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Advertisers should boycott SABC : R2K

Lobby group Right2Know has called for advertisers to boycott the public broadcaster until its “crisis” has been dealt with. The crisis at the SABC was unprecedented, R2K said in a statement on Monday. “The SABC is expected to post a loss of R500 million this year. Rampant financial mismanagement is[…]

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DA wants to protect IEC from ‘bullying’

DA leader Mmusi Maimane on Sunday pledged to help the IEC cope with the ANC’s alleged “bullying” following this year’s local government elections. He would ask to meet Independent Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) leaders to address these threats, he said in a statement. He wanted to help ensure the[…]

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Strandfontein pair drown in rip current

Two men from Belhar drowned while swimming in the sea of Mnandi beach near Strandfontein on Sunday. NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon said that volunteers had responded to a report of the pair being in difficulty in a rip current. The man were both in their twenties. “There was a light breeze[…]

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Fire tears through res at UKZN PMB campus

A fire tore through a residence at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Pietermaritzburg campus on Monday morning. Students barricaded the entrances to residences early in the morning in an effort to keep students out of lectures. The entrance to the William O’Brien residence was set on fire shortly after 06:00. Firefighters, protected by[…]

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Preserve your family history, urges historian

“It is said that people without a history are people without a future”. These are the words of Dr Adiel Bassier from the Boorhaanal Movement ahead of Heritage Day on Saturday 24 September, in urging South Africans to dig deeper in understanding their social and cultural identities. While Heritage Day[…]

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Walk through D6 on Heritage Day

As South Africans mark Heritage Day on Saturday 24th September, the District Six Working Committee (D6WC) has planned a walk from the Grand Parade to Kaizergracht Street at 12pm. The walk forms part of a bid to raise awareness on the initiative to have District Six declared a heritage site.[…]

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Declare 2017 year to end Israel occupation: Abbas

President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the UN to declare 2017 the year “to end the Israeli occupation” of Palestinian land and people, saying that Israel’s settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank is destroying any hope of a two-state solution. During a speech before the UN General Assembly on Thursday,[…]

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Protests continue in Charlotte

Protesters massed on Charlotte’s streets for a third night as pressure mounted on authorities to release a video that could resolve different accounts of the latest police killing of a black man in the United States. Demonstrators on Thursday chanted “release the tape” and “we want the tape” while briefly[…]

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Hackers steal personal data from 500m Yahoo accounts

Computer hackers swiped personal information from at least 500m Yahoo accounts in 2014, the US tech company has announced, in what is believed to be the biggest ever digital break-in at an email provider. The massive security breakdown disclosed on Thursday was blamed by Yahoo on a “state-sponsored actor” –[…]

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