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10 REASONS TO FOLLOW YOUR HEART This year, when you are making your goals and resolutions, why don’t you try something a little different, that you may find tremendously fulfilling. Instead of setting practical, monetary, and professional goals, decide to make goals to follow your heart. If you have spent your professional life living in your head, pushing yourself harder and harder, this may be a dramatic and welcome change. You can stop trying to prove yourself to the world, to your boss, to your customer, and focus on proving that you are good enough and content enough to yourself. You can show those that you care about that they matter more to you than working long hours, getting ahead, and making the bottom line. 1. When you follow your heart, you cease having regrets. There is no greater truth that when we follow our heart, we cease to have regrets. While things may not always go in our favor, at least we will have tried. At least we will know the truth, and at l...

Police are not taking lightly the allegations that a forensic investigator sexually assaulted two pupils  at a Soweto primary school. They say this tarnishes the image of the police force. The investigator had gone to the school to prepare children for an upcoming case against a security guard  who allegedly molested 87 pupils. "Irrespective of whether a member has been working as a forensic investigator or just a police officer, he’s expected to protect the code of conduct of the police, the constitution of the country and also all abiding citizens," said police spokesman Vish Naidoo. "To have been alleged to have done something of this nature, not only brings the organisation into disrepute but it creates a great deal of mistrust in members of the SAPS”. READ:  Shock as forensic investigator turns on those he's supposed to protect The Gauteng Department of Basic Education said in a statement that the incident happened on Monday. Gauteng Educati...

A start-up is looking to fund new technology which will enable users to listen to music through their cheekbone. London-based Voxos will soon start a Kickstarter campaign to crowdsource funding to commercialise a pair of sunglasses which will allow the wearer to listen to music, answer calls and operate the iPhone’s personal artificial intelligence assistant Siri - all through bone conduction technology and without earphones. “The sound is transferred with bone conduction technology which leaves the ears completely free. The growing number of people being active outside also causes a higher number in accidents and with this device we want to prepare people for their journey and connecting them to everything they need,” Maja Köberl, spokesperson for the company, told Fin24. Voxos is a team of seven people with experience in business and technology. They aim to provide a product that can make staying connected safer and more convenient in an ever-changing world. Wearers...

They had at least 40 “wives” – one as young as 12 – who felt “honoured” when it was their turn to provide leaders of the Mancoba Seven Angels Ministry with sexual satisfaction. When police took the young women and girls away for questioning after a deadly shoot-out two weeks ago, they asked to be allowed to grieve after “losing their husbands”. Sordid details are now emerging of the killer cult in the Eastern Cape town of Ngcobo, whose leaders and members allegedly murdered five officers at the local police station last month. Now a commission of inquiry into the Ngcobo massacre is on the cards. City Press has learnt that the CRL Rights Commission will meet Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Zweli Mkhize tomorrow, to table a resolution for a commission of inquiry. On Friday, the commission will meet police in Limpopo, where six cult-like churches similar to the Mancoba Seven Angels Ministry have been identified. Willing sex slaves Police officer...

The critically-acclaimed local film Inxeba (The Wound) may have won a legal battle, but its war is far from over, as filmmakers will be back in court at the end of March.  The movie's creators scored a victory on Tuesday when the North Gauteng High Court overturned the Film and Publication Board Appeals Tribunal's decision , to give the film an age restriction of X18. This put it in the same category as hardcore pornography and meant the film had to be pulled from mainstream cinemas. It came after traditional leaders objected to the film being shown , saying it portrayed Xhosa culture in a derogatory way. Inxeba tells the story of a young, gay Xhosa man, played by Nhakane Toure, who goes to the Eastern Cape as a guardian for initiates. The High Court has now temporarily reclassified the film as 18 and it will be back in cinemas on Friday. The filmmakers will go to the court again though, asking it to return the film to its original age restriction of 16. ...

The National Funeral Practitioners Association of South Africa (Nafupa SA) will be honouring former president Jacob Zuma for his selfless efforts in making South Africa a better country. The association says that Zuma played a major role economically and socially during his time in office. Zuma is among 18 people and organisations who will be honoured. Nafupa SA says although his tenure was marred by controversy, he’s done a lot for service delivery and radical economic transformation . Zuma stepped down as president on 14 February during an address at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. He said: “I have therefore come to the decision to resign as president with immediate effect. Even though I disagree with the decision of the leadership of my organisation. I have always been a disciplined member of the ANC.” The former president has said he would remain involved in the ANC and work for the promotion of projects he believes in, such as radical economic transformation. Zuma ...