In a statement on Wednesday, ArcelorMittal South Africa [JSE: ACL] – the biggest steel producer on the continent – announced that it may close some of its operations. The company, which supplies more than 60% of the steel used in South Africa, has operations in Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging, Saldanha and Newcastle. South African steel consumption is..
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SA steel consumption is at its lowest levels in a decade – ArcelorMittal previously known as Iscor may close some of its South African plants
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Juju and land grabs: How to interpret the Trespass Acts and Riotous Assemblies
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The case of Julius Malema and AfriForum is an interesting one, as it exposes the complexity of running a democratic country with laws that once were used as instruments of oppression.
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Anger as KZN hospital sends child home with gaping wound
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A child is back in a KwaZulu-Natal hospital after being discharged with a gaping bleeding wound‚ forcing his aunt to turn to Twitter to demand help.
But the health department disputes the version of events.
The 8-year-old boy was discharged from Madadeni hospital in Newcastle on Monday with an open wound‚ following an appendix operation.
His aunt‚ Gabi Manana‚ asked her friend to tweet the pictures of the child’s festering incision without identifying him.
Manana said: “I was looking for help‚ that is why I put that thing on Twitter.”
The tweet asked national health department officials for help.
The boy was in too much pain to walk on Monday‚ said Manana.
People who viewed the tweet were worried the large uncovered wound could become septic.
On Monday night‚ Health Department spokesman Joe Maila responded to the tweet saying he had called Kwazulu-Natal health officials.
They called the child’s aunt on Monday night.
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Traditional healer sentenced to life behind bars for raping children
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A 62-year-old man and a 27-year-old man have both been sentenced in the Madadeni Regional Court in Newcastle to life imprisonment in two separate rape cases, KwaZulu-Natal police said.
“In March 2016, a 14-year-old boy was very ill; his elders took him to the local traditional healer as they thought he will able to cure him,” Lt-Col Thulani Zwane said.
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Anger as KZN hospital sends child home with gaping wound
If I’m guilty, Freedom Charter is illegal: Malema on land issue
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Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has dismissed land invasion charges against him as a ruse to stifle the land debate. “Our call still stands: People must occupy land. That is what the Freedom Charter says and if any court finds me guilty then it will have to find the Freedom Charter an illegal document,”..
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