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Sol’s problems growing bigger as effluent can now almost be seen from space

Sol’s problems growing bigger as effluent can now almost be seen from space

KIMBERLEY – Sol Plaatje Municipality’s problems don’t seem to be getting smaller, as effluent from Goga Pump Station can now almost be seen from space, satellite images show. Watch! According to Shell Curtis Goliath, a Kimberley community leader, raw effluent from the pump stations at Gogga is still a major problem less than 50m from […]

City’s issues captured in creative poem about Kimberley

City’s issues captured in creative poem about Kimberley

Nadia Snyders, a Kimberlite, wrote a creative poem capturing the serious issues affecting the city of Kimberley. She used to sparkle and shine,Now she’s nothing but a mine….dump.Roads all broken and sewage everywhere…stink in the air.The municipality doesn’t care.Your flamingoes fled, the pretty pink now a dam of dead.Kimberley oh KimberleyMy love, my place of […]

Kimberley Licensing Department closed early

Kimberley Licensing Department closed early

The Sol Plaatje Traffic Department’s Licensing Section in Ashburnham in Kimberley was closed early on Monday. The current operating hours are weekdays from 07:45 to 15:00. However, motorists who thought they could pop in during the final hour found themselves locked out at the front gate. The national lockdown alert level has been relaxed, but […]

SPM fixed burst pipes in De Beers

SPM fixed burst pipes in De Beers

KIMBERLEY – Sol Plaatje Municipality workers were busy fixing burst pipes on two sites in Innes Street in De Beers. The following images were posted by Kimberley resident Veronica Williams in the Kimberley Infrastructure Facebook group.

“Drastiese stappe” nodig om Sol te red

“Drastiese stappe” nodig om Sol te red

KIMBERLEY – Kontantvloei by die Sol Plaatje-munisipaliteit het van ’n gemaklike drie maande se reserwes gekrimp tot minder as twee weke. Dit wek egter kommer of die munisipaliteit salarisse sal kan betaal. Donderdag tydens die indiening van die aanpassingsbegroting vir 2020/21 is dit aangedui dat “drastiese optrede” geneem sal moet word om likiditeit en volhoubaarheid […]

Inwoners neem dienslewering in eie hande

Inwoners neem dienslewering in eie hande

KIMBERLEY – Inwoners van Kimberley is besig om ’n belastingbetalersvereniging te stig. Dit kom in reaksie op ’n groeiende lys van klagtes oor dienslewering en ontevredenheid oor die vermoë van die Sol Plaatje-munisipaliteit om kwessies in die stad aan te spreek. Lees meer op die DFA.

KYK: Kimberley op FOKUS oor waterkrisis

KYK: Kimberley op FOKUS oor waterkrisis

FOKUS, die televisieprogram, het Kimberley se waterkrisis kom ondersoek. Kyk hier. Die mense van Kimberley is raadop met wateronderbrekings, terwyl inwoners van Greenpoint, ook in Kimberley, kla hulle spoel omtrent weg wanneer dit swaar reën.

Catfish found breeding in Kimberley street

Catfish found breeding in Kimberley street

KIMBERLEY – Residents of Kimberley was astonished by the discovery of Catfish breeding and swimming down Easton Avenue in Cassandra. Two videos of the discovery went viral on local social media groups in the community. Easton Avenue’s Catfish A resident thanks Sol Plaatje Municipality for Easton Avenue’s Babers in one of the videos. “People it’s […]

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