The local municipality irregularly spent at least R443.8-million according to the auditor general’s latest report
Flushing toilets were installed in backyards in the North West, but they can’t be used because the sewage has nowhere to go
Speaking up before diplomacy is wayward cousin’s specialty.
Lootings, shootings and blockades of burning tyres show the mounting frustration in North West townships over poor service delivery.
Residents in several parts of the Madibeng municipality will march to the municipal offices to protest over a water shortage.
Following violent clashes over a water shortage in Mothotlung, another person has died after reportedly being shot in the head with live ammunition.
Following protests in Mothotlung, water has been restored to most parts of the area, says the North West premier’s office.
Stunned Mothotlung residents suspect that dirty politics is to blame for the deaths of three people protesting against the township’s lack of water.
The tragedy of Brits’s lack of access to clean water is that people had to die before anyone took any notice.
The North West’s public safety portfolio committee has condemned the killing of two protesters in Mothotlung, near Brits, allegedly by police.
The police minister and North West premier have asked Mothotlung protesters to remain calm after police allegedly shot and killed two demonstrators.
The IPID is probing the deaths of two people in an impasse between protesters and police during a service delivery strike near Brits.
Two people have been killed and two more injured in a stand-off between protesters and police during a service delivery picket.
A prominent Nafcoc member is embroiled in a dispute with two Brits community property associations.
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/ 27 October 2011
When you are childless you don’t want to hang out with families, particularly those with noisy children in hyper-drive brandishing melting ice creams.
A bankrupt North West municipality spent more than R7-million within eight months on two sister companies to help with its financial fortunes.
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/ 22 December 2006
A two-year-old cheetah, who had her paw mangled in a crude snare, is to have a prosthetic leg fitted in a ground-breaking operation by animal surgeons in South Africa. Betty Blue was operated on at the De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre, near Johannesburg, after being rescued from the iron jaws of the trap which had clamped down on her left hind leg in Mpumalanga.
A North West father charged with sexually abusing and neglecting his sons was found guilty in the Brits Regional Court on Thursday. Magistrate Louis Matthee found the 45-year-old man from Mooinooi near Pretoria guilty on 18 charges, including indecent assault, contraventions of the Child Care Act and assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm.
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/ 5 February 2005
American animal behaviourist Kirk Turner and South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research are establishing a dog training centre in the dusty district of Brits outside the capital, Pretoria, to explore the theory that dogs, with their superior olfactory systems, can sniff out cancer in humans more accurately than machines.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions will campaign to ensure that farm workers are able to vote in the coming election, Cosatu president Willie Madisha told the funeral procession of Nelson Chisale who was allegedly assaulted and thrown to lions.
Africa’s first cloned animal, a two-and-a-half-week-old calf, was introduced to the media near Brits in the North-West on Wednesday.