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Children in 39 wards in Eastern Cape municipalities suffer from Severe Acute Malnutrition - SAHRC

The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and National Commissioner for Correctional Services have a year to rectify a policy which allows prisons to bar inmates from using personal computers in their cells. The Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday that the policy is unconstitutional.

Police in Gauteng have arrested 13 suspects believed to be security personnel for two rival taxi associations in Kagiso. Spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi says police from the West Rand District attended a scene where the two security groups were firing at each other.

SA musician David Scott, more popularly known by his stage name ‘The Kiffness’, is currently on a North American tour with his band and was due to perform in Detroit Tuesday night after a series of sold-out shows in New York and Philadelphia.

Multibillion-rand investments in the Coega Special Economic Zone are laying the foundation for Gqeberha to realise its true potential as a city. Coega announced in September that 120,000 jobs had been created since the zone's inception in 1999.

Springbok Manie Libbok is expected to visit his town of birth on Saturday. Libbok, who was born in Humansdorp in 1997 will be hosted by Graslaagte Primary School in a special public event.

New Brighton-born veteran actor and playwright Dr John Kani has been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his lengthy service to the theatre and film industry. 

A 49-year-old foreign national is in police custody following his arrest on charges of fraud relating to an online romance scam. Police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk says detectives attached to the Provincial Crimes Unit in the Western Cape arrested the suspect on Wednesday.

A man was crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after the machine apparently failed to differentiate him from the boxes of produce it was handling.