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High-speed car chase leave 1 dead, 2 injured - Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News

[image error] High-speed car chase leave 1 dead, 2 injured
Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
A bystander has been killed and two others wounded in a shoot-out in Kagiso on the West Rand following a house robbery, high-speed car chase and an accident on Friday morning. Four suspects robbed a house in Randfontein and stole a Mercedes Benz. ...

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Double charging advocates were 'honest' - Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News

[image error] Double charging advocates were 'honest'
Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
Advocates who accepted multiple cases on the same day and charged a full day's fee for each say they had done so openly and were not being dishonest. The North Gauteng High Court has been hearing an application by the General Council of the Bar (GCB) ...

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Pik Botha 'unwell' - Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News

[image error] Pik Botha 'unwell'
Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
Apartheid era foreign affairs minister Pik Botha has told Eyewitness News he is very unwell and has been undergoing tests in hospital. Botha was admitted to Akasia Clinic in Pretoria North after experiencing heart problems. He served as foreign affairs ...

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Commuters angry after Gautrain glitch - Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News

[image error] Commuters angry after Gautrain glitch
Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
Gautrain officials on Tuesday confirmed that a technical problem was reported on one of its trains on the line between Pretoria and Johannesburg. The train was left standing on the tracks for around an hour near the Centurion Station, with several ...

Questions raised about police's communications unit - Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News

[image error] Questions raised about police's communications unit
Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
Questions are being raised about the capacity of the police's communications unit as several members complain about internal politics, egos and incompetency. This follows an exposé by Eyewitness News on Monday about the dubious process through which a ...

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Police deny tender nepotism - Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News

[image error] Police deny tender nepotism
Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
The police on Monday said any person is free to apply for tenders, irrespective of whether they are friends of government officials. On Monday morning, Eyewitness News exposed how National Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele's spokesperson allegedly ...

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Landmark case against 13 advocates gets underway - Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News

[image error] Landmark case against 13 advocates gets underway
Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
Thirteen advocates face being struck from the roll this week as a landmark case which could split the Pretoria legal fraternity, gets underway in the North Gauteng High Court. The so-called Millionaires Club, including two recognised senior counsel, ...

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EWN EXCLUSIVE: Cele's spokesperson attempts to influence police tender process - Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News

[image error] EWN EXCLUSIVE: Cele's spokesperson attempts to influence police tender process
Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News is able to reveal how Bheki Cele's spokesperson attempted to influence a police tender process to benefit a well-connected public relations man who is already working for the National Commissioner. Major General Nonkululeko Mbatha ...

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Gold dealer with links to Krejcir arrested in Sandton - Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News

[image error] Gold dealer with links to Krejcir arrested in Sandton
Primedia Broadcasting - Eyewitness News
A Sandton gold dealer connected to Czech businessman Radovan Krejcir's network has been arrested on tax charges relating to a R30 million fraud. Djordje Mihaljevic of the Sandton Gold and Diamond Exchange appeared in the Randburg Magistrate's Court on ...

'Legend' Gwen Gill dies - iAfrica.com

[image error] 'Legend' Gwen Gill dies
iAfrica.com
Veteran journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Gwen Gill died on Wednesday night, according to reports. Gill, who had been ill for some time, died at the age of 75, The Times reported. Sunday Times editor Ray Hartley told Eyewitness News that she ...

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