Monday, August 20, 2018

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WATCH: PROKID’S LEGACY LIVES ON!

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PROKID’S life revolved around music.
And this was not forgotten at his funeral.
As the coffin was lowered into the ground yesterday, his music played in the background and fans and fellow rappers danced.
At the funeral held at the University of Joburg’s Soweto Campus, Prokid’s wife Ayanda Mkhize finally broke her silence.
A letter she wrote to her husband, whose real name was Linda Mkhize, was read by a relative.
“When we met, I knew I had found my life partner. I will always cherish everything you taught. Your kindness was so touching,” the letter read.
“You are the most incredible gift I have been given in this lifetime. You were my safe place and spiritual partner. I loved you in this lifetime and I will love you in the next. Rest in peace, my one.” DJ Sbu also paid tribute to ProKid and his contribution to hip hop.
“Ungapheli umoya San, you shifted the hip hop culture and changed the game. There are people who now own companies because they drew inspiration from you. You put our country on the map and for that we will forever be grateful,” he said.
Penny Lebyane, who directed the funeral programme, said the response to ProKid’s death by the hip hop community showed what a huge influence he had on hip hop culture ekasi.
Dr Sipho Sithole said the UN had hip hop ambassadors around the world because it was a medium the youth understood.
“Listen to the message to understand what these rappers are saying. To write a 16 bar, you need to know what you are saying,” he said.
“Pro made hip hop fashionable and famous. He clearly articulated the cries of young people screaming to be heard.”
Slikour described ProKid as a genius of hip hop. “He took American culture and he brought it to Soweto. I compared Pro to Elvis Presley but he is more because he is our own story to tell.
“We will set up a trust fund for his daughter Nonkanyezi. If he was able to change a culture, what could his daughter do?”
Kabelo Mabalane said ProKid might have been judged in many ways but nothing disqualified him from the love of God.
“It’s not a weakness to show vulnerability if you need to speak to somebody. We need to start talking as artists.”
ProKid’s uncle Sibusiso Nala said he was hurt by the loss.
“I never imagined him facing crowds of thousands because he was as shy as I am. He told me he wanted to do hip hop but I didn’t understand because I thought he would sing gospel,” he said.
A tribute concert will be held at Zone 6 Venue in Diepkloof, Soweto, next Sunday to raise money for a trust fund for ProKid’s daughter. Tickets are available at Computicket for R100.
Watch here:
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 Prokid's tombstone pics

The late Linda Mkhize well known as ProKid has been laid to rest and his tombstone has been unveiled.
Celebrities, friends, family and music lovers gathered at the UJ Soweto Campus to pay their last respects to the late musician.
ProKid has been laid to rest at the West Park Cemetery following his death last week Thursday.
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Saturday, August 18, 2018

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Malema’s ‘rifle shooting’ incident gets ugly : Dali Mpofu faces criminal charges for aiding EFF leader

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This is a concise legal implication of the alleged criminal action carried out by EFF leader Julius Malema during a political celebration, as well as the party’s advocate Dali Mpofu aiding and abetting the crime. Mpofu risk losing his call to the Johannesburg Bar. 

On July 28, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema was captured on video seemingly firing live rounds from what one expert believed to be an AK-47 assault rifle at the Sisa Dukashe Stadium in Mdantsane, outside East London. 

After the alleged shooting, Malema handed the weapon to his security chief, Adriaan Snyman, before exchanging an enthusiastic high five with EFF chairperson, Dali Mpofu, SC. 

A legal expert told the press that the offence Malema allegedly committed could get him jailed for 15 years. 

Police are now investigating after AfriForum laid a criminal charge on August 1. 

Mpofu is a senior advocate and has been a member of the Johannesburg Bar since 1993, taking silk in 2014. 

What are the implications for an officer of the court who is present when a criminal offence is committed, or complicit to a crime? And can an advocate of Mpofu’s stature be disbarred for such alleged offences? 

Advocate Pierre Rossouw, chair of the professional and fees committee of the Johannesburg Bar, explained that when a practising advocate was involved in an incident that could amount to criminal conduct, it was not necessarily a professional matter that warranted investigation by the Bar. 

“Unless it is a crime of dishonesty. These crimes are always of a professional nature because advocates naturally have to be honest people.” 

Crimes that are not directly related to dishonesty or corruption will not be investigated by the Bar, said Rossouw. 

‘Shooting a guinea fowl not a professional matter.
“Let’s say [an advocate] is caught speeding at 280km/h. It is a crime, but it is not my concern and it won’t be investigated [by the Bar] because it’s not a professional matter. If he shoots a guinea fowl without a licence, again, it’s not a professional matter. If he chops down a protected tree in his garden, it’s not my concern.”

So, by the same token, if Mpofu was present when a firearm was being discharged illegally, he may have been a witness to a crime, “but it’s not a crime in a professional context”. 

Rossouw said the Bar would therefore not of its own accord investigate Mpofu. 

“However, if a member of the public or anybody should complain, we would have to consider the complaint.” 

But Rossouw said Mpofu’s presence when Malema allegedly illegally discharged a firearm did not relate to the former’s ability to practise law as it “happened outside the context of the profession and did not involve any element of dishonesty”. 

Charges must relate to dishonesty 

Advocate Craig Watt-Pringle, chairperson of the General Council of the Bar, told journalist the Bar’s focus was usually on dishonest conduct. 

“Whether a finding that [Mpofu] had committed an offence by not reporting the commission of an offence would render him not a fit and proper person to be an advocate, is highly questionable,” said Watt-Pringle. 

“The ‘fit and proper’ requirement really goes to a court’s ability to rely on you as an upstanding person whose word can be trusted. 

“For example, if a member of the Bar was caught drunk driving, even perhaps killing someone in what amounted to a culpable homicide [conviction], that would not result in disciplinary action because that has nothing to do with him practising as an advocate.” 

EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi denied that a real firearm was used. 

“It is not a firearm and no real bullets were shot. It was a simulation, part of our entire act of celebrating the 5th anniversary. It coincided with the singing of struggle songs and fireworks,” Ndlozi previously told the press.
https://www.mzansipost.news/2018/08/police-confirm-investigation-into.html
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'DEAD' BABY FOUND ALIVE AT FUNERAL

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The mother of a seven-month-old baby declared dead on 6 August at the Rivas hospital in Villanueva, Honduras, realised her little girl was still alive during the infant’s funeral.
Little Keilin Johanna Ortiz Montoya had been admitted to hospital on 3 August with convulsions, diarrhoea, severe hydration and blistered skin caused by a bacterial infection. Despite intensive treatment at the hospital’s paediatric unit, the baby was pronounced dead three days later and the corresponding death certificate was reportedly issued.
The child’s mother, Ivis Montoya, left the hospital with her supposedly deceased baby and went to a cousin’s house.
"I had no money to get home,” Ivis said.
After a candle-lit vigil during the night the baby was taken to a church in nearby Dos Caminos in northern Honduras for its funeral, but there was found to be breathing.
Ivis said they’d put her daughter’s body on a chair in the church and it was then that she noticed baby Keilin was still breathing.
Reluctant to return to the hospital that had declared her baby dead, she instead rushed to a local clinic. The medical staff administered medicine to the baby and a women’s support group persuaded the mom to take the baby back to the hospital’s paediatric unit, local media reported.
The baby girl was immediately taken to the intensive care unit and is said to be in a serious condition.

The head of the hospital’s paediatric department, Elba Campos, said that the incident was being investigated, but that it was too early to reach any conclusions.


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Friday, August 17, 2018

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Meet Nurse who provides s-e-x to people who are physically disabed, mentally-ill, and elderly

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Karin provides s.e.x for people who are disabled, physically and mentally, and elderly. She is also a registered nurse and gets her clients through an agency.
I really like the connection with people. I like to offer a service that makes people feel better.
In some parts of South Africa, over half of the s.e.x workers are HIV-positive, but reaching them with HIV prevention programmes is hard because s.e.x work is illegal.
“Regular s.e.x costs euro 50. Anything else, like anal s.e.x, bondage, costs at least another euro 50,” she says.
If Elsa doesn’t like the look of him, she can simply shut her window, which can only open from the inside.
“The Windows” is a key feature of the red-light district of Amsterdam, a city that has gone further than most to normalise sex work. Elsa’s window is a little different from most, as she rents it and a room behind it from My Red Light, a for-profit collective run bse.x workers.
She is one the of s.e.x workers that ‘give pleasure’ to throngs of clients who visit the famous district in the centre of the Dutch capital.
Elsa’s friend, Foxxy, who is part of the Dutch sex worker union, Proud, encouraged Elsa to move across the canal to these rooms.
Foxxy, who has been a s.e.x worker for over 15 years, say that s.e.x work is just work for her.
“I like sex every day. I was having a lot of it and my friends said to me I should think about charging for it, so I did,” explains Foxxy, who is also on the board of PIC. “The day that I stop like having sex, is the day I will stop doing this.”
Another fellow s.e.x worker Karin provides sex for people who are disabled, physically and mentally, and elderly. She is also a registered nurse and gets her clients through an agency.
“I also like s.e.x. I like that I can help people to feel better,” said Karin, who said she “has been 45 for a few years”.
Elsa, who is originally from the US says she likes the safety aspect and the decor of the red light district, which makes it attractive.
“I come from the US, but it is not safe there for anybody these days, much fewer sex workers. I feel safer here,” laughs Elsa, who claims to be 25 and said she has been involved in s.e.x work since she was 17.
“I really like the connection with people. I like to offer a service that makes people feel better. It’s good money and I can set my own hours.”
In Amsterdam, where sex work was legalised in 2000, s.e.x workers are required to register with the local chamber of commerce, where they are classified as “personal carers” and taxed as freelancers, paying both VAT of 21%, as well as personal income tax.
To work in the windows, women have to be over the age of 21, communicate in English or German and able to work legally in the Netherlands.
The city pays for a health clinic for s.e.x workers, which offers free services, and the HIV rate among local sex workers is lower than the HIV rate among the city’s students.
Kholi Buthelezi, the national co-ordinator of the South African s.e.x worker organisation Sisonke, marvels at the safe conditions for s.e.x workers in the red-light district: “I noticed they have panic buttons in the rooms,” she said.
“But in South Africa, we get chased by police. We run away until our high heels break off. We get raped. There is no protection for us.”
Buthelezi believes that s.e.x work should be completely decriminalised, as it is in Amsterdam. She is unimpressed by the “Swedish model” that SA supports. She said that the Swedish model is “a big no-no. If you target the client instead of the s.e.x worker, it is the same thing – you drive s.e.x work underground and make it unsafe.
She believes that the Swedish model criminalises s.e.x workers’ clients and those who run brothels and escort agencies rather than sex workers, arguing that the basis of s.e.x work is exploitation, as no woman would do s.e.x work if she had a choice.
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Angry ex-Pikitup workers clash with cops over jobs

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There was an exchange of bullets and stones in running battles between protesters and the police at Pikitup’s Selby depot in Joburg on Tuesday.
The ongoing violent demonstrations saw operations being halted for the second day as former employees disrupted the waste-management service and demanded their jobs back. Women protesters stripped naked and accused the company of engaging in a jobs-for-pals scheme.
Former Pikitup employee Sangwani Chisimba worked as a contractor between 2010 and 2011 and claimed that company refused to retain them in their jobs because of the jobs for-pals scheme.
“Now the company is hiring people from outside our province. We saw people from other provinces being employed here. When they cut our jobs in 2011, our agreement was that they would hire us permanently after five years. But now they are hiring people who are not part of our agreement plan.”
The protesters picketed at the entrance to the depot, singing Struggle songs and demanding answers from Pikitup’s management when police fired rubber bullets and a high-velocity water cannon to disperse them.
“We have proof that we were working as contractors and the managers know us. But they don’t want that proof and now they are demanding ID copies and tax numbers. These protesters are from various part of Joburg and they are not employed. They only want their jobs. They are not here to fight anyone,” said Chisimba.
But Pikitup spokesperson Muzi Mkhwanazi said the allegations were not true.
“Pikitup views such allegations in a serious light and calls upon those with evidence of this to bring it to its attention. The current process, as per the mayoral directive, seeks to in- source 2010 employees who worked for contractors, and those who meet set criteria and similar conditions must apply to former Jozi@Work employers,” said Mkhwanazi.
Agnes Majoro said they would continue protesting until they received answers and return to work. “I received an SMS on July 25 to come back to work, but later I was told that the documents in my name were not mine. I want to know who did they give my position to because I even raised the matter with managemen but they never responded. Instead, I was told to leave the office, because they had already hired people.”
Pikitup earlier warned Joburg residents about waste-collection disruptions, after receiving an e-mail from former employees slamming the hiring of 2800 workers from outside Gauteng.
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THEY MUST BRING RAMAPHOSA HERE!

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PROVINCIAL government leaders arrived in Kanyamazane yesterday to talk to the kasi’s residents.
But the leaders, including Mpumalanga’s premier, Refilwe Mtshweni, were turned away by the angry people.
The residents have been protesting for the past three days.
They have accused the human settlements department of failing to fix more than 2 000 RDP houses damaged in May by heavy rain.
The residents said they did not want to be addressed by Mtshweni, because she would “only tell them more lies”.
One resident said: “We are tired of their lies. We do not want to hear anything from the premier.
“They must bring President Cyril Ramaphosa here.
“He might be able to solve our problems. We do not want to listen to Mtshweni because she did not take our matter seriously from the beginning.”
Mtshweni tried to speak to the residents, but they kept on singing struggle songs and ignored her.
The premier said they managed to talk to some of the residents, but others were not willing to listen to them.
“We are still available at any given point to talk to the residents, when they are ready to engage us,” Mtshweni said.
“We will pass the message to the president’s office, and if he is willing to come we will accompany him here.”
Mpumalanga Police Commissioner Mondli Zuma said the police would stay in the area to monitor the situation.
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Sentenced to two years for drunk and driving!

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A 30-years-old man was sentenced to two years in prison for drunk and driving.
Thembani Suprice Hlungwani was sentenced to two in jail or a fine of R24 000, by the Lulekani Magistrate's Court.
The Limpopo MEC for Transport and Community Safety Makoma Makhurupetje said she is thrilled with the sentence given to Hlungwane.
Hlungwani was arrested on the 08 July 2017 in a drunken driving operation by the Mopani Drunken Driving Unit.
He pleaded guilty, after blood testvresults came back positive at 0.15mg.
“We hope the sentence will send a strong message to those who continue to ignore our warning that Limpopo is a Zero Tolerance Zone, to those who disobey the rules of the road.”
Credit must be given to our hardworking men and women in uniform for their continued diligence in discharging their work without fear or favour,” Makhurupetje said.
His driver’s licence was suspended for 6 months.
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Monday, August 13, 2018

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See Tiny Condoms For Smaller 4-5s

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THE days of one size fits all condoms are over.

Tiny condoms are now available in the market, even the world's smallest condoms.

Using the wrong size condom not only affects enjoyment, but can also raise the risk of disease and pregnancy, health experts warned.

Ill-fitting condoms more than doubled the chances of them splitting or slipping off, a team of US researchers found. 

Research also showed that the size of the average British man 4-5s are too small to fill standard condoms, so a UK based company called TheyFit then started designing smaller condoms. 

TheyFit has developed a staggering 66 different sizes of custom-fit condom - and has even produced a special measuring tape to ensure customers get exactly the right size.
According to reports its smallest style comes in at 4.92in (12.5cm) long and has a width of 1.8in (4.5cm). A typical condom is 7.1in (18cm) long and 2in (5.2cm) wide. 

The firm's research has shown that 'millions of men every single day are searching the internet for small condoms and a real solution to their problem'. 

The company chooses to use letter and number codes, rather than traditional XS-XL sizing, to allow for greater discretion and confidence when ordering and posting. 

One reviewer who had tried the 'E' length - the shortest available - wrote on the website: 'I had tried smaller condoms before and found they were still much too long for me. I assumed it was just a cruel trick being played on me. 

My TheyFit was perfect - thank you for doing this.'One customer who had bought the 55 girth - the tightest on offer - added: 'I'd like to congratulate you on the most obvious idea ever. This condom fitted like a glove. 

'The first time I have ever been able to use a condom without worrying that it would slip off.' 

They Fit spokesperson explained: “Traditional small condoms, including those labelled ‘Close Fit’, ‘Snug’ and ‘Iron Grip’ aren’t actually that different in size from regular condoms.
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