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The vice-regal couple on tour in South Africa
The Governer-General participates in a Cape Town luncheon discussion May 20, focusing on how CIDA is helping South African officials manage the development of a local fishing port.(Cpl. Vincent Carbonneau/Rideau ...
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Can South Africa Help Nigeria to Industrialise
South Africa has pledged to help Nigeria make the automotive sector the West African nation's flagship industrial target. Currently German car manufacturer BMW has a plant at Rosslyn near Pretoria. About 80 percent of the BMWs produced there are for the international market. Credit: John ...
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Emergency staff arrested for rape
Pretoria News reported on Wednesday.The sex worker reportedly claimed she was hitch-hiking to Mamelodi when the emergency workers offered her a lift in a municipal rapid response BMW.According to the newspaper, they demanded sex along the way and threatened to kill her. They took turns raping her, then sped off, leaving her in the ...
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Man tells how he killed Cape Town mom
Cape Town - A roof repair man has told a Cape Town court that he stabbed a Claremont mother because she wouldn't pay him the money she owed him. Moegamat Salie, 31, told the Western Cape High Court that he went to Anzunette du Plessis's house on 4 October 2012 to check on work he and his father had done to the roof of her house, reported ...
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Only Afrikaners allowed on farm settlement
The Times reported on Wednesday.Everyone living there, from the security guards at the gate to the gardeners, was Afrikaans, the newspaper reported.The Gauteng legislature's portfolio committee on community safety was reportedly told last year that black police officers were not being allowed inside the enclave.Its controlling body's chairperson Jan Groenewald ...
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Cyclist hit by bus while avoiding car
The Cape Times reported.The bus driver was unaware of any cyclist while driving in Durbanville on Tuesday morning, Golden Arrow Bus Service spokesperson Bronwen Dyke ...
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Drunk guests assault guesthouse manager
Johannesburg - An Alberton guesthouse manager says she was assaulted by a group of drunk guests when she told them not to make a noise over the weekend, but they accused her of using a racial slur against them. Leslie Rabie ...
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Robbers put gun in boys mouth
Durban - A KwaZulu-Natal family was terrorised by a gang of robbers who pushed a gun into a 13-year-old's mouth to force his father to open the safe. Karen Daley, 43, saw how her son, Matthew, was frogmarched into the house with robbers pointing a gun at his head on ...
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Drug trafficker Nabolisa seeks privileges
Johannesburg - Convicted drug trafficker Frank Nabolisa has filed an application against the minister of correctional services in the South Gauteng High Court for certain prisoner ...
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Parliament to debate Waterkloof landing
Cape Town - The National Assembly plenary will debate the use of the Waterkloof Air Force Base on Wednesday. The debate comes after Justice ...
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The trials and tribulations of the Pistorius brothers
The Pistorius brothers are, on average, having their first good week in a long time - as long as Carl Pistorius does not decide to sue the ...
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Teacher filmed beating high school pupil
Daily Dispatch reported on Wednesday. She and the rest of the class were beaten with a stick when they failed to produce maths homework on 8 May, the pupil at Ndabankulu Senior Secondary School, in Butterworth, told the newspaper. In the video, the Dispatch heard the teacher swearing at the pupil. The girl's parents had reported the matter to the school. The Dispatch reported that ...
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Shot farmer drives himself to hospital
Durban - A Hluhluwe farmer drove himself to hospital after he was shot in the chest during an armed robbery on Tuesday. Peter-John Hassard, in his 30s, was leaving his farmhouse when five men pounced and shot him at close range. His father, Peter Hassard, told The Witness on Tuesday afternoon that his son lost four litres of blood and was in the high-care unit at a local hospital. "I ...
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Video Desmond Tutu awarded $1.7-million Templeton Prize
Retired South African archbishop Desmond Tutu wins the $1.7-million Templeton Prize for his contribution to 'affirming life's spiritual ...
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World South Africa rising A country of contradictions
South Africa 's economy - buffeted by labour unrest, political uncertainties and the seemingly endless aftershocks of racial apartheid - is not roaring ahead like some of its neighbours. In the context of the much touted and much questioned theme of "Africa ...
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South Africa intensifies protection of wildlife
As South Africans join the world in commemorating the World Wildlife Protection Day on May 22, the South African National Parks (SANParks), is calling on all the people in the country to double their efforts in protecting the country's ...
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South Africa Adverts Target Rhino Horn Consumers
"Rhino horn is made of the same stuff as human nails. Still want some?" Conservation organisations WWF and TRAFFIC, as part of their campaign against the illegal wildlife trade, are running a series of myth-busting adverts aimed at encouraging Vietnamese citizens to stop buying or consuming rhino horn. According to the latest figures from South Africa's Department of ...
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World Briefing | Africa South Africa With No Bidders or Keys Auction Fails
An attempt to force Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Nelson ...
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Questions over more Gupta properties
Johannesburg - An objection has been lodged over an error on the 2013 property valuation roll relating to a Johannesburg property belonging to the Gupta family, the City said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Kgamanyane Maphologela said the City objected to valuations on four out of 14 properties belonging to the influential family. He was responding to a report in the Saturday Star that one of the ...
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Outrage over dropped charges in Anene case
Johannesburg - The withdrawal of charges in the Bredasdorp Magistrate's Court on Tuesday against one of the men accused of raping and killing teenager Anene Booysen, has been condemned by the DA. "The DA is outraged by the fact that only one of Anene Booysen's alleged attackers will face the courts," Democratic Alliance spokesperson on police Dianne Kohler Barnard said in a ...
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Corrupt official handed heavier sentence
Cape Town - A heavier sentence for corruption was imposed on a senior Western Cape municipal official on Tuesday. The Western Cape High Court overturned the suspended jail sentence of Denvor Fielies, 40, as being "too lenient and disturbingly inappropriate". It was imposed three years ago. He now faces a three-year jail sentence. Fielies, who had come from a humble background, was ...
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Health MEC vows no-nonsense approach
Bloemfontein - A damning report on the condition of some Free State health facilities and services was presented to provincial health staff on Tuesday by newly-0appointed MEC Benny Malakoane. The MEC at the same time pulled in all financial responsibilities below that of district and hospital managers, as part of what he called a new "no-nonsense" approach to better health service ...
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Top cop heard of killings later
Rustenburg - It was strange for police commander Major General Charl Annandale to claim he only heard of a second Marikana shooting 40 minutes after it occurred, the Farlam Commission heard on Tuesday. Dumisa Ntsebeza, for the families of the dead miners, said this was an "extraordinary proposition". Commission chairperson retired judge Ian Farlam said Annandale's submission did ...
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Ekhurhuleni fights rat problem
Johannesburg - Bigger refuse bins to fight a rat problem are to be distributed by Ekurhuleni municipality to households in Wattville and Actonville, an official said on Tuesday. "Reducing access to food for the rats by way of providing better storage for refuse, is a step in the right direction for the eradication of rodents," said municipal spokesperson Sam Modiba. Over 64 000 bins of ...
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Teen tells of catching man abusing sister
Mbombela - A witness from Mpumalanga testified on Tuesday how she caught a man sexually abusing her 5-year-old sister in 2010. The woman, 18, from KaMhlushwa near Komatipoort, was testifying in the trial of a 46-year-old man in the Nelspruit regional court, a Sapa correspondent reported. "[He] first came to our home and asked my little sister to accompany him to do washing at the local dam. ...
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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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