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South Africa How Income Inequality Hurts South Africas Children
There's been a great deal of hand wringing in South Africa in the aftermath of the Marikana massacre. With the explosion of the underbelly of our society onto the international arena, South Africans have been left with little choice but to confront the demons of nearly 20 years of a failed democracy. From the fact that no woman feels safe walking alone on South African streets, to the fact ...
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Hit-and-run suspect not a flight risk
Cape Town - An alleged hit-and-run driver was released on R3 000 bail when he appeared in the Kuils River District Court late on Friday.Geoffrey Merrick, aged 51, a diesel mechanic from Brackenfell, Cape Town, faces charges of culpable homicide (manslaughter) and failure to stop after an accident.He surrendered to the police 10 days after this happened.It is alleged that his white VW Polo ...
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The beginning of the decade of the ANC cadre
"There is a difference between a member and an cadre, you have to go through a process to become a cadre," Mantashe told ANC members at a memorial lecture for the late Moses Kotane on Friday. "You must be reliable… This year, it's the beginning of the decade of the cadre." Mantashe said a party could not produce a cadre that was competent, disciplined, committed ...
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Messy Legal Fight Over Mandela Trust Goes Public
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South Africa Celebrates AU 50th Anniversary
Pretoria, May 24 (Prensa Latina) South Africa celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) with a national program to promote the role of its successor the African Union (AU), said local media. The governing political party African National Congress scheduled seminars, lectures and published different materials aimed at highlighting the importance of Africa's ...
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ANC wants reliable cadres says Mantashe
Gwede Mantashe on Friday. "There is a difference between a member and an cadre, you have to go through a process to become a cadre," Mantashe told ANC members at a memorial lecture for the late Moses Kotane. "You must be reliableThis year, it's the beginning of the decade of the cadre." Mantashe said a party could not produce a cadre that was competent, disciplined, ...
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Pleasure executives brief MPs
Cape Town - MPs should join other respected local and international groups to push for the decriminalisation of prostitution, rights activists told Parliament's joint committee on HIV/Aids on Friday. The committee met prostitutes to gauge their views on how to prevent the high level of HIV infection. "The most important thing as MPs is that whatever is done in South Africa [that] ...
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Apology wanted over hospital debacle
Sibongiseni Dhlomo for shutting down two radiotherapy machines at Durban's Addington Hospital. The MEC's reasons for the move were "absurd", it said. "[We are] demanding a public apology from the KwaZulu-Natal health MEC rather than the absurd excuse he has given for switching the machines off in the first place," the Health and Other Services Personnel Trade Union ...
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Cops wife charged with his murder
Bloemfontein - The wife of a Welkom policeman killed near his office in November last year, has been arrested in connection with his murder, Free State police said on Friday. Police spokesperson Stephen Thakeng said members of the Hawks arrested Captain Mohanwe Mabaso's wife after a breakthrough this week. Mabaso's body was found in a park near his office in St Helena, Welkom, ...
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Cops crack down on Joburg protest violence
Johannesburg - More than 90 people were arrested for protest-related crimes in Evaton, Orange Farm and Sebokeng, south of Johannesburg, Gauteng police said on Friday. "More than a hundred complaints of looting and vandalism of spaza shops belonging to foreign nationals and locals have been reported," Lieutenant Colonel Lungelo Dlamini said. The 93 arrests on Thursday and Friday were ...
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Man gets life for killing teacher
Johannesburg - An Eastern Cape man was jailed for life by the Eastern Cape High Court in Tabankulu on Friday for killing a teacher during a robbery, police said. Abongile Tywaku, 28, was convicted of murder, armed robbery, and possession of illegal firearms and ammunition, said police spokesperson Mlungisi Matadane. On 4 October 2010, Tywaku and six other men entered a community meeting ...
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Police seek information on students death
Johannesburg - Police have called for information relating to the death of a Midrand student, police said on Friday. Philasande Ngum, 19, was found dead in the veld in President Park, Midrand, on Wednesday. "The body was already in a state of decomposition when it was found [around noon]," said Lieutenant Colonel Lungelo Dlamini. "Forensic investigations are underway to establish ...
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Klerksdorp squatters face eviction
Pretoria - Alternative accommodation has to be provided for thousands of illegal squatters occupying private land in Klerksdorp, North West, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ordered on Friday. The court instructed the Matlosana municipality to provide the squatters with alternative accommodation within 21 days. Civil rights group AfriForum brought the application seeking an ...
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Man gets two life terms for farm murders
Johannesburg - A Zimbabwean man has been sentenced to two life terms by the Limpopo High Court in Bela Bela for killing a couple on their farm, Limpopo police said on Friday. Brighton Mafanedza - who worked as the couple's gardener - killed them in December 2010 on their farm near Dwaalboom, police spokesperson Ronel Otto said. Their bodies were found in the trunk of their Land ...
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Cosatu tells JMPD to go to hell over charge
The trade union was asked to make a payment of R200 000 for the planned protest against e-tolls and not R2-million, the Johannesburg Metro police department (JMPD) said on Friday. "It was R200 000, not R2-million," said spokesperson Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar. Cosatu Gauteng secretary Dumisani Dakile told protesters gathered outside Cosatu headquarters on Friday on Friday ...
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Cosatu could make high court bid for e-toll protest
"This is one of our options, because the decision is unconstitutional. We are looking at different options," Cosatu Gauteng secretary Dumisani Dakile said on Friday. "One of the other options is to carry on [with the strike], but we are still discussing this." On Thursday night, the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court dismissed Cosatu's application for a highway ...
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Its All in the Mind for South African Kirsten
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Treason accused sent for psych evaluation
Bloemfontein - Four men accused of plotting to assassinate ANC leaders appeared briefly in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday. The case of Hein Boonzaaier, 50, of Centurion, Johan Prinsloo, 49, of Naboomspruit and Mark Trollip, 49, of Douglas was postponed to 23 August for further investigations The court received two psychiatric reports on Martin Keevy, 47, of ...
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State accused of delaying Macia case
The case against the police officers accused of killing a Mozambican man by dragging him behind a police van has been postponed to May 24. ...
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Dept pays Eastern Cape teachers
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Alleged gangboss killed in Cape Town
Cape Town - A couple was shot and killed as they sat in their car in Manenberg on Thursday night. Donovan Uys, 50, understood to be a leader of the Hard Livings gang, and his girlfriend, Sandra Simpson, 34, were shot as they sat in a green Toyota Tazz in Rio Grande ...
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ABB to Commence Production of Central Photovoltaic Inverters in South Africa
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, plans to start production of central inverters in South Africa to support the rapidly growing local photovoltaic (PV) market and local content ...
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Metro police dispute Cosatus R2m claim
Johannesburg - The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) was asked to make an upfront payment of R200 000 for the planned protest against e-tolls and not R2m, the Johannesburg metro police said on Friday. "It was R200 000, not R2m," said spokesperson Wayne Minnaar. Minnaar said the charge was a monetary guarantee for protection against potential damage. He said they did not ...
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ANC volunteers take campaign to Midvaal
Johannesburg - The ANC in Gauteng will send 6 000 volunteers to Sicelo in Midvaal on Sunday to campaign for the 2014 elections. "The volunteer campaign is aimed at mobilising residents of Midvaal to ensure that we remove the DA-controlled municipality," provincial spokesperson Dumisa Ntuli said in a statement on Friday. "This will be show-cased by the massive group of ...
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Male nurse held for raping teen patient
Durban - A KwaZulu-Natal nurse has been arrested for allegedly raping a patient at a clinic near Nquthu, police said on Friday. Police spokesperson Thulani Zwane said the 30-year-old man was arrested at work on Thursday. A 19-year-old teenager was allegedly raped while being examined. The teenager reported it to her school teacher and a rape docket was opened at the Nquthu police ...
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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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