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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A large majority of patients who lost 30% of their body weight saw their fasting blood sugar levels return to normal without use of any diabetes medications.
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Weight loss of 20-30% can partially or completely reverse type 2 diabetes
A large majority of patients who lost 30% of their body weight saw their fasting blood sugar levels return to normal without use of any diabetes medications
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
He portrayed himself as a forex and commodities trading whizz kid, but now a young Durban North man has been provisionally sequestrated for allegedly stealing millions from his investors and possibly running a pyramid scheme.
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Investors turn to court for ‘millions owed from high-roller forex whizz kid’
Businessman is aggrieved after friend's son promised huge returns from a forex investment scheme
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A war is brewing over the Road Traffic Infringement Agency’s headquarters in Midrand, with the building standing empty for a month.
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Numsa goes to war with Road Traffic Infringement Agency chief over new headquarters
Staff won't return to unsafe building, says union
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The challenge is to ensure that the loudest Afrikaner voices are not those yearning for the 'good old days' but those committed to a more just and equitable future for all, writes Louise van Rhyn
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We need a new Afrikaner story: letting go of fear and embracing belonging
The challenge is to ensure that the loudest Afrikaner voices are not those yearning for the 'good old days' but those committed to a more just and equitable future for all, writes Louise van Rhyn
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The World Bank has urged SA to consider easing BEE and labour policies to make it less demanding for foreign companies to invest in the country.
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Ease back on BEE and onerous labour laws, urges World Bank
The World Bank has urged South Africa to consider easing BEE and labour policies to make it less demanding for foreign companies to invest in the country.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Over a braai and under a banner proclaiming their campaign, the group said they did not believe Afrikaners were victims who needed refuge in the US due to the government's land policies.
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‘Afrikaners are not victims’: Civic movement Betereinders unveils ‘Not USA, but You, SA’ campaign
The not-for-profit organisation Betereinders unveiled its "Not USA, but You SA" campaign in Pretoria on Sautrday.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Significant percentage of accidents lack final reports, with experts saying interference, lack of resources can hamper probes.
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Air safety reporting under scrutiny as crashes lie unresolved
Significant percentage of accidents lack final reports, with experts saying interference, lack of resources can hamper probes
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Led by CEO Kallie Kriel, AfriForum’s call to Donald Trump for intervention in our politics calls into question the legitimacy of the elected government.
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Disinformation adds fuel to AfriForum's fire
Led by CEO Kallie Kriel, AfriForum’s call to US President Donald Trump for intervention in our politics calls into question the legitimacy of the elected government.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Donald Trump is the butt of jokes around the globe, but watching him act like an entitled back-in-the-day school principal was the lowest of lows, writes Makhudu Sefara.
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Trump has ushered in a new era of barbarism
At a time like this, we must be hard on ourselves, display the political nous that helped us navigate a difficult past and demand of ourselves only the best, writes Makhudu Sefara
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
There is so much more in the Sunday Times — have your pick, there is something for everyone.
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Read the Sunday Times e-edition
There is so much more in the Sunday Times — have your pick, there is something for everyone.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
When a witness pulled over to intervene and film, the attacker turned on her, screaming expletives and banging on her car window. When a taxi driver came to help, she slapped him too.
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Shocking road rage attack — and some amateur sleuthing — lands woman in court
In a shocking road rage incident, a woman brutally assaulted another female driver after a bumper bash in Honeydew, Johannesburg, repeatedly punching her in the face and stomach.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Though the EFF, like the DA, has opposed a VAT hike, the party has indicated before that it would join the government of national unity if the DA departed, a scenario that could unfold if the impasse is not resolved.
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ANC erects an EFF budget ‘scarecrow’
Party set to lock horns with DA after accepting a 0.75 percentage point hike in VAT proposed by the Treasury
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Teacher's conduct resulted in Grade 12 Life Orientation pupils receiving their results late and seven others having to rewrite a controlled test.
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Teacher fails to set aside dismissal he admitted guilt to
Teacher's conduct resulted in Grade 12 Life Orientation pupils receiving their results late and seven others having to rewrite a controlled test
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
South Africans need to foster a greater sense of responsibility behind the wheel for the safety of everyone on the road.
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EDITORIAL | Road rage: a deadly epidemic in South Africa
South Africans need to foster a greater sense of responsibility behind the wheel for the safety of everyone on the road
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Volcanic eruption buried ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum, victims were preserved in sudden death in the two cities, man was exposed to heat of 510ºC
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Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a man's brain into glass. Here's how it happened
Volcanic eruption buried ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum, victims were preserved in sudden death in the two cities, man was exposed to heat of 510ºC
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This week will mark yet another anniversary of one of the greatest modern miracles in SA’s relatively young democracy. March 3 2025 will mark 16 years since the terminally ill Shabir Shaik was granted compassion and released from prison on medical parole.
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ANALYSIS | Curatorship of 3Sixty Life: truth and trust stand on Shaiky ground yet again
Our gaze on the impasse between the owners of the insurance underwriter and the Reserve Bank over its curatorship, now in its fourth year, most not waver
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This is another call to action, 40 years later, as AfriForum and Solidarity seek to foment a political movement outside government and democratic structures.
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McGLORY SPECKMAN | Solidarity with all but God: can toxic theology correct its damage?
This is another call to action, 40 years later, as AfriForum and Solidarity seek to foment a political movement outside government and democratic structures
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman says their partners are impactful, efficient.
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US aid funding cuts like ‘a hurricane’ across effective HIV programmes
Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman says their partners are impactful, efficient
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
If a meeting happens, Cyril Ramaphosa will be attending to be lectured, scolded, humiliated and threatened, writes Justice Malala.
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JUSTICE MALALA | A colossal global shift is near — SA needs to thinks about its next move very carefully
The Trump administration has made no secret about who it listens to on matters SA. Elon Musk, AfriForum, Solidarity and others are getting an ear that SA’s elected leaders and diplomats are not getting
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
News of the crash has reignited concern about an increase in high-speed accidents on the Atlantic seaboard which appears to have become a parade ground for proud luxury car owners.
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From Bling to Ding. Luxury car-loving singer in police spotlight after high-speed crash in Sea Point
Police confirm investigation into circumstances of crash
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Former president Kgalema Motlanthe will be awarded an honorary doctorate for his role in the liberation struggle and his commitment to democratic values.
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Motlanthe, luminaries in science, business and the arts to be awarded UJ honorary doctorates
Former president Kgalema Motlanthe will be awarded an honorary doctorate for his role in the liberation struggle and his commitment to democratic values.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"A day filled with lots of love."
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IN PICS | Inside Lesedi Ferguson's baby shower
"A day filled with lots of love."
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
President Cyril Ramaphosa says what AfriForum and the trade union Solidarity are doing in the US is sowing divisions in South Africa.
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LISTEN | 'AfriForum sowing divisions' — Ramaphosa responds to AfriForum and Solidarity's visit to Washington DC
President Cyril Ramaphosa says what AfriForum and the trade union Solidarity are doing in the US is sowing divisions in South Africa.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“For some time, AfriForum has attempted to present itself as a civil society group, but it has become clear their intentions are racial in character. There is nothing civil about it. It is neither inclusive nor respectful of our constitution."
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Naledi Pandor urges swift diplomacy amid SA/Trump debacle
Pandor also took a moment to extend her condolences to the families of South African soldiers killed in Goma
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Former players who have fallen on hard times, Downs’ domination of SA football and Chiefs’ battles under Nabi also discussed.
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ARENA SPORTS SHOW | Kekana and Majoro on big Sundowns-Chiefs clash
Former players who have fallen on hard times, Downs’ domination of SA football and Chiefs’ battles under Nabi also discussed
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Prioritising foundational learning, early childhood development and improving literacy and numeracy should have been initiated decades ago.
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'Education reform is 30 years late': Cyril Ramaphosa at Lekgotla
Prioritising foundational learning, early childhood development and improving literacy and numeracy should have been initiated decades ago.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Anabela Rungo, the mother of former Miss SA finalist Chidimma Adetshina, was granted R10,000 bail on Wednesday on condition she lives under house arrest
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POLL | Was the R10K bail granted for Chidimma Adetshina's mother enough for charges of identity fraud?
Anabela Rungo, the mother of former Miss SA finalist Chidimma Adetshina, was granted R10,000 bail on Wednesday on condition she lives under house arrest
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
‘We've got a big support base, so we want to make them happy by putting in a good performance’
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Kaizer Chiefs have to use big team status against Sundowns: Frosler
‘We've got a big support base, so we want to make them happy by putting in a good performance’
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The wildfire which spread to the front face of the mountain in Table Mountain National Park has been contained, South African National Parks said on Thursday.
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Table Mountain blaze contained as city calls for forensic probe into cause of multiple fires
The wildfire which spread to the front face of the mountain in Table Mountain National Park has been contained, South African National Parks said on Thursday.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A hijacked building in De Villiers Street in Johannesburg was resealed after video footage surfaced showing a group of men breaking down one of its walls.
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Johannesburg public safety MMC says hijacked building has been sealed after break-in footage
A hijacked building in De Villiers Street in Johannesburg was resealed after video footage surfaced showing a group of men breaking down one of its walls.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Fast-fashion retailer Shein found two cases of child labour at its suppliers last year, the same number as in 2023, following more audits of its mostly China-based third-party manufacturers.
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Shein reports two child labour cases in 2024 as it increases supplier audits
Fast-fashion retailer Shein found two cases of child labour at its suppliers last year, the same number as in 2023, following more audits of its mostly China-based third-party manufacturers, the company told British lawmakers in a letter.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Award-winning American actor Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found dead in their home in the US state of New Mexico.
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Actor Gene Hackman and wife found dead in New Mexico home
The couple had died with their dog and there was no immediate indication of foul play.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"In times like these, unity and compassion matter more than ever."
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Dlala Thukzin rallies support for flood-hit Lamontville community
"In times like these, unity and compassion matter more than ever."
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
President Cyril Ramaphosa is addressing the Basic Education Sector Lekgotla at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg.
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WATCH LIVE | President Ramaphosa addresses Basic Education Sector Lekgotla
President Cyril Ramaphosa is addressing the Basic Education Sector Lekgotla at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Match in Bloemfontein moved to Sunday because touring team ‘had difficulties acquiring their visas’
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Molefi Ntseki takes charge of Bafana for Chan qualifier against Egypt
Match in Bloemfontein moved to Sunday because touring team ‘had difficulties acquiring their visas’
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi is simply pandering to the political ideologues, writes Jonathan Jansen.
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JONATHAN JANSEN | Swahili? Mandarin? Premier, it’s all Greek to people swerving past potholes
Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi is simply pandering to the political ideologues
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The secretary attempted to “create an alibi for the suspects” in January 2019 after entering a boardroom where the officer who had arrested the suspects was drafting a statement.
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Labour court rules SAPS secretary was fairly fired for 'shielding boyfriend' accused of ATM robbery
Nokuthula Ceki raised suspicion with her unusual interest in the matter and unexpected movements
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We are held hostage by poor governance — funds lost through corruption could be used to address the challenges facing countless schools, kids and families, writes Goitsemang Matlhabe.
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GOITSEMANG MATLHABE | Vat hike: government is out of touch — and soft on the rich
We are held hostage by poor governance — funds lost through corruption could be used to address the challenges facing countless schools, kids and families
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Premier will be held to account for his 'G13' plan. If he fails, the repercussions for the ANC in the province — and for his place in the party — will be dire.
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EDITORIAL | Does Lesufi have what it takes to turn Gauteng around?
Premier will be held to account for his 'G13' plan. If he fails, the repercussions for the ANC in the province — and for his place in the party — will be dire
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
ANC veteran Amos Masondo and Panyaza Lesufi will take over the running of the ANC in Gauteng after the party on Wednesday announced them as the co-convenors of the newly appointed provincial task team.
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'Dismal' Gauteng, KZN hurt ANC in poll, says Mbalula, naming task team
ANC veteran Amos Masondo and Panyaza Lesufi will take over the running of the ANC in Gauteng after the party on Wednesday announced them as the co-convenors of the newly appointed provincial task team.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Police have confirmed an attempt on the life of Destiny Logistics owner Maxwell Mlangeni, who was shot while seated in his Ferrari in Emalahleni on Tuesday.
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Truck boss survives hail of bullets while seated in his Ferrari
Trucking boss Maxwell Mlangeni had multiple gunshot wounds.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Racial legislation also actively discriminates against this community. Racial discrimination is not limited to this group as it includes white South Africans in general and other minorities,” AfriForum and the Solidarity said.
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AfriForum and Solidarity call for ‘sustained pressure’ on ‘arrogant’ Ramophosa government during US trip
Afrikaner rights group AfriForum and the Solidarity movement have told Washington they are considering President Donald Trump's offer for white Afrikaners to resettle in US, claiming the government led by President Cyril Ramaphosa has "arrogantly refused to negotiate".
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
‘We didn’t have social media and inboxes during my time ... you can imagine how many messages he is getting’
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Peer pressure, girls, loss of form: ‘Cheeseboy’ Mokoena on Relebohile Mofokeng’s greatest foes
‘We didn’t have social media and inboxes during my time ... you can imagine how many messages he is getting’
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Anabela Rungo Rungo faces charges related to flouting the Immigration Act and Identification Act after she was arrested on February 15 in Summer Greens, Cape Town, where she was living despite her ID being revoked.
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Whether in custody or out on bail, magistrate says Chidimma's mother is in country illegally
Anabela Rungo Rungo faces charges related to flouting the Immigration Act and Identification Act after she was arrested on February 15 in Summer Greens, Cape Town, where she was living despite her ID being revoked.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The families were part of more than 100 people who moved into the area from nearby Mega Village, next to Umlazi Mega City, after devastating floods in 2021.
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KZN flood nightmare: ‘I watched my mother and neighbours washed away right in front me’
The families were part of more than 100 moved into the area from nearby Mega Village, next to Umlazi Mega City, after devastating floods in 2021
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The teacher made frequent reference to his romantic and sexual experiences, the first time he had performed oral sex on a woman and his experiences of watching porn with women.
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Private school teacher fired for sexual grooming of matric pupil
Independent disciplinary inquiry finds learner was reliable and honest witness and her evidence was supported by a recording of their conversation
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"We are relying upon the legal process to vindicate my name," says Paul Mtirara as he refutes abuse allegations against him.
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'The truth has to come out,' says Paul Mtirara after Inno Morolong serves him with counter protection order
"We are relying upon the legal process to vindicate my name," says Paul Mtirara as he refutes abuse allegations against him.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“I'm not single. I am married to Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour."
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WATCH | Nonku Williams to share her journey with God on season 5 of 'The Real Housewives of Durban'
“I'm not single. I am married to Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour."
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The story deals with love, sacrifice and the unstoppable force of a mother’s bond with her child.
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Siyabonga Shibe plays a chauvinist on new show ‘Inimba’
The story deals with love, sacrifice and the unstoppable force of a mother’s bond with her child.
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TimesLIVE @timesliveza.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has emphasised the crucial role men must play in the ongoing fight against HIV/Aids.
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Health minister Motsoaledi urges men to take the lead in fight against HIV/Aids
Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has emphasised the crucial role men must play in the ongoing fight against HIV/Aids.
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