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Deur Amanda Basson ([email protected])

LEPHALALE – Kaitlint da Costa (8) is Dinsdagaand in die Mankweng-hospitaal buite Polokwane oorlede weens brand-wonde wat sy opgedoen het toe hulle huis in Ellis straat verlede Vrydagaand aan die brand geslaan het.

Kaitlin en haar boetie Jayden (1) het ernstige brandwonde opgedoen nadat daar vermoedelik ‘n kortsluiting in die kragkabels van ‘n dakwaaier was wat ‘n brand in hulle slaapkamer veroorsaak het. Hul boetie, Douw (3), is behandel vir rookingeaseming, maar het geen beserings opgedoen nie.

Volgens Netwerk24 het die kinders se ma, Sibreena da Costa, eerste vir Douw gegryp en in die gang afgegooi, daarna het haar pa, José da Costa, in die brandende kamer ingehardloop om die kinders te red, terwyl haar verloofde, Johan Nel, ‘n venster oopgebreek het sodat hulle van die vlamme kon wegkom. José se voete is onder ver-brand en Johan het brandwonde op sy arms en bene.

Kaitlint het meer as 83% brandwonde oor haar lyfie opgedoen. Die persentasie is opgeskuif na 115% nadat die inwendige skade ook in berekening geneem is.

Sibreena het haar suster, Nicole da Costa, sowat 22:00 Vrydagaand geskakel en gevra dat sy dringend na die huis kom om-dat daar ’n brand ontstaan het.

Brand eis agt-jarige meisieNicole vertel dat het sy met

haar aankoms vir Kaitlint buite die woning gekry het. “Kaitlint was pikswart gebrand, maar sy het self na die kar toe geloop om hospitaal toe te gaan.”

José en Johan is in die Lep-halale Mediclinic opgeneem vir behandeling, terwyl Kaitlint en Jayden na Mankweng-hospitaal buite Polokwane geneem is. Beide Kaitlint en Jayden is in ‘n mediese koma geplaas. Jayden se toestand is tans kritiek maar stabiel en hy is aan asemhalings masjiene gekop-pel. Hy was teen Woensdag steeds onder verdowing.

Dinsdagaand omstreeks 20:45 het die familie op hulle Facebook-blad aangekondig dat Kaitlint oorlede is en gevra dat almal blomme by hulle huis gaan neersit ter nagedagtenis aan hulle klein engeltjie.

Intussen het Nicole ook met die brand-slagoffertjie Pippie Kruger se ma, Anice, kontak gemaak. Pippie, het in 2011 80% brandwonde opgedoen toe ‘n vloeibare vuuraansteekmiddel naby haar ontplof het. Sy was drie-jaar-oud tydens die voorval.

Sibreena het intussen haar kommer uitgespreek oor die sorg in Mankweng-hospi-taal. Die familie poog om Jayden oor te skuif

na ’n ander hospitaal. Engele vir Nood het ingetree om te help.

Enige iemand wat wil bydra kan dié rek-ening gebruik: Capitec (Ellisras), spaarreken-ing, no. 1401008176 (takkode 470010). Bewys van betaling moet epos word na [email protected], verwysing: Jayden. Die rekening word gekontroleer en behartig deur M en D Boekhouers.

Bo: Kaitlint da Costa wat Dinsdag-aand aan brandwonde beswyk het in Mankweng-hospitaal buite Polokwane.

Bo en regs is Jayden (1) wie se toestand tans kritiek, maar stabiel is. Die familie probeer tans geld insamel om hom na 'n ander hospitaal te skuif, omdat hulle bekommerd is oor die sorg wat hy tans ontvang.

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MODIMOLLE – Ian Chuqe het Woensdag skuldig gepleit op die verkragting en roof van Mariaan Wentzel (40) op 23 Maart. Hy het 10 jaar gevangenisstraf vir die verkragting gekry en 15 jaar vir roof met verswarende omstandighede.

Mariaan, bestuurder van die Lephalale DBV, was op die betrokke dag saam met haar drie kinders besig om in ‘n huis op ‘n plaas naby Vaalwater in te trek. Haar man het gery om die volgende vrag meu-bels in die dorp te gaan haal.

Chuqe het haar omstreeks 16:00 in die huis oorval en wreed-aardig aangerand en verkrag. Hy het op die vlug geslaan met self-one.

“Vyf jaar van die roof vonnis sal saam met sy verkragting von-nis uitgedien word en hy sal daarom effektief 20 jaar tronkstraf uitdien,” sê adjudant offisier Girty van der Merwe, die ondersoekbe-ampte van die saak.

Van der Merwe het ook gesê dat Wentzel ‘n inspirasie was en is dit te danke aan haar dat hulle die saak so vinnig kon afhandel.

“Ek is ongelooflik bly dat ek nou hierdie deel van my lewe kan afsluit,” het Wentzel Woensdagmiddag gesê.

Wentzel wil graag die gemeenskap bedank vir hulle bystand ty-dens die saak en sê ook dat die ondersoekbeampte geprys kan word vir die harde werk en toewyding wat sy vir die saak gegee het.

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Ian Chuqe is tot 10 jaar gevangenisstraf vir verkragting en 15 jaar vir roof met verswaerende omstandighede gevonnis.. Foto: Die Spoorsnyers via Facebook.

Father allegedly slits throats of his four children

By Pontho Sema ([email protected])

LIMPOPO – A hit of Nyaope, a drug made up of low-grade heroin, marijuana, cleaning detergents and Rattex (rat poison), sells for R35 a hit in the streets of Mah-welereng and Marapong. The highly-addictive street drug is sold in loops, bags, hits, straws and foils.

The risk of overdosing from injecting is high as the user does not know what mix he is actually injecting into his body (10-50% heroin is used depending on the dealer). Another popular way of using this drug in South Africa is smoking, traditionally called “Chasing the dragon”. The drug is put on a foil and heated - the smoke is then inhaled with a straw.

According to a 2013 study by the Department of Social Development – Substance use, misuse and abuse amongst the youth in Limpopo the average age of drug users has decreased dramatically. Some of the users who participated in the study were as young as nine (9). These findings were confirmed when North-ern News spoke to addicts in the Mokopane area.

A volunteer who works to get addicts off the streets, told Northern News: “I was shocked when I realised that drug deal-ers are targeting young children.”

Socioeconomic challenges such as unemployment, poverty, peer pressure and crime in general contribute to the rise in substance abuse. “These issues are a daily reality in towns like Mokopane and Lephalale,” the volunteer says. “Having nothing to do, Nyaope ‘hot spots’ are formed where addicts gather to smoke and inject the drug.”

Nyaope is the drug of choice in especially Mahwelereng, Madiba, Moshate and Sekgakgapeng.

Northern News approached a 17-year-old addict who says he started using marijuana at the age of 12 and was introduced to nyaope by friends at the age of 14. He is injecting and smok-ing the drug and while he admits to using regularly, he says he wants to break free from the addiction. “I was expelled from school because I started stealing from learners and teachers to pay for drugs,” he says, adding that his family does not trust him anymore because he stole from home as well.

He understands why they don’t trust him and that his actions are wrong, but say that the need to fuel his addiction was stron-ger than the guilt he felt for breaking their trust. He craves the feeling nyaope gives him.

The police in Mahwelereng confirms that the issue of nyaope is worrying and on the rise in the area. They say that drug deal-ers target anyone – business people, school children and even the unemployed. “This drug is adversely affecting our commu-nity,” says Mahwelereng police spokesperson Constable Sello Leso. “School children are using pocket money to buy nyaope.”

He urges anyone with any information on drug use to report it to the nearest police station. “Keep an eye on your children and get help as soon as possible.”

Nyaope - township drug of choice

The most popular way of using this nyaope is smoking, traditionally called “Chasing the dragon”. The drug is either injected or put on a foil and heated - the smoke is then inhaled with a straw. IThe highly-addictive street drug is sold in loops, bags, hits, straws and foils.

By Martie Pretorius ([email protected])

ZEBEDIELA - A 36-year-old father from Moletane Vil-lage in Zebediela is expected to appear in court on four counts of murder after allegedly slitting his four sons’ throats last Saturday.

It is believed that the man and his children’s mother were having marital problems, said warrant officer Mochane Kanyane from the Magatle police station.

The four brothers’ bodies, aged four, six, ten and 13 were found by neighbors of their mother.

After collecting his sons on Friday from their grand-mother’s house in Gauteng where they were cared for, their father took them to their mother’s house in Mo-

letane Village the next day where he allegedly killed them.

According to media reports, the mother told police she was on the phone with one of her sons while the father gruesomely murdered them one by one. She heard their cries.

After allegedly killing his children, the man’s failed suicide attempt with the same bloodied knife he com-mitted the four murders with, landed him in a provin-cial hospital in Polokwane where he will remain until he recovers.

Police says that he will be taken into custody and appear in court as soon as he is discharged from the hospital.

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By Amanda Basson ([email protected])

MARAPONG – Violence erupted in Marapong on Monday night as an angry mob set fire to 22 busses from Lowveld Bus Services, the satellite police station, a municipal office and the library. Various privately owned businesses were also dam-aged. The damage is estimated at millions of rands.

“We have not assessed the monetary losses on our busses yet, but can safely say that it will be millions,” says Frans Rossel of Lowveld Bus Service. “None of our staff or passengers were hurt, but we lost 19 bus-ses and an additional three busses were very badly damaged.”

While the violent protest seems to be about service delivery and unemployment, no confirmation as to what sparked the violent behaviour has been received yet. According to some residents they are unhappy about unemployment, service delivery and the fact that local people can’t obtain jobs at Medupi. “We have been made promises that we will be employed but up until now we are still sitting at home without jobs,” a resident told Northern News.

By Wednesday evening the radio station SAFM reported that 14 people were arrest-ded earlier the day making good Limpopo po-lice spokesperson, Lt Col Maselela Ledwaba's promise that police will do everything in its power to bring the arsonists to book.

Tuesday afternoon the burned busses had not been removed yet and a heavy police presence could be seen in the area. Most of the residents in Marapong who spoke to Northern News agreed that the incident was unnecessarily violent and that protestors should have vented their frustrations in the correct manner.

“We are all struggling to make ends meet but there was no reason to damage busses and endanger our lives,” says Margret Ndou, who lives in extension 1 in Marapong.

Klaas Mathebula agrees, “I am selling vegetables on the street, because I can’t find a job, but I don’t think what these people did was right.”

Meanwhile, some sources are claiming that the protest started because the mayor, Jack Maeko, refused to grant residents

Violence erupts in Marapong

permission to participate in a legal protest march against unemployment and service delivery.

The municipality responded that the Mayor is not allowed to grant permission for a march and that all applications are handled by the municipality. It also stated that it regrets the incidents of violence that took place.

According to the municipality, Maeko has always championed the cause of the local labour force and met with stakeholders on several occasions to discuss the qualms of local residents pertaining to job losses and the employment of local workers. It stated that it is important to note that Lephalale has an unemployment rate of 22.9%, which is below the provincial average.

The municipality urges the community to stay calm and to refrain from violence.

The South African Local Government As-sociation (SALGA) condemned the violent protest in Limpopo that resulted in the de-struction of property and infrastructure.

By Martie Pretorius ([email protected])

MOGALAKWENA– Violent protests has entered its second week at Anglo’s Mogal-akwena Platinum Mine. Communities in the area are demanding jobs from the mining company and have since last week caused havoc on the N11 North West of Mokopane (“Fires blaze as mob protests”, 4 Septem-ber).

This negatively affected the latter mine’s production in a huge way as employees and contractors were unable to access their work places for a few days. The protestors also disturbed traffic and caused major damage to various properties.

A truck transporting potatoes was set ablaze on the N11 on Thursday after it was hit by a petrol bomb as it was driving past the protesting crowd. The driver escaped.

Police allegedly used rubber bullets to manage protesting crowds and arrested a number of protestors for public violence. The arrested suspects appeared in Mokerong Magistrate Court on Monday. A number of

Situation remains tense in Mapelaprotesters were released on bail, while other only received a warning.

Thintha Mokhonoana, a spokesperson for the Mahwelereng Residents Association (MRA) reported on Monday that the road to Mapela via Mosesetjane is being closed off by protesters from Mapela. A terrified supermar-ket owner in Mapela phoned Northern News on Tuesday begging for help as he claimed protestors were breaking down his shop.

Despite the disruptions, employees and contractors reported for duty this week after mine manager; Richard Cox urged them to do so in a meeting last week Thursday. Employ-ees were also told, “No work, no pay”.

Residents are also angry at the mine for wanting to relocate a high school to a new facility, 16 kilometers away from its current location. The mine undertook to provide transport to the new facility but communities say they will not be able to afford it.

Protests are still continuing and police are present to manage revolting members.

The mine says they are negotiating with communities to resolve the matter.


Wit... Swart skaakmatLEPHALALE - Laerskool Bosveld Primary het verlede Woensdag ‘n skaaktoernooi by die skool aangebied. Laerskool Koedoeskop en Hardekool Akademie het Bosveld besoek en elke senior-skaakspeler het geleentheid gekry om drie tot vyf wedstryde te speel.

Deur Fransa de Beer

LEPHALALE - Groot opgewondenheid geheers op die rugbyvelde van Hoërskool Ellisras Vrydag toe die Rassies ‘n fondsinsamelingsveldtog geloods het.

Kaartjies is verkoop vir wat gedoop is die “Beesloop”. Eerstens kon die leerder wat die meeste kaartjies verkoop het ‘n pragtige vetwielfiets wen ter waarde van oor die R5 000. Tweedens het die rekenaar die rugbyveld in blokke ingedeel. Kobus Erasmus het sy pragtige Simmen-talerbul gebring wat in die blokke moes kom mis. Daar waar die bul gemis het, se kaartjie nommer het ‘n verwerkte slagbees gewen!

Die gelukkige wenner van die fiets was Peter Ngobeni in Graad 8 (die fiets is bykans net so groot soos hy!) wat 52 kaartjies verkoop het en die wenner van die vleis was Dewald v Zyl.

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MOKOPANE – Landloop atlete van Laerskool Krugerpark wat verlede week by Laerskool Julian Muller in Groblersdal aan ’n landloop byeenkoms deelgeneem en hulle goed van hulle taak gekwyt het. Atlete in hulle onderskeie ouderdomsgroepe het onder meer twee derde plekke, twee vierde plekke en drie vyfde plekke behaal.

Landloop atlete wys hulle staal

Puik swemmersLEPHALALE – Twee van Ellisras Aquatic se swemmers het deurge-dring na die nasionale swemkamp wat later die jaar sal plaasvind. GJ Roets en Dario Geyser sal gedurende Oktober in Pretoria hulle slag in die swembad gaan wys. Dario is ook eerste op die Suid Afrikaanse swemranglys vir sy ouderdomsgroep in die 50m vlinderslag.

Gure weer beïnvloed duiwe wedvlugMOKOPANE - Die Sportman Amateur Pos-duifklub (SAP) se duiwe wedvlug vanaf Richmond en Bloemfontein die afgelope naweek het in ‘n riller ontaard met die reën en hael wat gevolglik veroorsaak het dat slegs enkele duiwe hulle eindbestemming bereik het.

Die wedvlug uitslae is soos volg:In die Richmond ope wedvlug van

938km behoort die wen duif aan Tian Marais. Die duif in die tweede plek be-hoort ook aan Marais. Louis Rossouw se duif was in die derde plek. Barend van Biljon se duiwe het vierde en sesde gekom terwyl Johan van Zyl se duif vyfde geëindig het.

In die Bloemfontein jaar-oud wedvlug van 609km is Johan van Zyl se duiwe eerste, derde, vierde en vyfde. Tian Marais se duiwe het in hierdie wedvlug tweede en sesde geëindig.


MOKOPANE - Die adrenalien het behoorlik gepomp by die afgelope naweek se skole fietswedren wat deur die Mokopane Fietsryklub by die Wildteëlsentrum gehou is.

Mokopane fietsryers vir beide Laerskool Krugerpark en Hoërskool Piet Potgieter het volgens die Moko-pane Fietsryklub uitstekend gevaar in die Tour de Pot wedren (XCO skole reeks). Fietsryers het in baie moeilike omstandighede die baan aangedurf. ”Die baan was nat en modderig en ons kinders het behoorlike hulle staal gewys,” sê die klub. Die organiseerders het hulle dank uitgespre-ek teenoor Debtsafe as hoofborg van die wedren, afrigters Hein du Plessis, James van der Merwe en aan elkeen wat hulle onder-steuning ten opsigte van die wedren gebied het. Elke fietsryer is ook in besonder bedank vir hulle deelname.

Die uitslae vir seuns en dogters in hulle onderskeie kategorieë is soos volg:

LEPHALALE - Hoërskool El-lisras se eerste krieketspan het verlede Don-derdag korte mette gemaak met die eerstes van Hoërskool Hans Strijdom.

Die Hansies kon net 97 lopies aanteken teenoor die 179 van die Rassies in die toegelate boul-beurte. Cliffie Els het vier paaltjies laat kantel en JD Lubbe drie. Die Rassies se beste kolwers was Dian Pitout met 56 lopies en Johan Pitout 53. Saterdag se krieket teen Warm-bad het uitgereën, maar wie gee om as die veld van lentereëns in nuwe groenigheid uitbreek!

Hier is die eerste span met hulle afrigters Mnr Johan Botha en Dandrè Grobler.

LEPHALALE - Dit was verlede week weer veldskool tyd vir Laerskool Bosveld Primary se Graad 6-leerders. Met al die opwinding is daar nie baie geslaap nie en die leerders het die Jubaweni kamp- terrein behoorlik oorgeneem. Die leerders het in die veld oornag en ook ‘n nagmars ervaar. Gedurende een uitput-tende dag moes hulle meer as 12km stap in die veld en dik sand.

Gymnasts excel at Mokopane Primary

Krieketspelers presteer uitstekend Skole pak bergfietswedren aan

MOKOPANE - Gymnasts from Mokopane Primary School being coached by Emien Landman from Rhythmic Elegance proudly ended up with a second position for Aerobics in a recent district competition at the Mahwelereng Multi Purpose Centre. With them, Zulaikha Omar and Diana Mashamaite.

Marilie Nel en Antony Clayton het die Nip-pers afdeling gewen terwyl Jani Jordaan en Joshua Baber die Sprog afdeling wenners is.

Emma van Coller en Arno Smit dra die kroon vir die Sub Junior afdeling en Reese Bain en Richard Lambert wen die jeug kat-egorie.

Die junior afdeling is gewen deur Annelize Mentz en Kombo Bere.

Groot pret by Jubaweni veldskool



Hokkiespelers vereerMOKOPANE - Hoërskool Piet Potgieter (HPP) het tydens sy hokkie prysuitdelings-funksie verlede week erkenning gegee aan sy beste hokkiespelers van die jaar.

Regs: Chantelle de Bruyn is vereer vir beste junior vordering in die o/15 hokkiespan. Heel regs: Mmakgaume Teffo het ’n trofee ontvang as beste o/14 doelwagter en Kaylen Deysel is vereer as die beste hokkiespeler van die jaar. Deysel is ook as die beste junior o/14 hokkiespeler aangewys.

Special day for special kidsLEPHALALE – Sedibeng special needs school and the local SANDF enjoyed their casual day celebrations on Friday. This was the first big event held at the new school. The day included fun activities, face painting and hotdogs that were sponsored by the army.

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UBy Christie Thomas

Although we have only just recently ‘of-ficially’ welcomed Spring to South Africa and are starting to enjoy the budding and blooming trees, sweet scents, chirping birds and thunder showers, for most of the bass in our area ‘Spring Fever’ has passed.

Yes, you may still find a couple of bass staging in pre-spawn or even sitting on the nests, but most of them have already moved on to their post-spawn staging areas.

To my experience in the Limpopo where it starts warming up earlier than our more southern regions, when most of us start thinking SPAWNING BASS, the bass have already spawned and moved on. June, July and early August is usually the time for this, so if you find yourself struggling and wonder-ing where all the spawning bass are right now, wonder no more...it is time to get into post-spawn mode.

Post-spawn is a notoriously tough fish-ing period for pro and novice alike. Bass are inactive, trying to recover their strength

Fishing with Christie

Post-spawn bluesafter the stress and exertion of the spawning season. They have moved out of the shallows and scattered back into their staging areas and will take a couple of weeks to fully re-cover their pre-spawn vigour.

Post-spawn staging areas are often the same ones used during pre-spawn and are never far from the spawning location. It is not necessary to travel all the way across the lake looking for post-spawn bass. Cruise just off the shallows and keep a lookout for any changes in structure or cover. Typical post-spawn staging structure/cover will include the first depth change (drop-off), drop-off to timber or rock, transition in bottom composi-tion (gravel to rock, rock to shale, etc.) or vegetation (bulrushes to lily pads, lily pads to submerged weeds, etc.). One of the best places to look for post-spawn bass is off sec-ondary points adjacent to the spawning flats.

When bass are inactive during post-spawn it is difficult to coax them to bite because they are too tired and worn out to eat and will not actively chase down a lure. I have often heard frustrated anglers telling me all about the five to ten bass they could see

hanging around the limbs of a submerged tree/rock pile/weed bed, and presenting all sorts of different lures, even bumping the bass with the bait but to no avail. There was just no way to get the bass to bite!

My advice for this dilemma: First of all, when you see a bass...back off! If you can see him, he can see you. Note the exact spot and come back a little later but stay far enough away for the bass not to see you. Approach stealthily!

Now is the time to use a reaction bait. What is a reaction bait you may ask? As defined by Bassmaster.com... “Reaction baits — lures fished in a way that causes a bass to strike out of reflex or surprise; spin-nerbaits, crankbaits and lipless crankbaits are frequently fished in a manner designed to generate reaction bites”. In other words, the bass will strike your lure instinctively as a reaction to the movement close by, not be-cause it is hungry.

Do not cast the bait right on top of the bass. You will spook it! Cast beyond the tar-get, but make sure the retrieve will bring the lure right over the bass’s head or through the cover closest to the fish. If there is timber, rock or weed...fish through it, over it, in it. Bump it! Change the speed of your retrieve as you pass over the fish. These are all little ‘triggers’ that may force the bass into react-ing to your lure and strike with aggression.

Gimnaste is Bosveld se trots!SWARTWATER - Die gimnaste van die Swartwatergim-nastiekklub het, onder leiding van afrigter Yolande Vos en hulpafrigter Lynnie Roux, puik prestasies behaal as lede van die vlak 1-3 Limpopospan wat deelgeneem het aan die onlangse North Zone gimnastiekkampioen-skappe van die SAAGF in Kempton Park.

Silwer medaljes is verower deur Carla Booyse, Mart-Mari du Preez, Lisa O’Neill, Marnus van Greunen. Goue medaljes is ingepalm deur Annemie en Carike Nel, Sumarie Booyse, Ilmari van Greunen, Lara van Staden, Zane Janse van Vuuren (algehele tweede plek, vlak 2), Leane Botha (algeheel eerste plek, vlak 3), Reino Jonker, Stefanus Malan, Nick en Juan Jones, Jadrin van Blerk (algeheel derde vlak 3) en Ruan Botha (algeheel derde vlak 3).

Die gimnaste is almal leerders van Laerskool Unitas op Swartwater.

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