5 Oktober 2012
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6 Legal eagles’ Local lawyers wings clipped struck from the roll “Flyeth no more, oh ye of winged persuasion, for thine freedom has been lost in the mists of thine mysterious law...”
Six Tzaneen lawyers have been struck off the roll or have been suspended by the Law Society for a variety of misdemeanors between October last year and this week. On 21 October 2011 Mr Mpho Samuel Maake was struck off the roll, on 11 November Mr Morape Samuel Maanaso was struck off the roll and on the same day Mr Stanley Malatji was suspended. On 25 November 2011 Ms Rachel Freda Sonntag was struck off the roll, and on 2 February this year Mr Ngwako Petrus Malatji
was suspended. The latest casualty is Mr Gerard Charles Maritz who was struck off the roll on 11 May. In the meantime an ongoing investigation into the affairs of Mr Chris Mahowa of Tzaneen is said to be nearing its end, but no confirmation could be obtained from the Law Society before our deadline. In another development a number of people convened in Tzaneen on Wednesday to discuss combining their efforts to lodge complaints with Law Society against yet another
prominent Tzaneen attorney, and to ask the Law Society to envestigate his financial affairs. The matter is in a sensitive stage, therefore no names will be mentioned. Besides lawyers in Tzaneen being under the microscope, a number of problems with estate agents in Tzaneen are being investigated by the EAAB (the board regulating estate agents). A number of alleged serious irregularities in a Tzaneen agent’s financial affairs caused “investors” to go into panic mode this week. • Read more about it on page 3
Local eats lekka The pupils of a high school in Giyani have started a drive to promote traditional dishes. Their aim is to get traditional dishes added to the tourism “menu”. Photo: Orlando Chauke
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The Elms Spring Fair Fashion Show held at Kaya Khutso Guesthouse in Haenertsburg on Sunday, using local home-grown models, was a taste of bigger and better things to come! The event was the initiative of the Elms Gift Shop and Israel Blackburn (a young local model) and was used as a platform to launch the Annual Spring Fair Fashion Show & Beauty Pageant. The event will showcase annually local fashion houses and aspiring beauty queens. Seen here are Wilheminah, Helga-Marie and Nina — three of the local models who took part in the parade. Photo: Janet Blackburn