SEE INSIDE - for the latest edition of our recipe collection Mahikeng Mail - you can now collect these recipes to complete your set. Massive donation to Established 1889 13 Martin Street; Galleria Arcade; Shop no 1 & 2 E-mail: mailbag@mafi kengmail.co.za GPS Co-ordinates: 25” 51’ 49,42 S • 25” 35’ 40,52 E NW Social Development 28 AUGUST 2020 Tel: 018 381 1330/ The Department of Social Development MEC Boitumelo Moiloa has received a massive dona� on from the Religious 381 2884 sector. The Church of Jesus Christ La� er Day Saints gave over 5000 food parcels to be shared among four districts. Fax: 018 381 0425 R4-00 Local municipalities under fire - p 4 VAT INCL PAGE 2 MAHIKENG MAIL 28 AUGUST 2020 COVID-19 Basic protective measures Advertise – it’s free! MAHIKENG MAIL- MAHIKENG: Readers and advertisers can place their Classified Ads (Smalls) absolutely FREE OF CHARGE in the MAHIKENG MAIL. Simply go to our https:// website at www.northwest- newspapers.co.za/ mafikengmail/, click on the Classified Adverts heading, follow the steps and submit your ad of 30 words or less – no payment Government calls for required! Thereafter only R1-00 per word. tourism sector support MAHIKENG MAIL – MAHIKENG: Wth restaurants, game reserves and other places of leisure reopening, South Africans have been urged to support local tourism while observing strict COVID-19 prevention protocols. In a statement businesses, you are contributing to South Africa’s this week, economic growth and job creation. government said ”Government is confident that measures have tourism remained a been put in place to protect employees, suppliers, key driver of South tourists and all those who are involved with the Africa’s economy tourism sector. and contributes to job ”Government has worked with various creation. stakeholders to implement measures that sought to ”By supporting bring relief to affected businesses and individuals in local establishments and the tourism sector”, a spokesperson said. MEC Mosenogi visits women cooperative in Hartebeespoort MAHIKENG MAIL – MAHIKENG: MEC for Department of Economic Development, Environment, Conservation and Tourism (DEDECT) Kenetswe Mosenogi embarked on an oversight visit to Meja le Mamohla Primary Cooperative situated at Kosmos in Haartebeespoort. This is a pilot project to empower community. and introduce women into quality The cooperative is 100 percent environmentally friendly brick run and owned by women around manufacturing value chains. Haartebeespoort Area. The project was initiated by During the visit, members of the Department to empower a women cooperative shared with the MEC the owned co-operative through skills history of the project, achievements development in quality building to date and also how the project has panels on manufacturing and changed their lives by creating jobs business management interventions and skills development. to produce good quality The MEC applauded the members environmentally friendly panels that for their passion, dedication shown are used in a variety of construction and encouraged them to continue with projects including human settlements the same spirit by making it one of projects, schools, libraries just to the best manufactures of alternative mention a few. building materials in the province MEC encouraged the co-operatives and even the country at large. members to focus on growing their To date the cooperative have business from strength to strength. managed to produce building panels MEC also committed her department used for the construction of a clinic to support the co-operative by and school around the area. empowering them through targeted The members of the cooperative interventions such as for training hope to expand their business on running of the business, business and supply building materials to plans development, and participating construction companies operating in local community empowerment within the province and throughout initiatives for the benefit the local the country. 28 AUGUST 2020 MAHIKENG MAIL PAGE 3 Health workers outside the department offices chanting songs Health employees disclose COVID-19 non-compliances in department MAHIKENG MAIL-MAHIKENG: Health Department employees this week embarked on a highly explosive protested action and vacated their offices following the loss of one of their colleagues who reportedly died due to covid-19 complications while she was heavy pregnant. The death of the HR staff member led to “With immediate effect, people with employees taking to the street demanding that comorbidities, people who are above the age MEC Madoda Sambatha address them on why of 60 and pregnant women should not come to he was allowing the department to work on 100 work with effect from tomorrow, (Tuesday). percent capacity which was against COVID-19 Management should create a provincial staff office compliance regulations. roster with 80 percent at work and 20 percent The employees further questioned the existence rostered. Management should also communicate of more than 20 Covid-19 positives cases and two effectively with workers who will be part of the deaths in the department saying they feared for 80 percent and 20 percent process. their lives while working in an unsafe building “Department of Health has to comply with the housing the department. regulations. It cannot be explaining to anybody in Health workers demanded actions from society how the regulations should be implemented management to resolve the COVID-19 non- and it does not implement them. What we must compliance status that had placed “so many lives also ensure is that there is discipline and there is at risks following no testing to those who were in compliance with COVID-19 regulations. We must contact with Covid-19 positives cases. also ensure that the refurbishment of the building Health MEC, Madoda Sambatha, when is done so that the Department of Labour does not responding to the issues of employees he come back again to issue us with a certificate of said workers were unhappy with compliances non-compliance as a workplace,” the MEC said. regarding COVID-19 regulation in the department Worker said they still expected the department and promised that management would meet them to keep their word on compliance in order to to address their issues. ensure their safety in the working environment. Mokgoro calls for renewal of ANC MAHIKENG MAIL – MAHIKENG: The first chairperson of the Mafikeng branch of the African National Congress launched in Mmabatho on August 20 1990, Job Mokgoro has called on all ANC members to rally behind attempts to renew the liberation movement and bring it back to it’s former glory. Addressing the 30th anniversary of the branch and survival of the millions of South Africans. named Mafikeng since Mmabatho was associated The event was also attended among others with apartheid and attended by more than 80 by the Paul Daphne who served as the 30-year- ANC members , supporters and sympathisers old branch’s secretary and Themba Gwabeni then, Mokgoro told attendees last Thursday in , Mothusi Shupinyana and several other Golfview that the ANC today was a shadow of members of the ANC of yester-year. Daphne the former liberation organisation which was recalled how the ANC branch established and never associated with fraud and corruption. all the challengers and hardship its members The North West Premier decried the ever and leadership suffered from the former increasing negative reports and public attack Bophuthatswana security branch members. being levelled against the organisation for its Vicky Lekoko , great-great –grand daughter of members’ part in the Covid-19 corruption which Kgosi Lekoko read-out the three letters written saw millions of rands being stolen from the in 1812 by her great-great grand-father to then government coffers for personal enrichment. ANC leader, Prixley in preparation for the launch He said for the ANC to be resurrected, its of the ANC in Bloemfontein in 1812. leadership must get rid of all the bad apples in The event was set on a virtual connection the movement who were continuing to give the through which former ANC members who took ANC a bad name through their corrupt practices. part in the 1990 launch currently situated in other He called on those who still believed in a parts of the country including Kwazulu-Natal , strong, clean and corruption- free ANC to unite Gauteng, Vryburg and Pretoria were virtually behind the movement and fight for the protection linked with the proceedings in Mafikeng. PAGE 4 MAHIKENG MAIL 28 AUGUST 2020 Ear to the Ground By Ofentse Morwane Municipalities must put the people first The recent report by the Auditor-General The report reflects how billions livelihoods of the poor households. of the people. In truth, for a very long about the state of municipalities in the of funds allocated to the district and According to the report, the province time the residents of Mahikeng have been country does not come as a surprise. At local municipalities in the province are has experienced a regression in the current subjected to a lack of basic services by the least, not to many of us. The report, titled squandered and unaccounted for while audit outcomes. This completes a three- municipality. In instances where there is -Not much to go around, yet not the rights the lack of basic services persists in the year downward trajectory in the audit provision of such services, they are simply hands at the till - lays bare the sorry state communities. It paints a harrowing picture outcomes of the province since the new substandard. Those charged with running relating to the functioning of municipalities of a total lack of accountability, systematic administration took office after the local this municipality have persistently failed in the country. North-West Province is no breakdown in the discipline of internal government elections in 2016, the report to serve our people.