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Niks kry hierdie atleet onder nie Die gesiggestremde Cindy Jacobsz (links) van Boston en Petro Neethling van Durbanville neem hierdie naweek aan die Suid-Afrikaanse driekampkampioenskap in Bloemfontein deel. Hier is hulle tydens die Discovery Triathlon World Cup, wat in Februarie gehou is. Jacobsz het net sowat 10% sig en het in 2016 een van haar niere aan ’n familielid geskenk. Die berig is op bl. 3.
BELLVILLE: UNHYGIENIC CONDITIONS PREVENT PARKING UNDER TIENIE MEYER BYPASS
Vagrants prevent parking NIELEN DE KLERK @nielendk
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n unhygienic pocket of land is keeping people from parking under the Tienie Meyer bypass and action needs to be taken, the Voortrekker Road Corridor Improvement District (VRCID) says. Numerous homeless people and vagrants have been living on the Transnet-owned property for years, mostly in squalid condi-
tions. “People live in unhygienic conditions here as there are no toilets,” says Derek Bock, CEO of the VCRID. The property is close to The Haven Night Shelter and borders a public parking area. It is enclosed with a fence, but this is broken and gives access to vagrants. This paid parking area is kept clean as part of the City’s multimillion rand investment in the upliftment and rejuvenation of
Bellville. But criminals who live among the vagrants have started targeting commuters, making many too scared to park there, Bock says. TygerBurger met Simoné Matiwane (21), a resident of the site, at her home. She’s been living there for two years, she says, and hasn’t really been hassled by police or Law Enforcement. “Hulle kom skud nie hier nie,” she says.
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Matiwane says there are many prostitutes who live there and try to make enough money to survive and pay for their drug addictions. She would like to move, she adds, but has nowhere to go. Mike Asefovits, spokesperson for Transnet Freight Rail, says the property is part of a large portion of land acquired in 1941/1942 on which the train station’s shunting yard is located. V To page 2.