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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, the UK, on July 17 2020.Image: REUTERS/ CHRIS JACKSON
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Barbados to drop Queen Elizabeth as head of state in 2021

The Caribbean island of Barbados wants to remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic, the government has said, reviving a plan mooted several times in the past. A former colony that gained independence in…

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After being burgled four times, Reuben Birin Special School for the Hearing Impaired in Port Elizabeth was torched.Image: GroundUp/ Joseph Chirume
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Losses run into millions as school is burgled four times, set alight twice

Reuben Birin Special School for the Hearing Impaired has been burgled four times in the past week and was set alight on Thursday and then again on Saturday. Classes are suspended and the damage is in the millions of rands. The school in…

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Port Elizabeth dad and his baby girl killed in suspected hit

A Port Elizabeth father and his seven-month-old daughter were shot and killed in their bed in a suspected hit. Siyabulela Vena, 40, was shot multiple times and his daughter Asesakhe was shot more than twice, while they were lying in bed…

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