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/ 31 January 2007
Guests at The Saxon hotel, in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg, can listen to music while under water in the pool. It’s one of the tiny details — along with the koi ponds surrounding the luxury suites, the selection of biltong served with every cocktail and the stone water feature crisply running through the spa — that makes this hotel one of the best on the continent.
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/ 30 January 2007
Next door to Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport is Bonaero Park, born around 1967 — mainly to house the employees of arms manufacturer Denel. If the Airports Company South Africa has its way, the suburb of roughly 800 houses will be demolished by 2015 to enable the airport to extend its old runways and build two new ones.
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/ 26 January 2007
The new year has seen a massive upsurge in criminal attempts to extract money from ATMs using explosives, with a startling 23 attacks in January. Eighty-nine ATMs have been attacked by criminals since 2005, according to the South African Banking Risk Information Centre.
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/ 24 January 2007
Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride on Wednesday denied being drunk on the night he rolled his car in late December last year. McBride had left a metro year-end function after he played a game of football and was "not feeling well". But he said he has no "personal recollection" from the time he left the function.
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/ 24 January 2007
Alcohol brands are ubiquitous in South Africa. A red castle rimmed in gold, for example, is splashed across cricket pitches and stitched on to players’ uniforms. It represents one of South Africa’s most popular beers. But does the country need regulations to restrict alcohol advertisements?
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/ 24 January 2007
Self-extinguishing cigarettes, hefty fines and pictures of rotting lungs are among the ways in which the Department of Health plans to beef up South Africa’s tobacco-control laws, which are currently riddled with loopholes. Suggestions to change the existing Tobacco Amendment Bill will be made to Parliament’s health committee at public hearings in Cape Town this week.
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/ 17 January 2007
Telkom came under fire this week after international news agency Reuters criticised the company for high telecommunications prices and low-quality bandwidth. Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer told <i>Business Day</i> newspaper that while his company had been expanding in countries such as India, he was reluctant to do the same thing in South Africa.
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/ 16 January 2007
More than 3Â 500kg of toxic waste has been illegally dumped in a landfill site in Walkerville, south of Johannesburg, since late December. Working in the scorching heat at the Walkerville de Deur landfill site on Tuesday, the IFRT Spill Response team had to plough through metres of stinking garbage to locate two bags, weighing about 50kg each.
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/ 11 January 2007
During December, when South Africans seem determined to be merry or drown their sorrows with the help of alcohol, more than 1 000 intoxicated drivers were arrested throughout the country. In KwaZulu-Natal, 673 people were caught for drunken driving from December 1 to January 10.
The apparent "emergency" in Eden Park to which Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride was rushing before he rolled his car in December did not exist, according to media reports on Tuesday. Meanwhile, police have confirmed they will investigate whether McBride was drunk at the time of the accident.