Five Things You Need To Know As You Wake Up: Inanda water supply affected after lightning strikes
This is after the thunderstorms we have had this week in KZN.
You are waking up on the day after a public holiday and we want you to at least be in the loop with some of these...
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A study found that the Omicron virus variant spreads 70 times quicker than Delta in lab samples of tissue from the human airway. The details of the findings have not been published or peer-reviewed.
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Sir Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes team announced they were withdrawing their appeal against Max Verstappen's controversial title-winning victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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A green sea turtle injured and identified by a holidaymaker is on the road to recovery at uShaka Marine World, almost 150km away from where it was rescued at Umkhobi beach in Kent Bay on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal.
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A rights group has claimed that a number of North Koreans have been executed after being caught watching K-Pop videos and other entertainment from South Korea. Entertainment from South Korea has been made illegal by Kim Jong-un, with the possession or distribution of films or music such as K-Pop punishable by death.
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The thunderstorm experienced in parts of KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday resulted in the electricity feed to Inanda Dam failing after an eThekwini municipal transformer at the Inanda Pump Station was struck by lightning.
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