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Bike Accident at Myrtle and Willoughby
Any details about what appears to have been a bike-car collision at about 10:35 p.m. tonight?
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Gauteng premier warns taxi industry
Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane has warned taxi operators not to stage disruptive protests against the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system to be launched in Johannesburg next week, The Star reports. "The taxi industry can't be a law unto themselves," Mokonyane said during a. . . .
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Cope leaders flee angry mob
CHAOS erupted yesterday when three top leaders of the Congress of the People had to flee an angry crowd at an East London restaurant last night. Cope's president, Mosiuoa Lekota, head of policy, Smuts Ngonyama, and national spokesperson, Phillip Dexter, had gone to the. . . .
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New twist in Richter murder trial
The wife of murdered conservationist Franz Richter has lodged her second bail application in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on the grounds that Correctional Services has ordered that her 18-month-old baby be taken away from the prison from 1 September 2009. Seliwe. . . .
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Springbok player nabbed for speeding
HIGH FLIER: Wynand OlivierBlue Bulls and Springbok centre Wynand Olivier was arrested for speeding on the N1 north highway near Midrand, Johannesburg metro police said today. "I was told by people that he is a rugby player, but what I can confirm is that a man driving a silver Golf 5 was. ....
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Swine flu toll rises to 9
NINE South Africans have died of swine flu since the disease broke out in the country on June 18. An unidentified person believed to have contracted swine flu died at the weekend. The swine flu variant of the H1N1 virus is expected to be confirmed as the cause of death today. A. ....
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Girl, 9, drowns in unfenced sewage dam
GRIM END: Emergency Services personnel carry awaythe body of Boitumelo Motlhokoane yesterday Picture: LEBOHANG MASHILOANEFriend allegedly pushed her in A NINE-year-old from Soweto has drowned in an unfenced sewage dam this weekend. Boitumelo Motlhokoane, who was cared for by her grandmother after her mother died in 2003, and her eight-year-old friend were...
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‘Landlords Tweeted us badly’
STREAMING IN TO CATCH THE FIGHT: Some of the Tweets relating to Roy Blumenthal’s fallout with his landlords, Chris Bass and Caroline CrowtherTenant puts clips of fallout on Net AN EVICTION row between a landlord and his tenant is playing out over the Internet. Illustrator Roy Blumenthal filmed his Saturday night...
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‘Provoked’ Zanu-PF in Cabinet walk-out
ANGRY over charges of election-rigging, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party walked out of a Cabinet meeting yesterday to review the work of the unity government it has formed with its opponents. In a sign of serious tensions within the six-month-old. . . .
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‘ANC materialism the new enemy’
CRITICAL: Blade Nzimande and Jeremy Cronin, of the SACP, in Braamfontein yesterday Picture: TYRONE ARTHURRuling party under attack by alliance partner SOUTH African Communist Party leader Blade Nzimande has commended the work of the Public Service Commission in rooting out the large number of senior civil servants with private business interests. Nzimande made...
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Mineworker dies from gas suffocation
A MINEWORKER died at the Goldfields' Driefontein mine near Carltonville after he inhaled gasses which led to suffocation, the National Union of Mine Workers (NUM) said on Saturday. "The worker was on night shift last night when he entered a zone were gasses were released. . . .
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Taliban cut off voters’ fingers
Taliban militants cut off the ink-stained fingers of two Afghan voters in the militant south during the presidential election, the country's top election monitoring group said Saturday. Two voters who had dipped their index fingers in purple ink - a fraud prevention. . . .
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Sri Lanka win first kiwi test
SRI Lanka defeated New Zealand in their own backyard by 202 runs in the first cricket Test today to take the lead in the two-match series. The tourists, set a target of 413 runs, were bowled out for 210 in their second innings during the post-lunch session of the fifth and final. . ....
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Metro cop shot dead while issuing fine
A METRO police officer was shot dead in Nyanga, Cape Town this morning while issuing a traffic fine, Western Cape police said. Superintendent Andre Traut said the officer pulled over a taxi at 7:35am, and was in the process of issuing a fine when a number of people approached him. . . .
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Bolt goes for 3rd gold
FOR the last time, Usain Bolt will repeat that rhetorical question he has answered over and over again at this year's world championships - "Who faster?" As if anyone still questions what has been written on billboards and T-shirts across Berlin for weeks. But today, he. . . .
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Water to be cut in Noordgesig
Residents of Noordgesig near Orlando in Soweto will be without water next Thursday, August 27, due to infrastructure upgrades in the area, Johannesburg Water said on Friday. Water supply would be interrupted between 8am and 8pm, spokesman Baldwin Matsimela said in a. . . .
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Police ‘failing to investigate Niehaus’
Carl NiehausThe Democratic Alliance has complained to the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD), saying police had failed to investigate fraud charges against former ANC spokesman Carl Niehaus and former Gauteng premier Paul Mashatile. "Little progress has been made in the case I laid six. . . .
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‘No cover up for ex-minister’s wife’
There are no reasons to protect the wife of former correctional services minister Ngconde Balfour from a prisons housing scandal, Parliament's correctional services committee heard today. Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said there was no "cover up" or attempt to "protect". . . .
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Icy weather hits South Africa
Another cold snap is snaking its way across the country, bringing snow and rain to areas in the Western and Northern Cape, the SA Weather Service said today. Forecaster Puseletso Mofokeng said a cold front was hitting the extreme western half of the country bringing heavy rains. . . .
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Cosatu slams SABC over Mpofu deal
The blame for costly legal proceedings and the settlement paid to former CEO Dali Mpofu must firmly be placed on the shoulders of the former SABC board, Cosatu said today. Such expenditure was "highly regrettable" at a time when the SABC expected to lose R1 billion in the. . . .
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