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Australia will ban imports of disposable vapes from 1 January 2024 and will soon introduce legislation to outlaw the manufacture, advertising or its supply in the country. Health Minister Mark Butler said vaping had been sold to governments as a way to help long-term smokers quit, but now children are becoming addicted.

The husband of Amazimtoti reverend, Liezel de Jager made his first appearance in court more than two years after she was strangled to death at her home. Werner de Jager, 42, was arrested in Bloemfontein last week after the SAPS Cold Case Unit took over the docket.

One person was killed and a teenager injured after a gas tank exploded at a scrap yard in Phoenix in Kwazulu Natal on Monday afternoon. Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) received multiple calls from the scrap metal dealer reporting an explosion on his premises.

Five suspected bank robbers were killed in a shootout with police on the N14 highway at Ventersdorp on Monday afternoon.

The much-anticipated refurbishment of the once-popular Bayworld tourist attraction in Gqeberha commenced on Monday, with the demolition of the old tropical tank and part of the predator tank.

The woman accused of allegedly setting a passenger bus alight in Gqeberha earlier this month has to spend another week in police custody because her address could not be verified.

The spotlight will fall once more on the Ikhwezi Lokusa Special School in Mthatha this week, following long-standing reports of neglect and abuse of learners.

The K9 Unit in Gqeberha has suffered yet another loss after K9 Bentley had to be euthanized after suffering from cervical spondylosis. Earlier this month his fellow K9 officer Mufasa was laid to rest after succumbing to cancer.

Forty-two-year-old Paris Hilton has welcomed the arrival of her second child, a baby daughter called London.