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More than 150 firefighters are battling a fire in Noordhoek, Cape Town, which flared up at around 06:00 on Monday, according to City of Cape Town fire and rescue service spokesperson Jermaine Carelse.
While Carelse could not give the exact size of the fire, he said it covered an extensive area with the wind and dry conditions being an aggravating factor.
“We have approximately 15 firefighting appliances at the scene [and] over 150 fire personnel – including three sets of seasonal firefighters,” Carelse said.
“Most vehicles are positioned close to a street called Sleepy Hollow.”One spotter plane and two helicopters have been waterbombing the area since the afternoon.
Carelse said the main priority was to protect nearby properties, however, no damage or injuries have been reported.
Should the blaze reach Chapman’s Peak, Carelse said, it would put the firefighters at risk.
Cape Town – Unavoidable fact: at merciful completion on Monday, this was South Africa’s most painful home Test series performance against England in six post-isolation ones.
There is no disguising that, really.
England have now won three of the last four series here, with one of them split 1-1 in 2009/10, after being beaten in each of the first two (1995/96 and 1999/2000).
Following completion of another entirely comfortable victory by 191 runs in the fourth Test at the Wanderers, Joe Root’s side became the first during the period to prevail by a margin of more than one, securing the spoils 3-1 and every bit deserving that outcome.
All were wide-margin triumphs, following their illness-complicated reverse in the opener at SuperSport Park, and this is the first time since 1913/14 that any England side has won three Tests in a row in South Africa.
This wasn’t even the strongest English side to have come here in recent times; they have had certain positional head-scratchers of their own in recent times, and also played the lion’s share of this series without personnel like James Anderson, Jofra Archer, Rory Burns and their likely first-choice spinner Jack Leach.
Still, it was a reluctant privilege if you were South African – at a time when it simply has to be accepted that true home superstars are currently few – to watch the established gems in the tourists’ ranks like combative Ben Stokes and a whistling Mark Wood strut their stuff on our soil, as well as emerging ones led by the exhilarating 22-year-old stroke-player Ollie Pope.
Unsurprisingly, England players dominated the upper regions of the charts for both premier run-scorers and wicket-takers in the series, although two Proteas did manage to top each category: Quinton de Kock the former (380 at 47.50) and strike find Anrich Nortje the latter (18 at 27.11).
Otherwise, though, and in an indicator of the visitors’ collective mastery, the next three players on the batting list, and only others to go past 300 series runs, were all English (Dom Sibley, Stokes and Root) and four of the five behind Nortje for scalps notched also from the touring ranks.
The Proteas have lost eight of their last nine Test matches, which is harrowingly unfamiliar territory for the national side and shows the full extent to which a rot has set in, leaving head coach Mark Boucher and his lieutenants still with tons of work to do in sifting wheat from chaff and developing players they may have identified for a patient approach.
But did we witness the first, tentative seeds of revival, even as South Africa slipped toward the inevitable on days three and four at the Bullring?
Considering the manner they had been outgunned – again – in all-important first-innings terms, there were at least some credible indicators in the second half of the contest that the Proteas can, eventually, find a way out of the broader rubble.
It is in adversity that newer figures coming pleasingly to the fore can be a gladdening development, and Beuran Hendricks’ tenacious five-wicket haul in the England second innings, followed by Rassie van der Dussen’s Test-best knock of 98 on Monday are among the handful of reasons not to feel these Proteas need to be read last rites.
As Boucher reminded when grilled in the late afternoon sunshine on the Wanderers outfield afterwards by a SuperSport punditry panel, South Africa also have a few missing links – largely through current injury – to filter back into their Test plans for likely enhancement purposes.
Into that category will fall paceman Lungi Ngidi, a candidate for the fairly fluid all-rounder slot like Wiaan Mulder (he is still only 21), and opening batsman Aiden Markram, who former Proteas captain Shaun Pollock perhaps significantly said he was “dead keen” to see back in the mix.
Whether veteran captain Faf du Plessis, who scrapped resolutely enough in his 140-minute vigil for 35 in the acceptable SA second innings despite a wretched run of form, remains on board for the mid-year, two-Test tour of West Indies is not yet absolutely clear.
The Proteas also now face the uncomfortable situation of doing battle regularly for the first time since his assertive debut against Australia in November 2011 without the nagging new-ball skills of bustling seamer and lower-order scrapper Vernon Philander.
While Philander’s strike ability – and pace level, too – was showing tell-tale signs of waning anyway in more recent Test matches, he still retires with a glittering bowling average of 22.32 and his parsimony in run concession (2.63 runs to the over) is another factor that will sorely missed.
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Vaping has been deemed hazardous for your health by public officials across America, but you wouldn’t know it by scrolling through Instagram.
Instead, researchers discovered that Instagram posts that promote use of the devices outnumber anti-vaping content by a shocking ratio of 10 000 to one.
Nearly one-third of US teens use e-cigarettes. In 2018, the US Food and Drug Administration launched a campaign to discourage vaping among youth, according to authors of the study published in the journal Frontiers in Communication.
“US public health officials have been calling vaping among youth an epidemic and have been putting a lot of effort into trying to stop this epidemic by introducing #TheRealCost anti-vaping campaign,” said researcher Julia Vassey, from the University of California, Berkeley.
“But this stark imbalance in the volume of posts has caused the FDA message to be overwhelmed by marketing from the vaping brands,” she said in a journal news release.
Vassey and her colleagues analysed nearly 246 000 Instagram posts from before and after the #TheRealCost campaign launch, and interviewed five vaping influencers and eight college-age social media users.
“We focused on Instagram because the vaping influencers we interviewed for this study identified Instagram as their most important social media marketing platform,” Vassey said.
“Based on the results, the FDA anti-vaping campaign is not very popular and we saw Instagram user comments disputing the FDA claims of damaging health effects from nicotine and calling the campaign propaganda,” she said.
Vaping posts received nearly three times more “likes” after the launch of the FDA campaign launch, and there were six times as many vaping posts that had more than 100 likes.
The vaping influencers and social media users told the researchers that the FDA’s anti-vaping campaign promoted scare tactics rather than offering guidance on how to quit vaping.
“We’re hoping the findings will inform public health regulators about the most popular channels used by vaping influencers to promote vaping content among underage population in order to help counter e-cigarette marketing and slow vaping proliferation among youth,” Vassey said.
“This study could also contribute to providing direction for future federal and local public health anti-vaping intervention campaigns,” she said.
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The DA wants a probe into Health Minister Zweli Mkhize’s appointment of his niece as his chief of staff.
On Monday morning, the Citizen reported that Mkhize appointed Sibusisiwe Ngubane Zulu as his chief of staff. She is a qualified advocate. Mkhize has, through a spokesperson, defended the appointment.
Last year, allegations against her from her time as a board member of the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) emerged from a whistleblower. It was alleged that businessman Lawrence Mulaudzi’s romantic relationship with Zulu had helped him clinch deals with the PIC.
Appearing before the PIC inquiry in March last year, Mulaudzi confirmed that he was in a romantic relationship with Zulu, but that his dealings with the PIC predated their relationship. He called the allegations “false and a fabrication”, Fin24 reported.
DA health spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube said in a statement on Monday that her party will request an urgent investigation by the Public Service Commission (PSC) into Zulu’s appointment.
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“It is essential that the appointment of a family member that has been suspected of corruption is investigated thoroughly in order to ascertain whether due process relating to recruitment procedures were complied with,” Gwarube said.
She noted that Zulu was “fingered in the mismanagement and misappropriation of billions of rands” while we were working for the PIC.
“While these allegations have never amounted to criminal charges levelled against Zulu, her appointment in the Minister’s office is deeply problematic,” Gwarube said.
“This appointment further proves why the DA’s fight against a National Health Insurance Board that will be appointed by the Minister is fully justified. Any decent governance models would dictate that appointments of a board that is set to manage a multi-billion fund should be independent of politicians. Mkhize’s brazen appointment of his family member is clearly a sign of things to come.”
“Cadre deployment has seeped deep into the ANC’s culture [and] we can’t ever allow the political elite to simply make appointments unchecked.”
This follows a week after President Cyril Ramaphosa in his weekly newsletter said the practice of parachuting poorly qualified, but politically connected people into key positions will come to an end.
About a year ago, while still minister of cooperative government and traditional affairs, Mkhize also rejected allegations that Ngubane Zulu got her position on the PIC board due to his political influence as “disingenuous and mischievous”.
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