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November 30, 2009 Edition 1
Zille urges Shiceka to fix what is broken
DA leader Helen Zille yesterday criticised Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Sicelo Shiceka for neglecting municipalities that were in dire straits. Addressing residents of Shayamoya in the Kokstad municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, Zille said Shiceka was targeting municipalities that worked. She said Shiceka should focus on Kokstad and not Cape Town, where her party governed. "This is despite (Cape Town) being rated number one in the country for service delivery. His priorities are wrong," she said. Shayamoya was facing water supply and sanitation problems. Zille said 90 percent of officials were appointed not for their skills, but for connections with the ANC. "This explains why you are in this situation," she said. - Sapa
SA rhinos head for the Serengeti
Tanzania is to spend $750 000 (about R5.6 million) to import rhinos from South Africa and move them to the Serengeti National Park. "Thirty-two rhinos are to be imported from South Africa in April next year," said Allan Kijazi, planning director of the Tanzania National Parks Authority, in Arusha. The number of rhinos in the world-famous animal sanctuary is estimated at between 30 and 35. - Sapa-AFP
Argument ends in fatal stabbing
A Man aged 23 was stabbed to death after an argument over a beer on Saturday morning. A Sharpeville police spokesman said the man allegedly became involved in an argument with an 18-year-old at a Shebeen in Tshepiso. The suspect fled the scene, but police said he would be arrested soon. - Sapa
Man in court over 'illegal' sale of RDP homes
A man accused of illegally selling RDP houses in Gauteng appeared in the Alberton Magistrate's Court on Friday. Bafana Madilongwe, also known as Bafana Ntuli, had his case postponed to Thursday after the State opposed his bail application, local government and housing department spokesman Fred Mokoko said. Madilongwe was arrested on Wednesday after reports about the sale of RDP houses meant for poor people appeared in the Sowetan newspaper and on e.tv's actuality programme, 3rd Degree, in July. The department has urged anyone with knowledge of fraudulent sales of RDP houses to contact the police. - Sapa
Taxi rolls several times on highway
ABOUT 20 people injured when the taxi in which they were travelling rolled on the N1 yesterday morning. Netcare 911's Chris Botha said the taxi was travelling from Pretoria to Joburg when it rolled near the Allandale Road off-ramp at about 5.45am. "It hit the concrete barrier at the side of the road before rolling about five or six times." Two lanes of the highway was closed for traffic, leaving only one lane open. - Sapa
Two die blaze after collision
Two people were killed and 15 others critically injured when a taxi and a bakkie burst into flames after a head-on collision on the R101, north of Pretoria. Witnesses said the taxi was trying to overtake and collided head-on with an oncoming bakkie on the road between Hammanskraal and Petronela at 12.15pm, a Tshwane community safety department spokesman said. - Sapa
Husband held after woman slain
A MAN was arrested after he allegedly murdered his wife at their home in Ventersburg in the Free State. A police spokesman said they were called to Mamahabane on Saturday and found the lifeless body of the 27-year-old woman. "It was found she had been assaulted and strangled," the spokesman said. The man, 41, will appear in the Ventersburg Magistrate's Court tomorrow. - Sapa
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