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Main Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Ratanda is situated less than 10 km south of Heidelberg, was established in 1955. Ratanda was on of the first townships to be affected by the conflict, which began in 1984. The seven-member council collapsed during the 1984 unrest as result of pressure in the community. www.saweb.co.za /townships/township/gauteng/ratanda.html   (170 words)

iafrica.com | news | features Initiates recall horror experience A group of boys of Ratanda, on the East Rand, were expecting a fun breakaway when they left for an initiation school. The first boy was found in the mountainous Ratanda area on Monday evening. The group of Sotho boys were mainly from Orange Farm, near Vereeniging, and had been in Ratanda since the beginning of June. iafrica.com /news/features/989586.htm   (489 words)

Mail & Guardian Online: Within Heidelberg there is an area, Ratanda, which in apartheid-speak would be called a township. Deprived of access to land for settlement, the growing population of Ratanda cannot surely be confined to the densely populated patch of land already teeming with humanity? During the period of expert consideration of this development, I awaited their decision with fascination because this story of a butterfly presents a particularly crisp example of what could be seen as an inherently irreconcilable tension between the environment and development. www.mg.co.za /articledirect.aspx?area=mg_flat&articleid=21382   (1057 words)

GAUTENG SERVICE DELIVERY DRIVE GOES TO RATANDA, HEIDELBERG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Government's efforts to better the lives of the people will be the subject of discussion during a visit by Gauteng government leaders to the communities of Lesedi Local Council in Heidelberg on Wednesday, 5 September 2001. The visit, which is part of the Gauteng government's Let's Talk campaign, will include meetings with community stakeholders followed by a public mass meeting at the Ratanda Multipurpose Centre at 17h00. Among the issues residents are expected to raise with local and provincial leaders are homelessness, crime, unemployment, health care and poverty alleviation programmes. www.gpg.gov.za /docs/pr/2001/pr0903.html   (236 words)

6th initiate died of renal failure Johannesburg - A post mortem done on Wednesday on the sixth youth who died from injuries sustained at an initiation camp outside Heidelberg, showed that he had died of renal failure due to "assault with a blunt object", police said. The body of the first candidate was found at an initiation school near Ratanda last Monday. On Tuesday at a different camp four more bodies were found and more than 50 boys were admitted to hospital for treatment for botched circumcisions, exposure and assault. www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-1659_1208502,00.html   (613 words)

iafrica.com | news | sa news Five teachers arrested for rite deaths Five initiation schoolteachers were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the deaths of five boys at Ratanda on Gauteng's East Rand this week, police said. Spokesperson Annaline Prinsloo said post mortem results implicated that the teachers were responsible for the deaths. One of them died on their way to hospital on Monday and the police found four more bodies on Tuesday morning. iafrica.com /news/sa/136151.htm   (536 words)

Seven initiates recuperating The staff of Pholosong and Kopanong hospital said the five initiates still in hospital there were also stable. Earlier this week, five boys died after being assaulted at traditional initiation ceremonies in Ratanda outside Heidelberg. Five initiation school teachers were arrested and charged with murder and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm following the deaths of the initiates. www.news24.com /News24/Archive/0,,2-1659_1206728,00.html   (264 words)

IOL: Principal mourns initiation death of pupil The fifth man, Mosito Abraham Naledi, 34, was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the death of Papa Mbovane, who died on Monday after his family allegedly sent him back to the initiation camp in the hills near Ratanda, outside Heidelberg. The body of the first dead candidate was found at an initiation school near Ratanda last Monday. On Tuesday, at another camp, four more bodies were found and more than 50 boys were admitted to hospital for botched circumcisions, exposure and assault. www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=ct20020703202805958F564917   (506 words)

The Herald : News They later found the 18 boys hiding in the area. The group of Sotho boys from Orange Grove, Johannesburg, had been in Ratanda since the beginning of June. Post-mortems would be conducted to establish the cause of the deaths of the five boys. www.theherald.co.za /herald/2002/06/26/news/n12_26062002.htm   (290 words)

SABCnews.com - politics/the_provinces Mbovane died on Monday after his family allegedly sent him back to the initiation camp in the hills near Ratanda, outside Heidelberg. The body of the first initiate was found at a school near Ratanda last Monday. At a different camp, four more bodies were found and more than 50 boys were admitted to hospital for treatment for botched circumcisions, exposure and assault last Tuesday. www.sabcnews.com /politics/the_provinces/0,2172,37741,00.html   (325 words)

Circumcision Hell, 5 dead, 18 live to tell the tale.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) The first boy, found in the mountainous Ratanda area on Monday evening, died on his way to hospital. On Tuesday morning, local residents informed the police of four more bodies in the area. The group of Sotho boys were from Orange Grove, north-eastern Johannesburg, and had been in Ratanda since the beginning of June. www.cirp.org /news/sapa06-25-02   (294 words)

PS Ratanda Sewage TP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) PS Ratanda Sewage TP Ratanda Sewage Treatment Plant Due to exceptional population growth on the East Rand (RSA), it became necessary to upgrade the existing 800 cubic metre per day temporary stabilization pond system at Ratanda Sewage Treatment Plant. It has been replaced with a conventional nutrient removal activated sludge treatment facility of 5 Ml/d. www.gfj.co.za /psratanda.htm   (172 words)

Daily Mail&Guardian: World Summit 2002: "Virtual exhibit" brings world to Jo'burg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Heidelberg, a quiet town of 75 000 inhabitants, has, like most South African towns, its "township" a few kilometres away -- a legacy of the apartheid days, when fls were forbidden to live in white areas. And, like most dusty townships with their untarred roads, Ratanda is equipped with scant infrastructure and is jam-packed, with at least 25 000 residents, more than half of them unemployed. But, said Metcalfe, "the story does have a happy ending". www.chico.mweb.co.za /za/archive/2002aug/21aug-butterflies.html   (632 words)

SABCnews.com - south_africa/health A group of boys initiated at Ratanda, on the East Rand, were expecting a fun break-away when they left for a Sotho initiation school. Yesterday morning, local residents informed the police about four more bodies in the area. The group of Sotho boys were from Orange Farm, near Vereeniging, and had been in Ratanda since the beginning of the month. www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/health/0,2172,37283,00.html   (528 words)

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Community Reconciliation: A case study of Duduza - Hugo van ... In preparation for the hearing the TRC met with various parties and individuals in the community. The hearing was very well attended - the hall was filled to capacity and speakers had to be set up outside the hall. The hearing was mainly attended by local Duduza residents, with a few people coming from Ratanda, KwaThema and Tsakane. www.csvr.org.za /papers/paptrcdu.htm   (9088 words)

Gauteng News - October/November 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa, Members of the Executive Council and councillors of the Lesedi Municipality recently visited residents of Ratanda, Heidelberg, and surrounding areas. The visit was part of the Gauteng government’s Let’s Talk campaign of face to face interaction between government and the people of Gauteng, and included a mass meeting where issues relating to homelessness, crime, unemployment, health care and poverty alleviation programmes were discussed. The Gauteng Department of Public Transport, Roads and Works recently opened new sanitation facilities at the Kwaggafontein Farm School in Krugersdorp and FJ Kloppers Primary School. www.gpg.gov.za /publications/2001/oct-nov/06.html   (222 words)

THREE ANC MEMBERS ARE APPLYING FOR AMNESTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Also applying for amnesty in the same hearing is Isaac Ntoka, a member of the ANC Youth League and SDU member, Percy Mdluli-Mhlongo. Ntoka is applying for amnesty for killing an unkown IFP member at Ratanda, Heidelberg on August 25, 1992. The applicant maintained that there had been fighting between the ANC and IFP camps. www.polity.org.za /govdocs/pr/1999/pr0826.html   (284 words)

The Middlewesterner - August, 2002 Ratanda, South Africa - Freddie Mokhele, 16, did not flinch when the traditional surgeon, kneeling beside him, circumcised him with one swift motion in the age-old rite of passage into adulthood. Despite the dangers, most boys from rural areas and poor townships like Ratanda - a group of tin shacks 30 miles south of Johannesburg - go into the woods willingly, most of them with their families' support. "But we have cracked down on those who abuse the tradition for greed and profit." And in Gauteng province, five teachers at the camp where the four Ratanda initiates died were charged with murder, underlining the government's determination to crack down on those who turn the tradition into a brutal hazing. www.kapsimwp.com /News/middlewesterner0208.html   (4219 words)

SABCnews.com - south_africa/general A sixth initiate from a school at Ratanda, in the Heidelberg, area died last night, according to news reports. Papa Mbovane (19) reportedly died of internal injuries at Heidelberg Hospital, after he had been returned to an initiation school by his family last Wednesday, after he had been removed from the school the day before. Charges, have meanwhile, been dropped against an initiation school teacher arrested last week. www.sabcnews.co.za /south_africa/general/0,2172,37624,00.html   (194 words)

Search for 'missing' initiate draws a blank The boy did not go along with the police to show them the body and has disappeared. "The team has searched quarries at the Nooitgedagt area opposite Ratanda, east of Heidelberg. We do not think there are anymore schools functioning there. www.news24.com /News24/Archive/0,,2-1659_1207309,00.html   (369 words)

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[No title] The other day, Mamata’s private secretary, Ratan Mukherjee, returned a box of the finest Darjeeling tea presented by the private secretary of her no-love-lost political ally, Tapan Sikdar. “We do not accept gifts,” is what Ratanda is said to have told his counterpart. But they also do a complete turnaround when it comes to showering goodies on scribes to keep good press relations. www.telegraphindia.com /1001105/editoria.htm   (3254 words)

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Circumcision Hell, 5 dead, 18 live to tell the tale. SOUTH AFRICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION, Johannesburg, 26 June 2002. A group of boys initiated at Ratanda on the East Rand were expecting a fun break when they left for a traditional Sotho initiation school. The group of Sotho boys were from Orange Farm, near Vereeniging, and had been in Ratanda since the beginning of June. www.cirp.org /news/sapa06-26-02   (552 words)

Sixth boy dies from circumcision school wounds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) SOUTH AFRICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION, Johannesburg, 3 July 2002. Johannesburg - A sixth initiate from a school in the Ratanda, Heidelberg, area died on Monday, according to news reports. Papa Mbovane (19) reportedly died of internal injuries at Heidelberg Hospital after he had been returned to an initiation school by his family on Wednesday last week. www.cirp.org /news/sapa07-02-02a   (214 words)

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Initiates expected 'fun break' See the Boks take on Wales or France from R11 880 per person sharing. Johannesburg - A group of boys of Ratanda, on the East Rand, were expecting a fun breakaway when they left for an initiation school. Discussion Forums - Have your say about this article www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-1659_1205005,00.html   (511 words)

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State of the Arts - 99% LIVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Top of the must-see list is The Dance Factory's Shoes (Great Hall). Mandoza Radebe's township kabuki style, for his Corroboration gumbooting youngsters from Ratanda Heidelberg, is twinned with Sandra and Megan Rosenberg's History of Tap - from Africa and back for their Joburg Tap Talk Rhythm Company. The two companies join for a rousing finale. fest.ru.ac.za /story.cfm?textID=44   (766 words)

emotnews The Gulf Dirt Track Challenge is scheduled for the 18 September 2004 and will be held at the Polo Ground, Panch Bathi Circle, Ratanda, Jodhpur -342 001. Dirt Track is the discipline of 2 —wheeler racing which is conducted on an open ground. www.indmotorsport.com /2004/emotnews/emotnews133.html   (498 words)

SABCnews.com - south_africa/crime1justice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Five initiation school teachers to appear in court Five initiation school teachers will appear in the Heidelberg Magistrate's Court today in connection with the deaths of five boys at Ratanda, on the far East Rand, earlier this week. It was initially thought that the boys had died of exposure, but post mortem results have determined that the teachers may be held responsible for the deaths. www.sabcnews.co.za /south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,37315,00.html   (198 words)

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