Cape Town – On the eve of TopTV’s application to broadcast three new porn channels, the company’s CEO says most of the content is suitable for men and women – especially couples.
The application will be heard by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa).
Asked if he would watch the channels himself, CEO Eddy Mbalo told the Cape Argus: “Absolutely. In fact, I would watch them with my wife.”
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Pretoria – An advocate whose clients have included Dr Wouter Basson, Jackie Selebi and the Waterkloof four, has been injected with an unknown substance outside the High Court in Pretoria, it was reported on Thursday.
Advocate Jaap Cilliers walked out of the court on Wednesday after concluding a civil case, reported Beeld newspaper.
He felt someone rush up to him from behind, then felt a sharp sensation in his buttock.
Cilliers was taken to a doctor, who confirmed that he had been injected with an unknown substance.
He was taken to a Pretoria hospital for blood tests, in an effort to establish what the substance was.
The motive for the attack was not known. – Sapa
By Obakeng Maje
The North West Department of Sport, Arts and Culture joined forces with the South African Sport Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) over the weekend to help chart a path for sport in the Province and enhance co-operation in areas of mutual interest.
“The event on March 10 was part of SASCOC’s visit to Provinces around the country” Vusi Kama said.
” The leg of their roadshow at Mmabana Arts, Culture and Sport Foundation in Mahikeng also served to mark 500 days to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland” Tebogo Modise said. Young artists from Mmabana entertained attendees, who included the MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture, Mme Tebogo Modise and SASCOC President Gideon Sam. The essence of the engagement with sport stakeholders and the Department was to discuss the Confederation’s programmes such as Operation Excellence, Academies, Funding and Coaches Framework as well as exploring ways to enhance synergies between the Confederation’s and the Provincial Department’s programmes.
Presentations on the day included the Province’s role in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2015 All Africa Games and the 2016 Rio Olympics.
“As a Province, we are very excited about the SASCOC initiative,” said Ms Modise.
“As I have indicated before, our Province wants to be part of the success story of South Africa at an international levels. Engagements such as the ones we have had with the Confederation open up avenues so that we can all work towards a common goal. We are ready, willing and able to work with Mr Sam and his team” Modise concludes.
Mr Sam shared the same sentiment. “We explained that the Road to Rio campaign has already started in earnest, and we need help from all provinces to gain maximum benefit”. There will be national camps, and international camps to help our athletes.
The meetings are part of SASCOC’s plan to engage all of the country’s provinces in a bid to come up with ideas and programmes to improve the country’s sporting structures and performances going forward.
“This follows an extremely successful performance by Team South Africa at last year’s Olympics and Paralympics in London where the country returned with six medals from the Olympics and 29 medals from the Paralympics”
Modise adds.
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A 29-year-old man has been arrested for murder after police found him with a bloody knife in Mayfair, near central Johannesburg, police said on Wednesday.
“Johannesburg central sector police arrested a 29-year-old suspect for murder at Mayfair on 12 March at 1pm,” said spokesman Xoli Mbele.
He stabbed a 30-year-old male in the chest after an argument.
Paramedics found the victim dead on the scene.
The man was caught with the knife after a tip-off to the police which resulted in a chase.
“Police received a complaint of attempted murder and rushed to the scene. They saw a male carrying a knife with blood running away. They gave chase and apprehended him,” said Mbele.
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Vatican City – Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the troubled Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday, and said he would take the name Francis I.
Pope Francis, 76, appeared on the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica just over an hour after white smoke poured from a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel to signal he had been chosen to lead the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.
The choice of Bergoglio was announced by French cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran with the Latin words: “Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam.” The translation is: “I announce to you a great joy. We have a pope.”
Francis becomes the 266th pontiff in the Church’s 2 000-year history at a time of great crisis and difficulty. Although a conservative he is seen as a reformer and was not among the small group of frontrunners identified before the election.
He also went against one of the main assumptions before the election, that the new pope would be relatively young.
He is the oldest of most of the possible candidates and was barely mentioned in feverish speculation about the top contenders before the conclave.
He is the first Jesuit to become pope.
The decision by 115 cardinal electors sequestered in a secret conclave in the Sistine Chapel came sooner than many experts expected because there were several frontrunners before the vote to replace Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who resigned in February.
The cardinals faced a thorny task in finding a leader capable of overcoming crises caused by priestly child abuse and a leak of secret papal documents that uncovered corruption and rivalry inside the Church government or Curia.
The wave of problems is thought to have contributed to Benedict’s decision to become the first pontiff in 600 years to abdicate.
Thousands of people sheltering from heavy rain under a sea of umbrellas had occupied the square all day to await the decision and the crowd swelled as soon as the white smoke emerged.
They cheered wildly and raced towards the basilica as the smoke billowed from a narrow makeshift chimney and St Peter’s bells rang.
The excited crowd cheered even more loudly when Francis appeared, the first pontiff to take that name. “Viva il Papa (pope)” they chanted.
“I wasn’t expecting it, but I’m absolutely delighted. It’s a very unique moment. There is a great sense of unity here. It’s great they have come to a decision about who will lead the Church,” said John Mcginley, a Scottish priest from Glasgow who travelled to see the conclave.
“It’s a great moment in history, something I can tell my mom,” said David Brasch, 30, from Brisbane in Australia. “He’s got to get the child abuse under control, I don’t know how they’re going to do that. He’s got to unite 1.2 billion people.”
Bands from the Italian armed forces and the Vatican’s own Swiss guard army paraded in front of the basilica before the new pope appeared.
The secret conclave began on Tuesday night with a first ballot and four ballots were held on Wednesday. Francis obtained the required two thirds majority in the fifth ballot.
Following a split ballot when they were first shut away amid the chapel’s Renaissance splendour on Tuesday evening, the cardinal electors held a first full day of deliberations on Wednesday. Black smoke rose after the morning session to signal no decision.
The previous four popes were all elected within two or three days.
Seven ballots have been required on average over the last nine conclaves. Benedict was clear frontrunner in 2005 and elected after only four ballots. – Reuters
The South Africa Human Rights Commission (HRC) has subpoenaed the Moqhaka local municipality over its failure to honour recommendations to rebuild enclosed toilets in Rammulotsi, the commission said on Wednesday.
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Klerksdorp – Eskom will not cut off power to the Matlosana (Klerksdorp) municipality in the North West, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
“Yes, there was an outcome to the talks. An agreement was reached with Eskom,” municipal spokeswoman Ntswaki Makgetha said.
“The public should not stress. There won’t be any switching off of electricity tomorrow.”
She could not provide further details about the agreement.
The parastatal and the municipality were in talks on Wednesday morning about an unpaid electricity account.
Beeld reported that Eskom planned to cut the municipality’s power on Thursday unless it paid R91 million in arrears. Cutting the power was a last resort, Eskom spokeswoman Hilary Joffe was quoted as saying. – Sapa
Johannesburg – The petrol price may increase by a further 1.4 cents a litre in Gauteng after Nersa approved new tariffs for Transnet’s petroleum pipelines.
“The consequent petrol price rise is expected to be 1.4 cents per litre,” the National Energy Regulator of SA said on Wednesday.
It said this would represent a 0.1 percent increase in the February 2013 retail price of 93 octane petrol in Gauteng.
This would happen if the energy minister decided to use the pipeline tariff as a proxy for the cost of transporting fuel from Durban to Johannesburg.
Nersa said it had amended Transnet Limited’s licence to operate its petroleum pipeline system by setting tariffs, as a condition of that licence, for the period from April 3, 2013 to April 1, 2014.
Last week the petrol price went up by 81 cents a litre and diesel by 58.38 cents per litre.
The increases came into effect two weeks before the 30 cents a litre increase in the general fuel and Road Accident Fund levy announced by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.
The fuel levy increases take effect next month, pushing the price of 95 octane petrol to R13,38 a litre in the inland provinces.
Transnet had applied for a 22.6 percent increase in its allowable revenue, which would have resulted in a 4.72 cents per litre increase in inland petroleum product prices, had it been granted.
In arriving at its decision, Nersa said it looked at factors such as public interest, regulatory certainty, the new multi-product pipeline project reaching its capital expenditure peak, and current and future debt funding.
“Consequently, Nersa has set petroleum pipeline tariffs that will allow Transnet to realise an 8.53 percent increase in allowable revenue compared to the 2012/13 tariff period.”
This would be an increase from R2.57 billion in 2012/13 to R2.79bn in 2012/13.
Nersa said Transnet pipelines reported a 7.1 percent reduction in total petroleum volumes pumped from 2010/11 to 2011/12.
This was a decline from 18.025bn litres in 2010/11 to 16.741bn litres in 2011/12.
Transnet has forecast an overall 4.6 percent increase in volumes to be pumped in the 2013/14 financial year.
This includes an approximate 5.96 percent increase in petroleum product volumes transported from the coast to the inland region, as a result of the new pipeline capacity that Transnet has brought into operation. – Sapa
Prior studies have already linked douching with a host of ill effects, including bacterial vaginosis, but not much research has been done on how petroleum jelly affects female sexual organs.
Lead researcher Dr. Joelle Brown of the University of California, San Francisco, and her colleagues recruited 141 women in the study, with half of the women saying they had used some type of sexual lubricant, petroleum jelly, or baby oil vaginally in the past month.
When the researchers tested the women for infections, they found that those who’d used petroleum jelly in the past month were more than twice as likely as non-users to have bacterial vaginosis.
While the illness doesn’t cause long-term problems, it can be uncomfortable, and worse puts a woman at greater risk of sexually transmitted diseases.
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The South African Senior Women’s National Team (Banyana Banyana) has finished in 11th place at the Cyprus Cup.
Banyana Banyana clinched the spot following their 5-4 penalty shootout victory over Northern Ireland on Wednesday, 13 March 2013 at the Tasos Markou Stadium in Paralimini.
After going down 2-0 to Korea, narrowly losing 1-0 to Ireland, the Sasol-sponsored team defeated Northern Ireland 2-1 to complete the group stages and set up a clash against the same opponents, Northern Ireland, to battle for the 11th and 12th playoff spots. Banyana Banyana won the shootout thanks to a great penalty save by goal minder Andile Dlamini.
Ahead of the trip to Cyprus, South Africa’s head coach Joseph Mkhonza spoke of creating a larger pool of players and giving untested players from the Sasol League a chance to prove their worth at national team level.
Two Banyana Banyana recruits Shiwe Nogwanya and Zanele Chiya are some of those who have learnt the rigours of international football.
The 22-year-old Chiya is one of the five new players called up to the national set-up for the first time and has remained positive despite not featuring in the tournament.
“I’m thrilled just to have been part of Banyana Banyana and the past three weeks have all been about learning for me,” said Chiya, a defender from the TUT Ladies team.
“I’ve learned how to move the ball quickly, the importance of timing when in possession and quick recovery after losing the ball. But most critically, I found that the bonding with teammates off-the-field makes the chemistry so effortless to work with during match day because of the personal and playing style understanding,” she added.
Nogwanya, one of the few success stories of the tournament for the Sasol-sponsored side, made her debut during the match against Northern Ireland on Monday (11 March) and believes she and her teammates learnt a lot during the trip.
“Things were tough out here and we had to chase most of the games after slow starts and conceding early in the match but moving forward, emphasis in our play must be to focus at all times,” explained Nogwanya. She came close to scoring on two occasions against Northern Ireland when first, she could not connect with the ball from a low cross, and then had her shot smothered by the Irish goalkeeper.
The forceful 19-year old striker, who plies her trade with Bloemfontein Celtic in the Sasol League added: “I found things very different from club level to the international stage – the tactics, ball work at training and moving into space at specific times during matches was a key learning area for me but I believe through hard work I will improve and be recalled for future national team camps.”
Other success stories to have emanated from the African silver medallists during their tour of Cyprus must be that of the young, fine talents Robyn Moodaly (midfielder) and Jermaine Seoposenwe (forward) while vice-captain Refiloe Jane played like the seasoned campaigner that she is, consistently producing a superb display in central midfield often linking well with Mary Ntsweng and the forwards.
The winner of the 2013 Cyprus Cup was to be decided after the England and Canada final which took place late on Wednesday in Nicosia, Cyprus.
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