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17 MARCH 2023
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■ Joe Dreyer Die Groter Tzaneense Munisipaliteit (GTM) het skielik in aksie gespring nadat Bulletin verlede week die haaglike toestand van Grens Straat verby die Hoërskool Ben Vorster en die SAVF Kleuterskool uitgelig het. Tot die verbasing van motoriste is daar dieselfde dag ‘n span uitgestuur om die enorme slaggate te begin herstel. Die spanne het ingespring by die grootste van die slaggate net voor die ingang van die skool se hoofhek. Alhoewel die herstelwerk netjies voltooi is, is dit al wat die span met die oranje oorpakke vermag het. Hulle het eers weer Dinsdagoggend hul padwerke voortgesit, maar dit blyk asof Minitzani Straat, wat ‘n ver-
takking van Grens Straat is en wat Agatha Straat met hierdie hoofweg verbind, heeltemal tot niet sal gaan voor daar ‘n tender uitgesit sal word om die hele oppervlakte te vervang. Volgens die woordvoerder van die munisipaliteit, Vutivi Makubele, sal daar in die week wat voorlê verder aan Grens Straat gewerk word en moontlik daarna aan Minitzani. Sy het beweer dat die onlangse reën die onderhoudspanne se werk belemmer het.
R6M for Van Velden’s fence ■ Joe Dreyer Earlier this month residents looked on with some puzzlement as a contractor started erecting a new boundary fence around the once pristine Van Velden hospital in Tzaneen. The government health facility has long since lost its shine and along with it, the trust of the community who would rather travel the extra 30 kilometres to Letaba hospital than navigate unsanitary bedding, inept staff and dirty toilets. So why then, erect a new “clearveu” fence around this facility, and how much did it cost? Well according to the spokesperson for the
Limpopo Health Department, Niel Shikwambana, the new fence is to improve the security of personnel and property at the hospital. He also said that the contractor, Africa Construction, was paid R6 million to erect this fence and that the project had already started. We asked him why the department opted to spend so much money on a fence when more pressing issues needed to be dealt with, such as new bedding, bed pans, food and other supplies clearly lacking there. “A new fence is also pressing because security of personnel and property is also a priority in the department,” he said.
Follow the link below for past copies. https://issuu.com/laeveldbulletin Noodnommers Emergency numbers Tzaneen
Ambulance / Ambulans Police / Polisie Fire Brigade / Brandweer Electricity / Electrisiteit Water Municipality / Munisipaliteit Letaba Fire Protection Ass. Fire / Brand nr. Citizen Band Van Velden Hospital/Hospitaal Mediclinic Tzaneen Child line
10177 / 015 307 7077 10111 / 015 306 2129 015 307 5555 / 7000 082 679 0720 015 307 8000/8190 a/h 015 307 8000 076 550 2260 076 844 1646 Foxtrot Papa Alpha/ Letaba Fire Ops. 015 307 8800 015 306 8500 0800 055 555
Source: www.dwa.gov.za Information updated: /03/2023
Tzaneen 102%
Ebenezer 100.7%
Merensky 103.5%
Dap Naude 96.6%
Middel Letaba 7.8%
Blyderivierpoort 101%
Klaserie 101.3%
Tours 100.7%
Vergelegen 102.6%
Magoebaskloof 101%