Water Restrictions May Be Reviewed At A Later Stage – Cape Town will not have Day Zero this year, but only if residents continue to save water, DA leader Mmusi Maimane announced on Wednesday. [n24]

Reddit Admits Hosting Russian Propaganda – Reddit has become the latest social-media platform to admit that Russian propaganda was used on its site during the 2016 US presidential election. It follows leaks from news site The Daily Beast showing a Russian troll farm active on the website. [bbc]

Steve Bannon Takes Trumpism To Europe And Gets A Rock Star’s Welcome – Steve Bannon did not get all dressed up on Tuesday for his big European event. He still had on his grumpy-uncle uniform, the same crinkled khakis he wore while looming over the President’s shoulder in the Oval Office last year. [time]

The NYPD Is Ready To Arrest Harvey Weinstein – A police official says the department is ready to arrest the disgraced movie mogul for allegedly sexually assaulting Lucia Evans. [beast]

Former Russian Spy Poisoned By Nerve Agent, British Police Say – A former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent in Britain this week, the British police said on Wednesday, heightening suspicions that the episode was an assassination attempt by a national government, amid rampant speculation that Russia was responsible. [nyt]

Florida Senate OKs Bill Raising Age To Buy Guns, Banning Bump Stock Sales – The Florida State Senate narrowly passed a bill Monday that would raise the age to buy a firearm from 18 to 21, require a three-day waiting period for most gun purchases and ban the sale or possession of bump fire stocks, which can make it easier for a semi-automatic weapon to function like an automatic rifle. [cnn]

South Africa Is Giving Back Land To Black People As A Compromise For Ignoring Their Growing Anger – If you want economic change in South Africa, create a crisis—then stand by to negotiate a way out of it. [qz]

Duduzane Zuma And Guptas Summoned To Appear Before Parliamentary Inquiry – The Gupta brothers and former president Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane have been summoned to appear before the parliamentary inquiry into state capture next week, though it is very unlikely that Atul, Ajay and Rajesh Gupta will actually show up. [huff]

School Staffer Suspended Over Sex Videos With ‘Dozens Of Pupils’ – A staff member at a Cape Town high school has been suspended over allegations that he filmed himself having sex with dozens of pupils. [tlive]

Christo Wiese Drops Off Forbes Rich-List Amid Steinhoff Scandal – After Losing R50 Billion Of His Fortune – In less than a year, Christo Wiese went from being South Africa’s third richest man to not featuring on Forbes’ list of dollar billionaires. [busins]

Oh Dear, Schweppes Really Bombed With Their Soda / Tonic Rebranding – If you’ve fallen into the soda / tonic mix-up over the past few months don’t worry, you’re not alone. Turns out Schweppes really dropped the ball with this one. [here]

Amazon’s Fix For Creepy Laughing Alexa Reports Will Disable The ‘Alexa, Laugh’ Phrase – Over the past few days, users with Alexa-enabled devices have reported hearing strange, unprompted laughter. Amazon responded to the creepiness today in a statement to The Verge, saying, “We’re aware of this and working to fix it.” [verge]

Sri Lanka Just Blocked Facebook To Stop Anti-Muslim Violence – The Sri Lankan government blocked Facebook and other social networks Wednesday, in an effort to curb the violence that has prompted the country’s first state of emergency since the 1980’s civil war. [vice]

Lego Posts First Annual Sales, Profit Drop Since 2004 – CEO ‘not satisfied with the financial results’ but more optimistic on 2018. [ft]

Snap To Lay Off About 100 Engineers – Snapchat parent Snap Inc is laying off nearly 10 percent of its engineering team, or about 100 people, CNBC reported on Wednesday. [reuters]

Which Income Tax Bracket Do You Fall Under? Check The 2018 Changes Here – Remember when you were growing up and tax was just something you heard adults moaning about? Yoh, those were the days. Here’s what the next tax year has in store. [here]

Meghan Markle ‘Baptised By Archbishop Of Canterbury Ahead Of Wedding To Prince Harry’ – Meghan Markle has reportedly been baptised by the Archbishop of Canterbury using holy water from the River Jordan ahead of her wedding to Prince Harry. [tele]

God, what a relief. She must be thrilled!

Prince William Will Boycott World Cup In Russia In MAJOR Snub Amid Spy Poison Scandal – Prince William will boycott this summer’s FIFA World Cup in Russia, a move which is being seen as a major snub in a week of diplomatic chaos after a former Russian spy was poisoned with a nerve agent in Wiltshire. [express]

The Rise Of ‘Bucket List’ Syndrome – Are We Faking It At The World’s Biggest Attractions? – The first time I saw the Eiffel Tower, at the age of 13, I was underwhelmed. Then again, this sort of architecture isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and sulky teens are usually philistines regardless of where you take them. [tele]

A Conman For Murdoch’s Newspaper Empire Confesses: Data-Theft Operation Hit PMs, Beatles, And MI6 – A former actor hired by Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times claims he systematically and fraudulently obtained private information on thousands of people over 15 years including operations to target two prime ministers, the head of MI6, and one member of the Beatles. [beast]

R260 Million Was Spent To Turn Cape Town Into Ancient Greece For BBC’s Most Expensive TV Series Ever – South African couch potatoes can look forward to spotting local locations and thousands of their neighbours when the epic R260 million budget fantasy series Troy: Fall of a City comes to Netflix on 6 April. [busins]

Madonna Had A Weird, Wonderful Photoshoot With Kim Kardashian And Cardi B – It’s a surprise triumvirate of powerful women of pop culture past, present, and future: Madonna, Kim Kardashian West, and Cardi B joined up for a photo shoot at Madonna’s post-Oscars party on Sunday night, and the resulting shots are an instant online obsession. [time]

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