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Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:12:56 +0200
Office-illy stoned? Cannabis consumption at work on the rise: study
Have you ever consumed cannabis at work?

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:41:16 +0200
UK inflation hits 41-year high of 11.1% as Hunt readies budget
Surging household energy bills and food prices pushed British inflation to a new 41-year high in October, according to data published a day before finance minister Jeremy Hunt announces tax hikes and spending cuts to control price growth.

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:33:30 +0200
Bloemhof Dam residents and resort owners evacuated
Lekwa-Teemane local municipality in North West evacuated more than 100 residents and resort owners living downstream of Bloemhof Dam after localised flooding.

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:24:48 +0200
WATCH LIVE | Cross-examination of Senzo Meyiwa's childhood friend continues
The cross-examination of Tumelo Madlala, childhood friend of Senzo Meyiwa, continues in the Pretoria high court on Wednesday.

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:21:01 +0200
Ivory Coast to withdraw from Mali peacekeeping force
Ivory Coast will no longer replace departing personnel in the MINUSMA force, according to a November 11 letter to a senior UN peacekeeping official which was seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:03:48 +0200
Nato holds emergency meeting on Poland blast
Nato member Poland has said the rocket killed two people in a village about 6 km (4 miles) from the border with Ukraine.

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:53:06 +0200
Jacques Pauw won’t back down on EFF demand for book to be pulled off shelves
Pauw says he is ready for a legal fight, should it come.

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:09:02 +0200
WATCH | ‘Every moment was scary for us’, says father of kidnapped Cape Town schoolgirl Abirah Dekhta
The father of eight-year-old Abirah Dekhta, who was abducted in front of her primary school in Rylands, says he won’t return his daughter to scholar transport after the ordeal.

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:00:00 +0200
Dodgy roofs on donated donkey carts replaced by supplier
Five donkey carts with defective roofs which were donated to North West villagers by the community safety department have had the roofs replaced.

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 07:52:00 +0200
Zambian serving time in Russian jail is sent to Ukraine war, and killed
Zambia has asked Russia to explain how one of its citizens who had been serving a prison sentence in Moscow ended up on a battlefield in Ukraine, where he was killed, Zambia's foreign affairs minister said.

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 07:30:00 +0200
ACDP wants Ngoasheng investigated for blasphemy
The African Christian Democratic Party has lodged a formal complaint against Asanda Ngoasheng, the diversity trainer who caused controversy at Fish Hoek High School and “opened a racial can of worms” after she allegedly referred to white pupils a...

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 07:07:44 +0200
‘Can you all leave Africa out of this?’ — South Africans react to ‘Russian-made missile killing two in Poland’
Social media users around the world have reacted to reports a Russian-made missile killed two people when it fell in Poland, with many in South Africa weighing in on what Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy called "a very significant escalation...

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 06:33:54 +0200
Trump launches 2024 US presidential run, getting jump on rivals
Donald Trump, who has mounted relentless attacks on the integrity of US voting since his 2020 election defeat, on Tuesday launched a bid to regain the presidency in 2024, aiming to pre-empt potential Republican rivals.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:35:57 +0200
There's water in KZN but it's not reaching the taps, say disgruntled community members
The water crisis in the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal is not due to water scarcity but lack of deliveries to households.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:21:10 +0200
Blast kills two in eastern Poland as Russian missiles batter neighbouring Ukraine
Two people died in an explosion in a Polish village near the border with Ukraine on Tuesday, firefighters said, with the United States saying it was investigating unconfirmed reports the blast was caused by stray Russian missiles.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:10:41 +0200
Plans unveiled to bring back remains of struggle veterans who died abroad
Plans are being mooted to overhaul the whole repatriation model for the struggle liberation war veterans who died outside the country during apartheid.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:52:54 +0200
Two men who killed lawyer, dumped his body at Vaal Dam get 25 years each
The Pretoria high court, sitting in Palm Ridge, on Tuesday sentenced Bongani Patrick Tau, 24, and Andile Mpangeva, 23, to 25 years’ imprisonment each for the 2019 murder of Vereeniging lawyer Eric Hillary Lyell.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:46:00 +0200
Language policy, compulsory grade R hot topics at parliamentary hearing
AfriForum declares changes to the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill ‘amount to a calculated attack on Afrikaans education’

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:46:00 +0200
Biggest polluters must pay: activists and scientists at COP27
The COP27 president says he is optimistic a deal will be struck this week on the issue of loss and damage

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:09:36 +0200
Rhino poacher gets 17 years, accomplice still on the run
The Skukuza regional court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced Sylvester Zitha to 17 years’ imprisonment for poaching-related offences.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:57:43 +0200
Three Eswatini nationals who stole Transnet cable get 15 years in jail
Three Eswatini nationals who cut and stole 67m of contact wire belonging to Transnet in October last year have each been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for damaging essential infrastructure.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:42:38 +0200
You weren't sober when Senzo was murdered, defence grills witness
Zandile Mshololo, attorney for Sifisokuhle Nkani Ntuli, accused 5 in the murder trial of footballer Senzo Meyiwa, has questioned the sobriety of first state witness Tumelo Madlala when he identified the intruders that entered the house where the goal...

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:29:55 +0200
Life for man who raped and murdered girlfriend, then dumped her body in the street
A 44-year-old man has been jailed for life for raping and murdering his 32-year-old girlfriend in 2019.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:00:00 +0200
Aarto heads to ConCourt for final decision on its constitutionality
The highest court in the land was this week asked to decide on the future of Aarto — the much-anticipated legislation laying down the penalties for traffic violations, a demerit system aimed at stripping repeat offenders of their licences and legal...

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:27:00 +0200
SIU recovers R33m from TVET college as it probes corruption at NSFAS
The Special Investigating Unit says it has recovered R33.4m from Northlink College in the Western Cape as part of its National Student Financial Aid Scheme investigations.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:18:22 +0200
Senzo Meyiwa suspect 'paid lobola in KZN on day of murder', court hears
The defence attorney of four of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial has put the version of the accused, who maintain their innocence in the shooting of the soccer star, before the court.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:35:14 +0200
Brace for more load-shedding in the next few months as Eskom services its ‘most reliable’ machinery
Eskom has warned South Africans they should expect more load-shedding in the coming weeks as it embarks on major repairs and capital investment projects that will increase the risk of outages.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:48:32 +0200
They took her childhood and crushed her, says grandfather as three pupils appear in court over alleged rape
Three pupils from Swayimane, near Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, appeared in the New Hanover magistrate’s court on Monday for the alleged rape of a grade 11 schoolgirl.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:09:34 +0200
‘A little light in the darkness’: Friend crowdfunds for baby boy’s funeral
A funeral service for a seven-month-old boy whose "deeply religious" parents were arrested after he was found dead in Australia is being arranged with the help of the community while the family try to deal with their heartbreak.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:24:05 +0200
Man shot dead on Umhlanga Pier
A man has been shot dead on the Umhlanga Beach Whale-bone Pier, north of Durban.



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