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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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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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Malema unfazed by ex-allies comments
Julius Malema is unfazed by not getting support from his former allies in the league in his new political formation."That's to be expected, we wish them well," Malema responded in a text message to Sapa on Wednesday.Earlier, the Sowetan newspaper reported that Malema's former allies did not want to be associated with his new political formation.Ayanda Matiti, chairperson of ...
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Single police force would be chaotic
Johannesburg - A senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has warned that local policing will suffer if a proposal to form a single police force is approved and becomes law, Beeld reported on Wednesday.The green paper on policing, which had just been published, recommended that legislation be amended to provide for a single police force.In 2007 in Polokwane, the ANC passed a ...
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EFF Govt failed to redistribute land
Johannesburg - Government has failed to redistribute land to previously disadvantaged groups, the so-called Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said on Wednesday."[The] government of South Africa has failed to use almost 20 years of democratic dispensation to address and redress the land question," said spokesperson Floyd Shivambu."Our people remain in squatter camps, informal ...
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Steyn ruled out as England bowl first
South Africa suffered a huge blow before the start of their Champions Trophy semi-final against England at The Oval after Dale Steyn failed to clear a fitness test. Steyn was ruled out because of a groin problem after missing out a few games earlier in the tournament due to a side strain. Rory Kleinveldt was named Steyn's ...
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Malemas allies shun new party - report
Sowetan newspaper reported on Wednesday.Ayanda Matiti, chairperson of the ANC Youth League in the Eastern Cape, told the Sowetan that Malema's move amounted to political prostitution."Economic freedom is not a progeny or an entitlement to any other person, but a resolution of a congress which Malema presided over when he was still president [of the ANCYL]," Matiti was quoted by ...
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Journo found dead in Hermanus home
Cape Town - The body of an experienced journalist and former news editor has been found in his house in Hermanus.Ian Theron, 56, a former Beeld and Huisgenoot news editor, had reportedly been ill but had not gone to hospital as he was supposed to, said a neighbour ...
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Top cops killing a hit - colleagues
reported on Wednesday.The top cop's colleagues at the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) said there were no other explanations for his killing.Maswanganyi's body was found in a field north of Pretoria on Tuesday, just 10km from his house. His hands and feet were tied up, but his body had no bullet wounds, Gauteng commissioner Lieutenant General Mzwandile Petros said.Police ...
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British spying a wake-up call - CDP
Johannesburg - The reported surveillance of South African and Turkish delegations during the G20 summit in Britain should serve as a wake up call to government, the Christian Democratic Party said on Wednesday.Party leader Theunis Botha said in a statement the "eavesdropping" which reportedly took place in 2009 should make government aware of its foreign policy."South Africa ...
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Less activity at Mandela hospital
Pretoria - Fewer police officers were manning the entrances of the Pretoria hospital where former president Nelson Mandela was spending a 12th day on ...
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SA couple in Yemen not taken by al-Qaeda
Bloemfontein - A humanitarian organisation that is helping in the rescue attempt of a South African couple kidnapped in Yemen says they were not taken by al-Qaeda as previously reported.It transpired on Tuesday that former school teachers, Pierre and Yoland Korkie were not taken by members of the terrorist group but by a criminal gang, ...
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Wife watches farmer 80 bleed to death
Port Elizabeth - An Eastern Cape woman has told how she watched her elderly husband bleed to death after an attack by armed men on their farm."The wounds bled terribly and I was helplessly watching as they hit my poor husband with a kierie, kicking him and stabbing him," Coleen Traut, 48, ...
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US issues SA crime warning
Johannesburg - A warning issued to tourists by the United States says Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town are "critical crime threat ...
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De Lille slams SAHRC over toilet saga
Cape Town - City Mayor Patricia de Lille has slammed the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) over its independent probe of the toilet saga, the Cape Times reported on Wednesday.She reportedly also claimed in a letter to the commission last Tuesday that its spokesperson Isaac Mangena should be working on behalf of the ANC Youth League.This was in response to a previous report in which he said De ...
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South Africa's small but growing cruise industry
The South African cruise industry has grown considerably in recent decades, recording an expansion of over 100% in recent years. The greatest growth came between the 1990s and 2010, led predominantly by Starlight Cruises, a household name in South Africa and the owner of the market share in the South African cruise industry.
The South African cruise industry is a growing one, in comparison to more developed countries it is tiny, with just one ship (sometimes two) that grace the coasts of South Africa once a year between November and April. Read more
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