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Klerksdorp Rekord, Klerksdorp - ‘n Luitenant-kolonel van Klerksdorp is een van 128 Suid-Afrikaners wat in Indonesië gestrand is, weens die COVID-19-reisbeperkings.

René Stimie, en haar lewens-maat, Jaco Terblanche, ook van Klerksdorp, sou op 28 Maart terugkeer na Suid-Afrika na ‘n maandlange vakansie by haar seun in Bali. Hulle was so te sê gereed om hul Emirates-vlug te haal toe die lugredery aankondig alle vlugte na SA is gestaak.

René is ‘n luitenant-kolonel in die polisie en bevelvoerder van sigbare polisiëring in Kanana.

Sy het vanuit Bali aan Klerksdorp Rekord gesê hulle is al moedeloos en weet nie meer wat om te doen om na SA terug te keer nie. “Ons het al oral aangeklop vir hulp, by al die ambassades en ook by Dirco (die departement vir internasionale betrekkinge) en niemand het vir ons antwoorde nie. Die lugdienste sê hulle wag vir toestemming van die Suid-Afrikaanse regering om te vlieg en te land,’’ het sy gesê.

Hoewel hulle desperaat is om terug te keer huis toe, is hulle ook skrikkerig vir die kwarantyn-geriewe waarin hulle sal moet tuisgaan as hulle eers geland het. Al die onseker-heid en vrese eis sy tol en hulle is by tye erg moedeloos.

Hulle is gelukkig en het nie nodig om verblyfkoste te betaal nie aangesien hulle by haar seun tuisgaan, maar fi nansies druk tog met ekstra uitgawes waarvoor daar nie begroot is nie. “Ons is veilig en gesond en daarvoor is ons dankbaar, maar ons het verpligtinge wat by die huis nage-

Polisiekolonel vasgekeer weens COVID-19

René Stimie en haar lewensmaat, Jaco Terblanche, albei van Klerksdorp, is nog in Bali nadat hulle terugvlug na Suid-Afrika weens Covid-19-reisbeperkings, gekanselleer is.

Foto: Facebook.

kom moet word. My ouers bly by my en Jaco het sy kinders na wie hy omsien. Ek kon darem my verlof verleng kry, maar ek weet nie tot hoe ver ek dit kan rek nie, en dan kan dit ‘n probleem raak,’’ het sy gesê.

Inwoners in Bali is nog nie in ‘n nasionale staat van inperking nie, maar restaurante en strande is toe, en winkels is net sekere tye oop.

“Alles is veilig hier. Die mense hier is baie versigtig en bly tuis as dit nie nodig is om iewers heen te gaan nie. So ons hou beslis nie meer vakansie nie.’’

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nie ‘n storie oor die mense in die noordelike voorstede se ge-sindheid oor lockdown nie, die strate in La Hoff krioel van karre.

Nienand is gepla nie. Tot 5 mense in ‘n kar en sonder maskers. Geen polisie in die omtrek nie. As dit mense se gesindheid is kan ons almal maar terugkeer na normaal.l SV: Ek wil graag vra is daar enige manier na die 21 dae of

hulle iets aan ons paaie gaan doen? Ek is een wat moet werk en rerig die paaie is chaoties. Is daar iemand wat mens kan nader dalk?

10 april 2020 klerksdorp RECORD • 3news

Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - AngloGold Ashanti is working closely with expert teams from the provincial governments of North West to get Wesvaal Hospital ready for the treatment and isolation of COVID-19 patients.

“Wesvaal Hospi ta l is fu l ly equipped with 270 beds. AngloGold Ashanti is committed to supporting the multi-stakeholder efforts aimed to curtail the spread of the Covid-19 virus,” Kgomotso Tshaka, Vice Pre-sident: Sustainability, said.

“Apart from the hospitals, we are providing support in a range of other areas to protect those most at risk from the devastating effects of Covid-19.”

AngloGold Ashanti’s support initiatives in Matlosana include the

handover of masks from a local sup-plier on Thursday 9 April as well as care parcels containing groceries, handwash, multipurpose cleaner and a COVID19 information book-let - to social-grant beneficiaries, to help cushion the effects of the 21day

lockdown. Recipients include the elderly, people with disabilities and those receiving childcare grants.

The mine also assist various or-ganisations in Matlosana through the distribution of blankets, food and toiletries.

by Mohanoe khiba

Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - A total of 120 soldiers were deployed in the Matlosana municipal area on Saturday 4 April to help enforce the lockdown period.

Health MEC Madoda Sambatha accom-panied by Agricultural MEC Desbo Mo-hono’welcomed the soldiers who will help SAPS and the department of Public Safety to keep people off the street.

With the Klerksdorp/Tshepong Hospital Complex the only hospital designated for treat-ment of Coronavirus cases in the province, MEC Sambatha announced that two more hospitals in the area are prepared in case more beds are necessary.

Former mine hospitals, Wesvaal Hospital in Orkney and Stilfontein’s Duff Scott hospital, were identified for these purposes. Both hospi-tals were not in use and when MEC Sambatha visited this past weekend, everything were spick and span to accommodate patients.

“We are satisfied to see the conditions of

these hospitals as they’ll play an important role during this time of the pandemic danger that we are facing,” he said.

The provincial deputy director general of the hospitals and clinics, Polaki Mokatsane said it is not only going to be used for Covid-19, but the possibility is investigated for the hospitals to be used permanently after the lockdown period expires.

MEC Sambatha said that home self-quaran-tine is the problem in North West.

“There was a patient who tested positive in Bloemhof, but he disappeared and was traced to a farm in Welkom,” he said.

Klerksdorp Record also learned that another patient who tested positive in Potchefstroom was also found somewhere in Ekhuruleni in Gauteng.

Sambatha said they identified several hos-tels and guest houses to be used for manda-tory quarantine, because 90% of people are not adhering to the rules.

He said 12 people are in quarantine in one of those identified places in Rustenburg.

Mine steps up in relief efforts

More beds for NW Covid-19 patients

some of the prepared beds at the former

mine hospitals.

ddG polaki Mokat-sane (left), MeCs Madoda sambatha and desbo Mohono during the hospital’s visit.

photos: Mohanoe khiba.

Currently, 15 patients in the North West province have tested positive for Covid-19. One patient is from Klerksdorp. Spokesperson Tebogo Lekgwethane identified the

patient as a 28-year-old female who returned back to klerksdorp from Thailand where she is a teacher.

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Klerksdorp Rekord, Potchef-stroom - Die nasionale inperking het ook ʼn direkte effek op Abraham Kriel Kinderhuis Potchefstroom.

Geen kinderhuise mag tans be- soekers ontvang nie en beweging moet ten sterkste beperk word. Abraham Kriel Kinderhuis se bestuur het reeds voor die inperking veilig-heidsmaatreëls ingestel om kinders te beskerm.

Die kinderhuis versorg 230 kin-ders en hul gesinne. Hulle het kos- pakkies uitgestuur na gesinne reg-oor Noordwes en selfs aangren-sende provinsies. Elke reddings- pakkie bestaan uit blikkieskos, sty- sel, groente, skoonmaakmiddels, komberse en warm klere waarson-der hierdie gesinne nie deur hierdie moeilike tye kan klaarkom nie.

“Hierdie aflewerings sal deurgaans

geskied vir so lank as wat ons kan bekostig om voorraad aan te koop vir die projek. Hierdie projek is moont- lik gemaak deur ons vlagskip fonds-insamelingsprojek, Liggiefees@Potch 2019.

“Abraham Kriel sou nooit hierdie moeilike finansiële tye kon oorleef sonder die Liggiefees se fondse nie,’’ sê die kinderhuis.

Vyf voertuie met twee personeel-

lede per voertuig lewer meer as 75 kospakkies af in dorpe wat insluit: Khuma, Orkney, Klerksdorp, Harte-beesfontein, Ikageng, Promosa, Potchefstroom, Randburg, Orange farm, Fochville, Carletonville, Kos-ter, Mafikeng, Mmabatho, Lichten-burg, Coligny, Ventersdorp, Wolma-ransstad, Bloemhof, Vryburg en Ottosdal. Gesinne in Koppies en Vredefort wat hierdie pakkies nodig

het om te oorleef sal ook besoek word.

“Ons wil dankie sê aan ons per-soneel wat soveel meer doen as net hulle werk. Sonder hulle sou ons nie hierdie reuse taak kon voltooi nie. Individue wat ʼn bydrae wil lewer kan ons kontak sodat Abraham Kriel kan voortgaan om hulp te verleen aan mense wat dit regtig nodig het. Stuur nou ʼn epos aan akkh@iafrica.com.’’

Klerksdorp Rekord, Klerksdorp - Ballonne, melk-tert, koek en roomys het tant Miemie Stols se 100ste verjaardagviering by Klerksdorp Tehuis vir Bejaardes opgehelder.

Miemie het saam met in-woners en personeel gekuier op Dinsdag 7 April om haar verjaardag te vier. Volgens bestuurder Elna Franke, kon sy nie glo hulle het soveel moeite net vir haar gedoen nie.

“Sy het gevra of dit alles net vir haar is, ag sy was so dankbaar. Ons het vir haar gesing en almal het gekoek en tee,’’ gesels sy.

Miemie woon in die afdeling vir verswakte bejaardes, en is nog op en wakker. Sy drink geen medikasie nie, net haar vitamines elke dag.

Franke het gesê die inper-kingstyd het maar sy uitda-gings met die bejaardes wat geen besoekers kan ontvang

nie. Hulle word egter besig gehou met kunsaktiwiteite, flieks, musiek en bybelstudie. Sy het ook vir almal mas-kers van lap laat maak, aangesien hulle nie andersins voorraad het nie.

“Ons het goed voorraad opge-bou met skoonmaakgoed en om die koskaste vol te kry, maar dit het ons begroting erg geknyp. Daar is nie geld vir lekkernye nie. Baie van die inwoners ontvang net ‘n Sassa-toelae en daarmee moet hulle verblyf betaal, so daar is nie geld vir toiletware, wat ons maar altyd aangekoop het nie,’’ sê Franke.

Sy sê hulle bly positief en werk hard om almal gelukkig en opge-beurd te hou.

Indien daar enige iemand is wat toiletware wil skenk, kan hulle haar skakel by 018 462 5638. Enige skenkings, kos ook, is welkom.

Klerksdorp Record, Klerks-dorp - The North West Depart-ment of Social Development are organising the Klerksdorp Recreation Centre to accom-modate homeless people du- ring the lockdown period.

Last week, the JB Marks Treatment Centre in Potchef-stroom was earmarked as a homeless shelter for the Dr KK District Municipality. According to Petrus Siko, spokesperson of the Department of So-cial Health, this facility has reached its limit. He said 39 people are sheltered there. The Trim Park in Potch started to take in homeless people on Wednesday 8 April.

“People can voluntarily walk to these centers or report to SAPS for further assistance,’’ he said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said that government should provide homeless people with accommodation during the lockdown period.

Since the lockdown period began, MEC for Social Deve-lopment Boitumelo Moiloa conducted site visits to the homeless people in Bojanala and Dr Kenneth Kaunda to assess their living conditions at the shelters. On her two day expedition to the shelters, Moiloa shared information on Covid-19 with the homeless and cautioned them wash their hands regularly with soap, maintain a social distance and greet others using an elbow or waving hands.

“We appeal to you to stop roaming the streets during this period. Stay here. Don’t even try to escape. Govern-

ment will provide you with the necessary services such as food, blankets and sanitizers. Maintain social distance even when you are sleeping or eat-ing,” Moiloa said.

“We thank good Samaritans who have been providing sup-port to government by bringing food, mattresses and blankets for the homeless people. Equally important we thank law enforcement agencies for working hand in hand with us in these shelters.”

While government is doing everything in its power to take care of the homeless people, Moiloa said there are some challenges such as withdrawal symptoms of substance abuse among some homeless peo-ple at the shelters. She said her department is working in partnership with the Health Department to assist drug addicts.

Most of the homeless came to the North West towns with a hope of getting jobs. One of the homeless, Sherleen Hoffman said she came from Cape Town to look for a job in Rustenburg and later moved to Klerksdorp to try her luck.

“I am grateful for govern- ment to take care of us during this period. We are happy to be housed in this centre (JB Marks). We receive warmth and love in this place,” Hoff-man said.

Another homeless resident, Stephen Diphoko from Gale-shewe, also came to NW looking for a job and stayed in the streets in Klerksdorp CBD with the hope of getting a job some day.

Tant Miemie Stols en haar dogter op haar 100ste verjaardag op Dinsdag 7 april.

Koek en ballonne helder 100ste verjaardag op

Kinderhuis stuur reddingspakkies

Shelter for homeless in city

10 april 2020 klerksdorp RECORD • 5news

Klerksdorp Record, Cape Town - A Cape Town estate agent appeared in the Magistrates Court in the city for allegedly spreading fake news.

The South African go- vernment welcomed the arrest of Stephen Birch who appeared in court on Tues-day 7 April.

A video of Birch allegedly claiming test kits were con-taminated with the Covid-19 virus went viral recently.

The 54-year-old man was charged for allegedly con-travening Regulation 11 (5) under the Disaster Manage-ment Act.

The case was postponed to 14 July.

Government spokesper-son Phumla Williams said disinformation was unac-ceptable and dangerous to

society and said such acts should be con-demned.

“Government Communications (GCIS) in collaboration with key leading social media platforms contin-ues to work towards curbing disinformation practices within our public information sys-tems.

“We call on communities to work with government and report any person who mis-leads the public with wrong information.

“Help combat Covid-19 and combat fake information and misinformation by reporting to Real411.org,” she said.

Williams said test kits and other equipment used by the health department were of high standards and were ap-proved by the South African Bureau of Standards.

Klerksdorp Rekord, Orkney - Die polisie het die onthoofde liggaam van ‘n man vroeër die week uit die Vaalrivier gehaal.

Volgens adj-off Elize Kruger, polisiewoordvoerder, het ‘n inwoner aan die oewer van die Vaalrivier die liggaam al Saterdag 4 April opge-merk, maar eers gedink dis ‘n plas-tieksak. “Hy het later met sy verkyker gekyk en opgemerk dit lyk na ‘n liggaam. Hy het die polisie gekontak.’’

Die polisie se duik-eenheid het na 16:00 op Dinsdag 7 April die liggaam naby Ork-ney Vaal uit die rivier gehaal. “Die liggaam is in ‘n stadium van erge ontbinding en was sonder ‘n kop. Op die

stadium kan ons nog nie sê of daar ‘n misdaad betrokke is nie, aangesien ‘n nadoodse ondersoek gedoen moet word. Die kop kan weens ontbinding ook afgekom het in die water,’’ het Kruger gesê.

‘n Geregtelike doodsondersoek is begin. Die identiteit van die oorledene is onbekend.

Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - Recipients of SASSA grants will have to wait a bit longer to receive their grants in May.

SASSA announced on Wednes-day 8 April that from May, the dis-ability and older person’s grants will only be paid from the 4th day of the month.

All other grants will be paid from

the 6th of every month.This decision was made to protect

old people and people with disabili-ties against the month end rush at payment outlets.

Busisiwe Memela, SASSA CEO, said they were compelled to review the payment dates after the chaos experienced on 30 March when grants for older people and those

with disabilities were brought for-ward.

“Impatient child support grant beneficiaries could not wait for the 1st of April and descended upon payment channels as early as 30 March. This posed all sorts of health challenges and it became difficult at some stores and ATM’s to maintain social distancing,’’ she said.

“Some older persons use one card to also receive child support and foster child grants. In such cases they will be able to access all linked grants from the 4th of every month.’’

Once the money is in the account, it will remain there until it is nee- ded.

“Money deposited into your ac-

count is safe and will not be taken back if not used. There is no need to rush to withdraw cash on the first day we deposit it into your account.

“The SASSA card can be used as a debit card to pay for purchases, therefore it is not necessary to with-draw cash and thereafter purchase goods with the cash,” Memela plea-ded with beneficiaries.

SASSA changes payment dates

Fake news: estate agent in court

a screenshot from the video that landed stephen Birch in court.

Koplose lyk laat polisie kopkrap

die liggaam van ‘n man is dinsdag 7 april uit die Vaalrivier gehaal. Foto: Verskaf.

opinion • mening

Sorry to say, but COVID-19 will be in the headlines for a while to come.

As a weekly newspaper it is our chal-lenge to bring to you up to date informa-tion on COVID-19. In a fast changing world we are living in, it is much easier said than done. But we try.

While international, national and pro-vincial information is readily available at the click of a button on the World Wide Web, it is a whole diff erent ballgame when you want to fi nd out what is going on close to your home.

That is where your community news-paper comes in. We want to inform you what is happening locally. We want to be there for you in times where you are not sure what the day of tomorrow holds.

Send us your questions, send a message to your loved one, comment on our stories, and give story ideas or share some helpful information (see p 2 of this edition).

Yes, we had the choice to seize publication for the whole lockdown pe-riod. We chose to keep our community informed and we were astounded by the positive response to our fi rst digital newspaper last week. Thank you.

We made history, even if it left a bitter taste in the mouth for some.

We love print. The smell of it. The black ink coming off on your fi ngertips paging through your newspaper.

It was hard to make the move to digital. For the time being, we must get used to it. We’ve come to grips with the fact that printed newspaper is on the extinction list, but not yet… One day our printers will roar again and a smiling newspaper salesman will sell you your copy of your favourite newspaper on a street corner somewhere.

But for now, bear with us. Thank you for reading our digital newspaper. Sup-port our advertisers, because they help us in keeping you informed.

Making history baby

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OMGEWINGSAKE deur Johan Friedrich

mense, dat die natuur die hele tyd met ons kommunikeer.

Maar wat van die kommunikasie wat ons nie kan hoor nie? Dit blyk dat kommunikasie in meer as net in hoorbare vorme bestaan. Plante gesels voortdurend met ander plante en met bakterieë in die omgewing.

Die Afrika-akasias, wat dikwels in prag-tige Afrika sonsondergang foto’s vasgelê word, is een van die vreemdste van almal en word goed beskerm deur hul dorings. Onaangename chemikalieê in hul blare word as ‘n tweede verdedigingslinie gebruik. Verder, waarsku hulle mekaar dat hulle dit doen. Terselftertyd as hulle hul blare met gif vul, stel hul etileengas vry uit die porieë van hul blare en dit dryf tot so ver as 50 meter na ander akasias. Sodra hulle dit gedoen het begin die akasias self gif te vervaardig en versprei dit.

Prof Wouter van Hoven, ‘n dierkundige van die Universiteit van Pretoria, het die dood van koedoes dokumenteer in ‘n gebied waar hulle tydens ‘n droogte in beweging was. Hy het bevind dat die koedoes dood is as gevolg van chemikalieë wat deur die akasia vrygestel is.

Die statige kameelperd, aan die ander-kant, is klaarblyklik bewus van die poten-siële newe-eff ekte deur slegs te peusel aan akasia blare vir etlike jare. ‘n Kameelperd

sal in ‘n akasia bos versigtig en stadig vreet aan die jong akasia blare, en dan wegbe-weeg na ‘n ander boom in ‘n betreklik kort tydjie, selfs al is daar steeds baie blare wat hy kan vreet.

Die ware rede is dat Acasia bome in staat is om die tannien-C vlakke in hul blare te verhoog wanneer blaarvreters dit begin vreet. Binne vyftien minute nadat ‘n dier begin vreet het, kan die tannien-C vlakke tot ‘n hoër vlak as normaal styg.

Terwyl tannien-C alleen nie ‘n gif is nie, kan dit kombineer met proteïen molekules in voedsel, in die ingewande van die bok, wat die blare onverteerbaar maak.

As die diere in ‘n omheinde gebied inge-perk word, en nie vrylik kan rondbeweeg om blare in ‘n ander gebied te vreet nie, dan sal hulle letterlik vrek op ‘n savanne-vlakte wat soos ‘n paradys lyk met oorvloed kos. In menslike terme beteken dit dat jy soveel as moontlik kan eet van jou gunsteling weg-neemete en gewig verloor.

Die nadeel is dat die bokke vrek aan die einde.

Prof Van der Hoven het ook bevind dat die akasia bome ook etileen vrystel van die beskadigde blare wat dan deur die nabye bome opgeneem word. Die etileen dien as waarskuwing sein - ‘n soort chemiese SOS. Die nabye bome begin dan meer

tannien-C produ-seer voordat dit gevreet word.

In normale jare wanneer daar baie blare is, en daar nie te veel diere is nie, is daar genoeg bome vir die diere om aan te vreet. In die geval van kommersiële wild-plase met wildomheinings, is dit moeiliker vir die diere om genoeg blare te vind om te vreet wat veilige tannien-C vlakke bevat.

Tydens droogtes, wanneer die druk op die bome groot is, of waar ‘n wanbalans tus-sen roofdier en prooispesies in die natuur voorkom, kan die bok populasie net te veel wees vir die drakrag van die grond. Dit is op hierdie belangrike punt dat akasias wat deur oormatige beweiding gespanne raak, ‘n uitwerking op die bokke sal hê en hulle letterlik sal laat vrek.

Ons lewende planeet is ‘n ongeloofl ike plek en ons het nog soveel te leer oor ons natuurlike erfenis. Die ware verhaal van die Akasia wat dood maak om swaar tye te oorleef, illustreer hoe noodsaaklik dit is om die totale ekosisteme te probeer bewaar vir ons nageslag. Johan Friedrich is ‘n prokureur met ‘n

LLM (Omgewingsreg en - bestuur). Lesers kan kommentaar lewer op die rubriek deur ‘n Whatsapp te stuur na 083 306 0137 of e-pos na jfofriedrich@gmail.com.

Het jy geweet bome praat met mekaar?Geluide is een van die beste dinge wat die natuur ons kan bied. Van die liedere van voëls wat ‘n maat probeer lok, die gekwet-ter van eekhorings wat waarskuwings oor ‘n roofdier in die omgewing stuur, ‘n hiëna of ‘n leeu wat brul in die nag en vele meer, en dit herinner ons van sekere geluide, net soos

10 APRIL 2020 KLERKSDORP RECORD • 7news

“Rather, ten times die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the

shore.” – Florence Nightingale.

Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - In the turbulent times in which we currently fi nd ourselves, huge emphasis is being placed on the major role that healthcare workers play in our society.

Nurses and midwives, among others, are the people who devote their lives to caring for mothers and children; giving life-saving immunisations and health advice; looking after older people, and generally meeting people’s everyday essential health needs.

Dressed in their traditionally white superhero uniforms, they are often the fi rst and only point of healthcare in their communities.

The year 2020 has been desig-nated as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, in honour of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, but the World Health Organisation has warned that glo-bally an additional nine million nur-ses and midwives are needed to achieve the commitment of providing all people with access to healthcare by 2030.

The North-West University’s School of Nursing has, over the past 52 years, committed itself to provide education and training of internatio-nal quality to undergraduate, post-basic and postgraduate students. Besides preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases, and providing expert care during childbirth, NWU-trained nurses and midwives also serve people caught up in humanita-rian emergencies and confl icts.

A career in the health sector is not an occupation, but rather a calling. Prof Siedine Coetzee, a passionate researcher at the NWU’s School

of Nursing, says the reason she became a nurse is deeply personal.

“My grandmother was unexpectedly dy-ing in South Africa (we were in Namibia), and a nurse made the decision to inform us that she was nearing her end, giving us the opportunity to say goodbye. She held the phone to my grandmother’s ear, and afterwards told us that my grandmother had responded to our messages and was more

Amid the current Covid-19 pandemic, Annel Rudolph, a professional nurse and alumna of the NWU’s School of Nursing, recently shared this touching and rather eye-opening message on social media:

“Tonight, for the very fi rst time in my entire nursing career, I’m lying in my bed and I’m scared! I’m afraid of what’s coming and of the unknown. I never thought that I would live in an era in which, like Florence, I have to light my candle and keep it high and shining, while half the population is hiding from a killer bug. War, I thought … yes. Maybe one day when I am old and my lamp is stored away, but a virus?

“The worst of all is that humanity is doing it to itself. The people don’t listen. Obviously not, because they don’t feel it. I, yes, I feel it. My family feels it. My husband and my one-year-old. I see it. I see the anguish in the eyes of my colleagues and in people who can’t hide. The people don’t understand how they are making this war harder to win. So tonight, I hope that the person reading this also starts to feel it and then listens.

“Listen if they tell you to stay at home. Do not go out unless it is an emergency. Don’t disregard the rules. They are there for a good reason. Twenty-one days are a long time, but imagine how it would feel if we don’t win this war. Think how long it will be for us out there who cannot hide. The only way to win this is by using our heads and listening.

“May God bless every one of you and also be with my colleagues and essential workers in the time ahead. Make Aunt Florence proud. I put all my trust and hope in God’s hands and have put on my full armour of God.”

Staff at Wilmed Park Oncology hard at work; Charmaine Rider, Nadine Viljoen, Lize Blom and Karin Verhoeven.

Not all superheroes wear capespeaceful. That evening she passed away.

“Based on that experience, I decided to become a nurse, because nurses not only care for the sick and dying, or for the physical needs of patients, they are a pivotal resource in any crisis experienced by the patient, which extends to the family and community. Often we share in our patients’ deepest and darkest vulne-

rabilities, which gives nurses the opportunity to, at the very least, im-prove clinical outcomes, but most often, change lives,” Prof Coetzee says.

Prof Welma Lubbe, an associate professor at the NWU, renowned for her research and work in midwifery and pre-mature births, says she got into nursing while waiting to be accepted for another healthcare profession.

“And then, I just fell in love with mid-wifery and realised that nurses do most of the activities that other professionals also do, but are the only ones who are next to the patient’s bed at night and over weekends. Nursing grew on me, and today I am a passionate midwife

and nurse with a deep love for premature babies and their families.

“I developed a passion for premature babies and their parents when I once stood next to an incubator in NICU and realised that we as hospital staff often need to take

over the parenting role in order to guide pa-rents towards proper care for their little one. This transformed my career into a passion for parents and their newborn or premature babies,” Prof Lubbe concludes.

There is global concern about the quality of nursing and midwifery care, and about the work environment of nurses. The focus of the NWU’s School of Nursing is ultimately aimed at improving the quality of nursing and midwifery, community engagement, in-novation and leadership.

In the year 1870 Florence Nightingale said it will take 150 years for the world to see the kind of nursing she envisions. Ironi-

cally perhaps, 1870 + 150 years brings us to the year 2020!

Klerksdorp Rekord, Klerksdorp - Dalk is jy as ouer al radeloos om die kleinspan tydens die verpligte korona-inperking besig te hou.

Dalk wonder hulle al self hoe om aan hulle kreatiwiteit vlerke in hierdie tyd te gee. Moenie die kans laat verby glip om hulle dít te kan doen nie, want dit is weer tyd vir die Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK) se jaarlikse Internasionale Afrikaans-

Ekspo. Dié opwindende skryf- en kreatiewe

kunstekompetisie wat fokus op leer-ders en studente se kreatiewe hante-ring van Afrikaans, bied nou die per-fekte tydsverdryf. Hulle sal nie net kreatief besig gehou word nie, maar staan ook die kans om lekker pryse vir hulle en hul skool te wen. Vanjaar se tema is musiekIn 1937 het Afrikaanse musiek sy

eerste tree gegee met die bekendstel-ling van die FAK-Sangbundel. Liedjies oos “Bobbejaan klim die berg”, “Sarie Marais” en “Aanstap rooies” is ou be-kende volksliedjies wat al menige male om kampvure gesing is. Drie en tagtig jaar later bars Afrikaanse mu-siek steeds uit sy nate.

Dink aan legendes soos Sonja Herholdt, Anton Goosen, Anneli van Rooyen en Johan Stemmet wat baan-brekerswerk verrig het. Natuurlik is daar ook vandag kunstenaars soos Jak de Priester, Joshua na die Reën, Monique Steyn en Die Heuwels Fan-tasties wat nuwe geur en klank tot Afrikaanse musiek bring.

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Blaai na bladsy 10 vir ’n maklikePaasfees-koekieresep vir die kinders.

Klerksdorp Rekord, Klerks-dorp - Sedert die uitbreek van die COVID-19-pandemie, word ons daagliks gebombardeer met inligting en feite oor die groot C en die virus, maar baie daarvan in Engels. Soos altyd, het ons Afrikaanspraters nie op ons laat wag nie en was die taalwerkers en media hard aan die werk om “nuwe” of dan koronaverwante woorde in Afrikaans te skep.

Afrikaans.com het so bietjie gaan kyk watter woorde of uit-drukkings die afgelope paar weke kop uitgesteek het en opgeneem is. In Afrikaans word corona en ko-rona as korrekte spelling aanvaar. En COVID-19 bly gewoon CO-VID-19 of Covid-19 en woorde wat daarmee saam gebruik word, word met ’n koppelteken verbind, soos COVID-19-pandemie of Co-vid-19-besmetting.

En dan die woord op almal se lippe: “LOCKDOWN” …

Dit blyk dat die media “staat van inperking” verkies, maar Sophia Kapp, die taalkundige, skryf ’n paar dae gelede dat sy daagliks navrae oor die vertaling vir “lockdown” kry. Sy verkies die woord “afsondering” of “in afson-dering plaas”, maar sê “inperk-ing” is ook ’n korrekte vertaling.

“Die term “begrendeling” of “ingrendeling” of iets wat met “grendel” te make het, is een wat my die minste aanstaan. Dit is ‘n direkte vertaling van die woord

sonder inagname van die baga-sie wat daarmee saam kom. Dit slaan naamlik op die Amerikaan-se konsep van ‘n lockdown wat in tronke plaasvind as die gevange-nes oproerig raak - alles word toegesluit en niemand mag in of uit nie. “Dit is, in hierdie tyd, vir my ‘n besonder onsensitiewe konsep, en boonop feitelik onak-kuraat. Die implikasie dat mense deur die regering toegesluit word, het ook ‘n beduidende politieke geur. As dié geur en ideologie in jou beriggewing moet deurslaan, doodreg, maar moenie die woord so gebruik sonder om te verreken wat jy daarmee te kenne gee nie,” skryf sy. Het jy enige woorde wat jy

wil deel? Jy kan WEN!Afrikaans.com gaan oor die

volgende drie weke ’n korona-kompetisie hou. Het jy en jou gesin dalk jul eie woorde vir sekere situasies of voorwerpe of aksies gedurende inperking? Iets soos: Daai persoon is ’n regte covidioot, want hy steur hom nie aan die reëls nie. Of, ons eet pandemiepasta.

Altesaam R15 000 is op die spel, R5000 per week. Elke week sal drie wenners hê. Die wenner stap weg met R3 000 en die twee naaswenners met R1 500 en R500 onderskeidelik. Hou Afrikaans.com se webtuiste en sosialemediablaaie dop vir die loodsing van die kompetisie.

Afrikaans-Ekspo vir verveelde kindersOf jy nou van klassieke, pop-,

rock- of selfs country-musiek hou, moet sekere instrumente gebruik word om daardie ritme te vorm wat jy so graag na luister.

Dink ook aan die teater, radio of selfs bekende sepies se ken-wysies. Wie kan deelneem?Alle graad 1- tot 12-leerders

en studente in Suid-Afrika en Na-mibië asook enige land ter wêreld waar Afrikaans as moedertaal of nie-moedertaal gebruik of bestu-deer word kan gratis deelneem. Daar is sewe kategorieë waarin jy jou kreatiwiteit kan uitleef met musiek as tema in gedagte.

Dit sluit in dagboekinskrywings, ’n resensies, ’n opstel, ’n kort-verhaal, poësie, fotografi e en skil-derkuns.

Gr. 1- tot 5-leerders kan deel-neem aan skilderkuns en poësie, terwyl alle ander leerders en stu-dente aan al die kategorieë mag deelneem. Jy mag ook in een of meer kategorieë deelneem. Wat kan jy wen?Die wenskool ontvang R10 000

en die vier algehele wenners wat die uitblinkers was en die tema die beste beskryf het, of dit nou deur ’n foto, opstel of gedig was, ontvang die wisseltrofee en R2 000 kontant word gegee vir sy of haar skool. Hoe neem jy deel?Inskrywings kan op twee ma-

niere ingedien word. Aanlyn by ekspo.fak.org.za. Alle inskrywings moet teen 11 Julie in wees. Geen laat inskrywings sal aanvaar word nie.

Ons praat COVID-19 - in Afrikaans

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Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - The Department of Transport kick-started a drive of activities to dis-tribute Personal Protective Equipment (hand gloves, masks and disinfects) to all taxi ranks across the province.

Speaking at the handing over of material at the Klerksdorp taxi rank, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development MEC, Desbo Mohono en-couraged communities to go for voluntary testing and screening for COVID-19.

She outlined the importance of lockdown regula-tions, testing and screening.

She said the taxi industry plays a significant role in the economy of the more especially in the rural areas of the Country.

The Head of Department, Botlhale Mofokeng said COVID-19 has proven to be a nemesis that respect no gender, no colour, no religion nor social stratum. She said disinfectants, sanitizers and washing hands

should become a new norm.“COVID-19 is teaching us new culture which we

have forgotten - basic hygiene. Let’s continue to comply and stay at home. Go out only when it’s completely necessary,” said Mofokeng, who further requested operators to use disinfectants and saniti-zers with respect.

“These are not for taxi drivers or their families. They are meant to contain the spread of the virus while you transport our essential services workers on daily basis.”

She continued to plead with taxi operators to strictly observe operational times as announced by the Minister of Transport.

According to reviewed lockdown regulations on public transport, operators are strictly allowed to operate from 05:00 to 10:00 and 16:00 to 21:00. Furthermore, they should only load 70% of the vehicle capacity, a regulation which also applies to private

vehicles of those who are allowed to travel with permits.

The operators are also requested to disinfect their taxis every after load be-fore getting other commu-ters, while further reques-ted to provide sanitizers to their commuters.

In total, the Department handed over more than 428 boxes of gloves com-prising of 100 each, 8140 masks and concentrated disinfectant chemicals comprising 20 litres which will be over 300 000 litres when diluted.

By salomé kotzé

Klerksdorp Record, Klerks-dorp - Don’t just dream it, do it.

Local foodie Inge Wilken has taken up the task to share easy to make recipes on Facebook, with step-by-step video to make the lives of all the “stay at homers’’ a bit easier.

She came upon the idea of her Wilken Kitchen Rules video tutorials after her friends encou-raged her to teach them some of her cooking skills as “she makes cooking looks so easy’’.

Her first video aired on day 1 of the lockdown when she prepared Focaccia, a rosemary garlic bread you can enjoy with pasta, soup or even as a pizza base. Needless to say it was a hit. Then followed a selection of delicious recipes making the lockdown period just a bit more bearable because Wilken Kitchen Rules has dinner sorted.

Inge is quite modest about the following she has garnered. “I wake up every morning to whatsapps and Facebook posts of friends who have tried and at-tempted my meals. It makes me so happy,’’ she says.

She says the meals are easy to follow and ideal for the be-ginner cook. “I do not consider myself a master chef at all, if it is easy and quick, I make it. So all of my recipes are beginner friendly or passed down from generations.” Like her offering for day 8, Freaky Friday Flap-jacks, her mom’s famous recipe. She looks up to her mom, Lany Olivier, for inspiration as well as some of her chef friends. The Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver, is also a favourite.

She doesn’t really plan ahead, and share meals she and hubby Ryan will be eating for lunch

or dinner that day. The couple celebrated their second wedding anniversary on 1 April (day 6) they had Risotto with Smoked chicken and Basil pesto on the menu. “I love spoiling my hus-band with treats and good meals. It is always so rewarding at the end of the day.”

Ryan also contributes to the cooking videos by choosing the soundtrack for each video. She laughs.

“If you listen carefully in the beginning of each video, you can hear the tune of the day.”

Inge says with essentials like eggs, yeast and flour in the pan-try you can get far. She stocked up on meat, vegetables and enough basic groceries for the first week of lockdown.

This go-getter is not only busy in the kitchen during lockdown but as a dance coach and a bud-ding photographer she keeps busy by filming dance class tuto-rials to send to students.

The couple started their own vegetable garden that keep them busy as well as building puzzles, listening to music and doing a bit of cleaning and sorting out cupboards.

Her favourite dish to make is Nachos (day 11) and “an ama-zing chicken pot pie’’. Recipe coming soon. So far, the chicken curry as a meal, and fafel tarts were a big hit on her recipe vlog.

Inge’s advice to people strug-gling to adapt to the lockdown period is to embrace the time to learn a new skill.

“Cooking doesn’t have to be boring or a tiresome task. Invest in kitchen machines that help the process along. A pressure cooker is number 1 - they can do eve-rything now-a-days - even slow cook and make yoghurt.”

And remember to have fun.

Klerksdorp Record, Orkney - North West Premier, Prof Job Mokgoro, rolled out the mass screen, testing and tracing pro-gramme in the Dr KK District Municipality in Orkney this week.

The programme was kick-started on Monday 6 April 2020 in Motswedi village in the Ngaka Modiri Molema District.

So far, over 8000 people across the province have been voluntarily screened since then.

North West province received five mobile testing units.

Each district received one mobile unit and the remaining one will support the Premier and Health MEC Madoda Sambatha’s outreach program on COVID-19.

Mobile testing units are able to produce test results within 45 minutes.

Locally, mobile screening start-ed on 7-9 April in Alabama, Park Street Clinic and Manzilpark.

Councillors will communicate in their wards on dates for screen-ing that will continue until Tues-day 21 April.

“disinfect taxis every after load,’’ urges MeC

Premier rolls out mass screening programme

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Klerksdorp Rekord, Klerksdorp - Langasems kan nie stilsit in die tyd van inperking nie, vra maar vir Peter White, ‘n bekende langafstand-atleet in Klerksdorp.

Hy het op Saterdag 4 April ‘n afstand gelyk aan die Comrades-marathon in sy oprit voltooi. Ja, jy het reg gelees. Hy het altesaam 4 500 keer op en af in sy oprit van 20 m gehardloop en ‘n afstand van 90 km afgelê in ‘n tyd van 11 uur 47 minute.

Peter lag net verleë as jy vra hoekom hy dit gedoen het. “Want dit was ‘n uitdaging tussen my en ‘n pêl in Centurion, ek het hom uitgedaag en hy het dit aanvaar. Ons altwee het dit onder 12 ure voltooi.”

Hy sê die koel, bewolkte weer op Saterdag het hom ‘n hupstoot gegee. Lan-gasems praat altyd van daardie muur waarteen hulle vashardloop, en by die 60 km-merk was Peter se muur daar. “Dit het toe

al moeiliker gegaan, maar ek kon darem klaar maak.’’

Klerksdorp Rekord het op Woensdag 8 April met hom gepraat, terwyl hy reggemaak het om “gou’’ 10 km in sy oprit te draf. Peter skrik duide-lik nie vir die langpad nie.

Hy het al 6 Comrades marathons voltooi en het ook al twee keer die dubbel Comrades (op en af) gehardloop. Hy het ook al agt sky runs vol-tooi en heelwat trial runs op sy kerfstok. Op die

eerste dag van inperking het hy 21 km gedraf en ‘n paar dae later ‘n marathon (42 km). Alles in sy oprit. Hy woon in ‘n veiligheidskompleks in Doringkruin en het daarom ‘n 20 m-lange oprit.

Hy beplan nou om ‘n 100 myl (160 km) kaf te draf, maar die keer wil hy dit nie verniet doen nie.

Hy en die#LeefLiefde-veldtog het saamgespan en doen ‘n beroep op ondernemings en individue om hom te borg per kilometer wat hy voltooi. Die geld sal dan aan ‘n verdienstelike organisasie geskenk word wat deur #LeefLiefde en Klerksdorp Rekord aangewys sal word.

Belangstellendes kan hom skakel by 074 4142455.

Langasem hol Comrades in oprit

Die horlosie wys die statistiek.

Peter White (57) het die Comrades

marathon in sy oprit voltooi.