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Dream Team Launch Dusi Assault a Team of Volunteers Cleared One Of 12 January 2018 Your FREE Caxton Local Newspaper www.northglennews.co.za No back to school blues for local learners On Wednesday, 17 January, thousands of learners around the countrycoun will head backback toto schoolschool forfor thethe start of the 2018 school year.year. WhileWhi for some there will be plentyplenty ofof sad faces,f others are raringraring to go,go, readyready to tackleta the challengeschallenges head-on. ReddamRedd College UmhlangaUmhlanga learner, StellaStella CuthbertC (middle)(middle) and her friends,friends, AmyA Chapple andand DianaD Toto areare looking forwardf to their fi rst Danville learner day back at school. shines the brightest Page 5 Drivers cautioned about rock attacks Page 9 A team of volunteers cleared one of the largest ponds in the 38 hectare Virginia Bush Nature Reserve in Dream team the fi rst clean-up of 2018. Story on page 3 launch Dusi assault Page 19 2 Friday, 12 January 2018 Online help for matriculants to THE Verdic Hall in central Durban and your problems out to your family and the Durban Botanic Gardens was the friends. Sometimes, this can add fuel setting for the union of a couple who to fi re and something small can end up get into varsity would, 50 years on, still be madly in being something big. We faced all our love. problems together as a couple.” THE Central Applications Clearing House Prem and Billy Nagiah were While Billy worked, Prem cared (CACH) online application service for married on 31 December, 1967 and the for their three children and continued matriculants, who struggled to secure a place Somerset Park couple this week told to run the home. They now have fi ve at the educational institution of their choice, the Northglen News that it was prayer grandchildren. has opened and will remain open until 28 that kept the marriage strong. But it seems there is no slowing February 2018. “The secret is to have Jesus included down for 73-year-old Billy who keeps CACH services are particularly useful for in all areas of your life. He will help fi t and active by running three times applicants who applied for admission to a you cross any bridge that comes before a week. “I run from my home in university or college in time, but have not you,” the couple said almost in unison. Somerset Park to the M41, up pass the been offered a place or their programme of The Nagiahs met about four years M4 and back home and I thoroughly choice. before Billy proposed to 18-year-old enjoy it,” he said. It can also be useful for prospective students Prem in 1967. What’s more the couple said they are who achieved better than expected results, “ I was a friend of Prem's brother and active in their church, Christian Life and now wish to access a different course that is how we got to know each other. Center, situated in Welbedacht East, or university or Technical and Vocational We dated for about four years and when Chatsworth. Education and Training (TVET) college. I felt I was man enough I asked for her “We currently work among the Students who missed the application hand in marriage.” poorest of the poor in this area where window period for one reason or the other can Their union, as Billy would put it, we run and help care for about 28 also use CACH services. has been, “A match made in heaven.” orphans. The centre, called, Phumula CACH was established in 2013 in response Another piece of advice coming from Children's Care Village, is run by our to the large number of applicants seeking Billy who worked in the engineering church, Christian Life Center. We are entry to the Post School Education and fi eld for most of his life: “Don't take busy there most of the time.” Training (PSET) sector in January, when most universities have closed their application process. It is provided by the Department of Higher Education and Training as a service that is free to both applicants and institutions. Now in its fi fth year, CACH has attracted 18 329 applicants. Registration can be done on CACH’s website: cach.dhet.gov.za. CACH is also contactable via standard SMS (name and ID) to 49200 or by email: [email protected] Safety appeal from NSRI THE National Sea Rescue Institute has appealed to paddlers and sail boarders to Billy and Prem Nagiah on the wedding day in 1967 at the Durban Botanic Billy and Prem Nagiah celebrating their 50th wedding stencil a names and contact numbers on their Gardens. anniversary last Sunday, 31 December 2017. crafts. According to the NSRI, every time an unmanned craft washes up on the beaches they launch a search. In a statement on Facebook, they said: “If you abandon your craft at sea please alert INTERNATIONAL GRANITE COMPANY the NSRI. When we fi nd an unmanned craft, Tel : 082 451 1142 www.internationalgranitecompany.com board or kite, we assume the worst and launch a search. Having a name and number to call, 690 Chris Hani Road 123 Carlisle Street(C.B.D) helps us try to trace the person to see if they (North Coast Road) DIY 031 309 5043 are in need of assistance.” 031 563 8215 Kitchen Granite QUARTZ (7 Colours Available) Surfaces 30mm (11 Colours Available) from mm 30mm excl VAT +20 R 346.50 per L meter R1023.40 2 from per m excl VAT BEST PRICE! CONTACT 031 563 8215 [email protected] Friday, 12 January 2018 3 Two arrested for Durban North break-in TWO suspects have been arrested following a house break-in on Margaret Maytom Avenue on Friday last week. The break-in occurred just after 3pm confi rmed Marshall Security’s Kyle van Reenen. A DEDICATED team of Since November there have been more than 12 around fi ve volunteers and break-ins in the north Durban area. three hired help tackled the “Our reaction offi cers spotted the men fl eeing fi rst Virginia Bush Nature down Ryde Place in possession of a wooden door Reserve clean-up of 2018 and security gate removed from a property in the on Saturday targeting one of area. the largest ponds in the 38 hectare “The suspects were arrested on site and reserve. handed over to the Greenwood Park police. The The reserve is home to several property was confi rmed by the home owner to ponds which in recent times has have been removed from his premises,” van been affected by water lettuce or Reenen said. Pistia stratiotes (Araceae). The Police have also urged residents to remain fl oating plant commonly forms vigilant and to report any suspicious behaviour. large infestations which negatively Contact the station on 031 560 8004. impact the native environment as well as the fi sh and turtles. Mariet Becker and her husband, James, who regularly walk their EMERGENCY dogs in the reserve said despite clearing out one of the ponds, they NUMBERS needed more volunteers to help out. Ambulance Police Netcare 911 Greenwood Park Police It’s so exciting to see Dial: 082 911 Station EMRS Dial: (031) 571 6512/3/4 (Government) so much wildlife return Dial: 10177 Fire & Rescue Alison Thomas and Mariet Becker tidy up one of the smaller EThekwini Fire Trauma Counselling ponds which had been invaded. and Rescue Dbn North uMhlanga Dial: (031) 361 0000 “We are not able to pay for hired Crisis Team help every time we do a clean-up Dial: 074 026 5828 SPCA and we are appealing to the north last few months. Police 1HſEG*QWTU Flying Squad 10111 (031) 579 6500 Durban community to come out Shiraz Habbib “The ponds are home to turtles, Durban North Police Station #HVGT*QWTU and support the initiative. We are shirazh@dbn. crabs, fi sh and a rare species of Dial: (031) 560 8009 083 212 6103 going to do this clean-up at least caxton.co.za tilapia using the bonds. The lettuce Netcare uMhlanga Hospital once a month until winter when forms dense carpets of vegetation www.northglennews.co.za The roots of the water Switchboard (031) 560 5500 the lettuce dies off and we are able on the water surface, blocking lettuce are attached to to tackle the edges of the ponds. sunlight from reaching submerged 24 HOUR EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT There's still a number of ponds left water lettuce we had piled up on the plants and reducing the oxygen each other forming a dense & STROKE CENTRE to clear up. It's so exciting to see side of the pathway. My plea is for exchange at the water’s surface. blanket over the water. Tel: (031) 560 5607/12 so much wildlife return and to see all those concerned to either come We need to get rid of as much as Netcare uMhlanga Hospital fi sh species coming to the surface and do their bit, lend a helping hand possible to combat the negative 323 uMhlanga Rocks Drive, uMhlanga, Tel: +27 (0) 31 560 5500 GPS: 29.43.29.95S 31.5.7.56E to feed. or let’s source a fi nancial backup impact the water lettuce has on the You’re in safe hands “I must thank the parks to fund someone willing to do it,” fi sh in the pond who won’t survive department who have in the interim Mariet said. if this is left alone,” he said. cut back the grass around two of James Becker, her husband said Contact 082 444 1574 (Mariet) the ponds and cleared the clumps of they'd noticed the build-up over the to join in.
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