#FiveThingsYouNeedToKnow: New medical device helps man with paralysis to walk
Updated | By Breakfast with Darren Maule / Lilitha Bodlani
Health Department gives an update on the confirmed cases of cholera, scientists have created the first full-sized digital model of the Titanic, and much more.
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Here are five things you need to know as you wake up this FRI-YAY morning...
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The Health Department says the total number of "laboratory-confirmed cases of cholera is standing at 29". 20 people have died so far. Hammanskraal has been the hardest hit.
Read more: Hammanskraal cholera crisis 'a wake-up call' as death toll climbs
2.
In a 'Hard Talk' interview with the BBC, Julius Malema said if the energy grid collapses, South Africans could remove the ANC.
3.
Two married women, Jordan van der Vyver and Nicole Eksteen, and the mother of a young boy, Rozelle Bester, have made Miss SA history by making the top 30 as the pageant enters a new era where marital and parental status no longer affects contestants.
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Scientists have created the first full-sized digital model of the Titanic. The model will allow scientists to study the Titanic in ways that were never possible before.
LISTEN: Here's why the new 'Titanic' trailer is sinking the competition!
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New research has allowed a medical device to help one man with paralysis to walk naturally again, more than a decade after an injury.
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