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- Tongaat Hulett rescue bid could save thousands of rural jobs
A grower-led consortium is racing to save Tongaat Hulett, one of South Africa’s oldest agricultural companies, from liquidation proceedings scheduled for next month, reports Cape {town} Etc. BusinessTech reports, the company was founded in 1892 and was KwaZulu-Natal’s sugar giant supporting between 35 000 and 40 000 direct jobs and… Read more » - More than 57,000 people were deported from South Africa last year
Words: GroundUp South Africa ‘is a neglected part of the global migration story’, Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber told Bloomberg TV in October last year. Pointing to tensions between South Africans and immigrants in the country, he said that deporting undocumented people is important to ‘protect social cohesion’. Those tensions… Read more » - Western Cape High Court reserves judgment in fuel levy case
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana have returned to the Western Cape High Court, where a legal dispute over the fuel levy increase has been argued before a full bench, with judgment now reserved. The case stems from the EFF’s bid to have the recent fuel… Read more » - Gym footage unmasks UK woman’s R552k disability benefits lie
A 49-year-old UK woman is behind bars after UK authorities discovered she had pocketed more than R552 000 in disability payments, reports Cape {town} Etc. She secretly competed in 10km races and attended high-energy gym classes; while claiming she could barely walk without crutches. Helen Green, from Shrewsbury, told the… Read more » - Humansdorp dairy farm deaths: Two workers found in milk cooling tank
As the sun began to dip over the Eastern Cape countryside on Wednesday afternoon, emergency crews gathered at a dairy farm near Humansdorp where a tense rescue operation was unfolding around a confined milk cooling tank, Cape {town}Etc reports. The operation, highlighted in a statement issued by the South African… Read more » - DR Congo moves World Cup training camp amid Ebola outbreak
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s long-awaited return to this year`s FIFA World Cup has collided with a growing public health emergency back home, after the country’s football federation confirmed the national team’s pre-tournament training camp will no longer take place in Kinshasa. As highlighted by BBC News in early reports… Read more » - Shoprite and Trevor Noah Foundation launch Soweto robotics lab
As classrooms across South Africa continue adapting to a rapidly changing digital world, one Soweto school is stepping directly into the future, with robotics kits, coding software and artificial intelligence now becoming part of everyday learning. This comes after a newly launched robotics laboratory at Siyabonga Secondary School is set… Read more » - The Mother City’s ghosts: Five sites, two spooky walks
Five haunted Cape Town spots and two ghost walks worth doing Cape Town has been accumulating history since 1652, which means it has had plenty of time to accumulate ghosts. From a bellringing castle to a one-legged lighthouse keeper, here are the city’s eeriest landmarks and how to make the… Read more » - How the Cape Town Marathon powers tourism, jobs and local business
Words: Miriam Kimvangu/Getaway Magazine As thousands of runners prepare to take to the streets for the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon on Sunday, 24 May, the event is once again proving to be far more than a race. This year’s marathon is expected to contribute more than R800 million to the… Read more » - Cape Town tightens grip on metal theft
From missing manhole covers and stripped electrical cables to vandalised public infrastructure, metal theft continues to leave costly scars across the Mother City, but city officials say intensified patrols, technology-driven operations and public tip-offs are starting to shift the tide. It comes after new figures released by the City of… Read more »
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