This week we look at the Advertiser’s November 12, 1993, edition.
• Paralysed cop guilty of attempted murder
Const Robinson Johannes Diko is paralysed on the right side of his body as the result of a robber’s bullet.
On Tuesday, the Kwa-Thema constable was handed down a suspended sentence in the Springs Regional Court on a charge of attempted murder after killing a robber.
Diko shot the robber in the back and was found guilty and sentenced to 18 months, suspended for five years.
He was also declared unfit to carry a firearm.
No warning shot was fired at the time of the incident, and it is believed that the deceased was originally after the firearm and personal belongings of Diko.
• Reaching out across the continents
With a membership of over 1.5 million worldwide, Rotary International is truly an international organisation.
In a demonstration of the above statement, the Springs Park Rotary Club hosted a party of eight Rotary couples from Western Australia while on a three-week tour of South Africa.
The group visited Springs for three days before departing for the Kruger Park, Natal and the Cape.
When they met at Jan Smuts Airport on their departure for home, the party was unanimous in their praise of what they had seen in their travels.
Also read: Delving into the past
A more well-known programme of Rotary International is the Youth Exchange Programmes and recently, the Springs Park Rotary Club hosted a reunion of past, present and future exchange students.
The reunion was attended by six past outbound exchange students who went to the USA, Germany and Australia from 1981 to 1987.
• Mark’s dream hovers into reality
It took Mark Hall of Spring only seven months to get his private pilot’s licence for helicopters.
It’s been an expensive seven months but worthwhile nevertheless as it’s been his dream to fly helicopters since he was a young boy.
Until three weeks ago he was flying full time, but now he has his licence he flies when he has the time.
The helicopters he flies are a Robinson R22 and a Bell Jet Ranger.
Also read: Delving into the past
Mark (29) was based at Rand Airport while he completed his licence under the guidance of instructor Buzz Bezuidenhout, SA helicopter champion for the third year running.
Learning to fly a helicopter is very expensive. To get his licence, Hall spent in the region of R43 000. For a commercial licence, he would have to pay a further R100 000.
Hall had to fly a minimum of 50 hours.
In January, he hopes to continue with his commercial licence, which will require him to fly a minimum of 150 hours.
“Flying helicopters is definitely more exciting than planes,” said Hall.
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