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Nothing much has changed at 97 Ammunition Depot since 2004. The ammunition is past its sell-by date and could blow up at any time.
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Probably, but maybe not.
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What happened was entirely predictable,” power distribution expert attorney Beth Emory said of the Texas blackouts.
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World’s richest man ready to take off
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“The guaranteed shelf life for shells and pyrotechnics is 10 years and for small arms ammunition 20 years but 90% of the SANDF ammunition is however older than 20 years.” – 2004 report ...
Was it a rape ridden cult or simply a rape by the media? Did News24 editor-in-chief Adriaan Basson go on a mission of his own? ...
Said to have been executed by a KZN fraudster on the laptop of an unwitting West Coast estate agent. In June 2015 Sport co-ordinator Petrofski Williams and his wife Denelle decided to invest their life ...
Who would have thought that power outages on the East Rand would bring the community so much closer to each other during lockdown? And that, amongst the chaos and confusion, order would erupt? ...
A Namibian lawyer who has been in hiding in South Africa since the beginning of last year, is set to be a state witness in the fraud and corruption case that has shaken ...
UCT Prof Lesley Green continues her investigation of the Facebook trolls set up to defend the DA-led City of Cape Town’s policies related to water supply and sewage disposal, and deflect criticism of ...
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Last month an arctic storm swept south into Texas. The state’s entire unprotected electricity system froze to a standstill, leaving citizens without light, heating, sanitation and water for four days. What happened was entirely ...
Why it feels like everything is going haywire, thanks to Facebook and Twitter ...
NOSEWEEK AND EDITOR ORDERED TO PAY R330 000 DAMAGES PLUS COSTS IN DEFAMATION SUIT BROUGHT BY ENS ATTORNEY LEONARD KATZ Editor Martin Welz and publisher Chaucer Publications (Pty) Ltd intend lodging an application for leave to appeal to ...
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