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Tanked up: The Ugu district municipality has had to use water trucks to deliver water while some people have to collect their own. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Political battle drains coastal taps

Sabotage and infighting threaten the water supply of 750000 South Coast residents

  • Paddy Harper
7 min read
Outgoing Ethiopian premier Hailemariam Desalegn.
AGENCY

One of Sindiso Magaqa’s assassins identified, second suspect still at large

Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said today that they are now searching for a second suspect.

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Mourners carry the coffins of the men who were burnt alive in broad daylight through Ibrahim Babangida Square in Benue. The men were burnt to death allegedly because they looked like Fulani herders.
ABDUCTIONS

Police mum on kidnap syndicate

As more businesspeople go missing, private investigators tell of a sophisticated global network.

  • Sihle Manda
4 min read
EASTERN CAPE

At least 24 killed in Eastern Cape bus crash

At least 24 people were killed and scores more injured in the Eastern Cape when a bus careened down a 200m embankment into a river near the town of Cedarville. Police…

  • Giordano Stolley
2 min read
BOOKS

Magical mystery tour

Khotso Sethuntsa is the subject of The Extraordinary Khotso. Felicity Wood, writer of the book, reflects on her search for him.

  • Felicity Wood
8 min read
KOKSTAD

Oprah opens R12m school in Kokstad

International talk-show host and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey on Friday opened a R12-million school in Kokstad on Friday amid much fanfare and celebration. ”The journey began…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read