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Coalition chaos continues | Phala Phala panel | Refugees return to rebuild Somalia | Pandemic end is nigh | Ukraine: Forward to victory | Teen must pay R2,6m for killing rapist | Wikipedia deaditors
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The minority parties in the DA-led coalition government have been put under pressure to honour the agreement of voting with the rest of the block. Parties exchange motions of no confidence threats.
City Press
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Former chief justice Sandile Ngcobo, Judge Thokozile Masipa and law professor Richard Calland appointed to panel to determine if President Cyril Ramaphosa has a case to answer on Phala Phala.
Daily Maverick
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Eldorado Park residents camped outside the police station to protest against lack of action on gun violence. 'Instead of finding bodies once a month, we're finding them weekly and now daily.'
GroundUp News
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Somalis who fled the country because of conflict are now returning home from one of the world’s largest refugee camps, to trace new paths for themselves and their country.
Al Jazeera
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World News |
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'Our blue and yellow flag is already flying in de-occupied Izium. And it will be so in every Ukrainian city and village. We are moving in only one direction: forward towards victory,' he declared.
The Guardian
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The weekly global Covid deaths figure on 5 September was 11,118, the lowest level since March 2020. WHO estimates that 19.8m deaths were averted in 2021 due to Covid-19 vaccines being administered.
The Guardian
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'Syrians face intolerable hardships, living among the ruins of this lengthy conflict. Millions are suffering and dying in displacement camps, while resources become scarcer and donor fatigue rises.'
Al Jazeera
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The Iowa judge who ordered the now-17-year-old to pay restitution to her rapist’s family told her this is the second chance she asked for. 'You don’t get a third,' he said.
Jezebel
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Health News |
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The government plans to destroy 8.5 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. This, some experts say, casts a damning spotlight on how South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign has missed the mark.
Spotlight
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Books |
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What the judges said: ‘Brave fiction that tweaks the possibilities of the short story form, both in its use of voice and the way it compresses time, to illuminate the truth of so many queer people...'
The Johannesburg Review of Books
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Sport |
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Entrants in the mass-participation event at next year's London Marathon will be offered a non-binary gender option. It's part of a drive to make it the world's most inclusive race, say organisers.
Sport24
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There was so much to do. Tenses to change, pictures to choose. And what do we call Charles? The Queen’s Wikipedia page had been pretty exciting the whole day of her death, says one of the deaditors.
Gizmodo
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