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/ 1 September 2006
More than 2 000 workers congregated in Beyers Naude Square in Johannesburg on Friday morning, the most recent demonstration in the month-long wage strike undertaken by contract cleaning workers around the country. Simultaneous marches were under way in towns throughout South Africa.
Eight robbers armed with assault rifles were on the run in downtown Johannesburg on Monday after a failed cash-in-transit heist on the M2 East highway, police said. A BMW rammed into the back of a cash-in-transit van on the freeway near the Village Road off ramp at 9.15am, said Captain Schalk Bornman.
A Tuberculosis (TB) Crisis Plan to increase the number of people cured of the infection was launched on Friday by the Gauteng health department, the department said. ”In 2005 there were 18 275 new reported TB cases in Johannesburg alone,” said provincial health minister Brian Hlongwa in a statement.”
A group of men sits huddled around a two-plate stove. They rub their hands, trying to stay warm; one eats porridge with a wooden spoon straight out of the pot. This is the end of the line for Johannesburg’s homeless, and every night between 500 and 800 people bed down in the halls of the Central Methodist church in Johannesburg’s inner city.
Johannesburg detectives have discovered another body buried in Moffat Park — the third in six months, The Star reported on Thursday. The three victims were buried within 500m of each other at the park near Rosettenville, south of the city. All had shirts or jerseys wrapped tightly around their heads, raising fears of a serial killer in the area.
Nineteen South African passport holders deported from the Democratic Republic of Congo for their alleged involvement in a coup plot arrived home on Sunday night. Their flight from Kinshasa landed at Johannesburg International airport just after 6.20pm.
Johannesburg International airport is to spend R3,4-billion upgrading facilities and security over the next four years. The upgrades include readying the airport to handle the giant Airbus A380, accommodating the Gautrain and building a 25km concrete perimeter wall. The wall will cost about R25,5-million.
A public-private partnership to build 702 houses for low-income earners in the Cosmo City development in north-western Johannesburg was launched on Thursday. Cosmo City is a mixed-use, integrated housing development near Kya Sands.
A Johannesburg teenager who hanged herself this week filmed her own suicide, media reports said on Friday. The report said the 15-year-old girl of Emmarentia used a dog leash to hang herself from a security gate on Wednesday afternoon while her mother was at home.
Three people, believed to be security guards, were seriously injured after being thrown off a train at the Cleveland station in Johannesburg on Thursday. On the West Rand, two security guards were seriously assaulted on a train on Wednesday evening in another incident that appeared to be related to the ongoing security strike.