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/ 24 October 2006
Johannesburg’s public transport system received a boost on Tuesday when Daimler Chrysler handed 38 new buses to Metrobus. Daimler Chrysler president Wolfgang Biez said the buses would form part of the World-Class Public Transport Programme, which would play a vital role during the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
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/ 24 October 2006
Rescue workers are searching for five mine workers missing after a fall of ground at the Tautona mine near Carletonville, AngloGold Ashanti said on Tuesday. The fall follows two ”seismic events” that happened about 25 minutes apart on Monday afternoon, said spokesperson Steve Lanahan. Two other miners were rescued soon after the incident.
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/ 24 October 2006
Twenty-seven people were arrested for various crimes in Hillbrow during a crime-busting operation in the area, police said on Tuesday. Among those arrested were four men caught trying to break into vehicles on Monday night, said spokesperson Inspector Kriban Naidoo. ”Some people were also arrested for loitering, possession of illegal firearms and armed robberies,” he said.
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/ 24 October 2006
A Pretoria man who was stabbed in the chest after becoming involved in a fight at a city high school was in a stable and satisfactory condition in hospital on Tuesday. Pretoria Academic Hospital spokesperson Freedah Kobo said Motheti Madityana (29) was recovering after the incident in which he was stabbed on Monday.
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/ 24 October 2006
A 23-year-old woman and her four-year-old child were killed in an apparent murder-suicide at a railway line in Kopanong in Tembisa on Tuesday morning, North Rand police said. ”It appears that the woman saw the train approaching and jumped in front of it with her child,” said police spokesperson Cynthia Kleinhans.
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/ 24 October 2006
President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday expressed his condolences to the family of singer Lebo Mathosa following her death in a car accident. ”Mathosa’s … death constitutes a profound loss to the entire nation as she was one of the pathfinders of post-apartheid cultural expression,” the Presidency said in a statement.
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/ 24 October 2006
Provincial minister for local government and housing in the Western Cape, Richard Dyantyi, has turned down the city’s invitation to address the full Cape Town city council on Wednesday, according to a statement from Mayor Helen Zille’s office on Tuesday. Zille said he would have had the opportunity to provide substantive reasons for his proposed change of the system of governance in Cape Town.
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/ 24 October 2006
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s neighbours may have pulled their armies out of the vast mineral-rich territory, officially at least, but they will be keeping a nervous eye out for vested interests in Sunday’s presidential run-off. The DRC’s 1998-2003 war broke out when Rwanda and Uganda launched proxy rebel groups from eastern DRC in a bid to topple their former ally Laurent Kabila.
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/ 24 October 2006
It is kick-off time for the ”real hard work” in preparing for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, President Thabo Mbeki told a workshop in Cape Town on Tuesday. He told the participants that South Africa will spare no effort to make sure that everything necessary for a successful tournament happens on time.
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/ 24 October 2006
Trade between Zimbabwe and its eastern ally China surged to -million last year and will be greater still this year, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday. Total trade volume for bilateral trade for the first eight months of 2006 reached -million according to a report carried by the Herald.