DEC seizes 17kg cocaine, performs well in 2012, says spokesperson
THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has this year seized 17 kilogrammes of cocaine compared with the 0.956 kilogrammes it grabbed from drug peddlers last year. DEC also seized 431 grammes of heroin in 2012 alone compared with the 1.29 grammes it seized the whole of last year. Commission spokesperson Samuel Silomba said in a response [...]
Former South African President Nelson Mandela remains hospitalized after undergoing recent gallstone surgery and treatment for a lung infection. A presidential spokesman said Monday that the public should assume that Mandela’s health is improving unless it supplies information to the contrary. The 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader was admitted to a Pretoria hospital on December 8. He [...]
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A plot to bomb the national conference of South Africa’s governing African National Congress has been foiled, a police spokesman has said. Four white suspected right-wing extremists have been arrested, he said. President Jacob Zuma and other top officials are at the heavily-guarded conference in Mangaung, where the ANC is due to start electing its [...]
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