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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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Marikana mob killing unrelated to strike
Johannesburg - A case against four men arrested for alleged murder and public violence in Wonderkop, Marikana, has been postponed by the Ga-Rankuwa Magistrate's court, North West police said on Thursday. Police spokesperson Thulani Ngubani said the court postponed the matter to 28 May for a bail application, during an appearance on Wednesday. He said the police initially arrested 10 ...
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Woman leads cops to hit-and-run driver
Cape Argus reported on Thursday. Roux, 59, a former national cycling champion, was reportedly killed in Bottelary Road on 12 May, while riding with his son. Police spokesperson Andre Traut told the newspaper a 51-year-old man handed himself over to police on Wednesday. His vehicle was confiscated, and would be examined. The Cape Argus reported that one of the women who helped find him was ...
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Five of KZNs most wanted caught
Johannesburg - Five of the most wanted criminals in KwaZulu-Natal were arrested on Thursday, police said. "In the early hours of Thursday, police arrested five most wanted suspects aged between 28 and 83 who had terrorised the community in different policing areas," Captain Thulani Zwane said. The men had allegedly been on the run for three months and were found hiding in the ...
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Dead man convicted of robbery
Durban - A Port Shepstone man who was reported dead has been sentenced to five years' jail for robbery. His mother, who spread rumours of her son's death to keep police off his trail, was convicted of plotting the elaborate scheme. Police spokesperson Captain Thulani Zwane said Alvin Naidoo, 28, was a member of a three-man gang that robbed a man of his money, cellphone and ...
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Mixed results in nationwide by-elections
Johannesburg - The IFP has narrowly won a ward seat from the ANC in Albert Luthuli (Elukwatini/Carolina) municipality in a Mpumalanga by-election, Independent Electoral Commission results showed on Thursday. Inkatha Freedom Party candidate Thembinkosi William Zulu took 393 votes against African National Congress candidate Manqoba Ardson Malaza's 343 in the by-election on Wednesday. ...
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South Africa Water Debt and Leaks Plague City Residents
Cape Town - Nokuzola Bulana has a problem with leaks. The water that drips from the pipes of the toilet outside her home in Khayelitsha, a large semi-informal township on the fringes of Cape Town, South Africa goes to waste and drives up her water bill. Bulana, a water activist, says she fixed the leaks in January but water on the floor at the base of the toilet, which is inside a stall painted ...
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2 appear for killing youth at taxi rank
Johannesburg - Two men accused of killing a 17-year-old boy at a taxi rank, appeared in the Kimberley Magistrate's Court, police said on Thursday. Royden Naidoo, 19, and Daylain Haai, 21, were out on bail of R300 each, said police spokesperson Sergio Kock. They would be back in court on 23 July. They were charged with stabbing to death Nkosinathi Ephraim Mbi, 17, at the Roodepan Taxi ...
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HIGHLIGHTS-South African central bank comments on interest rates
Thu May 23, 2013 9:35am EDT (Adds comments on labour relations) JOHANNESBURG May 23 (Reuters) - Below are comments from South African Reserve Bank Governor Gill Marcus at her latest decision on the repo rate. INFLATION "Inflation is now expected to average 0.1 percentage points lower in 2013 and 2014 at 5.8 percent and 5.2 percent, respectively, and to average 5.0 percent in ...
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Phiyega rejects newspaper report
Sowetan newspaper article shortly after the Marikana shootings, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry heard on Thursday. Under cross-examination by Dali Mpofu, for the wounded and arrested miners, Phiyega denied quotes attributed to her in the newspaper. According to the article, Phiyega said police should not be sorry about shooting dead 34 miners on 16 August during the wage-related strike at ...
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DA wants independent probe for Watekloof
Johannesburg - An independent investigation into the clearance for a private plane to land at Waterkloof Air Force Base is needed, the DA said on Thursday. The final justice, crime prevention, and security (JCPS) ministerial cluster report on the landing at Waterkloof reinforced the need for an independent investigation into "Guptagate", DA spokesperson David Maynier said in a ...
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Premier North West needs name change
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ID cards roll-out in July says Pandor
Johannesburg - Green, bar-coded identity books will be replaced with identity smart cards from July, Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday. "We will begin with the issuing of the cards to new applicants and those who need re-issuing of identity documents from July this year," she told reporters in Pretoria. The South African company, Altech Card Solutions, had won ...
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Phiyega back at Marikana inquiry
Ian Farlam , ordered that Phiyega be sworn-in again.Phiyega's cross-examination was interrupted last month when Dali Mpofu, for the wounded and arrested miners, was stabbed in East London in an apparent robbery.Mpofu had been in the middle of his cross-examination.On Thursday, he recapped several aspects he had covered with Phiyega before the disruption.Mpofu questioned Phiyega on whether ...
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Drug dealer Nabolisa gets laptop in jail
The New Age reported on Thursday."The applicant is to be allowed to receive reading material including a personal computer laptop and internet access, which he will use under supervision," Judge Kathy Satchwell reportedly said.The Nigerian brought the application in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday.According ...
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Waterkloof report flawed - Sandu
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Parliament set to debate initiate deaths
Johannesburg - Parliament will probably debate the deaths of initiates at the end of the month, the African National Congress chief whip's office said on Thursday. "The Speaker of the National Assembly (NA) has agreed to Chief Whip Dr Mathole Motshekga's request that Parliament conduct a debate on the tragic deaths of initiates...," spokesperson Moloto Mothapo said in a ...
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South Africa Zuma expresses outrage at circumcision related deaths
South African President Jacob Zuma has expressed shock and outrage at the deaths of 30 young men at a traditional circumcision clinic in the country's Mpumalanga province. The circumcision, seen as a rite of passage for millions of young men in the country, has seen almost 30 young men die this week.Addressing the House of Traditional Leaders in parliament, Zuma called for swift justice for ...
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Kufuor Back Home From Zurich Cape Town
John Agyekum Kufuor Former President John Agyekum Kufuor arrived home Tuesday after speaking engagements in Cape Town, South African and Zurich, Switzerland respectively during which he trumped up growing opportunities for investment in Africa that has seen it been courted by all major powers in the world, Frank Agyekum, a Special Aide and Spokesperson has said. Former President Kufuor told his ...
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E-tolls Cosatu opposes govt decision
Johannesburg - Cosatu is opposing government's decision not to allow a planned protest on Johannesburg highways against e-tolls, the union federation said on Thursday. "We are contesting this decision. We hope we will manage to persuade the government to what we think is a legitimate and constitutional protest with very wide public support," said Cosatu spokesperson Patrick ...
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Gupta jet Agang blames politicians
Johannesburg - Public servants should not be scapegoats for the politicians who were ultimately responsible for the irregular clearance and landing of a privately chartered plane at Waterkloof Air Force Base, Agang SA said on Thursday."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 ...
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South Africa's small but growing cruise industry
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