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  Fiery crash kills 14 children
Some of the burnt bodies were taken to the Sebokeng Mortuary because of its proximity to the scene of the accident.
Sebokeng mortuary spokesperson John Ramathe confirmed to Vaal Weekly's sister publication that the bodies of the dead children were burnt beyond recognition.
Initial reports indicate that the accident was caused when the driver of the BMW lost control of the vehicle and crashed into an oncoming taxi, leading to the untimely death of the children and himself.
www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,372_1565021,00.html   (417 words)

  
 Sebokeng By Night   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Zone 12 in Sebokeng, a township outside Johannesburg, had been the scene of many massacres in the years before South Africa's first democratic election.
Another crew spends the night with Amelia, a housewife terrified by nightfall; and a third follows a member of the South African Police's "Internal Stability Unit" (ISU), which patrols the township in armored cars from dusk to dawn each night.
As the night passes, SEBOKENG BY NIGHT conveys the experience of township life in the midst of murderous conflict, and the toll the violence takes on ordinary people on all sides.
www.frif.com /cat97/k-o/opsebo.html   (153 words)

  
  Sebokeng, Gauteng - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sebokeng is fl township set up by the then apartheid government in southern Gauteng, South Africa near the industrial city of Vanderbijlpark.
In September 1984 there where violent classes between the South African security forces and the residents of Sebokeng who where boycotting rent and service tariffs.
The cessations of fighting in 1994 allowed citizens to begin forming a stable community.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sebokeng   (95 words)

  
 Diocese of Christ the King :: News
Sebokeng with Evaton, Parish of the Church of Ascension
Sebokeng with Evaton, Parish of the Church of the Resurrection
The Parish of Sebokeng with Evaton, containing five major congregations and six new ones in new housing areas, is having its chapelry vestry meetings by rotation.
www.christthekingdiocese-anglican.org /theme.php?id=5   (657 words)

  
 Main Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Sebokeng is the largest of the six townships in Vaal Triangle, was established in 1965, when 18772 housing units were erected there.
The increase of the rent and services without wishes of the residents, led to protest and major demonstration where lives were lost.
Community and youth groups who were prominent among the civic associations and youth congresses, called upon residents to refuse to pay the increased rentals and the support for the boycott was overwhelming.
www.saweb.co.za /townships/township/gauteng/sebokeng.html   (264 words)

  
 GMax - Queer legends: Steven Cohen at South Africa's "queer Mandela", Simon Tseko Nkoli, funeral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
SEBOKENG, December 12, 1998 — A straight film-maker told me that when she pitched making a film about Simon Tseko Nkoli (a couple of months before he died) to film funders and administrators, none of them knew who Simon was.
And then there was the largest procession of vehicles to the Sebokeng cemetery - as the proud and sad community carried a fallen leader to his grave, a small wedding group passed in the opposite direction; ironic and depressing.
Helping with the food were delightful fags with a touch of lipstick or heels, and lining up or sitting about were priests and queens and dykes (in suits) and men and women young or old and gay and straight - a privileged experience to feel part of this community, this family.
www.gmax.co.za /think/history/09/25-simon.html   (1882 words)

  
 Sipho Seepe: The Africanisation of Knowledge
Johannesburg - The new principal of the Sebokeng campus of Vista University, Professor Sipho Seepe, is passionate about what he describes as the Africanisation of knowledge.
"Most students seem to feel they miss little by staying away from lectures." Seepe wants Sebokeng Vista to become an Africanised institution with high standards, where "a 10 percent pass should not be regarded as normal, while whites regard an 80 percent average as a poor performance".
Previously a physical science teacher at Moretele College of Education, and a mathematics and physics lecturer at the Medical University of South Africa, Seepe believes that science education is one area in which Sebokeng Vista will be expected to excel under his guidance.
www.afrofuturism.net /text/Manifestos/Sipho.html   (506 words)

  
 1 September 1990 - Goldstone report on police shootings in Sebokeng is released   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The report of the inquiry led by Justice Richard Goldstone into the shooting by the police of anti-apartheid protesters in the township of Sebokeng on 26 March, 1990, was made public.
Police opened fire on anti-apartheid protesters in the township of Sebokeng, near Johannesburg, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 380.
The report criticised the actions of the police, saying that they had used force, which was "quite immoderate and disproportionate to any lawful object sought to be attained".
home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/chronology/thisday/1990-09-01.htm   (116 words)

  
 Jacobs brings good news to people of Sebokeng   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The imbizo was held in at the Zone 7 Stadium with the object to inform the community of Sebokeng and Evaton of government's plan to spend an amount of R400 billion on infrastructure development programmes over the next four years.
Jacobs, accompanied by Emfuleni Mayor Peter Skosana, had earlier in the day met with a broad stakeholder base within Sebokeng and Evaton in order to brief them as well as to establish a common understanding on other infrastructure challenges facing the area.
He emphasized that government was committed to changing the face of these communities for the better and to deepen social emancipation across the sprawl of Gauteng.
www.gpg.gov.za /docs/nz/2006/nz0228a.html   (512 words)

  
 Sebokeng
In Sebokeng in 1991, unknown killers opened fire and killed more than 47 mourners at the night vigil of the funeral of a fellow comrade, Christopher Nangalembe.
This incident came to be known as the Nangalembe Night Vigil massacre.
The Sebokeng community decided to build a monument in honour of the victims of the Nangalembe Night Vigil massacre.
www.vaaltriangleinfo.co.za /vaal_triangle/towns/sebokeng_2.htm   (106 words)

  
 Wonderware Southern Africa
Modules 1 and 2 of the Sebokeng Water Care Works (SWCW) have been de-commissioned and prior to the current expansion, module 3 and 4, which have a daily capacity of 30Mℓ and 35Mℓ respectively, had been running above their design limits resulting in the inefficient treatment of sewage effluent.
Sebokeng and Evaton are two previously-disadvantaged, sprawling residential areas located in the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Sedibeng District Municipality), which is serviced by Metsi-a-Lekoa, the water and sanitation business unit of the same municipality.
In 2004, the company was asked to implement the addition to the control system for the new Module 5, which is a 35Mℓ/day biological nutrient removal activated sludge unit.
www.futuristix.co.za /live/content.php?Item_ID=511   (1525 words)

  
 AEGiS-ST: A short trip between life and death
A premature baby, he arrived at Sebokeng Hospital near Vereeniging because his mother was away from her home at the time.
She has become a voice for thousands of mothers whose children are born HIV-positive because the government dispenses nevirapine at only a handful of hospitals.
The mix-up was even more tragic because Hlalele knew all about nevirapine and had kept a single dose at her home, ready for the birth of her son.
www.aegis.com /news/suntimes/2002/ST021202.html   (666 words)

  
 IRIN Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | SOUTH AFRICA: Bringing services to the poor | Economy Governance Human ...
The department was aware of the high levels of unemployment in the areas around the Sebokeng Water Care Works.
The Sebokeng Training Centre equips them with skills like plastering and bricklaying etc. The use of local sub-contractor's [is also prescribed].
As well as that 40 percent of contractor's expenditure must be spent in the [Sebokeng] region," he said.
www.irinnews.org /s_report.asp?ReportID=37598   (898 words)

  
 New Page 1
A further 5 volunteers are currently in training to ensure that this project takes off this year.
Sebokeng Hospital - referrals to the District Surgeon for the J88
A total of 30 court reports have been utilized to ensure that the impact of sexual abuse on the child and the child's disclosure is taken into account when trying the offender.
www.childline.org.za /offices/project_sebokeng.htm   (570 words)

  
 Attempts to Prevent Boipatong Massacre
While the ISCOR Management initially appeared to accept the representations that the Kwa-Madala Hostel constituted a threat to the safety of residents of the Boipatong, Sharpeville and Sebokeng Communities, they subsequently denied and rejected the submissions of the Vaal Council of Churches that acts of violence were planned and executed from the Kwa-Madala Hostel.
The Field workers of the SACC continued to receive reports from the residents of Boipatong, Sharpeville and Sebokeng of violence and intimidation perpetrated by residents of the Kwa-Madala Hostel.
I believe that residents of Sharpeville, Sebokeng and Boipatong have been looking to the Commission for a remedy for the end of the violence, since our initial request to the Commission in March 1992.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/transition/nckp.html   (3771 words)

  
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The wastewater treatment plant in Sebokeng Township, approximately 30 km southwest of Johannesburg, purifies 65 million liters of sewage water every day.
The project triggers new investments in township Sebokeng, an economically disadvantaged region.
Further, it helps increasing the quality of the sewage water purification process, which is crucial to the health of the people that live there.
www.sustainabletravelinternational.org /documents/op_carbonoffsets_safrica.html   (308 words)

  
 Green Left - Hamba kahle (farewell) Simon Nkoli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Two memorial services were held, one at dusk on December 4 in the Anglican Cathedral of St Mary in central Johannesburg, and another on December 9 in Sebokeng.
The cathedral was draped with the new flag of South Africa, the banner of GLOW, the rainbow flag, and the flag of Soweto's Orlando Pirates soccer team.
Nkoli's funeral in Sebokeng on December 12 was attended by more than 1000 people.
www.greenleft.org.au /1999/345/19684   (678 words)

  
 The Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden - South Africa - Accommodation - JGI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The aim of the Sebokeng owl box project is to contribute to the effective management of rodents within the Sebokeng area.
In order to establish a suitable and sustainable habitat in Sebokeng where barn owls would have a greater chance of expansion, it was decided that certain criteria needed to be met.
The aim of the Sebokeng project is to establish all 36 schools with owl boxes, create owl friendly and aware children, and help to nurture an owl-friendly disposition amongst the community.
www.janegoodall.co.za /roots&shoots.asp   (4738 words)

  
 Bishopscourt Update Item No 229 -- April 2, 1990   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The call came in a statement issued on April 1 after a visit to Sebokeng, a township in the Vaal Triangle south of Johannesburg.
``After a visit to Sebokeng today with Dr Frank Chikane, gen eral secretary of the SA Council of Churches, I want to condemn last week's police shootings in the strongest possible terms.
``It is significant that we picked up indications in Sebokeng that those fl people willing to collaborate with government administration of the township are deeply unhappy about the behaviour of the police.
www.cpsa.org.za /oldarc/229.html   (750 words)

  
 SAPA - 07 Aug 96 - SEBOKENG COUNCILLORS TESTIFY AT TRUTH HEARING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Two former Sebokeng councillors on Wednesday described how they were targeted by Vaal township residents for being members of the discredited local authority system.
Testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sebokeng, Sonny Mofokeng said he, his pregnant wife and three children had to flee their home in September 1984 at the height of protests against rent increases and the local authority sustem.
He claimed that the increased rates in Sebokeng were used to upgrade Sharpeville township.
www.doj.gov.za /trc/media/1996/9608/s960807a.htm   (457 words)

  
 SAPA - 06 Aug 96 - VAAL MONSTER FOCUS OF TRUTH BODY HEARING IN SEBOKENG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Truth Commission's Sebokeng hearings on Tuesday centred on Victor Kheswa, the man known as the "Vaal Monster" and hated in the Vaal Triangle for his alleged gang activity, police collusion and third force attacks between 1990 and 1993.
Victor Kheswa was accused of being among the killers, but his mother said he had been in hospital at the time undergoing an operation for a stomach wound inflicted by a people's court.
Asked whether he believed IFP and ANC supporters in the township could reconcile their differences despite the conflict between the two between 1990 and 1993, Nangalembe called on the mothers of Sebokeng to lead the reconciliation process.
www.doj.gov.za /trc/media/1996/9608/s960806e.htm   (631 words)

  
 Rode's Property News: Articles
Sebokeng to get its first modern retail centre
Source: Sibonelo Radebe, Business Day, 4 July 2001 VAAL triangle township Sebokeng will get its first modern retail centre before the end of the year.
This is courtesy of Greenwold Property Development, which says it will debunk the myth that commercial property investment is not financially viable in underdeveloped townships such as Sebokeng.
www.rode.co.za /news/article.php?ID=1471   (166 words)

  
 Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
He was taken to Sebokeng Hospital where, he claims, he was ignored by doctors and left lying in bed for two years without receiveing any treatment
The 35-year-old vegetable hawker has lost the use of his legs because, he claims, doctors at Sebokeng Hospital ignored him for the two years he was a patient.
Sebokeng Hospital's medical superintendent, Dr Aggrey Moorkey, refused to comment this week.
www.sundaytimes.co.za /2001/12/09/news/gauteng/njhb03.asp   (546 words)

  
 Mr. David Miscavige Chairman of the Board, Religious Technology Center Opening Address In honor of L. Ron Hubbard's ...
And finally, from Sebokeng, a rural township in South Africa, comes a tribute from the teachers and students of that nation.
Now, in Sebokeng, there is a tradition of honoring a great king or leader through song.
And today, in Sebokeng, that song is entitled “The Teacher of Teachers” and dedicated to L. Ron Hubbard.
tribute.lronhubbard.org /to/speeches/lrhbd97/page10.htm   (119 words)

  
 Mr. Miscavige Chairman of the Board, Religious Technology Center Opening Address In honor of L. Ron Hubbard's Birthday ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
And finally, from Sebokeng, a rural township in South Africa, comes a tribute from the teachers and students of that nation.
Now, in Sebokeng, there is a tradition of honoring a great king or leader through song.
And today, in Sebokeng, that song is entitled “ The Teacher of Teachers ” and dedicated to L. Ron Hubbard.
www.lronhubbard.org /tribute/iv/speeches/lrhbd97/page10.htm   (120 words)

  
 Welcome to Health-e
LEYDEN FIELD: The situation of Vhuthamo is on the outskirts of Orange Farm and it borders on to Walkerville and it’s close to Johannesburg.
SELLO MOKOENA: That is the story you have from the applicantsÂ… The report I have before me does not say thatÂ… So, it would seem that there is a misunderstanding between the social workers themselves and the people on the ground.
And, also, they need to have a qualified social worker providing statutory services to the children at the site, which is not the case with this particular home care.
www.health-e.org.za /news/easy_print.php?uid=20031366   (764 words)

  
 Bishopscourt Update Item No 274 -- September 7, 1990   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
They were responding to the reported killing of 36 people in the Transvaal township of Sebokeng between September 3 and 5.
They added: ``If people in communities affected by the violence are to be dissuaded from resorting to violence themselves, they will have to be convinced that they can have confidence in those who are meant to be peacekeepers in society...
We accordingly issue an urgent and a very firm appeal to all communities torn by conflict not to add to the current spiral of violence by engaging in reprisals and counter-reprisals.
cpsa.org.za /oldarc/274.html   (903 words)

  
 mpcc:Contacts
Located in the Sedibeng District Municipality in Sebokeng in the Gauteng province, the MPCC was launched in November 2000 by the Premier of the Province Mbhazima Shilowa and the Minister in the Presidency Dr Essop Pahad.
The facility formerly know as the Vaal Welfare Centre was opened in 1969 as the seat of the Orange Vaal Development Board.
From this centre the local government areas of Sebokeng, Boipatong, Sharpville, Bophelong, Evaton, Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpark and the Free State (Kroonstad and Potchefstroom), were administered.
www.gcis.gov.za /mpcc/sites/mpccs/sebokeng.htm   (325 words)

  
 Sebokeng quiet after protest: South Africa: News: News24   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
SA has lost its moral compass and is losing credibility in international political circles, says Tony Leon.
Johannesburg - Traffic was flowing freely on the Golden Highway on Thursday, the day after residents of Sebokeng, near Vereeniging, blocked the road in protest over municipal service delivery, police said.
Captain William Mcera of the Vaal Rand police said two patrol vehicles were in the area to monitor the situation but there was "no need for concern."
www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2011874,00.html   (187 words)

  
 [No title]
Because of my fear of victimization I request that my name be treated as confidential and that I be referred to as "SH".
My son was born on 18 July 2001, and is presently in intensive care in Sebokeng hospital.
Because I did not know that I was in labour when the ambulance took me from home I did not bring the Nevirapine tablet with me. At Sebokeng hospital I told the doctor that I was HIV positive.
www.tac.org.za /Documents/MTCTCourtCase/ccmsh.txt   (863 words)

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