RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) has expressed their deep sadness after 11 employees lost their lives at Impala Rustenburg's 11 Shaft.
 A further 75 employees were injured, of which 14 are considered critical, in the accident and were transferred and admitted for treatment to four hospitals in the region. The mine rescue operation is completed and all 86 employees are accounted for.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - The Rustenburg Regional Court handed down sentences in two separate cases of child sexual abuse last week.
In one case, a father was sentenced to 75 years imprisonment, while in the other case, a stepfather was handed a 30 year jail sentence. In the first case reported in March of 2010, a social worker alerted the police about the wellbeing of three children, who were in the care of their parents. The latter initially stayed in Pretoria, but relocated to Zeerust. 

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - The Rustenburg Local Municipality (RLM) is asking the community to help them curb the surge of vandalism, the theft of critical electrical infrastructure and illegal connections in Rustenburg and surrounding areas.
Some of the acts causing the most disruption currently are:
•    Theft of transformers

The Bojanala Platinum Sub-District 2 Commissioner,
Brigadier Mamotsamai Ntoagae received an Ambassador’s award
for 2022/2023 at the North West Police Excellence Awards on Thursday (16 November).

The glamourous event was held at the Sun City Superbowl.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - PHOKENG - The Tlhabane Regional Court sentenced a 55-year-old man to 20 years imprisonment for sexually violating his 6-year-old niece.
 Lebogela Motswadi (55) was declared unfit to possess a firearm and his name will now be included in the register of sexual offenders. He was further declared undesirable to work with children. 

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - The South African Police Service (SAPS) reservist programme continues to collapse under Minister Bheki Cele with SAPS losing more than 90% of its reservists since 2011/12.
 In 2011/12 there were 52 054 SAPS reservists across the country. Ten years later in 2021/22 SAPS was left with just 4 393 reservists. Today, the numbers have declined to a devastating new low, with just 3 502 reservists across the country.

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - The South African electorate of whom many hope to make a difference in South African politics during the National Election of next year, will have to remember that voting is only the second step. 
The first step is to make sure that you, and all new voters who have turned 18 during the course of the past few months are registered to vote in your ward. 

An inspection team of the Rustenburg Local Municipality, in conjunction with law enforcement raided a shop in Zinniaville and confiscated a number of food products which, according to information were all beyond their expiry date. It is alleged that this wholesaler’s customers are mostly tuck shops reselling these goods.

RUSTENBURG HERALD – RUSTENBURG – A badly injured man was found near Kroondal over the weekend.
The man had to be taken to a local hospital to be treated for injuries he sustained after being assaulted.
According to information, Major Okedutse Itumeleng (47) was last seen in Vryburg after work on Friday (27 October).

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - A suspect was arrested here in connection with housebreaking and theft at President Cyril Ramaphosa's farm in 2020. Another was caught in Bela Bela. The two suspects, a woman (30) and a 39-year-old man, were arrested the past weekend by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (HAWKS).

RUSTENBURG HERAL - RUSTENBURG - Residents of Wards 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 42 have been invited to a “Ward meeting” in terms of Rustenburg Executive Mayor’s “Mayoral Outreach” programme on Thursday, 2 November from 18:00 to 20:00.
The venue is the Old Town Hall in Beyers Naude Avenue - right next to the offices of the Rustenburg Municipality. 
The following issues will be addressed: 

RUSTENBURG HERALD - RUSTENBURG - Residents of Zinniaville and in particular the Zinniaville Ratepayers Association have been in the news lately following a peaceful demonstration at Missionary Mpheni House on 4 October in protest against the Zinniaville community's water woes of the past year or two. Though the demonstration of 4 October served as an opportunity to present a memorandum of grievances to the Rustenburg Municipality's Executive Mayor, the ZRPA were later only received by Mr Thabang Rampou - Member of the Mayoral Committee on Infrastructure who responded to say that the RLM will provide details of how the water issue could be addressed amicably within 14 days.