Innholdsfortegnelse for 2024-07-15 i Daily Voice

Collaboration It was all part of government’s Energy Action Plan, launched in July 2022, which involved collaboration between government, business, and other social partners. Since then, Eskom launched its Generation Operational Recovery Plan, stepping up the maintenance schedule of power stations. They also made the best and most obvious decision of all – bringing some engineers out of retirement to lend their expertise to the projects. Over the past two years, Koeberg was stabilised and the Kusile Power Station’s Unit 5 was finally commissioned, adding a much-needed 800MW to the grid. That is all at a national level, but in the Western Cape, the City of Cape Town had its own to reduce our reliance on Eskom. The procurement process for independent power producers was finished in record time and…

Decomposed De Villiers says police divers were called in to recover the corpse as a crowd gathered. He adds: “The body was badly decomposed and even the gender was not clear. “It is very concerning because we suspect the body was there for a while but what is unclear is if the body was placed in that specific drain or if it was dumped in the stormwater system and got stuck there.” Police spokesperson, Captain FC van Wyk, confirms the incident and says: “Lentegeur police registered an inquest following the discovery of a badly-decomposed body in a drain at the corner of Herbal and Mitchells Avenue, Woodlands in Mitchells Plain. “The race, age or gender of the deceased is unknown" De Villiers adds: “If you look at the circumstances, it…

THE good Samaritan who drowned after helping a stuck motorist in Blackheath has been identified as Jannie Mars. The 52-year-old father of two passed away on Thursday morning when he tried to cross a flooded road, but was swept away by the raging floodwater. Speaking to the Daily Voice on Friday, his family said Jannie, who worked as a mechanic, would never pass by someone in need of assistance. The Wesbank father had parked his car at a petrol station and walked to work. On the way, he noticed a woman driver whose car was stuck in water on Range Road, Blackheath. Witness Witness Denishia Ruiters says Jannie stopped to push the car out of the floodwater. Denishia explains: “It was around 6am when he helped take the car out…

Suspects Van Wyk reports: “While they were busy with the chickens in the back of the LDV, five unknown males came to them and pointed the complainant with a firearm. “The suspects then took the cellular telephones of the complainant and his uncle and then got inside the LDV and drove away. “Inside the LDV was the four- month-old baby of the complainant. The complainant then tried to get a brick to break the window of the LDV in order for the suspects to stop but they kept on going. The complainant then immediately reported the incident at the police.” Van Wyk says both the baby and bakkie had been found, adding: “Be advised that the child was found abandoned in Makhaza near the Golden Arrow stands, and taken home…