About 25 000 Cosatu members started marching to Eskom’s offices in Johannesburg on Wednesday to protest against rising electricity and food prices.
Tens of thousands of workers downed tools in four provinces on Wednesday to voice their "disgust" with rising living costs.
Mining in Rustenburg does not just bring wealth. With the influx of people, it has added to the massive strain on the region’s resources.
Despite massive urbanisation, Rustenburg clings to its agricultural roots. Smallholdings and plots abound nearby.
Lynley Donnelly explores the effects of Rustenburg’s booming platinum mines on the town
Luis Renteria netted a 55th-minute penalty on Monday evening to give Platinum Stars a 1-0 win against Moroka Swallows and move his team from 10th to fifth place on the Premier Soccer League table. Stars have 37 points and with this result pushed Swallows out of the top eight into ninth place.
Kaizer Chiefs moved into the top half of the Absa Premiership table after walloping Moroka Swallows 3-1 in a league match at a packed Olympia Park Stadium in Rustenburg on Sunday. Mabhuti Khenyeza, Jonathan Quartey and Thuso Phala scored for Chiefs, while Swallows’ lone goal came from the boot of James Chamanga.
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/ 27 February 2008
The loudest cheers in a goalless Premier Soccer League match between Platinum Stars and Jomo Cosmos came when Stars communication manager Putco Mafan danced during a water break at a stifling hot Olympia Stadium in Rustenburg on Wednesday. The match was a tedious affair and the 500-strong crowd had little to cheer about.
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/ 21 February 2008
Platinum Stars put Black Leopards deep into the relegation zone when they beat them 2-0 in their Absa Premier League game played at Olympia Park Stadium on Wednesday night. The team from North West led 1-0 at the break in front of a small crowd of diehard supporters.
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/ 13 February 2008
Golden Arrows jumped from ninth to fifth position on the log with 23 points after beating Platinum Stars 2-0 in their second Absa Premier League encounter at Olympia Park Stadium in Rustenburg on Tuesday night. The visitors were leading 1-0 at the break.
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/ 17 November 2007
About 500 members of the South African Communist Party (SACP), and farm workers marched through the streets of Rustenburg on Saturday, protesting against the state of clinics and hospitals, as well as living conditions on farms. The march was part of the SACP’s Red October programme, which focused on public health institutions.
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/ 1 November 2007
Kaizer Chiefs left behind their inconsistent ways by taking down Free State Stars 3-0 in wet conditions in their Absa Premiership match played at Olympia Park in Rustenburg on Wednesday night. Kinnah Phiri’s charges collapsed when it mattered most — in the second half — as Mabhuti Khanyeza, Onismor Bhasera and Shaun Bartlett scored goals.
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/ 1 September 2007
Bidvest Wits fought off the constantly attacking Kaizer Chiefs to record a second great, early-season victory in the space of a week in a Castle Premiership clash at the Olympia Stadium on Friday night. Noah Chivuta slotted home from the penalty spot in the 65th minute to give the Clever Boys another memorable victory and to send them to the top of the log.
A 33-year-old nurse charged with murdering her husband was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by the Rustenburg High Court on Thursday. Judge Ronnie Hendricks found Kealeboga Shuping guilty of murder and arson. Her husband, Ernest Shuping, died in hospital of burns inflicted at their home in Geelhout Park, Rustenburg, in May 2004.
The North West department of education said on Saturday it would take serious action against teachers and principals who went on strike at Khutsong, near Carletonville, this week. The move follows their absence from a meeting convened by the North West provincial minister for education Johannes Tselapedi earlier this month.
The North West education department has opened a R15-million school in Freedom Park, outside Rustenburg, on Friday. The Freedom Park High School was built by the department in partnership with the Vodacom Foundation, with each contributing R7,5-million. This is the only high school in Freedom Park.
Three awaiting-trial prisoners accused of indecently assaulting a 24-year-old fellow inmate in police holding cells appeared in court on Wednesday, said North West police. The three had allegedly ordered their victim to undress and, when he refused, cut his chest with a razor blade. They then took turns to sodomise him.
About two hundred members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) at a Murray and Roberts plant handed over a memorandum of grievances to company management in Marikana outside Rustenburg on Monday. Workers want the company to implement a wage agreement reached last year.
Two men have appeared in the Rustenburg Magistrate’s Court for allegedly burning down the home of a prophet in Ramochana near Rustenburg. Dikeledi Njusa’s house was burnt down after irate community members disputed her prophesy that a massive tornado would hit Rustenburg unless everyone paid a R2 coin to ”the water snake”.
Residents in Ramocha near Rustenburg assaulted a so-called prophet and burnt her house down on Thursday night after paying her to protect them from a tornado that never came, North West police said. More than 800 angry people had gathered at 43-year-old Dikeledi Njusa’s home, demanding she refund them their R2.
Amazulu’s Lucky Mzizi — a former Kaizer Chiefs player — scored a brace to help his team beat the Amakhosi 2-1 in a fast-flowing Castle Premiership game played at Olympia Park on Saturday evening. Amazulu led 1-0 at the break. It was sweet revenge for Amazulu, after Chiefs beat them 2-0 at home in the first round.
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/ 22 February 2007
Taxi operators in Rustenburg have called for the immediate resignation of the director of public safety in the Rustenburg local municipality. The operators called for Popo Kotsedi’s resignation during a protest march against rival taxis, which they say are run illegally in the town.
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/ 3 September 2006
Coming off possibly their greatest victory in Test rugby, Springbok coach Jake White on Saturday evening watered down any thoughts that his team had completely turned the corner. However, he praised his charges’ tenacity at beating the All Blacks by the narrowest of margins in an epic Tri-Nations battle.
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/ 2 September 2006
A wounded Springbok team laboured hard to a spirited 21-20 Tri-Nations victory over the All Blacks at Rustenburg’s Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace on Saturday, bringing to an end New Zealand’s 15-match unbeaten run. The Springboks delivered a commanding and near-ruthless performance.
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/ 1 September 2006
In 100 years of Springbok rugby, European royalty, presidents and other statesmen have often handled the ceremonial pleasantries before a Test match. It was only fitting on Friday that the Springboks continue this tradition. However, this time around the Boks had an audience with an African king.
The case of the former speaker of the Rustenburg municipality, Elizabeth Seduke, and three others accused of stealing cellphones was postponed in the Rustenburg Regional Court on Wednesday. The accused are alleged to have renewed cellphones contracts allocated to Rustenburg councillors and then kept the handsets, which were later sold.
Two more people have been charged with corruption and fraud along with the former speaker of the Rustenburg municipality, Elizabeth Seduke. Daimy Maulane and Annelia Phefo appeared with Seduke and Godfrey Monaisa at the Rustenburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. They all face charges of theft or corruption.
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/ 27 February 2006
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Armed with wellington boots, President Thabo Mbeki on Monday experienced life in a rain-soaked informal settlement: mud, water and a leaky roof. Mbeki was campaigning in Rustenburg, ward 13 — normally known as Ramochana, not far from the local prison. Engaging residents in the vernacular, Mbeki asked after their concerns.
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/ 2 February 2006
The Cats wrapped up their preparation for the Super 14 with a morale-boosting win over a strong Sharks side in their warm-up matches played at Olympia Park in Rustenburg on Wednesday evening. The Cats won the game 20-13 after weathering an early Sharks storm.
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/ 27 November 2005
Three security guards were injured in a shoot-out when two vehicles failed to push an armoured car off a road about 20km from Pilanesberg during an attempted cash-in-transit heist on Saturday morning, North West police said. Armed robbers also rammed into an armoured vehicle at Akasia, near Pretoria, on Saturday morning.
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/ 17 November 2005
Kaizer Chiefs suffered another blow at Rustenburg’s Olympia Stadium when they lost 4-2 to Silver Stars in a Premier Soccer League encounter on Wednesday night. In other matches, Orlando Pirates drew 1-1 against Dynamos, Santos beat Tembisa Classic 2-0 and Mamelodi Sundowns drew 2-2 against Supersport United.
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/ 25 September 2005
The Sharks rediscovered their emphatic form of the early rounds of the Absa Currie Cup when they blew the Leopards off the park on Saturday in an exhilarating display of attacking rugby. The final score was 58 – 24. The game was played in blistering heat and when the match reached the three-quarter stage, the Sharks ran out of steam.