Twenty-seven people are still missing after their ship sunk off the coast of Port Alfred, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Thursday. ”The Fortune Express [a bulk carrier] has launched a lifeboat and her crew are continuing to search for survivors,” said search and rescue coordinator Mark Hellenberg.
The bodies of three murdered laundry workers may still be exhumed as part of further investigation into the case, police said on Wednesday. On Monday, the case against six people accused of murdering the women was struck off the roll due to insufficient evidence.
The case against six people accused of murdering three laundry workers was struck off the roll at the Vereeniging Magistrate’s Court on Monday due to insufficient evidence against the accused. ”The big problem is that the case has been dealt with in a very, very amateurish way,” the magistrate said.
Metallica fans can expect a broad range of the band’s music — spanning more than 20 years of its career — at Saturday’s Coca-Cola Colab Music Festival at Supersport Park in Centurion. ”It’s just us doing our thing,” said drummer Lars Ulrich in Johannesburg on Friday. ”We always play stuff from all our different records. We’re playing our full headlining show … covering all different sides of Metallica,” he said.
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The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) hopes to have posted 90% of the local government election results by sunset, its chairperson Brigalia Bam said on Thursday. A 47% voter turnout had been recorded by 10.45am, Bam said in a briefing at the IEC’s national operations centre in Pretoria.
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Provisional results show a 46,72% poll with just more than 14-million votes cast from a pool of 21 054 957 registered voters. The African National Congress had swept the board in the Northern Cape by 9.45am on Thursday, and the DA’s worst fear seemed to have come true in the Western Cape.
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The Democratic Alliance was trailing the African National Congress in most wards as municipal election results were trickling in on Thursday morning. The African National Congress had captured 14 of the 20 counted Western Cape municipalities by 8am on Thursday.
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/ 22 February 2006
Arguments that a moratorium on foreign land ownership will scare off investors are ”ideological and hysterical”, the chairperson of the panel of experts that recommended the moratorium said on Wednesday. He said the panel’s recommendation is important and informed by previous policy initiatives.
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/ 20 February 2006
The Mamelodi campus of the University of Pretoria has been closed down for a week amid intimidation by striking students, the Student Representative Council (SRC) said. SRC deputy president Adel Vlok said students were ”using foul language and getting aggressive”.
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/ 7 February 2006
Chaos erupted outside the Vereeniging Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning when six people accused of murdering three laundry workers were released on bail. Emotions ran high outside the courtroom, with black protesters dancing in the streets and throwing stones at the cars of family members of the white accused.