A food poisoning outbreak at an Eastern Cape school has seen 430 pupils rushed to hospital.
On Thursday‚ an additional 180 pupils were taken to the St Barnabas Hospital following the food poisoning spell that hit Ndamase Senior Secondary School in Ngqeleni.
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The Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, sentenced Mandla Chauke, 30, who drowned his girlfriend’s 6-month-old baby daughter in a bucket of urine, to life imprisonment.
Acting Judge Piet Pistorius, in sentencing Chauke, said the courts will not tolerate the abusers of women and children and a clear message had to be sent out that they will feel the full might of the law.
The siblings’ bodies were discovered on February 20.
A body was retrieved from the Zaalkap River on the N4 Highway
Gabisile’s body recovered at Cullinan in the bushes while Nkosikhona’s body was retrieved by police divers from the Zaalkap River on the N4 Highway.
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A teenage schoolgirl was ambushed, dragged into the bushes and left for dead while walking to Linkside High School on Wednesday morning (21/02/18).
The attack happened less than 1km from the school shortly after 8am – while the girl was running late for class.
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State of the Nation Address by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, 16 February 2018, Parliament
Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Baleka Mbete,
Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Ms Thandi Modise,
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THE South African Post Office (Sapo) has assured Parliament it is ready to pay social grants for the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) from April 1. The portfolio committee on telecommunications and postal services welcomed the news. Briefing the portfolio committee on Sapo’s readiness to take over the payment of social grants, chief operating officer Lindiwe Kwele said the state-owned enterprise was on course to produce a total of 10.6 million Sassa branded bank cards by June 2018.
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On Monday, about 80 disgruntled parents, learners and community members attempted to close Sandisulwazi Secondary School in Paterson, Eastern Cape. The protesters are demanding a teacher to teach Afrikaans as a subject.
Sandisulwazi has nine teachers, eight of whom are Xhosa-speaking and one English-speaking. There are 303 learners at the school, 65 of whom are Afrikaans-speaking.
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A 62-year-old man and a 27-year-old man have both been sentenced in the Madadeni Regional Court in Newcastle to life imprisonment in two separate rape cases, KwaZulu-Natal police said.
“In March 2016, a 14-year-old boy was very ill; his elders took him to the local traditional healer as they thought he will able to cure him,” Lt-Col Thulani Zwane said.
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A driver who transported 50 pupils in a 15-seat taxi was arrested in the Eastern Cape.
The 33-year-old taxi driver was caught in KwaDwesi, Port Elizabeth at about 07:00 on Wednesday, with more than three times the legal number of occupants in his taxi.
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Police are investigating a case of murder and attempted murder after a 34-year-old woman allegedly threw her newborn twin babies into a pit toilet in Mankweng, outside Polokwane. The babies were retrieved by emergency services but one of the them had died. The woman, already the mother of six, was found bleeding at her home..
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The Gauteng Department of Education has confirmed that the principal of Reiger Park high school in Boksburg has handed in his resignation after videos and pictures of him having sex with pupils in his office emerged on social media. The Gauteng Basic Education Department has strongly condemned any acts of sexual misconduct in schools and..
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The South African Teachers Union (SAOU) filed a complaint of hate speech and racism at the Human Rights Commission (MRC) after a Facebook entry saying: “Please Zuma give us the guns to defend our democracy ‘one bullet, one Boerekind. “ According to the SAOU’s statement, the statement was made by one of the people who..
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The country’s fee-free higher education initiative, controversially introduced by President Jacob Zuma in the dying weeks of 2017, will plunge the country into a deeper financial crisis if it isn’t adjusted one way or another. Days after Zuma made his surprise announcement, Ramaphosa was elected president of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress…
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Hoërskool Overvaal’s legal victory in keeping out 55 Grade 8 English learners from the Afrikaans school in Vereeniging whipped up racial tensions in court on Monday‚ with black parents shouting “away with racism” after the ruling. The angry black parents‚ in matching white tops‚ shouted in the direction of the white school governing body that..
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Four robbers to push a five-year-old toddler in the oven if the family did not obey their request to hand over valuable items to them during a house robbery. The incident took place on Tuesday morning at 08:45 in Old Inandaweg in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal. According to a statement from Reaction Unit South Africa (Rusa) on..
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