Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - A national lockdown is effective from midnight tonight. As South Africans prepared for this historic event to lessen the spread of the contagious COVID-19, the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Joint Operations Committee (JOC) team also readies itself for a three-week intensive work schedule. The JOC is made up of teams from the medical, local government and security clusters, who have to put in place stringent measures announced by State President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday 23 March.

Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - The Matlo-sana Municipality wanted to disconnect power to the Klerksdorp/Tshepong Hospital complex on Friday 27 March.Municipal Manager Roger Nkhumise published a notice to this effect in the Klerksdorp Midweek newspaper on Tuesday 24 March. Urgent meetings between hospital management and the municipality averted the crisis.

Klerksdorp Rekord, Klerksdorp - ‘n Egpaar van die stad se droomvakansie het in ‘n nagmerrie geëindig toe verskeie lande nie die luukse skip waarin hulle op reis was in hul hawens wou toelaat nie. Ds Alewyn Burger en sy vrou Laetitia het op Dinsdag 24 Maart op OR Tambo-lughawe geland na ‘n angswekkende paar dae. Ds Burger vertel hy het langverlof by die kerk geneem en hy en sy vrou was op ‘n reis deur Suid-Amerika en per boot na Barcelona in Spanje toe die Spaanse regering hul hawens sluit weens Covid-19.