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UPDATE: Fires at St Francis likely started by a flare
Picture: Dane Shaw via Facebook IT is suspected that the fires at Cape St Francis were started by a flare and a case of arson has been opened with the South African Police Service, according to the...
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Rain a welcome relief for St Francis residents, firefighters
Picture: Eugene Coetzee/The Herald. Morning rain brought some welcome relief for hundreds of Cape St Francis residents today whose homes were threatened by a blazing fire started on Saturday. St...
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R12 million drug bust at ORTIA
Drugs worth R12 million Customs officials arrested a 36-year old man carrying about R12-million worth of drugs at OR Tambo International Airport on Sunday. According to SA Revenue Services spokesman...
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Two jailed after policeman killed
THEMBILE GULWA TWO men have been jailed for the murder of a police officer in Kinkelbos, near Port Elizabeth, in February 2014. Sgt Thembile Gulwa, 58, who was stationed at Kinkelbos police station,...
View ArticleTwo arrested transporting mandrax worth R5.4 million
Two Soweto men transporting R5.4-million worth of mandrax tablets in hidden compartments in their bakkie were arrested on the Garden Route over the weekend. Bethuel Malebo, whose real surname is...
View ArticleCricketer gets 20-year ban in T20 matchfixing scandal
Cricket SA (CSA) chief executive Haroon Lorgat on Monday announced that former Proteas‚ Dolphins‚ Titans and Lions cricketer‚ Gulam Bodi‚ has been slapped with a 20-year ban from the sport‚ with five...
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Prosecutors challenge Oscar’s murder conviction appeal
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel is seen ahead of an appeal by state prosecutors against South African paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s conviction last year at the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein,...
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De Lille seeks second term as Cape Town mayor
Patricia de Lille. File photoImage by: Ashley Vlotman / Gallo Images Western Cape Democratic Alliance leader Patricia De Lille was today endorsed by her party to run for a second term as the City of...
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SA’s first climate-deal step
LITTLE PROGRESS: Medupi power station is a ‘marginal improvement’ on old plants in terms of pollution PHOTOGRAPH: FILES The government will have to do a lot more to limit global warming in terms of the...
View ArticleCrack team joins probe into Govan Mbeki triple killing
A TEAM of specialist detectives has been roped in to assist with the investigation of a triple murder which saw a mother and her two teenage daughters shot inside their Port Elizabeth home. Nomathemba...
View ArticleFormer Kouga councillor crosses to ANC, accuses DA of being racist
FORMER Kouga DA councillor Eugene Goliath has left the party and defected to the ANC, claiming the DA was a racist party. Goliath said he had been a member of the DA for almost 10 years, but the way...
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Bay beauties show Miss SA credentials
SUMMER JOY: Miss SA finalists Mikaela Oosthuizen and Luyolo Mngonyama grace the Port Elizabeth beachfront yesterday THE Eastern Cape’s two finalists in the Miss SA 2016 competition took to the Port...
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Thornhill murder trial told of payment delays
JENS LEUNBERG and KRISTINA ADLER A GERMAN couple accused of murdering Thornhill farmer Claus Schroeder returned to the Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday where the legal details of their business...
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Searching for work for 15 years
DESPERATE TIMES: Athol Trollip and Bay councillor Sandile Rwexwana, right, accompany Nontuthuzelo Bhiko to the Department of Labour. Picture: ROCHELLE DE KOCK ‘I can do anything. I can cook, I can...
View ArticleRhodes needs student fees
University ‘relies heavily’ on payments RHODES University has scarce financial reserves and would close within two to three months if students did not pay their fees, vice-chancellor Dr Sizwe Mabizela...
View ArticleOscar has ‘no prospect of success’
State asks Concourt to refuse to hear Pistorius’s appeal against conviction THERE is no reasonable prospect that the Constitutional Court will overturn Oscar Pistorius’s murder conviction and the...
View ArticleParty seeks tough action against Roberts over ‘bobbejaan’ row
THE ANC has launched a hate speech case in the Equality Court’s Port Elizabeth division, calling for a hefty sanction against DA councillor Chris Roberts. Roberts called the UDM’s Mongameli Bobani a...
View ArticleGareth Cliff and M-Net face off in court today
Gareth Cliff will on Tuesday face M-Net, the broadcasting giant he has launched an urgent court application against in an effort to be reinstated as a judge on singing competition, Idols. The bitter TV...
View ArticleManhunt under way for cash-in-transit robbers
A manhunt is under way for four cash-in-transit robbers who stole an undisclosed amount of money from security guards who were filling up an ATM in Da Gama Road, Jeffreys Bay, at about 10.30am this...
View ArticleChild porn suspect to appear in court
A JOHANNESBURG man who was arrested in Sasolburg in Free State in 2014 for possession, manufacturing and distribution of child pornography will appear at the Bloemfontein High Court tomorrow...
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