Johannesburg – Exams scheduled to take place at the University of the Witwatersrand medical campus on Tuesday have been cancelled, amid continuing student protests against proposed tuition fee increases next year.
“Logistically it would have been a challenge to change venue,” university spokesperson Shirona Patel told News24.
The exams have been postponed to a later date.
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Cape Town – Protesters occupied Shoprite in Khayelitsha Mall on Tuesday morning, demanding a reduction in the price of bread, reported GroundUp.
The Shoprite store was closed during the occupation.
Private security guards in bulletproof vests and carrying rifles were patrolling the area.
The protesters came together under the social media hashtag #ThePriceOfBreadMustFall.
They have expressed solidarity with protesters demanding lower university fees who are using the hashtag #FeesMustFall.
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Rustenburg – The air search for missing Democratic Alliance deputy leader in the North West province, Petro Nel, and the Russian pilot of the plane that went missing in Nepal, has been suspended.
The DA’s Nicolize van Der Walt said on Monday: “The air search is suspended for now. The ground search is, however, continuing and they are focusing on specific areas. Like we explained before, the area with the deep ravines and woods makes the search extremely difficult and dangerous for all who participate.”
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BY KEDIBONE MOLAETSI
GREATER Taung municipal manager Katlego Gabanakgosi said that the abandoned Taung taxi rank project will be completed soon. A 35m taxi rank could not be completed as local taxi drivers refused to use it.
Gabanakgosi said they will appoint a contractor to renovate the rank.
“We met with taxi drivers and we ironed out other issues that might hinder the project. The contractor will start soon to put roofing. Taxi drivers said they want seasonal rank. They said the rank must have a shade and also be useable even during rainy times.” he said.
Taung taxi rank was supposed to be completed last year in October, but taxi drivers refused to use it and opted to park their minibus taxis in a makeshift taxi rank next to the main road in the inner CBD.
Gabanakgosi said they will use R15m they received from national treasury.
-TDN
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BY KEDIBONE MOLAETSI
THE North West Social Development visited Matloding village, near Mahikeng to intensify a fight against poverty on Saturday.
MEC Fenny Gaolaolwe said that the aim was to fight poverty especially in rural areas. She said the province intensify its fight against poverty and planning to meet its ideal which was a development goals.
“More need to be done in addressing this challenge. We encourage our people especially in rural areas, small dorpies and townships to group themselves and form cooperatives. The premier Supra Mahumapelo highlighted that at least 60% of the provincial government will go to previously disadvantaged areas like townships, small dorpies and rural areas.
“For us to realise our goal, we need to address this problem and ought to deal with the abject poverty first. There is a consensus that we have to do more groundwork.” Gaolaolwe said.
During her visit on Saturday, Gaolaolwe said her department was busy profiling all areas and that helped them to identify which areas needed urgent intervention.
“We have 50 wards in the province that were identified as the most affected wards. Matloding was the second worst area, and we need to make sure that the people can live out of government grants. We did households profiling and our intervention differs according to the needs of the family. Women are mostly affected by poverty because they sometimes single parents and that is a burden.”
We also have home-based cares that will register and we will help them with business plans.
One of the residents, Annah Jami who runs a home-based care said: “We run a home-based care here and we provide food close to 250 people a day. We need more support because sometimes you will find that the food were not enough.
“We cater for many people and some of them are elders who could not walk and they are bedridden. We believe that we will receive more funding so that we can cater for many people.” Jami said.
Local chief Mothusi Marumulo said: “We experiencing water shortage and we would like to urge the government to intensify the projects of bringing more engines and there are unused reservoirs that need to be put in use. We appreciate the visit of the social development and we believe the government can do more. ”
-TDN
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BY REGINALD KANYANE
A CASE against a 22 year old accused was postponed by Lichtenburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday. The man was arrested after he allegedly raped a 10 year-old minor two months ago.
The suspect will remain in custody after he was denied bail and his case will resume back on November 5.
-TDN
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BY REGINALD KANYANE
A CASE against a prominent taxi owner was postponed by Taung Magistrate’s Court. ANC member, Tebogo Monchonyane was subsequently arrested after he allegedly stole bricks at Thomeng village near Buxton a month ago.
Monchonyane was caught red-handed loading bricks in his bakkie.
A contractor received a tip-off from one of the community members, and rushed to the scene. He found Monchonyane loading bricks in his car and arrested him.
Monchonyane was taken to Taung police station and charged with theft, and his bakkie was also confiscated.
He briefly appeared before court and was granted R1000 bail. Monchonyane will be back in court on November 12.
The bricks were meant for a road construction in the area.
-TDN
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Pistorius was due to be released from prison on Tuesday, but was allowed to go home just hours before the official release date.
Pistorius was convicted of negligently killing Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013.
There are a number of parole conditions that he needs to comply with. Some of these are expected to include community service and psychotherapy.
He will be mostly confined to the home of his uncle, Arnold, a high-walled manor in the leafy suburb of Waterkloof that features more than a dozen bedrooms, a private gym, outdoor swimming pool and landscaped gardens.
Pistorius will likely be allowed to leave the house to work, carry out community service or to attend important family events.
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