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/ 16 November 2001
A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by five youths at Bulwer in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands last week, south coast police said on Tuesday. Police representative Inspector Moses Gambushe said the girl was walking near the soccer field where a number of youths played soccer. Five of them, aged between 15 and 20, approached the girl, […]
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/ 16 November 2001
THE bodies of two children were found in a large ditch filled with rain water in Vuwani, Thohoyandou on Tuesday evening, Northern Province police said. Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the children had gone out to play earlier in the day. ”The siblings, a 12-year-old girl and her five-year-old brother were discovered hours later by passers-by. […]
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/ 16 November 2001
THE trial of two men charged with burning school children’s hands at the Pretoria International Show in August will be heard in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on January 29 and 30 next year, a court official said on Tuesday. The trial date was set when the two men, Pieter Lamprecht (19) and Antonie du Plessis […]
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/ 16 November 2001
A POLICE station commissioner shot his wife and three children to death before turning the gun on himself at their home in Jansenville in Uitenhage on Tuesday morning. Eastern Cape police spokeswoman Michelle Kleinhans said Captain Andries Japhta (34) shot dead his wife Helen (31) and their three children Anatacia (11) Ezrah (6) and Delano […]
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/ 16 November 2001
THE body of rugby referee Carl Spannenberg, who went missing and was presumed to have drowned at Cape Town’s Zeekoevlei dam, was recovered from the dam on Wednesday, police reported. Captain Andre Traut said Spannenberg’s (33) body had surfaced and was noticed by the divers as they resumed their search at 8am. Spannenberg went missing […]
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/ 16 November 2001
A 28-year-old teacher appeared in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday hours after being arrested in connection with the indecent assault of a pupil in March, East Rand police said. Inspector Joep Joubert said the teacher was arrested after a 12-year-old girl filed a complaint. The Child Protection Unit was still investigating the matter. Joubert […]
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/ 15 November 2001
Shaggy demonstrated to all present at the MTN Sundome in Johannesburg that he is not just a singer, but a damned excellent performer too, writes Bongani Majola.
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/ 15 November 2001
For the intrepid traveller, Maputo may be a safer destination this Christmas than
New York, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 15 November 2001
It’s her story, and suddenly Kandahar has become the most politically important movie in the world. Nelofer Pazira spoke to Aida Edemariam.
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/ 15 November 2001
Badges costing R5 will be sold at Absa branches to raise money for children affected by HIV/Aids.