Police brutality in South Africa

BY: Thokozani Nkosi

Police brutality in South Africa

Police officers of this country have turn their job description into something else that is totally not fighting crime, instead killers with no heart.

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While the nation was shocked about the brutal killing of the Mozambique an man in Daveytone Johannesburg after dragged by the police van on the road then locked in the cell where he died, everyone was  expecting  that the police will be apologetic and fell sorry. On my surprise, not even a month later another case of the very same happened in Mafikeng where police again we reported that they assaulted a man and then dragged him with their vehicle. Now I am totally worried because the people we as citizen have to trust for our safety are the very same that are torturing us.

Minister Nathi Mthethwa and Rea Phiega the police commissioner have an assignment of making sure that the country has good law enforcers that are discipline and dedicated in working for the country in the fight against crime and peace restoration in the country.

A voice of no confidence to the Tshwane municipality council

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By Thokozani Nkosi
On Saturday almost all the ANC region that form the Tshwane municipality we gathered in the municipal council to voice out their dissatisfaction towards the leadership of the municipality.

About 280 delegates from; Hamanskral, Soshanguve, Attrechviel, Mawiki, Mamelodi and Metsweding were having a meeting in the Tshwane municipal hall to discuss issues that touches the residence staying to these region as well as voicing out their dissatisfaction about all the structures that form the Tshwane municipality. All these regions had agreed with the motion of voting out the current leadership and replace them by temporal leadership until after the2014 elections.

To some of the problems they are complaining about, is the dropping of membership of the ANC within the Tshwane district. They accused the leadership for bribing people so that they vote for them. Some of their grievances also include corruption, nepotism, division of branches, and too much involvement of councillors in community projects and poor service delivery.

They have concluded the meeting by ordering the leadership of the ANC in the Tshwane district to write a letter to the ANC general secretary informing him that they no longer have confident over the Tshwane mayor and all the leading structures of the municipality, and they want temporal structure to lead the municipality until the 2014  election. 

The profile of the late Hugo Rafael Chavez Frías( Venezuelan president)

• NAME: Hugo Rafael Chavez Frías
• OCCUPATION: World Leader
• BIRTH DATE: July 28, 1954
• DEATH DATE: March 05, 2013
• EDUCATION: Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences

Born in Sabaneta, Venezuela, on July 28, 1954, Hugo Chavez attended the Venezuelan military academy and served as an army officer before participating in an effort to overthrow the government in 1992, for which he was sentenced to two years in prison. Chavez became president of Venezuela in 1999.

Venezuelan President

After taking office in 1999, Chavez set out to change the Venezuelan constitution, amending the powers of congress and the judicial system. As a part of the new constitution, the name of the country was changed to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

As president, Chavez encountered challenges both at home and abroad. His efforts to tighten his hold on the state-run oil company in 2002 stirred up controversy and led to numerous protests, and he found himself removed from power briefly in April 2002 by military leaders. The protests continued after his return to power, leading to a referendum on whether Chavez should remain president. The referendum vote was held in August 2004, and a majority of voters decided to let Chavez complete his term in office.

Hostility TowardS the U.S.

Chavez was known for being outspoken and dogmatic throughout his presidency, refusing to hold back any of his opinions or criticisms. He insulted oil executives, church officials and other world leaders, and was particularly hostile with the United States government, which, he believed, was responsible for the failed 2002 coup against him.  

May his soul rest in peace.

ONLINE JOURNALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA.

The Times Live

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Basically this online publication combine sites like Sunday World, Sowetan Live, BDlive, Books live and many other media live sites. Times covers National stories, politics, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, food, sci-tech, travel, opinion and blogs. Ontop of the publication it start with hot topics that makes stories on that time of the day.

Before the start of the stories there are clothing adverts that are posted. The stories begin with National stories that are breaking news and after that there is editor’s choice with sub topics where public put their views concerning the stories. The right part of the publication is where there lot of adverts and subscribing option, lifestyle stories and entertainment. In the middle of the publication there is sports news. Below the sports news the follow the business news. Then at the bottom it covers African and world stories.

The last segment of the publication covers videos of the top stories and cartoons nice publication and list of title stories that are breaking news. This publication is an interesting publication that covers almost everything that a reader will like.

                    City press

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City press is one of the big newspapers in South Africa; hence it is also an online publication accessible in the internet. On their online publication they cover National stories, politics, business, sports, entertainment, multimedia, opinion, cartoons and editor’s choice.

This online publication is more of a power point presentation. It begins with the highlights of adverts that they have inside the publication followed by the name city press on top. Then follow the links of varieties of stories that are covered inside. Hot topic or breaking news are the one that are at the beginning with words in a slide show followed by the main story with a picture and headline. Related links on that story are provided below the main story. Other national stories, sports, business and entertainment followed.

The City Press does have videos, galleries and graphics it have voices of the people they put their comment on and suggestion on different topics. Graphics and cartoons are included to convey meaning of certain stories. At the end there are contacts of the publication, adverts contact, subscribing ways and delivery ways.

The Sowetan

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The main menu of the Sowetan covers news, sports, entertainment, columnist good life, helpline, shwashwi, blogs and jobs. They are also available on face book and twitter. They have online services such as adverts online, subscribe to news letter, mobile and RSS Feeds.

They start with national stories that are making headlines on the day including photos, the next segment are sports news most covering South Africa. Following are entertainment stories most with artist especially singers and actors. After that follow the world news stories followed by business brief giving more updates about world market and prices. Then followed the editor’s choice. The last segment is the multimedia showing pictures, videos and graphic works.