NOORDWESTER – ZEERUST - Tomeletso Johnson Matebesi (27) who was already in custody for a separate case, was also charged on illegal possession of a firearm, as well as illegal possession of a pangolin carcass at Dinokana village, Zeerust on Monday, 22 July. The accused was arrested by the Mahikeng based Hawks Serious Organised Crime Investigation in collaboration with Zeerust K9 and Mahikeng Tactical Response Team (TRT), following information received about an illegal firearm that was reported to be at his residential place at Dinokana.

NOORDWESTER – LICHTENBURG - The potholes behind the Mall became so deep and big that driving became impossible. It has been in this terrible state for months and months. 
As it is the dropping zone for deliveries, truck drivers could not deliver goods any longer. The management of Lichtenburg Mall realised that they needed to do something themselves to rectify the situation. 

NOORDWESTER - SANNIESHOF – Constable Goitsemodimo Paul Nakedi of Sannieshof SAPS recently received information about an African male who was transporting drugs to Sannieshof. 
The information was acted upon, and when the suspect identified police vehicles, he went on the run. A chase ensued until he entered a house in Mebeleng section where he was found with CrystalMeth to the value of R5 800. He was then arrested and detained in Sannieshof cells. 

South Africa’s largest wheeling project was officially commissioned on Tuesday, 16 July at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Lichtenburg in the North West province. Wheeling allows a business to buy clean, private power (delivering energy from a generator to an end-user located in another area through the use of an existing distribution or transtition network - such as Eskom). The project, in which The SOLA Group will provide Tronox Mineral Sands with more than 200MW of clean renewable energy, will also see an injectiion of more than R200m in the local economy with hundreds of permanent and part-time job opportunities.