North West University (NWU) Potchefstroom campus biokineticist, Prof Cilas Wilders, has cautioned the South African Rugby Union (Saru) to ensure that “bulletjie” rugby was banned in all schools despite the sport’s increasing popularity at pre and primary school level recently.

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The book collection of Prof FF Odendal, editor-in-chief of the HAT (Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal) for several years and well-known Afrikaans linguist has been donated to the Centre for Text Technology of North West University’s Potchefstroom Campus.

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The provincial health department has acquired the services of a helicopter as part of its fleet of emergency vehicles in a bid to reduce response time to critical and life threatening situations across the province.

The helicopter was unveiled at the Mafikeng Provincial Hospital yesterday and reports are that it has already saved two lives after responding to an accident.

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The South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) in the province has called on the SAPS authorities considering to dismiss two police suspects arrested for armed robbery on their arrival in Mahikeng from Mareetsane on Monday.

“Robbery has an element of dishonesty, which warrants dismissal from public office and must be set as a deterrent factor against those with the same modus operandi in the service. We condemn misconduct and applaud the team of policemen who arrested the suspects,” Sanco’s Packet Seaketso said.

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Many parents heaved a sigh of relief when c was introduced in schools through the subject, life orientation, in 1997.

However, the questions asked at a two-day seminar on sexual education was whether schools were equipped to deal with these “embarrassing” issues and whether the teachers were the right people to introduce these topics to impressionable youngsters.

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