Who’ll be voted Hooligan of Year?

HERE they are – the 12 villains who top The Herald Hooligan of the Year ratings for dastardly deeds committed during this year:

01. Mxolisi Kitsana, the taxi driver who received two life sentences for kidnapping and stabbing to death Thembakazi Lelona Fufu, 23, and the rape and attempted murder of a second woman identified as Miss T. Fufu was on her way to her graduation at Rhodes University. Kitsana was also convicted on two counts of kidnapping and two of robbery with aggravating circumstances;

02. Mod Ndoyana, executive director of corporate services at the NMB Municipality, who twice made the “Hooligan of the Day” spot. He passed the buck on the municipal staff leave crisis and admitted to making “mistakes” on his CV. He also made the final 12 of last year’s Hooligan of the Year;

03. Mutshutshu Muvhango, the Pretoria teacher who was jailed for 15 years for murdering NMMU student Tshepiso Sithole, 18, and for stealing her cellphone. He had had a relationship with Sithole, his former pupil;

04. Mhleli Tshamase,

head of Nelson Mandela Bay’s troubled multimillion-rand IPTS, allegedly did not disclose when appointed to the municipal legal services department that he had previously been convicted of being in possession of stolen goods and slapped with a five-year prison sentence;

05. Velile Notshulwana, the fired NMMU academic found to have plagiarised columns written for The Herald and to have rigged his CV to be appointed to the university. He also made two appearances in the “Hooligan of the Day” slot;

06. Ian Venter, the George dentist sentenced to four years of correctional supervision for performing sexual acts on a friend’s minor son during a holiday sleepover after giving the teen alcohol and showing him pornographic material;

07. Kebby Maphatsoe, the deputy defence and military veterans minister who said public protector Thuli Madonsela was a CIA agent;

08. Tim Christy, the St Francis Bay businessman and karate instructor who admitted beating a man unconscious and then trying to stick a fire hose down his throat. He was fined R10 000 or 18 months suspended for four years;

09. Andre Gouws, the drunk driver who hit and killed cyclist Clem Morris on the Kragga Kamma Road. He pleaded guilty to charges of culpable homicide, driving under the influence of alcohol and failing to stop at the scene of an accident;

10. Jacob Zuma, last year’s Hooligan of the Year, makes it to the final 12 again. The president said he had done nothing wrong and he had never misused government money, after Madonsela found more than R240-million of public funds had been used to upgrade his private residence, and he and his family had improperly benefited from the expenditure;

11. Frederick Gordon, the wife abuser who was last year’s runner-up to Hooligan of the Year, was sentenced finally to an effective 25 years in prison for kidnapping, assaulting and raping his wife, Avril;

12. Mamphela Ramphele, the Agang SA leader who took up a DA “marriage” offer then broke it off before the May elections;

See the panel on the right for details of how to vote.