Thursday 23 May 2019 NEWS YOU CAN USE FREE A freshly patched up 2nd Avenue, a route in the bustling business area of Westdene. A city awakens... All indications are that the will to serve its residents has returned to the Mangaung Metro Municipality headquarters. After months of slow or no service delivery, projects to improve the city are popping up everywhere. Not only are there new service delivery projects taking place in various parts of the city but the turnaround time has also improved according to some residents. Although Mangaung spokesperson, Qondile Khedama, didn’t elaborate, he did tell Bloemfontein Courant that the municipality is making major inroads in providing services to the community. Bloemfontein Courant’s NOMAQHAWE MTEBELE went around the City of Roses where she found numerous streets getting patched up, potholes being filled and overgrown grass getting trimmed among other services. PIERCE VAN HEERDEN took the pictures. The pavement in Louw Wepener Street across from Preller Square was The paving in the busy Dr Belcher Road was getting fixed on Municipal workers took up their tools on Wednesday being repaired by municipal workers on Tuesday. Wednesday morning. morning to remove sand the Pelonomi Academic Hospital. 5 5 5 5 0217+*8$5$17(( 21$//&$5 758&. %$77(5,(6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 .UDXVHVWU2UDQMHVLJ%ORHPIRQWHLQ 5 5 $)7(5+2856 35(6,'(17$9( 7HO 5 5 (PDLOEORHPIRQWHLQ#DWODVEDWWHU\FR]D 5 5 [ /2$'6+('',1*63(&,$/ *V$+'8$/385326( 67$57,1*&<&/,1*32:(5 5 9$/,':+,/(672&./$676 :HDOVRVWRFN02725&<&/($/$50 35,&(668%-(&7726&5$3%$77(5<(;&+$1*( $//35,&(6,1&/8'(9$7 *$7(02725*(1(5$725$1'/$17(51%$77(5,(6 7HUPVDQG&RQGLWLRQVDSSO\ 2 Gemeenskap • Community Bloemfontein Courant • 23 May 2019 Onwettige oplaaipunt Halfway house plan steeds ’n tameletjie Pieter Delport Die lawaai tot laat voor die huise is ’n groot [email protected] steurnis,” sê Haman. ‘off the table’ Hy sê die gemeenskap voel dat die ’n Inwoner van Noordhoek wat ’n paar weke munisipaliteit hom nie aan hulle steur nie, Sazly Hartzenberg gelede sy lot in Bloemfontein Courant bekla ondanks al die fotobewyse van onwettighede [email protected] het oor ’n onwettige oplaaipunt voor sy huis in wat hulle al verskaf het. Raymond Mhlabaweg, sit na vele klagtes aan “Vroue en kinders moet al die dinge The Department of die Mangaung-metro steeds met sy hande in wat hier gebeur aanskou. En as mens die Correctional Services in the sy hare. skuldiges vra om nie rommel te strooi of Free State has decided not André Haman is op moedverloor se lawaai te maak nie, word jy gedreig en to go ahead with plans to vlakte oor dié probleem wat hy meen talle gevloek. Dit is onaanvaarbaar om so bedreig open a halfway house for veiligheids- en gesondheidsrisiko’s vir die te voel in jou eie omgewing. prisoners in Universitas in inwoners van die gebied inhou. Van die dinge “Ons maak die eiland voor my huis Bloemfontein. wat hom dwars in die krop steek, is motors daagliks skoon, omdat dit soos ashoop lyk, The department said the wat enige plek stop om rylopers op te laai, die maar steeds voel die munisipaliteit vere. Die disapproval displayed by strooi van rommel, drankmisbruik, asook die gesondheidsbeamptes by die munisipaliteit the residents of Universitas lawaai wat daarmee gepaard gaan. doen nie eers moeite om op ons navrae te is one of the main reasons “Die munisipaliteit ignoreer ons klagtes reageer nie. Bel mens wetstoepassing oor die why the project will no The Universitas house that had been identified as a possible halfway oor die publiek se veiligheid sowel as talle gedrinkery en slegte gedrag van rylopers, kry longer be continuing. house for prisoners on parole. PHOTO: PIERCE VAN HEERDEN wetsoortredings wat by die oplaaipunt jy geen reaksie nie.” This comes after a plaasvind. Niemand gee gehoor of reageer Haman sê van al die munisipaliteit se house in the area had op ons navrae nie. Beloftes van vergaderings beloftes om die situasie te ondersoek, het tot been identified as a possible choice to this halfway house would bring new crime word nie nagekom nie en ons voorstelle dusver dadels gekom. Die situasie word egter house prisoners on parole. The department into the already affected area. One of the oor hoe om die probleem op te los, word net erger by die dag. “As munisipaliteit nie spokesperson, Puleng Mokhoane, told students living in the area explained at the geïgnoreer. gehoor gaan gee aan ons pleidooie nie, gaan Bloemfontein Courant that the department meeting, which was attended by more than “My een seun ly aan angs, wat ons ons die saak beslis verder neem, want ons will never force or impose any decision that is 300 people, that she had been robbed earlier huishoding nadelig beïnvloed omdat dit as gemeenskap is geregtig op ’n veilige en not supported by a community. She explained that morning and feared that if the project nie veilig is daar nie met die gedrinkery en skoon omgewing,” het ’n moedelose Haman that they had to stop it after realising that this continued, it would get worse. soms bakleiery deur rylopers en motoriste. aan Bloemfontein Courant gesê. idea did not sit well with the community. The Democratic Alliance’s (DA) ward “The idea behind a halfway house is that 23 councillor, Tjaart van der Walt, told those parolees are supported and accepted Bloemfontein Courant that the process that GOOD COMPANY TO KEEP by the community they are placed in. So, was followed was problematic to begin with. if from the word go they do not get that He spoke to a few people in the area who 1(:&203$1<5(*,675$7,216 support, we have no reason to go on with it,” said that they had only found out about the 6+(/)&203$1,(6 Mokhoane explained. meeting that would be held on Wednesday 37<&&&+$1*(6 She said that at this point there are no (15th May) and the reason for it at around &219(56,216 plans or possible new areas for this halfway 17:00 on the Tuesday (14th May). He said 02,$'237,216 house, as it is a process to start looking for another problem with having a halfway house 5(6725$7,216 one. “There is a certain stigma connected in an area such as this, was the fact that it $118$/5(78516 to parolees that makes it difficult to get is filled with students who are seen as soft 6+$5(&(57,),&$7(6 acceptance from communities or even to get targets by criminals because they carry many 6+$5(75$16)(56 a house to rent.” valuables with them. ,1&20(7$; Mokhoane said that this has been “Just to show the weight of the disapproval 7$;&/($5$1&( the second incident of its kind that the 9$75(*,675$7,216 by the community, over 800 people signed an department is dealing with it. She added ,03257 (;32575(*,675$7,216 online form saying that they do not support that these incidents are not often as there %%%((9(5,),&$7,216 the halfway house idea and with them only 75$'(0$5.6 aren’t many of these halfway houses at the being notified in less than 24 hours, people &2,'$ moment. came out in their numbers,” he explained. &,'%13&5(*,675$7,216 “If we get resistance from a community, we Van der Walt said that for a residential 3$<(8,) immediately start looking for an alternative,” house to be used for anything else but living she said. in it, rezoning needed to be done at the :KDWVDSS 7 This comes after videos had spread like municipality and he personally went to find (EORHP#SW\RQOLQHFR]D wildfire on social media where Universitas out if this had been done. It had not, but ZZZSW\RQOLQHFR]D residents, including numbers of students, in spite of that residents were told that the .HOOQHU6WUHHW :HVWGHQH were shown expressing their discomfort and parolees would be moving in by Monday this %ORHPIRQWHLQ unhappiness. 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