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BACK TO BASICS || How to achieve your 2025 weight-loss goal
Reality strikes. The festive season has ended, and many people are counting the cost: Bank accounts are depleted; the routines of work/school have returned; many people have a darker complexion from sunburn; and the tentative foray onto the bathroom scale…
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CRIME || CIT robbers still at large
The Hawks’ National Priority Violent Crime (NPVC) is requesting the assistance of the public in tracing the whereabouts of a suspect depicted in the screenshot. He was involved in a failed cash-in-transit robbery that occurred at Sir Lowry’s Diesel Depot…
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Lace-up for a vital cause
The Boland Islamic Council Women’s League (BICWL) will once again host its highly anticipated annual Pink Walk for Cancer on Sunday 9 February at Harmony Park in Gordon’s Bay Road, Strand.
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SCHOOLS || ‘May your dreams soar’
The 2024 matric class of Somerset College maintained the school’s flawless pass rate in last year’s Independent Examinations Board (IEB), along with an unbroken record of a perfect Bachelor’s degree pass for all candidates.
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N2-vragmotorongeluk: Tragedie tref
Die owerhede se ondersoek duur voort nadat ’n middeljarige motorbestuurder in ’n tragiese ongeluk op die N2-snelweg dood is. Die 47-jarige slagoffer se lewe is kortgeknip nadat ’n skeepsvraghouer van ’n vragmotor afgeval het terwyl dit onder die Kramatweg-brug deurbeweeg…
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Lace-up for a vital cause
The Boland Islamic Council Women’s League (BICWL) will once again host its highly anticipated annual Pink Walk for Cancer on Sunday 9 February at Harmony Park in Gordon’s Bay Road, Strand.
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SCHOOLS || Setting a new benchmark in academic excellence
The 2024 matric class of Hope and Light School in Somerset West delivered outstanding results, notching up a 94,7% pass rate in the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations. The school’s third-ever Grade 12 cohort improved on its 2023 pass rate…
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Suzie kán baie goed braai
Suzette “Suzie” Wandrag, ’n 47-jarige braaimeester van Strand, is gereed om haar stempel in Kokkedoor: Vuur en Vlam af te druk wanneer dié kookkompetisie Donderdag 6 Februarie op kykNET begin.
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LOCAL CLUB CRICKET || Great weekend for SWCC
Somerset West Cricket Club (SWCC) returned to winning ways when its first team secured a seven-wicket victory over Belhar CC in a First Division B encounter at Radloff Park’s Alan Olsen Oval on Saturday 18 January.
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ADVERTORIAL || Mediclinic Vergelegen launches Electrophysiology Lab
Mediclinic Vergelegen presented the opening of its newly constructed Electrophysiology (EP) Lab, marking a significant expansion of the hospital’s cardiac services. This cutting-edge facility, which has been a long-time goal for the hospital team, re









