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Pick n Pay branch in Rayton shares a storage building with a morgue

A Sowetan journalist who reported how a Pretoria building houses both a mortuary and a food storage facility for a local Pick n Pay store has described his shock upon discovering the premises. Isaac Mahlangu on Monday morning exposed how the retailer's branch in Rayton shares a building with a morgue. He goes on to describe how the food is separated from bodies only by a four-metre wall. The food stored there includes soft drinks and cooking oil. Mahlangu says that he received a tip-off from community members. “On Friday we decided to head out and when we got to Rayton we were really surprised to see this one structure behind Rayton Park Mall and the doors were opened. “You could see food that was stored in that storeroom and just behind it, a mortuary, all under one roof.” By: EWN/ 2018-04-09

Ingang van Hoërskool Hendrik Verwoerd gaan dalk binnekort ‘n nuwe naambord kry

Die bal is nou behoorlik aan die rol gesit om die Hoërskool Hendrik Verwoerd in die Pretoriase Moot eersdaags ŉ nuwe naam te gee. Volgens Olga Veldsman, voorsitter van die skool se beheerliggaam, is daar ŉ paar name op ŉ kortlys geplaas wat hierdie week aan die departement van onderwys gestuur is vir goedkeuring. Die skool het sedert 19 Februarie voorstelle vir ŉ nuwe naam ingevorder en die proses is op 19 Maart afgesluit. “Leerlinge, onderwysers, ouers, oudleerlinge en die gemeenskap kon voorstelle vir ŉ nuwe naam vir die skool maak,” het sy gesê. Veldsman wou egter nie in hierdie stadium oor enige van die voorstelle wat die kortlys gehaal het uitbrei nie en het enige verdere navrae oor die name na die onderwysdepartement verwys. Dit is ook nog nie seker wanneer die nuwe naam van die skool bekengemaak sal word nie. Sy het wel benadruk dat die skool en die beheerliggaam verbind is tot die waardes en doelwitte wat deur die onderwysdepartement uiteengesit word. “Di…

Boerenooiens staan dapper hul man deur aanvallers op ’n afstand te hou

Hannelie Jacobs (59), haar dogter Suretha (29) en haar 81-jarige ma, Grietjie van Vuuren, het dapper hul man gestaan en daarin geslaag om die aanvallers op ‘n afstand te hou tot hulp opgedaag het. Die drie vroue en vier kinders, waaronder ‘n ses-dae-oue baba, was alleen op die plaas in Krokodildrift-Wes toe drie aanvallers kort na 22:00 die vensters van die huis met klippe uitgegooi en die deure en veiligheidsdeure afgebreek het. “Ek was in die kamer saam met een van die kinders toe die venster agter my in skerwe spat. Ek het gesê hy moet na sy ma toe hardloop. Daar was drie mans en die volgende oomblik het vensters oral in die huis gebreek en hulle het groot klippe na ons gegooi,” het Hannelie aan Kormorant vertel. “Die rowers het die deur en veiligheidsdeur met ‘n pik oopgekap en in die huis ingekom. Hulle het die pik na Suretha en my ma gegooi. My dogter het gesê ek moet die kinders in die badkamer gaan toesluit. Ek het die kinders gegryp en gehardloop. Suretha het …

Onteiening sonder vergoeding word onder loep gebring by Sege

Die Studiegroep vir Eietydse geskiedenis, Sege, hou eerskomende Maandag, 26 Maart, sy maandelikse byeenkoms by ‘n bekende restaurant in Pretoria. Die spreker wat tydens die middagete sal optree, is mnr. Louis Meintjes, president van TLU SA. Hy sal die huidige grondkwessie en die eise oor onteiening sonder vergoeding onder die loep neem, sy standpunt daaroor uiteensit en sê wat die boere se houding is daaroor. Mense wat die byeenkoms wil bywoon, moet net hulle teenwoordigheid bevestig teen Vrydag 23 Maart voor 15:00, deur te skakel of ‘n boodskap te stuur na mev. Alda van de Graaf by tel. 082 681 2522. Foto: mnr. Louis Meintjes, president van TLU SA Deur: Die Vryburger

Gauteng MEC shuts down vehicle testing stations

Two private vehicle testing stations in Soweto and Pretoria have been shut down due to alleged fraud and corruption. Gauteng roads and transport MEC Ismail Vadi said on Monday: ''The Innovative Roadworthy Testing Station in Soweto, owned by Themba Nxumalo, and the Hercules Roadworthy Centre in Pretoria, jointly owned by Ahmed Suliman Ismail and Afzal Abramjee, were closed down on Friday after an investigation by the provincial roads and transport department. ''As part of the Gauteng government’s commitment to improving road safety and its zero tolerance approach towards fraud and corruption, registration certificates of these two testing stations were cancelled on 1 March.'' He said the closing of the testing stations came after an investigation by his department and law enforcement authorities. Three vehicle examiners and one cashier were arrested at the Innovative Roadworthy Testing Station in Soweto in October 2017. ''Similarly, a management representative and th…

Transforming Pretoria’s heritage landscape continue

On Friday, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa gave a report-back on work being done to transform South Africa’s heritage landscape. He noted it was necessary to continue to dismantle the apartheid social structure, including the removal of colonial and apartheid-era monuments and place names. The process initiated by Mthethwa in 2015 was a response to incidents surrounding statues in public spaces, after the demand for the removal of a statue of Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town. It sparked a national debate over the transformation of the heritage landscape to foster a new national identity. Among the resolutions taken was that there was a need to create civic awareness and national consciousness using shared symbols such as the flag and national anthem, while offensive names and other "symbols of hate" should be removed. However, this did not mean every old name and statue had to be removed. Where such symbols reflected separate histories, an i…

Social media posts hamper Pretoria cash heist probe

False information on social media following a daring heist on the N4 on Friday was hampering investigations, police spokesperson Captain Mavela Masondo said on Monday. He said some dishonest social media users were spreading misinformation that three suspects were later caught, shot and killed by the police. He warned that some people were misleading the public by posting photographs on social media. “Concerned citizens who sought justice need not be entertained by such reports, but work with the police to help catch the culprits.” Masondo was speaking on the incident which happened last week in which nine men armed with rifles shot at a G4 Security vehicle, forcing it to stop, on the N4 between Ga-Rankuwa and the R80. The suspects then overwhelmed three security officers out of the vehicle before using explosives to destroy the truck. Masondo said the security officers were not harmed in the process and the private companies involved in the cash-in-transit he…

Passasiers val treindrywers met klippe aan by Koedoespoort-treinstasie in Pretoria

Ontstoke passasiers by die Koedoespoort-treinstasie in Pretoria het twee treindrywers van die United National Transport Union (Untu) aangeval en die bestuurskajuite met klippe bestook. Dit volg nadat Metrorail-treine Woensdagoggend vertraag was. Luidens ’n verklaring deur Untu, het albei “ervare” treindrywers gevrees vir hul lewe en die lewe van die twee studente wat saam met hulle in die kajuit was. “Die passasiers het groot klippe voor die trein gepak en die trein met klippe gegooi. Die glas en klippe het op ons neergestort,” sê Kgaripane Mogashoa (42) in die verklaring. Sy het die treinbeheerbeampte gebel en is gemagtig om met die roete voort te gaan. Mogashoa was op pad van Pienaarspoort na Pretoria, maar moes noodgedwonge by ’n rooi sein stop. Volgens Mogashoa was die student wat saam met haar was, histeries. Die trein het veilig by die Pretoria-treinstasie aangekom. Mogashoa en die student ontvang berading. Sy was ook die treindrywer wat twee ja…

Oom Paul statue excluded from monument; EFF threat to topple it

OOM Paul’s statue at Church Square is the subject of debate yet again, after the city council resolved to support a motion by the EFF that it be excluded from the Lalela Freedom of Expression Monument. However, there is still no mention of whether the statue will be removed or not. The resolution was passed during a council sitting on Thursday. It was opposed by the ANC, which said this would be “against the party policies on statues and heritage”. Last year, mayor Solly Msimanga said Church Square would be transformed into a place of open-air entertainment, called the Lalela Freedom of Expression Monument. Work has already started at the historic site. Msimanga said the Lalela project was aimed at bringing about vibrancy in public activities in the inner city. At the time, he said the statue would remain in place as the inner city regeneration project changed the face of Church Square around it. EFF councillor MoAfrika Mabogwane proposed that Paul Kruger’s st…

Nehawu to intensify Unisa strike, may spread to Tuks

WORKERS at the University of Pretoria could soon join their Unisa counterparts in a strike for higher wages, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) said yesterday. As the strike at Unisa entered its fourth day yesterday, Nehawu threatened to intensify its strike and mobilise members at other universities. Nehawu national organiser for higher education Ntsako Nombelani said this was not Unisa’s fight alone and next on the list to strike would be its members at Tuks. They too, according to Nombelani, were at loggerheads with the university with their wage rates. “In the next couple of weeks the strike will hit Tuks,” he said. Workers affiliated to Nehawu at and Tshwane University of Technology managed to score them themselves a good deal during negotiations last year. They agreed on a 7% hike, coupled with numerous benefits. Nombelani said that university was safe from the wage-related strikes. At Unisa, students were yet again hit as s…