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SuperSport Tackles Saru Over Springbok Deal – Proposed deal has seen backlash from seven of the country’s 14 unions. [businesslive]
Busi Mkhwebane Quits EFF To ‘Rest’, After Earlier Claiming She Would ‘Never Betray The Fighters’ – Two months after claiming her resignation from the EFF was ‘fake news’, impeached former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has resigned from the party, and thereby her seat in Parliament. [dm]
Tortured To Death? Family Wants Answers As Joburg Woman Dies After Alleged Prison Interrogation – The Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (JICS) is investigating allegations of electrocution, torture and an “interrogation”, which may have caused the death of Johannesburg women’s prison inmate Ayanda Mkhize. [news24]
Cape Town Fights Uphill Battle Against Ocean And Waterway Sewage Spills – Sewage contamination incidents around parts of Cape Town’s coastline, and the City of Cape Town’s marine outfalls in Camps Bay, Hout Bay and Green Point, where sewage is pumped into the ocean daily, have sparked debate about public health, pollution and infrastructure failures. [dm]
How Does WhatsApp Make Money? It’s Free – With Some Tricks – So how does ZapZap, as it’s nicknamed in Brazil – make its money? [bbc]
The Sexiest New Hotels For 2024 – This is the time when we start thinking of travels for 2024. Will we go back to our old favorites? Try somewhere new? Or strike out towards somewhere we’d never imagined going, purely to stay in a new hotel we like the look of? [cnn]
These Are The World’s Scariest Countries In Which To Drive – And How South Africa Ranks – Participants were asked to indicate how nervous they’d be to drive in each country, ranking them on a scale of one to 10, with one being ‘not nervous at all’ and 10 being ‘extremely nervous’. [iol]
Shoprite Food Security Warning For South Africa – South Africa’s biggest retailer, Shoprite, has published its inaugural Food Security Index for 2024, showing that the country’s food security levels are at their lowest point since 2012. [businesstech]
Sanlam Cape Town Marathon: All You Need To Know For Race Day – The Sanlam Cape Town Marathon will take place this weekend, with trail and peace runs on Saturday, 19 October, and the main marathon on Sunday, 20 October. This will result in widespread road closures and traffic restrictions. [capetownetc]
Cape Town’s Hidden Solar Fees – Several Cape Town residents have accused the metro of concealing substantial additional installation costs for its bidirectional feed-in meters. [mybroadband]
Scientists Claim Breakthrough To Bringing Back Tasmanian Tiger From Extinction – Scientists claim to have made progress towards “de-extinction” and estimate their DNA sequence for the thylacine – or Tasmanian tiger – is 99.9% accurate. [sky]
Australia Weighs Its Future Ahead Of Royal Visit – With a night of bottomless drinks, a three-course dinner and an auction packed with royal memorabilia, the University of Queensland Monarchist League’s annual ball is a sell-out. [bbc]
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