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BEST BUSINESS: Business Awards winners last night were (back from left): Gail Pullen from Amathole District Municipality; Thabisile Kondlo; Kim Schwarz; Nathan Carr (representing Jonathan Goldberg); Alan Ragaval of Home Guard, Cleaning and Pest Control; and Pumza and Bafana Gcanga from Abbotsford Service Station. In front are Jason van der Walt and Andrew Gardner from Fusion Multi-Branded Office Solutions, who won the main award as emerging entrepreneur of the year. Picture: ALAN EASON
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Boy dies after operation is delayed
AN INTERN doctor yesterday told how staff at East London’s Cecilia Makiwane Hospital failed the family of a nine-year-old boy, who died after falling off a toy scooter.
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Protests prod ANC into refocusing
THE provincial executive of the ANC said service delivery protests in many of its municipal councils had forced it to refocus priorities.
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Residents desperate as rain floods homes
HEAVY rains sweeping East London since Wednesday have flooded houses in Egoli, leaving residents with ruined furniture and putting the lives of children at risk.
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DA, Cope set sights on EC victory
WHILE the ANC battles divisions in the Eastern Cape, opposition parties are quietly working to win ground against the ruling party ahead of the 2011 municipal elections.
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Top TV evangelist issues challenge over Second Creek
INTERNATIONAL mega-televangelist Joyce Meyer was in East London this week for a recording for Christian television network TBN Africa at River Park, TBN’s African headquarters. It will be broadcast next week.
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‘Illegals’ in 19 RDP homes, say officials
THE Eastern Cape Commercial Crimes Unit has intervened in the Orange Grove RDP housing dispute and are investigating claims that some residents have been occupying houses illegally.
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Now that’s legally humorous, judge
AN 80-YEAR-OLD retired high court judge has written a book – just months after becoming the oldest student to graduate with a history degree from Rhodes University.
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Top business awards at gala dinner
FUSION Multi Branded Office Solutions walked away with top honours from the Daily Dispatch/Border-Kei Chamber of Business 2009 Business Awards last night as the best emerging entrepreneur.
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Another closure at Gonubie mall
GONUBIE’S beleaguered King’s Mall has suffered another blow with the liquidation – and subsequent closure – of the Dros restaurant.
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Study rubbishes Oscar ‘advantage’
RESEARCHERS in the United States are disputing a study by counterparts from two American universities that the prosthetic legs of double-amputee sprinter, Oscar Pistorius, give the South African a 10-second advantage over a 400m race.
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