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Woman drowns after accidentally driving vehicle off a ship in Gqeberha harbour

In a freak accident, the vehicle terminal employee drove the Ford Ranger into the sea.

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Health department’s handling of Enyobeni tragedy violated the ...

The SA Human Rights Commission has found that the department of health’s handling of the Enyobeni Tavern tragedy where 21 young people, including ...

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WATCH | This robot can predict a smile before it happens

Engineers at Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab have developed Emo – a robot capable of mimicking human facial expressions to ‘enhance the ...

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WATCH | Horses run wild in London, injuring four ...

A number of military horses, including one covered in blood, ran amok on the streets of central London and injured at least four people on Wednesday.
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Call for pupils to compete in 2024 edition of Allan Gray Orbis Entrepreneurship Challenge

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, more than half of Southern African people between the ages of 15 and 24 were facing the ...

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Enyobeni tavern tragedy: SAHRC to issue report after teen deaths

The deaths of 21 partygoers at the Enyobeni tavern in the Eastern Cape in 2022 will be revisited on Thursday when the ...

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Sonwabile Primary pupils all set for virtual journey to Germany

The Ncera information centre will provide facilities to help Sonwabile Primary School grades 2 to 4 to benefit from a ...

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Clarendon pupil Khanya Mdokwana’s artwork selected for cover of textbook

Clarendon High School pupil Khanya Mdokwana’s artwork was selected as a cover for the latest edition of the English ...

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Are you ready? Entries open for the 2024 Telkom Radio Awards

SPONSORED | SA industry celebrates its 100 years of radio

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UFH ranked among world's top 2,000 universities for 2024

SPONSORED | The University of Fort Hare showed a remarkable ascent in the latest URAP World Rankings measuring academic ...

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Some progress, but billions still needed to replace all mud schools

Since 2019 the Eastern Cape provincial government has invested about R6 billion in building 104 state-of-the-art ...

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Unemployed community service doctors finally get permanent posts

A group of medical doctors who initially could not get permanent positions at the health department has been employed ...

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East London’s Saturday fresh market widens doors

Organic or not organic? That’s the question many shoppers are asking at the twice-monthly Saturday morning fresh ...

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Russia to target Nato nuclear weapons in Poland if they appear: TASS

Russia will make Nato nuclear weapons in Poland one of its primary targets if they are deployed there, the TASS news ...

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EP Rugby could lose R40m in Lotto funding — Gidane

Because of instability in their ranks, EP Rugby are at risk of losing a whopping R40m in much-needed Lotto funding, ...

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Merrifield pupil wins public speaking contest

In a display of oratory prowess, 13-year-old Inathi Tofa, a pupil at Merrifield College, emerged as the overall ...

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MP Myolwa resigns from ANC to join MK Party

ANC MP Dingaan Myolwa has tendered his resignation and accused the party of using its majority in parliament to ...

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Litter-plagued Mthatha getting more concrete bins

In keeping with mayor Nyaniso Nelani’s dream of turning Mthatha into another Kigali, the King Sabata Dalindyebo (KSD) ...

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Appeal court reinstates Makhanda man’s rape conviction

Fingo Village, Makhanda, rapist Loyiso Coko has had his conviction for the 2018 rape of a 21-year-old woman confirmed ...