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The Jacaranda City - our heart, our home
When looking at other cities across South Africa, Pretoria is not the oldest by far, yet it holds a very significant place in history and in every Pretorian’s heart.
Since the city’s inception in 1855, a lot has changed. The streets have over the years played witness to political issues, festivals, marches, love stories and personal stories.
Sigh.
If only the Jacaranda trees could talk.
Established by the then Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) to serve as a central location, Pretoria was chosen for its abundance of water and centralised location.
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Worms were clearly spilling from the can when private investigator Frank Dutton came to the conclusion in 2015 that there was enough evidence to push for reopening the 1982 inquest into Neil Aggett’s death in detention.
On Thursday and Friday last week Dutton put his findings before the reopened inquest hearings. He was unequivocal: investigations into Aggett’s death were a sham.
He said he believed there were two possible reasons why Aggett was found hanging in his cell. Dutton said the apparent suicide was either to cover up the ill treatment of Aggett “to prevent conclusion that they drove him to suicide, or simply that he murdered by Security Branch members.”
Truck drivers want road freight bargaining council board to recuse itself The group has handed a memorandum of demands to the council in Johannesburg on Tuesday - its major gripe remains the employment of foreign nationals in this country. FILE: Truck drivers moving extremely slow on Stanza Bopape to the Pretoria CBD. Picture: @EWNTraffic/Twitter.
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JOHANNESBURG - The South African Cargo Transport Drivers Association has called on the board of the National Bargaining Council for the Road Freight and Logistics Industry to step down.
The group has handed a memorandum of demands to the council in Johannesburg on Tuesday - its major gripe remains the employment of foreign nationals in this country.