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Positivity is crucial to living life on a new level. Positive thoughts, feelings, and actions are what will take your life from where you are to where you want to be. Positive people live better lives, their thoughts are focused on the good, whereas negative people live miserable lives, enslaved by their thoughts of what they lack. For the next 70 days, only think, speak, and act in a positive manner. Engage in the positivity fast, do not think, speak, or act in a negative way. If you can do this for the duration you will start to reprogram your mind. Many people unconsciously are so focused on the negative aspects of life, observe yourself and others and you will see what I am referring to, when you speak about something good, people have an almost natural tendency to be negative, that seems to be a result of the conditioning of the world and the environment in which we live in, where people are so obsessed with looking for what will and can go wrong, rather than looking at the...

KZN father sentenced to 2 life terms for rape of daughter, 13 Durban – The Empangeni Regional Court convicted and sentenced a 53-year-old man to two life terms on Thursday for the rape of his 13-year-old daughter. He was found guilty after the magistrate heard how he repeatedly raped his biological daughter in 2013, according to police. "In February 2013, the victim (13) was at her father's homestead at Matshana area, Empangeni, when she was called by her father to his bedroom," said police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala. "She was raped by her father and she reported the matter to her stepmother, who was not at home on that day." &amp;<span tabindex="-1" class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.6" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background: yellow;">lt</span>;a <span tabindex="-1" class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.7" role=...

#Listeriosis: Practical guide to avoid spreading killer bacterium Food safety tips to prevent the spreading of listeriosis: >Wash your hands >Wash your hands before handling food and during food preparation >Wash your hands after going to the toilet >Wash and sanitise all surfaces and equipment used for food preparation >Protect kitchen areas and food from insects, pests and animals >Separate raw and cooked food >Separate raw meat, poultry and seafood from other foods >Use separate equipment and utensils such as knives and cutting boards for handling raw foods Store food in containers to avoid contact between raw and prepared foods >Cook food thoroughly >Cook food thoroughly, especially meat, poultry, eggs and seafood. LOVE Y0URSELF, PREVENT LISTERIOSIS!!

JUST BREATHE!! Unexpected change can be like a breath of fresh air-a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.... Sarah Moon tackles life's issues with a sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip Just Breathe. With both Sarah and her cartoon heroine undergoing fertility treatments, her fiction often reflects her reality. However, she hadn't scripted her husband's infidelity. In the wake of her shattered marriage, Sarah flees to the coastal town in Northern California where she grew up. There, she revisits her troubling past: an emotionally distant father, the loss of her mother and an unexpected connection with Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob skewered mercilessly in her comics. But he's been through some changes himself. And just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah makes a most startling discovery. She's pregnant. The winds of change have led Sarah to this surprising new beginning. All she can do is just close her eyes...and breathe. In ...

  Unemployed women should be trained to produce and supply government-issued sanitary pads - ANCWL Cape Town - Capacity building programmes for unemployed women on how to produce sanitary pads and run a business to supply government-issued sanitary pads should be offered to primary and high school pupils, the ANC Women’s League has said. "Government can later source the sanitary towels from women-owned businesses. There are many things like free stationary, free condoms, et al that government is providing but the biggest suppliers of those items remain male-owned businesses, in particular white. Radical socio-economic transformation must be in theory and in practice in all sectors," secretary general Meokgo Matuba said in a statement. The ANCWL’s comments come after Minister of Women in the Presidency Bathabile Dlamini last week reportedly told Parliament's Multiparty Women's Caucus that pupils will soon receive free pads, IOL reported . Matuba said governm...

ALLEGED BUTTERWORTH RAPIST AND MURDERER REMAINS BEHIND BARS. Butterworth-an alleged rapist is to remain behind bars until his formal bail application next week, Eastern Cape police said on Tuesday. The 21-year-old man, who allegedly raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl at Mazizini Location in Butterworth in the Eastern Cape, appeared in the Butterworth Magistrate's Court on Tuesday morning. "The case of the accused has been postponed to Monday, January 8, for a formal bail application. The accused remained in custody as he was not granted bail," said Captain Jackson Manatha. It is alleged that the rape took place on Wednesday, December 27, at about 22:00. &amp;<span tabindex="-1" class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.7" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background: yellow;">lt</span>;a <span tabindex="-1" class="goog-spellcheck-word" id="...

                            PAYING ACCORDING TO YOUR INCOME. In December 2017,president Jacob Zuma made a shocking announcement based on #feesmustfall campaign, he claimed that the government will subsidise free higher education for poor and working class students who comes from households with a combined annual income of R350 000 or less, commencing in 2018. The former president (Jacob Zuma ), also made a provision for the "missing middle" students -those from households earning up to R600 000 annually-to have their 2018 fee increase paid for by the state through gap grant funding. while president Cyril Ramaphosa's government grapples with the enormity and practicality of Zuma's announcement, students whose combined family income exceeds R600 000 annually will unfortunately still have to pay for their tertiary education for the forese...