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Chabane to get official funeral: Presidency

Public Service and Administration Minister Collins Chabane will receive a category one official funeral at the weekend, the presidency said on Tuesday. “The minister will be accorded an official funeral,” spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement. Zuma ordered that the national flag be flown at half-mast at all flag[…]

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Police probing Chabane crash

Transport Minister Dipuo Peters, through the Road Traffic Management Corporation and the police, is investigating the cause of the crash in which Public Service Minister Collins Chabane was killed, her office said on Sunday. “[The minister] is saddened by the untimely death of the Minister of Public Services and Administration,[…]

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41 dead in Tanzania road accident

At least 41 people have died after a long haul truck rammed into a bus in the Iringa region of Tanzania, officials said Wednesday. It’s not clear how many people are injured, said regional police commissioner Ramadhan Mungi, but survivors had been rushed to Iringa Hospital. Efforts to free some people[…]

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Anni’s father’s arm severed in accident

The father of honeymoon murder victim Anni Dewani has had an arm ripped off in an industrial accident, his family confirmed on Wednesday. Vinod Hindocha, 65, whose daughter was kidnapped and murdered in South Africa in 2010, had his right arm severed just below the shoulder as he was fixing[…]

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Family of five killed in N1 crash on Christmas

A young couple and three children between the ages of three months and four years old died in an accident on the N1 near the Sable Road turnoff on Christmas morning. “The driver allegedly lost control of the vehicle and collided with a lamp post on the side of the[…]

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26 dead on SA roads since Sunday

The death toll in reported road accidents countrywide since Sunday has reached 26. In KwaZulu-Natal, one person was killed and 17 were injured in a collision between a minibus taxi and police vehicle on Monday afternoon. Paramedics found injured people scattered around the accident scene at the intersection of West Street[…]

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CTown actor dies in crash

The Western Cape government on Tuesday mourned the loss of Cape Town actor and musician Thabang Sidloyi in a car accident. Provincial transport MEC Donald Grant said Sidloyi, 27, was flung from a BMW convertible on the N2 on Friday evening. According to provincial traffic services, it was believed that[…]

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