Three national ministers fail to pitch at summit: Student leaders attending the Schools and Campus Safety Summit have disrupted a session after key government ministers failed to pitch. ……
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LIVE: Mandela Day kicks off across SA: Mandela Day has kicked off across South Africa on what would have been Nelson Mandela’s 99th birthday. ……
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Uber war rages: Johannesburg – About 15 areas have been deemed no-go zones for Uber drivers owing to the escalation of bloody clashes with metered-taxi operators that have claimed at least one life. The Uber Drivers Movement on Monday shared a list of the pick-up points that have seen their members beaten and their vehicles torched and shot at in the long-running feud over passengers. Teresa Munchick, co-founder and representative of the movement, which fights for the safety of Uber drivers and passengers, said they were worried that more lives could be lost in the “no-go areas” if a solution was not found. Munchick added: “There are very specific no-go zones like the Summit Club in Hillbrow, Royal Park in…
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Hit men for hire at Glebelands hostel: Durban – Political leaders and taxi bosses in KwaZulu-Natal are allegedly hiring hit men based at the Glebelands hostel to assassinate opponents throughout the province. This was the testimony of expert witness Vanessa Burger, who appeared before the Moerane Commission of Inquiry on Monday. “There are 89 killings in the province that can be traced back to hit men based at Glebelands. Anyone who wants someone taken out goes there. Glebelands has become a reservoir of hit men,” she said. Testifying under oath, Burger said a hit man based at the Glebelands hostel had been behind the recent killings at Umzimkhulu where three ANC councillors have been killed since April. “I have it in…
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South Africa: Be Radical Like Mandela’s Generation, President Tells Youth: [News24Wire] President Jacob Zuma has called on the youth to follow in the footsteps of former late president Nelson Mandela and his generation and achieve “radical economic transformation”. ……
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[CARTOON] Confidentiality Claws: By Dr Jack & Curtis. ……
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1000’s to walk in Cape Town on Mandela Day: Capetonians and global leaders are set to march down the streets of Cape Town to launch a year-long movement aimed at continuing the work Mandela did during his lifetime. ……
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Suspended SABC CEO James Aguma’s disciplinary hearing set to start: Disciplinary proceedings against suspended SABC acting group CEO James Aguma are set to start. ……
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Two stoned to death over stolen cellphone in Mitchells Plain: Two people suspected of stealing a cellphone were stoned to death in Siqalo Informal Settlement, Mitchells Plain. Shocked residents woke up to the grim discovery of…
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Nyanga sings Zuma’s praises as president lauds Mandela: President Jacob Zuma is under fire over his scandal-plagued leadership but in Nyanga last night the song that rang out through the Zolani Centre hall was wenzeni uZuma? (What has Zuma done?) Zuma arrived hours after he was scheduled to deliver the Nelson Mandela Lecture, earlier leading the ANC’s national working committee in its deliberations with the party’s provincial executive. That meeting ended in a stalemate. In Nyanga, the township with the…
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