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Police minister Bheki Cele has brought a high-powered investigation team to probe the deaths of 21 minors at the Enyobeni tavern in Scenery Park, East London, during the early hours of Sunday. The 21 are aged between 13 and 17 years old, some girls and the rest boys. News of the deaths was reported internationally, with President Cyril Ramaphosa issuing a statement of condolences to the families.

As the families of the 21 children who died in an East London tavern in the early hours of Sunday battled to process the enormity of the tragedy, police investigators spent hours combing the scene, trying to piece together the cause of their deaths. The victims were aged between 13 and 17, prompting searching questions about how they died and why children had been allowed into the drinking establishment in the first place, DispatchLIVE reports (https://www.

"In a country beset with challenges of unemployment, load-shedding, decaying infrastructure, crime and corruption, a collapsing and failing state, surely there can be better discussions than terms of reference," said Mmusi Maimane.

Mabe said ActionSA's "populist manoeuvres" were deliberate attempts to mislead society.

What is pertinent is that Mashaba chose to make a public attack on a political ally. And by doing so, he serves not the betterment of SA.

South Africans may soon be grinning from ear to ear — and for the first time in a long time, those beaming smiles will not be hidden as people do their shopping or walk around their favourite mall.

It is clear we are primed to be seduced by a checklist of modest election promises, but the dangers in this are obvious

"Comrades are thugs and thieves. If anyone calls you comrade, you refuse because they only call you comrade when they want to corrupt you," said Mashaba.

The people of SA can set the agenda and tone of the 2024 elections if we are willing to think, organise and act together to raise the standard of what we expect from people seeking to be elected to serve in our government, having access to our resources.

ActionSA is frothing at the SA government’s reported R308m payment to Cuba ‘for doctors and engineers' with the matter headed for the courts.