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Your 24/7 community connection September 20, 2013
PHOTO: KALISHA NAICKER
George Victor, chairman of the Hillcrest Conservancy, KHBA gardeners Nicholas and Victor Nothoze, Marge Mitchell and Station Commander Colonel Thandeka P Mbele.
Spring flowers for SAPS KALISHA NAICKER MEMBERS of the Keep Hillcrest Beautiful Association are not afraid to get their hands dirty to ensure that Hillcrest remains charming. The folks donned their gumboots and gloves on Monday and headed over to the SAPS to plant flowers for Arbour Month. Public relations officer Dawn
Brown told the Hillcrest Fever that afteravisittothelocalpolicestation, members of the association noticed a few invasive plants in the garden. Hillcrest SAPS station commander Colonel Thandeka P Mbele was pleased with the initiative by the KHBA. “The flowers are so beautiful. I thank KHBA and all the donors for the lovely garden,” she said.
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RAPE survivor needs help
>> Foundation hosting fundraiser to assist survivor’s return home KALISHA NAICKER
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HIGHWAY resident thought she was going to make a difference teaching English in a “safe” country whensheleftSouthAfrica for Korea a few weeks ago. However, the 22-year-old’s dreams were shattered after she was raped by a man who she be-
friended while she was sight-seeing one night. In a statement to the Hillcrest Fever via the Jes Foord Foundation, the survivor, who cannot be namedduetoconfidentiality,said shehadbefriendedaKoreanman who offered to show her where the bus terminal was in order for her to go home. She said that the man then
pulled her into a DVD screening room and raped her. Jes Foord, founder of the foundation, said, “She is far away fromhomehavingtodealwiththe rape, STD and pregnancy scare and feeling guilty about not fighting back. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3