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THE community of Mzamba nowhave a safe crossing to access ba-sic services following the officialopening of the Mzamba Bridge lastFriday at the Mzamba River, Mbi-

zana.

The bridge was officially launched by Aus-tria-based NPO Build Collective togetherwith Carinthia University of Applied Sci-ence.

Marlene Wagner, Project Manager from

Build Collective, said that as a non-profit or-ganisation for architecture and development,they have been working on school develop-ment in the area when the community ap-proached them with the need for the bridge.

“We teamed up with Carinthia Universityfrom Austria and with engineers from Switz-erland and South Africa, with labour doneby volunteers from Europe and communitymembers from locations around the catch-ment of the Mzamba River,” said Wagner.

The 140m long bridge has a 66m spanwidthand is supported by 15m high pylons.

“It is mainly a steel suspension bridge with

two steel pylons and two steel ropes that arecarrying the foundation.

The whole project took three years to com-plete with several steps involved includingfundraising, formation of the steering com-mittee and the building of the concrete foun-dation for the bridge.

One of the volunteers from the community,who is also excited about the new suspensionbridge, is Phakamani Ngeleka.

“As a community member from MzambaMouth, I am very happy about this bridge be-cause when the river is flooded we cannotcross to the other side which has most of the

basic services including schools, clinics andshops,” said Ngeleka.

He said that sometimes they used a boat butduring bad weather conditions that is also im-possible.

To make sure that the bridge is protectedfrom being vandalized for the steel market,Ngeleka said the steering community willdraft a plan on ways to make sure that thebridge is sustained for the benefit of manycoming generations.

He added that the project has also equippedcommunity members with new skills as theywere part of its construction.

Safe crossing forpeopleSafe crossing forpeopleofMzambaofMzamba

Mzamba Mouth community members making use of the newly launched suspension bridge at Mzamba River. PHOTO:AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

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UMKOMISHINALA wamapolisa kwiPhondoleMpuma Kapa u-Lieutenant-General CeliweBintauvakaliseukuxhelekaumphefumlokuku-qubha kwamalungu enkonzo yesipolisa ety-waleni ingakumbi ootata. Uthe into embindakakhulu kukuba emva kokuba umntu ezitshizekanobom ngotywala uthatha izigqibo ezingat-shongo khona.

“Siyazi amalungu ethu anoxanduva oluninzilweentsapho ezinkulu nezininzi kananjalo kod-wa ibe imali ingekho nto leyo ithi ikhokelele ek-ubeniumntuathathe izingqibo ezingalunganga.Uthe okuqubha etywaleni kwamalungu abo ku-thi kukhokelele ezintweni ezininzi ezifana nok-uzibulala okanye umntu abulale umlinganewakhe nosapho maxa wambi.Lo kaBinta ukuthethe oku ngelixa endwen-

dwele kwidolophu yaseMthatha kwiveki esi-su-kakuyo.Uqhubewathingathiamalunguenkon-zoyesipolisaangathandaukuzisondezaecawenikunasezikroxweni kuba loo nto ingathi ibe sisi-sombululo kwiingxaki abajongene nazo. “Kub-alulekile futhi ukuba umntu ayithethe ingxakiyakhe kuba izolo soze lifane nenamhlanje”, ut-shilo.Uthe okuzityintya kanobomngotywala kuthi

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ethundezwabutywala.Ubhenelekwiicawauku-ba zibeke amalungu wabo emithandazweniukuzeahlukanenelishwangushalithi lichapha-zele iimpilo zawo kwakunye neentsapho.Ethetha oku nje uBinta umhlokolokazi

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inyakaelishumieyadlulayoemvakokubaabap-hathi bomyeni wayo bohluleka ukuthathaummpunangonawayebikileukubaumgrogrisangokumdubula xa sele ezitshize ngeenyembezizomlungu. Emveni kokuba ebikile waphindawafika nommpu umyeni wakhe wadubula lenkosikazi waba naye sezidubula wasweleka,ngethamsanqa yasinda le nkosikazi.Emva kokuphumelela eli tyala le nkosikazi

ibe izibeka ethubeni lokuba ifumane isambasemali eyi R5. 8 million yomonzakalo kumpha-thiswa wamapolisa.

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SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

STREET cleaners in Elliot are up in armsafter having to work without payment forthree months. The cleaners, who work fora company called Silver Stars and are allfrom the areas surrounding Ugie, say theyhave not been paid since June.

The 100 workers also say the manage-ment of the company, which is based inQueenstown, is no longer answering theirtelephone calls after promising to deposit

the owed money into their accounts.“We have been phoning them to inquire

about ourmoney, but they are playing hideand seek,” one of the workers, NosiphoFakentweni, said.“It is really affecting us because we do

have responsibilities and our children areat school.“If we don’t get paid at work, how are we

going to pay their fees at school?“Our landlords are also fighting with us

over our rent even though we are facedwith this problem. But they are right be-

cause no one will allow you to stay on hisor her premises without paying rent.”She said they were still cleaning the

township even though they were not beingpaid because they hoped that one day theywould be paid their money.On Wednesday, (October 7) the workers

took to the streets in Ugie and addressedtheir concerns to the mayor of Sakhisizwe.A woman who is in a managerial posi-

tion in the company, named Fezeka butwho refused to give her surname, said shehad no comment about the matter, stating

it was beyond her control because theworkers had taken it to the Office of thePresidency.“Yes you are right if you say I’m one of

the managers of the company, so I cannotanswer anything. That’s right,” she said,putting down the phone.Fakentweni confirmed they had written

to the office of the presidency, but said theyhad not yet received a response.Attempts to get theOffice of the Presiden-

cy, as well as the mayor of Sakhisizwe, tocomment on the matter were fruitless.

Cleaners fume overworkingwithout pay

AN incorrect name was stated in thecaptionofaphotopublishedwith theSi-yayinqoba article on Thursday, Sep-tember 3, entitled “HIV finished myfamily”.Thewomaninthephotographwasin-

correctlyidentifiedasPhumlaGqojana.She is not PhumlaGqojana.Wewish toextend our sincere apologies for the er-ror and any inconvencience caused.

Incorrect namepublishedwith photo

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

THE attempt to extend King Buyelekhaya Dal-indyebo’s bail has been postponed to tomorrow,October 14 by the Mthatha High Court.

Today, October 13, Mthatha High Court wasexpected to hear the king ofAbaThembu’s appli-cation for an extension of his bail but the courtcould no proceed with the application.According to theking’s spokesperson,Mfundo

Mtirara, the application is expected to takeplace

tomorrow because the state is still filing theirdocuments of opposing the application. Dal-indyebo is out on R6 000 bail.Followinghis failure to appeal the jail term

in the Supreme Court of Appeal, Dalindyebois moving forward to appeal in the Constitu-tional Court appealing the judgment of theSupreme Court of Appeal which gave him 12years imprisonment.He is due to start his jail term on Friday,

October 16 if his application fails as, on Octo-ber 1, hewas given 14 days to report to prison.

King’sbail extensiondelayed

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SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

ABATHEMBUKing Buyelekhaya Dalindye-bo’s son, Azenathi (23), is the right personto take over the kingship if his father goesto jail, the king’s aunt claims.

NongenileMadlaminiNyoka is the young-er sister of Buyelekhaya’s mother and shewas present during the initial stages of Buy-elekhaya and No-College’s marriage.

No-College is the mother of Prince Azena-thiwho is fromNgqamakhwe and is a judge.

Nyoka said there was no question aboutAzenathi’s birth and he was the right manto take over his father’s reins as he was hisrightful son, whom Dalindyebo got in mar-riage (ngumntwana wokhukho).

Nyoka was responding to the anti-Dal-indyebo camp, which disputed Azenathi’sclaim to take over the kingship, stating thathis birth status was questionable and theywanted to check rigorously if he was notconceived by his mother before marriage.

The group, who call themselves the Ngan-gelizwe Royal Family, dismissed the nomi-

nation of Azenathi as the next AbaThembuking.

At a meeting last Sunday (October 11) atBumbane Great Place, AmaDlomo agreedthat Azenathi should take over if his fatherfailed in his battle in the ConstitutionalCourt to avoid serving 12 years in jail.

Despite that pronouncement, the Ngen-gelizwe Royal Family maintained that itwas it which had a full mandate to debate,among other things, tradition and customsassociated with the kingdom of AbaThem-bu, including succession.

Nyoka said they could argue about otherthings, but Azenathi becoming his father’ssuccessor was the right thing.

“All theDlomosknow that even thosewhoare trying to dispute the issue of the king-ship know the truth and custom cannotchange. Azenathi is the person to take thethrone.”

She said Azenathi’s mother had been wel-comed by AmaDlomo as a wife of theirs andshe had never come there pregnant. She hadbecome pregnant when she was already thewife of Buyelekhaya.

“She carried the spear of welcoming inthe royal house and all the necessary meas-ures took place to welcome her home andAzenathi was born,” Nyoka said.

King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo’s fate willdepend on the decision of the ConstitutionalCourt following the judgment of the Su-preme Court of Appeal which gave him 12years’ imprisonment for crimes includingarson, assault with intent to cause grievousbodily harm, culpable homicide and defeat-ing the ends of justice.

‘Azenathi is eligibletobeking’

No-College Dalindyebo and her son, Prince Azenathi Dalindyebo, in jovial mood. Azenathi isexpected to take over the kingdom of AbaThembu. PHOTOS: SIM MDLEDLE

Nongenile Nyoka stressed that Azenathi is aright person to take over his father.

AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

IBEKWEngokusesikweni iNkosiyaseKhimbilieFlagstaff uNkosi Masiko Gwebindlala Sigcaukwiveki ephelileyo nalapho bekukho iiNkosizeelali ezingqongileyo nekuquka kuzo iNkosiyamaBhala uNkosi Mwelo Nonkonyana, iNko-si yaseNtlezi uNkosi Njinga Sigcau.

Olubeko nebelubanjelwe kwilali yaseMxho-pho ngolweSine, luthe lwenziwa ngokusem-thethweni bubukho kukaKumkani wamaM-pondo aseQaukeni uKumkani Zanozuko Sig-cau kunye noMphathiswa wemicimbiyooRhulumente basekuhlaleni kunye nemic-imbi yeeNkosi uMnu Fikile Xasa.

UMphathiswa uXasa uvakalise uchuluman-conanjengokoevakalisaukubakwiiNkosiezin-inzi athe wazimasa ukugcotywa kwazo kut-shanjezingabantuabatshantoleyoathe ibonak-alisa uphuhliso olukhawulezileyo ekuhlaleni.

“IINkosi ziya zibancinci kulemihla kwayelonto inikisa ithemba lokubauphuhliso luzaku-za ngokukhawuleza eluntwini nanjengoko ab-antu abatsha benendlela zokuqhagamshelananeendawo ezinophuhliso,” utshilo uMphathis-wa.

Ngethuba iKumkani yaseQaukeni ithe nayoyamkhuthaza uNkosi Gwebinkundla ngokuthiasebenzisanenabahlali kunyenabasebekarhu-lumente khonukuze isizwe sakhe suvune ntokuye.

“Xa uyinkokheli yabantu kufuneka uwama-mele amacebiso abanye abantu kodwa unga-wathathi onkengobaabanyebangakulahlekisabaphinde bavuye xa ulahleka,” utshilo uKum-kani.

INkosi ebibekwa ithe yanikezwa impepham-vume nguMphathiswa nabonakalisa ukubaubukhosi bakhe busemthethweni kwaye buy-aziwa ngurhulumente.

Ibekwe ngokusesikweni iNkosi yaseKhimbili

INkosi ebibekwa kwiveki ephelileyo eKhimbili uNkosi Masiko Gwebinkundla Sigcau engqongweyiKumkani yaseQaukeni uKumkani Zanozuko Sigcau kunye neNkosi yamaBhala uNkosi MweloNonkonyana. PHOTO:AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

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AYANDA MILLISA MADIKIZELA

NORTH Pondoland residents have occupiedland in Mizizi locality after they felt that theland was wrongfully used by the CommunalProperty Association (CPA).

The residents claim that the CPA is de-stroying their land by turning it into a sandmining area for their own benefit.The residents from three locations, being

Mfolozi, Hlolweni and Tyeni, were moved

from the land many years ago to make wayfor the sugarcane plantation that was estab-lished in the area. After the project was laterterminated, the land was left with no activeprojects.Elliot Mditshwa, Chairperson of Mizizi De-

velopment Forum, said that they have decid-ed to re-occupy their land that they gave outfor development but is now being vandalized.“While the land was still used as a sugar-

cane plantation,many jobswere createdmak-ing it easy for the locals to feed their familieswhile working locally and building schools,community halls and constructing accessroads,” said Mditshwa.He added that they are calling for the inter-vention of the provincial government be-cause even though they are occupying their

land, they are protecting it hoping that itcould be used for developmental projects forthe benefit of everyone.Traditional leader Chief Jongamampondo

Mditshwa said that the problems there start-ed when some government officials inter-vened showing interest in its developmentwhile giving ownership of the land to thewrong people.“They formed the CPA with the wrong

claimants to the landwho vandalized the landso badly that the offices and buildings thatwere there were destroyed,” said ChiefMditshwa.He said that hewillmeetwith the communi-

ty and convince them to save the land for de-velopment ashe is already in talkswithpoten-tial funders to develop this piece of land.

Residents re-occupy their vandalized land

Elliot Mditshwa, Chairperson for ImiziziDevelopment Forum. PHOTO:AYANDA MADIKIZELA

REPORTER

FARMERS in the rural village ofNtshiqo, be-tween Tsolo and Maclear, are working withthe Institute ofNaturalResourcesNPC (INR)to test rainwater harvesting techniques intheir homestead gardens.

This participatory action research is partof a Water Research Commission-fundedproject entitled: “Up-scaling of rainwaterharvesting and conservation on communalcrop and rangeland through integrated cropand livestock production for increasedwateruse productivity” (Project no. K5/2177/4/).The project is investigatinghowrainwater

harvesting and water conservation can im-prove crop and livestock water productivity.Water productivity is a valuable tool for

measuring how effectively water is used. Itmeasures the total beneficial outputs in rela-tion to the amount of water used. This is par-ticularly important because South Africa isa semi-arid and water-scarce country.“Rainwater harvesting is any system that

collects and stores water; for example, a damis a rainwater harvesting system, as is a roofwater collection tank (‘JoJo’ tank),” says JonMcCosh, project leader, Institute of NaturalResources.“The basic elements of a rainwater har-

vesting system are a collection area (for ex-ample, a water catchment or a roof top) anda storage area (a dam or a tank),” saysMcCosh.With so many different techniques to

choose from, the researchers sat down withfarmers and discussed the different optionsavailable to them and selected the preferredtechnique in participation with the farmers.The farmers chose contour rainwater har-

vesting, probably because this is what theyare familiarwith.Workingwith four farmersto start with, they implementedmicro-catch-ment (in-field) rainwaterharvestingandcon-servation. This means that the field itself is

used to collect and store rainwater. Contoursare spaced at two- to three-metre intervals onthe slope. The space between the contoursgenerates runoff when it rains. The watercollects on the contours and goes into thesoil, where plant roots can use it.To test the effect of rainwater harvesting

on yield, farmers divided their fields andplanted a portion of the field the way theywould normally plant (the control) and theother portion was planted using the rainwa-ter harvesting technique. Results from thefirst year of research show promise.Baweni Sokhombela, whose garden is

0.2ha in size, almost doubled his yields by in-troducing rainwater harvesting (440kg ofmaize comparedwith 264kgusinghisnormalpractice – this is equivalent to an increasefrom 1.2t/ha to 2.0 t/ha).Gloria Quvile farms 0.3ha of land near her

homestead.Herharvest from the controlwas1 500kg, while her harvest from the rainwa-ter harvesting treatment was 2 300kg. This isequivalent to an increase from 5.1 t/ha to7.8t/ha, an increase of more than 50%.“Unfortunately not all farmers got good re-

sults. Weeding fields is difficult work andsome farmers couldn’t control weeds ade-quately, resulting in poor yields. At a farm-ers’ day, successful farmers showed off theirfields and shared their experiences withrainwater harvesting. This generated a greatamount of interest with farmers and thefarmerswhodidnot get good resultswere en-couraged to try again, said Mr Nongcawulaof the Eastern Cape Department of Rural De-velopment and Agrarian Reform.“The results from the first year of research

suggest that rainwater harvesting in fieldscan dramatically increase crop yields forfarmers. By intercropping with fodderplants, soil health is improved and there isadditional feed available for livestock inwin-ter. Our research will continue to double-check that the results from the first year arerepeatable,” says McCosh.

Rainwater harvesting shows promise inNtshiqo

Gloria Quvile (centre) shows off a cob with Mr Nongcawula of the Eastern Cape Department ofRural Development and Agrarian Reform (left) and Nokulunga Gasa of the INR.PHOTO: SUPPLIED

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

IMPORTANT infrastructure improvementprogrammes in the Amathole District Mu-nicipality have been suspended only tem-porarily, because of a shortage of funds,Eastern Cape Premier Phumulo Masuallehas said.

He was responding to questions from theDA leader in the legislature, Athol Trollip,regarding the suspension of the projects.Masualle said some projects had pro-

gressed faster than expected and this hadresulted in the municipality spending its2014/15 Municipal Infrastructure Grant al-location before the end of the financial year(April 15).This had affected the 2015/16 budget and

plans and requests had been made to theprovincial Treasury and the CooperativeGovernance and Traditional Affairs Depart-ment for additional funds, but no positivefeedback had been received.“The projects are not terminated, they are

suspended for awhile until themunicipality

is in a better financial state to continue withthem.“Service providers already appointed will

continue with projects until they have beencompleted,” he said.

Masualle clearsair onsuspensionofAmatholeprojects

Premier Phumulo Masualle. PHOTO:SIM MDLEDLE

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SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

IN an attempt to end the senseless killing of po-lice officers, the police in the Mthatha clusterconducted a prayer service at the Multi-Pur-pose Centre in Ngangelizwe last Thursday.

The police were joined in the prayer serviceby various faith organisations, which appealedto God to send His holy spirit so that the killingof police officers would come to an end.

The prayer was a response to last year’s sta-tistics on police killings, which showed that 63officers nationwide had been killed on duty. Ofthose 63, 12 occurred in the Eastern Cape.

King Sabatha Dalindyebo mayor NonkolisoNgqongwa was among the dignitaries who at-

tended the event.In her address, Ngqongwa said the whole na-

tion needed to talk to God to stop the senselesskilling of police officers throughout the coun-try because they were the protectors of society.

She sent words of condolence to the familiesof the victims, saying their blood would waterthe freedom from crime which was comingsoon. “Like it or not, we cannot hand over thiscountry to the criminals. The communitiesneed to work with the police in reporting thecriminals among them.

“We need to support them because the hopesof our society are on their shoulders,” Ngqong-wa said.

Provincial commissioner Lieutenant-Gener-al Celiwe Binta said that by conducting such

campaigns they were trying to mobilise com-munities to join hands in the fight against po-lice killings.

She said the Eastern Cape was big, but thepolice were trying their level best to reducecrime throughout the province.

“For instance, recently in crime reductionstatistics we were number two,” Binta said.

She revealed that they had established strat-egies to train their members to use the toolsthey had available to protect themselves.

Binta agreed that some police officers disap-pointed them because they also became in-volved in criminal activities.

“We don’t smile for such officers. They willharvest the results of being involved in crimi-nality,” she said.

Prayer to stopkillingofpoliceofficers

Provincial Commissioner Celiwe Binta and KSD Mayor NonkolisoNgqongwa flanked by SAPS members and leaders of different faithorganizations. PHOTO: SIM MDLEDLE

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

A MAN (21) has been arrested in connec-tion with the rape of a mentally disabledwoman (35) in Khonqeni locality, Xhon-gorha administrative area, Mthatha.

The man was arrested at his home lastSaturday (October 10).

Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colo-nel Mzukisi Fatyela said the woman hadbeen raped on the night of October 7while she was sleeping in her room.

The man had forcefully entered herhouse while she was sleeping alone andraped her.

“The victim knew the suspect and lat-er revealed his identity to the police,”Fatyela said.

“The police traced him and he wasfound sleeping at his home and was ar-rested.

The man is expected to appear beforethe Bityi Periodical Court soon.

Meanwhile a 37- year-old man hasbeen arrested following the death of a 31-year-old man who was stabbed to deathduring a quarrel.

The incident took place last Sunday inthe Xhwili location in Mthatha.

After the incident the suspect ranaway, but following thorough investi-gation by the police the man was arrest-ed at the weekend.

Manarrestedafter rape ofmentallydisabledwoman

Members of the SAPS during the prayer service in Ngangelizwe,Mthatha. PHOTO: SIM MDLEDLE

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IN an attempt to improve environ-mental management, the Wildlifeand Environment Society of SouthAfrica (Wessa) has forged a partner-ship with schools throughout SouthAfrica with the introduction of a pro-gramme called Wessa Eco-Schools.

The aim of the programme was to

encourage schools to improve theirenvironmental management, saidAndiswa Mbanjwa of Wessa. Thismessage was expected to spread tothe surrounding communities andget people really “caring for theearth”.

Wessa worked recently with Qum-bu Village Junior Secondary Schoolteachers and pupils to clean up theMzeke River.

The river has been neglected by thecommunity and as a result the wateris no longer consumable.

Wessa, teachers and pupils spentan entire day cleaning the riverbanks, finding abandoned animalcarcasses and many otherthings thatwere dirtying the environment andspoiling the beauty of the river.

The provincial Department of Wa-ter and Sanitation contributed plas-

tic bags, gloves and rakes. TeacherNombulelo Lokhwe said the river’spoor state was due to the lack of aproper refuse collection strategy andthe absence of public toilets.

She questioned the Mhlontlo mu-nicipality about its support in thismatter.

“The municipality needs to take anactive role, by building public toiletsor perhaps a fence around the river,”

she suggested.She expressed gratitude to Wessa

and all involved in the initiative.“There should more programmes

like this until the whole of societygets its hands dirty in cleaning theenvironment.”

She said the pupils had learnt a lotin this initiative and the importanceof caring for the environment wouldremain in their minds.

Pupils roll up sleeves for environment

Qumbe Village learners cleaning at Mzeke River in Qumbu. INSERT: Learners carrying the carcass of a goat that was found in the river bank of Mzeke river. PHOTOS: SIM MDLEDLE

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

PARENTS of autistic childrenhave called on the Department ofEducation to build a school inMthatha to accommodate theirchildren as at present they have totravel long distances to find suchschools.

Autistic pupils are easily dis-tracted and need special classes,with one-on-one teaching.

The only government school ofthis type in the Eastern Cape is theQuest Special School in Port Eliza-beth.

Nomaza Nkohla, the leader ofthe OR Tambo Autism SpectrumDisorder task team, said the ab-sence of a school for the autisticin Mthatha was badly affectingchildren in the area who had thisdisorder.

She said the Quest school inPort Elizabeth was always full,which resulted in a long waitinglist and diminished the chances of

autistic children getting a decenteducation.

She said the school in Port Eliza-beth needed people who could af-ford to go there, but those in therural towns of Transkei found itdifficult to send their childrenthere because of the distance andcost.

Nkohla said they had held meet-ings with the department andraised the matter.

“We need a government schoolthat will accommodate advan-taged and disadvantaged childrenwho have autism throughout theTranskei.

“And it must have a boarding fa-cility so that such children do nothave to travel when they attendschool.

“We would love the school tohave an occupational therapist,dietitian and speech therapist,”she said.

Nkohla called on all parentswith autistic children to come for-ward and join the battle to get the

school.“We need to ascertain the num-

ber of parents who have such chil-dren and submit it to the depart-ment in an endeavour to make ourproposal strong,” she said.

Bandlakazi Bambeni of Mthat-ha was the first parent to write aletter to the national Departmentof Education appealing to it tobuild a school in the area.

Bambeni mentioned the distan-ces she had to travel to look for aschool in Port Elizabeth for hereight-year-old child.

“Yes there are private schools,but they are very expensive, aboutR3 200 a month, and they are notin Umtata but in East London.That money is too much, especial-ly for a single parent and unem-ployed person like me”, she said.Express is in possession of

e-mails in which Bambeni com-municated with the national De-partment of Education. She wasreferred to the provincial depart-ment.

Parents call for autism school

Nomaza Nkohla has called for a school for autistic children in Mthatha.PHOTO:SIM MDLEDLE

REPORTER

WALTER Sisulu University(WSU) celebrated its students’hard work and dedication byawarding 734 degrees, diplomasand certificates to deserved gradu-ands during the institution’s 2015September graduation ceremonyat the Mthatha campus.

An overwhelming majority of

418 women were capped, 321 menreceived the honours, and 31 of thetotal graduated cum laude.

A total of nine PhDs, 25 master’sand 39 honours degrees wereawarded.

Six of the PhDs were conferredupon students in the university’seducational sciences faculty andthe health sciences faculty re-ceived the three remaining acco-lades.

In May, WSU had a total of 4 534graduands and seven doctoral de-grees.

The total number of WSU gradu-ates for this year is therefore 5 273,with the total number of doctoraldegrees conferred standing at 16.

This was a good number of doc-toral degrees compared with pre-vious years, despite the fact thatthe university was an institutionin transition, where doctoral de-

grees/PhDs were only offered ineducation and health sciences, theuniversity said.

The university also announcedthat the Department of Higher Ed-ucation and Training had just ap-proved the offering of doctoral de-grees in natural sciences at the in-stitution.

“The university is to make asubmission to the Higher Educa-tion Qualifications Committee

and then to the South AfricanQualifications Authority for reg-istration of the qualification,” theuniversity said in a statement.

“So, those of you who want to doPhDs in natural sciences at WSU,the opportunity for that is comingsoon.

“Watch this space. This produc-tion trend will definitely improvethe financial situation at WSU inthe years to come.”

WSUhonoursmore than700graduands

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NCEBA DLADLA

GAUTENG-based Port Elizabeth gospel mu-sic producer, Sizwe Zako, has unearthed newtalent from the dungeons of Libode in Nyan-deni in the Transkei.

This musical treasure with the hoarsevoice, isOzayoNdamase (26). His album“Ndi-celeNtonye,” showsZako’s golden touch, sim-ilarly brought by great stars like RebeccaMalope and Vuyo Mokoena.It is through Sizwe Zako Production that

music fans were blessed by Eastern Capegroups like Bantu Church of Christ, theLord’s Comforters and Youth with Missionfrom where artists such as Veliswa Skeyi,Malibongwe Gcwabe and Khanyisa – to men-tion but few – had been able to cut their teeth.Through Ozayo – who was born with de-

formed feet and who is blind and could notspeak properly for a long time – Zako has dis-covered a true worshipper with great talent.Meeting Ozayo was by sheer chance, remi-

nisced Zako.He said hewas assistingwith theBattle of the Municipalities Talent Search inMthatha. When they were packing up toleave, Ozayo came and pleaded that they gavehim a chance.“He blew us away. I realised that this was

real talent. Ozayo told me that for him it wasnot about the competition. He asked me torecord him, because there was this thing boil-ing inside him which wanted to get out. Andthe rest, as they say, is history,” said Zakoproudly.Zako used “the best engineers” to work on

Ozayo’s sound and he is happy with the finalproduct – great praise and worship songssung with sincerity by someone who did not

just sing, according to Zako, but who also isa believer who trusts in God.“I have never been to school. I was born

with a disability. I suffered from fits and bothmy parents (Magadi and Sicelo Ndamase)died while I was still young,” said Ozayo, theeighth of nine children. He said he startedsinging from an early age.He said he joined the Assemblies of God

Church and sang from hearing other peoplesing. People paid him R20 to buy bread.“I want to thank God for tat’ uSizwe Zako.

The Lord bless him,” he said.He added that he wanted to thank Bishop

Tsepho Machea too, for giving him his firstbreak at cutting a CD.He sold the music himself until he heard

of the talent search competition which gavehim the break to sell his music in all musicstores in the country.

OzayoNdamasegoesnational

Gospel musician Ozayo Ndamase’s faith shinesthrough his music. PHOTO:NCEBA DLADLA

SIMBONGILE MDLEDLE

THE two boys who call themselves the Ghet-to Colleagues, from Qweqwe locality inMthatha, are among the nominees for thenewly established Eastern Cape MusicAwards (Ecmas) which take place on Satur-day, October 17, at the East London Multi-Purpose Centre.

The two passionate youngsters are Sim-phiwe Nomgcana and Bongani Manengela

who met at the Zamukulungisa High inQweqwe. They saw that they each had talentwhen they were preparing for a beauty pag-eant at the school and then joined hands.They established the kwaito group called

Ghetto Colleagues which keeps kwaito en-thusiasts on their toes whenever they per-form. Since the inception of the group in 2005they have dazzled Mthatha audiences withtheir silky dancing skills.Simphiwe said it was a great honour to be

nominated for the Ecmas awards and thatwas why they were appealing to people tovote for them.“Ït is our intention to keep the flag of this

town high, but to do that we will need oursupporters and people throughout the East-ern Cape to vote for us,” he said. The group

has already released two albums, includingtheir red-hot track calledTea Time, and theyare preparing the next album.They were nominated for Best Kwaito

group. To vote, sms ECMAS best kwaitoghetto-colleagues to sms line 33459.Artists that have been nominated include

Zahara (Country Girl) and Nathi (Nomvula)with their new albums.The artistswho are going to performat the

awards are Nathi, Zahara, Vusi Nova, Ifani,Mobi Dixon, Berita, Yves, RobieMalinga, Si-phokazi, Kholeka, Bethusile Mcinga, En-dumisweni Gospel Group, Buthovuthela,MaviM, Zoe Daka, Navada, DJ Bino, Amaw-ele Ka-Mamtshawe, Sinomusa CulturalGroup as well as Ecmas hip hop and gospelensembles.

Mthatha kwaito stars need your vote

Simphiwe Nomcgana is one of the GhettoColleagues who are among the EC MusicAwards nominees. PHOTO:SIM MDLEDLE

BABALWA NDLANYA

BATHABILE Pikela from the Ndabakazi lo-cality in Butterworth is ready to spread theword of God with his gospel singing.

Pikela, who uses his voice to heal brokenhearts, has just released his second CD, ti-tled Bhala Paulos.He is a member of the Uniting Presbeteri-

an Church in South Africa (Irhabe).“I grew up in a Christian home and that

is why I ended up singing gospel,” he said.“My CD consists of 16 tracks and there

is a bonus track called Jeremiya Masigod-uke.”He said his music was traditional and

speaks to all people.He has won three traditional gospel

awards.He said he had worked on his second al-

bumwith producer SosoMdingi and his en-gineer was Kamva Mcinga, the son of gos-pel artist Lusanda Mcinga.

Giving a word of advice to the youth,Pikela said it was important that theymake choices that would pave the way toa better life for them.He said alcohol and drugs were danger-

ous so they should stay away from them be-cause they would destroy their future.

Gospelartist spreads thewordofGod

Bathabile Pikela spread his wings to preach thegospel through his music. PHOTO:SUPPLIED

There is light at the end of the tunnelYou know what, when you see someone

who looks like he or she is seized by alcoholor wrong practices in this world, don’t throwin the towel over that particular person. It’sjust that God is still paving his or her wayif not moulding his or her part.There are people out there who are regard-

ed as useless, but later on you will see suchpeople againmoving forward in life, their ap-pearance total changed.We had the astonishment of our lives re-

cently when we met a woman who used todrink as if there was no tomorrow.

She had a professional Phuza Face, be-causewayengathi ulala khona avukele kubo.Now she is a decent woman and she is mar-ried to a very handsome guy who met her inthesemnandi places. Uyabona ke ukuba kuy-abhaqeka nakwezi ndawo nangona nje aban-inzi bengazi thandi ncam.Jonga ngoku u-sisters ufumene umyeni.

Inene umntu xa engakafumani umntu wak-he kuye kungathi akasoze amfumane and ab-eyinto nje nawe ozixelela ukuba soze itshint-

she. Siyakubelelelawethu ntombi, uwugcineumendo wakho kuba unqabile and ke kuthi-wa emendweni kuyanyanyezelwa. Obvious-ly, uyivile intlupheko yaphaya etywaleni ne-kulapho uzibona sele unendoda ekumark(leyo) nokuba ubungafuni ndoda umoshe njengokusela utywala bayo ekuthingileyo.

Asidingi kwazi imbali yenuBafethu everybody in thisExpress landhas

his or her own secrets, which we don’t wantto hear about.Kusikhathaze kakhulu okuthethwe ngom-

nye umjita kwi-vrou yomnye umjita nekuca-ca ukuba babehambisana ngexesha lobutshababo mara ngoku akuthethi ukuthi maka-hambe esima ngaye apha ebantwini ukubawayenjani ngelixa babesathandana.Loo nto leyomfethu ibifunawena nentlizi-

yo yakho ungabe uhamba uthetha ngo-vrouwenye i-outie. Even nalo wakho zikhona iz-into awazenzayo namanye amadoda ebun-tombini bakhe mara abahambi bethethangaye. Loo nto yaziwa ngabo neentliziyo za-bo. Uvile ke boet? Asiyithandanga daai ding.

Danger of faking GodYou can blind us in this Express land but

you will never blind God above. Why boys?It’s just that there are people who act in

front of our eyes as living pure lives but be-hind the scenes they are Satan uqobo lwak-he.You can even blind the people by wearing

a nice church uniform if not a suit and carry-ing a very advanced Bible with the word ofGod, but if ukholo is not in your heart or ifit is not a calling you are just playing andGod will reveal that. Okay, here is a story.There was a guy whom we lived with at

Khwezi township in UTA a couple of yearsago. Actually he was a yard-mate.The guy claimed he had been saved and he

prayed about half of the night - even the mid-dle of the night.Okay, we had no problem with that even

though his action was a bit tormenting be-cause he always disturbed us in our slumber.But ke nothing esasingayenza the guy wasaccepted the calling and ethetha nenkosiyakhe. Every weekend he was not in UTA,

stating that he was going to spread the wordof God in other places particularly Idutywa.Okay son of God. You remember we said Godwill reveal if your ways are not as we seewhen you are in front of us.In January we met the man again pushing

the word of God very strongly in UTA.As you know we travel a lot and sithanda

ubumnandi.We took a journey to Idutywa where he

used to visit, stating that he had a lot of fol-lowers there. OW!Siya eclubini ke thina xa sifika endaweni

nekulapho sifumana khona iindaba. Sihlelisibetha okuncane wangena in this clubu-pastor as we normally used to call him.He was with beauties of the soil in jeans

and miniskirts and he looked like sefikileapha kwinyembezi zikaVictoria kuba ebese-thethela phezulu ephatha kunqabula aphin-de aphathe izinqa zaba sisi.Wadlala pastor! We asked to the woman

next to us ukuba liyamazi na. Lavele lasikha-thalisa, xa lisithi linxila lalapha eli, qha lih-lala eMthatha. HOW! Kanti unjanji?

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Lo mdlalo ugaleleka kanye ngexeshaiBucks iphantsi koxinizelelo olulungu-mangaliso ngenxeni yokuba iyivule kakubi

ka-khulu isizini yeNFD League. Eli qelalase-Mthatha lidlale imidlalo emithandat-hu kweli nqanaba, kodwa alaphumelelenamnye umdlalo. Ndaweni yaloo nto libe-thiwe kwemithathu laza ladlala ntanganyekwe-minye emithathu.Kungokunje Amathol’amnyama asahleli

emsileni kuluhlu lwamaqela eNFD Leaguengamanqaku amathathu, kwaye akubon-akali kuzakuba lula kweli qela ukuba lisu-ke kule ndawo ingekhontle ngale mpelaveki.

IBucks ukuba ifuna ukubetha eliqela li-kwindawo yesibini (Witbank Spurs) kuluh-lu lwamaqela eli nqanaba kuza kufunekaiwasebenzise onke amaqhinga enawo, nan-jengoko umdlalo kulindeleke ukuba ube-kwizinga eliphezulu.Eny’into eza kubaluleka kwiqela laseM-

thatha kukuba liwasebenzise ngobuchuleamathuba eliwafumanayo ebaleni, kubaAmathol’ amnyama kuninzi lwemidlaloedlulileyo aphose amathuba acacileyo

nto leyo ebangela ibekanti awakaphumele-

li nomnye umdlalo xa kunamhlanje.Lo mdlalo weBucks kwakunye neSpurs

kulindeleke ukuba uqale ngecala emvenikwentsimbi yesithathu kwibala iMthathaStadium.Iziphumo ze-ABC Motsepe League zem-

pela veki: Morning Stars 2 vs 3 Matta Mi-lan, FC Buffalo 1 vs 2 Zimbane Killers,Young Ideas 0 vs 0 Future Tigers, FC Bees3 vs 3 SUBS, Mthatha City 3 vs 1 Lion City,FC Elliot 1 vs 1 Tornado kunye neHighbury1 vs 0 Emperors.

Ingaba iBucks izakuphinde ibethelweekhayakwakhona?

ANELE RAZIYA

IVENKILE ethengisa izixhobo zokwakhakwidolophu yaseDutywa, uBuild it ku-lin-deleke ukuba ibambe itumente yebholaekhatywayo yabaneminyaka engaphantsikweshumi elinesithathu ngomhla wama-shumi mabini anesitha-thu kule nyangakwibala iNgumbela Stadium kwakule dol-

ophu.

Kule midlalo kuthiwa onke amaqelaasekuhlaleni amkelekile ukuba athatheinxaxheba kuyo nanjengoko injongo yayoikukukhuthaza ulutsha kwezemidlalo.Iqela elifuna ukuba yinxalenye yale

midlalo malibhalise kule venkile enga-ka-fiki umhla washumi amabini anesi-that-

hu kule nyanga imiyo.Kule midlalo kuyalelwa ukuba iqela

ngalinye kufuneka lize nabadlali abalish-umi elinesihlanu kwakunye nomqe-qeshiwalo, kwaye abadlali baphathe iza-ifkethizabo zokuzalwa.Abadlali abanga-kwazanga ukwenza

njalo bazakuvinjwa ithuba lokuba yinxal-enye yemidlalo.

Le tumente kulindeleke ukuba idlalweigqitywe kwangolo suku lunye, kuba lemidlalo icwangciselwe olu suku nto leyoethetha ukuba amaqela azakukhiqana.Amaqela aqhube kakuhle kolu khuphis-

wano kulindeleke ukuba afumane ama-bhaso ancumisayo, kwaye noluntu luyam-enywa ukuba luze kunika inkxaso kulemidlalo.

Kuzakubanjwa imidlalo yetumente yebhola ekhatywayo eDutywa Stadium