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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…

Teetuin by die Sammy Marks-museum moet deure sluit ná 25 jaar

Eers het die Pretoria Boeremark by die Pioniersmuseum in die slag gebly, toe is dit Tant Miertjie se kombuisrestaurant by die Willem Prinsloo-museum wat sy deure moet sluit. Nou is die nuutste slagoffer van Ditsong Museums van Suid-Afrika glo The Rose Garden-teetuin by die Sammy Marks-museum, wat sy deure ná 25 suksesvolle jare moet sluit. Volgens Werner Weinbeck (74), eienaar van die teetuin, is dit vir hom vreeslik hartseer om sy deure nou ná al die jare te sluit omdat Ditsong Museums glo besluit het om die teetuin op tender uit te sit. Werner Weinbeck, eienaar van The Rose Garden-teetuin by die Sammy Marks-museum, moet sy gereelde klante nou ná 25 suksesvolle jare groet. “Hierdie was my plek. Dis so mooi en rustig hier by die museum. Ek het elke dag met ’n lied in my hart kom werk. Dis die einde van ’n baie goeie hoofstuk in my lewe. Ek is verpletter, maar ek het nie ’n ander keuse as om aan te beweeg nie,” sê Weinbeck. Benewens die teetuin het Weinbeck ook…

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…

ANCYL, Vat Alles workers vow to bring Pretoria CBD to a standstill

No application had been received by Monday night for Friday’s planned shutdown of the city spearheaded by the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) Greater Tshwane region. Mayoral spokesperson Samkelo Mgobozi said: “We are aware of the planned shutdown. However, no application has been received to our knowledge and thus the march will be unprotected and illegal.” Mgobozi said the DA-led administration hoped there would be no loss to life or limb, or damage to property, and that proceedings would be conducted within the ambit of law. Metro Police spokesperson Nonhlanhla Mgiba also confirmed that no application had been received for the planned march. Mgiba said the City had only received a request for a march by former Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) employees. Mgiba said the ANCYL march had not yet been approved due to requirements still pending. However, the route to be taken would be communicated once the march was approved. “Should this march be approved, the …

Pretoria Zoo rejects grumbles from dissatisfied visitors

Dissatisfied visitors took to social social media over the festive season, saying that Pretoria Zoo had shoddy maintenance and a lackluster workforce. Zoo visitors spend too little time at enclosures and if they don’t see the animal immediately, they walk past and assumed the enclosures were empty, says Pretoria Zoo spokesperson Angeline Schwan in response to recent visitor complaints about the absence of animals. On Facebook, Christiaan David Vdm Cardoso vented his frustrations, saying he would not be visiting the zoo again. His post outlined his qualms, which included staff not doing their job properly, poor conditions and a run-down facility, among others. “I cannot express my utter and sickening discuss at how the zoo has turned out!!! “As an avid zoo visitor annually I am saddened to say that you will not see me and my family ever again,” he wrote. Saying it was a depressing place to go to, Cardoso said: “I am 37 years old, have been coming to the zoo sin…

Pretoria east residents see red over blackouts

A DARK Christmas looms for Pretoria east residents, who have since called on the City to shed light on their predicament. Residents in Mooikloof, Faerie Glen, Zwavelpoort and Olympus have been plagued by random power outages in recent months. Mathlodi Kgapola said her Mooi- kloof residence and surrounding estates had two outages at least twice a week without any explanation or warning. Another resident, from Faerie Glen, said they were tired of the City's “lame excuses”. These ranged from stormy weather and trees not being felled that disturbed electricity poles to cable theft. “Every time it is a new story,” said the resident. She understood that even in the most well developed cities there were power outages, but “the City must let us know in time so we can make alternative plans for the festive season and security". Once criminals knew the City was not doing anything about the power outages, they would capitalise on it, especially during the festive season whi…

City of Tshwane: Workers who protested outside the Gauteng High Court are misinformed

THE workers who protested outside the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, over what they perceived to be a delayed justice in their case with the City, were misinformed, municipal spokesperson Lindela Mashigo said. The out-of-work staff and subcontractors were bused in to the court to demand a speedy verdict. The court case concerns the validity of a tender between their employer, Moipone Group of Companies, and the City. The high court heard the case on September 21, but a verdict is still pending. The workers said they supported their employer, who took the City to the high court for refusing to pay for services rendered under a “valid and binding” contract. To showcase their frustrations, they marched from Marabastad to the high court, where they delivered a memorandum to acting court manager Lucky Makumule. The protesters said the City lacked the will to honour its contractual obligations and that had put them out of work since June. They were hoping for a favou…

Geskiedkundige Kerkplein in Pretoria trek ’n nuwe baadjie aan

Die bome in die geskiedkundige Kerkplein in Pretoria het in die slag gebly, maar sal deur nuwe bome en ander aantreklikhede vervang word. Foto’s van die afgekapte bome het Pretorianers vandeesweek verstom, maar die Tshwane-munisipaliteit sê dit is net ’n tydelike situasie en die plein sal nadat die projek afgehandel is mooier as ooit wees. Solly Msimanga, DA-burgemeester van die Tshwane-metroraad, het met sy begrotingsrede in Mei dié projek aangekondig en inwoners gemaan om geduldig te wees omdat die projek sowat nege maande sal neem om af te handel. Die Lalela-projek (die Zoeloe-woord vir luister) sal volgens Msimanga die eerste in sy soort wees en hopelik tot ’n meer inklusiewe gemeenskap bydra. Die vorige ANC-beheerde burgemeesterskomitee het die projek vier jaar gelede goedgekeur, maar dit het nie ’n werklikheid geword nie. Die nuwe administrasie het in Augustus verlede jaar beheer by die ANC oorgeneem en meen Kerkplein kort ’n “nuwe laag erfenis” waar ál die…

Verdagte dreig met selfmoord ná polisie hom vaskeer

Twee mans is Woensdag tydens ŉ huisbraak in Laudium in Pretoria in hegtenis geneem en ŉ derde verdagte kort daarna. Konst. Simon Chokoe, woordvoerder van die polisie, het gesê die voorval het net ná 19:00 plaasgevind. Die drie gewapende verdagtes, tussen 30 en 45 jaar oud, het volgens Chokoe by ŉ paartjie se huis ingestorm, hulle aangerand en van hul selfone beroof. “In die verdagtes se poging om te vlug het die inwoner hulle gekonfronteer en twee van die verdagtes is vasgekeer. Een kon daarin slaag om te ontsnap,” het Chokoe gesê. Volgens Chokoe het ŉ spoedige reaksie van die polisie se taktiesereaksie- en honde-eenheid gesorg dat die derde verdagte in Claudius naby die R55 aangekeer is. “Een van die polisie se onderhandelaars is ingeroep na die toneel omdat die verdagte gedreig het om homself te skiet,” het Chokoe gesê. Volgens Chokoe is die verdagte binne minute ná onderhandeling in hegtenis geneem. “Die polisie het beslag gelê op twee ongelisensieerde vuurwa…

Burgemeester van Tshwane voor treurende families weggejaag

Solly Msimanga, burgemeester van Tshwane, moes Maandag uit Soshanguve, noord van Pretoria, vergesel word nadat gemeenskapslede hom verjaag het waar vyf kinders dood is toe ŉ paneel van ŉ munisipale ligmas losgekom het. Maroela Media het vroeër berig vyf kinders, tussen ses en 12 jaar oud, is dood toe hulle by Apollo-lig, net buite die Bopapes se huis, gespeel het. Die swaar metaalring wat die hoë lig ondersteun, het losgekom en vier kinders is op slag dood. Twee kinders is na ŉ hospitaal geneem, waar een van hulle by George Mukhari-hospitaal gesterf het. Een van die kinders is nie beseer nie. Twee van die kinders was nefies uit die Bopape-familie. Msimanga wou ŉ besoek aflê aan die treurende gesinne, het sy waarnemende woordvoerder, Lindela Mashigo, gesê. Toe Msimanga en ŉ span afgevaardigdes van die munisipaliteit egter Maandagoggend by Block X-gemeenskapsaal in Soshanguve opdaag, het lede van die plaaslike sakeforum hul “ongemak” uitgespreek met sy teenwoordigheid. “…