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JOHANNESBURG – While the Super blue blood moon may not physically be visible in South Africa, you can still join in on the rare event, thanks to technology.

Nasa is showing the full event, live, as the eclipse takes place.

The event is described as rare due to the series of events taking place at the time.

READ: Rare ‘super blood blue moon’ visible on 31 January

According to Sky and Telescope, the last blue moon total lunar eclipse visible from North America happened on 31 March 1866.

Those in parts of east Africa, the Middle East, Asia, eastern Russia, Australia and New Zealand should look for it in the evening, as the moon rises.

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News24.com | Court finds that driver who crashed into Simba Mhere fabricated evidence

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Johannesburg – Magistrate David Mahango poked holes in the defence of convicted criminal Preshalin Naidoo who was found guilty of culpable homicide in the death of Top Billing presenter Simba Mhere in a car crash. 

Naidoo was found guilty on two counts of culpable homicide as well as negligent and reckless driving. 

In his judgment on Wednesday at the Randburg Magistrate’s Court, Mahango rejected Naidoo’s entire defence. 

READ: Driver found guilty of culpable homicide in accident which killed Top Billing presenter Simba Mhere and his friend

“The court finds that the version of the accused that he suffered mechanical failure is far-fetched. There is no hesitation in concluding that the accused has fabricated his defence.” 

During Mahango’s ruling Naidoo kept his head down, making little eye contact with the magistrate. His mother, who was seated on the front bench, was emotional, often shedding tears and closing her eyes.

Mhere’s sister, Valerie, often wiped her eyes as Mahango described how her brother had died. The presenter’s mother, Angela, sat silently next to his father, Joseph, and kept her eyes closed during judgment. 

The family of three were surrounded by Naidoo’s family and friends, whose numbers dominated the courtroom.

37 incidents of exceeding speed limit

Some family members tried to block photographers from taking photographs of Naidoo before court was in session. 

During his ruling Mahango dismissed Naidoo’s version of events that he was travelling at 61km/h at the time of the collision. 

Naidoo’s car tracker had recorded 37 incidents of exceeding the required speed limit. Minutes before the accident, Naidoo had been travelling at 210km/h.

However, Naidoo’s defence argued that he was travelling at 61km during the time of impact. He also blamed mechanical failure for the accident. 

“If the accused was driving at 61km, he was going to able to apply brakes as IBF Investigations South Africa chief reconstruction expert Stanley Bezuidenhout argued,” he said. 

However, Mahango said Bezuidenhout’s testimony as an expert witness for the defence was not credible. 

State’s case proven ‘beyond doubt’

He questioned his motives for attending court while State witnesses were on the stand, adding that this gave Bezuidenhout an advantage. 

He said that Bezuidenhout’s inspection of Naidoo’s car months after the accident “demonstrated bias on the part of his evidence”.

“There was no evidence that suggests the vehicle was not tempered with before inspection,” Mahango said. 

He found that the state had proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. State witnesses were also found to have delivered credible testimony. 

National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Phindi Mjonondwane said that the State was happy that the court was in agreement that Naidoo had acted negligently and without consideration of other road users.

Naidoo’s bail has been approved until March 9 for sentencing.

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eNCA | LIVE VIDEO: Two cases of insider trading registered in Steinhoff scandal

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CAPE TOWN – Disgraced global retail group Steinhoff is appearing before Parliament on Wednesday.

MPs want details on accounting irregularities in Steinhoff’s financial statements.

Steinhoff’s acting chairwoman Heather Sonn said the company reported former CEO Markus Jooste to the Hawks.

The Financial Services Board (FSB) said it is investigating two cases of possible insider trading and one of false or misleading statements relating to Steinhoff.

The FSB has requested information from German authorities, including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and is in regular contact with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, it added.

READ: Steinhoff again postpones publishing audited financials

The Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) said its shareholding in Steinhoff depreciated from R24.1-billion on 30 November 2017 to R1.8-billion by 31 December 2017.

The giant retailer asked PwC to investigate those irregularities, and postponed the release of its financial results.

Its share price plummeted last month following the debacle.

– Additional reporting Reuters

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Health24.com | Should you eat before a workout?

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Should you eat before you work out or not? It’s a question as old as the pursuit to get jacked, and even scientists have long debated this quandary.

And a new study has stepped up to answer the question by examining gene expression on fat tissue, according to Science Daily.

Read more: Here’s the eating schedule you should follow for optimal health

In a study to be published in the American Journal of Physiology, researchers at the University of Bath in the UK had a group of overweight males walk for 60 minutes on a maximum of 60% oxygen consumption.

First, they did so on an empty stomach. And in another run (or walk, rather), they ate a breakfast high in carbs two hours before the exercise.

To measure the distance, the researchers took multiple samples of blood and fat tissue.

Put simply, the answer to our question above is no. Fat tissue is busy responding to the meal during exercise, meaning less favourable changes to the tissue and less health benefits in the long term.

Read more: Is eating after 6pm really making you fat?

Put more complicated, the expression of two genes, PDK4 and HSL, increases after fasting and exercising and decreases after eating and exercising.

The rise in PDK4 likely indicates that stored fat was fuelling the metabolism in these men instead of the carbs. And the rise in HSL is typically indicative of fat tissue using stored energy in increased activity – like walking for 60 minutes on a maximum of 60% oxygen consumption, for example.

So, there’s your answer – for now, anyway. After all, as we’ve pointed out in the past, working out on an empty stomach doesn’t necessarily help you lose weight any faster than working out on a full stomach.

Read more: 16 totally doable weight-loss resolutions you should commit to this year

This article was originally published on www.mh.co.za

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Sport24.co.za | Mokoena, SASCOC spat turns personal

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Cape Town – 2014 Commonwealth Games triple jump champion Khotso Mokoena believes that the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has a “personal issue” with him.

This comes after the 32-year-old was a surprise omission from the South Africa squad that will travel to the 2018 edition on Australia’s Gold Coast from April 4-15.

Mokoena, who is also an Olympic silver medallist in the long jump from Beijing 2008, believes that he has been hard done by, and took to Twitter to vent his frustration.

The confusion, it seems, lies in the qualifying criteria.

SASCOC High Performance manager Ezera Tshabangu confirmed to Sport24 that she understood Mokoena’s frustrations, but that he had not produced the qualifying standard during the time frame stipulated.

SASCOC and Athletics South Africa (ASA), Tshabangu said, agreed that all athletes should reach their qualifying times or distances between August 1 and December 31, 2017.

In addition, once an athlete had achieved the qualifying time or distance, that time or distance would need to be in the top 10 Commonwealth rankings to be considered for Team SA selection.

According to Tshabangu, Mokoena’s qualifying jump on December 2 of 16.55m did meet the minimum qualifying distance to get to the Gold Coast, but it left him with a Commonwealth ranking of 12th at the end of the year.

When Mokoena jumped 16.68m in Pretoria this past weekend, it was a distance that would have been good enough to get him to the Games, but it came too late.

Tshabangu says that Mokoena’s name had appeared on a preliminary list that ASA had sent to SASCOC on January 8 this year.

On that list, ASA had included Mokoena’s December 2 (16.55m) jump.

At a meeting on January 10 between SASCOC and ASA, SASCOC went through the list of proposed athletes and encouraged ASA to reconsider the names they had put forward.

Tshabangu says that when they received the final list of names from ASA on January 12, Mokoena’s name was not on it.

Mokoena went to the SASCOC offices on Wednesday to seek clarity, but he did not leave with the news that he wanted.

His 16.68m this past weekend would’ve been good enough to earn him bronze at Glasgow 2014, but that’s irrelevant four years later.

“Our federations have the right to send the names of those who are medal contenders with the motivation to put them on the team,” Mokoena argued.

“They (SASCOC) are saying that my name wasn’t there. My name was there … 100%.

“It’s really disappointing that things have to be handled this way.

“It is only now that some of us start the season. There is no way that you can chase the qualifying standards from August 1 until December 31 … we are just finishing the season at that time.

“What is important is that this must not go on. Every time athletics has to be picked this is what they do.”

Responding to claims that things were personal between SASCOC and Mokoena, Tshabangu disagreed.

“I understand that he is disappointed,” said Tshabangu.

“We have got nothing personal against him. It wasn’t just him alone, there are quite a few athletes who haven’t been selected.”

30 January 2018 – SARS hosts global forum on tax evasion

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Pretoria, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 — The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is this week host to a global seminar on strengthening the fight against tax evasion. 

The seminar is hosted jointly with the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, and the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF).  It brings together global tax experts, predominantly from developing countries, to share insights and lessons on issues of beneficial ownership and exchange of information on tax matters. The seminar is part of a global effort to ensure that participating tax authorities have the tools needed to adequately tackle tax evasion.

Throughout the world, tax authorities are facing immense challenges to collect national revenues and ensuring that everyone pays their rightful taxes in the prevailing global economic climate. In such a globalised world, it has become increasingly important for tax authorities to collaborate by sharing information.

Tax evasion negatively impacts on the development agenda and fiscal space of virtually every country in the world, and the absence of crucial information about who ultimately owns and controls companies and other legal entities is a factor that enables tax evasion and money laundering, amongst others. In specific cases, this lack of information about ownership and control has enabled the illicit flow of funds from all countries, but particularly from the developing world.

Tax transparency and exchange of information among tax authorities on the activities of their taxpayers are valuable tools in this fight. They allow tax authorities to obtain information about taxpayers in cases where the revenue authorities might not have been aware of specific (and questionable) cross-border financial transactions.

South Africa has committed itself to the automatic exchange of tax information with revenue authorities of over 50 jurisdictions under the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard (CRS).

The seminar runs from 29 January to 2 February in Pretoria.

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