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Bulletin was denied access to a meeting between members of the Letaba / Letsitele farming communities and top management of the municipality to discuss a way forward in ending the current power crisis.

This important meeting was held yesterday in the chambers of GTM Mayor, Maripe Mangena. It was attended by Mangena, the Municipal Manager, Selomo Monakedi and the acting Electrical chief, Sam Lelope.

Exactly why Bulletin editor, Joe Dreyer, was denied attendance remains a mystery, but he was informed by a member of the farming community that he was not welcome as it may negatively influence the outcome. “If you attend this meeting it will be cancelled. We will send you minutes after the fact.”

Excluding the media from a public gathering, or any community forum, opens that meeting up for scrutiny and flies directly in the face of the Public Access to Information Act. It also proves that transparency is but a

buzz-word in the halls of local government.

The time for talking has come to an end as there is no longer a “looming power crisis” or “an inevitable collapse of the power grid” to warn about – that crisis is here. It has happened and the GTM needs to stand up to their inefficiencies and inform their community of the measures they have in place to counter it.

While councillors make promises in meetings that should have been held months ago, farmers continue to bleed money as electricians struggle to keep pack houses, hatcheries, nurseries, saw mills, farms and other agricultural operations online.

And the Letsitele areas are not the only ones affected.

Patrick Bremner, who owns a small sawmill outside Haenertsburg, said his business is being severely affected by the constant and lengthy power cuts. His factory is not operating, yet he still has to pay 20 employees.

Bremner paid Lelope, a visit on Monday. He gave Bremn-

er the assurance that he would sort it out. Power was still not restored to the sawmill and he paid Lelope another visit on Tuesday. Lelope again assured him that he was going to the power station, this time he would visit the station himself to sort it out. This has apparently not yet been done.

According to information, only one person allegedly man’s three phones at the GTM call centre. Calls aren’t logged and callers have no idea where they are in the automated complaints queue. Yet the GTM boldly proclaimed that they are rectifying the situation and even urged residents to log their complaints on the 24-hour call centre hotline.

What was said during yesterday’s meeting had not been shared with the media at the time of going to print, but word is that the fight is not yet over.

— Joe Dreyer joe@bulletin.us.com

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Darkness descended over Christmas Villagers, farmers and guesthouses in the Magoebaskloof/Haenertsburg area were caught with their pants down over Christmas and New Year. The festive season is a busy time with many tourists in the area.

Lightning strikes followed by torrential or continuous rains and sometime strong winds caused havoc with the power. The pouring rain, coupled with lengthy power outages, was simply too much for most tourists.

Gavin Stanford at Stanford Lodge says his holiday makers cut their holidays short. Sarah Hillary at Cheerio Gardens installed a gennie (generator) to keep the tourists in the cottages happy. She said, “Diesel for the gennie is expensive and we also needed to keep extra diesel on hand.” She made 131 calls to the GTM control centre. Cheerio Gardens was without power for nine days.

One farm had no power to warm the baby chicks. Restaurant owners, who were open for Christmas Day, were in a panic.

Their three day power outage was only restored in pouring rain at 11:30 on Christmas Day. Mountain Café, the new kid on the block, was badly affected.

Gary Barnes at the Pot & Plow is always fully booked for his annual scrumptious traditional Christmas Day lunch. Although

Some alternatives to power.

Gary has a gennie, it was not powerful enough to fire up his ovens as well. Somehow the squire from Peterborough pulled it off. Lekwar Restaurant installed a gennie at the first lengthy outage.

The flowers in the cold storage rooms at Kromdraai Blomme went off. Many homes had to throw out fridge and freezer contents. No one could connect to the internet to Skype loved ones over the festive season. Residents reliant on pumps for the water supply couldn’t shower or bath.

The 2000 kva transformer at the Magoebaskloof Hotel blew. It can only be replaced next month

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The communities of Mome Village outside in no time. Residents must not panic there while you are still in the line and you’ll be Tzaneen, in Greater Tzaneen Municipality, is a huge water reticulation project that is forced to pay R100 to buy water for one load says the GTM has forgotten about them, es- covering the two wards to supply water. of a pickup van,” said another resident. pecially when it comes to the water crisis.

Soon they will have running water in their Ward 32 counsellor Rebecca Kgatla also acknowledged the crisis. “We know about Bulletin, has learned that the residents of homes,” said Rakganya.

“We are forced to wake very early in the the water crisis because time and time again ward 32 and ward 33 based in the GTM are still struggling to get water. The area has boreholes break. We will send water six boreholes with only one being optankers to those areas to help until all erational. The residents are forced to the boreholes are fixed. I also live in the same area and suffer like everyutilise one borehole among all of them one who lives there. People must not or rely on the rain to harvest water. worry things will normalize soon,” “The municipality that we voted for is doing nothing to provide us with wasaid Kgatla. ter. We have been suffering for many Greater Tzaneen Municipality spokesperson, Nevile Ndlala, claimed years in this area. When it is time for elections they promise us that soon we that they had no knowledge of the water problems. This despite the fact will have running water without any that these areas fall under the GTM problems. Now that the elections are over they are ignoring us.” jurisdiction. “We were not aware of Ward 33 Councillor, Mrs Sophia the water crisis in those two wards.

As the municipality we will make Rakganya said that they are working on a solution. “We are aware of those sure that we resolve that problem in The single borehole which residents of two wards within the the blink of an eye. People must have boreholes that are broken and we are GTM jurisdiction area have to get their daily water supply from. in the process of fixing them. Not all water because water is life. There is the boreholes are broken according also a water reticulation project in to my knowledge. In ward 32 they have die- morning to go to the borehole and be first in process in those wards,” said Ndlala.

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(February). The Hotel quickly installed a massive gennie to keep the entire Hotel up and running at all times.

The gennie at Food Zone went on the blink. Milk and vegetables went off. The Vodacom tower was hit twice. Subscribers couldn’t communicate for days.

Sixty percent of the power outages are due to trees encroaching on the line border which should be cleared 10 meters each side. The GTM is in charge of switching off the power and then responsible for keeping the lines clear. Tall water-logged trees brought lines dangerously down onto the ground.

Technicians and electricians were working on the line last week when a tree crashed down, taking out the line and narrowly missing

the workers.

Cleaning crews, repair crews and technicians together with community members worked tirelessly to trace, fix and restore power.

What are the alternatives?

Generators and solar panels are expensive. A house-hunting couple stated that they have budgeted R300, 000 to get their prospective home off the grid.

When the power is on, charge all equipment, have a bath or shower and do your machine washing. Make sure battery operated items like radios and solar lights are in good working order. Those that have electric garage doors or gates should regularly check that the back-up batteries are in working order. Keep a stock of candles and matches handy. If you have a fireplace, keep dry wood close by. Save toilet rolls and the ends of spent candles for the fireplace.

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Sandi Moore from Haenertsburg says, “I have a 200 watt UPS inverter with a very good quality battery. It gives three hours of TV (that’s a 50 inch so pulls lots of watts). I use it weekends for light and charging cellphones and work on my laptop. Then it lasts more than a day. It’s cheaper and quieter than a gennie.”

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Cheetah is hungry no more Cheetah. That’s what the Faurie’s have named him. The stray who scavenged for food in the parking lot of the popular Tzaneen retailer, Sugarloaf, now lives comfortably in the home of Geyer and Erika Faurie.

The story went viral over social media when Geyer posted a photograph of a friendly dog at a fuelling station who came running towards him as he stopped in the parking area. “It was so strange,” he said. “I have seen him around here many times before and have on occasion bought him some boerewors, or given him a snack, but he has never come up to me and asked to play before.”

Geyer took this as a sign that he had just made a new best friend as the stray was notoriously shy and hardly ever approached humans. Although nobody truly knows where he originates from,

the legend goes that he once lived in one of the homes down King Edward Street.

After the owner moved away, he was left to fend for himself and subsequently lived off scraps and whatever he could scavenge from dustbins and alley ways. People spotted him sleeping in the Van Velden hospital grounds on occasion too.

It was right there and then that Geyer decided he would come back and find the dog. “At first when I came back to Sugarloaf, he was nowhere to be found and I feared that he may have been killed or removed by the SPCA. I turned to get into my car and suddenly saw him come running out of the shadows!”

Geyer picked him up and took him home. “We named him Cheetah because of his colours and his speed. He is such a loving dog and he plays well with the

kids and our existing pets.”

After posting his story on Facebook, well-known businessman and owner of the Sugarloaf and Sugarhill enterprises in town, Lino de Carvalho, approached Geyer. De Carvalho offered a helping hand and through Sugarloaf has pledged to sponsor Cheetah with a bag of dog food every month.

“Because this is such a touching, community story, I decided to help where I can and providing food for Cheetah seemed to be the ideal way. He had been struggling to find food for so long, I wanted to ensure that never has to happen again.”

Cheetah has been adapting well at the Fauries and has even put on a few pounds as testament to his newly acquired good life. “He has been a blessing to us and every day it becomes clearer that Cheetah was sent to us for a reason.

Exactly what that reason may be, we don’t know, but it doesn’t matter now, he is safe.”

— Joe Dreyer joe@bulletin.us.com

Bridge of hope Residents of Lenynye, Mohlaba Cross and Ramokako, outside Tzaneen, under the Greater Tzaneen Municipality, are overjoyed that finally their grievances are heard.

Bulletin, has learned that residents in those areas were finding it very difficult to cross the Mokonyane River that connects Lenyenye township and Ramokako, especially during the rainy season.

Concerned residents told Bulletin, that the bridge will help many people from being swept into the river as they try to cross. Criminals took advantage of this area too as they used to hide at the river bank and rob unsuspecting pedestrians.

It alleged that a number of rapes were also recorded there.

“We are thankful to the municipality for making an effort in building us the bridge. This bridge will make it easy for us to cross the river without any hassles,” said Nancy Shikwanbana a resident of Mohlaba Cross.

“During the rainy season it was very difficult to cross. We used to pray in groups before crossing the river. Most of us are working in town so we have to cross the river early in the morning to catch a bus or a taxi. The bridge will make it easier for the busses and taxis to take us to our doorsteps,” said Shikwanbana.

Ward 32, Councillor Rosinah Kgatla, told Bulletin that after realising the struggle of the communities, they decided to devise a plan to build a bridge. “During the rainy season some of the school kids were not going to school because of the overflowing river. That

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“It is time for the thugs to say goodbye to their hiding place. The bridge will serve as security because people will see everything from a distance. That place was totally not save at all. The robberies were so bad that we deployed Community Working Program (CWP), workers to monitor residents and accompany school children,” said Kgatla.

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Three nabbed for poaching Two brothers and a Zimbabwean national were arrested just outside Louis Trichardt this weekend. It is suspected that they were involved in a series of poaching incidents reported across the province in recent months.

The Limpopo Endangered Species Unit acted on information received about suspects attempting to sell rhino horn in the area. The unit traced the suspects to a spot in Louis Trichardt. When the suspects noticed the officers, they fled and a high-speed chase ensued. During the chase one of the suspects threw a plastic bag out of the vehicle.

An officer retrieved the object and it was later discovered to be a rhino horn.

The suspects were arrested a short while later by the Lou-

is Trichardt Cluster First Responder team and Public Order Policing units.

It is suspected that the recovered rhino horn might be connected to an incident of poaching in the Witpoort area that occurred earlier that week where a rhino and her calf were shot and dehorned. Forensic tests to confirm this will be conducted.

Brothers Deon (48) and Nick van Deventer (51) are South Africans and Onwand Muchagowa (34) a Zimbabwean national. Investiga-

tion into their possible involvement in other reported poaching incidents are currently underway.

They appeared in the Louis

Trichardt Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of possession of a rhino horn and the illegal hunting of endangered species. The case

was postponed for further investigations.

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Five drown during floods Five people drowned and another five were rescued in the wake of heavy torrential rains across the province during the first month of the new year.

On Friday members of the SAPS Search and Rescue unit in cooperation with the SAPS Air Wing rescued five people, including three young girls between the ages of 6 and 10, from the Limpopo River near the Beit Bridge Border post.

It is believed that they attempted to cross the border from Zimbabwe illegally when they became trapped by the rising river.

After receiving medical treatment, they were handed over to Home Affairs where further investigations were conducted.

Later that week in the same vicinity of the Limpopo River, the bodies of two men were retrieved by SAPS Rescue members. It is believed that the men drowned as they were attempting to cross.

A man was rescued on Saturday after he was trapped in a river in the Dennilton area. The man had held onto a tree in the middle of

the river for a few hours before the rescuers reached and liberated him.

In Giyani and Mankweng the bodies of three young boys were recovered from ditches which filled up with water after the rains.

It is believed that the boys went swimming and then subsequently drowned.

The SAPS have issued a stern warning to communities and par-

ents not to allow their children to play in rivers or ditches which have flooded, and to exercise extreme caution when crossing low-level bridges and streams.

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Ons reis deur die afgelope twaalf jaar...

Bring the power back We have reported extensively on the looming (and now very real) collapse of the GTM’s electrical infrastructure.

It is a very real crisis and in all likelihood not one that will dissipate anytime soon. The December break was all but festive for the majority of the residents in the Letsitele and Agatha areas as they sat (and still sit) without power in their homes and businesses daily – and at times for days on end. If not being able to supply consumers with the service they paid for could be seen as an achievement, this would have been a feather in the GTM’s cap.

Businesses lost (and are still losing) a tremendous amount of money with one national producer threatening imminent job losses if the situation is not rectified soon. The farmers and other big businesses in our area have started looking at the possibility of bypassing the municipality and obtaining power supply direct from Eskom. There have been talks of class action law suits and even charges of misappropriation of funds to be lodged against certain key employees of the GTM. But, to what end? Would it be beneficial to waste precious resources on suing a clearly bankrupt entity? What would we as a community gain through this? The answer is a resounding ‘nothing’. Could Eskom take over the supply of power to these affected areas? Probably not, due to the dilapidated state of the infrastructure.

Even if funds suddenly became available to upgrade the power grid, would the money be invested in the right areas if the people meant to manage such a project lacked the knowledge or qualifications to do so correctly? If the failures thus far are anything to go by, then the answer is clearly no. Therein lies the problem. We need to fight for the removal of those who fail in their respective posts and the effective replacements to be appointed to safe guard against these disasters (that is what this has become) and ensure some form of future for generations to come. If we don’t, we risk losing Tzaneen as the bustling little agricultural hub it is, to another footnote in the records of ANC failures. What affects our farmers and business owners, affects our homes directly and we therefore cannot, should not, sit back and watch from a distance.

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I greet you all in the name of Jesus our Saviour.

We are already 13 days into the New Year, 2016 has been done and dusted. Looking back we often wonder what we have achieved, in our personal life but also in our spiritual life.

Did we grow, or did we just “float”? When I think back it was perhaps, in my case, a year of challenges, both personally as well as spiritually. I was made Youth Chaplain for the whole of our Archdeaconry, a challenge because of my age (68), but with God’s guidance through the Holy Spirit I was accepted by the youth and it was a great experience. Although mistakes were made I feel that I was able to bring about a certain amount of change. The youth need to be guided and challenged all the time and I believe that this is what God wanted of me.

So as I look at 2017, I wonder what new challenges lay ahead of me? What is God wanting from me this year? I cannot just sit back and wait, I must step out in faith, seeking opportunities to serve Him. I feel to that this is a year of reconciliation for all out there.

It is time to put the past behind us and guided by the Holy Spirit to do things differently, to step out of our comfort zones and meet the challenges head on. I also believe that we are a people of “lists”. We have a list for everything, from grocery shopping to a list of resolutions. However, how close do we stick to these list? Do we check these lists regularly or do we often forget about them? Do we make a list of what we would like to achieve in our spiritual life, or do we just go with the flow? Always hoping that God will step in when we need Him even if we often forget that He is in control of our lives. Will we still continue to blame Him when things do not go as we planned, or will we believe that He has a purpose for every step of our lives?

To continue to hold grudges against others is not healthy and we will not grow spiritually. A friend of mine, who was of Portuguese origin, asked me once what a grudge was. I went into a complicated explanation, only to be told by him that it was a place where a Portuguese person parked his car. Now although this might seem frivolous I believe it was his way of saying that having a grudge was frivolous.

So we need to build on relationships this year and reconcile with family and friends and more especially build on our relationship and reconciliation with our Heavenly Father. See if you can do something different to boost your faith, step out and you will be surprised. God is a God of miracles and He will grant you the grace to do the impossible.

May the peace of God which passes all understanding be with you and your loved one this coming year.

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Three lions poisoned, mutilated Letaba River Lodge once again suffered at the hands of poachers. The popular family destination a few kilometres from Tzaneen is home to the Tzaneen Lion and Predator Park situated within the grounds at the lodge.

On Wednesday a group of suspected poachers killed and viciously mutilated three brown lions in their enclosure at the park. Although the exact time of the incident is not clear, it is believed that the poachers gained access to the park by cutting through three fences and sneaking past a state-of-the-art, newly installed alarm system.

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them. It is believed that the lion parts were transported to Phalaborwa from where they are usually smuggled into the Kruger National Park and eventually land in the hands of sangomas in Mozambique.

Park owner, André de Lange, believes this to be an inside job. “The manner in which these poachers bypassed our security system without sounding any alarms along with other aspects of this senseless act, leads me to believe that this must have been an inside job. We cannot confirm this, but investigations are currently being conducted.”

This is the second time in six months that poachers have targeted De Lange.

“Last year on Father’s Day we

caught a group of poachers after they poisoned and mutilated two white lions here at the park. Those poachers provided us with information which proves that these killings are for muti and that the body parts are commissioned from medicine men and sangomas in Mozambique.”

At the time of going to print no further information was available, but police investigations are still underway.

— Joe Dreyer

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soned meat over the fence of the lion enclosure before mutilating the animals and stealing their paws and heads.

The following morning staff at the lodge came across the carcasses and alerted security and SAPS. A blood trail was tracked to determine the suspects’ escape route. According to those findings the poachers walked down the dirt road from the lodge to the R36 where it appears as though a vehicle was waiting for

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Legals | Geregtelik ESTATE NOTICE IN THE ESTATE OF THE LATE RISIMATI RODGERS MANGANYI, who during his lifetime was married in community of property to TINTSWALO AGNES MANGANYI, Identity Number 670327 0414 08 2 and was resident at House no: 216, SENWA-MOKGOPE, MODJADJISKLOOF. DATE OF BIRTH: 29 DECEMBER 1955 DATE OF DEATH: 16 AUGUST 2016 IDENTITY NUMBER: 551229 5713 08 4 MASTER’S REFERENCE: 006527/2016 All persons having claims against the above Estate are called upon to lodge their claims with the Executor within the period of 30 [Thirty] days from date of publication hereof.

MAGABE INCORPORATED Kgerekgere Chambers 27 Middle Road, Medi Park TZANEEN P O Box 2551 TZANEEN 0850 [Ref: Ms.Lubisi/EST0052] Jan101___________________________

ESTATE NOTICE IN THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MOHLALA MATSHAYA DERRICK, who during his lifetime was married in community of property to LYDIA NKELE, Identity Number 820628 0896 08 0 and was resident at METZ VILLAGE, GA-SEKORORO.

DATE OF BIRTH: 28 JUNE 1974 DATE OF DEATH: 21 JULY 2016 IDENTITY NUMBER: 740628 5503 08 4 MASTER’S REFERENCE: 5063/2016 All persons having claims against the above Estate are called upon to lodge their claims with the Executor within the period of 30 [Thirty] days from date of publication hereof.

MAGABE INCORPORATED Kgerekgere Chambers 27 Middle Road, Medi Park TZANEEN P O Box 2551 TZANEEN 0850 [Ref: Ms.Shelowe/EST0050] Jan102___________________________

ESTATE NOTICE IN THE ESTATE OF THE LATE NGOAKO ALBERT RAMOKGANE, who during his lifetime was married in community of property to MOYAHABO MERIAM RAMOKGANO, Identity Number 490919 5511 08 2 and was resident at Stand no. 565 Motjeteng Village, Lenyenye.

DATE OF BIRTH: 19 SEPTEMBER 1949 DATE OF DEATH: 11 AUGUST 2016 IDENTITY NUMBER: 490919 5511 08 2 MASTER’S REFERENCE: 005606/2016 All persons having claims

against the above Estate are called upon to lodge their claims with the Executor within the period of 30 [Thirty] days from date of publication hereof.

MAGABE INCORPORATED Kgerekgere Chambers 27 Middle Road, Medi Park TZANEEN P O Box 2551 TZANEEN 0850 [Ref: Ms.Shelowe/EST0051] Jan103___________________________

TZANEEN AMENDMENT SCHEME 356 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT OF A TOWN-PLANNING SCHEME IN TERMS OF CHAPTER 5, PART C: SECTION 57 OF THE GREATER TZANEEN MUNICIPAL SPLUMA BY-LAWS 2016, READ TOGETHER WITH SECTION 56(1)(b)(i) OF THE TOWN-PLANNING AND TOWNSHIPS ORDINANCE, 1986 (ORD 15/1986) I, Willem Johannes Jacobsz of Omniplan Town Planners, being the authorised agent of the registered owner of Erven 5068-5071 and part of 5120 Tzaneen X 84 hereby give notice in terms of Chapter 5, Part C: Section 57 of the Greater Tzaneen Municipality’s SPLUMA By-Laws 2016, read together with Section 56(1) of the Town-Planning and Townships Ordinance, 1986 (Ord. 15/1986) that I have applied to the Greater Tzaneen Municipality

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for the amendment of the town-planning scheme known as the Tzaneen Town Planning Scheme, 2000 by the rezoning of the properties described above, situated at Hornbill Place, Tzaneen X84, from “Residential 1” to “Residential 2”.

Particulars of the application will lie for inspection during normal office hours at the office of the Municipal Manager, Civic Centre, Tzaneen for a period of 30 days from 14 January 2017 (the date of the first publication of the notice).

Objections to or representations in respect of the applications must be lodged with or made in writing to the Municipal Manager at the above address or at PO Box 24, Tzaneen, 0850 within a period of 28 days from 14 January 2017. Address of authorised agent: Omniplan Town Planners, PO Box 2071, TZANEEN, 0850, Tel No (015) 307 1041. Ref No: J134 Jan104___________________________

TZANEEN WYSIGINGSKEMA 356 KENNISGEWING VAN AANSOEK OM WYSIGING VAN ‘N DORPSBEPLANNINGSKEMA INGEVOLGE HOOFSTUK 5, DEEL C: ARTIKEL 57 VAN DIE GROTER TZANEEN MUNISIPALE SPLUMA BY-WETTE, 2016, SAAMGELEES MET ARTIKEL 56(1)(b)(i) VAN DIE ORDON-

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NANSIE OP DORPSBEPLANNING EN DORPE, 1986 (ORDONNANSIE 15 VAN 1986) Ek, Willem Johannes Jacobsz van Omniplan Stadsbeplanners, synde die gemagtigde agent van die geregistreerde eienaar van Erwe 5068 - 5071 en deel van 5120 Tzaneen X 84 gee hiermee ingevolge Hoofstuk 5, Deel C: Artikel 57 van die Groter Tzaneen Munisipale SPLUMA By-Wette, 2016,

saamgelees met Artikel 56(1) van die Ordonnansie op Dorpsbeplanning en Dorpe, 1986 (Ordonnansie 15 van 1986) kennis dat ek by die Groter Tzaneen Munisipaliteit aansoek gedoen het om die wysiging van die Dorpsbeplanningskema bekend as die Tzaneen Dorpsbeplanningskema, 2000 deur die hersonering van die eiendomme hierbo beskryf, geleë te Hornbill

Place Tzaneen X84, vanaf “Residensieel 1” na “Residensieel 2”. Besonderhede van elk van die aansoeke lê ter insae gedurende gewone kantoor ure by die kantoor van die Munisipale Bestuurder, Burgersentrum, Tzaneen vir ‘n tydperk van 30 dae vanaf 14 Januarie 2017 (die datum van eerste publikasie van hierdie kennisgewing).

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moet binne ‘n tydperk van 30 dae vanaf 14 Januarie 2017 skriftelik by of tot die Munisipale Bestuurder by bovermelde adres of by Posbus 24, Tzaneen, 0850 ingedien of gerig word. Adres van gemagtigde agent: Omniplan Stads- en Streekbeplanners, Posbus 2071, Tzaneen, 0850, Tel. No. (015) 307 1041.

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Big school, baby steps On Wednesday, hundreds of new scholars started their educational career in primary schools across the Greater Tzaneen region.

New pupils and parents were welcomed at Unicorn Preparatory school, Laerskool Tzaneen Primary, Wolkberg Academy, Laerskool Duiwelskloof and Dr Annecke Primary.

Many of them shared their first-day jitters with Bulletin over social media. Here are some of the photographs we received from our readers and schools respectively, which prove that despite the Limpopo Department of Education’s dismal failures, there are dedicated educators willing to take up the challenge and ensure a brighter future for these young minds.

At the time of going to print, the exact number of new first-grade enrolments had not been made available. Bulletin has learnt that some schools had not yet received their textbooks and other material from the Education Department, but that contingency measures had been put in place by the affected schools to prevent any disruptions.

— Joe Dreyer joe@bulletin.us.com

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Hishtil South Africa, a leading vegetable seedling producer, requires the services of an Administrative Assistant at our Mooketsi Nursery.

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Run before you crawl No sooner had they started their school careers at the “big school” and Laerskool Tzaneen Primary’s grade one pupils have already hit the track. On Thursday morning the school held their first official athletics track and field meeting which gave the little ones the opportunity to

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show off their athletic dexterity. The six and seven year olds took part in 60m sprints much to the delight of their parents who crowded the school’s pavilion. Pictured here are some the highlights of this event which acted as a precursor to this weekend’s inter-house event.

Plasie-tennisster skitter Hoërskool Merensky het pas verneem dat hul gesoute tennisafrigter, Alexandra Dreyer die nommer 1 posisie op die nasionale senior tennisranglys vir die 30 tot 35 jaar ouderdomsgroep beklee.

Ten einde hierdie prestasie te behaal moes sy die afgelope seisoen verskeie nasionale en internasio-

nale toernooie wen teen ander topgekeurde spelers.

Alexandra het landwyd by agt nasionale- en twee internasionale toernooie genoeg punte bymekaar gemaak om haar nommer 1-posisie te verdien.

Met so ‘n dinamiese afrigter kan Plasie-tennis uitsien na ‘n opwindende 2017.

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