Warders at Krugersdorp Prison told parliamentarians on Thursday their colleagues might have used excessive force when three inmates died after assaults that took place behind the walls. An oversight committee that spoke to both warders and inmates following the weekend incidents said warders were deeply sorry about what had happened.
Township areas outside Klerksdorp will be without power on Monday night following the weekend’s freak storm that damaged about 1 900 homes. They will also be without water, except for what authorities were scheduled to provide in tankers. And many houses will remain without roofs.
The Stilfontein police dog unit used a winch to put a caravan back on its wheel after it was thrown about 20m during Sunday’s freak storm at Klerksdorp. The caravan was on the property of the Winner Chapel, a division of the Full Gospel Church, in Jouberton township. It was one of at least three places of worship damaged by the storm on Sunday afternoon.
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/ 13 February 2007
South Africans could face sanctions 20 years from now for being the only democracy left in the world — if the country looks after its democracy, Evita Bezuidenhout said in Johannesburg on Tuesday. ”And that’s worth fighting for,” she said in announcing her candidature for the presidency in 2009 at a press conference.
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/ 10 February 2007
President Thabo Mbeki failed to announce a development strategy to address the economy’s inherited structural deficiencies in his State of the Nation address on Friday, said the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). This affects the country’s ability to address unemployment, poverty, inequalities and the social ills related to these.
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/ 29 January 2007
The funeral of murdered historian David Rattray, scheduled for Thursday at Michaelhouse school, is being planned to accommodate 1 000 people. Rattray, an Anglo-Zulu War expert and a pioneer of ”raconteur tourism”, was murdered at his home in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 6 December 2006
Many South Africans can expect a bumper Christmas season — and probably a record season for retailers — in spite of the recent interest rate hikes. This is the forecast of the latest First National Bank and Bureau of Economic Research Consumer Confidence Index, released on Wednesday by the bank’s chief economist Cees Bruggemans.
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/ 16 November 2006
Glenn Agliotti, arrested on Thursday in connection with the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble, who was his business associate, could be joined in the dock by others in a continuing probe into organised crime. A further twist emerged on Thursday evening with a radio report that businessman Clinton Nassif had turned state witness.
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/ 19 September 2006
By the end of the second day of the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) congress in Midrand, there was still no clarity on whether there was any official opposition to the present leadership. The nominations for new national office bearers for Cosatu closed on Tuesday but no details on any possible new candidates were being released.
The traditional-medicines sector will soon be recognised in the department of health’s budget, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Friday. Speaking at a traditional-medicine workshop in Benoni, Tshabalala-Msimang said her department will also speed up the process of establishing an interim traditional-health council.