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  • Pistorius wont compete in 2013 due to murder trial

    Oscar Pistorius, the South African Paralympic champion who is charged with murdering his girlfriend, will not compete this year in any event as he awaits trial. Pistorius stands accused of premeditated murder after the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his Pretoria home. According to sports 24, Pistorius will face trial in the North Gauteng High Court on 4 June. EWN reported that ...

  • Gupta family acknowledges some misjudgments made in landing chartered jet at S. Africa base

    A well-connected Indian family in South Africa has apologised for the controversy surrounding the landing a chartered plane at Waterkloof Air Force Base to carry guests for his niece's wedding. The Gupta family said that it had only wanted to hold a memorable wedding, but realised that some bad decisions or misjudgments could have been made in the process to secure landing rights for the ...

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  • Questions over more Gupta properties

    Johannesburg - An objection has been lodged over an error on the 2013 property valuation roll relating to a Johannesburg property belonging to the Gupta family, the City said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Kgamanyane Maphologela said the City objected to valuations on four out of 14 properties belonging to the influential family. He was responding to a report in the Saturday Star that one of the ...

  • Outrage over dropped charges in Anene case

    Johannesburg - The withdrawal of charges in the Bredasdorp Magistrate's Court on Tuesday against one of the men accused of raping and killing teenager Anene Booysen, has been condemned by the DA. "The DA is outraged by the fact that only one of Anene Booysen's alleged attackers will face the courts," Democratic Alliance spokesperson on police Dianne Kohler Barnard said in a ...


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The Bourne Identity [Blu-Ray]

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When The Bourne Identity was released in 2002, Stallone and Schwarzenegger, the previous reigning kings of action cinema, were officially dead at the box office and the James Bond series was still chugging away with Pierce Brosnan, but with an increasingly heartless automatism, w ... ...

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  • Corrupt official handed heavier sentence

    Cape Town - A heavier sentence for corruption was imposed on a senior Western Cape municipal official on Tuesday. The Western Cape High Court overturned the suspended jail sentence of Denvor Fielies, 40, as being "too lenient and disturbingly inappropriate". It was imposed three years ago. He now faces a three-year jail sentence. Fielies, who had come from a humble background, was ...

  • Health MEC vows no-nonsense approach

    Bloemfontein - A damning report on the condition of some Free State health facilities and services was presented to provincial health staff on Tuesday by newly-0appointed MEC Benny Malakoane. The MEC at the same time pulled in all financial responsibilities below that of district and hospital managers, as part of what he called a new "no-nonsense" approach to better health service ...

  • Top cop heard of killings later

    Rustenburg - It was strange for police commander Major General Charl Annandale to claim he only heard of a second Marikana shooting 40 minutes after it occurred, the Farlam Commission heard on Tuesday. Dumisa Ntsebeza, for the families of the dead miners, said this was an "extraordinary proposition". Commission chairperson retired judge Ian Farlam said Annandale's submission did ...

  • Ekhurhuleni fights rat problem

    Johannesburg - Bigger refuse bins to fight a rat problem are to be distributed by Ekurhuleni municipality to households in Wattville and Actonville, an official said on Tuesday. "Reducing access to food for the rats by way of providing better storage for refuse, is a step in the right direction for the eradication of rodents," said municipal spokesperson Sam Modiba. Over 64 000 bins of ...

  • Teen tells of catching man abusing sister

    Mbombela - A witness from Mpumalanga testified on Tuesday how she caught a man sexually abusing her 5-year-old sister in 2010. The woman, 18, from KaMhlushwa near Komatipoort, was testifying in the trial of a 46-year-old man in the Nelspruit regional court, a Sapa correspondent reported. "[He] first came to our home and asked my little sister to accompany him to do washing at the local dam. ...

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