Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - The top 20 municipalities with overdue Eskom bills owe the power utility around R55.8 billion, with the three biggest defaulters owing over R7 billion each.
The Matlosana Municipality is a top defaulter, according to MyBroadband. Matlosana is in eighth place and owes R1,798 billion to Eskom.
Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has announced the filing dates for tax season 2024, which will open in July.
The tax season for individual taxpayers (non-provisional) will open July 15 and run to October 21. Auto-assessment notices will start going out from July 1 to 14.
The filing season for provisional tax-payers will run from July 15 to January 20, and for trusts, from September 16 to January 20, 2025.
Klerksdorp Rekord, Klerksdorp - Just more than 55% of voters in the Matlosana voting district went out to make their mark in the national election last week.
With the final results declared on Sunday evening June 2, the African National Congress (ANC) achieved just over 40% support nationally, followed by the Democratic Alliance (DA) with almost 22%, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party secured 14.59% and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) with 9.5%.
In North West the voter turnout was 58,64%. The EFF maintained its opposition party status in the province, garnering 17,37% of the votes.
The ANC won the province with 57.73% and the DA got third most votes of 13,24%.
Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - The country’s seventh national election since democracy took place this week, with 27 672 264 registered to vote.
At the time of going to print early on Wednesday May 29, the latest Ipsos poll predicted 40.2% for the ANC, 21.9% for the DA, 11.5% for the EFF, 8.4% for MK, 3.4% for ActionSA, 1.8% for the FF+ and 8.4% for the other parties.
Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - It is said that greed and family feuds have contributed to the gruesome plot to wipe out almost the entire Maponyane family.
A murder for hire conspiracy was unravelled by police detectives with the arrest of five men linked to the murders of Johannes Maponyane (74) in September last year, his son, Peter (34) in January and daughter, Elissa (44) last week. Klerksdorp Record was told confidentially that it is suspected that the mastermind behind the plot is another of the murdered patriarch’s children who is currently in custody on several murder charges.
The late Peter was a well-known businessman in Klerksdorp and owner of Samambu Funeral Parlour. He was shot and killed inside his car while parked outside his business. His father was gunned down a few months earlier in Mohadin, Potchefstroom. It was also bullets that claimed the life of Elissa at her place in Ikageng on Thursday May 23.
