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Fog delays Cape Town flights
File photo: Flights to and from the Cape Town International Airport were diverted on Friday morning due to heavy fog, the Airports Company SA (Acsa) ...
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Minister confirms SA troop deployment
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula confirmed on Friday that South Africa had deployed troops in countries neighbouring the Central African Republic. But this was merely to support the withdrawal of SA National Defence Force troops from the troubled state, she told the Cape Town Press Club. She said after South Africa suffered 13 fatalities in a rebel attack near Bangui in March, it sent soldiers to ...
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Eating naartjies in the bioscope a little guide to South African English | Mind your language
The vocabulary and grammar of spoken South African English are coated in a fine layer of Afrikaans dust. It's been there so long that most of us no longer ...
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Farmers wife bought muti after murder
Bloemfontein - A farmer's wife who is accused of killing her husband allegedly went to see a sangoma to make the case against her "disappear". This was according to the testimony of Velaphi Makhondo, 31, in a Harrismith court, ...
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Swaziland Anger As South Africa Colludes With Cops
The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) has condemned the action by officials at the South African High Commission in Mbabane, Swaziland, for handing the names of eight CPS activists visiting the offices earlier this week to the Swazi security police. The CPS activists had arranged with the High Commission to deliver a memorandum urging the mission to condemn ...
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Cosatu e-toll protesters disperse
The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) is studying the court ruling halting its planned e-toll protest, but a few opponents of e-tolls still gathered at Cosatu House in Johannesburg Friday morning. See the ...
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Cosatu e-toll protesters start marching
The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) is studying the court ruling halting its planned e-toll protest, but a few opponents of e-tolls still gathered at Cosatu House in Johannesburg Friday morning. See the ...
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Thief tries to sell car in same suburb
Bloemfontein - A thief who broke into a house and stole several possessions, including a car, then drove around in the same suburb, trying to sell it. The thief wanted to sell the Golf 6 GTi for only R45 000 while the car was worth over R300 000, ...
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KZN man gets 18 years for raping girl 12
Johannesburg - A KwaZulu-Natal man was sentenced by the Vryheid Regional Court to 18 years in jail for raping a 12-year-old girl, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday.Nkosinathi Nxumalo, 22, was sentenced on Thursday, Captain Thulani Zwane said.Nxumalo raped the girl, his neighbour, in September last year while she was on the way to a shop. He threatened her to not tell anyone. The girl's ...
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Security forces fire rubber bullets at striking South African miners
Police fired volleys of rubber bullets at striking South African miners at a mine owned by Lanxess Chrome Mining Ltd on Tuesday, near the city of Rustenburg. Some 500 miners had assembled at daybreak, taking action without union approval. At least 10 miners were hospitalized, and police forces subsequently took control of the mine.The shooting comes amid a new wave of workers' militancy ...
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South Africa to help Nigerias auto industry a milestone in inter-African cooperation
The lack of economic diversification throughout sub-Saharan Africa may stymy South Africa’s pledges to help Nigeria industrialize. And making the automotive sector Nigeria’s flagship industrial target may not be so easy, experts ...
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ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
ABB, a Switzerland-based power and automation technology group, plans to start production of central PV inverters in South Africa to support the rapidly growing local solar market and local content ...
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SA facing adoption crisis - report
Beeld reported on Friday. National Adoption Coalition spokesperson Pam Wilson said on Thursday that South Africa faced an adoption crisis. She was speaking at the Princess Alice Home in Westcliff, Johannesburg, at the start of a national advertising campaign, on the eve of Child Protection Week (27 May to 2 June). The campaign was intended to renew awareness of adoption and encourage ...
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Marais Voting ANC like marrying abusive man
Peter Marais has reportedly said. Marais, currently vice-president of the Bruin Bemagtigingsbeweging (Brown Empowerment Movement), posted his views on ...
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Missing Midrand student found dead
The Star reported on Friday. Philisande Ngum's decomposing body was found in the veld in President Park, Midrand, on Wednesday, the paper reported. Her family identified her on Thursday. Police told the paper investigations were under way to determine the cause of death. No arrests had been made yet. Ngum, 19, was a student at the Midrand Graduate Institution and was last seen at the ...
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Cosatu still deciding on e-tolls protest
Johannesburg - The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) is studying the court ruling halting its planned e-toll protest, it said on Friday. "We are assessing the court ruling and we will decide what to do next. All we are going to do will be done in the confines of the law," the union federation's Gauteng chairperson Mosanku Phutas Tseki said on Friday. On Thursday night, ...
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Footage shows mall stabbing
Durban - A court has been shown chilling CCTV footage of a man repeatedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend in a KwaZulu-Natal shopping mall. The footage was used to convict Skhumbuzo Shange, 30, of attempted murder, reported ...
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Cosatus e-toll protest to go ahead
Johannesburg - Cosatu plans to go ahead with a go-slow protest against e-tolling on Friday, despite failed attempts at getting permission. On Thursday night, the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court dismissed an application by the trade union federation for authorisation on the highway motorcade. Congress of SA Trade Unions spokesperson Patrick Craven said the protest would go ahead, ...
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South African President Jacob Zuma denies role in Gupta wedding scandal
Johannesburg: South African President Jacob Zuma today denied any role in a scandal over a controversial lavish Indian wedding in South Africa and condemned the practice of using his name and that of Cabinet ministers to secure privileges and violate state procedures.President's statement follows the release of the report into the landing of a chartered plane carrying guests destined for ...
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Guptagate Why Waterkloof report wont fly
Though the government released a comprehensive timeline of events that led up to and immediately after the landing of a chartered plane at Waterkloof Air Force Base in late April, major holes remain in the official narrative. Chief among those is why at least two officials would risk their careers by lying about the involvement of "Number One", who they claimed had wanted arrangements ...
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MEC mum on transfer from shady builder
The head of the Northern Cape health department, Gugulethu Matlaopane, this week refused to explain a mysterious R1-million transfer to her account from a building contractor who allegedly accepted millions in municipal payments for houses that he failed to build. ...
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Parliament not given say on e-tolls
ANC MPs made a dramatic about-turn this week, caving in to pressure from members of the executive and withdrawing a bold proposal to give Parliament more say in the determination of road toll fees. The ANC rescinded its own proposed amendment to the Transport Laws and Related Matter Amendment Bill [e-tolls Bill] on Tuesday, which, if adopted, would have obliged Transport Minister Ben Martins to ...
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Matthew Wolmarans vows to clear his name
Wolmarans was released on bail after calling into question the way the state convicted him and his mayoral bodyguard Enoch Matshaba for the murder of Rustenburg councillor Moss Phakoe. The two were last year convicted of killing Phakoe, but were released on May 10 after successfully challenging their conviction at the Supreme Court of Appeal. The supreme court ordered the North West High Court ...
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Controversy over government link in Independent Group deal
The consortium due to buy South Africa's biggest newspaper group has come out fighting, blaming rising desperation among competitors for questions around its shareholding and intentions. Irish shareholders are due to decide the fate of the local Independent Group in a little less than a month, a decision that will bring major changes to daily media in the country, one way or another. ...
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John Block co-accused gets top health post
The allegations flow from his earlier tenure as the department’s head. Deon Madyo, now serving under provincial health MEC Mxolisi Sokatsha, faces fraud and corruption charges in the Northern Cape High Court, alongside ANC provincial chairperson John Block and Uruguayan businessman Gaston Savoi. With several others, they have been accused of graft involving about R112-million, in a case ...
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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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