Naledi Ntepang hauls passengers around Kuruman in the Northern Cape province and to Johannesburg once a week.

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On Tuesday, police arrested 40 striking workers who had seized equipment worth millions of dollars at Anglo American's Kumba Iron Ore mine in the Northern Cape province.

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The African bid, whose core will be in Northern Cape province, did well in the technical stakes, chiefly because the geography of the area allows a more efficient layout for the telescope, and also because electricity was thought likely to be cheaper there.

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