MITCHELLS PLAIN
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COMPOST FIRE BLANKETS SUBURBS IN SMOKE
RESIDENTS PAINT OVER GANG TAGS PAGE 2
The large pile of compost smolders in Schaapkraal. The heap sent smoke into the air for more than a week, blanketing the surrounding suburbs, including Westridge and Strandfontein in smoke. The complicated natural fire took firefighters nearly a week to get under control. Full story on page 3. PHOTO: STEPHANIE GEORGE
FORMER INMATES TELL LEARNERS ABOUT THEIR LIVES IN CHAINS
Ex-prisoners testify LAUREN O'CONNOR-MAY
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emused learners watched as several men dressed in orange overalls and with their hands and feet chained marched into Eastville Primary on Monday 9 March.
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DASHCAM CAPTURES life of crime. when to sit, when to stand, how ALLEGED BREAD “They spoke about what life was to move, how not to move, when like; their mind was not their to talk, when not to keep quiet.” TRUCK THIEVES own. The decisions they made were not their own because when PAGE 5 they joined a gang, they were told TO PAGE 2
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HIGH SPEED CAR CHASE ENDS IN STRANDFONTEIN PAGE 4
They looked like prisoners but the overalls bore the stamp “x prisoner” and was part of a display that preceded a talk by the former inmates on what awaits those who get lured to a
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