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SA needs R670bn for water sanitation
Edna Molewa said on Tuesday.Speaking during debate in the National Assembly on her department's 2013/14 budget, she said this included the cost of refurbishing the country's ageing, existing plants and treatment works."Capital investment in new water and sanitation infrastructure for the entire value chainis projected to require an estimated R670bn over the next 10 years, or ...
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Dagga vodka played role in ritual case
Johannesburg - The effect of using dagga and vodka in succession was graphically explained to a Johannesburg court on Tuesday by murder-accused Harvey Isha. "When I am lying in bed after taking them, the ceiling would look like it is spinningyou feel like vomiting at the same time," Isha told the South Gauteng High Court sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court. He ...
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Beyonce Shares Blue Ivy Tutu Photo After Critics Question Baby Clothes
Beyonce's daughter Blue Ivy sits in her very own monogrammed director's chair Beyonce recently shared a heart warming photograph of her daughter Blue Ivy on social networking site Tumblr, and some fans suspect that the image may be a direct response to ...
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South Africa Sheriff denied entry to auction Mandela ex-wifes belongings to pay debt
JOHANNESBURG - An auction to pay off a debt of Nelson Mandela's ex-wife failed to take place because no one would open her home to the sheriff. Officials and reporters gathered Tuesday outside the gated home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. No one responded to the doorbell although a black car sped out of the gates. Madikizela-Mandela is loved by many for her role in the anti-apartheid ...
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Carl Pistorius acquitted of culpable homicide
Pistorius was acquitted on a charge of culpable homicide by the Vanderbijlpark Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Medupe Simasiku said the state failed to prove a watertight case against him. "We do accept the decision of the court and we will not be taking any further action on this case moving forward," Simasiku said shortly after ...
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Government fund buys 25 stake in Independent News
Independent was recently purchased by the Sekunjalo Independent Media Consortium, which was set up by Dr Iqbal Surve to bring Independent News and Media SA "back home", after it was bought from Anglo American by the Irish holding company, Independent News and Media in ...
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AfriForum slated over ANC terror attacks ceremony
The ANC has lashed out at AfriForum's youth wing for observing a minute of silence for civilians "killed in ANC terror attacks between 1980 and ...
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Protesting parents demand new school
Johannesburg - Parents demanding a new school for their children protested in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, on Tuesday, the Western Cape education department said.Parents of children living in Philippi protested outside the Khanya Primary School in Mitchell's Plain, which their children currently attended, spokesperson Paddy Attwell said.The department said schools in Philippi were ...
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Miners hurt in clash with guards
Johannesburg - Ten striking miners at a chrome mine near Rustenburg were admitted to hospital after clashes with security guards, police said on Tuesday. "Ten miners were admitted to hospital. They were injured after security guards fired what are reported to be rubber bullets," police spokesperson Thulani Ngubane said. He added that officers had arrived at the mine, owned by ...
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Farlam commission Officer admits to drawing up Marikana plan
A statement written by Scott in November was entered as evidence on Monday. In it, Scott said: "The plan or strategy that I prepared and proposed for adoption was the first of its kind," the Farlam commission heard on Monday. Major General Charl Annandale, who headed the police's tactical response team during the unrest, denied that Scott had single-handedly formulated the ...
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Anene Booysen State drops all charges against Davids
The case against Jonathan Davids (22) and Johannes Kana (21) was postponed last month because the state was still waiting for forensic analysis, cellphone records and a handwriting report. Booysen (17) was found severely beaten and disembowelled at a construction site after spending several hours at a pub in Bredasdorp on February 2. She died soon after being hospitalised. Before she died, ...
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Tributes continue pouring in for Mbuli
Mbuli (46) collapsed while watching the Cheetahs' 27-13 Vodacom Super Rugby win over the Reds at the Free State Stadium on Saturday night. He was treated on the scene before being taken to the Mediclinic hospital in Bloemfontein, where he died. The archbishop said he thanked God for Mbuli's dedication to building the nation and for challenging South Africans to be the best they could ...
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ANC on Gupta report Name-dropping is human nature
"This is what happens in society and any organisation when people want favours. They will name-drop to exaggerate their weight and it happens all the time," Mantashe told journalists in Johannesburg following the ANC's latest national executive committee meeting. In the findings of a ministerial ...
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Charges against Anene suspect dropped
Cape Town - Charges against Jonathan Davids, who was accused of raping and murdering teenager Anene Booysen in February, were dropped in the Bredasdorp Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. According to EWN, the State withdrew its case against Davids, much to the delight of his family members, who were in court. Before she died, Booysen apparently identified Davids as one of her alleged ...
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Circumcision deaths outrage Zuma
Jacob Zuma on Tuesday expressed shock and outrage at the deaths of 27 boys who attended initiation schools in Mpumalanga."The whole country is outraged at this massive and unnecessary loss of young life at the hands of those who are supposed to nurture and protect them," Zuma said in a statement.Colonel Leonard Hlathi said on Monday police were investigating 26 murder cases and one ...
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South Africa Under pressure miners union demands 60 percent wage raise
South African employers are bracing themselves for the mother of strike seasons this year. As the end of May beckons, the country is braced for a series of employment negotiations, as sectoral wage contracts come under the spotlight.First to throw the gauntlet is the country's largest and richest trade union, the powerful, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which submitted its wage ...
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Ten South African miners hospitalised after chrome mine clash
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Ten striking miners at a chrome mine in South Africa were admitted to hospital after clashes with security guards, police said. "Ten miners were admitted to hospital. They were injured after security guards fired what are reported to be rubber bullets," police spokesman Thulani Ngubane said. He added that officers had arrived at the mine, owned by chemicals ...
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Security guards fire rubber bullets at South Africa strikers
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Security guards at a South African chrome mine owned by chemicals group Lanxess fired rubber bullets at stone-throwing workers on an illegal strike, a spokeswoman for the company said on ...
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Magistrates go on strike
Johannesburg - Magistrates around the country participated in a stay-away on Tuesday, demanding improved salaries and benefits, the Judicial Officers' Association of SA (Joasa) said. "The two-day strike was for yesterday [Monday] and today," Joasa president Nazeem Joemath said. Magistrates embarked on protest action in March. They demanded a single pay structure for the ...
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Men appear for disabled girls rape
Cape Town - Two men have appeared in the Khayelitsha Magistrate's Court for raping a mentally disabled teenager, The Daily Voice reported on Tuesday.The case against the men, aged 27, and 29, was postponed until next Tuesday for bail information, the newspaper reported.The 15-year-old girl was reportedly playing outside her home on Thursday when she was lured to a shack with the promise of ...
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Midrand student kidnapped still missing
The Sowetan reported on Tuesday. Philasandre Ngum, 19, was thought to have been abducted at the Boulders shopping centre on 3 May, the newspaper reported. Her mother, Catherine Ngum reportedly opened a missing person's case, distributed flyers and reviewed security footage from the mall showing her daughter entering, but not leaving. The Sowetan reported that she received a phone call ...
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Cape Town school hit by vandals
Cape Argus reported on Tuesday.Education MEC Donald Grant's spokesperson Bronagh Casey told the newspaper Beauvallon Secondary school, in Valhalla Park, had been burgled and vandalised three times this year and once last year.In the past week two classrooms and a feeding scheme room had reportedly been damaged.According to ...
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South African bishops criticize police presence at private wedding
The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference has criticized "the deployment of the police flying squad and other elements of the security forces" and "the use of an air-force base by a privately-chartered jet" during a recent wedding of prominent Indian entrepreneurs. "The South African Police Services should busy itself with combating crime, for which there ...
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Gupta metro cops sue for wrongful arrest
ANC spokesperson Gwede Mantashe said the ruling party's National Executive Committee was satisfied with the report they received on the Gupta scandal. ...
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Diplomat claims blackmail after dog bite
Pretoria - The deputy high commissioner of an Asian country has claimed a Pretoria couple is trying to blackmail him after his dog allegedly bit a woman on the ...
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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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