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EDITOR With recent attacks in Gauteng schools, questions have been raised as to whether parents, teachers and the community are losing the battle against this scourge of violence. Since then, the Gauteng Government has consulted with a wide range of stakeholders to address this ongoing instability and thus agreed to hold a school safety summit under the theme: “Safer schools to support learning and teaching.” In all forums stakeholders, have agreed that such an intervention is long overdue and pledged their support for a coordinated initiative to rescue education in the Province. tame TIMES learned that Gauteng schools have become terrains prone to crime and violent incidents. This is a threat to the successful achievement of educational goals. I personally encourage the community to take a stand with tame TIMES in praying for our schools because educating our youth is important. Our youth deserves a future and that future starts are our schools.
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EDITOR One of our readers, Tiaan Kotzé, sent the following statement: The Fire department from Wadeville has noted that there is serious concern regarding vapours emanating from the sewerage line. They have been to the affected houses on Saturday and Sunday. Samples of the sewage network were taken at various points in the sewer network. The Fire safety officer and Shift commander indicated that it is indeed PETROL in the sewer system. Residents are therefore presented with health issues. Two main sewer lines run past the Total and intersects there and then comes down Hatfield Ave. At the affected properties where the vapours were found, it is clear that is not only in their yard but also inside the houses. The issue was first noticed last week Wednesday, 10 April and has steadily gotten worse. It was at its worst last night and this morning. It should be noted that the Shift manager from Wadeville Fire station on Saturday, Mr Marais, and his team assisted by flushing the system which did assist temporarily and he stayed on to do investigations and provide clarity and assistance. T his comforted the residents that the complaint was being taken in a serious light and that something was being done about it. This is a serious matter for petrol to be in sewer network and urgent action is needed.
On Wednesday the 947 crew visited the NuDebt Management team at their offices in Raceview to get to know the team. NuDebt has entered a corporate team in the Discovery 947 Rhythm Run, which takes place on the 25th of May. NuDebt is a debt collection company in Alberton with approximately 400 employees and manages a debt book of approximately R10 billion per month. They have various debt collection tools which include call centre agents, a payment switch, an e-colls platform, and a law firm. In addition to the visit, 10 debt collection agents were selected for a massage that was sponsored by the 947 team.
The following debt collection agents were selected: Khanyisile Ndala Rupert Nonyane Welcome Thabethe Lerato Motaung Phidelia Neo Mosielo Paul Tieties Brian Maruping Celine Kriel Deon Mosikidi Teboho Kgwete Throughout the day 947’s awesome music was played and a dancing competition was held as the NuDebt Management team moved and showed some exciting dancing skills.
Tame TIMES along with NuDebt Management enjoyed the 947 crew and look forward to the Discovery 947 Rhythm Run at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit.
The Hunting Party Everyone’s invited...everyone’s a suspect... BY: KAY EVANS For fans of Ruth Ware (In a dark, dark wood), an edge of your seat, page-turning psychological thriller that will keep you up all night to read just one more page, in which a group of old college friends are snowed in at a hunting lodge and something sinister happens. All of them are friends. One of them is a killer.
met die kleinkinders moet paaseiers soek kry ons elkeen ‘n groot mandjie. Ek mompel nog vir Gysie dat dit bietjie oordadig is, maar toe begin ons soek. Naderhand is ons almal se mandjies vol. Meer paaseiers as wat ek ooit gesien het. Dis toe dat die kinders eers vertel van die paaseiergeskenkpak wat hulle gewen het. Daar was marshmalloweiers, die sjokolade tipe, elke denkbare maak, van die duurste tot die goedkoopste. Mense, ek is nou moeg vir paaseiers. Keelvol, maagvol, en oorversadig. Die kinders het ons genooi om saam met hulle paasfees te vier. Sondagoggend vroeg is hulle op om eiers weg te steek in die tuin.
Later toe ons nou saam
Ons het onsself naar
geeet en toe nog 3 mandjies vol huis toe gevat. Ek en Gysie het nog elk een paaseier geeet en toe die res vir die buurt se kinders uitgedeel. Mense, ek wil nooit weer ‘n paaseier sien nie. Tip - Te veel van enigiets is sleg.
As they do every year, a group of friends from their college days, decide on a destination for their annual New Year’s Eve get-together. The tradition has been running for 10 years and is one no-one ever misses out on. For this holiday, they’ve chosen a cosy, quaint and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands which is the perfect place to get away and unwind. They arrive on December 30th, the way they always do, just before a blizzard locks the lodge and everyone inside off from the outside world. This will be a New Year’s party that no one will be able to forget. But just two days later, the new year has arrived but left one person behind…dead. As any other trip, this one starts off perfectly normal, as it always does. Warm nights in front of a fire, admiring the picturesque views and catching up and laughing about good times spent together. But tension in the air starts to rise as secrets that have been hidden for the past years get too heavy a burden to carry and someone decides it’s time to clear
the air. Things get out of hand and no-one knows who they can trust, but as the saying goes: keep your friends close. But just how close? This book is a must read and definitely one that will keep you up all night to find out who the suspect is! We give this book a sizzling 7.5/10. Make sure to get your copy of The Hunting Party, published by Jonathan Ball Publishers.
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23 April 2019
Sky City Mall officially Opens It is an exciting time for Palm
Glass and wooden panels allow for
Ridge, Katlehong because Sky City
ample amount of natural light within
Mall as GMI Property Group (GMI),
the mall.
in association with Cosmopolitan
Whilst
the
furniture
Projects are pleased to announce
finishes
are
stylish
the opening of Sky City Mall, that
All these design features have been
was launched on 18 April 2019.
carefully considered to enhance the
The
“THE ENTIRE DEVELOPMENT WILL EXIST OF 16 SCHOOLS, 16 000 NEW HOUSEHOLDS AS WELL AS A PHASE 1 CONVENIENCE CENTRE OF 12 500M2, GROWING INTO A REGIONAL CENTRE OF 32 000M2 IN THE NEAR FUTURE.”
retail
site,
located
at
the
contemporary
and
and
tile
modern.
architecture
of
the
intersection of the R550 (Heidelberg
centre.
Road) and the K91 Vereeniging, forms
The food court provides a magnificent
part of the mega R10 billion retail and
view over the striking water fountain
residential development.
creating
The entire development will exist of
environment for the community to
16 schools, 16 000 new households as
enjoy.
well as a phase 1 convenience centre
Looking into the future, new and
of 12 500m2, growing into a regional
additional phases of 10 365m2 will
centre of 32 000m2 in the near future.
expand the project to a total of
Anchored by Shoprite and Cashbuild,
44 000m2 GLA. Hereby introducing;
supported
with
Sky City Precinct which will provide
tenant
including;
mix
an
excellent OBC,
Pep,
an
education,
inviting
sport,
health
Jet, Ackermans, KFC, Mc Donalds,
retail,
Debonairs
opportunities to customers.
and
an
Engen
filling
public
and
and
friendly
services, industrial
station, the centre will service 182
The Precinct is ideal for big box retail,
000 people in the catchment area,
food courts and a gym, in return
providing a variety of substantial
complementing
retail options to customers.
centre.
the
convenience
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Dinamika Coca Cola visits Hoërskool se ruiters Marais Viljoen Shanté Bekker het twee eerste plekke behaal in haar debuut in die dressage kompetisie. Shanté was ook die algehele wenner in haar klas.
On Tuesday, 19 April, Coca Cola as part of the Coca Cola T20 Schools Challenge visited Marais Viljoen. All the cricket players received some free cold drinks and addition to that the school received a coaching bag to go with the prize money. The Marais Viljoen cricketers were
crowned Easterns Champion earlier this year in the cricket season. Mr. Nel, cricket organiser at Marais Viljoen thank Coca Cola and their representatives for what the company is doing for cricket in South Africa and developing the young cricketers
Alberton High Schools acknowledges Cultural Heads
Mieshca Hammond behaal ‘n eerste plek in die Handy Hunter. Sy behaal ‘n derde plek in die Jumping 90cm 2 Phase en kom vierde in die Working Riding kategorie. Mieshca stap in die vyfde posisie weg in die In Hand Utility en slaan ook ‘n sesde plek los in die Working Hunter. Sy behaal sewende plek in
By: Kay Evans
On Thursday evening, 11 April, Alberton High congratulated their Cultural Heads and acknowledged them for their excellence in performance as masters of ceremony for the public speaking competitions hosted by our school earlier in the year. The jobs of the MC are one that takes great confidence and skill to keep an
Shanté Bekker
audience engaged and entertained with the skill of being able to think on your feet in an impromptu style. We are extremely proud of Erin McEnroe and Sibusiso Dlamini for this achievement and thank the Speech and Drama College of South Africa for giving our learners the chance and opportunity to flaunt their talents.
Mieshca Hammond
die Jumping 70cm 2 Phase en agtste plek in die Equitation. Mieshca behaal ‘n tiende plek in die Jumping 70cm Comp en stap ook met ‘n elfde plek weg in die Jumping 90cm Comp kategorie. Mieshca was een van ongeveer 30 ruiters wat in ‘n klas deelneem.
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23 April 2019
Open cases will not be withdrawn
The top management at Alberton SAPS, under the leadership of Col Sibuyi, have come to the decision that cases can no longer be withdrawn at the station. If one has opened a case he must understand that the case will not be cancelled or withdrawn by the police officer at the police station.
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Alberton SAPS Spokesperson Capt Ramotshela said that the case will only be withdrawn at a court of law. SAPS appeals to the community to make sure that they want to lay a charge and are not planning to withdraw it. The court of law is the only way to go. “So think before you take your stance,” said Cpt Ramotshela.
Primrose SAPS makes double arrest Officers from the Primrose Police Station were recently called to the scene of an alleged shooting. When they arrived in Rietfontein Road, police found a four-vehicle pile-up and a gunshot wound victim. “During police interviews, it was reported that two of the vehicles’ drivers had gotten into an argument while in the drive-through queue at a local restaurant,” explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police. “It is alleged that when the one driver
left the queue he discharged his firearm, hitting a bystander in the lower body. “As he allegedly attempted to flee the scene the other driver chased after him and this allegedly caused the accident.” Both men were arrested and detained at the Primrose Police Station. “The first suspect was arrested on a charge of attempted murder and discharging of a firearm in a public area, while the second was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol and reckless and negligent driving,” said Maome. Both men appeared in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court, where the case was postponed for plea and trial.
On Monday, 15 April the Fox Security’s medical and tactical teams, together with Med-Help Emergency Services gave back to the community by educating a local crèche in Glenvista about the importance of emergency services. They educated the little ones
about emergency services and what emergency personnel do on a daily basis. Fox Security believes it is of utmost importance to educate our children how to react in an emergency and what to do, as well as who to contact for help.
Huge losses as fraudsters intercept emails specialist and J2 Software CEO John Mc Loughlin. The fraudsters intercepted the email and responded on behalf of the client, asking for confirmation on what had been put into retirement savings and also what was still possible. The financial advisors then responded and provided a breakdown of the current tax year investments and what the client was allowed to contribute before the end of the tax year.
Fraudsters have once again swindled unsuspecting clients out of their life savings. They managed to intercept emails from a financial services provider to its clients, advising them on tax savings by bolstering their retirement policies or tax free savings. This is according to cyber security
He says the financial advisor emailed the requested information and documentation to the client’s email address. “The documentation contained the customer information and details of the investment to be paid via eft and also included the businesses bank details.” Having received the signed document as well as the proof of payment from the client’s email address, the financial advisor assumed all was in order. This was then sent for processing as they waited for the investment to clear in their bank account.
Several days later the deposit had not been cleared and they contacted the client. The client obviously cooperated and then sent the proof of payment to the financial advisor but this didn’t match the one they had received days before. “This is when we began our investigation on their behalf. From the evidence in front of them it now appeared that a trusted insider working within their business had given the client the incorrect bank details in order to commit fraud,” he explains. Mc Loughlin says the client had seen an email with documents that were nearly similar, except the bank details were different. “Upon investigation, the client had received the changed documents from a free email service which was a fake account using mail.com and a derivative we have seen before – they use a free email service with the domain consultant.com.
“It became clear that the client had their email account compromised, and it was not a malicious insider at the financial advisor as initially thought. This compromise happens because people never change their email passwords. Compromised passwords allow cyber criminals to access their email accounts. They don’t need to do anything except wait for the right email to arrive,” he warns. In this case the attacker intercepted the emails from the financial services company before the client saw them. They then created a cloned email address on a free email service and then sent the altered documents to complete the fraud. “The reason the attacker would have then sent fake proof of payment was to delay the business from following up. This delay gave the attacker enough time to empty the fake bank account of over R300 000.00. This client now has lost a large amount of money which was destined to be a retirement saving,” he concludes.
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