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/ 3 April 2001

Death bus driver ?pressed accelerator?

THE driver of a bus which crashed in eastern South Africa in September 1999, killing 27 British tourists and a South African tour guide, pressed the accelerator instead of the brake, his lawyer said. Representing Titus Phillip Dube, 41, who was found guilty of culpable homicide in February, Gerhard Kotzee asked the Lydenburg Regional Court […]

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/ 14 March 2001

Farmers slam State for ?stealing? land

SOUTH African farmers have vowed protests after the government issued its first expropriation order this week against a white farmer reluctant to give his land back to the original black owners. According to the notice, Willem Pretorius’ Boomplaats Farm will legally belong to the State as of Tuesday next week after which it will be […]