Thursday 11 April, 2019 Amor helps dance Megacity seven years off • Page 3 Streets need to be named • Page 5 school raise funds • Page 3 Exclusively online: National and international news to keep you informed Sick and elderly left helpless Johann Badenhorst “They can’t walk, and they the Springs Advertiservertiser a contactcontactoror Email: [email protected] have heart problems. had been appointednted and a deposdepositit “We can’t let this continue. paid. “We can’t allow more people However, the contractor Residents of Markville fl ats are to die. needed the sketchesches of suffering and feel neglected as “Something has to be done,” the lift before theyhey coucouldld the building’s lift has been out of says Toekkie. start the installationation of order for three years. Elders suffering from joint the new lifts, butut these Markville is exclusively problems, heart problems, were missing. occupied by senior citizens who diabetes and some who have In October are forced to walk up and down suffered strokes have to endure Gadebe told thee up to fi ve fl ights of stairs every carrying their own groceries to Addie work time they have to leave the their fl ats, posing a great threat to would begin in building. their well-being. October. Johan Enslin has been living in Johan had colon cancer and In November Markville for fi ve years with his suffers from prostate cancer, 2018, the wife, Toekkie, and says he has so the effort of climbing the metro been trying to get help from the stairs causes him a great deal of responded municipality for the past three physical discomfort and pain. that the years, but they have failed to help Johan says he has been trying to appointed him. get an appointment with the metro contractors “The elevator broke on for the past three weeks. had purchased February 28, 2016, when a Toekkie says: “The housing the lifts from woman tried to haul a massive department has let us down, they abroad and fridge up to her apartment,” says just won’t help us.” most of them Toekkie. Johan and Toekkie urgently had arrived in “The only people who seek answers from the metro. South Africa. have been able to help us is Springs Advertiser has been By Decemberr AfriForum,” says Johan. reporting on the Markville 18 nothing had In September 2016, elevator problem since September happened and thehe AfriForum’s Jannie Cilliers fi xed 2016 and has been told by the residents were forceforcedd a broken drainpipe which had metro on numerous occasions the to face yet anotherher caused fl ooding. lift would be fi xed imminently. holiday period without “There were people here who In July 2017, the paper was this necessary service.ervice. were very ill. assured the problem would be Gadebe added:d: “However, “They couldn’t walk, they fi xed in August that year. the contract betweenween the couldn’t get to a doctor and in By May 2018 residents were metro and the contractorontractor for three years, six people have died,” fed up with the lack of service installation expiredired on June 30, says Johan. delivery by the metro but were due to the delays.ys. “This is a retirement complex. hopeful the city would fi nally “People need to visit their deliver on its promises when Continued on pagepage 3 doctors regularly, but are unable Themba Gadebe, spokesperson to do so due to the broken for the metro, commented that elevator. work had already begun to get Johan Enslin next to the “They can’t get treatment, they working lifts installed. broken lift at Markville can’t get medicine. In September 2018 Gadebe told fl ats. 2 SPRINGS ADVERTISER / NEWS www.springsadvertiser.co.za \ Donderdag, 11 April, 2019 Eight men rob Geduld store EMPD appoints four directors in A business in Geduld was robbed on Sunday evening. The store owner was in the shop when four its operations division suspects came into the shop and took cooldrink from the fridge and proceeded to the counter. The long-overdue directorship At the counter, one of the suspects pulled out posts at EMPD’s Operations a fi rearm and pointed it at the victim. Division were fi lled at the Four more suspects then entered the shop, beginning of April when four closed the doors and demanded money from chief superintendents were the victim. promoted. The suspects took R3 000 from the till and The delay in fi lling the posts, cosmetics and cigarettes from the shelves. which lasted several years, Thereafter, the suspects tied the victim up was due to the rationalisation with an electrical cable and fl ed. of the EMPD structure which No shots were fi red during the robbery. displayed specifi c anomalies requiring modifi cations. The four directors appointed House robbery in have, among themselves, operational experience spanning 91 years and had been acting in Endicott the positions for some time. A man and his two brothers were assaulted Their appointments came into during a house robbery in Endicott on Sunday effect on April 1. evening. “We are earnestly elated that The victim had just closed his shop and fi nally, directors with such was making food with his two brothers in the rich experience are occupying house, which is on the same premises as his these crucial positions and shop, when fi ve suspects suddenly appeared. their experience will stand The suspects, four of whom were armed, them in good stead in their started assaulting the brothers and tied them responsibilities to contribute together with electric cables and covered them in making the organisation with a blanket. function effi ciently and The EMPD’s newly appointed four directors in its operations division: Ockert Jacobus Bezuidenhout, Two suspects guarded the victims while the effectively. Hezekiel Ngamlane Nkosi, deputy chief of police operations Goodman Mzolo, chief of police Isaac other three took the tuckshop keys and stole “Over and above this, we Jabulani Mapiyeye, Gwen Nonkululeko Gina, Julius Doctor Mkhwanazi and acting deputy chief of police cigarettes and other goods from the shop, as believe in the process of auxiliary services Revo Spies. well as R4 000 in cash. discharging their managerial The suspects fl ed after the assault and no duties they will transfer the Ockert Jacobus specialised services, which inception of the EMPD in 2002, arrests have been made. skills they have acquired over Bezuidenhout, who has 26 include the K9, SWAT, Director Gwen Nonkululeko the years to offi cers of shorter years experience in law Equestrian, Public Order Gina, will be responsible for the standing in the department,” enforcement, will assume Policing, OR Tambo EMPD Northern Operational says chief of police Isaac his position as the director International Airport and Region, which covers Kempton Jabulani Mapiyeye. of operations in the EMPD Overloads units. Park, Edenvale and Tembisa. Director Hezekiel Ngamlane Southern Operational Region, His units will operate in the Although Gina started as a Nkosi, who started at the which encompasses Alberton, whole of Ekurhuleni. clerk at the municipal courts, Benoni council, has been in the Tokoza, Germiston, Katlehong Mkhwanazi, who has 17 years where she amassed fi ve years’ law enforcement environment Zonkizizwe, Boksburg, Reiger experience in law enforcement, experience in this function that for 32 years. Park, Vosloorus, Villa Liza and worked himself up the ranks is closely-related to EMPD He will be responsible for By- Dawn Park. from a constable. responsibilities, she has 16 Law Enforcement Ekurhuleni- Director Julius Doctor Only the second woman to be years of experience as a metro wide. Mkhwanazi will be heading appointed as director since the police offi cer in the city. Thursday 11 April, 2019 \ www.springsadvertiser.co.za NEWS \ SPRINGS ADVERTISER 3 Boilermaker centre opens The Ekurhuleni East TVET College Artisan Skills Development Centre, based in Springs, held the offi cial launch of their centre of specialisation in boilermaking last Tuesday. This made the college one of two TVET colleges in the Gauteng province to be part of the centre of specialisation initiative. This innovative programme works hand in hand with the Dual Skills Pilot Project (DSPP), which is based on the collaboration between industry and the training institutions to ensure students exit as a skilled and capable workforce. The initiative is from the Department of Higher Education and Training and Ward 76 Ward committee member Bhekizizwe Siluba, James Thulane Dube and Ward 76 aims to respond to the demand for priority Clr Shadow Shabangu, having a discussion. trades needed to satisfy government’s Minister of Higher Education and Training National Development Plan and its National Naledi Pandor quizzes Siphokuhle Khumalo Infrastructure Plan. on his work during her tour of the workshop. It also aims to build the capacity of TVET colleges to deliver trade qualifi cations with artisans in the DSPP and centre of Megacity will take employer partners. specialisation programmes. “We are proud and honoured to be able Minister of Higher Education and Training to participate meaningfully in innovative Naledi Pandor says government is employing programmes such as the centre of a range of strategies to address the challenge of specialisation,” says college principal Happy youth unemployment. another seven years Sindane speaking at the launch. “Our desire as a department is not simply Kelebogile Chokoe foundations between June The Ward 76 committee “As Ekurhuleni East TVET College, we to prepare young people to be employed, we didn’t struggle to place these young people wish to prepare young people to be employers Email: [email protected] and August this year.” member who heads the Ward 76 Clr Shadow Economic Development because we have already started working very because we believe entrepreneurship is going Shabangu says: “There are Sector, Bhekizizwe closely with companies around us.” to be the basis of economic growth and wealth Future residents of the This, according to Sindane, is because the in our country,” she says.