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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Letter from Limpopo: A houseful of excited children is enough to bring the magic of Christmas back for Thabiso Sekhula

Trevor Noah’s special thanks to black women

After seven years of hosting The Daily Show, Trevor Noah on Thursday night waved an emotional goodbye.

2022: the year science took on time, cancer and death

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.

Forced to pick up the pieces of their granddaughter’s skull

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.

When they’re not killing Russians they’re dancing on TikTok

With the war against Russia ongoing, Ukrainian soldiers have turned to dancing on TikTok in a bid to raise morale.

Who will make up the final four?

PICK OF THE SPORT: The final four teams remaining in the Qatar World Cup will be known following the quarter-finals over the weekend.

Dikwankers in tug of war over Qwaqwa municipality

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.

Mystery Russian lady leaves Simon’s Town at the crack of dawn

A Russian cargo ship named Lady R was docked in Simon’s Town harbour in Cape Town before leaving without explanation on Friday.

Preaching banned on trains

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.

A life-saving Christmas gift

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.

Tshwane rings HIV alarm bells

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has raised some serious concerns regarding HIV/Aids patients in the city of Tshwane.

Iran executes first anti-government protester

Iran has carried out an execution on a first known prisoner to have participated in the ongoing nationwide protest in that country.

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