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Media24 has announced it will start consultations with staff about the possible closure of five magazines and two newspapers as well as outsourcing and reducing the frequency of its remaining monthly magazines, among other interventions, as the Covid-19 pandemic cuts into advertising and circulation. The publisher will also consider taking two newspapers digital only and reducing…

High capacity water tank. The Department of Education in KwaZulu-Natal has denied a claim that they paid R170 000 each for water tankers.Officials said it is misinformation and tanks cost R28 000.The department said there is a campaign to tarnish its image.Social media posts claiming the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education purchased water tankers at a…

All the latest coronavirus and lockdown updatesNews24 has spoken to various sources who have indicated that Nakedi Tebatso Ntshane has not died of coronavirus-related causes, nor was she a pilot during the repatriation.A Facebook post claimed that Ntshane was a "female pilot from Atteridgeville who fetched S. Africans from China", stating that she has died of Covid-19.The…

withdrawn from circulation in both print and digital formats.The book would also not be reprinted, NB Publishers - which is owned by Media24 - said previously."NB regrets and sincerely apologises for the emotional harm that the publication of the book may have caused the Malan and Wiley families."In the book - which was co-written by…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox.  Sign up here.President Trump, in his White House coronavirus task force briefing Thursday, appeared to suggest that light and disinfectants might have the potential to treat the coronavirus — prompting a number of stories condemning the comments, others seeking to defend the president and a scathing tweet from…