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/ 30 September 2004
Most of the historic Wanderers cricket clubhouse in Johannesburg was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night. By 9.30pm flames were still raging in one corner of the building — three hours after the fire first began. Emergency services said the situation was under control, although less than a third of the building was still intact.
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/ 15 September 2004
Citizens of Chiawelo in Soweto protested on Wednesday against the installation of prepaid water meters, the Anti-Privatisation Forum said. However, Jameel Chand, spokesperson for Johannesburg Water, said the protest was not about the installation of prepaid meters, but about local labourers not being used to do the work.
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/ 8 September 2004
Medical aid schemes have reached a settlement with the Competition Commission over price fixing, under which they will pay a R500 000 ”administrative penalty”. The Board of Healthcare Funders — an association of medical aid schemes — said on Wednesday it would cease publishing a recommended scale of benefits or other forms of pricing guideline.
A 34-year-old man appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday in connection with the killing of three people during a road-rage incident at the weekend, Johannesburg police said. Three people were killed and another one wounded in the incident at Unigray on Saturday night.
Five South African ”human shields” may ”reluctantly” return to South Africa from Iraq due to family pressures and the ”extreme realities of a war situation”, the Iraq Action Committee (IAC) said on Saturday.
Zimbabwean Archbishop Pius Ncube said the situation in his country was worsening each day and had become ”very much like communist China with everything totally controlled by the State”.
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/ 11 February 2003
Various religious bodies, political parties and non-governmental organisations met under the ”Stop The War Campaign” in Johannesburg on Tuesday morning to condemn the impending United States-led attack on Iraq.
THE Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) and its alliance partners announced that unemployment remained the most difficult challenge for government, as more workers lost their jobs and more people faced poverty.
Former Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) member Calla Botha was among four men arrested on Tuesday in connection with an R11-million Sandton diamond heist.
The council of the University of South Africa has accepted the resignation of its chairman, McCaps Motimele, and said Unisa would not pay for the settlement of a sexual harassment dispute between Motimele and a former staff member, Professor Margaret Orr.