After 18 league matches played this season, the Amakhosi have managed to tally up a record-breaking run of 18 games unbeaten on top of their MTN8 cup success.
Since Stuart Baxter’s arrival at Naturena, success has followed, and it has been largely due to how he turned the team around our boys, who have tasted so much glory.
Upon doing the maths, Baxter has helped rake in a colossal sum of R25 million in prize money since he started at the club.
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Nigerian preacher TB Joshua is flying the families of the victims of his church’s collapse to Lagos to spend Christmas and the new year with him, the Synagogue Church of All Nations said on Monday.
“The prophet has invited the families of the deceased to come and spend time out there at the synagogue with the other church members for Christmas and very importantly… the end of the year candlelight services,” said church spokesperson Kirsten Nematandani.
Forty-four family members who had accepted the offer would fly out on Christmas day and return on January 2.
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A 70-year-old grandmother and her family has received an early Christmas present in the form of a new fully furnished house from Human settlements minister, Lindiwe Sisulu.
The handover is a fulfilment of a promise by Sisulu after she saw the appalling conditions under which the family lived
Since her husband’s death 13 years ago, Mavis Manon (70) from Port Elizabeth, her children and her grandchildren have been living in a dilapidated home together.
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Farmers and co-ops are jubilant after a rare rainy season this past two weeks. It’s broken a deadly dry spell and the rain presents a good sign for crop production.
Farmers say the prolonged drought left many destitute and fearful for the future.
Spokesperson for the Northern Transvaal Co-operative, Manie Pretorius says, “It has rained very well and farmers are in high spirits and smiling. Sales of fertiliser and seeds are very brisk. Everybody is very happy.”
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The death toll in reported road accidents countrywide since Sunday has reached 26.
In KwaZulu-Natal, one person was killed and 17 were injured in a collision between a minibus taxi and police vehicle on Monday afternoon. Paramedics found injured people scattered around the accident scene at the intersection of West Street and Shepstone Road in Durban, said Rescue Care’s Garrith Jamieson.
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President Jacob Zuma had arrived back in South Africa on Monday after a successful visit to Tanzania and Uganda, the presidency said.
Zuma met with Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete in Dar es Salaam in the morning, spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement.
He later met with Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni in Kampala.
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By Reginald Kanyane
Atamelang- A 44 year-old man was allegedly killed at an initiation school in Lokaleng Section, near Kraaipan, says North West police.
According to captain Pelonomi Makau, the atrocity took place a week ago at Kraaipan village near Mahikeng after a man was abducted by the children of the initiation school owner. Even though the cause of the argument between the man and his assassinants  is unknown yet, it is alleged that an argument ensued between the men and the deceased.
“A case of murder was opened by North West police after a 44 year-old man was kidnapped and killed at initiation school in Kraaipan village, near Mahikeng. No one has been arrested yet and a case was opened while investigations continue” Makau said.
-TDN
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Durban – A wheelcair-bound paralympian, who was denied access to a packed nightclub’s dance floor because the manager felt other patrons might trip over him, has accused the venue of discrimination.
Justin Govender, 36, who represented South Africa in basketball,
said he was “shattered” on Saturday evening when bouncers at the Cuba Lounge at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban denied him access. This was despite his being allowed in on previous occasions, he said.
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JOHANNESBURG – President Jacob Zuma on Sunday arrived in Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania ahead of peace talks with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, his office said.
Zuma was scheduled to hold talks with Kikwete on Monday, said spokesman Mac Maharaj.
“After the meeting with President Kikwete tomorrow, President Zuma will proceed to Kampala, Uganda, for talks with President Yoweri Museveni,” said Maharaj.
The consultations and discussions with the two presidents were a follow up to the visit to South Africa recently by President Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan.
The visits were aimed at taking forward the peace process in South Sudan.
Environment Affairs Minister, Edna Molewa would be the acting president until Zuma returns.
– Sapa
Knowing the country was fully supporting her is one of the things that kept newly crowned Miss World calm during the competition. The new Miss World Rolene Strauss told the SABC that winning it has changed her life. “Leading up to the competition I was really really content with what was going to happen. I knew that the best thing will happen. I knew that if I and South Africa were meant to win, we were going to win,” said Strauss.
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