KIMBERLEY – Heavy rain is pouring down on Kimberley and the stormwater infrastructure in various suburbs may battle to cope which can lead to flooding. Frank Mack, a resident from Homevale, is concerned about the stormwater system in his suburb after it flooded in 2nd Street. He says a contractor laying a sewage pipeline broke […]
KIMBERLEY – Tumelo Mosikare, community leader and activist, says the Sol Plaatje Municipality lied about the toilet reconstruction project. The Kimberley Prospector previously reported that the municipality is planning on installing 2 640 toilets to replace the bucket system at a cost of R97 680 000 in various suburbs of Kimberley. The municipality says they […]
KIMBERLEY – The section of Anderson Road close to intersection with Long Street has deteriorated to a very bad state. Motorists are cautioned to avoid driving through this section of Anderson Road. Traffic is slowed to a grinding halt as motorists calculate how to navigate the gigantic potholes. In a video taken by The Kimberley […]
KIMBERLEY – The Sol Plaatje Municipality sent an SMS notification that the street lights in Bartle Place have been fixed, residents are, however, still living in darkness. A Kimberley resident reported a problem with the street lights in Beaconsfield not working via SMS to the municipality. He says he received an SMS notification from the […]
KIMBERLEY – Artists who are playing on the short end of the string have gone on a hunger strike, sleeping in the office of MEC Mrs Desery Lorenda Finies of Sports, Arts & Culture, after the Northern Cape Provincial Treasury cut the department’s budget by R41m. Thabo Motlabi, an arts practitioner, says the department had […]
Dam levels taken at 5:00 this morning at the Newton Reservoir in Kimberley show another night of improvement to the level of one of the dams. 102ML at 13 ft91ML at 11 ft45ML at 13 ft23ML at 13 ft A message forwarded by Phetole Sithole, the acting infrastructure executive director of the Sol Plaatje Municipality, […]
The Sol Plaatje Municipality allegedly switched off the wrong suburb for loadshedding this afternoon. Instead of switching off power to HA Morris & Midlands at 16:00 the municipality unexpectedly left the suburbs falling under the Hadison Park legend without electricity. The muncipality had to send out electricians to investigate according to a local online information […]
The water disaster in Kimberley has made national news. Read more on the Daily Maverick.
KIMBERLEY – Die Sol Plaatje-munisipaliteit sê dit gaan glo meer as 2 640 toilette as deel van die munisipale toiletbouprojek installeer. Sello Matsie, die munisipale woordvoerder, sê dit is die doel van die projek om die emmerstelsel te vervang. Matsie sê sekere dele van die sanitasie-infrastruktuur dateer glo uit 1994, en dit het aansienlik verswak […]