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CHILD SHOT IN CROSSFIRE BETWEEN ARTISANAL MINERS AND SECURITY

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NCNN.LIVE has obtained a picture of a child who has been shot in the face, displaying signs of having sustained head trauma and bleeding profusely from a gash in the forehead. The six to seven year-old looking boy from Greenpoint in Kimberley has been admitted to the Kimberley Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.CHILD_SHOT_IN_CROSSFIRE_BETWEEN_ARTISANAL_MINERS_AND_SECURITY-20180531-NEW

The child is alleged to have been caught in the crossfire between artisanal miners and mining security.

Spokesperson for Kimberley Ekapa Mining Joint Venture (Kem-JV) Gert Klopper confirmed that a confrontation had occurred between the mine’s security guards and “illegal miners” over mining land around Greenpoint yesterday afternoon.

More details to follow. NCNN.live – Northern Cape News Network

 

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Thabo Mothibi is a former broadcast journalist (TV and Radio) – with specialist reporting experience; SABC Political/Parliamentary and TRC Teams over a period of five years (1995 to 2000).

One key foreign assignment - is the 11-nation African Connection Rally – overland journey from Africa’s northern-most pole in the coastal Tunisian city of Bizerte to the southern-most pole in South Africa’s Cape Agulhas. From the journalistic years, Thabo then delved into Government media liaison and serving two former Ministers and three MECs. He became the Northern Cape Provincial Government’s first department based Communications Director at Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development - 2008-2010 – where he also served as Head of Ministry from 2003 – 2008.

As a former anti-apartheid activist, his political background and professional training aided him in spearheading the Northern Cape ANC’s 2004 National Elections media and publicity campaign and that of the 2006 Local Government Elections.

Whilst based in Waterkloof in Pretoria -2010 to end 2011, he consulted for Manstrat Agricultural Intelligence, then returned to the Northern Cape in 2012 to date, to consult independently and pursue other entrepreneurial interests in media and communications through KwaVuko Communications and Marketing.

Thabo Mothibi obtained his NQF7 through Wits University’s Graduate School of Public and Development Management (P&DM) in Johannesburg, a Unilever Mandela Rhodes Academy for Marketing and Communications Academy (UMRA). The goal of the NQF7 programme was to educate and train public and private sector professional communicators and marketers in government communications..