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Johannesburg's very own Pothole Patrol has fixed a number of potholes already. But is it enough to make the 'Sinkhole Teacher' happy?

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has been injured in an attack.

NORTH Yorkshire Police is appealing for information and witnesses after a 14-year-old boy was injured in an affray in Catterick Garrison.

He said thousands of students have been without a change of clothing or basic toiletries since Sunday. Students evacuate from their residences of the University of Cape Town as a forest fire burns out of control on the foothills of Table Mountain. AFP RODGER BOSCH / AFP Firefighters trying to extinguish a fire in the Jagger Reading Room at the University of Cape Town. (Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images) "Many have barely received enough food. There are various ways the public can support it. T...

Gift of the Givers spend R1m a day to assist UCT students, firefighters Share CAPE TOWN: For the next six to seven days, non-profit organisation Gift of the Givers will continue its efforts to assist University of Cape Town (UCT) students with three meals a day, toiletries and counselling. The organisation provides about 12 000 meals daily to the 4 000 or so UCT students who were evacuated from their residences as a fire swept through parts of Table Mountain and the university. The fire starte...

Additional reporting by Victoria O’Regan Efforts to contain the out-of-control wildfire that erupted on Table Mountain on Sunday morning at around 8.45 continued throughout the night. The unforgiving inferno – suspected by the Table Mountain National Park to have been ignited by an unattended vagrant fire – burnt down a restaurant at Rhodes Memorial and damaged multiple buildings at the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus, including the library. Efforts continue to contain a vegetation f...

Within 24 hours, the fire that started around Rhodes Memorial spread to UCT’s upper campus and moved to Vredehoek, said JP Smith, mayoral committee member for safety and security in a statement.  According to another City of Cape Town statement, at about 2am the wind speed increased, pushing the fire in that direction. Conditions deteriorated overnight, with the wind picking up and fanning the flames, Anton Bredell, the provincial minister of local government, environmental affairs and devel...

A message posted on the UCT Libraries Facebook page from Ujala Satgoor, Executive Director of Libraries, said: "At this stage, we can confirm the Reading Room is completely gutted and thankfully the fire detection system in place triggered the fire shutters thereby preventing the spread of the fire to other parts of the Library. Some of our valuable collections have been lost, however a full assessment can only be done once the building has been declared safe and we can enter the building." Stu...

UCT suspends academic activities, provides emergency accommodation for students following fire Search Polity Note: Search is limited to the most recent 250 articles. To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. To search for a term containing the & symbol, click Advanced Search and use the search headings and/or in first paragraph options. With... Clear Search Sponsored by Sponsored by The University of Cape Town (UCT) has suspended all academic activities...

UCT calls for donations as upper campus buildings go up in flames Share Cape Town - The University of Cape Town has announced that it has put emergency measures in place after the Rhodes Memorial fire reached the university and caused extensive damage to campus property. The fire which started around 8.45am close to Hospital Bend, moved up towards Rhodes Memorial and then towards the UCT upper campus. Two firefighters were injured while trying to contain the blaze and taken to hospital. UCT ann...