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New Kings Beach attack
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Divan Blignaut and Kelly Hemmingway are glad to be alive. Picture: Fredlin Adriaan |
A YOUNG couple’s evening stroll turned into a nightmare when they were ambushed at knifepoint and robbed at Kings Beach on Tuesday....
Corrupt civil servants ‘pocketed R35m’
By Mphumzi ZuzileEast London – Corrupt civil servants in the province have pocketed an estimated R35- million earmarked for pensions since 1998....
5 000 kids in feeding crisis as Bisho defaults
By Jimmy MatyuMORE than 5 000 schoolchildren in Port Elizabeth townships will have to learn on empty stomachs from today, thanks to another crisis in the management of the school feeding scheme. ...
Top journalist dies after car crash
Herald CorrespondentCape Town – The chief of staff at Independent Newspapers Cape, Stephen Wrottesley, died early yesterday following a car accident in Kenilworth on Tuesday night....
State conducts probe into high municipal salaries
By Patrick CullCape Town – The department of provincial and local government has undertaken an investigation into high salaries of municipal managers....
E Cape nature reserves receive R120m injection
By Patrick Cull Political CorrespondentTHE Eastern Cape government has secured total investment of R120-million in three provincial nature reserves, Economic Affairs, Environment and Tourism MEC Enoch Godongwana announced yesterday....
Top judge leads rugby racism probe
Cape Town – Retired Judge Edwin King has agreed to lead the independent investigation called by the SA Rugby Football Union to look into allegations of racism within the Springbok camp....
TV crew get close-up view of race attack
By Lee RondgangerJohannesburg – Two crew members of the hard-hitting e.tv current affairs programme 3rd Degree, researching an insert on racism, have themselves become the victims of an alleged racist attack....
Tearful mum identifies UPE suicide as her son
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Grieving: Nomsa Kawa (right) and her daughter Phumeza, after identifying the body of her son, Siyabulela Mene. Picture: Fredlin Adriaan |
A STUDENT who jumped to his death from a building at the University of Port Elizabeth on Monday night was identified yesterday by his distraught KwaDwesi mother as her son, Siyabulela Mene, 23....
Riddle of twin drivers in horrific minibus smash
By Helga van StaadenTHE driver of the taxi involved in a collision with a bus on Tuesday that left eight people dead has an identical twin brother and only one of them has a valid driver’s licence, it was learnt yesterday....
Agri EC calls for disaster proclamation
By Justine GerardyEast London – Agri Eastern Cape has called for fire- ravaged farmlands in the province to be declared a disaster zone....
Cops assaulted us at gunpoint, claim brothers
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Hurting: Rodney (right) and Neville Moses |  |
TWO Humansdorp brothers were allegedly assaulted and held at gunpoint by two policemen at the weekend....
Judge may visit prison
By Hanti OttoPretoria – A Pretoria judge might pay a visit to C- Max prison himself to see if the “torturing” music being played over the prison’s radio system really is making the lives of the Boeremag accused hell....
Boesak faces charges on ‘k-word’
Herald correspondent
Cape Town – Disgraced struggle hero and former cleric Allan Boesak is facing criminal charges and a civil suit for alleged racial abuse of workers at his home....
Act on citizenship tabled
Cape Town – Legislation correcting an anomaly regarding dual citizenship was tabled in Parliament yesterday....
Cooking pot killer held
Eshowe – A man accused of mutilating a woman, then cooking her body parts, has been arrested....
SA gains funds at Cuban talks
By Guy Rogers SOUTH Africa will go home from Cuba with more than R3-million of new funding to fight desertification....
SA shows how community projects beat hand-outs
By Guy RogersAFRICAN communities have lost their natural respect for the environment because of “commercialism”, but this loss is being recouped....
Court ends ‘irretrievable’ Faku marriage
By Max Matavire Municipal ReporterTHE divorce between Mayor Nceba Faku and his wife Kholiswa was granted this week during a brief session in the High Court, officially ending a 10-year childless marriage....
Agri union questions ‘farm attack’ finding
Report by Joy RussellJohannesburg – AN ORGANISATION representing South African farmers yesterday called into question the SA Human Rights Commission’s findings that farm attacks were not racially motivated....
Row as Kouga suspends manager
By Max Matavire Municipal ReporterCONTROVERSY has again rocked the Kouga municipality with the local authority this week suspending its community services manager for alleged maladministration....
No mass grave at Laingsburg
Cape Town – An archeological report showed without any doubt there was no mass grave at Laingsburg, Western Cape Premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk said yesterday....
Addo National Park now hit by perlemoen poachers
By Sam MkokeliTHE scourge of perlemoen poaching has hit the greater Addo National Park, which now stretches to the coast....
Drama in gallery as rape charge pastor makes bail of R4 000
By Hendrick MphandeIN a day filled with tension and drama in and out of court, blind Port Elizabeth pastor Vuyisile Kula, 49, who is facing nine counts of rape involving four young girls, was granted R4 000 bail....
‘Robbery accused sold me bakkie for R1 000’
Herald ReporterTWO State witnesses have implicated one of the five men charged with robbing the Vermaak family of Chelsea....
Hazardous cargo is removed from stranded vessel
By Melanie GoslingCape Town – Salvors have airlifted the contents of five containers of hazardous cargo off the grounded Sealand Express and started yesterday on the sixth....
Relief crew for poacher vessel
By Melanie GoslingCape Town – The SAS Drakensberg, with 27 Australian naval staff on board, is steaming to meet the Uruguayan fishing vessel Viarsa 200 nautical miles south of the Cape Peninsula, where the Australian team will be transferred to the suspected toothfish poaching vessel....
De Lille calls for investigation into Mbeki’s role
By Patrick HlahlaPretoria – Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille has called for a probe into President Thabo Mbeki’s possible involvement in the arms deal....
Zuma reveals more on arms deal saga
By Zelda VenterPretoria – “SOME highly-placed people” have apparently been implicated in an affidavit made by Deputy President Jacob Zuma in connection with the controversial arms deal saga....
Maduna ‘did not influence court action’
By Patrick Cull Political CorrespondentCape Town – Justice Minister Penuell Maduna yesterday categorically denied that he had in any way influenced the decision not to prosecute Deputy President Jacob Zuma....
Zim maize price is more than doubled
Harare – The Zimbabwe government has more than doubled the price it will pay for maize and wheat in a bid to boost production in the famished country. ...
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