Electricity price hike a blow to Soweto residents 19 February 2021 - 07:43
Residents in Soweto say the 15.63% electricity tariff increase will cripple them.
The National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) was this week ordered by the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to allow Eskom to recover R10bn in allowable revenue from consumers in the 2021/2022 financial year, throwing ordinary citizens into turmoil.
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Know more about snakes from the apps SARPA, SnakeHub, Snake Lens and Snakepedia
Many of us have ophidiophobia, the fear of snakes. In fact, it is the most commonly reported phobia among humans, making the availability of facts about this misunderstood creature very important. Help is at hand in the form of four Android-only apps dedicated to snakes launched in Kerala SARPA, SnakeHub, Snake Lens and Snakepedia. Kerala is home to over 100 species of snakes that belong to 12 families. Of these, the most common venomous ones are known as the big four: spectacled cobra, Indian krait, Russell’s viper and saw-scaled viper.
HE SAVED A LIFE AND PAID WITH HIS OWN Christopher Moagi
Comments Nonhlanhla Cethe speaks about her late nephew Xolani Cethe, who drowned while trying to save a nine-year-old. With her is Xolani’s mum Phumzile Cethe. Photo by Lucky Morajane.
YOU kids will only stop going to the river the day someone dies.
That was the chilling warning Xolani Cethe (17) gave the group of kids who’d invited him for a swim at a stream just outside their kasi in Snake Park, Soweto.
Sadly, Xolani was the one who died a few days later after he drowned a hero on Friday, 22 January as he was trying to rescue a nine-year-old who was allegedly pushed into the water.
Reevesby Island volunteers brave snakes to rescue historic homestead from decay
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Saving a farm homestead built in 1907 on an island in South Australia s Spencer Gulf is not a job for the faint-hearted when that island is infested with snakes.
Reevesby Island in the Sir Joseph Banks Group Conservation Park is home to deadly black tiger snakes
Notechis scutatus, and death adders
Acanthophis antarcticus,
Leporillus conditor.
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