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Warratahs scoop win against Stormers

After talking about critical wins for weeks The Warratahs have scooped a last-minute win over the Stormers at Newlands on Saturday defeating Stormers 32 to 30. In 2014, a Newlands victory handed them a championship-winning run. This time around it at least get things back on the rails and beyond. Rob Horne was a[…]

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COSATU calls on workers to defeat federation

Cosatu President S’dumo Dlamini has called on workers to defend the federation and fight to end the pending job losses in the current economic climate. He said workers faced multiple challenges and that Cosatu was the only federation that could defend them. Dlamini was addressing thousands of people at the[…]

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Armed robbery rattles Liberty Promenade

Shoppers at the Liberty Promenade Mall in Mitchells Plain have been left shaken following a brazen robbery earlier today. Six suspects, three of them armed, robbed a store at the mall before fleeing the scene with an undisclosed amount of money. Police say no shots were fired and no one[…]

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31 injured as taxi collides with 2 bakkies

A total of 31 people have sustained minor to serious injuries after  a taxi and two bakkies collided in Khayelitsha,  Cape Town, paramedics said on Sunday. According to ER24 spokesperson Pieter Rossouw, the taxi driver lost control of his vehicle causing it to roll. While it was rolling, the taxi[…]

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Wynberg Boys in lead at Rugby Fest 2016

Wynberg Boys’ beat St John’s College 38-12 on day one of their annual rugby festival. The hosts led 14-12 at the break after both teams scored two first-half tries, with Wynberg fullback Labib Kannemeyer then scoring two second-half tries to put the result beyond doubt. St John’s opened the scoring[…]

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Lily Mine: no pay today

Workers at the Lily Mine in Barberton will not be getting their April salaries today, according to trade union Solidarity. The union’s announcement, on the last working day of the month, comes after the mine’s owner, Vantage Gold Fields, asked the Industrial Development Corporation for R250 million in funding. The[…]

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Fresh round of shootings rocks Manenberg

Three people were shot, at least one of them fatally, when gunmen opened fire in Manenberg on Wednesday night. The Manenberg Safety Forum said the dead man was a right-hand man to the Hard Livings gang boss in the area. Police said a 24-year-old man had been arrested in connection[…]

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Sand stuffed down Franziska’s throat

Loud applause greeted a prosecutor’s demand on Thursday that four men accused of the rape, murder and robbery of a teenager in Tokai Forest in Cape Town, be denied bail. There were also gasps in the public gallery when prosecutor Rene Uys told the court that 16-year-old Franziska Blochliger died[…]

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