The top five stories on www.germistoncitynews.co.za for the week, July 21 to 27, were:
Contraceptives are not a one-size-fits-all remedy
There has been a recorded increase in the number of teenage pregnancies and an astonishing decline in the number of young people on contraceptives in Ekurhuleni. Ekurhuleni health practitioners have attributed these worrying developments mainly to the lack of knowledge and myths associated with contraceptives.
Germiston Flying Squad recover three hijacked vehicles
Officers from the Germiston Flying Squad got more than they bargained for on July 11 when they recovered not one but three hijacked vehicles. The vehicles were reportedly hijacked in both Katlehong and Germiston.
Police arrest three men, search for two following an Ackermans robbery
Ackermans at Lambton Court was robbed by four men on Thursday morning. The incident was confirmed by the Germiston police’s communications officer Const Maxwell Mabunda. “It is reported that three men entered the store while a fourth acted as a lookout, just outside the shop. The men, armed with a black pistol, made off with 210 cellphones,” he said.
Assumption Convent shines a guiding light for the young
In 1945, Fr Halloran of the Paulist Fathers, who were at that time the priests responsible for the Blessed Sacrament Parish Malvern, wrote to the superior general of the Missionary Sisters of the Assumption in Grahamstown, requesting sisters to open a school in Malvern East.
Former political prisoner now Summer Place Boutique Hotel owner
Usually, when one brings up Robben Island you think of the Rivonia Trial and quickly forget the many heroes remembering only one, Nelson Mandela. However, there are a number of South African heroes, dead and alive, who served the nation well by risking their own lives for the freedom of black people during apartheid. Gaby Thono Magomola, an astute businessman, born in a mining town on the West Rand, is one of these greats.
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