South African football Captain shot dead

South Africa’s football captain and goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa has died after being shot, South African police say.

The incident reportedly happened at Meyiwa’s girlfriend’s house in Vosloorus, south of Johannesburg. The 27-year-old played for Orlando Pirates and had played in South Africa’s last four Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

On Saturday, he was in action for his club, when they progressed to the semi-finals of the South African League Cup.
Orlando Pirates beat Ajax Cape Town 4-1.
Reward offered In a statement, the South African Police Service said two men had entered the house, around 20:00 (18:00 GMT), while a third man remained outside.

All three fled after shots were fired, in what local media reports say was an attempted burglary. A reward of about $14,000 has been offered for information leading to the suspects’ arrest. Meyiwa was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.

He started playing for Orlando Pirates, based in the Parktown district of Johannesburg, in 2005.

“This is a sad loss whichever way you look at it, to Senzo’s family, his extended family, Orlando Pirates and to the nation.” said Pirates’ chairman Irvin Khoza.

Last year, the Pirates were runners-up in the CAF Champions League. losing 3-1 on aggregate to Al Ahly of Egypt.

Source: BBC

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Sports: Oscar Pistorius Spends His First Night In Prison

The South African Paralympic sprinting champion, Oscar Pistorius, spent his first night at Kgosi Mampuru prison in the capital of Pretoria last night. Pistorius was sentenced to 5 years in prison for the accidental killing of his then model
girlfriend, Reevea Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013.

This particular prison does accomodate 128 disabled prisoners including wheelchair bound, blind, and another double amputee. A part of the defense team’s argument was the fact that the facility was not up to standard for disabled prisoners because we should be concerned with making sure that all offenders are comfortable while serving time for crimes (Offenders comfortable ? Are they for real) .

Well we gathered that Mr. Pistorius is mandated to serve at least 10 months of the 5 year sentence, which is another curious fact for me (Should a prison be a bed of Roses ?). Nevertheless, we place our trust in our elected officials, to handle the situation.

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Finally Oscar Pistrious sentenced to 5 years in prison

Finally he has got his verdict, whether the verdict is what he deserved or not the fact remains Mr Pistorius will be imprisoned for the rash action he took on Valentine’s Day in 2013.

For killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013, double-amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to 5 years in prison by Judge Thokozile Masipa.

Here are the highlights of what she considered before imposing her sentence.

1. Culpable homicide – 5 years in prison

2. For the Tasha shooting which he was found guilty for – 3 years in prison, wholly suspended for 5 years with conditions. The two sentences will run concurrently. His family is not planning to appeal.

He will serve a minimum of 10 months in jail, after that, he’ll be sent home to serve the remainder of his sentence under strict supervision controls. This will
be up to South African Correction Services.

What do you all think of this sentence?

Too light, severe or Ok ?

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WoW ! South Africa seizes Nigeria’s $5.7m in another secret arms deal bust

Just three weeks after South African government seized $9.3million allegedly belonging to the Nigerian government, they have once again confiscated $5.7million arms money from Nigeria, is South Africa now the world’s highest arms supplier or is there something fishy going on

The South African newspaper City Press reported that the money was seized by South Africa’s Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority for
allegedly being the proceeds of illegal transactions and even shared some documents. Checkout the full reports bellow

“From City Press The Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecutin Authority (NPA) has seized $5.7  million (R64 million) for yet another arms deal between South Africa and Nigeria.
This is the second multimillion-rand arms deal between the two countries in the past month that has resulted in the money being frozen in South African banks.

Last month, R103 million in $100 bills stashed in suitcases was seized at Lanseria Airport, north of Joburg.
The money was frozen in both cases for allegedly being the proceeds of illegal transactions. City Press’ sister paper Rapport has learnt that the department for offences against the state in the Special Investigating Unit is also involved. Documents in the newspaper’s possession show that the earlier consignment was approved by the
Nigerian government – that country’s national security adviser personally issued the end-user certificate for the transaction.

An entire “shopping list” was supplied with the certificate, which included everything from helicopters to unmanned aircraft, rockets and
ammunition. Sources close to the investigation said the latest transaction was between Cerberus Risk Solutions,
an arms broker in Cape Town, and Societe D’Equipments Internationaux, a Nigerian company in Abuja.

An impeccable source said this company paid the R60 million into Cerberus’ account at Standard Bank. Cerberus was previously registered as a broker with the National Conventional Arms Control
Committee (NCACC), but the registration expired in May this year. The marketing and contracting permits also expired at the same time. The company has since applied for re-registration, but the application lay in the NCACC’s mailbox for more than two months. Sources told Rapport that Cerberus apparently tried to pay the money back to the Nigerian
company, after which the bank became
suspicious. The NPA’s Asset Forfeiture Unit subsequently obtained a court order in the South Gauteng High
Court to seize the money.

Cerberus’ attorney, Martin Hood, this week declined to comment on the matter. NPA spokesperson Nathi Mncube said there were no indications that the two transactions were related.
“However, both are now the subject of a criminal investigation and all possible information and connections are being investigated,” said Mncube.

Source: Citypress.co.za

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WoW ! Two Nigerians and an Isreali arrested for smuggling $9.3m into SA

It is reported that the South African police are currently investigating two Nigerians and an Israeli citizen who tried to smuggle $9.3 million in cash into the country on September 5th.

According to the report from South Africa’s City Press newspaper, the money which was in bundles of unused $100 bills packed in three suitcase were transported in a small business jet, a bombadier Challenger 600 with a Nigerian crew and piloted by Captain Tunde Ojongbede.

The jet departed from Abuja and when it arrived South Africa, the money was discovered and when asked, the men said it was for the purchase of arms
for the Nigerian security services.

Spokesperson of the South African Revenue Service (SARS), Marika Muller in a statement said the money was seized at the Lanseria airport, northwest of Johannesburg

“The passengers’ luggage was searched after Customs officials detected irregularities. The money was detained as it was undisclosed/ undeclared and above the prescribed legal limit,” South African airport security spokesman Solomon Makgale confirmed a police investigation was underway but declined to give details.

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WoW ! South African Ebola Patient Arrested At Lagos International Airport

DailyPost has just been informed that a South African woman identified as Folswe Elizabeth Maria has just been arrested at the Lagos International Airport after showing signs of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease.

Operatives at the airport arrested the woman when she disembarked from the Air Morok flight. After a quick virus test was conducted on her, report says she showed positive result and was immediately arrested. She was from Casablanca in Morocco.

Our Airport source said she was quarantined and taken away almost immediately.

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WoW ! South Africa issues travel ban for non- citizens from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea

Due to the arising fear of the dreaded Ebola virus rampaging West Africa, reports getting says South Africa has officially issued a travel ban for non-citizens from Ebola-hit countries including – Liberia, Guinea & Sierra Leone. Nigeria is exempted .

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