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A newborn baby girl was found dumped in the backyard of a Kuils River family on Sunday morning. (Screenshot) “I cannot believe that any mother would do this to their own baby. It’s so painful to see,” said Kuils River resident Alana Jacobs after finding a newborn baby dumped in her backyard on Sunday morning.Jacobs was getting ready for the early morning church service when she made the harrowing discovery.”It was a newborn baby girl, naked and wrapped in blankets and just dumped on the grass,” she said. South Africans need to be in the know if we want to…
Outgoing Brait CEO Peter Hayward-Butt (Supplied/Ethos) The company said on Tuesday that its key reporting metric of net asset value (NAV) per share fell 8% to R6.52 in the year to end March, from R7.06 in the previous financial year. From an International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) perspective, Brait reported a headline loss per share of 13 cents, though this was narrower than the 70 cents a share loss the prior year. South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we’re about to…
Bulls No 8 Cameron Hanekom in action in the URC final against Glasgow Warriors in Pretoria on 22 June 2024. (Wessel Oosthuizen/Gallo Images) Bulls No 8 Cameron Hanekom’s hopes of making his Springbok debut in the Ireland series have been dashed by a hamstring injury.Hanekom was a star for the Bulls during their run to the URC final and was widely tipped to get a call-up to Rassie Erasmus’ Bok squad.The 22-year-old suffered the injury during the Bulls’ URC final loss to Glasgow Warriors on Saturday and was replaced by Nizaam Carr. South Africans need to be in the know…
A fire at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital led to the death of one patient. (Natalie Payne/Drum/Gallo Images) South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we’re about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.
A total of 17 000 police officers were deployed across KwaZulu-Natal to ensure the smooth conduct of elections, with particular focus on regions deemed to require additional security measures. (Supplied/SAPS) The South African Police Service (SAPS) has rubbished claims by the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) that there is a crisis because not all police officers have been paid overtime for the extra hours they worked during the elections. Popcru national spokesperson Richard Mamabolo said that when the union met the various stakeholders days before the elections, an agreement was made that police officials would work two 12-hour shifts,…
Proteas opening batsman Reeza Hendricks plays a shot against England in their Super Eights match in the T20 World Cup in St Lucia. (Robert Cianflone/Getty Images) The Proteas continue finding ways to win from tricky situations at this T20 World Cup. Is it time for their fans to start dreaming? asks Lungani Zama.The Proteas may not know how many thousands rose around 02:00 on Monday, determined to see what transpired across the world. They may have an inkling of the thousands more that rose around 04:00, only to find those dreaded few words in the South African cricket lexicon: Rain stopped…
The parking lot at King’s Beach where Marlene Prinsloo and Juan Landsberg were parked when the perpetrator approached them. (Candice Bezuidenhout/News24) Barely a day after she was killed, when a bullet went through her boyfriend’s neck and hit her in the head, Marlene Prinsloo’s two toddlers have been frantically calling for their mom.Prinsloo, 27, was a passenger in her boyfriend’s tow truck when he got a call at the weekend to tow a car stuck in the sand at King’s Beach in Gqeberha.However, what was meant to be a quick job turned into a tragedy. Instead of paying the R800…
Naspers logo. (Misha Jordaan/ Gallo Images) Naspers, along with consumer internet subsidiary Prosus, said on Tuesday that Amazon should be worried about competition from Takealot, rather than the other way around.The group is generally viewing its footprint in emerging markets like Brazil, India and SA as reasons to be optimistic as global players battle over the emerging technology of artificial intelligence, saying it expects to be better positioned to leverage its business ecosystems in growth markets to offer major productivity and efficiency gains.Naspers, which receives the majority of its earnings from Amsterdam-listed subsidiary Prosus, reported on Monday that it booked…
South Africa’s Marco Jansen celebrates after hitting a six to help his team beat the West Indies in their T20 World Cup Super Eight match at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP) It’s true that teams have to care about winning, but at times, they tend to care about how they win.For a team like the Proteas, the gloss of how they get to business end of a major tournament has long worn off, especially with their noted and now famous playoff collapses.Having reached the T20 World Cup semi-finals for the first time since 2014 after…
Owami Mafokate. (Supplied/Showmax) Though she might have initially tried to evade her famous surname, breakout reality TV star Owami Mafokate eventually stopped running and decided to embrace her father, kwaito legend Arthur, and mother, Queen Sesoko’s legacies.Often by her dad’s side, as she grew up, Owami broke out into the industry as a DJ and made her reality TV debut last week on Showmax’s original reality show Born Into Fame.Produced by GOAT Productions, the new show follows the lives of six local media personalities with famous parents as they try to live up to their family legacies and carve their…