The 62 South African alleged mercenaries in Zimbabwe will be transported to South Africa in Zimbabwean government vehicles, their lawyer Alwyn Griebenow said on Thursday. ”We offered to supply a bus to bring them back, but it has been turned down because they [government officials] say they are a security risk,” he said.
At least 42 miners were stuck 2,4km underground at Hartbeesfontein gold mine late on Wednesday after an earthquake shook the Klerksdorp mining area in the North West province. ”Rescue teams are working to open entry tunnels that were closed by rock falls,” said Ilja Graulich, spokesperson for DRDGold, which operates the mine.
Any effort to stop Jacob Zuma from becoming president would be like ”trying to fight against the big wave of the tsunami”, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi said on Monday. Speaking at a Cosatu conference in Midrand, Vavi stressed that this was his personal view.
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/ 14 February 2005
The City of Johannesburg is treating complaints about faulty traffic lights, which have caused several accidents, with the ”utmost urgency”, it said on Monday. This follows threats by motorists that they may take the city to court if it does not ensure that Johannesburg’s many defective traffic lights are repaired.
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/ 22 October 2004
The man suspected of abducting and killing Johannesburg student Leigh Matthews will remain behind bars more than a month after his bail application was postponed indefinitely in the Wynberg Regional Court on Friday. The case itself was postponed to December 3. This follows the termination of the services of Donovan Moodley’s lawyer.
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/ 15 October 2004
The man suspected of kidnapping and killing Johannesburg student Leigh Matthews will appear in the Wynberg Regional Court on October 22 for a formal bail hearing. The date was set by a Randburg magistrate on Friday. The bail application by Donovan Moodley (24) is expected to be opposed by the state.
The deadline for doctors to obtain dispensing licences was extended by the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday. Doctors, who were supposed to have obtained the licence by Tuesday, now have until July 2 to do so. Acting Judge Johann Kruger said it would not be in the interests of justice to allow the regulations to come into force before he had decided on their constitutionality.
The election race in KwaZulu-Natal closed in on the halfway mark on Thursday evening with no indication whether the African National Congress or the Inkatha Freedom Party would win the province. The Democratic Alliance, which may tip the province into the IFP’s hands, was at 9,46%.
Allegations of political violence and vote rigging continued in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday morning. Incidents included the shooting of a Democratic Alliance councillor, security forces evacuating African National Congress party agents, and the Inkatha Freedom Party laying another complaint of irregularities with election authorities.
KwaZulu-Natal: Two-million voted
The case of controversial Durban businessman Schabir Shaik was postponed in the city’s magistrate’s court on Friday to January 17 next year. Friday’s case relates to Shaik allegedly being in possession of minutes of a Cabinet meeting on the multibillion-rand arms deal.