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Breakfast fundis have called for mushrooms and tomatoes to be replaced with slices of grilled pineapple in a full English breakfast. Experts from The English Breakfast Society – who also point out that hash browns have no place in the traditional fry-up – say the exotic fruit elevates the morning dish, giving diners the opportunity to eat like 17th-century lords. Guise Bule de Missenden, the society’s founder and chair, told the Daily Telegraph: “Interestingly, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the pineapple was considered to be a high-status breakfast item in Great Britain. “Pineapples used to be seen as exotic, expensive, difficult to obtain and were a highly prized breakfast ingredient for wealthy English families, which is why you can find lots of old English pineapple breakfast recipes.”…

The 65 people charged in connection with the unrest and public violence that took place July 2021 made their first appearance in the Durban High Court yesterday. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said the matter was adjourned to April 8 for some of the accused to finalise their legal representation. The accused face a total of eight charges, including terrorism, conspiring on the commission of terrorism, sedition, public violence, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit public violence and incitement to commit public violence. According to the eight-page indictment, the accused were disgruntled following the Constitutional Court decision to jail former president Jacob Zuma for a period of 15 months in June 2021 for contempt of court. This was due to Zuma refusing to appear before the State Capture Commission,…

A BROTHER who appealed against a final domestic violence interdict granted against him in favour of his sister, appealed against the order arguing that the Domestic Violence Act does not have a bearing on him as he and his sister are not in a “domestic relationship”. The brother, only identified in the judgment by his initials, turned to the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, against the ruling of the magistrate who issued a final protection order. The grounds of appeal were that the magistrate erred in finding that the brother, 59, and sister, 56, are in a "domestic relationship" as defined in the act. The sister claimed that her brother made numerous threats towards her and her adult daughter. This included serious threats to have her murdered and enlisting the assistance…

SENZO Meyiwa trial Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng has again emphasised that he was simply following the letter of the law, in the wake of criticism and public scrutiny he faces as he presides over the murder trial of the soccer star. Since his takeover of the murder trial following the suspension of Judge Tshifhiwa Maumela, Judge Mokgoatlheng has – similar to his predecessor – continued to face immense scrutiny and negativity about how he was interfering with the defence of the five men currently on trial for the October 2014 murder of Meyiwa. The judge has throughout the trial been at pains to explain that he was not being prejudicial in the matter but simply applying the law as was his responsibility. However, he continues to face unrelenting public criticism…

A week ago I read with shock an opinion piece written by Unisa Emeritus Professor, Andre Thomashausen, titled “SA has failed to prove genocidal intent by Israel in Gaza”. In his article Prof Thomashausen starts off with a breakdown of the team that represented South Africa. At first I could not see the importance of this. It would soon dawn on me that the composition of the South African team was invoked in order to lay the foundation for a criticism of their competence and supposed lack of knowledge of international law. Despite the South African team having featured renowned international law expert, Prof John Dugard, in the eyes of Prof Thomashausen, all the team members combined could not match Israel’s lead counsel, Prof Malcolm Shaw. Granted Prof Shaw is…

Deadly fighting and bombardment rocked Gaza yesterday as international mediators pushed for a new ceasefire and hostage release deal in the Israel-Hamas war. Heavy Israeli strikes and urban combat across the besieged Gaza Strip killed 128 more people overnight, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory said. The epicentre of fighting has been the southern city of Khan Yunis – the hometown of Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, the alleged architect of the October 7 attack – where vast areas have been reduced to a muddy wasteland of bombed-out buildings. Troops fighting in city blocks and tunnels have raided several military sites, Sinwar’s office and “a significant rocket manufacturing facility”, the Israeli military said. Army spokesperson Daniel Hagari claimed troops in the city had “eliminated over 2 000 terrorists…

Protests by angry farmers spread across the EU yesterday as the French government scrambled to placate agriculture workers who have been moving towards Paris in long convoys of tractors, blocking key motorways along the way. Their litany of complaints range from rising costs to meet carbon-cutting targets, fuel prices, inflation, bureaucracy and Ukrainian grain imports. The French mobilisation has blown up into a serious crisis for Prime Minister Gabriel Attal only weeks into the job. Addressing parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Attal promised that his government stood ready to resolve the crisis “without ambiguity” and praised the agriculture sector as “our force and our pride”. President Emmanuel Macron, speaking during a state visit to Sweden, said he was opposed to a trade deal between the EU and South American bloc Mercosur,…

Washington: An Ohio man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for trying to burn down a church that planned to host drag shows, the Justice Department said yesterday. Aimenn Penny, 20, of Ohio, pleaded guilty in October to attempting to set fire to the Community Church of Chesterland in Ohio. Penny was sentenced on Monday to 216 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Penny, a member of the neo-Nazi White Lives Matter group, attacked the church with two Molotov cocktails on March 25, a week before it planned to host two drag show events. The attack caused limited damage, wrecking a sign and scorching a door. |…

from page 1 “The mistake we make is thinking it’s (just) the ANC. They did take higher moral ground from the National Party who were the masters of corruption by every means necessary.” He said that communities did not often understand their rights and responsibilities. Cloete said there were many factors that led to the public losing trust in local government, including financial mismanagement, the competency of individuals appointed to positions they are not equipped for, process and procedures not being in place. “We need to see more people going to jail for corruption. The consequence in Singapore for corruption is to jail high-profile people. If you look at countries like that. Until you jail high-profile people, the consequence management system remains low. The political system in South Africa is…

Trade and industry Minister Ebrahim Patel said South African businesses will soon benefit from preferential trading under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). Patel was speaking in Durban yesterday during a council of ministers meeting which was also attended by ministers responsible for trade, the diplomatic corps, heads of businesses and media from across the continent. Twelve countries, including South Africa, have finalised their legal modalities to enable trade to commence in thousands of product lines, ranging from food and beverages to steel products and equipment, taxis, pharmaceutical and personal care products, chemical products and household goods such as fridges and televisions. President Cyril Ramaphosa will today at Pier 1 at the Port of Durban, officially launch the first container of goods loaded onto a ship destined for markets…

The Equality Court in the Western Cape heard yesterday that the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and the Prudential Authority have a direct and substantial interest in the application brought by the Sekunjalo Group. This as the statutory bodies filed an interlocutory application for the dismissal of the complaint brought against them by Sekunjalo Group and its chairman, Dr Iqbal Survé, alleging that the statutory bodies contravened sections of the Equality Act. Sekunjalo Group filed papers last year asking the court to declare that the banks’ conduct constitutes unfair discrimination and that their decisions to close the group’s and its related entities’ bank accounts should be overturned. The SARB and Prudential Authority told the court on Monday that Sekunjalo’s complaint was built on the unsustainable proposition that the two institutions…

4 free range chicken breasts 400 g portabellini mushrooms sliced 1 white onion diced 2 cloves gloves minced 1 tbsp ground almonds/almond flour 2 tbsp nut butter eg cashew or almond 175 ml almond or oat milk 375 ml chicken or vegetable stock 1 tsp dried herbs 1 bunch tuscan kale/cavolo nero 100 g sundried tomatoes roughly chopped salt and pepper to taste olive oil for cooking Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a large buffet casserole / saucepan Season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper and then sear until golden brown all over. Remove from the pan and set aside. Add the mushrooms to the pan and cook until golden brown. Remove and set aside. Add the onion to the pan with a pinch of salt and…

The Care Dependency Grant (CDG) for children with disabilities in South Africa is insufficient to meet the needs of these children and to ensure the social protection of their families. This is according to Dr Zara Trafford from the Institute for Life Course Health Research in the Department of Global Health at Stellenbosch University (SU). Trafford received her PhD in Psychology at SU recently. “None of the South African government’s cash transfer (“grants”) programmes are intended to serve as standalone social protection, but there is a particularly dire lack of responsibility for disability and support for disabled children from government bodies beyond the Department of Social Development,” said Trafford. She said the CDG is a greatly under-researched topic compared to the Child Support Grant and the adult Disability Grant. She…

THE ANC in the Western Cape has accepted councillor Maxwell Heins’s abrupt termination of his membership and resignation as a Cederberg municipal council member. In his resignation letter, Heins claimed the ANC had changed and was no longer what it was when he originally joined the party. He has been in the municipal council since 2019 following a by-election and stood again in 2021. Heins was also elected as Speaker. The former councillor told the Cape Times that for now he was unemployed and would soon divulge his future plans, adding that he would will always find ways to serve people. “Please be advised that I herewith tender my resignation from the ANC and consequently as the Ward 3 Councillor at the Cederberg Municipality. The effective date of my resignation…

THE ANC’s long overdue decision to suspend its former president Jacob Zuma’s membership sets the stage for what could be a bruising election campaign for the governing party ahead of this year’s crucial election. Judging by the party’s secretary general Fikile Mbalula’s remarks that they are “prepared to defend” the National Democratic Revolution, the organisation is aware that the Zuma question will not go away by just suspending his membership. The decision to only haul him before a disciplinary hearing after the elections also suggests that the party is wary of the implications of terminating his membership. Zuma’s support, especially in KwaZulu-Natal, where he hails from, cannot be overlooked. One just has to look at the crowds attending the rallies of the newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party. That is…

London: Queen Camilla will be the most high-profile public face of the British monarchy as her husband King Charles III and his daughter-in-law recuperate from surgery. Charles, 75, spent three nights in hospital recovering from an operation on an enlarged prostate, and was discharged on Monday. Catherine, Princess of Wales, 42, also had abdominal surgery at the same private clinic, and is now back home with her husband, Prince William, and their three children. With Charles and Kate facing weeks of rest and recuperation, and heir to the throne William, 41, tending to his wife, the burden of public engagements has now fallen largely on the 76-yearold queen. It also means greater roles in the short term for the king’s only sister, Princess Anne, 73, and the younger of his…

berlin: Security staff at major German airports will go on strike tomorrow to push for higher wages, their union said, the latest industrial action to hit Europe’s top economy. Staff will walk out at Frankfurt, Germany’s biggest airport, as well as Berlin and nine other airports across the country, the Verdi union announced. No agreement has been reached with management on salaries after three rounds of talks, according to a statement from the union, which represents around 25 000 employees. The union is seeking E2.80 (R57) more per hour as well as increases to other allowances to help staff combat inflation, which has risen sharply since last year. |…

Ottawa: Canada is extending a delay on an expansion of its euthanasia laws that would make mentally ill patients eligible, saying medical practitioners are still not properly trained on the new regime. Canada approved doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally ill in 2016. The legislation was due to be expanded in March 2023 to permit mentally ill patients to request euthanasia, but Ottawa delayed its roll-out by a year to ensure proper safeguards were in place. Health Minister Mark Holland, echoing the conclusions of a parliamentary committee report, said this week “the system is, at this time, (still) not ready and more time is required” to set it up. |…

The Proteas’ quest to defeat Australia in a women’s bilateral series will continue after the home team claimed a five-wicket victory in the final T20I to seal a 2-1 win in Hobart last night. Laura Wolvaardt’s team had made history in the previous match in Canberra when they defeated the Aussies for the first time in any format, but were unable to climb their Everest in the decider at the Blundstone Arena. The world champions paced their run chase to perfection with Beth Mooney’s 55-ball 82 (11x4, 1x6) the cornerstone before Ashleigh Gardener chipped in with an unbeaten 29 (17 balls, 3x4, 1x6) to guide the home team past the Proteas’ 162-7 with four balls to spare. Mooney, who is the world’s No 1 T20 batter, has been the difference…

The Stormers have a couple of weeks, in the absence of Manie Libbok, to expand their options at flyhalf, and youngster Jurie Matthee can be the perfect fit. Their World Cup-winning No 10 forced to rest because of Springbok protocols, and this opens the door for head coach John Dobson to take stock of the available players who can slot into the role during the next couple of United Rugby Championship (URC) matches as the Cape side prepare for an important second half of their season. The inaugural URC champions are currently in seventh spot with a host of teams nipping at their heels to get into a play-off position as the second part of the season starts in the middle of February. The Stormers face the Sharks in…

Kaizer Chiefs’ interim coach Cavin Johnson must get the best out of his current crop of players after he stuck to his guns and made no signing during the January transfer window. Chiefs endured a roller-coaster ride in the first half of the season as they fell on hard times under new coach Molefi Ntseki, missing out on the MTN8 and Carling Knockout. They also blew hot and cold in the DStv Premiership as they failed to close the gap between them and log leaders Mamelodi Sundowns, despite making a host of new signings during pre-season. The new arrivals at Chiefs included attackers Ranga Chivaviro, Jasond Gonzalez and Pule Mmoodi while defenders Given Msimango and Thatayaone Ditlhokwe also joined the club. Enter Johnson following the sacking of Ntseki. The former…

Having already seen two matches washed out this season, the Joburg Super Kings would have been sitting in the Newlands dugout bemoaning their luck in SA20 season 2 when the rain came pelting down on Monday evening. But Mother Cricket takes and also gives, and she certainly favoured the Super Kings at Newlands. The visitors had the better of the conditions, bowling the majority of their innings with a dry ball before having their full 10 wickets in hand to chase down a DLS-revised target of 98. Ultimately, they did not require anyone other than openers Leus du Plooy and captain Faf du Plessis. It was a momentous shift in momentum, particularly for a JSK batting unit that had struggled to fire all season. The game situation of requiring 98…

NELSON Mandela Bay (the Bay/the Metro) is a convergence point for an array of biomes, weather systems, river courses and ecological characteristics and peoples, that has created a unique and globally significant biodiversity hot spot. Preserving these qualities will be essential in adapting to the changes which human activity has driven in the climate and planetary ecosystems, and to secure the diverse heritage of the human, terrestrial and marine environment of the bay. The bay’s expected climatic changes include hotter temperatures, less rainfall, sea-level rise and tidal surges, more wind, and more frequent extreme weather events. These will lead to increased flooding, longer droughts, and increased likelihood of heat-related illnesses. Indeed, local authorities have a major influence on climate change adaptation, yet their actions are strongly determined by the national…

Winston Churchill said: “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” It is a wonderful sentiment that can be applied in almost all industries including power generation. As the landscape changes so should energy production and distribution (readily) adapt, ensuring that we establish a flexible, optimised grid of the future. Traditionally, grid flexibility involved utilities enrolling large industrial energy consumers in load curtailment and demand response programmes to help adjust the balance between supply and demand. These electro-intensive users would reduce or shift their energy use during peak periods. However, today grid flexibility has become far more complex. For one, an increasing investment in renewables means that energy flow is bi-directional, with decentralised energy coming from multiple distributed energy resources (DERs). Furthermore, as organisations and even…

from page 1 in the determination of the legal dispute between the respondent banks and the Sekunjalo Group. “This is not a ‘fishing expedition’. It is an obligation imposed by the Constitution upon the SARB and Prudential Authority as organs of state.” He told the court that the SARB was supposed to police compliance with banking regulations and that it has the power to suspend and withdraw banking licence if there was a lack of compliance. However, Ngalwana said Standard Bank and FNB were still banking with white-owned companies like EOH and Tongaat Hulett that admitted to committing corruption and yet not with Sekunjalo, a black-owned company. He also said if there was a challenge to constitutional validity of regulations that the SARB has a statutory obligation, it could not…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured South Africans that he will soon announce the election date but did not commit to making this announcement when he delivers the State of the Nation (Sona) address next month. The Electoral Commission of South Africa will conduct its final voter registration weekend on February 3 and 4 and voter registration will end once Ramaphosa promulgates the date. Opposition parties have urged him to use the Sona address to unofficially announce the date so that they can prepare for the massive logistical undertaking of campaigning for the election. Ramaphosa, during a wide-ranging interview with the SABC, said the election date would be announced soon. “Well, the election date will be announced shortly so that South Africans can get ready for the election. This is an…

South Africa’s lowest score ever in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is a sign that the Ramaphosa presidency has failed to meet the heightened levels of urgency to turn the corner on corruption generated by state capture. This is according to UCT Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies, Vinothan Naidoo, after the anti-corruption movement Transparency International (TI) yesterday released the 2023 CPI, which showed South Africa had scored its lowest score ever at 41. It is one of 23 countries that reached their lowest-ever scores this year. The CPI scores 180 countries and territories around the world by their perceived levels of public-sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople. It relies on 13 independent data sources and uses a scale of zero to 100, where zero is highly…

By the time Sashen Chase was in matric, he was struggling to walk or sit and suffered severe spinal pain that made it difficult to concentrate. The former Norman Henshilwood High School pupil refused to allow the challenges of osteoporosis to stand in his way and yesterday he bagged the special ministerial award at the 2023 Western Cape National Senior Certificate (NSC) awards. Chase was among more than 100 pupils from across the province honoured for their hard work during the matric exams, at the event held at Premier Alan Winde’s official residence, Leeuwenhof. The 18-year-old was diagnosed with osteoporosis in Grade 10. He suffered epileptic fits, elevating the risk of fractures to his weakened bones, and his condition worsened last year. He described his Grade 12 exam journey as…

Founding of militant organisations in South Africa and the PLO were a turning point While the ICJ genocide case has grabbed headlines for the past few weeks, one coincidence that many analysts do not talk about concerns the parallels between South Africa and Israel, as well as between the ANC and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). This article examines the similarities and contradictions that the genocide case exposes and its implications for the ANC and the PLO. The centrality of Hamas in the latest events in Palestine is not a coincidence but a necessary political development that the ANC itself is currently experiencing. Both the Oslo Accords and the Codesa negotiations, which the PLO and the ANC led, respectively, are now under intense scrutiny. The prominence of Hamas in Gaza…

Zimbabwean opposition politician Job Sikhala is to be released after more than a year-and-a-half in prison, his lawyers said yesterday, after a Harare court handed him a suspended sentence. An outspoken and popular government critic, Sikhala, 51, was one of the most prominent figures to be arrested in recent years in what rights groups have described as a crackdown on dissenters in the country. “He is now a free man. This is the only case that has been keeping him in custody, so he is going to come out,” Sikhala’s lawyer Harrison Nkomo told reporters outside the court. A former lawmaker, Sikhala was convicted of inciting public violence last week after a year-long trial supporters said was politically motivated. Another opposition member of parliament, Godfrey Sithole, was found guilty on…

US immigration reform has become the focus of a high-stakes political battle, with President Joe Biden and Donald Trump locking horns over one of the hottest issues of the 2024 election. With the White House race looking almost certain to be a rematch of 2020, the Republican has been hammering his Democratic successor over record numbers of undocumented migrants at the southern border. Senators are working to unveil one of the harshest immigration bills in decades, containing significant restrictions that Biden has committed to signing into law – that could include Republican priorities such as temporary border shutdowns and an end to the “catch and release” of migrants. But they’re hitting a major roadbump: Trump has an iron grip on Republicans leading the House of Representatives, and – unwilling to…

TEHRAN: Iran yesterday summoned the British ambassador to Tehran to protest against London’s “accusations” against the Islamic republic, state media reported. “Following the continuation of the British regime’s accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Simon Shercliff, the British ambassador in Tehran, was summoned … and informed of our country’s strong protest,” IRNA state news agency reported. It comes after Britain accused Iran-aligned groups of being behind a deadly attack on US troops in Jordan and, along with the US, imposed sanctions on a network that they allege targets Iranian dissidents. |…

Abuja: Kidnappers attacked a Nigerian school bus and abducted five children along with their teachers, the school’s founder said yesterday as outrage grows over insecurity in the country. Kidnapping for ransom by criminal gangs is a major problem in Nigeria and the new government is facing an outcry over a recent spate of abductions. The gunmen in south-western Ekiti state shot the bus’s tyres and took the children captive on their way home from school on Monday, co-founder Gabriel Adesanya said. He said the Emure Apostolic Faith Primary School pupils aged 8-14 were still missing plus the bus driver, conductor and two teachers. |…

AmaZulu announced their decision to part ways with coach Reneilwe Letsholonyane on Monday, citing poor results in his first year with the club. The Kaizer Chiefs legend has been the head coach of Usuthu’s reserve team since August last year. He was initially appointed as under-17 coach in January last year but was promoted ahead of the new DStv Diski Challenge (DDC) season. Usuthu currently occupy 15th spot in the DDC standings at the halfway point of the season, which has led to Yeye’s dismissal. The club’s youth technical director, Celokuhle Mbanjwa, explained Letsholonyane’s dismissal. “We needed to make a change within the DDC ranks because obviously the results were not coming, but we also felt we needed a new energy in a different perspective in terms of the…

Bafana Bafana’s attacker Thapelo Maseko might have recently made his Africa Cup of Nations debut, but his former coaches have tipped him to be the future of the team. Maseko has been one of the standout players for Bafana at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations, having also racked up a goal for the team in the group stage. That goal against Namibia in the second game was a poacher’s finish as he connected well with Teboho Mokoena’s weighted pass before slotting past Lloyd Kazapua. Kwanele Kopo, who was one of the coaches who scouted Maseko for SuperSport’s academy in 2018 before he broke into the senior team, always knew that he was a lethal finisher. “He’s a very good finisher, full of speed and aggressive,” Kopo said yesterday from…