See the news highlights for October 2013
The Steval Pumas delight their fans during the promotion relegation matches while crime in Hazyview gets out of hand.
• October 1: Sixteen people died on Mpumalanga’s roads over the weekend. The black weekend started as seven people were killed in a head-on collision.
• A group of youngsters was overpowered by armed robbers in Hermansburg while they were house-sitting for a family friend. According to one of the victims, the attackers assured them they were not going to hurt them.
• October 4: The pupils of Laerskool Hennopspark and their teachers were held at gunpoint at Aan de Vliet Resort and Guest House in Hazyview. The children were all traumatised by the event.
• October 8: Two Gauteng women, one of them five months pregnant, endured a horrific ordeal this weekend when they were raped and held up at Tatenda Guest Lodge in Hazyview. This follows only days after a group of children was held up and robbed in the early hours.
• 11 Oktober: Die drie skoorsoekers, mnr. Victor Wilkens, mnr. Wickus Potgieter en me. Carmen Brown was wéér in ‘n geveg by Stables betrokke. ’n Groep klante het mekaar getakel, en hulle was deel van die onsmaaklikheid.
• 15 Oktober: ’n Twee-en-tagtigjarige man is wreed op sy plaas by Spioenkop vermoor. Dit volg na talle voorvalle van geweld in Hazyview.
• October 18: Nelspruit landscape architect, Leon Kluge, represented Africa at the gardening world cup in Japan, and took gold in the home-garden category and also won the prestigious best on show.
• October 22: The two suspects of having raped two female guests at a Guest House in Hazyview, were apprehended after two weeks. Their arrest follows a robbery which occurred at Kruger Park Lodge.
• October 25: The Mozambican army staged an attack on the rebel group, Renamo, and took over its military base in central city. In response, Renamo attacked a police station in Maringue, about 1 000 kilometres from Maputo.
• 29 Oktober: Die Steval Pumas het met hul tweede promosie-relegasiewedstryd teen die Griekwas na die Curriebeker Premierliga deurgedring. Die Nelspruiters het ‘n droomseisoen beleef deur net twee wedstryde vanjaar, albei teen die MTN Goue Leeus, te verloor het.
• Fig trees on Ms Helen Maddison’s farm between Barberton and Kaapsehoop had been mysteriously shrunk during the night. She has been growing the trees since 2008, but she was shocked to see that the top halves of the trees had been pruned and stolen.
