Новости за 17.03.2023

Gqeberha — JP Duminy did not have a fairytale ending to his career after the Proteas crashed out of the 2019 World Cup, but the 38-year-old has another shot at the elusive title, this time as a batting coach of the ODI and T20 team.

Cape Town – Legendary Proteas wicketkeeper Trisha Chetty on Friday announced her retirement from professional cricket due to a recurring back injury, bringing an end to a groundbreaking 21-year career in domestic and international cricket.

Gqeberha — Smaller, poorer unions are jeopardised by the promotion-relegation system in place in domestic cricket, says Warriors coach Robin Peterson.

Gqeberha — The World Cup coming up in six months time sits high on the Proteas priority list as the South Africans prepare to take on the West Indies at Buffalo Park in the second ODI tomorrow.

Madrid - Thieves operating in Las Vegas, a rural area near Spain's capital Madrid, managed to steal 17.5 tons of olives from local farms before being busted, police said on Friday as they confirmed 16 arrests.

Cape Town – South Africans will have to brace themselves for further increases in the cost of electricity after National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) approved Eskom’s 18.49% price hike to municipalities.

Cape Town - A group of suspects from Cape Town who face charges in relation to the murder of an e-hailing driver have gone on pretrial at the Western Cape High Court.

Cape Town – Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers has intervened with a R5 million aid package in Malawi following Cyclone Freddy that has left over 300 people dead and displaced thousands.

Johannesburg - Cricket South Africa (CSA) has announced an extended 27-man squad for the SA Under-19 men, who are assembling for a selection camp at the CSA Centre of Excellence (COE) from Friday to March 21.

Cape Town - South Africans will have some reprieve as power utility Eskom announced it would be implementing Stage 2 load shedding from midday on Friday.

China Media Group (CMG) Africa on Friday held a forum entitled “Opportunities Arising from Chinese-style Modernization” in Nairobi, Kenya.

Cape Town - Sixteen suspects are expected to appear in the Oudtshoorn Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges of drug trafficking.

The UK government is banning TikTok amid security concerns.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has disallowed the video sharing app from being downloaded onto government-owned devices like phones following fears about how its parent company, ByteDance - which is based in China - handles its data.

Oliver Dowden, the Cabinet Office Minister, told MPs the decision was being made after a extensive review found that there could “be a risk around how sensitive government data is accessed and used by certain platforms”. Читать дальше...

Overnight, the world of trusts has changed. This is while a large percentage of trusts in South Africa do not even have an independent trustee appointed who can guide the lay-person trustees, being the estate planner, their spouse, children, friends and so on.

Cape Town - The City of Cape Town’s mayoral committee member for urban mobility, Councillor Rob Quintas has confirmed the MyCiTi bus services will be operating normally ahead of the national shutdown.