Bogus doctor arrested for issuing medical certificates to people applying for or renewing their driver’s licenses

A 50-yeard old man pretending to be a licensed medical practitioner was arrested by the Tshwane Metro Police (TMPD) at the Waltoo licensing department on Tuesday. It appears that the man was issuing medical certificates to individuals who applied for new or to renew their driver’s licenses. When questioned by the police, the man claimed to be a qualified doctor. TMPD officers got in touch with the health professional council of South Africa and verified that the so called medical practitioner was operating illegally, as his medical license was suspended. The bogus doctor was arrested and will appear in court soon. Read the original article on Rekord East.
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Studente van die Tshwane Universiteit van Tegnologie bring Pretoria tot stilstand tydens protestoptogte

Studente van die Tshwane Universiteit van Tegnologie (TUT) het weereens die strate ingevaar en verkeer in die sentrale gedeeltes van Pretoria ontwrig. Klasse is ontwrig en studente eis die kop van die polisieman wat Andries Monareng glo doodgeskiet het. Die studente het gedreig dat hul die hele Pretoria tot stilstand sal bring. Winkels is gesluit en berigte van stropery by wegneem eetplekke is aangemeld. Die polisie ontken intussen steeds dat hulle verantwoordelik was vir die dood van Monareng. Deur: Die Vryburger
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Activist group threatens to shut down Pretoria east after a previous memorandum was not taken seriously

The group claims that a previous memorandum handed to the Tshwane metro in March was not taken seriously. A Mamelodi activist group, which recently shut down Mamelodi municipal office services for several weeks, said they will do so again – if their demands are not met, reports Pretoria East Rekord. Oupa Mashiane, chairperson of the Mamelodi Concerned Residents for Service Delivery, made the remarks while handing over a memorandum to the metro at the local municipal offices on Monday morning. It was the second such memorandum, he said, and “the last”. Mashiane gave the metro seven working days to respond to demands. “This is a serious matter – the city of Tshwane must take our demands very seriously,” said Mashiane. Utility services MMC Darryl Moss received the memorandum on behalf of the Tshwane mayor. He promised to meet with the mayor the same afternoon to “personally hand over the memorandum to him” Mashiane claimed the metro did not take the group’s…
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Gewilde Hartland program van lug af gehaal by Pretoria FM

Luisteraars van Pretoria FM, voorheen bekend as Radio Pretoria, het penregop gesit toe hulle oor die lug verneem dat een van die gewildste programme summier van die lug verwyder is. Skynbaar is ander ewe gewilde programme se tydsduur gehalveer, want “daar moet minder gepraat word” op die radio. Ander programme soos Fokus, waar veral Solidariteit ‘n groot rol speel en waar mense soos mnre. Flip Buys, Jaco Kleynhans en ander uit die Solidariteit dampkring, onbeperkte spreektyd het, word skynbaar nie geraak nie, en volgens die direksie voorsitter, Willie Spies, in ‘n antwoord op mnr. Bennie van Zyl se Facebook inskrywing, gaan Fokus nou Hartland se plek inneem. Die “minder praat” is dus skynbaar net van toepassing op sekere sprekers. Die gewilde program Hartland is skielik deur die nuwe uitvoerende bestuurder, mnr. Hennie Koortz, nek-om gedraai, en Marianne Breytenbach, uiters bekwame en geliefde aanbieder van die indiepte nuusagtergrond program, het die aankondiging …
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Grafmonument van president Paul Kruger geskend

Die grafmonument van president Paul Kruger op die Heldeakker in Pretoria is beskadig. Die Vryburger is in kennis gestel dat die kopstuk afgebreek is deur onbekendes. Pretoria munisipaliteit het op die beskadigde beeld afgekom en die kopstuk in hulle stoor geberg. Dit is nog nie seker wat nou daarmee gaan gebeur nie, maar die verwagting is dat volksorganisasies sal inspring en seker maak dat die graf en standbeeld herstel sal word. Deur: Die Vryburger
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Strate van Pretoria vandag gesluit weens beplande optog

’n Beroep is gedoen op motoriste deur die Tswane-metropolisie om kennis te neem van ’n beplande optog vandag wat verkeer in die Pretoria gebied erg kan ontwrig. Woordvoerder van die metropolisie, Snr.supt. Isaac Mahamba het tydens ’n verklaring gesê dat die protestors onder die vaandel van die regering se kommunikasiediens (GCIS) se #100MenMarch, gaan begin saamkom vanaf 08:00 by ʼn oop gedeelte in Schubartpark, naby Kerkplein,. Die betogers beoog om 10:00 vanaf die hoek van Kgosi Mampuru- en Madibastraat, in Madibastraat reguit te beweeg tot by die Uniegebou. Al die kruisings in Madibastraat tot by die Uniegebou sal tydelik deur die optog geraak word. Volgens Mahambe behoort die betogers omstreeks 14:00 by die Uniegebou uiteen te gaan. “Metropolisiebeamptes sal ontplooi word om die betoging en strate wat geraak word te monitor. Motoriste word aangeraai om van alternatiewe roetes gebruik te maak,” het Mahamba gesê. GCIS se #100MenMarch word gehou om teen geweld te…
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Pretoria man robbed while ‘police stood idly by’

The policemen did not help because the crime was not part of their division. A businessman has accused the police of standing idly by while he was being robbed in the north of Pretoria, Pretoria North Rekord reports. Louis Eloff said this happened during a protest. He sells and distributes paint across Pretoria. Eloff said he was on his way to make a delivery in Hammanskraal when he ran in to a group of protesters along Soutpan Road in Soshanguve. “About 100 people ran towards my van and stopped it. They took all the buckets of paint on the trailer and got away.” Eloff said the stock was worth more than R25 000. “Two policemen stood there and watched. When I approached them to ask for help, they said it was not their division.” He said he did not lay charges because this would be a waste of time. “Why would I do that when I know that there are thousands of murders, rapes and armed robberies on their books that will never be solved?” Soshanguve police …
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 Betogers versper paaie rondom Pretoria met klippe en buitebande

Betogers het Dinsdag talle besige paaie rondom Pretoria met klippe en buitebande versper. Sefako Makgatho- en Molefe Makinta-  rylaan in Mabopane, die M17 langs Soshanguve en die N4 in Atteridgeville is deur die gewelddadige betogings geraak. Daar word beweer dat die betoging in Atteridgeville met taxi-kwessies verband hou, terwyl die betogings in Mabopane en Ga-Rankuwa glo uit ʼn gebrek aan dienslewering spruit. Woordvoerder van die Tshwane-metropolisie, Isaac Mahamba,  het gesê metrobeamptes is besig om die geaffekteerde gebiede te monitor om te verseker dat inwoners nie verder ontwrig word nie. “Ons is bewus daarvan dat die meeste van die pendelaars in hierdie areas deur die betogings geraak is omdat sommige van die taxi’s en busmaatskappye hulle aan hierdie gebiede onttrek het, maar ons sal seker maak dat al die bedrywighede weer herstel word.” Metropolisiebeamptes moes vroeër rubberkoeëls afvuur om ʼn skare wat die M17 in Soshanguve versper het uitmekaar te jaag,…
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EFF Thugs Chases White Shoppers Away At Centurion Shopping Mall

On Sunday morning, 27 May 2018, a resident from Centurion sent a frantic warning to fellow residents in Centurion warning them about EFF thugs chasing white shoppers away from a shopping mall. Apparently white privilege is the reason why white people are not allowed to visit a shopping mall. Here are a few questions: Since when is it white privilege to buy food or other essentials? Since when can the EFF decide where whites may or may not go? Why do EFF thugs and their akin always hunt in packs like hyenas? Clearly these thugs are low life cowards that target defenseless women and run in packs? Why does it seem that the EFF is the de facto racist enforcers on behalf of the government? What else are whites barred from: White people are barred from job opportunities through oppressive legislation like BEE and BBBEE. White people are barred from universities through restrictive quota enrollment programs. Whites are barred from sport teams through enforced quota sys…
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Valke teiken verkeerde huis en skiet Pretoria man dood

Polisielede wat 'n bende transitorowers gejag het, het 'n Pretoriase huiseienaar doodgeskiet toe hulle glo op die verkeerde huis toegeslaan het, het TimesLive berig. Nóg mense, glo 'n polisieman wat wou help en drawwers, is na bewering gewond in die insident in Kilnerpark, volgens die berig in TimesLive. Alet van der Walt het vroeër berig die Valke het Donderdagaand saam met lede van die polisie se taakspan en misdaadintelligensie drie vermeende transitorowers in hegtenis geneem. Kapt. Ndivhuwo Mulamu, die Valke se woordvoerder, sê die drie is in hierdie stadium hul hoofverdagtes in verband met die onlangse vlaag van transitorooftogte. Die ondersoek is nog aan die gang, so hulle sal eers Vrydagoggend – wanneer hulle die verdagtes se identiteitsnommers bevestig het – kan sê of hulle aan enige ander misdade verbind word. Daar was die afgelope week vyf transitorooftogte in Gauteng, terwyl rowers ook Donderdagmiddag laat ’n geldwa buite Barberton in Mpumalanga beroof he…
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