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Sport24.co.za | Eddie Jones calls for clarity over head-high tackles

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Twickenham – England coach Eddie Jones urged officials to make clear what constitutes a head-high tackle ahead of the upcoming Rugby World Cup following his side’s 33-19 warm-up win over Wales on Sunday.

Jones felt there were at least two incidents during the game which could have led to a red card, although the Australian refused to be more specific with his thinly-veiled criticism of French referee Mathieu Raynal.

But following the red card handed out to New Zealand’s Scott Barrett for a head-high shoulder charge on Australia captain Michael Hooper during the All Blacks’ shock 47-26 loss in Perth on Saturday – a decision made by Jerome Garces, another French referee – Jones said World Rugby needed to clarify the position ahead of the World Cup in Japan, which starts next month.

“I thought there was an issue with the referee,” Jones, who names his World Cup squad on Monday, told reporters.

“We saw a red card yesterday (Saturday) which affected the game.

“We need to get some consistency into that area of the game.

“In the World Cup if you lose a player through a red card as New Zealand did yesterday, it makes the game very difficult.

“I thought we saw two instances today where that could have happened. I urge World Rugby, although I don’t think they do anything at great pace do they, to get some consistency in that area because otherwise we will have games being destroyed by an inconsistent official making a decision on a law that’s not clear,” the former Australia and Japan coach added.

Jones is not alone in being concerned, with Wales great Jonathan Davies tweeting earlier on Sunday: “Referee will decide who wins the RWC (Rugby World Cup) this year, not the best team unfortunately.”

World Rugby are trying to crack down on challenges that could lead to serious head injuries.

But Jones was scathing about the decision to send Barrett off, saying: “I thought it was ridiculous. A bloke gets tackled, he goes to be second man in and his shoulder hits his head and he gets a red card.

“We can’t have that in the game. There has to be some common sense applied, but maybe common sense was applied today really well.

England’s victory prevented Six Nations champions Wales from going top of the world rankings and also ended the visitors’ 14-match winning streak.

It was achieved with anything but a first-choice side, Jones having to make three injury-enforced changes to his original team.

But three first-half tries from Billy Vunipola, Joe Cokanasiga and Luke Cowan-Dickie, all converted by flyhalf George Ford, who also kicked three second-half penalties, and a late Elliot Daly drop-goal saw England to an ultimately comfortable win in the first of four warm-up fixtures

“We learnt a bit about ourselves, learnt a bit about the squad so it was useful,” said Jones, whose side again play Wales – a potential World Cup quarter-final opponent – in Cardiff next weekend.

England were also able to withstand a fightback that saw Wales close to within five points midway through the second half.

It was in marked contrast to their previous match, when England squandered a 31-0 lead in a remarkable 38-38 draw with Scotland at Twickenham in March.

“It means we’ve learnt a little bit from the Six Nations where we let ourselves down a little bit in that area, so that was pleasing for us,” said Jones.

News24.com | Ramaphosa expresses confidence in ANC North West Interim Provincial Committee

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed confidence in the ANC’s North West Interim Provincial Committee (IPC), calling on the team to “turn the situation around” in the province.

The National Working Committee, led by Ramaphosa, met with the IPC, at the Rustenburg Civic Centre on Saturday.

This was to inaugurate the IPC following the dissolution of the Provincial Interim Task Team, which was installed following the dissolution of the Provincial Executive Committee (PEC).

ANC secretary general Ace Magashule said Ramaphosa asked the IPC to “rebuild, renew and unite the ANC”.

“He called on each member of the IPC to work extremely hard to ensure that ANC branches are strengthened and vibrant. He further called on the IPC to focus on service delivery to transform the lives of the people in the province.”

In February, it emerged that Ramaphosa had taken it upon himself to help bring about unity and stability in the embattled province by being part of a rapid response team.

ANC acting spokesperson Dakota Legoete said at the time that Ramaphosa would be able to use his experience as a skilled negotiator and mediator to bring about stability.

At the end of last month, the ANC’s National Executive Committee resolved to disband the PEC.

City Press reported that this was because of deep divisions that impacted on governance.

The IPC is expected to appoint a Provincial Working Committee and is tasked with convening a provincial conference in nine months.

Ramaphosa said the NEC would be deployed to all municipalities in to address the poor performance of some of them.

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News24.com | Over 500 suspects arrested in women-led operations in Gauteng

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Female law enforcement officers arrested more than 500 suspects and recovered 16 unlicenced firearms during parallel operations in Gauteng over the long weekend.

The operations were led by female officers from the police, metro police, Gauteng traffic police, SARS, Home Affairs and other agencies, Gauteng police spokesperson Captain Mavela Masondo said on Sunday.

August is Women’s Month in South Africa.

From Thursday night, they traced wanted suspects, raided illegal liquor outlets, manned roadblocks, went on foot patrols and conducted stop-and-search operations.

In Tshwane and Ekurhuleni, more than 320 people were arrested for crimes that included murder, rape, assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, intimidation, drugs, and driving under the influence of alcohol.

In Johannesburg and the West Rand, more than 200 suspects were arrested for crimes such as murder, arson, the possession of unlicenced firearms, theft, rape, malicious damage to property, driving while under the influence of alcohol, possession of stolen property, malicious damage to property and undocumented people. 

In Sedibeng, the police arrested a number of people who were wanted for serious and violent crimes.

Masondo said they also issued fines for traffic offences, which amounted to more than R100 000.

Those arrested will appear in various courts on Monday.

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Health24.com | WATCH: 6 health benefits of avocados

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11 August 2019

WATCH: 6 health benefits of avocados

Avocado is one of the most unique fruits. Here are 6 of its surprising health benefits.

Avocados are packed with vitamins and nutrients, and there are several different methods to consume and use the fruit – from face masks to delicious ice cream, and even fabric dye.

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News24.com | Sars ‘rogue unit’ reports: Former Sunday Times journalist apologises to Johann van Loggerenberg

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Rees claimed that his articles had been edited and had been different to the final draft that left the inbox of his then-direct editor, Rob Rose, hours before it went to print. 

Rees said he looked forward to the Sanef panel into media and state capture.

Van Loggerenberg told News24 he has accepted Rees’ apology.

“He sent me a personal apology. I have accepted his apology,” he said.

READ: NPA head to review prosecution of SARS ‘Sunday Evenings’ trio

Van Loggerenberg, Ivan Pillay and Andries Janse van Rensburg are expected to appear in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on October 14.

The three former SARS employees face charges relating to “Project Sunday Evenings”, an endeavour that allegedly involved the installation of covert cameras and microphones at the now dismantled Scorpions and NPA’s head offices in Silverton, Pretoria, in 2007. 

The apology by Malcolm Rees to Johan van Loggerenb

The apology by Malcolm Rees to Johan van Loggerenberg. (Supplied) 

Reports of the bugging incident first emerged as part of a series of stories by the Sunday Times on the so-called “rogue unit” that operated at SARS between 2007 and 2014. The newspaper has since retracted and apologised for the reports.

The installation of the hidden cameras, which were remotely accessible, were conducted by now suspended SARS employee Helgard Lombard who is a state witness in the case against his former bosses. 

Pillay and Van Loggerenberg are accused by the NPA of “unauthorised gratification by a party to an employment relationship” for allegedly allowing Lombard to “keep” R100 000 from the installation project. 

Lombard, who has been on suspension since 2015, was paid R900 000 to install the cameras, and a further R250 000 for providing encrypted cellphones to members of the Scorpions, News24 understands.

The Scorpions’ secret fund, known as the C-Fund, was used to pay Lombard for the work.

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Sport24.co.za | 14-man Bulls hold on to stun Lions in Ellis Park thriller

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Johannesburg – A 14-man Blue Bulls held on to beat the Golden Lions in a thrilling Currie Cup encounter at Ellis Park on Saturday.

As it happened: Golden Lions v Blue Bulls

The Blue Bulls won 31-26, after leading 18-12 at half-time.

Debutant loose forward Fred Eksteen was red-carded in the 19th minute, leaving the Bulls to play for over an hour with just 14 men. On top of that, lock Andries Ferreira was sin-binned in the 61st minute, meaning the visitors had a spell of 10 minutes with just 13 players on the field.

The Lions also out-scored the Bulls four tries to three, but the four penalties added by Manie Libbok proved to be the difference between the two sides.

The match had a frantic start with Libbok putting Cornel Hendricks through for a try straight from the opening kick-off. Unfortunately, he missed the conversion.

The Bulls added a second try around the 10-minute mark. Libbok was the provider once again, timing his pass to perfection to set Dayan Van Der Westhuizen into space. This time Libbok was accurate, taking the score to 12-0..

However, after their electric start, disaster struck for the visitors in the 19th minute when Eksteen was red-carded for shoulder charging the head of an opposition player.

A series of penalties then cost the Bulls dearly as the referee finally had enough as the Lions scrum demolished the away side’s seven-man pack – resulting in a penalty try.

The pressure was back on the visitors’ pack shortly afterwards when Rosko Specman knocked the ball on inside the 22-metre area.

Another good scrum gave Shaun Reynolds space to throw a side step and show a dummy to burst through the line and score. However, he missed a very simple conversion to leave the scores level at 12-all.

Libbok added a couple of penalties to ensure the Bulls had an 18-12 lead at half time.

The visitors were on the front foot at the start of the second period and Van der Westhuizen thought he’d scored his second try of the game, but the referee blew that it had come up just short and a TMO referral could not find enough evidence to overturn the decision.

From the resulting scrum, the Lions defence left a huge hole in the middle, which Libbok gleefully sprinted into and over the line. He added the extras once again to extend the lead to 25-12.

The Lions then faced a testing period of defence where they just about managed to keep the Bulls out. They pounced immediately following the pressure.

A clearance kick setting up a lineout in the Bulls 22 was followed by a brutal maul sending Pieter Jansen over. Reynolds was accurate this time around.

Libbok added another penalty before Ferreira was sent to the bin for 10 minutes in the 61st minute for the team repeatedly infringing at the breakdown.

The Lions lacked focus in attack and it helped the Bulls keep them at bay for the most part. However, the home side managed to get it together in the 68th minute – while the Bulls were down to 13 players – and Stean Pienaar snuck over in the corner, leaving the men from Pretoria with a slender 28-26 advantage.

The hosts’ lack of cohesion cost them again late on as they conceded a scrum penalty, which Libbok gladly popped over the polls to make the score 31-26.

There was a late surge by the Lions, and the Bulls had centre Dylan Sage sent to the sin-bin right at the death, but the hosts could not force their way over from close range.

Despite their defeat, the Lions climbed to the top of the Currie Cup standings courtesy of two bonus points, while the Bulls moved off the bottom to sixth.

In next weekend’s action, the Lions host the Sharks at Ellis Park (Sunday, August 18), while the Bulls have a bye.

Scorers:

Golden Lions

Tries: Penalty try, Shaun Reynolds, Pieter Jansen, Stean Pienaar

Conversions: Reynolds (2)

Blue Bulls

Tries: Cornal Hendricks, Dayan van der Westhuizen, Manie Libbok

Conversions: Libbok (2)

Penalties: Libbok (4)

Teams:

Golden Lions

15 Tyrone Green, 14 Madosh Tambwe, 13 Wandisile Simelane, 12 Eddie Fouche, 11 Stean Pienaar, 10 Shaun Reynolds, 9 Ross Cronje (captain), 8 Hacjivah Dayimani, 7 Len Massyn, 6 Marnus Schoeman, 5 Wilhelm van der Sluys, 4 Ruben Schoeman, 3 Johannes Jonker, 2 Pieter Jansen, 1 Sti Sithole

Substitutes: 16 Jan-Henning Campher, 17 Leo Kruger, 18 Chergin Fillies, 19 Rhyno Herbst, 20 Vincent Tshituka, 21 James Venter, 22 Dillon Smit, 23 Duncan Matthews

Blue Bulls

15 Divan Rossouw, 14 Cornal Hendricks, 13 Johnny Kotze, 12 Dylan Sage, 11 Rosko Specman, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Ivan van Zyl (captain), 8 Tim Agaba, 7 Wian Vosloo, 6 Fred Eksteen, 5 Ruan Nortje, 4 Andries Ferreira, 3 Wiehahn Herbst, 2 Johan Grobbelaar, 1 Dayan van der Westhuizen

Substitutes: 16 Jaco Visagie, 17 Madot Mabokela, 18 Conraad van Vuuren, 19 Andre Smith, 20 Jean Droste, 21 Embrose Papier, 22 Marnitz Boshoff, 23 Stedman Gans

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News24.com | JUST IN: CR17 was run as a clean campaign, says Presidency amid leaking of funders’ names

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President Cyril Ramaphosa’s rise to high office was paved on a “a clean campaign”, the Presidency said on Saturday, noting that the leaking of confidential banking information of funders is a breach of privacy.

“The selective circulation of this banking information is clearly intended to cast aspersions on the President, and follows the recent report of the Public Protector, in which there was a substantial focus on the funding of the CR17 campaign,” spokesperson Khusela Diko in a statement.

She said the information leaked to the media, supposedly held only by the Office of the Public Protector, includes bank statements of third parties, which record private transactions and which are strictly confidential.

“The Presidency notes with grave concern what amounts to a violation of the constitutionally enshrined right to privacy. This is all the more troubling as it seems clear that this information had been, from the first instance, obtained in an illegal manner.”

Diko reiterated that Ramaphosa’s legal representatives have approached the courts to seal certain documents contained in Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s Bosasa report.

READ: Ramaphosa asks court to seal ‘unlawfully obtained’ documents in Public Protector’s Bosasa report

Ramaphosa, through a lawyer’s letter from Harris Nupen Molebatsi Inc, which News24 has seen, said certain bank statements in her report contain confidential information belonging to third parties.

The papers submitted by the President’s lawyers on Thursday suggest that some of the bank statements may have been obtained unlawfully.

Diko said on Saturday that Ramaphosa’s request is pending a determination on whether the information was obtained lawfully and whether it was lawfully sourced in relation to the complaint under investigation.

Request be granted

“It should be noted that, should the request be granted, nothing prevents the court from deciding, once it has established the lawfulness of the source of documents and the appropriateness of it being included in the record, that some or all of the information should be made public.”

She maintained that neither the President nor the campaign has done anything wrong, ethically or legally.

“It is a common and accepted practice in South Africa and across the world for parties and candidates to raise funding from donors for campaigns. From the outset, the CR17 campaign team and the candidate agreed that this should be a clean campaign that operated within the necessary legal prescripts and in line with the values and principles of their organisation,” said Diko.

No special favours or undue advantage

She claimed that it was agreed that the campaign would raise funds from private individuals who supported the effort to restore the integrity and cohesion of the ANC and to put South Africa back on a path of growth and transformation, with an explicit understanding that their contribution would earn them no special favours or undue advantage.

“Funds were raised from a broad cross-section of South African society, sometimes with the help of supportive individuals who had access to various networks. More than a hundred individuals made contributions to the campaign according to their means. The donations were made on a confidential basis,” said Diko.

“As the president had indicated in both the response to the Section 7(9) notice from the Public Protector as well as in his founding affidavit to the court, the funds were utilised to support a range of campaign activities including mobilisation, communication, research, security, administration, logistical support (travel and accommodation) as well as stipends and salaries. Funds were also provided to co-ordinators in provinces throughout South Africa.

“The coordinators used these funds to organise meetings and rallies, arrange transport, hire venues, provide accommodation etc. The president assures the South African public that CR17 was run as a clean campaign and in the spirit of some of this country’s rich democratic traditions- namely accountability, honesty and integrity,” said Diko.

READ: Ramaphosa vs Mkhwebane: PP insists Bosasa report is above board as president flags ‘unlawful’ activity

Meanwhile, Mkhwebane’s office maintains that her report is above board.

“The PP [ Public Protector] conducted the investigation by the book. There was no [un]lawful activity,” Mkhwebane’s spokesperson Oupa Segalwe told News24 on Friday.

Once filed in court, the documents become public information which would be available to everyone, Segalwe said.

News24 revealed last weekend that leaked emails from the CR17 campaign showed that Ramaphosa was consulted by his campaign managers on certain potential donors, despite consistent denials that he was involved in the fundraising efforts of the campaign.

The emails obtained by News24 formed part of Mkhwebane’s report into complaints by the DA and EFF over a response given by Ramaphosa to DA leader Mmusi Maimane in Parliament, in November 2018.

Maimane asked about a supposed payment to the president’s son, Andile, from corruption-accused company Bosasa.

But it turned out, the payment mentioned by Maimane was actually a donation to the CR17 campaign by Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson – which Ramaphosa himself revealed in a letter to the speaker of Parliament.