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Eastern Cape premier and health MEC disagree on testing corpses for Covid-19

Premier Oscar Mabuyane has announced that every person who dies in the Eastern Cape would be tested for Covid-19 before their bodies are released to their families — but ...

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Back-to-school dates havoc could 'ruin whole year'

The conflicting and last-minute messaging over when grades can return to class is wreaking havoc with Eastern Cape schools, particularly those where ...

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High court strikes down Port Alfred desalination tender

Drought-stricken Port Alfred has been left high and dry after Ndlambe Municipality’s R100m tender for a desalination plant was declared unlawful and ...

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Mdantsane Spar workers down tools over Covid-19 ...

Mdantsane NU13 Spar employees downed tools on Tuesday demanding to be tested for Covid-19 following a number of suspected cases at the store. The employees told the Dispatch they knew of six confirmed cases at the store, but they felt certain ...

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Meteorite crater near Aberdeen makes for fascinating visit

It may not be widely known that about 250,000 years ago a meteorite measuring about 20m in diameter survived a journey ...

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Covid-19: Nearly 200 deaths and more than 10,000 new cases in SA

South Africa has recorded 10,144 new Covid-19 infections - 4,597 of these in Gauteng.

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President sends military to bolster Eastern Cape virus response

Seventy-five South African National Defence Force (SANDF) military health services personnel have been deployed to ...

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Mabuyane wants SIU to investigate R4.8m OR Tambo door-to-door Covid-19 invoices

Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane on Tuesday declared war against corruption, vowing that the R4.8m suspicious ...

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Shack with a swimming pool and a Table Mountain view

Father of four has dug his family a swimming pool, which he filled with rain and water from the wetland on which the ...

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Kenya declares school year 'lost', classes back in 2021

Kenya on Tuesday declared that its school year was considered lost because of the coronavirus pandemic, and primary and ...

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WHO monitoring China bubonic plague situation

The World Health Organization said Tuesday it was monitoring a case of bubonic plague in China after being notified by ...

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Ndlambe R100m tender unlawful, high court rules

The R100m tender awarded to Cape Town based Quality Filtration Systems (QFS) for drought stricken Port Alfred was on ...

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Restaurants trading massively down one week after reopening

Restaurant owners have doubts about their ability to turn any profits, or pay off huge debts accumulated in the last ...

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WATCH | Three-year-old besties reunited after months of lockdown

A video of two three-year-old besties seeing each other for the first time after months of lockdown is putting smiles ...

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Teachers’ fears are real and they need a willing ear

The reopening of schools in SA is continuing apace amid the Covid-19 pandemic. With many teachers falling ill and some ...

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Steep rise in BCM Covid-19 infections and deaths

Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality has become the Eastern Cape’s Covid-19 death hotspot, with both infections and ...

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ANC sides with education MEC in Bhisho hearing

The Eastern Cape education department went on a shopping spree for personal protection equipment, including 25-litre ...

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The ANC has never felt embarrassed before, so why now?

Even by the soul-sapping standards of the Sunday press it was a startling headline: the ANC, City Press reported, doesn’t want the SABC to fire anyone because ...

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Store accounts: easy to open, not so easy to close

You are legally entitled to written confirmation that an account has been closed, so don’t be fobbed off

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The self-serving, corrupt ANC shows again how it befouls Mandela’s legacy

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Edcon gets offer for parts of Edgars

Retailability, owner of Legit and Beaver Canoe and Style stores has made an offer for parts of Edgars, the business ...

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Massmart looks to cut 1,800 jobs at Game ...

Walmart-owned retailer Massmart says up to 1,800 jobs may be cut at its Game stores in SA as its begins formal ...

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Reserve Bank takes up R5.1 billion in ...

The SA Reserve Bank increased its holdings of government bonds at a slower pace in June, taking up R5.1bn through the ...

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RDI rent collection picks up as lockdowns ...

London and JSE-listed landlord RDI, which has been selling off its assets in Germany to focus on the UK, says rent ...

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Omnia returns to profit as restructuring ...

Chemicals and fertiliser group Omnia says it is optimistic that extensive restructuring across its business lines will ...

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In a classic case of “poacher turning gamekeeper”, the fishermen of Senegal have joined forces to protect one of the ...

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More than 166 people were killed during anti-government protests in Ethiopia last week, the government said on Sunday, ...

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Malawi's newly elected President Lazarus Chakwera has dissolved the boards of most of the country's 100 parastatals to ...

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Eat them, poison them, and use scent to drive them to cannibalism - as a second wave of locusts threatens to devour ...

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Samas to be virtual affair at a new home

The 26th annual SA Music Awards (Samas) will officially take place next month over five days

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Tom Hanks is "heartbroken" that his World War II thriller must skip the big screen due to the pandemic -- but hopes it ...

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The United States is still "knee-deep" in its first wave of coronavirus infections and must act immediately to tackle ...

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At least seven people were killed and dozens injured after the contents from an overturned tanker exploded in a ...

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Hundreds of scientists say there is evidence that the novel coronavirus in smaller particles in the air can infect ...

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A rocket landed near Baghdad airport overnight but did not explode, an Iraqi security source said, after two other ...

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Australia's double world champion snowboarder Alex Pullin drowned while spear fishing off a Gold Coast beach on ...

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Australia's double world champion snowboarder Alex Pullin drowned while spear fishing off a Gold Coast beach on ...

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Rademan spells out plans to save Kings

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PSL clubs may have returned to training ...

The Absa Premiership and GladAfrica Championship clubs may have returned to training prematurely after it emerged on ...

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John Maduka has described his appointment as the coach of Bloemfontein Celtic as a “big responsibility” that he doesn’t ...

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Siya Kolisi has been named the most influential person in rugby in 2020 according to Rugby World Magazine.

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Mamelodi Sundowns utility player Rivaldo Coetzee says he was beginning to adjust to his new role as a central ...

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Cholera outbreak lurks in province’s ...

Parts of the Eastern Cape may be on the brink of a cholera outbreak as a result of local government’s abuse of the ...

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Eastern Cape premier and health MEC disagree on testing corpses for Covid-19

Back-to-school dates havoc could 'ruin whole year'

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