SA Becomes The First Country To Transplant An Organ From A Living HIV-Positive Donor – Surgeons from the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre have become the first in the world to transplant a liver from an HIV-positive donor to an HIV-negative child. The life-saving procedure could pave the way for more such transplants in a country with a severe shortage of organ donors. [bhek]

Suge Knight Sentenced To 28 Years In Prison – Former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was sentenced to 28 years in prison Thursday for the death of a man during a hit-and-run incident on the set of the movie “Straight Outta Compton.” [cnn]

Musk May Have Settled With The SEC, But That Won’t Stop Him From Tweeting — Yet – Will Elon Musk ever learn? Even after being fined $20 million for a single tweet and sued for fraud … he’s back. [mash]

Cristiano Ronaldo Rape Allegation: Nike Expresses Deep Concern – Nike has said it is “deeply concerned” by rape allegations against footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. [bbc]

Man Caught On CCTV Punching Woman Outside Paris Cafe Jailed – A man who punched a woman outside a Paris cafe, prompting outrage after a video of the assault went viral, was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay a €2,000 fine, lawyers in France have said. [guardian]

The Big Hack: How China Used A Tiny Chip To Infiltrate U.S. Companies – The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources. [bloom]

We Were Brett Kavanaugh’s Drinking Buddies. We Don’t Think He Should Be Confirmed. – We were college classmates and drinking buddies with Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. In the past week, all three of us decided separately to respond to questions from the media regarding Brett’s honesty, or lack thereof. [washpo]

The US Government Doesn’t Seem To Know Why Some People Didn’t Get Its Presidential Alert – Around 225 million cell phone users in the US were supposed to receive a message from the White House this afternoon. [qz]

Sleeping Passengers ‘Robbed’ In Mid-Air On SAA Flight – Passengers aboard an SAA flight were allegedly robbed in mid-air of cash and jewellery as they slept on a flight between Johannesburg and Hong Kong. [tlive]

Drone Boats Filled With Explosives Are The New Weapon In Global Terrorism – Drone-controlled boats filled with explosives were reportedly used in at least one attempted attack on Saudi Arabia this week. [busins]

Trouble Brewing In Italy As Mayor Tries To Ban ‘Icon Of Cool’ – Residents of Genoa, in Italy, are ready to do battle with their mayor, after he announced his intention to ban one of the city’s beloved icons. [here]

Here’s How Many Taxis Are Now On South Africa’s Roads – And How Much They Earn – As part of a recent parliamentary Q&A session, minister of transport Blade Nzimande released statistics on how many registered mini-bus taxis are currently operating on South Africa’s roads. [btech]

Westlife Teams Up With Ed Sheeran For New Single Ahead Of Reunion Tour – After six years of silence, Irish boy band Westlife will reunite for new music and a stadium tour in 2019, they announced on Wednesday. [bill]

Pakistani Ice-Cream Seller Unaware Of £14m In His Bank Account – ‘Penniless billionaire’ Abdul Qadir’s identity believed to have been used by money launderers. [guardian]

They Reckon This Is The Best Bar In The World – You have to be on top of your game to land the title of ‘world’s best bar’, and it must be a real source of pride. There’s a massive twist with this year’s winner, though. [here]

Harry And Meghan’s Tour Down Under To Take In Koalas, Invictus Games And ‘Welly Wanging’ – The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s much anticipated first overseas tour together is set to take the monarchy to new heights. [tele] MUCH excitement!

Ben Affleck Thanks Family After Completing Rehab Stint – US actor Ben Affleck has thanked his family after completing a stay in rehab for alcohol addiction. [bbc]

David And Victoria Beckham ‘Sell Their Six Bedroom Beverly Hills Mansion – For a mammoth $33million… netting the A-list couple a cool $10million profit’ [dm]

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Dabbling In The Stock Market Made Easy – Finally, there’s an online investment platform which makes it fun, easy and cheap for anyone to buy shares. Get involved for as little as R5. [easyequities]

So These Guys Are Apparently The Top SA Winery Of The Past 10 Years – You’ve tasted Chocolate Block, right? Of course you have, so make sure you arrive at every dinner party with a bottle of the best. [boekenhout]

How Can You Leave Your Dog At Home While You Go To Work? – You say he’s part of the family – yet you’d never leave your human child at home, alone, for the whole day. Drop that little rascal off at Proud Hounds and see the joy in his eyes! [proudhounds]

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