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Off-duty KZN K9 police officer killed in tavern shooting

An off-duty KwaZulu-Natal police dog handler was shot dead on Tuesday night while playing snooker with friends in a tavern.

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Eastern Cape granny struggling to get grant told she is dead

A Kwazakhele woman has been struggling to receive her social grant since March from the South African Social Security Agency, which will not pay her ...

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Hopes for new penguin colony take off as ...

Conservationists are using penguin "dummies" and fake penguin broadcasts in an attempt to convince African penguins to settle at De Hoop Nature Reserve in the southern Cape.
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Farmers Under Siege

A bloody battle over livestock in the hills of the Eastern Cape has turned so violent that established farmers are starting to surrender, sell up and migrate. Marginal farmers living in villages and some farmers have gone into resistance mode and ...
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Serial rape suspect still waiting to be sent for psychiatric evaluation

An alleged serial rapist, who has been waiting nearly 18 months to be admitted for psychiatric evaluation, appeared ...

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Amnesty International calls for government to fix SA’s ‘unequal’ education system

International human rights organisation Amnesty International SA is calling on government to prioritise fixing the ...

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WATCH LIVE | Ramaphosa's Youth Day address

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to deliver the keynote address commemorating youth day on Wednesday.

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CCMA confirms Refiloe Mokoena’s dismissal for irregular VAT refunds to Guptas

Ex-Sars chief legal officer also breached legislation by enabling information on taxpayers to be shared

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YACOOB ABBA OMAR | Are we devouring our kittens as we celebrate Youth Day?

SA lags well behind the world average in terms of SMMEs’ contribution to employment opportunites

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Youth still fighting for quality education, 45 years on

For the youth to eradicate poverty and participate in the economy through employment and/or entrepreneurship, they ...

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OPINION | Billions lost to corruption leave us gasping

We can’t breathe. It is devastating to think of the billions intended to alleviate the effects of the pandemic that ...

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WATCH | From bloodshed on the firing line in 1976 to the future: 45 years since the ...

Youth Day on Wednesday marks 45 years since the Soweto uprising against Afrikaans as a medium of instruction and the ...

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SA records 157 new Covid-19 deaths and 8,400 new cases in 24 hours

According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), there were 157 in-hospital deaths recorded in the ...

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Mother of the 'Thembisa 10' accuses dad's family of wanting riches through the babies

The mother of SA's alleged “Thembisa 10" decuplets, Gosiame Sithole, has accused the family of the children's dad of ...

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It's time to go back to basics, says President Cyril Ramaphosa, as third wave sets in

Ramaphosa said South Africans need to remind themselves how the virus is spread “so that each one of us makes sure that ...

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Officer Duke is recovering well while police mourn two fallen K9s

As tributes poured in for the two police dogs killed in a shoot-out with suspected cop murderers on Monday, a third ...

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'Konje, what is level 3 again?' - Mzansi reacts to lockdown alert level change

"Am I the only one who changed the channel after I heard alcohol will not be closed?" one user asked.

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