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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 …

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 …

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…

Msimanga leads crime clean-up campaign in Sunnyside

Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga this morning led a crime clean-up campaign in Sunnyside alongside the Tshwane Metro police, emergency services and municipal water and electricity technicians. The raid meant to tackle drug dealings, illegal electricity and water connections, by-law enforcement and the reclaiming of the municipality's buildings. Msimanga pointed out several illegal power connections and meter tempering at Nuweveld building on Troy Street as he inspected the municipal flat. He said the building owed the City at least R2 million in rates alone and it was about time it complied. During the raid, Msimanga introduced himself to several tenants and asked to speak to caretakers of buildings. This he said was because the City was determined to eradicate all criminal activities in the city. The mayor also visited Nix Accommodation on Rissik Street near Unisa in Sunnyside to inspect the building for possible illegal connections. The metro police officers said …

Voortrekker meisies word aangeval by die Voortrekkermonument in Pretoria

“Dis jammer dat kinders weens die misdaadsituasie in ons land nie meer gewone dinge kan doen nie. ’n Mens is oral weerloos, maak nie saak hoe goed jy voorsorg tref nie.” Dr. Danie Langner, hoofleier van die Voortrekkers, het Sondag só gereageer nadat ’n groep gr. 7-meisies Vrydagaand op ’n Voortrekkerkamp by die Voortrekkermonument in Pretoria aangeval is. Een van die offisiere wat by die meisies was, is van haar handsak en selfoon beroof en moes steke kry nadat die rower haar aangerand het. Die meisies van die Klapperkop-kommando is nie beseer nie, maar erg getraumatiseer. Arden du Plessis (13) het vertel hoe iemand hulle tydens ’n nagwag omstreeks 23:00 vanuit die bosse met klippe bestook het. “Toe storm hy met ’n doringtak in sy hande uit die bosse. Hy het ons omgestamp.” Die aanvaller het die een offisier platgeduik en haar begin slaan. “Daar was baie bloed,” sê Arden. Die rower het kort daarna gevlug, en die kinders het voertuie daar naby voorgekeer. “Ons is ge…

Huiseienaar word gedreig nadat hy 2 rowers afmaai by sy woning

Jy is ’n moordenaar! Ons gaan jou doodmaak, jou moordenaar! -Dít was die woorde van ’n groep mense wat Maandagoggend voor ’n huis in Lynnwoodrif, Pretoria, bymekaargekom het nadat die huiseienaar Saterdag twee rowers by dié huis doodgeskiet het. Die huiseienaar het intussen Maandag ’n klag van intimidasie by die Garsfontein-polisiekantoor ingedien. Luidens sy verklaring aan die polisie het sy tuinwerker hom omstreeks 10:00 geroep en gesê daar is “baie mense voor die hek wat lawaai” en dat hy moet gaan ondersoek instel. Buite sy hek het hy tien mense gesien, onder wie vier vroue. Intussen het ’n veiligheidsbeampte van Interactive Security op die toneel opgedaag. Die mense het op die huiseienaar geskree en hom ’n moordenaar genoem. Een vrou het geskree: “Jy is ’n moordenaar! Nou het ons jou adres. Ons sal jou doodmaak, jou moordenaar,” lui die polisieverklaring. Hy het die veiligheidsbeampte gevra om die polisie te ontbied, waarna die groep mense in hul voert…