En daar het ons dit toe! ‘n Vernietigende nederlaag van 0 - 57 teen die gevreesde All Blacks. En kom ons wees nou maar eerlik, ek glo nie Suid-Afrikaners was oor die algemeen so besonder beïndruk met die Bokke se “nuwe” vorm van die laaste klompie maande nie - die seges oor Frankryk, Argentinië en ja, ‘n gelykop-uitslag teen Australië ten spyt.
The media is often if not constantly critizised of being biased and that it invariably focuses on the failures of central, provincial and local government and that it rarely, if ever, gives the necessary recognition to perhaps less controversial but nonetheless successful projects or achievements.
One thing about the ANC government, the Rustenburg Municipality and our provincial departmental structures - they can talk! For decades now the Rustenburg public and interested and affected parties have been calling on the Rustenburg municipality to once and for all stop the decline of important historical buildings and structures - our cultural heritage if you want...
In die jare 1989/90 was ek ‘n jong, onervare leerling-joernalis met skaars ‘n paar maande se ondervinding agter die blad. Een van die eerste “joppies” wat ek goed kan onthou - was toe ek by gebrek aan ‘n vroulike kollega in die Herald se redaksiekantoor in daardie stadium ‘n VLU-vergadering (Vroulandbou-unie) namens die Rustenburg Herald moes dek.
South Africans have watched and learnt with horror about the incident roughly a fortnight ago in which the South African Government’s Deputy Minister for Higher Education, Mr Mduduzi Manana, viciously attacked and assaulted a woman during the early morning hours of what the SA Minister of Police (Fikile Mbalula) describes as a beerhouse brawl. With National Women’s Day and Women’s Month celebrated barely a week ago, the Deputy Minister couldn’t have picked a worse time for his midnight escapades, not that incidents of this embarrassing nature and especially by senior government officials are totally out of the ordinary.
