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Dad who killed son not aggressive
Pretoria - A mechanic found guilty of killing his 3-year-old son with a pick-axe handle is not an aggressive person, the North Gauteng High Court heard on Wednesday."Mr [Vincent] Mugwagwa is not a person who has a pattern of being aggressive," social worker Yvette van Schalkwyk said."If we look at the circumstances at the home, I've got great empathy for the mother and the ...
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2 held for killing Chinese shopkeeper
Durban - Two men were arrested for allegedly killing and robbing a Chinese foreign national in Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday. The men, aged 21 and 22, were arrested on Tuesday, police spokesperson Thulani Zwane said. Three men stabbed and throttled the 24-year-old woman in her shop in Ibisi, Kokstad, on Monday. Her husband took her to Rietvlei Hospital, where she died. ...
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Mandelas 95th birthday plans to go ahead
Former South African President Nelson Mandela leaves the Intercontinental hotel in London, on June 26, 2008. Mandela's foundation has vowed to press ahead with upcoming 95th birthday celebrations, as he undergoes a twelfth day in hospital for a lung ...
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SA workers to invade Swaziland
On the day of the planned mass protest in the totalitarian kingdom of Swaziland, 12 April, the powerful trade union COSATU in neighbouring South Africa plans a protest march to "invade" the kingdom in ...
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Unions to stop Walmart entering South Africa
South African and international trade unions are facing the US retail giant Walmart in court next week to stop it from entering into the South African economy without "appropriate ...
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Outrage over Zumas hell-threats to voters
A wide range of South Africa's political landscape is voicing outrage over President Jacob Zuma after he threatened non-ANC voters with ending up in hell. Also the Church protests that only ANC members will come to ...
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Denel workers killed in Somalia
Johannesburg - South African state weapons firm Denel said two of its staff were killed in an attack on Wednesday on the United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu.A spokesperson for South Africa's largest manufacturer of defence equipment said the identity of the workers was not yet known."We have sent someone to Somalia to inform us from the ground," Vuyelwa Qinga ...
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South Africa Equal Education Vs Motshekga Gets Nasty
The struggle between Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, and activist organisation Equal Education, is getting nasty. The Department has accused EE of using whites to mislead black people and EE has accused the Department of racism. EE held Youth Day marches on Monday 17 June in Cape Town and Pretoria. The marches were part of EE's campaign to get Minister Motshekga to publish a ...
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Uganda Uganda South African Army Chiefs Discuss Security
Visiting South African Special Forces Commander, Brigade General Rudzani Maphwanya has held talks with the Chief of Defense Forces, General Edward Katumba Wamala. The meeting took place at the ministry of defense headquarters, at Mbuya in Kampala. Brigadier General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Commander Special Forces Command also attended. According to Capt. Edison Kwesiga, the spokesperson, ...
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South Africa Orange Extends South Africa Footprint
French telecommunications operator Orange and South Africa's Nashua Mobile have signed an agreement to expand the firm's South African footprint by opening several local retail outlets. Orange entered the South African market in January when it launched an e-commerce store and online portal. The new agreement will extend Orange's reach to a fully-fledged in-store service ...
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Zuma many wives many official cars
South African sources report that President Jacob Zuma's polygamy practice is costing the state dearly, as all wives want an official car. The police force denies these ...
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SA to represent Africa at emerging markets
The recent invitation to South Africa to join the BRIC group of emerging economies comprising Brazil, Russia, India and China is to "offer opportunities for Africa to strengthen ties with the ...
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ANC Land Act centenary a chance to evaluate progress
"The centenary… provides an opportune moment to evaluate how far we have come in our quest to realise the aspiration of the landless and dispossessed majority," ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu said. Wednesday marked 100 years since the promulgation of the act, which dispossessed indigenous Africans of land. Mthembu said ANC conferences had identified land reform and rural ...
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Cape Town granted toilet protest interdict
Cape Town - The City of Cape Town has been granted a final interdict against those who interfere with servicing of toilets, mayor Patricia de Lille said on ...
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ANC Evaluate land redistribution
The finger-pointing and childish politicking just shows that both the ANC and DA are failing to reverse the legacy left by the evil system of apartheid, ...
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SA website apologises for Qaeda allegations
"My world, turned upside down" , explaining how he came across the information, the intentions of his investigation and the consequences of it being published.He attributed the misinformation to his sources including the possibility of "agents provocateurs". "Couldthe information I [had] gathered so far, be the work of agents provocateurs as has been alleged in the ...
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Blog Letting go of Madiba Mandela
Clutching hand-wrapped bouquets and hand-written tributes, South Africans - young and old, rich and poor, black and white – stand shoulder-to-shoulder, united by increasing despair and helplessness, as their nation’s father faces his toughest fight yet. In what more and more South Africans fear are Nelson Mandela’s final hours, many are wondering what life here will be like ...
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Sisulu hits snag with Sadtu
Lindiwe Sisulu will meet teacher union Sadtu this week regarding teachers' pay, MPs heard on Wednesday. The Presidential Remuneration Commission - announced by ...
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Reward for info on top cops death
Johannesburg - Police were offering a reward of up to R100 000 for information about Johannesburg cluster commander Major General Tirhani Maswanganyi's death, Gauteng commissioner Lieutenant ...
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Limpopo cop case postponed
Polokwane - The trial of five Limpopo policemen accused of beating a Nigerian man to death was postponed in the Polokwane Magistrate's Court on Wednesday. A Sapa correspondent reported that Magistrate Janine Ungerer was apparently sick. Ungerer was due to deliver a ruling on their bail application. Boitumelo Ramahlala, Mashiba Mathata, Collins Sekoati, Thabo Mabotja, and Clement ...
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DA plans new motion against Mathale
The finger-pointing and childish politicking just shows that both the ANC and DA are failing to reverse the legacy left by the evil system of apartheid, ...
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Zimbabweans in SA get extended deadline
Up to 1.3 million Zimbabweans living in South Africa risked deportation during the coming weeks, many because Harare authorities did not have the capacity to provide them with passports. Now, they are given a new five months to apply for a legal ...
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1.3 million Zimbabweans to be evicted from SA
South Africa is preparing to forcibly deport the up to 1.3 million Zimbabweans that did not apply to regularise their stay before the 31 December deadline. Preparations are already made for the mass ...
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SAA cadets Solidarity wants comission to intervene
The parties should ideally seek solutions to constitutional issues through dialogue, Solidarity deputy general secretary Dirk Hermann said on Wednesday. "The Employment Equity Act forbids quotas of any kind in order to protect the non-designated group's constitutional right to equality and dignity. In any affirmative action process, rights must be balanced," he said. On June 10, ...
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Family at Mandela’s hospital
Pretoria - Former president Nelson Mandela's family arrived at the Pretoria hospital where the elderly statesman was spending a 12th day on ...
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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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