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Bike Accident at Myrtle and Willoughby
Any details about what appears to have been a bike-car collision at about 10:35 p.m. tonight?
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Gauteng premier warns taxi industry
Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane has warned taxi operators not to stage disruptive protests against the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system to be launched in Johannesburg next week, The Star reports. "The taxi industry can't be a law unto themselves," Mokonyane said during a. . . .
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Birth in a school toilet
TINY TOT: A cellphone photograph of the baby taken shortly after she was born at the schoolAN 18-year-old pupil rushed out of her Grade 10 geography class on Monday morning to give birth in her school’s pit latrine toilets. Her waters had broken and a friend followed her in and helped her give birth...
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SA media ‘sold out’ Semenya
CRAZY CROWD: Gold medallists Mokgadi Caster Semenya and Mbulaeni Mulaudzi are mobbed by jubilant fans on their arrival at the Oliver Tambo International airport yesterday morning from Berlin Picture: THYS DULLAARTAthletics boss says e-mail sent to IAAF from SA demanding scrutiny of medallist’s gender ATHLETICS SA claims that a local media house initiated...
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Police shot dead 420 people in 2007/08
Police shot dead 420 people in 2007/08, an average of more than one person every day, the Star newspaper reports. According to figures by police watchdog, the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD), at least 191 suspects were shot during an arrest, 83 shot while allegedly. . . .
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Implant murder: Husband takes his life
For Ryan Jenkins, life ended in a suicide in a remote Canadian motel room, and police who had sought the reality show contestant in the killing of his ex-wife hunted Monday for someone new: the mysterious woman who accompanied him to his lodgings. Jenkins, a contestant on. . . .
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Thousands to welcome athletes home
South Africa's athletes are expected to be greeted by thousands of supporters when they arrive at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport from Berlin on Tuesday proudly bearing their two golds and one silver medal. Even the Congress of SA Trade Unions,. . . .
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Girl gives birth at school
An 18-year-old schoolgirl gave birth at a school in Eersterus near Pretoria on Monday, the school principal said. Rakgotso High School principal Rufas Mokwe said they were alerted by other pupils that a girl was giving birth in the toilets and a female teacher had to assist. . . . .
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New twist in Richter murder trial
The wife of murdered conservationist Franz Richter has lodged her second bail application in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on the grounds that Correctional Services has ordered that her 18-month-old baby be taken away from the prison from 1 September 2009. Seliwe. . . .
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Springbok player nabbed for speeding
HIGH FLIER: Wynand OlivierBlue Bulls and Springbok centre Wynand Olivier was arrested for speeding on the N1 north highway near Midrand, Johannesburg metro police said today. "I was told by people that he is a rugby player, but what I can confirm is that a man driving a silver Golf 5 was. ....
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Surgery backlog at Gauteng hospital
A total of 1,567 patients are awaiting surgery at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, the Democratic Alliance said today. Most of these patients would have to wait six months for their operations, which could lead to complications or death, spokesman Jack Bloom. . . .
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Swine flu toll rises to 9
NINE South Africans have died of swine flu since the disease broke out in the country on June 18. An unidentified person believed to have contracted swine flu died at the weekend. The swine flu variant of the H1N1 virus is expected to be confirmed as the cause of death today. A. ....
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Girl, 9, drowns in unfenced sewage dam
GRIM END: Emergency Services personnel carry awaythe body of Boitumelo Motlhokoane yesterday Picture: LEBOHANG MASHILOANEFriend allegedly pushed her in A NINE-year-old from Soweto has drowned in an unfenced sewage dam this weekend. Boitumelo Motlhokoane, who was cared for by her grandmother after her mother died in 2003, and her eight-year-old friend were...
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‘Provoked’ Zanu-PF in Cabinet walk-out
ANGRY over charges of election-rigging, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party walked out of a Cabinet meeting yesterday to review the work of the unity government it has formed with its opponents. In a sign of serious tensions within the six-month-old. . . .
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‘Landlords Tweeted us badly’
STREAMING IN TO CATCH THE FIGHT: Some of the Tweets relating to Roy Blumenthal’s fallout with his landlords, Chris Bass and Caroline CrowtherTenant puts clips of fallout on Net AN EVICTION row between a landlord and his tenant is playing out over the Internet. Illustrator Roy Blumenthal filmed his Saturday night...
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