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Dave Chambers was the Cape Town bureau chief for the Sunday Times and TimesLIVE.

Homes in Booysens shack settlement, a densely populated area in the south of Johannesburg, are typical of those where occupants found it difficult to comply with social-distancing regulations.

Covid-19 rules that ignored reality of shack dwellers’ lives come under fire

Lockdown regulations that ignored the living conditions of shack-dwellers were "astonishing", according to a new analysis.

  • Dave Chambers
Linda Kofi was fired as principal of a King William's Town secondary school after punching a teacher in the face and leaving her bleeding.

Principal who doubled matric pass rate fired for punching teacher

A principal who doubled his school's matric pass rate by organising extra classes was furious when some pupils did not attend.

  • Dave Chambers
Some of the no-go areas in the new assembly, as shown to members of the joint standing committee on financial management of parliament in a presentation on April 1 2022 by engineers at the Coega Development Corporation.

Three months on, parliament full of mosquitoes, 'lethal' gas, melted metal and 30mm cracks

"Nothing destroys like fire. That beautiful building, it's all gone," said a shocked senior ANC MP on Friday after engineers presented their initial assessment of damage caused by the fire at parliament.

  • Dave Chambers
A total of 138 men say they were assaulted at St Albans prison in Gqeberha over two days in 2014.

138 inmates get go-ahead to sue for R69m damages over prison ‘assaults’

The appeal court has given the go-ahead for 138 men to sue the government for R500,000 each over alleged assaults at St Albans prison in Gqeberha.

  • Dave Chambers
Dominique van Heerden in Gaza for CNN in June 2018. The South African producer for Sky News survived a Russian ambush in Ukraine on February 28 2021 in which two of her colleagues were shot.
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SA TV news producer evacuated from Ukraine after ambush by Russian death squad

A SA TV news producer and her four crew have been evacuated from Ukraine after two of them were shot by a suspected Russian "death squad".

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Teacher Maria Mnisi was given a final written warning for singing in a church choir. File photo

Education bosses told to change tune after punishing teacher for singing in church choir

A teacher who was given a final written warning for singing in a church choir has had it expunged after appealing.

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Acting primary school principal RJ Segalo signed a R50,000 cheque for school textbooks and took a R4,000 kickback on the order.

Fired principal who took kickback on textbook order fails to get his job back

An acting principal who shared a kickback on a textbook order with a school governor has failed to overturn his dismissal by the Free State education department.

  • Dave Chambers
The body of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu will lie in state for two days at the St George's cathedral in Cape Town.
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Seven-day send-off for Desmond Tutu

A seven-day send-off is being organised for the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu in Cape Town.

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Archbishop Thabo Makgoba delivers a prayer and tribute to the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu

'May he rise in glory': Prayer and tributes for the Arch

A life-size poster of two SA icons of peace, former president Nelson Mandela and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu graced the hall of the Cape Town civic centre on Sunday for a media briefing following Tutu's death on Sunday morning.

  • Dave Chambers
A narwhal in the Scoresby Sound fiord system of East Greenland.

‘Unicorns of sea’ send seismic distress signal from Arctic to Wild Coast

Narwhals, the "unicorns of the sea" that live in the Arctic, have transmitted a 12,000km distress signal to the sea creatures in the path of a seismic survey off the Wild Coast of SA.

  • Dave Chambers
More than 17-million South Africans are now fully vaccinated. File photo.

Vote then vax: 1,000 pop-up sites to administer jabs on Monday

Pop-up vaccination sites will operate at 1,000 voting stations on Monday.

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The Safair Boeing 737-400 involved in a near-miss with a light aircraft flown by a student pilot at East London airport on August 25 2021.

Plane with 164 aboard just 30m from midair collision at EL airport

A jet with 164 people on board came within 30m of disaster when the student pilot at the controls of a light aircraft mixed up "left" and right".

  • Dave Chambers
A Maserati Levante similar to the one Johannesburg restaurateur Charles Renney bought for R1.8m in 2019.

I bought R1.8m Maserati to get an overdraft, Ocean Basket owner tells judge

The owner of a struggling Johannesburg restaurant told a judge he bought a R1.8m Maserati to improve his credit record.

  • Dave Chambers
North West principal Phillimon Motadinyane sexually assaulted a pupil after summoning her to his office. File photo

Principal fired for touching pupil’s buttocks, teachers sacked for improper conduct with matric girl

A school principal who touched a pupil's buttocks and breasts in his office and two teachers who had improper relationships with a Grade 12 girl have been fired.

  • Dave Chambers
About 14.5 million children failed to get vaccinated in 2023, compared with 13.9 million a year earlier, according to UN estimates. The number, however, was lower than during the Covid-19 pandemic, when about 18 million children missed out on vaccination.

‘Bring arms and the men’: Health chief’s plea as vaccine rollout loses momentum

South Africa's Covid-19 vaccination rollout has lost momentum, the health department said on Friday.

  • Dave Chambers