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Man beaten with wheel spanner during farm attack
A Tshwane man is currently being treated for a skull fracture after three armed men entered his home and beat him repeatedly on his head with a wheelspanner, his daughter says.
Maimane says hard work ahead to win Metro, sidesteps talks of coalition
The DA realises that it has a fight on its hands to win the Nelson Mandela Bay in next year’s elections, party leader Mmusi Maimane says.
6 killed in Western Cape collision
Six men have been killed when the vehicles they were travelling in collided head-on along the N2 in Riversdal, paramedics said.
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Curtains to drop on historic SA fossil discovery
MAROPENG – In the next few hours the world will learn more about a historic fossil discovery which has been made in South Africa.Â
Details of the discovery have been kept secret for years and are due to be unveiled at Maropeng in the Cradle of Humankind at 11am today.Â
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Another pupil assaulted at Randfontein Secondary School
JOHANNESBURG – There’s been yet another case of pupils being beaten at the Randfontein Secondary School in the space of one week.
Eyewitness News is in possession of yet another video of a teacher hitting a teenager at the school on the West Rand.
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It’s alleged the pupil was hit for not completing his school work.
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Malema evicted from Parliament… again
EFF leader Julius Malema has been removed by members of Parliament’s security services after refusing to retract a statement in which he called Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa a murderer.
SA’s youngest self-made millionaire and the R30m account mystery
Johannesburg – South Africa’s “youngest self-made millionaire” has been accused of plagiarising his training company’s course material and falsely claiming to have made R30 million in profit.
After 23-year-old Sandile Shezi shared his success story in the media, several industry players contacted News24 raising suspicion over the operations of his company Global Forex Institute (GFI).
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Parole of convicted wife shooter and mistress killer deferred
Pic: (Prisoner’s cell)
Johannesburg –Â A man convicted of killing his mistress and repeatedly shooting and leaving his ex-wife for dead has had his parole deferred.
This followed his ex-wife being contacted by the department, correctional services department regional spokesperson Ofentse Morwane told News24.
Thabo Mokhele was jailed for 18 years in 2007 for shooting ex-wife Precious Eland over 10 times in March 2005 and killing mistress Mabel Kote while out on bail for shooting Eland.
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Dewani London inquest postponed
Johannesburg – The inquest into Anni Dewani’s murder in South Africa will resume on October 9 in London with a list of unanswered questions for her husband Shrien.
Coroner Andrew Walker said in brief proceedings he did not think there would be any point to the inquest, because Anni’s death on November 13 2010 had already been investigated in South Africa. He could also not force anybody to travel to London to testify at the inquest.
Anni’s family believes the inquest is their last chance to find out what really happened to their daughter while the couple were on their honeymoon in Cape Town.
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