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Bye Bye Bheki? Ramaphosa Mulls Moving Cele From Police To Intelligence In Cabinet Shakeup – A mere 18 months after scrapping the minister of intelligence position and assuming oversight responsibility for the SSA, Ramaphosa is said to be “strongly considering” reintroducing the intelligence ministry – with Cele at its helm. [news24]
Jack Dorsey’s New ‘Decentralized’ Twitter Hits The App Store – Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey released the Beta test of the Bluesky social media app, but it’s still invite-only. [gizmodo]
MP’s Have Been Left Shocked After An ANC Parliamentarian Died During A Training Workshop In Cape Town – Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and National Council of Provinces chairperson Amos Masondo said they have been shaken by the event that happened on Tuesday. [iol]
Ukraine Unveils A New Banksy Postage Stamp That Mocks Russian President Vladimir Putin – The featured mural shows a young boy executing a judo throw against a man thought to be Russia’s president. [robbreport]
Remains Of Missing Argentine Man Found In Shark – Investigators said that two fishermen found the remains of an Argentine man who mysteriously disappeared 10 days ago inside a shark they caught. [news24]
Amazon To Eat Woolworths, Shoprite And Takealot Lunch? – Of all South African retailers, the expectation was that Woolworths, with its higher-earning consumer, should have been best-placed for the disruptive effects of the Covid pandemic to its operations, as consumers who were once lukewarm to online shopping quickly switched their habits. [m&g]
Robotaxis, Cheap EVs, And A New Master Plan For The Future: What To Expect At Tesla’s Investor Day – Elon Musk is getting ready to unleash Tesla’s third Master Plan, which will include details about the company’s new lower-cost vehicle platform and its effort to grow to ‘extreme size.’ [verge]
Ghislaine Maxwell Appeals Sex-Trafficking Conviction Over ‘Fatal’ Errors – Convicted sex predator Ghislaine Maxwell formally appealed her sex-trafficking conviction Tuesday, arguing prosecutors and the judge made a series of “fatal” errors during her case in Manhattan federal court. [nypost]
New Power Disaster Rules Open The Way For A Lot More Deaths At Eskom’s Hands – skom has long estimated that it kills a couple of hundred people a year through bad air. Independent research suggests the number is in the thousands – and that the company is on track to kill closer to 80 000 people within years, not counting the impact of climate change. [news24]
At Least 29 Dead, 85 Injured As Trains Collide In Greece – Rescue workers are in a desperate search for survivors after a head-on collision between two trains in central Greece killed dozens of people and injured scores. [cnn]
Has Hellmann’s Mayonnaise Been Discontinued – Or Is It A Scam? – Hellmann’s mayonnaise has been a hotly-debated talking point for a few weeks in South Africa. Was it ever actually discontinued though? [sapeople]
Hollywood Insiders Rip Oscars’ New Post-Slap ‘Crisis Team’ – the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been busy working on a game plan for how to handle Hollywood’s biggest night after Will Smith hit Chris Rock in front of millions of viewers. [pagesix]
If You Needed A Reason, New Research Suggests That Chocolate For Breakfast Can Be On The Menu – But the type of chocolate you can enjoy for brekkie is what matters. [capetalk]
British Tourist Injured On The Southern Cape’s Otter Trail – A British tourist hiking with her husband on the Otter Trail in the Tsitsikamma National Park reportedly slipped and fell, sustaining injuries. [capetownetc]
Q4 Unemployment Rate Eases To 32.7% – Stats SA – Stats SA released the results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey in Pretoria on Tuesday. [ewn]
Zero-Calorie Sweetener Linked To Heart Attack And Stroke, Study Finds – A sugar replacement called erythritol – used to add bulk or sweeten stevia, monkfruit and keto reduced-sugar products – has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study. [cnn]
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