BRITS POS – MARIKANA - Marikana Visible Policing and Detectives responded to a business robbery in progress complaint at a wholesale store in the area in the early hours last week on Monday.
The 30-year-old Bheki Mnguni and henchmen fled the scene when police arrived, but Mnguni was arrested.
NOODKREET VAN DROOGTEGETEISTERDE AREAS! Niks vir diere om te vreet nie.
BRITS POS – BRITS - TLU SA versoek Suid-Afrikaners nou om ons boere in droogtegeteisterde areas te ondersteun met ‘n bydrae aan TLU SA se Traumafonds.
In die hartjie van die droogte staar ons boere ‘n opdraande stryd in die gesig om hul diere te voer. “Ons het dusver nog nie ‘n druppel reën in die Koedoesrand omgewing gehad nie. Daar is nie ‘n grassie in sig nie,” sê Danie Prins, TLU SA Noord-streekbestuurder.
BRITS POST OFFICE - A filthy, dilapidated disgrace
BRITS POS – BRITS – Homeless people took over the area where the post boxes at Brits Post Office are situated, leaving it in total disgrace and residents afraid and disgusted.
Years ago iron framework had been erected to solve this problem, but night after night these ‘overnighters’, crawl through the iron framework to find shelter inside the premises of the post office in the lobby where post boxes are. According to residents, the area has become an eyesore with litter, cardboard, a filthy smell, broken glass all over the floors and in front of post boxes. Surrounded by the criminal elements, collecting mail is now a safety concern.
Local SAPS members awarded for excellent service
BRITS POS – BRITS – SAPS recently honoured and rewarded committed North West SAPS employees who did well in various environments in the South African Police Service (SAPS) to support and strive towards giving effect to the achievement of the strategic objectives of the Service. SAPS Management in North West led by Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Sello Kwena, supported by the MEC for Community Safety and Transport Management, Mr Sello Lehari, showed their commitment , supporting and embracing the achievements and hard work of all the employees within the SAPS at the 11th Annual Excellence Awards.
DEATH OF TWO CHILDREN Inquest docket opened
BRITS POS – SONOP - Police in Brits opened an inquest docket for investigation , following the death of two children , aged three and 10. It is alleged that a 32-year-old woman cooked a meal of pap, chicken feet and wheat for the family on Friday, 17 November at Regorogile in Sonop , west of Brits.
The whole family and their neighbours’ three children ate the meal and everybody went to sleep.