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CLASSIFIEDS Steelburgerfriday / Lydenburgmarch 9, 2018 16 Friday March 9, 2018 NEWS NEWS COMMUNITY Eskom debt Longtom New medical increases Chronical: service in Watch the funniest polony further The faces town jokes online. behind the MTB race www.steelburgernews.co.za Page 2 Page 5 Page 6 Dagga trees close to house Narda Vermaak smallholding and asked to speak to the The plants were cut off and loaded into determined. Rossouw was charged owner.” police. with the possession of dagga plants. He LYDENBURG - A dagga plantation Capt Kaizer Moela, SAPS spokesman Mokwena said they were ready to be paid R1 500 police bail and appeared was discovered on the outskirts of town said the owner, François Johannes harvested, the seeds and leaves dried and in Lydenburg Magistrate’s Court on on Monday afternoon. Rossouw (60) claimed that he did not ultimately sold. Monday where it was postponed till According to Sgt Elias Mokwena, the know they were dagga trees. Rossouw was read his rights and asked March 20. Moela said SAPS send out local police were doing their rounds in The police, however, pointed out to accompany the offi cers to the SAPS a stern warning that the planting and the Mosterdhoek area when they spotted that the trees were being cleaned and charge offi ce. selling of dagga will not be tolerated. several huge dagga trees. maintained around the bedding. Rossouw According to Moela, 40 trees were “We will clamp down on these “These trees were visible from the stated that this was not the case, and that confi scated. The estimated street illegalities. We urge residents not to deal road. We immediately entered the the trees were dying because of drought. value of these plants is still to be in any illegal activities.” The trees being removed. 2 Steelburger / Lydenburg News NEWS Friday March 9, 2018 Residents take matters into their own hands Gilbert Motseo Ngoepe revealed that the families were accused of having a hand in the murder of MECKLENBURG - Since the beginning Mokgotho. of 2018, Steelburger/Lydenburg News has “Mokgotho was found killed near a reported more than eight incidents of houses mountain in the village. It is not yet known being torched in Tubatse. how he was killed as we are still busy Two families found themselves homeless investigating. His three dogs were found after an angry mob set their homes alight in dead at the scene.” Shakung Village last Saturday. The Limpopo SAPS condemned the acts. According to the Limpopo police “The continuous acts of violence perpetrated spokesman, Lt Col Moatshe Ngoepe, it is against those accused of being responsible alleged that the community was burying for criminal activities in and around Tubatse Ntakeng Mokgotho who was murdered on is a cause for concern. February 20. “We plead with the communities not to “After the funeral service the mob take the law into their own hands,” said proceeded to the two families homes, provincial commissioner Lt Gen Nneke attacked them and burned their houses to Ledwaba. Ngoepe said the Mecklenburg ashes. The mob also set alight two vehicles SAPS are investigating arson and damage to belonging to one of the attacked families.” property cases. One of the houses in Shakung that was set alight. Despite TCLM’s best efforts to adhere to agreement, debt is only increasing Narda Vermaak are still only paying the smaller substation original case between the chambers and at least six months to a year. accounts to prevent Eskom disconnecting 10 respondents have been concluded. The “While this has been a welcome verdict, LYDENBURG - Although Thaba Chweu the whole town in future,” the source said. application is against Thaba Chweu and it is worrying that the account is still Local Municipality (TCLM) is trying to Lydenburg and the municipal manager, increasing. This could mean that when the adhere to the payment agreement between Mashishing substations the executive mayor case has been concluded, the municipality itself and Eskom, the amount owed to are the two major ones According to a and the CFO of TCLM, will be in even worse debt than ever before. the power utility has since increased to feeding the town grid. source within Thaba as well as Eskom, Come winter, usage will increase and I R408 million. They are also the only Nersa, the minister doubt whether they will be able to control The municipality owed Eskom more than two in town that were Chweu, the account of energy, the MEC power usage, which puts us in the same, if R380 million when it was fi rst disconnected disconnected by Eskom currently stands of the Department of not worse, predicament,” another source told on October 9, 2017. According to a source last year. The three at R408 million Cooperative Governance Steelburger/Lydenburg News. within Thaba Chweu, the account currently business chambers of and Traditional Affairs The newspaper has been asking TCLM stands at R408 million. In other words, Sabie, Graskop and Lydenburg managed and the premier of Mpumalanga. for feedback on how it is trying to keep this despite it trying to adhere to the payment to get the power reinstated after the High Until that case has been heard, which from happening and whether payments to all agreement, the amount keeps increasing, on Court judge in Mbombela ruled that power could take as long as a year, Eskom may not substations are taking place. For the past two account of interest. be restored on January 31. It was ruled that interrupt the power supply to TCLM. This weeks, no response to any queries has been “In my opinion, I would think that they the power may not be interrupted until the means that the town should have power for received. Editorial: Publisher Contact us 072-462-5491 Code of Conduct Audit Group general manager Burgersfort: Steelburger subscribes to the Code of Ethics PPublished and printed by Lowveld The distribution of Buks Esterhuizen 013-231-7924 Lydenburg: and Conduct for South African Print and Media, 12 Stinkhout Crescent, this ABC newspaper Assistant branch 013-235-1624 Online Media that prescribes news that is Mbombela, a division of CTP Limited. is independently manager Leonie Jordaan Advertising: truthful, accurate, fair and balanced. If we All rights and reproduction of all reports, audited to the Nadia de jager Tel: 013-235-1624 Editor don’t live up to the Code, within 20 days of photographs, drawings and all materials professional standards Email: editor@steelburgernews. Pat Zietsman 083-333-0502 the date of publication of the material, please published in this newspaper are administrated by the Janita Visagie co.za Distribution manager contact the Press Ombud at 011-484-3612 or hereby reserved in terms Audit Bureau of Monya Burger 083-567-0058 Cherise Nagel website: www.presscouncil.org.za of Section 12 (7) of the Circulations of Address: PO Box Sales managers 066-205-4475 Copyright Act No 96 South Africa. 654,Lydenburg 1120 Cornelle Crowley of 1978 and any Roché Esterhuizen Accounts 46 Viljoen Street Lydenburg 1120 013-754-1643 amendments thereof. Friday March 9, 2018 COMMUNITY Steelburger / Lydenburg News 3 Gurney’s sugarbirds still wander Lydenburg hills Gerda Whitehorn LYDENBURG - The Gurney’s sugarbird is alive and well, and living in Lydenburg’s surrounding hills. This was recently confi rmed by members of Birdlife Northern Gauteng Bird Ringers Club who came to Paardeplaats Nature Retreat on an annual ringing weekend. In spite of rainy conditions, they caught no less than six Gurney’s sugarbirds in their ringing nets - one juvenile and one retrapped from last year’s expedition. The group of avid ringers were joined by Dr Michael Cunningham, geneticist from the University of Pretoria’s Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology. With his student, Evan Howarth, they took blood samples from the birds for research into the relationships between different populations of this scarce species. The Gurney’s sugarbird has been identifi ed as one of four grassland birds in decline and could be added to the list of threatened species, Cunningham explained. Ringers Fransie O’Brien, Dr Michael Cunningham, Janine and Greg Goosen. This is probably due to the decline in silver sugarbush (Protea roupelliae), in which the a lot we do not know about this special bird birds build their nests. and its movements,” he said. Their strongholds are KwaZulu-Natal The ringers’ efforts add tremendously and Mpumalanga, Drakensberg, the to the ongoing research in the fi eld. Other Soutpansberg and Waterberg areas. than the six Gurney’s, the expedition caught There are isolated populations in and recorded the following species at Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands and Paardeplaats: Olive bush shrike, malachite they have been spotted as far south as and greater double-collared sunbirds, Grahamstown - the only place known where wailing and lazy cisticola, cape canary, Julian du Plooy with a red-winged starling, they overlap with the Cape sugarbird. long-billed pipit, Drakensberg prinia, a very common resident at Paardeplaats Cunningham confi rmed that the Gurney’s mountain wagtail, Cape white-eye, speckled Nature Retreat. Julian (17) started his ringing sugarbird research done by ornithologist, mousebird, white-throated robin-chat, career at the age of two, accompanying dad Dawie de Swardt, originally from Lydenburg Cape robin-chat, streaky-headed seedeater, Chris on birding trips. He has handled well and for many years now at the national neddicky, bar-throated apalis, willow over 1 200 birds in the qualifying process museum in Bloemfontein, provides a warbler, Cape batis, Cape rock thrush, red- and has released more than 430 birds valuable base for students. “But there is still winged starling and house martin. Bird ringer Paula Steyn. marked with his own rings.
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