MMC Sun

There is bi-elections coming up next week, so the leading political party for our ward, arranged for the MMC for Public Safety, Michael Sun, to come address us. It is all about votes, but before I write further, what is a MMC? 

Well a MMC stands for Member of the Mayoral Committee and Michael Sun is in charge of Public Safety for the City of Johannesburg. So here he was addressing the community about the lack of fire tenders, and how well they are doing in fighting crime. 

Crime is up everywhere, the South African Police Services are slashing R6 Billion off their budget and how are we the Roodekrans Neighbourhood Watch are going to to keep out neighbourhood safe. So far we the RNW are doing our best and MMC Sun is very impressed, so much so that he wants to send others to us as an example of doing it right.

Christmas for the Aged

The Rooderkrans Neighbourhood Watch held their annual Christmas Carols Evening at the Kruinpark Retirement Village. The RNW had a wors braai at the old age home to feed the hunger while Andreas and his band entertained. 

Power Stance

Okay I did not take this photo but I am there in the crowd doing my power stance during the briefing of the Joint Visibility Operation in Mogale City this evening. There just off centre to the left wearing a blue shirt with an open luminous reflector jacket.

Lynda and I joined the few from Roodekrans Neighbourhood Watch  to represent the RNW at the Joint Visibility Operation along with Mogale CPF Sectors 3, 4 and 5; Muldersdrift Sector 3; Randburg CPF; Security companies APCAN and EPR; Intellidrive; Netcare 911; Mogale City Community Safety, Disaster Management and the West Rand Fire Department along with the South African Police services. Yip there was a large number of groups represented, although I wonder what happened to Sector 7, Sector 8 and the other Security companies.

Well that's my Friday over.

Where's Mike?

Where's Mike? Well here's Mike wearing a shirt not quite un-similar to Wally's shirt the cartoon puzzle book's Where's Wally?

So here is Michael aka Mike sitting in the morning sun outside the 24/7 call centre of the Roodekrans Neighbourhood Watch where he does shift duty manning the OPS Room. With a membership of over 1,800 households of which there are 700 radio users, it is quite a task to operate a OPS Room for 24 hiurs, 7 days a week. And from my interaction with Mike, he is doing a good job, give the man a Bells!

Jailhouse Rock

I spent most of the day in bed, heavily sedated but by early afternoon after a good soak in the bath, I think I was ready again for the world. Well not quite the world but at least a drive over to the East Rand to attend the Jailhouse Rock Fashion Show and Dinner which was presented by the Debutantes and Squires of Ashton International College.

We arrived to a wonderfully laid out hall, to which Matthew showed us our table for the evening. As usual the evening got off to a late start but even under medication I enjoyed the Jailhouse Rock Fashion Show.

Angel Michael

When I left home this morning, it was just getting light and the valley was shrouded in mist, not thick mist but low visibility that I had to use my lights.

After a long day, I left my office and it dawn was settling in and arriving at the car park, I found that I could not open my pickup with the remote. At first I thought someone was jamming the signal but to my horror I discovered that I had left my lights on all day and now the battery was flat.

Most of the car park was empty as it was over an hour since normal end of day and it was getting dark. I found a few late workers but no one had any jumper cables or leads for me to use to connect to another battery and jump start my pickup. The security said that the call centre had jumper cables but when I inquired they said someone used them and now that person had already left for home without returning them. Not cool dude, whoever you are.

I tried to with the help of the security guards to push start my pickup but no joy. Now I was in a pickle. Thinking that I should phone home and get Lynda to bring my jumper cables, I then remembered that Rob said he was going to visit his brother on the way home, and that was just down the road from where I work. A quick phone call and Rob was going to ask his brother if he had cables to help me.

That is when the Angel Michael appeared. Well not quite an angel but Michael none the less. He was dropping his wife off for her night shift duty at the call centre and he had jumper cables in his car. I had to phone Rob back to stop him driving back to work with his brother’s cables. My battery was very flat but soon we had my pickup started.

Thank you Michael and all the Bosasa security guards who kindly assisted me in my time of need.

Cops and Birthdays

Here is little Kiara sitting on her father's lap. Now this is one little girl that you shouldn't mess with as Kiara's dad is a policeman and he just turned 40. Michael turned the big FOUR OH yesterday and this afternoon Melissa, Michael's wife organised a surprise birthday party with family all the way from Durban and of course us friends. Happy birthday Mickey Mike, oh sorry now where did I go wrong, ((scratching my ears)) uhmm oh Mikey Mike.

Dog Walk

This afternoon I decided to take my new Canon along to my usual weekend dog walk. My aim was to test the different settings on fast moving Italian Greyhounds. The conclusion, I need a lot more practice. Here is Michael with his Italian Greyhound, Nike.