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Taxi drivers protecting their own

Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - It is still tense between taxi owners and the police after the incident early in May where a taxi driver was shot by police officers.

Tsietso Maloba was wounded in the leg and is still recovering from the injury he incurred on May 9. According to Hope Mandla Mooki, chairman of the Kopano taxi route, the driver was shot on the N12 after they confronted police officers who assaulted one of their patrollers. “We received a call from the patrol guys at Ultra City complaining about a policeman who was giving lifts in an illegal car. The policeman told him that we could do nothing to him as he is a policeman and he even called some buddies who came and started assaulting our guy.’’

City owes Eskom big time

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.

Get your taxes ready

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.

IEC: Election free and fair

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%.

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SA goes to the polls

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.