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Reusesinkgat val naby plaashuis in
Die Herald het weer oor ‘n verskeidenheid gebeure in sy uitgawe van 20 jaar gelede berig.
‘n Reusesinkgat wat Noord van Carletonville ontstaan het, het inwoners van die gebied weer op hul hoede gehad.
Die sinkgat, sowat 40 meter lank, 15 meter wyd en 20 meter diep, het die vorige Maandagnag op die plaas Wonderfontein, Noord van Sentraalwes Koöperasie ingeval. Me. Marie Pieters, wat in die plaasopstal sowat 200 meter van die sinkgat woon, het gesê sy het ‘n week gelede ‘n gat naby ‘n waterpyp ontdek wat haar toe reeds bekommerd gehad het. Die gat het ‘n pyp wat water na ‘n nabygeleë kanaal voer, in stukke gebreek en water van die Wes-Driefontein goudmyn het steeds vryelik in die gat ingeloop.
Sy en haar kleinseun Johan, het die Maandagaand omstreeks 21:30 naby die gat verbygery toe sy ‘n snaakse skudding en geluide gehoor het.
“Dit was seker toe die reusesinkgat ingeval het.” Volgens haar het deskundiges wat die toneel besoek het, gewaarsku dat die gat nog groter sal word, aangesien die ondergrondse grot onder die pad deurloop en dit ook mettertyd sal inval.
“What I saw when I walked into the house this morning reminded me of the devastating scenes of flooding in Bangladesh.”
This is what Mrs. Thabisa Sekatane had to say about the muddy mess which greeted her when she returned to her home in Reinecke Street the previous Thusrday morning, after extensive flooding had forced her and her family out of the house the previous evening.
The heavy rains which fell over Carletonville the Monday night resulted in flooding which caused damage amounting to thousands of rands. Residents in Reinecke, Cactus and Platinum Streets were forced to vacate their homes after a storm drain burst, causing a fountain of water to pour out into the street and rush down into adjacent gardens. The walls of their houses, which were in the path of the torrent of water, were completely destroyed.
At certain places the water level rose to almost a metre high, and residents were forced to break holes into their garden walls to prevent the water from damming up.
Mr. Marcus Viljoen (25) and his wife, Antoinette (26), whose house in Platinum Street was flooded, said due to the noise of hail which had accompanied the downpour, they hadn’t heard their back wall collapsing, but shortly afterwards noticed a stream of water flowing through the living room.
‘n Vroue liggaamsbouer van Carletonville het haar staal behoorlik tydens die wêreldkampioenskap in Spanje gewys, toe sy ‘n derde plek behaal het.
Die 25-jarige Corné Basson het gesê sy was baie gespanne toe sy vir die World Physic Federation Universe kampioenskap na Spanje vertrek het. Sy het ondanks hiervan, tydens ‘n vertoning vir die algemene publiek ‘n derde plek behaal.