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Siphelele Dludla siphelele.dludla@inl.co.za The RAND clawed back some losses yesterday after weakening to a two-week low as optimism around vaccine deliveries offset traders’ concerns while data showed the manufacturing sector in South Africa experienced slowing growth in production in April. After starting the trade at R14.50 to the dollar, the rand rose 0.11 percent to R14.39 against the greenback at 5pm. On Sunday, South Africa received its first batch of Pfizer vaccines consisting of 325 000 doses. More shipments are expected in the coming weeks to make a total of 1.3 million by the end of the month and 4.5 million by June. TreasuryONE’s currency specialist Andre Cilliers said the rand had pared gains on Friday due to the US dollar rallying back following better-than-expected growth numbers. Cilliers said the…

Dineo Faku dineo.faku@inl.co.za MORE THAN 35 million MTN Nigeria subscribers have submitted their national identification numbers (NINs), representing more than half the company’s subscriber base and 63 percent of its service revenue, the company said yesterday. Commenting on the company’s operational results for the quarter to the end of March, MTN Nigeria chief executive Karl Toriola said yesterday that the company continued to collaborate with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Nigerian Identity Management Commission to update subscriber records with NINs. The Nigerian telecommunications industry was rocked by the NCC’s de- cision to suspend the sale and activation of new SIM cards in December as part of a policy that requires mobile operators to integrate their subscribers’ NINs with their SIM registration details. Toriola said that following…

SANDILE MCHUNU sandile.mchunu@inl.co.za FIRST National Bank (FNB) said yesterday that it had been made aware of a criminal complaint relating to a banking relationship with a client, EOH Holdings, after Transform RSA laid criminal charges of corruption and money laundering against the bank. FNB has been accused by Transform RSA of continuing to provide banking facilities to EOH Holdings despite the company admitting to corrupt activities in its organisation. However, FNB said it would evaluate the complaint after receiving more information and, where required, respond through the relevant channels. “As a reputable financial services provider, FNB endeavours to ensure that its bank accounts are utilised and managed in compliance with the relevant laws,” the bank said. Transform RSA president Adil Nchabeleng maintained that FNB and other South African banks were…

Chulumanco Mahamba chulumanco.mahamba@inl.co.za THE DEPARTMENT of Basic Education (DBE) is expected to make a decision on the full-time return of primary school learners in due course, as schools open for the second term this week. It was back to school for teachers and learners across the country yesterday on the first day of the second term of the year. The return to school is happening in the same week that the Council of Education ministers, which include Minister Angie Motshekga, Deputy Minister Reginah Mhaule and all MECs of Education, will hold a two-day meeting on Thursday and Friday to deliberate key issues affecting the basic education sector. The discussions will include the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the sector. DBE spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga said in the meantime schools would…

ITUMELENG MAFISA itumeleng.mafisa@inl.co.za COSATU has called for unity among public service unions as wage negotiations with the government continue this week. The Star understands that there has been some pushing and pulling among several public sector unions negotiating on behalf of workers. The Public Service Association (PSA) said it would be going ahead with the conciliation process while Cosatu unions said they would be meeting the government yesterday over the possibility of a new offer. Talks between unions and the government deadlocked last month following the government’s inability to make an offer beyond 0%. There has been tension in past negotiations between Cosatu unions and the PSA over the handling of public sector wage talks. Cosatu spokesperson on the wage talks Mugwena Maluleke called for unity. “We are trying our…

BONGANI NKOSI bongani.nkosi@inl.co.za A FULL Bench of the South Gauteng High Court will be constituted to re-hear the ANC’s appeal against the ruling ordering the party to pay a R102 million debt. The cash-strapped party lost to Ezulweni Investments at least three times before Acting Judge Urmila Bhoola in the same court last year. The final loss came in the form of a writ of execution allowing Ezulweni to attach movable goods at the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters. It was stayed by the party’s appeal application. Ezulweni convinced Judge Bhoola that it entered into an enforceable oral agreement with ANC officials before producing and installing 30 000 PVC banners as part of the party’s last-push campaign in the 2019 general elections. Ezulweni’s R102m demand came at a time the ANC…

Mpiletso Motumi mpiletso.motumi@inl.co.za A CHANCE encounter with David Tlale at the Constitutional Court was the push Thulani Mlambo, 27, needed to pursue his fashion-designing career. He is one of the young designers who showcased their designs at the South African Fashion Week SS21 collections as part of the New Talent Search. Mlambo has always been creative, trying his luck at drama and visual arts to express himself. “Something clicked when I saw David. He had just come from showing his collection on the Nelson Mandela Bridge and that was quite monumental for a South African designer. I wanted to see how he got there and I got to spend three days with him at his studio in Braamfontein. “Instead of drama, I chose fashion and I haven’t looked back.” At…

Mpiletso Motumi EXCLUSIVE guest playlists and cross-continental collaborations are the order of the month as Apple Music celebrates all things African. The streaming platform is shining a spotlight on the new generation of African artists who are changing the narrative in the music industry, locally and abroad. The campaign is themed around Umoja and a message of unity and togetherness. It features an exclusive Africa Month Umoja playlist which includes some of the best cross-continental collaborations in recent memory, with music from Focalistic and Davido, Naira Marley and Busiswa, Gyakie featuring Omah Lay as well as AKA featuring Burna Boy. Africa Month will also be supported across Apple Music Radio. Africa Now Radio with Cuppy will be hosting an Africa Month ‘Umoja’ special on Sunday, May 30, to celebrate the…

Jean Michel Bouvier | Bryanston I READ after his video conference last week President Cyril Ramaphosa prioritised climate change as his number one priority in his weekly letter. Pandering to the sheep and banging his cymbals it seems, that every week he is changing his main target and focus with a different thumb suck every morning he wakes up. Last week was the economy, the previous week was the students funding, before was to attract foreign investment and previously was the pandemic and the vaccines. He has already forgotten his other mantra to tackle poverty and inequality and now it is “climate change”, which by the way is not a switch to turn it on and off, but this joker with our economy crumbling and leaking from every…

Bill Hare, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Joeri Rogelj and Piers Forster LIMITING global warming to 1.5ºC this century is a central goal of the Paris Agreement. In recent months, climate experts and others, including in Australia, suggested the target is impossible. Whether Earth can stay within 1.5ºC warming involves two distinct questions. First, is it physically, technically and economically feasible, considering the physics of the Earth system and possible rates of societal change? Science indicates the answer is “yes” – although it will be very difficult and the best opportunities for success lie in the past. The second question is whether governments will take sufficient action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This answer depends on the ambition of governments, and the effectiveness of campaigning by NGOs and others. Scientifically speaking, humanity…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday opened the Group of Seven’s first in-person talks in two years by presenting the new administration’s fresh approach on North Korea, which has already denounced it. With Covid raging in India but increasingly coming under control in the West, Britain welcomed foreign ministers of the club of wealthy democracies to London to discuss a post-pandemic agenda and prepare for a G7 summit in south-west England next month. India, South Korea, South Africa and Asean bloc chair Brunei were invited as guests to the three days of talks, which will also address rising tensions with Russia and China as well as diplomacy to revive a nuclear accord with Iran. Amid stringent Covid measures including curbs on movements, Blinken met separately at his hotel with…

BEIJING: The Mars500 project, a joint study by China, Russia and the European Space Agency, had volunteers live for 520 days in conditions that are similar to those that astronauts would be subjected to during a trip to Mars. A re-analysis of human faeces may help space agencies prepare for future missions to Mars, says a group of Canadian scientists. Re-analysing findings of Mars500, they found that all participants experienced a loss of beneficial bacteria, which prevents inflammation, absorbs nutrients and breaks down starch. Participants shared more than 200 kinds of bacteria, a sign that suggests people who cohabit for long periods will develop the same bacteria over time. These findings could have profound consequences for astronauts’ health in the long term. | Sputnik…

Berlin: German police said yesterday that they had shut down “one of the biggest darknet child pornography platforms in the world” and arrested four of its members in a series of raids in mid-April. The platform, named as “Boystown”, had existed since 2019 and counted over 400 000 members. Three men between the ages of 40 and 64 were arrested in seven raids in Germany, while a further suspect was detained in Paraguay on the request of German authorities. Investigators said the months-long, German-instigated operation had been co-ordinated by Europol and supported by law enforcement in the Netherlands, Sweden, the US and Canada. Darknet sites are invisible to most internet users and can only be accessed by using encryption technology. | AFP…

Eshlin Vedan eshlin.vedan@inl.co.za Kaizer Chiefs veteran Bernard Parker is confident the Soweto club will shake off their mental block as they face struggling Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila at Peter Mokaba Stadium today. Amakhosi have won just one out of their last five Premiership matches, and today’s game against the relegation candidates provides them with a good opportunity to return to winning ways. Chiefs can also take heart from the fact that they thrashed TTM 3-0 when the teams last met in January. “Right now, what we do more of is mental preparation which will be key for us,” said Parker. “It’s coming along because we are showing the fighting spirit and we are showing the will. Our effort on the field of play is good. Here and there we do make…

Stuart Hess stuart.hess@inl.co.za South African players at the Indian Premier League must make a decision for themselves about whether they want to continue playing in the tournament. Yesterday the IPL’s bio-secure bubble was breached when players and officials from two teams tested positive for Covid-19. The pandemic has ravaged India in recent weeks, with 368 000 new cases reported yesterday – the 12th day in a row in which the country has reported more than 300 000 on a day. The Kolkata Knight Riders and the Chennai Super Kings had players and staff return positive tests for the virus, leading to the postponement of a match involving the Knight Riders yesterday, while the Super Kings’ match later this week in New Delhi is also in doubt after ground staff at…

EDWARD WEST edward.west@inl.co.za PPC HAS SOLD its PPC Lime operation as part of a restructuring project to Kgatelopele Lime, a new company that has Swiss mining and minerals resources group IMR Group as a major shareholder, for R515 million. PPC plans to use the net proceeds of R500m to degear PPC’s South African balance sheet. In terms of the restructuring project, PPC’s South African lenders agreed to review the need for a R750m group capital raise if the South African businesses continue to degear towards sustainable debt levels. PPC’s share price gained 3.7 percent to R3.10 yesterday morning. The share has risen steadily from a 12-month low of 43 cents early in November, after the group in the meantime reported relatively robust double-digit cement product sales. Kgatelopele Lime…

AFRICAN Equity Empowerment Invest- ments (AEEI) said yesterday it would keep its shareholders abreast of any further developments arising from the withdrawal of transactional banking facilities at one of its major subsidiaries AYO Technology Solutions, a statement said. AYO on Friday withdrew a cautionary notice to shareholders and said its application for an urgent interdict against FNB, pending the hearing of its main application, was struck off the roll for lack of urgency and alternative third-party payment solutions for AYO had been put in place which would ensure continuity of its business. AYO said the action by FNB primarily affected the transactional bank accounts held by AYO Technology Solutions itself and one other AYO subsidiary that had an alternative transactional banking service provider. Therefore, other than these account closures, no…

Bang Showbiz BILLIE Eilish, 19, has revealed there is a lot of “angry” energy on her upcoming second studio album, Happier Than Ever. The Your Power singer channelled a lot of “anger and frustration” into the songs on her hotly-anticipated follow-up to her acclaimed 2019 debut record When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? She told the latest issue of British Vogue magazine – of which she is the cover star – that: “It was very satisfying to scream. Because I was very angry. There’s so much anger in those songs – anger and disappointment and frustration.” She also touched on how her songwriting has matured as she discussed the positives to come out of the global pandemic.“I’ve grown so much and gotten so much better in…

ZELDA VENTER BUFFY, the 12-year-old chinchilla cat, not only has an aeroplane named after her, she also has a “dad” who buys her favourite food in Europe. He even turned to court to prevent her from spending a few “stressful” days in a cattery. Mark Leathers, a Durban attorney, sees Buffy as the child he and his now former wife never had. So when he got wind that his former wife, Lisa Vissers-Leathers, wanted to take Buffy to a cattery to see how she would cope in the event she had to go away for work, Leathers flatly refused. He turned to the Durban High Court to interdict his former wife from sending the cat to the cattery. The court, however, struck the matter from the roll due…

Itumeleng Mafisa JOBURG Metrobus service operated at 70% yesterday as some drivers affiliated to the Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers Union of SA (Demawusa) began their a strike yesterday. Despite fears of intimidation of working drivers there were no reports of violence. However, there was some confusion with some passengers missing their buses while some were left stranded. The Star understands that about 200 routes were affected. Metrobus spokesperson Goodwill Shiburi said the strike did not create a big impact as most of the drivers turned up for work. One bus depot did not send out its buses. Some buses had to be rerouted to make up for the bus shortage. “There are people who waited and could not get their buses but we were able to deal with Gandhi…

Kailene Pillay kailene.pillay@inl.co.za FORMER Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) group chief executive Lucky Montana called out his party, the ANC, for pretending to assist the Zondo Commission but instead feeding it lies. Montana, who was giving evidence at the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on Monday, spoke of how the party “created conditions for corruption”. He also said he watched President Cyril Ramaphosa's testimony last week with disappointment as he expected him “to reflect honestly”. He said the ANC leadership pretended to support the inquiry but didn’t assist to solve the fundamental problem. He alleged the ANC used public funds via its connections to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to bankroll the party and its activities. He called it “a way of life” for the ANC, as it had…

Zanele Mvana zanele.mvana@inl.co.za EIGHTEEN-year-old Uzayr Lee of Ocean View has been awarded the opportunity to study abroad and play soccer for two years at Patrick Henry Community College in Virginia, US. He now needs the funding to make his dreams come true. Lee said he started playing soccer at the age of seven. “I started playing at a young age, locally at Ocean View, and then moving on to Ubuntu Football Academy, which is where I was given the opportunity to study in the US like the other 14 boys who attended the academy.” He said he was very excited when he found out about the opportunity and decided to go for it. His family has been behind him all the way, he said. “At Ubuntu they sent out our…

Deep-rooted issues behind the Covid crisis show the current situation was not inevitable INDIA finds itself in the throes of a humanitarian disaster. Until March this year, case numbers were low in most parts of the country, leading many to think that the worst was over. Much like in Brazil though, jingoism, overconfidence and false reassurance from the political elite negated hard-won progress. Mass gatherings have acted as state-sanctioned super-spreader events. More infectious variants and a sluggish uptake of vaccines are also fuelling the surge. These are the triggers, but there are more deep-rooted issues at the heart of the crisis. India is an inherently high-risk country for an epidemic. The country holds 1.4 billion people, living in crowded areas with extensive community networks and limited facilities for sanitation, isolation…

SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has doubled down on his government’s decision to hand out a five-year jail term and impose $50 000 (about R720 000) fines on citizens returning from virus-hit India, on the back of criticism by the federal human rights watchdog, which has asked the authorities to revisit the move. “We’re all just working to do what’s right for the health interests of Australians,” Morrison said yesterday. “There’s no politics or ideology in a pandemic,” he said, adding nobody had been jailed under the Biosecurity Act since the pandemic began. | Sputnik…

JERUSALEM: Israel’s government watchdog says it will open an investigation into the deaths of 45 people crushed in a stampede at a Jewish religious festival last week. State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman said his office, which audits the government, would look into the circumstances surrounding the event at Mount Meron in the Galilee region. Englman’s office can examine and make public its findings, but cannot bring criminal charges. Questions have been raised as to whether the government and police were reluctant to limit the crowd size so as not to anger influential ultra-Orthodox rabbis and politicians. Englman said he would probe the actions of all groups leading up to and during the festival – “from decision-makers to law enforcement”. | Reuters…

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned of serious repercussions from President Joe Biden’s push for US forces full exit from Afghanistan. In April, Biden announced plans to fully withdraw American troops from Afghanistan by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, despite the 2020 US-Taliban peace deal having set May 1 as the deadline for the pull out. In an interview with CNN, Clinton described Biden’s move as “a very difficult decision” and “a wicked problem”. She argued that the US should brace itself for “two huge consequences at some point in the not-too-distant future”, including the possible collapse of the Kabul government and “a takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, probably with a resumption of civil war in certain parts of the country”. “There…

MANCHESTER United will punish club supporters who committed criminal acts during the protests on Sunday which led to the Premier League match against Liverpool being postponed, the club said yesterday. United fans protesting against the club’s American owners, the Glazer family, stormed into Manchester’s Old Trafford stadium which was closed to fans due to Covid-19 restrictions. “The majority of our fans have and will condemn criminal damage, along with any violence towards club staff, police or other fans, and these now become a police matter,” United said in a statement. “The club has no desire to see peaceful protestors punished, but will work with the police to identify those involved in criminal activity, and will also issue its own sanctions to any season ticket holder or member identified, per the…

ATTACQ, the real estate investment trust (Reit) that holds Mall of Africa and Waterfall City among its assets, said the easing of lockdown restrictions from March 1 had resulted in a marked improvement in trading density growth at its retail centres. All its tenants were able to trade with minimal restrictions, the group said yesterday in an update of its retail portfolio's trading performance, and progress made to improve its capital structure. At Mall of Africa, trading density improved 33 percent versus March 2020, compared with a 0.8 percent decline recorded in February over the same month a year before, and a 14.1 percent decline in January on the same basis. Brooklyn Mall saw trading density up 7 percent on the same basis, compared with a…

THE BLACKLIST S7 M-NET CITY, DSTV 115, 8.50PM After being abducted by Katarina Rostova, Raymond “Red” Reddington finds himself alone in hostile territory. NCIS S16 UNIVERSAL CHANNEL, DSTV CHANNEL 117, 8PM Mark Harmon, Sean Murray and Wilmer Valderrama are back with the team investigating the mysterious death of a strait-laced sailor. CASE CLOSED 14 TELEMUNDO, DSTV CHANNEL 119, 8PM Juan’s wife believes he suffers from depression after serving in the army. She wants him to be declared disabled so she can take care of him.…

Jamal Grootboom KHLOé Kardashian’s boyfriend, Tristan Thompson, has allegedly been caught in a new web of cheating scandals. Last week, model Sydney Chase appeared on the No Jumper podcast with the Blackout Girls, where she claimed to have been hooking up with Tristan months after he rekindled things with Khloé. Now another woman, Kim Cakery, has come forward with more cheating allegations. In screenshots of the post on Instagram shared by the Shade Room, Kim claims that Tristan has allegedly been cheating on Khloé with other women who have kids, with another child possibly on the way. Tweeps weren’t surprised by the allegations.…

ZELDA VENTER zelda.venter@inl.co.za THE ROAD Accident Fund (RAF) will ask the court for permission to stay hundreds of millions due to several law firms until they have repaid the money. It will ask the North Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, later this month to suspend the debt due for claims settled or where court orders have been granted. The court action is a desperate attempt to recover hundreds of millions in duplicate payments to various law firms. If granted, the order will be ending a later application in which it will ask that the Legal Practice Council appoint a curator to administer the trust accounts of those firms that had received double payments, but refused to pay back the money. The RAF has lodged a formal complaint against more than 100…

THE Department of Social Development says there are no plans to extend the R350 social relief of distress grant despite growing calls for the programme to be renewed. The grant was introduced last year by President Cyril Ramaphosa as part of social relief initiatives to tackle the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The grant has benefited millions of unemployed South Africans. Earlier this year, when the grant was extended by Ramaphosa for a further three months, Sassa said it had processed over 9 million applications each month since May last year. In January it had paid more than 6.5 million grants per month. The total expenditure had exceeded R16 billion. On April 30, Sassa announced the grant was coming to an end but that applications waiting to be processed would…

SONRI NAIDOO THE COMMUNITY of Eldorado Park Extension 2 is up in arms over the landfill in the area which has become a dump site for what seems to be animal carcasses. For the past two weeks, the residents say they have experienced many negative effects from living across from the landfill on Union Road. One of these is the foul smell of “rotting animal”, which they think comes from a dead dog. However, a resident took the initiative to find what was the cause of the smell and found animal carcasses dumped in the veld next to the landfill. Stephanie Duiker said that two months ago, the culprits who used to dump on the site were caught and told to remove the carcasses, which they did. She…

Chulumanco Mahamba chulumanco.mahamba@inl.co.za A GROUP of university students will embark today on a fund-raising initiative that will see them walk from Durban to Pretoria in a bid to raise funds for students in need of financial assistance for higher education. In 2019, #Walk4Access, a group of 13 people, including a pastor, a lawyer, and members of the University of Pretoria (UP) student representative council (SRC) and other students, walked from Cape Town to Pretoria to raise money for struggling university students. This year, the non-profit organisation opted for a shorter distance, from Durban Girls’ High School in KwaZulu-Natal to Pretoria High School for Girls in Pretoria from today until May 13. This comes after universities across the country were brought to a standstill in March by students in a fight…

Peter Bachtis | Benoni AN AMERICAN travel advisory to its citizens contemplating a visit to South Africa: elevated levels of Covid-19, civil unrest, violent crime such as armed robbery, rape, car-jacking, mugging and smash and grab. The advice spreading across the world is South Africa is a “no-go” area. We have become a sad and insignificant country under the questionable and mostly hopeless leadership of the ANC. They’re are an immoral party, sowing seeds of destruction. Being ashamed of being a South African at this time is okay but there is a way out of this pile of putrid dung we find ourselves in. Vote them out … vote them out and send them to purgatory where they collectively belong.…

DO YOU ever wonder what the world will look like in 2040? Prof PLO Lumumba suggested that by 2040, South Africa will be the new world superpower. In this article I try to determine the veracity of this claim. Currently, it is the US leading the pack, with China emerging as a serious threat to their dominance. South Africa is still a developing country, which like many others, faces the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality. These, according to Naresh Singh and Vangile Titi, are exacerbated by inflation, globalisation, disease, scarcity of resources, environmental degradation and lack of skills including enterprise development, professional and entrepreneurial skills. This is so despite having a well institutionalised democracy, with a value system that encourages a harmonious coexistence based on transparent and accountable…

IT IS during times of bereavement that families should bury the hatchet and resolve their differences privately, as a sign of respect for the departed. The running battles within the AmaZulu Royal Family, following the death of Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu, who was appointed regent following the recent death of King Goodwill Zwelithini, is doing more harm to the monarchy. Over decades, during the reign of King Goodwill Zwelithini, the monarch was seen as sacrosanct, and treated with the utmost respect and dignity. It is incumbent upon seasoned veteran politician Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the Prime Minister of the AmaZulu Royal Family, to mediate in the impasse which is creating disharmony in the Royal Household, to afford the Queen a dignified send-off and a decent memorial service. Using the courts…

GENEVA: Tedros Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, plans to run for a second five-year term as the head of the agency, a source has said. In 2017, Ethiopian Ghebreyesus became the first African to head the UN agency and made universal health care coverage his priority. Diplomats said Ghebreyesus’s support among African nations would be key to any re-election. Ethiopia’s military accused him of supporting and trying to procure arms and diplomatic backing for Tigray state’s dominant party, which is fighting federal forces. | Reuters…

PARIS: The French prosecutor’s department said yesterday there were no grounds to pursue legal claims that France bore responsibility for enabling the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Rwanda last month published a report in which it said that France was aware that genocide was being prepared in Rwanda ahead of the killings. France’s top prosecutor, Remy Heitz, said that investigations carried out by French authorities could not prove any complicity by French troops in the killings which were orchestrated by the Hutu-led government and left 800 000 dead. Critics of France’s role have said that then French President Francois Mitterrand failed to prevent the massacres or even supported the Hutu-led government. | Reuters…

Moderna will supply 34 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine this year and Sweden has donated 1 million AstraZeneca shots to the global Covax programme as it struggles to secure enough supplies to inoculate the world’s poorest people. The advance purchase contract agreed with Moderna is for up to 500 million doses, but the roll out will only start in the fourth quarter, with 34 million doses available this year, the Gavi vaccine alliance said yesterday. The bulk – 466 million – would only become available next year. The deal has options to potentially access doses of variant-adapted vaccines in the future. The agreement follows the US drugmaker’s shot being approved for emergency use listing by the WHO on Friday, a prerequisite for Covax eligibility. Gavi runs the Covax vaccine…

Zaahier Adams zaahier.adams@inl.co.za Mamelodi Sundowns co-coach Manqoba Mngqithi has warned his team to remain humble as they close in on a record 400th Premiership victory. Sundowns achieved their 399th league win with a 3-0 humiliation of Orlando Pirates on Sunday. The Brazilians will look to rewrite the history books when they face Maritzburg United tomorrow. Mngqithi was, though, not happy with his team's showboating during the victory over the Buccaneers as it did not represent the type of sportsmanship he is renowned for. “When we win we must always win with a lot of humility. I was not happy with the sounds the players were making when we were keeping possession. That is a sign of arrogance and personally I am someone who doesn't like people that are arrogant,” he…