BY REGINALD KANYANE
NORTH West police are looking for a 55 year-old man who went missing. According to police spokesperson, sergeant Kelebogile Moleko said, Ronnie Jan Rickets who resided at Reagile village in Koster went missing on August 22 this year.
“Anyone who could help the police with information could please call investigating officer, Constable P.O Morolodi at Koster police station on 014 543-8600. The missing person was last seen at Mozambique boarder,” Moleko said.
BY REGINALD KANYANE
A 34 year-old man was arrested after he allegedly killed his girlfriend on Gedehoop farm near Stella on Sunday. North West police said the suspect forcefully took his girlfriend from Edenhof farm to Piet Plessis village.
The couple was both employed on the farm to Piet Plessis village.
“On their way the suspect allegedly started to assault the girlfriend. The family alerted the police after they looked for the victim, but with no avails. The deceased half-naked body was found in the bushes with multiple injuries sustained due to severe beating,” Molale said.
The suspect was arrested and will appear before the Ganyesa Magistrates’ Court soon for murder.
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BY KEDIBONE MOLAETSI
THE department of education in Northern Cape said the reports that suggested that they denied the pupils food at Landbou Agricultural High School in Jan Kempdorp, were untrue.
According to reports, some of the parents said the school refused to give food to the pupils who reside at the school dormitory and have the outstanding balance.
The departmental spokesperson, Ohentse Stander said that learners were accommodated on the basis that their parents or guardians will keep up with the fees. “The parents agreed to pay hostel fees to cover all dwelling costs incurred by the school. Currently the school has 99 learners who are boarders,” Stander said.
He said 60 of those pupils were still in the hostel because their parents and guardians responded positively to the request by the school to pay outstanding hostel fees.
“The school manager and SGB met with the parents/guardians who could not pay and they decided to remove their kids from school hostels. We have no record or whatsoever of learners being denied food at the hostel,” he said.
Stander said that the School Governing Body (SGB) reached that decision after no payments were made by parents over a period of time.
Landbou Hoerskool made headlines this year after white pupils allegedly sexually assaulted a black pupil with a broom.
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By Reginald Kanyane
Buxton- One suspect was arrested and the other two are still at large amid shoot-outs in Buxton village, near Taung. North West police said, three men allegedly pounced on a shop and attempted to rob the owner.
Police were summoned and shoot-out ensued between police and suspects.
Sergeant Kealeboga Molale said, one suspect was arrested and will appear before Taung Magitrate’s Court soon.
“One suspect was arrested and police found suspected illegal firearm from him, and he will appear before court soon. The incident took place in the early hours of Sunday, and police investigations continue,” Molale said.
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Kimberley – A grieving Platfontein family were shocked to be presented with the wrong body in a casket, instead of that of their 34-year-old son.
Bereaved family members and mourners were gathered at home and were awaiting the arrival of the deceased from about 7am so that he could be buried on Friday.
By noon they indicated that they had not seen sight of their dead relative.
José Cambinda, the father of the deceased, said that the funeral undertakers transported the body in a ordinary vehicle and not a hearse.
“They showed us the body outside the house to confirm identification, but instead of my eldest son, Joseph Cambinda, there was a woman inside the coffin. The family is very upset and hurt about the mix-up.”
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Kimberley – Cattle farmer Dougie Pope, 69, narrowly escaped death on Tuesday morning after he was shot during a drive-by shooting at the entrance of his farm Success, which is situated about 40km from Kimberley.
No arrests have been made yet and the police have launched a manhunt for three suspects.
The suspects apparently sped off in the direction of Kimberley.
Pope is recovering at Mediclinic Gariep after a bullet hit him in the stomach.
The bullet penetrated his stomach, near his right kidney, but then exited his body.
The shooting incident happened at about 8.30am as he was on his way to a dentist in Kimberley.
Pope said he had climbed out his vehicle to open the gate and picked up his keys that had fallen on the ground.
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Kimberley – The State is footing the bill for the legal fees of at least one of the accused in the Trifecta trial, where the expenses for the bail hearing of one of the accused alone came to more than R97 000.
The accused, CEO of Trifecta Holdings, Christo Scholtz, ANC provincial chairman John Block and former MEC for Social Development, Alvin Botes, are expected to appear in the Northern Cape High Court on October 13 for judgement on the multi-million rand fraud, corruption and money laundering case.
The accused allegedly received kickbacks in the form of shares, cash and renovations to their properties in exchange for facilitating government leases at inflated prices.
The fourth accused, the former HOD for Social Development, Yolanda Botha, died in December 2014 after being diagnosed with skin cancer that later spread to her brain.
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Kimberley – A man’s desperate search for diamonds on Sunday afternoon ended in a rescue from Kimberley’s Big Hole after he was spotted on the edge of the water at the bottom of the famous tourist attraction.
The 29-year-old man gained entrance to the hole after climbing over the fence in North Circular Road. De Beers is currently putting up a new fence around the perimeter of the hole and it is believed that the man got in at a section of the old fence.
Spokesman for De Beers, Abel Madonsela, said they found the 29-year-old man from Galeshewe close to the water in the hole.
“The man told us that he was looking for diamonds that he could sell. We found him on the edge of the water . . . and he was walking towards it. We shouted at him to stop because he was very close to the water and we were afraid that he might fall in.”
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Ventersdorp – No arrests have been made in connection with Friday’s torching of a municipal building in Ventersdorp, North West police said on Monday.
“The are no arrests that I am aware of,” said Colonel Sabata Mokgwabone.
A raging fire gutted the municipal traffic department building on Friday following a protest against the merger of the Ventersdorp and Tlokwe (Potchefstroom) municipalities.
Residents in the two towns are against the merger, saying they were not consulted. Tlokwe residents said they believed the merger would lead to a disruption in service delivery.
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Middle-class people and the rich should pay more for water.
This is according to University of Johannesburg academic Mary Galvin, who was speaking at the start of the World Social Science Forum in Durban on Sunday.
Galvin said if the middle class used water more than reasonably, they would have to pay extra for it.
She said this could help curb water usage. However, she was doubtful rich people would change their habits because they could afford increases.
In her talk, “Of Water and Stones: Citizens’ Attempts to Access Water in South Africa’s Liberal Democracy”, she said this was one of the solutions on the table to try to deal with the drought gripping the province.
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