Platinum Gazette 29 April 2016

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29 April 2016

S ekhukhune District Municipality Executive Mayor, Councillor Mogobo David Magabe, has in-

formed the residents of the district’s municipalities about the current state of the District at aspecial public council meeting at the Ga-Malekane sports ground next to Steel Bridge adjacent to

the R555 road last week Friday.Mayor Magabe told the crowd that the future looks bleak in terms of the present economic downturn and

that although the national growth rate of 6 percent will be needed to fulfill in all development and growthneeds, it seems that the immediate forecast is nearer to 0,8 and 0,9 percent. Against this background he

said: “As a heavily grant dependent municipality with limited revenue base, this situation poses a challenge

to our capacity to provide services but also our long term future sustenance as a public entity.It is against the above stated background that all of us in the local government sphere must endeav-

or to achieve more with less, and we must become innovative in approach and ensure that we managethe allocated resources to the exclusive bene fi ts of our communities” . He also expressed his grave con-

cern with the downscaling of mining activities in the area, as it is one of the pillars of the district’s econ-omy. Together with the drought it can wreak havoc on the local economy and Cllr Magabe announced

that the district government is working with the national and provincial government to alleviate theeffects of the drought in the form of drought relief measures. He stated that the district is still committed

to the National Development Plan to tackle unemployment, poverty, inequality and other challenges andwill, in line with presidential and the premier’s commitments, explore partnerships with the private sector

towards development.Cllr Magabe announced that the provincial government has decided to complete all the half-do-

ne roads in the district that are a serious cause of community dissatisfaction in the province. Engi-

neers have also been appointed for the road leading to Ga-Riba village ‘ka thabeng”, the Alverton toKgautswane road and the India road from Pelangwe village joining the R37, amongst other important

roads in the district, while the tarring of the Atok to Maandagshoek road has been pledged by the min-ing industry.

Mayor Magabe described the district and it’s municipalities’ public participation programmes as ahuge success, meaning that the government listens to what citizen’s want. He also said that the district

municipality is committed to good clean governance, proven by the fact that during the past year 15cases of tender irregularities had been sorted out and that the district has received unqualified audit

reports for two consecutive years.Meanwhile the amalgamation of Fetakgomo and Greater Tubatse local municipalities are going

according to plan and that a new name for the bigger municipality will be decided on before the local

government elections on 3 August this year. The current administration buildings in Burgersfort and Ga-Nkoana (Apel) will be utilised by the new municipality until the new council decides otherwise.

Meanwhile the district municipality has also moved with the first steps to obtain land at Jane Fursefor the eventual move of the district municipality’s seat from Groblersdal to Jane Furse.

Mayor Magabe said as far as water provision and sanitation projects are on track and that residentsshould take note that a large number of these projects stretch over several years. He stated that bulk

water supply schemes, which include water from De Hoop dam, are progressing well, although he ad-mitted that a problem remains with electricity supply from Eskom to pumps that should feed the system.

With regards to the future Mayor Magabe said “When we took over political administration in 2011after the 3 rd democratic local government elections, we set ourselves mayoral strategic priorities as

benchmarks to assess our work. The six mayoral priorities as adopted by the Executive then werealigned with the manifesto of the people and amongst others had the noble objectives of:

- intensifying provision of basic services

- fostering social cohesion and nation building through active citizenry

- creating jobs and fi ghting poverty- providing sound fi nancial management etc.We have worked tirelessly hard in ensuring that these objectives are achieved within the ambits of

limited public resources. Indeed more households have access to basic service than they were 5 yearsago, indeed we can proudly say that the quality of life in general has improved, we can attest to the fact

that democracy is working and people participate in government processes. However we are the fi rstto acknowledge that it has not been easy, we are still faced with massive developmental challenges

especially as it relates to access to basic services. We are a growing district and as we grow demandfor basic services increases.

We have a task to ensure that we improve our capacity to meet the growing demand and this we

can only do if we are able to utilise allocated budgets optimally, employ technically sound of fi cials,tighten our oversight work but most importantly ensure that we improve on revenue collection to aug-

ment our conditional grants allocation. This can be done only if we can unite the 1,2 million populationof Sekhukhune, young and old, black and white to start being active agents and participants towards a

shared developmental future. Indeed a social compact between government, traditional leaders, ratepayers, business, labour and other stakeholders is essential towards realising the goals of a develop-

mental local government as spelled out in the white paper of 1998” .

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Malachi 4:1-3 (NIV)

“Surely the day is coming;it will burn like a furnace.All the arrogant and everyevildoer will be stubble,and the day that is comingwill set them on fire,” saysthe Lord Almighty. “Not aroot or a branch will be leftto them. 2 But for you whorevere my name, the sunof righteousness will risewith healing in its rays.And you will go out andfrolic like well-fed calves.3 Then you will trampleon the wicked; they willbe ashes under the soles

of your feet on the daywhen I act,” says the LordAlmighty.

The Tubatse Police are investigating a murder that occurred in Riba

Cross during the weekend. A 31-year old man was assaulted andlater died of his injuries at the Polokwane provincial hospital.At about 19:10 on Saturday 23 April, the Police in Polokwane

received a report from the provincial hospital that there is a personwho passed away as a result of an assault. The Police visited the

hospital and found that the report is was correct. The police madesome enquiries and contacted the victim’s next of kin. It was alleged

that the man was assaulted by a suspect known to his girlfriend withan unknown object in Riba Cross on 23 April at about 04H30 in the

morning. The victim was taken to Dilokong hospital for treatment, hewas transferred to Polokwane where he died just after his arrival.

A case of murder was opened and transferred to Tubatse SAPSfor further investigations.

The SAPS managed to arrest a 27-year old man as a suspect in

the case. He will appear in the Praktiseer Magistrate’s Court soon.(Information: Const. Mvundlela S.J, Tubatse SAPS)

Finally working again

Traffic lights in Praktiseer is finally working again. This four-way has seen major changes over the last few months.

Apart from the new hawker stalls, bus stop and side walk, the traffic lights that had been out for probably more thana year is bright and working again. Now it is just up to drivers to obey these pretty red, green and orange lights.

Murder atRiba Cross


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3 NUUS 29 A PRIL 2016

Samancor ECM boosts learning throughProject Ukunikeza at Mangabane Primary SchoolSamancor ECM values communities sur-rounding the mines and believes that the

future is in the hands of the children. One ofthe ways in which these children can be sure

of a bright future is through quality education.Last year they finished masive infrastructure

projects at schools and this year they’ve also

initiated Project Ukunikeza at MangabanePrimary School.

It is the goal of Ukunikeza Training group

to ensure that all educators at MangabanePrimary School from grade R to grade 7 are

equipped with the necessary skills, resourc-es, teaching methods and props that they

can operate independently from us.It is our ultimate dream that the educators

on our program will be equipped, experi-

enced and confident in their newly acquiredabilities that they start to teach and supportteachers in the neighbouring schools, to en-

sure that each and every learner in that twocircuits around the mines can reach their fullpotential in life.

The aim is that educators are to beprepared for the new intake of learners each

year, without assistance from Ukunikeza and,as such, skills transfer has been affected in a

self-sustainable manner.Through Ukunikeza teachers are assist-

ed with their preparation for daily, weeklyinformal assessments to test if learners have

achieved the set outcomes for the week.They are also assisted in preparing formalassessments as required by the Department

of Education and formal tests as set out bythe Department of Education.

Ukunikeza introduces different teachingresources to educators and provide them

with a variety of teaching methods that willhelp them achieve set outcomes. Educators

learn how to do pre-evaluation of a learner,receive assistance in setting their academ-

ic program, learn school- and classroom

management skills, receive assistancewith lesson preparation, how to compile

feedback to the school and parents aswell as doing proper monitoring and

evaluation.The progress of learners is moni-

tored and evaluated. Learning barriers

are addressed and solved.Through the Ukunikeza Training

Group’s involvement at Mangabaneapproximately 405 learners will benefit

from improved skills and teaching meth-ods as well as 10 educators who will

work with the program training group.The group has been achieving results

since 2003 when it started providingsupport and training for educators.

Samancor ECM is proud to beinvolved in helping to create better ed-

ucational outcomes in the surroundingcommunities.

(Information & photographs: MariskaStickling, Samancor ECM)


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NB. For transport arrangements please contact Ward Councillors, Ward Committeemembers, CDW`s and Public participation Unit @ 013 231 1216 during working hours.

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On Friday 22 April 2016 the Chrome Angling Club hosted their last

day/night competition before winter strikes.

They started at 17h00 on Friday afternoon and ended at 10h00

on Saturday morning. A total of 25 anglers entered the competi-

tion. 15 Senior men, 2 senior woman, 5 junior boys and 3 junior

girls participated. All these anglers battled it out to be crowned the

Club Champion at the end of the year in his/her category.

Results: Biggest Barbell; Johan Garnett-Bennett jnr – 7.15kg

(photograph below)Biggest Carp; Natasha van Wyngaard – 5.33kg

Biggest junior boy’s fish; Dana Riekert – Carp, 3.62

Heaviest total; Johan Garnett-Bennett jnr – Total weight of 8.90kg

Junior Girl; Mianke Visagie – Curper, 0.74kg

“We are very proud of the amount of juniors who prefer to

trade their places in front of the television and rather enjoy the

fresh outdoors next to the

dam with their fathers.

The Chrome Angling

Club’s main aim is to

promote angling with our

juniors as they are the

future on who the survival

of our fish stocks depend.

We are creating the basis

on which they will base

their morals in future.

The Chrome Angling

Club wish to thank theseregular anglers for their

continuous support. We

are looking forward to

see all again for the first

winter competition on

28 May 2016” said Theo

Visagie from the Club.

(Information & photo-

graph: Theo Visagie)

Angling joy for Johan Junior jagters

wys hulle kanVyf jong jagters het verledenaweek hulle eerste jagtog

saam met die Bosbok takvan die SA Jagters Ver-eeniging gehad. Hulle het

suksesvol die eerste faseopleiding tydens die Ram-

kat Junior Jagkamp voltooien hierdie was die volgen-

de stap. Vier van die vyf hetelk ‘n rooibok geskiet. Hulle

het die naweek by Mamot-ale Game Lodge deurge-

bring. Die jagters bedankgraag Danie en Eduard leRoux vir hul gasvryheid en

gebruik van die fasiliteite.

(Inligting & foto’s: Lof fi e vanEmmenis).

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On Saturday 23 April, Tubatse Masters hosted Thor-burn Security soccer team for a friendly match at Leolo

Secondary School in Praktiseer.From the first whistle both teams showed hunger for

goals and created many scoring opportunities but failedto convert it into goals to make the half time score 0-0.

In the second half an own goal by a Thorburn playerand a goal by Themba Mohubedu gave Tubatse Mas-

Modikwa soccer and netball team visited Northam Zondereinde

Mine in Thabazimbi on Saturday 23 April. This visit was part of thepreparations for the South African Mining Sports Association (SAM-SA) Soccer and Netball Tournaments in May and in August 2016

respectively. Northam is one of the strong teams in the SAMSAtournament.

The soccer side clashed on Saturday.In the first game Northam scored first but Modikwa replied im-

mediately with 2 goals which placed the score line at 2-1 to Modik-wa. Northam scored the equaliser few minutes before the half-time.

In the end both teams were strong and scored again to make the

final score 3-3.In a second game played Modikwa took the honours

with a 2-1 penalty.The Modikwa netball team cruised over Northam. In a total of 2

games played with 4 sets of 15 minutes each, Modikwa won both

games. “Our team played extremely well, we are really proud ofour them. They are tournament ready,” said Modikwa netball and

soccercoaches,

LindiweMdhluli

andProtus

Sikha-khane.

They

would like

to thankModikwaManage-

ment andeveryone

whomade

this trippossible.

( Infor-

mation &photos:

ProtusSikha-

khane)

ModikwaPlatinum

MIne Cy-cle Clubpartici-

pated ina moun-

tainbikechallenge

in Lyden-burg last

weekend.The team

enjoyedit and

performedvery well.(Infor-

mation& photo:

WillemMontgom-

ery)

Modikwa cyclists in Lydenburg

Modikwa teams ready Two games for Tubatse Mastersters a 2-0 win on the day.

In another match, Tubatse Masters hosted a soccer

team from Mototolo for a friendly soccer match. In first halfboth teams managed to score one goal each to make haft

time 1-1. Tubatse Masters managed to score their secondgoal in the second half and won the match by 2-1. Seun

Maroga and Mbesuma Mabaso scored for Tubatse Mas-ters.(Information & photographs: Jerial Mvundlela)

Above and below: Tubatse Masters and Mototolo teams.

Above and below: Tubatse Masters and Thorburn teams.

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