Lungisa was convicted of the assault of a fellow councillor in 2016. He handed himself over to authorities on Thursday and was greeted by a crowd of supporters outside the North End Prison in Port Elizabeth. FILE: Andile Lungisa. Picture: Supplied CAPE TOWN – Former African National Congress (ANC) Nelson Mandela Bay councillor, Andile Lungisa, […]
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Mngoma, who is the estranged wife of former Cabinet minister Malusi Gigaba, approached the courts to challenge the validity of her arrest. FILE: Norma Mngoma appears before the Pretoria Magistrates Court on 14 September 2020 after she was arrested in July on charges of malicious damage to property and crimen injuria. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN. JOHANNESBURG […]
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All four kidnappers pleaded guilty in the Palm Ridge High Court on Thursday with the mastermind Tharina Human slapped with a 10-year prison term. FILE: (From left to right) Tharina Human, Laetitia Nel and Pieter van Zyl appear in the Vanderbijlpark Magistrates Court on 19 September 2019 for the kidnapping of of a six-year-old girl […]
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CT police probing murder of off-duty police officer in Khayelitsha The 43-year-old sergeant, stationed at the Harare Police Station, was murdered while sitting in his vehicle in front of his home. Police car/van. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter. CAPE TOWN – Western Cape police are investigating a murder case after an officer was killed in Harare, Khayelitsha. An […]
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South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago announced on Thursday that the repo rate would remain unchanged at 3.5%. JOHANNESBURG – Despite the South African Reserve Bank deciding not to decrease the repo rate further, the property market is still being seen as more accessible to South Africans, especially for those who haven’t been able […]
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Contracts are a part of everyday life, but it is often only when something goes wrong that many people read them for the first time. By then it is too late to do anything but pay up or accept the penalty clauses that are part of ‘the small print’, and walk away knowing that you […]
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As Daniel Kahneman observed in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, there are two principal modes of human thinking. In a crisis, like our current one, our instinct is to think fast, simplify and leap to conclusions. But when we do this, we tend to rush and by rushing we risk neglecting the all-important slow thinking, reflecting and anticipating. […]
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Last year, the little girl was snatched by two men outside her school as she was being dropped off. FILE: Tharina Human is accused of being the mastermind behind the kidnapping of a 6-year-old girl from her Vanderbijlpark school. Picture: EWN JOHANNESBURG – The kidnappers of a six-year-old Vanderbijlpark girl have all received suspended sentences […]
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Steenhuisen and Ntuli are expected to contest for the DA’s leadership role at the party’s elective conference next month. DA interim leader John Steenhuisen at the media briefing at Nkululeko House on 23 February 2020. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN DURBAN – Democratic Alliance (DA) interim leader John Steenhuisen has denounced claims by the party’s KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) […]
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Doctors have gathered outside the slain anaesthetist’s home in Houghton on Thursday to call for justice and for the protection of healthcare workers. Healthcare workers gathered outside the home of Dr Abdulhay Munshi in Houghton to express their condolences to the family of the slain doctor and stand in solidarity with healthcare practitioners.Picture: Veronica Mokhoali/EWN […]
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