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Accident eGcuwa: Taxi hiking gone wrong.
On Monday morning around 6:30am to 7am, 19/06/23, at the end of eGcuwa xa uphuma usiya emonti, an accident between a white Polo Vivo and Black Nissan NP200 van occurred.
Le Polo Vivo was heading out of eGcuwa and uDriver decided ukuba makachole abantu abahiker-yo on his way so wafumana two people, a man in his mid 30s and a high school aged girl, hiking to King williams town at the end of eGcuwa on the road opposite Sizzlers butchery.
The Polo Vivo driver decided to make a quick U-turn back to get more people in town aba hiker-yo and then Boom! A black NP200 smashes into Vivo’s nose on the right side.
Listen to what an observer has to say about the scene of the accident:
The Vivo driver did the U-Turn on the slow lane and the NP200 smashed into him while coming from the fast lane after passing the robots a few meters behind.
When asked, the 2 hiking passengers asked the polo Vivo driver to be careful about making a U-Turn in that area because he might get hit by oncoming vehicles.
The passengers also say they noticed something wrong and off about the Polo Vivo driver, they implied he could have been drunk behind the wheel.
The NP200 driver badly injured his leg and managed to get himself out of the smashed vehicle and laced on the street behind the NP200 in agonizing pain, but his partner passenger was alright and didn’t have a scratch. Their NP200 suffered a badly damaged wheel tire.
The Polo Vivo driver survived and his 2 passengers and did not have scratch on them. The Polo Vivo’s front was badly damaged, and the car could no longer function anymore.
A tow truck was arranged by the NP200 drivers and Traffic officers arrived past 7am to 8am on the accident scene.
Listen to what the passengers had to say about the scene of the accident:
The good news is that everyone made it out alive in this accident that could have turn out horribly. We thank God for saving our people’s lives and leaving us with a lesson of being responsible with our lives especially on the road.
R18-million spent but Butterworth public pool has never opened.
21 February 2024 | By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
The swimming pool took ten years to build and was completed four years ago.
It took the provincial department for sport and recreation more than ten years to finish the construction of a public swimming pool in Butterworth, Eastern Cape. But four years after finishing the project, at a cost of R18-million, the pool has never been opened.
First, Mlonyeni Construction was appointed in 2008. But after the company had been paid R7-million, the contract was terminated in March 2012 due to poor performance. We reported on this in 2016.
Then Delevex CC 320 was hired to complete the project for R11-million, which it did in 2019, according to the department spokesperson Andile Nduna.
In 2021, Pumelele Godongwana, spokesperson for the provincial treasury, confirmed the treasury was investigating allegations of inflated costs during the decade-long construction. He has not replied to our latest questions.
The pool was then handed over in April 2019 to the Mnquma Local Municipality, which is now responsible for its operation. There is a large pool, two children’s pools, four big water tanks, five sitting areas and braai facilities. But none of this is open to the public.
The fence is broken, and the facility is beginning to be vandalized. At least one break-in has been confirmed.
According to the memorandum of understanding between the department and the municipality, the pool will host provincial and national swimming trials.
There are a number of bed and breakfast establishments in the area, and residents and informal traders had hoped the pool would attract customers.
Municipal spokesperson Loyiso Mpalantshana said the pool will be filled with water from a borehole, but it still needs to be connected.
He said guards have been hired to look after the pool around the clock, but on our two visits there was no security guard present.
Mpalantshana said municipal manager Silumko Mahlasela had issued a directive to community service officials to carry out a full inspection of the facility, assess structural defects and damages, and compile a cost estimate.
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