NEW: ‘SA flag must be on school uniforms from 2017’

Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has stirred parents into a new debate after stating that he would like the South African flag on all school uniforms.

Lesufi took to Twitter to tell his more than 22‚000 followers: “My wish is to ensure that from 2017 all school uniforms must have our SA Flag just like national sporting teams.”

This patriotic proposal follows on the Department of Arts and Culture’s Flag in Every School Campaign‚ which started in 2014. The campaign involves hoisting the national flag‚ the correct way of singing the national anthem‚ reciting the preamble of the Constitution and learning about our national symbols.


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NEW: Soweto factory worker SA's latest lotto millionaire

A Soweto factory worker spent the best R20 of her life when she used to it buy a ticket that won her the R20m lotto jackpot on April 30.

The woman, believed to be in her 50s, bought the ticket with the six winning numbers at Shoprite in Glen Ridge, Soweto, said Zuki Nomnganga, spokesperson for lotto operator Ithuba.

She kept her ticket in her Bible and thought it was a mistake when she saw she had matched all six numbers.


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NEW: E-tolls are here to stay, says minister

Although the government appreciates the financial challenges some motorists face, e-tolls are here to stay, said Transport Minister Dipuo Peters.

Briefing the media ahead of her department’s budget vote on Tuesday at parliament, Peters said the 201km Gauteng Freeway Project is already congested and the province, as the economic hub of South Africa, will require more new roads.


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NEW: Cellphone shop worker wins R31.6-million Powerball jackpot

A shop assistant who is pregnant with her second child has her heart set on buying a home - and a "big car" - after becoming an instant multi-millionaire.

Her R15 lottery ticket has won her this year’s second biggest Powerball jackpot. The lucky winner from Gauteng‚ who works in a cellular store‚ is now R31.6-million richer.

Ithuba said she did not watch the live Powerball draw on TV. So she woke up the next day‚ got ready for work as usual‚ not knowing that she had just entered SA’s millionaires’ club.


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NEW: National sports teams applied quota system 'maliciously' - ANC

National sports teams have been maliciously applying the quota system, the ANC told News24 on Thursday.

ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa commended Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula’s decision to ban athletics, cricket, netball, and rugby from hosting or bidding for major international tournaments as they had not met transformation goals.

Kodwa called for help from corporate South Africa in developing sports infrastructure in rural areas.


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NEW: E-toll discount extended: Are you more likely to pay-up?

The Minister of Transport, Dipuo Peters, has granted an additional 10 working days extension for road users to "take advantage" of the 60% e-toll discount in May 2016.

The discount period will now end on May 17.

The reason for the extension? "There was a last minute rush leading up to May 2 - the date on which the 60% discount expired - leaving thousands of road users outside the window period," reports the Transport Department.


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NEW: At Least 13 Schools Torched In Limpopo Protests

Limpopo police say nine schools were set alight in Vuwani and Levubu last night, allegedly by angry protesters, bringing the total number of schools torched this week to 13.

On Monday, four schools were also vandalised after being informed that a high court dismissed their application to exclude their area from a new municipality.

Residents want to stay under the Makhado Municipality instead of being incorporated into the Malamulele Municipality.


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NEW: KZN toll road construction begins - Sanral

South African National Roads Agency CEO Nazir Alli announced on Wednesday that construction of the N2 Wild Coast toll road, in KwaZulu-Natal, had officially begun.

Speaking to the business sector at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Umhlanga, Alli said: “We are finally starting to build the Wild Coast toll road, we signed the design agreement in January 2003 and 13 years later we have had a briefing session for prequalifying the contractors on the job.”

He said research done on communities living between Port Edward and Port St Johns showed that people in the area had gotten poorer in the thirteen years.


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NEW: Drought pushes SA maize imports to highest since '93

South Africa became a net importer of the grain for the first time since 2008 this year, bringing in the most in two decades after the worst drought in more than a century hurt local output.

The nation imported 1.96 million metric tons of corn in the marketing year ended April 29, Pretoria-based South African Grain Information Service said in a statement on its website. That’s the most since 1993. Exports were 683 523 tons, it said.

South Africa last year had the least rainfall since records started in 1904, damaging crops and raising prices. It may need to import 3.8 million tons of yellow and white corn this year to bolster domestic supplies, according to Grain SA, the biggest lobby group for farmers of corn.


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NEW: SAA voyager miles spend hits new record

South African Airways says its new revenue-based airline loyalty programme has helped it reach a new milestone, exceeding 7.8 billion mile earnings and 5.7 billion miles spent.

It issues at least 15 000 Voyager Miles every minute, with an estimated 10 000 Miles being redeemed simultaneously during the past 12 months.


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NEW: Off-Duty Paramedic In CT Saves Man’s Life

An off-duty paramedic has saved a man’s life after he suffered an apparent heart attack while travelling on a bus in Cape Town.

The paramedic was en-route to work this morning when he noticed one of the passengers in his late forties experiencing difficulty breathing.

ER24’s Russel Meiring says the patient's vital signs returned after several minutes of CPR.


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NEW: RMF waitress set to buy place near mom after online fundraisers net over R130,000

A R50 donation that snowballed into a social media fundraising campaign for a Cape Town waitress has delivered R44,777 to the woman who was humiliated by #RhodesMustFall activist Ntokozo Qwabe.

Sihle Ngobese handed R50 to Ashleigh Schultz‚ 23‚ when he tracked her down at Obz Cafe in Observatory‚ after hearing how Qwabe and a friend‚ Wandile Dlamini‚ had reduced her to tears last week.

Instead of leaving her a tip‚ Dlamini wrote on their bill:"We will give tip when you return the land.”


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NEW: SACP Supports Banks’s Withdrawal From Gupta-Owned Company

South African Communist Party (SACP)'s Deputy General Secretary Jeremy Cronin says the party supports the decision of South Africa’s four main banking groups, to withdraw their services from companies owned by the Gupta family.

Cronin says the banks have done the right thing by ending their relationships with companies owned by the Gupta family.

“The withdrawal of the services should not be seen as some imperialist plot as being alleged in certain quarters. We are saying it’s a precautionary move on the part of the bank, but also the stockbroker and KPMG.”


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NEW: Military, political leaders behind murky Angola deepwater oil deals

On the surface, the contract between Markwell and Pinsong, two shell companies with no owners or substantial business activity, appears a little unseemly but also legal and unremarkable, as offshore dealings often are.

Pinsong, the principal, paid a fee of €15-million to Markwell, the agent, in 2007 to assist a third party obtain Angolan deepwater oil concessions.

But leaked data from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based offshore service raises questions about how these entities assisted others in obtaining the rights to drill for Angolan oil.


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NEW: More petrol price pain for motorists

Motorists will have to fork out 12c more for a litre for all grades of petrol come Wednesday, the Department of Energy said in a statement.

The price of diesel will however dip by 1c/litre for 0.05% sulphur and 2c/l for 0.005% sulphur.

The price of illuminating paraffin (SMNRP) will decrease by 9c/l and that of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) by 5c/kg.


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