RUSTENBURG HERALD - PHOKENG - The Tlhabane Regional Court sentenced a 55-year-old man to 20 years imprisonment for sexually violating his 6-year-old niece.
 Lebogela Motswadi (55) was declared unfit to possess a firearm and his name will now be included in the register of sexual offenders. He was further declared undesirable to work with children. 

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - The South African Police Service (SAPS) reservist programme continues to collapse under Minister Bheki Cele with SAPS losing more than 90% of its reservists since 2011/12.
 In 2011/12 there were 52 054 SAPS reservists across the country. Ten years later in 2021/22 SAPS was left with just 4 393 reservists. Today, the numbers have declined to a devastating new low, with just 3 502 reservists across the country.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - The South African electorate of whom many hope to make a difference in South African politics during the National Election of next year, will have to remember that voting is only the second step. 
The first step is to make sure that you, and all new voters who have turned 18 during the course of the past few months are registered to vote in your ward. 

An inspection team of the Rustenburg Local Municipality, in conjunction with law enforcement raided a shop in Zinniaville and confiscated a number of food products which, according to information were all beyond their expiry date. It is alleged that this wholesaler’s customers are mostly tuck shops reselling these goods.

RUSTENBURG HERALD – RUSTENBURG – A badly injured man was found near Kroondal over the weekend.
The man had to be taken to a local hospital to be treated for injuries he sustained after being assaulted.
According to information, Major Okedutse Itumeleng (47) was last seen in Vryburg after work on Friday (27 October).

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - A suspect was arrested here in connection with housebreaking and theft at President Cyril Ramaphosa's farm in 2020. Another was caught in Bela Bela. The two suspects, a woman (30) and a 39-year-old man, were arrested the past weekend by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (HAWKS).

RUSTENBURG HERAL - RUSTENBURG - Residents of Wards 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 42 have been invited to a “Ward meeting” in terms of Rustenburg Executive Mayor’s “Mayoral Outreach” programme on Thursday, 2 November from 18:00 to 20:00.
The venue is the Old Town Hall in Beyers Naude Avenue - right next to the offices of the Rustenburg Municipality. 
The following issues will be addressed: 

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Residents of Zinniaville and in particular the Zinniaville Ratepayers Association have been in the news lately following a peaceful demonstration at Missionary Mpheni House on 4 October in protest against the Zinniaville community's water woes of the past year or two. Though the demonstration of 4 October served as an opportunity to present a memorandum of grievances to the Rustenburg Municipality's Executive Mayor, the ZRPA were later only received by Mr Thabang Rampou - Member of the Mayoral Committee on Infrastructure who responded to say that the RLM will provide details of how the water issue could be addressed amicably within 14 days. 

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Ward 17 residents in "uptown" Rustenburg - especially Frederick and Cuckoo Avenues as well as certain areas in Waterval East (Ward 42) are frustrated beyond imagination by die Rustenburg Municipality's apparent inability to apprehend the culprits and layabouts who have been vandalising the notorious Adelaide substation in Waterval East/Azalea Park/Mountain View area for up to six or seven times during the past 30 days. 

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - The SAPS Safer Festive Season Operational Plan was rolled out recently in all provinces. 
The plan will see heightened focus on seven areas which include GBVF, combatting of serious and violent crime such as aggravated robberies, border security, strengthening by-laws, road safety, as well as illegal mining. “We are not going to co-govern with criminals.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - MOGWASE - The Mogwase Regional Court sentenced Thabo William Modibedi (39) to life imprisonment for raping his ex-lover. His conviction emanates from an incident that occurred in the early hours of 21 October 2018, wherein the complainant was approached by the accused at a tavern and asked her to go home with him. She refused, and Modibedi got aggressive in front of other patrons and started assaulting her. The complainant tried to escape but he caught up with her and continued to assault her, as he dragged her to his home.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - A peaceful demonstration by some 150 members of the Zinniaville Ratepayers Association to hand over a memorandum of grievances to Rustenburg’s Executive Mayor in protest against a hopeless water situation in Zinniaville took a turn for the worse when over eager and heavily armed security promptly pushed, shoved and manhandled protesting people from the municipality’s main gates area and pepper sprayed an innocent and non-aggressive member of the Association.