Новости за 20.07.2021

DURBAN - The good news is that the Springbok Sevens team has at last managed to get on to the training pitch in Japan after a number of setbacks which has put them a week behind schedule.

Cape Town – Two mothers who were found guilty of allowing gangsters to rape and torture the one’s two-year-old daughter stunned the Parow Regional Court when they asked to pay a R5 000 fine instead of doing jail time.

JOHANNESBURG - JOHANNESBURG - Thandi Tshabalala, who played four One-Day Internationals for the Proteas, said Tuesday that he couldn’t not support the men’s national team given the experiences of racial discrimination he endured as part of the team in the mid-2000s.

Heavy bottlenecks are among the challenges being dealt with at the ports of Durban and Richards Bay as Transnet rushes to normalise operations following civil unrest that forced a week-long shutdown of its entire supply value chain.

Cape Town – Philippi East SAPS is trying to solve a car accident dispute after an e-hailing taxi driver crashed into a man.

DURBAN – Smaller municipalities outside Pietermaritzburg are now looking to the provincial government for help in resuscitating their towns following last week’s devastating riots, which left a trail of destruction to both public infrastructure and private businesses.

Cape Town – A total of 8 929 new Covid-19 cases were identified in South Africa on Tuesday, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 311 232.

TOKYO - South Africa's Olympic football coach fears his players' health could be at risk after being forced to isolate at the Tokyo Games, citing Christian Eriksen's traumatic ordeal at Euro 2020.

Cape Town - The City has not received reports of flood-related damage following another warning of very cold temperatures expected across the majority of the country from Wednesday, lasting well into the coming weekend.

DURBAN - The badly kept secret that the entire series between the Boks and the Lions is to played in Cape Town has now been confirmed by SA Rugby.

Cape Town - The provincial Department of Social Development (DSD) says it is ready to get the vaccine roll-out for those within the sector off the ground.

Cape Town - Only “hired guns” (inkabi or hitmen) are benefiting from the ongoing taxi violence in the city, says the Cape Metro Development Council (CDMC), which represents more than 25 development forums.

DURBAN - The Sharks have placed themselves at the forefront of the effort to rebuild KwaZulu-Natal by helping to restore shops and facilities that were destroyed by looting, by distributing food to the hungry, and even running a soup kitchen from Jonsson Kings Park.

Baghdad - The Iraqi military said on Tuesday that a suicide bomber carried out the bombing in the east of the capital Baghdad that killed at least 35 people.

Sydney - A man in the Australian city of Perth escaped mandatory quarantine in a hotel by scaling down a rope made of tied together bedsheets from a fourth-floor window, police said on Tuesday.

Cape Town - While the City said there has been an increase of water meter theft reported across the city over the last two months, a Table View resident said her private meter was removed by the City.

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Arafat, Saudi Arabia - Thousands of face-masked Muslims gathered on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat on Monday, praying for an end to the pandemic and faster vaccination as the annual hajj pilgrimage reached its climax.

Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina, has barred worshippers from abroad for a second year running and restricted entry from within the kingdom to guard against the coronavirus and new variants.

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DURBAN - Maritzburg United Chairman Farook Kadodia has insisted that the club is not for sale.

ETHEKWINI Fire attended to a fire at the United building in the Durban CBD earlier this afternoon.

THE City of Cape Town said its enforcement services continue to work closely with SAPS and other role-players to mitigate the threat of violence in the ongoing taxi conflict.

Thousands of unemployed Ghanaians descended on El Wak Sports Stadium in Accra on Monday, July 19, with their credentials in the hope of being recruited into the Ghana Armed Forces.

CAPE TOWN - Given the lack of game time the Springboks have had recently, experience was an important factor in selecting his team to take on the British & Irish Lions in their Series-opener at Cape Town Stadium on Saturday, head coach Jacques Nienaber says.

Cape Town - Calls for the provincial government to open a vaccination site in Langa are mounting as taxi-related shootings are intensifying in and around the area.