Former ANC youth league leader and councillor Andile Lungisa has begun serving his two-year jail term on Thursday. Meanwhile, Lungisa has applied to the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal his sentence, after his applications to the lower courts failed. The NPA will oppose his application for bail, pending the outcome of the leave to…
Springbok wing Aphiwe Dyantyi scores a try during the Rugby Championship against Argentina at Kings Park in Durban on 18 August 2018. Anton Geyser/Gallo Images Aphiwe Dyantyi's rugby career will remain in limbo after the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sports (Saids) announced on Thursday that his hearing into a doping offence has been postponed.The…
Eastern Cape health MEC Sindiswa Gomba Eastern Cape Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba is expected to appear before the Special Tribunal, following allegations of financial irregularities, involving her department, in a controversial R10 million scooter project.Tribunal spokesperson Selby Makgotho confirmed this to News24 on Thursday morning. Makgotho said Gomba, departmental Superintendent General Dr Thobile Mbengashe, chief financial…
Humans 17 September 2020 By Douglas Heingartner There are acoustic similarities between emergency sirens and howling wolvesGlenn Nagel / Alamy There is an uncanny similarity between wolf howls and emergency sirens. The sirens might be effective because we evolved to be alerted by howls, suggest researchers. Hynek Burda at the Czech University of Life Sciences…
The Freedom Front Plus says President Cyril Ramaphosa's call on South Africans to take up the Jerusalema dance challenge is reminiscent of Marie Antoinette saying that the poor and starving should eat cake.The party said South Africa now needed economic recovery and not unnecessary lockdown regulations.Party leader Pieter Groenewald said it was becoming increasingly clear that…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…