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One person was killed, and 13 other were injured when a taxi and a car collided head on in the Western Cape

Residents of Town 2 in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, were awoken early on Saturday morning by a raging fire that destroyed 50 shacks.

Thirty-eight people, including children, were injured after the bus they were travelling in overturned on the N1 in Rawsonville.

The body of a Gauteng man was retrieved from the Bloukrans river gorge on Thursday afternoon after an extensive search-and-rescue effort.

The search for an enduro rider who went missing after the Lilyfontein Funduro event on Saturday is continuing. SAPS Search and Rescue, Gonubie police station, the Green Scorpions, Metro EMS and the riding and farming communities have banded together to carry out extensive searches in the area from the air and on the ground.

Two paramedics died on Saturday morning when the ambulance they were travelling in collided with a truck on the N10.

UPDATE: Body of fourth child recovered from hole near Borcherds Quarry road Preliminary investigations revealed that the children were apparently playing on sand dunes, which caved in on them. A fireman surveys the area where four children fell into a hole while playing on sand dunes near the N2 Borcherds Quarry intersection in Gugulethu on 8 February 2021. Picture: Supplied CAPE TOWN - Rescue workers have r...