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Almighty Battle For Survival Of The Western Province Rugby Football Union – ‘Prooo-vince… prooo-blems!’ is the familiar chant. More than a year after being put into administration after a series of catastrophic decisions, the future of the Western Province Rugby Football Union hangs in the balance. [dailymav]

China Is Caught In A Zero-Covid Trap Of Its Own Making – In the northwestern city of Xining, residents spent last week pleading desperately for food as they suffered through the latest of the country’s stringent lockdowns. [cnn]

North Korea: Pyongyang Fires Suspected ICBM – Intercontinental ballistic missiles are designed to hit targets on the other side of the world. It comes a day after both Koreas fired missiles in an escalation of tensions. That exchange saw the most number of missiles launched by the North in a single day. [bbc]

Elon Musk Says Donald Trump And Others Won’t Be Back On Twitter Before The Midterm Elections, If At All – Trump was suspended from Twitter in January 2021 after the Capitol riot for inciting violence. [businsider]

Convincing Argument For Switching From Android To iPhone – The battle between Android users and iPhone users will rage on until the world is reduced to an inhabitable hellscape. It doesn’t have to be that way. [here]

Unsolved Murders Of The Station Strangler – In 1986, a faceless serial killer began stalking children on the Cape Flats. He became known as the Station Strangler. By 1994, 22 young boys had been found dead, sodomised and then strangled. [news24]

Magic Mushrooms’ Psilocybin Can Alleviate Severe Depression When Used With Therapy – Nearly third of patients on largest trial using psychedelic compound went into rapid remission. [guardian]

Watching Facebook Burn – Its founder Mark Zuckerberg is obsessed with a virtual world no one wants, the company’s stock is down 70 percent from its peak, and it has lost $800 billion of its market capitalization. [vice]

Dubai’s Most Hotly Anticipated Resort Is Now Taking Reservations—Here’s A Look Inside – Atlantis The Royal will be home to the world’s largest jellyfish aquarium and a water fountain that “breathes fire.” [robbrep]

No Immediate Closure For SA Victim After Aussie Sex Pest Coach Dies In Custody – Australian swimming coach facing charges of molesting boys dies in detention in Queensland. [timeslive]

Coffee Snobs Need To Get On These Limited Stock Beans – If you’re grinding the same old beans day in and day out, things will get really boring really quickly. That’s why it is wise to shake things up. [here]

H2O Founder Back In Court For Murder At Garage In Gardens – The Hout Bay businessman and founder of the H2O party brand, who is accused of a murder at a garage in Gardens in 2015, was back in dock on Tuesday. [ctetc]

Over 300 Government Officials Suspended With Full Pay In South Africa – The Department of Public Service and Administration says that there are currently 305 government officials sitting at home on suspension with full pay, costing taxpayers R131 million. [bustech]

Rassie Erasmus Not A Springbok Waterboy, But Can He Give Inside Info On Ireland? – Erasmus will hope to celebrate his 50th birthday on Saturday in style with a Bok victory, having been at the same venue in 2017 when the South Africans went down 38-3. [iol]

Prepare For Alien Encounter Now Before It’s Too Late, Warn Scientists – Team at University of St Andrews says Earth needs to work on communicating with extraterrestrials as first contact could happen any day. [tele]

The 50 Best Goth Songs Of All Time – It’s the soundtrack of the deepest, darkest nights of the soul — from Bowie to Bauhaus, from Nine Inch Nails to Nick Cave, from post-punk and dance pop to blues and country. [rollstone]

Kanye West Has ‘Disgusting, Hate-Filled, Strange Nazi Obsession’, Ex-Collaborator Alleges – One ex-employee claimed West praised Hitler in 2018 in a meeting about an apparel project – saying he “had some good qualities” and that “he wasn’t all bad”. [sky]

Cara Delevingne Sizzles In A Racy Black Cut-Out Bra – She joins scantily-clad Irina Shayk and Lara Stone on stage at Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Show ahead of its airing on Amazon Prime Video. [dmail]

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