Klerksdorp Rekord, Klerksdorp - Die Grace-Life Church in Buffelsdoornweg is die afgelope week onder riool.
Volgens Isaac Smit, kerk-administrateur, is ‘n hoof rioolpyp op die sypaadjie verstop. “Die rioolverstopping stoot oor in kerkgronde asook in ons hoofingang by ons ontvangs. Dit is totale chaos. Dit is al herhaaldelik aangemeld, maar nog geen uitklaring nie.”
Klerksdorp Rekord, Klerksdorp - Thinus Theunissen, ’n voormalige werknemer van ’n slaghuis in Klerksdorp, het tussen 2018 en 2019 beeste van verskeie boere van Klerksdorp, Potchefstroom, Hartbeesfontein en Ventersdorp na vendusiekrale geneem om dit glo namens hulle te verkoop.
Hy het egter die geld in sy sak gesteek. Die boere het weens Theunissen se optrede ’n totale verlies van R3 miljoen gely.
Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - Last week, former Municipal Manager Abbey Dlavane (61) was sentenced to five years imprisonment on charges of theft and contravention of the Municipal Finance Management Act.
Dlavane was employed as the Municipal Manager for Dr Kenneth Kaunda District municipality between January 2009 and March 2010.
He was found guilty of instructing a credit controller to issue a cheque amounting to R550 000 to Kumekucha Investment for services not rendered to the municipality. He was sentenced on Friday April 25.
Klerksdorp Record, Stilfontein - In what appears to be a war of attrition, the Northwest government is refusing to renew a license for a 295-bed private hospital that its owners claim has been patient-ready for five years, potentially providing jobs to fifty people. This includes twenty-five doctors and ten nurses.
The Duff Scott Hospital, a former mine facility with scope for operating theatres, ICU wards and an ambulance on hand, would alleviate pressure on the two hugely over-subscribed public hospitals in Klerksdorp.
Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - The police in North West are concerned about the number of rape cases that are reported mostly in townships, rural communities’ villages and farms.
The Acting Provincial Commissioner of Police, Major General Patrick Asaneng called on community leaders to what he is saying is a pandemic afflicting society.
“Despite several crime prevention strategies on gender based violence and more, women, girls and the elderly continue to be victims of gratuitous violent crimes perpetrated disturbingly by young men and in some instances partners or suspects who are known to victims. No amount of resources or policing plan will address moral depravity and societal ills such as gender based violence, domestic violence and other social fabric crimes,” he said.
