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Curated by Jonathan Ancer
Bombshells at PP impeachment hearing / Officials witness mob justice assault / Don Mattera remembered / ‘Heat apocalypse’ warning / The human cost of surgical delays / Banyana Banyana victory
A former senior investigator at the Public Protector dropped bombshell after bombshell about the conduct of Busisiwe Mkhwebane in the investigations into the SA Reserve Bank and Vrede dairy farm.
News24
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The officials were visiting the scene of a deadly shooting when they came across a man being beaten by residents. He had been left on the street, bloodied and naked, with his wrists bound with wire.
GroundUp News
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Don Mattera's poems were a voice for the underprivileged. Watch eNCA's tribute to the celebrated poet.
eNCA
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News From Our Continent |
The move comes as a number of groups accuse the government of ‘harassments, intimidation, threats and disinformation’.
Al Jazeera
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World News |
Nearly 25,000 escape blaze sparked by southern European heatwave that has already killed hundreds of people
The Guardian
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Ukraine’s president suspends his spy chief and top prosecutor in Kyiv’s biggest internal purge of the war.
Al Jazeera
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Health News |
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a surgery backlog across the country of at least 107 818 surgeries. Read part one of a two-part feature on the tragic cost of surgical waiting lists.
Spotlight
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Sport |
Banyana Banyana claimed a dramatic 1-0 victory against Zambia at the Mohammed V Stadium in Morocco to book their place in the Women's Africa Cup of Nations final on Saturday.
Sport
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And Then There's This ... |
The campaign started as a parody. It’s grown into something much bigger.
Teen Vogue
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