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Former FS Premier
Ntombela launches
Sefora Ntombela
Foundation
The Foundation, which was established in
2019, focuses on women’s development,
including HIV and AIDS issues; Violence
against women and homicide...
SPORTS
Sports Minister,
SAFA Pres & former
Bafana Captain visit
the Barker family
Minister of Sports, Arts, and Culture Zizi Kodwa,
President of SAFA, Dr. Danny Jordaan, and former
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EFF calls for
resignation
of Dihlabeng
Mayor
following
his arrest
Commemorates
YOUTH DAY
FRIDAY JUNE 16

02 News | 16 JUNE 2023
EFF calls for resignation of Dihlabeng Mayor following his arrest
EFF Thabo Mofutsanyana Region calls
for Immediate Resignation of the Mayor
of Dihlabeng Local Municipality Tseki
Tseki following his arrest on Monday.
On the same day, Tseki and Busa
Molatseli, the former municipal
manager, also appeared in the Bethlehem
Magistrates Court to face charges
of money laundering, fraud, theft,
corruption, and violating the Municipal
Finance Management Act.
The matter involves a memo he had
written to pay the former Municipal
Manager R250000 for leave days while
he was suspended.
The mayor and the municipal manager
were both out on bail of R5,000 each.
Their case will now be heard on Thursday,
August 10th.
According to Lieutenant-Colonel Zweli
Mohobeleli, a complaint regarding
alleged irregular salary payments to the
former municipal manager led to the
mayor’s arrest in December 2021.
“A warrant for their arrest was issued
in May 2023 following intense Hawks
investigation,” he said.
Mohobeleli claimed that he wrote a
memo to the mayor asking for a refund
of his salary while Molatseli was
suspended while a separate criminal case
against him was pending.
“Tseki has signed that memorandum
without the approval of Council thereby
resulting in losses to the municipality
amounting to about R250 000,” he said.
Former FS Premier Ntombela launches the
Sefora Ntombela Foundation in Namahadi
The Foundation, which was
established in 2019, focuses on
women’s development, including
HIV and AIDS issues; Violence against
women and homicide; Community
empowerment project; and any additional
initiatives that communities propose.
Former Free State Premier Sefora
Ntombela has launched the Sefora
Ntombela Foundation in Namahadi
Frankfort on Sunday.
The foundation also focuses on the
following:
● Youth development which includes
information sessions, linking them with
partners involved in youth development
issues;
● People with Disabilities which involve
training sessions for their rights and
responsibilities.
The foundation currently operate in
Tweeling, Frankfort (Fezile Dabi district);
Rosendal, Clocolan and Ladybrand virtual
satelite offices (Thabo Mofutsanyane
District); “The intention is to establish a
presence in all districts.” said Foundation
in a Statement.
Former Free State Premier Sefora
Ntombela has launched the Sefora
Ntombela Foundation in Namahadi
Frankfort on Sunday.
Ntombela says has always been an advocate
for the protection of women, children
and other vulnerable groups. “The high
levels of Gender Based Violence in our
country are a serious cause for concern.
So high are these numbers that we have
become numb to the horror and violence
perpetrated against women, children and
the vulnerable. In any other society and
under normal circumstances, this violence
would demand serious action.
And while I appreciate government
intervention and the efforts of the police in
addressing this issue, I feel that ordinary
South Africans must play an active role.
This is because these crimes happen in
our towns, townships and villages. We
know the victims, but importantly, in most
cases, the perpetrator is also somebody
we know!”added Ntombela.
At the launch yesterday, the foundation
heard of families who lost loved ones to
senseless and callous violence.
“We learned of Mosidi Mokoena, who
had her throat slit, allegedly by someone
close to her, possibly a jealous boyfriend.
We also heard of Mme Adelina Makhoba,
who was 74 years old. Mme Makhoba
was raped and murdered.
We also heard of Tlale Motaung who was
found strangled and stuffed inside a bag.
These were, but some of the horror stories
we heard.
Government, for all its efforts, cannot
fight this battle alone. “
The foundation encourages the people to
talk about issues that are troubling them.
“Re seke ra shwela ka hare. We must all
play a part.
That is why we have enlisted the services
of professionals who will walk this
journey with us.”
The foundation has: A nurse – She will
help victims to access medical help in the
unfortunate event that they are attacked.
Social Worker: The social worker will
provide support to victims.
Lawyer – She will see to it that their cases
are prosecuted and the perpetrators are
sent to prison for a long time. Ntombela
said these are the first steps in building
the foundation and hopefully, as time
goes on, we will get more help from other
professionals. I would like to once again
thank everyone who made it possible to
establish and launch the foundation.

16 JUNE 2023 |
Bloemfontein man
sentenced 15 years
for stealing copper
cables
Bloemfontein - Sergeant Mahlomola
Kareli, the police spokesperson,
confirmed that Ntsokolo Motoale, 32, was
convicted and sentenced on June 9, 2023,
by the Bloemfontein Regional Court for
theft of copper cable and tampering with
infrastructure.
“On 19 November 2022 at about 00:30
Parkweg South African Police Service
members were on patrol in the CBD when
they saw a man carrying a heavy bag and
freshly cut wires” said Kareli.
The suspect was stopped by the police,
who discovered that he had suspected
copper cables in his possession that were
confirmed to have been stolen from the
Transnet train yard and to be worth an
estimated R11 000-00.
Investigations were extended by Par
weg Investigator Warrant officer GP Nel
who made a disclosure that the railway
company experienced a mi fortune worth
R1 million every day after the harm and
altering of its framework.
On Monday, Ketso Toto Makume, Acting
Premier of the Free State and MEC for
COGTA and Human Settlements, met
with the management of the Sasol firm to
discuss pressing community issues.
This initiative is part of a District
Development Model (DDM) which
encourages all the three spheres of
government to coordinate, integrate and
mobilise the capacity and resources of
government and civil society, including
business, labour and community, in pursuit
of inclusive growth and job creation.
The Acting Premier was joined by the MEC
of Social Development Me Motshidise
Koloi and Finance MEC Gadija Brown
for the last leg of the Imbizo programme
News 03
Acting Premier Makume meets with SASOL
Company to address community issues
The Free State Acting Premier Ketso
Toto Makume has welcomed the SIU and
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision
to look into the premier’s office’s claims
of fraud and corruption during Ace
Magashule’s time in office.
Concerns about improper administration
were raised in the auditor-general’s report
titled “Report of the auditor-general to the
Free State Legislature on vote no,” which
prompted the investigation.
1: Department of the Premier” on July 31,
which was begun on Friday in Fezile Dabi
Region.
The purpose of this visit was to look
into forming a partnership with the Sasol
company to create opportunities that will
be beneficial to the community as a whole.
“The focus is on upskilling the youth,
empowering communities and increasing
the quality of relevant skills” said Makume
Makume pleaded with the Sasol Company
to find ways in combating pollution.
“Excessive air pollution from industrial
production in the Sasolburg area is
affecting the residents’ health in general.
“ added Makume.
Makume said Residents of Zamdela
township are expose
Makume welcomes SIU Investigation
into Magashule’s Tenure as Premier
2019, and October 27, 2020, respectively.
In 2021, the commission of inquiry into state
capture also discussed the controversial
bursary program.
The SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago
said the agency will Investigate any irregular,
improper or unlawful conduct by officials
or employees at the Office of the Premier.
According to Acting Premier Makume, he
reaffirms the Free State Executive Council’s
position that he will support any legal
investigation into any illegal activity by any
member of the public administration.
“Funds that are siphoned off from the
public purse, prejudice citizens and the
poor in particular, in as far as access to
service delivery goes.” said Makume.
“The Free State Provincial Government
commits to combat corruption and all kinds
of malfeasance in all their manifestation;
thus, will leave no stone unturned, in
exposing and bringing all rogue elements
to account for their proven deeds of illicit
conduct.

04 News | 16 JUNE 2023
ANC expels Ace Magashule after being found
guilty of violating party constitution
The African National Congress
has confirmed that its Former
Secretary General Ace
Magashule has been expelled as
a member after he was found guilty of
violating party constitution .
The National Disciplinary Committee
(NDC) of the African National Congress
(ANC) says it met to deliberate on charges
preferred against its former Secretary-
General, Ace Magashule.
ANC says Magashule was found guilty
of contravening Rules 25.17.12, 25.17.3,
12.1 and 12.2.20 of the ANC Constitution.
“After a guilty verdict by the NDC,
Comrade Ace Magashule was allowed to
show cause why he should not be expelled
from the ANC. Upon the lapse of seven
(7) days, the NDC had not received any
representations to that effect.” said ANC
in a Statement
“Consequently, the NDC confirmed the
expulsion of comrade Ace Magashule
from the ANC as a final sanction”
Magashule had 7 days to give the ANC
justifications for why he ought not be
removed.
Magashule has been viewed as at
legitimate fault for wrongdoing for
neglecting to apologize to the party
subsequent to endeavoring to singularly
suspend party president Cyril Ramaphosa
in 2021.
By announcing that he had suspended
Ramaphosa, Magashule attempted to side
with him.
“I have also, in accordance with the powers
vested in me as the secretary-general of the
ANC, and furthermore in full compliance
with the relevant conference resolutions,
summarily suspended the president of the
ANC, Comrade Cyril Ramaphosa.”
‘The image of the ANC’
Political analyst Rebone Tau suggested
that Magashule’sexpulsion could
potentially affect the party negatively. Tau
said the expulsion came as a shock and
was not expected as Magashule is “at the
lowest politically.”
“I don’t think he can actually do any harm
to the organisation at the moment. But
this expulsion can actually do more harm
to the organisation.”
Tau said the ANC has failed to learn from
expelling some its leaders like former
ANCYL leader Julius Malema. She has
suggested that expulsion should be the
last resort for the party.
Sanco attacks
establishment of
parallel structures
On Thursday, the South African
National Civic Organisation
(SANCO) in the Free State province
has condemned individuals who are
attempting to form and establish a bogus
interim provincial structure (IPC).
This comes after the SACP and COSATU
in the province led by Bheki Stofile
and Monyatso Mahlatsi assembled all
existing factions of the civic organisation
in the province in effort to unite the civic
organisation, in Bloemfontein at Hillside
B&B Conference Hall.
“SANCO State has learned with great
agitation that there are individuals that
are attempting to nonchalantly derail the
progress of uniting the civic movement
in the province by establishing a bogus
interim provincial structure although
much work has already been done on
the ground to unify all factions, SANCO
condemns this opportunistic behaviour with
utmost contempt,” said Sanco Provincial
Coordinator, Gift Poli.
Poli has already called for all members of
the Sanco to unite and show commitment in
building a civic organisation.
“The soul of the civic movement is once
more contested by a mob of reckless
individuals who fail to appreciate the
gravitas of a fragmented SANCO in the
province, individuals who were given
opportunity to unite SANCO but rather
refused because of power mongering, greed
and the lack of conscience, they move now
today because of the revolutionary efforts
began by COSATU and the SACP on the 13
of May 2023 in Mangaung , these charlatans
do not even have membership records, no
structures, they are not even present on the
ground where communities need them the
most,” Poli said.
Poli claimed that there are people who are
benefitting from the divisions of SANCO.
“… some who continue to help themselves
with money that was intended to assist
communities, proceeds from rental and
other strategic relationships that the civic
movement managed to foster in time past.”
The civic organisation is expected to host
their provincial elective conference in less
than 90 days, the three and all existing
factions of the Sanco were discouraged
from existing.
These factions have been in and out of
Gauteng High Court since their inception.
“The move to unite SANCO was at first
met with much resistance, this resistance
was inspired by a cabal within the civic
movement that enjoys a camaraderie of
looting organisational resources, this
cabal enjoyed the fragmented state of
SANCO such that it would continue looting
unbothered.”
This is one of the first primary challenges
faced by the newly appointed provincial
task teams (PTT).
The PTT led by Godfrey Mayekiso as the
Convener and Poli as the Coordinator is
expected to lead the project of an elective
conference in less than three months.
Musa Tsholeka and McDonald Donald are
appointed as the 1 st deputy Convener and 2
nd deputy Convener.
Dudu Nkosi as deputy Coordinator,
German Ramathebane as Fundraiser and
Mxolosi Pali as Organiser. These include 37
additional members who are part of the PTT.
The PTT is expected to disband all regions
and formulate united regional task teams.
The names of the additional members
have been announced by the Sanco in the
province.

16 JUNE 2023 |
A
seasoned communicator! To
many of us, Comrade Sello
Molibeli was an embodiment
of many things, depending
on how we remember him as different
people, hence I am not astonished at the
extraordinary reaction to the news of his
demise, it came like a bolt from the blue,
extremely untimely.
There comes a time in the life of every
revolutionary, when after sunrise, the sun
must set, and when that moment comes,
the remailing revolutionaries should not
be at a loss for words to describe the life
and times of the fallen soldier. This time,
it is the case with Comrade Sello Molibeli.
Many of us met Sello Molibeli at various
stages of our lives, be that as it may, I met
him while doing revolutionary duties,
and vividly, we met during our days as
community media journalists, during his
tenure as the head of Communications
and Marketing in Fezile Dabi district
municipality.
The period that plays out loud in my mind
was when we were preparing for the visit
and sitting of the National Council of
Province in Parys, ARWA to be specific.
Cde Sello, like any tried and tested
spokesperson, public participation or
communication practitioner should know,
media relations should be an art, mastered
with humility, diligence and commitment,
coupled with experience built over the
years.
During one of the media sessions hosted
at Lentswe FM studios, he emphasised
that the NCOP will a watershed moment
in the history of Fezile Dabi Region as
the (former) President of the country,
Cde Thabo Mbeki will be addressing the
nation on key matters including Merafong
demarcation debacle. I still remember
how I captured the strategic approach by
Pres Thabo Mbeki, using the Merafong
situation on his way to his famous ‘I am
an African’ signature. Therefore, there
was no space for mediocrity, as that was
a watershed stage in our lifetime, for we
News 05
Naale regards Sello Molibeli as a seasoned communicator
NW Police Launch Manhunt
for two ‘dangerous’
detainees who escaped
from custody
The North West Police have launched a
manhunt for two awaiting trial detainees who
escaped from legal custody between Monday
evening, June 12, and Tuesday morning, June
13, 2023.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Sabata Mo
gwabone said Mandla Mongwe (30) and
Nemagovhani Thendo (36) were in detention
for aggravated robbery and burglary.
“The pair escaped through the roof after
cutting holding cell’s burglar doors.” added
Mokgeabone.
The escape’s circumstances are still the
subject of investigation.
Since the escapees are thought to be dange
ous, the community is being asked not to try
to catch them but to call the nearest police
station instead.
On the other hand, the police demand any
individual who might have information
with respect to their whereabouts to call the
Investigating Officer, Detective Captain
Johannes Botes on 082 416 0961 or call the
South African Police Service (SAPS) Crime
Stop on 08600 10111. Anonymous tip-offs can
also be communicated through MySAPS App.
may never pass this way again. Myself
and Thomas Nopheche were among the
media functionaries. Thomas Nopheche
went on to occupy the position left void by
Cde Sello in subsequent years, while I got
earmarked for Communications function
in Ngwathe local municipality.
Trying to motivate one another as
government communicators in a
challenged arena, with its own dynamics,
we coined ‘we are not giving up until
we get it right’. It was during that period
as young journalists we learned with
comprehension how tactically Cde Sello
mastered the art, unaware that in future
we will find ourselves in his shoes.
Fast-forward, after we joined government
communications in Fezile Dabi, myself,
Thomas Nopheche, Dika Kheswa and
Dr Gino Alberts, we were motivated and
inducted into the political and government
communications system by Cde Sello, Cde
Qondile Khedama, Cde Thabo Meeko,
Cde Oupa Khoabane, Cde Tembeni Skully
Nxangisa, Cde Mandla Maseko (RIP),
Cde Teboho Sikisi (RIP), to mention but a
few. Even today, we still look upon those
pioneers who are still standing.
In a nutshell, Comrade Sello will be
remembered by different people, in
different ways, be that as it may, we are
proud to have worked with him both as
a communicator, public participation
practitioner and a cadre of our movement.
As government and political
communicators and functionaries, we are
not hesitant to say, he helped to shape
strategies and tactics that we shall continue
to use, not to popularize ourselves, but to
respond to the fundamental challenges
facing our people at all times.
For all of this, we salute you Comrade
Sello and we say you have run your race.
Ultimately, he joined a galaxy of stars
such the late Teboho ‘Shoes’ Sikisi, who
excellently strode across government and
political communication like a colossal.
Amandla!
Steve Naale is the Spokesperson for
Ngwathe local municipality, writing on
his personal capacity!

06 Classifieds | 16 JUNE 2023
cnclassifieds
9th suspect in the
Thabo Bester case
appears in court
Xanda Moyo is the latest suspect to appear in the
Bloemfontein magistrate’s court over his alleged role
in helping rapist and murderer Thabo Bester escape
from prison last year.
The Zimbabwean is charged with violating a corpse, fraud and
harbouring and concealing an escaped offender. Moyo, accused
nine in the matter between the state and Bester, made his first
court appearance on Tuesday after being apprehended by police
in Johannesburg on Sunday morning.
Moyo appeared without legal representation and asked the
court to allow him to contact his family regarding the matter.
The accused also indicated that he speaks Northern Ndebele
and asked that proceedings be translated into Zulu as it is the
closest to his language.
The state requested that the matter be postponed to gather
further information. Magistrate Mohlolo Khabisi joined
Moyo’s case with that of the eight other accused — including
Bester himself — who are all expected to be back in court on
20 June.
Bester escaped from the Mangaung maximum security prison
in May last year after he misled authorities into believing he
had committed suicide.
Khabisi granted bail of R10 000 each to two of the accused;
Nastassja Jansen, a former employee at multinational security
company G4S — which managed the prison — as well as
Zolile Sikelele, the father of Nandipha Magudumana, another
accused in the matter.
Khabisi denied bail to four people — former G4S employees
Motanyane Masukela, Senohe Matsoara and Tieho Makhotsa,
as well as James Lipholo, a camera technician.
The accused face charges of assisting an inmate to escape and
defeating the ends of justice, arson and fraud.
Meanwhile, Magudumana has lost, with costs, an urgent
application in the Free State high court for an order declaring
her apprehension with Bester in Tanzania, and subsequent
transportation to South Africa,
unlawful.
Last week, Judge Philip Loubser found Magudumana had
consented to her removal from the East African country by
South African home affairs officials because she wanted to
return home “to be with her children”.
“At the very least she had willingly acquiesced to her
transportation back to South Africa,” the judge said.
He referred to case law, determined by the supreme court of
appeal, which held that where the transportation of a person
investigated for criminal offences from a foreign jurisdiction is
consented to, there is no violation of the person’s fundamental
human rights or of international law.
Magudumana faces multiple charges of fraud and corruption,
as well as violating a corpse, harbouring and concealing an
escaped offender and defeating the ends of justice.
Bester has abandoned his application for bail. The criminal
trial is set to begin on 20 June when Moyo is expected to
indicate whether he will apply for bail.

16 JUNE 2023 |
Opinion 07
opinion
The ANC was founded in 1912 in
the Union of South Africa under
British colonial rule. It did not
have a youth league until 1944.
The idea of an ANC Youth League is
attributed to Anton Lembede.
He fashioned the idea together with Walter
Sisulu, Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela,
and others. In 1943, they presented it to
ANC President-General, Dr Alfred Bitini
Xuma (a medical doctor and specialist in
the treatment of tropical diseases). The
league was finally established in 1944
after some resistance from Xuma and
some of his peers.
Dr A B Xuma became President-General
of the ANC in 1939 after persuasion
by the Rev James Calata to assume the
role. Before this, he was operating his
own medical practice in down town
Johannesburg. Calata himself became
Secretary-General. Throughout the
1930s, the ANC was largely rudderless
and was hardly effective as a national
movement under the leadership of Pixley
Isaka kaSeme.
Xuma’s administrative proficiency
helped restore public confidence in the
organisation and prepared it to receive
growing numbers of youth at a time when
there was a raging World War against
Nazism in Europe. This is the background
that led to the original motivation for the
ANC Youth League by Anton Lembede
and his peers.
These young African militants felt very
strongly that the ANC had become
moribund and needed rejuvenation to
respond to the growing threat presented
by a militant white minority, especially
the Afrikaners. They felt that there was a
need for concentrated effort by the youth
in opposing the colonial minority in the
Union of South Africa (a dominion of
Great Britain at the time).
When the National Party won elections in
1948 to set up its apartheid government,
the league was already adequately
prepared to engage in effective opposition.
Many of its members were to become
the generation that fought a hard, long
struggle leading to the demise of apartheid
and the National Party in 1994.
The apartheid government decided to ban
the ANC and all opposition by Africans
in 1960, the same year that it declared
an apartheid Republic and independence
from Great Britain.
This forced the ANC to operate
underground and to go into exile.
However, the Youth League could not
continue under these conditions. In exile,
a Youth Section was maintained. When
the ANC was unbanned in 1990, the Youth
League was revived, and Peter Mokaba
became its first President.
There has been no effective Youth League
in the ANC since the expulsion of Julius
Malema in 2012. Various schemes have
been set up by the ANC leadership to try
to pacify the youth not to be critical of
bad leadership. All these schemes have
had the effect of demobilising the youth.
As a result, the ANC is closer to where it
was during the 1930s, but now as a ruling
party.
While on the face of it, the ANC appears
to have a national footprint, in reality,
there is chaos, with many branches
largely dysfunctional. Unfortunately,
this chaos and dysfunction is sponsored
by ANC leaders to protect themselves
from the youth. In the same vein, it will
take a courageous leadership to create
conditions for youth to thrive inside and
outside the ANC.
In order for the Youth League to thrive, it
must be able to respond to events and to
shape the national agenda for change. If
needs be, it
must be able to do so even when this causes
displeasure to the leadership as long as
the discipline of the ANC is maintained.
A militant youth is needed to prevent the
ANC from sinking into terminal decline
and irrelevance. This is in the spirit of
the generation of Anton Lembede, OR
Tambo, Nelson Mandela and their peers.
South Africa is presently going through
a period of challenges somewhat similar
to those of the 1930s. World imperialism
is throwing its weight all over the world.
There is a war in Ukraine, where the
Russian Federation launched a special
military operation.
At the same time, Western countries
under the umbrella of Nato are funding
Ukraine and supplying them with arms.
In South Africa, itself, forces allied to
the World Economic Forum (WEF) are
openly siding with Western countries and
are critical of the neutral stance taken
by the government. This is against the
background of an ANC that no longer
openly champions the Freedom Charter
to bring the commanding heights of the
economy under state control and guidance
for the benefit of the people as a whole.
On the home front, South Africa is
without electricity supply. Eskom has
been rendered dysfunctional by an
alliance of corrupt business and political
By Prof. B. Dikela Majuqwana
Restoring ANC Youth League to former glory a tough task
interests. These same corrupt interests
want Eskom to be privatised so that they
can take ownership of it. An ANC Youth
League that emerges must be alert to these
shenanigans.
“The youth shall be taught to love the
people” is the patriotic spirit of the
Freedom Charter that requires revival
as a foundation for public policy. From
this, it follows that the youth must aim to
reconstitute the South African economy
on the basis of national self-sufficiency
in natural resources, science, technology,
institutions, financial system, and so
on. This is all the more important in
view of an increasingly aggressive West
threatening to impose sanctions on South
Africa for maintaining a historic alliance
with the Russian Federation and other
anti-imperialist nations.
Revitalising the ANC Youth League as a
force to champion the Freedom Charter
will be fruitless if it does not lead to a
recognition of the limits of capitalist
development and also does not put on
the agenda the need for socialist ideals
alongside the Freedom Charter.
Such ideals go beyond the role of the state
in the economy and place the working
class at the centre. After all, the youth
constitute a majority of the working
class and also makes up society’s most
productive segment.
*Prof. B. Dikela Majuqwana is a
founding member of the National Union
of Scientists and Engineers

08 Sports | 16 JUNE 2023
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Percy Tau wins his second CAF Champions League
Percy Tau won his second Caf Champions
League winners’ medal, and played a
crucial role, scoring a goal and playing
about 180 minutes of the two-legged
final, as Al Ahly beat Wydad Casablanca
to lift the trophy on Sunday night.
Tau scored a headed opener in the 2-1
win in first leg of the final in Cairo last
weekend when he played the full 90
minutes plus added time.
He did not score in the second leg but put
in the running as Ahly gritted out a 1-1
draw in Casablanca, being substituted in
the 86th minute.
Ahly shared a video of Tau showing his
teammates the right dance moves as they
waited for their plane home on Sunday
night.
Tau also won the Champions League
in 2016 when he was a key player in
Pitso Mosimane’s triumphant Mamelodi
Sundowns combination that beat Ahly’s
Egyptian rivals Zamalek in the final.
Mosimane, the coach who took Tau to
Al Ahly from Brighton when he was in
charge of the Red Devils, was among
the first to weigh in and congratulate his
former player.
Mosimane tweeted: “Patriotic Lion of
Judah wearing the respectable South
African flag. That flag is very notorious
with winning major trophies in different
countries and continents!
“Thank God injuries gave you a break
to show your talent. My player of the
tournament and a Champion of Africa.”
Mosimane also congratulated his former
club, tweeting: “Congratulations to the
Red Eagles, Red Army, coach and the
technical team, President ‘Bibo’ Khatib
[Mahmoud El Khatib] and the board. For
many years you have figured out how to
win this Cup.”
Tau’s excellent form and confidence
buoyed by a Champions League gold
medal will be a welcome boost to Hugo
Broos as he expects the Ahly striker’s
arrival this week for Bafana Bafana’s
2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying
matchup against Morocco at FNB Stadium
on Friday (5pm).
It will be the striker’s second meeting
against a crack Moroccan outfit in less
than a week. Coach Walid Regragui’s
Atlas Lions made history by becoming
the first African team to reach a World
Cup semifinal in Qatar in December last
year.
Sports Minister, SAFA President, former
Bafana captain visits the Barker family
Minister of Sports, Arts, and Culture Zizi
Kodwa, President of the South African
Football Association (SAFA), Dr. Danny
Jordaan, and former Bafana Bafana
captain Neil Tovey paid their respects
to Clive Barker’s family in Glenwood,
Durban on Monday.
After a courageous battle with Lewy Body
Dementia (LBD), the coach who won the
Africa Cup of Nations passed away on
Saturday, June 10, 2023.
“We want to celebrate this life but in
doing so we thought we should come to
the family and hear their wishes,” the
Minister said.
Dr Jordaan said SAFA will continue
to honour Barker through some of the
programmes that the Association has,
especially in the SAFA Academy, youth
courses and scouting, among others.
“We met with the family and we were
happy to be there during this difficult time,”
the SAFA President. “We will always
remember Clive and will honour him with
several other initiatives, including the
SAFA/Clive Barker Academy .”
SAFA Technical Director Walter Steenbok
confirmed that plans were already in the
works. They were proposed and developed
by the SAFA Technical Director, and
approved at the last SAFA Congress.
“The SAFA Academy will be renamed
SAFA/Clive Barker Academy, which
is going to d liver specialised courses
in youth, conditioning, scouting,
performance and data analysis and other
emerging courses in modern football,”
Steenbok said.
“It will fall under SAFA Education, which
includes Coach Education and the SAFA
Academy. Coach Education offers CAFaccredited
courses from CAF D to CAF
Pro, including Goalkeeping etc, whilst
SAFA Academy deals with specialised
courses.”