Buti Botopela (Ikemeleng) Bulk water tank in Ikemeleng Since 2008 the tank was installed but not yet finished. I found out that the problem is the different tender contracts come each year and after three to four months the budget is finished and nothing is done, the last contract was Mozardam civil engineering. In 2009 the community of Ikemeleng was very happy thinking that one problem of many they are facing will be solved but that was not the case. Now a good and important thing to the Ikemeleng community is the new contract called www.CAN.co.za,since the 30th April we have seen good results, they have installed more than 22 taps and the water was tested on the 09 May and they run safe clean to be used water. On the 10 April 2012 I found out that the will be a meeting organised for the community to discuss the problem solved, and it will be the official opening of the bulk water tank for the Ikemeleng informal settlement. Possibly soon we will all be happy to get run...
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Colleen Raphata (Chaneng) The Chaneng-Rasimone level crossing There are not much accident that took place just four by far, two taxis and one car and a van. In one taxi the driver died and one passenger injured the other one the driver was alone he made it out without any injuries, the private car was a tragic because the car span until and crashed to a nearby house luckily there was no one home by the time and the driver and all his passengers died on the scene, in the van was from Chaneng and it got hit from the back by the train and thrown out of the railway no one was injured. There are no signs so that a major challenge for drivers, so the traffic department must do their job.
Rapula Kedige (Tlhabane) Life can be unfair sometimes. People fought for the liberation of this country and the people of the townships of Tlhabane are no exceptions to that. They had to come up with strategies to down, weaken, paralyse and destabilize the apartheid government which also had planned very well, for example introducing the so called independent states (TBVC). One of the people strategies was to boycott the payment of services with a promise from the wanna-be leaders that after freedom the people won’t be liable to pay that debt or rather will be exempted from paying those monies. The community is now faced with the problem of having to pay or face water cut-off because the municipality has handed their accounts to revenue collectors (REVCO). To dwell more into this issue I interviewed one of the people who has been and still fighting for scrapping of all the debt which he refers to as apartheid debt, he is a member of SANCO Tlhabane branch an...
The impact the two ventilation pipes has on our community and the environment in Robega
. Kagiso Padi (Mafenya) The effects of the ventilation pipes on our community are very bad. This is to inform the community at large about the danger of this ventilation pipes that are in the village. This village is situated in-between Chaneng and Rasimone and is called Robega. These pipes were constructed in the years 2006 and 2008. One is to take air underground and the other to release gasses outside because they are dangerous underground. These pipes are a great danger to our community because we develop lung problems, illness and they have a negative impact on the environment. I managed to interview someone who resides next to the pipe and he told me that around five and six o’clock, if up in the sky around the pipe you can see dust coming out, and there are no plants growing where it is situated, so I went there to check myself and he was right. It operates 24 hours and the noise level is very high .And there is another one next to two schools (Charora High School ...
Shortage of clinic puts our community lives in to danger.
Tsholo kokwe (Ikemeleng) Ikemeleng is the biggest place which is divided in to three sections Dindela, Riverside and Ikemeleng centre. But we don’t have clinic even a health centre. We only attend clinic when a mobile clinic visits us in our community but it help some of people but not all of them. It only helps babies and people with high blood, flu, and headache and women prevention. It came only once a month around 7 to 10.Pregnant women, people getting treatment for HIV and AIDS, T.B, injuries, diabetics and stroke are not getting help from this mobile clinic. They supposed to go to the gateway clinic or classic clinic next to game at Rustenburg town. When a woman gets delivery pains she is supposed to call ambulance, sometimes it delays to collect a patient and sometimes at night patient must go to Tlhabane clinic before and clinic transfer the patient to the hospitals especially Rustenburg town and they said they only help patients who came with an ambulance and ...
The relocation of Lekgoropaneng community to Mafenya was full of promises.
By KagisoPadi (Mafenya) It was in the year 2000 when it all started; negotiation between the Royal Bafokeng Administration, BRPM, and the Lekgoropaneng leadership took place. This relocation move was to make way for an open cast mining. Promises were made but not all of them were kept.The first houses were built and were not up to standard, people complained and a big strike was up coming, and mid 2000 the Lekgoropane community members marched to the Royal Bafokeng Administrtion offices to hand over their memorandum , the much lead to the rebuilding of the house. Regardless of the all enticing promises not all members of the community were satisfied by being relocated to Mafenya. It was known that some amount was set aside for the maintenance of the bucket system toilet, but they were never maintained. People were never happy and satisfied with the relocation, for some benefited more than the others, but life goes on.