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The Premier of the Northern Cape, Dr. Zamani Saul, together with the MEC of Health, Galerekwe Mase Manopole, introduced the 13 ambulances and 14 transport vehicles for health…
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By Faith Chabalala The Sol Plaatje University, held its second edition of the School of Education seminar series on the 21st of May 2019, entitled, Talking Science: Teaching and…
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Orania has a vacancy for a new leader after its president, Carel Boshoff, stepped down at a leadership meeting on Friday. Orania is a whites-only town situated on the banks of the…
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The town of Kimberley was left devastated on the 17th of May 2019, due to the passing of a beloved local artist, Alfred Aobakwe Sekunkwe. Mr Sekunkwe is a Kimberley born artist,…
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Speaking plainly with Thabo Makweya, sat down with Dr Wynand Boshoff of the Freedom Front Plus party, a party many associate with the National Party. Freedom Front Plus surprised…
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With the unemployment rate increasing, there have been robberies around the CBD mostly targeting foreign shops. Foreign shop owners have been victim to petty crimes within the…
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Members of the legislature were sworn in at Mittah Sepherephere convention center by Judge President of the Northern Cape, Judge Pule Tlaletsi. As each member of the ANC was sworn…
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The mines in the Northern Cape are not complying with water usage licensing (WUL) requirements, including several big names in the industry, like De Beers’, Finsch and Namaqualand…
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The Kimberley airport has made it as one of the three fastest growing domestic airports in the country, followed by George and Lanseria.   The Northern Cape and…
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Voting day was met with much anticipation, it has been one of the most important elections since the first democratic elections in 1994 political analysts said. Although one is…
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An ambulance transporting patients from Springbok to Kimberley on the N14, on the 5th of May, fell victim to a freak accident between Springbok and Aggeneys, Northern Cape.…
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It was a wet and cold start to the morning of the 8th of May in some parts of South Africa as thousands of citizens across the country headed to their various voting stations to…
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While the top three parties; African National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance (DA), and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on the election day were the talk of the…
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The Independent Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) declared the results officially on Saturday evening, when parties received a breakdown of the calculation of their final seat…
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On the 8th of May, many were ready to go and exercise their democratic right by voting for the party they feel best represents them. Over 26 million people registered to vote.…
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Although majority of the voting stations in the country executed their voting procedures successfully, there were incidents of mishaps at certain voting stations across the…
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Patients and nurses were turned away from clinics on Monday, 29th of April, due to a striking community of health care workers, who set tyres alight at the entrances of facilities…
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Over 350,000 matriculants began writing their mid-year examinations on Thursday, the 3rd of May. This exam was the first of its kind as the new timetable merges the February/March…
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With a day left to the fourth democratic elections, members of the community who will not be able to go to various voting stations are casting their special vote on Monday and…
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On the 1st of May 2019, many woke up in Kimberley knowing that their route leads to the AR Abass stadium for May day. There were ANC marked Quantums all over the town, the…
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The Sol Plaatje Municipality embarked on the process of patching potholes across the city and its surrounding areas. With the current state of roads being poor, the municipality…
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As the 8th May comes closer leading up to South Africa’s sixth democratic election, political parties are making the most of these last few hours. State capture inquiries and the…
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DA Premier candidate, Andrew Louw, came together with families who lost loved ones in the Saulspoort Dam tragedy as well as at the Homevale gassing incident, to lay criminal…
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What are your goals as VC and Principal of SA’s newest university? Our intentions in these early years of the growing SPU has been to develop and consolidate a good foundation in…
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The six-day search led to the discovery of a two-year-old girl’s body in the Vaal River near Delportshoop on Thursday afternoon. It is believed that her body was dumped in a bag…
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