By: illovuonline news team
09-06-2020
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Eight months pregnant Tshegofatso Pule was found hanging from a tree in Roodepoort with stab wounds.
An eight-month pregnant woman who disappeared from home last week was found hanging from a tree yesterday with stab wounds.
Tshegofatso Pule’s body was found hanging from a tree around Florida Lake in Roodepoort on the West Rand after she was last seen on Thursday night. Pule of Meadowlands, Soweto, left home, saying she was going to visit her boyfriend in Florida, but her family never heard from her after she left.
Gauteng police spokesperson Capt Kay Makhubele confirmed that a case of murder was being investigated and no arrests have been made. He said no one has been taken in for questioning at this stage.
Makhubele said Pule had stab wounds in the left breast.
“The deceased was found by a member of the community hanging from a tree, who then notified the police. The deceased is also confirmed to be pregnant. Suspects are unknown at the moment,” said Makhubele.
“The matter was first opened as an inquest but it has been changed to murder.”
Dozens of family members and friends gathered at Pule’s home in Soweto following her gruesome murder.
Though the family said they could not speak to Sowetan, a relative said Pule was last seen entering an Uber cab that was called for her by her boyfriend on Thursday night.
He said Pule called them that night, saying that she got into a fight with her boyfriend and was coming back home.
“She got into a fight with her boyfriend and demanded to leave. We tried calling her later that night but we couldn’t get through to her. We called again from Friday until Sunday but her phone was off.
“We tried calling the boyfriend and couldn’t reach him and that’s when we decided to open a missing person’s case at Meadowlands [police station] on Sunday,” said the relative.
The family member said they also put out missing person’s posters with Pule’s pictures on them.
“Someone contacted us in the morning [yesterday] and told us he might have seen her. He showed us a picture of her and we knew it was her,” he said.
He said they then went to the place where the caller directed them to in Florida and they found Pule’s body.
“We cannot speculate about what led to her death, but we know things were not well with her boyfriend. His wife also knew about Tshego and she was always fighting with her,” he said.
While outside Pule’s home, a video of the 28-year-old mother hanging from a tree surfaced on social media and reached those in the vicinity.
Mourners broke down when they saw her lifeless body.
A neighbour, Karabo Makiri, said they were shocked by news of her murder. “She was such a lovely girl who always had a smile on her face. She was friendly but kept to herself,” Makiri said.
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By: illovuonline news team
09-06-2020
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Pupils at Winnie Mandela Secondary School in Tembisa, Ekurhuleni.
Ntokozo Manana woke up at 4am yesterday to prepare herself for the first day back at school, but was one of the grade 12 and 7 pupils who were turned away.
Manana, 17, from Palm Springs in Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg, was one of thousands of returning pupils after schools had been closed for almost three months.
Manana left home just before 6am to catch a taxi to Raphela Secondary School as she had to be there at 7.15am for screening and sanitising.
“I had been nervous the whole of Sunday evening as a result. I did not get enough sleep. I did not want to be late on the first day of school as I did not know what to expect. However, when I got to school there was a long queue of pupils outside the school entrance. It was only teachers who were allowed to go inside the school,” she said.
Manana said after two hours they were told to go back home because the five thermometers were not working.
“I am disappointed because I thought they were going to use this day for induction. Who knows what will be the problem tomorrow,” she said.
Grade 7 pupils from Nomini Primary School who were to be accommodated at Raphela Secondary School were also sent home.
Lillian Mohau, 35, the parent of a grade 7 pupil, said she was disappointed.
“We were made to wait outside the school with no explanation. The situation is nerve- wrecking because we don’t know what to expect. I am worried about my child having to wear a mask the whole day, I don’t know what the implications of that are,” Mohau said.
But most schools in Gauteng were ready for the first day. There were demarcated lines outside schools to observe social distancing between pupils. Different desks were placed outside for sanitising, screening and recording information.
Most parents accompanied their children up to the gate as the schools were clear that they were not allowed inside.
A group of parents stood outside Job Maseko Primary School in Ekurhuleni where their children were queuing outside waiting to be screened.
Phumzile Msimango said they wanted to go inside to see if everything was in order and also see the state of the toilets.
“The principal is refusing us entry. The situation is nerve- wrecking and we are here to assess the situation and get used to this new normal. But I must say I am very happy with how the teachers are handling the situation,” she said.
Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said the province recorded 85% attendance of pupils and teachers.
“Some principals . closed schools due to misunderstanding on the availability of scanners or screeners. We did experience some teething problems as we had several incidents of break-ins and vandalism.”
Lesufi said some schools claimed they had shortages of personal protective equipment.
“We also had a number of teachers who did not attend, claiming to have comorbidity but they had not applied to work from home. A number of teachers submitted medical reports without application or filling in a sick leave.”
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Enock Mpianzi death: Family suing Gauteng education dept for R10m
By: illovuonline news team
09-06-2020
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A portrait of Enock Mpianzi at his funeral. (Morapedi Mashashe)
Enock Mpianzi’s family is suing the Gauteng Department of Education for R10 million.
Enock drowned during a Grade 8 Parktown Boys’ High School orientation camp in the North West.
The latest developments were announced by Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi during a media briefing on Monday.
The family of Grade 8 Parktown Boys’ High School pupil Enock Mpianzi is suing the Gauteng Department of Education for R10 million.
Provincial Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi announced this at a media briefing on Monday afternoon in Midrand.
“After we released a report on Enoch Mpianzi, we received a letter from legal representatives representing the family about a potential action that they will take. Indeed, we received the formal letter last week. It was addressed to the minister and copied to us as a province.
“We have indicated that we have no appetite to oppose this matter. We have allowed our legal team to continue to engage with the legal firm representing the family, so that we use previous court cases that have ruled on matters such as this in nature as a barometer to determine an appropriate amount,” Lesufi said .
Enock Mpianzi death report reveals shocking details on roll call list, water level at the camp
Enock, 13, was swept away in the Crocodile River while attending a Grade 8 orientation camp at Nyati Bush and River Break Lodge, near Brits in North West, on 15 January.
He was last seen when a makeshift raft he and other boys were on overturned, just hours after arriving at the camp.
His body was found on 17 January.
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Explained: Asteroid that will make a close approach to Earth this month
By: illovuonline news team
07-06-2020
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A Near-Earth Object (NEO), the asteroid is called 163348 (2002 NN4) and is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA).
This asteroid is classified as a PHA, which means the asteroid has the potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth. (Representational Image)
Earlier this week, NASA announced that a giant asteroid is expected to pass Earth (at a safe distance) on June 6. The asteroid is estimated to be between 250-570 meters in diameter, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). A Near-Earth Object (NEO), the asteroid is called 163348 (2002 NN4) and is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA).
What are Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), why are they studied?
NEOs occasionally approach close to the Earth as they orbit the Sun, NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Study (CNEOS) determines the times and distances of these objects as and when their approach to the Earth is close.
NASA defines NEOs as comets and asteroids nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits which allows them to enter the Earth’s neighbourhood. These objects are composed mostly of water ice with embedded dust particles.
The scientific interest in comets and asteroids is largely due to their status as relatively unchanged remnant debris from the solar system formation process over 4.6 billion years ago. Therefore, these NEOs offer scientists clues about the chemical mixture from the planets formed.
Significantly, among all the causes that will eventually cause the extinction of life on Earth, an asteroid hit is widely acknowledged as one of the likeliest. Over the years, scientists have suggested different ways to ward off such a hit, such as blowing up the asteroid before it reaches Earth, or deflecting it off its Earth-bound course by hitting it with a spacecraft. NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program finds, tracks and characterises over 90 per cent of the predicted number of NEOs that are 140 metre or larger in size (larger than a small football stadium).
NASA maintains that objects of this size and larger pose a risk to Earth of “the greatest concern” due to the level of devastation that the impact is capable of causing. Further, no asteroid larger than 140 metre has a “significant” chance of hitting the Earth for the next 100 years, less than half of the estimated 25,000 NEOs that are 140 metres or larger in size have been found to date.
What is 163348 (2002 NN4)?
This asteroid is classified as a PHA, which means the asteroid has the potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth. Asteroids with a minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) of about 0.05 (AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun and is roughly 150 million km), which is about 7,480,000 km or less and an absolute magnitude (H) of 22 (smaller than about 150 m or 500 feet in diameter) or less are considered PHAs.
Even so, it is not necessary that asteroids classified as PHAs will impact the Earth. “It only means there is a possibility for such a threat. By monitoring these PHAs and updating their orbits as new observations become available, we can better predict the close-approach statistics and thus their Earth-impact threat,” NASA says.
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OPINION | American civil society has turned on Donald Trump just as South Africans turned on Jacob Zuma.
By: illovuonline news team
07-06-2020
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US President Donald Trump holds a Bible while visiting St. John’s Church across from the White House after the area was cleared of people protesting the death of George Floyd on June 1, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP) (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
American civil society has turned on Donald Trump just as South Africans turned on Jacob Zuma. It was for the same reason: people concluded the president endangers a constitution that means nothing to him, and uses the presidency purely for self-interest. It happened over a walk across the park.
From the White House to St John’s Church on the other side of Lafayette Park is perhaps as short a walk as 100m. Lafayette is a postage stamp of a park, nothing like New York’s Central Park or Hyde Park in London. It was three blocks from my Washington office and for six years I crossed it regularly.
The incident happened because Trump was angry his brief sequestration for safety to a bunker underneath the White House during the demonstrations made him look weak. He later said the bunker sojourn was “much more for an inspection”. Much more.
He promised to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 so he could use the army to quell demonstrations. He built tall, sturdy fences around the park and in front of the White House.
To make the walk free of pesky protesting citizens, he had Attorney General William Barr use different policing agencies not subject to the control of the mayor of a staunchly Democratic Party supporting capital. The troops wore no identification or identity numbers, and declined to respond to journalists’ questions about which agencies they served. They tear-gassed peaceful demonstrators who Barr claimed, without evidence, were bearing “projectiles”.
Trump took Barr, Secretary of Defence Mark Esper and a combat uniformed chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, with him. When the president got there he held up a Bible for a silent photo opportunity then left without comment.
Chilling effect
The use of soldiers or unidentified officers against American citizens, while the heads of the military appeared to be co-opted into a stunt to aid one politician against his rivals, had a widely chilling effect.
Retired four-star generals took the unprecedented step of criticising a sitting president, and the leader of the National Football League (NFL) backed the protesters. The American military is the country’s most popular institution, and American football is America’s favourite sport. It’s safe to assume many Republicans support both.
Demonstrations have now spread to at least 430 cities. The protesters are demographically diverse. At least one city’s protest consisted entirely of white people. Many occurred in predominantly white towns. They included Republican Trump voters who said the video of George Floyd being killed by a police officer required a show of solidarity. Continuing cellphone footage of police abuses at numerous demonstrations fuelled the protests.
Two generals Trump handpicked for his own Cabinet rained down excoriating verbal fire. Former defence secretary General James “Mad Dog” Mattis condemned “the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution”, he said.
General John Kelly, who served first as Trump’s Homeland Security secretary and then as White House chief of staff, urged Americans to think more carefully about who they elect president, at both his character and his ethics.
‘End of the American experiment’
The former commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, went even further. “June 1, 2020. Remember the date. It may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment,” he said.
Keeping the military above politics is a cardinal rule at the Pentagon. The generals wanted to send a powerful signal this principle was under threat.
Esper was embarrassed. He said he did not know in advance the purpose of the trip to the church, and he opposed Trump’s suggestion to use troops against protesters. Insiders are betting he’ll be fired soon.
The military is trusted by 74% of Americans.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said he and the NFL had been changed by recent events, and apologised for their decision in 2017 to censure a black quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, for kneeling in protest at the exact thing – police mistreatment of African-Americans – that sparked the current protest.
Trump was a vocal critic of Kaepernick, and at least 10 of the owners of teams that make up the NFL funded Trump’s election.
Police reform and Trump’s re-election are now firmly intertwined.
Unwilling or unable to show empathy as a large portion of the nation mourned, Trump made another claim that angered demonstrators.
After unemployment figures showed a fall, he said: “Hopefully, George [Floyd] is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing that is happening for our country. It’s a great day for him, it’s a great day for everybody, this is a great, great day in terms of equality … this is the greatest thing that can happen for race relations, for the African-American community, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, for women, for everyone. Our country is so strong, and that’s what my plan is.”
Fool’s errand
Predicting Trump’s political defeat has been a fool’s errand ever since he descended that golden escalator in June 2015 to announce his run for president. His core support never fell below about 38%, a strong base for a high-powered campaign when the time comes, since he does not need 51% tow-in under America’s electoral college election system.
Though he has been criticised for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and accompanying economic collapse, with 43 million newly jobless and 111 000 dead from the virus, his polling held up surprisingly well. But the last few weeks have seen his support slipping significantly.
The five months left of this campaign could produce almost anything in a year that has already combined the pandemic of 1918, the Great Depression of the 1930s and the civil disobedience uprisings of 1968.
Former vice-president Joe Biden, who this week clinched the number of votes he needs to win the Democratic presidential nomination, is showing strong support despite signs of ageing.
Biden is well-known and well-liked. Most Americans are aware he lost a wife and child in a car crash in his twenties, that he was a single father for years, and that his son, Beau, died in 2016. That appears to give him some immunity from Trump’s effective tactic of belittling and abusing opponents.
Biden is building a wider coalition that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton managed in 2016. Republicans like him and he has Republican friends.
A slew of influential conservative public intellectuals and columnists prefer him to Trump, who they do not believe reflects their values. At the same time, Biden has quietly moved some policies to the left to consolidate the support of Senator Bernie Sanders.
‘Law and order’ platform
Trump admires former president Richard Nixon, and hopes to repeat his 1968 victory on a “law and order” platform. Biden is counting on the fact that the country has changed since then. In 1968, close to 80% of voters were white. Now less than 60% are. What is more, they have grown up in more diverse classrooms and their changed racial attitudes are reflected in this week’s protests.
Trump’s prospects look more shaky than they have ever looked, but 2020 is likely to remain a roller coaster ride. I think the last fortnight is different, but we’ve all been wrong before. Tighten your seatbelts. The ride will stay bumpy.
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