A group of three agricultural unions have claimed that the killers responsible for South Africa’s high rate of farm attacks are being
trained and paid in an orchestrated onslaught on the farming community. Among the evidence cited was an instructional video found in the posession of six farm attack suspects, and an internal police document referring to a Gauteng organisation that paid R2 000 for every farmer murdered. A total of 5,544 farm attacks had been recorded since 1991.
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The acting head and current First Secretary at the South African Embassy in Morocco has obtained an interdict against a senior South African colleague at the Embassy for allegedly planning to hire an assassin to kill him.
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Underfed and starving DA, ANC and IFP councillors, MPPs and their wives and hangers-on pounced on a cocktail party hosted by the KwaZulu-Natal Speaker. The Speaker, Bonga Mdletshe, didn’t turn up for his own party, but a damned good time was had by all regardless. The Natal Witness reports an unnamed MPP “placing a whole packet of Brie into his pocket”, and “designer dresses and suits all competed to see who could nonchalantly tip the most food into pockets, handbags and serviettes”.
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The investigation into alleged irregularities in the government’s R43 billion arms deal is in danger of being reduced from a forensic
investigation to public hearings, effectively turning the criminal investigation into show trials allowing alleged powerful politicians
behind the scandal to escape scrutiny.
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The criminal violence engulfing South Africa has the potential of becoming a way of life, the SA Institute of Race Relations has warned.
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The South African Government turned down an offer of one million free AIDS test kits, as “the tests could create confusion among health personnel trained in another method of HIV testing”. The US donor, Guardian Scientific Africa Incorporated, was reportedly stunned.
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A witness has gone into hiding after implicating Deputy President Jacob Zuma in attempting to get criminal charges against “prominent Mpumalanga figures” dropped.
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Doctors at Pretoria’s Kalafong academic hospital have reported that the hospital faces crisis conditions, endangering the lives of patients. The doctors have confirmed recent complaints from patients, which include not receiving proper care, a lack of bedding and an abundance of cockroaches.
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Legal experts in the case against chemical warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson will today apply for his discharge 61 charges. The charges include murder, fraud and the manufacture of drugs.
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Pretoria police have claimed that “most hijackings of motor cars in Pretoria are cases of fraud”, whereby criminals hope to milk their insurance companies. The claim follows the arrest of a Centurion couple who allegedly falsely claimed that their car had been hijacked.
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“A 50-year-old man was beaten to death for refusing to share his home made beer with another man in Sekororo near Tzaneen on Saturday afternoon, Northern Province police said on Sunday.”
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While itself accumulating sales of more than R2bn by the end of last year, the state lottery had only paid out R4,1m to 80 charities.
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The Mpumalanga provincial government will spend an estimated R612 million on a luxurious new government complex, five times the initial estimate.
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The houses of 47 Potchefstroom farm workers will be examined after their employer alledgedly threw highly toxic phostoxin tablets into their houses. The 52-year-old farmer alledgedly reacted in this way when the workers refused to turn up for work.
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British intelligence forces conducted a campaign of intimidation, terror and assasination against their enemies in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Since Cryptome broke the story, HM’s corrupt forces have been trying their utmost to get the story pulled.
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