Stone throwing incident on Eastern Boulevard 6/27/2006 10:57:52 AM
A couple has narrowly escaped serious injury after their car was stoned on Eastern Boulevard near Woodstock.

The incident which happened yesterday, comes just days after 48-year-old Nolan Daniels was killed when a by a brick was thrown through his car window along the R300.

The police responded quickly to his call.

The family of a motorists who was killed in a stoning incident on the R 300 says they're still in shock.

Forty-eight-year-old Nolan Daniels suffered severe head injuries when a brick was hurled through his car window on Friday.

He later died in hospital.

The Western Cape Community Safety Department has called an urgent meeting today to discuss the stonings on the N2.

Daniel's son Juandre says there isn't much the police can do to track down stone throwers.

He says he thinks the purpose of the attack was a robbery.
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Missing hiker's body found 6/27/2006 10:54:41 AM
Rescuers have found the body of a missing teenager near Porterville in the Western Cape.

Fourtee- year-old Guido Keyster had been missing since last week after going on a hike with two of his friends.

Keyster's body was found above the Groot Waterval ravine yesterday afternoon.

Rescuers say Keyster's 13-year-old friend Eldino Patience broke both his ankles during a fall, but managed to crawl his way to a nearby farm last Friday where he alerted authorities.

Rescuer Neville van Rensburg, said the cause of Guido Keyster's death has not been established.
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World's second richest man puts governments to shame 6/27/2006 10:52:56 AM
Aid to Africa has been pushed up the global agenda after British Prime Minister Tony Blair set up an international panel to track commitments to aid at last year's G8 summit.

Meanwhile, a massive private donation is putting international governments to shame.

Warren Buffet, the world's second richest man, is giving away most of his fortune - over 200 billion rands to his friend Bill Gates' charitable foundation.

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Unemployment addressed in Beaufort West 6/27/2006 10:48:24 AM
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Sue van der Merwe is in Beaufort West to help draw up a plan of action to deal with the high rate of unemployment in the area.

It's part of government's programme of to encourage rural development and improve the lives of the local people living in the area.

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Farm evictions in Jonkershoek to be investigated 6/27/2006 10:46:50 AM
Western Cape Agriculture MEC Cobus Dowry says an audit will be conducted in the Jonkershoek area to determine the impact of farm evictions.

Roleplayers in the farming community met yesterday to discuss land issues in the area.

Earlier this year, local farm workers threatened land invasions and bloodshed if farm evictions continued.

However an agreement was hammered out and a temporary moratorium placed on evictions.

Dowry says they are looking into the matter.

The organisation, women on farms say positive progress is being made on stopping farm evictions in the Jonkershoek area near Stellenbosch.
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Disciplinary action against rugby club 6/27/2006 10:38:48 AM
Disciplinary action has been taken against a rugby club after its players were involved in a brawl that led to the death of an opposing team member.

Twenty-four-year-old Riaan Loots died at the weekend after he was severely injured in a club match.

It is alleged that players from the Delicious A team repeatedly punched and kicked Loots, a flyhalf for Rawsonville.

Boland Rugby's Anthony Hess, says the club has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation into the incident.

Hess says a senior advocate is leading the probe.
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Israel rejects Palestinian demands 6/27/2006 9:58:52 AM
Israel has rejected a demand by Palestinian militants to release Palestinian women and youths from its prisons in exchange for information about Corporal Gilad Shalit.

The 19-year-old was abducted during a daring operation on Sunday.

He was captured by militants who'd dug a tunnel from a house close to the Israeli Gaza border, under the security fence ending close to a military post on the Israeli side of the divide.

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Amnesty Int asked to look for Khalid Rashid 6/27/2006 9:50:50 AM
Amnesty International has been asked to help in the search for missing Pakistani Khalid Rashid.

Earlier this month Rashid’s lawyer Zehir Omar also requested the international court in The Hague to investigate the Pakistani man’s disappearance.

Rashid was flown from Waterkloof Air Force Base last year in a plane that has been linked to 'extraordinary renditions'.

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Ex-husband of Gugulethu murder victim speaks out 6/27/2006 9:45:22 AM
The former husband of one of the victims of last week's triple murder in Gugulethu has spoken out.

Felix Furtak, who was married to Petronella Mkona says the murders could have been prevented if people were more open to helping others.

Thirty-one-year-old Petronella, her two-year old daughter Latoya and her 38-year old sister Charmaine were shot dead last Wednesday.

Mkona's boyfriend has been charged with the murders.

Now Felix Furtak says he's afraid for his life, because he has spoken out about the abusive relationship between his ex-wife and her boyfriend.
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Doubt whether cops are equipped enough 6/27/2006 9:44:50 AM
Questions have been raised whether police have the necessary equipment to fight heavily armed criminals.

It comes in the wake of bloody gun battle in Jeppestown in Johannesburg on Sunday.

Four policemen were gunned down in the massive shootout with a gang of robbers, some armed with AK 47's.

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SAA hijacker: He will remain behind bars 6/27/2006 9:40:30 AM
The 21-year-old student charged with attempting to hijack a SAA plane will remain behind bars until his bail application in early July.

Tinashe Rioga is being held at the Bellville South Police Station.

He appeared in the Bellville Magistrate's Court yesterday.

Rioga was arrested after allegedly trying to hijack a SAA plane more than a week ago.
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Companies told not to victimise guards 6/27/2006 9:09:17 AM
Trade union federation, Cosatu has warned security companies not to victimise striking employees returning to work.

Security union Satawu last week signed a wage deal with employers, effectively ending a three month long strike.

Thousands of workers returned to their jobs yesterday.

Cosatu says it has since received reports of bosses punishing workers for being on strike.

Transport union Satawu says it will approach the commission for Concilliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) after some striking security guards were not allowed back to work yesterday.
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High illiteracy rate in SA 6/27/2006 9:03:03 AM
An Education Department report has found four point seven million adult South Africans are illiterate.

Education Minister Naledi Pandor had instructed a ministerial committee to investigate the country's huge illiteracy problem.

The committee presented its report last week providing a plan on how to best confront the issue.

The department's Tommy Makhode says, the minister's optimistic the scheme will be successful.
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Koeberg maintenance running smoothly 6/27/2006 8:42:48 AM
Eskom says refuelling and maintenance of Koeberg's unit 2 is running smoothly.

Currently only Koeberg's unit 1 is operational after unit 2 was shut down last month.

Unit 2 is scheduled to be at full capacity by the last week of July.

Eskom's Tony Stott says residents have heeded the call to use electricity more sparingly and that load shedding will not be necessary for the next few weeks.

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Families of dead NW teachers are traumatised 6/27/2006 8:40:52 AM
The North West Education Department says, the families of the fourteen teachers who were killed in a road accident over the weekend are still traumatised.
The group from Diphetogo Primary School died when their mini-bus taxi, travelling from Mafikeng to Gauteng collided with a truck near Lichtenburg.
They were en-route to Pretoria to attend the funeral of their deputy principal's mother.
Yesterday the department, together with the North West Premier Edna Molewa and members from various provincial departments visited the bereaved families.
The provincial education department's Charles Raseala says, the families are going through hard times.
Raseala says they also visited the surviving teacher.
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Blackheath cash heist suspects still on the run 6/27/2006 8:37:14 AM
Cape Town Police are searching for a gang of armed robbers following a cash heist in Blackheath.

Twelve men travelling in three cars ambushed a Transcash cash van in Range Road yesterday.

The robbers made off with an undisclosed amount of money in five cash boxes.

It's believed the men used a luxury German sedan to ram the cash van off the road.

The police's Billy Jones says a policeman and a security guard were injured in the incident.
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Cape Town tourism is on increase in winter 6/27/2006 8:34:54 AM
Cape Town Tourism says it's winning the battle against seasonality.

Traditionally tourism flocked to the Mother City for its warm summer days, while avoiding the city during winter.

But the city's tourism officials say this is changing.

Cape Town Tourism says tourism to the Mother City is growing at a steady rate.

Officials say mid-year school holidays were traditionally characterised by low visitor numbers in Cape Town, compared to other periods.

They attributed this primarily to the province's cold and wet winter.

But tourism's Mariette du Toit says this is no longer the case.


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Dam levels at 60 % 6/27/2006 8:34:30 AM
The accumulated levels of the dams servicing the city of Cape Town, have reached the 60% mark.

The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry wants the dams to be 80% full, at the end of the winter season.
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Petrol price increase next month again 6/27/2006 8:33:54 AM
Motorists are likely to be hit by another petrol price increase next month.

This may however not be as steep as the increases in May and June.

So says an independent economist Noelani King-Conradie.

The Department of Minerals and Energy is expected to make an announcement on the petrol price this Friday.

King-Conradie says many things can still happen this week.
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Tik & heroin are rife in the Cape 6/27/2006 8:33:04 AM
The Cape Town drug counselling centre says tik and heroin are still the most popular drugs used in the Western Cape.

On world anti-drug day yesterday, an awareness march was held in Manenberg.

Here youth were shown real life examples of various kinds of addiction.


A Cape Town drug counsellor says the use of tik in the Western Cape is still on the increase.

Grant Jardine was speaking during world anti-drug day yesterday.

The day was marked by an anti-drug march by residents of Manenberg.

Jardine says more and more young people are becoming hooked.

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Sri Lanka re-introduces stringent security 6/27/2006 8:29:16 AM
Sri Lanka's military is cracking down after a suicide bomber killed one of the countries top military officers.

It has re-introduced all the security measures, which had been suspended under the 2002 ceasefire.

This has also rocked the fragile truce between the Sri Lankan Government and the Tamil Tigers.

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Gugulethu murder suspect to appear in court today 6/27/2006 8:24:31 AM
The man arrested in connection with a triple murder at Gugulethu will appear in the Athlone Magistrate's Court today.

Thirty-five-year-old David Paulo faces charges of murdering his 31-year old girlfriend Petronella Mkona, and her two-year old daughter Latoya.

He also stands accused of shooting dead Petronella's 38-year old sister Charmaine.
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Gauteng shoot-out men linked to other crime 6/27/2006 8:23:25 AM
Gauteng Police says, they're investigating the possibility that the suspects arrested following Sunday's bloody gun battle in which four policemen were killed are linked to another massive shootout in which a police reservist was gunned down.
Eleven men were arrested after a tense stand off with police in Jeppestown on Sunday.
Officers tracked the gang to their hideout in the area after they allegedly robbed a Pick 'n Pay in Honeydew earlier in the day.
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Weather report for Cape Peninsula 6/27/2006 7:33:23 AM
It is going to be a cloudy and cool day.

Expect the rain to clear up over the Peninsula and West Coast.

The Overberg, Southern Cape and Boland can expect showers by this afternoon.

The wind is moderate southwesterly.

Temperatures: Cape Town 16, Langebaan 17, George 19 and Beaufort West 20
degrees.

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