22 Julie 2016
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Pierre bids you farewell
One died, ten injured in accident On Monday morning a light delivery vehicle veered off the road at Motupa and landed on its side next to the road, leaving one person dead and ten injured. The occupants were all found lying near the vehicle. The deceased was found with fatal injuries and declared dead on the scene. The rest of the people were treated for lacerations, scrapes and bruises and they were taken to Letaba and Van Velden hospitals. It is not clear if a second vehicle was involved in the collision but an investigation is ongoing. – Gittel Baloyi gittel@bulletin.us.com
A group of young people in our area decided to start an open mic performance and their idea is growing into something unique for Tzaneen. Read all about it next week in Bulletin.
After 25 years, three months and a few hours, Tzaneen bids farewell to the GTM’s Director: Electrical Engineering, Mr Pierre van den Heever, and his wife, Tina. They have packed their bags and today, closed the door on a most remarkable chapter. In 1991 Pierre arrived in Tzaneen from the Free State where he completed his studies as an electrical engineer. He occupied the post of electrical engineer at the GTM for a number of years and later took the reigns as director of this department until the end of his contract this year. He spoke fondly of many great memories he shared with others during his time in Tzaneen and more specifically during his time at the GTM. One of the fondest memories was the day he met Subby, his beloved Jack Russell. “We had a huge crisis with power shortages in Tzaneen in 2001. After some planning a few of us engineers and electricians came up with a temporary solution whereby we erected a substation to pull power from the outlying areas and feed it directly into the town. It was during that time that I noticed a stray, obviously abused dog around the site we worked at. During those three days we worked on that substation, I befriended the dog and eventually took her home. I named her Subby which is short for Substation. We have been inseparable ever since.”
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Similarly, he met his wife Tina, through an electrical outage too. “I never went to restore power myself but when she called me hysterically, I decided that considering she was only a few houses away from me, I would go and check it out myself and save on a technician’s call out fees and overtime. “She was stuck outside her house after being in hospital and had managed to get my personal number from a traffic officer by the name of Francois Peyper. Long story, short, here we are happily married almost eight years later.” The couple will be settling in Witzenberg where Pierre will take up a position as Head of Department in that municipality. They leave behind a lifetime of memories, good and bad, and now look forward to a new future together. As a last thought, Pierre pointed out the change he saw during the past two and a half decades. “I have been a skydiver all my life and I have noticed the change we made to the lives of the people living in this municipality each time I flew over Tzaneen at night. In the past one would see all these scarcely spaced spots of light where there was power in the areas around town. Now, when you fly over here, the whole area is brightly lit up. That, is the change we made.” — Joe Dreyer
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