Innholdsfortegnelse for 2022-09-29 i Pretoria News

Coco Rocha always turned down the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. The 34-year-old supermodel shared a ‘Coco Rocha Model Camp’ take on the ‘How I’d Model’ challenge, and a fan then asked her to try a strut connected to “a ‘specific’ problematic brand from the mid-2000s”. Rocha obliged, sharing a clip of herself waving and blowing kisses for the camera, without initially revealing the name of the brand. She wrote on the video: “Always turned down this specific show but I think it goes a lil somethin’ like this.” She added in the caption: “Air kisses and spray tans were never my thing.” In the comment section, a user suggested Rocha might be referring to Victoria’s Secret, and wrote: “The brand was problematic but the angels will always be icons.” The…

THE mother of a special needs child who was stabbed by criminals in the head when he was allowed to leave the school premises without any supervision may proceed with her claim for damages against the Gauteng Education Department. The department objected to the claim, saying the mother didn’t follow the law in issuing her summons late. The mother, who cannot be named to protect her son (no age given), said as a lay-person she had no idea that she had to adhere to a time frame in issuing her summons. She instituted action in her personal and representative capacity as a mother and legal guardian of her child with special needs, whom she said was born with cerebral palsy, “mental retardation and muteness”. While no details of the…

SOUTH Africa’s largest online retail company, Takealot, has become the latest business to come under fire from the Department of Employment and Labour’s mega-blitz inspections. The Takealot warehouse in Kempton Park was found to be in breach of a number of labour laws following a physical and administrative inspection by the department’s inspectors this week. During the inspection, 11 undocumented foreign national employees and two employers were arrested at the Takealot warehouse site in Kempton Park. In addition, three people were arrested in Pretoria on Tuesday during a related blitz. The department reported that there were outstanding cases in the Silverton area where Home Affairs immigration agents were still verifying documents. According to the department, the online retail company had not been complying with the Occupational Health and Safety Act…

AN NGO has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic has put women at higher risk of developing cervical cancer due to its impact on primary health care. Community development NGO Rhiza Babuyile said South Africa needs to play catch-up in offering reproductive health care to thousands of women who were unable to access it during the Covid-19 pandemic. “As September is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, we would like to remind women that proactive and preventive reproductive health care is the best way to fight this disease,” said Katlego Assis, special projects manager at Rhiza Babuyile. The most effective way to prevent cervical cancer is vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) and regular age-appropriate screening. The organisation urged women aged 30 to get Pap smears and young girls from age 10 to…

Moscow was poised yesterday to annex a swath of Ukraine, releasing what it called vote tallies showing support in four partially occupied provinces to join Russia, after what Kyiv and the West denounced as illegal sham referendums held at gunpoint. On Moscow’s Red Square, a tribune with giant video screens had been set up, with billboards proclaiming “Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson – Russia!” President Vladimir Putin could proclaim the annexation in a speech within days, just over a week since he endorsed the referendums, ordered a military mobilisation at home and threatened to defend Russia with nuclear weapons if necessary. The Russian-installed administrations of the four Ukrainian provinces yesterday formally asked Putin to incorporate them into Russia, which Russian officials have suggested is a formality. Russian-backed authorities claim to have…

At least 22 people were killed when two Ugandan military helicopters crashed in east Democratic Republic of Congo, a DRC army spokesperson said yesterday. Uganda sent troops to its central African neighbour in December to help fight a rebel group known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Uganda’s army confirmed the one helicopter crash. Another military source in Congo said the first helicopter crashed on Monday over the village of Boga in Ituri province, while the second fell at the Kabarole border area between the two countries. Three Congolese soldiers died in the first crash, the source said. The ADF began as an uprising in Uganda but has been based in Congo since the late 1990s. Uganda blames the group for a triple suicide bombing in its capital Kampala in…

ADDIS ABABA: Satellite images show the mobilisation this month of military forces in towns on either side of Ethiopia’s northern border with Eritrea, a private US company said yesterday. The images show reported military activity in the aftermath of the breakdown of a five-month ceasefire in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Tigray forces have battled Ethiopia’s federal army and its allies, including Eritrean troops and fighters from Ethiopian regions, over the course of a nearly two-year war. Images collected this week show military forces, vehicles and artillery positions in the town of Shiraro, near Tigray’s northern border with Eritrea. | Reuters…

Tampa: Hurricane Ian strengthened to a Category 4 storm as it headed towards the US state of Florida yesterday, with forecasters warning of life-threatening storm surges and “devastating” winds after it reportedly killed two and left millions without power in Cuba. Mandatory evacuation orders had been issued in a dozen coastal Florida counties, with voluntary evacuation recommended in several others, according to the officials. In an advisory issued around the same time, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said “Ian has strengthened into an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane.” The NHC said: “Catastrophic flooding is expected.” | AFP…

The global market for cosmetics was estimated at $532 billion in 2019, and has been expanding by around 5% year since 2016. While the beauty business works hard to boost people’s self-confidence, few people are interested in what’s on the inside; instead, we are more concerned with how the products will make us look and feel in the end. There is no doubting the connection between the mind, body, and spirit, says Toni Carroll, founder and CEO of the luxury nutricosmetics company, My Beauty Luv. However, she notes that consumers rarely link beauty with health, much less brain health. The same is true of all facets of health; yet these relationships run deep. The expansion of the global market for supplements for brain health, which is anticipated to reach $7…

PROVINCIAL commissioner of police in Limpopo, Lieutenant-General Thembi Hadebe, has sent “a stern warning” to community members, particularly men, to avoid resorting to violence in domestic disputes. Hadebe’s warning came after a 58-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing his wife, daughter, and a man alleged to be his wife’s boyfriend. The incident happened at the arrested man’s home in Bothashoek, Dithabaneng village under the Tubatse policing area outside Burgersfort, on Monday. “The police were called to the scene by community members at about 11pm. Upon arrival, they discovered three lifeless bodies of two females and a male, with gunshot wounds,” said Hadebe. The suspect was later traced and arrested. “The deceased were identified as Themina Clara Morema, aged 42, her daughter Nomasonto Morema, aged 24, and the man’s…

FRAUD unravels everything – that is the law. These were the words of Judge Adams when a widow was caught out after she claimed she was the only surviving spouse of her deceased husband, although they had been divorced for decades. The executor of the estate of the late Jeremiah Radebe, who died almost two decades ago in April 2004, turned to the South Gauteng High Court in Joburg to have the transfer of a property into the name of his former wife overturned. Radebe was married to her until their divorce in 1997, and five years later he acquired a property. The wife, through what the court said were fraudulent means by misrepresenting to the Master of the High Court she was the only surviving spouse of the deceased,…

PUBLIC Works Department authorities in Mpumalanga have failed to refute allegations that the department planned to donate 100 houses to Um- khonto we Sizwe military veterans who risked their lives fighting against the apartheid regime. These veterans make up thousands of armed struggle soldiers who returned to South Africa in 1991, hoping they would be rewarded for their efforts. In 2017, the Mpumalanga government began a programme of building “decent” houses for the veterans. The programme was expected to start in 2014, but was delayed by bad planning. So far, a few hundred houses have been handed over, benefiting veterans who spent more than two decades shacking up with relatives and in-laws. This week, DA councillor in the Steve Tshwete Local Municipality in Middelburg, San-Mari Wait, exposed plans for…

How important is the Osun River to Nigeria? The Osun River is one of the major rivers in southern Nigeria, draining into the Gulf of Guinea. The river takes its source from Ekiti State. But it’s culturally linked to the ancient city of Osogbo. A stretch of the river that flows by a sacred grove in the ancient town of Osogbo has been designated a Unesco World Heritage Site due to its cultural significance. It is one of two such designated sites in Nigeria. The river provides a wide range of cultural ecosystem services such as natural scenes for eco-tourists and the site for filming Nollywood movies. A large number of foreign tourists visit the river each year. The visits are either to pay homage to the river goddess (Osun)…

Typhoon Noru tore roofs from homes and caused power outages across central Vietnam yesterday, with hundreds of thousands of people taking refuge, after the storm claimed at least 10 lives in the Philippines. In Danang, Vietnam’s third-largest city, high-rise buildings shook as the typhoon made landfall in the early hours yesterday, bringing winds of up to around 120km/h, according to the national forecaster. More than 300 000 people in Vietnam hunkered down in shelters overnight after experts predicted the storm would be one of the biggest to ever hit the country. By yesterday, it had weakened to a tropical storm as it crossed into southern Laos, but forecasters in Vietnam warned of landslides and flooding in the typhoon’s wake. The defence ministry has mobilised around 40 000 soldiers and 200…

LONDON: David Bowie’s hand- written Starman lyrics have sold for more than £200 000 (R3.8 billion) at auction. The A4 sheet features the words to the music legend’s 1972 song as well as corrections and edits made by the star himself. It went under the hammer in Australia, breaking the estimate of £40 000 to sell for for £203 500. The winning bidder waas Olivier Varenne, a director at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania. The spacesuit Bowie wore in his 1980 video for Ashes to Ashes will be auctioned later this year and is expected to bring in $1.7 million (about R30.5m). | Bang Showbiz…

Kathmandu: A search team retrieved the body of top US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson from the Himalayas yesterday, two days after she disappeared on the slopes of Nepal’s Manaslu peak. Nelson slipped and went missing while skiing down the world’s eighth-highest mountain, after a successful summit on Monday with her partner Jim Morrison, who led the search operations. Nelson, 49, is described by her sponsor, The North Face, as “the most prolific ski mountaineer of her generation”. A decade ago, she became the first woman to summit both Everest and the adjacent Lhotse peak within the span of 24 hours. | AFP…

Paris: Almost half of all bird species are in decline globally and one in eight are threatened with extinction, according to a major new report. The four-yearly State of the World’s Birds report comes as the UN steers an international process to protect nature. Using data from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the report said 49% of bird species worldwide have declining popula-tions, with populations falling even in species not normally rare or at risk. About 13% are considered threatened. The main threats are the growth of unsustainable agriculture, logging, invasive species, over-exploitation and climate change. | AFP…

THE Springbok women’s team have arrived in Auckland for the World Cup and they are not there simply to make up the numbers, according to assistant coach Laurian Johannes-Haupt. The Boks play France in their World Cup opener next Saturday (3.15am kickoff) and Johannes-Haupt points out her players are better prepared than they would have been had the tournament taken place a year ago when it was supposed to, and not postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The extra year was a blessing in disguise as it allowed the Boks to pack another eight Tests and two friendlies into the calendar, hence they have arrived in New Zealand much better prepared for their Pool C matches against France, Fiji and England. “We are not here to only compete; we are…

POLICE at Kabokweni, in Mpumalanga are investigating a murder case after a body of a 27-year-old man was exhumed from a shallow grave on Tuesday. “According to the information, the man was last seen with a friend on Sunday, September 25. Since then, the man’s whereabouts were unknown. However, information surfaced that there was a shallow grave in the yard at a house in Kabokweni,” police spokesperson Colonel Donald Mdhluli said. “Police as well as the rescue team went to the house and spotted the shallow grave. After the body was exhumed, the family identified the victim as Mr Lindelani Thabethe.” Mdhluli said police are still investigating, and no arrests have been made. Meanwhile, the provincial commissioner of police in Mpumalanga, Lieutenant-General Semakaleng Daphney Manamela has pledged that the team…

THE chief director of strategy and governance in the North West education department, Pamela Rasetshwane, has reached the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. North West education MEC Mmaphefo Matsemela congratulated Rasetshwane, 57, for reaching the summit on September 22. She took 11 days’ leave and used 7 of those days to summit Kilimanjaro. Rasetshwane, who has two children and four grandchildren, dreamt of reaching the summit of Kilimanjaro in 2015. She was unable to do the climb that year but she persevered. She prepared herself by climbing in the Drakensberg, Kgaswane Mountain in Rustenburg and the Mmabatho Stadium regularly. “I summited Kilimanjaro in six days, one day was for acclimatising so that my body could adjust to the altitude. This is the highest altitude ever of all the mountains…

The ANC of President Cyril Ramaphosa have become masters in shifting blame, even in cases where the evidence against their failures is overwhelming. Take Eskom, for example. We need not remind you of some of the most ridiculous excuses they have given the nation for failing to keep the lights on. One thing is certain: none of the reasons admit to their incompetence. In this editorial we want to limit ourselves to the tragic deaths of 18 schoolchildren whose lives were cut short when truck driver Sibusiso Siyaya, 28, allegedly drove in the wrong lane for more than a kilometre before his heavy-load vehicle collided with a bakkie carrying the children in uPhongolo, KwaZulu-Natal. It’s a tragedy that should never have happened, and our condolences go to the grieving families.…

Iran’s police warned yesterday they would confront “with all their might” women-led protests that erupted nearly two weeks ago over the death of Mahsa Amini in custody, despite growing calls for restraint. Dozens of people have been killed since demonstrations erupted when the 22-year-old Kurdish woman died after being arrested in Tehran for allegedly breaching the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women. Widespread protests took place for a 12th straight night on Tuesday, according to opposition media based outside Iran, despite internet restrictions designed to impede gatherings and prevent images of the crackdown getting out. Iran was accused of killing 7 people and wounding 28 in cross-border strikes yesterday against Kurdish factions in Iraq that have denounced the protest crackdown in the Islamic republic, prompting Iraq to summon the…

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast yesterday, South Korea’s military said, a day before US Vice-President Kamala Harris was set to arrive in Seoul. The launch came two days after South Korea and US forces conducted a military drill in waters off the South’s east coast involving an aircraft carrier. On Sunday, North Korea fired another ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast. Yesterday’s missiles were launched from the Sunan area of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. South Korea’s national security council held an emergency meeting, vowing to continue building “overwhelming” capacity to deter North Korea, President Yoon Suk-yeol’s office said. Japan’s coast guard also reported a suspected ballistic missile test. Following a stop in Japan,…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz named his son and heir Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the kingdom’s prime minister and his second son Prince Khalid as defence minister, a royal decree showed this week. The reshuffle kept another son, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, as energy minister, the aged king said. The crown prince, known as MbS, is promoted from defence minister and has been the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter and a major US ally in the Middle East. His new role as prime minister is in line with the king’s previous delegation of duties to him, including representing the kingdom on foreign visits and chairing summits hosted by the kingdom, a Saudi official said. Crown Prince Mohammed has led efforts…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s new finance minister Ishaq Dar said yesterday that he would work to rein-in inflation while cutting interest rates, adding that the rupee currency was undervalued and promising a strong response to the South Asian nation’s worst economic crisis. The chartered accountant is facing a balance of payment crisis, foreign reserves that cover barely a month’s imports, historic lows in the rupee, inflation exceeding 27% and the aftermath of devastating floods. Dar also had a warning for currency market speculators, saying that the Pakistani rupee was undervalued. It has weakened more than 30% against the US dollar so far this year. | Reuters…

IT is just under a year ago that the Bulls perished miserably in Galway at the hands of Connacht but Elrigh Louw has warned the Irishmen that the boot will be on the other foot at Loftus Versfeld tomorrow. That match was right at the beginning of South Africa’s United Rugby Championship (URC) challenge last October and not only were the callow Bulls learning the ropes of the competition, notably the refereeing, but they also discovered how foul the weather can be in gusty Galway. “All around it was not a good evening,” Louw reflected on the 34-7 defeat. “But they are coming to our territory now and let’s see how they perform in the heat and at altitude. “We are definitely looking forward to a rematch,” the young Springbok…

BAFANA Bafana’s recent wins over Sierra Leone and Botswana are a relief. It was good to see the team winning and scoring goals again. However, with that being said, these wins must also not be taken as any sign of improvement by the national team. If anything, South Africa should be expected to routinely beat the 113th-ranked Leone Stars and 146th-ranked Zebras. With all due respect to South Africa’s neighbours Botswana, a healthy Bafana side should have comprehensively outplayed them and beaten them by more than 1-0. Botswana are fairly low on the African football totem pole and aren’t a Southern African powerhouse either. Since taking over Bafana, coach Hugo Broos has been a breath of fresh air. Unlike other coaches, that have come and gone, who have…