Pretoria – Murder-convicted Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was electronically tagged on Tuesday following his successful bail application.

Pistorius arrived at the Correctional Services’s Poynton Building in the Pretoria CBD at 14:00.

Once he had entered the building, the glass doors were closed behind him.

Journalists and photographers waited outside the gates to get a glimpse of the former athlete.

Correctional Services employees gathered inside the grounds of the Poynton Building.

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BY REGINALD KANYANE

THREE infants as well as three adults were injured in a collision that occurred on the N12 near Glenharvie. The collision involved a light motor vehicle and a light delivery vehicle.

Er24 spokesperson, Chitra Bodasing said ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene and found people injured.

“Most of the injuries that were sustained ranged from minor to moderate save for one infant with critical injuries. The critically injured child was airlifted by ER24 to LenMed Hospital in Randfontein for further treatment. ER24 also transported two patients by road to the same hospital. The remaining patients were treated and transported by other medical services to various hospitals,” Bodasing said.

The cause of the collision remains unknown. Local authorities were on scene for further investigation.

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Bloemfontein – ANC Youth League (ANCYL) President Collen Maine vowed on Wednesday to do everything in his power to prove that the youth league was not “weak”.

“There is a perception in the country that suggests that the youth league doesn’t have a plan and that we are weak, and that is not true,” Maine told reporters in Bloemfontein.

“We just want to send a message of hope to our youth. We will do everything in our power to prove that the youth league is not for sale… it is a movement of the people.”

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Johannesburg – Police Minister Nathi Nhleko said on Wednesday that allegations made by suspended national police commissioner Riah Phiyega, that he was colluding with newly appointed senior police officials to have her fired, were bogus.

Nhleko was briefing the media during the opening of Yeoville’s police station.

He said that he had nothing to do with the circumstances facing Phiyega, but rather, it was President Jacob Zuma who had taken the decision to suspend her after recommendations by the Farlam Commission to investigate her fitness to hold office.

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Johannesburg – Innocent Mdledle is allegedly the professional footballer that appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, Soccerladuma revealed on Wednesday.

The news about a professional footballer who was arrested for assaulting an on-duty police officer in the early hours of Monday morning has been making headlines in local media.

However, the identity of the player remained everyone’s guess, as the police and all the parties involved kept it under wraps until he appeared in court.

Following his court appearance on Tuesday, the Soccerladuma has been reliably told that the player is none other than the former Bafana Bafana, Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns defender.

Sources confirmed that the left-back made a brief court appearance on Tuesday and was released with a warning, while investigation of the police is ongoing.

According to the website, all attempts to contact Mdledle were unsuccessful.

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Although his bid to appeal and overturn a murder conviction and 18-year prison sentence failed in court this week, Rajiv Narandas is “100 percent” certain he will be acquitted eventually.

Narandas, 29, was charged with murder after he stabbed Veenand Singh with a Swiss army knife during a brawl outside a Sandton nightclub in 2008.

However, judges Rean Strydom and Motsamai Makume reduced Narandas’s sentence to 15 years when the matter came before them at the South Gauteng High Court on Wednesday, extending his bail.

The judges said they took into account Narandas’s age and the fact that he was part of a group when Singh was attacked and killed.

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Johannesburg – Shoes, handbags, vehicle debris and shattered glass lay scattered eerily a few metres from the charred shell of the minibus taxi. Bodies lay strewn across the road. Fresh blood spatters glistened on the tar.

This was the horrific scene near Westonaria on the West Rand on Sunday after 19 people were killed when the taxi they were travelling in collided with a heavy-duty truck and burst into flames.

The accident happened on the R28 in Jagersfontein towards Vereeniging just after 12.30pm.

Five children and 14 adults died in the crash, according to Gauteng police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini.

“Five others were taken to hospital, two with serious injuries and three with slight injuries,” he said.

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Cape Town – All outsourced staff employed at the University of the Western Cape will receive a monthly allowance of R2 000 from December 1, the council said in a statement.

This is one of many agreements taken during a two-day meeting where council considered some of the issues raised by the students and the employees.

Council also condemned the recent acts of violence, vandalism, arson and intimidation that occurred on campus during recent weeks.

Council agreed that the university would issue a concessionary instrument that would provide debt relief for students eligible for UWC’s 2013–2015 National Student Financial Aid Scheme [NSFAS].

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