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Construction of an emergency Covid-19 hospital is running months behind deadline, promising
to come online only after Gauteng’s peak
‘Thrown away like rubbish’ — Residents of what was once a rich mining town have survived the seven years since the mine closed
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/ 28 February 2009
After two hours with Kelebogile Mmokwa, Mmanaledi Mataboge still can’t work out if she knows the president intimately — or at all.
A miner has died in an accident at DRDGold’s Blyvooruitzicht mine near Carletonville, an official confirmed on Thursday.
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/ 19 September 2008
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said it was saddened by Friday’s news of the deaths of another three mineworkers.
The disappearance of delegates’ names and other data from voters’ rolls is apparently rife at regional ANC conferences.
The last miner among about 3Â 200 trapped two kilometres underground for over 30 hours at Harmony Gold’s Elandsrand mine near Carletonville was rescued on Thursday night. He was welcomed by Harmony chairperson Patrice Motsepe and by Minerals and Energy Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica.
The month-long school boycott continued in Khutsong township near Carletonville on Friday. Some matric pupils, who had not been taught in the last five weeks, blamed the government for the lost study time. ”The person who decided to move us to the North West is to blame …,” Mamsy Khumalo, a grade 12 pupil at Badirile High School, said.
President Thabo Mbeki should personally intervene in the Merafong municipality demarcation issue, religious leaders in Khutsong said on Wednesday. ”We ministers of religion want to see peace restored and we plead with the president … to personally intervene …,” they told reporters in Carletonville.
About 700 protesters gathered outside the Oberholzer Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday as four people appeared for the murder of National Union of Mineworkers branch chairperson Elias Mulaudzi. The four appeared in the court after their arrest last week, to make a formal bail application.
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Khutsong community stalwart Jomo Mogale on Wednesday called for a by-election in the troubled township where residents are boycotting the local government poll. He said the few voters who had trickled in to cast their ballots were mainly candidate councillors themselves.
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/ 28 February 2006
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The Merafong municipality, which includes Khutsong, says it is pleased that elections will take place there and hopes law enforcers will protect voters during and after elections. Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi has urged voters in the Merafong municipality to vote for the party of their choice on Wednesday.
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/ 15 February 2006
Thousands of Khutsong residents marched to the local police station on Wednesday to protest the transfer of Merafong municipality from Gauteng into the North West. The group earlier threatened to boycott the March 1 local government election. ”If this is democracy, then we are willing to die for it,” said one protester.
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/ 25 November 2005
Protesters sang pro-Gauteng songs as they arrived at a public hearing about provincial boundary demarcations in Carletonville on Friday. They had come to town by bus from nearby Khutsong, where the issue has been the focus of recent violent protest.
South Africa’s largest gold-miner, AngloGold Ashanti, is looking to achieve cost savings of more than $80-million (R491-million) at its South African gold mines this year, the company’s head of South African operations, Robbie Lazare, said on Tuesday. AngloGold Ashanti previously budgeted on savings of $41,4-million.
Three miners died and five were injured after a rockburst at an AngloGold mine near Carletonville on Tuesday, AngloGold reported on Wednesday. The rockburst occurred about 3 500 metres below the surface, and was caused by seismic activity, measuring 2,2 on the Richter scale, spokesperson Shelagh Blackman said.
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/ 19 January 1990
A Western Transvaal youth who died in police custody this week under disputed circumstances has been identified as Mbuyiselo Nicholas Phiri.