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Tshwane Emergency Services investigating cause of fire at decommissioned power station
Tshwane Emergency Services have launched an investigation into the cause of a fire that gutted parts of a power station…
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Tshwane EMS recover 2 bodies from Pretoria CBD building
Tshwane Emergency Management Services (EMS) have recovered two bodies from a building in the Pretoria CBD. The bodies were found…
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24 people injured as truck ploughs into 18 vehicles in Tshwane
At least 18 vehicles have been involved in a horrific collision which has left 24 people injured on Tuesday morning.…
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Tshwane Emergency Services condemns armed robbery at Ga-Rankuwa fire station
Tshwane Emergency Services condemned a brazen robbery at one of their fire stations. Emergency services’ spokesperson Charles Mabaso said gunmen…
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Update: Tshwane EMS mop up Zodwa Special School after detrimental blaze
Tshwane Emergency Services are mopping up a part of Zodwa Special School ravaged by a fire in Atteridgeville on Wednesday.…
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Firefighters contain Ga-rankuwa electronics and chemicals factory fire
A production factory filled with chemicals and electronics has burnt down in the City of Tshwane. Tshwane emergency services responded…
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Three Tshwane contractors die after falling into trench
Three City of Tshwane contractors died on Friday when the trench they were working in collapsed. They were repairing a…
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Cause of fire at Sunderland Ridge foam mattress factory being investigated
Tshwane Emergency Services said that a foam mattress factory in Sunderland Ridge has burnt down. Emergency services received a call…
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3 die in fire at Mamelodi informal settlement
Tshwane Emergency Services said that three family members died in a home fire incident in Mamelodi. The department received a…
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Standby generator explodes & catches fire at the University of Pretoria
A standby generator exploded and caught fire at the University of Pretoria’s Economic and Management Science in Tshwane. Tshwane Emergency…
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Sanral hazardous materials team monitoring clean-up of truck crash near Lynwood
The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) has dispatched its hazardous material team to the N1 south to monitor an…
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Traffic heavily congested near Lynwood after 2 trucks collide and catch fire
Traffic officials said that motorists travelling through Lynwood on the N1 south could expect heavy delays after two trucks collided…
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Fire breaks out at Unisa campus in Pretoria
The Winnie Madikizela-Mandela building at the University of South Africa (Unisa) Muckleneuk Campus in Pretoria caught fire. Tshwane emergency management…
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Update: 4 people injured after fire breaks out at Pretoria High Court precinct
A has fire broken out in the Pretoria High Court precinct. The spokesperson for Tshwane’s emergency services, Charles Mabaso, told…
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7 killed in a taxi and car collision
Seven people have died after a minibus taxi and car collided in Saulsville, Atteridgeville, in the City of Tshwane. Tshwane…
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2 in hospital after massive crash on N1
Traffic in Pretoria was a nightmare for many drivers on Saturday night. That’s after a multiple-vehicle collision on the N1…
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Officials probing Tshwane crash that claimed 15 lives
Tshwane officials are investigating the cause of this morning’s crash that claimed the lives of fifteen people in Rosslyn. It…
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Update: Collision between bus and truck in Rosslyn claims 15 lives & 37 others injured
Fifteen people have been killed in a crash in Rosslyn, near Pretoria. Thirty-seven other people were injured when a bus…
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Fifteen people killed in Pretoria crash
Emergency services have confirmed that 15 people have been killed in a crash near Bundu Inn in Ga-Rankuwa, Pretoria. Charles…
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Residents begin rebuilding after fire decimates 400 shacks in Cemetery View
Cemetery View informal settlement residents in Pretoria have started picking up the pieces and rebuilding their lives after a blaze…
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4 injured and hundreds displaced after Pretoria shack fire
At least four people have been injured and hundreds more left destritute after a fire broke at Cemetery View informal…
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2 wounded in dramatic CIT robbery on N4 in Pretoria
Two people have been wounded following a dramatic cash-in-transit robbery on the N4 in Pretoria on Thursday night. Just after…
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Rain to clear over the long weekend, but windy conditions are brewing
Weather forecasters expect some of the heavy downpours experienced across South Africa this week to clear up over the long…
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Another body found in Tshwane following floods
Emergency services have recovered another body on Wednesday that was swept away by storm waters during the recent heavy rains…
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Centurion residents wake to flooding from overnight rain
Some Tshwane residents are waking up to flooding across large parts of the capital. Emergency services say large parts of…
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Tshwane residents urged to avoid low-lying bridges in Centurion after heavy rain
Tshwane residents have been urged to avoid low-lying bridges in the Centurion area following heavy rainfall in the early hours…
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SAD Scenes: Body of man recovered after his vehicle was swept into Tshwane river
Police are trying to identify a man who died after his SUV was swept into a river. The incident occurred…
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Heavy thunderstorms and flooding expected across Gauteng
Tshwane emergency services remain on high alert after a warning from meteorologists of the possibility of heavy thunderstorms over the…
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Calm restored near Rosslyn in Tshwane after violent protests
Calm has returned near Rosslyn, in Tshwane, following violent protests that saw several vehicles and a bus damaged. The protesters…
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Update on Tshwane house fire: 4 adults and 6-year-old die in blaze
Five family members, including a six-year-old child, perished in a fire in Pretoria West in Tshwane on Wednesday morning. Emergency…
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Five people die in house fire in Pretoria West
Five people have been killed in a house fire in Pretoria West. One of the victims who was trapped in…
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Plastic View informal settlement fire kills 3, leaves 500 destitute
A wildfire engulfed Plastic View informal settlement in Tshwane on Saturday night, leaving three people dead and more than 500…
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Man and dog escape while his wife burns to death in Pretoria home
A woman burnt to death while her husband and their dog escaped without injuries when their single bedroom backroom home…
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Pretoria police station set on fire and Mamelodi fire station vandalised
Tshwane Emergency Services firefighters have contained a fire that gutted parts of the SAPS police station detective offices in Rosslyn.…
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Gogo who loves Skeem Saam with all her heart cries for help after her TV burns down
Every evening, gogo Hellen Maponya would sit down to watch Skeem Saam on SABC1. But on 9 April, she got…
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Six people wounded and one of them critical in Pretoria taxi rank shooting
Tshwane emergency services have confirmed that six people have been wounded in a shooting at the Bosman taxi rank in…
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Fire destroys Pretoria informal settlement – Pictures
About 50 shacks have burned and two people were transported to the hospital after a fire broke out on Saturday…
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Second school in Soshanguve damaged by fire
A second school in Soshanguve north of Pretoria has been damaged by fire, emergency services said. Tshwane emergency services spokesperson…
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Three boys drown in deep puddle of water at park in Tshwane
Residents are urged to avoid swimming at the Stinkwater Park, as the water not only posed as a drowning risk…
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Fire department truck ploughs into Centurion house
A fire department water tanker crashed into a house in Centurion on Saturday morning, the Tshwane Emergency Services said. Its…
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Watch – Bakkie falls into river as Centurion bridge overflows
The low water bridge on the corner of Rabie and End streets was closed following heavy thunderstorms on Friday evening…
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