www.bolandgazette.co.za bolandgazette.mobi Year 18 • Tuesday 5 August 2014 | Tel. 021 853 0211 Helderberg Read in this week’s DistrictMail ) Speeding driver caught with R500 000 abalone ) Strand hi-jacking ) Copper bust in Gants ) Club-rugby news and results Lwandle enquiries 3 Your say on Women’s Day 4 Touch rugby 8 JAMEY GORDON An ambulance that allegedly failed to stop at a red traffic light collided with a 1400 Nis- san bakkie, which in turn crashed into a minibus taxi on the corner of Hlathi Drive and the N2, outside Lwandle, on Friday. According to Constable Mthokozisi Gama, spokesperson for the Lwandle Police, the inci- dent occurred at about 07:10. The ambulance was leaving George Street Ext to get onto the N2 in the direction of Cape Town when it allegedly skipped the red traffic light and collided with the small white bakkie. Gama says the bak- kie was travelling from Grabouw in the direction of Cape Town and crossing a green light at the time. According to witnesses, the ambulance was travelling at a high speed without any sirens on when it crossed the red traffic light. It is believed that the driver of the bakkie lost control of the vehi- cle due to the impact of the colli- sion, and hit a Toyota Quantum taxi travelling from Hlathi Drive. The driver of the bakkie was in- jured, as were five other passen- gers from the bakkie, one of whom sustained severe injuries and had to be airlifted to hospital. The ambulance driver and a passenger were also injured and had to be transported to hospital by ambulance. According to a statement re- leased by ER24, 11 occupants of the minibus taxi sat on the road- side after the incident. A case of reckless and negligent driving is being investigated. Less than an hour later a sec- ond accident occurred on the N2 when the driver of a silver Volkswagen Polo sedan reported- ly came speeding past the acci- dent scene. According to Gama, the vehicle appeared to be heavi- ly loaded as the rear was hanging close to the ground. Police at the first accident scene found the vehicle suspi- cious and gave chase. According to eyewitnesses, the driver lost control of the vehicle in an attempt to get away and the car overturned and landed on its roof at the traffic lights opposite Somerset West Business Park. The driver (29) was arrested and abalone worth an estimated R502 650 was found in the boot of the VW Polo. The car and the aba- lone were confiscated. The driver appeared in the Strand Magis- trate’s Court on Monday 4 August on charges of being in possession of abalone and reckless and negli- gent driving. Anyone with information may call Detective Captain Andries Geldenhuys on 082 469 7719. The scene of the first accident on the N2 on Friday. PHOTOS: JAMEY GORDON AND DELIAH BRINKHUIS The ambulance at the accident scene. N2 accidents bring traffic to a grinding halt
) Strand hi-jacking) Copper bust in Gants) Club-rugby news and results
Lwandle enquiries 3
Your say on Women’s Day 4
Touch rugby 8
JAMEY GORDON
An ambulance that allegedlyfailed to stop at a red trafficlight collided with a 1400 Nis-san bakkie, which in turncrashed into aminibus taxi onthe corner of Hlathi Drive andthe N2, outside Lwandle, onFriday.
According to ConstableMthokozisi Gama, spokespersonfor the Lwandle Police, the inci-dent occurred at about 07:10. Theambulance was leaving GeorgeStreet Ext to get onto the N2 inthe direction of Cape Townwhenitallegedlyskippedtheredtrafficlight and collided with the small
whitebakkie.Gamasays thebak-kiewas travelling fromGrabouwinthedirectionofCapeTownandcrossing a green light at the time.According to witnesses, the
ambulance was travelling at ahigh speedwithout any sirens onwhen it crossed the red trafficlight.It is believed that the driver of
thebakkielostcontrolof thevehi-cle due to the impact of the colli-sion, and hit a Toyota Quantumtaxi travelling fromHlathiDrive.Thedriverof thebakkiewasin-
jured, as were five other passen-gers from the bakkie, one ofwhom sustained severe injuriesandhad tobeairlifted tohospital.The ambulance driver and a
passenger were also injured andhad to be transported to hospitalby ambulance.
According to a statement re-leased by ER24, 11 occupants ofthe minibus taxi sat on the road-side after the incident.
Acaseofrecklessandnegligentdriving is being investigated.
Less than an hour later a sec-ond accident occurred on the N2when the driver of a silverVolkswagenPolosedanreported-ly came speeding past the acci-dent scene. According to Gama,the vehicle appeared to be heavi-ly loadedas therear washangingclose to the ground.
Police at the first accidentscene found the vehicle suspi-
cious and gave chase.According to eyewitnesses, the
driver lost control of the vehiclein an attempt to get away and thecar overturned and landed on itsroof at the traffic lights oppositeSomerset West Business Park.The driver (29) was arrested
and abalone worth an estimatedR502 650 was found in the boot oftheVWPolo.Thecarand theaba-lonewereconfiscated.Thedriverappeared in the Strand Magis-trate’sCourtonMonday4Auguston charges of being in possessionofabaloneandrecklessandnegli-gent driving.Anyone with information may
call Detective Captain AndriesGeldenhuys on 082 469 7719.
The scene of the first accident on the N2 on Friday.PHOTOS: JAMEY GORDON AND DELIAH BRINKHUIS
The ambulance at the accident scene.
N2 accidents bring traffic toa grinding halt
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HDC prevents povertyCASSY VAN EEDEN
The Helderberg Develop-ment Centre in SomersetWest began a new semesterofcoursesonMonday28Ju-ly.
Thecentre, founded in 2002,aims to alleviate poverty inthe Helderberg. By offeringunemployed Helderberg resi-dents a series of courses, thecentre empowers and upliftsthemsothat theycanseekem-ployment and even start theirown business.Perhaps the most valuable
service they offer their train-ees is job placement.ElbieMayer, the placement
officer at the centre, said thatalthough it is difficult to gettheir trainees into stable jobsdue to the current state of theeconomy, the centre hasmany success stories.A woman named Malahola
Senatsi who completed the
specialised Sewing for Profitcourse at the centre wore thedress that she designed andmade for her first job inter-view at the centre.Other trainees have gone
ontoestablishtheirowncake-decorating businesses andeven their own crechés.The centre currently offers
home management coursessuch as kitchen skills, laun-dry, cleaning, childminding,first aid, life orientation andpersonal money manage-ment. They also run special-ised courses such as cookingfull meals for families.The courses run fromMon-
daytoFriday forsixweeks,al-though the duration of thecourses ismost likelygoing tobe increased, saidMeyer. “Wejustdon’thaveenough time tofiteverythingintosixweeks,”she said.The courses are facilitated
by volunteer lecturers andthe centre relies solely on do-
nations in order to survive.The courses provides each
trainee with a file filled withresources to the value ofabout R1 000 for them to takehome and the six weeks ofcourses, which include lunchand tea, amount to aboutR7 000 per person.Once applicants have suc-
cessfully been selected for thecourse they are required topay a mere R50 to attend thecourse. The centre will oftenprovide these trainees withsecond hand clothing thatthey can sell in order to raisetheir R50.Currently, the centre needs
new sewing machines, a newstove, a coat rack, any second-hand clothing and of courseany monetary donationswould be appreciated.Contact the Helderberg De-
velopment Centre on 021 8525720 if you would like to em-ploya trainee ormakeanydo-nations to the centre.
A group of trainees at the Helderberg Development Centre attending their Home Management Course.
Special women’s health eventIn celebration ofWomen’s Month,the Multi-SectoralAction Team(MSAT) in the Hel-derbergwillbehost-ing a women’shealth outreachevent that will pro-vide the followingservices:
The event willtake place on 8August from10:00 to 15:00 atthe BethesdaCentre in Broad-lands Park.Included in the
women’s healthoutreach eventwill be live mu-sic, lucky draws
and loads of giveaways.ContactColinvanWykon
078 743 5096 for more infor-mation.
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Lwandle hearings continueJAMEY GORDON
Public hearings into theLwandle evictions re-sumed at the Lwandle com-munity hall this week.
Residents affected by theSA National Roads AgencyLimited’s (Sanral) forcedevictions on 2 and 3 June tes-tified last Tuesday andThursday. On an emotionalfirst day of the local hearingsthe commission heard ac-counts of what had happenedon the day of the evictions.
Evictees told how the po-lice moved into the townshipwith armoured vehicles, stunbombs and tear gas deter-mined to evict them and de-molish their homes. This,knowing they were given nonotice of the evictions andhad nowhere else to go. Someof the residents were at workand children were at school.
Xoliswa Masakala (28) pre-sented heartbreaking testi-mony of how she and her hus-band Albert (38) were man-handled and assaulted bypolice. The commission hadto break when a tearful andemotional Masakala brokedown while testifying.
Inquiry chairman DenzilPotgieter had asked her toidentify herself in variousmedia photographs whichcaptured her with her breastsrevealed while rushing to herhusband’s aid.
According to Ward 85Councillor MbuyiseloMatha, Masakala felt deeplyhurt and angry.
The hearings resumed onThursdaywithstudentSisan-
da Mbayimbayi (26) taking tothe stand first. Mbayimbayiis the mother of a four-year-old boy, Koyola, who lives inthe Eastern Cape and was liv-ing alone at the time of theevictions. The commissionheard that she, like many oth-ers, had moved to the openland in December 2013. Sheexplained that she was stay-ing with her sister and herfamily as backyarders andthe structure they were liv-ing in was too small andcrowded.
Without notice, she wasforcefully removed and herhome dismantled in Febru-ary. After the first evictionsMbayimbayi said that fivestructures remained, so sheand many of the other evict-ees decided to rebuild theirhomes before being evictedfor a second time. She saidher home was destroyedalong with all her belongingsand furniture inside.
The inquiry has spent thepast few days collecting resi-dents’ statements.
Last Monday and Tuesday,the inquiry heard testimo-nies from Sanral, variousNGOs and the Sheriff of theHigh Court, who effected theremovals through a court in-terdict. Both the City of CapeTown and the province optedfor written submissions andreserved their right to com-ment on the inquiry’s find-ings.
Two hundred temporaryhomes for the Lwandle evict-ees were erected on the San-ral-owned land they were re-moved from by the end ofJune. However, only one ofthe evictees had been able tomove into her new homesince its erection.
According to Matha thelaying and drying of the con-crete floors in each homeposed a delay, as well as thefact that most residents donot have any furniture.
Matha says that some of theevictees’ belongings thatcould be saved were stored ata storage facility. This issuewill form part of the inquiry.
Sisanda Mbayimbayi (26) during her presentation.PHOTO: JAMEY GORDON
Verdagte kom los deur slenter’n Verdagte het na beweringop 12 Julie uit polisie-aanhou-ding by die Macassar-polisie-kantoor ontsnap.
Volgens polisiewoordvoer-der, sers. Chrisy Lewaks, is ’nswanger vrou (34) op 11 Juliena bewering deur ’n man aan-gerand wat haar selfoon wousteel. Die man het glo die vrouteen die grond neergegooi en
haar ook gebyt toe sy versuimhetomhaarselfoonteoorhan-dig. ’n Gemeenskapsleier be-weerdatdieverdagteop12Ju-lie deur die gemeenskapsledeaangekeer en ook aangerandis.Dieverdagte isaandiepoli-sie oorhandig. Die gemeen-skapsleier beweer dat dieman, met sy aankoms by diepolisiekantoor, voorgegee het
dat hy bewusteloos is. ’n Poli-sielid het na bewering watervir hom gaan haal en die ver-dagte het weggehardloop.Volgens Lewaks is die verdag-te slegs vir ondervraging in-geneem en daar was geen in-hegtenisneming nie. Lewakssê dat inligting van ’n oogge-tuie nog uitstaande is en dat’n inhegtenisneming sal volg.
Land claims open for submission till 2019The Department of Rural De-velopment and Land Reformhasannouncedthatvictimsofland dispossession can lodgetheir land claims, for a periodof five years until 2019. Theprocess accommodates those
who did not submit restitu-tion claims before the 1998cut-off date. Claims that werepreviously submitted and re-jected cannot re-submitclaims for the same land. TheWestern Cape has two centres
where claims can be lodgedfrom Monday to Friday, be-tween 08:00-16:30. - MowbrayLodgement Centre at 10Rhodes Avenue, - and GeorgeLodgement Centre at 33Shamrock Place, 97 York Str.
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What will you be doing this Women’s Day?LEILA VAN COLLER &EMMA KRUGER
Helderberg Gazette asked lo-cal residents how they wouldbe celebrating Women’s Dayon 9 August and this is whatthey had to say:
Shahieda Julius: “I’m going to spend theday with my son Waylen, who is the mostspecial person in my life.”
Chantess Botha: “I’m going to do all thethings that I enjoy and that make meproud to be a woman. I will be gettinga haircut and then plan a girls’ outing.”
Lianie Jacobs: “This Women’s Day I’m go-ing for tea with all of the female teachersat Parel Vallei High School.”
Sumari van Aswegen: “I will be enjoyingit by spending time with my family.”
Anje du Plessis: “I will be showing mysupport by donating blood.”
Elizca Theron: “My family and I have de-cided to spend this day with our closefriends.”
Schalk van der Merwe: “This year I planto take my girlfriend skydiving on Wom-en’s Day as it is something she has alwayswanted to do.”
Nerina Theunissen: “Every year on Wom-en’s Day my mom and I go to Ciao Bellaand drink Chai tea in celebration.’’
Coleen van der Ever: “I am going to relaxat homeandallowmyhusband topamperme.”
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Firgrove-belastingbetalers ontevredeFirgrove-belastingbetalers ontevredeDie geregistreerde Salvo Park/Firgrove Be-lastingbetalersvereniging stel die Helder-berg-gemeenskap in kennis van drie dekadesse leë beloftes deur die subraad in terme vandienslewering.Die vereniging, saam met die Firgrove-ge-
meenskap, het briewe aan die Subraadver-teenwoordigers gestuur en versoek dat onsdiensleweringbehoeftes na omgesien moetword.Dievereniginghetook ’nbrief tenopsig-te van swak dienslewering aan die Subraad-bestuurder gerig, waarna ons terugverwys isna ons raadslid. Die vereniging het tot dusverook ’n brief aan die burgemeester van Kaap-stad gerig enwag nog steeds vir terugvoering.Die projekte vir Firgrove, wat moet deel
vorm van die Stad Kaapstad se vyf-jaar be-planning, is gestuur aan ons raadslid en totdusver is sekere behoeftes, sonder terugvoe-ring, afgewys.Dieveeldoelige saal virkliniek-doeleindes, bejaardesorg, SASSA-uitbeta-lings, gemeenskapsaktiwiteite, biblioteek,ens., is een van die projekte wat deel gevormhetvandieSubraadsebeplanning.Dievereni-ging is, sonder terugvoering van ons raadslid,onlangs in kennis gestel dat die saal nie meerdeel van die Subraad se beplanning vorm nie.Die vraag bly dus staan, “waar is die een mil-joen rand wat vir die veeldoelige saal beskik-baar gemaak was?”In die lig van die komende plaaslike verkie-
sing,wilFirgrove-gemeenskapweetwaarhul-lestaantenopsigtevanprojekte.Hierdieberigword geskryf asmandaat van die gemeenskapaan die geregistreerde Salvo Park/FirgroveBelastingbetalersvereniging. Hiermee wilons ook die gemeenskap hartlik bedank virhulle onbaatsugtige en voortgesette onder-steuning.Lyndon Davids, voorsitter Salvo Park/
geer as volg:Ek en raadslid John Heuvel, die Subraads-
voorsitter van Helderberg 1, Subraad 22 het,oor verskeie jare, probeer om skakelingmet dieSalvo Park-belastingbetalersvereniging daar
te stel. Ongelukkig is hulle nie bereid om andersiviele strukture in die Firgrove-area te erkenof om met hulle saam te werk nie, en het, on-danks talle uitnodigings, konsekwent geweieromaandiemunisipale strukture en forumsdeelte neem.In die afwesigheid van hulle samewerking
het die stad egter voortgegaan om lewering,asook ontwikkeling van infrastruktuur, aandie inwoners vanFirgrove enSalvoPark te ver-seker, insluitend die installering van spoedkal-mering, asblikke, die herontwikkeling van be-staande parke en aanbring van nuwe randste-ne, en die installering van straatligte, ommaar’n paar dinge te noem. Hierdie is aanvullendtot die gereelde lewering van normale munisi-pale dienste en onderhoud.Langtermyn-plannevirdiegebiedgaanvoort
volgens die stad se IDP-plan (geïntegreerde ont-wikkelingsplan) en goeie verhoudingeword ge-bou met ander siviele strukture in die gebied.Die kwessie van die Veeldoelige Saal is van
voortgaande aard en die subraad het ’n mosieaanvaar om die betrokke departement te vraom volhoubare maniere van finansiering virso ’n multimiljoenrand-projek te ondersoek,aangesien die raad verbind is tot lewering bin-ne die stad se IDP.Tot op datum is die grond geïdentifiseer en
gereserveer virdie konstruksie vandie saal, ter-wylmanieregevindmoetwordomdiekonstruk-sie te finansier.Hierdie is ’n openbare proses en sou die Salvo
Park-belastingbetalersvereniging van die ge-leenthede om deel te neem aan die stad se struk-ture, gebruik gemaak het, soos om vergade-rings by tewoon, of omnuusbriewe op ’n gereel-de basis te lees, om nie te vergeet van die langlys korrespondensie waarna hulle slegs selek-tief verwys nie, sou hulle bewus gewees het vandie vordering wat ten opsigte van hierdie saakgemaak word.Ons bly verbind tot hierdie belangrike deel
van die subraad en raai die Salvo Park-belas-tingbetalersvereniging aan om met die stadsaam te werk en vooruitgang saam moontlikte maak.
Leser sekommentaarDit is absoluut belaglik dat twee perlemoen-
stropers op borgtog van R500 uit is, want hybetaal lag-lag daardie boetewat komvanperle-moen wat hy reeds mee gesmokkel het.Smokkelaarsword oornag skatryk,misdaad
betaal! Die feitdat ’nanderverdagte ’nR100 000perlemoen aan die brand gesteek het, wys per-lemoen word teen ’n geweldige pas uitgeroei!Die belaglike boetes wat smokkelaars opgelêword, maak van die SAPD ’n grap!Perlemoen-smokkelaars is beter toegerus as
SAPD en gewapen met masjiengewere! DieANC vernietig SA op elke terrein deur allesteen ’n vinnige pas in duie te laat stort!Rynhardt, Somerset-Wes
Thank youThank you GazetteGazetteWe as the members of Step Up and Strand Out(SUSO) would like to thank you for theawesomearticleyoupublishedaboutourskillsdevelopment project aimed at the youth inMacassar.The response we got was so great that I can’t
keep up.Just to say that through the article we got
Macassar Secondary School to give us freeclass rooms to operate from.We even got a sport coach signed upwith us,
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