View this post on Instagram A post shared by Soccer Laduma (@soccer_laduma) Local International Off The Pitch Podcasts & Videos currently a free agent following Royal AM’s expulsion from the PSL has attracted interest both locally and abroad Read – Mngqithi: Pirates Should Be Proud Of CAF Journey Tanzanian giants Young Africans (Yanga FC) have shown interest in bringing him to East Africa while Sekhukhune United have also been monitoring his situation closely insiders suggest that Abafana Bes’thende are now in pole position to land Ngcobo “Yanga FC have joined Sekhukhune United and Orlando Pirates in the race for Xolani Ngcobo he’s leaning towards signing with Golden Arrows,” said a source close to the player.  Ngcobo had previously been offered to Pirates with hopes that his solid individual displays in a difficult season for Royal AM would earn him a place at one of the league’s top clubs He managed four clean sheets in nine appearances and was a key performer despite his team's overall struggles But the Buccaneers have since cooled their interest with the club reportedly satisfied with their current goalkeeping options Read: Chiefs' Zwane Gets Chance To Change Amakhosi Situation Sipho Chaine remains the first-choice goalkeeper backed by Melusi Buthelezi and a promising group of reserves including Siyabonga Dladla and Ethan Visagie With the Pirates door seemingly closed and talks of a move abroad still pending Ngcobo could soon become a valuable addition to the Arrows squad as they look to add experience between the posts This article may contain graphic and/or adult content unsuitable for minors and sensitive readers The National Prosecuting Authority in the Eastern Cape is mourning the loss of a prosecutor who was gunned down in Ngcobo this week The NPA said 30-year-old Elona Sombulula was shot on Tuesday evening joined the NPA through its aspirant prosecutor program in 2022 and was a regional court prosecutor in the town said his murder was met with shock and grief describing Sombulula as “one of the NPA’s rising stars.” He said they would work closely with the police and would not rest until those responsible face justice “The motive for the killing is unknown and we urge restraint as a thorough investigation is conducted to establish the facts,” Tyali said He said details related to the memorial service and funeral would be communicated in due course an exclusive podcast on the life of Vicki Terblanche Dive into the expansive world of motoring with Naresh Maharaj Join Mark Marshall as he shares his extraordinary encounters with everything from bees to reptiles i Ngcobo Wiseman Gcizelela is a commerce teacher and lecturer in the Department of Professional and Curriculum Studies He has worked for over 16 years in the education sector he lectured at Coastal-KZN FET College and MANCOSA Ngcobo Wiseman Gcizelela’s research interests are in the dynamic fields of ENTREPRENEURSHIP and CODING ROBOTICS Email:               wiseman.ngcobo@univen.ac.za Office No:         GF 07 New Education Building Emergency Numbers Security Control Room 015 962 8603 / 8193 / 8120 Ambulance +27 15 962 5461 / 015 962 9152 / 079 901 9305 or WhatsApp 081 463 0343 > Enquiries > Department of Marketing, Branding and Communication The versatile midfielder is convinced the Glamour Boys have the needed quality to deliver once they get their consistency. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Nkosingiphile Ngcobo recently celebrated an exciting milestone in long-term relationship with his high school sweetheart. Check it out Read: Campbell Shares Moment With Rashford After UCL Clash On Monday, Amakhosi's Nkosingiphile Ngcobo and his fiancé Thabisa Ntleki celebrated their nine-year anniversary, with the latter taking a trip down memory lane with her Instagram posts. Ngcobo, who sorted out his lobola for Thabisa last year, has been with the University of Johannesburg alumni since their schooling days and it's clear that the baller has been infatuated with her since. The lovely couple experienced two milestones last year, their first step in becoming a married couple with the lobola and they welcomed their first child, a baby boy. Their near decade-long relationship was commemorated beautifully on IG, as Thabisa posted a throwback of the two of them in sitting next to each other during a class in high school. "Today marks 9 years of us being together. You've always wanted yourself next to me," shared Thabiso on her IG story, adding: "[I] love you always chomi. From being my cute high school boyfriend to being my fiancé and an awesome dad to our son." Take a look at what the couple shared online: 10 Freedom Way, Milnerton, Cape Town, 7441, South Africa Royal AM goalkeeper Xolani Ngcobo has emerged as a transfer target for Sekhukhune United following his impressive performances earlier this season The 31-year-old shot-stopper featured in 10 matches across all competitions before Royal AM's fixtures were suspended by the PSL in January Read: Mofokeng On Target As Bafana Move Top Of WCQ Group  who has previously played for Baroka FC and Free State Stars among other clubs has gained recognition for his commanding presence between the posts His experience and consistency have reportedly drawn the attention of Sekhukhune a potential move to Sekhukhune could offer Ngcobo the opportunity to continue playing at the highest level and leadership skills make him an asset for any club in the Betway Premiership Read – OFFICIAL: SuperSport Make Decision On Hunt  it remains to be seen whether Sekhukhune will formalise their interest with an official bid "Royal AM goalkeeper Xolani Ngcobo is a player that Sekhukhune United is interested in the club has been following him before the team's matches were suspended by the league," said the source For all your exclusive football content and breaking news, join our WhatsApp Channel here. Kaizer-Chiefs Despite the looming danger of possibly finishing outside the top eight for the second consecutive season Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Nkosingiphile Ngcobo insists that the team is "not panicking".Speaking to journalists during a media open day at the Chiefs Village on Thursday Ngcobo admitted that the players are aware of their precarious position on the Betway Premiership log but remain focused on turning their fortunes around READ: Jali's Future: Career Changing Decision  "About the table and the teams below us having games in hand and winning their games we had a discussion about that and we are aware of that as a team. What we need is just to focus more on our games and give 200% to win more games and not panic because of that so we are just focused on every game we play now (that it) is a cup final and we give it our best," said Ngcobo.  particularly their inability to maintain the standards set at the start of the season "When you look at how we started the league. I think very well scoring goals but I'm not sure what then happened we are worried but we are not panicking. Not that we are playing bad but we are not scoring the way we did when we started the league That is what is worrying us. I think maybe we dropped our standards a little bit which is unacceptable so we are focusing on that and trying," Ngcobo observed.  Ngcobo further expressed the team's frustrations with their performances particularly their inconsistency and inability to control games in key moments READ: Lorch, Mailula Wydad's Club World Cup Ambition "At the moment everyone is really frustrated but then it is just a matter of us focusing and putting in more effort. We are not playing bad but need to put more effort in getting goals and making sure that we go up the log and also go to the final in the cup I think from the beginning we have lacked that to control the game even when it is 0-0 or 1-1 and (even when) we are playing better than the opponent we always struggle to maintain the tempo. I think we just get frustrated and start rushing and we lose our games like that It's the inconsistency that disturbs us most of the time," Ngcobo concluded Chiefs will host TS Galaxy on Saturday at Peter Mokaba Stadium in a must-win encounter in the evening The team will be looking to secure three crucial points as they fight to climb the log and finish the season on a stronger note The Glamour Boys are not delivering as anticipated constantly failing to get a positive result when needed most Please check your email and enter your one time pin below:   Open in Gmail Sorry there was an error loading the audio The Chris Hani District Municipality has spent more than R66-million on four water projects And yet the taps are dry in many villages in Ngcobo people share water with livestock at rivers Municipal spokesperson Bulelwa Ganyaza said seven water schemes had been built in the Ngcobo ward.advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads The R28.3-million phase 1 of the Lokshin project started in December 2015 and was supposed to be completed a year later It was meant to provide water to four areas in Lower Qebe and Lokshin village have only one tap and the supply is intermittent Villagers say the taps were dry for five months Yet Lokshin villagers say in some sections taps have been dry for three years while villagers in Hala say their taps have been dry since the day they were installed Ganyaza said the R1.5-million Sundwana water reticulation project started in October 2020 and was completed in April 2022 However contractors and consultants involved told GroundUp the project was only completed this year and still had issues that needed to be rectified A stream where Quthubeni residents get water to drink and do their washing Even as residents complain about the lack of water, ward 13 Councillor Sivuyile Mfeki (ANC) and the ward committee chairperson signed forms in July stating that taps had been “handed over” with “water coming out of the taps to our reasonable satisfaction”. Mfeki told GroundUp that the taps were tested and working fine when he signed.advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads Sundwana village sub-headman Gcinisizwe Mbeshu said the forms were signed to release funds to the contractors to finish the project Mbeshu said: “In some areas like mine the Upper Sitholeni taps were not installed but we are told that the project is finished.” The standpipes were installed but without taps He said the ward committee chairperson who signed the form was “never part of the project steering committee” “Chris Hani (Municipality) is telling us that testing was done and taps have water but not a single community member was called to witness that,” he said Steering committee chairperson Tsolwana Maqonga said he had refused to sign the forms as some villages had no taps a delegation of National Council of Provinces delegates led by Chief Mwelo Nonkonyana visited the province and “expressed their displeasure with the rising number of delayed infrastructure development projects” Nonkanyana told GroundUp that they had discovered that it was common for consent forms to be signed before a project iwas finished Ganyaza said that the Lokshin one and two and Sundwana projects were to be supplied by the Sitholeni water treatment works, but it was not operational as it had no electricity. She said the Sitholeni community was demanding electrification of their households first.advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads Meanwhile Lokshin one and two were connected to a spring, but it took a long time to fill the reservoir. A borehole had been sunk for the Sundwana villages and a contractor was currently constructing a pump house.advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads Another completed water project with dry taps is the R5.7-million Qutubeni scheme in the village where Walter Sisulu was born The project started in September 2011 and was completed in June 2012 It is meant to supply spring water to villages including Mayirheni The water supply is highly unreliable as it is the furthest village from the springs and the last to receive water only two have water and then only after it rains said the municipality had been promising for nearly a year that it would send a contractor to fix the water supply She said they had a rotational system with each village getting water for three days after every six days The water was from a spring that supplied a reservoir that supplied three taps installed in Latshane’s village in 1994 Ganyaza said the area was badly affected by illegal connections Originally published by GroundUp ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " Khosi Fan TV's Mpilo explores how moving the 25-year-old from a number 10 to a box-to-box midfield role has changed Amakhosi's attacking intent. SA News African News World News The Club House More Sekhukhune-United Sekhukhune United coach Lehlohonolo Seema has provided his verdict on newly-signed defender Njabulo Ngcobo who has joined after having a hard time getting into the starting XI at Kaizer Chiefs. Babina Noko got their domestic season on the right footing with a hard-fought 1-0 win over newly-promoted Magesi The match was also Seema's first competitive game in charge after rejoining the club shortly before the start of the campaign READ | Why Matrose missed Pirates meeting The Lesotho coach got his first look at some of the club's new signings in a competitive fixture and among them was former Amakhosi man and 2021 PSL Defender of the Season Ngcobo the head coach said he was left impressed by the effort put in by 'Roadblock' "I think everybody knows that he was a Defender of the Season at some stage we have got a quality defender," Seema told journalists at the press conference I must say that his partnership with [Sikhisonke] Langa Rhulani Manzini is ageing like a fine wine and worked very hard ALSO READ | Deadline Day drama at Chiefs? "But [Gift] Motupa came through as coach Clinton Larsen wanted him there, tried him with his experience, and it's working for them." "So, I'm happy to have him [Ngcobo]. He's working hard. That's one good thing when you have a good player who puts in good effort during training and the games. So, that is a plus for the team to have him," he added. Ngcobo was an unused substitute during the side's 2-1 win over Angolan outfit Lunda Sul in the second leg of the CAF Confederation Cup second preliminary round. Despite the result, which meant a 2-2 aggregate score, Babina Noko were kicked out of the competition on the away goal rule. They hots Chippa United on Wednesday, with kick-off at 19:30. Siyagobhoza Kaizer Chiefs are believed to have had a change in heart regarding midfielder Nkosingiphile Ngcobo.Having never really kicked on from his breakout season in 2021, the club's hierarchy are understood to have grown despondent over the player's influence on the team and whether or not he was still needed.  In the previous season, the 24-year-old made just 13 appearances in all competitions, eight of them coming as a starter, while he missed 10 consecutive games to- wards the end of the campaign. As a result, there have been talks of a possible exit from the club, albeit on loan given that he still has two years to run on his contract with the club. But sources have informed Soccer Laduma that Chiefs have had a change of heart regarding the midfielder, this after learning that their direct rivals are ready to pounce on him should the Soweto giants deem him surplus to requirements. Soccer Laduma has learnt that some of Gauteng's bigger clubs were watching Ngcobo's situation with keen interest. With this change in mind, indications are that Ngcobo, who is a product of the team's development system, will have a chance to impress the incoming coach ahead of the new campaign.  The Siya sources added that Amakhosi are seeking to strengthen their goalkeeping department and are considering Ngcobo as a potential addition to their squad not necessarily as a first choice stopper."There were other teams that had also shown interest before but the one that has inquired about him in recent times after what is happening at the club is Kaizer Chiefs They have shown serious interest and have inquired But with the current situation at Royal AM there is nothing much we can say I think they will wait on what is going to happen first as they monitor the situation But they are interested in him," the Siya source stated Orlando Pirates were linked with Ngcobo before the current season, as reported by Soccer Laduma last year.  stated that Amakhosi are also considering other goalkeeping options including Chippa United's Stanley Nwabali and former Sekhukhune United player Toaster Nsabata who is currently at Zesco United in his home country READ: Esteghlal Manager Questions Pitso SA's 'Football Identity' "They will see which one they can get at the end of the day as they are also believed to be looking at loaning out one or two of their current goalkeepers to create space But that will only happen when they get in one of these goalkeepers at the start of next season," the second insider stated.  Chiefs have four goalkeepers on their roster: Bruce Bvuma The 31-year-old Ngcobo has played many league games for Royal AM this season The team is currently inactive due to their financial issues and are awaiting a ruling as to whether they can return to the pitch Soccer Laduma reached out to Chiefs for comment on the situation but received no response at the time of publishing Sunday World has learnt that there were celebrations after UKhozi FM business manager Sbongi Ngcobo was alleged to have resigned The radio station’s inside sources told Sunday World that Ngcobo resigned following a fallout with one of the station’s presenters A source said Ngcobo threatened to remove Khathide “Tshatha” Ngobe from a maskandi show and it is one of the prime shows on UKhozi FM “The Sigiya Ngengoma show was presented by BK Mchunu and Bingelela Mpanza management requested Tshatha to temporarily fill BK’s position And Tshatha has been co-hosting the show with Bingelela since then,” said the source “The problem started when Sbongi [Ngcobo] threatened to remove Tshatha from BK’s show But Tshatha made it clear he would not move from the Sigiya Ngengoma show Tshatha wrote an email to SABC headquarters detailing damaging and sensitive information about Ngcobo This information forced Ngcobo to resign with immediate effect,” said the source Another inside source said it was long overdue “Khuzani Mpungose’s Facebook live compromised a lot of people Mpungose mentioned that Ngcobo hates Tshatha and that she wants to remove him from Sgiya Ngengoma show “This was true because Ngcobo was planning to remove Tshatha and bring new talent to the Sgiya Ngengoma show “Khuzani would not have known this information unless someone inside the station shared it with him He [Khuzani] made an inference that he received this information from Tshatha,” said the source “Tshatha’s job was no longer safe after Khuzani’s live (sic) So he acted first and exposed Ngcobo’s shenanigans to SABC management.”  social media was buzzing as listeners of UKhozi FM celebrated Ngcobo’s alleged resignation While Sphelele Njomane said: “She was supposed to resign in January.” I cannot confirm or deny anything right now we’re still trying to establish facts,” said Mmoni Ngcobo joined SABC in 2011 as Tru FM’s marketing manager she joined UKhozi FM as an acting station manager until March 2021 In April 2021 she was appointed as the station’s business manager Visit SW YouTube Channel for our video content Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Tel: +27 11 268 6300 Fundudzi Media (Pty) Ltd. All rights reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our terms & conditions and privacy policy. AVBOB celebrates a milestone by rewarding its members on a large scale JOHANNESBURG - Linah Ngcobo has enjoyed an illustrious career. She will be celebrating four decades of music with a special concert and workshop on 29 March. It will be held at Meropa Sun International resort in Polokwane in Limpopo. Among her various awards, Ngcobo received lifetime achievement recognition last year. Ngcobo joined eNCA to discuss the night of entertainment. KC-Campaign Junior Khanye is expecting an improved season from Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Nkosingiphile Ngcobo under new coach Nasreddine Nabi and his technical team.Ngcobo will be entering his eighth season as Chiefs' first team player having been promoted from the club's juniors in 2017 and Khanye feels that the 24-year-old should rise as one of the top performers in the team Read: Why Chiefs Could Miss Out On Butsaka?  Ngcobo has made 91 appearances across all competitions since he started playing in the 2018/19 season He has scored seven goals and assisted three times "I watched Nkosingiphile Ngcobo during the Toyota Cup match and to me he looked like he is still the same player from the previous seasons in terms of his performance it didn't look like much has changed about him The boy needs to show up and perform and I am hoping he will be able to do that this season under the new coach," said Khanye Read – Breaking: Pirates Confirm New Signing  "There are a few other players who need to raise their game and show what they are capable of (Pule) Mmodi and (Christian) Saile are some of those players The club has done a very good job by appointing the new coach and his technical team but it will take them time to get the team to play the way they want and get the desired results the game against Yanga was just a friendly but the way you lose as a team does leave much to be desired especially for a team where the expectations are very high," Khanye added This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page It was only as she tried to run away to save herself that a former colleague of Sisipho Grootboom* discovered she was stuck. advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads fearing the attackers would try to get to him again But in doing so they’d cut her off from the only other person on site – and the person who could help her most: the security guard worked at the Ngcobo Community Health Centre in Masonwabe township about 80km from Mthatha in the rural Eastern Cape Her nursing colleague hid in a side-room and somehow the security guard managed to find his way into the building and battle the aggressive patient down she’s never experienced something like what happened to her colleague that night at her workplace She’s become used to dealing with unequipped and understaffed health facilities – and how to find ways around it to still serve her patients But fearing for their lives has never been part of her worries While officials point fingers at each other for the lack of piped water in Engcobo claiming that it’s a challenge to supply high-lying areas In June, new Eastern Cape health MEC Ntandokazi Capa – the chairperson of the ANC Women’s League in the province – was sworn in, replacing Nomakhosazana Meth, who is now a member of Parliament in the National Assembly Capa, who has since her appointment visited hospitals like Maclear Hospital in the Elundini local municipality area, told the Daily Dispatch on Instagram that she’s “ready to face [the Eastern Cape’s health] challenges” infrastructure and [the difficulties] that come with being a rural province “I want people [in the province] who visit government health facilities to get good service.” Not feeling safe is only part of what led to the Ngcobo 24-hour community health centre which has to serve about 3,000 people per month having had to cut its operating hours in half About eight out of 10 people in this town live in poverty Community health centres like the one in Ngcobo is an important cog in the country’s primary healthcare machine in that they provide a bunch of 24-hour routine and emergency services, reducing the patient load on district hospitals which are geared towards handling child health issues more complex health matters and general surgeries But to function well such a health centre needs proper infrastructure which the Ngcobo centre hasn’t had for the past 10 years The facility’s two buildings have no piped water water is supplied from municipality-serviced water tanks outside This means staff have to go collect it in plastic containers During Capa’s visit to Maclear Hospital in June, she told the SABC that 24-hour clinics in the Eastern Cape are crucial for healthcare and need attention, but that people can’t expect “a hospital every 20km” because there are serious budget constraints.  Like the Ngcobo Community Health Centre, Maclear Hospital faces security problems, with reports of patients being raped during admission. advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads At facilities across the province, access to tap water and power is problematic.  “We call on the MEC for health to develop a plan with clear timeframes that includes components that address the items listed urgently to remedy the crisis in health in the Eastern Cape,” it wrote A Public Protector report in 2021 found that at four district or provincial hospitals in the Eastern Cape services like water and electricity were lacking facilities were understaffed and equipment was either so old or nonexistent that basic tasks like washing laundry couldn’t be done on the premises This lack of maintenance was laid at the feet of the provincial public works department, which should – but has failed – to inspect public facilities every five years and perform the necessary maintenance so that these places can deliver proper services it’s impossible to understand our challenges.” According to South African law municipalities – either at town or district level – are responsible for providing services like collecting rubbish and supplying electricity and water to people living in that area In the Chris Hani district, under which Ngcobo falls, only 20% of households have running water inside their homes In the Engcobo subdistrict the situation is even worse: only about 7% of households can open a tap inside their home for water Ngcobo mayor Siyabulela Zangqa says the council is “not a water service provider like the district municipality [is]” and therefore he is not notified of water delivery issues told Bhekisisa that water infrastructure “is the responsibility of [the] Public Works [department]” – which Moreover, Bulelwa Ganyaza, spokesperson for the district municipality, claims that because funds for building or upgrading systems for things like water supply (and which come from the Municipal Infrastructure Grant handed out by the cooperative governance department) have dropped “some projects [in the Engcobo area] have been delayed since 2012 affecting the provision of water and sanitation services to the town and informal settlements” In the 2023 financial year about half of the roughly R328-million available for water and sanitation projects in the Chris Hani district was set aside specifically for water supply infrastructure The attack in 2022 was the final straw for staff at the community health centre who have been complaining about poor water supply and security for years it’s the people of this community who lose out The situation at the clinic mirrors the collapse of other local government structures in the area. For example, crime is rampant. ISS Crime Hub statistics show that crimes in categories that include murder deny that they don’t have a handle on crime Spokesperson for the South African Police Service in the Eastern Cape, Priscilla Naidu, told Bhekisisa that “police conduct frequent operations in the area” and cites, as an example of their success, that in one such a clampdown in March “three suspects [in a community of about 155,000 people] were arrested (for possession of an unlicensed firearm drug dealing and selling liquor without a licence)” They also started a 15-member community patrol group in March But Zangqa says he’s seen how crime in the area has affected services “Crime [in the area close to the health centre] got to the point where it started affecting the clinic.” The nearby tavern “The people who drink there at night cause chaos.”  And the lack of proper municipal services makes it worse Staff at the Ngcobo Community Health Centre centre claim that they have not had continuous running water for about 10 years and must rely on municipal water tanks The incident in which the night-shift nurse was attacked in 2022 was the final straw for the staff at the centre The nurses reported the attack to their union wrote to the Eastern Cape health department the union put forward its concerns about safety issues and the conditions at the health centre under which staff have to work In response to Bhekisisa’s enquiry about what the implications of the issues at the health centre are says that when healthcare workers are too traumatised or afraid to work it “impacts negatively on service delivery and communities end up suffering” it’s very scary to go out and fetch water from the tank since the safety in this area is so poor [The security guards] don’t have guns and there are only two of them so I’m not sure how they will protect us if there are multiple attackers.” The department and unions are still in talks and “we are hopeful that a lasting solution will be found and the labour matter resolved” the health centre remains closed after 7pm This story was produced by the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism. 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