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2 hrs ago | Independent Online

Outcry over Zuma's presidential home

By Victoria John Bullet-proof electric fences, motion and smoke sensors, watch dogs and police on quad bikes are just some of the multi-million rand security measures being put in place in an upmarket Durban suburb for President Jacob Zuma - within walking distance of his friend and erstwhile financial adviser Schabir Shaik.

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Fri Jul 10, 2009

Cape Business News

CT Traffic Department Introduces the Ghost Squad

The City of Cape Town is making a stand against road offenders in a way that seems sneaky but in fact is necessary.

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SABC News

Hawks swoop in for third kill in just 24 hours

The new crime busting unit, the Hawks, have swooped in for their third kill in the Western Cape in just 24 hours.

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Independent Online

Cape Town landmark trumps Everest

Table Mountain is one step closer to being named one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature.

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Thu Jul 09, 2009

Independent Online

Strike hits Cape Town stadium

By Aziz Hartley and Sapa Work at Cape Town's World Cup stadium ground to a halt, while it slowed down at other 2010 projects as construction workers began a wage strike on Wednesday.

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Independent Online

Is COPE on the ropes?

COPE members in various provinces were "waiting with bated breath" for the outcome of a meeting of the party's top brass to tackle the party's leadership woes.

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Independent Online

Roadlink crash survivors seek reparation

By Francis Hweshe Some of the survivors of a horrific bus crash that killed seven people and left 50 badly injured say they will seek compensation from the bus company, SA Roadlink.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

Daily Mail

Work halts on South African World Cup venues as 70,000 workers launch 'mother of all strikes'

Work on stadiums for next year's World Cup was halted today when 70,000 South African builders launched an indefinite strike.

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Plymouth Evening Herald

Mine heritage preserved under African skies

I F IT wasn't for the parched earth, dry timbers, tin roofs and cloudless blue skies, you could almost believe that these photographs of stone engine houses and Methodist chapels were taken in Cornwall.

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Daily News

Post mortems on Roadlink bus crash victims

Post mortems were being carried out on Wednesday on the eight victims of an SA Roadlink bus crash in Beaufort West, Western Cape police said.

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Tue Jul 07, 2009

News24.com

MP reports 'not true'

Acting public works department director general Solly Malebye on Tuesday refuted media reports that former MPs still living in parliamentary villages in Cape Town were refusing to move out.

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NEWS.com.au

Dungeon dad made daughter a sex slave

A TEEN was held prisoner and repeatedly raped by her father after tracing him to South Africa.

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Sunday Times

Sexwale orders action on Gateway

Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale instructed the Department of Housing to rectify issues raised in a damning Auditor General's report into a Cape Town housing project "as a matter of urgency". 'Incoherence' delays Gateway report Gateway project sparks official concern "The Minister is concerned at the scale of non-compliance issues that are ...

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

Daily Mail

'South African Fritzl': Girl, 18, who tracked down father on internet ...

The case bears similarities to that of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who kept his daughter imprisoned for 24 years A woman's dream of tracking down her father turned into a nightmare when he allegedly kidnapped her and kept her as a sex slave.

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Sunday Times

Court allows 2010 workers to strike

About 70 000 South African construction workers are expected to strike on Wednesday, halting work across the country including on stadiums for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, after a court refused to ban the action.

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

Daily News

Honey bee disease may be countrywide - survey

By Matthew Richmond Preliminary survey results of bee colonies released on Tuesday point to the unabated spread of a disease, American foulbrood , throughout the Western Cape and beyond.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

Cape Business News

Cape Town Earmarks R900m

THE City of Cape Town has earmarked almost R900 million to upgrade the metropole's electricity network in the coming financial year.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

Independent Online

Cape doctors call off strike

Western Cape doctors on Friday agreed to call off their strike and go back to work, but are still not happy with the government's pay offer.

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ZWNews.com

Miners defy government order

HEADLINES author/source:Financial Gazette published:Sat 27-Jun-2009 Mpofu, banned from travelling to the US and EU, directed the Chamber of Mines to shun the event in protest Staff Reporter Mining corporations operating in Zimbabwe on Tuesday defied an order by Mines and Mining Development Minister, Obert Mpofu, to boycott an international mining ...

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

News24

Bid to save Namibian seal pups

In a bid to save tens of thousands of baby seals being killed for their fur, Namibia animal rights activist are rushing to raise millions of dollars to buy out a fur company that buys the pelts.

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