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Cape is murder capital but Joburg most feared’
January 18 2012 at 01:15pm
By SIBUSISO NKOMO
Independent Newspapers
Outrage over Cape's violence ranking
Cape Town is the country’s murder capital and has an extremely high ratio of murder to aggravated robbery, says the SA Institute of Race Relations.
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Call for govt to probe death squad claims
December 13 2011 at 08:30am
Leanne Jansen
THE Institute for Security Studies called for a commission of inquiry into allegations that members of the Durban organised crime unit operated as a “death squad”, while the Police Ministry said yesterday it had opted to leave the matter to the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD).
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ANC ‘not recruiting criminals’
September 8 2011 at 07:35am
Those wishing to become members of the ANC would have to undergo an eight-week probation and screening to ensure criminals are not recruited.
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Cele shocked at SAPS procurement errors
July 27 2011 at 09:08am
By Jovial Rantao and Candice Bailey
Inanda police station was supposed to cost R15 million. Pienaar police station, Mpumalanga, was budgeted to cost R40m. And the police station in KwaMaphumulo was going to cost the police R7m to build from foundation to finish.
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Millions blown in corrupt IT tender
May 14 2011 at 11:42am
By Kashiefa Ajam
police are about to swoop on the Ekurhuleni municipality - perhaps even before Wednesday’s election - and arrest five senior officials for an elaborate tender fraud that has cost hundreds of millions of rands for a computer system that does not work.
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Parties make final push for votes
May 16 2011 at 11:13am
By Mercury Reporters and Sapa
Reuters
President Jacob Zuma and DA leader Helen Zille have made their final appeals to voters before Wednesday’s local government elections.
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Zille vows to fight Information Bill
August 06 2010 at 09:40AM
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By Gaye Davis
Deputy Political Editor
DA leader Helen Zille vowed on Thursday to use "every means available" to fight the Protection of Information Bill, which she said was the "gravest legislative threat to our constitutional democracy since 1994".
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BP tests new cap over oil leak
July 15 2010 at 10:52AM
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By Tom Breen and Harry R Weber
Associated Press Writers
BP allayed last-minute government fears of making the disaster worse and started trying to slowly choke off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, in the hope of finally stopping the leak.
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November 26 2007 at 11:13PM
Fifa President Sepp Blatter condemned on Monday the murder of a former Austrian soccer player in Durban, but backed South Africa to host a successful World Cup in 2010.
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November 14 2007 at 06:39AM
By Bliss Barber and Sapa
For independent distributor Imraahn Ismail Mukaddam, the only price greater than the increase in bread this year is the one he paid for blowing the whistle on the cartel responsible for it.
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How does serial killers lure their victims?
October 01 2007 at 10:27AM
By Kuben Chetty
The majority of women murdered by serial killers in South Africa spent their last few hours alive hoping that the promise of a job would help them feed their families.
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September 01 2007 at 08:56AM
By Babington Maravanyika
The price of meat, which is soaring at the moment, is likely to be pushed even higher because of rampant stock theft in the province.
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August 21 2007 at 12:26PM
The number of foreign tourists visiting South Africa has grown by 10 percent ahead of Tourism Month in September, Environment and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Tuesday.
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August 21 2007 at 12:13PM
By Troy Martens
A vicious flu virus is sweeping across Durban, and people with chest ailments have been warned to take extra care.
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July 27 2007 at 04:32AM
By Caryn Dolley
Participating in the documentary Murder Most Foul was a "disturbing, eye-opening experience" which left him feeling "not completely safe" in the town of his birth, said award-winning South African actor Sir Antony Sher.
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Madiba birthday match attracts thousands
July 19 2007 at 06:03AM
Amid a chorus of vuvuzelas and a display of world-class soccer talent, more than 30 000 South Africans gathered at the Newlands Rugby stadium on Wednesday night to celebrate former president Nelson Mandela's 89th birthday.
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May 30 2007 at 04:21AM
By Alex Eliseev
They were the "clean-up team" who whisked Robert McBride away from his controversial car accident in 2006 - but now his right-hand men have given damning statements to senior police officials investigating the crash.
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May 22 2007 at 12:19PM
Hong Kong - One of the world's top chefs has warned that environmental degradation and an explosion in fine dining restaurants worldwide is set to have a drastic impact on the food trade.
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May 25 2007 at 10:23AM
By Evelyn Leopold
United Nations - The United Nations and the African Union drew up plans for a peacekeeping force for Darfur of more than 23 000 troops, police and other personnel to protect civilians and be able to use force to deter violence.
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May 23 2007 at 04:20AM
By Angela Quintal
Businessman Tokyo Sexwale was not trying to buy his way into the ANC presidency, according to the party's national chairperson, Mosiuoa Lekota.
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May 29 2007 at 04:26PM
Mogwase township outside Rustenburg was without power since Monday due to cable theft, Eskom said on Tuesday.
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Hanti Otto
May 18 2007 at 07:57AM
South Africans are extremely traumatised as a society. Apartheid has deeply damaged black and white alike.
This is according to US psychiatrist Dr Bessel van der Kolk, a trauma specialist.
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Carvin Goldstone
May 17 2007 at 05:11AM
Ratepayers in Durban have forked out millions of rands for a closed-circuit television camera system which is not being adequately monitored.
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May 17 2007 at 07:53AM
By Shaun Smillie and Sapa
Johannesburg is to get an ambitious R12-billion state-of-the-art monorail system to run between Soweto and the city - yet an environmental impact assessment is still to be conducted.
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Graeme Hosken
May 09 2007 at 10:32AM
South Africa's law enforcement agents are embarking on an ambitious plan which they say could see the eradication of crime in the country and a "policeman" on every street.
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April 28 2007 at 05:23PM
The ashes of Star Trek star James Doohan will be blasted into space on Saturday when a rocket carrying a symbolic portion of the late actor's cremated re-mains is launched in New Mexico.
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Bhavna Sookha
May 01 2007 at 01:08PM
Terrified and violated. That's how Rae van Nieuwenhuizen felt after she was stopped while driving along Ridge Road, Durban, before being bodily searched and assaulted by a man claiming to be a police officer.
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May 01 2007 at 09:15AM
The Security Council asked the United Nations on Monday to draw up contingency plans for UN peacekeepers in Somalia by mid-June should members decide conditions merit such a force.
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December 04 2006 at 05:16AM
By Alex Eliseev
He is a 31-year-old father who loves his daughters and never misses a Sundowns soccer match - but in the underground belly of the country's gold-rich mineshafts, he is a ruthless pirate embroiled in a violent war against the police.
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November 26 2006 at 02:17PM
Tony Leon will step down as leader of the Democratic Alliance in May next year, he told reporters in Johannesburg on Sunday.
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