Innholdsfortegnelse for 2022-12-12 i Daily Voice

THERE were tears of disbelief in Athlone over the weekend when a 73-year-old ouma allegedly stabbed her husband to death inside their home. It is alleged that the soft-spoken and friendly granny has been abused by her husband for years, and her family believe the stabbing was an accident. The hartseer family say the woman is still in shock after the incident on Thursday afternoon, as local lawyers line up to represent her at Athlone Magistrate’s Court today. Her 75-year-old sister, who asked not to be named, says she was called to the house in Calendula Road to comfort her younger sister as she relayed the incident to police. She says the couple had been married for 35 years and had allegedly faced difficulty due to the 72-year-old husband’s drinking…

Worse In November, it released data in which they emphatically stated just how much worse load shedding had become this year. It said between January and September, the country had experienced nearly 2 000 hours of load shedding – the most since the country first implemented load shedding 15 years ago. Energy Speaking to eNCA, CSIR senior researcher Monique le Roux said: “At the end of October, we were looking at about 230% increase in load shedding compared to last October, but at the moment, we are looking at about 260% increase compared to this time last year with a total of 6400GWh [gigawatt hours] of unserved energy for 2022.” According to Le Roux, the price of unserved energy costs the country about R87 per kilowatt that is not supplied,…