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/ 30 November 2005
Agreeing to a plea bargain in the case of convicted Swiss sex tourist Peter Zimmerman was the best that could be done under the circumstances, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Wednesday. Zimmerman was fined R10 000 and given a one-year suspended sentence for five years.
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/ 13 September 2005
One person has died following a typhoid outbreak in the Delmas area in Mpumalanga, a report said on Monday. The latest figures say that 287 cases of typhoid have been reported since the outbreak on August 22. Eighty-nine of the cases have been hospitalised. There are 1 406 people suffering from diarrhoea.
Striking municipal workers will regroup at the Methodist cathedral in the Johannesburg city centre on Friday morning to continue protest action against their salary increase for the year. Earlier, the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of the workers who had gone on the rampage.
About 161 people were injured when two Metrorail trains collided in Soweto on Wednesday evening, Johannesburg Emergency Services spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said. A train ploughed into a stationary train at Merafe station in Naledi following a power failure.
Sixty people were injured, 10 critically, on Wednesday night when two Metrorail trains collided at Merafe station in Naledi, Soweto, following a power failure in the area. ”What happened was that a train crashed into a stationary one due to the power failure,” said Metrorail marketing and communications manager Brenda Motau.
Former president Nelson Mandela will not have a high-profile birthday — on July 18 — this year, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said on Thursday.
The rape case against Orlando Pirates player Benedict ”Tso” Vilakazi was postponed on Wednesday for a day by the Johannesburg Regional Court. This was after his lawyers asked for time to bring an urgent application at the high court to review the regional court’s decision to go ahead with the trial.
Construction of the high-speed train connecting Johannesburg, Pretoria and Johannesburg International airport will begin ”today”, Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa said on Saturday. He also announced Bombela, a French-Canadian-South African consortium, as the preferred bidder for the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link Project (Gautrain).
Twenty-five years after the struggle against white minority rule, Zimbabweans are experiencing fresh trauma at the hands of the present government, said Paul Nyathi, spokesperson for the country’s Movement for Democratic Change on Monday. Nyathi was referring to the Zimbabwean government’s demolition of informal settlements.
All 61 South African alleged mercenaries were allowed into the country by immigration officials at the Beit Bridge border post on Sunday afternoon. The men were released from the Chikurubi maximum security prison outside Harare on Saturday night, where they spent a year after being convicted of violating Zimbabwe’s immigration, aviation, firearms and security laws.