RUSTENBURG HERALD - MOGWASE - The Mogwase Regional Court recently sentenced six men to direct imprisonment for their roles in the murder and kidnapping of 34-year-old Katlego Donald Tshite.
The accused, Sydney Obakeng Raikane (40), Happy Magatshe (34), Karabo Edward Modise (32), Matshidiso Motshepe (34), Kamogele Eric Mosothoane (34), and Sikwane Dunga Danke (40), received sentences ranging from 10 to 20 years' imprisonment.
Unqualified Audit report for Bojanala Platinum District Municipality
RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - In an unprecedented audit outcome that has not happened on any occasion during the past decade, the Auditor General South Africa (AGSA ) has granted the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality an unqualified audit opinion.
The audit was conducted in accordance with the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs). The AGSA believes that the audit evidence that she obtained was sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for her opinion. It should also be noted that the AGSA opinion is not modified in respect of the matters found during auditing.
Dare to draw - money galore!
Finally the cat is out of the bag and two amateur artists’ day, month or year has been made after they each clinched a shopping voucher to the value of R10 000 from Pick n Pay Beyers Naudé and Pick n Pay Greystone Crossing in Rustenburg Herald/NW Bonus’ Blank Space art competition. Photographed at the prize-giving on Monday this week were Derrick Oberholzer from Pick n Pay Beyers Naudé, Zanab Bukhari (Blank Space winner), our Chief Judge Jacques Malan, Charlene Louw (Blank Space winner), Cecile Volschenk - administrator of the Blank Space Art competition - and Steven Vorster of Pick n Pay Greystone Crossing.
Former head of NW Transport pleads guilty in SA Express matter
RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Bailey Mahlakoleng (56), the former Head of Department at the North West Department of Community Safety and Transport Management, pleaded guilty on contravention of the Public Finance Management Act relating to the SA Express matter. The accused made a guilty plea in the North West High Court on Friday, 22 November, and was subsequently sentenced.
His sentencing emanates from an investigation by the Hawks’ Serious Corruption Investigation into allegations of flouting procurement processes when the North West Department of Community Safety and Transport Management entered into a contract with SA Express in 2015 to provide airline services for the province.
Consumers in uproar over water, electricity
RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Rustenburg consumers seem to be at the sharp end of endless water and electricity problems judged by events, shortages and outages in recent days.
Widespread water interruptions were experienced over large areas of town over the weekend with the latest series of electricity interruptions setting in on Tuesday morning this week. For the past few weeks, hardly a week has gone by without electricity interruptions or water cuts and shortages - with consumers protesting on social media platforms and in letters to the media.
A 39-year-old man arrested and charged with murder and multiple rapes
RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - A 39-year-old man, Manda Mulaudzi, was arrested and charged with murder and multiple rapes in Rustenburg.
Following his appearance in the Rustenburg Magistrate Court on 25 November, he was remanded in custody until 5 December for a formal bail application.
TRAC N4 concessionaire to abolish magstripe card payments
RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Motorists and holidaymakers planning to travel to Mozambique via the N4 from Solomon Mahlangu through Mpumalanga to Maputu - please take note that starting from 1 December 2024, TRAC N4 toll plazas will no longer accept magstripe (swipe) card payments.
This measure only applies to the N4 via Solomon Mahlangu through Mpumalanga to the Maputo Port in Mozambique - according to TRAC N4, the concessionaire who manages the N4 via Solomon Mahlangu through Mpumalanga to Maputo.
Corruption in RLM housing department exposed
RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - A female employee of the Rustenburg Municipality’s Housing department has been suspended on charges of corruption and bribery while her male assistant is to follow suit in a spate of corruption and bribery that has been going on for years on end at the Rustenburg Municipal flats for the elderly in Kremetart Avenue and Church Street Rustenburg.
According to a trusted source, an investigation into allegations of corruption and bribery at the municipal flats had already begun in 2016 and finally the cards seem to be tumbling, Rustenburg Herald was told.
Driejarige dogtertjie en haar ma wreed deur honde verskeur - sekuriteitsbaas beveel honde om twee aan te val
RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - ‘n Driejarige blondekop-dogtertjie van Rustenburg sal waarskynlik vir die res van haar lewe met letsels en tekens van bytwonde aan haar gesiggie moet vrede maak - om nie van lewenslange trauma te praat nie - nadat sy Sondagmiddag in die teenwoordigheid van haar mammie wreedaardig deur drie tot vier Duitse herdershonde in opdrag van hul baas aageval is.
Die man - glo die eienaar van ‘n privaat-sekuriteitsmaatskappy - het blykbaar Sondagmiddag omstreeks 15:00 met sy bakkie met sekuriteitshonde agter op die voertuig langs die R24 stilgehou waar die dogtertjie en haar mammie te voet na die KFC Waterfall Mall onderweg was om vir die kind roomys te gaan koop.
RLM: We apologise for the inconvenience
RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - “Did you have water last night?”, “Was your electricity also off this weekend?”, “Did you see that huge pothole in Joubert Street?” “They dug another hole and didn’t fill it up.”
Residents of the Platinum City are fed up. They have had enough. In recent weeks, statements like the above, seemed to be daily conversation starters, along with the scorching weather, school exams and the coming festive season. Local WhatsApp service groups have been inundated with complaints of no water, no electricity, blocked drains, broken streetlights, exposed manholes... the list is endless.
Collaborative efforts lead to arrest of suspect after CIT in Rustenburg
RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - As part of combating aggravated robberies in line with the Safer Festive Season Operation Shanela, a suspect was arrested in Tlhabane following a cash-in-transit (CIT) robbery.
The incident occurred at about 17:30 on Monday, 11 November. It is alleged that a white Mercedes Benz vehicle rammed into a cash in transit security vehicle on the R104 road to Kroondal from Rustenburg. Although the security guard (driver) continued driving, he was forced to stop after shots were fired at the vehicle.
Motoris in N4-lokval geskiet
RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Neil Coetzer (49) was Vrydagaand vanaf Rustenburg op pad na Pretoria toe sy bakkie om ongeveer 20:30 ‘n klipversperring, wat deur rowers daar geplaas is, getref het.
Die voertuig se band is beskadig en hy is in ‘n ernstige toestand in die intensiewesorgeenheid van ‘n hospitaal in Johannesburg na hy deur die rowers op die N4-snelweg naby Brits in ‘n lokval gelei en in die bors geskiet is.