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A fire was caused by the parent of a student who was hit by a teacher’s car and broke down in the school premises on Monday morning.Mr. Mandla Khuzwayo says that his 16-year-old daughter, who is studying Grade 7, at Avoca Primary, in Avoca, Durban, was injured by a car hit by a female teacher and she was rushed to the clinic immediately.Khuzwayo said that what disgusts him the most is that the female teacher has never shown any remorse for this.”He doesn’t care that this person hurt a small child. It scares me the way he acts as if…

NewsFeedAn explosion struck Jerusalem’s Old City seconds after sirens warned of an incoming Iranian missile. Smoke was seen rising at the site as Iran launched multiple attacks, sending millions into shelters. Several were lightly wounded, Israeli authorities said.Published On 20 Mar 202620 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2SharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

March 20, 2026 Maroela editorial How would you like to share the article? Part of the Dassie route. (Photo: tripadvisor.co.za) Two days after the family of a 73-year-old visitor to the Augrabies Falls National Park in the Northern Cape reported him missing, the man’s body was found along a popular hiking trail. JP Louw, spokesperson for SANParks, says they were informed on Monday that Schalk de Witt had gone missing. “The police were immediately notified and a comprehensive search was launched in the park.” Louw says that by Wednesday, relatives of De Witt, with the authorization of the park management,…

March 20, 2026 Maroela editorial How would you like to share the article?(Photo for illustration: Arrive Alive)The Competition Commission has decided to refer its findings on price fixing in the number plate industry to the Competition Tribunal for a final order.The DA says it welcomes this decision.Mlondi Mdluli, the DA’s deputy spokesperson for trade, industry and competition, says the companies involved in this case and which produce plates without numbers on them, have allegedly established fixed prices and trading conditions since June 2023. “This raises prices for South Africans, undermines competition and prevents new businesses from entering the license plate…

John Steenhuisen, Minister of Agriculture, receives the vaccine. (Photo: Department of Agriculture) Free State Agriculture (FL), Sakeliga and Saai brought an urgent High Court application on Tuesday to prevent the government from blocking the private procurement and administration of vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease. Francois Wilken, president of VL, says court-prescribed mediation in which the parties concerned participated last week was unsuccessful and the case is now being heard on an urgent basis in the High Court in Pretoria. Sakeliga says Tuesday’s hearing deals with the first phase of the legal strategy, which includes an interdict that prohibits the state from…

In recent weeks, one of Misa’s employees was the victim of an incident in which iron pins were placed on the road. (Photo: Provided)Misa, the trade union for motor industry personnel, is warning motorists to be vigilant following a recent incident in which stones were placed on the N4 between Silverlakes and Donkerhoek in the east of Pretoria. Several motorists traveling in an eastern direction had flat tires due to the incident.This comes less than five weeks after one of Misa’s employees was the victim of an incident at a junction road to the N14 in Krugersdorp, where iron pins…

Hope Morodi. (Photo: ActionSA) The executive committee of ActionSA in Gauteng has suspended Kholofelo Morodi, a member of the Tshwane mayoral committee, from the party with immediate effect. Morodi is also the mayoral committee member for corporate and shared services in the Tshwane metro. This local authority suspended her on Thursday pending the outcome of a full investigation into the worrying allegations made before the Madlanga Commission. Morodi is implicated in allegations that she shared confidential tender documents. Funzi Ngobeni, ActionSA’s spokesperson in Gauteng, says the decision follows the consideration of an official complaint arising from the allegations before the…

The current municipal landscape has been described as a “graveyard of political optimism” and what was once designed as a tool for community empowerment after 1994 now reflects dwindling tax bases and looted administrations.

Fertilizer, of which more than 80% is imported, accounts for between 30% and 50% of producers’ variable costs, putting farmers under further pressure. (Photo: iStock) The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has plunged global energy markets into a state of extreme volatility, with Brent crude oil prices soaring in recent weeks. This increase has an enormous effect on international diesel prices and the global fertilizer market, which puts increasing cost pressure on South Africa’s grain and oilseed producers. Diesel accounts for between 13% and 15% of a grain and oilseed producer’s variable production costs. Since South Africa imports a…

Israel and America’s war on Iran has killed more than 1,500 people in a matter of weeks, and the toll continues to rise.In Tehran on March 7, mourners gathered around the coffin of Zainab Sahebi, a two-year-old girl killed in an Israeli air strike. A small doll lay beside her coffin as relatives and neighbours crowded the funeral, grappling with the loss of a child taken in an instant.Zainab’s funeral was only one of many.On March 3, thousands gathered in Minab, in Hormozgan province, for a mass funeral after the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ primary school was destroyed during the opening…