#FiveThingsYouNeedToKnow: Julius Malema confident about EFF’s planned national protest
Queen guitarist Brian May has been knighted by King Charles III, loadshedding has caused homeless people to don reflector vests to man busy intersections, and much more...
Good Mauling, KZN.
Here are five things you need to know as you wake up this Thursday...
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Julius Malema says that unless President Cyril Ramaphosa hands in his resignation, nothing can stop the EFF’s planned national protest this Monday. There is no shutdown as no citizen has the power to do that, so it will be a protest. Stock standard protest, like a service delivery protest or a wage increase protest, except this one had a massive budget for tens of thousands of bright red glossy posters.
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The public service wage strike ended on Wednesday after unions and the government announced that they had reached a settlement.
Read more: Trucks urged not to head to Richards Bay port ahead of EFF shutdown
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Queen guitarist Brian May has been knighted by King Charles III at Buckingham Palace. It would have happened years ago, its just… a queen knighting a Queen just seemed too on the nose.
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Lindsay Lohan is pregnant with husband Bader Shammas' baby
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SA's loadshedding has caused homeless people to don reflector vests to man busy intersections, but the Automobile Association (AA) says it will only lead to chaos as they are untrained
Read more: Eskom to ease load shedding on Wednesday
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