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Pizza maker wants to inspire entrepreneurial spirit among young people: Johannesburg- Thabani Dube, the self-taught pizza maker from South Africa’s sprawling township of Umlazi V section in KwaZulu-Natal, is a ma …
Phoenix residents demand principal is fired after teacher is caught on camera kicking a 2-year-old at local crèche: Phoenix residents are demanding the removal of a crèche principal after he was caught on camera kicking a toddler.
World Rabies Day: Upward trend in cases a great concern: A webinar on rabies hosted by the National Animal Health Forum painted a bleak picture of South Africa’s fight against rabies outbreaks. Detection of the lethal virus – transmissible from animals to …
COVID-19 in SA | UK concerns over Beta variant ‘invald’ – expert: JOHANNESBURG – The UK’s concern about the presence of the beta variant in South Africa is not valid, according to KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) Director Tulio De …
Jamestown CC men erupt for eight goals in Ohio: It was a coming-out party for the Jamestown Community College men’s soccer team, routing Lorain County CC 8-2 on Monday afternoon. “It never hurts to see the ball go into the net,” Jamestown CC head …
‘We have exited the third wave,’ says NICD as Covid-19 numbers fall: The third coronavirus wave is officially over in SA, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Monday.
Tourism sector lost R164bn in spending by visitors in 2020: South Africa’s tourism sector lost an estimated R164 billion in spending by domestic and inbound visitors to the country in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Bureau for Economic Research (BER …
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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: The Story of Huberta – Huberta was a hippopotamus and one of the most famous animals in South African history. In November 1928, Huberta left her waterhole in the St. Lucia Estuary, in Zululand and set off on the 1600km journey to the Eastern Cape, a journey which would take her three years. In that time Huberta became a minor celebrity in South Africa and attracted crowds wherever she went. She was initially thought to be a male and was nicknamed Hubert by the press. She stopped for a while at the mouth of the Mhlanga River in Natal and a failed attempt was made to capture her and put her in Johannesburg Zoo. After this, she headed south to Durban, where she visited a beach and a country club. Moving on to the Umgeni River, she became revered by Zulus and Xhosas alike. Finally she arrived in East London in March 1931. Despite her having been declared Royal Game (and thus protected) by the Natal Provincial Council, she was shot by hunters a month later. After a public outcry, the hunters were arrested and fined £25. Huberta’s body was recovered and sent to a taxidermist in London. Upon her return to South Africa in 1932, she was greeted by 20,000 people and can now be seen in the Amathole Museum, in King William’s Town.
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