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POT SALE!!! Centurion 18098/30-10-19 HUGE VARIETY OF POTS UP TO 50% OFF! Off ers valid until 01 November 2020. While stocks last. 30 OKTOBER 2020 • www.rekordcenturion.co.za • 012-842-0300 Visit our website for breaking No replacements as Aarto laws slammed as Pta zoo welcomes new local, national and international news. four quit metro team 2 ‘revenue scheme’ 3 babyy giraff e to ranksranks 5 www.rekordcenturion.co.za Open wallets for local dad Eliot Mahlase and fi lled with grace and honour”. Last week, eyewitness Nicole Davidson Residents and other good Samaritans raised told Rekord that Giles and Stegmann were more than R200 000 to cover the medical walking down the street carrying a shopping bills of a Centurion man who was shot bag from a jewellery store when the incident during an attempted robbery and spent a happened. week unconscious in ICU. “A car stopped and two people got out Wayne Giles (55) was shot in Hazelwood with the driver still inside. One of them tried on 18 October while he and his partner, to grab the bag from the couple, but the man Shana Stegmann, were on their way to a punched the robber and a fi ght ensued,” she restaurant. said. A Facebook group was created by friend During the fi ght, one of the robbers shot Nabeel Khan to raise medical funds after Giles, said Davidson. Giles was hospitalised. Giles fell to the ground and Stegmann By Monday afternoon this week a total of jumped onto him, covering his body to R230 000 had been raised. prevent him from getting shot as the shots Last week Khan told Rekord that “we continued. would like to raise at least R160 000”, A bystander then started shooting at the which was the estimated medical costs at the robbers who jumped back into their car and time. sped off , said Davidson. “We would like to thank everyone for “If it wasn’t for the bystander, I am sure their donations and prayers. It’s going to that the wife would have been shot too,” she be a long road to recovery. We don’t know said. how much it would actually cost for his No arrests have been made. rehabilitation, but everyone is just happy that he’s making progress.” Speaking to Rekord, Khan confi rmed that the father of two was now responsive to gestures and questions. “He is on reduced oxygen and adrenaline,” he said. A friend of 35 years, Etienne Changuion, said Giles often showed kindness to everyone around him. “I met Wayne back in 1985. I was going home back from our karate classes late one night and he stopped and off ered me a lift. Irene market boosts ‘buy local’ after Covid-19 “That is how unconditional his Some 31 years later and the handmade arts and crafts Irene Village market, held at acceptance, love, kindness and generosity the Big Red Barn in Centurion on Saturdays, is still going strong. “Since the easing of were for many people in his life. I was lockdown regulations and the reopening of the market, attendance has been good,” very fortunate to have him in my life,” said market spokesperson Madie Oosthuizen. Yvona Louw and Erne van Coller Changuion said in a video. Wayne Giles who was shot in a shootout (captured in photo) also attended. Photo: Reitumetse Mahope Giles’ partner Shana described him as outside an eatery in the east of Pretoria. “generous, courageous, kind, loving, fearless 2 CENTURION REKORD 30 OKTOBER 2020 NEWSWS www.rekordcenturion.co.zawww.rekordcenturion.co.za No word on replacements as four leave metro team Sinesipho Schrieber Four of the 10 temporary administrators have left the Tshwane metro administration team, while there is no word from them being replaced by provincial government. First, Tshwane metro city manager Mavela Dlamini resigned in July due to health reasons and one of the other Minister of Employment and Labour Thulas Nxesi. Photo: DEL media administrators, Mmaseabata Mutlaneng, fi lled his position. A month later Shiva Makotoko left and at the end of September Lebogang Mahaye and Thulisile Njapa-Mashanda left. UIF Covid-19 fraud Tshwane head Speaking to the Rekord last Wednesday, administrator Mpho Nawa. head administrator Mpho Nawa said aside from Dlamini the three others left due to their work obligations as they requested He said the vacant positions would hotline is launched 90 days from their places of work. not aff ect service delivery in the metro “People have left because this negatively as the DA claimed. Reitumetse Mahope depending on the complexity of the matter. assignment was supposed to be only for The administration team now shares “The reporting platforms are available 24 three months and it has gone past that the responsibility to ensure service Residents are being urged to blow the hours per day, 365 days a year and in all 11 now,” he said. delivery takes place, he said. whistle on fraud relating to the distribution offi cial languages.” “Makotoko requested to leave because Nawa dismissed the DA’s claims of UIF payments. Clients can use the below platforms to he was given 90 days by his work. Going as “lies” and “a desperate move for This after the labour department launched report Covid-19 Ters-related fraud: on longer was an issue and this was the power’’. a whistle blowing hotline for members of the - Toll-free number: 0800-212-799 same for Mahaye while Njapa-Mashanda “For now there is no shortage. We public. - SMS call back number: 30916 was appointed as an administrator at a have shared the responsibility and Acting commissioner of the UIF fund - or, email: [email protected] (link union.” always worked as a team. The team Marsha Bronkhorst said the fraud hotline sends email). Nawa denied that they resigned because can carry the responsibility because platform was for clients and citizens to She said for other UIF enquiries, clients there was “some [kind of] problem in the the portfolios were not segmented, report all suspicious criminal activity related could still contact the call centre on 080- metro”. we shared the responsibilities. Adding to the Covid-19 Temporary Employer- 003-0007 or visit their nearest labour centre. to this, we do not work alone. Some Employee Relief Scheme (Covid-19 Ters) “The complete audit of all Ters benefi t people are working from behind the and any other UIF fraud related matters. payments, as agreed with all social scenes leading the metro,’’ he said. Bronkhorst said the platforms were up partners at Nedlac, commences this month “We are at lockdown level 1. As all and running since last week and the public [September],” said employment and labour the employees head to work to provide could report anonymously, in line with the minister Thulas Nxesi. BChD/(Pret) services to residents, we will continue protected disclosure act. He said beyond that, the auditor general to ensure services are delivered, so the “Since the inception of the Covid-19 Ters, would also have a “second bite” in terms of Dentist / Tandarts function of the city will continue to take the fund has been beset with a plethora the annual statutory audit for 2020/21. BRIGHTEN YOUR SMILE place.” of fraud allegations and complaints from “I assure you I will not rest until every DA mayoral candidate Randall www.kuschkedental.com clients and companies. payment is accounted for, and every wrong- Williams, however, was not confi dent “I am, therefore, urging anyone with doer made to account.” FREE Tel: 012 664 6359 over the administration team’s ability to SMILE 17936/30-10-20 information regarding any Covid-19 Ters Nxesi said 38 court cases had been MASK [email protected] ensure services would be delivered to fraud or any other UIF fraud-related matter opened and charges laid against perpetrators residents. to report this to us without any delay,” she according to evidence from the auditor- said. general’s fi ndings as well as from suspicious Medical Aid & Private Patients Welcome She said whistle-blowers were encouraged transactions picked up by the UIF’s own risk to provide as much details as possible, management unit. 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