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Tuesday, 17 September 2024

“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is…at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away…”

Virginia Woolf

STORY OF THE DAY

Former National Health Laboratory Service chief to pay R22m in damages 

By Tamsin Metelerkamp
Five years after Joyce Mogale, former CEO of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), was fired for contraventions of the Public Finance Management Act, the Labour Court has ordered her to pay more than R22m in damages to the NHLS.
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
🇷🇺⛔ Meta has banned RT and other Russian state media outlets. The Facebook parent company did so on Monday, claiming that RT and friends had actively used deceptive tactics to carry out covert influence operations online.
🇺🇸🤫 The US Secret Service has confirmed it was aware of a post on X by Elon Musk about a lack of assassination attempts on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Musk deleted the post shortly thereafter, but not before attracting the attention of the Secret Service.
🇪🇺🛢️ The UK’s oil and gas industry has achieved its 2027 emissions goal four years earlier than promised. More efficient power systems, plus reduced flaring and venting, helped the cause, showing that if there’s money to be made or saved, curbing climate change aggravators is achievable.
🎶🎤 Tito Jackson, the founding member of the Jackson 5, has died aged 70. No cause of death was provided by his family. After Jackson 5, Tito went solo in 2003, performing blues.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

📷 Carol Daugherty

“Unsurpassed beauty where the land meets the sky.”
Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal.
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IN NUMBERS

1157 BC

… the date of the first known labour strike, in ancient Egypt.

FACTS OF THE DAY

Today in 2013, Grand Theft Auto V is released. It earns more than half a billion dollars in profit on day one.

Most of France’s energy comes from nuclear power.
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SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
🏏 The Proteas Women beat Pakistan by 10 runs in the first of three T20 internationals the two teams are set to play, as they tune up for next month’s T20 World Cup.

⚽ The hearing relating to Manchester City’s 115 alleged Premier League financial breaches finally began on Monday in London. It is expected to last 10 weeks, with a verdict predicted in mid-2025.

🎾 Recently crowned US Open champion Jannik Sinner has recruited Marco Panichi and Ulises Badio to his team. The pair previously worked with Novak Djokovic. They join Sinner’s camp as fitness coach and physiotherapist, respectively.

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DAILY MAVERICK TODAY

Both Koeberg units offline after unexpected shutdown and planned maintenance

By Kristin Engel

Members of parliamentary committee get inside view of jail life

By Velani Ludidi

Thabo Mbeki’s powerful words of anger point to the ANC’s bleak future

By Stephen Grootes

Ten Looting Commandments — a masterclass on corruption in SA

By Politically Aweh

City of Collusion — the gang suspects and ex-officials accused of crafting Cape Town’s real ‘construction mafia’

By Caryn Dolley

OPINIONISTAS

Namibia’s wildlife cull during worst drought in 100 years strikes a good balance

By Chris Brown and Gail Thomson

Good grief and blithe spirits — drinking and celebrating while mourning

By Marianne Thamm
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