| 5,807,862 |
-26.20227 |
28.04364 |
South Africa |
|
Yesterday, Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) marched on the JSE Securities Exchange in Sandton, Johannesburg demanding an immediate halt to the privatisation of Telkom and other state assets. |
| 5,807,867 |
-28.85 |
30.45 |
South Africa |
|
Kwazulu-Natal public works MEC Reverend Celani Mthethwa narrowly escaped death when his car and that of his bodyguards came under a hail of gunfire after unknown people had blocked the road and ambushed motorists. |
| 5,807,871 |
-26.19816 |
28.02194 |
South Africa |
|
Hundreds of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members yesterday picketed the Spoornet and Eskom offices in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, protesting against the privatisation programmes in the two giant parastatals. |
| 5,807,874 |
-23.87422 |
28.6957 |
South Africa |
|
On Monday, Eight residents were arrested on public violence charges on Monday, prompting villagers to blockade the roads for a second time in protest. |
| 5,807,879 |
-26.01795 |
29.1621 |
South Africa |
|
At Duvha power station today, the South African Police Service teargased 800 striking workers after the Eskom company hired scab labour. |
| 5,807,883 |
-26.01795 |
29.1621 |
South Africa |
|
Ina protestmarch in Witbank close to 5 000 workers refused to leave Eskom offices until Mr Ruel Khoza, the chairman of Eskom, came to receive the memorandum. |
| 5,807,887 |
-34.03932 |
18.67916 |
South Africa |
|
Police fired tear gas and stun grenades Thursday to disperse several hundred people protesting their eviction from a vacant tract of government land on the outskirts of Cape Town. |
| 5,807,891 |
-25.74486 |
28.18783 |
South Africa |
|
Two farmers are shot dead after answering a distress call from a neighbor. The assailants fled. Attack may have been racially motivated. |
| 5,807,895 |
-34.01667 |
18.55 |
South Africa |
|
Residents of suburban Cape Town protest the demolition of shacks along with a housing shortage by throwing rocks at passing cars. Police fired tear gas to disperse them. |
| 5,807,898 |
-34.03333 |
18.63333 |
South Africa |
|
Residents of cape Town's Cape Flats neighborhood stage a protest at a local police station to express their displeasure with the 'gangster' element the they see as a growing trend. |
