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Thursday 15 January 2004 |
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This site will be updated on 22 January 2004 at 17:00 |
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Gymnasium's school newspaper and actively involved in the debating society. He loves nature and hiking and has done so for many years with his parents Pieter and Carole Theron of Palmietvlei farm, Klein Drakenstein. "My parents instilled a love for reading, and I am as keen on gaining knowledge as they are." He is especially hooked on fantasy- fiction and spy novels. The final examinations were not as easy as everyone made it out to be, Pieter-Francois and Tammi agree. "Gym paved the way for my success. We were given many tips, and we knew what to expect in the final examination." Pieter-Francois obtained a mark of 107,2% for his so-called "Big Six" - Mathematics, Accounting, Science, Biology, Afrikaans and English. "There is no specific study method. The trick is self-discipline, paying attention in class, working during the year and believing in yourself," he says. He will now move to Eendrag men's residence, while studying chartered accountancy at Stellenbosch University. Said Pammi, "After every paper I thought I had not written as well as my friends said they had." But then came the call summoning her to a presentation at Leeuwenhof, the premier's residence in Cape Town, where she spotted Pieter-Francois. "Don't ever feel pressured by your parents and teachers, Paarl's former Junior Mayor says. "You are working for your own future. It is important to know yourself and what you are capable of." "I am happy to give something back to my school where I was given the opportunity to reach my potential. "I got through the exams with lots of chocolate and never missing my soapies on television. "I have a passion for watching wrestling," she admits among wrestling magazines in the Ou Kraal Street home of her parents, David and Dr Shelley Hellig. Pammi wrote English, Afrikaans, History, Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Latin and French and achieved a 106,7% mark. She is set to study Actuarial Science at UCT. Her sister Jocelyn, who came tenth overall last year, is now in her second year medical, also at UCT. |
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LOCAL schools excelled once again in the provincial matriculation examination. A total of 157 local students achieved A aggregates, with two students among the top eight (Pieter-Francois Theron of Gymnasium High and Pammi Hellig of La Rochelle). Paarl Girls' High shone with highest proportion of A students, 22 out of a class of 71 students (31% of the class). Their top student was Ezeth Basson. The school with the most distinctions was Paarl Boys' High, where 35 out of 136 matrics (25,7%) shone. Kobus Ehlers was their top student with 104,6% and seven A's. His classmates Pieter Wasserfall and Edwin Theron both got 99% for Maths Higher Grade. Huguenot High produced 33 students with A's (23,4% of the class of 141) and Mareli Fischer was the top student. At Gymnasium High in Paarl 30 students achieved distinctions, with Pieter-Francois Theron as the top student (placed 6th in the province). La Rochelle Girls' High produced 17 A students, and top student Pammi Hellig was placed eighth in the province. She follows in the footsteps of her sister Jocelyn who achieved 10th place last year. Klein Nederburg Secondary boasted nine A students this year - a new record for this school. Labori High school had three A students, Boland Agricultural High and Berg River High in Wellington each produced two A students, while Weltevrede's Carmen Drude also had an A aggregate. Bridge House had three matrics who excelled with distinctions in the Independent Matriculation Exam. Commended Paulus Joubert High in Paarl received a certificate of commendation from the Western Cape Department of Education for their improved results over the past few years, with a pass rate of 85% up from 77% three years ago. The Williams family of Stinkhout Avenue are very proud, as Beverley Williams of Gymnasium High is the third member of the family to achieve an A aggregate. Her older siblings Charles and Hannelie both achieved A's at New Orleans High. |
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'n SMEULENDE sigaret het verlede week 'n brand veroorsaak waarin vyf plaaswerker-gesinne hul wonings en besittings verloor het. Die brand het Vrydagoggend uitgebreek in die woning van 'n plaaswerker van die plaas Nooitgedacht noord van die Paarl op die Malmesburypad. Die brand het glo ontstaan nadat 'n vrou 'n brandende tuisgemaakte sigaret onder 'n bed gelos het. Die brand het die woning in ligte laaie gelaat vanwaar dit versprei het na vier wonings in dieselfde gebou, wat grens aan die pakstoor vol pakmateriaal vir die oes. Vernietig Die stoor waarin perskes en pruime gepak moes word, is ook vernietig toe die pakmateriaal vlam gevat het. Volgens Walter Laurence, plaaseienaar, beloop die skade sowat R1,3 miljoen. Die plaaswerkers word tans in woonwaens op die plaas gehuisves. Laurence het die vinnige optrede van die brandweer geprys wat gou op die toneel was en verhoed het dat die brand verder versprei. "Ek sal weer paktafels en pakmateriaal moet aanskaf, maar is dankbaar dat buurman Chris du Toit van Paarlvallei vir my 'n pakskuur kon afstaan," het Laurence vandeesweek gesê. * A burning cigarette set a farm store near Paarl alight, destroying a store and the homes of five families |
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DAAR word steeds gevrees vir die welstand van 'n Paarlse weduwee wat op Oujaarsdag bewusteloos, met erge skedelfraktuur en bloedverlies, in haar woning ontdek is. Anneliese Höhn (66) van Tekstielstraat, Huguenot, is die vorige middag laas gesien toe sy inkopies in die middedorp gedoen het. Haar seun Oliver (37), wat die woning met haar deel, maar nie die vorige nag tuis was nie, het die middag om 16:00 op haar afgekom. Sy het op die bed gelê. Die kamer was deurmekaar en bloedbespat. Die vermoede bestaan dat inbrekers Dinsdagmiddag reeds die diefwering voor die hoofslaapkamervenster verwyder het en so toegang verkry het. "Hulle moes op fietse daar aangekom het," het 'n duidelik ontstelde Oliver gesê. "Die spore lê oral. En hulle moes in die huis gewees het toe my ma soos gewoonlik by die agterdeur ingekom het." Volgens mediese getuienis is haar kop herhaaldelik teen die slaapkamervloer gekap en is sy in die maag geskop. Hoe sy op die bed gekom het, bly 'n raaisel. Höhn is na 'n intensiewesorgheid by die Vergelegen Medi-Clinic in Somerset-Wes oorgeplaas, waar verskeie operasies reeds uitgevoer is om haar lewe te red. Oliver, 'n musiekjoggie by Deejays in die Paarl, is elke dag daar om sy moeder by te staan. Die inbrekers het 80 musiekdiskette gesteel, waaronder selfsaamgestelde CD's met nommers 7 tot 40 wat duidelik herkenbaar is. 'n Swart en wit Gemini PMX musiekmenger, twee oorfone, 'n Nokia selfoon, beursie met dokumente en kontant, Switserse knipmes, 'n naelknipper asook 'n groot blou reisrugsak word vermis. Verlede week is daar weer ingebreek. Toe is 'n VCR (reeksnommer VR 599-55), 'n silwer eetstel, asook 'n strykyster gesteel. Die woning, wat in 'n digbegroeide tuin geleë is, is nou met 'n alamstelsel beveilig. * A Paarl widow is fighting for her life after an attack at her home in Huguenot on New Year's Eve. |
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ALL was not lost for residents of 98 makeshift homes at Mbekweni who saw their possessions go up in smoke two days after Christmas. The more than 250 victims have rebuilt their shacks in Langabuya (along the railway line in Drommedaris Street) and now have running water, chemical toilets and a fire hydrant in the event of another blaze. The fire broke out on December 27, and fueled by a strong wind, swept through the shacks like wildfire, flattening everything in its path. Parked cars were destroyed along with household goods. There were no injuries. "The heat was so intense that it blistered the paint on the fire brigade trucks," said Drakenstein fire chief Derick Damonse. The firemen managed to contain the fire before it could also consume a créche. Drakenstein mayor Herman Bailey cut short his holiday to visit the charred site with Western Cape Social Service Minister, Marius Fransman, on the Sunday. By that time, residents were already rebuilding their homes from the ashes. Fransman expressed his indignation after learning that the residents had been living on the site for nine years without basic facilities. On Monday Bailey convened a special meeting where the Municipal Council approved the immediate installation of additional water taps, chemical toilets, refuse bins for individual households as well as an additional fire hydrant. There are 991 shacks along the railway line, with the new facilities spread over the extended area. Three upright taps have now been added to the existing two. Ten chemical toilets have been brought to the site and will be serviced once a week by the company supplying them. A refuse drum for each shack will be delivered next week. Further discussions that will determine future amenities for the informal residents, will be held at a Council meeting tomorrow night. According to Bailey, Fransman is to facilitate a meeting with the provincial Housing Department to add urgency to the provision of housing for the squatters. "If a fire can even be fortunate, this must be it," a resident said this week. "At least now we have facilities, and we know our plight is not being overlooked." * Also during the Festive season, six squattter homes were gutted by fire at the Brickfields settlement in Simondium. Firemen were kept busy with veld and grass fires in and out of towns. "There is a good working relationship between fire brigades from Paarl, Stellenbosch and the Overberg," district fire chief Danie Wilds said. Drakenstein fire trucks were rushed to the Paarl Mountain Road twice to douse fires possibly started by homeless people in the dense forest behind Bosman and Berg Streets. |
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'n MEISIE wat Donderdagaand alleen op die gras by die voetgangerbrug oor die Bergrivier in die Arboretum gesit het, is verlede week deur vermeende verkragters oorval. Sy het gestoei en gegil totdat die aanvallers haar gelos het. Hulle het egter vyf minute later twee susters in Tekstielstraat voorgekeer. Die meisie (21) op die rivierwal het Donderdag om 19:30 gesien dat twee mans haar nader, maar het niksvermoedend op die gras bly sit en verder op haar selfoon gepraat. Die mans het haar skielik vasgedruk. Sy het verwoed teruggeveg en gegil. Sy het ook een van die aanvallers se duim stukkend gebyt toe hy dit in haar mond gedruk het om haar stil te maak. Die mans het haar skielik gelos en met haar handsak en selfoon weggehardloop, moontlik omdat daar iemand aangekom het. Minute later het die verdagtes voor twee susters, op pad na hul ouma se woning in Tekstielstraat, geürineer. Die meisies (21 en 14) het probeer verbystap, maar is deur die mans aan die arms gegryp en in die grasse langs Markstraat neergegooi. Die ouer suster kon haar aanvaller afweer, maar die 14-jarige is verkrag en aan die wang gebyt. Die mans word beskryf as in hul twintigs. Een is donkerbruin van kleur met dik lippe. Hy was geklee in sogenaamde snowjeans en 'n donkerblou geruite hemp. Sy makker is ligbruin van kleur. Hy was geklee in 'n geelwit T-hemp en rooi sweetpakbroek met wit nate. Inspekteurs Ronel Richards (807-4044) en Anel Swanepoel (807-4049) ondersoek die sake. * Daar word ook gesoek na 'n man wat die volgende oggend omstreeks 11:00 twee vroue aangeval het in Faurestraat langs Victoriapark, en net daarna in Bredastraat. In altwee gevalle is die vroue-voetgangers vasgegryp, geslaan en hul handsakke afgeneem. Die aanvaller word beskryf as donkerbruin, met "snowjeans" en 'n grys hemp. Die Paarl polisie het 'n dringende waarskuwing aan vroue en meisies gerig om liefs nie alleen rond te stap nie, en veral op hul hoede te wees in die omgewing van die Arboretum en Bergrivier Boulevard. * Two rapists are preying on young women in the vicinity of the Arboretum next to the Berg River in Paarl. |
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DIE dag nadat twee mense in 'n verwoestende brand in haar woning in Pniel doodgebrand het, het Thelma Parks aan 'n hartaanval gesterf. Weduwee Parks (57), lid van die bekende familie vrugtehandelaars van Pniel, het op Oukersdag gesterf, vermoedelik van skok ná die brand op haar Kanniklani kleinhoewe. Willie Muller (78) en 'n kuiergas, Wilhelmina April (44), het in die kamer wat hy in die huis aan die Hoofweg bewoon het, doodgebrand. Brandspanne vermoed dat 'n lekkende gasstoof die brand om 15:00 veroorsaak het. Parks se dogter, Tersia Minen en haar seun, Milton, bly nou tydelik met hul gesinne by vriende en familie totdat die woning herstel is. Sy word ook oorleef deur haar dogter, Rachel Braaf. Mev Parks is in Pniel te ruste gelê langs haar man, Michael, wat meer as 30 jaar gelede oorlede is. * In 'n ander noodlottige ongeluk die Feestyd het 'n besoeker aan die Paarl op 'n vierwielbaan gesterf toe hy beheer oor sy voertuig verloor het. Rajgopaul Pillay van Johannesburg, het op 28 Desember om 16:00 teen 'n steil helling op die Takbokroete probeer afry, toe sy Mitsubishi Colt bakkie begin gly het. Sy passasiers was ongedeerd. Reddingswerkers het vasgestel dat die voertuig in derde rat (hoërtrek) was, en nie in 'n laer rat soos ervare bestuurders die afdraend aandurf nie. * In 'n padongeluk om 12:30 op Nuwejaarsdag is Hennie Bailey (36) van Hexberg-plaas, Wellington, dood toe 'n kuiergas uit Kaapstad, Hannes Jacobs (42), hom op die Hexbergpad raakgery het. Jacobs het 'n ongeldige rybewys. * In Paarl-Oos is 'n jong meisie verlede week erg beseer toe sy langs Langenhovenlaan verkrag is. Die meisie (11) het aan die polisie vertel dat sy Dinsdag om 19:30 in Solomonstraat was, toe 'n man wat sy ken, haar hand gegryp en haar na die bosse naby die N1 gesleep het. Sy het haar teengesit en geskree, maar is gewurg en herhaaldelik met 'n gebalde vuis in haar gesig en teen haar kop geslaan. Speur-insp Cathy Korff (807-4000) wil met ene Dawid in verbinding tree. |
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TWEE mans is in hegtenis geneem nadat 'n jong moeder van drie op Oukersnag in Suider-Paarl vermoor is. Die liggaam van Caroline Esau (29) van die plaas Morningside is op Kersdag buite die KPA kwekery ontdek. Haar broer se huis is skaars 10m van die moordtoneel. Caroline is 22 keer met 'n mes in die nek gesteek en haar kop is met 'n boublok vermorsel. Volgens inligting was sy Oukersdag by die smokkelhuis van Chris Williams by die KPA kwekery. Sy is later daar weg saam met 'n onbekende man met 'n geel sweetpakbroek. Speur-insp Nardie Groenewald het Kersdag tot die aand om 22:00 inligting opgevolg en die volgende dag verder gesoek na die moordenaars. Die middag het hy twee mans, Denzil Shatley van Paarl-Oos en Felix Claasen van Tabakstraat 1, Suider-Paarl, by die International Hotel in hegtenis geneem. Shatley (22) was steeds geklee in die geel broek, met bloedspatsels. Beslag is kort daarna in 'n arbeiderswoning op die plaas De Hoop in Hoofstraat beslag gelê op 'n mes. Shatley het glo om 05:00 op Kersoggend daar aangekom en aan die slaap geraak. Insp Groenewald het borg teengestaan. Die mans word in Allandale Gevangenis aangehou tot hul volgende hofverskyning op 16 Februarie. * Die polisie is op soek na Wynand Ross (38) van die plaas Schoongezicht in Daljosafat. Ross kan inligting verskaf ná 'n rooftog in die Fairyland-omgewing om 20:00 op 1 Januarie vanjaar, waar 'n voetganger aangeval en van sy skoene en broek beroof is. Ross is 'n stukwerker op plase. Speur-insp Lucas Lourens (807-4000) sal dit waardeer indien Ross of sy werkgewer hom kontak. * Ene Jonathan Pietersen (in sy twintigs) van Lantanastraat 24B, Paarl-Oos, word versoek om speur-insp Lucas Lourens (807-4000) te kontak sodat hy inligting kan verskaf oor 'n rooftog in Bredastraat op 6 Desember. 'n Man wat die oggend om 04:00 van sy werkplek by 'n nagklub gestap het, is met 'n mes aangehou en van sy tekkies en kontant beroof. * The mother of three young children has been murdered in Paarl South. |
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