Tokyo Olympics: Two South Africa Football Players Become First Athletes To Test Positive For Covid-19 In Village – South Africa’s Thabiso Monyane and Kamohelo Mahlatsi become first athletes to test positive for coronavirus in Olympic Village; video analyst Mario Masha and rugby sevens coach Neil Powell have also tested positive, taking the total number of confirmed infections for the country to four. [sky]

Boris Johnson Is Taking Another Huge Gamble By Lifting Lockdowns In England. Even He Admits It Could Lead To More Deaths From Covid – On Monday, Boris Johnson will place English citizens at the center of an experiment that will give some indication of how well a highly populated country with surging cases of coronavirus copes when lockdown restrictions are lifted. [cnn]

Zuma Cites Violence And Covid-19 Gatherings As Reason For Wanting Corruption Trial Postponed – Former president also tells the Pietermaritzburg high court that he cannot be compelled to attend the matter virtually. [tlive]

Civil Unrest: Hunt Underway For Instigator Of The ’Well-Orchestrated’ Attacks – Police have arrested three of the 12 people suspected to be the instigators of nationwide looting and destruction of property which saw businesses losing billions of rand in the past week. [iol]

‘No Receipt, Hard Luck’ – Police Seize Suspected Loot In Joburg – Along a street in a sprawling Johannesburg township, near a shopping mall plundered during last week’s unrest, police fling open a refrigerator door and toss out packets of vegetables and milk. [n24]

SA’s Private Hospitals Hit By Suspended Elective Surgeries – And An Op Backlog Is Building – South Africa’s private healthcare companies have suspended non-emergency and non-urgent surgeries at various points throughout the pandemic to free up resources for the fight against Covid-19. This has hurt hospitals’ revenue and led to a backlog of elective surgeries. [busins]

Americas And Jewellery Boost Richemont Sales As Pandemic Hit Wanes – Cartier maker Richemont (CFR.S) said on Friday a strong performance from its jewellery brands, particularly in the Americas, helped its sales more than double in the three months to June 30 as the pandemic’s impact waned. [reuters]

Facebook Adds ‘Expert’ Feature To Groups – Facebook is rolling out a way to designate topic “experts” inside user-run Facebook groups. [bbc]

Jack Dorsey Says Square Has A New Bitcoin Business Named TBD – Meet your new open source platform for decentralized and permissionless financial services. [verge]

The Space Tourism Industry Is Stuck In Its Billionaire Phase – The spectacle of launching billionaires into space is the beginning of a long road ahead. [verge]

Why Virtual Weddings Are No Longer Legal In New York – During the pandemic, virtual marriage ceremonies became a symbol of love persevering in a trying time. [nyt]

Tesla Offers A Full Self-Driving Subscription For $199 Per Month – You can try the added autonomy without paying the full price. [eng]

Why Everyone’s Talking About USDC Cryptocurrency – You might have heard some noise around USDC of late, with people talking about ‘stablecoin’, but what does it all mean? [here]

This UK Love Island Home In South Africa Is On Sale For R105m – Do you love the idea of owning a house that is famous, has been seen and revered by millions of fans and top décor magazines around the world, and where celebrities, royals and popstars have even spent time in? [p24]

Neighbours Fume About ‘Hellish Noise’ At Vatican-Owned London Flat – Purchase of luxury Chelsea apartments in 2014 was overseen by a cardinal who now faces corruption charges. [ft]

Pilot Dies In Fall From Hot Air Balloon, Passengers Carried Across State Line – The pilot of a hot air balloon died after becoming entangled under its basket and falling to the ground in Bradford, Vermont, Thursday afternoon, according to state police. [cnn]

“This Conservatorship Killed My Dreams”: Britney Spears Posts About Father And Sister – Britney Spears wrote two lenghty Instagram posts late Saturday calling out her father and sister, and she refused to perform on stage again until she has control over her own career. [mash]

Vettel Backs Ecclestone Over Sprint Race Criticism – Sebastian Vettel has backed former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone’s criticism of the new ‘sprint qualifying’ format which debuts at Silverstone this weekend. [gp]

Lewis Hamilton And Max Verstappen Crash: What Happened And Who Was To Blame? – The British Grand Prix got off to a dramatic start as the title battle between Hamilton and Verstappen came to a head at Silverstone. [tele]

Scientists Did A Massive DNA Study On Global Weed Strains. Here’s What They Found – An analysis of 110 cannabis genomes upended prevailing assumptions about the plant’s history of cultivation. [vice]

How To Break Up With A Hookup – Even if you never defined the terms of relationship, you can still end it respectfully. [mash]

Amelia Hamlin, 20, Leaves Little To The Imagination – In a sheer bra and panty set adorned with pink bows… as she vacations with beau Scott Disick in The Hamptons. [dmdm]

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