RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Election fever is upon us! Or is it? 
Looking at the current climate surrounding the national elections (in just over a month), are South Africans really excited to have their voices heard or have some voters become so despondent and numb that it’s not even a hot topic? Political parties are rallying and putting up posters, but, at times, it seems that the public feels numb - and even a little indifferent.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - SWARTRUGGENS - Neighbouring town Swartruggens is plagued by never-ending electricity outages after three overhead posts supporting overhead cables have collapsed on 15 March this year. 
But power outages or lack of electricity is not the only problem that residents of the small little town managed by the Kgetlengrivier Local Municipality has to deal with. According to well-known resident of Swartruggens - Johan van der Westhuizen - unnecessary pride and indifference of municipal employees and senior officials also has to be dealt with. 

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - AfriForum se Rustenburgtak het vandag hul voorstelle vir die jaarlikse geïntegreerde ontwikkelingsplan (GOP) by die Rustenburg Plaaslike Munisipaliteit ingedien. 
Dié tak het onder meer in hul voorstelle gesê dat die munisipaliteit die instandhouding van elektriese infrastruktuur moet prioritiseer.
Elektrisiteitsvoorsiening in Rustenburg is ’n uitdaging en die AfriForum-tak het verlede jaar hofstukke aan die Nasionale Energiereguleerder van Suid-Afrika (NERSA) beteken om hierdie kwessies op te los.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - It is a sad state of affairs in our beautiful country, when more than 200 doctors that have successfully completed their internships have yet to be placed for community service. 
The Internship and Community Service Programme (ICSP) simply states that there are no open positions when probed for information and assistance.
This contradicts the Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla’s statement in February 2024 that “as of now, all those graduates who were eligible for internship placement, have been placed.

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RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Inwoners van die dorp is die laaste twee weke met ‘n gesig in hul tuine begroet wat herinner and die Kruger Nasionale Wildtuin. 
‘n Blou-apiefamilie, bestaande uit ‘n ouerpaar en hul jong suigeling, het by menige buurte gaan inloer op soek na kos.
Dit volg op weke van droër weer, wat natuurlike kosbronne laat opdroog het en toe dié betrokke gesin genoop het om hul tuis te maak in hoofsaaklik Oos-Einde, maar ook ander dele van die dorp.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - In response to a parliamentary question posed by the DA, the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, revealed the response times by the South African Police Service (SAPS), throughout the country. 
In an unfortunate revelation, albeit not surprising, the North West province is positioned in a disappointing second last place.  From these response times, criminals have all the time in the world to do their bidding without any fear of SAPS intervention. In the Northern Cape, it takes more than an hour on average for SAPS to respond to a violent crime or a crime in progress.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Na talle maande van stilstand waarin absoluut geen vordering met die ontwikkeling van ‘n nuwe moskee op die hoek van Cuckoo- en Mayet-rylaan in Cashan 19 (Wyk 17) gemaak is nie, het werkers pas weer hul gereedskap opgeneem en het die aktiwiteite op die bouperseel skielik opnuut lewe gekry. 
Werkers en swaar-masjinerie het net meer as ‘n week gelede hul “intrek” op die perseel geneem en is tans hard aan die swoeg met die lê van fondasies en versterking van die basisstruktuur voordat messel- en bouwerk in alle erns kan begin. 

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - The scare of his life! This was in store for 41-year-old Gregory Collen Tlabakwe - 
a water meter reader of Rustenburg's Von Wielligh Property Management. Monday this week was a usual day at the office for Gregory as he went about his duties like every week. 
Monday, 15 April however, turned out to be a day that Gregory probably won't forget for a very long time - a close encounter (of the first kind) with a gigantic African Rock Python.  Gregory was reading water meters at Waterfall Village, Cashan 19 at approximately 09:00 and when walking from one unit to another the thought suddenly arose - "Am I imagining things or did I just see the tail of a snake slipping over that wall?"  But Gregory wasn't in another world or Jurassic Park for that matter. 

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Suid-Afrikaners slaak 'n sug van verligting na 'n aankondiging in die Government Gazette 50418, op 28 March 2024. 
Die South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) het bekend gemaak dat die e-tolsisteem gestaak word om middernag op 11 April. Dit sal dus die laaste dag wees dat e-tolfakture op die standaardsisteem verwerk sal word. 
SANRAL-rekeninghouers sal daarom voorts nie verantwoordelik gehou word vir e-tolfooie wat na die aangekondigde datum gelas word nie, selfs al beweeg hul onderdeur die strukture. Geen aksie word verlang van die publiek nie, aangesien die proses outomaties opgedateer sal word.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Die VF Plus dring daarop aan dat raadslede in die ANC-beheerde Rustenburg-plaaslike munisipaliteit (RLM) persoonlik aanspreeklik gehou word vir finansiële verliese van die munisipaliteit wat voortspruit uit onwettige of onreëlmatige raadsbesluite. 
Dié standpunt van die VF Plus volg op die onlangse omstrede aanstelling van die Rustenburg Munisipaliteit se munisipale bestuurder wat op onreëlmatige wyse plaasgevind het, aldus Adam Bossau - VF Plus-raadslid van die Rustenburg Munisipaliteit. Volgens Bossau maak munisipale wetgewing inderdaad daarvoor voorsiening dat raadslede vir omstrede or onregmatige besluite aanspreeklik gehou kan word. 

RUSTENBURG HERALD - HOPETOWN - The North West Department of Education has sympathised with family members and learners of the North West Education fraternity after a bus accident that occurred in the early morning hours of Sunday, 7 April, approximately 60 km outside Hopetown, along the Kimberly route.
 The bus was ferrying learners from the North West province who had participated in the Secondary School Track and Field Athletics event held in the Western Cape when the accident happened.