A man appeared in the Bafokeng Magistrate’s Court for allegedly killing his girlfriend, North West police said on Tuesday.

The case against Daniel Boikanyo, 49, was postponed on Monday to August 25 for further investigation, Colonel Sabata Mokgwabone said.

Boikanyo was arrested on Friday after his girlfriend’s clothes, including a pair of jeans and underpants, were found at his house.

Residents found the woman’s decomposing body in Chachalaza, near Rustenburg, on Thursday. She had multiple stab wounds. The motive for the killing was not known.

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Orkney- The 5.5 magnitude earthquake in North West earlier this month was possibly linked to mining in the area, a University of Pretoria academic said on Monday.

“What might happen, after enough mining, we are creating stresses, more and more stresses and they are propagating deeper and deeper,” said Prof Andrezj Kijko, the director of the university’s Natural Hazard Centre.”

We are adding stresses to already existing stresses, tectonic components… and then we are triggering [an] earthquake.

“We are talking about accelerating earthquakes, just by mining,” Kijko said.

A 31-year-old man was killed in a mining village near Orkney when the 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck the region.

At least 34 miners were injured and more than 600 houses damaged.  

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A woman from Mzamo in the Eastern Cape has won the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) Female Entrepreneur of 2014 award, the department said on Saturday.

Ivy Nokwanele was crowned the winner at the annual award ceremony, in partnership with Total South Africa, in Mafikeng, North West on Friday night.

“Let us be proud of women and recognise them for their ability to feed, not only their families but the world,” Minister Senzeni Zokwana said in a statement.

Zokwana said one of the major objectives of the awards was to open export market opportunities for female farmers.

“It is about time we highlight the contribution made by women in the sector that is often regarded as the terrain of men,” said Zokwana. Linah Mahlangu from Mpumalanga won the minister’s special award during the ceremony.

“This award offers an opportunity for the [minister] to acknowledge the contribution of young women and women living with disabilities who are entrepreneurs,” department spokeswoman Makenosi Maroo said in a statement.

Total South Africa General Manager Pansy Mekwa said in a statement that although female farmers produce more than 70 percent of Africa’s food, their efforts and ability were often overlooked.

“The Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award seeks to change all that, highlighting the stories of successful emergent female farmers across the country,” said Mekwa.

“They [female farmer] stand as inspiration to their communities, who benefit from their farming activities, either through food security or the creation of jobs,¨ she said.

The DAFF Female Entrepreneur Awards is an empowerment programme which was in its 14th year. It was conceptualised “to encourage and increase the participation of women, youth and people living with disabilities in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors,” said Maroo.

The awards, themed ‘Africa’s Agriculture and Food Security,’ starts at a provincial level and them culminates to the national awards.

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Johannesburg – Eighteen people were injured in a head-on collision between a taxi and car in Walkerville, south of Johannesburg on Saturday, paramedics said.

Netcare 911 paramedics found some of them trapped in the wreckage’s, spokesperson Chris Botha said in a statement.

“After all the injured were treated at the scene, paramedics transported them to various hospitals in the area for the care that they required,” said Botha.

The cause of the accident was unclear.

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Johannesburg – As part of commemorating women’s month, female police officers arrested 60 drunk drivers during roadblocks around Johannesburg, metro police said on Saturday.

The roadblocks were held by 94 female metro police officers on Friday night, Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said.

The roadblocks were held along Chris Hani road in Soweto, Bree and Mooi streets in the CBD, Jan Smuts drive and Seventh avenue in Parktown, as well as the M1 and Corlett drive offramp.

“The drunk drivers were given bail ranging from R1 000 to R1 500,” said Minnaar.

They were expected to appear at different courts around Johannesburg next week.

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Johannesburg – The missing head of a woman who was killed in Chatsworth, KwaZulu-Natal has been found, police said on Saturday.

The head was found in Imfume on the south coast on Friday while her body had been discovered on Thursday, said Colonel Jay Naicker.

“On Thursday… Chatsworth [police] detained six suspects… including a woman and a traditional healer,” said Naicker.

The group aged between 18 and 32 would appear in the Chatsworth Magistrate’s Court on Monday where they would face murder charges.

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Johannesburg – A man was shot and wounded during a hijacking in Ga-Rankuwa, north of Pretoria on Saturday morning, paramedics said.

“Paramedics arrived at the scene and found the man to have sustained life threatening injuries,” Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said in a statement.

He was treated on scene and then taken to a nearby hospital for further medical care.

Police were not immediately available for comment regarding the hijacking.

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