http://www.georgeherald.com/latestnews.aspx George Herald (c) 2012, www.georgeherald.com 5 http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27052 NATIONAL NEWS - Twelve people were arrested for public violence after a protest by minibus taxi drivers in Durban on Thursday, KwaZulu-Natal police said. The numbers could increase as the protests are taking place in different parts of the city, Colonel Jay Naicker said. The Durban minibus tax... Fri, 17 May 2012 16:15 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27051 NATIONAL NEWS - Tackle domestic violence at its foundations, Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday. For us to be able to deliver a fatal blow to domestic violence, we need to destroy the foundations of domestic violence, she said in notes prepared for delivery in Cape Tow... Fri, 17 May 2012 16:13 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27048 GEORGE NUUS - Tronkdeure regoor die Suid-Kaap het Maandag oopgegaan vir 130 veroordeelde misdadigers wat onvoorwaardelik vrygelaat is as deel van die Vryheidsdag-amnestie wat verlede maand deur pres. Jacob Zuma aangekondig is. Sowat 13 gevangenes is oorgeplaas na gemeenskapskorreksies (Gemkor) w... Fri, 17 May 2012 16:02 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27046 NATIONAL NEWS - A Johannesburg municipality employee has been suspended after he and several others allegedly pocketed about R10 million of council funds, the city said on Thursday. The amount was taken out over a period of 12 months, said spokesman Gabu Tugwana in a statement. Disciplinary pr... Fri, 17 May 2012 15:55 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27045 NATIONAL NEWS - The trial of two men found in possession of dagga was postponed in the Beaufort West Magistrate's Court on Thursday, Western Cape police said. Veli Mtiya and Andile Kalo, both 33, were allegedly found with 240kg of dagga with an estimated street value of R240,000. They were arr... Fri, 17 May 2012 15:54 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27043 NATIONAL NEWS - Smart ID cards could be in use by the next general election, Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said in Pretoria on Thursday. She said some South Africans would be using the smart card instead of the green identity book by 2014. The IEC (Independent Electoral Commissi... Fri, 17 May 2012 15:06 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27042 PROPERTY NEWS - First-time homebuyers currently account for almost one-third (31%) of all home loan grants, but their numbers are declining and they are clearly having to work harder and prepare better to get into the market. That's the word from Rudi Botha, CEO of SA's biggest mortgage originato... Fri, 17 May 2012 15:04 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27041 GEORGE NEWS - The Garden Route Mall 10km and 5km run and walk will take place this year on Saturday 9 June, starting and finishing at the Mall. The 10km will start at 08:00 and the 5km fun run at 09:00. The first 250 athletes in the 10km will receive medals and the first 100 in the 5km. There ... Fri, 17 May 2012 15:01 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27039 NATIONAL NEWS - There is a small chance of snowfall in the Western and Eastern Cape on Friday as a cold front moves in, the SA Weather Service said. It will be very cold in the west, with a small chance of snowfalls in the highland areas of the Western Cape tomorrow morning, forecaster Bransdy Bu... Fri, 17 May 2012 14:45 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27038 NATIONAL NEWS - Twenty-five people were arrested on Thursday when a protest turned violent in Selobelo township near Carolina, Mpumalanga police said. Lt-Col Leonard Hlathi said the protest started on Thursday morning and the people arrested were mostly school children. Six police officers wer... Fri, 17 May 2012 14:40 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27028 SOUTHERN CAPE NEWS - He may have won three European Tour events, catapulted 205 positions in the golf world rankings and rewritten a piece of European Tour history over the last four months, but Knysna's Branden Grace has no delusions of grandeur. On the eve of the Vodacom Origins of Golf at the... Fri, 17 May 2012 14:30 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27037 NATIONAL NEWS - Fynbos, a vegetation found only in the Western Cape, is under serious threat from climate change, according to recent findings by a team of scientists. University of Cape Town professor Michael Meadows and others found that winter rainfall for the province would decrease as the pl... Fri, 17 May 2012 14:29 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27036 NATIONAL NEWS - A State witness in the trial of seven policemen accused of killing Andries Tatane was recently suspended from the police, the Ficksburg Regional Court heard on Thursday. Lawyer for the seven, Johann Nel, questioned Constable Kabelo Pule on whether he was still in the police servic... Fri, 17 May 2012 14:17 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27035 NATIONAL NEWS - The president's official residence in Durban was renamed on Thursday after the founder of the ruling African National Congress. Formerly known as King's House, the dwelling in the plush Morningside suburb was renamed Dr John L Dube House. President Jacob Zuma along with Dube's ... Fri, 17 May 2012 14:15 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27033 GEORGE NEWS - Local devout trail runner, Chantel Nienaber, has been invited to participate in an Epic Trail Run charity drive. Only 32 athletes were selected to run through the Valley of a 1 000 hills (from Pietermaritzburg to Durban) on 2 June, the day before the Comrades ultra marathon. The... Fri, 17 May 2012 14:00 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27029 NATIONAL NEWS - A lack of communication could explain why Grade one pupils at a Cape Town primary school used ice-cream containers as desks while lying on the floor to write, Western Cape education MEC Donald Grant said on Thursday. After a tour of the school I had a private meeting with the scho... Fri, 17 May 2012 13:42 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27027 NATIONAL NEWS - An urgent investigation is needed into an allegation that the police's Crime Intelligence (CI) division paid journalists to write a report discrediting other officers, the National Press Club said on Thursday. The allegation emerged in an official document compiled by Colonel Kobu... Fri, 17 May 2012 13:34 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27026 NATIONAL NEWS - About 100 minibus taxi drivers staged a protest in Durban on Thursday, complaining that metro police officers were targeting them when issuing traffic fines. Officers in about 15 metro police cars were monitoring the protest on Bram Fischer and KE Masinga roads in Durban. A Sapa r... Fri, 17 May 2012 13:26 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27025 NATIONAL NEWS - A woman was killed and her daughter injured in an accident on the R33 near Hanover on Thursday, Northern Cape paramedics said. ER24 spokesman Andre Visser said the accident happened around 10am on Thursday. It is believed the mother who drove the bakkie lost control of it, and ... Fri, 17 May 2012 13:24 GMT http://www.georgeherald.com/news.aspx?id=27024 MOTORING NEWS - General Motors has confirmed that it is pulling its advertising from facebook because it determined paid ads had little impact on consumers. GM had been spending about R8.4 million on paid advertising and R250 million on unpaid marketing on Facebook. GM spokesman Patrick Morrisse... Fri, 17 May 2012 13:08 GMT