#FiveThingsYouNeedToKnow: Ramaphosa cancels working trip to sort out energy crisis
Mmusi Maimane has criticised the 30% pass requirement, treasure hunters warned to stay away from the Netherlands, and much more...
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has cancelled his “working trip” to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) gathering in Davos, Switzerland due to the current energy crisis. Last Wednesday, Eskom announced that Stage 6 loadshedding would run continuously until further notice, with no indication when it would be scaled back.
Read more: Loadshedding Updates
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After Mmusi Maimane took to social media last week and criticised the 30% pass requirement, the Basic Education Minister has defended the pass requirement in SA, saying that it's "not anything new". Maimane called for matric certificates to be issued to those who pass six subjects with 50% or more.
Read more: Basic Education still processing requests not to publish 'some matric results'
The ruling party has done little to dismantle the Bantu education system
— Mmusi Maimane (@MmusiMaimane) January 15, 2023
This year marks 70 years since the introduction of Bantu education in South Africa, a system dismantled on paper but which still exists, de facto, in our education system.
Seven decades on, we must change pic.twitter.com/en8rJfugQA
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Kevin Benavides and Nasser Al-Attiyah have won the 2023 Dakar Rally in the bikes and cars categories, respectively. SA Dakar legend Giniel de Villiers has now incredibly finished every one of the twenty Dakars he has started - nineteen of them in the top ten.
Read more: Froome in spotlight as Australia's biggest cycling event returns
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A tiger is on the loose in Johannesburg after escaping from a property in the Walkerville area and attacking a man and a dog. The Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark SPCA were on Sunday evening searching for the animal. Residents in the south of Joburg have been warned to be on alert.
Read more: Tiger blamed for 13 deaths caught in India
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A glimpse into a new book set to be released this week titled, 'Donald Trump v. The United States', by New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt, alleged that Donald Trump suggested striking North Korea with a nuclear weapon and blaming it on someone else in 2017.
Read more: US lawmakers call for criminal charges against Trump
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