Five Things You Need To Know As You Wake Up: Eskom announces Stage 6 starting Monday
The eThekwini Municipality encourages residents to report all infrastructure that needs to be repaired, Cristiano Ronaldo hands in transfer request, and much more!
Good Mauling, the team is fully back and ready to kick off the first week of July.
With a hectic weekend of East Coast Radio House & Garden as well as the Durban July, here are five things you need to know before you start this week:
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Struggling power utility Eskom has announced that it will continue implementing Stage 6 loadshedding on Monday afternoon, with varying stages of loadshedding being implemented during the course of the week.
Read more: 'Low chance' of stage 8 becoming reality
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The eThekwini Municipality said it encouraged residents to report all infrastructure that needed to be repaired, and it would be attended to as soon as possible. Municipal spokesperson Msawakhe Mayisela discouraged residents from repairing infrastructure themselves, as this could pose a danger to other residents and properties.
Read more: De Lille: Public Works to assist with KZN rebuilding efforts
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Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo has told the Premier League club that he wants to leave in the close season because of his desire to play in the Champions League.
Read more: US judge dismisses rape suit against Cristiano Ronaldo
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Convicted Paralympian Oscar Pistorius met the family of his late girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp for a victim-offender dialogue (VOD) last month. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to 13 years and five months in prison. He has now been transferred back to the Atteridgeville Correctional Centre to continue serving his sentence, as participating in the VOD does not equate to an end of the sentence or parole placement.
Read more: Oscar Pistorius' lawyers head to court over parole process
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'Friends' creator Marta Kauffman told the Los Angeles Times that she’s so “embarrassed” by and feels such “guilt” over the lack of diversity on her classic NBC sitcom that she’s donating $4-million to create the Marta F. Kauffman '78 Professorship in African and African American Studies' at Brandeis University.
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