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EC police welcomes life sentences for the murder of four people

Today at 10:53 AM, via SAnews

EC police welcomes life sentences for the murder of four people

The South African Police Service (SAPS) in the Eastern Cape has welcomed the sentencing of 16 accused to life imprisonment for the brutal killing of four people at Ndindwa Village in Debenek.

They were sentenced on Friday in the Bhisho High Court.

The incident took place on 31 December 2022. Community members allegedly...

South Africa

Special Economic Zone oversight visit to assess functionality and operations

Today at 10:26 AM, via SAnews

Special Economic Zone oversight visit to assess functionality and operations

Trade, Industry and Competition Deputy Minister Alexandra Abrahams conducted official oversight visits at the Freeport Saldanha Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) and the Atlantis Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the Western Cape.

The visits were aimed at assessing the functionality and operational realities...

Business

RMB Holdings being sold in South Africa

Today at 09:53 AM, via BusinessTech

RMB Holdings is being sold, six years after the holding company unbundled its stake in FirstRand to focus on property.

Sport

From 1% chance of survival to Super Bowl winner

Today at 11:10 AM, via BBC News

Seattle Seahawks linebacker Derick Hall doesn’t just feel blessed to win the Super Bowl. He feels blessed to be alive after being born with a 1% chance of survival.

Sport

What makes ‘incredible’ Bielle-Biarrey a generational talent?

Today at 10:33 AM, via BBC News

Rugby Special’s Ugo Monye, Chris Ashton and John Barclay praise France winger Louis Bielle-Biarrey’s ability to perform consistently for his age, and put his success down to the combination of his physical attributes and his “relentless” mentality.

Education

The Guardian view on student loans: a graduate levy by stealth is no way to fund the NHS | Editorial

Yesterday at 19:25 PM, via The Guardian

By freezing thresholds, Labour is quietly loading the cost of public services on to young graduates, while insisting it has not raised taxes at all

The personal finance expert Martin Lewis upbraided the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, for freezing the threshold at which millions of graduates repay their loans, saying that this was treating student debts like tax. He was right, and Ms Reeves’s...

Education

Schools that cultivate the mind but neglect spiritual education leave children unanchored in a challenging world | Kat Eghdamian

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Young people are hungering for meaning. A lack of spiritual education in childhood can reverberate across a lifetime

Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life

As a parent, I want nothing more than for my children to grow into healthy, happy, purposeful human beings. Yet all around me – in classrooms, in conversation and in alarming...

Science/Tech

The new way of working – an Mweb study

Today at 11:19 AM, via TechCentral

Fibre is the new backbone of productive remote work, according to an Mweb survey conducted across South Africa.