General News

Residents and Business are kindly notified of an installation of a valve at 571 Midas Warehouse. As a result, certain areas will experience low water output or no supply of water.

Areas to be affected are:
Midas Complex
Mabe Business Park
Bali Village and surrounding areas

The water interruption is expected to last between 4 and 5 hours.

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Residents are hereby requested by the Rustenburg Local Municipality to take photographic evidence of Municipal fleet, should it become suspicious that the vehicles are not reflecting any response to service delivery related queries.

The Municipality is working closely with the Automated Fleet Management Company in ensuring that the Municipality clamps down on officials who abuse municipal vehicles.

Photographs of Municipal vehicles that may be identified at shopping malls/centres, parked under trees and or in areas where there is no substantive evidence of service delivery can be sent by WhatsApp to 079 893 7429.

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Residents and businesses are hereby notified of an emergency repairs by Eskom on the electrical infrastructure. As a result, there will be power supply interruption between 14:00 and 14:30 due to switching to transfer load from Industries Sub-station to Waterkloof Sub-station.

The following areas will experience power supply interruptions during the electrical load transfer procedure for a period of 30 minutes:

East End
Mabe Business Park
Rustenburg Central (Partly)
Geelhout Park
Tlhabane West
Rietvlei
Donkerhoek
Boschdal
Cashan (Including the Waterfall Mall)
Safarituine
Waterval East Areas

There is risk of power trips between 14:00 and 18:00 as Eskom will be carrying out their maintenance work on the infrastructure.

For media inquiries, kindly contact Mr David Magae on 014 590 3509 or 060 991 3666, alternatively by email at bmagae@rustenburg.gov.za

The Rustenburg Local Municipality will from today implement scheduled water restrictions. These restrictions are as a result of the extremely low water levels in the supply system.

Currently the Rand water system is currently at 1%, consequently residents and businesses alike will experience minimal to no water supply during the period in the greater Rustenburg area.

Immediate restrictions will be implemented on all town reservoirs to save the water which has already been stored in the system for supply.

The water restriction schedule will be as follows:

From 13:00 – 17:00 and 22:00 – 05:00 am the following morning.

The following areas will be immediately affected:

– Cashan (all extentions)
– Protea Park
– Waterkloof
– CBD
– East End
– Boschdal
– Bo dorp

Load-Shedding Notice:

Residents are hereby notified of an Eskom Load shedding stage 2 (09h00-22h00) due to pressure in the system. As a measure to stabilise the system, the Rustenburg Local Municipality will effect a power outage from 09:00 am this morning. Residents are cautioned to switch off their electrical appliances during this period.

We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause.

For media inquiries, kindly contact Mr David Magae on 014 590 3509 or 060 991
3666, alternatively by email at bmagae@rustenburg.gov.za

Subsequent to the decision by Council earlier this year, to focus on addressing challenges of the increasing value of the debtor’s book of the Municipality, the Rustenburg Local Municipality has undertaken a process of engaging account holders – residents, businesses, institutions of varying levels of education as well as non-governmental organisations on accounts that are in arrears.

As a result, the Municipality has launched “Fiela Sekoloto” which is an incentives program aimed at helping account holders reduce their accrued interests in their various Municipal accounts. The campaign will continue into 2019 to allow all of the affected clients to have the opportunity to get into contact with the Municipality with the sole aim of reducing the debt on their respective accounts.

For media inquiries, kindly contact Mr David Magae on 014 590 3509 or 060 991 3666, alternatively by email at bmagae@rustenburg.gov.za

The Rustenburg Local Municipality in partnership with the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR), notwithstanding other stakeholders that participate in the exercise such as the South African Police Service (SAPS), has since the beginning of this week embarked on the National Rail Safety Campaign in Rustenburg, at level crossings.

The Railway Safety Regulator is launching the National Rail Safety Week from

26^th – 30^th November 2018 for the first time in South Africa to intensely promote rail safety messages for one week every year. The objective is to reduce collisions and create more awareness, given the statistics on the State of Safety Report and the fact that there have been challenges with level crossings, people struck by train and collisions.

The Rustenburg Local Municipality believes that much still needs to be done to educate our communities on safe railway behaviour to curb the unacceptably high levels of fatalities at our level crossings.

For further enquiries kindly contact Mr Magae on 014 590 3509 or 060 991 3666.