ANC’s Jackson Mthembu tweets daughter committed suicide: Johannesburg – African National Congress senior party member Jackson Mthembu has posted a gut-wrenching tweet in which he reveals that his daughter has committed suicide. “My…
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Community helps mom give birth to baby in the road: Cape Town – Community members jumped into action to help a mother give birth to her baby in the road. On Monday, Olivia Adams of Hillview was busy making tea when her daughter rushed inside to say a woman was giving birth on the street next to the…
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Living beside an open sewer in Port Elizabeth: “Raw sewage pops out of the ground. It eventually overflows into the house.” ……
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Dying for an education: Pupils drown in flash floods on way home from school: Flash flood washes away 17 pupils on their way home from school – only 11 survived. But why were there no bridges? ……
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Slain e-hailing cab driver’s widow heard of murder on social media: Cape Times – The e-hailing cab driver stabbed to death after an altercation with two men in Brooklyn, Milnerton, has been described as a good father and husband, and was a God-fearing man. Zimbabwean national and Phoenix resident Gift Gandari worked for Bolt (formerly known as Taxify) at the time of his murder…
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Madness will soon be over and we’ll be together, Packham ‘said in email’: Cape Town – “This madness will soon be over and we will be together.” This was an e-mail accused wife killer Rob Packham allegedly sent to his former mistress just two days after the charred body of his wife Gill was found. Packham’s former mistress, who may not be named as per court order, told the Western Cape High Court yesterday that she and Packham had…
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Racism does exist at UCT, commission finds: Cape Town – Racism does exist at UCT. It goes beyond attitudes and beliefs and is aided and abetted by poor management systems which administratively result in discrimination on a racial basis. On the basis of submissions received and analysis of policies and other documents, this is what the Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC) reluctantly concluded in its final report to the institution, which the Cape Times has seen. The IRTC began its work in February last year following the negotiated agreement between UCT’s executive, students’ representative council and other student organisations that took part in the protests that unfolded at UCT, including the…
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SAPS members march over promotions backlog: Cape Town – Hundreds of disgruntled SAPS members from Western Cape police clusters took to the streets to highlight their frustration at being “overlooked for promotions”. Many who joined the march, led by…
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‘I don’t have my normal life anymore’ – load shedding has South Africans fuming: South Africans are fuming after Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said there was no magic formula to solve the current load shedding crisis in the country. ……
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Government ‘fumbling in the dark’ for solutions to Eskom crisis – DA: A media briefing on Eskom has only confirmed that the power utility is on the verge of collapse and that this will have a devastating impact on the country, says the DA. ……
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