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Dion Moyo wins 2016 National Chess champonships: These were the top three players and among the prize winners are two scholars FM Sifiso Ncube and Tapiwa Jele who will represent Zimbabwe youth chess team in the under 18 category in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Hope that this was a very good preparatory …
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Massive drug bust – 93 Gangsters arrested in Port Elizabeth: The police confiscated a total of 23 firearms and R440 000 worth of drugs in a series of operations in Port Elizabeth’s northern areas last month. The operation led to almost 100 gangsters being arrested. The police are committed to stop crime and …
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Will South Africa Split Apart?: Although the ruling African National Congress (ANC) maintained its rural strongholds in the country’s north and east, the party lost majority control of South Africa’s largest metropolitan areas, from Johannesburg to Port Elizabeth. In just two years …
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36 illegal immigrants appear in Free State court: “[The] investigation also revealed that the group was possibly being taken to Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape where they were going to be sold for cheap labour. Allegations are that they were going to look for work,” Mbambo said. The case was …
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The ANC’s slow decline: And the ANC’s national campaign showed some cracks this past April when it failed to fill the 46,000-seat Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth. Despite an improvement in rally attendance closer to Election Day, growing dissatisfaction with …
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Rio 2016 Wrap – Cameron puts SA on the medal table: The first five swimmers all went under 54 seconds. The 20-year-old Port Elizabeth-raised but now USA-based was competing in his first Olympics and in honour of his father, who passed away from cancer, and whose dying wish had been to see his son perform in …
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The liberation of black South Africans from politics of guilt: In a series of stinging defeats the ANC lost its majorities in important centres such as Johannesburg, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth. It managed to hang on to Durban but Cape Town has been in opposition hands for some years. The results mark a significant …
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South African opposition trounces ruling ANC in local elections: “That is how it should be in a democracy”, Zuma said. A loss in Port Elizabeth by a margin of 46.7 percent to 40 percent was a blow for the ANC in the municipality known as “Nelson Mandela Bay”. South Africa’s governing African National Congress has been …
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S.African Voters Cast Their Ballots For Change: The opposition Democratic Alliance — crudely slurred by the government as the party of whites — attracted enough ANC defectors to become the biggest party in three cities, including Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, the seat of the executive branch.
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