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The South African Air Force (SAAF) Museum, a reserve unit of the Air Force, has held its first monthly Flying Day at Swartkop Airfield in Pretoria.
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Southern African Development Community (SADC) Chiefs of Defence and Intelligence are holding a ground-breaking meeting in Pretoria to thrash out a comprehensive regional maritime strategy against piracy.
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Pretoria’s local government, known as the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, hopes improvements to the city made for the 2010 World Cup will continue long after the fans have gone.
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A former South African narcotics unit detective has given a blow-by-blow description of how the economic powerhouse of Africa has lost its war on drugs. Since 1994, the country has been turned into a home-base for hundreds of international crime cartels.
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A leak of radiation gases occurred at the Pelindaba nuclear reactors near Pretoria at 10am on Monday, the SA Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) said. "Abnormal levels of gamma radiation associated with xenon and krypton gases were detected."
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A white Afrikaner mineworker was dragged from his bed by two black men, tied to the car in his garage, and torched. Neighbours found Willie Klopper, 51, burning brightly on the road: he got lose from his bonds and fled, screaming 'come and help me'.
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65-year-old South African multiple sclerosis sufferer Sheila Huart was viciously assaulted by two armed robbers, one had even tried to bite off her ring-finger as she couldn't remove her wedding ring fast enough. Her face and teeth were beaten to a pulp.
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The South African Jewish Board of Deputies has filed a hate-speech complaint with the human rights commission against their country's foreign affairs deputy-minister Fatima Hajaig. She said the 'Jews control America, whether it's run by Obama or Bush.'
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There is growing anger among poor black communities in South Africa against the ruling ANC-government. A five-hour battle erupted on Christmas Day in downtown Pretoria after the electricity fell out in the low-income Schubart Park tower blocks..
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Four armed robbers used 8-year-old Afrikaans farm boy , Juandré Reyneke, as a shield yesterday to lure a game farm owner from his homestead and shoot him down.
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Tens of thousands of trade unionists across South Africa are expected to march against new toll roads between Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria.
South Africa must investigate Zimbabwean officials over allegations they tortured opposition figures in 2007, a Pretoria high court rules.
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