Sport24.co.za | Boks to ‘wing it’ out wide?

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Cape Town – The Springboks will have a new captain, a new feel and, in all likelihood, a new pair of wings when they take on France in three Tests in June. 

Coach Allister Coetzee announced his 31-man squad for the series on Tuesday, and while there are some experienced faces returning to the side – Frans Steyn, Duane Vermeulen, Francois Hougaard – there are also eight uncapped players in the squad. 

In the official squad list from SA Rugby, Coetzee had listed three wings in his group – Courtnall Skosan, Dillyn Leyds and Raymond Rhule. 

While there are other players who can play on the wing, these three are considered the specialist finishers in the group. 

While they have all been successful in Super Rugby this season, the concern is that they have a combined ZER0 Test caps. 

A noticeable omission from the squad is veteran Bryan Habana, furthering speculation that this could be the end of a 124-Test career for the 33-year-old. 

JP Pietersen was another who was being tipped for selection before the France series, but he too was not called up. 

Pietersen is 30 and has 70 Tests to his name. 

Coetzee could still use Francois Hougaard or Jesse Kriel on the wing, but Hougaard is a natural scrumhalf and Kriel has not played at wing all year. 

On form this season, Skosan and Leyds probably edge out Rhule, who has had some major defensive issues in 2017. 

Whatever Coetzee decides to do, he is likely to be blooding new talent in the No 11 and 14 jerseys against France. 

Springbok squad:

Forwards

Lood de Jager, Pieter-Steph du Toit, Ruan Dreyer, Eben Etzebeth, Steven Kitshoff, Siya Kolisi, Jaco Kriel, Frans Malherbe, Malcolm Marx, Bongi Mbonambi, Oupa Mohoje, Franco Mostert, Tendai Mtawarira, Lizo Gqoboka, Coenie Oosthuizen, Chiliboy Ralepelle, Duane Vermeulen, Warren Whiteley (captain)

Backs

Lukhanyo Am, Andries Coetzee, Ross Cronje, Damian de Allende, Francois Hougaard, Elton Jantjies, Jesse Kriel, Dillyn Leyds, Rudy Paige, Raymond Rhule, Jan Serfontein, Courtnall Skosan, Frans Steyn

eNCA | Ethiopia’s Tedros wins WHO race, first African to get top job

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GENEVA – Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus won the race to be the next head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday, becoming the first African to lead the United Nations agency.

The former health minister and foreign minister received more than half the votes in the first round and then won a decisive second-round election, beating Britain’s David Nabarro to the job.

“It’s a victory day for Ethiopia and for Africa,” Ethiopia’s ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva Negash Kebret Botora told Reuters before Tedros, as he is widely known, was to take the floor at the WHO’s annual ministerial assembly.

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Six candidates had stood to take the helm at the WHO, which is tasked with combating outbreaks and chronic diseases. The job has never before been earned through a competitive election and health officials from all over the globe thronged the assembly hall in the U.N.’s Geneva headquarters where voting took place behind closed doors.

Tedros will begin his five-year term after Margaret Chan, a former Hong Kong health director, steps down after 10 years on June 30. Chan leaves a mixed legacy, after WHO’s slow response to West Africa’s Ebola epidemic in 2013-2016, which killed 11,300 people.

In a last pitch before voting began, Tedros had appealed to ministers by promising to represent their interests and to ensure more countries got top jobs at the Geneva-based WHO.
“I will listen to you. I was one of you. I was in your shoes and I can understand you better,” Tedros told the ministers. “I know what it takes to strengthen the frontlines of healthcare and innovate around the constraints.”

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Tedros was widely seen as having the support of about 50 African votes, but questions about his role in restricting human rights and Ethiopia’s cover-up of a cholera outbreak surfaced late in the race, threatening to tarnish his appeal.

Nabarro, a WHO insider who has worked for 40 years in international public health, had pitched himself as a “global candidate”.
Chan, in a speech on Monday, urged ministers to tackle inequalities as a “guiding ethical principle”.

“Scientific evidence is the bedrock of policy. Protect it. No one knows whether evidence will retain its persuasive power in what many now describe as a post-truth world,” she said.

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Safa CEO on Mashaba: ‘How do you continue to work with a person after such an altercation’

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Former Bafana Bafana head coach Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba (wearing a red tie) and his legal counsel at the CCMA in 6 April 2017.
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CCMA commissioner Hlalele Molotsi‚ who is hearing sacked Bafana Bafana coach Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba’s arbitration case‚ has said the outcome of the marathon matter should be known by the end of June.

The matter was again adjourned on Tuesday after Mashaba’s lawyer Claudio Bollo failed to complete his cross examination of South African Football Association (Safa) chief executive Dennis Mumble.

Mumble will go before the Parliamentary sports committee in Cape Town on Wednesday and will not be able to attend the CCMA hearing on the same day.

After Mumble’s appearance on Tueday‚ Mashaba is expected to finally take the stand later in the week and Bollo is expected to call two witnesses.

Mashaba dragged Safa to the CCMA after he was sacked in December for his outbursts at the association and the media after the 2-1 win over Senegal in a 2019 World Cup qualifier at Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane last November.

The case continued on Tuesday and Mumble maintained that the former Bafana coach was in a rage‚ animated and agitated after the game.

Mumble took the line that was taken by other Safa witnesses – Mathlomola Morake‚ Dominic Chimhavi‚ Peter Sejake‚ Tebogo Matlanthe and Robin Petersen – who have already appeared before the commission.

“I saw him (Mashaba) remonstrate with the SABC reporter and what I saw was an angry and animated coach. I had to intervene but I did not want to do it in front of cameras and that is the reason I decided to wait for him in the tunnel‚” said Mumble.

“I approached him later in the tunnel before we went into an empty room closer to the change rooms to find out what was happening.

“I did not do that in an aggressive manner but he was not calm‚ he was in a terrible state‚ in a rage and it was a heated argument‚” said Mumble‚ adding that after their altercation they moved to the dressing room where players were addressed by Safa president Danny Jordaan and Mamelodi Sundowns owner Patrice Motsepe.

Mumble said Mashaba offered an apology to Jordaan and Safa NEC members through him the following day but a decision to suspend him had already been taken because of the severity of his actions.

“He offered an apology to the president and NEC members and I promised to convey that message.

“The fact that he apologised did not change what happened the previous day and there was nothing personal about it.

“There was no way I was going to take a chance of sending him with the team to Mozambique because at that stage because I still did not know what was on his mind.

“I took a decision to suspend him which at that time I believed it was the correct one.

“On a professional level‚ how do you continue to work with a person after such an altercation? It is not going to be possible to be able to continue working with him in the organization.”

– TMG Digital/TMG Sport

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23 May 2017 – SARS busts 13.2 kg of rhino horn, worth R1,7 million

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Pretoria, Tuesday 23 May 2017 – SARS Customs intercepted a consignment of rhino horn worth R1,7 Million at OR Tambo International Airport yesterday.  The bust follows on the heels of 7kg of rhino horn intercepted last Thursday.

The discovery was made when Customs officials subjected a box for scanning and detected images consistent with rhino horn.  Nine rhino horns cut into different sizes and weighing 13,2 kg were found.  The consignment was en-route to Hong Kong. 

The goods have been handed over to the South African Police Service and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations (HAWKS) for further investigation.

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