Innholdsfortegnelse for Saturday, July 4, 2020 i Pretoria News Weekend

Restaurants rise to the challenge LIAM NGOBENI liam.ngobeni@inl.co.za JACQUES NAUDE FIERCE competition and new social norms are likely to change the face of hospitality as hotels, guest houses and restaurants resume service under strict new government regulations. This is according to Robyn Christie, a consultant in the travel and hospitality industry, who said maintaining the trust of patrons and employees had never been more significant than it is now in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. “Many hospitality enterprises that have survived lockdown so far now need to have a long, hard look at their operating models to make sure their businesses remain sustainable, with the new requirements,” she said. “We have seen some truly inspiring innovations from certain restaurants recently in response to this new era of Covid-consciousness.” She…

Lockdown travel tips WITH some parts of the travel sector having reopened, locals can plan stay-cation trips to explore their province. Sit-down restaurants, accredited hotels, cinemas, theatres, casinos and personal care services are now allowed to operate under amendments to level 3 lockdown. Non-contact sports including hiking are also permitted. Here are some things you need to know before you set off on your lockdown staycation: ● Planning is key With new regulations introduced due to the coronavirus pandemic, you need to plan carefully, right down to establishing in advance where you can take a toilet break or get refreshments. ● You cannot travel out of the province Before you dream of a sea adventure or long road trip, you should know that travel between provinces for leisure is not…

COVID-19 Youth training centre given a week to get compliant GOITSEMANG TLHABYE goitsemang.tlhabye@inl.co.za THE management of the Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa Centre of Excellence and Department of Social Development’s regional officials have just one week to ensure the centre is compliant with directives for Covid-19 and safe for children entrusted to its care. Deputy Minister for Social Development Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu expressed anger and frustration yesterday as she visited the centre to assess its compliance with prevention and control measures for Covid-19. Addressing officials and management of the centre, Bogopane-Zulu said she was upset and irritated that despite having visited the centre previously, a number of problems they had identified had not been remedied.. She was especially unhappy with the centre’s lack of compliance with the department’s directives for the resumption of…

EXTRACT Uncovering the culture of violence at Parktown Boys ROBERT AND JILL “WHY did you send him to Park-town?” I asked. They didn’t live very far away, but there were a number of school in the area with very good reputations, both monastic and co-ed. “He got a scholarship,” she said. “There was a scout from Parktown on the side of the field when he was playing rugby in junior school. And he offered Rob a full scholarship. Part of the terms of that was that he had to live in the boarding house.” Robert met us in the garden. He had that sleepy look that all teenage boys get, as though they’ve just been pulled out of hibernation. He was lean and athletic, as all the boys had been,…

Man charged under new security law HONG KONG: A man, carrying a “Liberate Hong Kong” sign on Wednesday as he drove a motorcycle into police at a protest against the territory’s Chinese rulers, yesterday became the first person charged with inciting separatism and terrorism under a new security law. Beijing imposed the legislation on the former British colony earlier this week despite protests from Hong Kongers and Western nations. Police said Tong Ying-kit, 23, injured some officers at an illegal protest on Wednesday. An online video showed a motorbike knocking over several officers in a narrow street before the driver falls over and is arrested. Tong, who was hospitalised after the incident, was charged after the city government said the slogan he was carrying – “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of…

The People WHO reacts to apparent faith healing of doctor in Cameroon JOHANNESBURG: The World Health Organization (WHO) has spoken out after a Cameroonian doctor, Kameni Pierre, claimed he was healed of Covid-19 by Nigerian pastor TBJoshua through the church channel, Emmanuel Television. The Daily Post reported that Pierre, a gynaecologist and obstetrician, shared a video on the faith television channel and other social media of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in which he stated that he had been suffering from the virus and was in isolation in hospital when he called in via video to receive prayer from Joshua. He showed his Covid-19 positive medical report on screen and while receiving prayer from Joshua, he allegedly “vomited up” the disease. It is said that after a few days,…

TURKEY Khashoggi’s fiancée appears at absent Saudis’ trial ISTANBUL: The fiancée of Jamal Khashoggi told a Turkish court yesterday that the Washington Post columnist was lured to his death at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul through “a great betrayal and deception” and she asked that all those responsible for his killing be brought to justice. Hatice Cengiz spoke at the opening of the trial in absentia of two former aides of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and 18 other Saudi nationals who were charged in Turkey for Khashoggi’s slaying. The journalist’s killing at the consulate sparked international condemnation and cast a cloud of suspicion over the prince. The 20 Saudi defendants left Turkey and Saudi Arabia rejected Turkish demands for their extradition. Some of the men were put on trial…

ICYMI | IOL.CO.ZA WORLD TAKES STOCK OF COVID-19 DRUG REMDESIVIR A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence… Leadership is not restricted to position and age. ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Ghanaian writer, blogger and lifeskills coach Governments in Europe and Asia said this week they had enough Covid-19 anti-viral remdesivir despite fears of shortages since the US drugmaker pledged most output to its home market. See https://bit.ly/CovidDrugs…

EDITORIAL Mandela Day: What we can do THIS month we celebrate Nelson Mandela’s birthday under unique circumstances – a global pandemic that has seriously constrained the very freedom of movement and association our nation’s founding father, Nelson Mandela, foreswore for 27 years to win for us. We are enjoined to make every July Mandela month, to volunteer our services to do something for the community or the less fortunate – for only 67 minutes if that’s all we can manage. It will be difficult this year to do what we have done in years gone by because of the restrictions, but there are many other ways we can commemorate him. For a start, we can really start caring for one another; not virtue signalling on Facebook or putting on a…

Stoked by its magnificence ‘Shadowplay’, a gorgeously written historical novel, imagines Bram Stoker’s inner life and path to ‘Dracula’ MICHAEL DIRDA BACK in 2009, Michael Holroyd brought out A Strange Eventful History, a double biography of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, the greatest actor and actress of late Victorian England. It was one of those books that make you hug yourself with pleasure. In 2016, David J Skal produced Something in the Blood, a life of Bram Stoker, whom we remember for Dracula but who earned his living as general manager of London’s Lyceum Theatre. Like others before him, Skal speculated that Stoker partly modelled the count after his boss, the imperious and volatile owner of the Lyceum, none other than Henry Irving. As Joseph O’Connor acknowledges, the two books…

Messi halts Barcelona contract renewal negotiations BARCELONA captain Lionel Messi has called off negotiations over renewing his contract with the club and is ready to leave the Catalans when his current deal expires in 2021, according to a report by Spanish radio station Cadena Ser yesterday. The report said Messi and his father Jorge had begun discussing renewing his last deal with the club, which was signed in 2017, but that he no longer wishes to stay at the Camp Nou. The report added that Messi is angry about leaked media reports that appeared to make him seem responsible for the January sacking of coach Ernesto Valverde, and that he is frustrated about the squad’s lack of quality. The Argentine’s representatives and Barcelona did not immediately respond to requests for…

It’s up to us to stay safe NTANDO MAKHUBU ntando.makhubu@inl.co.za AS Gauteng becomes the new epicentre of Covid-19 infections, calls have been made for collaborative behavioural change to flatten the curve. Premier David Makhura has outlined the risk if the province’s 15 million residents fail to adhere to regulations, with speculation over alcohol sales being limited further. With people talking on social media about protecting themselves, their families and those around them from infection, moves for behavioural change have entered the conversation. Many are now saying the time has come to call out those who do not follow the rules, such as not wearing a mask in public or not wearing it properly. This was the way to go, behavioural expert Professor Martin Tetlow of Centurion said, referring to the…

City home for aged hit by deaths, infections STAFF REPORTER THREE residents of the Jaffa Home for Jewish Aged in Pretoria who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, and nine are being treated in hospital. According to a report in the South African Jewish Report, Covid-19 has had a big impact on Jewish homes for the aged, with 27 cases in the large Chevrah Kadisha care facilities in Johannesburg and nine at Highlands House in Cape Town. The Jaffa residents who died in the past week are Shirley Vardi, 92, Eddie Karp, 87, and Selma Abro, 93. They were three of 26 Jaffa residents who tested positive two weeks ago out of 79 residents. Eleven out of 88 staff members have also tested positive, the report said as the home’s…

LABOUR No Covid-19 cover for domestic workers Unions launch online petition seeking protection should members be infected at work ZELDA VENTER zelda.venter@inl.co.za WHILE the number of Covid-19 infections are soaring by the day in the country, unions are increasingly worried about the fact that more and more domestic workers could become infected in the workplace, yet still do not have protection against the coronavirus under the Compensation for Occupational Injury and disease Act (Coida). “This is worrisome because as the number of infections are rising, employers are more and more at risk. They are not immune to the virus and chances are good that their domestic workers could also become infected,” said Pinky Mashiane, president of United Domestic Workers of South Africa (Udwosa). She questioned who would take…

ADVERTISING Getting creative under lockdown LOCKDOWN has meant finding new ways of doing things, and the new Echinaforce advert was made with a lot of ingenuity. Led by commercial director Dani Hynes for client SA Natural Products Vogel Echinaforce, it was prepared during lockdown. Hynes said production planning, site locations, casting calls and rehearsals all had to be done online with team members across the country and unable to leave home. The script called for a florist shop, where actress Shaleen Surtie-Richards plays the florist, offering nature’s healing support for colds and flu through bundles of Echinacea purpurea flowers. As the team could not scout for a location, they asked for pictures and videos from florists. And as they could not get the flowers, or silk to create any, they…

LAID BACK Don’t stand so close to me; else I’ll call the police JOUBERT MALHERBE THIS lockdown business, along with the coronavirus pandemic, is pretty much playing havoc with the psyche of the nation, I reckon. The other day, we went – en famille – to visit the newly-reopened Rietvlei Nature Reserve, one of the gems of the capital. Kudos to the authorities over the fact that we now have access to these facilities, including the Groenkloof and Faerie Glen reserves. At Rietvlei, we were pretty lucky in terms of creature spotting and it was a fine day. One of the first noticeable sightings was a rhino chomping away at grass in a field. Like the others in the reserve, it had been dehorned, to deter would-be poachers from killing…

40 tons of waste lifted from Red Sea CAPE TOWN: Egypt’s ministry of environment said 40 tons of waste had been removed from the Red Sea floor as part of a campaign to protect biodiversity, monthly magazine Egypt Today reported. It said the area, covering Hurghada, Safaga and Marsa Alam, was cleaned between June 19 and 29. According to the ministry, the next stage of the “Red Sea Clean Reefs Campaign” will be carried out on a larger scale and will include diving sites inside and outside the Red Sea national reserves. The ministry said the collected waste was transferred to a sanitary landfill for safe disposal. ANA…

SEX-TRAFFICKING Will Maxwell clear Prince Andrew – or damn him? GHISLAINE Maxwell could end up in the same jail where Jeffery Epstein committed suicide last year when she is transferred to New York to face child sex trafficking charges. Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend and alleged madam, was arrested on Thursday in Bradford, New Hampshire, for helping the millionaire paedophile procure and sexually abuse young girls. At a court hearing Maxwell’s attorneys agreed to have the case moved to the Southern District of New York – where she is being charged. She is being held without bail after prosecutors convinced the judge that she is a flight risk and has access to unlimited resources. “That risk is only amplified by the defendant’s extensive international ties, her citizenship in two foreign countries,…

ICYMI | IOL.CO.ZA IRAN TO COMPENSATE AIR CRASH VICTIMS Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr American minister and rights activist STOCKHOLM: Iran has agreed to compensate the families’ of the foreign victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down by Iranian forces outside Tehran in January, Sweden’s foreign minister said on Thursday.…

COMMENT When home is a war zone A man and a woman share their stories of gender-based violence ZIYANDA MGANDELA ziyanda.mgandela@inl.co.za “THE birth of my baby girl saved me from myself.” These are the words of a 31-year-old man from uMlazi, who opened up to the Independent on Saturday about being a perpetrator of gender-based violence. He said some of the reasons he beat his girlfriend were that she used to want to control him and dictate how he lived his life. This would frustrate him and drive him to drink and avoid her. “I couldn’t spend all my time with her, I also had a life outside of our relationship – I had friends and family. “This one time, I found her waiting outside my flat without…

MOVIE Ferrell dials down crazy in comedy AS WILL Ferrell movies go, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga ranks somewhere in that vast, grey, paunchy middle area, perhaps wedged just above the waistband of Zoolander 2 but just below the belly button of Kicking and Screaming. If the movie, about an inept Icelandic music duo with dreams of winning the annual Eurovision song contest, fails to achieve the inspired lunacy of an Anchorman, it is nevertheless nowhere near as bad as, say, Holmes and Watson. And maybe that’s all we need, in this summer of Covid-19, when even an unexceptional Will Ferrell comedy is better than none at all. Ferrell plays Lars, a singer whose childhood dream has been to make it to Eurovision, an international singing competition.…

PROTECTION FSCA publishes final FAIS Act amendments LAST WEEK, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) published the final amendments to the General and Short-term Deposit Codes of Conduct and to the Fit and Proper requirements for financial advisers under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services (FAIS) Act. The regulator says the amendments are ultimately intended to promote the fair treatment and protection of financial consumers. Some of the amendments emanated from policy processes that started in 2014, such as the Retail Distribution Review, which reforms the way in which financial products are distributed and sold. Also, the Insurance Act of 2017 introduced new terminology and classes of insurance under the Long-Term Insurance Act and the Short-Term Insurance Act. Amendments were needed to align the FAIS Act with the new terminology.…

DATES AND TOPICS OF ‘WAYS TO SAVE’ WEBINAR SERIES THE SOUTH African Savings Institute (Sasi), in association with Absa, will focus on financial education this month, bringing together experts to provide insights on savings in the #waystosave webinar series. Wednesday, July 8, at 7pm Building financial resilience in uncertain times. With Prem Govender, the chairperson of Sasi and the Financial Services Consumer Education Foundation; Gerald Mwandiambira, Sasi’s acting chief executive and My Money author; Maya Fisher-French, award-winning personal finance journalist and author; Arabile Gumede, financial journalist, speaker and entrepreneur; Kristia van Heerden, the chief executive of Just One Lap and host of the Fat Wallet podcast; and Dr Sindi van Zyl, medical practitioner, broadcaster and social activist. Saturday, July 11, at 11am Rebuilding your finances during Covid-19 and beyond. With…

TV GUIDE SATURDAY 4 July Golf PGA Tour: Rocket Mortgage Classic, Day 3, 7pm, CSN, SS1, SSS5 Motorsport Formula 1: Austrian Grand Prix, Practice 3, 11.45am, SS6; Austrian Grand Prix, Qualifying, 2pm, SS1, SS6; FIA Formula 2 Championship, Round 1: Race 1, 4.45pm, SS6; IndyCar Series, GMR Grand Prix, 6pm, SS6 Rugby Aotearoa: Highlanders v Crusaders, 9am, CSN, SS1; Brumbies v Rebels, 11.10am, CSN, SS1 Soccer Premier League: Norwich v Brighton & Hove Albion, 12.30pm, SS3; Manchester United v AFC Bournemouth, 3.30pm, SS3, CSN; Leicester City v Crystal Palace, 3,50pm, SS4; Wolves v Arsenal, 6pm, SS3; Chelsea v Watford, 8.30pm, SS3; Premier League TV: Matchday Live Extra, 11.30pm, SS3; SkyBet English Football League Championship: Derby County v Nottingham Forest, 1.25pm, SS9; La Liga Santander: Celta Vigo v Real Betis, 4pm,…

RUGBY O’Connor’s boot ends Reds’ losing streak QUEENSLAND Reds flyhalf James O’Connor kicked a late penalty to secure a 32-26 win and snap a seven-year losing streak to the New South Wales Waratahs as professional rugby returned to Australia yesterday after a three-month hiatus due to Covid-9. The Wallabies utility back struck in the 76th minute, giving the Reds victory after 11 successive defeats by their southern rivals. Law variations borrowed from rugby league to speed up the game ensured plenty of running rugby, as did ample handling errors, The Reds dominated early, surging to a 19-7 lead before the half-hour mark when scrumhalf Tate McDermott took a quick tap and bounding over. Penalties on either side of the break kept the Waratahs in touch, though, and they charged in…

Too soon for children to go back to school – teacher unions STAFF REPORTER THE increased risk of infection led to Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga’s announcement this week that only Grades R, 6, and 11 would return to school on Monday – joining Grades 7 and 12 who returned on June 8 – with other grades to be phased in later. Originally, the plan was for Grades 1,2,3 and 10 to also go back next week with the other grades on August 3. Teacher unions, Sadtu and Naptosa, slammed the decision to allow a second batch of schoolchildren to return on Monday as some schools were still struggling with the first batch. Naptosa’s Basil Manuel said they pleaded with the department not to allow more grades to go…

The Brief A TIPPLE, A TATTLE A UNIQUE SOLUTION TO THE COVID BATTLE WHILE scientists work frantically to find a cure for Covid-19, some South Africans think they have a cure in a popular tipple. On a winter’s night little warms you up from the inside quite like a glass of sherry, but rumour has it that it not only does that, it can kill the virus. Talk of this “miracle cure” started with a voice note that circulated via WhatsApp after a woman in the Eastern Cape claimed her son had been “cured” after drinking Old Brown Sherry. In the voice note, a woman says her child, who had the virus, was brought a small bottle in hospital. The child drank the sherry and by the next day he…

Covid-19: students threw contest parties TUSCALOOSA: Rumours of “Covid-19 parties” have proven to be true. Several college students in Alabama have been organising parties as a contest to see who would get the virus first, an official said. Students hosted the parties to intentionally infect each other, news outlets quoted Tuscaloosa City councillor Sonya McKinstry as saying. She said the organisers invited guests who tested positive for the virus. The students put money in a pot and whoever got Covid-19 first would get the cash. According to an NBC News report on Thursday quoting the state’s public health website, Alabama confirmed more 10000 coronavirus cases within the past 14 days. There have been 38442 cases in the state since testing began in March. AP…

FRANCE Castex is new French prime minister Macron seeks to ‘reinvent’ his presidency PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron named Jean Castex, a top civil servant and local mayor who orchestrated France’s coronavirus lockdown exit strategy, as his new prime minister yesterday, as he acted to reinvent his administration and win back voters. Castex, 55, hails from the centre-right of French politics and served for two years as the second-highest ranking official in the Elysee Palace during Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency. An Elysee official described Castex as a senior civil servant whose experience in local politics would help Macron connect with provincial France. Castex was a “social Gaullist”, the official said in reference to the more interventionist, socially minded wing of France’s centre-right. The announcement followed the resignation of Edouard Philippe before a widely…

GERMANY Coal, nuclear phase-out plan finalised GERMAN lawmakers have finalised the country’s long-awaited phase-out of coal as an energy source, backing a plan that environmental groups say isn’t ambitious enough and free marketeers criticise as a waste of taxpayers’ money. Bills approved by both houses of parliament yesterday envision shutting down the last coal-fired power plant by 2038 and spending some E 40 billion (R767bn) to help affected regions cope with the transition. The plan is part of Germany’s “energy transition” – an effort to wean Europe’s biggest economy off planet-warming fossil fuels and generate all of the country’s considerable energy needs from renewable sources. Achieving that goal is made harder than in comparable countries such as France and Britain because of Germany’s commitment to also phase out nuclear power…

CARPING POINT Evil is malevolent violence but ‘Donker Jonker’ may disagree KEVIN RITCHIE @RitchKev THIS is the third weekend that churches, mosques and synagogues and any other place of organised worship will have been able to operate, but with the steady surge in coronavirus infections, it will probably be only the profits (sic) who will opening their doors. Not even the South African Satanic Church, registered mere weeks before the lockdown, will dare to hold its first public service. Just exactly how they will eventually physically celebrate their beliefs and with what rituals and texts is still highly unknown – to protect the identities of its adherents, who might otherwise be victimised in polite South African society. Whatever your views on their beliefs founders Adri Norton and Riaan Swiegelaar, who…

We can learn so much from young people SIMON CRANE I ATTENDED a webinar on the subject of “Responding to racism in schools”, run by a UCT-based organisation called the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. At one point, a panellist said: “Children can illuminate our blind spots.” It got me thinking about how we can learn from young people. Traditionally schools have been places where education flows from teachers to children and that makes sense. After all teachers are trained and older, and come with experience that allows them a perspective that children do not have. But let us be fair, adults do not have the perspective that children have either, and dare we learn in reverse? As time has gone by and with the prevalence of the…

3 THINGS TO WATCH THIS WEEK MONDAY, JULY 6 Embarrassing Bodies: BBC Lifestyle at 9pm The Embarrassing Bodies BAFTA-winning doctors are back, once again aiming to destigmatise common complaints that many people would rather ignore than take to their GP. Dr Christian Jessen, Dr Dawn Harper and Dr Pixie McKenna take a look at patients’ ailments and discuss treatment plans. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 Dragons’ Den, S17: BBC Brit at 8pm Dragon’s Den returns where budding entrepreneurs get three minutes to pitch their business ideas to five multimillionaires. But will they be willing to invest their own cash? MONDAY, JULY 6 Botched, S6: E! at 8pm In the quest for perfection, some people’s efforts to improve their appearance can leave them with surprising results. World-renowned plastic surgeons Terry Dubrow and Paul…

The Brief SATRIX ETF GIVES ACCESS TO CHINA’S EQUITY MARKET EXCHANGE-TRADED fund (ETF) provider Satrix has launched the Satrix MSCI China ETF. Its initial public offering on the JSE opened on Wednesday this week. The ETF tracks the MSCI China Index, giving investors access to the broader Chinese equity market in a single trade. Helena Conradie, the chief executive of Satrix, says: “China has the second-largest stock market globally. As it moves from an export-driven economy to one of domestic consumption, the sheer size of its population makes it an attractive investment, especially in industries like technology, health care and luxury goods. This also means that as the trade war between China and the US ebbs and flows, Chinese companies, especially those which focus on the mainland, are less affected…

WORDS ON WEALTH Protection of personal information laws kick in MARTIN HESSE | martin.hesse@inl.co.za THE PROTECTION of Personal Information Act (Popia), which was signed into law seven years ago in 2013, came fully into effect (with the exception of two sections) this week, on July 1, after President Cyril Ramaphosa gave the go-ahead for its implementation. Companies and other organisations handling your personal information have a year to comply with the act. Lize de la Harpe, legal adviser at Glacier by Sanlam, says that in essence, Popia gives effect to section 14 of the Constitution, which says that everyone has the right to privacy. “Popia regulates, in harmony with international standards, the processing of personal information by public and private bodies in a manner that gives effect to the right…

2020 a landmark year for SA women’s football African Women’s Champions League to be launched in 2021 HERMAN GIBBS Women’s football in South Africa is in a position of unprecedented strength and statistics show that 2020 will go down as a landmark year despite the premature end to the Covid-19-affected season. Delegates at the recent Extraordinary Meeting of the South African Football Association (Safa) national executive committee (NEC) in Johannesburg were presented with statistics compiled by BMi-Sport Info (Pty) Ltd. BMi is a South African independent research company which focuses exclusively on sport and was engaged by Safa to provide statistics of its membership and activities related to training of officials and administrators. At the start of 2020, Safa’s female registered membership stood at 400 000 which makes it the…

Sprinboks snap up Saracens expert SARACENS’ strength and conditioning coach, Andy Edwards, has been appointed as the new Head of Athletic Performance for the Springboks. SA Rugby confirmed yesterday that Edwards will take up his new role with the Springboks on August 1, and will travel to Cape Town as soon as international travel to South Africa is resumed. His appointment follows the departure of Aled Walters, who recently returned to the UK after a two-year stint with the Boks. Rassie Erasmus, Director of Rugby, said Edwards will be a good fit for the national team. “Andy will bring with him a wealth of international knowledge from his time working with a range of top class coaches and players at Saracens, achieving success in England and in Europe,” said Erasmus.…

MOTORSPORT Hamilton in fast lane ahead of F1 opener FORMULA One got back on track in changed circumstances yesterday but with Mercedes bringing a familiar look to the timing sheets as six times world champion Lewis Hamilton led team mate Valtteri Bottas one-two in Austrian Grand Prix free practice. The Briton did 41 laps and lapped with a best time of one minute 04.816 seconds in a damp and overcast session, 0.356 faster than the Finn. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, winner of the last two races at his team’s home track, was third fastest and 0.602 off Hamilton’s pace. McLaren’s Carlos Sainz, who is heading to Ferrari at the end of the season, was first on track and finished the session fourth. Ferrari, who have recognised problems with their car…