BY REGINALD KANYANE
The North West Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Premier, Finance, Economy and Enterprise Development will hold a meeting with the Office of the Premier over Annual Reports 2014/15 in the Legislature Committee Room at 08H00.
Premier Supra Mahumapelo, senior management of the department including representatives from the Office of the Auditor General will attend the meeting.
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BY REGINALD KANYANE
POLICE at Pudimoe police station, near Taung, said they were ready to fight and prevent crime this coming festive season.
Station commander, Colonel Matshidiso Moruting said they have started operations to combat house breaking and business robbery crimes and they will intensify the campaign until festive season.
“Pudimoe cluster serves close to 13 villages and our campaign will be kick-starts this week. We have put business robberies and house breaking matter at the top of the list. We will start with blue light patrol. We want to encourage our community members to make sure that they leave their lights on if they going somewhere or leave someone in the house. The criminals monitor your movements, so let make sure that we are always observant.
“We have also experienced break-ins some of accommodations where residing Vuselela FET college students. Another issue was break-ins at our schools during holidays. We urge our school governing bodies to make sure the schools are safe during festive season. We will be visiting our local taverns to see that they comply with liquor act. We will make sure we apprehend those who find themselves at the wrong side of the law,” she said.
Moruting said that they have identified the hotspots and police visibility will be on high alert.
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BY REGINALD KANYANE
THE NORTH West public works met with Taung residents over D221 road.
The meeting between Maphoitsile, Manokwane and Magogong village residents with the department of public works did not yield any fruition on Monday.
Acting Head of Department(HoD) for Public Works, Vuyo Mbulwana said: “We sent our district managers to meet with the D221 road residents. I have not received any fit back and I will inform you after gathering all details.”
The D221 road that was supposed to be compacted back in 2012, was abandoned by the department after they alleged that there was no enough funds in their coffer.
The contractor was appointed three years ago, but had to take the matter via legal route after the department tried to removed it and appointed another contractor.
The community of Manokwane went on rampage and burnt three houses in public protests in 2012.
Community leader, Peter Seokwang said that they could not get answers from the representatives.
“We could not get answers from them, so we sent them packing. We want to hear it from MEC Madoda Sambatha. We want to know when the contractor will be on site to commence with road construction,” he said.
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BY TNA REPORTER
THE newly appointed North West Transport Investment (NTI) board has called for a forensic audit to clean up the entity that has been in the news for all wrong reasons.
The board made the resolution at its first sitting since it was appointed early this month.
Board member Fetsang Mokati said: “The board received some reports on the NTI and its subsidies. Other reports are still outstanding and the board will ensure that it receives such reports in order to have a complete understanding of the status quo.
“These reports are crucial for the board to execute its responsibilities with distinction.
“The board resolved that in the interim it will it will study the reports received so far while awaiting the outstanding ones. An immediate and urgent action which the board has taken is to institute forensic investigations which will assist the board to unravel some of the intricacies that are embedded in the reports.”
Mokati said the board will take appropriate action once the forensic audit is complete and outcomes will be made public.
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*Note: (The article firstly appeared on The New Age newspaper)
BY KEDIBONE MOLAETSI
MORE 33 000 learners sat for their National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations across the country and the North West province reported no mishaps.
North West Province registered 33 844 candidates for NSC who wrote their first papers in English Home language, English first additional language, Consumer studies and Hospitality studies on Monday.
MEC for Education and Sport Development in the North West, Wendy Matsemela visited three examination centres in Dr. Ruth Segomotsi Mompati district. Matsemela visited Kgosietsile Lethola Secondary and P.H. Moeketsi Secondary schools in Taung as well Noto Secondary School in Kopela village.
P.H Moeketsi secondary school had two examination centres which housed candidates from Bogosi Secondary after threats by community members to disrupt schooling and examinations due to service delivery demands.
Learners wrote all three papers without any irregularities. Explaining her visit, Matsemela says “The most important thing for visiting schools is to monitor that candidates uphold the integrity of examinations and that they abide by the pledge on the code of conduct. So far the examinations have gone smoothly and we wish them all the best,” Matsemela said.
Candidates are expected to write Accounting on Tuesday.
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BY REGINALD KANYANE
SITUATION is now abominable at North West University in Mafikeng campus. The students and police are up in arms against each other. The police were shooting at the students using stun grenades and rubber bullets, while students retaliated by pelting stones at the police.
North West University (NWU) students representative in Mafikeng campus, says the time has come for the university’s council to be disbanded in the interests of promoting transformation.
The SRC president, Xavier Mabengwana, said all three campuses would be on total shutdown until their demands were met.
As part of the action, they vowed to blockade even entrances to the institutions.
“We want NWU council to be disbanded because it has failed dismal in its duty to streamline operations at all the campuses. We want curriculum alignment that is in line with our higher education regulations. The Potchefstroom campus is the only campus that is benefiting. You look at their hostels and the infrastructure they have, you will never find them at the two other campuses.
“The council said they want to reserve a culture and understand what it is. They only want to preserve the Afrikaans language and use it to see transformation within three campuses. The council only benefits white students and consists of whites only.
“Their reaction in return makes it very difficult for the vice chancellor to do his work properly.” Mabengwana said.
The SRC met with North West Supra Mahumapelo who shared some of the concerns raised by the students.
“The student leaders said part of their concerns at Mafikeng campus include calling for the university library to be opened for 24 hours a day. The library currently closes at 10pm during weekends. I declared that on behalf of Bokone Bophirima provincial government, we fully support removal of all obstacles,” Mahumapelo said.
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Brits – Three of the four people accused of setting a teenage girl alight in Letlhabile near Brits appeared briefly in the Brits Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
Gugulethu Sharon Thwala, Koketso Moyo and Victor Pilane appeared before magistrate Moses Maswangwanyi who postponed their case to January 12, 2016.
A warrant of arrest was issued against accused number four, Cynthia Mosopi, who did not appear in court on Thursday. She had submitted a medical report indicating that she was ill.
“The sick note is admitted and a warrant [of arrest] issued in respect of accused number four [Mosopi] suspended until January 12, 2016,” said Maswanganyi.
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Marikana – The Bapo Ba Mogale Traditional Council in Bapong, near Marikana in North West, must treat all villagers equally or face the wrath of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the party said on Friday.
“The traditional council of Bapo must stop discriminating (against) people. We are told to be employed at Lonmin you need a letter from the council and the council refuse to give such letters to non-Setswana speaking people,” said Thulani Makhanye, the chairperson of the EFF in the Bojanala Region.
He was speaking to party supporters during a protest march at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana.
“The council must stop this discrimination or we will challenge them. I am not scared of them,” said Makhanye.
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Cape Town – A high ranking delegation from the Western Cape government will head to the Overberg on Monday to inspect two schools plagued by structural defects in the Gansbaai and Hawston communities.
The visit comes in the same week as the Public Works department, together with its legal team, is set to make a decision about the termination of the contracts for the engineering provincial service providers involved in the controversial school construction debacle, which affected four schools in the province this year.
Masakhane Primary School in Gansbaai, Hawston Primary School, Delft South Primary School and Scottsdene Secondary School in Cape Town were affected by design and structural defects discovered after occupation and, in other cases, during construction at the schools.
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Johannesburg – The Democratic Alliance has wished all 801 688 Grade 12 learners well as they begin their National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations Monday.
DA Shadow Minister of Basic Education, Gavin Davis said the success or failure of the learners would be used as a barometer to determine how well our education system was performing and where interventions were needed most.
“It is therefore vital that we are able to accurately compare results of learners across different schools, social contexts and provincial education departments,”he said.
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