2010 July | Vaal Triangle Business Directory | VaalFindit - Part 2
VEREENIGING. – Mej. Gauteng en Mej. Gauteng Tiener 2010 word op 24 Julie in die Vereenigingse stadskouburg aangebied. Sestig meisies tussen die ouderdom van 13 en 15 jaar gaan deelneem aan hierdie kompetisie.
Die borge vir die kompetisie het di├⌐ jaar uit hul pad gegaan om onvergeetlike pryse te gee: Pryse soos aandrokke ter waarde van R4 500 en R6 500 word geskenk aan die wenners, ad4 design gee elke wenner ook ‘n webwerf van hul eie.
Ander pryse soos grimeerkursusse ter waarde van R4 200 en nog vele meer sal gegee word aan die wenners. Elke deelnemer ontvang ook ‘n denim geborg deur Cooper Jeans. Al ses die wenners dring deur na die tweede ronde van Mej. Suid-Afrika 2010. (Loret Potgieter is die organiseerder van die prys).
Mej. Gauteng en Mej. Gauteng Tiener gee elk ‘n geldelike skenking aan die MΓÇ£rester Kinderhuis in Rustenburg, die Laerskool Handhawer in die Vaaldriehoek en aan ‘n welsynsorganisasie in Meyerton.
Rooies is terug en gereed
Die groot man met die groot stem, Rooies, is geen vreemdeling in die Suid-Afrikaanse musiekbedryf nie. Sowat ‘n dekade gelede is daar vir die eerste keer van hom kennis geneem toe hy partytjieliefhebbers uitbundig laat voetestamp het met sy lekker loslit vermaak.
Hierdie jaar is Rooies terug met ‘n splinternuwe trefferalbum, Hou jou hande van my lyf af, wat wys dat hy, net soos goeie rooiwyn, beslis beter word met tyd.
As jy van Rooies se kenmerkende kwinkslae en gul dansvloerroepstem hou, sal jy nie teleurgesteld wees nie, maar neem kennis – daar is ook ‘n ander, verrassende element teenwoordig wat die projek diepte gee en skimp dat die sagmoedige reus nie net ‘n kundige grapjas is nie. Rooies ervaar beslis nie tans ‘n kreatiewe droogte nie. Op Hou jou hande van my lyf af haak hy jou sommer met die intrapslag, daar is nie een snit op die album wat nie smeek om deurgeluister te word nie.
* Om ‘n kans te staan om hierdie CD te wen, faks slegs die woord “Rooies” saam met jou kontakbesonderhede voor Vrydag na 086 509 5709 of SMS na 41913. SMS’e kos R1-50.
Meisies bereik puberteit al jonger
Onlangse navorsing dui daarop dat meisies in Westerse lande deesdae op ‘n al jonger ouderdom begin menstrueer.
Volgens die studie wat pas in Denemarke afgehandel is en waarby 1 000 dogters betrek is, blyk dit dat baie van hulle reeds op negejarige ouderdom puberteit bereik het. So onlangs as 40 jaar gelede nog het meisies in Westerse lande gemiddeld eers op die ouerdom van 12.5 jaar begin menstrueer.
Die ouderdom waarop kinders in ontwikkelde lande puberteit bereik, het die afgelope 200 jaar stelselmatig begin daal. In die negentiende eeu was dit gemiddeld op 15-jarige ouderdom vir dogters en 17 jaar vir seuns. In die 1960s het die gemiddelde ouderdom reeds afgekom tot 12.5 jaar by dogters en 14 by seuns.
Afrigters van verskeie bekende seunskore rapporteer ook dat hulle die seuns vroeΓÇ░r as voorheen moet groet omdat hul stemme deesdae op ‘n al jonger ouderdom (tussen 12 en 14 jaar) begin breek en nie meer geskik is vir ‘n seunskoor nie.
Navorsers is nog nie seker waarom kinders op ‘n al jonger ouderdom seksueel volwasse word nie, maar hulle meen dat dieet, onaktiwiteit, vetsug en blootstelling aan sekere chemikalieΓÇ░ in kos ‘n rol kan speel.
Volgens dr. Imogen Rogers, wat by die navorsing betrokke was, lyk dit asof meisies wat as kleuters baie vleis en proteΓÇ╣ene ingeneem het, op ‘n jonger ouderdom seksueel volwasse word as meisies wat nie soveel van diΓÇÜ voedingstowwe as kleuters geΓÇ░et het nie. (Data met betrekking tot seuns is nog nie beskikbaar nie).
Die navorsers s╦å ook dit is nie onmoontlik nie dat ‘n chemikalie (Bisphenol A) wat algemeen in plastiekbottels voorkom, ‘n invloed op kinders se vervroegde seksuele ontwikkeling kan h╦å omdat dit die effek van die vroulike hormoon, estrogeen, na-aap.
Hoewel vroeΓÇ░ rypheid op sigself nie ‘n probleem is nie, kan dit jong meisietjies benadeel deurdat hulle vroeΓÇ░r by seksuele aktiwiteite betrokke kan raak wat hulle aan oordraagbare siektes kan blootstel. Navorsing toon ook dat vroue wat baie jonk begin menstrueer het, ‘n groter risiko loop om sekere soorte kanker soos servikale kanker, borskanker, kanker van die eierstokke en hartsiektes te ontwikkel.
* Die volledige uiteensetting verskyn in die joernaal Public Health Nutrition.
If someone is rude to you at work or if you witness rudeness you are more likely to make mistakes.
According to Professor Rhona Flin, a psychologist from Scotland, the link between rudeness and mistakes is particularly concerning in healthcare settings, where it can pose a threat to patient safety and quality of care.
Research found that in confined areas, such as operating theatres, even watching rudeness that occurs between colleagues might impair team members’ thinking skills and general performance.
Rudeness at work is not uncommon, she says in the recent British Medical Journal. In a survey of 391 operating theatre staffmembers, 66% of respondents said they had “received aggressive behaviour” from nurses and 53% from surgeons during the previous six months. Disagreements between surgeons and theatre nurses were reported by 63% of the respondents, and disagreements between theatre nurses and ward nurses were reported by 58%. The main source of the problem was the management of the operating list. Interviews nurses also indicated that they sometimes had to tolerate surgeons’ bad temper and tantrums.
Flin concludes that people concerned with patient safety should note that civility between workers may have more benefits than just a harmonious atmosphere.
Hoekom verwerpte vroue troos soek by kos en drank
Enige vrou wie se hart al deur ‘n geliefde gebreek is, kan daarvan getuig dat dit maklik is om in sulke omstandighede troos by kos, veral sjokolade, te soek. Wetenskaplikes het nou vasgestel wat die rede vir di├⌐ gedrag is.
Navorsing wat pas vrygestel is, wys daarop dat daar ‘n koppeling in ons breine is tussen die gedeeltes wat met romantiese emosies en met verslawing te doen het. Vroue wat verwerp is, het ‘n behoefte aan trooskos en -drank soos sjokolade en wyn om te kompenseer vir hul verlore “liefdesverslawing”, s├¬ die navorsers.
Terwyl ‘n mens jou verlies aan liefde probeer verwerk, aktiveer dit die primitiewe instinkte in die brein, wat met motivering en oorlewing verband hou.
Di├⌐ instink of “emosionele oorlewingsdrang” is geweldig sterk en verklaar die angs wat iemand na ‘n mislukte verhouding ervaar, sowel as die buitensporige optrede wat daarop kan volg, soos agtervolging van die voormalige geliefde, of in uiterste gevalle,┬á selfs moord.
Dr. Lucy Brown van die Yeshiva University in Israel wat by die navorsing betrokke was, s├¬ romantiese liefde is ‘n “natuurlike verslawing”.
“Ons bevindings dui daarop dat die pyn wat volg op romantiese verwerping, ‘n noodsaaklike deel van die lewe is en dat dit in die menslike anatomie en psige ingebou is om dit te probeer verwerk. Net so is ‘n natuurlike herstelproses – om weer ‘n nuwe geliefde te vind – ook in ons fisiologie ingebou. Die onmiddellike fisiologiese en psigiese reaksie n├í┬á ‘n mislukte verhouding is om ‘n ‘nuwe liefde’ in trooskos te soek, totdat ons psigies genoeg herstel het om weer na ‘n regte mens as geliefde te begin soek,” verduidelik sy.
Die volledige verslag verskyn in die Julie-uitgawe van die joernaal: Neurophysiology.
SE7 house seller irate over neighbour
VANDERBIJLPARK. – An SE7 resident on June 24 complained about a neighbour who has not had refuse removed for weeks.
The water in the neighbour’s swimming pool, she says, is a brackish, black colour because it has never been cleaned.
The surrounding area is being used as a dump and – in the past – a variety of unsuitable plastic bags was used too put out rubbish.
The complainant says the neighbour also left a tap running for three weeks and used the “swimming pool” to dump all kinds of rubbish.
The rubbish, aside from blowing on to her premises, has attracted colonies of rats and cockroaches which have invaded her home next door.
She is the mother of two children aged six and three and does not let them play outside unsupervised due to what she considers a health hazard.
She estimates that from 10 to 15 students have been living there, though the premises now seem to be vacant. A primary concern of the resident is that she is trying to sell her home and that potential buyers looking over the house once U-turned out after┬á seeing the mess next door and hearing the pulsing racket of music emanating from it. The double-storey house has been vacant for some time.
Ward 4 councillor Milu Malhou says the resident’s complaint reflects problems that have been common to the area since its “transformation” into a student area over the years.
Cllr Malhou (DA) points out, however, that the area has improved markedly ever since an exposΓÇÜ engineered by herself was aired on TV’s “Special Assignment”. The offending house itself appeared on the programme, showing police at about 2:00 as they jumped a fence, cut padlocks and made at least one arrest.
Malhou also reminds people that a court case against illegal landlords was recently won in Vereeniging, legal fees paid by residents.
She reports that visits to the area by the health inspector have declined.
In the past, she repeatedly had the police go to the double-storey in response to noise complaints from the resident. She went to the house personally several times, once even on a Sunday. She said the health inspector was looking into the complaints.
Haglike toestand van openbare area rede tot kommer
VANDERBIJLPARK. – Lede van die publiek raak toenemend bekommerd oor die haglike toestand van die voorheen openbare area oos van die Riverside Hotel.
Een van die inwoners wat hierdie situasie onder Vaalweekblad se aandag gebring het, is mnr. James Wright.
“Hierdie probleem is al vir jare aan die gang,” s├¬ hy. “Ek het al in 2008 aangebied om staalhekke by die badkamers aan te bring sodat sleutelbeheer toegepas kan word, maar daar kon niks van kom nie.”
Tans lyk hierdie area totaal verwaarloos. Die badkamers lyk skrikwekkend en die gras word nie gesny nie. Die publiek word ook weerhou om hierdie agteruitgang te sien aangesien die hekke tans toegesweis is en ‘n bordjie opgerig is wat lees “Closed until further notice”.
“Dit is ontstellend, want daar is nie meer ‘n plek langs die rivier waar mense veilig kan braai en hengel nie,” s├¬ Wright.
Oogoperasie gee seun beter gehalte lewe
SASOLBURG. ΓÇô Hy is nou gelukkig omdat hy beter kan sien, nie permanent ΓÇÿn bril moet dra nie ├⌐n omdat sy ogies nou net soos sy┬á maats se ogies lyk. Danksy ΓÇÿn oogoperasie van die Ocumed Oog- en Laser Instituut in Vanderbijlpark geniet Armond, ΓÇÿn kind van die Sasolburg Jeugsorgsentrum, nou ΓÇÿn baie beter kwaliteit lewe.
ΓÇ£Die spiertjies in sy oog was nie reg nie en dit het onder meer sy sig beinvloed. Na die operasie gebruik hy net ΓÇÿn leesbril,ΓÇ¥ s├¬ mev. Ansie Venter, bemarker van die Jeugsorgsentrums. (Armond se van mag om etiese redes nie gepubliseer word nie).
Armond het onlangs ΓÇÿn suksesvolle strabisme-operasie by die Ocumed Oog- en Laser Instituut in Vanderbijlpark ondergaan. Die operasie was ΓÇÿn groot sukses. ΓÇ£Die bestuur van die Sasolburg Jeugsorgsentrum en Armond wil hiermee graag hul dank teenoor dr. Johan de Lange, sy personeel en die personeel van Ocumed betuig vir die vriendelike en voortreflike diens wat hulle by Ocumed ervaar het. Dit is ΓÇÿn voorreg om by so ΓÇÿn netjiese en w├¬reldgehalte ooghospitaal behandel te kon word, en dit in Vanderbijlpark,ΓÇ¥ s├¬ Venter.
Enigiemand wat by die Jeugsorgsentrum betrokke wil raak, kan Venter kontak by 082 748 8954.
Flooded in junk mail
VEREENIGING. – A simple data capturing error has resulted in a local man receiving thousands of letters in the mail, none of which were addressed to him. Since October 2009, Mr Koos Rall (75), a pensioner, has received up to 60 letters from Liberty Life on a weekly basis.
ΓÇ£Why do they send these letters to us?ΓÇ¥ asked Rall, who is not a client of Liberty Life. ΓÇ£When I go to pick up the newspaper in the morning it lies on the ground because my post-box is filled with these letters.ΓÇ¥ According to Rall, the letters are addressed to different people, but they all have his address.
He alleged that the call centre operators did little to help him when he tried to bring this matter to their attention. He claimed he has spent over R200 on phone calls to Liberty Life. ΓÇ£I have now given up and just take the letters to the post office in Arconpark.
ΓÇ£All the letters are for people who are behind on their payments. It looks like a scam to me,ΓÇ¥ added Rall.
ΓÇ£This is certainly not a scam of any sort,ΓÇ¥ said Lindi Dlamini from Liberty LifeΓÇÖs Group Executive Retail Operations. ΓÇ£We have found that there was a data capturing error on one policy in October 2009 where an incorrect address for the bank was captured. This led the letters to be sent to the incorrect address.ΓÇ¥
Dlamini explained that the letters were not addressed to different people, but to a bank, which holds cession on client policies.
When asked whether incidents of this nature may make Liberty LifeΓÇÖs clients susceptible to fraud, Dlamini said: ΓÇ£Although the letters contain minimal client data, and as such pose negligible risk of fraud, we take any potential breach of client confidentiality very seriously. All our controls are being re-tested and new checks implemented to ensure that is does not reoccur.ΓÇ¥
She mentioned that they will investigate RallΓÇÖs claims regarding the companyΓÇÖs call centre.
ΓÇ£We apologise for the inconvenience experienced by the family and assure that the error has now been corrected and no further correspondence will be generated to this address.ΓÇ¥┬á
First-ever youth week in Meyerton
MEYERTON. -┬á A Soccer for Jesus youth week will be held in Meyerton from June 21 to 26.
Jonker, Rhodes and Associates, in collaboration with Olyfdal Church, HoΓÇ░rskool Dr Malan and Laerskool Republiek are launching the first-ever youth week in Meyerton during the school holiday.
- The purpose of this annual event will be twofold:
Firstly to keep children constructively occupied in a healthy environment for a week (and off the streets and hopefully out of mischief, trouble and also danger) by participating in soccer or tennis and organized festivities.
Secondly to expose children to the gospel of Jesus Christ by gospel music, Christian literature and movies (DVDs) whilst having fun. The movies and information will be non-denominational.
The week will be a success if all roleplayers (parents, churches, schools and businesses) voluntarily participate in the programme directly or indirectly.
- The provisional programme for a day consists of the following fun events:
Soccer- and tennis matches, gospel music, games like chess, competitions, talent shows, movies and team competitions.
* More information can be obtained from Iriska Roos on 082 301 2292.