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Vet, bookkeeper in court battle

The former bookkeeper of Grahamstown vet Dr Phillip Gilfillan has admitted she owed him more than a million rands - money a judge said had been stolen. This emerged on Thursday, when a high court application by Louise Bowker for access to funds frozen by the State, to cover her legal expenses, was dismissed.

Card fraud on the rise

While crooks are becoming more cunning, credit and debit card fraud continues to rise. The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) reports this kind of fraud cost the South African banking industry R263.8 million between September 2009 and September 2010.

SA Census creates jobs

Statistics South Africa will conduct the country’s third population and housing census from 10 to 31 October 2011 which could create employment opportunities for tens of thousands of Eastern Cape residents.

Rapist: Children conspired against me

A man who invited three little girls to come and pick oranges, then raped two of them, has accused his young victims of conspiring against him.

Grahamstown morgues "clean"

Shockwaves hit the country when the Daily Dispatch recently published an exposé of the state of government-owned morgues in the Eastern Cape. Horrifying pictures accompanied this investigative piece depicting decomposing bodies stacked up in piles and exposing extremely unsanitary working conditions.

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