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Learn More About Snakes This World Snake Day KINGDOM DOORS GARAGE DOORS & SECURITY DOORS Nutbrown Block Aluminium Block R4,750 R4,750 Includes: Door, Hardware, Motor & 2 Remotes 1 LENASIA 011 857 2052/61 Friday 17 July, 2020 2 EVATON PLAZA 016 582 0535 3 VOSLOORUS CROSSING 011 901 4064 ONLINE EXCLUSIVE - Soweto youngsters fi nd passion in fi lm making Ssssnakes in Eldos! Learn more about snakes this World Snake Day Janice Beckett-Msiza added that the worst bite happened last year easier. I also advise people to send a photo months and that’s normal. You have to when he took a bite to the head, thankfully of the snake to me so that I can also mental- clean their spaces at least twice a week. July 16 is World Snake Day. “This day of he did not need any stitches. When ly prepare myself to deal with the snake.” The more snakes you have the more recognition was established to help peo- it comes to catching and releas- Fortuin’s permit allows him to catch the maintenance.” Fortuin also shared that ple learn more about these misrepresented ing snakes, Fortuin does call snake and then release it back into the his snakes eat thawed out rats. (de- reptiles and to highlight the vital role they outs in Ennerdale, Lenasia wild, the ten that he currently owns frosted rats). “I would like to have my play in the balance of nature,” this is from and Eldorado Park. “With are those that he bought. “The best own reptile display room to show these the WildEarth.tv website. When it comes to winter season snakes seek starting snake for anyone I would say wonderful creatures off and also just so locals who own snakes we got in touch with shelter. The best advice is a Ball Python because they are very that I can rise awareness to the commu- Casey Fortuin (26) who owns; three Boa that I give to people when chilled out. Corn snakes are also a nity, we have a lot the older generation Constrictors, three Ball Pythons, one Corn it comes to keeping snakes good starter snake. Maintenance on who spread these myth’s and people like Snake, one Milk Snake, and two Reticulated out of their yards is to keep a snake is not that bad, if you have to believe everything they see in movies Pythons. Fortuin who has his Honours in your yards clean. If your a Ball Python you feed them a rat about snakes and it is not true,” concluded Electrical and Electronic Engineering also yard is dirty, it will attract once a week or once every two Fortuin. did courses through the African Snakebite rodents and that will attract weeks, sometimes they go on Institute where he did the Advanced Venom- the snakes, as long as there a hunger strike that’s ous Snake Handling course, Snake Aware- is a food source for the what I call it. My snakes they will come. Ball Python When you encounter a didn’t want “Snakes don’t show snake, please avoid to eat for unnecessary three affection, as long as you confrontation. give them their space and Keep an eye on it from a you respect them there’s safe distance nothing to fear.” (about fi ve meters Casey Fortuin away) until I or another ness and First Aid for Snake Bites course. snake He also has a catch and release permit from remover the Gauteng Department of Agricultural arrives. and Rural Development to catch and release It will wild snakes. “I’ve always been in love with make reptiles ever since I’ve watched Jurassic our job Park, whenever I watched shows of snakes and they killed a snake I use to cry when I was a little boy. I always told my parents Neo Nhlapo holding a Boa Constrictor, and grandparents that I want a snake one day. I got my fi rst snake at the age of 22,” For more info about snakes: explained Fortuin. The fi rst snake that For- tuin owned was the Ball Python which he Casey Fortuin If you fi nd a snake in your yard or still has. “Snakes don’t show aff ection, as holding his Boa would like to know more about snakes long as you give them their space and you Constrictor, and you can contact Casey Fortuin on 071 respect them there’s nothing to fear. I love his two Reticulated 480 8086 and on Facebook; Casey them even though they bite me or strike at Pythons. Fortuin, Instagram: @TheCase_325 me sometimes, I still love them.” Fortuin 2 Community Soweto Urban Eldorado | Friday, 17 July, 2020 Cllr Jaffer sheds light on his Ward Janice Beckett-Msiza that there is a high demand on the electrical unfortunate that the unemployment rate is grid during winter and that they experience so high and now people resort to criminal Ward 18 consists of all the extensions from challenges with City Power. “We also have a activities, I’m not justifying their actions. extension 1 to extension 7 and Ward Council- lot of potholes and there’s short staff at Johan- We do have a very active Community lor (Cllr) Fazel Jaff er oversees the Ward. We nesburg Road Agency (JRA), so the whole area Police Forum (CPF), but if we do not interviewed the Cllr to get some information is full of potholes.” “Our biggest issue is with have the backing of the community on his Ward. We asked the Cllr what projects Housing, there is a huge backlog in Eldorado then we just fi ghting a losing battle,” are currently taking place in his ward and he Park and we need to be honest, residents feel said Cllr Jaff er. The Cllr also indicated explained that there are two projects that are that they have been marginalised. We have is- that he would like residents to take the currently taking place. The fi rst project is the responsibility of reporting issues. He rebuilding of Nancefi eld Primary School. “This said that they should not report fi rst to project was started last year already so they “Our biggest issue is with the Ward Councillors, they need to report it will probably fi nish with it in mid- year of to the relevant entities like City Power, next year, this project is shared between Ward Housing, there is a huge Joburg Water, and JRA, residents 17 and Ward 18,” said Cllr Jaff er. The second backlog in Eldorado Park should fi rst log the calls and if the project which is soon about to start will take issues isn’t resolved in a certain place in extension 1 at the sub-station. The Cllr and we need to be honest, time-frame then you can mentioned that there were opportunities for residents feel that they forward the reference Small, Medium & Micro Enterprise Business- numbers to es (SMME’s), a Community Liaison Offi cer have been marginalised.” your Ward (CLO), and a safety representative position, (Cllr) Fazel Jaffer Coun- according to Cllr Jaff er there will be oppor- cil- tunities for local labour too. “It is a seven- lors. teen-million-rand (R17m) project and it has sues with our council stock fl ats, when Herman been stopped twice already, fi rst with former Mashaba was still the Mayor there was a R50m major Herman Mashaba due to allegations of budget that was allocated towards trying to corruption, and then the second time when the fi x and maintain the fl ats but with the new principal contractor withdrew from the project. budget that money was taken away.” “Some It’s starting this year again and at least there residents have received title deeds and some Before contacting the councillor you can call: will be economic activity in the ward for the are still demanding services from local Joburg Water: [email protected] or SMS: 082 653 2143. City Power: next two years. They will be installing new government. When it comes to crime, the citypower.mobi, or you can contact the City of Johannesburg Call Centre on: transformers to try and mitigate the outages crime is still very high but in order to con- 0860JOBURG / 0860562874 to get through to these entities. that the ward has been experiencing,” added quer that we need residents to come on Ward Councillor Fazel Jaff er: 076 981 5383 and Ward (17) Councillor Peter Raff erty; Cllr Jaff er. When it comes to the issues which board to start street committees or block 073 368 6948. the Ward is faced with, on top of the Cllr’s list committees to root out these criminal was the power outages. Cllr Jaff er explained elements in our community.” “It’s (Cllr) Fazel Jaff er Wear your mask correctly in public spaces Janice Beckett-Msiza Wearing a mask in public spaces is now the protocol that each and everyone in the country has to follow in order to get service, to go into the malls, hospitals, local shops, Police visibility will be increased during lockdown. police station, and any other facilities. Many people are making common mistakes when wearing their masks and theses mistakes More funds allocated for police visibility can defeat the purpose of you wearing a The Portfolio Committee on Police wel- into the SAPS, the committee welcomes the mask. Dr Susan Louw, a pathologist at the comes the additional R3.7 billion adjusted announcement that a process to enlist 3 000 National Health Laboratory Service and budget allocation to the visible policing reservists is well underway and would be spokesperson for Dettol, said: “there’s a environment which plays a critical role in completed by the end of October.
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