#FiveThingsYouNeedToKnow: Comrades looking into concerns of runners
Disgraced R&B singer R Kelly is scared for his life after recovering from emergency surgery, two paramedics left a woman with heart problems in uMlazi, and much more...
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Here are five things you need to know as you wake up this Tuesday morning...
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Environmental campaigner Nicole Barlow stirred Twitter with a comment she made about Gwede Mantashe ditching President Cyril Ramaphosa’s event to attend a Cosatu event instead. She said: “We missed an opportunity to do a Chris Hani on him.”
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I'm going to do a Jeremy Clarkson - mea culpa....
— Nicole Barlow (@Nicole_Barlow1) June 25, 2023
I agree that it's grossly hypocritical to criticise Julius Malema for publicly inciting violence and promoting the killing of white farmers (Boers) only for me to turn around and do it as well.
One should never fall into the…
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The Comrades Marathon Association (CMA) has confirmed that it is looking into concerns raised by runners in this year’s 96th Comrades Marathon, held on Sunday, 11 June 2023.
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Disgraced R&B singer R Kelly stated this week that he is "scared for his life" after recovering from emergency surgery to treat blood clots in his leg.
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Two paramedics left a woman with heart problems in uMlazi because those who helped the woman were ‘too slow’ and ‘wasting their time’. They have been suspended.
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In a new behind-the-scenes video, Kate Middleton and Roger Federer visited Wimbledon to learn more about what it takes to be a ball boy or girl at the oldest tennis tournament in the world.
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