Holiday programmes for Newcastle Libraries

library-activities

Newcastle Library Services will be hosting holiday programmes during the December 2015 school holidays. All programmes will commence at 10h00, except for the ingagane Library where the programmes will commence at 12h00. All pre-school and primary children are welcome. Parents can call their local library for bookings.

Fairleigh
14/12/2015 Movie Day
22/12/2015 Indoor Games
09/01/2016 Story Telling
13/01/2016 Quiz and Puzzles

Lennoxton
14/12/2015 Glowing Beaker (Bring your own clear plastic tumbler)
22/12/2015 Painted Tile
05/01/2016 Model Theater
07/01/2016 Glinting Dagger

Newcastle
14/12/2015 Create a Collage Jungle
15/12/2015 Paper Mosaics
21/12/2015 Make Christmas Cards
22/12/2015 Make Christmas Decorations
23/12/2015 Rock Art
11/01/2016 Indoor Games

Madadeni
11/12/2015 Story Telling
14/12/2015 Art & Craft
15/12/2015 Movie Day
17/12/2015 Firendly Chess Competition
18/12/2015 Make Christmas Cards
21/12/2015 Outdoor Games
22/12/2015 Indoor Games
23/12/2015 Twister

Osizweni
11/12/2015 Outdoor Games
17/12/2015 Indoor Games
18/12/2015 Computer Games
21/12/2015 Movie Day
23/12/2015 Make Christmas Cards

Ingagane
14/12/2015 Make Christmas Decorations
15/12/2015 DVD Screening
17/12/2015 Colouring and Painting
21/12/2015 Puzzles
22/12/2015 Story Telling
23/12/2015 Make Christmas Cards

Invitation to men to march against abuse of Women and Children

Newcastle Municipality invites Men/Male Citizens to come out in their numbers and participate in a march to promote the culture of no abuse against women and children. Men will be sending messages about the seriousness of child and women abuse and in one voice, call on other men to stop the abuse.

Date : 25 November 2015
Time : 08h00
Venue : March from Newcastle Clinic to Newcastle Town Hall
Breakfast : 09H00
Lunch : 13H00

For more information, please contact 034 32 834 68/70

NOTICE : Electricity disconnection due to repairs

Notice is hereby given that due to urgent repairs , the electricity supply will be disconnected on Sunday, 22 November 2015. (Weather permitting)

Areas: Newcastle West Suburbs and KwaMathukuza.
Time: 04:00am – 10:00am

NB: Although the supply is interrupted, all installations and apparatus must be regarded as live.
For further queries, Please contact: 0860 144 144

NOTICE : GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

Newcastle Municipality has undertaken its responsibility and commitment to prevent gender-based violence which refers to violence rooted in unequal gender norms and power relations. Violence occurs in families, relationships, workplaces, educational institutions and public spaces, with women and girls suffering most Gender-based violence can profoundly harm women’s and girls’ physical, psychological, and sexual health, as well as bring economic harm. Violence hinders the fulfillment of women’s and girls’ human rights, lowers their status in society, and can even cost them their lives.  Let us come together and eliminate all forms of gender-based violence and build a violence free Community with equality and justice.

Newcastle Municipality’s Special Programmes Unit in collaboration Operation with Sukuma Sakhe, invites the general public to the March in commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence. The March have been organized to highlight and profile the progress made and the challenges facing the fight against gender based violence and in the work of the promotion and protection of human rights, and to re-energize our efforts and actions.

The march will start from OSizweni Roman Catholic Church, next to OSizweni Stadium on the 19th of November 2015 at 8:00 a.m. to OSizweni Community Hall where a women’s Dialogue will be held. 

For further enquiries please contact: Mr. Themba Mkhasibe on 034 328 3300 /2176

Notice : Bid No: A031-2015/16 – Extension of Closing Date

Bid No.: -A031-2015/16 – Supply installation and maintenance of an X- Ray inspection unit

Please note that the closing date for the above bids has been extended to Friday 04 December 2015 at 12h00.

Original closing date: 18 November 2015
New closing date: 04 December 2015

The physical address for submission of tender offers: Municipal Civic Centre (Rates hall), 37 Murchison Street, Newcastle

Mr. B.E Mswane
Acting Municipal Manager

Municipal Civic Centre
Private Bag X6621
Newcastle
2940

Notice : Cancellation of Tender B009-2015/16

Bid No.: B009-2015/16 Supply, Delivery, Offloading And Installation Of New Signage Boards For Madadeni Water Saving Campaign

Please note that the above mentioned Tender has been cancelled.

Mr. K. Masange
Municipal Manager

Municipal Civic Centre
Private Bag X6621
Newcastle
2940

Water outage planned at Arbour Park and Hilldrop (NOTICE)

There will be a planned water outage at Arbor Park South and Hilldrop small holdings on 22 October from 8:00 to 14:00 to connect the Hilldrop water tower to the supply main from Tiger Kloof reservoir. Residents are requested to make arrangements in order to have enough water that will sustain them until full restoration of supply. Please contact our 24/7 call centre: 0860 144 144 to report water leaks and burst pipes or any water and sanitation complaints that you may have.

APPLICATION FOR PREPAID ELECTRICITY METERS

prepayment

Notice is hereby given all Newcastle West residents who would be interested in applying for prepaid electricity meters which will commence on 1 July 2015.

1. Municipal account needs to be up to date with no arrears.
2. A copy of the application form and its accompanying documents can be obtainable from the Newcastle Municipality, Civic Centre, New Services and Enquiries section or downloaded here.
3. Upon submission of the form an applicant will receive a reference number.
4. Each form completed and submitted will be reviewed for approval.
5. Applicants will be notified when their application is approved upon which payment of R1300 for installation needs to be made within 30 days.
6. Should Municipal account be in arrears for other services such as water, sewer, refuse and rates, after conversion to the prepaid option, the prepaid electricity meter will be disconnected and the meter will be blocked on the vending system to prevent you from purchasing electricity tokens.
7. You can purchase your electricity tokens from retail outlets such as Pick n Pay, Checkers/Shoprite, PEP, Spar, Keyway Motors, cellphones and online banking.
8. The Municipality bills customers a month in arrears. After conversion to a prepaid electricity meter you will still receive a Municipal bill reflecting electricity consumption from date of last statement until date of conversion.
9. For account queries, please contact 034 328 7600 or income@newcastle.gov.za. For electricity queries, please contact 034 312 1296 or electric@newcastle.gov.za.

Water Pipe Maintenance

Maintenance was done on the steel pumping main to Hilldrop reservoirs on the 10th of June 2015. The reservoir levels were expected to drop during the 8 hour outage period and low pressure was expected in areas feeding from this reservoir but no water outages were expected. The Hilldrop rising main popped again where they worked last night hence we have water supply interruptions today. At least we may expect another 4 to 8 hours before they pump again. The affected areas are Arbor Park; Riverside; Industrial Lennoxton; Paradise and Central Town. Sunny ridge Amajuba and Ncandu Park have also been affected. Eleven trucks have been deployed to deliver water to the above mentioned areas as well as the hospitals; police station and prison.

CLOSURE OF OSIZWENI LIBRARY FOR STOCK TAKING

Notice is herewith given of the closure of the Osizweni Library for the purpose of conducting a stock take of library material by the Department : Arts and Culture.

The library will be closed to the public for the following period:
Saturday : 20 June 2015
Monday : 22 June 2015
Tuesday : 23 June 2015

The library will be open to the public as from Wednesday, 24 June 2015.
Any inconvenience is regretted.