Tributes are pouring in for Dolly Parton, who passed away after a short battle with cancer on Tuesday. She was 80. In a video message on Parton’s social media channels, delivered by her nephew, Bryan Seaver, her family paid tribute to the country icon: “This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality. As her head of security for more than
Police have seized cocaine worth more than R200 million at OR Tambo International Airport. Officers responded to information received yesterday and intercepted two separate consignments of cocaine. In the first incident, two large travel suitcases were intercepted at the airport terminal. The suitcases contained blocks of suspected cocaine weighing approximately 84 kilograms. In a separate interception at the cargo section, four boxes containing approximately 250 kilograms of suspected cocaine, packed into
Dolly Parton, the beloved country music icon whose extraordinary career spanned almost six decades, has died at the age of 80, after a brief battle with cancer. Born on January 19, 1946, in a one-room cabin in Tennessee, Parton grew up as one of 12 children in a family she later described as “dirt poor”. Music was part of her childhood, and by the age of six she was performing in
Traffic on the N2 outbound came to a standstill for hours on Tuesday morning, 25 August, after a 27-year-old taxi driver was chased onto the highway and shot in the head by two unknown suspects. According to Constable Ndakhe Gwala, the taxi driver ran from Kanana informal settlement in Gugulethu, leaving his vehicle behind, to escape the two gunmen. He somehow ended up running across the N2 highway near Borchards Quarry, where
Cape Town is bracing for the upcoming fire season, with the City urging residents to take extra precautions after four structures were destroyed in two separate fires on Tuesday. Firefighters first responded to a blaze in Woodstock. Fire and Rescue Services spokesperson Jermaine Carelse says crews were called to the fire in Douglas Street just before 6am. “We received the call at 05:54, of structures alight in Douglas Street. Crews
