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Dept must pay up over teacher axing
Johannesburg - The Northern Cape has been ordered to compensate a teacher fired for refusing to alter a pupil's marks, the education department said on Thursday. "Indeed, as the department, we have received the award regarding this case," provincial spokesperson Sydney Stander said. According to a statement by Solidarity, the Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) ruled that ...
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Ministry worries over police gang links
Johannesburg - Reports of collusion between police and criminals in the Western Cape are a serious allegation, the police ministry said on Thursday. "Should they be proven true, they could compromise and derail efforts of crime reduction, not only in the Western Cape but the whole country," spokesperson Zweli Mnisi said in a statement. The department was responding to a report that ...
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11-year sentence for Kruger trespassing
Johannesburg - A man was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by the Nelspruit Regional Court on Thursday for trespassing and carrying out a restricted activity in the Kruger National Park. Abel Mfana Mashabane, 26, from Phalaborwa, pleaded guilty to charges of trespassing in a designated area, after he and his friends were caught walking through the park at Houtboschrand on 17 May 2012. Mashabane ...
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Initiation a touchy topic in Mpumalanga
Kwamhlanga - In Mpumalanga's Nkangala district, where 30 initiates have lost their lives so far this winter, ritual circumcision, known locally as Ingoma, is a taboo subject. After meeting the grief-stricken Motsepe family whose son, Collen Modisha, 16, died at an initiation school in Verena, a Sapa correspondent visited the local police station to find more cases and possibly arrange to ...
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South African Miners Demand Salary Increases
Pretoria, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa has demanded a wage increase of 15 percent for employees and skilled miners who work both underground and on the surface, local television published today. The request, which implies a minimum salary of 7.000 rand ($ 750 USD) for gold and coal miners, increased the fears that the strikes spread to the rest of the ...
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Avoid repeat of Waterkloof incident - SACP
Johannesburg - The SA Communist Party has urged the state to avoid a repeat of the landing of a private jet at the Waterkloof Air Base, it said on Thursday. "The SACP notes the release of the report of the investigationThe SACP urges all relevant state agencies and departments to conclude the necessary actions in relation to disciplinary actions and strengthening our control measures to ...
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Mthethwa selects heads of firearm inquiry
Johannesburg - Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has appointed the people who will head an inquiry into firearms, his department said on Thursday. The minister's spokesperson Zweli Mnisi said Soraya Hassim and Advocate Rams Ramashia were selected to head the investigation that would probe non-compliance of the Firearms Control Act. Hassim currently practised administrative law that dealt with ...
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KZN health to restart cancer machines
Durban - Two state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines used to treat cancer patients, will be operational again soon at Addington Hospital in Durban, the KwaZulu-Natal health department said on Thursday. Health ...
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Hummer driver to learn fate soon
Pretoria - The Hummer driver who crashed into three motorcyclists, killing two and causing a third to lose a limb, will be sentenced later this month. Pretoria North Regional Court Magistrate Ben van Schalkwyk said on Thursday Zambian national Indi Himalindi Chiyabu would be sentenced on 31 May. Submitting evidence in aggravation of Chiyabu's sentence, prosecutor Tanya Carstens called for a ...
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Opposition MPs ‘killed for apartheid’
Parliament, Cape Town - Men in opposition benches were part of the apartheid-era army that maimed and killed people, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on ...
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Minister salutes CAR heroines
Cape Town - Two women stole the show in the National Assembly on Wednesday for their bravery during the March battle between SA soldiers and Central African Republic (CAR) rebels. Opening debate on her Budget Vote, Defence ...
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Cops didnt help victims inquiry hears
Dali Mpofu , for the arrested and injured miners, asked whether police were not trained to help injured people or give first aid. Mpofu played footage taken on 16 August, when police shot dead the miners at Lonmin's platinum mine. The footage shows officers searching those lying down and later standing around the scene. In response, national police ...
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Lucas elected new Northern Cape premier
Sylvia Lucas was officially elected and sworn in as new premier, said a legislature official on Thursday. "She will deliver her inaugural speech on 30 May 2013," said Mpho Marina, spokesperson in the Speaker's office. Former ...
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Former tax official jailed for fraud
Johannesburg - A former senior official of the SA Revenue Service (Sars) was sent to prison for 15 years by the Western Cape High Court on Thursday Edmund Fredericks was found guilty of racketeering, fraud and forgery. While working for the receiver, Fredericks developed a scam that cost Sars R1.3m. In 2006, Fredericks and an accomplice, Aaron Carelse, would submit false VAT claims, using ghost ...
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Mothers testify at fitness test inquiry
Pietermaritzburg - Two mothers whose sons died after a fitness test in KwaZulu-Natal testified at a commission of inquiry in Pietermaritzburg on ...
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Hummer driver irresponsible - State
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Court rules against magistrates on pay
Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma's decision to increase the salaries of regional magistrates and regional court presidents by 5% and not 7% remained in place after a Constitutional Court judgment on Thursday. The court dismissed an application to confirm an order of the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria that set aside Zuma's decision. The Independent Commission for the ...
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South Africa Guptagate Report whitewash Reinforces Need for an Independent Investigation
Aircraft parked at South Africa's Waterkloof Air force Base which is considered a national key point. The final Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster Report of the Landing of a Chartered Commercial Aircraft at Air Force Base Waterkloof reinforces the need for an independent investigation into "Guptagate". The final report was deliberately and cynically withheld from ...
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South Africa Agang Response to the Release of the Gupta Report
Aircraft parked at South Africa's Waterkloof Air force Base which is considered a national key point. Johannesburg - ‘We note with interest the Government's report into the failures of governance that led to the landing of the Gupta family's aircraft at Waterkloof Air Force base. ‘The report confirms that ‘a culture of undue influence, underpinned by poor ...
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Zuma condemns abuse of name
Jacob Zuma has condemned the practice of using his name and that of Cabinet Ministers to secure privileges or flout government procedures. "It is unfortunate that some officials and members of the public would resort to that practice of using and abusing the names of members of Cabinet in this manner to further their own ends, as alleged," Zuma said in a statement on Thursday. "We ...
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Families walk out on Phiyega
Rustenburg - The families of mineworkers killed during the Marikana unrest walked out of the Farlam Commission of Inquiry on Thursday during the continued cross-examination of national police ...
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Zuma wants initiations to be re-examined
Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. "As we speak, our children are being killed by old people during the circumcision ritualsthat are part of the tradition of initiation of young boys into manhood," he told members of the National House of Traditional Leaders. Mpumalanga health department announced on Thursday that the number of boys, who died at initiation schools in the province, ...
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N Cape opposition stay away in protest
From left, Northern Cape ANC Social Development MEC Alvin Botes, provincial chairperson and Finance MEC John Block and MP Yolanda Botha. (File: City ...
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Dagga worth R4m seized on N1
Eyewitness News reported on Thursday. Two suspects were arrested in the drug busts - amongst the biggest ever in the Western Cape. The first man was arrested when R2.4m worth of dagga was found in his possession at a roadblock last week. Kenny Africa, Western Cape traffic chief, told EWN the second suspect was arrested on Wednesday. "Our officers stopped a Mercedes Benz and another ...
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South Africa Clash of Booker titans
With freedom of expression under threat in South Africa again, Anton Harber recalls an electric confrontation between two Booker prize winners, JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, about the censorship of a third - Salman ...
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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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