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Tuesday, 16 April 2024

“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”

Kamand Kojouri

STORY OF THE DAY

Words of warning that must hit home at this eleventh hour

By Branko Brkic
Welcome back to Daily Maverick after our 24-hour shutdown.

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
🍊⚖️Donald Trump’s first criminal trial got underway in New York City. Dozens of juror candidates were dismissed. At least 50 said they could not be impartial when judging Trump. Whether they liked or disliked  Trump, or just wanted out of jury duty was not known.
🕵🏽🌉 The Baltimore bridge collapse is now getting an official FBI criminal investigation. The focus is on just what happened on the cargo ship before it collided with the bridge.
🎥⚖️ The armourer on the set of Rust has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Hannah Gutierrez was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, with the judge saying “you alone turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon”.
🇹🇿☠️ Tanzania, Rwanda and Zimbabwe have joined Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa in a recall of Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N children’s cough syrup. The move is precautionary at present, while testing on potential toxicity risks continues.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

📷 Hugo Scott Attfield

“Did someone say coffee?”
Cape Town.
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IN NUMBERS

1,600

… the number of recorded deaths due to falling off the Great Pyramid of Giza during the past 200 years.

FACTS OF THE DAY

Today in 2012, Anders Behring Breivik’s trial for the killing of 77 people begins in Oslo.

Squirrels can fall from any height and survive.

SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
🥇 The athletics track at Stade de France in Paris will be purple for the 2024 Olympics. The track is being supplied for the 13th Olympics in a row by Italian firm Mondo.

🏉 Auckland Blues forward Cameron Suafoa has stepped away from rugby to focus on treatment for cancer, after months of juggling his health issue with his sporting career.

🇦🇫 Friba Rezayee, the first woman to represent Afghanistan at the Olympics, has been appalled by the treatment of women since the resurgence of the Taliban. She is now campaigning for the country to be kept out of the Paris Games.

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DAILY MAVERICK TODAY

Origins and purpose unknown – the curious case of a ‘phantom’ bank in Bulembu, Eswatini

By Warren Thompson and Micah Reddy

UPL’s cleaned up water is ‘safe to drink’ … but not for their main consultant, thanks

By Tony Carnie

Understanding the state of SA’s media landscape

By Daily Maverick

SA’s blue-light spending spree on political VIPs ‘is jeopardising visible policing and crime-fighting’

By Vincent Cruywagen

The continuing brutality of SA lives — not taken seriously by most major parties

By Stephen Grootes

OPINIONISTAS

Zuma’s eligibility for SA’s 2024 election — a tangled web of legal and ethical dilemmas

By Omphemetse S Sibanda

If we end up with an ANC-EFF coalition, blame it on the DA

By Melanie Verwoerd
 

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