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/ 16 November 2001

2 CHILDREN’S BODIES FOUND

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

‘BURNING HANDS’ CASE SCHEDULED

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

POLICEMAN KILLS FAMILY, THEN HIMSELF

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

RUGBY REF FOUND IN WATERY GRAVE

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

TEACHER CHARGED WITH INDECENT ASSAULT

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

‘Baby rape part of apartheid’s legacy’

Cape Town | Thursday SOUTH African Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday attributed the gang-rape of a nine-month-old baby to a lack of morality he blamed on apartheid. Zuma said during a debate in the National Assembly on the rape in the small northern township of Louisville that “something was seriously amiss” in the country. […]