With many job losses caused by the looting and arson of July, the Midlands town faces an uncertain future
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The Moerane inquiry heard that the assassins of three Richmond municipal officials are still at large
As more businesspeople go missing, private investigators tell of a sophisticated global network.
The Boekbedonnerd festival has just finished in Richmond, Northern Cape. I return home to Johannesburg with a heavy heart.
Richmond’s former mayor recalls the town’s
low-grade war in the early 1990s with Niren Tolsi.
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/ 14 February 2008
A new, leaner Cabinet for Tanzania was sworn in Wednesday, its predecessor having fallen apart last week amid a corruption scandal. President Jakaya Kikwete dissolved his last Cabinet on February 7 after Edward Lowassa stepped down as prime minister. He and other lawmakers were implicated in a $179-million corruption scandal.
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/ 7 February 2008
Tanzania Prime Minister Edward Lowassa told Parliament Thursday he had tendered his resignation to the president after being implicated in a corruption scandal over an energy deal. "Because I have been linked to this scandal, I have decided to write to the president asking to be relieved of my duties," the premier told lawmakers.
United States football star Michael Vick pleaded guilty and publicly apologised on Monday for his role in a dog-fighting case that will land him in jail and already has prompted his suspension from the sport. Standing ramrod straight, Vick said ”guilty” when asked by US District Judge Henry Hudson how he would plead.
No one had come forward by Monday morning to claim the only winning ticket for a ,3-million (R2,25-billion) lottery jackpot sold near the Indiana-Ohio state line, lottery officials said. ”We don’t how many people — if it’s one person, or a hundred people — is the winner,” said Mark Sirkin, a spokesperson for the Hoosier Lottery.
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/ 24 September 2003
The United States East Coast’s recovery from Hurricane Isabel has been dealt a setback by another round of storms that caused renewed flooding, flattened trees that had withstood the hurricane and knocked out power to thousands of customers, some for the second time.
Hurricane Marty loses steam