RIP THABANG LEBESE

RIP THABANG LEBESE

POSTED BY: ANASTACIA MASHABA
NEWS FROM: KICKOFF

Former Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates midfielder Thabang Lebese has passed away.

‘Chillies’, as he was affectionately known in his heyday, was in and out of hospital recently suffering from an undisclosed illness and according to reports he could barely walk or talk when he was admitted to the Helen Joseph hospital a couple of months ago.Lebese, who was 38 at the time of his death, will be best remembered for his days at Chiefs.

He made 220 appearances for ‘Amakhosi’, also coming off the bench a further 20 times, between 1993 and 2000, when he left to join Ria Stars.Lebese moved to Orlando Pirates in 2001 after a brief spell with the now defunct Limpopo side, with whom he resurrected his flagging career.In total, he played 279 top-flight matches over 13 years, but despite his obvious talent he only made one Bafana Bafana appearance in a 3-2 loss to Namibia in an international friendly in 1998.

Lebese admitted in his last interview with KICK OFF a couple of years ago that leaving Chiefs was a “wrong decision”.“Leaving them was a big mistake… I made the wrong decision. I was not supposed to leave Chiefs. I grew up there and I was Thabang Lebese because of Kaizer Chiefs. “But I was angry, because I wanted to play and I was not getting enough game-time and there was some friction between me and the coach, Muhsin Ertugral. “Well, I thought I knew too much! I was thinking, because I’m Thabang Lebese, playing for a big team, I could do anything, but I was wrong,” Lebese said.

KICK OFF in its entirety send our heartfelt condolences to Lebese’s family. Rest in peace ‘Chillies’ and thank you for the memories.

AMAKHOSI WALK VICTORIOUSLY OVER SWALLOWS

 

Lehlogonolo Majoro

POSTED BY: ANASTACIA MASHABA

NEWS FROM: NEWS24

Kaizer Chiefs returned to top form in the Absa Premiership with a comprehensive 3-0 win over Moroka Swallows at FNB Stadium on Saturday night.

A youthful Amakhosi side, inspired by a brace from winger Mandla Masango, had too much pace and energy for the Birds and move to within two points of log leaders Mamelodi Sundowns, who are in action on Sunday afternoon.

The Birds will be disappointed at having suffered such a loss, but they only had themselves to blame after dominating large portions of the match but failing to capitalise on the chances they created.

Swallows were the better team in the opening quarter, though they only created one half chance for Joseph Makhanya, whose angled drive from just outside the penalty area was comfortably saved by Itumeleng Khune.

On 25 minutes, somewhat against the run of play, Chiefs took the lead. George Lebese played in a good low cross from the left to pick out the unmarked Mandla Masango, whose scuffed shot trickled past the right hand of Greg Etafia and rolled over the goal line.

Swallows almost replied on the half hour mark when Lefa Tsutsulupa brought down a lofted cross with a brilliant first touch and got a quick shot away, but the ball flashed over the crossbar. Seven minutes later Makhanya crashed a long-range effort off the crossbar with Khune completely beaten.

It seemed as if the Birds would draw level before half time, such was the pressure they were creating. However, Amakhosi made it 2-0 in the 40th minute when Etafia flapped at a cross from Bernard Parker and allowed Lehlohonolo Majoro to gleefully turn the ball home from close range.

Swallows started the second half strongly and had a couple of early chances for Siyabonga Nomvethe that went a begging. Had the Birds been able to take just one of them, it may have changed the course of the game.

Instead, just past the hour mark, Chiefs extended their advantage when the excellent Masango netted his second, exchanging passes with Lebese in the penalty area before finishing crisply into the bottom corner of the net.

Lebese almost added salt to the Birds’ wounds just a minute later when he cracked a long range shot against the crossbar, with Etafia once again well beaten. At this stage the home side looked like scoring every time they attacked.

Chiefs took their foot off the pedal in the last 20 minutes or so, though they remained disciplined at the back and made sure Swallows were not able to even sniff the possibility of a comeback.

ONLINE JOURNALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA

Online journalism in South Africa

Advantages and Disadvantages of online journalism

Online journalism is defined as the reporting of facts when produced and distributed via the internet. Online journalism makes everything simple for journalists because they don’t have to go out to the field and get stories but rather access them on the internet which I turn to think saves money and time. For example, when there is an international story happening, it can be easily accessible from the internet. Most international stories break firstly in the internet and journalists get them there rather than having to travel.

Online journalism encourages communication between journalists and the news receivers because they are able to post the comments and give out feedback. It reaches a majority of people because some don’t actually have time to read newspapers or listen to the radio or even watch television, it is fast and informative. About one hundred million people can access the internet knowing that online information is revealed as it breaks.

The disadvantage around online is that the information is not 100% correct because here journalists publish fast facts and don’t verify or accurately report their news. Another thing is that not everyone can access the internet and read the news because of financial purposes and other reasons while some find it boring. In other undeveloped countries, online news are not a first choice because they don’t have access so they prefer to rather listen to radio’s for news or watch the television.



Online news in South Africa (three)

The three news online sites I have visited are not different from one another in a sense that they have almost the same layout home page and their style of writing is also not that different from each other. News24 is one of the news sites I visited and I realized that they start off with breaking news then have politics news or follow up on politics news and the other categories such as sport, entertainment e.c.t follows.

Its blog is always updated on time and has all the current news and the feedback from people is essentially productive. I also visited the IOL and Mail&Gardian blogs and they also look good and their quite informative and reveal news as they break. But again I have realized that what may seem as important news for the other sites may not necessarily be important to the other.

News24 covers almost every sector of news which I think is fair for every person rather than IOL online which covers mostly on the business side. The IOL is a good online site because it caters for every sector, you find your motoring, sports and politics amongst all and their home page is good and has its option right at the top. The last one is the Mail&Gardian which is also an interesting one because it also covers different types of news. The three sites I have visited are great because they have many common things and their colors are designed in a conserved way.