promised to buy his schoolclothes a week after schoolsopened.

She discovered his lifeless bodyin her RDP house in MaphikelaStreet, NU 10 Motherwell.

Qupe, a mother of three, whodoes piece jobs for a living, saidher son had been excited aboutstarting a new grade and hadwanted to go to school in full uni-form.

She, however, did not have themoney. With the little they had,they managed to buy a uniformfor Alwaba’s 14-year-old brother,who is starting Grade 8.

“We phoned his father, whostays in Walmer township, and hepromised to buy his uniform atthe end of the month,” Qupe said.

In the meantime she borrowedmoney from a friend and waspromised she would get it last Fri-day.

On Wednesday she went door-to-door to the neighbours’ boys toborrow a pair of trousers for Al-waba to wear with takkies toschool the next day.

“He did not want to missschool. He loved school,” shesaid.

“When I came home with thepair of trousers, I saw him on topof a room divider and I thoughthe was playing – only to learnthat my child used his belt tohang himself,” she said, sobbing.

Police spokesperson ConstableNondumiso Pohleli-Ntombanaconfirmed the police were inves-tigating a suicide case.

Motherwell cluster commanderMajor-General Funeka Sigangaand Motherwell station com-mander Brigadier Keith Meyerled a delegation that included the

cluster stations’ chaplains, SAPSWomen’s Network and socialworker Colonel Mxolisi Dyalvaneto provide the family with coun-selling and support last Friday.

“We are human beings and par-ents. We know the pain that thisfamily is going through. That’swhy we visited them,” Sigangasaid. He said they would help the

family through these tryingtimes.

Funeral Parlour Shweme andShweme in Zwide Township aswell as Journey’s End FuneralServices in North End have com-mitted to assist the family with Al-waba’s funeral.

Sergeant Bongani Siyona ofNew Brighton police contacted

Shweme and Shweme while Cooksaw Alwaba’s story in Express In-daba’s sister publication DieBurger.

“I know what it is to lose a child.I also want to help the needy as myway of giving back to the commu-nity that supports us,” said Jour-ney’s End Funeral Services Own-er and Director June Cooper.

FUNERAL PARLOUROWNERCOMES TORESCUEOF FAMILY

Journey’s End’s June Cooper andConst. Nondumiso Pohleli-Ntombana.PHOTO:NCEBA DLADLA

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QUARREL over liquor amongdrinking friends led to one stab-bing the other to death and theshack of the suspect burnt toashes in Port Elizabeth at theweekend.

According to Port Elizabethpolice spokesperson ConstableMncedi Mbombo, a 31-year old

murder suspect handed himselfover to New Brighton PoliceStation on Monday morning.

“It is alleged that the suspectstabbed to death MhlanguliNdleleni (42) of New Brightonnext to the suspect’s shack atChris Hani squatter camp inNew Brighton on Sunday after-noon,” said Mbombo.

The two were allegedly drink-ing together and they had a

quarrel over 5 litres of winewhen the incident occurred.

“The suspect stabbed the de-ceased in the chest. He died onthe scene,” said Mbombo.

The shelter of the suspect wasalso burnt down to ashes whenpolice arrived.

At time of going to press itwas not yet known who set thesuspect’s shack alight and po-lice have urged anyone with in-

formation to come forward.“Police have opened two case

dockets – for murder and arson– at New Brighton SAPS,” saidConstable Mbombo.

Man kills drinking buddy over liquor

Constable Mncedi Mbombo.PHOTO:SUPPLIED

From right is Alwaba’s mother Amanda Qupe with family members during the prayer meeting by members of theSAPS. PHOTO: NCEBA DLADLA

Boy (8) commits suicideover school uniform

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According to Vanda, Mkhuseliphoned a neighbour asking wheth-er he had seen anything from thefront as he (Mkhuseli) had heardnoises that he did not like. Theneighbour responded that he hadseen nothing but that the TV in thehouse was still on.

Mkhuseli went to investigate atthe main house and was devastatedwhen he found his mother Nosandi-so Booi (43), his sisters Noluvuyo(19) and Asemahle Booi (16) lying ina pool of blood - dead.

The three were sleeping in thesame room which was covered withblood.

Nosandiso’s last born Someleze

(3) and grandchild Linothando (1year), survived the brutal attack.

“The assailants did not touchthem,” one relative said, sobbing.

“Nobody saw anything,” a sob-bing Vanda said, still drawingstrength to speak to journalists andpolice as Mkhuseli had been ad-vised to see a medical specialist forcounselling.

According to police spokespersoncaptain André Beetge it seems as ifthe motive of a robbery could beruled out, and that the murdererscame to kill only the three deceased.

“At this stage the police could notfind any evidence of forced entry, asthe front door of the house does nothave a lock,” Beetge said.

He also said it was unclear how

many shots were fired during themurder. Police are still looking forthe murder suspects.

*Nosandiso was working forUncedo Taxi Association at NjoliSquare. She was also selling cookedfood for the public at Njoli. Her hus-band, taxi owner Mthuthuzeli Booi,died in 2002. Mkhuseli is currentlyrunning the family taxi.

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PORT Elizabeth police arrestedfour suspects with illegal firearmsandammunition lastweek, thanksto information from members ofthe public.

“Four suspects between the agesof 18 and 24 were arrested afterMount Road police followed up oninformation regarding an illegalfirearm last Thursday, (January14),” police spokesperson CaptainSandra Janse Van Rensburg said.

She said Mount Road crime pre-vention unit and dog unit mem-bers had acted swiftly after receiv-

ing information about suspects inSchauderville Ave, Holland Park.

They searched a house in thestreet and recovered a 9mm fire-arm and ammunition.

“The dog unit members recov-ered 30 ‘bankies’ of dagga in theback yard,” Janse Van Rensburgsaid.AToyotaTazz,suspectedtobea stolen vehicle, had also beenseized.

She said the firearm would besent for forensic testing to deter-mine whether it could be linked toother crimes.

The suspects are expected to ap-pear in the Port Elizabeth Magis-trate’s Court soon.

Four held for illegal firearm, ammunitionODETTE KEMP

WHILE the Nelson Mandela Bay Me-trocontinues tobuild itsmetropoliceforce, a complete plan for this forcehadalreadybeenacceptedby thepro-vince nearly four years ago.

This is according to Athol Trollip,DA mayoral candidate, who recentlyvisited the family of Caydene Ruiters(2),whodied in gang crossfire last ye-ar.

The plan to which Trollip referred,was accepted in 2012 by Helen Sauls-August, then theMEC for human set-tlements, safety and liaison, and

published in the Government Ga-zette. It would come into effect on Fe-bruary 11, 2012.

However, the current mayor, Dan-ny Jordaan, requested a “tangibleplan” for the metro police in Octoberlast year, said Trollip.

“This plan should have been sub-mitted by the end of November, buttwomonths later there is still no planand no officers,” Trollip said.

“It means that our people are stillliving in unsafe conditions. Crimeand gang violence immerse the com-munity in fear, with 80% of residentswho fear leaving their homes atnight.”

According to Trollip the existingplan for the metro police would be“adequate” to combat these pro-blems.

“The plan, whereby the police aremanaged by the Directorate for safe-

ty and security, includes the esta-blishment of police stations, themaintenance of municipal regulati-ons, and the requirements for thetraining of officers. It’s been checkedby experts and covers all thenecessa-ry requirements for a police force.”

Trollip also challenged the ANCleadership in the metro to imple-

ment this plan in the next councilmeeting. The process to establish ametro police force is “already under-way,” said Mlungisi Ncame, Jor-daan’s spokesperson.

“This process will include an in-vestigation of all decisions regardingthe police force, including the decisi-ons taken by the province and thecouncil - with the aim of establishingit as soon as possible,” said Ncame.

Metropolice force still beingestablished

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THE Eastern Cape education portfolio com-mittee visited poor performing schools inKwaNobuhle last Thursday and Friday andwas greeted by a plethora of challenges thatneeded urgent attention.

The visit was part of the committee’s in-vestigation of the province’s schools’ readi-ness for the year.

Committee chairperson Fundile Gadesaid their focus was primarily on pressingissues such as the provision of pupil andteacher support material.

The visit was aimed at assisting poorlyperforming schools to improve.

One of the schools visited, Phaphani Sec-ondary, has performed badly in the pastthree years. Its matric pass rate was 29.4%in 2013, 33.2% in 2014 and 26.5% last year.

Principal Mzwandile Coba and the schoolmanagement team and governing bodywere hauled over the coals by the portfoliocommittee in the presence of district offi-cials of the Education Department.

Coba said the school had not had a deputyprincipal since the death early last year of

its deputy principal who also taught mathsand science.

“This means that these two critical learn-ing areas were not taught at the school formore than six months,” he said.

Other problems facing the school includ-ed ill-discipline by pupils, poor school at-tendance and lack of parental involvementin instilling discipline in the pupils.

Last year alone, the school had beenfaced with five burglaries where the com-puter lab was broken into, despite theschool having security and enjoying goodworking relations with the local police, thecommittee heard.

Education development officer AndileHopa said he was disappointed by theschool’s performance because he knewmost teachers at the school were commit-ted to their calling. He promised to lend ahelping hand.

“District intervention is needed in thisschool, including assisting its feeder (pri-mary) schools,” Gade said, adding that theywould work hard to provide the school withinstitutional support.

A deputy principal, Sizwe Stokwe, has al-so been appointed at the school.

Plethora of problems for KwaNobuhle school

Uitenhage District EDOAndile Hopa isflanked by PhaphaniHigh School principalMzwandile Coba (left)and his newlyappointed Deputy,Sizwe Stokwe, duringthe EC Legislature visitto poor performingschools last week.PHOTO:NCEBA DLADLA

INDABA REPORTER

NELSON Mandela Bay mayor Danny Jor-daan has been hailed by Premier PhumuloMasualle and Education MEC Mandla Ma-kupula for going beyond the call of duty toprovide support services for centres of learn-ing in the city and hand over school shoes todeserving pupils.

He was speaking during an extensive back-to-school tour led by Masualle, Makupulaand Jordaan when schools opened their gateslast week.

“The mayor demonstrated his commit-ment to improve the quality of education forhis citizens in the metro by donating shoesto needy primary school pupils.

“He has also pledged to provide security tosome schools threatened by criminal ele-ments and vandalism by appointing securitypersonnel and caretakers through their ex-panded public works programme,” Masualle

said.The municipality targets the contracted

employment of 330 non-teaching staff such ascaretakers, secretaries and security person-nel at Bay schools from November with a ded-icated budget of R6,4-million. Currently 295people are contracted.

Makupula said he took his hat off to themayor.

“Even though education is not a core func-tion and responsibility of the municipality,the mayor is showing leadership by contrib-uting to education as it is a crucial buildingblock in improving society.”

Masualle said the provincial governmentwas declaring zero tolerance on delays in fill-ing of teaching vacancies, long periods ofsick leave without remedial action, late-com-ing by teachers and pupils, late delivery oftextbooks, and poor monitoring of schools,curriculum streams and syllabus coverageby education district offices and subject ad-visers.

Mayor joinshandswitheducationdepartment

Missionvale PrimaryGrade 4-learner,

Jermaine Joseph (11)was one of the luckyrecipients of schoolshoes donated by

mayor Danny Jordaanon the first day ofschool last week.

PHOTO: THEO JEPTHA

Eastern Cape Premier Pumulo Masualle (right) and mayor Danny Jordaan in meetings to discusseducation problems in Nelson Mandela Bay. PHOTO: DEON FERREIRA

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SEYISI Primary remains a bea-con of hope among Kwazakheleschools.

While the school performedwell academically last yearwith a pass rate of 78%, it is itsother achievements, such asfood gardening, community de-velopment, sport and culturalactivities, that inspires role-players in township primaryschool education.

While it has become common-place for parents to take theirchildren out of townshipschools in favour of formermodel C schools in the suburbs,this school in Vakaza Street,however, remains a centre ofexcellence for this previouslydisadvantaged communitymade upmostly of the Qaqawuliand Silvertown informal settle-ments.

Rural Development andAgrarian Reform MEC MliboQoboshiyane and his entou-rage, including Veterinary Ser-vices chief director Dr Lubaba-lo Mrwebi, visited the schoollast week.The visit was to announce of-

ficially the school as one of thefew in the province to have beenadopted by Qoboshiyane asschools with a real purpose ofcreating food gardens that feedthe community.

The other schools on theMEC’s list were the Grootfon-tein, Tsolo and Fort Cox agri-cultural colleges. Seyisi is theonly primary school to be in-cluded.School gardening imple-

ments such as spades, forks,hosepipes and seedlings werealso handed over.

Qoboshiyane also rolled uphis sleeves to show the excitedchildren how to plant and waterthe seedlings of vegetables likespinach, butternut, cabbage,onion and beetroot.

Qoboshiyane said they wouldsoon be giving the school watertanks as well.Unemployment, poverty and

child-headed homes remainhuge problems facing this com-munity, but thanks to the focusof the school’s environmentalawareness teacher, NomondeNtsundwana, who is a multiplefood gardening award-winner,as well as staff members andprincipal Kithazi Nontsele, theschool is working hand-in-glove with members of the com-munity who are learning foodgarden maintenance. Membersof the community also benefitimmensely from the garden’sproduce.

Nearby schools have alsolearnt from Seyisi’s food gar-dening expertise.

Former pupil councillor XolaSabani urged neighbours tocontinue looking after theschool.

There are 620 pupils and 16teachers at the school, whichwas built in 1963. The buildingswere dilapidated and infra-structure needed repair, Nont-sele said.

Institutions such as the Man-dela Bay Environmental Desk,General Motors SA, WESSAand Woolworths have helpedthe school with some of its chal-lenges.

Seyisi Primary remainsabeaconofhope

= This is how it’s done . . . MEC MliboQoboshiyane shows Seyisi Primary Schoolpupils how to plant seedlings at the school’sfood garden. PHOTOS:NCEBA DLADLA

;MEC Mlibo Qoboshiyane and his entouragevisited Seyisi Primary School to give garden-ing implements and seedlings for the school’sfood garden.

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SASHIKA PILLAY

PEDDIE-born poet, Thabo Jijana, re-cently launched his debut collection ofpoems, titledFailingMaths andMyOth-er Crimes at the Nelson Mandela Metro-politan Art Museum.

The 27-year-old freelance journalist’santhology was the first book to havebeen published by the uHlanga New Po-ets series, a new publishing imprint ded-icated to publishing South Africa’s mostpromising young poets.

“FailingMaths is a book of poems thatare narrative-driven, inspired by truelife and all of them little studies on a lifefully lived.

“On the whole, Failing Maths gatherswork I have produced in the last five tosix years,” Jijana said.

Jijana was the 2011 recipient of theAnthony Sampson Foundation Award.He was also the 2014 winner of the SolPlaatje European Union Poetry Awardfor his poem titled Children WatchingOld People. In the same year, he pub-lished his first book,Nobody’s Business,which is a memoir about the death of hisfather during a spate of taxi violence.

“My father, a taxi owner-driver inPeddie, was killed in 2003 in King Willi-am’s Town during a spate of taxi-relatedviolence that affected both towns.

“On the day he was murdered, vio-lence broke out at the Market Squaretaxi rank where my father and some ofhis colleagues were attending to mattersrelated to how the two towns could shareroutes,” he said.

Jijana has always been passionateabout writing but discovered his pas-sion for poetry in high school.

“I became interested in poetry in highschool when I came across a narrativepoem by the late South African poet, Ma-fika Gwala, but I began to really pursuepoetry as a vocation at university.”

This year he will be studying towardsan MA in Creative Writing at RhodesUniversity and as part of his studies, hewill be working on a novel which hehopes to publish in the near future.Failing Maths and My Other Crimes

costs R140 and can be ordered at variousbookstores around South Africa or di-rectly from uHlanga Press at nick@uhl-angapress.co.za

Localpoet launchesdebut collection

Thabo Jijana at the launch of FailingMaths and My Other Crimes at the NelsonMandela Metropolitan Art Museum.PHOTO:SUPPLIED

REPORTER

IN order to promote the attractions of NelsonMandela Bay to a wider audience, Nelson Man-dela Bay Tourism (NMBT) has set a challenge forlocals and visitors to the city during summer sea-son.

Using the hashtags #ShareTheBay and #My-NelsonMandelaBay, participants are invited tocapture and share their summer experienceswith the world on social media.

The campaign was launched on December 1,2015. With over 700 moments, stories and imagesalready being shared on Facebook, Twitter andInstagram, the campaign is proving to be a hugesuccess.

“We asked everyone to express their love forNelson Mandela Bay by capturing their festivemoments and sharing them with the world,” ex-plained Mandlakazi Skefile, CEO of Nelson Man-dela Bay Tourism. “And the response has beenoverwhelmingly positive.”

Through this campaign NMBT has been ableto share authentic experiences directly from oth-er visitors and locals. Authentic experiences aremore likely to motivate new and future visitorsto the destination and the facilities.

NMBT welcomed scores of locals and visitorswho flocked to the coastal destination to cooldown at the beach and enjoy all the attractionsand activities on offer.

As temperatures rose with little to no wind thedestination provided great relief through thebeach offerings and swimming facilities such asMacArthur’s pools and Splash Waterworld.

NMBT was fully prepared with informationservices on offer for visitors through the visitorinformation offices situated at The Donkin, TheBoardwalk, Port Elizabeth International Airportarrivals, as well as in Uitenhage. In addition wel-come desks were provided for all cruise linersdocking as passengers disembarked.

Popular queries received at the tourism officesover and above those seeking accommodation

were for activities and attractions.Popular activities included Addo Elephant Na-

tional Park, stand up paddle surfing hire, bicyclerentals as well as Route 67 guided walks.

“We were prepared for a busy summer holidayasNelsonMandelaBayis fastbecomingadestina-tion of choice among travellers through provid-ing convenience and accessibility to explore a va-riety of experiences,” said Skefile.

An increase of visitors was definitely notedthrough the tourism offices and accommodationoccupancy numbers provisionally also reflectinga positive increase of visitors to the area.

The final numbers and tourism impact for sum-mer will be available as from the end of Januaryas we are still in the middle of peak season.

Tourism stakeholders and business have thusfar reported an increase in trade. These includenew additions to our city such as the Baywestmall as well as Uber who launched their conve-nient transportsystemat thebeginningofDecem-ber 2015.

“We are so excited to be in Port Elizabeth; theuptake since launching has been incredible. Peo-ple are loving having an alternative choice inmoving around their city, at a very affordableprice. We have really changed the way the worldthinks about transportation and we look forwardto continued growth in PE,” confirmed SamanthaAllenberg, spokesperson for Uber PE.

According to Fayroush Ludick, Regional Man-ager: Communications, SANParks, “Addo Ele-phant National Park outside Port Elizabeth, not-ed a 4.4% increase in visitors – from 27 601 in De-cember 2014 to 28 815 last year. The park alsoregistered an 18.6% increase in the number of ac-tivities sold, up from 3 061 to 3 629. The Park’s en-trance gate along the N2 just outside Colchester,Camp Matyholweni, continues to attract morevisitors owing to its accessibility from PE. Gateentry figures increased by 13% over the corre-sponding months.”

To keep up with the trend, search for #Share-TheBay and #MyNelsonMandelaBay on socialmedia sites.

Summer stats sizzle

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NCEBA DLADLA

STUNNER Fam, a youth group who regardthemselves as amovement of fashion design-ers, trendsetters and performers, is makingwaves on the Nelson Mandela Bay musicscene.

The group’smembers areKingNestic (rap-per/performer), Donnatello 18 (rapper/per-fomer), DapperMfana (style Guru/DJ), TonySkillz (singer/rapper), Bella (social media/public relations), Kazie (social media/publicrelations);Ailour Izzy (singer); CharlieAdlib(rapper) and Shabi (DJ) – all from Port Eliza-beth and UitenhageThese singers, rappers, producers and

clothing designers started working togetherin making music in 2014.“In June 2014 we released our first project

titled “FreshFromTheBay”and, as they say,the rest is history,” said founder AndisiweGongo aka Riley Fab.At present they release theirmusic digital-

ly through free downloads. According to An-disiwe they will be releasing an EP in May.

A highlight for the group, thus far, hasbeen a performance at the year-end Ebubele-ni Music Festival as an opening act for na-tional and international artists in NelsonMandela Bay.“Our single “Siyabangena” got a lot of air-

play from local radio stations. We were no.1on the Top 30 Charts for 5 weeks on a showcalled Evening Mix on Radio L2K,” said An-disiwe.He added that they also had the opportuni-

ty to perform at the BayHip hop Festival lastyear and at the Uitenhage Carnival.“2015 has been good to us. We also opened

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MADIBAZ footballer of the year 2015,Cloudius Sagandira, is a rising sportsstar who has proved that it is possibleto strike a balance between sportingand academic achievement.

The 24-year-old striker, who this yearis in the final year of his master’s de-gree in chemistry, dreams of both a pro-fessional football career and complet-ing his doctoral studies.“From the age of seven I’ve had a pas-

sion for football and academics,” saidSagandira. “I was equally talented inboth and couldn’t separate the two.”The Zimbabwe-born forward was an

integral part of the Madibaz’ successeslast year, which included winning theSafa Nelson Mandela Bay regionalleague promotion championships anddefending their Port Elizabeth FootballAssociation league title.His standout performances in these

and the Varsity Football competitionhave already drawn the attention of sev-eral professional clubs.But Sagandira, who completed his

BSc honours degree with distinction is

determined to remain focused on his ac-ademic studies and have the best of bothworlds.“The sky is not the limit; with great

will, someone can go beyond it,” he said.“No one should limit him or herself.

Never settle for anything, knowing thatthere is always something betterahead.”An example to aspiring young talent,

Sagandira said his greatest role modelwas his father, who taught him to be-lieve in himself and inspired him toachieve both on and off the playingfield.“He is the one I look up to, as he be-

lieves in giving the best in everythingyou do.”He said a sense of responsibility, good

time management skills and a strongpersonal faith were key factors in hissuccess.Despite his achievements thus far, Sa-

gandira remains humble and gratefulfor the opportunities he has had.“Words cannot express how much

this institution has changed and shapedmy life. Going to study there was proba-bly the best decision I have ever made.I am who I am because of NMMU.”

Footballer of the year strikesbalance between sport, studies

INDABA | WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY 2016 SPORT 7

SELBY MADIKANE

THE annual Summer Basketball and En-tertainment Series which had beenstaged for the 20th consecutive year overthe recent summer festive season thisyear enjoyed another successful run.

Hundreds of sport enthusiasts weretreated to some great excitement and lotsof entertainment at Motherwell NU 5 Bas-ketball Park on Saturday for the last

games in the series.The 20th Annual Summer Basketball

and Entertainment Series kicked off atKings Beach in Summerstrand on Decem-ber 16 and games were also played in vari-ous township areas.

According to programme coordinatorSibongile Fondini, the aim of the pro-gramme is to promote the game of basket-ball as well as sport in general amongstthe youth during the festive season.

Fondini said that the programme had

been a resounding success in its 20th an-niversary.

“Each year this programme keeps get-ting better and more exciting as we havecontinued for the 20th year to provide somuch fun for the big numbers of peoplewho flocked to local beaches and thetownships for our programme,” said Fon-dini.

“What makes this programme evenmore unique is the fact it also combinesarts and entertainment which provides

an excellent platform for many local upand coming artists to showcase their tal-ents,” added Fondini.

Five-a-side street soccer, netball andbasketball games were also played by lo-cal teams and schools.

The Annual Summer Basketball andEntertainment Series programme’s ma-jor sponsor was Nelson Mandela Bay Mu-nicipality, while Fly Time Sports Eventswere the series hosts and Supersport sup-ported the series.

PlentyofactionandexcitementatannualSummerBasketball andEntertainmentSeries

Cingani High School Basketball boys team with Head Coach Lwando Cakwebe.PHOTO: SELBY MADIKANE

Mighty Stars Netball Club players proudly show the trophy and medals they have won.PHOTO: SELBY MADIKANE

SELBY MADIKANE

ZWIDE Masters thrashed Ama-Units 3-1 intheir SAFA Nelson Mandela Bay MastersLeague game that was played at Myezo Pri-mary School on Sunday.

Zwide were playing at full throttle to keepthe log leaders at bay, thus allowing them nospace to breathe.

Sicelo Mali scored a goal and Vumile Booipulled a brace for Zwide Masters. ThembekileNgqesha scored Ama-Units’ consolation goal.

In another game in the league,Valenciawent down 1-0 to the hapless Raymond Mhla-ba.

Raymond Mhlaba’s goal came courtesy ofBonisile Bomba Lindani.

Winners played to a one-all draw againstAddo. Vuyo Zingela and Lukhanyo Dlavuscored a goal apiece for Addo and Winners re-spectively.

Despite losing 3-2 to Abahlobo, PE All Starsshowed a gallant performance with fans be-ing kept on their toes. Abahlobo’s goals werescored by Monwabisi Ntsila, Bongani Debeand Tsepho Mangwane. Monde Dikana andThembekile Dloto each scored a goal for AllStars.

Veeplaas Masters beat New Brighton 2-0after Luyanda Road Ntengento and SizweNgindo had given life to their side.

Eleven Attackers salvaged a 1-0 win overSoweto Masters, with a goal thanks to Attack-ers striker Luyolo Jacobs. Sparks Mastersshared a goalless draw with VW Masters.

SELBY MADIKANE

FANS in their droves are expected towatch the ZWIFA JZ Electrical Top 8 in-augural tournament that will take placein Zwide Stadium on Sunday.

ZWIFA treble champions MajorChiefs will face Strikers United in agame that is expected to keep fans ontheir toes.

Kuyasa United Brothers, which is af-fectionately called Gebha, faces Golden

Aces in a game which is expected to pro-duce fireworks.

ZWIFA Accurate Reworks Systemswinners, Sophakama, are expected tocontinue where they left off the past sea-son when they clash with Zwide Pirates.

Shining Stars should not underesti-mate Gal City which is one of the ZWIFAsides that have the potential to upset theso-called big guns.

The semi-finals and finals will takeplace at Zwide Stadium on January 27and 31 respectively.

Zwide upsets Ama-Units

Zwide Winners drew 1-1 with Addo Masters. PHOTO:SELBY MADIKANE

ZWIFAJZElectrical Top8 ison cards

Sophakama FC players with SAFA NMB President Monde Mhletywa, ZWIFA GeneralSecretary Phakamile Pakes Daca and SAFA NMB Deputy President Marks Tootwana.

PHOTO: SELBY MADIKANE

8 SPORT INDABA | WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY 2016

SELBY MADIKANE

LION City goal poacher Ludwe Sonjicascored a brace to help his side defeat SUBS2-1 in their ABCMotsepe League local derbythat took place at Motherwell NU 2 Stadiumon Saturday.

SUBS were not easy to crack as they tookthe game toCity. City’s star players Lukhan-yo Rasmeni and Lutho Totwana werewatched by their counterparts.

Sonjica registered City’s first goal whenhis header beat SUBS’ goalkeeper early inthe first half.

The game was characterized by roughplay at times, but as it approached halftime,fans saw the two sides playing football of ahigh standard. Early in the second halfSUBSwinger Nathi Kota scored their conso-

lation goal. Vuyolwethu Dingana supplied aperfect pass to Sonjica who scored City’swinning goal. SUBS pursued an equalizergoal with guns blazing, but to no avail.City’s Head Coach Thembinkosi Bigman

Lindani made three tactical changes as hetook out Totwana, Dingana and Rasmeni forMalibongwe Maseti, Thabiso Minana andLifa Teyise respectively.The three super substitutes changed the

course of the game and were instrumentalinhelping theCity team tokeepSUBSat bay.

Other ABC Motsepe League results:

Morning Stars 0-1 Blackburn RoversTornado 7-0 EmperorsHighbury 2-1 EC BeesFuture Tigers 2-1 Matta MilanZimbane Killers 1-1 Mthatha CityKokstad Liverpool 0-0 Young Ideas

Sonjica strikes brace in LionCity’svictory over SUBS

Lion City FC starstriker LudweSonjica scoredtwo braces intwo consecutivegames. PHOTO:SELBY MADIKANE

SELBY MADIKANE

CALEDONIANS, popularly known as Callies,managed to accumulate six points in their SA-FA Nelson Mandela Bay SAB RegionalLeague clash over the weekend.

On Saturday Callies beat Young Cosmos 3-1at Zwide Stadium. Shenniel Benn registereda brace while Zaahid Dolley scored a singlegoal.

On Sunday Callies beat Camper United 3-1at Motherwell NU 9 Stadium.

Benn scored an opening goal with OwenNai-doo banging in a beautiful goal in the firsthalf.

Callies star striker Farouk Punky Abra-hams pulled a brilliant goal late in the secondhalf. The game tookadramatic turnwhenCal-lies goalkeeper XolaniMyatazawas red- card-ed for kicking Camper striker ThanduxoloBudaza in the box.

The referee awarded the home side a penal-tywhichwas taken successfully by Sinethem-

ba Ngudle to make the final score 3-1.Despite giving a gallant effort, Motherwell

Academy went down 3-2 to Hotspurs at Moth-erwell NU 2 Stadium on Sunday.

Makotoane and Sixolile Ndamse scoredAcademy’s goals.According to Academy’s Manager Lut-

hando Lubisa his side could have won thegame against Hotspurs if they succeeded inturning their opportunities into goals.

Lubisa said, “We had many clear-cut chan-ces but we could not score goals. Hotspursused their opportunities.“If you do not use your opportunities, you

get punished, so it happened to us.“We are going back to the drawing-board so

that we do not make the samemistakes in thenext game.”

Other results of SAFANelsonMandela BaySAB Regional League:Royal Bucks 2-2 Central AcematesHighland Spurs 1-1 Ikamva MoversShowvillage 2-0 Highland SpursCamper 0-2(w/o) Showvillage

Callieswin their doubleheader

Callies striker ShennielBenn is chased byCamper United strikerNdyebo Mazantsi.PHOTO: SELBY MADIKANE

NCEBA DLADLA

SOUTH African Amateur Boxing Organisa-tion (SANABO), the body that governs na-tional open boxing, has revealed Vision 2022- a programme which is aimed at developingyoung athletes to the elite level that couldrepresent SouthAfrica at international com-petitions in 2022.

Working with the Eastern Cape SportsAcademy, SANABO President Andile Mofuorganised a camp featuring their startupgroup, the U-12 and U-14 Boys and Girls whowon the National Championships at WitsUniversity in Gauteng in December.

During the camp they were taught the in-tricacies of the game at the Nelson MandelaMetropolitan University’s High Perform-ance Centre in Summerstrand.

With the assistance of specialists such asbiokineticist Mthetheleli Biko, the experi-enced ring officials, young boxers and coach-es were taken through their paces for threedays, learning more about technical rules,mental alertness, fitness, nutrition, weightmaintenance and injury prevention, amongother disciplines.

EC Academy of Sport head Herman Ter-

blanche said they realised the importanceof taking coaches along to the camp so thatthey knew exactly what to do with their box-ers.He said they were also going to give the

future international stars training in lifeskills and time and financial management.“With this camp, we wanted to craft the

future of South African Open Boxing. Wewanted firstly to do a snapshot of what wehave in order to develop it into being whatwewould like to see in 2022,” saidMofu, add-ing that this project contained a dream thatthey did not want to see fail.Mofu said they planned to follow up with

camps in March and September in NelsonMandela Bay to include training and tour-naments with the best in the province andan international friendly with a team fromGermany.Though they did not have a full budget for

the programme, Mofu was optimistic theycould find sponsorship and see their dreambecome a reality.“We’ve learnt a great deal about our box-

ers. Young as they are, they understand theart of boxing and this helped us to knowmore about them,” said EC Coach Khange-lani Jack.

AmateurboxingaimshighwithVision2022

Attending the camp are (back from left) SANABO president Andile Mofu, Nicky Ness, NkosinathiThuse, Noluvo Joxo, Herman Terblanche, Asemahle Wellem, Unathi September, Donjuan vanHeerden, Nomfundo Khumalo, Moonyean Britz and Ezekial Hlasoa (SANABO TREASURER). Seatedfrom left, Siphosethu Mazwi, Sinovuyo Mtintelwa, Mandisi Ngceba, Akhule Mgoqi, ChristiaanVermaak, Khangelani Jack, Nqaba Ngotana and Chalton Malajika. PHOTO:NCEBA DLADLA

NCEBA DLADLA

NELSONMandela Bay boxing promoters lastyear started something that could help themetro win a number of SA and internationaltitles - bringing back the old glory days.

Working together, theymanaged towin themetro a WBF International Miniflyweight ti-tle through Siphosethu “The Gift” Ncisane.Siyabonga Blaauw, who was supposed to

fight against ThembelaniNxoshe of East Lon-

don for the vacant SA Flyweight title was un-lucky to see his bout cancelled at the eleventhhour.

It remains to be seenwhether boxing loverswouldget theopportunity tosee thatbouthap-pening in Mandela Bay. Chances are that theBuffalo City boxing fraternity would notmake the samemistake of allowing a fight forthe vacant title to happen away.“An opportunitywas to be given to EC Jun-

ior Flyweight Champion Mzwabantu Dabazato fight for the vacant title but Dabaza lost in

a fight inMthatharecently,”saidNelsonMan-dela Bay Boxing South Africa (BSA) ServiceProvider Mthunzi Mapitiza.

However, apart fromDabaza, local promot-ers have a number of promising boxers tochoose from in the national ratings.The metro’s Eastern Cape Junior Welter-

weight ChampionLungisani Jikani is rankedatpositionone - takingthepositionof theman-datory challenger to Grant Fourie’s SA title.

Makhosonke Zwengu and Lesley Hope areranked number three and eight respectively

in the light heavyweight division while Una-thiJacobs liesatnumbernine in thecountry’scruiserweights. Masixole Botile is ranked atno. four in the middleweight division.Welterweight Anelisa Gungqisa is ranked

at number twowhile Eastern Cape championMziwoxolo Ndwayana of Grahamstown, whoboxes in the metro, is fourth.In the heavyweight division, local pugilist

Sithembele August, who is the former ECheavyweight champion, is ranked atNo. 3.Hecan challenge SA Champion Anton Nel.

Many boxers to choose from in themetro to go for national honours