HEALED, THE TRADITIONAL WAY

Doctor Mugaga, a traditional healer, with his bones and muti.

HOPE MOTAU

Many traditional healers see Mabopane station as a good place to do business.

Among the traditional healers who practice their rituals and have a surgery, is Doctor Mugaga. He has twelve years experience, but started to work at Mabopane station eight years ago.

Mugaga, who is originally from Uganda said that he treats people who have body pains, sickness, sexual problems, spiritual problems, and helps those who are unable to have children.  He works with other traditional healers and refers some of his patients, whom he is unable to treat, to his colleagues.

 “I do not treat babies, because I do not have knowledge about children’s diseases,” said Mugaga. Mugaga also said: “Some people want promotion at work, but they do not have qualification, so it is not easy for us to help them because that is where their problem lies.  If you have qualifications and do not get promotions after working for many years, it means you have spiritual problems and that is where we intervene.”

There are many traditional doctors working and opening surgeries at Mabopane station and it seems that all of them are making a living from their businesses.

Doctor Mugaga said he is at the station in order to treat people who were sick, not for making money. He said that he rents a room at Block AA but he cannot bring his patients there, because he does not own the premises.

Nobuhle Dlamini from Soshanguve Block GG told Record that she believes more in traditional healers than medical doctors.  She said she was sick a very long time and she was healed by one of the traditional healers at Mabopane station. “I had something living inside my stomach for about a year, which was taken out by a traditional healer. He said it was a snake that tried to block my pregnancy,” said Dlamini.

David Sebotsa of Mabopane Block C said that the traditional healers were very significant on his life and the public must treat them with respect.  “Our fore fathers were only relying on traditional healers before medical doctors came to Africa. There are also some diseases and problems, which medical doctors cannot treat, such as the ‘Tokoloshi’,” said Sebotsa.

Mugaga said ‘Tokoloshi’ could be caused by the wrongful mixture of bloody muti and the trees that are forbidden or by people who are jealous of others. He explained that traditional muti are just like chemicals where the wrongful mixture of chemicals can cause a bad thing.

“The challenges we are facing are people who want us to give them muti to kill others. But as traditional doctors, we are professional and have the ethics.

I cannot give someone muti to kill others, because our main aim is to help people to live, and killing is against our ancestors.” said Mugaga.

RESIDENTS PROTEST FOR JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND BETTER SERVICE



Residents closed the roads with burning tyres demanding for better service and jobs at Bock AA, BB and F-West in Soshanguve.



 HOPE MOTAU, PATRIC MOTHAPOAND LILLIAN MSIBI

Soshanguve Blocks AA, BB and F-West were covered by the dark clouds of smoke from burning tyres.

People from all walks of life participated in community mass protest. Residents accused the municipality and ward 29 councillor for not listening to their need.

Among the concerns were tar roads at Block BB, a decent park at Block AA as well as a soccer ground, accusing the councillor of nepotism and not employing youth within the Blocks for the project that are taking place in the community.

The police tried to disperse the protesters by shooting rubber bullets and tear gas, but the protesters continued burning tyres.  "I am here because we need better services delivery. Block BB was started in 1986 but we still do not have tar roads. We also need solar geysers and we have been waiting for so long," said Peter Mhlongo from Block BB.



The lady with red T-shirt was running away from the police who were shooting rubber bullets.

 Some of the residents were injured by the police rubber bullets, but they came back to continue protesting, burning tyres and chanting.

Police spokesperson, warrant officer Lolo Mangena of Rietgat police station said "We deployed our officers here to get this demonstration under control because we do not want any damage to property."

WARRANT OFFICER LOLO MANGENA : RIETGAT POLICE STATION

SOUND CLIP OF SOSHANGUVE RESIDENT

Soshanguve Plaza was closed by the protesters during the protest hours and no one was allowed to enter. All schools within the community were closed due to the protest. The school pupils were also taking part in the protest. Tumelo Phalane (18) from Kgomotso Comprehensive High says, "As a Grade 12 pupil my opinion is that the strike should not involve learners, because we would be left behind at school. Let them allow us to go to catch-up because there is teacher's go slow currently, so we need to catch-up before teachers go for strike in one to two weeks time".

 Sphiwe Mhlongo (18) and Anikie Chauke (17) the matric pupils at Soshanguve High from Block BB are worried that they should not go to school due to community mass protest. They say that this might affect their matric results at the end of the year.

"We will also find out why the police used rubber bullets. But if the situation was bad, there was no other way the police could control crowd. We want to protect innocent people and property. We deployed police officers who deal with public violence and other officers from the local police station." said Mangena. Six men and a woman were arrested for public violence and released later on Friday.

NEW SQUATTER CAMP AT MABOPANE

Semonyo family ouside their new home at Itsoseng

HOPE MOTAU

Mochacho Semonyo, his wife Elizabeth and their two children are happy to find a new home. Semonyo said that they were staying at Soshanguve block TT, but struggling to find their own home. The squatter camp has no neither electricity nor sanitation. “What we need in terms of basic services are toilets, because there is already water infrastructure which was implemented when people were staying here.

So we just need to connect our own water pipes to bring water to our yards. Currently we do not have toilets, people help themselves at the bush or use buckets at their houses and later throw at the bush” said Semonyo. He further said that there are rumours of the electricity implementation if they could fill that open space.

Residents, who have been staying at Itsoseng for a decade, were moved to the other part of the community in 2011 for them to be installed electricity.  They were asked to move so that they could fill the particular space, because they were staying far from one another where it was difficult for Eskom to implement its electrical infrastructure. They got the new yards for free together with water and electricity, however majority are still staying in the shacks.



Men are digging a stand pole of a new home.

 

Now people invaded of which is privately owned and they were threatened to be forced removed during the week, until community held a meeting on Saturday to call upon everyone who need the space to come through. They said that they would not move because their parents used to stay at the place for a decade in the past two years.

Victor Mhlongo who needs a space for himself said: “Our parents were convinced to move to the other side of Itsoseng to get electricity which is already implemented by now. As their children, we did not get our own place that is why we came back to our mother’s land, because I am old enough to stay with parents.”



Men building a shack for Geraldine Ndhlovu



Geraldine Ndhlovu is helping men who build her a new home

Geraldine Ndhlovu from Soshanguve Block LKK, who is studying Education at Tshwane University of Technology, also got her own place. She said that she is satisfied and wanted to be independent when she finishes her studies at the end of the year. “What we really need now is electricity and water because we go to fetch water from three families who were isolated when they did not want to move. Then I will dig my own toilet at the yard.”



Geraldine Ndhlovu is helping men who build her a new home

People from Soshanguve, Mabopane and surroundings are flocking to the open area to get their own apace and the community is expecting more to come.

"WHERE IS MY RDP HOUSE?" ASKS RESIDENT.

Richard Mdluli, Dorothy Maleka and their family outside their nine year old shack.

HOPE MOTAU

A family of six from Mabopane Block V have been staying in a single shack for about a decade. The family consisting of two parents, three children and a grandchild have been staying in the shack since 2004 and they said that they have applied for an RDP house in 2005 together with residents who now have houses.

 Residents in the area have received their RDP houses but the Mdluli family has to date not received their RDP house.  Father of the family Richard Mdluli, feels that democracy and freedom are meaningless to his family since they have not received the fruits of democracy.

"I did not even bother to celebrate Freedom Day, because I have no logical reason to celebrate since my life has not been changed by democracy," he said.

Mdluli, who is employed at a local butchery, said that his salary was not enough to afford a house. "The money I receive is for looking after my family," said Mdluli.  The family depends on social grants as an extra source of money that they use to support their children.

The unemployed mother of the family, Dorothy Maleka, told Record having a house would change their lives as they have endured sleeping uncomfortably for quite some time. "What I really need in my life is a RDP house, because we cannot afford to live in this situation. It is really difficult for us to stay in a single shack, especially when it is time to sleep," said Maleka.

The Mdluli family outside their only house at Block V, known as Odi, Mabopane.

The family described their situation as tragic and one that cannot be tolerated. They said that their shack does not have enough room for a family of six members.  The emotional and disappointed Maleka said that she wondered if she would have a RDP house, after waiting for so many years.

The Tshwane Metro Housing Department said that they have no knowledge of the family, and the RDP houses that were allocated and built at Block V, were equivalent to the number of the shacks built in the area.  According to Tshwane Metro’s Housing Department there was no application file for RDP Houses under the family’s nameon their system.

Record's interaction with the ward 22 councillor, Kefilwe Motsepe, was unsuccessful because she did not give Record a chance to talk to her. Motsepe ended-up hanging Record’s calls to avoid further questioning about the family’s situation. The shack has prepaid electricity that was installed before the RDP houses were built, but among the family’s concerns were the water and sanitation infrastructure.

 “We do not have water and sanitation and we depend on asking for water from our neighbour, who has been helpful to us. We also dug a toilet in our yard,” said Maleka. Mdluli and Maleka said that they did not apply for water, since they did not have money to pay the said amount. Odi Water Service said that the family needs to pay R2000 for a water installation.

LOAN SHARKS TARGET PENSIONERS


 

Soshanguve residents hoping to get a loan outside the telephone container.

HOPE MOTAU

A group of women who receive social grants, gathered outside the telephone container last week at Soshanguve Block H, in the hope of obtaining a loans.

The elders and women receiving child support grants went to the loan sharks that started operating in December 2012. They only give loans to social grant beneficiaries, depending on how much money they receive from South African Social Security Agency.  After giving the loan, the service provider will later withdraw money with interest directly from their social grants on a monthly basis depending on how much the client loaned.

The police have closed the business last week as they say that it was illegal and was not registered with the National Credit Regulator. The unnamed service provider, who was working at a telephone container in Block H, closed their doors for a short period and later re-opened after the police left.



Women of different ages gathered outside the telephone container at Block H, Soshanguve.

Mpho Mabela, a loan seeker told Record that the two employees working at the container told the clients that the police wanted a bribe from them to operate. Mabela said that they were told that the business was legal and amalgamated with Sassa.

 "Their interest rate is affordable and they do not withdraw the money we loaned at the same time like informal cash loaners. They withdraw a little amount every month until our credit is settled," said Mabela. Paulinah Chabalala, who was in need of loan said: "The police must leave the service provider alone because it is better than other “Mashonisa`s” (township moneylender) around Soshanguve. They do not keep our social grant cards and ID books," said Chabalala.

According to Chabalala they will continue to use the service provider regardless of whether they were illegal or not. When Record arrived, the two employees failed to produce the formal certificate from National Credit Regulator and later denied to talk after Record questioned them.

The clients never enquire about the NCR certificate, since they get the money they want.Captain Marinde of the Soshanguve police station said: “That cash loan business is illegal and under investigation. That is why the police closed it on the day.”

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RESIDENTS PROTEST FOR JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND BETTER SERVICE

Residents closed the roads with burning tyres demanding for better service and jobs at Bock AA, BB and F-West in Soshanguve.

HOPE MOTAU

Soshanguve Blocks AA, BB and F-West were covered by the dark clouds of smoke from burning tyres.

People from all walks of life participated in community mass protest. Residents accused the municipality and ward 29 councillor for not listening to their need.

Among the concerns were tar roads at Block BB, a decent park at Block AA as well as a soccer ground, accusing the councillor of nepotism and not employing youth within the Blocks for the project that are taking place in the community.

The police tried to disperse the protesters by shooting rubber bullets and tear gas, but the protesters continued burning tyres.  "I am here because we need better services delivery. Block BB was started in 1986 but we still do not have tar roads. We also need solar geysers and we have been waiting for so long," said Peter Mhlongo from Block BB.

The lady with red T-shirt was running awy from the police who were shooting rubber bullets.

Some of the residents were injured by the police rubber bullets, but they came back to continue protesting, burning tyres and chanting.

Police spokesperson, warrant officer Lolo Mangena of Rietgat police station said "We deployed our officers here to get this demonstration under control because we do not want any damage to property."

A school pupil is burning the tyre at the Soshanguve Plaza, during the school day.

Soshanguve Plaza was closed by the protesters during the protest hours and no one was allowed to enter. All schools within the community were closed due to the protest. The school pupils were also taking part in the protest. Tumelo Phalane (18) from Kgomotso Comprehensive High says, "As a Grade 12 pupil my opinion is that the strike should not involve leaners, because we would be left behind at school. Let them allow us to go to catch-up because there is teacher's go slow currently, so we need to catch-up before teachers go for strike in one to two weeks time". Sphiwe Mhlongo (18) and Anikie Chauke (17) the matric pupils at Soshanguve High from Block BB are worried that they should not go to school due to community mass protest. They say that this might affect their matric results at the end of the year.

"We will also find out why the police used rubber bullets. But if the situation was bad, there was no other way the police could control crowd. We want to protect innocent people and property. We deployed police officers who deal with public violence and other officers from the local police station." said Mangena. Six men and a woman were arrested for public violence and released later on Friday.

MORULA ATM BLASTED

The Absa ATM blasted by a group of armed men who later fled with the money.

HOPE MOTAU

A group of unknown armed men bombed the Absa ATM with explosives at Morula Complex in Mabopane.

The incident took place at around 3:00 on Friday. They fled with three vehicles, among those was a Mercedes Benz and Corsa.  Tinyiko Maluleke from Morula View said she awoken by the blast on Friday at dawn. 

"I did not understand what was happening. I thought maybe it was the huge crackers at Morula Sun, but in the morning I was told that the ATM at Morula was bombed". Crime experts are continuing with the investigation. Captain Van Aarde of Akasia police station said that an undisclosed amount of money was taken and there was a shoot out between police and suspects, but no one was injured or arrested.

 

 

"They used something that really makes a big blast. A case was opened at the Mabopane police station and investigations will follow. We ask the community to also assist us if they have any information," said Van Aarde.

It is said that the thieves tied the police’s hands at the police offices at Morula Sun and the security officers who were working during the night at the complex. Chief Security officer said that he did not want to talk to the media and denied Record from talking to any security officers.

HAPPINESS OF THE FIRST DAY OF THE SECOND TERM AT SCHOOL.

The Grade R learners of Sediba Tsebo Early Learning Centre are very excited for the first day at school.

The Grade R learners of Sediba Tsebo Early Learning.

BY: HOPE MOTAU

When other children are crying when they arrive at school for their first time, the Grade R learners of Sediba Tsebo Early Learning Centre are excited for their first time arrival at school in the second term. The South Africa’s future leaders started their first day with a beautiful uniform, of yellow shirts for both boys and girls with gray trousers for boys and gray skirts for girls. The black shoes are compulsory to them. Obakeng Sentle (5) who started learning at the centre since from the age of one says he was longing for this place and he can’t wait for Grade 1 next year.

Sediba Tsebo Early Learning Centre was established in 1996 by Maria Moekeletjie of Mabopane Block V who is currently still working at the centre. Moekeletjie who is 45 years old says the love of children inspired her to start this centre. She was working in isolation back then when the centre was just started with eleven children. The support of the families within the community inspired more her to continue with the centre where lot of children were joining the centre every day. She employed Linda Chauke, Surprise Manyaka to help in the daily basis work.

The centre is taking care of children from the age of 0 to 6. This year the centre opened with more than 80 children and the centre is still looking forward for other children to come through. The government or the Basic Education Department is not helping this centre even though there is no school within Block V and the surrounding.  “We are calling upon our government to help us with anything they can, so that we could raise up these future leaders. They can help us financially, giving us food for this children or build the class rooms for us,” said Maria Moekeletjie, the founder of the centre.

 The centre has only one building it is operating in as a class and three sharks which are used as classes and the other one as kitchen. The children pay about R100 a month depending on the age of a child, so that the centre could buy food for them and pay its employees.

THE NEVER SEEN PRICE OF PETROL IS A CHALLENGE TO MANY

Kgaugelo Maja is filling the customer’s vehicle with petrol at Shell Garage Soshanguve Block H, a day before the petrol price rise in the rest of the country.

HOPE MOTAU

The petrol price reached the maximum amount for the first time ever. The price of the petrol is increased with 81c per litre, which made it to be sold with R13.00 a litre. South African motorist are expected to dig down in to their pocket to keep the wheel rolling. The decreasing value of Rand and the increment of the crude oil are the main cause of the rises of the petrol.

Soshanguve residents such as Siphokahle Khumalo, who is unemployed and make living by transporting children from Soshanguve to different schools, are affected negatively by this price which was never seen before. “Yes the petrol price is affecting me negatively in terms of my job of transporting children to schools, especially for the money I’ve charged their parents for transporting them. Anyway, I don’t know what to say, but it affects me seriously. I’m out of budget because of it,” says Siphokahle Khumalo.

Sello Legodi who is the Human Resource Manager at Eskom in Pretoria is also concern about the petrol price, since he is staying in Soshanguve but working in Pretoria town. He is using his own car for transport to Pretoria and continued to tell us that “the increase of petrol price is tough, especially this nowadays, because the life is too expensive. The more petrol price is increased, is the more lot of things increase prices. So the government must do something about these prices, just like in Namibia. Just look at Namibia, the petrol price is very cheap.

South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) announced lately that South Africans must expect the increments on taxi fares countrywide due to the high price of petrol. They say is not in their control to increase these prices, but is the high price of petrol that makes them to increase prices. Albert Shabalala a taxi driver in Soshanguve and Mabopane said “obvious no one would like to see petrol increasing the price like this. It is really affecting us negatively; it increased with 81. Yah it’s affecting us negatively.”

 

BETTER SERVICE FOR ALL IS AN INSULT TO DIEPSLOOT RESIDENTS

There's no development in Diepsloot, especially Ext 1, since from the past twelve years of better services promisses.

BY: HOPE MOTAU

After nineteen years of democracy, people of Diepsloot, North of Johannesburg are still living in a very critical condition. Many people are living at the squatter camps and there are no better services since the past twelve years.

These people were evacuated from Alexandra in 2001 because they were staying beside the Jukskei River, were many people died during the rains seasons. The government told them that they are evacuated to the RDP houses in Diepsloot, but when they arrived there were no RDP houses; only a little space to build shacks for their own shelter.

Elizabeth Mphahlele from Limpopo is one of the residents whom were promised for RDP house for the past eleven years. “It is very painful to live in this kind of situation my son, I’ve been waiting for RDP for the past twelve years, but I’ve never got any respond even today. Sometime we are told to re-apply, but no one get respond, even those people I’ve applied with. I’m a domestic worker and I cannot afford to buy a house, because I’m a single mother and looking after my four children”.

Elizabeth Mphahlele continued to tell the TUT Online News about the services in Diepsloot Ext 1 that there is no electricity, they are using paraffin stoves for cooking and candle lights during the night. Paraffin stoves and candle lights are very dangerous because they sometimes burn and pass to other residents’ shacks. The shacks are too close to each other and streets toilets are frequently blocking and licking all over streets.

When the TUT Online News visits Diepsloot township, we found some of the children playing with the water coming from the licking sewages and at the dumping sides. They said there are no parks near the Ext 1 for them to enjoy their childhood. There are no playing materials from the government for children who are future leaders; the only thing they do is to play with sewage water and try to find some dumped toys from dumping sides.

Rogers Maluleke, ward councillor of Diepsloot Ext 1 said the government is going to build over 10 000 RDP houses for the people who are unable to buy houses and 5000 new bonds for those who are earning at least R6000 a month. “The other main challenge we are facing in our daily basis here in Diepsloot are people who sell their shacks when they get RDP house, that’s why the shacks are keep on multiplying themselves here” he said.

HOPE MOTAU. INTERNET II. ONLINE JOURNALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA .

NEWS24.COM

I’ve visited the NEWS24 online news web, and found that the information and the news on the web are posted in order. This news web is easier to access and the format of which is applied enable the readers to find the news of their choice much easier. On the home page, you see many different news headlines and photos with little captions on the bottom. Once you click on any of the headlines; it gives you the whole story and other photos. I like the manner of which they write their stories, because they not just write the stories without the photograph unlike other online journalism. Those photographs grab the attention of the readers or any other person who is just brows on the web, to read the stories even though it was not their intension to read such stories.

The web has the search engine where the internet user is in liberty to search if a certain story is available on the web, or search any old story. Homepage also structured with different options like choosing the international, African or South African news and many more. You can choose whether you want Business, Sport, Technology or Lifestyle news. The weather updates is available, and you can choose different languages like Afrikaans or isiZulu. There are videos and audio available on this website. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/NPA-Oscars-bail-hearing-wont-be-drawn-out-20130219

DAILYSUN.CO.ZA

I’ve also visited the Daily Sun’s online News. This online news is the most boring website I’ve ever come across, because the whole web page is written in such an extent as if is the single newspaper column. On the home page there are less than five stories with the little photographs and headline that look like the captions; those stories are without any captions on photographs. When I went through the stories and try to read them, they also show a little photograph with Headline on top and the little caption at the bottom of the image. All of this including the text of the story are very skinny as if they are written on one column of a newspaper.

The multimedia of this is very poor and need to be reviewed, because there are also no videos to watch or any other multimedia materials such as audio or blogs. The web is totally not grabbing the reader’s attention and it is not easy to stay a long on it. http://www.dailysun.co.za/indexnew_headline1.rbml?rssItemId=http%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.integrat.co.za%2Fdailysun%2F%3Fp%3D37377

IOL NEWS

The ioL is one of South Africa’s Online Journalism. Their web page is one of the best, because on its home page there are many different stories. Every story has the headline, photograph and the caption of the story. Once you click on the headline, it automatically leads you to the rest of the story. That story is including the headline, the photo and that whole story.

The multimedia of the web is also good since it has the options for videos to watch and the blog, together with the Facebook and the Twitter links; it also grab readers attention. http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mamphela-ramphele-s-full-speech-1.1472163

PARALYMPIC STAR OSCAR PISTORIUS KILLS GIRLFRIEND ON VALENTINE'S DAY.

South African police said on Thursday they have charged Olympic sprint star Oscar Pistorius with the Valentine's Day murder of his model girlfriend, playing down reports she was mistaken for a burglar.
Police and Pistorius's family confirmed that there was only one suspect in the case and that the athlete had been taken into custody, with police saying they will oppose bail.

The 26-year-old, a national icon who made history when he became the first double-amputee to compete in the Olympics last year, was expected to appear in court shortly charged with the killing of 30-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp.

BAFANA BAFANA LOSES ON THE SOIL OF THEIR FATHER’S LAND!!!

HOPE MOTAU

Bafana Bafana crashed out of the 2013 Afcon tournament, losing 3-1 on penalties to Mali. The match had ended with a draw of one goal from both teams after the extra time.

Most South Africans’ hope was on Bafana Bafana team where Dean Furman, May Mahlangu and Lehohonolo Majoro’ spot-kick misses as what saw Bafana’s Afcon dream fade away. Anyway the Bafana players played like soldiers who were prepared to die on the field for the nation. These players despite what people were negatively saying about them, have proven that this country is richly talented and if taken good care of, could take on the world.

Bafana Bafana started the Afcon tournament with a good energy and enthusiasm, until they met Mali on quarter finals on Saturday the 2^nd of February at Moses Mabhida in Durban. Reneilwe Letsholonyane and Dean Furman won most of the battles in the midfield, resulting in the host team dominating ball possession. Bernard Parker and Tokelo Rantie were really attacking on Mali and not giving the Malian goalkeeper Soumbeila Diakite even a little chance to drink water in the goals. It came as no surprise when Orlando Pirates striker Tokelo Rantie broke the Malians heart with a goal in the 30^th minutes of the first half, after a good pass from Thuso Phala’ square pass.

However Mali came back a much recharged side in the second half and made clear their intentions to get an equaliser early on. Mahamadou Samassa finally exposed Siboniso Gaxa on Bafana’s right side, sending in a cross that found Seydou Keita in the unmarked position. Keita, who is the former Barcelona star, used his great experience to heading the ball at Khune’s goals.

Keita continued to prove why he was a member of Barcelona; the best team in the world when his presence in the midfield made things difficult for Bafana Bafana. But Bafana players continued to show some sterling character, refusing to accept Mali’s dominance forcing the game into the extra time.  Simphiwe Tshabalala finally came on for Bernard Parker in the extra time and seemed to revive the Bafana’s midfield. With no decisive goal coming to separate the two teams, the match was finally forced into the spot-kicks.

 Tshabalala stepped up to take the first spot-kick and sent Diakite the wrong way to put Bafana ahead. However, that was the only ball Bafana would convert into a goal with Furman and Mahlangu’s attempts being away by Diakite. Ending South Africa’s Afcon dream, Majoro shot failed to give Bafana Bafana another goal which lead to the excitement of the Malian side; because it was confirmed right there that Mali is going for the semi-final.

However, Bafana will certainly look back to their participation in the tournament with pride and hope that they can carry the same form into the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers later this year. TUT LIVE@12 reported that SAFA extended the contract with Gordon Igesund to 2018. This is a good decision made by our Soccer Association; because it will give him a good time to build our national team before FIFA world cup in Brazil. Igesund needs enough time to take the South African team to the green pasture, and we must not just change the coaches frequently.