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No resignation from Dramat: ministry

Suspended Hawks boss Anwa Dramat has not resigned, an official said on Friday. “In a letter in December [Dramat]… indicated that he would want a meeting [with Police Minister Nathi Nhleko] and would want to discuss his possible resignation,” the minister’s spokesman Musa Zondi said. “This is not something new.[…]

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CT fisherman missing at sea

A Cape Town fisherman is presumed to have drowned after he went missing at sea off Cape Point, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Friday. “It appears that the fisherman, 51, from Khayelitsha, had gone on stern watch at 1am and was discovered to be missing at 1.59am,” said[…]

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Oscar to contest state appeal

Lawyers for paralympian Oscar Pistorius will on Friday appeal the court decision allowing the State to appeal his culpable homicide conviction. Judge Thokozile Masipa granted the State’s application to appeal Pistorius’s culpable homicide conviction, but dismissed its application to appeal his five-year jail sentence. The State wants him to be[…]

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Basson ‘distorting facts’

Former chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson was trying to create an atmosphere not based on facts, a professional conduct committee in Pretoria heard on Thursday. Salie Joubert, representing complainants against Basson, argued before the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) that Basson’s application for the recusal of[…]

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UCT students make voices heard

University of Cape Town (UCT) students, for the most part, want monuments and symbols reminiscent of South Africa’s colonial and Apartheid past removed. This follows an incident on Monday during a protest where human excrement was thrown at the feet of a statue of Cecil John Rhodes, to some a[…]

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Teacher shot at Al Azhar primary

A teacher at Al Azhar primary school in Lotus river was shot on the school premises during a gang related shooting on Thursday afternoon. Grassy park police spokesperson Warrant officer Juanita Kleinsmith said gang members from the Mongrels and Yurucats were involved in a shootout outside the school grounds. The[…]

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Festival dates announced

Following the disappointment that followed the postponement the 2014 edition of the annual VOC Summer Festival, organizers have promised that the event will return better than ever before. On Wednesday, it was announced that the annual festival would be held from the 7th – 10th May 2015. Following on from[…]

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Zuma shifts blame on Nkandla issue: Analyst

Analysts have slated the ‘evasive’ and ‘bullish’ attitude shown by President Jacob Zuma during Wednesday’s parliamentary Q&A session, where the countries ‘Number 1’ faced questions as to the current state of criminal justice institutions, and the ongoing electricity crisis amongst others. In Zuma’s first parliamentary appearance since the controversial 2015[…]

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This is how we failed Syria

OPINION by Jan Egeland- Last year three UN Security Council resolutions were passed aiming to protect and assist civilians in Syria. But, a year after the first resolution was passed, the words ring hollow. In a report being released today, my organisation, Norwegian Refugee Council, along with several other organisations,[…]

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Governance collapse at Eskom: NUM

The suspension of four top Eskom executives indicates a collapse of governance at the parastatal, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Thursday. “Clearly it means there is collapse of governance. We would have expected that the chairperson of Eskom’s board should have been the one who is fired,”[…]

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