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#FiveThingsYouNeedToKnow: New medical device helps man with paralysis to walk

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.

Man with paralysis walks naturally after brain, spine implants.
Man with paralysis walks naturally after brain, spine implants. Image: Jimmy Ravier

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Good morning, KZN. 

Here are five things you need to know as you wake up this FRI-YAY morning... 

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1.

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

20 People have died so far. Hammanskraal has been the hardest hit.
20 People have died so far. Hammanskraal has been the hardest hit. Image: Unsplash

2. 

In a 'Hard Talk' interview with the BBC, Julius Malema said if the energy grid collapses, South Africans could remove the ANC.

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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.

Read more: Miss SA Top 30: Four KZN beauties make the cut

Bester is a single mother from Free State and works as a sales representative.
Bester is a single mother from Free State and works as a sales representative. Image: LinkedIn/ Rozelle Bester

4.

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.

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5. 

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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Man with paralysis walks naturally after brain, spine implants.
Man with paralysis walks naturally after brain, spine implants. Image: Jimmy Ravier

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