No confidence vote: Email your MP: The Constitutional Court is to rule on an application on holding a secret ballot in the no confidence vote in President Jacob Zuma. Use our tool to email an MP and ask them to vote in one way or another. ……
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Train robbers terrorise commuters on notorious Cape line: Cape Town – While Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) executives were meeting with United National Transport Union (Untu) representatives to discuss safety concerns on the central line, another attack took place on the same line. Untu spokesperson Sonja Carstens said three armed men boarded a train from Cape Town to Bellville…
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Woman brutally raped while grandkids share her bed: Kimberley – A sixty-eight-year-old grandmother is unable to sit after she was allegedly raped by her neighbour, while her two young grandchildren were asleep next to her in her bed, in Lerato Park earlier this week. The woman, who was carrying her youngest grandchild on her back on Wednesday, said that she received medical treatment at the Galeshewe Day Hospital and Kimberley Hospital after suffering a prolapsed womb following the rape, which took…
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South Africa: Timol Family Hopes Inquest Will Restore His Legacy: [News24Wire] The family of teacher and anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol, who died in police custody 45 years ago, believe that the reopening of an inquest docket into his death will help them clarify what really happened, and restore his legacy, dignity and honour. ……
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Four Suspects Appeared in Court for Murder: [SAPS] To ensure the safe and security of our community, four accused, Joel Tumo Phatudi (39), Zwelinzima Mohapi(23), Olebogeng Mgijima (25) and Lebogang Serei (40) were arrested in Rooiwal near Taung on Wednesdasy,14 June and Thursday,15 June 2017 respectively by the North West Provincial Tracking Team and Taung Detectives. ……
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Masiphumelele residents question City of Cape Town’s compliance with court interdict: Masiphumelele residents believe the City of Cape Town has not held up its end of a court order which prevents further structures from being erected at two vacant plots in the area. ……
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Constitutional Court to rule on motion of no confidence secret ballot: The Constitutional Court is set to make its ruling on the UDM’s application to force National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete to conduct the vote of no confidence on President Jacob Zuma as a secret ballot. ……
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DNA testing to help identify skeleton found in veld: Johannesburg – A skull, a bottle of glue in one of the pockets, patches of hair, a pair of trousers and a blue jacket. These were all that was left of a rotting corpse which didn’t even have skin on it when Sebokeng residents stumbled upon it between two large trees in the veld while measuring stands for occupation two weeks ago. The remains are yet to be identified but it is believed that they had been lying there for months. Horrified at the sight, the residents sprung into action and ran to the house of a police officer who lives nearby. Once alerted, the cop…
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Billions wasted by local governments across SA: Johannesburg – South Africa’s municipalities continue to bleed billions of rand in taxpayers’ money on irregular and wasteful expenditure, despite local governments battling to deliver services. And the problems are the same: unskilled municipal officials and mayors; failure to ensure that the basics – including budgeting, cost-management and adhering to the prescribed tender processes -are done correctly; as well as a lack of accountability. These were among the findings by Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu on Wednesday when he released his report for the 2015/2016 financial year, which paints a bleak picture of most municipalities regressing in their financial control systems. Out of the 263…
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SA was founded on a crime against humanity, says Malema: CApe Town – The EFF’s commander-in-chief, Julius Malema, took the stage and told an auditorium full of mostly white property owners that they were beneficiaries of a crime against humanity. Malema and the EFF have agitated for a land reform programme that would make the state the custodian of all land in South Africa, arguing that black South Africans had been forcefully dispossessed, and that land should be returned to its “rightful owners”….
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