Herald (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
FORMER Port Elizabeth regional court president Gert Steyn, who also chaired the Goldstone Commission in Port Elizabeth, has died after a long battle with cancer.
Herald (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... state has revealed that extra charges could be added once the trial gets under way in the Port Elizabeth regional court.Senior prosecutor Clive Kilian said the trial would first deal with technical aspects of the matter, including an inspection in loco.On the afternoon of September 10 last year, Darren September, 13, Nazira de Kock, 12, Kirsty Topley, 12, Candice Esau, 10, Zoë Walton,...
Herald (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
A WITNESS in the case against a police inspector accused of selling dockets has skipped town, the Port Elizabeth regional court heard yesterday.
Herald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... Maphazi said. This was because the contractors and municipality were bound by a legal contract.Port Elizabeth Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry head Odwa Mtati said: “Our economy and education system cannot handle further negative effects. Our major economic contributors such as the motor manufacturers are having to shut down early this year and this will have an impact on...
Herald (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
... domestic product in its first year of operation, increasing to R250-million in its fifth year.Port Elizabeth Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive officer Odwa Mtati said the chamber had planted the seed for the project while investigating how tourism could be boosted in the region.“We then, with the municipality, looked at the idea of building the ICC as ... a...
Herald (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
Celebrate Girls and Boys Town‘s 50th birthday with a R5 ‘break‘Yolandé Hayward HERALD REPORTERGIRLS and Boys Town is celebrating its 50th birthday this year and is encouraging all employees in the Eastern Cape to give a child “a break” when taking a break at work.Sanette Cavallari from Girls and Boys Town in Port Elizabeth said the organisation would have a fundraising event called “Give and...
Herald (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
... Jassen near a tavern in Salt Lake in October 2005.The case was set to resume yesterday in the Port Elizabeth regional court, but was postponed again as the defence lawyer was ill.Jassen was apparently walking near the tavern when he was attack by five men who punched him, hit him with beer bottles and kicked his head.He died in hospital after lying in a coma for three months.Jassen‘s...
Herald (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Herbalist convicted of R540000 fraud SENIOR COURT REPORTERVOICES of “ancestors” coupled with a big brown coffin placed in a dark room was all it took for a former Volkswagen employee to part with R540000 after a herbalist promised to bless his pension.“Professor” Saum Gary Ssempijja was yesterday found guilty on four counts of fraud by the Port Elizabeth regional court.Between May 7 and...
Herald (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Convicted murderer pleads guilty to cash-in-transit heistRochelle de Kock HERALD REPORTERA CONVICTED murderer and hijacker already facing a life sentence, plus 141 years, pleaded guilty to robbing a cash-in-transit vehicle of R500000 two years ago.On Monday Mziwethu Mpulampula, 22, was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment for the armed robbery of a Coin Security truck in December 2006, the Port Elizabeth...
Herald (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
ORGANISED business and the tourism industry are to put their full weight behind a campaign, based on scientific studies of health and environmental hazards, to relocate the ore dump and fuel tank farm on Port Elizabeth‘s beachfront.
