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The world’s no. 3 platinum producer Lonmin shut down its South African operations on Tuesday (14/08/2012) and its shares tumbled after violence caused by a feud between rival unions killed nine people at its main mine.
Man dies, truck torched in service delivery protestA man died and a truck was torched during protests in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Tuesday (14/08/2012).
Govt fires SAA's boardPublic Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba has axed the board of the state-owned airliner SA Express, according to reports on Tuesday (14/08/2012).
Four arrested in connection with Jansenville farm murderFOUR suspects linked to the farm attack in which Jansenveille farmer Owen Charles, 70, was stabbed to death and his wife, Janet, was severely wounded have been arrested in Knysna.
Farmer dies in vicious attackAN elderly Jansenville farmer was viciously stabbed to death and his wife beaten unconscious by a gang of robbers on their farm, Armadale, 17km from the town.
Power struggle sees mayor locked inTHE power struggles in Nelson Mandela Bay burst to the fore yesterday when mayor Zanoxolo Wayile, speaker Maria Hermans and chief whip Feziwe Sibeko were locked inside the ANC regional headquarters by regional leaders and ordered to resign with immediate effect.
Muslim murder trial mayhemPOLICE, apparently with no court order and acting on their own accord, barred the family and supporters of a murdered Muslim businessman from the Gauteng courtroom their son’s alleged killers were appearing in yesterday.
Mandla's baby bombshellMANDLA Mandela has confirmed he is not the legitimate father of 11-month-old Qheya, who was meant to be the heir of the Royal House of Mandela.
R18m half-built road waits on Bay budgetA PORT Elizabeth road that has already cost about R18-million is yet to be finished - with the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality not honouring the agreement it had with the Port Elizabeth Land Restitution and Housing Association (Pelrha).
Kiviet still urging departments to cough up R10000 each for eventEASTERN Cape premier Noxolo Kiviet has stood by her decision to urge government departments to buy tables at a lavish East London fashion show.
Fort Beaufort heist: 14 arrestsA JOINT operation by Fort Beaufort police officials led to the arrest of 14 suspects allegedly linked to a crime syndicate involved in a cash-in-transit heist in the town yesterday.
PE on track for wettest winterPORT Elizabeth needs only a further 28mm of rain within the next 18 days for 2012 to be officially declared the wettest winter on record.
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alvonhumb [13 August 2012 19:02]
ANC talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk. There is never any action when corruption raises its head. An enquiry is followed by inaction while the problem hopefully blows over (e.g. Faku and the Kabuso findings). If it doesn't, the musical chairs game of "redeployment" kicks in as one pathetic failue follows the next. Mr Mothlante - your party no longer has any credibility, and it has reached a point where you are unable to act in fear of losing your own position to comrades who are acting exclusively in their own interests, and on whom you rely to stay where you are.
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THIS week 38 Eastern Cape children with facial abnormalities will receive free surgery to put the smiles back on their faces - thanks to the Smile Foundation.
Readers' views via SMS Big freeze grips East CapeTHE icy spell that has gripped most of the Eastern Cape - with heavy rain and snow forcing several road closures - is expected to start clearing tomorrow (09/08/2012).
Not a day off sick in 33 yearIF the saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” is true, then Mbulelo Sapepa, 55, of KwaNobuhle must have eaten about 12 045 apples since he started working at VW in 1978.
Another attack at festering ArlingtonANOTHER knife attack has occurred at Arlington Waste Disposal Site. The attack, which took place on Saturday afternoon, comes amid calls by the DA for an investigation into the chaotic state of the site and questionable swopping of contractors.
Cause and effect of climate change explainedSO HOW to communicate the complexity and magnitude of climate change to youngsters from a little school in Zwide? The kids, in grades six and seven at Mzimhlophe Primary School, were given the answer to this question during their visit to the SA Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre (Samrec) yesterday (August 03 2011).
R1.5-million farming venture will fit Eastern Cape to a teaTHE Eastern Cape government has set aside R1.5-million to kick-start an expanded honeybush tea industry that could be ramped up to produce a turnover of R100-million a year and hundreds of new jobs. The good news follows on the results that have emerged from a study of the honeybush industry, commissioned by the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) on behalf of the provincial economic development and environmental affairs department.
Algoa Bay the best monitored in all of AfricaALGOA Bay is now “the best monitored bay in Africa” with millions of rands worth of equipment installed below the surface measuring a wide range of environmental conditions. That was the proud revelation yesterday (July 28 2011) from SA Environmental Observation Network (Saeon) co-ordinator Shaun Deyzel, who was speaking at a marine science symposium hosted by SA National Parks, at the Addo Elephant National Parks.
Surf event sets greening benchmarkBILLABONG Pro J-Bay is setting a benchmark for international surfing contests with a comprehensive programme to protect the local environment and combat global climate change.
Unique source of Bay waterHOW many cities in the world can say they get their water from a World Heritage Site? Very few, I bet. Yet, that’s the case with Port Elizabeth and the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and in fact the Gamtoos River Valley vege farmers.
Bayworld raggies returned to the oceanTHE biggest baddest pair from Bayworld’s de-commissioned aquarium, two bulky raggedtooth sharks, were released yesterday (July 26 2011) back into the sea. It was a sad day for the oceanarium, where they have lived for nearly two decades, inspiring awe in hundreds of thousands of visitors - but it is good news for the species, as the pair are now part of a research project aimed at securing our waters as one of the few safe havens in the world for raggies.
Unique study of great whitesA UNIQUE study into the abundance, distribution and movement of great white sharks in Algoa Bay, sponsored by the metro, has been launched. There has never been a fatal shark attack in Algoa Bay, but the metro has committed the R800000 grant as a pro-active step, taken in line with their marketing of Port Elizabeth as “the watersports’ capital of Africa”, researcher Dr Matt Dicken explained yesterday (June 21 2011).
Co-op sponsors two farmers on US missionTWO Karoo farmers have flown out of PE on a ground-breaking mission to the US, to get the low-down on fracking, in the country where it all began.
Link Refit to electric cars proposalIF WE CAN link Refit with electrical motorcars - then we could really be onto something. Speaking to The Herald yesterday (June 14 2011), department of environmental affairs deputy-director general for climate change, Peter Lukey, said the scheduled launch this month of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariff (Refit), will likely lead to significant positive change.
Exciting reforestation project underway in TranskeiAN UNUSUAL re-forestation and carbon sequestration project is underway in the heart of the old Transkei, where savage erosion is a common feature. The R7600000 project is being run as a partnership between the Congress of Traditional Leaders’ of South Africa (Contralesa), the national department of environmental affairs and a Johannesburg-based company called Carbon Worx.
EC investment boost to counter climate changeEASTERN Cape economic environment MEC Mcebisi Jonas yesterday announced significant new green economy investment to boost green economy skills in the province.
Branch recalls fascinating careerFOR world-renowned reptile and amphibian expert Dr Bill Branch, who retired this week from Bayworld after 32 years employment there - it all began in 1969, on the shores of a lake in East Africa.
Green electricity programme set to launch this monthGOVERNMENT will this month launch the long-awaited Refit programme that will make funding available to pay private energy entrepreneurs who will generate their own green electricity and sell it to the grid.
EC leads climate change battleTHE Eastern Cape government has declared its intention to lead from the front in the war against climate change, with a landmark multi-benefit project agreement signed at the Eastern Cape Climate Change Conference in East London yesterday (June 08 2011).
Get out the Karoo, farmers tell ShellANGRY residents of the Middleburg area have called for Shell to “get out the Karoo” after the company failed to guarantee the security of their water if fracking goes ahead. Addressing Shell representatives at a hall in Middelburg’s Grootfontein Agricultural College in a hall packed with farmers in T-shirts saying “Don’t Frack with our Karoo,” members of the audience asked repeatedly if the multi-national could “guarantee no risk to our water”.
ANC National Disciplinary Committee Head, Hanekom was there? Faku again at the center of undermining our City and Hanekom stands by, apparently? Suggestion for the Disciplinary Head - pull your finger...
royboy 14 August 2012 11:47 am...no budget left for road to be completed...rather spend on overseas trips and Afcon soccer...far more important...
royboy 14 August 2012 11:45 amMayor locked in,this is the actions one would expect of a schoolboy prank,yet our supposed LEADERS carry on without any form of embarresment at this infantile behaviour,and yet we vote them in,what a ...
royboy 14 August 2012 11:39 amIt is at times like this that I wish the death penalty was in place,these cowardly scum do not deserve a place on earth after what they did to the elderly Jansenville farmer and his wife...
TheRef 14 August 2012 6:39 amDeputy Motlanthe talk is cheap show us tax payers some action!...
TheRef 14 August 2012 6:36 amThis is the second Transformer failure in as may years.The question is where is the maintenance schedules for the equipment if any!...
alvonhumb 13 August 2012 7:02 pmANC talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk. There is never any action when corruption raises its head. An enquiry is followed by inaction while the problem hopefully blows over (e.g. Faku and the K...
thirsty 13 August 2012 5:22 pmwhat a twat, i mean twit, i mean what wit he speaks with!!!...
Wanie 13 August 2012 3:17 pmWhy did they want to kill us? Why did no one help these 2 men, there were many eye witnesses and a security guard, Delano must be brain dead and does not know the real story about the twin towers what...
Wanie 13 August 2012 3:06 pmThe law dont apply to us, we can get away with corruption, we make the laws so we can break them. We are the law. South African comedy at its best....