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15 ways to Find your Life Partner.   Anyhoo…love may be a knocking so let’s get straight to it. Here’s a practical no-nonsense guide to finding your life partner.  1)    The secret about true love that will bring you back to reality. I hate to break the news to you, but true love doesn’t exist. In the book, Marry Him; The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough , author Lori Gottlieb cites biological anthropologist Helen Fisher’s studies on the physiology of romantic love . “She found that when you feel that strong chemistry with someone, the brain system that becomes activated is the reward system, which is what also lights up when you reach for a piece of chocolate or cigarette or an amphetamine.” Gottlieb writes. Fisher’s research shows with all the dopamine floating around, it’s hard to realize that you’re simply experiencing a chemical state which can last anywhere from 18 months to 3 years. “Fisher isn’t saying that chemistry isn’t important. I...

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 ...

EFF leader Julius Malema has explained that his party is specifically aiming to remove Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip because he is white. "We have taken a decision that we are going to remove the mayor of PE [Port Elizabeth]," he told a crowd gathered for the launch of the party’s election registration campaign at the Standard Bank arena in Johannesburg on Sunday. "Why? Why not [mayor of DA-led Johannesburg Herman] Mashaba, why not Solly [Msimanga – mayor of DA-led Tshwane]? "Because the mayor of DA in PE is a white man. So, these people, when you want to hit them hard – go after a white man. They feel a terrible pain, because you have touched a white man." "i believe that sometimes malema is out of order, because what he is doing is called racism "  follow the link for more information  http://m.news24.com/southAfrica/news/we-are-cutting-the-throat-of-whiteness-malema-on-plans-to-remove-trollip-20180304

Polony and products from an Enterprise Foods factory in Polokwane‚ Limpopo‚ are the source of the world’s largest outbreak of listeria. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi made the announcement on Sunday afternoon. More than 16 environmental samples from the Enterprise Polokwane factory tested positive for the listeriosis monocytogenes strain ST 6. The results from the factory were confirmed at midnight on Saturday at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases as the strain to blame for the outbreak that killed 27% of patients in South Africa. “Avoid all processed meat products that are sold as ready to eat‚” said Motsoaledi. He told pregnant women to avoid any processed meat “like the plague”. “The National Consumer Commission has issued the manufacturer involved [Enterprise] with food recall notices‚” Motsoaledi said. This particular strain of listeria monocytogenes that infected so many people is sequence-type 6 and was particularly “virulent”. It was transmitte...

A 10-year-old boy and a woman died in a fire at Pholile Park in Strand, near Cape Town on Saturday, fire and rescue spokesperson Theo Layne said. Meanwhile, firefighters at Overberg are still fighting to contain a blaze there as well. Western Cape traffic chief Kenny Africa said officials were busy evacuating residents near Pearly beach. “It’s huge and it's devastating,” Africa said. The Strand fire started in the early hours on Saturday. Residents living in shacks around the area had been displaced. Layne said fires which affected other parts of Cape Town have since been contained. “The Cape Point fire has been contained. An earlier fire at Table Mountain has been almost extinguished,” he said. Two fire engines, water tankers and 60 crew members were part of the team that tackled the blaze at Cape Point. in my own view i believe the 10 year old boy and the women must be buried by the state and those who are affected by the fire must be provided a place to stay and food...

Thirteen people sustained injuries when a taxi rolled off the R33 in Cramond, KwaZulu-Natal. ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said paramedics found the taxi had rolled off the road and down an embankment, coming to a stop among some bushes. "One patient was found next to the road while several others were found next to the taxi. “Paramedics assessed the patients and found that thirteen people had sustained minor to moderate injuries," he said. Meanwhile, in Oudtshoorn on the Western Cape a bakkie rolled over resulting in 12 people sustaining minor injuries. "It is understood that most of the patients had been on the back of the vehicle when it rolled," Meiring added. The patients were treated for their injuries and were thereafter transported to Oudtshoorn Provincial Hospital for further treatment, he said. I believe that, the government must bury all those who died in that taxi accident and the reason for the roll of the taxi must be investigated"...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has recently claimed the ruling party must move ahead with land expropriation without compensation because of a 'pressing' and 'urgent' hunger for farming land among South Africans. However, comprehensive opinion polls commissioned by the IRR from 2015 to 2017 have repeatedly shown that the great majority of black South Africans have little interest in land reform. In the IRR's 2016 field survey, for instance, only 1% of black respondents (down from 2% the previous year) said that 'more land reform' was the 'best way to improve lives'. By contrast, 73% of black people saw 'more jobs and better education' as the 'best way' for them to get ahead. In similar vein, in the IRR's 2017 field survey, only 1% of black respondents identified 'speeding up land reform' as a top priority for the government. Even among people who were dispossessed of land under apartheid laws – and were most li...