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Farmers have been warned to move equipment and to avoid crossing flooded low lying bridges.
Were she alive, she would have shared the award with everybody
ArcelorMittal, charged with toxic air and water pollution, seems to have bulldozed through graves to create a perimeter fence
Government interest in the pollution claims appears to have been aroused by Constitutional Court action launched against President Thabo Mbeki
The company is unable to stop the emission of the pollutants and is asking for more time upgrade parts so that it can comply with the law.
Police are investigating a case of murder, attempted murder and assault after raiding a suspected drug den.
EFF leader Julius Malema told students at VUT that the EFF is the only party that’s not in anyone’s pocket, "but in the pockets of the masses".
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/ 18 October 2008
Trade union supporters of ANC president Jacob Zuma scored a victory this week by toppling one of former president Thabo Mbeki’s most vocal supporters.
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/ 16 October 2008
Cedric Gina has been elected as the new leader of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa).
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/ 14 October 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma was greeted with a song insisting he become president as he arrived at Numsa’s eighth conference on Tuesday.
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/ 12 October 2008
Rescuers were searching on Saturday for a woman’s body after two boats collided in the Vaal River in Vanderbijlpark, emergency services said.
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/ 15 November 2007
Southern African countries face a ”very real challenge” of regime change encouraged by foreign powers, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said on Thursday. He was opening the ministerial session of the South Africa-Zimbabwe Joint Permanent Commission on defence and security in Vanderbijlpark.
Africa’s largest steel producer Mittal Steel SA will cut 800 jobs through voluntary severance packages by the end of 2006, CEO Davinder Chugh said on Thursday. Of these 800 jobs, about 350 will be at the company’s largest plant at Vanderbijlpark. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Thursday it was outraged at Mittal’s plan.
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/ 17 September 2004
A Randburg engineer charged under weapons of mass destruction and nuclear energy laws has already told international authorities that he had no business dealings with Libya, the Vanderbijlpark Regional Court heard on Friday. Gerhard Wisser was questioned by German authorities last month.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=122333">’Death threats’ in WMD case</a>
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/ 17 September 2004
A man who has turned state witness in a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) case has allegedly received death threats, the Vanderbijlpark regional court heard on Friday. This emerged during a bail application by two Randburg engineering company directors who were arrested during an international investigation into a nuclear trafficking network.
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/ 14 September 2004
The bail application of two men charged under laws against the proliferation of nuclear weapons was delayed in Vanderbijlpark on Tuesday to give lawyers time to study new documents. Randburg engineering company directors Gerhard Wisser and Daniel Geiges were arrested last Wednesday.
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/ 8 September 2004
Charges were withdrawn on Wednesday against Johan Meyer, arrested in Vanderbijlpark under laws governing weapons of mass destruction, said a court official. Meyer was arrested last week, and 11 shipping containers containing the components of a gas centrifuge and related documentation were seized from his factory premises.
Accused withdraws bail application