#FiveThingsYouNeedToKnow: Ramaphosa's political future on the line this this week
2020 and 2021 France experiences a 30% national increase in STI rates, Roger Federer thwarted as a security guard enforced a "no card, no entry" policy and much more.
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Here are five things you need to know as you wake up this Monday...
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In 2020 and 2021 France experienced a 30% national increase in STI rates. From January, young French people can collect contraception from pharmacies free of charge as part of a bid to minimise the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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There are big things happening this week at Nasrec Centre in Joburg as the ANC's national executive committee (NEC) meets to deliberate on Ramaphosa's political future.
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This weekend it was announced that a total of 10,000 newly trained SAPS officers have been deployed at various police stations and public order policing units in a bid to have more boots on the ground to fight crime.
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Roger Federer thought his eight tournament wins at Wimbledon would be enough to get him past the visitor gate - but he was thwarted as a security guard enforced a "no card, no entry" policy. He tried to drop by unannounced for dinner with his coach when he was in London for a doctor's appointment. But when he drove up to the visitor gate without his membership card - the security guard not recognising him.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida yesterday, carrying into space the first ever Arab-built lunar spacecraft. The Rashid Rover was built by Dubai’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and is expected to make the first controlled landing on the moon
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