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#FiveThingsYouNeedToKnow: PMB mass killing linked to foreign national traditional healer

Updated | By Breakfast with Darren Maule / Lilitha Bodlani

Tatjana Schoenmaker and Joel Smith announce their engagement, KZN premier has ordered a full-scale investigation into the school nutrition program and much more.

10 family members murdered in KZN at behest of sangoma for cleansing ritual.
The crime scene where 10 members of the Memela family were shot and killed while they were asleep on Thursday midnight. Image: Bongani Hans

Good Mauling, KZN. 

Here are five things you need to know as you wake up this Monday morning... 

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1.

The mass killing of 10 family members in PMB at midnight on Thursday has been linked to a cleansing ritual involving a foreign national traditional healer.

Read more: Family in shock after teen shot at close range

10 family members murdered in KZN at behest of sangoma for cleansing ritual.
The crime scene where 10 members of the Memela family were shot and killed while they were asleep on Thursday midnight. Image: Bongani Hans

2. 

SA Rugby will take advice from its director of rugby, Rassie Erasmus, when deciding on the new Springbok head coach, and says an overseas coach is not an option.

Read more: Settled Sharks selected for Kolisi, Du Toit swansong

Rassie Erasmus, SA Rugby's Director of Rugby, addresses reporters in Stellenbosch on Wednesday 8 March 2023.
Rassie Erasmus, SA Rugby's Director of Rugby, addresses reporters in Stellenbosch on Wednesday 8 March 2023. Image: Grant Pitcher

3. 

KZN premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube has ordered a full-scale investigation into the rollout of the national school nutrition programme after reports of inadequate food supply.

Read more: KZN premier wants full probe into school nutrition debacle

Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube KZN depts to set aside R10m
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4.

Olympic swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker and Joel Smith announced their engagement. Joel is Rachel Kolisi's brother. 

Read more: Tatjana Schoenmaker finds love with Rachel Kolisi's brother

5.

Former Miss Rwanda Jolly Mutesi has said that Thabo Bester and Dr. Nandipha tried to lure her to Cape Town for a fake $3m presenting opportunity on a Netflix show.

Read more: Burnt body in Thabo Bester's Mangaung prison cell identified

Former Miss Rwanda reveals how Thabo Bester and Dr Nandipha tried to lure her to Cape Town for $3m Netflix gig.
Miss Rwanda 2016 Jolly Mutesi, who was targeted by ‘Facebook rapist’ Thabo Bester and accomplice Dr Nandipha Magudumana’s company, Aurum Holdings, for a fake Netflix show. Image: Twitter

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