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Malema unfazed by ex-allies comments
Julius Malema is unfazed by not getting support from his former allies in the league in his new political formation."That's to be expected, we wish them well," Malema responded in a text message to Sapa on Wednesday.Earlier, the Sowetan newspaper reported that Malema's former allies did not want to be associated with his new political formation.Ayanda Matiti, chairperson of ...
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Single police force would be chaotic
Johannesburg - A senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has warned that local policing will suffer if a proposal to form a single police force is approved and becomes law, Beeld reported on Wednesday.The green paper on policing, which had just been published, recommended that legislation be amended to provide for a single police force.In 2007 in Polokwane, the ANC passed a ...
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EFF Govt failed to redistribute land
Johannesburg - Government has failed to redistribute land to previously disadvantaged groups, the so-called Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said on Wednesday."[The] government of South Africa has failed to use almost 20 years of democratic dispensation to address and redress the land question," said spokesperson Floyd Shivambu."Our people remain in squatter camps, informal ...
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Steyn ruled out as England bowl first
South Africa suffered a huge blow before the start of their Champions Trophy semi-final against England at The Oval after Dale Steyn failed to clear a fitness test. Steyn was ruled out because of a groin problem after missing out a few games earlier in the tournament due to a side strain. Rory Kleinveldt was named Steyn's ...
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Malemas allies shun new party - report
Sowetan newspaper reported on Wednesday.Ayanda Matiti, chairperson of the ANC Youth League in the Eastern Cape, told the Sowetan that Malema's move amounted to political prostitution."Economic freedom is not a progeny or an entitlement to any other person, but a resolution of a congress which Malema presided over when he was still president [of the ANCYL]," Matiti was quoted by ...
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Journo found dead in Hermanus home
Cape Town - The body of an experienced journalist and former news editor has been found in his house in Hermanus.Ian Theron, 56, a former Beeld and Huisgenoot news editor, had reportedly been ill but had not gone to hospital as he was supposed to, said a neighbour ...
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Top cops killing a hit - colleagues
reported on Wednesday.The top cop's colleagues at the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) said there were no other explanations for his killing.Maswanganyi's body was found in a field north of Pretoria on Tuesday, just 10km from his house. His hands and feet were tied up, but his body had no bullet wounds, Gauteng commissioner Lieutenant General Mzwandile Petros said.Police ...
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British spying a wake-up call - CDP
Johannesburg - The reported surveillance of South African and Turkish delegations during the G20 summit in Britain should serve as a wake up call to government, the Christian Democratic Party said on Wednesday.Party leader Theunis Botha said in a statement the "eavesdropping" which reportedly took place in 2009 should make government aware of its foreign policy."South Africa ...
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Less activity at Mandela hospital
Pretoria - Fewer police officers were manning the entrances of the Pretoria hospital where former president Nelson Mandela was spending a 12th day on ...
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SA couple in Yemen not taken by al-Qaeda
Bloemfontein - A humanitarian organisation that is helping in the rescue attempt of a South African couple kidnapped in Yemen says they were not taken by al-Qaeda as previously reported.It transpired on Tuesday that former school teachers, Pierre and Yoland Korkie were not taken by members of the terrorist group but by a criminal gang, ...
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Wife watches farmer 80 bleed to death
Port Elizabeth - An Eastern Cape woman has told how she watched her elderly husband bleed to death after an attack by armed men on their farm."The wounds bled terribly and I was helplessly watching as they hit my poor husband with a kierie, kicking him and stabbing him," Coleen Traut, 48, ...
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US issues SA crime warning
Johannesburg - A warning issued to tourists by the United States says Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town are "critical crime threat ...
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De Lille slams SAHRC over toilet saga
Cape Town - City Mayor Patricia de Lille has slammed the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) over its independent probe of the toilet saga, the Cape Times reported on Wednesday.She reportedly also claimed in a letter to the commission last Tuesday that its spokesperson Isaac Mangena should be working on behalf of the ANC Youth League.This was in response to a previous report in which he said De ...
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Mans body found in Soweto
Johannesburg - The body of a man was found in Soweto on Wednesday morning, Johannesburg metro police said. "Metro police officers found him just after 06:30," spokesperson Edna Mamonyane said. The man was found lying on the pavement on the corner of Elias Motsoaledi and Khanyile Streets by metro police officers. "There were no signs of wounds at the moment." She said police, ...
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Basic education lashes out at Equal Educations white adults
The basic education department has accused Equal Education of being dishonest and patronising by "organising black African children with ...
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FF Plus Criminals show no fear
Johannesburg - The murder of Gauteng policeman Major General Tirhani Maswanganyi on Tuesday was an indication that criminals were not afraid of law enforcement agencies, the FF Plus said."The murderers clearly, regardless of the motif, have no fear of law enforcement or prosecution," Freedom Front Plus leader in the province Jaco Mulder said in a statement on Tuesday evening.He said ...
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Mandelas condition continues to improve but remains serious
Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela's condition "continues to improve but his condition remains serious," President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. Zuma was speaking after visiting Mandela who has been hospitalized for a recurring lung infection since Saturday. Zuma, accompanied by African National Congress (ANC) Treasurer- General Zweli Mkhize, visited Mandela in hospital in ...
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Scot and South African appointed to spearhead Commonwealth sport development projects
This position will lead the sponsorship new business acquisition process for the NBA for Africa. The focus will be on new partner development - prospecting, pitching, negotiating and securing new corporate ...
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Julien Benneteau upends Kevin Anderson in early Eastbourne match
Kevin Anderson in first-round play. The 32nd-ranked Benneteau, who made the finals at the Rotterdam event this year, prevailed over hard-serving South African Anderson 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 at Devonshire Park. Australian Bernard Tomic rebounded from a recent dry spell with a 6-3, 6-4 decision over British wild card James Ward, while Czech ...
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Motshekga Re-draft will take 6 months
Angie Motshekga said on Tuesday. Last week, the Equal Education (EE) group said it was taking her to court for allegedly breaching an agreement to publish the document by 15 May. The matter was to be heard in the Bhisho High Court on 11 July. On Tuesday, Motshekga said she has been communicating with EE to update it on progress with the norms and standards. She wrote it a letter on 9 May in ...
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Enough is enough - Mthethwa
Nathi Mthethwa was saddened by the death of Major General Tirhani Maswanganyi, whose body was found early on Tuesday morning, his office said. "We are saddened by this tragic loss of a senior cop who dedicated his life to serve the vulnerable and the weak in society," Mthethwa said in a statement. "The SA Police Service [SAPS] is poorer, the Gauteng provincial team is ...
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Ramphele worried over IEC
Mamphela Ramphele said on Tuesday. "The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has eroded as an independent electoral commission," she told the Cape Town Press Club. She said Agang SA was in talks with other political parties, the Democratic Alliance in particular, to double-check certain IEC processes. "[We need] to be reassured that first of all, we are not going to have party ...
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SAHRC welcomes Cape jogger ruling
Nathi Mthethwa for a review of findings in a matter involving a Cape Town jogger was welcomed on Tuesday. "We are very pleased with [the judge's] finding that the minister must respect the [SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC)] and the work done by the commission," its chairperson Lawrence Mushwana said in a statement. "This should really send the message to other ...
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Premier condemns cop killing
Johannesburg - The death of Major General Tirhani Maswanganyi is a senseless blow to Gauteng's war against crime, Premier Nomvula Mokonyane said on Tuesday. "In the memory of Major General Maswanganyi all of us law-abiding citizens should take up the cudgels and say: 'We will not be cowed into submission by criminals. We will honour Maswanganyi by making sure that the ...
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Nkaneng looting a Marikana issue
Pretoria - Police plans to protect the Nkaneng informal settlement against armed protesters in Marikana last year were at issue before the Farlam Commission of Inquiry on Tuesday. While North West deputy police commissioner General William Mpembe said the police's plan had included the protection of the whole area, the commission's evidence leader Mbuyiseli Madlanga submitted that: ...
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Security and Soccer in the City of Gold
In 1991, on the 11th of February, South Africa celebrated an immense moment of change as Nelson Mandela walked free from prison, then on the 25th of June 1995, the Springboks defeated the All Blacks and South Africa became the winners of the rugby world cup. These two events were indicative of the country’s potential, especially when set against the pessimism of the public and the global community at large.
South Africa has become a country used to exceeding expectations. When the ANC came to power in 1994 many South Africans expected violent reprisals, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda did nothing to allay these fears and South Africans flocked in numbers to the greener pastures of Australia, but the massacre never came, the reprisals never occurred, the white-owned property was never confiscated by the government. Read more
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