CHDM to develop housing
THE Chris Hani District Municipality has been given developer status for emergency housing but needed to be informed by local municipalities on beneficiaries.
CHDM spokesman Thobeka Mqamelo, responding to queries by The Rep following a report (“Residents plead for RDP houses” January 8), which detailed the plight of 39 families waiting for RDP homes after their Sada houses were destroyed by heavy rains in 2010, said disaster management was the responsibility of the district authority.
The residents have been living in temporary
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shelters for the past five years.
Mqamelo said while the district authority had been given developer status for emergency houses for local municipalities by the human settlements department, CHDM had to be informed by local municipalities which needed to provide information on the beneficiaries for emergency housing.
“We are yet to receive information from Lukhanji with regard to the Emadakeni area in particular.”
The Rep referred the matter back to Lukhanji Municipality for comment and is awaiting feedback. – Rep reporter
– Congratulations to Sarah Moorcroft, for winning the Rookie of the Year award, for outstanding all round performance at Shamwari Game Reserve. She received the award at the staff year-end function. Sarah has been working at Shamwari for a few years and is the younger daughter of George and Megan of Penhoek.
CONGRATULATIONS to John de Wet, son of Louise Hinsch and the late C G de Wet, formerly of Naudesfontein in this district, on his engagement to Julisa Edwards. Both John and Julisa work in Washington DC and plan to be married towards the end of the year.
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DORDRECHT – Good rains have fallen in the area recently and 38mm was measured last Wednesday, plus a further 8mm on Friday.
However, the level of the town’s water supply dam is still very low and it is said that there is only sufficient water for a few
– Congratulations to the Stutterheim High School matric class of 2015 for a 100% pass. Well done to all for wonderful results. Stutt High is one of three schools in the King William’s Town district to achieve a 100% pass rate. Although there were no A aggregates, 21 subject As were achieved by the 55 candidates. All candidates qualified to study either for a degree, diploma or higher certificate.
PARKRUN continued throughout the holidays. On average 25-30 athletes showed up each Saturday and visitors months. There have been rumours of water restrictions, but to date none have been implemented.
CONGRATULATIONS to Kathleen Venter who has been appointed station commander at the local police station. She joined the police in 1988 in Aliwal North as a from the UK and USA as well as other parkruns in South Africa enjoyed the beautiful route. Two women from Duzi parkrun in Pietermaritzburg even drove to Stutt especially to do the parkrun on December 19.
A couple of Stutt runners attended the recently launched Three Silos parkrun in East London on Christmas Day and Ntobeko Xiniwe, Stutt’s men’s record holder since January last year, now also holds the men’s record for Three Silos.
Christine Imbert, who paid a visit to Stutt from Lloyd parkrun in Croy- don, England, presented the volunteers with an autographed copy of the book “parkrun, much more than a just a run in the park”, written by the event director of Lloyd parkrun, Debra Bourne, with a foreword by Bruce Fordyce, on the student, attended the police college in Pretoria and after training served as a constable in Aliwal North.
In 1989 she married Leon Venter and in October of that year started work in Indwe. In 2012 she was transferred to Dordrecht and was promoted to captain in October last history of the first 10 years of parkrun. Among the photos in the book there is one of the Nahoon Point parkrun in East London, one from North Beach parkun in Durban and one from Naval Hill parkrun in Bloemfon-
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year. She took over her new position on December 1.
CHARLOTTE van der Berg is making good progress after undergoing a back operation in Bloemfontein. It was hoped that she might be discharged from hospital at the end of this week. tein.
On Saturday Laurent Howe became Stutt’s sixth runner to earn his red shirt by completing his 50th parkrun. Laurie runs in the age category 70-74 and his average time for completing the Stutt route is 29m30s. He has run 49 out of his 50 parkruns here. His younger daughter Claire came from East London, where she has recently joined the parkrun fraternity, to run with her dad on this special occasion.
Several runners will complete their 50th within the next three to four weeks.
LAST Saturday the
bowls league season is in full swing and playing in the third league this year the Cathcart team of Arthur Brandt, David Currie, Colin Hart and Kevin Wearing beat Comrades here at home and take on Nahoon Mouth tomorrow, also locally. The ladies team of Linda Cotterrell, Gill Armstrong, Robin Currie and Eulalie Moorcroft start their campaign in East men’s bowls team played against Old Selbornians in East London in the fourth Border league. The team consisted of Geoff Smith (lead), Steve Miles (2nd), Roy Ainslie (3rd) and Fishy Field (skip). The Old Boys team had former Stutterheimer, Mike Keyter playing lead. Don Glass, Reg Misselhorn and Jack Dissmore (skip) completed the team. With one end to play Old Boys were leading 21-19. However, Fishy Field took out the Old Boys’ bowl to gain three shots for Stutt and they won an exciting game 22-21 on the last end. London tomorrow.
The golf bogey++ competition was won by Bernard Cotterrell on +8, second was Adrian Snelling on +5 and third Mark Wardle on +4, all three winning link balls. Two clubs were made by Travis Brown, Bernard Cotterrell and Mark Cockin. The Freemasons are holding a fund raising tournament here on January 30.