PEP store money transfer goes ‘missing’: Cape Town – A Kuils River mother has been left puzzled about money she deposited at a PEP store for a family member which went missing before the intended recipient could withdraw it. Babalwa Gcwabe, 44, has asked the police to investigate the circumstances after she had used PEP’s money transfer service to…
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#Lotto: R61 million could be yours tonight: Johannesburg – Fancy being a multimillionaire? Well, a cool R61 million awaits a lucky player as the National Lottery has confirmed that the huge amount is Friday’s PowerBall jackpot. There is also an estimated R11m…
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Mom devastated, confused after 3-year-old son drowns in pit latrine: Johannesburg – Outrage has spread across the country after it emerged that yet another Limpopo child has drowned in a pit latrine. The devastated mother of the three-year-old boy, who suffered the horrifying death in a pool of faeces, was inconsolable on Thursday. Kwena Monono, 25, said she was still shocked and confused about why little Omari went into the toilet at his aunt’s house unsupervised in Ditenteng Village in Moletjie outside Seshego, Limpopo, on Tuesday. “He never goes to the toilet by himself. He knows that I have to accompany him, and even then, he does not use the toilet, because it is not…
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Emergency housing for Hermanus community: The Overstrand Municipality plans to move nearly 150 families in Zwelihle, a township in Hermanus, to emergency housing by the end of August. ……
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IEC puts court between a rock and a hard place: A potentially close electoral battle in the 2019 general election is one of the reasons the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) should not be granted an extension by the Constitutional Court, according to the official opposition. Granting the IEC the extension could adversely affect the legitimacy of the country’s constitutional democracy, the parties argued in court papers….
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Top court rules against policy for insolvency practitioners in estates: The justice minister’s transformation appointment policy for insolvency practitioners in estates was irrational, discriminatory and unlikely to achieve equality, the Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday. Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Michael Masutha, his department and the chief master of the High Court had appealed against a Supreme Court of…
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CEO SleepOut trustees apologise for Mandela’s Robben Island cell auction poster: The trustees of the CEO SleepOut have apologised “if they offended anyone” after a poster was circulated on social media, stating that former president Nelson Mandela’s cell on Robben Island would be auctioned for the event. ……
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Cape Town’s Water Crisis Sparks Plan To Tow Iceberg From Antarctica For Drinking Water: Even though it might sound like the plot of a supervillain, authorities are hoping they can save the day for parched South Africa by towing an iceberg from Antarctica to Cape Town in order to help supply the city with fresh water amidst an intense drought, according to CBS News. Cape Town came close earlier this year to shut off all its taps as residents implemented drastic water-saving techniques and queued for water rations at public standpipes, but the city averted the crisis thanks to the water usage reductions and Autumn rains. But city officials know the threat is going to return for the coastal South African city which has undergone a population boom. Salvage expert Nick Sloane admits…
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Rural life under the yoke of baas and chief: Read the Mail & Guardian’s full coverage of the constitutional amendment hearings here. A pylon towers over the grave of Langwane Jandluma Makhanya on a sugar cane farm in Ten Bosch. His son, 93-year-old Mthakathi Simon Makhanya, wanted to tell the parliamentary…
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A greybeard lost in his family’s land: Read the Mail &…
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