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Two undocumented foreign nationals and a cross-border transport driver were arrested this week during a stop and search between Putfontein Road and Snake Road in the Benoni area. Officers from the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Overload Unit observed a vehicle attempting to offload passengers on the freeway while patrolling the area and directed the driver to Snake Road for inspection. Overloaded minibus The 14-seater minibus was discovered transporting 15 passengers, exceeding its legal capacity. Further checks revealed that one of the passengers was not listed on the official passenger manifest. Considering that this was cross-border transportation, the driver is always required to have a valid permit and a passenger list. No verification During the verification process, one male passenger who was not on the passenger list failed to produce any form of identification or travel documentation. Another passenger listed on the manifest was unable to provide a valid passport. This resulted in the apprehension of the two undocumented foreign nationals for contravening the Immigration Act. Arrests The driver was also arrested for allegedly aiding undocumented foreign nationals by facilitating their unlawful entry and transportation within the country. According to the EMPD, they were detained at the Benoni police station. Company inspections Meanwhile, Overloads Unit officers and members of the South African Police Service (Saps) apprehended two employers in the Benoni area for employing undocumented foreign nationals. During the first inspection, a 28-year-old employer was found to have employed one undocumented foreign national without a valid work permit. The employer was issued with a J534 admission of guilt fine of R5 000. At the second company, the 26-year-old employer was found responsible for employing four undocumented foreign nationals and was issued with four J534 admission of guilt fines, amounting to R20 000. Five undocumented workers Both employees have settled their admission of guilt fines. All five undocumented foreign nationals between the ages of 24 and 31 were detained for further processing according to immigration legislation.

Cape Town residents can expect a cool and dry winter weekend, with fog expected during parts of Saturday before overcast conditions settle in on Sunday, according to the South African Weather Service (Saws). The forecast shows no rainfall is expected on either day, while temperatures will remain in the mid-to-high teens in the afternoons. Fog expected on Saturday Saws forecasts fog during the early hours of Saturday and again in the evening, with partly cloudy conditions expected during the warmest part of the day. The weather service forecasts temperatures of 13°C at 2am, 12°C at 8am, climbing to a daytime high of 18°C at 2pm, before dropping to 14°C by 8pm. Humidity is expected to remain high during the morning at 90%, easing to 60% in the afternoon before increasing to 85% in the evening. Winds will blow from the north-northwest (NNW) during the early morning before shifting to north-west (NW) later in the day. Wind speeds are forecast at 9.26km/h (5 knots) throughout Saturday. Saws forecasts a minimum temperature of 12°C and a maximum of 18°C for the day. Saws forecasts no rainfall on Saturday. Cloudy skies on Sunday Cloud cover is expected to dominate throughout Sunday, with Saws forecasting cloudy conditions from the early hours of the morning through to the evening. Temperatures are forecast to reach 13°C at both 2am and 8am, before rising to 17°C at 2pm and returning to 13°C by 8pm. Humidity is expected to remain high, reaching 90% in the early morning, then decreasing to 70% in the afternoon and increasing to 85% in the evening. The wind will continue from the north-northwest (NNW) during the morning before changing to west-southwest (WSW) in the afternoon and south-southeast (SSE) by the evening. Wind speeds are expected to remain steady at 9.26km/h (5 knots) throughout the day. Saws forecasts a minimum temperature of 12°C and a maximum of 17°C on Sunday. Saws forecasts no rain on Sunday.

Orlando Pirates could miss out on the chance to sign TS Galaxy star Seluleko Mahlambi, who many see as the ideal replacement for Relebohile Mofokeng. Mofokeng, 21, left the Buccaneers this month to join Belgian side Royal Union Saint-Gilloise in a deal worth around R65 million. After helping Orlando Pirates win a domestic treble last season, the departure of the “President Yama2000” has left a huge void in the club’s attack. Mahlambi, who is the same age as Mofokeng, has the qualities to fill that gap if Orlando Pirates decide to sign him. The Soweto giants have already made seven new signings, including highly rated young winger Bohlale Ngwato. With the new season set to kick off in the next two weeks, more arrivals could still be on the cards. Why Pirates should replace Mofokeng with Mahlambi Although Mahlambi is not yet at Mofokeng’s level, he possesses many similar qualities. He thrives in one-on-one situations, is fearless when taking on defenders, and more often than not comes out on top. He is quick, attacks space well and has the ability to create goal-scoring opportunities. One area where he arguably has an advantage over Mofokeng is his raw pace, which allows him to pull away from defenders. However, he still has room for improvement when it comes to his finishing, first touch, passing and overall vision. If Mahlambi joins Orlando Pirates, he is unlikely to be used in Mofokeng’s No. 10 role. Instead, he would be better suited on either wing, with Oswin Appollis operating as the creative midfielder behind the striker. Is Mahlambi good enough for Pirates?

Public memory tends to organise itself around visible acts of leadership: the decision made in crisis, the institution founded, the policy enacted. What it consistently undervalues is the leadership required to build the systems within which any of those acts can mean anything – the administrative infrastructure that connects policy to population, the operational foundations that determine whether a health system functions reliably or fails quietly. Dr Moses Haregewoyn has spent his career in the second category of work. His biography does not resolve into a single type. It encompasses decades of institutional administration, sustained academic engagement, ordained ministry, published scholarship, and the patient work of building an organisation that serves millions of Americans without most of them knowing it exists. Understanding why that combination coheres requires understanding the question that has organised his working life from the beginning: who is a health system actually for, and what does it require to truly reach them? The Formation Dr Moses Haregewoyn was born in Ethiopia and built his professional life across the United States – Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Ohio – navigating institutions that were not designed with his circumstances primarily in mind. His research on political refugees in the United States, published with Lambert Academic Publishing in 2010 and adopted as a social sciences textbook at several American universities, was not an abstract academic exercise. It was a rigorous attempt to document what happens to people who arrive with need but without the social capital that formal systems assume they possess. The question it asked – how do institutions receive people they were not designed for? – is the same question his operational career has been answering ever since. His faith, which he has described as inseparable from his professional and academic commitments, brings a specific orientation to questions of institutional responsibility. As an ordained priest and Secretary General of the Orthodox Church Archdiocese in New York, he applies the same framework to ecclesiastical and civic life: leadership is stewardship, and stewardship is accountability to the people the institution exists to serve. His 2023 book, Leadership: An Incumbent of Faith, articulates that framework in terms applicable to any public institution – accountability not as a constraint on leadership but as its defining expression. What the Institution Required “AHS was founded upon a mission to support vulnerable children and families,” Dr Moses Haregewoyn has said. The statement is simple and carries the weight of a career. It describes not a programme objective but an operating premise – the orientation that has guided 30 years of decisions about what AHS builds, how it builds it, and for whom. As President of Automated Health Systems (AHS), he oversees an organisation that administers public health access infrastructure across effectively all 50 US states, in partnership with government agencies managing Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare, and related programmes. AHS operates at the point where health policy meets the population it was written for – the eligibility systems, enrollment operations, and citizen support infrastructure that determine whether coverage reaches the people who need it. Most of the people who depend on those systems have no idea AHS exists. That invisibility is, in one sense, the measure of the organisation’s success: when administrative systems function as they should, the people they serve experience only the care, not the complexity behind it. The Question South Africa Is Asking South Africa’s National Health Insurance programme represents one of the most ambitious coverage expansion commitments in the world and one of the most administratively complex. The challenge it faces – extending meaningful coverage to a population that is diverse in language, geography, and prior relationship to formal health systems, across a context where administrative capacity varies enormously between provinces – is not primarily a clinical or financial problem. It is a governance problem, in precisely the sense that Dr Moses Haregewoyn’s career has been an answer to. He does not have a South African solution to that challenge. What he has is a methodology developed across thirty years of building administrative health infrastructure under conditions of comparable complexity – diverse populations, federal governance structures, varying state capacity, and continuous political change. The methodology is not transferable as a model. It is available as a framework: start with the population you are trying to reach, design the administrative system around their actual circumstances rather than the circumstances the system finds convenient to assume, and build accountability into every layer of the operation. That is, at its core, what AHS has done for nearly five decades. It is what Dr. Haregewoyn has spent his career demonstrating is possible. The question of who health systems are built for is not rhetorical. It requires a practical answer, built into the architecture of the system itself. He has been working on that answer for a very long time.

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