BK Voorsitter, Roy Harris het gesê dat die munisipaliteit van 7.20vm tot 4nm sou oop wees. Die rede daarvoor is dat hulle die daglig wou benut en sodoende elektrisiteit bespaar. Mauritz Zietsman, sekretaris van die burgemeester het gesê dat die stereotipiese stelsel van 'n werksdag van 8vm tot 5nm iets van die verlede is.
It’s Throwback Thursday, so the Herald went back in time to 3 October 1986 with the highlight story being on the front page with the headline Munisipaliteit Bespaar.
The Herald reported at the time that councillor Roy Harris said the municipality would be open from 7.20am to 4pm to use the daylight and thus save electricity. Mauritz Zietsman, Secretary of the Mayor, said that the stereotypical system of an 8am to 5pm workday was something of the past.
Other interesting headlines at the time:
Die Herald het aangekondig dat wêreldbekende stoeiers, naamlik Jan Wilkens en Kurt Zranoff (van die VSA) binnekort in Carletonville kragte sou meet. Vir die eerste keer het Afrika en in besonder Wes-Transvaal besoek gekry van dwergstoeiers Little Mr T (van die VSA), Pepe Consalves (van Mexiko), Tokyo Joe (Japan) en Cowboy Lang (van die VSA).
Alban Barnard, Pick n Pay manager, took action and helped the police to arrest three armed robbers.More than R40 000 was recovered. According to the assistant manager, Stefan Gouws, four men came into the shop, looking for work. They forced him to open the safe at gunpoint. Alban, who was not in the office at the time, noticed that something was amiss and called the police.
Naaldwerkers, Hannetjie Venter en Kotie du Preez het hul besigheid, Chanelle, in 1986 reeds meer as 11 jaar besit. Die twee naaldwerkspesialiste se hande het vir niks verkeerd gestaan nie en hul besigheid het bababenodighede ook verkoop.
Some facts about the Herald’s readers at the time: 68 per cent of men in R’fontein read the Herald; 66 per cent of women in R’fontein read the Herald, 68 per cent of R’fonteiners who have been to Sun City read the Herald and 72 per cent of R’fonteiners who owned their own home read the Herald.
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For more than 4 and a half years, Clinton Botha was a journalist at Roodepoort Record. His articles were regularly published in the Northside Chronicle now known as the Roodepoort Northsider. Clinton is also the editor of Randfontein Herald since July 2020. As a sports fanatic he wormed his way into various "beats - as the media would know it - and admits openly that his big love always have something to do with a scoreboard, crowds and usually a ball that hops.
