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Malema rants at Human Rights Day gathering
DEFIANT ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema again sang the controversial “Kill the Boer” struggle song and vowed not to allow the country to be “run by journalists” in an address to a Human Rights Day gathering at the weekend.
“If you are not careful of journalists, they will bring down the government. We will never allow this country to be run by journalists,” he said in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, on Saturday. More |
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Oyster Festival promises an escape from soccer madness
PLANS for the annual Knysna Oyster Festival, which takes place from July 2 to 11, are in full swing and organisers say they are putting together a bumper programme that will coincide with the Fifa World Cup tournament. More
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MPL in heroic rescue of child at ‘suicide’ bridge
IN a grim life-or-death drama, former Eastern Cape public works MEC Christian Martin snatched away a five-year-old boy his father was threatening to throw from the notorious Van Stadens “Bridge of Death”. |
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Wickets fall in Rusty’s IPL blaze of glory
WARRIORS fast-bowler Rusty Theron made a sensational Indian Premier League (IPL) debut when he bowled the Kings XI Punjab to a dramatic cricket victory over the Chennai Super Kings in Chennai last night. |
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Two die on off-ramp
TWO people were killed and four others were injured in an accident on Settlers Way in Port Elizabeth at the weekend.
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Full honour burial for four policemen
ABOUT 3000 people, including Western Cape Community Safety MEC Lennit Max, attended a mass grave for six of the seven people, including four policemen, who were killed in a horror smash outside Robertson on March 10. |
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‘We are robbed of a dear and humble friend’
THERE were tears and sadness as a matric pupil killed in the horrific accident involving hip- hop singer Molemo “Jub Jub” Maarohanye was laid to rest at his home village in Ngqamakhwe near Butterworth in Transkei. |
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Leadership programme begins at NMMU
SIXTEEN senior government leaders from southern Sudan have embarked on a unique leadership training programme in Port Elizabeth, tailor-made by Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University’s Business School Leadership Academy to specifically address the needs of that region. |
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Mandela weds new bride while first wife fumes
NELSON Mandela’s eldest grandson, Nkosi Mandla Zwelivelile Mandela, celebrated his wedding to second wife and teenage bride, Anais Grimaud, in a traditional ceremony in Mvezo, Mthatha, on Saturday. |
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Murder is ruled out over girl in farm grave
A MAN has been found guilty in the Knysna Regional Court of hiding the body of a 17-year-old Cape Town girl in a shallow grave and then denying any knowledge of her death for eight months while her frantic parents searched for her. |
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150 take to the streets over sex shop near school
ABOUT 150 Oudtshoorn residents, a large number of them children, marched through the town centre at the weekend to protest against the opening of an Adult World sex shop about 200 metres from a school. |
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Late birth registration set to end
THE government intends doing away with late registrations of birth, barring exceptional cases, says Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. |
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Gang robs nightclub
SIX armed men robbed Club Aqua in North End, Port Elizabeth, early yesterday. |
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Oyster Festival promises an escape from soccer madness
PLANS for the annual Knysna Oyster Festival, which takes place from July 2 to 11, are in full swing and organisers say they are putting together a bumper programme that will coincide with the Fifa World Cup tournament. |
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Sex abuse dad ‘an evil man’
A FORMER Port Elizabeth sales representative and multiple Ironman contestant who was convicted yesterday of sexually molesting his young stepdaughter and possessing lurid child pornography is now living with a woman who owns a playschool. |
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Vow to ‘kill for Malema’
BITTER supporters of controversial ANC Youth League president Julius Malema have launched a racially charged campaign on popular social networking website Facebook in which they vow to rape and kill in his defence. |
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EL sleuth cracks it on to top TV show
ONCE Eastern Cape private investigator Daryl Els gets his teeth into a case he doesn’t let go, which is why he is now an integral part of award- winning investigative television programme Carte Blanche. “I am persistent,” said Els. “I never stop working on a case until I make a breakthrough – even if it seems it has come to a dead end. I am hard-skinned, like an elephant.” |
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Got a degree? Half a million? Then welcome to the UK
EMIGRATION agencies are expecting a flood of applicants hoping to make the most of the latest changes to British immigration laws which, from next month, will allow university graduates to work in the country – provided that they are big earners, that is. |
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If the jersey fits, make a play for it
SPORTS memorabilia, farm animals and even furniture will come under the hammer at an unusual auction at the St George’s Park cricket grounds next weekend. |
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Anger in crowd as Jub Jub and pal make bail
SCHOOLCHILDREN chanted: “We want him,” as news broke outside a Soweto court that hip hop artist Jub Jub and his co-accused had been granted bail, while the mother of one of the victims collapsed. |
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Wind farms to become part of scenery
WHILE a giant wind farm earmarked to go up on the doorstep of a peaceful Benedictine monastery near Grahamstown has seen a stand-off between monks and the project’s originator, questions have been raised over who exactly is benefiting from the lucrative R570-million endeavour. |
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Ex-PE boy now top TV mogul
FROM small-town amateur theatrics to number two at one of the world’s most powerful television production companies, former Port Elizabeth schoolboy Gary Carter’s life has been far less ordinary than he would have you believe. |
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Cycle squad on alert
A RESOURCEFUL Eastern Cape police station commander has hit on a plan to fight crime by setting up a volunteer bicycle patrol in his community. |
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New centre to tackle racism, promote democracy
A RACIST incident at the University of the Free State two years ago, in which cleaners were forced to eat what appeared to be urine-laced food, sparked a march against racism at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) and ignited a vision by its vice-chancellor to establish a centre to dissect such issues. |
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Doctors reject abused child
THE heart-wrenching case of a little orphaned girl who was apparently sexually abused and possibly raped, but was passed from pillar to post by doctors refusing to treat her in the rural Eastern Cape town of Paterson, has outraged child advocacy groups. |
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School’s 40th shows talent
A PORT Elizabeth primary school that has produced a string of talented individuals is celebrating its 40th anniversary this month. |
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Big Tree now on view again
TSITSIKAMMA’S Big Tree is once more open to the public – the ancient Outeniqua yellowwood, estimated to be between 600 and 800 years old, was inaccessible for 36 months because of roadworks carried out by South African national Roads Agency (Sanral). |
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Elton John mania reaches fever pitch for Bay show
FANS are all aflutter at the thought of seeing Sir Elton John live in Nelson Mandela Bay next week, when the celebrated British pop icon’s Under African Skies picnic-styled concert takes place at the south campus sports fields of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. |
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Too many managers, too few workers for SABC
THE SABC has too many managers and not enough workers, but will still provide “world class” coverage of the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup, the broadcaster’s chief executive Solly Mokoetle, told MPs today (March 19). |
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Golf Comfortline wins Car of the Year
THE Volkswagen Golf VI 1.4 TSI Comfortline (90 kW) won the SA Guild of Motoring Journalists 2010 Car of the Year title at glittering function in Johannesburg last night.The process of deciding the finalists for the WesBank-sponsored competition involved a general poll of all members of the guild. |
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2010 Countdown: 2010-6-11 00:00:00 GMT+00:00
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