#DirtyDozen – Residents and businesses in the Golden Triangle are furious about illegal ELM power cuts due to alleged non-payment, while twelve councillors from the Emfuleni Local Municipality (ELM), who received the well-deserved nickname of “Dirty Dozen,” have not been cut off, notwithstanding the fact that they together owe R355,010 in outstanding electricity payments. Ordinary residents and businesses on the other hand were summarily cut off without knowledge or warning.
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Emfuleni Users’ Electricity Disconnected Without Notice While 12 Councillors Who Owe R355,010 Are Not Disconnected!
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Illegal housing development, Tarlton land owners take a stand
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More than 100 inflamed landowners and residents of Tarlton (Krugersdorp) on the West Rand gathered this morning, 19 June 2018, at the construction site of the Brickvale development to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the construction of more than 6000 homes.
The landowners were addressed by the FF Plus Leader for Gauteng, Jaco Mulder and the FF Plus Councilor in Mogale City, Amanda de Lange who gave the party a mandate to negotiate with the Gauteng government for the project to stopped.
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Leading businessman assaults 7month pregnant woman
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A leading businessman apparently assaulted a woman who was pregnant at Steers in Ruimsig on the West Rand. He smacked her against the breast, slapped her through the face and on the stomach and through her over the restaurant’s chairs.
The incident happened at a parking lot situated in the Featherbrooke Village shopping center last Wednesday.
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#FARMATTACK And Shooting – Driefontein Road in Muldersdrift, West Rand
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Just after 02:00 this morning, an armed robbery took place in one of the cottages.
3 armed thugs held up a man and his wife.
The man was shot in the upper part of the arm and the woman in the stomach. They are both in a stable condition. They were treated by EMS on the scene before being taken to the hospital.
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Business burglary – approximately 50 pistols stolen
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Employees of a business specializing in farming materials made a shocking discovery on the morning of 4 September 2017. On arrival at the business premises it was found that unknown suspects gained access to the business. The premises houses a gun dealership as well and then it was found that a safe was accessed. Approximately..
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Residents go on rampage in Toekomsrus barricading roads and burning tires demanding basic services
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Residents of Toekomsrus in Randfontein west on Johannesburg’s West Rand went on a rampage on Monday morning‚ barricading roads and burning tires demanding basic services‚ police said. Roads were barricaded with stones and burning tyres. The protest is allegedly about dissatisfaction with service delivery. Public order policing members and local officers are on the scene…
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Farm attack on West Rand – 71 year old man shot several times
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On Friday evening May 4 around about 7.50pm, a 71-year-old man was shot several times in an alleged farm attack on the West Rand. Just after the incident, reports of the attack went viral on several Whatsapp groups in Randfontein. Constable Lucky Matome, Tarlton Police’s spokesperson, said the West Rand Trio Task Team and the..
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