NOORDWESTER - LICHTENBURG - Coligny and Lichtenburg Crime Prevention, Lichtenburg K9 and Ottosdal Detectives worked together, following information received on suspects allegedly involved in a house burglary reported on a farm 30 April in Coligny, at about 03:00. During the housebreaking, various firearms were stolen from a safe, that was mounted on a wall.
Potholes vs your pocket – Here’s how to win
NOORDWESTER – LICHTENBURG - If you’ve recently felt a nasty jolt while driving or noticed your car pulling a little more than usual, chances are you’ve met one of South Africa’s most infamous road villains – the dreaded pothole.
Dylan Petzer, National Vice Chairman of the Tyre, Equipment and Parts Association (TEPA), a proud association of the Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI), says it’s officially pothole season thanks to the April rains.
Sign language interpreters awarded
NOORDWESTER – POTCHEFSTROOM - The Acting Provincial Commissioner of Police in North West, Major General Patrick Asaneng, handed certificates over to 20 members who were trained as sign language interpreters. This recently took place in Potchefstroom.
Major General Asaneng motivated the recipients and said Human Resource Development is a mutual symbiotic relationship between the employer and employee, from which both parties derive bennefits.
Illegal immigrant appears in court for stock theft
NOORDWESTER – SWARTRUGGENS - Tshepang Motseretsere Sepinara (22), an illegal immigrant from Lesotho, appeared before the Swartruggens Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 2 May, for possession of suspected stolen cattle. He was remanded in custody until his next court appearance on Wednesday, 21 May.
Sepinara’s court appearance folllows his arrest on Wednesday afternoon, 30 April, in Swartruggens. This came after information received led the police to the Derdepoort T-junction, where members of Madikwe and Phokeng Stock Theft and Endangered Species (STES) Units, pounced on Sepinara during a controlled buy-and-bust operation.
Ditsobotla Munisipaliteit ’n slagveld
NOORDWESTER – LICHTENBURG - Daar is weinig, indien enige, funksionaliteit by die Munisipaliteit te bespeur. Sondagoggend, 4 Mei omstreeks 05:00 het die voortslepende faksiegevegte weer uitgebars tussen sekuriteitsmaatskappye by die munisipale gebou en ‘n skietery tot gevolg gehad.
Klaarblyklik het die onlangse wettig aangestelde munisipale sekuriteitsmaatskappy, Eagle Springbok Security en Lifeways Security, van die onwettige munisipale bestuurder, Olaotswe Bojosinyane gebots.