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The speeding DJ

NEWSWATCH: The silver Audi TT motorist caught doing 257km/h on the weekend is Ukhozi FM's DJ Sbu, the Mail & Guardian Online quotes Talk Radio 702 as reporting this morning, Wednesday, 12 December 2007, and two Cape photographers were clubbed over the head by security offers at the Transwerk fire in Salt River yesterday and R20 000 worth of equipment destroyed, according to IOL.

By Simone Puterman

12 Dec 2007

Meanwhile, in yesterday's court case over the death of Pretoria News reporter Cindy Zeilhofer, the accused Andre Stegmann Joubert was reported by a witness as saying, “"I f***** up. I really f***** up," as he stood next to her body after the fatal accident on 10 June 2005 in Pretoria.

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Mail & Guardian Online: DJ Sbu caught doing 257km/h
The Star Online: Photographers 'clubbed over the head'
IOL: 'I f***** up. I really f***** up'

Simone Puterman

Simone Puterman

About Simone Puterman

Simone Puterman (@SimoneAtLarge) is currently editor-at-large at Marklives.com and deputy chair of the Sanef online editors subcommittee. After majoring in psychology and linguistics at Rhodes University, and then completing her honours in psychology, she has been in the world of B2B publishing since 1997, with 7.5 year stints at both WriteStuff Publishing and Bizcommunity.com (March 2006-August 2013). Email her at moc.sevilkram@enomis.

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