Search intensifies for missing Pretoria businessman,Omar Carrim 76

Gauteng MEC for Community Safety Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane on Monday met the family of Pretoria businessman Omar Carrim, who went missing after leaving his Home Hyper City shop in the CBD on Thursday last week. Nkosi-Malobane, with Tshwane West South African Police Services (SAPS) Cluster Commander Maj-Gen Daniel Mtombeni, assured the Carrim family that no stone is being left un-turned in the extensive search for the 76-year-old father of five. Carrim’s car, a Mercedes-Benz E300, which he was driving at the time, was found torched extensively near the Hennops Road (R511) outside Atteridgeville on Friday. Anti-crime activist Yusuf Abramjee, who is also spokesperson for the distraught family, said no ransom demand has been made. “We appeal to the public to come forward with any information. Someone, somewhere, somehow knows something. Omar’s car was found torched. It appears we are dealing with a dangerous syndicate,” said Abramjee. “The family appeals to the abducto…
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Spoorlyn in die weste van Pretoria kry nuwe baaidjie danksy publiek en Transnet

’n Uiterste verwaarloosde spoorlyn wat aan die weste van Pretoria geleë is, het gedurende die week ’n nuwe baadjie gekry. Die spoorlyn wat oor ’n groot gebied in die weste strek was vir ’n geruime tyd ’n groot probleem vir die plaaslike gemeenskap. Volgens DA-raadslid Elma Nel was die spoorlyn ’n reuse probleem in haar wyk. Sy vertel dat vir die eerste keer was daar goeie samewerking vanaf beide Transnet en die publiek. Nel spreek haar dankbaarheid uit teenoor almal wat ’n handjie bygesit het met die opruimings werk en loof die betrokke partye vir hul bereidwilligheid om te help. Nel beklemtoon dat sy alreeds van die begin van die jaar haar bemoei het met die skoonmaak van die spoorlyn. Volgens ’n inwoner, net bekend as Sarel, is hy verheug oor die skoonmaaksessie. Sarel vertel dat hy die afgelope 36 jaar in die gebied woon. Hy skryf die oorsaak toe aan onwettige storting wat gereeld plaasvind. Sarel vertel skertsend dat hy enkele dae te vore onwettige storters by die spo…
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425 on Wisteria in the Faerie Glen area – What an awesome place to stay at !!

425 on Wisteria is located in the Faerie Glen neighborhood in Pretoria, 1 km from Faerie Glen Shopping Centre and 1 km from Pic n Pay (Faerie Glen - Pretoria). Free WiFi is available and free private parking is available on site. The rooms are fitted with a flat-screen TV. Some units have a sitting area for your convenience. You will find a kettle in the room. Decor Shopping Centre is 1.1 km from 425 on Wisteria, and NG Church Valleisig is 1.1 km from the property. The nearest airport is O.R. Tambo International Airport, 40.2 km from the property. Free private parking is available on site (reservation is not needed). Facilities available: Flat-screen TV To view more facilities at this venue, please click on the link below..... Book your room at this Hotel now! Find and Book your Cheap Flights here!
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Na drie dekades wil Gert van Rooyen se Seun saak heropen

Na bykans drie dekades lig pedofiel Gert van Rooyen se seun vir die eerste keer die sluier oor wat hy beweer op die dag van Gert en sy houvrou Joey Haarhoff se dood gebeur het. “Daar was nooit ‘n selfmoordpakt tussen my pa en Joey nie,” sê Gerhard in ’n video-opname wat op Facebook geplaas is. Gerhard het ook nadoodse foto’s van sy pa en Joey op Facebook gelaai. Hy het kenners uitgedaag om te bepaal dat die paartjie wel selfmoord gepleeg het. Van Rooyen en Haarhoff het na bewering tienermeisies tussen 1988 en 1990 in Pretoria ontvoer. In Januarie 1990 is die 16-jarige Joan Booysen ontvoer. Sy kon egter kort daarna uit die paartjie se huis in Pretoria ontsnap waarna sy die polisie op hul spoor gesit het. Van Rooyen en Haarhoff het dae later op die vlug geslaan toe hulle die polisie voor hul huis in Capital Park gewaar het. Hulle het in ‘n motor tot by die Apiesrivierbrug gejaag waar Van Rooyen glo eers Haarhoff en toe homself doodgeskiet het. Gerhard sê: …
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We’ll deal with criminals ourselves, threaten Faerie Glen residents

Pretoria - Residents of Faerie Glen in Pretoria East have threatened to take matters into their own hands to deal with an increase in crime in the area if police did not intervene. They said the community was being held hostage by criminals after a surge in housebreakings and muggings over the past few months. Reports of crime from the suburb and nearby Faerie Glen Nature Reserve have emerged, with the first crime inside the reserve taking place two weeks ago after a 10-year record of safety and security. A woman was attacked while running on the trail in the reserve and all her gear, including shoes, cellphone, hydration backpack and sunglasses were taken. Warnings began going up on social media, where trail runners were asked to be cautious and not to run on their own, as criminals, often wielding knives and wearing balaclavas, were on the prowl. The criminals are said to gain entry into the nature reserve through Atterbury Bridge and using the Manitoba Bridge …
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La Apartmente is a place where you can chill for a weekend !!

Located 201 m from MG Design Box, La Apartmente offers accommodations in Pretoria. The property is 201 m from Plaaswinkel and free private parking is available. The kitchen is equipped with an oven and a microwave. A flat-screen TV is featured. Other facilities at La Apartmente include a barbecue. University of Pretoria - Conference Centre is 0.6 km from La Apartmente, and Hatfield Plaza (Rear parking entrance) is 0.6 km away. The nearest airport is Lanseria (Johannesburg) Airport, 37 km from La Apartmente. Free private parking is available on site (reservation is not needed). Facilities available: - Free Parking - Airport Shuttle - Non-Smoking Rooms - BBQ Facilities To view more facilities at this venue, please click on the link below..... Book your room at this Hotel now! Find and Book your Cheap Flights here!
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Pretoria-dieretuin oopgehou deur handjie vol nie-stakende werkers

Die Nasionale Dieretuin in Pretoria sal oop bly ondanks ’n staking van 120 dieretuinwerkers wat lede van die National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) is. Dit is sowat ’n derde van die werkers. Die res van die werknemers hou die dieretuin aan die gang. Craig Allenby, woordvoerder van die dieretuin, sê die dieretuin sal soos gewoonlik oop wees vir besoekers en “daarom is daar geen dringende behoefte aan vrywilligers nie”. Sondagoggend het lede van die SAPD by die dieretuin opgedaag om stakende werknemers wat die ingang versper het, uiteen te dryf. “Hulle het nie toestemming gehad ingevolge wetgewing om hier te wees nie,” sê Allenby. Die werkers het begin staak nadat geskille oor oortydbetaling nie opgelos kon word nie. Die 120 NTUC-lede het verlede week ’n kennisgewing van voorneme om te staak van die Kommissie vir Versoening, Bemiddeling en Arbitrasie aan die bestuur oorhandig. NTUC dring daarop aan dat werkers oortyd betaal word op ’n Saterdag en Sondag. ’n …
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Warring Mamelodi communities meet to end violence

Pretoria – A meeting was held between the warring communities of Mahube Valley extension one and their next door neighbours, an informal settlement called Mountain View in a bid to end the violence between them. The meeting was led by the City of Tshwane. Last week, battles erupted between the two communities. The violence, which started on Wednesday evening and continued into Thursday, saw several houses and more than 50 shacks petrol bombed. Clashes broke out after a substation was damaged, allegedly caused by illegal electricity connections by residents of the informal settlement. Many families from both communities were left destitute and their belongings destroyed in the fires. MMC for Housing and Human Settlements Mandla Nkomo said the first official meeting with affected residents was held to find a solution to end the violence and find mutual agreement for the impasse faced by the two clashing communities. "As fellow human beings, we cannot be happy th…
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Pretoria-grondbesetters word verwyder na dringende interdik

Grondbesetters in Kameelfontein in die noorde van Pretoria, is Woensdag verwyder nadat AfriSake ’n dringende interdik op 23 Junie 2017 in die Noord-Gautengse hoërhof bekom het. Die Rooimiere, die Cullinan-balju, die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens en die Tshwane-metropolisie het saamgewerk om uitvoering aan die hofbevel te gee en alle onwettige strukture en grondbesetters te verwyder. “AfriSake sal aanhou veg vir die beskerming van eiendomsreg in Suid-Afrika. Ons kan nie toekyk dat konstitusionele regte geminag word en geen daadwerklike optrede namens ons lede neem nie. Ons kan nie toelaat dat Suid-Afrika nog ’n Zimbabwe word nie,” het Charles Castle, bestuurder van die arbeidsregsadvieseenheid by AfriSake, gesê. Castle het gesê politieke retoriek deur radikale partye is grotendeels die oorsaak van hierdie tipe optrede [grondbesetting] en politieke partye moet begin verantwoording doen vir die onverskillige uitlatings wat hulle maak. As sakeregtewaghond beskerm AfriSak…
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Kleinfontein an Afrikaner settlement near Pretoria

Pretoria - The petrol station attendant warns me I am going to get killed in Kleinfontein. "Are you sure you want to go there?" he asks, looking concerned, after I stop to ask him for directions. According to my GPS, I am five minutes away from the settlement, an Afrikaner cultural community near Bronkhorstspruit. "Yoh my man, the white people are going to kill you there. You are not the right skin colour. They will stop you at the gate and won't even let you in." I tell him I am going to see for myself. As I approach the entrance, I am scared. Large white letters, "Ons God Ons Volk Ons Eie" (Our God Our People Our Own) are affixed to the grey wall next to the boom gate. What if the petrol attendant was right? Tense wait A skinny, mustachioed man wearing camouflage trousers, black boots and a khaki cap, and holding a clipboard and a pen, approaches me after I stop at the boom. He asks me in Afrikaans who I'm visiting. I identify myself and tell him I …
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