Daily Archives: September 18, 2015

Dr Ruth Mompati District to account on annual report

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BY REGINALD KANYANE

North West Legislature Local Government Committee Calls Municipalities under Dr. Ruth Segomotsi  Mompati District to Account on their Annual Report 2013/14 and their Current Status quo. 

The North West Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Local Government and Human Settlement will hold an oversight meeting with municipalities under Dr. Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District municipality over Annual Report 2013/14 and their current state of affairs at the Legislature Committee Room 2 at 09h00.

The Committee will interact with Mamusa; Naledi; Greater Taung and Kagisano Molopo Local Municipalities, and Dr. Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality over matters pertaining to governance; bulk infrastructure; service delivery; corruption; and successes and challenges.

The meeting will be attended by the Executive Mayors, Members of the Municipal Councils, Municipal Managers including senior management of the municipalities and the Office of the Auditor General.
-TDN
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449 professional nurses set to graduate in North West

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BY KEDIBONE MOLAETSI
The North West Department of Health will on Friday, hold its very first graduation ceremony under the newly amalgamated North West College of Nursing. 

North West College of Nursing comprises of two government nursing colleges based in Mahikeng and Klerksdorp, and it is tasked with training and producing nurses for the public health facilities in the province. 

A total of 449 nurses will be graduating from various nurse-training programmes which were offered by the Provincial Department of Health under the North West College of Nursing.

With 449 students who will be graduating as professional nurses, it is expected that they will assist in decreasing shortage of health professionals in the province particularly in the rural communities. 

The proceedings scheduled to take place as follows:

Date : 18 September 2015

Venue : North West University, Great Hall

Time : 10:00 am
-TDN
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‘Paintball guns issued to guard municipal properties’

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BY REGINALD KANYANE

THE Matlosana municipality says investigations are underway to establish the truth of allegations that a security company hired to guard the municipality’s water purification plants uses paintball guns.

It has been alleged that Tshireletso Security Company arms its guards with paintball guns instead of real firearms, a situation described as scandalous.

The DA’s Chris Hattingh said: “The DA discovered that some guards are only equipped with batons and not even paintball guns. It is absolutely unacceptable and an affront to the people of Matlosana that this security business received more than R24m for its services in a 22-month period without so much as a single firearm on site.”

He said the DA had submitted a letter demanding that the security company’s contract be terminated after an audit report from July until May 2015.

Hattingh said the reports showed that the company was in breach of contract.

“Despite this, huge contract payments to the company continued after this audit report. Municipal property valued at R820 000 was still stolen or destroyed from under its nose,” he said.

Matlosana mayor Kagiso Khauoe said the municipality was under administration and all submitted grievances were under forensic investigation.

“All the enquiries are now under forensic investigations, including the Tshireletso security company. We started to offer the company posts that needed no firearms and we will look into which areas demanded armed guards and take it from there,” Khauoe said.
-TDN
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Constitutional court next step for disgruntled ANCYL members

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BY REGINALD KANYANE

THE disgruntled members of ANCYL in North West said they are now heading to a constitutional court in contesting the ANCYL results where president Collen Maine was elected unopposed.

Former ANCYL branch chairperson, Thabo Molamu, Papa Jood, Gontse Maruping and Mbuyiselo Booi said the legitimacy of the elections was in question because there were many procedural measures that were flawed leading up to the ANCYL elective conference held at Gallagher Estate in Midrand two weeks ago.

“We’re now heading to a constitutional court after our urgent application was turned down by Judge Moses Mavundla at North Gauteng High Court. We will not back down because we are speaking the truth. We now heading to the constitutional court. We will start with our process of appealing the outcome and we have the strength to see this through.”  Molamu said.

He said there were other members who were excluded in the delegates list and they believed they have the case.

Meanwhile newly-elected ANCYL president Collen Maine said after the conference that all those who took the congress to court, will be expelled from the party.

“All members who will take the party to court will be expelled. We will discuss that with relevant authorities and the decision will be taken prior that,” Maine said.
-TDN
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Road Safety Education Intensified To Curb Carnage

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BY KEDIBONE MOLAETSI
In an effort to curb road fatalities, the Northern Cape Department of Transport, Safety and Liaison is joining the rest of the country in intensifying road safety education by involving schools with duo Road Safety Competitions in Upington.  

The province will be hosting the Provincial Road Safety debate and Participatory Educational Technique (PET) competitions. 

The Acting Head of Department, Lesego Wolfe said that the annually competition is stimulating as the youth get an opportunity to get into robust debates and demonstrate their creativity in relations to challenges and solutions around Road Safety. 

“This is relevant seeing that the country has committed into curbing road fatalities by half, come 2020, as part of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 aimed at stabilizing and reducing global road deaths by 2020,” Wolfe said.

“The Road Safety Debate will see learners from across the province actively debating Road Safety issues while the PET competition allow learners an opportunity to research and identify road traffic safety problems in their community and find solutions to the problems. 

“They get an opportunity to demonstrate their research by building models reflecting the challenges and solutions and make presentations on them,” Wolfe further elaborated. 

The annual competitions give a platform of expression to grade 10 and 11 learners from across the province.
 
The competitions start with regional competition with winners proceeding to the provincial leg and provincial winners proceeding to National competition to represent the province later in October.
 
The main objectives of the Debates and PET Competition are to:
∙Empower learners with road safety knowledge by undertaking research on road safety topics.

∙Enhance learner’s public speaking, critical and analytical thinking skills as they respond to points of information (Point of Information (POI)).

∙Encourage learners to work as a team and also define their roles as a collective.

∙Improves listening skills of learners especially in the rebuttal phase of the competition.

∙Encourage learners to become responsible road users as future adults.

∙Inculcates accountability, versatility and discipline in learners. 

The Road Safety debate and PET will be held on Saturday in Upington on the 19th September 2015.
-TDN
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‘Taung to host school competition’

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BY REGINALD KANYANE
The North West Department of Education and Sport Development will hold the Provincial Schools’ Arts and Culture Championship (PSACC) at Mmabana in Taung from Friday 18 to Saturday 19 September 2015.

Departmental spokesperson, Elias Malindi said: “This two day event is held annually and it is organised, co-ordinated and monitored by the department to promote unity in diversity, national reconciliation, social cohesion and positive values amongst learners in the province.”

He said that the learners in the mainstream and special schools will compete at a secondary and primary school level in artistic codes which include poetry, visual art, drama, indigenous music & dance, instrument art and gumboot dance.

“The eliminations started at area offices, then moved to district offices and are now at a provincial level. These competitions will be judged and winners in various categories will be awarded trophies. Those that did not win will receive certificates of participation to honour their efforts,” he said.


Malindi said that each district is expected to bring a total number of 86 participants on each day. Kwa Zulu-Natal and the North West province are currently the only two provinces holding this type of competitions. He said that it is hoped that other provinces will hop on the bandwagon thus creating an environment for national championships.

“The department wishes all those who are taking part in the championships the best of luck and would like to encourage those that are not competing this year to take part in next years’ event,” Malindi said.

The event, which is scheduled as follows:

Time:09:00

Date:18 – 19 September 2015

Venue: Mmabana Taung
-TDN
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Pupil kills pupil over nyaope

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BY REGINALD KANYANE
A TEEN Grade 11 pupil died while another one was hospitalised after a knife attack at Rethusegile Seconday School in Lethabong near Rustenburg on Tuesday afternoon.

The two were allegedly stabbed by a fellow pupil during a fight outside the school premises. The cause of fight was not immediately clear but the incident has brought to the fore the problem of nyaope, drugs and alcohol abuse that is said to be rife in the area.

North West police spokesperson Sgt Kelebogile Moleko said an 18-year-old suspect had been arrested and will appear in the Tlhabane Magistrate’s Court today on a murder charge.

“Police in Lethabong received a call about a group of people who were disturbing the peace in Lethabong. Among the group was a person holding a knife and it is alleged that he used it to stab the victims,” Moleko said.
-TDN
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