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Jong vrou by Voortrekkermonument verkrag

’n Negentienjarige vrou is verkrag by die Voortrekkermonument in Pretoria Woordvoerder van die polisie Kapt. Augustinah Selepe, het die voorval bevestig en gesê dat die insident Saterdagoggend omstreeks 08:00 plaasgevind. Bert Visser, operasionele bestuurder van die Voortrekkermonument, het gesê dat die vrou se ma-hulle het ŉ stalletjie gehad by die antiek-en-versamelaarsmark wat Saterdag by die monument aangebied is. “Haar ma het haar gevra om na haar sussie te gaan soek en sy het na die Assegaai-badkamers se kant toe geloop. Hulle is besig om herstelwerk aan daardie badkamers te doen en dit is afgesper. Die aanvaller het haar toe glo daar genader en in die maag geslaan en opdrag gegee om saam met hom na die Skool op Wiele se badkamers te gaan,” vertel Visser gesê. Die slagoffer het bekend gemaak dat die man ’n swart klapmus, swart handskoene en swart klere aangehad het. Na bewering het hy haar in die eerste hokkie van die badkamers verkrag en na die tyd opdrag geg…

Twee vroue ontvoer in Montana, losprys geëis

Twee vroue het 'n nag van terreur oorleef nadat hulle in die noorde van Pretoria ontvoer . Marelize Taljaard en Melonie Booysen is glo gisteraand gekaap, net buite een van die vrouens se woonplek in Montana. Johan van Dyk, polisiewoordvoerder van Sinoville, het gesê die kapers het albei vroue in Booysen se Toyota Corolla gevange geneem. "Die twee vroue het glo omstreeks 20:00 gekuier buite die woonhuis in Montana nadat een van die vrouens se man weg was om kos te koop," het Van Dyk gesê. "Nadat die man teruggekeer het, het hy gevind sy vrou is weg. Haar selfoon is binne-in die huis gevind, en hy het dadelik geweet iets is verkeerd. ' Kort nadat die vroue verdwyn het, het die Eblockwatch-gemeenskapswaggroep die inwoners regoor Pretoria gewaarsku. SMS-boodskappe en sosiale mediaposte is na meer as 6 000 Eblockwatch-lede gestuur om na die vroue en die gekaapte voertuig te kyk, volgens André Snyman, die stigter van Eblockwatch. "Die kapers het glo een van die …

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 …

Allegations denied that Steve Biko Academic Hospital is on the verge of collapse

Academic Hospital’s acting chief executive Dr Mathabo Mathebula has denied allegations that the hospital’s oncology ward was under capacity and on the verge of collapse. “We need to clarify that at no stage was there a shut down. At no stage was there any machines broken down, it was the air conditioning that was being repaired and we battled to fix it. “It got repaired over time for two months, it was being repaired by the Department of Infrastructure until we resorted to calling the machine manufacturers to install the air cooling system that is now working,” Mathebula said. She was briefing the media after the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) conducted a site inspection at the hospital following the allegations, earlier today. Media reports alleged that about 934 cancer patients were awaiting radiation treatment at the hospital. There were also reports about the hospital’s failure to recruit an adequate number of staff and repair the broken down …

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,…

Afrikaanse koshuis name by Tukkies moet nou ook tranformeer

Die Universiteit van Pretoria is besig om sy koshuisname, wat merendeels Afrikaans is, te verander omdat dit in die pad staan van transformasie en inklusiwiteit. Huis Olienhout, Huis Madelief, Huis Boekenhout?. Dit is van die koshuise aan die Universiteit van Pretoria wat voor volgende jaar hul naam moet verander. Volgens die universiteit se kommunikasie aan studente moet alle koshuisname teen volgende jaar verander na name wat nie “deur een taal of ’n ander oorheers word nie”. “Die doel is om studente te laat tuis voel in die koshuisomgewing en om struikelblokke wat in die weg staan van studente se aanvaarding van en waardering vir mekaar uit die weg te ruim,” sê Rikus Delport, UP-woordvoerder. Hy sê die idee is nie om van alle Afrikaanse koshuisname ontslae te raak nie, maar om meertaligheid en diversiteit van kultuur te bevorder. Koshuise aan die universiteit het tradisioneel Afrikaanse boom- of blomname gekry soos Jasmyn, Madelief, Mopanie en Boekenhout. Kosh…

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…

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…

Major copper cable theft bust in the City of Tshwane

An anonymous tip-off has led to a major cable theft bust valued at about R500 000 by a specialised unit of the Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) early this morning. Members of TMPD’s newly established Cable Theft Unit received information last night about a truck carrying stolen copper destined for a known second-hand scrap metal dealer west of the city. Five members of the unit, in a marked police car, flagged down the truck on Van Der Hoff Road, a few metres from its destination. When the driver saw the police, he made a quick U-turn and sped off. The police gave chase and forced the truck off the road. When police asked the driver what was in the back of the truck, he said he was delivering a pile of rubbish to a scrap metal dealer. Upon inspection of the truck, police made a startling discovery of used and new copper cables belonging to the City with a street value of R500 000 covered under a pile of rubbish. The cables had been stolen from the vandalised Suid…

Plans to move Parliament from Cape Town to Pretoria are back on the agenda

Plans to move Parliament from Cape Town to Pretoria are back on the agenda. National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete says that work on the study will start this month and that she expects a report in six months time. A consulting firm has been contracted to carry out a feasibility study on the impact of its relocation. National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete says that work on the study will start this month and that she expects a report in six months time. She was speaking while tabling Parliament’s budget on Tuesday. The decision to base Parliament in Cape Town dates back to the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, when the seat of government became Pretoria and Bloemfontein the judicial capital. Mbete says consulting firm Pamoja (Pty) Ltd will carry out the latest study on the feasibility of moving Parliament to Pretoria. Senior ANC MP Vincent Smith says the costs of two capitals can’t be justified. The apartheid arrangement that arises from ha…