Realising that someone may be following you can be frightening. You may notice the same person behind you for several streets, or a vehicle that continues to follow after you make several turns.
There may be an innocent explanation, but never ignore your instincts if you genuinely feel in danger. Stay calm, avoid confrontation, and move towards people who can help.
Spring brings warmer days, but it can also bring severe weather. Across the interior and eastern regions, thunderstorms, heavy rain, hail, strong winds, and lightning can develop quickly. The south-western Cape has a different rainfall pattern, but late cold fronts, damaging winds, and localised flooding may still occur.
Storm damage cannot always be prevented. However, a few simple checks can protect your family and reduce damage to your home.
Children use WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, online games, and other platforms every day. They use them to talk to friends, complete schoolwork, watch videos, and play games.
Most of these activities are harmless. However, the internet also makes it easier for dangerous people to contact children without their families knowing.
It may look small, but is it?
A pothole is a pothole, right? That might be right and wrong at the same time. Everyone, at some point, has watched a pothole get bigger and bigger over time. We are so desensitised to the point that we’ve even learned to dodge one. You might take it as just a gap in the tar, but a pothole is more than just a little oopsie. A tyre drops into it at speed, and it stops being a minor thing. What starts as a bump you barely notice can end in a blown tyre, a bent rim, or a driver losing control entirely, and the gap between annoying and dangerous is smaller than most people assume.
Watching children become more independent is an important part of growing up. Whether they are travelling to school, attending sports practice, visiting friends, catching a taxi, bus, or train, using e-hailing services, or learning to drive, teenagers often spend more time away from home.
Children are curious. They touch, taste, open, and explore everything around them. This is how they learn, but it can also put them in danger.
Many poisoning risks are found inside ordinary homes. Cleaning products, medicine, paraffin, pesticides, alcohol, batteries, and even some plants can seriously harm a child if swallowed, breathed in, or touched.
Few situations are more frightening for a parent than realising their child is missing. One moment, everything seems normal, and the next, a cold panic sets in. Your mind races through countless possibilities, making it difficult to think clearly.
