Zoutpansberger 16 December 2022

Suid-Afrikaners

tans sekerlik hulle “donkerste” Kersfees in jare, met Eskom se voortdurende Vlak 5 beurtkrag wat die afgelope week meedoënloos voortgeduur het en geen einde in sig nie. Inteendeel, bespiegelinge dat Vlak 8 beurtkrag moontlik op die kaarte kan wees neem toe.

As die beurtkragskedules ook net meer stabiel toegepas kon word, anders as om rond te spring tussen vlakke - wat enige beplanning feitlik onmoontlik maak - sou die reeds vuisvoos beurtkrag slagoffers dalk bietjie verligting kon ervaar. ‘n Verdere kwessie is ook dat die opheffing van beurtkrag nie noodwendig beteken dat jou ligte aangaan nie. Weliswaar het Louis Trichardt die afgelope week ervaar dat beurtkrag opgehef is, maar die ligte het afgebly omdat een of ander transformator geblaas of kabel afgebrand het

op die Makhado munisipale kragsisteem ná oorskakeling. Meer as een keer het die twee of vier ure beurtkrag vir ure langer aangehou, net om betyds aan te kom voordat beurtkrag weer geïmplementeer is.

Hierdie onsekerheid forseer baie nou om te kyk na ‘n meer stabiele kragvoorsiening vir hulle huise of besighede, en derhalwe rapporteer diegene in die steunkrag- of hernubare energiebedryf tans ‘n reuse oplewing in dié sakesektor.

Volgens Annelise Muller van Amana Energie Oplossings van Levubu het hulle ‘n drastiese toename in navrae ervaar sedert beurtkrag na Vlak 5 en 6 opgeskuif is. So het hulle ook ‘n toename gehad in die aanvra van kwotasies en fisiese installasies.

“In die laaste maand het ons vyf installasies gedoen, en ek het nou voorraad bestel vir nog twee installasies wat ons moet probeer doen voor einde Desember,” het Muller gesê. Sy het ‘n

graad in meganiese ingenieurswese.

“Dit is hoofsaaklik woonhuise op die oomblik. Die besighede vat bietjie langer, omdat meeste van hulle dit moet finansier. In hierdie stadium het ek so vyf besighede waarmee ons besig is met die finansieringsproses, waar die ouens oorbeweeg na groot hibriedsisteme omdat hulle dieselkoste [op hulle kragopwekkers] weghardloop. Net nou die dag het my een kliënt gesê dat hulle net vir die een dag R4 500 se diesel verbrand,” het Muller gesê.

Hoofsaaklik drie opsies is tans beskikbaar vir verbruikers wat kyk na ‘n alternatiewe elektrisiteitsoplossing. Eerste is die gewone steunkrag batterystelsel wat deur ‘n wisselrigter (inverter) werk en herlaai wanneer die krag aan is. Volgende is ‘n batterystelsel wat deur ‘n wisselrigter werk en met sonpanele herlaai word; en laastens kry mens ‘n hibriedsisteem waar batterye deur beide Eskom-krag en sonpanele herlaai word. ‘n

Verdere opsie van net sonpanele wat help met kragbesparing bestaan ook, maar die nadeel hieraan is dat as die krag afgaan, jy steeds nie krag het nie.

Volgens Muller is die hibriedsisteem hulle gewildste opsie. “Op die ou end van die dag wil jy aangaan met jou werk as die krag af is, veral noudat ons sulke verskriklike beurtkrag het,” het Muller gesê. Nadat jy besluit het watter opsie vir jou die beste gaan wees, is die volgende stap om te bepaal wat jou kragbehoeftes is. “Vir ‘n gemiddelde huis gaan jy twee opsies kry. Jy gaan die kleiner opsie kry wat net die noodsaaklike gaan hardloop, soos ligte, yskas, vrieskas, WiFi en televisie. Dit sal jou klein 5kW (kilowatt) sisteem wees. Dan kry jy die ou wat sê hy wil graag ‘n lugversorger of twee, sy ketel en mikrogolf gebruik tydens beurtkrag. Dan kyk ons na ‘n 8kW sisteem,” het Muller gesê. (Vervolg op p.2)

Deur Andries van Zyl

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NISSANMOUNTFUJI

(Vervolg van p.1)

Volgende moet die voornemende kliënt bietjie navorsing doen ten opsigte van die toerusting en komponente van die stelsel waarna hy of sy kyk. Muller beveel aan om na ‘n goeie stelsel te kyk wat gebruik maak van litium-ioon batterye. Sy beveel glad nie die gebruik van loodsuur en “diep-siklus” batterye aan nie, omdat dit uitgediende tegnologie is en vinnig ingee. “Op die litium-ioon batterye, afhangend van die maak, kyk jy na ‘n vyf tot 10 jaar waarborg op die batterye. Met litium-ioon batterye praat hulle ook van hoeveel siklusse jy uit die battery kan uitkry. So, jy kyk na tussen 3 000 en 6 000 siklusse, afhangend van hoeveel jy die battery ontlaai. Met 4 000 siklusse, as jy hom elke dag ontlaai, kyk jy klaar na 10 jaar. So, die leeftyd van litium-ioon batterye is net soveel langer,” het Muller gesê. Buiten vir litium-ioon batterye maak Muller

gebruik van Sun Synk-komponente, wat die wisselrigter insluit.

Wat sou ‘n goeie steunkrag hibriedsisteem mens uit die sak jaag? Volgens Muller kyk hulle kliënte na sowat R110 000 vir ‘n 5kW sisteem met sonpanele en een battery. “Dit is dan ‘n sisteem wat tussen ‘n vyf en 10 jaar waarborg het. Dit is dus goeie toerusting. Die wisselrigter het ‘n vyf jaar waarborg, die batterye sewe jaar en die sonpanele 12 jaar,” het Muller gesê. As jy dan opgaan na die 8kW sisteem, wat meer batterykapasiteit het van 10kW-uur en sonpanele van 6kW, verdubbel die koste amper. “Daar kyk mens na R195 000, want jy verdubbel die solaren batterykapasiteit,” voeg Muller by. Muller bied ook ‘n 5kW batterystelsel sonder sonpanele teen sowat R67 000, met die opsie om later sonpanele te koppel. “So, die sonpanele is nogal ‘n groot finansiële komponent, maar dit gee vir

jou daardie besparing op jou kragrekening aan die einde van die maand. As jy lang kragonderbrekings het, beteken dit ook jy kan die hele dag met jou werk aangaan terwyl die son skyn,” het Muller gesê.

Volgens Hentie Oosthuizen van AllSolar in Tzaneen het hulle ook ‘n dramatiese toename in die aanvraag na steunkrag batterystelsels en sonkragstelsels die afgelope paar weke ervaar. “Die kwotasies het verskriklik toegeneem, hier van Vlak 4 beurtkrag af en op. Dan skrik almal en soek vinnig ‘n kwotasie,” het Oosthuizen gesê. Oosthuizen het Muller se woorde beaam dat mense moet kyk na goeie komponente wanneer hulle na ‘n battery- of sonkragstelsel oorgaan. Die ou gesegde van “goedkoop is duur koop” is hier baie waar. “Ons doen net Victron stelsels, wat ‘n meer topvlak installasie is. Ons gebruik hulle vir ‘n rede en raak nie aan die Chinese produkte nie - ook vir ‘n rede; die goed het maar probleme. Toe ons so vier jaar gelede begin het met die besigheid, het ons loodsuurbatterye gebruik. Maar ná ‘n jaar het dit ons aan die boud gebyt. Die kliënt was verskriklik ongelukkig, want ná ‘n jaar moes hulle hul loodsuurbatterye vervang. Nou gebruik ons net litium-ioon batterye met ‘n vyf tot 10 jaar waarborg,” het Oosthuizen gesê.

Anders as Muller, is meeste van Oosthuizen se installasies nie sonkragstelsels nie. “Meeste van ons kliënte begin met ‘n UPS-tipe applikasie. So hy begin met ‘n wisselrigter en battery, en ons doen die oorskakeling in sy DB-boks in met ‘n elektrisiën wat aan hom ‘n CoC uitreik vir versekeringsdoeleindes. So, as die krag afgaan, is daar outomaties ‘n oorskakeling na die battery, wat die kliënt nie eers agterkom nie. Dan hardloop die stelsel vir twee ure of vier ure as die krag afgaan, en wanneer die krag weer aankom, skakel die stelsel weer outomaties oor na Eskom krag,” het Oosthuizen gesê.

Volgens Oosthuizen is tussen 30% en 40% van die UPS-installasies wat hulle tans doen by woonhuise. Ook dié installasie gee aan die kliënt die keuse om oor te skakel na sonpanele op ‘n latere stadium. Dan word dit ‘n volwaardige hibriedsisteem.

ise tot besproeiing. Dan kyk die boere maar na hulle eie huishouding ook en dit gaan meestal oor veiligheid. Al jou kameras is af, al jou ligte is af, so dit is vir boere ‘n groot probleem,” het Pretorius gesê.

Ook Pretorius het gesê dat baie mense nie noodwendig sonkrag wil installeer nie, eerder net ‘n wisselrigter met batterye om deur beurtkragperiodes te kom. “Dit is in hierdie stadium die grootste versoek wat ons kry,” het Pretorius gesê. Hy ontwerp ook sy stelsels sodanig dat sonpanele in ‘n latere stadium bygevoeg kan word.

Volgens Pretorius wissel sy pryse vir ‘n gewone wisselrigterstelsel met een battery tussen R60 000 en R100 000 vir twee batterye - sonder sonpanele.

Goeie raad wat Pretorius vir voornemende kliënte het, is om seker te maak dat wie ook al vir hulle ‘n batterystelsel kom installeer, ‘n waarborg moet gee dat die stelsel vergroot en uitgebrei kan word na ‘n groter wisselrigter en die byvoeg van sonpanele. “Jy weet nie of die situasie nog meer gaan versleg nie,” het Pretorius gesê. Hy het ook lede van die publiek gemaan om aan te dring op ‘n CoC wanneer hulle ‘n installasie doen.

Vir enige navrae oor die inligting hierbo, skakel Muller by tel. 084 548 5896, Oosthuizen by 083 216 2063 of Pretorius by 082 498 1484.

Hierdie week, 25 jaar

gelede in die Zoutpansberger

Hierdie week, 25 jaar gelede, het die Soutpansberg-gemeenskap saam met die Noor-familie van Louis Trichardt fees gevier. Op die voorblad van 12 Desember 1997 pronk die troufoto van Zunaid en Farzana Ayob wat op Sondag, 7 Desember, in die huwelik bevestig is. Farzana is die dogter van bekende sakeman Solly Noor en sy vrou Zohra. Die troue was een van die grootstes ooit wat die streek gesien het, met sowat 3 000 gaste wat dit bygewoon het.

Ongelukkig het daardie week saam met die vreugde ook hartseer nuus opgelewer. ‘n Standerd 7-leerling (Graad 9) van Hoërskool Louis Trichardt, die 16-jarige “Klein Sampie” Muller het gesterf in ‘n motorongeluk sowat 40 km buite Durban terwyl hy, sy broer Helgaard en ‘n vriend van sy broer onderweg was met vakansie. Sampie is dood ná die motor waarin hulle gereis het omstreeks 04:00 die oggend van agter met ‘n stilstaande vragmotor gebots het. Hy is op slag dood, terwyl sy broer en broer se vriend ligte beserings opgedoen het.

In nog ‘n aanval op ‘n plaas daardie jaar het die polisie ‘n saak van gewapende roof, poging tot moord en verkragting geopen nadat ‘n egpaar op die plaas Sterling aangeval is, nadat vier mans die plaas besoek het onder die voorwendsel dat hulle skape wou koop. Hulle het ‘n pistool uitgeruk en die man en vrou beveel

om op die grond te lê. Hulle het geld geëis en na bewering die vrou van sowat 50 jaar verkrag, waarna hulle met R50 gevlug het. Hulle het een skoot op die egpaar geskiet, maar niemand is beseer nie.

In ‘n ander gewapende roof het twee mans, een gewapen met ‘n pistool en die ander met ‘n R1-aanvalsgeweer, ‘n werknemer van Baron Chickens oorrompel en beroof, waarna hulle met sowat R2 000 en ‘n hoender op

AllSolar se gemiddelde vol aanlyn UPS Victron installasie met 5kW wisselrigter en twee Freedom Won eTower batterye met 10 kW-uur in totaal werk tussen R130 000 en R140 000 uit. “As dit ‘n solarstelsel word, met ander woorde ‘n hibriedsisteem met dieselfde komponente en daar kom 12 panele op die dak, dan begin mens kyk na ‘n prys van so R200 000 na R220 000,” het Oosthuizen gesê. Dit gesê het Oosthuizen bygevoeg dat elke persoon se elektrisiteitsbehoeftes anders is en dat jy goedkoper of duurder kan betaal, afhangend van jou behoeftes.

‘n Goedkoop opsie, het Oosthuizen ook gesê, is die sogenaamde trollie-opsie. “Dit is ‘n baie klein eenheid om basies net jou WiFi en ‘n liggie aan te hou. Hulle is so amper R14 000. Die stelsel kom ook met twee litium-ioon batterye. Dit is ‘n goedkoper opsie, maar hulle verkoop nie so baie nie, want die mense soek ‘n meer permanente oplossing,” het Oosthuizen gesê.

Volgens Cois Pretorius van Cois Elektries op Louis Trichardt is hulle die afgelope sowat ses weke toegegooi met kwotasies. “In hierdie stadium kan ons nie eers voorbly met die versoeke vir kwotasies nie,” het Pretorius Dinsdag gesê. As jy boere onder besigheid industrieel wil sit, was die versoeke 50/50 tussen besighede en residensieel. “Vir boere wissel hulle kragbehoeftes van pakhu-

o.12’s en die

wen twee rondtes, plus ‘n loslootjie (bye). Christopher speel bord 7 vir Capricorn se o.10’s en die span wen drie rondtes plus ‘n loslootjie. Individueel eindig Christopher 46ste. Ruan speel bord 10 vir Capricorn se o.10’s, wat twee rondtes plus ‘n loslootjie wen en individueel eindig Ruan 63ste. Capricorn se o.12’s eindig algeheel negende en die o.10’s agste. Foto verskaf.

“Hy rig die geringe op uit die stof, uit die ashoop verhef Hy die behoeftiges om hulle te laat sit by die vorste.” 1 Samuel 2:8.

Nadat

Samuel gebore is, het sy moeder ‘n lofsang aangehef, ‘n lied wat herinner aan dié van Maria.

Christene het in die verlede onder verskillende omstandighede liedere gesing: in die gevangenis, op die brandstapel en op die slagveld. Ons behoort die sing van ons kerkliedere baie meer in ons huise te beoefen.

Die loflied van Hanna was ‘n dankgebed en was vol van God. Niks van menslike prestasies nie, maar net van die magtige dade van die groot Gewer van volmaakte gifte. Het Hy dan nie haar smaad weggeneem nie? Sy wat deur almal verstote was, omdat sy nie kinders gehad het nie, is uit die ashoop verhef en is tot ‘n vorstin gereken. Hanna was een van die geringes onder die vroue, maar die Here het haar raakgesien.

Die Here gebruik dikwels die eenvoudige en doodgewone persoon om sy doel te bereik. Die name van die ouers van Calvyn, Wesley en Hudson Taylor is vir die meeste van ons onbekend, en tog was hulle die middel om vir die koninkryk van die hemele belangrike dienste te lewer.

Vader, moeder, jy is ook onder die geringstes. Die Here wil jou ook verhef. Voed jou kinders op in sy vrees en bid vir hulle.

- Ds. Johan Marais (Louis Trichardt Baptistekerk)

Ek is ... die Weg, die Waarheid en die Lewe

Hierdie drie leerders van Laerskool Louis Trichardt, Christopher Swart, Ruan de Beer en Karlien Cronjé (van links na regs), het vanaf 4 tot 8 Desember deelgeneem aan die Suid-Afrikaanse Skaakkampioenskappe by die Wild Coast Sun in KwaZulu-Natal. Karlien speel tydens die toernooi bord 4 vir Capricorn se

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Musina Mining Supplies (MMS) announced last week that as from 1 January next year, they would pay the salary of an additional social worker to help out at the NorSA Community Care Centre in Harper (Nancefield) as part of their social responsibility. This will be done to assist the centre’s existing social worker, Ms Linda Velempini. NorSA also has a care centre in Alldays, with plans to establish another care centre in the former Venda homeland in the near future. MMS has been a strategic partner of NorSA for years now. To discuss these future plans in more detail, the CEO of MMS, Mr Mashudu Tshivase, visited NorSA’s headquarters in Wellington in the Cape last Friday. Pictured are MMS manager Mr Jacques Botha (left) and Ms Linda Velempini (right), NorSA’s social worker at their community care centre in Harper (Nancefield). Photo supplied.

Beurtkrag, en veral die nuutste vlaag, is besig om sy tol te eis. Besighede gaan gebuk onder die uitwerking daarvan. Die Zoutpansberger het gaan navraag doen by ‘n paar kleiner besighede en hoe hulle beïnvloed word.

‘n Onderneming wat graag anoniem wil bly, trek nou swaarder as vantevore met die langer beurtkrag-ure. Klante moet weggewys word omdat groot masjiene en toerusting wat in die betrokke besigheid noodsaaklik is, tot stilstand kom. Duisende rande se brandstof word gebruik vir kragopwekkers wat kleiner masjiene en toerusting aan die gang hou, sodat die onderneming net deur ‘n dag kan kom. Vir hulle is dit ‘n bitter pil om te sluk, aangesien die besigheid met moeite deur Covid-19 moes oorleef en nou ook deur beurtkrag.

Mark Archer van Archer Paint sê dat beurtkrag die besigheid nogal baie beïnvloed. “Die meeste van ons verskaffers vervaardig produkte en hulle verloor produksie gedurende die tye wat die krag af is. ‘n Mens kan nie produksie inhaal nie. Dit veroorsaak dat ons ons bestellings nie volledig ontvang nie, omdat hulle nie betyds kon vervaardig nie.”

Mark sê ook dat brandstof vir die kragopwekkers, asook die uitleg aan batterystelsels (wisselrigters), heelwat ekstra

uitgawes beteken. “Dit is ook opvallend dat daar ‘n definitiewe afname aan instap-klante is, omdat mense aanneem dat die kaartmasjien nie werk nie en dus nie sal kan betaal nie. Sommige mense staan in die winkel en wil dan om hierdie rede uitloop as die krag op daardie oomblik afgaan. Ons wil graag beklemtoon dat die kaartmasjien wél werk – ons het rugsteunkrag daarvoor,” sê Mark.

Lizelle du Plooy van Katvoet Kunskafee gesels openlik oor die invloed wat beurtkrag op hierdie gewilde restaurant en koffiewinkel het. “Ons oorspronklike plan was om eers op die 22ste Desember vir die jaar toe te maak en bietjie van ‘n blaaskans te neem. Ons het egter besluit om vroeër vir aansit-etes te sluit. Verskeie redes het ons hierop laat besluit. Dit was vir ons ‘n lang en rowwe jaar,” sê Lizelle.

“Die huidige beurtkragskedule en die onmoontlike tye daarvan het egter die grootste invloed op ons besluit gehad. Dit is bloot net nie die moeite werd om so te sukkel nie. Ons ly meer verliese met kos wat afgaan as wat die wins werd is. Ons is bekend vir ons groot spyskaart en porsies, wat beteken ons moet redelik baie voorraad aanhou. Ons het baie vrieskaste en yskaste vol voorraad en etes. Hier in ons deel van die dorp sit ons soms nog langer sonder krag as die res. Die yskaste kry nie kans

om weer koud genoeg te word voor die krag weer afgaan nie. Die vrieskaste begin ontdooi en vries weer. Die uiteinde is dat die inhoud daarvan verlore gaan. Die gevolg is dat ons beperk is met wat ons wél kan bedien. Om voortdurend al die voorraad te moet aankoop en bloot weer weg te gooi, is net glad nie koste-effektief vir enigiemand nie,” voeg Lizelle by.

Sy noem ook dat Covid-19 hulle reeds deur die toets gesit en sy tol geëis het.

“Alhoewel dinge elke dag beter gaan ná die Covid-pandemie, dink ek nie ‘n mens herstel ooit weer tot waar ‘n mens voor die tyd was nie. Katvoet Kunskafee het Covid-19 oorleef en is nou al agt en ‘n half jaar sterk,” sê Lizelle.

“Hier is hopeloos te veel harde werk, bloed, sweet en trane in hierdie besigheid belê om net op te gee oor iets soos beurtkrag. Hoewel ons nou reeds toe is, doen ons wel nog funksies, aandetes, snoepskinkborde (platters) en wegneem-etes tot en met die 22ste Desember. Ons neem hierdie tyd om te herbesin en met nuwe planne en oplossings vorendag te kom. Ons verander ‘n paar dinge en pas aan. Ons het nog groot planne en drome vir Katvoet. Hou ons dop. Katvoet sal weer met groot gejuig oopmaak op die 4de Januarie 2023. Ons sal oop wees van Maandae tot Vrydae (09:00 tot 16:00) en Saterdae 09:00 –14:00,” deel Lizelle.

Motorists traveling on the N1 north or turning towards Thohoyandou on the R524 have been met with a confusing sight for the past couple of weeks. A huge “no entry” sign was placed at this extremely busy intersection between the N1 and R524 in Louis Trichardt, causing some motorists to wonder where entry was not allowed - the N1 or the R524? In response to a media enquiry, SANRAL stated that the sign had been erected when the R524 was being repaired. “These repairs have been completed and the sign will be removed. The instruction has been issued to the Routine Road Maintenance team to attend to this matter,” SANRAL stated. The sign was removed over the weekend.

Deur Pétria de Vaal

Former Thohoyandou prosecutor gets six years in jail for corruption Seven in court for daring armed robbery along N1

By Silas Nduvheni

Former Thohoyandou prosecutor Leonard Ratshilumela Makhado (50) was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison by the Giyani Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Wednesday, 7 December, after he pleaded guilty to charges of corruption.

Makhado was arrested by the Hawks’ Serious Corruption Investigation team in Limpopo during an undercover operation in May of 2020, after he was accused of receiving a bribe of R6 000 to squash a case of reckless and negligent driving against a minor. He and his co-accused, Mbofholowo Freedom Tshikovhele, then allegedly tried to burn down the house of a key witness in another case in which Makhado is accused of corruption and defeating the ends of justice. In aggravation of the sentence, the state advocate, Evans Lebese, submitted that the country’s economy was bleeding from corrupt activities, and that corruption damaged employees’ morale and organisational reputation and undermined the rule of law. He said the accused had been expected to uphold the rule of the law, but instead acted to the contrary. Lebese argued that Makhado and others who practice this misconduct should be deterred from committing similar offences. The state recommended eight years of direct imprisonment in terms of section 26 (1) a (i) of the prevention and combating of Corruption Activities Act 12 of 2004.

Makhado also faces four counts of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. He and Tshikovhele will appear again together in the Sibasa Regional court on 24 January 2023.

The father of the minor accused of reckless and negligent driving in 2020, Mr Nicholas Netshiomvani, who is also a member of the provincial South African Civic Association (SANCO), said he accepted Makhado’s six-year sentence, but that he was still worried about the corruption in Thohoyandou’s Magistrate’s Court by senior management members.

Court News

The seven suspects arrested in connection with the daring night-time armed robbery at the Total filling station at the Capricorn Toll Plaza on 5 December, which included a senior member of the police’s Crime Intelligence Unit in Louis Trichardt, all made their first court appearance in Louis Trichardt this week.

A group of suspects entered the Bonjour shop on the premises at about 03:00 on that day and held the staff at gunpoint. They fled the scene thereafter with a drop safe containing an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes in a white Toyota bakkie and a Toyota Corolla Quest.

“The police were quick to respond to the incident and a well-coordinated and intelligence-driven operation was conducted, which led to the arrest of the seven suspects at different locations [on Tuesday],” said provincial police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo in a press release after the incident.

The first to be arrested was a female employee of the filling station at her workplace, the 39-year-old Nkhanedzeni Mungomeni.

Further investigation implicated more suspects and a 52-year-old police warrant-officer attached to the police’s Crime Intelligence Unit in Louis Trichardt, Isaac Nemutshenzheni, was apprehended at his work place. The rest of the suspects were arrested at their homes in Shayandima in the Mphephu policing area. They were the 45-year-old Tshifhiwa Mushweu, 49-year-old Tshinanne Netshitakani, 32-yearold Rabelani Makushini, 40-year-old Nqabuko Moyo and 38-year-old Vhahangwele Manyoro.

During the arrest, the police recovered several items that were positively linked to the robbery, including a drop safe containing an undisclosed amount of money, packets of cigarettes of various brands, the Toyota Corolla, and the Toyota Hilux bakkie.

The seven suspects, who have been in custody since their arrest, all made their first court appearance on Monday this week in the court in Louis Trichardt on charges of business robbery and the possession of suspected stolen goods. The case was postponed until Tuesday, 13 December, and again to Thursday, 15 December, when the seven accused are expected to bring a bail application.

Man in hof ná ernstige aanranding tydens jaareindfunksie by hotel

Hofnuus

‘n Jong man van Louis Trichardt, die 26-jarige Lehan Nel, het verlede Dinsdag, 6 Desember, in die hof op Louis Trichardt verskyn op klagte van aanranding met die doel om ernstig te beseer.

Die saak teen Nel hou ná bewering verband met ‘n voorval waartydens ‘n werknemer van NTT Toyota op Louis Trichardt ernstig aangerand is tydens die handelaarskap se

jaareindfunksie by die Lalapanzi Hotel op 19 November. Die werknemer is so ernstig aangerand dat hy gehospitaliseer moes word en steeds mediese behandeling nodig het. Die voorval laat steeds die tonge gons.

Nel se saak is tydens die hofverskyning uitgestel na 1 Februarie volgende jaar vir verdere polisie-ondersoek. Hy is nie in aanhouding nie. Alhoewel die saak teen hom by die Bandelierkop polisie geregistreer is, is die saak oorgeplaas na Louis Trichardt.

Former Thohoyandou prosecutor Ratshilumela Makhado was sentenced to six years in jail for corruption. Photo supplied.

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Sussa groet Triegies ná vier dekades

Pétria de Vaal

‘n Nuwe bladsy slaan ek om, ‘n nuwe hoofstuk begin ek in die boek van my lewe: die hoofstuk van AFTREDE.” Só sê die welbekende Sussa Ehlers ná ‘n onderwysloopbaan van 43 jaar.

“Tyd is maar net ‘n oogwink – Januarie 1980, toe ek by Laerskool Louis Trichardt begin het, voel soos gister. ‘n Volle 15 695 dae klink wel soos ‘n ewigheid! Ek het vir baie kinders se kinders skoolgehou,” sê Sussa.

Sussa is op 26 Oktober 1957 gebore en het by die Hoërskool Piet Potgieter in Mokopane in 1975 gematrikuleer. Hierna het sy haar onderwysdiploma (1976-1979) by die NKP Onderwyskollege in Pretoria verwerf. Haar B-Ed Honneursgraad het sy in 2010 by die NWU (Potchefstroom) afgehandel, waar sy die beste uit meer as 5 000 studente was. Die NWU het haar hiervoor met ‘n skootrekenaar beloon.

Sussa vertel dat sy haar onderwysloopbaan met Graad 2’s afgeskop het – vir ongeveer 15 jaar. Hierna het sy ‘n vinnige draai by Graad 4-7 gemaak, asook by die “liewe ou babatjies” van die skool, naamlik Graad RR. Die meerderheid van haar skoolhoujare het sy egter saam met haar geliefkoosde graad, naamlik Graad 3, deurgebring. Sy het alle grondslagfase leerareas aangebied en was vir baie jare graadhoof by Graad 2 en Graad 3.

Sussa was op vele terreine van sport en kultuur betrokke. Sy was vir etlike jare Triegies se netbalorganiseerder, asook afrigter en skeidsregter vir die o.6- tot o.13-spanne. Vir Sussa was dit baie spesiaal toe sy afrigter van die o.13A-span (2003) was wat Limpopo Noordelike Provinsie wenners was. Hierdie span het aan die Transvaalse Kampioenskappe te Potchefstroom in dieselfde jaar deelgeneem. Sy was ‘n Liprussa Netbalkeurder (Limpopo) asook skeidsregter by USSASA (SA’s) vir o.12- en o.13-spanne.

Vir oud-leerling Magdel Otto was netbal nie slegs netbal nie, dit was LEWE. “Met elke oefening is ons geskaaf en gebou om ons elkeen te maak wat ons vandag is. Juffrou is ‘n juweel – ek kan nie genoeg dankie sê vir die enorme rol wat juffrou in my lewe gespeel het nie,” sê Magdel.

Baie oud-leerlinge assosieer vir Sussa met trompoppies, wat sy met groot sukses afgerig het. Sussa was selfs ‘n keurder by optredes op nasionale vlak. Destydse trompoppieleidster Juanette Barnard onthou hoe aansteeklik juf. Ehlers se toewyding was. “Wat ‘n eer was dit nie - om saam met haar deel te kon hê aan ons eerste SA Kampioenskappe (te Port Elizabeth in 1996 en in 1997 in Pretoria). Juffrou het alles met ywer en met entoesiasme aangepak. Daar was geen grys areas nie. Net ‘n reg en verkeerd. Haar woorde: ‘Nog net een keer’ sal my altyd bybly. Ek stof gereeld my trompoppiestok af en leer my kinders,” sê Juanette.

Op kultuurvlak was Sussa veral nou betrokke by redenaars en het dit as organiseerder tot ongekende hoogtes geneem. Sy was die organiseerder van Limpopo Provinsie se ATKV-kompetisies vir hoër- en laerskole en was bekend vir haar afrigting en rol as beoordelaar.

Sussa se harde werk is dikwels beloon. Sy het onder meer die M.J. Thom Onderwystoekenning (FAK) in 2011 ontvang – vir uitstaande prestasies behaal in onderwys. Sy het ook vele merietes in die onderwys behaal en is tans ‘n “Master Teacher”. Kollega Annelle Pieterse besing Sussa se uniekheid. “Wat haar só besonders maak is dat sy soveel fasette het. Presisie is haar kenmerk. Sy het die mooiste, deeglikste lêers met al haar beplanning. Niemand kan so mooi soos sy skryf nie – daarom moes sy altyd die sertifikate met die hand skryf.”

Annelle noem dat kollegas in konsert tyd altyd gesê het: “Julle graad het darem vir juffrou Ehlers”. Haar konserte en revues het altyd uitgestaan. Haar kreatiewe faset was duidelik sigbaar – hetsy met trompoppie-formasies, tuine, versierings vir funksies of wat ook al. “Sussa het altyd nóg ‘n nuwe idee en raak net nooit moeg nie. Sy sal nooit nee sê, wegskram of nie lus wees wanneer sy gevra word om daardie ekstra dingetjie vir haar skool te doen nie. ‘n Ongelooflike voorbeeld vir ons almal van iemand wat nooit kla oor haar werk nie maar passievol is en uitdagings as geleenthede sien,” sê Annelle.

Aronaé van Deventer was die eerste student wat deur Sussa opgelei is. Aronaé sê: “Juffrou Ehlers is vir my ‘n voorbeeld van ‘n onderwy-

seres wat lewe vir haar beroep. ‘n Leerder stap nie volgende jaar in ‘n nuwe klas in as sy nie die beste potensiaal uit hom of haar kry nie. Sy kom kwaai voor, maar het ‘n sagte hart en doen alles wat sy aanpak voluit. Dankie, juffrou Ehlers, dankie vir wat juffrou vir my beteken het in my onderwysloopbaan.”

‘n Oud-leerling vertel dat sy nou besef hoe ‘n kind smag na roetine en dissipline – noudat sy haar eie kinders het. Sy noem dat dit twee van die belangrikste dinge is wat sy by juf. Ehlers geleer het.

Op ‘n vraag op wat Sussa die meeste gaan mis, antwoord sy onomwonde:

“ ‘n Glimlag op ‘n kind se gesiggie, met ‘n stywe kinderdrukkie van waardering, laat ’n mens geliefd en soos ‘n ware kampioen voel! Wanneer ek kon sien dat ‘n kind op die sportveld of in die klaskamer tot sy/haar volle potensiaal en selfs

beter ontwikkel en presteer het deur aanhoudende dryfkrag en motivering – dit is iets wat ek gaan mis!”

Sussa se leuse is om nie net na middelmatigheid te streef nie, maar na UITMUNTENDHEID. “Dit is dán wanneer ek weet ek het in my doel geslaag as afrigter en opvoeder,” sê sy.

Sussa en haar man, Kobus, beplan om te verhuis na die Negester Aftreeoord net voor Warmbad. “Daar gaan ek vir eers ‘n ‘stoepsitter’ word wat die bokkies (van die aangrensende natuurreservaat) en voëltjies gaan geniet wat op ons grasperk gaan wei, terwyl ek ‘n ‘RUS-jaar’ neem,” sê Sussa.

Deur

Juffrou Sussa Ehlers, wat ná 43 jaar die onderwys vaarwel roep. Foto verskaf.

Laerskool Louis Trichardt het ‘n geelhoutboom ter ere van juffrou Sussa Ehlers geplant met haar aftrede uit die onderwys. Die boom is by haar klas geplant. Voor, van links na regs, staan Rudi Joubert (hoofseun 2023), me. Irene Adendorff (hoof), me. Sussa Ehlers, Mienke Burger (hoofmeisie 2022) en Nika Alberts (hoofmeisie 2023). Agter staan mnr. Dirk van den Berg en Rogan van den Berg (hoofseun 2022). Foto verskaf.

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KERKE/CHURCHES

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Tshirululunistraat

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Kinder- en Tienerbedieninge. Sundays: English service at 10:30 including Toddler-, Children- and Teen Ministries, phone Pastor Chris Mattheus Tel (082 696 2619).

• AGS Charisma (LTT)

Munnikstraat 70, Sondae om 09:00, past. J. Wilkins (071 161 9254), J. Victor (073 799 8479), M Struwig (083 400 2511).

• AGS El-Shaddai (Musina)

Watsonlaan 17, Sondag 10:00 en 18:00, Past. Boetie Visser, Tel: 015 534 3361 084 456 6959

• AGS Levubu

Sien Levubu Christelike Gemeente (Hatfield)

• All Nations for Jesus Christian Centre (LTT)

93 Burger Street (Maranatha Centre), Sunday 09:30 & Wednesday 18:00, Past Benjamin Sithole, Tel 083 532 9492/ 015 516 2275

• Anglican Church / St Marks (LTT)

128 Munnik Street, Sunday 10:30, Rev Robbie Novella, Tel: 015 516 5165

• Baptist Church (Musina)

Corner of Whyte & Limpopo Street, Sunday 09:30, Rev Paul Richardson, Tel: 015 534 0479 or 082 446 1728

• Baptist Church / Baptiste Kerk (LTT)

1st Sunday of the month combined morning service (English/Afrikaans) 10:00. Rest of the month English morning service 08:30. Afrikaans morning service 10:00. Evening services combined 18:00. Prayer meeting/Bible study Wednesday 18:00. Ds. Johan Marais 015 516 2714.

• Catholic Church (LTT)

Corner Burger & Jeppe Street, Mass times: 1st Sunday 10:00 - 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sunday 17:00, Father Frank Gallagher, Tel: 015 516 0566 / 082 664 1393 (Catholic Church Musina, Tel: 015 534 2085)

• Chapel of Grace Church Sunday 09:00 - 11:00 at Forestry 165 in Louis Trichardt (temporary)/ Siloam/Nzhelele Past Oke Tel 083 461 6455.

• Corpus Christi Christian Church

Corner Tarentaal and Tuva Street (Makhado Park, Extension 8), Sunday service 09:30, School of Ministry at 13:30 on Sundays. Pastor Peter Thovhakale Tel 082 691 9943.

• St Peters Church (LTT)

33 Breda Street, Sunday 09:00, Tel: 083 377 0984 (Iain Purdon), 084 404 0050 (Soekie Bierman)

• Emmanuel Christelike Kerk (LTT)

Koraalboomstraat 3, Sondae 09:00 & 18:00, Jeug Vrydae 19:00, Past. Andries van Heerden, Tel: 015 516 4282 / 083 357 1658

• Evangelies-Gereformeerde Kerk (LTT)

LTT Lodge-saal (Hlangananistraat), Sondagoggend erediens 08:00, kontak ds. Herbie Lyon Tel: 082 906 0288

• Gereformeerde Kerk (LTT)

H/v Anderson & Songozwistraat, Sondag 09:00 en 10:45, leraar ds. Innes Nagel, Tel. 082 701 5602

• Gereformeerde Kerk (Musina) Wilsonlaan 1, Sondag 09:30, Ds. Hannes Lee, Tel 081 043 0910 of 015 534 2253.

• Hervormde Gemeente Louis Trichardt (Musina & Alldays)

H/v Stubbs & Forestryweg, Louis Trichardt, Sondag 08:30, Alldays (09:30 elke tweede Sondag). Kontak dr. B.J. van Wyk by tel. 082 629 9851 vir meer inligting.

• Hervormde Gemeente Zoutpansberg (LTT)

H/v Stubb & Forestry, Elke tweede Sondag om 08:30, Dr. B.J. van Wyk, Tel: 082 828 5711

• Hervormde Kerk Zoutpansberg: Geloofsbond van Hervormde Gemeentes (LTT)

H/v Stubb & Forestry, Sondag 10:15, Ds. Ronel Eckard, Tel 072 122 7956

• Hervormde Kerk (Geloofsbond Musina) H/v Van Zyl & Celliersstraat, Sondag om 09:00, ds. Eddie Eckard, Tel: 015 534 2519 of 082 958 9095, Kerkkantoor 015 534 2756.

• Lede in Christus Kerk (LTT) Joubertstraat 29, Sondag oggenddiens 09:30, evangeliediens om 18:00. Past. T. Gilfillan, Tel 082 465 8774

• Lewende Woord Louis Trichardt Sondag erediens 10:00 te 49 Rissikstraat. P\ast. Andrew Bezuidenhout (071 078 1631).

• Levubu Christelike Gemeente (Hatfield) Sondag 09:00 & 18:00, Past. Craig Whitcomb, Tel 015 583 0134 of 084 400 8937

• Lewende Hoop Bedieninge (Louis Trichardt) Plaasgemeente, Sondagdiens 09:30, skakel Susan (076 812 4013) vir meer inligting.

• Methodist Church (LTT) 79 Munnik Street, Sunday 09:00 (English service) 10:00 (Multilingual service), Past. Alan Molyneux, Tel. 082 428 7980.

• NG Kerk (Levubu) Perseel 316, Sondag 08:30, Ds. Petrus Kriel Tel: 015 583 002 / 082 898 2081

• NG Kerk (LTT)

• NG Kerk Soutpansberg (LTT)

H/v Stubbs & Andersonstraat, Sondag 09:00, ds. Etienne van Staden (083 274 3227), Kerkkantoor 079 116 1700.

• NG Kerk (Musina)

Ds. Henricostraat, Sondag 09:00, ds. André van Rooyen, Tel: 082 468 7640 E-pos: ngkmsa@lantic.net of alvanrooyen@gmail.com

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What is happening?

DEURLOPEND

Ondersteuningsgroep

Elke Maandag om 17:30 vind ‘n byeenkoms van die Christelike Ondersteuningsgroep vir alkoholen dwelmafhanklikes plaas.

Die vergadering is in die Jesus Kroon lokaal by die NG Kerk Louis Trichardt-gemeente.

Alhoewel die byeenkoms by die NG-kerk aangebied word, is persone van enige denominasie welkom. Vir meer inligting skakel Johan by 064 682 9725, Friede by 082 657 8602 of ds. Jan by 079 881 9673

Soutpansberg Kofukan Karateklub

Die Soutpansberg Kofukan Karateklub oefen elke Woensdag vanaf 18:00 tot 20:00 by die Emmanuel Christian School net buite Louis Trichardt. Die klub se Musina-tak oefen Maandae ook vanaf 18:00 tot 20:00. Vir meer inligting, skakel Tommy by tel. 083 346 6600.

LTT Shukokai Karateklub

Die Louis Trichardt Shukokai Karateklub oefen elke Maandag en Donderdag vanaf 17:30 tot 19:15 by die stoeisaal in Louis Trichardt.

Vir meer inligting, skakel sensei De Wet van Wyk by tel. 083 654 8869.

Kerk se fasiliteite nou beskikbaar

Die NG Kerk Moedergemeente (Stad op die Berg) in Louis Trichardt stel tans van hulle fasiliteite beskikbaar vir uitverhuring.

Die Ferdie Beyersaal kan 600 persone akkommodeer, en 100 persone in die Kiepersol-lokaal en 50 persone in die Jesuskroon-lokaal.

Vir meer inligting en pryse, skakel die kerkkantoor tussen 08:00 en 13:00 by tel. 015 516 3902.

Gister-se-Jeug byeen

Die Gister-se-Jeugklub op Louis Trichardt kom elke Dinsdag vanaf 09:00 in die saal van die Hervormde Kerk in Stubbsstraat byeen.

Die klub se leuse is “Vrolikheid by die grysheid” en hul doel is om eensame, ouer mense se venster op die wêreld net ‘n bietjie wyer oop te maak. “Het die vriendekring erg gekrimp? Kom maak dit groter by ons. Te oud – beslis nie as u nog kan beweeg nie. Te jonk – ons benodig helpers,” het die klub gesê. Vir meer inligting, skakel Willie by tel. 083 453 6597 of WhatsApp Anna by 084 516 0647. Ledegeld is baie billik.

Danie Woordbediening

Danie Potgieter van Louis Trichardt het manne van die Woord uitgenooi om saam met hom meer te leer oor die Bybel. Vir meer inligting, WhatsApp hom by tel. 066 257 7884.

OPKOMEND

Vrydag 16 Desember

Schoemansdal hou Geloftefees

Die tema van vanjaar se Schoemansdal Geloftedagviering op 16 Desember is ‘Met Hoopvolle Verwagting’ en almal is welkom om dit by te woon.

Die dag se verrigtinge begin om 10:00, met opening by die Schoemansdal Feesterrein sowat 16 kilometer buite Louis Trichardt op die Vivo-pad, gevolg deur die aankoms van die perdekommando, hernuwing van die Gelofte, vlaghysing en Geloftediens. Die Geloftediens sal waargeneem word deur ds. Ronnie van Niekerk van die Veritas Gemeente op Louis Trichardt. Ná die kranslegging en teepouse sal me. Martie Rossouw (Hoërskool Louis Trichardt) die feesrede lewer. Verrigtinge sal afgesluit word met ‘n gratis middagete en koue drinkgoed. Let wel dat eie eetgerei en stoele saamgebring moet word. Vir navrae, skakel Abrie Wepener by tel. 082 686 2552.

Saturday 17 December

Ladies Circle 4 Corn Dog Sale

To help further their aims and objectives, Ladies Circle 4 (LC4) in Louis Trichardt will be holding a corn dog (stokworsie) sale on 17 December.

“Place your orders now,” invite the girls from LC4. To order corn dogs at R10 each, phone Riana at 084 400 9941 or Cherise at 084 401 0263.

For orders of 10 and more, local deliveries will be made between 12:00 and 14:00.

Dinsdag 10 Januarie

Rugbyoefening begin vir 2023 seisoen

Skaar is 2022 iets van die verlede of die Louis Trichardt Rugbyklub het reeds planne om weer te begin oefen vir die nuwe siesoen.

Die nuwe rugbyseisoen begin op 5 Januarie, met die klub se eerste amptelike oefening wat om 17:30 op 10 Januarie sal plaasvind.

Vir meer inligting kan Armand Stander geskakel word by 078 199 3830.

koek ensovoorts. Dus was ‘n verskeidenheid stalletjies beskikbaar, insluitend pannekoek, pap-en-kaiings, vetkoek, sosaties, hoender-en-slaptjips en ook groente. Vir die kinders was daar ‘n tombolatafel, kinderspeelgoed, ‘n swembad, boeresport en dies meer. Daar is ook in raak-rugby rondomtalie gespeel, waaraan spanne van verskeie dorpe deelgeneem het, insluitend Louis Trichardt, Musina, Polokwane en Alldays. Die finaal was gewees tussen Louis Trichardt se Blue Balls en PHS se Vinnige Fanies, maar die wedstryd het uitgereën en die twee spanne het besluit om die kontantprys te deel. By die netbal was slegs twee senior spanne en twee junior spanne betrokke. Om die dag nog interessanter te maak, het die gemeente ook lootjies verkoop waar pryse te wen was, met die grootste prys wat ‘n naweek vir vier mense by die Hillstone Lodge vir twee nagte behels. Foto’s verskaf.

Development should not threaten people’s heritage

Environment

On Saturday, 10 December, on World Human Rights Day, Earthlife Africa Johannesburg, together with partner organisations, launched the Mulambwane Eco-Mapping Report. The report raises awareness about the importance of conserving and protecting our natural resources and nature, including heritage and sacred sites in response to the proposed Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone (MMSEZ). The event also highlighted the threats to those who defend the environment, especially remembering those who have lost their lives, in the fight for environmental justice.

“We love our own environment and everything in it, which includes water, wild animals, land for settlement and the places where our forefathers used to live. We do not want money. The MMSEZ is supported by those who want money, even though it will destroy our environment. We have been promised employment, but in the end, community members will fight against each other,” says Khathutshelo Raluare, a member of the Mulambwane community and an eco-mapping participant.

The MMSEZ – which many view as a major ecocide threat – has been anticipated

since the early 2000s, when the local council announced plans to develop Musina from a village into a city. However, opposition to these plans has arisen because this area holds huge cultural significance for the local Venda people, and the affected section of the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve is home to diverse fauna and flora that can only be found in the Baobab Belt.

In the report, representative of the Mulambwane Community Tshiwela Tshihuwa explains the land-claim process of the Mulambwane Community, along with the impact the proposed development has already had. She says: “In 1998, we started the process of a land claim. In 2008 we got the land back and farms that were on our land were given back to us since the land claim became successful that the land belongs to us. Now a SEZ (Special Economic Zone) is planned to happen on our land. The land has been given to MMSEZ and other people, without transparency and consultation with us, even though traditional leaders and their structures do not

have the authority to make decisions on land-use on behalf of the entire affected community.”

According to Tshihuwa, who is also a member of the Mulambwane Women’s Organisation, “Eco-mapping is very important because it helps educate people about all the diverse flora and fauna – like the trees we use for our traditional medicine in Mulambwane – and the role it plays in our cultural traditions. If the MMSEZ comes here, it will pollute our dams and put our people at risk. We will be the ones who suffer.”

The report was written by the Mulambwane community, with the assistance of Dzomo La Mupo and material support from Earthlife Africa. Key to the opposition of the MMSEZ is the poor public-participation process, in addition to the threats to the environment, the land and water sources, including the threat to the culture and heritage of the Mulambwane Community.

She says: “We have many natural resources that should be protected in Mulambwane, like our rivers and mopane trees. MMSEZ coming here will destroy all of them. Our heritage, including the grave sites of our ancestors, our land and dams must be protected. We do not want MMSEZ because it will ruin things for us.” (Issued by Maria Welcome on behalf of Earthlife Africa Johannesburg)

Members of the Mulambwane community during the launch of the Mulambwane Eco-Mapping Report on Saturday, 10 December. The report raises awareness about the importance of conserving and protecting natural resources and nature, including heritage and sacred sites, in response to the proposed Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone (MMSEZ). Photo: Earthlife Africa Johannesburg.

“If the MMSEZ comes here, it will pollute our dams and put our people at risk. We will be the ones who suffer.”

Hoërskool Louis Trichardt se Anke Cronjé het vanaf 4 tot 8 Desember aan die Suid-Afrikaanse Junior Skaakkampioenskappe by die Wild Coast Sun in Port Edward deelgeneem. Anke het sewe rondtes gespeel en rondtes een, drie en ses gewen. Sy was deel van Capricorn se o.17-span en hulle het algeheel sewende geëindig in die toernooi. Cronjé het ook haar vorige skaakafrigter, mnr. Riaan Britz, by die toernooi raakgeloop toe sy teen Britz se dogter, Danielle, gespeel het in rondte ses. Riaan het die mini skaak franchise-onderneming begin in Louis Trichardt toe Anke in Graad 1 was. Sy dogter en Anke was sy eerste studente. Van links na regs is Anke, Riaan en Danielle. Foto verskaf.

Nandoni will soon provide water to 24 more villages

By Silas Nduvheni

The Minister of Water and Sanitation, Senzo Mchunu, said that the Nandoni Dam’s pump station would be tested within the next three weeks to determine whether the water pipelines leading to the Nsami Dam in Giyani had been connected correctly to enable the supply of water to the 24 affected villages in the area.

Mchunu was briefing President Cyril Ramaphosa and the media on the progress on the Giyani Bulk Water Supply project on Sunday, 11 December. The president conducted a site visit to the Nandoni Dam to assesses progress made on the project, which is aimed at alleviating water scarcity and ensuring a consistent and reliable water supply in the area.

Ramaphosa was accompanied by Mchunu, Limpopo Premier Chupu Mathabatha and Executive Mayor of the Vhembe District Municipality Dowelani Nenguda. “We cannot, however, provide you with an exact date when these affected areas will be supplied with running water from their taps because there might be unforeseen circumstances that arise, such as strikes by workers, which could delay the water project,” said Mchunu.

The Giyani Bulk Water project was initiated in 2014 to address the severe water challenges in the Greater Giyani Local Municipality by transferring water from the Nandoni Dam to Nsami Dam and the Middle Letaba water system.

Ramaphosa first engaged with traditional leaders and communities living around the Nandoni Dam area to hear from them why they have been without clean running water for so long, while the dam was at full capacity. Afterwards, he proceeded to the community engagement

held at the Giyani Stadium.

Ramaphosa said that the lack of skills by some of the service providers, corruption and wasteful state funds were behind the delays in providing clean water to the affected areas.

“Over R1 billion of the R4 billion set aside for the Giyani Bulk Water Supply project was misused and disappeared, but we are pleased that the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) is currently busy with its investigations into the matter. Those found guilty of misusing funds will be held accountable and the consequences shall be imposed. We can promise the affected communities around the Nandoni Dam and Greater Giyani Municipality that, come end of March 2023, they will have clean running water from their taps,” Ramaphosa said.

Mathabatha said he was pleased with the outcome of the engagement between President Ramaphosa and the affected communities regarding the Giyani Bulk Water project. He was also satisfied that the challenges around the project were receiving attention directly from the President’s office and that greater progress has been made.

President Cyril Ramaphosa engaged with Thovhele Gole Mphaphuli, workers on the water project and other dignitaries at the Nandoni Dam near Thohohoyandou. Photo: Silas Ndivheni.

President Cyril Ramaphosa (in the middle) tries to find out how and when the Giyani Bulk Water Supply project will be completed after he listened to the progress report of Minister of Water and Sanitation Senzo Mchunu (second from right) on the project. With them is his deputy minister, David Mahlobo. Photo: Silas Ndivheni.

“Over R1 billion of the R4 billion set aside for the Giyani Bulk Water Supply project was misused and disappeared,”President Ramaphosa

Lots

Mile

Animal

Welfare The Louis Trichardt SPCA hosted their last Farmer’s Market and Mutt Mile for 2022 on Saturday, 10 December, with athletes and visitors making the best of this popular and fun-filled day.

Christmassy! We also had another fantastic Mutt Mile and 5km Fun Run. Well done to all our prize winners, and thank you to each person who entered too!” said Alicia Thomas of the local SPCA.

The society again thanked the community for their incredible support throughout the year.

like to thank each and every person who supported our Farmer’s Market this year and a huge thank you to ever person who booked a stall too. As always, there were some stunning goods, gorgeous plants and delicious food for sale, and I’m sure no one was disappointed with their purchases,” said Alicia.

“Thanks to all the stall holders for

great efforts to make

stalls look festive and

“We hope you enjoyed every Farmer’s Market and will be back for more in 2023. We would

A thank you also went to the Legacy Animal Clinic and SPCA for sponsoring the goodie bags for the Mutt Mile and 5km Fun Run. The prizes for the top three stalls were sponsored by Surat, Lalapanzi Hotel and Mountain Inn Hotel respectively. “We truly appreciate the amazing prizes you so generously sponsored,” said Alicia.

The third-best stall was that of Martie Hendricks (R300 Surat voucher). Second-best stall was that of Kevin and Roeline Alberts (R500 Lalapanzi voucher), while the first-place winners were Andrea Nel and family (R520 Mountain Inn Voucher). “Congratulations! Thank you, Rozanna Scorgie-Spence for once again manning our second-hand book table. We truly appreciate all you do for our SPCA! Rozanna and Janet Parkin also co-ordinate the SPCA Farmer’s Market and they do such an amazing job. Thank you to both of you for all you do for our SPCA!” said Alicia.

“Then, a massive thanks to our Legacy and SPCA team. What a stellar day once again! Thank you for your hard work and dedication

throughout the year. Congrats to Louw Pretorius for winning the amazing Christmas Hamper! What an amazing hamper to win, jam-packed with goodies from every stall and valued over R3 000!!! WOW! We truly appreciate our community’s continued support. May you have a safe and blessed December season and we look forward to welcoming you to our markets again in 2023,” said Alicia.

If you would like to book a stall or want more information on our Farmer’s Markets, you can contact Alicia on 084 900 5332.

A couple of the participants in the Louis Trichardt SPCA’s last Mutt Mile on Saturday, 10 December. Photo supplied.

Louw Pretorius won the Christmas Hamper valued over R3 000. Standing with him is Rozanna Scorgie-Spence (right), who co-ordinates the farmer’s market stalls.

Thousands of people will once again flock to the Kruger National Park this December. Park authorities have, however, stressed the importance of booking in advance, even for day visitors, to avoid disappointment. Photo supplied.

Even day visitors to KNP can pre-book to avoid delays

Kruger News

To ensure a safe and pleasant stay in the Kruger National Park, South African National Parks (SANParks) is urging visitors to book in advance and to observe the rules of the park over the coming festive season, starting from Thursday, 15 December until Tuesday, 10 January 2023.

Day visitors are reminded that daily quotas will once again apply at the entrance gates and three time slots for pre-bookings are available, which are time slot 1 (05:30 to 07:30), time slot 2 (07:30 to 09:30) and time slot 3 (from 09:30 onwards).

“For busy periods such as the festive season, we aim to better manage the volumes that we expect, as well as our visitors’ expectations. The three different time slots are aimed at improving the spread of vehicles and to prevent unnecessary waiting periods at gates. The day visitor quota (DVQ) for the park is a management tool to prevent overcrowding of the roads and facilities; it is applied throughout the year although we mostly reach carrying capacity during long weekends and school holidays, resulting in our having to turn visitors away,” said the KNP’s spokesperson, Mr Ike Phaahla.

Pre-booked day visitors will get preference over non-booked day visitors at the gate but must ensure that they arrive within their booked time slots. Arriving outside the booked time slot will be regarded as non-booked and therefore will not receive preference and could be turned away. These bookings can be changed as well through SANParks’ reservations offices if need be.

“The park has made plans for increased visibility of both traffic officials and visitor-management personnel to watch speeding, after-hours travelling and general behaviour on the roads. Day visitors are also reminded not to bring liquor with them as the alcohol ban on public areas in the park is a permanent rule which is always enforced. Management is urging visitors to cooperate with officials who will be on duty and to report unbecoming behaviour to the gate officials or call the emergency call centre number on the entry permits,” advised Phaahla.

Visitors are also urged to help keep the park clean by disposing of

their litter at designated areas, not alighting from vehicles in undesignated areas, not speed, and adhere to all rules and regulations as stipulated on the gate permit. Visitors are urged to be courteous and cooperative at sightings to avoid inconveniencing other road users. Please plan your trip carefully, allowing sufficient time to enjoy the bush and to get to your destination. Entrance gate operating hours will be from 05:30 to 18:30 during December and January.

Visitors should also take note of the following important information:

* Visitors will be able to book up to 80% of the DVQ per gate via SANParks’ reservations offices on 012 428 9111 and online at www. sanparks.org.

* Day visitor pre-bookings are subject to a non-refundable booking fee of R50 per adult and R25 per child, which must be paid in advance and is meant to ensure their space because they would have been counted in the number that made the daily quota.

* Day visitors who have prebooked will still be required to pay conservation fees or use a valid Wild Card to enter the Park. The conservation fee for SA residents, as well as Zimbabwean and Mozambiquan nationals (passport required to prove this), is R115 per adult and R57 per child (between ages 2 – 11). For nationals of Eswatini and other SADC countries, the conservation fees are R230 per adult and R115 per child. For all other guests, the standard conservation fees of R460 for adults and R230 for children apply.

* Guests planning to use Wild Cards are requested to ensure membership is valid before arrival and this can best be done online at www.sanparks.org/wild.

* The number and profile of persons (adults and children) on the reservation and actual persons arriving should correspond.

* All guests (drivers and passengers) will be required to identify themselves upon admission (by producing a South African driver’s license, identity document or passport); please ensure you are in possession of one of these documents and have them ready.

* Gate quotas will be applied strictly and guests without pre-bookings could be denied entry if quotas are full.

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NOTICE IN TERMS OF REGULATION 68 OF THE DEEDS REGISTRIES ACT, 1937

No�ce is hereby given in terms of regula�on 68 of the Deeds Registries Act,

1937, of the inten�on to apply for the issue of a cer�fied copy of Deed of Transfer T81148/2011 passed by TOTAL SOUTH AFRICA PROPRIETARY LIMITED Registra�on number: 1954/003325/07 in favour of ENGEN PETROLEUM LIMITED Registra�on number: 1989/003754/06 in respect of certain ONEHALF (1/2) SHARE IN ERF 2519 LOUIS TRICHARDT EXTENSION 5 TOWNSHIP REGISTRATION DIVISION L.S. LIMPOPO PROVINCE which has been lost or destroyed.

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NOTICE IN TERMS OF REGULATION 68 OF THE DEEDS REGISTRIES ACT, 1937

No�ce is hereby given in terms of regula�on 68 of the Deeds Registries Act, 1937, of the inten�on to apply for the issue of a

cer�fied copy of Deed of Transfer T76375/1994 passed by ENGEN MARKETING LIMITED Registra�on number: 04/00909/06 in favour of ENGEN PETROLEUM LIMITED Registra�on number: 1989/003754/06 in respect of certain ONEHALF (1/2) SHARE IN ERF 2519 LOUIS TRICHARDT

EXTENSION 5 TOWNSHIP REGISTRATION DIVISION L.S. LIMPOPO PROVINCE which has been lost or destroyed.

All interested persons having objec�on to the issue of such copy are hereby required to lodge the same in wri�ng with the Registrar of Deeds at Polokwane within two weeks from the date of the publica�on of this no�ce.

Name and address of authorized agent: CHARLES PIETERSE ATTORNEYS, 24 Devenish Street, Louis Trichardt. Email: aktes@lawproc. com, Tel: 015 516 0900

PIETERSE ATTORNEYS.

NOTICE IN TERMS OF REGULATION 68 OF THE DEEDS REGISTRIES ACT, 1937 No�ce is hereby given in terms of regula�on 68 of

the Deeds Registries Act, 1937, of the inten�on to apply for the issue of a cer�fied copy of Deed of Transfer T62504/2012 passed by DIXITA RAMJEE

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EXTENSION 4 TOWNSHIP REGISTRATION DIVISION L.S. LIMPOPO PROVINCE which has been lost or destroyed.

All interested persons having objec�on to the issue of such copy are hereby required to lodge the same in wri�ng with the Registrar of Deeds at Polokwane within two weeks from the date of the publica�on of this no�ce.

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