Woman refuses to give cops stolen items, arrested
MBABANE – A woman of /ogoba has been arrested for refusing to give police officers stolen sugar beans.
Philile Shabangu 30 was charged with defeating the ends of Mustice. She allegedly committed the offence on October 30, 2022 in Matsapha. Shabangu, according to the charge sheet, refused to surren der 0kg of sugar beans, which were in 7, 0kg bags.
The accused person is alleged to have refused to give the bags to the police despite being informed by an investigator that the beans were exhibits. The beans were sto len at a warehouse in Matsapha on October 27, 2022.
The police also arrested seven men for breaking into &orridor Trading, a warehouse in Matsa pha, where they allegedly stole sugar beans valued at ( 7 0. The beans were in 73 bags weigh ing 0kg each. They also allegedly stole kg bags of sugar bean in four bags and these were valued at ( 00.
ACCUSED
The accused persons are -uly 1dlangamandla of .a*od lo]a, %anele Scaca HlatMwako 2 of Mhlatane, Si]we %hembe 22 of /ogoba, Mabandla Mnd]ebele 33 of Mbelebeleni, /indokuhle Mamba 2 of %ig %end, Phum lani HlatMwako 27 of Mhlatane and Philani Shabangu 2 of /ogoba.
constructive feedback, collabora tive negotiation, preMudice reduc tion and conflict resolution.
WHY WE NEED DIALOGUE
According to .en &loke, “:e need dialogue because without it we drift apart, our differences become unten able, our fears grow palpable, and our distrust circles without end. :e need it because the smallest human unit is not one, but two; because it is how learning happens in all relation ships; because it invites us to open our hearts to each other and to our selves; because it resets our priorities and reveals the beauty and symmetry of our differences; because we need each other, and die a little inside without it; be cause, in its ab sence, we are expelled over and over from the (den of our capac ity
They have been charged with housebreaking with intent to steal and theft. The beans were in the lawful custody of -ester 1kala.
On Friday, Philile and Philani filed an application for bail at the High &ourt. Philani told the court that he was arrested by Matsapha police on 1ovember , 2022. He said he was charged with the six others.
He submitted that he was charged with two counts of housebreaking and theft while Philile was charged with one count of defeating the ends of Mustice. Philile appeared at Sigodvweni &ircuit &ourt on 1ovember 2, 2022. Philani on the other hand said he appeared in the same court on the previous day.
to love each other; because when it fails, it is far easier to turn each oth er¶s lives into a living hell,´ he ex plained.
5elationships of all kinds rely on repeated efforts to communicate, because by doing so we are able to unite around our agreements, and also around our differences, which permits us to solve deeper and more complex problems by inviting us to imagine a wider set of potential solu tions.
So we can imagine our diverse na tions, political factions, values and beliefs, cultures, religions, races, genders, and other social formations as scaled up relationships that are similar in many ways to marriages and families.
:e can ask what would happen predictably in your marriage or family if you stopped engaging in dialogue or discussing your differ ences"
COMMUNICATION
&learly, the outcomes would be dis astrous for your relationship, inde pendent of the nature of your differ ences, as we all know because, from time to time, we experience conflicts in which communication temporarily stops and the same consequences arise in all relationships on all scales.
The difficulty, then, is not whether to engage in dialogue over political issues, but how to do so, especially where the issues are complex and conten tious; and where the pain, loss, grief, guilt, shame and suffer ing each side has experienced have not been recognised, ac knowledged or rectified by the other side, usually because it has issues that have also not been recognised, acknowl edged or rectified.
How then do recognition, acknowledgement and recti
According to Philani, all the sto len beans were recovered by the police. He said he would plead not guilty at trial. He said he cooper ated with investigators. Philani al leged that he had no knowledge of the allegations against him and he was innocent of the offences.
INCARCERATION
He told the court that he was em ployed in Matsapha and stood to lose his Mob due to his continued incarceration.
The duo¶s application for bail was heard by -udge -ustice Ma vuso yesterday. The court granted their bail application and fixed the bail amount at (7 000. They were ordered to pay (2 000 in cash and provide sureties for the balance. Philile and Philani were repre sented by Sifiso Maseko of SM Maseko Attorneys.