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Dailydispatch · 🇿🇦 public South Africa · Sep 25, 2026 · 111 words · By Asanda Nini

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Five in running to succeed Buhlungu at Fort HareAsanda Nini25 SEP 2026, 07:433 min readShareFacebookXLinkedInWhatsAppEmailPremiumContinue reading with a subscription.Subscribe for full access to our journalism.View subscriptionsAlready subscribed?

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Sign in · Create an accountShareFacebookXLinkedInWhatsAppEmailContinue Reading12 OCT 2026Family disappointed as plumber gets 28 years for girlfriend's murderLulamile Feni12 OCT 2026Temporary classrooms end safety fears at dilapidated rural primary…

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Claim 1: “Five in running to succeed Buhlungu at Fort Hare”

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Web search results explicitly confirm that five candidates have been shortlisted to succeed Professor Sakhela Buhlungu as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare, with interviews scheduled for mid-October. Wikipedia confirms Buhlungu's role as the current VC.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elijah Barayi (15 June 1930 – 24 January 1994) was a South African trade union leader. Born in Lingelihle Cradock, Barayi was one of eight children that, all came from a working-class family. Cradock…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Barayi

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Maxwell Sakhela Buhlungu is a South African sociology professor and university administrator. He is the current vice chancellor of University of Fort Hare and the former dean of humanities at Universi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhela_Buhlungu

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of Fort Hare (Afrikaans: Universiteit van Fort Hare) is a public university in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was a key institution of higher education for Africans from 1916 to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Fort_Hare

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Claim 2: “plumber gets 28 years for girlfriend's murder”

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While web results show a man sentenced to 28 years for murdering his girlfriend (DA McMahon), there is no evidence in the provided results that the perpetrator was a 'plumber'. Other results refer to a Chinese man sentenced to 7 months or a different murder case in Peru.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 28 or Twenty-eight may refer to: 28 (number), the natural number following 27 and preceding 29. one of the years 28 BC, AD 28, 1928, 2028
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 28 (twenty-eight) is the natural number following 27 and preceding 29. 28 is a composite number, a perfect number, a harmonic divisor number, a centered nonagonal number, a hexagonal number, a happy…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_(number)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 28 Years Later is a 2025 post-apocalyptic coming-of-age horror film produced and directed by Danny Boyle, and written by Alex Garland. The third instalment in the 28 Days Later film series, it stars J…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Years_Later

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Claim 3: “Mthatha's sand truck owners decry crippling fines, 'intimidation'”

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While there is evidence of 'protection fee mafias' and small businesses in Mthatha being fined for outdoor advertising, there is no specific corroboration of 'sand truck owners' specifically decrying 'crippling fines and intimidation' across multiple independent sources in the provided text.

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web search NEUTRAL — 1913 panoramic view of Mthatha with the Mthatha River in the foreground and the Drakensberg mountains in the distance by Caesar Carl Hans Henkel. The settlement existed in the 1870s as a buffer-zone, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mthatha

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web search NEUTRAL — In Mthatha and other regions in the province like Gqeberha, a troubling trend of extortion through “protection fees” is significantly affecting local businesses and vulnerable individuals and its been…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7U0HojFhIs

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web search NEUTRAL — Small business owners in the Mthatha central business district have accused King Sabata Dalindyebo municipal bosses of trying to extort them after many were slapped with contravention notices and told…
https://www.dailydispatch.co.za/news/2026-03-11-uproar-after…

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Claim 4: “Temporary classrooms end safety fears at dilapidated rural primary school”

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The provided evidence discusses dilapidated schools in general and a video game (Sekiro), but does not mention a specific rural primary school receiving temporary classrooms to end safety fears.

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web search NEUTRAL — Reopening facilities before concerns over the safety of buildings are allayed could also lead to excessive absenteeism for both students and teachers. As it is, poor school building conditions have be…
https://theconversation.com/poor-minority-students-at-dilapi…

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web search NEUTRAL — How to unlock Fujioka the Info Broker in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Fujioka is a merchant NPC we can send back to the Dilapidated Temple hub area by following his short sidequest. We can find him in A…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE29Yb01l_4

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web search NEUTRAL — These are located in the middle- and lower-middle-class neighbourhood of small grocery stores, departmental stores, bookstores, and dilapidated apartment and office buildings.The dilapidated one-horse…
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dilapida…

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