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Sinaloa Cartel co-founder nabbed

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Friday, 26 July 2024

“Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.”

Jesse Owens, Olympic medallist

STORY OF THE DAY

How PetroSA’s offshore gas deal was thwarted by an unpaid soccer player

By Susan Comrie for amaBhungane
Equator Holdings told PetroSA it could raise R1bn to refurbish offshore gas infrastructure. Instead, it was liquidated for failing to pay a R35,000 a month salary to a soccer player.
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
🇲🇽🇺🇸 US authorities have arrested trafficker Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel. In addition, the son of his former partner Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was arrested in the same sweep. A long time behind bars await both.
🇮🇱🇺🇸 Joe Biden has pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a ceasefire agreement. Biden was meeting Netanyahu during his visit to the US.
🇯🇵☢️ Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority is deciding whether to restart a nuclear reactor that is sitting above a fault line. The landmark Friday ruling should decide the fate of the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui.
🇨🇦🔥 Jasper in the Canadian Rockies is being utterly ravaged by a wildfire. About 25,000 people had already been evacuated in the evacuated Alberta community by the end of Thursday, while firefighters worked hard to try and prevent the blaze from destroying the town.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

📷 John Pace

“Morning stretch before the plunge.”
Cape Town.
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IN NUMBERS

5-10%

… the success rate of AA. Roughly the same as someone trying to quit on their own.

FACTS OF THE DAY

Today in 1745, the first recorded women’s cricket match takes place in Surrey (said The Reading Mercury).

Zam-Buk ointment originated in Leeds, England.
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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
🏉 Team South Africa stunned New Zealand with a heroic defensive display to go through to the Paris Olympics semifinals. The Sevens side beat New Zealand 14-7 in the quarterfinals.

🥇 South African swimmer Chad Le Clos revealed that he had suffered a training injury ahead of the Games. “I had a small tear in my upper trap (trapezius), this was 16 days ago, but everything is good. I’m lucky to have amazing doctors and physios in the national team.”

🌊 Surfing in the Olympic Games is likely to kick off in excellent waves at the perfect reef break of Teahupo’o on Saturday, the head of the governing body said, vindicating the decision to hold the event in Tahiti, a record 16,000km from host city Paris.

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DAILY MAVERICK TODAY

‘I want the blood of an Afrikaner’ — Tshwane council meeting descends into chaos

By Nonkululeko Njilo

VBS depositors want to revive the bank to recoup their money, but don’t have the funds

By Rudzani Tshivhase

President Ramaphosa appoints ‘trailblazer’ Mandisa Maya as SA’s first female Chief Justice

By Tamsin Metelerkamp

SA Sevens stun New Zealand with heroic defensive display to make it to Olympic semifinals

By Keanan Hemmonsbey

Fed up civil society groups intensify calls for Joburg Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda to leave

By Lerato Mutsila

OPINIONISTAS

Deep-sea mining would industrialise the last remaining intact ecosystems on the planet

By Amanda du-Pont

Community and respect are the currency of South Africa’s townships that binds residents together

By Bulelani Balabala
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