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Daily Voice|2025-12-04

Parliament votes to keep SA’s ‘30 percent school pass mark’

Debate Bosa also handed a petition with more than 20 000 signatures to Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube on the day of the debate. He called for a more ambitious overhaul of the system, saying: “We demand transparency and real solutions, not ANC platitudes.” He proposed measures such as an independent education ombudsman, better teacher salaries, a school voucher programme and a national audit of teacher skills. Committee chair Tebogo Letsie urged a broader view, saying improving education was a collective responsibility. He challenged claims that learners pass matric with 30 percent. “Let it be stated unambiguously that 30 percent is not the pass mark of our curriculum,” he said, noting that subject thresholds and promotional criteria exceed the figure. He added: “An aggregate of 30 percent falls far short…

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Daily Voice|2025-12-04

Boy, 9, killed in mass shooting

A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy was killed in a mass shooting on Tuesday evening in which five people were shot inside a house in Rocklands, Mitchells Plain. The wrede attack took place in Viscount Street around 9pm when four unknown gunmen entered the premises and started opening fire on the victims. Little Zechariah Matthee, 9, was shot dead inside a wendy house, alongside Cleo Bailey, 19, and Mougsheen Daniels, 26. Two other victims aged 51 and 36, were wounded in the attack. According to a family member of the deceased, Zechariah is her grandson and Cleo Bailey is her daughter. The woman, who does not want to be named, explained: “I was at the shop across the veldjie when I heard gunshots going off. “I ran back home and I heard people…

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Daily Voice|2025-12-04

NOT-SO FINGER LICKIN’ GOOD

IT’S apparently not-so finger lickin’ good at the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in Modderdam Road, Belhar. Ask anyone who watched the viral video taken by a Bishop Lavis man on Sunday night. The ou his wife went through the 24-hour drive-through to buy some food, but they ended having sandwiches for supper after their appetite was spoiled by the vuil kombuis. The video shows the kitchen floor in a morisge state, with cups, tissues and chips lying around. Unhappy The unhappy man can be heard saying: “Kyk hoe lyk it hier binne in die Kentucky, Belhar. These people are working with food but see how it looks inside. Yoh...” A worker can be seen walking over the vullis as another patron can be heard ordering food in the background. The…

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Daily Voice|2025-12-04

Four vas on drug charges

Arrested Meanwhile in Mfuleni, cops descended on a premises in Nosethu Crescent. Twigg added: “Members found two, one kilogram bags containing compressed dagga. A 25-year-old male was arrested for the possession of dagga. “The same members followed up on information they received about a person who is selling drugs at a premises in Admirable Street, New Beginnings, Mfuleni. “They searched the premises and found four mandrax tablets, 27 small plastic packets containing dagga and a small amount of dagga in a plastic packet. A 29-year-old male was arrested.”…

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Daily Voice|2025-12-04

TWO SHOT DEAD AT ATHLONE COURT

TWO men were shot dead within minutes of each other near the Athlone Magistrate’s Court yesterday. A chilling eyewitness account has revealed that the men were targeted by gunmen after leaving the courthouse. Crime-scene experts moved between two cordoned-off locations as Athlone police opened two separate murder dockets. Police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk said: “Our our crime scene experts are currently on two scenes near Athlone Magistrate’s court combing the areas for clues.” The first attack unfolded at 1.45pm, when a 32-year-old man was shot and killed while sitting in a car about 50 metres from the court. Five minutes later, gunfire erupted again, this time in Kewtown, roughly 300 metres away, where a 31-year-old man was shot dead. Van Wyk said: “The suspect/s fled the scene in an…

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