Metro police are running operation Identitykids as a measure to regulate and unite strayed children with their parents. This comes after more than 500 children were awaiting collection at numerous police stations after going missing at Cape Town beaches on News Years Day on Thursdau. “We are running a project[…]
Nerves are at an all time high for the current crop of Matric students ahead of the scheduled release of their National Senior Certificate (NSC) results, during the early part of next week. The release will be somewhat different this year, with the Department of Basic Education resolving not to[…]
Children should be taught in their mother tongue in order to improve understanding of difficult subjects, and subsequently improve their overall performance at school, according to the deputy CEO of Afriforum, Alana Bailey. Her statements come ahead of the anticipate release of the 2014 final matric results, with a substantial[…]
The class of 2014 who wrote the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) matric exams are receiving widespread praise after a successful end of year pass rate of 98.38%. Of those, 85.5% scored bachelor passes making them eligible for entry into university. The exams were written by 9978 full time and 475[…]
The price of 93 and 95 octane petrol will decrease by R1.27 and R1.23 a litre on Wednesday, the energy department said on Friday. The price of diesel would decrease by between R1.04 and R1.05 per litre. The price of illuminating paraffin would decrease by R1.44 per litre. Liquefied petroleum[…]
People should be extra cautious on beaches during the full moon spring tide, which peaks on Monday, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Friday. The tide would cause stronger than normal rip currents around the coast starting on Friday and peaking on Monday, spokesman Craig Lambinon said in a[…]
Hundreds of refugees who have been living in a church in the South African city of Johannesburg and told to vacate by December 31, are still in precarious situation without alternative accommodation, according to a church leader. Bishop Paul Verryn, whose leadership at the Central Methodist Church ended on Wednesday,[…]
In the worst series of attacks targeting the peaceful Sweden Muslim minority, a third mosque arson was reported on Thursday in Sweden’s fourth largest city Uppsala, as police launched a manhunt for perpetrators. “Someone threw a firebomb, a Molotov cocktail at the building,” Torsten Hemlin a spokesman for Uppsala police[…]
After nearly a week of searching for the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501, rescue teams battling monsoon rains had their most successful day yet on Friday, more than tripling the number of bodies pulled from the Java Sea, some still strapped to their seats. Of the 30 corpses recovered so[…]
Kurdish Peshmerga forces say they have recaptured a strategic village in northern Iraq from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Sources told Al Jazeera on Friday that at least three Peshmerga fighters died when the group captured the village of Sultan Abd’Allah, just 80km away from the[…]
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