An all-women African team, which includes a climber who was part of the disastrous 1996 climb, plans to summit Mount Everest in 2020
Cope was to blame for the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan council remaining in ANC hands, Cope officials themselves conceded.
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/ 1 September 2010
VW South Africa shut down its Uitenhage plant on Wednesday because of a strike by the Numsa in the components industry.
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/ 27 February 2009
A three-year-old girl was allegedly beaten to death by two brothers, aged five and seven, in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape police said on Friday.
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/ 27 November 2008
Uitenhage’s long-forgotten Sixties rock’n’rollers are getting a revival. Lloyd Gedye reports.
The Department of Labour ordered on Wednesday that all work stop on a construction site at Volkswagen SA’s (VWSA) Uitenhage plant while it investigates the deaths of three workers in a crane accident. Three construction workers died on Tuesday when a crane they were dismantling collapsed and they were trapped in the debris.
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/ 28 October 2005
Firefighters were on Friday working to contain a fire in the Rocklands and Elandsriver areas outside Port Elizabeth, a fire official said. Meanwhile, technicians were battling to restore power in parts of the Klein Karoo left without electricity after a fire, Eskom said on Friday.
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/ 4 February 2005
The damage caused by the freak storm which struck the Eastern Cape town of Klipplaat on Wednesday evening has been estimated at R8,4-million. Five people were critically injured and more than 20 sustained minor injuries when the storm descended on the town shortly after 6pm.
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/ 3 February 2005
Five people were critically injured and at least 20 hurt when a tornado whipped through the town of Klipplaat near Jansenville in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday evening. ”The town looks like Baghdad. It’s dead. There was wind, rain, hail coming from all four corners,” Iqwezi municipality councillor Mannetjie Blouw said.
A 27-year-old Uitenhage man diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) does not pose any public health threat, says Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
A 49-year-old unemployed man appeared at Uitenhage Magistrates’ Court on charges of raping his eight-month-old daughter.