Tefu Mashamaeti

A former Kaizer Chiefs captain himself, Patrick Mabedi has a few insights on Amakhosi’s current captain, Tefu Mashamaite. What kind of leader does Mabedi think ‘Masha’ is, and does Mabedi think he deserves to retain the captain’s armband even when Khune is once again playing regularly for the team?Soccer Laduma: Tefu Mashamaite was made Kaizer Chiefs’ captain in the absence of Itumeleng Khune. What has been your impression of his performances as captain so far?Patrick Mabedi:He has done very well. I know he started slowly with his career at the team, but after being given a chance by Coach Baxter, he has proven that he is a good defender. He has done very well and his partnership with Mathoho has been excellent for the team and for him as a player. SL: What does it take it to be Kaizer Chiefs’ captain?PM:It is hard to be captain of a big brand like Chiefs. It needs someone who is a natural born leader who has a big heart. From what I have seen, Tefu has a big heart and he commands his teammates very well. You also need to understand the needs of the team and make sure you are results oriented.SL: Do you think Mashamaite has all those attributes?PM:As I have said, I think he has done very well as a player since joining the team and he has risen well in his position. He has proven that he can lead the team and work very well with the other players, which is very important if you are the captain. I think he has done very well. SL: How difficult is it being a captain when there are so many other top-class players in the team?PM:It's hard, not just at Chiefs but at any team. You have to communicate with all the players in the same way, whether they are a big name player or just a young guy. You have to be strong mentally, as well as mix and talk well with the players. SL: Do you think Chiefs would miss him if he decided not to re-sign with them after his contract expires in June?PM:Oh, yes! He has proven that they need him in the team and, knowing Chiefs, they will make sure that they keep him at the club. But if they don't hold on to him, it will be a big loss for the team.

Re-burial of Cde JB Marks

Descendants, friends and comrades
of the late African National
Congress (ANC) and South African
Communist Party (SACP) stalwart,
JB Marks, are paying homage to
him as they prepare to lay his
remains to rest in his home town
of Ventersdorp in the North West.
They have all gathered at the
family home for a valedictory
service on Sunday morning.
Marks’ reburial ceremony, which
will also be attended by President
Jacob Zuma, is expected to take
place at the Tshing Sports
Grounds later.
Halima Marks, the granddaughter
of the late ANC stalwart, says she
is grateful that the remains of her
grandfather will finally be laid to
rest in the country he fought for.
“From the Marks family, we are
grateful for what the government
has done, we are extremely happy
yet emotional,” says Halima.
Marks’ great granddaughter,
Emlynne Duarte (13), says she
feels proud to be related to the late
Marks.
“We are happy his remains are
brought back, because it is very
sad for someone to die away from
home,” says Duarte.
Marks passed away in 1972 in
Moscow, Russia.

Message of encouragement

I like to take this moment to encourage young people and older people.

We as people we must learn to be patient because patience paid. We must not fold our arms doing nothing. We must not let people to discourage us. We must always be positive so that things will be positive in our side, we must not be negative so that things will not be negative.

FAIL is first attempt in learning, we not fail because we stupid we fail because we not take our school work serious. We must study "SMART" not  "HARD" so that our school work will be smart not hard.

We must form study groups so that we will cover up what we taught and that can can make you to improve your performance and passing rate in general.

Gaesi Samuel Mmusi's personal details.

Mmusi, Samuel Gaaesi (NA)
Political Party: African National Congress
Position: Member of Parliament
CONTACT DETAILS
Parliament
Tel: 021 403 2665
Email: smmusi@parliament.gov.za
Postal
Address: PO Box 15
Cape Town
8000
Constituency
Parliamentary Committee
Membership
PC on Rural Development and
Land Reform; PC on Sports and
Recreation
Parliamentary Career
Current: MP since 2009
Past: SADTU branch Chairperson
(2003-2009) ANC branch
Deputy Chairperson
(2008-2009) ANC branch
Deputy Chairperson
(2005-2007) ANC branch
Deputy Chairperson
(2003-2005) Community
(ward) negotiator on
electricity (2000-2001)
Political Career:
Past: SADTU branch Chairperson
(2003-2009) ANC branch
Deputy Chairperson
(2008-2009) ANC branch
Deputy Chairperson
(2005-2007) ANC branch
Deputy Chairperson
(2003-2005) Community
(ward) negotiator on
electricity (2000-2001)
Education:
BAED (1994-1999)
Personal Interests:
Political Reading

Our concerns as COSAS leadership

We as students leadership we must
rescue our members against
harassment and we must not let
teachers date learners, if teacher date
learner he/she must resign, if he/she
don't do that we can help her/him to
do so, we are not apologetic no one
must pay, now is time to act, if funds
that department of education is
allocating is not enough is not our
problem or our parents. We must act
whether teachers like us or not, we
must make our members happy not
teachers and we must correct this
things of suspension without warning
in our schools, I quote from freedom
charter "The doors of learning and
culture shall be opened, Education
shall be free, compulsory, universal
and equal for all children".

Matters that concerns myself.

I like to take this moment to express myself in the matter concerns myself, I wouldn't let my failure to discourage me but to encourage, if you fail to do something, know that is not end of the world, to fail is give you chance to correct what you've done wrong,  don't focus on negative but focus on positive and don't let anyone to discourage you. People will always talk whether you done wrong/good things but don't let them to discourage yourself, this earth has many challenges that we must pass through so that we will be better men and women in the future. We must not let our past to discourage us, we must not focus on the past, we must focus on present and future to redress wrong things that we/same people done, when you woke up in the morning you forgiven in what you've done yesterday, we learn to accept things that we cannot change. We must not let environment that we live in to discourage us, we must appreciate what we get little/more, we must focus on how we can make South Africa better than it is presently, we must unite so that we will achieve what we want to achieve in side of education and educational matters that concerns us as learners, members of students organization and leadership. We must reject policies/legislatures that not benefit us (students/learners), our education system is very poor especially in the rural areas, villages, farms and township, if we compares township, rural areas, villages and farms education is not equal compared to town education, as young people leadership and members we must correct that inequality that we facing in our country and infrastructure. Once our former COSAS president (HLOLOGELO LETHABO COLLEN MALTJI) sing that powerful song "UNITY IS THE POWER" I belief on that song, we must work as collective to make education fashionable and build healthy environment in our schools, here is the question that I asked myself on day "COSAS is relevant? " yes, is relevant because we have lot to do in terms of education. When it come to service delivery is disaster and we cannot keep quite hence things is wrong. Education is our first priorit as COSAS and we cannot ignore that fact, COSAS must be in all South African schools, when it come History is teaching in our schools is not relevant, History of our schools must be about COSAS and other organizations that fought against Apartheid. Historically COSAS is the first organization to sign Freedom Charter that state that in terms of education "Education shall be free, compulsory, universal and equal for all children; Higher education and technical training shall be opened to all by means of state allowances and scholarship awarded on the basis of merit; the aim of education shall be to teach the youth to love their people and their culture, to honour human brotherhood, liberty and peace".

COSAS STATEMENT OF JANUARY 2015

COSAS Statement January 2015:

The Congress of South African Students has noted with utter dismay the announcement on two provinces Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Province, facing a possibility of having their results withheld after allegations of group cheating in the provinces in question. The organization has received the information in complete concern as matric results in South Africa are already being released very late and have a negative impact in terms of necessary planning for matriculants the following year including the selection process of students for entry into universities. The department of basic education needs to work closely with the department of higher education to ensure that should results of the provinces in question be withheld there is a plan in place to ensure they are not excluded from the selection process in university entries.

The Congress of South African Students continues to question as to where invigilators and monitors were when exams were taking place, we believe if there was any form of unwarranted cheating it should have been detected during the exams and dealt with there and then. The reality that the alleged cheating has been detected during marking of the scripts and has led to a need for investigations shows that during the process of guarding the examination process there was negligence be it intentional or unintentional. Our main worry and concern remains that of the many other matriculants who may not be linked in any way to this debacle who will have they lives on a stand still. We are totally against gap years as they lead to young people having a whole year of being direction less to themselves giving them time to get involved in unprogressive activities be it crime or any other form. As an organization we stand by, even the learners who may have copied, the department of basic education needs to tell us as to what will the plan be for them should they be found guilty, proper arrangements must be in place in order to ensure that in the end they get their matric certificates, be it through rewrites or other possible ways.

Students are running out of patience on the continued scandals that are taking place within the department of basic education, the carelessness and lack of responsibility in the different levels of the department results to a need for crisis management all the time. We are of the knowledge that education is a priority in our country and this should reflect in all activities of the department of basic education. As an organization we are still saying there should be a complete cut off on the publication of matric results. The department of basic education has agreed with us that publication of matric results is incorrect and our call was that of a total banishment of it.

The act of the department of basic education of changing the method only after admitting that it is wrong to publish results leaves us with suspense as to whom exactly is benefiting from profits made in the sales of newspapers and whether this is not a money scheme where certain people in the department of basic education are benefiting. The department of basic education cannot publicize critical information such as identity numbers of minors as it is a disaster waiting to happen and again will lead to yet another crisis, we are all aware of the high rate of crime in our country which will feast in this mistake by the department. We are not going to allow anyone to sell ID numbers of students for Three Rands by the robots. Shops and garages must also be aware. The organization this year is filing a court application against publication of matric results.

Issued by the Congress of South African Students

Contact:

COSAS President :

Sandra Baloyi: 079 149 0157

Secretary General Office:

Khulekani Skosana: 082 346 7959

Zama Khanyase: 074 334 8248