The loss of four schools to arson in a week carries a cost of as much as R160-million if government needs to rebuild them. The human cost is to the hundreds of children affected by the vandalism. Yet the culprits evade repercussions.
The Department of Basic Education – which is affected by budget cuts – is outraged at this state of affairs.
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Rosebank Police Station’s spokesperson, Sergeant Bongi Mdletshe, confirmed that during a security meeting, Fidelity ADT Security reported an incident where a domestic worker was approached on the road and was offered cash if they could take the baby, Rosebank Killarney Gazette reports.
ADT’s community development manager, Sam Cretten, said although it is too early to panic and highlight this as a trend, one can never be too careful.
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A Port Elizabeth man has been arrested after he flung his child from the roof of his shack while resisting the demolition of the structure.
The horror scene played out in Joe Slovo informal settlement yesterday where police and metro police as well as members of the municipality were demolishing shacks built on municipal land.
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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported that 412 of the 973 laboratory-confirmed listeriosis cases are babies less than 28 days old.
Of these neonatal cases, 396 had early-onset listeriosis within six days of their birth.
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The Democratic Alliance wants to double the child support grant if it gets into government next year.
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In the “old days” children left school at the age of 18 or 19 years. Some pupils left matric or st.10 at age 17 and went to work or study.
Now the situation is that “pupils” between the ages of 20 and 25 are still sitting at the school desks, and this is confirmed by the Eastern Cape MEC of Education, Mandla Makupula
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On Tuesday, the state announced that it was withdrawing charges against IPID (Independent Police Investigative Directorate) head Robert McBride for child abuse. No reasons were given at the Pretoria Magistrates Court as to why the charges were being dropped – but it marks a provisional end to a story marked by peculiar circumstances from the start.
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A 42 year old female was arrested for possession of suspected stolen groceries in Bluegumview, Duduza. This was after sector police members followed information about a syndicate involving the delivery of school groceries intended for the school nutrition program.
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A public apology has been issued to the community of Phaposane‚ parents and learners at Pitso-Letlhogile secondary school by the North West Department of Health.
The department said it has “reflected on the incident of birth control injection of learners for prevention of pregnancy” at Pitso-Letlhogile Secondary School at Phaposane near Ganyesa.
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Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, announced a new plan to lower the pass mark in public schools even more. This, despite that fact that our current education system ranks amongst the lowest 5 in the WORLD!
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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is once again eyeing bringing down the pass requirements in public schools.
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The sight of pale-skinned, blonde children scavenging in a dumping site is not common in South Africa.
But at Klein Akker, it is part of the day-to-day struggle of 72 white people who call a small, run-down patch of land their home.
Situated on the outskirts of Kraaifontein, there is no running water and they have no electricity in their homes.
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Twenty-nine deaths have occurred in the province since early last year.
The provincial health department says that 88 of the cases were picked up in the Cape Town metro.
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A police officer has described the trauma that he and other officers experienced when they discovered remains believed to be those of Gabisile Shabani‚ a 13-year-old albino girl who was murdered‚ allegedly as part of a muti ritual.
The premises in Emalahleni in Mpumalanga belonged to a traditional healer‚ who was arrested last week.
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