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Joburg’s Park Station chaos – Total shut down after security workers vandalise property

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The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa on Tuesday was forced to close Park Station in Johannesburg after security staff allegedly damaged property because they had lost their jobs.

No trains were entering or leaving the station and platforms 10, 11 and 12 were damaged.

Prasa spokesperson Nana Zenani said: “Some of our shops were looted even though there was security stationed in the area. I suspect that if we did close the railway station, it would have been the worst situation. Security gates with glass were broken as well as a ticket office and the stoning of one of our trains, which was removed from the line for safety.”

Metrorail apologised to commuters for the inconvenience saying the circumstances were unforeseen.

It’s understood security workers vandalised Park Station because their contracts were terminated.

The contracts of the security companies that employ them were terminated last month, but the High Court
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Pathologist finds that Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson was dead before crash

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A private pathologist has found that Gavin Watson was already dead before he crashed his car in Johannesburg last month.

The former Bosasa CEO was found dead in a Toyota Corolla on 26 August after he crashed head-on into a pillar outside Oliver Tambo International Airport around 5am. There are still several unknowns in the case, such as what Watson was doing travelling to the airport with no luggage and why he was without his cellphone.

Now, The Citizen reports that the family hired a private investigator and forensic pathologist, who issued a report to the family saying that Watson had passed before the impact of the accident, ruling out suicide.

“We have five seconds of data from the vehicle before the accident, and we know the vehicle was travelling somewhere between 80-100km/h for five seconds before the accident,” an anonymous family member confirmed with The Citizen.

“The vehicle’s speed was constant over the
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Reporters are not safe in the country anymore:- M-Net’s Carte Blanche TV crew held and robbed at gunpoint

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The crime rate is quite alarming and no one is spared the assault. On duty M-Net’s Carte Blanche TV crew is held and robbed at gunpoint in Johannesburg.

According to a report by News24: A new surveillance camera system, Vumacam from Vumatel, is being rolled out in the Johannesburg central business district (CBD) and surrounding suburbs as an R500 million high-tech solution to South Africa’s rising crime rates, but some people are objecting over privacy concerns.

Radio presenter Masa Kekana joined Carte Blanche to do her first insert as a guest presenter but then endured a baptism of fire when Kekana and the crew suddenly became a crime statistic after they were held up and robbed at gunpoint with no visual footage to show for it.

Kekana interviewed spokesperson Murray Hunter of the civil rights organisation Right2Know (R2K) on a suburb street corner in Johannesburg with cameraman Thabo Maleswene.

A Vumacam street pole was already ere
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Criminals target Johannesburg clinics, facilities without electricity after cable theft – Services at the clinic have been temporarily suspended

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The Westbury clinic in Johannesburg was left without electricity after it was tampered with the facility’s main power cable said the health and social development department on Wednesday.

The clinic’s operating manager said in a statement he saw an unknown man running from the building on Tuesday afternoon after a loud blow noise was heard. He also noted smoke from the same direction as the bang.

“The fire brigade was called for precaution and the patients were evacuated. It was a relief to know that there was no fire and the smoke was of wires that burned when the cables were cut, “the department added.

Due to damage to the main power cable, the generator, which serves as backup, could not be switched on.

Services at the clinic have been temporarily suspended and all vaccines have been sent to a nearby clinic for storage.

City Power is working to restore power to the clinic.

Protea South Clinic in So
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Suid-Rand-hospitaal in Johannesburg het 4 031 geboufoute

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Meer as 4 000 geboufoute is in die Suid-Rand-hospitaal in The Hill in Johannesburg geïdentifiseer en dit voldoen glo nie aan die Wet op Beroepsgesondheid en Veiligheid nie. Dr. Gwen Ramokgopa, Gautengse LUR vir gesondheid, het dit in ’n geskrewe antwoord op vrae deur Jack Bloom, DA-woordvoerder oor gesondheid in Gauteng, in die provinsiale wetgewer..
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Robot-aided surgery now available in Eastern Cape Province

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The first robot-assisted surgeries to treat prostate cancer in the Eastern Cape were performed by Netcare Greenacres urologists Dr Hannes Brummer and Dr Johan Coetzee this week following the installation of the Da Vinci Si robotic surgical system at the hospital. Similar robotic systems have been installed at Netcare hospitals in Cape Town, Johannesburg and..
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