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UITENHAGEresidentPhumezaRan-isi (46) is complaining that her RDPhouse was built on what she as-sumes is a spring.

Ranisi’s house at 18 Nene Street,in the Holomisa area in Khayelitsha, is sur-rounded by water. There is water coming fromthe ground from the back yard to the front.

“It has been like this for quite a while now,”Ranisi said.

The walls were cracking and the house wasalways cold to the extent of adversely affectingtheir health, especially that of her two little chil-

dren.“Wealwayshave flu symptomsandasaresult

we decided to let our youngest child stay withrelatives,” Ranisi said.

She said they had reported the matter to themunicipality without success.

“Municipal officials did come and investigatewhat they thought was a burst pipe. When theyrealised it was not, they left and did not comeback,” Ranisi said.

She said she found the 0800municipal toll-freenumber to be useless as promises had beenmade and never fulfilled.

Though she appreciated having an RDPhouse, she said, her health was at risk and shewould prefer to be moved to another site.

“I sent countless messages to the ward coun-cillor’s offices and even though they promisedto come back, they never did.”

Ward 43 councillor Nomsa Booi said, howev-er, that she was amazed by the allegations andthat she would investigate the matter further.

The councillor told Express Indaba that sheknew the house in question and that she wasaware of the problem.

“Thewaterisoutsideheryard,notinside.And

hers isnot theonlyhouse that is affected. In fact,she married a few years ago and does not evenstay in the house,” Booi said.

But when Express Indaba insisted that therewas indeed water inside the yard, the councillorsaid she had not been aware of that and wouldgo back and investigate further.

“I want to state, however, that when someonehas already been placed on a site, it is not easyto move him or her to another site.

“The focus isnowonthe long listofpeoplestillin need of a roof over their heads,” she said.– NCEBA DLADLA (PHOTOS ON P 2)

Resident inRDPnightmare

OperationsOperations will givewill giveFrance a lotof smiles

France Cumbana’s parents, Joao and Raquel are very grateful that their son (4) will at last be able to smile. France (4) is undergoing surgery this week in Port Elizabeth as part of Interna­tional Airport Smile Week, taking place at the Port Elizabeth Provincial Hospital until Friday. The operations will correct his short lower jaw which since birth has resulted in him havingdifficulty to breathe and swallow. He is also unable to smile and to talk properly. Read the full story on page 4. PHOTO: WERNER HILLS

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Residentwants tomove fromwatersoakedRDPhouse

Phumeza Ranisi has complained that her house is forever surrounded by water. Water also floods the street in front of Phumeza Ranisi’s house. PHOTOS: NCEBA DLADLA

NCEBA DLADLA

THE police in Kamesh are looking forcommunity assistance in the investiga-tion of a murder case.

Anunknownman, possibly inhis late20s or early 30s,was founddead inCaka-ta Street, Kamesh, on Thursday (July29) at about 6.30pm.

The man, who was wearing bluejeans, white takkies and a green jacket,was found with two stabs wounds onbody, according to Uitenhage policespokesperson Sergeant Majola Nkohli.

The police have opened a murdercase, but they do not yet know the cir-cumstances leading to the man’s death.

“Anyonewith information that couldassist in the investigation should pleasenot hesitate to contact the Kamesh po-lice detectives at 041 988 8226,” he said.

Police seek helpinmurder case

CHANDRÉ MASOLING

Are we waiting for someone to die first beforesomething is done?

This is the question that ward councillor Jo-nathan Lawack and West End residents areasking about a waterlogged hole containinglive electricity cables in a street where manychildren play.

“Three months ago, municipal workers duga hole in front of my garage, without my per-mission,” said SamiegAbrahams, a resident ofSt Hillary Street.

This happened shortly after residents com-plained to the municipality about constantpower cuts. Municipal workers left electric ca-bles in the open hole and reassured residentsthat it would be closed shortly.

“For the past three months now, wheneverthe electricity goes off, municipal workerscome to fix the cables, and leave again, but thehole is never closed,” said another resident inthe street, Najmoeneesa Largadien.

Owing to the heavy rain that has fallen in re-cent weeks, the hole has filled up with water.

On Saturday, July 25, after heavy rains fell,residents heard an explosion in the hole.

“When we looked outside the window all wecould see was sparks coming from the hole,”said Abrahams. After the explosion, residentswere left without electricity for eight days.

Mthubanzi Mniki, municipal spokesperson,said theholeswerenot supposed tobeopenandthat the matter was being investigated.

Mniki said the municipality could not re-

spond to electrical outages last week owing tothe strike and limited numbers of staff mem-bers.

“The cables were fixed on Friday (July 31),but there was another explosion and we wereleft without electricity again. On Saturdaythey came to fix it again,” Abrahams said.

At timeof going toprintonMonday, the resi-dents had electricity, but were concernedabout the waterlogged hole still being open.

“Therearea lot of children in theneighbour-hood.Oneof themmight fall into thewaterandbe shocked to death,” said Mukhtaar Abra-hams, another resident of St Hillary Street.

Mniki said the municipality would investi-gate why the hole was not being closed.

Lucas Bowles, regional director of the Elec-trical Contractors’ Association (SA) East/SouthCapeRegion, called on themunicipalityto address the situation as amatter of urgencyas the temporary connectionswere dangerousand people, children and animals had easy ac-cess to the area.

He said that while the connections lookeddangerous at first glance, one had to keep inmind that thesewere just temporary andweredone in emergencies to restore electricity toresidents. The permanent connections couldonly be done in totally dry circumstances asany moisture in the cables would only lead toanother fault.

“The continuous rain and higher water ta-ble inrecentweeks, aswell as the strikebymu-nicipal workers, have resulted in permanentrepairs taking longer than usual,” Bowlessaid.

Concern over live power cables For the past three months Mukhtaar Abrahams hasbeen waiting for this waterlogged hole, with live electriccables in it, to be closed. PHOTO: THEO JEPTHA

NMMU’s ProfDerrick Swartz is leaving soon tostart his journey to climb Mount Fuji in aid ofbursaries for financially needy, yet academical-lydeservingstudents,but first theVice-chancel-lor did some last-minute preparation with stu-dents and staff.

A fun rowing event was organised with theassistance of the NMMU Rowing Club, in theSouth Campus Fitness &Aquatics Centre. Theevent drew the attention of about 200 studentswho cheered the participants on.

Students had the opportunity to interactwiththeir Vice-Chancellor and asked him a numberof questions about his up-coming climb. The#climb4nmmu campaign is particularly fo-cused on the needs of students in the EasternCape,recognisedasSouthAfrica’spoorestprov-ince.

All funds will go to the University’s BursaryLegacy Campaign run by the NMMU Trust.

The University’s campaign, which was hop-ing to raise at least R500 000 to support studentsfor the duration of their degrees or diplomas;has already passed the R750 000 mark.

Prof Swartz leaves for Japan on Sunday andwill start his climb on August 7. – REPORTER

LastpreparationaheadofVC’sMount Fuji climb

Biokineticist, Mteteleli Biko, and sports scientist Jarred Salzwedel, both students at the NelsonMandela Metropolitan University, are busy doing a fitness test on Prof. Derrick Swartz, Vice­chan­cellor of the NMMU. Swartz is getting fit and ready to climb Mount Fuji in Japan on August 7, inan attempt to raise funds for pupils who can’t afford to pay tuition fees. PHOTO:SUPPLIED

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NCEBA DLADLA

OPERATION Fiela’ sting was felt by Port Eli-zabeth residents in conflictwith the lawas thelaw enforcement officers continued to maketheir mark at the weekend.

The entire Russell Road Taxi Rank was ata standstill when community members, com-muters and taxi-drivers were stunned by theflooding of the law-enforcement agencies con-

ducting stop and search actions on individu-als and hawker stands, vehicles and taxisparked within the perimeter of the rank aswell as vehicles driving by, said Provincialpolices spokesperson Colonel Sibongile Soci.According to Soci, 320 persons, and 92 prem-

ises including 90 vehicles were searched assome of the members visited small and medi-um sized shops and businesses to enforcecompliancewith legal regulations and accept-able health standards in the near-by shopping

centre.“Second hand dealers were also visited to

ensure that they adhered to the legal require-ments of buying and selling second handgoods in the five hour long operation,” Col So-ci said, adding that two suspects were arrest-ed for possession of suspected stolen propertyand theft out ofmotor vehicleswhile 460 coun-terfeit CDs were recovered as well as 27 cell-phones, three laptops, three cameras and onetablet.

Col Soci said they took possession of twovehicles one of which was suspected to be sto-len. She added that they also seized dagga andtik with an estimated street value of R5 000while they issued traffic fines amounting toR55 500 for vehicles that were stopped and in-spected.TheOperation continued in theMotherwell

area on Saturday morning where a lot morearrests were made and suspected stolen prop-erties were recovered, according to Col Soci.

OperationFiela sting continues in theBay

Operation Fiela took place at the taxi rank in Govan Mbeki, where vendors were searched forany illegal street merchandise. PHOTO:DEON FERREIRA

Police searched taxis and homes in KwaZakhele as part of Operation Fiela. This man was stoppedby SAPS members to make sure it wasn’t a stolen TV he had with him. PHOTO: DEON FERREIRA

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NCEBA DLADLA

NELSON Mandela Bay Municipality’sWard 30 will hold a by-election on 19 Au-gust owing to the passing away of ANCWard Cllr Mike Tofile in May.

Already, the two political parties eyeingto fill the gap are having jabs at each other,in the process of electioneering.

First is the DA claiming that they haveincreased support in the areas traditional-ly led by the ANC and that to win votes,the ruling party is playing foul - luringvotes with food parcels.

“Voters are delighted with the DA’s ef-forts to contest by-elections all over theprovince as they score food parcels fromthe ANC, who will stop at nothing to coun-teract the ever-increasing threat of the DA

as the new government, “ saidDAMPLVel-iswa Mvenya in a statement.

She added, “Social Development MEC,Nancy Sihlwayi, who has a notorious trackrecord of having little regard for the differ-ence between party and state, is again upto her food parcel shenanigans in exchangefor support from voters.”

According to Mvenya, Community De-velopmentWorkers (CDWs) have been con-ducting door-to-door campaigning in theWard where the by-elections will takeplace.

MECSihlwayi has stated that her depart-ment will be “helping” the metro with ser-vice delivery as per a call by President Ja-cob Zuma as part of aWomen’s Caucus pro-gramme during August, whereby foodparcels will be handed out and chequeshanded to SMMEs.

Simply put, according to Mvenya, thismeant the Women’s Caucus would be usedto channel funds to the metro duringWom-en’s Month.

Sihlwayi’s spokesperson, Gcobani Mas-wana, said this was not true. “People con-fuse government’s intervention pro-grammes with electioneering. Food parcelprocurement was done long before – some-time in May. It is just a coincidence thatthe delivery would be before by-elections”.

He added, “We, however, want to statethat we do not believe that people were sostupid that they could be bought by a fewhundred rands’ worth of food parcels. Peo-ple know whom to vote for during elec-tions.”

MPL Mvenya insisted that last weekWednesday, she attended a Social Develop-ment programme in Stutterheim where, to

her surprise, a group of ladies dressed inANCWomen’s League blouseswere bussedin from Butterworth by MEC Sihlwayi’sDepartment.

“Once again, the MEC blurred the linesbetween an ANC-rally and a state depart-ment’s programme,” said Mvenya, addingthat she thought that in a fair society, themandates of party and state should be keptseparate.

The DA believed, she said, that equal op-portunity for all brings about real freedom.

“Preying on the poor with cheap trickscan only fool the electorate for so long,” ac-cording to Mvenya.

“What the ANC should be doing is pro-viding people with real dignity and realhope by implementing policies that willcreate jobs to alleviate hunger,” saidMvenya.

Ward30 By-election starts in earnest, with accusation of buying votes

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

THE high circumcision death toll in theEastern Cape in the winter season, particu-larly in the former Transkei, has promptedtraditional leaders in the OR Tambo re-gion, Imbumba Yamakhosikazi Akomkhu-lu, all government departments, forums,and other stakeholders involved in circum-cisions to act swiftly to avoid more tragedybefore the next season.

They converged on the OR Tambo Hall inMthatha for a two-day summit on ways toend the deaths of initiates.

The winter season was closed on July 20and the Eastern Cape registered 28 deaths.Twenty deaths occurred in the OR Tamboregion and eight initiates had to undergoamputations. The local municipalities inthe OR Tambo region which recordeddeaths were King Sabatha Dalindyebo withtwo deaths, Nyandeni local municipalityeight, Mhlontlo seven and Qaukeni three.

OR Tambo health department managerSilulami Mlenzana said of those 20, eighthad been in legal schools and 12 in illegalschools. A total of 189 initiates were admit-ted to hospitals across the OR Tambo re-gion and 1 590 were rescued.

A report Mlenzana tabled before the sum-mit revealed that there had been 643 legalschools in the winter season and they hadlater discovered 219 illegal schools, whichwere closed down.

He also divulged that 7 397 initiates hadgone to various legal initiation schools and1 437 had attended illegal ones.

He said 5 178 boys had been screened be-fore going to initiation schools.

A report by the police revealed that 37cases related to circumcision had beenopened in the Eastern Cape and 22 arrestshad been made.

The regional spokesperson for the Na-tional Prosecuting Authority, Luxolo Tya-li, there were four cases before court inconnection with the recent winter season.

The summit coordinator and chairper-son of the OR Tambo Initiation Forum,Nkosi Gcobani Tyali, said the main objec-tive of the summit had been to engineer thecollaboration of all government depart-ments and NGOs to strive for safe circum-cision.

He said they also intended to restore Af-rican values and ethics, closing identifiedgaps within the programme of initiation.

“We also want to strengthen communityparticipation and the accountability ofcommunity leaders and prevent deathsand amputations.”

Speaking on behalf of Imbumba Yama-khosikazi Akomkhulu and Multi PartyWomen’s Caucus, Chief Nokhaka Jumbasaid death-free initiation schools werenon-negotiable.

“We want to emerge from our meetingswith a systematic death-free plan becausewe don’t want to reduce, but to bring to anend, the deaths of our initiates. There is al-so a need to establish a council of initiationschools, which will comprise graduate ini-tiates, traditional leaders and other rele-vant stakeholders, such as the govern-ment.”

Chief Nokhaka Jumba addressesthe circumcision summit inMthatha. PHOTO: SIM MDLEDLE

Traditional leaders from all partsof the OR Tambo region attendedthe summit. PHOTO:SIM MDLEDLE

Plan toendcircumcisiondeaths

ANNA PAUW

FOR the first time in in his life France Cumba-na (4) nowhave the hope of being able to smile,as he undergoes life-changing surgery in PortElizabeth this week.

France is oneof 26 children fromtheEasternCape who will receive reconstructive facialsurgery this week as part of the Port ElizabethInternational Airport Smile Week, takingplace at the Port Elizabeth Provincial Hospitaluntil Friday.

Owing to his condition, France has neverbeen able to breathe, eat, smile or speak prop-erly.

Apart from these challenges, Frances’s fa-ther, Joao, said he was very happy that hischild would at last look like other children aft-er the surgeries andwould no longer be teasedfor “not having a chin”.

Francewas bornwith a rare facial conditioncalledPierreRobinSequence,which results ina very small lower jaw and a tongue that fallsback in the throat, often with a cleft palate. InFrance’s case he has a cleft palate and can onlyopen his jaw 1cm – a one-in-a-million medicalcondition.

But over thenext sixweeks, France’s lifewillbe transformedasheundergoes numerous sur-gical procedures, made possible through thegenerous funding of Port Elizabeth Interna-tionalAirportandwith thesupportof theSmileFoundation.

Dr. Chris van der Walt, who heads up Cum-dana’s medical team, said surgically breakingthe boy’s jaw was the first step on the way tolengthen the jaw.

Called amandible distraction, the proceduresees surgeonsbreaking the jaw, insertinga spe-cial distractor with screws and then, over thenext six weeks, gently stretching the broken

jaw by 1mm each day.Van der Walt said France’s cleft palate will

only be fixed once the lengthening of his jawis complete. “Until now it had been impossibleto work on the cleft palate, since France’smouth cannot open enough to allow access.”

It is the first time this procedure is beingdone in Port Elizabeth, and will position the

surgical team to help others who need similarprocedures in future.

Moira Gerszt, Operations Executive Direct-or at the Smile Foundation, said they havebeen supporting the patients coming throughthis paediatric department for 4 years and onaweekly basis for nearly a year. “This processoffers sustainable support for the children andfamilies involved,with surgeryandpsycholog-ical counselling being made available, as wellas education relating to the hospital process.”

Provincial Hospital operational manager,sister Lungiswa Dyala is co-ordinating all theprocedures during Port Elizabeth Internation-alAirport SmileWeek. She said it iswonderfulto be able to be part of such an amazing initia-tive

Selvin Meyer, acting Airport Manager atPort Elizabeth International Airport, said Air-ports Company South Africa (ACSA) is proudto once again be associated with the SmileFoundation in making a difference in chil-dren’s lives.

) The Smile Foundation has been partner-ing with academic hospitals in SA for morethan 15 years to assist underprivileged chil-dren with facial anomalies, alleviating back-logs in the hospitals, encouraging skills trans-fer, offeringpsychological help before andaftersurgery and supporting hospital infrastruc-ture.

To date, over 1 500 children have benefitedfromsurgeries around the country through thepartnership with state academic hospitals.

Operationswill give Francea lot to smileabout

Provincial Hospital operational manager, sisterLungiswa Dyala. PHOTO: WERNER HILLS

Dr Chris van der Walt, plastic surgeon.PHOTO: WERNER HILLS

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THEEastern Cape chapter of the Agape Chris-tian Women’s Network (ACWN) is to belaunched at Kwazakhele High School in PortElizabeth on Saturday August 15.

The Agape Christian Women’s Network is aregistered non-profit-making organisationheadedbyChristianwomenonamissiontosup-port poor and vulnerable families and child-headed homes with their daily needs.“We are aimed at assisting women and chil-

dren who are in desperate need due to circum-stances beyond their control,” ACWN chief fi-nancial officer Yolisa Mkalipi said. The net-work, conceived through prayer in 2008, wasalready active in Gauteng, the Western Capeand KwaZulu-Natal, she said.“We have identified and are assisting a num-

ber of families in Soweto, Tembisa andPretoriaand are now working as far as Polo-kwane andCape Town,” Mkalipi told Express Indaba.She said they were expecting those numbers

to increase as their outreach programmeswereexpanding.The Eastern Cape had devout women who

had joined this moving ministry that was al-readymaking a difference in the lives of many,Mkalipi said, adding that they had also alreadyidentified households that were supported byunemployedwomen in the area of eMagaleni inKwazakhele.“They also have identified youngsters with

potential but lacking the means. These womenhave adopted theMajor Stars Netball and Foot-ball Club for their intervention programme,”said Mkalipi.ACWNEastern Cape would endeavour to as-

sist these homes with their needs and theywouldoffer spiritual aswell asmaterial supportto these families and future sports stars.“During the launch, we’ll introduce the local

leadership of Nomabhayi Faku (secretary) andZingisa Mbatyoti (coordinator) as well as thesponsors that have assisted by buying theseteams sports gear,” Mkalipi said.Theywereinvitingmembersofthepublicand

private companies to lend a helping hand dur-ing the launch of the women of virtue who willbe making a difference in the lives of the lessfortunate.Abafazi ziimbokodo! (Women are therocks!)

Agape launches EasternCape chapter

Yolisa Gubayo of ACWN Eastern Cape.PHOTO:SUPPLIED

NCEBA DLADLA

COMMUNITY builder Sandile Konono’sdream of an active citizenry and goodwillto all men could be realised if the powersthat be inKwaNobuhle,Uitenhage, buy theidea of joining the Africa Tikkun Pro-gramme.

Konono, manager of the KwaNobuhle-based Manchester Babes Football Club(FC), awomen’s outfit playing in the SouthAfrican Football Association (Safa) pro-vincial Sasol League, is fresh from a visitto Colesburg in theNorthern Cape,wherehe saw how the Africa Tikkun Pro-gramme works.It worked towards uplifting children

from disadvantaged communities fromcradle to career, as well as grooming theirsportsmen and women to stardom, Kon-ono said.Always up and about looking for green-

er pastures for the township youth to besigned by teams in the elite ProfessionalSoccer League, a passionate Konono, whois the product of theDepartment of Sport’supliftment programmes, met a friend inJohannesburg who told him about thisprogramme. He had been swept off hisfeet, he confessed.“He invited me to a 21-day workshop in

Colesburg and I was amazed by what Isaw.“Africa Tikkun looks after the athlete’s

total development. I was impressed by itsimpact in sport,” he said, adding that theprogramme was not trying to underminewhat sport federations were doing withschool sport, but was instead comple-menting them.“The identificationandnurturingof tal-

ent starts at a very early age.Athletes, likeacademics, are groomed and given lifeskills,” he said.He said he was fascinated by the physi-

cal and mental preparation of athletesdone while ensuring that they were takingthe right diet.A heathy lifestyle was of fundamental

importance to this programme, he said.While Africa Tikkun was mostly a vol-

unteer programme, Konono said, therewere job opportunities that could be creat-ed in the process, thereby keeping mostyoung people busywith their own develop-ment and social cohesion.“I have learnt valuable lessons with the

programme. I’ll be sharing these ideaswith my local councillor in order to kick-start what could be a major breakthroughto numbers of unemployed but multi-skilled young people of Nelson MandelaBay,” Konono said.

Development is Sandile’s dreamfor his community

Community development worker SandileKonono in the office where he serves theelderly on behalf of Sassa.

PHOTO:NCEBA DLADLA

NCEBA DLADLA

PE FM Christian community radio stationpresenter Lubabalo Kesa (32) says communi-ty radio should be used by the communitiesto deal with issues that affect them.

The anchor of theCotswold, PortElizabeth,radio station’smuch loved talk show,MiddayExpress, on weekdays from noon until 3pmsays he believes in the power of idea commu-nication that community radio presents.Talk-shows driven by the communities

help those communities address their prob-lems, he says.Affectionately known as ‘LB” by about

36 000 listeners to the station tuned in at 87.6FM, Kesa, of Khayelitsha in Uitenhage, is thefounding presenter of the station.“The programme is about giving people

hope. It deals with social issues and how besta community of believers guided by the HolySpirit of God can best deal with those,” aproud Kesa says of Midday Express.The showhas not only helped listeners find

hope andpurpose in life, but alsohelped someaccept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, he

says.“One listener told me that the programme

changed her life and another said he had beenconsidering taking his own life until Godspoke some sense to him, through me,” saysKesa, who is the Uniting Reformed Church ofSouthern Africa’s Youth chairperson andHEPBSO executive board member.Armed with an LLB degree from Vista Uni-

versity, which is now part of the NelsonMan-dela Bay Metropolitan University, Kesa, whomatriculated at Molly Blackburn HighSchool, is currently enrolled with Unisa fora postgraduate degree.This lawyer is proud to spend time behind

the mike as long as it is making a differencein the lives of many.Inspired among others by the great voices

of Lefa Msimang, Makhosandile Ndzishe andVelelo “Doc” Nomsobo, who have sincepassed on, Kesa says he would like an oppor-tunity to join a public radio station one day.And, with his experience, presentation

skills, good rapport with listeners and beingin touch with their needs, his authoritativevoice and love of his work, it seems that wishis not far-fetched.

LawyerKesadrivesdialogue throughcommunity radio

Behind the mike is Lubabalo “LB” Kesa. PHOTO:NCEBA DLADLA

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SELBY MADIKANE

THE SAFA Nelson Mandela BayWomen’s Month Tournament drawhasbeenmadeata function thatwasheldat theDepartmentofSport,Rec-reation, Arts and Culture (DSRAC)offices atGoldenMiles inNorthEndon Saturday.

Speaking at the event, SAFA Nel-son Mandela Bay President MondeMhletywa highlighted that everywoman should be treated equally bymen and should not be discriminat-ed against.Mhletywa said, “Women should

enjoy theirmonth and should not bebadly treated.“I hope youwill enjoy yourmonth

on the playing fields. All I want is toseeallwomenunitedandthat iswhywe host a women’s tournament.”The tournament will be played by

10 SAFA NMB Regional League

teams and 5 Sasol League teamsbased in the Nelson Mandela Bay.All 15 teams will be given a brandnewkit each that theywill dondur-ing the tournament.The tournament is played in a

straight knockout system at Moth-erwell NU 2 and NU 9 Stadiumsfrom 8 to 9 August 2015.The preliminary round matches

are as follows:

Motherwell NU2 Stadium: Au-gust 89am: Warriors vs. Hearts10:15am: Highbury vs. KUBS11:30am:AfricanChiefs vs.NMMUMadi-

bazShooting Stars vs. Sophakama Ladies

Motherwell NU 9 Stadium: Au-gust 89am: Continental Express vs. PE United10:15am: Vuku Wanderers vs. Nobuhle

Ladies11:30am: Zwide All Stars vs. Young Aces15:15pm Mustangs Ladies vs. City Lads

Women’sMonth Tourney draw

SAFA NMB Women’s HOD Nomonde Makuleni (far left) and SAFA NMB President Monde Mhletywa with teams’captains show the kit they have been sponsored and the trophy. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

SELBY MADIKANE

IT was back to business in theSouth African Football Associa-tion Nelson Mandela Bay (SAFANMB) Women’s Regional Leaguethis past weekend following a longbreak.

The unbeaten log leaders Sopha-kama Lad-ies thwarted NMMUMadibaz 5-0 in front of their homesupporters at South Campus.

Nobuhle Ladies were embar-rassed by KUBS who whipped

them 3-0 at Jabavu Stadium.Highbury, who are on the sec-

ond spot of the log table, punishedthe green Young Aces 5-1 atBridgemeade.This time round, Zwide All

Stars fought tooth and nail intheir goalless draw with Hearts atGal City Grounds.KUBS defeated PE United in a

romp by the score of 16-1 on Sun-day.As things stand, Vuku Wander-

ers have improved quite im-mensely as they outplayed Warri-ors 3-0 at Chevrolet Stadium.

Other results of SAFANMB Women’s RegionalLeague:•African Chiefs (2) w/o-0

Continental Express

•Shooting Stars (2) w/o-0PE United

•Continental Express 0-(2)w/o Highbury

•NMMU Madibaz 3-2 No-buhle Ladies

SAFANMBWomen’s Regional League results after a long break

SELBY MADIKANE

THE LONG-awaited girls’ tagrugby tournament, which is runby Nomatemba Gum, a KwaZak-hele physiotherapist, has begunwith a big bang at Wolfson Stadi-um on Wednesday 29 July 2015.

In U/11 Division EbongweniPrimary School secured a hard-fought 2-0 win from KayserNgxwana Primary School. SiphoHashe Primary School played to

a 0-0 draw against Ben Sinuka.Seyisi Primary School were softpoints after their opponents Ka-ma Primary failed to pitch up forthe game.In U/14 Ebongweni Primary

School played to a 0-0 draw byKayser Ngxwana PrimarySchool. Sipho Hashe PrimarySchool also drew 1-1 with BenSinuka Primary School.Seyisi Primary School sal-

vaged a comprehensive 5-0 victo-ry from Kama Primary School.

Girls’ tag rugby tournament results

SELBY MADIKANE

A COMMUNITY developer throughsport Nomatemba Gum, a KwaZak-hele physiotherapist, will again beholding a girls’ tag rugby tourna-ment.

The tournament was launched atthe Wolfson Stadium recently.Gumstatedthat themotivebehind

the tournamentwas to introduce theU/11 and U/14 girls to rugby at ayounger age. Apparently tThe tournament was started in

2014 andwasmeant for KwaZakhele

primary school girls where Gum’sbusiness is situated.Gum said, “I felt that these girls

were too fragile for a contact sporthence I decided to introduce them totag rugby.“Furthermore I want to inculcate

the love of rugby into these younggirls so that when they are at highschool they are ready to playing con-tact rugby.“This tournament helps me to re-

cruit some players formy club- Bont-leTigersLadiesRugbyFootballClub.Another benefit from the event is

to keep youth busy in sport.

“Last year everything wentsmoothly. My credit goes to LuckyMangeandAndileTshumewhoorga-nised the tournament outstandinglywhen Iwas onmaternity leave at thestart of the programme.”According to Gum, some compa-

nies had made a promise to supporther programme this year.The tournament will start in a

points system and will end in aknockout system with the top fourplaying against one other.The reigning winners, which are

Ebongweni U/11 and Ben SinukaU/14, are set to defend their titles.

NomatembaGumGirls Tag tournament launch

Willem October (EP High Schools Rugby Chairperson), Lucky Mange (rugby legend), Nomatemba Gum (tournamentorganiser and sponsor), Nomlila Siyolo (Springbok flanker), Mtwabo Ndube (Ndube Projects Director) and MpumeleloOdolo (rugby legend) with the schools’ captains. PHOTO:SELBY MADIKANE

NCEBA DLADLA

MOTHERWELL’sAsaiKarateAcad-emy Noloyiso Bonga has done itagain.

Bonga beat all opposition to takehome the 2015 SECKOKarate Cham-pionship Female title in a competi-tion organised by East Coast Shoto-kan- Ryu under the auspices of theSouth African Shotokan KarateAcademy (SASKA) at the Fish RiverSun Hotel in Peddie at the week end.

ThirdDanBlackBelt holderBonga(28) under the mentorship of SenseiMthwabo Ndube convincingly wonthe Ladies Brown and Black Belt Ku-miteCategoryandtookhomethegoldmedal for the second consecutiveyear,”SECKOOrganiserSenseiGaryGrapentin.According to Grapentin, Tanya De

Villiers of Kase- Ha Dojo in PE wonsilverwhileKayleighChamberlainofWestern Suburbs, also in PE wonbronze medal.He said, “The 9th annual SECKO

Karate Championships saw a recordentryof470participants from25clubsin the province which included astrong team fromGauteng in attend-ance.”Bongawas engaged in the champi-

onships at least four times facing op-position from difference parts of theprovince, she said.“This win will take me to the All

Africa games in the Democratic Re-

publicofCongo (DRC) inSeptember,”said Bonga who is fresh from theZone 6 Championships in Johannes-burg where she fought against ladiesfrom Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabweand Botswana and won.Fighting in the SECKO Karate

Championships was not as hard as itwas facingopposition fromacross thecontinent, said Bonga, who alludedher success to the strict regimen shereceives fromthehighlyrankedSens-ei Ndube.PE’s S&K Karate Club Reiner Von

Der Marwitz won the Brown andBlack Belt Kata Category. This wasfor the third consecutive year thatVon Der Marwitz achieved the feat,according to Grapentin.The Men’s Brown and Black Belt

Kumite Category was won by Jac-ques Badenhorst, Lonwabo Ndzimawas placed second while New Brigh-ton’s Siyazi Madubela was placedthird.

NoloyisoBongawinsgoldatKarateChampionships

From left to right were, Jabu Maseko(Fish River Sun Operations Manager)Kayleigh Chamberlain (WesternSuburbs Karate Club, PE), NoloyisoBonga (Asai Motherwell KarateAcademy), Tanya De Villiers (Kase­HaDojo, PE) and Gary Grapentin(SECKO Organiser). PHOTO:SUPPLIED

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CONTINENTALExpress showed that theywere too strong for Major Stars after theythumped them 5-2 in Zakhele Football As-sociation (ZAFA) Njeya InvestmentsChampion of Champions Top 16 elimina-tions at Dynamos Grounds on Saturday.

However, both sides started the game ata fast pace with both sides drawing 2-2 inthe first half. Ndikhokele Nohoyeka andThulani Sipango banged in a goal apiecefor Express while Simphiwe Mzaza andThobelaMphuthumi scored a goal each forStars.

In the second half Thulani Sipango wasthe nerve to Stars midfielders. As such hisbrilliance paid divi-dends for Express.

Nohoyeka, Aya-bulela Maqwelanaand Anele Januarypulled a goal each tomake the final score5-2 in favour of Con-

tinental Express.United Comrades gave their neighbours

Everton a 3-1 hiding. Dynamos devastatedBlack Eagles 2-0 in their game that wasabandoned by the referee who was man-handled by one of Eagle’s players. ElevenAngels drubbed United Brothers 3-1.

In the battle of the neighbours, YoungProfessionals outclassed Golden Brothers4-1.

Stone Breakers booked themselves aberth in theTop 8 after theydefeatedSilverUnited 3-2 on penalties following their 2-2fulltime tie.

Seven United were given a run for theirmoney by City All Stars which they beat1-0. It was a door-or-die battle when BrazilBrothers eliminated NUBS 1-0.

Continental Express too strongforMajorStars

Continental Expressstar player AneleJanuary shields theball from Major Starsplayer NdyeboPringle. PHOTO: SELBY

MADIKANE

SELBY MADIKANE

ZWIDEUnitedRFC lost 23-14 toGlenRosesFCin theEPRugbyAdamsFirstDivisionLeaguegame at Wolfson Stadium on Saturday.

The visitors took a 7-0 lead after theywereawarded a dubious penalty try. Before thefirst half ended, Roses’ flyhalf Monier Ja-cobs kicked two easy penalties that in-creased their halftime score to 13-0.

In the early stages of the second half Unit-ed were like a house on fire as they took thegame to their counterparts. Theirhardworkpaid dividends as their wing Mzukisi Keka-

na cameupwithUnited’s opening try in the cor-ner. United’s flyhalf Anele Jonas converted thetry to reduce their deficit to 13-7.

Roses’ left wing Marshall Draai, who ZwideUnited’s supporters alleged was offside, scoreda controversial try which was not converted.Jonas penetrated between Roses’ forwards andhe passed a ball perfectly to Simondile Tysonwho scored a beautiful try under the poles. Jo-nas converted the try with ease to decreaseonce again their deficit to 20-14.

But in the dyingminutes the NorthernAreasside were awarded a penalty which Jacobskicked over the poles to make the final score23-14 in favour of Glen Roses.

ZwideUnited RFC loses toGlen Roses RFCZwide United RFC players (blue shirts) and Glen Roses RFC players tussle for the ball.

SELBY MADIKANE

MOTHERWELL school, Imbasa PrimaryBoys will play against Uitenhage winners intheSouthAfricanSchoolsSoccerNelsonMan-dela Bay League Competition U/13 finals atthe date that will be announced.

Imbasa Primary School defeated their hoo-doo side Zanoxolo Primary School 1-0 in SAS-FA Motherwell semi-finals last Monday.

Thereafter ImbasaPrimaryhandedElundi-ni Primary a 3-1 defeat in the finals.

Fans saw Imbasa Primary overcomingSamuel Nongogo Primary (New Brighton) 4-2in Port Elizabeth eliminations semi-finals on

Wednesday.Imbasa Primary became Port Elizabeth’s

undisputed champions when they delivered awell-deserved 4-1 win to Ben Nyathi Primary(KwaZakhele) in the finals at NdzondeleloHigh School Grounds.

Zanoxolo Primary School U/13 Girls teamplays against theUitenhagewinner. Since oth-er schoolsdidnotprepare theirgirls teams,Za-noxolo Primary were declared Port Elizabethchampions.

In their road to the finals, ZanoxoloPrimarydefeated ImbasaPrimary 4-3 on penalties aftertheyplayedtoagoallessdrawintheregulationtime of their semi-finals. Zanoxolo Primarythumped Elundini Primary 4-0 in the finals.

Imbasa Primary School Soccer U/13 Teamplays in SASFANMB finals

< Imbasa Primary team with their Head Coach Mbeko Vincent Solo. PHOTO: SELBY MADIKANE

NCEBA DLADLA

DEFENDINGAbsa Premiership championsKaizer Chiefs will be coming to face ChippaUnited at Nelson Mandela Bay stadium intheir opening league match of the seasonthis Sunday.

No matter what happens to the boys fromNaturena when they lock horns with Mar-itzburg United, also in defence of the MTN8 title in Johannesburg tonight, the muchawaited clash with the Chilli Boys is whatnew coach Steve Khompela would likely beinterested in.

How Khompela fields his team tonightwould be affected more by how he would bestarting his major assignment of defendingthe elite Premier Soccer League title.

“This is the match we must win at allcosts. Playing against Chippa Unitedthere’s never a dull moment. Fans must ex-pect the humdinger. We know that they’llbe coming with their A game but we wantto promise them that they have a mountainto climb,” Chiefs spokesperson Vina Mapo-sa said.

Maposa believes that head coach SteveKhompela would not want to come and losein the opening match and in defence of theleague title.

He said the boys had enough time to geland find winning combinations in their offseason matches.

Chiefs, he said, would be coming to PortElizabeth to stamp their authority from thestart “like we did last season.”

It is, however, a known fact that it is very

difficult to overcome the Chilli Boys athome. Buoyed by the return of head coachRoger Sikhakhane and the depth in thesquad that includesMikeMayambela, Lera-to Manzini and Robin Rhode to mention buta few, Club Chief Operations Officer (COO)Lukanyo Mzinzi believes the team is readyto face any eventuality.

“We respect Chiefs as the big team andthe league champions. But that’s where itends. On Sunday we’ll be going out to showthemwe are the bulls in our kraal. Our headcoach likes to lead so expect an attackingfootball that will ensure that Chiefs run aft-er the ball,” said Mzinzi.

The two teams, however, called fans tocome out in numbers and enjoy football andthe festivities they’ll be bringing to thematch.

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