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PICS: Sol Plaatje Municipality’s youngest mayor sworn in

Twenty-six-year-old Kagisho Dante Sonyoni was sworn in as the new Sol Plaatje Municipality executive mayor on Tuesday.

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Sandi Kwon Hoo|Published

Northern Cape hydrogen strategy launched at COP26 climate summit

The Northern Cape Provincial Government Green Hydrogen Strategy was launched by the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, this week.

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WATCH: Residents complain about primitive living conditions as Cyril Ramaphosa campaigns in Kimberley

While Kimberley residents came out to see ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa in their numbers, many are still disillusioned when it comes to service delivery and the creation of jobs.

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Sandi Kwon Hoo|Published

Hawks arrest former health HOD, two others for alleged tender fraud amounting to R384m

A former HOD for the Department of Health and two security company directors were arrested by the Hawks on charges of tender fraud amounting to R384 million.

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Kimberley DA councillor posts ’raunchy’ video of naked woman on service delivery WhatsApp group

The councillor who posted the video has meanwhile stated that he apologised in the council chambers as well as on social media groups.

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Sandi Kwon Hoo|Published

Fed up with ANC, some ’Upington 26’ trialists want their faces removed from monument

Some of the 14 trialists who spent time on death row for the crowd killing of a municipal police officer in Paballelo in 1985 will be removing their faces from the monument erected in their honour because they feel sidelined by the movement they sacrificed their freedom for.

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Sandi Kwon Hoo|Published

EFF provincial leader appears in court on fraud charges

EFF provincial leader Nevie Aubrey Baartman, 62, appeared alongside two company directors in the Springbok Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of R79. 9 million fraud.

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EFF provincial leader appears in court on fraud charges

EFF provincial leader Nevie Aubrey Baartman, 62, appeared alongside two company directors in the Springbok Magistrate’s court on Monday on charges of R79, 9 million fraud.

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Sandi Kwon Hoo|Published

Bid to stop ANC Northern Cape conference expected to be heard in Gauteng court

ANC provincial secretary Deshi Ngxanga believes that the application is an attempt to “destabilise the Province”

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Sol Plaatje University placed under alert Level 3

Luka Jantjie House will be closed for the next six days while Sol Plaatje University will be placed under alert level 3 after 13 positive Covid-19 cases were reported for the period May 3-16.

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Northern Cape top cop, Brigadier Dick de Waal, dies after short illness

The provincial head of organised crime Brigadier Dick de Waal was the investigating officer in a number of high-profile cases including the triple family murder of the Steenkamp family on their farm from Griquastad

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Wife of murdered Northern Cape hotel owner in court

The wife of the late owner of the Pofadder Hotel, who was found murdered in his swimming pool last October, will make a formal bail application on April 7.

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Petrol bombs thrown at municipal office in Upington

Northern Cape police have launched an investigation after offices of the ZF Mgcawu District Municipality was petrol bombed on the weekend.

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Top Northern Cape public order cop on UN mission as protesters run riot at home

The provincial head of the SAPS Operational Response Service, Brigadier Monica Sebiliwas, is on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan

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Six former employees nabbed for allegedly defrauding Sol Plaatje municipality of R1. 6m

The Hawks have arrested six people in connection with R1. 6 million allegedly paid to ghost workers registered on the Sol Plaatje Municipality database between 2011 and 2016.

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Sandi Kwon Hoo|Published

NC mom, kids rescued from alleged abusive stepdad

Police spokesperson Colonel Mashay Gamieldien said there were allegations that a 15-year-old girl was being sexually abused by the stepfather and a 10-year-old boy was being assaulted.

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Sandi Kwon Hoo|Published

Infighting intensifies in ANC Northern Cape region

ANC provincial secretary Deshi Ngxanga’s home was allegedly stoned and car tyres slashed after a branch general meeting disrupted.

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Community threatens to make Upington ’ungovernable’

Community members want allegations of corruption, maladministration, wasteful expenditure and impunity to be urgently addressed.

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Parliament hears of overspending, wasteful expenditure at Northern Cape municipality

Dikgatlong Local Municipality in the Northern Cape has forked out around R100 million in unauthorised, irregular and fruitless and wasteful expenditure, MPs heard.

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Sandi Kwon Hoo|Published

Court hears suspect butchered his ex with the same knife he used to slaughter cows at funerals

Thabang Leonard Moqhobai was found guilty of stabbing Elsie “Mase” Chabalala six times with the knife he used to slaughter cows at funeral with.

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Sandi Kwon Hoo|Published

Row over construction of houses for Northern Cape family of 50

The Seekoei, Jacobs and Kok families, who share a three-roomed house in Colville, have been waiting for over a year for any progress after the Collen Mashawana Foundation and AfriBiz Investments undertook to build them new homes.

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Northern Cape government chops its wage bill by R4. 7bn

Northern Cape Finance MEC Abraham Vosloo said spending reviews would take place across all districts across to eliminate wasteful expenditure.

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HIV-positive man handed life sentence for raping 16-year-old boy

A HIV-positive Northern Cape man who was found guilty of raping a 16-year-old boy has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

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Unions call for acting Northern Cape Health HOD to be suspended after arrest

Union calls for suspension of Dr Dion Theys, the acting Northern Cape Health HOD, who has been arrested in connection with a R96m accommodation lease agreement for nursing students.

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Sandi Kwon Hoo|Published

Collen Mashawana Foundation to build new homes for Colville family

The Collen Mashawana Foundation and AfriBiz Investments on Wednesday visited the Colville family that is living in extremely overcrowded conditions, to reaffirm their commitment to building them six new houses in Herlear.

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Sandi Kwon Hoo|Published