"Keep your hands off our children." This is the message Ruben Richards, ORA committee member looking after crime in Observatory, sent quite clearly to two youths who mugged kids outside his gate on Saturday.
"Two Grade 9 pupils from Sacred Heart College came to visit my son, Daniel, Saturday morning, but were mugged by the two youths while waiting for the gate to open," says Ruben.
When Ruben heard about the mugging, he bundled the two teenagers into his car and scoured the streets for the youths. "We drove around for half an hour and eventually spotted the two youths in St Peter's Road. I stopped next to them, rolled down the window and called them over."
Then things happened lightning fast: "I jumped out of the car, handcuffed the one youth before he knew what hit him and then handcuffed the other one. Within seconds they were in my car en route to the Yeoville Police station."
The two youths were detained there on charges of robbery and will appear in court today (Monday, 20 March).
"The kids from all the schools in Observatory are vulnerable to muggings: You hear every second day about a kid that was mugged in Mons Road, or Eckstein Street. It is unacceptable. Our streets must be safe for our children to walk," says Ruben.
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A night on the town with Shane Warne
Want to have dinner with Shane Warne, because that's the only charity South Africa can expect from this Aussie bowler...
The speaker: Shane Warne The Introducer: Jonty Rhodes The Place: Turffontein Race Course The Host: Hospice East Rand The Time: Sunday 2 April from 7pm The Food: Fantastic The Damage: R900 or R9 000 per table The Number: 011 483 2741, Ivan Zartz
Winnie Mushwana of Yeoville Police with ORA's food for the volunteers.
Feeding the hungry
The Observatory Ratepayers Association pledged food donations for all the volunteers who helped at our area's voting stations during the municipal elections on 1 March.
ORA supplied Oros, sticky buns, rolls, sweets and pies for the 24 volunteers to keep them going and handed it over to Yeoville Police's Senior Superintendent Lobisi Motaung on voting day.
Your new voices
And if you don't know yet: your new councillor for Ward 66 is the DA's Carol Milner and for Ward 72 the DA's Shirley Ancer. Ancer represents Observatory Ext, Dewetshoff, Cyrildene, etc; and Milner the rest of Observatory, Kensington, Bez Valley., etc.
