The Spar supermarket group has placed a full-page advertisement in several newspapers, offering a R100 000 reward for information on the robbers who shot dead the manager of the Spar in Jukskei Park on June 10.
The crime was caught on closed circuit television (CCTV), as was another robbery at a Melville liquor shop on June 3. It appeared that the robberies were perpetrated by the same gang, according to the police.
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Cape Town has a new name, but this one probably won’t be on the tip of everyone’s tongue.
//Hui !Gaeb, a Khoisan name meaning “where the clouds gather”, is soon to be emblazoned across a billboard in the city centre.
And fast food group Nando’s will be footing the bill.
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A Cape Town motorist who was fined R1000 for not moving out the way of a “ghost squad” car was vindicated in the Parow Municipal Court, it was reported on Wednesday.
Magistrate Phakama Madinda found on Tuesday that the officer who issued the fine had abused his power and motorist Steven Taylor, 29, was acquitted, the Cape Times reported.
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Human Settlements Minister and presidential hopeful Tokyo Sexwale suffered a humiliating defeat when delegates at the ANC policy conference rejected him, the City Press reported on its website on Tuesday.
In the opening session of the conference, Sexwale intervened in a discussion on conference rules led by ANC chairwoman Baleka Mbete.
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ANC president Jacob Zuma said yesterday that, with unemployment hitting record levels, South Africa needs a “job-seekers’ grant”.
Speaking at the party’s national policy conference, Zuma said all its members should debate policy reforms that would tackle the “triple threat” of inequality, poverty and unemployment, “especially among the youth”.
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His now-former employer Mphaphi Machipi told the Sowetan that Louis Mabokela was on sick leave when he defaced the painting.
Mabokela, 25, worked as a taxi driver in Limpopo.
“I was surprised to see Mabokela [on television] defacing the painting of President Jacob Zuma in Johannesburg, while he had told me he was around and not well,” said Machipi.
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Explaining his backing of the hotly debated “second transition” policy proposal, President Jacob Zuma said yesterday that the ANC could no longer sit back and watch its people live in squalor.
Zuma, now three years in office, confessed to sleepless nights after seeing extreme poverty.
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Maritzburg United have made some big signings: former Bafana Bafana international Delron Buckley, Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Mthokozisi Yende and Dutch-born Curacao international Orlando Smeekes.
Buckley, who is originally from KwaZulu-Natal, returns to South Africa after 17 years in Europe, where he has featured mostly in Germany, but also Switzerland and Cyprus.
It also reunites the player with coach Ernst Middendorp, who he has previously played for at Bochum and Arminia Bielefeld in Germany, and briefly at Cypriot club Anorthosis Famagusta in the 2009/10 season.
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Katlego Mphela is more than up for the challenge of reclaiming his starting berth at Mamelodi Sundowns.
Bafana Bafana’s first-choice striker had an indifferent 2011/12 campaign, especially in the second half of the season when he found himself on the bench playing second fiddle to Zimbabwean Nyasha Mushekwi.
His hopes of a quick return to the starting XI have been dealt a few blows in the last few days – he underwent knee surgery earlier this week, while The Brazilians have also added two more strikers to their roster in the form of Edward Manqele and Emmanuel Baffour.
However, Binkin says Mphela is aware of the challenges he faces and is more than ready to confront them.
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A ten-year-old boy drowned in a swimming pool at a house in Randburg, Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon, paramedics said.
“His father, who works at the residence, noticed his son was missing and found him floating in the water,” Netcare 911 spokesman Jeffrey Wicks said in a statement.
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