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BREAKING: The US will temporarily lift sanctions on Iranian oil for 30 days amid the US-Israel war, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says, applying only to oil already in transit and not to new orders as global supply shocks continue 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/pxiy88

Spring officially arrived on Friday, March 20, at 10:46 a.m. ET. For the next few months, days will get a little longer in the Northern Hemisphere — and shorter in the Southern Hemisphere. The new season signals warmer weather, and budding plants. abcnews.link/kXLbOFh

🚨🚨 BREAKING: Gold price falls below $4,500, marking its biggest weekly drop since 1983.

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Kayla Reyneke has now had 4 innings in T20Is for the Proteas, coming in at no. 7 115 runs at a strike rate of 182 with 9 sixes and she is yet to be dismissed Sensational start to her career and she still has plenty to give with the ball as well

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Good morning Folks 🙏 Fabulous Friday to All You Beautiful Souls! 🎶☕️☕️🎵

Last week the DA government in Cape Town won an important victory for the autonomy of local governments across South Africa. We have stood up against the endless attempts by the national government to centralise powers and remove autonomy from local municipalities, and we’ve prevailed. This is important for South Africa, because we believe that instead of centralising power, we should actually be decentralising it as much as possible. Some background to this win: The Constitution says that local governments (municipalities and cities) are not mere local branch offices of the national state. They have their own powers, their own elections, their own mandates, and are free to pursue different policies or programmes. And this local policy experimentation is very healthy for South Africa. With this local experimentation, we can find what works and replicate elsewhere, and discard what doesn’t work. But a few years ago, the national government came up with a plan called the District Development Model. This innocuous sounding new “model” was actually an underhanded attempt to centralise power again, giving the national government the power to veto municipal plans and projects. Cape Town lodged a formal dispute on this DDM model, called an “intergovernmental dispute”. We made clear that we felt this was unconstitutional, and that if they did not overhaul it completely, then we would seek to strike it down in the courts. To his credit, Minister Velenkosi Hlabisa, who is the Minister for Co-operative Governance in the GNU, really listened. An overhaul has happened. The new model published respects and protects the constitutional powers of local government, and removes all of the veto powers of the national government. Minister Hlabisa is a former Mayor himself, and cares about the success of local government. He is also from the IFP. I have no doubt that if it were still an ANC Minister in this portfolio, like the former Minister Nkosozana Dlamini-Zuma who came up with the plan in the first place, we would never have had this success. We would have won in the end, because the scheme was clearly unconstitutional, but it would have taken a long and difficult fight through the courts. This is a story of how working with like-minded reformers in the GNU, we can change bad ANC policy into much better policy for South Africa’s future. And it is an example of how the DA will always stand up for decentralising power closer to the people whose lives are affected by these services, and will always resist the ANC’s centralising tendencies. businessday.co.za/news/2026-03-1…

M A T C H D A Y! ⚡️ The series heats up as we head into the third T20I! 🏟 All square at 1-1, #TheProteas are ready to raise the intensity and take control in Auckland. 🇿🇦💪 Don't miss a moment live on SuperSport. 📺 📸: @PhotosportNZ #Unbreakable

Six rounds to play 🍿 The Race to the Eight has officially begun as teams battle it out for a spot in the play-offs 💥 #SSRugby | #VURC

Exciting news! 👏 👏 👏 @graemedor, a PhD candidate at CERI, has been awarded the @MRCza Biostatistics Capacity Development Initiative Award. His research work focuses on combining genomic epidemiology, statistical modelling, and ecological insights to understand how infectious diseases spread and to inform smarter surveillance and public health strategies across Africa, especially in a rapidly changing climate. This award underscores the importance of developing local quantitative expertise to turn complex health data into actionable insights. Graeme is supervised by Prof. @Tuliodna and Prof. @houzhou, and his PhD project is titled: “Applying integrated phylodynamic approaches to understand transmission dynamics of emerging and endemic pathogens to inform genomic surveillance and public health response in Africa.” @StellenboschUni @MatiesResearch

@riridiamond7912 @PeterPentz Yes indeed very expensive now

@PeterPentz @VicusVd Yup, all airlines have implemented a fuel levy surcharge.

Thinking about flying CPT–JNB, one-way? Brace yourself…

Congratulations to Khomotso Mohlala, an MSc Medical Virology candidate at CERI, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐀𝐌𝐑𝐂 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝! 🙌 Her research project, titled “Impact of Population-Level HPV Vaccination on HPV Prevalence, Incidence, Clearance and Acquisition Among Young Women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa," will generate vital evidence on vaccine impact in high HPV/HIV burden settings; supporting cervical cancer prevention strategies across Africa. We are proud to see women scientists like Khomotso leading critical research and contributing to evidence-based health solutions. A heartfelt thank you to the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) for investing in the next generation of researchers and strengthening local scientific capacity. Your support empowers women in science and drives impactful health research across the continent! Khomotso’s work is guided by her incredible supervisors: Prof. Lenine Liebenberg, Dr. Cari van Schalkwyk, Prof. Desiree Petersen, and Dr. Devon Muir. 🙌 @SUhealthsci #WomenInScience #Biostatistics #MedicalVirology #HPVResearch #SAMRC #CervicalCancerPrevention #AfricanScience #NextGenScientists

Your Hollywoodbets Sharks to take on Munster this weekend 🦈🖤