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‘Something wrong’ with management at Pretoria Girls High – Sasco
Police and private security members were on high alert as tensions ran high at Pretoria High School for Girls yesterday, after racism allegations against 12 pupils, including prefects. The pupils allegedly made racist comments in a WhatsApp group about the ongoing dissatisfaction among black pupils regarding issues they faced at the school, alluding to these…
Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve burns for over two days
The Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve near Heidelberg has been on fire for more than two days. Speaking to The Citizen at the nature reserve yesterday, Parapara Makgahlela, provincial communication officer for Working on Fire, said the blaze started on Sunday afternoon and was still burning. 28 firefighters to suppress raging fire “The Working on Fire-Kishugu joint…
Pupils miss classes due to lack of water after CoJ slaps school with R131 000 bill
Hundreds of pupils at Bosmont Primary School have been forced to stay home and fall behind in their studies due to a prolonged water outage on the premises. This as the school and the City of Joburg point fingers at each other over an alleged R1.9 million debt. The water supply crisis has persisted since…
SANParks honours rangers on World Ranger Day
A total of 148 rangers were killed worldwide the past year – 71 in Africa – with SA National Parks (SANParks) pulling out all the stops to mark the heroic efforts of rangers during today’s World Ranger Day. Despite last month’s attack by a hippo, which left three staff injured while clearing alien plants along…
Daily news update: Principal blamed for Daveyton drownings | 5 die in CIT shootout | Pretoria Girls High racism probe
In today’s news, a report has recommended action be taken against the Daveyton Skills Schools principal after two pupils drowned on a school trip, five suspects were killed in a shootout with police after an Eastern Cape cash-in-transit heist, and the principal of Pretoria Girls High has been suspended while an investigation is done into…
Taiwan citizens fear Beijing will destroy their democracy
People in Taiwan are divided over whether China and Taiwan should be united and become one country, but they are united on one issue – to let their democracy stay. Political analyst Prof Dirk Kotzé said it was not surprising that some Taiwanese citizens fear the merging of the two nations could not turn out…
Ford goes extra mile for children with new schools
A bright new school in Mamelodi means more than 60 children can now attend classes uninterrupted without their parents worrying about their safety. Bophelo Daycare Centre in Mamelodi is one of 27 completed early childhood development (ECD) centres that form part of Ford South Africa’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) centenary project in partnership with the…
Suicides: cops need mental help
It is shocking that, since 2017, more than 300 police officers in South Africa have committed suicide – a rate which makes our law enforcement service the worst in the world in that area. The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) says that although there are employee health and wellness programmes in operation in…
Be like Xolani and roll up your sleeves
Years ago, some cynical old hack coined the term “sunshine journalism” to disparage any sort of positive, or feel-good story… presumably on the basis that real journalism is like cheap crime novels and heavy on the biff, skiet en donder… And despite what many readers claim, ordinary people tend to pass over articles about people…
Seine mockery at Olympics
Folks with a smattering of classical education look down their haughty noses at Christians and others who were offended by the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony. Don’t we plebs understand the literary and historical allusions? Wasn’t it all so clever? Oh, so you didn’t know that the tableaux which caused the fuss was not…