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/ 21 April 2008

Eastern Cape weather claims three lives

Cold and stormy weather that hit the Eastern Cape on the weekend has claimed three lives so far, police said on Monday. Two men apparently died from the cold near Mthatha on Sunday, while a woman was killed in a storm in the province’s Ngcobo area. By Monday afternoon, snow that had been falling over the province overnight was beginning to clear up.

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/ 17 October 2007

Elderly victims testify on rape ordeal

The elderly victims of an alleged rapist recounted their ordeals in the Grahamstown High Court on Wednesday. ”He grabbed me and pushed me into the bedroom and hit me with his fists, and with a bottle of brandy in his left hand,” one of the women told the court. ”I struggled but because of my age, I got tired. Then he raped me.”