Bulletin 141031 by Far North Bulletin

31 Oktober 2014

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Department of Health inspectors made a disturbing discovery at an Indian-owned building in Giyani CBD which was being illegally operated as a bakery. During its routine health compliance checks by the inspectors of buildings around the town, they found that bread was being manufactured in a ﬁlthy hall which was also being used as toilet, storeroom and sleeping quarters for four employees. “It’s very shocking to discover that people are not only using this place as a storeroom, but also sleep and relieve themselves in the same room

where bread is baked to then be distributed among our people at a cheaper price,” explained Thelma Mlambo, the acting manager of Mopani District Municipality’s Environmental Health section. Mlambu said another thing that raised the question of health safety was that there was no running water inside the bakery except from the toilet. “We don’t know how they operated without water... it is clear that they distribute the bread to poor communities,” she added. However the bakery owner, Mr Imran Patel, got a slap on the wrist and a warning to address the health and legality issues. Mlambu said she would give him another chance to make things right since he claimed he was not aware that he needed a permit to run a bakery. When asked why he was operating in such an unhygienic and dirty environment, he said he was still in the process of establishing a proper bakery but did not have money to move fast enough. “We thought we should give him the beneﬁt of doubt and only shut down his bakery and conﬁscate his bread, instead of opening a criminal case,” said Mlambu. — Orlando Chauke Toilet used by workers is in the same room as the orlando@bulletin.us.com so-called bakery and the only source of water...

Jumbo failure Pillaging on the Bali mango farm outside Tzaneen is out of control as nobody is able to accept responsibility for the property and its assets (or what is left of it). Despite complaints by neighbors about bakkie loads of mango’s and sections of the R18 million palisade fence being stripped, the police could not react “as there was no complainant on the said property.” A man was eventually arrested on Monday by another section of the police for stealing fence material worth R224 050 on Bali. Essau Remaketse Nzutha (33) appeared in court yesterday and his case was remanded. The history of the Bali estate of 158 ha is a sad story of wasted rate payers’ money and overall neglect by the authorities. It is the property of the Mopani District Municipality, who bought it for R2,9 million in 2007. The farm, once a ﬂourishing business with more than 40 000 mango trees, was to be transferred

to the Greater Tzaneen Municipality, but so far officials have failed to do so. The MDM’s municipal manager, Mr Tim Maake, referred enquiries by the Bulletin to its liaison office, but the communications officer, Mr Neil Shikwambana, failed to react. We have failed to speak to Shikwambana in the past four months, since he does not answer his phone ort he simply does not honour his undertakings to come back to us with comment. Before our deadline efforts were made to get comment from the head of security at the GTM, Mr Kenny Makhubele, who received a written police report on the estate yesterday morning, but to no avail. Shortly before the Bulletin had to go to print, the GTM’s spokesman, Mr Neville Ndlala, said the Police report would have to be considered by the Municipal Manager, before any comment could be made. He made it clear that the farm is not the GTM’s responsibility. In the meantime small holdings owners bordering the Bali estate fear for their safety as foreign vehicles frequent the farm to harvest mango’s.

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Thelma Mlambo, the acting manager for Mopani district Environmental Health Section, points to mixed flour that was ready for baking inside an Indian-owned bakery in Giyani CBD [Take note that the bakery has no name]

Roofpoging misluk ‘n Poging om ‘n groot gastehuis naby die MediClinic Tzaneen te beroof, is Dinsdag gefnuik. ‘n Werknemer van die gastehuis het aan die polisie gesê ‘n man — wat baie goed deur die werknemer beskryf is — het uit die niet verskyn, ‘n vuurwapen gerig en kontant geëis. Gelukkig was daar ‘n paniekknoppie waar die persoon gestaan het en toe die alarm afgaan, het die booswig weggehol. Die Polisie ondersoek die voorval.

Slypskool roep boere nader ‘n Duideliker prentjie oor werkpermitte vir veral seisoenwerkers uit Zimbabwe en Mosambiek sal op 11 November deur die departement van binnelandse sake vir boere in Limpopo geskilder word, wanneer ‘n slypskool oor arbeid in Polokwane aangebied word. Dit word deur AgriLimpopo op aandrang van binnelandse sake gereël, as ‘n dringende byeenkoms om verskeie probleme met werkpermitte uit te stryk. Alle boere wat hierby betrokke is, word versoek om die vergadering in die Bolivia Lodge by te woon. Meer besonderhede kan verkry word van AgriLetaba se kantoor of die kantoor van AgriLimpopo.

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Vlieg wil nou nie inmeng met die rubriek op die agterblad van hierdie nuuspapiertjie nie. Veral omdat die outeur daarvan sy enkele lesers al by herhaling probeer oortuig het dat Vlieg eintlik niks van rugby af weet nie. Dit mag so wees, en daar mag ook dalk ‘n paar ander dinge wees waarvan Vlieg niks weet nie, maar dit maak nie Vlieg se stryd met die dood die afgelope week veel makliker nie. Gelukkig is die dood nou iets waarvan Vlieg een of twee dinge weet, of selfs dalk al persoonlike ondervinding mee het. Gelukkig sal Vlieg, soos hy eerder berig het, nooit kan selfdood pleeg nie. Nie eens as sy geliefde Leeuspannetjie so naby, maar tog so ver van ‘n Curriebeker-wen af kom nie. Vir selfdood het Vlieg nie genoeg moed nie, hy sal homself eerder doodmaak. So kom Vlieg toe agter daar is ‘n bepaalde rede waarom die dood vandeesweek sy onderbewussyn so verpes. Nee, Vlieg het nie enige onreine gedagtes oor Marnitz Boshoﬀ gekoester soos van sy sielsgenote op die Oosrand nie. Die rede is dat dt vandag, die een-endertigste van die tiende maand, Halloween is. Net soos Vlieg, is arme ou Halloween ook seker een van die mees misverstane skepsels

van ons tyd. Halloween, of Samhain, uitgespreek Sah-ween, het volgens Vlieg se navorsing ontstaan in die Keltiese tyd. Dis nou baie lank gelede! Die mense van die tyd het geglo dat op die laaste nag voor die noordelike halfrond se winter, die siele van almal wat in daardie jaar dood is, op daardie nag die hiernamaals binnegaan. Op daardie nag is oﬀers aan hulle gebring om hulle reis te vergemaklik. In daardie nag was alle ander kreature ook bedrywig. Spoke, feëtjies, duiwels! Vlieg sou kon sê, die duiwel was los! Dis nou die een met die horings, die slagtande en die vurk. Nie die een met die skrumkeps, die wit-en-blou strepiestrui sonder die voortande nie. Maar net soos die moderne Christene, lyk dit vir Vlieg of die destydse Christene ook hĳackers was. Voor die Kelte die slaap uit hul oë kon vee, toe word Samhain, All Hallow’s Eve, ‘n Christelike fees. Hierdie nag moes Christene wy aan die nagedagtenis van die dooies, heiliges (hallows), martelaars en ander afgestorwe

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