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Monday Morning Spice
05 Jun 2023 by Heinrich in Morning Headlines
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Buff Billionaires Are Latest Sign That Bulk Is Now Beautiful For Male Body Image – Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg have been busy morphing from nerds to musclemen – even action figures are piling on the beef. [guardian]
High-Ranking Eskom Exec Linked To Sabotage At Power Stations – The police are seeking to arrest an Eskom executive with top-secret security clearance who, they believe, may be central to engineering and staging breakdowns at targeted power stations, resulting in crippling countrywide blackouts. [news24]
Sonic Boom Heard Across D.C. Area Was From Military Jets, Officials Say – The noise, which startled residents and shook buildings, was caused by an authorized military flight that responded to an intrusion into restricted airspace, U.S. and military officials said. [timeslive]
Doubles Pair Disqualified From French Open After Ball Hits Ball Girl – A French Open doubles match ended controversially on Sunday as No.16 seeds Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi were disqualified from the tournament after a ball girl was hit by a ball. [cnn]
Roads Washed Away, Houses Flooded In Pringle Bay, Betty’s Bay – Clean-up operations are under way in the Overstrand District after heavy rains destroyed roads and left some residents temporarily displaced. [sapeople]
Friends Raise Funds For Wildlife Rangers With An 18-Month Tuk-Tuk Road Trip – Four friends left Kenya in 2021 to embark on an expedition with the distinct goal of raising money for East African wildlife rangers. [capetownetc]
Two Hikers Found With Bags Of Dagga Worth More Than R1m – The confiscated dagga weighed 47 kilogrammes, with a street value of around R1.1 million. [citizen]
Two Suspects Arrested After Missing MUT Lecturer’s Body Found In Inanda – Missing Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) lecturer Shan Dwarika has been confirmed dead after his body was found in Inanda on Saturday, the university’s acting vice-chancellor and principal, Professor Marcus Ramogale confirmed. [iol]
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Announces Retirement From Football – The AC Milan striker revealed his decision to end his football career on the San Siro pitch following his club’s final game of the Serie A season. [sky]
This Is South Africa’s Cheapest Electric Vehicle – Okay, if you’re expecting South Africa’s cheapest electric vehicle to be a discontented Audi e-tron, Jaguar I-Pace or BMW iX, best you think again. [sapeople]
Britain’s Got Talent Final 2023: Madcap comedian Viggo Venn WINS Sixteenth Series In Surprise Twist… But Furious Audience Members BOO And Social Media Erupts With Claims Of A Fix In Dramatic Climax – Norwegian comedian Viggo Venn has been crowned the winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2023. [mail&guardian]
2010 World Cup $10m ‘Bribe’: South Africa Left Out Even As $201M Returned To Fifa – The cash-strapped South African Football Association lost out on a cut of billions of rands being distributed to the victims of Fifa’s graft scandal — seemingly because the association denies it was swindled out of the $10m. [dailymaverick]
Bibles Banned From Utah Schools After Parent Demanded Its Removal – The parent wrote that the Bible’s “incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide” should make it illegal in schools under Utah’s book-banning laws. [vice]
Taste Test: This Tasty 23-Year-Old Apple-Flavored Whisky Might Even Win Over Purists – Apparently nothing is scared in whisky anymore, and maybe that’s a good thing. [robbreport]
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