East Coast Radio Newswatch
ECR Newswatch @ 16H00
on FM on the station app and on OpenView channel 606, this is East Coast Radio News Watch. A please be advised the following story might be distressing for young listeners and may also be triggering for others. Childline Kayseran is urging mothers suffering with post-partum depression to seek help. It causes feelings of sadness, anxiety and exhaustion that can interfere with daily life as well as bonding with the baby. It's crucial for individuals experiencing these symptoms to seek help from healthcare professionals or support organizations. Seeking help not only supports the mother's mental health but also reduces the risk of extreme outcomes, ensuring the safety and well-being of both mother, child as well as siblings in the family. Two South African women have both been sentenced to 18 years in prison for killing their children. Last Wednesday Lauren Dickerson was jailed in New Zealand for the 2021 murder of her three young daughters, twins aged two as well as a six-year-old just weeks after they emigrated there. Experts testified that the former Pretoria doctor struggled to conceive and then suffered post-partum depression after the births of her children. On Friday, a balita mum was sentenced for the killing of her four-year-old daughter by drowning her in a bucket of water. In her plea, she told the court she had suffered from depression for many years which started with the post-partum depression she experienced when her first child was born. Childlines Adeshni Nika says they welcome the sentence. Union Sartu says it's disappointed that the DA has been handed the basic education portfolio. MP Sivu Agarube is a new basic education minister, succeeding the long-serving Angie Mozzella. Sartu Deputy General Secretary Gossanna Dolopi believes President Sorama Posa has given the DA a platform to destroy unions. "We know that the democratic alliance has identified Sartu as their real enemy for many, many years and to a point that they have already declared a long time ago that if they could come into power, the first task that they will have to perform will have to reconfathom big way." Guarube is one of six ministers from the DA under the new government of National Unity. The Council for Geoscience is investigating recent tremors in Johannesburg. A 2.6 magnitude quake was recorded this morning while one measuring three shook the city over the weekend. The council suggests that the tremors could be linked to illegal mining activities, mining dumps and old tunnels. And Findia Swedish town has been overwhelmed by global interest following its cheap land offer. In mid-April, 30 plots of land that had been abandoned for decades in Jotene were put up for sale at one Swedish croner or about two rand per square meter. The mayor of the town in western Sweden says it was a marketing operation that was also a bit crazy as well as a joke. He says the idea was to build more housing in a low-density area and help the region grow. Buyers have to commit to building one house or rather a house on the land within two years. And the town managed to sell three plots, but a local television report last month started a snowball effect with other media jumping onto the story before it made its way to TikTok. The municipality has been inundated with emails and phone calls from potential buyers, including from India, Pakistan and the US. Durbin and Pichmaratsburg 26 tomorrow, Richard's Bay 29. Here's what's coming up in your sport. Tony Brown eager to get 100 Pollard's attacks, singing once again. Woman's third seat Arena Sabalenka is the late withdrawal from Wimbledon and two more big games coming up tonight in the euros.