Five Things You Need To Know As Wake Up: Power outages this weekend in Durban

We made it to Friday, yay! 

Before you get the weekend started, have a look at five of the top stories you need to know this morning. 

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1.

On Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa held the State of the Nation address. We’ve invited our News editor at East Coast Radio, Marius Van Der Walt, to share the top points in a manner that is understandable. That’s on the way at 08:20 and a podcast will also be available a bit later. 

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2.

Nomakula ‘Kuli’ Roberts’ family confirmed her death in a statement to the media on Thursday. The details of Kuli’s memorial and funeral will be confirmed in due course. 

A witness revealed that Kuli collapsed on the set of her new show.

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3.

Can you believe it’s time for the Aquelle Midmar Mile again?! 

If you are participating, send your pics to 061 792 9495! We’ll probably speak to the winners on Monday morning! 

All the best to all the swimmers! 

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4.

A valuable avant garde painting has been vandalised by a “bored” security guard who drew eyes on faceless figures in the priceless artwork on his first day working in a Russian gallery. 

It’s hilarious and the pics are available on our site.

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5.

Several suburbs in the Durban south area will be without electricity on Saturday as council workers repair damage to a massive cable. The City said between 10am and 2pm on Saturday, February 12, teams will be working on the City’s 132kV cables between Edwin Swales substation and Rossburgh substation, which were damaged on January 28 by third party contractors. 

The following areas will be affected:

• Island View

• Bayhead

• Bluff

• Wentworth

• Brighton Beach

• Jacobs

• Edwin Swales

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