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As the Eastern Cape government clamoured to place pupils in classrooms this week, it has emerged that the provincial education department entered into a nearly R1.2 million contract for the construction of two prefabricated classrooms that were not actually built, News24 can reveal.
More than 300 000 matriculants achieved a bachelor’s pass and qualified for university admission. However, as there are far fewer places than applications, the hopes and dreams of some of these young people will either be delayed or crushed.
Little Ameer Abrahams was meant to start Grade R this past week. His parents have expressed their heartbreak at being robbed of the chance to take him to school for his first day after he was killed when rival gangs exchanged bullets in Manenberg.
As the Eastern Cape government clamoured to place pupils in classrooms this week, it has emerged that the provincial Education Department entered into a R1.1m for the construction of two prefabricated classrooms that were not actually built, News24 can reveal.
Even though the State had completed its bail investigations for two men accused of attempted murder of a South African Revenue Services prosecutor, it didn’t reveal what it had uncovered despite the defence pressing for answers ahead of the men’s bail application.
A full public gallery in the Durban Magistrate’s Court broke into whispers, and shaking heads as the defence for one of two brothers charged with the murder of a Durban businessman, who was gunned down in Umhlanga, made an application to have the accused detained at Durban Central police station yet again.
If a piece of furniture lands up on your property with light coloured, sawdusty “frass”, get it removed or fumigated fast to get rid of the borer infestation in it. And the company that sold it to you should take responsibility, says Wendy Knowler.
Nine bullets were fired in suspected gang warfare on the day 5-year-old Ameer Abrahams was killed in Manenberg. The two men accused of firing the fatal bullets appeared in the Athlone Magistrate’s Court on Friday, where one of the accused chose to remain behind bars.
News24 has learnt that the Pietermaritzburg High Court heard Ithala’s urgent application to challenge its provisional liquidation on Friday, but postponed proceedings until 28 January to give the Prudential Authority time to respond.
The KwaZulu-Natal economic development and tourism portfolio committee has come out strongly against the SA Reserve Bank-led Prudential Authority’s (PA) application for the provisional liquidation of the troubled Ithala SOC Limited.