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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - The Vala Umgodi task teams led by the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) in North West are intensifying their operations and ensuring that illegal mining activities and operations are dealt a blow. 
This past weekend saw the arrest of 340 illegal miners and as of 12:00 on Sunday, 3 November, at least 565 mine workers resurfaced from their illegal underground activities.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Suid-Afrikaners en in besonder Rustenburgers se tonge het op Sondag,              3 November, behoorlik uitgehang en daar kan geen twyfel wees dat die spreekwoordelike kraaie chronies vas aan die slaap was nie - wat nog te sê van kraaie wat gegaap het? 
Maandagoggend was "sjoe, maar dit was darem vrekwarm nê?", die eerste woorde waarmee die meeste kantoorwerkers mekaar na die naweek gegroet het en daarna sou 'n hele rits beskrywings gevolg het van hoe warm dit ook al waar was.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - The community is reeling in anger and frustration after a couple was attacked at the Donkerhoek Cemetery on Sunday, 3 November between noon and 13:00. 
In what is unfortunately not the first incident of its kind at this particular cemetery, a male suspect with tall and slender built attacked a husband and wife (who wish to remain anonymous) with an Okapi knife.