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IN an attempt to providequality health care, par-ticularly in the formerTranskei, the EasternCape Health Departmenthas spent more than R14-

million in upgrading the oldMthatha Regional Hospital (for-merly known as Mthatha GeneralHospital), with the aim of improv-ing service delivery at the facilityand reducing mortality.

Other hospitals that will followsoon in this initiative include StElizabeth Hospital in Lusikisiki,Butterworth Hospital, MthathaRegional and Dora Nginza Hospi-tal in Port Elizabeth.The upgrading includes a 23-bed

neonatal unit, which was namedafter the late Professor ZandisileNazo, who played a cardinal rolein establishing the unit at theMthatha Regional Hospital.

Other renovated units includethe gyneacology ward, the oncolo-gy clinic and a fully-fledged inter-nal medical services unit, whichwill address challenges regardingcommunicable and non-communi-cable diseases.The opening of the neonatal unit

will address neonatal mortality,as well as overcrowding.Speaking during the official

opening and handing over of thenewly renovated wards, HealthMEC Dr Pumza Dyantyi said theevent honoured the needs of peo-

ple and fulfilled the promise ofquality health care.

“It shows that this is a caringgovernment which at all timesmaintains the bettering of healthservices to restore the dignity ofthe people,” she said.With the renovations they

wanted to focus more on the hos-pitals that gave them “sleeplessnights”, such as Mthatha Region-al, St Elizabeth, Butterworth andDora Nginza.“We need to bring down the

mortality rates in the hospitals ofthe Eastern Cape,” Dyantyi said.She also gave the assurance

that she would deliver on her

promise to open a neonatal unitat the Madwaleni Hospital inMqanduli.Dyantyi lambasted the people

who continued to destroy existingresources if they were dissatis-fied with the government.She appealed to the community

of OR Tambo to protect the re-sources.

ECHEALTHDEPARTMENT:UPGRADINGOFHOSPITALS

Millions spent to curbmortality inhospitals

MEC Pumza Dyantyi (at the back, left) in a newly­renovated neonatal unit with mothers who came to give birth in therenovated ward. PHOTO: SIM MDLEDLE

“We need to bringdown themortalityrates in thehospitals of theEastern Cape.”­ DR PUMZA DYANTYI,

HEALTH MEC

AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

SELE kusweleke amakhwenkwe amabini em-va kokuqala kolwaluko lwasebusika ePhon-dweni.

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eMthatha.“:Siyacela kubazali kunye nabahlali ngoku-

ba-nzi ukuba basoloko beqhubeka bewaham-bela amabhoma ngeli xesha kwaye basebenzi-se inkqubo yokujonga iingcibi kunye nama-khankatha asemthethweni khon’ukuze silwenobundlobongela obubangelwa ngamabhomaangekho mthethweni,” utshilo uXasa.

Kusenjalo, amagosa karhulumente eseben-zisananabakwantsasanaathebhazalalaeham-ba ejonga amabhoma ukuthintela ukunyukakwamanani okusweleka kwabakhwetha.

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Uhambise wathi, kubanjwe iingcibi ezinta-thu nezijongene nezityholo zokwalusa ngo-kungekhomthethweni. “Amagosawethuatheahlangula abakhwetha abafikileyo ekhulwinikwindawo yaseNyandeni, eMhlontlo kunyenaseBuffalo City, kwavalwa amabhomaamahlanu kwaze kwangeniswa abakhwethaabalishumi elinesihlanu kwisibhedlela sas-eNtlaza,” uhambise watsho uNgam.

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BUNTU GOTYWA

SONKE Gender Justice said it is disap-pointed and disgusted by constant reportsof rapes in communities.

It said evenmore disturbing is the rapeof and violence against children and theelderly.Thiscomesafteryetanotherelderlyciti-

zen was raped in her home, this time inMsendo village in Centane.

A 48-year-old man was arrested by But-terworth police for the alleged rape of the76-year-old woman.The woman had been sleeping alone

when the suspect sneaked into her house,police spokesperson Captain JacksonMa-natha said. The victim felt someone throt-tlingherandtriedtocryout forassistance.

“The suspect kept on throttling her andthen raped her,” he said.After he had raped her, the suspect had

sat next to the victim and switched on thelights, he said.

It was then that she had been able toidentify the suspect as a neighbour.

Sonke Gender Justice spokesperson,Patrick Godana, said it was unfortunatethat after all the efforts made to fight gen-der-based violence, old people were stillnot safe in their own communities.“We will continue fighting for the pro-

tection of the dignity of women becausethemenwhokeepdoing this arenot doingit in the name of all men,” he said.“We can only take solace from the fact

that people are able to come forward andreport these incidents. We will make surethat people like this face the full force ofjustice.”

He said that in the comingweeks Sonkeplanned toworkcloselywithotherorgani-sations that had the samemission of fight-ing gender-based violence, to strengthenawareness.

He also said many rapists were abe towalk freebecauseof the lenienceof the lawtowards them.

Victims also gave up hope because oflong court processes.

The suspect is expected to appear incourt this week.

SonkeGenderJusticewants law tobe strict on rapists

KUSEKHO umothuko kubahlali baseMsob-omvueGcuwaemvakwesehlosokudlwengul-wa kwentombazana ene 12 leminyaka yindo-da enama 31 eminyaka ubudala.Ingxelo ephuma emapoliseni ithi, esi sehlo

senzekekwindawoyaseMsobomvukwiicawaezimbini ezidlulileyo.Intombazana le ibikunye nodade wayo

omncincingethubaumrhanelwaengenakwi-khaya layo malunga nesiqingatha emvakwentsimbi yeshumi ngentseni.

Umrhanelwa uthumele usisi wexhobaomncinci kwivenkile yasekuhlaleni ngethu-

ba elungiselela ukuzithathela ngenkani ison-do kule ntombazanyana.

Umrhanelwa uye wagrogrisa ixhoba eliwandula ngokulidlwengula.

Intombazana iye yabikela unina ngesi seh-lo nowenze njalo ukuwusa lo mba kumapoli-sa aseGcuwa.

Le ndoda ibanjwe ngamapolisa ecandeloeli-jongene nobuNdlobongela kusapho,uKhuseleko lwabantwana kunye nokuHlu-kunyezwangesondo.Kulindeleke ukuba ive-le kwakhona kwinkundla kamantyi eGcuwaemva kokuvela kancinci ngolwesithathu

weveki ephelileyo.Iqumrhu elijongene nokulwa ukuhluku-

nyezwa ngokwesini, iSonke Gender Justiceithi

iphoxekile ukuba kusekho izehlo eziloluhlobo ekuhlaleni.

Isithethi seli qumrhu uPatrick Godanauthi nangona ezi ngxelo zibuhlungu uluntukufuneka lubenaso isibindi sokuya nga-phambili kwizehlo ezilolu hlobo. Uthi amasi-ko nezithethe zakwaNtu awahambisani nok-uhlukunyezwa kwabantwana ngesondo.– BUNTU GOTYWA

Iza kuvela enkundleni indoda edlwengule intwazana ene­12 leminyaka

REPORTER

A HAWKS sting operation has landed a RoadAccident Fund (RAF) syndicate behind bars.

Since February 2016, at least 32 suspectswere pounced on by members of the Hawks’commercial crime unit in the Eastern Cape,after they allegedly submitted a combinedvalue of fraudulent claims worth more thanR7 million.Last week Thursday, four members of the

same syndicate were arrested in Flagstaff aft-er they tried their luck to swindle theRAFoutof about R2 million for a false accident which

allegedly happened in June 2007.The RAF was about to pay out the claims

when investigations revealed that the fourwere not even involved in the accident. Threeother suspects who were supposed to be ar-rested with these four are now deceased.The four whose ages ranges between 35 and

60 years old respectively, were arrested andreleased on warning the same day. They willappear again before the Flagstaff Magistratecourt on 4 July 2016.The cases against the other 28 suspects are

currently ongoing before theMthatha, Port StJohns and Bizana Magistrate courts.The possibility of further arrests cannot be

ruled out.Hawks National Head Lieutenant General

Mthandazo Ntlemeza has hailed the opera-tion and warned that the Hawks are on theheels of similar syndicates nationwide.

“We are continuing to make a huge differ-ence in this country and our efforts are pay-ing dividends.

“We have broken the back of a major syndi-cate and we have our sights on other similarsyndicates countrywide.

“Fraudsters and corruption remain ourmain targets, and it’s only a matter of timebefore we come knocking on more doors,”said Lieutenant General Ntlemeza.

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THE Department of Health has set aside R94-million for the construction of accommoda-tion for health profressionals throughout theprovince, Health MEC, Pumza Dyantyi saidduring a visit to the Mthatha Regional Hospi-tal last Tuesday.

TheEasternCape has faced a problemof un-derstaffing in health centres, particularly inthe rural areas, because the doctors and nurs-eswho shouldwork there, did not have a placeto stay and as a result refused to be allocatedto remote areas.

It was also a problem in the urban areas,with nurses or trainee nurses forced to rentprivate accommodation.

However, Dyantyi vowed that this wouldcome to an end and no health professionalwould not have accommodation near theplace where they worked.

“We have already started building accom-modation for health professionals (a nurses’home) at a new clinic in Mbhongweni loca-tion, Mbizana,” she said.

“The clinicwas officiallyhandedover to thecommunity and the nurses who stay there.

“In this financial year we need to focus onensuring that when we build a clinic our firstphase will be accommodation.

“We are planning on building more accom-modation in the other health centres.

“Everywhere we go in this province we aregoing to build accommodation facilities forhealth professionals,” Dyantyi said.

Millions forhealthprofessionals’ accommodation

MEC Pumza Dyantyi. PHOTO: SIM MDLEDLE

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

THE industrious work shown by the investi-gating team which made arrests less than aweek after the kidnapping, rape and murderof Port St Johns resident, Pam Burns, hascome with rewards.

Brigadier Nompumelelo Majikijela of thePort St Johns cluster has issued certificatesof appreciation for the hardwork done by themembers of the organised crime unit and aprivate investigation company that helpedtracked down Burns’s car.

All three suspects are behind bars.

Burns was kidnapped from her home inSecond Beach, Port St Johns, and her bodywas discovered at the Rosedale location inMthatha.

Her carwas found in another part ofMthat-ha. It has also come to light that money waswithdrawn from her account.

One transaction was done at an ATM in Li-bode and another transaction took place inEast London.

One suspect was arrested when he wasfound driving Burns’s car and two days laterother accused were arrested.

Majikijela said that besides this case the

task team had also been investigating otherseriouscasesandhadmanagedtocrackthem.

“Theydeservea tokenofappreciation fromourmanagement as they had sleepless nightsensuring that the alleged perpetrators of thecrime were arrested.”

Shesaid the teamhadalsoplayedacardinalrole in the arrest of the masterminds whowere behind the loss of R2.3 million from thePort St Johns municipality.

“We managed to arrest two people in thiscaseandrecovered therest of themoney,” shesaid. “The perpetrators had already usedR90 000.

“Now we are still working tirelessly look-ing for another suspect who is still at large.”

Majikijela expressed her gratitude tomem-bers of the community who had cooperatedwith the police during the investigation ofBurns’s case.

Meanwhile the case against the three menwas postponed to July 7 by the Port St JohnsMagistrate’s Court last week in order for theresidential addresses of all the accused to beverified.

Siyabulela Mposwa, 20, Maphelo Bholo, 21,and Sive Mphetho, 24, are facing charges ofhouse robbery, kidnapping, rapeandmurder.

Port St Johnsmurder case investigating team rewarded

AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

AS part of the Department of Social Develop-ment’s plan to curb drug and alcohol abuseleading to violence, theDepartment, togetherwith the Council of Churches held a prayermeeting in Port St Johns last Thursday.

The prayer, held at Mtambane location inPort St Johns, was held in the build up to theInternational Day against DrugAbuse and Il-licit Trafficking on June 26.

Port St JohnsmayorPhikolomziLanga, So-cial DevelopmentMEC,Nancy Sihlwayi, pro-vincial executive of the Council of Churches,various religious groups and the communityattended the prayer.

“The government is commemorating thisday to raise awareness of the major problemthat alcohol abuse and illicit drugs representto society as awhole, especially to young peo-ple and we decided to start with this prayerfor divine intervention,” said the MEC.

The prayer started with a visit to a localtavern to raise awareness of key factors in-cluding adhering to closing times and coop-eration with the police.

“Accurate and comprehensive statisticsfrom the South African Council of Alcohol-ismandDrugDependency (SANCA)have re-vealed that substance abuse is unacceptablyon the rise and as the government alone, wecannot defeat this social ill. We have there-fore called upon the council of churches tocome on board,” she said.

Langa said that as a centre of tourism, thissmall town needs to work very hard to be asafe destination and this prayer event willhelp them achieve that.

“We can do everthing as the council inPort St Johns municipality to develop ourtown, but without God on our side, we can-not achieve anything, so we are grateful tosocial development for bringing this serviceto us,” said Langa.

Prayeragainst drugabuseheld

=MEC for Social Development, Nancy Sihlwayi(with red scarf), with members of the Council ofChurches in Port St Johns last Thursday duringthe prayer against drug abuse.

PHOTO: AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

< Different denominations gathered in Port StJohns for the prayer session in commemorationof the International Day against Drug Abuseand Illicit Trafficking last Thursday.

PHOTO: AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

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BUNTU GOTYWA

THE introduction of small busi-ness enterprise in the country hasawaken many young entrepre-neurs who are ready to make theirmark.

Two youngsters from Mthathaalso have their sights on playingtheir role in the economic growthof the country.The pupils’ passion for business

has birthed Aqua TK bottled wa-ter.The St John’s College Grade 11

pupils said they entered the fast-growing water supply market,having witnessed the health lifes-tyle and economic imbalance inthe country.Kanya Mngqibisa (16) and

Thando Phantsi (17) said they kepttheir area small to ensure they re-alised their business idea.But not settling for just that,

these two business-minded young-sters already said they have theirsights on the international mar-

ket.“The idea came for us after

checking the balance betweenhealth and economic growth ofthe country,” Phantsi said.“We saw that one of the critical

things at the moment is the lifes-tyle people choose to live and thepoverty which is caused by eco-nomic imbalance and that’swhere the idea of supplying bot-tled water was born.“It’s a very fast-growing busi-

ness and we saw the need to bringin mineral water so that it willboost healthy living and the econ-omy as well,” he said.Mngqibisa said so far they are

supplying some businessesaround Mthatha, including StJohn’s College, but are still busywith certification in order to ex-pand their business to big super-markets.“As soon as we are done with all

the relevant certification we willbe able to penetrate the marketdeeper,” he said.The economic imbalance in the

country needs entrepreneurs whoare motivated to take their busi-ness thinking further, he added.The two said that after studying

the markets they realised the lackof black people in the field of bev-erages and jumped at the opportu-nity to venture into somethingnot many youths would common-ly see as economically worth-while.Although school takes much of

their time, they are not complain-ing about the progress the busi-ness has made so far, having beenestablished only four months ago.

Youngentrepreneursmaking theirmove

Business partners Kanya Mngqibisa and Thando Phantsi show their product, Aqua TK, which they plan on expandinginternationally within 10 years. PHOTO: BUNTU GOTYWA

“The idea came forus after checkingthe balancebetween healthand the economicgrowth of thecountry”­ THANDO PHANTSI

BUNTU GOTYWA

LEADING Eastern Cape tertiary institu-tions have joined hands with the MnqumaLocal Municipality in an effort to bringabout the municipality’s economic revival.

Walter Sisulu University, Fort Hare, Nel-son Mandela Metropolitan University, KingHintsa TVET and Fort Cox College of Agri-culture launched a partnership agreementwith the municipality last week.The partnership is expected to benefit resi-

dents of the municipality through skills de-velopment and fighting youth unemploy-ment and poverty.Mnquma mayor, Baba Ganjana, said the

need to identify critical skills that must betransferred to the people had brought aboutthe idea of working with the institutions.“The aim is to grow the economyof themu-

nicipality and without skills that is not pos-sible and we do not want to go outside thepro-vince when we have institutions righthere,” he said.“Our economic efforts will receive major

skills improvements through the partner-ship with our institutions.“The most important thing is to equip our

people from theground up in orderfor us to move for-ward.“We have agricul-

ture that needs to bedeveloped and wehave tourism and

heritage assets which need to be advancedby people with skills that could be accessiblethrough these institutions.”Themunicipality is also on a drive to revi-

talise factories that once boosted the econo-my of the municipality.It said it does notwant to depend on outsid-

ers for the economic development of the areaandwants to encourage the youth in particu-lar to use the opportunities.Fort Hare Management and Commerce

Dean, Ntombovuyo Wayi, said for them thiswas part of community engagement wherethe institution moved away from teachingand engaged in socio-economic develop-ment.“Training and capacity development are

important because skills have been amongthe things identified by the municipality asshortages in the area,” Wayi said.“As we celebrate 100 years, we will use the

experience gained over the years to makesure there is service delivery through train-ing.“Wewill also do research to determinemu-

nicipal priorities and hope in future we willalso be able to offer bursaries and certificatecourses to municipal people and council-lors,” Wayi said.

Varsities andMqumaMunicipalitypartner for economic growth

NMMU’s ProfessorJohnny de Lange givesa presentation at thelaunch of the partner­ship agreementbetween tertiaryinstitutions and theMnquma Municipality.PHOTO: BUNTUGOTYWA

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

THE project manager of the South Afri-can Institute of Chartered Accounts (Sai-ca), Karin Iten, has confirmed that theyare expecting about 800 of the EasternCape’s top-performing matriculants tospend time at Thuthuka DevelopmentCamps.The main objective of these camps is to

improve poor high school pass rates inthe province.According to Karin, this year’s camps

will focus on improving mathemathics,financial literacy accounting, Englishand Science.“With proficiencies in subjects like

mathematics and science far below inter-national standards, it is essential thatparents, teachers, school governing bod-

ies, government and the private sector doeverything in their power to address thequality of passes that high schoollearners achieve in these subjects,” shesaid.The initiative of camps during school

holidays is the brainchild of the Depart-ment of Basic Education in partnershipwith the annual Thuthuka DevelopmentCamps.Established in 2005, the Thuthuka De-

velopment Camps were created to helpovercome barriers of transformationwithin the accountancy profession.“The success of these camps has ena-

bled us to highlight our role in assistingand improving the educational standardsof disadvantaged learners in South Afri-ca,” said Gugu Makhanya, Saica’s seniorexecutive for transformation and growth.

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CHRIS Hani District Municipality communi-ties will finally get running water through theNcora bulk water project, which will serve 29villages.

President Jacob Zuma officially launchedthe Ncora water treatment works in Ncora atthe Intsika Yethu Municipality on Friday lastweek.

To date, more than R220-million has beenspent on the project, which is expected to deliv-er water to more than 13 000 households andmore than 75 000 people.

Zuma mentioned the drought that hadplagued the country, and particularly the

Eastern Cape, and urged the people of theChris Hani district to save water and protectthis kind of infrastructure during protest ac-tions.

“Water is life. The completion of the Ncorabulk water project is an important milestonefor the people of this area,” he said.

“Our people need access to water in everycorner of the country. We take this seriouslyas the government.

“We have been opening water infrastruc-ture projects all over the country on a continu-ous basis as we improve access to this basicnecessity.”

Zuma said the completion of the project wasan assurance by the government that it wasmoving ahead with the improvement of resi-

dents’ quality of life.Water and Sanitation Minister, Nomvula

Mokonyane said the development of such awater scheme was not just about creating jobs,but about water security and enabling commu-nities to have access to clean water.

“We are elated it has been now been handedover to the president for the official handoverto the communities through the district mu-nicipality and neighbouring municipalities,”Mokonyane said.

“The good thing is that it will provide waterto not fewer than 100 villages that never hadaccess.

“But also important is that the governmenthas found it proper to put in resources to thetune of about R600-million, with the municipal

infrastructure grant to the tune of R300 mil-lion, precisely because water is life.

“We are moving South Africa forward in in-creasing the quality of water but also increas-ing the quality of water to those who use todrink water with animals,” Monkonyane said.

Chris Hani district mayor, Mxolisi Koyosaid the district was facing a backlog in waterinfrastructure.

He said the project was also improving theinvestment of infrastructure in rural areas.

“These backlogs are going to be reduced tre-mendously with the availability of a reliablesource of this magnitude because most of ourvillages get water from underground and fromsprings, which are not reliable when there isdrought,” Koyo said.

President launcheswaterandsanitationworks inNcora

< President Jacob Zuma officially launches the water treatment works in Ncora with Water andSanitation Minister Nomvula Monkonyane. PHOTO: BUNTU GOTYWA

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AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

FORMER learners from the RavenscroftJunior Secondary School in Chibini loca-tion, Ntabankulu joined forces and plough-ed back in their area by donating 300schools shoes to all the learners in thisschool.

One of the organisers, Ndumiso Tshinga-na said that after seeing the bad conditionof the shoes of some of the learners, theydecided to come to their rescue.

“We started a WhatsApp group as the lo-cal youth. The idea was met with enthusi-asm by everyone and we started goingaround looking for donations with somebuying the shoes out of their own pocketsand we managed to collect 300 pairs for allthe learners in the school,” said Tshingana,who now works as a princil at Zimele Jun-ior Secondary School in Flagstaff.

He said that they wanted to encourage theyoung learners to go to school and not bediscouraged by the destitute conditionsthey find themselves in.

“As former learners from that school

who are now lucky to have jobs, we had toplough back in our area and there was nobetter way to do so than developing theyoungsters through education,” he added.

The shoes were handed over last week atthe school in front of the parents, learners,teachers and the community at large, com-ing to witness what they said was the firstof its kind.

“I am very grateful to the youth for sucha gesture from the former learners whogave out 300 pairs of shoes to all ourlearners. It’s a rare thing, because in mostcases only a few learners are identified,and not all the learners in a school. Maythe Lord bless them,” said school princi-pal, Nomangesi Nobangaye.

Somila Songxi, a learner was also excitedabout this donation. “I am so grateful toour brothers and sisters who had an ideato develop their area by giving out schoolshoes to all the learners. We will now alllook beautiful.”

Youthgivesback to their former school

School shoes were handed out to learners inNtabankulu by former learners. PHOTO:SUPPLIED

CHWAYITA BANGANI

NGENJONGO yokunika ulwazi oluphan-galeleyo ngesifo sokuwa esaziwa ngoku-ba kukuxhuzula, iSebe lezeMfundo kwisi-thili saseLusikisiki belibambe iphulo lo-kufundisa abazali nabafundi besikolosamabanga aphantsi iMkhankomo esise-Lusikisiki ngesifo sokuwa kwakunye no-phazamiseko engqondweni.

Isikolo saseMkhankomo sichazwenjengesona sikolo sinomahluko nanjeng-oko sisamkela nawuphi na umntwana.

Inqununu yesikolo uZuko Lurhwenguuthi kubo eli phulo lincedise kakhulunanjengo isikolo sabo sinabantwana

abaphila nezi zifo.ULurhwengu umemelele abazali ukuba

mabase abantwana esikolweni nokubabaphila nezi zifo, nanjengoko umgaqo-siseko weli usitsho ukuba wonke umn-twana unelungelo lemfundo.

Isithethi seSebe leMfundo kwisithilisaseLusikisiki uMambali Gontsana uthiabazali mabajonge abantwana yaye umza-li angabi neentloni xa efumanisa ukubaumntwana wakhe unesifo esikumila kun-

je.UMfundo Mendwana osuka kwiSebe le-

zempilo ugxininise ukuba abantwana ma-banikwe uthando bathathwe njengabantubonke yaye banikwe amalungelo abo nez-idingo zabo. UMendwana uthi owona no-bangela wesi sifo luxinzelelo oluthi lubek-ho kwimithambo yengqondo noluthi lu-bangele ukuxhuzula.

Kanti abafundi besikolo saseMkhanko-mo babonakalise ukulilangazelela eliphulo. Umfundi webanga lesixhenxe uLo-na Thumbuka uthi ufunde lukhulu kweli-phulo.

“Ndifunde ukuba kufuneka banakeke-lwe abantwana abaphila nesi sifo yayebangacalu-calulwa” utshilo u Lona.

Kwangale mini inye, iqumrhu elizime-leyo nelingajonganga ngeniso elibizwa i-Golden Gates elizinze ePietermaritzburglinikezele ngeziqhusheki (sanitary tow-els) kumantombazana eskolo.

Othethela iqumrhu uManqoba Shangeuthi bakwiphulo lokujikeleza izikolo

ezingqonge umasipala wasekuhlaleniIngquza Hill benikezela ngeziqhusheki.

Uthi bakwenza oku ngenjongo yoku-khuthaza imfundo.

Bafundiswe ngesifo sokuwa nemithelela yaso

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

THE recently crowned IBO world champi-on, Ngangelizwe-born Simphiwe “Larha-still” Khonco sat down with the Express toshare the story of his bumpy road fromKwaNomagazi eBack in Ngangelizwe,Mthatha, to where he became a successfuland respected boxer worldwide, despitegrowing up in a dangerous part of ekasi.

He said the road to success had not beeneasy and there had been many challenges.

He grew up in an area which was well-known for its high crime rate, but Sim-phiwe managed to pave his way to successand avoid being involved in crime and alco-hol abuse.

He took a decision to rather focus onsport, which made him what he is today.

He took up soccer and boxing at Mkhathi-ni Primary School.

“We played soccer in the dusty streets ofKwaNomagazi and I played for two footballteams, Ghetto and Naughty Boys,” he said.

“I played for the U-12 teams, but as thetime went by, the interest in boxing devel-oped and dominated my heart.

“The reason for this was that I liked totravel a lot and boxing was the only sportthat kept its players travelling around.

“In 1999 I fully committed to boxing andwas coached by Mthetho ‘Pressure Cooker’Dumezweni.

“I was very young then, but I grew up un-der his hands until I turned professional.

“I saw things coming slowly in the sta-ble, like not getting enough fights, andthen I decided to join Madoda ‘One moreTime’ Dyonase’s stable,” he said.

Konco got his first South African titlebelt under Dyonase and then went on towin the WBO Pan Africa and IBO Inter-continental titles.

From the stable of Dyonase, Konco re-cently moved to Gauteng to join CollinNathan’s stable, called Hotbox BoxingClub, and in the space of three months hesecured a world title.

He knocked out his homeboy from theEastern Cape, Siyabonga Siyo, and be-came the IBO world champion.

“If you are a boxer, your goal is to be-come a world champion and God blessedme with that talent,” he said.

“I really appreciate that – without thesupport from my Heavenly Father, thepeople of OR Tambo and the provincial De-partment of Sport, I would never have be-come the world champion,” Khonco said.

He urged the youth to avoid findingthemselves in jail because of wrongdoingsor challenges in life.

“You must choose what you want in lifeso that you can attain happiness at theend.

“Young people must also put educationfirst,” he said.

He still wants to go back to school to fin-ish his matric after his boxing career isover and take care of his two children,Njongo and Libhongo.

Mthatha’sgoldenboycrowned IBOworld champ

Simphiwe Khonco. PHOTO:SIM MDLEDLE

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7NewsJune 30, 2016

Uvolwethu Express

ASit is impossible to envisage justhowmuch theworldwill change in the next10 to20years,andashistoryconsistent-lyportraystous,parentsneedtobecau-tious of making well-intentioned mis-takes that will bring about negativeconsequences for children.Responsible parents, for instance,

raised their children in the era of self-esteem campaigns and child-centeredparenting.Words like happy and confi-dent should be blanket goals for the en-tire generation of kids. But thanks tothis age of information, some parents,though there are still challenges, areable to deepen the discussion aboutwhat exactly parents should be teach-ing modern-day kids in order for themto become well-adjusted adults.Beyond the concepts of self-esteem

andacademicsuccess, therearecertainskills that might help children leadhealthier, more satisfying lives.For example, Angela Lee Duck-

worth, a renowned psychologist fromthe University of Pennsylvania, saidthe concept of “grit” has become a ma-jor buzzword for educating and raisingkids,which can be summedup as “pas-sionandpersistence for very long-termgoals.”Shealso elucidates that after years of

studying people in all forms of settings,atall ages, grit emergedas theoneclearcharacteristic for success.More than IQ, social intelligence, at-

tractiveness, physical health, or eventalent, this concept supersedes all. Par-ents need to build a strong work ethic,

or instilnon-cognitive,character-basedskills like perseverance, tenacity, andself-discipline.Children should be taught how their

brains respond to challenges, and thattheirability to learnorbegoodat some-thing is not predetermined.Parents should praise them with

great enthusiasm for their effort, nottheir natural intelligence or anythingout of their control.More than anything, if parents want

their kids to be grittier, they have tolead, for instance embracing failurewith a positive attitude, modelling re-silience,andsharinghowthey’vefailedand overcome those failures.Meanwhile, at infancy stage, if a

child has a decent grasp of the basicskills,heorshewillhaveaneasiertran-sition when entering kindergarten.Children at this stage do not need to

be arithmetic geniuses, but it is helpfulif they can count numbers from 1 to 10.Some children entering the kindergar-ten stage are able to recognise shapeslike circles, squares, triangles and rec-tangles. And somekids can sort objectslike buttons by size, shape and colour.It is therefore important for parents

to keep a close eye on their childrenwhen reaching different stages of theirlifetime. They should provide properguidance so that children are not ledastray.It shouldbeborne inmind thatwhen

children are brought into thisworld byparentstheyaretabularasa.Therefore,the environment in which they are na-

tured or reared determines what theyopt to do in future. That is why it is im-perative that parents create environ-ments conducive for children to learn.Parents themselves should remain

aloof from behaviours thatmay have anegative impacton the livesof childrenas they grow up.Children at early age learn most of

thetimebyobservingwithinthefamilystructure. For the learning process tobe effective within the family, parentsshould ensure that they do away withgenderdiscriminationwhenallocatingtasks for their children.Of course traditionally, passing one

generation to another, it was knownthat boys and girls were not co-termi-nus, therefore they couldnot be treatedthe same. The manner in which theyarerearedisextremelydifferent. In tra-ditional rural settings, girls’ chores areclosely linkedwith the kitchen, where-as boy chores are associated with thekraal. This happens often when chil-dren are coming of age.Inasmuch as children need to be ori-

ented on the basic skills, the issue ofgender disparity should also be takeninto account.Children need to be taught how to

dress, feed and wash themselves at avery early age. If such skills are embed-ded in them they are able to get a senseof self-reliance in the absence of theirparents. Formore information, contacttheUmtata ChildAbuseResourceCen-tre on 047 531 1103 or email ucarc@in-tekom.co.za.

UMTATACHILDABUSERESOURCECENTRE: SIKHANYISO TONISEANDSIXOLILE SITHELO

Significanceof capacitating childrenonbasic skills

PEOPLE LIKEUS

Senior manager: OR Tambo Social Development, Nomsa Titus with Social Development MECNancy Sihlwayi having a chat last week in Port St Johns during a drug awareness campaign.

King Sabata Dalindyebo local municipality employees dressed up in school uniform in commem­oration of the Youth month, June, last week. PHOTOS: AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

Learners from Bolana JSS in Port St Johns attending the prayer session last Thursday.From the Eastern Cape Council of Churches, Rev Bongani Skiet leading the prayer session inPort St Johns last Thursday.

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8 SportJune 30, 2016Uvolwethu Express

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

THE National Lottery has donatedR300 000 to the rural Guqaza JuniorSecondary School in the Buthongwe-ni administrative area, Ngqeleni, forsport development at the school andin the area at large.

The donation followed an applica-tion for sports equipment made bythe school last year.

Of the R300 000, R50 000 was allocat-ed to buy sports equipment for allcodes that exist at the school, whileR250 000 was allocated to level thesport grounds which are not far fromthe school.

Principal Ndumiso Nqiwa ex-

pressed his gratitude for what Lottohad done for the school.

He said the initiative would benefitnot only the pupils, but also the com-munity at large, as the groundswould also be used by local peopleand those from surrounding areas.

School governing body chairper-son, Nolingene Sogoni said Lotto’sdonation would bring a huge changeto the area as it would open up job op-portunities, because locals wouldhave a chance to sell their productsduring sports games.

“It will also ease the abuse of alco-hol and drugs because young peoplewill have something to keep thembusy,” Sogoni said.

Guqaza is well known in the sport-

ing fraternity in the province be-cause it was the school that repre-sented OR Tambo during the McDo-nald’s U-14 tournament and camesecond.

Recently the school also participat-ed in the Danone tournament andwas knocked out by present champi-ons, Barkerville School, from AlfredNzo.

The Eastern Cape manager of theNational Lotteries Commission, Sar-ah Hugow, said the grants wereaimed at improving the situation inthe most impoverished areas.

“In the 2015 financial year the Na-tional Lottery issued grants totallingR231-million in the Eastern Cape on-ly,” she said.

Rural school receives sports equipment

Guqaza Junior Secondary School pupils with their teachers after receiving sports equipment from the National Lottery.PHOTO: SIM MDLEDLE

ANELE RAZIYA

USIBUSISO Mapompo obed-lalela iqela loMthatha Bucksubeke phantsi intambo kwib-hola ekhatywayo kwivekiephelileyo.

UMapompo udlalele eliqelausukela kwinqanaba le-SABLeague kunye ne ABC MotsepeLeague uzokuma kwiNationalFirst Division League.

Ukhe wancedisa njengose-kela mqeqeshi ka-Julius Dubexeshikweni bedlala kula man-qanaba.

UMthatha Bucks ubuleleigalelo lalomdlali odlalele eliq-ela ixesha elide.

Amathol’amnyama kulinde-leke ukuba akhangele abadlaliabatsha usukela namhlanje uy-okuma ngomhla wesithathu.Kwibala iRotary StadiumiBucks izakusindleka (iT-rails)uqala ngentsimbi yesib-hozo namhlanje.

Ingqonyela yeBucks, uLungaTukute uthi ngabadlali abazal-we phakathi konyaka1994/95/96 abavumelekileyoukuba bathathe inxaxheba.

“Singavuya kakhulu ukubaabadlali abasakhulayo bangezangobuninzi eRotary Stadium,kuba sizakube sikhangelaabanesakhono kwibholaekhatywayo” utshilo.

IBucks ikhangela abadlali abatsha

USibusiso Mapompo.PHOTO: ANELE RAZIYA

NCEBA DLADLA

THE Eastern Cape Boxing Promot-ers Association took a decision dur-ing an annual general meeting heldat the Chintsa Hotel on the Wild-Coast of the province last week towork together with other stakehold-ers for the resurgence of boxing.

Deputy Secretary of the structureThembalethu Ntuthu said the East-ern Cape – as the Mecca of boxing –needed boxing promoters to work to-gether as a unit; and with otherstakeholders to take boxing to whereit belongs.

He agreed that there were fewerworld champs in the province un-like the olden days when the likes ofWelcome “The Hawk” Ncita andVuyani “The Beast” Bungu andMbulelo “Silent Slayer” Botile wereat the helm.

“Welcome Ncita, Vuyani Bungu

and Mbulelo Botile lifted the flag ofthe province high and we are con-cerned that there was a lull,” Ntuthusaid.

He said, “We have, however, seena little bit of improvement with thelikes of Simphiwe ‘Chain Reaction’Khonco (IBO Mini-flyweight), Xolis-ani ‘Nomeva’ Ndongeni (IBO Light-weight) winning world titles and thelikes of Simphiwe ‘V12’ Vetyeka, Zo-lani ‘Last Born’ Tete and MacbuteSinyabi who were international orinterim title holders on the verge offighting for real world titles”.

According to Ntuthu, in the AGMat Chintsa, they resolved to uniteboxing promoters and to seek spon-sorship to promote boxing.

“We’ll engage the private sector tosponsor boxing and government toincrease funding for thesport to takeits rightful place as the number onesport in the province,” Ntuthu said.

He added that they would also en-

gage the SABC to look into thebroadcasting rights of fights to bene-fit promoters who were involved inpromoting boxing.

Their other concern, Ntuthu said,was the problem of drugs and alco-hol abuse among boxers. “This is ahuge problem which we want to ad-dress. It concerns us that our greatboxers lose focus because they fallinto the trap of drug abuse. We wantto engage the services of anti-dopingstructures to curb all kinds of alco-hol and drug abuse.

The EC Boxing Promoters Association struc-ture is:Ayanda Matiti - ChairpersonAndile Bakubaku - Deputy ChairpersonMax Mabuti - SecretaryThembalethu Ntuthu - Vice SecretaryThando Zonke - TreasurerAdditional members were-Phindile MbeleNtsikayesizwe SigcawuXolani JamaniMbulelo Mfama and Sibongile Matiti.

ECboxing promoters take aimat boxing resurgence