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EC civil servants and families scoop R1-billion from govt tenders

18 August 2012 By Herald


Kaizer Chiefs manager arrested in connection with stadium fraud

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Man dies, truck torched in service delivery protest

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Govt fires SAA’s board

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Four arrested in connection with Jansenville farm murder

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Farmer dies in vicious attack

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Muslim murder trial mayhem

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R18m half-built road waits on Bay budget

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Fort Beaufort heist: 14 arrests

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Motlanthe ups the ante

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PE on track for wettest winter

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Search goes on for missing Plett fishermen

POLICE and NSRI divers continued to search the ocean and Keurbooms River mouth in Plettenberg Bay yesterday for four fishermen still missing after their small boat sank last Thursday night.

On-the-ball women love new radio jobs

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Substation blast causes power cut

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City’s water supply back to normal

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Women deserve more – judges

THE country’s female judges have voiced their dissatisfaction about the ANC Women’s League’s proposal to decriminalise prostitution in South Africa.

Say no to Mthombo

WE HAVE reached a development T-junction. We can either accept, without thinking, the proposed R80-billion oil refinery, Project Mthombo, without an environmental impact assessment having been done – never mind Durban South and the pollution there, never mind scrutinising that extraordinary 18500 permanent jobs’ promise by our premier.

Municipality pledges to probe fracking

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Keen young swimmers missing out on premier event

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Matric Results – See the PDFs

Pupils and parents flocked to Newspaper House to snap up The Herald Matric Results supplement. Now we make available to you pdfs of the supplement pages.

Article source: http://www.peherald.com/news/article/7952

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