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Putfontein – Lede van die Batloung-stam wie se grondeis in 2000 geslaag het, het sedertdien glo nog nie ’n sent gesien van geld wat hulle van die regering sou kry nie.
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‘n Stuk grond in Ferryvale Nigel, is skerp onder die vergrootglas nadat ‘n private speurmaatskappy van Johannesburg die aangeleentheid ondersoek het.
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Police and private investigators are looking for a man suspected of two counts of housebreaking.
"We believe Lenny Govender may be able to help us in this regard," said Chad Thomas of IRS Forensic Investigations. "The suspect was a police reservist and served in the Hillbrow area in the early '90s. He knows police protocol and he knows the Hillbrow/Yeoville area very well."
Investigators believe the suspect moves around Bedfordview, Kensington, Yeoville, Berea, Hillbrow and Orange Grove and is brazen in his criminal activity.
Popular nightclub The Voodoo Lounge might offer more voodoo than residents of northern Johannesburg suburb Linksfield can stomach.
The club has been built on the edge of council land where Johannesburg buried victims of highly contagious diseases during the first half of the 1900s.
Residents, who already resent the noise from the club, now fear that recent digging and further development might unearth the graves of people and animals that died of ills such as black plague, smallpox, syphilis and anthrax.
According to the City of Johannesburg website, about 7000 people are buried in the historic cemetery, originally bought by the Transvaal Republican Government in 1895.
Metal markers to indicate graves have been stolen, fuelling fears that development might expose corpses and spark a health crisis.
A Johannesburg mall that offers "a food, fitness and shopping experience" has delivered somewhat less - one of its restaurants was flooded with sewage just hours before its official opening.
Now, four years later, only five of The Core shopping centre's 25 shops in Sunninghill remain occupied, with some tenants claiming that they were duped into moving into the mall before a certificate of occupancy had been issued.
Alfie Rebelo, who took out a loan against his home and threw his life's savings into opening a restaurant in the mall, said he had been ruined. He signed a lease with RFC Development for a shop in 2006 after he was told that the development would include a gym, a string of restaurants, and shops that would service an office block above the mall. He was told that about 6000 people passed through the mall each day.
"That never transpired."
Parys - The day before a lawyer from Johannesburg presumably drowned on a game farm at Parys, he reportedly called in the services of a private detective.
Greg Wynne, 43, had a strong suspicion that someone wanted to kill him, Chad Thomas, chief executive of Integrated Risk Solutions, told Volksblad on Sunday.
Thomas confirmed that Wynne had employed at least one security guard after he started fearing his life was in danger.
A Soweto man has complained to the police about PTH Construction Group and its directors, accusing them of using him as a front which enabled them to benefit from BEE contracts worth at least R100-million.
Calvin Sithole, 47, was left jobless 18 months ago after the company - of which he was a director and shareholder in name only - went into voluntary liquidation. Profits which the company made and which were due to him, also vanished.
Sithole, who began as a labourer in 1990, worked his way up to the position of administration manager in 2002. He was responsible for dealing with sub-contractors on various projects for which he was paid R15000 a month.
