News: August 2016

Project progress – Rejuvenation Trust. Rejuvenation Strategic Focus areas

Sport

All the allocations have been communicated to the different sport clubs and clubs will now become active with the summer season making its way. There will be numerous sporting codes such as Cricket, Hockey, Football, Basketball, Volleyball, swimming and other smaller sport codes starting now.

The Sasolburg Rugby Club had a very good season with their first and 2nd team winning their respective leagues and the U/21’s losing in the final with only one point. This shows that the combination of support and the change of venue from the College ground to DP De Villiers have paid off and that our sport is doing very well.

The Flavius Mareka 5 a Side operations will change management soon. Supersport United Soccer School has agreed to open a soccer school in Sasolburg. The soccer schools will become part of a franchise initiative. The soccer schools are very popular and of a very high standard. This initiative might change the standard of football in Sasolburg and will also create a big vibe in our area

All facilities (Flavius Mareka Sport Grounds, DP De Villiers and Penny Heyns) are in the process of doing general maintenance to get ready for the up a coming season. It is important to keep facilities maintained in order to prevent them from deterioration to its previous state.

Safety & Security

Zamdela Cluster Womens network dialog 2016-05-13 HEILBRON The South African Police services supported by Rejuvenation hosted the Women’s Network Dialog on Wednesday 24 August 2016. Female officers are expected to assist and give courage to the victims of family violence, however in many instances they are facing the very same challenges on a daily basis. Speakers from the Department of justice empowered women on the support that is available to them regarding financial management, family law, types of marriages and child maintenance

The event reached 100 police officials from 11 Police Station namely Sasolburg SAPS, Zamdela SAPS, Heilbron SAPS, Parys SAPS, Mafube SAPS, Deneysville SAPS, Orangeville SAPS, Viljoensdrif SAPS, Cornelia SAPS, Villiers SAPS and Tumahole SAPS.

Community maintenance support

Bird sanctuary area, with the current emphasis on the “Checkers” dam.

During the past 8 months an estimated R 230 000.00 was spent in rehabilitating the dam

and surroundings. This was only possible due too financial and equipment that was made

available by the community and small industries in and around Sasolburg. Support was also

received from rand water board with advice and technical input in the removal of all reeds

and other water plants. Metsimaholo local municipality also provided support and equipment

during the process of repairs and back-filling of the wear and lower areas.

Eric Louw circle fountain and garden.

As this is the main entrance to town and a very familiar beacon of Sasolburg, we made a

decision to have the fountain repaired. The fountain and garden was neglected for a very

long period of time. A new water pump and electrical switch gear was installed at an

estimated cost of R 18 000. 00. This was all done with financial contributions from resident.

Cleaning of public areas and green belts.

This is done in collaboration with the residents and the local municipality. The support and

interest is constantly growing and the number of residents that participate grow with every

initiative. A clean-up action is planned for the 3rd September, with seven starting points

identified in Sasolburg/Vaalpark. Metsimaholo cleansing services provide vehicles and

manpower to remove all collected refuse.

This is done to not only do cleaning of public areas but to develop a sense of pride and

ownership by the residents. The local municipality also allocated a team of workers to clean

greenbelts and public areas on a continuous and rotational basis.

Arts and culture

Crafters workshop

03 August 2016

The crafters workshop started on the 03 August 2016. The workshop included the crafters of

Sasolburg, Orangeville and Deneysville. A trainer far QwaQwa were appointed to develop a

group of twenty ladies with the intention to bring women together from all ages as part of

women’s month and to combine different talents and skills in order to show case their

product the 30th of September.

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Partnership Projects – Directly involved

Pothole Project

Business venture

Rejuvenation will from now on render a pothole repair service which will benefit the current

worker’s income and also contribute to the long term sustainability of the project. This

venture will not interfere with the current project and will work as follows:

Street pot hole cost R 1500.00 per street

Driveway Screeds R 120.00 per sq. meter

Time: Friday from 14:00 – Sundays

So far the extra income received was R 9800.00. William Stow (road in front of Waterplan)

were repaired to gain goodwill from businesses in order to promote the project and for

donation purposes. We are expecting a donation from all the business in that street of R

10 000.00

There are also many schools wanting to tar their parking areas and covering broken paving,

North school has already committed to a big project.

Other Feedback

A three-ton truck was bought due to the heavy load of stone and crushers that needs to be

transported

A Bomac, Cutter as well as another mixer were bought. The equipment as well as the bigger

team of 7 people is making a huge impact and the number of streets covered over the last

three months is very encouraging.

The branding is now required and it is the sponsor’s choice how they want to bran d the

projects. It could be done either in the form of branding the Truck, banners/bowheads or

even Sasol overalls

Bomac Truck

Additional Mixer Cutter for bigger areas

CCTV Cameras project The project is progressing fast. The link between Sasolburg and Zamdela is finally finalised and had to be moved due to interference problems. The Monitoring station with connections to Zamdela Police station is in progress now. As soon as that is finished the cameras will be fixed to the poles and the network would then run as one. As part of the device provider’s work, Wi-Fi hot spots will be installed in strategic spots in Zamdela to give the community a free cheap internet access system through vouchers. This will also create jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities.