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You can be very proud of yourselves as this is an outstanding accomplishment! To our matric class of 2019, you have done immeasurably well in your results. We would like to congratulate each and every single matric learner of 2019 for all their hard work and dedication. Your commitment has got you through your schooling career and we are very proud of you. We wish you all the best for the next chapter of your lives, we know you are going to do extraordinary things and reach all the goals you have set for yourself. Waterstone College wants to thank our parents, teachers, management and Mrs Watkins the Grade Controller for walking alongside each learner. These results wouldn’t have been possible without you.
14 January 2020
A NOTE FROM THE
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Transnet pipeline explosion in Verwoerdpark
I want to wish you all a happy new year! We are excited to celebrate a new decade and walk another journey with you this year. There are a lot of exciting things to look forward to in our community this year. I also want to congratulate all our matrics for the outstanding achievements and wish you all the best in the future. I also want to reach out to the matric students who did not make it by encouraging them that it’s not the end but that great things may still be in store for them. To our community members let us all work together once again this year because we are passionate about sharing your stories and being part of your lives. To all our clients we want to take the opportunity to thank you for supporting our local community newspaper through your advertising. Through your advertising support we can provide a fresh approach to local news on a weekly basis. Your faithful and loyal advertising helps us reach out to more local schools, local businesses and local people. We look forward to working with you all this year.
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New years eve started in a turmoil for most Verwoerdpark residents after it was reported that a pipeline explosion occurred in the area during early day. Residents were advised to temporarily evacuate their homes. Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Services Management along with other role players worked tirelessly to extinguish the blaze for 6 hours. During the process about 40 homes were evacuated in a radius of 1.5 km as a safety precaution. Acting spokesperson of DEMS, Eric Maloka said that the residents were out of danger as the situation was under control at the time. “No one was injured and about 40 houses were evacuated, some of which were not in immediate danger, but it was done as a pre-
caution,” said Maloka. tame TIMES learned that it was a fuel pipeline that was one of Transnet’s 3,800km, high-pressure petroleum pipeline, which runs from Durban to Gauteng. Transnet spokesperson Saret Knoetze said pipelines and associated infrastructure had experienced an unprecedented spate of theft over the past few months. “The attempted theft incident caused a block valve on our Durban to Johannesburg petroleum pipeline, on a section between Alrode and the airport, to spill and cause a fire,” said Knoetze in a statement. Emergency response teams were activated and the blaze was brought under control. Knoetze said Transnet’s focus was at the moment to contain the spillage and minimise the risk to the nearby community and environment. “This pipeline is part of a section of the Durban to Johannesburg pipeline, which is currently being decommissioned as it was replaced with the new multi-product pipeline. There are no security-of-supply concerns to the Gauteng market area,” added Knoetze. She said various steps had been put in place to address attempted theft along pipelines. Some had yielded positive results, including several arrests and the impounding of numerous fuel tankers. “Unfortunately the criminal activities are ongoing and thereby increasing the risk to communities living near our pipelines and potentially affecting the security of supply to the inland market area,” concluded Knoetze. tame TIMES spoke to Verwoerdpark resident, Bob Shorts who lives in Jim Fouche road. “At about 6:00 am I heard a loud bang sound
like someone who drove into a garage door or gate not realising that it’s an explosion. I suddenly started seeing smoke and decided to get on my roof to see where it was coming from. That’s when I saw it was close to us. We got notification that we need to evacuate and we did so immediately. We are thankful that emergency services were at the blaze in no time to get everything under control for us to be safe,” said Shorts.
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14 January 2020
Alberton Cobras Shotokan Awards Ceremony
The Cobras Shotokan Karate club in Brackenhurst, Alberton recently hosted their 2019 Year End Prize Giving, awarding the club’s top achievers with trophies and medals. This was the Club’s 24th annual prize giving and Sensei Laurent and Sensei Nicholas, the Senior Instructors of the Club, were very proud to hand over the
15 Floating trophies and numerous other trophies and medals for the individuals who excelled over the year. The Cobras Shotokan Karate club train on Monday & Wednesday evenings 17.30 – 18.30 at Glenview Primary School in Brackenhurst.
A South African Open moment of pure Grace
Last November, Branden Grace sat in an airport in America and outlined clearly his goals for 2020. At Randpark Golf Club on Sunday, Grace achieved the first of those goals when he won the South African Open hosted by the City of Joburg. Grace produced one of the finest putting displays of his career to close with a 62 and win his national Open by three shots on 21 under par, and following a stunning duel with defending champion Louis Oosthuizen on Randpark’s Firethorn course. Oosthuizen took second place on 18 under par with a 68 that included a hole-in-one on the par-three eighth hole. England’s Marcus Armitage finished third on 16 under with a 69. Talented 18-year-old Jayden Schaper won the Freddie Tait Cup for finishing as the leading amateur in an incredible sixth place overall on 13 under par with a closing 70. “I’ve now won everything I want to win in South African golf, and it feels so good,” said a delighted Grace. “This was the one that was missing – the second oldest tournament in the world and with so much history.” Grace’s victory also secured him a place in The Open at Royal St George’s later this year, with Armitage and Jaco Ahlers taking the other two spots that were on offer from this championship to the leading players not yet exempt for the Major.
But most importantly, after a period of changes on so many fronts, Grace feels he’s back on track. “You know, my dad had a heart-attack a year back, then we were building a house, I became a father, so there was a lot going on. But I’ve made some changes in management, I’ve got a new caddie and I feel in a really good place at the moment, and this was the place to kick it off.” Grace was three shots off the lead of Oosthuizen going into the final round. But as Oosthuizen struggled to make anything happen and parred his first seven holes, Grace came out firing early on. After a bogey to start, Grace made three birdies and an eagle in the next five holes. “I needed to come out hot. I knew I needed a low one. I saw the conditions were good for it and the golf course was set up for it. I also knew Louis doesn’t make mistakes out there, so I knew it would be tough. The bogey wasn’t great to start, but when I made birdie on three and eagle on four I knew I was right back in it. And then the blade was just hot. The hole just looked bigger and bigger from there on,” said Grace. Then came a moment of magic from Oosthuizen. The defending champion aced the par-three eighth hole to take the lead on 17 under par. It didn’t last long though as Grace rolled in a huge birdie putt on the par-four ninth to tie Oosthuizen for the lead. Then he made four straight birdies from the 11th hole to surge away from the field and on to victory. “It makes it special beating a player of Louis’s calibre. It was special for me to finish it off the way I did this year,” Grace said. And Grace can cross off another goal this week. Sitting in that American airport, he also declared, “Maybe one week soon I’ll be able to lift my boy up at the end of a tournament I’ve won, and he’ll be proud of his dad”. On the 18th green on Sunday, young Roger ran on to hug his dad – the South African Open champion.