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Fire wreaks destruction on UCT
Reports say Fuller House - a student residence - is on fire - but all students were evacuated.
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Bonginkosi Madikizela: DA isn’t a racist party but there are racist people
Madikizela who wouldn’t give any names but accused some members of the DA of having an agenda.
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Health authority urges govt to lift pause on J&J COVID-19 vaccine
SAHPRA said it recently reviewed data from the Sisonke Research Study which immunized healthcare workers and found no significant safety concerns.
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All students evacuated from UCT campus as fire rages on
The blaze gutted a section of the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant and quickly spread to adjacent areas.
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Nehawu calls on GP govt to restore services at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital soon
Following a blaze that caused extensive damage to the facility, the GP government announced the closure of the facility for seven days. While patients had to be evacuated, no casualties have been reported as a result of the fire.
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‘I’ve got two cats, they can take one’ – Lungisa on order to pay Kayser R844k
Former Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Andile Lungisa says he will study High Court judgement ordering him to pay the DA's Rayno Kayser R844,000 in damages following an assault incident during a council brawl.
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7 people die in head-on crash on the N2 between Dutywa & Butterworth
It’s understood a truck and a car collided on Saturday night after one of the vehicles tried to overtake the other.
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Raging fire damages section of Rhodes Memorial Restaurant
The fire has continued to spread through the Table Mountain area, resulting in urgent calls for hikers and motorists to evacuate the vicinity.
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State Capture Inquiry offices burgled, several laptops stolen: reports
While its understood several laptops were stolen from the commission's Parktown offices, an investigation into the overnight burglary was still under way.
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Kuils River police hunt 2 assailants in suspected gang-related murders
On Saturday afternoon, two men were killed and another two were left wounded after gunmen opened fire in the vicinity of Van Riebeeck Road.
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Sassa working around the clock to rectify R350 grant payment delays
There have been delays in payments of the R350 COVID relief grant in March, but Sassa said that was due to a number of reasons and it is now working to ensure that recipients are paid at the end of April.
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Ramaphosa lambasts media report on FS ‘dubious tender’ complaint against him
The Star reported this week that the Free State education department awarded a tender to Ramaphosa’s former company Shanduka to build schools.
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‘We can’t afford to have Charlotte Maxeke closed for too long,’ - Makhura
Over 400 patients have been transferred to other hospitals while an additional 270 were still to be moved following the blaze.
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‘We have failed Lufuno’ – Deputy Minister in the Presidency Siweya
Lufuno Mavhunga was laid to rest in Limpopo on Saturday after she completed suicide following a bullying incident outside the Mbwili Secondary School earlier this week.
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Lotto Results: Saturday, 17 April 2021
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48 more people succumb to COVID-19 pushing overall toll to over 53,700
The department also reported 1,326 new infections that were also picked up in the last 24-hour cycle, pushing our known caseload to more than 1,565,000.
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2 men shot dead after shooting in Kuils River
The Police's Andre Traut said this was a possible gang-related attack.
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Sassa assures SA COVID-19 relief grant to be paid end of April
There were delays in payments but Sassa said this is due to a number a reasons.
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Police investigate after body found in Kenilworth
The body was found opposite access park earlier on Saturday.
