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After the R25 Road maintenance and rehabilitation project was sus-pended by the community, some residents are starting to help them-selves to the material that was used by the construction company toupgrade the road that links Moutse and Groblersdal Town.After the protest, the construction company left thousands of uninstalledpaving bricks and Kerbs on the side of the road. The material was readyto be installed but the company left it there when both the communityand the Department of roads and Transport agreed that the project wasnot up to standard and it must be reviewed before it can continue.Some community members informed the Dispatch that people are seenon a daily basis loading the material in their bakkies and wheelbarrowsand no one seems to care about the situation."Some use the material in their yards while others sell the paving bricksto other community members," says a resident who doesn't want to benamed.He says the community does not believe that the project will soon becontinuing as the Roads Department decided to start the project fromscratch."I dont think the project will be continuing soon and this affect usmotorists who drives on the road to work everyday. The road is in a verybad condition. We are forced to drive on the gravel as there is only onelane of tarred road left by constructors," says a motorist Bennet Kotelo.

Residents help themselvesto material

"Nyaope addicts areseen in numbers col-lecting material on theroad. We heard ru-mours that some ofsub-conractors arealso helping them-selves to the material.This is vandalism be-cause some of thematerial was alreadyinstalled," said a com-munity member whowishes to remainanonymous.He said they tried towarn the communitybut they were told thematerial is belongingto the government andthe constructor failedto reach the requiredstandards when reha-bilitating and upgrad-

ing the road.The police condemns residents' actions of help-ing themselves to the material that is aimed atimproving the living conditions of the public atlarge.They say public action is a criminal offence andthey make a call to anyone who may witnesssuch illegal practices to come forward withinformation that can lead to arrest.

The R25 upgrading project has restarted. The 29 km project wasboycotted by the community during a protest on Monday 26 January.They complained about the poor standard of the work being done. Theprotest came as a result after Moutse residents' engagement with theLimpopo Department of Roads and Transport, which was fruitlesssince November last year. During the protest residents raised the issuethat the ugrading of the R25 Provincial Road in Limpopo was not on thesame standard compared to the constructions in Gauteng andMpumalanga Provinces. They also said the road is narrower in an extentthat vehicles like trucks and busses are urged to use both lanes whichdisrupts the flow of traffic.They blocked the road with burning tyres, stones and bricks that ledto big traffic problems from all directions. Negotiations were held byMoutse community members, Moutse Business Forum, Roads AgencyLimpopo and the Limpopo Department of Roads and Transport to findsolutions on the matter. It was then resolved that the road must beupgraded according to the interests of the people.The continuation of the project comes as a relief to those who use theroad to and from work in Groblersdal Town on a daily basis."I drive a small vehicle and it was difficult for me to drive the road wherethe construction company removed the tar just before the project wasstopped. I am glad now because the project is continuing and they werebusy with the process of tarring the road when I drove passed theretoday," said a community member Daniel Maabane.

Members of the Moutse Business Forum standing nearpacked project material that ended up stolen by communitymembers.

R25 upgradecontinues

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Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality has offi-cially handed over the fleet machinery that wasleased to speed up service delivery in thevillages. The hand over was held at theThabakhubedu Sports Grounds in Denniltonon Tuesday 21 April where hundreds of com-munity members attended.The Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality MayorCllr Julia Mathebe, was accompanied by MMCfor Infrastructure Delly Matjomane, MMC forStrategic David Tladi, MMC for CommunityServices Jan Mohlala and other municipal offi-cials. The fleet machinery included four TLB's, fourgraders and four tipper trucks. The TLBs andGraders were leased by the municipality fromBell South Africa earlier this month. The tippertrucks are leased from Isuzu and they arrived onthe day of the hand over."It has been long since the municipality strug-

EMLM Mayor hands overfleet machines

gles to buy the machinery due to lack of funds.Now we are glad that we finally did it and hopewe will no longer receive complaints about pooraccess roads, poor maintenance of sports fieldsand other community needs," said the mayor.She revealed that the hand over falls under themunicipal programme called reya shoma (we areworking)."It took the Director of Infrastructure almostfive years to convince the council to buy thismachinery for our beloved community mem-bers of Elias Motsoaledi," she said.The mayor pledged the community to look afterthe machinery as it is aimed to deliver servicesin the villages."This is your property, you must look after it sothat it will last longer. As residents you mustmake sure that each and every one of themachinery is serving the purpose," she con-cluded.

Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality officials showing off the new machines thatwere handed over to the community at Thabakhubedu.

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Since the Chief Financial Officer at EliasMotsoaledi Local Municipality Mr. MadimabeSello Monageng was expelled by the munici-pality’s council Thursday 8 January, millions ofRands are already spent on legal fees.Monageng’s contract was terminated after headvertised a project and failed to appoint acontractor to do the job. An amount of R4500-00 was spent to advertise the post and he wascharged by the municipality for fruitless ex-penditure that cost him his job after servingonly two of his five year contract.The former CFO took the matter to the Commis-sion for Cancellation, Mediation and Arbitra-tion (CCMA). Now oppositions in the munici-pality are worried about millions of Rands spentby the municipality on legal fees for only R4500-00.“I requested the council to supply me with aninvoice of legal costs about the matter in orderto submit it to the Law Society of South Africaand it was never given to me until today,” saidMpumalanga Party’s Cllr Seun Mogotji.He said the expulsion of Monageng is not onlyabout the fruitless expenditure that involvesR4500-00 but it is a personal matter that in-volves him and other officials in the municipal-ity and not in the interest of the council.“Worse things are happening in the municipal-ity, involving corruption but no steps are takenagainst those individuals,” said Mogotji.He said: “The council spend millions of Randson this matter but we are still in a situation withmany communities experiencing poor servicedelivery. Unemployment is also at its highestlevel.”Mogotji hinted that if the CCMA will finally rulethat the council has to pay Monageng for theremaining three years of his contract, more

EMLM court feesskyrocketing

millions of Rands will have to be paid by themunicipality in this matter.“There chances are good that the CCMA willrule that the council has to pay Monageng forhis remaining three years that he was supposedto spend in the municipality. This simply meansthat he would be given a golden handshake bythe CCMA for the humiliation and embarrass-ment that he has suffered during the process,”said Mogotji.Mogotji contluded: “We cannot sit back andwatch while maladministration, corruption andmismanagement take place in the council. Seri-ous issues such as poor service delivery, un-employment and others are not considered andthis has to come to an end.”

The former Chief Financial Officer (CFO)of Elias Motsoaledi Local MunicipalityMadimabe Monageng who took thematter to court.

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Two armed suspects left empty handed afterattempting to rob Pick n Pay Groblersdal, thepolice said.According to Warrant Office Stanley Magaelafrom Groblersdal SAPS, the two suspects en-tered the shop on Monday 20 March around9:00 in the morning."The branch manager was about to take themoney to the bank when the two arrived. Thetwo robbers approached him and one of thesuspects pointed him with a firearm demanding

Mr MA Mahlwele was appointed as the newChief Executive Officer (CEO) of PhiladephiaHospital in Dennilton. Mahlwele was appointedby the Limpopo Department of Health after therecalling of the former hospital CEO Mr FSMosimege. Mosimege was recalled on Friday6 March this year following an analysis thatwas done by the Minister of Health Dr AaronMotsoaledi to look at the suitability of thehospitals' CEOs. The analysis realised thatCEOs with no health background were strug-gling to run the hospitals. The minister said thecurrent situation was that these positions wereeither occupied by people who do not havehealth background or are at lower levels. It wasfound that some CEOs were political appoint-ees, with neither healthcare nor managerialqualifications. Some provincial health depart-ments had appointed former teachers to runcomplex bodies with multimillion-rand budg-ets. It was discovered that the department haspeople at level 8 (clerk) who are hospital CEOs.According to the review, 2% of hospital CEOshad matric as their highest qualification. Thesealso led the government to launch Academy forLeadership and Management in Healthcare toset benchmarks, norms and standards for theleadership and management of hospitals inSouth Africa. An insider who doesn’t want tobe named told the Dispatch that the new CEOdid a few promising changes and he seems tobe committed with his job. She said the newlyappointed hospital CEO in the hospital hasvowed to hit the ground running and make ameaningful turn around in the way health is runin the province. "The staff is happy to haveMahlwele as the new CEO and we hope he willmake changes to see the hospital going for-ward. He is prioritizing the needs of the commu-nity in particular patients that are admitted inthe hospital," she said. She said they are hop-ing for the best, coming from the new CEO andissues such as water shortages, unfair dis-missal of staff members and community marcheswill be no more."The appointment of the new CEO is support-ing a process to improve service delivery to thecommunity," she said.

Armed robbers fled empty handed

PhiladelphiaHospital gets

new CEO

The bullet holesin Bareki Mall is avisible reminderof the robberyand what couldhave happened.Police and rob-bers exchangedgunfire in theearly hours afterpolice officersconfrunted therobbers inside thePick n Pay

Bullet holes in theshop windows inBareki Mall

money," said Magaela.He added that the manager dropped the money after fearing for his lifeand one of the suspects grabbed it."Two police officers who were in the shop saw the incident andapproached the suspects. The criminals dropped the money and startedfiring shots.The police retaliated by firing back and the suspects fled the scene. Theymanaged to drive away with their getaway vehicle leaving the moneybehind," he said.Magaela said a docket of attempted armed robbery is under investigationat Groblersdal Police Station and no arrests have been made.

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Smalls and Classifieds

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The Bantwane Youth Initiative (BYI) initiatedthe opening of the new Unisa Multi PurposeCommunity TeleCentre at the Ndlovu SportsCentre in Dennilton. The centre started operat-ing end of March this year and is aiming toassist UNISA registered students in Moutseand other surrounding areas with their aca-demic studies.According to the Chairperson of the BantwaneYouth Initiative Thabiso Mathabathe, the newlyopened Unisa Multi Purpose CommunityTeleCentre will be assisting hundreds of Moutseresidents who registered with Unisa with thesubmission of assignments and the usage of

New Unisa Multi Purpose TeleCentre openedthe “my Unisa” website.He said new students will be assisted withonline applications for the reservation of spaceto correspond with Unisa.He said they also established a UNISA peersessions where young people will be able to gethelp. The lecture online update will also beavailable for students."The centre is in line with Open Distance Learn-ing (ODL) principles where Unisa has signedagreements with multi purpose community cen-tres throughout the country in areas identifiedas remote. With the centre, registered Unisastudents in Moutse and other other surround-

ing areas can now access free internet to assistwith their registrations and modules," he said.Thabiso revealed that the centre will offer stu-dents assistance in academic purpose such asaccess to myUnisa, e-mails, the digital library,internet research and other computer based

training modules which is all the courtesy ofUnisa."Our plan is to Market the Centre till it becomesa Unisa examination centre so that students willno longer travel to other areas to access Unisaexamination centres," he said.

The Motetema SAPS launched a man hunt aftera Zimbabwean citizen stabbed his girlfriendwith a knife five times and fled the scene.The suspect, Foster Sambo who is about thirtyyears old, stabbed and seriously injured his 26year old girlfriend after they had an argumenton the night of Monday 9 March at BapedingSection in Tafelkop. He left the victim bleedingand fled the scene.The police and ambulance were called and thevictim was rushed to Groblersdal Hospital in aserious condition."The police started to search for the suspectsince then but he was nowhere to be found,"said Constable Boitumelo Matlala fromMotetema SAPS. He said the suspect is be-lieved to be somewhere around the farms inGroblersdal. "The public is advised not to ap-proach the suspect as he is extremely danger-ous.Anyone with information that can lead to thelocation of the whereabouts and arrest of thesuspect please call Constable Mabitsela on 073207 5252," said Matlala.

Man hunt by Motetema Police

The Zimbabwean citizen Foster Sambois wanted by the police after he alleg-edly stabbed his 26 year old girlfriendfive times at Bapeding in Tafelkop.

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The former Danone Limpopo Provincial Cham-pions Bantwane Primary School FC were elimi-nated in the finals of Sekhukhune DistrictDanone Under-13 Soccer Tournament. Theschool was knocked out of the tournamentduring the Danone Sekhukhune District Re-gional Tournament played at the Jane FurseSports Grounds on Saturday 11 April. Theschool qualified to play on district level afterdefeating Morwathebe Primary School in the

According to researches, young people seemnot to be interested in playing netball anymore.This is shown by the decline in the number ofnetball playing teams around the country. Thisconcerns Netball SA and led to the establish-ment of male netball teams.To restore the spirit of playing and enjoyingnetball as a sport activity in the communnity,Maboneng Netball Club organized a friendlytop four netball tournament held at Ga-Molepane Sports Grounds in Jane Furse.Maboneng Netball Club from Ga-MolepaneVillage, Mphana Netball Club from NgwaabeVillage, Magana Netball Club from Jane Furseand Rantho Netball Club from Ngwaabe tookpart. Spectators came in numbers to supporttheir teams during the day. In the openingmatch the host, Maboneng NC played with

Bantwane Primary eliminated from Danone Tournament

Moutse Cluster Cir-cuits finals last month.The school started thetournament by play-ing well in the district

The Bantwane Pri-mary School Un-der-12 squad arelooking forwardfor the other com-ing tournamentsafter they wereeliminated in theSekhukhune Dis-trict Danone Un-der-13 SoccerTournament.

when they managed to defeat Bohlabela Clus-ter Circuit FC with a 4-2 score. They then wontheir second match when playing with MagakalaCluster Circuits with a 4-3 score on penalties.According to Bantwane Primary School HeadCoach Mr Mmotla, being eliminated from thetournament came as a disappointment for theteam and cluster. He said they are now busypreparing for the other coming soccer tourna-ments that will take place soon. "We are gettingour team ready for the coming Under-14McDonald Soccer Tournament that will be start-ing next month. We are also looking forward forthe Milo Under-13 Soccer tournament that willbe played in August," he said.

Maboneng NC hostedNetball Tournament

Rantho NC. The host was eliminated in the opening match and RanthoNC booked a place in the final.The second match was played by Mphana and Magana which was thethoughest game of the day. Mphana defeated Magana to pave a way toplay in the final match in the tournament.Maboneng Netball Club Coach Fridah Maepa said their aim is to restorethe love of netball to young people in the community. She said they alsoeducate residents about the importance of sports and urge parents toencourage their children to come and join neball clubs."We are now experiencing a large number of young people who arecoming to join the team since we started. We have more than sixty playersand this allows us to devide our club into three categories where we havethe A, B and the C squads," she said.She said their intention is to play every weekend but their challenge isthat there is a shortage of netball teams in the nearby villages."Netball teams are far from our village and this comes as a challenge aswe don’t have sponsors. We sometimes contribute money and visitother parts in the province to play but this doesn’t happen often," sheadded. She went on and said it is hard for them to get sponsors whenorganizing tournaments and they ended up contributing, as partici-pants, for the prizes. "The community shows support because theyalways come in numbers when we play matches and tournaments.Currently we have a number of young people who come to join our teamevery month. We also encourage other community members to come andjoin and also expect the establishement of other netball clubs in thecommunities," she concluded.

The host, Maboneng Netball Club justbefore the opening match, where theywere defeated by Rantho Netball Club.

Mphana Netball Club from Ngwaabealso took part in the netball tourna-ment organised at Ga-MolepaneSports Grounds near Jane Furse.