A Port Elizabeth man has been arrested after he flung his child from the roof of his shack while resisting the demolition of the structure.
The horror scene played out in Joe Slovo informal settlement yesterday where police and metro police as well as members of the municipality were demolishing shacks built on municipal land.
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The EFF leader says the media isn’t doing enough to ‘counter the rhetoric’ because ‘there is no case of any white person killed because we want land’.
Speaking at the EFF’s memorial service for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in Brandfort on Wednesday afternoon, EFF leader Julius Malema took the opportunity to further clarify his statements about land expropriation without compensation.
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His well-developed biceps may have saved his arm, believes the victim of a farm attack.Furthermore his previous army training and experience as a security officer may have saved his and his wife’s life, said Pieter Els from Hazyview.
Pieter and his wife Tessa were attacked in their farmhouse near Sabaan Holiday Resort on Friday night. It was the second attack they survived this year. The other occurred in February.
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Eleven people, who face public violence charges related to protests that followed an attempted land claim in Hermanus last month, are to appear in the local Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday to apply for bail.
On Tuesday, Menzi Fokazi, Sive Bophani, Qhawe Bawdeza, Fezile Mzimeli, Mncedisi Ntantala, Deyiti Ntshono, Mthuthuzeli Thembani, Asixolele Mandoyi, Fezeka Mjuleni, Xoli Mkhwe and Ntombifikile Njumbu, appeared in court
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Eleven out of 40 people arrested in protests after a thwarted “land grab” appeared in the Hermanus Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday after being charged with public violence.
They are: Menzi Fokazi, Sive Bophani, Qhawe Bawdeza, Fezile Mzimeli, Mncedisi Ntantala, Deyiti Ntshono, Mthuthuzeli Thembani, Asixolele Mandoyi, Fezeka Mjuleni, Xoli Mkhwe and Ntombifikile Njumbu, all in their 20s and 30s
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A protest in Vosloorus, a large township situated south of Boksburg and just east of Katlehong in Ekurhuleni, has left traffic at a standstill.
The protest, believed to be related to the roll-out of housing in the area, has sparked chaos in the area.
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The 16 escaped from the medium B department of jail by breaking down the bars before the window and breaking through a wall.
The facility, known as the Sun City jail, housed the 16 trial convicts. Seven of the escaped prison were awaiting trial for murder, three for rape, five for robbery and one for burglary.
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In South Africa a person convicted of fraud and known to be behind the torture and killing of children gets a state funeral.
A president can blatantly say that the property of white people can be expropriated without compensation.
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On the 29th of December 1988, four youths were abducted from the Methodist manse of Reverend Paul Verryn in Soweto by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards, part of the Mandela United Football Club (MUFC), and taken to the Mandela home in Diepkloof.
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The number people who died in the fire is yet to be established.
BURGERSFORT – Several employees of Modikwa mine has died after a transport bus caught fire
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AfriForum on Wednesday expressed displeasure at the jail term given to convicted racist Vicki Momberg by the Randburg Magistrate’s Court.
Momberg will effectively spend two years behind bars as one year of her three-year sentence was suspended on condition that she is not found guilty of committing a similar offence in the next three years.
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South Africa is undoubtedly the most violent country in Africa. Crime has reached critical levels. Every city has become a target, law-abiding citizens have to endure pain, degradation and humiliation as they are bludgeoned into submission as their homes are ransacked, with brazen audacity, by vicious thugs. The criminal justice system is charged with a clear mandate calling for a comprehensive programme focused on prevention and protection of the public.
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A community member who has been part of the protests in Hermanus has blamed “drug addicts” for the violence that gripped the coastal town on Monday.
Speaking outside a gutted library, Masibulele Jimlongo said before starting the protest, the community had decided as a collective not to destroy property
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The biggest nail in the coffin of the multiculturalist New South Africa forced through by Mandela, De Klerk and Ramaphosa in 1994, is the fundamental irreconcilables in terms of culture and behaviour between people of a Western orientation, and people of an African orientation.
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The disgraceful state of destruction, violence and danger to civilians which we had to witness this week in both Centurion and Hermanus is the direct result of the incompetence and irresponsibility of the South African government, the State President and the EFF.
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