There were no jitters for the big teams in the first round of the World Twenty20 as all eight of them cruised into the Super Eights starting from Thursday. Afghanistan, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh failed to spring a surprise before bowing out in the group stage. With the Super Eights split into two groups, Group
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Fraud, theft and corruption are some of the worst threats facing the South African economy and one of the surest ways of stopping it in its tracks is to ensure that employees don’t steal their bosses’ blind. Erna Penning, managing director of iPAC, a Pretoria-based human risk solutions company said the fact that South Africa
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Expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema was granted bail of R10,000 by the Polokwane Regional Court on Wednesday. Malema was officially charged with money-laundering, for allegedly “receiving proceeds from unlawful activities”. The affidavit he made in support of his application for bail was not read out in court. The case was postponed to November
Journalists, photographers and television camera crews were kicked out of the Polokwane Regional Court where expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema was appearing. Earlier, certain media houses made applications to be allowed into the court, but reporters were removed after officials insisted that the applications were for individuals and not crews. However, according to
Read more: Chaos as journo’s are forcibly removed from Malema trial
For anyone interested in the immigration debate, whether you are a citizen, an illegal alien or a politician. This clip from the longer video, Immigration by the Numbers, features Roy Beck demonstrating the catastrophe of the huge numbers of both legal and illegal immigration by Third World people into the modern nations. He uses standard
The Polokwana Regional Court has allowed photographers and television cameras into the courtroom where expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema is appearing on Wednesday. They were given permission to take pictures of Malema in the dock before proceedings, but were not allowed to record during proceedings. The court was packed to capacity, with suspended
Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of trying to “paper over” deadly unrest and crises in the Middle East and failing to stand up to Iran in its quest for a nuclear bomb. Shortly after the president laid out an unapologetic defense of his under-fire Arab Spring policy in a speech to the
Irvin Jim Numsa has dismissed rumours that its general secretary Irvin Jim will address supporters of expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema at the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. “Comrade Irvin Jim will not address a crowd or sympathisers of Julius Malema when he appears in court. He won’t be there. He is not
Roads leading to the Polokwane Regional Court were closed on Wednesday as police monitored the situation ahead of the appearance of expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema. There was barbed wire outside the court and police Nyalas were positioned in various places surrounding the court. Police patrolled the road. Scores of Malema supporters sang
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Claims are being probed that boxer Corrie Sanders was turned away from the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria after being shot, a health official said on Tuesday. “Kalafong and Dr George Mukhari Hospitals are the referral hospitals for patients from the North West province because of their proximity to that province,” Gauteng health spokesman
Protesters clashed with police in Spain’s capital on Tuesday as the government prepares a new round of unpopular austerity measures for the 2013 budget that will be announced on Thursday. Thousands gathered in Neptune plaza, just a few meters away from El Prado museum in central Madrid where they formed a human chain around parliament,
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by Yolande du Plessis I truly believe that the world is going mad. I was reading a news site the other morning and besides the “normal” stories of corruption, murder and other crimes, I came across two very disturbing articles. The first was Boy, 7, ‘battered by Grade 1 classmates’. Now, what is wrong with
A KwaMhlanga man was jailed for life on Wednesday 5 September for raping and strangling his 92-year-old grandmother. The High Court in Pretoria imposed two life sentences on Sipho Oupa Kubeka, 38, for attacking his grandmother Konzaphi Elizabeth Kubeka at her home near Buhlebuzile, in KwaMhlanga, in September last year. Kubeka wiped away tears and
Read more: South African black jailed for raping and killing his own grandmother
Cardiologist Dr Wouter Basson’s professional conduct hearing was postponed on Tuesday because presiding Judge Frikkie Eloff was ill. The matter was being heard before the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) tribunal. A witness in the case, former surgeon general of the defence force Neil Knobel, who was scheduled to be cross-examined on Tuesday, could
