As 2015 draws to a close…

WE have come to the end of another year that saw Caxton Local Newspapers go full steam into the digital arena. The Northglen News embraced this national move and saw our journalists, for the first time, having to produce news literally as it happened. Several stories we covered this year showed us how vital it was to produce news, happening in our area, first.

And while we covered a myriad of stories, there were a few that stood out. The journalists, Shiraz Habbib and Mariclair Smit have their own ideas of what constituted our most memorable stories for the year. For me though they included the story that unfolded on 25 June when we covered the story of an elderly woman who accidentally ploughed her car into the front window of a busy pharmacy.

Then just last week, we arrived at the Durban North Police Station while a woman   spoke to us, in an emotional interview, about how she tussled with her alleged rapist for almost four minutes as she tried to throw him off her.

In early November, two men, believed to be house robbers, were killed after a shootout in Welwitschia Avenue. The shooting rocked the community.

But in April Northglen News residents came out in their numbers to help victims of xenophobia as attacks on foreigners flared up throughout the country.  We were there when CPF Nite Run organisers decided to use the popular Autumn Nite Run, as a venue to drop off items to help desperate foreign nationals.

And then, in case you missed it, we this year, met Somerset Park’s Phumelela Mathenjwa. On this, all I will say is CLICK HERE.