Ten years after emigrating to the Mother City from the Eastern Cape, I still can’t quite get used to the gulf between the "haves" and the "have nots".
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/ 12 December 2008
ANC chief whip Mnyamezeli Booi is to go on trial for fraud in June next year, not in February as had been expected, it was reported on Friday.
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/ 11 December 2008
Police are searching for three bank-robbery suspects who were apparently sprung from Pollsmoor prison this week by men posing as police officers.
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/ 11 December 2008
The ANC on Thursday asked the Constitutional Court to invalidate the 12 by-elections their candidates were excluded from in the Western Cape.
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/ 10 December 2008
Former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown, who is facing multiple fraud charges, has found God and a new girlfriend, it was revealed on Wednesday.
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/ 10 December 2008
The relationship between consumer and clean-up man is an intimate one. He knows things about me I wouldn’t tell my closest friends.
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/ 9 December 2008
The Gordon’s Bay fire was under control on the edges of the residential area by Tuesday afternoon, but still raging on the mountain above the town.
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/ 7 December 2008
Captain Joe Dryden, investigating officer of the case, said they were suspicious of Najwa ”from very early on”.
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/ 5 December 2008
Former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni was on Friday found not guilty on a drunken-driving charge by the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court.
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/ 3 December 2008
If Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will not step down voluntarily he should be removed by force, said senior Cope member Philip Dexter on Tuesday.
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/ 2 December 2008
Najwa Petersen and two of her co-accused have been found guilty of the December 2006 murder of her entertainer husband, Taliep.
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/ 1 December 2008
On Monday, a judge repeatedly cast doubt on Najwa Petersen’s version of the events surrounding the murder of her husband, Taliep.
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/ 1 December 2008
The state notched up an important victory in the Najwa Petersen trial on Monday when a key witness was found to have been ”frank” in his testimony.
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/ 25 November 2008
After he allegedly shot his children, Marius van der Westhuizen told his commanding officer what he had done, but would not say where he was hiding.
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/ 24 November 2008
A court has struck from the roll an attempt to delay the hearing of the NPA appeal against the scrapping of Jacob Zuma’s corruption charges.
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/ 22 November 2008
Santos returned to winning form with a much-needed 2-0 win over Maritzburg United at the Athlone Stadium on Friday night.
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/ 21 November 2008
A senior police officer claimed Commissioner Mzwandile Petros ordered a cover-up in Tony Yengeni’s drunken-driving arrest, a court was told on Friday.
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/ 21 November 2008
Two months into his new job as ANC chair in the Western Cape, Mcebisi Skwatsha is confident that the ANC will win the province in the next election.
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/ 20 November 2008
The Congress of the People has gained another high-profile politician. Simon Grindrod from the Independent Democrats has announced his resignation.
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/ 20 November 2008
A woman was arrested at Cape Town International Airport on Thursday after cocaine was found in her possession, Johannesburg police said.
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/ 19 November 2008
The emerging-market world is growing faster than the developed world and South Africa is no exception.
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/ 18 November 2008
Township property markets are more buoyant than suburban ones, according to a recent property barometer report.
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/ 14 November 2008
A cop who arrested former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni for drunken driving has told a court how he made a false statement changing the time of arrest.
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/ 12 November 2008
The Radisson Hotel, on Granger Bay, is right on the seaboard with sweeping views facing Robben Island.
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/ 10 November 2008
An application is to be brought before court for all charges in the massive Fidentia investigation to be consolidated into one case.
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/ 8 November 2008
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma has spoken out about sex and violence in television programmes, saying there is too much of both.
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/ 7 November 2008
A leader of the ANC breakaway movement, former Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa, on Thursday unveiled the name of the new party.
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/ 5 November 2008
The Cape High Court on Wednesday granted a final order of sequestration against ”hopelessly insolvent” former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown.
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/ 31 October 2008
Badih Chaaban went berserk at an early morning meeting in his office, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Friday.
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/ 30 October 2008
Springbok coach Peter de Villiers is leaving no stone unturned to ensure his team is literally fighting fit ahead of their European tour.
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/ 29 October 2008
The DG of land affairs admitted on Wednesday that his department won’t achieve the target of 30% of agricultural land in black hands by 2014.
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/ 28 October 2008
African National Congress member Phillip Dexter and former ANC Women’s caucus parliamentary chairperson Kiki Rwexana quit the party on Tuesday.