Staff at Michael Mapongwana Day Clinic in Harare, Khayelitsha, say they are battling with an influx of patients this week. This follows a burglary at the Kuyasa clinic which forced the facility to shut its doors to most patients. The break-in happened in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Thieves[…]
The Presidency says there was no ill intention on the part of the Eskom board when it told President Cyril Ramaphosa that there would be no load shedding before January the 13th. The President’s spokesperson Khusela Diko says unforeseen circumstances resulted in renewed power cuts – despite the assurance of the Eskom board.[…]
Twenty-five Laingsburg High School pupils went into a panic when they discovered that their matric results were incomplete because their history paper went missing. Wayne Willemse said his daughter Chloe did very well, even getting two A aggregates. But to her shock she noticed that her history mark was missing,[…]
We had no idea that the child could not walk,” the owner of a Mitchells Plain superette who refused access to disabled Connor Haskin in April last year has told the Equality Court. Shop owner Salauddin Khan is accused of denying Connor and his mother Liezel access to his store. Connor has[…]
The South African Policing Union (SAPU) has called on the SAPS management to re-establish all specialised units which were closed in 2008. The union said the closure of these units has hindered investigations and has demoralised dedicated and committed police officers. It cited that murder and robbery as well as[…]
Over a 100 schools were affected by storms between November and December last year. The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) , Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga will on Thursday visit some schools damaged by the recent storms in KwaZulu Natal to assess the damage caused. The[…]
A man has been arrested after the body of missing 12-year-old Michaela Williams was found in Philippi, Cape Town, in the early hours of Thursday morning, Western Cape police have said. Williams was last seen at her Crane Street residence in New Horizon, Grassy Park, on Tuesday afternoon and was[…]
Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza says the effects of climate change will compel government to rethink its farming strategy. She was speaking in Kimberley, Northern Cape, where she engaged with farmers and organised agriculture to discuss the impact of a prolonged drought in the province. About R700 million is needed to[…]
Eskom says due to a loss of additional generation capacity on Tuesday, it had to utilise emergency reserves to supplement capacity during the day. Eskom says its technicians are working around the clock to restore capacity to the national grid, following a number of unplanned breakdowns at its substations due to[…]
The Free State had the highest number of matric pupils who passed their 2019 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations, but it was Gauteng which obtained the highest percentage of pupils who qualified for entry to study for a degree. This according to the official NSC results released by Basic Education[…]
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