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Oyster Box Hotel unveils bronze statue to honour beloved cat Skabenga
THE Oyster Box Hotel in uMhlanga celebrated their famous cat, Skabenga, by unveiling a bronze sculpture of him yesterday.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Signs you are truly living your life fully
® You wake up most mornings (not all) with an urge for the adventure the days offer.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Howick man nabbed with 382 cannabis plants worth R1.2million
A 52-YEAR-OLD resident of Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands is facing serious charges after being arrested by members of the Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigation unit for the cultivation of cannabis.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Zeder reports 21.9% decline in net asset value after lower investment valuations
ZEDER Investments’ share price increased 5% on the JSE Tuesday morning even though it reported a 21.9% decline in net asset value to R1.68 per share in the six months to August 31.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Hawks team deployed a traffic helicopter, gathered at the gate to ‘stop’ Molefe’s arrest
A HELICOPTER belonging to the Gauteng Traffic Police, transporting Hawks members, hovered over the controversial businessman and murder-accused Katiso ‘KT’ Molefe’s home for about 10 minutes during his arrest, not to help detectives working on the case, but to stop ‘a bogus operation.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
MCHUNU’S CLAIMS PUT CYRIL IN TIGHT CORNER
SUSPENDED Police Minister Senzo Mchunu may have just added to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s long list of troubles with his admission that the president was briefed and agreed to the controversial disbanding of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT).
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October 22, 2025
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Piastri shrugs off performance drop as 'no major concern'
ONCE the dominant force in the McLaren camp, Oscar Piastri now finds his once-comfortable points buffer evaporating — and quickly.
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October 22, 2025
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Bass can lead with Viva's Liberte
Viva's Liberte looks the traditional route for a classic horse
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Cosatu caught between ANC and SACP ahead of 2026 local elections
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) says it has not yet decided whether it will support the African National Congress (ANC) or the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the 2026 local government elections.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
ANC withdraws court bid, reaches settlement with Ezwelweni
THE African National Congress (ANC) has quietly withdrawn its urgent court application to unfreeze its bank accounts after reaching a confidential out-of-court settlement with Ezulweni Investments over an R85 million debt.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
KZN records most murder, rape arrests in Operation Shanela
KWAZULU-Natal has recorded the highest number of murder and rape arrests in the country during the latest week of Operation Shanela - police nationwide arrested more than 17 000 suspects and confiscated 179 unlicensed firearms.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
South32 output flat at Hillside Aluminium, manganese down 7% amid load shedding impact
SOUTH32 reported steady saleable production at its Hillside Aluminium smelter for the quarter ended September 2025, despite ongoing load shedding by Eskom that continues to strain the operation.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Cricketing great Michael Procter should be honoured with a statue
DURING a recent visit to England, I was delighted to stumble across a bronze statue of the legendary British cricketer, Freddie Trueman, in the town of Skipton, depicting him in his fiery bowling action.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Proteas keep grinding in Rawalpindi
FEW would disagree with the presumption that Tristan Stubbs was playing for his Proteas Test career in the first innings on the second day of the second Test against Pakistan at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium yesterday.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Two SA energy leaders join forces on 720MW wind farm
TWO leading local energy companies - developer Red Cap Energy and independent power producer (IPP) Anthem - have partnered to build the Nuweveld Wind Farm, a 720-megawatt (MW) wind farm in the upper Karoo region of the Western Cape.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
US' scheme to disrupt Beijing Time exposed
CHINA'S national security agency revealed at the weekend that the US National Security Agency has long plotted cyberattacks against the National Time Service Centre, which is responsible for generating and maintaining standard Beijing Time.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Circular economy: The missing link in Africa’s corporate sustainability strategies
WHEN corporate leaders gather around sustainability tables, the focus often rests on compliance, reporting frameworks, carbon audits, and ESG disclosures.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Passenger killed, driver wounded in Argyle Road shooting
A MAN waskilled and another critically injured in a shootout on Argyle Road in Durban yesterday.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Health department dismisses newborn death claim at Durban's Addington Hospital
THE Department of Health in KwaZulu-Natal has dismissed an allegation that a newborn baby died at Durban's Addington Hospital because of staff negligence.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Water must never be used as a weapon of war
EACH time I attend Cairo Water Week, I am reminded that water is more than just a resource, but the lifeblood that connects us as humanity.
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October 22, 2025
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Weak, fragmented State threatens South Africa’s development goals - Fikeni
SOUTH Africa's inability to meet the targets of its National Development Plan (NDP) is rooted in years of corruption, political fragmentation, and institutional decay, according to Professor Somadoda Fikeni.
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October 22, 2025
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WHY MOPANI WORMS ARE THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE PROTEIN
TOMORROW the world marks World Edible Insect Day, a global reminder that the future of food might just crawl.
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October 22, 2025
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Epstein ordeal captured in memoir
A MEMOIR by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s main accusers whose claims led to the downfall of Britain's Prince Andrew was released yesterday, promising to keep Epstein’s ties to President Donald Trump in the spotlight.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Bail hearing delayed for taxi boss charged with attempted murder
BAIL proceedings for a taxi boss, charged with attempted murder of senior advocate Coreth Naudé, who was shot while representing SARS during a tax inquiry, were delayed yesterday at the Durban Magistrate's Court as he changed lawyers.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
SA men’s hockey coach praises team's grit
WHILE the record 5-1 scoreline in the final of the African Hockey Cup of Nations against hosts Egypt in Ismaila may suggest that the SA men’s team had things all their own way in booking their 2026 World Cup ticket, interim head coach Devon van der Merwe revealed that it was far from the case.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
The importance of culture and language
AS THE South Indians have finished their Purattasi, which is a time for fasting and penance where abstaining from meat and alcohol is a must, best wishes to all who successfully abstained for the period of one month.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Localisation can save the embattled local automotive manufacturing sector
THERE has been a lot of public commentary about the challenges facing the automotive manufacturing industry and the outcomes of the 2025 Auto Week, however scant attention is being paid on one of the key takeaways of the event, namely, how intensified localisation of the vehicle production process can help to alleviate the pressure the industry is facing.
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October 22, 2025
The Mercury
Your brain is lying to you: Why you do what you do
YOUR mind is a masterful storyteller - but not always an honest one.
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October 21, 2025
The Mercury
Madlanga Commission reveals Katiso Molefe's connection to police officer as hitman for criminals
WITNESS A's testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has connected the dots and shown a web of systemic rot where a police officer became a hitman on behalf of the criminal syndicate that sought to eliminate a 'threat.
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October 21, 2025
The Mercury
Everybody was present except the bride
REMEMBER that infamous “Treaty of Versailles” signed after the First World War, in which the clean, white, heaven-descended Allies (the US, the UK, and the usual corner street gang of international bullies) blamed good old Germany for that war and drew up some hectically obscene conditions as reparation for placing the world on hold for a full four years?
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