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DJ Zinhle the first black female supplier for American Swiss
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‘Correctional facilities must produce own food and save taxpayers money’: Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald
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Shoutout to DJ Shimza who donated 1500 school shoes to children in need!! #BackToSchool #OneManShow.
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ANC ranked 16th most corrupt organisation out of 7,000 worldwide
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Congratulations to Bonang Matheba who has been announced as one of the hosts for the Global Citizen Festival. #GlobalCitizenFestivalSA #BeTheGeneration
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Jacquees forced to remove Ella Mai ‘Trip remix’ after song takes over the internet. When the remix began receiving more attention than the original, Jacquees was forced to remove the track from YouTube and SoundCloud.
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Zimbabwe jails 148 Malawian nationals found without legal documents
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How accountant 'stole' R53m in 90 illegal transactions: The state has given details of how a former MTN junior accountant who had been earning a R22,000 salary allegedly stole an average of R7.6m yearly from the company for seven years without being…
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No more cool drink? JMPD officers to wear body cameras
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Cassper Nyovest will be performing on the BET Experience main stage on Saturday ahead of the BET award ceremony on Sunday.
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Acting Johannesburg mayor to oversee evictions in hijacked building in CBD: Acting Johannesburg mayor Kenny Kunene is spending his days focusing on hijacked buildings in the city.
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Young entrepreneur opens online mall: Diketso Setho (25) is the owner of GH Mall, an online mall that gives township businesses the opportunity to sell their products online.
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Over 6,000 foreigners are employed as public servants in SA, PSA minister reveals
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Mbuyiseni Ndlozi deserves a huge round of applause after donating PhD gift to provide uniforms to 100 Grade 1 learners for the next four years!!! .
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KZN man fined R2 000 for urinating in mall parking lot
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Correctional Services officials arrested for trying to allegedly smuggle dagga and cellphone into prison
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Woman, 25, gives birth to nine healthy babies, says Mali government
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AKA’s ‘Fela in Versace’ in top 15 on Spotify’s African Heat playlist. AKA's Fela In Versace is off his hit album Touch My Blood – which went Gold in one week – and is topping charts across the country. @akaworldwide
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Brazil orders Apple to suspend iPhone sales without charger: Brazil's government on Tuesday ordered Apple Inc to stop selling iPhones without a battery charger in the country, claiming that the company provides an incomplete product to consumers.
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Most people are left with R1k or less before payday – bank official: Nearly half of people who receive salaries mid-month, the 25th and month end have less than R1,000 or have negative balances by the next payday.
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Eish! College that conferred PhD on MaMkhize not registered
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Bonang through The Bonang Matheba Bursary Fund will be sending 10 more girls to university.- SA Breaking News
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Motshekga: Removing school uniforms will expose inequality in schools
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Scammed: Shock as woman finds out her lover, who she gave R3 million to, is not ‘Mark Hermanus’ but a Nigerian man
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'I now understand why Mugabe banned NGOs,' says Kenny Kunene: Despite coming under attack for conducting “illegal” raids in Joburg buildings during his two-day stint as acting mayor, Patriotic Alliance secretary Kenny Kunene says he would do it again…
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Man uses part of RAF payout to bring water to his village: Seeing just how his community was struggling to walk 5km to get water from a stream, a Mpumalanga man decided to use his Road Accident Fund payout to provide them with water supply in their homes.
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Gayton McKenzie pledges his R1.27 million annual salary to Joshlin Smith Foundation
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Elections 2024: MK says it will only negotiate with parties willing to give Zuma a presidential pardon
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Court orders deportation of Mozambican nationals who entered South Africa without passports
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Watch: Hoedspruit resident finds pride of lions on his doorstep
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EFF on Rand manipulation: Revoke guilty banks licences, prosecute directors and seize their assets
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Nigerian dies after swallowing drugs in Joburg, as cops shoot dead another two in Kempton Park
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Moghelingz breaking out as one of SA's top social media creatives: TikTok sensation has over 800k followers.
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First of three Johannesburg-based 'fraudsters' extradited to US: Three Nigerians who lived it up on a luxury estate on Johannesburg's West Rand now face the possibility of 20-year jail sentences in a US prison after allegedly stealing $6.3m (R116.3m)…
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Drinking gin is actually good for you! While it is true that drinking beer can cause weight gain, drinking gin does the exact opposite.
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Suspended DA MP Renaldo Gouws returns as deputy spokesperson in Parliament, party defends his appointment
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Hawks swoop on 10 family members implicated in R11 million theft, fraud and money laundering
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WATCH: Young fan steals the show at AKA concert. “While I was performing earlier, I saw this little girl dancing and singing along to EVERYTHING. I pulled her up on stage and jammed with her,” he wrote. @akaworldwide
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Public warned about rising cases of flu which can cause severe illness, hospitalization, or cause death
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High Court gives sheriff green light to attach ANC assets over R102 million campaign material debt
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Former elections boss says ‘ill-advised, panicking’ IEC risks losing credibility ahead of elections
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Taxi Strike: Cape Town Mayor Hill-Lewis insists taxis will only be released after paying impoundment fees
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WATCH: Helen Zille says there is no Government of National Unity, it’s an ANC-DA coalition
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Some #IDOLSSA viewers seem to think Dr Malinga should be made a permanent judge on the show. Do you agree? .
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Motsepe donates R30m to 26 varsities towards student registration fees: South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe's foundation has donated R30m to 26 university student representative councils (SRCs) towards student registration fees and historical debt.
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KwaZulu-Natal police boss: ‘If you see police officers in full uniform doing grocery shopping, take a picture and report it’
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Mayibuye Mandela: ANC should have worked with EFF and MK party, Ramaphosa should have resigned
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Mother-of-three working as a petrol attendant becomes the first to graduate in the family
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| Limpopo ANC supports Ramathuba's foreigners comments and will not take any action against her: No action will be taken against Limpopo Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba for her comments that foreigners were placing a "huge strain" on…
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| Prince Harry to make first appearance related to mental health since release of Spare: Prince Harry, along with Issa Rae, David Change, Robin Arzón, Adam Grant, and more, will speak at the two-day Better Up summit on 7 and 8 March
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Two Zim men sentenced to 20 years in jail for stealing Transnet cables in Limpopo
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Congratulations to Trevor Noah and his Daily Show team on that Emmy award.
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Malema says an EFF government will hire Koko, Molefe to end load shedding
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Former Miss Rwanda reveals how Thabo Bester and Dr Nandipha tried to lure her to Cape Town for $3m Netflix gig
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Scammed: Gauteng mom lost 13kg in two weeks after boyfriend vanished with her R2.8 million pension
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'ANC will never be DA's branch': Lesufi tells Zille to heal
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Four arrested at Miss SA event, amid a protest over Adetshina’s withdrawal from the contest
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Widow of Senzo Meyiwa cop murdered in Vosloorus drive-by shooting
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Malema mocks Pravin Gordhan’s funeral, calls it a ‘ceremony of cats’
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Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency has been a ‘disaster’ - poll
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‘The rats in those buildings are so fat’: Acting Joburg mayor Kenny Kunene vows to clear out hijacked buildings
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Durban businessman Thoshan Panday behinds bars for allegedly defrauding SARS of R7.3million
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Shoutout to Cornet Mamabolo for building a library for his community through his foundation.
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KZN’s Public Works MEC slashes budget speech budget from R228,000 to R300
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‘Stop going overseas, fix your own country’s health systems’, Phophi Ramathuba tells political leaders: Limpopo health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba has lambasted the tendency of African political leaders to access healthcare internationally while they leave a…
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‘Lesufi’s removal is the only way out’, says AfriForum as Gauteng faces looming water crisis
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Former Mugg and Bean manager at Kruger National Park still on the run after allegedly stealing almost R1 million
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Woman arrested for human trafficking women from the DRC to SA
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WATCH: Thabo Mbeki blames BEE for load shedding, says collapse of SA state institutions ‘deliberate’
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NSFAS changes course pass criteria: Students who fail to obtain a 60% course average will no longer receive financial aid starting from next year.
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‘Mabahambe’: Patriotic Alliance insists children of migrants, born in South Africa, must be sent to their home countries
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Electricity Minister, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says 126 arrested for Eskom-related crimes
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Hijacker shot dead in Heidelberg, another one arrested while two evade arrest
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PICS: Bail denied for eight Nigerian nationals accused of assaulting SAPS members, damaging police station
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Floyd Shivambu gets second Masters Degree from the University of London
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Before being sworn in President Cyril Ramaphosa was spotted on his morning run in Cape Town, he is proving to be a real favourite with the people of Mzansi.
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A-Reece and his friends were not about to let Date My Family star Mdu Nyoni assault a young woman. Should more people step in when someone is being assaulted in public? @reece_youngking #MduNyoni.
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Eric Kholwane: Former ANC MP arrested for allegedly raping his daughters
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Robber shot dead after attempting to stab an armed man
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No more fancy cars for KZN officials as Treasury continues to tighten province’s coffers
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Former president Mbeki says foreigners are not the cause of SA’s economic crisis
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Floyd Shivambu: A political guru who changed South African politics
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City of Cape Town honours caring traffic cop who took care of toddler while parents were trapped after car crash
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Cop fined R90,000 for taking bribes and allowing Basotho to enter South Africa without documents
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JUST IN: President Cyril Ramaphosa has ‘lost his grip’ on ANC NEC amid GNU talks with DA
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IEC says Zanu PF not accredited to observe elections in South Africa
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SIU uncovered how Giyani water project escalated from R90m to R2.2bn and later R4.1bn
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10 000 Zimbabweans register to return home as the Zim Exemption Permit expires
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EFF wins court case against Nzimande’s instruction to exclude 20 000 Unisa students
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Durban woman kills intruder by throwing boiling water on him
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More home affairs arrests expected after stamp theft: A year and four months after a stamp used to authenticate documents was stolen at a home affairs office, a 24-year-old man presented a birth certificate bearing the same stamp to apply for an ID.
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The NSPCA lays criminal charges against EFF leader Julius Malema for his alleged cruelty inflicted on a cow
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