Five Things You Need To Know As You Wake Up: Springboks bounce back!
They have done it! After everyone, including Sky, doubted them...
Good Mauling on this Monday morning. This is the first proper full week of October, so we hope it starts as good as the Springboks are having it. We'll end with their victory story. Oh, and Sky's Skop n Dop !
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The minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and Environmental Affairs, Barbara Creecy, said that an entire ecosystem, which includes the oHlanga tributary, the uMhlanga estuary, the beaches, and the coastal environment, has been seriously affected and may take several years to recover from the fallout from a fire at the UPL chemical warehouse in July.
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The Springboks have won! The Springboks bounced back with a hard-fought 31-29 Rugby Championship triumph against the All Blacks on the Gold Coast this past Saturday. Well, Sky definitely lost his bet there.
And this is how his Skop n Dop went...
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