Thursday: 07 August 2003

This site will be updated on: 14 August  2003 at 17:00

People - Mense

• Baba sommer in motor gevang
• Three bundles of joy
• Optelgoed nie vatgoed
• Award for Paarlite

POLISIEBEAMPTES maak soggens gereed om misdaad te gaan beveg in hul blou uniforms, maar sers Eva Julies en konstabels Henriëtte Claassen en Christaline Visagie van Klapmuts moes verlede Dinsdagaand vir iets heel anders gereed staan.

Die drie was nog aan diens die aand om 20:00 toe 'n BMW met skreeuende bande by die polisiestasie stilhou en die bestuurder benoud beduie die ooievaar het kom besoek aflê.

"Gelukkig het ek agtergrond in verpleging," vertel sers Julies, "maar dit is egter die eerste keer dat ek by die polisiestasie 'n bevalling moes hanteer!

"Die arme ma was histeries, want daar was nie genoeg tyd om hospitaal toe te jaag nie. Toe kom klop hulle maar by ons aan."

Dit was 'n spoedige bevalling en 'n fris babaseuntjie het gou-gou sy eerste skree gegee.

"Ons het die baba in komberse toegedraai en die Stellenbosch ambulanspersoneel was gou op die toneel om die moeder verder by te staan."

Maar die drie is net te bly dat hulle kon help toe Moeder Natuur op haar hardste geroep het. En sers Julies is nou 'n peetkind ryker!

* Three Klapmuts police officers became midwives when they helped to deliver a baby outside the police station.

IT'S usually called a bundle of joy, but for Mbekweni mother Phumza Bida (23) it is not all joy to be the mother of three bundles of joy all at once.

She recently became mother to identical triplets, and now there are six wrinkly little hands, six bite-size little feet and three petite bodies wrapped in identical pink baby blankies to care for.

For this youthful mother the arrival of her three premature offspring born at seven months is not as joyous as it would be for many others.

Already mother to a daughter of five, Nolitha, she is unemployed and lives off the charity of a concerned neighbour, Beauty Jamda.

She has had to send Nolitha to live with her grandfather in Transkei.

Says Beauty, "She has no relatives here and the father of the triplets also left without a word. I feed her every day and now I also help her to look after her newborns.

"She is dependent on the charity of others. The hospital gave milk and we received baby clothes, blankets and bottles from another benefactor, but she needs more support."

Anyone who wishes to assist Phumza, can contact Beauty on 073-4077-832.

SY het nie gedink sy sien ooit weer haar selfoon nie, het Paarliet Heidi Myburgh gedink toe sy twee weke gelede op pad Malmesbury toe ontdek het sy het dit êrens verloor.

As onderwyser van die Sonskynklas vir Gestremde Kinders by Laerskool Swartland, is dit Heidi se plig om soggens 'n paar leerders oppad soontoe 'n geleentheid te gee.

Oudergewoonte het sy dié betrokke  Woensdagoggend ook 'n paar leerders voor 'n winkel in Noorder-Paarl opgetel.

En dit is net hier waar die glips ingekom het, toe die selfoon uit haar baadjiesak gegly en op die grond beland het.

Heidi het egter eers naby die Wellington afdraai agtergekom daar is groot fout toe sy 'n oproep wou maak en besef het selfoon se kind is pad-op.

"Ek het geweet dat my foon in my baadjie se sak was. Dié oggend moes ek een van die leerders help inklim en toe val die selfoon uit," het sy vertel.

Maar daar is darem nog iets soos 'n barmhartige Samaritaan.

Johannes Ntsini, werknemer by 'n kabinetnmaker op Wellington, was saam met sy werkgewer in die omgewing, toe hy die selfoon op die grond sien lê het.

Hy het hom ontferm en die foon opgetel en saamgeneem.

"Ek het dadelik my eie nommer geskakel toe ek by die skool aanland," het Heidi vertel, "Ek het gedink die persoon wat my foon opgetel het, het seker al die SIM-kaart verwyder of al my lugtyd opgebel.

"Johannes het egter die foon beantwoord en verduidelik dat hy dit opgetel en veilig by hom gehou het. Omdat hy nie so lekker Afrikaans kan praat nie, moes sy werkgewer  as tolk optree.

"Aan die einde van die dag het my man, Tersius, na Prowell gegaan en kon hy my foon terugkry.

"Uit dankbaarheid het hy Johannes 'n beloning gegee. Ek het nie gedink daar is nog sulke eerlike mense nie," het sy dankbaar gesê.

* A Paarlite has been reunited with her cellphone.

EACH year the Association of Personnel Services Organisation (APSO) Founders Cup is awarded to a member who has excelled in service on the committee.

The main aim of this award is to honour individuals who, driven by passion and a focused sense of purpose, have gone beyond the call of duty to make a significant difference to the Labour Recruitment Industry.

At the recent AGM, committee member Gita Lison presented the cup to Ute Gass of Paarl, saying that Ute had been an inspiration to her fellow members and had left them with a feeling of awe and admiration.

Ute served as the Western Cape Chairperson for two years and is currently the President of the Institute of Personnel Services Consultants (IPSC), the fully constituted training arm of APSO.

She has served on the standards generating body and the labour recruitment chamber in the Services SETA.

APSO is the official mouthpiece for the recruitment industry, recognised by government, business and labour. It is also internationally recognised by various bodies.

Its members are required to write an exam, engage in continuous professional development and abide by a code of ethics and conduct.

The APSO ethics portfolio is an effective vehicle which clients and candidates can use when experiencing unethical and unscrupulous behaviour by recruiters that are members of the organisation.

Ute's relentless pursuit of uplifting industry standards and professionalism amongst recruiters has been in her own words "a challenge to the mind and a reward for the soul".