S. Africa’s Parliament welcomes relaxation of visa regulations: Women and children take shelter at a local park near the Sydenham Police Station soon after hundreds of foreign nationals were displaced during xenophobic attacks in Durban on March 27, 2019 following violence against immigrants and other foreigners. [Photo: AFP] South Africa's Parliament on Monday welcomed a government decision to relinquish additional…
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Union threatens SAA shut down over plan to cut jobs: SAA has indicated that it planned to get rid of almost a fifth of its workforce through a restructuring process. ……
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Small KZN town exceeds UN’s HIV treatment target as rest of SA struggles: This success was achieved through the intervention of foreign medical aid, specifically the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders (MSF). ……
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Eskom to restore power in Dobsonville, warns of cuts over non-payment: On Monday, residents went on the rampage blocking roads with burning objects, demanding that power be restored. ……
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Flood warning issued as heavy rainfall expected to hit interior regions of SA: The South African Weather Service on Tuesday said severe thunderstorms could result in localised flooding in Gauteng, Free State, North West and KwaZulu-Natal. ……
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Amandasig Secondary School, residents in tug-of-war over welded gate: Pretoria – The tug-of-war between Amandasig Secondary School and neighbouring residents is intensifying, with both sides pulling hard. This comes after frustrated residents living across from one of the entrances on Teak Street welded the school gate shut last week. The residents said the gate had increased crime in the area and promoted drug use by learners and residents, among other issues. Members of the community said they wanted the school to use the gate on Brits Road,…
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Durban child porn convict ‘was searching for answers to his own rape’: Durban – A Hillary man says he downloaded nearly 20 000 images and 1 000 videos depicting child pornography to get answers to his own abuse as a child. Hillary resident Gert Harmzen was arrested by Bellair SAPS and the Police Crime Intelligence Cybercrime Investigations Unit in June last year, after receiving a tip-off. The shocked police officers found 19305 images and 933 videos containing images of child porn, as well as 203 incomplete downloaded images on a laptop, when they raided his home. The 55-year-old Harmzen was found guilty last month of being in…
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Fight against corruption will require a concerted effort – Ronald Lamola: Pretoria – The fight against corruption will require a concerted effort to do away with paper-driven, outdated methods and operations. “If we fail to do this we must forget about winning this battle,” said Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola. He was addressing an African Heads of Anti-Corruption…
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Spotlight on parents’ right to bury a foetus: Pretoria – A constitutional challenge by the organisation, Voice of the Unborn Baby, to establish parents’ right to bury a foetus will be heard on Thursday and Friday by the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria. The organisation will ask the court to declare certain sections of the Birth and Deaths Registration Act to be invalid where it does not make provision for the right of bereaved parents – other than a stillborn – to bury…
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Building collapse ‘could have been prevented’: Durban – THE controversial Delangokubona Business Forum says that the building collapse that took place in the Durban city centre last Thursday could have been averted by a “responsible municipality”. The roof and floor of a salon caved in injuring eight people. The eThekwini…
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