Fear lessl y the tr uth 16 Maart 2012
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LANGS DIE OEVER BOEREDAG 2012
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Eerskomende Woensdag (21 Maart) word die tweede Langs die Oever-boeredag by Letsitele gehou. Demonstrasies van trekker en ander plaasimplemente, verskeie uitstallings wat boere se aandag verdien, pragdiere uit ons omgewing, iets te ete en te drinke en groot gesels wag op almal wat daar gaan uitslaan. Moenie die boeredag misloop nie, want dit is die grootste uitstalling van boerderybenodighede met demonstrasies in ons kontrei. Die dag word op mnr Kallie Erasmus se plaas Montrose aangebied en daar sal roeteaanwysings wees.
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Squatters across the road from Mokgolobotho at Nkowankowa were removed from the area on Friday. Their shacks and even a couple of brick and mortar buildings were unceremoniously demolished. The police maintained a strong presence and no incidents were reported. The squatters said they were not warned of their impending eviction.
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Photos: Retha Nel, Amelia de Ridder & Ntina Jenge
Ntina Jenge
ntina@bulletin.us.com
The Greater Tzaneen Municipality on Friday last week showed that it would not allow people to occupy land illegally, when about two hundred people squatting near Mokgolobotho at Nkowankowa were evicted. Police vans, municipal trucks and demolition tractors rumbled
into the area and destroyed 31 shacks and even brick and mortar houses. The residents could only watch anxiously whilst their structures were levelled to the ground. The residents said they have been living in the area for the past two years. They claimed that they had not been warned by the GTM. They said they were shocked when police arrived, because they
were not warned by the GTM to vacate the land. The people said they did not know where to go to now and claimed that most of them were unemployed (although a number of TV aerials could be seen, indicating that they couldn’t be too poor). However, Mr Thulani Twala, the GTM’s head of communications, said the residents were served
with eviction letters. “The GTM got a court order on 23 February and gave the residents fourteen days notice in order for them to remove their belongings. They, however, refused to move,” Twala said. He added that the GTM encourages people to buy land via commercial banks and tribal authorities, to avoid being evicted.
Local state hospitals are also in a mess. The Bulletin recently published facts about operations that had to be cancelled at Van Velden, because certain equipment could not be used. On Friday last week operations once again had to be postponed, since there was no oxygen available. Read inside about the problems at Van Velden, as well as at Dr C N Phatudi in Lenyenye, where one patient who had made appointments, has been turned away four times.