Two people were killed and at least 30 children injured Thursday morning after a bus and bakkie collided head-on in Northern Cape, ER24 paramedics said.

ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said the accident occurred on the Edendale Gravel Road near Kuruman.

Meiring said the bus and the wrecked bakkie, were found lying in the middle of the road, and children who were inside the bus were walking around the scene.

On assessment, paramedics found three occupants lying trapped inside the bakkie, Meiring said.

“The driver laid in a critical condition, while the two occupants, a male and female, had already succumbed to their multiple, fatal injuries,” he said.

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A task team has been established to investigate the murder of a policeman shot and killed in Bapong near Brits, North West acting provincial commissioner Major General Jacob Tsumane said on Thursday.

“I have established a team lead by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks), to probe this case. The team will not rest until those who are responsible are brought to book,” he said during his visit to the family of Constable Johannes Mokotedi.

The 36-year-old Mokotedi was gunned down when armed gunmen fired at him at the YaRona mall on Wednesday afternoon. The group had just robbed a clothing shop in the mall before they saw Mokotedi in a marked police van with some of his colleagues.

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Rustenburg – Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) in North West are due to stage a protest at the Swartruggens toll gate on Friday, provincial secretary Solly Phetoe said.

“This action is necessitated by the fact that both the provincial and the national governments had agreed to the reduction of the toll fees, and they had set a deadline of the end of October 2015, but so far nothing has happened,” he said.

“Whilst, we appreciate the action done by the department [of transport], to make sure that the discounts are extended to all local users, including the extension of the radius for the discount, the department has still not responded to four major demands we had made in the past.”

He said Cosatu demanded that the toll fee for light vehicles be reduced to R58, from R75, which he said government had agreed to but failed to implement.

The union federation also demanded that an alternative road be constructed for those who could not afford the toll gate fee.

The protest was expected to start at 2pm.

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The crates of Chateau Brehat wine from Bordeaux had gathered dust for three years in a bonded warehouse on the outskirts of Shanghai before the owners cut their losses in July, slashing three-quarters off the $50 price tag.

The fire sale was prompted by a huge oversupply of wine that had built up after a swarm of importers jumped at seemingly stellar growth from 2010. China wine consumption – which had been rising in double digits – dropped last year and is set to inch up just over 1 percent annually until 2020.

The striking slowdown is a headache for a global wine industry pinning hopes on fast China growth, and a further sign that Chinese consumers are reining in spending even as Beijing hopes they will pick up the slack from falling exports.

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BY KEDIBONE MOLAETSI

NORTHERN Cape police need your assistance in locating the parents of a missing boy. Provincial police spokesperson, Lieutenant Sergio Kock said: “Police found the boy aged between 15 and 18 at Ackermans in Chapel Street, in Kimberley. The boy cannot speak, write nor hear. He is dressed in a light blue denim shirt, red pants, blue takkies and a black cap. He has an old burn mark on his right ear and a healed mark of operation on his right hand.”

Kock said the boy is around 1.6m tall, slender built and has a short hair. He added that anyone who could know the boy or his parents can call Kimberley Police Station on 053 838 4331 or alternatively call 10 111.

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BY REGINALD KANYANE

It is still 0-0 between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates in Telkom knock out semi finals at FNB stadium in Johannesburg. The two teams received equal share of chances, but could not bury them.

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JOHANNESBURG – While students and workers arrested for protesting at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) have now been released, they say they are angry at the manner in which their struggle has unfolded. 

 
According to the police’s Tsekiso Mofokeng, all 141 protestors were released today on a warning on condition they appear at the Brixton Magistrates Court on Monday. 
 
They were detained for contravening a court order prohibiting protests at the Kingsway campus during exams. 

A student says they demands have been very simple. 

“There is a lot of anger and the manner in which the struggle has drawn out wasn’t expected. We are angry about how the demands are being ignored. We are angry because we are being referred to as a minority, we are not a minority.” 

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