# According to a University of Cape Town’s new study, South Africans spend a staggering 500-billion-rand a year on celebrations. The study indicated that some people spend up to one-million-rand on weddings and 140-thousand-rand on tombstone unveilings. It also shows that nine-thousand weddings were held across the country over 32 days, with Gauteng recording the […]
# Die Nasionale Raad van Dierebeskermingsverenigings gaan ‘n klagte van dieremishandeling teen polisiebeamptes indien oor wat met die polisiehond Sky gebeur het. Die vyfjarige Belgiese Malinois is verlede maand ernstig beseer in ‘n polisie-veeartsenygerief in Roodeplaat, Pretoria, en moes later uitgesit word. Volgens die raad het Sky maande lank erge spanning en herhaalde beserings verduur, […]
# The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is set to lay animal cruelty charges against police officials following the death of police dog Sky. The five-year-old Belgian Malinois was found badly injured at a police veterinary facility in Roodeplaat, in Pretoria, last month and was later put down. The […]
# Die topverkoper-skrywer en gewese politikus, Jeffrey Archer, is op 86 oorlede. Hy het ʼn suksesvolle loopbaan gehad as romanskrywer en het wêreldwyd meer as 300-miljoen boeke verkoop, insluitend die Clifton Chronicles en Kane and Abel. Archer se politieke loopbaan het in 1967 begin. Hy was vyf jaar lank ʼn Konserwatiewe parlementslid voor hy as […]
# Bestselling author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86. He enjoyed a successful career as a novelist, selling over 300 million copies worldwide, including the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel. Archer’s political career started in 1967, and he was a Conservative member of Parliament for five years before […]
# Die voormalige hertog van York, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, doen regstappe teen die deursoekings-lasbriewe wat die polisie voor sy inhegtenisneming in Februarie gebruik het. Hy het toestemming gekry om die Hooggeregshof te vra om te bepaal of die Thames Valley-polisie wettig opgetree het toe sy huis op die Sandringham-landgoed en sy voormalige woning, Royal Lodge, deursoek […]
# Missing in Southern Africa sê motorfietsryers, die polisie, nooddienste en gemeenskapsgroepe het in Johannesburg saamgetrek vir ‘n ondersteuningsrit vir vermiste kinders. Die geleentheid in Turffontein is gehou ter ere van Milano Tladi, wat twee was toe hy op 30 Junie vermis geraak het. Sy ouers, Monique en Thebogo Tladi, het die geleentheid bygewoon. Woordvoerder […]
# The former Duke of York, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, , is taking legal action to challenge search warrants used by police before his arrest in February. He has been granted permission to ask the High Court to examine whether Thames Valley Police acted lawfully when officers searched his home at the Sandringham estate and his former […]
# Die Wes-Kaap bring hulde aan onderwysers op Wêreldonderwysersdag, terwyl Oktober Onderwyser-waarderingsmaand is. Die provinsiale Onderwysdepartement moedig gemeenskappe aan om onderwysers te bedank vir hul harde werk en toewyding. Die LUR, Jaco Londt, het die nasionale pryswenners Mthobi Fihla, Danielle Bosch en Hortense Stegmann geprys vir hul leierskap en bydrae tot inklusiewe onderwys. Hy sê […]
