Five Things You Need To Know As You Wake Up: Childline KZN has a new number

Welcome to a brand new week.

After a fun weekend, it's time to give you five things you may have missed out on this weekend:

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1. 

Scotland's police said that they are investigating a report of an “online threat” made to the author JK Rowling after she tweeted her condemnation of the stabbing of Salman Rushdie.

SEE: JK Rowling's new children's book was inspired by her son's toy pig

2. 

A 63-year-old woman died after being pierced by a beach umbrella that flew across and struck her at a South Carolina beach. 

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3. 

Ndavi Nokeri, a 23-year-old from Tzaneen, Limpopo, was crowned Miss South Africa 2022 at a glittering pageant on Saturday night. To view the crowing moment, click here!

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4. 

Childline KZN has a new three-digit phone number ‒ 116, which the organisation says will make it easier for children to remember and call for help from anywhere in South Africa and even abroad.

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5. 

A KwaZulu-Natal surfer had the experience of a lifetime when two humpback whales breached the surface and caused a huge splash in the area he was surfing along the South Coast. Wez Singleton, who was surfing somewhere near Port Shepstone on Wednesday morning, said the two whales were roughly 60 metres away from where he was.

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Make sure to catch Five Things, Monday to Friday at 07:20. If you missed out on any, head over to the full podcasts here.

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