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Lick those liquor laws into shape and then we’ll be happy, say doctors Hospitals’ plight would also have been helped if plans for 2,400 more beds hadn’t been stymied by strikes and red tape 02 February 2021 - 19:37 By graeme hosken and Alex Patrick Doctors have called for new laws to enforce responsible drinking, saying the strict lockdown regulations drastically improved hospital bed availability. Dr Ken Boffard, trauma director at Netcare’s Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg...

Mother Orapaleng Molelekedi and Moiloa had not slept and had barely eaten since the incident. Orapeleng Molelekedi, mother of Kopano, and stepdad Izaac Moiloa at her memorial service. Both were too shattered to speak to the reporter. Image: Sinenhlanhla Ngubane Kopano’s foundation phase teacher, Memory Madigoe, spoke about the child she watched grow up. “We are worried about our little girls. What kind of a world are we living in? Her class was distraught when they heard...

PODCAST | Justice for Kopano: The girl who vanished, then turned up in a morgue An investigation into the unsolved case of a 10-year-old hit-and-run victim who was then abducted and died alone 28 January 2021 - 20:20 By Paige Muller and Alex Patrick For five days, 10-year-old Kopano Molelekedi lay in a morgue in Soweto as a girl with no name (https://select.timeslive.co.za/news/2018-09-19-little-girl-lay-in-the-morgue-while-her-family-searched-for-her/). Just 15km away, a family was...