Tseko Mojalefa Rabotho (29) het Vrydag in die gespesialiseerde handelsmisdaadhof in Pretoria verskyn op aanklag van korrupsie.
Rabotho is op 17 Augustus deur die Valke in hegtenis geneem op aanklag van bedrog, korrupsie en geldwassery ten waarde van R93 miljoen, het lt.kol. Robert Netshiunda, woordvoerder van die Valke, gesê. Hy het aanvanklik op 21 Augustus in die hof verskyn waar dit aan die lig gekom het dat hy ʼn aantal bates, insluitend twee luukse eiendom en 19 motors, bekom het, wat nooit gefinansier is nie.
“Net voor Rabotho Donderdag vir sy aansoek om borgtog in die hof sou verskyn, wou sy pa, Jackie Nicholas Rabhoto (57) die ondersoekbeampte by die Valke se kantoor in Pretoria glo met R52 000 kontant omkoop,” het Netshiunda verduidelik. “Hy is dadelik in hegtenis geneem. Hy het ʼn verdere R48 000 kontant in sy besit gehad.”
Jackie het Vrydag in die hof verskyn op aanklag van korrupsie.
Die twee mans moet weer op 31 Augustus in die hof verskyn.
Tshwane commuters can expect some relief as taxis are expected to operate normally this morning.
On Wednesday, operators blocked several roads causing massive delays while protesting to the Tshwane House to submit a memorandum to Mayor Solly Msimanga.
Among the issues raised by the drivers is that traffic contravention tickets be scrapped.
Taxis in the Tshwane area are expected to function without any hiccups at least for the next two weeks.
The Democratic Taxi Workers Union of South Africa (Detwusa)’s Themba Maseko says the government is responsible for providing taxi infrastructure, including pick-ups and drop offs.
He says drivers should not be fined for government’s failure.
“Our demands are the scrapping of the traffic fines because those fines block our PDPs and driver’s licenses and we can’t drive passengers without our PDPs.”
Maseko says the fines amount to hundreds of thousands of rands which prevent some drivers from renewing their public drivers’ licenses.
Detwusa has given the metro 14 days to respond to their queries or face yet another strike action.
Hopenlik hou ouers dikwels hul kinders se gebruik van die sosiale media fyn dop, maar hulle moet ook kyk na hul eie plasings, waarsku navorsers in ʼn nuwe opname.
Deesdae word daar feitlik van ouers verwag om gereeld foto’s van hul kinders aanlyn te plaas om vriende en familie op die hoogte te hou van wat hulle doen, maar dit kan negatiewe ─ en selfs angswekkende ─ gevolge hê, volgens die navorsers.
“Dis alles baie nuut. Ons ouers het nie hiermee te doen gehad nie,” sê dr. Bahareh Keith, ʼn pediatriese assistent by die Universiteit van Florida se College of Medicine in Gainesville.
Voor die koms van sosiale media kon ouers hul kinders in die verleentheid stel deur ou fotoalbums te wys. Nou los die dinge wat ouers aanlyn openbaar ─ sommige goed, sommige nie so goed nie ─ ʼn blywende “digitale voetspoor”, verduidelik Keith.
Hierdie digitale voetspore is besig om die norm te word: studies het getoon dat 92 persent van 2-jarige kinders in die Verenigde State ʼn aanlynteenwoordigheid het, en ongeveer een-derde maak binne 24 uur na hul geboorte hul eerste verskyning op sosiale media, sê die navorsers.
Soms duik daardie ou, verleë foto wat ʼn ouer geneem het op Facebook op as ʼn “herinnering”. Maar op ander tye verskyn ʼn kind se persoonlike inligting ─ soos gedragsprobleme ─ in die openbare domein, sê Keith.
En dit, sê sy, kan sielkundige gevolge vir kinders hê.
Meer sinister is die feit dat ouers se plasings ook onopsetlik inligting aan identiteitsdiewe of selfs pedofiele gee.
Volgens Keith is daar nog min navorsing oor hierdie kwessie gedoen, waarskynlik omdat dit so nuut is. Haar span het ʼn oorsig gedoen van die mediese en regsliteratuur oor die onderwerp en het met riglyne vir ouers vorendag gekom.
Vir die huidige gee sy raad oor hoe om verstandig te werk te gaan met jou plasings:
Moet nooit foto’s van jou kinders in “enige staat van ontkleding” deel nie. Wees versigtig met plasings wat sê presies waar jou kind is. As jy aanlyn soek na hulp met jou kind se gedragsprobleme, deel die inligting anoniem.
Verder raai sy ouers aan om seker te maak dat hulle die privaatheidsbeleid verstaan van al die webwerwe wat hulle gebruik.
Are your online photos putting your family, possessions, and safety at risk? They probably are, and what you see in this short video should make you think twice before uploading personal photos
Sites like Facebook and Pinterest do strip this info out, but it would probably be better to leave Geo Location tagging off on your cellphone.
It seems like just about everyone has a smart phone these days, and they’re using them to shoot photos which they share with friends and even post online so that total strangers can view them.
It’s so easy to do, most people don’t even think twice about sharing personal photos.
Social media sites encourage you to share your photos and offer free apps making it easy to do. Just one click to the shoot the photo, and another click posts it on the web for all to see.
But is it possible that posting photos this way could be putting you or your family in danger?
And could strangers use these photos as an aid to commit crimes?
The answer to both the above questions is ‘yes’.
Criminals can and actually are using photos posted on social media sites to find their next victims.
To see how they do this, check out the short video below.
As mentioned in the above video, many cell phones are set to automatically add GPS information to data stored within photos, and anyone using a simple photo viewing program can download the photo and quickly determine exactly where it was shot.
So when you share photos of your expensive collectibles, or that valuable Rembrandt painting you inherited, or your super secret treasure site, it is possible that you are giving a criminal all the information they need to take advantage of you.
If you want to protect your privacy, it can be a good idea to make sure that your cellphone or photo camera isn’t adding GPS info to the photos you share online.
To do this, start the camera application on your cell phone. Then choose ‘menu’, then ‘settings’.
Then look for an option like ‘geo-tag’, ‘geo-location’, ‘store location’, and set it to off. Then choose ‘save’ or ‘done’.
This should prevent GPS data from being stored in your photos.
By the way, if your photos do have GPS info attached to them, you can strip it out by using a program like Irfanview, to do a ‘save as’, and from the options uncheck ‘keep original exif data’.
This saves the photo without the EXIF and GPS data.
AN SMS and WhatsApp scam circulating in Nelson Mandela Bay has already duped at least three people who between them have lost about R20 000 in recent weeks.
Eight cases of fraud linked to the scam are under investigation by various police stations across the Bay.
Fears that more residents could fall victim to the scam have prompted police to warn residents not to be conned into believing that they have won money in a lucky draw competition.
Three cases in the Uitenhage and Despatch area have been reported since the beginning of March.
And an additional five have been reported to the Gelvandale police station .
Police spokesman Warrant Officer Basil Seekoei said in all the cases the message, received via SMS or WhatsApp claimed the victims’ cellphone numbers had randomly been selected in a lucky draw.
The victims are then told to deposit money to claim their “winnings”, which vary between R300 000 and R400 000.
“Once they respond to the message it is followed by another stating that various amounts in the thousands of rands need to be deposited for their winnings to be released.
“In two cases, the victims phoned the number and spoke to an ‘agent’, who stated they had to deposit the money as soon as possible before their winnings incurred penalty costs and were forfeited.
“In one of the cases, the victim paid close to R13 000 in several separate transactions to the scam artists.”
Seekoei said this modus operandi was similar to another scam between 2010 and 2013 which saw three men each sentenced to 15 years in jail.
He said the fear of more unsuspecting residents being swindled out of money was a concern.
“At this stage, we are not sure if it is a single group or several groups conducting this scam. We can confirm, however, that efforts are under way to track and arrest these con artists.”
-Gareth Wilson
