The Daily Dispatch has put out its annual call for preloved literacy, collecting anything from fiction to children’s stories, to be donated to relevant 2023 Local Hero winners on World Read Aloud Day in February 2024.
Police are investigating seven Eastern Cape primary school boys aged between 10 and 13 for allegedly raping three girls, all aged under 10, at a school’s hostels.Six of the accused were allegedly also raped by the eldest in the group, who, according to the victims, sometimes directed them to sexually assault each other.
To be a Local Hero is to give, be it food, seeds, clothes, shoes, time or care. The tireless efforts of community leaders were celebrated at this year’s Daily Dispatch Local Hero awards where 12 winners walked across the ICC stage in awe that one night could be all about them.
In this episode, Daron Mann chats to Daily Dispatch Local Hero for 2022 Tubs Lingham as he shares about his NPO'S ambitions to get businesses to help sponsor one child for a year, at a cost of R1,000 a month.
The Breath of Life house is teeming with curious toddlers as its staff members, each with at least one baby on a hip, keep a watchful eye on the tiny bodies roaming the home’s green gardens.