Hillbrow. The word conjures up images of high-rise slums and streets rife with crime. But in this week’s crime statistics, the Hillbrow police station was singled out as one of the country’s better stations. How has it raised its crime detection rate by 12% and notched up a 10% increase in the number of cases it brings to court?
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I admit, it sounds too worthy to be fun. If you respond to the usual "where are you going on holiday this year" question with "Oh, I’m walking with nomads", you sound like a smug do-gooder. Yet there was nothing po-faced or forced about our trek in southern Morocco, writes Isabel Choat.
Every time a crime-trends statistics report is released, there follows a round of indignant finger-pointing.
The majority of unions have signed government’s multi-term salary agreement and this is binding on all parties who have not yet signed the agreement, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Thursday. She said the possibility of charges being brought forward against workers who intimidated other workers still existed.
Talks in a bid to settle a pay dispute between Eskom and three unions continued into Thursday evening. ”Negotiations may go on until very late in the night,” said Solidarity spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans. ”We are positive about reaching a settlement.”
Venus Williams strode into the semifinals of Wimbledon on Thursday while tournament organisers cast anxious glances to the sky. Her younger sister Serena, beaten by Justine Henin in the quarters on Wednesday, rates Venus as the best grasscourt player left in the draw.
African miner Randgold Resources expects to upgrade planned production at its new mine in Côte d’Ivoire, helping the firm to boost output by over 50% by 2011. The firm, currently operating two mines in Mali, plans to ramp up production to around 650 000 ounces a year by 2011 from 400 000 ounces currently,
The eNatis vehicle registration system website had not been hacked, the Department of Transport said on Thursday. ”The Department of Transport has condemned in the strongest terms the recent news reports purporting that the eNatis website has been hacked,” spokesperson Collen Msibi said in a statement.
Hundreds of animal rights campaigners on Thursday protested against the annual bull runs due to begin on Saturday in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona. Demonstrators, numbering about 1 500, dressed in nothing but underwear carried posters reading ”Torture is not culture”.