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their communities. Most of the times it is crime, corruption, looting, strikes

Rain and violence that grab headlines first. Luckily this week’s headline is that
Burgersfort and environs had some good rain this week, in some spots
more than 40 mm. The bad news is that the rain was not enough to make
a significant difference on the drought at this stage. The flow of rivers also

brings did not increase significantly, so for now the dangerously high consentration

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of sewerage in the Spekboom is here to stay, while dam levels also remain
critically low. This week De Hoop Dam was 79.8 percent full, Flag Boehielo
was 76.2 percent full and Tonteldoos Dam was 55 percent full. The Blyderiv-

relief
ierpoort Dam was 43.4 percent full, Buffelskloof Dam was 36.1 percent full,
Kwena dam was 41.6 percent full and Ohrigstad Dam was 7.5 percent full in
comparison to last year’s 49.6 percent. (The photograph was taken after the
rain this week by Platinum Gazette’s Beánnla Celliers in Burgersfort with her
iPhone.)

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NSFAS receives over Shortcut:

Severe congestion and non- existent traffic control in
Burgersfort at month-end seems never to bother some
road users in town. They just carve out their own route
in the urban jungle.

400 000 applications

for 2019
Higher Education and Training Minister Naledi Pandor says the National Student Financial Aid
Scheme (NSFAS) has received more than 400 000 funding applications for the 2019 financial
year.
Pandor said this when she briefed the media in Cape Town on Tuesday.
The briefing comes after applications for funding for the 2019 academic year closed on 3
December following a two day extension from the 30 November 2018 deadline.
“As we prepare for next year, the 2019 application cycle has proceeded relatively smoothly
with more than 400 000 applications received between the opening of applications on the 3rd
September and the closing of applications on the 3rd of December,” she said.
Pandor said on average, NSFAS received more than 3 200 applications a day over the
period from September to December, with the number reaching as high as 30 000 on one of
the days.
Out of all the applications, 63% were females while males made up 37% of the applica-
tions.
A total of 34 413 applications were received from social grant beneficiaries. Students who
are beneficiaries of the South Africa Social Security Agency automatically qualify in terms
of the financial qualification criteria and will be funded if admitted and registered at a TVET
college or university.
“However, it is a concern that only 24% of the applications are from learners who wish
to enroll at TVET colleges, with the balance of 88% being applications for universities,” the
Minister said.
Pandor said of all the applications, the highest number, 95 523, was received from the
KwaZulu-Natal province. The number represents 45% of the total number of learners that
wrote their National Senior Certificate in the province, while the lowest number was from the
Northern Cape with 2 573 applications.
She said the success of the current application process can be attributed to a number of
factors – including the revised and easy-to-complete online application system, which allowed
applicants to complete an application within five minutes; the simplicity of the on-line and
manual form with fewer fields to fill; and the accessibility of NSFAS where applicants have
been able to apply at the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) as a result of the
scheme’s long-standing partnership with the agency.

I am so thankful to be standing at the end of another
tough year and have the opportunity to reflect on what
has been! 2018 was a tough and controversial year in
many senses, so many deeply rooted issues and
emotional debates were brought to the surface. This
sometimes led to conflict and division, and sometimes
it lead to a place where I start understanding my fellow
South African a bit better. People lost their lives and
families welcomed new life into their
hearts. It is always bitter sweet to
reflect, but you can choose
what you focus on.
One of our values at Dwarsrivier Chrome Mine (DCM) is
Positive Attitude and I therefore choose to focus on the
positive contributions into my life, as well as the people
and organisations I am involved with.
So, standing back to look at 2018, it is in all humility that
I thank God for guiding our mine in sending all employ-
ees back home alive! Although we experienced a few
injuries, we are very happy that our mine did not lose any
employees through a mine fatality. Our industry, though,
did not have a good year, and our hearts and prayers
go out to each and every person that lost their lives in
the mining industry this year, we are not proud of this
record and will keep on working very hard to ensure zero
harm to all involved with our operation, and industry.
Our safety slogan of Zero Harm, Becoming Better will be
a heartfelt commitment from our leadership team and
the mine as a whole, in 2019.
In terms of productivity, we are happy with the 2018
performance and in actual fact broke some produc-
tion records for the financial year ending 30 June 2018,
once again, we do understand that this is grace and
hard work and will never boast about it in ourselves. I
am proud to say that we still pray at our meetings at
the mine to invite God in, and therefore we can see His
Hand in our work and keep on believing that He will lead
and guide us in His Wisdom. Through living our value of
Teamwork, we believe we will continue to manage
a sustainable mine, making a positive impact in this
area.
Let me close in thanking so many people who
directly and indirectly influenced us in having a
great year, I want to thanks each family member
who supported our employees and contracted
employees this year, thank you to all the
contracting companies and suppliers who
supported us this year and off course each and
every dedicated DCM employee! With this type
of support and commitment, it is just a
pleasure to lead and be part of a strong
focussed business. To our holding company,
Assore, and all the people involved in supporting
our operation, we are truly privileged to be part
of a loyal and well established organisation,
thank you for the support!
I always remind everybody that Jesus is the reason
for this season, please go and make a difference in
someone’s life this year! Ps 91 says that even though
1000’s will fall on the one side and 10,000’s on the other,
with our God we will jump over a wall and face the
enemy! Let us be fearless in loving others, be
humble in serving others, be the ones to support the
“Moses” on our side when the battle gets too hard,
let South Africa shine again because of the light of
Jesus that is shining in our hearts! Let our relationship
with God be caught and not taught,
may my life be the Bible those
around me can read at any time.
Christmas is time for sharing, loving,
praying and giving Him your
biggest present, your life and
your time to go and love
someone who the world has
forgotten. In this Christmas time,
be blessed and more importantly,
be a blessing …!
7 DESEMBER 2018 NUUS 3

Looking back
at the first Psalm 103:2-5
New International
quarter’s Version (NIV)

2
Praise the Lord,
performance my soul,
and forget not all
This week, Sekhukhune District Munic- his benefits—
ipality’s Executive Mayor, Cllr. Kea- 3
who forgives all
motseng Stanley Ramaila opened the your sins
2018-2019 First Quarter Performance and heals all your
Lekgotla.
diseases,
The event was held at within the 4
Makhuduthamaga Local Municipality. who redeems your
During the Lekgotla problems, chal- life from the pit
lenges and highlights are discussed. It and crowns you
also sets the tone for areas that need with love and com-
improvement in the coming quarters of passion,
the financial year. 5
who satisfies your
desires with good
things
so that your youth
is renewed like the
eagle’s.
(Foto: Elanie van
der Walt)

Dangerous crossing
A history of poor town planning has made it
difficult for many businesses to accommo-
date their delivery vehicles without compro-
mising traffic in Burgersfort. Most however
seem to make an effort to not create a
dangerous situation.
However where the roads cross at Marone
Street and Ribbok Street some businesses
seem to continuously have trucks parked to
prevent a view of the oncoming traffic at the
stop sign. They also don’t mind simply taking
up a full lane of the street and traffic officals
seem to turn a blind eye to this. A situation
that is just waiting to end in an accident as
traffic pressure increases over the festive
season.

Damaged fire
hydrants a
safety risk
A fire hydrant seems to be one of those things
that nobody cares about until they need it.
In many suburbs of Burgersfort and areas
that are being developed as industrial parks
or sites, the fire hydrants are damaged and
nothing is being done to get them repaired.
Whether the damage occurred by accident
or through the hands of vandals is unknown. It
is however a fact if it remains like this, some-
thing might get burned and help will not be
coming from the hydrants.
4 Advertorial 7 DECEMBER 2018

Know your status annually on the 1

st
World Aids Day is celebrated
over the weekend,
of December. This year it fell
opportunity to
and to give all employees an
ng and Counsel-
receive voluntary HIV/Aids Testi
day this week.
ling, the event was held on Tues
mative slide
Employees could watch an infor
HIV/Aids in the
show with information about
canteen. Tubatse Ferrochrom
e cares about the
urages them to
Wishing you a Merry Christmas!
wellness of employees and enco
s for their own
participate and know their statu It is again my privilege to send this Christmas message to all of
benefit. the Tubatse Ferrochrome stakeholders. I want to thank each one
of you for the contribution that you have made during the past
year to make Tubatse Ferrochrome a safer and more productive
place to work.
We have had a difficult year at Tubatse, but we have made some
big strides forward. Lots of maintenance work was completed
and big improvements made in the plant during 2018. We have
to continue making our plant safer, more productive and more
efficient. Tubatse Ferrochrome is a very special place with very
special people – we have made plans and solved problems and
we will continue to do so.
I hereby want to wish all of the employees, contractors and all
other Tubatse stakeholders a very merry Christmas and a
prosperous new year!
Please be very careful and vigilant in the plant and on the roads
during the festive period!

Johan Kleynhans
General Manager

tmas
Celebrating Chrishave turns to
Every year the different emp
loyee levels
Loyalty and
long service
one of the highlights to-
have a Christmas party. It is
employees are joined by
wards the end of the year and
their families.
ipated visit from Father
The children love the much antic

rewarded
the prese nts he bring s with him.
Christmas and
Truck and was quick to
This year he arrived on a Fire
s upon arrival. While
dish out sweets and other treat
their Tubatse Ferrochrome is
a place years of service do not go
parents enjoyed where many employees
create a unnoticed and in recognition
themselves, the future for themselves and
their of their hard word over the
kids coloured in families. Their loyalty and
long years they were recently
and had fun with
honoured at a Long Service
face painting and
Awards Function. Honours
jumping castles.
are usually given for 5, 10,
A proper celebra-
15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and more
tory Christmas
years service. This year was
meal was also
special for Isau Nyelete (pho-
part of the
to below)who has served the
event.
company for 40 years.
Mr Johan Kleynhans thanked
everyone for their contribu-
tion in building Tubatse Fer-
rochrome into the company
it is today.

Tubatse Ferrochrome’s
got top talent
ancor Chrome
Every year the different Sam
talent show.
business units compete in a
personalities
Entries are judged by well-know
the musi c and ente rtain men t industry. This
in
at Tubatse
year Amina Gates, an employee
the winner in the
Ferrochrome, walked away as
won R10 000
individual singing category. She
ition of Whitney
in prize money with her rend
you”.
Houston’s “I will always love
7 DESEMBER 2018
Tubatse Ferrochrome
infrastructure
investment assists
with Eerstegeluk road
A R20 million infrastructure investment to assist the Road
Agency Limpopo (RAL) with the repair and rebuilding of the
Eerstegeluk road was officially handed over in March this
year.
The road was in utter disrepair and a stretch of 5.5km
funded by Tubatse Ferrochrome was completed in No-
vember last year. This project created approximately 35
jobs. During the hand over of the project, Mr Desmond
McManus, Samancor COO said: “The road is a token of the
fact that Samancor believes in giving back to the commu-
nities - in a sustainable manner and with projects such as
these that improve the life of our community members”.
Donations that make
a difference
During the course of
the year Tubatse Fer-
rochrome assisted the
Eerstegeluk Clinic who
was in need of baby cots.
Winter was also made a
little warmer with a do-
nation of blankets to the
elderly people of Tukak-
gomo, Stoking, Mapo-
dile, Maganagobushwa,
Magaseng, Ga-Phasha
and Mahlwakwena com-
munities.
Mr Marvin Radingwane
from Ga-Mampuru was
assisted with a dona-
tion of new batteries
for his wheelchair and
Mr Sammy Mabilo from
Maganagobushwa was
in dire need of a new
wheelchair. These are
just some of the practi-
cal ways Tubatse Ferro-
chrome assisted in the
communities around the
plant.
Advertorial 5
Site Indaba inspires and
Career opportunities show- encourages teamwork
cased at Career Expo During August a Site Indaba
was
During
The annual Eastern Limb HRD Career Expo took held at Tubatse Ferrochrome.
p
place at the this event Samancor’s Leadershi
t the
end of July and Team was present to talk abou
any.
beginning of future and state of the comp
rtunity
August. More Employees also had the oppo
than 6 000 local to raise any problems, ques tions
.
learners visit- and concerns they may have
ed the expo to
receive valuable
career advice
and were able
to talk to em-
ployees in the
mining industry.
t
An importan
In the fast lane m es sa g e
The Tubatse Ferrochorme Soapbox Der- chrome ar-
Tubatse Ferro
by team from Ivor
ranged a visit
took top ational speak-
Swart, a motiv
honours at ort Academy
er, to Steelpo
the annual g High School.
and Kgahlanon
Winterveld ng ster who grew
He was a ga
Festival t a fat her and
up withou
in August jail. Upon his
spent time in
this year. rned his life
release he tu
now delivering
around and is
ss ag e th at crime does
the me
y to yo un gsters.
Shaving it all in aid of Cansa not pa
Every year Tubatse Ferrochrome employ- Estralita receives
ees put themselves out there to support the
Cancer Association of South Africa (Cansa).
They shave their heads and spray their hair
donation for little ones
The Estralita Special School recently received a
in bright colours in support of the charity donation of plastic scooters for the young children
and to raise at the school. 35 of these bicycles were donated.
funds for it. Estralita caters for children with special needs such
This year was as Down Syndrome and other challenges. It is the
no differ- only Departental Special School in the area.
ent. Many
employees
had fun and
participated
for the good
cause.
Women’s Day
celebrated
Image consultant and stylist,
Trevor Conn visited the la-
dies of Tubatse Ferrochrome
on 8 August as they cele- Team building with Jan Bra
brated Women’s Day. The ai
ladies received tips about Tubatse Ferrochrome’s
D & E band employees
dressing for your body had a team building
type, how to apply make- session with Jan Braai.
up to look your best and The teams competed to
choosing accessories and build the ultimate ham-
a hairstyle to compliment burger, perfect sticky
you. They were also treated to delicious chicken wings and a
cake and food during the event. The band, delicious banana nutella
wrap as dessert.
Moonshine provided live entertainment.
Tubatse Ferrochrome is actively involved in making a difference
Tubatse Ferrochrome honoured the global new ‘motorbikes’. Tubatse Ferrochrome also cares
initiative of Mandela Day. Their Women’s about their employees and regularly hosts Wellness
Forum visited Makopole High School at the Days. On these days employees get the opportuni-
Ga-Mampuru community to donate sanitary ty to voluntarily participate in getting health checks
towels to the girls. In another Mandela Day such as blood pressure, blood glucose testing and
initiative the Will Kathy Créche at Ga-Ma- even things such as HIV or TB testing. A holistic
podile received some plastic motorbikes approach is taken at some of these days as em-
for the children to play with. The donation ployees could seek assistance with debt manage-
was received with loads of appreciation and ment, budgeting and taking out insurance policies
the children immediately taking off on their to provide and plan for the future of their families.
6 Platinum Gazette 7 DECEMBER 2018

Tassies reg om lewens Voortrekkers

in 2019 te verander sluit die jaar af
Solidariteit se Helpende Hand maak elke jaar ‘n verskil
met hul skooltassieprojek. Die tassies word aan hulp-
behoewende graad 1 leerders uitgedeel het is toegerus Die Waterval Voortrekkers het die afgelope week die
met uidraaikryte, ‘n legkaart, inkleurpotlode, grys potlode, jaar afgesluit.
‘n liniaal, ‘n skerpmaker, ‘n skêr, ‘n uitveër, gom, pen- Die verskillende grade het sertifikate ontvang en
nesakkies, ‘n witbord met penne en ‘n Afrikaanse Bybel die span was baie trots op hul prestasies van die
geborg deur Finesse. afgelope jaar.
Die Burgersfort tak van Helpende Hand het hard gewerk Op die foto links ontvang een van die jongste Voor-
en daar is 80 skooltassies gereed om volgende jaar die trekkertjies, Chris de Jongh sy sertifikaat van Ida
lewens van behoeftige kinders in die area te verander. Esser en Yolandi de Jongh.
(Foto: Judy Winterbach). Op die foto regs onder kry JB Louw sy sertifikaat van
Wessel Beukes. (Foto’s: Clarize Coetzee).

Links: Jaco Swart en Judy Winterbach

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Celebrations as SAPS soccer Pilgrims Rest Christmas Golf Day

teams earn top spots in the league
TheCapricorn District Football Association
Soccer League in which the different teams
from the South African Police Service (SAPS)
this weekend - don’t miss out!
played each other reached the final stages
All golf players are invited to join the
last week. See page 8. (Information and pho-
Pilgrims Rest Christmas Golf Day on 8
tographs: Capt Seabi and Sergt Mvundlela)
December 2018.
The day will kick-off with registration at
08:00 and tee off at 09:00. It will be in Bet-
ter Ball Scramble format.
Competition fee will be R150-00 per player.
Players are requested to bring a gift to the
value of R100 to put under the Christmas
tree. According to the organisers, Father
Christmas might just arrive to distribute the
collection of gifts between the players.
The day will also have entertainment by DJ
Skippy and a Spitbraai.
It promises to be a fun day to kick off the
December vibe and golf players from all
over are invited to come and participate in
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SPORT
Top SAPS soccer teams play for
the title in league finals It was the battle of four gladiators, contesting for position one, two
and three as the play offs in the Capricorn District Football Associ-
ation Soccer League started at Samancor Eastern Chrome Mines’
Mangabane Soccer Field last week.
In the run-up to the finals teams from different SAPS clusters
played against each other on a weekly basis.
A formal programme included a prayer opening by Rev
Chaplain Captain Sefora and a message from the sponsors. The
chairperson of Capricorn District Sports Club Major General Mokg-
onyana delivered the key note address. In his address he encour-
aged all the players to be disciplined and perform optimally.
The following teams played for: Third place play-offs:
The SAPS Provincial office team and SAPS Burgersfort/Se-
khukhune faced each other and the score was 2-0 in favour of the
Provincial office team. Const Teffu scored the two goals for SAPS
Provincial office team. Provincial office were awarded with bronze
medals and a trophy. SAPS Burgersfort/Sekhukhune we also
rewarded with a trophy.
The finals were between SAPS Seshego and SAPS Mote-
tema/Groblersdal/Rakgoadi. The two teams held each other to
a draw of 1-1 till the final whistle. (Const Makunyane scored for
SAPS Seshego and Const Ramahuma scored for SAPS Motete-
ma/Groblersdal/Rakgoadi). Their fate was decided on penalties
where in the SAPS Seshego team won the game with 4 - 3. They
were crowned the champions of SAPS Capricorn District soccer
league 2018.
SAPS Seshego were awarded with gold medals, a trophy
and soccer kit. SAPS Motetema/Groblersdal/Rakgoadi were also
awarded soccer jerseys.
Individual trophies were also awarded:
1. Top goal scorer stream A: Const. Magongoa (SAPS Seshego)
2. Top goal scorer stream B: Const. Mogashoa (SAPS Motetema/
Groblersdal/Rakgoadi)
Celebrations were in or-
3. Goalkeeper of the season: Const Makgatho (SAPS Seshego
der for the Champions
4. Defender of the season: Const Ramahuma (SAPS Motetema/
of the Capricorn District
Groblersdal/Rakgoadi)
Football Association
5. Midfielder of the season: Const Baloyi (SAPS Motetema/
Soccer League 2018 -
Motetema/Rakgoadi)
SAPS Seshego.
6. Most improved team stream A: SAPS Botlokwa/Sekgosese/
The finals were played
Morebeng
at the Samancor
7. Most improved team stream B: SAPS Dennilton/Marble Hall
Eastern Chrome Mines
8. Coach of the season: Sergt Malatji (SAPS Seshego)
Mangabane Soccer
9. Team Manager of the season: Const Malaka (SAPS Motetema/
Field last week, 28
Groblersdal/Rakgoadi)
November 2018.
(Information and photographs: Capt Seabi and Sergt Mvundlela)