Pretoriase Normaalkollege (Rissikstr, Sunnyside) is op 2 September 1902 gestig, net na die Anglo-Boereoorlog.
Die idee van die embleem was dié van Natie du Toit. Sy was’n verpleegster in die konsentrasiekamp op Middelburg. Te midde van al die lyding het duisende aronskelke in die vleie om die kamp gedy. Natie het armsvol daarvan gepluk om die tente van siekes te versier en om kransies van te maak. Die aronskelke is dus simbolies van skoonheid en hoop.
Die drie aronskelke dui op die oorlog wat drie jaar geduur het.) Dissipline by die NKP was baie streng – bedags mag dames nie op straat saam met mans gesien word nie. Een dosent het vir hulle gesê dis geheel en al “onnodig” om met ‘n man te praat! Op 26 Junie 1903 het 39 studente die kollege verlaat as die eerste gekwalifiseerde onderwysers in Transvaal.
Die sakeregtewaghond AfriSake het onlangs weer ingegryp om ʼn groot grondeis ten opsigte van eiendomme in die ooste van Pretoria teen te staan.
Volgens AfriSake het sy regspan onlangs ’n voorverhoorvergadering oor die Lekhuleni-grondeis by die grondeisehof in Randburg bygewoon.
Armand Greyling, regs- en beleidsontleder by AfriSake, het gesê die voorverhoor het meestal gefokus op die oplos van kwessies wat tydens die verhoor gehanteer sou moes word.
Die verhoor sal waarskynlik later vanjaar begin, het Greyling gesê.
“Dit beteken dat slegs finale beëdigde verklarings geliasseer moet word, aangesien die aangeleentheid gereed is om verhoor te word. AfriSake eis dat die grondeisehof se beslissing dat die Lekhuleni-eis geldig is, tersyde gestel word omdat die administratiewe diskresie in hierdie geval slegs by die grondeisekommissaris berus,” het hy verduidelik.
Greyling meen dit blyk dat hierdie eis opportunisties en soortgelyk is aan die Bakwena ba Mare a Phagole- of Suid-Gauteng-grondeis waarby AfriSake ook aktief betrokke is.
“Ons glo dat die reg sy gang moet gaan wanneer geldige eise ingedien word, maar in dié geval kan ons nie saamstem dat die eis geldig is nie. Die grondeisehof se betrokkenheid in hierdie saak oor die diskresionêre gesag van die grondeisekommissaris blyk ook onvanpas te wees en AfriSake sal alles in sy mag doen om te verseker dat die regte prosedures gevolg word,” het Greyling gesê.
Dié grondeis betrek meer as 500 residensiële eiendomme, nege plase en verskeie skole en besighede. Dit is na bewering deur wyle Victor Lekhuleni ingestel, wat aangevoer het dat hy die leier van die Bakgatla Ba Lekhuleni-stam was. Hy is ná sy dood deur Velaphi Victor Lekhuleni opgevolg.
Volgens AfriSake is die eis na bewering op 21 Oktober 1996 by die grondeisehof ingestel. Ná ’n ondersoek het die kommissie dit op 16 Januarie 2013 duidelik gemaak dat geen eis ingedien is nie en dat die kommissie nie sal voortgaan om die eis te ondersoek nie. Op 8 Augustus 2014 het die grondeisehof dié besluit egter hersien en tersyde gestel.
As die hof se besluit nie tersyde gestel word nie, sal hulle voortgaan om die meriete van die saak te beveg betreffende of enigiemand weens diskriminerende wette met geweld van die eiendom ter sprake verwyder is, het Greyling bygevoeg.
Kleinfontein is ‘n unieke, ongeëwenaarde ontwikkeling in die geskiedenis van die Afrikanervolk omdat dit volledig gevestig is deur volkseie arbeid.
Kleinfontein is geleë op die Magaliesbergreeks 30km Suid-Oos van Pretoria op die historiese terrein waar die slag van Donkerhoek (Diamond Hill) tydens die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog plaasgevind het.
Tshwane commuters can expect some relief as taxis are expected to operate normally this morning.
On Wednesday, operators blocked several roads causing massive delays while protesting to the Tshwane House to submit a memorandum to Mayor Solly Msimanga.
Among the issues raised by the drivers is that traffic contravention tickets be scrapped.
Taxis in the Tshwane area are expected to function without any hiccups at least for the next two weeks.
The Democratic Taxi Workers Union of South Africa (Detwusa)’s Themba Maseko says the government is responsible for providing taxi infrastructure, including pick-ups and drop offs.
He says drivers should not be fined for government’s failure.
“Our demands are the scrapping of the traffic fines because those fines block our PDPs and driver’s licenses and we can’t drive passengers without our PDPs.”
Maseko says the fines amount to hundreds of thousands of rands which prevent some drivers from renewing their public drivers’ licenses.
Detwusa has given the metro 14 days to respond to their queries or face yet another strike action.
A nightclub in Pretoria turned down the music on Saturday morning to reflect on the death of a rock star. About 40 fans gathered on the porch of Arcade Empire to remember Chester Bennington, singer from Linkin Park, who hanged himself on July 20 at his house in California.
Fans had damp eyes as they raised a glass, lit candles, put up posters and laid down flowers. Some wrote messages in a book and on a South African flag and spoke on an open microphone.
“This guy went to his grave with every one of my secrets,” said Stephan Swanepoel, 17, from Hartbeespoortdam. “He was just there for me. Not that my mother was not there for me. Some things I cannot say.”
Mari Buitendag from Pretoria said Bennington’s death felt similar to that of her brother two years ago: “Where do you get that strength back if you looked up to someone and they were that strong person for you? Even if it is only music?”
Johan van der Westhuizen, 30, from Pretoria said he still remembers every lyric from Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park’s first album, released in 2000.
“I realised I remembered every single word. That proved to me how important they were to us, not just Chester, but the whole band.”
The event was organised by Shaun Muthaya and Tessa Anderson, Linkin Park ambassadors in South Africa.
“Unfortunately our first meeting with the fans was through the loss of a loved one,” said Muthaya.
Memorial services for Bennington are planned for Cape Town and Durban. A South African flag and messages from fans will be sent to the band.
A support group leader from the SA Depression and Anxiety Group, Jané Combrinck, said depression “doesn’t care if you are religious, black, white, female, the most phenomenal rock star in the world. It will get you.”
She said one in three people will suffer from mental disease in their lifetime. One in 10 of these will have depression.
KammaFrans Guesthouse is located in Pretoria, 3.2 km from Pick ‘n Pay and 4.7 km from Pretoria Boardwalk.
Some rooms have a sitting area to relax in after a busy day. A terrace or patio are featured in certain rooms. The rooms come with a private bathroom. A flat-screen TV is featured.
You will find a shared kitchen at the property.
You can play ping-pong at this guesthouse, and the area is popular for golfing. Mooikloof bowls club house is 4.8 km from KammaFrans Guesthouse, and Wapadrand Shopping Centre is 5 km from the property. The nearest airport is O.R. Tambo International Airport, 38.6 km from KammaFrans Guesthouse.
Free public parking is available on site (reservation is not needed).
425 on Wisteria is located in the Faerie Glen neighborhood in Pretoria, 1 km from Faerie Glen Shopping Centre and 1 km from Pic n Pay (Faerie Glen – Pretoria). Free WiFi is available and free private parking is available on site.
The rooms are fitted with a flat-screen TV. Some units have a sitting area for your convenience. You will find a kettle in the room.
Decor Shopping Centre is 1.1 km from 425 on Wisteria, and NG Church Valleisig is 1.1 km from the property. The nearest airport is O.R. Tambo International Airport, 40.2 km from the property.
Free private parking is available on site (reservation is not needed).
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Pretoria – Residents of Faerie Glen in Pretoria East have threatened to take matters into their own hands to deal with an increase in crime in the area if police did not intervene.
They said the community was being held hostage by criminals after a surge in housebreakings and muggings over the past few months.
Reports of crime from the suburb and nearby Faerie Glen Nature Reserve have emerged, with the first crime inside the reserve taking place two weeks ago after a 10-year record of safety and security.
A woman was attacked while running on the trail in the reserve and all her gear, including shoes, cellphone, hydration backpack and sunglasses were taken.
Warnings began going up on social media, where trail runners were asked to be cautious and not to run on their own, as criminals, often wielding knives and wearing balaclavas, were on the prowl.
The criminals are said to gain entry into the nature reserve through Atterbury Bridge and using the Manitoba Bridge to gain access to the rest of the nature reserve and into the homes along its periphery.
20/07/2017. Manitoba bridge inside the Faerie Glen Nature Reserve which criminals use to gain accessto houses on the perifery. Picture: Bongani Shilulbanen
Homes hit are those located on the eastern side and last week residents said they were fed up with what they perceived as a lack of police action.
“We are going to be using maximum force to protect ourselves from these thugs.”
“Extreme situations require extreme measures,” said a resident who lives opposite the nature reserve in Glenwood Street.
He said on two occasions he had spotted burglars in his yard.
“They have stolen my hose pipe and rake,” he said.
Kefentse Mompei who lives adjacent to the reserve, said criminals were now becoming arrogant and doing as they pleased. Her clothes were stolen off her washing line, she said.
She said Faerie Glen Nature Reserve opposite her residential complex provided a hiding place for criminals.
“What is sad is that a resident will end up shooting and killing the perpetrators and they will be jailed for protecting their family,” said Mompei.
Community members said they were fed up and wanted a public meeting with police as soon as possible to discuss the setting-up of foot patrols.
Other residents said despite a police station being close to their homes they no longer felt safe.
Resident Maralise Louw said they wanted to call on all men in the community to come out and assist people going to work to protect them from being attacked.
“And also for men to go to the gates of the schools to make sure children going to school do so safely,” she said.
The chairperson of the Friends of the Faerie Glen Nature Reserve, Louise Kritzinger, said the fences along January Masilela, Glenwood and Manitoba roads needed maintenance.
The opening under the Atterbury Bridge which criminals use to gain access to Faerie Glen Nature Reserve. Picture: Bongani Shilulbanen
She said the makeshift fence, made of thin wooden poles, under the Atterbury Bridge needed to be reinforced properly if it was to keep criminals out.
A bushy area situated close to the Atterbury Bridge is where the criminals lived, the Pretoria News was told.
“We are going to suggest that the metro police remove the vagrants,” Kritzinger said.
The reserve was fenced off over a period of about five years from 2002, said Kritzinger.
Residents attributed the increase in crime in the area to development on the northern side of the reserve, adjacent to Lynnwood Road.
They said builders and job seekers had flooded into the area, leading to squatting on the mountain.
According to Kritzinger, after those developments were finished some people continued to live in the bushes, but they were removed from the reserve by mounted police patrols in 2006 and 2007.
Councillor Ernst Botha from Ward 44 said he had been in constant contact with Lieutenant Colonel Kervin Solomon of Garsfontein police, requesting intervention.
A meeting had yet to be set up, he said.
“As you may have become aware, Faerie Glen Nature Reserve has recently become a hot spot for criminal elements; myself and Councillor Pieter van Heerden from Ward 46, adjacent to Ward 44, have collectively been in discussions with various stakeholders to try to curb crime in the area,” said Botha.
They have also taken it up with the top structures within the city, including the departments of Community Safety, Emergency Services and the chairperson of Community Safety.
The city and police had not responded on the soaring crime rate by late on Sunday afternoon.
Located 201 m from MG Design Box, La Apartmente offers accommodations in Pretoria. The property is 201 m from Plaaswinkel and free private parking is available.
The kitchen is equipped with an oven and a microwave. A flat-screen TV is featured. Other facilities at La Apartmente include a barbecue.
University of Pretoria – Conference Centre is 0.6 km from La Apartmente, and Hatfield Plaza (Rear parking entrance) is 0.6 km away. The nearest airport is Lanseria (Johannesburg) Airport, 37 km from La Apartmente.
Free private parking is available on site (reservation is not needed).
