Many believe that 2022 has been a dismal year, what with war in Ukraine and Ethiopia, the worst inflation in 40 years, a Covid pandemic that still lingers and kills, and Stage 6 loadshedding.
She was allegedly beaten with a spade by a relative and her head was nearly severed. Her family, in the small town of Alexandria in the Eastern Cape, had to pick up the broken bits of the five-year-old girl's skull.
The coalition government in the Free State’s Maluti-a-Phofung local municipality is close to collapse but Moeketsi Lebesa, the president of the Dikwankwetla Party of South Africa (DPSA), has a plan to save it.
In the past, after boarding a train one could buy fruit and vegetables and gamble, and those who wanted to feed their soul could head for the coaches where sermons were being preached.
Young Samantha Nwelana, who’s only four-years-old, has received free surgery to repair a hole in her heart — and this will be the first time she will truly get to enjoy Christmas with her mother.