By PHUMLANI SAUL

MOTORISTS who use Ponana Tini Road in Khayelitsha, Kariega , are always running late.

This because of cattle that causes traffic on the road daily.

Taxi driver Jwarha Tom (44) from Khayelitsha said she used the road every day and encountered a roadblock caused by cattle.

“They cross the road twice daily. If I miss the roadblock in the morning, I certainly get it on my way home,” she said.

She said more than 49 cattle crossed the road slowly, causing a heavy traffic jam.

Another motorist, Robert Cuba, said he did not mind watching the cattle crossing the road.

“They delay me, but I still enjoy watching them cross the road because I love cattle. My father had a lot of cattle, so I think of my childhood whenever I see them cross the road. I feel for those who may be rushing to work ,” he said.

Thembelani Jobe (26), the herdman who looked after the cattle during the day, said they belonged to his neighbour.

I always make sure the cattle cross the road as soon as possible, but I can’t make them run. I’m grateful to motorists for understanding although some are rude, telling me to keep the cows away from the road,” he said.

Thembelani said that there was no way the cattle could not cross the road as they needed to look for good pasture.

law enforcement spokesman, Wayne Dyason, said he was aware of the complaints about the cattle causing a traffic jam in the area.

“Officers issued a fine and created a service request. They will conduct another inspection and monitor the area. The city’s animal unit has regular operations throughout the metropole to address this challenge and in many cases, animals are impounded.”

in Rugby World Cup quarter-final win over France

By Daily Kasi News Correspondent

The Boks will play their old foe England, who they beat in the 2019 final in Japan, after a performance in the French capital that was nothing short of heroic.

It was a magnificent occasion, well worthy of a final, and the dimwits at World Rugby who three years made the draw ridiculously early should be escorted to the guillotine..

It is criminal that the best teams in the world were sandwiched into one half of the draw and now we have Ireland, the No1 ranked team in the world, and France who are out of the semi-finals.

There can be no occasion in rugby bigger than the host nation of a World Cup going up against the current champions in a play-off and the Boks were thrust on to the back foot from the first whistle by the supercharged French.

With nearly 90 000 of their countrymen screaming them on, the French were virtually unstoppable in the early moments and their prop Cyril Baille surged over the line after just 90 seconds.

The Boks had to respond quickly to avoid being swept away by the blue wave, but not even the most fanatical Bok supporter could have foreseen their team hitting back instantly, and quite magnificently.

Pieter-Steph du Toit had won a turnover soon after the restart, Cobus Reinach kicked it high and handsome, and the ball bounced favourably for Kurt-Lee Arendse to gather and scamper to the line

Manie Libbok steadied South African nerves when he nailed the conversion and it was 7-7 after as many minutes.

The flyhalf minutes later hoisted the ball across field where the ubiquitous Arendse plucked it out of the air and it was centre Damian de Allende who roared to the French line. He was stopped just short, but a few phases later he crashed over for a fantastic Springbok score.

The French thundered back and hooker Peato Mauvaka profited when a quick tap penalty was taken in the Bok 22 and he could not be stopped at the corner flag.

In a match of unrelenting drama, the Boks denied the French the conversion points when Cheslin Kolbe charged down kicker Thomas Ramos.

That left the score at 12-12, but Kolbe had only warmed up and a minute after the restart Jesse Kriel manufactured a perfect grubber kick through the defence for Kolbe to gather and hurtle to the line. Libbok nudged home the conversion to give his team a 19-12 lead.

This match was played at a soaring tempo and the French surged back with a try to hooker Cyril Baille, and after 30 minutes it was locked up at 19-19

A minute before half-time there was a massive moment when Bok bruiser Eben Etzebeth was sin-binned — the Boks’ first card of the tournament — when he accidentally collided high with a French player. As he trudged to the sideline, Thomas Ramos kicked his team into halftime lead.

Just five minutes in to the second half Bok boss Rassie Erasmus rolled the dice when he replaced his halfbacks, introducing Handre Pollard and Faf de Klerk, plus bringing on X-factor lock RG Snyman for Franco Mostert.

But it was France who scored next when 12 minutes into the tensest of halves, the Boks conceded a scrum penalty for Ramos to convert into a 25-19 lead.

It was around this point that referee Ben O’Keefe succumbed to the pressure of the French crowd when he made the awful call to penalise the surging Bok pack for holding on (Kwagga Smith) when it was not the case. They could have scored but for that sabotage from the Kiwi official.

But the New Zealander had to keep his whistle in his pocket when the Boks blasted ever onwards and Etzebeth cruised over the line.

Pollard converted and a minute later kicked a vital long-range penalty to push the Boks into a 29-25 lead with ten minutes to go.

A Ramos penalty pulled France to within a point with seven minutes left, but it was not enough.

BY NOMALUNGELO BOOI

FOR YEARS the gobela was warned to stop bonking the young women who came to him to thwasa. 

But he always ignored the warning – and now he has paid the price. 

WITH THE APPROVAL OF HIS WIFE, RESIDENTS HAVE TRASHED BOTH HIS INDUMBAS. 

Since Monday, the 68-year-old sangoma from Warmer township near Gqeberha, Eastern Cape has been in hiding, running away from the people and the police, who want him to answer for his actions.

His indumba were destroyed and his bones were removed when other sangomas, with the police and some community members, went to his house to confront him about sleeping with a 22-year-old girl who came to him looking for help.

The gobela’s wife said she was happy the people have intervened to rescue her marriage.

“I have always warned him to stop using young women who come to him,” she said.

“This is not the first incident where I had to fight with him over a young woman.”

She said this time it started in June. She said her husband was sleeping in the indumba with the thwasa and she was not allowed to enter.

“He doesn’t sleep with me. Since the beginning of last year, I have not shared the same bed with my husband. 

“He tells me that his ancestors have told him that I bring bad luck into his life so he doesn’t have clients.” 

“It was a bitter pill for me to swallow to have him as a stranger in my house. I hope he will find happiness after police arrest him.”

Themba Maseko, the girl’s father, said their daughter had an ancestral calling to be a sangoma.

“I was hoping she would be happy after honouring her ancestors,” he said. 

Themba said when he first got a message to say his daughter was sleeping with the gobela he didn’t believe it. 

“But my wife went there in March and found him naked, sleeping with my daughter,” he said.

He said he complained to the cops, who said the daughter was not under age or kidnapped and there was no case.

Daily Kasi News spoke to another thwasa who was used in a similar way.

She said the sangoma told her that sleeping with him would make her a strong sangoma and would bring them both luck. 

“I accepted sleeping with him because if I had left him I would be cursed forever,” she said.

Mtimande Ngwenya, of the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities, said they received a complaint from the parents of the young girl. 

“We destroyed the indumba as a warning to bogus sangomas who take advantage of people. We will bring sangomas to book when they do things like this,” said Mtimande.

At the time of going to print, Warmer Police said there was no comment.

BY AZOLA JANUARY

While they have light in their shacks, evil cables lie at their feet like poisonous snakes.

WHILE ELECTRICITY CHASES AWAY THE DARKNESS, IZINYOKA CABLES BRING DEATH!

“We take this risk because we want a better life. We need electricity and RDPs but we’re being ignored,” said Sivuyile Myekeni (25) who lives in Airport Valley squatter camp near Walmer, Gqeberha, Eastern Cape.

“When President Cyril Ramaphosa was here before the elections he didn’t even come to our kasi. He was taken to RDPs . . . but the crisis is here!”

Residents risk their lives every day when they walk over a web of izinyoka lines as they carry buckets of water from the communal tap.

Myekeni said people risk their lives and go into the sub-station.

“They connect the electricity and they don’t think of the explosion. People hire them for different prices but usually it’s about R150 for a connection to a shack,” said Myekeni.

“In 2010, the municipality relocated us here from a flood zone,”
Phumeza Hute (41) told Daily Kasi News.

“Since we got here seven people have been electrocuted. Kids play on the lines and some people trip on them when they’re drunk.”

She said they suggested having the lines go over their shacks.

“But most of the people said no because they feared their shacks would burn down.”

For the past two years, there have been regular protests against poor service delivery and one of the main demands has always been electricity.

“About R100 million is lost every year to izinyoka and we have started programmes to fight them,” said municipal spokesman Mthubanzi Mniki.

We have put electric boxes and poles in the area but electrifying shacks is just a temporary measure. We will remove the electric boxes once RDP houses have been built.”

He said there is an ongoing programme to cut off illegal connections.

By Phumlani Saul

ON MONDAY the young woman was caught with muthi to make her fellow workers sick. And when they questioned her she confessed – and told them about her secret reign of evil.

IT APPEARS SPRINKLING MUTHI WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF HER MANY DESPERATE DEEDS

Sitting in the back of the cop van holding plastic bags filled with muthi in her hands, the 28-year-old woman from KwaLanga near Kariega,confessed to trying to sleep with her boss’ husband.

“At night, I would put muthi in my hand and blow on it and call his name,” she said.

“I would call for him to leave his wife and come to me.”

She said she also used muthi to try and lure her landlord’s husband into her bed.

Because she wanted to be in charge of her boss’ business, she used muthi to make them quit. “I would get to work early and sprinkle muthi on the gate so they would start feeling sick and their feet would swell,” she said.

The woman said she got the muthi from a sangoma from KwaZakhele.

“The sangoma said all my desires would come true,” said the woman from the back of the cop van.

“I always dreamed of living in a double-storey house with my boss’ husband and being the madam of the house,” she said.

But her muthi failed her when she was caught sprinkling muthi at work.

Her boss, Lindiwe Soga (39), who owns a takeaway shop in KwaLanga, told Daily Kasi News they suspected the woman was using muthi on the staff and her husband, whose name Lindiwe didn’t want to reveal.

“We had no proof and we couldn’t accuse her, but then I got a call from a worker who told me what she had done,” said Lindiwe.

Lindiwe said she took the woman in as a worker to help her. “She had nothing. Her mother kicked her out because she was sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend,” claimed Lindiwe.

I can’t believe she wanted to kill me but she told me she put dukanezwe muthi in my food so I would disappear and she could take my husband.”

A co-worker who didn’t want to be named said the woman cooked for them. “But she wouldn’t eat,” said the worker..

Police came to rescue the woman from the angry community, who wanted the police to let her out of the van so they could teach her a lesson. “Please don’t let me out, they are going to kill me,” she pleaded.

Cop spokesman Captain Solomon Sibiya said the woman was being kept in the holding cells for her own safety. They can’t open a case because she hasn’t been accused of a crime.

By Gugulethu Mtumane

SAPS Uitenhage detectives are investigating a culpable homicide case following the death of three people, including a pregnant woman, this morning, October 5, in Kariega.

According to police spokesperson, Captain Sandra Janse Van Rensburg, at approximately 08:25, SAPS Uitenhage attended to an accident that took place at the corners of Durban Road and upper Drostdy Street, Kariega involving two vehicles, an Isuzu LDV bakkie and a Daewoo Matiz.

“At this stage, details surrounding the accident are not clear. The Daewoo vehicle’s occupants included four adults and two children, aged 11 and 6 years old.

“The driver of the Daewoo sustained minor injuries while the two children were unharmed. Two women aged 36 and 38 years old and one unknown man died on their way to the hospital,” Janse Van Rensburg said.

Janse Van Rensburg added the 38-year-old pregnant woman and her unborn baby also passed away.

“The driver of the Isuzu was alone in the vehicle and was taken to hospital for treatment,” she said.

The names of the deceased will only be released once the next of kin has been informed.

A case of culpable homicide is under investigation

By Nomalungelo Booi

SHE THOUGHT being raped and thrown out into the street was the worst thing that could possibly ever happen.

But then the community got hold of her and added insult to injury.

THEY POURED WATER OVER HER, BEAT HER, AND MADE HER TO APOLOGISE TO HER ALLEGED RAPIST!

The 32-year-old from Zwide in Gqeberha,Eastern Cape, said she and a friend went to a tavern on Saturday night last week.

On her way home a man came up to her and told her she shouldn’t walk alone.

It was too dangerous, he’d said.

“There was a group of guys watching me,” she said

” i was standing alone waiting for my friend when the man came to me.”

She thought going to the man’s house was the safest thing to do, but it turned out to be a bad mistake – a very bad mistake.

“Once inside the house, he took out a condom and started raping me,” she claimed.

“I asked him to stop but he forced me. I was scared he’d kill me so I didn’t scream.”

She said when the man was done he opened the door and threw her out of the house.

“He told neighbours outside the house that I didn’t want to leave,” she said.

“Residents called me names and said I was drunk. They beat me up and emptied a five-litre bottle of water over me.”

And then came the worst insult.

She said that she was forced to apologise for not leaving the man’s home.

“They said I must apologise to him, and he acted as if he hadn’t done anything to me.

“How can you apologise to a person who’s just raped you?

“I was happy when I saw the people in the street, thinking I’d get help. But instead I was assaulted.

“Some residents asked how much I wanted instead of opening a case. After this I felt unworthy and dirty.”

She said those people and the man must go to jail so that next time, when they see someone on the road at night, they help instead of treating them like thugs.

Her 41-year-old sister said she’d spoken to her after the incident.

“She explained everything. We tried to get help from the police, but nothing has happened,” she said.

“I want those people to rot in jail: from the person who raped her to the residents who assaulted her. They must all go to jail. This is going to affect my sister. The police must do their job before I end up doing something.”

Police spokesman Captain Mavela Masondo said a rape case was opened at Zwide police station. “No arrest has been made yet and investigation is continuing,” he said.

By PHUMLANI SAUL

LAZOLA couldn’t find a way to make his girlfriend believe he wasn’t cheating.

And she was prepared to burn his penis with a mixture of boiling water and cooking oil while he was asleeping.

But God blocked her from destroying my 4-5!” said Lazola.

It seems the girlfriend of Lazola Oliphant (33) from Dubai,Gunguluza near Kariega was convinced that her boyfriend was cheating on her.

And she wanted to teach him a lesson and burn that very same 4-5 which apparently made him sleep around.

With revenge in her heart, she boiled fish oil and water and while he was asleep, she poured the boiling liquid over him.

Luckily she missed his 4-5.

Lazola screamed in pain and jumped out of the bed. For a second time the girlfriend tried to burn him, but he managed to duck and ran for his life.

The injured Lazola could only watch from a distance as his angry girlfriend (33) took a hammer and broke the windows and lights of his VW Golf 5.

He was rushed to hospital for treatment.

The cops are now looking for the woman, who has disappeared. 

Lazola is recovering at home after spending days in hospital.

Lazola, who has bandages on both his legs, said his girlfriend has been vowing to teach him a lesson but he never thought she could go this far. He said his girlfriend always accused him of cheating.

“No matter how hard I tried to show her that I loved only her, she was always insecure,” he said.

Lazola said the problem started after he came back from a funeral in Kerkwood last weekend.

“She told me she heard her friends telling her that I was with someone. 

“It wasn’t true, but I haven’t been able to convince her that she shouldn’t listen to her friends. Now she does this!” he said.

Lazola said he has been with the woman for about five years.

“I’m usually with her but the moment I go out it, means I’m going to cheat.”

Captain Peter Gouse said a case of attempted murder and malicious damage to property were opened, and cops are looking for the suspect.

BY ODWA MAKELENI

ZOLA Nongoma lost his job as a shop assistant at the start of lockdown in 2020.

The 35-year-old was retrenched as his employer was struggling to make a living. To survive, he turned into a male magosha and he has never looked back. 

Now the man from Soweto near Gqeberha wants to let women yearning for a good poke to know that he’s available.

He renders services to both married and unmarried women, and he has regular customers who call him often.

“I started when I made a joke with a female friend jokingly that I serviced woman, but she took it seriously.”

She invited him to her house to service her and paid him after the job was done. “She gave me R700 for a job well done.”

Two days later, he received a call from another woman who told him she had been referred to him by her friend.

He also got paid R700.

Some of his clients meet him at their places while others prefer BnBs or hotels. 

His poking business has been spread by word of mouth and now he’s getting one referral after another.

Zola wants to spread his wings across Mzansi.

He said some of his customers are married women whose husbands are ill and can’t satisfy them. He said he often gets invited to their houses.

“We poke, I get paid and I leave,” he said.

Zola has to stay in shape to satisfy his clients. He eats healthily, exercises and drinks lots of water.

He sees customers on an appointment basis only and makes sure he rests to be at his best.

BY NOMALUNGELO BOOI

A 33-year-old man was shot dead at a Sidwell scrapyard on Tuesday and the owner, believed to be his father, was kidnapped.

The Hawks have now opened a murder and kidnapping docket.

The harrowing incident happened in broad daylight when a group of men travelling in a white vehicle stormed Inder’s Scrap Metal in Hart Road.

The motive for the attack remains unclear, though rumours about possible extortion have surfaced.

Several high-profile abduction and ransom cases have emerged in the Eastern Cape in recent months.

Outside the business, where forensic investigators combed the scene for evidence, witnesses reported seeing about six men accost and fire several shots at the victim.

After shoving the owner of the scrapyard into their vehicle, they made a quick getaway.

Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said the Hawks had since taken over the case. 

“We don’t know all the details just yet. However, police are on the lookout for a white car, possibly a Toyota Corolla.” 

Gardmed Ambulance Service general manager  Craig Schwartz said on arrival at the scene, they had found one man on the ground in a critical condition.

He said the emergency control centre had received a report from a member of the public about a person who had been shot. 

An advanced life support ambulance was dispatched at about 12.30pm, arriving a few minutes later.

“We found a male patient … he had been shot and [paramedics] initiated a full resuscitation,” Schwartz said. 

“Unfortunately, after extensive efforts, the patient [died] from his injuries. 

“He was declared dead at the scene.” 

Provincial Hawks spokesperson Captain Yolisa Mgolodela confirmed they had taken over the investigation. 

“There are no further details. 

“We are awaiting a full report once investigators have completed processing the crime scene,” Mgolodela said.

The names of the murder and kidnap victims have not been released yet.