Were you hiding underneath a rock this past week?

Here’s a quick round-up of what’s been making headlines:

• 2017’s matrics received their results and 75.1% of them passed.

• A New Year’s Eve flare almost set the local NSRI base’s roof on fire.

• Sixy-nine babies were born on 1 January in KZN. Among the mothers were two 14-year-old girls.

• A 15-year-old boy tragically drowned at Naval Island, Richards Bay on New Year’s Day.

• An ANC councillor was stabbed to death by one of the thousands of beachgoers at Alkantstand on New Year’s Day.

• Ballito residents are offering a R250 000 reward for the arrest of the culprits who threw a boulder onto a passing car from an overhead bridge on the N2, killing two children inside the car.

• At least 20 people died in a horror train crash near Kroonstad on Thursday.

• Meanwhile, it’s currently colder in Northern America than on Mars. With temperatures already plummeting to -10°C in some areas, the situation was made much worse with the arrival of a Bomb Cyclone on Thursday.

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