#ThumaMina: The ANC is back and powerful, says Ramaphosa: Johannesburg – Hundreds braved the cold to join President Cyril Ramaphosa on his 5km health walk in Tembisa, Ekurhuleni on Friday morning. The health walk, part of his Thuma Mina election campaign, started at 6am. “Thuma Mina is an overall campaign where we are saying to our people…
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NFP to initiate motion in National Assembly to downgrade SA embassy in Israel: The NFP says South Africa needs to take more decisive action against Israel after its armed forces killed scores of Palestinians following protests. ……
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Day Zero injuries have put many Capetonians in hot water: There is a new phrase in Cape Town’s lexicon: Day Zero injuries. Most of them are caused by lugging buckets of grey water from showers and washing machines to recycle in the loo or garden. ……
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Qualification scandal leads to #MariethaAucamp falling on her sword: Pretoria – Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga on Thursday night confirmed he had accepted the resignation of the embattled chief of staff in his office, Marietha Aucamp. Msimanga said Aucamp had been asked to resign. “I wish to state that I accept her resignation and will inform the office of the City manager to whom the chief of staff reports so as to observe all due process in this regard,” Msimanga said. “We note that following the revelations that have come to the fore, the prima facie evidence before us and the controversy surrounding the matter, as the executive mayor, I had no option but to ask her to resign. “We want to wish her well in all her future endeavours.” Read: #SollyMsimanga says…
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#CITRobbery: New scare tactics in heists: Johannesburg – Gauteng has the unwanted tag of being labelled the top province for cash-in-transit heists, while police are no match for the bravado of these dangerous criminals. The brazen and dramatic robbery that shocked Boksburg residents early on Thursday was the 10th to occur in the province in the past 17 days, according to a source within the Hawks’ National Bureau for Illegal Firearm Control and Priority Violent Crime. So far this year, Gauteng has recorded an average of eight to 12 robberies per month. Read: WATCH: Five arrested after…
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UCT apologises for professor’s ‘disrespectful’ Ramadaan comments: UCT has conceded comments made by a lecturer, in response to a Muslim student’s question about examination protocols during Ramadaan, were “inappropriate and disrespectful”. Nuhaa Soeker e-mailed Professor John Higgins, of the university’s English literature department, asking if students would be allowed to break their fast just before 6pm during a 5-7pm exam. In response, Higgins said: “By breaking the fast do you mean a five-course meal with dessert, or a small snack whose eating would disturb no one around you? The exam office, which runs the exams (not me!) makes no mention of this, and you would have to approach them for clarification. But please tell me what you see as fast-breaking…
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BMW forced to pay former staff R55m: Cape Town – Automobile giant BMW’s property has been ordered to be publicly auctioned to recover nearly R55 million owed to former employees. David Mahlatsi and 1 390 other former members of the BMW Pension Fund took the fund and its board of trustees to court to force them to pay monies they say were due to…
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Broadband roll-out will focus on connecting 570 sites in 2018: Government is speeding up its broadband roll-out, Telecommunications and Postal Services Minister Siyabonga Cwele said. The department has placed broadband penetration as one of its strategic priorities in a bid to achieve 100% broadband access for the population by 2020. Delivering his budget vote speech in Parliament on Thursday, Cwele said state-owned technology companies Broadband Infraco and the State Information Technology Agency were mandated to…
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Ex-bouncer linked to Krejcir arrested for money laundering: A former bouncer closely linked to jailed Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir has been arrested in Johannesburg and faces charges relating racketeering, money laundering, steroids and kidnapping. ……
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Judges’ access to Juta archive restored as justice minister apologises: The Department of Justice and Juta Publishers have struck a deal giving judges access to Juta’s content, which they rely on as an archive of judgments and legal commentary. A dispute over payments, which dragged on for more than a month, resulted in the judges being locked out of accessing the online service. The judges raised concerns that the matter could…
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