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Zuma name-dropping in Waterkloof scandal
Jacob Zuma 's name to secure landing rights at Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria to fly in guests for the lavish Gupta wedding at Sun City, a probe has shown.According to preliminary findings of the investigation, the Guptas had been denied permission to land their chartered jet at the OR Tambo International Airport because the elaborate reception they planned for their nearly 200 ...
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Robbers get away amid road race
Johannesburg - A gang of six robbers managed to escape when they wove their hijacked car through a road race in Bryanston, Johannesburg metro police said on Sunday. "About six suspects, who had robbed security guards, managed to abandon their van, hijack an Opel Corsa and flee the scene among many road runners and early morning shoppers," said Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar. ...
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South Africa Govt Issues the Gupta Wedding Investigation Report
South Africa: Press Statement of the JCPS Ministers On the Report of the Investigating Team Examining the Landing of a Chartered Commercial Aircraft At Air Force Base Waterkloof On 30 April ...
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South Africa E-Tolling - Sanral Misleading Public About Lack of Funds
Two independent studies by the Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) and the Southern African Bitumen Association (Sabita) confirm that the South African Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) is misleading the public. SANRAL has argued that a fuel levy to fund road infrastructure and maintenance is insufficient, and that e-tolling is therefore necessary. However, two independent studies confirm ...
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Exclusive - South Africas NUM seeks 15-60 percent wage rises from gold coal producers
By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said it would seek pay rises of up to 60 percent from gold and coal producers, raising the prospect of fresh strikes as firms battle higher costs and falling ...
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Zuma ministers not involved Waterkloof debacle
He said the Chief of State Protocol, ambassador Bruce Koloane, who was on compulsory leave, had given a statement explaining all the parties who were involved in the landing of a plane by the Gupta family at the base on April ...
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South Africa South Africa Mourns Popular TV Hosts Sudden Death
President Jacob Zuma, political parties and the broadcasting community expressed shock and sadness on Sunday at the death of SABC television and radio presenter Vuyo Mbuli. The SABC reported that Mbuli, 46, collapsed while watching a rugby match between the Cheetahs and the Reds at the Free State Stadium on Saturday night. He was treated at the scene before being rushed to the Mediclinic ...
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Waterkloof not a key point
Jeff Radebe said on Sunday while delivering the findings of an investigation into the landing of a privately chartered plane at the base. "The Air Force Base Waterkloof is a strategic military base....[it] is not a national key point and is not governed by the National Key Points Act...," he said. "The Air Force Base Waterkloof handles both civilian and military aircraft." ...
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Cocaine worth R18m seized
Johannesburg - A man attempting to smuggle cocaine with an estimated street value of R18m across the Beit Bridge border post has been arrested, Limpopo police said on Sunday. "The drugs were discovered during a routine search of traveller's bags," said colonel Ronel Otto in a statement. She said a police official had found rollers with yarn inside the man's bag. The rollers ...
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Gay couple takes on prison head
Johannesburg - A homosexual couple in a remand detention centre in East London have laid a criminal charge against the head of the prison because they have been placed in separate cells, the Sunday Times reported. John Pettigrew and Greg Wiggill, who are openly gay and awaiting trial on fraud charges, claim they were discriminated against when they were separated after allegedly having sex in ...
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No justice for raped girl
Durban - The family of a 6-year-old girl who was raped and stabbed do not want charges pressed against the man alleged to have committed the crime, the Sunday Tribune reported. According to the newspaper, neither the mother or grandmother want charges pressed against the grade one pupil's mentally unstable uncle because they would lose the R1200 monthly grant he receives. The uncle, who is ...
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Movement to fight for coloured people
Johannesburg - One-time Cape Town mayor Peter Marais has established a movement to fight for the rights of coloured people, the Sunday Times reported. "Coloureds don't have power," Marais told the newspaper in describing the position of coloured people in political positions in the Western Cape. In the interview, Marais said his movement would not start off as a political party. ...
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2 000 homeless after fire
Durban - More than 2 000 people were left homeless after a fire razed an informal settlement in Durban, the Sunday Tribune reported on Sunday. According to the newspaper, the fire destroyed about 200 shacks in the Khayelitsha informal settlement in the Clairwood area of Durban. No one was injured in the blaze and the eThekwini metro said the municipality would provide food parcels and building ...
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ANC decides to charge Atul Gupta
Johannesburg - Businessman Atul Gupta will face disciplinary charges for misconduct and for embarrassing the ANC following the Waterkloof air force base debacle. The leaders of his branch in Ward 117, Joburg, which includes Saxonwold, Rosebank and Parktown last night decided to press charges against him for the incident, which saw a plane full of Gupta wedding guests land at the base. ...
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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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