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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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Immigration officer wanted R7 000 bribe
Johannesburg - An immigration officer appeared in the Polokwane Magistrate's Court on Tuesday on a charge of corruption, the Hawks said. "He was granted bail of R1 000 and the case was postponed to 25 July for final investigations," said police spokesperson Paul Ramaloko. Edmond Lekgothoane, 37, was arrested on Friday for allegedly soliciting a R7 000 bribe from a ...
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Limpopo initiation schools probed
Johannesburg - Claims of initiation schools operating illegally in Limpopo are being investigated, the traditional affairs department said on Tuesday. The probe was being conducted by a team from the provincial house of traditional leaders, the department said in a statement. The bogus schools were apparently in the Capricorn, Waterberg, Sekhukhune and Mopani districts. Limpopo's 142 ...
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Is Nelson Mandela too soft on white South Africans Robert Mugabe says so.
In a new documentary, the Zimbabwean president says that Mandela 'was too much of a saint' and takes the famous South African to task for not doing enough for the black ...
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Pupil takes Motshekga to court
Angie Motshekga to the Bhisho High Court on Tuesday over conditions at her school, Equal Education (EE) said. Moshesh Senior Secondary School pupil Palesa Manyokole wanted the court to act against those responsible for standards at her school, EE said. The school is in Queen's Mercy, a rural village near Matatiele. "Learners from the school first wrote to Equal Education in 2012 to ask ...
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ANC withdraws Mazibuko weight remark
Lindiwe Mazibuko 's weight, and apologised to her on Tuesday. He did so after Deputy Speaker Nomaindia Mfeketo ruled emphatically that the comment was unparliamentary. "In the past, many rulings were made on remarks regarding members' physical appearance, and these have always been found to be insensitive, offensive and a violation of a member's dignity," she ...
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Sapu wants justice for top cop killing
Johannesburg - The SA Policing Union (Sapu) expressed sadness over the murder of Major General Tirhani Simon Maswanganyi, whose body was found on Tuesday morning. "We fall short of words to express this great loss as he is one of the top 20 generals around this province," General Secretary Oscar Skommere said in a statement. "Sapu has worked well with Major General ...
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Ramphele Scars of racism havent healed
Mamphela Ramphele said on Tuesday. "The Democratic Alliance and I disagreed, not because they have a different policy frameworkbut [because] they don't understand just that," she told the Cape Town Press Club. "[It is] this issue that it doesn't matter how hard we try. The scars of racism in this country have not completely healed." She believed it was necessary ...
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PAC rejects Paycos Mandela statement
Johannesburg - The PAC distanced itself from a statement by Pan Africanist Youth Congress (Payco) spokesperson Sello Tladi calling former ...
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Ex-SA ambassador criticises Israel
Israel & the Palestinian Territories This up-to-date guide to Israel and the Palestinian territories includes a history chapter by Was R245.95 Now ...
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KZN roads claim 53 lives
Durban - At least 53 people died on KwaZulu-Natal's roads over the long weekend, Transport MEC Willies Mchunu said on Tuesday. They died in 42 accidents between Friday night and Tuesday morning, he said in a statement. The worst crash involved three vehicles which collided and caught alight on the N2 near Park Rynie on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast on Friday. "I am deeply ...
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KZN reverend gunned down before sermon
Durban - The shooting of a KwaZulu-Natal church leader as he was about to deliver his sermon was condemned on Tuesday. Community Safety MEC Willies Mchunu was "shocked and dismayed" at the shooting of Reverend Agrippa Cibane, from the African Gospel Church, at eLovu, south of Durban, on Sunday. Cibane was killed moments before he convened his service in C section of eLovu, Mchunu ...
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Idaho Republican fears a gay guy might come to work in a tutu
Idaho Republican Party leaders are calling on the state legislature to invalidate local and city ordinances that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Cornel Rasor, a former Bonner County commissioner and chairman of the Idaho GOP's resolutions committee, believes the anti-discrimination laws force employers to put up with workplace shenanigans on the part LGBT ...
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Jeffery apologises to Mazibuko for weight comment
, Jeffery said: "The leader of the opposition is meant to be the leader of the party; it’s meant to be a person of some stature, the Honourable Mazibuko may be a person of substantial weight, is she a person of some stature?" These comments drew outrage from the opposition, social media and gender activists. DA chief whip Watty Watson rose on a point of order saying the remarks ...
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Another chance to shed baggage
It's another war story of another team who have put South Africa out of a major tournament. Its another case of underachievement. Another choke. And the best (or worst, depending on how you measure these things) of the lot. It was dignified. It was heroic. And it ...
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Indias batting and NZs bowling to the fore
New Zealand were the best bowling side in the league phase of the Champions Trophy. They took 25 wickets at an average of 21.56 and a strike rate of 26.70. India took an equal number of wickets, though at a higher average (27.80) and strike rate (33.5). Pakistan were the most economical bowling side, conceding only 4.48 runs an over in their three matches. South Africa's bowling economy of ...
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Bruised opponents seek knockout blow
The Oval for an ODI last summer. Amla made 268 runs fewer than the 311 he amassed in the first Test, and was removed by no less a bowler than Jade Dernbach, before Jonathan Trott's patient half-century was followed a brisker one from Eoin Morgan in a four-wicket win. Sounds like a good formula, doesn't it? That the series finished 2-2 suggests these teams are reasonably well ...
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Mandelas family arrives at hospital as choir sings outside
An unidentified woman from Alpha World Social Centre in Soweto, sings after laying flowers outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria. (Themba Hadebe/Associated ...
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South African stocks gain but miners hit
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Israel replicating apartheid SA envoy
Jerusalem - The recently retired South African ambassador to Israel has taken a parting shot at the country's treatment of Palestinians, calling it a "replication of ...
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Winnie visits Mandela hospital again
Pretoria - Former president Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela paid the ailing statesman another visit on Tuesday, at the Pretoria hospital where he spent an 11th day of ...
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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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