Thursday: 21 August 2003

This site will be updated on: 29 August  2003 at 17:00

Nuus - News

• Klappertand
• Vermeende moordenaar vas
• Beer bash on pass
• Man missing
• Glyjakkals skuldig
• Poisoners will be prosecuted

PAARLIETE het vandeesweek vir die eerste keer vanjaar regtig die skerp byt van winter gevoel, toe stortreën uitgesak en sneeu oor die berge vir klappertandtoestande gesorg het.

Maandagoggend het plaaslike inwoners ontwaak met die gesous van deurdringende winterreën, wat later aangegroei het tot swaar buie en stormwinde.
Teen Dinsdagoggend was daar 'n dik laag sneeu op al die berge in die omgewing en is kapok selfs in laagliggende gebiede ervaar.

Maandag se wind het heelwat skade tot gevolg gehad in die Paarl, met dakke wat afgewaai is en bome wat omgetuimel het bo-op wonings en motors.

In Ambagsvalleistraat moes die Adonis-gesin verslae toekyk hoe die rukwind hul dakplate met geweld afruk en tot in die tuin van die Bakers in Gardenstraat waai in die volgende erf (foto bl 2).

'n Motor wat in die Bakers se oprit geparkeer was, het deurgeloop.

Skade is ook aangerig by Bridge House skool en by die Huguenot industriële gebied.

Oornagtemperature het tot byna vriespunt gedaal en daartoe gelei dat twee hawelose mans verkluim het.

Charles Geduld (56) is verlede Donderdagoggend dood agter Shoprite aangetref en 'n ander onbekende man op Wellington het ook omgekom in die koue.

Luisteraars van Radio KC het vir byna twee dae sonder hul gunsteling uitsaaistasie gesit, nadat die onweer veroorsaak het dat die sender op Paarlberg onklaar geraak het.

Volgens Leonard Botha, verkoops- en bemarkingsbestuurder van KC, was die wind op die berg te sterk en die installasie te nat om die nodige herstelwerk dadelik te doen.

'n Totaal van 49,2 mm reën is sedert Maandag gemeet, wat beslis sal sorg vir stygings in die vlak van plaaslike damme. In Augustus tot dusver is altesame 113 mm reën gemeet.

Die Wemmershoekdam se vlak is nou 42%, met die Voëlvleidam op 54%. Die Nantes- en Betheldamme op Paarlberg is onderskeidelik 42 en 41% vol.

Die Weerkantoor voorspel 'n koue 14 grade Celsius vandag en 'n warmer 19 grade vir môre. Die naweek sal dit ook reënerig wees.

* Winter really showed its teeth in the Valley, this week bringing snow and torrential rain.z

EIENAARS van pruimkleurige motors kan weer ontspan, die polisie het die vermeende moordenaar wat met so 'n voertuig in die Paarl op vlug was, in hegtenis geneem.

Jafta Storm (36), vragmotorbestuurder op 'n plaas by Windmeul en pa van vier, is aangekla van moord en verkragting.

Speur-insp Nardie Groenewald was ses weke lank op die spoor van die eienaar van 'n pruimkleurige Toyota Cressida, nadat 'n jong vrou laas lewend in so 'n motor gesien is.

Evelyn Carelse (23), 'n Paarlse huishulp, het Saterdagnag 12 Julie 'n rygeleentheid saam met 'n onbekende man van 'n kuierplek in Lady Greystraat aanvaar.

Haar naakte lyk is die volgende dag teen 'n plaaspad in Klein Drakenstein ontdek.

Nádat die verdagte motor in die Paarl Post beskryf is, het die publiek die polisie van elke sodanige motor verwittig.

"Die oplettendheid en samewerking van die publiek was wonderlik," sê insp Groenewald.

Dit was 'n anonieme oproep wat die speurder uiteindelik verlede week op die regte spoor gebring het. Die motorbestuurder het ook baie gelyk soos die beskrywing deur ooggetuies.

Die man is vir ondervraging na die polisiestasie gebring, maar nie dadelik in hegtenis geneem nie. Hy wou graag sy vrou en kinders gaan groet by hul woning aan die Bo-Daljosafatpad.

Daar gekom het die man die hasepad gekies deur Fairyland. Sy motor is toe gekonfiskeer vir forensiese toetse.

Kort daarna het sersant Greg Goodman en Lionel Fortuin van die plaaswagpolisie 'n telefoonoproep uit Wellington gekry dat Storm hom wil oorgee.

Storm het Maandag in die Paarl Landdroshof voorgekom. Die saak is tot 25 Augustus uitgestel sodat hy 'n prokureur kan aanstel. Die verhoor sal in die Hooggeregshof wees.

"Ses weke lank het ek al die pruimkleurige Cressidas afgetrek en deurgegaan," sê Groenewald.

"Daar is veral 'n bejaarde man van Pniel, wat toevallig ook baie lyk na die gesigsamestelling wat in die Paarl Post was, wat sal dankbaar wees dat die motor opgespoor is.

"Verskillende polisiebeamptes het hom keer op keer van die pad getrek en sy pruimkleurige motor deurgekyk."

* The alleged murderer of a young Paarl woman, who was last seen in a maroon motor vehicle, has been arrested after a six week search.

A HEAVY truck spilled its cargo of beer down an embankment in Bain's Kloof Pass when it's trailer partially tipped over the cliff on Monday.

Broken beer bottles lay strewn down to the bank of the Witte River.

The driver of the Etosha Transport truck could not negotiate the vehicle around the first sharp bend on the Worcester side of the pass.

The vehicle hung halfway over the side of the mountain after smashing through the 150 year old stone walls.

The driver sustained slight injuries.

The pass was closed for the entire day to manoeuvre the truck back onto the road and out of the pass.

Full and broken beer bottles, plastic and carton packaging littered the mountainside.

"We desperately need proper signage," members of the Friends of Bain's Kloof emphasised again this week.

This truck was low enough to pass under the height restriction bar, but its weight exceeded the 5 ton limit, Sieg Kröger said.

"But it was the length of the truck that caused the accident. And Province is still deciding on the acceptable length before putting up warning road signs."xt

A YOUNG Wellington man is still missing after he gave two strangers a lift in his car three weeks ago.

Mbulelo Cekiso (22) was last seen at his home in 5 Ntlombo Street, OR township, on 6 August.

He left at 17:30 on that day in his red 3 series BMW (CA 271467) for Porterville. He gave two people, their identity unknown to his family, a lift.

Nothing has been heard of him since. The car is also missing.

Mbulelo wore a golden ring on his left hand. Information which can assist the police in tracing the man, can be given to Insp Steven Moore, 873-1141.

* The semi-decomposed body of man was discovered over a tree stump in the Berg River opposite the Wellington refuse dump last week.

It is possible that the man was in his mid-twenties and that he had been in the water for a week.

He was clad in a shortsleeved shirt with greenish stripes, grey trousers and a black leather belt, black socks and black shoes lined with cardboard. He wore a metal signet ring with a black stone.

It has not been possible to identify the body and further forensic tests are being conducted. Insp Niel de Lange (873-1141) is the investigating officer.

DIE glyjakkals wat 'n Paarlse gastehuis verlaat het sonder om te betaal, het in die Paarl streekhof skuld erken.

Terence Fullard (45) van Kaapstad, wat hom voorgedoen het as 'n dokter uit Australië, is gevonnis tot 18 maande tronkstraf, wat vir vier jaar opgeskort is.

Hy moet skuld van R5000 terugbetaal aan Zomerlust en die klaers in 'n tweede saak, van 'n gastehuis in Stellenbosch.

Fullard is net na sy skuldigbevinding weer in hegtenis geneem op 'n lasbrief vir soortgelyke aanklagte in Kaapstad.

THE Paarl SPCA has issued a stern warning to residents who put out poisoned food or trap domestic animals which may stray onto their properties.

The SPCA will use all the means at its disposal to prosecute those wilfully harming animals or putting out poison without taking due precaution as prescribed under the Animal Protection Act (Act 71 of 1962).

Penalties of up to a year's imprisonment without the option of a fine may be prescribed.

The SPCA has already distributed written warnings to people living in the Orange and Mill Street areas to be on their guard against anyone who may hide dishes of food under bushes, set cat traps and throw poisoned food over garden walls to entice domestic pets.

Residents in the area have reported the loss of five of their cats, while at least one cat and two dogs have survived an agonising ordeal after ingesting what is suspected to be poisoned cat food.

Not only have the owners of these animals incurred heavy veterinary expenses to save their animals, but have experienced the trauma of watching them suffer.

Stomach contents and samples of the suspect food have been sent away to Onderstepoort for analysis.

Veterinary opinion is that an organo-phosphate is being used which is also deadly to birds and wild life. Young children are also at risk.

The Animal Protection Act specifies that it is an offence to lay or expose any poison or any poisoned fluid or edible matter or infectious agents, except for the destruction of vermin or marauders, without taking reasonable precautions to prevent injury or disease being caused; or to lay any trap or other device for the purpose of capturing or destroying any animal, wild animal or wild bird, the destruction of which is not proved to be necessary.

Hugo Coetzee of Orange Street almost lost his beloved bull terrier, Max, which showed all the symptoms of organo-phosphate poisoning - salivation, spasms, paralysis of the legs and so on.

The animal suffered excruciating pain before it was finally pulled through by a local vet.

One cat belonging to the Cargills in Mill Street was found dead in a neighbouring property near a bowl of food.

Anyone who can throw fresh light on the matter is invited to contact Linda Groenewald at the SPCA (863-2720) or Hugo Coetzee at 083-290-7481.

* The SPCA is also looking for information on youths who have been tormenting and hurting cats in the vicinity of the Toringkerk.One cat with a broken back from being struck with a heavy object or kicked, had to be put down recently.