Lentswe, Klerksdorp - Various provinces and the national Department of Transport have launched their policing campaigns for the coming long weekend, looking to clamp down on road abusers over the busy Easter period. Thousands of motorists are expected to take to holiday destinations this weekend as South Africans celebrate religious or leisure time over the Easter weekend.

Lentswe, Klerksdorp - This month is Human Rights Month and South Africans commemorated Human Rights Day last week. The staff of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Diocese of Klerksdorp attended the National Human Rights Day commemorative event in Rustenburg on March 20.

Lentswe, Klerksdorp - A new Cathlab was installed at Tshepong Hospital and is currently in its training phase. Dr Binu Luke, technical advisor to the Deputy Director General, told Lentswe that the first procedure was done on Tuesday March 26 when an emergency medical procedure needed to be done on a patient. 

Lentswe, Klerksdorp - Unathi Golimpi (31) appeared in the Klerksdorp Magistrates’ Court on charges of money laundering. According to W/O Amogelang Malwetse, spokesperson for the Hawks in North West, he was arrested on Friday March 22 during a sting operation conducted by the Klerksdorp-based Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team at Soshanguve. It is alleged that in April 2016, Tshepo Solomon Makatu (32) who was an employee for a cellphone company at Jubilee Mall, Hammanskraal at the time, defrauded the complainant by assisting unknown people to do a sim swop on the complainant’s cellphone that was used for internet banking without knowledge nor consent from the complainant.