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Court Order Allows Use Of Ivermectin For Covid-19 – A registered pharmacist or medical practitioner might compound and sell compounded medicine that contained ivermectin as an active ingredient. [news24]

Seventeenth Person Arrested In Cape Town ‘Nightclub Turf War’ Saga – He appeared in court on Tuesday, after he was found to be living in alleged underworld boss Mark Lifman’s Sea Point Hotel 303. [timeslive]

COVID-19: ‘A Biological Fukushima’ – Brazil Records 4,195 Deaths In A Single Day – Hospitals are at breaking point with witnesses likening them to scenes from a medieval plague outbreak as oxygen supplies run low. [sky]

Gangs And Guns: New Book Details ‘Deadliest Single Crime’ In Post-Apartheid SA – Criminologist Mark Shaw has calculated that over a thousand murders can be traced to one decision: SAPS Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo’s decision to start stealing firearms. [dailymav]

Fierce Battle Between Woolworths And Checkers Goes Online – South Africa’s high-end food retail market has traditionally been dominated by Woolworths, but Checkers is now grabbing a bigger slice Wof the pie thanks to various initiatives. [mybb]

Donald Trump Tumbles Down Billionaires’ Rankings – While the richest got spectacularly richer during the pandemic, the ex-president plummeted nearly 300 places in the Forbes list. [guardian]

Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Announce First Project For Netflix – Archewell Productions is producing a new series for Netflix about The Invictus Games, the tournament for wounded veterans Harry founded in 2014. [cbs]

Derek Chauvin Used Unauthorized Neck Restraint On George Floyd, Training Officer Testifies – An officer who trained Chauvin testified that the neck restraint he used on George Floyd was not authorized because Floyd was already handcuffed. [washpost]

Picasso’s Portrait Of A Young Lover To Sell For $55 Million At Auction – In the thick of a tumultuous marriage to Olga Khokhlova, Picasso met and began an affair with 17-year-old Marie-Thérèse Walter. [cnn]

Caitlyn Jenner Explores Run For California Governor – Former reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner is talking with political consultants as she actively explores a run for governor of California. [axios]

20 Horrific Examples Of How Govt Departments Have Been Wasting Taxpayer Money – Over the last three years, almost R7.5 billion of government expenditure was fruitless and wasteful, the report found. [businsider]

Forbes’ 35th Annual World’s Billionaires List: Facts And Figures 2021 – Despite the pandemic, it was a record-setting year for the world’s wealthiest—with a $5 trillion surge in wealth and an unprecedented number of new billionaires. [forbes]

What The Suez Canal Fiasco Teaches Us About Shipping – When the Ever Given plugged up the Suez Canal for close to a week, the global economy’s reliance on shipping routes was clear to see. [here]

Aussie Design Startup Canva’s Valuation Balloons To $15 billion – On Tuesday, the nine-year-old company plans to announce that it has raised $71 million at a private valuation of $15 billion. [fortune]

Bavuma’s Burden And The Dearth Of Black Batsmen – In isiXhosa, Bavuma’s home language, they say “ndizakubonisa” – I’ll show you. Bavuma has lived by that mantra since he was a small boy in Langa, Cape Town, and later in Johannesburg. [newframe]

Kim Kardashian West Joins Billionaire Club – Her net worth reached $1bn (£720m) thanks to her cosmetics and clothing interests as well as income from TV, endorsement deals and investments, Forbes business magazine says. [bbc]

Singer Lorde Surfaces In Rare Social Media Sighting Years After ‘Disappearance’ – The New Zealand singer, 24, retreats from the public eye between musical projects, and does not maintain an active public social media presence. [newsau]

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