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The country’s test and limited over teams will be coached by Shukri Conrad and Rob Walter, respectively, according to a statement issued by Cricket South Africa on Monday. Since 2014, Conrad, 55, has worked with many of South Africa’s top players as head coach of the South African Academy. Additionally, he coached the South African Under-19 team. A former head coach of Uganda’s national team, he has experience at senior domestic level with Cape Cobras and Lions. Over the next four years, his side has been severely curtailed after suffering heavy defeats in recent away series against England and Australia.…
Beginning next month, US Army divisions in Africa will train with their African partners. The armed forces of Botswana, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Djibouti, and Somalia will participate in the exercise, code-named “Justified Accord,” beginning later this month. According to the U.S. Army’s Southern European Task Force – Africa, Justified Accord 2023 (J23) is designed to “enhance multinational interoperability in crisis response and counterterrorism operations and prepare regional partners for missions on behalf of the United Nations and the African Union.” The exercise includes live-fire and naval exercises, a cyber course, field exercises and special operations. According to the U.S. Army…
Economists warn higher inflation rates will inevitably lead to further interest rate hikes by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) as South Africans remain under pressure from multiple load shedding and a massive electricity price hike in April. In response to the ongoing power crisis in South Africa and last week’s (Jan. 12) decision by energy regulator Nersa to allow Eskom to increase electricity prices by 18.65% from April 1, 2023, a number of comments from economists and analysts were released on Monday (Jan. 16). The overarching message of the responses is that the electricity price hike will undoubtedly drive…
The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, which granted President Cyril Ramaphosa an injunction to stop former President Jacob Zuma’s private lawsuit, is a “travesty of justice.” Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesman Mzwandile Manyi told the media after the ruling was handed down Monday morning. Manyi said Zuma’s lawyers would find a way forward after the verdict. Manyi specifically objected to the court’s assertion that the civil court had jurisdiction to rule on the matter, despite the fact that Zuma had initiated a private criminal prosecution that will be heard on Thursday. “We challenge their failure to separate the matters,” he said.…
Cyril Ramaphosa has cancelled his day out to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland as South Africa grapples with an exceptional strength disaster that has resulted in each day electricity cuts of between eight and eleven hours throughout the country. Anger is developing as offices, hospitals, factories and tens of hundreds of small organizations are compelled to close, with outages additionally inflicting accelerated crime, visitors disruption and big wastage as meals provide chains collapse. Protesters in the east of the business capital, Johannesburg, blocked roads with burning tyres on Monday, whilst a newspaper in the township of Soweto ran the…
In a decision that may further strain its relationships with some of its biggest trading partners, South Africa will conduct naval exercises with Russian and Chinese warships off its eastern coast next month. The 17th to 26th of February will be the dates of Operation Mosi, which means smoke. With the US, UK and EU backing Ukraine in the conflict, South Africa’s reluctance to condemn Russia’s invasion and docking of sanctioned Russian vessels has already increased tensions. The country’s biggest opposition party questioned the wisdom of going ahead with the exercises. “This gives the impression of not being neutral but…
The tiger that went on a rampage over the weekend killing several animals while wounding a man whose dog had been so badly mauled, it had to be put down, is still on the loose. According to news reporters the tiger broke off from its home in Walkerville, near the Vaal area and has been involved in several violent attacks on mainly animals. Only one person has been reported injured after an encounter with the tiger that has since been spotted in different areas. Officials are still out looking for it and the SPCA was reportedly said it had no…
To avoid SuperSport United completing a PSL double against them, Mamelodi Sundowns defender Aubrey Modiba says the Brazilians must perform at their best. As Sundowns prepare for their South African top-flight match against SuperSport on Monday, the experienced defender is wary of the team. In their previous meeting, Matsatsantsa defeated the defending PSL champions 2-1, which is one of two losses the team has suffered so far. The Bafana Bafana star insists Downs have to give their best to avoid a double against their opponent. “You don’t want any team to put a double over you and that’s a conversation…
Messina Denaro was reportedly detained in a private clinic in Sicily’s capital Palermo. He is alleged to be a boss of Sicily’s notorious Cosa Nostra mafia. Italian media reported that he had been receiving treatment when he was arrested just before 10:00 (09:00 GMT) and taken away by the Carabinieri. He was tried and sentenced to life in jail in absentia over numerous murders. These include the 1992 killing of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the deadly 1993 bomb attacks in Milan, Florence and Rome, and the kidnapping, torture and killing of the 11-year-old son of a mafioso…
Police and residents are on the hunt for a female tiger that escaped from its cage in Walkerville, south of Johannesburg, and mauled two dogs and a man. The local community policing forum’s (CPF) Gresham Mandy said the big cat escaped from its cage at a smallholding where it was being kept with a male. He said the owner claimed the fence had been cut and the animal escaped on Saturday night. Mandy said the animal attacked and killed a dog, before mauling another dog, which had to be put down. The tiger then attacked a man, who managed to…