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Gauteng premier warns taxi industry
Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane has warned taxi operators not to stage disruptive protests against the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system to be launched in Johannesburg next week, The Star reports. "The taxi industry can't be a law unto themselves," Mokonyane said during a. . . .
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Birth in a school toilet
TINY TOT: A cellphone photograph of the baby taken shortly after she was born at the schoolAN 18-year-old pupil rushed out of her Grade 10 geography class on Monday morning to give birth in her school’s pit latrine toilets. Her waters had broken and a friend followed her in and helped her give birth...
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SA media ‘sold out’ Semenya
CRAZY CROWD: Gold medallists Mokgadi Caster Semenya and Mbulaeni Mulaudzi are mobbed by jubilant fans on their arrival at the Oliver Tambo International airport yesterday morning from Berlin Picture: THYS DULLAARTAthletics boss says e-mail sent to IAAF from SA demanding scrutiny of medallist’s gender ATHLETICS SA claims that a local media house initiated...
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Cope leaders flee angry mob
CHAOS erupted yesterday when three top leaders of the Congress of the People had to flee an angry crowd at an East London restaurant last night. Cope's president, Mosiuoa Lekota, head of policy, Smuts Ngonyama, and national spokesperson, Phillip Dexter, had gone to the. . . .
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Police shot dead 420 people in 2007/08
Police shot dead 420 people in 2007/08, an average of more than one person every day, the Star newspaper reports. According to figures by police watchdog, the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD), at least 191 suspects were shot during an arrest, 83 shot while allegedly. . . .
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