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Chaos at Dora Nginza ‘due to shortage of 441 nurses’

By Sam Mkokeli and Heidi Bantam

DORA Nginza hospital matron Florence Peter has had to mop the floors of the hospital mortuary due to staff shortages....

Anti-corruption team launched

Herald Correspondents

East London – THE first joint anti-corruption task team was launched here yesterday to eradicate widespread fraud and corruption in the Eastern Cape government....

Birdman’s wings clipped

A MAN was arrested in Port Elizabeth yesterday when he was found in possession of 20 Cape parrots – one of the country’s most endangered bird species....

Zim on agenda at ICC crises meeting

Herald Correspondents and Sapa-AFP

Johannesburg – THE four major crises blighting the build-up to next month’s World Cup, among them the situation in Zimbabwe, are set to be discussed at a special meeting of the International Cricket Council’s executive board today....

Hunger strikers back in single cells

Herald Reporter

THE six St Albans’ inmates who went on a hunger strike on Tuesday protesting against their removal from single to communal cells ended yesterday when prison authorities had them returned to their original cells....

‘Disadvantaged’ to get tender preference

BY Max Matavire Municipal Reporter

THE metro is likely to adopt a controversial policy which will allow the council to sell or lease its land without consulting the provincial government and also gives preference to “formerly disadvantaged” people to acquire land....

Huisamen in court for fraud and corruption

By Guy Rogers

CONTROVERSIAL businessman Michau Huisamen is facing charges of fraud and corruption in the Bellville Regional Court....

Massage parlour massacre victim cremated

By Bill Blumenfeld

Cape Town – AS POLICE continued their hunt yesterday for the killers of eight men at a Cape Town gay massage parlour, about 100 people attended an emotional funeral service for murdered “Sizzlers” boss Aubrey Eric Otgaar....

Nehawu calls for summit on tensions in Bisho

By Thozi Ka Manyisana

Bisho – Trade union Nehawu sent a letter to ANC chief whip Sicelo Gqobana yesterday, urging him to call a summit to address tension amongst officials in the Bisho legislature and the high rate of staff resignations....

Draft Bill targets pimps, brothel-keepers

Report by Sapa

Pretoria – ANY person infected by a life-threatening sexually transmissible disease who failed to disclose that to his or her partner before having sex is guilty of rape, says the SA Law Commission....

Boys best mates, just like their dads 37 years ago

Roger Fraser and his son, Christian (left), 6, and Derek Braans and his son, Michael, 6, in the exact same classroom the boys’ fathers started in 37 years ago. Picture: Mike Holmes

By Nick Wilson

THE old adage “like father like son” can certainly apply to six-year-old mates Christian Fraser and Michael Braans, who started Grade 1 at Grey Junior in the same classroom yesterday....

More sloppy signs to confuse tourists to city

By Nick Wilson

RED-FACED municipal officials have acted quickly after a notice board on the corner of Belmont Terrace and Whites Road, explaining the history of the Donkin Reserve and other important landmarks in the area, carried incorrect dates and contained grammatical errors....

Fight against UPE ‘student barracks’ goes to court

Herald Reporter

SUMMERSTRAND residents affected by the controversial student village earmarked for Ivana Drive filed an application in the High Court yesterday, seeking an interdict blocking the development....

‘No lessons because  teachers are away’

By Jimmy Matyu

THE Union of South African Professional Educators has criticised the provincial education department for allowing Grade 10 teachers to be absent, particularly in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, on the opening day of the new school year to attend workshops....

Thousands in revenue lost due to traffic staff shortages

BY Max Matavire Municipal Reporter

PORT Elizabeth is losing about R75 000 a month in parking meter revenue because of critical staff shortages at the traffic department....

Charges against Vinnie dropped

Johannesburg – Assault and theft charges laid earlier this week against British actor and former football player Vinnie Jones have been dropped. ...

Crippled man gets R14 000 wheelchair

By Sam Mkokeli

JOY was etched on the face of a crippled 45-year-old New Brighton man as he was presented with a state-of-the-art electric wheelchair by the government yesterday....

Disease ‘will kill 30 000’ in E Cape this year

By Cecile Greyling

Grahamstown – ABOUT 630 000 people living in the Eastern Cape are expected to die from HIV-Aids-related illnesses in the next nine years....

Police ‘beat up my drunk husband’

By Helga van Staaden

THREE Bethelsdorp police sergeants have been accused of assaulting a 56-year-old Port Elizabeth man after his wife complained about his drinking....

Boeremusiek star Mattheus dies

SOUTH African Boeremusiek legend Neels Mattheus died in his sleep early yesterday....

Police investigate Marais, Malatsi

By Gustav Thiel

Cape Town – The DA has laid a complaint with the police against suspended NNP officials David Malatsi and Peter Marais, and businessman Ricardo Agusta for their alleged roles in a controversial golf estate development in Plettenberg Bay....

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