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/ 14 December 2006
A week-long tuberculosis (TB) blitz in the Northern Cape has shown that patients are not complying with their TB treatment, the provincial health department said on Thursday. The Northern Cape provincial minister for health, Shiwe Selao, visited communities such as Kommagas in Namaqualand and Upington in the Siyanda district during the week-long TB blitz.
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/ 18 September 2006
Ajax Cape Town and Kaizer Chiefs both made it four draws from four games when they played a goalless Premier League game at the Kimberley Stadium on Sunday afternoon. But it could have been worse for Chiefs, with Rowen Fernandez saving a 70th minute penalty from new Bafana squad member Nathan Paulse.
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/ 3 September 2006
Leading the Falcons 26-12 at half-time in the Currie Cup premier-division fixture played in very warm conditions at Absa Park, Kimberley, on Saturday afternoon, Griquas were made to fight all the way by Piet Krause’s team before coming from behind to win the match 36-27.
Trailing 13-11 at half-time, defending Currie Cup champions the Free State Cheetahs showed their mettle when defeating Griquas 31-20 in very warm, early-spring conditions in Kimberley on Saturday afternoon. There was very little to choose between the teams in the first half.
The Sharks lost by a solitary point (22 – 23) to Griquas at Absa Park in Kimberley on Saturday in week four of the Absa Currie Cup to relinquish their unbeaten record in the competition. On a beautiful afternoon, with a cool breeze gently blowing through the stadium, the conditions were ideal for the Sharks to grasp the upper hand.
Northern Cape Premier Dipuo Peters has undergone major abdominal surgery at the city’s Kimberley Hospital Complex, a provincial health official said on Monday. ”The procedure was successful and she is recuperating satisfactorily,” Dr Dion Theys, medical director at the Kimberley hospital, said on Monday afternoon.
The Northern Cape provincial minister for finance and economic affairs, Pakes Dikgetsi, appeared in court on Friday on domestic violence-related charges, police confirmed. Spokesperson Superintendent Mashay Gamieldien confirmed his arrest, also on Friday, and court appearance in Kimberley.
The Central Cheetahs overturned an 11-point deficit at half-time and restricted the Golden Cats to just a penalty goal in the second period to run out 28-23 winners in their Super 14 clash on Saturday. Two second-half tries and three penalties by replacement flyhalf Meyer Bosman in a strong final 40 minutes was enough to see the competition’s new Super 14 team to their fifth win of the year.
President Thabo Mbeki has called on all South Africans to commit themselves to work together to help bring prosperity to the country. He told thousands of people attending national Freedom Day celebrations in Kimberley on Thursday that there are a number of key local government priorities that have to be addressed urgently.
Hundreds of people arrived at the Galeshewe Stadium in Kimberley to attend national Freedom Day celebrations and hear President Thabo Mbeki speak on Thursday. Meanwhile, the ruling party’s behaviour in the Western Cape is a ”direct assault” on the Constitution and its freedoms, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said.
A rural security company established to create jobs in the San community in the Northern Cape has already secured contracts in three provinces. Gert Schoombie, managing director of Sanda Security, said the first group of security guards consisting of members of the !Xun and Khwe community had received their certificates.
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/ 16 January 2006
There’s a new name in the grape industry that does not conjure images of luscious vineyards, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday. It is called Riemvasmaak — best known as South Africa’s first successful land claim — and now maybe as the Northern Cape’s grape capital.
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/ 22 November 2005
A draft social plan to ease the effects of retrenching nearly 700 miners at De Beers’ underground operations in Kimberley has been formulated and presented for comment. This follows the decision in principle by De Beers Consolidated Mines to close its loss-making underground operations in Kimberley.
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/ 24 October 2005
The Northern Cape High Court ruled in favour of the Northern Cape education department on Monday that three Afrikaans-medium schools become dual-medium. The Kalahari High School and Seodin Primary School in Kuruman and the Noord-Kaapland Agricultural High School in Jan Kempdorp took the department to court.
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/ 22 October 2005
Efforts at self-determination by groups of South Africans still face various obstacles, Rhodes University chancellor Jakes Gerwel said on Friday. ”Though there is room to move forward in terms of Article 235 [in the Constitution] it should not be accompanied by the perception of crude ethnic diversity,” Gerwel told delegates at a conference on self-determination.
President Thabo Mbeki grilled Northern Cape mayors on Friday about underspending on their capital budgets. He also warned that local-level infighting in the African National Congress, which hampers municipal delivery, has to stop. His interventions came during a day-long local government meeting, in Kimberley, with municipal, national and provincial politicians and officials.
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/ 22 September 2005
The ACDP has withdrawn from all planned Heritage Day activities at the Northern Cape legislature.
The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and the Namibian government are studying the possibility of building a dam on the lower Orange River. Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Buyelwa Sonjica said that the proposed dam would ensure a stable supply of water to the Northern Cape in the future.
A Northern Cape man lost part of his tongue when he tried to grab and kiss a woman in Galeshewe in Kimberley, Northern Cape police said on Tuesday. A police spokesperson said the incident happened on Sunday when the man tried to overpower a woman at her house in Tidimalo Street in Club 2000 in Galeshewe.
The body of a 74-year-old woman who disappeared from a ward at the Kimberley hospital this week was found on the hospital grounds on Thursday, Northern Cape health authorities said. Shiwe Selao, Northern Cape minister of health, said hospital personnel found the woman’s body, after an extensive search, early on Thursday morning.
A three-year undercover investigation into illegal diamond deals in the Northern Cape ended on Tuesday in the arrest of five people, police said. Police spokesperson Superintendent Mashay Gamieldien said the four men and a woman were arrested in Kimberley, Hopetown and Schweizer-Reneke on Tuesday morning.
A 42-year-old man will appear in the Postmasburg Magistrate’s Court on June 14 for allegedly raping a 104-year-old grandmother, Northern Cape police said. Senior Superintendent Elias Mbanyana said on Wednesday the man had appeared in court on Tuesday. He was denied bail and his case was postponed.
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/ 28 January 2005
England beat South Africa A by six wickets in a day-night match played at the De Beers Diamond Oval in Kimberley on Thursday. Replying to the SA’s 50 overs total of 251/8, England, with 87 not-out from Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen’s aggressive 97 (his last 47 runs coming off only 21 balls) in the end achieved an easy victory.
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/ 15 January 2005
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Friday came out in support for prison warders in their dispute with the Department of Correctional Services. Cosatu said a meeting of its public-sector affiliates on Thursday agreed on a programme of action to rally support for the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union.
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/ 12 January 2005
The Northern Cape will immediately start applying its latest R26-million drought relief scheme, agriculture MEC Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Wednesday. ”The funds would mainly be used for the purchasing of fodder, fodder transportation and drilling of boreholes to allow commercial and communal farmers to maintain their flock.”
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/ 12 January 2005
The Northern Cape will immediately start applying its latest R26-million drought relief scheme, agriculture MEC Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Wednesday. ”The funds would mainly be used for the purchasing of fodder, fodder transportation and drilling of boreholes to allow commercial and communal farmers to maintain their flock.”
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/ 8 December 2004
Five police officers are among 48 people arrested for dealing in drugs on Wednesday, after a year-long investigation in the Northern Cape. The inspector, two sergeants and two constables were arrested with the other suspects in pre-dawn raids. A female civilian employee of the police was also taken into custody.
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/ 24 September 2004
A challenge for the African renaissance is to empower Africans, including Afrikaans- and English-speaking Africans, to be proud of their traditions and to take their place as equals with all the people of the world, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday at national Heritage Day celebrations.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>Nine political parties out of the 21 parties that contested Wednesday’s election at a national level are likely to be represented in Parliament. The African National Congress was on Thursday afternoon heading towards a pivotal 70%, followed by the incumbent official opposition Democratic Alliance at about 15%.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=40922">Special Report: Elections 2004</a>
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/ 19 January 2004
African National Congress chairperson Mosiua Lekota let slip on Sunday that the national elections are to be held in April. ”Let us go to the elections in April.” Lekota told a crowd of about 15 000 people at the Northern Cape launch of his party’s election manifesto in Kimberley.
IFP: SA needs a democratic alternative
Bogus victims increasingly ‘cry rape’ to obtain free treatment from clinics against possible HIV/Aids infection, Northern Cape health MEC Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday.
Health and safety experts from the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) and journalists were locked out of the Beaconfield Sewage Plant in Kimberley on Thursday, Samwu members said.