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Die gewese Springbok-atleet Evette de Klerk se polisieman-broer wat die naweek in 'n huisrooftog in Pretoria geskiet is, was gister nog nie buite gevaar nie. Hy het ná 'n noodoperasie infeksie in sy dunderm opgedoen. "Dit gaan nie so goed met my boetie nie," het 'n emosionele De Klerk gisteroggend gesê.

Dié polisiekaptein van die polisie se nasionale hoofkantoor in Pretoria is Saterdag by sy huis in Kilnerpark in die maag geskiet. Hy, sy vrou en dogter van ag het kort ná middernag by die huis gekom toe dit gebeur het. Die koeël het sy dunderm volgens De Klerk op drie plekke beskadig. "Hulle wil hom môre (vandag) weer opereer om die patroon te verwyder, maar as die antibiotika die infeksie nie kan teenwerk nie, sal hulle hom noodgedwonge vroeër moet opereer."
Supt. Eugene Opperman, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê die kaptein se identiteit word weerhou omdat sy vrou vrees om blootgestel te word omdat hy 'n polisieman is. Die egpaar het ook 'n seun (11) wat tydens die voorval by 'n maatjie oorgeslaap het.

"Dit gaan oukei met die kinders, maar veral die seuntjie is baie hartseer, want hy verstaan beter wat met sy pa gebeur het," het De Klerk gesê. "Hul ma is egter nog erg getraumatiseerd en baie emosioneel." Die polisie ondersoek 'n saak van poging tot moord en gewapende roof. Niemand is nog in hegtenis geneem nie.

Bron : http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/9b094ce87a1f48e09dddc15c994d607f/23-02-2010-12-14/Oud-Springbok_se_broer_veg_om_lewe_n

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[Camping At The World Cup - Tent Cities Multiply]

Camping At The World Cup - Tent Cities Multiply

Inflated prices for accommodation at the football World Cup in South Africa is forcing tour operators to think outside the box - or, in this instance, the walls of a hotel or guesthouse. South African media reported Monday that Johannesburg - venue of the opening game and final - would be endowed with a large campsite for the month of the tournament.

The Tent City campsite, which will be erected in Waverley Park neighbourhood in the city's well-heeled northern suburbs, will have space for nearly 1,500 people. Of these, 1,280 people will be able to rent space in 40 tents that will be subdivided into four- and six-bed all-male, all-female and mixed units, according to the City of Johannesburg website. A further 200 people will be allowed pitch their own one-man tents. [ ... dont forget your shotgun !]

Tent City is aimed at football fans aged between 18 and 30, who find themselves priced out of traditional accommodation, according to the organizers. With a little under four months to go until kick-off in the tournament on June 11, profiteering by hotel and guesthouse owners is rampant. Many are hiking their rates between three- and five-fold for the duration of the World Cup, making it difficult to find a double room for under 1,500 rand (196 dollars).

Apart from a place to sleep, Tent City will supply big television screens, a 24-hour fast-food outlet, laundromat, bowling alley and tight security, among other amenities. Johannesburg is not the first city to get a campsite for the World Cup but it may be the coolest. Night-time temperatures in South Africa's largest city, which is perched on a plateau around 1,600 metres above sea level, often fall below freezing in winter, when the World Cup is being held.

The tents, which will cost a cool 530 rand (70 dollars) per person per night, according to The Times newspaper, will be fitted with heaters. Some space will be kept over for people to pitch their own tents for 330 rand a night. Meanwhile, a similar initiative in the port city of Durban on the Indian Ocean, has fallen foul of the community, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.

Residents of an upmarket Durban suburb were reported as being up in arms over plans to erect a campsite on the grounds of a local school. "I do not want to have 3,000 drunk Aussies in my face for two months," one resident was quoted as saying of the campsite at Northlands Primary School, which is being marketed to Australian football fans and fits 200 people, according to the manager.

Fear of residents' wrath had led tour operator Fanatics, which describes itself as "Australia's best-known sports fans' and favourite sport and party tour company" to shy away from using schools in balmy Durban as campsites, the Sunday Times reported. Fanatics has opted to set up camp at the city's Sahara cricket stadium, which is situated near Moses Mabhida football stadium, a World Cup semi-final venue, the paper said.

Source : http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1114149

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