The Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube, revealed the 2024 National Senior Certificate (NSC) results in Johannesburg on January 13, 2025, hailed as the highest pass rate in South Africa’s history. The national pass rate has reached an unprecedented 87.3%, up from 82.9% in 2023. “This is the highest matric pass rate in the history of our country and should be a moment of great pride,” Minister Gwarube declared. A total
The search for the 16 people who went missing during the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, California in the United States of America (USA) continues. The death toll as a result of the raging fires in the Palisades on the Los Angeles County coast and the Eaton Fire in the northeast has now also risen to 24. While the search for the missing persons is underway, authorities fear that many more are unaccounted
The Independent Examinations Board (IEB) has announced a stellar 98.47% pass rate for the 2024 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations—the highest in five years. Of the 16,304 candidates who sat for the exams, 89.37% achieved university entry qualifications, surpassing last year’s 88.59%. The cohort included 14,990 full-time and 1,314 part-time students across 275 exam centres nationwide. Notably, nine new schools joined the IEB system in 2024, contributing to a significant growth in candidate
As 2025 gets underway and people get back to work and school, it will perhaps not come as a surprise to many that the Mother City has again topped the list as South Africa’s most congested City, with a recent report estimating that drivers spend an average of 94 hours in traffic in Cape Town. According to the INRIX 2024 Global Traffic Scorecard, traffic congestion in Cape Town in 2024 was even worse
Chickens as pet in Cape Town
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Someone dubbed the ‘crazy chicken lady’ has been accused of being the UK’s most annoying neighbour. As her nickname suggests, she has a large number of pet chickens that tend to be quite noisy. Lucia Lawrence | Image via Daily Mail Lucia Lawrence was served with a noise abatement order after neighbours complained that her cockerels would crow from as early as 2am. While the UK has their own laws around keeping chickens as pets,
