Klerksdorp Rekord, Potchefstroom - Die NWU se nuwe mediese skool geniet nou die ondersteuning van dr Nobuhle Nkabane, Minister van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding.

In ‘n brief aan die visekanselier van die NWU, prof Bismark Tyobeka, het die minister gesê dat sy die stigting van die nuwe mediese skool en verwante projekte by die universiteit ondersteun. 

Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - Parents/guardians are urged to visit their nearest health facility to ensure that their babies are fully immunized. 

This request comes after the low turnout for the 0-12 month immunizations in the Dr KK district. The Chief Director: District Health Services, Philemon Maboe says parents need to know that immunizations are crucial for the overall health and development of babies. 

Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - Another police officer stationed at Jouberton police station was murdered.

Sgt Fundiswa Motlhaoleng was gunned down on Tuesday afternoon January 14 while she was on her way to work. Brig Sabatha Mokgwabone, police spokesperson, said she was shot by unknown suspects while in her private vehicle driving in Tjaart Kruger Street, Randlespark. Three empty cartridges were found at the scene. Her body was found inside her vehicle. She was shot in the face.

Klerksdorp Record, Khuma - It is the smell of decaying bodies that will stay with the mine rescue workers tasked with extracting illegal miners from their underground hell at shaft 11.

The illegal miners as well as the decomposing bodies from those who succumbed underground are hoisted to the surface, and as one rescue worker told Klerksdorp Record, even those still living, smell like the dead.