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Polisie slaan toe in Pretoria metro, 489 wetsoortreders vas getrek

Polisie slaan toe in Pretoria metro, 489 wetsoortreders vas getrek

Die polisie het in die groter Pretoria toegeslaan en 489 mense gearresteer gedurende die naweek toe agt padblokkades opgerig is om wetsoortreders vas te trek.

’n Polisie woordvoerder sê daar is op talle aspekte gefokus, en mense met onpadwaardige voertuie, bestuurders sonder ’n lisensie, dronk bestuurders, is almal vasgetrek.

Talle sonder rybewyse, ander met ongeregistreerde vuurwapens, en talle ander oortredings het deel uitgemaak van die naweek se misdaad bekamping aksie.

Die polisie en verkeersowerheid het ’n gesamentlike poging aangewend wat as uiters suksesvol beskryf is, en talle mense is gearresteer met dwelmmiddels in hulle besit.

-Vryburger


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Pretoria man robbed while ‘police stood idly by’

Pretoria man robbed while ‘police stood idly by’

The policemen did not help because the crime was not part of their division.

A businessman has accused the police of standing idly by while he was being robbed in the north of Pretoria, Pretoria North Rekord reports.

Louis Eloff said this happened during a protest. He sells and distributes paint across Pretoria.

Eloff said he was on his way to make a delivery in Hammanskraal when he ran in to a group of protesters along Soutpan Road in Soshanguve.

“About 100 people ran towards my van and stopped it. They took all the buckets of paint on the trailer and got away.”

Eloff said the stock was worth more than R25 000.

“Two policemen stood there and watched. When I approached them to ask for help, they said it was not their division.”

He said he did not lay charges because this would be a waste of time.

“Why would I do that when I know that there are thousands of murders, rapes and armed robberies on their books that will never be solved?”

Soshanguve police spokesperson Mathews Nkoadi confirmed that no charges had been laid.

“We are not aware of such a case.”

The businessman said the protesters did not harm him and his co-workers.

Residents of Soshanguve have protesting since last week over water and electricity problems.

The original article can be found at Pretoria North Rekord.


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Msimanga leads crime clean-up campaign in Sunnyside

Msimanga leads crime clean-up campaign in Sunnyside

Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga this morning led a crime clean-up campaign in Sunnyside alongside the Tshwane Metro police, emergency services and municipal water and electricity technicians.

The raid meant to tackle drug dealings, illegal electricity and water connections, by-law enforcement and the reclaiming of the municipality’s buildings.

Msimanga pointed out several illegal power connections and meter tempering at Nuweveld building on Troy Street as he inspected the municipal flat. He said the building owed the City at least R2 million in rates alone and it was about time it complied.

During the raid, Msimanga introduced himself to several tenants and asked to speak to caretakers of buildings. This he said was because the City was determined to eradicate all criminal activities in the city.

The mayor also visited Nix Accommodation on Rissik Street near Unisa in Sunnyside to inspect the building for possible illegal connections.

The metro police officers said that the building needed to be inspected by inspectors from the disaster management department because it was overcrowded and that could cause several illegal activities.

As the mayor and his team inspected the flats, Some tenants looked down from their windows. Msimanga’s team only sent out notice of this campaign early this morning in an attempt to reduce the chances of criminals finding out about the raid in advance.

The mayor said this campaign was a continuation of several clean-up attempts that took place in the past. He said more of these trips would be taken to achieve a fully compliant City.

The crew was also joined by tow trucks who sought to enforce bylaws by impounding vehicles of motorists who did not comply with city parking laws and rules.

Msimanga also visited the notorious Tamboti flat in the Sunnyside area. He said the police would also spend the whole week visiting all notorious spots in Sunnyside to make criminals and bylaw offenders uncomfortable.

iOl News / Pretoria News


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Burgemeester van Tshwane voor treurende families weggejaag

Burgemeester van Tshwane voor treurende families weggejaag

Solly Msimanga, burgemeester van Tshwane, moes Maandag uit Soshanguve, noord van Pretoria, vergesel word nadat gemeenskapslede hom verjaag het waar vyf kinders dood is toe ʼn paneel van ʼn munisipale ligmas losgekom het.

Maroela Media het vroeër berig vyf kinders, tussen ses en 12 jaar oud, is dood toe hulle by Apollo-lig, net buite die Bopapes se huis, gespeel het. Die swaar metaalring wat die hoë lig ondersteun, het losgekom en vier kinders is op slag dood. Twee kinders is na ʼn hospitaal geneem, waar een van hulle by George Mukhari-hospitaal gesterf het. Een van die kinders is nie beseer nie. Twee van die kinders was nefies uit die Bopape-familie.

Msimanga wou ʼn besoek aflê aan die treurende gesinne, het sy waarnemende woordvoerder, Lindela Mashigo, gesê. Toe Msimanga en ʼn span afgevaardigdes van die munisipaliteit egter Maandagoggend by Block X-gemeenskapsaal in Soshanguve opdaag, het lede van die plaaslike sakeforum hul “ongemak” uitgespreek met sy teenwoordigheid.

“In die lig van die tragiese gebeure en die rou emosie, het die burgemeester besluit om nie in gesprek te tree met die groep mense nie, maar eerder na die families te gaan,” het Mashigo verduidelik. “ʼn Groep mense het die burgemeester weer voorgekeer toe hy by een van die families opgedaag het. Dit is duidelik dat die groep mense ʼn politieke agenda wil dryf in hierdie tyd waar politiek die laaste ding in die burgemeester se gedagtes is. Dit is baie jammer dat die mense, wat as gemeenskapsleiers beskou word, eerder hul eie politieke belang wil dryf as om die families se gevoelens in ag te neem.”

Msimanga se kantoor blameer die ANC, die opposisie in Tshwane, vir die chaos. “Dit is nou baie duidelik dat die ANC in Tshwane nie eers meer voorgee om vir mense om te gee nie, en hulle gebruik nou mense se pyn om ʼn politieke agenda te dryf. Hierdie tipe gedrag word ten sterkste veroordeel.”

Sommige inwoners het gekla dat hulle met rubberkoeëls geskiet is, deur lede van die Tshwane-metropolisie, wat Msimanga beskerm. Sommige van die inwoners het glo doppies van die rubberkoeëls gehou.

Wykraadslid Phumzile Hlatshwayo sê die gemeenskap soek al sedert Saterdag bloed. “Dit was baie sleg toe ek Saterdagmiddag daar aangekom het. Die gemeenskap is baie sensitief. hulle het intussen bande op die pad aan die brand gesteek. Mens sien die frustrasie van die gemeenskap. Hulle is kwaad omdat hulle dienste verwaarloos word. Daar is ʼn hele aantal van dié ligmaste wat ook oop is soos die een wat op die kinders geval het. Ons versoek dienslewering en instandhouding,” het Hlatshwayo gesê. “Ons hoor daar is nie geld nie, maar as mens na plekke soos Waterkloof gaan, dan sien mens nie dieselfde probleme nie. Maar in die townships word die begroting beperk. Die prioriteit is die voorstede.”

Mashigo het vroeër gesê dit wil voorkom of iemand met die kabels van die ligmas gepeuter het, vermoedelik in ʼn poging om dit te steel. “Dit is hartseer dat diewe se vandalisme van elektriese kabels die lewens van onskuldige kinders geëis het,” Mashigo bygevoeg.

Deur: Maroela Media


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Executive mayor of Tshwane nominates new police chief

Executive mayor of Tshwane nominates new police chief

Executive mayor of Tshwane, Solly Msimanga, has nominated a policewoman Johanna Nkomo for the position of chief of Tshwane Metro Police Department.

Msimanga announced the nomination at Tshwane House ahead of the council sitting on Thursday.

“I am glad to announce that the interview process has been concluded and we now have a nominee for the position of TMPD Police Chief.

Msimanga hailed Nkomo as “someone with vast experience” within the policing environment.

“The nominee is someone we strongly believe can fulfill the duties and responsibilities of the position of Tshwane’s top cop and assist in bringing the change to Tshwane which we desire and making the city a safer place to live in,” said Msimanga.

He said Nkomo would assist the City in keeping residents safe.

“We look forward to working with Nkomo in engaging some of the more challenging issues that are before us and some of the most exciting things that the City is working on to bring to the people of Tshwane to make our city safer and more efficient,” he said.

Nkomo would take over from Jenny Malan who has been acting in the position following the departure of the police chief Steven Ngobeni in April this year.

Nkomo’s qualifications include, a National Diploma in Police Administration from Technikon SA and Master of Law from the University of South Africa.

“She is clearly someone who has a multiplicity of skills and has worked across various fields within the country’s police services,” Msimanga said.


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‘Kaper’ in Pta doodgeskiet

Die polisie en paramedici op die toneel. Foto: Verskaf

ʼn Vermeende kaper is Vrydagmiddag deur ʼn beampte van die Tshwane-metropolisie in Pretoria doodgeskiet.

Nonhlanhla Mgiba, woordvoerder van die metropolisie, het gesê die voorval het omstreeks 13:30 in Hercules in die weste van Pretoria plaasgevind terwyl beamptes met ʼn roetine patrollie besig was.

“Beamptes het vier verdagtes in ʼn groen Toyota Corolla in die omgewing opgemerk. Beamptes van die dwelmeenheid het die voertuig voorgekeer met doel om die insittendes te ondervra en te deursoek,” het Mgiba gesê.

Volgens Mgiba het beamptes die voertuig genader, waarna een van die insittendes glo ʼn 9 mm-pistool probeer hanteer het. “Dit het een van die beamptes genoop om die verdagte uit selfverdediging te skiet.”

Die verdagte is deur paramedici van Best Care-ambulansdienste op die toneel dood verklaar. Xander Loubser, woordvoerder, het gesê die man, in sy laat 20’s, was reeds dood toe paramedici by die toneel opgedaag het.

Mgiba het gesê die res van die insittendes het te voet op vlug geslaan. Twee van hulle is aangekeer en in hegtenis geneem, die derde kon daarin slaag om te ontsnap en is steeds soek.

Volgens inligting wat deur die polisie verkry is, was die mans glo op pad om ʼn Range Rover te kaap toe hulle voorgekeer is.