REV Canon Bill Hardwick (75) was brutally murdered and his wife Joan was assaulted at their Widenham home last Saturday.
Mrs Hardwick (73) was away from home when the men gained entry to the house in Lyndhurst Place.
When she arrived at around 3.30pm, she was met in the driveway by two gun-toting men. They forced her into the house where her husband had been bound up in the bedroom. The house had been ransacked and the two assailants had been eating and drinking.
THE Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Isipingo has strongly criticised the proposed amalgamation of Isipingo with Toti and Kingsburgh.
JAC chairman, Joe Choudhree said his organisation was opposed to the amalgamation ‘in its present from’ because the Isipingo community has had ‘very little say in the matter’.
Mr Choudhree said the future of the town was at stake and added that the current Isipingo situation of ‘high rates, no service and diabolical roads’ still had to be addressed.
IT is still not known where the municipal offices will be housed once construction of Baton Rouge and the consequent demolition of the municipal offices takes place.
“There are various possibilities and each one involves getting authority and drawing up leases”, said Dave Ongley, Toti town clerk.
PLANS are in the pipeline to construct post offices in Lovu and KwaMakhutha before the year end.
Post Office PRO, Brian Dean said that to date, no suitable sites have been identified but that the published completion date, 31 October will be adhered to.
Steps are being taken by the Post Office to upgrade existing facilities, with special emphasis on more outlets with sufficient counter points and private boxes.
THE ongoing battle between land owner Pieter van Deventer to have an overgrown vacant plot cleaned-up, has come to a head once again after he was robbed earlier this week.
Mr van Deventer, who lives in School Road, has repeatedly complained to the Water Board and to the municipality about the plot of land adjacent to his property. The fence surrounding the land is broken and the gates are falling off their hinges. Mr van Deventer reports that people often wander through the bush, although he is not sure where they go. Earlier this week Mr van Deventer had over R5,000 worth of machinery stolen from his property.
