Western Cape Police have confirmed that an item of clothing, believed to be that of Joshlin Smith, has been collected for forensic analysis. This comes after community members found a jersey during a random search of their surroundings.
The Grade 1 learner from Diazville Primary has been missing for 106 days after she disappeared without a trace on February 19, after 5pm. Police spokesperson Malcolm Pojie said the item of clothing was found by members of the community over the weekend in the Saldanha Bay area.
The Western Cape High Court was called on by the state to hand down the maximum sentence to the two men, Leeroy Rose and Allester Abraham, accused of raping and bludgeoning a Phillipi teenage girl to death in 2019.
On Monday, in court documents filed, the then-14-year-old Janika Mello was later dropped off by a taxi close to her home. Her half-naked body was found in the backyard of her family home the next morning. According to crime scene photographs, police found multiple used condoms on the scene, while the post-mortem report showed she had multiple injuries to her private parts.
Hot meals, shelter, and medical assistance are being provided to hundreds of people. This is the result of two tornados that ravaged KwaZulu-Natal on Monday. Tongaat, north of Durban, was hit the hardest.
The operations officer of the Tongaat Community Forum, Yogan Naidoo, says that they had teams out in the affected areas, assisting the victims and removing uprooted trees. Their teams were busy helping to chainsaw the fallen trees, trying to free victims from these areas so that they could get medical assistance.
Pollinators are responsible for 35% of crop production globally, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) says this increases the outputs of 87 important staple crops worldwide, like potatoes, cabbage, onions, coffee, watermelon, cotton, apples, and avocados, to name but a few.
South Africa is boasting of its own pollinator, namely, Lulu Letlape, who founded this Pretoria-based, black women-owned bee enterprise in 2017.
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