14 JULY 2015 7AM

COSATU unions sympathetic to expelled general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and NUMSA have suffered massive defeats at the Special National Congress that continues today in Midrand, Johannesburg. **The Passenger Rail Agency will undertake an overhaul of overhead railway cables to allow new locomotives built in Spain to use designated routes. **Anti-crime Operation Fiela has netted another one-thousand-500 suspected criminals in Gauteng.**The outbreak of diphtheria in KwaZulu-Natal, which has claimed the lives of four people, appears to be under control.SUDISHA