Innholdsfortegnelse for Saturday, September 12, 2020 i Pretoria News Weekend

ESCAPE Get away to the bush near home ARE you craving a wildlife get-away but reluctant to drive too far? Mabula Game Lodge is easily accessible with a drive time of about two hours from Pretoria, west of Bela Bela in Limpopo. On arrival you can shake off the city and relax in the bushveld below the Waterberg mountains. Activity options include guided bush walks, horseback rides and quad biking (in certain areas). In addition to being home to the Big Five, the 12 000ha malaria-free Mabula Private Game Reserve hosts the Cheetah Release Project and the Ground Hornbill Project. Within and around the reserve are many accommodation options but the thatched Mabula Game Lodge has retained a distinctive, authentically African style of décor, its rooms are noted for comfort…

HERD IMMUNITY More have the virus but are not sick SHAUN SMILLIE ONE could have contracted Covid-19 and not realised it. In some parts of Gauteng, studies have shown that 35% to 45% of residents have been exposed to Covid-19, and most do not know it. Shabir Madhi, Professor of Vaccinology at Wits University and lead researcher on a Covid-19 vaccine trial, believes herd immunity could be the reason why South Africa is seeing a decline in Covid-19 infections. The good news is that more than 80% of cases in the country have been mild, and only about 6% of those who contract the virus have needed intensive hospital care. “Once you get a high proportion of the population infected and, together with the use of the non-pharmaceutical intervention like…

Sun City holidaymakers can splash out again SUN City is to reopen the Valley of Waves on September 23, ahead of Heritage Day. The resort opened recently but, due to regulations around swimming pools and water parks, opted to keep the popular facility closed initially, also allowing for maintenance work. General manager at Sun City, Brett Hoppé, said they had been inundated with inquiries about the Valley, and were now ready to reopen it for checked-in residents at the resort. It will be open for two sessions over the holiday weekend period, from 9am to 5pm and 6pm to 9pm. From September 27 it will be open from 9am to 6pm daily. Only hotel guests and Sun Vacation Club residents will have access as Sun City is not open to…

Song parody hits dud note, say critics DAVID Scott aka The Kiffness is in hot water for his parody of the hit song Jerusalema. Last weekend he ruffled feathers for referring to the Clicks Tresemmé advert as a “mistake”. He said: “If they’re calling for 880 stores to be closed & 15k employees to lose their jobs over one mistake, imagine what they’d do in power,” he said about the EFF protest led by Julius Malema. Then he dropped a parody of MasterKG’s hit, titled Julius Malema, which critics called opportunistic and racist. Abigail Tshiamala (@ abichalusamba) said “you have NO place to comment on the way black people decide to protest violence against OUR community”. In a disclaimer, he said “… there was no malicious intent with Clicks’ ad.…

Arrests in gang rape of two British girls MILAN: Police in southern Italy have arrested four men and are investigating another four on suspicion of sexually assaulting two British girls at a villa where a party was being held, authorities said yesterday. The 15-year-old tourists met the male suspects at the party they attended with an adult sister in the southern province of Matera. Police said two of the young Italian males won their trust by acting in a friendly manner while also taking advantage of the girls’ “altered state” from consuming alcohol. As the party of about 50 people went on inside the villa, the adult sister lost sight of the girls, investigators said. The girls contacted police several hours later, and were treated at a hospital. AP…

COVID-19 Virus may have reached US shores before China announced outbreak WAS the novel coronavirus on the loose in Los Angeles in December, before the World Health Organization was even aware of an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China? A new analysis of records from the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles’ hospitals and clinics suggests the answer might be yes. Researchers from UCLA and their colleagues at the University of Washington documented an unmistakable uptick in patients seeking treatment for coughs. The increase began the week of December 22, 2019, and persisted through the end of February. Officials with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first recognised that the virus had reached American shores in mid-January, when a man in Washington state who had travelled…

BELGIUM City finds former mayor’s heart in a fountain FOR years it was just an urban myth. Then the diggers moved in and found it was true – that the heart of a deceased mayor of the eastern Belgian city of Verviers really was buried under a fountain. A small metal box, containing Pierre David’s heart in an ethanol-filled jar, was uncovered during renovation work on the city’s ornate stone fountain last month. The relic is mentioned in civic documents, but until it was found “no one really believed it,” Verviers city councillor Maxime Degey said. “Today the legend is no longer a legend. It’s a reality.” David died in 1839 after falling from a building. Authorities built a fountain in his honour and, with his family’s permission, placed his…

› UNITED STATES › CHINA Nations agree to disengage border troops 500000 people flee wildfires INDIA and China’s foreign ministers have agreed that their troops should disengage from a tense border standoff, maintain proper distance, and ease tensions in the cold-desert Ladakh region where the two sides in June had their deadliest clash in decades. S Jaishankar and Wang Yi met in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday night and concurred that “the current situation in the border areas is not in the interest of either side”, according to a joint statement issued yesterday. The two ministers met on the sidelines of a gathering of the foreign ministers of the Shanghai Co-operation Organization. The body comprises China, India, Pakistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Krgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Since last week, the Asian giants have accused…

SA can go from ‘joke to top of the world’ LINDSAY SLOGROVE TEN months ago, Saffers were given yet another glimpse of joy, promise, hope and unity. We celebrated and wallowed in triumph and pride, forgetting for a while the reality of nearly 30 years of experience. We bought in to the idea – with green-and-gold and black-and brown-and white-lined streets – that we could do anything if we all shared the same goal and worked hard to achieve it. Our finger-tips and hearts keep stretching for this unity thing, clinging on to the ideal, but not getting it. Soon after, and more so after March, Saffers were once again reduced to pain, fear, fury, distrust and hunger, and not only by Covid-19. Women and children have been savagely raped…

3 THINGS TO WATCH THIS WEEK SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Terminator: Dark Fate: M-NET at 8.05pm Sci-fi, Action: Alongside an enhanced cyborg, Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger fight to protect humanity again. In Mexico City, a modified Terminator, the Rev-9 model, arrives from the future to kill factory worker Dani Ramos. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Power Book II: Ghost S1: 1Magic at 7pm From the executive producer of the crime-series Power, comes a reimagined spin-off. Starring Mary J Blige and Lovell Adams-Gray, it picks up as Tariq St Patrick grapples with a new world order: his father dead and his mother, Tasha, facing charges for the murder her son committed. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 Single Wives SA S1: on M-Net at 6pm Single Wives SA will zoom in on six previously married women…

PLANNING POINTS The end of financial planning as our parents knew it HARDI SWART I CAN clearly recall my first encounter with a “financial planner” – the guy who looked after my parents’ money. In reality, he was a full-time pastor with a side project hawking policies to the members of his congregation. He had no real experience in financial planning and he had no qualifications, except for a certificate from a two-week training course he’d done with one of the big life insurance companies. He ended up selling my mom a few education policies that were supposed to be sufficient to see me through university, and after that we never saw him again. Needless to say, the policies barely paid out enough to cover my first semester’s tuition fees.…

TENNIS Serena flatters to deceive as dream title remains elusive SERENA Williams will have just two weeks to shake off the disappointment of a semi-final loss in the US Open and resume her pursuit of a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title on the claycourts at the French Open. The American great has remained one title behind Margaret Court’s all-time record since bagging her 23rd Grand Slam singles trophy at the Australian Open in January 2017. Williams has lost four Grand Slam finals since returning to the circuit in 2018 following the birth of her daughter and once again fell short on Thursday when she bowed out to Victoria Azarenka with a 1-6 6-3 6-3 defeat in the US Open semi-finals. “I don’t know. I mean, it’s obviously disappointing,” Williams told…

NEDBANK CUP Bet against Mosimane at your peril MINENHLE MKHIZE IT is rare for Pitso Mosimane to lead a team in a final and lose. In fact, the Mamelodi Sundowns supremo has only ever lost two matches in knockout cup finals in his entire coaching career. His first defeat was when his Super-Sport United side went down 1-0 in the 2004 SAA Supa Eight final against Kaizer Chiefs. The other taste of defeat in a final was a 3-0 drubbing Sundowns experienced at the hands of Wits University in the MTN8. Mosimane first showed a knack for success at SuperSport where he had a fruitful tenure, delivering two trophies. He, in fact, got the better of the Glamour Boys in the same SAA Supa Eight final in Durban after losing…

Clicks shelves clear of TRESemmé CLICKS stores reopened yesterday and gone from the haircare shelves were TRESemmé products. This was in line with an agreement reached between the EFF, Clicks and Unilever after stores were closed on Monday. Cabinet welcomed efforts by the retailer to self-correct after the storm over a racially offensive advert on its online site for TRESemmé. Cabinet spokesperson Phumla Williams said the ad was “profoundly offensive and racist”. “Black hair has been the subject of intense politicisation and a source of unjust discrimination in our recent history,” said Williams. Clicks said it would delist TRESemmé and “committed to work with (the) government to promote local beauty products in all their stores and to collaborate with suppliers to promote the constitutional values as enshrined in the Constitution”,…

TUT student finalist in ICT competition TSHWANE University of Technology’s (TUT) Lucky Ngobeni has placed among the top South African students in the Huawei ICT competition and will go through, with 11 other finalists, to the regional final. The competition attracted more than 10 000 students from 25 universities and colleges across the country who competed online this year due to the Covid 19 pandemic. The 12 finalists will participate in the Southern Africa regional final, with other students from sub-Saharan African countries. The winners of the regional final will go to the global final, online at the end of October. Ngobeni claimed top spot in the network stream, with other finalists from Wits, University of Johannesburg and University of Venda. In the other section, the winners are from University…

Technical glitch hits Capitec customers SOME Capitec Bank clients woke up yesterday morning to see that additional deductions had been made from their accounts. According to the bank, this was caused by a technical issue on Ned-bank’s systems that affected the billing on their point of sale terminals. Capitec said its technical teams were working on the issue and both banks promised transactions would be reversed within 24 hours. “This transaction process, something went wrong technically,” the bank said in a statement. “The double deduction was due to a technical issue by another bank and was outside of our control.” According to Nedbank: “A transactional file of 7 September 2020 was erroneously processed on 11 September 2020, resulting in duplicate debits. Capitec said it would SMS the affected clients directly…

DIARY TIME TO REBUILD ECONOMY FRIDAY, MARCH 27 Day 1 of lockdown level 5 which will last to 30 April. FRIDAY, MAY 1 Day 1 of lockdown level 4 which will last to 31 May. SUNDAY, MAY 24 President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation. MONDAY, JUNE 1 Day 1 of lockdown level 3 which will last to August 17. THURSDAY, JUNE 4 State of Disaster extended. MONDAY, JUNE 8 Grades 7 and 12 at school; domestic business flights resume. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 First court case against tobacco ban. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 President announces changes to level 3. FRIDAY, JUNE 19 Personal-care services reopen. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 Tito Mboweni’s extraordinary supplementary Budget. MONDAY, JUNE 29 Restaurants reopen for sit-in. SATURDAY, JULY 4 Day 100 of lockdown. MONDAY, JULY 6 Grades R,…

More than 100 dead in flooding in Africa NIAMEY: Almost 760 000 people have been affected by severe flooding in recent weeks in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ghana, Niger, Mali, Nigeria, Congo Republic and Senegal are among the worst-hit this year, with at least 111 people killed, according to figures from the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Waters have yet to recede in parts of Niamey since torrential rains last month caused rivers to burst their banks, destroying nearly 32000 houses and 5768 hectares of farmland across Niger. Flooding across landlocked Niger alone has impacted nearly 333000 people. More than 188 000 people have been affected in neighbouring Chad, with OCHA warning of potential food shortages due to inundated land. With more rain expected, particularly in…

GERMANY Man arrested for weapons stockpile POLICE in Germany expressed their shock yesterday at the discovery of a large weapons and explosives stockpile at a residential home in the western city of Dortmund. Special forces searched the property over a period of days, starting on Wednesday, police said. “We were surprised at the amount of things we found,” a spokeswoman said. A 68-year-old resident is suspected of hoarding explosive materials at his property. He is under investigation on suspicion of violating arms laws. Police found weapons, ammunition, suspicious chemical substances and a mine, which was detonated by experts in a field. The next day, several kilograms of TNT explosives were also seized, police said. dpa…

CARPING POINT EFF’s bad behaviour doesn’t wash KEVIN RITCHIE @RitchKev AFTER a five-month-long hiatus from the politics of spectacle – if not the politics of greed – the Clicks hair ad debacle was always going to be too much of a low-hanging fruit to dismiss. Why anyone could have allowed the insensitive, hurtful and stupid TRESemmé ad to pass in the first place is astonishing. Perhaps now the lesson will finally be internalised among ad agencies the length and breadth of the country. Perhaps now Unilever, the monolith that looms over most of the retail activity in this country, might finally wake up too – after all, this wasn’t its first rodeo. There are, as Professor Adam Habib noted, many ways to effect change; the Human Rights Commission for one.…

EDITORIAL More laws won’t end our shame THE PRESIDENT’S announcement this week of a new amendment bill to our sex crime laws sounds like a timely boost to a scourge that deservedly shrouds us in as much global shame as corruption, corporate collusion and state capture. The fact that women and children are not safe at any time in this country is a travesty of everything our founding fathers – and mothers – sacrificed their lives for in the Struggle against apartheid. It’s particularly galling in this, the 26th year since Nelson Mandela voted for the first time in his life. Women are raped and murdered. Children are preyed upon, often by those meant to protect them. It is a catastrophic situation that seems to get worse with every passing…

A robotic heroine tries to recalibrate a better life THE notion of constructing a synthetic creature that could supplement or supplant organic women extends back at least as far as E T A Hoffmann’s short story The Sandman (1816). Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis (1927) provided a vibrant and startling instance of the concept with its art deco robot named Maria. With the explosion of science fiction from the late 30s onward, female robots and androids abounded. The Stepford Wives (1972 in book form, 1975 for the film) crystallised a “feminists vs the patriarchy” take on the theme, while later movies such as Ex Machina (2014) tried a more nuanced examination of the trope. Surely the unbeatable apex of this subgenre is Richard Calder’s decadent Beardsleyesque Dead Girls trilogy (1992-1996), in…

TOUR DE FRANCE Martinez takes 13th stage, Roglic stays ahead PRIMOZ Roglic tightened his grip on the Tour de France overall lead as he dropped defending champion Egan Bernal in the final ascent of the 13th stage in the Massif Central yesterday. Colombian Dani Martinez prevailed from the breakaway at the end of a 191.5km trek from Chatel-Guyon before the big guns battled it out in the finale of the short, yet brutal climb up to the Puy de Mary, where the average gradient rose above 11%. Ineos-Grenadiers Colombian leader Bernal could not sustain the pace when Tadej Pogacar accelerated, with fellow Slovenian Roglic the only rider able to follow. The duo crossed the line 38 seconds ahead of a grimacing Bernal, who slipped to third in the general classification,…

FORMULA ONE Verstappen advises Italian GP winner Gasly MAX Verstappen reckons Italian Grand Prix winner Pierre Gasly is better off staying at AlphaTauri than seeking a swift, and potentially punishing, return to Red Bull as his teammate. “Anyone can come back and try again but they will not succeed,” the Dutch 22-year-old told Reuters in a video interview at the Tuscan Grand Prix. If that sounds arrogant, or intimidating, it is not intentional. As one of Formula One’s hottest properties, and considered heir apparent to Mercedes’ six times world champion Lewis Hamilton, Verstappen enjoys top billing at his team. He also tells it like he sees it. In Gasly’s shoes, Verstappen said, he would stay put. Gasly, who has grown to become the clear leader at AlphaTauri, struggled at Red…

Sascoc pushes for probe into Cricket SA But not looking to ban international tours STUART HESS and ZAAHIER ADAMS THE South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) is anxious to meet urgently with Cricket South Africa (CSA) and establish a task team to investigate the crises affecting CSA. Despite CSA rejecting Sascoc’s attempts to intervene in its affairs – including establishing a task team and calling for CSA’s board of directors and some senior officials to “step aside” – Sascoc remains keen to convene an urgent meeting with CSA. It wrote another letter to CSA yesterday, calling for that meeting to take place either later that day or today. “For the purposes of being constructive, we are drawing to their attention, their wrongful way on the position…

ARREST Child’s ‘abduction’ prevented A 24-year-old man appeared in court yesterday for allegedly assaulting a child he is believed to have tried to snatch as she sat with her mother at a restaurant on the West Rand. According to Gauteng Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Kay Makhubele, the child’s mother told police she was with her four-year-old daughter at a Pizza shop in Florida on Thursday afternoon when the suspect appeared as if from nowhere and grabbed the child across a table. “The mother screamed, and the child also screamed. With the help of the shop owner and other patrons, the suspect was apprehended,” Makhubele said. Video of the incident circulated on social media yesterday. Makhubele said the man appeared at the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court. At this stage, he faces a…

#VulaPresident march in Gauteng Artists call for entertainment industry to open at 70% venue capacity JAMES MAHLOKWANE james.mahlokwane@inl.co.za JACQUES NAUDE African News Agency (ANA) LOCAL artists took their call to open up the entertainment sector, by allowing a larger audience, to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. The national #VulaPresident movement wants up to 70% capacity of audience in venues to make live performances viable. At present, audience are limited to 50 people. The small group of Gauteng artists – among them radio personalities, DJs, singers and dancers, said their pockets had been severely affected by the lengthy lockdown and they were now desperate for more and bigger gigs and opportunities to generate an income. And in a campaign launched in KwaZulu-Natal last week and also taken to Gauteng this…

Noah is making quite a Fortune SOUTH African comedian and talk show host Trevor Noah has made it on to the Fortune 40 Under 40 list of the most influential young people in the world. The prestigious list highlights some of the world’s most powerful emerging leaders in the categories of finance, technology, healthcare, government and politics, and media and entertainment. Reflecting on Noah’s career, the publication hailed him as “one of the most visible comedians in the US and beyond”. Noah is the host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central and a successful stand up performer. The star also made his debut on the Forbes list of richest people last year. He banked about R430m in 2018. STAFF REPORTER…

LAID BACK Walking the dogs almost left me with stitches JOUBERT MALHERBE IT BEGAN some time ago, but these days it seems that more and more, Covid-19 masks are becoming fashion accessories. People have been coming up with some quaint designs on the bits of cloth whose main purpose in this time of pandemic is keeping us virus-free. Being of a somewhat retiring disposition, my masks are mainly monochrome; with my choice one being maroon. The other day, I was in Pick n Pay at the mall in funky Doringkloof – suitably attired and sporting the garment mentioned above – when I suddenly had a sneezing fit. It was merely a bout of hay fever, but the shoppers in my vicinity eyed me suspiciously and gave me a wider berth…

MINISTER REVEALS WHAT DOMESTIC TRAVELLERS WANT SOUTH Africa is hoping that reopening regional borders will boost the tourism sector. Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane hinted at the prospect of a regional travel bubble during last week’s National Press Club discussion in Pretoria. She said the government was satisfied at the downward trend in new Covid-19 cases and, if this is sustained itself, “we can fast-track reopening regional borders soon”, she said. This would give a further boost to the recovery efforts of the sector and would also build confidence for global travellers once it is considered safe to open to international markets. She revealed the four things that domestic travellers revealed after months of being in lockdown to be: * To visit attractions and activities that comply with strict adherence to…

Russia start voting in local elections MOSCOW: Russians will vote in local elections tomorrow that will test the ruling United Russia party’s grip on power less than a month after the suspected poisoning of outspoken Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. The elections had been targeted by Navalny, who was urging his followers to vote tactically against the party that backs President Vladimir Putin before he fell gravely ill in what Germany and his allies say was an attempt to kill him. Putin looks unassailable as president despite his approval rating slipping to two-decade lows earlier this year. The elections are seen by the Kremlin as a dry run for parliament elections next September and will elect 18 regional governors and a slew of local parliaments and city councillors. Early voting began…

The People Mining bosses quit SYDNEY: Jean-Sebastien Jacques, the chief executive of mining giant Rio Tinto, and two senior executives are stepping down over a backlash of the company’s decision to blast 46000-year-old Aboriginal heritage sites in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The Juukan rockshelters were destroyed in May this year. Jacques will stay on until March or until a successor is found. | dpa Amazon expert killed by tribesman’s arrow BRASILIA: A top expert on isolated Amazon tribes in Brazil was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest as he approached an indigenous group, friends and a police witness said this week. Rieli Franciscato, 56, had spent his career as an official in the government’s indigenous affairs agency, Funai, working to set up reservations to protect Brazil’s…

ICYMI | IOL.CO.ZA COVID-19 QUARANTINE PLAN SPARKED REFUGEE CAMP FIRE Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.DESMOND TUTU Cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid and human rights activist LESBOS: For asylum-seekers in the overcrowded facility on Greece’s island of Lesbos, Moria, the news of quarantine for infected people and their families did not go down well and scuffles broke out. Minutes later the fire broke out and tents were in flames fanned by strong winds.…

OBITUARY SA’s contemporary hero Bizos’s life a cause for celebration of one well lived in service of his fellow human beings JUDGE DENNIS DAVIS BONILE Bam ANA Archives WHY DO newspapers publish obituaries of well-known people who recently died? Doubtless it is to record a life of prominence and, on occasion, to celebrate a life which has contributed to the greater good. No matter the merit of the subject, the obituary should endeavour to tease out lessons which may be drawn for those who survive. George Bizos’s long life is a quintessential cause for celebration of a life well lived, of achievement, dedication, integrity and the utmost care for fellow human beings. But more than that, Bizos is a luminous contemporary example of what a new South Africa could…

FILM The new ‘Mulan’ is sombre and intense – and spectacular ANN HORNADAY Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures DISNEY has engaged in reframing the studio’s animated classics as live-action features, a strategy that attracts nostalgic fans of the original cartoons and a new baby audience ripe for enchantment. Some of the second helpings have become classics – the 2015 adaptation of Cinderella provided a lush, beautifully acted example of how to make a graceful leap from format to format (and generation to generation). Last year’s Aladdin, on the other hand, felt strained and superfluous. Mulan, the live-action remake of the popular 1998 animated musical, lands somewhere in the middle. Produced with lavish attention to detail, the film’s costumes, landscapes and period-specific design elements burst with colour and extravagant scope. Yifei…

The Brief FSCA LIQUIDATES JP MARKETS, WARNS AGAINST OTHER PROVIDERS THE FINANCIAL Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has issued warnings about two unauthorised financial services providers and is liquidating another. u DM Mobu Brokers. This company is not an authorised financial services provider (FSP) – its licence was withdrawn in June 2012. u Laurentia du Preez. This individual is unlawfully offering forex trading to members of the public using the name of JP Markets, which has now been placed in liquidation (see below). u JP Markets. Having urgently applied to the high court to liquidate forex trading platform JP Markets and freeze its bank accounts, the FSCA reports that the company is now in final liquidation. It says it will work with the liquidators to ensure that clients recover as much…

WORDS ON WEALTH DIY investors who dabble in online trading at risk of getting burned MARTIN HESSE | martin.hesse@inl.co.za THERE has been a Covid-related surge worldwide in online share, derivative and forex trading by consumers, which warrants a grave reminder about the risks of such activities. Evan Giannakis, the head of derivatives at Momentum Securities, says that current data indicates that more than 2% of equity trades in the US are trades of $2 000 (R33 469) or less – in other words, by small-time “consumer” traders. Giannakis says there are a number of factors driving this phenomenon. “Firstly, the US Federal Reserve has flooded the market with unprecedented levels of liquidity. Secondly, low-cost platforms such as Robinhood have opened up equity and derivative investing to a whole new segment…

TV GUIDE SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER Cycling Tour de France, Stage 14: Clermont-Ferrand-Lyon, 197km, 12.55pm, VR1, GSD; Tirreno-Adriatico, Stage 6: Castelfidardo-Senigallia, 1.20pm, VR2 Golf LPGA Tour: ANA Inspiration, Day 2, 1am, GOL; Day 3, 8pm, GOL; Asian Tour: Shinhan Donghae Open, Day 3, 4am, GSD, GOL; European Tour: Portugal Masters, Day 3, 2.30pm, GOL Motorsport MotoGP: Grand Prix of San Marino, Qualifying, 1.30pm, ACT; DTM: Nürburgring, Qualifying 1, 10.30am, MSP, VR3; Formula 1: Tuscan Grand Prix, Practice 3, 11.45am, SSM, MSP; Qualifying, 2pm, MSP; FIA Formula 2 Championship, Round 9: Race 1, 4.30pm, MSP Rugby Rugby Australia, Qualifiers, 11am, GSD, RUG; Guinness Pro14; Final, 6pm, RUG, GSD Soccer SkyBet English Football League Championship: Birmingham City v Brentford, 1.25pm, FTB; GladAfrica Championship, Play-off 3: Tshakhuma v PD 15, 2.45pm, PSL; Nedbank Cup,…

Tail Piece GABEIRA BREAKS WOMEN’S BIG WAVE RECORD WITH NAZARE GIANT BRAZILIAN daredevil Maya Gabeira has improved her own world record for the biggest wave surfed by a woman, riding a 22.4m giant at Portugal’s Nazare and overshadowing the top male surfers in the process. Gabeira, who broke her leg and almost drowned at the same spot in 2013, was towed by jetski into her winning wave during a World Surf League (WSL) Big Wave competition in February. It not only topped her 20.7m record from 2018, also at Nazare, but was the biggest wave ridden by any surfer over the last year. France’s Justine Dupont was also in the running for the women’s world record. Her wave was measured at only two to three feet smaller than Gabeira’s after…