Students have stopped classes at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Pietermaritzburg campus. Student Representative Council (SRC) member Xola Mehlomakhulu said students had not received their National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) allowances for food and accommodation. He also claimed that post-graduate students were being excluded from the fund and unable to further their studies.
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Lectures stopped at Pietermaritzburg campus – Students wants free education, food and accommodation
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Farmer of Northern Cape who was brutally assaulted with crowbar, dies three weeks after farm attack
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A former farmer of Zimbabwe who fled the country because of old president Robert Mugabe’s groundbreaking policy, died on Monday afternoon after he and his wife were attacked on their farm in the Northern Cape almost three weeks ago. Athol Harvey (80) and his wife, Colleen (78), of the farm Weltevrede near Spitskopdam were attacked and robbed in their home on February 14.
A FEISTY 79-year-old woman fought off three men who forcefully entered her home on a farm situated between Barkly West and Windsorton during the early hours of the morning of February 14.
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Land debate in South Africa is about dignity and equality— not the Constitution
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The country’s current debate over land expropriation without compensation, which has now been endorsed by Parliament, is important. Not because, as some fear, it will radically change the constitution. Rather, it tells South Africans how, in the economy and other spheres, the country deals with its minority ruled past: by crisis followed by compromise.
Crises are the only way change happens because, since the 1970s, the goal of the minority which has called the shots in the society for decades has been to ensure that changes alter as little as possible.
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Woman (65) brutally murdered, smallholding, Grobelershoop
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The Grobelershoop police in the Northern Cape are investigating a case of murder after the body of a woman (65) was found on her smallholding on Tuesday 27 February 2018.
Captain Jaques September, a police spokesperson, said the body was found in her home at about 14:00 on Tuesday.
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Muti ritual – Policeman reveals horror he found at sangoma’s premises
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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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Manhunt for ritual killer – woman beheaded near Phalaborwa
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The Police in Lulekani outside Phalaborwa have launched a massive manhunt for the suspect(s) involved in the brutal killing of a middle aged woman who was found killed in her bedroom.
It is alleged that in the early hours of 26 February 2018, the deceased was found killed inside her bedroom at Matiko Xikaya village. The body of the deceased was found beheaded by the family who immediately summoned the Police.
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Farmer from Lichtenburg severely assaulted during farm attack
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A farmer from Lichtenburg in the North West has been rushed to hospital in Rustenburg after being attacked and robbed on Sunday 25 February 2018.
Lt. Col Amanda Funani, the police spokesperson said that Dirk(69) and his wife Lettie Pretorius (56) had just returned from church at 12:00 when they were attacked by the three suspects.
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Almost half of the 1600 pupils from Eldorado Park Secondary School have not being taught, after 22 union-linked teachers abandoned classrooms.
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The lack of supervision in the classroom has turned out to be a recipe for disaster as pupils loiter around the school while others engage in violence. Last week, two Grade 11 boys stabbed each other with a pair of scissors inside the classroom in front of their cheering classmates.
The fight was recorded on a fellow pupil’s cellphone. The footage shows a pupil stabbing another twice in the face as others try to intervene while others cheer them on. Seconds later, the stabbed pupil is seen angrily leaving the classroom with blood oozing from his face.
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Syndicate suspected behind increasing land grabs across Johannesburg city
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The City of Johannesburg suspects that a syndicate is behind land grabs which are increasingly taking place across the city.
Johannesburg MMC for public safety Michael Sun told TimesLIVE on Wednesday that land invasions were taking place in a manner that was not meant to help destitute people who wanted to erect a shack for a place to stay.
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Search for missing South African-British nationals deepens as traces of blood was found in car
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Anti-terrorism cops and hostage negotiators are scrambling to piece together the last known movements of a missing Cape Town couple thought to have been abducted by acolytes of terror group Isis.
The couple left their last trace at a secluded bush lodge in the rolling hills of Zululand in northern KwaZulu-Natal. What befell them from the time their 4X4 made the arduous climb on a gravel road out of the valley is unknown.
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Port Elizabeth: Teenager ambushed, left for dead on the way to school
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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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Barbaric! – Marikana men drank blood of their victim
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They dipped their fingers in his blood, some scooped it with their hand and drank it. They also put it in a bottle and left with it, court hears.
A group of men drank the blood of a man they had killed, the North West High Court heard on Wednesday.
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Watch video: Chaos breaks out in Pietermaritzburg
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Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday morning ! Some call it protesting or fighting for their rights! Others call it Xenophobia! It looks more like pure theft and criminal activity taking place!!!
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Farm murder suspect killed in attempted farm attack
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One of the four suspects in the Herman Botha murder case, Thomas Baloyi (25), was fatally shot during an attempted farm attack in Kalkfontein outside Groblersdal last Wednesday.
LIMPOPO – Baloyi and three other suspects, Tobias Moyo (44), Fanie Makwaka (25) and Chris Langa (31) were on 29 November 2017 each granted R1 000 bail by the Groblersdal Magistrate’s Court after they were arrested in connection with the murder of 64-year-old Herman Botha at his Kameeldoring residence last year.
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Six die in a brutal police station attack at Ngcobo Police Station in the Eastern Cape
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The chairperson of the portfolio committee on police has called for CCTV cameras to be installed in police stations across the country following the killing of five police officers and a soldier this morning.
Francois Beukman said the installation of the cameras would be an urgent implementation of police station safety which was in line with strong recommendations made by his team.
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