As the year draws to a close, we reflect on how far we have come as a nation through headlines that captured the biggest tragedies and news that shocked us.
The Eastern Cape Liquor Board has served the Razzmatazz tavern in Hofmeyr with a notice to close after three patrons two of them underage girls died on Christmas Day.
Two teenaged girls and a young woman died in an Eastern Cape tavern in the early hours of Christmas Day in a tragedy that has echoes of the Enyobeni disaster earlier this year.