Daily Archives: April 9, 2014

Premier Modise to officially open house of traditional leaders


By Obakeng Maje
Mahikeng –North West Premier Thandi Modise is to lead the official opening of the 9th session of the fifth term of the North West House of Traditional Leaders on 11th of April 2014 at Chambers – Lowe Building, Mahikeng at 10h00. 

Premier Modise will be accompanied by MEC for Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Manketsi Tlhape, Chairperson of the North West of House of Traditional Leaders, Kgosi Madoda Zibi, traditional leaders and representatives from the National House of Traditional Leaders and other provincial houses as well as representatives of traditional leaders from Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland.

“As a build up to the opening ceremony, on the 10th April 2014, 11h00 at Lowe, Mahikeng, some of the Dikgosi, under the guidance of members of the traditional house, will slaughter a cow as an important ritual before the actual opening. Learners from Bophelong Special School in Mahikeng will be taught how to slaughter a cow and the importance of different body parts of the cow and their significance to the Batswana culture” departmental spokesperson Dineo Lolokwane said.

The meat will later be donated to the school.
-TDN
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North West celebrates 20 years of freedoom through art


By Obakeng
Rustenburg- As we celebrate 20 years of our democracy in our country, the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture in partnership with Bojanala District Municipality and SAFA (South African Football Association) will be hosting a sporting event celebration on 12 April 2014 at Olympia park stadium at Rustenburg.

The aim of the celebrations is to mobilise a collective ownership of the country’s 20 years of democracy by South Africans and different sectors of society. It is also to promote awareness of the progress that freedom has brought and a sense of challenges of the third decade especially through sport.

These games will be creating a build-up of public awareness and excitement, towards freedom day on April 27th and sustain it thereafter throughout 2014.

“Fun run will kick start the day’s events with distances of five (5) and eight (8) kilos, open to clubs and individuals of all ages. There will also be artistic aerobics for participants who will not participate in the fun run” departmental spokesperson Shirley Montsho.

Following the fun run will be followed by ladies soccer match between 12h30, whereby teams who are in the SASOL League from four Districts within the Province will compete against each other and the winning teams will face off at the finals.

MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture in the North West Province Mme Tebogo Modise calls members of the community to celebrate freedom through Sport, Arts and Culture’s activities and participate in the promotion of a physically active lifestyle.-TDN
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Tshwane free Wi-Fi project “The best in Africa”


Cape Town – The free Wi-Fi rollout in the City of Tshwane is going according to plan, despite moans from critics, says an NGO.

The city began rolling out a free Wi-Fi network in 2013 and the plan is to expand the network to universal access and connectivity as part of the city’s vision.
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NWest wins 3 gold medals in Stellenboch


By Obakeng Maje
The North West Province has today through Allen Dingle from Klerksdorp won 3 Gold medals for Power lifting open category at Stellenbosch University’s Akademia Hall in Stellenbosch.

The 39 year-old Dingle is hard at work in preparation for 2016 Paralympics in Rio De Janeiro.

“The North West Province Team of 130 Physically Disabled excluding officials became part of an auspicious opening ceremony on the evening of 30th March at Stellenbosch City Hall” departmental spokesperson Shirley Montsho said.

The night was an encouraging occasion with speakers from the President of the South African Sports Association for Physically Disabled (SASAPD) Mr Isaac Shadung, Mr Pieter Retief from the Municipality, Dr Eugene Cloete from Stellenbosch University to the main sponsor of the games for the past twenty -three years (23) Nedbank Mr Thulani Sibeko pumping into athletes drove their message of human potential as well as having faith in oneself irrespective of your disability to all athletes.

“Athletes were also encouraged not to forget the gift of participation and sportsmanship as people with disability for competing amongst themselves as they also prepare for 2016 Paralympics and other competitions in their calendar” Montsho said.

Mr Thulani Sibeko told athletes the tournament is a pinnacle of human spirit and endeavour- that their limitations are just fitness to imagination and that each and every one of them can achieve any goal they put for themselves.

This message is also shared by the MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture Mme Tebogo Modise who wished our athletes well in the Championships this year. She said “Our constitution which is the main law of our country is there to afford each an everyone of us to participate in sport irrespective of our physical and intellectual disability including our background and where we come from.”

The Games are taking place at Stellenbosch, Belhar and Paarl in the Western Cape Province from 29 March to 2nd April 2014. The following codes are showcased at the games- Boccia, Footbal 7 aside, Goalball, Powerlifting, Swimming, Athletics and Cycling for Juniors and the North West Province is participating in all of them.-TDN
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Greater Taung municipality embark on Imbizo


By Obakeng maje
Taung- The executive mayor of Greater Taung municipality rre Kaone Lobel led an imbizo which took place within Greater Taung Local Municipality in North West.
 
The imbizo took place under the auspices of the Greater Taung municipality Imbizo Focus Month with a theme “Draft Reviewd IDP before National elections” in Lokgabeng village.
 
The thematic position of the event forms part of a drive to inform the communities about the budget allocated to the municipality before new financial year and towards the democratization elections of the country.

“The municipality has since provided the epoch in the struggle with a conviction of building a democratic, non-racist, non-sexist South Africa that belongs to all who live in it” mayor Kaone lobelo said.

That is also entails continuous dialogue between government and the people.

The Imbizo is essentially anchored on the continuous need for heightened on-going engagement between municipality and citizens.

The engagement during the imbizo geared towards establishing partnership and understanding which will be characterised by thorough discussion, dialogue, joint problem solving and, above all, feedback to communities.

The mayor explains to the masses how the budget works. He said Taung is only allocated R27 million as it is consists of rural area where service delivery is not paid for.

“As a municipality, we only get service paid from Taung CBD, Pudumoe and Reivilo. So it is very hard for us to cover everything at once. Most of our villages does not pay for basic service like water and sanitation” Lobelo said.

The communities demanded to know about the promises the municipality promised like Mankoroane Garden houses.

However Neo Mokoma from Human Settlements explains that the backlog was caused by SIU investigations in the matter, but he promised to come back before June with a feedback.

“We understand the backlog that has been caused, but the matter was investigated by Special Unit Investigations(SIU) and we still waiting for the outcomes” Mokoma said.

Mokoma said all houses that were supposed to be built will be included in 2014-2015 financial year.

He said that his department decided not to start any new projects but finish all backlogs first. Makoma said they know only one house was built from R8 million project by contractor who was appointed to build houses, but he left without finishing the project.

Most communities said they want roads, sanitations, water and electricity in their areas and said they need a good communication with their councillors who were accused of being dictators.

The municipality encouraged the members of the community to register for elections as the number of voters determine the budget that the municipality will be given.

“Please great people you need to understand that the provincial government look into how many people are registered to vote in that particular area and will provide budget accordingly, so stop that tendency of just sitting around without registering to vote.”

“If you do not register know that you do not appear as a resident of Taung as that will cripple our budget. We need to know how many people reside in Taung and the budget will be given according to its people” Lobelo outlines.

Mayor said the are projects that are still underway and will be executed after financial year.-TDN
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