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A Leopard can, after all, change its spots. The Leopards rugby side, which competes in the Absa Currie Cup first division, will forthwith be known as the Platinum Leopards. They became the first black-owned rugby franchise in South Africa when Royal Bafokeng Sports Holdings on Tuesday announced a groundbreaking sponsorship agreement.
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/ 30 October 2007
A patient was shot and a guard stabbed when patients unhappy with their medication tried to flee the Sizwe Hospital in Edenvale on Tuesday, Johannesburg police said. Spokesperson Captain Piet Mnyageni said the incident occurred at about 6.30am when patients attempted to leave the hospital premises.
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/ 30 October 2007
A senior Cape Town advocate, Geoff Budlender, is to head the inquiry into the City of Cape Town’s ”spy” affair. The appointment was announced on Tuesday afternoon by mayor Helen Zille, who said she was taking out full-page advertisements in three local newspapers to explain her position on the matter.
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/ 30 October 2007
He loved women, which is why he paid such a lot of them for sex, alleged Olievenhoutbosch serial killer Richard Jabulani Nyauza told the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday. Nyauza said he had sex with a multitude of women but did not know anything about the serial killings in which 16 women died in 2002 and 2006.
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/ 30 October 2007
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s 2007 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement has received a cautious thumbs-up from some opposition parties. Tabling the budget in the National Assembly on Tuesday, he announced that almost R81,5-billion was to be added to the government’s projected spending over the next three years, bringing spending growth to 6,4% a year in real terms.
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/ 30 October 2007
There seems to be little sympathy at SA Rugby for World Cup-winning Springbok coach Jake White’s unhappiness that he was not considered for the shortlist of four from which the next Springbok coach will be appointed. White, in Tuesday’s press conference, pointed out he had a clause in his contract that states he has the right to negotiate an extension of his contract.
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/ 30 October 2007
Survivors of apartheid-era crimes should be involved in investigating those abuses, a non-governmental body proposed on Tuesday. ”Survivors should be treated as a resource for information, and this will play a part in their healing process,” Theresa Edlmann of the Spirals Trust said in Johannesburg.
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/ 30 October 2007
The Nkangala area of Delmas has been hit by an outbreak of diarrhoea, the provincial health department in Mpumalanga said on Tuesday. ”Under normal circumstances 10 cases of diarrhoea are reported in a week, but we treated 47 people last week and 26 yesterday [Monday],” said spokesperson Mpho Gabashane.
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/ 30 October 2007
More than 3Â 000 people packed the local soccer stadium in Matatiele as the second day of public hearings on the region’s controversial incorporation into the Eastern Cape started on Tuesday. Matatiele was incorporated into the Eastern Cape on February 28, hours before voting started in the local government election of 2006.
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/ 30 October 2007
Two South African adventurers will be the first team to walk unsupported and unassisted to the South Pole, and one will be the first black person to accomplish this. Speaking at the Extreme Lifestyle Centre in Fourways, Johannesburg, on Tuesday, Alex Harris and Sibusiso Vilane said no one will be putting out food or rigging up tents for them.
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/ 30 October 2007
South Africa will spend an estimated R81,4-billion over the next three years to ease poverty and unemployment and deliver improved services, said the Treasury on Tuesday. The Treasury said in its Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement that education and health programmes will be a priority.
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/ 30 October 2007
South Africa will record a budget surplus for the next three years due to higher-than-expected tax revenues and would invest more to boost infrastructure, the National Treasury said on Tuesday. In its Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, the Treasury said robust economic growth over the past five years had provided for a more expansionary fiscal stance.
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/ 30 October 2007
Conjoined twin Mpho Mathibela was glad to meet former president Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Mpho is the surviving twin of the famous Mathibela conjoined twins, Mpho and Mphonyana. They hit headlines when they were born joined at the head at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital on December 7 1986.
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/ 30 October 2007
At least 500 people packed a local soccer stadium in Matatiele as the second day of public hearings on the region’s controversial incorporation into the Eastern Cape started on Tuesday. Matatiele was incorporated into the Eastern Cape on February 28, hours before voting started in the local government election of 2006.
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/ 30 October 2007
A 37-year-old man has been arrested for arson after a family of four burned to death in Khayelitsha on Tuesday, Western Cape police said. Spokesperson Constable Siphokazi Mawisa said the house at Hempe Street in Makhaza, Khayelitsha, burned down at midnight.
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/ 30 October 2007
South African investment firm Mvelaphanda has reached agreement with fund management group Allan Gray to buy up to 30% of Johnnic Communications’ media unit, it said on Tuesday. Mvelaphanda said it will buy a minumum of 25,1% and a maximum of 30% of Johncom’s media business, provisionally named Opco.
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The perception of a conspiracy against former deputy president Jacob Zuma has had an impact on the African National Congress (ANC) and suggests a convergence of political and legal interests, senior political analyst Aubrey Matshiqi of the Centre of Political Studies said on Tuesday.
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/ 30 October 2007
Teachers and school staff are the responsibility of their employers, and parents are responsible for getting their children to school safely, the KwaZulu-Natal Parents’ Association (KZNPA) said on Tuesday. KZNPA chairperson Sayed Rajack said schools have become the easiest targets for criminals.
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/ 30 October 2007
The Ministry of Land Affairs would not give reasons for the termination of the contract of Director General (DG) Glen Thomas until the minister returned from a trip to Namibia, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. Godfrey Mdhluli said: ”The minister and the DG made an agreement that the DG’s contract be terminated [on Monday].”
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/ 30 October 2007
The four men accused of the murder of reggae star Lucky Dube had their case postponed in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The case has been postponed until November 30. The men, Sifiso Mlanga, Julius Gxowa, Thabo Mafoping and Mbofi Mabe, face charges of murder, attempted hijacking and the possession of an unlicensed firearm.
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/ 30 October 2007
The JSE rose modestly at noon on Tuesday as investors became more optimistic that the United States Federal Reserve would cut interest rates, which would bolster Wall Street. Investors cheered the news that Tokyo Sexwale’s Mevelaphanda group plans to buy up to 30% of Johncom’s to-be-formed Opco.
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/ 30 October 2007
Africa’s biggest cement maker PPC on Tuesday posted a 16% rise in full-year headline earnings per share and forecast a healthy performance this fiscal year, as demand for building materials booms. PPC reported headline EPS of 263 cents and a 19% rise in revenue to R5,6-billion.
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/ 30 October 2007
A two-year-old boy abducted by his father in mountainous terrain around Beaufort West was found unharmed on Monday afternoon, Western Cape police said. ”Jaylin Muller was found safe and sound between the hours of 3pm and 4pm today [Monday],” said Captain Malcolm Pojie.
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/ 30 October 2007
South Africa’s World Cup-winning coach Jake White looks set to end his stint in charge of the Springboks after declining to re-apply for his job. The South African Rugby Union (Saru) said on Monday a four-man shortlist for the position of Springbok coach did not include him.
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/ 30 October 2007
A Durban teacher was stabbed and robbed of her vehicle by five men on Monday, police said on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Daniela Veldhuizen said the teacher was leaving Mariann Park Primary School in Mariannhill when the incident took place.
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Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi’s statement that President Thabo Mbeki’s re-election to the African National Congress (ANC) presidency would divide the tripartite alliance was unfounded and divisive, the ANC said on Monday.
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/ 29 October 2007
Former spy boss Billy Masetlha said he found it amusing that the inspector general of intelligence kept asking for a report that had been sent to him several times, the Hatfield Community Court heard on Monday. Testifying under cross-examination, Masetlha said repeated requests from the inspector general for information ”took him aback”.
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/ 29 October 2007
The scourge of armed gangs who attacked and robbed innocent citizens in their own homes caused profound social demoralisation and impeded the transformation of society, a Pretoria High Court judge said on Monday. Judge John Murphy effectively sent a 55-year-old man to jail for 27 years for his role in torturing and robbing an elderly Laudium man and his son.
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/ 29 October 2007
A two-year-old boy abducted by his father in mountainous terrain around Beaufort West was found unharmed on Monday afternoon, Western Cape police said. ”The boy was found safe and sound between the hours of 3pm and 4pm today [Monday],” said Captain Malcolm Pojie.
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/ 29 October 2007
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has asked the police to let her listen to tapes related to the city’s ”spy” affair. Her request, in a letter to provincial Commissioner Mzwandile Petros on Monday, comes after police played some of the tapes to journalists. She said in a statement that Petros had also ”presented” the tapes to Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool.
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/ 29 October 2007
Three ATMs were bombed while another ATM bomb was deactivated in Vanderbijlpark on Monday, Vaal Rand police said. ”The first blast took place in Shakespeare at about 1am and another, at about 3.10am, [took place] at a Shell filling station in Evaton,” said spokesperson Captain William Mcera.
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/ 29 October 2007
One of South Africa’s most wanted criminals was caught on Monday after Gauteng police received information from the public about his whereabouts. Police spokesperson Inspector Richard Munyai said Mkhonto Mandla Cele (27) was one of the most wanted and dangerous criminals in Jeppestown and KwaZulu-Natal.