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STRIKE IS OFF – FOR NOW
PUBLIC servants head back to work today after unions suspended the crippling national strike for 21 days. Pupils and teachers will return to the classrooms and nurses go back to their stations at public health facilities once again, while consultations with union members and the government continue. More
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| South African state workers in Johannesburg took part in the nationwide public services strike. Unions have since suspended the strike for 21 days. Picture: Reuters |
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Maths and science boost
A TEAM from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is giving more than 200 top performers from previously disadvantaged schools a boost in learning mathematics and the sciences each year. More
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| Student educator Collins Nsor from Ghana prepares top achievers from previously disadvantaged schools for university-level learning. |
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Latest Stories
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Some East Cape workers still on strike
SOME Eastern Cape health workers are apparently still on strike despite union directives to return to work, according to the provincial health department. |
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Suspend Cele, launch judicial inquiry, Cope urges Zuma
COPE has called on President Jacob Zuma to establish a judicial commission of inquiry into the nature of national police chief General Bheki Cele’s involvement in a controversial R760-million building rental agreement. |
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R1.85m boost for East Cape wool producers
WOOL production in the Eastern Cape communal areas is to get a R1.85-million investment in shearing infrastructure, which will include sorting tables, wool presses, bins and scales. |
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Gonubie rape: Two arrested
TWO men have been arrested in connection with the rape of a Gonubie woman in the early hours of Sunday morning, reports Dispatch Online. |
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Wa Afrika charges to be provisionally withdrawn
CHARGES against Sunday Times journalist Mzilikazi Wa Afrika and his co-accused Victor Mlimi will be provisionally withdrawn, a National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesman said today (September 7). |
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Three held for rape of patients go free
IN a dramatic move, the case against three men accused of raping two mentally handicapped patients at a Port Elizabeth psychiatric care centre was struck off the roll yesterday. |
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Cop held for drugs
FIVE men, including an off-duty police constable, were arrested in New Brighton yesterday evening after they were caught with 250 mandrax tablets worth about R13000.
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Enigma crew hoping to hop it
PORT Elizabeth hip-hop dance crew Enigma is gearing up to be one of three crews representing South Africa during the Federation of International Sports, Aerobics and Fitness (Fisaf) Fitness and Hip-hop Championships in the Dutch city of Eindhoven from October 18 to 24. |
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Shack community battles with lack of infrastructure
THE fruits of democracy are something the community of Enkuthazweni in Port Elizabeth dream of. The shack area, in Ward 19, Kwazakhele, was built in 1990 by people tired of renting houses and many who came from rural areas to seek work in the city. |
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Bay misses opportunity to host Blue Flag launch
THE Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has missed the chance to host the 2010 Blue Flag national launch which was to see Humewood Beach hailed for carrying the internationally recognised Blue Flag status for a decade, in the process drawing more than 100 high-profile delegates.
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DA threatens legal action on council cash flow info
THE DA is threatening to take legal action to force Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Zanoxolo Wayile to inform the council of the cash flow predicament which the city is facing, as the Municipal Finances Management Act requires him to do.
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PE landmark to go under hammer soon
ONE of Port Elizabeth’s landmarks, the “Lighthouses” building in the Boardwalk complex which houses the tenpin bowling alley, will go under the hammer on September 30, allowing the purchaser to acquire the tenancy under the notarial lease. |
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Suspended top cop allowed to return to work
A HIGH-RANKING Port Elizabeth police officer who was arrested in April and has a string of pending internal and other criminal cases against him, has been given the thumbs-up to return to work. |
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AWB murder accused in court
THE case against the teenage boy accused of murdering Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre’Blanche was postponed by the Ventersdorp Magistrate’s Court yesterday. |
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Failed bid cost R3.3m
SOUTH African diplomat Abdul Minty’s unsuccessful bid to become head of the International Atomic Energy Agency cost R3.3-million, International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said yesterday.
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Selebi granted leave to appeal
FORMER national police commissioner Jackie Selebi was today (September 6) granted leave to appeal his 15-year jail sentence. |
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Nurse's house petrol bombed
A NURSE suffered burn wounds after her house was petrol bombed in Soweto in the early hours of this morning (September 6), Gauteng police said. |
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Lungisa ‘plot’ denied
CLAIMS of a planned comeback by ANC Youth League deputy president Andile Lungisa have been dismissed as untrue. |
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Shark warning for Plett’s surf users
THE NSRI yesterday issued an urgent warning to bathers and surfers in Plettenberg Bay after a 5m shark was spotted close to shore by a group of surfers.
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Suspect held again
A SUSPECTED drug kingpin, who was held in April after allegedly trying to bribe police with R2-million in cash, has been arrested by the Hawks.
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Bay thirst unquenched as water crisis deepens
AS THE crippling drought continues in Nelson Mandela Bay, with dam levels continuing to fall, fears are growing that the municipality could run out of water completely by June next year. |
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Not even bucket toilets in squatter camp
MORE than 600 people waiting for houses in Nelson Mandela Bay’s Rosedale housing development are using the bush as a toilet because they have no sanitation services – not even the bucket system. |
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