The Department of Education has promised that over 1.2 million textbooks and learning materials costing R507 million will be distributed to more than 5,000 schools before November 30 for the 2023 school year.
“I know the child is another man’s . I’m now at the bush with the child . Choose to either apologise to me or I kill the boy . It is done.” These were the chilling words texted to the mother of six-year-old Sinobom Tywantsi by the man the child believed was his father. The boy’s body was later found in the bush at Bhongweni township near the King Phalo Airport in East London on Tuesday afternoon.
South Africans are reeling under the strain of the exorbitant cost of living, with increases in petrol prices, taxi fares, basic foodstuffs and interest rates draining their wallets, all while enduring load-shedding and extreme water shortages.
A passenger train collided with a truck at a railway crossing in Wilsonia, East London, on Thursday morning. While there were no reported injuries, panicked train passengers were checking on one another for injuries while others were trying to create distance between themselves and the accident scene.