Eastern Cape gang attacks with AK 47s and shotguns to steal one chicken

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Eastern Cape gang attacks with AK 47s and shotguns to steal one chicken

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07-05-2020
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There is no question people are desperate for food, but attacking a Qumbu homestead with an AK-47 assault rifle for the sake of lone chicken seems a bit excessive.

The siege, allegedly by four armed men on the Qotira homestead in the early hours of Sunday, has now landed them behind bars.

According to Eastern Cape police spokesperson captain Dineo Koena, the AK-47 and two shotguns were seized during an operation conducted by Qumbu police at Kalankomo locality on Wednesday morning.

“On May 3 there was a shooting at the homestead at about 5.45am. A chicken was stolen by the suspects. No-one was injured,” Koena said.

“In the early hours of Wednesday three 17-year-boys were arrested for possession of two shotguns. A 23-year-man was arrested after he was found in possession of the AK-47.”

The four will appear in connection with the chicken heist in the Qumbu magistrate’s court on Friday.

They are charged with of attempted murder and possession of unlicensed firearms. The firearms will be sent for ballistic testing.

District commissioner major-general David Kanuka said: “Let’s not give criminals space to breathe, let us suffocate them and make them feel us.”

Koena’s statement did not make any mention of the chicken’s fate.

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Orlando Pirates player tests positive for Covid-19

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Orlando Pirates player tests positive for Covid-19

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07-05-2020
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Orlando Pirates have confirmed that their midfielder Ben Motshwari has tested positive for coronavirus.

Motshwari becomes the first local footballer to test positive for the virus. The 29-year-old will now be in isolation for the next two weeks.

โ€œBen was presented with flu-like symptoms last week and after undergoing tests, his results have come back positive,โ€ the club said on its website.

โ€œThe player is asymptomatic and is currently in isolation for the next 14 days. He will need to test negative before he is cleared. In accordance with relevant protocols, NHI has been notified of the case by the club.

โ€œThe health and wellbeing of our players, officials, and the wider community remains our highest priority in this difficult time.

โ€œThe club has also advised that the player must notify the doctors of all the people that he has been in contact with to ensure that they also get tested.

โ€œWe urge everybody to continue practicing safe and healthy measures to contain and mitigate the spread of the infection.

โ€œAlways wash your hands; wear masks in public and always remember to practice social distancing.โ€

The news will come as a blow for the Premier Soccer League (PSL) whose executive committee is today locked in a meeting to plan for when the season can be completed.

A player testing positive will be a blow to their case for games returning with the safety of the players not being put at risk. Each team in the Absa Premiership has about seven games remaining in the season that must be completed by July 31 as by directive of Fifa.

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Four arrested for smuggling food parcels worth R1m to illegal miners

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Four arrested for smuggling food parcels worth R1m to illegal miners

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07-05-2020
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Food parcels with an estimated value of R1m were found at a house in Gauteng on Tuesday.

Four people, including a supervisor at a security company, have been arrested for allegedly smuggling food parcels and mining equipment to illegal miners in Bekkersdal, on the West Rand.

Police spokesperson Capt Mavela Masondo said security guards were patrolling the area on Tuesday evening when they noticed a suspicious white bakkie at an isolated ventilation site of the mine.

โ€œAs the guards were approaching the bakkie, four of the suspects jumped out and ran on foot. The driver also sped off and security guards gave chase until the suspect was intercepted,โ€ said Masondo.

Equipment including a grinder, a welding machine and electric cords were found in the bakkie.

The 31-year-old driver was identified as the supervisor of the security company contracted to the mine, said Masondo.

The supervisors led officers to a house in Bekkersdal, where they discovered a Toyota Quantum loaded with packed groceries and other assortments. In the house more food parcels were found. Masondo said the food parcels had an estimated value of R1m.

โ€œPreliminary investigation revealed that the food packs were about to be taken to illegal miners who are reported to be operating underground.โ€

Two men, aged 31 and 32, and a woman, aged 27, were arrested at the house.

All four arrested were charged with conspiracy to commit crime and are expected to appear in the Westonaria magistrateโ€™s court soon.

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Randburg taxi rank becomes first taxi rank to receive sanitising booth

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Randburg taxi rank becomes first taxi rank to receive sanitising booth

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07-05-2020
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Commuters walk through an anti-bacteria and anti-viral multi-surface disinfectant , S1 walktrue machine , during the launch to the provincial taxi disinfection program at the Randburg taxi rank.

Commuters wearing masks and social distancing at the Randburg taxi rank.

Randburg taxi rank became the first rank to have sanitising booth at it’s entrances.

This was seen on Thursday morning during the launch programme by the South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO) to intensify the disinfection programme to curb spread of Covid-19.

Sizwe Skosana from Sigma Medical said this was the first time for a taxi rank to have a walk disinfecting unit.

“This machine is 100% water-based, and it kills on contact. We are in partnership with SANTACO and these machines will be seen at all the taxi ranks.

Also attending the launch was the MEC for public transport and roads infrastructure Jacob Mamabolo

Mamabolo said they want to ensure the wearing of masks inside taxis.

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“In this province, we will be very strict when it comes to the wearing of masks. If people don’t have masks they should not be allowed to commute. As the department in the province, we are going to go on taxi ranks to make sure these innovations are introduced. Taxi ranks should also be kept clean. No taxi should be a carrier of coronavirus; every taxi must be cleaned before and after every trip,” he said.

The taxi rank and the taxis were disinfected and there were also sanitising machines that were made available for commuters.

Buti Mkonza, chairperson of SANTACO said the programme will be launched at different ranks across the province.

“We will be visiting all the ranks across the province so as to make sure commuters and taxi drivers adhere to the new regulations. We are excited about the donations from private companies and the provincial government for assisting with sanitisers. We all know there is a lot of movement at taxi ranks and I believe with innovations such as this we will be able to fight the spread of Covid-19,” he said.

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Interprovincial travel grace period ends at midnight on Thursday

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Interprovincial travel grace period ends at midnight on Thursday

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07-05-2020
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Law enforcers will be out to ensure motorists adhere to the Thursday, May 7 midnight deadline for interprovincial travel.

The grace period for interprovincial road travel ends at 11.59pm tonight, and transport minister Fikile Mbalula has urged motorists not to leave their transit to the last minute.

From May 1-7, those who found themselves in provinces outside their places of work when the Covid-19 lockdown started, were given a once-off window to return across provincial boundaries. The allowance for long distance buses, taxis and private vehicles to travel outside the 8pm curfew comes to an end just before midnight.

Mbalula said law enforcement officials will be out and about to ensure road safety and compliance to lockdown rules and regulations. He called on road users to exercise extreme caution on the roads, and to refrain from speeding to ensure they arrive before the grace period ends.

โ€œWe urge road users to travel with care, sanitise their vehicles, wear face masks, do not exceed the required carrying capacity and drive safely,โ€ said Mbalula.

Going forward, road travellers must adhere to the 8pm to 5am curfew, with only people who have the necessary permits allowed to be out of their homes.

As part of level 4 lockdown conditions that took effect on May 1, all road-based public transport services are permitted to operate from 5am to 7pm. The government has removed the one-hour grace period that was initially allowed for public transport vehicles to complete their trips and drop off passengers.

The driver must ensure that the drop-off is completed by 7pm. This includes minibus taxis, buses, metered taxis, charter and shuttle services.

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Madonna says she has had Covid-19

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Madonna says she has had Covid-19

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07-05-2020
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Madonna said Thursday she has had the coronavirus and that it was why she had to cancel a concert in Paris in February, though she is not currently sick.

The “Queen of Pop” said she had tested positive for antibodies which may mean she had has COVID-19.

“I am not currently sick,” she told her 15 million followers on Instagram.

“When you test positive for anti-bodies it means you had the virus, which I clearly did as I was sick at the end of my tour in Paris over seven weeks ago along with many other artists in my show,” she said.

The 61-year-old star only played a single night at the Grand Rex on February 22 before calling off the next show, citing “ongoing injuries”

She later called off two further Paris concerts — the last in her Madame X world tour — after French authorities banned large gatherings in a bid to stem the spread of the virus in early March.

“At the time we all thought we had a bad flu,” Madonna wrote in her post.

“Thank God we are all healthy and well now,” she added.

Scientists are sceptical about the accuracy of many antibody tests which claim to show a person has had virus.

Some warned that even those tests that meet the US government’s informal standards may produce false positives.

The singer revealed she had the virus after sharing an article about her donating $1.1 million (one million euros) towards research to find a vaccine for the coronavirus.

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Virgin Atlantic to reintroduce flights from London to Cape Town in November

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Virgin Atlantic to reintroduce flights from London to Cape Town in November

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07-05-2020
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Virgin Atlantic CEO Shai Weiss says preparations to relaunch its passenger services are under way. ‘We are confident about the future and are excited to welcome our travellers back on board soon.’

Despite airlines worldwide feeling the pinch due to Covid-19, Virgin Atlantic plans to reintroduce flights between Heathrow, London, and Cape Town from November.

The airline’s CEO Shai Weiss said preparations to relaunch its passenger services are well under way.

โ€œWhile the past few months have been difficult, we are confident about what the future holds and we are excited to welcome our travellers back on board soon,โ€ said Weiss.

He said the airline was taking โ€œevery possible step to ensure our customers have maximum peace of mind to fly, as the travel restrictions are liftedโ€.

โ€œThis includes additional cleanliness and health measures on board as well as at the airport, to protect our people and customers in line with expert advice, including Public Health England, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the World Health Organisation and aviation regulatory bodies,โ€ said Weiss.

โ€œWe look forward to welcoming our leisure passengers to London Heathrow and have retained our slot portfolio at Gatwick to enable us to return, as customer demand recovers.โ€

Weiss said travellers who had already booked a flight which was due to depart from Gatwick airport would be accommodated with a flight departing from Heathrow.

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Has your employer received UIF funding? Hereโ€™s how to find out

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Has your employer received UIF funding? Hereโ€™s how to find out

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07-05-2020
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Unemployed people queue for UIF payments.

With thousands of businesses being forced to close for the duration of the Covid-19 national lockdown, South Africans are struggling with huge financial burdens, with many not being paid their full salaries or put on forced unpaid leave.

The Covid-19 Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme (TERS) has been set up by the government to give assistance by offering special payouts to people who have been affected.

Workers are entitled to a maximum of R6,730 a month, with a minimum of R3,500, depending on their salaries.

More than 100,000 payments to companies have already been paid by the scheme.

To check if your employer is one of them, you can download the full list by clicking here to visit the UIF-Covid-19 TERS national disaster application system website.

UIF has not yet started accepted applications for May, but the list contains the names of businesses who have received relief so far.

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eNCA anchors off air but โ€˜not suspendedโ€™ following Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma remarks

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eNCA anchors off air but โ€˜not suspendedโ€™ following Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma remarks

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07-05-2020
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On Tuesday, Xoli Mngambi and Jane Dutton issued an on-air apology for comments that implied that the minister had undermined President Cyril Ramaphosaโ€™s authority.

News anchors Xoli Mngambi and Jane Dutton have not been on air since Tuesday morning, but eNCA insists that they have not been suspended.

This, despite several social media claims to the contrary, such as from Talk Radio 702 host Eusebius McKaiser, which some news outlets have reported on. eNCA has, however, dismissed the claims.

On Tuesday, Mngambi and Dutton issued an on-air apology for comments made during an eNCA news broadcast on Monday that implied that Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma had undermined President Cyril Ramaphosaโ€™s authority when banning the sale of tobacco during Level 4 of the national Covid-19 lockdown.

Mngambi and Dutton said in a โ€œvery public show of forceโ€ Dlamini-Zuma showed โ€œwhoโ€™s controlling South Africaโ€™s narrative right now โ€“ not the president, butโ€ฆ Dlamini-Zumaโ€.

They added that Dlamini-Zuma used her โ€œpower and considerable influenceโ€ to ensure the ban would continue, calling South Africa a โ€œpolice state under the control of renegade ministers and the security forcesโ€.

On Tuesday morning, at the start of the 7am broadcast, Mngambi and Dutton apologised โ€œunreservedlyโ€.

โ€œYesterday (Monday) we made a rather unfortunate judgment on the president andโ€ฆ Dlamini-Zuma. Singling her out on the decision, as if it were her own, was unfair and unwarranted, especially afterโ€ฆ Ramaphosa provided clarity on the matter,โ€ Dutton said.

Before proceeding to the dayโ€™s headlines, Mngambi said: โ€œWe have earned your trust and weโ€™re not about to disappoint you now. At a time when the president and his team are leading us through difficult times in our country, again, we apologise unreservedly to you, Mr President; you, Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma; and indeed, the nation.โ€

Mngambi and Dutton have not been on air since, leading to speculation that they had been suspended. Instead, the morning slot has been anchored by Tony Ndoro and Tumelo Mothotoane.

In a curt statement, eNCA MD Norman Ndivhuho Munzhelele said: โ€œeNCA anchors Jane Dutton and Xoli Mngambi have not been suspended. This is an internal matter and remains between the employer and employees. The employer wishes to respect the rights of the employees in this regard.โ€

Mngambiโ€™s and Duttonโ€™s remarks were made against the backdrop of the governmentโ€™s about-turn on the sale of tobacco during the Level 4 lockdown, which started on 1 May.

Last Thursday, Ramaphosa announced the country would exit the Covid-19 lockdown in a phased manner, saying the sale of tobacco, which was banned during Level 5, would be allowed during Level 4, which came into effect on Friday.

However, when Dlamini-Zuma later announced the regulations for Level 4, smokersโ€™ hopes that they would soon light up a legally obtained cigarette went up in flames.

She said the sale of tobacco products would remain banned under Level 4.

This led to speculation that Ramaphosa might have been undermined by his political opponents in the ANC.

However, Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu tweeted on Friday: โ€œThe NCCC (National Coronavirus Command Council) changed its own view on the selling of tobacco on Level 4 of the lockdown, which was pronounced by the president. The president fully agreed and endorsed the non-sale of tobacco as an outcome of the consultation process.

โ€œAny suggestions that the president was undermined by members of his Cabinet are tantamount to falsehoods and misleading of the public. Itโ€™s clear that some lobbyists will use and do anything to get their way.โ€

In his weekly newsletter, Ramaphosa wrote that the NCCC took a โ€œcollective decisionโ€ on the matter.

โ€œAfter careful consideration and discussion, the [NCCC] reconsidered its position on tobacco. As a result, the regulations ratified by Cabinet and announced by Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on 29 April extended the prohibition,โ€ wrote the president.

The comments Mngambi and Dutton made drew widespread criticism from, among others, the ANC Womenโ€™s League and the ANC National Youth Task Team.

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In 1110, The Moon Vanished From The Sky. We Might Finally Know What Caused It

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In 1110, The Moon Vanished From The Sky. We Might Finally Know What Caused It

By: illovuonline news team
07-05-2020
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Almost a millennium ago, a major upheaval occurred in Earth’s atmosphere: a giant cloud of sulphur-rich particles flowed throughout the stratosphere, turning skies dark for months or even years, before ultimately falling down to Earth.

We know this event happened because researchers have drilled and analysed ice cores – samples taken from deep within ice sheets or glaciers, which have trapped sulphur aerosols produced by volcanic eruptions reaching the stratosphere and settling back on the surface.

Ice can thus preserve evidence of volcanism over incredibly long timescales, but pinpointing the precise date of an event that shows up in the layers of an ice core is still tricky business.

In this case, scientists had assumed the sulphurous deposit was left by a major eruption unleashed in 1104 by Iceland’s Hekla, a volcano sometimes called the ‘Gateway to Hell’. Since the thin strip of ice ranks among the largest sulfate deposition signals of the last millennium, it sounds plausible.

Only, what if the accepted timeline of an ice core turns out to be time-warped? A few years ago, one study concluded that a timescale called the Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005 (GICC05) was off by up to seven years in the first millennium CE, and by up to four years early in the next millennium.

Those findings, according to new research led by palaeoclimatologist Sรฉbastien Guillet from the University of Geneva in Switzerland, mean Hekla couldn’t have been the culprit for the giant sulphate signal after all.

“A prominent discovery arising from this revised ice-core dating is a major and hitherto unrecognised bipolar volcanic signal with sulfate deposition starting in late 1108 or early 1109 CE and persisting until early 1113 CE in the Greenland record,” Guillet and his co-authors explain in their paper, noting that evidence for the same event can also be seen in a similarly revised Antarctic ice core chronology.

To investigate what might have been responsible for leaving these ancient tracks at both the top and the bottom of the world, the team combed historical documentation, looking for medieval records of strange, dark-looking lunar eclipses that could correspond to the stratospheric haze of major eruptive events.

“The spectacular atmospheric optical phenomena associated with high-altitude volcanic aerosols have caught the attention of chroniclers since ancient times,” the team writes.

“In particular, the reported brightness of lunar eclipses can be employed both to detect volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere and to quantify stratospheric optical depths following large eruptions.”

According to NASA records based on astronomical retrocalculation, seven total lunar eclipses would have been observable in Europe in the first 20 years of the last millennium, between 1100 and 1120 CE.

Among these, a witness to a lunar eclipse that occurred in May 1110 wrote of the exceptional darkness of the Moon during the phenomenon.

“On the fifth night in the month of May appeared the Moon shining bright in the evening, and afterwards by little and little its light diminished, so that, as soon as night came, it was so completely extinguished withal, that neither light, nor orb, nor anything at all of it was seen,” an observer wrote in the Peterborough Chronicle.

Many astronomers have since discussed this mysterious and unusually dark lunar eclipse. Centuries after it occurred, the English astronomer Georges Frederick Chambers wrote about it, saying: “It is evident that this [eclipse] was an instance of a ‘black’ eclipse when the Moon becomes quite invisible instead of shining with the familiar coppery hue”.

Despite the event being well-known in astronomy history, though, researchers have never suggested it might have been caused by the presence of volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere, even though that’s the most likely cause, the new study suggests.

“We note that no other evidence of volcanic dust veil, such as a dimming of the Sun, red twilight glows and/or reddish solar haloes, could be found during our investigations for the years 1108โ€“1110 CE,” the researchers write.

If the timing is right, then what volcano was responsible for the sulphur cloud, given Hekla is now out of the frame?

While it’s impossible to know for sure, the team thinks the most probable explanation is Japan’s Mount Asama, which produced a giant, months-long eruption in the year 1108 โ€“ significantly larger than a subsequent eruption in 1783 that killed over 1,400 people.

A diary entry recorded by a statesman describes the 1108 event: “There was a fire at the top of the volcano, a thick layer of ash in the governor’s garden, everywhere the fields and the rice fields are rendered unfit for cultivation. We never saw that in the country. It is a very strange and rare thing.”

In addition to witness accounts, the researchers also looked at tree ring evidence, which suggests 1109 CE was an exceptionally cold year (about 1 degree Celsius cooler in the Northern Hemisphere), based on significantly thinner tree rings.

Other historical documentation, in particular accounts of climatic and societal impacts in the years 1109โ€“1111 CE, corroborate the hypothesis that an 1108 eruption (or a series of eruptions that began that year), could have led to disastrous effects on affected communities.

The researchers found an “abundance of testimonies referring to adverse weather, crop failures, and famines in these years”, noting that the “assembled evidence suggests that the subsistence difficulties, which began in 1109, deepened into famine in several regions of western Europe”.

Of course, those long-ago hardships can’t be taken as proof of any particular eruptive event, but the researchers say all the evidence, taken together, suggests a ‘forgotten’ cluster of volcanic eruptions in 1108 to 1110 unleashed terrible consequences on humanity. We’re only rediscovering them now.

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