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The headstone of Senzo Meyiwa, a former Bafana Bafana, was smashed. Image: Twitter @BafanaBafana
Just two months after the tombstone of former Bafana goalkeeper and captain Bafana Senzo Meyiwa was revealed, it has been vandalized.
The images were shared on social media on Saturday and the national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, confirmed the reports on its Twitter page by sharing that the headstone in Chesterville, Durban was looted.
Trucks parked outside the Mediterranean Shiping Co. at City Deep in Johannesburg on June 7, 2020, during a protest against foreigners employed by the industry. Image: Nigel Sibanda
As people wait to cross the border to and from South Africa at the Beitbridge border post, the congestion reportedly caused a loss of revenue of R88 million per week in December.
Trucks and private cars have been queuing at the Beitbridge border post for days, prompting calls, from the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Home Affairs portfolio committee chairman advocate Bongani Bongo, for the government deal with congestion.
Nurses walk inside a quarantine room in the completed but still unused A2 building of the Shanghai Public Clinical Center, where COVID-19 coronavirus patients will be quarantined, in Shanghai on February 17, 2020. Image: Noel CELIS / POOL / AFP
While the Western Cape recorded the highest proportion of new cases detected last week, the province is looking to hire more nurses amid staff shortages at hospitals.
This is after more than 761 healthcare workers were reported to have tested positive for Covid-19 last week.
Sri Lankan batsman Niroshan Dickwella was in good shape on the first day of Test 1 against South Africa at Centurion on Saturday, scoring 49 runs and helping his team to a dominant position late in the game. Image: Getty Images
Sri Lanka was in firm control for much of the first day of the first Test at Centurion on Saturday, but a gallant effort by the hard-working Proteas bowlers saw them stop the tourists, who hit stumps at 340 by six.
Having won the toss and chosen to hit first, the Sri Lankan hitters were in an aggressive mood and with the Proteas deploying their most inexperienced paced attack, with only 12 matches between the four, since the 1993 Boxing Day Test against Australia racing came quickly.
Thabo Rakhale of Chippa United scored a goal while Erick Mathoho and goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune look on during the Absa Premiership match between Kaizer Chiefs and Chippa United at FNB Stadium on April 07, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Lefty Shivambu / Gallo Images)
Bafana goalkeeper Bafana Itumeleng Khune has come under fire for conceding goals this season. Amakhosi has had a difficult streak in the first half of the 2020/2021 Dstv Premiership season without putting pressure on any of the opponents or winning a game convincingly.
A video of midfielder Lebogang Manyama, defender Eric Mathoho and Khune appeared on social media. The trio find themselves in an unknown location with a group of people dancing and playing music.
Proteas to raise fists in support of BLM ahead of Sri Lanka series
The Proteas players have made the decision, through a process of deep democracy, to raise their fists at the beginning of the Betway Test series against Sri Lanka as a gesture to express their commitment to the Black Lives Matter movement.
In a statement issued by Cricket South Africa on Saturday morning, the Proteas said:
“We recognize that gestures have histories and contexts, that they have meaning beyond themselves (both positive and negative) and that these gestures can be open to misinterpretation. Symbols also serve to communicate shared values and meanings.
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