Reesha Chibba
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/ 20 December 2005

No luck for SA’s R10m lottery winner

A national lottery ticket worth R10 066 972 expired on Sunday after the winner didn’t claim the prize, said Uthingo spokesperson Shenanda Janse van Rensburg on Tuesday. The Quickpick ticket was bought in Gauteng for the draw that took place on Saturday December 18 last year.

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/ 10 December 2005

‘I never had the chance to be a child’

For 16 days a year, South Africans are asked to become activists against the abuse of women and children. For Shann Sauls, all it took to escape the cycle of violence was for someone to believe her story. Sauls broke her silence in June this year after nearly a decade of being sexually assaulted by her stepfather.

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/ 1 December 2005

‘Separate fridges for whites and blacks’

The funeral industry in South Africa seems to be shrouded in mystery — and now allegations of racism and corruption have surfaced. The industry is, by its nature, a secretive one. What goes on in the morgue stays in the morgue — unless one is caught, such as the police officer who was found sodomising a corpse in the Salt River mortuary in Cape Town.

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/ 25 November 2005

SA’s first speech and drama professor dies

”If you love life, then it’s the field for you. It will lead you, as it led me, because I love people, and I care about the quality of what they do,” said Elizabeth Sneddon, South Africa’s first speech and drama professor, who died on Thursday at the age of 98. Sneddon, who never married, died at her home in Durban, a local radio station reported.