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Fire guts two stores in ECape

2005-12-26 16:25

Johannesburg - A supermarket and a furniture store in the Eastern Cape have been gutted by fire when a group of homeless lit a fire in an attempt to stay warm on Christmas Eve.

Police captain Ursula Roelofse said the homeless people were burning cardboard behind the OK Food store and Barnett's Furniture Shop in Sterkspruit.

The fire spread to a nearby paraffin tank, which caught alight.

The fire spread to the two stores nearby.

Roelofse estimates the damage to the supermarket at R10m.

- SAPA

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MikeF says... "Mandela, 91, is celebrated today as an international statesman and continues to speak out on human rights and other global issues".
I respect Madiba wholeheartedly for the long suffering icon that he is, and I support this move in his honour. But I'm extremely flabbergasted at his self-imposed silence on the disrepute and scorn that is being reaped on South Africa in the name of the ANC. Corruption and looting of state coffers. Poor or non-existant service delivery, personalisation of the ANC's election campaigns, cronyism and nepotism, conspicuous consupmtion, turf wars of ministers in government, disrespect towards senior ANC leaders and other political parties, racist demonising and abuse of poitical opponents, deviation from the mandate of providing a promised better life for all.
Why is our beloved leader silent when it comes to the ANC???? And even worse, why is the ANC so disrespectful towards Madiba and all our Leaders who have delivered the costly liberation of our Country.
Because to renege on the mandate of our movement is the biggest form of disrespect and disrepute.
All the strength to our beloved Leader Nelson Mandela!!!!

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