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The Kempton Park regional court will decide on Friday whether bail will be granted to nine people on trial for the multi-million dollar heist at Johannesburg International airport last month. Nazir Ismail, Magdalena Moonsamy, Ebrahim and Sean Soobramoney, Mzikise Maqwaza, Vusimuzi Ichumelo, Phutsitsi and Annanius Nepfumbe, and Danisa Nee Tsuma face charges of conspiracy to commit robbery.
The Independent Democrats (ID) in Cape Town have vowed to abstain in any vote that would hand control of the city council to the African National Congress, the Cape Argus reported on Thursday. Its website quoted ID caucus leader Simon Grindrod as saying: ”We have told the ANC: ‘Don’t count on us’.”
A five-cent slot machine in Atlantic City disgorged a -million windfall for an 84-year-old United States grandmother who promptly received four marriage proposals, according to reports on Thursday. Josephine Crawford had lost in the machine and was down to the last of her modest stake-money when she hit the jackpot on Tuesday evening at Harrah’s casino in the New Jersey gambling hotspot.
A series of strikes are to hit the country next month in protest against the World Trade Organisation’s Non-Agricultural Market Access (Nama) proposals, Cosatu said on Thursday. Spokesperson Patrick Craven said the Congress of South African Trade Unions is planning strikes in different sectors in May.
Police fired rubber bullets at 600 striking security guards at the Kaalfontein station between Pretoria and Johannesburg on Thursday morning. ”These people were on a train to go to the illegal security march in Johannesburg, but they started harassing and intimidating other passengers, so police fired rubber bullets at them,” said North Rand policing-area spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman.
Plettenberg Bay’s Bitou council has asked for advice from lawyers on how it should deal with the allegations against its municipal manager and its former mayor, speaker Lawrence Luiters said on Thursday. A report by the special investigating unit recommends criminal and disciplinary action against the two men.
Curfew and shoot-on-sight orders have been extended on the Nepalese capital to Friday morning, state television announced. ”The curfew has been extended until 3am on Friday,” said an onscreen strap-line announcement. The royal government had imposed the measure on Kathmandu from 2am Thursday until 8pm to thwart a mass demonstration.
At least six people were killed and dozens wounded when grenades exploded in towns in eastern and western Ethiopia, the latest in a string of mystery blasts in the country, police said on Thursday. Grenades were detonated at two bars and a church in the remote eastern town of Jijiga on Saturday evening.