A newborn baby from Kimberley died because the ambulance apparently took six hours to reach her home, which is only 15 minutes from the hospital. Desiree Abrahams, 32, of Beaconsfield began contracting Saturday morning at 8am and immediately called the ambulance service of Kimberley Hospital. Jamie Gatyene, Abraham’s girlfriend and neighbor, was with her in..
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Newborn baby died because ambulance service from Kimberley Hospital takes six hours to arrive
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Meeting held in Kimberley ends in chaos after unlicensed diamond diggers and zama-zama gold miners arrive with weapons
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Apparently, the world-renowned diamond city Kimberley’s project to tie the so-called zama-zama gold miners and diamond miners together into a legal structure did not produce good results. The meeting held in Kimberley became riotous after diggers with arms arrived at the meeting. The actions of dozens of diamond miners, who illegally exploited the diamond fields..
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Illegal landgrabbers vowed to start new informal settlement in Kimberley titled ‘SCANDAL’ and wants to erect around 150 shacks soon
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A group of Galeshewe residents have started marking sites for shanties to be erected on a piece of land on Twalu and Royal streets.“We inquired and we were told that the land belongs to the municipality and it forms part of the proposed by-pass road.” IN YET another land invasion in Kimberley, community members of..
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Water taps run empty at Sol Plaatjies Municipality – ANC officials totally incompetant and reckless to run municipality, no wonder SA is a Sh*t hole country
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Residents in the Northern Cape municipality of Sol Plaatjies including Kimberley are still without running water. After four days of empty taps, while promises of a new water pump have not yet delivered, people are distraught over the incompetence of the local authority. Thousands of people in Kimberley had to make plans themselves to obtain..
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‘Horrifying Cruelty By The ANC – South Africans endure pain, suffering and neglect at Robert Sobukwe Hospital
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‘Horrifying Cruelty By The ANC; Onlookers Shocked in Ward 31 This Morning’
South Africans endure pain, suffering and neglect at Robert Sobukwe Hospital, Kimberley last night and this morning. This photo shows the sick and injured who are forced to lie on cold floors. Many cry in anguish and discomfort, and embarrassment. Their frustration is evident, some wail in pain and frustration, others beg desperately for help from hospital workers, to no avail.
If you are sick or injured, don’t come to Robert Sobukwe Hospital, ANC Ward 31, unless you plan to leave you dignity at the door.
“Why has our government forgotten us?” cries a young teenage girl. She holds the hand of her grandmother who looks extremely weak. I looked into her grandmother’s eyes and saw no emotion, her tears have dried in salty streaks down her cheeks, disappearing under her wrinkled chin, the smell of urine comes from her chair. Her suffering is wrapped with a bow with kind regards from our
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John Steenhuisen (DA) dishes out the put-downs in ANC attack:- “Same bus, different driver”
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It’s been a little while, hasn’t it? John Steenhuisen has laughed off suggestions the ANC have changed their ways, in a fiery speech delivered on Tuesday.
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Omstrede psigiatriese hospitaal in Kimberley wat belastingbetaler R2 miljard gekos het, steeds in onbruik
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Meer as 12 jaar nadat bouwerk aan Kimberley se omstrede psigiatriese hospitaal begin het en nadat meer as R2 miljard reeds aan die projek bestee is, staan die hospitaal steeds leeg en ongebruik.
Andrew Louw, die DA se provinsiale leier en premierskandidaat in die Noord-Kaap, het Woensdag op Wêreldgeestesgesondheidsdag die terrein saam met ’n DA-span besoek. Hy is deur onder andere Makashule Gana, DA-LP en DA-woordvoerder vir basiese dienste, en Harold McGluwa, die DA se provinsiale voorsitter in die Noord-Kaap en hoofsweep in die provinsiale koukus, vergesel.
Die gebou het met die besoek leeg gestaan en daar was geen pasiënte, dokters of verpleegsters in sig nie, slegs bouwerkers en veiligheidswagte. Die tuin het onversorg voorgekom en onkruid groei welig in die beddings.
Die DA het glo vroeër versoek dat dr. Dion Thys, hoof van die Noord-Kaapse gesondheidsdepartement, die oorsigbesoek meemaak, maar hy het nie opgedaag nie.
Clement Kaotsane, assistentd
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Noord-Kaapse departement van gesondheid staar Miljoene rande se eise in gesig vir nalatigheid by 3 geboortes
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Die Noord-Kaapse departement van gesondheid kan hom regmaak vir eise van R60 miljoen vir skadevergoeding nadat hy mediese nalatigheid by die geboorte van drie babas erken het.
Die bedrae wat geëis word, moet nog in verdere verhore bewys word.
Dit volg op drie siviele gedinge wat die afgelope drie weke in die hooggeregshof in Kimberley teen die LUR van gesondheid ingedien is.
Die babas wat weens nalatigheid gestremd is, benodig heeltydse versorging en terapie. Geld moet ook vir hul toekomstige mediese behoeftes opsy gesit word.
Hul ouers moet onder meer ook sielkundige berading kry.
Die eise vir die babas beloop elk tussen R18 miljoen en R20 miljoen, en vir die ouers sowat R1,1 miljoen elk.
Die eis van ’n vrou wat heeltydse gesondheidsprobleme weens die bevalling ontwikkel het, beloop R1,8 miljoen.
Die mediese personeel in die drie gevalle word daarvan beskuldig dat hulle nie deurentyd die pasiënte en hul ongebore babas gemonitor en betyds regst
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Noord-Kaapse LUR van gesondheid moet opdok vir bejaarde se onderbeen
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Die Noord-Kaapse LUR van gesondheid is Woensdag in die hooggeregshof in Kimberley beveel om die mediese en regskoste te betaal van ’n bejaarde man wat sy onderbeen weens mediese nalatigheid verloor het.
Regter Mpho Mamosebo het in haar uitspraak gesê dit ontstem haar dat ’n kundige soos dr. Qebelo Maseme, wat vir die LUR getuig het, partydig is. Sy het sy getuienis verwerp.
Patrick Erasmus (nou 76) se linkerbeen is in 2013 bokant die knie afgesit nadat hy aanvanklik vir ’n groottoon met infeksie behandel is.
Sy probleme het begin toe hy op 13 November 2012 vir ’n opvolgbesoek by ’n private dokter was.
Die dokter, wat intussen ’n skikking met Erasmus buite die hof bereik het, het ’n rekkie om die toon gebind om die toonnael te verwyder. Die toon is toegebind.
Twee besoeke later het die dokter Erasmus ingelig dat hy gangreen in die toon het en hom na die staatshospitaal in Kimberley verwys.
’n Senior dokter daar het op 20 November verde
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ANC and DA joined forces in Kimberley to remove mayor Matika
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Rogue African National Congress (ANC) members sided with the Democratic Alliance (DA) in a bid to remove Sol-Plaatje municipality mayor, Mangaliso Matika. The motion of no confidence succeeded and has left the ANC provincial executive fuming. It should be celebrated as a joyous occasion – for weeks the Northern Cape town of Kimberley has been..
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Vicious attack on elderly Kimberley resident
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A good Samaritan was brutally attacked in another vicious assault on an elderly Kimberley resident.
The victim, 70-year-old Cynthia Chaplin, is in a stable condition in high care at the Mediclinic Gariep.
The assault is one of several criminal incidents in the Belgravia/Herlear area this week. It also comes shortly after the brutal attack on Piet Els and his partner, Magrietha ‘Rikkie’ Alsemgeest, on Els’ farm just outside Kimberley.
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#PLAASAANVAL: Erg Aangerande Boer Loop 1 Km Om Hulp Te Ontbied
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’n Erg aangerande boer wat saam met sy vrou op hul plaas in die Noord-Kaap deur drie rowers oorval is, het Vrydag sowat ’n kilometer geloop om hulp by sy bure te soek.
“Die rowers het hul selfone, bankkaarte en voertuig gesteel. Dit was die enigste manier waarop hy hulp kon ontbied,” sê Hennie van Vuuren, die egpaar se buurman.
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Massive police hunt after brutal farm attack outside Kimberley
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A massive police hunt has been launched after a well-known businessman and diamond dealer, Piet Els, was brutally attacked on his farm outside Kimberley last night. Els and his partner, Magrietha (Rikkie) Alsemgeest (67), the owner of Kimberley Clothing, are currently being treated in the emergency department of Gariep Mediclinic where they are expected to..
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DA councilor suspended after social media calls for bikers to die a gruesome death
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According to News24, a Democratic Alliance councilor in the Northern Cape Province has been suspended after he took to social media on Sunday and called for all motorcyclists to die gruesome deaths. Ockert Fourie (no relation), the councillor for the Sol Plaatje Municipality – an area that includes the famous mining city of Kimberley, wrote..
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