Seldsame siekte City Hall expected Ace Models Bfn blus nie passie van to be restored dra vyfde keer brandweerman next year, says Olly nasionale kroon BLADSY 2 PAGE 2 BLADSY 3 THURSDAY 28 JUNE 2018 NEWS YOU CAN USE FREE Bfn family’s triple tragedy Boy dies in infancy • Wrong body buried • Body exhumed secretly SEITHATI SEMENOKANE Mondli Mvambi, confirmed that [email protected] the state mortuary manager had taken leave and that due to this After suffering the tragic death of her they were having trouble getting the 13-day-old baby, a young mother of family answers. He added that the Heidedal, Rachel Seretco, was dealt a department was working towards second blow when the mortuary they finding out what had happened had used for the funeral informed so that the family could have them that they had buried the wrong closure, and that they would inform baby. Courant as soon as there were any Seretco’s aunt, Valerie Matekan, developments. explained the sad story to Courant in Speaking on how Seretco, the an exclusive interview. “Last Friday mother of the baby, was doing, (15 June 2018) we held the funeral, Maketan said that she was severely and on Monday (18 June 2018) traumatised by the early death of the state mortuary people came her new-born son, and this incident here and told us we had buried the has made it much worse. wrong baby and we would have to “We are very upset, we don’t know come and see if our baby was still if it is our baby they buried there, at the government mortuary,” said because we did not see if it was Matekan. our baby. That’s our problem. And Matekan said the family then went The family will leave now no one is available to give us to the government mortuary on no stone unturned to answers,” concluded Maketan. Tuesday, 19 June 2018, in hopes get justice. This matter Community leader and family of finding out what had happened. will be taken to the spokesperson, Gustav Wilson, has “We wanted to see the baby, then highest authority. – expressed his shock and anger they said no, they would come on A family in mourning. From the left are Valerie GUSTAV WILSON about the incident. “Although I Wednesday to fetch us from our Maketan, Rachel Seretco and Fanie Diba (father accept that people sometimes make house and take us to the graveyard, of the deceased baby). mistakes, I am disgusted by the way then they would swop the babies.” PHOTO: PIERCE VAN HEERDEN in which the situation was handled The family waited but neither the by both the government mortuary government mortuary nor the the babies without us, the family, being and the funeral undertakers. They mortuary they used for the funeral, present.” mortuary and the family. I’ve got nothing made the family’s trauma so much worse Temeng Funeral Services, pitched. As if The state mortuary could not give to do with that. All I did, was just show by switching the babies without the family their suffering wasn’t enough, they were the family any answers stating that the them where the grave was. The state being present. The family will leave no dealt a third blow. “Then we went to manager was on leave, so they tried mortuary and the family must solve the stone unturned to get justice. This matter Temeng Mortuary, only to find out that to get answers from Temeng Funeral case,” said manager, Shakes Mohlabi. will be taken to the highest authority for they went to the graveyard and switched Services. “This thing is between the state Health Department spokesperson, investigation,” said Wilson. 2 COMMUNITY NEWS • GEMEENSKAPSNUUS www.bloemfonteincourant.co.za • [email protected] • 28 June 2018 City Hall to be completed by October 2019 PULANE CHOANE “Because we handed everything over to [email protected] the insurers, they too must hand over the building to us once it is completed. This is Speaking to members of the media the insurer’s responsibility and Mangaung is community in Bloemfontein on Wednesday, not responsible for this restorative process,” Executive Mayor of the Mangaung Mlamleli added. Metropolitan Municipality, Olly Mlamleli, Meanwhile, Anton Roodt, architect, revealed said while it may seem like there is no that on 18 July there would be a compulsory work being done on the restoration of the site visit for all interested contractors. Bloemfontein City Hall, much work has “Soon after that, when the tender has been already been done and if all goes according accepted by the procurement department to plan, the building may be restored by of the insurance, the actual contract amount October 2019. will be known. That is, what it will cost to “We are hoping to be done with the building reinstate the building,” Roodt said. by October 2019. If there might be snags, Roodt also revealed that the first phase of This is all that has remained of the City Hall after it was torched last year in June. then maybe we will stretch it to December this project, which consisted of clearing the PHOTO: PIERCE VAN HEERDEN 2019,” Mlamleli revealed. building of rubble and asbestos remnants, Her statements come after opposition party, had already passed and the oversight visit it would be too time consuming to do so. torched by striking municipal workers, the Freedom Front Plus, blasted Mlamleli last would mark the beginning of the second Work that remains to be done also includes historians and civil society all over the week for the lack of communication on her phase, which sought to find the right the cleaning of the marble floors, which country lamented, calling the incident a side with regards to developments on the people to complete the restoration of the requires the use of certain materials. He “tragedy and a blow to the local economy”. building’s restoration. building. said that owing to certain factors, sourcing The hall is considered a national heritage Mlamleli revealed that the building was Roodt said that while much of the work some materials locally would prove to be site as it was built in 1935. It has a beautiful insured for close to R200 million and that still needed to be done, a significant part impossible and some materials such as the Italian-style interior with an attractive the insurance company would henceforth of the groundwork in evaluating materials wood used for the window frames and roof sandstone exterior. It is a large, stately be in charge of the restorative process as needed for the restoration has already tiles would need to be imported. sandstone building with marble interiors well as the tendering process, which will take been done. He added that the hall’s roof The City Hall is a national heritage site designed by the well-known South African place next month or in August later this year. would not be covered in the meantime as and on 21 June 2017, when it was allegedly architect, Sir Gordon Leith. Siekte blus nie brandweerman se passie JERETHA OOSTHUIZEN veroorsaak deur ’n faringitis-infeksie keer [email protected] wat hy die vorige week opgedoen het. aan dié Hy is gehospitaliseer, maar intussen kompetisie Russel van Deventer, Bloemfonteinse ontslaan en voel reeds perdfris en deelneem. brandweerman, het onlangs nog aan gesond. Hy het een Bloemfontein Courant vertel hoe hy Hy verduidelik dat die skielike doel voor voorberei vir die Toughest Firefighter terugslag nie sy planne in die wiele oë, en dit Alive-kompetisie wat op 10 en 11 gaan ry nie. Hy gaan steeds deelneem is om as Augustus gehou word. aan die kompetisie wat in die wenner Nou word sy deelname egter in die Kaapstad plaasvind. aangewys weegskaal nadat serebrale veneuse “Tensy iets onverwags gebeur, gaan ek te word. Hy sinustrombose (SVST), ’n uiters beslis nog aan die Toughest Firefighter het reeds seldsame siektetoestand, by hom Alive-kompetisie deelneem. Ek mag groot Russel van Deventer gediagnoseer is. weer oor sowat twee weke my sukses FOTO: ARISHA RAY SINGH Sowat 10 dae gelede het Van oefening hervat,” het Van Deventer behaal. Hy Deventer groot geskrik toe hy gesê. Dat hy weer ’n bloedklont sal was in 2015 die enigste Vrystater sowat ’n minuut lank alle gevoel in kry, is baie onwaarskynlik aangesien hy wat deel was van die Suid- sy linkerarm verloor het. Hy het ook nou vir 18 maande op antistolmiddels Afrikaanse span van agt lede wat in skielik hoofpyne ervaar. Hy is na ’n is. Duitsland deelgeneem het. hospitaal in Bloemfontein waar hy ’n Hy vertel dat dit soveel erger kon Meer as 100 brandweermanne gaan magnetiese resonansbeelding (MRI) gewees het. “My fiksheid en oefeninge aan die nasionale kompetisie, wat ondergaan het en SVST by hom het ’n positiewe invloed op my hierdie jaar in Kaapstad gehou word, gediagnoseer is. prognose gehad.” deelneem. Daar sal agt deelnemers Volgens die dokters is die SVST Van Deventer sal vanjaar die sesde uit Bloemfontein kom. YOU WILLWILL IITT HHERE...ERE... 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