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The municipality, that includes Potchefstroom and Ventersdorp, had been placed under administration as per a provincial executive committee decision
While travelling the back roads, cities and towns of South Africa on an extended project, Ishay Govender-Ypma finds that people’s goodwill wins out.
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The ANC has won all six contested wards in the Tlokwe by-elections to take back control of the embattled municipality.
The DA and the ANC can now only wait for the outcome of Tlokwe by-election voting after a fierce battle for control over the municipality.
Engineering faculty appointed as the first tertiary institution to be involved with the practical training of students of NTIP.
NWU management has defended its controversial language policy, which sees non Afrikaans-speaking students using translation headsets during lectures.
The daggers of alliance leaders’ are out for the executive leadership of North West University, which they accuse of being racist.
A forensic investigation has found large-scale mismanagement in Potchefstroom by the ANC.
The ANC won the Potchefstroom municipality in North West comfortably, in spite of the party’s failure to register candidates in seven wards.
The African National Congress may have handed Potchefstroom on a platter to the Democratic Alliance through registration errors.
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/ 16 February 2009
Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting says the pressure will be all on South Africa when the teams play for No. 1 Test team status.
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/ 7 February 2009
One of the signatories to a compromise settlement which would end the legal battles over renaming Potchefstroom Tlokwe has reneged on the agreement.
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/ 17 October 2008
The Council of Muslim Theologians has decried an incident in which people broke into a mosque, smeared blood and left pigs’ heads behind.
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/ 18 September 2008
SuperSport United skipper Ricardo Katza was very happy with his team’s performance in their 3-1 routing of Platinum Stars on Wednesday night.
The disappearance of delegates’ names and other data from voters’ rolls is apparently rife at regional ANC conferences.
It was going to take something special to win this tight Nedbank Cup semifinal between favourites Mamelodi Sundowns and AmaZulu at Potchefstroom’s Olen Park on Sunday. The piece of individual magic came from Downs Zimbabwean international midfielder whose stunning 66th minute goal earned the Brazilians their place in the final.
Moroka Swallows and Thanda Royal Zulu (TRZ) remained in the positions they occupied before their 0-0 draw in an entertaining Premier Soccer League match at the Olen Park Stadium in Potchefstroom on Sunday. Swallows are in seventh place with 32 points and TRZ are seven places behind with 21.
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/ 2 February 2008
The second meeting of the Yellow Pages Ultimate Athletics series, held at the PUK McArthur Stadium in Potchefstroom, was an evening of mixed fortunes. The weather played a huge part as a fierce wind and dust storm caused several events to be cancelled while others were interrupted and completed later in the evening.
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/ 3 November 2007
Veteran bowler Shaun Pollock has been included in a 12-man squad named for the first Test against New Zealand at the Wanderers from Thursday, but it is by no means a foregone conclusion that he will play. Although he travelled to Pakistan for both the Test and one-day internationals, Pollock did not play in either of the Test matches.
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/ 3 November 2007
On a day on which 18 wickets fell, Friedel de Wet claimed his tenth five wicket haul with figures of six for 50 to give South Africa A a commanding lead of 271 at the end of the second day of their four-day match against New Zealand at Sedgars Park on Friday.
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/ 27 September 2007
Festival-goers at the Aardklop National Arts Festival, under way in Potchefstroom, were forced to abandon the afternoon shows half way through on Thursday when the electricity went out in most of the town. It was not immediately clear what caused the power failure but several shows were interrupted and later scrapped as performers and audiences alike waited for the power to return.
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/ 19 September 2007
Some Potchefstroom residents are intent on resorting to legal action if the city’s name changes continue, Action Potchefstroom said on Wednesday. A residents’ meeting approved a decision that the North West minister of developmental, local government and housing, Howard Yawa, be challenged in court.
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/ 8 September 2007
A bungling South Africa lost 3-1 to a majestic Ghana team in an Olympic soccer qualifier at the Olen Park Stadium in Potchefstroom on Saturday. Ghana striker Prince Tagoe scored twice and midfielder Obed Ansah netted a splendid goal to join Nigeria at the top of the three-team group competing for a place at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
The Leopards pulled of a surprise 20-17 victory against the Blue Bulls in a compulsory friendly match played at Olënpark in Potchefstroom on Friday night. After trailing 14-0 at the break, the home team fought back to a 17-14 lead halfway through the second half.
A group opposed to Potchefstroom’s expected name change to Tlokwe has threatened to ”punish” the town’s residents if the mayor doesn’t reverse the name-change procedure within 40 days, a mayoral spokesperson said on Thursday. Meanwhile, another street sign bearing former president Nelson Mandela’s name has been defaced.
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/ 14 January 2007
The Titans took a huge step to retaining their Supersport Series title — which they shared last season with the Dolphins — when they beat the Highveld Lions by seven wickets in their match at Sedgars Park on Saturday. In Durban, the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins were staring down the barrel of an innings defeat against the Diamond Eagles.
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/ 13 January 2007
Highveld Lions speedster Charl Langeveldt weighed in with six wickets on Friday to put the brakes on the high-flying Titans in their Supersport Series match being played at Sedgars Park, Potchefstroom. The Lions started off encouragingly with Blake Snijman and Alviro Petersen putting on 73 for the first wicket.
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/ 10 December 2006
India beat the Rest of South Africa by 96 runs on the third day of their four-day match at Sedgars Park on Saturday. With rain and lightning threatening, and the light becoming increasingly gloomy, India wrapped up the Rest of South Africa’s tail-end, with the last three wickets falling for just six runs.
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/ 7 December 2006
A century by Irfan Pathan helped India to a respectable total of 316-7 at close of play on the first day of their four-day warm-up match against the Rest of South Africa at Sedgars Park in Potchefstroom on Thursday. Pathan was not out on 111 and Zaheer Khan had nine. India, sent in to bat first, were all at sea in the morning session as Morne Morkel mowed down the top order.
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/ 5 December 2006
India will have the benefit of playing on one of the best batting pitches in South Africa as they warm up for a Test series against the host nation — but they will also have to deal with another battery of fast-bowlers. The Rest of South Africa team who face the Indians in a four-day match from Thursday include Mornantau Hayward.