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• So this week marks a year since Russia began attacking Ukraine. So the un asked for a minute silence in commemoration for the lives lost in the last year but the Russians, as if they haven’t done enough already, interrupted the minute silence barely seconds into it!

• The Eastern Cape Department of Education has suspended a school teacher on a charge of misconduct for allegedly forcing primary school pupils at Nyibiba Primary School to clean up her vomit.

• Basketball star Dwayne Wade and the battle to get his child, who was born transgender, registered as a female. The child’s biological mom wasn’t allowed to have a say in this as Dwayne and his actress wife Gabrielle union made all the public noise about their stance when it came to Zaya’s wishes.

• The genesis maternity clinic based in Johannesburg is closing its doors at the end of may and many moms-to-be are losing their minds! Many moms used this clinic for the birth of their littles ones.

Is it advisable for both mother and father to be in the room or not? did the father of your child join you during birth? and fathers, have you been wit the mother of your child during birth? how was that experience?
27 Feb 2023 11PM English South Africa Entertainment News

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