Daily Archives: July 4, 2012

Toddler burns hand in electricity box

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Potchefstroom – A four-year-old toddler’s hand was burnt when he put it into a street electricity box in Potchefstroom, in the North West, on Tuesday, paramedics said.

ER24 spokeswoman Vanessa Jackson said the boy was with his parents at a business when he wandered off to play on the pavement.

“He somehow managed to get his little hand into a nearby electricity box,” said Jackson.

His thumb, the palm of his hand and his forearm were extensively burnt, she said.

Paramedics treated him on the scene before he was taken to the Potchefstroom provincial hospital. – Sapa

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Three held for drugs worth R1m

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Klerksdorp – North West police arrested three people and seized ecstacy tablets with a street value of more than R1 million on Tuesday.

“The police were working on a tip-off received on drugs trafficked from Amsterdam in the Netherlands to South Africa,” said Brigadier Thulani Ngubane in a statement.

“According to the information, suspects send the drugs (via) post. The post would then be collected and handed over to the drug dealers.”

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Family bid to stop parole

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Accomplices in the killing of fashion designer Richard Bloom and budding actor Brett Goldin will make another bid on Wednesday to be set free.

The pair’s families have been advised that convicts Jade Wyngaard and Nurshad Davids have served six years of their 12-year sentences, but stand to benefit from an amendment to the Correctional Services Act and President Jacob Zuma’s special prisoner remission.

Davids and Wyngaard were initially sentenced to 15 years each for robbery, kidnapping and possession of an unlicensed firearm, but three years were taken off because they agreed to testify for the State at the trial – which never happened because a plea bargain took place.

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Possible “God Particle” found

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Pier Oddone of Fermilab talks during the Australian Science Media Centre background briefing on the search for the Higgs boson in Melbourne

Scientists at the CERN research centre have discovered a new subatomic particle that could be the elusive Higgs boson.

“I can confirm that a particle has been discovered that is consistent with the Higgs boson theory,” said John Womersley, chief executive of Britain’s Science & Technology Facilities Council, at an event in London

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Bapela concludes unannounced site visits in North West

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By Obakeng Maje

Deputy Minister for the Department of Performance Monitoring in the Presidency, Obed Bapela concluded his unannounced Front Service Delivery Monitoring (FSDM) visit at Mahikeng South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), Montshioa Clinic, Mahikeng Local Municipality Drivers & Learners Testing Centre and Customer Service Centre in Mahikeng, North West Province on Tuesday.

Deputy Minister Bapela also engaged with management at the service delivery sites. Although the FSDM visits take the form of surprise visits to monitor the quality of service delivery rendered at the targeted sites, engagements with the management provided useful management information resulting from the visits, which could be used to improve service delivery

Meanwhile, The Deputy Minister is to present to the special sitting of the Provincial Executive Council (Exco) a report highlighting best practices, challenges and interventions required as per performance monitoring visits to schools, Health facilities, Police stations and SASSA Offices conducted earlier in March.

 

Game farmer in jail for possession of rhino horn

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A Thabazimbi game farmer has been sentenced to eight years in jail by the Makhado Magistrate’s Court for illegal possession of 30 rhino horns.

Beeld reported that magistrate Pat Cloete turned down a request for leave to appeal by Jacques Els, 39, and also refused to extend his bail pending an appeal against the sentence in the High Court in Pretoria.

Els was released on bail of R300,000 after being sentenced in March.

Defence counsel Tom Dreyer told the newspaper Els was taken into custody after the court proceedings on Monday.

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