South African Disability Alliance members burnt tyres on Thursday in protest at the lack of accessibility of Cup stadiums to people with disabilities.
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/ 31 October 2009
Transport is the key component for the success of the Soccer World Cup, Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele said on Friday.
Criminal elements were behind xenophobic violence in Alexandra, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Thursday. Speaking to journalists after a meeting with community and provincial leaders, she said not only foreign nationals were attacked, but South Africans were also forced out of their houses.
African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma has received support from alliance partners to run for presidential elections, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Sunday. ”We will not only be accompanying him to court but to the Union Buildings as the next president of South Africa,” he said, announcing the outcome of an alliance.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma addressed thousands of workers at a May Day celebration in the North West on Thursday, saying that rural development was key to fighting poverty. He said access to land for subsistence farming was critical as people should be able to produce food to combat the impact of increased food prices.
Working conditions that threaten the lives of mine workers flout the laws of the country, Minister of Minerals and Energy Buyelwa Sonjica said on Tuesday. ”Safety at work is a constitutional imperative that we all have to uphold,” she said at Anglo American’s Safety Summit in Johannesburg.
Hundreds of members of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) were arrested on Thursday after invading the Nelson Mandela 2010 Stadium in Port Elizabeth, the union said. Branch chairperson Nomvula Hadi said workers were leaving the stadium when police opened fire with rubber bullets and teargas.
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/ 12 November 2007
The trial of Annanias Mathe — the Mozambican national who escaped from Pretoria’s high-security C-Max prison — will resume in the Johannesburg High Court next July. Mathe, who faces 77 charges, appeared briefly before Judge Busi Mbha on Monday and his case was postponed to July 28 for plea and trial.
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/ 28 September 2007
A three-bedroom house in Khutsong, near Carletonville, caved in as a result of a sinkhole on Friday, the Merafong municipality said. Spokesperson Seabo Gaeganelwe said nobody was injured as the occupants had moved two months ago. A survey in 1997 found that 90% of Khutsong fell within extremely high-risk zones.
Police arrested seven protesters at Soweto’s Jabulani hostel alone on Saturday for public violence in a demonstration over housing. Arrests were also made elsewhere in Soweto and in Alexandra, but the exact numbers were not yet known. Metro police fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters from the Nancefield and Dobsonville hostels.