Archive for 'May,2012'
Do you Tweet?
with Rick van Rossum Yes tweet, not like a Canary but you know that thing people do on their cell phones. It’s a strange phenomenon, why are people so interested in what others are doing? Even [...]
Sonop in the s…(age)
Sonop outside of Brits has become a cesspit. The three months long sewage spills in Sonop outside of Brits has now become life threatening as children and animals become sick. All the sewage manholes in all [...]
Gigantic masterpiece shipped to America
Hartbeespoort based artist Kobus Möller has just completed one of his largest masterpieces and is travelling abroad today to personally deliver the creation. Kobus traveled to the United States for the first time in 1991 and [...]
Name and shame illegal rubbish dumpers
Left: An illegal dumping site near the Village Mall (Extension 2). Among the rubbish were medicine boxes with names on them. Hartbeespoort residents have had enough of people illegally dumping their garden and household rubbish on open areas around [...]
Gardening in Harmony with Nature
Left: Scadoxus puniceus (seeroogblom) What is this “Gardening in Harmony with Nature” all about? On Saturday, 19th May, the initiative, “Gardening in Harmony with Nature”, was launched at the Oxwagon Ring, Saartjiesnek. The aim of this iniative is [...]
HAWS spay day huge success
An awesome 62 animals were sterilized and nearly 100 animals vaccinated, de-wormed and treated for ticks and fleas during the Hartbeespoort Animal Welfare Society’s first ever Spay Day last weekend. “The impact of these 62 sterilized [...]
R1 million farming project launched
A new community farming project was launched at Bekker School recently to create employment, and encourage development of a self-sustaining farming enterprise for the general assistance staff at the school. The project, collaboration between Bekker School, [...]
Sunset View
by Deon van Huizen The public outcry over the proposed development on top of the mountain in Meerhof comes as no surprise. During the last week several residents found documents stuck in their gates announcing the [...]
Harvest your rainwater
By Marlene McKay Did you know that more than 80% of rainwater evaporates back into the atmosphere? When water evaporates through plants, (transpiration) it cools the atmosphere and biological diversity increases. Rainwater harvesting is not only [...]
Silkaatsnek prospecting: Landowners furious – Another prospecting application submitted
“Our farms are not for sale and we will fight this no matter what,” Silkaatsnek landowners told representatives of a company that lodged an application for prospecting in the area during a heated public meeting in [...]
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Slang in die Gras
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Slang in die Gras
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Dam al weer vrot
I hear that they are going to put Traffic Lights on the dam to Stop th
Brits police start stolen goods campaign
This kind of campaign should be run everywhere. Property crimes have a