Vanderbijlpark, South Africa News

By Beauregard Tromp and Sapa A taxi driver is dead and a passenger is in a critical condition after an argument with a tow truck driver ended in bloodshed.

A taxi driver was allegedly shot dead by a tow truck driver following a road rage incident in Vanderbijlpark on Friday, Vereeniging paramedics said.

A man died after he was shot in a suspected botched hijacking in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng paramedics said on Saturday.

A man died after he was shot in a suspected botched hijacking in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng paramedics said on Saturday.

Two lathes ordered by Bukhary Sayed Abu Tahir, an associate of A. Q. Khan, are delivered to Dubai from Spain.

Six people were injured when their car rolled several times on the N1 near Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, ER24 paramedics said on Monday.

Air pollution is responsible for more than R4-billion in health costs, the Department of Environmental Affairs said on Monday.

Strike Matsepe used his life savings to buy a small plot of land near the country's biggest steel mill, hoping it would become a thriving farm in his old age.

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed by four fellow school pupils in Vanderbijlpark on Monday afternoon, police said.

This headmaster continued teaching while his trials for rape and sexual abuse dragged their way through the courts for 11 years.

Police are investigating a Gauteng couple whose baby died after the child was returned to them from foster care.

The Green Scorpions conducted a raid today in Vanderbijlpark, where a fiberglass producing company was dumping their products illegally in a site close to a residential area.

Six suspects have been arrested in connection with robberies in the Vaal area, police said on Wednesday.

The ANC's regional structure in Sedibeng, south of Johannesburg, will meet this weekend to take stock of its performance after the last three years and to plan a way forward.

The ANC Youth League is the latest group to throw its weight behind embattled Transnet executive Siyabonga Gama in his bid to become the parastatal's chief.

Constable Ashok Ramcharan, 35, was hit in his left thigh during a shop robbery on Sunday night.

Production at ArcelorMittal South Africa's Vanderbijlpark steel plant was temporarily halted at the weekend after a worker died following an explosion, company spokesman Sven Lunsche said yesterday.

The fourth annual OFM Homemakers Expo in the Vaal took place from 30 July to 2 August 2009 at the Exhibition and Events Centre of the Emerald Casino Resort in Vanderbijlpark.

IT'S A NOISY WORLD: Monthati Makofane, 2, South Africa's first recipient of a paediatric cochlear implant Picture: DANIEL BORN Two-year-old is first recipient of a state-funded hearing implant LITTLE Monthati Makofane screamed when he heard for the first time yesterday.

IT'S A NOISY WORLD: Monthati Makofane, 2, South Africa's first recipient of a paediatric cochlear implant Picture: DANIEL BORN Two-year-old is first recipient of a state-funded hearing implant LITTLE Monthati Makofane screamed when he heard for the first time yesterday.