Former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt says he would have been prepared to lie under oath in his criminal trial for the 1989 Motherwell bombing but was telling the truth in his amnesty application. He was testifying under cross-examination by advocate Kessie Naidu.
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The Democratic Alliance has accused the Eastern Cape African National Congress of ”high decibel” intimidation after a bid on Tuesday to disrupt a DA meeting with a massive sound truck. The truck parked outside a Port Elizabeth hall where a DA lunch-time meeting was in progress.
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The widows of three of the men killed in the 1989 Motherwell car bombing have rejected Tuesday’s apology by former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt. Nieuwoudt, who triggered the bomb, tendered the apology in the rehearing in Port Elizabeth of his application for amnesty for the deed.
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Former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt on Tuesday faces interrogation by Advocate Kessie Naidu, the man who had South Africans glued to their television screens as leader of evidence in the recent Hefer commission hearings. Naidu was appointed at short notice to replace advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=33347">Nieuwoudt mum on ‘interrogation'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=33337">Nieuwoudt sorry for saying ‘terrorist'</a>
Former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt said on Monday he did not remember how he persuaded a trained freedom fighter to cooperate with him after being arrested. Nieuwoudt is applying for amnesty for the 1989 car bomb murders of three black colleagues and an informer at Motherwell.
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The amnesty application by three former security policemen for their part in the 1989 Motherwell car bombing murders has resumed at the Port Elizabeth High Court on Monday. The hearing was aborted last Tuesday when the lawyer representing the four victims’ families withdrew at the last minute.
Former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt apologised on Monday for using the word "terrorist" to describe trained guerrillas who infiltrated apartheid-era South Africa. His application for amnesty for the 1989 car bomb murders of three black colleagues and an informer at Motherwell is being heard afresh in Port Elizabeth.
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Eastern Cape premier Makenkhesi Stofile says he would have no problem if a troubleshooting report on his administration were released before the coming election, because it contains ”nothing new”. The report was scheduled to be released two weeks ago.
The re-hearing in Port Elizabeth of the amnesty application of three former security policemen has been delayed by a controversy over a legal representative in the case. Gideon Nieuwoudt, Wybrand du Toit and Marthinus Ras are applying for amnesty for the 1989 car bomb death of the so-called Motherwell Four.
The Coega Development Corporation said on Wednesday that problems relating to a Coega industrial development zone contractor had been resolved. The CDC said that it had noted that the contractor on the Coega Construction Village Management contract was involved in irregular and ”unacceptable practices with regards to the appointment of labour”.
An ATM machine in Port Elizabeth was stolen over the weekend and then abandoned with all the money still inside. Police said a breakdown service received a call at 2am Saturday to come to the assistance of a motorist in New Brighton. When the truck arrived it was hijacked by two men.
Former security policeman Johannes ”Slang” van Zyl arrived at the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday for an appearance in connection with the murder of three anti-apartheid activists known as the Pebco Three in 1985, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported.
A Port Elizabeth man is recovering from a horrific ordeal in which he was forced to watch a woman being repeatedly raped and, severely injured after being stoned and stabbed, he had to crawl through salt pans to seek help, Eastern Cape police said.
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/ 11 February 2004
Former security police colonel Gideon Niewoudt has been arrested and charged for the deaths of the so-called Pebco Three in 1985, the Scorpions said on Wednesday. The Scorpions arrested Niewoudt in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday morning. He later briefly appeared in the city’s Magistrate’s Court and was released on R50 000 bail.
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/ 14 November 2003
Department of Labour inspectors have surveyed the wreckage of a bridge that collapsed at the Coega development zone outside Port Elizabeth and interviewed eight construction workers about the disaster. Two construction workers were killed and 18 injured on Thursday when the bottom formwork of the bridge collapsed.
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/ 29 October 2003
Several officials employed by the Eastern Cape provincial administration were arrested at their offices on Wednesday in connection with fraud and corruption charges. Numerous documents were also taken as evidence in fraud and corruption investigations involving R4,4-million.
R1-million govt fraud bust in KZN
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/ 21 October 2003
A consortium led by Accenture has been awarded the tender to set up the information and communication technology systems, valued at R3,7-million, of the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) in Port Elizabeth, the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) said on Tuesday.
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/ 25 September 2003
About 3 000 members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) employed by the Port Elizabeth-based car manufacturer Delta were still on strike on Thursday and production had been severely crippled, Numsa said.
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/ 16 September 2003
An integrated, streamlined public service at all three levels of the government has not been achieved yet but it remains a goal, said Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi on Monday at a management conference.
One of the South Africa’s leading hospitality groups has urged the country’s ”lily white” tourism industry to proactively push transformation and not wait for government intervention.
Port Elizabeth will be the focus of international companies, foreign trade delegations and venture capitalists later this year when the city hosts the Small Business Overdrive exhibition.
Negotiations to secure the sophisticated Pechiney French aluminium smelter for the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) outside Port Elizabeth have entered ”the final straight”, the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) said on Wednesday.
Eastern Cape conservation has received a R8,1-million boost from the National Lottery to build a marine rehabilitation centre in Port Elizabeth, the beneficiary, the SA Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre Trust, said on Monday.
Fourteen provincial government officials in Port Elizabeth and East London were arrested on Thursday as the Scorpions continued their crackdown on corruption in the Eastern Cape government
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/ 17 February 2003
A top Eastern Cape legal expert has been appointed as chairman of a committee to oversee the environmental impact of the Coega Industrial Development Zone near Port Elizabeth, the National Ports Authority announced on Monday.
Volkswagen South Africa (VWSA) will invest R2,1-billion in infrastructure, improving facilities and upgrading its products at its Uitenhage plant outside Port Elizabeth over the next six years, the carmaker said on Tuesday.
The 130 people trapped in vehicles by heavy snowfalls in the northern parts of the Eastern Cape province were all rescued on Friday night, a disaster management co-ordinator said.
The African Christian Democratic Party on Tuesday said it was against the Nelson Mandela Metro councillor Mikey Kwenaite’s plan to establish a nudist beach on the Port Elizabeth coast.
Reports of widespread damage amounting to millions of rands have been received from parts of the Eastern Cape due to a gale-force wind blowing in the region on Tuesday.