Five Things You Need To Know As You Wake Up: eThekwini Municipality on standby amid cold front
Strong winds and heavy rains are causing havoc, Durban teacher has pleaded guilty, Mick Jagger is in quarantine, and much more!
Happy Humpday to you all.
Since it's half past the weekend already, here are five things to know before you get out of bed this Wednesday:
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eThekwini Municipality says its Disaster Management teams will be on standby as a predicted cold front makes its way to the province. We can handle the cold, but please keep the rain to a minimum!
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Strong winds and heavy rains are causing havoc as an intense cold front persists across Cape Town. According to the City’s Disaster Risk Management, during the last 24 hour measuring period, rainfall stations in the Cape Metropole recorded between 34 mm and 123 mm of rain in a short period, which severely tested the capacity of the storm-water systems.
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A Durban teacher has pleaded guilty to voting 24 times during the local government elections in November last year. Nomusa Precious Gabuza was sentenced to three years of correctional supervision and four years imprisonment, wholly suspended for three years.
Read more: Durban woman handed suspended sentence for voter fraud
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Microsoft has announced the retirement of 27-year-old Internet Explorer as the firm's oldest browser will be completely phased out from June 15.
Read more: US tech titans look to ditch passwords
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The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein has said that the government was wrong to ban the sale of cigarettes at the start of the nationwide "hard" lockdown in March 2020. They ruled that there was no scientific justification for the continued ban on the sale of tobacco products. The matter came before the SCA after Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, appealed a previous ruling of the Western Cape High Court.
Read more: National state of disaster to be in place for at least three months
