Economic And Management Sciences Past Year Papers

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• News24 | He waited 40 years for his dream: The unexpected story of a Garden Route pottery teacher

  Anthony Noble spent 40 years educating young minds along the Garden Route as a primary school teacher. But in the back of his mind, he held on to a dream: to own his own pottery school after a chance cleanup of a studio in 1980. Today, he boasts 12 wheels, five kilns and stories for days after taking a leap of faith in his retirement.

• News24 | ‘There was so much blood’: Cape Town boy, 11, recovering after caught in gang crossfire

  Zaylin Visser, 11, was hit in the head by a stray bullet while walking to a corner shop in Mitchells Plain.

• News24 | ‘Peace-loving’ PA’s McKenzie ‘declares war’ on ANC

  PA leader Gayton McKenzie declared war on the ANC in the Eastern Cape, vowing his party would take every municipality in the province in next year’s municipal elections.

• News24 | ‘It was him or me’: Cape Town mom stabs drug-addicted son after 12-hour wait for cops

  A Khayelitsha mother says she was left with no choice but to stab her 19-year-old son after he allegedly attacked her and her children while in a drug-fuelled rage.

• News24 | Higher Education committee will still question minister on Seta appointments

  Higher Education and Training Minister Nobuhle Nkabane withdrawing the appointment of ANC-connected people as chairpersons to the Sector Education and Training Authorities does not quell the questions of the portfolio committee overseeing her, its chairperson, ANC MP Tebogo Letsie, said.

• News24 | DA calls for urgent parole reform following rape of a nine-year-old girl

  The DA has renewed its call for urgent reform to the parole system after a 51-year-old man, accused of raping a nine-year-old in Hanover Park, was revealed to be out on parole for a similar offence committed two decades ago.

• News24 | Apartheid assassin De Kock believes he could be falsely implicated in Cradock Four murders

  Apartheid assassin Eugene de Kock believes it is highly probable that he will be falsely implicated in the 1985 murders of the Cradock Four because of his “infamy and history”.

• News24 | MKP, EFF uses botched Omotoso prosecution to gun for Batohi, Pretorius

  Corruption-accused Jacob Zuma’s MKP used the botched prosecution of Nigerian televangelist Timothy Omotoso to further their campaign against the National Prosecution Authority.

• News24 | UPDATE | ‘Most-wanted’ cash-in-transit, murder suspects killed in Boksburg shootout

  Two of South Africa’s most-wanted cash-in-transit and murder suspects were shot dead during a shootout with police in Boksburg on Saturday afternoon.

• News24 | ‘Not many people get to see this animal’: Scientists find elusive shrew after 46 years

  On the fourth attempt to find an elusive forest animal, which had only been recorded once before, scientists came up empty after checking 70 traps. But with only six left to check, an excited shout announced something researchers had begun to fear they would never find: the Boosmansbos long-tailed forest shrew.

• News24 | KZN SAPS pays over R154m in civil claims for unlawful arrests, detentions, negligent driving

  KwaZulu-Natal police have paid out a staggering R154 million during the 2024/25 financial year for civil claims ranging from unlawful arrests and detention to negligent driving by its members.

• News24 | AG wants greater Parly oversight of municipalities failing to declare financial statements

  Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke has again called on Parliament to help her ensure that municipalities submit their annual financial statements on time.

• News24 | A rhino a day: Rewilding project reports relocation success in first year

  A rewilding project to find homes for around 2 000 rhinos at a South African breeding facility has seen the equivalent of more than one rhino moved every day for a year. In addition, 33 rhinos were born in the wild.

• News24 | Eastern Cape’s R72bn school infrastructure backlog will not clear until 2062 - education MEC

  At the current annual allocation of R1.9 billion and without drastic intervention, the Eastern Cape will not clear its infrastructure backlog until 2062, according to Education MEC Fundile Gade.

• News24 | ‘He was opportunistic’: Ex-neighbour questions SA IT businessman’s refugee claims

  Former KwaZulu-Natal South Coast resident Errol Langton and his family moved to the US “under false pretences” as part of that country’s refugee programme, his former neighbour claimed.

• News24 | Armed robbers attack Senzo Meyiwa murder investigator, but no evidence lost

  One of the detectives who investigated the murder of former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa was the victim of an armed robbery and attempted kidnapping this week, according to police.

• News24 | Eight people killed in shooting in Umlazi, KZN

  Eight people were killed when gunmen opened fire on a building in the Zama informal settlement in Umlazi’s U Section on Friday evening.

• News24 | DEFENCELESS: Loss of radar capability means SAAF has ‘no eyes’, cannot defend SA

  Decades of cuts in military funding have left the SA Air Force without much-needed radar capability at air bases, which risks aviation accidents in bad weather as pilots cannot rely on vision to manouevre aircraft.

• News24 | From alleged terrorist to potential future president: Farhad Hoomer launches Sharia law party

  The controversial Farhad Hoomer – who was accused of terrorism and identified as the leader of a local ISIS cell and hit with sanctions by the United States – has applied to register his own political party: the Islamic State of Africa.

• News24 | NPA: ‘No conclusive evidence of rape’ in case involving 7-year-old Matatiele girl

  The National Prosecuting Authority says it declined to prosecute anyone for the alleged rape of a 7-year-old Matatiele girl because there was “no conclusive evidence” that she had been sexually assaulted.