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Wolmaransstad CPF on the ground amid escalating crime 

 

After an intervention from the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, the Wolmaransstad-basd Community Policing Forum has hit the ground following increasing crime levels 

Residents of Tswelelang have reached to the district police top brass during an imbizo last year regarding poor service delivery from police in address crime issues

Residents argued that police do not address crime in various well-known hotspots in Tswelelang 

House breakings/robberies,  rape as well as assault were reported to have skyrocketed in Wolmaransstad 

CPF Chairperson said, criminals use "group-force" to execute a crime 

Wolmaransstad is a Central Business District for Makwassie, Leeudoringstad, Witpoort, Boskuil as well as surrounding farms 

In a significant step towards enhancing community safety, the DR KK District Municipality's Office of the Executive Mayor has donated essential crime prevention and self-defense items to the Community Policing Forum (CPF) in Wolmaransstad

The initiative aimed at strengthening crime-fighting efforts and equip community members with the necessary resources to protect themselves and their neighborhoods

The district said, their donation was met with applause from local residents, who welcomed the municipality’s commitment to tackling crime at the grassroots level

Magalies Water still provides with services despite a prediction to go bankrupt this year 

 Magalies Water was predicted to have gone bankrupt by June this year, this is as municipalities are owing the waterboard

Maquassi Hills is among those municipalities that owes the water board millions of rands

Debt-collection measures are being implemented by the Magalies Water Board to avert expected bankruptcy by June this year due to escalating unpaid debts. The Department of Water and Sanitation Director-General Sean Phillips released a report highlighting municipal debt to water boards.

It identified two water boards likely to go bankrupt within the next 6 to 12 months due to outstanding municipal debt running into millions of rand. Magalies Water Board — which took over some duties of the discontinued Sedibeng Water Board in 2022 to supply some municipalities in the North West, Gauteng and Limpopo 

Inheriting those duties included taking over their geographical areas, staff, assets and liabilities. However, the transfer to Magalies Water Board did not resolve the underlying debt problem that Sedibeng Water faced, said the report

"Magalies Water Board has already reached the point where their expenditure exceeds the available bank balance and will not be able to pay their operating costs and have stopped paying for their raw water. By paying only essential expenses (salaries, electricity, chemicals and so on), Magalies Water will be able to keep going until approximately June 2025, after which they will be bankrupt and will not be able to deliver any water" - Department of Water and Sanitation Director-General Sean Phillips 

Tiragalo received new school furniture few months back

 The Kgakala-based Tiragalo Secondary School has received additional chairs and tables from the Department of Education in North West 

The department made a move after seeing a shortage of school chairs and tables, Tiragalo Secondary has been battling overcrowding for some time, the government had made promises to build a second school in Kgakala, after identifying that, Tiragalo, is the only senior school that caters hundreds of learners

Meanwhile, other learners from the area have enrolled to other schools in Wolmaransstad and Tswelelang citing overcrowding 

However, changes have been made by Bokamoso Solar to make teaching and learning more easier for teachers and learners by donating study materials and building a school library 

Some of the residents of Kgakala, have also added their voices, calling for a second senior school to be built. Residents said, the Department of Education failed them

"We need more than 2 secondary schools in Leeudoringstad. I see no reason why MHESS was built at Wolmaransstad where as we have one secondary school which caters for three primary schools in this area at this point

"Donations are meant to eradicate visible inequalities among learners" - DR KK

The DR Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality made an impact on the lives of learners of Boskuil Combined School 

 Member of the Mayoral Committee for Special Projects, Mpho Matsapola handed over school uniforms and shoes to selected schools in Maquassi Hills and City of Matlosana

 According to Matsapola, donations are meant to eradicate visible inequalities among learners, affording them equal standing in their places of learning

 The Office of the Mayor (DR KKDM) focused more on schools needing added support from government

 "The Executive Mayor has been longing to assist such communities. That is why today we embarked on this project. Our target is to reach mainly special schools and those  located in deep rural areas like farms so that we level the learning environment, thereby ensuring that teachers concerntrate on teaching rather than having to worry about economic inequalities between learners" - Member of the Mayoral Committee for Special Projects, Mpho Matsapola

Boskuil Combined School is situated in marginalised area of Boskuil with parents not having the capacity to buy their children some school needs

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