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EDITOR: BETTIE GILIOMEE
Sheriffs up in arms over summons deliveries N LIZEKA TANDWA
ELSON Mandela Bay sheriffs say they have been dealt a heavy blow by the municipality, which is said to have appointed a Western Cape company to serve traffic summonses despite the local sheriffs being promised that they would be employed to do so.
The sheriffs found out about the contracting of the Western Cape company, TMT, in a report in PE Express two weeks ago on the plight of 27 summons deliverers, who work on commission and had not been receiving an income because of the two-year suspension in the delivery of traffic summonses. In this report, municipal spokesperson, Mthubanzi Mniki, said TMT would be appointed to deal with the delivery of summonses. Sheriff Llewellyn Sharp, who spoke to PE Express as a representative of five sheriffs in the Uitenhage South, PE North, PE West, Despatch and PE South areas, said they had been surprised to
learn from PE Express that the municipality had appointed 33 servers on a sixmonth contract effective from June. According to Sharp, they had countless meetings with the municipality’s chief financial officer, Trevor Harper, and safety and security boss, Shane Brown, who promised they would begin serving the backlog of summonses as well as warrants as early as December 14 before the holidays began. Sharp said they had developed an extensive proposal for the municipality which included plans to generate millions in revenue for the metro through the collection of summonses, serve warrants to traffic offenders, incorporate the 27 summons deliverers already employed by the metro as deputy sheriffs and run a call centre to communicate with offenders. “All these plans would have far-reaching benefits for the municipality. Our goal is to assist the municipality in collecting millions in uncollected fines. We believe if we can get involved, the metro will see the difference,” said Sharp. Continued on page 3
Kurt and fairies go Wild@heart Even the fairies will be letting their wings down and going wild at this year’s 2015 Wild@heart Absa Kirkwood Wildsfees, which is set to take place during the weekend of June 26 to 28. Among the big attractions at the festival are the biggest stage in the Eastern Cape featuring top national artists such as Kurt Darren, as well as a Wildsfees first – a Magic Faerie Trail. Getting into the spirit of things with Kurt Darren at the launch of the festival last week were (from left) Andre Jansen, Stephanie Jansen and Lodene Slabbert. Read more on page 7. PHOTO: DEON FERREIRA