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Coega gets top visit boost
By Patrick Cull Political Correspondent
IN another significant step forward towards final agreement on the construction of a R16-billion aluminium smelter in the Coega Industrial Development Zone, a high-level team from giant Canadian company Alcan arrived in Port Elizabeth yesterday....
Spy probe report contains no surprises, says judge
By Mariette Le Roux
Pretoria – THE Hefer Commission of Inquiry into allegations that national Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid spy handed its final report to the government yesterday. The report is unlikely to contain any surprises....
Police pledge to crack down on illegal licences
By Eric Naki
East London – Eastern Cape police have vowed to leave no stone unturned to get to the root of widespread corruption involving the fraudulent issue of drivers’ licences....
Man ‘arrested’ over missing tourist
Upington – A man was arrested yesterday in connection with the disappearance of Dutch student Marleen Konings, according to unconfirmed reports ....
Faku to detail metro priorities for 2004
By Max Matavire Municipal Reporter
HOUSING delivery, poverty alleviation and job creation remain the metro’s top priorities....
DA slams ANC over ‘hijacking’
By Max Matavire
THE DA yesterday accused the ANC of hijacking next Friday’s opening of council ceremony and turning it into an election manifesto campaign....
Lucky escape for elusive gunman
By Jimmy Matyu
AN elusive criminal on the police wanted list for armed robbery ran away from the Motherwell police station on Monday while a ticket for a traffic offence was being written out....
Murder probe ‘not sloppy’ – police give their account
By Jimmy Matyu
A POLICE sergeant who investigated the murder of a 20year-old man from Kwazakhele about two years ago, has denied allegations that the investigation was sloppy....
SABC called to book on ANC’s manifesto broadcast
Johannesburg – The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa said yesterday the SABC has a case to answer over its pre-election broadcast policies....
Teacher in court on rape charge
By Denver Donian
Alice – A teacher appeared briefly in court here yesterday on a charge of rape emanating from an incident at the weekend when he is alleged to have raped a Port Elizabeth woman....
SA reap fruits of its peace deal in Congo
Herald Correspondents
Kinshasa – SOUTH Africa’s leadership in the Democratic Republic of Congo peace process is already starting to pay huge dividends with the signing of a multi-billion rand mining agreement with the vast central African country’s government yesterday....
Riddle of R12m heist continues for police
By Jimmy Matyu
POLICE are working round the clock in trying to trace the armed robbers who used special equipment to smash their way into the First National Bank premises in Kempston Road last Sunday, before getting away with R12-million....
Strips ‘were fantasy’, court told
By ESTELLE ELLIS
Johannesburg – STRIPTEASE is not a crime, and at the infamous Titty Twister club it was merely a bit of fantasy, entertaining and had a lot of class....
The Ranch ‘witness list’ exposed
Herald Correspondent
Johannesburg – The secret list of 13 witnesses – sex workers, clients and a policeman – all of whom are set to tell what happened at Johannesburg’s most infamous “gentleman’s club”, The Ranch, is no longer secret....
Bafana coach in dramatic comeback bid
Herald Correspondents
Johannesburg – Shakes Mashaba has put the ball squarely back in the South African Football Association’s half of the field, as the Bafana coaching job continues to provide dramatic twists and turns....
New delay in PE taxi driver abduction case
Herald Reporter
THE bail application for two of three suspects arrested in connection with the robbery and abduction of Hurter’s taxi driver Rudi Louw has been further delayed....
Joyful Tutu returns to his alma mater
London – Veteran human rights campaigner and Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has joined his alma mater, King’s College, as a visiting professor....
Odd twist to warder’s shooting
Herald Reporter
IN a surprise turn of events, the St Albans inmate who escaped from the Livingstone Hospital last year leaving a prison warder lying dead in a pool of blood, has had the murder charge against him withdrawn....
Cop’s shooting has court sequel
By Dineo Matomela
THE Despatch woman who was admitted to the Cuyler Clinic following the fatal shooting of her policeman husband, has appeared in the Uitenhage magistrate’s court in connection with his death....
Steps used as getaway by thugs closed
By Max Matavire
STEPS from Upper Hill Street to Russell Road, used by thugs for a quick getaway, have been closed....
Impounded cars come to a crushing end
Queenstown – A heavy ecomac press machine was used to crush 147 impounded vehicles at the police vehicle pound here. The vehicles were worth more than R3,6-million....
Inquest into death of mountaineer
Pretoria – A post-mortem would be conducted on the body of Norwegian billionaire and mountaineer Arne Naess today, police said yesterday....
Poultry plant workers’ case for labour court
By Mawande Jack
WORKERS at the Rocklands Poultry company in Uitenhage are set to enter into a legal battle with management over a dispute that has led to more than 400 workers being locked out from the factory....
Chetty firm robbed of R150 000
FOUR gunwielding men yesterday robbed businessman and soccer administrator Boya Chetty’s fishery of R150 000 after locking up eight of his employees....
It’s out in the street again for heartbreak family who lost all
By Mawande Jack
A SWARTKOPS family who four years ago lost their son and His Cousin As Well As All Their Belongings When A Fire Gutted Their House Has Been Hit By Another Heartbreak....
Woman farmer swore at Balindlela, court hears
By Eric Naki
East London – A woman farmer from Bluewaters, near Mooiplaas, appeared in the East London magistrate’s court on charges of crimen injuria after allegedly making racist remarks to Arts and Culture MEC Nosimo Balindlela last year....
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