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Harris vs Trump: Pets, policy, peevishness

Keith Preston

Wednesday, 11 September 2024

“Every bird, with its wings outspread, is a book, its pages open to heaven.”

Malba Tahan

STORY OF THE DAY

Ex-Cape Town mayco member Malusi Booi arrested in ‘major probe’

By Caryn Dolley
Malusi Booi, the Cape Town mayoral committee member fired in 2023, has been arrested in what appears to be a major construction tender investigation linked to 28s gang suspicions. In that year, allegations surfaced that Booi accepted cash gratifications from underworld figures.
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
🇺🇸🥥🌴🍊 The first and likely only presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump went about as expected. Harris appeared focused on speaking to the voters, while Trump, well, settled into the usual batch of disinformation, bombastic comments and oddities.

Quote of the night from Trump: “In Springfield [Ohio], they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating – they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” (Untrue. Nobody is eating anyone’s pets – Ed).
🇦🇺🛡️ Anti-war protesters clashed with Australian police outside a defence exhibition in Melbourne on Wednesday. Tear gas and rubber bullets were used against the crowd, many who were chanting pro-Palestinian slogans.
⚓🇭🇺 Wrecks of Nazi warships have been uncovered in the Danube river. A persistent heatwave reduced the river’s level to a 1.5m low mark. The ships were scuttled by Nazi Germany during its retreat from the Soviet Union during World War 2.
🥊🇮🇪 Dana White has confirmed that Conor McGregor will return to the Octagon in “early 2025”. McGregor hasn’t fought in the UFC since 2021.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

📷 Emma Van der Waal

“Bo-Kaap beauty.”
Cape Town.
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IN NUMBERS

70%

… the number of valedictorians in US high schools who are women.

FACTS OF THE DAY

Today in 2001, the 9/11 terrorist attacks are carried out in the US.

New Zealand’s 1946 elections for the 27th Parliament (elected in 1943) was the only one to expire before it could officially be dissolved.

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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
🏉 Flyhalf Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu will miss out on touring Argentina as one of seven players given time off by coach Rassie Erasmus for the Rugby Championship away trip to Santiago.

⚽ A late strike from Bafana Bafana substitute Thalente Mbatha secured a 3-2 win over South Sudan in a 2025 Afcon qualifier at the Juba Stadium on Tuesday.

⛳ PGA Tour officials are in New York for “multiple days” of meetings with representatives from the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund for negotiations to merge professional golf circuits.

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DAILY MAVERICK TODAY

Justice minister Simelane dodges interview with Daily Maverick and News24 despite media blitz

By Pauli van Wyk (Daily Maverick) and Kyle Cowan (News24)

Shots fly between NPA and justice ministry over Zondo database access

By Rebecca Davis

Mother seeks justice after listeriosis from contaminated meat caused her newborn’s death

By Lerato Mutsila

Socio-Economic Rights Institute disheartened by acquittal of six police officers linked to Marikana deaths

By Suné Payne

As the ANC declines, so too might its support for the IEC

By Stephen Grootes

OPINIONISTAS

DA ministers are looking good — but is this just skilful PR and ‘new manager bounce’?

By Ismail Lagardien

Driven by greed and profit — build it and they will come, or build it and they will die?

By Marianne Thamm
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