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Defiant Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Says He’s ‘Not Hiding’ As He Reveals His Location In Kyiv – In a defiant video message from his office on Bankova Street, he said he is staying there “as long as necessary” and his team is with him. [sky]

Putin’s Clumsy Military Campaign In Southern Ukraine Makes Little Sense – What is hard to fathom is whether the Kremlin’s plan to get it has collapsed, and Russian troops are just throwing rockets and tanks at anything they can, or whether this sort of total war against Ukrainians was always the plan. [cnn]

War In Ukraine: Russia Says It May Cut Gas Supplies If Oil Ban Goes Ahead – Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said a “rejection of Russian oil would lead to catastrophic consequences for the global market”, causing prices to more than double to $300 a barrel. [bbc]

SA Must Forge Ahead With Exploration, Says Gwede Mantashe – Environmental and community organisations have sued companies including Shell over recent months, winning temporary interdicts that caused the searches to be called off. [news24]

Some Issues Are More Important Than Your Attention-Seeking, Fikile – Fikile Mbalula’s childish buffoonery on Twitter is not what we should expect from a senior government minister. [timeslive]

Commercial Banks Tear Into Iqbal Survé’s Claims Of Collusion On The Closure Of His Businesses’ Bank Accounts – Iqbal Survé, chair of Sekunjalo Investments, has played the victim card again, this time at the Competition Tribunal. [dailymav]

Ranked: SA’s Best Internet Service Providers – MyBroadband has ranked 16 South African ISPs, as well as 12 smaller local ISPs. [here]

Lockdown Is Obsolete – And Doing More Harm Than Good: Expert – South Africa should not have limitations on gatherings and other existing lockdown restrictions in place, says Shabir Madhi, professor of vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand. [bustech]

Black First, Land First Ordered To Pay Up For Hate Speech Against Whites – The Equality Court has found office bearers of Black First, Land First (BLF) guilty of hate speech for celebrating the deaths of white school children. [sapeople]

Covid Can Shrink Brain And Damage Its Tissue, Finds Research – Worst effect on region linked to smell, while infected people typically scored lower on mental skills test. [guardian]

What Investors Mean When They Talk About The ‘Rule Of 72’ – When it comes to the ‘Rule of 72’ compound interest is most definitely king. [here]

‘I Would LOVE To See The Springboks In The Six Nations’: World Cup-Winning Coach Rassie Erasmus Backs ‘Awesome’ Plan For South Africa To Join From 2025 – He insists England fans wouldn’t want him to succeed Eddie Jones. [dmail]

Civil War Brewing Inside Manchester United, And Marcus Rashford Wants To Leave — Report – Eric Bailly and Rashford are two players who have grown disenchanted with live under the German, with others mocking his CV and training methods. [iol]

Shane Warne: Autopsy Reveals Spinner Died Of ‘Natural Causes’ – Warne’s family have been informed of the result and accepted the finding. Warne’s body will be transferred to Australian consular officials for return to his family. [sky]

Elon Musk Says He’ll Go To A High-Radiation Spot And ‘Eat Locally Grown Food On TV’ – He said he already did so in Japan, shortly after the Fukushima disaster. [businsider]

This Guy Saves People From Bad Psychedelic Trips – From psychosis to paranoia to intense trips, Khalid Surma helps people overcome difficult experiences while on drugs at music festivals. [vice]

Philippines Raises Age Of Sexual Consent From 12 To 16 – In what one of its sponsors called “a major step forward,” President Rodrigo Duterte signed the bill into law in a bid to protect minors from rape and abuse. [nbc]

Sean Penn Shares His ‘Startling’ Exit From Ukraine – “We had the luxury of being able to abandon a rented vehicle on the side of the road. This was a startling thing to me; it was mostly women and children.” [newsau]

Ed Sheeran Denies ‘Borrowing’ Ideas From Unknown Songwriters Without Credit – Musician in high court facing accusations of copying parts of his 2017 hit Shape of You from a 2015 song called Oh Why. [guardian]

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