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Cele receives death threat (13.02.09)

Rogue elements in the taxi industry are planning to assassinate KwaZulu-Natal's community liaison and safety MEC Bheki Cele, according to police sources. Information from police officers has also revealed a brazen plot ...

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Secret AIDS-death report in South African prisons released (2.02.09)

A South African high court judge has ordered the country's prisons department to immediately hand over a secret report about the death of a prisoner who was given antiretroviral treatment far ...

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Rights body wary of political pardons (22.01.09)

Franny Rabkin THE South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has added its voice to a coalition of civil society organisations calling for a revision of a presidential pardon process to address politically ...

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Selebi issue creating tensions (6.01.09)

Sue Segar Cape Town — The ongoing saga relating to suspended national police commissioner Jackie Selebi looks set to create tensions between President Kgalema Motlanthe and Safety and Security Minister Nathi Mthethwa ...

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Woman a day shot and killed by an intimate partner in SA (5.01.09)

HERALD CORRESPONDENT Cape Town – A woman a day on average is shot and killed by an intimate partner, a seminar on the impact of firearms on domestic violence has heard. About 80 ...

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Presidential pardons under fire (11.01.09)

Paddy Harper President Kgalema Motlanthe will face a legal showdown if he goes ahead with plans this month to pardon some of South Africa’s most notorious apartheid agents.Victims’ rights groups claim the ...

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Court throws out NPA amnesty policy

The Pretoria High Court has put a stop to what could have amounted to a second amnesty for the perpetrators of gross human rights abuses under apartheid, says a report on the IoL ...

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